'i've spent all of the love i saved

we were always a losing game'

- arcade, duncan laurence

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The Fire Elemental destroys and smashes several structures. Sparks, fireballs and smoke light up their own light festival. A cloud of green smoke drops to the ground in front of the Fire Elemental, Mysterio has dropped down to fight the beast. He steps forward, stretching his arms out. Peter swings in from his position above and throws a wooden structure at the threat, it stumbles forward a bit at the contact. Peter lands on the side of a wall and looks back at the Fire Elemental. He shoots a web at a fire hydrant. Beck shoots beams from his hands at the ever growing aggressive beast. Peter pulled out the fire hydrant, which releases a high pressure jet of water from the ground at the Fire Elemental.

The large creature charges towards Spiderman. It attempts to swing at the boy on the wall but instead punches the bricks Peter was attached to. Peter evades its attack with a backflip and he lands on the carousel. The Fire Elemental destroys the carousel, sending Peter to the ground landing close to the alley that stood Kyungsoo. Peter was too caught up in the fight to see the boy in the shadows.

Ned and Betty remain in fear and stuck at the top of the in threat ferris wheel.

"What's his-what's his name? What's his name?" Betty grabs Ned's arm. Ned attempts to make up a name that doesn't correlate to Spiderman back in New York, "Uh-uh... It's N-Night... Night Monkey."

Betty looks at Ned for a few seconds before turning down towards the Spider- Night Monkey. "Hey Night Monkey! Night Monkey Help! Save us!" Betty shouted down to Peter who was crouched at the bottom of the ferris wheel. Peter begins to panic more knowing his best friend and his girlfriend sit in eminent danger.

As the Fire Elemental absorbs more mental it grows in size, becoming more fearful to the people still trying to run. Peter shoots webs at it, but the webs ignite into flames and race towards his shooters. It stalks towards Peter's direction and goes in for an attack at Peter, when suddenly Beck comes in the nick of time to protect Peter by creating a green energy dome, the beast attempts to break the shield with force.

"On to Plan B?" Beck changes his attention to the boy behind him.

Peter agrees with the new idea of trying to attack it with objects it cannot absorb to grow in strength. The two split up and the Fire Elemental chooses Parker as his first target and shoots flames at the swinging kid. Peter swings upwards towards the roofs, a back flip for mobility to escape the flames firing at him. As Peter flees again, he shoots attacks at the beast midair. He sticks the lamp post that was giving little light to the alley Kyungsoo hid then throws it at the beast, sparks of electricity hit Kyungsoo who muffles his screams as the sparks seem to be absorbed by him. Peter looks towards the sound before flinging himself back into action.

"We can't let him get near the ferris wheel!" Beck realises the the amount of people on it and the fact if its absorbed the beast would become too large.

Peter falls to the ground and smashes into a vehicle. The Fire Elemental smashes the ground loud roars coming from it. The ground cracks and the flaming cracks travel to the ferris wheel. This tips the ferris wheel a bit. Kyungsoo sees the crack storming towards him, his body once withering in pain sparks with energy and he dodges the threat. Kyungsoo's fingers tingle with energy.

The tipping of the ferris wheel alerts panic into Betty and Ned, both letting out a startled scream. The magma beast notices the pair screaming and begins heading toward them. Beck flies between the Fire Elemental and the ferris wheel and blasts it with laser beams from his hands. The Fire Elemental is pushed back slightly and struggles against Beck. Peter runs toward the ferris wheel and shoots his webbing at an invisible object. Peter's face under the mask is full of confusion, he pulls at the invisible object and it flings straight towards MJ's feet in another alley. MJ picks up the object that's covered with Spiderman's webbing.

The screams from Betty continue. Peter shoots a web to the ferris wheel and one to the building's wall behind it. Fury arrives at the scene. Peter continues shooting webs from the ferris wheel to the wall to prevent it from falling down. Beck's lasers accidentally hit the windshield of Fury and Hill's vehicle and three spider-web-shaped glass shatter patterns on the windshield, like those caused by a gun appear. Fury and Hill step out of their vehicle. Peter keeps the ferris wheel still by pushing it toward the wall, Peter tries hard to save his friends.

The group attempting to fight the beast believe that it's too late, Beck knows the final plan must commence. Beck summons all of his power and screams heading into the beast head first. It collapses, disintegrating in a green, misty explosion that spreads throughout the nearby areas of Prague. Peter sets his webbing on a near by building to keep the ferris wheel from crashing. Peter sees Beck lying on the ground, face down. He drops down from the ferris wheel and runs toward him to check on him. In the corner of his eye he sees what he believes to be electric energy sparks and strings in an alley, he turns to go towards it but Beck grunts.

"Oh, thank God." Peter mutters as he jumps towards the Mysterio. While Nick and Beck talk about the victory and potential future, Peter turns back towards the alley, stalking with quiet steps. Kyungsoo looks down at his hands before looking up and seeing the so called 'Night Monkey' heading towards him, ready to attack if needed. Kyungsoo is scared, he himself having no idea what is happening and not having Eric or Jae there to help threw him into a spiral of pure fear. He gingerly steps behind some objects, touching one slightly and the electricity flinging it toward Peter accidentally. Kyungsoo panics even more, and goes deeper into hiding while staring wide at his hands while reaching for his phone hoping the Night Monkey leaves.

Peter dodges the sudden object cannoned at him. As he begins up again, Beck calls him back; "Let's get a drink."

"I- I'm not twenty-one..." He stutters his bug eyes not leaving the alley with a hidden powered up Kyungsoo.

Kyungsoo calls up his brother, tears in his eyes as he has no clue what is happening to his own body.

"Help me."

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Peter sits next to Beck with a lemonade, Quentin holds a bottle of beer in his hand and Peter looks down, dejected, at his glass.

"You gotta celebrate, you did something good tonight." Beck pats the boy on his back.

"Fury was right. Tony did a lot for me, so... I owe it to him, to everybody. I mean... Mr. Stark gave me the chance to be more, he wanted me to be better than him, and Fury just wants me to live up to that."

"What do you want, you, Peter Parker, right now? I know you're thinking about it! What do-"

"I wanna go on my trip, right? I wanna go back on my trip, with my friends and teachers, have a normal field trip for a teenager. I wanna go to the top of the Eiffel Tower with the girl who I like and tell her how I really feel, and kiss someone! I don't..."

"But you're not gonna do that, are you?"

"I... can't." Peter's voice becomes quiet.

As a local walks past they see a pair of glasses, they pick up Edith and hand them to Peter. Beck looks at them and then faces Peter.

"What are those? Are those the...? It was on the floor? Try them on, let's see how they look on you." Peter puts them on saying he really likes them, they may be a specific taste but Peter loves that they are Tony Stark summed up and he gets to hold them.

"Can I be completely honest with you? They look really stupid. But maybe they have a contact-lens version of them." Peter takes them off, he edges them towards Beck, insinuating for him to try them on. Beck takes them from the naive and sad boy, trying them on immediately. Peter starts mumbling to himself "To the next Tony Stark, I trust you... To the next Tony Stark, I trust you." Peter continues once he see's Beck questioning his incoherent words.

"Mr. Stark left me a message with those glasses; To the next Tony Stark, I trust you. He knew every mistake I ever made. So he must've known I was not ready for something like this. Maybe he didn't trust me to have Edith, he just trusted me to pick who should. It makes so much more sense, he always knew I would do what's right and he's not gonna give them to Fury because Fury would just give himself Edith. Right, so, the world needs the next Iron Man... and it's not gonna be me! I mean, I'm a sixteen-year-old kid from Queens. It needs to be an adult with some experience and that's good like Tony Stark, like you"

"No, c'mon, Peter... No."

Peter takes back the glasses from Beck's hand, placing them on his face and begins talking to Edith.

"Edith? Hi! Yeah, um... I'd like to transfer your control over to Quentin Beck."

"Any transfer will require confirmation." Edith's voice rings on Peter's ears.

Beck attempts to stop the kid from doing something stupid, "Stark gave you the glasses!"

"Waiting for confirmation." Edith asks for Peter to say yes.

"Stark gave me a choice! It's my choice to make, okay? And I'm gonna make it. Look, you're a soldier, a leader, you stopped the Elementals, you saved my life, you saved the world! Okay? He'd want you to have them... Confirm transfer." The boy hands the glasses back to Beck who has now got full power over things people could only imagine. "Mr. Stark would've really liked you." Peter states as he picks up his bag and heads towards the door.

"Where you headed?"

"To find someone!"

"The girl?"

"Something like that."

Kyungsoo spotted Peter in the bar earlier, but his body struggled to walk fast enough. As he reaches the bar, Peter is already gone. His legs continue to give out, his body breaking even more as several things start to gradually disappear, both objects and people are revealed to be holograms in the bar. Beck, sitting in the middle of the illusion, starts to smile evilly.

Kyungsoo ducks his head to stay below eye sight of the clear traitor.

"Now, this is a big win, but we still got a lot of work to do." Beck holds up the Edith glasses that an innocent, young Peter trusted him with.

"The jester king. Literally wrapped in wealth and technology that he was unfit to wield. Like the holographic system I designed. A revolutionary breakthrough with limitless applications that Tony turned into a self-therapy machine and renamed... And to the rest of you, Tony Stark is gone. There is a window of opportunity and someone will step up. But these days, you can be the smartest guy in the room, the most qualified, and no one cares. Unless you're flying around with a cape, or shooting lasers from your hands, no one will even listen. Well... I've got a cape. And lasers. With our technology, and with Edith, Mysterio will be the greatest hero on Earth! And everyone will listen! Not to a boozy man-child! Not to a Hormonal teenager!"

The crowd surrounding him lifts a glass and cheers. Kyungsoo makes a move to leave to find Peter. Beck places the glasses back on, they instantaneously lock onto Kyungsoo. The man notices a disclosed information file and simply asks for access to it, Edith reveals the information on the boy.

"Freak Storm they call him, never done anything with these powers kid, what are you afraid of? Who knew of this kids true extent Edith?"

"Tony Stark, Happy Hogan, Pepper Potts, Jaehyun Yoo, Eric Yoo, Steve Rogers, Vision, Bruce Banner and Peter Parker had begun to be suspicious but never opened the file Mr. Beck."

"Thank you Edith, just another kid as a target. Kyungsoo Yoo, Peter was close to him?"

"Peter Parker's vitals often changed when in contact with Yoo Kyungsoo."

"What happened to the girl MJ, Parker?" Beck realises that this new information can be highly. "Edith tell me what you know about Peter Parker."

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