N I N E T E E N
MJ DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. HER MIND HAD SO MANY QUESTIONS THAT WERE EAGER TO BE ANSWERED.
"What do you mean by Spider-Man?" She asked.
"There's no way Spider-Man can do that! Wasn't he suppose to be a hero or something like that?" Mj continued to ask.
"He was...but after a tragedy...darkness consumed him. He was impossible to be stopped...I tried to reasoned with him, but nothing worked. His mind was filled with anger and hatred. He was a lost cause" Lillian sadly explained.
"What happened next?" Mj asked but she had a bad feeling of what Lillian might reply.
"I still tried. No matter how many times he kept pushing me away, I always tried to wake him up from the hell he was bringing. But, I was powerless. I wasn't like my dad. I wasn't a superhero or had an armor like him. I was...a normal teenager. As I continued to fail from reaching him, he begun to do worst things. He did many cruel things in my world, everyone was living in fear. They were all afraid of him. I couldn't just watch and let him destroy what he swore to protect, so I took my dad's suit and tried to save many people as I could from the danger he was causing." Lillian said.
"How...how many people died?" Mj asked.
"A lot. I was afraid that if I counted them...I might lose my mind from fear. But wearing my dad's suit didn't really do anything. So I had to wesr the suit that my dad was supposed to give my mom from their anniversary. It was a battle that has no end. For me, it felt like it will be done if one of us dies...but I couldn't bare to kill him. If I did, I wouldn't be so different from him" Lillian continued to explain.
"Weren't there any other heroes?! I mean other than them, where were the military and all?" Mj asked. And Lillian glared the floor.
"Hiding. After seeing how Spider-Man can do many nasty things, they decided to be invisible. They never even tried to stop him once. They're afraid to die too. But I couldn't help but to hate them. Many people were dying and yet they stayed hidden because they fear death. I too, fear death, but I chose to fight if that means, I could save many peoples' lives."
"And for other heroes...I didn't know. I never had a time where I could look for one. Leaving Queens...for me it felt like I was leaving my people to die..so I just stayed there, trying my best to stop him" Lillian continued.
"But why? Why would he do such things?!" Mj questioned her.
"You know how Spider-Man here is working with Tony Stark right? So he was in my world. Spider-Man was called the future Iron-Man...He looked up to him. And when he died..Spider-Man was in shock. He couldn't believe that someone who became a father-like to him died. He shut himself aways from us...from me. I thought he was grieving like me...but what I did not know was his mind was already set to something terrible. To kill any heroes that exist." Lillian explained.
"But...you grieved too right? You even lost not only your dad but also your mom. You didn't turn into some...villian.." Mj said.
"I had to admit, I was close to become someone I am not now. But, my parents taught me better. They lighten my path again." Lillian said with a small smile.
"I wanted to be Spider-Man's light. The one who would make him realize. I thought I could really pull him off from the darkness since we both know how it feels like to lose someone.." Lillian said.
"For how long did you have to carry such work?" Mj asked.
"Three years? At least as far as I remember" Lillian answered and Mj was shocked to hear her answer.
"Three?! But that means...you were only fourteen when it happened!" Mj said in shock and Lillian sadly nodded.
(Ok so in this story, all of them are now seventeen. I made them age a little bit in my story).
"You were so young! I mean, even now you are young! You've been fighting with Spider-Man at the age of fourteen?!" Mj questioned.
"Yes, I am. But I had no choice. No one was capable of fighting except for me..." Lillian answered.
"But you said you were using your dad's suite...when did you have your powers then?" Mj asked and Lillian looked down.
"Did...something happened again?" Mj asked and Lillian slowly nodded.
"My powers...they didn't appear to me magically. I created them. It was the only way for me to avenge someone's death" Lillian answered.
"Who was it?" Mj asked.
"You see, I wasn't the only who tried to convinced Spider-Man that what he was doing was wrong. There was another person who believed that he was good. He was Spider-Man's best friend. And mine too" Lillian said as tears started to slide through her cheeks.
"He was so sure that if he talked to him...maybe he would re-think of his actions, that he would change...but he didn't. Instead, he killed him. Right in front of me" Lillian said and sobbed.
"He didn't even think twice before killing him. I mean, killing your own best friend? Till this day, I still feel that I am guilty for his death. I was there and yet I couldn't do anything..." Lillian continued.
"Who..who is this best friend?" Mj asked and Lillian painfully looked at her.
"It was Ned" Lillian answer and Mj's eyes widened.
"N-Ned?" Mj shakingly asked and Lillian nodded.
"B-But Ned's Peter's best friend! How di-" Mj stopped herself and thought of Lillian's words before.
'He was Spider-Man's best friend. And mine too.'
"Parker is Spider-Man?!"
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