Spider-Man: The Disappearance

Prologue

Turning Point

A/N: So, this is based off of the Spider-Man Animated Cartoon Series that ran from 1994 to 1998. Well, it's an altered version of the finale of the third season and onward, considering I didn't like that the Mary Jane that returned was a clone for a clone of Hydro-Man. I espicially didn't like the series' cliffhanger. In this series, Peter Parker juggles multiple things. The disappearance of Mary Jane Watson, his clone, the opening of the Spider-Verse and other things that cannot be revealed yet. So, here is the first chapter and I hope you enjoy!

My name is Peter Parker and I am Spider-Man. I was Spider-Man. As of now, Spider-Man is finished. If you're wondering what I am talking about and telling yourself "I can't quit", well think again. Let me explain. You see, it all started when the woman I loved disappeared forever. Mary Jane Watson, my true love, is gone. We were walking on the sidewalks of the Washington Bridge and we had been dating for five weeks. So, I decided to "pop the question" or ask her to marry me. So, I stopped her and said, "Mary Jane, there's something I want to ask you." She responded by saying, "What, you want to ask me if I know who Spider-Man is?" she said. "What?" I asked. "Nothing Tiger, go ahead." she replied, laughing. I didn't want to get on my knees, because I wanted to surprise her. If I got on my knees, well you get the point.

I looked into her beautiful green eyes, and took her hand. "Mary Jane, I love you." I said. "You said you wanted to ask me something, that isn't a question." she said, before I could go into asking her. "I was about to ask you my question." I said. "Mary Jane, will you-" Before I could finish asking the question, my spider-sense starting buzzing in my head and then I heard the cackling. The Green Goblin flew by and that was the last time that Peter Parker ever saw her. I stared up into the sky, as the Goblin soared off into the dusk sky, cackling. "No!" I said, before realizing I shouldn't be freaking out. I started running off the bridge, towards the buildings behind me. There's nothing Peter Parker can do at this point. But Spider-Man is a different story!

As quickly as I could, I found a dark spot in a alley and changed into my Spider-Man costume. As I swung to the top of the bridge, where the goblin was waiting for me, I muttered under my breath. "Goblin, you have really made me mad, I won't let you get away, not this time!" He got away after "helping" putting Jason Phillips, the Hobgoblin, behind bars and escaped my grasp again, after attempting a robbery on an armored car. I can't let him escape again! For both my sake and the city's sake. I swung on top of the bridge, and said "Goblin, give me the girl, I don't want any civilian casualties this time." He just laughed with insanity. "I think not, Spider-Man, we need a referee." He smiled, showing off the fangs that the mask granted the user.

Then, when he was distracted by going on about having a referee, I sprinted and picked up Mary Jane and swung away, as fast as I possibly could. "Mary Jane, I have to get you to safety." I said. "Spider-Man, how do you know my name?" she asked. "There are a lot of things I know about you, Mary Jane. And I promise after all this I will explain everything." I said. "Spider-Man, you've saved my life three times and I haven't seen your face." She said. "That's the point of the mask, lady!" I said. She looked at me, with a frown. "Uh, I mean, Mary Jane, when this is over, I promise I can make all of this make sense." I said.

I came to a stop and put her down on top of the bridge on a wide platform. "Wait here." I said. I turned around and saw the Green Goblin behind me. "Spider-Man, you shouldn't have done that." He said. Then my spider sense went off. I looked around and I didn't see anything. I looked back at him, and saw he was gone. "What? Where did he go?" I asked. I looked back at Mary Jane and saw her eyes were widened with fear. I walked over to her and said, "What is it? Is something wrong?" She just pointed and said, "Watch out!" Then I felt a sharp pain in my back as the goblin kicked me off the bridge.

As I fell, I instantly thought about my web shooters. "Webs, I love you!" I exclaimed, as I fired a web and swung to a wire to rest for a minute. Then the goblin said, "Happy landings!" Then he threw Mary Jane off the bridge. "No!" I shouted, as I dived off head first toward her. I caught her and swung back up. "Sweet Jesus, that was way too close." I replied, as I held her with one arm and swung with the hand. "Why do you care about me so much, Spider-Man?" she asked me. "If you only knew." I said. "What do you mean?" she asked. I looked into her eyes. "Mary Jane, when the time comes, you'll know who is under this mask. Maybe not today or tomorrow. But someday." I said. "The Goblin is absolutely insane," I said. "I don't understand! Why is he doing this?! I mean, he doesn't abduct people on a regular basis!"

I finally put her down on the next platform and went looking for Goblin. I found him in mid-air on his glider. I had gotten the hang of web-swinging since the year I was bit, my senior year of high school, by the way. However, my webs were only so advanced. I couldn't spin a huge web to sleep and/or rest in, walk on them or stick to them, like a spider could. I needed a way to get to Goblin, but he was fifty feet away from me. What could I do? I had no idea. Then I got an idea. I picked up Mary Jane, again and swung off. "What are you doing?" she asked me. "If I can swing around and make him follow, I might be able to get the upper hand." I said.

As I thought, the Goblin followed slowly in the dark. I drew him near the first platform, and when I was close enough, I swung close to the platform and put her down. I swung back up and looked for the Green Goblin. Then my spider-sense went off, telling me he was sneaking up behind me. I turned around and said, "Gotcha!" Unfortunately, I forgot about his amazing strength. He looked at Mary Jane, and said, "Miss Watson, want to see a magic trick?" Without waiting for an answer he gripped my hand tightly and snapped my wrist. "Ta-Da!" he exclaimed.

I immediately screamed in agony. "No! My hand!" I rolled around on the platform, grasping my hand. The Green Goblin roped me down on the deck. He looked over me and said, "Good night, wall crawler!" Then he stomped on my face. After it all went black, I started to come around a few minutes later. And thanks to my spider strength, my wrist was already mending. I saw him hooking up a machine to one of the satellites' on the bridge. "What are you doing, Goblin?" I asked, struggling to get up. He just laughed, holding Mary Jane in one hand and the machinery in the other.

I finally got up, my head aching. "What is that machine?" I asked. "That would be my time dilation accelerator." He said. "A what?" I asked. "It opens gates to other dimensions." He screeched, laughing. I looked at the accelerator. It looks so familiar, I thought. Then I remembered. "You stole that from The Hobgoblin!" I blurted out. "Stole? No, no, no. I simply "borrowed" it from him when he was put behind bars." He said. "When I activate the time dilation accelerator, it will rid me of innocent lives, my foes, and all the other mishaps around here." He said. "But you could suck up New York in the process!" I said. "I missed the part where that's my problem." he said.

Then he took out his world famous pumpkin bomb and threw it behind him. Then it blew me off the bridge, again. But before I fell, I grabbed the cords and when the bomb went off, the accelerator yanked of the satellite. I swung over to the next platform and threw it over there. The Goblin somehow lost sight of his glider in the chaos, so he jumped on the huge wire that connected the two platforms. I ran to the wire and balanced over to Goblin. "I can stick to the ground, you can't." Then I punched him off the wire, swung, grabbed him and then I webbed him up until he was stuck to the wall.

Suddenly, my spider sense went off. What now? I looked up at the platform, and saw Mary Jane had fainted and was hanging over the ledge. "Mary Jane, she could fall! I have to get to her! Fast!" I exclaimed. The Green Goblin must have seen me, because then it rained pumpkin bombs. The gas from the bombs went higher, up to the platform. Mary Jane started coughing, slipping nearer the edge. "Mary Jane, I have to hurry!" I whispered. I swung up to the platform, and Mary Jane fell. Luckily I caught her, and swung back up.

I laid her back down, she was still unconscious. As she groaned in pain, I whispered, "It's ok my love. Everything's going to be fine". Next to us I heard a beep and the Goblin's glider took off. As I watched it take off, I heard a voice. "Peter? Is that you?" I looked over at Mary Jane, who was beginning to sit up. She opened her eyes and looked at me. "Spider-Man, it's you! I thought I heard Peter!" she said, smiling at me. Then my spider sense went off, I turned around and saw the glider launch a missile. "Look out!" I exclaimed, as I picked her up and swung out of the way. I put her down and as I did, a crack between us opened.

With the bridge so unstable, she fell off the bridge. "Mary Jane, no!" I screamed. I ran to the edge and shot a web down, but she wasn't there. "No! Where did she go?" I said. "Where are you, Mary Jane? Mary Jane!" I screamed, as I flipped, and dived off into the water. I swam and turned the light on my belt, but I couldn't find her. I can't find her! So help me, I can't find her! I thought. I swam back up and screamed her name once more.

Then I heard a laugh above me. I looked up and saw the Green Goblin on his glider. "What's wrong Spider-Man? No quick comebacks? No Clever one liners?" he asked laughing. "You think this is a game, Goblin?" I said angrily as I shot a web to his glider. "It's not! That was the woman I loved! And you're about to learn what that means!"

He tried to zap me, but his glove overloaded. While he was distracted I climbed higher. He took out a dagger to cut my web. I grabbed his hand, and climbed up. "Fool! My glider is going down!" he said. "I'm taking you down Goblin! Even if it means I go with you!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. "No! Osborn needs me!" he argued. I swung off to the platform. I turned and pointed my finger to him and said, "Nothing can keep me from you Goblin!"

His glider fell and he jumped to the ground three feet below. "You'll pay Goblin! If I have to chase you forever, you'll pay!" I screamed. "Not if I can help it!" he said as he turned on his machine. It roared to life and then started to suck objects into it. "Something's wrong!" he screamed and ran away. I dropped down in front of him, seething with anger. "No! Not you! Not now!" he exclaimed. He's created an unbalanced portal between the gravitational pull of our dimension and the vortex, I thought. If it grows stronger who knows what will happen. "It's pulling me in!" he screamed.

"Sounds like you got a problem!" I said. "Help me!" he screamed. Then the pull of the vortex sucked his mask off revealing his identity. Norman Osborn! I thought. "Spider-Man, help me!" he exclaimed. "Why on earth should I do that?!" I asked. No Peter, you can't let this happen, although you hate him, you must save him. Revenge is never justified; nothing will bring Mary Jane back. I fired my web and swung over. "Hold on Osborn! I'm coming!" I said. "Hurry!" he screamed. "Here! Take my hand!" I said. "I'm trying!"As he reached, he began cackling and reached into his bag.

"Osborn, take my hand! It's your only chance!" I said. "There's no Osborn anymore, Parker! There's only the Green Goblin!" he said laughing. Then my spider-sense went off and I ducked as the glider rammed into the Goblin. I dropped dodging electricity, as the portal closed. "No, it can't end like this!" Madame Webb, my advisor and teacher. Maybe she can help! "Madame Webb!" I screamed. Immediately I was transported to her lair in one mille-second.

"Yes, Spider-Man?" she asked me. "Can you bring them back? I'll do anything you want!" I pleaded. "I can't!" she said firmly. "Can't or won't?" I asked, getting angry. "This is the path you chose for yourself! To do things on your own! Once that is made, there is no turning back! It is yet another thing you have to learn." She said. "Learn?!" I screamed, ripping my mask off. "I am tired of you! And your riddles and your lessons and your supreme arrogance! Don't you ever, ever enter my life again! Do you hear me? Do you hear me?!" I screamed, as loud as I possibly could. "As you wish, I shall leave you now. But you still are the chosen one. And, when the time comes, I will return and send for you. That you cannot escape. It is your destiny." She said, as the world faded away, and I was back in the narrow strip of metal on top of the bridge. Out of the intense sadness I was feeling, there was just one thing. How did Norman know my secret identity?

As I stood there, mask in hand, and watching the remaining pink "strands" of her lair dissipate, I couldn't help but slip into a depression and think depressing thoughts. For so long now, I've tried to be there for everyone, tried to live up to the responsibility that comes with this great power. But when push came to shove, I failed those who needed me most. The one I love most is gone, gone. Forever. Spider-Man is finished. As I swing by buildings thinking this, on my way home, I think one thing. Mary Jane, if you're still alive, somewhere, wherever you are, I still love you. Good-bye.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of this. Since I have a few other fanfictions on my list that aren't finished, so I can't stick to a regular updating schedule. So, the next chapter will be here when I finish it. I'll say that in the next chapter, Peter Parker will face his clone, Ben Reilly in the next chapter, losing his powers again and a new iteration of the Carnage symbiote! Stay tuned!