Chapter Nine:

As the clouds of a storm gathered in the sky above the forest of Leaky Lake, an even greater battle was about to take place.

The large black creature leapt at Lazlo with great velocity. Lazlo shot twin webs up at a tree branch above him and pulled himself upward, unfortunately so did the creature. When close enough, the creature started to punch and kick at Spider Monkey; but using his spider senses, or luck, he was able to dodge them. He jumped back and used his webs to pull the creature towards him. But when he did, the creature countered with a kick to the gut, which knocked the wind out of Lazlo.

“This thing may be even stronger than me!” Lazlo thought.

Before he could act, the creature grabbed Lazlo’s ankle, and threw him with great force to the ground. As Lazlo was getting up, his wrists got webbed by the creature; they were raised above him, like rope.

The creature got down to his level and said menacingly, “Never wound what you can’t kill;” then punched Lazlo across the face. “Now that I have you right where I want you, I can make your death even more enjoyable. But first…”

The creature pulled the mask off of Spider Monkey’s head, revealing Lazlo’s face. The creature seemed surprised to see who it was underneath. “What? No, it’s impossible!” This was the opportunity Lazlo was looking for; he pulled himself off of the webs and gave the creature a kick to the head, causing it to fly backwards.

With his mask no where to be seen, Lazlo had no choice but to fight without it. At least no one was around to see his true face. The creature got up and was about to charge at Lazlo again; when suddenly a loud crash of lightning and thunder erupted. The storm was beginning.

Lazlo noticed that the creature seemed to react violently with loud noises. The creature’s skin, or whatever it was on it, vibrated constantly and it screamed as though it were in pain. Perfect: a weakness.

As the rain now poured down in the forest, Lazlo webbed a rotting tree and pulled it down to the ground with intense force. It came crashing down to the ground, and when that’s mixed with another thunder roll, it was mayhem for the creature.

However, Lazlo noticed someone inside of the suit, a blue walrus.

“Harold?” Lazlo asked himself, “Hang on Harold, I’ll get you out of there!” He webbed Harold and pulled until he was free of the suit. He fell near Lazlo, unconscious.

But the suit was still sentient, and was now crawling everywhere, looking for a host. Lazlo’s spider sense detected a lightning bolt coming straight at them. He grabbed Harold and leapt away from the suit. The lightning bolt struck the suit head on; frying it.

When it cleared, Lazlo saw that the suit was gone, vaporized by the lightning strike. He then looked at Harold, still unconscious, but breathing. He swung out of there, hoping to get help for the walrus.

“Don’t worry Harold, whatever just happened, it’s over now.”