Chapter 2

Summery

Big plans go downfall when a small mistake is being made

Notes.

Finally another chapter and boy oh boy, this chapter will be the "bridge" chapter between calm and chaos. Usually it takes five or six more chapters to let the real fun begin, but hey, it's a different type of Spider man show with a different take, so why can't a fic also be more "surfing on waves" style XP

Enjoy

"What's with the frown? I thought it was fun!" Peter frowned even more and gave Flash the 'are you serious right now?' stare. Flash only rolled his eyes with a groan, "Oh, come on, it wasn't that much of a trouble, I mean, all ended well, didn't it?"

"I don't think he has a frown on his face because of the fight" Harry whispered, moving closer to him, making sure Peter didn't hear him, "He had a 'heavy talk' with Fury for running off. He was pretty disappointed"

"I can hear you, you know?" Peter said, making Harry roll his eyes with a small smile, "But speaking of Fury, Connors was more disappointed in what I did than he" He chuckled, "But I don't see the reason why! I mean, I returned back, didn't i?"

"Yeah, and almost gave one of the nurses a heart attack" Flash chuckled, making Peter angrily looked at him, "What? Just saying. It was fun though" He smirked. Peter only looked at Harry with 'Can I kick his ass?' stare.

"Go ahead, I won't be stopping you" Harry smiled and immediately saw how Flash, understanding what was about to happen, quickly made few giant steps back mumbling quietly something similar to "Nope, no, not me, don't"

"Just kidding" Peter smiled, and he and Harry fist bumped. Flash only frowned, looking at them, "Oh come on, Flash, since when you got so-" He didn't finish. Sudden loud noise made him yelp in pain and close his ears in attempt to make it quieter.

"Pete? What's wrong?" Harry quickly hurried to him, and worriedly put a hand on his shoulder. Peter didn't answer, instead he slowly raised his head and looked around, before removing hands from his ears and nervously blinking.

"I'm… Fine… I think?" He shook his head, "Did you hear that?" He looked at Harry who only raised his eyebrow, "You know the… The loud static sound that makes your head hurt?" Again in reply he got a confused stare. With a frown he looked at Flash.

"We heard nothing" Flash shrugged, "Maybe these painkillers still didn't wear off?" Seeing how Peter crossed arms on his chest, only sighed, "Chill Spidey, maybe it's just some sort of side effect? What dose of that stuff did you even take?"

"I know that! I mean, who won't know such obvious stuff?" He chuckled, but then frowned, "You know, it's just that…" Peter sighed, "Everything seems a bit… Louder than usually… Or is it just me?" He asked, looking at Harry.

"It's just you and your sensitive hearing" Harry smiled a bit, "Besides I'm surprised you hear so great after that sound waves attack, you know, the one that almost left you deaf?" He saw how Peter smiled a bit hearing this.

"Oh how can I forget about that… Hope it was a onetime VIP ticket cause I don't wanna lose my hearing" Peter run a hand though his hair, before giving Harry a bit disappointed stare, "You were supposed to be on my side in the argument!"

"And I'm on it, aren't i?" Harry smirked when Peter punched his shoulder, "Wanna go to my place? Dad and I planned a dinner and I think Peter Parker will be more than welcome" Peter looked at the sky and grey clouds.

"With pleasure" He smiled, still focused on the clouds, "Besides, Aunt May said she had something planned for today and I think she won't be against us teaming up once again to just enjoy our lives as Peter Parker and Harry Osborn"

"Well then, guess Flash Thompson going to go now, enjoy yourselves" With this he disappeared. Peter and Harry watched him swing away, before looking at each other. A moment, another, and both the heroes started laughing.

"It's been such a weird and long day" Peter sighed, raising his head and starting at the sky, "Glad we'll finally have some peaceful moments where we can just sit and do nothing! Do you even know how my bones hurt from all these punches?"

"Can't even imagine" Harry smiled and Peter smiled too. Even though the both of them knew it was a lie, after all Peter had been training with Harry and teaching him some of his tricks, it was still a nice lie to hear.

"Come on! We gotta hurry up, don't want to be late" Peter caught Harry's hand and dashed forward, before stopping, "On a second thought, do we need to go straight to your place or we'll be picked up somewhere else?"

"To our place, dad said he couldn't pick us up, besides more walk for two superheroes is not a big deal" He smiled and started to walk forward, "Let's go, the faster come, the faster enjoy the, how you said, "sitting and doing nothing""

"You're right! Off to your house we go!" Peter said and smiled. Harry rolled his eyes with a smile, before starting to walk forward. Peter took a step forward, but suddenly stopped, looking at the back of his friend.

The briefly bright smile faded, turning into cold expression. A tiny ball of something negative grew in his stomach. It was hard to explain what exactly he was feeling, it was just something… Negative. But quick shake of a head made the feeling to go away.

"I thought you were coming to my place? Changed your mind?" Peter looked at Harry, who stopped and was looking at him with his arms crossed on his chest. Peter only rolled his eyes with a groan and quickly run to him, before putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Got distracted" He saw how Harry shook his head, still smiling, "What? Thought you're the only one who can? Well tell you what, you're far from being the only one who-" He stopped, suddenly realizing what he was saying, "Sorry…" After few moments of silence he whispered.

Harry looked at him silently, before taking a deep inhale, "it's fine, it's been a long and pretty rough day, we both are just tired, that's why we need to hurry and see what kind of delicious food is waiting for us!"

"You're right" Peter smiled and followed after his friend. It was… weird. But not as weird as it would have been any other day. After all, they were tired after that fight and stress. Not to mention that his ears were still hurting, so, nothing unusual.

"How was it? I've seen on the news you two handled it pretty well" Norman said, instead of hello. Harry looked at Peter with a 'How glad I am he finally started learning on his past mistakes' stare, making Peter roll his eyes.

(Yep, Harry's totally normal 'complicated relationship' with his father. Gotta admit, ever since all these events Norman's been doing giant progress, as both superhero, extra points for this, and as a father) Small smile appeared on Peter's lips (It's so good to see Harry getting at least some respect from his father. He earned it, after all)

"It was all great, dad, nothing two heroes won't be able to handle" Harry said, before blinking, "Wait. What news?" His stare immediately focused on Peter. His face, Harry groaned, "Oh, don't tell me it's what I think it is"

"Trust me, it's what you think it is" Peter nodded and pat Harry's shoulder, while Norman shook his head, saying nothing, "But I'm sure this time Jonah wasn't all THAT bad and harsh, I mean, it's been a pretty lovely day today!"

"You're forgetting something here, he doesn't have ANY lovely days, only the 'I hate you Spiderman and everyone who team up with him' and 'I absolutely hate you Spiderman and everyone who team up with him'!" Harry frowned.

"Yeah, classic J.J.J, doesn't know the meaning of good behavior" Peter nodded and walked to the table, before stopping and looking at Norman. Silent tension rose in the air, before Harry put a hand on his shoulder.

"You totally need some rest, no offense Pete, but you look awful" Harry laughed a bit and sit on the chair. Peter smiled a bit and sit next to his friend, before staring at all the food that was on the table. So many and so delicious.

"Could you wait for a moment, there's one guest we need to wait for" Norman suddenly said, making Peter and Harry to exchange confused looks. A guest? Someone from the S.H.I.L.D? Or someone important they were never told about?

Sudden loud sound of footsteps made Peter raise his head and turn in that direction. His head was turned its back to Harry and he didn't see how his friend raised an eyebrow, but after a moment he also looked in that direction.

The sound of footsteps got louder. Peter's eyes narrowed. He wasn't sure why he was feeling so tensed, maybe the whole 'the guest they weren't told about coming to join the, what was supposed to be father-son dinner' was giving an odd feeling.

"My apologies for being late, there's terrible traffic on the roads" The newcomer said and walked towards the table. Peter's mouth opened upon seeing this person, while Harry only glared at his father with raised eyebrow.

Norman said nothing, only let out heavy sigh of defeat. Peter on the other hand quickly shook his head and stared at the new comer who walked to them and also sit on one of the free chairs, "Aunt May, wha- How?"

"Won the bet and got an invitation" She smiled kindly and looked at Norman with a smirk, "It wasn't that hard, honestly, I thought it will be almost impossible with the amount of gliding skills he has but turned out I'm still better"

Peter and Harry silently stared at each other for few moments before looking at Norman, "Would you mind not making a fuss from this? Accidental events happen" He said absolutely calmly and took the glass full of water.

They sat in silence for few moments. Peter was silently looking at his Aunt, then at Norman from time to time and in one of these moments he saw the 'I want a rematch' stare addressed to Aunt May and a 'Want to lose second time?' stare addressed to Norman.

Peter silently poked Harry in the side and eyed the two. The scene looked too funny and comical not to laugh at this. Norman Osborn, Norman fricking Osborn and his Aunt were silently 'speaking' about having a rematch.

(The longer I live, the more surprises I see, but who can I blame?) He shrugged (Besides, spending time with my Aunt might teach Norman how to act and not to act with his son. Even with a giant progress, Mr Osborn has a lot of things to learn about parenting to catch up)

"So, how was your day? I've heard how you dealt with Frightful Four" Aunt May said, looking at Peter, then at Harry, "I'm genuinely surprised they decided to show up again. Didn't they learn not to mess with you last time?"

"To be honest, they never learn" Peter said rolling his eyes, "For as long as I remember being Spider man, they were always doing the same thing over and over again. Can't blame them though, not everyone deserve to have a brain"

"And giant Ego" Harry punched Peter in the shoulder, making him chuckle, "Speaking of ego, has anybody heard a thing about Otto Octavius? Last time I checked, he was going to another rehabilitation session" Peter frowned upon hearing this, but then quickly smirked.

"Using his intelligence for good is still better than letting him rot in the prison. Besides, I'm sure S.H.I.L.D knows what they're doing" He waved his hand in the air, "After all, they better than anyone know how to contain dangerous creatures" Harry's face darkened a bit hearing this, but Peter didn't notice.

Instead he took a spoon and looked at his reflection in it with even wider smirk, "Besides, there's your friendly neighbor Ultimate Spider man in the town, so there's not need to worry about any villains" He looked at Harry.

"Can't agree more" Harry rolled his eyes, gaining a 'come on be on my side' stare from Peter, "What? I told you that I can't agree more, doesn't this mean I'm on your side?" He laughed a bit, making Peter smile.

"Oh sure it does, it's so great to have you as my partner" His smile widened, "Oh wait, I said this too many times already, but who cares right?" He shrugged still with a smile, "After all it's the truth and I'm glad in it" He looked at his reflection in the glass full of water.

The water was staying still in the glass. Still and clear as the thoughts in his head. Yet with small not careful move the water would ripple, become unclear and it will be hard to see what's hiding under the rippling surface.

"Interesting, I wasn't expecting this much of… events to happen" Low and harsh voice hissed. The room was quiet, lights were turned off and only the shine of monitors was cutting the darkness to pieces. The monitors that contained the records of the last fight. The records that were replayed over and over again.

"He has improved since the last time we met… Yet got some issues to work on." The quiet creaking sound followed, when the silhouette stood and made a step, "Keep on working together to bring down villains one by one... Yet so much wasted potential… How pathetic"

The silhouette moved to the right, hiding from the view in the darkness. The weak light of the monitors were barely brighting its back, "Keep on playing hero… But I've seen who you really are… And I'll make others see it too… It'll only make my revenge more than satisfying, but first…" The silhouette turned its head towards the monitors, "There's one visit that has to be made…"

The quiet footsteps ringed loudly in the complete silence. The heroes, citizens, even S.H.I.L.D. None of them had even a single clue what kind of terror would soon be unfold. A monster was set to rise again from the ashes of former loses. And this time. Heroes would have to use all they have. To make it out alive.

"Oh, so that explains it" Peter said and he and Harry exchanged looks, "But it still doesn't explain, where you learned to-" His voice died down when his spider sense went off, "On the ground!" He yelled and in the exact same moment loud explosion was heard.

The glass shattered when few drones flew in the building and started to shoot lazers In the Parkers and Osborns, "Go get the tech!" Peter barked, looking at Harry, "I'll hold them up!" With this he took few of the bricks and threw in the drones to distract them.

Luckily it worked and all of them, as if having a hive mind, turned to him. This bought Harry to dash to get his armor, while two adults made it to safe area. Norman turned his head towards the sound of a fight and made a move.

"Don't" Aunt May stopped him, catching by his arm, "It might be a trick, what if someone worse awaits behind the door?" This question made Norman's eyes widen at the sudden realization. That bulked man that was standing near the elevator.

"Oh, is that all you've got? I'm disappointed!" Peter said and threw a bridge in another drone. He didn't even need to change into his Spiderman suit, simple "brick hits" were enough to take the drones down in no time.

"Need some help?" A voice asked and the blast shoot was heard. The last remaining drones fell on the floor and turned off. Peter looked at Harry- better to say Patrioteer with arms crossed on his chest, "What?" Patrioteer asked, playing dumb.

"I had it all under control" Peter said and walked closer to the drones, "Weird, they don't seem to be very… I don't know, dangerous?" He glared at Harry, "More like a toys to drag the attention away from something serious"

Right in the moments these words escaped his mouth, loud shriek was heard. This sound made his eyes widen. The realization hit him right in the moment he heard it, "Aunt May!" With this he quickly dashed there, but… It was too late.

Sudden beeping was heard and before he could leave a room. Before Harry could open his mouth. Before the understanding could hit them like knife cuts the butter. Drones exploded, defying and blinding them.

Peter hit the wall and hissed in pain. Everything in his ears turned into loud ringing. Eyes quickly recovered from "blinding" attack, but ears…, "Patrioteer!" He yelled, not hearing his own voice. The ringing was too loud, "Others!"

He didn't need to repeat twice. It was enough for his hero teammate to understand what to do and he did what needed. Harry dashed out of the room to make sure his father and his friend's Aunt are okay. To make sure nothing bad happened to them.

Peter slowly stood on his legs and shook his head. The ringing still didn't want to leave him, even worse, it was starting to get annoying, "These sonic purities must be prohibited by law" He mumbled rubbing his ears, "Else me and other people will be left completely deaf"

With a frown, he quickly changed in his Spiderman suit and jumped to the giant hole in the wall, "Geez, you guys are becoming more and more destructive each new time you appear" He mumbled. The ringing in his ears was starting to become annoying.

"But these drones… They didn't look familiar… A new villain guy?" The thought made him want to laugh, it was too absurd, but then again in the world where there's villainy on a high level it was quite possible, "Old or new, he… or she? Whoever it is still needs to be stopped!" He jumped out of the building.

Shooting webs towards the nearest building, he swung further. People on the streets were running away from the certain spot, "You've got to be kidding me…" Spidey landed on the nearest roof and analyzed the situation.

There was smoke coming from one of the nearest buildings, possibly be caused by fire. Some of the drones were flying nearby, by their movements it looked as if they were protecting something. Something… But what?

Turning his head to the right, he saw few bandits and a figure in the cape. It was impossible to see the figure's face, but somewhere deep down he felt something… Familiar about the figure. And this gave him a bad feeling.

"Alright, few drones are easy to take down, bandits? As easy as sleeping. The figure in the cape? Fifty to fifty. Gotta be careful" He mumbled and right before he jumped into the action, loud explosion was heard and even more smoke rose in the air.

Covering his face, Spidey looked there and felt something crawl in his chest with anger. He spotted few robots, they had a very familiar shape and tentacle like arms, yet something about them was different. The coloring and some, what seemed like upgrades.

"Is that… Octobots? But I thought our old pal Otto is on a rehabilitation session…" He frowned, looking closely at the robots, "Someone stole them, perhaps?" The thought made him frown even more, watching how the robots were moving towards one certain building.

Watching at the scene for few more moments, realization hit him like a gun shot, "There are tons of people there! If these robots success with… Whatever they're doing, hospitals will be overfilled with people!"

The hero leapt from the rooftop and swung towards the robots. Suddenly drones noticed him and let out loud alarm sound. It was a regular alarm, yet it sounded like a thunder roar. It caught Spidey off guard, allowed the robots to activate attack protocol and go into action.

"Oh, come on! Why does everybody want to leave me deaf!?" Spidey jumped to the right, successfully dodging the attack. He tried to focus on the fight, but it was hard, the ringing returned to his ears, making head hurt even worse than before.

Night has fallen on the city. Only bright flames of the burning building and blast shoots of robots and bandits were cutting the darkness of the street. Spidey managed to successfully take down two drones, making the loud alarm sound a bit quieter.

With another shoot of the webs, he broke the drone and silence fell on the street, "Such a relief, next time going to bring earplugs with me" He perfectily dodged the attack of one of the robots and counterattacked.

Robot fell on the ground and tried to stand, but quick move of a hand and its own tentacle arm cut through the armor, "Sorry a pile of metal, but it was the only way to stop you" He said and looked up, only to be shoot in the chest from the blaster.

Flying towards the wall of the building, Spidey hit it with his back and groaned, "Okay, I totally didn't forget about the blasters you had" His eyes widened and he quickly jumped away, avoiding another blaster shoot.

Hiding behind the nearest car to catch a breath, Spidey looked around the place and saw exactly what he needed. Shooting webs there, he jumped. Making a side flip to avoid the attack, he pulled the web to himself, making the giant robot to fly towards the bandits.

"Don't think I forgot about that one!" Spidey shouted and shoot webs towards the bandits who tried to avoid being crashed by robot. With a quick move, Spidey slammed their heads against each other, knocking them out.

"Sorry for being a bit harsh, know how badly will hurt in the morning, but It was a fast way to get you out of the game" He looked up and saw few robots in the window of the building, "Seriously will you ever catch a break?"

With a frown, he shoot webs and jumped on the wall of a building, without thinking twice, he ran further. Running on the wall was as easy as on the ground and when he reached the speed he needed, jumped off the building.

Shooting webs towards it, he launched himself in, breaking the window glass in the process and hitting the robot straight in its camera. It got covered in cracks while the robot was knocked on the floor. Spidey used all the strength he had to snatch off the tentacles of the upgraded Octobot, before running further.

There were even more of the Octobots and Drones in the hallway. They were standing and protecting something. A giant charging bomb. Spidey's eyes narrowed. If this thing manage to charge quiet enough, it will be powerful enough to blow the whole place.

"Sorry you metallic heads, but the party's over, I can't let you finish the task you were given" Spidey swung further towards the bomb. Dodging from the attacks of the Octobots and drones, he shoot webs towards one of the drones.

With its camera being blocked, the drone started to fly chaotically, shooting lazers in every direction. Spidey's heart sink when one of the shoots almost hit the bomb. It was so close. Shooting webs towards the drone, he threw it in other drones.

They dodged, and continued to attack Spidey. Spidey who stood between two fires. At one side of the hallway there were Octobots, on the other drones. Drones would be easier to take down, but higher risk of one of them to hit the bomb.

(I just love the situations where I'm surrounded, with a bomb being able to explode any moment, and no back up plan, way to go spidey) He rolled his eyes, turning head to the right and suddenly his eyes opened (Or maybe I do have a backup plan)

With a quick move of a hand, he shoot webs towards the piece of a metal and used it as a weapon. It was sharp and heavy enough to damage the drones. Once all the drones were lying on the ground not able to fly anymore, he jumped on the ceiling.

Octobots immediately attacked him, slamming their tentacle like arms in the ceiling and giving Spidey the momentum to jump down and snap their arms off. Giant metallic tentacles fell on the robots, knocking them on the ground.

With a nod, Spidey dashed to the bomb. Shit. It almost charged. Looking around, he tried to find something that will help him to open the panel and try to deactivate the bomb. There was nothing, and a time was still ticking.

There was the only way how to deal with the bomb. Detach it from the wall and throw as far away from here as possible. With it being the only thing on his mind, he didn't pay attention to the sound of something metallic moving not so far from him.

"Only minute before it explodes, okay, it's okay, it's enough" Spidey mumbled and quickly detached it from the wall. Weird, it came off too easily. Shaking his head, he webbed the bomb and jumped out of the building.

Sudden appearance of the Octobot in front of him made him yelp in surprise. Landing on it, he balanced himself and immediately jumped, seeing another Octobot flying towards him. The first had no time to react when the other one crashed into him.

"Now that's some fireworks I'm enjoying to see" Spidey chuckled and looked at the timer. His chillness turned into worriedness. There was so little of time left. He had to move faster, way faster than ever before to make it in time.

Dodging from the drones that were trying to pursued him, he jumped on another Octobot and caught one of its arms to use it as a weapon. One by one all the drones were shoot and Spidey jumped off the Octobot. It crashed in the wall and also was defeated.

Loud beeping of the bomb made his heartbeat speed up. Come on, come on, Parker luck don't turn your head from me now. Spidey shoot another web and jumped on the wall of the building, running higher and higher.

Some of the, still active, drones were trying to take him down, but he perfectly dodged from their attacks and finally jumped on the roof. Looking at the timer, his face paled under the mask and he shoot webs at the bomb.

It was his chance. His last chance and if he fails… Spidey started to spin, trying to gain the needed speed. Once it was reached, he let go of the web and the bomb flew high in the air. Much higher than he first expected.

Suddenly loud noise was heard and something flew towards the bomb. It was a blast. The bomb exploded in the air. Spidey turned around and saw Patrioteer. His partner showed a thumb up, while Spidey run to him.

"Where were you? Everyone okay?" He asked, not letting Patrioteer to catch a breath. Suddenly his spider sense went off and Spidey, on instinct pushed Patrioteer away, while a tentacle caught his leg. It pulled him, making Spidey lose his balance.

"Spidey!" Patrioteer yelled, and stood on legs to help his friend, only to see the tentacle of the Octobot to fly high in the air. Looking down, he saw how Spidey, still falling, tore off another tentacle of the bot, freeing himself.

Shooting webs at the wall, he made a perfect spin and, running on the wall of one of the nearest buildings, landed a powerful kick on one of the Octobots. It send the robot flying away and it ends up bashing into another Octobot.

More Octobots flew towards Spidey. Their tentacle like arms were charged and ready to shot Spidey. Patrioteer made a move to jump in the action and help Spidey, but stopped when saw how great Spidey was dealing with them on his own.

One by one, the Octobots were defeated and kept falling on the ground. The number of remaining robots was coming to zero. Drones also joined in the fight, but they were no match to Spidey's speed or strength. He was moving like a lightning.

Finally last Octobot was destroyed and Spidey, jumping on the wall of the building, took few deep breaths in. His heart was beating fast, with each beat of it his temples were hurting, just like his knuckles. The armor these upgraded robots had was much more hardened.

"That was amazing!" Patrioteer threw his hands in the air, "There's NO WAY you're not teaching me how to do that!" Spidey turned his head towards Patrioteer with a smile under his mask. He was glad to hear that.

"Once we return back, sur-" He stopped, eyes widened, "Patrioteer, watch out!" He threw his hand forward. He saw how the last remaining Upgraded Octobot was driving towards his partner on incredible speed. Sharp blade pointed at his chest, ready to stab him.

One second passed. Patrioteer had time to only turn around and rise his hand in the air to blast the Octobot, when powerful fist landed on the metallic bot, knocking him away. The robot flew away and fell off the roof.

Patrioteer turned at the sound of something falling and saw Spidey standing on his knees and breathing heavily, "That was… So close…" He whispered, chuckling quietly, before putting a hand on his face and laughing nervously. The realization that Harry was almost stabbed made his heartbeat to speed up.

"Spidey!" Patrioteer immediately helped him stand, "That was… I don't have words to explain how I'm… Thank you" He saw how Spidey nodded, yet remained silent, looking at one spot, "But how did you manage to do it?" Spidey blinked and looked at him, "All happened so fast"

"I don't know" He shook his head, "Guess blame the adrenaline and the thought of my best friend being close to death… AGAIN!" He looked at Patrioteer, before both of them laughed a bit. Despite all the seriousness of the situation, a bit of laughter never hurt anybody.

"Where's Aunt May and Norman?" Spidey suddenly asked, his voice became deadly serious. This made Patrioteer to stop laughing and look at him. It was impossible for Spidey to see what expression he had under his visor, he was able to only guess.

"They're fine, before I dashed here to help, i saw how greatly they were fighting against other robots" He said and the news made Spidey sigh in relief, "Didn't know your Aunt can fight like that, are you sure she doesn't secretly work for S.H.I.L.D?"

(Aunt May? And secretly working for S.H.I.L.D?) Spidey blinked, before crossing arms on his chest (Naaah, i hardly doubt it's true even on 5%) He stood in silence for few moments, before sudden thought made his eyes widen (But what if…?) He imagined his Aunt as a secret agent and immediately shook his head.

"I prefer not to think about this" He mumbled quietly, before waving a hand in the air, "At least now I'm sure that both your Father and my Aunt can protect themselves. Iron Patriot and… Uhhh" He put a hand on his chin in wonder.

"Frying pan lady" Spidey blinked and looked at Patrioteer with raised eyebrow, "You should have seen how professionally she was fighting using frying pans" Patrioteer crossed arms on his chest, "Now I'm kinda jealous that my dad can't do it"

"Yeah, at least your dad has an armor, can fly, blast bad guys, save people and is a hero named Iron Patriot" Spidey remarked, making Patrioteer to look at him, "That's a much cooler than just being able to fight with frying pans"

"Yeah, I guess you're right" Patrioteer nodded and suddenly few drones flew right next to them. They were moving much faster and looked smaller. Spidey looked in their direction with a frown on his face, which his mask perfectly copied.

"What, all the big robots gone to waste and decided to use sma-" Spidey didn't finish. He saw how drones activated something and immediately loud ringing filled his ears. With a yelp of pain, he collapsed on all four.

"Spidey!" Patrioteer looked at him worriedly, then looked at drones. He was also hearing the weird ringing sound in his ears, yet it wasn't as loud as it was for Spidey, "Don't worry, I'll take care of them!" He promised and flew towards drones.

With a quick move, two of three drones were blasted, the last one remaining was a lot better at dodging the attacks. Patrioteer kept blasting and blasting, yet no result was. The drone dodged another attack and stopped for a split second.

Patrioteer took this second to blast it, when suddenly the web caught the drone. Patrioteer turned around and saw how Spidey smashed the drone against his knee and stood, hitting the roof floor with his fists.

"Spider man, are you okay?" He asked, putting his hand on Spidey's shoulder, only to get it shoved away. With a deep and pained inhale, Spidey put a hand on his head. It was hurting and hurting very badly.

"Yeah, just… After each sound attack, my head hurts worse and worse" He closed his eyes and stood like this for few moments, before opening his eyes and looking at Harry, who was looking at him with his visor off.

"Then why it doesn't have the same effect on me? I mean, I heard that quiet ringing sound, but it wasn't even painful" He said and frowned, seeing how Spidey's eyes narrowed, "Maybe it's because of your abilities?"

"Maybe" He shrugged, "Or maybe because of my ears being tortured with sound attacks for the past hours too many times?" He frowned even more, before shaking his head and looking towards the sky. There were few drones and robots flying in their direction.

"Just how many of them we need to defeat!?" He asked angrily, clenching his hands in the fists. The situation was starting to become weird, "You take care of the drones, while I'll deal with Octobots, I can't bear with these little flying sound-attacking robots"

"Got it" Patrioteer nodded and flew towards them. Spidey on the other hand shoot webs and jumped towards the Octobots. They flew away from Drones, away from Patrioteer, towards the buildings. And Spidey followed after them.

They saved the building and people in it, they took care of the bomb and defeated more than ton of Octobots and drones. They did too much to let some robots to take away all their hard work. He won't let all of his hard work to go in vain. Not when there are so many answers he wants to get.

The wind was howling loudly, his eyes were narrowed, focused on robots that were flying away. So fast. They were too fast. No. He was faster. Jumping on the nearest roof, he shoot webs and launched himself high in the air.

From the high of clouds, he saw where they were flying. Shooting webs, he continued his chase. Faster. Faster. The robots were getting close, he raised his hand and shoot webs, trying to catch at least one of them, but they dodged.

The robots turned around and counter attacked, making him jump higher in the air and make a spin to dodge the attack, before shooting webs. Finally! The Octobot turned around to see what was making his speed to lose, when met with the powerful punch instead.

Spidey climbed on the quickly falling bot and used it as a platform to jump higher. His fingers were few meters away from the tentacle like arm of the bot when sudden hit of something small made him lose focus.

Shooting webs, he kept swinging further, trying not to lose speed. He already figured that the robot was flying somewhere… certain. He needed to follow it to figure out where this place is or who was that caped person he saw.

Finally the robot stopped, finally turned to face Spidey. Spidey who was standing on the platform, hiding from it. With a quick re-check of the surroundings, he noticed just in how desolate place he ended up in. It raised even more questions in his head.

Only all the questions seemed to disappear when he decided to take a look on where the robot was , and saw the caped person again. It was standing right before one of the giant tunnels. Standing and waving his finger, calling Spidey to follow him.

(Okay, now this is kinda creepy, not that I hadn't seen anything creepy. I did. Still want the memories to stop reminding me) He closed his eyes, shaking his head as if it was able to help him forget (But this… I don't trust this. Better to check in with Harry to let him know where I am before going there)

"Patrioteer, It's Spiderman, do you copy?" He asked, but got no answer. It made him feel sick in stomach, "Come on, Pal, answer" He mumbled quietly. Before he knew it, he was hit with powerful punch and thrown away.

Hitting the nearest wall, he groaned and stood on all four, shaking his head. Looking up, he saw robot and few drones getting ready to attack him, "Look guys, how about i just go and do what I need to do and you just let me go?" He asked.

The answer to him were loud cracks of electricity when robot and drones flew in his direction to 'remove the intruder' This made Spidey's eyes to open, "Classic scenario, why do I even try resonating with them?"

Loud 'Crrrrack!' sound was heard when the last drone was blown to pieces. He carefully landed on the nearest roof, "Well that was amazing, wasn't it? I hadn't had so much fun in… Forever! Right, Spidey?" He asked and looked around, but saw no one.

"Spidey?" He nervously asked, but suddenly his eyes widened under the visor. The memories of static sounds and, what he assumed to be the voice, that he heard when was fighting with drones and their sound attacks.

"Spiderman, it's Patrioteer, I do copy, where are you?" Patrioteer asked, nervously tapping his foot. He didn't want to fly around the city and seek for Spidey in random places, it will only be a waste of time and zero result.

"Come on, Spidey" He nervously waited for few more moments, but still getting nothing in reply, only static silence, he opened the maps and tried to find his friend's location, but still got no result, "Shit" He hissed quietly. The only thought appeared in his head. There must be something blocking the signal.

Dropping the pieces of the destroyed robots to the ground, Spidey once again tried to contact with Patrioteer but got only loud static noise. Grimacing at the sound, he looked towards the figure. It waved its finger in the air as if saying, 'No callings here' this made Spidey's blood boil in anger.

Dashing towards the figure in cape, he saw how it walked in the darkness of the tunnel and disappeared, "Hey! Get back here!" Spidey jumped right after it, but saw nothing. There was complete darkness and silence.

Feeling how some chills run down his spine and sick feeling in stomach got stronger, he turned on the night vision on his mask and looked around the place. It looked like a giant long forbidden tunnel that lead to a whole web of these tunnels.

"Geez, this place is even creepier than I thought it will be" He mumbled quietly, looking at all the surroundings. Walls were cracked, some pieces of ceiling fell on the floor. The floor itself didn't look anything better than walls. Cracked and dirty.

Sudden loud 'crrrrack!' sound made Spidey turn around and stare in the darkness. His eyes scanned the surroundings, but found nothing. There was nothing there. Absolutely. With a frown, he took few steps forward. Slowly and carefully.

Once he entered the other hallway, he heard something. Something quiet, not louder than a whisper. Stopping on one place he tried to hear from where the sound was coming. It didn't belong to robots or drones. Didn't belong to pieces falling either. It was something different.

Suddenly it clicked in his head. A voice. The floor cracked quietly when he sprinted towards the source of the voice. Or… Voices. The closer he was getting, the more and more he was recognizing more than one voices speaking.

Finally he reached the blocked room from where the voices were coming. It was still hard to understand what they were saying, but they were saying something and if there are people… He opened his mouth but stopped.

Shouting, "Is anybody there?" Will be more than stupid to do. There was a giant chance it's nothing but a trap. No, the safer way to check this out, is to remove the bricks and pieces of destroyed walls to clear the path.

"I might be coming to my doom, but then again, I've been through this so many times and each of these times was ending with me winning" He removed another piece, the path was halfway clear, "Well, not each, but most still were" He winked to the audience.

"Finally!" He threw the last piece away and jumped in the room. Right when his feet hit the floor, the sounds turned off. He was standing in the complete silence and darkness. The still turned on night vision was the only thing that was letting him see through the darkness.

He didn't see anything weird. Maybe except for tons of curtains on the walls, but with all the weird stuff he already saw in his life, it was nothing but a childish trick. Taking few steps forward, Spidey looked around the place, analyzing every detail he was able to see.

Strange, but the place looked much cleaner than the rest of the tunnels and rooms he saw, "Huh, looks like someone wa-" He didn't finish. Suddenly the curtains opened, revealing giant monitors. Each monitor turned on, filling the room with bright light.

Spidey closed his eyes and covered ears. Loud noises filled the air, cutting the silence to pieces. There were too many sounds, too many noises. They were defyingly loud. After few moments, however, they got quieter and screens turned much darker.

Slowly Spider man opened his eyes and blinked few times. Looking up, right at the monitors, his eyes suddenly widened. They weren't playing random noises or images. They were playing the records from cameras all around the city.

"You've got to be kidding me" He whispered under his breath, staring at what he found. Thousands of thoughts appeared in his head, but one of these thoughts cut his brain like butter. Someone hacked the cameras all around the city. Someone was aware of everything going on in the city.

Suddenly his spider sense went off, but before he could react someone punched him in the back, sending him towards one of the monitors. Spidey hit it, breaking. Bright sparkles flew in every direction as the monitor turned off.

Falling on the floor, he looked up and immediately jumped away, avoiding the sharp blade that fit the floor right where his head used to be, "Hey! My head is not a butter to cut it!" He nervously said, sitting on the wall.

"You're right, it's far more expensive" The voice hissed. Familiar voice. Spidey's eyes opened more as the memories hit him, but the time seemed to turn its back at him. Again his spider sense ringed and again he couldn't dodge.

He fell on the floor heard loud sound of footsteps. Trying to stand, he found himself held by robots, while few of the drones were chaotically moving in the air, ready to use their sound attack on him if he tries to break free.

(Well damn, never thought I'd end up in this situation and here we are again) He frowned, looking at robots (Is it just me, or does this situation gives a bit of… De ja vu? Well, won't find out if won't see what's going to happen next, I guess)

"It's so nice of you to drop by, Spider man…" The voice said and the one to who it belonged walked out of the shadows. It was the same caped person Spidey saw before. The person made small bow as if greeting him, "Hadn't seen you in ages"

"Can't say the same thing about you" Spidey frowned, looking at the person in the cape. It was hard to see their face, "If you show your face then maybe I'll be able to remember you" The caped person remained silent, "Get it? You're not the first and not the last who's ass I've beaten!"

"Oh, how rude of me" The caped man said and finally removed it, showing his face, better to say… skull, "I forgot about such detail over all the time i was off the radar" The skull face man smirked, "But I do hope you didn't forget my name"

"What was it again?" Spidey asked, teasing him. The smirk on the skull turned into a frown, "Oh, don't be so serious, of course I remember" Spidey tried to stand, but robots held him in place, "Taskmaster, how wonderful to see your skull again" He said with sarcasm.

Taskmaster's eyes narrowed, "Sarcasm suits you more, using it you sound less like an idiot" He said coldly, before walking closer to Spiderman. Spider man who suddenly made a dash forward, freeing one of his arms, he tried to punch Taskmaster.

The skull-face man dodged and, catching Spidey by that arm, made his own move. Spidey let out yelp of pain, his now broken arm was hurting very badly. Taskmaster silently waved his arm and robot let go of Spidey's other arm.

Taking his broken arm, Spidey closed his eyes as if preparing for something and suddenly, to Taskmaster's surprise, cracked it in other direction, putting the bones on their rightful place. Loud hiss of pain filled the silence.

Taskmaster waved his hand and robots moved to him, they were prepared to attack Spiderman if their master will command, "I wasn't expecting this…" Finally he said after long twenty seconds of silence, looking at Spidey.

Spidey said nothing to him, he was still recovering from the pain he felt from breaking and then fixing his arm. His arm that was moving just fine as if nothing happened and if it wasn't for agonizing pain he was feeling, he would have said that it was nothing but a bad dream.

Taskmaster took a step towards him, "Huh, I'm amazed at how stubborn and impetuous you've gotten, there was no need to fix your arm like that" He stopped, standing right before Spidey, before looking at one of the monitors.

"Look at this, your so called, teammate is looking for you" Spidey slowly looked there and saw Patrioteer. His best friend. He was flying around the city, nervously trying to contact someone or was already speaking with someone on call.

"You know how hard it was to get a chance for a meeting?" Skull-face suddenly asked, looking at Spidey, "They didn't want anyone 'uninvited' to meet him, but few tricks and some lie can give you what you want, not mentioning manipulation"

"What do you want?" Taskmaster's eyes opened a bit, "Oh, let me guess, you want revenge right?" Spidey titled his head to the right, "This is why you somehow got your hands on Ocks Octobots and modified them, all to make heroes show themselves, to then catch me in the trap"

"Oh, is this Spider man using some of his brain power I see here?" Taskmaster frowned, looking at Spidey. Even with nothing holding him back, he wasn't doing anything, or maybe, he was just thinking of a plan, "Why so quiet all of a sudden?"

"Just looking at upgraded Octobots, you seemed to do a lot of hard work to make them so… Shiny" His eyes narrowed a bit. If I make a move, then these drones will use sound attack, damn, how to distract them?

"You know, Spiderman, I was always wondering, how you managed to create such perfect team with that hero loser… Oh, don't give me this face, just look at him" Taskmaster said, seeing Spidey's face and pointed at the monitor, "He isn't even trying"

"That's where you're wrong, skull face, Patrioteer is trying so hard, you can't even imagine!" Spidey snarled. Sudden rage rose in his soul, made him slam his fists in the ground, "And I'll prove it to you!" With his he dashed forward.

Sudden move from Spidey only made Taskmaster chuckle. Taking a step back and perfectly dodging from Spidey's attack, he made a move and drones activated their sound attack's, making Spiderman fall on the floor and scream in pain.

"Don't test me Spiderman, I'm not here to play games" He walked to Spidey and caught him by his chin. Loud ringing was slowly disappearing from Spidey's ears, "I've got a plan, a perfect plan how to kill all the three rabbits at once and your friend won't play the last role in it"

Despite the pain and loud ringing that were one step from cracking his skull in two, Spider man looked at Taskmaster, his concern was buried under the weight of pure rage, "Leave him out of this" His voice had danger in it.

"Oh, I will, once my plan ends up a success" Taskmaster smirked and let go of Spidey. Before the hero could make a move, robots caught him, "After all, Harry Osborn won't leave his friend in trouble, especially a friend that saved him so many times" The man let out a bit manic chuckle.

Spidey said nothing to this, his head was still hurting from all the sound attacks he gotten today, "Which brings me to the point of why you're here Spider man" Taskmaster turned his torse and faced Spidey, eyes on skullface shining brighter than before, "Or you prefer the name… Peter Parker?"

Spidey's eyes widened. How did he find out? Someone told? Otto? Or… His still widen eyes fell on the monitors. He must have seen it, after all, cameras and drones… Spidey's thoughts were interrupted by loud laughter.

"Oh, don't be so quiet all of a sudden. Yes, news are quiet hard to take in, but you've done it before, will do it again" Taskmaster put a hand on his skull chin, "Yet I find this funny. Spider man is Peter Parker and Peter Parker is a best friend of Harry Osborn, the son of Norman Osborn… Getting it?"

Spidey stayed silent. All the jokes left his quickly working brain. Another one of the villains who knows his identity, another one who wants revenge. But… Why? Did Norman do something in the past that made Taskmaster want to have his revenge? Then why he caught him and not Harry?

Sick feeling rose in his stomach. He didn't know why he was having such thoughts. It sounded selfish of him to even think why it was him and not Harry who got caught. So unlike him. Just like this rage. Why does he feel so… angry all of a sudden?

Taskmaster watched at stunned Spidey with a smirk, before turning his back to him, "You know, I enjoyed watching how you and that friend of yours took down my puppets, and how you, forgetting about your partner, dashed here to… what?" He glared at Spidey, "What was your plan?"

Again no answer, "Oh, it's so funny to see how, despite all the years that passed, the only thing you do is PLAYING heroes, instead of BEING heroes" The statement sounded like a knife cutting the skin, "Even with becoming Ultimate Spider man, you're still nothing, but a child"

Suddenly, with few quick steps, he was standing before him, one quick move and Spider man was unmasked. Peter Parker's eyes were locked on Taskmaster's face. Narrowed in rage. Rage that helped him hide how he was truly feeling at that moment.

"Oh, just look at this" Taskmaster took his chin and raised his head higher, locking eyes with him. Sinister smile on his skull made Peter's blood boil. If only he could break free and smash him, knock him on the floor and keep on beating, "How wonderful to finally see the dangerous side of you"

He wasn't worried for his safety, he's been through so much, he was used to this, but when someone was threating him by saying he'll use or hurt any of his friends or loved ones… That's when impulsive side of him was showing itself.

Impulsive, cold and dangerous. It was awakened again, just like the day Uncle Ben died and he found the one who did it, hands clenched in fists, "It was so irrational of you to follow them here. You wanted answers and fell in the trap instead. How sad of you"

"But I can't blame you on this. This is what you and your friend share" He let go of Peter's chin and walked away still looking at him, "The stubbornness and 'hero spirit'" He let out a chuckle, "It was what made you put that suit and become a hero, despite wanting to take revenge on the murderer"

"Shut it…" He made a move forward, trying to break his arm free and punch taskmaster, but robot prevented him from moving, "You know nothing about what happened that day, you know nothing about me!"

Taskmaster titled his head to the right, still having smirk on his skull, "Do i?" Peter's eyes narrowed. Was it rhetorical question, real one or a statement? It was hard to tell. It could be anything, "With great power comes great responsibility… That's what he said, isn't it?"

Peter was speechless. For the first time he had no jokes to joke. For the first time his head was empty. Taskmaster seemed to like the upper hand he gotten, "Oh Peter, always bullied, seen as weak nerd, orphan with nobody but his Aunt"

He was teasing him. Using Spiderman's true identity's past as a weapon against the current him, "I always wondered, why you decided to become a hero? Why you let go of the rage, the power you had that day and didn't finish that man? Why didn't you take what he took from you?"

"Because this is not what Uncle Ben wanted me to be" His voice was quiet. Heart was beating fast. Too fast, "Because I knew, if I do it, I will be as bad as he was. A murderer" He looked Taskmaster in the face, "Because I knew, I can be better than this, I can be a hero to fight against criminals, like you"

"We'll see about that" He said and suddenly one of the drones flew closer to him. Something in its clawed hand. Peter's eyes narrowed, as he watched Taskmaster take something… familiar. Something that made his eyes widen, "Recognize this… Don't you?"

He remained silent. No. Fear rose in his soul, so much fear, so close into turning into primal terror. Not this, not again. Taskmaster saw how his face paled and held the item higher in the air, letting bright monitors make the thing glow.

"It's so… delicious to see such fear on the face of yours" He hissed, eyes narrowed, smirk got wider, "And I'm going to use it. I was stupid, got to admit, wanting to defeat you was a childish task, too… simple" His smirk fell as he looked at the item.

"Doctor showed me this, he showed me how instead of breaking that spirit of yours, I can use it" He took a step towards pale Peter, "You're a hero and as all heroes have a major weakness…" He caught Peter by his hair, "You hate seeing people you love get hurt"

Peter opened his mouth to say something, but Taskmaster pulled his hair, rising his head higher, shutting him up, "I'm afraid the time Spider man had a word to say passed. Now you're the one to listen" Taskmaster let go of him.

"If you think that plan of yours will work…" Peter said through heavy inhales, "You're wrong…" He looked at Taskmaster. His body was shaking. Yet it wasn't fear, "It had zero chances of working since the time-" His eyes opened when robots let go of him.

Sudden loud metallic "clinch!" sound was heard and before Peter knew it, something caught his neck. Rising him high in the air, someone started to walk towards him. Quiet footsteps were cutting the silence, making his heart beat faster.

His eyes widened when he saw who it was. It was the last person he expected to see here, after everything that happened. It was just impossible. Taskmaster, however, only let out quiet chuckle that echoed in the room.

"Mind taking care of him, Doc?" He turned his skull face to the man that held Peter, "We have one important call to make, there are… Some guests we need to call, before starting the show" He turned his back to Peter.

Doc's blank stare turned back to Peter. The grip on his neck tightened. The mask on his face wasn't letting Peter see his face, but he knew. He knew for sure. It was Otto Octavius. And he was under mind control.

Everything started to turn black before his eyes. Consciousness was slowly slipping away from him. Using last remaining of strength, Peter caught metallic tentacle that held his neck and tried to whisper, at least, something, but soon enough he fell unconscious from the lack of oxygen.

The last thing he heard before losing consciousness, was loud laughter. The laughter that echoed in the room and the laughter that made something deep within his soul rise higher. It wasn't rage. It was an animalistic fury and hatred.

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Ohohoh, finally! Finally Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I did it!

And boy oh boy, i SO LOVE where this story goes and HOW it goes, so soon, so fucking soon the fun will begin, the REAL FUN AAAAAAAAAA!
Sorry, too happy with the result (This chapter has 9k words IMAO AAAAAAAAAAA) XD

Anyyyyways, like I always say, I'm not the guy to make things simple, sooooo, yeah, no spoilers XDD

See you all In the next chapter! Alex out! =D