Peter felt responsible for creating most of his villains. It was partially an unreasonable assumption. However, part of it was correct. Peter did help create Otto Octavius. Sure the good Doctor did some work for the Kingpin. But, so did Richard Parker. Peter's existence as Spider-Man led to Scorpion, Rhino, and Sandman. His negligence and severe incompetence led to Venom and by extension Carnage. But the real truth of the matter was that none of them could have existed without the assistance of Oscorp. Without one man Norman Osborn.
Right now Peter had just finally learned how much Norman had been manipulating his life. All so that Peter would be his successor. That goal hadn't changed even after the Green Goblin Oz had learned that Peter Parker was Spider-Man. It was Norman that sabotaged the software of the cybernetics that would turn Otto into Dr. Octopus. It was Norman that partially created Mr. Negative so that he could cure his wife Emily. And it was Norman that sent his wife off to Dr. Doom for preservation in Latveria. Something Peter only very recently learned.
Everything always came down to Norman. He, not Peter's luck, was the cause of all his suffering. Norman was behind everything. And now he had gathered almost all of Peter's greatest threats for one final confrontation. But what happened here today was something Peter couldn't predict.
These events transpired shortly after the Skrull invasion. They had resurrected Norman from the grave. Not that they had to do much since the Oz formula made Norman functionally immortal. With him and his influence over Parker industries, formerly Oscorp, Norman was able to limit Shield's influence in the U.S. and thusly the world. The result was that after the invasion came the dark reign. After came H.A.M.M.E.R.
Hammer was a basically a U.S. only based Shield. Except it was controlled by Norman Osborn. The result of which should be obvious. Complete chaos.
But Peter and the other heroes had ousted Norman and toppled Hammer. Wasn't easy but it still happened. After that Oz went underground. And today he resurfaced after Otto's fake save the planet scheme was thwarted.
Norman, Otto, Martin, and Wilson were all in the room having fought Peter to his exhaustion. He quite literally couldn't move a muscle as Otto outfitted Peter with a golden Octobot. The process switched Peter's mind with Otto's who was promptly thrown into the R.A.F.T. prison. Now as you guys may already know Peter's friends from the DC universe, as well as those closest to him, were able to pick up on the switch immediately. Though through some manner of science Peter could only get his body back through the same Golden Octobot. A bot that Otto destroyed and only Otto could fix. So Felicia had a nice idea. What if they went through with one of Peter's old plans to turn Martin Li normal. What if they siphoned the demon from Martin and planted it in Otto. The result would be that Otto's personality would reverse. Otto, most likely, would willingly give up Peter's body. And the plan worked. Everybody had seen Peter house the Phoenix force and the Enigma force before. The heroes present figured Peter's body could handle the demon in Martin Li. They were correct except...
"Guys I just thought of something." Anti Venom aka Flash Thompson said with fear evident in his voice. "The demon didn't change hands when we switched Otto and Peter's minds. So what happens when something that's an absolute good gets thrown in reverse?"
Mr. Negative's powers created Anti Venom. It turned the vile Symbiote itself into it's reverse. Instead of feeding off its host Anti Venom healed it's host almost constantly. But as the villains Otto hired to stop the heroes from capturing him were about to learn. The reverse of someone like Peter was far worse than anything they could imagine. Pure Evil.
The result of Peter Parker's mind returning to his body while housing the negative demon was Pure Evil in the truest sense of the phrase. Previously Spider-Man didn't have any type of energy projection ability. Previously Martin Li had never experienced the power of a cosmic level force. The combination of these lack of experiences resulted in Peter attaining a new level of power. Some of you may know this but Mr. Negative's powers comes from both the light force and dark force (Marvel's equivalent to the Angelus and the Darkness or DC's white lantern ring and black lantern ring or just batteries themselves). This meant that now Peter had access to both. Now I doubt I need to spell out where I'm going with this but I will. The result of all these factors was that Peter was currently as powerful as he was when he housed the Phoenix force or the Enigma force. The only difference was that Peter had access to two cosmic dimensions at the same time. And then there's the fact that his Moral compass was currently thrown in reverse.
Superman was ineffective. Since as Mr. Negative's inheritor Peter could corrupt anyone that hadn't experienced his power before. There weren't many heroes who could compete with a cosmic force present. This meant that the few heroes that could touch Peter wouldn't affect him at all. And those heroes that could potentially inflict damage to him ran the risk of corruption. This created an infinite conundrum for sure. How were the heroes going to stop Peter if they couldn't fight him. More over they had just gotten him back and now he was there greatest threat. The answer may surprise you.
The person that stopped the negative Mr. Parker was Rio Morales. Though with her last name it seemed kind of appropriate that she and her son above any other could restore Peter to his correct moral compass. The result of which was that Peter still housed the negative demon within. However that is a story for another time.
So yeah guys August 1st was apparently Spider-Man day and I didn't post a thing. More importantly than that though it was the start of the holiest month of the year. My birth month (that's my arrogance talking ignore him) and I still had nothing ready. Now why was that? Because this month counts down to my personal favorite story to write Fallen and more importantly Reaver's vicious return. I thoroughly enjoy writing that character and mystery. I know some of you want it to be Peter but like Peter's been out of the game too long how could it be Peter? Or am I just trying to mislead you? Or is this very chapter right here a massive hint to what happened to Peter in Fallen? It's probably not but who knows but me and a select few co writers!
Additionally I plan to rewrite fallen as an original story on down the line and sell it as a one shot mystery book. Also I'll be posting some of my original work on Wattpad soon enough so look forward to that. The first one might be a cultivation story so those of you that recognize the name Soul Land might be interested in it. I got one more story to post today and after that lemons will come out the wood works though not long. Not my style guys. I'm out peace.