Chapter 73 - Jail Break (1/2)
Johnny's Jaw almost dropped to the floor as he looked at Spider-Man across from him. ”Did he just? But-But how?” Peter didn't reply and no one else did either as they were as shocked as he was. Reed Personally was running every equation and calculation that he could think of to explain how it worked.
It only took 20 seconds before the metal that was trapping Peter's body began to super heat itself and melt under his body. It took another 10 seconds before Peter got himself free. Falling to the ground for a second, the fire went out as he let out a puff of air.
That had taken more out of Peter than he thought it would. ”Ta-da” Letting that out he began to make his way over to Ben who was still shocked from what just happened. As he got closer to his restrained friend, Peter once again said Johnny's catch phrase.
”Flame on.” But this time instead of his whole body lighting up it was only his hands. They glowed and flickered as he reached for the metal he had to turn into slag. As he was doing this he started to explain to them how this was possible.
”Now I know you're surprised but, one of the early things I learned about Venom was the fact he could copy powers. Personally I don't know how he does it; I haven't been able to research it myself. But if I had to guess he somehow takes a complete copy of your DNA sequence when he bonds with a person.”
Stopping for a second Peter gestured to Johnny. ”This includes all its special properties. With that DNA he is able to give those properties to someone else he is bonded with.” Peter got back to work as the information started to sink in.
With his back turned to 3 of them he gave a conclusion. ”Of course he is only able to retain the DNA for a short amount of time, unless he has perfectly bonded with a person for a long period of time. Right now the only person I know that this has happened to is; myself.”
A little bit of realization appeared in Sue's eyes. ”Wait, when Venom was still a…Villain and was trying to kill you. It wasn't just an evil person who had the same powers. It was your powers.” Peter gave a small nod as the metal finally slopped to the floor; Ben Grimm the Thing was now free!
”Yes, but as I said before, he enhanced my powers, so he was always stronger.” Ben gave him a pat on the shoulder as they both got up and moved to the other Cells. ”Well I'm glad he's a good guy again.” 'I like this one.' Peter nodded at Venom's words. 'Me two.'
*Bang* *Bang* Using two heavy hits Ben broke Johnny's containment cell in a few seconds as Peter got to work on Sue's. As it was reinforced because of her abilities, Peter was burning a hole through it. *Splash* The substance that surrounded Johnny fell to the floor covering Ben, but he shrugged it off as he helped Johnny out of the cell.
Avoiding the shatter, reinforced glass on the floor, Ben helped him over to Peter before he went to help Reed. Peter just finished letting Sue out when Ben brought Reed over. Half frozen and still in bad shape, frowns came to everyone's face.
Making sure that Sue was alright Peter moved over to help, he only had Johnny's powers for a little while, and he would use it to the best of his abilities. Peter's arms lit up in fire as he began to help thaw Reed out.
While he was doing that Sue got to work on cleaning up Johnny, with the substance still stuck to his body he couldn't use his powers and they would need them.
It took another 5 minutes before everyone was about ready to go. Reed still wouldn't be able to help in a fight, but he could walk and talk again. Sue had just finished with Johnny. Reed spoke up first. ”We need to find a way out of here and where Doom is keeping the vibranium. Once we find it we need a way out of here, the Fantasti-car is out of service.”
Ben nodded at the words. ”Doom's an evil genius; he must have some type of air force. We can steal one of his planes.” Johnny brushed himself down as he tested out lighting up one of his fingers. ”Yeah who knows how long it will take before they find out we've escaped.”