Green Goblin

"Ha!" Felicia sneered. "I never asked Spider-Man to help me do this kind of dirty work."

"After I watched Thomson gun down Ben Urich in his home, I took a gun to Thomson's office and shot him dead!"

"I don't think I missed," she said, turning to look at Thomson. "So why is he still alive and well?"

"That was just a despicable impostor!" Thomson, trapped in the cage, struggled to his feet and shouted.

"An impostor?" Felicia was stunned.

"Yes," the Green Goblin's voice sounded from behind her. "Unfortunately, he was one of my men."

At that moment, Kraven the Hunter, who had been standing nearby, stared at Felicia through gritted teeth. "My idiot little brother... was killed by a woman!"

The Green Goblin reached out and grabbed Felicia. "I'm sorry, dear. I truly value the relationship between us, but Chameleon was one of us. We can't just let this go, or I won't be able to answer to the others."

"Don't touch me!" Felicia shoved the Green Goblin away and slapped him across the face.

For a woman, she was remarkably strong, mainly thanks to years of dedicated training.

But the next moment, Kraven the Hunter reached out from the side, grabbed her by the hair, and slammed her to the ground.

"You killed my dear brother. How do you want to die?"

The skin on the Green Goblin's face had cracked apart. He covered the split with some irritation and looked at Felicia on the ground. "You've angered me! I wanted this to end quickly and easily, but you keep doing things that make me angry. Do you know the consequences of angering me?"

"Kraven, bring her over here!"

Kraven the Hunter dragged Felicia up by her hair.

The three arrived before a glass container filled with hideous, vicious-looking venomous spiders.

The Green Goblin grabbed Felicia's hair and pressed her against the glass. "You like spiders, don't you? Getting revenge for that spider of Yuri's?"

"Now open your eyes and watch closely. Once Vulture brings Parker's boy here, I'll make him watch with his own eyes as you throw yourself into the spiders' embrace!"

"I'm sorry, but Vulture only asked me to bring you his apologies."

A voice rang out at just the right moment.

Then Shadow Spider-Man descended from above, firing webs from both hands. "He's been permanently detained!"

Smack!

Smack!

Two clumps of webbing struck the two nearest Green Goblin henchmen, binding them tightly.

Peter noticed that this Shadow Spider-Man fired webs differently from him. Peter used technologically synthesized web fluid, while Shadow Spider-Man shot webs directly from his wrists.

The advantage was that his webs could be fired however he wished, unlike Peter's, which could only be launched according to the preset patterns of his web-shooters.

Perhaps once he got back, he could adjust his web-shooters using this method too?

Below, the Green Goblin and Kraven the Hunter were startled. Kraven hurriedly drew his gun and opened fire on Peter.

Bzzzz—

Spider-Sense activated automatically.

Peter landed on the ground and twisted nimbly, evading the bullet. Then, by instinct, he drew his revolver to return fire.

But as he was about to pull the trigger, he hesitated.

Partly because high school student Peter currently held the upper hand in their shared consciousness, and partly because he remembered Aunt May's words.

"Wow, Spider-Man actually knows mercy? That's truly unheard of!" Kraven the Hunter mocked.

"Idiot, what are you doing? Why aren't you shooting him?" J. Jonah, locked in the nearby cage, shouted as well.

The Green Goblin laughed loudly. "You aren't some fake, are you?"

"Hmph!" Peter suddenly stretched out a hand, yanked Kraven the Hunter in front of him with a web line, and smashed a fist into his face.

Bang!

Kraven the Hunter's mouth immediately filled with blood. Nearly all his good teeth were knocked out, and his high nose was punched crooked.

The tremendous force left him completely dazed.

Peter threw two more punches, striking his shoulder blades and shattering them outright.

With the surgical standards of this era, even if they could barely piece them back together, his arms would likely never have much strength again.

For a beast tamer, that was more painful than death.

And this was the compromise between "good" Peter and "evil" Peter.

"Evil" Peter wanted to kill these people, while "good" Peter could not bring himself to do it.

So their merged consciousness chose a middle ground and crippled him.

Peter released Kraven the Hunter and casually tossed him onto the floor nearby.

Kraven the Hunter lay limp. The successive bursts of agony triggered his body's protective mechanism, causing him to lose consciousness.

Clatter!

At that moment, the sound of chains hitting the ground came from the cage nearby.

While Peter had been dealing with the two henchmen and Kraven, the Green Goblin had opened the cage holding the tiger.

It was an albino tiger, nearly four meters long and ferocious beyond measure.

More importantly, the cage did not open outward. It opened directly into J. Jonah's cage next door!

The Green Goblin smiled sinisterly. "Feeding time!"

"Ahhh!" J. Jonah screamed in terror and retreated again and again.

But chains bound his feet, limiting his movement, and the cage was small.

This white tiger had been starved for days and was already ravenous. The moment it saw J. Jonah, its eyes lit up with savage hunger as it pounced on him.

At the critical moment, Peter fired two net-like webs, binding the white tiger's upper and lower body at once, then pulled hard.

The massive white tiger, weighing a full four hundred kilograms, was dragged back by Peter and left hanging upside down from the edge of the cage.

Peter transferred the web in his left hand to his right, drew his revolver, and shoved it directly into the white tiger's ear canal.

Bang! Bang!

He fired two shots in rapid succession.

The white tiger's skull might have been hard, but it could not stop bullets fired directly into its ear.

The two rapidly spinning bullets tore straight into its head, turning its brain into mush.

Awoo—

The white tiger let out a miserable howl and died on the spot.

"Thanks, but forget about me. Go save your girlfriend!" Seeing Peter still intending to enter the cage and rescue him, J. Jonah hurriedly reminded him.

Peter knew he meant Felicia, but Felicia was not his girlfriend.

He did not argue over something like that. Instead, he turned toward where the Green Goblin had been standing.

The Green Goblin had opened the door to an underground passage and was dragging Felicia inside, holding a pistol to her head with one hand.

"If you dare follow me, I'll blow her head open!" After leaving that threat behind, the Green Goblin jumped into the underground passage with Felicia and vanished.

"Spider-Man, I'm going to kill you!"

Just as Peter prepared to give chase, Spider-Sense warned him again. Behind him, a figure shouted and lunged at him.