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"Spider-Man and the Green Goblin."

Jonah was holding his latest newspaper, showcasing a front page photo of Spider-Man and the green flying menace, now named the Green Goblin, during the parade attack a few days ago. "The Green Goblin, you like that? I made it up myself," He threw down his newspaper on his desk. "These weirdos all gonna have a name now."

Peter was seating in front of Jonah's desk, trying to protest. "Mr. Jameson, Spider-Man doesn't -"

Ignoring the photographer, Jonah picked up his office phone to call someone in. "Hoffman!"

Hoffman entered the office the instant he was called. "Yeah?"

Jonah looked up to see him standing by his doorway, staring at him weirdly for a few seconds before putting his phone down. "Call the patent office, copyrighting "Green Goblin". I want a quarter every time somebody saids it."

"How about Green Meanie?" Hoffman suggested.

Jonah just pointed at Hoffman to make him leave.

"Spider-Man wasn't attacking the city, he was trying to save it," Peter tried to argue with the Editor-In-Chief. "That's slander."

"It is not! I resent that," Jonah snapped. "And slander is spoken. In print, it's liable."

"You don't trust anybody, that's your problem," Peter said.

Jonah just shrugged nonchalantly. "I trust my barber."

Peter was frozen with a dead look of disbelief at how ridiculous that sounded.

Before either could say anymore, Hoffman walked back into the office, remembering he needed to inform Jonah of something. "Oh, Mr. Jameson, I got word from an eyewitness about a new spider-person in town. A woman, they said."

Jonah's angry expressions started to irk even more. "There's a what?!"

Peter's eyes widened in surprise when he heard this new information about this new hero appearing on the scene. Of opposite gender as well.

"Great, as if one masked menace isn't bad enough, now we got a Spider-Man AND Spider-Woman terrorizing this city," Jonah angrily fumed.

"Actually, the eyewitness said this new hero called herself Spinneret," Hoffman corrected. "Sounds very catchy and unique if you asked me," He then did a little funny dance. "Like a sort of beautiful spidey-ballerina kind of way."

"Get out!" Jonah screamed at Hoffman to leave again. He then turned his attention back to his freelance photographer. "Parker! Why didn't you get any photos of her?!"

"This is the first I heard of it, Mr. Jameson," Peter said in his own defence, still processing the fact there's actually another spider out there, other than himself.

"Well, I want you out there now," Jonah shouted, as he casually chucked his smoking cigar out of his office window behind him. "I want to see that Spinning-Jenny right on my print! Last thing I want in this city is ladies thinking they could take the law into their own hands."

Wanting to find out more about this Spinneret just as much as Jonah, Peter quickly got up from his chair and walked his way out of the office.

"And you better not come back until you -" Jonah's words was cut off when his cigar unexpectedly landed on his desk.

Jonah raised his eyebrows in confusion, wondering how his cigar somehow managed to jump back into his office. His question, of course, was immediately answered when a loud explosion occurred from his office window, knocking him and his desk off their legs.

Peter turned around in time to see what caused the explosion. It was the Green Goblin, who was hovering over Jonah.

"Jameson, you slime!" The Green Goblin grabbed the Editor-In-Chief by the neck, hanging him over his office, as it was catching on fire. "Who's the photographer that takes the pictures of Spider-Man?!"

"I don't know who he is!" Jonah shook his head in denial. "His stuff comes in the mail!"

"You're lying!" The Green Goblin shouted back.

"I swear!" Jonah stubbornly said, as he was being choked.

The Green Goblin tightened his grip. "He's the one who can bring me to him."

"I don't know who he is!" Jonah still denied.

The Green Goblin was about to prepare his fist, frustrated with his lies. "You are useless!"

"Settle down, tough guy!"

The Green Goblin dropped Jonah on the floor and hovered around to see Spider-Man web-hanging from outside the broken office window. "Speak of the devil."

"Spider-Man!" Jonah pointed at him accusingly. "I knew you two are in this together! I -"

Spider-Man shot a web at Jonah's mouth, shutting him up. "Hey, kiddo, let mommy and daddy talk for a moment, will ya?"

The Green Goblin aimed his fists at the Web-Slinger, shooting sleeping gas from his gauntlets. "Sleeeeep."

Spider-Man couldn't keep himself awake as he was succumbing to the effects of the gas. Reluctantly, he felt himself getting weak and relinquished the hold on his web, falling straight down from the top Bugle offices. The Green Goblin then flew down till he have his fallen foe's unconscious body in his arms, flying them both away from the scene.

"Wake up, little spider. Wake up."

Spider-Man slowly regained his conscious as he was hearing eerie echos and seeing dizzy blurs around his surroundings.

"No, you're not dead, yet. Just paralyzed. Temporarily."

As Spider-Man's visions finally became fully clear, albeit his body still feeling weak from the gas, he looked up and saw that the Green Goblin was standing over him on a rooftop.

"You're an amazing creature, Spider-Man," The Green Goblin complimented his worthy foe. "You and I aren't so different."

"I'm not like you - you're a murderer," Spider-Man countered with a tired grunt.

"Well, to each his own," The Green Goblin shrugged. "I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they find you amusing for awhile - the people of this city. But the one thing they like more than a hero, is to see the hero fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you. Why bother?"

"Because... it's right," Spider-Man spoken weakly.

The Green Goblin leaned closer to Spider-Man, giving him casual smack on the head. "Here's the real truth. There are eight million people in this city, and those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders," He gave a tap on his shoulder. "You, me... we're exceptional."

The Goblin continued as he kneeled down and grabbed his chin to make him look up in the eye. "I could squash you like a bug right now. But I'm offering you a choice. Join me. Imagine what we could accomplish together. What we could create. Or we could destroy," The Goblin then let go of his chin, stepping away. "Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead. Is that what you want?"

The Green Goblin jumped back on his glider as it emerged from the side. "Think about it, Hero!" He exclaimed, before flying away.

Spider-Man was left alone with nothing but conflicting thoughts about the green menace's words.

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A/N: Another short chapter. After making decent length ones, I thought I got it good by now, but I guess I'm still my writing noob phase.

Sadly, I got some bad news. I got my first contact with Covid-19. Meaning, that next chapter will have to be postponed for unknown period of time while I can still recover. Honestly, the worse luck, especially after two years of being covid-free, but this unfortunately happens.

Don't worry, though, because the next chapter will be the first meeting of our Duos. Hope that chapter will make up for this one when I get to that point.

Until then, see y'all till then (Hopefully).

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DCDGojira: Great comment, as always, man :)