The glass elevator was still rising, up above the city, and up, and up, toward the roof of the building.
Reiko looked at Harry, who stared back at her.
Kuri's hands were pressed to the window.
"What the hell is going on between you two?" Harry asked.
"Please stop, Harry, this is serious!" Kuri said, wondering if she was going to have to blow her secret.
"NO!" Harry said. "Your keeping secrets. Peter's keeping secrets. Hell, even Reiko's keeping secrets!"
He reached out and pushed the STOP button. The elevator jerked to a halt, sixty floors above the street.
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Inside the elevator machinery, the big greasy wheel stopped turning, the cable stretches tight. Next to it, the red light on the pumpkin bomb continued to flash.
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Outside the glass elevator, looking in at Harry, Reiko, and Kuri, who were arguing. From off in the distance, there a high-pitched whining that's growing closer.
Harry, Reiko, and Kuri heard it and turned sharply.
The fog, thick as cake frosting, suddenly parted, billowing around the Green Goblin, atop his Glider! He banked, came to an impossible stop just outside the elevator.
Harry, Reiko and Kuri stared in shock and horror. The Goblin cackled, pulled a remote control device from his Goblin bag, and flipped up the cover. A red button flashed on its panel.
"Goodbye, children! Time to throw you from the nest!" Goblin said.
He pressed the button.
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Inside the elevator machinery the flashing red light on the bomb went steady, it beeped-
The cable snapped, went whirling and snapping up the shaft like a wild snake.
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SNAP!
Through the glass wall, Harry, Reiko and Kuri could see right into the elevator shaft, where the severed cable raced past them, untethering the elevator.
They screamed-hunng there for a second like Wile E. Coyote-and then plummet.
The Goblin screeched with glee.