Miles stood a few feet away, his dark suit shimmering with the fluid motion of nanites. His expression was cold and almost emotionless. Gwen's fists tightened as the cyberic fibers of her fists hummed with power. The sting of her ret as is still fresh in her mind. She had killed Peter Parker—this world's Peter Parker, the man she loved, albeit an alternate version. The guilt g her, but she couldn't afford to lose foow. Not wheakes were this high.

  Miles' smirk grew wider. "So, what's it going to be, Gwen? Are we going to py this the hard way or the easy way?"

  Gwen unched herself forward, closing the distaween her and Miles ihan a sed. Miles' eyes widened for a brief sed, but his rea time was just as quick. He dove aside, avoiding Gwen's fist by a hair's breadth. The cybs also uhemselves forward, verging twen in an overwhelming swarm. Their hands reached out, ready to grab hold and pull her apart limb by limb.

  "Get back. I'll deal with her, as for you all, go out and cause some mayhem. Keep the Avengers and Mutants busy. I'll personally deal with her. NOW GET MOVING!!" Miles screamed loudly as the cybs suddenly stopped and without any dey or questions as they tore through the warehouse walls and out into the night.

  Gwen's right arm transformed into a psma bster as a bright blue beam shot forth, striking Miles in the chest. There was a burst of smoke, the sound of shatterial, and Miles ropelled backward into a wall. With the cyb hen cleared she charged in, firing rapidly, pushing Miles.

  The psma bolts hit the wall and exploded with tremendous force, creating an inferno. Yet through the billowing clouds of fire, there was a flicker. A small glimpse of a shadow rushing through the bze toward her. Gwen didn't stop as she switched her left arm into a cryo bster a firing at Miles, who was dodging and running around the warehouse with ease. There was a faint yellow barrier around his body, geed by his nahat was defending his body.

  ", Gwen. You know you 't defeat me with inferior teology. Besides, it doesn't have to be this way. You could joiogether, we could be unstoppable. No more hiding, no more running. There are tless Peter Parker in this multiverse, I'm sure we find one for you to repce yours," He avoided yet aream of fire and rolled behind a fallen steel beam.

  'Damn. Miles is too fast,' Gwen cursed under her breath. He was using his enhanced agility to dodge most of the beams. She merged her both arms as the nanites reshaped, turning them into a ser-point mae gun. 'Locked and Loaded.' She unleashed a deadly barrage of bsts upon Miles' hiding spot. An overwhelming assault of heat aru that ed everything around, disiing steel, metal, and crete, and vaporizing everything else.

  'That bitch! I 't even hack her system. Old model,' Miles cursed under his breath and emerged from behind the beam with the shield surrounding him. He ducked, dodged, and jumped around the bsters. 'How the fuck is she using those ons. The inal model didn't have a ser-point mae. Fuck. Did she upgrade her cyberi secret?! Tsk.' Miles clicked his tongue in annoyance.

  The warehouse was a battlefield of fshing lights, g metal, and the deafening roar of explosions as Gwen and Miles faced off. The air crackled with energy as Gwen's upgraded cyberic ons powered up to their maximum output. Each move she made was calcuted, effit, and deadly. This was no ordinary battle—this was a war, and she repared to do whatever it took to win.

  'Damn it! There's no opening!' Miles ran across the warehouse, dodging and avoiding as much as possible. His suit's shield was draining faster than he expected. He was fast, almost impossibly so, but Gwen's enhanced reflexes kept her right on his heels. Her new upgrades, hidden from everyone, even from Miles' ever-watg eyes, were about to turide.

  'Psma bdes activate. Rush mode activate.' Gwen activated a new sequen her cyberics. Her legs glowed as a surge of energy coursed through them, amplifying her speed. She vanished from Miles' sight for a moment, only to reappear directly in front of him. Her arm had already transformed into a glowing blue bde made of hardened energy. She sshed at Miles with a speed that defied physics.

  The bde met the shimmering barrier of Miles' nanite shield, sending sparks flying in all dires. The force of the collisio shockwaves through the ground, crag the crete beh them. But Gwen wasn't done. She followed up with a spiher arm transf into a hammer that glowed with an intense heat. "SMASH MODE ACTIVATE!" She brought it down with all her might. The air rang as the impact created a fiery explosion.

  Miles barely mao block the attack, but the impact was devastating. His shield flickered, and he was forced back, skidding across the floor. For the first time, his expression faltered, showing a hint of surprise.

  Gwen pressed the advantage. She pivoted on her heel, her body a blur of motion as she unleashed a flurry of attacks. Her arms morphed rapidly, switg from bdes to bsters to hammers, each strike more powerful tha. The upgrades she had ied into her cyberics gave her an edge Miles hadn't anticipated.

  Miles grunted as he blocked another powerful strike, his naraining to keep up. "When did you upgrade your cyberics? To think you could push me to this degree. Not bad..." he admitted through gritted teeth, his voice g the smugness it had held earlier.

  Gwen's only response was atack. "Lo!" She activated a hidden partment in her arm, releasing a cluster of miissiles. They locked onto Miles and fired, creating a series of explosions that engulfed him in fmes and debris.

  But Miles wasn't out yet. As the smoke cleared, he emerged, his armor scorched but intact.

  "You're not the only oh ricks," He growled. With a thought, he activated a hidden subroutine in his nanites.

  The nanites shifted, expanding and morphing around him until they formed a massive exoskeleton. The suit was hulking, with reinforced pting and multiple on systems ied into its frame. It was a far cry from the sleek, agile form he had been using earlier. This was a brute-force on, designed for maximum destru, not to mention its defensive capabilities.

  He swung a massive arm at her, the exoskeleton's servos whirring with pwen barely mao dodge, the ground where she had been standing exploding in a shower of debris. The shockwaves were enough the level the warehouse. Miles didn't let up. He surged forward, his movements slower than before but far stronger.

  Gwen used a series of acrobatics, mixing and matg teiques with her cyberics as she feinted and dodged in an effort to get away from the unavoidable attacks. And thanks to the now-destroyed warehouse, she had enough space to dodge the assault.

  She ter-attacked with bsts from her psma on, but Miles' exoskeleton absorbed the impact, the energy dissipating across its surface. He responded with a volley of missiles from his shoulders, f Gwen to leap back. These missiles were locked onto her, so avoiding them wasn't an option, sidering Miles might take this ce to rush in on her. So she activated the force field to protect her from the shrapnel.

  "Damn it!" Gwen knew she had to think fast. Miles' new armor was a game-ger, but it also had weakhe heavy bulk of it made him slower, less agile. If she could exploit that, she might be able to turide ba her favor.

  She activated a tactical visor in her suit, sing Miles' exoskeleton for vulnerabilities. Her AI quickly identified oints in the joints, where the armor pting was thio allow for movement. It also detected an energy sour the chest, likely p the entire suit, but it rotected by an energy barrier.

  Gwen narrowed her eyes. "Gotcha," she muttered.

  With a burst of speed, she charged at Miles, her arms shifting into twin energy bdes. She dodged his wild swings, using her agility to stay oep ahead. Whe close, she aimed for the joints, sshing with precision and force. Sparks flew as her bdes cut through the thinner metal, causing Miles to stagger.

  "YOU FUG BITCH!" He roared in frustration, trying to catch her with a wide sweep of his arm, but Gwen was too quick. She ducked uhe blow and sshed at the back of his knee joint. The armave way, and Miles stumbled, dropping to one knee.

  Not wasting a sed, Gwen's arms transformed again, this time into a massive energy on. She poi directly at the power sour Miles' chest and fired. The bst was trated and powerful, hitting the exact spot where her AI had identified the oint.

  [Booom!] The explosion was deafening.

  The energy on's bst tore through Miles' exoskeleton, hitting the power core directly. The armor sparked and crackled, the naruggling to repair the damage, but it was too much. The exoskeleton powered down, the oro cyberic suit now a smoking, sparking wreck. Miles colpsed to the ground, the exoskeleton falling apart around him. He groarying to push himself up, but his body was broken and sparking with electricity, his systems overloaded.

  Gwen stood over him, with her energy on poi his head. Blue liquid began to spill out of his body and mouth.

  "It's over, Miles," she said, her voice cold.

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