Power to Protect, Power to Destroy

Second part of the climax, hope you enjoy it.

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Chapter 18

Mike continued to try and follow the attackers from out of sight, He still couldn't believe what he had seen when the leader took his mask off. But now he looked so different, that strange energy covered him now, turning his entire body and even his clothes, turning into a negative tone, his clothes and hair had turned white, his eyes glowing white while his skin turned completely black. Even so, he exuded menace and, it seemed, rage.

'But still, how can, how can it possibly be…' Mike's mind raced but he froze in shock.

For there was Mayor Osborn, grabbed and held in place by more of those masked gunmen.

"Who...what-?!" Mayor Osborn snarled.

But the tall man merely snarled. "Osborn, the time for retribution has come."

"Retribution?"

"You ruined my life!" The man snapped. "You unleashed this in me, the will of the Negative."

Osborn merely sneered. "Ruined your life, you'll have to be more specific than that."

That seemed to enrage Negative even more however and he suddenly raised his hand, an orb of that same energy gathering in his hand.

"No." Mike gasped.

But at that point there was another small explosion and more rubble fell and that shook the group, while also causing Mike to dive out of the way, but getting his leg caught and worse, he was seen by the small group of the attackers.

Immediately upon seeing Mike, Negative pointed him out.

"So, an interloper...wait, no-!" He cried out. "Of all people."

He stalked over towards Mike who tried to cry out, to say anything, but it was like his tongue cleaved to the roof of his mouth, unable to say a thing.

"You shouldn't have come here." Negative snarled at him. "Now I can't take the risk, you-"

Mike noticed something as he heard this, something that gave him hope, each of the remaining four gunmen had just had their guns pulled right out of their hands, with webs.

"Now I'm afraid, you have to die."

Mike looked up at that, eyes wide as he saw the sword now held in Negative's hand, right before a web yanked it right out of his hand.

"What?!" He roared.

"Here, catch!"

Sure enough Spider-Man appeared, throwing the sword with his web, pommel first, right at Negative, hitting him in the face. Spider-Man then landed in front of Mike as the disarmed gunmen ran over, allowing Osborn to get away.

Negative was not happy with that. "You fools, I can handle this, you get after Osborn, bring him to me alive!"

They flinched at that, but ran off to do just that while it soon became clear that the rest of the group seemed to not want to stay longer than necessary, they were already getting in the vehicle they arrived in and driving away until only one remained, one that could hold the remaining five members of this strange group, plus a hostage if they used the trunk.

The sounds surrounding them were getting quieter, people had fled, there were no more survivors near the carnage, only the four gunmen searching for Osborn, Negative, Spider-Man and the still trapped Mike.

"You ruined this, you had no right to interfere!" Negative roared at Spider-Man. "I came here for one thing, revenge against Osborn, now you've let him escape!"

"That's all you came for!" Spider-Man snapped. "Maybe I can understand that, but then you had no right to do what you did."

Negative seemingly summoned another sword out of nowhere, while also grabbing his former one and attacked Spider-Man, but missed with both strikes.

"You dare to presume!"

"What gives you the right to MURDER all these innocence people, just to get to Osborn." Spider-Man snapped, angrier than ever.

Negative actually scoffed at that. "Oh, so that's it, all upset over Osborn's little supporters, the ones who let him get away with everything he does and-"

He was cut off with a face full of web.

"You know something, I was gonna say you're just as bad as he is, but you just proved me wrong." Spider-Man remarked.

Negative finally removed the webs and sneered. "Really, well I'm glad to-"

"I was wrong, you're worse than Osborn."

"You-!"

That brought about yet more attacks from Negative but Spider-Man dodged them all and even began fighting back, landing more than a few blows and even disarming Negative of one of his swords, webbing it to the wall of a nearby building. During all this, Mike was in awe, yet he still had a problem, he wished he could help like he had with with Lizard, but with his leg still stuck, that wasn't working out.

His main task right now it seemed was to free his leg, he tried hard to do so, grimacing at the pain, luckily it wasn't broken but it still hurt. It took a bit of effort but it worked and he got his leg free. He stood up and gingerly checked, it hurt but not by much, he could put weight on it. Looking over the battle occurring, he saw that even with only one sword, Negative was putting up a serious fight against Spider-Man.

'Holy shit, this...he doesn't know, Spider-Man doesn't know who he's really fighting...why, why is he doing this, what's his problem with Osborn?' Mike could only wonder in horror.

During this internal fretting, the fight continued on in front of him. Spider-Man dodged a sword attack and then delivered a harsh blow to the side of Negative's face.

"There's more where that came from." Spider-Man snarled. "I should smash a bone or body part for every person you've murdered here!"

"You might fight well, but you are just a child, sacrifices need to be made." Negative shot back, trying to straighten up.

It was at that moment, his powers seemed to flicker, it was brief but it was enough. Enough for Spider-Man to see who Negative really was and it made him freeze, horror dawning as his anger was soon replaced with shock and dismay.

"No...no it can't be-"

But he had no chance to reflect on it further, for the gunmen returned then, without Osborn.

"You fools, you failed-" Negative began only to be cut off by the sound of approaching sirens. "We're out of time, move."

With that he turned and his men went with him.

"No, wait!" Spider-Man called.

But Negative was ready for this and launched an orb of negative energy to the overhanging roof above Mike, the rubble fell towards him and Mike knew he wouldn't get away, not with his injured leg.

"Hold on!"

He was soon yanked out of danger and right to Spider-Man, just as Negative and his men got in their vehicle and began to drive away. Mike watched in surprise as Spider-Man threw something small at the vehicle which attached to it. He then shot out a web line and pulled them both up, Mike instantly grabbed on tight as Spider-Man began to web swing away from the danger zone, taking him to safety after saving him once again.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.

As a side note, the Mr. part of Mr. Negative's title isn't here since it won't appear until Jonah coins it in one of the Bugle articles.