That night at Lincoln's tower, Phantom thought, I really dislike some of the words in a dictionary, as he was thrown out the window, but then stopped himself in his descent and flew back inside with an enraged look on his face.
"Ok, where's the goblin?" Suddenly, a green blast went past him as he raised his ecto-shield to protect himself.
"Present and accounted for," The green Goblin laughed on top of his hover board as he threw a bomb in the shape of a pumpkin that hit his shield and bounced clean off. The Goblin barely dodged it as Phantom opened up a round of ecto-blasts at him. With that the Goblin flew on his hover board around the ballroom as Phantom attempted to stop him.
The Goblin threw two goblin-arangs at Phantom who knocked them away and fired a shot of lightning at his hover board, but he missed. With that Phantom threw a chocolate cake at him, but missed and hit Johan instead. The Goblin continued to fire goblin-arangs at him, but Phantom just knocked them back or destroyed them.
How did this night go sourer so fast and how did I leave my suit at the dance?
Earlier that night:
As the DJ started the music everyone began to dance as Harry and the other A-lists arrived at the party.
"Thanks for the ride, Harry," Glory smiled at him after that got off the limo.
"Oh, don't mention it. My chauffeur's at my call" Harry smiled as someone said "Don't forget to vote for king and Queen of the ball."
"Who are you voting for, Glory?" Harry asked as they all started to vote. Flash scoffed at that, "Me and Liz, of course, who else is worthy?" He laughed. "I think we know that answer to that. Don't we, Rand?" Sally asked with her hand on Rand's arm.
"As far as I'm concerned, Osborn the man of the dance, his limo, his after party," Rand said as Glory shock her head and Harry smiled sheepish. "Dude rules," However that only caused Sally to glare at him, though she was much shorter than him.
"We're going to the best restaurant in the city," Harry said, placing a hand on both of their shoulders, to calm them down.
"My treat" He finished. That caused them to smile at one another.
"Osborn, you're the man." Flash smiled as the two smiled. "You know it," As the group started to walk deeper into the gym, Gwen asked "Hey, Harry. Did you just get here?" However, Harry just dragged the others away from her and said
"Hey, let's get a picture. You know preserve the movement" As Eddie looked over at him, frowning. "I guess that bowtie stops the blood from reaching his ears." Gwen said sadly. As Harry continued to talk about the restaurant, the photographer took their photo, but suddenly Flash said
"I don't believe it."
"No, real gold dust" Harry smiled, but when no one responded to him and he saw their shocked expressions, he turned to see Daniel, wearing a black suit and a white buttoned up shirt with his hair cleaned and brushed, leading a beautiful red haired girl with teal-eyes and a black dress that barely went to her knees, both of them were smiling.
Meanwhile at the daily Bugle, Johan yelled "Ms. Brant, this bowtie's defective. I want a new one around my neck in 4 seconds."
"Come on, Mr. J. An investigation into the true identity of the Demon, see the face behind the mask."
"And the face turns out to be Joe slow?" Johan asked turning to face Ned.
"Hold still, please." Betty said forcing him to face her. "All you'll do is make the Demon a regular guy and who would pay to see a regular guy?" Johan asked.
"Depends on what that regular guy does," A voice suddenly said. "Right, pop" He said taking his Air force cap off, wearing his blue air force suit. He had blond hair and teal eyes. "John, my boy," Johan smiled.
"Oh, give your old man a hug." He said as he hugged his boy. "Hey, Mr. Robertson," John said removing himself from the hug and shaking hands with Robbie.
"You keeping my old man in line,"
"I do my best," Robbie smiled at him. "You know, he's very proud of you." He finished. Johan scoffed. "Why wouldn't I be?" He asked as he dragged his son over to Betty and Ned. "Betty Grant, Ned Lee, meet my son, air force colonel John Jameson."
He smiled as John shook both of their hands. "John's piloting his first mission on the space shuttle next week, so I'm taking him on one last night on the town." Johan said with his eyes closed and his nose in the air and a huge smile on his face.
"Uhh…planet, get it?" He asked, but then looked over and yelled "Foswell, everyone, meet my son, the astronaut." As he dragged his son with him by the shoulder to meet with more people at the bugle before they left. "Ned, that Demon idea, run with it, and sees where it leads." Robbie said once Johan was gone and out of hearing range as Ned cheered and smiled happily at that.
Back at the party, Daniel was introducing his date to some of his teachers and his friends as the A-lists looked on shocked. "How the heck did Dan land a girl like that?" Flash asked. "He cleaned up well," Glory said smiling as Liz smiled as well.
However, Harry frowned and attempted to speak some more about the restaurant, but Sally shook her head and shouted "Geeks like Parker do not get girls that look like that, I mean look like us." She corrected herself. "She must have lost a bet."
Flash hit his head at that, "Oh, the bet. That's it." He smiled as Daniel and Mary Jane Watson walked over to them. "Mary Jane Watson, meet Flash, Sally, Liz, Rand, Sally, Glory and my friend Harry. They're popular," He whispered as Harry waved at them.
"Ah, the in-crowd" Mary Jane said smiling at them. "Exactly" Sally said with her nose in the air.
"So Parker, you actually got yourself a date, so I guess you win the bet." Flash as looking at Daniel, who just smirked.
"What did you bet?" Mary Jane asked. "Loser dresses as a cheerleader for Halloween." Daniel said blushing. Mary Jane smiled at that,
"Well, big guy, I hope you got the legs for the skirt. Come on, tiger lets hit the dance floor. I want to see what you got." Mary Jane said leading Daniel away from Flash and the others. Flash and the others looked on in shock, but then Flash grabbed Liz and said
"Come on, we're dancing." Sally grabbed Rand by the hand and also led him to the dance floor as well, leaving Harry and Glory all alone. "Shall we?" He asked. "Perhaps when everyone has less to prove," Glory said crossing her arms.
"Uh, right, want some punch?" He asked. "Please" She said as Harry went to get him and her some. As he did, everyone was dancing on the floor. Flash continued to look at the dancing Daniel and Mary Jane in annoyance as he and Liz continued to dance as did everyone else. However, when Harry turned around he saw Kenny, wearing a suit, talking with Glory.
"Look, Glory," Kenny started shyly and sheepish as Glory crossed her arms in front of her chest and looked still mad at him, "I know I messed up, but I'm really sorry, just give me one more chance." He said handing her a rose.
"Please?" He begged Glory smiled at that and then nodded to date him again as she hugged him for all she was worth and sighed,
"Oh, Kenny". However, Harry broke the punch glasses, getting punch all over his hands and his suit and then ran out of the gym with a shocked and hurt expression on his face. He ran to his locked, opened it up and then pulled out a test tube that said 'OsCorp Globulin green,'
He pulled the cork out of it and then drunk it all down in one gulp. With that, he threw the test tube to the ground, causing it to shatter on impact and then closed his locked with a thud. After that, he ran out of the school, out the doors and into the night, leaving the party behind and everyone in there, including the A-lists.
Later at OsCorp, Dr. Octavius was walking around the lab asking "Hello, is someone there," because of a sound he had heard. He looked around and then gasped when he looked at his reflection. "Get a hold of yourself. You're afraid of your own shadow." He said as he laughed,
"You're seeing things in machines that aren't there." He chuckled as he turned around, only to see a man dressed in a green and purple suit with an orange pumpkin emblem on his belt on top of a hover board. "Oh…the gilder" He shouted as the person laughed at him.
"That's Mr. Osborn tech-flight gilder," He shouted. However, the person just flew around on it and Octavius ducked as the man flew over him, laughing all the way.
He then flew out of the window, shattering it on impart and then flew out into the night without a care in the world, following the light of the full moon as Octavius slowly got up and then looked out the window the man had just broken.
Later at an apartment building, a man is attempting to use a crowbar to bust open a safe he and his team has just stolen.
"I'm…just…saying…I…could…have…cracked…it…there." He said as he grunted, trying to open the safe. "Cops would have cracked you open," Another said to him. "Cops or the Demon," He corrected himself. "Look, Hammerhead waiting for the big man's cut. Forget the crowbar, blow it up."
"Ah, blow yourself up." The man said. Suddenly there was a green explosion was he and the others were forced back as the door was blown clean off. Soon, the man from behind with an orange pumpkin bomb in hand flew in on the hover board.
"Did someone mention explosives?" He asked. "Get the freak!" The first man said as the girl of the group attempted to grab him, but the man just pressed a button on his wrist bracelet and fired a blast at her, knocking her into the wall.
The girl then landed face down on the couch, next to it. The other guy attempted to punch him, but the man grabbed his wrist and then threw him to the floor. With that the first guy attempted to hit him with the crowbar, but the man just moved forward and extended a blade from the new mouth of the glider right in the guy's face.
"I mean get the freak whatever he wants."
"What I want is your undying loyalty or the dying kind. The Green Goblin is nothing if not flexible." The man laughed as he forced the other man off the safe and then placed a small explosive on it. Once the explosive went off, the door to the safe opened and the man threw the money to the guy with the glasses.
"Thanks for the help, but we work for the big man. We switch loyalties we might as well tie on the toe tags ourselves." He said as everyone nodded to agree. "I'm good with knots too and for the big man, the party's over" The goblin laughed.
At Lincoln's tower, a band is playing as everyone was enjoying their time, but soon they stopped and everyone clapped as Lincoln walked up to the microphone.
"If I might have your attention, as many of you know I am L. Thompson Lincoln. Thank you for coming to support the Lincoln adolescence center." He said bowing to everyone there. "Some party, isn't it Johnny boy," Johan said he clapped as well. "It's great, pop, but to be honest, I was just hoping it'll be you, me and a rare steak." John said sadly. Johan smiled at that.
"Then come on. Lincoln's got enough of the bugles money. We can be at Lugie's in 88 seconds." He said leading John to the elevator. He was about to press the button when the elevator opened and a man wearing a pumpkin mask and a rifle in his hands said "Sorry, elevator's closed."
"Stairs, too," Another one said as two came from the stairs, "You could always try the window," He said.
Suddenly, the goblin flew in from the outside, shattering the window and flew around the ballroom, laughing as everyone screamed and Lincoln's guard moved to protect him.
"Oops, too late" The man said leading Johan and John away from the elevator and stairs. "Hello, good evening," The green goblin laughed flying around the chandelier as he stopped right in front of Lincoln. "I am the green goblin and I am looking for the big man."
"Sir, I don't know you are…"
"Of course, you don't. That's the point of the mask genius." The green goblin laughed as he looked at Lincoln as Lincoln's two guards pulled out tasers from their jackets. "But I know who you are, crime king. So, step down or I'll start sharing secrets."
"You're making an enormous mistaken. Security, this man is obvious trouble, take care of him." Lincoln said as the green goblin tsked, "Still hiding behind an army of thugs are we?"
Suddenly the two guards with tasers fired them, but the green goblin just grabbed them and sent the shock from the tasers back to them, knocking them out. The two others attempted get him, but the green goblin used the taser lines as a rope and got one of the man's wrists tied up in them as he flew off, sending the man into the other, knocking him out.
After flying around the ballroom twice, the green goblin released the man and slammed him into a wall, knocking him out as well. "He swings through the air," The green goblin said, swinging on the chandelier, "ditching all kinds of fear." He laughed,
"This daring goblin on the big chandelier" John suddenly grabbed the man behind him with a weapon and threw him into the girl as he grabbed the fallen weapon, but the green goblin noticed that.
"Pop, move, we have to…" The green goblin fired a laser at him that would have hit him, if it didn't hit a yellow beam of light first. "That's quite enough." The man said
"Senator Wes, always armed even at a party," Lincoln said under his breath.
"Oh, the great Senator Wes, I wasn't expecting you," The goblin pouted. "I know. Now are you going to surrender or do your men wants to meet the business end of one of these?" Wes asked moving his light saber around.
"Are you willing to risk that?" The goblin asked. Wes looked at John and nodded to him. With that, they both dropped their weapons as the goblin smiled. "Now, don't go anywhere or else." He said landing back on his glider.
"Sir, there is no need to threaten my guests." Lincoln said. "There is if I want witnesses." The goblin said as Lincoln crossed his arms. "Big guy," During that Johan placed his headset in his eyes and speed dialed the bugle.
"Robertson," Robbie said answering the phone. "Johan, slow down, a green what" Robbie asked. "Goblin, green goblin, no reporter, I'll cover the story myself and save a few bucks, but get me Parker. This is right up his freak show alley. And perhaps call the police." He finished.
Back at the dance, Daniel was still dancing with Mary Jane Watson, until his phone started to ring. He pulled it out and pointed to it as Mary Jane nodded and then they went off in different directions. Daniel to see what was going and Mary Jane to where the A-lists were, which were next to the refreshment table, Mary Jane looked over Glory's dress and said
"Killer look, girl."
"Thanks. Put it together myself. The top's from the fifth store on 27th." Glory smiled. "You and I so need to hang out" Mary Jane smiled at her. "So what do you think of Midtown high?" She asked.
"It doesn't look that much different from my school, your basis brain pit." She said looking around the gym. After Daniel got off the phone he headed to where Mary Jane was. "You know we also have the top rank theater magnet in the city." Glory said, "Theater magnet. Mmm, I'm starting to feel the attraction." Mary Jane smiled.
"That was the bugle. There's this maniac threatening my boss and he wants me to shot some pictures and I have too or I'm fired." Daniel said sadly to Mary Jane. "Look, I'm so sorry," Daniel said to Mary Jane.
"It's ok. But hurry back, tiger. You still owe me one more dance." She chuckled. Daniel looked at her in shock, "Really, you're not mad?" He asked. Mary Jane shook her head. "That is so cool, I'll be back as soon as I can, Red, I promise." Daniel said as he ran out of the gym.
"Oh, ditched by the king of the geeks, that much sting." Sally said. Mary Jane looked at her and faked, "Oh, deeply, but if I can't dance with Dan, I'll guess I'll dance with…" She continued as Glory laughed a little. "It's Rand, right."
"Very," Rand said as the two walked to the dance floor with Sally fuming at Rand and the nerve of that girl, while Flash just looked on int shock, blinking many times trying to understand what just happened.
"What do you hope to accomplish here tonight?" Lincoln asked. "So the whole wanting to destroy you and take over your empire wasn't clear enough, well darn."
"Uh, excuse me. Can I come in this way or do I have to break my own window?" Phantom asked floating outside where the window was. Lincoln, Goblin and Johan all said "Phantom," But Wes said "Danny," as he looked at the floating boy.
"You're timing is impeccable," Lincoln said. "So, your latest super loser turned on you, Tombstone."
"I don't know who he is…yet, but he's not in my employment." Lincoln said. "Oh well, I can always pretend he's yours while I trash him. It'll still make me feel good inside and can we please hurry this up, I have a hot date waiting for me." Phantom said slamming his fist into his palm. "Hello, I'm in the room. Honestly, you are both so rude."
"Ah, where are my manners?"
"Here you came to terrorize the Tombstone and I don't even thank you," Phantom said giving the goblin a mock bow, "My only excuse is that you're also holding innocent people hostage." Phantom glared at him,
"So let's begin." He finished charging up a huge ecto-blast. "Mmm, there is no need for that." The goblin said, "How about this? You and I join forces. Consider what we could accomplish by combining our powers. We could rule New York." Phantom just fired an ecto-blast that blew the goblin into the wall behind him. "You're strong, nice, but so am I."
The goblin yelled as he and Phantom flew around attempting to hit each other. Wes smirked as the battle continued, Yeah, that's Danny alright, he thought as he planned an escape for everyone.
They both dodged each other's attacks as Phantom twisted and turned around the ballroom. However, the goblin got Phantom with a laser blast in the chest throwing him through the window and out of the ball room.
Back to the Present:
Phantom flew back inside and asked
"Where's the goblin." Suddenly the goblin fired many laser blasts at him, but he just raised an ecto-shield and bounced them back. "Present and accounted for. The green Goblin laughed on top of his hover board as he threw a bomb in the shape of a pumpkin that hit Phantom's shield and bounced clean off. The Goblin barely dodged the explosion from the bomb as Phantom opened up a round of ecto-blasts at him.
With that the Goblin flew on his hover board around the ballroom as Phantom attempted to stop him, firing ice and electricity blasts at as everyone watched in fear that they might be hit by accident.
The Goblin threw two goblin-arangs at Phantom who knocked them away and fired a shot of lightning at his hover board, but he missed. With that Phantom threw a chocolate cake at him, but missed and hit Johan instead. The Goblin continued to fire goblin-arangs at him, but Phantom just knocked them back or destroyed them.
At the party, an announcer said "May I have your attention please? The votes are in for king and queen of the ball." As he was handed the results, "Your king is Flash Thompson," He said as Flash smiled smugly and walked up there and was crowned with a golden crown as everyone cheered for him. "And your queen is…" Liz, Sally and Glory smiled hoping they won.
"Uh…Red head girl that came with Daniel Parker." The three gasped as Mary Jane slowly walked onto the stage and was crowned next to Flash as everyone, other than them and the other A-list cheered for her.
During that Rand placed his arm around Sally, but she just shrugged him off and glared at him. Rand walked away at that as the three girls looked on in hatred for Mary Jane Watson.
However, when a photographer was about to take their picture, Flash moved his arm around Mary Jane and forced her to his side, when through she was off centered and shocked by that.
Back at Lincoln's party, Phantom was continuing to dodge attack after attack as he attempted to land his own on the goblin. "May I see your invitation, Demon? Otherwise I must ask you to leave," The goblin laughed. Phantom fired an ecto-blast at him, catching his leg and part of his hover board. The goblin yelled at that, but managed to keep control of his flight.
However, as he did Phantom attempted to fire another blast, until the goblin fired many goblin-arangs at him. Phantom turned intangible and then continued to dodge them after another, leaving them struck in tables, chairs, but no people at all. As Phantom attempted to charge at the goblin a few of his arangs nearly hit Johan and would have if John didn't force him down, but Lincoln grabbed one of them and then looked at it.
Soon, Phantom jumped onto the goblin's hover board. "Oh, do you want a ride?" Goblin asked. "Keep our guest comfortable, boys. I'll be back in a New York minute." Goblin laughed as he flew out of the ballroom with Phantom.
"Serious, Goblin, do you have a license for this thing," Phantom said as he let go of him and fired a blast at the board, burning a piece of it, but not damaging it. Goblin continued to fly away from Phantom as Phantom continued to fly after him, trying to get to him.
Suddenly, the goblin turned and hit Phantom, punching him into the wall. "You know the old saying, if you can't join them, beat them."
"Took the words right out of my mouth, is that a felony." Phantom said turning intangible as he dodged the goblin-arangs. "Oh, I hope so. This little goblin wouldn't be caught dead committing a misdemeanor," Phantom laughed at that.
"Good witty-banter, aim still needs work though." He finished as he dodged another pumpkin bomb. "Well practice makes perfect."
"Keep telling yourself that." Phantom said as he fired an ice beam and froze the mouth shut on the front of the gilder.
As phantom flew through the metal frame of a building, the goblin continued to fire pumpkin bomb after pumpkin bomb at him, missing. Suddenly Phantom turned invisible and the Goblin looked around confused until Phantom reappeared and blasted him away from him.
"That's for making me protect Tombstone," He growled as he fired a red ecto-blast at the Goblin, forcing to fly straight into a building, which he would have hit, if he didn't jump up from his gilder, over the building and then back on after the gilder went through the building. Phantom gasped at that, but continued his attack. The goblin laughed as he chased after Phantom until Phantom turned invisible again.
Goblin looked around, until he felt someone lifting him up by his neck off his gilder and then seeing Phantom, who threw him into a building and webbed him to it. "What's so funny now?" Phantom asked. "Just the fire and brimstone bomb I left behind, soon, any minute now it'll paint the city red, or at least the ball room."
"What are supposed to do?" One of the men said. "Keep everyone here until the goblin comes back."
"Or leave before the goblin's bomb goes off," Phantom yelled flying into the ballroom. However, the pumpkin wearing thugs raised their weapons at him, until he shorted them out completely. "Didn't you hear me, leave that includes bad guys too."
"We work for the goblin,"
"Every single blasted piece of you," Phantom asked. "You're lying,"
"Is that a risk you're willingly to take, especially since you've taken so many already?" Lincoln asked. That caused the three to run down the stairs. "Everybody, down the stairs, if the bomb goes off, the elevators won't be safe." John said as he showed everyone the way out. "Stay calm, don't push. Go, pop, I'm right behind you." He said as he and Johan ran down the stairs.
With that, Phantom used his telekinesis to lift all the chairs and tables up to see where the bomb was. He was about to continue when he heard a noise and turned to see Lincoln. "I'm surprised you're staying behind."
"My party, my mess," He said the two continued to look for it. Suddenly, Phantom used his PDA and found it in the chandelier just as John had came back up, remembering that the goblin had swung on the chandelier during the party.
"Demon, chandelier…" Phantom showed him the bomb as he said "Thanks. Now go." With that, he and Johan ran back down. "Oh, we're going back down, now you're just torturing me." Johan complained as Phantom flew out of the ballroom and threw the bomb with all of his might high above the city. It exploded with a great screeched as a green pumpkin emblem came from it.
Suddenly, someone started to clap. "Applause from you makes me want to shower." Phantom hissed.
"Perhaps, but someone should point out that someone offered you a great deal of money to do what you just did tonight. Instead you've done the big man's business for free. That, my young friend, is what grown-ups call…"
"Irony, I know." Phantom hissed. "And if you didn't know this isn't my first time as a hero or having a powerful villain to defeat and mark me, if it wasn't for the hostages, I would have allowed you both to kill one another easily." Phantom growled and hissing all the time, teleported out of the ballroom. Downstairs, everyone was leaving the building as many police helped them.
"Robbie, I got your headline, Colonel John Jameson saves NY elite." Johan said over the headset. However, John grabbed him and said "There'll be an investigation. I could be succumbed from the mission." Johan sighed, "Robbie scratched that headline, give credit to the Demon, but fire Parker the kid never showed up. What do you mean he just e-mailed photos?"
Phantom had teleported back to where he had left the goblin, only to find his webs cut and the goblin missing completely. He muttered darkly under his breath as he teleported back towards the school as the A-lists are waiting for Harry outside.
"See Glory, you're so selfless. Everyone knows you don't dump the guy with the limo, no offense Kenny," Sally said as Kenny shrugged indifferently. "Until the day after the dance" She finished.
"Where is Osborn anyway?" Flash asked as Harry peeked out from behind the school to look at them, but then drunk another tube of the globulin green and then walked away.
Daniel ran back into the gym to see Mary Jane dancing with someone else with the queen's crown on her head as some of the students started to leave. He sighed and sat down on the bleachers. "Nice going, Parker, you really blow it this time." He groaned. "I wouldn't say that, I've saved the last dance for you, Tiger." Mary Jane smiled as the two started to dance again.
That night, after dropping Mary Jane off, Daniel entered his store and sighed happily. "So, how was it?" Someone asked. Daniel gasped at that as he turned to see Fixit standing there with…
"Senator Wes,"
"Hello, Danny," He smiled at him. Daniel glared at Fixit, who said
"I didn't say anything." Daniel sighed at that, "What do you want and my name is Daniel now."
"As you wish, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't seeing things at the party. Good work, but what was that about."
"Lincoln is NY's top crime boss, Wes, but I don't have enough evidence to prove it to everyone, yet." Daniel said sadly.
"Well, then, I'll do whatever I can to help and I'm very happy that you're not died,"
"But everyone should know that I am. No one needs to know I am still alive." Daniel hissed.
"Of course, I wouldn't dream of telling anyone about where you are and that you're still alive, I can see the dangers that will put you in." Wes said as he walked up to Daniel. "I'll just say this, continue to do the good work you have been doing and please be safe. I don't want to go to your funeral a second time, kid." Daniel smirked at that,
"I'll try, but you never can tell."
"That's all I can ask for. I'll bid you a good night now," He said as he left and his Limo pulled up in front of the store. However, before he left he said again, "Just please know that I am there for you and please remain safe."
With that, he got into the limo and it drove away. Daniel sighed at that as he closed and locked the door, however when he turned Fixit, Fixit said "I didn't know, I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it. I didn't even see him at the party I saved." Daniel said sadly. "What's the problem?" Fixit asked as Daniel told him everything.