Thread:Benspider/@comment-29421682-20171205195549/@comment-29421682-20180109040204

Here's an idea for A Puff of Responsibility I've had for a long time;

After the Hobgoblin (Macendale.) double-crosses Princess Morbucks in her vendetta against Spider-Man to get revenge for her brother's death (A saga I'll tell y'all about another time.), she hires the 2 smartest criminal scientists in Townsville, Doctor Octopus and Mojo Jojo, to construct a robot capable of eliminating Spider-Man, with the addition of a few anti-Powerpuff weapons.

Ock and Mojo finish constructing the robot, which ends up being the first generation model of the Spider-Slayer (a near-identical replica of the Black Widow seen in TAS.). In spite of Mojo's protests, Ock takes command of the robot and, at Princess' order, sends the Spider-Slayer off into Townsville to eradicate Spider-Man.

In Townsville, Spider-Man and the Powerpuff Girls are stopping the robbery of an armored truck at the hands of a new super-villain, the Looter. After defeating Looter and leaving him for the police, the teens head home to get ready for a party being hosted at Mayor Bellum's penthouse.

In the suburbs, the Professor and the Powerpuffs, all dressed up and ready for the party, pick up Peter and Aunt May in their station wagon and begin driving down.

Meanwhile, in some alley in Townsville behind a costume shop, Mitch Mitchelson is preparing to pull off a huge prank on Peter as payback for all the times he ridiculed him in the past. A prank, which, involves a Spider-Man Halloween costume. But unbeknownst to Mitch, he is being watched by the Spider-Slayer, which now believes that it has stumbled upon the real Spider-Man...

At the party, everyone is mingling amongst one another. Peter and Blossom are slow dancing with one another. All of a sudden, however, Mitch, dressed as Spider-Man, crashes the party and confronts Peter in an attempt to intimidate him, which frightens Aunt May. However, Mitch sees the Spider-Slayer through the window, causing him to scream and run away.

It is then that the Spider-Slayer crashes the party. Peter quickly changes into Spidey, with the Powerpuff Girls providing as the main line of offense until Spider-Man comes back to assist them. The Spider-Slayer then sets loose it's anti-Powerpuff weaponry (which includes things like an Antidote X-gas spray and flypaper.) on the girls, incapacitating them until Spider-Man arrives.

The Spider-Slayer then displays a screen with a sihoulletted figure on it. The figure then tells Spider-Man of his master plan to use the robot to wipe him and the girls out. Spider-Man then picks up on the heavily modulated voice, recognizing it as the same voice the Master Planner previously used, and outs Doctor Octopus as the true culprit behind the Slayer.

Ock then reveals himself (getting interrupted by Mojo's egotistical banter in the background about himself also being behind the construction of the robot.) to Spider-Man, and then knocks down the support stands, causing a minor cave-in that pins Spider-Man under rubble. The Slayer then reaches out and grabs Spidey, flying away.

Spider-Man then awakens from the rubble, the real one, and reveals that before the Slayer flew away, he snagged it with a Spider-Tracer. After seeing the guests out of the penthouse to allow emergency services to enter the picture, Spider-Man and the Powerpuff Girls fly off to confront Doctor Octopus and Mojo Jojo.

At the base, Mojo brings Princess forward to come and unmask the man she believes killed her brother. However, she is shocked and mortified when she sees Mitch Mitchelson's face underneath, and Mojo exclaims "Spider-Man is just... a teenager?!" With disbelief, Princess chides Mojo for her failure to bring her the true Spider-Man. However, Octavius enters the scene and, in a rare act for him, swallows his pride and takes responsibility for capturing a "mere child".

With the actual super-hero teenagers, the tracer leads them to an abandoned, Morbucks-branded warehouse on the docks. Upon entering, the 4 are immediately set upon by Doctor Octopus, who incapacitates all 4 teens in his tentacles. Mojo then prepares to fire a laser ray at the heroes, planning to get sweet revenge.

From another room, however, Princess secretly takes command of the Spider-Slayer, and, with her original intent to double-cross Ock and Mojo at the end, tries to use it to wipe out all 6 super-people in one swoop. However, this plan is soon thwarted when Spider-Man breaks free of Ock's grip and, taking advantage of his being the Slayer's "primary target", webs up it's optical sensors, blinding the Slayer.

In a last ditch effort to eliminate Spider-Man, Princess activates a self-destruct bomb that was built into it by Mojo as a last resort weapon. When Spidey's Spider-Sense goes off at the activation of the bomb, he tells the girls to get the Slayer as far away from the city as possible. The girls then grab the Slayer by the legs and carry it out to sea, while Spidey stays behind to fight Doc Ock and Mojo Jojo.

The girls deposit the Spider-Slayer off the coast of Monster Isle and fly back to Townsville just as it explodes.

At the warehouse, Spider-Man, having taken care of Mojo, is currently fighting a losing battle to Doctor Octopus. The Powerpuff Girls then arrive and even the odds. Eventually, Bubbles melts one of the tips of Ock's tentacles, which causes Ock to collapse in extreme pain as the arms have fused to his body on a telekinetic level, to the point where they are considered an organic part of his body.

After arresting Ock and Mojo, Buttercup scolds Mitch for playing such a stupid stunt that could have gotten himself killed, but Mitch scoffs at this, not really caring too much about the consequences of his actions. Peter then stares up at the sky, wondering who the next psycho to be sent after him will be.

At the Morbucks Manor, Princess begins having a mental breakdown over her last 2 failed attempts at getting revenge on Spider-Man. All of a sudden, however, she hears a voice, only to see Norman Morbucks' ghost in the mirror on the living room wall. The ghost chides her for merely sending "flunkies" after Spider-Man, and then explains that "if you want something done right, you've gotta do it yourself". Norman's ghost pleads, then screams, for Princess to avenge her, only for Princess to throw some kind of heavy object at the mirror, shattering it...

...only for it to lead into another, darkened room, which Princess checks out dilligently. However, upon further exploration, she comes across another room containing most of the Green Goblin's weapons and spare costumes. Norman's ghost then tells her that "you know what you must do. Make him suffer. Make him wish he were dead. First, we attack his heart!" Princess then cracks a slightly crazy smile as her pupils dialate in her widened eyes, her sanity having finally been broken at the revelation that her brother... was the Green Goblin.

A lot of different elements would be introduced here, such as setting up Princess to become the second Green Goblin, as well as Doctor Octopus becoming the leader of the Sinister Six in the following story when Princess breaks them out of jail as the Goblin.

The scene at the Mayor's penthouse party would also mark the first appearance of J. Jonah Jameson into the A Puff of Responsibility-verse, as he is one of the special guests attending. He's also seen berating Spider-Man in regards to the damage to the Mayor's penthouse after the Spider-Slayer escapes with Mitch Mitchelson in tow, which Spider-Man brushes off. This would later be addressed in Torment when Spencer Smythe showcases his version of the Spider-Slayer to Jameson.