"HAHAHAHA!" the cackling echoed throughout the whole room, inspiring fear in all the guests.
The Green elf-gremlin figure wore a sleeveless purple tunic and shorts that reveals his green chain mail scales; wearing a purple cap with its tail attached to a small pumpkin ball, & two purple strands beside his face which he had an elongated chin & sharp nose to compliment. Lastly, A big pumpkin design on his belt buckle matched with his appearance.
Purple gauntlets surround both his forearms while revealing his green hands.
His face (if you could call it that) is made of a rubber-like material with golden lenses to hide the perpetrator's eyes but it somehow shows the intense pupils.
While this was all happening, Peter stared in disbelief at noticing the very object he encountered yesterday is being ridden on by some Halloween Enthusiast. Patrons are screaming in terror, the rest on Peter's table stood in dismay while Lorenzo calmly stared at the flying maniac. While Eliza is guarded behind her two Ferals.
The Dagonian robbers quickly closed the gates to prevent anyone from leaving their makeshift prison
"I don't know who you are!? Bu-"
"Of course you don't, that's the point of the mask: GENIUS! HAHAHA!" pointing said mask on his face.
Grumbling from being rudely interrupted, Lorenzo pointed his staff at the Goblin with the red gem at the end of the scepter.
"Ill-bred miscreant! Get him already!"
"Aye boss!"
Multiple goons came from the crowd to catch the troublemaker only for the Goblin to simply fly away with his glider.
One of the goons manage to grab onto the glider, the Goblin simply flew around the room at great speeds & crashing the man on one of the two glowing cylinders in the room.
After seeing their fellow man crashing down, the rabbit women pulled out Tommyguns in an attempt to dispatch the flying goblin.
TATATATATATA! The Rooftop was riddled with holes, yet unfortunately for them, none landed on the Green Goblin.
He retaliated with pumpkin bombs that pop from his glider & lit the green fuses with his thumbs. Bright green sparks lit on the bombs and were thrown towards the bunny women.
AAAAaaa! The explosion killed the group of female assassins quickly. But what surprises everyone is that the bombs emit screams whenever they exploded in green clouds.
Upon seeing the amount of carnage, Eddie grabbed Filia behind him to shield her.
"Pete! Where's Pete?!" He darted his eyes to find Peter nowhere to be seen.
"Where's Peter!? I need him to take pictures of this once-in-a-lifetime event!" Meanwhile, Jonah complained.
The Green flyer did not relent with his carnage, by throwing more razor bats to massacre more bodyguards.
"Stop this at once! You have already murdered many in this charity event, one of the biggest sins you just committed."
"That's not the only sin that will be committed tonight. In fact, the Green goblin is only starting to plan more murders." looking over to find his eyes at Peter's table, he pulled out orange disks that shot out blades, he threw the weapons in which they sprang into spinning batwings.
"Flying Murders! HAHA!" the females in the group cried in terror before they felt someone lunged at them, & their table flipped that managed to block the spinning projectiles.
Eddie & the rest of the Medicis opened their eyes to see their skimpy savior on top of them, a hatless Cerebella smiling.
"Don't worry guys, we'll handle this freakshow!" Standing up behind the flipped table to face the green menace with her finger pointing towards him
"Because there could only be one talent in thi- Hey! Where's Vice versa?!" scanning the room to find the Feline felon already have her claws on the rabbit hat, said rabbit hat squirming under her grasp.
"Oh you mean this?~" the Feline mockingly put a clawed finger on her pumpkin 'lips' while shaking the poor hat that showed its eyes twirling from disorientation.
The Feline's clothing is a white sweater underneath a black jacket with red fur on the collar & wearing ripped stocking without shoes to fit with, weirdly enough.
"Give him back!"
"Like hell, I would! This one is a nice catch and I was wondering how much I could sell the lil' guy." Before bagging the unfortunate Hat.
"You can't do that! He's alive, he's not for sale!" cried the desperate woman.
"Quiet, you two! Really , you're both too RUDE!" interrupted the green antagonist, subsequently turning his head to Lorenzo once again.
" Soooo anyways , the Green Goblin has a proposition: Stepdown your throne, Donny . Or I'll start sharing secrets!"
"I don't know what you are talking about, so stop this insolence!"
"Then choose Donny'boy ! Y'know, this is the first time I saw you becoming desperate! HAHAHAHAHA!"
While there was a standoff happening between the two characters, the cat burglar (or robber at this point) was snatching jewelry & other objects of wealth within the terrified audience, a few whimpering here & there but it was pretty easy pickings if their lives are being threatened. Her eyes landed on some pearls tied around on an older Medici blonde.
"Nice pearlies ya' got there, its only natural to return it with the fishies or clams. " nearing her clawed hand enticingly
"No! I cant, this is a family heirloom!" cried panic in her teary eyes.
Seeing his wife being harassed, Marcus pushed off the Feline felon away, "Hey, you can take my money! Just leave my wife alone, please!"
However, the cat retaliate back with a singular claw to vertically slash his left eye & deeply scarring his eyebrow. Marcus screamed in pain while holding his left eye with blood dripping from his hand.
"MARCUS/DAD!" the two blondes dove on the man with Amelia holding her husband's wounded eye & Filia holding his hand
The Green Goblin smiling sadistically at the pained Marcus & turned his head around to confront the main Medici one last time, "If I were you, you better hand over your crown or you'll have to choose between who's your favorite son. HAHAhahaha!"
The statement made Vitale hid behind Cerebella from fear of being his next victim.
"I swear I know nothing of what you know!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, you aren't fooling anyone. Well except the audience but none of it matters: SINCE YOUR FAMILY WON'T MATTER ANYMORE!" The Villain quickly flings a pumpkin bomb at the Medici table; with Filia closing her eyes to wait for the inevitable.
THWIP!, FWOOSH! AAAaaa!
Filling with confusion, she peeled her eyes open to see green smoke on the ceiling & her Red n' blue savior in his crouching on one of the tables.
"SPIDER-MAN!" everyone exclaimed in shock.
"I knew it! You're in cahoots with these troublemakers this whole time! Just like with the Vulture!"
"Oh shut yer yap Picklepuss!"
Spider-man quickly shot a line towards the sack that was being carried by the surprised burglar and snatched it right from her grasp. Then, quickly opening the bag to grab Vice versa & frisbee it towards the minty hair girl.
"I believed this is yours!"
Cerebella quickly seized the hat and gawk at the vigilante in total confusion, 'Just who is this guy's side on?' she thought to herself.
"Okay, now time for you greeny ." he stared at the green menace that was
"Spider-man! A surprise to be sure but a welcome one!"
The Green goblin spring with a barrage of Razor-bats but spidey took cover behind the table with the Medicis
"Hey, Minty Bunny! I'll take care of Green beans while you manhandle his Halloween hooligans."
"Since when you became in charge?" Cerebella protested.
"Just follow what he says!" Vitale ordered in panic.
Receiving confirmation to her father figure, she wore vice versa which enlarges its muscular arms & grabbed their only cover & threw it at 'Green Beans'. Green goblin dodged the flying table & started finger blasting electricity
"Pew Pew Pew!" the electricity hit the white fur of vice versa that squinted its eyes in pain but remained to shield its wearer & the rest of the Medici family
"Is He seriously saying that?!" Cerebella complained.
"Don't worry about him! I'll keep him occupied!" Spider-man yelled as he shoot a web-line on the glider, to which the goblin appropriately responded by flying endlessly in circles & taking one of his razor bats to cut the web-line. To which, Spider-man fall to one of the cylinder lanterns therefore breaking them into sharp pieces of glass like the unfortunate goon last time.
"Hey Greeny!" Greeny looked behind him to see spider-man shooting a human-sized web net at him. However, the Goblin countered with a singular razor bat that cut through the webbing with ease.
"Are you frustrated, Spider-man?"
"Frustration is an understatement for my predicament."
"Oooh! Then perhaps, your death will make our guests lament!"
Green goblin finger banged some more electricity to the Red n' blue arachnid which the latter jump on a table and bouncing from one to the next repeatedly to dodge the glowing projectiles & lastly leaping to one of the Egyptian Cat Statue/Pillar's face.
ZAP ZAP ZAP ZAP! Dodging every attack in fluid & flexible motions with impressive. Unnatural flexibility. He then grabbed one of the plates of spaghetti with his web and fling the whole plate flat at the goblin's green face.
The Green Goblin rubbed his face from the red n' wormy food & quipped, "Food Fight, Spider-man? Then have some of my Pumpkin desserts!"
AAA! The Vigilante hops to another statue with a dog face & landed on its snout before the last statue's being blown off.
While there's a whole fight between two costumed freaks, other fights are taking place right below them.
"OOOFFF!" The lean dagonian wearing a pumpkin head flew across the room at great speed.
While the rest of his buds watched him flying, The Cat quickly went in the offensive by charging teeth first.
Vice versa guarded with its left arm but the cat took her arms in front and hopped over cerebella while trying to grab the Versa's 'ears' & pulling the headpiece to no avail.
"Nice try, Kitty-Kat! But Vice versa tends to hold on in his muscular form!" Furiously backhanding the cat away, which she has broken through a table front the sheer strength.
"Fortune!" Looking back at her enemies, the dagonians are pretty diverse in terms of shapes.
A Dagonian resembling a human is wearing a pumpkin head.
A lanky, eel-like Dagonian wearing an apron and wielding a large harpoon. Unlike the rest of his gang, he wears cloth wrapping around his head & snout.
A burly, bandana-wearing Dagonian with spikes on his chin resembling a beard, wears a half-pumpkin.
A squat, shark, or tuna-based Dagonian with suspenders, wearing a much larger pumpkin.
"Fortune's her name? Ironic that she's gonna lose all her fortune tonight!" all four of the dagonians yelled in rage & aimed their guns in synchronization.
It wasn't much of a problem for both, since the bunny hat took two tables and started throwing at the robbers. But the Eel manage to slip through all the attacks & tried stabbing with the spear he is holding to which she narrowly dodged it.
She struck hard on the Dagonian's neck with her human fist that resulted in him emitting choking noises while lying on the ground.
The Shorter dagonian in suspender tried sneaking up only to be caught by Vice versa on the leg, after throwing away the other table to the pufferfish dagonian from before.
Suspenders received numerous slaps from the circus girl as a childish punishment, then also being thrown away at said spiky dagonian.
After kicking all the baddies' butts, she screamed in victory, "Alright! Who's next?!"
"NYAA!" out of nowhere, Ms. Fortune jumps from nowhere and manages to land a scratch on Cerebella.
"OW! You stinkin' Feral!" Attempting to karate chop horizontally, the Feral ducked & added more marks on her bare legs.
"AAAHH! Stop it!" Attempted to kick her right in the head only for the feline to bite her calf
From the pained scream she was emitting, it made her hat worried of its wearer, which it responded by smashing both of its fists onto the ground to keep away the cat burglar which the cat appropriately keeps away her distance from the attack.
"Now!" the cat feral screamed, & appropriately responded by the pufferfish Dagonian charging headfirst with his chin bloating in attempting to prickle the tight rope walker.
But to only pierce the forearm of her hat, & it retaliated with another backhand that sends the poor fishy flying.
"Screw this! We already got the score, so let's skedaddle!" After Finishing the Fight, the Feline Feral Felon quickly Flee With Her Fishy Friends towards the gate for an exit.
During the chaos of the fighting, a stray pumpkin bomb is flying towards Eliza & her bodyguards.
"Watch out Ma'am!" the bird feral attempting to block the projectile with his body.
"No, you old bird! Dive away!" before the canine feral could do any action, they were pulled by three web lines away from the explosion that obliterated the piano.
"Our instruments!" grieved both feral bodyguards
"Hey, Tweedle-dee n' Tweedle-dum! Stop complaining since I already have enough spaghetti on my plate!"
"Oh, I oughta…!" Albus grumbled behind spider-man.
More bombs are thrown in Spider-man's vicinity, Spidey dove forward away from the stage & the oncoming onslaught.
AAA! AAA! AAA! AAA! AAA!
"Do you have an invitation, Spider-man? Otherwise, I'm afraid you'll have to leave."
"Says the guy who practically trashed the party, and in fact, I do have an Invitation."
"Wait a minute?" looking behind the whole room to find Green Goblin's gang is in the process of ditching the party.
"Ha! It seems your pumpkin patch hurried away with their treats!" Spidey quipped
"No matter, they were only cannon fodder. If anything, this initiates my plan B."
"Which is?"
"Fleeing this scene!" His Glider quickly dashed away from said scene through the opened gate left behind by the gang.
"Oh no, you don't!"
Quickly reacting, Spider-man shot a web line at the glider to follow the Goblin & resulting in being pulled with him throughout the flight.
Location: New Meridian Streets, Time: Night
"Love my ride, Spider-man?"
"Very festive, at least I know that you're in cahoots with beaky on the freeway."
After escaping the pyramid club, they are now flying above the streets of New Meridian alongside lights from neon signs built with numerous words on buildings that illuminated the city.
Speaking of Clubs, they just flew by a sign that portrayed "CLUB 28" (or 23?) and flying close to a certain tower belonging to the host.
"Medici Tower?! You really hate the guy, huh?"
"Not hate, just competition!" his glider flew close to a neon sign that says "R.K." and smashed the web-head against it, which prompted said webhead to let go.
After being disoriented, the Webhead looked up watching Greeny laughing his butt off from his crash while hovering with his bat-rocket.
"So, what's your reason for attacking one of the richest & generous men?!"
"Tsk tsk tsk. So naive."
"What's so naive?! The Medici is a powerful, yet kind family that helped this city for a long time!"
"Exactly! Because all of us wear masks, including you Spider-man. Everyone there wore masks."
"Obviously, it was Masquerade! What else is the explanation?!"
"They were full of pretenders who only like the attention of how good they were, but they are not the only ones that wore masks. Lorenzo himself wore a mask, so was Eliza."
"W-What?!" Now being absolutely confused about the whole explanation.
"But you and I aren't so different, we both wear masks to hide our true selves."
"We are nothing alike, I bring help. You bring destruction!"
"Speaking of destruction, plan B was leaving the place and Blowing up Bastet's. Including this sign!" quickly throwing bombs at the supports, the sign is starting to bend over the building then it fell, racing downwards against the streets filled with pedestrians.
"NO!"
Spidey quickly reacted by jumping just behind the sign and started pulling himself downwards with his webs to descent much faster than the two glowing red letters. Upon falling alongside the same level, he rapid-fire his webs on the big letters & around them that resulted in them being slowed with stretched white strings just a head above a bunch of female dagonians and a certain Minnow.
After finishing his heroic deed, he swing back just in time before becoming a red n' blue stain across the pavement and started racing towards a certain Den.
Location: Bastet's Den
In the room, people can be seen trying to recover from the recent attack, cops being littered around the room for investigation while certain figures are being interrogated.
One of the cops being a Pig feral holding a pencil and pocket notebook interrogating Lorenzo.
"Yes, Chief Leeds, I saw a green goblin flying across the room fighting a man-spider." Lorenzo Medici testifying towards a literal Pig-cop with orange hair.
"That is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard, I would've thought you were high on drugs if it weren't for the fact that many witnesses are saying the same thing, Lorenzo." he scribbled down some notes
"The costumed freaks attacked us!" The response came unexpectedly from JJJ.
"No need to yell, Jonah. If you excuse us, me and Mister Medici need to privately converse." this was met with a grumble from the Editor-in-chief.
After saying that, Lorenzo & Chief Leeds moved away from the rest of the crowd & leaned into each other to have a more discreet conversation
"Y'know, you have lots of enemies. And it isn't surprising that someone will challenge your position sooner or later."
"Then I will fund your boys double, so you could snuff one of these freaks eventually."
"We'll try."
"Dad! What the hell happened?! I heard some explosions & I got here as fast as I could!" the Scream came from Ned Leeds, his son.
"That's what I'm trying to get from Mister Medici." he motioned with his notebook towards the old man.
"You mean 'Where the hell have you been?!' you just miss a great scoop, Leeds!" J yelled but quickly reminded that he was next to his young journalist's dad, which so happened to be a boy in blue.
"Uh- Well I mean, I'm very thankful you were safe during the whole attack!" he nervously smiled.
Out of nowhere, a certain spider figure swing & land closed them. The action made the nearby cops pulled their Colts at the Spider.
"It's not safe here! You all need to evacuate, stat!"
"You're under arrest, Spider-man!"
"You guys don't get it! This place is gonna blow!" Upon receiving no answers from anyone, he leaped way up high below the ceiling which impressed the officers.
"What are you doing? Get that MENACE!" even though Jonah was in charge of the force, they all listened & started firing at said Menace.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Multiple bullets whizzing beside spidey's ears, he swings around the room while dodging the missiles of death.
'If I'm a Goblin, where would I hide a bomb?"
While still dodging the hail of lead, he went at the flipped-over table where the Medici family was dining and checked around it while swinging.
'Nah. Too obvious but where!?'
SENSE!
'That's strange? Usually being shot at by people that I'm already aware of doesn't make it tingle...Unless."
After swinging in circles around the room, his spider-sense became more intensified at a certain location.
BANG! BANG!
SENSE!
'Alright getting stronger.' His Spider-sense had landed him in front of a dead goon who recently was crashed on one of the glowing cylinders during their attempt to apprehend the Green Goblin. His back faced upwards while his belly was hiding something underneath.
Tick, tick, tick.
SENSE!
"Definitely the Bomb!" he hurriedly threw the dead body over & took the mechanical Pumpkin.
Racing towards the exit, he dodge and swung on his way out, flipping himself up high in the air, then threw the bomb away but he shot a line to the bomb & started spinning himself multiple times, then he flung the orange ball like a slingshot, truly letting go.
Tick, tick, tick, BOOOOOOM!
AAAAAAAaaaaaa!
A Green fire work display lay bare throughout to city, a night that will be truly remembered by everyone, that no one was truly invincible.
After the explosion, our protagonist quickly swung away from the night.
Subsequent at the whole night, everyone was pardoned to go home except the men in the Medici Family had chose to stay, now the trio standing infront of the wasted Den room.
Marcus had now bandage convering his left eye, but his right eyebrow was curved downwards indicating his understandable emotion.
"This...This is why I left the Family Business. Shame me all you want, But I have a family of my own to protect."
"Then you shouldn't have come here."
"I came here because I still love you and papa as my family. I just wanted to spend time with all of us, but instead; a Feral threatened my wife and Costumed freak almost blew up my daughter!" he yelled emotionally while holding his left eye.
"Brother…" Vitale solemnly looked over but he only received his brother's right index finger.
"Don't Brother me, I am done with this mess. Call me a coward, Papa. But I don't want your sins come staining my girls."
"Brother, wait!" he tried to reach over but a hand pressed against his chest.
"Stop, He's a man now. He has made his decision." Lorenzo lowered his hand grabbed a chari to sit on.
"What do we do, Father?"
"Obviously, we need to start boosting our security."
"Oscorp?" Vitale asked
The response was a slight nod from his father. Out of nowhere, a Spider came crawling on the ground near his father's scepter.
"Do you notice something off?" the question came unexpectedly from Lorenzo.
"The Spider protected us?"
"Exactly." Lorenzo still eyeing the spider
"But why? He was clearly our enemy, yet he risked his life to save us all."
"Maybe, He doesn't know his enemy yet." he then started thumping his scepter near the spider.
"It makes sense. The recent crimes that was reported that he stopped was either petty crimes, Supervillains, and-."
"And he was just lucky attacking few of our bases. Hmm." his scepter was now dancing around the poor arachnid.
"We could exploit this."
"So it seems, we just had to play our cards right or we will receive a nasty bite from the Vigilante if he becomes aware." He was now violently hitting the floor, encompassing the spider, then…
THUMP!
SQUASH!