Peter's POV

"...Spider-man's real name is Peter Parker!"

Ever since Mysterio exposed my identity to the public, people have started making hate vandalism about me and my alias.

They no longer saw me as a hero, but as a villain.

Whenever I stop a burglary or a murderer, they both react the same.

They run away.

From me.

Some still stay and tries yo hurt me with their weapons, most time succeeding.

My spider sense should've warned me, you say?

Will ever since I trusted my Peter tingle with the Mysterio incident, and the back-stabbing scumbag, it never worked again.

I barely escape with my life nowadays.

The Avengers don't know about this.

Yeah I'm an Avengers too, but they still see me as a kid.

They don't see me as a hero who went to space to save the universe, the hero who stood their ground in the endgame battle, the hero who lost their mentor to a huge wrinkly grape.

No, they see me as some kid who was just at the right place at the right time, a weapon they just happen to have, a kid they thought was totally okay even with the loss of his mentor.

Well, they didn't know Mr. Stark and I were close, but still!

They don't care about the kid who looks out for the little guys, helping out when he is needed.

And honestly, after Mr. Stark died, I haven't even been to Stark Towers at all.

My internship wasn't real anyway.

And Flash can't taunt me either, I stopped going to school ever since the news came out.

But after too many near death incident, I think it's time for a rest.

Timeskip

Doc Oc was robbing a bank, the usual. I peeped inside the vault and crawled on the roof.

I swung down and kicked him in the face.

"Wassup Oc. Not very nice to see you again." I snickered when he turned to me, growling ferociously.

"Spider-man. Or should I say, Peter Parker." He sneered.

"I don't have time for this, Oc. I was going to move out of the city today. I already packed. But I had to stop my arch nemesis one last time before I go." I smiled sadly.

"Ahh finally. Once the spider's gone, no one shall bug me anymore."

"Yeah I don't think so, Oc." I shouted and whipped out a gun.

"What? Are you going to kill me? Like you killed all those people in London? Spider-man...you don't have the guts to do it. It's been a long road for us"

"This is where it ends." I snapped.

He cackled and one of his metallic arms snatched the gun away, aimed at the middle of my chest and shot me.

3rd Person POV

Blood seeped through his suit, Oc staring with wide eyes, looking at his accomplishment.

"Finally...I, Doctor Otto Octavious has finally killed Spider-man..." he smiled and grabbed the cash and made a dash and disappeared before the authorities could catch him.

"Peter?!" Pepper's voice rang through the crowd as she tried to find the boy.

"Peter!" She cried again as she saw him getting bandaged up in the ambulance.

"Hiya Pep." He gave her a watery smile.

"We're gonna get you out of this, Pete. Hang on for me, please." She begged as tears streamed down her face.

"I don't think so..." His voice was slurred. Drowsy even.

"D-don't say that."

"You're the only one who saw the good in me, and stayed by my side when the world was against me." He smiled but that only made Pepper cry harder.

"Stop it. Just stop it Peter."

"You're like a mom to me...thank you Pepper." He smiled sadly before his eyes dropped down.

"Miss, we need to go." Th e attending nurse told Pepper and she could only nod numbly as she watch the boy she saw as her son being driven to the hospital.

Timeskip

"Would you like to see him?" The attending doctor asked Happy, Pepper and Morgan who were waiting outside.

They nodded and walked in.

The doctor unzipped the body bag, revealing Peter, eyes closed, looking pale as ever, with a single hole on his chest.

"No...no it's not possible." Happy whispered and shake his head rapidly. "The kid can't be gone. This isn't real. This...this isn't him. Of course it isn't really him in that bag. Same as jfk, the decoy hearse. They took Kennedy's body out of his casket at Andrews air force base and brought him to Bethesda naval hospital. There were two different caskets-"

"Stop it Happy!" Pepper yelled and the little girl clinging to her leg started to cry.

"No no...its Peter. He can't be gone." Happy states helplessly. "He knew he was going to die...it must be a con!"

"Uncle Happy...he's right there...look at him...you've got to look at him...my brother's dead...look." Morgan cried.

"It can't be him, Morgan. Peter always had it figured out. There was always a way out. It didn't matter how tight the scrape, Peter could always slide past. He could always get away." Happy cried for the little boy.

Who knew that someone like Happy Hogan, someone who acted like he didn't care about the kid, would be the one sobbing the most in front of his body.

"Not this time, Happy." Pepper sighed tiredly.

The doctor came in and handed the bag to Pepper.

"One Spider-man suit, one pair of Stark glasses apparently named EDITH, one Stark watch, one key, and .38 caliber bullet for evidence." He shook his head sadly.

"Th-thank you." Pepper sighed and walked out the door with the other two trailing behind her like sulking puppies.

Timeskip

"I'm coming!" Pepper yelled as she ran to the door of the wooden cabin.

When she opened the door, there was no one there...except for a bottle of Moet at her doorstep.

She smiled and opened the bottle.

Happy came in looking tired.

"Did you buy this bottle?" Pepper asked but he shook his head.

He got two glasses and walked towards Pepper.

She poured the content and smiled sadly. "Smells good."

She looked at the cork.

Then her mind thought of something.

She asked Friday to ask Karen for access about the GPS on Peter's Stark watch.

The numbers looked familiar.

The number on the cork screw, the number on the key Peter had with him before he died...

If the key was the key to a container that Peter visited the day before, according to Karen at least, then it's a possibility that Peter has left some things behind in that container.

"Peter doesn't go somewhere without a purpose...why here?"

Timeskip

On the very next day, Pepper and Happy went to the container Peter had previously visited.

The moment she swung the door open, she let out a huge ass gasp.

Inside, was all of Peter's possession. From the blue ribbon he won at the science fair, to the homemade Spider Onesie.

Then the pieces started to fit.

The little bullet hole on the dummy.

A picture of the doctor who unzipped the body bag.

A picture of the nurse bandaging Peter at the ambulance.

The pufferfish pill that could make anyone look and feel dead.

The different shades of red, to match the color of blood.

And finally, flights ticket to South Korea, and concert tickets to various K-POP groups.

"Peter isn't dead..." Pepper whispered in disbelief while Happy had a, well, happy smile.

Flashback

After weeks of research, he managed to track down the doctor and the nurse who would help him.

He got the pills.

He tried different types of bullets, and the perfect shade of red to look like blood.

He slid the blood bag under his suit, and readied the gun.

It's show time.

He knew Oc was going to come and rob the bank. It was a pattern, really.

He made sure everything was in place.

When Oc shot him, the bullet landed on the blood bag, and not on him.

The redness that seeped through wasn't blood. It was paint.

The moment Oc fled the scene, Peter carefully popped on of the pills, and his body started to shut down. Only temporarily though.

When the ambulance came, it was the nurse that he contacted.

That's why the bandages weren't properly done. Cause it wasn't necessary for a fake wound.

The doctor that unzipped the bag was prepared. He knew his patient wasn't dead, but he had to pretend he was.

He had to lie to the crying people who mourned the lost of a loved one.

He saw the look of sorrow, but he would do anything for Spider-man after he saved his life from the Lizard on the bridge years ago.

And the act pulled through.

Peter got away from the life that was slowly suffocating him.

He has a second chance.

Start a new life.

One, beginning with a concert in South Korea.
Flashback ends

"He knew he was going to die..." Pepper smirked at Happy who looked happy. For once.

Somewhere in South Korea

"YOU GOT ME FEELING LIKE A PSYCHOOOO, PSYCHOO!!!!!!!" The boy raising his 'Kim Man Bong' lightstick and shouting from the top of his lungs with a smile etched on his face as he watched the 5 girls (OT5 😌✊) perform happily.

https://youtu.be/uR8Mrt1IpXg

(I recommend you read the subtitles. I love the meaning of this song)

-27 July, 2020