Chapter 2:
Secrets revealed and concerns met

John and his team was able to make it to the castle, but was surprised that there was nothing guarding the outside. Jameson docked just the same and left their transport with the other three lagging behind. “Are you sure we shouldn’t make a plan, John?” Goblin questioned as they walked.

“The plan is that we rescue Karin first. The spewing tower second, and finally the High Evolutionary.” He explained rather bluntly since his mind was on rescuing Karin. ‘Besides I have a debt to pay for what he did to me.’ He thought as he recalled the Arctic wolf defect in his bloodstream.

“So, where do you suppose she is mate.” Bromley questioned since they really didn’t know of the interior personally just Spider-Man did. He became depressed at the thought of him going back for the beastials.

“The web-slinger told me what room she was in the last time. We just have a few turns to make.” He answered back, but when they turned left there was fifteen machine men in front of them.

“In the name of the all powerful High Evolutionary and Sir Ram you are under arrest.” The mechanical man in the front said to them. The question ‘why he only used one knights name’ came up, but they worried about that minor question later. The team started firing. They were using blasters, Goblin bombs, and Git’s sling shot maneuver and they were down to the last three until the wolf in humans clothing got blasted in the back.

“Great more of them.” He muttered while glancing over his shoulder at the new fifteen. The one that was closest to the out of Towner tried to fire, but with reflexes on par or better than Spider-Man John took the robots head, ripped it off and threw it at one of the new bots.

“Good on ya Colonel.” Bromley said before trying to blast one of the new robots. The bad thing was that these machine men fired at their hands forcing the members of the resistance to release their weapons.

“In the name of the all powerful High Evolutionary and Sir Ram you are under arrest, however due to past offenses to both parties you have been subjected to immediate disintegration.” One of the machines said before taking aim at the leader. Just as they saw the purple glow on their finger tips a new shot was fired from the hall that they were just in.

“Colonel Jameson, are you alright?” X-51 questioned as he hovered down the hall after blasting six more. The remaining evil machines turned their sights on their brother in arms with their weapons raiser, but that was a bad idea.
“Now!” Jameson shouted and he with the others fired on them and took out the rest. “To answer your question X-51 I’m alright, but we still need to find Karen. So, let’s mover before more machine men arrive.” He told them and then headed on out. Spider-Man who was with a new crew was still enroot of getting there. Naturally the wall-crawler knew how to pass the time:

“Hey, Lord Tyger, are we there yet?” He questioned to the man to his left.

“No, Spider-Man, not yet.” He answered back calmly.

“Tyger, are we there yet now.” The spider asked again.

“No.” He answered back with slight anger in his voice.

Hey, Tyger, how about no---” Spider-Man tried for a third time, but was interrupted with Lady Ursula’s, who was sitting to his right, claw at his throat. She glared at him for a while before speaking nice and clearly.

“This is not the best time for your mouth, Spider-Man.” She instructed to him, and to strengthen her point she tightened the grip around his throat. He began to choke for a while, but was able to answer her.

“Okay, I get it.” She released his neck, and he spent the rest of the trip rubbing his neck. While on the ride there he noticed that Lady Vermin did not say much, or anything not even when he was being strangled, just starred outside the window. They docked in front of the passage Spider-Man used to help out Bromley, but the door was shut.

“Looks like we go on foot from here.” The feline told them and got out of the vehicle, and the others followed after him. The arachnid war grateful that there was a big enough dock for them to hid from the storm, but they still had the door.

“Better let me do it. It takes muscle.” He said in his comedic talent and tried moving it. The good news was that he was able to pry it open, but the bad news was that it was a little too heavy.

“Your right. This job does need muscle.” The bear said and helped him out, and with her help they were able to make hole big enough for everyone to crawl through. After crawling on all fours for their entrance than standing back up the team then started walking. After a while the web-slinger saw a doorway that set his spider sense off the first time.

“Hey, guys, what’s behind this door?” He asked the rest since he didn’t have the time to visit the rooms the first time, and these guys probably know of what was in the other rooms.

“That would be Sir Ram’s laboratory, but we do not have time Spider-Man. We must save your friend.” The stripped one said, and the arachnid knew that he was right, but he also had a feeling that the horned one had something that might help them.

“It’ll only take a minute, and besides you guys can occupy yourselves with the machine men that are coming at us.” He told them before barging into the lab. In truth he sensed that they were being tailed, but he did not want to alarm them. As he went into the lab Lady Ursula saw what he meant and smiled.

“Now I can show off how much I really like these machine.” Mama bear said as the machines came at them. As the knights took on the machines on their end Jameson has run into a different problem.

“The web-slinger didn’t say anything about this.” John said as the four of them ran into an electrical problem. There were electrical ports to either side of the hall: some stayed where they were, some moved vertically, some moved horizontally, on the ground, and went on and off. “Why does this remind me of almost every video game I’ve ever played.” He said after seeing the set up.

“How do we get past this one mate?” The bomb man questioned since he has not seen the likes of this before.

“If I may.” Their good machine started to say, but was interrupted by their leader.

“It’s simple guys just follow my lead.” He told them and then set off. He jumped at the right moment and out ran the one on the ground, but unknown to him was the fact that some of the electricity hit the bio-electrical implant which was damaged from the laser earlier. The humans and the bandages were able to angle around them just fine.

“Looks like this is where we part ways toaster oven.” Goblin said to the metal man at the beginning of the course. X ignored him and walked over to the hidden panel that he detected earlier.

“As I was about to say I detected a panel that controlled the electrical defense system.” He said before hovering to the others. Three of them hit their palms over their forehead for it, but Jameson on the other hand was on the move.

“You coming?” He questioned while walking off feeling a familiar feeling. ‘Guess the implant got damaged. Hope I can stay calm long enough.’ He thought, but the thoughts over what the High Evolutionary had Karen hooked up to was making that impossible. Spider-Man on the other hand was still looking through the rams stuff.

“Come on, you have to have something useful here, mutton man.” He muttered and dove into a pile of stuff which he hopped had something useful. “Let’s see: my face attached to a dartboard - no. An autographed picture of the High Evolutionary - no. A ‘how to be a world dictator book - no. A booklet of ideas to get Lady Vermin - n---.” He stopped and looked at the book again. ‘Is this why he hates me because Vermin likes me better then him, and normally she was not my top ten, but knowing this makes me feel better.’ He thought and went back to digging. “A portable sonic device - that’ll do.” He said and jogged out of the lab.

“What kept you, Spider-Man?” Tyger questioned after slicing one machine man in half. He looked around at all of the bot shells, most of them done in by bear claws or sword slashes.

“Guys a klepto, took me a while to find the right thing.” He informed them and then added, “But on a lighter note who knew that you could throw one heck of a party.” This actually brought a smile to the tiger and the bear’s face. “Well, now we better help John-Boy before this building falls on me too.” He said which caused him to see the white faced one involuntarily shake.

‘My love under another building. I could barely handle it the first time.’ Lady Vermin thought. The web-slinger could see a familiar look in the mouse creatures eyes. A look that he knew all to well, it was the same look that he got from Mary Jane when he told her of his day, and how he almost got iced. He walked over to her and decided to ask her about it since he hated seeing any decent person in trouble.

“Lady Vermin what’s…” He started but stopped when a familiar howl echoed through the halls. “Oh-no! Come on, we better handle another one of Mister High‘s experiments first.” He said and ran off with some wall crawling thrown in with the others following, and Vermin in the rear. Deep in Sir Ram’s underground Lab Sir Ram was there with his creator.

“I swear to you Spider-Man that I will kill you for harming the creator, and turning the others against me, but most of all I will kill you for what is rightfully mine.” The ram said and then put the High Evolutionary in a re-stabilizing tube. As soon as the bearded man was secured he heard a beeping on one of his monitors. He saw what was the cause: it was an alarm from his lab at the castle, and it showed who it was. “Looks like I get to kill you sooner than I thought.” He said and headed off to the castle himself.

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