And here we are, the epilogue for series three, where we finally start to see the dominoes for this story falling into place!

I present to you: The Trial of Peter Parker!

The epilogue for series three of this story would revolve around the trial of Peter Parker, the Spider-Man, and would serve as the culmination of all the themes of revenge and resentment that have been running through series three itself.

And it would all begin around the trial's opening, where the judge asks how Peter pleads, to which he pleads guilty.

The trial would go over the many different actions that Peter had undertaken since the beginning of the series, from his going vigilante since before the beginning of his time at U.A., his many enemies and being kidnapped by them, his friendship with the criminal known as Black Cat, his acquiring of the Black Suit and his actions during it, including the events of Kraven's Last Hunt and the clone fiasco, his fight against Itsy Bitsy and Kazuho's subsequent demise, Miles Morales' kidnapping and his attack on Overhaul's agency, and finally the War of the Symbiotes and Izuku Midoriya's corruption and falling into a vegetative state.

What makes it worse is that there are agents within the trial that are eager to public opinion against Peter and his friends. As it turns out, Overhaul has recovered from the attack on his agency and the ruination of his plans with Eri, and has hired one of his personal lawyers, a man by the name of Shin Nemoto, to serve as his prosecution. Worse yet, a reported by the moniker of Curious would serve as this universe's allegory of J. Jonah Jameson, but a much darker version, as her attempts at slandering Peter Parker's name would serve a much darker purpose.

Overhaul and his minions would be in search of revenge against Peter for ruining their plans, whilst Curious, and the rest of the Meta Liberation Army, would be driven by a sense of petty resentment against him for inspiring hope and action in others through his vigilante ways, something that they were supposed to be doing themselves.

Peter Parker's trial would be long and arduous, with many of Peter's friends being forced onto the stand to make their points, and being ruthlessly interrogated by both the defendant and the prosecution, with Ochako almost revealing her connection to Felicia Hardy under pressure, but just barely keeping it under wraps, as well as her own previous experience as a vigilante. Worse yet, others, like Asui, would be brought onto the stand as well, and they, even if they would regret it, would express their own views and truths that only serve to condemn Peter and his friends.

But then, it turns out that the Defence wants Eri and Miles to take to the stand, which Peter finds to be abhorrent, but can't do anything about.

Then, it is revealed that the night before Eri and Miles are taken onto the stand, Overhaul had approached the Morales family, and had intimidated them into siding with him, citing that after the trial, he was going to take Eri back into his possession, and if they tried to go against him, he would have Miles and his parents killed, and he would have Eri watch him do it. So unless Eri wanted more people to die, then she would implicate Peter in harming her, and not Overhaul himself, and then stay silent and compliant.

The next day, the issue of the Green Goblin being at Overhaul's agency would be brought up, with the Tinkerer all but denied entry into the case as a witness by Shin and his fellow corrupt lawyers. Shin would make a case in that the Green Goblin had broken into Overhaul's office on the day of the attack after being chased there by Spider-Man, and had nabbed Miles off the street and were taking both him and Overhaul's daughter Eri hostage. Shin would then claim that Spider-Man attacked the heroes stationed there completely unprovoked, and would deflect the claims and jabs of the defence lawyer each and every time, citing the laws of hero society, both the equal and unequal ones, each and every time, to his advantage. Even Ochako's testimony would be used against Peter, as Shin would continuously manipulate her answers to suit his purpose.

Finally, Eri would be forced onto the stage, alongside Miles, and Shin would be confident in that she would implicate Peter and seal their case.

And when asked who hurt her, Eri, in an act of brave defiance, with Miles at her side, would point her finger not at Peter, but at Overhaul in the crowd.

And Miles would do the same, painting him as the man who both kidnapped him and murdered Kazuho.

Overhaul would be taken away by the court guards, and the trial would be put on hold. However, when it does begin again, Adriana enters, and declares, with her legal authority that because Shin Nemoto is closely associated with Overhaul, that means that his entire testimony, and the trial itself, is possibly corrupt and fraudulent. She calls it a kangaroo court, and moves to have the case, and the charges alongside it, thrown out.

The judge and the court agrees, and Peter Parker is released from custody, the charges against him, the ones that he pleaded guilty to, dropped.

In response to this, Curious, alongside the rest of her allies in Detnerat and the Metal Liberation Army would paint Peter as a privileged brat who is able to skirt the laws and avoid the consequences of his actions whenever he wants, and the rest of the Meta Liberation Army would make it their mission to destroy Peter's reputation and legacy and destroy him.

Meanwhile, the FeatherHATS, still blaming Peter for Kazuho's death, would also be enraged at how Peter has been able to avoid charges as well, and would go out of their way to start their own smear campaign against him, turning public opinion against him even further.

But in his own response to the trial, Peter is left somewhat shaken and shellshocked by the trial, and asks Adriana why she did that, as he feel like her getting him out of prison is trying to get him to avoid taking responsibility and accountability for his actions.

Adriana would simply reply that he already was, and approach him as a friend and ally, citing all the work that he's done in comparison to what evil he believes that he has done. They talk for a while, and Adriana is able to somewhat smooth other Peter's mental wounds, and grows to become a friend of his.

Then, she would present Peter with a gift.

A Black Suit.

Not the Black Suit, of course. This was one that was just made out of cloth. One that she had made herself. The Black Suit was a much nicer look for him, in her opinion, and if he was going to be going around and doing his hero work, then he needed to look good while doing it.

Peter would just be even more confused, and that is when Adriana gives him a card.

It is a hero license, marking him not just as a pro hero, but also a member of Adriana's new organisation, that being the Strategic Intelligence and Logistics (K)Coalition, or S.I.L.K. for short.

If he really wanted to take responsibility for his actions, then this would be the best way for him to do it.

Starting today, he was an Agent of S.I.L.K..

Elsewhere, upon hearing this, Yuri Watanabe, having finally grown sick of the corruption and incompetence of both the police and pro heroes that she has been working with, as well as what seems like a confirmed criminal escaping justice without any consequence, would hand in her police badge and go her own way, adopting the moniker of Wraith as she resolves to bring to justice those who have escaped it.

Kaine, in the meantime, would slink back into the shadows alongside the rest of his Enforcers, seeking to do what Peter cannot and bring an end to the monsters in the darkness, whilst elsewhere, Iida would begin his own crusade against villainy, starting with the gangs that roam the streets of Hosu… as well as the false heroes who stand by and let it happen.

Meanwhile, Eri would be taken in by the Morales family, becoming Eri Morales. Eri would be eternally thankfully for this opportunity, and would come to call Rio and Jefferson mother and father, and Miles her beloved older brother.

The Symbiote attached to her would remain in hiding, waiting to regain its strength and take the opportunity to create mania once more.

Elsewhere, what's left of the League of Villains would be gathered around a lowly apartment in a damaged part of Musufatu, where the War of the Symbiotes had taken place. Shigaraki is furious that, once again, the Spider-Man and his foes have completely overshadowed them, and vows to make him, and all his friends, pay for their continued annoyance.

Toga, who's been left on her own in the League since Twice isn't there and Shigaraki is currently angry at her for failing to get the blood of any students during the License Exams, drinks down the last of a blood pack, one she'd been able to snag from Peter Parker during his time in captivity, only for her to notice that her hands were starting to get a little sticky, and her awareness of the world around her was beginning to dial up.

At the same time as this, Peter Parker and his friends, as well as Aunt May and the others from F.E.A.S.T., gather together to discuss what to do next, with all of them wanting to keep the Future Foundation running and get F.E.A.S.T. back on its feet again.

However, Peter, lost and dazed in his guilt over what has happened and his regrets over all that has happened, decides that he needs to distance himself from both F.E.A.S.T. and the Future Foundation from now on, as anymore association that he has with them will only cause them more damage. As such, he takes off and leaves the group behind, expressing his sadness and misery at having to leave his friends behind, but decides that it's for the best and leaves, heading up to join Adriana in S.I.L.K., not in the Black Suit that she gave him (as he is deeply uncomfortable with the idea of rolling around in his black and white colours again), but his classic reds and blues.

The remaining members of the group, the ones that aren't either civilians or hero students like Momo and her lot, decide that they're done with sitting around and waiting for the heroes to try and save them, as they haven't done that before and have always left them to need to save themselves. As such, they decide to become a new team of vigilantes, one co-led by both Felicia and Ochako, the latter of whom takes up the new name of Sakura Spider, and would recruit Twice, Jessica Drew as Spider-Woman, Ben Reilly as the Scarlet Spider, Mr. Compress, Kendo, Kirishima, Tetsutetsu, Panda Mania, Gibbon, Hippo, Gentle, La Brava, and Mr. Compress.

They would become known as the Spider-Gang (Kirishima and Tetsutetsu voted for Spider-Pals. They were workshopping the name).

And for the last scene in the series, All for One would be sitting in his cell, completely restrained, angered at how All Might had been able to defeat him with a cheap suit of armour, but still confident in his plans, especially now with the Green Goblin now dead, at least according to the news he's heard from the guards, and the rest of the Sinister Six, Rhino, Mysterio, Electro, Vulture, and Scorpion, being locked in here with him, all of whom he could recruit into his next iteration of the League of Villains.

Here, in his mind, we see that he is still unable to understand or psychologically comprehend the powers of the Infinity Stone and the good will of people around him, and then we get to see, through his eyes, the origins of One for All, where it is revealed that All for One hadn't forced onto his younger brother, Yoichi, his quirk bestowal power. Instead, in his younger days, he had viewed his younger brother as a needless parasite, and as such he had forced onto his brother a quirk just like that, which had been named Parasite, and then later named Symbiosis before eventually becoming One for All, explaining the origins of this story's Symbiote and why One for All itself cannot use the canon quirks that was locked inside it.

But then, the room suddenly begins to fill with gas, and All for One realises that the prison's emergency prison riot suppression systems have been activated, and that all the prisoners inside were being gassed to death. Desperate to escape, he would try to free himself from his bonds, try to use his quirks, but with the quirk restraints holding him down, he finds that he is unable to move, to free himself from the terrible toxin that is flooding his lungs as it slowly begins to kill him…

And then Adriana walks into his cell, not wearing a mask and casually breathing in the poisonous gas that has flooded the room.

Adriana, not wanting to take any chances with All for One, pulls out a pistol from her back and executes him. Then, she walks out, and activates the additional suppression system, filling All for One's cell with fire and burning the corpse to ash.

Then, she leaves, having had the rest of the guards killed in the gas as well as cover up what happened, and then manipulating the security camera footage to cover up her involvement, and leaving the bodies behind to be picked up by the eventual responding heroes.

(Elsewhere, the original All for One quirk would stir inside Garaki's lab.)

Returning back to S.I.L.K's new base of research and development, inside what once had been U.A. and descending deep into its catacombs and lower levels, Adriana would be greeted by Doctor Otto Octavius, and his assistant that she'd pulled from I-Island, one Carolyn Trainer, in his lab, and would congratulate him on the great leaps forward in his cloning experiments, especially now that he has discovered David Shield's miracle cure and prevented the accelerated degeneration of all future clones. However, Otto would express that he is still dying of cancer, and is desperate to perfect his perfect clone body, and Adriana is sympathetic, telling him to hold firm, and that she will perfect the mind transferer soon enough.

They then begin to talk, and Adriana reveals that Overhaul has managed to escape prosecution thanks to his legal team, getting away with nothing more than losing custody of Eri to the Morales family and a temporary suspension to his hero license. Adriana isn't surprised by this, as pro heroes have got away with similar crimes before, so this isn't anything new to her, even during her short tenure within the Japanese Diet. Still, she isn't worried. Overhaul will no doubt move to antagonise the Morales family, sure, but they can handle themselves. They have the Prowler in their corner, after all.

Then, Otto raises the possibility of Overhaul, who is in the process of trying to recover much of his lost power in the underworld and amongst his corrupt fellows, entering into an alliance with the Meta Liberation Army, and while Adriana does not believe that it will happen due to their competing ideologies, seeing as how Overhaul is trying to replicate the quirk-erasing bullets and Tinkerer's technology, which the MLA would find borderline heretical, she does not dismiss the idea either.

What she is more concerned about, however, is the League of Villains and what moves they will be making now, especially with Shigaraki and Toga in their ranks, who are historically unpredictable. Otto is not concerned about them, viewing them as listless malcontents that can be easily swept up with All for One's demise, and is more concerned about the possibility of more Symbiotes out there, and what All Might and Peter Parker will do once they learn of their plans.

Adriana is not concerned. They already have a fresh sample of Midoriya's blood, with the traces of Symbiote inside of it, and she already had a plan on how to make more. All Might would bend the knee to them eventually, and Peter…

Well, he would understand. Eventually.

Adriana would take her leave, passing by the cloning vats with fresh embryos inside and the cells of domesticated Nomu and leaving the lab. Then, she would walk into her office, where Principle Nezu had once stationed himself when their headquarters had once been U.A., open up a secure compartment in the middle of a fake wall, and observe the object within.

The Infinity Gauntlet, now with the Soul Stone, Space Stone, Reality Stone, and Power Stone attached to it.

Soon enough, the days of hero society would end, and a new, better world will rise to take its place.

And Peter Parker?

He would thank her for it.

Series three has been able about revenge, resentment, and bitterness, and this arc in particular is just as much as it is about those emotions, but also serving as the culmination of said emotions and the consequence of them.

Peter Parker's trial is something that I felt should happen, as a way of really highlighting the differences between Peter's philosophy and hero society in general. Peter is all about taking responsibility for his actions and helping others, and after everything that has happened with the Black Suit and how it played into both Kazuho's demise and Izuku falling into a vegetative state, I feel like the most in-character thing for him to do is take responsibility for those actions, face the consequences, and hand himself into the police to pay for them. Here, during the trial, Peter's personal philosophy of taking responsibility with the powers you have and using them to benefit others would be taken to task and really examined, especially with how he uses his powers for vigilante work and trying to help as many people as he can however he can, without much or any regulation, whereas hero society is all about regulating hero work to the point of penalising those who undergo vigilante action and villainise those who even step out of line even a little bit, and has more focus on empowering the self and using ones powers as a hero to further their own careers.

Plus, there are elements that are intentionally working against Peter here, such as the morals of hero society, which preach totality in following the law and never stepping against it, and operates in a completely black and white field of view and morality, in contrast to Spider-Man who naturally operates in a grey area due to being a vigilante and technically being outside of the law himself.

Plus, there's the fact that Overhaul, as a pro hero (I told you that Overhaul being a pro hero would become a problem. Don't worry, it'll only get worse in the future), is trying to use the same laws that he himself breaks to destroy Spider-Man, on top of the Meta Liberation Army trying to destroy his already shattered reputation. There're so many pieces on the board that it's starting to become hard to keep track of them all.

But I couldn't imagine a story where Peter was in prison. There're too many factors in place to make a story like that possible. So instead, here comes Adriana Soria to hand Peter a Karma Houdini pass that he really doesn't want. Trust me, Peter is sort of a Karma Houdini in this instance, or at least he believes himself to be so, and he hates it. He hates it so much.

And trust me, that's going to have consequences for the future.

But Peter's trial isn't the only purpose of this arc. This arc is simply to help set up all the moving pieces for everything else moving forward, putting all the cards on the table and setting everything up to be toppled over in this story's series four. It's all about revealing the consequences of series three and the rest of the story so far, exposing everything that's been changed and everything that is going to happen in the future.

Such as the formation of the Spider-Gang, a vigilante movement that takes on the roots and mentality of Spider-Man for themselves with Ochako as its leader! Ochako, who is now going by the moniker of Sakura Spider!

(Sakura Spider, by the way, is a canon character within the Spider-Verse, and is clearly a reference to Ochako from MHA if you look at her design, all the way down to her face, hairstyle, and colour scheme of her spider suit. Look her up.)

Not only that, but we also have Adriana finally stepping into the main picture of the story, with her new organisation, S.I.L.K. (another part of Spider-Man canon, by the way. Look it up as well), serving as both the replacement of the HPSC and this universe's version of S.H.I.E.L.D. on top of that.

Adriana is going to be a fun character in this story. In the main canon, that being Earth-616, Adriana Soria, A.K.A. the Spider Queen, is very much a minor villain. She had a tiny storyline during her introduction, didn't do anything until she became the big bad of the Spider-Island event, and then died and hasn't done anything since. Here, Adriana is the big bad main villain of the entire narrative, and I can't help but imagine that it's something that no one would've expected at all.

Like, during all these kinds of stories, during these Marvel X MHA crossovers, particularly the ones revolving around Spider-Man, the big bads of the story are usually always the big shots in both continuities, such as All for One, or Green Goblin, or Doctor Octopus, or someone equally big like that.

I'm going to pull an excerpt from an Ao3 reply that I had sent to MadTitan9 during a comment that they had made on this story: "Fun fact, this story was supposed follow along MHA's canon storyline (like, a lot more closely) a lot more closely in the original plan, with the Spider-Pals not getting kicked out of U.A., and was supposed to end with All for One getting the Infinity Gauntlet and serving as the final boss of the story.

"But then I started writing, and then other ideas started forming in my head, and then I realised that certain characters existed, and, well, as they say, plans change..."

So yeah, plans change, and I had indeed initially planned for All for One to be the final boss of this story. However, I found that to be rather boring and predictable, and I wanted to do something different compared to all the other stories out there.

Enter Adriana Soria, a rather obscure villain and someone who not a lot of people, if any at all, would've expected. I saw her, and immediately realised that there was a lot of potential in having her as the main villain of this story.

Plus, the things I've done to her character, and what I have planned for her... yeah, I think a lot of people are going to be surprised by it.

And besides, I found that writing about obscure characters tends to be more fun than writing more popular ones. It gives me a lot of room to manoeuvre, you know?

But anyway, let's get going, as we jump from series three, and into series four and the themes that are contained with it:

Guilt, and remorse.