You now see from the back, a brown-haired teenage boy walking in black gym pants, dripping wet from a previous shower. Music plays in the background as you see a large jack o lantern tattoo on his back while he walks to gym equipment inside of a large room. Many scars and bruises are seen all his back and arms. He starts lifting himself up on a bar over his head, now seen from the front with abs and water dripping down his face. He grunts, straining at times but is now seen doing pushups with one arm.
He is now seen lifting weights on his back, and now the scene shows him sitting down, clicking buttons on his laptop, seeing people wearing knock-off hobgoblins masks and face paint. The teenage boy, known as Harold Osborne scrolls across online pages, seeing memes saying 'I'm fab, I'm Hobgoblin!' Another meme showing Hobgoblin that says 'Hobgoblin is the only treat I wanna eat this Halloween'
Harold laughs a little, as he keeps looking over memes, and starts reading internet chatter. "The Hobgoblin is a hit, people wanna dress up like me, meet me, and even starting protests against Oscorp, it's enough attention on them now to get them shut down in time for sure," Harold says out loud.
"This is what you wanted." A computerized female voice says. "I'm happy for you son."
"Thank you, mom," Harold says.
"You can call me by my original programming name if you like." The computerized voice says.
"I didn't like that name that Father gave you." Harold starts to say. "Jocasta was it? I'll just still call you mom."
"I'm glad to hear that son." The computerized voice replies back. "What shall I remember as part of the next plan?"
"We're going to throw a party for all the protesters that wanna do something about Oscorp," Harold says. "Tonight, and while there, we'll go ahead and kill Martin to show that we mean business."
"What if Spiderman shows up?" The computerized voice asked.
"I want him to attend." Harold starts to say. "He can watch the show, or join in the festivities, him, and his plus one." Harold finished saying, turning off his laptop now, and closing the top down.
"So you may kill Spiderman?" The computerized voice asked.
Harold shrugs. "Maybe."
"You make me so proud, my son." The computerized voice said back.
2
"It was Gwen." A brown haired teen male known as Peter Parker says excitedly on an online video call on his computer. On the other side of the video call is an Asian teen male known as Edward Li.
"Are you sure, I mean how is that possible?" Ed asks.
"You have killer robots, people with superpowers, and a Norse god wielding a hammer that summons lighting running around, the realm of what's possible is out the window for me," Peter replies back.
"So why didn't she stay around?" Peter starts to ask. "And now all of a sudden she's like me?"
"Peter," Ed says, looking stressed. "Look, I'm happy that your ex-girlfriend is back from the dead as some kind of clone of you or something, but my dad is still kidnapped by this lunatic," Ed says. "Right now, I just want my dad back, that's it."
The truth, was at that time, that's all I cared about. Gwen being back. My legs were still sore, and healing, but I wasn't going to tell him, Ed, that. It's not what he wanted to hear, that I'm having problems beating this Hobgoblin guy. That I just wanna see Gwen again, masks off and run away from this city. I wanted to be selfish. All the time I spent saving people and locking up the bad ones.. maybe this is my reward after it all. And I sure as hell was going to take it.
"Okay, Ed." Peter starts to now say. "I'm going to get him back tonight, straight up."
"I don't know how much longer he has," Ed says, worried. "If you need me to put on the suit again, I will, I just want my dad back."
"This guy is too good." Peter starts to reply back. "I'm just gonna be honest with you, you won't be able to take him."
Ed stares at the computer screen for a moment, looking sad and somberly says "okay."
"You got this?" Ed asks, looking at him straight in the face.
"Yeah. I got this." Peter says in a reassuring voice.
I lied. I don't have this.
3
An old woman knocks on Peters door, and Peter stands up from off his bed and opens his bedroom door.
"Hey Aunt May," Peter says politely. "Need help with anything?"
"Yeah, I was just wondering if you were going to that party tonight?" Aunt May starts to ask. "I don't think you should, going to be nothing but a lot of rowdy people and bad influences."
"Party?" Peter asks. "What party?"
"Some Hobgoblin bash." Aunt May starts to say. "It's all over the internet and people at my job have been talking about it. My boss came in with that pumpkin facepaint since she's planning on going at work along with others."
"Hobgoblin bash?" Peter asks, and then shakes his head before speaking again. "I'm not, I'm thinking that might not be my scene, I'm just going to stay home and listen to Gwen's favorite playlist all night."
Aunt May nods with sadness and says she understands, kissing him on the cheek, and telling him that she left leftovers for him in the oven.
"You're going to it?!" Peter asks in shock.
"I just might." Aunt May says. "I got invited by the others at work so I don't know, would be nice to get out this week, but don't let me see you there." Aunt May chuckles.
Aunt May walks away, and Peter slams the door, going over to his computer and typing on his keyboard. He searched for hobgoblin party and the results bring up a video to which he clicks on. An African American man in a cop uniform starts talking.
" I'm Jefferson Davis, of the New York Police Department is wanting to let you know that the police will be there to shut down this unauthorized party. By showing up, you could put yourself in a position to be fined and or arrested. This Hobgoblin guy is a threat to society and he will be brought to justice if he arrives, so DON'T GO."
Peter starts reading the comments underneath the video out loud. "Is it just me or does that make me wanna go even more?"
"Hobgoblin daddy will be there I want his autograph and babies"
"It's gonna be lit"
"This guy is hardcore, lol, he's like fudge the police"
" I saved hundreds of dollars on a brand new car to learn how to click this link"
Peter then stands up, and walks over to his closet, opening it to take his ripped up Spiderman suit from a hanger to the left.
"I gotta get you fixed after this," Peter says out loud softly to himself, and you now see Harold walking into a room full of electronics, putting on his hobgoblin suit now.
Peter is seen again suiting up, and you now see Ghost Spider already suited up, standing outside of a building at night, adjusting her gloves. All three are seen during split-screen, fully suited and making their way to the venue, with Spiderman and Ghost Spider swinging on weblines across skyscrapers. Hobgoblin takes a car and drives to the front of city hall, where it is now nighttime, and hundreds of people are already there, screaming and dancing to music being played on a large built stage.
Spiderman lands on top of the building behind the stage, and Ghost Spider lands behind him. Spiderman turns around and about to hug her, but Ghost Spider takes a step back, speaking in her muffled voice thru the mask now.
"I'm still mad at you, with the whole MJ thing." Ghost Spider said.
"I get that." Spiderman starts to say. "How did you even come back.. why didn't you come see me before!" Spiderman asked.
"It's complicated." Ghost Spider says. "I'll tell you what. We'll have this talk after we finish the mission, locate Edwards dad right, stop Hobgoblin?"
"I got eyes on Ed's dad," Spiderman says, pointing to him on the stage by the DJ, still handcuffed to a metal pipe just on the stage this time.
"Where's flame-haired guy and his motorcycle?" Ghost Spider asked.
"Wrong guy, for starters, he has no chain." Spiderman starts to say. "Aren't you related to him, Ghost spider, Ghost Rider?"
Ghost Spider laughs a little. "No relation." Ghost Spider says after.
"Gwen you've always been smart." Spiderman starts to say. "What is this guy up to? Hostage on the stage, everyone including the police knows where he's going to be, and his vendetta against Oscorp, it just doesn't add up to me."
"He's trying to raise awareness against the horrors of Oscorp." Ghost Spider starts to say. "It's working, look at all these protestors that showed up tonight."
"Some of them are just here to party." Spiderman starts to say. "The guy likes to show off and be flashy, that part I got figured out."
"Overdramatic much?" Ghost Spider says rudely.
"Why would he kill the man onstage?" Peter asks Ghost Spider. "All these witness, and police around, what is he thinking?"
"It's like he wants to get caught." Ghost Spider says. "If he was going to off the guy, wouldn't he have already done it?"
"Everyone here just thinks it's a prank most likely," Spiderman says.
"Is it?" Ghost Spider asks.
"I'll grab the hostage, you just look out for the goblin," Spiderman says.
Ghost Spider jerks her head back.
"I'm sorry." Spiderman starts to say. "I'm sure after all that, you don't wanna hear that guys name anymore. What.. did happen after all that, and how did you get Spider..."
"After we save the day." Ghost Spider says. "After."
Spiderman nods and then drops down slowly on a webline from his right wrist sticking to the side of the building.
Martin, Ed's dad, looks up and sees Spiderman, and his eyes get big, as Ghost Spider yells, "It's a trap!"
"It's a trap?" Spiderman asks himself, as he then starts getting a headache and seeing a black mist float past Martin.
Spider sense, damn..
"It's a trap Spiderman!" Martin yells.
"It's a trap," Hobgoblin says calmly, appearing from under the stage, watching the whole time.
The crowd sees him make his entrance, and the crowd erupts in applause and hoots.
4
"They are trying to stop this protest, trying to lock me up, for what? Free speech?" Hobgoblin yells over a microphone he took from the DJ onstage. "Hobgoblins, please, will we put up with this? will our voice be silenced forever? I mean, they can't arrest us all..."
"We're with you Hobgoblin!" One man yells, and others nod and join in the chants, rushing over to the cops trying to move thru the crowd of people. The people at the party push and hold the cops to the ground, yelling nonsense about the Hobgoblin and peoples rights.
"No glider this time?" Spiderman asks, walking backward, now onstage, trying to ease over to Martin.
" Like everything here, I can afford it," Hobgoblin says in a distorted voice. "I'll just buy another one."
"Can't buy your way out of this Hobgoblin," Spiderman says.
"Even you're for sale Spiderman," Hobgoblin says. "We all have a price." Hobgoblin finished saying, making flames ignite from the top of his head and around his hands.
"Well, I'm not getting paid for all this." The DJ says, running off the stage, leaving everything behind, with music still playing.
"Kick his ash Hobgobley!" One woman yells from the crowd, and others chant along.
Ghost Spider jumps down, landing on Hobgoblins back, trying to pin him down to the ground, but Hobgoblin just grabs her right leg, and toss her to the side of the stage with Martin and Spiderman.
"I tried." Ghost Spider says, getting up.
"You tried." Spiderman starts to say. "Get Martin out of here, and I'll handle this guy."
"No." Ghost Spider starts to say. "We do this together."
"Police being taken by a mob, hostage still in danger, and we going to fight with hundreds of people around us and in the line of danger?" Hobgoblin asks.
"Yeah," Spiderman says, putting up his fists.
"Sure." Ghost Spider says, putting up her fists as well.
"You know..I go both ways..." Hobgoblin says.
"What?" Spiderman asks in surprise, and Hobgoblin blasts a stream of fire from his right hand at him. Spiderman jumps out the way and bends down his left hand, shooting out a webline from out his left wrist, that attach to Hobgoblins chest. Hobgoblin burns it off by grabbing it with his right-handed flames, as Ghost Spider kicks at him. Hobgoblin ducks out the way, and creates small fireballs in his left hand. He throws them at Spiderman and Ghost Spider, and Spiderman grabs Martin, pulling his handcuff off the pipe with the use of superstrength, as Ghost Spider makes a webline connect to the building behind them, grabs Spiderman. Spiderman grabs Martin, and Ghost Spider reels them in up to the building rooftop.
Spiderman sets Martin down, and nods at Ghost Spider, with Ghost Spider nodding back at him. The two of them run to the side of the roof and jump off, spraying out weblines from their wrists to attach to the ground below. The fireballs go off now, exploding onstage and the onlooking crowd cheers. Ghost Spider runs along the wall of the building, horizontal while swinging from a webline. Hobgoblin shoots out a stream of fire from his hands at her as Spiderman frontflips and sprays webbing in Hobgoblin eyes. Hobgoblin steps back, burning it off with fire from his left hand, seeing Ghost Spider jump down to punch him in the face, wrap her legs around his neck, and then flip him down to the ground on his back.
Spiderman shoots out a webline from his right wrist, attaching it to Ghost Spiders back, and pulling her out the way as Hobgoblin ignites his whole body on fire, as Ghost Spider gets to be a foot in front of Spiderman now, and backflips over him as Spiderman attaches a webline from out his other wrist, attaching it to the DJ station, pulling it towards him now. Hobgoblin stands up, throws with both hands fireballs at them, and Spiderman kicks the DJ station with both feet, making it slide a little towards the fireballs. The fireballs skip and smack into the DJ station, exploding on impact, sending the station in midair, hurling down to the crowd. Ghost Spider puts out both wrists, spraying out webbing as fast as she can, attaching it to the DJ station to reel it back to her. The weight of it is too much, and it starts to slowly fall down on top of the crowd.
Spiderman springs to the side of the stage, and with quick weblining, pulls people from out the way of being crushed to death. The DJ station slams to the ground, still covered in web, as Hobgoblin charges at Ghost Spider, by punching at her. Ghost Spider jumps over him, and lands on all fours as Spiderman jumps up and kicks at Hobgoblin. Hobgoblin shoots out flames from his hands at Spiderman, as Ghost Spider shoots out a webline to Spiderman's left hand as he drops down. Spiderman pulls Ghost Spider to him, and she runs up Hobgoblins back, twirls around to kick both her legs at his head. She lands on the ground and hurls Spiderman on the webline, like a yo-yo, to which Spiderman punched at Hobgoblin, jumped over him, and landed on his feet behind him,
The two run at Hobgoblin at the same time from both sides, as Hobgoblin puts out his hands, blasting flames at both of them. Spiderman jumps up, with his motion tieing the webline around Hobgoblins neck, wit Ghost Spider running low to the ground, wrapping around the webline around his legs. The webline pulls the two together, and their bodies smack into each other, as Spiderman softly says "Hi."
Ghost Spider looks down, and then looks up at him and says "both of our suits is skintight.. umm..."
Spiderman's eyes get big and Hobgoblin throws out more fireballs at them. The two separate, and Spiderman frontflips over to Hobgoblin as Ghost Spider somersaults over. Hobgoblin punch at Spiderman, Spiderman jumps up on that same arm and springs from it as Ghost Spider kicks with both feet at Hobgoblins chest. The two keep switching positions and blows to Hobgoblin at the same time as after minutes of doing that, they place their hands together and start creating a ball of web that keeps growing as they keep running and spraying out webbing between them. They create a large net from it and throw it at Hobgoblin. The web net attaches and then wraps around him, to which Hobgoblin burns off, sounding angry now.
"Just turn yourself in Hobgoblin!" Spiderman yelled at him.
Ghost Spider starts refilling her now seen web shooters around her wrists as the two of them keep talking.
Hobgoblin looks around, seeing the stage burning in flames and over to the onlooking still crowd.
"Out of options." Ghost Spider says, running over to Spiderman now.
Hobgoblin starts creating fireballs in his hands and looks over at the crowd, about to throw them so he can make his escape, but then stops himself.
"No, I'm not going out like this, like him," Hobgoblin says sadly to himself. Hobgoblin drops the fireballs to the ground, sighs, and then looks over at Spiderman and Ghost Spider as he speaks.
"Get back." Hobgoblin starts to say. "It's enough here to take even me out."
"What.. what are you..." Spiderman asks, about to rush over to him, but Ghost Spider pulls him back and yells for everyone to run.
People start screaming, and a stampede of the crowd starts running away as Spiderman yells that he doesn't have to do this.
Hobgoblin pulls off his mask, revealing himself to be Harold Osborn and says with a small smile, says "Now Oscorp will go down for sure once they learn who I was. Five more."
Harold waves goodbye and the fireballs explode, covering everything in flames as Spiderman still tries to leave from out of Ghost Spiders grasp, but she still hangs on, putting out a webline, and swinging them out the way of the incoming fiery blasts. The police get free and instead of arrest people, help them out the venue to safety. Firetrucks pull up and ambulance, everyone helping others at this point there.
The two of them stand on top of the rooftop with Martin watching, and look down at the sight, seeing all the flames, as Spiderman says, "Maybe he.."
"No, he didn't." Ghost Spider says. "He was a bad man anyways."
"He had his reasons," Spiderman says softly.
5
Spiderman stands outside with Ghost spider, seeing Martin knock on a house door, and Ed opens it, seeing his dad and the two hug.
"Harold lost the company and with rage, figured that if he can't have it, no one can, since it couldn't be bought back," Spiderman says to Ghost Spider.
"By making Oscorp look bad." Ghost Spider says. "So all this peaceful protest stuff was just fake, part of his master plan really?"
"Pretty much." Spiderman starts to reply. "There was truth in some things he said, but really, he was just a pist off spoiled rich kid."
"So why did he do that at the end?: Ghost Spider asked.
"He could have bombed the audience, making us scramble to help that not happen, giving him time to get away..." Spiderman says. "He didn't tho. He didn't wanna repeat the same things like his dad."
"That's..messed up." Ghost Spider starts to say. "You go thru this stuff all the time as Spiderman?"
"Not as bad as when I lost you tho," Spiderman says to Ghost spider, getting closer to her now. Ghost Spider sprays out a webline and positions herself to hang upside down, with Spiderman doing the same. The two of them dangle, upside down, in silence for a moment, and then Ghost Spider pulls down her mask, only to expose her lips.
Spiderman does the same, saying softly, "I missed you so much Gwen" and the two of them press their faces together, locking lips to make out.
Spiderman pulls away, and says questionable, "Gwen?"
Ghost Spider pulls off her mask, revealing herself to be MJ, and says, "I know, I need to explain. Off the record, you're a really bad kisser by the way. It's cool, we can practice on it."
Spiderman pulls off his own mask, looking at her with shock while upside down.
He opens his mouth to speak, and so does MJ, but now the scene switches over to Harold's lab where all his Hobgoblin equipment was stored.
6
You see the words 'Later that night'. In Harold's underground bunker, a large canister lifts up from out the floor, and it reveals a green haired man inside with an oxygen mask over his mouth. The man inside is Norman Osborne, and with a fog of smoke seeping out and around the canister, the canister opens up, and Norman starts opening his eyes after a minute.
"Hello, Norman Osborne." The computerized voice says to him. "You have been awoken due to the heart signal no longer emitting from Harold Osborne. In the failsafe that was to happen, I was instructed to release you from your canister."
Norman takes off the oxygen mask, walking out the canister with wobbly feet, a dazed look and in a black wetsuit, asking what happened to Harry.
"Harry is no longer alive Mr. Osborne." The computerized voice says.
"What. Happened." Norman asks with anger, showing his teeth being pointy now.
"He was last known to be in a fight with Spiderman, burnt alive by his own explosions reports indicate." The computer says.
Norman turns his head to the side, and says, "So Spiderman killed my son?"
"It looks to be that way, yes." The computer said.
"My little Harry, my boy...HE KILLED HIM!?" Norman says in rage, lifting up equipment with super strength and tossing it all across the room. He rips out cords, smash monitors to the floor and breaks them in his bare hands, screaming while doing so. He stops to wail, getting down on his knees and cries, loudly with a raspy vocal, a mixture of a human and animal crying. "I'll kill em, I'LL KILL EM!" Norman wails out. Music starts to play in the background as you now see Martin walking to his office with a woman turning in her chair to look at him and start talking.
"Mr. Li, I'm glad to see you back after the hostage situation, but shouldn't you still be at home right now?" The woman asked.
"I got a lot of back work to start on." Martin starts to say, standing outside his office door. "While you're here, make yourself useful. I need you to bring me all the files on the Oscorp elixer, access accepted or not."
The woman starts talking low to say, "Sir, you know that's supposed to be buried, it was the same thing that turned Norman.."
"I know." Martin starts to say. "Into the Green Goblin. After tonight tho, after all that time being kidnapped, I realized that the police, not even Spiderman is able to take on the new threats, and they can't protect everyone, I just got lucky tonight."
"It's been banned ever since the last human testing..." The woman whispers. "It was never perfected."
"I think it was." Martin starts to say. "powers without losing your mind or spontaneous rage..we was close... but after that Norman Green Goblin stunt, we shut the program down I know. I could have used an advantage when that Hobgoblin guy kidnapped me. So I wanna be ready for the next time someone tries that with me."
"You're not thinking of..." The woman stops herself from saying. "We could lose our jobs.. even..or lives if certain people found out."
"Then I hope you can keep this secret," Martin says. "For your own life sake, and I'll be expecting that paperwork on my desk by the hour, along with the forms to give you an increased payraise and bonus." Martin finished saying, opening the door to his office now, and closing it up behind him.
You now see Peters cellphone ring, and he answers it, with the number saying private.
Remember when I said the bad times were to come?
"The itsy bitsy spider ran up the water spout." A female voice happily says on the other end of the phone.
"Who is this?" Peter asks in a panic.
"Down came the rain and WASHED the spider out, do you know how the song goes?" The woman asked on the phone.
"Who is this, why are you calling me, how did you get this number?" Peter asks.
"Loved your performance at the party. I'll have to throw you one soon myself you know. I've been watching you." The woman says playfully, then hangs up.
This was the night it all started
Peter holds the cellphone up to his ear still, hearing only a dead dial tone now and a blonde haired teenage woman with glasses stand next to Peter, named Gwen.
"I swear it wasn't me," Gwen says with a sad and worried look on her face.
Peter slowly looks over at her, and starts to laugh, shaking his head no while still laughing, a sign of him losing his mind, finally mentally broken, and the screen fades to black.