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When a Spider comes calling	By : Revenaught Category: Marvel Verse Comics > Spiderman Views: 13336 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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When a Spider comes calling.
Ch. 14 Green Goblin
            Spider stood behind the massive desk and looked at the disc lying in front of a portable player. The disc was simply labeled Peter. Spider put the disc in the player and when it auto-started he watched the face of Norman Osborn appear on its screen.
            “Hello Peter.” The recording started. “I’m proud of you son. You have matured more than I ever thought possible for you. I’m proud that I finally managed to rub the façade of Hero away and set free the man under it. But, there are a few smudges left that need to be erased. We’ll take care of those soon. Now, I know you want to kill me just like you did all the rest. I must say you impressed me a lot there. I shudder to think what you have planned for me! But in order to get your shot at me you’re going to have to come after me here at the largest center for Orphan care in the city. This will be your chance to prove you really have what it takes. See you soon Peter.” The message ended and seconds later a wisp of smoke curled up from the player as the message was destroyed in it. Spider sighed at the melodrama of it. Ah well he thought no sense in keeping him waiting any longer. He left the office of Norman Osborn and made his way back up to the roof where he had gained access to the Oscorp building. With his suit completely black in sneaking mode he stepped out onto the roof. As he did he felt a mild tingle from his Spider sense so he wasn’t startled when a voice rang out from behind him.
            “Peter Parker, stand down and surrender!” Turning around slowly Spider saw four members of the New Warriors standing in a semi-circle around him. Night Thrasher, Speedball, Rage, and some bizarre guy wearing a motorcycle helmet with mirrors on it, stood tensely awaiting his response. Spider turned away from them to leave when Namorita floated up over the lip of the building in his path.
            “Ok” Spider thought to himself. “Guess I’ll talk to them after all.” Turning he faced Night Thrasher and said, “Evening Thrash. Who’s the new guy with the goofy get up?”
            “My names Hindsight Lad!” the newest member spoke up, obviously irked by the dig on his uniform. “and you’re just a common murderer now. Let us take you in quietly and we won’t have to hurt you!”
            Spider simply stared at Hindsight Lad until he started to fidget and then dismissed him and turned to Night Thrasher. “I respect you for trying to do the right thing with the New Warriors but your recruiting leaves a lot to be desired if he’s what you’re taking in.”
            “Yeah well” Night Thrasher grimaced, “it wasn’t exactly by choice.”
            “Let me guess he found your identities and is blackmailing you for a spot on the team right? Spider’s eye slits and spider emblems blazed blood red as his voice cooled and grew frigid.
            “Yeah” Night Thrasher agreed sullenly. “Considering what happened to you, which we’re all damned sorry for, we let him tag along instead of risking our families.”
            “Hmmm… I can’t blame you there. Tell you what I can do. If you want to turn your backs I can take care of the little blackmailer for you.” Spider offered in his coldest voice, sending shivers down the New Warrior’s spines.
            “Don’t get all high and mighty Peter Parker!” Hindsight Lad screamed in terror and rage. “You can’t turn your nose up at me! You’re just a common killer and we’re here to put a stop to it!”
            “I am a killer.” Spider said as he advanced on Hindsight Lad. “I am doing what is needed to keep twelve killers, who have preyed on the innocent over and over, from ever harming anyone again! Right now from what I see you are no better than them”
            “How dare you! I’m nothing like them!”
            “Wrong! You are exactly like them! Time and time again they would endanger innocent lives to try and force Heroes to let them have their way. And you are doing nothing less than that by threatening to reveal the identities of the New Warriors. Do you honestly think their enemies won’t do to their families exactly what was done to mine! You might as well come right out and say if you don’t let me play with you cool kids I’m going to have your loved ones Raped, and Tortured, and Killed! You call me a common killer and I can’t really argue with that but I certainly can look down on you. I have only killed to save lives or end those who have killed innocent people and would have done so again. You would kill innocent people just to get your own way. You’re no better than those I have killed and I can easily accept your death on my soul to protect the New Warriors.” Hindsight Lad pissed himself as Spider’s hands slowly rose for his throat.
            “Hang on Peter! Leave him be. We’ll find a way to deal with him that doesn’t involve killing him.” Night Thrasher said.
            “All right it’s your choice. I hope for your sake it doesn’t go bad on you.”
            “Yeah me too. But we didn’t come here to discuss our problems. We’re here for you. You’ve gone way over the line and you need to be stopped Peter.”
            “Look Thrash, first of all it’s just Spider now. Peter Parker died with his Wife and Aunt. Second you have no proof that I have done anything. So even if you beat me down and turn me in I’ll be out on the streets in no time. Unless you make sure I can never kill anyone ever again but if you are ok with that you have no reason to stop me in the first place, do you. At this very moment I am breaking no laws so you have absolutely no legal right to hinder me in any way. But I know that none of this is going to sway you so I’ll simply say this. You can’t stop me and I have no wish to hurt any of you, except for Hindsight Lad there. I’m asking you not to try.
            “Come on Spider. You know we can’t do that. You wouldn’t have before everything happened and we can’t now. I don’t know why no one else has stepped up to stop you but now that we’re here we can’t let you go. I’m sorry.”
            “Yeah me too Thrash, me to.” Spider took a step towards Night Thrasher leaving his back wide open. As he expected, Namorita’s arms wrapped around him from behind holding him with more strength than he, even with his new power, could break. Spider looked over his shoulder into Namorita’s face and saw tears streaming from her eyes and coursing unchecked down her cheeks.
            “I’m so sorry!” she said.
            “Me too.” Spider replied softly and bringing a hand up as far as possible shot webbing right in her face. Her only response was to wrap her legs around him as well, ensuring that he wouldn’t break free of her hold. Instead of trying Spider only pivoted at the last instant so that Rage’s roundhouse caught Namorita instead of him. The blow wasn’t capable of truly harming someone able to live in the incredible pressures at the bottom of the sea, but it did momentarily stun her and knock her off of Spider’s back. Aghast at what he had inadvertently done Rage didn’t even see the kick from Spider that landed square in his sternum and flung him across the roof to land in a heap trying to catch his breath. Speedball tried jumping Spider from behind with a kinetically enhanced blow but Spider ducked easily and shoved up on Speedball just enough to have him sailing over the edge of the roof and out of sight. With his ability to absorb kinetic energy the fall wouldn’t hurt Speedball but it would keep him out of the fight until he hit the ground and bounced back up. Night Thrasher was on Spider now trying to catch him with the stunners he had built into his gauntlets. He never got close but wouldn’t stop trying, punctuating each effort with a sharp hiss or grunt of effort.   Spider learned why when Namorita flew in using Night Thrasher’s sounds to locate him. Spider leapt clear and webbed up her right ear. Then as she turned to listen with her other ear he webbed that up as well and then grabbing a winged ankle he flung her high into the air. By the time she got her flight under control she had no idea where the fight was and, deaf and blind, had no way to find it. Fuming she hovered in midair knowing that ripping off the webbing would cost her an eyelid or an ear. Damn she hated losing! Back on the rooftop Spider was again avoiding Night Thrasher’s strikes. Rage, having finally caught his breath, rushed Spider from behind only to have Spider trip him as he easily dodged the large man. Rage went sprawling face down on the rooftop and found himself webbed securely in place. Spider casually avoided more blows from Night Thrasher and then reached in and grasping the front and back of his body armor at the neck ripped it off him in two separate pieces. The front piece landed in a corner and the back piece with his pack landed at Hindsight Lad’s feet. A burst of webbing secured Night Thrasher’s feet to the ground and immobilized him.
            “It’s over Thrasher! I don’t have time to waste here. Don’t try and follow me.” Spider said.
            “Spider I…Oh no!” Night Thrasher gasped. Spider whirled around and saw a tragedy in the making. Hindsight Lad had dug in Night Thrasher’s pack and was coming up with one of his automatic weapons in hand, a look of rage on his face. Behind him Speedball had finally bounced his way back to the roof but his uncontrolled landing was bringing him down right on Hindsight Lad. The Uzi wasn’t in line with Spider yet, but was pointed directly at Night Thrasher as Speedball hit him. Night thrashers vision went black and then smeared red as he heard the burst of gunfire. I’m dead he thought then he realized the reason his vision was smeared red was due to Spider standing right in front of him. The dark form collapsed to his hands and knees and then rolled to his back, still and motionless.
            “Carlton! I told you to never touch those weapons!” Night Thrasher yelled at Hindsight Lad as the young man approached the motionless figure on the ground.
            “Shut Up Dwayne!” Hindsight Lad fired back. He walked up and despite a bad case of the shakes pointed the weapon at the prone form of Spider and triggered another burst into the motionless form. Speedball grabbed the weapon from behind but Hindsight Lad simply let the tug pull his aim to Speedball’s chest and triggered another burst. The bullets couldn’t hurt Speedball but the kinetic rebound from their point blank impact sent him flying over the edge of the roof again. Hindsight Lad turned back to Night Thrasher just in time to catch a blow from a stun gauntlet right in the chest. He dropped fast and hard. Night Thrasher removed his boots, which were still webbed to the roof, and kicked the weapon away from Hindsight Lad’s still twitching fingers.
            “You crazy bastard!” Night Thrasher yelled at Hindsight Lad. “Are you trying to kill us all?”
            “You heard him! He was gonna kill me! I had to protect myself!” Hindsight Lad yelled back, barely understandable as his body was still convulsing from the stun shot. “He was gonna kill all of us!”
            “What are you talking about? He was being gentle with us. He was taking great pains not to even hurt us much less kill us. We’ve all taken rougher hits from our own training sessions. God! We weren’t that outmatched when we fought Terrax! Not only did he not kill us he stepped in front of me and took the bullets you would have killed me with!”
            “You can’t blame me for that! It wasn’t my fault! If you had only taken him down right away instead of trying to talk him down like I ordered you to, none of this would have happened!”
            “You don’t give the orders Carlton. This is still my team.”
            “Not anymore it’s not! From here on out I call the shots and if all of you want to keep your secrets intact you’ll start following orders!”
            “Not the best way to make friends and influence people Carlton.” Spider said. The two looked down in amazement and saw the eye slits and spider emblems blazing red as the bullets pushed back out of Spider’s suit as he sat up.
            “Did you know you could do that when you stepped in front of me?” Night Thrasher asked Spider.
            “I knew it was theoretically possible. Not having ever practiced it before I wasn’t sure.”
            “Yet you still stepped up?”
            “Yeah, well I’m not so far over the line that I’d let you die for doing what you thought was right. As for you”, Spider turned to Hindsight Lad. “the first rounds were fired unintentionally I’ll grant that. The next burst you deliberately put in a helpless, or so you thought, person. Who’s the common killer now? For myself I don’t really care but if you post their identities I will track you down and finish what I threatened you with earlier. I will kill you!”
            “Are you gonna let him threaten me?” Hindsight Lad asked Night Thrasher. “I order you to protect me!”
            “No I’m not going to let him kill you.” Night Thrasher said.
            “Good! Now our next task will…”
            “Shut Up Carlton! I was willing to play along while I thought you weren’t really serious about revealing us but now… None of us will ever believe we are safe around you again. If you reveal us Spider won’t get the chance to kill you because I’ll do it first! And if any of our families are hurt because of you, you will spend weeks wishing Spider had gotten to you before me!” Night Thrasher vowed and did so with such force that Carlton crumpled and shuddered as all his plans fell apart. Spider turned and shot a web line out and up to snag Namorita’s foot with it. A couple of tugs had her pulling her way hand over hand down toward the proper building.
            “I’m leaving now Thrash.” Spider said. “The webbing on everyone should dissolve in about an hour.”
            “Spider, I really ought to try and stop you, but I’m not gonna get in the way of the man who saved my life at the risk of his own. Good hunting.”

            By the time Spider swung to the orphanage the Green Goblin was at, the Goblin had all the children and staff tied up on the roof around him as he stood on a waist high four by four platform laughing! As Spider got closer he saw a dead man’s switch in his hand and could tell that the platform was encircled by military type claymore mines. There were enough mines that if they were triggered there would only be shreds of flesh left of the closest children and none of them would escape alive.
            “Norman! What are you doing?” Spider called out from his perch on the nearest building.
            “Ah Peter! You finally decided to show up!” Osborn replied. “I was beginning to think you were going to disappoint me.”
            “It’s Spider now Norman. Just Spider. This is your set up Norman, you want to lay down the ground rules here?”
            “It’s really rather simple! The mines encircling me are attached to both the platform I’m standing on and the dead man’s switch I’m holding. If the weight on the platform goes up or down, BOOM! If my finger releases the trigger it’s holding down BOOM! If my heart stops or my thumb pushes the button it’s on BOOM! There are more than enough mines to make greasy little smears out of everyone up here.”
            “Why the elaborate set up Norman? Are you that cowardly?”
            “Not at all Peter. I am simply testing your resolve! You can take your revenge and accept the cost of it or you can walk away and prove that you’re still weak and spineless!”
            “I can tell you now Norman I’m not going to kill these kids just to get to you.”
            “So you are still weak and spineless despite everything! Since that’s the case you must die! You are going to walk over here and let me kill you or I’ll set the mines off. Start moving now!” Osborn laughed his high maniacal Goblin laughter as Spider leapt to the edge of the roof and carefully placing his hands behind his back he slowly walked towards the Green Goblin. He stopped just outside of Osborn’s reach and thought carefully about what he wanted to happen. “You’ve disappointed me for the last time Peter! It’s time to put you out of my misery!” Osborn reached out to clamp his free hand over Spider’s throat when Spider pulled a glowing blue orb from behind his back and flipped it at Osborne! Osborne jerked back as the sphere struck his chest and started to glow brighter! “Naughty boy Peter! Now you pay!” Osborn hit the button on his trigger and the platform turned into a shield slamming over Osborn but before anything else could happen Osborn, shield, and mines all disappeared in a bright blue flash! Seconds later a sharp retort could be heard from a long distance off.
            “Well that worked better than I hoped it would.” Spider said to himself as he freed one of the orphanage staff members so he could free the others and take care of the weeping children. Then he pulled another blue sphere and used it to teleport himself toward his last target.
            Spider appeared in a secluded spot in the country well outside of the city. In the center of the clearing was a crater blasted in the ground. In the center of the crater was the severely battered shield. Spider faded into the shadows to observe. Like an egg about to hatch the oval shield started to shake and rock as something inside started to stir. After long moments of internal effort a long crack appeared in the shield surface. Now from inside could be heard the high pitched insane cackling laughter of the Green Goblin punctuated by the grunts of effort as he struggled to free himself from the shield that had saved him from the blast of so many mines.
            “Ha! Ha ha ha haaa! Peter? Are you alive out there?” The Goblin’s voice called out from inside. “You have grown boy! I didn’t really believe you had! Ugh! Those mines really did more damage to this than I thought they would. I can only imagine what they did to those poor little orphans!” More maniacal laughter floated out at this. “Come on Peter! Come help your old man out!” Metal groaned as it slowly shifted. “You are my son now Peter. I know you’re out there. After all my traps that you’ve avoided there’s no way this one would have caught you!” The crack in the shield shifted wider. “Peter! What’s going on out there? Why is it so dark? City light should be visible by now. I should be able to hear the emergency sirens! Peter! What have you done?” A combination of worry and anger were rising in the Goblin’s voice. With a shriek of tortured metal the shield finally gave way and split in two parts. “What the..?” The Green Goblin asked in evident confusion as he stood up in the clearing that was completely dark except for the dim starlight beaming down from above. “Where am I? Peter! What have you done? Speak to me you rotten child! I can feel your presence! Where the hell are we?” Anger flared in every movement as the Green Goblin reached up and yanked off his mask.
            “I’ve brought us where we can have a private little chat without random explosions threatening children.” Spider’s cold voice sounded from behind Osborn. Osborn spun around but couldn’t see anything at first. Then as he stared into the shadows the red eyes and spider emblem slowly grew brighter until they blazed out of the shadows at him.
            “So you did it then didn’t you?” Osborn asked him in a mournful tone. You still sacrifice your own wants and desires just to save the pitiful pathetic lives of others! You’ve failed me again and ruined everything!” Rage seared from him. “How!”
            “It’s what you always do. I knew you would do it again. You desperately want to drag others down to your level. You can’t stand the fact that others place value on the lives of those around them. Over and over again you’ve tried to put people, to put me, in a position where my actions willfully cause the deaths of those I value. So I knew you would put others at risk when I came for you. I arranged beforehand to acquire these teleport globes that respond to my will alone. I sent you and all your little toys here to this clearing before they went off. You’re the only one who got to enjoy them. Sorry about that.”
            “Damn you Peter! You’re no son of mine!” Osborn paused as a vindictive light gleamed in his eyes. “But I have influenced you haven’t I? You never killed before but you have eleven deaths to your credit now! I have turned Peter Parker into a killer! Ha! Ha ha ha haaa!” Osborn threw back his head and howled maniacal laughter!
            “You have influenced me, but not the way you think. I still value life. I value life more than I ever have before. I value it so much now that I will gladly end those who don’t. I have learned that the lives of those like you who would cheerfully kill those who would never harm another are worth sacrificing to save those they would have killed in the future. So yes I am a killer now but I am still the opposite of you in every way that truly matters. I love others more than ever before and you can’t even grasp the concept and never will.”
            “Damn you Peter! You refuse to become what you should! This was your last chance, since you refuse to learn, You Will Die!!!” Osborn flung himself at Spider flailing with all the might a double dose of the formula that had initially turned him into the Green Goblin had given him. Spider avoided the initial blows and grabbed Osborn’s Goblin costume near the neck and used it to pull Osborn into a vicious blow to his midsection. A second blow to Osborn’s face was so powerful that his tunic ripped away leaving shreds in Spider’s hand as he was thrown across the clearing to land in a heap. Once again maniacal laughter came from Osborn’s form as he slowly stood. As he faced Spider across the clearing only the light of insanity could be seen gleaming in his eyes. Totally irrational he attacked over and over and although their titanic battle raged back and forth across the clearing, in the end Osborn lay beaten and unable to rise again from his position at Spider’s feet. Spider stood starring at his beaten foe for a long time and then he pulled out his last magical teleportation orb and both men vanished in a flash of blue light.
            Norman Osborn regained consciousness faster than he regained what little sanity was left him. Finally rational, more or less, he took in his surroundings and his situation.
            “So Peter, I see you found the place where we entertained your Wife and Aunt.” Chains rattled as he tried to roll off the table where Mary Jane Parker had spent her last hours. He sneered at the chains holding him and yanked hard on them. The sneer melted from his expression when they didn’t snap. He tried again harder to no avail.   He tried again with all his might but couldn’t so much as stretch a link. As he lay there panting Spider made his presence known.
            “No I haven’t located that place. I have recreated it fairly well though.”
            “What have you done to me? I should be able to snap these chains easily.”
            “I’m sapping your physical strength. Your healing ability remains in effect or you probably would have never regained consciousness again. As it is you get to start your last hours of life in perfect health.”
            “That’s very kind of you. I notice I’m in the same spot as your precious Mary Jane. Am I to suffer her fate as well?”
            “Yes Norman. You will endure what you so casually inflicted on them.”
            “All by yourself? My, how…perverted!”
            “No Norman. The only thing I did to Mary Jane and Aunt May was not putting a stop to it. I shall do exactly the same here. They are the ones who will do to you what was done to Mary Jane.” A door on the far wall opened and a line of figures entered the room.
            “Are you conjuring the dead now Peter? Or were the stories of their deaths greatly exaggerated?” Unease was starting to show on Osborn’s face and to be heard in his voice.
            “Oh no, they are all good and safely dead. These are merely simulations able to look, act, and perform exactly like the originals. Unlike Mary Jane though you will know exactly what’s going to happen to you.”
            “Oh Peter, don’t you understand? So much of what was done to Mary Jane was only as effective as it was because she was female. I’m not.”
            “Yes Norman I know. That’s why I have one last little bit of magic left.” Spider produced a talisman and held it up for Norman to see. It seemed a simple smooth round disc one inch in diameter and blue on one side and pink on the other.
            “What is that? Keep it away from me!” Panic flared as Spider approached him and placed the disc on Norman’s chest blue side up. A blue glow appeared on the talisman and slowly spread until Norman was haloed in its blue glow. “Ha! It doesn’t do anything!” Spider merely tilted his head looking at Norman and then reached out and flipped the talisman over so the pink side faced up. Norman screamed in agony as the halo of light around him slowly turned purple. His cries grew louder and shriller as, just as slowly, the light went from purple to pink. Once the light around Norman stabilized Spider reached out again and picked it up from where it lay between her breasts. Looking down in horror at her new attributes, revealed through the tatters of her tunic, Norman screamed a high pitched cry of rage and fear. Sweat beaded on her body as she struggled against her bonds. “No Peter you can’t do this to me!” She cried. Spider stepped back as the first of the simulacrums approached.
            “I do this to you just as you did it to them. Now we see how you measure up. Even with your healing ability I don’t think you can outlast Mary Jane.” Then Spider stopped talking and stood still and watched as Norman’s screams grew louder and higher until she broke and sobbed in mindless pain. Spider was proven right in the end. Despite her healing ability Norman only lasted half as long as Mary Jane had before her mind completely shut down and took her body with it. Like Mary Jane, Norman died calling for Peter to save her. Unlike Mary Jane, Norman had no real hope of being saved. Spider wasn’t sure which was worse. When it was over the magic of the single use talisman faded and Norman’s body reverted to being male. Making sure Norman would stay dead this time, Spider removed his head and tied it to his hands before hanging the corpse from a flagpole on the Daily Bugle building. As he stood looking at the results of his work the red faded from his eye slits and spider emblems and they turned a bright shiny black, visible against the light absorbing black of the rest of his suit. Then he turned and walked away.

DAILY BUGLE HEADLINE
GREEN GOBLIN’S BROKEN BODY LEFT ON BUGLE BUILDING FLAGPOLE
DNA Testing Reveals That Green Goblin Was Norman Osborn

To be concluded. Next Ch. Epilogue
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