The arrival of her dear Spider-Man was relieving and worrying at the same time. The two men could really hurt themselves fighting. They both had the strength and skill in order to make things crazy; although Lexi couldn’t help but laugh at his comment. Typical Peter, how she didn’t see it before was beyond her… well, she was probably distracted by how surprisingly good he looked in red and blue spandex but that’s beside the point. The point is he was here.

Upon the comment being man Spider-Man/Peter about being pathetic made Lexi’s muscles tense, which just caused the tendril around her to tighten against her force to get out. Her small body lost some breath and she let out a small uncontrollable whimper of pain as it did so. She hated hearing Harry talk bad about Peter. He was a good man and he didn’t deserve the comments He was making. As the battle began, the tendril soon loosened and ran to help the other massive glob of black goo leaving her free. 

Lexi had never ran so fast down her stairs in her life as she did to try to get away from the scene. It was as if she could hear Peter in her head, [i]“I don’t want you to get hurt because of me.”[/i] She couldn’t stick around; she would just end up getting in the way. Her body nearly jumped steps as she continued down the stairwell and by the second floor from the bottom, she looked to her left out a window to see Spider-Man and Venom wrestling in the air throwing punches and falling towards the ground. Her body jumped back into action, the fight or flight moment kicking in as she ran the rest of the way down the stairs and out the building. When chaos happens in New York City, robbers use that as an excuse to break into buildings and steal objects and what type of building does Lexi happen to pass as she made her way towards the explosion that was the men landed on the pavement, she passed a movie themed stop that had been broken into. Her feet pulled to a halt as she saw a device on the ground. She gave a shrug, picked it up and continued on her run.

Spider-Man had landed on the ground and Venom had thrown his complete weight on top of the smaller framed hero. Venom leaned over the body of his friend and inspiration who turned out to be a failure to him. But now it didn’t matter. He was more powerful. [i]“Stupid Pete. I don’t know what made you think you could protect the city and get the girl. YOU’RE WEAK!”[/i] Venom raised his right clawed black hand and was about to slam it down when something wrapped around his wrist. As he turned to look he found a sudden force pulling him backwards and it was enough to catch him off guard and stumble. Piss off, he turned and roared in the direction of the wrapping only to see Lexi standing fearless about five feet away, the end of a long whip in her hand. 

“HARRY STOP THIS AT ONCE!” She demanded as she pulled again on the whip. This time Venom didn’t stumble but she had his attention. “Don’t you DARE call him weak! Showing compassion is not weakness. Finding the good in people is not a fault and wanting to help others when it’s logical and not going to cost them their lives makes him a hero!”

Forgetting about Spider-Man, Venom climbed off of him and slithered his way over to her, the tendrils holding him up off the ground as his body hovered over the raven haired girl as she pulled the whip back to her. She looked like a female version of Indiana Jones with the way she used it. [i]“HE WOULD RATHER LET ME DIE!”[/i] Venom shouted at her, the vial thing shouted so loudly that it blew her down hair back in such a force of wind it nearly stuck straight out behind her.

“THE ODDS WERE NOT IN YOUR FAVOR TO LIVE!” Lexi shouted back showing no fear when she really was shaking inside. Her only goal right now was to buy Peter some recovery time. He could only last so long. Maybe by the time Peter would get his strength back, the SWAT time would be here and they could get Harry under control. “If this hadn’t worked you would have died within days of the injection! That was not a risk he was willing to take. Genetic engineering is very tricky! It’s something that can’t be messed with. It’s something that can’t be taken lightly. You could have died. Neither Peter nor I wanted that for you Harry. Please understand that! But now that it’s worked, if you can just take things slow, learn to understand what you’re going through you can help protect the city like you want. Peter could train you I’m sure. Please, stop this violence, it’s not needed.” Thank god the people had ran from the area around them and no one heard Peter’s name being mentioned.

Venom’s face seemed to soften during her talk. It was as if she was getting through to the Harry under everything that was this black glob of… whatever. He seemed to understand, his motions seemed to soften as he stared at her with those white eyes over the masked face. Then, without warning, he erupted. A tendril reached out and grabbed Lexi causing her to yelp in pain as it wrapped around her waist and brought her to his face, his mouth opening and yelling at her, her hair flying backwards and her face covered in spit. [i]“YOU KNEW WHO SPIDER-MAN WAS THE WHOLE TIME AND YOU DIDN’T TELL ME?!”[/i] With that he threw her like she was a tissue off to the side. Lexi had enough time to react, throwing the whip she had found and thanks to the height he threw her she was able to wrap it around a light pole and slow down her momentum before it lose the distance and slipped from her grasp, her small body flying backwards at a lot slower speed and hitting the wooden wall of the nearby building. Her scream of pain at the impact drowned out by Venom’s yell. [i]“I WILL KILL SPIDER-MAN AND THE GIRL AND THE CITY WILL BE MINE!”[/I]