Chapter 9
THE FINALS: SPIDER-MAN VS. IRON PATRIOT: PT. 5
Back in Rome, Spidey, despite still suffering from his injuries, new and old, still soldiered on through the match as he jumped and flipped over the Patriot as went for a shoulder charge attack. After landing on his feet, Spidey found himself right behind the Patriot, and decided to take down the Thunderbolt down before he had attack again and thus ran towards him.
As for the Patriot himself, he quickly spun around with the intent of firing a repulser blast at Spidey. But before he could even get a chance to hold up his right hand, the Web0Head figuratively beat him to the punch by throwing a right legged front kick into the Patriot’s chest plate, then used his left leg to jump and used that same leg to throw a round kick, nailing the Patriot in the head which didn’t knock him off his feet, but still knocked him loopy enough to make him wobble in a daze.
Spidey himself managed to land safely on all fours and watched as the Patriot just barely managed to stop himself and shook his head. “Getting slow at your old age, Gobby!” the Web-Head quipped, then got back up and ran towards the Patriot, wound his fist back and went for a cross.
However, the Patriot recovered just fast enough to see this attack coming and thus held up his right arm to block the punch. “You of all people should know that age doesn’t slow me down!” the Thunderbolt retorted, then attempted to fight back by throwing a left hook, to which Spidey avoided by ducking. The Patriot continued his assault by hold ups right fist over his head. “And the name…is the Iron Patriot!” With that declaration, the Patriot went for a hammer blow, hoping to knock the Web-Slinger out for good.
Luckily for Spidey though, he noticed this and used his web-taped right hand to catch the Patriot’s armored fist just in time. Moments later, the Wall-Crawler fought back by jumping up and throwing a left uppercut, nailing the Patriot in the chin and making him stumble backward. While in the air, Spidey spun around and as he looked down at the dazed Patriot, pointed both of his hands at him, shot two web-lines, which ended up hitting the Thunderbolt’s shoulders, then zipped down towards him and planted both of his feet on his chest plate, bringing him down hard on to the steel floor. Remembering that his old enemy used the Uni-Beam in this position once before, Spidey quickly hopped off of him, then performed a corkscrew flip in mid-air and landed on the floor in a crouching position, where he waited for the Patriot to roll on his chest so he could look at him face to face. “You can call yourself Miss America for all I care,” said Spidey as a he gave him a death glare. “You’ll always be a heartless Goblin to me!”
The Web-Head’s retort reminded him of a similar ‘quibble over definitions’ when he last fought him as the Green Goblin, to which he gave the young man this reply as he stared a hole right back at him. “Potato, potatoe,” he told the Web-Slinger, then willed himself back up to his feet. “But if there is one thing that I am above all else, I’m someone that if you chose to side with, I could’ve made you superior!”