Web of Deception: The Webbed Avenger

Chapter Nineteen: A Dire Warning

So here he stood in this dark room, a strange blue-gray mist swirling around him as he watched this old frail woman with a blindfold over her eyes sat there with a small smile on her face, and all Stiles could do right now was wonder who this Madame Web character was and what exactly she wanted from him. He would have said a word but he was more focused on the intensity of the weirdness that was radiating around the room... it was like he was in an episode of the Twilight Zone.

"I can assure you, this is not the Twilight Zone you are in Mieczyslaw." Madame Web snickered lightly as she placed her hands on her lap. Stiles gave her a blink of surprise.

Did she just hear my thoughts? Who is she?

"I told you who I am... and I hear and know more than your trivial thoughts. That is the least of your and my own concerns right now. Please, take a seat."

"I'd rather not, because I want some answers and I don't know whether to trust you or not, because I was taught to not talk to strange people with psychic powers that sit in a dark room all day."

Madame Web sighed trying to hold back a laugh before she held her hand up towards him. "Listen to me Mieczyslaw, we do not have much time to speak. I am afraid that you have fallen into a web that you can't escape... at least not in your current state."

"A web? What are you talking about?"

"I suppose that some context would be helpful... you have begun searching through many threads of secrets about the people you know, and even the ones you don't. You yearn to find out the truth about what happened to your mother, whether or not it was her dementia that killed her, or something else... rather someone else. It is because of this that you found yourself in the Oscorp facility in Hempstead in search of her research, yet you found more. By digging you uncovered Derek Hale, or as you knew him at the beginning, Subject Zero... how Norman Osborn believed him to be the answer for his illness, yet your mother saved Derek from being a guinea pig for the rest of his life. At the very same time you have found yourself brought into the investigation into the serial killer that many have dubbed the Identity Thief... all of these connections appear to be just coincidence right?"

"I suppose that might be the right word for it," Stiles shrugged, to which Madame Web leaned forward slowly and gave him a tender smile.

"I suppose..." she repeated his words, "Funny thing isn't it Mieczyslaw? Many people like to think that everything happens for a reason, right? That it might be fate that certain events happen. Like many things, love is one such occasion that can happen by chance, but even then fate can have strange timing with it. You could find your true love but it could be at the wrong time so it doesn't work out, even if they were meant to be. Well, fate is real, whether anyone likes to admit it or not. The Web of Destiny is something that you can't break from, no matter what you try to do... you see, you unknowingly became a part of that web when you found the X-95 in the Hempstead facility unknowingly. With that spider bite, the intricate strings of the Web of Destiny tangled, beginning a new story... your story. Whatever you do with this story, is up to you to decide.

"However, with every story there has to be the antagonist, doesn't there? Always that one center point of conflict, such as David and Goliath..."

"Austin Powers and Dr. Evil, James Bond vs. whoever the film's villain is, Frodo and Sauron."

"My point being is that your story has already revealed its main antagonist... Norman Osborn." Stiles watched in astonishment as from the mist came an image of Norman Osborn whose face was tinted by the mist having turned dark green. "He was there through it all, the end of your mother's story, the beginning of Derek Hale's, and now he'll be the one you face through your story. He won't stop until he gets what he wants from you."