"Send you to prison? Of course not. I'm not a cop. I just want to make a deal with you."
Hawking held the Green Goblin up and flashed him a "friendly" smile.
Green Goblin: "????"
Is he sick? If he wanted to make a deal, he could've just said so. Why make such a huge show of it? He'd nearly scared the soul out of me.
"Let's go back to your villa first!"
Holding the Green Goblin, Hawking rode the Flying Nimbus at full speed back to the Green Goblin's villa. Before leaving, however, he gave the sky a meaningful glance.
Meanwhile, in the Director's Office at the Triskelion.
Nick Fury stared solemnly at the footage of Hawking flying away with the Green Goblin.
"This guy's becoming more and more terrifying!"
How could he possibly ignore a mutant as terrifyingly powerful as Hawking? He had been secretly monitoring him through various means all along.
That included Peter Parker, who had been bitten by a spider and had come into contact with Hawking, Jessica Campbell, whom Hawking had just met and who seemed to possess the ability to fly, as well as the chairman of Oscorp.
However, Hawking had always been fighting crime and had not violated the agreement between him and Professor X, so Fury had no reason to interfere.
"Is he really just looking for friends with special abilities to play at fighting crime?"
Rubbing his chin, Nick Fury fell into deep thought.
He always felt that things were not so simple, yet he could not think of any other purpose Hawking—or rather, Professor X—might have.
After all, aside from Hawking, the other mutants at Mutant School had remained quiet as ever. The only slightly strange thing was Professor X spending money to buy the Daily Bugle.
"Forget it.