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I sat up in my study a few nights later, once again the Goblin and myself were in the middle plotting out our next plan of attack.
"Ahahaha!" his vicious, hyena like laughter cut through the air of my normally quiet manor.
"Everything is going brilliantly Osborn! Now we have the big advantage over Spider-man! He can't hide anymore...not as Parker...not as anyone!" I commented, voice full of evil glee. The discovery of Spider-man's true identity had been a red letter day for me, too bad I can't say the same thing for Osborn. Ha ha! That weakling...it had crushed him to find out the very same boy he'd been treating like a son was the same man he'd been fighting all this time."
"Dad?" A far off voice called, of course I wasn't able to hear it over the Goblin's maniacal laughter.
"Dad?" it came again, this time louder. "Are you in here?"
I heard it that time, the voice of my son. I forced the Goblin to quiet down for a bit as I stepped out of my office, hopping I looked somewhat normal. Immediately, I noticed Harry looked rather distraught about something.
"Harry? What is it?" I asked, leaning over the railing of my staircase to look down on him.
"It's Peter." he replied.
"Parker?" I asked, brow furrowed slightly.
"You were right about M.J. She loves Peter now..." he sighed, looking down for a moment before turning his gaze on me once more, his eyes looked slightly glassy as he spoke.
"And how does he feel about her?" I asked.
"He's loved her since the 4th grade." Harry said, shrugging his shoulders carelessly.
"Harry....I'm so sorry." I said as I began to descend the staircase. I met my son at the foot of the stairs, placing my hands on his shoulders as I faced him. "I haven't always been there for you have I?"
Harry paused, looking rather unsure of where this whole conversation was going. "Well...you're a busy man. I understand that."
I shook my head, "No, that's no excuse. It's time to rectify certain inequities. It's time to make things right." I said, before embracing my son in the first hug I'd given him in a very long time.
Harry returned the hug and right then I and the Goblin both knew exactly the next step we'd have to take to catch the spider.
Later that same night...
"So who is it we're going after now?" Marian asked me as we soared towards Mary-Jane's house.
"Watson!" I hissed back at her, "A girl named Mary-Jane Watson...I wonder just how long it will take that ignorant spider to realize we've taken captive of his lady love." I cackled as I lowered the glider in M.J.'s backyard.
I kicked open the flimsy backdoor as M.J.'s drunkard of a father stumbled into the kitchen to see what was going on, Marian wasn't far behind me and M.J.'s mother wasn't far behind her husband.
"W-what....Who are you?!" the mother shrieked, backing away from Marian and the Goblin.
"Why I'm an old acquaintance of Mary-Jane's!" I said with a low, evil laugh and a sweeping bow.
"You stay away from her!" the mother cut in once more, trying to act braver than she looked.
"Don't get so uptight! M.J. and I are just going to have a little fun!" I replied, cackling as I shoved roughly past M.J.'s father. He must have gotten angry that I was interrupting his precious boozing time, because he soon wobbled back in front of me, shaking a beer bottle my way.
"You'd better get the hell outta my house!" he shouted, shoving the Goblin back slightly.
I simply stared down at him, laughing lowly in my throat as I turned back to Marian. "You take care of her," I said, gesturing my head towards the panic stricken mother, "and I'll get rid of this little problem!" I said as the father shoved me once more.
"How pathetic!" I said, as I began to advance on the man. "You're making this all to easy..." I said as I reared back a fist, before bringing it forward and placing it square in the man's gut. The force of it and my strength sent him flying back, he hit a wall and was knocked unconscious instantly.
Of course the mother was no trouble for Marian, a few well aimed kicks and the lady was down for the count. "All taken care of back here Gobby." Marian said, walking up by the Goblin's side.
"I sure as hell hope there are no more weaklings in our path! I have bigger fish to fry!" I said, ascending the small staircase to M.J.'s room. "Whaddya say we make a grand entrance?" I asked, smirking back at Marian.
Marian in response cackled, nodding in agreement. "Brilliant...but let me do the honors, you get to have all the fun." she said, swaying in front of the Goblin as she produced her own pumpkin bomb.
I gave a sinister grin from beneath my mask as my partner threw a well aimed bomb at the girls door, it immediately blew the door and much of the wall away, I could hear Mary-Jane screaming inside. The figures of Marian and myself stood where the wall once was, before we advanced on the girl, who put up quite a fight.
"Enough of this!" I shouted as she kicked Marian in the stomach, "We're wasting time!"
I aimed my gloves towards M.J., using the same sleeping gas on her I'd used once before on Spider-man. As soon as she was out, I scooped her up in my arms, hoping on the glider before I turned back to my partner. "I'm not sure if this will carry three people, meet me at the bridge I told you about earlier and get there quickly!" I said to Marian before jetting off, M.J. in my arms.
On the bridge...
I had placed M.J. high atop the bridge, in a spot where I could watch her from afar to see when she awoke from her deep sleep.
"Is this seat taken?" I heard a familiar sultry voice from beside me ask. I looked over to see Marian sitting on the rooftop beside me, legs crossed and leaning back on the palms of her hands.
"It is now..." I responded with a light cackle.
"I'll have you know I had a hell of a time finding you!" Marian said casually, examining her gloved hand in the area her fingernails would be. "Meet me at the bridge I told you about...great directions." she said sarcastically before hopping up and glancing towards the area M.J. was laying in. She then walked over behind the Goblin, placing her hands lightly atop his shoulders and leaning down so their faces were level. "So where's Spider-man when you need him?" she sighed, "Doesn't he know it's rude to be late for one's own death sentence?" she giggled, pushing herself off the Goblin once more.
I gave a mad laugh as I watched Marian dancing about the roof, before casting a quick glance back towards M.J. That's when I saw her beginning to stir, she was finally waking up. "She's awake!" I hissed back towards Marian as I stood up, turning to face my partner.
"This will be your first battle against Spider-man...go all out!" I commanded, grabbing her hand and twirling her towards me like most professional dancers do on the dance floor. "Because I want the death of Spider-man to be a good show for all!" I cackled loudly along with Marian before I released her hand, twirling her back away from myself.
"Come on...we've got business to take care of." I said, seeing Mary-Jane standing up out of the corner of my eye, for a minute there I thought she was going to fall off the edge when she first stood up, not realizing where she was. "Leave it to that bint to kill herself before all the fun begins..." I muttered, hoping onto my glider, Marian following my lead.
I zipped off towards the bridge and M.J., making sure I cut it close as I flew past the red head, just to scare her a bit. "Ahahaha!"
"The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout!" I sang as I flew towards the opposite end of the bridge, "down came the Goblin and took the spider out!"
Right then I shot off a few missiles from the edge of my glider and blew up a part of the bridge, causing all traffic to come to a stand still. "AHAHAHA!" I knew that would also help attract the hero. Something else caught my attention from out of the corner of my eye, a tram full of little children. "Of course..."I hissed, flying by the car of children, giving them a maniacal laugh. All they did in return was gasp in amazement and wave at me, idiots...didn't they know their worthless lives would be over soon? Heh heh!
I quickly went and cut the cable their car was traveling across, grabbing it and flying back towards M.J.
"Gobby!" Marian said, tapping the Goblin on the back, "Spider-man...he's here!"
I turned to face the direction Marian was pointing in and sure enough..."Well well well, our star has finally arrived!" I said, swooping down to grab M.J., keeping her in one hand and the tram of children in the other as I exited the glider, standing near the edge of the bridge.
"DON'T DO IT GOBLIN!" Spider-man's voice rang through the air.
"I gave you a fair chance but you chose the way of the hero." I said with false pity in my voice. "This is why I didn't choose that road because you never know when some lunatic is gonna come along with a tough decision. Now I will show you how a hero is rewarded! Let die the woman you love!" I said, casting my eyes towards the screaming Mary-Jane. "Or suffer the little children!" I cackled, looking towards the car of screaming kids pounding against the windows to get free.
"We are who we choose to be! Now CHOOSE!" I bellowed, before opening my hands and dropping the car and Mary-Jane. They all went crashing down towards the water bellow and of course I saw Spider-man dive after M.J. I knew he'd eventually save the children as well though, of course then he would have his hands full and would be rather helpless to my attacks!
I boarded my glider once more, shooting off towards Spider-man as a strand of webbing went flying past my face. Spider-man swung about on it until he reached the children, grabbing them in one hand, M.J. hanging onto him for dear life, and keeping a hold of the webbing with another.
Marian in the meantime was still on the bridge, right above the beam Spider-man was wrapped onto. She lay down so she was on her stomach, draping one arm over the beam and placing her fingers on the strands of webbing holding the hero, the girl, and the children up. "My my...what a tangled web we weave..." she said with a soft laugh, fingering the webbing a bit just to scare Spidey and to keep his attention off the Goblin. "Scared Spider-man? You should be..." she said, swinging a leg back and forth behind her as she lay, looking down at the red and blue hero.
"You'll never get away with all this!" Spider-man shouted up to the female Goblin, "I'll make sure of that!"
"Oh! How threatening..." she said, pretending to shiver with fear as she plucked one of the strings of his webbing, causing the group to drop a bit. Of course after that, the sheer weight of it all caused a few more strings of webbing to break, making the hero and his group drop quite a ways down.
That's when I struck, I flew past Spider-man, trying to get a good swipe at him but he was able to dodge it. Of course that didn't defer me, I simply turned right back around and headed for him once more.
"He's coming back!!" M.J. shrieked.
"M.J.! You've got to climb down!" Spider-man shouted back to her as his webbing grew less and less sturdy.
"No! No I can't!" M.J. replied.
"Yes you can!" Spider-man answered, looking her dead in the eyes. "I know you can."
Wordlessly, I saw her began to climb down the cable Spider-man was holding onto the children with and that's when I made my move. I shot towards Spider-man, hitting him as I flew by and caused him to almost loose his grip on the cable car. The force of the impact caused he and the cable car to go spinning around and I saw M.J. loosing her grip. I dove for him once more, jostling them all once more and this time M.J. fell, almost into the water but she was able to grab the side of the cable car just in time.
"Say good-bye hero..." I hissed under my breath as I tried to make one more dive at him. I felt something hit the top of my head...then another something...then another! What the hell was going on?!
"Hey you leave Spider-man alone!" A man on the bridge shouted.
They were all throwing things at me!
"Ya gonna mess with a guy tryin' to save a bunch of kids?" another bystander yelled.
"This is New York! Ya mess with one of us ya mess with all of us!" A guy declared, sending the crowd into a cheer of agreement.
In all the commotion I'd forgotten about Spider-man, until I discovered he'd dropped the cable car and M.J. onto a barge that had sailed right under them. He was alone...I flew over, grabbed Marian, and flew past Spider-man; shooting a titanium cable out and catching him around the waist.
I saw his body give a slight snap behind me as I flew the three of us off towards a deserted warehouse....where I'd be rid of the hero once and for all.
A.N. Well hope ya like, more coming soon!