Spider-Man: Duty and Loss Chapter 75: Doom Squad Part 1

"I've been hankering to clobber something!" "Flame on!" Ben and Johnny sprang forwards first as Sue held onto Reed. The Doom squad said nothing as their amours powered up. Not willing to be left behind, Peter sprang to the roof and assessed the situation.

'I forgot how fast I was when we were connected.' 'It has been a long time, it's…refreshing.' The content in Venom's voice as he spoke the word wasn't lost on Peter as he watched the fight begin. Flying above and behind the group, Johnny started barraging the group as two of them started to fire back.

Being nimble in the air he dodged the blasts, but almost got hit a few times. While that was going on the other two were firing at Ben. Because of his stature even though he tried to dodge the blows, he was still hit by a few stray blasts. Peter's eyes narrowed as he looked at the slight scorch mark left on Ben's brick like skin. He may not have made a sound, but Peter could tell that it hurt.

Taking a quick peek at the anger in his blue eyes, Peter could hazard a guess at how much that hurt. A small smile came to his lips as he prepared to jump into the fray, the power coursing through his veins was heightened by the symbiote combine in his DNA. 'Let's show them what a spider can do.' "Time to kick some shinny but!"

Peter yelled out softly as he dropped from the air to help Ben, Johnny was fine for the moment. Sue and Reed didn't actively join the fight as Reed was still out of commission, though Sue would produce a barrier every now and then helping out.

Landing swiftly behind the pair of metal heads Peter reared his hand back as he slammed his fist into the side of their helmets. He used about 50% of his enhanced strength as too much could lead to possible taking their heads off.

*Clang* *Hiss* Peter let out a small hiss as he backed up and started to shake his hand. 'That was a lot tougher than imagined.' Before he dwelled on what just happened, his spider sense blared a warning and his body shifted to dodge the right hook that had just been sent at him.

Raising an eye brow up at the person standing over him, he couldn't help but grumble. "Could you give a guy a minute to contemplate life, Jesus, B-rate henchmen, no manners these days." A low growl came from the man as he started to attack Peter.

As their fight started Ben closed in on the other man and started to brawl himself. Surprisingly the armour they were using only showed slight dents after being pounded in by the heavy blows of the Thing. Reed rubbed his chin at the sight, a frown on his face.

Even though the armour was protecting the doom squad, they were still losing the fight. The other two still hadn't hit Johnny yet when the one fighting Ben spoke up. "Tactic Icarus. Go." Moving in unison the two at the front disengaged and quickly retreated from the fight. One of them reached for his side and pulled out a type of metal net.

Swirling his arm around to get momentum, the other 3 aimed at Johnny forcing him into a corner as the last one threw they net. Seeing no way out without getting hit Johnny sent a stream of fire right at the net hoping to burn it before it reached him.

Sue was too far away to get a barrier up for him, and Peter and Ben were just getting close to their missing opponents. The fire connected right with the net as it approached Johnny's flying form, but did nothing as it continued on.

Johnny's eyes widened in fear a little as he saw a small spark of electricity coming from the net before it hit him. "Argh!!" Wrapping around his body and forcing him to the ground, the electricity started to come off the net in torrents as Johnny screamed in pain.

"Johnny!!" Sue screamed from the side as she let go of Reed, he stood shakily on his feet as Sue rushed over to help. She was panicking as she started to unleash all her power. Multiple barriers appeared forcing the doom squad to back up away from her brother.

"That's it!" Ben fumed as he rushed head long into one of the squad that was just pushed back. Before he could get out of the way, Ben speared tackled him through one of the nearby castle walls into another room. The rest lost sight of him as Peter closed in on his opponent.

Knowing that they could withstand his full force blows, Peter didn't hold back as he shot a web out. *Thwip* Being stunned for a second, not having concrete information on Spider-Man beforehand, the goon was caught unaware as he was pulled into a cloth line from the resident web head. Using the strength he usually reserved for the Rhino or Scorpion, as well as boosted by Venom at the time, his body flipped two times before he crashed into another wall.

His body stuck into it for a second, before the wall itself turned to rubble after a few seconds. The helmet had a huge dent in it and a bit of blood coming from the side. Peter knew that the person inside was still alive and kept his composure, he had dealt with people like them before, the helmet would have given him one hell of a concussion though.

He didn't get up as the sound of Ben pummeling into one of the squad out of sight resounded in the room. Everyone had stopped for a second as they watched Spidey manhandle his opponent so easily. Sue was the first to recover as she made her way to Johnny.

Making a quick assessment of the threats the leader reached to his side and pressed a small button on his forearm, he attended to call for backup as soon as possible and to inform everyone of the threat. "This is…" But his words didn't continue as he looked down at the comm. link on his arm, it was flashing red, denoting the fact that his signal was not transmitting properly.

A frown came to his face, hidden by his helmet; it shouldn't be possible for him to reach no one. He was in the main complex of Doom, his castle, his fortress, unless he was half way around the world, in an area specifically shielded from the frequency, he should be able to get a signal out. He had been given the armour by Doom himself, he was so powerful and smart, everyone in the country knew of his genius. 'What was going on?'

Chapter end