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The meeting with Jonah went well all things considered. The whole deadline moving thing was orchestrated by one Eddie Brock. He was a new freelance photographer at the bugle and tried to screw over Petra. The face Jonah made when he discovered what Eddie tried to do could have been mistaken for a cartoon pepper. Petra swore she saw smoke coming out of his ears and after she was dismissed she heard an angry shout, “BROCK GET IN HERE THIS INSTANT!” She saw Eddie as he passed by her, his face was pale and his eyes were wide. That made her day a little better.
When she exited the Bugle's building she felt her phone vibrate. Pulling it out of her pocket she saw a new message from a Pizza King. “Odd, I wonder who that is and how they know my number?” She asks herself as she opens the message.
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Chat Room:
4 Crime Fighting Frogs + 1(one) Spider
[Pizza King Added Peter Parker to the Chat.]
[Pizza King Changed Peter Parker's name to On Your Walls.]
Pizza King:
Spidey welcome to this amazingly chill chat me and my brothers use. I also wanted to let you know some family friends will be coming over for dinner around 530ish. I promise they will love you so don't worry about hiding anything spidery cuz you know the whole talking turtles deal. OH! I also should give introductions. lol.
The one typing this msg is none other than YOUR favorite, the Mikester.
@Coffee God is the D Man himself.
@Red Means Go is Rafa, the best big bro.
@I Fear One Thing is our leader in blue Neon Leon.
(@ 1:03 pm)
On Your Walls:
Thanks for the heads up Mikey. I'm almost done with my errands so if everything goes smoothly I'll be back soon.
(@ 1:04 pm)
Red Means Go:
Why the hell was I pinged? I'm in the middle of working on my bike. So you better have a damn good reason Mikey.
(@ 1:05 pm)
Coffee God:
I believe it's so Parker knows who's who. Side note: does anyone know where my soldering kit went?
(@ 1:07 pm)
Red Means Go:
It's in the garage D and Mikey the only reason you're not bein run through a spar right now is because I can smell what you got cookin.
(@ 1:08 pm)
I Fear One Thing:
Just a heads up Dads on his way back. His trip ended sooner than expected. He should be here around dinner. Make sure everything is clean before he gets home. Also welcome Parker.
(@ 1:09 pm)
On Your Walls:
Thanks for the introductions and I'm excited to meet your friends and father. I'll try to be back sooner. Can't wait for more of Mikey's cooking! Also I have something I want to tell you all when I get back
(@ 1:10 pm)
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As Petra slips her phone into her pocket she hears screaming. She looks around trying to figure out where it's coming from when an explosion goes off a little too close for comfort. She's lucky that her Spidey senses and venom were able to pull her into a nearby alley. Everything is white and she can't breathe, she can't hear due to the ringing. She feels something wrapping around her, it's oddly comforting. Then suddenly she can hear, see, smell everything better than ever.
As Petra looks around, she is hanging off the alley wall, her hands are covered in her suit gloves but the colors are slightly off. The reds brighter, the blues darker, the webbing is silver instead of black. Her fingers end in sharp claws that extend when she flexes them. She sees her reflection in the window behind her. Her mask is a half mask, revealing the lower half of her face, her teeth are sharper. Her mask’s eyes were wilder, framed by black with white-green lenses that feel more like her actual eyes. They blink when she blinks. “What the hell? Wait, that's our voice?” She asks, touching her throat.
Venom's…her…their voice answers, “We saved us. We are your armor, we have sharpened our fangs, claws and strengthened our Spider. We follow.” Petra shakes her head then another batch of explosions followed by screams can be heard down the street. “Ok, questions, later hero time now. We need to work as a team V, I'm on offense and you're on defense. Warn me when we need to dodge, I'm trusting you to work in tandem with our spider senses. Now let's save the day.” She launches off the wall and thwips towards the explosions.
As she swings she notices her center of gravity is slightly off. “V what else did you do?” She asks, swinging around a corner. “We are taller. We would normally be this tall if we ate enough and after the hormones are properly settled. Female spiders are bigger than males. Hopefully our new brothers will help with that. As per your request we haven't messed with our hormonal levels.” Their layered voice replies. “It's so odd how we both talk out loud like this and really? If we ate right and continued with HRT we'd be close to 7 feet tall, spider DNA is wild.” They finish as she lands on a roof closest to the center of destruction.
“Of course it's a bank robbery.” She sighs, seeing the two culprits walking out of the ruined bank. She hops down landing on an abandoned car. “So We leave for a week for personal reasons and you get all buddy buddy. Really Vulture working with Scorpion? We thought Vultures ate Scorpions.” She quips drawing their attention. Vulture and Scorpion drop their loot bags turning to face her with sneers. “You don't know what you're talking about Spider…man?” Scorpion asks, confused. Despite the confusion the pair shows they get ready to fight. Petra recoils in disgust, "News Flash Scorpy, Its Spider-Ma'am now. We learned some things about ourselves recently. Not that you have common courtesy."
Vulture launches at Petra, trying to grab her. Just as he's about to clamp his talons on her shoulders she feels two new ‘limbs’ sprout from her back pulling her away “Ah come on We know We put on a few feet and have some new threads but We're still your friendly neighborhood Spider-Ma'am” She chirps as she lands on a lamp post. “Thanks V.” She mutters, feeling Venom's gratitude hum in her core. “When the hell did you get fucking tentacles bug?” Vulture rasps as he goes in for a second dive. "Those are part of the 'Some things' we learned. That's all you're getting Birdie." She quips as she gets an idea. "Hey Scorpion Catch!" She yells out, hurling a car door at Scorpion.
Scorpion catches the door with a growl. Vulture takes the optuinity to dive bomb Petra again. Petra shoots webs on his visor as she once again dodges at the last second thanks to Venom. She lands behind Scorpion as a blinded Vulture crashes into a billboard. “So what's got you two working together? I mean even when you guys had four others you couldn't beat Us.” She snickered. Scorpion spins around trying to hit Petra with his tail. She flips over the tail swipe, catching it with two web shots and pulling as she lands hurling Scorpion onto a recovering Vulture.
For the first time in a long time she's actually enjoying a fight. These two feel sloppy and slow to her enhanced speed and reflexes. It's like she's truly awake for the first time. Venom gets them out of danger and catches incoming blows they can't dodge. They've found a flow between them, a symbiosis if she would be so bold. They stay evasive for most of the fighting. Dodging, countering, bouncing around while quipping constantly. “Come on Scorpy I know you are better than this feathered fool.” She yells out as she whirls Vulture around throwing him at Scorpion. Scorpion barely dodges his thrown ally hissing out, “You don't know what you're talking about. If I wasn't working for Him, then I wouldn't be caught dead near Toomes.”
“OH, we're playing the pronouns game, We see how it is. Let me guess this ‘Him’ we're talking about,” she chirps out while using one of her tentacles to throw a piece of rubble that hits Scorpion square in the chest knocking him down, “He's dangerous and will kill you if you say his name?”
The Vulture screeches before going in for his third dive bomb, “Wow, Toomes going for the same attack three times? You know how this will end birdy.” Petra almost laughs out as she catches one of his wings with her webs. As he tries to pull away she yanks him towards her waiting fist. The hit lands where she was aiming, right on his jaw, sending him sprawling across the street. She can hear sirens getting closer, meaning that the cops are on route. “Ok boys we need to wrap this up, We aren't on the best terms with the badges.” She says webbing Vulture to the ground.
The Scorpion has picked himself off the ground and was sprinting at Petra. On reflex she shot out with an upper cut, catching the Scorpion and herself by surprise. The blow sends him flying thirty feet up into the air and then back down on top of an abandoned car. She grimaces, “We might have to pull our punches more than before. The strength boost from the bond is no joke, huh V.” She mutters, as the Scorpion rolls off the car and stands on shaky legs Petra can tell that the fights almost webbed up. Then her Spidey senses suddenly SCREAM,
[FLEE! RUN! DANGER! HIDE! DANGER! EVERYWHERE!]
The intensity causes them to freeze, both Petra and Venom. They can't place where the danger is coming from. The Scorpion takes her lack of focus to recover from the beating he received and quickly moves over to The Vulture, cutting him free of the webs. Just as Petra got refocused and was about to web them both together, she felt something punch her on the right side of her face sending her flying across the street and into the wall. Her vision blacks out briefly, “Ow, that hurt. Anybody catch the plate on the truck that just hit us?” She says, looking around as her vision returns. “Well well well, the Spider's back to play and you've had quite the change in costume. Shredder's going to want you.” A creepy voice says.
Petra would know that voice anywhere, it haunts her nightmares. “We thought you were rotting in the raft Hobby. What changed?” She grits out. “IT'S THE HOBGOBLIN YOU INSIGNIFICANT BUG!” He screeches, while he starts hurling pumpkin bombs at her. Venom sprouts two more tentacles and then hauls them up to the roof before the bombs hit their mark. “You missed Hobbs, what's next? More bombs that We'll throw right back at you? Oh. We know you'll fly at Us with your glider trying to skewer Us?” Petra brightly calls out, trying to rile him up.
“HAHAHAHEHHEEHAHAH! I'll let that one slide you annoying arachnid. Those are some good ideas but no, I'm just distracting you from my associates.” He cackles out.
“What do you mean dis- AAARRGGH!” She cries out as Scorpion's stinger stabs her through the abdomen. ‘Our Spidey sense wasn't able to clock the attack, why.’ She thinks as she quickly whips around breaking his bionic tail and upper cutting his jaw again. Sending him sailing off the building and crashing onto the street. She quickly webs him up, taking him out of the fight. She webs the stinger in place to stop the bleeding. “Not *huff* cool Hobbs.” She gasps out. “One down two left. Who's next?” She tries to quip. ‘Thank whatever god took pity on me that Scorpion didn't have is Venom or this would be way worse. Hey V, can you help keep us moving with the tentacles?’
Venom doesn't give a verbal response, just feelings of protectiveness, fury and shame. “Well this fight just got a timer, thank you for volunteering Vulture,” she catches him as he flies by yet again, “Hey Hobby catch!” she hollers as she throws Vulture at The Hobgoblin. The Goblin dodges and counters with more bombs. “Two down… shit gettin dizzy.” Petra mutters. Just as her legs give out, Venom's tentacles hold her up. “Ok, Gobby, it's just you and me.” She tries to sound calm. ‘When did we get so dizzy? I spoke too soon about the Scorpion venom.’ She realizes.
“HEHEHAHHAHAH! That's what you think Spider! The Shredder sends his regards.” He cackles, as he tosses what Petra thinks is just another pumpkin. She was wrong, very very wrong. When she catches it in a web sling it detonates, sending a blast of sonic waves in every direction. The pain was nothing she felt before, it felt like she was on fire, like being pulled apart atom by atom.
“A̷̡̓A̸̫͒Ả̶̧Ạ̸̀Á̵͓A̴̜͝Å̸̟R̷͍̅R̶̹͑G̷͓̋G̸̪̓G̴̼͌H̶̫͝H̶̩͆H̴̳̐!”
She can hear screaming, ‘Ah we're the one screaming.’ She thinks as just as suddenly as it hit the pain is gone. Then she feels talons digging into her shoulders as she's lifted up off the roof by something. She's still reeling from the sonic attack, her thoughts are sluggish and slow. Petra can hear the Hobgoblin cackling as she's taken, “HAAAHAHAHAHHHEHEHEH! Shredder was right, you do have a symbiote. Till next time little Spider.” Then the thing holding her suddenly drops her. As she's falling she tries to twist herself to be facing the ground. There's a body of water that's rapidly approaching and if she doesn't slow her fall it won't be any different than hitting concrete.
She frantically looks around and spots a bridge close enough to hit with her webs. She fires and preys that her depth perception wasn't off from Scorpion's venom. Her web reaches and pulls taught. Snapping her momentum to the left suddenly. Doing this saves her from the water but it also dislocates her left shoulder and rips out the stinger causing her to lose blood much faster from the now gaping wound in the abdomen. She manages to land on one of the bridge's support pillars. It's a hard landing, definitely breaking one of her legs.
As she lays there, breath coming in short gasps and the adrenaline begins to fade from her system Petra takes stock of her injuries, “Stab wound, check. Bloodloss, yep. Dislocated shoulder, bingo. Broken leg, definitely. Excruciating pain in every cell of my body, you bet. Hey V, I'm gonna check out soon so we need to get home, fast. Please.” She can already see her vision blacking out. ‘Shit, I hope nobody saw that… actually no. V could you send a message to um, our brothers.’ Is her last thought before everything goes black.
~~~30 minutes earlier in the lair~~~
Mikey was ecstatic, Parker responded well to being added to the group chat. With everyone coming over today he decided to prepare something that would be perfect for so many mouths to feed, a hot pot. With all the fixings, beef, pork, lamb, salmon, tilapia, shrimp, cabbage, bok choy, mushrooms, and noodles. The broths he was currently preparing were a beef bone, mushroom, and his special spicy sichuan mala. Splinter loves how Mikey makes the Sichuan mala broth.
He had prepared all the raw ingredients earlier after he woke up finding Parker's note. He's left the kitchen to grab one of his comic books to read as the broths simmer when he passes by the TV area, seeing something that immediately catches his attention. There on the channel 6 news is a live broadcast of Spidey fighting. Normally this would excite Mikey, seeing one of his favorite heroes going toe to toe with villains. But this time he only feels concerned and worried, his new sister is in danger. Normally when he and his brothers are in a fight they are able to watch each other's shells. So seeing one of his family members alone and fighting out numbered fills him with some very not chill emotions.
She is holding her own, flipping and countering nearly every attack but a few hits get through her defenses. Mikey knows she can handle a two on one, she has done it many times before. As the fight goes on he begins to relax, “Parker totally has those two clowns. She's dancing around them like crazy.” He cheers, as he sees Parker hurl the Scorpion at the Vulture. It's then that Mikey sees her suit, “Wow, what's up with her suit? That's not… Wait, didn't D take her suit for repairs? What's she wearing?” He mutters to himself.
“It's most likely Venom. I'm intrigued by what powers she'll give Parker. The conversation I had with her was enlightening.” He can hear Donnie answer. Mikey whirls around letting out a shriek, “GYAAA! D don't sneak up on a turtle like that. Um, what brought you out of your lab?” he asks. Just as Donnie's about to respond a shell rattling shriek rings out of the TV. Donnie and Mikey turn to see what made that noise and both feel their blood freeze, on the screen they see Parker and Venom clutching their ears. The screaming is coming from them, they are rapidly being torn apart and put back together.
As they watch on in horror Donnie mutters, “That had to be caused by a sonic bomb. But who threw it?” He gets an answer as the camera pans left showing somebody on a glider that's cackling. Donnie asks, “Who is tha-” “THATS THE HOBGOBLIN! D this is very bad we need to get to her now.” Mikey interrupts. As Mikey scrambles away to get the others, Donnie watches as the Vulture swoops down and carries Parker away. The Hobgoblin is nowhere to be seen and in the distance he watches as Parker's dropped. She falls out of shot and Donnie can only hope that she can stay alive until they get there.
It's a flurry of movement as the four brothers prepare to head out, Leo's grabbed their trauma kit, Raph's started up their sewer skimmer, Mikey's running around grabbing extra of everything and Donnie just received a message from Parker. It was off however, the text read, “undr brdge cld afrade hurt hlp hungry ned hunt too week” with the location shared. “That is ominous. I better bring the chocolate. Definitely don't want them to ‘hunt’. Hey guys I got her location, she's at the Brooklyn Bridge. Most likely on one of the supports so we need to be there yesterday.” He announces as he grabs the chocolate and follows his brothers onto the skimmer.
10 minutes later they're pulling up to the location Parker shared. Leo hopes out first and nearly stumbles when he sees the state Parker is in. The others come up behind him and they all gasp, Parker is curled up on the ground shaking. She's lying in a puddle of her own blood, a black tentacle is wrapped tightly around her abdomen. The other three are laying limp around her. One of her legs is mangled and her left arm is wrapped over top of the tentacle. A low whine comes from her as she curls tighter around herself. Leo approaches slowly, setting the trauma kit off to the side, “Hey Spidey you awake? It's Leo, I'm going to touch you okay?” He says calmly.
As he inches closer Parker suddenly scrambles back, the tentacles keeping her aloft. When she pressed against the wall they all saw that Parker was definitely not home. Her mask’s eyes were wild looking more like green flames framed in black, not the clean goggles that she had earlier. Her teeth were more fang-like and there was a black-green liquid dripping from her canine teeth. The hand that wasn't pressed to her side had long sharp claws.
Ḫ̸̈́͐͑I̴̘̯̐Ḯ̸̢̦͓̕I̶͚̕Ȋ̵̛͙͋I̵̼̙͂̋I̶̋̿̚͜Ị̸̝͚͘I̵̬͊̌̾Ĩ̶̙͖͎Ṣ̷̙̅̀ͅS̶̹̖͇̅̊̽S̵̹̰̫͂̒S̸̛̻͘S̶̞̻͗͘͝Š̸̒͘ͅŞ̷̖̲̂͒̆S̷̛͇̤̍̈S̶̛̟̮̊S̷̜̈́S̶̰̤͎͝Ś̵̹
The turtles jump back at the guttural hiss that rips out of her throat. “I think Venom's piloting.” Donnie murmurs. Parker's head whips towards Donnie, “N̸̝͐o̸̤͌t̵͔͘ ̶̱̈́V̷͚̒ë̵͕́n̶̤͌ő̴̘m̵͓̄.̴̖̆ ̴̞̈́N̶͇̋o̵̥͛t̵̼̋ ̷͓͝P̷̞͘ë̴̟́t̸̪͊r̶͉͒ạ̷̈́.̷̜̇ ̴̲͠O̵͙̚n̵̟̈́l̸̮͂ÿ̴͈ ̷̢̓S̸̢̒P̸̢͘Ǐ̸͕D̷̳͑Ẻ̴̬R̸̼̈!” She hisses out. Then her head tilts and her tongue thwips out of her mouth a few times. Mikey can't stop the shudder that runs down his shell. “W̷͍͗E̸̦̐ ̸̖̎S̸̮̑m̸̤͐ě̴̠l̴͇̂l̷̳̃ ̷̫̚F̴̜̀Ơ̸̖Ó̷̤D̸͉͂.̸̧̈́ ̵̧̅G̵̎ͅḯ̵̼v̸̝̈́e̸̺͑ ̶̠̂t̴̜͑o̶̧̚ ̵͇͝u̶͛͜s̴͖̿ ̷̺͊N̷͙̐O̸̬͊W̵̠͠!̸̔ͅ” She demands slightly advancing forward. She's still leaning heavily against the wall.
Donnie while eyeing her slowly pulls out the chocolate and tosses it between them. They all watch as the tentacles keeping her up take shaky steps towards the chocolate. When she's close the tentacles give out causing her to crash onto the ground. The chocolate was just out of her reach. Her tongue thwips out snatching the bars and eating them all in one bite. When she swallows she collapses fully and the skin of her lower face is paper white, her breathing was ragged. “Shit! She's lost a lot of blood, we need to get her back to the lair ASAP.” Leo calls out.
Mikey and Raph are quick to grab the stretcher. “Ya know Mikes I thought you were overreacting when you grabbed this. Now?” Raph grunts out as he and Mikey lift the much heavier Parker. “I think this may have been your one idea for the year. What the hell has she been eatin’? Was she this tall earlier?” He finishes as she's loaded onto the skimmer. Donnie has a bio-scaner out and is checking her over. Leo's wrapping her abdomen and setting her broken leg. “She hasn't moved since she ate and her pulse is weak. Leo, get her left arm in a sling, it's dislocated. She has five broken ribs and three others fractured. Severe blood loss and there's an unknown toxin in what she has left.” Donnie lists off as they speed off back to the lair.
Leo's face is unreadable, Mikey looks five seconds away from puking and Raph looks more red than green. “Raph punch it, we need to hurry.” Leo orders. “I'M GOIN AS FAST AS THIS THING CAN GO!” Raph yells back, his anger bleeding into his voice. “Guy's save it for the assholes that did this, Scorpion, Vulture, and the Hobgoblin. Next time she faces them she won't be alone.” Mikey says, his tone cold, stopping the coming argument dead. Everyone is quiet for the rest of the trip, ‘Mikey's never been this, at least from what I've seen. Note to self do not get on lil bros' bad side’ Donnie, Raph and Leo all think.
Once they land in the garage Mikey and Raph rush Parker into the medbay. Leo and Donnie start properly treating her wounds. It's a blur of call outs, orders and shuffling feet. When all's said and done Parker's torso is bandaged up, her leg is set and her shoulder is relocated. The suit she was wearing disappeared, they watched as it seeped back into Parker. Her new height disappeared with the suit but the sharper claws and longer fangs stayed. “Oh, I just remembered I have to ask her where her spare web shooters went. Her old ones are with her suit in my lab, and she's been making webs since she first woke up.” Donnie rambles and he checks over Parker.
“Uh, Don I think I found them but I don't think we'll be getting them off her.” Leo says drawing Donnie's attention. “Here on her wrists, there's something under her skin.” He murmurs as Donnie scans them. “Fascinating, their organic spinnerets. They've been here a while but most likely weren't able to make anything durable. Something changed them, was it Venom or her age? I'll have to ask her, maybe-” He's interrupted by Leo flicking his head. “Donatello we need to focus on keeping her alive so we can learn more about her.” Donnie nods as Leo finishes.
Donnie refocuses on his previous task, identifying the toxin that's running through Parker. “It's like Scorpion mixed several different venoms and poisons to make this. I've identified three so far and they all are paralytics. Her immune system is putting up a fight against it though, and it looks like the symbiote bond only strengthened it.” He mutters looking through the data streaming through his scanner. Leo only hmms in response, too focused on pulling the shrapnel from her limbs before it heals over.
They both are lost in making sure Parker is safe so they miss the door opening and are then startled by a shocked gasp. “Peter Parker? What's he doing here? Leo, Donnie what happened to him?” They hear their older sister ask. They both whirl around, “April?” They say at the same time, Leo is the first to recover, “April when did you get here and why are you in the medbay?” He asks as Donnie recovers saying, “Yes that is P. Parker, her pronouns are she/her and she's still undecided on a new name so we've been calling her Parker.” Now it's April's turn to look shocked, “Okay, packing that up for later but you didn't answer my second question. What happened to my best student?” She almost demands.
Before Leo can answer, Donnie's matter of fact voice answers first, “She's Spider… Well, we've been going with Spidey. You know red and blue tights, webs, quips and… fighting-super-villains-and-nearly-dieing” Donnie quickly mutters the last bit hoping she will miss what he said. April's face says that she understood everything he said and is not impressed. “When she's awake we'll talk. All of us. Now Mikey sent me in here to tell you two that food's ready and that Splinter is back. He wants to meet his new daughter.” She smirks as both turtles look at themselves and laugh sheepishly.
Later after food is eaten and Donnie and Leo are being forced to take a break again, Petra wakes up. She groggy and her eyes are blurry, she's confused and questions if Scorpion added hallucinogens to his venom because she can swear that her favorite professor is sitting in the turtle's medbay. “Professor O'Neil? Are we seeing things or are you really here?” She weakly asks, her throat is dry and she can't remember anything after she crashed under the bridge. “How did we get here? Why do we hurt, what happened to us?” Her… their thoughts are muddled.
“Who are we, Venom…? no.. Venom she is part of… whole. Spider… no.. The Spider keeps us safe… we are Petra.. yes.. our name is Petra.” They mutter, high off pain killers. Their head hurts and everything feels so exhausting. “We, are tired, sleep… safe… home… Brothers…” they trail off as sleep claims their combined minds. “Get some more rest Pet- Petra. You need it.” April says while patting Petra's unbandaged shoulder with a fond smile on her face.