Peter was later on pacing back and forth in the living room while Madeline was making a police statement at her home. But they know they won't do anything for another day, and by that time MJ can be dolled up and somewhere to be found. So it's up to them to find and save her.
"It's gonna be okay." Oliver tried to calm down his brother while he waits for some news from his team to find her.
"I can't believe that right now, Ollie. I know you're trying to help, but your helping isn't helping." Peter stated as he dropped down on the couch. "I can't lose her, Ollie. I already lost Ned, and if I lose her..."
"Hey, hey, hey." Oliver dragged his brother over and hugged him. "MJ's strong. I don't know her as well as you do, but she's strong."
"Yeah, she is." Peter laughed as he remembered how they met.
It was a few days after Oliver and his father were reported dead, and he was still kinda a mess. He thought he was ready to go back to school. But the whole time he was there he felt empty, lost, and alone.
Once the bell rang, everyone raced out of class, all except for this small group of kids. They were all huddled and were discussing something.
The two boys of the group were on their way out the door, but the girl turned back and sat down next to Peter and asked what's wrong.
"Hi, I'm Mary Jane. Is everything okay?" Mary asked.
That was the day he met Harry Osborn, Mary Jane Watson, and Ned Leeds. His only three friends.
Just then, Oliver's phone went off, showing that his team has something. "Somethings come up, you gonna be okay?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine." Peter promised when he saw Anya was gesturing for him to come up.
Peter raced upstairs and made it to the Spider's Nest where Anya was behind the computer and Miles was working on getting into his suit.
"Okay, I pulled up every security camera in the vicinity of where MJ lives, and the officer there, seems a George Stacy, he reported that he saw a van from Metamorphic Chemical was spotted in the area and it seemed out of place to me."
"What's there?" Peter asks.
"It's some chemical company that was condemned after the quake." Miles explained to him, his knowledge of the Glades coming very handy for this team. "I'd say it's the perfect place to make some psycho dolls."
"Not tonight." Peter stated angrily as he marched to grab his mask.
"Pete, are you sure you don't wanna leave this to the cops?" Anya asked.
"No, they're not gonna make it in time to save her." Peter declared as he grabbed his mask.
MJ was currently dressed up like a doll and was fighting against the restraints placed on her and the tubing shoved in her mouth as she tried to cry for help.
"Don't worry, my dear. Just relax." Barton reassured MJ as he walked over to her. "You're so lovely, you know, dear?" MJ started to squirm as the freak placed his hands on her face. "Hm, maybe a little bit too much makeup, but...it's the imperfections that make art sublime."
He then headed back over to his desk as MJ eyed her phone and saw it was on the counter and it stopped buzzing, and she's praying that means that Peter knows somethings wrong.
Barton then picked up the liquid and began to get ready to pour down the tube. "I must warn you, if you keep struggling, it'll take longer."
Before it could do anything else, Peter comes leaping down and shot a web at the canister in his hands and yanked it, smashing it against the table.
"If you run, it'll take longer for me to catch you." Peter dared as Barton took off as expected and Miles fell down and tried landing on his feet, but his fingers ended up sticking to the ceiling.
"Oh, of course now my powers wanna do this." Miles groaned as he pried himself free from the ceiling and fell before bouncing off the table.
"Get MJ, I'll take care of Barton." Peter snarled as he raced down the hall where he escaped to.
"Got it." Miles groaned out as he walked over to MJ and got her free of the restraints with a yank on them. "I love super strength."
Barton was trying to find a way out just as Oliver came down and raised an arrow at him. "Don't move!"
Peter then came leaping in, wrapping his arms around Barton, and sent him flying across the room.
Before Barton and Oliver could even realize what happened, Peter raced over and leaped closer and grabbed his chest before he pulled him close to Peter's face.
"You're going to pay for that." Peter declared as he punched him in the face. "For all of those people you've killed." He punched him in the face again. "For all of their families who lost someone!" He then punched him in the face again and caused him to start bleeding. "You're going to be locked away somewhere where you'll never see the light of day again."
Just then, his senses went off and he dodged as a stick came flying in and stabbed Dollmaker.
"No...he's not." A female voice called, causing them to look up and saw that it was the blonde Miles saw back in the Glades.
Once the vigilantes heard sirens, they made their way out whilst Miles got MJ to the police before escaping himself.
Peter looked and watched as the officers were listening to MJ give her statement on what happened and dragged away Barton's body.
Peter was happy he was able to get to her on time, and he just might be able to sleep a little sounder tonight. But then, he felt another presence and turned to see it was the Arrow.
"That was over the line." Oliver informed the vigilante.
"You don't get to say what's over the line." Peter stated as he got up and turned to face him. "You're a man who murdered everyone he came into contact with last year, and then vanished when this city needed you most. Where were you when Martin Li and the Demons were trying to get their hands on a bio-weapon? Nowhere! I kept this city together through everything that happened. The quake took everything, my friends, my family, it left me with nothing! I wasn't going to have this city take any more innocent people."
"So you decide who lives and dies now?" Oliver asked the out of control hero.
"No...I knew he wasn't going to die; I can control my strength." Peter stated and marched off but was interrupted by an arrow embedded in front of him. "You missed."
"We're not done here." Oliver stated and Peter turned to face him and see he already had another arrow raised.
"You don't wanna do this." Peter warned him.
"Yeah, I think I do." Oliver stated.
"Fine...don't say I didn't warn you." Peter stated with a sigh as Oliver released an arrow, but Peter ended up catching it midflight. "Warned you."
Oliver saw he was going to need to be creative and drew a split arrow, shot them, and watched as Peter flipped, spinning around, and dodged both of them.
"Got any more tricks up your sleeves?" Peter dared as he shot a web and yanked the bow out of his hands. "And if I remove this from the equation, what are we left with?"
"Someone who's about to shut your smart-ass up." Oliver dared as he raced in to fight Peter on, but he flipped over and kicked Oliver and sent him skidding and almost flying off the rooftop.
Peter picked the bow up and snapped it half, tossing both sides aside. "This is my city. I'm the one actually protecting it." He then dropped off the edge and started to swing off.
Oliver was then suddenly helped back up by the blonde from earlier. "You shouldn't pick a fight with that guy. He takes protecting this city seriously." She then fell backwards, and Oliver looked back, only for him to see she's vanished.
"So that's what that feels like." Oliver muttered.
Peter later made it to MJ's home and knocked on the window, scaring her when she calmed down and saw who it was. She walked over and opened the window and lets him in.
"I knew you'd show up." MJ told him with a smile, but Peter could see through her image.
"You know you don't have to be brave around me." Peter reminded her as he removed his mask to reveal his face as tears roamed down. "I thought I was going to loose you back there."
"Yeah, I...I'll admit, for a blink second I thought I was going to die and...and all I could think about was you." MJ confesses to him while scratching her arm, something Peter noticed she does when she's nervous. "I thought about you because I knew no matter how tonight ended, you were gonna do everything that you could. If that meant I died, at least I would know you would catch him."
"MJ, don't ever tell think that your life means less than catching some villain." Peter informed her and pulled MJ into a hug he knew she desperately needed as did he while she easily returned it.
The two stood there for the longest time and just stayed there. Until Peter saw he needed to go.
"I have to get going." Peter tells her as he broke the bug.
"Okay, good idea." MJ said as she separated, trying her best to hide her blushing.
Peter went climbing out the window and hanged on the fire escape before stopping and looking back to MJ. "Actually, do you mind if I just hanged out here for a bit longer?"
MJ smiled and knew he was just worried about her. "Sure."
Peter nodded and crouched down onto the railing and faced away from her and to the buildings. "I'll keep watch."
"You do that." MJ said as she went to go use the bathroom as she was already up.
But what was not surprising to her was when she returned, she found Peter fast asleep while leaning on her window frame.
Smiling sadly, MJ walked over and picked up a spare blanket from her room and wrapped it around his shoulders and allowed him to sleep.
"Good night, my hero." MJ told Peter happily before pecking his mask's cheek and went to bed herself.
