CHAPTER ONE

I'M SO TIRED OF YOU

NEW YORK CITY

Peter Benjamin Parker was bitten by a Radioactive Spider at the young age of 14yrs old, we all know the story as he goes through his life to becoming Spider-Man, being a hero and also enduring some of the worst amounts of Suffering a human can go through without having lost sight of his moral code, but honestly, that moral code, that no kill rule, he's starting to wonder something, really think about something, he's allowed criminals to go for years, given them time in prison and yet they never learn anything, they don't change, they just come back and cause more pain, they just take more lives and he comes in, fights really hard, stops them, webs them up and then what, they get taken to jail where they are able to plan more ways to attack and hurt and kill and rape more people, they just hurt more people and the world wants him to remain the good guys, why?

Peter was sitting in a bar with someone who had massive amounts of experience in these things, massive amounts of Experience in the real world, he had been tortured all his life since he put that stupid costume on and wanted to help people,

"So what do you do when you don't know what you're fighting for anymore, Julia?"

Julia Carpenter, aka Madame Web, a veteran spider-hero as well as the Seer of the Great Web of Life and Destiny, she's been a closer friend of Peter for a very long time, she's one of the only people to have seen him when he's at his darkest and during times when he wouldn't have pulled through, she's been there to help him, to strengthen his resolve to remain fighting and now was one such time.

"I'm not sure what to tell you Peter, you've been through more pain and suffering than so many of our brother and sisters across the Great Webs Threads, you've been hurt…" thinking back to when Morlun beat him nearly to death "You've been betrayed…" thinking back to when he believed that Norman Osborn could actually be a good guy after years of evil "And you've been left to your lonesome by many, regretfully, I was one such who had left you and I am sorry, Peter" the sadness in her voice was so audible

"Don't worry about it Julia, you couldn't have stopped those, I took a chance and I paid for each one, guess I'm just the problem" Peter said raising his head to not let the tears fall

"You aren't the problem Peter! you didn't do anything wrong, the Inheritors were gonna come after you at some point, you took a chance that maybe there was some good in Norman to save after so much darkness and you couldn't know that Otto was going to steal your body and do unspeakable things with it, and our old teammates couldn't even bat an eye to maybe call in a telepath"

She faces Peter, her red tinted glasses hiding her gorgeous blue but blind eyes, her long cherry blonde hair that reached down to her back, she was beautiful and Peter had always thought that, but he knew she was way too out of his league, he had thought of asking her out, but really a bombshell like that was far too much for a loser like him

"Okay that's it Peter, you gotta stop doing this to yourself, you aren't a loser, and you are way to handsome to think that a woman wouldn't want you, you're smart, the nicest and most caring person alive, you'd rather you suffer the pain of loss than let any others do so, you do deserve to find someone for you!" Julia yelled after having read Peter's mind and heard the way he degraded himself

"Julia I…sorry" he said rubbing the back of his head

"Is, was what you said true, do you think I'm beautiful?" she said with a blush on her face

"Julia?"

"No never mind I'm just uh…ow look at the time, Rachael's calling, mommy's gotta go" she teleported away with a visible blush on her face

This had somehow given Peter a bit of encouragement, he ordered another drink and paid for both of them, walking outside the bar he gets on his phone, finishing his designs for a new suit he'd been developing, since his brother stole his last stealth suit, but then a thought came to his mind, no not a thought…a memory, of 'The Other'

FLASHBACK

"WHY DO YOU DENY YOURSELF YOUNG SPIDER, FOR SO LONG YOU HAD PUT ON THAT COSTUME AND CREATED ARTIFICIAL WEBBING, WHEN YOU WOULD HAVE NEEDED NEITHER IF YOU HAD SIMPLY ACCEPTED WHAT YOU ARE, WHAT YOU HAD BECOME"?

FLASHBACK ENDS

Peter was stopped dead in his tracks, then he remembered something, he remembered his brothers, Ben Reilly and Kaine Parker, Ben had never had the best life, in fact he had never had much of a life to begin with, created as a sick scientist's clone experiment to hurt Peter, but ultimately sacrificed himself for him, for the brother he had grown to love. Only for that death to be defiled by that same scientist over and over again because of his own selfish desires, creating his Spider-Clones was something he loved doing and he was just a madman all the way, one that didn't deserve his life.

Then there was Kaine, Kaine was born defective, from his birth his life had been hard, he had been experimented on, tortured, scared even more, mutated, then he escaped and found no peace, but came back to warn Peter when the Kravenoff family attacked the Spiders, Julia, Kaine and Cassandra and Anya, succeeding in the deaths of Cassandra Web and Kaine Parker, before Peter ultimately took revenge by destroying that family, with Kraven and his daughter Ana being the only survivors. But when he thinks of Kaine, he remembers that both he and his brother have been wielders of the power of the OTHER, yet Kaine kept some of that power even after the Deity departed from them, but Peter himself didn't.

Peter wondered if maybe he did, he knew a lot of the Other, not as much as Julia or Anya, but he knew that it was more primal spider deity, it embodied the aspect of Spiders that Peter himself had shown a few times, but he had never accomplished, he was not a predator, he could never finish off his enemy, no matter how much they deserved it. And he had a few still breathing that definitely deserved it, Otto Octavius, Cletus Kassidy, Norman Osborn, Wilson Fisk, Adrian Tommes, Adrian Masters, Sergei Kravenoff just to name a few, he thought back to all the evil these men had committed, people who had shown only good when it benefitted them and them alone, then he thought back to a ploy on Vengeance 'Revenge may bring you some pleasure, the thought of it can keep you going, but in the end, it is only a poison, you may indulge if you want, but what are you really there for in the end, for yourself or for others' the only one who had shown real growth to being better was Eddie Brock, the formerly known as Venom, Eddie first showed that he was no monster after he had been abandoned by the Venom Symbiote, learning he had stage three cancer and going to work at Feast to do something good and worthwhile with his life before he went, only to have a faithful encounter with Mister Negative and becoming a hero in his own right by the name of Anti-Venom. Eddie then learned that the Venom Symbiote had become a hero under the name of Agent Venom, real name, Flash Thompson.

He thinks back to his conversation with Julia, and for some reason, he couldn't get her out of his head, that was odd, but hey, he had work in the morning and that job wasn't going to take care of itself. He goes home to a rather much better apartment than he had ever had before, it wasn't a penthouse or anything, but it looked like something a respectable member of society would live in, somewhere a scientist would live.

He actually had a nice place for once in his life, but the real reason why things felt wrong was because of how it had always been in the past, whenever he found something to keep on living for, whenever he thought fate had rewarded him for all his struggles, it was taken away from him, he lives his life believing that if he just kept going, things would get better, things never got better, most of the time they either got worse, or when they did get better, they would go back to being the way they were before, it sucked, it sucked hard.

So he knew this wasn't going to last forever, there would be some world ending threat, he would have to choose between himself and others, he would choose others and come home to not having a home, 'Damn, can't even believe good things come anymore, that…I need therapy' then he remembers the last time he went to therapy in which he traumatized the therapist into committing suicide with another therapist.

He sits on his coach, laying on it shortly after staring into the ceiling to just think, he reminisced about everything, why he held such morals so high, why he always chose the hard way, when the easy way is just so much better at this point, the hard way it always was.

"Why do I spare the lives of my enemies at this point, to help them get better, but they don't get better, Scorpion is still a murdering psychopath, same with Vulture and his Ego, Doc Ock should've just stayed dead and Goblin, the Goblin is a monster whom the only reason I've even tried to save was because he was his late best friend's father"

Peter thinks to himself, 'What am I doing wrong?' and finally he just goes to sleep on his own coach, in his own apartment, alone, the way he always is, the way he will always be, the way he's gonna die.

MEANWHILE IN AVENGERS TOWER

Tony Stark, the Invincible Iron-Man, one of the world's premier superheroes, Billionaire, Genius, Playboy, Philanthropist (and Ego-Maniac) was watching videos of Peter Parker's Spider-Man, but not just him, the other street Vigilantes, Daredevil, Moon Knight, Elektra, Miles Morales Spider-Man, Echo, and Prowler, but his main focus was on Peter, once they were friends, until the superhero Civil War in which Peter had betrayed his side for Captain America, since that day, the two basically tolerated each other, but calling them friends would be an understatement, especially after him attacking Cap.

Peter was becoming a liability, he was more secretive than ever, not returning his calls, not following his orders on missions, and acting more aggressive than before, and if the man wouldn't do as he was told, then he would have to be cut loose.

THE FOLLOWING MORNING

Peter was out at work, it had taken a long and rigorous work, but he had finally managed to regain his job working at Horizon Labs, this was where he belonged, in a lab, he was a scientist not a business man, he had to acquire a new lab for himself, but he had done it, him, Grady Scraps, and all his other works friends, this was one of the few places that actually mattered to him in any meaningful way.

He went inside, but because of Max no longer having full trust in him after the Superior Spider-Man incident, he was left having to now share a lab, but even he had to admit, his new lab partner was in one word, Hot~ her name was Zoe Zander, she was hot, Asian, Pale Skin with sparkling purple eyes, she was so beautiful but Peter knew that with his luck, he had no chance with a woman like that, he doesn't know what all those women he managed to date saw in him, but he sure as hell doesn't see it, maybe it was a power, Pheromones like Jessica maybe~ then the memory of what Julia said to him came back 'You aren't a loser Peter, so stop thinking of yourself like one' Peter smiles at what she said, even if he didn't fully believe it, but it helped to know that she cared for him like that.

He enters the building, people giving him looks as they still think that he's the guy that not only acted like a jerk to all of them, acted so arrogantly, was a failure who couldn't even achieve anything by himself that he'd have to steal Otto Octavius work and pass it off as his own but it's not like he can tell anybody the truth, and if things couldn't be worse, Otto was running around free as a bird.

Peter ducked his head as he walked through the large rooms, his enhanced hearing allowing him to hear all the things his coworkers were saying about him, but one of the people who blurs past him, draws his attention

'Ezekiel?'

Peter quickly turns around and doesn't see him anymore, instead it was a bunch of people glaring at him, he turns away and goes back to his lab, or more of Zoe's lab, which she was forced to share with him, the only thing he knows about her is her name, and how she likes her coffee. DE café Latte. She doesn't even talk to him or even answer when he tries to talk to her at all, so he can guess she hates him too. 'I try' 'Then stop being nice' Peter suddenly hears a voice but he was sure that it wasn't in his head, the voice sounded like it was right next to him.

He puts his hand on the keypad and unlocks the door, walking inside to see Zoe working on her A.I Controlled Artificial Immune System, she was running tests on germs and samples taken from people with genetic diseases, working to strength in A.I.S so it would be able to perfectly cure them and another project was a non-contaminate acidic compound that eats and dissolves only plastics.

Zoe was quite the pretty thing, she had short black hair with bright purple streaks in the front and on her bangs, her bangs were kept to the sides to show some of her forehead. Her eyes were dark purple as they shined with a glow he had never seen before, with a bright crystal blue hue on the brims, she had pink glossy lips, that he could only guess were soft, she stood at a 5'2ft tall, with what he guessed was an athletic build under there, she must work out, she had long slim legs that perfectly fit with her peach shaped ass held in the denim blue jeans she was wearing. her chest was a perfect C-Cup Breasts held behind her Purple T-Shirt that said 'Love N Rock', she was wearing three gold bracelets on her right hand and Red Kicks. She was gorgeous, beautiful enough to give even Emma Frost and Psylocke runs for their money.

She was doing actual work to make the work better, what was he working on, basically a safer and stronger Ark Reactor than the actual ark reactor of Stark Industries, this was a self-sufficient energy source as well as it being not only clean, but exposure actually destroys cancerous cells, making it not only safe but also good for the skin and completion. At least that's what he was working on, but everything he creates has to be sanctioned by Horizon Labs to prove he's not copyrighting anything, and since he isn't actually using Tony Stark's work, this was okay.

Zoe slid into Peter with her chair, taking a piece of gum he always had without even saying thanks, Peter just ignores this and continues on his work. Hours pass and Peter does get the urge to go out and do some Spider work, but No, he doesn't, he just wants one day where nothing happens, where he doesn't go out on patrol, where nothing happens and he just goes to work, goes home and goes to bed. But that's too good to be true isn't it.

As an explosion can be heard in the distance, but it was definitely coming from the lab, Zoe and Peter both hear it and both of them go running out of the lab to see what happened and the pair find themselves with a situation Peter is much to familiar with, he goes to work, work gets attacked by Supervillain, he changes into Spider-Man, Spider-Man destroys property that makes his work harder and then finally, he gets fired. Story of my life.

Looking on, Peter noticed that this was somebody he knew all too well, Doctor Octopus Aka Dr. Otto Octavius, one of Peter's oldest enemies, and one of the few who actually know who he is behind the mask. There was something happening to Peter though, he felt something, no not felt, he heard something, it was a voice but it definitely wasn't a voice he knew, wait yes it was.

Ezekiel?

Peter turned around, to Zoe who was crotched near him, she was leaning over the wall peaking over to see Doc Ock had all her friends and coworkers on the ground, she didn't know if any of them were injured or if maybe dead but she knew they needed help. Zoe grabbed Peter and pulled him back as Otto was about to face them

"Shu~ we need to move, right now" she whispered to him "This isn't safe"

"I know it isn't safe, but you need to get outta here, I saw Max there, if we can reengage the security system, then we can at least stand a better chance at Beating Ock" Peter said to get her away

The two got moving away from their current position, Otto was on a monologue about a device he wanted them to turn over to him, a device that could amplify the energy output of any device near it without any chance of overload. This caused Peter to stop, because that was the device he was making, it was still a working progress but it still worked, he hadn't stabilized it yet but it still worked.

"Zoe, Ock's here for my Power Amplifier" he whispers shouted to her

"Your what?" Zoe asked

"That device I'm making in Our lab, you know, the work I'm doing right behind you that you keep interrupting whenever you want something"

"Oh, sorry"

"For what?"

"For never asking for anything, it's a problem"

Peter was surprised that she wasn't so much of a bitch as he thought, hey maybe they could actually have a stable conversation when they aren't trying to dodge a scientist and supervillain with tentacles on his back and bad hair, fat and looked really ugly. Peter smirked at his mental description of Otto as he and Zoe kept moving, when Peter's spider sense went off, and a giant tentacle came flying at them, Peter pushes Zoe out of the way and he's grabbed instead of her, his body is slammed into a wall as he's dragged out of the wall by Otto

"Peter" Otto says with glee "How's my former nephew doing?"

"Gross Otto, just gross" Peter spits back, not even trying to quip back 'You're stronger than that, stop hiding yourself and fight' Peter hearing that voice again, he actually listened it to this time, and Peter could feel something surging through his veins, he looked down at his hands and he electrocuted Otto's arms with enough voltage to blow up the latch of that arm, sending him flying back and into a wall, 'What was that?' "What was that?" Peter and Otto yelled/thought at the same time.

Peter looks at his hands, trying whatever he did again, but this time it didn't work, he wasn't even sure what he was supposed to do, but he dodged one of three remaining arms that Otto had left, running he slid down and managed to enter a different room as Otto chased after him.

Peter was running as Otto chased him down until they were in a different area entirely, Otto rested his feet on the ground for the first time, waiting for Peter to pounce and attack him, Peter was definitely hidden nearby and changing into his costume which he had evidentially brought

"Parker, I'm impressed by this new power you've shown, who knows, maybe when I find this device I can drag you to my lab and switch minds again, except this time I won't have any of your blasted memories, your reputation is already ruined as Spider-Man"

Peter eye twitched when he said this, it was true, in his efforts to save MJ, the woman he once loved, he ended burning bridges with every superhero team, he was banned from the Fantastic Four, he lost his best friend, Johnny Storm, he lost his status as an Avenger and it was all for nothing. All of that sacrifice and it didn't even work out in the end, it wasn't worth it. IT WASN'T WORTH IT.

'SHOW HIM WHO YOU TRULY ARE'

Peter heard as if it were coming from right next to him

"I wonder, if we take your body this time, will those fools in the Avengers even notice the change, maybe this time they'll kill you, or maybe they'll like me more, they preferred me anyway" Otto stated "How does it feel knowing that heroes you've spent your entire life working with, a city you wasted your childhood fighting for and friends you trusted with your life all preferred a real genius over the blabbering fool that is you? Well Peter, how does it feel?"

'RIP HIM APART!'

Peter looks at his hands once more, red lightning sparkled and for a second they danced around his hands, his eyes turned from their usual hazel to red for a second and more energy poured out of him, alerting Ock to his location, the doctor looked and smiled

"And that is why I was and always will be a 'Superior Spider-Man' to your Amazing"

Otto rushed towards him but was struck in the face by a very angry and electrified Peter Parker, the force from the punch sent the mad doctor flying back, his mechanical arms taking the worst of this assault, but his body was still feeling so much of that, his suit had also protected him, but he didn't think that it would be able to handle another one of those attacks

"More ferocious today, aren't you Parker?"

"Is it because of what I said, we both know it's the truth, and even if you manage to best me today, I will just be back later, because we both know you are too weak, too stupid to see that the only way to truly be rid of us is…well you know what must be done"

Peter walks towards Otto, grabbing him by the collar, as he throws the old man's body through the door, sending him flying the door as he hits a wall, suffering severe bodily damage, trying to get up, when Spider-Man comes through,

"You something Otto, I think Superior actually opened my eyes to something"

"And what is that?" Otto groaned out in pain

"That I need to change my method of doing things, I do good, I go out and I save people, I protect my city"

Otto charged at him with one of his arms turning into a blade, Peter dodges to the side and grabs the arm at the same time, pulling him in as Otto is dragged towards him, he uppercuts his jaw so hard that it breaks a few of his teeth and blood spew from his mouth as he drags the arm off him, leaving only two remaining.

"But I learned that no matter how many chances I give people to change"

The people around were watching this, this Spider-Man seemingly more aggressive than usual, he wasn't quipping, he wasn't making jokes, he was barely saying anything

"I went to you that day to show goodwill and you used it to steal my body and do unspeakable things"

Otto tried another attack, but Peter flipped over this one, a spike ejects from his wrist in midair as he cuts this arm apart as well, leaving only one and Otto in immense amounts of pain

"I…I was wrong…please Spider aghh!"

Peter punched him in the stomach faster than Otto could even see him move, as the old scientist drops to the ground, he coughs out blood, Spider-Man picks him up by the collar once again, holding the short man higher up to his face, even with the mask he could see the rage in his eyes, as he cocked his fist back, for Otto, the air went cold, time seemed to go on forever as he couldn't think of anything to do, he had never seen the Spider enraged by just words alone, even if they were retellings of what had happened prior he shouldn't be this angry, he could almost hear him fuming out the mouth and with all that fury aimed at one target, him, Spider-Man delivered another devastating hit to the doctor's face, breaking his goggles and even shoving the glass into his closed right eye. The doctor cried out in pain as he had lost one of his eyes, even more of his teeth and his nose, Peter didn't listen to the screams of the old man, he didn't care for it, but it was starting to annoy him as he delivered another thunderous punch to the side of his face this time, his neck making a cracking sound.

Everyone in the room was a state of shock, seeing Spider-Man so brutal, with so much anger without even saying a word or anything at all, they could tell through the mask that Spider-Man was furious but this was not fury, this was hatred and murderous intent radiating from the web slinger as he landed another punch to the doctors face, this one causing even more pain to the soon to be dead man, and again, the pathetic man pleads for his life.

"Please…please you (spits out last teeth) you going to…"

Peter doesn't even answer him, but he does grab the old man by the skull, raising him up by it as his body dangles from that lower point

"This is so familiar, you've had me like this so many times over the years, you've killed, you've stolen, you've put people's lives at risk over and over and over again for the selfish pursuit of greatness that was never going to be, and will never be yours" Spider-Man said as he glared into the old man's eyes "…The only things you can do at this point in your life is steal other people's success because that's all you're good for, you could've done so much good for the world but instead you wasted your talents on this (raises one of his destroyed robotic arms)"

Peter throws the battered, bruised and beaten body to the ground, his face was unrecognizable, bloodied and swollen, the glass shard stabbed into one of his eyes, his lips were large and fat, and the rest of him wasn't faring much better, his arms were broken, and not just his mechanical ones, his legs as well, he would likely never stand again with the way they were bending, the marks from Peter's fists were still visible on his body, and then there was his own hands. Peter's hands were sweaty yes, but that wasn't due to warmth, it from the blood that Otto had spilled, he was hyperventilating. Everything was slowing down. His breath hitched at the sound of somebody coming

"Peter!"

It was Zoe

"Peter!"

And Max

Shit…

Peter shot a web line up wards and snuck out of the building from there, but he didn't get out before he heard Zoe scream in shock at Otto's dismantled body

'It wasn't my fault, I…I…I would never, no matter what he'd done in the past…but…but…" Peter was mentally breaking down

He continued to crawl away until he reached the roof through the vent shafts, this was bad, what had he done, the look of Otto's body, the feeling of crushing his bone against his fists, the feeling of finally being the one hurting instead of being hurt by these people, it was enticing, it felt right, it felt like for once in his life he actually help the power to do something about all the abuse he's suffered, all the injustices he's faced, he had always either taken them and moved forward, but at that moment, he had crushed it under his boot and enjoyed it, but it was wrong.

Why though!

Because it is wrong

And who says it's wrong

It just is

Slaying Evil is wrong

No one is truly evil and no one has the right to judge someone else as Evil

You haven't judged him as Evil, the same society judged him that way

But he didn't deserve that

Didn't he

FLASHBACK POUR IN

All of the worst things that Doc Ock had done to Peter Parker and others immediately poured back into his mind, all the evil he went unpunished for, all the lives he had taken and went unpunished for, all those and Peter was asked again 'Did he deserve that beating?'

And this had Peter slumped, he didn't know anymore, he questioned his own principles, the man was indeed evil, he had even attempted at a Redemption which was actually forced on him by Peter pouring all of his memories into the man, hoping that it would do something good, but all it did was turn all the Avengers and all of his friends against him when he was going through all the consequences of the man who laid nearly brain dead

Then the man couldn't even keep that little act as he would come back with a clone body that was a mix of both of their DNAs and continue to act as his old evil self, eventually losing that body and returning to his complete evil self, and that was the consequences he was facing down there and Peter was left with an answer for the question he asked himself earlier

'DID HE DESERVE IT?'

YES…YES HE DID

YES.

Peter looked down and realized that he had been there for a while, so he decided it would be best if he just went back inside, let everyone know he was okay, doubts that any of them would care honestly. He goes back in, takes off his costume and pretending to be hurt, he weakly asked for a hand, and for a few seconds, he didn't even hear anybody coming close to him, he must've been hated that much by these people until.

A hand reached out and grabbed him, he looked up to see Zoe, she held him down and called for help from those around them, a few people rushed to his aid, while the others, in their hatred for the man, stayed where they were, and left him.

The ER checked up on Peter, and to the surprise of everyone except for Peter himself, he wasn't that badly hurt, he was barely hurt at all, nothing a full night of sleep wouldn't fix. Turning to the side, Peter saw the men carrying out what looked to be a gurney with Otto's body covered under the tarp.

"And him?" Peter asked the other ER servicewoman

"Oh him, you know, that man there…. he nearly killed my husband and son in a fire he set to distract Spider-Man, luckily our city's hero saved my kid, but now my boy has to grow up without a father, so this may be wrong for me to say, but I'm glad Spider-Man did him in"

Those last words stuck to Peter for a second "He's…he's dead?"

"Yeah, Spidey punched him so hard his skull caved into his brain, don't even need surgery to see what had happened, his face was literally inside his head"

Peter froze, he had killed someone, he had killed another living being, again, another life had been lost, he had prevented Otto from harming others, but in the process, taken his own life. Was that right, was that the way, was this way better. No it wasn't. killing was wrong no matter what justification it may have.

Peter was distraught, but then he remembered that day the woman talked about

It was 4 years ago, he was chasing Doc Ock across the city, the man had stolen an important piece of equipment from Oscorp, Peter just had to stop him, and figure out what the device was.

But then Otto threw a Pumpkin Bomb into a nearby apartment building while shouting out

"What will you do now Spider-Man, chase your greatest foe, or save these helpless innocents?!" Otto shouted out

And Peter was forced to think

"Otto what've you done?"

"I've merely given you a choice, either save these innocent fools, or chase me, your greatest and one true foe"

Peter didn't even think about it, just yelling out "I'LL FIND YOU OTTO, YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR ANYONE YOU'VE HURT!"

And rushing in, Spider-Man as quickly as he can, rushes to save every single life and every single person who resides within this person, saving life after life as quickly as he could and finally, after a grueling strive, Spidey was able to protect everyone and anyone.

But there was a problem, there was someone who wasn't accounted for, a father, a man he didn't even know or see his face, but now, that man was gone, how did he knew, because of a girl screaming for her daddy and her mother holding onto her while crying herself.

Spidey could feel the grief, and he couldn't just understand Otto's reasoning, an apartment complex gone, and through senseless violence, a family was forever separated all because the action of one man and him being too slow to stop it.

PRESENT

He was lost in thought, so much so that he couldn't even hear what was happening around him

"Peter" the voice was inaudible to him

"Peter!" the voice was slightly louder but he couldn't hear it

"PETER!" this time it snapped him back to reality

E looked to see that he was talking to the beautiful Zoe Zander, he stared at her face for a few seconds and he couldn't help but blush a bit

"Ugh What?"

"You were absent minded for a full 2mins" she snaps her fingers in the air "I want to know what happened to you, is this about Otto, does anywhere still hurt?"

"No, no don't worry about me, I'm always getting hurt, sometimes I just hurt myself, I call it Parker Luck, it's something that's basically runs in the family"

"I doubt that" Zoe said in an almost jokey tone

The tone of her voice made Peter chuckle slightly "Trust me, when Parker luck hits, it hits with a Vengeance, My Aunt used to say that Parker luck was something bad happening so something good could follow later" "But I've never been that happy, it's always been that when something good happens, it's either a lie or something bad is coming"

Zoe's arched her eyebrows "No way! Come on Pete, there is no way that it could be bad?"

"I ran a company for a while until it fell apart during the Secret Empire Event and everyone who worked for me hated my guts and still hates my guts" Peter gave as an example

"Well come on Peter" she didn't know what to say, then she saw an Ice Cream Booth at the corner of her eye, she walked towards it dragging Peter by the arm as she got the two of them a Cone each, this put a smile back on his face and for the first time since she met him, he actually looked happy

She poked him on the cheek

"That's the first real smile you've cracked since I've met you, of course that was earlier today officially but still"

"Guess I haven't really had much to smile about recently"

"Come on, a hot guy like you has gotta have some friends, maybe a girl or boy if you're into that stuff" Zoe then snickered under her arm "I know I am~"

"Actually about half of my friends hate my guts, the other half aren't really around much, going real places and as for girlfriend, well, mine cheated me for a guy named Paul"

Zoe winced at that, she knew that pain, looking down at her ice cream, she knew that pain all too well

"Well you're a nice guy Peter, smart, insanely I've seen your work" Zoe complimented him while nudging him with her elbow "You're Hot, built like a Bus, and your kind"

"Yet that didn't stop her from leaving"

"Forget her dude" Zoe said coldly, Peter turned to her "It's not…it's not that easy" she placed her hand softly on his cheek "I know it isn't, when someone you loved didn't love you back and you find out the painful way, but I also know one thing, if they left you and you're this good, don't make them come back, kick them out of your heart, because they kicked you out of theirs without a second thought"

Peter had to admit, Zoe's advice sounded kinda harsh, but true, MJ stopped caring about him, him holding unto hope of loving her is, is just stupid at this point and he needs to fully get her out of not his head, she was already out of there, it was his heart he needed to remove her from.

Peter smiled at himself, another truly genuine smile

This made Zoe smile with a brim as they arrive at her apartment complex

"Hey, tell me at work next week how it went if you decide to talk to her!" she rushes in and closes the door

"I will" he whispers to himself as he turns around to walk away.

As he walks away, he flips his phone as he sees that Johnny Storm sent him a message

'HEY BUDDY, HEARD WHAT HAPPENED AT YOUR WORKPLACE, IF YOU NEED TO TALK TO ANYBODY, I'M AT YOUR APARTMENT, WANNA TALK'

"YEAH, I'M ON MY WAY MAN, OH AND JOHNNY, THANKS FOR BEING MY FRIEND"

'ALWAYS'

Peter decided to walk home, for one night, he didn't want to be Spider-Man, he wanted to just be Peter Parker, his life had sucked for years, on both sides, but today didn't go so bad and hey, maybe Parker Luck could turn around…no it couldn't, but he was gonna enjoy his happiness while it lasts.

Peter walks, he buys a few hotdogs and a box of Pizza and crate of drinks for him and Johnny, he couldn't come home to his best friend mysteriously in his apartment without more drinks, who knows, maybe they can call Logan and make it a thing of Cheap Beer bottles and Pizza, that was their thing. He walked through the streets making it to his new apartment in the Upper East Side, it wasn't a penthouse, but it was a good place to be, well furnished, clean, because he cleaned up after himself, beds were actually nice and he was happy to have it.

But in entering the Apartment, he could immediately tell something was wrong, for starters the place was still clean, Johnny couldn't keep a room clean to save his life, he knows, they were roommates once, he shivered remembering that time in their lives, but that still begged the question, what was wrong, normally he would trust Spider-Sense, but since he had multiple enemies who could avoid it, it was better to stay on guard.

That was when it happened, the lights in the room started to warp around, revealing someone that Peter really didn't like to see around him or anything that belonged to him in anyway.

"Hey Webs, how's it going!"

He didn't respond

"Okay no small talk then" Tony Stark, Iron Man said "Then I guess we're going straight into business"

Peter didn't respond to what he said until finally Tony said something

"Peter, you just stepped over a line and I can't let you do it again"

Peter looked at him confused, until he said it

"From Today onward, you're done" Tony stated as if commanding him "FROM TODAY, NO MORE SPIDER-MAN!"

A/N: Hey Everybody, this is the first chapter of my exciting new series, Spider-Man: Hybrids, and yes Tony coming to do this is both in character, he is a selfish control freak sometimes and a selfish hero on others, now with what Peter did to Otto, which is justified, he comes in believing that Spider-Man needed to be taken down, a choice he makes by himself and nobody else, stay tuned, new Chapter of this and my other story, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN AND ASTONISHING TALON, will both be dropping Next Week.