The Void

Chapter 9 - Things Break if You're Not Willing to Share

(Your POV):
After that one time running into Spider-Man, I wanted to avoid him as best as possible. Although I felt more prepared to face him with the blades that could actually cut through his webbing, I really didn't need to press my luck. So for the following few days I focused on trying to go out only at night on my missions. However all good things must come to an end one day.

I ran through the streets, wishing that my parents had instead tried to give me teleportation skills instead of telekinesis. It was unfair that I could move everything around me, but could not move myself. I had a fairly leisurely night, which was a nice thing to enjoy on a school night: only one robbery and one assassination.

The death was over quick, I merely had to slip into their apartment, kill the couple sitting and watching TV, then escape back through the window. I had most assassinations down to a science and, with my silencer, no one else in the building ever knew that something had happened. However it was unfortunate that I was not getting the credit for the killings. The public needed to understand that these deaths were a way of cleansing the world, but they would never realize that if they weren't smart enough to realize all of these homicides were the work of the Void. But I would rather people think there was a homicidal maniac running about than have the police or, god forbid, the Avengers after me. I was very much enjoying the free reign I had known for years.

My next stop was at a research company that was in tight competition with Oscorp. I immediately used my grapple to get me up to a window on one of the upper floors to easily break into the building without setting off any alarms. They really should not be so trusting that no one was going to try to break in through the twelfth floor, it made my work so much easier.

Once inside the building, I took a moment to imagine the layout of the facility and situate myself so that I retrieve the vial immediately. As I wandered the halls, footsteps reverberated off of the hard floor, causing me to dash behind a wall so that I would not be caught. As the person passed me, I poked my head out to see who it was, happy to discover that it was a guard.

I leapt from my hiding spot and easily knocked him unconscious before searching through his pockets for a security badge. With that, I would be able to break into the lab without setting off any alarms and I could spend more time searching for the vial I was sent to retrieve, sifting through the pack of cigarettes, gum wrappers, and keys, I was finally able to find his security pass, which I stole for myself.

Armed with a key into the lab, I easily slipped inside and began to search for the vial. I took my time reading the labels before finding the red serum that was meant to give a person inhuman strength. They had not yet begun testing on human subjects, but their tests on animals had proven promising. Which was why Oscorp was so nervous. They feared that any other company would use such a discovery for negative means, as opposed to Oscorp who understood how to best use potentially immoral serums.

I grabbed the vial from its rack before rushing over to a computer to delete all of the data pertaining to it, so that they would not be able to easily recreate it. The idea popped into my head as I was leaving the lab to also more permanently destroy the lab itself. Making my way back to the guard, who was not too far away from the lab, I stole the pack of cigarettes from his pockets and lit one, dropping it on the ground and starting a fire.

Once satisfied by how well the flames were licking the ground and destroying the equipment, I escaped back through the window that I had snuck in through. Making sure not to fall victim to the fire I had started, I moved quickly and soon planted my feet back on solid ground.

"Was this you? You know, it's really not nice to destroy property and then claim to be the good guy," a voice spoke behind me, causing me to internally groan.

"What do you want, Spidey-Kid?" I questioned, turning to face him, prepared for a fight.

"I'm not a kid, it's Spider-Man," he quickly corrected me, a bit too defensive for me to truly believe him.

"Yeah sure, kid, but I know what a teenager sounds like," I retorted, using the time to stall and scan the perimeters for objects that I could send flying into this Spider-Man.

He still wouldn't let the age thing go, "I'm not a kid. Now if you would excuse me, I think I should be turning this stolen liquid back to the company."

He used his webs to pull the vial from my waist and I immediately reacted by using my powers to pull it back to me. The vial floated in midair for moment, being pulled in both directions by an equal force. Spider-Man must have realized he wasn't going to win this fight so he relaxed his tug on the vial for a moment before harshly pulling it back to him. Caught off guard by his sudden tug, the vial took me with it and I crashed into Spider-Man.

The vial went flying behind us and I used my powers to catch it before it slammed into the ground. However, I wasn't fast enough and the vial broke in half, the red liquid trickling onto the ground. I did, however, manage to save the bottom part of the vial, which still contained about a half an inch of liquid. Needing to preserve the remaining serum, I used my powers to search for a ziploc bag in one of the surrounding buildings. It soon came flying out a window and dropped the vial into it, securing it and slipping it down my suit so that Spider-Man wouldn't be able to get it.

While I worked with my powers to save the serum, I looked down at Spider-Man to distract him, "I'm just curious, why did you think that was a good idea?"

In response he shot webs around hands, securing them to the ground, "it made it easier to capture you didn't it."

"That's what you think," I smirked in response, telekinetically moving my blade so that it would sever the webs he had bound me with. The eyes of his suit widened as the blade cut through seamlessly, causing me to smirk again. "Did you really think I was going to let you web my up more than once? I've been making upgrades."

With that I flipped off of him and sent part of a building down upon him, crushing him beneath the weight and taking the opportunity to run from the scene. I could hear the sirens of a firetruck arriving to combat the flames that now were now beginning to spread across the research facility and was thankful that my fight with Spider-Man had ended when it did.

My parents were waiting for me when I arrived home, making me realize how late it was. My mother looked up as I entered the room and asked, "mission report?"

"The execution was easy, however I ran into the Spider-Man while trying to steal the serum. I wasn't able to save it all, but I was able to collect some of it. I can easily take it into the lab to start replicating it so that you can begin your testing," I explained, immediately offering to do the work to correct my failure.

"Spider-Man? And you couldn't beat him?" My father demanded, the anger and disappointment clearly present in his voice.

"Well, I did technically win, I left him under a building so I could escape before the authorities showed up."

My mother shook her head, "I thought that we trained you better than this."

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(A/N): Ok so the part with the vial started to be like that part in Last Jedi with the lightsaber.. oops. Tomorrow I'm headed off to the first of my four concerts this weekend, so I apologize if I miss a chapter this weekend I'm really loving the end of the semester (please note my sarcasm). Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter!