Chapter 4: Tag Team

Instantly, like a expert cowboy, The Vulture pulled out his twin pistols out of his holsters, firing directly where Spiderman stood. In response, the superhero in spandex backflipped his way out of the firing range, landing in a crouched position, before firing two web strings at the guns and pulling them away from him. However, before he could stick them to the floor with some webbing, Vulture flapped his wings ferociously, causing a huge gust to start projecting the chairs and tables Spiderman's direction. Again, Spiderman did a backflip, this time placing the weight on his hands onto the nearby table. However, to The Vulture's surprise, Spiderman didn't let go of the table. Using his ability to stick onto any surface, he lifted the table up whilst sticking onto the wall, using it as a shield against the storm. Once The Vulture had given up this tactic, Spidey saw an opportunity- he quickly used a piece of webbing to pull himself up onto the ceiling, before swiftly crawling up to where The Vulture was. Dazed, all The Vulture could do was try to land a hard punch as Spiderman jumped down to attack. Despite missing, it did knock Peter off guard, causing him to miss his target too, and land crouched on the floor. This time he took no chances, quickly firing two web strings at The Vulture's back, catapulting himself upwards to land on his wings. Soon, Spiderman was causing The Vulture to lose balance in the air, as with every punch and kick and web firing he zoomed from one direction to the next. "Getting tired yet, Grandad?" Spidey joked. Little did he know that The Vulture had regained his posture-and was now ready to strike. He instantly started accelerating backwards towards the wall, hoping to poetically squash the spider. Sensing this, Peter quickly jumped off, landing on one of the few tables that remained upright. This meant that The Vulture crashed straight into the wall, causing it to crack slightly. "Sorry to say, but it'll take someone with better eyesight than yours to hit me." He genuinely felt pleased with his puns-even though they were terrible.

"Don't worry, arachnid. I think my next weapon will prove most effective in eradicating you." Before Spidey could question him further, his spider senses detected something, and he could hear the low growl of an animal. Peter slowly turned round to see a reptilian man full of anger, right claw in the air ready to strike.

"Connors?"

Lucy had managed to escape the building just as the police arrived. However, from the look on their faces, she could tell that they had no clue as to how to respond, or to fight, such a creature. Shouldn't Spiderman be here, making sure that the creature was defeated. Then she suddenly had a thought. How'll Pete escape? My God... I ran out of there, and left him- my only friend- with that creature. Having realised what she'd done, Lucy dashed back inside, hoping that her friend was still inside. As she ran through the corridors, her voice shouting "Peter!" echoed.

Peter remembers The Lizard's swing as something of sheer power- something he didn't want to be dealing with right now. A quick roll on the floor to the left was enough to dodge Connor's attack. As he stood upright again, he fired bullets of webbing at The Vulture's wings, forcing them to stick onto the wall. "Hey, I don't want you flying off there." Unfortunately, his joke-making didn't alert him to the Lizard's tail that came crashing onto Spiderman's side. Peter was propelled straight into one of the pillars, severely damaging it in the impact. Quick to recover, he narrowly dodged another swipe with a web string propelling him onto the wall. Just as another collision was to happen, a faint noise in the distance distracted all three superpowered fighters.

"Peter!"

Instantly The Vulture's face lifted up, as a green flash lit up on the wrist of his metal suit. Spiderman also noticed the flashing light, this time on some sort of collar on The Lizard's neck. He also recognised the voice as Lucy's. "Lizard! That's the girl! Find her!"

Like a sniffer dog being released into the wild, The Lizard ran towards the doors on all fours, leaving claw marks on the floor. But before he could reach them, Spiderman swung from the floor, turning 180 degrees as he kicked the doors open. He then swung out of view towards Lucy to get her out of there.

Lucy was still running across the corridors, so much so that she didn't really know where she was anymore. All she knew was that she had to find Peter. "Peter! Where are you?!"

Suddenly, she could hear a quiet voice in the distance. "Shh." She stopped in her tracks, afraid of what could be around the corner. She started breathing heavily, even though she tried to keep silent. "I said 'Shhh'. As in 'keep quiet'." Suddenly, none other than Spiderman swung into a block of lockers, sticking onto them as a landing tactic. "Now run!" Before she could, a large Lizard-like creature crashed into the space Spiderman was, the web crawler himself only escaping by jumping onto the floor. Once she saw this, Lucy ran round a corner...

To a dead end. She had nowhere to go.

Meanwhile, Spidey had dodged multiple swipes from the Lizard, before crawling onto the walls to avoid other attacks. Unfortunately, the Lizard still had his tail, which he used as a battering ram on the wall. Only his spider senses prevented him from being squashed, as he used his webbing to catapult himself onto the ceiling. He couldn't help but recall the time two years ago when they'd fought in the halls of Midtown Science High School, back when Spiderman had just started out. Snap out of it. Peter took an opportunity, seeing that the Lizard had left his tail near the wall. He fired a bombardment of webbing at the long green tail, momentarily halting the reptilian man. Only momentarily, however- he managed to rip his way out, chasing the web crawler as he jumped off the ceiling and started to dash away, shooting webs at Connors as he went. Once he went round the corner, he saw just the predicament Lucy was in. His brain went into overdrive. Think, Peter, think. Backed to a wall in a school corridor by The Lizard, with a schoolgirl they are hunting. Think. What would you do? No, what did you do? Two years ago? He then looked at the corridor in detail. That's it! The window! He quickly dashed towards the window, keeping Lucy behind him as the Lizard charged towards them. Before he could reach them though, he fired two well-aimed loads of spiderwebs at he reptile's arms, attaching them to the walls and impeding his charge. "Connors! Talk to me! This isn't you!" But before he could continue, the Lizard started to rip his way out of the bonding. Sensing this, Spiderman, as Lucy saw it, went nuts with his webs- he crawled, crouched and jumped all around the Lizard, slowly creating a web cocoon to keep him at bay. Once he was happy that he couldn't move, Peter jumped to Lucy's side, remembering the last time he'd done this with Gwen. "Now, Lucy, listen to me-"

"How do you know m-"

"I'm gonna throw you out this window. Ready?"

"Wait, wh-Arghhhhhhh!"