SO for those who think that this is it's own thing, it isn't. This is the third installment of my Spider Man fan fiction series. The first part is called Spider Man: Evolution, the second is called Spider Man: Ascending. So before you read this one, you should probably start from the beginning or at several parts you will be very confused. But if you have read the other two parts then I hope you like the final part of my fan fiction. Enjoy.
" , take it one little bit at a time."
The lights were in Peters face. They were incredibly bright and overwhelming on their own. It didn't help that he was being asked questions that he didn't think would be asked. Peter couldn't stand the fact that Tony was making him do this. He had no problem with talking to press, but being on a news station wasn't the easiest, especially for Peter. On a normal day basis Peter's senses were incredibly touchy and now he was getting a headache because of how bright the set lights were. That's when he realized that he had completely forgotten what the question was. Peter looked to the woman in front of him.
"I'm sorry, can you repeat the question please?" Peter requested and he could see that the woman seemed slightly uneasy with the way that Peter was acting.
"Of course. We've been doing our research and we have found that your parents were two of the most respected CIA agents in history. If they were alive today, how do you think they would feel about you being a super hero?" The woman asked and Peter realized why he had gotten distracted. It was a very personal question but he decided to answer it nonetheless.
"For a long time I wondered if my parents were proud of me. Earlier this year it was brought to my attention that there was a monument in Algeria of my parents and whoever made the monument found out about me and put a small tribute to my work as Spiderman with it. So someone who actually knew my parents felt that I was making them proud and with everything I now know about my parents I would say that they are proud of me wherever they are now." Peter replied.
"What makes you think that they are?" The woman asked further and Peter knew exactly what to say.
"A friend of mine recently recovered the letter that my parents were going to send me before they died. In that letter my parents revealed that they knew it was a possibility that they would have died on that mission. It also said that sometimes people with great power have to make decisions that will make them suffer, so that everyone else can go on with their lives. My family motto is, With great power comes great responsibility. They paid the ultimate price for their country and they had almost made that same sacrifice many times. I am doing the same thing that they were doing. I am sacrificing everything to protect you guys, I just haven't died yet, but trust me, I've flirted with death many times." Peter explained and the woman looked slightly shocked with how blunt Peter had been and then she regained her composure and asked her next question.
"A lot of people think you are irresponsible and inconsiderate of your friends and family because you continue on with being a hero even though your identity has been revealed. What do you have to say about that?" The woman asked and Peter looked taken back for a second.
"If I didn't make the sacrifice someone else would have to and as of right now I am one of the strongest heroes ever recorded in history and that's not me being self-absorbed. It's a proven fact. My family and friends understand the sacrifice that THEY are making as well." Peter replied and then the woman asked a question he never could have expected.
"It's kind of appalling that you are so calm about the risk when your friend was just kidnapped by the Crime Lord Kingpin." The woman snapped and Peter looked confused.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about." Peter said this and the woman looked slightly sad.
"Your friend is Edward Leeds, right?" The woman asked and Peter's mouth dropped.
"Ned?" Peter whispered, and then he realized he needed to say something back. "I haven't heard from him in over a month." Peter sighed. "Are you positive about this?" The woman nodded and Peter got up.
"We're going to have to finish this interview some other time. I'm sorry but I have bigger problems that need my attention." Peter said and he started to walk off stage when the woman asked him another question.
"Just answer me this question and you don't even have to come back." The woman said and Peter turned back to her. "When it comes to being a hero, is it worth it? The risk, the struggle, the overwhelming responsibility?" The woman asked and the camera turned back to Peter.
"Every moment of it." Peter replied simply and then Peter ran off set and then he ran outside and found Tony waiting in the drivers seat of the car and Peter pulled the door open and got in and shut the door and Tony looked at his watch.
"There's still fifteen minutes left. What are you doing out here?" Tony asked.
"We have a problem. Ned's been taken by Kingpin." Peter replied and Tony nodded and then started driving away….
Tony pulled up to Peters house and Peter quickly ran into the house and Tony decided to follow him.
MJ was feeding Annie in the kitchen and May was reading a book in the living room. When Peter came in May and MJ looked at him and he didn't say anything, he just ran over to the computer and pulled a flash drive out of his web shooter and put it in the computer and then pressed a couple of buttons and then put the flash drive back into his web shooter. He tapped a button on his web shooter and a transmission appeared above his wrist and it showed a red dot with Ned's name above it in New York. It was on Staten Island.
"I'm coming Ned." Peter sighed sadly and then he turned to look at Tony. "Looks like I'm going to see Gwen for the first time in a month."
The month before Peter and Gwen had gone after the Green Goblin but before they went to attack him, Peter webbed Gwen to a wall so that Norman wouldn't get her. She was furious with Peter and moved out of his house AND Stark Industries. It had been 6 months since the Green Goblin and Kingpin escaped prison and while Kingpin hadn't done anything, the Green Goblin had Gwen constantly on her feet. Gwen had threatened Peter and told him that the Green Goblin was her problem and if he tried to help her, she would kill him in his sleep. Gwen didn't know this but Norman Osborn decided to give up on Peter. He knew he would never get Peter, but he had a new target and that target was Gwen. Peter had tried to explain to him that Gwen hadn't killed Harry, but he wouldn't listen. To Norman, Gwen was still his possession just like Peter used to be.
However Kingpin was clearly out for revenge, which was shocking to Peter because the last time Peter faced him Peter had pretty much wiped the floor with him.
"Good luck with HER." Tony replied.
"What's going on?" MJ asked and Peter walked over to her and kissed her and then he pulled apart and smiled slightly.
"Good morning." Peter sighed and MJ let out a degrading laugh.
"Oh your cute, but I'm not going to get off subject that easily." MJ replied and Peters face seemed to sadden.
"Kingpin took Ned." Peter revealed and MJ looked incredibly worried because she cared about Ned too.
"Daddy." Annie said and Peter smiled and he kissed Annie on the forehead and Annie let out a cute little giggle and MJ put her hand on Peters shoulder and Peter looked to her.
"Go get him." MJ said as she seemed just as determined as Peter was and Peter nodded and he pulled his mask on.
"See you guys later." Peter sighed….
Gwen landed on top of a building and she had just saved several people from a burning building. Gwen pulled her mask off as she coughed vigorously and she kicked a tin can that was on the building.
"UGH!" Gwen snapped.
"Woah, don't let so much anger out, the roof will cave in." Peter joked as he showed himself and Gwen looked to him and frowned.
"I just lost him again! He's too fast! It's like he is teasing me!" Gwen said in frustration.
"He's trying to tire you out so he can make sure that he doesn't fail at taking you down." Peter explained and Gwen frowned at him again.
"You don't think that I have figured that out yet?" Gwen snapped. "What are you doing here anyways? I specifically remember threatening to kill you if you ever came after the Green Goblin."
"I'm not here for the Green Goblin." Peter replied.
"I also specifically remember telling you to go fuck yourself and to never talk to me again." Gwen added.
"I'm not here for you either. You can help me if you want to though." Peter said this and Gwen raised an eyebrow.
"What's going on? Is this about the three police officers that were killed, because if it is, they were like that by the time I got there." Gwen asked and she was terrible at lying and it was obvious so Peter looked concerned for a minute and then decided to ignore it until they got Ned back to safety.
"I'm going to talk to you about that but not right now because there's a bigger problem at hand. You never met my friend Ned, but he's been my best friend for years, and he saved my life once. Kingpin took him. I would appreciate your help." Peter explained and Gwen shook her head.
"You didn't need my help with the Green Goblin. Then again you didn't catch him either." Gwen said in a degrading tone and Peter was fed up.
"LOOK! I get that your angry at me, but you're not helping yourself by doing this alone. If I had handled Norman Osborn on my own the first time, I wouldn't be here. I'd be a Winter Soldier. Now he has the same intentions for you, and I really am sick and tired of hacking into cameras to make sure that he hasn't gotten you yet. Gwen I need you to let me work with you again, or he WILL make you the weapon he wanted you to be. You can push me away all you want, but guess what. I'm never going to give up on you. I also am not going to let him hurt you. Look I know you THINK that all I am is your mentor, but whether you want it or not, I'm family to you." Peter finished explaining and Gwen looked away as tears filled her eyes and then she looked back to Peter.
"I can't be angry at you anymore. I need your help to take him down. He was like a father to me when I was dating Harry and now he's trying to hurt me." Gwen said as her voice shook and she shrugged her shoulders and put her hands in the air. "I don't know what to do anymore. I'm exhausted. I haven't slept in four days."
"Come home." Peter replied and Gwen gave in and nodded. She looked at the ground for a few seconds and then she lifted her head and looked to Peter.
"So, you say we have a mission?" Gwen asked and Peter smiled and nodded. "Then what are we waiting for?"
"I like how you think." Peter laughed and then the two swung away…..
Peter and Gwen were in front of an abandoned building.
"This is bad." Peter sighed.
"What do you mean?" Gwen asked and Peter looked to her.
"My spider senses are going nuts." Peter replied. "And I can sense the fact that the chemicals used to try to turn me into a winter soldier have been used recently and they have been used a lot before that, which means that Ned might be a Winter Soldier. We might be too late, and also," Peter started and then he looked at Gwen. "The Green Goblin is probably in there too. Because he got away, he probably came straight here." Peter sighed and then he realized something. "That's why he hasn't taken you down. You've been more than vulnerable to him several times and he never jumped onto that opportunity. Maybe he isn't after you, because of Ned. Which mean he actually IS still after me. He's trying to beat me in another method other than fighting because he knows that he won't be successful." Peter sighed and then he looked to Gwen and could see the worry leave Gwen's face. "If Ned tries to kill me, don't let him, but promise me, that you won't kill him. If you have to hurt him then hurt him, but don't kill him." Peter requested and Gwen nodded in agreement. "Let's go." Peter sighed and the two of them walked into the building cautiously and silently. Eventually they came to a room where Ned, The Green Goblin, and Kingpin were standing together.
"What's happening?" Gwen whispered. But when Peter saw the dead look in Ned's eyes his heart broke. Ned was gone. Ned was a Winter Soldier.
"You will not be just any Winter Soldier. You will be my assistant and together we will take down all that oppose including those stupid Spiders." Norman laughed. "You will be called Hobgoblin."
"I am Hobgoblin." Ned said emotionlessly.
"No." Peter sighed as his voice shook and then he saw Ned slowly turning his head towards him.
"Mission 01, Kill Peter Parker." Ned said and then Ned hit a button on his wrist and a metal suit formed around him and he looked similar to the Green Goblin.
"NED FIGHT IT!" Peter shouted as he walked forward and took his mask off and then Ned charged at Peter and punched him in the face and then Ned grabbed him by the neck and pushed him against a wall and started strangling him. "Ned buddy, fight it." Peter choked as he refused to fight Ned and then Gwen silently ran out of the room because no one had noticed her, and she called someone…
Tony, Nat, Bruce, Thor, and Steve were hanging out in the kitchen of Stark Industries.
"So are we in agreement of calling this place Avengers Headquarters then?" Nat asked everyone and everyone nodded accept for Tony. "Tony?" Nat sighed and Tony looked to her.
"Yeah, whatever, yeah." Tony sighed.
"You seem oddly distracted. What's going on?" Bruce pointed out and Tony decided to tell everyone what was going on.
"Peters friend Ned was taken by Kingpin. He's attempting to save Ned as we speak." Tony revealed and everyone seemed to react in different ways. Nat seemed very saddened by this.
"Oh, not the fat boy, I quite enjoyed him." Thor sighed.
"Poor Pete." Bruce said and then suddenly Tony's phone rang and he looked down at it and saw that it was Gwen and Tony put it on speaker.
"Hey, um, Peter needs your help, and so do I. Kingpin and the Green Goblin are here and they turned Ned into some type of soldier and Ned is trying to kill Peter. HURRY UP. We're on Staten Island." Gwen said and then suddenly she sounded like she had been hit by someone and Norman's voice came on.
"Sorry, the person you are calling is no longer available." Norman laughed and then he hung up and Thor started laughing.
"That was a very funny joke. He is very clever." Thor laughed and everyone looked at him like he was stupid….
Peter could breathe pretty easily and that's when he realized that Ned wasn't using all his strength.
"Ned! I KNOW YOUR FIGHTING THIS MAN!" Peter cried. "This is NOT you! Don't let him win! PLEASE! Ned, please. I won't fight you. Your my best friend. Please don't do this." Peter felt the grip loosen. "That's it man. Your almost there. Keep fighting. I can't lose you Ned." You could hear the heartbreak in Peters voice and then suddenly Iron Man flew in and shot Kingpin to the ground. He then saw Peter and Ned, but he didn't recognize Ned and got very confused.
"Ned please. Fight it." Peter sighed and then Peter felt Ned's hand start to shake and the grip intensified and Peter couldn't breathe. Suddenly Gwen ran into the room and she shot a web at Ned's arm and pulled him away from Peter and Ned fell to the ground and Gwen shoot several cocoon webs at him and Ned struggled in his web on the ground.
"Where's Norman?" Peter coughed as he looked to Gwen and Gwen smiled.
"I kicked his ass." Gwen said and she shot a web out of the room and pulled Norman into the room in a cocoon and then Kingpin got to his feet and started to run out of the room and Tony went to shoot and Kingpin looked at Iron Man in slight fear and Peter looked at him intently.
"Your not getting out of here, so do yourself a favor and surrender." Peter demanded and Kingpin shockingly got down on two knees and put his hands behind his head and Peter looked genuinely shocked and Gwen shot a cocoon web at Kingpin.
"He's too far gone for the cure Parker. I'm sorry. I never meant for that to happen to him. I kill, and I never torture to the point where it's like this." Kingpin said and Peter seemed even more taken back.
"Why did you take him then?" Peter asked as his voice shook and Kingpin looked to Peter sadly.
"Because I owed Osborn for getting me out of the slammer. Trust me, I would never cross you again. I know my own limits. There aren't many, but you, no, You're too powerful. I had no idea he was connected to you." Kingpin replied and then Peter walked over to Kingpin.
"Pete don't. He isn't worth it." Tony said and Peter ignored him as he got down on one knee.
"That girl you killed will NEVER leave my mind. You stole a life, and you WILL rot in jail for it. But when you get out, you better have changed, because if I fight you again, you WILL lose your life." Peter said and then he stood up and walked over to Ned who was struggling and Tony pulled Peter away and Peter very quickly got pissed at Tony.
"Get out of my way! He's my best friend!" Peter yelled.
"And the best thing you can do for him is to get as far away as possible. I don't want to see you at Avengers Headquarters until we tell you that it's safe. Do you understand me?" Tony drew the line and Peters eyes filled with tears.
"This happened because of me and you think your going to stop me from helping him?" Peter asked and Tony shook his head.
"NO, that's why I brought her." Tony said and then suddenly Wanda walked in and Peter looked at her sadly.
"Please don't." Peter knew he had to play to her emotions and manipulate her or she would stop him from helping Tony. Wanda had a few tears fall down her face and she closed her eyes and made Peter pass out instantly and Tony caught him.
"Poor kid." Tony sighed sadly….