Screams from the audience, in combination with the narrations of Deadpool, who was desperately trying to make as many references about the fight about to begin; Peter and Robbie's. But even so, neither of the boys seemed to hear what was going on around them. Both were extremely fixated on each other; it was not just them fighting physically, but battling certain philosophies and worldviews. In addition to being a struggle of opposites; the boy who was born with everything and lost and the boy who was born with nothing and won, but nobody but Peter, Iron Man, Night Nurse and the detective knew that then ... it didn't count for much.

But silence reigned when Emma Frost lowered her arm, indicating the start of the fight.

Robbie wasted no time and started moving towards his opponent; not running, but walking with a goal in mind; he would do more than win without his father's power, he would win only with the skills taught to him by another hero ...

Raising his fists close to his face, Peter identifies the standard boxing position, the boy's preferred fighting style. But Peter had an advantage: his agility.

Getting close enough, and Peter just staying in position, ready to dodge, Robbie tries to start the contest with a straight punch with his right arm in the direction of Parker's face.

One thing Peter was sure of; Reyes was a wall and a damage machine; he could easily be placed as one of the strongest and most resilient students, and who did not have a Quirk focused on these attributes, as Amadeus and Luke did. But, he lost on agility; probably because he doesn't usually need it. The brunette had seen his opponent go from obstacle to obstacle with his chains and reach enormous speeds with the car, but he was not as agile as Peter.

Predicting the punch through the 'Spider Sense', Peter quickly moves his torso to deflect the wrist; if he took just a few strokes from Reyes, it was game over, the boy was too strong, even for his increased resilience. Other blows soon followed; hooks, jabs, but Peter dodged everything, until the Latin tried a more risky maneuver, a grab on Parker, which caused the boy to jump up, climbing to a height higher than his opponent, giving a backflip and falling unharmed. The audience then goes crazy.

— Don't dodge Araña! – Reyes says looking annoyed

— And take a beating to make me lose consciousness? - Peter knew it was risky to use sarcasm in the fight, but he couldn't help it, it was innate - thanks, but Night Nurse is already tired of seeing me in the infirmary, so ...

Peter has no chance to continue, when Reyes approaches again and tries to hit the opponent again. Everything seems in vain, Peter is too agile and always knows when the blow is coming; which made it difficult to set up traps, but Reyes thinks about something.

In the middle of several blows that did not seem to follow any logical sequence, Reyes tries to connect a straight with his left arm to Peter's face, which makes him deflect to the side, tilting his body to Robbie's right, and that's where the trap begins. With his arm still extended, preventing Peter from quickly returning to his right with the risk of a blow, Reyes makes the move to kick his opponent's side, and Peter notices.

Using the momentum of his preliminary deviation, Peter uses the strength of his legs and jumps to his left, rolling his body in the air, in a trajectory over Reyes' leg, but staying in the air for a measly second would prove to be his doom.

In a quick movement, Robbie conjures a chain that quickly launches forward and coils around Peter's torso, and with a quick movement it throws him behind his caster, throwing Peter on the ground and rolling him for a few meters in the arena .

— *Cof* *cof* finally decided to use the chains? - Peter asks, coughing a little from the impact, but starting to get up

— How I win you doesn't matter, as long as I don't use my flames - Reyes says approaching the boy - but where are your webs Araña?

— Ah, are you talking about this one !? - in the same instant that he responds, he at the same time extends his fist towards Reyes' face, and his forearm is punctured by the white substance that soon solidifies and covers his opponent's face.

While Robbie is startled by the sudden shot, and tries to get it out of his face. Peter runs the meters that separated them and jumps close to the encounter, giving Reyes a double kick in the chest, causing him to be thrown back and falling on his back on the ground. Peter also falls, but uses his arms to the floor in a mini mortal and gets back to his feet, hoping that his plan had worked.

Due to his innate abilities, Reyes' body already emitted a greater amount of heat, which makes the web in his face melt and come out more easily. He then gets up and stares at his opponent with fury in his eyes; that fight had just advanced a level of difficulty.

After his fight and the visit he had given Night Nurse, Amadeus returned to the area reserved for his class; he gets close to his friends as soon as the battle begins.

— What 's up? What did I miss? - the tall boy asks his group of friends who sat next to each other; Flash, Pietro, Laura and Sam

— Sup Big A? Congratulations on the victory - Pietro congratulates you using the boy's nickname - you didn't miss anything, it just started

— True, congratulations on the victory - Laura also says; the girl had her legs stretched in Flash's lap, Amadeus decided not to question

— Thanks! My next fight is against Wanda, any tips? - the boy asks Flash and placing his hand on the boy's shoulder

— Take your hand off ... - Flash says without looking him in the eye, keeping himself focused on the fight - as long as you don't create things for her to use is good enough

— Sure... – he says moving forward and sitting behind the quartet - so who do you think will win?

— Ah, come on! Reyes has it easy! - Sam says, still thinking he could guess the winners - he can get all those chains off his body, it will be easy for him against Parker

— Stop being an idiot! - Flash says without looking - things don't come out of nowhere, Quirks are part of our body too. And Quirks that "create things out of nothing" are the most dangerous because of the damage they can do to the body

— Like you and Reyes - Laura says and receives a nod from the brunette - who create an absurd amount of their own bodies; while I produce a specific quantity and Tandy evokes things from elsewhere...

— That is why my armor is so protected; so I can maintain a number of cells that I got used to without having to leave certain parts vulnerable ... - the boy exemplifies

— Wait! Are your goo, cells? - Pietro asks as if he had discovered something incredible

— And what did you think it was? Black gelatin!? - Flash retorts nervous about the sprinter's stupidity

— Can we go back to the fight? - Amadeus asks, having enjoyed the calm Flash, even for a few seconds

Peter, seeing Reyes's withering look at him, knew that his plan to irritate the boy so that he used his powers more had worked. It seemed crazy to many; Robbie is already dangerous with just his fists; until now he and his chains were an invincible pair, or an invincible group in this case, since he always invoked more than one.

But Peter was not like many, his goal was no longer to beat Reyes, but to save him, to save him from that toxic thought he had about his own Quirk. Peter had a plan to help, it was not a perfect plan with 100% effectiveness, but it was better than nothing.

Seeing Reyes getting up and starting to walk towards him, he can also perceive the chain that arose from his back and that surrounded him in a protective way. With an imminent attack, Peter would have a chance to try his theory, in which, if he was right he would be able to complete his plan, but if he was wrong it would end quickly.

Just as predicted, in a simple flick of his wrist, Reyes throws the chain towards Parker. The iron chain fires and stretches like a snake in the midst of the attack.

Seeing and feeling the approach of the object through his 'Spider Sense', still pressing the wound on his arm, Peter runs a little towards the chain to gain momentum and jump. He stands on his side, as if he rolled sideways in the air as he passed over the stretched object. In the midst of his trajectory in the air, Peter's theory proves to be true; when not finding the target in the place where it was previously, the chain quickly retracts back to Reyes' body and he looks irritated at Peter as the brunette returns to the ground after the jump.

— Come on, you didn't think I was going to fight without both of us using our trademarks, did you? - the boy asks pointing at his arm and then at the opponent, indicating the web and chains

—...- without saying anything, Robbie just closes his fists, and two other chains come up behind him and prostate beside him, like snakes obeying their master

—Okay, no comments, cool, neither hurt me and ... - before Peter could be a little more sarcastic, Reyes' attack begins.

With his theory confirmed; that Reyes' control of his chains still focused on them performing a specific task, and if they didn't reach their target, they would return. So Peter went back to the initial strategy; to dodge.

With each approaching chain, thanks to his innate ability to foresee dangers, his agility and his reflexes, he was quite well.

With each chain that approached, he stopped, deflected, and did whatever it took to keep him from being captured, because at this point in the championship, Reyes probably wouldn't stop himself from simply throwing Peter off the field.

With all this, Reyes had to be smarter, so he set a trap. Peter deflected another chain, after landing to observe his opponent; and the boy didn't look well. He was breathing hard, he was pale and a little stooped, perhaps some consequence of the continued use of his Quirk, but that little distraction was the moment for Reyes to act.

He mentally commands two chains to go towards Peter from opposite places, one coming from the left and the other from the right. With the distraction he had when he realized the effects of Robbie's Quirk on himself, Peter realizes that he would not be able to deflect, so he moves on to another strategy; he again throws a web in Robbie's direction, aiming to blind him, confusing him enough for the chains to miss him, but little did he know that this was exactly what the Latin wanted.

At the moment of the shot, the two chains turn around, missing Peter and moving away from him, returning to Reyes. But the web, which should have hit Robbie's face, is quickly gripped by the boy, and, while still connected to Peter's arm, the boy pulls it hard, bringing the opponent quickly towards him. Due to the speed and the fright, Peter doesn't have time to do anything, and soon he is close to Robbie and he just extends his other arm, stretching it on the way to Peter's flight, a punch in the stomach. The brunette hits the other boy's arm hard, with his strength and resistance, he is stopped by the arm, which buries himself in his stomach with speed and strength and he falls on his back on the floor, unable to breathe due to the impact on the stomach and back.

— Don't get up… - Reyes says breathlessly and moves away from Peter

Peter's rational part certainly wanted to follow that advice. With the impacts on his stomach and back, Peter was only now able to breathe properly; he felt dizzy and bewildered, but he was happy that he had not hit his head on the floor, otherwise that situation would be much worse. But he was one thing, stubborn; he didn't know when to stop and he knew what it was like to be beaten, so it's not like this is a new situation. He was lying on the floor, tired and bruised, it had happened more times than he could remember, but this time things were different; for the first time he fought with more equality against his opponent and his goal was different than it had been. So he rolls over onto his stomach and starts to get up.

Moving a little away from the fallen boy, Reyes walks a few meters to get a tactical advantage if Peter decided to get up and continue that fight. He hoped it wouldn't last much longer; because he felt the consequences of his Quirk building up in his body. Unlike people who took part of their powers from a 'parallel dimension' like Tyrone, Tandy or the professional hero Cyclopes; Reyes' power was closer to Laura or Flash, his body even producing the material of the chains. He converted his body's minerals into an extremely resistant material to damage and heat, but that would have consequences. Obviously he had trained and his body was adapted to have a much larger mineral reserve, but with excessive use his body became deficient; he was able to convert from minerals to chains almost instantly, but the reverse process took longer, so if he continued to create more and more chains, his body would eventually run out and he would not even have the strength to control the chains already created. With the amount of deviations from Peter and Reyes trying to respond with more currents and more quickly, he already felt his body becoming deficient in minerals. His skin was paler, he trembled slightly and felt palpitations in his chest; a voice inside his head told him to use his other power and interrupt those weaknesses for a while, but he shakes his head, pushing that thought away.

The boy then hears the audience making more noise and looks back, managing to see Parker getting up from the floor and facing him.

— You are quite stubborn, aren't you? - Reyes was already getting annoyed by the brunette's stubbornness

— First! Yeah, i am ... - the boy says putting his hand on his chest and taking a deep breath - second; I will not give up until you use your other power! Third; ... No, it's just those two...

— How dare you try to make me use that demonic power !? I already told you, I will defeat you and prove to the world that I can be a hero without HIS powers - Robbie says angrily

— You keep talking about that power being demoniac... - Peter says putting himself in a fighting position - it doesn't exist; Quirks are part of everyone! That's your power, not his!

— Shut up! - after answering, Reyes immediately summons two chains that come out of his back and then proceed at high speed towards Peter.

But instead of standing still and waiting for the moment to dodge, Peter starts running towards his opponent. He quickly dodges the chains he saw in his direction, jumping one and lowering and sliding on the ground to pass the other. And as he slides on the floor, he extends both fists; the perforated and the still intact and launches a web from each, opening a new hole and drilling the beginning of the clot. The two webs fly and quickly attach themselves to Robbie's foot, keeping him in place.

And when the boy stops to look down, Peter throws another web across his face. Surprised and irritated again, Reyes raises one arm to remove it, but this proved to be a mistake.

Running the last few meters, Peter begins to remove more and more web from his arm, accumulating it in his hand, until he is close enough and throws the web to cumulate in Reyes at the same moment he jumps over the boy's shoulder, falling on the other side, with the web still attached to his arm, he needed to work quickly now.

Soon after the brunette lands, he starts running around Reyes, keeping as close as possible; his arms secreting more and more web as he ties the opponent in a kind of cocoon. Starting with the legs, Peter quickly covers them with the white web, preventing their movements, Robbie tries to invoke a chain to do something, but Peter quickly takes it and wraps it around the boy's torso, quickly covering it with the web too, fastening it tightly together to the body of its creator.

And before long, Peter steps away to look at his creation, something he had trained during the two weeks after the festival; a web cocoon. As the webs were connected to his sweat, he first moved a lot to be able to perspire and with that, the accumulated web could soon become a net, which when being wrapped around the target, managed to restrict even very strong people, like Reyes in that case, and keep it in that state as a kind of mummy. Even with his Quirk's innate abilities, Peter had tested, the web was extremely strong and resistant to heat, but it was quite flammable if it came into direct contact with a flame, which meant that Robbie would only be freed from using his powers inherited from the Ghost Rider.

— Okay, I don't think you're going anywhere now ... - Peter tells his opponent; he might have bleeding arms and open wounds, but he still had time to talk in the middle of the fight - I know you can hear me!

— Hmpf! - a muffled growl can be heard from inside the mummy and it twitches in an attempt to break free

Peter knew that the fight would not end until 1. One of the two stepped outside the marked field or 2. One of them surrendered. With Reyes struggling inside the web cocoon, he had some time until the boy was free, and he intended to use that full time;

— You keep talking about your Quirk being demonic, it doesn't exist! - Peter starts with his last comment - you can have any religion you want, but saying that these powers are by nature bad or good doesn't make sense ...

"Tyrone takes his powers from a dimension fueled by fear and hopelessness! Does that seem like an evil power? A little bit! But it doesn't matter, what matters is what he is going to do with that power, and he is here, learning to use this power to help people, to be a hero! " Every time he spoke he could see the shape attached to the cocoon struggling more and more

"We are all wanting to be heroes here, trying to use our Quirks to rescue and protect, no matter what each one can do. But we are all doing our best, exhausting us day after day and you refuse to use part of yours. power! All of us are struggling, trying new enhancement techniques and you leaving this incredible power out of it"

"How many people would kill themselves to have a Quirk like this, and have the possibility to use it for the good of others, because they also have the dream of being heroes, even though they were born without powers"

"You may not like what your father did, but that power is yours, not his! It is part of you, so make it 100% yours. Use it as you see fit, to be the HERO YOU WANT TO BE! ! "

"... hero you want to be ..."

A wave fills Reyes' body the moment he hears these words, a warmth inside him that fills him completely, a warmth that he had forgotten as it was a long time ago ...

... the warmth of the longing he had for his mother

— I-I d-don't want this anymore, mommy ... - the little black haired boy of five years says in his mother's lap, while hugging her tight and soaking her shirt with tears. The boy was tired, he didn't want any more of that.

— Shhhh, everything is fine now mi hijo... - the woman says, stroking her son's black hair affectionately.

The woman herself was very beautiful, had tanned skin, was tall and slim, with small but noticeable curves. She had slightly curly dark brown hair, usually stuck in a ponytail, as they were at the time. She comforted her son who was crying on her lap until he fell asleep with tiredness.

Little Robbie was leaning out of the window overlooking the playground across the street. There he was watching three people; a boy with messy black hair, 9 or 10 years old, a baby of two years old and a man of 25. The man kicked a ball upwards, playing with it, doing headbutts and other maneuvers. The older boy had a ball too and tried to copy the movements without much success, while the baby just laughed, sitting and clapping his little fat hands. How Robbie wanted to be there too...

— Roberto! We're not done yet! - a slightly younger version of the hero Ghost Rider, or Johnny Blaze, says angrily and approaching the boy who clings to the wall, trying futilely to escape

— Jonathan! For the love of God, the boy has already trained a lot, let him go and play ... - Robbie's mother tries to stop her husband, only to be hit with a sharp slap across the face, making her fall to the floor

— Mind your business! You don't want the same thing to happen again, do you? - he says threateningly and turns to the boy

— Leave him alone! - she says creating an iron chain from her palm and holding her husband's arm so it doesn't move, but he just turns around, with his skull turned into the flaming skull, and the woman already knew what was about to happen...

Once again the boy falls, panting and aching, he doesn't want it anymore, he was tired, tears flood his eyes and phlegm drips from his nose. He wanted his mother.

— Come on Roberto! If you can't tame its flames, you won't be able to overtake Iron Man! - his father complains in the middle of the room that was on fire, not seeming to care about that fact

— I want my mom! - the boy says before gathering his last strength, getting up and running to look for his mother, ignoring his father's calls

The house was dark, with only the kitchen light on the first floor on, the boy then creates a little fire in his hand, the orange flame the same size as that produced by a candle appears in his palm, and he walks around the house looking for his mother.

He then hears her voice in the kitchen, which has the light on. Walking over there, he watches his mother from the back, with both hands shaking holding the kitchen landline. She looked like she was preparing an evening snack.

— I-I don't know if I can take it anymore ... - she says weakly on the phone - he did it again, I keep seeing my father, what happened to him ... I can't take it, I need to leave from here ... I need to...

— Mommy...? - Robbie asks being a little scared

—... - the woman is frightened and freezes for a second, she turns around, her eyes glassy, her dark circles deep, she just sees the fire; taking a knife from the bench, she tries to defend herself ...

It was even later. But Robbie was not with his uncle and brothers, even though the eldest had invited them to sleep over at his house. No, the boy was in front of his father's office, with gauze wrapped around his right forearm, he waits until he sees the older man coming out

— What do you want? - the man asks angrily

— Where's my mom? - the little boy says clenching his fists, with hatred going up his body

— She went to a hospital, she needs to be treated, she is a danger to you ... - the man tries to explain quickly before being interrupted

— IT'S YOUR FAULT! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! I HATE YOU! I WANT MY MOM! - the boy says, venting his anger and running out of the house and into the night streets of Hell's Kitchen.

It was cold, he wanted to get a coat, his bandage itched, he didn't know how long he had been walking, but his feet hurt and his belly rumbled. The little boy soon sees a person standing at a bus stop, a woman with her hair in a ponytail, her back was turned...

— Mommy...? - the boy asks as he approaches the woman, but she turns to show her face, it wasn't her

— Oh my gosh! You must be freezing! - the woman says, removing her scarf and wrapping it around the boy - are you lost? Where are your parents?

—... - but before he can answer, a big man appears behind the woman with a gun

— No sudden movements ... - he says putting his hand on the woman's head and the gun on the back of her neck - stay quiet and pass the purse

—...- the woman quickly complied, putting her purse back and raising her hands, Robbie couldn't move

— Hmmm, get up! - the man gave orders and the woman accepted, he then began to caress the woman's body in a malicious way - ok, maybe we can have a little fun...

— Not! - the woman tries to do something, but the criminal squeezes her neck while using his hand with the gun to open his pants

— Get out of here, kid! - the man says nervous pointing the gun at the boy, who starts to walk backwards, but soon something happens ...

A projectile, a stick flies out of the pitch and hits the man on the head with everything, which leaves the woman to look to the side

— What the hell ... - he tries to look, scared, where it had come from, with the gun pointed at the darkness, but he soon feels a hand grabbing his arm and twisting him to drop the gun - AH! F*CK!

—... - the man has no time to say anything else, being quickly overwhelmed by a quick succession of kicks and punches from a man dressed in a demon suit, until he was passed out on the floor - are you okay? - he asks the woman on the floor

— Sim... - even shaking she nods

— Excellent; the police are already on their way to take him ... - the man says and turns to the boy standing a few meters away, who had seen everything, managing to hear his heart beating rapidly with an emotion easy to recognize ... admiration

—Robbie! - the boy looks back to see his uncle running towards him, the boy turns around, but the demon man was already gone and he now also heard the police siren approaching ...

... so that was what it was like to be a hero?...

— I don't want to be a hero anymore mommy ... - the boy says sadly while coloring a picture in one of the few days that his father was not at home

— Why is that mi hijo? - she asks also coloring a drawing

— I don't want to be like Daddy ... - he says quietly, afraid that he could hear him, even though he is not at home

—... - the woman knew where it was coming from, but she knew the boy really wanted to be a hero, he just said that to escape his father - you want to hear a secret?

— Yep! - the boy says, momentarily dropping the colored pencil and facing his mother

— You don't have to be like your father ... - she says staring at him from the back of the eyes and lightly touching his nose making a "boop" sound - you need to find what kind of hero you want to be...

HERO you want to be ...

Hero YOU want to be ...

Hero you WANT to be ...

Hero you want to BE ...

And in a second, the cocoon explodes in an orange column of fire.

More than a column, a real explosion of flames occurs in that place, the cocoon is quickly pulverized and everyone, even the heroes who were outside the stadium, can see and feel that huge column of flames and the heat that it emanated, as if it were a fire geyser, which had a single starting point; Robbie Reyes.

The boy felt all his weaknesses disappearing. It is not as if he is healing or something, but the fire masks any feeling of injury or deficiency in the body; after using the power it would all come back soon and he would start to feel the effects again, but it gave him a momentary advantage.

That amount of flames then decreases until it focuses only on the boy; his arms and head were on fire, but the boy had never felt more alive.

— I hope you know the trouble you're in now, Araña ... - the boy says, smiling defiantly at his opponent

— I expected no less ... - Peter response crouching slightly and leaving his arms outstretched with his hands ready to launch webs, even though he is badly bruised and with dried blood stuck to his forearm

Reyes simply smiles and takes a deep breath, finishing the last part of his transformation. He lifts his head and his skin begins to come apart, as if it were soot coming from somewhere, and underneath it was possible to see the bone white. But unlike his father, who had a normal human skull when he transformed, Reyes's was different in some way. Rather than being a skull covered in fire, the fire seemed to be concentrated inside the skull, which looked like a mixture of skull and motorcycle helmet because of the shape; with the fire escaping through an opening in the head, through the eyes and through the openings where the cheeks should have been

From the audience, Jonathan Blaze had stepped away from the wall and was now at the boundary between the audience and the field, and held the grille smiling at his son, who had finally put aside that childish stubbornness and embraced his true power.

Peter uses the opportunity at the end of Reyes' transformation for a final approximation; he was pretty sure he wasn't going to win, but it was all worth it, and he wouldn't fall without a fight. Shooting two webs, on the floor on either side of Reyes, ignoring the pain in his forearms, Peter throws for one last charge towards his opponent, using the webs on the ground as a kind of slingshot, launching himself in the air towards the boy on fire.

But one thing the two did not know was that, by keeping power under control, Robbie had unleashed an incredible amount of flames, but something else had been maintained without escape and was now about to be released; the other part of the Ghost Rider's power.

Approaching, Peter prepares for a punch, with the maximum strength that was possible at that moment. But when Reyes looks up, those cavities in the skull with nothing but fire inside. And when their eyes meet, an explosion occurs.

Nobody can say how it happened, but an explosion and a cloud of smoke appear among the boys and spread until they cover them, for less than a second nothing happens, but soon it is possible to see a body being thrown out of the smoke , the body then falls and rolls, being knocked out of the limit.

Soon the smoke went down and kneeling in the same place was Robbie, crouched, with one hand on the support floor, breathing hard, but still inside the field. He raises his head to see Parker unconscious with his legs out of the field

— Peter Parker is off limits! Roberto Reyes is the winner! - announces the field judge and the crowd goes crazy

But Reyes paid no attention to any of this, he just watched the unconscious boy being carried by a floating stretcher towards the infirmary probably, and the boy just thought; what had he done?...