"Oh, your apartment was much safer!" Lois said, looking over at Mary Jane.
They were in a plain, empty room but behind the bars was a richly furnished living room. Lois and Mary Jane were actually hanging on a chain attached to the ceiling by their hands.
"This was a freak occurrence," replied Mary Jane.
"Speaking of freaks…" said Lois.
Green Goblin came into the living room and said, "Good to see you ladies up. I was beginning to think you all might not wake up at all."
"Cut the crap, Green Elf-" began Lois.
"Goblin!" he shouted.
"Whatever. What do you want with us?" Lois asked.
"Nothing with you. I'm contented to just leave you hanging. Mary Jane on the other hand, I want you to marry me.
"Why would I marry a creep like you? You belong behind bars or in a mental institute," said disgusted Mary Jane.
Green Goblin took off his mask.
"Harry?" cried a disbelieving Mary Jane, "You can't be the Green Goblin. We've been attacked together by him together!"
"That was my father who was killed by Spiderman. I'm getting my revenge. I'm unstoppable now because I have my father's diary and money. I won't make the same mistakes he did."
"Harry, it was an act of self-defense. If you only knew who Spiderman is," pleaded Mary Jane.
"I do and that's why I know what a traitor my ex best friend is," he said.
"Please, let us get you help. You don't want to do this," cried Mary Jane.
"I'm going to let you think my proposal over and if the answer's still no, I think I'll just dispose of you both."
Harry put his mask back on and went to leave, but Spiderman came crashing through the window. Clark walked in through the door.
Spiderman and Green Goblin began to fight. They punched and kicked. Spiderman threw out an occasional wisecrack to make Green Goblin angry and more careless.
Mary Jane heard the chain rattling and looked over at Lois. She was getting into it like she was at a wrestling match. She was causing the chain to swing by imaginary kicking and punching. She was also whooping and whistling in Spiderman's favor, of course. She yelled, "Spiderman, duck!"
Spiderman did but more because of his spider sense than Lois' yelling. He just missed the dagger that Green Goblin had gotten off the wall and had been hiding.
A great gust of wind from the other side of the room blew Green Goblin back against the wall and Spiderman quickly bound him up with his web. The girls looked around and decided it must have come from the open window.
Spiderman opened the cell door and freed Mary Jane and was about to get Lois down, when Clark insisted that he take Mary Jane home and finish the party. He mentioned the party part out of Lois hearing range. He said he would see that Green Goblin got to jail.
Clark, Lois, and Green Goblin were left alone. Green Goblin was still unconscious from being knocked against the wall.
"I'm waiting, Smallville!"
"On what?"
"For you to get me down!"
"Why? This is a rare opportunity. It's not every day one sees Lois Lane hanging helplessly from the ceiling."
"You'd better get me down, Clark Kent or I'll tell your mother."
"She's in Smallville. I'll tell you what, I'll make a deal with you. Say 'Clark is an intelligent, handsome hunk of a man and he's my hero' and then I'll get you down."
"In your dreams, Kent."
Clark turned like he was going to walk off and Lois said, "Fine. You win. Clark is an intelligent, handsome hunk of a man."
"And?"
"And he's my hero. Happy?"
"Very."
He got her down and they walked over to Green Goblin.
"I wonder who this guy is?" asked Clark
"His name is Harry. Apparently, he's an old friend of Mary Jane and Spiderman."
"Harry Osborne? The owner of Oscorp.?"
"I guess."
"Does Spiderman know?"
"Do I look like a mind reader?"
"He must not. I guess Mary Jane will tell him. We'd better get him to the police before he wakes up."
Later that night at Lois' apartment…
Lois was in her robe and was about to go to bed when there was a knock at the door. It was Clark.
"Do you know what time it is? This had better be an emergency," said sleepy Lois.
"I just wanted to give you a neighborly hello."
"Well, let me just give you a-neighborly? What do you mean by that?"
"I've rented out the apartment beside you."
"You think I can't take care of myself, you macho farm boy? You better unrent it."
"It's a free country. Besides, you won't have to spend the night with other people anymore. You'll be able to depend on your next-door-neighbor."
"What happened with Green Goblin was once in a lifetime. This isn't Smallville full of meteor freaks. You have crime but not criminals with powers or fancy gadgets."
Lois was wrong. Another major villain would show up in February. Meanwhile, they had survived their first week as interns. Now if they could only survive as neighbors.