Chapter 6 ~ Responsibility
Part 1: Choices
"Peter where the hell are you!?" Jen angrily shouts through the com-link in his helmet.
"I'm on route to the kids' school now. Osborn is holding the entire school hostage with the Six." Peter explains as he races over the streets of New York in the front section of the Fantasi-car MK III.
Not fifteen minutes ago Peter received a call from one of Valeria's teachers, which turned out to be the Green Goblin. The madman told Peter he had the school on lock down and Spider-Man was to come alone or the hostages would pay the price. Being close to school getting out, Peter was already about to go get the kids, so he quickly suited up and left. That was not more than five minutes ago.
"Shit!" Jen swore loudly just before an explosion drowned out the com. "Freakin' chrome plated asshole! Peter the Baxter Building is under attack by a horde of Ultron robots. They've cut power to this whole section of the city, and are hitting the us from all sides."
"Shit." Peter mimicked, his hands gripping the controls tightly in his hands. The Baxter Building had it's own internal power source for such occasions. It could run for almost a month without needing the city power grid. In fact Peter was currently in talks with Mayor J. J. to change the whole of New York's power grid with a larger version of the design. But politicians and big business were really fighting it.
The problem being the force shields covering the building drained the battery pretty quick. An extended assault by Ultron would wear it down quick, or worse he'd find a way to just break through it. Ultron was incredibly resourceful and smart. Right up there with Stark, and the late Reed in intellect. It was just a matter of time till he figured something out.
"I'll be there as soon as I can, but the kids come first. Have you called in back-up? The Avengers, X-Men, Defenders... Thunderbolts?"
"We've tried. Everyone is being attacked by Ultron's army." The crunching screech of metal fills the com-link on Spidey's end. "I even tried Strange, he's under attack too. It's some sort of planned tactical strike against every major hero and team in New York!" She-Hulk reports, huffing out a breath.
Peter's mind raced for a few seconds, trying to figure countermeasures. How coincidental that Osborn picked this moment to make a move against the kids. However Peter didn't put too much faith in coincidences anymore. These simultaneous attacks were related in some way, shape, or form. That much made sense. The real question was: Why?
"What a perfect time for the Six to make a play for Val and Sport." Peter growls. He took his flying vehicle above the city scape, and sees nearly a dozen plumes of smoke or explosions around the city.
"What a coincidence / What a coincidence." Peter and Jennifer say at the same time, both in a very unamused tone.
"Just hang on for a while longer honey. I'll wipe the floor with the Six, save the kids, and be back before two shakes of your cute green cat tail." Peter reassures with a pensive smirk. She-Hulk groans on her end, and he can swear he can hear her cheeks turning deep emerald over the ear piece.
"I'm never going to live down that date, am I?" She huffs, and more sounds of wrenching metal can be heard in the background.
"It was just soooo frikkin cute. I still think you should wear one for role play night sometime." Peter hints to his girlfriend, his eyebrows flicking up and down a few times for unseen emphasis.
"I swear to Odin if this is some sort of fetish brought on by that skank Felicia..."
"EWWW! Guys c'mon this is an open channel! Hanky panky talk behind closed doors only!" Johnny shouts, interrupting Jennifer's rant. He hacks disgustedly a few times over the com.
"Seriously kid? I woulda thought you'd be the first to want ta see pretty green in a cat suit. Ah mean even I think she'd look rather alluring." Ben chimes in adding to the suddenly incredibly awkward conversation.
"Well, when you put it like that..." Johnny trails off thoughtfully.
"Okay no. Both of you best forget this conversation or so help me..." Jen threatens angrily, but she can't hide the embarrassment in her tone.
"Right! Back to the crises at hand. I'll be back as soon as I can. Stay safe guys." Spider-Man interjects before things get any further out of hand.
"If Osborn or any of his rejects put one hair out of place on my niece and nephew..." The Human Torch's ice cold seriousness actually sends chills down Peter's spine.
"Trust me, they'll regret every strand out of place." Spidey agrees, the mirth from seconds ago completely vanished.
"We'll be waiting hun, just make it quick. Whatever Ultron is attempting it's always worse than it seems." She-Hulk adds in confidence.
"Roger that. Spidey over and out." Peter taps the side of his helmet, and watches the school come closer into view through his HUD.
He taps a few buttons on the console of the aircraft, and a name displays on the screen. The call is patched through almost instantly.
"Greetings, Spider-Man. What can I do for you?" A woman's voice comes from his com-link.
"Hey Jo, can you do me a solid?"
X X X X
Spider-Man back flips out of the cockpit of the cloaked and silent running flying ship as it passes over the school doing nearly forty. He enters free fall from sixty meters in the air. Having scanned the area from a few blocks away with the Fantasti-Car, he was able to root out several sensors and traps already in place around the school. Almost all were already there, put in place by he himself.
Somehow Goblin bypassed them, and then hijacked the whole network without alerting the Four's computer systems. That in and of itself was incredibly disconcerting. Only a handful of people knew about the protection grid in place, or at least he thought. Either way Peter didn't have time to pussy foot around with the Sinister Six, considering Ultron was waging war on the city. He needed to be out there, but his kids came first. He made a promise.
The red color of the lenses on his helmet wipe to a light blue, and body signatures display on his HUD. It looked like the entire student and faculty body were still inside, some three hundred and change souls. Unfortunately they were separated into four groups, all in different locations. A group of people on the roof, the second floor, the first floor, and the gym.
'Clever Gobby. Very clever.' He'd have to save each group individually without alerting the baddies guarding each of the others. A challenge to be sure, but Peter didn't have almost unrestricted access to some of the most advanced tech and designs in the known galaxy to just sit on them. He has to deal with cosmic and dimensional problems on a weekly basis now. Of course he'd come up with new suit designs.
Like the one he was currently wearing, the Spider-Armor MK VI. Or as he affectionately dubbed it the "Party Crasher" suit. Designed specifically for taking on multiple Enhanced beings at once, both stealthily and loudly.
The material of the body suit was Third Generation Unstable Molecules, colored completely in black. A large glowing red glowing Spider emblazoned on the front, and not much else to speak of in flair, aside the red lenses. He had a gadget belt built into the suit, barely visible to the undiscerning eye. And there was a thin layer of extra padding woven into the suit for protection, a gift from T'challa.
A thin metal helmet covered his already masked face, colored black, and looked distinctly like his Mark III armor design. The bracers from his Mark III stayed as well. They were streamlined and thinned a bit. Their coloring was changed to black with the blue parts red now, and the lights removed with a closed port in their place. He also kept the armored greaves, with built in rocket propulsion, from the Mark III, colored like the helmet and bracers.
The last noticeable change came in the form of a red backpack-like pod attached to his back. On it were four little close ports too. Aside from those it looked like a slightly bulkier version of his old Stealth Suit. It's material and armor placement allowed his full range of movement, while it's light weight hindered his speed by an estimated point five percent.
This was actually it's first official field test, if you don't count the training with Logan's X-Men.
'I spy Ladybug and Fishbowl on the roof. So that should leave Gobby and... there's Ton of Fun, if the size is any indication. That's Spark Plug, too much static around that signature to not be him. That leaves number six as a mystery player. Fun. Ooo. Please be Whiny, please be Whiny, please be Whiny.' Spidey thinks as he reads the scans, only twenty meters from the roof now, and coming down fast.
"Time to crash this party." He says as he balls his right hand into a fist, being sure to specifically press the tips of his fingers against his palm. "Buzz Stinger, L."Peter says softly into his helmet's mic. At the same time his suit melts out of sight, and a small stinger ejects out from the under wrist part of his left bracer.
"He's above us!" Shouts the new Beetle, Janice Lincoln, her own suit sensors tripping. She and Mysterio whip their heads up, seeing nothing in the air above them.
"I don't see anything!?" Mysterio shouts alarmed.
"It must be someWHA!" The flying woman suddenly drops out of the air a good ten feet, weighed down by an invisible force. Spider-Man, hanging off of her back, stabs the stinger into the harness of the suit's wings. A surge of electricity arcs throughout the suit, both disabling it and knocking Janice out in one go.
She and the cloaked Spidey fall the rest of the way to the school roof, with an audience of children, teachers, and Mysterio left gobsmacked. Mysterio laughs, covering for his surprise, raising his arms for dramatic effect. "Impressive, Wall Crawler. But I shall not be taken out so easily!"
Spider-Man's active camouflage bleeds away, as he stands up over the unconscious Beetle. The dark variant of his costume made Beck pause in his theatrics. Many a villain knew what Spider-Man wearing black tended to mean, but the red coloring gave his fear factor a bigger boost.
"If... if you think you can unnerve me with a new set of pajama's you sorely underestimate me, Bug. Let's see how you deal with my army!" The special effects master unleashes a smoke screen from under his cape, quickly covering the roof in it. To any onlooker it seemed as if Mysterio multiplied by nearly fifty. Copies of him covering that side of the roof. To Spider-Man's special Holographic Visor, it was all the hostages in the place of Mysterio's clones, and one Quentin Beck trying to slip up next to him unseen.
"Best way to take out an army," Spider-Man says, quickly raising his right arm up and aiming his devil horns at the real Mysterio. "... is to take out the General." Webbing soared through the air, and latched onto Beck's chest. With one yank Mysterio was flying to Spidey, who drew back his left arm.
"ImpossiOOMPH." The gaudily clad illusionist is silenced with one well placed uppercut. His half bowl helmet flips into the air, and lands on the roof with a clatter. Mysterio falls to his knees, then face plants the roof, after Spider-Man sidesteps to the side to let him.
"I learned that from Stratego." Spidey says with child-like enthusiasm. Peter rushes over to the nearest teacher, as kids whoop and celebrate Spider-Man's quick work of the bad guys. And Spidey can't help but feel a mite pleased with himself.
"Thanks Spidey." The woman teacher says as he quickly tears apart her simple zip-tied restraints.
"Trust me, it's my pleasure. Is everyone okay?" He asks looking over the crowd.
"Yes they didn't harm anyone, but there are more inside." The teacher worries, rubbing her freed wrists.
"I know. So I need you to free the rest of the group here, and get them off school grounds while I take care of the rest. They'll know I'm here by now, and the less innocents around the better." Spider-Man instructs, to which the woman nods firmly and goes about freeing the rest.
"Okay kids, listen to your teachers and get to safety quick. Also remember to do your homework and study hard." He throws the last part in just because, and get a round of groans for it. Just what he was going for. He turns and quickly ties up Mysterio and Beetle back to back, then plasters the two to a wall with another round of steel strength silk. After that he takes one quick scan of the floor below with his helmet.
He runs to the edge of the roof, spins around, and dives out over the side. Launching a strand of webbing from his left hand to the side of the building, Spidey is swung back toward the first story, and spirals feet first through a window.
He lands in a sideways squat against the far wall of a classroom, just as the building alarms go off from the forced entry. Hopping off of his perch, Spider-Man opens the door, and enters the hallway. Jumping up he sticks to the ceiling on all fours, and crawls over to the next classroom. He sweeps the floor above one more time with his scanner, and smiles when he sees Rhino directly above him, guarding a door to where his group of hostages were.
"Acid Webbing, L." He says, and feels a mechanism in his left bracer move. A green light inside his visor indicates the cartridge is loaded. Rocking back on his feet upside down, Spidey sprays a large ring on the ceiling above him. The webbing immediately begins eating through the floor, bubbling the material around it. He takes that second to grab something from a container in his utility belt with his right hand. A creak is heard, followed by a groan, and then the floor gives way under Aleksei's massive weight.
The Rhino falls on his butt with a grunt of surprise, and something lands on his shoulder amidst the dust debris.
"You look tired Aleksei." Spider-Man says in mock concern, as the Russian takes a swipe at him with a huge hand.
"SPIDER!" Rhino roars in his heavy accent. He slaps his shoulder hard, creating a mini shock wave. Spidey flips over the hand before it was even close, and tosses a small pill into the angry villain's open mouth before he lands. Rhino reflexively swallows the tablet as he rushes to stand up and face his enemy.
"Shhh shhh shhh. You've earned your nap big guy." Spidey smiles behind his mask and helmet, taking a few steps back casually. "Sleeeeeeeeeeep." He coaxes, as the huge animal costumed man gets to his feet, and promptly teeters. His eyes gloss over, and his eyelids droop. The next second the school shakes a bit as he hits the floor in a deep slumber, denting the waxed concrete floor with his visage.
"Nighty night." Spider-Man pats Rhino's head then jumps up through the hole he made in the second story. Quickly he gets a teacher free, and orders them to do the same as the roof group.
The Web Head drops down to the first floor once again, ready to take on the next group when his Spider-Sense blares. Peter back flips away just in time to avoid being hit with a bolt of lightning from a power outlet.
SPIDER-SENSE!
Another bolt breaks out of the next socket down the line where Spidey lands. Faster than most eyes can follow, he throws his torso backwards into a crab walk. The electrical attack flies into a nearby metal locker.
SPIDER-SENSE!
Before he can blink the light fixture above him blows apart and lightning strikes from above. At the same time electric bolts pour from every outlet and light in the area. There is no way to dodge, and Spider-Man is struck by nearly 10,000 volts of electricity.
"YAHHHH!" Spidey yells as his body is wrapped in lightning. The hero drops to the floor unceremoniously, smoke rolling his body.
"YES! Yes I did it! I finally took out the Spider!" Max whoops triumphantly, reforming into his physical form a few steps from the downed adversary. "Life is glorious!" Throwing his arms up in the air in victory.
"Woofta. That was a shock to the system. Dang Sparky, you weren't playing around were you?" Spider-Man sits up, his hand on his helmet as her shakes his head.
"No way. You... I killed you!" Electro's eye twitches at the Wall Crawler. Tiny streams of electricity coat his body, as he begins to charge up his power. Spidey hops forward onto his feet, crossing his arms over each other, and aiming his Web Shooters at an angle toward the lockers on either side of hall.
"Conduction Web, L and R." Metallic thread fires from both shooters and sticks to the metal lockers. Then in an instant he crosses his wrists, connecting the strands, and then lets the webbing go. It twangs forward and smacks right into Dillion's chest. His energy is suddenly diverted in opposite directions, momentarily stunning the Enhanced man.
"THIZ WOZZ ZTOP ME FER LONZ!" Electro shouts already starting to redirect the current back to his body.
"Nope, but just long enough." Peter delivers a strait right punch at Electro's head. His fist miraculously connects to Max's nose, and the super villain is sent flying backward down the hallway. He tumbles for a few feet before sprawling out KO'ed. Spider-Man pulls back his fist which is sparking with electricity.
"And that's a tee kay oh everybody. Spider-Man remains the lightweight champion of New York City." Peter cheers, throwing his fist in the air. "That's four down." Glancing to the corner of his HUD he notes the time. "Three minutes. Man that's a new record. Let's see if we can finish this in ten."
With that Spider-Man took off toward the first floor group of captives. 'Oh please be Whiny next.'
X X X X
The Shocker explodes out of the library door, and into the hallway. A half second later he slams against the far wall, leaving cracks from the impact. He groans as his slips to his knees. His head and torso wobble for a moment before he face plants the waxed concrete floor.
Spider-Man steps out over the destroyed door, and looks down at his handiwork. "The look on your face Herman. Priceless." Parker mocks, as he removes Shocker's gauntlets. After webbing the villain to the wall, he returns to the Library to help the hostages. 'Soooo glad it was Whiny.'
"Is everyone okay?" He asks the nearest teacher, as the kids and some faculty congratulate and thank him. The man in question smiles up at the hero.
"Yeah. As far as I know they just grouped us up and kept watch. What do they want?" The man asks, rubbing his wrists after he was freed.
"Best guess, to hurt me. Have you seen Valeria or Franklin Richards?" Spidey looks around at the largest of the hostage groups he's seen so far, searching for his foster kids.
"I'm pretty sure I saw that Goblin guy take them with him to gym."
"Crap. Alright, I need to get there ASAP. You got things here?" Peter points a finger at the man, who nods a bit surprised at the sudden urgency in Spidey's tone. Spider-Man clenches his fists tightly, and his jaw sets at the news. Osborn was more than willing to hurt the kids if his past was any indication. The man had very little moral code when it came to civilian casualties, and even less when it involved loved ones of his enemies.
"Thanks. Make sure to get everyone off school grounds as quick as possible." The hero rushes out the nearest window and shoots a line to the gymnasium not too far away.
The scan he took while mid swing showed the hostages collected in the center court of the gym. However there were three broken off from the main group. The scan also told him that the building was absolutely littered with explosives.
Spider-Man sticks to the side of the two story building, and brings his right arm forward. Turning up his wrist, a small panel slides open on his bracer revealing a small screen. Peter taps a fey keys on the screen, before the panel slides back in place, and he goes about climbing to the nearest window.
Activating his active camo he peers into inside. The Green Goblin is hovering on his glider by the mezzanine, where Valeria and Franklin were tied up and hanging from the railing off the side. He was apparently speaking with the children. Instantly Peter felt his blood boil. Norman was going to pay for this. He was still worried as to how Osborn managed to pull this stunt, but he'd save the question for when his kids were safe.
Without a lick of warning the Goblin turned and was staring directly at him, and barely a second later a pumpkin bomb was hurtling toward the window. Spidey jumped off the wall, a good distance away as the bomb hit where he just was, blowing out a good sized chunk of the wall. In his haste he took his fingers off the palm buttons, and his invisibility fades away. Among the sounds of explosion Peter could here the cries and screams of the children and teachers inside.
The Wall-Crawler launches webs from both wrists to undamaged parts of the building, and slingshots into the hole in the wall. Sailing through the air, he aims a drop kick at the Goblin. He catches Goblin's way to large smile, and the psychopath's glider falls in the air. Spidey soars right over him, his reflex kicks in and he shoots a web strand up to the ceiling. Slinging himself up the hero lands on all fours upside down on the ceiling, and looks down at the scene.
"I'm genuinely impressed you were able to beat the rest of the Six so quick and easy. I take it your new set of spandex had something to do with that." The Green Goblin mocks, already back in front of Valeria and Franklin, holding a pumpkin bomb in his outstretched hand next to them. "Loving the colors by the way, very... menacing."
"That's just the kind of mood you put me in Gobby. So if you know what's best for you you'll let everyone here go, and take your beating like a good villain." Peter banters back, his HUD bringing up more and more small red dots around the gym on the screen. "And here I thought you woulda had the good sense to not cross Doom and me."
"Ah but that is where you are wrong Peter." Osborn said his name with a sneer. His most hated nemesis was right under his nose all that time, and he didn't know. When peter revealed himself to the public to help the kids, Goblin must have been livid with rage.
"Even with all the power and backing you have now, you've also never had a more exposed weakness." Osborn glanced at the kids. The Richards children both had brave faces on, even if there was fear in their eyes. "And what's worse you got all these innocent people involved in our fight, just because you wanted to let these two go to school. What poor parenting on your side."
Peter internally growls. Osborn was playing the crowd against him, and not just him, no, he was bringing Val and Sport into this. If that play worked the kids would ostracize them because there would always be the fear that just being around them would inevitably lead to danger. Their parents would undoubtedly reason as much, and the teachers may even want to remove them from the school for safety's sake. He'd have to deal with that backlash later though.
"No, you are putting innocents in danger because you are to afraid to take me on yourself. You know I'll beat you." Spider-Man shoots back, and at that moment the red lights on his HUD turn green. "Barb Webbing, right." He says quietly into his mask.
"Our track record would certainly attest to your victories, but this isn't about beating you, no. This is about hurting you, making you suffer." Goblin says as he seems to be gearing up for a long winded monologue.
Spider-Man throws his right arm forward and releases a web line who's tip is pointed and has a metallic sheen to it. Norman is caught off guard by the sudden attack, and isn't quick enough to avoid the spiked tip slicing apart the strap holding his Bag of Tricks. The bag falls onto the glider, and the Green Goblin looks down at it out of reflex.
Parker takes that moment to tag Osborn's face with a glob of webbing from his left wrist. The purple dressed villain veers back away from the children, giving Spidey the chance to leap from the ceiling to them. Quickly he grabs them, one in each arm, and jumps them over the mezzanine ledge.
"Are you guys okay?" He rips the bonds apart, and stands up just in time to see the Goblin staring down at him with a gruesome smile splitting his green painted lips.
"Brazen, but not the brightest choice. You see I've rigged this place to explode..." Gobby started.
"Oh I know, which is why I had you talking long enough to do this." Spider-Man interrupts with an unseen smile. "EMP Activate."
"What?!" The baddie shouts, his eyes wide, as a pulse emanates from his right gauntlet. The EMP field grows until it covers the entire building for a second, before dissipating. Lights short out all over the building, covering them in a semi darkness. The Goblin Glider sparks and shorts out, small streams of smoke breaking out over the flying vehicle. Immediately the machine wavers and starts to drop.
Goblin jumps off his glider, and grabs onto the mezzanine ledge, trowing his elbows over it quickly. The glider crashes onto the cement floor below with some grinding metal, but well out of harms way of the hostages. Osborn gets his balance and starts to pull himself up.
As he lifts his head he comes face to face with large red lenses, glowing in the low light. The villain pauses for a moment at the alarming sight. Suddenly his windpipe is grabbed in the darkness, and he's lifted into the air.
"Heh heh heh. Well look at you. If I didn't know better I'd wonder who the villain is here." Osborn mocks wheezily, dangling in the air from Spider-Man's grip.
"That's funny, cause I'm feeling pretty vengeful right now." Spider-Man says threateningly, as he winds his right fist back to punch out the man.
"Good good. Now let's see where that takes you." The Green Goblin smiles.
SPIDER-SENSE!
"Peter look out!" Valeria shouts.
Osborn swings his right arm up, a knife pulled from his belt, and stabs it into the bracer on Spidey's left arm. Peter lets go of the madman, and Goblin drops to the floor a story below. He get up undeterred, and runs to his downed glider.
"He's gonna hurt the hostages!" Franklin yells watching the scene below from the ledge. Spider-Man had already jumped, and was in free fall when his adoptive son said this.
"Not on my watch!" Spidey says, aiming his right Web Shooter at the villain.
Just then a bright green light explodes in between the hostages and Goblin, who was reeling back an active pumpkin bomb. A bolt of energy tears from the light and hits Osborn like a battering ram, sending him through the thick wall behind him. The Pumpkin Bomb twirls in the air, where Spider-Man grabs it, and quickly chucks it out the previous bomb hole in the building. It explodes harmlessly in the air.
Letting out a sigh, Peter turns to the figure walking out of the green light.
"Uncle Victor / Uncle Victor!" Franklin and Valeria shout happily.
"What took you so long?" Spider-Man says with a huff, dusting off his suit. The light from the magic portal creating a creepy array of shadows on Doom's armor.
"Be gratified that Doom arrived when I did." Victor says in a demeaning tone.
CHAPTER 6, PART 1 END
To be continued in Part 2: Consequences
A/N: Hey there my dear readers. Sorry it took a while for this to get out, but I hope it is worth the wait. So I gotta ask, what do you think of my new Party Crasher Spider Armor design? I took the best parts of five of his best suits and combined them, the Future Foundation Suit, Spider Armor MK V, the ANAD Suit and the Stealth Variant from the Spidey and DP series, and a fifth to be revealed in the next chapter.
So this chapter actually turned out a bit more one sided than I originally wanted. Spidey was supposed to have a harder time with the Six, but then I reasoned why would he? He has ridiculously awesome tech at his disposal, and we've seen in the ANAD that he'll use it if he has it. Still there is much more to this story than what's on the surface.
Expect Part 2 to be much harder on the new Fantastic Four. Till then, thanks for reading everyone!
The Richmaster: Thank you, and maybe some day I'll reveal the mask trick. But for now I'll let you wonder.
Polsaris: Doom's not above playing the One Up game. Yeah I'm looking forward to that happening too.
Blackseal84: Thanks, I'll do my best.
Spidey Ryan: May is Amazing.
HandAssassinSpider-man: Well well look who might have some precognitive abilities.
Croniklerx: Gotta have the slow pace every once in a while. That's something I like think on an write about with my stories. Yeah I really wanted to have Jen go through something like that. It's a pivotal moment in my opinion, when she'll open up her vulnerable side to others. Well we'll have to see just how far Doomsy spreads. Thanks for reading Croniklerx.
Tarix: Why thank you.
Bael92: If I have my way May will be a reoccurring character. As for the Hero community, I think that'll come up soon.
Brown-Eyed-Fiend: Oh he's not easily won over at all. However he seems to have a major soft spot for Valeria, and even Franklin. Being around them, in a family setting, and accepted as a person not a madman, that'll change a man. But don't expect his tune to change too quickly.
Angel of Atonement: Nothing can resist May's Pot Roast. Thanos best watch his manners next time he shows.
vampireharry the 2: Thank you, and I will do my best.
diagonalpumpkin: In What if stories Doom has proven to be a great man and less mad than most associate with him. My favorite example is the Marvel Zombies VS The Army of Darkness. Either way, the way I see things, most villains are the way they are because of the circumstances and choice. Hell, it's a scary idea, but Spider-Man could have easily become a villain under different circumstances and choices.
im ur misconception: A roller coaster of emotions to be sure. I wanted the chapter to be just that.
Devil Rebel: Gotta love fanfiction.
Psionic108: No worries, I'm quite lazy too. I mean just look at my update times, lol. Glad you are enjoying, and thanks for reading.
JLSpidey: No one can say Doom isn't a player. The Parker Particles seemed like a very underutilized story plot in the comics, and a good way for Doom to be a bigger part of the story. I mean the potential of them, considering Alpha, would be any villain's wet dream. Yeah Jen and Peter are an oddity to be sure, but I could easily see the two of them building off each other's support, Peter's kindness and patience, and Jen's sincerity and confidence. They could easily lift each other up from the worst. Thanks for reading.
Guest: Not very soon, but here it is.
griezz: True, but I wanted to set the mood before the back story. Either way I'm glad you liked it.