Alister Smyth was the one who was assigned to creating the "Goblin Serum", now he would have to tell Norman that the attempt to get the main ingredient of the serum had failed. "Mr. Osborn, I'm afraid the serum will take a little longer to finnish" Smyth said to Norman, with a complete look of defeat on his face. He would've done anything to impress Norman, mainly because he needed more funding for a secret project involving nanobot technology. Norman looked at him with a mix of disappointment, rage, and above all, devistation.
"Why, what happened?" Norman asked, while trying to fight back tears. "Well we set up a bank heist to louer out spider-man and..." Smyth replied, just before being cut off by Norman. "What the hell are you talking about, what does this serum have to do with him!?" Norman asked, furiously "His blood, sir, he was the first human to successfuly bond with the CS-Virus. His blood mixed with my nanobots, and multiple other ingredients are what make the serum work." Smyth replied, almost terrified
"Do we know who spider-man is when he isn't wearing spandex?" Norman asked "yes sir, he's Richard Parker's son, Peter." Smyth replied "Bring in subject 34-B." Smyth commanded his assistant. Within a minute, two doctors brought in something, it was only about 4 feet tall, it's skin was mostly a mixture of light and dark green, it had red eyes, small claws coming out of its fingers, and it had a hook shaped tail with a large spike at the end of it. "Don't worry, it'll grow, it's for the most part just a baby. It was the first Cross-Species where it was in animal spliced with human DNA rather than the other way around." Smyth commented "Everyone else calls him 'subject 34-B', but I took to calling it scorpion. It'll be fully grown in a few days." Smyth Continued
"Tell me again about how you tried to get spider-man's blood?" Norman asked. "Well, we had your assistant, Felicia, along with some of our men rob a bank in order to lure him out; but he's a lot faster than we anticipated, he was able to take down her and her team within 20 minutes." Smyth replied "So, since you failed with your first attempt and your second still being cooked, we're going with mine. Get me Adrian Tooms."
Adrian Tooms was an electrical engineer at OSCORP. He, like Smyth, would've done anything to get Norman's attention; which he eventually got once he created the flight harness. The harness gave it's wearer superhuman speed and strength due to an injection of multiple steroids with several ingredients which only Adrian knew about, into each shoulder blade. The injections secondary use was to help support the large metallic wings with tips as sharp as swords which protruded from the back.
The harness was originally intended for the military but the govornment didn't think the average soldier's life was worth $500,000, or having a harness strapped to them for the rest of their lives, along with a sadistic personality dissorder. Now, the harnesses were mostly just used for OSCORP's hit men when someone needed to be "delt with". They ended up becoming more practical than anyone expected, the hit men (now referred to as "the Vulture squad") would use the harnesses to take out their targets from above and fly away before anyone knew what hit them.
One week later...
When Tooms walked into Norman's office, he didn't know what to expect from him, then again, Norman was never the most predictable person. "You wanted to See me, Mr. Osborn?" Tooms asked. "Yes, I have a job for you. As you know, my liver is slowly giving out; but Alister Smyth has created a potential serum that could help me." Norman answered "So where do I come in?" Tooms asked
"Well, apparently, one of the main ingredients of the serum involves Peter Parker's blood, since he's one of the few humans to successfully bond with the cross-species virus. The first attempt to get it failed, so I need you to help me get it. And yes, he's Richard Parker's son, and also Spider-Man." Norman replied "then we need to lure him out; but not by robbing a bank, you need to do it were it hurts, you need to attack his heart." Tooms said, with a menacing smile on his face. "We don't know where he is, but he has an aunt in Queens." Norman replied
(Peter's pov)
Once Gwen left to take George to the doctor for a check-up, I found the ideal time to get some Christmas shopping done. Harry met me there and then had lunch together which Harry insisted on paying for; although, this was most likely because he felt sorry for making an ass out of himself at the party two weeks ago. When I got home that night, I found Gwen putting George to bed while gently singing "Godspeed, little man" to him as he slowly let his eyes close. Gwen's mother had done that with her younger brothers when they were little, so naturally, Gwen continued the tradition.
Suddenly, I felt my phone vibrate and when I held it up, Isaw that my aunt had sent me a text.
"Wow, I guess aunt May finaly figured out how to send a text massage." I chuckled, as Gwen walked out of George's room.
Once I saw the text message, I froze, dropping the phone on the carpet beneath me. "Peter... Peter, whats wrong, is everything alright?" Gwen asked, untill she picked up the Phone and saw the image herself. Aunt May's throat had been cut open and she was being hung by her feet with a meat hook.
Once Gwen saw the image, she threw her arms around me. Once I was able to come back to reality, I quickly threw my arms around her and burried my head into her shoulder as I began to cry. I didn't know what to do or how to react, so I just sat there with Gwen for what felt like days. My Aunt May had been murdered, and I was hungry for blood.
