"I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me, and the cost is more than I can bare." -Benjamin Martin, The Patriot

(Peter's pov)

It's been 8 years since mine and Gwen's encounter with the sinister six (that's what the papers called them), and it's been 8 years since I've put on my suit, I actually haven't even needed it, due to the fact that crime has been at an all time low since Gwen and I defeated the sinister six, apparently most of the criminals in the city are afraid of spider-man.

Harry has since taken control over Oscorp, he canceled most of their military contracts; he's doing whatever he can to prove that he's nothing like his father. He hasn't been the same since Mary Jane died, he still hasn't given away her belongings, and he'd spend their anniversary as well as her birthday and Christmas sitting by her tombstone. Gwen and I have tried to set him up on dates, but he wouldn't really open up to anyone.

Gwen did eventually become a teacher, she teaches 5th grade at Midtown Elementary. Her main goal was to eventually be George's teacher. We had talked about having more kids, but eventually we decided one was enough, and besides, we were also taking care of Philip and Simon. We ended up having them live with us because Howard got accepted into Sac State, and because Gwen's aunt and uncle getting older and we had to have them moved to a nursing home by us because they both started getting Alzheimer's.

We left it up to a coin toss to see which one of us would get our tubes tied, and of course: I had to be the one to do it. Unfortunately, with my luck our insurance wouldn't cover the simple version with a needle, and instead I was forced to get the one with the scalpel, I had to sit in a doughnut for six weeks due to the unbelievable amount of pain.

George, Gwen, Philip, Simon, and I were heading to Vermont today, we would go there for six weeks every summer and three weeks every Christmas. That morning, Gwen and I were woken up by our ecstatic 9 year old who was jumping on our bed. "Come on, it's time to get up!" he shouted with excitement "Okay bud, why don't you wake up your uncles." I suggested "They're already up." he replied

"I'm up" Gwen said, although barely audible due to the fact that she was always cranky before she had her coffee in the morning "Me too" I said, trying to get to the family room to warn Philip(15) and Simon(12) that "The troll had awoken"

We still lived in that house in Brooklyn, it hasn't changed that much other that we re-tiled the kitchen and turned the spare room into a bedroom for Philip and Simon.

Gwen made us eggs for breakfast, most of the morning was pretty normal, untill we turned on the news to check the traffic.

"We are now getting reports that the black liquid which was found during the meteor shower last week is in fact poisonous. 10 out of the 25 people that were exposed to it were killed within a few hours, but the rest of them exhibited rather strange behavior such as having pale skin, having an extremely low body tempature, and having little tolerance for any type of high pitch sounds. Oscorp's scientists are saying that there is no need to worry, the people who have been infected are under heavy containment and there is no chance of them getting out."

"That can't be good." Gwen whispered as we stood shoulder to shoulder in front of the tv

"I'm sure it's nothing." I ensured her "I'm sure Harry would've called or came over if it was that bad."

We were ready and out the door within an hour. Everything was fine, untill we crossed the Brooklyn bridge. I didn't really know what was going on, but it just felt something was wrong, it only got worse when I noticed that four helicopters flew over our car within five minutes, and because a cop on a motorcycle knocked down the mirror on my side when he drove through the insane amount of traffic, and he didn't stop.

"Dad, what's going on?" George asked, slightly worried "I don't know bud." I replied calmly "I'll be right back, I'm gonna go try and find out what's happening." I said, starting to get out of the car

Just as I opened my door, another cop on a motorcycle drove up and shut it before I could get out "DO NOT GET OUT OF YOUR CA-!" he started to say, until he was interrupted when he was ran over by a Peter-belt, going at least 90 miles an hour and pushing aside everything in its path

"What the hell was that!?" Gwen asked, shocked

"It's our way out." I replied, just before I pushed the gas pedal to the floor and classed after the tornado on wheels

Gwen took the wheel when we got close enough, giving me the opertunity to jump onto the Peter-belt's trailer. When I was able to get to the front of the truck, the driver looked like he was having some type of seizer, His skin was grey, his arms and head were twitching, he had white foam coming out of his mouth, his eyes were rolling to the of his head, and heiwas doing some type of shreak, it sounded like he was screaming while gasping for air. I quickly got into the truck and pulled it over, when I looked over to the driver he wasn't breathing.

When I went to check his pulse, he suddenly sprung to life and tried to bite my head, he acted like a wild animal attacking its prey, it was like all that he cared about was his need to feed, almost like a zombie! Just before he could rip my head off I kicked him out of the truck and onto the street. When I got back into my own car, dozens of those things started running towards us. We eventually made our way to Oscorp tower, with the hope that Harry might have some answers.

We were met with armed guards at the entrence, they let us in when I told them who we were, aparently Harry was already expecting us. The inside of the building was in total chaos, the staff were running in all diffrent directions, either because they were running tests on people or because they were trying to get out of the building. We were met by Harry when we were further inside the building, he led us to his chopper on the roof right when he saw us.

As we got off the ground, I saw all of the distruction that this thing caused: some families were running to rooftops and being ambushed by the infected, others were jumping from rooftops to their deaths before they'd get surrounded, all the while, the symbiote was begining to coat the entire city in darkness, and when I looked to my right, I saw a black bite mark on my son's leg (which he was trying to cover up)

Humanity's extinction had just begun