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— 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐋𝐘 𝐄𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓 —

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐋𝐘 𝐄𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓

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THE WORLD WAS A KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLOR. And it remained that way for several minutes as Peter's eyes shot wide open. His ears rang, but fading like a distant memory he could still hear the events of the previous day. He was catatonic. Frozen in place as the images of those memories flashed across his mind.

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"She told me that with great power..."

"...Comes great responsibility."

"Wait, what? How do you know that?"

"Uncle Ben said it."

"The day he died. Maybe she
didn't die for nothing, Peter."

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"I lost... I lost Gwen, my, um, she was my MJ.
I couldn't save her. I'm never gonna be able to
forgive myself for that. But I carried on—tried
to, tried to keep going, tried to be the Friendly
Neighborhood Spider-Man because I know that's
what she would have wanted. But, at some point
I just, I stopped pulling my punches. I got rageful.
I got bitter. I just don't want you to end up like...
like me."

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"Hey... what are like, some
of the craziest villains that
you guys have fought?"

"Seems you've met some of them."

"That's a good question."

"I fought a... an alien made
out of black goo once."

"No way! I fought an alien,
too. On Earth and in space."

"Oh?"

"Yeah, he was purple."

"I wanna fight an alien..."

"I'm, I'm still like... that you
fought an alien, in space."

"I'm lame compared to—like,
I fought a Russian guy in a
like a rhinoceros machine."

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