Chapter 7
Elijah tip-toed his way down to the kitchen, he took notice of his mother lying asleep on the table, when he got closer, he could see that small tears were rolling down her face, "she must've heard the news, she doesn't deserve this sadness" Elijah wanted to hold her hand to comfort her troubled soul, but he feared he might wake her up, instead he grabbed his lunch and went to school.
"Alright, time to try out my new suit and such" Elijah murmured as he put on his costume, now, he was Spider-Man. The first thing Spidey took notice of, was that his advanced mask lenses told him it was 7:45, school started at 8:40, "I think I can make it in time" Spider-Man thought to himself as he spun a web line, put his backpack on, and started web-slinging towards school. He ran across walls, leaped from building to building and had a number of web-lines left behind, "I'm pretty sure my formula makes it so that the webbing should dissolve in a hour or so" Spider-Man double-tapped this shooter again and flung himself into the air, another neat feature he added to his suit, it had an advanced holder on the back spider symbol that opened up and kept a strong grip on the backpack, with it's metallic claws, it was also a place to store his new staff as well. "Woo hoo!" Spidey cheered as he ran across a roof building and leaped off, suddenly he felt a tingle in his head "huh! My Spider-sense" Spidey turned around and saw a burning building, how oddly convenient that he hadn't noticed it before, "I have to help them, but, school" Spider-Man saw that it was 8:20, he still had some time, he swung down to the building and asked a fireman what was the commotion, "there's still a child stuck on the 4th floor, none of our guys can make it up there, because the stairs collapsed" the fireman explained, "I won't need stairs, here, hold this" Spider-Man handed the fireman his backpack and jumped up to the building wall, the leaped through the window. "Being a super hero doesn't mean I have extra resistance to getting smoke in my lungs, so don't be stupid me" Spider-Man reminded himself, he heard a kid crying in the distance, "hey kiddo? Where are you?" Spidey called out as he searched the building, finally he came across a little baby girl, she slightly cowered in fear, "it's okay, I won't hurt you, I promise, see?" Spider-Man took off his mask, therefore removing the smoke-filter, he had to be quick now, thankfully the girl was okay with him putting his mask back on as she let him carry her. "Easy does it" Spidey told himself, thankfully he managed to hold his baby cousin well, so this wasn't a problem, what was the problem was that wreckage had crashed down on the window he had entered through, "aw! Come on! It's never easy" Spider-Man groaned as he worked his way around the wreckage and found a new route out, he leaped out of the building right as it exploded into more flames, the child safely in his grasp, he managed to slowly descend them to the ground with a web-line of his just in time, suddenly the mother rushed to thank him and have her baby back, "oh thank you!" The mother started sobbing, "just doing what I can, miss" Spider-Man replied politely, "they told me that Spider-Man was gone, are you him?" The mother asked, "well, let's just say I'm not exactly the same Spider-Man, but close" Spidey answered him, before taking back his backpack and swung in the direction of school.
"Pfft! Such foolishness" Gerald flickered the TV off, how could they be so gullible, a new Spider-Man? A successor to the original criminal, "if only I could bring him to justice, reveal Spider-Man for the fraud he is, I would be doing this city a favor" Gerald scowled in his thoughts, he always held Norman Osborn with high respects, he could see why he hated Spider-Man, come to think of it, Osborn always did start to act strange whenever that Green Goblin fellow appeared as well, "if only I could-" Gerald stopped his thoughts when a secret door opened, "what's this?" Gerald entered with curiosity, when he entered, he gasped in shock and awe, there were shelves loaded with what looked like pumpkins, a bat-glider, and when he turned, he was startled back by...a Green Goblin mask, "ah!" Gerald grabbed another shelf for support, as it lit up and displayed a bunch of tubes filled with green liquid, "I-I don't believe this" Gerald stammered, then, it clicked, "Norman Osborn...was the Green Goblin, it all makes sense now" he then looked at a spare goblin costume, "which reminds me, what was I going to do about Spider-Man?" Gerald grinned, in a way that would make it look like the ghost of Norman Osborn himself, had possessed his body.