Resurrection

Chapter-23

The first reaction when he got trapped into the building was to tell Tony and Loki that this wasn’t his fault. He was in the wrong place in the wrong time. Yep that’s exactly what happened. The reason why he got into this situation had to be explained from the start.

First of all, he was getting ready to go to the university in his usual demeanour. Maybe that was a lie. In the past before his Tony came back alive, he was barely interested to attend college. It was like a commitment, something he had promised to Ben and Aunt May, a promise to himself to graduate MIT. Somewhere along tagged Harry Osborn (single heir of Osborn Company) and Mary Jane. He never tried to be close with them. He brought bad luck to everyone and he didn’t want them to be caught up in it.

But now that he had Loki and Tony, he didn’t want to face away from people who were nice to him. When he showed up to college after a long time, there was Harry and Jane hugging him and asking where he was. It was refreshing. So he offered them to hang out in the downtown café.

And he was happy that they took up on his offer. They never asked what happened to him and whether they could help but just subtly suggested that they could crash in either of their place until his apartment was ready.

He refused. After all Tony had made sure that it was liveable and Loki had personally inspected whether it was tidy (super neat).

So it was only natural when one day Harry showed up with his face bruised that he had to ask what happened. Harry never asked any help from him but that day he had simply come home and asked whether he could sleep in his apartment.

He was more than happy for Harry to stay. He knew that Harry had a rough relation with his dad and reminded him a lot of Tony’s past. So he couldn’t help but feel sympathy to his friend.

And then one day Harry stopped coming to college. It would have not been suspicious if there was any forewarning. But there were no messages, no calls. He just ghosted out without telling to anyone. Jane kept worrying and calling him every fifteen minutes. Peter decided that he would give a week before letting Friday to find the guy. He just hoped that his intuitions were not wrong.

Then on the fourth day of his disappearance, Peter got a cryptic message from Harry’s number. It said “DANGER.BASEMENT. RUBBLES”.

At first Peter didn’t understand and then he remembered reading the same lines in somewhere and remembered that it was the headlines in a newspaper about a building collapsed and workers were stranded. Police had immediately evacuated the workers in the building but there was one worker who was still stranded under the basement.

He had send this message to his friend- “Danger. Basement. Rubbles”. Police had immediately dispatched the team to save him. It was quiet a news.

Reading the same message from Harry he understood that Harry was stranded in the collapsed building or held hostage. He had put on his spider man gear and left to rescue his friend.

Peter couldn’t help but get a chill when landed on the building. The building was long since abandoned and there were stench of stale blood emanating from the building. The rustic smell was making him nauseous.

He moved carefully without making a sound. He didn’t know how many people were there. When he made a quick scan with Karen, the AI had informed that she couldn’t sense anyone’s presence.

Yet he didn’t think it was a ruse of Harry. Sure he would pull some pranks at him but not like this. Not enough to ask Peter to venture into an abandoned half collapsed building.

Just as he was entering the basement, he heard a voice.

“Well, well guess that Kid was right”. The voice was strange like two people were talking into one. When he turned around, he saw was a person in a green suit with a demon like face. It was floating on a green board.

“Who are you?” He asked trying to modulate his voice but in vain. He still sounded like a girl.

“I am green goblin. Your worst nightmare” the suited man laughed with malice.

“I doubt it. Where is Harry?”

“That stupid son of mine is locked up in his room. He wouldn’t wake up for a few more days. After all he was a mere pawn to help me get closer to you. You are gonna die, spider man.  And when you do I would send your pieces to your Aunt and kill that bitch too”.

Peter just stood there surprised wondering who even this person to hold grudge against him was. Then he remembered the words stupid son, “You are Norman?”

“Norman created me but he is merely a vessel. He can’t escape my voice. He can’t help his child, I control him, own him completely. When you die, I will leave him. I don’t need a weak human to help me.” Green goblin scoffed.

“And Now you die” with that green goblin surged to attack. Peter had dodged the attacks trusting on his instinct. But everywhere he crawl and try to shoot webs, the goblin would beat him to it and it had no intention of backing down.

Just when he was ready to shoot another web to keep him in place, Goblin threw a bomb on him, he was able to dodge it but the roof shattered sending him to the floor with concretes on him.

“Finally on the floor, spider man. You cannot outrun me forever”. He took out a spear like thing extending it towards Peter.

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you” he heard a smooth silky voice from behind. Peter didn’t have to look up to see who it was. Loki was here.

“Who are …” But green goblin couldn’t complete the sentence as a blast threw him of the ground. Iron man swiftly landed near Loki still raising his repulsor.

“I thought you were dead Iron man!” Green goblin scoffed raising back in his board.

“Well what do you know? One day I am dead, next day I am alive”. Tony answered used to with banters from formidable villains.

Loki on the mean time had used spell to lift the debris so to save Peter. From a distance itself he could see that Peter was severely injured and it made him beyond angry.

Tony had started attacking Goblin seeing the kid’s state. He wanted blood and he was going to ruin who ever hell the guy was.

Goblin too understood that he couldn’t stand against iron man so he decided to pull the stunt “Sorry Tony I am so sorry. I don’t know what happened to me. This is Norman. This creature is messing with my mind. Don’t kill me Tony. Don’t kill me”.

“Osborn?” Tony asked unable to believe the eye. Just what in the world had happened to the man to end up like this?

“Tony it’s me. You got to believe me. I don’t know what happened but I only knew one second I was in my lab and the next I was attacking spider man. I mean I don’t even know the guy”.

Tony was perplexed but looking at Loki he could see that his lover clearly didn’t believe him and that meant that what Norman told was a lie. After all Loki was the God of lies.

Tony sighed and walked closer to talk with his former associate “I don’t know what happened to you Osborn. I want to believe you but there is one person who is clearly irked with you.” He said looking to Loki’s direction, Norman looked too and shuddered seeing the murderous expression on the alien that had attacked the Earth.

“I leave the rest to him” Tony said and stood up.

“NO…TONY… DON’T LEAVE ME WITH HIS MONSTER. HE WILL KILL ME”

But Tony didn’t stay up instead scooped Peter ready to leave. But just as he was about to fly off with Peter he heard Loki speaking “I know this is a trick, you wretched creature and for that you will die”.

Tony didn’t have to wait to know what happened next.

Norman was dead. With that the goblin too had extinguished.

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Peter felt lethargic as he stretched in the bed. He spread his arms to feel the soft sheets but instead was met with two people laying on either sides.

“I am starting to think this is your way of skipping classes” he heard a sarcastic retort.

“Tony!” He asked surprised wondering how he missed Tony’s arrival.

“Be quiet” He heard a sleepy voice and turned left to see Loki looking at him with half sleepy eyes.

“How? Why are you here?” Peter asked happy to see them both but yet wondering why the sudden visit. One look at the room and he understood that he was in the cabin. And then memories were flashing forward.

“Ah” he sighed in recognition.

“Oh you remembered?” Tony asked propping up on his elbow.

“How … how long I was out?”

“Two weeks” Loki answered him eerily calm. That meant Peter was in trouble. More calm Loki is, more severe would be his punishment.

“I am sorry” Peter answered honestly.

“I am going to tie you up if you do anymore of this young man.” Loki answered still calmly. Oops.

“Harry?”

“He is safe and sound but you are fucking grounded” Tony answered cheerily.

“Ah. Okay” Peter answered sighing in defeat.

“No more suits and patrols for you” Loki replied still not opening his eyes.

“OK” Peter mumbled tiredly.

“What just Ok?  ‘no mister stark, I am nothing without the suit” Tony asked surprised wondering why Peter was not putting up a fight.

Peter rolled his eyes at the question and answered “I would do the same to you if you were in a danger willingly”.

“Uh uh” Tony answered looking at the boy who was smiling dreamily looking at the ceiling.

“I miss home” Peter answered not looking at either of them. I miss you. That’s what Peter meant.

“We are home” Tony answered kissing Peter’s lip and looked at Loki only to see the same dreamy smile of Peter in Loki’s face.

Yes they were home.