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Superior Spider-Man The Hero I Want To Be – Prologue
"Down under the night sky I'll lay in wait. I pray to whoever will listen to me. I fashion my own cross been crushed by its weight. There is no stronger message than dirt in your face."
Bones (2012) -Young Guns
New York City, night
Why had she followed him? He kept asking himself that question as he feverishly imputed data and commands into the myriad of devices that adorned his cramped personally laboratory. He knew he should not have told her his secret. That was a mistake. If only she had remained safely at home, none of this would be happening. Perhaps it was his fault. He should not have allowed her, or anyone else, to get close to him. His feelings for her were a liability he could ill afford. A weakness others could use against him to impair his effectiveness as the Superior Spider-Man. He should let her die. It would be best. One glance at her tiny, broken body laboring to breathe with help from a respirator knew he could not do that. Heaven help him he needed her. More than he could even admit. She was the one beacon of light in a life that until a few short months ago had been dominated by darkness. Without her he was nothing. Just an empty shell of a man and he knew he. He had to save her, but how?
His eyes roamed to a second examination table where another much different woman lay unconscious but otherwise in excellent health. Felicia Hardy aka Black Cat one time super powered thief and former love interest of Peter Parker. Beneath his mask, Otto Octavius sneered. If the trollop had not proved so difficult to subdue his dear Anna Maria Marconi would not have fallen victim to the explosion their battle caused by rupturing that gas mane before he could intervene. Black Cat was strong and durable. Nearly as physically tough as Spider-Man. Otto could not help but admire her impressive physical abilities and talent for combat from a strictly academic standpoint. If only they could be put to more productive use than petty theff. What a dreadful waste he thought.
Wait, that's it the answer. He experienced a eureka moment. He could utilize the same technology he had used to commandeer the body of Peter Parker the Amazing Spider-Man six months ago to place Anna Marie's mind into Felicia Hardy's metahuman body. Driven by Anna's genius intellect the new and vastly improved Black Cat would be a dynamo of crime prevention. Besides in saving his dear Anna Marie be would be doing the world a favor by removing an underperformer and replacing her with someone who could achieve great things blessed with her former gifts, as he himself had proven after becoming Spider-Man. There were no negatives that he could think of only positives, His solution to his current dilemma was truly inspired. You've done it again Otto!
Sometime Later
The eyes of the new Black Cat slowly opened. Anna Marie took one look at her current body then at the smiling, unmasked Otto. Her first reaction was one he did not expect. She slapped him across his face, hard. "Peter what have you done!?" She demanded.
"I take it you're upset my dear." Otto said rubbing his bruised cheek. "I assure you. I can explain everything."
"Alright Peter, explain, this," Anna Marie said. She gestured at her altered form. She then folded her arms over her rather buoyant chest. The alien sensation of which elicited a frown from her.
Otto suppressed an urge to chuckle in spite of the seriousness of the situation. "Where to begin?" Otto mused.
"How about with why I'm a Black Cat lookalike, or am I the actual Black Cat?" Anna Marie said with another frown.
In that moment he decided it was best to come clean. Holding back any longer would not work given what he had just done. Anna Marie was far to smart a person to be hoodwinked by any lie he could conceive on the spur of the moment. He just hoped she would not overreact.
"Get comfortable my dear, this may take awhile." Otto said at last.
Underground
The Green Goblin, king of all goblins, Norman Osborn sat atop his throne. Several dozen of his goblin minions thronged about preparing for war. The current Hobgoblin Phil Urich come forward and bowed before the throne dropping to one knee.
"I come bearing news my lord," Hobgoblin said.
"Speak," Green Goblin commanded.
"Your ever growing forces stand ready to take over the city a moment's notice my liege," Hobgoblin said. "We have secured access to the power and telecommunication grids. The police have been infiltrated, as has City Hall. No will stop us."
"Excellent," Green Goblin said steepling his gloved fingers under his masked chine.
"May I ask when we shall rise up and overthrow the normals my liege?" Hobgoblin said his head still bowed.
"In time, but not until my plan for revenge against Spider-Man is ready to be put into action." Green Goblin said.
"But my liege you have already subverted his spider bot surveillance system. We can move throughout the city freely without fear of detection. Why not move now while he remains ignorant of our presence? Strike while the iron is hot." Hobgoblin said in confusion.
"Patience Hobgoblin," Green Goblin said smiling sinisterly through his gruesome mask. "Good things come to those who wait. Destroying Spider-Man is no longer enough. I must rube his noise in the bile of total humiliated shattering every illusion of greatness he has ever entertained of himself first. After which I will take away everyone and everything he holds dear. Only then will I grant him the sweet release of death at my hands. Go, continue our preparations." Green Goblin dismissed his general by waving him off while visions of a beaten, half insane with grief, Spider-Man danced in his head.
To Be Continued
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Author's Note One -
This version of Black Cat gained her powers as a result of a somewhat deluded version of the same Super Soldier Formula that altered Steve Rogers aka Captain America (see Spider-Man the Animated Series for more info regarding the basis of this concept).
Author's Note Two -
Picking pairing categories for this story was a tad difficult. Because there is no OttoxAnna Marie option I instead picked SpideyxBlack Cat, due to the body swap/takeover aspect.