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Marinette runs down her house's stairs to her mother. Sabine is adjusting a flower in her hair and notices Marinette behind her. "Well? With or without?"

"Uh-- with?" Marinette said.

"You're sure it's not better without?" Sabine looked back at the window to check on how the flower looks on her.

"Either way, you look perfect mom." Marinette said.

"You know, it's not everyday you celebrate your twentieth wedding anniversary." Sabine said, holding her excitement.

"Marinette! Can you come in here for a minute?" Tom called out from downstairs.

Marinette walked downstairs to the bakery and saw her dad looking at her in anticipation. "Well?"

"Well what?" Marinette said, not noticing anything different about her dad.

"My mustache, I groomed it." Tom clarified. "Is it too short? Should I shave the whole thing off? Maybe it's a little crooked on one side."

"You look perfect, Dad-- uh-- except for one thing." Marinette points at her dad and he looks at himself as he was still wearing his apron.

"Thanks, sweetheart!" Tom said as he leaves.

A moment later, Marinette is pushing her parents out the door. "You're going to be late!"

They stopped and looked back at their daughter. "Now don't forget, Mrs. Chamack will be coming by to pick up the Eiffel tower cake in thirty minutes. I'm depending on you." Tom said.

"Yeah, yeah, no sweat, piece of cake." Marinette says as she walks backwards to the bakery and gives them a smile before closing the door as her parents leave for their anniversary.

"Wow, married for twenty years pretty cool huh, Tikki?" Marinette said.

"Time flies when you're having fun." Tikki said.

"And stand still when you're doing homework." Marinette said as she holds a book to which Tikki chuckles upon.

At a fancy restaurant, Tom spots one of Marinette's classmates. He waves at her and Alix waves back.

Alix sat in the opposite side of the table between her and her father. Her father looked at her and at the people she waved to.

"They're Marinette's parents. You know, one of the chicks I hang out with." Alix said.

"Yes, I remember. They make the best bread in the whole of Paris." Mr. Kubdel said.

He then notices Alix's shoes carelessly dangling on the side. Alix notices her father and puts her feet back into a normal position. "Couldn't you have made more of an effort to... dress nicely?"

"What do you mean!? I took off my cap." Alix said, pointing towards the hat that was on the fancy table.

"But this is a special day." Mr. Kubdel said.

"Well, it's only a birthday." Alix said.

"No. This--" Her father took out a silver pocket watch. "--is a special birthday." Alix's interest was piqued. "This family heirloom was made by one of our ancestors many, many years ago." Alix quietly grumbles and grimaces, believing it was some old junk. "It's been passed down from one generation to the next, on their fifteenth birthday. And today, it's your turn to inherit it." Mr. Kubdel slides the watch over to Alix.

"It's pretty sweet dad but I already got a watch." Alix showed her dad the watch that was on her right arm. "Synced up to my smartphone."

"But sometimes there's more to things that meets the eye, let's just say our ancestor was..." Mr. Kubdel taps the center of the pocket watch and as it opens, blue mist appears, creating a small holographic figure of a woman holding a clock. "...ahead of his time."

Alix was fascinated by what she saw and found it cool. Her father suddenly closed it, which got Alix a bit suprised. "Of course. I understand if you'd rather let me buy you a new pair of...roller blades."

Alix hurriedly grab onto the watch from the other side of the table and took it out of her father's hand. "No! Dad! I'm stoked to have it. It's awesome, thank you!" Alix's phone begins to ring, she gets her phone to check.

"Are your friends waiting?" Mr. Kubdel asked.

"Yeah, but I don't want to bail on you. It's cool." Alix said.

"No no go ahead." Mr. Kubdel said, giving Alix permission to leave.

Alix smiles and puts on her hat as she walks up to her father. "Now take good care of it." He holds his daughter's hands as she held the family heirloom with hers, she smiles at her dad, a silent promise that she will.

18th arrondissement, Tom and Sabine Boulangerie Patisserie

"Come on, Marinette. You can do it, just remember the formula, think!" Tikki said, trying to encourage Marinette to understand and get her homework done.

"I might be able to do it if you weren't distracting me so much with your encouraging words." Marinette said, to which Tikki apologetically chuckles.

Marinette's phone suddenly rings and the caller was Alya. "Hey Alya, what's up?" Marinette's expression changed to relax to a panic. "What...? The BET between Alix and Kim...? Nooo, of course I didn't forget. I already made the banner for it." Marinette looks towards the banner laying down on her sofa.

"I know everyone's counting on me." Marinette confidently said.

"In five minutes...!" Marinette's confidence falters. "No sweat, I'm on my way already, be right there."

She ran towards the banner and before she could leave her room, Tikki stops her. "But Marinette, you have to wait for Mrs. Chamack to pick up her cake." Marinette's only response to the kwami was a scream.

"I've got 'till twenty minutes before she gets here." Marinette said as she puts a timer on her phone of twenty minutes.

"I told them I'll take care of the banner and they're all counting on me. Besides..." Marinette takes the banner and hugs it. "Adrien will be there too."

Marinette was about to leave but Tikki stops her. "You'll never make it to Trocadéro in 5 minutes, it's way too far."

Marinette stopped for a moment and truned around, smiling at Tikki. "Not too far for Ladybug." She winks at Tikki.

Marinette transforms into Ladybug and leaves her home.

Elsewhere, Peter was in a shop of sport accessories.

"Like this?" The old man worker asks Peter, showing him a blue bodysuit.

"No. No, it's a one-piece that goes from-- uh-- head to toe."

"Well, this is a wrestling thong."

"I need a-- a one-piece-- red. Blue, maybe. Maybe, uh, blue and red. Two colored." Peter said quietly but not so quiet that would make him seem suspicious.

"Head to toe? That's not a wrestling thing. That's-- I don't know-- like a dancing thing. Like, tights. Dancing tights."

"Wrestlers don't wear them?"

"No." The man tiredly says.

"Do you have anything like that here?" Peter asks.

"No." The man leaned close towards Peter.

"Do you know where I could get something... like that?"

"No." The man raised a brow at Peter, eyeing him suspiciously.

Peter leaves the shop and runs across rooftops to rooftops.

I have no costume. I'm a super hero without a costume. I don't even have a cool leather outfit that would pass for "costume-ish" in this more cynical world I live in. And even if I did, short people shouldn't wear leather. That must be a rule of life. And if it isn't, clearly it should be. Another rule of life should be that teenage super heroes on a very fixed income should make a point of holding onto their costumes during elaborate fight sequences. My sewing skills aren't at all that great and I can't hire someone to make a costume. I don't even know where you get tights from. If I order them online or something, Aunt May will totally get the package before I do...and how will I explain that without having to take up ballet?

And who even knows if they'll fit if I buy them online. It's one thing if everyone thinks I'm a jewel-heisting, spider menace... but I draw the line at ill-fit and schlubby.

When I was sewing my own suit, I barely got the open parts closed... and now that I have completely lost my full costume, I have to learn how to sew an entire head to toe red and blue tights? Or I should try wearing a one-piece suit instead?

Trocadéro, 16th arrondissement

Ladybug had finally arrived. She detransforms behind a wall and runs downs the stairs towards her friends.

Peter has arrived too. Jumping off the top of a building as he lands straight to the ground, behind a tree. He whistles as he nonchalantly walks towards the gathered group of people.

As they were coming though, Gwen called out to Peter. "Hey!" She waved at Peter. Everyone else looked to where she was looking from but instead of Peter, they saw Marinette hurriedly running on the stairs, they waved at her.

Marinette noticed them looking and waving at her and noticed the new girl waving at her too. At least, that's what she thought. She happily waved back at them. And as soon as she got off the stairs, she tried to run towards the group and not even a moment before she could get even a seconds sprint in, she bumped into Peter as they both fell on the ground and the banner rolls open on the ground near towards the feet of the group.

Marinette quickly got up in embarassment. Chloe's chuckles were heard by her. Peter meanwhile was grumbling on the ground as to why his spider-sense didn't warn him. Gwen walks over to him and gives her hand out and he took it.

Marinette notices that Alya had taken the banner off the ground and praised her for how well the banner looks and everyone else did too, excluding Flash, Kong, Peter, Gwen, Max, Kim and Chloe all for different reasons.

"That's impressive, Marinette." Adrien said, giving Marinette a wink.

Marinette laughs at getting a compliment from Adrien which got Chloe to narrow her eyes at her for getting that compliment.

"You all picked the wrong side to cheer on." Kim's words caught the group's attention. "Looks like Alix isn't even showing up, probably too chicken to race an extreme athlete like me."

"Spoke too soon, Kim." Alix said as she rolls up on a pair of in-line skates, smirking.

Most of the group cheered for Alix.

"The so-called 'extreme athlete' is about to get beaten." Flash said.

"Kick his ass, Alix." Kong cheered.

"You're ridiculous bets are over. I'm gonna leave you in the dust, meathead." Alix declared.

"You're no match for me, my neck is bigger than your thigh." Kim said.

"Is that a good thing?" Alya said with a chuckle which got Marinette to snicker.

Max separated Kim and Alix apart as he begins to explain the rules. "Two lapse around the Trocadéro square approximately 500 feet, the first one back to the starting line is declared the Victor." Max pointed to the single white line on the ground between him and the contestants. "If Kim triumphs, Alix will relinquish her rollerblades to him. If Alix triumphs, Kim will be prohibited from making another dare for the rest of the school year."

"We're through with all of those stupid dares." Juleka said.

"Uh, huh, that's right!" Ivan agreed.

"No more dares!" A male redhead screamed out.

"Put some dirt in his eyes, Alix!" Kong called out.

"On your marks," Max put his arms out as Kim and Alix get into position. "Get set," Max raises his arms and Kim arches his butt upwards, shaking and ready to run.

"Hold up!" Alix suddenly said which caused Kim to fall forward on his face, making everybody laugh at him.

"Forfeiting already?" Kim mockingly asks but was ignored by Alix.

"Hold onto this for me will ya, Alya. I don't want to drop it during the race." Alix said, giving Alya her pocket watch and leaving it in her hand.

"Hold on, girl I can't-- I got to--"

"Guard it with your life, it's a family heirloom." Alix said and leaves.

"But--"

Alya blinks and glances at Marinette. "Marinette, take this." She gives the pocket watch to Marinette, who was holding the banner upright from the right side. "I gotta record the race for my blog."

"On your marks," Max said as Kim and Alix get into position one more time. "Get set, Go!"

Alix and Kim sped off neck in neck. Nino was cheering very roughly, the banner was moving along with him as Marinette was holding it from the other side with one hand.

"But, she asked you to look after it, I got to hold up the banner!" Marinette said and was suddenly pulled by Nino which made her lose hold of the watch. She tried catching it before it falls but someone else already did, it was Adrien.

"Need any help?"

Marinette was speechless for a moment but got her bearings. "Yep, thanks, got to be careful even if you are amazing." Adrien gave a surprise look which made her double back. "Uh-- holding things, in your hand."

Alix and Kim were still on the same pace as they finish their first lap.

"Last lap!" Max announced.

"Amazing at holding things?" Alya questioned which got Marinette to shiver.

"Adrikins, what you got there?" Chloe asked as she takes the watch from Adrien's hand. "Some super old case or something?"

"Careful, it's Alix's." Adrien said.

"Wow, really, it doesn't look like an old case to me." Gwen said as Chloe and Adrien looked at her.

"And how would you know that?" Chloe asks Gwen.

"I'm with this scientist at home so I know what old stuffs are." Gwen said, dragging Peter towards her by his jacket.

"Uh-- what's going on?" Peter asked.

"We were just talking about that" Gwen pointed to the pocket watch that was on Chloe's hand. "It kind of looks like the many watches you have in that box you kept."

"I never told you that. And those weren't mine, they were my uncle's..." Peter said.

"Oh."

"Who's is it, anyways?" Peter asks.

"It's Alix's." Adrien said.

"If it's Alix's, it's probably worthless." Chloe said.

Oh, great. Another rich person.

"Hey, it's probably useless for someone as rich as you but maybe to Alix, it's actually important so don't try to be careless with it." Peter said

I remember the times Harry was careless, he sometimes break things whenever he knew he could just pay for something better.

"Give it back to Adrien, Chloe." Marinette said as Chloe tightly hugs the pocket watch.

Chloe looks at the watch and taps her finger on it, unkowingly opening it as a blue of light lits up inside it and in her suprise, she lets go of it and as it was about to fall on the ground, Peter catches it. The watch opens revealing a holographic woman in a gown holding a clock.

Alix races forward as Kim was behind her. She crossed the finish line and had won the race. She raised a fist up in victory. She looked at the group to see them crowding at something in the middle. She pushed herself in the group to see what they were looking at and it was her pocket watch. It was opened and the one holding the watch was Peter Parker.

"Ok, enough gawking at my watch. Everyone, I won the race and Kim will never be able to make a bet ever again." She takes the watch from Peter. "Thanks for taking care of it, Peter." She gives him a smile of gratitude and he returns it with a smile of his own.

"No problem." Peter said.

"Guyyyysssss!!"

They looked to where the scream was coming from and saw Liz running towards them.

"Hey, look, it's Liz!" Rose said.

As Liz got closer though, her face was seen and she looked... afraid. "HELPP MEEEE!!"

Suddenly, a water fountain erupted and the stream of water falls, landing meters away from Liz and the group. The water morphs into a humanoid body and then changes into someone Peter knows.

"You shouldn't have stalked us, little miss." Morrie Bench grins as he walks towards the group but his eyes only looked to Liz.

He scanned the group of people who were there and his eyes stopped at one of them. "You?" He looked at Peter.

"I've met you, before. So that's why she came here." Miorrie said, referring to Liz, believing that she came to Peter for help. "I don't know why she thinks you could do anything because you seem like nothing to me."

"Liz, what's going on?" Flash asked.

"That guy is a creep, that's what, and he needs to be stopped!!" Liz frantically said which got Morrie mad.

"I am not a CREEP!!" Morrie's body turned into water.

"RUN!!" Adrien screamed out as everybody scattered.

18th arrondissement, Tom and Sabine Boulangerie Patisserie

Nadja was waiting outside the bakery. She knocked three times and looked inside the window door but no one seemed to answer. She decided to call Tom.

In a restaurant, Tom's order was now on the table and as he was ready to eat his phone begins to ring. "It's Mrs. Chamack." He told his wife and answers the call. "Hello? Yes, I- I- I know you need your cake right away uh-- uh-- my daughter's home, she must be upstairs. I'll phone her." He ends the call from Nadja and tries to call Marinette.

16th arrondissement, Trocadéro

Marinette hid behind a tree as Morrie was splashing water, everywhere. Marinette's phone begins to ring and she answers the call.

"Uh-- hey dad, what's up?" Marinette asked.

(Mrs. Chamack is outside the bakery waiting for the cake, you--)

Meanwhile, Adrien had been able to successfully transform into Chat Noir.

Marinette stopped listening and watched Chat stepping between Morrie and some of her classmates. She looked to see Alya hiding behind a tree as she records the water guy on her phone for her blog. Rose and Juleka are already running away from here. Ivan and Mylene are hiding beneath a bush.

The one's that Morri caught were Flash, Liz, Kong, Alix, Nino, Sabrina and Chloe.

"Okay, I gotta go Dad." Marinette quickly said, ending the call and running in the direction away from the battle.

Tikki pops out of her purse. "Marinette, the fight is that way."

"I know, Tikki. But I need to get back to Nadja, my parents entrusted me to give her that cake."

"So you're just gonna abandon your friends that are in danger?..."

"No. I trust that Chat Noir will hold him long enough for me to get back here on time and help everyone and help him take down this water man." Marinette said, completely and blindingly trusting that Chat Noir has the situation handled. "Tikki, Spots on!" Marinette transforms and heads back to her home.

Peter and Gwen were hiding behind a wall. Gwen is calling for her dad. "Dad! I need serious help, there is a superpowered guy attacking us! Chat Noir is fighting him right now!"

(What! Ok, hold on I'll get there as soon as I can. Is Peter with you?)

"Yeah, Peter's with me." Gwen said, holding Peter's hand tightly.

(Let me speak to Peter.)

Gwen's left eyebrow raised as to why he wants to talk with Peter and not ask her about what's going on, I mean-- she's actually seeing superpowered people fighting right now but she does hand over the phone to Peter.

"Hey..." Peter said, slightly cringing. He hadn't spoken to John and had been practically avoiding him ever since that night when he found out.

(Whatever your doing, just please, protect Gwen at all cost until I get there do you understand?)

"What?" Peter was confused.

(I'm not a hero, I'm a cop. The most important thing to me is my family and I want you to understand that Gwen's safety is top priority above all else, you got that? So don't leave her side, don't be him.)

Peter was a little mad that he was getting told what to do but even if he wanted to be Spidey at the moment he technically couldn't. Althought it was nice to hear Captain Stacy's words, it made him sigh in relief that he's keeping his secret and not blackmailing him for it or something. Peter looks out the wall where he and Gwen are hiding from Morrie and sees him putting some of his classmates caged in a water circle. Morrie is trying to catch Chat Noir but the cat was moving a little too fast for the hot headed douchebag.

Gwen is top priority, huh? I don't have my costume right now and I can't just go and do what Spider-Man does as Peter Parker. That would ruin my entire secret Identity. In a way, Captain Stacy's right. Gwen is the only one Peter Parker can protect right now. Guess I'll have to rely on Chat Noir to save the others.

"Ok... I'll do it." Peter said.

(Thank you, we're almost there. Just hang tight.)

"Good joke."

(Not on purpose.)

Marinette detransforms on her balcony as she runs down the stairs and gets the cake, giving it to Nadja, who was supried to see her. "Sorry for making you wait."

Nadja smiles at Marinette thanking her as she takes the cake and leaves.

"Great, now that that part's done we gotta hurry back and help Chat Noir!" Tikki said.

"Yeah. Let's go! Tikki, Spots on!"

"Do you know what cats hate most besides mouses? Water!" Morrie had finally caught Chat Noir and had trapped him in a water ball.

"Aghhh! My hair! My clothes! My... everything!!" Chloe cried out as her new and favorite jacket was wet along with her hair and white pants.

"Oh, shut up!" Both Morrie and Alix screamed at her.

Morrie covered her entire head full of water. Chloe could no longer breath and hope that she could hold her breath long enough to not suffocate.

Chat Noir was in the same position but much more extreme as he was completely trapped and cats really don't like water. He can't even cast out his cataclysm in this situation.

Chat looked up seeing the sun shining brightly inside the water and the water seemed to feel a little hotter for some reason.

Morrie was sweating profusely, he was gritting his teeth and staring daggers at Liz. Liz hid in Flash's arms as Flash glares at him.

"No one else gets hurt if you give me the girl." Morrie said, pointing at Liz who was shaking and holding tightly onto Flash.

"You're not taking anybody!" Kong charges at him only for him to crashed right through Morrie and land on the ground in pain.

Peter couldn't watch any longer. He got out his hiding spot which made Gwen panic. "Peter! What are you--"

"Hey!!"

Morrie and everyone else who was still there looked to see Peter standing in the open.

"What do you want?" Morrie said.

"Parker..." Flash said.

"Petey..." Liz said.

"Where is she?" Peter asked.

"Who?" Morrie said.

"Mary Jane. Where is she?" Peter said.

"Somewhere where it can only be just the two of us."

"She wouldn't want that."

"Yes, she does!" Morrie shouted

"What did you do to here?" Peter said with a slight anger as he glares at Morrie.

"I only want what's best for her. For us." Morrie turned blue. "And you're askingt he wrong questions, you should be asking: What am I gonna do to you?"

Morre extended his hand out and attacks Peter. Peter's senses activated and he knew he could have dodged it but even he knew that if he did it would have looked too suspicious. So he let Morrie hit him.

Morrie's hand gripped onto Peter's neck and hoisted him off the ground. Peter felt the pain but it was nothing compared to when Doc Ock was choking him. He could handle this.

"What would you know about Mary Jane, loverboy? She already chose me over you. You have no chance of beating me." Morrie grins.

A yoyo suddenly cut off Morrie's arm, freeing Peter from his grasps. He looked to see Ladybug had arrived.

"Ladybug!!" Alya screamed out in hope but had her position caught.

A staff smashed itself beside Morrie's head. Chat Noir had seemingly broken free from the water, his hair was wet and his breathing was heavy. "Took you long enough, M'lady."

"Sorry for being late, Chat. You did good fighting him alone, kitty. Don't worry, I'll take care of this sleazebag." Ladybug said.

"And how are you planning to do that, little Miss?" Morrie said in cockiness with a hint of annoyance.

"Lucky Charm!" Ladybug called out and a large mirror with ladybug designs on it had appeared. Ladybug catches it and Morrie laughs at her.

Ladybug bit the inside of her cheek as her lucky vision activates. She looked around and the only things that turned into red with black dots was Morrie. She looked behind her as Morrie begins to mock her power. She even looked at the ground but nothing, it didn't flash any ladybug signs for her. She looked up and her eyes instinctively squeezed due to how bright it was but then the ladybug flash happened, and it suddenly click to her. She knew what to do.

"You're done, Hydro-Man." Ladybug said, to which Morrie smirks liking the name.

"Hydro-Man eh? I like the sound of that." Morrie said with a smirk seeing Chat Noir vomitting out water.

Hydro-Man looked back at Ladybug to see her shining the light of the sun at him by using the Lucky Charm and putting the mirror at an angle where the light reflects on Morrie. Light has heat. And Morrie was smart enought to know what that meant.

"NOO!!!"

Morrie tried to use his powers but then he felt himself slipping, his legs are starting give out, his body turned white and now he feels like he's melting. "AAAAHHHHH!!!!!" Morrie lunges towards Ladybug and at the mirror.

"Bench, don't!" Peter cried out.

Ladybug evades him and moves out of the way as Morrie splashes on the ground and begins to evaporate.

Gwen got out of her hiding spot and went beside Peter. "Peter, he's evaporating... does this mean--"

Peter got up to his feet and went to get a closer look on what's left of Morrie.

Ladybug was shocked at what she just did. "Is-- is he..."

"No, not necessarily. H2O is infamous for solvents among its self cohesiveness." Peter said, explaining in a scientific way that Morrie isn't dead.

"Ugh! Speak English will ya, Parker?" Flash said which got Alix to chuckle even in this situation and that she didn't know what Peter meant either.

"That's a good thing, right?" Ladybug asks.

"Well, hopefully it's good for us." Gwen said.

"Liz?" Peter said, standing back up as she looks at him. "Do you know where he kept Mary Jane?"

"Yeah, he kept her on his cargo ship. It's on the 19th arrondissement." Liz said.

"But that's outside city limits!" Chat said.

Suddenly, the cops have arrived. Captain Stacy exited his car and went straight for Gwen.

"Dad!" Gwen hugged her father as Sabrina's dad was there too, hugging his own.

"Well, once I cast this everything will be back to normal." Ladybug said as Peter and Chat Noir smiles at her.

"Miraculous Ladybug!" Ladybug threw the Lucky Charm up in the air but the magical ladybugs only flew to her and englufed only her as the magical ladybugs dissipate she seemed to feel a bit more energized than before.

"What... what was that?! I though you said you could have fixed everything!? I'm still as wet as that alley cat!" Chloe said, pointing to Chat but not taking her eyes off Ladybug.

"Did your magical ladybugs only heal you or something?" Alix asked.

"M'Lady?" Chat was confused too. But the one that is most confused out of all of them, was Ladybug herself.

Ladybug stood there, not understanding what went wrong.

"That means Mary Jane is still on that cargo ship." Peter said.

"What cargo ship?" Captain Stacy asked.

"The maniac that attacked us kidnapped one of our friends and she's in a cargo ship in the 19th arrondissement."

"Men, we have a kidnapped girl in a cargo ship on the 19th arrondissement." Captain Stacy called out a search for Mary Jane. "Roger, lets go." Roger nods as they went back to their car but not before saying goodbye to each of their own respective daughters.

Ladybug's earrings begins to beeped as she too left. Alya got out of her hiding spot and everyone seemed to have regrouped.

Chat Noir was worn out as he leaves before destransforming back to Adrien as he hides behind a tree. "That... was... so... exhausting." Adrien said.

"I hate water." Plagg stated.

18th arrondissement, Tom and Sabine Boulangerie Patisserie

Marinette detransforms and sits on her bed. "Spots off." Marinette looked to at Tikki in frustration. "Tikki, what was that?"

"What was what, Marinette?"

"You know, the cleansing. It didn't fix or heal anybody but me. Why? Did I do it wrong?" Marinette needed answers and only Tikki knows it.

"Marinette, you can fix everything caused by an akuma. Hydro-Man wasn't an akuma, the reason you couldn't fix what he did was because he wasn't magic. The magical ladybugs only healed you because you are the holder."

"So Ladybug's only ever good for fighting akuma's and not other villains?" Marinette said, feeling slightly weak.

"No, you can still fight villains even if they aren't akumas, you just can't fix the damages they cause." Tikki explained, not wanting Marinette to lose confidence in herself.

Marinette laid on her bed in silence not knowing that her parents have already arrived home.

6th arrondissement, Saint-Germain-des-Prés

"So... Spider-Man." Captain Stacy sits on a chair holding a Spider-Man mask. "Why do you do it, Peter? I saw the video of your speech when you defeated Doc Ock but I wanna hear it from you." Him and Peter are in the basement so no one could hear them. Peter was sitting on the wooden table.

"...When you can do the things that I can...but you don't, and then the bad things happen...they happen because of you." Peter said and those words was all Captain Stacy needed to hear.

John stood up and moves toward Peter and gives him back the mask. "You're a good man, Pete." John stops just right up the stairs. "I didn't see anything here, Peter."

Peter looks up and sees John giving him a wink and a smile before he leaves the basement. Peter chuckles, then laughs.

"Cool."

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"Peter... how long are you gonna be staying in the basement? Come on, sweetie, it's past noon." Aunt May called out behind the door to the basement.

"I'm fine, Aunt May. I'll be out in a second!" Peter called out but May knew he was lying, he's been there for 12 hours straight.

"Ok, honey. Just call me when your feeling hungry, all right?"

"Okay!"

Aunt May walks towards the living room as Gwen was drinking Fanta while watching the news about the new superheroine called Ladybug having just saved a bunch of workers from a supervillain just hours ago.

"You really like watching her, huh?" Aunt May said.

"What do you mean?" Gwen asked.

"You have been watching Ladybug since yesterday. Is that something I should be worried about?" Aunt May said.

"Nope, not at all. I just think she's really super awesome you know? Kinda like you." Gwen said, showing her love for Aunt May and her new admiration for Ladybug.

"Why thank you, Gwen. But I'm certainly not the type to be wearing spandex."

"Yeah, me too. But wouldn't it be fun to try?"

"Go ask Peter." Aunt May suggested.

"Can't. He locked himself in the basement."

"Do you know what he's even doing down there?" May asked.

"Who knows. He's probably doing some overly complex math solution for some science stuff he's got going on." Gwen said.

"Well, I just hope he gets out of there soon." May said.

"He'll get out, he can't stay there forever."

Peter, however, had spend the entire hours of his time remaking his Spider-Man costume and creating more web fluids.

"And... Done!! HAHA!! You got that right! I had just solved my biggest solution yet." Peter spreads the upper part of the costume to get a better look and it looks Identical to his previous one, no changes at all. Perfect. "Spider-Man is back in action."

Peter immediately went to wearing his suit after nearly four whole days without it. "Ahhh... It feels like I got clothes on again. And it's not as bad as it sounds."

A steel door opens and four male silhouettes went inside an empty warehouse. One of them turned on a switch to open the lights only to see that an old man wearing a black suit sat in a table with five seats that covers the table, another one with a suit sitting in the chair table with the old man.

"They're here, boss." The man moved closer to the light and his forehead was abnormally larger than normal. His hair was slicked backed and he wore a blue suit with a red tie on him.

The other three step into the light as the man went and took a seat aswell. "Boss, meet Herman Schultz, Aaron Davis and Adrian Toomes. AKA The Shocker, The Prowler and The Vulture."

"Which of these three is your employee?" The old man asks.

"Mr. Toomes is a part of OsCorp, Manfredi, he is a capable worker and one of our most trusted allies. I can assure you of that." The younger man wearing a black suit said.

"And how exactly can you assure me of this?"

"Mr. Toomes has created Trans-magnectic transport." He looks to the other side of the table and sneers at them. "On simpler terms, they are called Tech Flight."

Silvio Manfredi nods at the young man, he gestures for Toomes to sit down and he did, he then looks back at the remaining two. "What about the other two?"

"The Prowler is master thief, he can steal anything you ask him of, even highly advanced technology." Hammerhead said, clearing out any sort of doubt in Silvermane's mind of Prowler's usefulness.

"A burglar? Sounds like an old roommate I know in prison, I hope he's just as good." Silvermane said, with a slight smirk. "So, what about that one?" He points at Shocker, who was feeling a little humiliated by not having a big time reputation as a criminal.

"He's just the guy who can keep the Spider busy. Got beaten up by the Spider more times than my entire fingers." Hammerhead looked to Prowler and gestured for him to take a seat beside him, Prowler did as told.

"Woah woah wo- woah! Wait! What!? So you took me here just to be a pig for slaughter?! To Spider-Man!! And why the hell would you think I'll just let ya!? I thought this was a job to get money for!" Shocker said, angry and he begins to tense up.

"Now, now, Shocker, there's no need to get mad, why don't you just sit--"

"Get out." Before the young man could finish his sentence, Silvermane cuts him off. "I don't want a whining little bitch in this mission. Get. Out." Silvermane glares at Shocker, it was a warning. And Shocker knew it. He didn't dare complain, he walked out of the warehouse and didn't look back, shutting the door on his way out.

Silvermane took a moment to start speaking again. "Thank you all for coming in, especially you, Smythe." Silvermane looked to the young lad, who smiled back at him. "Now, I have called for you all here today because I am here to give you a mission."

"And what mission is that?" Smythe smirks along with Hammerhead.

"To take down an itsy... bitsy... little... spider." Silvermane grins. "And in return, I will pay the one who kills him one million dollars."

1st arrondissement, Louvre Museum

Spider-Man had been aimlessly swinging around the city.

Another beautiful day for the Ultimate Spider-Man, I tell ya. And I just... Huh, what's she doing there?

Spider-Man notices Ladybug searching for something inside a... public trash bin.

Gross.

Spidey swings towards her and gracefully lands beside her. "What are you doing, Ladybug?"

That startled her which got her to slightly scream and it made her lose grip on the phone as it fell on the trash once again. Spidey didn't notice the phone.

"Spider-Man? What are you doing here?" Ladybug said.

"Oh, you know, just swung by, heh." Spider-Man said.

"Oh, haha yeah, me too." Ladybug smiled but it seemed a bit strained.

"Really? So you're not trying to get something inside a trash bin?" Spidey asked, even when he already saw the answer to that.

Huh, I'm getting a sense of deja vu here for some reason.

"Nooo, what makes you say that?- Ah!" Ladybug acted quickly and uses her yoyo to stop a car that was flying behind Spider-Man and into the Louvre Museum by using the two lamppost that unfortunately got broken from the strain of the yoyo that was strapped between the two to save the police car.

Spider-Man immediately went to check in on the person inside the car. It was a cop, Sabrina's dad. Spidey tore the car door open and got Roger out. He's clearly in pain and his breathing's heavy.

Oh man, he's got a cracked rib. Yep, I felt that too buddy.

Roger has lost conciousness from the pain.

What could have caused this?

Spidey looks around the area to see anything that could have caused this. He saw a purple skin, tall man with a hat and Spidey didn't even need to second guess himself that that guy was the cause for the car being thrown.

Wow, he's in plain sight and is he doing a mime right now?

Ladybug runs towards Spider-Man but stopped when a flash of impact seemed to have appeared to hit the side of the car and nearly hit Spidey.

"Wow, you suck." Spidey said as he shoots a web at the Mime.

The Mime crosses his arm to shield himself and the web sticks to an invisible barrier.

"What?" Peter said, in surpise.

The Mime does a movement of his arms, as if he was wearing a jacket and he... flew away. Spidey's web then fell to the ground. "Ok... a game of cat and mouse it is then." Spidey web zips to a lamppost and super jumps since he can't swing in an area with little to no building.

"Hey, wait!" Ladybug went after him.

"Try to keep up!" Spidey called out to Ladybug as him and her chases after The Mime.

"Yes sir. Understood sir. I'm... sure he'll understand, sir." Inside the car, Nathalie ends the call from Gabriel as Gorilla drives the car while Adren sits from the other side of the door with a dissapointed look on his face.

"My dad's flaking isn't he? Let me guess, something came up?" Adrien said, already expecting it to happen but that didn't mean he wanted it to.

"Yes, but he has reserved the best seats in the house for you Adrien, front row." Nathalie quickly said.

"As usual, best money can buy." Adrien said as he looks away from Nathalie. Unfortunately, when he did so, he had just miss Ladybug and Spider-Man swinging by from Nathalie's side of the car.

The Mime lands on a bus and seems to have abandoned his jetpack for a chainsaw. He begins to cut open the roof of the bus. "Not so fast!" Spidey swing kicks him down on the bus and he's now beneath Spidey's foot.

Ladybug lands at the back of the edge of the bus roof. "Spider-Man! He's one of the actors from the theater troupe and this bus is theirs." Ladybug's words only angered the Mime but gave Spidey some information on the villain, although he would have to ask as to how she even knew that in the first place.

Spider-sense activated. Mime moved his arm to the right as Spider-Man got grazed by the chainsaw on his chest. "AAHH!!"

Ladybug gasps in shock. Spider-Man stumbles back and hisses from the open wound in his chest.

"I just got a new one." Spider-Man said, referring to his costume that was now torn in the chest area with blood accompanying the open fabric.

"Oh my gosh! Are-- are you okay!? How-- how bad is it...?" Ladybug went closer to Spider-Man and saw the cut it was a big, big gash. She wishes she didn't look.

"Don't worry, I'll heal." Spider-Man said.

"We-- we have to stop this bus!" Ladybug said.

"On it!" Spidey said, not hearing Ladybug cry out for him to wait.

Spider-Man runs towards the Mime and he was ready to hit Spidey but it was only a bluff, Spidey jumps over him and turns back around. He webs one building and webs another building, he holds the web strings and tanks the car using his body to stop it. What Peter didn't account for was the gash wound tearing open even more. "AAHhhrrghHgh!!" He held onto the web tightly making sure to not let go until the car stops and luckily, the driver did and was also the first one to ran out of the bus.

Spider-Man looked up to see Ladybug battling Mime. He let go of his webs and his head felt dizzy. He held onto the bus for support as his legs felt wobbly. "Ouuughh.."

Ladybug kicks Mime off the bus. Mime lands on his back but quickly stood back up. He did another move but this time, it was clear to Ladybug what the Mime is mimicking... a sword. She got off the bus, ready to fight.

"So... is this guy an possesed akuma? If so, where is the object?" Spider-Man asks as he slowly walks beside her, holding his chest.

"It's inside his hat!" Ladybug replied. "We have to come up with a plan."

"I'm not much of a planner." Spider-Man said before jumping high up in the air and shoots a web net at The Mime.

Mime effortlessly cuts the web with his invincible sword and that took Spidey by surprise. Once again, his web fluid was torn as if it was nothing but paper.

Ugh, magic has no sense to it!

As Spidey descends back to the ground, the Mime charges at him but Ladybug kicks him away. Spidey, along with Ladybug runs at The Mime.

The Mime swings his sword in desperation. Both Ladybug and Spider-Man were too fast for him to hit, he was practically flailing the blades with no finesse or skill. The only thing that's keeping him going is that Ladybug and Spider-Man are aiming for his hat and aren't trying to hit him.

Hawkmoth watches in the eyes of his puppet. Seemingly, both Spider-Man and Ladybug are too fast to hit, but as he keeps watching however he noticed a difference between the two and he smirks. He may not be able to predict how Spidey would dodge the swords at all but he could predict Ladybug. She wasn't dodging the blades in an abormal way, she was dodging it like anyone else would in a sword fight, maintaning a safe distance and parrying those blades if it ever got too close to her.

"Mime, focus on Ladybug. Predict her next move and strike!" Hawkmoth ordered.

The Mime stops trying to protect his hat and is suddenly on the agressive. Agressive, only on Ladybug.

Spider-Man was suprised by the change as was Ladybug and she couldn't react in time, as The Mime stabs her stomach... but it didn't go through. Ladybug closed her eyes in fear. She waited for the blade to pierce into her stomach and feel agonizing pain but... it never came. She opeend her eyes too see.. that the blades was stopped by a pinkish-red light that was on her stomach. She had only ever seen that light when she was transforming.

The Mime tries to push his blade further in and milky red energy enveloped her suit and mask. His swords didn't budge, he couldn't damage Ladybug and he made a mistake.

Spider-Man webbed the hat off of him and punched him square in the face, breaking his nose and knocking him out. Ladybug stood up as the energy dissipates off her body. She held herself with a shock look on her face. "Ladybug?..." Spidey could see she looked disturbed by what happened. "Here's the hat." It took a moment for Ladybug to become aware of the hat Spider-Man was handing out to her. She gulps on her saliva and takes the hat, looks for a picture of that he didn't even know was in there. Ladybug tears the photo in half, revealing the akuma. Ladybug catches the akuma and purifies it.

The Mime turns back to normal and Spider-Man looks to see the entire people on the bus has gathered around as the ordinary man that was once The Mime stays on the ground with his broken nose. Peter looks at the torn picture and saw that it was a picture of Mylene.

Oh, man. Was this Mime guy Mylene's dad or something?

"Hey, Ladybug?" Ladybug looks at him and he didn't know if he had the same expression beneath his mask. Upset. We defeated the bad guy, but it didn't feel rewarding at all. "Come on...let's get out of here." Spidey put his hand on her shoulder and he waited, then she sighed and agreed.

Ladybug and Spider-Man sat on a rooftop. Ladybug was still quiet and Spidey knew he had to break the ice before she gets frozen in it. "I understand you, you know?"

"Huh?"

Ladybug got out of her daze from those words, she didn't expect it to come from Spider-Man.

"I get being scared. I get scared all the time." Spidey said, but Ladybug didn't believe him.

"No, no you weren't. You were slashed on the chest and I didn't have any injury on me because of this magical suit but... I froze. When the Mime was trying to pierce his way through Tik-- this indestructible magic..." She opens her arms out to show her seemingly spandex suit. "...I didn't do anything to stop him. I just laid there and let it happen." Tears were starting to well up in her eyes. "And I- I couldn't move..."

Spider-Man steps closer and was about to touch her shoulder until she saw his hand coming to her and she flinched, moving away from him. He stopped and then she smiled, appreciating the gesture.

"I meant what I said earlier, it's okay to be afraid. Fighting Doc Ock? Terrifying. But here's the thing: bravery isn't about not being scared, it's about being scared but you still do it anyway." He puts his gloved hand to his chest. "Ladybug, the fear you feel? That just mean this matters to you. And that... that makes you stronger than most."

Spider-Man shoots a web out to another building and swings away, screaming in joy. "Wooooohoooo!!!"

Ladybug watches him swing away in awe. She then shakes her head and gives a grateful look to the hero fading from her sight.

Ladybug swings away, hiding in an alley before destransforming. She nonchalantly walks out the alley and ran back to the trash can that still had Alya's phone in it. She got the phone out of trash but it was now smeared with banana.

"Tikki, we need to talk." Marinette said.

Her Kwami flew up to her sight. "What else are you not telling me, Tikki? First, it was that the lucky charm wouldn't work against an non-akuma villain, now I'm-- what-- indestructible?! You have to tell me everything there is to know about my powers, Tikki." Marinette was upset with her Kwami. "It's just not right for me to know that you were taking the hits instead of me..."

Tikki gave her an apologetic look. "I'm sorry, Marinette. But there are reasons as to why I didn't tell you."

"We'll talk about it later. Right now, I gotta give this back to Alya." Marinette cleaned the phone and put it in her bag.

"It's time, boys." Hammerhead said as Vulture is in the sky and Prowler is on his motorcycle. "Make some noise for the Spider to come out and play."

"How exactly would we do that?" Vulture asked.

"Simple. Attack the show." Hammerhead said as he smirks.

The Mime show was about to start as Marinette took a seat beside Alya. "Ah, hey." Marinette looked to see that Adrien was walking towards them. "You're here too. Thought I was gonna be sitting by myself." Adrien sits beside them in a way only a model would sit. Fingers mashed together in the center and one leg resting on the other. Marinette smiles, delighted that Adrien was here and was sitting beside her. She didn't even hear Alya asking her about where her phone was because Marinette was too busy giving Adrien the googley eyes and all Alya could do was sigh in defeat.

Suddenly, a man wearing mechanical wings dive right at the mime actor that replaced the previous one. Everyone was in shock as they stood upright. Then, a motorcycle dove on the stage and the costumed man riding on it pulled out a gun and held everyone in the show hostage.

Vulture threw the actor back down on the stage as he watches the man scream in fear before rolling on the ground, groaning in pain. Vulture sets his eyes on a girl using her phone to record everything, he smirks and knew this was his chance. The Vulture deactivates his tech and walks towards the woman in a classy manner. "Hello, my dear."

Alya was still holding up her phone but was slightly backing away from the man. "Who are you and what do you want?!" Alya asks while Marinette held and stick to her friend by the shoulder. Adrien grits his teeth at the Vulture and his frustration at himself for not being able to help because he really can't transform right now in front of all these people.

"Are you recording, Miss? If so, then good. I'd like to deliver a message." The Vulture stares at the lenses of Alya's phone.

Alya straightens her arm and tries to stop shaking. "And what would that message be? And to whom?"

"Alya...!" Marinette quietly pleaded for her friend to stop being reckless.

"The message is that there is a bounty on the head of a certain someone. How much?.... One Million Dollars." Vulture then smiles, a creepy smile. "And who has this, you may ask? Well, it's none other than the one who calls himself, The Ultimate Spider-Man!"

Marinette stares at the man in shock... Spider-Man might be in trouble and she could do nothing to help. And a certain blonde was thinking the exact same thing as well.

Chapter Text

Spider-Man happily swings throughout the city while eating a pizza on hand. He stops and sits on a wall of the Daily Bugle building. As he finishes eating, a voice keeps screaming: No. It was coming from inside the building, Spidey takes a peek on the window careful to make sure no one inside sees him spying.

"...And further more, NO!" Jonah screams out as he walks back and forth.

Urich sat on a chair as Robbie stood in a corner of the room. "But boss, Silvio Silvermane Manfredi had been out of jail for days and words out on the street is saying that he's already started on retaking his criminal empire back from the Kingpin."

"Urich, you got Silvermane on the brain! I'm not risking another dime on this crazy story!" Jonah said as he sits on chair facing away from Urich.

"Crazy?! I'll tell you what's crazy: the Doctor Octopus story was crazy. The monster in the sewer: Curt Connors story was crazy. The Osborn story was crazy! So, why is this too crazy for you, Jonah? We've got a lot of spectacular stories printed out, shown to the world. And the Daily Bugle is one of the best news network in this city because of these 'crazy' stories."

"Actually, your stories may be what made the Daily Bugle gain a lot of great stuffs but it's mostly Spider-Man that keeps us afloat." Robbie spares a glance at Jonah. "And I don't mean that in a good way." Robbie still dislikes the way Jonah seems to use Spider-Man 's reputation. In Robbie's eyes, Spider-Man is not a menace.

"Boss!" Betty Brant barges inside the room. "There's something you might wanna see."

Spider-Man crawls and follows where they're going and stops to another window as he watches the TV news alongside his boss and co-workers, unbeknownst to them.

Nadja Chamack was reporting the news. "...From the Eiffel Tower, eyewitnesses describe a terrifying scene: a man in a mechanical, bird-like wingsuit descending from the night sky, capturing an actor from The Mime Show. The actor's name is called Fred and he had just recently been put down on the st-- oh, wait, hold on, there's a video feed coming up. Brace yourselves, this might be shocking." The screen replaces Nadja Chamack with a feed of the man she had just describe walking closer towards the video screen.

"Who are you and what do you want?!" The voice behind the camera said.

Spider-Man, with his enhanced hearing heard the voice and it sounded familiar. He then heard the Vulture speak about a message.

Wow... one million dollars for one person? That person must have caused a lot of trouble... Wait...

"Are you fucking serious!?!?!!" Spider-Man was in shock as anger started to build up on to whoever put a bounty on his head.

"Authorites have identified the suspect as Adrian Toomes, a former enginner with a criminal record tied to illegal weapons salvaging and black-market tech sales. He's also a former employee at OsCorp. The other was still unidentified." The video had ended before Nadja reported the news.

Once Peter heard the words: OsCorp his mind was spiraling.

Who could have done this? OsCorp? What-- what does this all mean... Do they know who I am? Is that why they're doing this? Why else would they even try and come to get me of all people? This is not.. fair.

"The hostages at the seen seem to hold children and adults alike. One of the hostages is the famous super model, Adrien Agreste... the son of the famous fashion designer, Gabriel Agreste."

"No..." Spider-Man stops watching from the window and swings away.

1st arrondissement, Eiffel Tower

Vulture is flying around the place. The cops have already arrived but they can't do anything because the hostages will get caught in the crossfire. Captain Stacy hopes that Peter could come to help in time. He sighs. He's never felt so hopeless. He's relying on a child to fix a man's problems. The cops are useless and he knows he's not the only one thinking the same thing. Almost all the cops have felt the same feeling he does right now.

Spider-Man lands beside Captain Stacy. It caught the cops by suprise and as they were about to pull out their guns, Captain Stacy raises a hand and stops them. "Took you a while."

"It was less than a minute. You got here just a minute ago, don't lie."

"What's the plan?" Captain Stacy asked.

"Simple. You and your guys get the hostages while I take care of the featherless bird along with his sidekick." Spider-Man walks and shoots a web at the tower, swinging off into battle.

Spider-Man swings upwards and lands on the side of the Eiffel Tower. He sees the Vulture still not recognizing he's already here. Peter smirks under his mask as he gets ready to slingshot himself at the old man. He shoots two webs from each of his wrist, he pulls back further and further and then he lets go as he was shot rocketing upwards into the sky. As his acceleration begins to slow down he shoots a web at the Vulture's wings.

Vulture heard the sound of a thwip from his right and look to see Spider-Man coming right at him. Spider-Man was about to punch him in the face but Vulture dodges it, only a graze on his cheek. "Whoo! Close one, wasn't it." Spidey flips over the Vulture's head as he lands on the Vulture's back. "Surf up!" Vulture tries to get him off, flipping to 180 but Spidey sticks to his back.

"How are you even flying?" Spider-Man asked.

Spider-Man sticks a web to the Eiffel Tower. The Vulture, unaware what Spidey did, does a 360 on the tower and Spidey couldn't be more delighted of the fact that Vulture did just what he wanted without even knowing he did. "How old are you? Can you take on head trauma?" Spider-Man punches the Vulture in the head and a clear bruise was marked. The pain caused Vulture to grab his head, ruining his momentum and giving Spidey the chance. Spider-Man shoots another web at the Eiffel Tower before pulling him and Vulture to it. He positioned himself behind Vulture as they crash towards the tower. Once Vulture made contact, Spidey webbed him up, stringing him upside down.

Vulture looked to see that Spidey had just put a ring-shaped web on the Eiffel Tower and Vulture was completely stuck on it. "HAHAHAHAHA!! Oh man, you're almost as bad as the Vibrator. Wait, scratch that, you are! Hahahaha! See ya, baldy." Spider-Man leaves him there as he dives towards his partner.

"Curse you, Spider-Man!!" The Vulture cried out in frustration.

Spider-Man sees the Prowler aiming his gun at the hostages.

Prowler stares at the hostages... then, they look up in suprise. Prowler did too and saw Spider-Man diving straight at him. Lucky for him, he evaded the Spider in time.

Spider-Man lands and sees the Prowler, standing and guarding up for a fight. "Green and Purple? Come on, that's like one of the worst combination of color man. You're fashion sense needs work."

Alya smiles and starts recording. "Scoop!"

Marinette was suprised and happy that he finally arrived. Had he taken any longer, she probably would have transformed on the spot.

Adrien wanted to cheer but knowing that this is a public event and that if people see him cheering, the press would have a field day and father wouldn't like that. Spider-Man and Prowler are on the stage and they are about to face off. The hostages were now an audience once more.

The Prowler charges at him. His boots and hands glowed purple. Spider-Man dodges three of his kicks and parry one of his fist. "Are you mad at me, I feel like you're mad at me." Spider-Man tries to punch him but his fist was caught and he was thrown over Prowler's shoulder, landing on the stage floor, quickly getting back up. "That all you got?" And that's when Prowler knew he can't beat him. He taps a button and he turns invincible.

"Oh, so you do got superpowers? I thought you were kinda like little birdy up there." Spider-Man said, pointing up ap the sky as he was looking straight at the audience.

The people there looked up to see that Vulture was webbed up on the Eiffel Tower. Alya points her phone upward, zooming in on the upside-down Vulture. "Amazing!" Alya squealed. She returns the camera vision back to Spider-Man.

"I can't see you... but that doesn't mean I can't sense you!" Spider-Man grabs the Prowler's arm before Prowler could hit him.

"How-- how did you..." Prowler was suprised, he didn't think Spider-Man had this kind of power.

"And off you go along with your buddy." Spider-Man readies a punch and was about to attack until Prowler pulls out a couple of large metal balls. Spider-sense activated as Prowler throws the balls to the ground at the same time Spidey lets him go. Once the balls hit the ground, they exploded. The blast blew Spider-Man towards the crowd of people as he crashes through each seats, stopping at the very end.

"Spider-Man!!" Alya said as she runs towards him. Then, both Marinette and Adrien followed as all the hostages gathered over Spider-Man. Alya held her phone, still recording Spider-Man.

"Should we take off his mask?" One of the hostages asks.

Marinette got caught by suprise from hearing that suggestion. "What?"

"He might be dead so... we might as well right?" Another said.

"Adrien!" Nathalie ran towards him and held him firmly. Gorilla was beside her, smiling in relief.

"Spider-Man, he's hurt!" Adrien said.

Both adults looked to see Spidey laid down on broken seats.

"There's nothing we can do for him, Adrien." She grabbed his arm. "Come on, let's go home. Your father would wanna hear about this..."

"What? But--" Adrien was already being dragged away as the crowd was too focused on Spider-Man and the question of taking his mask off to even spare a glance at Adrien. "Spider-Man is--"

"Spider-Man is a super hero. He can take care of himself. You don't want your father to be upset, do you?" Nathalie said, and Adrien could only respond in silence. "Then we must go immediately."

"Dude, you should do it."

"No way, you do it. He might just bite me or maybe he's got a bunch of spider's under there."

"He's knocked out, he can't do anything now. Hey, phone girl." One of the hostages called out to Alya. "Come on, take off the mask!"

Alya looked to between her phone and Spider-Man. If she were the one to take off the mask and find out who Spider-Man is and it was recorded on her blog. The Ladyblog would become a top 5 best blog in the world, she would become famous. Alya gulps on her saliva and her hand slowly starts to move towards the mask... Spider-Man suddenly grabbed her wrist and it made her flinch along with eveybody who gasps in fear.

"Wow... I really tried guys." Spider-Man backflips away from them. "Y'know I really thought things would be different this time when you all actually see me save your sorry asses but noooo, you just had to try and unmask me well... I got a little something for you to see." Spider-Man creates a large web blanket that covers every single one of the hostages and just in time for the cops to see him doing it.

"Look! It's Spider-Man, he's attacking the hostages!!" One of the cops said and then a bunch of other cops pulled out their gun and began shooting at Spider-Man.

Spider-Man didn't have time to explain and even if he did, would they have listened? He had no choice but to dodge the bullets and make his escape. "YOU ALL SUCK!!"

After Marinette and the other hostages got out of the web, She and Alya were walking down the street. Alya had used the phone she took from her and Marinette gave it back because she asked for it. She didn't know that the reason was because she wanted to record everythingtat was happening and that she even tried to unmask... Marinette shudders at the thought.

"Hey, Alya? You weren't really gonna do it, were you?" Marinette timidly asked.

"Do what?"

"You know... taking off Spider-Man's mask..."

"Oh... Yeah, no I was totally gonna do it." Alya said.

Marinette's heart drops. She couldn't believe she just heard that. "Why?"

"Because... I want to know who just saved my life. And sure a lot of other people were there but they would wanna know who had just saved their lives too, right? They didn't just do it because they were selfish and felt that they had a right to know when tehy actually... didn't." Alya said. Her voice sounded like she was trying to reassure herself instead of responding to Marinette.

Marinette looked at Alya and knows er friend long enough that she felt guilty for wanting to know. "Well, hey, some secrets are meant to be keep." Marinette smiles as Alya responded with a thinned smile.

"Yeah..." Alya's mood then changed from tense to excitement. "But did you see this!? Ten thousand views on the Ladyblog from the battle between Spider-Man and that green goon! Isn't that amazing?!" Alya wrapped her arm around Marinette while showing her the video.

"Yeah, I was there too y'know."

"Oh please, I bet you were too busy giving Adrien the googly eyes." Alya teased.

"I so was not!"

"It's a shame I lost the video of Ladybug though. Luckily, I already uploaded it on the Ladyblog."

"Uhh-- about that..." Alya looked at Marinette in confusion. "I... wassoclumsyanddeletethevideoandIdidn'twannatellyoubecauseourrelationshipwouldbebrokenandIamsosorry..."

"I... think I got the gist of what you were tryna say and I gotta say girl, off all the yers I've been with you I know that already and planned for it just incase." Alya said, reassuring Marinette that she felt no strong feelings about it.

"So... does that mean were still friends?"

"Best Friends Forever. Heh, you signed a warrant the day you met me girl! I'm never leaving your side." Alya tossed her arm over her shoulder as they start walking again.

"I don't deserve you.." Marinette shyly said.

"Yep, you kinda don't haha."

6th arrondissement, Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Peter Parker and Captain Stacy went back inside their home. Aunt May opens the door with an upset look. "Where have you two been?" Captain Stacy said he was at work, Peter said the same thing. "Then why weren't the both of you answering any of my calls??"

"I left mine at the basement." Peter said.

"Battery went and died on me." John said.

"How convenient." Gwen said with a sly smile.

"May, can we get inside first? We're a little tired." John said as he starts to yawn.

May moves to the side as Peter went inside first. And as John Stacy went in, he was stopped by May's hand on his chest. "You're tired, right? Then be tired outside!" She pushes him out the entrance and slammed the door on him.

"Guess I'll sleep in the car then..." John sighed in defeat as he walks toward his car.

"You better not ghost me when I'm trying to call you." Gwen smirks at a terrified Peter. "And keep your phone with you next time, you have pockets." Gwen walks towards the stairs.

"I actually didn't..." Peter said, knowing he went out of the house already wearing the costume.

"Hey, Dexter? Are you coming or not?" Gwen said.

"What?"

Gwen then smiles and ooh boy it wasn't an ordinary one. "Come on, lets have fun." She then walked up the stairs, slowly and in a way that made her butt stand out.

"Wait-- are-- are you doing like a thing right now?... Gwen? Gwen."

She threw a shoe down the stairs and Peter needed no explanation. He put the shoe in a corner before going upstairs to her.

"No hanky-panky!" May called out from the living room.

18th arrondissement, Tom and Sabine Boulangerie Patisserie

"Ok, tell me everything..." Marinette said as she stares at Tikki sitting beside her in her bed.

"Well... how do I start? Hmm... I guess we could start with a holder from the past."

"A Ladybug holder from the past? What does that got to do with the indestructible suit: you... ?"

"Well, one of the previous Bug holder was reckless, extravagant, super confident and very much just did whatever he wanted. I can't exactly tell you what happened to him but let's just say that when he found out that he was as you say it 'indestructible', he may have believed he was also unstoppable."

"So... what happened? That still doesn't explain why you lied to me."

"I didn't lie to you, Marinette. I just didn't completely tell you what you were capable of."

"Yeah, and what I can't..." Marinette was still upset of not being able to do anything after the batle with Hydro-Man and she didn't even have the chance to use Lucky Charm against the Mime. Although, it was probably a good thing Mylene's dad wasn't a part of the show anymore.

"Anyway... the previous holder was thinking no one could hurt him. But actually, the suit... Me. I am not indestructible." Tikki continues the story for her reason on keeping secret. Marinette was silent, looking at the kwami beside her, waiting for her to continue, and she did. "The previous holder of the Bug miraculous met the holder of the Black Cat." Tikki stopped for a moment and let out a breath. "They met and it wasn't as funny as when you and Chat met, no, it wasn't funny at all."

"What... what happened." Marinette felt tense.

"The holder for the cat ring was a murder, a serial killer at that. He had no motive or reason to do any of what he did but he just did it because he liked it." Tikki's words held anger in them. "My holder was confident, provoked the madman and suffered the consequences." Tikki lowered her head. "Marinette, I am indestructible in most things but I'm not indestructible to everything. Especially, when it concerns Plagg."

"Plagg?"

"The Kwami of Destruction and Bad Luck." Tikki reveals.

"Chat Noir's Kwami..."

Tikki nods her head in affirmation. " When Plagg's holder met my holder, he just... he just did it. My holder went and give his hand out to him saying: 'Nice to meet my equal.' Then he... he used a knife on him..." Marinette's lips thinned into a line. "And it wasn't any ordinary knife... if it was I could have shielded him from it and took the stab instead. But it was the cat miraculous weapon... there was nothing I could do. He stabbed him! Right through the heart! That readhead maniac didn't deserve to be crea--" Marinette grabbed Tikki and hugged her in her face. Tikki returned the hug. A couple moments passed as they break the hug.

"Tikki, who was he? The black cat holder? He didn't sound fit to be chosen by the ring." Marinette said.

"You're right, he wasn't chosen. He stole it from another previous cat holder. And his name... was Cletus Kasady."

Chapter Text

Peter sits at the front row seats in the classroom blankly staring ahead. It is Parent's Career Day and anyone who knows Peter Parker could understand why he looked so dead inside right now. Gwen, MJ, Liz, Kong and even Flash looked at him with pity. And Peter knows they're looking. Everyone started clapping once Marinette's father finished his speech in front of them. Except for Peter, who was as stiff as a board.

Adrien went inside the classroom with an upset look on his face. Nino tries to comfort Adrien but a single shake of the head from his bro was all he needed to know that Adrien's father isn't coming.

"Marinette will come around and pass out some croissants baked fresh this morning." Tom said as his daugther walks towards her classmates to give each of them free croissants while holding the platter.

"Now, let's meet Alya's mom, who is Head Chef at the Grand Paris Hotel owned by our Mayor, Mr. Bourgeois." Ms. Bustier said.

Marinette looked to see Adrien's expression and was saddened to see him in such distress.

Beside Peter, Chloe opened a round box that held inside a jewelry, showing it to Sabrina.

"It's beautiful!" Sabrina said.

Sabrina took the bracelet that is golden with a swirling pattern surrounded by sapphires that are set between loops into it.

Chloe suddenly took it back. "Look. Don't touch." Chloe said, with a raised brow.

"Put it away Chloe, it could get in the wrong hands." Mayor Bourgeois said.

Chloe puts the jewelry back in the box. She then watches Marinette give Peter a croissant, but Peter didn't move. It got Chloe and Marinette to pause for a moment and Gwen looked worried.

Peter was on a daze. He couldn't hear anything, the ringing in his head was defeaning. He wanted to get out, but he didn't want to cause a scene. Should he have just skipped class? Maybe there's some crime happening right now. He just wants an excuse to get out of here. Peter is overwhelmed. Marinette gave him a croissant and she just gave him a perfect chance to escape.

"Thanks, Marinette." Peter said and Marinette gives him a smile as he starts eating the croissant.

Chloe puts her jewelry box back in her bag but a little green-eyed cat saw the box.

"is that camembert!?" Inside Adrien's bag, Plagg believed that the box held camembert inside due to it's similar design of camembert's box.

Plagg flew over from Adrien to Chloe's bag. He opened the box and there was no sign of camembert. "Don't see any camembert, but it is very shiny." Plagg said, referring to the jewelry inside the box. "I like shiny."

"Unfortunately, I have no dishes to share but maybe Mayor Bourgeois would invite you all to the Hotel and treat you to lunch." Ms. Cesaire said.

Mayor Bourgeois however seemed to not be thrilled at the idea but still showed a smile on his face as Mr. Rogers standing beside him clapped, he laugh joyously at the prospect of getting to eat.

Peter believed it was a perfect time as any to start giving out the best acting scene he could do. "Ughh!!" Peter groans while holding his stomach. "Hey uhh, I'm not feeling well. Teach, can I go to the bathroom?" Peter tries to ignore the look Captain Stacy was giving him.

Meanwhile, Plagg starts playing with the ring by using his head to throwing it upwards over and over. Unfortunately, as Peter was talking, he failed to catch it as he falls and rolls over back to Adrien's desk below and Chloe's bag was knocked on the ground along with all her belongings.

Peter took a step forward and at the same time, Marinette did and a disastrous fall cause both of them to crashed into each other. Their classmates laughed as Peter's face was completely covered by croissants as he laid there on the ground while Marinette chuckles at her own clumsiness.

Ok Spider-sense. Even a croissant isn't enough for you to warn me that danger is coming again, huh?...

"Typical Puny Parker. Hahahahaha!!" Flash kept laughing not noticing Kong eating his croissant.

"Geez! Is there a day when you're not tripping over something?" Chloe said.

"Sorry about that, Peter." Marinette said, helping Peter get up.

"Yeah... same here." Peter got back up but saw the stuffs that were on the floor.

Peter took the books off the floor and notices Chloe taking them too. He gave it to her as her face lit up in suprise. "Ugh! Who told you that your allowed to touch my stuff?!" She grabbed her book back and looked away.

"No problem, Cruella..." Peter said as he then tries to help Marinette get the fallen croissants as Sabrina's father was called for his turn.

"I have been an police officer for 15 years and I firmly believe that every citizen is innocent until proven guilty." Officer Roger said.

Chloe suddenly gasp. "My bracelet, it's gone!" Her father was about to say something among the lines of 'I told you so' but she was faster. "I had it a second ago." Chloe gasps again. "You." She looked to Marinette who was crouching down trying to get the croissants that fell. "You stole it." Chloe accused.

"What? What are you talking about!?" Marinette said as she stood up straight.

Chloe puts her face close to Marinette which caused the girl to back away. "You purposefully tripped on my stuffs so you could steal my bracelet!!"

"That's a stretch." Gwen said.

"You're a policeman, arrest her!" Chloe said.

"My daughter is not a thief." Tom said.

Roger blowed a whistle. "Hold on a minute, Miss Bourgeois. We don't accuse without proof."

"Load of bull." Peter quietly said to himself.

Sheesh. Gwen must be rubbing off on me. And certainly not in that way.

"Now everyone call down, please, maybe you simply misplaced your bracelet." Officer Roger said.

Chloe gasps. "You're calling ME a liar? Daddy..." Chloe calls for her father.

"Roger, search the girl if she's lying." Mayor Bourgeois said, referring to Marinette while he wiped a hand on his face.

"Ha." Chloe said to Marinette giving a look of victory.

"Hey, wait!" Flash stood up. "I know who took it." That got everyone's attention. "Parker took it."

"Oh come on, Flash." Peter said.

"Come on, Parker. I saw you helping her with her stuff, you must have took the stupid jewelry when she wasn't looking." Flash said.

"Key word pal: Helping."

"Alright, alright! Everyone just.... stop pointing fingers." Captain Stacy said.

"Hey DJ, you've been recording the entire thing, right? And even if it was mostly Marinette on the video, I'm betting that there's footage of the bracelet there as well." Gwen said.

Adrien suddenly felt something touch his shoe. He looked down to see Plagg rolling around, trying to get the bracelet off his head. He took Plagg and went out the room.

"I won't bother you with the story it's a long boring--"

"Oh yes you will explain and fast! You realize we have a big problem here, don't you?" Adrien was disappointed at his kwami for being the whole reason this mess started.

"If by big you referring to my rock-hard abs, why thanks for noticing." Plagg joked.

Everyone gathers to see the video on Nino's phone. Nino skipped to the part of the bracelet and saw that Sabrina was the one holding it. Chloe and the others looked at Sabrina.

"Yes! But I gave it back straight after!" Sabrina said.

"Chloe, why don't you take a look in your BFF's bag?" Marinette said.

"So it wasn't Peter. Guess you got it wrong, Flash." Gwen said with a delighted smirk on her face.

"Thank you!" Peter exasperatedly said.

"Are you saying I'm a thief?!" Sabrina said to Marinette.

"Nope, Chloe's the one calling people thieves without any proof. I'm simply going on what's on the video." Marinette said.

Sabrina grits her teeth and turns her back away from everyone, bumping into Nathaniel beside her, making some piles of paper fall down. Nathaniel went to pick most of them up but one paper was left on the ground with a sketch of Chloe's bracelet.

Nathaniel hurriedly took the paper but Chloe and the others already saw it.

"Yes, I did sketch the bracelet, but I didn't do anything else." Nathaniel desperately said to defend himself.

"Yeah, we believe you." Mary Jane said, to which others nod in agreement not seeing Nathaniel as someone capable of stealing.

"Oh so you guys believe he didn't steal it but none of you believed I wouldn't?" Peter said with a raised brow.

"To be fair, Petey. You do steal some lab equipments for some science stuffs you want to do." Liz said.

"Petey?" Gwen repeated with a slight hint of disgust on her voice.

"It was in fourth grade, Liz. And I gave it back eventually." Peter reasoned.

"Uh-- hello? Let's get back on topic here. Marinette stole my bracelet!" Chloe said.

"I didn't!" Marinette said.

"Maybe Flash stole it." Peter said.

"You wanna go, Parker?" Flash said.

"Everyone, I have a suggestion." Captan Stacy's words caused everyone in the room to look at him.

"Dad?"

"Everyone, give me your bags. Both Officer Roger and I will check them and you can trust us since we are police officers." Captain Stacy said.

Peter snorts to which Captain Stacy glared at him. He tried to cover it up by faking a sneeze but Gwen was also getting on his nerves as his daughter was trying not to burst out laughing.

What was even funny about what he said? Captain Stacy thought.

"Hey, aren't we forgeting someone?" Max and Kim called out to the crowded group. "Adrien is missing. He was at least 4 and 1 point 2 seconds of that video."

"And we haven't seen him since." Kim finished.

"No, no way it could be Adrien." Marinette biasedly said.

"Adrikins is rich. He can buy that bracelet anytime he wanted to." Chloe said.

"What would a guy like Adrien want a bracelet for anyway?" Mary Jane said.

"Ok then." Peter stood up as everyone gave him space to move and take his bag.

"Where are you going?" Alya asked.

Peter doesn't respond and walks towards Captain Stacy from the other side of the room and gives him his bag.

"We should just get a bag check and see if someone does have it or not. If no one actually stole it then we've got nothing to hide, right?" Peter smiles as everyone seemed to have found a compromise.

Everyone begins to give both Captain Stacy and Officer Roger their bag. Two lines were made for the gender of the students. The boys on Captain Stacy and the girls on Officer Roger.

Half of the class had been checked and by the time Adrien had finally got the ring off of Plagg, everyone was already in their seat and that no one seemingly had the bracelet. "Well... guess the bracelet is still missing."

"I'm telling you, Dupain-Cheng stole it!" Chloe accused.

"They already checked my bag, Chloe. I don't have your stupid bracelet." Marinette said, a slight hint of anger in her voice.

Chloe was quiet and suddenly looked upset instead of being angry. "I want my bracelet back..."

"What's going on?" Everyone looked to see that Adrien had just entered the classroom.

"Dude, where have you been?" Nino asked.

"Hey, his bag wasn't checked yet. Maybe he actually did take it." Kim said.

Adrien took a moment and realized that everyone had gotten their bags checked and none of them had the bracelet because he had it. At the same time, Plagg realized it too. And the Kwami decided to take matters into its own hands.

"I- Uh..." Adrien was trying to come up with something to say but now that he thinks about it, the bracelet isn't in his bag so even if they did check it, they still wouldn't find the bracelet. "Sure... you can check my bag. I'll go get it." Adrien walks towards his desk and gets his bag. But as he was doing so, Plagg slipped out of his clothes and sneakily flew towards Chloe's bag with the jewel in hand.

Everyone lookes at him in anticipation, worry and suspicion. "Here." Adrien hands his bag over to Captain Stacy and the man begins to check inside for the missing bracelet.

A moment passed as everyone was on edge if Adrien Agreste really did steal Chloe Bourgeois's belongings.

"No. Not here." Captain Stacy announced which made some sigh in relief and others groan in frustration.

"So, who has it then?" Kong asked.

"You probably ate it on accident." Flash said.

"Dude..."

Plagg had put the bracelet back inside the box but then an idea came to mind. The Kwami of Destruction snickers with a mischievous grin. Plagg pushes the bag, it falls over to one side as Chloe's stuff scatters on the floor once again.

Once Adrien sat back on his seat. Chloe's bag fell as she sighs in annoyance. She looked and everyone saw that her bracelet was on the floor. "My bracelet!" Chloe held her bracelet tightly and put it back inside the box.

"So, it was with you all along..." Peter said.

Chloe flushes in embarassment that she believed she was robbed but she was actually just a fool.

"Is there something you'd like to say to your classmates, Chloe?" Ms. Bustier questioned.

"I-- uh-- nothing! What would I have anything to say of? They didn't do anything." Chloe said as she huffs, ignoring everyone.

Most of the students sighed, it was acceptable enough for them that at the very least Chloe acknowledge they didn't steal her bracelet. They had expected an apology like that from Chloe. But it wasn't enough to those who hadn't had a run-in with the Mayor's daughter. Specifically, Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy. Both of them held a scornful look at Chloe Bourgeois.

Peter however was thrilled that her bracelet went missing because it had distracted him and everyone else long enough from the fact that today is Parent's Career Day. This entire problem had the entire period wasted and cut short. Peter exhales from his nose with a small smile on his face, relieved that the period was over.

Peter washes his face in the boys restroom. He was thinking about what happened yesterday.

The Vulture said that a bounty was on his head but who had the money to order such a hit?

Peter had thought of anyone he previously know as Spider-Man to know whoever ordered the bounty... but one glaring thought on his head shook him, and the clues were there. Vulture came from OsCorp.

Could it have come from OsCorp?

A guy screamed in shock and everyone in the bathroom looked to see Marinette at the door of the boys restroom as she hastily runs out.

Peter walks past Max, who was watching something from his phone. "...Oscorp." Peter stops as he watches to see what was on Max's phone without Max noticing.

"The Oscorp of today is evolving and innovative technology needs a guiding hand." Peter raised a brow as the video continues. "Under the direction of Doctor Alistair Smythe, the betterment and security of human life has become our one goal. His mastery of nanotechnology and macro-robotics will guide Oscorp Industries to a better and brighter tomorrow." The video shows a newspaper of the Daily Bugle. The New Face of OsCorp. "Nanobots..." The voice changed as the one speaking was now Alistaire Smythe himself. "What are they? Imagine a robot. Now imagine four hundred of them, standing on a dime. A microscopic army working on a molecular level. Their size is their strength, and their potential is limitless." Peter was suprised by that and the scientist in him was geeking out. "The leadership of Doctor Alistair Smythe will usher in a new era of progress for Oscorp, and mankind." The voice switches to the female A.I. and back to Smythe. "Oscorp. A new company with the name you trust."

Ok, now that sounded suspicious. Time to pay the new director a visit.

1st arrondissement, Oscorp Tower

(Are you in, soldier?)

"I'm in, sir." A woman responded to her ear piece.

(Good. Keep on task, Agent Hill.)

"Always, Colonel Fury." Agent Hill said.

Hill wore a business suit as she infiltrates Oscorp Tower. The place looked as well as the Triskelion. She was impressed to say the least, OsCorp Industries really is a rival of Stark Industries.

She had passed the research facilities, robotics labs and living quarters, she was getting close to the biolabs and close to the genetics lab.

Spider-Man swings towards Oscorp Tower and he's getting close, he can see the tower straight up ahead. The citizens below him sees him swinging away as they are at awe of who they saw.

Agent Hill stops at the aviation facility. Her lips held a thinned line. She shakes her head and walks away with her head down.

Spider-Man had landed and crawled up to the top of Oscorp. He breaks open a yellow vent. "Just use the convenient access to the ventilation system to get inside... and then Alistair and I can have a little chat." Spidey crawls inside the ventilation system, webbing the windmills inside to stop the momentum so he can get inside.

Spider-Man crawls and sees a bunch of mechanized spider robots moving around the entire facility. "Woah, guess the advertisement about four hundred robots were real. And I'm not complaining about the spider design, pretty neat." Spidey keeps moving and sees a large spider-like robot in a containment cell. "Wow, I know he's like a 'nanobot guy', but I had no idea he had big bots too."

Agent Hill stares at the man in front of her. Doctor Alistair Smythe held a smile in his face. "You work for S.H.I.E.L.D., I've seen you on TV. During the battle against Hydra, you were running away from the rampaging Hulk. I know exactly what you're here for. And I will show it to you, I trust that everything you see will be in the strictest confidence."

"And you think that if you show me this, S.H.I.E.L.D. would just turn a blind eye?..." Agent Hill said.

"Do you even have to ask?" Smythe said.

Hill knew that even when S.H.I.E.L.D. knows about something that doesn't mean they have the authority to do something about it. And Smythe apparently knows it too.

"Well then, shall we start our tour, Agent? Follow me." Smythe turns away from her as he then walks forward as the door in front of him opens.

Both Hill and Smythe didn't notice Spider-Man above them as he follows them inside the vents. What Spider-Man saw next had him remember what Connors said during that night with Eddie. 'There's been somewhat of a rash of genetic tampering of people trying to be more than they really are.'

"And the rash is spreading..." Spider-Man muttered.

A sleek, high-tech laboratory filled with containments and housing various monsters.

"The species in this facility are incredibly dangerous and highly contagious. Hence the Containment Units." Smythe said.

Maria Hill looks at the experiment in disgust. The experiment stares back at her. Hill glances at Smythe, missing the experiment looking up above her head. "What are these things called? Are they superhuman?"

"No, my dear. They're not radiation based, they are genetically altered. They are more beast than 'super'. They are called cross-species." Smythe grew serious. "They are walking diseases. Any direct contact with them leads to infection. Infection leads to death... or becoming a cross-species yourself."

"How many of them have you made..." Hill stared at the madman in front of her.

"Too many. But if you want me to be exact, then over 30 cross-species have been made. I've named some of them and even controlled some."

"Control them? How do you mean?" Hill asked, she has a feeling she's not gonna like the answer.

"By using my nanobots. I gave them technological suits that keeps them calm and controlled instead of the wild beast they are."

"How many tech suit did you use on your so called cross-species experiments...?" Hill needed all the information she could get and Smythe was seemingly willing to hand it all to her.

"I assure you that everything is under control, Agent. As to how many of them I have, why don't I just show you? Come." Smythe walks forward as Hill follows.

Spider-Man slowly breaks open the vents as he sticks at the ceiling of the room. Spidey looks to see one of the cross species staring up with it's head, creepily standing like a mannequin as it's tail freezes upwards.

Oh, man. Is it just me or is that cross species staring right at me?...

Below, Smythe was showing Hill three of his experiments locked inside a containment pod. "This is a cross-species of an Iguana. It was difficult to find as these creatures mostly reside from the east."

Hill felt distain for all of this and felt sick to stay her any longer but she has to stay a little while longer. Her earpiece is recording everything he's saying and her contacts held cameras in them for Colonel Fury to see.

"The next one is a little bit more tame and one of, if not, my best experiment yet. A mix of human and cat DNA. This is the Black Cat." Smythe shows a beautiful silver haired young woman in the pod wearing a tech suit seemingly in slumber.

That's one tech enhanced cross-species. So, where are the rest... Hill thought.

"And this is... well, I don't like this one. Not one bit and I hope that it never wakes up again." Smythe said.

Hill looked at the cross species that got Smythe's confidence down. It's skin was white, it's body nearly as skinny as a skeleton, it's long black hair covers most of his face but the nose could still be seen and it looks eerily familiar to a vampire, but there wasn't any way Smythe could have gotten a DNA from a real-life vampire.

"Why? What kind of cross-species is that? Is it dangerous?" Hill said, she knows everything here is dangerous but to see him act like everything was in control was getting her a bit annoyed but now he acts like this to one experiment? That's concerning.

"Dangerous? Everything here could be dangerous." Smythe chuckles. "But no, this one... this one is deadly. That hybrid specimen is unique and that's something I'm getting ready to dispose of."

"Excuse me, Dr. Smythe, I need someone with special clearance to help me take this down to B Sector." One of the scientist asked.

Agent Hill looks to see another cross-species in a containment pod being moved to another part of this lab.

"I-- uh don't have time for this..."

"Well, if you don't then maybe I could lend a time of my hand." All three were in suprise to see Spider-Man periching on his web upside-down, staring at the three of them.

"What in the good goddamn is he doing there!?!?" Nick Fury watches the scene in Hill's eyes and he doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"So this is the part where your suppose to say: yes Spider-Man please escort this experiment to another room." Everyone remained silent. "No? Ok then how about me and lady agent over there do it together, I think that would be swell."

Smythe cleared his throat. "Ahem. I'm sorry, but you're not suppose to be here. I'm gonna have to ask you to leave, Spider-Man." Smythe puts his hand behind his back as he taps a button at the cuffs edge on his business suit. It didn't go unnotice by Agent Hill.

"Aw, but I just got here. I don't wanna leave just yet." Spider-Man said.

"What exactly are you here for, Spider-Man?" Smythe asked.

"I wanted to come here and have a little chat with you but after everything I saw here, the chat might have just been dropped. I'm just gonna ask one question instead." Spider-Man drops down from his web.

"And what would that be?" Smythe asked.

"What is all of this going to accomplished? How could this benefit mankind? I saw the ad so I think that's what your going for or is it all a hoax?" Spider-Man questioned.

"These are the future. Eradicating diseases, rebuilding tissues, unlocking the secrets of evolution itself... To save humanity." Smythe smiles at Spider-Man.

"You got a clean face but your just like every other arrogant corporate nutjob and I'm gonna--" Before Spider-Man could finish talking, the cross-species behind him woke up and becomes agitated. The Doctor screams in shock and takes a few steps back.

Spider-Man looks behind him and as the glassy white eyes of his maks stares at the hybridized creature. The act caused a trigger between the two. For Spidey it was his spider-sense blaring, for the creature, it made it more primal and chaotic, snarling at Spider-Man and without warning, he smashes through the reinforced glass of his cage as Spidey backflips away. Spidey notices the tail with the specimen and realized what kind of cross-species it was. "A Scorpion."

The act caused a chain reaction between the other cross-species. Those who were asleep were woken up and those who were already awake broke out of their own cages.

Alarms blare. Red emergency lights flash. Chaos erupts.

"Fury... backup." Hill whispered.

(On it... Maria.)

"I can take care of myself, Fury. Just get backup here as fast as you can!" Agent Hill said.

"They're all breaking out! Everyone, evacuate now!!" Smythe screamed out as every single scientist and guards ran out of the laboratory.

"Hamanahamana comes to mind." Spider-Man said as the experiment from before jumps down beside the one that just broke free in front of him. "Okay, so that's most definitely a vermin. I've read history." Three containment pods were destroyed and the glass from each are scattered across the floor.

Spider-Man looked to see the Iguana staring him down, The Black Cat holding her head as she hisses, struggling to stand upright and the one Smythe kept making sure that it never wakes up made a sound. The sound the pale man made terrified Spider-Man. A hiss and it wasn't the hiss of the cat beside the creature no, that hiss was different. It's eyes looked straight at Spider-Man, hunger evident in them but it's eyes were what scared Spider-Man the most. Red demonic eyes, normal teeths turning into fangs as he keeps hissing and demonic claws sprouts out. A vampire.

"Damn it... Morbius is free." Smythe said in another room as he watches along with some scientist from a reinforced glass.

Spider-Man is cornered against 5 cross-species and just when Spidey thought things couldn't get any worse, a giant Rhino barreled inside the laboratory and sets it's eyes on him.

Maria Hill sees that the Rhino was wearing a tech suit too. "That takes two." Hill runs towards Spidey as she was now back to back to each other. "Don't think you're alone, kid! I'm here with you and Fury's sending backups!" Maria Hill stands beside Spidey as both the Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Spider-Man of Paris tries to survive against the genetic monsters.

Chapter Text

Spider-Man and Agent Maria Hill are surrounded by six cross-species.

A Scorpion, A Rhino, A Vermin, A hot Black Cat Lady, An Iguana and a fucking vampire!! What on Gods earth was Smythe thinking!?!

Spider-Man was panicking, he'd never been this scared before. The only time he was ever this close to peeing in his costume was his first fight against Norman. "I am so scared I can't even think of a joke..."

Spidey's words caused a trigger to the cross-species. The Rhino was the first to lunge at him. Maria Hill ducked away while Spider-Man jumped on the Rhino's head.

Vermin looked over to the agent and back at Spider-Man then back at Hill. The Vermin smiles as he jumps at her but Spidey saw him and webbed Vermin's eyes making him squeak.

The Black Cat shuts her eyes in pain from her head due to her abrupt awakening. "Where... where am I? What...?" She opens her eyes to see Spider-Man fighting two animal-looking monsters. She moved her hand away from her head and she stops, the strands of her hair is in her hand, she was shock at the color of her hair... it was white. She looked down at the shattered glass all over the floor, her face reflecting on each of them. Her pupils changing from round to slit as the color of her eyes keep flashing from blue to green.

"This is your end, little spider!" Rhino said.

"You talk!?" Spidey said, suprised.

Scorpion jumps at Spider-Man from behind, he whirls his body back for his tail to land a hit.

Spider-Man's spider sense activated as it warns him of the attack, he jumps off of Rhino as Scorpion's attack misses the intended target, hitting Rhino instead.

Rhino gruffs from the hit but his eyes still set on Spidey. "Heh, I'm gonna enjoy ripping you to pieces."

"Leave him to me, Rhino. After all, I was made to be a match for him." Scorpion said.

"A match? Heh, buddy, you're not even on the radar for my big scary looking supervillain gallery. You're third-rate at best." Spider-Man said

"Raaagh!!" Scorpion screams in anger as he charges into battle against Spider-Man.

Meanwhile, Vermin had been battling Hill, dodging her S.H.I.E.L.D ray guns by crawling on walls and keeping away from her at a safe distance as he tries to find an opening.

Hill kept shooting ray blast at him. Vermin's speed was incredible, she can't seem to land a hit on him. Suddenly, the fight ended as Vermin had jumped behind her. Hill whipped back, striking with her left leg but he grabbed it and bit her leg. "Aggghhhhh!!" The pain caused her balance to break as she fell on the glass shattered floor, piercing her arms.

Spider-Man blocked Scorpion's tail, he heard a scream and looks to see Hill on the ground in pain, holding her leg that has a clear open flesh wound. "No!" Spider-Man grabbed hold of Scorpion's tail and spuns himself around throwing Scorpion at Vermin, knocking them both away.

"Get off me, you vermin!" Scorpion said in anger, pushing Vermin off him.

"Fuck... you." Vermin said, before standing up himself.

Hill was trying to stay conscious, the pain and her will are the only thing keeping her awake. She remembered what Smythe said. 'They are walking diseases. Any direct contact with them leads to infection. Infection leads to death... or becoming a cross-species yourself.' She had to stay awake, and find a cure. If there even is one.

A loud hiss was heard, stopping every cross-species on their tracks.

Rhino's instinct told him to hide.

Vermin's instinct told him to run, run away. The same feeling courses through Black Cat, she too felt the need to run, run as far away from where she is standing right now and as fast as she possibly can because she... is the one closest to the danger.

But the one who felt it most of all, was Spider-Man. His body was instinctively prepared to shoot his webs at the monster to defend himself.

It caught the entire cross-species attention in the room. Morbius... is hungry.

Morbius stared at them and they stared back. Morbius looked around the room, he sees a human scientist being eaten by a humanoid Iguana and those dead that were on the ground, stood up and turned into monsters similar to the one's that are in this particular part of the room. But the annoying thing is... none of them smells good and that means, none of them taste delicious. Morbius was about to start walking away, but then, he heard a distinct heartbeat and look at Maria Hill, who is laying on the floor in pain. She smells mildly like the other monsters but she also smells... delicious. Fresh. Metal. Human.

Rhino, Black Cat and Vermin had put their entire strength on their feet, ready, for whatever may this demon do. Ready, to run.

Scorpion however, was different, he was waiting to see if this guy was up on his level. A predator himself, he could recognize the danger. So, he waits, waits to see what the vampire will do. A predator to another is just a sign for a death battle. And he won't start a brawl he's not a hundred percent sure he can win. It's too risky.

In a sudden act, Morbius defied gravity and flew up meters from the ground. The act caused Iguana, who saw Morbius from an elevated area, to stiffen in fear.

Maria slowly looks up to see an inhumanely white skinned face floating above her and everyone else. Morbius and Agent Hill lock eyes and in a swift moment, faster than most of them could even process, Morbius charged himself towards Maria Hill. But Spider-Man reacted faster and tackled him inches away from Maria as they crash into a wall.

That was que for the cross-species to run. Rhino runs towards a steel wall forcing a way out for him. Black Cat ran, much faster than she ever could before and . Scorpion tears through a reinforced steel door by using his tail as Iguana follows suit, and they all have one thing on their mind... escaping Oscorp Tower.

Back to Morbius and Spider-Man, Their fight had been stopped on a struggle. Spider-Man had his right arm on Morbius's neck, keeping him away from biting his neck. His left arm held Morbius's left wrist as Morbius's right arm grabbed his jaw, forcibly tilting his head to the side.

Cold. His breath... is so cold. He feels cold. Can't... get him... off. Get. Him. Off!!

"Aaarrrgh!!" Spider-Man tilts his right wrist and shoots a web to Morbius's eyes before punching him in the face and kicking him away.

Morbius crashed on another steel wall. His stomach growls and saliva leaves his lips in gritted teeth. He's getting hungrier and weaker by the second.

"Y'know... you're more like a rabid dog than a vampire when you act like that." Spidey jokes

Morbius slowly floats forward and Spider-Man readies himself for an attack. Morbius charges at him and then turns trying to leave the facility. "Oh no, you don't!" Spider-Man shoots a web and as it makes contact on Morbius's ankle, he held onto the web tightly as Morbius flew in a motion of a zig-zag circle around the facility as Spidey gets dragged around by the living Vampire.

Some of the once dead scientist turned cross-species notices Spidey and tries to attack him. Spider-Man tries to keep a grip on his web while trying to not get grabbed by any of them. But as he was kept high on the air, he noticed below that a bunch of cross-species is swarming a badly injured Agent Hill.

Spider-Man has to make a choice, let go of the web and letting Morbius escape or... stick to the web and let Agent Hill die or become a cross-species as well. And the choice was obvious, Spider-Man must save people and that's exactly what he's gonna do. Spider-Man uses Morbius' momentum and lets go of the web as the Vampire flies out a broken steel door, the one Scorpion destroyed.

As Spider-Man is falling, he webs the back of Maria's business clothes and shoots another web at the ceiling, he then pulls his web on the agent, yanking her off the ground and towards him, he grabs and holds her by the side as Spidey swings out of the facility and breaking through Oscorp's security.

Spider-Man went to the top and saw the door to the rooftop of the Oscorp Tower and he runs towards it, carrying Agent Hill on his arms and kicking the door open. He puts her down as the sun shines on them both.

"Thank you." Maria Hill said.

"All in a days work." Spider-Man said.

Hill tried standing up but her leg was still badly damaged. Spider-Man watches as she groan in pain and falling back down on her butt. "You should probably stay here and we can have a little heart to heart talk about all this." Maria Hill glances at Spider-Man before she sighs.

"Take off your mask." Hill asked.

"No."

"I allready know who you are, I just wanna see your face." Hill said.

"What?... How-- how did... Did he tell you?" Peter asked, in slight anger and betrayal.

"Fury didn't tell anyone, I know for a different reason." Hill said and smiled.

"How do you know my secret Identity? Only Fury knows who I am (and Norman Osborn) So how did you know if he didn't tell you who I am!?" Peter wanted answers, his identity is at jeopardy because a bunch of random S.H.I.E.L.D. agents just happen to know who Spider-Man is behind the mask because they are spies for THE spy of spies.

"Please." Hill said, asking once more for Spider-Man to take off his mask.

Peter sighs, there's not really a point in hiding in it since she already knows. He takes off his mask and brown hair flows from the wind as blue eyes shine along with the sun behind it. Hill smiled and she looked... proud. Proud at him.

"What?"

"Come here." Hill gestures with her hand for Peter to come closer and he did. Peter leaned down to her level. Hill cusps her hand on Peter's face as he slightly flinched, the sting from Morbius' grip on his jaw still lingers. Her touch felt... comforting but the fact that she's from S.H.I.E.L.D. kept Peter from leaning into the touch. "You look just like your father."

Her words caused Peter's mouth to part and looks at her in suprise and disbelief. "You-- wait wait hold on-- you knew them." Peter didn't even realize he was smiling when she nodded her head. "Can-- can you tell me what they were like? What my mother was like?"

"You were such a cute little boy when you were a baby." Hill said, before chuckling at Peter's excitement of wanting to know more about her friends, his parents.

"I'm still cute."

"And you have a good sense of humor too... You've grown to be such a good boy, your parents would be proud." Hill said.

Peter smiles at her. "I guess it's good to know that there is at least one good S.H.I.E.L.D. agent out there."

"Shh. You can't say that, he'll hear you." Hill said, smiling.

"He should. And if he says otherwise, then he's lying." Peter said, they both know who they were referring to.

Peter looks at the wound from Vermin on her leg and looked at his wrist. "Hey.... this might sting but it would help ease the bleeding. On the count of three..." Peter shoots his web at the wound covering it so the blood doesn't leave her body.

Hill grits her teeth at the feeling of the webs touching her torn skin and lets out a breath once Peter stopped. "Thanks, Peter. But we both know this isn't over."

Hill looked serous and Peter did too. "This... is just the beginning of this, genetic nightmare. You may have been the first and truth be told, the only successful superhuman in all of France, possibly all of Europe but you will certainly not be the last."

"What do you mean? The Fantastic Four exist and they're superhuman, and they don't seem to be crazy like the rest in France." Peter said, perplexed by the notion that he was the first one. Captain America existed and so did the Hulk, though Peter could guess why the Hulk wasn't called as she says it: 'successful'.

"No, Peter. You're smart, like your father. I bet you've read the works of Reed Richards. You know their powers weren't made by man. You're special, Peter, more than you can ever imagine." Hill's words were starting to bring a chill that Peter wishes he didn't feel coursing through his spine. He looked back at her and for a second, her eyes looked pleading. But she held a focused gaze at him instead.

"These men of power, Peter, they won't stop. They just keep making more and more of the same mistake. Norman Osborn, Conners, and now Smythe. There are way too many people who want to be more than what they are and I get that, to an extent, I get those feelings too... that sometimes you just aren't content with your life." Hill held regret and Peter could see it in her eyes, he knows and understand about that feeling all too well.

"But... to be so greedy that they would turn themselves into monsters just to be better than they are now is just... it's just wrong..." Hill lets the tears stream down her face. "God didn't make us just to be mistakes."

Peter was quiet. He didn't know how to respond to all of this, he didn't know what to make of it. He's heard this speech before and now, he's hearing it again. "I get it. People get these powers and they think of doing something they want to do with it, not what it could do for others. I used to think like that too... but not anymore, I'll never look the other way again. And I promise you, that I will stop everything that's happening here." Peter's eyes show determination. His words were too good to be true, but she believes him and gives her hope.

"Thank you, Spider-Man." Hill said, in gratitude, thankful that at least one person hasn't forgotten the goodness of the human heart.

Suddenly, a helicopter flew by and Peter immediately put his mask back on, then it lands in front of them and out came The Black Widow.

Hill wipes the tears off her face as Natasha glances at Spider-Man and carries Hill towards the helicopter. "Wait!" Natasha stops at Hill's words. Hill looks to Spider-Man. "Kick their butt, hero." Spider-Man gives her a nod at that. Natasha carries her inside the helicopter and they leave as Spider-Man is left on the rooftop.

"Mary... your son is too good for this world." Hill said in a whisper, she sat on the side of the helicopter looking towards Natasha sitting beside the pilot...Hawkeye. Somehow, she feels a bit... itchy.

Chapter Text

Three Months Ago

"I hate this."

"S.H.I.E.L.D. procedure after any public--"

"I know, I know. I was just offering my opinion. That being I hate this."

Sharon Carter sat on a chair in an empty room. Her hand placed on a yellow circle on the table to detect any lie coming out of her mouth as S.H.I.E.L.D. interviews her. Sharon's long red hair was messy, her tie was loose, there was dirt on her face and her white formal shirt had a tear on her left shoulder.

"Please state your name and rank for the record."

"Yeah... Sharon Carter, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Class 5." Agent Carter said.

"How long have you been an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Ms. Carter?"

"Whazit, June? So six years next month." Sharon said.

"How would you describe your duties?"

"I answer directly to General Nick Fury. Or at least I did until general Fury put together his super team." Sharon Carter is referring to the Avengers. "I do specialized field work... investigating public disturbances related to illegal, unnatural, genetic mutations."

"What is the definition of an-- what was it?"

"An illegal, unnatural, genetic mutation." Sharon answered..

"And how is that defined?"

"An unnatural genetic mutation is someone who purposely alters their genetic makeup. Most of my cases involve either stopping illegal experiments once something is happening... or investigating the whereabouts of the actual subjects of the illegal experiments." Sharon said, her face growing serious.

"And it was that kind of investigation that brought you and your team out to Le Mans last night?"

"Yes."

"And for the record, what was the name of your target?"

"Otto Octavius. You can read the files on Octavius. But at this point he was officially an escaped, violent, illegal genetic mutation. S.H.I.E.L.D. was on his trail immediately! But for someone with four, huge metal arms surgically grafted to his body and no money to his name... he was doing a pretty good job keeping out of sight until he wanted to be heard from. Yeah, he called a press conference at Hammer's Le Mans installation. My mission was very clear in that we were to bring Octavius in as quicky and quietly as possible... and he goes and calls a press conference!! Which, in turn,becomes just about the biggest circus you could imagine! Most networks covering it live!! And starring none other than that other illegal, genetic mutation you know as Spider-Man. Needless to say, I was a little fermished."

"For those just joining us, the scene here in front of Hammer Industries has become a full out super hero battle royale!"

"This is a nightmare." Sharon Carter watches in her truck the Live feed between the battle of Doctor Octopus vs Spider-Man. "A nightmare."

"Spider-Man has again leapt to the rescue of Justin Hammer and this crowd of gathered reporters."

" 'Crowd of gathered reporters' ladies and gentlemen!!" Sharon sarcastically said.

"I cannot think of another time when the press was front seat to such amazing display as this--" The video shows Spider-Man punching Doc Ock clean in the face.

"Uh, Agent Carter...?" One of the agents calls for her. "Fury is on the line."

"Tell him I'm already in the field."

"She's already-- uh, yes, sir." The agent was hesitant for a moment but repeats what Fury said on the comms. "He says he is watching it on TV and unless that's you in the Spider-Man costume you better get on the phone."

"By the time we got on the scene, it was over. Spider-Man beat the snot out of Doc Ock. Koncked him unconcious. (Which I did appreciate.) The press was mostly still hanging around and why wouldn't they? Plus the Le Mans Police and the SAMU were on the scene. There were all kinds of other commotion. But my primary concern was the Hammer genetic laboratory that we didn't even know existed until Doc Ock pointed it out to us... on TV!"

S.H.I.E.L.D. agents have arrived outside one of Hammer's laboratories along with Agent Carter. "I called for backup. What's your reading?"

"Handful of life signs. You want to raid the place?" Jimmy said.

"After the mess we made of this, we better come back with something." Agent Carter said.

"Fury is going to eat our faces." Agent Woo said.

"He's going to eat my face. We can't come back empty-handed." Agent Carter said.

"Just a handful of life signs." Agent Woo repeated as they went inside the laboratory.

"Guys..."

"We know."

"No shooting unless..."

"We know."

As Agent Carter along with her partner, Agent Woo with some other masked S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, they noticed a broken steel door and went inside.

Three scientist watch in a computer at the aftermath of the battle between Spider-Man and Doc Ock.

"We seem to have lost the feed from Le Mans, but we are going to replay you the comments Spider-Man..."

"Aw, man..."

"Should we peek our heads out and see?"

"Yo, man, I'm not going out there. I don't get paid enough to--"

"Uh, guys..."

"Spider-Man. What do you think his genetic-- ?"

"Guys!"

All three looked behind to see S.H.I.E.L.D pointing their guns at the scientists. "Hands up!" Sharon walks closer to them with Woo accompanying her. "Who else is in the building?"

"N- no one. We had-- everyone took off."

"Octavius came in here before and really scared the crap out of--"

"Why didn't you run away?" Sharon asked.

"We live here."

"You live here?" Sharon said in disbelief that someone would dedicate themselves to something this horrendous.

"I'm not leaving our experiment." One of the sceintist said.

"Shut up!" One of them shouted at his co-worker who slipped.

"What experiment?" Agent Carter said.

"Uh, Agent Carter. There's--" One of her agents called out to her. "You might wanna take a look..."

Sharon looked at a steel door and only a small glass window was designed to it, she looked inside and saw a naked yellowish brown haired man sitting alone in the room.

She looked back at the three scientist. "The hell is this?! What is this man doing locked up like this?"

"That's--" The one that spilled before was about to again but the other scientist stopped him.

"Shut up, Dwayne." One of them revealed the snitch's name.

"We-- we want our lawyer."

"Hello?" Sharon knocks on the steel door and calls out for the man inside but he couldn't her hear, the room was sound proof.

"So, if you're looking for something to blame me for all of this... this would be it."

"Can you open the door or--" Sharon asked.

"I'm pullling up his file and I-- oh, here it is." Agent Woo smiles as he cracks the code to opening the steel door. "I got it. Here."

The steel door slides open and Sharon Carter looks at the man inside and so does he. "Hello, I'm S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Sharon Carter. What's uh-- What's your name?" The man raised his brow at her.

"His name's Flint Marko." Agent Woo answered.

"Flint? What are you doing here? Do you speak English?" Sharon asked.

Flint Marko stares at her with no verbal response.

"Uh, Sharon..."

Agent Woo's words caused Agent Carter to look back. She then saw the look of fear on the three scientists, she turned back around, her gun aimed at Flint Marko but it was too late.

Sand floods the entire laboratory as Flint Marko escapes the scene.

"Agent Woo?!!" Sharon calls out to her comrade.

"I'm here! I got-- AGH!"

Woo was fine but another S.H.I.E.L.D. agent wasn't. His mask was torn open and sand covered the insides of his mouth, he was choke to death by sand. The scientist hid behind their desk in fear.

"OKAY, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT??!!" Sharon Carter screamed at the three scientist.

"His file reads-- and this is, of course after the fact-- The file reads: Flint Marko-- career piece of crap. He was sent to Fleury-Merogis for fifty years for the single worst crime spree I have ever seen. He tried to rob a Audi car, failed, ran away, went home, beat up his wife... (In what I guess was frustration over the botched job.) The cops came on a call from the neighbors, Marko beat up one of the cops, out him into the hospital. Eventually, the cop dies. So, all that adds up to about the most disgusting human being I have ever heard of and fifty years in Fleury-Merogis. How he got into Hammer's custody for genetic experimentation is under investigation, but one could guess money changed hands. Deals were made. Marko had undergone a smattering of genetic tests and experiments-- (You'll find the specifics enclosed in the specs report from Hammer's lab.) But as it stands his project, Codeword: Sandman, says it all. He is able to manipulate his DNA into an organic sand-like quantity. What this has done to his brain, we don't know yet. As he hasn't spoken. But now I had an agent down and this Sandman was officially on the loose!"

"Oh, my God!! Woo," Sharon coughs out sand. "Collar those geeks!! They're under arrest!!" Sharon referred to the three scientist. "Everyone else arm yourselves and follow--" Sharon coughs again. "Do not hesitate to--" But as they ran outside Sharon's face contorting from determination to hopelessness.

"Mainschewitz grape juice!!" Spider-Man is battling the Sandman in the middle of the streets as police cars are thrown and destroyed like toys. "No wonder no one likes the Le Mans!! You guys are freaks!!" Spider-Man jumps and splits mid-air, evading Sandman's attacks. "Literally!"

"So, yes, that's when I knew I had lost any and all control over the situation."

"I mean, what kind of--" Sandman had landed a hit on Spider-Man as he crashes on to the S.H.I.E.L.D. truck that held Otto Octavius captive. The crash made the truck off-balance as an unconcious Otto and a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent fall out of the truck.

"O- on the ground, Marko!! NOW!!" Sharon ordered, pointing her ray gun at him.

Marko glances at her and she immediately shoots, the ray blast pierced right through Marko, making him groan in pain... and in anger. Marko attacks them with a wave of sand as they got buried in them.

"Hey, beach boy!! Quick question..." Marko looked to see Spider-Man with a firefighter holding a water hose. "Can you do the math?" Spidey pulls the lever and shoots at Marko as he seemingly melts down to from his construct sand to an ordinary pile of one.

Spider-Man stops and went to check on Agent Carter. "Good freakin' Lord! What was that??" He grabbed her out of the sand. "Seriously, what was that?"

"C- c- can't breathe. I-- oh, my God..."

"Come on, let me..." Sharon held a look of shock. "What?" Spider-sense activated as Spider-Man turns around to see Sandman looming over them, enraged.

"GET OUTTA HERE!!" Spider-Man screamed out as he throws Agent Carter away while dodging Sandman's attacks "Hey, listen, I totally understand what's wrong, man... I feel your pain. I had a llitle sand in my shoe once and it drove me crazy all-- AAHHH!" Spider-Man slips from the floor as Sandman grew a crazed smile and envelops Spider-Man in sand. "I can't-- AAGGHH!! Ppfftt!! Ccaaahhh!!"

Sandman held Spider-Man under his hand while his other arm is raised up, turning into a large sand hammer. And as he was about to smash Spider-Man a loud seismic sound hurt his brain. "YYAARRGGGHHHH!!" Sandman was knocked out, laying unconcious on the sand floor.

Spider-Man got out of the sand as Agent Carter stood up to see Agent Woo holding a gun to one of the scientist, who shot the Sandman with the seismic gun.

"How long will that keep him?" Agent Woo asked the scientist.

"I- I- I don't know. Ten minutes maybe. W- we only used it once before."

"You're under arrest for the illegal--"

"I- I know."

"I thought you left." Sharon said.

"Believe me, I wish I did." Spider-Man said.

Spider-Man spits out sand from his mouth. "But I have realized I have no idea where I am. I never come to Le Mans." He spits out more sand. "I came back to hitch a ride on somebody's roof.

"Needless to say this is a bit of a shocker. What was this?" Spider-Man asked.

"Sorry, National Security." Sharon said.

"Whatever." Spider-Man opens the bottom part of his spandex. "Ecch-- I have sand in certain places I'd rather not discuss. I just-- listen, I need a ride back to the city."

"Well, I kinda got my hands full here, kid." Sharon said, looking away.

"Didn't I, like, just save your life?"

"Maybe, yeah, thanks."

"I can't have a ride home?" Spider-Man looked back to see Sharon ignoring him and looking away. "Hello? Hello?" Spider-Man swings away before muttering. "So glad I could be of help."

"Why didn't you apprehend this Spider-Man character as well?"

"Fury's orders. Spider-Man was off limits unless he became a public menace. You'll have to ask him why." Sharon said.

The interview was about to end but she didn't feel satisfied with ending it like this, no, she didn't feel right about keeping quiet, none of this was right and she felt the need to speak up. "Uh, can I say something on the record before you wrap this up--"

"If you wish."

"I just-- I just wanted to say that this is a bad idea."

"What is?"

"These creatures, and that's what they are now-- creatures. I mean, everybody is so busy over there trying to make peace and alliances with other countries but meanwhile there's these creatures... these creatures are a real threat to our way of life. They're a threat to our health and our safety." Her face showed that she was upset with what's happening.

"Everyone is looking to make the next super soldier-- the next bio-weapon in human form-- and all we have to show for it are these-- these horrors!!" Sharon clenches her hand into a fist in rage.

"And-- and instead of destroying them... you, we keep poking at them with sticks to see what will happen. Poking and prodding them and trying to duplicate them and we just keep making it worse and worse!! And before you know it (and I know I am right), before you know it, it's all going to come back and it's really not going to be good. Okay? I'm saying this Doc Ock, Sandman... DESTROY them!! Don't lock them all away for poking. Destroy them and end this." A shed of tear escapes her eyes. "You're playing around with God's plan and it's going to come back to-- Hey! I'm not joking!!!"

"You're statement has been recorded for the record, Agent Carter. Someone will be along to take your blood and urine."

"Yippee." Sharon hung her head in sadness, eyes showing a lost for hope. No matter what she does, no matter what she says she is nothing in the grand scheme of things. Just a pawn for Nick Fury, just another soldier in a war that doesn't even know what they're fighting for. Her feelings are irrelevant, no one will stop and she is just someone who's gonna watch the world burn... because if she ever steps out of line, if she ever tries to do something about this, to stop this... she would no longer be around. The world is starting to head to the end, and no one is trying to stop it. Instead, they are heading right towards it... Dystopia.

Chapter Text

Spider-Man jumps off the Oscorp Tower, diving head first into the city. "WWHHHOOOO!!" He shoots a web on Oscorp Tower and swings towards the place he needs to go, to Connors.

13th arrondissement, Reed Richards Science Center

Curt Connors lifelessly stares at his table, his mug staning the blank papers. Then, he felt a wind blow from above. He looked up to see Spider-Man slowly closing the window roof and jumps down to the floor. Connors gave a look of suprise.

"Peter, I'm suprised to see you. To what do I owe the visit?" Connors said.

"I need your help, doc. Things are 'bout to get pretty hectic." Spider-Man said.

"What is? My help? What for?" Connors asked, confused.

"It's not on the news yet?" Spider-Man asked.

"News about... what exactly?" Connors moved to his computer to start checking on the news.

"Well, let's just say that your Lizard days may be over... but not the idea of it." Spider-Man said.

The news started on the computer as both Spider-Man and Connors watch the report.

"...Still more reports about people being bitten by these strange creatures... and yes as I confirmed earlier, these creatures escaped from Oscorp Tower. The infection has been classified as an outbreak. S.H.I.E.L.D. and their Superhuman Task Force aka The Avengers has split up to find and apprehend these creatures. Tony Stark has already defeated the rampaging Rhino." The TV switches to see Iron Man holding the Rhino at bay, trapped in a round energy field.

"The ECDC is aiding City officials in thwarting the disease. Those who have been infected have bitten others causing the infection to spread in an even more alarming rate, people are being warned to stay indoors. It is unclear at this time whether officials are planning for a Citywide quarantine... closing off the island of Paris from the outer suburbs-- !" The camera shifts upwards as a helicopter crashes into a nearby building.

A giant rat wearing a business suit held two people in its hands as it walks out of the helicopter and stops at the edge of the building's broken glass window. The camera zoomed in closer as both The Black Widow and Hawkeye are seen being choked by the creature.

Spider-Man watches in silence as he stares back at the screen in horror. The person that was inside the helicopter with those two... was...

Connors shuts the news and walks away, holding his hand over his face. "Dr. Connors we have to hurry! Tell me how to make the cure."

"The cure?"

"The cure! The cure I used on you! The-- the gene-- gene-- something! C-come on! Help me out here." Spider-Man said.

"I don't have any of it. S.H.I.E.L.D. has it when I used to work for them. They said they would use it if it becomes necessary to erase the genetic code of a superhuman. They have it all Peter. My research, my lab in the sewer, even the formula of the cross-species DNA. They can help you, not me... in fact, they already are." Connors revealed.

Spider-Man was quiet. His fist clenches in anger. "Fury..." Spider-Man crawls back out the way he came but he stops as he looks back down at Connors. "Hey... I'm going to stop this. And thanks, for talking to me about it."

Connors watch Spider-Man leave as he sighs and drinks from his cold coffee and continues watching the news, watching... his horrors.

Spider-Man swings towards the 2nd arrondissement. "I've got to get there as soon as I can."

1st arrondissement, Agreste Mansion

Adrien watches the news unfold. "Woah..."

"Woah is right. I've never thought that humans could become worse than dinosaurs." Plagg said.

"We've got to do something!" Adrien said.

"Do what? These creatures are infectious, what are you even gonna do..." Plagg's words got Adrien to deflate in defeat. "...Is what I would have said if you weren't immune."

"What?" Adrien looked at Plagg in confusion.

The mischievous cat snickers in delight at Adrien's reaction. "Remember when I said yours is the power of destruction?" Adrien nods in affirmation at Plagg's words. "Well, did it ever occur to you that everytime you were Chat Noir you were a lot more durable than any other human-- normal human can possibly be?" Adrien shakes his head which caused Plagg to facepalm. "I'm trying to telling you that I can protect you outside!! You go out there and no matter how much they try to infect you, they can't, because of me."

"Woah woah woah, hold on, are you saying that I can't be infected?" Adrien questioned.

"Bingo!" Plagg said but then flew straight at Adrien's face. "Although, I have to warn you that this only works if your Chat Noir the entire time. So do not use cataclysm. It's a horrible disadvantage for us but I hope you can do well without our special attack."

"Don't gotta tell me twice." Adrien stood up and gets ready to leave his house. "Plagg, Claws Out!"

18th arrondissement, Tom and Sabine Boulangerie Patisserie

Marinette watches the news as well in her computer. Seeing other superheroes fighting in the city against these monstrous creatures and her doing nothing did not sit right with her. She stood up and Tikki follows her. "Marinette, if we're gonna go then I need to tell you one more thing before we go."

"What is it, Tikki?" Marinette said.

"You already know that you can't be bitten or infected because of me. So, I know this will be a difficult task to do, but once we get out there... you can't use the Lucky Charm." Tikki said.

"WHAT!?" Marinette said in shock. Tikki's words stopped her in the ladder to her balcony.

"If you use it, you will only have 5 minutes and another minute to wait for me to recharge and who knows what could happen in that single minute. You are vulnerable in that short time, so I need you to promise me that you will not use the Lucky Charm in any intent or purposes. If these creatures bite you and try to infect you... they can't, because I'M protecting you. So if the timer runs out, and you get bit... you understand, don't you?"

"I understand, Tikki. I won't let that happen." Marinette looked at her kwami in determination and reassurance. "Now, let's go save Paris! Tikki, Spots On!"

Unknown Location...

Hawkmoth had felt the millions of negative emotions and he can't help but smile. "This is the perfect chance to catch Ladybug and Chat Noir's miraculous. The other heroes would be too busy taking care of those creatures, and knowing the goody-two shoes Ladybug is, her and Chat Noir will surely appear." Hawkmoth feels the emotions and there are so many but... there are strong ones, two of them to be exact, and he can't help but smile, believing for his upcoming victory.

Hawmoth stomps his cane to the ground as purple energy releases upon the impact. Hawkmoth grabs two butterflies and turns them into akuma, the two black butterflies leave and flew in opposite directions.

17th arrondissement, Zoo

A butterfly flies towards a man who watches his panther be eaten by the creatures as he hids in anger and frustration that he can't do anything to save his pet. The akuma fuses with the bracelet and Animan was born for the death of his pet panther had caused the man hatred from the creatures that ate his friend. Revenge.

4th arrondissement, Seine River

A man dejectedly watches in tears as the pigeons he had been feeding is eaten by two humanoid vultures. He quietly cried and an akuma fuses with his bird call. Mr. Pigeon was born from the feelings of loss, the loss of love. Sorrow.

9th arrondissement, Le Grand Hotel

Chloe Bourgeois watches the news in fear and disgust as she curls herself up in her blanket as she watches rats following a giant humanoid rat in the streets of the city. Chloe crosses her fingers, hoping they can't climb walls. "Don't climb the walls don't climb the walls don't climb the wal-- aaahhh!!" A sound of an explosion from outside shooked the building and scared her as she ducks under her blanket.

10th arrondissement, Porte Saint-Denis

Alix Kubdel skates away from a bunch of infected people. She keeps running and running until... she met a dead end. The infected people surrounds her and fear begins to show on her face. Until, a blonde boy came to her rescue, he beats up the infected in quick succesion and he stood there with a yellow glow of energy that was on his fist. "Come with me, if you want to live."

Alix gulped but followed him as they both try to run away, Alix noticed that he was much, much faster than her... even while skating, he was capable of keeping up with her and he has a lot more stamina that Kim wished he had. To Alix, this was scary but very much thrilling.

15th arrondissement, Daily Bugle

"Jonah... remember when you said, you weren't scared of beetles...?" Urich said, looking outside the window.

"Ben, I swear to god if you don't shut the fuck up in 1 point 6 seconds I will kill you myself." Jonah said as his voice may sound angry but his face is of complete fear.

"Oh, man... why did it stop here...?" Robbie said.

"Jonah, Chief, I think I might want to get killed before I get touched by that thing." Betty said, disgust and horror is clearly seen on her face.

All the other workers of the Daily Bugle stares outside the window and they are completely terrified, frozen in fear.

Outside the Daily Bugle, and in clear view on the window for the people inside the building to see is a Giant Scarlet Beetle parking on their building and unmoving.

6th arrondissement, Saint-Germain-des-Prés

"I'm going out there." Captain Stacy said.

"Find Peter, please." Aunt May said, her eyes pleading at John to keep Peter safe and be found.

"...I will." Captain Stacy said as he gets in his police car and heads towards the danger.

Aunt May closes the door and she looks to see Gwen having a worried look on her face. "Are they gonna be okay?"

"We're gonna be fine, Gwen. We'll all be..." Aunt May said, to reassure Gwen... and herself.

2nd arrondissement, Rue de la Paix

Spider-Man swings towards the helicopter, he lands and sees Black Widow and Hawkeye standing over Agent Hill. Her clothes torn but she looked... asleep.

"What happened here??" Spider-Man asked.

"Spider-Man, I'll tell you one thing. The sooner we get this fiasco done, the better." Black Widow walks up to him and Spider-Man takes a step back. "You. If you find any of these things that are just like you, you bring them to S.H.I.E.L.D. custody. We have the antidote, we have the gene cleanser and our S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists are mass-producing it as we speak. We will use it on all the infected people and we will end this over night if we have to. Are you with us? Or..." Black Widow explained and waits for his response.

"...I never looked the other way again. I'm with you and leave the butt-kicking to me!" Spider-Man said.

Black Widow nods and carries Maria Hill away. "Wait!" Black Widow stops and looks back at Spider-Man. "I-- I never got her name."

"Maybe because she doesn't trust you to even know about it." Hawkeye said, to which Spider-Man glances an angry look behind his mask at Hawkeye before turning back to Black Widow.

"Her name's Maria, Maria Hill." Black Widow then walks away as Hawkeye follows her but not before bumping Spider-Man on the shoulder, and truth be told, the one that felt more physical pain from the shoulder bump was Hawkeye.

Spider-Man looks away in guilt but turns to the city and he knows what he needs to do and he will stop this. He looks up to see a woman jumping inside a building and the way she jumps along with her silver hair was something he knew was not a part of the ordinary. He swings towards her as she ran inside the Réaumur–Sébastopol station. He jumps off the building and swings after her.

(Guys, we might have a problem.) Tony said in the comms.

"Why, what's the problem?" Hawkeye asked.

(I tried the gene cleanser on this Rhino guy but...)

"But what?" Natasha questioned.

(But it had no effect, it only works on those infected. These cross-species, they can't be turned back. My theory, is that they've been cross-species for so long that their genetic makeup can't go back to how it was before... all this.)

"So, they're stuck like that forever?" Hawkeye said.

(Yeah, pretty much.)

"Looks like you called it." Hawkeye said.

"I'm not happy about it." Black Widow said.

17th arrondissement, Square des Batignolles

Ladybug lands on a lampost as she notices a bunch of animals running around and something tells her that this is not the creatures in the news. She looked to see a pather watching her and it's stare made her uneasy. The more Ladybug stared, the more the panther looked unnatural, then a purple line over his face appeared. Ladybug realized what those lines mean and who it came from... that is Hawkmoth's lines of vision.

4th arrondissement, Ile Saint-Louis

Mr. Pigeon is carried by a swarm of pigeons and as he blows the whistle the pigeons heard him and followed him.

Chat Noir sees the pigeons and notices them all flying in a straight line. "Okay, that's weird. I've never seen pigeons do that before." He follows them and looks to see that there was a man who is being helped to float in the air by a bunch of pigeons at his feet. "A- A- AAaaa-- AAACHHOOO!!"

The sneeze caused Mr. Pigeon to looked and see Chat Noir standing in a rooftop of a building. He smiles and a purple line covers over his face.

Chat Noir gasps in shock by the line. "Hawkmoth..." Chat Noir didn't expect he would make a move in a situation as crazy as this but he should have expected it, coming from a madman to attack at a time like this.

Chapter Text

A bald man with patches of hair wakes up in a hospital bed wearing a hospital gown. He tries to get out of the bed but his body was still in a state of sleep inertia.

"Oh! Oh, you're awake!!"

The bald man looks behind him to see a nurse. "Where 'm I?"

"Uh-- Uh, hold on." The nurse said.

"Ah! The hell happened to me?"

"What's your rush, buddy?" Two men with suits and dark glasses came inside the room.

"Uh-- What's going on?" The bald man asked.

"Actually, that's my line. I'm Special Agent Cobb." The man with blonde hair then introduces the other beside him that has a mohawk hairstyle. "This is Special Agent Tucci. D.G.S.I." Agent Cobb pulls out a badge to prove his words.

"I'm in an D.G.S.I. hospital?" The bald man asked.

"Two Months ago you were found unconcious in the basement of Fisk Towers. Seems you were in a bit of a coma. Cops say you had no identification on you." Agent Cobb said.

"Coma?"

"And being that you were found with no identification, and no record of employment with Wilson Fisk..."

"And no fingerprints..." Agent Tucci added.

"Oh yeah, and no fingerprints... Well, that alone wouldn't be enough to have two ace D.G.S.I. agents like ourselves stashed outside your hospital door for weeks waiting for you to wake up... But, fact of the matter is, that Mr. Fisk has now officially been tagged a Paris crime Kingpin." Agent Cobb said.

"On our Ten Most wanted list..." Agent Tucci said.

"So, who you are exactly, and what you were doing in his basement is very much a question in the unitary State would like answered."

"Wilson Fisk?" The man puts his hand on his head, feeling the small patches of hair that he has left.

"Do you remember what happened to you?" Agent Cobb asked.

"What happened..." He closes his eyes and flashes of memories wash over him, he remembers what happened. "Motherfucker!!"

"What we need to know is--"

"Fucker!!"

"We're going to have to ask you to--"

"Quiet, I'm thinking."

Max Dillon turns to them and blue electricity explodes out of the hospital room. Agents and nearby nurses are all rendered charred husk. Electro escapes into the city in his full eletrical form.

Great! Just great!! They pinched the Kingpin?? That's what I get for putting all my eggs in one basket! So now, not only do I have to start over from scratch again-- but I gotta show my hoo-hah to the entire city of Paris until I can find one of my containment suits.

Electro floats around the city thinking on what to do next.

Kingpin took the fall. Never in a million billion would I imagine that kid in the spider tights would'a done it. I gotta look into this. Now I gotta find a gig. I need some quick cash. Maybe hit a couple of jobs and then maybe lay low until I can figure out what's what-- I swear to God, I'm going to find out who that little punk kid Spider-Man is and I'm going to--

Suddenly, he was struck by a blast that negates his powers. "AAGGH!" He then plummets onto the hood of a car and into the streets butt naked.

"Excuse us..." A digitized voice said as Electro looks up to see Iron Man, Black Widow and Captain France looking down at him. "And why I am receiving a report about a multiple homicide at a hospital across town." Iron Man points the ray blast from before, the one that stopped Electro's powers from working.

"We'd like to talk to you about where you illegally obtained your powers." Captain France said.

"And you really need to put on some pants..." Black Widow said.

Otto Octavius, Max Dillon, Flint Marko and Norman Osborn are all held in a S.H.I.E.L.D. force field prison. Each of them wearing normal clothing along with a metal collar with a red flashing light in the middle.

"Would you like to go first today? Is there something you'd like to share?"

"This is-- this is hard to admit. (And I can't believe I'm saying it.) But... I miss my arms." Otto Octavius was the first to speak.

"As you know... When I found that my metal arms had grafted to my neurological system during 'the accident'... well, I started my-- my shameful, violent, downward spiral. But now that they are gone-- successfully removed-- I do-- I feel empty. I feel like something is missing. And isn't that odd? Isn't that-- I don't know-- unnatural?" A smile creeps into his face and then returns back to being stoic. "I've thought about last week. And yes, I-- I do think a lot of my downward spiral was because I refused to take responsibility for my own actions. I think a lot of my problems stem from that. And I'm-- this goes way before any craziness with Osborn Industries. It's what ended my first marriage... (Even though I was too young, but that's another subject.)"

Otto's expression turned from stoic to upset. "I did spent a great deal of time over the last few years blaming Norman Osborn. Seeing him as someone who was holding me down, holding me back. And-- and clearly, if I felt that way there were better ways to deal with it. I should have left OsCorp and had the personal strength to start my own company. But instead I reveled in my fear of success and lashed out. I betrayed him. I lied to everyone and myself. And then the accident-- And I spiraled into a violence that-- that I'll never fully recover from. I murdered. I maimed."

Tears begin to stream out of Otto's eyes. "To think that I was capable of murder. To think that I was capable of lashing out... I...Please-- please...that's it for now."

"I want to make it perfectly clear. I'm not giving you shit! Okay? Not going to happen." Max Dillon was the second to talk.

"I've been thinking about what this is all about and-- and-- I don't know what you think my relationship with the Kingpin is, or was, but it's all hearsay. Okay? You don't got no proof. And I don't know what kind of high tech-y D.G.S.I. sweatbox you got cooked up here... but I ain't talkin. Okay? You get me?" Electro glares at the people outside the energy field.

Electro was most definitely angry but he wasn't aggressive just hostile. "I didn't even get a phone call. I got a mom and I had a chick and no one knows where I am, man. And I don't understand how you can just do that. What am I doing here? For what?" Electro knew that something fishy was going on here and he was captured without any proof of his criminal acts.

"Plus, I'd really like to shave my head. They let you shave at Fleury-Merogis. (I mean, look at me.)" Electro's hair has grown back out for the past months he's been stuck here but he would rather be bald than have hair all over his head.

"Flint Marko? Is there anything you'd like to say today? You'd made reference last time that you thought your abilities as a Sandman were a disappointment to you. Would you like to-- ?"

"Hey! Can we be honest here-- huh? This is-- I have never heard so much man-whining in my life! What kind of guys are you? Little girls?" Flint Marko was the third to talk. "Boo-hoo and wah-wah. You guys make me want to puke all this. Do the crime? Do the time. And more importantly, do it like a man."

"But last time you were--"

"I'm done, move on." Sandman said.

"Norman? Mr. Osborn?"

Norman doesn't look at the man asking for him.

"Is there any chance you'd like to participate today?"

Norman glances at him and then raises a brow and he silently stares at the man. "I told you... I'll do anything you want. I'll say anything you want. Just bring me my boy."

"You know I can't do that, Norman." Hank Pym said, having been the one talking to all of them this entire time.

"You're like a broken record, man." Sandman commented at Osborn, hinting that Norman had said nothing but the same exact thing the entire time he's been in custody of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Norman paid him no mind. "Actually, I do have a question. These collars we wear... These are an advanced model of the Richards gene nullifier they used to collar the Hulk in Utah that time, correct?"

"These are standard issue S.H.I.E.L.D. prison--" Hank was interrupted by Norman.

"I can understand why some of the group here would be fit with collars like these. But Otto and I-- you took Otto's arms from him. Why is he wearing a collar? Why am I?" Norman holds his head high as he looks down at Hank Pym. "I needed to inject myself with Oz to express my true nature. Without the Oz compound I am just a regular homo sapien... with a great deal of money. You people know that. So why am I wearing this collar?" Norman knew what was brewing inside him, he just needed to know if S.H.I.E.L.D. knew it too. "Am I to believe that you believe I can turn myself into something more at will? Is there something about my genetic condition that you are not telling me? I ask again. Why am I wearing this collar?"

"Because I said so."

Norman looks behind him to see Nick Fury wearing a Captain America tank top over his black shirt and white shorts while holding a beach ball on his arm.

"And the great Nick Fury finally has the courage to show his face to me." Norman said.

"Courage ain't nothin' but it. You, Mr. Osborn, have been, and always will be, very very low on my list of priorities." Fury said, trying to get under the man's ego but they both knew it was a lie. Norman Osborn is clearly a threat to the world's society.

"Where am I, Fury? What is this?" Norman asked.

"Exactly what you have been told it was. This is a secured S.H.I.E.L.D. compound. You are a permanent guest of the government of Europe. You are being detained as an illegal, unnatural, genetic mutation." Fury said, as everyone inside the force field was clearly ticked off at his words.

"The hell with you-- you--" Sandman was interrupted by Norman.

"Fury, when my lawyers get a hold of you, I will own your eyepatch!" Norman said.

"What we want from you--"

"You are breaking so many laws--"

"Laws? What laws? You gave up your participation in society the second you-- any of you-- purposely and maliciously altered your genetic structure." Fury raises a finger. "There are no laws for you, except for the ones the President of France authorized me to make up for you." Fury said, lying through his teeth. "You turned yourself into freaks and you'll be treated as such."

Everyone thought Fury was finished but he continued. "But-- (And this is a big but...) You are going to be rehabilitated and you are going to serve a purpose. Each of you can serve your country in your own unique way." Everyone was surpised and confused by what he said and what they mean. Well, mostly everyone, Norman just frowns at the idea.

"You cooperate here, you choose to porve yourselves to us, and in return you will be rewarded some comfort... or you can lip off and you can rot. Or better yet, you can try to deactivate your custom made collars and give yoursleves an instant lobotomy. Either way is fine by me." Fury said.

Fury walks up to Hank Pym and puts his hand on Pym's shoulder as he looks at the four prisoners. "(Personally, I'm hoping for the latter.) But these being times of peace and all that-- I am going to rise above my personal disgust for you and give you this shot at semi-rehabilitation. So we're clear-- so you know where we stand. The only person that gives a rat's ass about this part of the project is Doctor Pym here. He wants to help you help yourselves. That's fine. But everyone else in this facilityis fully trained, fully armed, card-carrying agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. ... And each is very aware that both you and Doctor Octopus over here murdered several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in your day. The only thing keeping them from Bonnie and Clydeing you..is me."

"How-- um-- how are we supposed to cooperate? What exactly do you want from us?" Otto asked.

"You're a smart man, Doctor..." Fury said, then he leaves.

Up with another therapy session, but this time Doctor Pym uses a TV to show a battle between The Green Goblin and Spider-Man on the screen.

"Norman, when you see yourself in this form... how does it make you feel?" Hank Pym asked.

Norman gives a cold stare at the screen.

"The silent treatment again... Great. You know, I don't need to come here for that... I have a wife. Well, all right, let's try this... Of the four of you... Otto, you and Norman are the only ones with a prior relationship..." Pym looks from Norman to Otto. "Otto, how does it make you feel when you see what your former employer has done to himself? What he is capable of?"

Norman looks at Octavius and he too was curious as to what Otto would say.

"I dunno, Pym. I think it looked like som bad stuff. You're not one of dem radiation based like the Hulk, are ya Norman?" Electro said.

"Wait your turn, Max." Pym ordered. "Norman, if you'd like, tell the group exactly what you had done to yourself."

And there it is, the words Norman knew they wanted to say to him the most. It's not the exact words but it was enough to give a hint on what they want to say but they won't because they don't wanna look weak. "Why don't you ask me what you really want to ask me, Pym?" Norman said, with an accusatory look.

"Norman, you seem to be under the impression that I have a secret agenda. I'm here to help you figure it out how you got here-- why you needed to destroy yourself the way you have." Pym said, denying what Norman thinks he wants to ask him. "You had everything a man could ever want in this world. A wife and child. Millions of dollars. Your own business. Legendary scientific acumen. All we are trying to find out here is what--"

"All you are trying to do is what your boss Nick Fury tells you to do. You want the Oz formula. You want the key-- the miracle to what made myself and Otto here into--" Norman had grown tired of dancing around and hiding in the bushes, if they won't say it, he'll say it for them.

"We have your formulas, Norman." Pym revealead. "You are being held in a S.H.I.E.L.D. containment facility. Everything you own was seized the day you were taken into custody."

"You..." Norman's eyes glowed green.

"Nick Fury is the leader of the world security organization. He can and does whatever he needs to do for the safety of civillian life. ANd that does include confiscating illegal genetic--"

"You son of AAAARRGGHHH!!!" Norman starts transforming into the Green Goblin as his collar tries to restrain his power.

"Norman!! Norman!! Don't do anything you'll-- Norman!!" Hank Pym starts to enlarge as Norman is breaking the enrgy field.

"What you've done to me!! What you AARRGGHH!!" He leapts at one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents that began to shoot at him while the other three prisoners try to duck and get out of the way.

"Trank 'im!!" Pym ordered.

Giant Man grabs Norman and slams him to the ground as the collar forcefully reverts The Green Goblin back to normal. "Well... at least we know the system works."

Six weeks later...

Norman is escorted back to his cell by Agent Carter and Agent Woo.

"hey, kids, guess who's back and better than ever. And by better than ever... I mean sedated like all get-out." Agent Carter said.

"Hey!! I'm not that comfortable being in the same room with Osborn anymore!!" Electro said.

"Tssk, really, that's a shame because I think it's so obvious how important your comfort is to us, electric boy." Agent Carter said, sarcastically.

"You should keep him seperate, man!"

"Pipe down or you'll share a cell with him."

"Well, at least take off your top for us!"

"Oh. Okay..." Agent Carter begins to unbutton her shirt. "...sure..." Electro's eyes widen and he smiles with his jaw open. Then, she stops. "Psyche."

"You'll be the first, skank." Electro said.

Norman and Otto stare at each other from each of their cell, Norman looks at Otto in suspicion. Norman knew Otto well, and he doesn't employ weak men into his business.

"Guards, hey-- uh-- hey, guards. Tell Pym or whoever... I want to talk."

Otto stood alone in the force field as Hank Pym and three other S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists look at him in anticipation.

"Whatever you want from me-- whatever you want from me, you have it." Otto said.

"Why the sudden change of heart, Doctor Octavius?" Hank asked, suspicious of the doctor.

Otto, however, answered the question that Pym asked him from before. "Seeing that-- seeing what Norman Osborn has done to himself. I-- I had no idea. No idea. And that was the same accident that ruined my life?"

Otto expressed sadness and guilt. "I have to turn this around. I have-- I have to do something of value in this world before I die. I have to contribute. I am a man of science. A man of science. I'm not-- I'm not some-- Please, please... I know I can't give back the lives I took. I know I can't get the time back that I wasted but-- But there are things that I know-- things I was working on. Let me help you. I don't even have my arms anymore. You removed them. They're gone. I don't have any powers. I just-- that's what you want from us, right? You want help. I want to. I want to help. Let me help."

"We'll get back to you." Doctor Pym said.

The Triskelion

Iron Man in his Mark XLIII flies towards the island. "I'm late, aren't I?"

Inside, Nick Fury shows a video on the many TV's inside the room to the Avengers... well, the only available Avengers that is... Black Widow, The Wasp, Giant Man, Captain America and Hawkeye. Only Thor and The Hulk are missing. They watch the video of Doctor Octopus vs Spider-Man.

"This is footage of Doctor Otto Octavius. The kids call him Doctor Octopus." Nick Fury said.

"Tssk-- What is wrong with that man?" The Wasp asked.

"Well, this is old footage, Janet. But it's something I thought the entire team of Ultimates should see. The Doctor here has since been incarcerated in a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility. And, for the record, we have surgically removed his more cumbersome arms." Nick Fury said.

"This guy-- I swear to God-- this guy Octavius was a genius. I wrote one of my Doctorates on this man's work. Worshipped the guy." Wasp said.

"Speaking of your taste in men... Our Doctor Pym here has been spending his free time working at the facility where we house these illegal genetics. I know seeing Henry here, since he left the team, is a bit jarring. I hope we can keep things civil and professional and listen to what the man has to say."

"Why are they even in lock up?" Hawkeye asked.

"How many of these meatballs do you have locked up in there?" Captain America asked.

"Just a handful. But it's a hell of a handful." Fury said.

"Fact of-- um-- fact of the matter is that each of the men we have in this particular lockup... (And it's the all high security. Highest security.)...each of them has purposely turned themselves, or paid to have someone turn them into a unique, genetic mutation unlike anything anyone has ever been before. Each one, in my opinion, is a complete failed attempt at superhuman genetic manipulation."

"That answers my question." Hawkeye said.

"In my free time, I have been trying to analyze the psychological effects that these genetic manipulations have had on each one of them. I've-- I've been trying group therapy sessions-- as it had been found useful for patients with schizoid, histrionic and antisocial personality disorders. These patients tend to act out their fantasies, and pressure from peers in group treatment can motivate them to--"

"So now you're a psychologist?" Was said, rolling her eyes at Pym.

"No. I am working with the S.H.I.E.L.D. Genetics team to find a way to permanently stabilize their systems-- then they can be tried and jailed for crimes. But that, as you know, is a time consuming trial and error endeavor. In the meantime, though, while we have them in custody-- we have a unique opportunity to analyze them. We certainly would never purposely create monsters like these, but as long as we have them..."

"No, you're right." Wasp said as she eats her food.

"So, the point of all this is to tell you all that 'Doctor Octopus' has come forward and offered his cooperation to S.H.I.E.L.D. doctors. His expertise. No trade. No deal. He says he has had an epiphany. He wants to help out. Contribute to the world. So... What do you guys think?" Fury explained and asked the group.

"You know... I gotta ask, why are you telling us all this?" Natasha said.

"Because if anything goes wrong with this, it's you guys that are going to get called in to kick butt and clean up. Thought it only fair to discuss it first." Nick Fury said.

"These-- yeah-- these are dangerous and disturbed men. And we have them in close quarters for examination. But there is a lot of conjecture involved in-- in--"

"And though, yes, I do agree with Doctor Pym that there is a lot to learn from them in this situation...there's also a lot of x-factor involved with this particular lockdown scenario. It's dicey." Nick Fury walks over to Wasp and she hands him a smoothie. "And, between us and the walls, it does skate the edge of S.H.I.E.L.D. jurisdiction. (If you get me?)" Fury said as he takesa sip at the straw of his smoothie.

"Are any of these palookas the way they are... because of super soldier experiments you commissioned in an attempt to repeat the experiment that made me Captain America?" Steve asked.

"Yeah." Fury said as Cap silently leaves.

"What'd I miss?" Tony asked, after he walked towards them, Cap passed and ignored Tony.

Otto Octavius is brought to a S.H.I.E.L.D. research facility.

"Overall, what's the focus of your research at this facility, Doctor?" Otto asked Pym.

"They say the next war will be fought genetically." Pym said.

"Yes. I know." Otto replied. "And believe it or not my work was never meant to go down that...road..."

"By the way, what's your annual budget on this facility?" Otto asked.

"That's confidential information, Otto. You understand." Pym said.

"Well, first things first, we have a suprise for you... And- and if it's too soon...or if it's too uncomfortable for you to deal with right now, we understand... But what we really wanted to talk to you about... was this..." The female geneticist gestures for Otto to look to his right.

The geneticist reveals Otto's mechanical arms laying on a table.

"Oh." Otto said.

"We were all just so impressed with the design and amturity of your apparatus, we read about it but-- but to see it, we just want to find out what happened regarding the arms. Specifically how they adhered to your nervous system--"

"I had those very same questions. I intially thought it had to do with the recognition chips in the framework... but then I began to wonder if it was more mental... If the Oz formula explosion I was exposed to had something tod ow ith it. And I- I know this sounds strange but perhaps the Oz formula did, somehow, open a latent mental ability. Maybe I always had some sort of psychic abilities. Some kind of low-grade mutation because I hear them. Not calling to me or anything crazy... heh, not calling to me. I know it sounds silly, it's very hard to explain... You just have to take my word for it." Otto said as he stands alone in the room.

The arms had pierced all three geneticist, including Hank Pym.

"So, Sandy, who got you down here anyhow? Cause I know it wasn't S.H.I.E.L.D. specifically that was capable enough to bring someone with super powers down. So... care to tell us?" Electro asked.

"I didn't lose and he only caught me by suprise." Sandman said.

"Oh, yeah, sure, so... who put ya here?" Electro asked again.

"...Spider-Man." Sandman answered.

Electro grins at his words. "Tell you what, if we get out of here let's make that Spider pay."

Suddenly, the energy field of their cell has turned off and so were the lights of the place.

"This some kind of mindfuck?" Electro asked, to particularly no one.

"No, the power grid was terminated at the source." Norman guessed.

"That means the collars aren't working?" Electro tries to use his power and blue lightning expelled out from his fingertips. "What the heck." Electro smiles and erupts in lightning, now in his electric form and taking his collar off.

"Hrrmm! Hhrrmmmholldd on, give me a sseconddddaarRGGHHH!!" Norman transforms into the Green Goblin at will.

"Hey there, Sandy. Let me get that off ya." Electro was about to take off Sandman's collar but he stops him.

"No! No, don't do mine. My powers, my sand. I can't-- I can't always control it." Sandman said.

An explosion from outside destroyed the door to the prison that Norman and the other two are. The three get ready to fight to whoever comes out of the door. But they stop as Otto Octavius with his mechanical arms carrying him towards the three.

"I'd say there are at least fifty more S.H.I.E.L.D agents in this facility and we have to assume I set off any number of alarms or fail safe to S.H.I.E.L.D. bases around the world. So what's it going to be, Norman?" Otto looks at the Green Goblin.

"You did this?" Green Goblin asked.

"I did this." Doctor Octopus confirmed.

"I was wondering what you were up to with all this New Age crap that was coming out of your face."

"It's called "telling them whatever they want to hear." Norman, what you have become... this-- this is truly magnificent. This is so much more than we ever hoped for with all of our work."

"We're even now for all past sins. You doing this--" Goblin smiles, his bottom tooth fangs poking out of his lip. "--were even."

"That's the way I see it as well." Doc Ock said with a crazed smile.

"What are we going to do?" Electro asked.

"I just want to get the hell out of here, is all." Sandman said.

"You gentlemen can do whatever you want. I'm going to get my boy and then I am going to destroy Nick Fury for what he has done to me. And I mean destroy him-- on every level. You're more than welcome to join me-- and I guarantee you compensation for your efforts-- along with the satisfaction of revenge upon our jailer." Green Goblin said.

"Your boy? Where is he? Where are they keeping Harry?" Doc Ock asked. But he's wrong, he thought of the wrong boy.

"What are you talking about?" Goblin ignites a flame in his hand and prepares to shoot it at a steel door. "My boy's name is Peter."

The villains of Spider-Man has escaped from S.H.I.E.L.D. prison and are coming to the city, not knowing the dangerous situation Paris is currently on.

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Spider-Man dives inside the subway station and sticks to the side of the wall, he sees Black Cat battling some infected civillians.

How on earth did they get infected in the subway of all places?

"Woah, guys! Leave the lady alone, your going to scare her away." Spider-Man webs multiple infected civiliians and pins them on the ground with his webs.

"Hello, Lady Cat. We've met before, in a very horrible circumstance. And we meet again in another horrible circumstance... Wow, we gotta stop meeting like this." Spider-Man said.

"Your shorter than I thought you'd be, still pretty fit though..." Black Cat said as she let out an exhausted breath. Black Cat wore a black catsuit with tech-enhanced armor plates and small touches of silver details on the suit's design. She is bare foot, her nail colors are blue, her eyes are blue too.

"Look--"

"I am looking. At you." Black Cat murmured.

"Uh-- I- I need you to come with me."

"Need? Well, I don't do need. But if you want me Spider... come get me." Black Cat jumps over Spider-Man.

Spider-Man backflips and he's in front of her once more. "Yeah, nice try." Black Cat kicks him in the chest. "Agh!" Spider-Man was sent meters back and lands on his back.

"Tag Spider, you're it." Black Cat said before running to the other side of the subway.

Hey, why didn't my spider-sense go off?

"Cat, come back here!" Spider-Man gets up and goes after her as the cat-and-mouse chase begins.

Black Cat runs backwards and she blows a kiss at Spider-Man with a sly smirk as her eyes turns green.

Spider-Man shoots his web at her but he misses by a hair.

"Is that the best you can do? Boring!" Black Cat turns back around and runs away.

How did I miss that?!

Spider-Man runs after her and she's still in her line of sight. "Hey, slow down! I just want to talk!"

"You want to talk, but I want to play. Better keep up, slowpoke!" Black Cat jumps upwards and out of the subway.

"Come on! You have an infectious disease, I just want to help you!" Spider-Man said as the chase continues in the alleyways of Paris.

"Then back off!" Black Cat evades a bunch of infected civillians as Spidey soon follows. "Stubborn little spider..."

"I can go all night if that's what it takes!" Spider-Man said while wall running to avoid the civillians.

"Now you're getting my attention!" Black Cat jumps and climbs a building. Spider-Man swings and sticks to the building, now meters above her. She looks up and sees him waving at her. "...You know, I like a guy who can go the distance."

Spider-Man looks at her green eyes...? "Uh-huh, and flattery will get you nowhere with me." Spider-Man tries to web her right then and there but his web shooters malfunctioned.

Ok, what! Tell me that did not just happen. How could I be this unlucky!?

Black Cat jumps off the wall and nearly ran off towards a horde of infected people. She stops but they already noticed her. The alley is one way. But she was the Black Cat and she has superpowers. She jumps to a wall and to another but before she could land on the other side of the fence and run away, Spider-Man webbed her while she was in mid-air, he had finally caught her.

Spider-Man pulls her up to the wall and she didn't seem to resist. Spidey grabs her webbed up body and walks up the building wall and to the rooftop while whistling. Spider-Man puts her down gently. "Ok, now I need you to go to S.H.I.E.L.D. and get a needle shot in you, now I know cats are afraid of needles but I promise it won't hurt."

Black Cat chuckles. "You have no idea what they did inside that facility, do you?" Black Cat looks at Spider-Man with an amused look. "S.H.I.E.L.D. would poke and prod at me like I'm some kind of science project, just like OsCorp did. And when they're done... their gonna turn me back to normal." Black Cat's face scrunches up in disgust as she said the last part.

Spider-Man quietly stares at her.

"Let me go, I don't mean any harm and I didn't do any harm to anyone. I'm just like you... you know. Powers beyond those of mortal men." Black Cat gives a half smile. "And I have to hand it to you Spider. This chase? It was fun." Black Cat gives him a cheeky smile.

"Fun? Millions of people's lives are at stake and--"

"And you will save them. That's what you do, right. But for me, I got what I need... and now, I'm gonna have what I want." Black Cat said, then she takes a slow and deep breath.

"Sorry cat lady, but you are not going anywhere until you get yourself a cure." Spider-Man said.

"...I can give you information."

Spider-Man tilts his head. "About what?"

"About OsCorp."

"What do you know?"

"I'll tell you... under one condition."

Spider-Man sighs. "No."

"You let me go, and I tell you what you need to know."

"Look, the city is going crazy right now and I don't have time for your games." Spider-Man turns his back on her.

"This is not a game... I swear." Spidey turns his head around and Black Cat looked serious, her blue eyes-- wait... he could have sworn it was green before.

"...Promise you'll let me go." Black Cat's eyes looked pleading and Spider-Man hates how he's so easily persuaded but he nods his head in agreement and the act caused Black Cat to have a wily smile. "Dr. Smythe has a plan. He was going to use us-- and by us I mean the other cross-species-- to wreak havoc on the city."

"Well, great plan, cause it work." Spider-Man said.

"But because you showed up early, you caused a pre-mature breakout. Thank you for that, by the way." Black Cat said, grateful.

"Oh, so it's my fault now?" Spider-Man knows that Black Cat truly is thanking him for freeing her but that also means he's responsible for freeing the others and that would mean he's the cause for all this mess and Spider-Man can't help but feel that he really is and that every destruction they are causing is his responsibility.

"That's not all..." Black Cat continues. "He was making something, some giant robot to take down cross-species like us."

"How do you know all of this?" Spider-Man asked.

Black Cat held a strained smile. "When you are one of his most succesful experiments, you hear a lot of stuff from the mad doctors that put needles in you."

"...Sorry to hear that."

"Don't mention it. Now, get me out of this." Black Cat kicks her webbed-up legs upwards.

"...How do I know you're not lying... ?"

"Because Spider, a cat loves her freedom." Black Cat said.

Spider-Man could understand it, after all... his freedom is numbered. "Okay, I'll let you go... But, you still need to get the cure. It can help you stop being a cross-species." Spider-Man said while he tears off the webbing with sheer force of raw strength.

"Who said anything about wanting to be normal?" Black Cat stood up as she takes off the rest of the remaining patches of web herself. "Normal is boring."

"Please, take my advice, take the cure. Having these powers means having the disease. And it's affecting innocent people."

"Yeah? Is that how you got rid of yours?" Black Cat questioned.

"I never had the disease." Spider-Man said.

Black Cat looked suprise and then held a sly smirk. "Lucky. So... are you taken?"

"Uh--"

An explosion appeared nearby and caused Spider-Man to look and see the vibrator guy is screaming in fear while blasting the horde of infected people that Cat escaped from earlier. "Wow, we should--" He looked where Black Cat once was and she was gone.

"Get away from me!! Get away!!!" Shocker screamed as he kept running away from the infected.

"Hey, buddy, how's your heavily padded butt going?" Spider-Man said as he swings towards Shocker and webs him up and sticks him to a wall. "Now, don't even try using your shock gloves, you know what happened the first time and if you do, those guys would really love to kiss you." Spider-Man pointed downwards and swings away.

"You-- Don't leave me here!!" Shocker screams out to Spider-Man. He looks down and sees the infected just patiently waiting for him to fall down. "HHHHEEEEELLLLLPPPPP!!!!"

17th arrondissement, Square des Batignolles

"Pleeeaaseeee!! CCAAAALLLMMM DOOOWWNNN!!!" Ladybug was being ragdolled around by a Giraffe running around mindlessly and crazily shaking its neck while Ladybug's yoyo was strapped around its neck. "WWWAAAAHHHH!!!" Ladybug lost her grip and was thrown up in the air. She reached the peak and started her descent, she used her magic to control the yoyo and as she was falling, the yoyo was coming to her hand, she caught the yoyo and threw it on a nearby building to swing away from the rampaging group of animals.

Ladybug opens her yoyo and calls Chat Noir. "Chat, I need help. Hawkmoth has akumatized a... panther. This is not a joke. I need some help, hurry!"

(M'lady, I'm kinda in the middle of something.)

"Middle of what?!"

(A- acchoo!)

The sound of Chat Noir sneezing caught her by suprise. "Chat, this is an emergency. Don't tell me your sick?!"

(No... I'm just fighting another akuma but... it's one I'm allergic to...)

"Two of them... Where are you?" Ladybug doesn't like the situation they are in right now.

(I'm-- uh-- in the Centre Pompidou.)

Ladybug's eyes widen. They were so far apart. She looked to the direction Chat is and she could only hope things doesn't get any worse.

'So I need you to promise me that you will not use the Lucky Charm in any intent or purposes.' Ladybug knew how easy this could go if she could just use her Lucky Charm but she can't, she made a promise to Tikki she wouldn't.

She looks back out the streets to see that the animals are heading somewhere, they look as if their puppets with strings, their movement is wild and a bit of a spaz but their moving in the same direction... Ladybug gasps. She knows where they're headed. Ladybug tries to call Chat Noir again but he's not picking up the call. "Come on... come on, Chat." She decided to leave a voice message instead. "Chat, I need to warn you... the panther akuma... It's headed to your area. And it's not alone. Just hang tight kitty, I'll be there soon." Ladybug ends the call and quietly follows the panther akuma.

4th arrondissement, Ile Saint-Louis

Chat Noir sneezes while running away from a flock of pigeons. Chat looks up and sees a bunch of pigeons flying in the sky, all in the shape of airplanes.

"Did I ruffle your feathers?!" Mr. Pigeon said as he was standing on many pigeons to keep him in the air.

"YOU ALREADY USED THAT ONE!!" Chat Noir screamed out.

The pigeons swarm around Chat Noir and carries him up in the air then they proceed to slam him back down on the glass roof, cracks on the glass form from the impact. The pigeons carry Chat Noir by his arms and flew towards Mr. Pigeon. "Looks like you got coo-crushed!"

"Shut. Up." Chat Noir was really starting to despise puns.

"Man, don't cats eat pigeons for breakfast?"

Both Chat Noir and Mr. Pigeon were confused as to who said that. Then suddenly, Mr. Pigeon flinches and passes out. The pigeons let go of Chat Noir and Chat lands on the glass roof. Chat looks up to see The Wasp giving her hand out to him. Chat took it. "Thanks."

"No problem, little kitty. Question is, what are we gonna do with him?" Wasp points a thumb at the unconscious Mr. Pigeon.

Chat Noir walks towards Mr. Pigeon and takes the whistle off his neck. "Don't worry, I just gotta get this to Ladybug and this guy will turn back to normal." Chat uses his staff to call Ladybug.

"Ladybug huh, she your girlfriend or somethin' ?" Wasp said with a playful smirk.

"In a way." Chat said with a grin.

(Chat--)

"Hey, m'lady. If you can pick up, the akumatized guy here is down for the count but I need you to purify the akuma we could really use--"

(Nice one, kitty! But uh-- mine isn't done yet. And--)

"Ok! I'm going there now. I'll get to you!" Chat ends the call and looks to Wasp.

"Can you handle it from here? There's still this disease problem and the Avengers have to fix it, so I can't be of much help for too long with... These kinds of bad guys." Wasp said, wanting Chat to know that she would help if she just had more time.

"Nah, I got it covered. Thanks again for saving me back there." Chat said and bows to Wasp. "Au revoir." Chat Noir then leaps off the building.

Wasp puts two fingers in her left ear. "Hey Fury, where to next?... Fury?" Wasp got no answer and put her hand back down. "...Something's wrong..."

7th arrondissement, Fisk Tower

"Hooouu' man! How the heck did this happen!??" Electro said as he looks down on the city sreet below from The Kingpin's office building.

"Turn on the news." Norman said to Electro.

Electro took a remote and turned on the TV. "...People all over the city show symptoms of what we now know as the cross-species virus, following attacks by the creatures path. Meanwhile, OsCorp industries has released a statement distancing itself from Doctor Alistair Smythe, who was fired shortly after..."

"Cross-species again?" Norman read Connor's work. He didn't think that his corporation would take a risk of continuing the man's ingenious work.

"What are these things?" Electro asked.

"Yeah, what are they?" Sandman said.

"They are like us. Just... weaker."

"Weaker how?" Sandman asked.

"They possess animal DNA, which means they also have animal instincts... making them succumb to it more than their human mind." Norman explains, then, he grins. "And they have no one to guide them." An idea came to Norman's mind.

"Everyone, I want you all to listen." Norman got everyone in the room to look at him. "We, me specifically, are more dangerous to S.H.I.E.L.D. than any of you could know."

Electro took out a food chip and starts eating while listening to Norman. "Listen, not to talk down to you but I was a major player in all of this. My company, OsCorp, was commissioned to create a super soldier serum. That's what Otto and I were working on when we ended up the way we are."

Norman looks at Electro. "Same with you." Norman looks at Marko. "And you... you both are direct results of my competition for that same government contract. All of us crawling over each other to impress Fury and get that contract. See it now?"

Norman smiles. "Do you think anyone in that Palace wants it getting out to the world media... to their enemies and allies... that Nick Fury was secretly funding and financing super soldier research? And who knows, maybe Fury was a part of this cross-species fiasco too." Norman's smile grows to a toothy, goblinish one as his eyes flicker to a fiery yellow. "And this incident has given us the perfect opportunity for it. That Doctor in my company had unknowingly given the perfect opportunity." Norman looks at Otto. "Otto, change of plans. I've thought of something better."

Otto looked at him curiously and smirks. "What do you have planned now, Norman."

Norman stops smiling and calmed himself down. "You can stay or you can go. If you stay... all that I ask is that you bow to Otto and my experience and leadership and abide by our plan. When all is done, I guarantee you either worldwide infamy or a life-altering paycheck... And get this, if all goes accordingly, you're going to walk as gods on this earth."

"Gods? We're escaped convicts." Sandman said.

Norman ignores his comment. "Whatever you decide...we're leaving here within the hour and we're not coming back. Your lives as you knew them are long over... Nick Fury ruined your life. What I'm planning here? They're going to make movies about you. They're going to teach your name in classrooms. This is our turn now. We dictate how this ends, not Nick Fury!"

"So?" Everyone in the room stares at Norman.

"If what you say can be done, then I'll join you. Everyone will know the name of Sandman." Flint Marko said.

"If you still got the riches after this Osborn... then I'm in. I want the payday." Electro said.

"Otto?" Norman called out.

"You know I'm in." Otto said.

"Okay! So boys, it's time for us to head out." Norman said in a grin.

"Before we go, I got something to say." Marko got Norman's attention. "Once all is said and done, I want to kill The Spider."

Norman loses his grin and frowns, staring coldly at Sandman. "No."

Electro was about to say something among the same lines of Sandman but he was glad he didn't and kept eating his chips.

"No?"

"No."

"Why not? That Spider-Man guy took down each one of us. What? Do you want to kill him yourself?" Sandman said in confusion, he didn't understand why Norman wouldn't let him do this.

Norman steps closer. "You and I have been imprisoned together. We have a bond of experience, like war buddies. You have earned your place here. But this is a warning to you... stay away from my boy." Norman glares at Marko.

"The Spider-Man is your son?" Sandman said in shock.

"He's my boy, so, do we have an agreement?" Norman said as he glares at Marko.

Marko scoffs but agrees. "Fine!" He walks back to the couch and sits, eating peanuts from a plate.

"Sorry mate." Electro whispered to Marko and he grunts in response.

"So, Norman." Otto walks towards Norman. "What's the new plan?"

"I'm glad you asked, Otto." Norman stares outside the broken office window and looks down at the city below him. People infected with the cross-species virus are running around aimlessly and those that aren't affected are cowering in fear inside their homes, their workplace, and the superheroes aren't enough to take them all down, at least, not without lasting effects. "The New Age."

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Triskelion

Nick Fury is in a bind. He was just informed of Norman Osborn and his band of nutjobs escaping the prison facility. Fury watches a barely breathing Hank Pym being taken care of by his medical team.

Fury held a stern look towards the city of Paris. "Osborn..."

Suddenly, a call came to him, it was Janet.

(Hey Fury, where to next?)

He doesn't respond.

(Fury?...) Wasp ends the call, she had gotten no response.

Fury sighs. Janet can't be informed of what happened to Hank, at least not until all of this is over. In his frustration of losing control on everything that is happening around him, Fury failed to notice a medic giving him a smirk before walking away...

15th arrondissement, Daily Bugle

The Ant-Man sits on the back of the large beetle and he waves at the people inside the building, the bugle employees wave back as they see Ant-Man tap the large beetle's head and flew away.

"Urich... I'm most certain that you of all people should know that whatever happened here will not be discussed ever again." Robertson said.

"Yeah, me too..." Urich said.

"This city is crawling with animals!!!" Jonah screamed out in both fear and anger.

10th arrondissement, Cour des Petites Ecuries

The Scorpion and a bunch of police cops are in a stand off. "I've just found another infected! It-- it doesn't look that big but-- it-- it has a giant spike on it's tail!" One of the officers reported to his radio.

Scorpion rapidly shoots a barrage of acids at the polices from the tip of his tail and every officer hid on their car for cover.

Citizens watch the scene from inside the small restaurants. Some took out their phones to record the creature.

From a nearby roof, Kraven the Hunter is using a heavy crossbow and starts to aim a tranquilizer dart at the Scorpion. He waits until the Scorpion gets distracted and then he will strike. "Such an interesting creature, such an interesting prey."

Scorpion turns to the citizens inside the restaurant. Kraven shoots and the dart makes contact to Scorpion's abdomen. Scorpion screams in anger from the attack, he turns and looks at Kraven, standing proudly at the top of the roof with the crossbow in hand.

"Fool..." Scorpion said.

Scorpion shoots a barrage of acid at Kraven who evades them as he jumps off the rooftop and uses the awning to lessen the impact on the ground, he held a bowie knife on his hand, a sword on his other, and a shotgun on his back.

The cops watch as they could do nothing but watch the battle.

"This is insane!" One of the kids recording the scene on his phone said.

"Yeah!" His friend agreed with him, while all the other adults watch in silence and in fear.

"Green ball in the center pocket!" Spider-Man swing kicks Scorpion from behind. Scorpion crashes onto a dining table, breaking it on impact and he lays down on the ground.

Spider-Man looks to Kraven, who looks suprise to see him. "I'd asked as to what your doing here, Kraven. But something tells me I don't want to know." Spider-sense activated and a wooden board came straight at him. Spidey swiftly dodges it and saw Scorpion with a furious look on his face.

"Hey, I get it! Mommy didn't love me too." Spider-Man quipped.

Scorpion scream and launches another barrage of acids in the area. Spider-Man jumps to a lamp-post while Kraven ducks under a trash bin. "I will kill all of you!!"

"And yet, Mommy still doesn't love us."

"RRRAAAAHHHH!!" Scorpion lunges at Spider-Man.

Spider-Man web strikes Scorpion and as they both fall back to the ground, they are locked in a physical struggle.

Scorpion struggles to dominate Spider-Man in strength, he was beginning to get pushed back. Not only that but he felt dizzy, his vision went woozy, the effects from the tranquilising dart is starting to affect him. Scorpion shakes his head and tries to stay conscious.

Kraven sees this opportunity and starts to ready his shotgun. Kraven first aims it at Spider-Man, then at Scorpion and back at Spider-Man. Kraven hesitates to shoot and smiles, he chooses not to interfere, backing off from the fight.

Spider-Man dodges a punch, a backhand and a whip from Scorpion's tail. "Am I doing it right? 'cause I feel like I'm enjoying this."

Spidey webs the Scorpion and throws him up and back down on the ground. "That didn't look pretty." Scorpion, in an act of anger and frustration sprays acid all over the place which caused Kraven to take a leap away from the acidic infused area.

Spidey jumps out the way. "Hey, I already can't afford my cleaning bill!" Spider-Man launches himself at Scorpion and grabs his head, kicks him high upwards and webs him back to a brutal punch to the face, knocking Scorpion out.

"Impressive, huh?" Spider-Man said, looking at Kraven.

"So I see, you truly are the greatest prey to Sergei Kravinoff. I do not wish to battle you at this moment, for it is not honorable to attack a wounded beast." Kraven said.

"Wounded? Heh, looks like you need glasses more than me, Kraven. Now, let's get you behind bars." Spider-Man readies himself for Kraven but the hunter did not show any sign of attack.

"Behind bars? For what crimes? I have not done any crime, thanks to you." Kraven smiles and throws down a smoke bomb. " 'Till we meet again, Spider-Man."

Spider-Man shoots his web at the smoke only for it to make contact with nothing. "...Damn."

Spider-Man looks back at Scorpion and knows he needs to bring him to S.H.I.E.L.D. but he doesn't have enough time to personally deliver the guy, he has to head back to Oscorp. Spider-Man webs the unconcious Scorpion on the ground and leaves the scene.

Hope I made the right choice leaving him there.

8th arrondissement, Hotel de Crillon

Ladybug noticed the sudden change in action of the group of animals, they stopped heading towards wherever they were going and had started to search for her instead, and it didn't take them long to find her.

Ladybug evades each one of their attacks, jumping over an elephant, evading the gorilla, and backflipping over an eagle. Ladybug throws her yoyo and hits the incoming giraffe's eye making it stumble and crash onto a building. "One down, four to go."

The panther's mouth open showing its sharp teeth, Ladybug sees the panther jumping at her from the side and she dodges and uses her yoyo to capture the panther, she pulls on the string of the yoyo and ties the panther.

"Got ya!" Ladybug cheered.

The panther looks at her and she could have sworn it smiled. "Did you?" Ladybug was shocked that it talked, and suddenly the panther changes its form into a snake to escape the yoyo and then into a lion.

"Uhh... I'm sorry?..." The lion charges straight at her and Ladybug turns around and runs away.

Ladybug kept running and she looked back to see it's still on her tail. She turns in front of her and sees a bunch of animals heading straight for her. She was suprise at first, then she smirks, she ran faster towards the animals and then she latches her yoyo onto a streetpole and swings out of the way between the lion and the other animals as they crash in to each other, minus the eagle that is going straight for her.

Ladybug swings upwards and kicks the eagle in the face as it falls down inside a trash bin, the impact caused the bin to close. Ladybug opens her yoyo to call Chat but sees that he's already starting to call her, she answers. "Chat where--"

(Look up!)

Ladybug looks up and sees Chat Noir smiling and waving at her, she smiles too, happy and relieve that he's finally here.

Chat jumps down to her side. "Miss me, Bugaboo?" Chat takes out his staff and takes a fighting stance while looking at the gathered animals.

"Glad you're here, Chat. And now, I've got a plan!" Ladybug said.

"Yeah, so where's the panther? That is the akumatized one, right?" Chat said.

"Uh-- not exactly, the akumatized is a shape-shifter and can turn into any animals."

"Well, that's a problem, how are we even gonna find which one is it?"

"Lucky for you kitty, I already know the artifact. It's a bracelet, if one of them has a bracelet then we can take it down." Ladybug glances at her partner and sees a black whistle dangling around Chat's neck, she raised a brow at that but didn't question it.

"Great! So, what's the plan?" Chat asked.

"Lucky Charm!" Ladybug was given a whip.

"What are you doing!!?" Chat Noir screamed out, losing his fighting stance and grabbing Ladybug in the shoulder. "You know we're not suppose to use our special abilities or we might--"

"Might get affected, yeah, my kwami already told me... I'm gonna have to apologize to her later... But this was the only way I could think of finally catching it and with your help I'm a 100% sure it would work. So, come on kitty, let's take down this akuma right here and now!" Ladybug was determined to finish this. She's been fighting this akuma for over an hour now.

Chat Noir looked conflicted, he was all for fighting alongside her and his heart fluttered at her praise and belief to him. But to use Lucky Charm during this crisis was vey risky and right now, all he can do is trust her judgement. "Okay... I'll help you find a safe place to hide once your transformation runs out." Chat said and then, he smiles. "So, let's kick their animal butts!"

"That's the spirit! Let's go." Ladybug cracks her whip which made Chat Noir flinch at the sound.

"Bffphh!" Ladybug held back her laugh from his reaction.

Ladybug focuses on a way for her lucky vision to find out what to use this charm for. She looks at the Crillon building and her bug vision flashes, she looks at the incoming animals and sees all of them flashing, she looks at Chat and he too flashes. She gulps on her saliva and doesn't like what her mind has conjured up but if it works to capture the akuma then she has to do it. "Chat! We have to get them to follow us!" Ladybug runs off.

"Where?!" Chat asked as both he follows Ladybug.

"There!" Ladybug points to the hotel.

"On it!" Chat knew she had a plan and he didn't need to know what it is just that if she needs his help with it, then that's all he needs to trust and believe in Ladybug.

"Hey! Over here!!" Chat called out to the angry animals and they mindlessly follow him inside the building... by force.

"Attack!!" Every one of them charges straight at the building, hurdling and destroying every single part of the building, floors, furnitures, windows, chandeliers.

Chat Noir didn't see the look of guilt on Ladybug's face as he was too busy being bait for the animals and keeping up with her.

Suddenly, Ladybug took a swift turn and Chat Noir barely stopped his momentum and luckily, kept on her trail. The same can't be said for the remaining animals that were chasing them. Throughout the entire chase, the animals were beginning to fall one by one, the elephant got hit on the head from one of the fallen chandelier's and was taken down. The bear was next, crashing into a cake, a candle, a bunch of glass cups and a brick wall at the end. Only the gorilla and the lion are left chasing Ladybug and Chat Noir.

Ladybug slowed herself down to get close with Chat Noir. "Chat! I need you to handle the gorilla for what I'm about to do." Ladybug smiles at him with a sheepish look on her face.

"Why do I get the feeling that this isn't gonna look pretty..."

Ladybug turns to open one of the rooms and both her and Chat get inside, the gorilla and the lion sees them and barges inside. The lion looks up and sees Chat Noir jumping onto the gorilla's back and hitting it in the head with his staff. The gorilla screams in pain but Chat wasn't done, he kept hitting the gorilla over and over until it's K.O. 'd.

The lion looks to see Ladybug cracking her whip over and over and Hawkmoth's lines of vision form on its face. The lion growls and lunges at Ladybug and did exactly what she wanted.

Ladybug grabbed the curtains and threw them over both their heads, the lion turns back into a panther and had escape the falling curtain but Ladybug tackled it into a table, she uses the whip to tie its legs on the table and before she could grab the bracelet on its arm, it ate her left arm. "AAAHHH!!"

The scream caused Chat Noir to look and his eyes widen, Ladybug's arm... the wild sharp teeth covering her arm and the small lights of milky red energy was forming around the monster's mouth and on her arm. Chat Noir's body shakes and he is consumed by white hot rage.

Ladybug already knew that her suit makes her indestructible but still, seeing her arm be eaten scared her. She grabbed the akumatized bracelet and got it off the panther.

At the same time though, Chat Noir had scratched the panther's left eye. "GET AWAY FROM HER!!!" The panther screamed and moaned in pain, letting go of Ladybug's arm.

The act caused Ladybug to have a look of shock and gasp at Chat's action.

Chat didn't stop there, he punched the panther's face breaking a few of its teeths in and continued to punch him. "You could have killed her!!" He raises his arms and angrily mutters. "You don't get to walk away from that... CATA--"

Ladybug grabbed his raised up arm. "Chat!! Stop!! I'm fine!!"

Chat Noir looked behind him, his angry wide eyes and dilated slith pupils stares back at the bluebell colored eyes of the shocked Ladybug. Chat Noir looked at Ladybug's arms holding his, not a single scratch from the bite that the akuma had done to her her. "You... you're all right..." Chat stood up as Ladybug nods still holding his arm.

"I'm fine... guess your kwami didn't tell you that were indestructible, huh?..." Ladybug said, trying to lighten up the mood and lets go of Chat's arm.

Chat Noir suddenly rushed to hug her and she stumbled back a few steps before she got her footing. "...Don't scare me like that again..." Chat closed his eyes and held her tightly and Ladybug faintly smiles and reciprocates the hug.

Chat Noir deeply inhaled Ladybug's smell, more proof that she's fine and alright, no smell of metal for the signs of blood or the smell of pigs. "Umm, Chat, can you let go now? You're kind of-- crushing me." Ladybug said with a strain in her voice.

Chat hurriedly let go and rubs the back of his neck while blushing. "Sorry. Heh, I must have gotten overboard." Chat gives a half smile while Ladybug sliently looks at him before nodding. "Oh! I almost forgot, here." Chat took off the whistle and gave it to her. "This was from the akuma I fought, I beat him pretty easily." Chat said, lying at the last part.

Ladybug chuckles at Chat. "Yeah, I'm sure your sneezing was easy." Chat chuckles at her comment. Ladybug took the whistle with her other hand while the other had the bracelet. She broke both of them with a squeeze of her hand and two butterflies emerge and she purifies them both.

Ladybug takes the rope off of the panther's legs. The panther was then covered in dark energy before becoming someone Ladybug knows and she gasps before hiding her suprise. After all, she's not Marinette right now. She, as Ladybug, shouldn't know that this is Alya's father.

"Miraculous Ladybug!" Light appeared and out from it came magical ladybugs flying around the city that the akumas destroyed and fixing them, people that were injured from the akumas were healedand it engulfts both her and Chat for a moment bringing them back to full health.

"Ooogggh... where am I?" Alya's dad asked.

"You were akumatized by Hawkmoth. Ladybug and I turned you back to normal." Chat Noir said.

Ladybug's earrings suddenly begin to beep. This caused her to run out the room and Chat follows, leaving Alya's dad behind.

Chat saw Ladybug open a door and is about to head inside a room but he stops her by grabbing the door she was about to close. "Stay!" Ladybug look in suprise at Chat Noir. "I won't tell anyone who you are, cats honor." He put one of his hands up and the other on his chest. Chat yearned for a connection, something more than just the superhero partnership.

Chat's words sounded sincere and he looked vulnerable, Ladybug sadly smiles. "Nobody must know who we really are, not even us." Ladybug firmly refuses and gets inside the room, leaving the door an inch from closing.

Chat Noir is saddened and disappointed by her choice, and he looks at the door handle. He grabs the handle and pulls the door but then a flash of light appeared from inside and he knew that light, it was different from his light but all the same to his understanding, Ladybug has destransformed. His hand pulls the door handle but then his hand begins to shake. Each moment he stood by the longer he feels like he's doing something wrong, even though he knows it's something he wants to do. But when had he ever had the chance to do something he wanted... Chat shuts his eyes, grunts in frustration, and closes the door.

Inside the room, Tikki sighs in relief. " Phew, That was too close for comfort Marinette. I can't believe you pulled that off."

"...Your not mad?"

"Mad? About what?" Tikki asked, confused.

"That I didn't do what you said: to not use Lucky Charm."

"Marinette, while I did say that I had only done it for your own protection from the virus. But I guess I can see that you didn't need that warning. You nearly handled yourself perfectly out there."

Marinette smiles. "Thanks, Tikki."

"But... I can't say the same about Chat Noir though, gosh, did Plagg really not tell him anything?"

"You kinda didn't tell me about the indestructible thing either, Tikki." Marinette pointed out.

Tikki sighs. "I guess your right... I could go for some cookies later."

"Yeah, me too." Marinette lightly chuckles.

"Oh and Marinette..."

"Yeah, Tikki?"

"No more biting."

"Sorry..."

Marinette pokes her head out of the door and sees that Chat was gone, she smiled and walks out the room but stays in the hotel until this virus is cleared.

Chat Noir sat on top of the rooftop, visibly upset. He looked at his knuckles, there was blood on them. His tail limp on the side of the roof as he silently lays there while the cross-species virus is still ongoing. "The sun's setting... Can you still hold on for a few more minutes, Plagg?" Chat Noir lays down on the rooftop of Crillon, curling up into a ball and closes his eyes, his tail turning to his side as if to cover him from the cold wind or from the cold rejection.

Chapter Text

Spider-Man swings towards Oscorp Tower and kicks the window open and lands inside the tower building. Spider-Man looks at the camera having a small flashing red dot.

It. Is. On.

"Smythe!! You're done! You going to prison for this and you're stanky breath is about to get even more stanky!" Spider-Man swings towards each facility, trying to find where Smythe is hiding.

Aviation facility? No, not here. Genetic facility? No. Robotics Lab? Gotta be.

Spider-Man swings towards the one robotics lab and was met with a bunch of robots staring right at him, stopping anything they're doing.

"Scanning cross-species..." Over 10 robots said, Spider-sense activated. "Cross-species detected! Engage!"

"Oh, come on!" Spider-Man dodges and destroys each robots one by one. Punching through them, webbing one and another and smashing them together or just plain kicks that effortlessly destroys the robots. "Heh, that was a good workout."

These robots were programmed to attack any cross-species dna. Guess Black Cat wasn't lying.

"A good work out indeed, Spider-Man. But you'll never find me." Smythe said, through Oscorp's intercomm.

"You can't hide behind your band of killer-robots forever, Smythe." Spider-Man said.

"Why I don't intend to, after all, you will die soon."

"Heh, yeah right. I'm soooo scared. Hey, while you're at it why don't you just show yourself so you can try and scare me more with your stank breath." Spider-Man quips.

"Oh, we will see each other again, Spider-Man. But first, I have a suprise for you."

A door opens and out came a band of vampires. "Oh, my God..."

"Hungry..." Each one of them said.

The two identical vampires grabbed Spider-Man's arms. The female vampire grabbed his head. "Rraarrgh!" She forcfully dig her fangs inside Spider-Man's neck and started sucking his bllod out of him.

"AAGGHHHH!!!" Spider-Man screams in pain and in fear.

Suddenly, the vampire backs away, a look of fear and dsgust formed on her face. The act suprised the two vampires holding Spider-Man. The vampire vomits out Spider-Man's blood. "Huaagghh!! This blood is tainted!! This blood is diseased!! You're not pure!! You're not human!"

Spider-Man grabs both the vampire's heads and smashed them together. Spider-Man punches the female vampire, breaking one of her fangs. "You killed me!! You turned me into you!!!!"

Suddenly, Morbius arrived on the scene wih two metal daggers on his hands. He stabbed the two brothers before they could attack Spider-Man and the female vampire tried to run but Morbius threw the dagger straight at her chest. All three burned from the blades.

Spider-Man stared at Morbius, his hand was on his throat, he could feel it, he could feel the holes on his skin, the blood pouring out like a tiny waterfall. "They killed me!! I-- I didn't I didn't think this is how it would end... I--"

"Let me see." Morbius said as he grabs Spider-Man's wrist.

"Let go!" Spider-Man was shaking, he was terrified and he couldn't move. Morbius took off his mask. "Stop it."

Morbius took one sniff at the blood and recoiled in disgust. "As I thought, your blood is diseased. You'll be fine."

"How-- How-- how am I gonna be fine!! I'm gonna become a vampire!!" Peter said, he didn't care that his mask was off.

"You're immune. Unlike humans and cross-species, your blood cannot feed a nightcrawler. "

"Im-- Imm-- Immune..." Peter was still shaking. Morbius turns to leave. "W-- wait, what's your name?"

Morbius turns back to Peter. "Morbius, Michael Morbius. And if we ever see each other again, I hope it will be in better circumstances." Morbius flies away, out a window, and out of Oscorp Tower.

"...So, Spider-Man is just a boy..." Smythe's words caused Peter to get his bearings and went for his mask to cover his face. "This will make it so much easier to kill--" The building shook. "What-- who-- Impossible... Os--" The intercomms went dead, the cams red lights were off. Everything went dead. His spider-sense activated but due to what just recently transpired, Spider-Man couldn't react in time and all he could do was watch as a blue lightning electrocutes him.

"AAAGGGGHH!!"

"Wake him up." Norman ordered.

Electro shoots a spark of electricity and Peter was shocked awake. "He's stirring."

Peter looks up and sees Max Dillon, Flint Marko, Otto Octavius and Norman Osborn all staring at him.

"My boy." Norman said.

Peter tries to move his arms on instinct from seeing Norman but then he noticed that he was tied up to a chair.

Sandman stares at Norman's supposed son. He can't see a resemblance, he had a daughter once and even he sees the family resemblance between his daughter and himself. But Peter and Norman, aside from the blue eyes, they look nothing alike.

"My boy." Norman repeats.

"Osborn, why do you keep calling me that?" Peter asked, confused.

Norman crouches down to Peter's level. "Peter, you are, simply said, my finest hour. You are my greatest creation. I created you, I created Spider-Man. In a way, really, I am your Zeus to your Hermes."

Norman's words caused Sandman to roll his eyes, he should have known Norman was bat-shit crazy. Spider-Man isn't his son.

"You were like everyone else, just a boy, and your real parents gave birth to the boy... But now, you're so much more... You're absolutely perfect." Norman said.

Peter looks at Norman with hatred and anger. "And you... are just all kinds of crazy."

Norman held a stern look at Peter. "It's okay, Peter. The last time you and I were in the same room... Well, that for me, that was just an adjustment period. I hadn't come to grips with my new life. My body, my mind... It was all new. It was just an adjustment period."

Norman stood back up and looks down at Peter. "The problem as I see it-- the reason you and I have so much work cut out for us... is that you've been hanging around witht he wrong people. Impresionable young man, out there in the world, forced to grow up faster than you should... No father, no male role model to speak of... and along comes Nick Fury. And he talks his talk and he tells you all these things. A "man of power"... it's all understandable. And you shouldn't kick yourself for falling for it. But the facts are the facts, and all of us-- all of us in this room are victims of his lies. Of his dirty deals."

Electro weirdly looks at Norman before having an indifferent look on his face.

"Well, all of us are in the same boat... is my point. That's why I made a special trip to get you. That's why I wanted to have this talk with you. You're with us now. Yes, you are. You. My boy. My pride and joy. My Spider-Man." Norman's eyes glow yellow and a grin plastered on his face.

Otto tries to keep the smile on his face as Norman continues his speech. His envy and hatred of Norman was starting to resurface and each word that is coming out of the man's mouth was starting to make his blood boil...

"And I am excited for you now, because you are going to learn what kind of a god you really are. You are goiing to take my hand and you are going to open your eyes and you are going to see the world the way I see it, the way it really is. You are going to lash out at those who would oppress you... Those who lied to you. And you are going to be there with us on this history-making day."

"Just-- AAGGH shut up!" Peter breaks free from his restraints. "I have no idea what you are talking about!! All of you nutty nut bars from the nut farm, but you, Norman Osborn, you really are a complete and total looney!"

Peter jumps and sticks to a wall. "I am not your boy!! I am not your creation!! I was an accident! You backstabbing, lying, piece of crap lunatic!! And I don't think, I know! Fury said it-- you-- you were crazy before you stuffed yourself full of Oz juice. And the fact you haven't killed yourself yet is nothing short of shocking. And if you think for a second that I--" Peter saw Otto's arm coming closer to him but Otto stops in the form of a hand raised by Norman telling him to stand down.

"Your Aunt May will die tonight." Norman's words sent a cold feeling running down Peter's spine.

"And then, if you still can't behave, I'll kill all of the people at your school. Then their family. (For the symmetry of the thing.)" Norman was secretly enjoying this, threatening Peter. "If you ever talk back to me like that again. Do we understand each other?"

Norman showed a look of dissaproval. "My first choice is to embrace you and respect you for what destiny has given you and what I will do to make you be more than you are destined to be. Not a hero but a God... But if you, Peter, talk like that to me again, I will punish you. There are things you need to learn and if that's what I have to teach you... I will."

Peter's hand was shaking in rage and fear, Norman truly is acting like a father that is to lecturing his son.

Norman grabs the bat that Peter held. "I forgive you this once. As I said, you have been under the influence of a very powerful man." Norman felt sick saying those words about Fury. "But right now, today, the six of us... We have very important things to do and a very large window of opportunity in which to do them. And at the end of it, you will know exactly who you are... And I think you, like us, will like what you see."

Peter realizes how dire the situation is and knew there was no way he would even risk the 5% chance he could beat all of them here and now. "Six?"

Norman's smiles and takes the bat off of Peter's hand. "Yes, six. Come on out." A single figure step out from the shadows, The Chameleon.

"You.." Peter grits his teeth in anger.

Chameleon shifts and changes into Peter's face and copies him. "You..."

"Oh, and boy, you don't have to worry about the cross-species problem. I took care of it for you." Norman said, turning his back on Peter.

Peter looks at him in suprise and confusion. "What do you mean...? What did you do..."

Norman points to the side of the room and Peter turns to see a skeleton body and ah on the ground it was laying on. "Meet Dr. Alistair Smythe, poor fellow, if he had just obeyed my orders he would have lived, but he wanted to reach the sky, so I helped him with that." Osborn smirks and turns to Peter. "Although, I think he might be going under."

Peter was shock, to say the least. They had just killed Smythe. "Okay, okay, just please... Leave my Aunt May alone. Leave her be. Please."

"Good. We have a few hours to get ready." Norman walks towards the window and Peter has the urge to tackle him out. "Hmm, looks like the E.D.I. arrived."

"Took them long enough, I'll distract them while you guys make the Mayor pay." Chameleon said.

"How exactly are you planning to do that?" Sandman asked.

Chameleon grins and shifts his face into one someone Peter doesn't recognize. "I will be Captain France."

"Wow, can you fly now?" Electro joked which caused Chameleon to shoot him a dirty look.

"Whatever gets it done, Chameleon. Come, we have only an hour to prepare." Norman said.

"Is the video ready?" Norman asked Otto.

Otto gives Norman a nod. "Good..." Norman's eyes glow yellow. "...Broadcast it to the world."

Otto's mechanical arms move to a button on a computer and taps the keyboard: Enter.

Chapter Text

1 hour ago

"Osborn...!" Alistair Smythe stares at the CEO of OsCorp.

"Hello, Doctor." Norman said.

Alistair felt uneasy, he looked at Otto standing beside Norman, and another person he didn't know is staring him down with his arms cross. "What are you even here for...?"

Norman looks around the place. "I must say... You really don't seem to know what your doing with my place."

"Oh, I didn't do all this..."

"Oh, yes, you did." Norman walks around the room. "You continued Connor's work, created cross-species; a lesser version of my Oz. Then, you tried to contain them instead of improving and evolving them, you locked them up in cages, which started some sort of rebellion...? Whatever, it all came down once my boy came and caused trouble for you."

"...Your boy?" Alistair said with a raised brow, confused.

"It's a fascinating work, really, even with it's flaws. Cross-species biology has chemical augmentation but the damage on the human brain for it is clearly a variable that needs to be solved." Norman then smirks. "Luckily, S.H.I.E.L.D. seems to already be fixing that problem."

Norman stops walking, points his thumb at the window, and both Sandman and Alistair looked outside to see a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier pouring yellow rain across the entire city.

"What is that?..." Alistair said.

"Gene cleanser, they tried to use it on me." Norman revealed.

"Gene cleanser?!"

"Yes. It erases the genetic structure of any super-powered beings." Norman held a look of annoyance, he didn't like that such a substance exist.

In a fit of rage, Smythe lashes out and punches the window. "No! I should be the one to save the city! I should be the one to cure them! Those are the people I was meant to save!!! They've ruined everything!!!" Smythe hurriedly tries to run away but one of Otto's mechanical arms grabbed him and throws him to a corner. "Aghguh!"

Norman's eyes glow yellow, Smythe sees this and it causes him to feel the powerlessness in his situation once more. "You did well, making these species... although, I must say that you really have not been capable of taking care of things these past hours... So, I will take care of things from now on."

"...What..."

"You heard me." Norman glares at Smythe with a smile. "You have failed to understand power, you lack vision. Power is meant to dominate and rule the world."

"You're wrong... Power must be contained. Harnessed. Without control, you're no better than the animals you spliced..." Smythe said.

"See, that's why you're just a technician while I am someone with ambition." Norman turns around, looking away at Smythe. "You build a species but I will make them better and this time, they know who owns them."

"...You're a monster." Smythe said, backing away from Norman.

"No. I am God. Kill him." Norman ordered Otto.

One of Otto's mechanical arms turned into a flamethrower and burns Alistair Smythe to ash. "UUUUAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!" Norman smiles at the burning corpse in front of him.

9th arrondissement, Le Grand Hotel

Chloe Bourgeois was being dragged out of her room by two agents. "Ma'am... the Mayor asked us to take you to him." The agent said, strain in his voice due to having diffciulty pulling Chloe, who is clinging to the side of the wall.

"No!! I'm not going out there!" Chloe said.

"Ma'am, the outside is no longer infectious you can go outside!" The other agent said, holding her leg.

"Who cares about that!! Those army of rats are still out there!!" Chloe screamed in fear and was pulled harder by the agents and she loses her grip on the wall.

Chloe was taken out of the hotel which caused the yellow rain to make contact with her. "Euuggh!! My hair!" Chloe is thrown inside the backseat of a black car. "Where are you taking me, you crooks!"

"Ms. Bourgeois, please! You are in danger from an escaped terrorist and we were to task to bring you to the Elysee Palace and your father is there right now."

"As if I would believe you!" Chloe scoffs and crosses her arms. She then takes out her phone and smiled, she was glad she had this in her pocket. The ride to the palace went silent after that.

8th arrondissement, Hotel de Crillon

On top of the hotel roof, a sleeping Chat Noir was woken up by the yellow rain pouring down on the city and on him. "Uhhggh... What's-- what's going on...?" Chat rubs his face as the yellow rain still keeps going. Chat stood up and looked down at the infected people in the city and sees thay they are turning back to normal. "...Claws in."

"Finally! I never thought I would say this but let's go home, kid. I want some camembert inside me to fill up this black hole that you call my stomach." Plagg said, stretching his tiny back.

Inside the building, Marinette watches the yellow rain too and along with Tikki, they smile at each other as the city-wide pandemic seems to have been prevented.

"Let's get out of here, Tikki." Marinette said.

"Yeah, I would really like some of your cookies and macaroons once we get home, Marinette." Tikki said.

"Me too, Tikki." Marinette said as they leave the hotel.

The S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier up above the city of Paris, Nick Fury watches from a cctv camera of Peter's aunt and the girl who lives with him in the house.

"Is the Mayor's daughter being escorted to the palace?" Fury asked.

"Yes, sir. We also have agents at the Parker home."

"I want double the men on that street." Fury ordered.

"Yes, sir."

"The Oscorp facilities?"

"There are almost forty eight warehouses, laboraties and black sites--"

"Forty eight?"

"Most are boarded up. Some sold off. We have dispatched agents including the ones in Brittany and AURA. There are a few in--"

"What?!" Fury suddenly screamed out which caused all the other agents in the room to look at him. "What, America, what? What is your problem, Captain?!"

Steve Rogers was giving Nick Fury a dirty look. Both of them left the room to speak in private.

"Spit it out."

"I can't help but notice that all of this trouble blossoms straight out of experiments, commissioned by you, that were meant to duplicate, or were inspired by, the Super Soldier experiments that created me in the Forties." Steve Rogers said.

"And--"

"And I'm saying, seventy years later and all we have to show for it... is this? Half-mutated homicidal maniacs? Cross-species innocent victims? How many people have died for this? How long has this gone on? How long is this going to--"

"Captain, you, like the atomic bomb, are one of the greatest success stories in the history of war. And ever since, like the bomb, each country with a Petri dish and five dollars has been scrambling to not only repeat you...but to improve on you and stockpile you." Fury hunches his back and puts his arms on the railing pole. "I don't know much but I do know this... One way or another, the next war will be a genetic war."

"This isn't the legacy I was hoping to leave behind when I volunteered for the program." Cap said, feeling guilty for everything that has happened from his success.

"This has nothing to do with you. If it wasn't 'Super Soldier' it would be something else; Like these Cross-species. Crazy and greedy is always looking for a way to be crazy and greedy. Norman Osborn and these other idiots were going to end up a problem no matter what." Nick Fury said.

"They were going to snap, and they were going to come face-to-face with me, and they were going to try something to... Get back at me... Because I--" Fury trails off his words from his train of thoughts.

"Boss!" One of the agent barged inside. "You might wanna come and take a look."

Fury and Cap ran back inside the room and sees Norman Osborn on the screen. "...My name is Norman Osborn."

"Sonuvabitch..." Fury said.

 Present Time

A video of Norman Osborn started broadcasting in the city of Paris and the people are watching. Those that were in their home watching television was interrupted by the broadcast. Those that were on their phone had been forcefully shown of the video, even the many TV's on the malls, the bars, and even on the radio. Those that are on their vehicles starts hearing about the broadcast as well, everyone on France is seeing the videocast.

"Hello, My name is Norman Osborn. I am here to tell you the truth. I am here to share to you about all that has happened behind the public eye. You've seen the individuals with extraordinary abilities beyond human limitations. You even recorded some of them, seen them on YouTube or even in real life. But ask yourself this... Where are these super-powered people coming from? Well, let me tell you a story of something called The Super Soldier Serum." The recording of Norman changes into a picture of Captain America before continuing his speech. "The Super Soldier Serum is an enhancement formula. It was made to create soldiers with enhanced physical and mental abilities. In 1942, the creation of this serum was made and it was used on an American man named Steve Rogers, the serum was a success in creating the first super soldier and that is how Captain America was born."

"CUT THE FEED!!" Fury screams at the top of his lungs to his agents.

"We're sorry, sir! But we're being blocked!"

Fury looks at the S.H.I.E.L.D. computers and sees a green octopus insignia on the screen. "Otto..."

"In World War ll we were the first country to be defeated. In 1945, Captain America was frozen and throughout the years, everyone was trying to recreate the Super Soldier Serum." The screen changes to old footage of a battle between The Hulk and The Abomination in the Belleville, Paris. "As you can see, these abberations are failed attempts at recreating the super-soldier serum. These were made possible by one man..." The screen changes to a picture of a bald black man wearing an eyepatch with black trenchcoat and black shirt with black pants and black boots standing proudly. "Nicholas Fury."

Fury glares at the screen in a quiet rage. Steve stares at the screen, his face shows to be clearly upset and most likely feeling guilty for all of this.

"Nicholas Fury created a program called Project Rebirth 2, and as I said before, this was the program to recreate the serum. Fury assembled a team of top scientists." The screen changes to four panels of a picture of four people. "Franklin Storm, Bruce Banner, Hank Pym (The Giant-Man) and Richard Parker. These four people-- and I assure you there are many others that I can't specifically say because of some... minor problems."

6th arrondissement, Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Gwen Stacy sat beside Aunt May and looked at her in shock. Aunt May was shaking, eyes wide with her hands on her mouth, tears starts to escape from her eyes and her vision begins to blur from the tears. Gwen continues to watch in silence, while May tries to stop herself from crying, and failing.

8th arrondissement, Elysee Palace

"IIII knew iittt! Junior wasn't lying! He was telling the truth! Ha, and everyone says he's crazy, what a bunch of idiots." Chloe continues to watch the news on her phone as she walks inside the palace. "Richard... Parker... Parker!?" Chloe was suprised that the nerd orphan boy sitting beside her in class had a criminal for a dad but even she knew that Peter couldn't hurt a fly even if he tried to. "Maybe that rumor of him breaking Flash's arm really must be true..." Chloe held a look before brushing it off. "As if, how would he even be capable of doing that? Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!"

The agents opened a door to see Mayor Bourgeois along with some other high-class people. "Chloe, my dear!" Andre grabbed hold of his daughter in relief.

"Ok, ok, let me go!" Chloe shakes her legs to try and get him off but to no avail. She still needed to keep watching the video broadcast. It was when he let go that she saw a radio that they were listening to Norman's announcement.

"How did he get this information..." Fury muttered.

Then it clicks to Fury. "Chameleon..." Fury instantly tapped a button on his belt and Cap suddenly felt like he got bit by an ant or something. "Tsk... not here."

"What's not here?" Cap asked, confused.

"Heads up everyone! Osborn allied himself with a shapeshifter. Keep both of your eyes sharp!" Nick Fury announced.

"Yes, sir!" All of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents said.

The video changes back to Norman as he continues to speak. "I, along with some other corporations, like Hammer, signed up to try and create a super soldier serum. I'm certain you have all heard of my story, how there was a mysterious explosion in one of OsCorp's facilities?... Well, have you ever wondered what the truth behind all of that is?" Norman's stoic face changes to a proud smile. "I did it. I created a formula that's not only equivalent to the super soldier serum but also surpasses it in every way. This serum is what the world shall be known as The Oz formula. This formula is a genetically engineered serum. It enhances human physiology and grants anyone superpowers. It makes any Homo-sapien become more than what they are."

15th arrondissement, Daily Bugle

"...Robertson, what is this world coming too..." Jonah asked his best friend.

"Let's just hope that everything will be alright in the end, Jonah, that's all we can do." Robbie said.

"Poor Peter..." Betty said, feeling bad for what this could mean to Peter's social life.

"Urich lets out a breath he didn't even know he was holding. "That kid... wherever he is, he must be in so much pain right now."

Norman stops smiling and returns to his stoic look. "Once Fury found out that I had cracked the code of the super soldier serum and evolved it, he illegally detained me and housed many genetically altered people like myself in a research facility. We later escaped and now we have come back only to find more genetically altered mutations like us running around the city; The Cross-species."

Norman looked upset or more accurately, disappointed. "You already know what they are but nonetheless, they are still in the same category as any genetic mutation. These cross-species seems to be sub-versions of the Oz formula just mixed with animal DNA. In a way, they are my children."

Norman starts to smile. "Children of Oz, your Father speaks to you, what you have is no curse, but a gift. Feel your power and know that you've become more than man."

Norman's eyes glow yellow at the screen. "Evolution always begins with mutation. The rate of evolution has accelerated in the last 40,000 years. And now..." Norman transforms into the Green Goblin. "You are looking at the next five million years of human evolution. I am Osborn. I am Genesis. I am The Green Goblin!!"

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Both Military and Police Officers are guarding the gates of the palace. A particular cop, was with them.

"Are you nervous, Captain?" A young cop asked.

"Nervous? No. Terrified? Most definitely." Captain John George Stacy said to his underling.

"Heh, yeah, me too. Just gotta... keep our heads up high, right, Captain?" The young cop chuckles.

"Yeah..."

Inside the Elysee Palace, Chloe and her father silently waits in a room full of her dad's co-workers. The silence was uncomfortable, very uncomfortable, Chloe wanted to grab her phone that was lying down on the table and leave but something is telling her that whatever is happening right now it's a whole lot bigger than her.

Suddenly, the lights went out. "Uh--" Blue lightning came out from every electronic device and attacked the people inside.

"Mr. Mayor!! Get down!!"

Chloe watches as her father lunges for her and his father's co-worker lunges for him. An explosion was made and caused the area of that palace to be destroyed and assaulted by the Sinister Six.

The Military sees the explosion from out side and tries to see what was inside but was met with a fireball to the back along with the police. "Captain!!" The young cop screamed out before launching himself at his superior to protect him from the exploding fireball.

"This will do." Goblin held his large hand to Peter's shoulder and all Peter could do was watch a bunch of people be killed by The Goblin right in front of him.

They walk towards the palace and Peter limply walks with them. Until, the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier arrives above them. "OSBORN!!!" Peter looks up as Goblin smirks. The Avengers land down in front of the Sinister Six. "You're trespassing."

"Mind if I join?" Captain France said, holding Chameleon by the throat. "You have a rat with you, Mr. Osborn."

Eveything around Peter started moving at once. His ears ringing as he stood in the middle of the battlefield watching everyone around him fight against one another.

Captain America evades a punch from Goblin and kicks him in the face.

Electro attacks Captain France. Captain France lets go of the unconcious Chameleon and battles Electro in the air.

Sandman enlarges himslf and attacks Iron Man, smashing Stark down on the ground.

Doctor Octopus tries to catch the shrunk Wasp while she was trying to take him down with her Wasp Sting. Hawkeye shoots arrows at Otto and it eletrocutes him, Wasp kept shooting small energy stings at Otto's head and the arms tries to protect Otto.

"S.H.I.E.L.D. Control, I need a direct download to coordinate a genetic lock and engage a temporary genetic paralysis on one of these--" Iron Man is getting ragdolled upwards by a large pile of sand from Sandman.

(We're on it, Mr. Stark.)

"I need it kinda now."

(We're having multiple power surges because of all the interference from Electro. We're doing...) The S.H.I.E.L.D. comms are losing signal.

Iron Man shoots a repulsor blast that goes right through Sandman and towards Green Goblin. "FURYYYY!"

During the battle, Captain Stacy gets up from a pile of dead bodies. He was fine, held some minor damage but fine. Captain Stacy looked from outside the broken gates to see the Avengers battling the Sinister Six. And Peter was standing in the middle of it all.

In the midst of all these super powered beings, Captain Stacy's human spirit found the will to act once he saw Peter, and he made a promise, hes going to get that boy home and back to his aunt. Captain Stacy ran towards Peter and calls out to him. "Peter!"

Peter looks to see Captain Stacy running and stumbling towards him and his eyes widened to see him here.

John held Peter's shoulder. "Come on, I'm gonna get you out of here!"

"No. You won't." Green Goblin said, before his flaming hand grabs the side of John Stacy's face and throws him to the side.

"NOOOOO!!!" Peter screams and attacks Goblin in anger. "YOU BASTAAAARRDD!!!" Peter punches Goblin sending him up in the air and everyone looks up to see Goblin crashing down on the ground and Peter begins to beat him to a pulp. "I'M SO SICK OF HAVING YOU IN MY LIFE!!!"

Captain America was suprised by the display of strength, he had been attacking The Green Goblin with everything he had and not once was Goblin ever pushed back by him. But one punch was all it took for Spider-Man to send the man flying.The difference in strength was evident between them.

Otto's mechanical arm grabs Peter by the back of his throat. "Ggaagh!!" Otto throws him through a window and Peter crashes inside the Elysee Palace.

"Octavius, look what you've done to yourself. You were a man of science. A man of impeccable--" Wasp wings was grabbed by one of Otto's mechanical arm. "You used to be a man of--"

"Don't lecture me." Otto flicks Wasp away with his finger.

"Aaggh!"

Otto turns to Hawkeye and Black Widow. "Come."

Wasp crashes onto a wine bottle and gets back up. "All right, then!" Wasp flies towards Otto and defeats him by flying directly into and down his throat. Otto lays down on the ground unconcious while his arms try to wake him up with no success.

"And that makes me the first person in history of the world to be covered in gingivitis." Wasp noted while crawling out of Otto's mouth.

"Oh, my God!" A high-pitch voice screamed out.

Peter rubs the back of his head and looks to see Chloe Bourgeois looking at him with wide eyes along with the Mayor who's back has a severely burned injury but is holding his non-injured daughter protectively.

"...Peter?..." Chloe said.

"Oh..." Peter was suprised to see Chloe. And she now knows who he is.

"What's wrong?...hah...Running out of...hah...juice?" Captain France said while panting heavily. The front of his suit was torn and he had a burn mark on his chest.

"Heh, I'm just getting started. We'll see who runs outta batteries first!" Electro charges at him and Captain France respond by doing the same. A shockwave exploded in the air from their attacks.

A lightning passed into one of the windows and Peter knew he had to get back out there. "Stay here, where it's safe." Peter told the Mayor and Chloe.

(Mr. Stark we're back online. Which genetic sequence do you want first?)

"I'm going to go with the Sandman file." Tony said.

(File upload complete.)

"File received." Iron Man said and uses the S.H.I.E.L.D. file to shoot Sandman with a genetic paralysis blast which caused sand to explode everywhere. "I think... I'm just gonna lay down here for a little while."

"Parker!? You're..." Chloe stared at Peter in shock. She had just seen one of the biggest secrets of Europe, maybe even the entire world. Peter Parker is Spider-Man.

"We'll talk later." Peter said, getting up and leaves the room from out where he was thrown from.

Peter looks outside to see Doctor Octopus down for the count and just in time to see Iron Man exploding Sandman. "Oh, my God..."

Captain America shielded himself from a beam of fire from Green Goblin. "Captain, it is my honor to kill you today. If not for you I would not--"

Cap rolls to the side and throws his shield at Goblin's face. "Quiet!" Steve won't let himself feel guilty for people turning themselves into monsters anymore. Whatever Norman did, he's not a victim for anything he's done.

Hawkeye, Black Widow, Wasp and Captain America fight off Green Goblin in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace.

"Stay here, Daddy." Chloe lightly pushes her father down on the floor, making sure his back isn't in contact with anything before running to where Peter left the room too.

"Chloe!" Mayor Bourgeois called out but he groans and hisses in pain after, so he silently sits on the floor.

Goblin demands for Fury to appear."FURY!! I WANT FURYYY!!!! I WANT TO SHOW FURY WHAT HIS LAST DAYS LOOK LIKE!!! I WANT TO SHOW HIM WHO DID THIS TO--"

"Dad!" And a voice comes from behind the Goblin. The voice... of Harry Osborn.

"Harry?" Goblin said.

"Harry..." Peter said.

"Junior?..." Chloe said.

Lightning shot from the air and rain drips down on the battlefield. The fight has been stop to a halt by Harry Osborn. Peter and Chloe watches from a stair railing. Captain America stops attacking Norman as well. And so did the others.

"Ah... This is what the great Nick Fury has sunk to... Shoving my own child in front of my face." Green Goblin said.

Iron Man's armor is starting to rejuvinate and he could finally start to move.

"I came on my own. He told me what you were doing." Harry pleadingly looked at his father. "Please, please stop this, Dad. Please stop."

"Carrier, this is Stark. Load me Osborn's genetic sequence." Tony asked.

(Loading.)

"You need to stop. You have to stop." For a moment, Harry's words caused the Goblin's face to look at his son in suprise.

(File loaded, Mr. Stark. You are good to go.)

"Nick, can you hear me? I have a lock on Osborn." Tony said.

Harry looks up at Peter and Chloe with wide eyes. And they stare back at him in suprise.

Osborn grits his teeth. He was having trouble with making a choice. He doesn't want to stop, he wants to go further and further but his son, his own flesh and blood told to him to stop and he cares about his son, he does and the father's will beats the Goblin's crazed mind.

"I have a lock. I'm taking the shot." Iron Man aims a genetic paralysis ray from Goblin's back.

"Harry..."

"Dad...?"

(Tony, wait...)

Iron Man shoots and hits Osborn and he screams in pain.

"AARRGGHHH!!" The beam caused Norman to grab his arm as it grotesquely grows in an extreme size. "AARRGGGHHHLLLLGGCCHH KIILLLLL YOYOOOUUUU!!!" Half of Norman's face was his normal one with his eyes shut but the goblin part of his face has it's eyes bulging out.

Gunshots were fired, Arrows were shot, and Captain America throws his shield, all aimed at Norman.

Harry closes his ears from the sound and looks on in shock at what they just did to his dad. His dad was gonna stop! Why did they keep attacking him... the brutality of these people... Why?

The Goblin laid down on the ground slowly turning back to Norman.

"Sorry, kid. Wasn't the plan." Nick Fury said, having finally shown himself to the scene.

An explosion from up in the sky appeared and a ray of light crashes down to them. Captain France, bloodied, burned and bruised was holding a naked, nearly beaten to death, Electro, by the neck.

The fight was over. Peter walks towards Harry and Chloe follows him. She didn't care if it raining and got her hair wet, this day was already one of the worst days of her life.

"Good job, Captain France." Captain America said and salutes him.

Captain France did the same and salutes back to Captain America.

The Avengers regroup and take the Sinister Six with them. "Alpha Team!! Head out. Mission's over. Move!!" Steve ordered and everyone gathered up the villains and sent them off to prison. To real prison, they can't have them illegally detained in S.H.I.E.L.D. anymore now that the truth is out.

Harry watches them take his father away like he wasn't a person. Harry's tears are shed and falls across his face. A hand grabbed his shoulder and Harry turns around. It was Peter. Chloe was a few steps behind but she was here too. Both of them were a part of all of this.

Oh, Harry..." Peter went to hug his best friend. "You-- you didn't deserve any of--"

"All of you. I'll kill all of you for this." Harry promised.

Peter looks in shock and horror on what Harry said.

"Mr. Mayor. Come, let's get you some medical treatment." Captain France helps Mayor Bourgeois off the ground and slowly flies him towards the group.

"...You seem worse than I am." Mayor Bourgeois chuckles before hissing from the rain touching his burned bare skin.

"Daddy!" Chloe said and hugs her father which caused Captain France to smile and Andre to wince in pain.

Peter watches with a smile... then remembers a father of his own. He looked around to find him and sees him lying down on a wall. Peter runs up to him. Peter gasps to see half of George Stacy's face was burned.

"John..."

Captain Stacy opens his eyes to see Peter staring at him. "Peter..." John smiled at seeing him. "Peter..." John started to cry, he knew this is the end for him. "Peter, please..." John weakly gripped a hand on Peter's arm.

Peter felt tears start to well up in his eyes too. "Peter... Leave...Gwen... out of this." Peter looks at him in sadness. "Promise me that, Peter. Promise..." John's Stacy's hand went limped and falls back to the ground. Peter cries on John's body and Fury waits till the boy lets it all out because he knows Peter needs it.

Chloe watches on in pity for Peter. She shakes her head, trying to rid herself of these feelings of remorse. She had almost lost her daddy and her own life today and she could understand how Peter feels to an extent and that thought bothers her, she doesn't want these uncomfortable feelings. So, she tries to forget and lets the rain wash her thoughts away.

Later, a press conference was made regarding the act of Norman Osborn. "The terrorist that you know as Norman Osborn has been successfully defeated by the Avengers along with Captain France. The Mayor is fine. He was unhurt during the attack. The Elysee Palace staff is fine. The casualties were several police officers and several military soldiers. "

"There are reports that Spider-Man--"

"Spider-Man was there, yes. But we have no affiliation with that... man."

"Is what all Norman Osborn said was true? Is humanity really coming to a next step of evolution?"

"Let me make this perfectly clear. No one, under this city, will ever again, be allowed to do any genetic modification. If you do, Nick Fury's men and women will come for you. I am here at this moment to publicly acknowledge the amazing efforts of Nick Fury for standing between us and the work of violent madmen. Everyone in this country owes these men and women their gratitude and support. This press conference is over."

Captain America and Nick Fury overlooked Osborn, now rendered a horrrific half-human abomination as he is placed under a cryogenic statis inside an incubator. "All systems go, General."

"Just put a bullet in the back of his neck." Cap said to Fury.

"Sorry, Captain, not until we get what we need from his DNA." Fury replied.

"Right... Because the next war will be a genetic war."

"That's right."

"I keep hearing... that the next war is gonna be a genetic war. But, being a veteran of War, a creation of War... it's occured to me. It's the men of influence and Power that decide what these wars will be about. They decide who we're gonna fight and how we fight them and then, they go about planning the fight. In a sense, I guess the people of power will the war to existence." Steve Rogers assrts his reflection of the nature of power and warfare to Fury.

Fury listens silently, his expression ureadable as the weight of Cap's words hangs in the air. Until, it crashes onto Fury and his face contorts to someone tired, old, and tired. Restrained sadness was clear on Fury's face as he turns and walks away to a helicopter as Cap follows and they leave the city.

2 days later... There was a funeral held for John George Stacy. Many people were there, people Peter didn't recognize and people Peter did. Most notably, Aunt May and Gwen. The guilt in his heart for being there and not being able to tell them the truth was unbearable. But he pushes on anyway, because that's what he does. It's what he always will do, no matter how hard it is.

The funeral ends with everyone saying goodbye after the funeral. May went ahead to find them a taxi while Peter and Gwen stayed behind.

Gwen hugs Peter and Peter softly hugs back. Gwen lets out a shaky breath.

"You're gonna miss him so much." Peter said.

"There's been... two guys... who've always been there with me. Who makes me feel... like I'm more than I ever thought I could be... that I'm just... me. And that's okay." Gwen breaks the hug and caresses Peter's face. "...I love you." Gwen kisses Peter and Peter kisses her back.

Gwen loves that Peter is by her side, and needs him more than ever now after her father's murder, Peter is here to comfort and be with someone like her. At least, that's what she thought.

To Peter, this kiss wasn't a commitment to be with Gwen. It was a kiss for saying goodbye.

All I want... was to tell her the truth of who I am, of who she's really kissing...

"I can't."

"...You can't what?"

"Tell you..." Peter slowly shakes his head. "Everything-- I mean... There's so much to tell."

"Yeah... there's so much to tell." Gwen held a sad smile.

"I want you to know... that I will always be there for you. That I will always be there to take care of you. I promise you that." Peter said.

Gwen was falling in love with Peter more and more with each word he said to her.

Peter takes a small inhale through his nose and smiles. "I will always be your friend." Peter's voice shakes at the last word.

"...Only a friend...? Peter Parker?..." Gwen looked distraught, she looked pleading at Peter to not say what she thinks he'll say.

"That's all I have to give." Peter said.

Gwen stares at Peter's sad watery blue eyes. Gwen's eyebrows furrows before closing her eyes, letting the tears drop and she lowers her head as Peter leaves Gwen alone in the funeral.

Whatever life holds in store for me... I will never forget these words. With Great Power Must Also Come With Great Responsibility. This is my gift, my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man.