"Gee, you sure have a gift for the obvious, Gobby," Spider-Man said as he whipped around a tossed bomb, the device exploding harmless in midair behind him.
"You didn't really expect us to allow you all the initiative in this little tete-a-tete, did you?" Spider-Rose asked, tossing a dart.
"Ooo, a trap," the Goblin said, pulling the dart out of his armor and crushing it. "Surprise! I thickened the armor, my dear."
"Forget something, Gobby?" Spider-Man demanded as he slammed into the Goblin from above.
Spider-Man was past as the goblin started to recover control only to be sent off course again by one of Spider-Rose's water-marbles. Both spiders landed on the sides of buildings on either side of the Green Goblin.
The Green Goblin was just righting himself and regaining control of his glider when the strands of webbing started snapping around him. He growled in angry as the web spun by the two spread wider and wider, with him at its center.
"They trying to trap me like a fly," he thought angrily.
That couldn't be allowed. He gathered his breath for a shot as a free hand reached for a handful of bombs quicker than either spider could react.
"Catch this! Spiders!" the Goblin shouted, tossing the bombs, not at the spiders, but into the streets below and the crowds of gathering onlookers and reporters.
"Oh man," Peter muttered, firing his strands to catch and envelope the dropping bombs.
Spider-Rose gritted her teeth, but saw the other spider moving for the bombs in time to know that she didn't have to. Peter would have to move, and already was, but he could easily grab all the bombs before they did any damage.
"Just you and me for now, girl," the Goblin laughed, ripping his other hand free and reving up the glider to power burst through the unfinished web about him.
The Goblin twisted about to face his grinning mask in Spider-Rose's direction. The machine guns flared into life only an eyeblink later and the girl was already twisting away from the walls the Goblin was aiming at.
Then came the bats.
That's what Kodachi thought they were at first, though an unwanted closer look instead revealed they were actually quickly rotating blades, sort of like flying fans.
Kodachi had to admit a certain appreciation of the design. It was probably something she'd have come up with herself eventually, but, for the moment, it was something trying to kill her. And with each throw the goblin put more of the little mechanical beasts into the air about her.
That, in addition to the Goblin with whatever else he planned to do while she was dodging his monstrosities.
Spider-Man wasn't blind to these happenings, and as soon as he was certain he had all the bombs stopped, explosions safely smothered by globs of webbing, he launched himself back up into the sky on the tails of the Goblin's glider.
Feeling a jerk on the back of his vehicle, the Goblin glanced away from his pursuit of the wildly flipping and acrobatic Spider-Rose. He was just in time to see another webline shoot past him and Spider-Man following swiftly behind it.
The globs of webbing he used to enwrap the bombs gave Peter a further idea and a similar projectile flashed up into the Goblin's head with the force of catapulted boulder. Knocking him off of his glider.
Kodachi was bleeding from several small slashes already, when Spider-Man had attracted the Goblin's attention. It was obvious that merely dodging wasn't going to be enough for these weapons, but in the air she had to use her webbing to swing and concentrate her body's motions on dodging.
When she first hit the side of a building, without the Goblin behind her, the situation became easier to handle. A wide net of thick-stranded webbing shot out from her, catching in the rotors of the bats, quickly grinding the monstrous weapons to a halt.
It took only two such nets to handle all the bats and leave Spider-Rose clear to enter the fight again. She looked to see the Goblin falling, and Spidey swiftly following to catch the maniac. He didn't seem to see the glider coming around on its own behind him.
Kodachi knew that Peter's senses would warn him, but he wouldn't be in a position to dodge by that point. She swung out to intercept the glider and...
...it changed direction, cutting sharply upward through the tail end of an approaching newscopter.
"Shimatta!" Spider-Rose snapped out.
She was soon swiftly shifting her own velocity to intercept the incapcitated copter, trying to dodge the still rotating main blades. A second webline caught the following tail to keep it from hurting anybody and then Spider-Rose had both hands on the copter and her feet on wall.
Kodachi dug her fingers into the metal to firm her grip and grunted with the effort of trying to bring the damaged copter to a safe stop and hold it.
The Goblin smiled even as Spider-Man wrapped a webline around him and they both landed on the ground with the sound of the exploding the helicopters tortured cries.
Both superbeings looked up to see Spider-Rose holding onto to the copter for dear life, and it was obvious to both that she wouldn't be able to hold it for long.
"I think your girlfriend needs a little help, don't you?" the Goblin asked.
"Yeah, but you're staying right here," Peter said quickly, wrapping the Goblin further, as much as he dared before leaping up towards Spider-Rose, coming under the copter and taking some of its weight off of her.
On the ground, the Goblin cackled as he cut the weblines about him on a saw toothed piece of rubble and burst out of the remainder by main force. The glider came around again and he was soon airborne, and this time with both spiders occupied with the downed newscopter.
He cackled to himself, even without bombs he still had bullets for his machine guns and they were sitting ducks as they were. Or so he thought, but then he saw the copter already supported by a web and the two spiders ready to face him further.
"Next time, Spiders, it won't be so easy," the Goblin shouted as he rocketed into the sky and away from the battle site, leaving the spiders to handle saving the helicopter crew.
"That didn't go as we hoped," Spider-Rose noted wearily.
"We surprised him, but he was still ready," Spider-Man agreed.
"But we proved one thing," Spider-Rose noted.
"He is out for Oscorp's interest," the other spider nodded. "Or somebody in Oscorp, anyway."
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