Mary Jane was still chewing down energy bars when she, Peter, and their own personal doctors, Reed and Susan, stepped into The Fantasicar and airlifted of the roof. She looked out of the flying vehicles window, seeing the skyscrapers from a rearly seen point of view.
"How can you eat NOW?" Peter asked her.
"I can't help it, I had a light meal for lunch and I'm usually home for dinner at this time. And you heard the doctor, I got a heighten metabolism."
Peter did a deep sighn and turned his face to look out the window. This sure was a nice situation he tripped into.
"You don't really think it's him, do you?" MJ asked. "I mean, how could it? He's in jail."
"It has to be him. He's the only one capable of doing something like this."
Very soon, the flying car reached its destination; The Triskelion, headquarter of SHIELD, the largest law-enforcement in the world. The vehicle landed on the giant buildings roof, next to a pair of parked helicopters. As the two superhero pilots and their superhero passangers stepped out of the car, they were greeted by a woman in trenchcoat and sunglasses.
"Mister Parker. Long time no seen, huh?"
"Agent Carter... Yeah, it sure been a long time. And to be honest, I haven't really missed you."
"I'm not blaming you. And I guess this charming young woman most be Jackpot. You sure have giving me a hell of paperwork to do, Miss."
"Sorry about that."
"Meh. It happens every time a new hero pops up, which is almost on daily basis in this town. Come with me."
The four heroes followed the female agent down some stairs and through a corridor. MJ leaned in towards Peter and whispered;
"Do you think she know about me?"
"I don't know. But I wouldn't be surprised if someone here at SHIELD does. Don't worry about it, these guys have some kind of professional secrecy or something."
Agent Carter lead the group through another door, where they passed several security guards.
"Director Danvers wouldn't have approve this unless Mister Richard had explained to her it was a matter of national security. We know the Mister Fanstasic don't joke about this kind of stuff. Young Mister Storm on the other hand... Anyway, I got really happy when she gave me this order. Even babysitting you guys beats doing deskjobs all day.
Soon the group came to a door where Agent Carter stopped walking.
"He's in there. But I don't expect him to talk much."
She slowly opened the door, revealing a small room only enlightened by a single lamp. Apart from a camera in the corner of the roof, the only things in this room was a table and a chair. And on that chair sat a man in bowlcut hair and sunglasses, his hands in plastic handcuffs. Doctor Otto Octavius.
"Mister Parker! And what gives me the honor?"
"You know damn well what this is about, Otto!"
The amazing Spider-man removed his mask, there was no need to keep up with the secret identity in here. He moved closer to the criminal, anger filling him.
"You're gonna tell me how you got my girlfriend full of OZ and you're gonna tell me right NOW!"
Doctor Octopus first looked at the angry young man with confusion, then he looked the young girl that had followed him, and he opened his mouth in a wide, amused, smile.
"Oh my god. This is amazing! This is a course of events that I did not forsee! Miss Watson, was it?"
MJ rolled her eyes, this was quickly getting annoying.
"What, you didn't know of her changes?" Reed Richard asked.
Otto's smile grow from amused to sinister. "How could I know of it? I am locked up here. I did see young Miss Watson on the television, but I did not understand it was her until just now. I would guess that you people already have studied her transformation, am I far off if I guess that you found OZ in her test results, Doctor Richard?"
"Um... No, you're... You're quite on the spot."
Peter stared at the evil scientist, and if looks could kill, Otto's head would blew off.
"Octavius, you are the only one left who know about the OZ! What did you do to Mary Jane!?!"
"Oh please. I thought you were smart, Parker. I can't do anything in here."
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!?!"
Peter flew up and lifted the man in the collar of his orange prisonsuit, letting his feets dangle a feet over the ground. Not until Mary Jane put her hand on Peters shoulder did he put him down.
"As I said..." Otto said as he sat down in the chair, clearing his throat. "My wish was not to have Miss Watson become another super-pain in my butt. I can not be held responsible for her changes. Actually, I'm surprised to see it's her, and not Parker, having mutated."
"What? What do you mean her but not me!?!"
"Your wish?" Susan said. "What were you hoping to accomplish?"
"What did you do, Octavius?!" Agent Carter asked, much more serious then Susan but not as serious as Peter.
"What I did? I did nothing. All I did was calculating a new form of the OZ-serum. I am that smart. One could assume that, someone somehow have getting hold of this new experimental formula and have started to spread it out in the public. Just to mess with YOU, Spider-man."
Peter gritted his teeth and Agent Carter mumbled "You bastard." at the evil mastermind.
"The result of the new formula could not be predeterminated, since it is such a remarkable drug. The results could have been further mutations, grotesque ones, or nothing at all. I, for one, would have hoped for the former."
Reed stepped in, what Octavius said really made him worried. "Do you realize that you may have poisoned the entire population of this town?"
"As I already said, I have done nothing. You don't have any proofs. Besides, what do I care for the low-lifes of this city? And the new formula don't work that way anyway, it was constructed to only affect people who already been treated by the OZ-serum. Apparently it only had affects on dormant OZ-cells, however. Not something one suspected."
Peter put his face really close to Otto's. "You evil bastard! You tried to get to me and instead you ended up messing up MJ! That's what happen'd, isn't it!?!"
That sinister gleam returned to Doc Ock's eyes. "I repeat, you don't have any proofs. You have nothing against me. But I can tell you this; Anything that makes you feel miserable, really keeps me warm in my cold prison cell, Parker."
The anger in Peters chest sank and turned into despair, so he left the room. MJ, who had been quiet the whole time, followed him soon after. This very room was giving her the creeps, so it was not hard to belive what its residents did to her.
"Take good care of your girlfriend, Parker!" Otto yelled after them, almost laughing. "We don't want her to end up like your uncle!"
"That guy most be the most evil jerk who ever walked this earth." MJ said, but Peter did not listen to her at first. "Peter? Are you okay?"
"I should ask you the same question."
"I'm fine. Upset and angry, yeah, but otherwise fine."
"MJ, I don't think you are taking this seriously enough."
"I AM taking this seriously. I just don't get all fizzed up about it like you. Peter, he tried to turn you into some kind of freaky monster but ended up giving me superpowers. This whole thing could have gone a whole lot worse."
"I guess so." Peter sighned. "It's just... How much more crap do we have to take from scumbags like him?"
"I don't know, sweetie. I don't know."
Soon Carter, Reed and Sue joined the two teenagers. Susan shaked her head at them.
"We can't get anything usefull from him."
"He's to smart." Reed filled in. "He know we can't get to him. And it's not like we can threaten him with something, not with him already behind bars."
"Could someone please explain to me what's going on?!" Carter yelled out. The whole situation was getting on her nerves.
"Well, far as I can tell..." Reed said. "Doc Ock have made a new kind of OZ-formula and was trying to use it on Peter. Just for the sake of messing up his life. It did not however work the way he expected to, and Mary Jane ended up having superpowers instead."
Susan scratched her haid. "What I don't get is how he got it in her."
"According to the guards the slimeball have had a guest here, off records, who showed up a few times the last three weeks. I'm gonna check with the surveillance system to see if we got a face we can look for." Carter said.
Peter then turned to Carter. "Why do you let him do that? How come you haven't strapped a straitjacket on him and put him under a big rock for, like, forever!?"
"Hey, it wasn't my fault! If it was up to me, that guy would had got the chair! But the bureaucrats at Washington wants that big brain of his on their side, so there's nothing we can do. Hopefully, if we can nail his accomplicement, we might be able get to him."
"Until then we have to find out how they got the OZ out in public." Richard said. "To make sure that Peter would take it in, he most have spread it out over a large area. Like through the water or maybe the food. We should check things out in your neighbourhood and your school."
Susan put her hand on Mary Janes shoulder. "Listen. You two have had enough hard time as it is. Why don't we get you home, so can you guys relax while we do the rest, okay?"
MJ nodded, it did sounded good in her ears.
"Reed, listen..." Peter said, his face describing several feelings such as despair and frustration. "Do you think... Do you think you ever be able to cure MJ?"
MJ was taken back, her jaw opened wide. She couldn't belive what Peter just said, right in front of her too.
"I-I-I don't know." Reed answered. "I couldn't really cure her the first time, the OZ has such a complex structure. It could take me months, if not years."
"But we better take it one thing at the time." Susan stepped in, seeing the expression on MJ's face. "She should just let Mary Jane be as she is for now. God knows what will happen if we start to tamper with her genes."
Reed started to lead the two youngsters back to the Fantasicar. "Come, I'll give you guys a ride home."
Reed and Susan dropped of MJ and Pete not to far away from their homes. There was an awkward silence between the two youngsters for several minutes. Peter mostly looked at his feets.
"Peter, you don't have to beat yourself up like this. It is not your fault."
"Oh yeah? So why does it feels like it?"
"Because you blame yourself for every little thing. You probably say the global warming is your fault too."
"Ha. It wouldn't surprise me if that is the case."
MJ took her boyfriends hand in her own and moved closer to him. "You know what would make you feel better, Tiger? You and me busting some no-life criminals, together. You can help me with my hero training."
"I'm sorry, MJ. But I just... I just don't feel like it right now. It has been a long day, I have homework to do and a lot of things to take in. Can't it wait 'til tomorrow?"
"I guess it can."
"Okay. I'll see you tomorrow then."
Peter gave Mary Jane a kiss on the cheek and jumped away over a roof. MJ looked at the last energy bar she held in her hand, and for some reasons she wasn't hungry anymore.
Octavius sat down in his prison cell. He too had much to think about.
"This has been a must interesting turn of events. The fact that Parker have not been affected by the OZ but his girlfriend instead was an surprising equation. But for now for I have much more worriyng matters to deal with then Spider-man's 'booty call'. Some one else out there have the OZ-serum, and whoever it is, he's making a mockery out me and my work. Next time I see Mr Gonzales, he better answer some of MY questions."