Hey, what's up, Fanfiction readers? Thank you to everyone who has favorited, followed or reviewed this fic so far. This chapter continues where the previous chapter had left off, picking up on the second part of the Liberty Island as well as the aftermath. I have also altered some dialogue scenes and wrote different action sequences with Harry and Felicia's involvement, which was the hardest part to write in this chapter.
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Liberty Island, New York
The three Peters, Harry and Felicia stood in their positions just as Marko's giant sand form emerged from the sandstorm and glanced at them, while Dillon hovered in the air and Connors climbed on the top of the scaffolding and let out a loud roar, ready to face off against the heroes. The three Spider-Men and Felicia jumped across while Harry quickly flew at the individuals; Parker and Felicia lunged at Connors, with Parker fly kicking Connors in the face, while Pete and Harry charged at Dillon and Peter lightly tapped Marko before taking a nosedive down the scaffolding and swinging away at the base of the statue, as he avoided Dillion's electric blasts.
"Ok, guys," Peter ordered. "Sandman first!"
"Harry and I will take care of him," Pete told Peter as he ran down the scaffolding while being chased by Flint's gigantic sand head.
"Hey, Pete!" Harry called out Pete while flying over his glider. "Need a ride?"
Without hesitation, Pete shot his web at Harry's glider and quickly flew away from the scaffolding in order to prevent himself from getting crushed by Marko.
"I'll meet you at the top." Parker said, running down another part of the scaffolding, with Connors in hot pursuit.
Parker further ran his way through Marko's cure device, located at Parker's part of the scaffolding, jumping and dodging Connors' attacks before managing to reach the device and grabbing it.
"Come on!" Connors taunted as he chased Parker down the scaffolding.
However, just as he was about to make his way through the statue to give Peter Marko's device, Parker was pinned down to the ground by Connors, who still held a grudge against him for nearly foiling his plans back in his hometown.
"Hey, Dr. Connors," Parker grunted.
"Hello, Peter," Connors growled.
Just as he was about the strike Parker down, Connors was tackled from behind by Felicia, which gave Parker enough time to throw the cure at Peter.
"Missed me?" Felicia taunted, which caused Connors to roar at her with rage.
While Felicia was fighting against Connors, Parker saw Peter being chased down by Dillon across the statue.
"Peter-One!" Parker called, throwing Peter the cure.
"I got it!" Peter shouted, catching the cure, when Connors blasted him and Peter fell onto the scaffolding.
Meanwhile, Harry and Peter were being chased down by Marko across the island, with his sand form moving at them.
"Listen to me, Flint!" Pete attempted to talk Marko down. "We're trying to help you!"
Marko roared at Pete and attempted to attack him with his fists, only for Pete to avoid his attacks while maintaining his grip of his web, which was still stuck at Harry's glider.
"You think there's any way to distract him, Pete?" Harry asked.
"Well, at least my webs could neutralize him a bit!" Pete told Harry as he fired his web blasts at Marko, though they didn't do effect him as his sand form was able to bounce off Peter's webs.
"Sorry, looks like they didn't work," Harry said as he hovered over the scaffolding and grabbed three of his pumpkin bombs. "But how about this!"
Harry threw his pumpkin bombs in the air and Peter swung himself in a circular movement before using his left wrist to shoot his webs at the pumpkin bombs and landing himself on the ground to throw them at Marko's sand form. Marko had no time to react to the pumpkin bombs as they quickly ticked off and caused Marko's form to scatter on the surface.
"These pumpkin bombs surely came in handy," Pete pointed out, causing Harry to let out a small chuckle.
Suddenly, Marko's sand form slowly began to reemerge from the ground, forming a much larger form than his previous form, causing Pete and Harry to glare at his form in disbelief as they had thought they defeated him temporarily.
"What the..." Pete muttered in confusion.
Marko's newly reformed sand form roared at Pete and Harry, causing Pete to jump onto Harry's glider and flying around Marko's sand form.
"Uh, guys?" Pete called out his friends. "We've got a problem here. We need the cure, now!"
"I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming!" Peter yelled, quickly climbing up the scaffolding.
Meanwhile, Felicia was still struggling to maintain her grip against Connors, who was trying to free himself from her and push her away, only for Felicia to step on his tail, causing him let out a scream of pain.
"Hold still, Connors!" Felicia yelled before turning to Parker. "Now!"
Felicia then stepped away from Connors, allowing Parker web him on the scaffolding and make sure he wouldn't escape.
"I'll be right back!" Parker told Connors, who growled at him.
Parker and Felicia ran towards Marko's cure device, with Felicia grabbing the cure and throwing it to Parker, who jumped down and fired two lines of webbing onto the scaffolding and pulled before launching himself up like a slingshot, while dodging Dillon's bolts of lightning before he threw the cure device to Peter. Peter swung his way through and grabbed the device, before heading his way to Pete and Harry's location. Meanwhile, Pete and harry were busy trying to distract Marko, flying through his sand form and avoiding his attacks.
"This thing got any more?" Pete asked, referring to the pumpkin bombs inside Harry's glider.
"Hang on!" Harry told Pete.
"For what?" Pete exclaimed.
As they were being chased down by Marko, Peter swung his way through the two and threw Marko's cure device towards Pete, who managed to catch it quickly.
"Go, buddy!" Harry called.
Pete then nosedived down from Harry's glider and leaped at Marko, with his cure device on his left hand. Upon jumping at Marko's sand form, Pete activated the cure device and a bright yellow gold glow engulfed Marko's body, causing him to roar as his sand form slowly dissipated. Just as Marko's sand powers began to disappear, Pete emerged from the sand form and took off his mask, taking a moment to deep breath as he saw Marko, now human, losing his powers due to the device and looking at his hand in disbelief. Harry also witnessed how Marko regained his human form.
"Where am I?" Marko, now human again, asked as he touched his body and noticed he no longer had his powers. "What the hell the going on?!"
Pete reached out to Marko and placed his hand on his right shoulder. "Hey. It's ok, Flint. We're gonna get you home."
"Peter..." Marko stuttered as he looked at Pete in the eyes, recalling the last time he had seen him. "I..." Marko stopped before raising his left hand and noticing he still had his daughter's necklace wrapped around his paw. "Where's Penny?"
"Don't worry. You'll see her soon," Pete assured. "Just stay right here until this is over."
With Marko dealt with, the three Spider-Men gathered on the top of the statue alongside Felicia and Harry, where they saw Dillon charging his energy through the arc reactor on his chest, amplifying his body with electricity.
"How do we stop him?" Pete asked.
"I've never seen him this powerful," Parker said.
"This is bad," Felicia remarked.
"It's the arc reactor," Peter pointed out. "We gotta get it off him."
"You're not gonna take this away from me." Dillon sneered. Peter fired webbing as it latched itself onto the arc reactor, but Dillon managed to rip it off. "That's not gonna work!"
The three Spider-Men, Felicia and Harry dodged as Dillon threw a huge bolt of electricity, hitting the crown of the Statue of Liberty, while some of the scaffolding collapsed from the blast.
"OK, we gotta do this up close." Peter ordered. "Peter-Two, go right. Peter-Three, go left. On me!"
The three Spider-Men jumped in sync, Pete and Parker restraining Max's arms from each side with a line of webbing, while Peter jumped at Dillon, who fired a bolt of electricity at him from his chest, blasting him towards the crown of the statue. Pete leaped at Dillon, only to meet the same result as he fell over the scaffolding. Parker jumped at Dillon, who fired bolts of electricity at him, holding him in place midair as Parker began screaming in pain. Felicia climbed up the crane and tried to jump at Dillon from behind, but Dillon teleported himself in a bolt of lightning and blasted her, who fell several levels down the scaffolding. Seeing his friends getting attacked, Harry charged at Dillon with his glider, only for Dillon to teleport himself again and use his electric powers to strike down Harry, holding him in midair before throwing him down the scaffolding.
Meanwhile, Connors was able to free himself from Parker's webs and overheard Michelle and Ned talking to each other, before turning his head around and seeing an Interdimensional Portal still open to the laboratory. Connors knew this was the perfect opportunity to strike down both of them.
"All right, we're gonna do it again." Michelle told Ned. "We're just gonna keep trying. Alright. We got it."
Ned inhales from the inside and outside before preparing the Sling Ring "I got it. Got this."
"Close it. Close it." Michelle ordered.
Connors climbed at the top of the scaffolding and made his way to Michelle and Ned, charging at them. Having recovered from Dillon's attack, Harry and Felicia noticed Connors running at Michelle and Ned and flew their way to stop him.
"Oh, no!" Harry exclaimed as he boosted his glider quickly.
"Ned, that is a giant lizard," Michelle told Ned as she saw Connors. "And we should..."
Suddenly, both Michelle and Ned were being chased down the laboratory by Connors, desperately trying to avoid the mutated doctor. Just as he came close to them, Felicia jumped in and kicked Connors in the face.
"Run!" Felicia told Michelle and Ned just as Connors attempted to attack her.
Michelle and Ned ran away from the laboratory to avoid getting attacked by Connors, entering the scaffolding, while Felicia used her sharp claws to attack Connors while avoiding his attacks. Harry, having just jumped off his glider, came in to help Felicia with Connors and leaped at Connors with his sword, but Connors dodged Harry's attack and attempted to attack Harry, who then placed his sword aside and managed to apprehend Connors by using his retractable arm blades at his face and attempting to pin him down to the ground.
"That's enough, Connors!" Harry demanded.
Connors roared at Harry as he pushed him down while Felicia leaped at him and temporarily injured him with his claws, though Connors' injuries were healed through his regenerative healing factor. Both Felicia and Harry ran towards the scaffolding, with Connors continuing his pursuit of the two.
At the same time, Dillion was holding Parker down in midair and torturing him through his electric powers, laughing as he saw Parker screaming in pain.
"Yeah!" Dillon laughed just as he used his enhanced powers on Parker.
Parker was unable to do anything to stop Dillon. He had grown too powerful. As he was unable to move from Dillon's grasp, Dillon's cure of slipped off Parker's hand before Pete used his web to retrieve it. Before he could jump and use the cure on Dillon, both Pete and Parker were apprehended by a pair of tentacle arms.
Dillon turned his head and saw Otto Octavius, one of the time-displaced individuals, emerging to confront both Spider-Men. He concluded it might have had something to do with their last encounter, as he was shocked to see Octavius apparently helping him.
"Leave them," Octavius told Dillon. "They're mine."
Max scoffed at Octavius' remarks. "I don't need your help. I got it just fine."
"Dr. Octavius, no!" Pete said as he was shocked to see the scientist he idolized apparently siding with the villains.
Then, just as Max thought he could finally deal with both Spider-Men, Octavius winked at Pete and utilized one of his mechanical arms to grab Max's chest, which held the arc reactor, and catch him off-guard.
"What are you doing?!" Max said just as Octavius turned around and faced him. "Get it off me!"
Dillon struggled to remove the tentacle off his chest, but to no avail. Octavius then let go of both Spider-Men and used one of his arms to grab Dillion's cure. He then managed to remove the reactor from Dillon's energy siphon and inserted the cure instead. As the cure was inserted into the siphon, it absorbed Dillon's powers and he became normal once more.
"There you go." Octavius said as just as Dillon was confused about what just happened. Octavius was pleased to see that his intervention had brought a noble outcome for once.
As Peter regained conscious and saw Octavius using the cure on Dillion, he sensed his spider-sense ticking off, realizing that Harry and Felicia needed his help to defeat Connors.
"Connors..." Peter told himself as he left the scene and ran towards the location of Connors' cure.
Meanwhile, Connors was chasing down Michelle and Ned at the scaffolding, as the two maneuvered through the corridor. Using the Sling Ring, Ned was able to perform a spontaneous hand wave and summoned portal, which caused water to pour from it and knocked Connors down to the ground. Harry and Felicia made their way through the corridor and jumped at Connors, fighting against him and avoiding his attacks. Felicia leaped over Connors before he could charge at her, while Harry used his sword to cut his tail off, before it quickly regenerated into a new one through his powers. Harry once again attacked Connors with his sword, managing to inflict some injuries on him, though he quickly healed up, while Felicia helped him out by using her claws to attack him just as she dodged Connors' attacks.
While Harry and Felicia fought off against Connors, Peter managed to make his way through the location of Connors' cure and grabbed it quickly before shooting another web and swinging his way through Harry and Felicia.
"Guys!" Peter shouted as he threw the cure at Harry and Felicia.
Felicia kicked down Connors, while Harry grabbed the cure and shielded himself as Connors charged at him and bit the device, causing it to activate and unleashing the healing substance. As a the cure began to take effect on him, Connors found himself engulfed by blue smoke as his mutation began fade away and turn back to normal. Michelle and Ned were also seeing Connors being brought down to normal.
"Ok, We gotta hide this thing!" Michelle told Ned.
"No, no, wait!" Ned told Michelle.
Ned used his Sling Ring to summon another portal and upon summoning it, Doctor Stephen Strange emerged from it, who had recently returned to New York following his fight with Peter at the Grand Canyon to undo his mistake.
"Where is he?" Strange demanded, referring to Peter.
"Wait, wait, wait!" Michelle pleaded
"Before you do anything, Mister... Doctor Strange," Ned told Strange "Sir, well, Peter's plan is working."
"What plan?" Strange asked.
"He's curing them!" Ned exclaimed.
Strange, Ned and Michelle turned their heads around and stared at the blue cloud of smoke that had been quickly dissipating, revealing a tall naked man with blond hair and blue eyes.
"Dr. Connors?" Peter asked. "Welcome back, sir."
Now back in his human form, Connors sadly glanced at his left arm as he watched it disintegrating quickly in front of his eyes, before turning around to see Peter, Harry and Felicia looking at him.
"Where... Where am I?" Connors asked before turning his head down and noticing he was not wearing any clothes. "And why am I naked?"
"It's okay, Dr. Connors." Peter assured him. "We'll get you some help."
"Well, I'll be damned..." Strange muttered before turning to Ned. "Did you open a portal?"
"Yes..." Ned stuttered. "Yes, sir, I did."
"Hmm..." Strange nodded before using his powers to take away the Sling Ring from Ned's hand and the Macchina from Michelle.
While Peter, Harry and Felicia were busy taking care of Connors, Parker, now recovered from Dillon's torture, descended down the scaffolding towards Dillion, who was lying down on his knees and taking heavy breathes
"Max?" Parker asked warily. "Max?"
"Don't worry. I'm all tapped out." Dillon said as he panted out.
"Are you sure about that?" Parker asked, while Dillon sat down and sighed, nodding.
"Back to being a nobody..." Dillon muttered to himself as he sat down the floor.
"You were never a nobody, Max," Parker assured.
"Yes, I was." Dillion said with a sarcastic chuckle. "Yes, I was. You didn't see me."
"No, you're not. You're a somebody, Max," Parker reasoned. "You're my eyes and ears."
Dillon laughed as he recalled Parker telling him these words when he first saw him in action. "Been a while since I've heard that."
Parker let out a small chuckle, contempt in seeing Dillon remembering their first encounter more fondly.
"God, feels like yesterday when you saved me for the first time and I became one of your biggest fans. I mean, you got that suit. You helped a lot people out there." Dillon spoke up before letting out a sigh. "Maybe I just... took it a bit too far."
Parker nodded, recalling how Dillon allowed his admiration for Spider-Man furthered his ego and how it contributed into his transformation into the villain, Electro.
"Can I ask you something, though?" Dillon told Parker, cutting him off his thoughts.
"Sure," Parker shrugged.
"You think there's a black Spider-Man out there?" Dillion asked, wondering if there was a Spider-Man with a different ethnicity.
"I..." Parker tried to speak before taking a deep breath. "I don't know. I mean, there could be on out there, I just haven't..."
"'Cause I just thought you was black," Dillion noted.
"Oh, man, I'm sorry." Parker said, feeling bad.
"Nah, man, don't apologize," Dillon assured. "There's gotta be a black Spider-Man somewhere out there."
"Hopefully, we'll meet him someday," Parker told Dillion, realizing it was likely that somewhere in the vast multiverse there was a black Spider-Man.
"Hey, can you give me a hand here?" Dillon asked. "My ass is dead broken. Goddamn Eels."
Parker chuckled lightly as he offered Dillion his hand, to which Dillion grabbed it and lifted himself up on his feet.
"By the way, how's your girl?" Dillon asked, referring to Parker's girlfriend, Gwen, before he saw Parker giving him an irritated glance at him, realizing he was not aware that Gwen died. "Sorry. My bad."
Meanwhile, Octavius held the arc reactor he had just removed from Dillon with his left hand and contemplated at its amazing power. As he glanced at the reactor, his thoughts were lingered towards the possibility of holding such power, realizing the opportunity to recreate his fusion machine and recreate the power of the sun. However, he had also realized the consequences of holding such immense power, since his obsession with recreating the sun had cost him his wife, Rosie, as well as his sanity.
"Look at this," Octavius told his tentacle arms as he was astonished in seeing such incredible power. "The power of the sun..."
It was then that Pete arrived to see Octavius once again and finished his sentence. "... In the palm of your hand."
Octavius then turned around and saw Pete. "Peter?"
Pete removed his mask, looking at Otto surprised to see him after all these years. "Otto..."
Octavius was happy to see Pete once again. His heart was filled was joy when he saw the man that he'd seen as the son he never had no longer as the unsure student at Columbia University, but rather, a much older and wiser person, willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good.
"Oh, it's good to see you, dear boy," Otto greeted.
"It's good to see you," Peter said. "You haven't aged a day."
"You're all grown up," Octavius told Peter as he gave him an encouraging smile. "How are you?"
"Trying to do better," Peter assured.
Octavius was relieved to see Peter once again before he looked at the reactor again. His smile suddenly faded from his lips and all that was left was a sense of sadness and regret on his face.
"You okay?" Peter asked as he was concerned about Octavius.
"Yeah. Yeah, it's just..." Octavius said before letting out a deep sigh. "When I first came here, I didn't know what had happened. I tried to stop those voices in my head, but they were too powerful. It wasn't until your other self created a new inhibitor chip that I started to remember everything. All of the people that I've killed. The misdeeds I've committed. Rosie..."
Pete glanced at Octavius as he sensed the guilt that Octavius felt. He had experienced the same thing as well when he lost Uncle Ben and Harry many years ago, as well as the mistakes he committed when he was infected by the black symbiote.
"Peter, I am so..."
"Don't. I already forgave you, Otto," Pete reasoned. "I've done terrible things too. We both couldn't control the darkness within us. Those arms turned you into something that you weren't. You sacrificed your life to save everyone, including me. She would've been proud."
"I know, Peter," Octavius assured Pete. "Still, I can't help but feel guilty for my actions. I should have remained in the river alongside the machine. I was deluded by my own ambition, blinded by the sun I created. My hubris, my vanity cost Rosie her life, now I must settle things right."
Octavius then looked at the reactor one last time before crushing it with his hand and throwing it to the sea, as he came to realize the consequences of holding such power. He then glanced at Pete and smiled before Harry and Felicia appeared besides Pete, intending to greet him. Harry removed his mask and saw Octavius in front of his eyes, not believing that he was still alive.
"Otto," Harry greeted, feeling a sense of nostalgia upon seeing Octavius again.
"Harry, for all it's worth..." Octavius said as he saw Harry in his eyes, sadness and remorse filling his voice. "I'm so sorry."
"It's okay, Otto. You don't have to worry about it," Harry assured Octavius. "You just weren't control of yourself. Rosie would have forgiven you too."
Octavius turned around and saw Felicia also standing next to Pete and greeted her. "Ms. Hardy."
"Otto," Felicia greeted back. "Good to see age hasn't slowed you down a bit."
Octavius chuckled at Felicia's remark. Suddenly, Octavius' conversation with Pete, Harry and Felicia was interrupted by Strange's arrival, who had emerged from an Interdimensional Portal and held the Macchina in his hand.
"Another birthday party, I assume?" Octavius sneered in a sarcastic tone.
"Maybe," Strange shrugged before he saw Peter jumping in.
"Strange, wait! We're so close..." Peter pleaded.
"Zip it!" Strange snapped at Peter. "I've been dangling over the Grand Canyon for twelve hours."
"I know. I know, I... Um." Peter stuttered as Harry and Felicia arrived next to Peter, before they were joined by Pete, who appeared behind Harry, and Parker, who jumped in on the scaffolding, causing Strange to glance at them in confusion. "I'm sorry about that, sir, I mean.."
"You went to the Grand Canyon?" Pete asked Strange.
"We could've used your help, man," Parker added.
"So, a wizard protecting the city," Felicia muttered as she glanced at Strange with a smirk and put her hand under her chin, realizing what Peter told her was true and that magic did exist. "That's interesting."
"Alright, who are these guys?" Strange asked Peter, still unable to comprehend the appearances of two other Peter Parkers as well as Harry and Felicia, whom he was also suspicious of being one of the time-displaced villains.
"It's alright. We're not meant to hurt Peter." Harry assured Strange.
"He's right. They're with me." Peter added. "All of them are." He then started pointing out his friends to Strange. "Ok, uh, these are my new friends, Peter Parker, Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, they're me from other universes, and then there's Harry Osborn and Felicia Hardy, Peter-Two's friends. This is the wizard I was telling you about."
"Look, I'm really impressed that you managed to give them a second chance, kid." Strange admitted. "But this has to end. Now."
Suddenly, Pete's Spider-Sense went off just as he heard a sinister laugh that was too familiar to him.
"What's wrong?" Felicia asked, seeing Pete's spider-sense going off.
"I have a bad feeling about this, guys..." Harry said.
"Oh, no!" Peter exclaimed, realizing where that laugh was coming from.
"Can the Spider-Man come out to play?!"
Pete's blood ran cold and his eyes widened as he turned around and saw someone wearing a green armored attire with a purple cloak covered around his face and goggles flying on a glider different from Harry's and throwing blade-retracted pumpkin bombs in the sky. This was the Green Goblin, Pete's old enemy and Harry's father who had also been brought to this universe thanks to Strange's spell and was responsible for killing Peter's Aunt May. With his father emerging to fight against Peter now, Harry knew he was now about to go through the biggest fight of his life, not just to save his father, but to save the Multiverse.
And that's the end of this chapter. With Marko, Dillon and Connors all cured, the stage is now set for the final battle, which I will be covering in the penultimate chapter. This will be very exciting.
It's well known that Thomas Hayden Church and Rhys Ifans weren't present on set for No Way Home and they had to use archive footage from Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man, respectively, to showcase their restorations as humans, but they looked really bad and these footage stuck out like a sore thumb, so I had to take some liberties by adding dialogue to both Marko and Connors after being cured from their inflictions as well as having Marko glancing at his daughter's necklace, just like he did in Spider-Man 3.
I really wished Dillon acknowledged how much his obsession for Spider-Man had drove him into being a villain in the actual film, but I took it upon myself to have Dillon reflect that sentiment as well as referencing the "You're my eyes and ears" moment in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. I also attempted at a funny scene where Dillon tries to ask Parker about Gwen, only for Parker to give him an annoyed glance, since she died in TASM2, which would be natural of him to react like this, so I hope I did my best there.
The conversation between Pete and Octavius is taken from my Octavius centric-fic "A Monster's Redemption", with some tweaks to distinguish it a bit.
Let me know your thoughts on this chapter and I hope you enjoyed it. Stay safe everyone and take care.