New York City

Swinging above the peaceful Manhattan when the sun is brightest and JJJ is not jabbering about him being a nuisance. What more a spider can ask for? His phone rings. He stops by the Empire State Building and checks the notifications. LOL Spiderman! Red Blue Thin Legs is Back! The post had 100k+ shares. Whenever he becomes a laughing stock on Internet, he shares a picture of Tony in an armour with a nose on Facebook.

The only difference is that there is no Iron-Man in town to blast him. In fact, his mobile is showing the year 2015. Just yesterday, it was 2014. Peter unmasks himself and sit beside his favourite gargoyle, Jef. "Anything new, Jef? An alien invasion, mutant outbreak or spider-verse portals? Speak to me." His earpiece plays a police broadcast requesting backup at OsCorp Towers. Spidey sighs and swings away, apologising to Jef for such a short meeting.

Rhino smashes the door and runs out of OsCorp Towers. Rhino stands 8 ft tall in a metal armour. The people run in fear. NYPD barricades the area. "Rhino, stand down." Captain Stacy orders the villain. Rhino drops the box and keeps his arm on the ground. The foot rockets burst in flames and Rhino runs and tackles the police cars in front of him. The car falls on one of the OsCorp trucks.

Rhino releases a roar and turns to Captain Stacy. Stacy tries to stand up but he broke his knee in the impact. Before Rhino can squash Stacey's skull under his gigantic leg, a loud voice interrupted, "Hey Rhino-" he turns and see Spider-Man sticking on the walls behind. "That is some extreme makeover. Had a free session in a spa?" Rhino grabs a car and throws it on the vigilante. Spidey dodges. "Whoa! Whoa! Wait- no lame warnings, no cliche comebacks, nothing."

Rhino's horn transforms into a machine gun. Spidey swings and saves Stacey from the line of fire. "Take care of him." Spidey jumps at Rhino's head. "Knock! Knock! Someone is there?" Spidey asks with witty mischievousness. "AAAAHHHH!" A jolt of electricity charge knocks Spider-Man off the armour. "When did you go down for dirty tricks?" Spidey webs him and throws him on the floor. "You should lose on some carbs?"

A rocket fist sends him flying. "It is a very cheap Transformers 4 ripoff." Spidey swings and makes distance between himself and the crowd. Spidey whistles. "Fetch boy!" Rhino roars and sends another rocket fist after Spider-Man. "Shit." The rocket fist is faster than the first. Spider-Man turns and webs the building on both side simultaneously and stick them together. "Slingshot-" the fist slows down. Spidey puts his utmost strength to hold the webs together. Spidey is knocked out. Webs were not durable.

"Cover him, boys." Captain Stacey shouts and orders the officers to bring Spidey back to safety. Rhino is on his feets again. He shouts shattering every glass windows and doors. All guns target him. He shoots a missile at the officers. In a second, the scene is filled with smoke, flames and heat. Captain Stacey ducks and closes his eyes. After the impact, he looks up and see another man standing in front of Rhino. "Who the hell is he?" Captain asks.

The guy is riding a hoverboard. He is dressed in black and wear mouth cloth to hide his identity. He draws a sword and charges at the villain. Rhino now standing on four legs charges as well. The officers are already out of the scene. The vigilante cuts off his horn and the rhino is down. "Well isn't that too obvious." The crowd burst into cheers. He keeps his hoverboard in his backpack and meets Captain.

"Who are you?" Stacey asks.

"You can call me Skyknife." The vigilante answers. The police officers surround him with guns. Stacey and Skyknife share a look. "Is he alright?" For few seconds, they are still.

"You look a lot like Goblin," Stacey says. "How do I know you are not an enemy?"

"I am not his- so technically I am not yours either." Skyknife answers. Stacey nods and gives him permission to go.

"My head hurts," Spidey complains and asks. "Is the Rhino down?"

"Yes." Skyknife answers. Spidey gives a sigh of relief. "What happened to you?"

"Have been out of shape for a while. Alas! my gym membership is already over.."

"What is the last thing you remember?"

"Not anymore." Spidey jumps and sticks to the wall. "I am not spitting another word until you tell me what is going on? Why there is no Rhino in the armour? And are you from the Avengers?"

"Your amnesia is worse than I imagined." Skyknife murmured to himself.

"Amnesia? You just said amnesia?" Spidey struggles to understand the situation- A high-tech armoured Rhino and a mysterious masked vigilante who looks a lot like Goblin. "Man look, whoever you are, thanks for saving me but you are creeping me out with that silence. Care to speak? How do you know about the amnesia?"

Skyknife slaps his palm and complains, "You always talk so much?" Spidey does not answer. Skyknife equips his hoverboard. "This place is not safe. Do you want answers? Then follow me." Skyknife takes off from the scene. Spidey does not want to, but he still follows him around. He webs his board. "You are cleaning that."

"Yeah. Yeah. So where are we going?" Spider-Man asks. "Just hold on tightly. We are increasing speed." Skyknife leans forward. Spider-Man holds the web with both hands and screams, "Best ride ever."

Tri-Skellion

Spider-Man gives a shocking expression when he sees the current condition of Tri-Skellion. It is reduced to rubbles and craters. "What happened here?"

"A war," Skyknife answers as he walks ahead. Spidey follows him. "Illuminati had a meeting here before the crisis. They thought if the leaders are killed, their respective teams will automatically be destroyed."

"An all-out war with SHIELD and Illuminati? No one is crazy enough." Spidey jokes.

"Everyone thought that before they stabbed Black Bolt to death." Spidey stops walking in horror. "I knew you would not believe me. You wouldn't believe it because you don't want to. But the greatest and mightiest of all people are either killed or forced into hiding."

"And you? Why are you still fighting?" Spidey asks.

"Does it matter? What matters is that I am on your side." He answers. "Now follow me-" he orders. He takes him to a tunnel. "It will be the last place they will search."

"We had something like that here?" Spidey asks as he is impressed with Fury's foresight.

"You are impressed with this? Then you are going to start fanboying for what is coming."

"Hmm- you can joke?" Spidey teases Skyknife. The tunnel ends and both of them find themselves in an abandoned bunker. Other than those two, the bunker has few weapons, armours, transports and Stark Tech. "I feel like I am in some dystopian Scifi military drama."

"It is the least they can prepare. SHIELD resources are scattered all over the globe. We were lucky to find the active ones."

"We?"

"Surviving SHIELD agents and remaining heroes in contact. We pooled all our resources together to save you and initiate Project Lord."

"Me!? Wait- what!? When did this happen? How come I don't know anything about it?" Spidey asks. He is confused and tries to make sense out of all.

"You were in a coma for a whole year." Spider-Man can't believe it. He wants to say a lot of things but he just can't. "I know it is out of nowhere. It sounds unreal. But Fury told me to save you and I did. He said something about Project Lords and said you are a key component. But unfortunately, you are suffering from amnesia."

"Shocking? I mean Fury to say so much about me is news to my ears. I don't think I was ever ready for this big of an opportunity."

"That is why I was asking, what is the last thing you remember?" Skyknife asks again and this time more rudely.

"Watching film with my friends-"

"That is it?"

"That is it. Why expecting something huge?"

"No. I found the tickets in your bunker. They dated back a year ago. This means you lost the memories for last 6 months before coma Those 6 months were important because you were trained to lead the project."

"Wait- hold on- what the? Six months in a coma; six months in training; leading a team. Just what is going on here?"

"Maybe this will trigger something?" Skyknife plays a recording.

A goblin wearing a suit
Whispers in my ear
He told me the truth
End of Days is near.

"No-"

"Yes- Goblin created an army of enhanced super villains using OsCorps Super Soldier Programme. His team Sinister Syndicate infiltrated the US military, terrorist organisation and SHIELD. Created total anarchy."

"Goblin is not capable of that. Sure he can backflip over a skyscraper, but that crazy rubber face is not smart of planning in such a depth." Spidey says drawing over Green's face.

"Well if he is not completely in his goblin form-"

Spidey drops the pen. "Goblin and Norman, that is bad."

"My point is since Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four are executed, it is our responsibility to find the young ones from the safe zones and lead a team against him," Skyknife says. He opens the list of locations and members in the project.

"So that is it. Is project lord gathering a team of young heroes to fight against a catastrophic villainous organisation? And that reminds me, what is Cabal doing?"

"Red Skull and other members of Cabal now lead several factions in Sinister Inc. HYDRA is now an official organisation and Hammer Tech is the political face of Sinister Inc."

"Dang it."

"It is worse than you imagined, but we still have some hope. Now we need to change the design of your costume. If they know that the original spiderman is back then they will act more aggressive."

"I can't upgrade my suit."

"Yes, you can. This place is more than a safehouse. Do you have your SHIELD ID card?"

"I guess so."

"Good. We will need it for next phase."

"What phase?"

Goblin Island (near Savage Land)

"There is a vigilante in New York." Grim shouts. "And what were you doing? If Goblin finds out. He will kill me right away." Grim Reaper throws the foot soldier away and punches the glass window in anger.

"You are angry? That is rare."

"Ghost!? You are back!?"

"Goblin won't kill you. He will find it boring." Ghost says. He uses a voice modulator to produce a loud whispering sound. "A rhino unit was taken down earlier today by a vigilante."

"Must be the Skyknife piece of crap I am hearing about for past few days. I thought it was a rumour but-"

"No, it was a work of different vigilante in blue and red."

Grim Reaper gasps. He rushes and grabs the white informant by the collar and pulls him up. Ghost is suffocating and his feet are unable to find the floor. "Stop fooling around."

"It's true mate. Spi-Spiderman is alive and well. But we can assume that- that it is a completely different person." Grim Reaper leaves him. Ghost in relief inhales every inch of oxygen around him. His phasing suit is switched off by Goblin.

"I will Deal with it before Goblin finds out."

"Assembling Sinister Six?"

"Yes." Reaper opens his closet and takes out the largest scythe he can find in the closet.

Tri-Skellion
(Underground Lvl.2)

"This elevator never moves without a legit identity proof. Which in this case is a SHIELD key card?"

"Feeling special. Where is my eyepatch?" Spidey jokes. He tries to lighten up the mood. "Are you a robot?"

Please identify yourself.

Spiderman keeps the card in front of the scanner. "I understand that Osborn is controlling the Goblin but how is he doing it? He won against Doom and Loki?"

"If my information is right then Loki disappeared even before the Big Fall and Doctor Doom and Mandarin hijacked the Prison 43 in the negative zone to muster the cosmic energy."

"Yeah it thus sounds like them."

Beep.

The elevator doors open and to their astonishment, the lvl.3 was every nerd's heaven. Spidey's mouth drops open and even Skyknife gasps in surprise. "So this is it. Project Lords are the Legacy Initiative."

Level 2 is an inventory chamber full of blueprints, guns, swords, costumes, spy gadgets and even the legendary shield of Captain America. "I heard about the initiative in the news. So it was true that SHIELD was recruiting potential candidates to inherit the mantle of heroes."

"I don't know much, but let's find out."