Within the ruins of the pier.

Harley was terrified.

Terrified to the point of nearly wetting himself. But given how much pain he was in he properly already did. As his once glorious armor was now blacked, dented, melted and ruin. While he struggled to get out of the debris of the blown apart warehouse.

Yet when Harley did. He bare witness to the knighted goblin before him. A figure now representing his own fear and helplessness. For no matter what the Iron-lad did the goblin countered him, outmaneuver him and now outmatch him in power with his latest transformation. Which radiated so much heat that it set the ruins of the warehouse around the demonic entity ablaze. With all the wooden broken structures of the building burning into ash. While the rubble and concrete beneath his feet melted into slag.

It was from here that Keener knew he was screwed and needed to retreat. So he activated the rocket packs from behind his armor and began to fly away.

…only to be stuck back down by a heat beam from the goblin's left index finger. Which nearly pierced right through the Iron-lad's armor. Much to Haley's shock and horror.

'L-look man. You won okay? you-won! Just, just let me go' The Iron-hero said pitifully. With not even his metallic tone of voice hiding the desperation and fear within it.

'Please'

However the broken Hero's begging did little to move the Goblin…or at least that was how the villain acted.

'I am sorry child, but mercy is something that I absolutely cannot afford to give to you. For my employer has now declared your life forfeit. So you either hold your head up high and accept your fate…or quiver and beg like a miserable dog ' The Goblin explained in cold grim tone. While forming a bright flaming sword in his right hand. That seems to draw all the shadows toward the fiend's face.

'Either way...you will die by my hand regardless' The fiend uttered darkly and Harley knew in this heart that he would die here. If he didn't act fast now!'

With sudden blast from his respulers at full power. Harley stuck at the ground beneath the goblin. Sending the villain back and forcing him to raise his arms to defend himself. But as that smoke cleared the Goblin saw that his target was already in the air. Flying away to get away from him.

But Flash knew it was pointless.

With a metal commend the Goblin knight crafted a new glider out of the molecules and heat in the air beneath his feet before rushing forward towards The fleeing Iron-lad.

'No...NO GET AWAY FROM ME!' Harley screamed out in fright as the fiendish knight slowly closed in on him and then in a moment of desperation the Iron-lad rammed himself into a nearby office building. Plowing himself right through it…and everyone else inside. Who either ran away in panic…or were tossed right outside the widows by the panicking hero like discarded trash.

Much to Flash's own horror as he nimbly dodge out of the way of the building while still chasing after his quarry. While Harley in fright tried another underhanded maneuver. As he fly between two skyscrapers, turn himself around and shot both of them with his pulser beams just as Thompson himself raced between them.

And for once Flash himself panic.

As bare witness by two crumbling buildings collapsing on both sides of him. While the people inside of structures fell out of the widows falling rubble to their deaths below screaming in terror and Thompson whenever out of instinct or his own guilty conscience. Lowered down the heat of his goblin knight form and rescues two of the people plummeting to their doom from the falling buildings.

But that unfortunately was all that Thompson was able to save and as soon as he saw a nearby roof top he gently left the two people on there and before they could get over their shock. Flash immediately went back to chasing after Harley.

However when the Iron-lad realized that his demonic enemy was willing to risk this life to save people. Harley in a moment of disgust in himself yet an overpowering need to survive. Aim his pulsers at a few more buildings below him.

Flash however had enough of innocents dying before his target and so alighted his goblin knight form and created twin swirling knives from both of his hands. Then throw both of them at Keener with speed greater then even his own glider. Then the two knives then spite into five more smaller versions of themselves that then surrounded and moved towards the flying iron-lad.

Seeing what was happening. Haley in a slit second shot one of his pulser beams at the projectiles and while he managed to take out two of them…three more remain.

With one embedding itself into his jet pack disabling it and other two stabbing right through both of his palms that held the chargers to his repulser blasts. Resulting in the Iron-lad crashing down to the street below and tumble across the pavement. Which in turn damaged his armors systems so much that Keener had to rip his helmet off lest he suffocated.

But even that would have been welcoming. In comparison to the sight before him.

The Goblin knight then landed on the street near Harley and then jumped off his glider dispersing it and then reforming his sword of fire. All the while slowly walking up to his target and as Flash stood above the helpless hero he got message from his intercom.

'Good work Thompson. Very good work' Norman said pleasantly to his portage ''You have more then redeemed yourself in compromising your cover' All you have to do now is eliminate that embarrassment of Stark's legacy and your debt will be repaid in full'

'Repaid...' the thought echoed in Flash's head. For ever since he took the role of the Goblin or even before then. He always seemed to make a habit of repaying debts. Whenever it be the actions of his own father. His own hero and best friend or even now for his own screw ups.

But for all the debts he strive to make up for. This one seemed to be the easiest. At lest I terms of what to gain from it.

Killing Hayley Keener The Iron-lad.

Just a day ago. The man was built up by the Avengers and the media as the next coming of Iron-man. The one meant bring a new age of prosperity for all heroes and being forth a new founded security to the world itself.

But now…now he is anything but that.

Instead of being man who wanted to genuinely help the people. Harley only cared about the fame. Instead of braving against the inevitable Harley cowers before it and instead of risking his life to save others. Harley risk other people's lives to save his own.

Traits that Flash himself once shared and longed since stripped himself of. Now embody within the Lad himself.

'Please…don't kill me, please.' Harley begged and cried as his eye went red with tears and his nose running down with snot while crawling away from Flash. 'I'll do anything, anything just…don't kill me'

Through the crying and begging. Flash could not deny he was tempted. But Norman's voice from the comlink held no such pity.

'Well what you wanting for Eugene? Do it!' Osborn snapped in impatience and Thompson now knows it was now or never.

There was no Spider-Man this time save himself from making a decision.

There is no argument he could use to persuade his boss unless he wanted to dig himself into an even deeper pit then one he was already in.

He was going to kill someone. A person in cold blood or he will lose everything.

So with a heavy breath Thompson raised his flaming sword above his down enemy. Like devil's hells-pawn laying low a cowering knight. All the people in the crowd gasp terror and anticipation. As Harley cried in tears of shame and helplessness. While Flash harden his heart once more to make himself commit the foul deed.

The goblin then brought down his black mercury sword of fire. While Harley gave out one finale scream to his approaching doom.