Chapter 9

Note from the Author

I've seen the comments that I should revise the first few chapters to make it flow better. If anyone else feels I should revise the first few chapters to focus on one dimension at a time, review and message me and I will do it if I see more comments. – Rocky Heroes

Last Time on Infinite Crisis

Ultimate and Nick Fury teamed up and brought the fight to the skies facing Vulture 2099, his vulture warriors, and S.H.I.E.L.D agents who have been seemingly turning against the agency against their wills. During the sky battle Ultimate managed to retake the Hellicarrier…kinda. Vulture 2099 managed to blindside Ultimate and use the tablet's power to drain Ultimate of his powers. Later Ultimate was imprisoned and discovered that Iron Man was under some kind of mind control and that Thor was a food source for Vulture 2099's godly new powers. Managing to knock out the mind controlled Iron Man, Ultimate goes after Vulture 2099 while Nick Fury saves New York from a crashing Hellicarrier by landing in the water. Just managing to defeat a God-powered Vulture 2099, with some help from Thor, Ultimate looks on from a ruined city with an unconscious Thor nearby and a still mind controlled Iron Man flying off with an alive Nick Fury.

2099 Universe: The Real Shocker

'Green Goblin may be in charge of Alchemax but at least I know where two of the stone tablets are,' Spider-man 2099 thinks to himself. Back in costume and crawling up the ducts to one of the known locations of the tablets, 2099 ponders how easy this will be. 'Herman Schultz, man this could be easy with a name like that. Maybe one of the villains got ripped of the stone tablet and now its here.'

Entering into one of the top floors from the air ducts travelling along the ceiling, 2099 looks down and sees a scientists working over a machine that seems to be pulling power from the stone tablet.

'Gotcha,' 2099 thinks to himself.

Silently pulling the grid off of the duct, 2099 silently descends using a web line until he is just behind the scientist. Quicker than our eyes could see, 2099 sends a web line around the scientist's legs and then leaves him hanging upside down from the ceiling.

"What the hell!" the scientist screams.

Pushing the scientists around so he starts to spin, 2099 takes a moment to read his nametag. "The Herman Schultz. Nice to meet you, glad you were that easy to deal with, and thanks for the rock." After his sarcastic quip, 2099 sends another webline out to the stone tablet and pulls it up to him with ease. "Seriously, I can't believe how easy it was to get this. Well, peace out Hermie. Can I call you Hermie?"

Just before Herman Schultz can speak 2099 sends a web across his mouth.

"Ah, it's okay, we probably won't ever see each other again anyways."

2099 then salutes and swings off back up his original air duct. Crawling up and around the remaining parts of the building, 2099 soon finds himself sitting on the side of a nearby building looking over the tablet. 'Let's see, I guess I should find a place to stash this before I go for the next tablet.'

A sudden, giant explosion erupts from the side of the Alchemax building…more specifically where Herman Schultz's lab was…

"That can't be good…" 2099 mutters to himself.

"SPIDER!" the call roars out from the explosion echoing easily past 2099 himself.

"Yeah, that's not good at all…"

Soon a giant sonic blast shoots out at 2099 that he barely manages to dodges. With another explosion shooting out from where 2099 was just sitting, 2099 starts to swing through the city. Next, 2099 finds himself tackled through a building while in midair by a giant piece of metal. The giant piece of metal then reveals itself to be a human shape that next tosses 2099 across the room. 2099 looks up at his attacker but gets a punch across the jaw that sends 2099 flying even further across the room.

"I refuse to be humiliated by another Spider, let alone a rip off of the original!" yells out the walking armor. As the walking armor walks towards 2099, it pulls back its helmet revealing who is inside…

Realizing that maybe he shouldn't have teased the scientist from earlier, 2099 then can't help himself from saying, "Hermie…boy am I glad to see you again."

"You're just as annoying as the original," states the Amazing Shocker whose technology has received a major upgrade. After a kick to 2099's gut and a lower level sonic blast from his gauntlets, Shocker states, "Now return the tablet so I can finish my recent invention."

"I take it the tablet made you smarter Hermie?" 2099 whimpers as Shocker easily forces the tablet from 2099's hand.

"Smarter than you know…now die!" Shocker then unleashes a much larger sonic blast that decimates the remaining top part of the building.

Luckily for our futuristic web head, 2099 manages to send out a quick webline out of the building just barely escaping the blast. Hovering in the same spot from where he let out the blast, there is Shocker still in place with no scratches on his armor. Shocker looks up at 2099 and soon fires off rockets from his shoulders heading towards 2099.

"This is what I get for saying this'll be easy!" 2099 then starts swinging again and soon realizes they are heat seeking rockets. "Oh, come on! That's just overkill Hermie!"

"Nothing is overkill when it comes to a spider." Shocker states as he simply flies and catches up beside 2099.

Before 2099 can realize Shocker has caught up to him while he was dodging the heat seeking missiles, Shocker sends out one last blast with both gauntlets. Crashing through another building due to the blast, 2099 stumbles as he tries to get back to his feet as the heat seeking rockets come chasing him into the building. With that, Shocker sends a second building crashing down within two minutes…and with 2099 inside this time still.

"Well that was fun," Shocker states to himself before flying back to Alchemax.

Long after Shocker is gone, 2099 reveals he survived due to the force of the explosion pushing him out of the building and crash landing into another building. Wobbling, 2099 places a single hand on the side of the building he currently resides in and looks over the destruction caused in a simple 5 minute period. Two building with who knows how many people inside crashing down, the cars that were caught in the action, and the damage even left to nearby buildings. Fairly quickly, 2099 hears sirens from the distance and knows he must leave.

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"Well a butt kicking by another other name," Miguel O'Hara sighs to himself as he examines his injuries, which are thankfully minor due to the suit and powers helping his endurance. 'I can't let that happen again. That was too much destruction, chaos. That guy was just too much. Too strong, too powerful. I could barely take any of those blasts, and I'm pretty sure one of those full powered blasts would have ended me with ease.

Punching a wall Miguel yells, "I need to be smarter about this! I got cocky and now all those people are on my hands."

Sirens flare off in the distance, of course meaning the police of the dimension, the Public Eye ar eon their way…and of course this is all of 2099's fault. Swinging away, 2099 stays in hiding as the Public Eye appears…and they have had one hell of an upgrade. Not that the Public Eye were not packing powerful weapons and robotics 2099 has had to deal with frequently, but this is new…or is it? As 2099 looks closer at their new tech he realizes the Public Eye are sporting equipment and bots that look similar to what Shocker was sporting before. Not that the Public Eye wasn't in the pocket of Alchemax before but…yeah no doubt Alchemax will take no blame for this.

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'You'd think I'd only be coming back if I had a plan, but I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.' 2099 muses to himself as he once breaks into Alchemax through the air ducts once again only a few short hours later. Not being left with much choice as the security would be upgraded and best to come again before that happens. Sneaking around, 2099 comes across an Alchemax staff meeting…with Herman Schultz present. "Convenient?" 2099 whispers to himself.

"What the hell were you thinking Schultz!" A man dressed up in expensive business screams over at Herman Schultz. "You could have jeopardized everything we have worked for!"

"It was Spider-Man! Can you really blame me? "Herman Schultz slams his tablet piece on the table and yells back at the business dressed man. "I know he's not the same ones we dealt with but it had to be done."

"I should have known better than to work with you," the business man squishes his nose, "the one from my own dimension was just as dense. Just a two bit thief with some power gloves."

"What!?"

"You heard me Herman. I bet before you got that rock all you had was your Shocker Suit. I bet you were a loser just as the one from my dimension was."

"How dare you! I should…"

"You should what Herman?" The business man stands up and he seems to start growing. "I recall we've already been through this once before," the businessman man continues to grow but not in size but also muscle mass "Do you really want a second go around with me?"

With panic in his voice Herman says, "No, no! I'm sorry Mr. Osborn. My tempter got the best of me. I'm sorry for causing a scene but we have everyone in the palm of our hands and Spider-Man stole the tablet piece I work with. No tablet piece, no more new technology. The Spider had to be squashed."

As Mr. Osborn starts to shrink to his normal size, "I'll forgive you this one time but that tablet piece should never have been stolen from you to begin with."

"Right but that's fixed now. I was working on a building security upgrade when Spider-Man showed up. The upgrade should be finished uploading with the next minute if my calculations are correct," Herman Schultz says as he smirks to himself."

2099 sitting in the ducts stops and thinks to himself, 'Security upgrade? Not good.'

Sure enough alarms bellow and 2099 feels an electrical surge through his body. Suddenly 2099 finds himself ejected onto the very table standing between Mr. Osborn and Herman Schultz...that the tablet piece happened to be sitting on…lucky?

"What!?" Mr. Osborn and Herman Schultz yell.

"Umm, hi guys?" 2099 quickly webs both men in the face to blind them. Immediately 2099 sees Mr. Osborn begin to grow much quicker than he did before and even starts to turn green. "The Green Goblin I take it?"

Fire erupts from the now larger and green Mr. Osborn's fists and are hurled towards 2099 and Schultz. Saving Herman Schultz, 2099 swings them both out of there as the fireballs leave behind a giant explosion.

"What the hell are you doing with me!" Herman Schultz yells still blind from the webs.

"Saving you!" 2099 yells back as they swing away from the second giant explosion to come from Alchemax in the last hour. "Odd work day for the people at Alchemax."

Looking back, 2099 sees the Ultimate Green Goblin hurdling fireballs towards him and Shocker. Still blind, Herman Schultz doesn't even realize he is being saved from his own boss' deadly fireballs…again odd work day for the people at Alchemax. Landing on top of a far off building, 2099 finally feels they are at a safe distance.

"Nice boss you have trying to fry both of us like that." 2099 speaks out freeing the webbing off of Herman Schultz's face.

"You're the one who ambushed me, twice in one hour!" Herman shrieks back.

"Yeah but at least I never tried to kill you! Maybe laugh at your expense but not kill you." 2099 then starts to pack away the tablet away into a webbing bag.

"Get away from that!" Schultz yells and leaps for the bag containing his stone.

2099 easily dodges Herman Schultz but he pushes a button on his wrist…not good. Leaping off of the building Herman Schultz bonds with flying pieces of metal coming from the Alchemax building and becomes the Shocker one again. Flying and landing on the same building as 2099, Shocker demands the tablet piece back with a simple gesture of his hand.

"Listen Herman, this is important. The world is at stake, not just this one but yours as well."

Shocker turns his hand gesture into a fist and points a blast right at 2099.

Shocker fires off a shot, but 2099 manages to dodge and yell, "Seriously this and your own home dimension are in danger!"

"Stop lying and fight!" Shocker screams as he lets off another blast.

Somehow managing at didge again 2099 shouts, "Why would I expect you to care! You just murdered who knows how many countless people just an hour ago!"

Shocker then flies and tackles 2099 in mid jump pushing him into the ground. "If you were really paying attention Spider, I was only aiming to kill you. That area of the city has been under construction for two months now. No one was in that area of the city. Do you really think I'd kill for no reason? Please, I have some honour." Shocker easily tosses 2099 across the building and fires off another blast. "I only kill for money, or in this case a Spider will do."

2099 sends out a webline onto Shocker's feet and takes them out from beneath him. As Shocker falls backwards, 2099 leaps and jumps onto his chest. 2099 goes for a punch but Shocker sets off some flares inside the suit to blind 2099. A hard punch from Shocker sends 2099 flying backwards. Shocker flies off for another tackle, but 2099 leaps over his head and sends out a webline to Shocker's back. 2099 pulls himself in and goes for a grapple across Shocker's back.

"So that's why you haven't gone crazy with the blasts and missiles?" 2099 shouts.

"Common courtesy Spider, why kill those who don't deserve it?" Shocker yells as he tries to get 2099 off of his back.

"And I deserve it?" 2099 screams as Shocker starts to spin in circles rapidly.

"If you want that tablet piece you want to take everything important away from me! I'm a better because of it! Without I'm a nobody again! Just Spider-Man punching bag!" Shocker screams as he crashes them both through a top floor of a building. "And guess what Spider? This one is empty too!"

Shocker fires off two blasts though 2099 manages to dodge them, but Shocker was counting on that. With 2099 still dodging the two blasts in midair, Shocker unleashes his heat seeking missiles. Purely on instinct, 2099 manages to dodge the missiles and then using his own momentum go and slide between Shocker's legs…with the missiles now coming towards Shocker. 2099 leaps through the building window as a huge explosion erupts taking out of the top part of the building.

2099 webs and lands on top of a building. "So that doesn't just work in the cartoons, cool." 2099 pants heavily when he sees a badly damaged (and poorly) flying Shocker come and land in front of him.

"We're not done," Shocker demands. Sending out shock waves all over 2099 manages to dodge them easier this time, thanks to Shocker's auto aim being damaged in the blast. With ease, 2099 ducks and weaves between the blasts before he stands face to face with Shocker and 2099 ends the fight decking him across the jaw. Shocker lands back exhausted as the majority of his Shocker armour flies off into pieces.

"Well Hermie…I think we're done," 2099 quips to himself before he notices his shadow getting smaller. Looking behind him he spots a giant fireball heading their way. Leaping and grabbing hold of Shocker, 2099 takes them back off of the building in time as it blows up. Flying above them 2099 spots the Ultimate Green Goblin, in full out monster mode but decked out in gear and a glider easily designed by Shocker.

"No Spider, we're not done." Green Goblin mumbles to himself as he flings out two more fireballs and releases two missiles from the glider.

Webslinging as fast as possible 2099 tries to take Shocker and himself as far away as he can. Shocker tries to scream out for mercy from the Goblin, but either the Goblin can't hear or doesn't care. An explosion sends 2099 and Shocker hurdling and landing on top of a populated apartment building with cars everywhere.

Green Goblin looks down at 2099 and the defeated Shocker. Pushing a button on his wrist, a special green and red missile is released from his holster in the glider and is prepped for launch. "Now to finish this."

Shocker turns and screams, "What are you doing! I'm down here and there's too many people for that!"

"Don't care. I've had enough of Spiders and you Herman. Now die."

As the missile is released, 2099 tries to take Shocker to run with him but Shocker pushes him off. Shocker turns to the missile and adjusts his gauntlets with just enough time to fire at the rocket. The shock wave seems to shut the missile down and explode prematurely…still in front of Shocker…

Fortunately 2099 managed to swing away in time. Sitting on a perch on a building, 2099 watches the Green Goblin fly off on his glider back to Alchemax having almost killed so many…only one…Shocker. "Never thought he was that kind of guy. Hermie, I mean Herman Schultz, you were…"

Suddenly 2099 sees Herman Shultz the Shocker push himself up from the rubble. The Shocker suit is in ruins and Herman doesn't look that great either. 2099 swings down and checks on Herman Schultz, "Herman, Herman are you okay!"

All Herman Schultz can do is look at 2099 with tears in his eyes and say, "I can't feel my legs."

Next Time on Infinite Crisis

Amazing Spider-Man confronts the killer of Black Cat and finds out the true identity of the Armoured Spider-Man

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Characters from Chapter 10: The Real Shocker (spoilers if you haven't read yet)

Spider-Man 2099

Amazing Shocker/Herman Schultz (paralyzed from the waist down)

Ultimate Green Goblin