Peter had not yet lowered his raised hand when the back of his neck suddenly tingled.
A black shape lunged from behind the lamppost.
He sidestepped, planted his left foot against the curb, and turned to grab its shoulder. Venom landed and swung its arm backward, a length of black growth lashing across his chest.
Bang!
Peter's feet left the ground, and he crashed into a car door by the street.
"Spider-Man!"
Jason had only just stepped forward when a white strand flew past his face and stuck to the wall behind him.
Peter shot a web at the wall behind him, pulled it taut, and flipped out of the dented car door, kicking both legs at the charging black shape. Venom caught his ankle and swung him toward the ground.
Spider-Man bent his knee and twisted his waist, pinning that arm with his other leg as he fired webbing at the ground.
The web caught his back and sagged.
Venom's fist came crashing down after him.
Peter rolled clear. The fist punched through the webbing and shattered the paving stones beneath it.
A few steps away, Jason stood with his mouth slowly falling open.
He had watched Peter bounce in that web, then roll beneath a fist that had almost brushed his head. Usually, the mask looked at people along with its wearer, its eyes curved, making him look rather fun to tease.
Now both eye lenses had narrowed.
He was still the same Peter. The one who had just been sitting beside him eating, his cheeks bulging, having to swallow his food before he could speak.
If that punch actually hit him in the face...
A cute-faced kid with monstrous strength...?
Jason grabbed a broken section of guardrail beside the car and hurled it at the lunging black