Peter sat in his office studying the metal residue from the holes in the building sides. He examined it under a microscope and narrowed it down to a few possible metals. He decided to put off further studies as he needed to go on his patrol.
Meanwhile, Octavius had Toomes, Leeds, and Marko all in confinement while they spouted slightly obscene protests.
"Phase one is complete." said Octavius, "Now to begin phase two."
"What does that entail?" said Leeds.
"Phase one was recruitment, phase two is preparation."
"Be more specific, please." said Marko.
"He's using us to help kill Spider-Man." said Toomes.
"Yes," said Octavius, "and as part of phase two, you are going to finish this." He held up the prototype flight harness.
"My harness." said Toomes.
"I want it finished and armed for combat as soon as possible, or else." Octavius extended a saw blade from one of his tentacles.
"How do you fit that many armaments in one claw?"
"Nanotechnology, it's beyond your area of expertise."
Spider-Man swung through the city on his patrol and was thoroughly surprised by the lack of criminal activity, not even common. Not that he minded, he was just surprised.
Later that night, Toomes was finished with the main harness, and was working on the weapons.
"Progress report?" said Octavius from behind him.
"The harness itself is finished," said Toomes, " the armaments are partially done."
"What are those?" Otto pointed at a pile of metal objects.
"Those are part of the weapon system. As long as I was using metal feathers to guide the flight of the user, I thought I'd add some to the wings as themed weapons." Toomes picked up one and threw it at the wall, embedding it an inch or two, "What do you think?"
"Impressive." said Otto, "What else is there?"
"Well, I added these boots with extendable claws, and I have two acid spraying guns held in holsters on the hips."
"How powerful is the acid?"
"It's highly corrosive piranha solution, if the gun wasn't cast iron it would eat the gun away."
"Excellent. What's the helmet for?"
"That's how the wearer controls it."
"So you control it mentally?"
"Yes, it took me a while to figure it out."
Later that day, after Toomes was asleep, Octavius snuck into the lab. He extended a soldering iron from his claw and went to work on the control helmet.
Peter looked through his books to do some research on what types of metal fit the metal residue could be when he stumbled upon an old photo album. He opened it up and saw a bunch of photos of him and Harry, like one where Harry sat at Norman's desk, acting like he was the head of OsCorp, boy did he get a laugh out of that back in the day, now it just reminds him of how truly insane Harry has become, like his father. There was another one of Peter and Harry at the World Unity festival, which he did enjoy, being one of the first times he saw Harry since he came back from touring OsCorp facilities as his father was dying at the time, but that was also the day he learned of Harry's addiction and that was also the first time he encountered the Goblin. Peter was upset by all this and threw the album on the floor and resumed his research.
Once Toomes finished the harness, Otto returned him to confinement.
"Okay, everyone," said Octavius, "As you can see, Toomes has finished the harness."
"Does that mean that phase two is over?" said Leeds, "If so is the next phase the one where we're let go?"
"Not yet, Leeds." said Otto, "We still have a ways to go before phase three, which is detention. Right now we have some more preparation to do." He pulled the lever on a nearby control panel, extending a rack of vials of a orange serum, each one labeled "OZ". He put his claw over one and pulled it in. He reached into Leeds's cell, grabbed his arm, and injected something into it. It was painful for Leeds at first, but then he started laughing maniacally.
"What was that?" said Marko.
"OZ formula," said Octavius, "an altered version of the serum that created the Green Goblin. This one, however, has something in it that reduces the dementing aspect of the barium phosphate and makes him fiercely loyal to me."
"What can I do to serve you?" said Leeds.
"Suit up." said Octavius as a sarcophagus rose up from the floor.
"Yes, sir." Leeds entered the sarcophagus.
"As for you, Toomes," said Otto, "put on the harness."
"Why?" said Toomes.
"You have built this new device, we must see how well it works." Toomes reluctantly put on the harness. When he put the control helmet on, however, something changed in his mind, for he now wanted to do anything Octavius told him to do.
"Fly." said Octavius.
"Yes, Otto." said Toomes. He took off, rising far off the ground. He then started to move through the air, directing his travel through use of the metal feathers on the back. After a few minutes he touched down.
"What about me?" said Flint.
"You're next, actually." said Octavius as he put an earwig in Marko's ear. He pushed a button, opening a large sand pit, into which Otto threw Marko. He pushed another button, lowering a large glass tube around the pit. Otto pushed another button, which caused the ceiling of the contained area to glow. The light increased gradually, then there was a sudden flash and Marko was gone.
"What did you do?" said Leeds, who had come out of the sarcophagus in an orange and blue Goblin costume while Otto was throwing Marko.
"Watch." said Otto. They watched, and suddenly, some of the sand moved. Eventually the sand collected all together and formed the shape of Flint. The glass then rose back up and Marko stepped out.
"So is this all of us?" said Leeds.
"No," said Octavius, "There are two more. One has been here the whole time, actually. Dmitri?" Suddenly a man in a reflective suit stepped out of the corner, revealing that the reflectivity of the suit was disguising him amongst the uniform area he was in.
"This is Dmitri Smerdyakov, also known as the Chameleon for his work in holographic shapeshifting." said Octavius.
"Greetings." said Dmitri.
"Well, where's the other one?" said Toomes.
"Well," said Octavius, "that's going to be a bit more complicated." Otto led the others into a strange room filled with electronic devices. There was a coffin shaped device against the wall, next to it a rack of devices similar in appearance to the miniature arc reactors used in the Iron Man suits. Octavius extended his arms and clamped them onto some handles. He then twisted the motors that normally twist the claws, but instead they unscrewed from the claws. Dmitri pushed a button, rotating the handles around to reveal more claws, which Otto then screwed onto the arms.
"Porcelain claws," he said, "best be protected when doing this. Anyway, our sixth member has long been thought dead. But what his killer, Spider-Man, didn't know was that he couldn't die, you can't destroy electricity." Otto picked up an electrical cord connected to the coffin shaped device and plugged it in. When he did so, there was a large electric surge, shutting down all the power in New York.
"Peter," said Mary Jane when the blackout occurred, "where are you?"
"In the office." Peter said as he searched for a flashlight.
"What do you think happened?"
"Based on the circumstances, I'd say it's a power surge." Peter found a flashlight and resumed his research.
"How much of a power surge would be able to shut down all the power in the city?"
"What?" Peter looked out the window and, sure enough, as far as he could see all the lights in the city were out.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Octavius laughed as the lightning bolts surged through the coffin-esque tank. Before long, the electricity took on a skeletal form. A little later, it almost began to look like a person.
"Behold," said Octavius, "as our sixth is harvested from the quadrillions of watts in the New York City power grid. Witness the awakening of Electro!" AS Octavius said "Electro!" the now fully reformed Electro opened his bright yellow eyes.