This is inspired by "The Batman Who Laughs" from DC Comics and based off of the Spider-Man from Earth-21205
Warning: Character Death!
P.S. Spider-Man may be a bit OOC in this chapter.
Earth: Negative-616
Head pounding...
Blood running cold...
Muscles aching...
Vision blurry...
This is what Spider-Man felt while his upper body is binded by iron chains as he lays on the cold hard ground.
His old enemy Norman Osborn, also knows as The Green Goblin, has completely lost it this time.
First, the villain released every bad guy from prisons such as Ryker's Island and The Raft which led to a city-wide war in New York as the superheroes struggle to combat the raging super villains along with numerous escaped convicts. Then Norman systematically bombed various landmarks such as The Statue of Liberty, Stark Tower, and even the Daily Bugle building.
Spider-Man went after the man responsible for this massacre only to end up drugged and chained by his foe.
Now in a back alley, Norman Osborn wore his Green Goblin suit without the mask as he stood over the web-slinger. His evil eyes glaring down at him.
"Now, Now, Peter. Be a little bit more presentable. After all, the drugs in your body are only supposed to interfere with your body, not your mind." Norman smiled
Spider-Man struggles to move while trying to make words only for his speech to slur.
Norman, however, accepted the attempt.
He crouches next to the wall-crawler.
"Look, I know that this must be very hard on you. It's hard on both of us! Do you have any idea how long I planned the perfect strategy of breaking every bad guy out of two prisons while coordinating to bomb the city's landmarks?" Norman asked as he stood back up.
"I guess you wouldn't know since you never took the initiative to take a life, huh?"
Spider-Man begins to feel the numbness of his body slowly fade until the point where he can barely move his fingers.
"N-N-Nor..m" Spider-Man mumbles
Norman continued to talk.
"I guess you would never do that anyways. You and your good friend, Yuri Wantanabe, always followed the rules. Right to the end, I heard her shout it over the radio over and over..By the book! Bring him in by the book!" Norman recited as he looked up to the sky.
"But when I finally got to her, she understood. I saw it in her face, in her eyes. Right before I tossed her into a crowd of sadistic serial killers, I mean." Norman smiled
Spider-Man's teeth clenched in anger as his chains made clinking noises of his weak movements.
"And not only Wantanabe, but your entire rogues gallery are pushing daisies with her. Doctor Octopus, Rhino, Vulture, Electro, Kraven, and countless more including Black Cat. All I had to do was get them all in one area and bomb the living stuffing outta them." Norman explains
Spider-Man raises his head up as he manages to spit out one word.
"W-Why?" he asked almost in a whisper but Norman still heard.
"Simple. So it will just be me and you at this moment. We're running out of time, you and me. We need to evolve, and fast, or we'll miss our chance. There is no "by the book" anymore. I threw it out, burned it. We need to be something more. Something more than those Avengers, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four you always ally yourself with. Every story, every character, one by one. All the cops, all the villains looking for that breaking point. It has to exist, Peter. I know it does." Norman explains as he kicks Spider-Man over so he's now on his back.
Norman then looks to his side to see an older man and a child walking towards them, seemingly not noticing what's going on.
"Well, look at this. A man and his child going for a walk in the night." Norman smiles devilishly as he grabs one of his razor bats from his bag.
Seeing this, Spider-Man struggles more while attempting to yell towards the two civilians.
"r-r-run.." he sputters
"Let's see what happens next!" Norman chuckles as he throws the razor bat towards the man which cuts deep into his throat, making him fall to the ground as he bleeds out. The small boy quickly kneels next to the man.
"Uncle?" the kid cries in horror
Norman places a hand over his wide smile.
"That was his uncle? That must be very relatable to you!" Norman taunts as he approaches the kid and crouches next to him.
Norman then opens his bag and pulls out green dust and throws it in the kids face.
The kid begins to cough as noticeable green scales grows on his skin, much to Spider-Man's horror.
The kid stops coughing as his mouth stretches into a smile as he begin to laugh insanely.
Norman as well begins to laugh as he notices more and more people making their way towards him and Spider-Man, trying to escape the chaos.
"Oh, here we go!" Normal cackles as he pulls out pumpkin bombs from his bag and begins to chuck them at the crowd.
Spider-Man's eyes widen as he watches people become incinerated by the bombs. Just more innocent people dying and the man who's the cause of it is enjoying every second.
Spider-Man struggles even more as he tries to speak, finally saying the name.
"NORMAN!" Spider-man yells angrily
Using all of his strength to fight past the drugs, Spider-Man manages to get to his feet and breaks the chains off of him.
Now free, Spider-Man yells once more.
"NORMAN!"
With his web shooters damaged, Spider-Man lunges towards Norman and punches him onto the ground, stopping other bombs from being thrown.
In complete rage, Spider-Man beats down on Norman.
"STOP!" Spider-Man yells as he right hooks his enemy.
Norman spits blood out of his mouth and grins up at his foe.
"No, I'll keep.."
WHAM!
But Norman was interrupted by another blow to the face.
"STOP!" Spider-Man roared furiously
"I-I'll go after your friends...and your family next!"
WHAM!
"NO, YOU"LL STOP!" Spider-Man shrieks while he tries to catch his breath while continuing to wail on Norman.
"Y-You couldn't save your uncle or Gwen. I still remember what happened to the latter..IT WAS YOUR FAULT!" Norman laughs and continues to do so.
In blind fury, Spider-Man grabs Norman and holds him in a headlock.
"STOP IT!" Spider-Man screams as his arm tightens around Norman's neck.
But the villain managed to choke out laughter.
"BE QUIET!" Spider-Man screams again as his hold gets even tighter.
Norman's laughs get louder.
"SHUT UP!"
Everything that has happened tonight, all the deaths and misery that took place because of this one man engaged Peter unlike anyone has ever seen before. Spider-Man uses his super strength and lurched his arm that was around Norman's to the side, causing Osborn's neck to emit a loud snap sound.
The laughing stopped and so did the world.
Spider-Man's eyes opened as he found himself holding Norman Osborn's dead body.
He just stands there, his eyes, one visible by one of the cracked eye lens, widened while feeling sick to his stomach as he continues to hold the villain's corpse in shock at what he just done.
But as Spider-Man was distracted by grief, he failed to notice a faint green smoke exiting Norman's mouth and being inhaled by Spider-Man through his partially damaged mask.
I'm planning on making this a three chapter story with some changes from the original story this was inspired by.
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