Author: Grayheart

Editor: Aoirann

Spider-man sat on one of Wayne Enterprise's many skyscrapers munching on a apple that was the last of his food. His stomach growled in protest of the meager amount of food that he found.. 'If I don't find a source of food soon I don't think I'll last much longer.' groaned Spider-man as finished eating the apple and pulled his mask down. Using his enhanced abilities he threw the apple core off the building and managed to get it in a trash can on the sidewalk. 'I'm probably lucky I've only had Batman confront me and not one of the villains in Gotham yet.' Just after he thought this Wayne Enterprise's doors were blasted outward in a wave of ice which reached the opposite side of the street. And out of the rubble came Mr. Freeze, his henchmen driving a large machine, Spider-man face-palmed 'I just had to jinx it'.

"Well can't let them take the what-ever-it-is. Probably needs it for one of his plans, that involves... I'm going with Polar Bears. I know I would." muttered Spider-man leaping off the tower.

"Careful with that will you? That thing is worth more then you will make in a decade!" snapped Mr. Freeze as the henchmen drove the machine to the truck that driven up. At that Spider-man swung down and kicked the driver off the mover, flipped through the air in a feat of acrobatic grace, and smashed another goon into the ground when he landed on top of him in a crouch. The moving truck swerved on the icy uneven ground caused by Mister Freeze, before tipping over. This caused the machine to smash into pieces that spread throughout the street. There was dead silence for a moment.

"Oops." quipped Spider-man "looks like your shopping trips been cut short Mr. Celsius."

Mr. Freeze gave the young hero an annoyed look "It's Freeze." and moved to blast Spider-man, but the webhead flipped out of the way and a goon behind him was frozen.

"Guess the guy was on Ice." Quipped Spider-man as two goons charged only for Spider-man to jump in the air at the last second and the two smash together. Spider-man webbed them to the ground and dodged to the side when his spider-sense went off. Bullets and ice whizzed by, barely missing Spider-man. Spider-man webbed up the goons gun's barrels, which exploded sending the remaining goons to the ground in pain from the shrapnel.

"Not bad for an amateur." said Mr. Freeze blasting his freeze gun. Spider-man dodged flipping through the air using his webs to change direction in mid-air. Unfortunately he was losing concentration form the hunger and took a glancing blow from one of the blasts.

"If you're saying I'm an amateur that means you spend a lot of time doing this " quipped Spider-man from were he was hiding behind the now frozen truck trying to warm his half frozen over hands and to catch his breath. " Jeez you need Girlfriend."

That was obviously the wrong thing to say to Mr. Freeze

"MY WIFE IS DYING! WHY DO YOU THINK I DO YOU THINK I'M DOING THIS! FOR FUN!" Screamed Mister Freeze. He blasted the truck with his freeze gun nearly encasing Spider-man in ice.

"Nora and I were happy together! When we were together I considered myself the luckiest man on earth! She was beautiful in body and heart!" Yelled Mr. Freeze as he blasted his freeze gun at Spider-man who was slowly working his way to Mister Freeze.

"Then just two years after we got married, she was struck with an disease with no cure. I used my designs for a cryopod and some of the technology in the company I worked for and managed to a least halt the progression of the disease." Continued Mr. Freeze. This left Spider-man an opening and he managed to land a solid punch on Freeze, but that gave Freeze a better shot at Spider-man leaving the young hero's right arm elbow down frozen in ice.

"Then those Bastards ruined every thing when they tried to turn off her machine! I tried to stop them, but there was an accident and now I can't live out of Sub Zero temperatures." Freeze continued to fire his Freeze gun at Spider-Man.

"I'll make them feel my Suffering. I will make everyone everyone feel the depths of my suffering!"

This statement made Spider-man start to see red.

"You're an idiot Freeze! Your wife is still ALIVE! You said it yourself! She's in a state of suspended animation because of that cyropod! Then why aren't you trying to help find a cure so you two can be together! Why are you so intent on spreading a suffering that not only could be reversed but would in doing so you SHAME! YOUR! WIFE!" Yelled Spider-man and Freeze stared at him in shock. At that Spider-man couldn't stand to be there anymore and sent out a webline and swung away from the scene. Mister Freeze could only stare at where Spider-Man used to be. The sound of police sirens getting closer did nothing to snap him out of his daze.

When arrived Mister Freeze could only say one thing. "Just... Just take me away. I don't deserve to be free. I don't deserve anything." The cops were suspicious and surprised when Freeze actually asked to be arrested, though he didn't tell them why he had a change of heart.

WITH SPIDER-MAN

Spider-man staggers as he lands heavily on the roof leaning against a wall. His breathing was labored as the adrenaline of the fight wore off and heavy fatigue set in 'Not … Good' Spider-man struggled to stay conscious as he pushed away from the the wall. He only made it a few feet before he collapsed into darkness.