Peter about a week later was out on patrol as Spider-Man; dreading his next encounter with the Green Goblin but the training session with Liz from Daredevil were going well. He was now out on patrol as Spider-Man when the police scanner tech in his mask told him of noise complaints coming from a closed down club. He got to the area where the club was located and found people going in including police officers.

He found a vent to sneak through and found the main stage area where performing on stage was a black man in white disco styled uniform performing with a fancy looking guitar; he saw that the venue area was packed with all sorts of citizens and police officers and they all looked to appear that they were in a trance and not just that they were really into the music. Peter then saw masked people coming over with buckets with the people then putting their valuables inside them and Peter saw a frequency coming from the guitar.

They were in a trance and being robbed...

Managing to use the electronics in his mask to play music on a rock and roll radio station; he then swooped in and tackled the man wiht the guitar; he easily broke the guitar and webbed the man to the stage. He put his mask back to normal as the 'guests' of this concert snapped out of their trances and the masked men upon realising what had happened went to make a break for it.

Peter then webbed them up and watched as the police officers there took them into custody including the guitarist; "So who are you? The Hypno Hustler? Don't see anyone being impressed enough to turn you into a movie but here is one D-List joke and I can focus on the Goblin at large..." Peter told the angry guitarist sounding bored as he then just left.

Peter found that his police scanner in his mask picked up a lookout for a gang called the Jack O'Lanterns; their numbers were expanding recently and had gone from a minor youth gang trying to be more than what they were to actually being more active with their numbers. They wore jack o'lantern masks that could be purchased from any dollar or costume shop; didn't sound like something that Peter think should be taken seriously with the actual costumed threat loose but he would keep an eye out.


In a secure lab at Oscorp; Norman was overseeing an experiment with some homeless volunteers as they were being used to test the mutated form of OZ that part of which made him stronger and pretty much cured his disease. He watched as they yelled in pain and got to their knees; their skins turned green as they looked. They attacked the targets in the area with amazing strength and reflexes; he then activated the tests for a special sonic weapon that would send out mental commands to those affected by the mutated OZ sample.

They looked to be stoping and spoke into a microphone and commanded "kneel before me as your Goblin King". The command echoed throughout the sonic wave and they had done so with him smirking with glee at this; "I need to have this tech outfitted to my mask as soon as possible!" Norman smirked as the radio nearby put on the news report about the arrest of Antoine Delsoin; former lead singer and guitarist for the small time band known as the Mercy Killers. The lead developer of this tech at his company had been let go with a small severance package and it looked like he went to his cousin Antoine for a plan to profit off this tech, looked like a good test as he had twisted the technology for his own ends by some of his men still working for him.


The next day after school Peter had gone to meet up with Grady and Debra at their favourite comic book store; "Can you believe it... Patsy Walker is going to be Hellcat... Never would have believed it if I had been told as a kid..." Grady told the other two as he was looking through the latest issue of Hellcat which was another favourite comic superhero of their's. The news of the upcoming movie was set to be starring Trish Walker who came to fame was as a teen actress who starred as a fictional version of her named Patsy in the sitcom It's Patsy which was created by her mother. "What's next Buzz Baxter is going to play Prodigy?" joked Grady as they were both amused by the joke.

"Uh... Hopefully I can be able to sit through the movie or even the trailer without that stupid theme song going through my head..." groaned Debra shaking her head as thought about seeing a magazine cover featuring Hedy Wolfe who played a version of herself on It's Patsy as Patsy's jealous rival/frenemy and he had to admit that Hedy in the show was one of his earliest crushes.

Before he could say anything else they then saw 2 boys their age coming up to them; "Debra... Grady... Is this Peter Parker? Been too long; we never got a chance to see you at that game last year that had Clash. Do you remember us or have you forgotten now that you're a mustang instead of a tiger now?" greeted one of the boys with a smirk as Peter saw that they looked familiar.

"Peter; do you remember Jason and Steven? They were in our class together and we went to elementary school together." Grady asked Peter and he managed to vaguely remember them; Jason Macendale & Steven Levens were two kids who liked to act cooler than they actually were.

"Oh yeah... How has it been?" Peter asked lamely as the two just shook his head.

"Just fine after you left us to go to some fancy magnet school; you know your pals here have been telling stories about you going out with a cheerleader. As if the nerd who got beat up by Carl King on a regular basis could score a date with a cheerleader." scoffed Jason and Peter just sighed not wanting to argue with him.

"Did you tell him about the Jack O'Lanterns?" Steven asked and Peter grew alarmed remembering about the police report from last night and Grady and Debra just groaned.

"Last year they set up a gang wearing Halloween masks thinking that they are the next big thing; yet they stayed in like chickens when all those prisoners escaped." Debra explained and they both then glared at them.

"Laugh all you want but we have been growing in numbers and we have someone new to lead us; someone who is going to make us the most feared force in the entire city now that Fisk is dead! Just you wait; pretty soon Spider-Man will be too scared to cross us!" warned Jason as Debra and Grady laughed in their faces with Peter joining in. They then both left in a huff and Peter noticed a crumbled up note dropped by them and he picked it up and glanced at it.

There was a time, an address and saying it was tonight; Peter then pocketed it as he quickly thought it over while Debra and Grady went back to looking at their comics. He thought of a stupid risky idea but remembered Jefferson when he met him the previous year and how he was undercover in a criminal operation to bring it down; why not follow his example?


Late that afternoon Peter was out as Spider-Man and was overlooking the address which was at an alleyway with a door leading down like it was a shady nightclub. There was Jason and Steven with a whole gang of teenagers and scary looking people; there was an entire box of jack o'lantern masks that was being handed out. Peter quickly changed into his civilian clothes and with his backpack he slowly climbed down and sneaked his way to the back.

He wasn't noticed and given his own mask to put on and he gulped as he felt his Spider-Sense go off. Jason and Steven went to the door and gave some sort of password and they were all led into a scary looking bar with scary looking patrons. Peter's eyes widened as he recognised the White Rabbit; that costumed criminal he captured last year but got bailed out thanks to her wealthy parents. "Everyone; this is the ultimate big league... The Bar With No Name; the ultimate haven of neutrality in the entire of New York's criminal underworld..." Steven explained to them and Peter looked around.

At a VIP table Peter noticed a familiar looking obtuse black woman in a dark blue business suit; his eyes widened when he recognised her from the news as Mariah Dillard who was the city council representative for Harlem; he never would have thought that she was involved with the criminal underworld. He saw another figure he recognised from the news; an elderly man in an expensive looking suit who was Silvio Manfredi who was like the oldest living Maggia don. it made him gulp and he told himself not to blow his cover.

Then what looked like the main manager of the Bar With No Name came up to face everyone to get their attention; "I would like you all to give a welcome to our newest and biggest patron who fancies himself as the new Kingpin of Crime. Please give it up for the new leader of the Jack O'Lanterns: the Green Goblin!" the manager said and Peter as he felt his Spider-Sense go off harder and the Jack 'Lanterns cheered as out from the door came Norman in his suit.

"I thank you all for having me here tonight; to remember to tip your waiters... I would like to thank my new army the Jack O'Lanterns!" Norman greeted everyone as mostly everyone looked at him with disdain. "Now who is all for acknowledging me as your new Kingin?" Norman asked as the Jack O'Lanterns cheered and Peter forced himself to join in.

"Fisk was out of his prime anyway so you think killing him makes you some sort of crime lord? You're just a freak..." snarked a gang leader and Norman instantly went up to him and picked him up with one hand by the throat choking him and squeezed his throat to death and tossed him to the ground as the leader's gang all nervously kneeled down to him.

"You know... I am a freak and a freak like me needs company..." Norman grinned as he took out some cannisters with a dark green gas inside. He then went to the Jack O'Lanterns and Peter made himself closer and kicked one out of his hands and grabbed it. HIs excitement soon vanished as he realised that he didn't think this through as eyes were on him and hie fought back the other Jack O'Lanterns and dodging gunfire from the guards and the Goblinb going to try and snatch it away from him.

He managed to put it in his bag as he saw Norman oepning another one at the Jack O'Lanterns and nearby criminals with Peter watching in horror as they yelled in pain with their skins turning green. Norman then emitted a scream from his mask and they all seemed to be under his control and he sent them after him. Peter pushed his way back up in a panic as Norman used the other cannisters on the criminals there.

Peter got out the door and climbed up to the rooftop and quickly changed into Spider-Man; he swooped down and began fighting the Jack O'Lanterns and those other criminals turned green by the gas. Then came the police officers and Liz turned up as Firestar and went to help Peter fight them off but they were strong and fast despite their feral like state. Liz looked to him and he groaned saying that it was a long story.

Then they ran out and began ransacking cars and stores with Norman then barging through teh walls of the building on the glider shouting out to make themselves known. After a long while of taking them down and webbing them up; they seemed to manage to get out of the webs and escaped. No doubt Norman calling them to tell them where to go.

Peter shook his head as he thought to just call it a night.


Norman in his new hideout grinned at a job well done as he had his new forces join up and put together what they had stolen; now New York would have no doubt about who their new Kingpin of Crime is. He couldn't help but think about that thief that made off with a cannister and how Spider-Man was nearby outside; how clever of his nemesis to infiltrate the Jack O'Lanterns and the Bar with No Name like that.

He grinned as this was going to be so much fun.

He conquered the city's underworld in no time flat but was that too small thinking of him?

He was practically a god now as he sat down on his throne like chair; why not take the city itself as his kingdom?

Or the country?


Peter joined May for breakfast on the Saturday morning and May was in shock as the news about the Jack O'Lanterns going from minor youth gang to the forces of the most wanted super powered criminal in the city right now and the havoc that they had caused. Peter got the text messages from Grady and Debra which were showing their shock; how they didn't take Jason and Steven seriously but now...

Mayor Jameson put up a reward for any information on the Green Goblin who was undoubtedly was topping the most wanted list and had instituted a ban on the sale and purchases of the costumed masks of a jack o'lantern or pumpkin face. Everyone was too shaken to think about how legal this ban was or if he was overstepping his bounds; off course there would be idiots who would be protesting this over the more important matters at hand and going on about wanting to protect their freedom to buy the mask of wanted dangerous criminals if they wanted to.

Peter just went back to his room and got out the cannister from his bag; he set up his science equipment and thought that maybe he could put together a cure for this Goblin serum to use on them...

He realised milliseconds in that he had no clue what he was doing; he was still a teenager and not like he had anything close to the right equipment to study it and think about a cure...

Okay everyone I just had to make this gag at the beginning because Hypno Hustler is actually getting a movie from Sony in their Spider-Man movie universe... At this point please don't suggest that the inmates are running the asylum at the people in charge of this universe at Sony because that would so much insulting to asylum patients. Plus they have Donald Glover and why not just make it a Prowler movie with him as the Prowler; don't bring up how confusing it is because he was Prowler in Spider-Man: Homecoming because I think how they brought in the Vulture makes it clear that they don't care about confusing the audience (plus how the marketing put in the Spider-Man graffiti in the trailer without the director's knowledge just to get people talking). Want my idea if they must do a movie on a non Spider Spider-Man character? Do a wrestling movie starring Crusher Hogan; show what it's like being a wrestler in a world filled with superheroes; what it was like discovering that the rookie that kicked his butt easily actually had super powers and was now out as a superhero. Seeing him on the news and being like 'oh $hit, I fought him'. Would probably save them a lot of money in a movie that requires little to no CGI. I mean the wrestling legend known as Raven has co-written an issue of Tangled Web of Spider-Man that was starring Crusher Hogan so why not take that and make it a full film? It would make more sense to do a wrestling Spidey movie about him than El Muerto who I guaranteed that most people never heard of him before the movie announcement as he only had 2 comics and didn't even have his own wikipedia article!

Okay Jack O'Lantern is being turned into the name of Green Goblin's gang since his goons in the Spectacular Spider-Man show wore pumpkin face masks.