Chapter 103: Solus
AN: Sorry for the dy. Been too busytely and also had workst weekend :(
Anyway, here''s the chap!
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<strong>Chapter 103: Solus</strong>
<span style="font-weight:400">With Solus’ signal, the rest of the Inheritors charged to the nearest Spider and started attacking them.
<span style="font-weight:400">At the same time, the Spiders did what they do best. Beat up the bad guys.
<span style="font-weight:400">Solus grinned and took out a pouch from his inner pocket before tossing it to another Inheritor.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Morlun. Find the Prodigy and wake her. Once she’s awakened. Eat!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“My pleasure.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morlunughed and ignored the rest of the Spiders as he left the scene with a powerful jump.
<span style="font-weight:400">Just as he was about to leave, an angry voice called out to him and intercepted him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“MORLUN!”
<span style="font-weight:400">That figure had spikes all over his body and his mouth morphing into that of a spider’s.
<span style="font-weight:400">Two stingers appeared from his wrist as he charged towards Morlun.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ah! The Other! How nice of you to deliver yourself to me!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morlun sneered as he faced Kaine.
<span style="font-weight:400">Solus saw this as well and was about to join their fight to speed things up when a Spider got in his way.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was Cosmic Spider-Man.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I told you, you made a big mistakeing here.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ah, that smell. So full of life! How delicious!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Solus cheered in excitement upon feeling the intense life energy within Cosmic Spider-Man.
<span style="font-weight:400">Cosmic Spider-Man’s eyes and fist started to glow as he sent out an energy beam straight towards Solus.
<span style="font-weight:400">He expected Solus to be instantly disintegrated but was surprised to see him blocking his power with just an arm!
<span style="font-weight:400">“That’s impossible! That’s the force of creation itself!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Solus chuckled and approached him while Cosmic Spider-Man kept firing the energy beam at him, seemingly trying to push him back.
<span style="font-weight:400">s, Solus was unfazed and only kept nearing him until…his hand clenched into a fist and smacked Cosmic Spider-Man straight to the ground.
<span style="font-weight:400">The next moment, he grabbed Cosmic Spider-Man by the head andughed at him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Your precious Primal Force of Creation? You poor fool! That is Pure Life Force! The power that my broon feasts on. And while it may be too much for any of my children to handle…I am the first of my kind, and my hunger knows no limit!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Solus opened his mouth and suddenly, Cosmic Spider-Man seemingly turned into pure light as Solus inhaled it bit by bit, leaving nothing but a husk that was once the most powerful Spider-Man in the multiverse.
<span style="font-weight:400">“No…I had ultimate power…ultimate responsibility…”
<span style="font-weight:400">As Cosmic Spider-Man fell, the other Spiders fell as well one after the other.
<span style="font-weight:400">Kaine was broken in half by Morlun who soon started drinking his blood.
<span style="font-weight:400">Silk was killed by multiple Inheritors surrounding her and began feeding on her.
<span style="font-weight:400">Spider-Girl died trying to protect her little brother Benjie.
<span style="font-weight:400">One after another…the Spiders began to fall…until no one was left.
<span style="font-weight:400">Morlun came to Solus.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We’ve won. Now, all that’s left is to find the Prodigy.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”
<span style="font-weight:400">“My lord, is something wrong?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morlun asked Solus who was frowning as he looked at the corpsesid before him.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Something…feels off…”
<span style="font-weight:400">As if on cue, a voice suddenly resounded around them.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well done. That was some fight. s, if only it were real.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“WHO!?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Morlun growled as he looked around but found no one.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, you know what they say. Reality can often be quite…disappointing.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Suddenly, red mist began to show all over them.
<span style="font-weight:400">As if rewriting the reality they once knew.
<span style="font-weight:400">In their surroundings, they were no longer in the Spider-Refuge, but in a dark cave. Each of them being ced inside a cell of their own.
<span style="font-weight:400">asionally, they would hear the screams of pain and misery from one of the cells.
<span style="font-weight:400">Solus charge straight for the iron bars as he tried to break free, only to find the bars not budging at all from his power.
<span style="font-weight:400">“WHERE IS THIS!? WHO ARE YOU!?”
<span style="font-weight:400">*Step*Step*Step*
<span style="font-weight:400">A person’s footsteps could be heard as a figure slowly emerged from the darkness and in front of his cell.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Benjamin Freed, EPD. You’re under arrest for crimes against the Spiderverse.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Solus was enraged and mmed his fists on the iron bars but it still wouldn’t break.
<span style="font-weight:400">“GET ME OUT OF HERE, BOY! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT FORCES YOU ARE DEALING WITH! I AM YOUR DEATH!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hooh.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Before Benjamin could say anything, a cold voice suddenly sounded from behind him.
<span style="font-weight:400">This time, two more figures appeared. Both looked identical as if they were the same person.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You dare im to be Death in front of us?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Worm, it is you who has no idea who you are dealing with.”
<span style="font-weight:400">The two Deaths gave him a cold smile.
<span style="font-weight:400">Solus was confused at first but his eyes suddenly widened as if he saw something.
<span style="font-weight:400">He stumbled a few steps backward and fell on his ass.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Y-you…! N-No! This is impossible! H-how!?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Mors smiled and narrowed her eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t expect you will have a pleasant death.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Mara added with an evil smile.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You’re our toy now.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Looking at the two of them, Benjamin was a bit speechless.
<span style="font-weight:400">They seem to be enjoying this too much?
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, these two beings have lived for so long and should be pretty bored…
<span style="font-weight:400">I wonder if Mara would turn into another shut-in like Mors?
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well…you two have fun ying.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Umu, go do your thing.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Thanks for the toys!”
<span style="font-weight:400">While Mors returned to her loli form for who knows what reason, Benjamin left the two to deal with the prisoners while he left the Soul Realm and returned to reality.
<span style="font-weight:400">Back in reality, Peter was poking Solus’ body curiously.
<span style="font-weight:400">“So…what happened? They just suddenly dropped dead.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh, don’t worry, I used the Reality Stone to trap them in another reality then used the Soul Stone to take their souls in a soul prison of mine.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">Hearing him answer so nonchntly about using the Infinity Stones, everyone was dumbfounded.
<span style="font-weight:400">Miguel was the first to react.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hold on a sec! Reality Stone? Soul Stone? Where did you get these? Aren’t Infinity Stones not supposed to work in another universe? Did you take this universe’s Infinity Stones or something!?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin shook his head.
<span style="font-weight:400">“No. Mine is just special. Don’t worry about it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”
<span style="font-weight:400">Everyone was speechless again.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin saw their awkward looks and realized.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh, right. Sorry. I should’ve let you guys fight as well. My bad.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t worry. I only dealt with the Inheritors who traveled here. There’s plenty more of them in their homeworld!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Suddenly, more figures appeared from the portal.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was…Solus, Morlun, and the others again?
<span style="font-weight:400">“Huh?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin was confused.
<span style="font-weight:400">Seemingly sensing his confusion, Mors answered him by speaking directly in his mind.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Those are clones. Set to rece the originals when they die. ording to these guys, they have a separate world to produce all sorts of clones. Get another one of each so me and Mara can have one each. I think we can y Inheritors Chess afterward. Oh, you can directly kill them after the third time, we don’t need them.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...”
<span style="font-weight:400">This time, it was Benjamin who was speechless.
<span style="font-weight:400">Those two are really treating them as toys…
<span style="font-weight:400">With a wry smile, Benjamin waves his hand and directly sends their souls into the Soul Realm’s prison so the two Deaths can y chess with them as their pieces.
<span style="font-weight:400">After that, more clones began to appear.
<span style="font-weight:400">Seeing the third batch appear, Benjamin exined to the others about the clones.
<span style="font-weight:400">Kaine immediately formed a team of clones with Ben Reily and Jessica Drew’s clone to attack the clone world and destroy the clone manufacturing site while the other Spiders charged towards the Inheritors homeworld to bring an end to this once and for all.
<span style="font-weight:400">In the meantime, Benjamin squatted down on Solus’ body and took a pouch in his inner jacket.
<span style="font-weight:400">Opening it, he was surprised to see a terrigen crystal inside.
<span style="font-weight:400">That coupled with what Solus said about awakening the Prodigy led Benjamin to believe that the Prodigy wasn’t really their Peter Parker, but someone else.
<span style="font-weight:400">Someone who needed a terrigen crystal to awaken.
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Leah?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin was amazed.
<span style="font-weight:400">It seems that Leah’s Inhuman power will let her be another Spider Totem.
<span style="font-weight:400">One that is probably even more talented than Silk.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin looked at everyone and saw that the situation was more or less stable.
<span style="font-weight:400">The only problem was Solus’ clone as he was too powerful.
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin thought for a moment and decided to give Peter an Untainted Symbiote to boost his power.
<span style="font-weight:400">When Peter got it, he was so excited that he quickly bounded to it and started to wreak havoc among the Inheritor clones.
<span style="font-weight:400">What was even more surprising was the fact that he could take on Solus on his own now!
<span style="font-weight:400">Seeing as it should be okay to leave them be for now, Benjamin took little Benjie to protect him and keep him away from the fight as he left the scene.
<span style="font-weight:400">He looked for MJ and Leah who had left before the meeting started as Leah was hungry at the time.
<span style="font-weight:400">Sure enough, they were still in the cafeteria, not knowing that there was a fight ongoing.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Mr Freed! Did you get hungry too?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin showed a wry smile and shook his head.
<span style="font-weight:400">“The Inheritors have invaded. I’ve already dealt with the ones that came here and the rest are preparing to defeat the third wave and bring the fight to them. And here you’re still eating cakes.”
<span style="font-weight:400">MJ blushed in embarrassment.
<span style="font-weight:400">“This is one good cake, you know! Also, there’s a fight!? I need to be there too!”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...Figured you’d say that. Give me Leah. I’ll protect her and little Benjie here together. Go have fun.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...I feel like you’re the only one who’s not taking this whole Spiderverse-Inheritors war thing seriously…”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Says the girl with cake still on her cheek while everyone’s fighting.”
<span style="font-weight:400">MJ blushed again.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Shut up! I’m going now aren’t I!?”
<span style="font-weight:400">With a thwip, MJ swung to where the fight was, leaving Benjamin alone with the two kids.
<span style="font-weight:400">Leah looked at Benjamin and asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Is Spider-Man fighting the bad guys?”
<span style="font-weight:400">Benjamin smiled.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. And they’ll win.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah! Spider-Man always win!”
<span style="font-weight:400">Leah cheered.