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In the heart of Times Square, the entire district was packed with multi-colored tents, a large musical stage with large balloons hovering above and cheering citizens of New York waving their green-and-blue colored flags. There were also a considerably good number of the New York's finest already on site as an emergency precaution.
"Welcome to the Oscorp Unity Day Festival," The announcer said. "Let's hear it for Macy Gray!"
As the popular singer and her musicians were hyping up the festival, the Oscorp board members and US veterans were residing on the large balcony of the hotel building nearby. Standing among them was Harry, who was wearing in a nice one-piece suit, and Mary Jane, who was in a red-and-white Chinese-styled dress with her hair braided.
"Hey, MJ, why are you wearing the black dress?" Harry asked.
MJ looked a bit disappointed upon hearing Harry's words about her clothing choice.
"It's just that I want to impress my father, and he loves black," Harry explained.
"Well, maybe he'll be impressed, no matter what," MJ said. "You think I'm pretty?"
Harry smiled warmly. "I think you're beautiful."
When she noticed Harry was leaning forward to give her a kiss, MJ, by a strange reflex, turned her head away slightly, not feeling comfortable for some reason.
Harry was a little letdown by this gesture, but relented to give a kiss on the cheek instead. After offering the kiss, he then stared down on the balcony when he noticed his best friend, Peter, were standing among the crowd of cheering people on the streets of Time Square below. Noticing the way he was staring upwards, Harry turned his attention back to the redhead. "Hey, MJ, will you do me favor? I left my drink inside."
As they disappeared out of his view, Peter sighed sadly, feeling a little down from seeing the exchange between his best friend and the girl he loved. After a few moments of being glooming to himself, he felt someone offering him comforting touch on his shoulder.
It was Gwen.
"Hey, are you okay?" She asked her best friend.
Not feeling like his usual stubborn self at that moment, Peter just shook his head.
"Hey, hey, maybe things will turn out better," Gwen tried her best to reassure him. "Just give it time."
Peter nodded, at least acknowledging her helpful words. Breaking of his downhearted thoughts, he suddenly looked up when he felt his tinkling feeling again, warning him of danger nearby.
Gwen noticed how her best friend's expressions changed from looking unhappy to being cautious. "Peter? What's wrong?"
Peter didn't say anything as he was still looking around his surroundings, trying to figure out where's the danger he was being warned of.
Unknown to him, MJ started experiencing that tinkling feeling in the back of her head as well, though to her, it was like experiencing an aching headache, which was due to the fact she's still wasn't fully aware of her abilities. She hadn't felt that weird, yet familiar sensation since... that day in Midtown High, she thought.
Harry noticed MJ's distress. "Hey, you okay?"
MJ tried to put up a fake smile, hoping to ease his worries. "I'm fine. I guess it's just a little headache."
Harry didn't seem convinced, but shrugged the thought aside, not wanting a little issue ruin this day.
One of Oscorp's boarding members then noticed something was flying in the sky. "Hey, what is that?"
"Must be new this year," Another of Oscorp's boarding members assumed.
Harry and MJ turned their heads to see the flying figure soaring in the distance as it was leaving a trail of smoke.
Whatever that thing was, it was flying towards the festival. It then started to hover around the large festival balloons. It almost looked like a man wearing a specialized military body armor that was painted metallic green, with its metal helmet shaped like an emerald elf with horrifying yellow eyes. The thing that was carrying the green man in the sky resembled a purple high-tech flying glider with its sharpest and deadliest twin blades in its front.
"That's our glider!" One of Oscorp's boarding members realized, after seeing it through with his binoculars.
The crowd below were cheering for this mysterious flying figure, natively thinking it's meant to be a new attraction as part of the festival. Peter and Gwen, on the other hand, gave a worried stern look, knowing that's not really the case.
Mary Jane also had a horrible feeling that's what that tinkling feeling was trying to tell her something bad's about to happen by that flying figure.
Unfortunately, her fears were proven right, because, as he was flying dangerously close, he let out a loud maniacal evil laugh and took out an orange metal ball that resembled a pumpkin with green lights on top, throwing it towards the hotel.
Before anyone knew it, the ball exploded the floor beneath the balcony, making everyone panicking in fright at the carnage that was being ensued. Everyone, except for Peter and Gwen, as they knew that thing was already bad news to begin with.
Slowly and one by one, the guests on the balcony tried to escape back into the building where they could be safe from the dangers, including Mary Jane. Unluckily for her, another explosion to the balcony caused the floor cracked wide between her footing. It also cuts off the Oscorp members from their only route of escape.
MJ braced herself as she fell over the edge and landed her hands against the brick rails. She tried to get back up, but to her gasping shock, her hands were somehow glued to the rails. After repeated attempts to unbind herself, she started panicking when she found herself caught in a life-threatening predicament. "Oh my god! Harry!"
Harry tried to reach out to her as he was regaining his footing, but part of the balcony MJ's stuck on was already close to over the edge and out of his reach.
Below from where the dangers taken place, as the panicking civilians was still trying to escape the festival, Gwen turned to Peter, only to see him already running off in opposite direction, far from the scene as he was noticeably unbuttoning his shirt underneath. Even though it still worries her to see her best friend about to do something so drastic, Gwen knew there's only one person who could stop that green flying menace.
Back on the balcony, Harry was still trying to reach out for MJ, who was still on the loose railing. Before he could, the green flying menace closing in again and skipped over them, flying towards the trapped Oscorp members, as if they were his intended target this whole time.
"Out, am I?!" The green flying figure exclaimed vaguely, as if those words were supposed to mean anything to his intended targets. He then threw another of those, what everyone realized now, pumpkin bomb towards the Oscorp members' proximity.
When the bomb exploded in an overwhelming brightness, MJ instinctively shielded her eyes with her free hand. Before she could comprehend what just happened, she lowered her hand, only to raise it again to cover her mouth in shock when all she saw left of the members were just a puff of smoke and dried up skeletons.
"Mary Jane!" Harry exclaimed, still trying to extend his hand, only for a solid debris to fall hard on the back of his head, knocking him out-cold.
"Harry!" MJ gasped, seeing his unconscious body flopped over to the floor. She then turned around when she heard the green flying figure hovering behind her.
"Hello, my dear," He snarked frighteningly.
MJ let out a high-piercing cry when she thought she would be left at his mercy.
Suddenly, her tinkling feeling made her winced again, cutting off her scream, though, it's almost very calming this time, like as if it was reassuring her thing's will turn out okay somehow. MJ looked where the tinkling feeling was directing her. For the first time, she just witnessed the Friendly Neigborhood Spider-Man in his red-and-blue suit, swinging in from around the corner.
Before the green flying menace could react, he got knocked off his glider by the incoming Web-Slinger and fell all the way on one of the festival tents, softened his landing.
As Spider-Man landed on the side of the building, he saw the glider was flying out of control without its pilot, piercing a hole within an over-sized balloon of the Earth that was residing on top of the musical stage.
Everyone below were trying to escaping from the collapsing balloon that was crushing the stage, except for one young boy, who was just standing there while staring up at it, not having a clue about the dangers that was about to occur to him.
"Come on, move, kid," Spider-Man said out loud. Seeing that the boy's not moving from his position, he ran across the wall of the building and shot another web-line from his wrist to get a head start on his web-swinging.
Just as the stage was close to crushing on top of the boy, Spider-Man swooped just right in, saving him at the last possible second. After landing safely away from the stage, he spotted Gwen running towards him from the crowd.
"Ma'am, get this boy out of here safely," Spider-Man instructed, pretending that Gwen was just another concerned citizen, for his secret identity's sake.
Although in normal situations, Gwen would've told her best friend to stay away from the dangers too, but knowing what's going on at stake, she nodded. "Gotcha," She then took the boy's arm and ran back towards the fleeing crowd. "C'mon, let's go find your mother."
After they managed to get out of harm's way, Spider-Man turned towards where the green figure landed, seeing him slowly standing up with a low growl coming from his voice.
The cops on site tried to arrest the suspect. "Hold it right there!"
"I surrender," The green figure taunted, lifting his hands up in a mocking fashion.
Spider-Man couldn't help but have a bad feeling about this. "Oh boy."
Before the cops would able to apprehend him, the green figure tackled them out of his path one by one, like they were nothing more than just bunch of weak patsies.
Seeing enough of the harm being done, Spider-Man jumped right in his path and tried to throw a punch at him, but failed when his hand was caught effortlessly by that green menace's glove.
"Oh, impressive," He mocked his new opponent. The green menace then lifted his leg to kick Spider-Man straight off so hard, he flew across a couple of large parade tables before finally bumped his back against a tall light pole, which got knocked off its base and landed its head on a nearby bystander, injuring him with an electrifying shock.
Despite retaining some sore bruises from his crashes, Spider-Man got back up from his feet, though, as he did, he saw the green menace already jumped back on his glider and about to fly towards him, laughing menacingly as he was firing twenty-per-second bullets from it.
Spider-Man tried to outrun as fast as his legs could allow him to, until he felt his Spider-Sense warning him of an incoming missile, prompting him to fire a web-line to one of the large parade balloons and swing to the top where he was out of harms' way.
Once he was in the clear, Spider-Man then heard someone's yelling for help. He turned to the source of the sound when he realized the redhead's still stuck on the broken balcony, who was clearly still in the line of danger. "Mary Jane!"
"Help! Somebody please help!" MJ screamed, her hand was still stuck on the rails as the balcony structure she was laying on slowly and dangerously getting close to over the edge.
Leaving no time to spare, Spider-Man did high leaps on the balloons that were leading to the hotel. Before he could get a chance to land on the balcony, he was suddenly got pushed into the building's large windows by the green flying figure himself, making a massive impact so hard and fast it shattered the glass over on top of MJ, forcing her to shield her eyes from the flying pieces of shards.
Spider-Man tried his best to fight his way out of the green menace's grasp, but struggled as he was kept on being pushed against the shattered windows. When he saw an opening, Spider-Man dodged his one punch and flipped his body around, standing behind the green figure. Unfortunately, he was repeated elbowed in the face, knocking him off the glider.
At least relieved he was free, Spider-Man looked down to see MJ still clinging on for her life. "Hold on!"
MJ saw the green menace detracted his glider from the shattered windows and turned towards the Wall-Crawler, ready to fire his bullets again. "Watch out!" She exclaimed, not realizing she just released her hand from its hard grip on the railing.
Then, the unexpected happened.
As if instinct just suddenly took over, MJ raised her released hand and somehow shot a web from her wrist, adding on to Spider-Man's own when he fired his at the green figure's mask, obscuring his sight.
MJ let out a shock of disbelief by her discovered ability when she realized what she just did. Surprisingly, the two masked adversaries didn't seem to notice due to their focus on each other. Before the redhead could comprehend what just happened, her balcony continued to fall apart again, making her panicking for her life once more.
Needing to end this confrontation as soon as possible, Spider-Man backflipped towards the the green menace's glider and smashed its computer systems with his hand at the bottom of it, forcing the figure to fly away from Times Square uncontrollably.
"We'll meet again, Spider-Man!" The green figure exclaimed, vowing this won't be the last time they'll face each other as enemies.
After seeing him flying away from where he could do the most harm, Spider-Man turned his attention to MJ when she just tumbled over the edge, screaming as she was falling to her demise. "Hang on, Mary Jane!" He jumped off the balcony and dived his way down to her.
Just when MJ thought she was approaching to her untimely end, she suddenly found herself saved in Spider-Man's arms just as her feet nearly touched the ground. She then found herself flying back up to the air when Spider-Man shot another web-line and swings them both away from Times Square.
As the crowd of citizens were praising the hero for his amazing rescue, Gwen was smiling gleefully for two different reasons: relieved the redhead was saved and knowing the fact her best friend under that mask probably gonna have the time of his life with the girl he loved.
When Mary Jane was soaring through the skies of Manhattan alongside the presence of this mysterious masked man that she was cradling in her arms, with the feel of beautiful breeze of the wind blowing across her face, she couldn't help but feel the loving smile of awe spread on her lips, her heart was fluttering like crazy, yet at the same time, calm, as if that feeling was telling her that she's safe with him and that nothing else in the world matters to her except just herself and this... amazing hero.
That feeling of safe and freedom sadly came to an abrupt end when Spider-Man had her landed safely on a roof garden, not too far from St. Patrick's Cathedral. Despite that, MJ still had the big awing smile on her face.
"Well, beats taking the subway," Spider-Man joked. He then turned to the occupied couple that was sitting nearby. "Don't mind us, she just needs to use the elevator."
Before he could move on, Mary Jane quickly grabbed his arm, stopping him near the edge of the building. "Wait. Who are you?"
"You know who I am," Spider-Man said vaguely.
MJ gave a confused look at his peculiar choice of words. "I do?"
"Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man," He said with fondly confidence in his voice. With that, Spider-Man made his way to the ledge before attempting an amazing somersault, leaping over in his own majestic flow.
After seeing him jumped off, Mary Jane dragged herself closer to the ledge to witness her hero web-swinging across the buildings ahead. "Wow... Spider-Man... " She murmured to herself in a softly captivated, heartfelt voice, as she still keeping that awestruck smile on her face when she heard her hero's exciting loud wahoo from the distance.
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A/N: This is probably the longest chapter I put out so far, counting my future chapters and the work-in-progress drafts for Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.
Now you witnessed how Mary Jane began her origin. Next chapter will be about how she would jumpstart her journey as her own self-proclaimed heroine. Can't wait to show that off to y'all.
Also side note, please accept my apology for yet another delayed release. Things been going through a lot these past couple of weeks, making me ill-prepared to get these chapters out in time. Been trying to get much of my drafts for future chapters and books of this series good as I possibly can, but I kept on stumbling upon so much mental roadblocks that prevented me from doing so. That said, that doesn't mean I would ever give up on this series and other future releases I had planned for it. Mark my words, no matter how late I am, I'll always make sure this series will reach to the end.
With that said, any constructive criticisms and comments would be greatly appreciated. I hope you enjoy reading this chapter.
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