The Void

Chapter 19 - Falling

(Your POV):
My parents were finally finishing up their testing of my newfound strength, having me lift agonizing amounts of weight just to see if I could. I was exhausted and still a bit sore from the day before, but I did as I was told, lifting everything from boulders to cars.

As I placed the last box, filled with who knows what, down on the ground, I heard my mother's voice call out, "now catch this."

I looked up to find a car hurtling towards me and my eyes widened in shock. In any normal situation, I would telepathically move it out of my way, but that wasn't an option here. So I did as I was told and attempted to catch it, thrown backwards by the force of the launch. However, as I lay on my back, my arms were out in front of me, holding the car up with my new strength.

After holding it for a moment and demonstrating that I could do it, I tossed the car to the side and pulled myself up from the ground so that I could check that I was finally done. My mother looked slightly disappointed that I hadn't caught the car on my feet, but nonetheless she gave me a nod, "go out and complete your missions for the day. We have confirmed that the serum has indeed down its job."

"Very well," I replied obediently, leaving the room and removing my ring from my finger. I had finally perfected it as a storage unit for many long nights in the lab and I couldn't be more proud. On the the outside it just looked like an onyx ring, but it opened up and became my mask.

I was still working on finding a way to compact the the suit, but since I was wearing it during my weight testing, I didn't have to worry about that now. Pulling out the phone that listed my missions, I secured my mask on and then headed out the secret exit of the H.A.M.M.E.R. facility, knowing that the last bit of press Oscorp needed was the Void leaving their building.

The night wasn't overly difficult, just a few assassinations of people who had become troublesome. I roamed the streets, careful to remain in the shadows of the night, finally making it to my first victim's house. The woman was clearly quite wealthy, having a penthouse in the upper east side, but from what I had been told about her, she didn't have anyone to share her wealth with. Those always made these sorts of missions much easier as no family meant only one person I had to worry about.

I sent one bullet through her head and then left her penthouse, making my way to Queens. My next victim was the exact opposite of the first: he must have been quite poor. He lived in an apartment, not too far from Peter's, and had a wife as well as one kid. That only meant that I would have to stay vigilant and not let my guard down.

I arrived outside the apartment and grappled up onto the fire escape outside his window. Peaking inside to make sure that there was no one in the room that I was about to sneak into, I forced the window and slipped inside. My feet landed silently on the old carpeted floor and I held my ear to the door so that I could hear where the family was. The sounds of a TV alerted me to their location and I began my attack.

They were seated around an old TV, the adults on a couch that was falling apart and the son on the floor. He got up as I entered the room, his gaze landing on me and his eyes widening in fear. I acted quickly, shooting him down before he could scream. However, it didn't matter much as both parents let out a terrified scream at the sight of their son. I quickly silenced both of them and ran back out the way that I had came.

"Finding you isn't that hard anymore, I guess I just have to follow the sounds of screaming," a voice spoke up as I landed on the fire escape outside the building.

I groaned as I turned to face the annoying hero of Queens, "you know, most people run away from screams, Spidey-Kid."

Even through the mask I could see him wince at my not very fond nickname for him, but he covered it up by saying, "well I'm not most people, am I? I'm a hero."

"Hero is a relative term. People think that what I'm doing is immoral, but I am saving the world with these assassinations. One day the world will finally see me as a hero."

"So is that what you want, for the world to love you? Maybe you should just focus on small things, like saving puppies and little children, the public really seems to love that."

I scoffed, "I don't do this for fame, otherwise I wouldn't be wearing a mask. I do this because somebody has to. Now are you going to let me go the hard way or the easy way?"

"You're not going anywhere, I've got a special request to bring you in," he replied, shooting his webs at me. But after as many run-ins as we've had, I had begun to predict his moves and I quickly moved out of the way before his webs could hit me. While he was distracted, I kicked him in the chest, sending him flying backwards.

"Sorry, but I've got orders to bring you in as well and I can't disappoint my superiors," I replied as I pulled out a special netting that I had been tinkering with from my utility belt.

I threw it at Spider-Man in order to capture him, but he used his webs to pull himself out of the way. He landed behind me and attached a web to my back, sending electronic currents through me. I gasped in pain at first, but I had trained with fighting through being tased so I focused on severing the webs and landing my own attack on him. I telepathically sent a part of the fire escape railing into him but he quickly latched his webs around it and sent it flying back at me.

It hit me right in my stomach, sending me flying backwards. I crashed through the rusty fire escape and began to fall to the ground, but I quickly grappled to the building next to the one I had fallen off of and escaped from there. My breathing was heavy as the feeling of falling from the apartment building played over and over in my head. That was what I was afraid of, it wasn't really the heights that made me nervous, it was falling from those great heights.

I knew that I was too shaken to continue fighting Spider-Man, not to mention my arms were really starting to hurt from my testing earlier that day. It would be easier and safer if I were to just leave Spider-Man and complete the last two assassinations that I had been assigned as opposed to attempting to capture him when I was in such a state.

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(A/N): In just four days I will have seen Rise of Skywalker and I am so excited and nervous and ah I just need to see this movie already! Also the Loki show is starting filming in January and falcon and winter soldier already has leaked set photos. God, the entertainment world is thriving right now! Anyway, I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter!