Rising From The Ashes

by Hector Flores

Once again Hector and Hiro have become Peter and Harry and like always Peter and Harry do whatever a spider can...But can they survive a superhero school well still being heroes and managing their relationships? Multiversal shinanigans throw Peter and Harry into this wild ride in another fused universe.

2. Chapter 2

This is a Spider-Man MCU Fanfiction Only, Other Franchises will be included.

"If you are wondering if the shit has hit the fan, no, it had basically hit it and kept on hitting it, until the fan got buried six feet deep under all the shit that hit it. If I didn't know any better I think someone was going to destroy the world and killing these people is just an appetizer, like Galactus just showed up and wanted to crack open the Earth, like cracking open a bag of potato chips." Peter heard his friend and saw that they immediately headed where the crowd was running away from, there was little chance that it was a threat like Galactus, but the least they could do was delay the threat enough, so that most of these people could run away to safety, and to delay it enough so more help can show up.

Peter looked at the two men who were killing the people, and he could hardly believe it, it was two versions of the same man, from clearly different versions of their world, it was Norman Osborn, but one of them had the look and voice that made him appear more demonic that the Norman from his own reality. "It is bad enough I had to deal with one of you jokers, now there are two of you, didn't Harry originally prevent you from getting your hands on the Goblin Serum, armor, and glider? and preventing you from showing up as the Green Goblin for two months when you originally would have become the Goblin for that matter how did you become the Goblin in the first place and didn't we depower you and take away your Goblin Serum with that antidote, and destroyed your armor, and glider the last time we fought And what is the deal with the ultimate Goblin looking more demonic than usual? And How is he even here shouldn't he be in Miles's universe?"

Norman was looking at Peter and smiled when he saw someone land a glider he stepped off the glider clearly ready for a fight, "Oh you think my son's betrayal would keep me from my best inventions, think again webhead, I had a secret lab where I kept working on the serum and gear, even if those bastards and my idiot son stole them from me. As for why we are doing this, simple, thanks to the actions of Harry, you could say I found religion, and our god wants us to cleanse reality by burning this piece of shit of reality to ashes, and that is exactly what we are doing. And our God also gave me back my powers armor and glider and something more, As for my copy, he got demonic powers from our god, but if you are scared of him, wait till you see what I can do."

The other version of Norman wore goblin armor, but it was more like he was a fan of hotrod cars, more flames and yellow than the normal way the goblin armor looked, and had a rather horrible feel to it as if it was being constantly surrounded by the sheer power of death and destruction. The fact is that every plant he was near quickly dried up and turned to ashes, "Why so serious? We are only doing the will of our god, and let's face it this shitty reality can finally have peace, once we are done these bastards can finally have the peace they deserve, so why aren't you smiling?"

As the two friends began to fight against these two copies of Norman Osborn, to Harry it felt like they were actually only toying with them, like they were not even putting any actual effort into fighting them at all. Peter on the other hand knew that these two only had one goal, their deaths, for some reason their actions and movements screamed to him of them having this unnatural desire and hunger to see them dead. Peter used his webs to slow down and even trip their enemies, while Harry used his powers as a Goblin, to use camouflage and try to take them out from the shadows. The fighting was clearly one-sided, and these two were just having fun with them, Harry could see they wanted to tire them out, to make it easier for them to kill them, but something did not make any sense at all, why would two copies of his father, want to harm him.

As he kept evading their attacks he thought that maybe he was upset that he took over the control of Oscorp, but then again that was liable to happen anyway as the heir apparent to the owner of the company, in fact he thought if anything his father would be extra proud that he managed to take over the company by his own merits and using a plan of his own making. He would sometimes remind him while growing up that undecisive people would never achieve their goals, only a person who is willing to take risks and work through hard conditions would ever be truly worthy to lead Oscorp. His lessons were harsh, but training under his father was hellish, Norman had no compassion or consideration, he only had one thing, he demanded perfection and those who failed to meet his expectations were harshly punished, regardless of gender or who they were.

Harry if asked in front of the other employees of Oscorp what he thought his father was, his response was never what others thought possible, Harry called his father a slave driver, the man had no sympathy, he only valued results by any means, deep down if he was honest with himself, he also did that because of the effects of the Goblin Serum he first developed, boost to intelligence and physical abilities sounds greats, but not when the cost is uncontrollable rage and insanity. Harry knew that the benefits would make anyone an absolute threat to face, but the negative aspect he knew would eventually cause the death of his father.

Harry already knew the pain of losing one parent, so by taking over the leadership of the company, he secretly hoped that this would allow him to save his father's life. This was a moot point, since apparently his father had that secret lab, and became the Green Goblin anyway. The board of directors were the only ones that managed to live for a little longer, but seeing what his father planned to do, not by much, since his actions by his own admission would lead to the death of everyone in the universe, not just their world.

"Do you know how insane you have to be, to want to cause the death of everything that lives in the entire universe? Thanos who worships Death, only wants to cause the death of half of all life in the universe, and he is called the Mad Titan. The thing you planned to do makes you more insane than he is, never mind that it would not only kill you but also your son Harry." Peter tried once again to reason with Norman, but the thing is if what he heard was true, he was already under the effects of the original goblin serum. Norman viciously said he would never consider a traitor who stole his company from right underneath him a relative of his, much less his son.

"Look Spider, we all know that Harry got lucky getting those backstabbing bastards to side with him, more than likely they planned to use Harry as a puppet and manipulate him since they consider him young, naive, and easy to manipulate. But that little shit took my company from me, and I will never consider him my son, he is garbage, and much like the rest of the garbage in this universe, it can burn for all I care. If everything goes like we want, we will be able to remake reality however the fuck we want, so who cares if a bunch of useless lives get destroyed, they should find it an honor that their worthless lives were used to fuel our noble goals." Harry said that nobody should treat life like that, all life is precious, and irreplaceable, one of the reasons he wanted to prevent the creation of that Serum is because it would cause his death, to save lives, even if that person was him.

This made the demonic version of his father start to laugh and cackle like an absolute maniac, "It really doesn't matter either way, he wants to remake the universe, I just want to see the fucking thing burn. This is the last universe in the Spider-verse anyway, all the other different realities where Spider-Man exists, have been destroyed by now, and once this device goes off, there will be nothing left about the wall-crawler anywhere, my revenge will finally be complete."

This made no fucking sense to Harry, he wants revenge what could have someone or some group done to this idiot that he feels that the only way to get revenge is to kill reality? Under his own admission, they had already killed countless parallel realities, so why would he want to do this? It made no freaking sense at all. "Nobody did jack shit to you, did they? You didn't get as much as a slap on the wrist, and now you want revenge as an excuse just to kill and destroy, knock it the hell off, if anyone has a reason to want revenge, it would be me. Having to fix all the shit that dear old dad here cause, and I had to both cleanup and fix."

Norman was quiet upon hearing Harry, he looked at him, "Dear old dad pretends to be a major successful company, but come on really, he depends entirely on defense contracts, and if he ever screws the fucking pooch on one of them, the entire fucking company goes up in smoke, the goblin serum was one of these projects, trying to come up with a super soldier serum knock off. The problem is he is not the only company doing that, and what is worse the company is doing so badly, this jackass did not have time or money to do proper lab tests and trials. He calls me a traitor for trying to keep him from using himself as a lab rat, and using a crappy goblin serum that has more defects than benefits."

Norman looked at his son, "Like hell, my invention has no flaws, you wanted to steal it along with the company to feed your own ego, even now I am far better than you ever will be since you are too scared to use the goblin serum yourself. You are a worthless, stupid, cowardly traitor." Harry looked at his father with a glare and told him unlike him, he used AI to create virtual test subjects, and since he took over the company, he perfected the goblin serum, which has better benefits than the one his father made, and none of the negative aspects.

"We decided to diversify our company investments and projects, and as such Oscorp since I took over as CEO, is doing better than ever, our profits are beyond anything my dad could even dream, even began to make contracts with our main competitors to actually work together, Ottocorp has accepted to be the main manufacturer for some of our computer products, and Parker Industries, are co-developing new forms of body armor, that could make current suits used by NASA seem archaic. Oscorp as is right now, is a company that has a finger on the pulse of human life, from the cradle to the grave, Oscorp can be found at every single step of a person's life. One project does not do well, so what, learn why, and move on, we currently have three hundred research projects running this very moment, each to improve every aspect of human life, from communication to how kids learn. I fixed Oscorp and this fucking idiot dares to call me a traitor, when I made our family the most successful it has ever been, and even I don't want this sort of revenge, cause what good is to get even if the person just dies, no I want dad to live, and see how wrong he was, how badly he fucked the pooch, and him admitting that me taking over Oscorp was not only the smart decision but the only decision that could have saved the company. He has to live to do that!"

Even the demonic version of his father felt sorry for the other Norman, "Your kid did not try to save you, to keep you alive, he tried to save you to make you suffer, show off his success, and rub your face in it. I honestly don't know who is more demonic him or me, cause even to a guy like me that is pretty damn cold. Look this reality in all the different versions is corrupt, there is no peace to be had, and if it is achieved it is only so brief it can't count, yes, I want to destroy this reality, but to be honest I want to do it to bring lasting peace to the poor unfortunate souls that live in all these realities, do you know what caused WII? An argument between Germany with their war debt collectors over telegraph poles, do you know how many times we have been close to WWIII over a flock of geese appearing on a radar screen? You have to realize this cruel, demented place is one sick jock, a demented gag, why I am wrong in wanting to end it and stop even more people from needlessly suffering?"

Norman decided to let go of a truth bomb, "Son, we live in a world that is created and manipulated by people on a higher plane of existence than we do, they decided to make this as a form of entertainment for their people, they make our lives crappy, hard, and tragic, so, by comparison, the people in that higher plane think their own troubles are nothing major, and laugh at our suffering, I am not bad, I was quite literally written that way, they decided to make me a villain, from the very beginning, killed off your mother for plot convenience, almost every single villain you know or heard of, could have become honest law-abiding citizens, had those bastards just decided to give them a chance at redemption, but then again, where the fuck is the fun in that?"

He looked at Harry with a sinister grin, "They find out pain, misery, and suffering entertaining, we are nothing but actors being forced to follow a script they wrote for their benefit and entertainment only, our god showed me all this, and so I decided to fuck with it, I would destroy the entire fucking thing, making those people abandon the very notion of messing with our reality, and making a reality where those fuckers have no influence, for all of us to be free, and if you don't like it, you are the crazy one."

Peter asked Harry using handsigns why is he even spending time letting these bozos even spill this obvious self-serving bullshit? Harry only replies that he was keeping them busy and focused on the discussion, so Peter can go behind them and disarm or stop the fucking bomb that will destroy the entire universe, so less complaining and more work on getting rid of the doomsday bomb. To which Peter only replied if Harry had bothered telling him the plan he would have done that already.

They did not expect the demon version of Norman to start laughing again, "Oh I get it, you are pulling a fast one on us, by keeping us from noticing Peter, how utterly underhanded and devious, that other Norman might not call you son and be proud of you, but you sure are making this one, one proud papa, throw away any shame and do whatever it takes to achieve your goals, what can I say, you are surely making me proud son. Wait a go, as for your way of talking using hand signs, those are typical nonverbal communications used by most militaries, so I, of course, know how to talk using those same hand signs. You make me so proud, I am going to teach you how to fight like I do, by beating your skull like a drum, that is what an unscrupulous son like you deserves as a reward."

The other Norman began to glare at his partner, and then at Harry, "As for you making a better goblin serum, I call bullshit on that idea, I worked on it for years, and I have more experience and knowledge than you ever will, so either show up or I am going to ask my partner to increase your beating but from me a punishment for daring to say such an obvious fucking lie." Harry's only comment was to let his fists do the talking if he was brave enough to fight someone who could fight back, going as far as to ask him if he was asking the demonic version of himself, because he was secretly scared, asking him in a mocking tone how much of a chicken was he?

As this happened Peter tried to sneak behind to the keyboard, trying console commands, to shut the damn bomb down, but as Peter was focused on breaking the code, he did not see that the Demonic version of the Green Goblin, made a massive fireball appear from his hand and threw it towards Peter, as the fireball flew towards him his spider-sense activated telling him of the attack, but sadly the fireball was actually not aimed at Peter but rather the computer than controlled the bomb, "Damn it, this thing is toast, we will not be able to turn it off using that computer. These two are committed in their genocidal plan that they do something like this, sorry, Harry, but clearly your father can not be redeemed. It seems your plan to save his life is simply not going to work. It was a nice attempt, I think the one that is in control is the actual Green Goblin hallucination myself, but even if we got him to take control of his body, he would not know what is going on, and worse he would have no means or knowledge how to turn that damn thing off."

Norman looked at Peter with a nasty sneer on his face, "Sorry to break it to you Peter, but I am in control, and there is no way I would help you or that traitor, but if you think you are stronger than me think again, my god gave me his blessing, and thanks to that I have power no mere mortal could ever hope to match." Norman immediately touched the other version of himself and almost felt like their bodies fused into a new being, it was painful and terrifying as both versions screamed in utter horror and pain as it happened, the Norman from their universe did something they were not expecting, immediately began to grow in size, reminding both friends as if they were looking how the body of Bruce Banner changed as he took on the Hulk form. "You have got to be fucking kidding me, not only do we have to deal with a Norman that can use magic, but now what I could call the Goblin version of the Hulk? Where the fuck are the other heroes, they are sure dragging their feet, do they honestly expect us to take care of this by ourselves?"

That is when they hear a familiar voice laughing, "Sorry to tell you boys, but they erected a barrier around the city, no hero can make it in, til they find a way to break the barrier down, as for being alone, you are not, I am using my magic to separate those two and sending them away to buy us some time." Immediately the fused Goblin began to again scream as the two parts that made up the fusion were ripped from each other, and as this happened a portal appeared right beneath their feet, and they fell into the portal. "That should buy us some time, by the time they get back and figure where they ended up, but sadly not much, they still had their gliders, so that means once they figure where they landed, they should be able to plot a course to your current location."

The two Goblins landed in the snow and immediately tried to figure out where on the world they were, they were so angry and shocked that they never realized that they were in Antarctica. Unfortunately for them, the effects of their fusion caused the communication equipment on their gliders to be overloaded and burned out. Peter immediately asked Doctor Strange if there was any way to open a portal and send the bomb to somewhere that would not cause any damage to anything or anyone? The Sorcerer Supreme could not help but to laugh and say there is no way to send that thing into a portal even if there was a place where they could have the damn thing detonate, the explosive was not designed to destroy a world but the entire multiverse. No place existed that could survive a blast of that caliber.

"So essentially we are fucked, there is nothing we can do, damn it." Doctor Strange told them he was still working on the barrier, and if some of the agents of SHIELD could make it through, they should be knowledgeable enough to defuse the bomb after all SHIELD has done that so many times they could do it with their eyes closed. The only thing Stephen could really do is build a shield around them to keep others from shooting the damn bomb trying to make it go off early. Seeing that both were essentially trapped with the mother of all bombs, they decided to do something they had never done before, they prayed for god to help them survive this situation.

As the timer on the device was getting closer to Zero, a portal opened right beneath them sucking them in, and almost like they were in a bad remake of The Matrix, they found themselves inside a vast white room, everywhere they looked was nothing but white as far as the eye could see, no trees, houses, or anything at all. "Sorry for the delay boys, I barely managed to save both of you just in time. Sadly SHIELD agents arrived too late and the bomb went off, destroying that universe at the very least, or the multiverse at worst."

Harry could hardly believe who they were seeing, it was Stan Lee, and he was dressed in a rather casual-looking outfit of a pair of chestnut-colored pants, a Hawaiian shirt, and some tennis shoes. "Don't you worry none Peter, as long as a single person from that universe survives, I can always remake it, and don't worry I know exactly who you two really are, I talked to your goddess about you many times, so relax Hiro, Hector, you two will have another chance to prevent the destruction and death of the multiverse," Harry told him that it would not matter, as long as they did not have access to their full powers, they were always going to be underpowered to face those two monsters.

"You only had that restriction because it was one of the conditions built-in when that merged reality was created, but since I am sending you to what essentially is a new universe, such restrictions will not be there, you will have access to all your powers, abilities, and skills. The real problem is that it was not done by those two versions of Norman Osborn, they were manipulated by something far worse, I am sometimes called the one above all, and I love to protect people and protect innocent lives, but there is another who is my opposite, the one below all, and he wants all reality to simply burn and die. He was the one who powered up those two and manipulated them into doing his bidding. So in truth, you could in fact end up facing the one below all, but like I said you are not as restricted so if you get strong enough, you might have a chance, even if it is a slim one."

Peter immediately asked if the one below all is that strong, why did he not try to destroy the multiverse himself, rather than use those copies of Norman Osborn? Stan could not help but laugh when he heard him say, "Oh trust me, he wanted to, but as of right now he is caged inside a barrier, he would love to get his hands dirty and kill off everything, but the one that made the barrier is no joke, they are Death and all her family, the Endless, and they each made sure that barrier is hard to break free from, which is why he wanted the Spiderverse destroyed, this would weaken the barrier and he could try to break free."

Harry simply said even if he managed to break free, Stan would just beat him up again, and get tossed inside another barrier, it makes no sense, till Stan told Harry that he is stubborn, he will never stop attempting to end everything, and everyone who has ever existed or would exist. "Any chance we could take all the money we earned in the 616 Universe? Let's face it we could achieve a lot more if we had money to help us buy things or have enough to train properly, without having to worry about the basic necesaties. Stan could understand why Peter asked that "You hate the fact that Parker always ends up living in or near poverty, no need to make excuses, I can see your true intentions, sadly that money does not exist, the universe where the money came from no longer even exists, at best I can do is make it so the money is considered in-store credit at the game store, but that is the best I can do. Well, I could technically try and use my power to make it so that things cost less than normal, a sort of store discount, but it would only be for very special reasons and occasions, I will not have you take it easy, simply because you are flush with store credit."

Peter did not like the restriction but it was better than having to start in that new universe without nothing to count on. "I will send you to a new universe and you will arrive in your youth, should give you plenty of time to prepare and train, but do not think you can take things easy, eventually you might need to face villains under the sway or control of the one below all," Harry told him he understood, they should not slack off and consider this just a pleasant vacation to have fun in. They would train and make sure to be ready for any future dangers. Stan smiled and sent them to the new Universe which he designated as Universe 777. Stan wished them both good luck as he sent them into that universe while saying Excelsior, which was his personal catchphrase.

Peter found himself in a dark, wet tunnel, being shoved down the tunnel towards a bright light until he felt someone use a pair of scissors and found himself being held upside down, he immediately felt a sharp pain on his rear, like someone had slapped him on the ass, "What the hell, in my youth, my ass, Stan sent me to be born in this universe what the fuck." In the operating room they only heard the baby cry, "Mary Parker, I am happy to tell you that you had a healthy baby boy, with quite the set of lungs in this one." The doctor placed the baby in a towel and handed him to the mother, "For the record what should we call him?" Mary simply said, Peter Parker.