The Void

Chapter 31 - Worst Fear

(Your POV):
My eyes widened as the Green Goblin flew into Times Square, throwing his bomb-like weapons into the large crowd awaiting the ball drop. Screams immediately resounded and people began trampling each other to try to get to safety. A pit grew at the bottom of my stomach, knowing that this was something that my parents had created and now it was attacking innocents for no reason.

"I- um, I have to go," Peter spoke up, his eyes still glued to the television as he rose from his spot. "To the bathroom."

The excuse was lame and was not enough to convince me, especially as I knew that he was Spider-Man. I knew that I needed to suit up as well. As much as I didn't agree with what the Goblin was doing, my orders were clear. I was to aid him no matter what and now protecting him from Spider-Man was my job.

"Peter!" I called out after him, playing the part of the concerned girlfriend as an excuse to leave the room without suspicion.

Instead of trying to find him in the house, I quickly activated my suit and climbed out of a window, running towards Times Square. I was not surprised to find that Peter had beaten me to Times Square, being able to travel faster with his webs than I could on feet, but he did not seem to have been there for long.

He had managed to distract the Green Goblin from the crowd of people still terrified below them and now I found myself concerned for Peter's safety more than anything. I needed to get him out of there and the safest way to do that was to attack him. I quickly scaled the New York Times Tower until I was at level with the two opponents. I attached my grapple to the side of a building across the street and threw myself at Peter, wrapping my arms around his waist and severing the web that he was swinging from.

Using the momentum from the cord attached to my grapple, I easily swung him into the building before releasing my hood on him. He tumbled to the ground as I landed gracefully on my feet and removed my gun. I raised it to point as his chest, "stand down, Spider-Man, this is not your fight."

"You know, here I was, thinking that we were friends after all that we've been through, but now I'm thinking that I was mistaken," Peter spoke, sending a web at my hand. I quickly dodged it and sent a bullet towards him, making sure that I was not aiming anywhere fatal. However his quick reflexes served him as well and he easily sidestepped. Hearing the hum of Goblin's glider come closer, I panicked and pulled the ceiling of the building down on top of us, me barely able to get to the window in time and leaving Peter buried beneath the ruble.

As I leapt out of the building I had brought Peter to so that I could get back to the Tower, I was caught in mid-air by the Goblin. Panicking at first, I tried to free myself from his grasp but after he cut the cord keeping me attached to my grapple and realizing who it was, I steadied myself. I didn't really trust whoever was inside the suit, but if I fell at this height then I would not survive it. Besides, he was supposed to be an ally.

He flew me away from Times Square and roughly dropped me on the roof of the Oscorp building, "Well if it isn't (Y/N) (L/N), here to save the day? What do you think you're doing interrupting me like that? If you couldn't tell, I was in the middle of terrorizing a city and establishing myself as a bonafide threat. Then you lame excuse for a super villain had to come along and ruin it!"

"I was trying to help you," I argued, pulling myself up off of the ground that I had been slammed into and ignoring the dull pain radiating from the areas that I had landed on. "My parents told me that you were an ally, so when I saw Spider-Man coming after you, I figured I should get him out of the way."

"I don't need your help!" He roared, punching me in the stomach. Although I could have easily blocked it, I allowed him to land his hit, remembering my parents telling me not to attack him. "Do you really think that that puny Spider holds any chance against me? I am the Green Goblin! I will crush him and after I do, I will deal with you!"

Suddenly the Goblin got pulled back onto the ground forcefully, hard enough that the wind was probably knocked out of him. Standing behind him was Peter, who clearly managed to unbury himself from the ruble.

He looked down at the Goblin and quipped, "you know, it really hurts when people underestimate me like that. I think you will need Void's help if you want to kill me."

The Goblin laughed, "I don't need help from someone as weak as her!"

As he spoke, he tossed one of his bombs at me, barely giving me time to stop it mid-air with my telekinesis and causing it to blow up without any damage. However, while I was distracted by that, he threw another one, send me flying back across the roof. A sharp pain ran through my body upon landing, my vision going blurry for a moment. My leg in particular was screaming, which I quickly realized was a result of a large chunk of metal sticking out of it.

I heard another explosion and I knew that I needed to get back into the fight. Knowing that the chunk of metal was only going to get in my way, I ripped it out and fastened a back up strip of gauze I kept in my belt in case of emergency around the wound. As I dragged myself up, I made the decision that I did not care if this man worked for H.A.M.M.E.R., he was clearly insane and therefore too dangerous to be left alive.

"Peter Parker," I heard the Goblin's voice growl as I approached where he was standing over the injured Peter. "I should have realized this before now, Harry mentioned you were acting strangely after your field trip to Oscorp. Wasn't a coincidence that there was a radioactive spider missing that day, was it?"

"H-how do you know that?" Peter asked the same question verbally that I had in my head.

Before the Goblin gave any sort of answer, it suddenly hit me all at once. Norman Osborn. That was why my father had told me not to get in his way even though the Goblin wasn't one of his creations. It was because standing over my boyfriend was the leader of H.A.M.M.E.R., my boss.

"You foolish boy, can you not put the pieces together?" The Goblin asked, pulling me out of my thoughts. His mask the made a hissing noise as the top retracted up, confirming my suspicions.

"Mr. Osborn?" Peter managed to get out in shock, his eyes widening.

"The one and only," he growled in response, landing a punch across Peter's face.

Peter acted quickly in return, hooking a web around a pole and pulling himself up as Osborn went in for another punch. But Osborn was just as quick, slamming himself into Peter and causing him to fall harshly onto his back. The sound of something cracking made me leap into action, no longer caring if this was my superior.

I leapt onto Osborn's back, easily getting him into a chokehold. However, he elbowed me in the stomach, throwing me to the ground. But I refused to stay down, rushing at him again and telekinetically pulling the siding of the building at him, knocking him off of his feet.

"Look who's decided to change sides," Osborn growled, managed to extract himself from the ruble. "I would give up now if I were you, it doesn't look like that leg is going to hold up."

I glanced down at his words, realizing the there was now blood seeping through the gauze. The wound was clearly worse than I had expected it to be, but I didn't have time to care about that now. While I was distracted, Osborn took the opportunity to leap at me, grabbing me by the throat and lifting me off of the ground.

I could feel my oxygen supply get cut off as he pressed down on my windpipe. He turned to Peter, with a crazed look in his eyes, "I guess it's time to say goodbye to your little girlfriend here, she shouldn't have stepped in to save you."

I desperately kicked Osborn's leg, but it was protected by a casing of metal and did not do anything to actually harm him. I was started to lose a sense of consciousness, my gasps for breaths achieving nothing beneath Osborn's strong fingers. But all off a sudden air came rushing back into my lungs and I could feel myself falling through the air.

First came the relief. I was finally out of Osborn's grasp and I could breath again. But as I realized that he had thrown me off of the Oscorp building, I was overwhelmed by fear. This was the thing that I had always been afraid of, the fear that I had never been able to conquer. There was nothing that I could make my body do to prevent it, I merely let my eyes close as I waited for it all to end.

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(A/N): Ooh look at you standing up for your boy on the battlefield! I hope that you enjoyed this chapter!