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Chapter 10 - Web of Lies: Part 3

Night-Time: Tokyo - Tsukishima

Three shadows made their way silently, and stealthily towards an unassuming duplex apartment in the rural area of city. The building has seen better days, and sections of the outer walls are in bad shape. The three kept themselves out of sight, but you can still make out that one is holding two objects, and another has a longer object in both hands. As the three move closer to the front door of the building, the last person raises up their right hand for the other two to stop. The light coming from the crescent moon above them high in the sky illuminates the large white spider symbol on his chest, and the white eye lenses on his mask.

"Wait...Tia-chan, Stitches! Look down, and tell me what you see." Peter whispers to his fellow M.O.N. Squad members, and points his index finger on his right hand down towards the lower part of the front door. Zombina squints her eyes, and stares intently at the section Peter is pointing to. Tia mirrors Zombina, and focuses her red eyes to the area. They both gasp silently when they realize why Peter had stopped them.

"A trip wire? Heh. Figures...that little rats-ass Kasegi's got the place booby trapped. You getting any tingling from your danger sense, Pete?" Zombina whispers to Peter next to his left ear underneath his mask. Peter turns his head to look at Zombina, and nods slightly.

"A mild reaction, but there's definitely something strange about it. Plus, this is no ordinary trip wire...it's made from a spider-web. We could be dealing with an Extra-Species accomplice somewhere inside. Tio-chan...get ready to use the battering ram on my signal, and I'll take point." Tio nods her head at her boyfriend, and smiles down at him. Tio heaves the battering ram into one of her armored hands, and rests the end close to the middle of the front door. Zombina lifts up her automatic weapons in both of her hands with a wide smile on her face in anticipation for a fight.

Peter starts the countdown on the gloved fingers on his left hand. "Ready...one, two...three...now!" Tio reacts immediately, and pulverizes the front door with her battering ram. Peter jumps into the apartment through the demolished front door. The inside of the apartment is pitch black, but Peter can see very well in the dark. He quickly looks around the living area, and sees large cobwebs are everywhere. Zombina hops over the trip wire, and charges in with her two guns at the ready.

"FREEZE! YOU ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE EXTRA-SPECIES LAW, AND YOU WILL SURRENDER IMMEDIATELY!" Zombina shouts loudly into the room with a crazy grin on her face. She scans around the area as best as she can in the dark, and Peter feels like face palming at the moment. Spider-Man shakes his masked head at Zombina's 'enthusiasm', and follows the web trail along the walls to try finding its source. Peter is on alert when he gets a tingle from his Spider-Sense, and quickly looks up. "Above us!" Peter sees a familiar looking silhouette, and has to dodge thick streams of webbing shot at him from the figure above. The other M.O.N. Squad members aren't so fortunate, and they are webbed up to the living room floor.

Tio is using her strength to try freeing her armored feet from the webbing, and manages to free one but loses her balance, and falls directly on top of Zombina. While this is happening, Peter jumps up, and starts wall-crawling on the ceiling of the room in hot pursuit of the Spider Woman. Peter can make out some of her features in the dark as he chased her through the house. She has short lavender hair with bangs covering the right side of her face, and six pupil-less, monochromatic red eyes and her teeth are all fangs. The lower half of her body is that of a massive spider, with a large skull design on the back of her spider abdomen. Peter's Spider-sense starts buzzing, and he has to flip over a large string shot of webbing that she released from the back of her abdomen.

Peter picks up his speed, and starts to close the distance with her. "Might as well give yourself up, Spider lady...I can do this all day!" She turns her head to narrow her multiple eyes at Peter, and uses her long spider legs to leap a great distance, and crawls through the archway leading to the back door exit. Peter sees a sunroof window in the next room, and decides to take a shortcut, and take the high ground on the roof to catch her as she leaves the apartment.

"So...that was the infamous Spider-Man? He needs to take the spider part out of his name if he can't keep up with an Arachne." Rachnera thinks to herself, and grins in satisfaction when she closes in on the back exit of the apartment. "I'm a little disappointed though. After all the headaches he gave to Kasegi, I thought he'd be more of a challenge." Rachnera slowly turns the nob of the door with her right hand covered in black carapace with sharp claws on each finger.

Rachnera's own instincts kick in, and she jumps back from the door when the dark garbed figure of Spider-Man drops down from the roof to block her exit. "Hey, bright eyes? Remember me? Just your friendly neighborhood door to door salesman! We have a special today on webbing, all you can eat!" Peter points his wrists at Rachnera, and tries to cocoon her long legs in thick webbing. She evades the attack, and launches one of her own when she decides to engage Peter in hand-to hand combat.

Rachnera starts swiping with her clawed hands, and Peter's agility with his Spider-Sense saves him from taking damage. Rachnera increases her speed, and Peter has to do the same when one of her swipes hits his symbolic black costume exposing his bare chest underneath. The substance reacts to the attack, and thick tendrils of the symbiote lash out at Rachnera, and hooks three of her legs. This throws her off balance for a second, but she quickly recovers, and leaps up onto the ceiling.

The mask on Peter's face morphs to show Venom's face with his long sharp teeth, and tongue flicking green saliva. "Your claws hurt us, she-spider! We are Venom, and we know that you are a danger to our host. It is time to bring this confrontation to its ultimate conclusion! HiiiSSS!" Venom's body morphs into a much larger form, and he leaps up at Rachnera with his clawed hands ready to strike. Rachnera barely is able to dodge out of the way, and a bead of sweat appears on her brow.

"Now what? Does he have multiple personalities, or is he possessed by some kind of parasite? Not something to think about now...he's getting even faster if that's possible. Got to think of something to bring this guy down before he makes good on his threat." Rachnera narrows all of her eyes, and quickly spins her body with her long legs with sharp pointed ends at Venom, and he roars when she scores another hit on his right bicep. "We thought there were only two things that can hurt us...how is it that your claws can damage us this way?!" Venom said to Rachnera with a painful grunt. Rachnera grins over at Venom, and this earns a hiss from the symbiote.

"I liked the other guy better, at least he had a sense of humor. You're just a big ugly ball of rage, aren't you? Well, if you must know, the tips of my fingers can release my own venom, and it seems to react negatively with whatever you are made of." Venom narrows his white eye lenses at Rachnera, and punches the nearby wall in anger with the wall exploding into debris, and shards of wood. "You will die here, she-spider. We are protectors, and our host is naive to dangerous creatures like you. We are not so merciful!" Peter's voice starts calling out to Venom through their shared minds-cape in urgency.

"Whoa there, partner! I can feel through our bond that you're scared...don't try to deny it. She's got the capability to hurt you, and I. This is new to you, but I've had to deal with baddies kicking me around lots of times. Peter rubs the back of his head in embarrassment within their minds-cape. "Guys stronger than me like The Puma, Juggernaut, and a lot more. You've seen all my memories, so you know that's a fact. Weaknesses can be turned into strengths. When I ran into enemies that can overpower me, I out-think them. When that doesn't work, I improvise. We. Do. Not. Kill. End of story. Fear can make you do stupid things, but you're not alone here. I've got your back, but we've got to lay out some ground rules. The first one is: Do not kill. Find another way to win without doing it. I'm taking back control until you can think clearly." Venom didn't fight Peter when he wills the change for the symbiote to return to its dormant state, and it changes back to his normal black costume.

Peter wills the symbolic suit to recede from the lower part of his face, and smiles over at Rachnera as he prepares to continue their fight. "Sorry about that. My partner gets a little over zealous about protecting me. Now where were we...wait...I never did get your name, did I?" Peter chuckles, and shakes his head, "Battle lesson 101: Always ask your opponent their name, or it gets really awkward." Rachnera raises a delicate white eyebrow at Spider-Man with her clawed hands on her hips. "Like right now...c'mon...I can't keep calling you she-spider, and the Spider-Woman moniker has already been taken by my good friend Jessica. If you want it, you'll have to fight her for it."

Rachnera has an amused look on her face, and she rests her right hand underneath her chin. "Oh? There is another like you, how interesting. I suppose I can tell you my name. It's Rachnera Arachnera. What might you be? Are you an Extra-Species, or some kind of mutation?" Peter is about to answer her, when they both heard gunshots firing, and see the tall form of Tia entering into the room through the doorway. Tia quickly launches herself at Rachnera, and holds her in a vice-like grip. Tia eye smiles over at Peter, and he nods his head at her in greeting.

"I was finally able to free myself, but Zombina-chan had to use her guns to shoot the webbing around her boots sticking her to the floor." Tia was interrupted from saying anything else by the angry shout from Zombina several rooms over.

"SONOFA BITCH! WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE WEBS?! NOW I'VE GOTTA GET ALL NEW SKIN GRAFTS FOR MY HANDS!" Tio giggles nervously with a sweat-drop on her right cheek, and Peter sighs deeply. Peter lifts his head up quickly when he gets a tingle from his Spider-Sense. Rachnera takes advantage of the distraction caused by Zombina to lift her hand up to Tio's face, and shoots a thick gob of webbing over her face. Tio drops Rachnera is surprise, and to get rid of the webbing that's blocking her ability to breathe. Peter rushes over to Tio, and tries to stop her armored arms flailing about in panic. Rachnera grabs a piece of paper from the counter-top, and gives one last look back at Spider-Man before she makes a quick exit out of the apartment.

Peter looks back at the retreating form of Rachnera before concentrating back on getting Tio to calm down. "Tio-chan! Settle down, and stop struggling! I'll help you get that webbing off, but you have to stop thrashing around!" Tio mumbles something underneath the webbing, and stops moving with her head nodding in acceptance. Tio points to the webbing, and over to Peter.

"Hold still, Tio-chan! This is going to hurt!" Peter grips both sides of Rachnera's webbing on Tio's face, and quickly rips the webbing off of her face with Tio's red eyes wide and her taking large gulps of oxygen. Tio has small tears in the corners of her eyes, and her breathing begins to even out.

"*Huff~!* *Haa!* P-Petey~! Thank you so much! *sniff~!* Best boyfriend, ever!" Tio cuddles Peter into her massive breasts like a teddy bear, and gives multiple kisses onto the top of Peter's masked head. Zombina enters the room slowly with her boots still clinging to the floor because of the webbing, and smirks widely at the scene, before she smacks her forehead loudly in realization.

"What the hell?! Don't tell me she got away?!" Peter nods over at Zombina with a frown on his face underneath his black mask as he helps Tio back to a standing position. Zombina kicks the side of the counter-top in aggravation. "Damn it! We've gotta catch her quick! Come on!" Zombina said with a snarl in her voice as she ran to the exit, or tried to with the sticky webbing still on the bottom of her boots. As soon as Peter was sure that Tio was alright to stand on her own, he walks over to Zombina, and places a black gloved hand on her shoulder to stop her. Zombina gives Peter a frustrated look, but he shakes his head in the negative to Zombina.

"This mission is a two-parter, remember Stitches? Sumike said that if we find an accomplice here, and are unable to capture him/or her...then it falls to the secondary team of Manako, and Doppel to pursue until our mission here is over. I've got to retrieve the data from Kasegi's hard-drive so that M.O.N. can bust more of these illegal traffickers, and who knows what other dirt the little creep had his grubby little hands in."

Peter sees Zombina's shoulders relaxing a little, and she sighs dejectedly. "Yeah, I get it. I just hate missing out on the action, and the perp getting away. This officially sucks." Zombina is startled when she gets lifted off of the floor, and is given a bear hug from behind by Tio, who looks down and gives her an understanding smile.

"I know how you feel, Zombina-chan. I thought I had her, but she slipped out of my grip when she shot that sticky stuff in my face. Yuck~! I've got webs on my tongue!" Tio makes sputtering sounds with her mouth, and sticks her tongue out in dislike for the taste. Zombina glances up at Tio, and a slow smile breaks out on her face, and she is soon laughing at her friend's reactions. Zombina wipes a stray tear from her eyes, and chortles with a snort at the end. Zombina covers her mouth with both hands in embarrassment, and Peter chuckles at their interactions with Zombina lightly glaring at him.

"Ha-Ha. Very funny, wiseguy! Shouldn't you be getting that data like the good little techno-geek you are?" Peter recedes the symbolic mask enough to smirk over at Zombina. "Right. Mission first: Teasing second. Gotcha, Stitches. Time to go to work." Peter walks into the other room when Kasegi's computer is located, and Tio with Zombina still in her arms follows him over there.

Peter sits down in the computer chair, and stares at the motion screen. He puts his gloved hands together with the fingers interlaced, and pushes them out towards the screen causing his fingers and knuckles to pop. Tio winced a little from the sound, but Zombina grins with her hands on her hips and leans forward to look at the screen. Peter begins typing on the keyboard with his concentration solely focused on hacking the encryption on Kasegi's computer files. Peter's fingers become a blur of motion, and Zombina whistles in awe at his skill. Tio walks up closer, and rests an armored hand on Peter's right shoulder. Tio tries to understand what Peter is typing out, but her eyes become swirls of confusion. "I don't understand any of it~!" Zombina pats the larger woman on her back to comfort her.

"There! I'm in! Now...let's see what we've got!" The files start to open up one by one. Shipping manifests, black market organizations, all of it laid bare in front of the M.O.N. Squad members. Peter grits his teeth under his mask when he reads what Kasegi was involved with. "How? How did the Japanese Government miss all of this? Look! Extra-Species sweat shops, brothels, and organ harvesting?! This is...No!...that's just the tip of the iceberg!" Peter tries to hold back the bile in his stomach as he forces himself to continue searching through the files. Zombina's sharp teeth are clenched together, and she growls out angrily as she views the images on the screen. Tio has both of her armored hands over her mouth, and she begins to sob at seeing her fellow monsters being treated like slaves. Peter takes out a small thumb drive from inside his symbolic costume, and plugs it into the USB port on the computer, and starts copying over the files.

Peter spins around in the computer chair, and wills his symbiote to recede from his head to show the piercing look in his eyes. "This goes far deeper than any of us realized. Corruption at the highest levels of the Government is at work, and the Extra-Species are paying the price!" Peter spins back around, and types some more on the keyboard. Images of Extra-Species appear with a map of Japan with certain locations marked in red. "Stitches, Tio-chan...have a look. The areas indicated in red are the Extra-Species slave shops. This one here is the closest to our location. Once I have the data, I'm calling in M.O.N. agents to clean sweep this entire apartment complex. I'm printing out the map, and we're going to hit this shop to free the Extra-Species people, and put the scum out of business." Zombina grins widely at Peter, and puts new ammo clips in her two automatic weapons.

"You had me at 'hit', Tiger! Let's go break some skulls! YEAH!" Zombina starts shooting bullets from her automatic weapons into the ceiling of the room, and usually at this time Tio would hit Zombina to get her to stop. Peter turns back around to look up at Tio, and sees her red eyes glowing with anger. Tio has a frown on her face, and she hits both of her armored fists together causing a small shock-wave, and a loud clang sound.

"We will rescue them, and punish those responsible." Tio said in a serious tone of voice that surprises both Peter, and Zombina who nod at her in agreement. Peter hears a bell like noise that indicated that the files were all copied to Peter's thumb drive. The printer on the desk starts to show a paper with the map with the locations where the Extra-Species people are being kept. Peter removes the thumb drive, and puts it back in his symbiote costume, and takes the printout with the map on it in his hand. Peter motions the other two M.O.N. Squad members over, and points to a red indicator on the map. "We've got several different ways to access the facility. Stitches will cover the east entrance, and Tio I want you at the front to stop anyone from escaping. I'll take the skylight, and slip in without them noticing. Once I free everyone I'll call you on the comm to enter, and we'll tie up the perps and secure the place. Then we'll call M.O.N. Headquarters for a pick-up."

Zombina, and Tio nod their heads agreeing with Peter's plan, and they all are heading out the front door of the apartment with Peter tapping the communication device in his left ear underneath his mask. "This is M.O.N. Special agent - Spider-Man, come in Headquarters." There is no response for a minute or two, and then a familiar voice to Peter starts speaking through the comm device.

"Peter-kun! Perfect timing! We have a situation that needs your immediate attention!" Sumike said to Peter with a nervous tone in her voice. Peter glances around, and sees that Zombina, and Tio have already left to retrieve their vehicles. Peter taps the button on the comm device to respond to Ms. Smith.

"Sumike...the information we've uncovered here is more important! Trust me on this! We're going to bring down one of the Extra-Species slave ring locations, and we could use Manako, and Doppel to back us up if their available." Peter waits for a response from Sumike, and he can hear frantic female voices in the background. Peter hears Sumike telling them to shut up, and then returns to speak to Peter.

"Authorization: Denied! You are all to come to the Kurusu Residence immediately! Mr. Darling has been kidnapped, and the kidnapper is requesting you specifically to switch places with the hostage! This is a priority mission, Peter-kun! Get your team over here on the double!" Sumike cuts off the communication on her end, and Peter can't believe what he just heard from his M.O.N. Squad superior.

"Sure...just drop a mission to save possibly hundreds of Extra-Species from being sold off as slaves to humans in order to rescue one human...Yeah! Makes perfect sense, Boss!" Peter says sarcastically out-loud to himself while pacing back, and forth on the sidewalk with his arms crossed over his chest. Peter stops pacing when he hears the engine from the M.O.N. armored vehicle coming to a stop in front of him, with Zombina riding up moments later on her motorcycle.

Peter could see Tio in the driver's seat of the Armored Vehicle, and that she opened up the hatchway in the back so that Zombina could park her motorbike inside the vehicle. Zombina jumps out of the back, and strides up to Peter with a excited grin. "So, what did Ms. Smith have to say, Pete? We good to go?" Peter walks over to Zombina wordlessly, and puts a gloved hand on her shoulder. Zombina glances over her shoulder at Peter in worry, but shrugs it off when he waves her over to enter in the back of the vehicle with him.

Peter takes a seat in the back with Zombina taking a seat directly across from him. Tio glances at her boyfriend in the rear-view mirror, and can tell that something is wrong with him. "Petey...are you okay?" Peter sighs heavily, and begins to tell his fellow M.O.N. Squad members of his conversation with Ms. Smith. Zombina's heterochromic eyes widen, and Tio gasps out loud in shock as she's driving.

"What the fuck is wrong with her? She wants us to drop this for a single human?! Why the hell would we do that? We can get both missions done by the end of the night!" Zombina smirks with confidence, and holds out one of her automatic weapons to polish it with a white cloth. "One 'damsel' in distress is nothing to worry about. Ms. Smith's got her panties in a twist over nothing!" Zombina laughs out loud getting Peter to chuckle at her antics. Tio smiles at their interaction, and adds her input. "Zombina-chan's right, Petey~! You're the field commander, so we'll follow your orders! Just tell us which mission is first!" Peter has a happy smile under his mask, and a determined look in his brown eyes as he walks up to the dashboard of the vehicle, and inputs a location into the GPS system of the Armored vehicle's on-board computer.

"Okay, Tio-chan, Stitches...we're saving those Extra-Species women from becoming slaves! That's the highest priority mission in my book! Let's go!" Tio, and Zombina nod their heads with Tio putting her foot on the gas and the vehicle speeds off down the winding streets to their next mission.

Author's Note: Time to answer your reviews from the last chapter -

christian. 1 - Thanks. Hope you like this new chapter! : )

The Tell-Tale Man - Thanks, Tell-Tale Man. :D

monkiepawn - Thanks. Glad you like Peter's relationship with the M.O.N. girls. Zombina, Doppel, and Manako have a special bond with him that is unique to each girl. Not quite on Tio's level, but that may change. ;)

Rebmul - Suu is still hiding out in the satchel bag on Zombina's bike. Will she play a part in the mission? Stay tuned to find out! : )

DragonicNative - Glad you like the story so far. The chocolate intake for the symbiote may happen eventually, but not the eating people part.

Rubius - Yes. That would be Peter's unofficial harem, but Tio is the only one who is his official girlfriend. Centorea is Mero's close friend, and for the moment nothing is planned to add her in. She's with Kurusu now, but that could change in the future. Stay tuned! :D

BlurtheHedgehog - Thank you. I hope you like this chapter as well. : )

IchiIchi - Thanks! : )

x5rage - Thanks, I try to add little comedic scenes in every chapter to reflect the source material. : )

Totong - Suu's got a one track mind, and when she wants something (or someone) she goes for it. Which will make Peter's life more...interesting. lol! ; )

Guest - Here's chapter 10 for you. Enjoy! : )

Chapter 10 Complete! Thanks for reading! Let me know what you thought of the chapter, and I'll see you in chapter 11 of A Spider Among Monsters - Web Of Lies: Part 4! :D