Thread:Benspider/@comment-29421682-20171205195549/@comment-29421682-20171209160712

The other ideas I had were to detail some loose ends from A Puff of Responsibility in A Puff of Responsibility: Homecoming.

The first flashback, set around a year after Spider-Man's first fight with the original Venom and a couple of days before his high school graduation, chronicles Spider-Man's final days as Townsville's protector and his battle with Molten Man.

Peter and Blossom, just friends at this point as Peter broke up with her in order to protect Blossom and her family from the unwanted attentions of Spider-Man's enemies in case another villain like Goblin or Venom were to discover his identity, are gearing up for their high school graduation in a few days.

At around the same time, Peter and Professor Utonium go to see a private robotics demonstration (an early prototype of Spencer Smythe's Spider-Slayer.) being given by the latter's old friend Spencer Smythe (who will later appear in Torment.) and his son Alistair (who will later appear in Homecoming.). However, during the demonstration, Alistair's former friend and Spencer's former protege, Mark Raxton, bursts into the room, claiming that the metal used to create the robots was his and his alone, and that he wishes to sell it.

But in the ensuing struggle between Raxton and Smythe, the former is covered in the same alloy he had come to retrieve, turning him into Molten Man. Spider-Man soon arrives and fights Molten Man, but during the battle, Alistair is crushed by a piece of falling debris (he is crippled because of this, and this also sets up Spencer and Alistair's vendetta against Spider-Man in Torment in Homecoming, for which they use their Spider-Slayers to fight him with.).

Molten Man escapes, and Spider-Man, after assisting Alistair to the hospital, gives chase. Eventually, Spider-Man finds Raxton, wearing a Chameleon-like disguise, robbing a jewelry store, they fight, but Spider-Man loses due to Molten Man's enhanced strength. Spider-Man gives chase again, this time their battle leading into a crowded subway station. Spider-Man finally defeats Molten Man by pouring steam from the pipes into the station, causing Molten Man to pass out (like how Spidey defeated the Rhino during their first encounter in Spectacular.). Spidey then leaves Molten Man, hogtied, for the authorities.

Days later, at the graduation ceremony, everyone gets their diplomas, and everyone celebrates. Peter soon learns that he had been accepted by Empire State University in his home city of New York.

As he bids farewell to the Utoniums, Aunt May, and Townsville as a whole (by fighting crime and spinning webs.), he shares a final kiss with Blossom (the both of them still having feelings for each other to one degree or another.). Peter then packs his things in the moving van and finally leaves Townsville to begin the trek back home.