"Yes me..." Harry Osborn said with a smirk, "I wouldn't think you'd be so surprised. After all, I learned it all from my father, or at least I would've if Spider-man hadn't taken him away!" Harry said, voice full of loathing, as he clenched one hand into a fist by his side.
"Understandable," Marian said, folding her arms but still not removing her own mask. "But how did you know about your father's Green Goblin persona? More importantly, how did you know about me?" she asked, eyeing the boy suspiciously from beneath her own mask.
"How?" Harry began, taking a seat on the ledge of the roof, "After my father's death, I decided to clean out the house a bit, along with the files in his home office, before anyone else did, you know, just because I knew that's how dad would have wanted it. Anyway, I found this one file that was stashed behind a hidden panel in the file cabinet. I discovered it by accident really, the drawer got stuck and I pulled so hard to get it loose that the panel sort of flew off by itself. Behind it was a whole load of information. About Goblin armor, weapons, and a journal of sorts dad kept during his time as the Green Goblin. At first I thought it was a joke, it couldn't be possible that my father was the Goblin. But then the more I read the more I figured there was no way dad could have made all of that information up. I found the flight suit and the glider thanks to the journal and here I am."
"Brilliant story." Marian said, hands now on hips, "but you still haven't answered my other question. How did you know about me?"
"Fair question." Harry replied with a small smirk, this girl certainly was persistent. "You were also in the journal. How he met you, how you partnered up, you know that sort of thing. I decided it might be a good idea to meet you myself. After all, you seemed to make dad a good partner."
"Was that an offer?" Marian asked dryly.
"Perhaps." Harry replied, now folding his arms across his chest as he stood up from his seat. "After all, you know what they say about two heads being better than one. With two of us against Spider-man we could do so much more."
"Hmm...yes. Well what if I were to refuse your offer? After all, I have my own plans for the hero and they don't include you." Marian hissed. Sure Harry was an Osborn, but he was no Norman. Working with Harry just wouldn't be the same to Marian, you can't replace an original after all.
"Well I can't stop you from doing what you want, but I would like you to consider it. I know we both want to achieve the same goal, the death of Spider-man, doing it together might just be more rewarding for us...and more of a nightmare for him." Harry muttered harshly.
Well the boy did have a point, they both wanted Spider-man dead for the same crime and she didn't want to have to fight with Harry over who got to 'do the honors', but still...she'd have to give it a bit of thought.
"I'll think about it and when, and only when, I reach a decision I will inform you of it." Marian said, matter-of-factly.
"Fine...can I at least see your face? After all I showed you mine."
"That will come in due time Mr. Osborn. I know who you are, when I'm ready...I'll find you. Now if you'll excuse me, I'd better be going." With those final words, Marian left Harry standing staring after her as she disappeared through the rooftop doorway.
Back in Marian's apartment...
She quickly changed out of her Goblin gear and tossed the suit and mask carelessly aside on her bed. During her talk with Harry she'd gotten an idea and she was in a hurry to get to Oscorp. Marian pulled her hair up into a tight bun and placed her thin rimmed glasses on her face. She then quickly jumped into civilian's clothing, along with her lab coat and Oscorp employee identification badge and was soon on her way out the door.
At Oscorp...
Not many people worked there on weekends and when they did they were generally just in and out, picking up a file or two to work on at home. Marian easily made her way into the company with her security code and gave a pleasant smile and a nod to the semi-over weight security officer at the front desk.
"Hello Henry!" she called, giving him a wave as she walked through the front door.
" 'Lo there Marian! Fine day isn't it?" Henry replied with a tip of his hat. Marian, in the past, had always made it a point to say hello to Henry when she arrived for work.
"You bet." she grinned, before walking onto an open elevator. As soon as the doors closed the smile dropped from her face and a sneer replaced it, she took a deep breath, smoothing out her lab coat as she neared her floor. "Ok...get in and out and try to act like Marian..." she muttered to herself as the elevator gave a light 'ding' noise before opening the doors.
She quickly stepped out and made her way to a very small room, one that too had yet another security code on it. Marian scanned her mind for a minute, trying to remember the code for this room and ,after one failed try, she got it. The door unlocked with a light click and she pushed it open to come face to face with a room full of filing cabinets, boxes, and folders of all sorts. She sighed in exasperation at the sight, blowing a strand of loose hair away from her eyes. "Well...better get started then..."
The villainess dug through all sorts of Oscorp documents on her quest for the one thing she was looking for. It felt like hours since she'd been in there and the tiny room was getting very hot, her temper was wearing very thin but she wasn't going to give up easily. "Ugh! Why doesn't anyone make labels for what's in these boxes?!" she hissed angrily under her breath. "Whoever organized all this certainly was incompetent..." she muttered, lifting the lid off another box of documents.
Her luck soon changed, for within this box was the very thing she was looking for. "Ha! I found it, here it is!" she cried gleefully, lifting a few papers out and examining them to make sure everything was there. She took a quick peak around to make sure no one was looking and shoved them into her lab coat. The girl quickly made her way to the copy room and made a copy of the document in her hand, before going back to the file room and placing it in the box she'd found the papers in. Marian put the lid back on the box and tired to leave everything as she'd found it before she exited the small room, shutting the door behind her.
Marian was soon exiting Oscorp once more, shooting Henry the security officer another smile as she left. "Bye Henry, hope you have a nice night."
"You too Marian, take care." The older man said, leaning back in his chair and watching a small TV set behind the counter top.
Marian had her head held high as she walked down the street, a sly smirk placed firmly on her face. She had a visit to make to a 'friend', but not before she fixed herself up a bit, heh!
The villainess made her way back to her apartment and was fiddling around in her purse to find her keys when she noticed the door was already opened, there was a small crack in it. Narrowing her eyes and taking in a sharp breath of surprise, she slowly pushed it open, being careful not to make much noise. If there was a robber in this apartment, they'd chosen the wrong lady to mess with!
She heard a sigh coming from her bedroom and gave a low growl in her throat as she grabbed the poker from her fireplace. She peered her head around the corner, to peek in her bedroom only to see...
"Brian! What the hell are you doing here?!" She cried, exasperated as she let the poker fall to the ground with a clank. "How did you get in?!"
"I came to check up on you, I haven't heard from you in awhile and you acted so oddly on the phone and on the date the other night. You weren't yourself Marian and I got in easily, you didn't lock your door."
Marian blinked, in her rush to get to Oscorp she had forgotten to lock the door. She felt like kicking herself right now.
"But now I see why you weren't yourself...care to explain this?" Brian asked, holding up her Goblin mask and gesturing to the flight suit on the bed. How could she have been so careless?!
Marian's eyes widened quite visibly and she made a grab for the mask, which Brian jerked away. "Give me that you prat!" she hissed, eyes flashing violently.
"No." Brian said firmly, keeping the mask out of her reach. "You're the Green Goblin-ette I heard about on the news?" he asked, looking rather hurt. "God I feel so disgusted with you right now." he scoffed, shaking his head sadly.
"Well," she said quietly, looking angrily up at Brian through her glasses, which she quickly flung off. "You won't be feeling much of anything for much longer my love," she cackled, letting her hair down as well. "Now that you know my little secret I can't very well let you live can I?" she asked 'sweetly', giving Brian a classic Goblin-ette, seductive smile before dropping it from her face and punching him in the nose, which caused Brian to reel back in pain.
Brian dropped the mask back on the bed, grabbing his now bleeding nose with both hands. "Marian stop!" he cried, as she kicked him in the stomach.
"Why should I?!" she screeched, breathing a bit heavily as she looked down at her fallen ex-date.
"I-I won't tell anyone I promise!" Brian said, rather afraid of being killed by the crazed villain standing before him.
"And why should I believe you?" she hissed, now rolling a pumpkin bomb around in her fingers as if it were a safe thing to do.
"Because I care for you!"
"Oh please!" The Goblin-ette scoffed, folding her arms and turning her gaze away from Brian. "Don't start with that romantic garbage again! I don't have time for it!"
"It's not garbage, it's the truth and I promise you...your secret is safe with me." Brian said looking up at her, as he wiped a bit of blood away from his nose. Of course that didn't mean he was going to give up on her, he figured he could still change Marian back to her old self if he tried hard enough.
Marian looked back at him, staring at the fallen man before her for a moment before she put the pumpkin bomb away, sighing and shaking her head as she sat down on the edge of her bed. Brian soon picked himself up off the floor and joined her, looking cautiously over at the Gobliness. The only thing that had saved him that day was Marian, the real Marian that was trapped inside by her more sinister personality, she didn't want to see Brian get hurt.
"I think you'd better go..." Marian said quietly, not looking over at Brian. He simply nodded, standing up and exiting the room after giving one last glance back at the villainess.
After he left, Marian shook her head in disgust, kicking a stray shoe angrily across the floor. "Why didn't I kill him?! Ugh! If he rats me out I'm done for!" she sighed, laying down on her back and staring up at the ceiling. "Well, I can't sit around wallowing in my own sorrow all day! I've got business to tend to.." she said, forcing herself back to her feet as she once again dawned the flight suit and mask.
Later, at a co-workers house...
BOOM! The wall was shattered easily away and Marian strutted into Ben Randall's house, one of the engineers at Oscorp. "Hello Ben my darling!" she giggled, swaying over to the man frozen in fear.
"W-who are you?! What do you want?!" Ben got out.
"Oh just a little favor. I want you to build me something then I'll be out of your life for good, honest!" she said, smirking at him. "If you don't build what I want though...you won't have a life for me to stay out of, get it?" she asked with a light cackle.
Ben apparently got it, he nodded wordlessly as he stared at Marian.
"Great! Well I suppose you'll be wondering what I want you to make for me, I have the plans right here." she said, producing the papers she'd copied from Oscorp earlier.
Ben glanced them over, furrowing his brows in confusion. "But...this is the glider we made for General Slocum and the U.S. Government earlier. The same one that got stolen."
"Sharp aren't you!" she said, flinging herself back onto his couch and examining her gloved nails, before she looked at Ben once more. "I want one of my own and you helped make the majority of the first one, I thought you might could whip up another." she said with a grin from under her mask.
"I...No! I won't be any part of your mad plan!" Ben said, throwing the papers back at her.
"Are you sure about that?" she asked, producing a pumpkin bomb which she made sure he got a good look at. "You would look awfully nice as a smear on the wall..."
Ben gulped, now shaking visibly as he quickly picked the papers back up. "I'll h-have it ready for you b-by next w-week!"
"Perfect." Marian smiled, putting the pumpkin bomb away. "I've located you a good abandoned warehouse for you to build it in, that way no one will see you working...and make sure that they don't!" she snapped, pointing a finger at him, before whirling back around. "This project is our little secret..." she commented softly.
"R-right," Ben gulped, "our little secret."
Marian grinned before releasing a loud half giggle, half cackle sort of noise as she grabbed Ben by the hand. "Now c'mon! I want to show you where you'll be working!"
Author's Note: D'oh! Why do I always forget to do this?! O_o;; Disclaimer: I DO NOT own any of the Spider-man or Marvel related characters. They were not thought up by me but Marian was, if you'd like to use her (which I doubt you would) in your own story please ask first. ^_^ Not like you'll get a no but I'd like to know what story she'd be appearing in. Alright then, hope you enjoyed. More coming soon!