The three remaining members of the group managed to make it to a town that was at the other end of the forest; they figured it was the best place to start looking for Twilight and the vampire.
Electro hid himself from the people with his hood; the last thing they wanted was to cause panic.
Spiderman, Spike and Electro walked under a bridge road, when they were stopped by someone; the last of Morbius’ brides flew from the rooftops and landed in front of their path.
She sneered her teeth at them, the stated, “That was a naughty trick you pulled, bug.” Her mood suddenly changed, she was in a happy mood. “My master is willing to make a trade; the monster..” Adam and Sonata looked at Electro
“For the princess.”
Adam couldn’t just hand Electro over to Morbius, but he couldn’t leave Twilight in the clutches of that maniac. The hunter then had a plan.
“Somewhere open, in public; somewhere your master will expose his… his other side.” Adam explained.
Luckily, Sonata knew just the place for this meeting, “Tomorrow night, it is Nightmare Night; here in this town, there is a wonderful masquerade ball.” After those words, the vampires flew up to the roofs again; no wings, like a ghost she flew upwards.
Before they could continue walking, Spiderman stumbled; Spike caught him before he hit the ground.
“Are you alright?” the friar asked.
Adam replied, “Yeah, yeah, I’m fine.”
Electro then noticed something under Adam’s coat, he growled and pushed the hunter away; “He has been bitten, bitten by a were-wolf. Now you will become that what you have hunted for so long.”
Spiderman pulled out his blow-dart weapon, “I’m sorry.” He said to Electro.
“Do what you must.” The monster replied.
Adam aimed his weapon at the creature, and blew.
The dropped Electro off in a crypt, they hid him in a grave; the ball was tonight, they needed to get Twilight back without worrying about Electro getting caught.
“Well, they won’t find him in here.”
Spiderman and Spike wander out of the crypt, already wearing their costumes for the ball tonight.
Spike questioned their actions, “I’m sure this is some sort of sin.”
“Don’t worry, Celestia will forgive us. We need to save Twilight.” Adam replied as he locked the crypt’s doors.
While Adam tried to lift a stone cross-grave, Spike looked up at the jester hat Spiderman made him wear. “You don’t think the hat’s a bit much, do you?”
“Spike, help me.”
The friar turned around and helped Adam lift the grave stone onto the door, for extra blockage. Spike then asked, “How many commandments can we break in one day?”
The two of them left the crypt and headed for the exit; Spike explained the changes of were-wolfs, “According to the books, you won’t turn into a were-wolf until your first full moon; that’s two nights from now.” Adam picked up his hat and mask he left on a headstone, Spike grabbed his eye mask and continued, “Even then, you’ll still be able to fight Morbius’ control over you until the twelve stroke of midnight.”
“Sounds like I have nothing to worry about.” Adam stated.
Spike replied, “Oh my goddess, you should be terrified. Well, will still have forty-eight hours to find a solution.” Spike then looked back at the crypt they just hid Electro in. “Are you sure he can’t get out of there?”
“Not without some help from the dead.”
However, what those two didn’t realise; one of the stone coffins that was positioned next to the crypt, the lid was beginning to slide open. All over the graveyard, tombs were opening, graves were being dug up from under the earth & one mischievous goblin wandered into the cemetery.
“Get up, get up; we must serve our master. Bring him the monster.” Hobgoblin ordered.
The ghoulish people groaned and marched towards the crypt; Spiderman shouldn’t have left Electro alone.
Nightmare Night had come at last, the servants opened the doors to the grand hall and invited the guests to join the festivities. The entertainment had been splashed out on; some waiters on stilts and others on unicycles, one man was playing the violin while balancing on a large rubber ball.
Above the crowd, acrobats were performing air stunts and swinging on circus swings; the people had even hired fire breathers.
On the stage, a woman was singing to the tune of the violins, her voice echoed through the grand hall.
The crowd was made up of hundreds of dancers, all of them concealing their identity with and eye-mask; amongst the crowd, two dancers were see as the highlight of the party.
In the centre of the room, these two people were dancing together; they danced until the man pulled his partner into his arms. The man removed his masking, revealing the prince of darkness himself; he then reached to remove the woman’s mask, hidden behind it was Twilight.
Morbius moved his lips closer to hers, she did not resist, as if she was in some kind of trance. As the vampire kissed the princess, she suddenly snapped out of it; she tried to push him away, but her body was still under his control.
When the kiss ended, Morbius dipped his dance partner; “How does it feel to be a puppet of my strings?” he then brought her back up to continue.
Twilight replied, “I won’t let you trade me count.”
“I have no intention of trading you; and if I know Spiderman, which I do, he’s not planning on making a trade either.” Morbius dipped Twilight again, like he was toying with her. “Neither of us as ever settled for half.”
Above the great hall, were balconies; on one of them was Adam and Spike. They looked down at the dancers and tried to find Twilight. “Ah, there they are.” Spike pointed out.
“I’m looking for a new bride, and I’ve never been picky.” The vampire stated.
Morbius stepped behind Twilight, his lips brushing against her neck; she muttered, “You make my skin crawl.”
He replied, “That is not all, I could do, with your skin.”
While Spike was watching them, Adam looked at the acrobats performing above the dancers; he said to Spike, “Spike, I need you to do something for me.”
“I’m not going to like this am I?”
Morbius and Twilight copied the dancing that all the others were doing, while they danced, they passed a mirror.
“Don’t we make a lovely couple?” the vampire asked. With all the dancers behind them, Twilight looked at the mirror; there she saw she was the only one in view.
“Oh my goddess.” She muttered.
Morbius was trying to convince Twilight to become like him, become his new bride; and if she didn’t agree, he had other ways of convincing her. What the two of them didn’t know, one of Twilight’s saviours was hiding amongst the crowd; waiting for the signal.
As one of the acrobats swung towards the edge of the room, he was punched off his rope and someone else took his place.
Spike was hiding in the crowd, he was standing behind one of the fire breathers, on that was getting ready to blow.
“One small moment of pain, and we can be together forever.” Morbius stated.
Twilight had her hand on his chest, she felt nothing; “You have no heartbeat.” She muttered.
Morbius dipped Twilight for the last time, he moved his hand up her body; she looked up to his face, his mouth opened to reveal he had filled it with his fangs. Spiderman let go of the swing and grabbed hold of the other; the fire breather drank the liquid, Spike was ready.
Just before Morbius could bite into her neck, Adam used his buzz saw to cut the tightrope and swing on it; Spike pushed the fire breather forward and he breathed his fire on Morbius’ back, he growled as he was set ablaze. Morbius grabbed the fire breather and threw him across the room; meanwhile, Adam scooped up Twilight and swung her to the balcony above the dance floor.
Once she was safe, Adam tried to snapped her out of the trance; “Twilight, Twilight; wake up.”
She realised where she was, she began taking all the jewellery off; it wasn’t her taste at all.
“Adam…”
Spiderman turned to the edge of the balcony, he heard someone call his name. “Adam… Adam, oh Adam.” Morbius was calling him, he had left his burning cloak on the floor behind him.
The vampire lord looks up at Adam and says, “Welcome to my summer palace.”
Suddenly, a voice came from behind Morbius; “Found him.” The voice said.
The voice of a child could be heard next, a little girl was standing on another balcony; she was shouting and pointing, “Master, master; look master, look.”
Hobgoblin wandered into the roof, followed by what looked like zombified people; no emotion on their face, no sign of humanity left in them. They were carrying something on their shoulders; or rather someone.
“We have him, master; we have him.” The goblin said.
Adam looked at what it was, he didn’t like what he saw; Electro was chained to a medical stretcher, being carried by the ghouls.
Electro cried, “Oh, you cursed undead, I shall have my revenge! Though I walk through the valley of shadows and death, I shall fear no evil! You are nothing but dead bones, and damned souls that will burn in the flames, of hell!”
Once he was finished, the ghouls followed Hobgoblin and carried him away.
Morbius turned back to Adam and said, “And now that everything is, as it should be.” He turned to the crowd, who had remained quiet throughout this whole event. “Ladies and Gentlemen, I give to you….” He raised his arms and pointed at Adam, “Spiderman!”
The party guests removed their eye masks and revealed their fangs, each and every one of these people were vampires; under the command of Count Morbius. The vampire dropped masks and ran towards the door, they had been given the honour to catch Spiderman and destroy him.”
“Time to go.” Adam said. But Twilight didn’t move, she broke a mace off one of the statues; she wanted to fight her way out. Spiderman wasn’t going to have any of that; he grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her away. “That means now.” He said.
The two of them ran through a door, they used a large candle stick to block the door; the vampires were right behind them.
Suddenly, Spike walked into the room through the side door; in his hand was the small grenade device he’d been creating.
Spike said to them, “Now I know what it’s for. Now I know what it’s for.” He then saw the two of them run towards him, he asked, “Where’re we going?”
“Through that window.” The two of them replied in unison.
The Friar turned around and saw a stained glass window, Twilight and Adam grabbed Spike by the arms and pushed him through it; the three of them fell from the palace and into the river that flowed beside it.
The vampires managed to break down the door; but what they didn’t know, Spike had dropped the grenade before he was pushed, he also pulled the pin.
Before any of the these undead creatures could escape the wrath of the device, the grenade released the might of the sun; every vampire in the castle was burned to bones and ash. Some remains of the unholy creatures fell into the river, only to be found by the group of heroes.
Adam swam over to Spike and said to him, “Spike, you’re genius.” The friar panted from the lack of breath, but was thankful for the compliment.
However, they’re victory was cut short when a boat sailed past them; on the boat was Electro, tied to the sail post with Hobgoblin and his little goblin minions.
Hobgoblin looked at the humans in the river and began taunting him, “Say goodbye to your friends.” Electro said nothing. As they sailed through a gate, a metal barred gate dropped down and stopped Adam from reaching his friend.
Spiderman began shouting at the boat, giving Electro a promise, “I promise you, I’ll find you and set you free. I swear to Celestia.”
As the boat headed out towards a larger ship, Adam could see two giant bats flying towards the boat as well.
“I promise to set him free.” Adam repeated.
“No you can’t”
Adam turned to Spike who had swam over to him, the friar explained, “I spoke with Canterlot early; even if you somehow manage to kill Morbius, the church orders you to destroy Electro as well.”
“He isn’t evil.” Spiderman stated.
Spike continued, “Yes but they say he’s inhuman; they want you to kill him so he can’t be used to harm humanity.”
“And what about me; did you tell them what I am to become? Did they tell to kill me?!” Spiderman began acting like a savage, he was getting more and more angry; he grabbed Spike by the collar and held him against the bars. “What are you going to do? Shoot me with a silver bullet or let a silver stake enter my heart?!”
With Adam’s hand around his neck, Spike managed to say, “No I left you out.”
Spiderman dropped Spike and then growled like an animal; after that, the feeling of anger just went away. Adam looked at Spike, he apologised for nearly killing him; “I’m sorry…” he realised what this meant. “It’s starting.”
The next morning, the three of them made it back to the village; they figure the best place to look for Electro and Morbius was Doc Ock’s lab. It is where they would conduct the experiment.
However, when they entered the main lab, they were in for a let-down.
The lab was empty, all the equipment was gone; nothing was left. Twilight stepped forward and said, “They must have taken all the equipment to Morbius’ lair.”
Adam then said, “Wherever that is.” Spiderman was running out of options; using his new found strength, he picked up a broken machine part and threw it across the room.
Spike approached him and explained, “It’s alright, we still have until sunset to find him, and Electro.”
“Twilight then interjected, “The sun sets in two hours, we’ve been looking for him for more than four hundred years.”
The friar then replied, “Yes, well; I wasn’t around for those four hundred years, was I?”