Marvel: Spider-Man? No, I Am Superman!
Chapter 8

Venom Spider?

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At this moment, Peter, clad in his black Spider-Suit, stared fixedly at the Spider-Woman before him.

Her outfit was nearly identical to the familiar one from the anime—a tight bodysuit that outlined a nearly perfect figure.

It clung to her legs like black silk, making her form even more graceful and her legs even longer.

The next moment, Peter's Super Vision activated instantly.

The black Spider-Suit the Spider-Woman wore almost immediately turned transparent.

"So white... ahem, she really is his classmate, Gwen Stacy."

Heaven as his witness, Peter's true intention in using X-ray Vision was solely to confirm the identity of this Spider-Woman before him.

"Put him down quickly, he's about to suffocate to death."

At that moment, the Spider-Woman had no mood to wonder why this guy was looking for her or why he was staring so intently.

Though his gaze made her feel a bit uncomfortable.

But as Spider-Woman, she couldn't bear to see anyone die before her, even if that person was a heinous criminal.

"Oh, I almost forgot about him."

Hearing the Spider-Woman's reminder, the mysterious figure seemed to finally remember he was still holding someone.

"Fine, he's yours."

As he spoke, the mysterious figure "lightly" tossed the guy toward the Spider-Woman before him.

Yet, faced with such a simple move from the mysterious figure, Spider-Gwen's body instantly tensed up, and her Spider-Sense, which could foresee danger, triggered immediately.

Because the guy the mysterious figure had "lightly" thrown was now hurtling toward Gwen like a cannonball just fired from its barrel.

Its extreme speed and immense impact force almost instantly activated her Spider-Sense.

Gwen dodged to the side almost instinctively, narrowly avoiding the human cannonball just before it struck her.

"This guy, did he do that on purpose?"

Having narrowly escaped the human cannonball's attack, Gwen was furious inside.

But she couldn't confront the mysterious figure right away.

Though she had successfully dodged the attack, the guy used as a human cannonball to strike her was now flying out of the alley at breakneck speed.

If she didn't rescue him, there was no way he'd survive that speed and impact.

Unable to bear seeing anyone die before her, Spider-Gwen turned without hesitation and shot a web strand.

"Great, I caught him..."

Her web strand hit the unlucky guy being flung away, but before Gwen could feel happy about it, she suddenly felt an immense force transmitted through the web: "Tch, so heavy!"

The powerful force seemed ready to drag Gwen along with it.

And Gwen, as if refusing to lose, grabbed the web strand with both hands: "Damn it, stop right there."

This was the first time since gaining her superhuman abilities that Gwen had used all her strength.

A force of over ten tons was enough to punch through any ordinary person's body with a single blow.

But now, it was barely enough to hold back a guy casually thrown by that figure.

Under the pull of two immense forces, even the specially made web strand was stretched nearly to its breaking point.

However, the thrown guy eventually ran out of momentum, and Spider-Gwen, using all her strength, managed to pull him back.

"Was that on purpose, or an accident just now?"

Casually sticking the unconscious unlucky guy to the wall with a web strand, Spider-Gwen turned around and stared at the mysterious figure, demanding an answer.

"Sorry, if I said it wasn't on purpose, would you believe me?"

Peter, hidden beneath the Spider-Man mask, spoke slowly.

"I believe your head."

How could Gwen possibly believe anything this mysterious guy said?

"Who are you? Why are you... dressed like that?"

Now, Gwen finally had a chance to take a good look at this suddenly appearing mysterious figure.

But seeing his all-black Spider-Suit, if she added some white or red stripes, it might match hers even better...

"Bah!" Gwen suddenly felt a strange, inexplicable sensation.

"Who am I? You can call me Tobey Maguire. Or..."

Under the faint moonlight, the mysterious figure's black Spider-Suit seemed even more mysterious and eerie.

"You can also call me Venom Spider!"

"Venom Spider? Could it be that you... impossible, how could you..."

Gwen found it incredibly hard to believe—how could there be someone else in this city who, like her, had been bitten by a spider and gained superhuman abilities?

"That's right, I'm just like you—bitten by a spider with mutated genes, gaining these extraordinary powers beyond normal humans."

"What you don't know is that there wasn't just one mutated spider. There were two. The one that bit you was female, and the one that bit me was male."

Donning the Venom suit, Peter started spinning a tall tale for Spider-Gwen.

"That's impossible!"

Spider-Gwen found the information utterly absurd.

But the next moment, as if suddenly recalling something, she spoke hesitantly, asking cautiously, "Then what about our relationship..."

"That's right, our relationship is... sworn enemies!"

Peter's voice suddenly turned icy.

"What?"

The next moment, under Gwen's stunned expression, Peter abruptly raised his arm, and a web strand shot instantly from his wrist, aimed directly at Gwen before him.

Under Peter's sudden attack, Gwen's Spider-Sense triggered immediately, and she dodged the web strand Peter fired in a perilously close maneuver.

Without a moment's pause, she reached out and shot a web strand toward a nearby tall building.

Then her body launched into the air, gripping the web with one hand as she swung onto the building, looking down at Peter from above.

"Tobey Maguire, right? I don't know where your powers really came from, but it's definitely not what you just said."

At this point, Spider-Gwen seemed to suddenly regain her composure, analyzing calmly.

"You must not have paid attention in biology class, or you'd know that female spiders are stronger than males."

"And sometimes, they even eat the males!"

Gwen finished, giving Peter no chance to retort, and leaped straight off the building.

Her lithe, graceful body spun continuously in the air, like a nimble female diver executing a high-difficulty maneuver—a 360-degree aerial rotation with seven and a half twists.

At the same time, both wrists fired two web strands downward at Peter, but he dodged them with ease.

However, the dodged webs stuck directly to the ground.

And Gwen, still in the air, used the tension from the webs to adjust her stance, kicking fiercely toward Peter.

Against a superhuman with power matching her own, Gwen held nothing back, going all out!

"Jade..."

Peter, still maintaining his Super Vision, saw a completely different scene before him, as if he felt no danger at all.

Only when Gwen's foot was about to slam into his face did he finally raise his arm slowly.

Thud!

With a dull impact, Peter's body didn't budge, though his feet left two deep imprints on the ground.

As for Gwen, she was sent flying far by the powerful recoil, tumbling through the air several times before landing on the ground.

Though her landing wasn't particularly clumsy, Gwen's heart couldn't help but sink.

"This guy called Venom... he's got insane strength."

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