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So, back in January 2016, I myself had gotten the idea of Andrew's Peter having gotten rageful and bitter after Gwen's loss, and even imagined a scenario over it, though a good bit of it has slipped my memory now for whatever reason.
But then NWH made the 'rageful' and 'bitter' part canon, which made me happy….and sad for Peter, but moving on.
This is basically a final confrontation between Peter-3 and Harry that takes place between TASM 2 and NWH, and until we somehow get a canonical TASM 3, consider this the climax of a TASM 3 film, HA!
Let's go.
Peter kicked open the door, glaring at his front with a rage he had never felt before in his life, not even when Uncle Ben had been killed due to his mistake.
Harry Osborn, in his Green Goblin getup, with that horrid look, stood there to face him, Gustav Fiers the criminal mastermind next to him.
Well, now they were going to find out why they had been in way over their heads in trying to mess with him.
On hearing the news of Harry's escape, Peter had just lost it and brutally beaten up the next criminal he encountered, who happened to be a robber at worst.
Things had escalated from that, as now the people of New York were scared of him, and the cops were once more wary of a vigilante messing with criminal business and taking the law into his own hands.
The kinds of criminals Peter encountered did not make things better either, as his next target was a serial rapist, and one of his victims had been a fellow student from Peter's own college.
He'd seen her at the hospital, unconscious with a broken body, her boyfriend and parents crying over her. It had a tremendous effect on him, as he'd pressed his fists so hard his fingernails had dug into his palms and drawn some blood.
When he'd tracked down the man, it hadn't been pretty, as Peter had pretty much screamed curses at his face in a rage, angrily ranting about how 'monsters like you make women afraid to go home alone in the night', and by the end of it, the man had multiple fractures and some major third degree burns as well.
His next target had been a group of sex traffickers, who too had ended up abducting 2 girls of his college, and they happened to be sisters.
One of them had managed to escape, and was chased into a rainy night by 3 of the traffickers, who'd caught up and were about to brutally beat her up, when Peter had swung down to interrupt.
And then, one guy had 2 broken kneecaps, another had a permanently damaged skull, while the last one had been smashed into a pole hard and electrocuted, only barely surviving.
Peter hadn't cared if the guy had died either.
Soon, he had gone to the base of the traffickers, clearing a whole hallway of thugs, and then burst into a room where one thug had been about to rape the other sister.
Peter had….damaged his region beyond repair, before lifting up the other sister bridal style, as her foot had been broken, and then he'd carried her out, walking through a swath of bleeding criminals who were screaming in agony.
That was when the Sinister Six had finally struck, trying to make the life of Peter, as well as the whole city, a living Hell.
Knowing who he was, no doubt due to Harry and Fiers having told them, they had tried to come after Aunt May and MJ, his new neighbour whom he'd befriended.
Peter had fought a brutal battle to save them, fighting Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus, Vulture, Rhino, Shocker (who was Fiers with some high-tech weaponry) and a guy called Prowler all at once.
The fight had taken a lot out of him, but by the end of it, certain things had happened-
Octopus' tentacles had been ripped apart with his face damaged beyond recognition. Vulture had lost his wings and would never walk again. Rhino's suit was broken, as were some teeth of his, which had finally shut him up, Peter had thought. Prowler too had both kneecaps broken, while Fiers had lost his weaponry.
However, he and Harry had managed to escape, taking May with them while the police and medical had arrived to take the other members of the Sinister Six.
Peter had been badly wounded in the fight, but webbing up his wounds, he'd gone after Harry once more, who was now dangling May and a cable car full of children, making Peter choose.
He'd tossed them both down, and Peter had leapt off, first grabbing May and then the cable car, dangling underneath the bridge with some webbing.
Harry had tried to interfere but a boat was underneath at the time, fortunately, so Peter had dropped his aunt and the children there, then fought Harry a bit who'd flown off into his base.
But Peter was here now, ready to show them why they shouldn't have messed with him.
Fiers took out his gun to fire at Peter but he easily avoided the shots, then kicked Fiers hard, sending him into the wall, before he fell down. The wall had a Fiers-shaped dent in it, and every single bone in Fiers' body was broken.
Harry glared at Peter, as both circled each other, sizing up their opponent.
Then they ran at each other at the same time, Harry trying to leapt but Peter slid underneath him and got to the other side, webbing his feet and pulling him closer before kicking him away really hard.
Harry groaned, getting up, seeing Peter take off his mask, just to let Harry see the rage on his face.
"I like it more this way", Harry muttered, cracking his neck and taking out a blade. "Face to face, there's an honesty between us now."
"Well honestly", Peter cracked his knuckles. "I'm gonna rip your goddamn head off."
Suddenly, Harry grasped his head, screaming a little, seeming to be in agony.
"Wow, you know your stuff well", an 8 year old Harry said to Peter after the guy had helped him with his biology homework, and taught him about it.
"Its just a lot of learning, you can do it too", Peter assured, the two smiling at each other. "Come on, here-"
Harry's eyes were wide in horror. This just didn't seem like Peter, Peter would never say or do all these things, right?
Peter roared and charging, lifted Harry up by the throat.
"Peter…." Harry gasped, seeming conflicted now.
Peter leaned in closer, and sneered at Harry's face with hateful eyes that were so not like him.
"Peter's dead."
Harry felt his heart thump against his chest, remembering something.
Gwen tried to reason with Harry. "Harry!"
"Harry's dead", he snarled at her.
Shhhunk!
Peter managed to barely dodge, but Harry's blade still got his side. Removing one hand from his throat, Peter grabbed Harry's hand with it, and pulled the blade out, before roaring and headbutting the Goblin twice, staggering him away and then throwing him off.
Harry got up and sliced at Peter, managing to get his shoulder and chest, then tried to stab again but Peter grabbed the blade with both hands, struggling against his former best friend.
SNAP!
The blade broke into two, and Harry at that point leapt at Peter, punching his face thrice, then Peter grabbed him by the throat and slammed him to the floor, damaging it.
"You're going to pay", Peter said, his voice full of anger and grief.
"Come on, you didn't need to do this for me", Harry, whose one arm was broken and in a sling, told Peter, who'd done all his homework for him.
"Well, your dad clearly won't, so I did it", Peter assured his friend, who gratefully gave him a one-armed hug, that he returned with both arms.
Harry had tears in his eyes, realizing what he had destroyed, and what he himself had now created with his actions, his mind fighting against the corruption of the serum.
He had turned 2 decent people, that were Peter and himself, into monsters.
Peter lifted Harry up, and next moment, started pounding down on him, cracking good bits of his armor with the amount of strength he was putting, as Harry coughed up blood.
"You killed her", Peter snarled at Harry, lifting him by the throat. "Now you die."
Harry coughed some blood, the corruption of the serum taking over for a bit. "You couldn't save her, its your fault." He laughed maniacally.
Next moment, he was subjected to a brutal series of punches, kicks and headbutts, messing up his face.
"I WOULDN'T BE IN THE SITUATION IF YOU HADN'T DROPPED HER YOU BASTARD!" Peter roared in Harry's face, who again was in conflict, fighting against the serum.
He pushed Harry to the wall, standing at a distance from him. "You will die, like she died."
Harry now knew what he had to do. The monster needed to be punished, and so did he for creating it.
Lifting up his hand, he pressed a button on his armor.
Peter's Spider-sense worked and he flipped up to avoid as the glider burst through the wall behind him. As he landed, Harry had been impaled on his own glider, gasping in pain as blood poured out of his mouth.
For the last time in his life, Harry looked Peter in his eyes. And this time, it was not Goblin, it was Harry, his eyes full of remorse.
"I…..am…sorry…."
With that, he collapsed upon his glider. Harry Osborn was dead!
Peter clutched his fists, picking up his mask as he walked to the corpse, looking over it. He lifted Harry's face up to look into his dead eyes, wanting to say something, to laugh maniacally, to gloat.
But he just couldn't.
It didn't make him feel anything, no satisfaction, no feeling of validation, nothing at all. All he felt was…empty.
Just like Harry's lifeless eyes. Harry was gone, Gwen wasn't coming back, and Peter was still here, falling to his knees.
Harry's 'sorry', the way he'd said with those eyes, it had slightly dented the barrier of rage that had been formed.
Letting a few tears drop at the loss of the best friend Harry had been before taking the serum, Peter put on his mask and swung away.
A week later
Things had started slightly dying down now, what with the Sinister Six arrested with permanent wounds, and Harry dead, though Spider-Man was still a very, very controversial figure. Peter had finally healed decently from his brawl with the whole Sinister Six now.
And now Peter was at Gwen's grave, sitting near it, holding his phone.
"I wanted to do it here", he said, his voice hollow, devoid of any emotion, and then he pressed the 'play' button.
"It's easy to feel hopeful on a beautiful day like today, but there will be dark days ahead of us too."
It had been a beautiful day. He had been late for the speech, but it had been a mostly good day overall, in spite of what had happened at the end of it.
"There will be days where you feel all alone, and that's when hope is needed most."
He felt all alone, hope was needed, yet there had not been any.
"No matter how buried it gets, or how lost you feel, you must promise me that you will hold on to hope. Keep it alive."
He hadn't held onto hope. How could he? His hope was gone! Yet, he felt ashamed of himself, knowing just how Gwen would feel if she was here. He hadn't kept his promise to her, just like hadn't kept his promise to George.
"We have to be greater than what we suffer."
He hadn't been greater than what he'd suffered, he'd let it consume him.
"My wish for you is to become hope; people need that."
They did, and instead, he had scared the people away from him, lost their trust.
"And even if we fail, what better way is there to live? As we look around here today, at all of the people who helped make us who we are, I know it feels like we're saying goodbye, but we will carry a piece of each other into everything that we do next, to remind us of who we are, and of who we're meant to be."
He had tried to carry on a piece of Gwen with him, be who he was meant to be, be the friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man.
And he'd failed.
He had not followed Gwen's words, and done things he'd never do. He'd been rageful, and bitter, and tainted his own alter-ego, as well as Gwen's memory.
Not just hers, George's too, as well as Ben's, and his parents.
He was an utter failure. Feeling the tears coming, Peter hugged the gravestone, breaking down on it.
"I'm sorry Gwen, I'm so sorry."
And that's the end of it. No happy ending here, that happens when he saves MJ in NWH and redeems himself of his failure with Gwen.
That I've covered in a different one-shot.
I know Peter was OOC and just in full on rage mode, but that was the point. TASM Peter was a bit edgier compared to the other ones (I consider that a good thing), and since he said in NWH he got rageful and bitter due to Gwen's death, this was my take on it.
We don't have anything about Harry's and Peter's friendship in the TASM franchise beyond a scene or two and mentions of the past, unlike with the Raimi franchise, so it was a bit hard to portray this as Peter having every right to hate Harry but also make Harry sympathetic due to his conflict against the serum inside him, but hope it was decent still.
Hope all enjoyed and see you all next time with some other update.
