Spider-Man has had enough games and is getting serious now. Hydra is all that's left from saving this city or causing a complete catastrophe. No matter how he's feeling, Paul has to beat him. He needs to get the antidote from him or else it's over for his mother and the city. With a news chopper overhead, all eyes were on this fight.
"Give me the antidote!" Paul demanded.
"As if you even have the right to order me!" Hydra said as he stretched out his dragon heads and went on the attack, but Spider-Man did what he always did best. He moved around and avoided each of them, trying to close the distance between the two. Seeing as how the rest of his body was mechanical, Paul went straight for his face. However, Hydra knocked him away and tried shooting him with lasers. Paul recovered quickly and moved around as best as he could to avoid them. "I'm surprised you can even move after the thrashing you've been given lately."
"It doesn't matter how much pain I'm feeling. As long as I can breathe and move, I'll fight!" Paul claimed.
"A situation that can easily be fixed." Hydra claimed. He stretched out his dragon heads at him, but Paul jumped in the air and shot as much webbing as he could. The webs tried to get those heads to stick together and get tangled up. "I see you're getting crafty, but it's not enough!" Hydra shouted. He jumped in the air and tried to come straight down him smashing every bit of him into Spider-Man, but he jumped out of the way. However, the impact did free himself.
"People are dying! Give me the antidote!" Paul demanded.
"I'll give the antidote after you're torn to shreds!" Hydra shouted as he stretched out the dragon heads at them. They smashed against Paul and knocked him off the roof, but Paul used his webs and shot himself straight back up there and landed down.
"Harris is right. I need to find a weakness, but where?" Paul said as he tried to figure this out. Hydra unleashed a series of lasers at him, but Paul kept moving. Knowing it's too dangerous to stay in one spot for very long, he kept moving to try and find an opening. "Most of his body is mechanical now, and he's a lot stronger than when he was before. There must be..." He tried to figure it out, but he took noticed of the red piece right at the center of his chest. "That's it! That might be it!"
"Time to die, Spider-Man!" Hydra shouted as he stretched out the dragon heads at him again, but Paul moved fast and took cover behind an air conditioning unit. "For years, I waited for this day! The city that you love so much shall be destroyed!"
"All of this is for what, Hydra?! Is this all for revenge on me?! You'll destroy the city just so you can get even with me?!" Paul said.
"You are the pinnacle of my rage and anger!" Hydra shouted. "Do you know that I devoted my life to White Streak?! He saw something in me that no one else ever did! Then, you came around and ruined everything!" He unleashed his dragon heads again and tore through the unit trying to tear Spider-Man to shreds. "You just kept ruining everything for me, so I will ruin the city that you clearly love so much! I'll only bestow the cure on everyone when they surrender the city to White Streak and Christoph Silvio becomes White Streak again!" He ceased his attack and noticed that Spider-Man was gone.
"That's completely insane!" Paul shouted as he came up behind him and had a blade from a fan on him. He threw it as hard as he could right at the center of Hydra, but Hydra was able to deflect it. However, Paul was able to get in close enough and land a powerful strike right against Hydra's face. Paul tried aiming fight for the spot in the center, but Hydra easily knocked him away. "Hydra, Christoph is done being White Streak! You can't force him to become that again!"
"I realized that just before I dropped him, so I will take this city!" Hydra shouted as he kept trying to attack him. "It was White Streak who brought out the real me! I'll just simply return the favor by reminding him who he is!"
"Hydra, this is all insane! You're not thinking clearly!" Paul shouted.
"What do you know?!" Hydra shouted as he unleashed all five of his dragon heads at once, but Paul jumped right through all of them. Hydra tried getting them to turn around and attack him from behind, but Paul swung himself around and got behind Hydra again. He kicked Hydra right in the back with all his might and got him to move back. When Hydra turned to him, Paul kept landing blow after blow against him. He was even getting Hydra to move back as they were getting closer and closer to the edge. He then went for it and smashed his fist right in the center of Hydra. As much as his fist hurt from that, Hydra seemed concerned.
"That's it! That spot on your chest really is your weak spot!" Paul claimed. "That must be your core or such!" He gave it a good kick and had Hydra pushed all the to the edge of the building. It seemed like he was winning, but he saw Hydra holding the cure and he knew he couldn't lose it. Paul reached for it, but Hydra moved it out of his way and hit Paul right across the face to have him knocked down. Paul is badly bruised and hurt, but he keeps trying to keep going. "Hydra, you can't change things like this."
"You don't know what it's like not having the person that made you who you are around anymore!" Hydra shouted. Those words really got to him because Paul does know what that's like. "This means everything to me! What do you know?!"
"A lot more than you..." Paul said as his anger was pushing him. "It might mean everything to you, but it means a lot more...to me!" He shouted as he leaped right at Hydra and tackled him off the building. The two kept trying to hit each other until Hydra pushed him off. The both of them tried sticking to the building and now this fight was happening on the wall of it. "Can't stop... Can't let up for a moment..." Paul told himself as he kept on relentlessly attacking Hydra. "If I give in, I lose! Have to finish this!"
"You damn arachnid!" Hydra shouted as he tried to attack back, but it was harder for him. Hydra couldn't stick to the wall as well as Spider-Man could. He was trying his best to hold on, but Paul's attacks were pushing him further and further down. Hydra tried smashing the dragon heads into the wall and have them attack him from beneath him, but he was able to jump out of the way and avoided each of them. When the last one popped up, he grabbed it and twirled himself around on it and threw himself right at Hydra, continuing his attacks.
"You can't change things like this Hydra!" Paul shouted as he grabbed a hold of him. "You've shown you have a lot of brain and power, but you could have done so much good with it! Look at what you've done instead!"
"And be weak like you? I don't think so!" Hydra shouted. He coiled one of his extensions around Paul and smashed him against the wall a few times. He tightened his hold and aimed one of the heads right at him, but Paul did his best to hold it back. "That's the real difference between you and me, Spider-Man. You don't have what it takes to make the hardest of decisions." He said as he was getting ready to fire another laser right through Paul's head.
"You think so?" Paul questioned as he had some ideas popped into his head. Everything he's ever done, everything choice in his life he had to made that affected those around him, all of it brought him to this moment. As Hydra held the antidote right in his hands to taunt him, Paul knew what he had to do. "I...beg...to differ!" Paul shot a line and used it to blind Hydra. It distracted him just for a second, but it was long enough for Paul to take the dragon head and smashed it right against Hydra's core just before it fired. The laser cut right through Hydra's own armor and damaged his own core. Hydra couldn't hold himself on the wall and he began to fall. "The antidote!" Paul couldn't afford to lose that, but it was time to end this once and for all. He dived down and went straight for it. Paul shot a couple lines to latch on to Hydra. Once he had that, he shot a third line to a building and swung as hard as he could with Hydra being dragged with him. Once that happened, he threw as hard as he could and smashed into another building with Paul falling in with him. Hydra ended up crashing against the wall, but he finally dropped the antidote. Luckily, Paul acted fast enough and was able to catch it just before it hit the floor. He could finally breathe in relief now that he got it back.
"Curse... Curse you..." Hydra said as he didn't look that good. The core acted like his heart and now his heart was damage.
"It's over, Hydra." Paul said as he stood up. "You don't know as much about me as you think. I had to make hard choices, I lost people I cared about, the very people who made me who I am today. Even so, I survived. You are weak, Hydra. Weaker than you might think."
"I... I hate you..." Hydra complained. "Still, I also know you won't leave me to suffer life this. So go on and be the hero. You won't leave me to die. It... It goes against your little moral code." He's right. Leaving Hydra to die like this goes against what Paul knows as Spider-Man.
"I told you... I've made many hard choices in my life. I never wanted people to suffer from my choices, but no matter what I tried, it happens. It wasn't easy choices to make, but I had to do what needed to be done. This one... This one isn't so hard." Paul said as he just turned away from him and left him there.
"Wait... Get back here... I'm not done with you...! Spider-Man!" Hydra called as his robotic body began to shut down and his organic parts dying. Hydra was long gone, but it looks like that was the last of him.
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The Shelter
Paul was able to make it back to the shelter with the antidote. He gave it to Jean to have it analyzed to see if it can really cure the virus. However, Paul's mother doesn't have much time left. Everyone gathered around to see what was going to happen.
"It's working! The antidote is eliminating the virus!" Jean said as she finally shared some good news, but it wasn't really all that good. "There is one problem. This small batch alone isn't enough. We need to make more and that's going to take time." Time Trisha doesn't need, but Paul can't lose his mother.
"What if we used it on someone right now?" Paul asked.
"We won't have enough to duplicate it and save everyone. We would have to start from scratch." Jean said. This wasn't looking good at all Trisha doesn't have the time to wait. Both he and Marcus aren't ready to say goodbye to their mother, at least not like this.
"Come on, everyone. Let's give them some time alone." Harris said as everyone cleared out and left the Porter family alone. There was really nothing else anyone can do. That left the Porter family alone to talk.
"Come on, Mom. Just try to hang on a little longer." Marcus pleaded as the two boys stood with her.
"Paul... Take off your mask. I want to see my son's face." Trisha said with what little strength she had. Paul did what she said as he removed his mask so she could see her eldest son. "You did it, Paul... You saved the city..."
"Yeah... Still, I need to save you." Paul said. "I can't lose you like I lost Dad and Peter."
"Paul... You've done all you can." Trisha said. "I'm proud of you... I'm proud of both of you and all that you two have done. I'll be sure to tell your father all that he didn't know."
"Mom, please don't talk like that!" Marcus said.
"The antidote can save you!" Paul claimed. This was the hardest moment of his life. He has the antidote that can save her, but he can't use it. The two of them couldn't stop themselves from crying. 'This isn't fair... I couldn't save her last time, and I can't save her now? I risked everything... My life... My marriage... I risked it all to save her just to come back full circle?!' "I don't know what to do."
"It's going to be okay." Trisha said as she knew her time was near. "I know you'll do the right thing. I love both of you." Trisha began to enter her deep sleep. Paul and Marcus just stood there and watched their mother die. Paul just couldn't let it happen as he grabbed the antidote and was about to use it, but then he can't save everyone else who has been infected. To let New York live, his mother had to die. She believed he would do what's right and he can't forsake that. After making another hard decision, all that could be heard now was the sound of crying and a machine flat lining.
...
"No matter what I do... No matter what I try... There's always going to be someone who suffers from the choices I made. No matter how hard I try to prevent that, I can't. Still, in order to do what is right, we have to make the hardest of decisions, and that's exactly what I did... Even if that meant I had to give up on someone I love."
Thanks to Paul's sacrifice, the antidote was made much sooner and faster. The city was cured and people were getting better. Still, there were some casualties. Funerals were held those who did lose their lives, including Trisha Parker. Paul and all his friends and loved ones were there to honor her memory as she was buried next to her husband. At least she'll be with him again.
"Life came back to New York. The virus was gone and everything was returning back to normal. Sabastian and his men went back to their home country. Since the virus wasn't a threat anymore, they didn't need to stick around. Finally. However, Christoph blames himself for all of this. So, he made a tough choice himself."
Ryker's was running again, so all the criminals were sent back there. Sabastian and his men were no longer in New York and many were glad they were gone. However, Sabastian blames himself for what the city went through and could think of only one way to make amends.
"It is with a heavy heart that I am shutting down my company." Christoph claimed to the news. "My company was the one responsible for making the virus in the first place. I was also responsible for creating Hydra, the man responsible for all of this in the first place. I've tried doing good, but it seems all I do is cause trouble. So... This is the end..."
"I never would have thought that Christoph would do that, but no one could talk him out of it. as for my friends, it was all normal for there. Thomas and Lindsay still help me fight crime while living their own lives. Harris and Jessica are still doing the best they can in raising a family and Harris becoming a lawyer. As for Sabella, she stuck around New York, but I don't see her around that often. Ray is still a police officer and is making his way up the ranks. Jean went to live on her life, but we still keep in touch. As for my brother, he's still trying to make his mark on the world."
Months have passed since the virus was terminated. All of Paul's friends went on with their lives and they were all doing rather well.
"This whole experience had me thinking of that evil dimensional counterpart of myself. He couldn't save the people he loved. He had to make tough decisions himself and look how he turned out. Still, I don't feel whatever it was he felt. I'm still pushing on ahead. I can't help but wonder what could have went differently if I did something different in each choice I made. It's a lot... More than a lot... An ordinary person couldn't handle it, but I'm not an ordinary person. I just..."
"Oh my gosh! Are you narrating or something?!" Monica interrupted. Paul just sat in bed and stared out the window, thinking about all that has happened to him until Monica came in. Since things were going back to normal, the two of them were back on track with their relationship.
"Uh... No... Maybe... What is it?" Paul asked. Paul had to make very hard choices in his life, as do most people. That's just how life works. Sometimes they can lead to awful times, but there are good times ahead. Just like how Monica couldn't stop smiling and showed a stick that said positive on it. Paul couldn't believe it. He does wish things could have gone differently, but he never would have changed anything because it was all those times that brought him to where he is. Sometimes you will fall, but all you really need to do is rise back up.