Peter couldn't sleep. Wasn't able to sleep for days actually. Ever since he found out that the Goblin was here, he's been restless. The Goblin shares the body of Norman Osborn, with Osborn. Norman is a good stallion, his company dedicated to helping Equestria. The Goblin was the opposite of Osborn. He was full of rage and hate, wanted everypony dead.
"Peter." Peter nearly jumped out of his chair. He turn to see Trixie. "My Celestia, when was the last time you slept?" Peter rubs his eyes.
"Do I really look that bad?"
"You look like complete shit!"
"Thanks. Look, I'm sorry, but there's nothing to worry about. I'm fine."
"You're not fine! I've been hearing you late at night talking about the Goblin! Tell me Parker, is...is the Goblin back?"
Peter looks at the ground. "Yeah. He's here in Ponyville. Pretty sure he followed me."
"Then you have to leave."
"Wait...what? As in leave Ponyville or..."
"Just leave my house! You know how I feel about Gobby, and if he's hear, he'll come for you. And he won't stop until you and everypony else is dead. You know this. Leave here, leave Ponyville."
"If I leave he'll just follow me. I'll just be putting more lives in dan—"
"I can't watch this place go up in flames! I won't allow him to just burn my home to ashes and kill my friends and the other ponies!"
Peter could see the tears pour from her eyes. He didn't know she had this much fear of the Goblin in her. Peter lifts her chin up.
"Trixie. We both know that I won't let him win. I'll get Mr. Osborn back in control and we can go about our day. I beat him before, I can do it again."
Trixie sniffs. "Can you do it with no casualties?" Peter winced at that comment. It brought back a memory he wanted to forget. He pushes the thought away.
"This time, no pony's gonna die."
Peter was invited over to Twilight's place at 5:00. The time was 3:41, according to his desktop's clock. He had some time to spare. Then an idea hit him. He knew where Trixie's friends lived, having been to their homes.
"I'm gonna go and visit your friend Applejack! Don't wait up on me!"
"Alright."
Peter took off, Applejack was the first one he wanted to chat with. In a way, she reminded him of the late Gwen Stacy. Peter shivers. Just thinking about her name brought that memory back.
It took him a while, but Peter eventually made it to the Apple family's farm. The farm was located at Sweet Apple Acres, so Parker's roof jumping took a while. He spots Applejack.
"Hey Aj!" It didn't take long for Peter to find himself inside the house of the Apple's. There was Granny Smith, who Peter thought would get along with his aunt just fine, Big Macintosh or Mac, who reminded Peter of his favorite brooding Dark Knight for some odd reason, then finally Apple Bloom, who was like a little sister he never had.
Peter and Applejack were in the bedroom of Aj. Peter was sitting on her bed while Aj sat on her rocking chair.
"So Pete, what brought ya to Ponyville?"
"Well my aunt thought it would be a nice place for me. So far I like it, even though crime rates have gone up a bit."
"Ponies blame Spider-Mane for that. Ponyville's been having criminals, but this big Wilson Fisk guy had give them confidence. Shoot, I'm glad Spidey's here, he's cleaning up the streets."
"So what is he to you? Spider-Mane I mean. Back in Manehattan he was called a vigilante, a threat, and even a menace to all of Equestria."
"Spider-Mane...well he's just a kid with a good heart. Bet he had some wonderful parents. To me though, Spidey's a hero. A hero Ponyville needs. Sure he's a bit weird and comes off as cocky, but there's one thing about him that I love the most. It's the fact that he does this, without wanting a reward. Dash could learn a thing or two from him." Peter smiles, Aj didn't notice it though. Peter looks out the window to see Big Mac working his tail off on the field.
"Your brother's a hard worker. Guessing you got that from him." Applejack walks over to the window, smiling at seeing her brother.
"Granny Smith says I'm a lot like Mac. He's the heart of this family ya know. Don't know what we do without him." Peter frowns, remembering something.
"Hey, what time is it?" Applejack looks down at her watch.
"It's 5:10. Why?"
"I gotta go head over to Twilight's! She said she had a job offering." Peter said his goodbyes to the Apples as he raced out of their home.
Twilight and Spike's home
"So Dr. Octavius is open for somepony new to join on us on our quest to make Equestria a better place. You'll need to go to schedule an interview with him sometime next week."
"Next week? Trixie needs help paying the bills. I need to take that interview now."
"I'm sorry Peter, but Dr. Octavius' schedule is full. You'll have to wait until next week. I'll loan you and Trixie some bits to keep you on your hooves." Peter sighs, burying his face in his hands. "If it helps, I'll try and find a way for Dr. Octavius to meet with you Friday." Peter raises his head up, a smile had warmed its what on his face.
"Oh thank you so much Twilight. I-I can't stress this enough. Thank you!"
"Anything for a friend." Twilight says with a smile.
Nightfall
Peter zips through Ponyville, trying to get the image off his mind. He had awoken from a nightmare just recently and decided the best way to forget about it, was to zip through Ponyville's streets. He would've admired the beauty the small town was giving to him, but that image was stuck in his head.
"You let everypony down Parker. The Stacy's, Manehattan, Wayne, Stark, your aunt May, and even...your new friends." The Goblin was in his ultimate form. He was a giant compared to the Hulk himself, maybe not as big as Giant-Stallion, but he was pretty big. Parker looks at him in fear. He wasn't in costume, but his web-shooters were online. His spider-sense was blaring. The Goblin laughs as he steps aside, the ground shaking with every step. Peter sees the bodies of his friends, some of them with major injuries. Dash's stomach was punched in, Rarity's neck was snapped, Trixie had...Peter looks away.
"Y-you'll pay for that."
"You can't do anything to stop me Parker. Remember what happened to the Stacy's?" Peter nods.
"H-how c-could I forget." The Goblin snatches Peter off the ground. He takes flight, earning a sudden yelp from the teen. Goblin stops once he can see his "masterpiece."
"Look at Ponyville. Isn't it beautiful?" Peter looks on in horror as he sees his new home engulfed in flames! "Don't you love it when the hero fails?"
"W-what about Iron-Stallion, or Captain Equestria, or even the princesses? Did they not try and stop you?" Goblin brought Peter towards his face.
"They tried, but they failed. I killed them all Parker! I KILLED THEM ALL!"
"That's impossible. You didn't do this alone, there's no way in hell you did this alone. Who helped you Goblin? TELL ME!" Goblin ignored Peter. Instead, he set Peter on the ground safely. Peter's spider-sense went off again. Before he could do anything, the Goblin brought his fists down onto his small frame, the impact was too great, and painful. Peter woke up in a pool of sweat in his bed. He threw his costume on and swung out of the house.
Peter scowls. He crushed a vase that he hadn't known he was holding. "Goblin won't win. No pony's gonna die."
"That vase is gonna cost ya." Peter looks to his right to see that same mare who had called him a freak when Venom threw him into her shop.
"Sorry, I don't have any bits on me. I'll try and--" Parker's spider-sense goes off just as an explosion goes off.
"What the hell?"
"Stay inside miss. I'll go check it out." Peter fires a web-line and begins to swing his way to the danger.
Peter makes it to the explosion sight. To his horror, the building that had exploded, belonged to Twilight and Spike. "Oh sweet mother of Luna." Peter looks at the wreckage. No pony could've survived that. Ponies all over Ponyville rushed out of their homes to see the source of the disturbance.
"Girls! It's Twilight and Spike! Their home is a total wreck!" Peter turns to see Rainbow Dash and the others rushing to the scene. That's when Dash notices Spider-Mane. "You bastard! Where were you? You call yourself a hero, yet you couldn't save my friends!"
"Ma'am calm down. We don't even know if your friends are dead. They could still be alive." Dash wasn't having it. She got into the masked stallion's face, shoving a digit onto the black spider.
"How could anypony survive that! Your supposed to save ponies, not let them die! What type of hero lets ponies die?" Spider-Mane's lenses widen, then they close. Spidey turns away from Dash. She was right. What type of hero lets ponies die? Not Captain Equestria, not Batmane, not the Flash, not any super hero. No pony, but him.
"Rainbow Dash! I'm sure Spidey got here as fast as he could. He can't be everywhere at once." Applejack glares at Dash. Sure her friends house had been blown to bits, but maybe there was a slight chance that she and Spike were still alive. She couldn't put the blame on Spider-Mane, he was only one stallion after all.
"Where were you though? Where were you when our friends needed you?" Spider-Mane couldn't answer Rarity's question. The crowd began shouting things at Peter. Spidey looks around, his eyes landing on Trixie. She had the same terrified look she had this morning. Peter promised no pony would die, and he broke that promise. He failed to save Twilight and her baby brother assistant Spike. He was no hero.
"We don't need you Spider-Mane! Get out our town!" A blonde mare yelled at him. Spider-Mane fires a web-line and swings away from the scene. He knew who had done this, what he didn't know was whether or not he took Twilight and Spike, or hid their bodies. He was a sadistic villain that Osborn had to share a body with.
"Norman. I hope you were able to communicate with the Goblin when he did this. I'm hoping you were able to trick the Goblin into taking them as hostages. I'm hoping you did. I-I can't lose anypony else." Peter takes his mask off, staring into the lenses of the mask.
The Next Morning
Parker was on high alert after the incident. He was on patrol as soon as the sun showed itself. He stopped five muggings, three officers, and two Royal Guard ponies. Cops were all over Ponyville looking for him. While he was on patrol, Peter tried looking for Twilight and Spike using his GPS to locate his spider-tracer. Sadly, they must've been underground, or his tracer had to have been destroyed, cause he couldn't get a signal from them.
Trixie placed down the gauntlet. It had a red color to it, with a nozzle at the wrist. "I'm tired of being afraid of the Goblin. If he wants to destroy the lives of Mr. Osborn, Peter, and my friends, I can't stand by and watch. No more being weak, no more. The Goblin will die!" Trixie picks up the helmet on Peter's desk. She modified the armored Spider-Mane suit he wanted to make and gave it some additional extras. She made sure it had the look her spider friend had chose for it.
Rainbow Dash paced around in her room. She couldn't just sit there, and do nothing. Her friends were missing. She had to do something! "Spider-Mane can handle this. This seems to be more up his alley. Wait, what am I saying? I can do this myself! I'll save Twilight and Spike myself! I'll be the one in the spotlight once I save them! I mean, it's more about saving Twilight and Spike, and not the fame. But that would be nice." With her mind made up, Dash flies out of her house in search for her friend.
Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie sat at Rarity's living room. It was hard to find a place to sit with all her, as Applejack called it, "fancy junk", around the room. "We have to go and look for Twilight and Spike."
"Shy's right! Oh they must be so scared right now! We have to find them!" Pinkie says, standing on top of Rarity's table. Rarity pushes her friend off and begins to wipe the table with one of her dresses. Once she realizes that she was using her one of her dresses, she screams. Or at least tries to, screaming is hard when Fluttershy's hand is covering your mouth.
"Now how in Celestia's name are we gonna do that? We don't have a clue as to where they could be. How are we supposed to find them?"
Pinkie sits up. "We can ask Spider-Mane for help."
"That would be a great idea. Hopefully the Royal Guards haven't taken him in yet."
"We cannot work with that stallion! Absolutely not!"
"Rarity. He's the only stallion who can help us right now. If we want to get Twilight and Spike back, we have to work with him." Rarity huffs. She never did like stallions who were so secretive, especially if they had tacky taste in fashion. Spider-Mane had fallen into that category. Her friends were right about one thing though. Spider-Mane could and would help them find Twilight and Spike. After all, she has seen him nonstop zipping through the streets of Ponyville as if he were looking for somepony important.
"So, are we gonna team up with The Amazing Spider-Mane?"
Eddie Brock sat in his apartment eating his breakfast. He heard of what happened last night. Spider-Mane was going to need some extra hands. And he was ready to lend a symbiote into a fight. "You ready Venom?" Venom shoots out of Eddie's chest. Looking at his host, Venom smiles.
"I am ready. Are you?" Eddie sighs. He did this before with Riot and Carlton Drake, but other than that, he was still new to this whole "Lethal Protector" thing.
"I guess so. Let's go save Equestria again." The symbiote engulfs Eddie's body, making the alien hero Manehattan declares as Venom.
"Let's go take out the Goblin!"
Peter swings through a subway station. "I didn't know Ponyville had a subway station. Looks abandoned by the looks of things. Why would Goblin take them here though?" What Spider-Mane hadn't noticed was that Rainbow Dash was following him. Or at least, he acted like he hadn't noticed. Dash ducks back into her hiding spot as Spider-Mane turns his head her direction. Dash had to be honest with herself here, Spider-Mane could be very scary at times. The way he suddenly stops talking abruptly to look behind him as if he knew somepony was following him.
Not only that, but the lenses on his mask, that could show all types of emotions, were a tad bit unsettling to look at. Especially if he wasn't making any form of emotion with those bug like eyes. Dash takes a peak only to notice that Spider-Mane was gone. "Shit." Dash flies after him, stopping when she sees him opening a, vault?
"What the fuck is a vault doing down here?" Dash thought she had said that to herself. How'd she know she said that out loud? As soon as he opened the vault door, Spider-Mane turned around faster than Dash could react, and pinned her to the wall using his webbing. Dash came to realize that not only did she need to not say things out loud, but that Spider-Mane's webbing was incredibly strong!
"What in the hell are you doing? Are you trying to get yourself killed?" Rainbow struggles against Spidey's webbing, but it wouldn't tear. She was trapped in a spider's web. She couldn't tell if he was pissed, or worried. His lenses were hard to read. They were slanted down as if he wore an angered look underneath the mask, but a mixture of sympathy was in those lenses. That's when his lenses widened.
"Uh oh." Spider-Mane says as he turns around for no reason Dash could think of. Spider-Mane readies himself in a fighting stance. Then his spider-sense returns. The Goblin bursts through the wall next to Spidey and Dash. Spider-Mane rips Dash off the wall, holding her tightly as he swings away from the Goblin.
"Shouldn't you be fighting him instead of running, err I mean swinging?" Spider-Mane attaches himself to the ceiling as a pumpkin bomb flies past them. The grenade explodes upon impact with the floor. Spidey continues his swinging, looking for the entrance he came through.
"Not with you here with me! I can't put an innocent mare in danger. Once I get you outta here, I'll handle the Goblin!"
"I can take care of myself dude!" Spider-Mane flies through the entrance way to the subway station. He sets Dash down, spins around with a right hook attaching itself to the face of the Goblin.
"Sure ya can. Try telling that to Goblin real quick." Spider-Mane fires webbing into the eyes of the Goblin, he then fires a web-line to propel himself from the ground. He gives Goblin a swinging kick to the jaw, hoping to at least stun the beast. "Go and warn Ponyville! Tell the Royal Guards that--" Spider-Mane took a mean uppercut, sending him into the air, the Goblin grabs his leg and slams him to the ground.
"Ow. And tell them that Twilight Sparkle and Spike are in the old abandoned subway!" Goblin wrapped his hands around Spider-Mane's abdomen and began to crush him. Dash winced as she heard multiple bones snap! Spider-Mane fires more webbing at Goblin's eyes, the beast dropping Spider-Mane in the process. "Good thing your stupid as hell Goblin," he turns to Dash. "what're ya waiting for? My autograph? Later. Now go!" Dash nods and takes to the sky turning back one last time to see Spider-Mane forcing his body to ram into the Goblin's chest.
As Dash flies off looking for a Royal Guard pony, she had one thought on her mind. "I-I know he's a super hero and all, but can he beat that thing?"
Peter ducked as the Goblin threw his arm his way. All morning he was searching for Twilight and Spike, and he finally found them. As well as the Goblin. Peter jumps out of the way of a pumpkin bomb, but took a left jab into the ground. When the Goblin removed his fist, Spider-Mane was embedded into the ground. His costume began falling apart. A long slash was on his chest, his mask was covered in dirt, his left lens was cracked, his mane poked out of the hole in his mask.
Peter tried to sit up, it was painful, but he managed. He went to fire a web, but nothing would show. Looking down at his wrist, Peter moved the sleeve of his suit down to see his mark two web-shooter crushed. "Dammit. Hey Gobby, you mind calling a time out? My web-shooter's busted." The Goblin smiled, his teeth, brought dread to Parker.
"This is the end for you Parker." As the Goblin went for the killing blow, a black figure drove it's foot across his face. "Who the hell did that?"
"We did Goblin. And you won't be killing anypony today." The black figure helped Spider-Mane to his feet. "Go back and get something better suited for this."
"I got just the thing. Thanks for showing up." Spider-Mane swings off the battlefield.
"Who are you supposed to be? Parker never mentioned anything about other allies."
"WE ARE VENOM!"