Silk & Cologne | Miguel O'Hara

Chapter 18 - Forest

I gave Miguel a reassuring and confident smile before slipping my mask on over my head. The two of us ran through the portal and we found ourselves in a dark forest. There were skid marks and broken barks and trees all around us.

There was a loud eardrum shattering cry, triggering my spider-sense as I searched frantically for the source of the noise. That was until a giant black paw came swinging towards us within a matter of seconds.

"Miguel, watch out!" I ran and shoved us out of the way of the incoming paw. We crashed to the ground and I felt Miguel reach and grab me, yanking me closer to him as the paw racked across the dirt towards us.

"Guys!!" Penni Parker swooped in, wearing her giant Spider-MEKA suit as she scooped up Miguel and I to safety from getting crushed. "Perfect timing! This thing won't go down,"

"Penni, you are a life-safer," Miguel sighed deeply in relief.

I too shared the same reaction before I looked down from where I hugged Penni's Spider-MEKA. What I saw was bone chilling. A giant wolf-like variant of Venom was tearing apart the forest, slowly inching its way closer towards a village and a beautiful castle.

"Petra's home?" I asked, glancing over at Miguel.

"Yes," Miguel nodded as he glanced over at Penni. "Is she here?"

"She was, but we told her to help the guards with the evacuation of her village," Penni stated as she peered at us through the cockpit of her MEKA.

"That's good," Miguel nodded in agreement. "We can't let this monster get any closer to the village. If he destroys it, he'll disturb the canon event,"

"It's a big guy. We'll need to put it down first before trying to capture it," I realized as I took in its massive size.

"Any ideas, boss?" Penni asked Miguel.

Miguel paused for a moment, briefly glancing over at me. "If we can get enough webs around him, Lisa is confident she can enchant it,"

Penni gasped, looking over at me. "You think that will work?"

"Venon doesn't like sound, right? Then he's going to love that I got planned for him," I grinned. "I'll make sure he takes a nice, long nap,"

"Roger!" She smirked, "Team, you caught that?"

"Got it!" They yelled through the comlink. I recognized Hobie's voice and when I glanced down again, I found his signature silhouette swinging through the trees, leading Venom in a wild goose chase away from the direction of the village.

"Let's do it!" Penni powered up her jet pack as she flew the three of us up in the air before tossing Miguel and I forward, giving us some air time to shoot our webs and swing around the variant.

Hobie kept Venom distracted while Penni, and who I quickly realized was a Spider-Pig, or Spider-Ham according to his ID tag on the communication link, hovered at his side, latching on to him with their webbing as Miguel and I trailed closely behind him.

"RAAHHH! NEVER CATCH ME!" The Venom variant barked as it snapped its teeth at the group.

Miguel fired a web, making the variant trip on its paw and tumble to the ground. "Maldita sea , I hate fighting these Venom variants. They always make things harder than they need to be," - Damn it

The team worked together to web the Venom wolf down. They webbed his paws and then covered his back with web fluid to press him down. Hobie grabbed on to a large tree branch, surveying the trap before he waved over at me.

"Okay, Spider-Muse, you're up!" He yelled.

" Spider-Muse ?" I repeated.

Is he referring to me?