It was another day at Midtown High. Things started to revert back to since the attack at homecoming for the most part. Peter knew no one was after him, but was uneasy hearing every student bashing on Spider-man and feeding into Jameson's rhetoric of how Spider-man really is a villain and only cares about himself. He tuned them out as best as he could, it helps that Flash was loudly defending Spider-man. He got to class and sat with his friends, they were all focused on reading over their notes, and cramming every little information they can.

"My god!" exclaimed Victor, "Why is this so hard!? I should be able to understand what Dr. Cooper is saying!"

"That's it, he's an alien." said Dick. "It is the only plausible explanation." Kori glares at Dick, "Not that an alien is a bad thing." Garfield looks over at Peter and noticed he was just gazing out the window.

"How are you not stressing out over the exam!?"

"Huh what?" said Peter, "What exam?" Kori turns Peter's head towards the board and it read pop exam today.

"Pop exam? I've heard of a pop quiz but...why?" said the confused Peter.

"That's because I can." said Dr. Cooper as he entered the room. Peter was taken aback by this. Did he know what he was saying? If so what else has he been hearing, and is this even legal?

"Oh my apologies I've been told that I tend to speak as if I know what's going on. I just assumed someone was asking why a pop exam today. Well I figured what better way to see everyone's progress then an exam. Amadeus raises his hand.

"Uh wouldn't this be called a pop quiz instead?"

"Ah yes well, a quiz doesn't have as much weight as an exam. Well in anycase enough jibber jabber let's get this exam started." Everyone starts to panic, Dr. Cooper just stands there what seems like a eternity. "Oh come on now, it was all a joke." He laughs awkwardly, and so did the rest of the class, still confused on whether or not he was still joking. "My roommate always said I needed to develop a funny bone." Everyone in the class just stared at him dumbfounded. "This generation can't take a joke now. I weep for the future. Let's start class for real, everyone turn to page 616." Class begins, Peter wasn't paying a single attention to class. He couldn't stay focus and stared out the window. Everyone else was doing their best to keep up with Dr. Cooper, cept for Rachel. She figured something was bothering him. Before they knew it, the bell rang and class was over. Peter immediately packs up and was the first to leave, Rachel chases after him and bumps his shoulder.

"Hey Peter, everything okay?"

"Uh yeah, everything's peachy." He said with a slight hint of nervousness. "I mean I wasn't too thrilled with the fake scare from Dr. Cooper, otherwise I'm great." Rachel just stares at him, making Peter sweat a little bit. "Okay maybe I'm not as great as I'm normally am. These past few weeks have been rough."

"It's about Harry isn't it?" said Rachel. Peter was a little hesitant to respond, but after all he had been through with her and the Titans he felt he can be less guarded as usual.

"Not just Harry. It's also Eddie. What happened to both of them is my fault. I pushed Eddie to insanity, and Harry, I just failed him. Maybe Jonah is right, I'm more of a menace than helpful."

"Peter. You know as well as anyone else here that is not true. What happened to both Harry and Eddie, there's nothing you could have done. There's nothing anyone could have done."

"I could've done something, anything. Instead I just pushed them to insanity."

"Pete." That was all she could say to him as he continues to walk to his next class. She felt useless to him. She trained herself to contain her emotions day in and day out, but she still couldn't help feel sad and upset. She goes to the bathroom to calm herself down and washed her face. She looked up at the mirror and saw Mephisto in the reflection.

"What do you want?" she asked

"You really need to work on your manners." said Mephisto, "I always told your father he should have done a better job raising you, but he was too short-sighted."

"Is that all you want? To mock me?"

"A little bit. But I'm mostly here to check on your dear Peter. Tell me how was the Homecoming dance? I heard it really blew up." Rachel eyes glowed black, and was about to attack Mephisto. "Now, now no need to attack a mirror. I mean even if I were in person it's not like you could hurt me." The bathroom door opens and in walks Mary Jane.

"There you are Rachel!" said Mary Jane. Rachel powered herself down and turned to Mary Jane. "I didn't really introduce myself. I'm Mary Jane, One of Peter's best friends."

"Oh uh I'm Rachel. I met Peter over the summer at Jump city." The two of the shook hands, with Mary Jane shaking harder then Rachel.

"I was wondering, what is Peter to you?" Rachel wasn't expect that question. Then again she wasn't expecting to talk Mary Jane now before her next class started. Her faced blushed just a bit.

"Um...Uh...well...he is a dear friend." Mary Jane caught her blushing and stumbling her words, and gave a sly smile.

"I see, well then would you and your friends help cheer him up? It seems like he could use a break."

"Sure, I'm sure my friends would love to help out."

"Sounds good. We'll do it at your place, the giant tower in the city."

"Sounds good...wait..." Rachel was caught off guard. How did MJ know about the Titans and who they were? Did Peter tell her? And when would he have told her?

"Before you ask, I was able to piece everything together. I mean Peter comes back with new friends after spending the summer at Jump city. Teen Titans leave to come here and at the same time five new students join Peter, and your reaction was all I needed." She said with a smile, "Don't worry I can keep a secret." Before Rachel could respond the school bang rang again. "Well we better get going, we're late." Mary Jane runs out and quickly turns back, "See you later tonight!" She runs out again and Rachel leaves the bathroom and hurried to her next class. She didn't have much time to process what had happened, and had to think of a way to explain to her friends about what just happened.

-Later that night-

The Titans were preparing a surprise party for Peter and also to welcome Mary Jane to the Titans Tower. Raven had to explain to everyone how Mary Jane was able to figure everything out, and everyone gave Peter a hard time over how easily his identity was figured out. Mary Jane was with Peter to give the Titans time to prepare.

"I'm so excited for this surprise party." said Starfire.

"Yeah it's nice to relax every now and then." said Nightwing. "Can't remember the last time we all got to rest."

"Yeah yo, I'm ready to party!" said Beast-boy.

"I'll get Waffles and Burgers!" said Cyborg.

"I'll get the jar of mustard!" said Starfire.

"I'll get out of here." said Raven. She leaves the living room and was at the balcony of the Titan's Tower, looking at the bright lights of New York City. She couldn't help but reminisce about her time here. She had never been more free ever since she'd be saved from her destiny. And yet there was something still bothering her.

"You're thinking about Pete aren't you?" asked Beast-Boy. Raven was going to respond with a sarcastic remark, but she noticed the serious tone in Beast-Boy's voice, which took her by surprise.

"No I'm not." she said flatly.

"Raven get real with yourself. If you're not going to try to put yourself out there, you're going to miss out."

"Are you trying to sound insightful?"

"That's not the point here Raven. Tonight is the perfect opportunity to get closer with Peter."

"I don't like him like that." said Raven with a slight blush.

"Yes you do. Everyone here knows you do. Heck Mary Jane who's been back for less than a week already knows. Why hide it?"

"It's just...last time I tried, he went with someone else." Beast-boy racked his brain at what she meant by that. And then he recalled the homecoming dance.

"Oh right. There has to be an explanation to that. And besides one dance doesn't mean anything. After all it's not like they admitted they are dating."

"I know you're right. Wait you're right..." Beast-boy was upset at that comment, but the situation didn't call for him to berate her. He'll have time later to do so.

"Of course I'm right, it's me after all. You gotta shoot your shots Rae." The two of them see both Peter and Mary Jane coming in and they quickly rushed inside. Everyone welcomed Mary Jane and gave her a quick tour. Beast-boy quickly pulls Peter and Raven aside and left the two of them by themselves.

"You'll thank for this later." Beast-boy quickly runs away. Peter was confused by this, while Raven was annoyed and planned on killing him later.

"Sooo I think we should catch up with everyone." Peter begins to walk, but Raven pulls at his arm.

"Can we just talk, just the two of us?" Peter was unsure where this was leading, but he got the sense that Raven really had something to say to him.

"Sure what's up?" Raven was never good at chit chat, and panicked over what to say to him.

"Soooo you and Mary Jane. She seems cool to be around." said Raven.

"Yeah she's the best." said Peter. "Always has been ever since we met." Raven sighed a little and had a smile that was melancholy.

"I see, I can see why you asked her to the dance."

"Wait what? No I didn't." Raven was both surprised and relieved by this revelation.

"You didn't?"

"No Aunt May set it all up. I didn't want to go to begin with. But it's hard to say no to Aunt May."

"So does that mean you and Mary Jane aren't?"

"What!? Of course not!? I mean she's a very close friend, but I don't see her like that." Raven felt relieved and wanted to move forward. However the rest of the Titans and Mary Jane came back. "Let's join everyone else." Both Peter and Raven quickly gets back back inside and the all together celebrated. Everyone was having a great time. For once Peter felt at ease despite everything that was going on in his life. Mary Jane wanted to take a quick look out the window and saw something peculiar.

"Uh guys?" said Mary Jane, "There's something heading this way." She saw missiles headed towards the tower. Spider-man's spider-sense went off and fired a web-line at Mary Jane to get her away from the window. There was a huge explosion, Raven created a barrier as quickly as she could, however the explosion was too much and knocked everyone back.

"Why didn't our security system go off?" asked Cyborg.

"It doesn't matter right now, we'll figure it out later." said Nightwing with intensity.

"Well why not?"asked Beast-boy.

"Because look." said Starfire as her eyes glowed. Beast-boy looks at what everyone was looking at and there stood Blackfire, Deathstroke, Rhino, Sandman, and Trident.

"Of course you would be behind this, Slade..." said Nightwing.

"Nightwing is it? The only thing that hasn't changed is your obsession with me. Not everything is about me." He pulls out his bo staff and leaps up and attacks Nightwing from above, Nightwing uses his escrima sticks to block his attack. The only things between the two were their weapons and the static electricity from the escrima sticks.

"Those two need to get a room." joked Blackfire. She gets tackled by her younger sister Starfire. Starfire was on top of her and starts to punch her over and over again.

"Why have you come back to Earth sister?" asked Starfire, Blackfire catches both of her fists.

"Why do you want to know? Are you upset that I didn't call you immediately?" She throws Starfire off of her and gets back up and fires her own starbolts at her. Cyborg fires his sonic cannon at Blackfire, and just as it hits Blackfire, Trident throws his Trident at Cyborg's cannon arm.

"It's not a smart move to throw your only weapon away like that." said Cyborg as he snaps the trident into two. He runs towards Trident and punches him in the face, Trident regains his composure and creates clones of himself and overwhelms Cyborg. Beast-boy turns into a rhino to combat Rhino, and both charged at each other head on. Rhino overpowers him and throws him against the wall. Raven took on Sandman, and used her magic and blew Sandman apart. He quickly reformed and turned his fists into pair of maces and hammers at Raven as she creates a barrier and protected herself.

Spider-man was slowly getting back up Deathstroke punches out Nightwing and sees Spider-man wide open. Deathstroke was all out of ammo, and instead pulls out his sword and charges at him. Mary Jane sees Deathstroke going for Spider-man, and he was too distracted to do anything about it.

"SPIDER-MAN!" She shouts out to him. He didn't hear her. "PETER!" still no reaction. She had to do something to save her best friend. Peter was too distracted until a sound of the blade going through a body got him back on track. He turns around and sees Deathstroke's blade through the heart of Mary Jane. Deathstroke pulls out his sword and Mary Jane collapses into his arm. There he was cradling both his aunt and one of his best friends.

"Nothing personal Spider-man, it's just business. " said Deathstroke as he sheathed his blade, "By the way Kingpin sends his regards."

"Business?" whispered Spider-man. "Is this all it is to you, Business?" Spider-man gently places Mary Jane down and fires a web line at Deathstroke's mask and yanks it off. Deathstroke was prepared to counter, but he didn't expect Spider-man to come over so fast. Spider-man punches him in the face repeatedly, not giving him time to think. Deathstroke did not anticipate this. Last time they fought, his punches never were this fast and never hurt this much. He then realized his mistake, he is now fighting a Spider-man who is no longer holding back. Spider-man webs his legs and throws him across, slamming him on the ground multiple times. This was it, there was no around to step in to stop him and he had to do something. He tried to pull out his smoke bomb and make his escape. Spider-man put a stop to it by stomping on his hand, breaking it. Spider-man then breaks Deathstroke's legs, making him unable to run. He then pummelled his face over and over again.

"You expect me to beg for mercy?" Deathstroke looked into the eyes of Spider-man. He no longer had the same eyes of someone saving the day.

"Mercy?" Said Spider-man. "You don't deserve mercy." Spider-man dragged Deathstroke to the fire. The fire was getting bigger and was getting closer to Deathstroke. "You deserve to be punished." He tosses Deathstroke by the fire, webs him up and let fate decide whether or not Deathstroke gets burned alive. As he watched the fire slowly surround Deathstroke, the man in the red approached him.

"Such brutality. Didn't think you had it in you." Said the man in the red.

"Leave now...and tell Kingpin I'm coming after him." Said Spider-man.

"Now, now, no need to be hostile towards someone who can help you."

"Help? Help with what?" He had the bait set, all he had to do was make it look enticing.

"What if I can make everything go away. Bring back your friend, save both Harry and Eddie from their fate. Correct every mistake you ever made in your life."

"Don't you dare joke about that." Roared Spider-man as grabbed hold of his collar.

"You don't seem to know who I am do you?" He pulls down his sunglasses and there was literal fire in them. "I've been called many things since the dawn of man, but I'm most commonly known as Mephisto. You know the other Demon lord you didn't beat. I can do all I just said, all I need is one thing from you."

"That would be what?"

"Allow me to change one thing in the past, and I can take all of your suffering away." Raven finally came after fighting off Sandman, and saw Mephisto and knew what he was up to.

"Don't do it Peter. I know you lost too much. More than anyone should have to. But don't make that deal. Mephisto has his ulterior motive and he is only using you. He will only make things worse."

"You heard her." Said Mephisto, "You suffered way more than anyone should have to, you deserve a break. Let me give you that break." Peter thought about what both sides have said. He then observed all the deaths and destruction around him and one thought ran through his mind, it was all his fault.

"I'm sorry." He looks at Raven, and shakes Mephisto's hand as Mephisto smiles. A bright white light slowly engulfs everyone, and soon the whole universe was engulfed by the light.

-10 hours later-

Raven wakes up in a room that she does not recognize. She looks around and sees photos of herself smiling, crying, laughing, and pouting with people she either doesn't or barely recognizes. She finds a photo of herself with her mother still alive. She was surprised by this and runs out her room and finds her mom in the kitchen.

"Morning Raven, how'd you sleep?" Raven doesn't say a single word and tears up and hugs her tightly. "It's only been ten hours dear." she joked. Raven hears the News Report and hears J. Jonah Jameson actually being happy for a change.

"Good Morning everyone, J. Jonah Jameson reporting live. Disasters averted, Super villains defeated, and Lives were saved and it was all thanks to one person. Spider-man!" If Raven had something in her mouth she would've spit that right out. It was one thing to see him happy, but saying something nice about Spider-man was something she never thought would ever happen. "We at the Daily Bugle would like to say Thank You Spider-man, the greatest hero in the world."