Gwenom & Walt

"Really?" Walt said looking at the perpetrators. The building in flames all around them. At least the victims didn't appear to be harmed... at least not yet. He sighed. "Don't you think this is a bit extreme?"

He watched them draw their weapons. "Ninjas," he muttered then whispered to Friday, "Alert Gwen,"while drawing his knife in his right hand. He held his left hand out palm up to the Hand and then made a beckoning motion. "We don't have all day to play around so let's get this over with."

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"Of course," Gwen sighed. "It just had to be ninjas..."

(("I'm afraid Walter has run into them as well, Gwen."))

Gwen nodded looking at her opponents. There sure were a lot of them. "This whole thing was just to lure out Spider-Woman? Because of Murdock?"

The head man facing her spoke in a voice she recognized as the last of Murdocks assistants. "It turned out that Murdock was a bad investment. His obsession with you was his downfall... but he was still Hand. You cannot go unpunished. An example must be made of Spider-Woman. You cannot win."

(*EnEmIeS tHrEaTeN aNd DiViDe Us FrOm OuR mAtE!*)

Gwen nodded. "You know... I agree." Her suits color started to shift to black. "Spider-Woman probably couldn't have won as she was..." she looked up and smiled revealing sharp teeth behind black lips and a long tongue as her suit grew whispy ragged tentacles. Her voice was harder. "Too bad for you I've been in training to get stronger... and now Venom is here!"

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Walt closed with the first attacker. These weren't street punks, hoodlums or goons. These were killers and assassins. So he handled them accordingly.

He lashed out with octo tentacles and even surprised the ninja dodged them as he struck at Walt. But he'd never been Walt's target. They grabbed the hostages pulling them to relative saftey behind him as he parried the Ninjato with his bowie. Walt simply head butted the man with his fire helmet and kicked him in the groin for good measure. He shot another with webbing as he kicked the ninjato weapon from nerveless fingers. Two down.

The rest charged him in a group together. Walt hit two with the tentacles, knocking one of them through a wall accidentally. There was a rush of hot air as flames licked the hole and started to enter the apartment. There was no time to waste. He needed to get them all out quickly. He would try not to kill anyone but he was going to have to play a bit roughly.

He shot one point blank with an odm anchor and pulled him into his fist. He stabbed another through the hand with the knife. He web shot another as he broke anothers weapon and then the bones of the arm weilding it.

Walt was a tried not to be lethal but he showed little restraint on the brutality he unleashed. They were murderous assassins. They were after Gwen. They had endangered innocent lives just to set this up.

He tore through them like tissue paper but that last thought gave him pause and though he realized the danger he let it happen anyway. The knife jabbed into him from behind.

The Oldman looked up at the mechanical tentacles observing him. "D-Do it. Kill me. I'm sorry but I had no choice. Please just save my wife and granddaughter."

Walt shook his head as he gathered the hand together. "I'm not going to kill you. They threatened your family. That's why you did it. You're afraid of reprisals if you do nothing. I understand. I have a family too. I'm just like you are. I would do anything for them, Mr..."

"M-Mitsugu Shigeru," said the old tears streaming down his face.

Walt nodded. "Are your wife and granddaughter fine?"

The old man nodded. "They are."

Walt smiled. "That's all that matters then. You did good Shigeru-San. Do whatever you have to do to keep them safe. I would too... and I will. Please do what you must or put down the knife. There are still lives at stake and this is no moment to hesitate."

He hears the knife drop. Walt nodded. "I'll tell no one. You have my word. Infact there's a young policeman down there and a private detective and consultant I know who can help you if you'd like." He turns and pulls out Gwens fathers card and hands it to the man. "Shall we get your family and everyone else down safe and sound?"

He nodded. "Yes, please and thank you so much!"

Walt smiled. "Let's save thanks for when we're all safe on the ground! I'm sorry if I'm rushing you but I have more people to help." He hoped Gwen was alright.

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The symbiote grinned. This was almost too easy now!

She yanked another Hand ninja off his feet hearing him scream as his joints dislocated. She wrapped her tongue around another and jerked him upwards to hang strangling and flailing helplessly. It was almost comical. She flung them hard into a wall with a crunch though. She didn't have time to watch them suffer... like they should!

She webbed two more as she dropped amongst them. She leg sweeped one and then deflecting anothers attack came up with a devastating uppercut feeling the jaw shatter.

Her mate had been right! She could be a much better fighter now! Another swung a blade at her but she ducked underneath and grabbed his arm to swing him bodily into another. It was exhilarating! She savagely punted the downed enemies sending them flying.

Propper training, exercise, a steady diet for her and the symbiotes needs. She- They felt powerful! More so than they had been in... well ever!

And just like with Murdock... it felt good to finally let go a bit on some very deserving assholes! She should have finished him off and not let "Gwen" make Walter have to do it for her. She should have done like Uncle Ben said and gotten rid of the garbage! She should have killed Murdock back then just like she should kill this filth! Hurting good people! Seperating her from what was hers! They deserved to die- (*No!* Gwen shouted in her mind.*I don't want that!*)

"You do!" Venom said as she webbed a fallen blade and launched it at an attacker. The Hand ninja managed to deflect it slightly so it pierced their shoulder instead ramming to the hilt but there was no mistaking it was intended to hsve been a killing blow. The symbiote smiled. "We do! Part of you wants this!"

(*I don't want to be a killer! Even of other killers! And... Walt did what he did because he doesn't want us to be killers either!*)

The symbiote faltered and barely dodged a swing but got kicked hard off balance. It couldn't deny it but that was certainly true. Walter didn't want that for them. He wouldn't feel bad if they did what they had to do, he was like that himself after all, but it certainly wasn't something he wanted for Gwen-

(*He doesn't want that for "us".*)

"Foolish," she said grunting as she got hit hard as their enimies sensing a moment of weakness pressed their attack. She lashed out wildly trying to drive them back. This was-

(*Not the time to be fighting each other!* Gwen thought as they saw even more enemies come pouring into the building. *We're going to be in serious-*)

"-Trouble," she hissed. "Danger... Walter," she swallowed thinking about him. How much she-they wished he was there. How much he cared for them. Supported them. Loved them. How much losing them would hurt him. Losing wasn't an option! "We must-"

That was when the music started. Their spidersense didn't activate so they knew they weren't an enemy. A figure in a familiar long, dark coat dropped down next to them from the rafters above. It was just like it was that first night when he came for her... but it was also different. She smelled smoke and- "You're bleeding!"

Walt nodded. "Things took a turn. Sorry I'm late," he said shooting a web onto a dropped blade and pulling it into his free hand so he was dual weilding as I Will Survive played. "I love you. Let's finish this."

She smiled as the music allowed Gwen to reassert her control... but his presence gave her the confidence to not exert it. Gwenom nodded as Gwen and the symbiote agreed with him... and each other. "I love you. Let's survive," Gwenom said as she and the symbiote joined even more perfectly together. Her suit subtly changed to be a dark cross between her usual look and the symbiotes.

They lashed out at their foes. Fists, feet, blades, webs, tentacles and tendrils. They fought furiously back to back and side by side. The blade Walt picked up sheared through another before snapping from the preasure. A ninja kicked him but he was surprised as a sybiote tendrils not only supported him but pushed him forward.

Gwenom saw him smile at her as he drew his pistol. She grabbed him in her arm and webbed the ceiling. As they leaped upwards she heard his shots ring out in rapid succession as he fanned the revolver.

Walt sunk the octo tentacles into the ceiling and turned Gwen so he was holding her now, supporting her. She started slinging webs rapidly, laughing as they tied up their foes. Twenty, fifty, a hundred? It didn't matter! They could take on as many of the hand as they had to... together they could do it. All three of them!

(("I hate to interfere but the enemy is starting to rout."))

Walt nodded seeing the disorganized withdrawl. "Gwenom we got runners!"

Gwenom laughed. "Well what are waiting for?"

Walt grinned and tossed her through the air in one direction before doing the same himself in the opposite direction. They started webbing up the exits. It was time to finish this as Friday played One Way or Another. The hunters were now the hunted.

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