The Cat and The Spider Arc #5: A Lifetime Ago
"Hey, you okay?" Gwen called out to Y/n from the bathroom.
"Yeah, never better." Y/n was in the main room, putting on his costume, struggling to put on the gloves, "though, I still, uhh, still don't know how you put the costume on so fast."
"Like all things, practice makes perfect. Than and learning when to use your spider stick to help." Ghost-Spider leaped out the window before Y/n put on his mask and leaped out as well. "Bye Miles, bye Allison!"
"Bye." Allison and Miles were playing games on the bunk bed nonchalantly. Gwen webbed two building and slingshotted herself into the air, after rolling on a rooftop, she looked over at Spidey, who was going faster than her. Ghost snickered before using her web wings to soar above him.
"Show off!!" Y/n says as the two went out on patrol. Y/n and Gwen notice a speeding car while police drifted after them, "well that's not good."
"Let's get down there before they take a wrong turn." Gwen and Y/n soared down to the cars. Y/n landed on the front, while Gwen landed on the back.
"Alright guys, you guys didn't even try to take the diver exam, did you?" Y/n stated as they aimed a gun at Y/n. Webb made a web to full the gun away, Y/n webbed the drivers head to the wheel, "this way, this way. My left, not your left."
Ghost crawled to the two goons in the backseat, slamming their heads together, and webbing them up. Y/n and Gwen drifted the car to an open area, "now!"
The two quickly webbed the car all around, stopping all of its momentum. "Whew, another win for team Bug."
Y/n pulled out his phone, "oh, crap. Sorry, Ghost, I gotta take off!!"
"Alright, be safe!" Ghost spider shouted as the police cars finally caught up to her.
Cuts to Y/n in uniform as he entered Spidey's, as a tan man looked at him with unamusement, "you're late, again."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Antonio! There was a speeding car that the police were chasing down so I had to take the other way." Y/n explains as the two walk in for her restaurant.
"Alright, you don't have much time." Mr. Antonio stated.
"What do you mean, sir?" Y/n raised an eyebrow, passing by the unusually large amount of people.
"The Baxter Building, eight floor, orders four deep dish pizzas. A Harlem restaurant ordered seven, but hopefully we won't have to restart again just because someone doesn't know how to make Pizzas the first time." Mr. Antonio glared at his sister. He placed the pizzas on the counter, "so far I have gotten no money for the ones we did miss.
"Why didn't you just call in the other delivery drivers?" Y/n questioned.
"Cause, Parker! They either have Angel's Sin, they're dead, or they got deported, man." Mr. Antonio put four more pizzas on the counter, "look, man. You're the fastest delivery man I've ever had and you're my only hope. You have to make these in time, you have 40 minutes! Go!"
Y/n looked at the clock before making the bundled pizza boxes stick to his hand. "You can't be serious. Don't tell me..."
"A spider's gotta do what a spider's gotta do." Y/n rushed out of the restaurants back door before it cuts to Y/n swinging as Spidey with pizza's in hand. "Gotta go, gotta go!"
Felicia is seen skipping along the rooftops before hearing Y/n's famous yell. Her eyes started to Spidey in the distance, holding something. "What are you up to, Spider?"
She got a closer look and saw him holding Pizza, she shook before a large grin came onto her face, "ahahaha! How amusing. Go, Spider, go!"
Y/n tied the pizzas to his back so he could swing freely, stopping at the first place and placing the pizzas though the window. A man looked outside to see Y/n in civilian form, "pizzas?"
"Uh...yeah...but this is the fourth floor, how did you-?"
"Money please." Y/n put his hand out and was paid before he closed the window and leaped off the building. The man went to look for Y/n but he was gone.
Spidey lands at the Baxter building before heading into the janitor's closet. He soon comes out with the pizzas and normal outfit on. He goes to the receptionist and placed the pizzas on the counter. Y/n smiled bright, "Pizza Time!"
"Oh yes, thank you! The last guy didn't make it in time." the lady gave him the cash.
"Thank you for your service." Y/n says as he walks back into the closet, "Um; you don't mind right?"
"I didn't see anything." the woman just took a slice of pizza.
"And that's done. Better head back," Y/n says as he walked on the walls outside.
"HELP! MY PURSE!!" a man shouted as Y/n looked in the distance to see a woman robbing a man.
"Allow me." Webb shot out of Y/n's wrist and landed on the wall. The woman ran straight to her car but passed the wall, which the organic webs, alive and well, took the woman and trapped her to the wall.
"Whoa, that was like a trip mine." Y/n swung down and grabbed the purse.
"There's much for you to learn, Young Parker."
"Thank you so much, Spidey." the man says while Y/n handed the purse back.
"No problem. Hopefully you have a safe trip home." Y/n bowed before he swung away.
The moon is shown as it cuts to our protagonist coming out of Spidey's. He was holding two huge bags, "in the day, I stop crime, at night, I dump trash. So exciting..."
"Like I said, that suit does nothing for your ass, Pizza Boy." Black Cat comes out of the dark, making Y/n jolt in shock.
"You said thighs last time, and how long were you watching?!" Y/n blushed and grits his teeth.
"Using the suit to do delivery? I'm surprised the pizzas were okay." Felicia chuckled.
Y/n sighed and dumped the trash, "let me dump this and then head out. I'll get changed on the way."
And they did just that, swinging towards a another abandoned warehouse, though, a tower was connected. Why? Well, the two were about to find out. They latched onto the wall, "I'm not sensing any danger. No visions yet. I think we're good."
"Still, nobody inside?" Black Cat says as they walk inside the building. "Seems pretty suspicious."
The moonlight shined inside from the skylight as Spidey walked slowly, on guard, "yeah, usually there's like thousands of dwarfs trying to kill me."
Spidey and Cat rushed to the top of the tower, finding vault. "After you, Spider."
Y/n webbed the vault door before yanking it off, with some difficulty may I add. But once open, they saw their goal...however... "just one file? Well, this is it. And then, we can rest easy."
"..." Felicia went quiet. She slowly walked forward and grabbed it, "you shouldn't...see this."
"What?"
"Yeah, what are you talking about?" Y/n asked, weirdly confused and sensing a mood shift.
"I'll admit. I've been looking at the decrypted files...despite is making that deal. And I learned things... things that disturbed me and Yumiko." Cat admitted as Y/n started to get annoyed.
"Cat, the whole point of the deal was to stop this. To stop confusion. This is confusion!" Y/n raised his voice, "give me the file."
"What do you plan to do with all the files...all of mine..." Felicia held the file close to her.
"I was gonna give them to the police. It's the right thing to do..." Y/n calmly explained.
"But information on me is on the files! You can't just give that to them!" Felicia's worry grew, clinging onto it.
"There's information on Felicia, not on Cat. Just like there's information on Y/n, not Spider-Man." Y/n started to more annoyed.
"If we turn the files in, the police will learn about our families! Us and the people around us will endlessly interrogated and maybe even hunted. Like you, do you really think people aren't gonna be after you for the formula?" Felicia started to back up.
"There's no guarantee that will happen-"
"But you can't say that it won't happen!" Felicia shouted.
Y/n frowns and gritted his teeth, yelling, "it's the right thing to do, the public deserves to know! Didn't you want Hammerhead to be punished?! This is the best and legal way to do that! No strings or webs attached!"
Felicia backs up and holds the file, "this is the best way to keep everyone safe, including you... I'll find another way to expose Hammerhead."
"But it's not just about you, Cat!" Y/n shouted with rage, shaking his fists, "I want the people to know who killed my parents. I want Justice for them, and that file is the final piece I need!"
Y/n held his hand up, "give me the file, Felicia."
Felicia, not Black Cat, asked him in a sorrowful tone, "please, don't do this."
Y/n, not Spidey, took a fighting stance, "don't make me."
Y/n goes for the first strike with a quickly punch, Felicia weaves out of it and goes for a swipe across the face, which misses. Y/n webs her leg to the floor before he gets on his hands and preforms a donkey kick, sending Felicia backwards, and making her drop the file. Y/n went to web it closer but a bunch of daggers flew out at Y/n, who quickly saw it with his Spidey sense. He dodged all of them with ease before webbing one and flinging it back at Felicia. "This old trick again?"
Y/n rushed to her and props her onto his feet and hoists her into the sky. He then shot two weblines, slamming Felicia into the ground with lasting damage, making her spit some blood out."We really gonna do this, Felicia?"
"I was holding back, don't make me stop." Felicia sliced Y/n's cheek with her claws before sending Y/n back to the wall with a deadly kick. "This is for your own good."
"Everyone that told me that at FEAST, ended up dead on the street." Y/n webbed Felicia's legs and pulling them towards him. Y/n coats his fists with webs and performs a double-handed strike on the burglar. Though Felicia stumbled, she didn't get sent back, she elbowed Y/n, which sent a shockwave through his body. She then gave Y/n two horizontal kicks performed in quick succession at his head using the base of her feet, sending some blood in the mask to leak out. Y/n lifted the mask and spat out some blood, "Fine. Play it like that."
"Y/n! You need to calm down!" Madame Webb shouted.
Y/n's eyes glowed blue as he creates large hands with Webs in both hands and swings them at Cat, sending her flying. He then webs an overhead chandelier and pulls it down, Cat rolled out of the way. But Y/n kicked her into the fallen rubble, "GAH-!"
Y/n then grabbed her leg and pulled her towards him, he lifted his web coated fist and held the attack in the air. He then froze, he looked at Felicia's eyes...but she didn't try to use her powers. The eyes were full of fear, unsure of Y/n's next move, "what... am I doing..."
Felicia heard Y/n's thoughts again, as Y/n looked at his hands, "no... what is Spider-Man doing. Breaking into these buildings... all of this..."
Y/n held his head down as he let Felicia go. He saw the bloody mask in the distance, he walked towards it, wiping the blood off before heading to the tower window. Felicia glared, "I DON'T GET YOU! I REALLY DON'T GET YOU! YOU SWITCH YOUR DAMN MIND SO MUCH THAT I NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING UNDER THAT STUPID MASK!"
Y/n pauses, as Spidey looks back okay at her, "the difference between us isn't so great, but the choices they make is what separates us. I wish...we could've been friends...I know sometimes there's a light at the end of the tunnel, but I made the mistake of choosing to believe in it."
Y/n lifts his arm, "keep the file. I'm satisfied with what I do know. I'll let Yumiko know to give you all the files, and then...we're through."
Felicia holds the file in her hand, gripping to slightly with her face wincing, filled with regret, "was I really doing it for them... or myself...?"
Y/n leaps out of the tower, ready to swing in the air, but he notices the bat droppings. The spider sense went off but he can't do anything, but he is immediately impaled by massive claws, "GAH-!!! AHHHH!!!!"
"It worked! He caught him!" many of the men surrounded the tower.
"It was an ambush!!" Madame Webb shouted in Y/n's head as a screech follows Y/n is dropped on the ground, bleeding.
He looks up as the huge figure dropped down from the sky, "My god, Blackwing?!"
"This is what your partners had done to my son." Silvermane appeared out in the open as Y/n tried to web him, but was picked up by Blackwing by the head and slammed into the ground repeatedly. Once Y/n wasn't moving, he stopped.
"SPIDER!" Felicia made it to the window, but was quickly tased by the taser guns from all the men ambushing her for all sides. The electric current sent waves upon waves of attacks at Felicia, and only after the voltage was max, did she pass out.
Silvermane patted his son's leg, "good word, Son. Go ahead and bring them home."
Blackwing roars and picks up Y/n and Felicia before Webb, in spider form, trailed onto Silvermane's back. She hid herself in Silvermane's coat, as Silvermane chuckled, "how's the suit looking?"
"The suit is fully operational and ready for you when you arrive."
"Excellent..." Silvermane smirked.
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A younger Y/n is seen standing over his parents grave, "please...give me a sign..."
Peter and MJ looked at Y/n in the distance as Norman patted him on the back before leaving. Y/n teared up, "there's so much going on...I just... need a sign...what am I supposed to do...?"
"Meow." a black cat appeared at the grave, before nuzzling against Y/n's leg.
"A cat?" Y/n asked before it faded to black and Y/n snapped out of his dream. Y/n opened his eyes to find himself in a small room with tied to a chair, as Silvermane looks at him.
"Hey, kid. You've impressed me." Silvermane sits in front of Y/n, speaking in a eerily calm voice, "I mean, Black Cat? I knew she'd be a problem, but you..." Y/n had his handcuffs in some advanced locks. "I was hoping your old pal, Original, would tell you to stay out of this."
"Where are we..." Y/n muttered, trying to escape.
"Well, behind the scenes. Our most secured facility, which we were forced to move to after you two kept raiding my hideouts." Silvermane cheerfully stated.
"You're welcome." Felicia says as Silvermane punched her in the face with some brass knuckles, leaving her with a bruise on the right side of her face.
"Now, onto the next thing." He tried to takes Y/n's mask off, but Y/n uses his Spidey stick to keep it on, "wow, well, I knew spider's stick but wow... that's something else....here, tell you what."
Silvermane leaned into Y/n's face, as Y/n still struggled to escape. "I'm going to get that mask off you two, and make an example out of you two, in front of all of NYC. Unless...how about you tell me where those files are? Hm?"
"Forget it!" Felicia shouted and Silvermane backed up a bit.
"Still. Hero and criminal working together." Silvermane looked at Felicia, gripping her face, "how much do you care for the boy over there?"
"I don't give a shit, I haven't known him long enough for me to even think about giving one." Felicia lied.
Silvermane tested her bluff, "that so? Well, your mother died from Sinner's Death right? If only she lasted a little longer, she would've seen Angel's Sin."
And suddenly, a wave of guilt started to wash over Y/n's head, he stopped struggling to escape. Silvermane continued, "you latch onto everyone and use them to get ahead in life. Just like Spidey."
Felicia glared, with her voice breaking a little, "that's not true!"
"Isn't it!" Silvermane shouted, looking at Y/n. "We hired her to find out the L/n Family's secret to make the super soldier serum, which hurts you somehow."
"What...?" Y/n looked at Felicia held her head down.
"That was only at first! But then-!"
Felicia tried to defend herself. But Y/n was already tackling many emotions, and now betrayal was on the list.
"That's right, you didn't agree with using Angel's sin to the mix and planned her vengeance too early against the Maggia, stabbing my son with the cure and stole other vials." Silvermane dropped Felicia's face and walked back over to Y/n, "but that backfired... kid. Come work for me. People like us, we're not used for the normal life. The masses are only needed to push the few special ones up. With me, you could use your powers however you wanted."
Y/n was silent, looking up at Silvermane, "those that use power irresponsibility, don't deserve to have it. I have a duty and a responsibility to this city."
Silvermane sighed, walking to the entrance and snapping his fingers. Armored men in Crypto armor started to walk in, "old tech used for better purposes. Make him suffer till she tells us about that files."
"Payback for breaking my arm." one of the men said as he slammed the baton in Y/n's face, causing parts of hit body to turn cold before another person hit them to break the body down. And again, and again, it reposted.
"Gaaah!" Y/n screamed in pain as how body started to fling left and right in the chair before he was shocked in the face with gloves.
"Stop!! Please!!!!" Felicia pleaded as the men didn't stop. Y/n started to bleed badly as his powers started to go crazy from fear.
"Y/n, hang on a bit longer. I am breaking Felicia out of the handcuffs now!" Webb crawled onto the handcuffs and made a webline between them before pulling, breaking them in half.
"Huh?" Felicia felt freedom and looked at the dissolving Spider made of webs. Felicia quickly punched the foes in the face before taking the batons and hitting them in the stomach with it hard, causing the normal men to pass out. "Y/n! Oh my god. I'm sorry,"
Y/n dropped to the floor after the locks came off, with Felicia holding him up, "they were gonna kill you."
"That's what bad guys do." Y/n stated as he let Felicia go and stood up straight, wrapping himself with his webs to they heal him.
"Look, I'm sorry for not telling you everything. I..." Felicia tried to say but Y/n limps on ahead.
"If it was up to herself or others, you'd pick yourself. At least, that's what I believe now." Y/n looked back at the saddened cat, "let's go prove me wrong."
"Right!" Felicia says as the two enters the next room, only to see Silvermane in some kind of mecha suit, "the hell?"
"New toy?" Y/n mocked as the scientists fled the labs, placing the area on lockdown."
"The solution of a long term problem. I feel younger already." Silvermane walked with the white armor emphasizing every step.
"So what's the plan, Gun and Roses?" Felicia also mocked as she got in a fighting stance.
"Getting the Maggia back in business takes long term, and this is it. People don't respect the Maggia anymore, with all these freaks showing up due to Angel's sin, the mob will be the least thing on their mind." Silvermane raised his palm, "but after I break you two in half..." Silvermane activated a jet pack and started hovering, "the glory days will be coming reaaaal soon."
Silvermane blasted a plasma ray at the two, who quickly rolled out of the way. Y/n webbed the a barrel and threw it at Silvermane's head as the man stumbled back. Silvermane went for a hard punch, quickly recovering. Y/n gave a hard punch to the center of the robot before using the arms to swing behind it and plunged his feet to the machine's back. Felicia shot out a stun gun, at Silvermane which shocked him, long enough so she could get some good kicks to the face, the one area not protected. Silvermane tried to go for an attack but Y/n swung to the ceiling and pulled Silvermane up, before Silvermane activated the jet pack, brining the webs. "Whoa, gotta make sure I don't become charred from that."
Silvermane shot some more plasma rays at Y/n, which forced him to run away on the ceiling. Meanwhile, Cat used her grappling hook to latch onto her wall and throw her daggers at the jet pack switch. "You little-!"
"Got him!" she managed to hit the switch as Silvermane came falling down, however he lifted his foot and slammed it down, sending shockwaves of plasma down. So unexpected, it hit Felicia and sent her towards the wall. Y/n picked up a desk with his webs before throwing it at Silvermane's head, stunning him.Y/n gave a hard punch to the center of the robot before using the arms to swing behind it and plunged his feet to the machine's back. Silvermane got up quicker this time and sent out a plasma laser from his gauntlet, "get a load of this!"
"Yikes, yikes, yikes!" Felicia used to her grappling hook to avoid it as she was forced to run on all fours and use her claws to escape. Y/n swung around but heard Silvermane's exhaust start to get louder as he quickly appeared at Y/n's face, before slamming him into the ground, "GAH!"
Silvermane then kicked Y/n through a wall, and dashed after him. Felicia looked at the two, "where are you going?!" using the grappling hook, she latched onto Silvermane's jet pack as he took off.
Y/n rolled across the inside a fire station, before using his stick powers to come to a stop, quickly standing up and avoiding the plasma laser Silvermane was dragging across the ground to reach him. Felicia gave Silvermane a backflip kick in the air before following up with a frontflip axe kick to the face, causing the Goliath to go down on one knee, "how you like 'em apples!"
"Save that mocking for later, he's not done." Y/n stated as the two regrouped.
"You've got guts, comin' after the the new head's the Maggia!" Silvermane started shooting the plasma guns from his back, causing the ceiling to start to fall.
"I bet we can still short out his new gear." Felicia suggested as she flicked her glove, electric brass knuckles were attached. She punched him, stunning him a bit as Y/n webbed all around. Y/n then created large hands with Webs in both his hands and swung them to deal massive damage.
Y/n noticed the hose and used the webs to turn it on, "Cat! Use the electric current!"
"Huh?" Felicia noticed the plan and smirked, removing one of the brass knuckles, "always the creative one, Spider~"
She threw the brass knuckles in Silvermane's suit before Felicia gave Silvermane a backflip kick in the air before following up with a frontflip axe kick to the face, causing the Goliath to go down on one knee again. Y/n then pulled back the switch to the hose and sprayed a large and pressured blast of water. Sending the current all over the body with the water, Silvermane yelled in a deadly scream, "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
"Nice work!" Felicia shouted with a smile, but Y/n didn't answer and webbed the water up so he could walk to the fallen robot.
"Now, tell me what you know about the L/n scientists!" Y/n demanded as he effortlessly grabbed the robot, he was tired, but not weak. Oh no, he could care less about damage right now.
"Oh yeah, those bums? When I was working under Hammerhead, he ordered the L/n's capture or death." Silvermane smirked before Y/n tore off an metal arm.
"Liar! You'd never worked under him a day in your life." Y/n growled.
"Hehehe, guess I can't lie to you, 'Spider'. You seem have a knack for the civilian life. It was me, those two held onto their stupid morals, and it costed them their life." Silvermane laughed, "though, at the end of the day. It was worth it. Their last expressions, the tears...it was something-."
"You're the coward that took the lives of M/n L/n and F/n L/n." Y/n broke off a chunk of the robot as his mask's started to glow blue again.
"Come on, Spider, that was a lifetime ago." Silvermane started to get worried.
Y/n's eyes shine more, Cassandra's voice rings out in his head, "Y/n! You must get a hold of yourself!"
"That was my lifetime!" Y/n webbed up the robot and started to break the ground beneath him with his steps. "You took them without regret or mercy and in cold blood!"
"What's it to you anyway!?" Silvermane shouted as Y/n webbed his face and kicked it, making several teeth fly out and his jaw dislocated. Y/n grabbed the jaw and fixed it back in.
"It means everything to me!!! I am the son of the two scientists you murdered!!!" Y/n took off the mask and placed it on the ground, his eyes were literally glowing blue with a mist like aura coming out of the eyes as well. "I am Y/n L/n!"
"What?! There's no record of having a son! I get it...! Those bastards wiped your file so we couldn't end the bloodline-" Silvermane was interrupted by Y/n plunging his fist to the side of Silvermane's face, knocking the man down. Y/n webbed the face back up before slamming his knee on it. Silvermane went for a punch before Y/n caught it and shattered both his arms. "AGAAAH! MY ARMS! YOU CRAZY BASTARD!"
"Funny words coming from a mob boss." Y/n stated, Y/n webbed a vial of Angel's Sun.
"Y/n, what are you doing!?" Felicia asked loudly and quickly. Starting to slowly approach him.
"Do it! You won't!" Silvermane shouted as Y/n tilted up Silvermane's head.
"Do I look like Ghost-Spider to you?" Y/n darkly demanded as Silvermane grew worried.
"Y/N! STOP!" Felicia shouted as Y/n raised the cure.
"DON'T DO THIS!" Cassandra shouted.
Y/n plunged the cure into Silvermane's neck, as blood started to pour out. Silvermane raised his hand to his neck before Y/n pushed it further in. The mob boss went limp and lifeless, Cassandra was speechless, but a gasp was heard, "oh...oh no..."
Felicia looked at Y/n, not Spider-Man, who was starting to calm down. "Y/n...what...have you done..."
"I..." Y/n had crossed the line. He had killed his villain. His hands started to shake as he saw the blood on his hands. Y/n closed his eyes and clenched his fists.
But then, the machine started to make noise, and a flash rang out. Silvermane gasped as his blood coated the machine, bringing him back to life, "Wha?"
"The cure worked!?"
"What have you done?" Silvermane asked as Silvermane's body had disappeared. He was fully a cyborg, as the ripped parts started to fix themselves. Silvermane held his head as he started to panic, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!? YOU BASTARDS! YOU TURNED ME INTO A FREAK OF NATURE!!"
"You got what you wanted. You'll never grow old now..." Felicia darkly chuckled, "I'd be grateful it didn't kill you."
"I'LL KILL YOU!!!!" Silvermane shouted and went to grab them. However, from the station ceiling, Blackwing came soaring in, latching his claws into Silvermane and rising again. "NO! LET ME GO! JOSEPH! LET ME GOOOO!!!"
Soon, the two were gone. Felicia looked around, "the whole building's going down. We gotta get out of here!"
Y/n was still in a daze as Felicia tackled him out of the way, picking up and bringing him to the rooftop. "Hey! Snap out of it!"
"I can't believe I tried to kill him." Y/n muttered to himself.
Felicia slapped him across the cheek; bringing him back to his senses, "you killed him, okay? But he came back to life, you were given a second chance to see your flaws. This is it."
"..." Y/n webbed away, ignoring Cat's pleas to stop. Cuts to Y/n's dorm room, Miles is sitting on his bed.
"Yeah, I'll be there. Count on DJ Miles." Miles said before Y/n entered the room, and after seeing the messed up state Y/n's suit was in, he immediately hung up the phone, pulling Y/n in. "Hey, hey! Take it easy. You're safe."
"Thanks...Miles..." Y/n says as he closed the window, and took off the suit.
"What's wrong? Where'd you go?" Miles asked but Y/n quietly walked to the bathroom and closed it, "Y/n? You okay?"
Y/n closed his eyes, "Sorry Peter, I'm not ready for this after all."
Y/n puts the suit in the hidden compartment Miles made, and soon came out. Y/n tiredly smiled at Miles, "yeah...never better..."
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