Volume III: Return of Mister Negative

Note: This will be the sixth chapter of Volume III, Martin Li AKA Mister Negative returns to the story, he was the main antagonist of Volume II and now returned as a recurring antagonist as he makes his plans to return back to Hong Kong and rebuild his criminal empire, but now he will have an obstacle that will come back for vengeance, Ghost-Spider. Gwen is still struggling with the loss of her father at the hands of Mister Negative, she will attempt to avenge him by going after his killer and take her revenge. However, her quest for vengeance will be thwarted by Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid as they attempt to reason with her and show her that revenge isn't the answer. Peter will try to use his own experience in revenge to reason with her. Gwen learns of Mary Jane's kiss with Peter as it will put her relationship with Peter in doubt in who Peter wants to be with, her or Mary Jane?

It's October 6th, the time is 2:44 PM at Midtown Science High School, Gwen is in class listening to Raymond Warren teaching the class, she looks to her left to see her now foster brother Peter Parker, she and Peter haven't decided whether or not to resume their relationship, things are complicated now that they're living under the same roof and Gwen now being his foster sister, but the thing that has Peter confused his is recent kiss with Mary Jane a day before Gwen came home, he still hasn't told her yet. The school bell rang as school has ended for the day.

"Okay, that'll be it for today, class dismissed." Raymond Warren told his students.

Everyone got up and collected their stuff to leave school for the day. Outside of Midtown High, Peter, Gwen, and Mary Jane are walking out together.

"Okay, I'm going to be heading into the city to F.E.A.S.T. for my community service requirement, Miles will be there too. You coming?" Peter asking Gwen.

"Peter, I... I can't." Gwen told Peter.

"I understand, probably because the place reminds you of..." Peter told Gwen.

"Yeah." Gwen answered Peter.

"I'm sorry I asked." Peter apologizes to Gwen.

"It's okay, Pete." Gwen has a sad look.

"I'll... see you later then." Peter told Gwen.

"Sure." Gwen gave a smile to Peter.

Peter walked away to head for F.E.A.S.T., Gwen stayed behind and is left alone with her best friend Mary Jane who can looks at her watching her ex-boyfriend walk away, Mary Jane could sense something else going on besides Martin Li.

"You okay?" Mary Jane asking Gwen.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." Gwen told Mary Jane.

Mary Jane remained a bit quiet as she still hasn't told Gwen about what happened between her and Peter the night they've went out on a date, she's still hesitant to tell her but felt guilty for keeping a secret from her best friend.

"Gwen... I..." Mary Jane working up the courage to tell Gwen.

"Gwendolyne Stacy!" Liz's voice calling out to Gwen.

Gwen and Mary Jane turned around to see their classmates Liz Allan and Betty Brant walking up towards them.

"Liz, Betty, it's been awhile." Gwen told Betty and Liz.

"It sure has, where's your ex-boyfriend/foster brother?" Betty asking about Peter.

"He went out to the homeless shelter his aunt is running now." Gwen told Betty.

"So in other words, the house is empty? Why don't we all go and check out your new place to catch up? Just us girls alone in the house, what do you say?" Betty asking Gwen.

"I don't know." Gwen is unsure.

"Come on, we haven't hang out together since you've came back, please don't make us plead." Liz pleading with Gwen.

Gwen rolled her eyes and smiled. "Fine, I guess we got some catching up to do."

"Great, let's go." Betty told Gwen.

The girls all left together heading to the Parker house where Gwen is staying, the girls will have some time alone to catch up on what Gwen has missed while she was away.


It's 4:05 PM in Chinatown at F.E.A.S.T., May is leading the shelter in picking out everyone's assignments, Rio Morales is using her nursing expertise to tend to the wounded in need of medical care, Peter and Miles are feeding the homeless in line handing out trays of food.

"So how are things between you and Gwen?" Miles asking Peter.

"What do you mean?" Peter is wondering about Miles's question.

"Come on, it's been like a week and neither of you are making any attempts resuming you romantic relationship, what's holding you back?" Miles is curious.

"It's... complicated." Peter is unsure of their relationship.

"Why? Because now she's living with you and your aunt?" Miles is curious.

"Among other things." Peter admits there's more to it.

"What things?" Miles wants to know.

Peter sighed. "The night before Gwen came back, MJ and I... kissed."

Miles's eyes widen at the news. "Whoa! You and the redhead? Really?"

Peter nodded his head. "Yeah."

"Was this the first kiss between you two?" Miles asking Peter.

"No, last year, me and Gwen separated due to our lives as heroes affecting our judgment as both a couple and partners. Around the same time, she broke up with her then boyfriend Harry Osborn, she was hurt by the breakup and I came over to her house, we got caught up in a moment and I kissed her." Peter told aboriginal his first kiss with MJ.

"Wow, you're quite popular with the ladies. How do you do it?" Miles asking Peter his secret in attracting girls.

"I keep asking myself that same question for the past two years." Peter is totally clueless.

May is looking at her nephew and Rio's son talking to each other while doing their jobs feeding the homeless, she's knows of their double lives as heroes of New York along with her foster daughter Gwen Stacy. She then see someone that looks very familiar, an Asian in a black hoodie walking out the door. May followed after this guy, she made it outside to see that he's disappeared from sight. May could've sworn that she seen someone that looked like Martin Li.

"May Parker!" Rio's voice from behind.

May turns around to see Rio Morales behind her looking worried for her.

"Are you alright?" Rio asking May.

"Yeah, thought I saw someone I knew." May told Rio.

May and Rio heads back inside the shelter as someone is hiding nearby looking at the shelter, he's a Chinese man dressed in a black hoodie with messy black hair and scruffy facial hair, it's Martin Li looking at the place he built to help people.


The time is 4:45 PM at the Parker Residence, Gwen, Mary Jane, Betty, and Liz are all hanging out at the new bedroom that Gwen is staying ever since she moved in with the Parkers, the four girls are all talking together.

"How are the boys in London? Did you date anyone at the new school over there?" Liz asking Gwen.

"No, but I can't deny that I've attracted a number of guys eager to date me." Gwen smiled at the conversation.

"So what's the deal with you and Peter?" Betty asking Gwen.

"Meaning?" Gwen is curious by her question.

"Come on, you're both living under the same roof now. Has nothing happened between you two?" Betty asking Gwen.

"Of course not, we're both foster siblings living here." Gwen told Betty.

"So? You're not really brother and sister, this is just temporary until you turn eighteen and graduated, so you have only a year here." Betty told Gwen.

"Did you both really come to talk about me or Peter?" Gwen asking Betty and Liz.

"Why not both?" Liz told Gwen.

"Well, we all got involved with Peter at some point. Starting with you, Liz Allan. What was it that attracted you Peter?" Gwen asking Liz.

"Peter was quite a geek back then, but he's pretty nice and not one of those jocks who likes to show off. Not to mention that he became quite attractive after he ditched the glasses and grew confident in himself." Liz described her attraction of Peter.

"How does that happen?" Betty is curious.

"I don't know, you tell me. You work closely with Parker at the Bugle for two years, I even heard that you two had a moment together at one time." Liz told Betty.

Betty blushed at that subject. "Oh, you know."

"About that time you and Petey kissed at Chinatown? Yeah, Glory is quite the gossiper. So how was it?" Liz told Betty.

"To be honest it wasn't something we both planned, we just got caught at the wrong place at the wrong time, and I had no idea that he was quite the kisser." Betty smiled and blushed.

"You got that right. Don't you agree, Mary Jane?" Liz asking Mary Jane.

Mary Jane blushed upon that question. "Ah, yeah."

"Don't be shy, we've noticed you and Petey getting very close recently." Liz told Mary Jane.

"You two gotten close?" Gwen asking Mary Jane.

"What? You don't know? The day before you came back home, they went out on a date to Coney Island together, they had so much fun." Betty gossip to Gwen.

Mary Jane is still shy on the subject as she hasn't told Gwen what happened between her and Peter later that night, the kiss she gave Peter.

"So Mary Jane, has anything else happened between you and Pete?" Betty asking Mary Jane.

Gwen looks at Mary Jane as she can sense that she's hiding something personal, something that happened between her and Peter. Mary Jane doesn't want to keep secrets from Gwen like before concerning her feelings for Peter.

"Yes, something did happened... Gwen... I... kissed him." Mary Jane admits the truth to Gwen.

Liz and Betty are shocked to hear that Mary Jane kissed Peter again, Gwen is the most surprised to hear that her best friend and Peter shared a kiss together.

"Whoa! Now I'm really jealous!" Betty told Mary Jane.

"What? Did you have hopes that you and Peter might have something?!" Liz asking Betty.

"What about you? Still have a torch for Pete?" Betty asking Liz.

"Okay, okay, ladies, let's not fight over Peter." Gwen tells Liz and Betty.

"Easy for you to say since you're living with him now." Betty teased Gwen.

Gwen smiled as she picked up a pillow and tossed it at Betty who got hit, Betty picked it up as she looks back at Gwen.

"Oh, you're going to pay for that!" Betty smiled at Gwen.

Betty tossed the pillow back at Gwen who got hit, she picked it back up and swings it towards Betty who picked a pillow and used it to protect herself, Betty pushed Gwen's pillow off course and ended up hitting Liz by mistake.

"Oops!" Gwen smiled with fun.

Liz picked up a pillow and hits Gwen back as Betty also hits back, they double teamed Gwen as Mary Jane steps in and swings her pillow, she joining in on the fun, all four girls are smiling and laughing having their pillow fights.


It's 7:33 PM in Chinatown, underneath the neighborhood, a criminal group calling themselves the snakeheads are making forged documents and passports for immigrants brought into the country illegally, one of them stepped forward as the forger hands her all the papers.

"From now on, you shall be Charlene Cho, next!"

The woman walked away as she passed by a man in a black hoodie with a hood over his head hiding his face, he steps up to the man making the fake IDs.

"And you are?"

"I'm a man in a need of a way back home to China." The mysterious guy asking the forger.

"We don't smuggle people back to China, if you looking for a way back home, then just turn yourself to immigration and you'll be extradited, simply as that."

"I don't think you understand my situation, I'm wanted by the authorities here, and including the law back home. I need fake IDs and a way to get back to China without anyone knowing." The mysterious guy explained his situation.

"Listen pal, I don't know who you are and I don't care! Get this fool out of here!"

The thug came up and grabbed the hooded guy by the shoulder, but this guy turned himself glowing white and black all over as he grabbed him and tossed him aside with little effort. The snakeheads are shocked to see someone glowing right before their eyes.

"You all have no idea who you're messing with."

The glowing hooded man takes off his hood and shows his face as Martin Li, the supervillain known as Mister Negative, the former head of the Inner Demons.

"You?! It's impossible! Kill him!"

All the thugs pulled out their guns, but Mister Negative discharged his power and unleashed negative energy upon his enemies, unknown to anyone a woman is hiding in the closet to avoid the chaos happening. She had to hear all the screaming and yelling from the thugs. Suddenly it stopped, Mister Negative stopped glowing as he returned back to his normal self, he then walks away from the scene as he walked by the closet, the woman inside got a peek and saw his face.

(Later)

It's 8:03 PM around Chinatown as the NYPD has cornered off the area where the Snakehead hideout is, INS are there too taking in illegal immigrants who were smuggled into the country, Captain Yuri Watanabe and Detective Jean DeWolff are questioning the witness who saw the assailant responsible for this massacre.

"Did this guy say who he was or what he wanted?" Jean DeWolff asking the witness.

"He never said his name, he just said that he wanted fake ID and a way back to China."

"Did you get a good look at him?" Jean DeWolff asking the witness.

"Yeah, I think so."

"Okay, we're going to have you sit down with a sketch artist, just try to describe anything of the man you saw." Yuri Watanabe telling the witness.

Yuri walked away as she heads towards her car, but Spider-Man came in swing and landed on top of her sedan.

"Spider-Man, you're late to the party." Yuri Watanabe told Spider-Man.

"So I see, what happened here?" Spider-Man is curious of the incident.

"Victims are all members of the Snakehead Triads, smugglers who bring in illegal immigrants out of China, this was a massacre, luckily none of the immigrants got hurt, but a witness saw a man leaving the scene." Yuri Watanabe explained of the incident.

"Any ideas why?" Spider-Man wants to know.

"The witness overheard this man needing fake IDs and a way of getting to China, from what she's described, sounds like this guy is wanted and is very desperate to leave the country fast. She's sitting down with a sketch artist, by tomorrow we'll have a face of the man we're looking for." Yuri Watanabe told Spider-Man.

"Okay, I'll meet you tomorrow morning on the rooftop of the precinct. Thank you for sharing." Spider-Man told Yuri Watanabe.

"Don't mention it, it's what George would've done." Yuri Watanabe says to Spider-Man.

"Yeah, he would." Spider-Man told with a sad voice.

Spider-Man fired off a web line and swings away from the crime scene as Yuri Watanabe watched him swing away, she could tell that this subject of George Stacy really got to him.


It's 9:15 PM at the Parker Residence, Peter and May drove up to their driveway and got out of the car, they're walked to the door only for it to open as Betty and Liz are walking out for the night.

"Liz? Betty?" Peter is surprised.

"Oh, you're home, we were just leaving, bye!" Betty waved goodbye to Peter.

"Bye Petey." Liz waved to Peter.

Betty and Liz walked past Aunt May who noticed them flirting with Peter.

"What was that about?" May is curious.

"Have no idea." Peter is clueless.

"You seem to have a strange gift in attracting girls." May told Peter.

"So I've been told." Peter told May.

Peter and May enters the house to see Gwen with Mary Jane, they're wondering whats been happening here in their home.

"How was the shelter?" Mary Jane asking them.

"It was good, but something happened in Chinatown tonight." Peter told them.

"What happened?" Gwen is curious.

"Looks like a massacre, a group of smugglers were all killed, except for the illegals they've smuggled here." Peter told Gwen.

"Any ideas who's responsible?" Gwen asking Peter.

"Not yet, the witness who saw the guy is working with a sketch artist, I'll stop by tomorrow at the 13th and hopefully we'll get an ID." Peter told Gwen.

"It's getting late, why don't we call it for the night. Get some rest and tomorrow you two can go out patrolling together." May suggested to Peter and Gwen.

"I should really get going, goodnight Tiger." Mary Jane waved to Peter as she leaves the house.

"Goodnight MJ." Peter waved back to Mary Jane.

Mary Jane left the house as Gwen could tell how much closer they've gotten, Mary Jane confessed that she and Peter kissed on the night before Gwen returned. She knows that she asked Mary Jane to be there for Peter, she never imagined that she would come back home too late.

(Midnight)

It's now October 7th, the time is 2:04 AM at midnight, everyone in the Parker Residence are sleeping in their respective rooms, including Gwen Stacy who is sweating and shaking as she's having the nightmare again of that tragic night her father was murdered by Mister Negative.

"No!" Gwen talking in her sleep.

(Flashback)

Five months ago, Mister Negative bested the heroes as they're laying down on the ground, Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider attempts to get themselves back up, but Mister Negative grabbed their necks and picked them up, they're now powerless and at his mercy.

"You both fought well, I'll give you that. But now it's over, you've both lost. Spider-Man, I don't know how you broken free, but it doesn't matter. I've corrupted you before and I'll do it again, and this time you won't be alone, she'll be joining you too!" Mister Negative told Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider.

Mister Negative uses his powers of corruption on both Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider. George Stacy came up to the rooftop and finds the two heroes screaming trying to resist his corruption. George aimed his gun and pulled the trigger, but his gun is out of ammo, George tossed it aside and picked up a pipe.

"Don't resist, it's pointless. Soon you both shall be working for me." Mister Negative corrupting Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider.

George rushed and attacked Mister Negative while he wasn't looking, he managed to strike him with a swing to the head. Mister Negative got hit pretty hard as he broke off his concentration, both Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider broke free as the negative aura faded away from them, George went to check up on them to see if they're alright.

"Are you both alright?" George Stacy asking the heroes.

Mister Negative is still conscious as he spotted a sword on the ground, he grabbed the sword as George sees him getting back up, George still has a pipe in his hands, he swings at Mister Negative but the sword is supercharged with negative energy, he slice the metal pipe in half, he then side kick George back staggering him as he lost focus, he took the opportunity to pierce his sword through George Stacy as Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider saw it right before their eyes.

"NOO!" Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider yelled out together.

(Present)

"Dad!" Gwen wakes up and yells out.

Gwen just woken up from a terrible nightmare, witnessing her father being murdered by Mister Negative right before her eyes, Gwen is shaking in sweat, Peter and May came into the room as soon as they heard her screams, they see her all terrified in her bed, Peter sat on the bed next to Gwen.

"Gwen, are you alright?" Peter asking Gwen.

Gwen is shaking and breathing in fear, Peter hugged Gwen tightly trying to calm her down.

"It's okay, Gwen, I'm here, I'll always be here for you." Peter hugging Gwen.

Gwen is hugging Peter back as she's calming down from the nightmare she's been having lately, witnessing her father being murdered was too traumatic to her.


It's 7:30 AM in the morning, Gwen is waking up to see that she's sleeping next to Peter who spent the night by her side for comfort after the nightmare. Meanwhile May is down in the kitchen making wheatcakes and eggs for breakfast, she then sees Peter and Gwen walking downstairs together as they walked up to the kitchen for their breakfast, May hands them each a plate of wheatcakes and eggs.

"How are you feeling?" May asking Gwen.

"Feeling alright now, thanks to Peter." Gwen told May.

"Sure, though I'm not comfortable of the idea of you two sleeping in the same room." May told Gwen and Peter.

"Nothing else happened, Aunt May, it was just to get her to sleep peacefully, that's all." Peter told his aunt.

"That better be, but back to the matter at hand. Tell me Gwen dear, have you been having these nightmares before? Your uncle once mentioned that you had trouble sleeping back in London. Has this happened before?" May asking Gwen about the nightmare.

"Yes, it's been happening recently, they're about that night that my dad was murdered by Martin Li." Gwen told them about the nightmares.

May and Peter all had the sad expression as soon as they heard about that time George Stacy was stabbed by Mister Negative's sword and died later in a hospital bed right in front of Gwen, he was all she had left in this world, now both him and her mother are both gone.

"I keep having these nightmares and all I can think about is how that monster took away the only parent I had left, my father." Gwen told them.

"I'm sorry, we had no idea what you were going through." Peter told Gwen.

"It hasn't been easy living with the loss of a loved one." Gwen told Peter.

"I get it, more than you can imagine... If you want to talk about it…" Peter was about to finish his sentence.

"No, I don't, I appreciate your kindness, but I'll be fine." Gwen told Peter.

"Okay, we should get going very soon, Miles will be waiting at the Spider-Cave for training, not to mention I got to stop by the precinct to meet up with Captain Watanabe." Peter told Gwen.

"Why don't you go to the precinct, I'll head for the Spider-Cave and supervise Miles's training." Gwen suggested to Peter.

"You sure?" Peter told Gwen.

"Yeah, gives me something to do." Gwen told Peter.

"Okay, I'll go and meet up with Yuri." Peter told Gwen.

"Right, and I'll head for the Spider-Cave. Meet you there as soon as you're done." Gwen told Peter.

"Alright, now that I'm done making breakfast, I should head for the shelter to open up, see ya!" May waved them goodbye.

May is leaving the house as Peter and Gwen dine in and ate their breakfast as they have so much to do today, Peter will be meeting up with Captain Watanabe in the city while Gwen will be at the Spider-Cave to supervise Miles on his progress.


It's 8:10 AM at the 13th precinct, Yuri Watanabe is waiting all alone on the rooftop for Spider-Man to show, she holds a folder in her hand. Spider-Man came in swinging and lands on the rooftop rails.

"Good morning Captain." Spider-Man told Yuri Watanabe.

"Spider-Man, was getting worried that you got held up, wondering if you'll ever come." Yuri Watanabe told Spider-Man.

"Sorry to make you wait so long, but I'm here now. Did you get what I asked for?" Spider-Man is wondering.

"Yeah, the sketch finally came in and…" Yuri Watanabe is hesitant to say more.

"And what?" Spider-Man is curious.

"You're not going to believe this. See for yourself." Yuri Watanabe opens the folder and hands the sketch.

Spider-Man took the sketch of the suspect in his hands as he became shocked to see who's face it is.

"No… can't be." Spider-Man is stunned

"I'm afraid so, Spider-Man, it's him." Yuri Watanabe confirmed it with Spider-Man.


It's 8:30 AM in Chinatown as May Parker arrived outside at F.E.A.S.T. as she's pulling out here keys and opens the front door. She looks around to find that she's the only one here who's early, she went up to her office and puts down her purse on her desk.

"Hello May." Martin Li's voice from behind.

May got spooked and turns around to find a man with a hood on his head who somehow broke into the shelter and surprised her.

"Stay back, whoever you are?!" May is spooked.

The hooded man removes his hood and reveals his face, it's Martin Li who once own this place and somehow is out of prison.

"Martin Li?" May is stunned to see Martin Li.

"Yes, it's me." Martin Li told May.

"How? I thought you were sent away to prison." May is confused.

"I was, it's a long story. Listen, I need your help, my other half is attempting to escape. I don't want to stay free, I want to go back. Please, there's no one else i can trust but you." Martin Li asking May for her help.

May is hesitant, she doesn't want to harbor a fugitive, especially a dangerous one, but she looks at his face and recognized that she's speaking to the Martin Li she knows, not the monster Mister Negative. Still, she doesn't know what to do yet, but she might have an idea.


It's 8:50 AM at the Spider-Cave, Miles and Gwen are in their workout clothes sparring as Miles is doing the spinning heel kick but Gwen does the backflips to dodge the attack. Gwen and Miles circle around facing each other.

"Not bad, but you'll need more than just punching and kicking your opponents, you have to take them by surprise." Gwen told Miles.

"I can turn invisible, so I'm pretty much good at taking anyone by surprise." Miles told Gwen.

"Can't always rely on that, there are other beings besides us who can sense anyone invisible to the naked eye. I thought you learned that from your first sparring against Spider-Man." Gwen told Miles.

"Oh, you know?" Miles is surprised.

"Peter told me, spider senses came in handy against it. Now, come at me." Gwen tightens her fists.

Miles jumps in and strikes with a superman punch but Gwen used her hands to deflect his fist. Miles does the spinning back fist as Gwen backs herself and dodge his attack, she jumps up and wraps her legs around his neck and flips him down hard on the mat, Miles taps on her legs to tell her that he gives up. Gwen unwraps her legs from his neck and stands herself on her feet, she offered her hand as Miles took it and Gwen pulls him up on his feet.

"Peter is right, you got potential, keep up on improving your fighting style and you'll be able to handle yourself alone in a fight." Gwen told Miles.

"Good advice, I'll keep that in mind." Miles told Gwen.

Spider-Man just came into the Spider-Cave and pulls off his mask, he's got a terrible expression on his face as Miles and Gwen spotted Peter here and walking towards them.

"Hey Peter, how did it go at the precinct? Did you get what you asked for?" Gwen asking Peter.

Peter still remains quiet as he has bad news to share, Gwen and Miles are worried by the look on his face.

"Peter, what's wrong?" Gwen is worried.

"What's with that face? What's got you all worried?" Miles is also worried.

"I got the sketch of the man who attacked the Snakeheads last night." Peter told them.

"That's great." Miles told Peter.

Peter still is unsure of whether to tell Gwen the truth of who it is, but he knows she'll find out some other way.

"What is it, Pete?" Gwen is curious.

"Gwen, brace yourself, this will affect you." Peter told Gwen.

"Me? Why?" Gwen is confused.

Peter pulled out the sketch he got from Captain Watanabe and hands it to Gwen. Gwen hold out the sketch and gazed upon the face of the suspect responsible for last night's massacre, its Martin Li, the villain known as Mister Negative. Gwen became shocked to see that it's the face of the man who murdered her father months ago, Gwen looked back at Peter looking at her with his worried face, she dropped the sketch and processes this news.

Gwen has a sadden look. "Martin Li is back."

"Yes, I'm sorry Gwen." Peter told Gwen.

Gwen walked away from Peter and Miles as she needed some time alone to process the information that her father's killer is back. Miles is only one who is clueless about this whole Martin Li thing as Peter and Gwen are the only ones who had a tragic history with this man.

"Who is this Martin Li? What did he do to make her like this? Did this Martin Li guy kick her dog or something?" Miles is curious about who this Martin Li is.

Peter had a sad expression. "No... he killed her father."

Miles is shocked to learn that this man killed the father of Gwen Stacy, this news is personal to her since he took away the only parent she had left in this world. Gwen snapped out her grief and went back to join up with her friends.

"It was almost five months ago, me and Peter were at war with the Inner Demons, a triad faction led by Martin Li, he was a very powerful crime boss who calls himself Mister Negative." Gwen told the story.

"I remember, there was war in Brooklyn Chinatown, a lot of police officers lost their lives taking down these criminals." Miles is somewhat familiar with the event.

"One of those officers that died was my father, Captain George Stacy." Gwen told Miles.

"We fought against Mister Negative together, he was a formidable foe, he came so close to taking us down, George stepped in and saved our lives that night, but he lost his own." Peter told Miles.

"Spider-man fought him and managed to defeat him that night. My father suffered a fatal injury, he died later in a hospital, right in front of us." Gwen told Miles.

Miles felt sympathy for Gwen. "I'm sorry."

"I don't understand how he's back." Gwen is confused.

"I contacted Nick Fury about this, he told me that Martin Li is one of the prisoners unaccounted for during the Raft Breakout." Peter informed Gwen.

"So he got out the same time as the Sinister Six, and now he's back." Gwen told her friends.

"But why attacked the Snakeheads? What was the purpose?" Miles is curious about Li's motives.

"The witness told Yuri that he wanted fake IDs and safe passage to China, but I guess something went wrong. But this means that he's trying to get out of the country very fast." Peter informed his friends.

"We can't let that happen, we need to stop him before he disappears for good." Gwen told Peter.

Peter's phone is ringing as he pulls it out to see his Aunt May is calling him.

Peter answered the call. "Aunt May, this really isn't a good time, we got bigger problems."

"So do I, you're never going to believe this, Martin Li is here at F.E.A.S.T." May told Peter about Martin Li.

"Martin Li?! He's there right now?!" Peter is shocked to hear this news.

"Martin Li? What's going on?" Gwen is worried.

Peter covers the phone. "Martin Li is at F.E.A.S.T., she's in trouble."

"Right, time to suit up, come on Miles." Gwen told Miles.

Gwen and Miles heads to suit up for battle as Peter puts the phone back on his ear.

"Aunt May, get out of there right now, you're not safe there, he's dangerous!" Peter tells May to leave the shelter.

"He's not Mister Negative right now, he seemed like the old Martin Li I know." May told Peter.

"Still Aunt May, it's not safe to be around him, we're on our way as fast as we can! Please get out of there and stay away from him." Peter tells May to leave again.

Peter hangs up the phone as his friends are all suited up in their suits, Peter still in his Spider-Man suit picks up his mask as they're hopping onto the Spider-Cycles with Miles behind Gwen, they all headed out of the Spider-Cave at top speed hoping to catch up to May in time before it's too late.


It's 9:05 AM at F.E.A.S.T. as Martin Li sleeping in one of the bunks at the shelter, May is in her office waiting for her nephew and her friends to show up. Unknown to anyone, Martin Li woke up and his eyes started to glow negative, soon his whole body is shrouded in negative energy, he became Mister Negative as May is looking out her office window to see that Martin Li is awake and now glowing in a negative aura, she realizes that he's now Mister Negative. She became afraid of what he might do, she quickly locks her office door hoping to keep him out as he's walking closer to the door.

"Seriously? Do you really think you can keep me out?" Mister Negative isn't impressed.

Mister Negative used his powers to blast the door down and scared May as he enters the office without difficulty, she reaches inside her purse searching for something she'll need in this situation.

"I should've known my pathetic side would come to you for help. What did he asked? Did he want to turn himself in and go back to prison? He should known that nothing will stop me from getting back everything I've lost, not even his most trusted friend." Mister Negative threatening May.

May pulled her hand out her purse and holds a can of pepper spray, she sprayed upon Mister Negative's eyes as he felt the sting of his eyes burning in pain, May took the opportunity to escape while he's still blinded by pain. Mister Negative wipes off his eyes and can see a blurry image of May running towards the entrance, he unleashed his negative blast upon the entrance door and stopped her in her tracks. May turns to see Mister Negative walking out of the office towards her in anger.

"That wasn't very nice of you." Mister Negative is mad a May.

Mister Negative charged up his hands about to unleash a negative blast upon May, but Spider-Man came in swinging from the entrance and Mister Negative unleashed his powers but Spidey came in and grabbed May in time and swing away to safety before his powers could destroy her. Spider-Man reached a safe distance away from Mister Negative and puts May down on her feet.

"Thank you." May is grateful to her nephew.

"Anytime, get to safety." Spider-Man tells May.

May is leaving the shelter as Spider-Man turns to see Mister Negative, he fired off his negative energy at Spider-Man but he jumps up and swings around to the other side where Ghost-Spider and Kid Arachnid are, all three are together now.

"Spider-Man, long time." Mister Negative sees Spider-Man again after a long while.

"Not long enough, you're going back to prison!" Spider-Man tells Mister Negative.

"Over my dead body, don't think just because there's three of you now, you'll stand a chance. The only reason you've been able to defeat me is because of that foolish police captain." Mister Negative tells the heroes.

The mention of Captain Stacy really got to Ghost-Spider as this affects her the most coming from the man who killed her father.

"And what's this, he's not here anymore. Wonder why?" Mister Negative makes a weeping to mock and then laughed. "Oh, yeah! I remember now! I killed him!"

"How dare you?! You took it too far!" Spider-Man got angry.

Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid both charged in and takes on Mister Negative together as Ghost-Spider is stunned that he talked about her father in such a disrespectful way. Spider-Man is swinging in the air until Mister Negative blasted him in the air, Kid Arachnid came in close and used his venom fists to cause some damage to the villain, but Mister Negative charged up his hands too and punched back harder, Kid Arachnid got punched off the ground. Ghost-Spider is feeling angry at Mister Negative for not only killing her father, but disrespecting his name.

"No..." Ghost-Spider is stunned.

(Flashback)

Mister Negative stabbed George Stacy with a sword right in front of Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider's eyes.

"Noooo!" Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider yelled out together.

(Present)

"No... I won't let his death be in vain." Ghost-Spider tells herself in anger.

Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid got pushed back by Mister Negative's power as Ghost-Spider tightens her fists, she then charged in at full force as Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid sees her coming in fast, Ghost-Spider strikes with flying knee to Mister Negative's body and pushed him back hard. He then attempts to fire back his powers but Ghost-Spider caught his wrist and pulls him back up as she punched him hard in the gut as Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid never seen this side of her.

"Dang, what's gotten into Ghost-Spider?" Kid Arachnid is surprised and confused.

Ghost-Spider is channeling her rage into her attacks as Mister Negative is getting bested by a different Ghost-Spider. She runs up behind him and jumps up to do a reverse frankensteiner on him and flips him down on the ground hard. Mister Negative is hurt as he attempts to get back up but Ghost-Spider grabbed him by the neck and has her fist ready, Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid run up as they have a bad feeling was about to happen next.

"Time to finish this!" Ghost-Spider tightened her fist.

Spider-Man ran up and caught her wrist, holding back her fist to stop her, Ghost-Spider is struggling to deliver the final blow.

"Ghost-Spider! What are you doing?!" Spider-Man holding Ghost-Spider back.

"Let go of me!" Ghost-Spider shakes off Spider-Man and gotten loose. "He deserves this!"

Ghost-Spider is preparing to deliver the final and lethal blow to Mister Negative who looked powerless at her fury, Kid Arachnid stepped in and grabbed her fist, he's holding her back.

"Ghost-Spider, stop this!" Kid Arachnid holds Ghost-Spider back.

"Let go!" Ghost-Spider struggled to shake off Kid Arachnid.

"You're using your full strength in your strike!" Kid Arachnid still holding Ghost-Spider back.

Ghost-Spider pushed Kid Arachnid back. "I know!"

Ghost-Spider is freed and she's about to strike with her fist upon Mister Negative but Kid Arachnid pushed her back and stopped her lethal strike, saving Mister Negative's life. The supervillain took the opportunity to unleashed his strongest energy blast upon his enemies, pushing them back so hard, after that he took the opportunity to escape before they could recover. Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, and Kid Arachnid recovered themselves to see that Mister Negative has escaped from them.

"Guys, he got away!" Kid Arachnid told his teammates.

"What we're thinking?! You could've eliminated him!" Spider-Man asking Ghost-Spider.

"That's what I want!" Ghost-Spider said with rage.

"What?" Spider-Man is stunned to hear that.

Ghost-Spider slammed her fists down in anger. "When I find him again, I'll finish him!"

Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid are shocked to hear those words coming out of Ghost-Spider's voice, she's consumed by her need for revenge that she's willing to go far as to end Mister Negative's life to get it.


It's about 12 PM in Harlem, Turk Barrett is walking up to his apartment with a bag of takeout. He opens the door and enters his apartment, he sits down in his chair and pulls out what appears to be a burger, he took it in his hands and was about to chow down until he heard the door knocking many times hard, he puts down the burger and gets up, he walks up to the door as the door is knocking constantly.

"Man, can you ease up on my door! All you had to do is knock once!" Turk Barrett opens the door.

Turk sees Mister Negative here as he barged in without an invitation, Turk stepped back as he's scared by his appearance alone.

"You!" Turk Barrett is frightened.

"I assume you know who I am, Turk Barrett." Mister Negative tells Turk Barrett.

"Everyone knows who you are, you're Martin Li." Turk Barrett is aware of Mister Negative.

"Not right now, but that's not important. I know about you, Turk and your reputation, I heard that you have a talent for making fake passports and visas for illegals. I need your services immediately, I want a passport under a different name and I need it fast." Mister Negative told Turk Barrett what he wants from him.

"And why would I do that for you?" Turk Barrett tells Mister Negative.

"Because if you don't, I'll destroy you." Mister Negative threatens Turk Barrett's life.

Turk Barrett is frightened for his life. "I'll do as you ask, but it'll take couple hours to have it ready."

"Then you better get started, I need it soon." Mister Negative tells Turk Barrett.

Turk Barrett is now working on making a fake passport for Mister Negative as he needs to escape out of the country very fast now that the spider heroes are aware of his presence here in New York.


It's now 1:03 PM at the Spider-Cave, everyone has just gotten back after dealing with the police and patrolling around the streets for Mister Negative, Ghost-Spider takes off her mask and tossed it down in anger as she's upset at her friends for stopping her, May and Mary Jane came in as well as they're worried now that Mister Negative is still out there and still a threat, no one is safe.

"Why did you stop me, Peter? I had him, and because of you, he got away! Why did you save him?" Gwen is upset at Peter.

"I wasn't trying to save him, I was trying to save you from yourself! You came so close to crossing the line back there!" Peter told Gwen.

"And what were you going to do with him? Take him back to the Raft? You did that once before and he just gotten out, he came so close to killing your aunt, this man took away my father!" Gwen told Peter.

"And you don't think that I'm angry that he went after Aunt May? You think that your father's death didn't affect me? You're wrong, Gwen! I loved your father too, he was like another father to me after Uncle Ben died, he knew about me as Spider-Man and he risked his career keep my double life a secret all to protect me. You think there's not a part of me that wants to avenge him?!" Peter told Gwen.

"So you do understand me?" Gwen told Peter.

"Of course I understand you, Gwen! I understand you perfectly, because you're not the only one who lost a loved one at the hands of a criminal." Peter told Gwen of his own loss.

"I know what happened to your uncle was terrible. Didn't you feel so angry at the guy who shot him that you were willing to take his life to avenge him?" Gwen told Peter.

"I did, I wanted to take his life so badly with all this anger in my bones for what he did to Uncle Ben, I came so close to taking it." Peter told Gwen of his experience in revenge.

"Why didn't you? What stopped you?" Gwen wants to know why Peter didn't take his revenge.

"Because I realize that it's not what Uncle Ben would've wanted, even if i did take my revenge, it wouldn't change anything because wouldn't bring back Uncle Ben, he's still gone forever from my life." Peter told Gwen why he couldn't take his revenge.

"Please try to understand me, Peter, my whole life changed when my father died because Martin Li took him away from me, from all of us, if that never happened I wouldn't moved away from New York, and maybe we wouldn't have…" Gwen tells Peter.

"Yeah." Peter gets what Gwen is saying.

"I can't promise you that I won't try to avenge my father, I'll do what I have to for my father." Gwen tells Peter.

"Then avenge him the right way, bring his killer to justice." Peter tells Gwen.

Gwen walks away as she needed some time alone to herself after having a talk with Peter about revenge, Peter could sense that Gwen is still consumed by her need to avenge her father by finding Martin Li and doing what she feels must be done. May, Mary Jane, and Miles all walked up to Peter who is staying silent after revealing his own experience in seeking revenge for Uncle Ben.

"Peter?" May is worried for her nephew.

"Seeing Gwen like that, she reminded me so much of my old self before I became Spider-Man, it brought out all the pain I thought I have put behind me." Peter telling of his own experience in revenge.

(Flashback)

It was two years ago night time in Queens as a masked Peter Parker has confronted the masked man who broke into his home and murdered Uncle Ben without hesitation or mercy, Spider-man pinned the guy towards the wall with his hand around his neck, choking him in anger.

"Answer me?!" Peter demanded the man tell him.

Peter pulls off the ski mask of the man and saw his face, he was the same guy he encounter earlier at the arena, the one he chose to let go, it was his own fault that Uncle Ben died because he chose to do nothing to stop this man.

"Why?! Why did you have to kill him?! He was innocent!" Peter speaks out in anger.

"It wasn't'... suppose to… happen... it was an… accident." Dennis Carradine is being choked.

Peter still has his hand on his neck, choking the guy as he has his fist ready to take the man's life for murdering Uncle Ben, he wanted revenge and was about to take it until he hesitated and thought about Uncle Ben's words.

"With Great Power comes Great Responsibility." Uncle's Ben's voice in his head.

Peter still feeling angry at his uncle's killer calms himself down as he remembers his uncle's lessons about responsibility, he lets go of the man's neck and spared his life for Uncle Ben as he wouldn't want to be remember by such acts of violence and death.

"He wouldn't want this. That's why you get to live." Peter tells Dennis Carradine

(Present)

Peter remembered that night two years ago where he tracked down and confronted the man who murdered his uncle in their own home, he had his chance to take his revenge and was about to take it until he realizes that his uncle wouldn't want that, he decided to spare the man and gave justice for his Uncle Ben.

"I remembered that night when Uncle Ben was murdered, I wanted to avenge him by taking the life of the man who took Uncle Ben's." Peter told them about his experience in revenge.

"But you didn't." May told Peter.

"No, but I wanted to, I was about to until I realized that Ben would never want to be remember by such acts like revenge. Now it's happening again, the monster who took Gwen's father is now on the loose, George's death will mean nothing until Martin Li is back locked up. We need to find Martin Li and stop him, we owe it to George Stacy." Peter told everyone.

"Got any ideas where to start, Tiger?" Mary Jane is wondering Peter's next course of action.

"Okay, we know that Martin Li is desperate to get out of the country very quickly, and after encountering us today, he'll be more desperate than ever before. He couldn't get fake passports from the Snakeheads, so he'll need to turn to another source, someone who can forge fake passports for him." Peter figured Martin Li's next move.

"How do we find them? It's not they have a website." Miles is wondering.

"No, but I know someone who's connected to New York's underworld, he'll know ever nook and cranny of anything criminal." Peter has an idea who to turn to.

Gwen walks up to them. "Great, then let's go."

"Gwen, when we finally find Martin Li, we need to do this the right way, not by acts of revenge." Peter tells Gwen.

"Like I said, Peter, I can't promise you that." Gwen told Peter what she said before.

"Fine, but please think about what your father was like and what he would've done, it's not too late." Peter tells Gwen.

Gwen nodded her head. "Let's go."

Gwen picked up her mask off the floor and heads on out to find Martin Li, Peter and Miles follows after Gwen to back her up and make sure that she doesn't go too far in her quest to avenge her father, May and Mary Jane are more worried for Gwen as she has changed so much since her father died, he anger and need for revenge has clouded her judgment, all they can do is have faith that Gwen will make the right choice when she finally catches Martin Li and brings him to justice for George Stacy.


Back in Harlem, it's now 2:17 PM as Turk Barrett is now all alone in his apartment all tired out from helping Martin Li with his fake passport and visa, he walks up to his fridge and opens up to grab a bottle of beer, he popped the bottle open and drank it down as he turns around only to find Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, and Kid Arachnid here in his place, he spits out his beer as there are heroes right in front of them.

"Oh, come on! Can't I have a decent day of peace for once?!" Turk Barrett is upset that it's not his day.

"Hello Turk, not happy to see us?" Spider-Man tells Turk Barrett.

"As if I don't have enough problems for one day, now I got you three to make things worse for me." Turk Barrett is troubled by everything happening to him.

"Okay, Turk, what happened?" Spider-Man is curious what's got Turk like this.

"One of your old enemies paid me a visit today, your asian nemesis is back." Turk Barrett told them about Mister Negative.

"Martin Li? You've seen him?!" Ghost-Spider raised her voice.

"Easy, Ghost-Spider." Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider.

"Dang, what's got her like this?" Turk Barrett is wondering about Ghost-Spider's behavior.

"Not important, Martin Li, what did he want?" Spider-Man asking Turk Barrett.

"Okay, hypothetically, he to me cause he needed a fake passport and visa very fast." Turk Barrett told them about Mister Negative.

"And let me guess, you helped him, hypothetically of course." Spider-Man tells Turk Barrett.

"Like I had a choice, the man is terrifying, he threatened to kill me if I didn't help him." Turk Barrett told them.

"What kind of passport did you give him? What name is going under?" Spider-Man asking Turk Barrett.

"Hong Kong passport, travel visa. He's traveling under the name Jackson Chan." Turk Barrett explains about what he had given Martin Li.

"Jackson Chan? Really?" Spider-Man is unfazed.

"What is it, Spidey?" Kid Arachnid is wondering.

"Jackie Chan." Spider-Man told Kid Arachnid.

"Come on, it's the best I could come up with." Turk Barrett told Spider-Man.

"Yeah, you got a strange sense of humor, Turk. Okay, he now has a passport, but I'd doubt he'll be flying by air since his face is on every TSA alert at every airport. Did he tell you tell some other way to escape the country?" Spider-Man asking Turk Barrett.

"Look, I already got enough trouble from that guy, I don't want to cross him again." Turk Barrett refused to tell more.

Ghost-Spider grabbed Turk's neck and held him up in the air looking very scared for his life.

"You better tell us what you know or he won't be your only problem!" Ghost-Spider intimidating Turk Barrett.

"Ghost-Spider, control yourself! Put him down!" Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider.

Ghost-Spider still holds Turk up in the air until she lets go his neck and dropped him down onto the floor.

"Man, this is messed up." Turk looks at Kid Arachnid. "From the way you talk, I'm guessing you're like me. Can't you help me out since we're tight? You know, be there for your people?"

"See these two right here?" Kid Arachnid standing with Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider. "These are my people."

"Look Turk, I can't control Ghost-Spider's anger and what she'll do, but you better start talking otherwise I'll just let her do her thing." Spider-Man asking Turk Barrett.

Turk stayed silent as he's conflicted on ratting out against one of the most dangerous criminals he met, until Ghost-Spider walks up all intimidating and spooked Turk.

"Okay, I'll talk." Turk has finally cracked. "I told him that he could take a flight to China from Canada under his new name."

"So he's heading up north to Canada, how's he getting there?" Spider-Man wants to know where to find him.

"There's a group of gun smugglers that uses a cargo barge to smuggle in weapons from Canada to New York, he plans to board it and it's set to sail back up to Nova Scotia where he'll take his flight to Hong Kong." Turk Barrett revealed where to find Mister Negative.

"If he gets to Nova Scotia and takes his flight, he'll disappear for good. When does the barge sail?" Spider-Man wants more details.

"Its set to sail exactly at 3:15 PM from Brooklyn Navy Yard." Turk Barrett gave them the departure time.

"That's in 58 minutes, if we leave now we might still catch it. Thanks for the tip Turk." Spider-Man told Turk Barrett.

Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, and Kid Arachnid all left the apartment quickly hoping to catch up to Martin Li before the ship sails away to Canada. Turk looked out the window to see the three spider heroes leaving by couple of Spider-Cycles.

"Man, I gotta get better locks." Turk Barrett tells himself.

(13th precinct)

Captain Yuri Watanabe is in her office working on the computer until her phone is ringing and she picked it up to see that's an unknown number, she's curious as to who it could be, she answered the phone and held it to her ear.

"Captain Watanabe, who is this?" Yuri Watanabe asking whoever's on the phone.

"It's me, Spider-Man, we got a lead on Martin Li, he's on board a cargo barge in the Brooklyn Navy Yard heading for Nova Scotia very soon." Spider-Man informed Yuri Watanabe.

"How do you know this?" Yuri Watanabe wants to know his source.

"I got it from a source, he's planning to take a flight up in Nova Scotia to Hong Kong, he's on a barge right now but there are gun smugglers there, this could get messy, we could use some NYPD backup on this. Can you mobilize your men to lock down the bay?" Spider-Man asking Yuri Watanabe for assistances.

"You can count on us, we owe it to seek justice for George." Yuri Watanabe agreed to help Spider-Man.

"Thank you Captain Watanabe, see you there." Spider-Man hangs up his call.

Yuri got up and walked out of her office to speak with her offices here, including Sergeant Jefferson Davis.

"Listen up everyone, we got line on a fugitive, Martin Li. He's been reported to be on a cargo barge in Brooklyn Navy Yard with gun smugglers, call the precinct in Brooklyn and let them know we need some serious backup, have harbor patrol block the bay, gets some helicopters in the sky, bring in SWAT units with heavy arms, we're going to war. Move!" Yuri Watanabe tells her officers.

All the officers in the precinct started to mobilize as they're now on a mission to fight Martin Li and a group of gun smugglers, this whole mission is personal for everybody here as they know that Martin Li is the man who killed Captain George Stacy months ago.


It's about 3:13 PM at the Brooklyn Navy Yard where a cargo barge is docked and shady men with guns are guarding the place on look out for anything suspicious, on the docks below are men opening up containers with barrels inside, Mister Negative is on board as he talks with the captain and hands him the money for his services.

"Alright Mr. Li, in a couple minutes, we'll sail up to Nova Scotia, that's as far as we'll go."

"Good enough, from there I'll be able to catch a flight back to Hong Kong where I'll rebuilt my criminal empire from scratch." Mister Negative tells the ship captain.

Mister Negative shakes the captain's hand as they parted ways, he heads down to one of the ship's crew rooms, he sits down on the seat and pulls out his fake passport he gotten from Turk Barrett along with a travel visa, he's got everything he needs to board a commercial flight in Nova Scotia and from there he'll head back to Hong Kong to rebuilt the Inner Demons.

"Soon, I shall be far away from here." Mister Negative smiled as he's about to head home.

Meanwhile outside the barge, all the dock workers on the payroll are unloading the barrels from the containers where all the illegal arms are hidden inside. Everyone here stopped as they heard what appears to be helicopters closing in, followed by police sirens. The men on the barge looked to see helicopters coming in over the water followed by patrol boats. On the ground, squad cars are coming in to the docks, the cars have stopped and all blocked the entrances and exits to prevent any escape, all the officers along with SWAT units are all armed with automatic weapons, a squad car has came up as both Sergeant Davis and Captain Watanabe got out with body armor as the Captain holds up a megaphone.

"This is the NYPD! We know that you're harboring a fugitive, Martin Li! Drop you weapons and put your hands up in the air!" Yuri Watanabe tells everyone on the megaphone.

Mister Negative came out to see that the entire area is surrounded by the NYPD, somehow they knew he was here, he approached the edge of the barge to look down to see Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider, and Kid Arachnid down below with the NYPD, they're the ones who most likely figured out where he was.

"I'm not going back to prison again." Mister Negative glows himself black and white.

Mister Negative charged up and unleashed his powers down upon the squad cars, blowing them up off the ground as the police scattered, the gun smugglers all armed themselves and fired back at the police as the heroes see that its open war in Brooklyn again. Ghost-Spider looked up at the barge to see that Mister Negative is almost within her reach, she now has another opportunity to get back at the man who killed her father.

"Looks like Mister Negative isn't going down without a fight!" Spider-Man tells his teammates.

"Neither am I. I'm going!" Ghost-Spider jumps and swings.

"Ghost-Spider, wait!" Spider-Man tries to stop her.

One of the smugglers fired off an RPG as Kid Arachnid pushed Spider-Man out of the way and they got pushed back by the aftershock, they recovered themselves to see that Ghost-Spider is proceeding ahead to the barge as they're both pinned down by the gun smugglers armed with heavy weapons, the NYPD are having that same trouble too.

"We have to go after her!" Spider-Man tells Kid Arachnid.

"We can't, we need to help out the officers here, we can't just leave them like this!" Kid Arachnid told Spider-Man.

Spider-Man is feeling conflicted of whether to go after Ghost-Spider and stop her from seeking revenge against Mister Negative, but he see that most of the officers here are getting hurt by this war. Spider-Man reluctantly stayed behind with Kid Arachnid as they're backing up the NYPD in this war.

Meanwhile Mister Negative has blasted the tail off the helicopter as it spins around out of control and dropped down into the water, Ghost-Spider finally reached the barge as she jumped up and webbed up a couple of smugglers down, Mister Negative turns around to see Ghost-Spider is here facing him.

"Ghost-Spider, we meet again!" Mister Negative tells Ghost-Spider.

"You're not getting away again, not this time!" Ghost-Spider tells Mister Negative.

"As I said before, I'm not going back to prison again, I'd rather die than let anyone take me back again." Mister Negative tells Ghost-Spider.

"That's fine by me, you have a lot to pay for!" Ghost-Spider tells Mister Negative.

"What is it you have against me?!" Mister Negative is curious about her issues with him.

"Remember George Stacy? The good man you killed in cold blood?!" Ghost-Spider tells Mister Negative.

"What is he too you anyway?!" Mister Negative is curious.

"Everything!" Ghost-Spider raised her voice in anger.

Ghost-Spider fired off a couple web lines passed Mister Negative as she uses them to slingshot herself towards him for a strong drop kick as he fell back against barge metal wall with so much force, he gets himself back up as he could tell by her voice that this is personal to her as she means to go far to avenge the police captain he murdered.

"So that's how you want to play it? So be it!" Mister Negative challenges Ghost-Spider.

Mister Negative fired back at Ghost-Spider who is jumping and dodging his attacks. Meanwhile back on the ground, Captain Watanabe and Sergeant Davis are behind the squad car firing back at the smugglers who are putting up a fight, one of them has a RPG aimed at them as Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid looks to see that they're both in danger, Kid Arachnid sees that it's his dad.

"Noo!" Kid Arachnid yells out.

The RPG fired as it's heading towards them, Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid rushed in swinging as they each fired a web line and pulled up each officer off the ground before the RPG blew up the squad car. Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid swings them to a safe distance.

"Thanks, you saved our skins." Yuri Watanabe is grateful to them for saving their lives.

"Happy to help, now if you'll excuse us, we got a fight on our hands." Spider-Man tells the two cops.

"Sure thing, we got a job to do too." Jefferson Davis tells the heroes.

Both Yuri and Jefferson went back out to help out the other officers as Kid Arachnid looked at his father going back to risk his life.

"Be care..." Kid Arachnid stops saying more.

Jefferson Davis looks back at Kid Arachnid who is looking at him as he felt something unusually familiar about him he can't quite figure out, but he broke off and heads back into battle as Kid Arachnid can't help but being worried for his father.

"Okay, we should get back and help the others!" Spider-Man tells Kid Arachnid.

Kid Arachnid snapped out of his distraction. "Oh, yeah right."

Back up on the barge, Mister Negative used his powers to supercharged his fists as he punched Ghost-Spider back so hard as he fell back on the ground, Mister Negative got in closer and kept on punching her repeatedly that she's having trouble fighting back.

"How disappointing, you put up quite a fight earlier, now the tables have turned. If you miss the good old Captain so much, you can join him in death. If you do see him again, tell him I said hello and that his death was meaningless." Mister Negative taunts Ghost-Spider.

Ghost-Spider is feeling the rage again at Mister Negative for speaking to her father like that, Mister Negative tossed down a punch until she caught it and held him back with all her strength, Ghost-Spider is angry as she pushing back his fist, she then strikes back with a uppercut to his face as he fell back on the ground. Mister Negative is on the ground as he strikes back with his negative blast but Ghost-Spider dodged and runs closer to kick him off the ground and he crashed against the metal wall again. Ghost-Spider got in closer and held Mister Negative against the wall as she punched him in the face, she punched him again and again.

Meanwhile back down on the ground, Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid helped the NYPD take down the gun smugglers as the officers are arresting them for bringing in illegal arms and waging violence against them, some officers are injured but no major casualties.

"That should be all of them, let's go!" Spider-Man tells Kid Arachnid.

"Right!" Kid Arachnid tells Spider-Man.

Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid both jumped up and swings up towards the top of the barge, they've finally reached the top and spotted Ghost-Spider pinning and punching Mister Negative as the supervillain can't fight back in his state, Ghost-Spider then stops punching as she still has her fist ready to deliver the final blow to end Mister Negative's life.

"You've beaten me... what are you waiting for? You want your revenge? Take it." Mister Negative dares Ghost-Spider to end his life.

"Ghost-Spider, don't do it!" Kid Arachnid tells Ghost-Spider.

"This monster took the life of a good man, George didn't deserve to die." Ghost-Spider tells her teammates.

"Of course he didn't, but this won't honor his memory, taking this man's life won't change anything!" Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider.

"What are you waiting for? Finish me!" Mister Negative dares Ghost-Spider.

"Ghost-Spider, listen to me, you have every right to want revenge." Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider.

"What? She does?" Kid Arachnid is very confused.

"But ask yourself this. What would George Stacy have done?" Spider-Man asking Ghost-Spider about George Stacy.

Ghost-Spider looks back at the man who killed her father, she has a chance to take her revenge by taking his life for taking her father's, but she thinks about what Spider-Man said about what kind of man her father and what he would've done in her position, she wanted justice for her father. She even remembers what Spider-Man told her about his uncle and how to honor his death the right way, she wanted that for her father.

"He would do the right thing." Ghost-Spider calms herself down and undo her fist. "Okay, Spider-Man."

Spider-Man sighed. "You did the right thing, Ghost-Spider."

"Don't scare us like that again." Kid Arachnid felt relieved.

Mister Negative then is losing his powers as his other self is taking over and he's back to being the normal Martin Li, Ghost-Spider could sense that he's not the Mister Negative she was facing nor the one she wanted to get revenge on.

"Take me back to prison where I belong, where I need to pay for everything I've done." Martin Li wants to surrender himself willingly.

"Go ahead, Ghost-Spider." Spider-Man tells Ghost-Spider.

"What?" Ghost-Spider is surprised.

"It only right that you're the one who brings him in, do it for George." Spider-Man encourages Ghost-Spider.

Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid watched as Ghost-Spider takes in Martin Li into custody for all the things his dark side has done as Mister Negative. She did the right thing in bringing Martin Li to justice all in George's name. Back down on the ground the NYPD has arrested all the gun smugglers and seized all the illegals arms they brought into the city as they turn to see Ghost-Spider bringing in Martin Li followed by Spider-Man and Kid Arachnid as her backup, Yuri and Jefferson finally got to see the man who killed George Stacy arrested again, justice has been served.


The next morning it's 9:30 AM at Queens cemetery where Gwen is laying flowers upon the headstone of Captain George Stacy, she's in the company of Peter, Miles, May, and Mary Jane who wanted to be here for Gwen as they've got justice for George Stacy again by arresting him and having him back in the Raft where he belongs. Gwen needed to be here to speak with upon her father's grave as she has so much she needed to say to him.

"Hey dad, it's been a while, I miss you so much, I was so lost when you died, I lost everything, my home, my friends, my loved ones, and most importantly myself. I was so haunted by that night when Martin Li took your life right in front of my eyes, and I consumed by vengeance that I wanted to avenge you so badly that I was willing to go so far as to take his life all in your name. But I was wrong, because I know that's not what you've wanted, in the end, I couldn't do it thanks to you and to those I have beside me, with the people who are my family. I wanted to say thank you for everything, you've raised me into the woman I am now, and I'm doing okay, I'll never forget you…. I love you, dad." Gwen said everything she needed to say to her father.

Peter steps up next to Gwen. "And I haven't forgotten that promise I've kept, I'll always take care of your daughter and always be there by her side. I promise to continue your mission in keeping the city safe, to be the hero you've always seen me as, to be Spider-Man. Thank you for everything, George Stacy, you're one of the greatest men I've ever known."

May steps up next to Peter and Gwen. "And Gwen will never be alone, she has a family that will take care of her, I've come to see her as a daughter I've never had, she will be loved with us, I promise you, George."

Gwen, Peter, and May gave their respects to George Stacy as he can finally rest in peace now that Mister Negative is finally back in the Raft and they've got justice for him, Gwen is no longer alone as she has a family here at her side.

"Thank you all for being here." Gwen tells her friends and family.

"Of course, we're all here for you. I'm proud of you, Gwendolyne Stacy, and I know that your father is proud of you too." May smiled at Gwen.

Gwen smiled as she and May hugged each other, Peter, Mary Jane, and Miles all smiled as they're happy for Gwen as she finally gained the closure she need to move on.


It's now 11:18 AM at F.E.A.S.T. as Peter, Miles, and Mary Jane are doing volunteer work here as May is coordinating the employees and volunteers in given them their assignments, Miles is with his mother Rio tending to the injured as Peter and Mary Jane are feeding the homeless in line in need of a meal. All of a sudden Gwen Stacy just entered the shelter after so long, Peter spotted Gwen here coming in.

"Can you take over, MJ?" Peter asking Mary Jane.

"Sure thing, Tiger." Mary Jane agreed.

Mary Jane stayed behind to feed the homeless as Peter left his post and walks away towards Gwen as he's surprised to see her finally here again since she tried her hardest to avoid this place due to it being once owned by Martin Li, he walked up and is finally in front of her.

"Gwen, I'm surprised to see you here, you usually stay away because of this place used to belong to Martin Li." Peter tells Gwen.

"I did, but after confronting Martin Li again, I've finally found the strength to let go and move on. I wanted to see how this place is doing, and from what I'm seeing May has done a great job keeping this place alive and helped a lot of people." Gwen tells Peter.

"Thanks, I'm sure that May would take that as a compliment. By the way, what changed? Why didn't you take your revenge with Mister Negative? You came so close." Peter is curious.

"I wanted to, I was about to, but after hearing you talking about your uncle and telling me what my father would've done, I realize that taking my revenge wouldn't change anything, and I wanted to honor my father by giving him the justice he deserved. Thank you Pete, for never giving up on me." Gwen tells Peter.

"I've never given up on you, Gwen. Like I've said before, I'll always be there for you, you're the love of my life, Gwen Stacy." Peter tells Peter.

"But I'm not the only love in your life obviously." Gwen told Peter.

Peter is stunned. "You know?"

"About you and Mary Jane going on a date to Coney Island? Or the night you both kissed again? Yeah, I know, Mary Jane told me." Gwen knows everything.

"Yeah, I'm sorry Gwen, it just happened all of a sudden." Peter confessed to Gwen.

"Peter, when I was still in London, I called Mary Jane and told her that she needed to be by your side when I couldn't be there for you. I just never imagine that I would come back home and find out that you've grown more closer." Gwen told Peter.

"Neither did I, when you were gone, I pretty much pushed myself into being Spider-Man that I never made time for my life as Peter Parker. One day, MJ came by and asked me out on a date, I gave in, we ended up having so much fun together, it was the best feeling in a while. Later that night, we came back home and she kissed me all of a sudden, and I... kissed her back." Peter confessed to Gwen.

Gwen looked at Peter with the look. "Do you love her?"

"Of course I love her, she's my best friend, I'll always love her." Peter tells Gwen.

"I meant... do you love her in a way like you love me?" Gwen is curious of how Peter felt.

Peter stayed silent until he speaks. "I don't know."

"Then you need to figure it out." Gwen tells Peter.

"Gwen... I love you." Peter tells Gwen.

"And I love you too, Peter. But right now, you need to figure out who you want to be with, me or Mary Jane. Honestly Pete, you'll need some time alone to figure out your feelings and find out who you love the most." Gwen tells Peter.

Gwen leaned in forward and gave him a peak on his lips before she walks away, Peter is feeling more confused than ever before as his relationship with Gwen is now on hold. Peter looks towards Mary Jane working alone feeding the homeless, in the past he never thought about having a romantic relationship with Mary Jane until he suddenly discovered that he has romantic feelings for Mary Jane when he kissed her under the influence of the symbiote, but according to May, the symbiote only brought out what he was feeling inside that he didn't realized yet, that deep down he has feelings for Mary Jane. Now a year later, they've grown closer when Gwen was away, they've dated recently until Mary Jane kissed him by surprise and he liked it. But now Gwen is back and his feelings for her are still the same, she's the love of his life but now he's got another, Mary Jane Watson. Gwen is right, Peter needs some time alone to figure out who he wants to be with, Gwen or Mary Jane.

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