Disclaimer: I do not own Spider-Man or Red Goblin. They are characters created and owned by Marvel Entertainment.
For the first time in what seemed like forever, Spider-Man was speechless.
Standing in front of him was Norman Osborn, having dressed up as the Green Goblin in what seemed like another revenge plan. The two had taken to battling near the Daily Bugle before an explosive seemingly left him impaled. But just as he was grasping for air, the villain cackled and exploded into red substance.
Where the Green Goblin had been standing was now a fiendish-looking entity with red skin, malevolent scales, and living tendrils of crimson black moving along his wrists and ankles. He had a long tail that hung from behind him, poised as if it was about to strike. His hands were clawed and looked like they could do some serious damage.
But what was most frightening was the face. It was as if some infernal force had burned his costume and face together into one, elongated red mask with yellow eyes and orange haze that emanated out of his mouth. His white eyebrows furrowed, he looked like he was enjoying every second of this.
In all the years he'd tried to kill him, Osborn had done crazy schemes before, ranging from turning Harry into American Son to creating the Goblin Nation. But this…this was the horrid icing on the cake. Merging the Goblin formula and the Carnage symbiote to create…a demonic goblin…it was like the ultimate nightmare he never knew he was worried about.
And that wasn't the worst part. He was back and wanted to kill everyone Peter loved. Now he had the means to do that in ways he probably couldn't grasp at the moment. Maybe it was just the appearance or the timing, but the Wall-Crawler could fell a tinge of worry start to slowly creep in and take over his body from the cracks already there.
Norman had said that he'd grant Spider-Man's wish of saving him by turning into this Goblin. But he sure as heck didn't want this…
So with nothing else that he could possibly say, the hero blurted the only thing a scared person would voice in a time like this.
" $$$*#£ me."