DISCLAIMER:
Firstly the writing here is going to be full of imaginations,
mis-rememberings, personal retcons fanfic and all sorts of shenanigans.
For example: I honor most of the comic book canon, which is when I read it originally the first when it was first released, but the comic book swings from really good moments to really bad moments, I much prefer the 90s animated series for some elements including Doc Connors involvement in trying to find a cure for Peter Parker's fake cancer, which was Doc Connors excuse to get a free research assistant (Peter) and unlimited access to Peters blood. IIRC Doc Connors never said it was 'cancer' coz it was a kids show, but the way he suggested how fatally sick Peter could get.. I certainly feel it was implied or was an equivalent.
Many of the scenes/situations are contrived, convoluted without purpose, I have attempted to streamline this to the essential events and in doing so things
Dava's Hitchhikers Guide to Spider-Man: the Clone Saga
Set 4 months after the spider bite and two months after Uncle Ben's Death, Peter (now 16yo) has begun his shakey existence as Spider-Man. He achieved a scholarship from the Richards Foundation to attend St.John's Catholic University* (ESU) he meets Doc Connors as his biology professor. Peter is curious how the spider bite changed his DNA and what it did to his biology. Harry Osborn meets Peter for the first time as he is flunking most his classes and Peter becomes his paid study buddy but after a few lessons, he begins to refuse money saying he will take payment in sandwiches or pizza, this begins their friendship, as Peter is Harry's first 'real' friend who isn't interested in money. They quickly become best friends.
Two months pass, Peter is dating MJ and working as a pizza delivery boy, he has fought Vulture, Tinkerer and Doctor Octopus. Norman Osborn finds out about Peter's identity. MJ gets abducted by Green Goblin who tries to throw her off the Brooklyn Bridge, but Peter catches her in time. Peter and MJ have a fight and break up. Peter begins dating Gwen Stacy. Gwen falls for Peter hard, Peter is lukewarm, Gwen's father is a police captain, he becomes suspicious of Peters lies/excuses and thinks Peter is cheating on Gwen. Green Goblin abducts Gwen, then throws her off the Brooklyn bridge, this time successfully killing Peter Parker's GF (Peter's web caught her in time so she didn't hit the ground, but her neck snapped from the velocity of the fall).
After Gwen's death, Peter and Cpt. Stacy have a kind of bonding moment at Gwen's funeral, Peter feels guilty as he was going to break up with Gwen before she died, he says nothing to Cpt. Stacy even though Cpt. Stacy is pouring his heart out about Gwen.This crushes Peter all the more. But coldly he still says nothing.
Peter throws himself into his studies, including extracurricular time with Doc Connors who he begins to trust, confiding in him that he is Spider-Man, Doc Connors has someone else working with him off and on whom Peter assumes is Doc Connors Lab Assistant, she is in fact a colleague, her name is Moira MacTaggert She is never around long enough for Peter to be corrected on who she is. Despite the lack of time they spend together, Moira is the one to talk Peter into providing the initial blood sample.
One night it was just Moira and Peter in the lab late and they talked about the situation, because Doc Connors had told her Peter was Spider-Man and she was the one to take the sample.
Doc Connors University Lab had a passcard security system, but he only had two cards, one for himself and one for Moira, so he would leave the skylight window open for Peter to continue their research. This was a.. mistake.
Miles Warren.. I'll just let Wikipedia do the talking.. :
"Miles Warren was a professor of biology at Empire State University. There, he meets Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy. During his tenure there, Warren becomes secretly infatuated with the much younger Gwen Stacy to the point of obsession and jealousy of Parker, her boyfriend. After Stacy is murdered by the Green Goblin (Norman Osborn), Warren swears vengeance on Spider-Man, since the papers at the time reported that it was Spider-Man who killed her. Gwen's death drives Warren into depression, despair, and insanity as a mad geneticist who eventually becomes the Jackal. Miles also has a brother named Raymond, who is a science teacher at Peter Parker's high school."
Two more months have past since last recounted.. Peter is working at the Bugle as a photographer, as he was fired numerous times from Joe's for 'late pizza'. I am sure Joe's pizzas expect high standards in the time of their delivery drivers, as is right.
Peter has been working closely with Doc Connors, Prof. Miles Warren has discovered the Doctor and Peter's secret. He has been stalking Peter while trying not to trigger Peter's 'Spidey Sense' one late night at the lab as very tired Peter masks up, he forgets to lock the skylight window. Yes.. a skylight is dumb.. dumb dumb dumb.. but also a human error.
Prof. Warren had been experimenting on himself. His speciality was cloning. He steals some of Peter's blood and begins making clones of Peter.
Exposition
Not counting the all-out abominations (100?.. more??) Prof. Warren (The Jackal) successfully creates around 40? to 50? Spider clones. Many many of them were evil, with the exception of only 5 who were 'good' like Peter. The one most like Peter was.. B** ****** the ******* Spider.
The five were:
Kaine
B** ******
Jack
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With my fanfic 'Alan MacKay: Widow Spider' I attempted to fill one of those missing slots: see below. B** ****** was dark inside, but retained Peter's sense of humor. Both Kaine and Jack were borderline good/evil.
Spidercide was Deadpool-like+Spider-Man but pure evil.
Story: Doppler
Peter knows nothing of what Prof. Warren has done. Spider-Man is out in the neighbourhood patrolling, a mild spidey sense is triggered as he feels a sense of being watched. He sees someones web swinging shadow but thinks it must be a trick of the light, but still he follows it, at the end of the chase he finds 'Doppler' (NOT Doppelganger) an evil clone of himself, who has been busy that night making Peter's future life a misery; we see him explain to Peter what he has been busy doing..
Scene 1: in Peter's sted he went and had another fight with MJ even though they are broken up, including calling her 'poor' and 'ugly'. She cries running back into her house.
Scene 2: He tells JJ what he thinks of him and quits his job at the Bugle.
Scene 3: He is suggesting to a ESU female professor he would 'make her happy' for a good grade.
Scene 4: He beats up Aunt May, not killing her, but landing her in hospital.
(this also sets up Peter revealing to Aunt May; he is Spider-Man)
Scene 5: He asks Harry for some serious money, Harry curious why Peter would want this, asks and instead of answering, Peter just states 'you will never know what real life is like, because you just a spoiled little rich boy'. Harry is devastated, his worst nightmare in his friendship with Peter.
(Unknown to Doppler, Norman actually overhears this conversation and is instantly suspicious, thinking 'This isn't how Peter behaves.. something is going on here')
Peter snaps and kills Doppler. Beating him to a pulp.
After the rage fades, Peter realizes what he just did. Coldly he takes what's left of the body to the Brooklyn docks, takes off Dopplers Spider-Man costume, ties a huge rock to the body and throws it far in the water, to around the middle between Brooklyn and the Governors Island (Dimond Reef).
He is filled with strange feelings that his 16 year old mind can't deal with.. so on the way home he visits the Catholic Cathedral .. Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral. From across the street a shadow watches Peter enter. And even further away Green Goblin watches the shadow.
Exposition
Norman Osborne is a rich and powerful person, who has strived all his life for 'perfection of humanity' he is a genius and a Nietzschean, he loves Peter like a son.. but he deplores Peter for lying to Harry, and due to his twisted experiments on himself, he is intensely jealous of Peters abilities and how Peter acquired them so easily. This is not a straightforward 'enemy' of Peter Parker, Norman is very layered as is true with people of certain intelects. His philosophy is 'survival of the fittest.. or richest.' but Peter's 'old world charm' as he would say had captured his heart. He believes *he* should be the *only one* to take away his adopted son's life but he still very torn as he actually loves him. The first time the Green Goblin tried to kill MJ on the Brooklyn Bridge was due to Peter looking Norman in the eye and telling him a straight lie to cover Spider-Man's identity. This in Norman's twisted mind; enraged him*.
Norman: 'You'd never lie to me .. right Peter?' and Peter denying he would lie.
Story
Peter in the Cathedral is beyond confused. He prays. He leaves. Green Goblin sees Peter leaving, looking away from the shadow for the shortest of split seconds, when he looks back the shadow is gone.
In his base, Miles Warren knows that due to Doppler not returning, Peter must have killed Doppler, which meant all the scenarios Miles had told Doppler to carry out, he must have done. Miles is very happy at the thought of this and steps up production of Peter clones. Some of the clones have previously escaped, but Miles seems to not care, as he believes he has tweaked all their genes to bring out the evil side of Peter in them.
Miles rents 2 more places to create cloning labs, for a total of 4, with a small 5th site having limited equipment.
Meanwhile Peter is at Uni and has justified killing Doppler by telling himself, 'he was me, I have every right to kill me.. right?.. but I can't be dead because I'm still here.. maybe it was some kind of fever dream.. can't have been real.. but Aunt May wasn't in when I got home this morning.. I'm so confused.'
Just then the female professor Doppler had been suggestive with comes in the classroom door, we see Peter is in a History class covering the topic of Hadrian's Wall.. she signals to Peter to come to speak to her. Outside the classroom.. they speak, her name is Professor Willow Trask*.
She is Head of the 'Practical Physics' Department.. Willow tells Peter that she was horrified at first, but when she got home she felt flattered as he is very attractive, she herself is a very attractive 50 year old woman, which she mentions their ages but she has been single for most of her life due to her work, however she cannot lower her moral standards or dedication to the truth, that she hopes Peter acknowledges in her confession of her truth to him that she would have considered a romantic and/or physical relationship had they both not been at the same University, as an indication of her passion & dedication to the truth. She squeezes Peters bicep as she leans in and kisses him on the cheek.. and then as she pats him on the chest with her open hand she tells him; come see her when he has graduated.
Peter is dumbfounded.
He begins thinking 'OKAY so IF that was TRUE!..? !.. is Aunt May in hospital???'.
Peter suits up in the abandoned locker room that is used for the Universities large cleaning equipment and heads off to check each of the local hospitals.
Doc Connors had been experimenting with Peter's blood to regain his lost arm.. he had 'one of his blackouts' that he has been experiencing over the last three weeks since he first tried the serum to restore his arm. He had confided in Dr. MacTaggert about these blackouts and when she strongly advised him to see medical council; they had a falling out. This was why Miles could steal the blood so easily, Dr. MacTaggert no longer was coming to the lab and Doc Connors was elsewhere due to the blackouts.
We see Doc Connors return to a smashed lab.. he is in shock. He wonders if he did this during a blackout.
We see Miles in one of his facilities.. he is happy Doppler was a success, but wants to show the world how much of a monster Peter Parker is. He is aware that Spider-Man is powerful, so he used a formula on himself.. not being able to bear being spider like Peter, as it would remind him of Peter, he has chosen a Jackal, manipulating the genes and mixing them with his own.
He begins making the 'abominations'. So far 10 of his experiments have escaped the Labs.. but Miles does not care as each one is an open wound upon Peter Parker's life.
Across town: We meet B** ****** for the first time.. he looks like Peter acts like Peter.. he is even wearing some of Peter's clothes, he is buying some food from a hospital vending machine. As far as he is aware he is Peter. Through a hallway.. through a window, Spider-Man hangs upside down and sees himself buying something from a vending machine.. he is gobsmacked.
Spider-Man thinks: OKAY this is freaky!
Spider-Man waits and holds vigil for Aunt May.. staying across the street on a rooftop watching. The 'other' Peter seems to be kindly to Aunt May. 2 days later.. he follows them home, wondering what this 'other' Peter has told Aunt May to excuse such actions.
Spider-Man decided to go into his room and wait.. eventually the 'other' Peter comes in and is shocked.. Spider-Man grabs him and says what did you tell Aunt May?
The 'other' Peter explains.. flashback: he was following someone who had powers similar to himself and he lost him.. when he decided to return him he found a double of himself threatening and hitting Aunt May, he defended Aunt May beating the double down but the guy escaped.. not the 'other' Peter asks.. who are you and why are you wearing my costume?
Spider-Man unmasks himself.. and the 'other' Peter says 'oh no not you again'.. to which Spider-Man says.. 'don't worry I killed that guy.. he's not coming back.'
Both are in shock as they sit side by side on the bed.
SP = Spider Peter
OP =Other Peter
Spider-Man: so we need to work out whos the 'real' Peter eh?
Other Peter: Yeahhh..
SP: What is the first thing you remember that night patrolling?
OP: I stopped for a hotdog from street vendor..
SP: I remember that too.. weird.
[Listen in the interest of being plain I'll hit you with a load of spoilers quickly.. B** ****** the ******* Spider had been tracking Peter that night.. he is Peter and retains all of Peters memories up until the moment he was cloned/the moment the blood was taken.. however B** had been stalking Peter looking for a way to tell him. When the 'real' Peter stopped for some food, the clone did also..one wanted to be Peter so badly they blocked out all memory of being the clone. It is highly implied that the Peter we have been following IS the real Peter.. but conversely, it is one of if not *thee* greatest mysteries in Spider-Man.. 'who is the real Peter Parker?' as either one of them could have went either way that night. Marvel strings this out for a long time.. I solve it thusly: If you are a non-evil clone you DO NOT have bio-webbing, only Peter has bio-webbing.. except in my fanfic of 'Alan Mackay' Widow Spider who has poisonous bio-webbing. The rest have to manufacture their own webbing.. another side of this mystery is, B** ****** is Peter with a focus on all of his dark and sad traits but is the only clone that retains Peter's sense of humor.. if Peter found out he was a clone, he would be sad and dark, so what really is the difference? bio-webbing. So by giving Alan MacKay bio-webbing, this mystery can begin afresh. Spidercide has Bio-Webbing but is evil]
The two become tentative allies to find out what on earth is happening.
SP goes to Uni the next day. He gets in an argument with Doc Connors who transforms into 'The Lizard' and escapes into the sewers but SP follows. There SP is able to calm him down enough for him to transform back. Doc Connors apologizes and is in trauma realizing what he might have done.
OP begins looking for people with the expertise to be able to clone humans, one name keeps coming up.. Miles Warren. OP sees he is at the same Uni as he and SP.. and feels confident: this is our guy.
SP plain dressed decides to go home, on his way home he sees MJ, she freaks out but SP pursues her to 'explain things' but having no idea what he would say, however this does not become a factor as he reaches MJ, she slaps him tears rolling down her face. SP's spidersense had went off.. but he just took the slap. SP let's her leave without further incident.
OP goes to see Doc Connors and Doc Connors fills him in on what has been happening with him.. and that SP calmed him down. OP feels guilty laying so much on Doc Connors but he has to know more about this 'Miles Warren'. Doc Connors says he doesn't know much.. but that he Miles at Gwen Stacy's funeral and found it hard to understand why he so upset.. this gives OP a clue to what Miles' motives are. Doc Connors also mentions Moira MacTaggert that she won't return his phone calls, but he feels he has no one else to turn to. OP empathizes with him.
Aunt May is the kitchen, she is still very nervous around Peter.. she wants to avoid him until all the awful things have passed. But SP..says he has a confession and tells Aunt May about being Spider-Man.. she is in shock and accuses him of lying.. 'don't say such things to excuse your behavior!'
SP confesses again, but Aunt May is just getting more and more upset. He goes to his room and backs a bag. Reasoning both of us can't live here.. things are tense enough as it is [meaning himself and OP].
SP meets OP on the way out of the house.. before OP can tell SP anything, SP says.. you can have here, I just can't deal with seeing her this upset.. OP interrupts saying 'MILES WARREN.. he is our guy'.. SP says 'wwhaatt?.. no I'm too upset to talk about this right now.. I gotta go..'. SP leaves and OP comments to himself he didn't know he was such a drama queen.
OP enters the house and Aunt May comes up to him and apologizes for shouting at him.. then comments: wasn't he *just* wearing different clothes? but the two laugh it off.
[This sets Peter up for getting his own place for the first time and his return to wrestling for money]
Over the next week: While OP is staying at home with Aunt May, during the day attending Uni and in his free time trying to find Miles Warren, as SP wrestles at night for money and after matches look for Miles, while trying to maintain *some* patrolling. SP has moved into a trashy cheap apartment..
SP decides he wants to see Harry, SP leaves OP a note under his pillow to this effect.
SP in Spider-Man costume climbs onto the Osborne home balcony and in the double windows.. the house is dark, from the distance he hears shouting and crashing noises.. he walks into the candle lit hall and walks closer to the one lit room that noises are coming from..
SP sees Norman Osborne is in a restrained early-state of transformation, his back is to Harry and Harry is shouting at him. It seems to SP that Norman has confessed he was experimenting on himself and Harry is visibly upset. SP is alarmed as he knew nothing of this.
Norman senses SP but says nothing, he then feigns more anger by shouting at Harry and throwing a glass of Brandy at him which smashes on the floor near Harry. Norman storms out.
Outside on the balcony.. Norman says 'I know you are there Peter..' .. Norman turns around with SP stuck to the wall above the double door.. 'or should I say Spider-Man..?' SP filled with many many mixed emotions.. he came here to tell Harry.. he came to confess.. but as he walks up to Norman.. SP decides to take off his mask.
SP: yeah its me..
Norman: Of course I know my son. I know both my sons. I am always here for you Peter, I love you but never lie to again or I will kill you. Lies are the weapons of cowards. I have no wretched sons so low they would lie.
SP: Wow.. are you okay? you seem very tightly wound. Well.. I didn't want to hurt anyone.. I know I promised but..
Norman: but by lying you DID hurt people.. you hurt Harry you hurt ME.. you hurt MJ..
SP: MJ??
Norman: I am no coward.. I am the Green Goblin! [Norman slowly begins to change while still talking to SP] What kind of low class vampire did you slink into our home! All but one of the Watsons.. Maj.Watson.. is a SNAKE! She would have bled both my sons dry!
SP: Yo-oo-u.. tried to kill MJ.. you killed GWEN??
A battle in the skys ensues. SP throws a final blow by swinging a goblin bomb back to Green Goblin's Glider making it explode. As Green Goblin falls he transforms back into Norman.. and has tears in his eyes, at the last second SP webs him and leaves him hanging before departing.
SP decides to go back to his trashy apartment, as he's swing SP is crying under his mask.
OP is outside MJ's house.. just standing saying nothing. MJ leans out the window to tell him to go away. OP says nothing and does not leave. after two hours MJ comes down they go for a walk together.. OP confesses he is Spider-Man and involved in some freaky stuff with clones.. MJ is slightly shocked, but knows Peter well enough to know he believes what he is saying.. so that's good enough for her. He tells her everything. [This sets up them getting back together]
SP is in his apt. home street and his spidersense is triggered as one of the abominations grabs SP and throws him, through his livingroom window, SP and the abomination fight [none of the 'proper' clones triggers Peter's spidersense, but the abominations do].
The abomination gives SP a severe beating, but suddenly just runs away. Kaine steps into the apartment from the caved in front windows. Kaine explains he is a clone and explains the situation and who the Jackal is.
SP starts freaking out. Remember he is only 17yo. He sits hands in his hair holding his head.. freaking the flip out. SP says nothing. Kaine leaves.
The next two months get crazy as OP and SP fight against the many clones of the Jackal. Kaine makes cameos during this time and introduces us to Jack. Jack is a sick, disabled and dying clone.
We pickup as Spidercide (who is a Deadpool-like clone of Spider-Man) has re-staged the throwing MJ off the Brooklyn Bridge. Spidercide is outright evil, and his dream is to make all of Spider-Man's worst nightmares come true.
SP/OP, I don't rem which, also his costume is ripped from all the fighting.
Spider-Man swings across as Spidercide lifts MJ up to throw her down to her death.... Spiderman shoots a web but missing, his other hand shooting a web at Spidercide, who grabs the web and swings a shocked and disoriented Spiderman into the bridge itself. At the last moment, The Green Goblin catches MJ and let's her down on the ground telling her to 'RUN!' Spidercide who was gloating, is now surprised and upset/angry. The Green Goblin begins throwing Goblin bombs at Spidercide.
Spider-Man is disoriented and still hanging off Spidercide, webs the glider pulling it and Green Goblin into the side of the Brooklyn Bridge, as Green Goblin realizes he is about to die..
we see a flashback to all the times in secret Norman treated Peter like a son whom he loved..
Norman is in his study and he overhears the boys laughing.. he smiles warmly. As he drinks his scotch while reading some papers the boys still laughing from up the hall.. a single tear rolls down his cheek. This is the first time Harry has laughed from the heart.. and not in sarcasm.. since his mother died.
We see Norman overhear MJ flirting with Harry.. she is looking for Peter but he is not there, it is the first time she has ever been to his home, none of her family have ever had more than a $150 in their wallet at the one time, so she can't help herself but flirt.. Norman enraged thinks 'you are unworthy of MY boys'**.
Norman is an office with the Dean talking about Peter's finances and saying that the Richards grant is only valid for up to a bachelor's (singular) at this university, however Peter has many different classes he is excelling in, and each of them has additional fees, Norman calmly phones his assistant and then responds by saying.. 'I just bought this University*.. [angerly] don't EVER threaten my son again!'
This and many more moments, Harry, Emily (his beloved wife) other family and friends.
Green Goblin's glider explodes. Green Goblin falls to his death. His broken body on the ground.
Spider-Man then sees MJ off in the distance and is horrified he just killed Norman. Spidercide pulls up the web Spider-Man is on then punches Spiderman in the face.
Spidercide grabs Spider-Man and crushes his collarbone and shoulder breaking all his bones. All seems lost. But at that moment the other Peter Parker swings in wearing a black hoodie and black sweats with no shoes. He gives Spidercide a severe beating with Spidercide losing consciousness. Hoodie Peter picks up Spider-Man and as he does, Doppelganger snatches Spidercide and makes off with him.
The two Peters go to Aunt May's house to recover.
MJ freaked out; tells Aunt May everything about Peter being Spider-Man Aunt May is very upset/crying/confused.
Out on patrol Hoodie Peter as Spider-Man, Kaine approaches Spider-Man and tells him (some) the location of Warren's hidden cloning facilities. Spider-Man goes to the two facilities Kaine told him about and sees horrors he can barely imagine or process. He sets them to explode using Warrens chemicals.
While exiting, Spidercide and Doppelganger jump him and knock him out.
[At this point, the comic version becomes ultra convoluted, I'm seriously slimming this down]
The Trial of Peter Parker
4 days later. The police arrive at Aunt May's. Peter is a suspect in a murder and possible connected to multiple murders. The police inform Aunt May they found Peter's student I.D. at the crime scene. The detective and officer are shocked as Peter, still with bandaged shoulder coming down the stairs, as these two were the ones to fish the body out of the water.. they fished Doppler out of the water.
Peter is taken into custody.
Spider-Man comes round and all of Warrens evil clones are standing over him, with Warren as the Jackal laughing in the middle.
Warren gives Spider-Man the full story of his love for Gwen Stacy. What it did to him when 'Spider-Man killed Gwen'. How he 'snapped'.
After each take turns beating Spider-Man, they lock him in a cage.
We have a split scene, with both Peter's in cages, Peter is in jail, Spider-Man is in Warrens cage. Both are at low points.
While Trial Peter is fed, he is miserable. Warren is not feeding Spider-Man, regularly the evil clones are beating him. After 4 days, even though his bones have multiple fractures all over his body, when Doppelganger comes in to administer a beating Spider-Man fights back and instead gives Doppelganger a beating then escapes, quipping: 'Turns out, a place designed to be an underground Lab.. not a great prison!'.
Hoodie Peter as Spider-Man tries to prove Trial Peter's innocence, while avoiding The Jackal and his clones.
Kaine visits Trial Peter and finds out that this Peter is the 'real' Peter, he confesses he was trying to frame the other clone so Peter could walk free.
Warren gets fed up trying to chase Spider-Man around and unleashes ALL the abominations.100+
Kaine stands up during the trial and confesses all that he has done. As the judge is pronouncing his judgement, all the abominations break in and start ripping people apart, Trial Peter zips across to save the judge.. Kaine yells at Peter to 'GO GO NOW!' as he buys them time knowing he will lose his life.
Peter and the judge are in his chambers.. the judge writes a writ stating his judgement and tells Peter 'even if we do not make it out alive, it is not right that you should go to jail for something you didn't do'. Peter is holding the door and tells the judge ' I did do it. I admit it. but that guy was a monster like these.' the judge says 'in the great scheme of things I don't suppose the details matter.. only that justice is done!'.
Doppelganger than rips the corner off the room from outside the building. At that moment.. Spider-Man webs Doppelganger's face.. the judge exclaims 'there are more of you??' Peter says kindly: not all are evil, noble sir.
We hear noises of Kaine being ripped apart from the other room as Spider-Man takes the judge to safety. Many abominations climb in the hole ready to kill Trial Peter, it does not look good as it look like he about to die.
Across the street we see Spider-Man coming out of a building, looking towards the hole in the side of court and the abominations pouring in. The street is wrecked with cars smashed up and some on fire.
Spider-Man begins beating down the abominations one by one as they try to enter the hole in the room, after twenty or so he collapses from exhaustion.
He awakes to find the abominations gone. Trial Peter is gone. Kaine is gone. The street is empty.
While Spider-Man tries to track down Trial Peter and Kaine, Spidercide and Doppelganger jump Spider-Man beating him and knocking him out.
Later at the Lab, The Jackal, evil clones and Peter with the 'good' clones stand in a circle, The Jackal tells them: How dare you ignore your 'brother' at the time of his death!
Spidercide takes Spider-Man,Trial Peter and Kaine into a room where Jack is lying on a bed. It seems he is dying.
Jack: I wanted to tell you about this disease, the clones have degenerative illness.. I am dying. The clones are imperfect and so we will die quickly.
[Jack made many assumptions due to this illness affecting him, he assumed it would happen to all the clones. But he was wrong]
Spidercide is watching them respectfully in the corner and listening.
The three turn round to Spidercide and Spider-Man says to him.. 'Warren did this. You're next. Do you really agree with him to this extent??'
Spidercide is clinically psychotic, but he understands what Spider-Man is saying.
The four go and confront Warren, who summons Doppelganger while Warren tries to make his escape. Three give Doppelganger a beating while one confronts Warren.
In a larger lab room Spider-Man and Warren punch it out. After 10 minutes, hepped up in the heat of battle, Spider-Man grabs a massive container of chemicals smashing it over the Jackals head killing him.
When Spidercide, Trial Peter and Kaine see that Warren is dead. While they are stunned Doppelganger very beaten makes his escape.
Spider-Man is slightly in shock himself.. as the other crowd around the now dead Warren.. Kaine says. 'Well at least he has peace.' Spider-Man asks Kaine 'what happened a the courthouse? I passed out and..' Kaine interrupts sarcastically 'Thanks for asking.' he reveals from his cloak three inch deep gashes with his muscles barely holding together.
The three look at Spidercide and Spidercide says ' I might be a little dumb, but I'm not totally a moron. The three of yous would rip me apart.' Spider-Man says : so what now? Spidercide: I'm thinking.. Africa.. and to be honest.. all three of you own me one.' Spider-Man says 'fair enough. Try not to come back' Spidercide ' I will try.'
Trial Peter: Kaine? what about you?
Kaine: I was thinking Chicago.. mid-northwest. and What about you two?
Trial Peter: we have somethings to talk about..
Spider-Man: hmm?
Later that night we see Spider-Man handing the very raggy ripped Spider-Man costume to Trial Peter..
Trial Peter: No you keep it. You've shown you are the best Spider-Man, I am a failure.
OP: No. none of that is true.. and I couldn't dare take this great honour from you.
TP: I wasn't ready for this before it happened.. nowhere ready for any of this Spider-Man stuff..
OP interrupts: Let's give it a rest for tonight.. we can talk again when we are both fresh.
Trial Peter agrees and takes the raggy Spider-Man costume.
Two days later.. We see OP at a phone booth outside a diner, it is snowing and there is carpet of snow on the ground [we are in Alaska].. OP is phoning Peter at Aunt May's house. We pick up halfway through the conversation.
OP: ...so I felt it wasn't right. Anyway I have chosen a new name.. I can't keep calling myself Peter Parker can I?
Peter smiles: What's the new name?
OP: Ben Reilly after uncle Ben.
Peter: Dad would be proud.
Ben: Thanks Peter.. I needed to hear that.
Peter: You are never a stranger, and I hope to see you again very soon, you're family Ben.
Ben silent. cries a little. then just hangs up.
We pan down and now see Ben has dyed his hair a dirty dark blond.
The End
Notes:
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*Peter is Catholic as he is from a mostly Irish Catholic background, except some of his father's family who are English Anglican. I see him as Irish-English with a little bit of Scots and Italian. Scottish maternal grandmother, Italian paternal great grandfather.
I imagine Peter's Family tree something like this:
Fitzpatrick
William 'Jack' Fitzpatrick (Irish) -- Moira McKay (Scottish)
Mary Fitzpatrick (Irish-Scots)
(Mother of Peter Parker)
Parker
Col.N. Hammond-Parker (Eng) -Vi O'Dell (Irish)///Pino "Joe" Pozzuoli (italian)- Mary Maguire (Irish)
Major.Tate Parker (English-Irish) Allanya 'Ally' Pozzuoli (Italian-Irish)
Richard Parker
(Father of Peter Parker)
Full disclosure; I just made 80% of that up. But I feel I was true to the sentiment of Peters history. Although Peters parents names and his maternal grandfathers are correct. I make allusion to..Joe's Pizza, known as Peter Parker's first job before he joined the Bugle. So I made his great grandfather Pino "Joe" Pozzuoli (the original 'Joe' of Joe's Pizzas). The star of the 1970s Spider-Man TV show was actor Nicholas Hammond, whose father was a colonel and is from a mostly English background.
I searched and searched for irish actor names in connection with Spider-Man. I could only find Maguire (Tobey Maguire) which I have now added.
Update 01/Nov/2020: WHAT IF.. What if, Leopold Fitz is second cousins with Peter Parker? What if Alistair Fitz had changed his name because he hated his father? Imagine.. this: A very young and married, with young child (Alister) at home, William Jack Fitzpatrick stationed in Ceuta as Military Police, as a prank and for arresting a friend of theirs, some soldiers drug him and sign him up for the French Foreign Legion on the Algerian border.. two years later he returns home to Glasgow to find out his wife and child have disappeared.. distraught he moves to America to stay with a cousin in NYC.. he meets a woman on the flight over, her name is Moira McKay. The two date for six months, fall in love and she falls pregnant, they marry but she dies in childbirth. Peter as a young boy (10yo) finds his 'Granny' McKay's journals.. 20 journals detailing her life.. he cries as he reads them, as his grandfather would never speak of Moira as it was too painful for him. Alister never finds out why his father abandoned him.. bitter he changes his name, hoping that his father wouldn't be able to find him, but leaving the possibility.. if his father was smart enough, determined enough, would get the connection of 'Fitz'.
I made his maternal Grandmother Scottish.. Peter later in life is known as a great inventor, and as it is known Scots 'Invented the modern World'..
The Telephone, The Television, The Refrigerator, Anesthetic, Road Foundation, The Pneumatic Tyre, The Pedal Bicycle, The Stirling Engine.. now repurposed 200 years later for deep space probes*, Print Stereotyping, Roller Printing, Logarithms, Modern Economics, The Decimal Point, Insulin, The Electric Toaster, The Flushing Toilet, The Electric Clock, First Automated Can Filling Machine, The Ghillie Suit, The ATM & PIN, Making Cast Steel from Wrought Iron, Tubular Steel, Discovering The Laws of Electrodynamics..
I myself am Scots.. it would have been nice to have one 'rogue clone' that just left.. I have done a series of Fanfic comic stories based in Europe in the time of Kobik. Complete 6 Episode arc :)
See here:
Episode 1: Euro-Avengers - Assemble!
Episode 2: Euro-Avengers 'Matter of Opinion'
Episode 3 : Euro-Avengers 'I Reality Love You'
Episode 4: Euro-Avengers 'Another Day in Paradise'
Episode 5: Euro-Avengers 'What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practise to Perceive.." + BONUS 'Exposition Theater'
Episode 6 : Euro-Avengers 'BOSS FIGHT!'
The 'Scottish Spider-Man'.. Widow Spider because he was the clone widowed from his life.. he feels ultimate resentment to Doc Connors, left for Scotland after the Jackal had done terrible things abominable clones of unimaginable horror .. If Scarlet Spider got Peter's darker traits (but retained Peters sense of humor).. 'Alan' got Peters anger and suspicion. And as we know.. when Peter 'loses it' his anger can be.. hulk-like.
My Original Concept:
IIRC.. Peter actually *could* be Catholic/Anglican as I seem to rem he has attended both types of Church at low points in his life in the comics. Anglican Father, Catholic Mother. Even (Peter's Father) Richard Parker's mother would have been Irish-Catholic, but in this scenario Richard was raised Anglican.
*(cousin of yes.. THAT Trask) I have invented her for this role as I could have left her nameless but thought this was cooler.
*Norman also changes the name of the university from St.John's Catholic University to Empire State University or ESU.
* / **
[Unknown to Peter, MJ couldn't help herself from flirting with Harry.. later Peter lies to Norman about where he was to cover his identity as Spider-Man, both these things enraged Norman]
The Telephone, The Television, The Refrigerator, Anesthetic, Road Foundation, The Pneumatic Tyre, The Pedal Bicycle, The Stirling Engine.. now repurposed 200 years later for deep space probes*, Print Stereotyping, Roller Printing, Logarithms, Modern Economics, The Decimal Point, Insulin, The Electric Toaster, The Flushing Toilet, The Electric Clock, First Automated Can Filling Machine, The Ghillie Suit, The ATM & PIN, Making Cast Steel from Wrought Iron, Tubular Steel, Discovering The Laws of Electrodynamics..
I myself am Scots.. it would have been nice to have one 'rogue clone' that just left.. I have done a series of Fanfic comic stories based in Europe in the time of Kobik. Complete 6 Episode arc :)
See here:
Episode 1: Euro-Avengers - Assemble!
Episode 2: Euro-Avengers 'Matter of Opinion'
Episode 3 : Euro-Avengers 'I Reality Love You'
Episode 4: Euro-Avengers 'Another Day in Paradise'
Episode 5: Euro-Avengers 'What a Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practise to Perceive.." + BONUS 'Exposition Theater'
Episode 6 : Euro-Avengers 'BOSS FIGHT!'
The 'Scottish Spider-Man'.. Widow Spider because he was the clone widowed from his life.. he feels ultimate resentment to Doc Connors, left for Scotland after the Jackal had done terrible things abominable clones of unimaginable horror .. If Scarlet Spider got Peter's darker traits (but retained Peters sense of humor).. 'Alan' got Peters anger and suspicion. And as we know.. when Peter 'loses it' his anger can be.. hulk-like.
My Original Concept:
Scottish Spider-Man Concept Fanfic art
Naming her 'Moira' would explain why Peter trusted Moira MacTaggert so quickly.
IIRC.. Peter actually *could* be Catholic/Anglican as I seem to rem he has attended both types of Church at low points in his life in the comics. Anglican Father, Catholic Mother. Even (Peter's Father) Richard Parker's mother would have been Irish-Catholic, but in this scenario Richard was raised Anglican.
*(cousin of yes.. THAT Trask) I have invented her for this role as I could have left her nameless but thought this was cooler.
*Norman also changes the name of the university from St.John's Catholic University to Empire State University or ESU.
* / **
[Unknown to Peter, MJ couldn't help herself from flirting with Harry.. later Peter lies to Norman about where he was to cover his identity as Spider-Man, both these things enraged Norman]
