Disclaimer: I know I'm drunk right now but I don't own Spider-man I am Spider-man, no really I was on local news for being Spider-man at the tasm 2 set…. Anyway.
Webhead volume 25
'hey there it's me again Spider-man and I'm at doctor curt connors house right now because for about a month now this black suit has been messing with my mind and I trust the doc to figure out how to help me. Help? What do we need help for? We gave the prowler exactly what he deserved, it's not our fault that no one can appreciate the work we do. Jean, yuri, harry, may and gwen none of them really care what happens to us! No stop that's not true! We no I need Curt's help! See the problem here?'
Meanwhile Curt just seems less than willing to help our hung up hero covered in the black, slippery, slimey, substance "you need my help? That's probably the funniest thing you've ever said Spider-man, I'm just a washed up alcoholic, a disgraced scientist I'm no help to anyone." By the wall crawler in fact stopped crawling the connors kitchen wall and slowly approached his former teacher desperately trying to hold on to his own thoughts. "No you're wrong! Doctor connors you're New Yorks top bio geneticist, you have done amazing things things that have really helped people don't like the lizard incident take that away." Seemingly getting through to the one armed scientist curt eagerly asks "how may I be of assistance" "this suit, I think it's affecting my mind making me angry and violent. I need it analyzed"
Meanwhile after yuri watanabe once again failed to capture the vigilante she hated formerly red, blue and annoying but now black and aggressive making him even more of a threat in her eyes. she enters the precinct run by captain jean dewolff only to see a file sitting at her desk, a court document implementing judge Lincoln with various kingpin crimes from judge Lincoln's own files no less. "Well I'll be damned. All units bring in L. Thompson lincoln, he's considered extremely dangerous." She called over her radio after the initial shock wore off.
"After several tests I have concluded that your suit is actually a sentient being, It's truly amazing! Where did it come from?" The fascinated former reptile man asked with such raw excitement. "Oscorp, where else" was the web heads simple response after all that company is a monument to dangerous and unethical experiments. "Right…. Well anyway we have to get that suit off of you, it seems it may have a vulnerability to certain frequencies I could try to….." but he never got to finish his sentence when the spider phone rang. "Kid I don't know what's been going on with you but we could really use your help! Lincoln is like some kind of monster, we can't stop him!" Jean screamed with a desperation he hasn't yet heard from her even when he was pounding in the prowler. "Be right there captain! (He then hangs up turning his attention to doctor connors) I've gotta go but I'll be back soon!" As he then moves towards the window "what do you think you're doing?! Are you out of your mind! You've got to get that suit off!" "I can't wait around with that while people are in danger! Besides I need it!" He shouts at the doctor barley keeping it together before swinging away towards the fight.
In queens next door to a beat up looking townhouse rented by the parkers is the home of the watsons and one stacy. MJ was out on the town at the moment doing who knows what, the red headed watson and blonde haired stacy have been sharing a room for the time being where said stacy has put two and two together. 'ever since I found out he's been acting different but it almost fluctuates like he's not always in control of himself, right around when he got that new black suit that definitely doesn't suit him. Wow lame puns inside my own head? That's taking the whole couples start to resemble each other WAY too far! But it's obviously that suit doing something to him, if only there was a way I could help get through to him…' deciding that she needed to call the only other person that knows Peter's secret she went to H in her phones contacts.
"Gwen?" The young and wealthy heir ask with both confusion and concern, after she learned just what him and Pete were hiding from her harry figured she didn't want to talk to either of them again so whatever this is about must be important. "Harry have you noticed pete's erratic behavior the past few weeks? Well I think it's because…." "It's because of you treating your boyfriend who risks his life every day, just like your dad did, like a criminal! That's what's making him so stressed gwen." Harry more than angrily interrupted the young blonde overachiever "I know I haven't been very fair to him but Harry I don't think that's it. That black slimey suit of his, I don't think it's just a costume I think it's affecting his mind! He came back on Christmas with that suit after he stopped those sinister six at oscorp. Any chance you know of anything that could explain whatever that is?" Suddenly struck with an epiphany the young osborn exclaims "wait did you say black and slimey? There was this second skin project my dad was working on last year, it was supposed to be some adaptable lightweight armor or something but there was a glitch it started thinking on it's own and became too dangerous." 'well at least I know pete's only been a dick about everything because of this suit now if only I could figure out a way to get it off AND if I still want to be with him'
Spidey arrives at the courthouse to find the cops shouting the criminal judge point blank without it affecting him while the pale skinned crook is equally returning fire when the both the crook and the hero notice a familiar sargent. "Barbara! You ratted me out didn't you!? Did the boss tell you to or was this all your idea!" The walking tombstone shouted to the angry and apparently crooked cop before charging up and crushing his skull. "Nooooo! He may have been dirty but he didn't deserve that!" The spider teen yelled out while attacking with such raw furry.
Even with the black goo made suit Spidey was never going to overpower tombstone and the mutated mobster threw him flying off into the bell tower down the block, the goo splattered off all over when his limp body made contact with the bell causing it to ring with booming thunder. It was at this point tombie become bored and thought he'd spice it up with a hostage, a young red headed, feisty attitude girl by the name of Mary Jane watson.
'MJ?! No! I couldn't beat tombstone with the strength that black suit gave me, even if it did take over my mind, how am I gonna stop him now while he has MJ hostage!?' but before he could even begin to think of a solution a familiar glider flew up in front of him but with a different occupant… instead of the manically madman in a goblin themed green and purple armor suit he saw a younger individual short and skinny like his own spider self wearing a very tactical looking black armored suit with green highlights and a metallic green helmet more akin to ironman. "Need a hand dude?" The no longer mysterious goblin tech wannabe hero asked the doubtful web swinger 'he didn't?' "harry!? Are you nuts? What are you doing?! This is way too dangerous!" "Well I was here to get the second skin off you but it seems you already took care of that so I guess I'll help you save MJ. Come on pete I can help! Trust me!" Really not wanting to anyone else in such danger but not seeing any other options he reluctantly agreed. "ok. I need you to distract him." He told the new goblin hero his thinly conceived and generally half baked plan but it was all they had if they were going to save mary jane.
Harry did as he was told: distracting tombstone in ways that including annoyingly flying around his head until he loosened his grip on the firey teenage musician enough for a certain arachnid hero to swoop in and pry her out of his seemingly invulnerable and pale hands. When he set her down on top of a nearby but not too nearby building mj had started recording him on her phone "why do you do what you do? With your powers and how the police treat you, why would you still risk yourself to help them when they wouldn't do the same?" She asked the young hero out of nowhere. "When you can do the things that I can you have to help those who can't. With great power comes great responsibility." But this "interview" was interrupted by shouts of desperation and fear "hey Spider-man! I could use some help over here if you're not too busy!" Yelled the armored up harry as he desperately tried to avoid tombstone knocking him out of the air.
"Making we could frank him! You got any knock out bombs or something in that thing?" The super powered teen asked his best friend side by side with him as they fought an indestructible gangster posing as a judge. "I don't have any knockout bombs! All I've got are these darts but even if we could get close enough it doesn't seem like anything can break his skin!" 'oh wow this is a bad idea' "we need to get him to drink it! Harry I need you to launch me in as close as you can!" "You sure about this man?" "No but it's all we've got! Do it!" As harry gave him the trank darts Spidey webbed himself onto the glider harry raced towards the unstoppable judge before suddenly stopping sending the red and blue hero hurtling towards the criminal pouring the sedative contents down his throat before painfully crashing into him. "Tombstone down, citizens safe, day saved so how about we get out of here before the chief tries to arrest us both this time buddy?" The battered and bruised hero asked his best friend and perhaps hero partner that then proceeded to give him a lift out of there "hey harry I appreciate your help and you handled yourself great but you really shouldn't make a habit of doing this, it's way too dangerous. Oh and harry? Do you know any good chiropractors?"
The next morning at the watson house mary jane is waking her blonde science nerd roommate up earlier than usual and clearly excited about something "hey girl you've got to check this out!" It was a blog she had started some time ago that is suddenly blowing up from her new video she posted up on it after she got home last night. "MJ… you recorded Spider-man? And posted it online?" The tired and still mentally conflicted girl asked "not just recorded, interviewed well kinda, I didn't exactly get much chance what with the invulnerable gangster wrecking shit but man it's going viral. Not just that though, gwen it actually felt right asking questions and stuff maybe I should give journalism a chance…." But before any further discussions could be made MJs aunt Anna watson called gwen out into the living room to find quite the pleasant surprise: george stacy in the flesh was standing there in front of his daughter free and cleared. "Hey gweny"
A/N well the symbiote Spider-man saga is over, george is finally out of prison, harry has started to try and be a goblin hero, and MJ is now on the path to being a reporter. My tombstone is kind of a combination of the spectacular Spiderman cartoon and the ps4 game, the cop he killed sargent michael Barbara was based on the live action character from the 70s tv show and he was one of many in the kingpins pocket. Until next time true believers!