16TH FINALS: SPIDER-MAN VS. WOLVERINE

The crowd became more and more enthusiastic as they saw the men in white jumpsuits remove the protective plastic tent from the teleportation pads and the newly desensitized Iron Man. Once the Golden Avenger walked back to his teammates, which let the cheering people in the Garden know that the tournament was set to continue.

The usual testy Wolverine had a smile on his face, for he knew that his match against Spidey was next, and while he did have some respect for the young hero, his constant talking caused him annoyance and an opportunity for him to shut him up was something he would gladly take. And the X-Man lets the Wall-Crawler know this as he walked up to him and forcibly puts his shoulder. "Ohh, you and me are gonna have some fun, kid!"

Spidey, however, did not share in Wolverine's optimism, as he gave him a somewhat skeptic expression. "Yeah, great, the chance for you to use your claws to turn me into a spider-kabob, I can't wait," the Web-Head said sarcastically. "Relax, Web-Head, I'll go easy on ya," said the feral X-Man, smirk still present.

Needless to say, this answer didn't entirely convince Spidey. "Define 'easy.'"

"Well, for starters, we ain't allowed to kill each other," Wolverine retorted, then held up both of his fists without his trademark claws. "Which is why I'm gonna be using my mitts instead of my claws, meaning I'll just pound some sense into ya rather than slice your sorry butt to pieces. Happy?"

Sadly, Spidey was anything but, as he looked at Wolverine with more uncertainty. "Oh, yeah," he said sarcastically. "That makes me feel so much better."

Wolverine answered the worried Web-Slinger's words with a scoff. "Pansy."

A concerned Ms. Marvel soon stepped in between Spidey and Wolverine to stop their squabbling. "Okay, enough!" she told them both sternly. "Normally, I'd say save it for the match but bear in mind that whichever one of you loses, you're going to be Osborn's prisoners, at least until we figure out a way to free you. So as far as your match goes, make it look convincing, but try not to kill each other!"

Though Spidey still did not felt uneasy about this plan, he could see that there was no other option and thus gave her a nod. "Got it," said Spidey in an uneasy, but understanding tone.

For Wolverine, he was never too keen on taking orders, be it from Cap from his days in the war, or Cyclops when he's with his fellow X-Men. But he felt there was no use in arguing with the new 'leader apparent' in Ms. Marvel, and thus popped his neck to get warmed up. "Well, come on, Web-Head," said the feral mutant as he soon began popping his knuckles. "It's time to make a man out of ya."

Naturally, Spidey grew aggravated by Wolverine's 'tough guy' act, and thus retorted by stepping back, and humorously, bowed and pointed his open left palm at the platforms. "Please, after you. After all, it's age before beauty. Or in you're case, really short and hairy."

Wolverine shook his head irritably at Spidey's quip and thus proceeded to walk over to the teleportation pad.

And for a smiling Wasp, seeing the Web-Head's comeback was enough to make her smile as well as walk up and give him a pad on the back. "Good luck, Bug boy."

"Thanks," Spidey replied gently, and as he turned the pads, he let out a long sigh to try and calm his nervousness. "I'm definitely going to need it." With that said, the Wall-Crawler made his way to the pads, hoping that his match against the feral X-Man wouldn't leave him with too many bruises, or in the worst-case scenario, slash marks or severed body parts.

The enthusiastic announcer addressed the crowd once more. "All right folks, let's go ahead and get the sixteenth finals rolling with a matchup that is...unique to say the least. Meaning that instead of Avenger vs. Thunderbolt, we have Avenger vs. Avenger! In that, we have our Friendly Web-Slinger, Spider-Man, going to to to with the clawed brawler, Wolverine!"

Meanwhile, in their corner, the Thunderbolts look at this development in a mixture of disgust and intrigue. The first to speak up on this development was Atlas, who looked at both Spidey and Wolverine with a smug but interested expression. "So, who do you guys think is going to win this one? The Bug or the Mutie?"

Swordsman did not seem to be so optimistic his size-changing comrade and answered him as he finished sharpening his sword with a rock after his match against the Black Panther. "Who freaking cares?" he told Atlas, then placed his sword back in his sheath. "All I know is that those two are both fighting each other, and they're on the same team, meaning whoever loses, it'll be one less Avenger to worry about."

As for the Patriot, he looked on at the proceedings with the same calm and steady demeanor. "True indeed, Swordsman," he said to his teammate while still looking at both Spidey and Wolverine, but soon narrowed his eyes as he thought this. "But I feel it would benefit our team of BOTH of these men lost the match. With Wolverine getting himself disqualified by chopping the bug to pieces!" One Wolverine stepped on to the pad, the Patriot crossed his arms, and secretly slid his right hand underneath his left elbow and pointed his right index finger at the X-Man's back. As he did this, a small compartment opened up at the Patriot's fingertip and shot out a little, almost bug-like object, too small for anyone in the crowd to see. It wasn't long before the object latched itself on to the back of Wolverine's neck, which made the Patriot smile behind his faceplate. "Which will happen once I give the mutant a little encouragement."

For Wolverine, this felt like a small itch, and thus treated as such by scratching it. Unfortunately, though, he missed the small bug-like object that lodged on to the back of his neck. Though he felt that it itched more, Wolverine decided to ignore it for now and concentrated on winning his match against Spidey. Moments later, both members of the Avengers vanished out of sight and are transported to their unknown destination to begin their fight.

Wolverine and Spidey finally arrived at their fight zone, which was that of a specially made wooden bridge connecting two mountaintops high above the Athabasca River in Alberta, Canada. Wolverine himself recognized this land and took a moment to smell the fresh air. "Home sweet home."

"You're Canadian?" Spidey asked in shock. "I thought you were supposed to be nice?"

This remark caused Wolverine to let out an annoyed scoff. "Never take stereotypes too seriously, kid," said the gruff X-Man, who then pounded his right fist into his open left palm. "Especially when it comes to fightin' somebody like me."

"Oh, I'm enlightened," Spidey replied sarcastically, as well as immediately regretting his last statement.

Back in Nick Fury's safe house, the former S.H.I.E.L.D. director himself, as well as the rest of his colleagues have gone back to watching the tournament on the big computer screen, and have just seen Spidey and Wolverine arrive in Canada. Something in which Nick raise an eyebrow. "Well, it looks like Logan and the Web-Head are about to get started with their match."

Beast saw the match as well as he took one test tube containing the anti-serum out of the centrifuge and sigh as he held it into the barrel of a hand-held injector so he can administer it to Cap, still lying unconscious on a gurney. "Yes, well, here's hoping that Logan will not hurt the boy...too badly."

Gwen, while still looking behind the curtain, also watched the match but now more worried about Peter's well-being than ever once she deduced that he was Spider-Man all this time. "Peter..."

Meanwhile, back in Alberta, the Ref Bot had already floated in between Spidey and Wolverine as they walked towards the center of the bridge to face each other. "Now then," said the announcer once his face appeared on the screen. "I'm sure that you gentlemen are familiar with the rules," Moments later, the announcer commanded the Ref Bot to turn to Wolverine, with a worried expression on his face. "Especially when it comes to your claws?"

The feral X-Man rolled his eyes in annoyance upon that question. "Like I told the Web-Head, bub, you ain't gotta worry about my claws poppin' out."

Though Spidey did trust in Wolverine not using his claws during the match, he still felt uneasy. "Yeah, that still leaves me with having to avoid him pounding me into a paste. Still, that's better than getting sliced into ribbons, and at this point, I'll take what good luck I can get."

Finally convinced that Wolverine was going to 'play it safe,' the announcer commanded the Ref Bot to float up into the air so it can give both the combatants room to have their match. "Well then, let's not waste any time! Gentlemen...BEGIN!"

In the states, the Iron Patriot, just like the rest of his team and everyone else in the Garden, saw the match beginning via the large screen, and thus now was as good as time as any to press a button on his right gauntlet secretly.

Back in Alberta, a smirking Wolverine popped his knuckles and puts up his dukes as he looks at Spidey, who by this time was now in a readied, defensive stance. "All right, Web-Head, let's see how you..." Suddenly, Wolverine felt sheer pain in his head, almost like molten lava was poured into his skull. It was so immense that it caused the usually tough mutant to drop to his knee and scream in agony as he grabbed his head.

Needless to both surprised and worried Spidey, causing the young Web-Head to run over and approach his opponent in concern. "Wolverine, what's wrong?"

Despite the pain, Wolverine heard Spidey's voice and thus looked up to address him. But strangely, instead of seeing the Web-Head, he saw the image of his long hated enemy, Victor Creed, or as he knew him...Sabretooth! Something in which mad the X-Man growl angrily, just like his animal namesake. Moments later, he popped out the claws in his right hand and threw an upward claw slash, with the intent of driving the top of his claws underneath the unsuspecting Spidey's jaw and up into his brain.

Luckily for Spidey though, his spider-sense kicked in just in time, causing him to jump back to avoid the slash. However, even though he prevented the now rabid Wolverine's claws from piercing the bottom of his jaw, he still felt pain in his chest, and as he stopped to look down, he saw three slash marks on his shirt, as well as three bleeding flesh wounds underneath. "YEOW!" Spidey yelled painfully, then looked straight ahead at Wolverine, who was now kneeling and ready to strike like that of a mad dog. "Wolvie, what's your deal?! What happened to the 'no claw'-?!"

Suddenly, Wolverine answered this question by popping out the claws in his left hand, and stands up in an intimidating, aggressive stance, his animalistic growling getting louder and louder by the second.

The worried Spidey soon got back in his defensive posture. "Right...out the window," he thought, then came to this theory as he watched the clawed X-Man foaming from the mouth. "Don't know what, but something is making Wolvie do this! No doubt Osborn's handy work! Need to figure out what it is and free Wolvie from it!" Moments later, he spotted Wolverine propelled himself forward like a torpedo, all while pointing both his clawed hands forward and attempted to drive his claws into Spidey's midsection, forcing the Wall-Crawler to jump up to a flip over the X-Man. As he landed on his feet, Spidey spun around and saw that Wolverine had controlled his fall by rolling forward on the ground, then popping back up and spinning around, ready to attack again. "And do it fast!"

Back in Nick Fury's safehouse, everyone saw Wolverine's savage attack and left them stunned. Especially that of Beast, whose eyes were now wide open with shock and fright upon seeing his friend and fellow X-Man act more violently than usual, and just at the moment when he was about to administer the anti-serum to Cap. "Logan, what on Earth...?!"

Gwen was also horrified by what she just saw and frantically ran out through the curtain and towards the screen. "PETER!" she screamed in panic, only to stop right next to Sarah, who was shocked by Gwen's newfound knowledge of the Web-Head's identity.

But not as much as Nick, who looked at the now mortified Gwen with slight astonishment. "She knows who Parker is?!" he thought to himself as he watched Sarah try to provide Gwen with some comfort, only to shake his head to regain focus at the task at hand and briefly turned to Beast. "Dr. McCoy! You have a patient to tend to over there!"

"Y-Yes! Yes, of course!" Beast replied upon snapping back to reality, then administered the antidote into Cap's system by injecting it into his neck.

As for Nick, he went back to watching the match, not looking the least bit happy was to what was transpiring. "I don't know what the hell's going on," he thought. "But when it comes to Logan, Parker, I hope for your sake that you're just as capable of handling yourself as Rogers and Stark say you are!"

Back in Alberta, Spidey is putting his speed and agility to good use as he dodged every mad claw slash that the crazed Wolverine threw at him. Finally, as Wolverine went for a right claw slash for Spidey's head, the Wall-Crawler ducked underneath it and passed right underneath the feral mutant's right side, running a couple of feet away from him before turning to face him.

Wolverine himself spun around to face Spidey, but before he could charge towards him, the Ref Bot soon floated in front of him to stop his charge and assert his authority. "Now hold on, Wolverine!" said the announcer, sounding nervous, while being in the states. "Excusing the fact that you're not honoring your promise no to use your claws, you are dangerously close to being disqualified! So, I'm going to have to ask you to..."

Irritated by the announcer's voice, Wolverine pulled his left hand back so he can ram his claws into the Ref Bot's screen. However, once he looked to see the fear in the announcer's face, as well as awe in the rest of the people in attendance, all which began to spring memories of his sketchy but violent past. Mainly from people that he grew to care about, from Silver Fox, Mariko, and others, people who told him that he was not an animal, but a man. As such, these members were more than enough to spur the X-Man's will power, and thus allowed him to retract his claws back into his hands and grab his head in pain.

As for the announcer, he was confused by this, but feeling that some order was restored, he mentally commanded the Ref Bot to float back up into the sky.

This allowed Spidey to finally approached Wolverine, but still in a more defensive manner, ready to move if he made another attempt at his life. "I knew it," said Spidey to the ailing X-Man. "Something's making you do this isn't there? Making you act crazy!"

Wolverine heard Spidey's concerned voice, but as he answered, he still struggled to keep focus and prevent himself from attacking him. "Yeah, but I...can't..."

"Yes, you can!" replied the Web-Head, sounding both stern and encouraging, even when he had to revisit their rather unpleasant meeting during the incident involving Kang which first formed the 'New Avengers.' "If you can take out a pack of dinosaurs from the past, I know you can fight off was trying to take you over!"

"Get...away from me, Web-Head...NOW!" Wolverine warned until finally, his will power gave out, and as he looked back up at Spidey, he once again only saw the image of Sabretooth, filling him into a rage once more. As such, he popped his claws out, then propelled himself forward, all the whiling spinning around in a drill-like motion and held his right hand out, attempting to drive the tip of his claws into Spidey's abdomen.

Fortunately, it was an attack that Spidey saw coming and thus jumped and flipped over the X-Man before he could drill through his mid-section. Once Spidey landed on his feet, he knew that he had to restrain Wolverine somehow, and as the Web-Head spun around, he waited for his clawed opponent to flip forward and land on his feet. He then pointed his right hand and shot a web-line, hoping to web-up his upper body.

However, Wolverine could hear the 'twipping' sound that came from Spidey shooting his webbing, all in which made the feral X-Man look over his shoulder to see the web-line coming his way, which according to him, looked like Sabretooth using a whip. As such, the Clawed Canadian spun around and held his right claws in front of his body to block the web-line and stop it from reaching his chest. Moments later, he retracted the claws in his left hand, all so he can use it to grab hold of the line and thus use both arms to yank his end of the web-line back, and in the process, pull Spidey towards him.

As a surprised Spidey flew into the air while heading towards Wolverine, he saw his crazed opponent thrust his right claws forward with the intent of plunging them into the Web-Slinger's masked face. And so, once he got close enough, Spidey used his right land to throw a crescent kick, successfully kicking Wolverine's clawed right hand outward, then threw a left legged round kick, nailing the X-Man in the face and causing him to reel back slightly. After flipping backward and landing safely on a grounded position, Spidey could feel immense pain in his left foot, like he had just kicked a lamp post made out of titanium, something that usually occurred to those who punched or kicked the mutant as they didn't know that his skull, much like the rest of his skeleton, was laced with Adamantium. "Okay, ow!" thought Spidey as he briefly shook his foot. "I knew that Wolvie was hard-headed, but man!"

While Spidey was trying his best to shake off the pain of his last attack, Wolverine shook off the effects from the Web-Head's kick and once again charged towards him.

Fortunately, though, Spidey is just fast to recover as he looked up and saw Wolverine running towards him and driving his right claws downward, thus prompting him to use his right hand to grab the mutant's wrist and stop the attack. As he stood up, Spidey felt his spider-sense tingle once again, causing him to look through the corner of his left eye and see Wolverine using the claws in his left hand and attempt to take the Web-Slinger's head off, thus forcing the masked young man to use his other hand to catch the Clawed Canadian's left wrist, saving himself from getting his head cut off from his shoulders. "Wolverine, listen!" Spidey told the X-Man as they were in a stalemate. "Whatever's controlling you, you have to fight it! You much stronger than...!"

Suddenly, the crazed Wolverine cuts Spidey's speech off by leaning his head back and delivering a massive head-butt to the Web-Slinger's forehead. So hard in fact that it caused Spidey to let go of the feral mutant's wrists and stagger backward aimlessly until he fell backward on his posterior. Afterward, Wolverine jumped up in the air, then pulled his right hand back threw his claws downward, attempting to ram them into the top of the dazed Wall-Crawler's skull.

Spidey, despite the throbbing pain in his head, as well as feeling what could be blood pouring from out of his forehead beneath his mask, was once again alerted by his spider-sense, which incidentally, only made his headache worse. Nevertheless, he is prompted to roll forward and successfully dodge Wolverine's incoming claw attack, causing the feral mutant to plunge his claws into the bridge itself, with an impact so strong, it caused small wooden pieces to fall off. Even with his headache still present, Spidey managed to will himself back up to his feet, and now knew that Wolverine was beyond the point of being able to reason with. "Sorry Wolvie," thought the somewhat saddened Spidey. "If I knew how to stop what's making you do this, I would. But it looks like I'm just going to have to take you down!" With that said, Spidey took his right hand and shot webbing over his left knuckles to create makeshift boxing tape. After using his left hand to web up his right knuckles, the Web-Head ran towards Wolverine as he struggled to pull his claws out of the bridge.

However, the current incapacitated Wolverine saw Spidey coming his way through the corner of his eye, and utilizing his super-strength, he pulled his right claws out of the wood and threw a right rising uppercut, intending to stab the Wall-Crawler's gut.

Luckily, Spidey noticed this and thus stopped and leaned back just in time to avoid the slash, but barely. As Spidey popped back up, he saw that Wolverine was going for a left claw slash, and after holding up the left hand to catch the X-Man's wrist, Spidey responded by throw a webbing enhanced right hook to the jaw, which stunned the feral mutant, but didn't get him off of his feet. "Go to sleep, go to sleep," thought the desperate Web-Head as he released the dazed Wolverine's wrist so he can throw a left hook to the face, followed by a right uppercut, which to his disappointment, only made the clawed mutant stagger backward, not knock him down. "PLEASE, go to sleep!"

Though reeling at first, Wolverine recovered fast enough to see Spidey going for another left hook, thus forcing him to use his left arm to block the blow, and threw a straight jab in order to ram his claws into the Web-Head's masked face.

Spidey anticipated this though, and luckily, he not only ducked underneath the slash but also passed underneath Wolverine's right side and ended up behind him. As the Wall-Crawler spun around, he saw that Wolverine, now even more livid, go for a left backhand slash. Acting fast, Spidey held up his left arm, which made contact with Wolverine's forearm, stopping the slash. The Web-Head later responded by throwing a quick right punch into Wolverine's underarm, causing him to wince in pain and bend down slightly. This proved to be the opening Spidey needed, and thus pulled his right fist back and delivered a hard right cross to Wolverine's temple, which was strong enough to bring the X-Man down on his knees.

Even while knocked loopy, this attack only angered Wolverine further, and thus while still in a kneeling position, he turned and spun around like a top and held his claws outward, intending to slice Spidey's legs off right from underneath him.

Thankfully for Spidey, this action alerted his spider-sense, and thus jumped up and backflipped just in time to avoid having his legs chopped off. As he landed on his feet, Spidey kept his eyes on Wolverine, still throbbing at the mouth as he stood up. "Okay, tactic of knocking out a now more homicidal Wolverine is clearly ineffective," he thought as he got back in a defensive stance, then sets his sights on Wolverine's belt buckle. "Only way to stop this now is to hit that belt buckle, all the while trying not to get turned into sushi."

Meanwhile, back in the Garden, the crowd watched the match with a mixture of excitement and fear. While the rest of the Avengers stood and watched in horror at what Wolverine's vicious attack on Spidey, the Thunderbolts looked pleasantly surprised at what was transpiring. Most notably, the Iron Patriot, who watched the match with an evil smile behind his faceplate, taking pleasure in seeing Spidey in peril for how he foiled his plans on becoming the Big Man of New York as the Green Goblin.

Back in Alberta, Spidey is still fighting for his life as he dodged one claw slash after the next. Finally, after ducking a left claw slash, Spidey responded by throwing a right uppercut into the X-Man's jaw while jumping up, causing both him and the feral mutant to end up in the air. The airborne Web-Head later capitalized by using his left fist to throw a hard downward hook, nailing Wolverine in the face and sending him down to the bridge so hard, it caused more wooden pieces to fall off.

While down, Wolverine shook his head and looked up to see Spidey coming down and about to stomp both of his feet into his belt buckle, thus forcing the X-Man to save himself by rolling backward, and making Spidey stomp the bridge instead.

However, as Wolverine rolled back on to his feet and Spidey stood ready to attack again, he soon found out that his rough landing on the bridge made a creepy, screeching sound. One in which caused the now scared and wide-eyed Web-Head's spider-sense to tingle, thus confirming what he feared was happening to the platform he and Wolverine were fighting on. "Oh no...!"

Finally, after taking so much abuse from both Spidey and Wolverine jumping and slamming on to it, the wooden bridge gave out as both of its sides broke off from the cliffs they were attached to, thus causing the bridge itself to fall to the raging waters below. Fortunately for both Spidey and Wolverine though, they managed to stay on the falling broken bridge in their own ways, with Wolverine driving his claws into the wood and with Spidey using his hands and feet to cling and stick to the surface. It wasn't long before the broken bridge hit the water, and was now a makeshift raft that was being whisked away by its rushing currents.

Both Spidey and Wolverine stood up and took a moment to find their balance on the raft, which proved to be a difficult challenge. However, Wolverine is the first to recompose himself, then rushed forward and thrust the claws in his right hand forward, attempting to stab Spidey's chest.

Seeing this, Spidey quickly jumped and flipped over Wolverine, narrowly dodging his stab attempt. While he was in mid-air, however, Spidey knew that for his strategy to destroy Wolverine's belt buckle to work, he would need both of his feet. As such, the Web-Head shot webbing on both of his feet, and by the time he landed and balanced on the raft, he now was wearing 'web-shoes.'

As for Wolverine, he stopped himself before he reached the edge of the raft, barely saving himself from falling into the water. As he spun around, he saw that Spidey is now facing him in a defensive position, and thus charged towards him once more and threw a left-handed claw slash.

Fortunately for Spidey though, he ducked sideways to the right side to avoid the claw slash, and as he saw Wolverine throwing a right-handed hammer blow, the Wall-Crawler held up his left arm to block the attack, then responded by throwing a quick right hook into the mutant's right side, stunning him. Afterward, the Web-Head threw a right legged front kick, aiming for Wolverine's belt buckle with hopes of ending the match.

However, the feral X-Man instinctively threw his right arm downward and managed to block the kick and push Spidey's foot outward, then threw his left hand in a jab fashion so he can use his claws to stab his large, white eye lenses.

Naturally alarmed by this, Spidey ducked to save his face from the claws, and as he popped back up, he threw and landed a left jab to Wolverine's face, followed by a right cross, which knocked him loopy and creating the opening he needed to throw a right legged sidekick, with the Clawed Canadian's belt buckle his target.

Unfortunately for the Wall-Crawler, Wolverine recovered and stopped the attack by using not his claws, but his bare hands, stop the kick by catching Spidey's ankle. With a firm grip, Wolverine used his great strength to spin the Web-Head around and threw him high into the air and intending to throw him into the water.

In the act of pure desperation, the airborne Spidey pointed both of his hands at the raft, shot two web-lines and once hit and stuck to the wooden surface, he zipped back towards Wolverine, all the while pulling curling his legs back and going for a mule kick to the feral X-Man's chest in an attempt to pin him down.

Wolverine spotted this attack coming and dashed over to the left side, causing Spidey to miss his target and narrowly avoided going over the raft by putting his fingers on the wood and sticking to it just in the nick of time and ending up in a crouching position.

After saving himself, Spidey looked to the left and saw Wolverine jumping towards him like a missile and pointed his claws straight forward. And thus acting by pure instinct, Spidey leaned back to allow Wolverine to pass over him and barely avoid getting impaled by his claws. In the process, he placed both of his hands on the raft, all the while curling his legs into his chest, and as he pushed upward, he kicked both of his feet straight up and succeeded in kicking and destroying Wolverine's belt buckle. Afterward, the Web-Head used both of his legs to throw Wolverine off of the raft, allowing the yellow energy to consume and freeze him solidly as he landed on the edge of a nearby water bank. As for Spidey himself, he ended up back into a crouching position and later took a moment to look around and spotted the frozen Wolverine on the water bank and lets out a loud sigh of relief. "Finally!" he said to himself, glad that at least the danger of Wolverine slashing him to bits was over. However, his fear returned when he felt his spider-sense tingling once again, forcing him to turn and see that the raft was now approaching a waterfall. "Oh, of course!" Act fast, Spidey pointed his right hand out towards a nearby tree on the edge of the river, shot a web-line, which mad a direct hit on the tree's trunk and zipped off of the raft as it finally went over the waterfall and broke apart once it hit the sharp-edged rocks at the bottom.

Spidey managed to stick to the tree by using his fingertips to touch the wood, and after saving himself, the Ref Bot floated down towards him so the viewers around the world could see him and allow the announcer to say this. "Here is your winner...Spider-Man!"

Spidey didn't hear the cheers from the Avengers, nor the boos from the Thunderbolts fans coming from the Ref Bot's screen, for he was too preoccupied at looking over and watching the still-frozen form of Wolverine just a few feet away from him. "I really am sorry about this, Wolveie," Spidey thought. "I, as well as Mr. Stark and the others, will figure out a way to free you...and I can hear either a well deserved 'Thanks' or 'sorry for nearly killing you.'" Afterward, he turns his attention back to the Ref Bot's screen, and upon spotting the Patriot, angrily narrowed his eyes at him. "Okay Gobby, if you want to play hardball...I'm game!"

WINNER: SPIDER-MAN