Sithicus: I don't plan on killing off the Goblins actually. I mean two were just brought back from the dead.

Silver Warrior: I don't plan on killing anyone off since I just brought back two characters. Trust me though major fight coming up.

Aaron: Glad you thought so, I had to think of a way to make it seem X23 was good but still didn't win the fight.

Ldypebsaby: Welcome back as always, thanks I wanted a real asskicking chapter with a lot of great action in it.

Slayven: LOL! Thanks man I've been reading Spider-Man comics for years since I was a kid so that might be why I do.

Dacl73: You don't like that the Parkers may take in X23? How come? And the key word is those are spider-man's friends not Peter Parkers. Guys like that don't know Peter's identity and MJ didn't know them personally or how to contact them. Besides this is a Spider-Man/X-Men crossover.

The Uncanny R-Man: You'll see what Shadow Spider wants in this chapter. And The Human Torch doesn't know Peter is Spider-Man and Daredevil and him don't hang out outside of their costumed life so she couldn't know their numbers.

Thanks to: Sean Malloy-1, jenscott, chrisbennett, Jaguar, El Varon, WindScar8, qwerty, Lady Suneidesis

THE NEW TEACHER

CHAPTER 46: INTO THE PARLOR SAID THE SPIDER TO THE SPIDER

Peter hurt like hell, he had been hurt much worse but he also had felt much better then he did at this moment. He could hear something and tried to see something or anything. He could make out sounds and when his vision cleared up he saw the roof of what had to be a church or something. He knew the type of architecture used in those and he had been in a few to see it. Although the place was dark and the ceiling looked rundown to him. He tried to move his aching body but couldn't.

He heard someone with a hacking cough but it sounded distorted or something. Then some shuffling and a raspy voice that drew out the 's' sound he could hear. "Ssssso you're awake, it matterssss not to me. But the otherssss I bet will want to ssssee thissss and to have you awake for it."

Peter tried to turn his head to see out of his mask. He was glad that he still had that one at least. "Who are you? What do you want?"

Then a dark figure in a cloaked stepped out of the shadows and Peter could tell that he wasn't human. That and his Spider-sense was going off like crazy. The last time he felt something like that was with Morlun, that psycho that was relentless and nearly unstoppable. He had been after his life force to drain. Then there was that Shathra the Spider-Wasp woman. "You are here to die, I brought together the Goblinssss and raissssed two of them to capture you. I am too weak to try on my own but after I take your blood, your life force I will be rejuvenated once more."

'Oh yeah this guy sounds a lot like Morlun alright,' Peter thought to himself. He thought he had had it with that Totem stuff. He still recalled what Ezekiel told him.

"Since the dawn of time, totemistic powers have walked the Earth. These powers are the bridges between two different species, humans and something else.

"To even get a momentary taste of totemistic force. Some do it for ritual, others to better understand the world around them, and others still to project a sense of power. These are the ones you Peter have been fighting for all his life Peter. Every type attracts it's similar. Gods against Gods such as Thor or Loki. Patriots against people who think they're patriots such as Captain America and Red Skull. And even mutants against mutants as we have all seen, even monsters fight it out like The Hulk and his enemies such as Abomination."

Vultures, Lizards, Scorpions, Cobras, Jackals, Rhinos, Octopi, and many others. They fight to attain the power of a specific totem, guided by urges beyond their control and understanding, without even realizing what they're doing. They're just pretenders. But you Peter are the real deal, you're powers came from the source of your Totem, the Spider."

The jury was still out for Peter on if he believed that but boy did it make a freaky kind of sense. Although not all his villains were animal like. Shocker or the Goblins were proof of that but then again a lot of his enemies were animal typed. Even Kraven was a hunter of animals and in the end didn't he try to become a spider?

But all of this was beside the point, right now he had to get out or try to call for help but who? He wondered about X23 and if she was alright and what about MJ? Did she get to Ben? Maybe call in the X-Men too? They had telepaths, although he wasn't sure if they could use Cerebra to find him, he wasn't a mutant he had no x-gene.

"Don't bother ssssstruggling, it'ssss usssselessss." He shuffled around looking like he was preparing something. Maybe a ritual? Peter hoped so, that would give him time to try and escape or for some last minute rescue he hoped. He also hoped that this was a very LONG and drawn out ritual.

-Xavier's-

Mary Jane was sitting in the head master's office as Scott, Emma, and a few of the other X-Men trying to figure out some why to find Peter. Ben had arrived and was sitting next to her offering his support to her but even though she was glad for it, she just wanted them to be able to find Peter.

She already had called May about it all so she wouldn't worry well worry less at least. That had lasted an hour as X23 was in the infirmary, Logan was trying to keep her calm but it was a strain she had heard last time she asked. But when she talked to Ororo she had said that X23 was healing nicely thanks to her mutation. That at least she could worry less about.

"Emma there has to be a way to find him?" Scott asked the blond woman that had become his lover lately.

"Scott he's not a mutant we can't scan for him it's as simple as that and even IF we tried to modify Cerebra it would take days for Hank to try it." She explained to him.

Rachel was also listening in, even though she didn't like how Scott and Emma had just started a relationship so soon, she knew that her mother was dead. Plus lately Emma had been helping her to harness her full potential. So even though she no longer hated the woman she at least could stand her. But it was still hard to see her and Scott together. She knew that he wasn't her father but still it was hard on her. "Well what if we just used Cerebra to enhance one of us to try to fine Peter?"

Emma considered that, "It might be too much of a strain, looking for one mind in who knows where. It might be too much to handle for any telepath, that's why Cerebro and Cerebra were built for just mutants. It was to help lessen the burden on all those minds that you can sense."

She crossed her arms thinking, "I never could get into his head anyway thanks to that mental block Xavier put in there and he's still not around to ask if he could find him," She looked over at Ben, "And that mysterious person that brought you and the others back also put in a very strong mental block, I can't ever get any impressions let along thoughts from you."

Ben wished that he didn't have that now. Since he was Peter's clone his mind was pretty close to Peter's. A lot of the memories in his mind came from Peter. If it wasn't for the six years difference in their lives then they would basically have the same brain. "Hey…what if you used me as a template to try and match my brainwaves with Peter's? I got most of his memories so shouldn't our brainwaves be pretty close?"

"Can that work?" Mary Jane asked the others, they looked at each other.

"Well , maybe…I mean we do keep records of the mental patterns to help us get in contact with team members and find them." Scott thought it over, Hank could easily scan Ben's brain and it would cut down on the search or at least narrow it down. "Ben get going to see Hank, the faster we move the faster we can find him."

"I'll get Cerebra ready." Emma walked out to the special room in the lower levels.

MJ got up to Scott, "Thank you."

Cyclops nodded to her. He knew what it was like to worry about someone you loved and he lost Jean so many times that the last time nearly killed him inside. He remembered how she had told him of losing their child and he didn't want MJ to suffer another loss. He didn't want to have anyone he knew, even a loose acquaintance like Mary Jane he never wanted her to feel the same pain he did.

Ben had just made it to the med room and when he walked in he saw Logan and Hank trying to talk some sense into X23. Annie was also there looking like she had just gone through a ten hour shift. "Hey what's going on?"

She signed and blew a strange of hair out of her face, "That little girl is definitely Logan's clone Ben. I swear she's just as bad a patient as he is, if it wasn't for their healing factor I think they would drive any doctor insane. But what are you here for?" Ben quickly filled her in and she nodded. She went to Hank and she went to get the machine ready.

"Kid will you just sit still already?" Logan asked her.

"I'm fine," She was just as stubborn as he was and got off the bed, "I need to help, it's my fault he was taken it's…" She stopped as she smelled someone new and looked and her eyes widened at Ben.

He walked over to her and smiled. Peter had told him about her but he hadn't had the chance to meet her. "Hey I'm Ben."

"You…smell like him and look like him." She stated confused for a moment.

"Yeah see I'm Peter's brother was it was," He guessed this would be a strange conversation but then again she was a clone too. It was kind of odd seeing as the only other clones he met were either of Peter or Jackal. "But I'm really his clone. But we prefer to think of each other as 'brothers'."

"Oh," She said in a strange tone of voice. "So…you're kind of like me?"

Ben nodded to her, it was true if anyone knew what it was like to find out you're a clone he would. "Yeah I guess so."

X23 didn't know what to think really. Ever since she found out she was a clone of Logan she felt strange about it. She often wondered if that made her a real person or just an assortment of DNA. Now standing before her was the only other clone she had ever met. "So…if you're Peter's brother," She looked at Logan. "Does that make me your sister in a way?"

Logan raised an eyebrow. He had been wondering what kind of relationship he had with the girl, she was in a way part of him but what did that make them family ways? Did it make him her 'father' or would 'brother' be closer? He hated this clone family dynamics things, they just hurt his head. "Sure I guess that works."

She smiled a little, she had been wondering what Logan would be to her. Sure if it wasn't for him then she wouldn't exist but the Parkers had been like a real family to her. They had found her and taken her in and treated her like one of their own. Shown her true compassion and cared about her, it was the closest thing to being part of a real family she ever had and there was no way she was losing it.

She failed and Peter was taken she wouldn't allow herself to just sit down on some bed while her failure had put him in danger. Hank came back in and told Ben that they were ready. She looked at him, "Ready for what?"

Ben once more explained the whole thing to her and she seemed to get really determined. "When you find him I'm going."

"The hell you are kid," Logan said to her not liking this at all. She just glared at him defying him to try and stop her. Logan looked to Ben and he just shrugged.

"Hey man he's your 'little sister' not mine," Ben said raising his hands. "You don't want her around then you try convincing her not to. I on the other hand want to live to see tomorrow."

After the scan they had put it into Cerebra but it was Rachel that wanted to use it. "Look Emma I know you have more control them me but I've been working on it and I got more power behind me. And I've been around Peter more then you so I should be able to know him."

"Yeah but there's on thing I don't get about this," Ben asked. "If you can't read our minds how will you know if it's Peter?"

Rachel decided to explain. "The mental block in Peter is different then yours, we can still read his thoughts if he lets us in, and we can still project images it's just certain parts like memories are sealed off. But I guess that's all kind of moot now since we know what he was hiding."

Rachel went to the controls and placed on the helmet. She took a deep breath as it began and the few in the room staid quiet. Rachel felt her mind scattered and going in several places at one but then quickly focused herself again. She felt the pattern of Ben's mind and she sensed Ben first of course but ignored him. She expanded her search looking in that place of the final battle and expanding from there.

She found a similar pattern it was different but there was something familiar about the sense she got from it. 'Peter is that you?' She asked with her mind.

'Huh? Please tell me I'm not hearing voices now, I got enough problems.'

'Peter it's me Rachel.'

'RACHEL!'

Rachel winced in pain for a second. 'Ow! Damn it Peter not so loud!'

'Sorry but man am I glad to hear you…please tell me you're near.'

'Sorry I'm using Cerebra.' Rachel hear him swear in his mind, he never heard Peter swear before and guessed he kept it to himself.

'Okay so how did you find me? Wait don't answer that tell me later, right now you got to get here. There's this guy in a robe wanting to sacrifice me or something and I do NOT want that to happen.'

Cerebra got an area but she couldn't be too precise in where he was, he needed to help her out with that. 'Peter do you know where you are?'

'Looks like and old church, that any help?'

'Yeah that will do fine Peter, we'll be there soon just hang on.'

'Hey…it's what I'm best at…and Rachel…how's MJ and X?'

'They're both fine.'

'Thanks.'

Rachel looked up at the information on the area she found Peter and looked up the record to find any churches or temples or any religious buildings in the area. She also looked for those that might not be in use and only one that fit. She pulled off the helmet and sighed, "I think I got him."

-The Church Area-

The Goblins were on lookout duty at the moment, Cyber Goblin was fixing up his new arm. He was just glad that when he got the upgrades to his body that there were a few spare parts around including a new arm. He vowed that if he found that little freak again he was going to tare the little girl's head off.

Norman wasn't pleased with this at all, but he's waited years for revenge he could wait an hour more for whatever ritual that Shadow Spider creature was going to do. Personally he just wanted to kill him and be done with it, if it wasn't for the fact this planned was working and he might as well let him. Plus he didn't want anyone crashing the party. The last time with The Sinister Six those X-Men had found him.

Norman wasn't sure if they knew about Peter being Spider-Man but it was too mush of a coincidence. Plus if they came once they might come again. Or just some random hero that might stumble along too as well. It could happen in this city, it held the most heroes in it for some reason.

"I don't see why we must just wait here for this." Hobgoblin muttered under his breath.

"We must let him prepare," Demogoblin hissed out at him, "Rituals take time and after all this is done with I will not be bound to him anymore and I can continue my work to make sinners pay."

Hobgoblin wondered if he knew just how much of a hypocrite he sounded like, but thought nothing of it. It didn't matter soon Spider-Man will die a gruesome death and he could get back to his company and dealing with Osborn later. But as he was looking he noticed something in the darkness of the night. "Does anyone see or hear something?"

"Yeah…I do," Cyber Goblin was using his night vision to see a dark jet heading towards them. "Looks like we got us some company."

By now they all heard the X-Jet and had taken off into the sky heading for it. The X-Jet had to slow down as a side door opened and Marvel Girl, Storm, Angel and Rogue flew out of it since they were the ones that could fly. The others needed time to land the X-Jet which was hard with two to the Goblins firing bombs at it.

Green Goblin himself was coming around for another run when something red and blue smashed into him. He kept his footing on his glider and felt a strong punch to his face he was shocked to see who it was or at least who it looked like. "Hey Normy remember me?" Scarlet Spider said to him.

"Didn't I kill you already?" He said fighting back hand to hand with him.

"I got better," Ben snapped at him, "Hey you came back from the dead, so I figured you'd know what it was like, besides I owe you for that and for killing my little niece that never got to see the world!"

They fought on as Ben's rage at Norman, he had Peter's memories of Gwen, of his own death by saving Peter, and he had learned that MJ's baby had died thanks to him too. There was so much for Norman to pay for and he was going to make sure to stop him here. He had a personal stake in this and he was going to finish this fight and put the Green Goblin away and hopefully in a pit so deep he never got out to see the light of say again.

Rachel was having her own time with Demogoblin, she tried entering his mind but the glimpse she got was too much for her to handle and stopped immediately. She's had to do this the old fashioned why it seemed. Ororo was trying to hit the Hobgoblin with lighting but he was too fast and maneuverable for her plus she had to use the wind to blow away those pumpkin bombs and razor bats that he kept on throwing. It wasn't easy but she could hold her own. She just had to be sure to be careful, with all of the others spread out going all out with her lightly she could accidentally hit someone on her side.

Angle was dodging the Cyber Goblin as best he could, he had the maneuverability over him but not his speed or weapons. He was just keeping him buy anyway from attacking the X-Jet. When the other got out then all he had to do would be to lead him towards them.

But while all of this was going on, on top of the old church a cloud or sulfur appeared with Kurt and X23 with him. "You sure you want to do this?" He asked her. They had come up with a plan to distract the Goblins while Kurt with someone else got inside to help Peter.

"Yes." She simply said and the look in her eyes told him not to argue. She had made it very clear that she wanted to be part of this and no one was able to talk her out of it. He smiled thinking that she really was just as stubborn as Logan was. With that he teleported again only inside the church to save his friend and for her the closest thing to a family member she remembered having.

She wanted to make up for her failure last time and this time, she wouldn't fail. She would save him no matter what. She owed him too much not to.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 47: FINALLY

WELL HERE IS COMES AFTER ABOUT A YEAR I FINALLY FINISH THIS.