"What will you do on vacation?"
At the table where Peter and the girls were, Gwen asked.
It was already December and at the end of the month they will go on vacation for 2 weeks.
"I don't know, I think I'll just stay home," Mary Jane said.
Her mother has a good job and she herself earns quite a bit in her current voice acting job, so they could go on vacation if they wanted, but they hadn't discussed it yet.
"Mom has events around this time and I usually go with her," Felicia said.
Because of her mother's job, she's busy a lot around this time, and she hasn't asked him which city he'll be working in that day.
"I don't know," said Peter.
Thinking about Gwen's question, Peter suddenly thought it was a good idea to travel for more vacations.
'I'll discuss it with May,' Peter thought.
"And you?" MJ asked.
"We were planning to visit my grandmother this year, but Dad is suddenly very busy, so I decided to stay and keep him company," Gwen replied.
Listening to Gwen, the girls understood what she was saying.
A few months ago, wars between gangs and police began.
Suddenly, gangs began killing or injuring various police officers, and the police in turn responded forcefully.
No one knows what caused this, but the consequences became evident as the crime rate across the country dropped dramatically.
It all started in New York City, spread to the entire state, and then covered the entire country.
Shortly after that, politicians across the country began to come out and criticize the poor response of the police and proposed tougher laws against these gangs and restrictions on the police.
These restrictions against the police arose because evidence of these officers' crimes and their connections to criminal gangs was uploaded to the internet.
Of course, they were left in a bad way when, shortly after, evidence of their own crimes began to appear on the Internet, and it was shown that many of them had connections to criminal groups.
They were quickly arrested and most of the other politicians began to remain silent.
Of course, the current gang-police war didn't bother ordinary citizens at all, as they weren't affected, and many of them applauded these gangs and corrupt police officers killing each other.
"Look, right now the disappearance of another group of criminals is going viral," Felicia said as she looked at her phone.
The young woman showed them the screen and the others watched the report.
While they were on the phone, Peter continued eating.
He already knew all that because he, or his clones, were responsible and he couldn't tell the girls that.
At first, it began targeting only gangs and corrupt police officers in New York City and gradually the rest of the state.
But when he was able to create clones, there were plenty of them available when the positions for all his research subjects were filled.
With so many clones on the loose, Peter ordered them to continue their work of patrolling the streets as Spider-Man and eliminating the various gangs in the country.
As for the missing criminals?
His clones in charge of various experiments needed many test subjects, so Peter ordered his clones to catch them.
When targeting a gang, the clones would capture some gang members and leave the rest to be captured by the police.
He also raided prisons and kidnapped criminals who didn't deserve to live after what they had done.
Of course, he also took care of the innocent and they were soon released under irrefutable evidence.
Studying their cases and investigating who put them in jail, it was easy to find evidence of their innocence.
As the girls watched the report about the disappearance of many criminals from different prisons across the country, Peter felt malice creeping into his back.
Expanding his senses and comparing the life energies of the other students, he knew that the source of their malice was Harry Osborn.
Feeling jealousy inside Harry, Peter quickly guessed that it was MJ.
Notifying his clones to keep an eye out for Harry as well, Peter continued talking to the girls.
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Later at the Osborn mansion.
"Hi, Dad," Harry greeted his father.
"Hi Harry, how was school?" Norman said as he sat in the living room reading a newspaper while sipping on a cup of coffee.
"GOOD"
"I'll go out with my friends later," Harry said.
"Okay, take care of yourself and call Bernard if you want him to pick you up," Norman said, lifting his head and smiling before going back to reading his newspaper.
Looking at his father again, Harry wondered what was happening to him.
For a few days now, on the day of that event where there was an attack to be specific, his father has been behaving differently.
Calmer and no longer pressured him with school.
Shrugging, Harry dismissed the matter as a big deal and headed to his room to get ready for a later date.
As Harry went up to his room, Norman Osborn continued drinking his coffee while reading the newspaper and placed the empty cup on his saucer.
"Another coffee, sir?" asked his butler as he entered the room and saw the now empty cup.
"Thank you Bernard," Norman said, and the butler poured him more coffee.
Shortly after, Norman finished his coffee and ordered his butler to leave him alone.
Bernard left the room and Norman made sure he was alone before entering his secret room.
Closing the door behind him, Norman walked into the room and passed by where the real Norman Osborn was sedated and receiving injections that provided nutrients to his unconscious body.
The 'Norman Osborn' that Harry and Bernard saw in the house the last few days was a Peter clone in disguise.
Since his clones followed Norman disguised as the Green Goblin, it was easy to capture him.
After all, his clones' strength and fighting skills were greater than Norman's, and coupled with his magical abilities, it was easy to knock him out, and one of them replaced him and has been impersonating him ever since.
Over the past few days, the clone has been busy copying all of Norman's knowledge, especially his research and the results of his version of the super soldier serum.
Peter would use all this knowledge to complement his experiments to enhance a human being.
Of course, he would first use all of his results on criminals who would die anyway before using the procedure on his girls.
For this reason, his clones have been traveling across the country to gather as many test subjects as possible to collect the largest amount of data after each experiment.
Just today, I finish the process.
After copying all of Norman's scientific knowledge and memories essential to living his daily life, he opened a portal in front of him and floated Norman's body into the portal.
On the other side of the portal, another clone received Norman's unconscious body before the portal closed.
The clone disguised as Norman will continue with his normal life until Peter needs him.
After all, even though Norman was removed from his position on the board of Oscorp Industries, he is still a shareholder and has a lot of money.
The clone will live well and has no reason to complain.
As for the real Norman Osborn?
At first he thought about killing him and quickly disposing of the body while one of his clones would replace it.
But in the end he decided it was a waste of resources.
After all, Norman is still an enhanced human and has a lot of research value.
As the 'Norman' clone prepared to send everything in this secret room away as well, the clone that took over Norman Osborn's unconscious body made several portals to travel through several times before stopping at one of his research labs.
This research lab is packed with state-of-the-art medical equipment donated by Hydra.
Since sneaking into the first experimental base back then, his clones have been tasked with searching for all the bases and Hydra members around the world.
So far, he has taken control of approximately 60% of Hydra and has ordered the Hydra members under his control to act like "good people" and not draw attention to themselves.
This way, Peter has time to gradually take control of Hydra without feeling pressured to eliminate them quickly.
Did you find the guy who hired Kevin to kidnap people?
Of course, it was one of the first things he did and he sent him on a mission to infiltrate a gang in South America and he was unlucky enough to die in a gang fight.
While his clones continued with their tasks, Peter arrived home and found May.