Tony and Peter

Norman had ultimately succumbed to the darkness in his heart. After donning the ferocious, terrifying green suit, he became the first Green Goblin.

But unlike in the original plot, the Green Goblin had not yet faced pressure from the Osborn Company's board of directors. Thus, when he first appeared before the public, he had not slaughtered all the directors and left in triumph. Instead, driven by fury at Connors's betrayal and jealousy of Tony, he descended upon the press conference at this very moment.

"Destroy everything!"

Beeping Pumpkin Bombs fell one after another from the sky, landing with precision among the attendees who were scrambling to flee Stark Tower. After several deafening explosions, some people lost their lives instantly because they had been too close, while many more were thrown to the ground by the shockwaves and suffered injuries of varying severity.

"Kehehehe!"

The corrupted Norman had flamboyantly installed two downward-facing loudspeakers on his glider, ensuring that every word he said could be heard by everyone present. "Tony Stark! You despicable, shameless, evil thief! You stole the Regeneration Potion that was originally mine! Today, I will kill you!"

"Tony?"

Pepper, who had rushed over in haste, looked at Tony with a puzzled expression. He looked back at Yuri with the same expression. "Wasn't the Regeneration Potion your creation? Why does that guy outside claim it originally belonged to him? Is he Connors?"

"No."

Yuri grabbed Tony and headed toward the elevator as he spoke. "Connors is already dead. The potion that belongs to the guy outside should be the Lizard Potion developed by Connors. Too many people are watching this place, so it wouldn't be appropriate for me to act. Hurry and put on your Mark armor. After all, this is your press conference. Too many casualties would be difficult to explain to the public."

"Fine, looks like I still have to turn the tide."

Tony stepped into his private elevator and instructed the ever-present artificial intelligence, Jarvis, "Begin activating Mark 4. I want it on in the shortest possible time."

The elevator doors slowly closed. Shack, dressed in a black suit and black sunglasses, approached with Vanax and Kate. "Boss, Tiger and Cheetah will ensure the safety of Yinsen and Ambrosius's wife. Should we go save the ordinary people outside?"

Under Pepper's disbelieving gaze, Yuri wore an indifferent expression as he said, "No need. Humanity has its own police and soldiers to protect them. We only need to watch it happen. Remaining uninvolved is the most appropriate choice."

Before Pepper could speak, he continued, "Tony is busy transforming to fight that whatever-Green-Goblin flying in the sky. Pepper, you can organize some people to do something for those ordinary people lying on the ground, injured and on the verge of death. I think using some of the Regeneration Potion would be a good choice. Not only would it save their lives, but it would also give the potion some free advertising through this terrorist attack."

Pepper's expression shifted several times. In the end, she gave Yuri a complicated look before turning and leaving.

As Tony's most trusted CEO, she knew very well how powerful Yuri's bodyguards were. If they joined the fight, then no matter what, they could at least keep that annoying fly-like figure overhead too busy to attack ordinary people. Yet Yuri had stopped the bodyguards from volunteering, only to immediately give her a practical rescue plan.

It gave her a strange feeling... as though Yuri was deliberately keeping himself out of it.

Tony ran toward the prepared Mark 4 on the suit station. Having adopted the donning concept of Yuri's Steam Armor, putting on the armor now took only a few seconds. He no longer needed to stand in a fixed position and wait for mechanical arms to assemble it piece by piece.

He only had to walk in, turn around, and slip Mark 4 on like clothing. Then the armor would automatically close and seal. Once the virtual display on the faceplate lit up, he could activate flight mode and soar into the sky.

When it came to being hardheaded, Tony Stark was still the best.

Instead of leaving through the ceiling that Jarvis had opened long ago, he insisted on smashing through the tempered glass wall with his head, using countless glittering shards of glass in the sunlight as special effects for his entrance onto the battlefield.

"Whoa!"

A familiar figure in a skintight suit swung past him on webbing. The chatterbox Spider-Man shot webs from his wrists, precisely sticking them to the scattered Pumpkin Bombs and using masterful web-slinging skills to hurl them into the empty sky before they exploded.

Taking advantage of the Green Goblin's pause to replenish his ammunition, he swung back to the armored Tony. "I think I saw you fly out of Stark Tower. Yeah, that's right, that big hole was definitely made by you. So... you're Mr. Tony Stark, right?"

Tony fired a repulsor blast to destroy a Pumpkin Bomb flying toward them in advance. Jarvis activated the small tracking missiles on the armor's shoulders, effortlessly intercepting every bomb falling toward the ground. While he stood his ground and fired at the Green Goblin as the latter darted left and right, he said to Spider-Man without turning his head, "Yes, I'm Tony Stark. Nice to meet you, Peter Parker, a student at Midtown High School in Queens."

"What?!"

Spider-Man nearly lost his grip on his web and fell. His mind raced. "Is that really you, Mr. Stark? But Peter Parker? With all due respect, did you mistake me for someone else? I really don't know anyone by that name."

"Mhm~"

Tony turned his head, half-joking and half-threatening as he spoke to Peter. "As a minor, school is where you should be. I think it's necessary for me to have a chat with your Aunt May. Perhaps there's something wrong with her parenting."

The ever-changing battlefield gave Peter no time for further nonsense. Seeing that all his methods had been neutralized, the Green Goblin on the glider actually cowardly turned it around, scattered a pile of Pumpkin Bombs, and prepared to flee!

"I'll leave it to you, little Peter."

Tony mischievously waved at Spider-Man. His flight system locked onto the rapidly fleeing Green Goblin in the distance, and he accelerated after him in an instant. He left behind only the panic-stricken Spider-Man, whose identity had been exposed, shooting webs to stick to each Pumpkin Bomb and fling them into the sky.

"What should I do? What should I do?"

Peter clung to the smooth glass exterior of Stark Tower, feeling as though he had encountered the greatest dilemma of his life. After working with the police and soldiers on the ground to save several people trapped beneath boulders and cars, he swung away from the devastated battlefield on his webbing.

From afar, he saw the armored Tony fly back to the top floor of the tower carrying a green-armored man whose helmet had been removed. With his keen eyesight, he could even see Tony wave goodbye to him. On the second floor, unnoticed by him, Yuri's golden eyes rippled with light. "Spider-Man, Super Strength, Spider-Sense, super coordination, wall-crawling... I remember that the reason the Spider-Men of the second and third generations could wall-crawl was because they possessed Electrostatic Adhesion?"

"If this thing is used properly, it should be capable of more than that."

"After all, spiders can fly too!"