Chapter 3
[5]
Swinging to the streets below, Yu landed on top of a light post and called out to the creature. "You called for me?"
The creature turned towards him, the leathery wings on its back flapping loudly. When it saw the target of its rampage a sickening grin appeared on its face.
"Jesus, Adachi is that you? What have they been feeding you in prison?" Yu quipped in his usual demeanor he took on under the mask.
"Like the new look? It's a new Goblin formula, courtesy of a new business partner."
Yu took in the sight before him, the Adachi he knew before was a psychopath and a murderer who'd gotten his hands on a drug that enhanced his physical abilities and all the worst parts of his personality. This new Adachi however had graduated to what could only be called a monster.
"Care to enlighten me as to who this partner may be? Asking for a friend."
"Don't know. Don't care. They busted me out and paid me to kill you. Joke's on them though, I'd have done it for free!"
With that, Adachi flew at Yu with speed that didn't seem possible for something his size. Yu blasted him with rapid fire webs in an attempt to slow him down. The webs never reached their target however as they were burned away by fire from Adachi's palms.
"So unfair!" Yu called out as he swung out of the way of the attack. Adachi began chasing Yu as he swung across buildings, swerving out of the way of projectiles thrown at him.
"You'd be a lot easier to kill if you weren't a coward!" Adachi called after him.
"Was that supposed to make me stop? Cuz it worked!" Yu shot out two webs on either side of him, creating a slingshot between two buildings, one that Adachi was the unwilling ammunition of.
Adachi was flung into the streets below hitting the concrete hard enough to make a small crater. Before he could stand up, his limbs were webbed to the ground, effectively trapping him.
"You like that? Extra strength webbing, made it to stop the Rhino in his tracks."
With a loud grunt of effort, Adachi tore the concrete around him out of the ground and stood
back up smiling, now equipped with what were essentially concrete boxing gloves.
Yu gave an exasperated sigh "That's unfortunate."
A diner window shattered as Spider Man was sent flying through it. The diner's terrified patrons peeking out of their hiding places to see their hero stumble his way out of the diner's front door, turning back to them on his way out.
"No worries! I've got him on the ropes."
The sounds of destruction continued outside as the two superpowered men clashed on the Tokyo streets.
[6]
Ren Amamiya was walking to the train station in Shibuya, leaving the Big Bang Burger with his appetite finally satiated. Apparently he'd completed some kind of challenge and in record time, with his stomach now full, he began to make his way home.
As he walked past the various shops on the street he felt a buzzing sensation in the back of his head, not painful or disorienting, but definitely something he'd never experienced before, the buzzing became stronger and stronger and his body became tense, heart rate going through the roof.
That was when the explosions happened, debris engulfed in fire flew through the street and screams of terror rang nearly as loud as the initial blast. Suddenly a maniacal laughter began to drown out the other noises, turning around to see the source, Ren saw what was no doubt the perpetrator of the attack.
A man, or at least something humanoid in shape flew above the streets with leathery wings on his back, his body was green and larger than any human's reasonably should be. But the most terrifying sight was his face, rows of fangs stood in place of teeth and took up the majority of his face, his eyes were just yellow sclera with no distinguishable pupils, his ears were pointed to where they nearly resembled horns, and resting just above his forehead were two actual horns.
This couldn't be a man, from the way he looked and acted, this was the devil! The monster cried out something that initially Ren couldn't comprehend, but as it just kept repeating it over and over, he realized that this thing was calling out for Spider-Man.
The city's hero was nowhere to be found as the destruction continued, concrete collapsing off of buildings hit by the monster's fire. Flying just above the ground, the creature approached where Ren was standing on the sidewalk, it was then that he realized that he'd been standing in place since the explosion.
Ren tried to move his legs but was too terrified, his body had shut down in fear. That was when he and it locked eyes, a sick smile spread across the fangs, in that moment Ren knew he was about to die. It was seconds before what would have been Ren's demise when a voice rang through the street.
"You called for me?"