Chapter 2

Marian stayed awake the night before just long enough to watch the end of the news broadcast, in which she learned that Spider-man would be making a public appearance in that afternoon's St. Patrick's Day Parade. The event was open to the public and Marian, or rather the Goblin-ette, felt it would be the perfect time to make her re-emergence onto the scene. After all, a Goblin thrives in wreaking havoc at large public events!

After showering and getting ready for the day, she walked over to her closet, shoving aside a large amount of coat hangers with clothes attached. Behind them was a large box which she quickly removed from the closet. She lay the box down onto of her bed and removed the lid, standing with hands on hips and a sinister smile on her face, as she surveyed the contents of this box. "Long time no see..." she said with a smirk, before reaching in and pulling out the flight suit and mask the Green Goblin had given to her before his death. "Hmm...it will be good to put this on again..." she mused quietly as she slipped off her regular clothes and, once again, dawned the Goblin-ette costume.

Marian then walked over at a full length mirror, turning around a bit to make sure everything was still holding together properly and just plain admiring herself a bit before she was satisfied. "Perfect...I do hope I can give our 'good' hero a nice surprise this afternoon, I fear his life's been a little too quiet lately but I'll be ever so happy to change that!" she cackled.

The Gobliness strutted into the bathroom, placing her hair up in a braid before she walked back into her bedroom to retrieve the Goblin mask lying on top of her bed. She stared at the mask in silence for a moment before laying it back down. Now the only thing missing was...

"That damned glider...I wish I knew what had happened to it! After all, I'm sure Gobby would've rather me have it than Spider-man!" she seethed. Grumbling to herself, she slipped on a long, thin jacket over her outfit, before pulling out a 'Big Brown Bag' from Bloomingdales, which she placed the mask in. Now it looked as if she were nothing more than a lady who was having a day out on the town shopping, perfect.

Making sure the mask was secure and her coat was tied tightly around her, she quickly exited her apartment, trying to contain both the anger and excitement welling up inside of her.

Right before the parade begins...

Marian had used every back road she knew to get to where she wanted to be, a warehouse where all the floats and decorations for the parade were stored before they were to take off onto the streets of New York. Everyone was in such a tizzy getting last minute check ups out of the way, they didn't even notice Marian walking around. She made sure to keep a low profile however, one could never be too careful.

She searched and searched through the rows of driven floats before she found the one she was looking for. Friends of the Environment, Reserved for Spider-man, the sign on the side of the float read. "Room for one more?" she whispered, giggling lightly as she crawled up onto the float.

Right as she took her position on top, she soon spotted a nice hiding place. There was a small tree stump with an opening to it, when Marian opened the top of it up, she found an animatronics squirrel inside, which looked like it would pop out at some point during the parade to give the spectators something to 'ohh' and 'ahh' at. Marian scoffed, shaking her head at the mechanical squirrel. "How dare he take my seat..." she said, faking a pout before she reached in and, after much tugging, pulled the squirrel out, thanks to the help of her Goblin like strength. She placed it beside the tree stump, making it easily look like part of the decor before she assumed it's spot inside the hole.

Once inside, she placed her mask on over her head, adjusting it so it was somewhat comfortable. She poked a piece or two of the tissue paper out of it's place, to give herself a small peephole. Just as she was about to reach up and close the top of the tree stump, someone else did it for her.

"Alright Spida man...you'll be right here!" she heard a gruff voice with a thick New York accent say. "All ya gots ta do is just wave the crowd, look like ya give a crap about the environment, yadda, yadda, yadda. I'm sure you know the drill by now. Hop on." the man said before Marian felt the float give a light bounce.

Spider-man had apparently taken his place on the float, Marian peeked through the small hole she'd made, glaring at the hero from beneath her mask. It took all she had to hold herself back and not pop out and attack him right then.

"Everything all clear back there?" she heard the same voice shout to another co-worker, who quickly responded.

"Yep, all go back here!"

"Alright then, let's get this show on the road!" the man called as Marian felt the car that would be driving in the float crack up. After a few minutes, she felt them slowly pulling away and could hear the roar of a crowd and lively music as they exited the warehouse.

Later, at the St. Patrick's Day Parade...

The air was filled with the sound of Irish folk music and a couple of men and women were doing a Irish jig to the beat as they watched the beginning of the parade go by. A few people were running around with a goofy grin plastered on their faces, pointing to their 'Kiss me, I'm Irish!' buttons, hoping for a small peck from an attractive man or woman. Not many seemed to get their wish...

The parade had been going for awhile now and Marian's legs, arms, and feet were beginning to seriously cramp up by the time the parade had started. Just when she thought she wouldn't be able to take it anymore, she could see they'd made it into Times Square.

*Ohh...time for the fun to begin, heh heh heh!* she thought in her head, giving an evil smirk from beneath her frozen mask. She waited for just the right moment, waited for the top of that tree stump to pop open...there! It began to slowly rise, causing light to flood into her hiding spot and she quickly drew a pumpkin bomb, tossing it blindly out into the crowd.

After the initial explosion, the crowd broke out into mass hysteria and Marian slowly rose up from the tree stump, cackling insanely as she looked at Spider-man.

"YOU!" He shouted, standing up quickly and pointing at the Goblin-ette.

"Oh, I'm touched, you remember me!" she said, placing a hand over her heart as she climbed out of her hiding place. "After all, what with saving people's lives, fighting crime, and..." she snickered, "being a 'friend to the environment', you're life must be awfully busy!" she sighed, walking over to him and drawing a finger down the face of his mask. "Hello Spider-man." she said seductively, letting out a quiet, evil laugh.

He quickly slapped her hand away from his face before shooting a web at the villainess, who quickly dodged. "Still as predictable as ever." she said with a light tsk.

"Give it up er...Goblin! It's not like you stand a chance, you've got no glider and you're definitely out numbered!" Spider-man shouted at Marian.

"That's Goblin-ette!" she snapped, glaring as she advanced on the hero. "You killed the Goblin, remember?!" she shrieked madly, shoving him backwards. "And I might not have a glider, but I do have these!" Marian cackled as she produced another deadly pumpkin bomb.

"Missed 'em Spidey?" she asked Spider-man with cruel sarcasm dripping from her voice as she flung one towards the hero.

Using his spider sense, Peter was easily able to avoid the pumpkin bomb; but unfortunately a crowd of on-lookers was not. A large explosion sounded from behind the villain and the hero. "Oh great...I get rid of one madman and get a madwoman in his place..." Spider-man muttered, making another attempt to web the Goblin-ette.

She ducked but a bit of the webbing did hit the forehead of her mask, causing her to stumble back a bit. "Oh! So close but yet so far." she said, trying to rouse Spider-man's anger up further. She aimed a kick for Spidey's head, but he was able to grab her by the ankle and stop the process, which caused her to fall.

"Oof!" she cried, quickly picking herself back, by now breathing slightly heavily. "Don't you know, that it's not nice to pick on a lady!" she shouted, making a mad dive towards Spider-man.

She caught him around the waist and, this time, caused him to fall. She got in two good punches to his face before he threw her off again.

"Maybe if you acted like one I wouldn't have to hurt you!" the hero retorted, which caused Marian to give an angry gasp and a glare from beneath her mask.

"How dare you, you..." but Marian didn't get to finish her sentence, a spray of bullets from above caught her attention before a familiar laugh rang through the air.

"Ah hahahaha!!!" The mad laughter cackled, before a familiar green man flew up beside the Goblin-ette and Spider-man. "Started the fun without me have we Spider-man?!" the man in the Goblin suit growled at the hero, tossing his own pumpkin bomb towards the spider.

Marian stood staring at the Goblin before her, numb with shock and disbelief. "W-what?" she muttered, able to find her voice. "But....b-but...this can't be!" she whispered, shaking her head slowly as anger began to rise quickly inside of her. This had to be someone's idea of a sick joke! Norman was dead! But how did they get the glider?! Who was fake in Goblin's clothing?!

"Hello my dear..." The male Goblin called, turning his attention to the female version.

"Who are you!?" Marian screeched angrily in the Goblin's direction.

"They call me the Green Goblin! Perhaps you've heard of me?" the man said before emitting a burst of mad laughter. "I've been meaning to find you, get on!" he commanded, before reaching out a hand to help Marian on the back. She quickly hoped on, with the Green Goblin's assistance, but was still in a rather numb disbelief at the sight before her.

"Don't worry Spider-man! We'll be back later, gives you something to look forward to." The Goblin cackled before the duo of green meanies shot off, leaving a rather stunned super-hero behind.

A bit later, on an abandoned rooftop..

The Green Goblin brought the glider down easily, hopping off after Marian.

He didn't have time to say anything, for as soon as he stepped foot onto the ground he received a might shove from the Goblin-ette. "What the hell do you think you're doing?! Who are you?! If this is your idea of a joke, I don't find it very amusing!!" Marian growled, advancing angrily on the male Goblin.

"Hmm...still spirited I see..." The Green Goblin chuckled. "But that's a fair enough question. I suppose you should know who the man behind the mask is, so to speak. I'm sure you'll recognize me easily enough..." he said, before slipping off his mask, revealing his face to Marian.

"You!" she gasped, placing a hand over her mouth and stepping back in shock.

((Author's Note: Ah hahaha!! Now you have to wait until chapter three to see which Osborn male it is, since the votes were tied it was up to me to decide which Osborn I wanted to use X_x A tough decision. Anyway, should be up soon, hope ya like!))