Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Vol. 2

Chapter 14

Barely escaping the flames, Peter's leap carried him clean through the window and into the next room. He landed hard on his back but managed to use his momentum and quickly roll back onto his feet. That was when he saw him, the man who'd summoned him here.

"That sixth sense of yours is really something, Wall Crawler!" the Goblin shouted as he hovered about twenty feet over him. "No matter what I lay out for you, you always seem to have just enough time to escape!"

"If you like that so much, how about you come down here mano y mano?" Peter challenged. "I'd be happy to show you just how impressive my fists are!"

"Ah, but why settle for just the basics..." the Goblin said, pulling out two razor bats, "... when I am offering the premium package!!"

He then flung them cross armed, with Peter doing a side flip and narrowly avoiding them. Wasting no time, he fired a web to pull himself up towards his nemesis, the Goblin responding by backing up and firing several blasts from his gloves his way. Quickly springing off a rafter rail and landing on a wall, Peter raced ahead of each blast, occasionally leaping to avoid one that was a little too close for comfort. Glancing back, he observed as his opponent followed him and, timing the moment just right, he performed a backflip and landed right behind the Goblin on his glider.

He then wrapped his opponent in a bear hug, tugging at him to try and yank them both off the Goblin's method of transport. Unfortunately, his opponent met him with seemingly equal resistance, the glider almost instinctually shifting to counter the weight, even as their course was thrown off partially, causing them to nearly collide with the floor at one point. The incident triggering an idea in Peter's head, he gave one more hard tug to the right, turning them just hard enough to where the glider crashed against a large vat still in the building and sending both men flying off it.

Contorting just right, Peter fired several webs, successfully pinning the Goblin to the hanger area.

"Wow, some premium package," Peter teased.

"Oh, but that was just the first part of it," the Goblin replied. He then slid out a hidden blade in his glove, slicing open the web and leaping back. "Here's the next part..."

Pressing a button on his gauntlet, Peter's spider sense then rang out as several large guns emerged from the sides of the wall.

"Oh wow, all this for me?" Peter questioned, his mind sent into a frenzy regarding what to do. "Very flattering, but..."

They began firing.

"REALLY UNNECESSARY!"

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"Betty, send Robbie in for me, would you please?"

"Of course," his secretary replied. Jonah then took out his phone, moving around his desk as he searched for the directions to the location he'd just been given. He'd just grabbed his coat when the man he'd called for arrived.

"You wanted to see me, boss?"

"I just wanted you to know that I'm stepping out for a bit," he said, "and we've got that crew coming in to look our HVAC, so if anyone needs anything..."

"They can come to me, got it," Robbie finished for him. "What's the sudden urgency all about?"

"I got a call from an anonymous source," Jonah said. "Claims they might have a clue as to where the Green Goblin's base of operations is."

"And you're not telling the cops because..."

"Because I need to verify that this isn't some loser who has no time on his hands but to play a practical joke," Jonah explained. "If I call the police and waste their time like that..."