Sorry if it isn't too good. I had to rewrite it four times and eventually it got annoying. Also Laura doesn't do any fighting in this chapter.

Disclaimer: the following characters, with the exception of any oc, belong to marvel

Spider-man stared at the face of an older peter parker with pure shock.

His hair was a darker shade of brown, his skin was pale and his eyes were pure black. He also had two small fangs protruding from the top of his mouth.

"The Master Weaver's power can be taken by anyone with enough totemic energy. Regardless of this, the weaver and his agents have groomed special totems as heirs. I used to be the one they planned to have succeed the title. They put me through many trials, by running my life and purposely putting me through tragedies to 'teach me responsibility'."

He laughed bitterly and continued. "I found out about this and when I rebelled, they decided to abandon me. The weaver died and had to give the power to his past self without me as a successor. They needed a new successor should he die again…that's you."

He held peter by the shoulders. "They were going to put you through hell, but I have spent a long time interrupting this universe's development, which is why you wont find many like it. Yuri was a tool that helped you divert from the weaver's path, but now she has served her purpose and had to be disabled before insanity took her artificail mind."

He stepped away from Peter. "They will try and put this reality back on their path. They'll want to take away your freedom again, but you can help win the war against them. Until then…enjoy your free will."

Peter glared. "I don't want any part in some war, just tell-"

Peter was cut off as he was literally waved off and vanished in a puff of smoke. The alternate him looked down at the red box in his hand. "Was I really that gullible?"

"You wont get away with this." Yuri's spoke.

The older Peter rolled his eyes. "How cliché."

He crushed the box and disappeared.

Meanwhile, Peter appeared back outside and groaned. That whole thing had been weird. He had no idea what just happened but it cost him a partner and he hated that.

"I don't know who that weirdo was, but he's gonna have to answer for this."

Laura sat in the kitchen with Rahne and the kitten that didn't seem to want to leave her. She had been thinking over her behavior lately.

The small smiles, the occasional chuckle, that stupid dream. She didn't know what was happening to her and at first she didn't mind, but it was staring to get inconvenient. Warren had walked by earlier and gave her a wink, and she blushed. That was where she drew the line and she wanted to stop whatever was happening to her.

As Laura was busy with her thoughts, Rahne narrowed her eyes at the kitten drinking from a bowl that Laura set on the table.

Rahne didn't have the best luck with her mutation. It hade made her a demon in the eyes of her father, caused her to have to leave her foster mother, and cursed her with instincts that she struggled to control daily. She was also often overlooked for being the youngest in the mansion. The only good thing she really had was a role model in the form of Laura Kinney.

Rahne wanted to be strong and in control like her, which is why she followed her around. Laura mostly ignored her, but she didn't mind. The problem now though, was that she wasn't the only one following her anymore. That cat waltzed up onto her shoulder like she owned the place.

It didn't help that her mutation turned her into a dog-like creature.

The kitten happened to glance at her and she swore it had a smug expression.

Laura noticed Rahne's expression, but before she could question it, Jubilee walked in. She sat beside Laura with a big grin.

Laura only stared blankly. "What is it this time. Do I finally get my first X-men scout's badge."

Jubilee smiled wider at her new ability to joke. "I was just thinking that maybe we could do something together."

Laura sighed, knowing where this was headed. Jubilee kept insisting that they do something normal together. But Laura wasn't normal, and she wasn't about to pretend to be.

"I'm not going to some stupid mall with you."

Rahne took advantage of their distraction and drank all the kitten's milk while no one was looking. It stared blankly then turned to climb onto Laura's shoulder, hitting Rahne with it's tail as it did.

Jubilee sighed, but she planned for this. She dug into her pocket and took out a phone number. Laura raised a brow in mild interest.

"The other day I met a girl named Alison. She's some kind of upcoming singer and I managed to sell Warren to her."

Laura stared at the number hopefully and Jubilee continued. "I will give this to him if you spend one, just one, day with me doing normal stuff."

As this was going on, the kitten hopped off Laura's shoulder and padded over to Rahne. She looked down and they locked eyes for a moment before it suddenly pounced at her. Rahne yelped in surprise and fell off her chair.

"You okay, kid?" Jubilee asked.

Rahne picked herself up and saw the kitten innocently back on Laura's shoulder. She growled. "Fine."

Laura turned back to Jubilee and reluctantly agreed to her terms. "Alright, if it will get Warren's attention somewhere else."

Jubilee cheered and hugged Laura.

SNIKT

She immediately let go and jumped back when Laura released her claws. "Ok, no hugging, got it. We'll hang out tomorrow."

Peter let out a tired sigh as he landed on his balcony and went into his room.

"Long day?"

Peter literally jumped in surprise and clung to the ceiling. He looked down and saw a smirking Logan.

He jumped down and yanked off his mask, revealing his scowl. "There a reason for your sneaking up on hard working heroes?"

Logan shrugged. "Needed to talk. How long do you intend to keep this from the others?"

Peter groaned, having expected this to happen eventually. "I cant tell them. I cant let my aunt find out."

"Why." Logan asked and sat in his desk chair.

Peter threw his mask on his bed. "She wouldn't let me keep doing it."

"Its not your job."

Peter shook his head. "That doesn't matter. I cant just do nothing when I have this power. It comes with responsibility."

"And who said it was yours." Logan argued.

He didn't answer and Logan got up with a sigh. "Their going to find out eventually."

He collapsed into his bed with a huff. Logan was right. Eventually the truth will come out, but until then he needs to keep them out of his problems, including the weirdness that happened earlier.

This year was getting complicated.

A brown haired man took a needle and injected the contents into the stump where his right arm should have been. He grunted and shivered as a strange green substance entered his body.

"Curt!?" A woman called.

The man removed his glasses and turned to the stairs. "Down here in the basement, Martha!"

A red haired woman came down and found her husband in the lab they set up in the basement. The place had several wheeled whiteboards, cages with various species of reptile and essential lab equipment strewn across tables.

"Why don't you come to bed. Billy will be up early and excited about his birthday." She said, walking up to him.

He smiled and gave her a peck on the cheek. "Just doing some last minute checks."

She looked behind him and gasped when her eyes landed on the needle. "Curt, What the hell are you thinking?!"

He raised his arm and gestured for her to calm down. "Martha, I know its risky, but it will work. This could-"

"Kill you! We're going to the hospital." She grabbed his arm and began pulling up the stairs.

He pulled free before the first step. "Martha, please. I know it'll work this time. Just-GAH!"

He suddenly collapsed and writhed in agony on the ground. Martha immediately went to his side.

"Curt! What's happening! Curt, please talk to me!"

He continued to yell out and the stump of his former arm seemingly began to bubble. An actual arm shot out and she jumped back to avoid it. Curt greedily took deep breaths as the pain began to subside.

He slowly sat up and looked down at the new appendage with wide eyes. He broke into a smile and laughed in disbelief, then turned to his wife.

"It worked. Martha, it worked!" He cheered.

Her hands went to her mouth as she looked on with astonishment. She slowly reached over and touched. He flinched but laughed at even being able to.

"It actually worked. Curt, this could change so many lives." She practically whispered in shock.

"Mom? Dad?" A young voice spoke and a brow hair boy came down.

Curt immediately hugged him. He gasped as he was lifted by two arms. "Dad, your arm!"

Curt smiled. "That's right, Billy. Your old man isn't half a man anymore."

Martha put a hand on his shoulder. "You never were, but I'm just glad it didn't backfire."

He leaned over and kissed her, then turned to his son. "Lets head back up. We'll play any game you want."

Billy cheered and they headed up.

The next morning curt woke up with a smile. He looked down and flexed his arm to make sure it wasn't a dream.

He turned and lifted Martha out of the bed. She woke with a gasp and laughed a little.

"Curt, what are you doing.?"

He smiled as he carried her to the living room. "Its Billy's birthday."

She laughed some more as he set her down on the couch. Billy heard the commotion and excitedly came into the living room. He ran into his father's arms.

"Can we start with presents?"

Both males turned to Martha with a pleading look. She rolled her eyes but nodded.

"Fine, but first we cut the cake."

They cheered and Curt set Billy down to get the cake. He opened the fridge and pulled out the cake, but dropped it and his legs buckled as pain washed over him. Martha immediately got up and moved to him.

"What's wrong? Curt!"

A guttural pained wail escaped him and she backed away in horror.

Laura groaned at the sound of knocking. Jubilee burst in with a wide grin.

"Come on, we're going to eat breakfast and then head out."

Laura sat up with a scowl. It softened slightly when the kitten jumped into her arms. She got to her feet and shoved Jubilee out.

Setting her new pet down, Laura slipped on her usual grey shirt, black leather jacket, grey jeans and headed down.

She was met with the daily chaos of every morning. Kitty and Rogue argued, Kurt ported around getting food, Jean and Scott barely took their eyes of each other, Warren gave her that cocky smirk, Logan and Ororo were subtly glancing at each other and all around was pure madness.

Peter gave a wide smile at her arrival before he could stop himself. Realizing it, he looked away and tried to reign it in. Laura gave him an odd look. They had spent a lot of time around each other the last few weeks, but she wasn't ready to call them friends just yet. Though she found it strange that someone was actually happy to see her. She kept getting that weird warm feeling around him, and it was one of the things that annoyed her most.

Jubilee was the worst right now though. Her grin didn't leave as she padded the seat next to her in a gesture for Laura to sit there. Laura did so.

May set down a plate for her and Laura murmured a quick thanks.

The kitten once again climbed onto her shoulder. Rahne narrowed her eyes at it. Peter looked at it curiously. "What's with the cat?"

She shrugged. "Started following me around. Didn't take the hint not to…like you."

He rolled his eyes, but grinned. Laura felt herself heat up at that grin and mentally cursed these new weaknesses. Everyone was mostly oblivious to the exchange, but May looked between the two with a smirk.

Jubilee ate quickly and Laura groaned at what awaited her.

Tony Stark was known as many things. Among were billionaire, philanthropist, and notorious playboy. Recently however, the people now knew him as Iron Man.

He honestly didn't know the first thing about being a superhero, but it obviously involved not ignoring a cry for help. Which is why when he heard several screams from down the hallway he was walking along, he ran towards it while calling for his armor.

He ran into a lab and had to duck as a desk flew at him and scientists. His jaw nearly unhinged when he saw an enormous humanoid lizard running off with a dispersal machine he had decommissioned in fear of it being used to spread biological weapons.

"Hey!" He yelled before he knew what he was thinking.

The creature turned and grinned maliciously. "Tony Stark. It is quite the honor. I hope you don't mind if I borrow some equipment."

"I do mind actually. Handing over dangerous tech to an insurance mascot seems like a no no."

He looked around for any sign of his armor. The Lizard only scoffed. "Look at me. I am perfection. The future of all species. Everyone else is flawed, and I can change them. Cure them of their limitations."

Tony tried to keep him talking. "Why? Don't you lizard people already run the world?"

The Lizard chuckled. "Trying to buy time, Mister Stark? For what, I wonder."

They suddenly heard a noise and Tony smirked. "That."

Metal pieces of his armor tore through the walls. The Lizard batted them away as they flew at him. A gauntlet made it to Tony and he immediately began hitting him with repulsor blasts.

The creature hissed in pain and raised an arm to block. Tony continued his merciless assault until he got a shot on it's head and it went down, seemingly dead.

He sighed in relief and stepped closer to examine the body. His relief turned to horror as the wounds closed and he was batted away.

He hit the wall hard and was left dazed. With blurry vision, he watched as the creature ran off. Moments later, Pepper came in with a security and medical team close behind.

Laura and Jubilee exited a movie theater with different expressions. Jubilee was still in a giggling fit at the comedy that had watched. Laura looked bored though. She honestly didn't get how that was comedy when it was mostly people pretending to be dumb, yelling stuff, and saying dirty things.

"You really didn't like it?" Jubilee asked.

"No."

"Well the days isn't over yet." Jubilee said, trying to stay positive.

Laura followed her to a café and Jubilee went to get them something. When she returned, Laura felt she had to ask something.

"This isn't a date is it?" She asked with a straight face.

Jubilee choked on her smoothie and gave Laura a look of pure shock. "No! what gave you-ok, I get why you think that, but this isn't that!"

She then looked closer and saw Laura actually holding back a smirk. She sighed. "You've been hanging around Peter too long."

Laura's face then became serious. "What are you trying to do here, Jubilee? I'm not normal, and I doubt I ever will be."

Jubilee looked down sadly at the truth in her words. "Do you know how I got to the mansion?"

Laura shook her head and Jubilee continued. "I came only a year before you. A family with the same last name as mine owed money to some dangerous people. I came home from school one day and the house was trashed. They confused my family for the others and killed them, then tried to finish the job with me, but the stress activated my mutation and I fought them off."

Jubilee stopped for a second and took a deep breath. "I ended up stealing to get by, and that's where Logan found me. He saved me from getting arrested and brought me back to the mansion. We had some had some trouble in between that but when we got there, he became like a father to me. You're his daughter and I like to think that it makes us like sisters. I only want us to get along…I only want us to be family."

Laura took all this in and didn't know what to say. The idea of family was completely foreign to her. Logan, despite how awkward the situation was, really tried to be there but he wasn't exactly the average father. Most of the mutants had lost there family in one way or another, so it wasn't something she saw often. Only recently had she seen it with Peter and his aunt. She saw how he always kept an eye on her and made sure she never hurt herself. How they cared for each other unconditionally.

If that was family, she wasn't sure she was capable of having one, but maybe she could try.

Laura held the bridge of her nose, annoyed at how much these past few weeks have been confusing for her and looked Jubilee.

"So, what's next?"

Spider-Man sailed over the streets and landed himself against a wall. He wore the new suit which looked like his old one, but had a large white spider symbol on his back and chest. It was more conformed to him than the old one and the lenses moved with his eyes.

He looked down at his hands and the HUD showed the status of his web-shooters, along with combinations he had loaded into it that he could change by tracking where his eyes looked.

Tony and him got a bit carried away.

He climbed to the top, sat on the edge and yanked off his mask with a sigh. "Man, sure is quiet without an A.I."

He huffed and got to his feet. After swinging around for awhile, he began to remember how lonely his patrols were last year. Yuri had been exactly what he needed and now with her gone, he pretty much had no one to talk to.

In fact, since gwen died he basically isolated himself from everyone until he met Laura. When his uncle died, Gwen was the one who was there for him and the two spent almost every moment together since. She became like the sister he never had but the two often gave people the wrong idea. When peter was dating MJ, she would often express suspicion of their relationship, despite his assurances.

Harry also had a crush on MJ and secretly resented peter for being with her. Eventually he fell for Gwen, but again saw peter as competition. When she died, he didn't hold back in pinning the blame on him as he believed that with all the time they spent with each other, he should have been there.

Harry had no idea how right he was. Peter will never forget how she charged in to save him from the green goblin, using her dad's gun, or how goblin's hand burst through her chest.

Several gunshots snapped his attention back to reality and he slipped his mask back on. The lenses narrowed as his gaze shifted around for the source.

A gun went off again and he swung in it's direction. He landed on the side of another building and saw people exiting cars and running while the police were shooting at…a giant lizard?

"Seriously? Where are these guys coming from." He said in frustration.

He saw the lizard throw something and a cloud of green smoke engulfed the officers. Swinging down, he tackled the three officers out of the cloud, but they began to change.

The Lizard examined Spider-Man. "Ah, another perfect blend of man and animal. I must say I admire what you are."

He tilted his head at it's ability to talk. "Always nice to meet a fan. What did you do to these men?"

"Cured them. Took away their weaknesses and opened their minds." The Lizard replies proudly.

Spider-Man looked over and saw they had become smaller versions of The Lizard. They began to surround him and The Lizard offered his hand.

"Help me cure them. Help me save them from imperfection."

Spider-Man narrowed his lenses. "I cant let you do that. Change these people back. Now."

The Lizard dropped his hand in disappointment. "Such a waste. Kill him."

The smaller ones seemed to obey and they lunged faster than he expected. One clamped down on his shoulder. He tried to punch it off, but the other two moved in, biting down on his left leg and right arm. He pulled to avoid getting dismembered but was unable to get free.

A familiar sound went off and blue beams began shooting the lizards off. Once two were knocked off, he grabbed the one biting his shoulder and pushed it's jaw open to slip out.

Iron Man landed and threw a punch that sent one of the creatures flying. Peter used a web line to swing one into the other and sent them smashing into a car.

The Lizard saw this and began retreating into the sewers. Tony flipped open his helmet.

"I see you ran into my new friend."

Peter hopped over and landed in a crouch. "Kind of hard to miss a giant talking lizard."

"We need to head after him. He stole something that can disperse whatever he used to make those into the air and all over the city."

Tony made to go after him, but Spider-Man stopped him. "I can move faster down there. The civilians need you here. We can protect ourselves, they cant."

Tony looked over and saw the creatures now randomly rampaging around and relented. "I'll keep them busy."

Tony flew off and Peter looked at his wounds. They were bleeding profusely, but he ignored it and jumped through the manhole cover The Lizard used.

He landed with a splash and gagged in disgust. "Oh man, not a good time to have enhanced senses. And this is my first time wearing this suit."

He looked down and shrieked while jumping and clinging to the top. A rat ran by and he watched it disappear around a corner.

"Good thing no one was here to see that just now."

The Lizard came to a stop in an underground lab he set up. His wife and son were chained to pipes and Billy shook in fear.

"Curt, stop this! Please, this isn't you!" Martha pleaded.

The Lizard scoffed. "I am saving them. The serum isn't perfected however. Inhaling it doesn't work as well as injecting it. I'm changing you now and speeding up my plans."

He prepared two needles and the two began struggling.

"Dad, stop!" Billy begged.

"Curt, don't!" Martha tried as well.

He was about to walk over, but froze when he caught a scent. The Lizard growled. "You heroes are just popping up everywhere aren't you."

Spider-Man jumped down from above. "Well, not many people take too kindly to being turned into lizards."

The Lizard lunged with open jaws and He had to catch them. Spider-Man was tackled down and was having trouble keeping the teeth away from his throat.

He managed to roll them around and landed two heavy punches that The Lizard shrugged off and used his tail to whip him away. Peter rolled to his feet and got into a stance, just like Laura taught him.

Curt swung his claws several times but Spider-Man only dodged. He spun around to whip him with his tail, but Spider-Man caught it and swung him into the wall near Billy.

Peter tried to web him down but The Lizard clawed out and lunged. Billy noticed that the pipe he was chained to broke and he slipped the chains off from it. He bunched them up so the rattling wouldn't attract attention and went to his mother.

"Grab the pipe and help me pull it loose." Martha instructed.

They grabbed the pipe and she planted her foot on the wall as they pulled. They could hear the two super humans trying to wrestle each other down and it only motivated them to get free faster.

The Lizard had Spider-Man pinned down and looked up when he heard them trying to get free. He snarled and tried to lunge, but Spider-Man grabbed his tail.

"Where you going? I always wanted to wrastle a sewer gator, but you're the next best thing!"

He pulled him into the opposite wall, but the tail stayed in his hands. "Gross, this is not the kind of souvenir I want."

He turned to Curt and spoke like he was speaking to a baby. "I got your tail, yes I do. Aww, does Lizzy want his tail back?"

The Lizard let out an enraged roar and barreled into him. "You insufferable arachnid."

Peter grunted as he kicked him off. "Sweet talking isn't going to get you anywhere!"

As they resumed their struggle, Martha's pipe snapped off and she went over to the lab Curt set up.

"Billy, I need you to be my assistant. We're going to help stop this."

Billy nodded, determined to save his father. She looked around at what was available and began working away. "Billy, hand me that blue liquid."

Curt saw them working and decided to speed things along. He batted Peter away and grabbed a large black bag, before strapping it around himself and running off.

Peter hissed in pain as he got to his feet. He was covered in cuts and had three large gashes over his chest. He stumbled while trying to walk over to Martha.

"I get the feeling you know more about this than I do. Mind sharing?" He asked

She let a sigh as a she worked. "That…thing, used to be my husband. He was a surgeon in the army doing battlefield surgery. He lost his arm and began looking into science for someway to get it back. In particular, he looked into lizards and managed to create a serum that worked…for awhile. The lizard DNA must be dominating the human DNA, and-"

"He could end up stuck like that if it isn't held back somehow." Peter finished.

"Can you cure him?" Billy asked.

"I will, I promise you." Peter replied firmly.

He turned to Martha. "Tell me what you can about his work."

"I helped him make it, but can you understand it?" She asked.

He nodded and they got to work.

Tony ripped a lizard off his arm and blasted another away. The fight had progressed from where it started and they weren't going down easy. Any damage he did, they healed in moments.

"Sir, I would suggest that you retreat for repairs. The armor's integrity has already-"

"You heard Spiderman. We can defend ourselves, they cant."

He spotted the third lizard chasing frightened civilians and flew at it, tackling it to the ground and slamming a fist to it's face.

"Incoming call from Miss Potts." Jarvis informed.

"Don't answer-"

"Tony!" Pepper yelled as her face appeared in his view.

"Hi pep, did you do something new with your hair?" He said as he kicked a lizard into a car.

"Yes! Not that you noticed. And your supposed to be resting that thick skull of yours from the concussion!"

He dodged when a lizard pounced and blasted it from behind. "I'm fine, just-ugh-went for a walk."

She glared at him and he shivered slightly. "You went after it, didn't you?!"

"Uh…what is this 'it' you speak of. Cause there are a lot of its that I could be after. For instance, that ice cream that you love so much."

He grabbed a lizard and took off into the air but flying lowly, and the others followed.

"And which would that be?" Pepper challenged.

"…Pepper, there's something you should know. I'm not really after ice cream. Wow, felt good to get that off my chest."

"Damn it, Tony why-"

"Uh oh, losing signal." He said and made static noises while punching the lizard in his grasp.

"Tony! You better not-"

He hung up, threw the lizard down and landed. "She is going to kill me."

Laura let out a small chuckle as Jubilee tried to fit her face into the mirror that placed you in a military uniform from WW2. Jubilee was too short and scowled at Laura's quiet laughter, though inwardly was glad they were getting along.

Having nothing better to do, Jubilee decided they should visit a museum. It was more to keep them busy than having any actual interest. Laura didn't mind, as she found herself appreciating her company.

"They should really be more considerate of smaller people." Jubilee complained.

"So you admit your small." Laura taunted.

She crossed her arms. "I'm average sized."

They walked to a model of Captain America and Bucky Barnes. Jubilee turned to Laura curiously. "Did you actually fight him?"

She shrugged. "Not directly, that was mostly Peter."

"You two seem to be getting along." Jubilee stated as they left the museum.

"…Somewhat." Laura said simply.

Jubilee smiled slyly. "Should I give him the 'Don't hurt my sister' talk?"

Laura remained impassive. "That would imply something that isn't there."

Jubilee shrugged. "Well, I guess we can head back now."

Laura was surprised to feel a small bit if disappointment. It actually wasn't bad hanging around her, even if her idea of fun didn't exactly work for her. That gave her an idea actually.

"You got to pick what we did, now its my turn." Laura said with a smirk.

Jubilee blinked in surprise but smiled. They were about to head out, but heard a manhole cover open and cars skid to a stop.

Spider-Man hopped out, with a few vials webbed to his chest, looking worse for wear. He spotted them and gave a small wave before closing the cover and swinging off.

The two mutants shrugged it off and Laura led the way. When they stopped, the sun had gone down considerably.

Jubilee became confused as they arrived at a nightclub and the bouncer's eyes went wide at the sight of Laura. She gave a nod and he let them in.

"Laura, how-" Jubilee started.

"You don't want to know. They owe me though and will let us in as long as we don't drink, trust me I tried." Laura bitterly murmured the last bit.

Jubilee was still in surprise. "I didn't peg you for a nightclub kind of girl."

The music got louder as they entered and Laura turned to her with a shrug. "Normally, I'm not. But I feel like there's still some fun to be had. I came here a few times when I was…a working girl."

Jubilee winced at that last part. The place looked to only be starting to fill up though, and she felt this might be fun.

Laura turned to her again, only with a warning look. "Tell anyone you saw me dance and your dead."

Jubilee smirked. "My lips are sealed."

Peter spotted Tony and the smaller lizards still fighting it out on the streets below. Letting go of the webline, he prepares a needle in mid air and fell towards one.

He and Martha had managed to create a gene cleanser that would remove any foreign DNA and leave the human DNA intact.

He landed on a lizard and injected the blue liquid. The creature howled in pain and began to contort into odd and painful shapes until it became human again.

Tony, in his heavily damaged armor, flew over. "About time. These guys did a number on me."

"Sorry, had to make the cure."

A second lizard lunged, but peter stopped it with a needle and watched it painfully revert to a human. He still had three more webbed to his chest and handed one to Tony.

"We need to find where the big guy went."

Tony looked up. "He'll need to be at the highest point in the area. Unfortunately, my beautiful tower happens to be second in size only that monstrosity."

Peter groaned at said monstrosity being the Oscorp tower, but spotted the last lizard. "I'll meet you there."

Tony took off and he ran at the last lizard, who was attacking a hotdog cart. It heard him coming and threw the cart.

Peter dodged and stayed low as the two slowly circled each other. "Come on big guy, just take your medicine and we can all go home."

It growled defiantly and tried to run. He jumped onto it's back and used weblines to steer it towards Oscorp.

Tony's suit sputtered but held as he flew to the top of the Oscorp tower. The Lizard was on the building's antenna, trying to load the dispersion device. Tony blasted it but The Lizard took the hit and fell. His suit chose then to finally give up and he fell, barely catching himself on the edge.

"Propulsion offline." Jarvis informed.

"I noticed!"

He pulled himself up, opened a slot on his arm and put in the gene cleanser. "Load the cure into the swarm missiles. Fire half!"

Several small missiles launched from his shoulder and flew at The Lizard. He snarled and used an air conditioner to knock them away. One blew close enough and he coughed as the blue smoke entered his lungs.

He desperately turned to climb up to the dispersion device and tony was forced to climb after him without flight. "Come on! You have an unfair advantage!"

"Life isn't fair Stark! Only the future of evolution will survive!" The Lizard yelled back.

Tony was slowly and awkwardly climbing. "I don't like how ugly your idea of evolution is! I have an adoring public to look good for!"

Down below, Peter closed on the tower and injected the cure into the lizard. He jumped up and began climbing as it turned back to a human.

He arrived in time to see Tony grab The Lizard's tail and send both falling. Upon hitting the ground, his suit malfunctioned and fired a missile into the base of the antenna. The metal creaked and groaned as it began to toppled.

The Lizard hissed in frustration. Peter webbed him down and Tony manually took a missile from his shoulder and cracked it so that he inhaled the cure. The Lizard cried out in pain and Peter began webbing the antenna.

"What are you doing?" Tony asked.

Peter grunted in pain as he worked his arms to keep from falling. "Collateral damage might hurt the people below!"

Tony realized what he meant and pushed to his feet to start welding it back together. The Lizard, in a desperate final act, used his crumbling tail to shove Tony off the tower.

Peter's lenses went wide and he jumped after him. He aimed his arm but his HUD lit up with 'Reload' and he panicked while trying to grab a cartridge from the hidden belt in his waist.

"Jarvis! Get the flight back on!" Tony ordered.

"Working on it, sir."

Peter tried to reload but the HUD once again interrupted, this time with 'Jammed'. He growled in frustration and tried the other one.

The ground began to close but the shooter jammed again. "Crap! Tony! Spread your arms!"

He did so and slowed his descent slightly. Peter straitened himself to catch up and took out several web-cartridges. He crushed them and threw them below. Civilians jumped back when the webs spread over the pavement and the two hit the ground. Even softened slightly by the improvised web-cushion, they hit hard and groaned in pain.

"Lets never go skydiving." Peter suggested while catching his breath.

"Agreed."

Back on the tower, Curt lay unconscious in shredded clothes. A hand suddenly injected a needle and drew some blood.

"This might be useful." Norman said and walked away as Spider-Man climbed over the edge.

Peter quickly moved to him. "Hey come on. Your family is waiting."

Curt groaned and slowly rose his head. "Spider-Man? What-Where am I?"

He hesitated. Curt didn't seem to know what happened, and he was cured now. Right?

"N-nothing. You got hurt. Come on, lets get you back to Martha and Billy."

Curt looked down at his right stump and frowned. "I thought-I don't understand."

Peter kneeled down before him. "It doesn't matter now. Arm or no arm, you have a family who wants you back."

Curt sighed sadly and nodded. Peter put Curt's left arm around his shoulder and took him down by the stairs. When they got outside, while ignoring odd looks, they were greeted to the sight of a heavily bruised Tony sitting by an ambulance and being yelled at by a Pepper.

"Why do you have to be so stubborn! You were supposed to be resting!" She yelled, her face turning the same shad of her hair.

Tony winced. "But he stole my tech and Spiderman needed-"

"Spiderman! Spiderman! Spiderman! Always you and your super playdates lately!"

Peter chuckled and led Curt to where he spotted Martha and Billy.

"Dad!" Billy yelled and ran past the perimeter the police set up.

Curt stumbled out of Peter's grasp and caught his son. A few memories began to come back and he teared up. "I'm so sorry."

Martha came up and hugged the two. She looked at Peter. "Thank you."

"No prob-"

A bullet cut him off and people screamed as a few officers opened fire on him. Peter jumped and swung away. Tony yelled for them to stop but Peter had already left.

Laura and Jubilee laughed as they reached the mansion.

"I haven't had this much fun in awhile." Jubilee said.

"I don't think I've ever had this much fun. Thanks…I guess."

Jubilee smiled. "That's what family is for."

Laura looked hesitant. "Do you really see us as family?"

They entered the mansion and climbed towards the second floor.

"I do, and do you know what family does?"

Jubilee turned to Laura and gave her a hopeful look while opening her arms. Laura rolled her eyes but relented and gave her a hug.

It lasted two seconds before she shoved her off and went on her way. Jubilee kept her smile as she went her own way.

"I'm guessing it went well." Logan said as he came up beside her.

"Surprisingly, yeah."

Logan looked at her suspiciously. "You didn't do anything you shouldn't, did you?

She shrugged innocently. "Would we ever do such a thing?"

"Yes."

Laura walked by Peter's door and heard a heavy thump. She opened the door and crossed her arms.

"You look like shit." She stated while holding back the small pang of worry that hit her.

Peter was sprawled on the floor, covered in cuts and still bleeding pretty badly. He looked up and yanked off his mask. "I feel like it two."

She wrinkled his nose in disgust. "And smell like it."

He rolled onto his back as she came in and closed the door.

"It happens when you fight giant lizards in a sewer." He told her.

She looked confused for a second, but walked over and helped drag him to his feet. "What good is that training if this happens."

He shrugged as he sat on the bed. "It definitely was useful though."

She sighed and went into the bathroom, then came back with a med-kit she he had in there.

"Off." She ordered.

"You don't need to-"

"Off." Laura repeated more firmly.

He gave in and took off the top half of his suit. She frowned at the numerous bite and scratch marks. Laura sat down and the two worked together.

"Heard that you and Jubilee went out for some sisterly bonding. Did you have fun?" He asked while cleaning a claw mark.

"It was…tolerable." She admitted.

He took this to mean she enjoyed it. "Good. You may not realize it , but you have people who care about you."

Laura frowned and her hand froze where it was cleaning the large gashes on his chest. She couldn't resist asking. "Such as?"

He shrugged. "Logan, Jubilee, the professor…me."

"You?" She asked, getting that weird warm feeling again.

She didn't notice her hand was still on his chest until he gently grasped it. "Yes, me. I've come to care a great deal about you."

She looked him in the eye. "I don't know if I see us as friends, Parker."

"You might not, but I do." He said firmly.

They sat quietly for a moment, until Laura slowly removed her hands. Although they hid it well, both felt disappointment at the loss of contact. She got up and walked to the door, stopping only for a second, before leaving.

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