A year had passed since the events of the UN attack and the now 16 year old Harry Osborn in a sweatshirt and bottoms was busy sparring with his combat instructor hired in a secure private gym. This figure had a white hood, white skull mask, dark blue body armor and orange lines. This figure was the mercenary known only as the Taskmaster; mastered the technique of being able to replicate a person's fighting style and moves by only needing to see them use the moves once. it would allow him to pull them off and know how to counter them and predict an oponnent's weakness; he had also hired his services out to train other mercenaries.

Harry was learning to have to use his new strength, speed and agility effectively while learning how to fight as when they started Taskmaster was quite relentless and unforgiven with his strikes and even with his enhanced healing, he could feel his ribs hurting as Taskmaster remarked about how easy he was going on him.

He was starting to get the hang of his lessons and soon Taskmaster ended the session saying "you are just barely serviceable; remember to keep practicing and pay attention to these lessons as if you just focus on getting by with your powers or whatever gadgets you have then you will just end up like your dad if you go chasing after Spider-Man." Taskmaster warned him and Harry glared at the statement but left.

He got to his room and put on the DBC news talking about another 'heroic rescue by Spider-Man' and how there are multiple sources looking to making Spider-Man movies to take advantage that he was a public figure. He glared at the screen and even more so as it turned to a story talking about the miracle breakthroughs that Alchemax have been making so far. He roared out in rage at both Spider-Man for killing his father and the Allan family for stealing his birthright and destroying it.

"It would do you no well to get yourself worked up intentionally by seeking out these stories Mr Osborn." said a voice and entered was Rajit Ratha who at Oscorp was one of Norman Osborn's most trusted executives and was smart enough to be able to destroy any evidence that he was in any way involved in any less than legal or moral at Oscorp. He made it out of the investigation and was able to resign making a statement that he wanted to go away from the company to deal with 'the shocking truth of his close friend's secret evil'. However with loyalty to his former employer; he went with Harry overseas as part of a request from Norman to look after his son should anything happen to him.

"I come bringing good news Mr Osborn; your emancipation has been signed and gone through. I was able to trick your family into signing with full witnesses and they have no idea that they signed away any right to protest and forfeited any rights to the Osborn money. Not that they were even aware of the fortune that your father kept hidden from you." Ratha informed him and Harry grinned but gave a scoff at the mention of his 'family'. His relatives that took him in were only interested in trying to squeeze out the remains of the Osborn fortune that was in Harry's trust fund; all to happy to slander his father's name to all reporters that ask.

"What family? They weren't loyal to my father and I thought that I had friends that I could consider family but they showed their true faces when push came to shove. As far as I am concerned; you are the last bit of family that I have." Harry told him and Ratha smiled at it. "You told me that once this emancipation was set up; we could get to work bringing the secret businesses that father left me all together into a new entity. You think that we could get started on that?" Harry asked but Ratha grinned making Harry confused.

"Not only that but I believe that I have found another viable company to acquire for this new enterprise. None other than Trask Industries." Ratha explained as Harry was open mouthed. "While they had luck in arms manufacturing; they never quite got off the reputation that had been following them ever since the disaster of their founder Bolivar Trask and his Sentinels. Last year they had been trying to stir back up anti-Mutant hysteria but it had been losing them stock and public approval. Ever since the X-Men first disappeared and through the stories and comics; they had built themselves up with an aura of mythical status and excitement and after they reappeared helping Spider-Man 'save the world' as they say at the UN: they are more popular than ever and anti-Mutant groups such as the Friends of Humanity are finding it harder than they had before. Not only that but their CEO Carlton Kilgore had gotten killed in mysterious circumstances and so it's prime for the taking." Ratha explained and Harry smirked to himself.


12 year old Kade Kilgore had a big smirk on his face as he wore an expensive suit and sunglasses as he had his limo driver take him to the board meeting at Trask Industries where he would use his dirt on them to convince them to have him take his father Carlton Kilgore's place as CEO. He had it all planned out buying the loyalty of the family's staff after all the abuse that his father had put them through and after cornering his father in his limo and shooting him dead; made sure that his death would not go back to him as well as get himself made a legal adult.

He couldn't wait to make use of his new company and have the Sentinels build again and sell them to groups and countries that were all for tackling Mutants and use his wealth to figure out how to discredit the X-Men and drive up the Mutant haters. He made his way into the board meeting and saw that they had started without him and talking to Ratha.

"You decided to start without your new CEO? I thought that I made it clear that we were to start at the time designated as in 5 minutes from now. How are we supposed to succeed as a company when we can't even commit to schedule." Kade spoke with a face that told the board members that they were in trouble. The board members coughed and looked nervous.

"Mr Kilgore; so sorry for your loss..." Ratha said getting up and going to shake Kade's hand but Kade then slapped it away.

"I don't need your sympathy; who are you and what are you doing at my board meeting?" Kade demanded as Ratha sighed.

"My name is Rajit Ratha and I am here on behalf of my employer. He has sent me to finalise the accepted offer to the board to buy Trask Industries as part of a merger." Ratha explained and Kade's mouth was wide open in outrage.

"You can't do that! Trask Industries is mine! I inherited the shares from my father!" Kade demanded going to slam the meeting table.

"I am sorry Mr Kilgore but your father only owned 46% of the shares and we have all made the decision after discussing it with eachother by email. Trask Industries is an LTD and not a LLC." said one of the senior board members trying to sound apologetic as Kade was furious.

"Plus we were also discussing some debts that your father left the company; sorry that you have to pay the price Mr Kilgore. The contracts of the company stated that should the company be bought out then all debts would be left to the CEO which would be your father. You inherited those debts and I do wish that someone would have warned you before you signed the emancipation papers and the papers saying you accepted the debts." Ratha said continuing to sound apologetic as Kade looked outraged.

"I did try to warn you that it would be best to have the lawyers look over the papers before you signed them but you said that you wanted your inheritance as soon as possible." the limo driver sighed to Kade who tossed an empty chair over in outrage.

"You traitors! You thief! I will not stand for this! I will call my powers and sue all of you and get this reversed! I am a Kilgore..." Kade ranted in a temper tantrum as Ratha called for security to escort Kade from the premises of the building.


Another year went by and Trask Industries was bought out and merged with Harry's owned businesses left by his father and branded as 'the Brand Corporation'. Harry was being escorted through a facility he had set up by Ratha who he had put in as regent CEO for the company that Harry now owned. Harry had decided to keep tabs on Kade and was laughing as he was continuing to be a brat in the juvenile detention facility that he was sentenced to when Harry decided to have the legal team successfully overturn the brat's emancipation when it was shown that he was nowhere near mature enough to act as a legal adult and needed behavioural adjustment. The brat was being uncooperative at having his company and riches stolen from him.

There was some dark irony that Harry missed or was intentionally ignoring. He was motivated in part by rage of his father's company being bought out after his death and stolen from him while seeing himself as the rightful owner with the company being folded into a new entity. He saw it all as injustice and having his inheritance stolen. Now he had orchestrated a company to be taken from a young heir after the death of his heir and being folded into a new entity with the young heir seeing himself as the rightful owner and having his family's money stolen from him. Harry saw himself as the victim in his circumstances but laughed at and mocked Kade for his circumstances.

Ratha showed them the prototype hoverboard craft coloured white with gold platings and a turbine engine powering it; made from the Flight Tech plans in the drive that his father had given him. "You will need training and practice to use it and it took quite a long while with trial and error to design and build. Reverse engineering the tech to make it distinct enough from the Flight Tech technology that is now legally Alchemax's property." Ratha explained to him and Harry scowled at the reminder.

"Thank you Rajit; now how about the suit?" Harry asked and Ratha showed him to a chamber showing a white set of body armor with golden armor plates with the helmet looking to be all solid gold.

"We had PR design the thing; seems that in order to be seen as a hero nowadays you need to be dressed all flashy and eye catching. Ready to be copyrighted for if you wish to be doing with your new identity as Tony Stark had done with marketing and former New York Mayor Jameson had done to his son and Gargan before him." Ratha informed him and Harry smiled at it.

"Thank you Rajit for everything and looking after the company; I think that I am ready soon to take it over and when I do then I will show everyone what a real hero is!" swore Harry and Ratha smirked.

"No problem Mr Osborn and when you do take over the CEO's seat; there is an Alistair Smythe that works for the company since it was Trask Industries. He had been working with his father to create smaller Sentinel robots known as Slayers and it seems that they had an encounter with Spider-Man that left Mr Smythe paralysed and his father killed. He has been trying to hide it but he has been calling them Spider Slayers; in case you will want to bond over shared hatred of Spider-Man to avenge fathers." Ratha explained to him and Harry looked interested.

I really got hooked on that first trailer for Across the Spider-Verse but even more so. I love how they are framing Spider-Man 2099 as more of the main antagonist than the Spot the actual main villain and that the multiversal Spider team has to have a Spider therapist because a constant in just about every version of Spidey is that they badly need therapy for what they go through. Hands down I especially loved the unexpected reference to No Way Home and them correctly listing the MCU as Earth-19999 and Ms Marvel herself Iman Vellani had to help to call it out last year. Suck it Earth-838!

Allow me to be petty by taking out my dislike of Kade Kilgore the bratty **** stain who was a pain in the X-Men's butt in the Utopia days. Some spoiled brat who managed to take over his father's company who were manufacturing the Sentinels at the time and somehow also managed to take over the Hellfire Club and get his kid friends installed as the main council. Blame this brat for my now non-tolerance for kid CEOs in fiction now.

Taskmaster has his PS4 look, Harry's suit coming along here is the Gold Goblin suit that his father is now using in the comics and his board is the hoverboard Harry used in Spider-Man 3 but with gold and white colors.

One more thing: in casey ou are wondering when we return to our actual protagonist, there will be a time skip of a few years.