John had met up with Remy and got the OZ sample from him; paying him the promised reward money he quietly made his way home. Careful not to wake up his wife or son; he hated having to do this behind their backs. If they knew that he had hired a criminal in a seedy bar to steal some dangerous chemicals for him; still it could mean that he would be able to do good as Colonel Jupiter again and be respected again. He could always claim that the spores that gave him his powers; some must have remained dormant or it's a late after effect.

As quietly as he could he put the OZ into a syringe and injected himself with it and was careful not to wake his family. He held back from yelling at the pain and made his way back to his bed and was now side by side with his wife as he let himself go back to sleep. Not knowing about his hired thief not arriving to hear about there being OZ samples that were crossed with animal DNA and wouldn't know which one was which.

Peter the next morning groaned as he got up and found himself on his bed in his boxers and groaned as he got a headache; he wondered how he got there and thought to what he remembered about last night. He came back to his apartment to find the state that his new roommate had left it in and got a transmission on his police scanner, went out to take care of it and was patrolling up until the night. He found out about a deal involving OZ being offered to criminal groups and Jefferson warning him about the Demons in Chinatown, the Demons stormed the deal and pretty much killed everyone else there and he was knocked out.

The rest...

He had a bit of a headache...

He decided to get dressed and got all of his stuff together for college; he checked the news on his phone and saw that there was a Daily Bugle report about the Chinatown facility where the deal had taken place in. He cringed at the photo showed the cornered of tape around the place and how it was filled of bodies of known criminals and undercover Daily Bugle reporters were found unconscious. One of them Frederick Fosswell said that they were attacked by criminals and became in a trance and swears that it had something to do with the mostly forgotten criminal organisation known as the Demons who he tried to do a story on years ago after hearing rumours of a new leader.

"Officer Davis wasn't kidding about these Demons being no joke and them wanting to leave no witnesses... What powers does their leader have..." Peter thought in his head wearily and that he had better be more prepared and careful the next time that he comes across them.

He got through the door with his stuff and was reminded of the mess that his apartment was in now thanks to his new roommate; said was asleep on the couch with hsi shirt covered in all sorts of fast food stains and he had no time to let him have it now. Not that he was in the frame of mind to do so anyway.

Right now Peter had gone to the front door and now had his phone ringing with Liz trying to call him; he answered it and Peter had his girlfriend yelling into his ear " Are you alright? Peter; what exactly happened to you last night?"

"What do you mean..." Peter asked only to have her screaming again.

"What I mean is that early in the morning I was out flying as Firestar and I came across you knocked out on top of a building and I had to fly you to your apartment. I decided that I had to take off your suit and hide it in case your new roommate found you like that. Do you know how uncomfortable it was having to undress your boyfriend while he is unconscious?" Liz answered and Peter blinked at that uneasily.

"I don't exactly remember and it was quite a night; I want to focus on school... I promise that I will be feeling alright and if you would give me until after school... I will try and remember..." Peter assured her as she took a big sigh.

"Okay Petey... When your boyfriend is a superhero and finding him knocked out in his suit... It freaks me out and I want to know if there is a big bad guy as a superhero myself." Liz finished and Peter understood as he knew that it wasn't the first time that Liz had gotten worried about him due to superhero related stuff; he still remembered the whole ordeal with Venom before they knew their identities.

Brooklyn Visions Academy a charter high school and the now 14 year old freshman Miles Morales was in the dorm room that he shared with his new roommate; an obtuse Korean American boy with glasses by the name of Ganke Lee and it looked like he was a big superhero fan as he had all sorts of comics, posters he put on the walls and shelves filled with completed Lego sets.

Right now he was on the phone with Phin who now was attending Midtown Magnet High while Ganke was busy playing a video game; "How funny it is; we both attending 2 different charter schools now!" Phin was telling him amused and Miles laughed.

"Yeah; only you earned your way in with your smarts and skills while I got my place by just being lucky when my number was picked out at the lottery." Miles replied thinking how weird it is to be at the fancy school with the uniforms and everything when he felt like a street kid.

"Come on Miles; don't sell yourself short as you did pass that admissions test yourself and you have your own smarts! You might not be able to engineer stuff like me but you are able to think on your feet! Trust me; you belong there!" Phin assured him and Miles looked to his open notebook with his artwork drawn with a pen and markers for the colors.

"Not completely bad here; I have a cool roommate with cool stuff..." Miles said reaching out to one of Ganke's Lego sets.

"Remember what I said; you break anything then you are helping me put it back together again! I mean it; I will lock us both in here until we are done!" Ganke warned him looking away from his game as Miles sighed.

"Well how is your family doing; especially your dad with his promotion?" Phin asked and Miles thought about how his dad had recently been promoted to Captain.

"Well Captain Dad is taking it in stride; might get him to vocally say that he likes Spider-Man any day now. Who knows; he might invite him over to the house one day to try one of Mum's famous dishes. Mum is doing good as well; with her Captain husband and her private school son that she is making a big deal out of. How about your family?" Miles asked as Phin laughed.

"The same old; dad off on a mission and Mum making sure that I am alright at my new school. Plus helping out Grandpa at his shop; don't know if any of the costumers even remember about him getting arrested as a criminal years ago." Phin answered as Phineas Mason had got out of prison and was able to get over the bad publicity in putting his Mason Repair shop back in business.

The two friends decided to end the call while promising to meet up again soon.

The Coffee Bean in the afternoon and Peter and Liz were together with Debra and Grady who were looking concerned. Peter managed to explain what he remembered and managed to recall more. "So these Demons... Their leader is Mr Negative..." Debra asked and Peter nodded as he continued on remembering.

"Not the best supervillain name I ever heard of but not the worst either. I will give it a 7/10. So are you an actual demon or what?" Peter quipped to Martin still tied to the chair and Martin shook his head.

"I used my power to take over the Demons and share my power at will; I can reveal someone's memories and get them under my power. The power of the forces inside of me makes me someone you don't want to mess with but I don't want to mess with you Spider-Man. Under my leadership; the rate of unspeakable and unsavoury acts in Chinatown dropped to 0 and I have kept crime in this neighbourhood under control. Leave us alone and we shall have no more quarrel." Martin spoke as Peter managed to let out a shake of his head.

"Sorry but if there is a crime lord with dangerous powers in my city then I will have to quarrel! Fisk made excuses about how he was acting out of the good for the city and I don't buy the reasoning now." Peter retorted as Martin shook his head.

"Fisk was a madman who used a respectable image and an act of working toward the greater good to fool even himself while masking the monstrous selfish evil control freak that he truly was. I am working to protect the little innocents on the streets and keep crime under control. Can my offered accord be reached?" Martin asked as Peter managed a glare.

"Nice sales pitch but no; once I am free then you will have your turn to have your butt kicked..." Peter retorted as Martin let out a field of black and white energy.

"What is going on... What..." Peter asked and was open mouthed to be met with the smiling figure of his Uncle Ben and then... His parents? "I don't even have memories of you besides home videos and photographs..." Peter muttered as he cringed as he relived Uncle Ben being shot at by the carjacker, Aunt May almost dying thanks to Octavius and him being put under that rubble...

"That is a taste of my power; to force you to relive your greatest regrets... Perhaps it shall be a warning..." Martin's voice said as Peter's vision went black...

"Wow... Been a long time ever since we have dealt with a villain anything close to that dangerous here in New York..." Liz muttered freaked out and Peter sighed. "Are you alright now?" Liz asked concerned taking his hand.

"I am and I will feel better once I find out how to take down Mr Negative and the Demons..." Peter replied and Grady and Debra blinked.

"That powerful bad guy let you live as a warning and you still want to go and find him to fight again?" Grady asked in shock while Debra scoffed.

"You do remember that Peter is the most stubborn person we know; off course he will!" Debra sighed.

"You won't be doing it again without a proper plan and without me by your side..." Liz told Peter with finality and he nodded.

"Yeah... Mr Negative is kind of too powerful to charge in blindly... Need a plan to think of how to go about him and then track him down again..." Peter said with a nod and Liz nodded as if to say 'off course'.