Magical evening part 5

Spider-man quickly slid under a what looked like a beam of ice shards and shot at the attacking mage with his venom blasts. The mage wasn't able to dodge or block the blast in time and was sent flying into the wall, withering in pain as hundreds of volts of electricity ran through his body

Peter quickly felt his sixth sense flare and he pushed himself off the floor and onto the wall just as a man dressed in a black and brown cloak rammed his enchanted sword into the ground he was just occupying. Peter snickered as he watched the man try to pry his blade free from the cracked ground before he hopped off the wall and punched the snarling mage in the face

The man went down without a sound and Peter used that moment to check back at his allies to see that Constantine had just finished blasting a Hell hound's head off with that mystical revolver of his while Zatanna and Wanda were sending waves upon waves of mystical blasts at almost a dozen mages who had circled around them and tried to attack from the rear

Safe to say the two mystical powerhouses were having little trouble in forcing the men and women back with sheer power alone. Nick on the other hand…

'Wait, where the hell did Necro wander off to?' Peter thought as he scanned the area for signs of New York's most powerful mage but found no traces

Peter growled at this development as he sent several web bullets at a mage who tried to sneak up on him without looking and stopped a thrown dagger aimed for his head and snapped the blade in half before throwing the hilt back at the surprised mage and broke his nose with the make shift projectile

'Nick you better not try anything funny or I swear to whatever god you worship I'll kick you ass from here all the way to Camelot!' Peter thought as he ducked under a man's punch and sent a jab into the side of his face that nocked several teeth loose before he brought the man into a head butt and kicked him away and into the wall

His spider-sense tingled again and Peter was just able to dodge a fireball thrown towards him and responded with a stream of webbing the cocooned the mage to the ground. Peter saw they were about to try and free themselves by casting some sort of incantation and decided to web the man's mouth shut for good measure

"Whatever you do, don't swallow. Trust me that stuff will give you a serious case of the runs" Peter commented as he leaned down and ripped the webbing blocking the man's nasal passage before tapping him on the side of the head with his finger and knocking him out

Just as he stood up, a mage appeared out of nowhere with a large knife in his hands and was about to try and stab the wall crawler when suddenly a whip of scarlet energy wrapped around his neck and yanked him way and into the last of his still standing friends

Peter blinked at this before looking to see that it was Wanda that pulled the man away and gave her a nod of thanks

"Ten points for Gryffindor" Peter quipped as Wanda approached him

Her face contorted at that "Hogwarts? Really your comparing my power to those books?"

"Not a fan?" Peter guessed as he scratched the back of his head

"No…I prefer to be compared to one of the Maia" Wanda said as she kicked away a dagger

Peter couldn't help but chuckle at the witch mentioning something from the Lord of the Rings novels "Ah a Tolkien fan I see"

"For the Shire…" Wanda said in a whisper as she passed Peter and continued further into the fortress

Constantine brushed past him with a snort as he reloaded his gun "You can find me reading Game of Thrones mate. More interesting anyways"

Peter nodded at that and turned to see Zatanna looking for Nick with a frown on her face "Did you happen to see where he-"

"Nope, just noticed he was missing myself" Peter said as he and Zatanna followed the other two, while keeping an eye out for Nick

"I hope he doesn't do anything stupid" Zatanna said wordily

"Yeah, that's normally my thing in these kinds of situations" Peter said which earned a chuckle from Zatanna before he felt his spider-sense begin to tingle again, but it wasn't to warn him of danger

Peter stopped as he felt his sixth sense seemed to be pulled down a hall to his left which Peter could very faintly here what sounded like gun fire coming from it. His eyes narrowed at the direction while Zatanna watched him with curiosity

"Spider-man?" Zatanna placed a hand on his shoulder which caused the man to look over his shoulder at her

"Go meet up with the other's, I'll catch up in a sec…" he said as he began to make his way down the hall

"Wait, Spider-man where are you going?" Zatanna questioned the man

"…To see someone that's supposed to be dead" Peter stated before he took off down the hall

…

'I think I may be a bit out of my league here' Frank thought as he pushed himself off the ground with a groan while also spitting out a glob of blood

For the past few minutes he's been trying to fight this wat seemed to be more lethal version of Spider-man only to get tossed around like a feather in a hurricane. The man moved faster than Frank could track, punch harder than he could withstand and those green and yellow electrical blasts of his hurt like hell

'Should've kept Spider-man around for this guy' Frank thought as he saw the red and black spider figure approaching him with narrowed lenses and his hand glowing that greenish yellow color

Frank slowly reached for the pistol he had on his ankle before the man disappeared in a blur before reappearing and stepping on Frank's arm hard enough to almost snap the bone inside

"AAAHHHHH!" Frank yelled in pain as he tried to remove the other man's foot only to be grabbed by the throat and lifted up and brought face to mask with his opponent

Frank sent the man a dark glare "Well…what are you waiting for?"

The man's lenses narrowed until they looked like slits and reared his still glowing fist back and looked like he was about to ram in through Frank when suddenly he let go of the man and turned towards the entryway to see another person standing there. Frank followed his gaze and found Spider-man standing there, his gaze focused solely on the red and black man

The tension in the room was so thick that Frank thought he might choke on it as the two spider themed men stared each other down…and seemed to have completely forgotten him.

'Well something tells me these two have some things to work out and who am I to get in the way' Frank thought as he slowly backed away from the two men 'Besides this guy my keep Webs busy long enough for me to find that asshole…'

…

Despite what Frank thinks, Peter didn't forget that the man was there and from the looks of it Kaine didn't either, they were just more focused on the much larger threat, each other

Peter felt a multitude of emotions as he stared at his clone which he knew for a fact was Kaine. The two men had always had a complicated relationship and unlike the one Peter had with Ben and even Jessica when he was younger, his and Kaine's was nearly outright hostile half the time. What was even more sad was that neither man had ever tried to improve it beyond barely tolerating each other's existence, a fact that Peter was willing to admit was both men's fault

When Peter saw that Frank was gone, likely to find the man that apparently killed his family, he spoke "Hey Kaine…nice to see ya again barring this whole situation"

"Peter…" the Scarlet Spider hissed as he quirked his head to the side slightly "…So it really is you, and not some alternate version"

"Yeah…" Peter said as he watched Kaine closely, the man has always been faster and stronger than him thanks to modifications implanted in him by the Jackal all those years ago "Surprised you're here to be honest after what happened with Kraven and his family…"

"That makes two of us" Kaine said before he sent a venom blasts towards Peter who barely dodged it in time and quickly hopped on to the wall

"Kaine I don't want to fight you" Peter said as he watched Kaine grab a still intact chair and throw it towards him with a growl

"Good, then stop moving so I can hit you!" Kaine hissed as Peter dodged the chair and landed on the ceiling

"Kaine how the hell are you even here in the first place? Better yet why the hell are you helping these people?" Peter question the man that jumped on to the ceiling and shot several web lines at Peter who weaved through them and shot several of his own at Kaine who effortlessly dodged them

Kaine than shot two web lines out and used them to slingshot himself into a surprised Peter and tackled the man through the wall

KOOOOOOM!

"GAH!" Peter yelled as he felt something in his rib cage snap at the force of which Kaine collided with him

The two spider themed men rolled on to the ground and came to a stop with Kaine pinning him down and sending a venom blasts inchoated fist towards Peter's skull that was barely dodged. Peter pulled his knees in and used them to launch Kaine off him before sending several web bullets back at Kaine who easily incinerated them with his own venom blasts

"Gonna take a lot more than that to stop me Pete" Kaine growled out

"It's not supposed to Kaine" Peter nearly yelled in frustration "I just want to talk!"

"Funny, because I don't!" Kaine yelled back before he launched himself at Peter at full speed and sent a painful punch into the wall crawler's head, cracking his reinforced helmet and sent the man flying down the halls

"So, stop talking and start fighting!" Kaine yelled as he quickly trailed after Peter with both hands glowing

Peter tasted blood in his mouth as he slowly looked up to see Kaine approaching him and sighed in frustration "Fine you want to fight? Then I'll give you a fight"

Peter shot several venom blasts at Kaine who quickly dodged them only to receive a punch to his face that sent him stumbling back. He tried to counter but a jab to his solar plexus followed by a heeled kick to his jaw sent him flying through a wall and into what looked to have a study at some point. Kaine hissed in pain as he pushed himself up to see Peter glaring at him through the whole he just made with his body

Kaine couldn't help but smirk as he stood up and extended his claws out "Someone's been practicing"

Peter's cracked lenses narrowed at him as he slipped into a combat stance and then much to Kaine's slight surprise extended out a pair of bony stingers from underneath his wrists

"Lot's changed since you 'died' Kaine" Peter growled out

Kaine eyed his genetic template for a moment before he snorted "…Yeah, I guess your right"

The two than launched towards each other

…

Frank spat out a glob of blood as he slowly made his way through the halls. He could make out distant fighting behind him that was beginning to get closer. Frank grunted as he pushed himself off the wall he was using as support and reloaded his double barrel shot gun and brought it up just in time to see another man appear, only instead of attacking him the man simply quirked his brow at the gun tottering vigilante

"You're the Punisher, was it?" the man asked as he gestured to Frank's attire

"Frank narrowed his eye "…I am, what's it to you?"

The man smiled "Name's Nick Necro and I'm here to help you, well help myself but helping you will help me so…"

"Fuck off wizard boy, I don't got time for the likes of you" Frank said in annoyance as he shoved Nick aside and continued down the hall

"He's not down there…" Nick said as he watched Frank come to a halt and look over his shoulder at Nick

"…What?"

"The man you looking for, the one who killed your family. He isn't down there, he's actually…" Nick waved his hand against the wall that Frank was just leaning against to reveal a hidden tunnel "…Down this way"

Frank looked back and forth between the tunnel and nick "Why are you helping me?"

"Because Mr. Punisher" Nick said with a smirk "I need something from this man as do you. He possesses a magical artifact that I want and you want to gut the man alive. Far as I can see it, our interest our aligned and the best way to achieve our objectives is to work together…temporarily of course"

Frank snorted at the man "How do I know you won't try and help him or keep me from killing him"

Nick's smirk fell and was replaced with a dark look "Honestly Frank I could care less for the man, I just want the artifact that he has before Spider-man can get it"

That caused Frank to look at the mage with narrowed eyes "What is it?"

"Nothing you need to worry about Castle, now do you want to stand here and keep talking about how lovely the decor in here is or do you want to avenge your family that was killed by a sadistic necromancer?"

Nick didn't wait for a response has he entered the hidden passage and continued onwards leaving Frank to watch him with a guarded expression. After several seconds of thinking the man exhaled loudly and followed the powerful mage into the hallway all the while keeping his shot gun at the ready

…

"So anyone want to tell me where the hell Spider-man and nick had wandered off to?!" Constantine yelled as he punched a hellhound in the face before sending it flying into another with a magical blast while Zatanna was blocking several blasts from a group of mages trying to surround the duo

"Don't know but right now we have to figure out how the hell we're gonna get out of this" Zatanna said as she gritted her teeth while struggling to hold up her shield from the nearly constant onslaught of powerful spells being thrown against her cracking shield "And where the hell did the witch go?"

Constantine was about to respond when suddenly the floor beneath the mages attacking collapsed underneath them. Zatanna's eyes widened at the sight of Wanda hovering over the now destroyed floor before she turned her gaze to the several hell hounds surrounding Constantine and held out her hands

"Heel…"

The hounds eyes all turned red for a moment before they obeyed her command and slowly sat on their hunches, much to Constantine's relief as he reached down and picked up his mystical pistol

"Bout damn time, was beginning to think I may have to do something drastic" the British mage said as he preceded to reload his gun while Wanda slowly descended to the ground and gave the man an indifferent look

"Your welcome"

Wanda than looked towards Zatanna "I found out where your boyfriend wandered off to"

"And where's that?" Zatanna asked

"He's with the other man and their both going after the leader of these…mages" Wanda said the last word with a crinkled nose as if calling these men anything of the sort was revolting

"Why didn't you stop him?" Zatanna demanded

Wanda, unaffected by the powerful woman's outbursts shrugged "I was but then I saw how much trouble these people were giving you and thought it best to help…mistress of magic my ass"

Zatanna growled at the woman and was about to say something when Constantine coughed loudly to get both women's attention "Look, how about we first save Nick's life, because believe me we will and then you two can have your magical catfight yeah?"

Both women narrowed their eyes at Constantine before they followed after the man. It was then that Wanda noticed something odd about the group

"Where's P-…Spider-man?"

Constantine shrugged "Don't know to be honest but how much trouble could he be in?"

…

Peter was sent flying through a wall by one of Kaine's venom blasts and landed roughly on an ottoman that once belonged to a chair. Peter groaned out in pain as he pushed himself to his knees just in time to have Kaine kick him in the chest and send him flying through another wall and came to a painful stop beneath a window that lead to outside the building that he and the second Scarlet Spider have been tossing each other around in for the last several minutes

"Well…I'm going to be feeling that one in the morning" Peter groaned out as he looked up in time to block a punch from Kaine and pushed the man back and sent several punches into the man's torso before slamming both hands against the red and black clad man's head

"GAH!" Kaine yelled in pain as he cradled his head in pain and was unable to block the kick to the chest that sent him flying into the air

Peter quickly shot a web line at the man's chest and pulled him back into a clothesline that knocked the wind from Kaine and caused him to slump to the floor in pain as he tried to catch his breath

Peter slumped against the window, the cool glass pressing against some of his exposed bleeding skin and inhaled painfully and let out a hiss as he felt his chest contort in pain

'Yep…broken rib or two' Peter thought as he watched Kaine slowly pick himself up and glare at Peter with an exposed eye, the lens having been torn off earlier when the two men were tearing into each other

"Will you stop attacking me and listen now?" Peter asked hopefully

"Why…should I?" Kaine panted out as he pushed himself back to his feet

"Gee I don't know maybe because we've found ourselves in an alternate reality for starters? Or maybe because the last time I saw you, you were just used as some sacrifice to resurrect Kraven the Hunter after you knocked me out and stole my suit to trick them into thinking you were me" Peter said sarcastically

Kaine growled at the man and took a step forward before his leg gave our and he fell to his knees and stopped himself from face planting into the ground by using his forearms to brace himself

Peter would have moved to help him but his body was hurting all over. A combination of being slammed through re-enforced cement and wooden walls, punched by several tons of force and blasted with thousands of bolts of bioelectricity had really taken it's toll on him

The only reason he was still standing was because his suit was able to at least absorb most of the impacts from earlier

'Least I know that this thing works outside of keeping me safe from bullets' Peter thought tiredly as pushed himself off the window and approached Kaine 'Still, better increase durability of suit's armor if I want to actually use this thing to face down physically stronger foes'

Just as Peter reached for Kaine he felt his spider-sense tingle and was unable to dodged or block the lightning fast punch Kaine gave him that sent him flying through the window, which was on the fourth story, and make a painful landing on the ground that knocked the wind right out of Peter

Peter let out a pained gasp and tried to move only for Kaine to land directly on his chest, cracking and denting the armor on his torso and nearly crushed his entire rib cage

"AAAAHHHH!" Peter yelled in pain before Kaine ripped his mask/helmet off and sent a powerful punch into his face that knocked several of Peter's teeth out and nearly dislocated his jaw

Kaine pulled his fist back for another blow that Peter knew may very well come close to killing him when suddenly a hand grabbed Kanie's fist and stopped it cold. The Scarlet Spider looked over his shoulder to see who it was and nearly paled at the sight of Wonder Woman herself glaring at him

Kaine stared at the amazon for a moment before he let out a sigh of annoyance "Great, here we go agai-"

KOOOOOOM!

Kaine didn't get to finsh as Diana has smacked the red and black clad man away and right into the fifth story window.

"That's gotta hurt" Peter spat out as he pushed himself up and spat out a mixture of broken teeth and blood "I can already here my dentist scolding me for this…"

"I just got your message an hour ago and came as soon as I could. And you mind telling me who was that? Or what's happening?" Diana asked as she kneeled down to check on Peter's injuries and winced at the state of some of them

"That, my wonderful woman was my violent loving brother Kaine. As for what's going on, me and Constantine tracked the men behind the attack on the Cold Flame here and are currently trying to recover the artifact which I still know jack about! Seriously not since 'Pulp Fiction' have I been this annoyed in trying to find out what this thing is"

"Shall I contact the Justice League and ask for help?" Diana asked

Peter thought about it for a moment before shaking his head "To be honest Di…I kind of want to keep them out of this"

Diana's brow furrowed at that "Why?"

"Personal reasons and because…" Peter trailed off as he looked up towards the window that Kanie was sent through "I don't want them anywhere near him"

"Is he that dangerous?" Diana asked with confusion "Peter we've faced greate-"

"That's not it" Peter corrected as he finally found himself standing and shot a web line towards his mask and yanked it to him "Look I know I'm asking a lot but please don't contact the League. I know it doesn't seem like it but I am actually starting to get through to him if barely and if the League shows up, it might undo whatever progress I've made with him"

"How so?" Diana asked as she folded her arms and gave Peter a disbelieving look "He was about to kill you from the looks of it"

Peter nodded at the accurate stamen "True…but look it's hard for me to really explain, but just know that he wouldn't have killed me. Come close yeah but he won't actually go overboard and follow through with it"

"How can you be so sure?" Diana asked with some doubt, from what she's seen so far the man looked like he was about to go for the kill

"…I'm not…but I have to believe that deep down underneath all the rage and hate he has for me, half of which is completely justifiable by the way, he still sorta, kinda sees me as his brother still" Peter said as he placed his mask back on and pulled out a small device from his belt and handed it to Diana "This will take you to Constantine's location, I slipped a tracer on his shoulder earlier"

"And I'm right in assuming you're going to face your brother again?" Diana asked as she watched Peter make his way towards the window she knocked the red and black themed spider earlier

"Yep, but don't worry it shouldn't take long and I'll swing back around and help you and the rest" Peter said before he leaped up towards the broken window and used tow web lines to pull him in with a crash

Diana watched him go for a moment before she sighed "Hera, this man is going to be the death of me one day"