Chapter 12
"I'm the Shocker you moron!" Obviously there was annoyance in voice
"Oh I'm sorry did I pinch a nerve does baby need cry to mommy." He snickered
"Hmph, I'll tell you not to forget it but I doubt you live long enough to remember that, sucker!" He charged his gauntlet and let a powerful wave of vibration through the air hitting the pillar both Spiderman and Spiderwoman were on; quickly they jumped off it before the wave of vibration struck.
"Sheesh, you think he has better aim than that…" He was cut off when spider-sense was trigged, "Or maybe he does…"
The wall they were just on started to fall on both the spiders but they knew that they be able to dodge it easily, however spider-sense was triggered again this time an innocent bystander was in the way.
Peter cried out to the innocent bystander and tried to warn her. She wasn't paying attention when suddenly a shadow was over her, paralyzed with fear the poor young woman let out a high-pitched shriek. Everything was in slow motion for Peter as he tried to run towards but a red blur zipped past him tackling the young woman to the ground as the pillar fell with a mighty thud.
Quickly he checked the innocent bystander as well the red-blur that past him. Upon examining the scene he looked at the frighten young woman he got a good look at her, she was wearing a pink skirt, with a violet sweater vest along with a white long sleeve blouse underneath the violet blouse. She was breathing hard with shocked eyes on what just transpired.
"Hey are you alright Ms…"
"H-Hardy, Felicia Hardy…" she stammered looking at the giant pillar that almost crushed her underneath. Spiderman took a good moment to take a good look at her she was platinum blonde, with green grass eyes; Peter thought she was actually somewhat cute…
'WHOA…where did that come from?' Helping her to her feet, the two of them heard a soft groan. Peter eyes widen in shock as he saw Mary Jane lying flat on her stomach with her right foot pinned underneath the pillar that fell. Mary Jane was banging her head on the floor repeatedly trying to hold the pain in.
"Red!"
"Tiger…" she sobbed out, "It hurts… It hurts… It hurts…" Peter went to work on the pillar before he did he looked noticing that Shocker was gone. 'Next time Shocker…next time...but right now I focus on getting MJ out of here.' Placing both hands on the pillar and using his spider strength, he heaved with great force but the wall would not budge an inch.
Felicia touched his shoulder grabbing his attention, "Please let me call a friend who works under construction for Howard Hughes to get her out of that, it the least I can do after saving my life."
Peter looked MJ and looked back at Felicia, "Alright back make fast I don't Red here is going to last for much longer with this pillar on her foot."
Nodding she took out her cell from her purse and speed dialed her friend, "Hello? Yes, may I speak with Luis Scott…what…what do you mean he is not available…well then I don't care if he about for vacation just tell him that Felicia Hardy wants to speak with him…Luis…Yeah it's me, I got a small job for you how fast can you get down to the Grand Central Terminal?"
1 hour 30 minutes later
Mary Jane passed out from the pain she was experiencing, police had come and surveyed the scene interviewing many of terminal guards as possible for any leads of the new villain calling himself the Shocker, firefighters were searching for any signs of gas leaks and electrical wire down making sure that she would be a problem.
Paramedics were tending to the wounded including the Spiderwoman, they said that they had to remove a small portion of the pillar to get Spiderwoman out the large rock, Felicia already told them she called someone and he was on his way. Peter couldn't go anywhere for the time being and sat down Indian style next to his companion, he thought long and hard about his next for the next time he would run into Shocker. Felicia came up and pecked him on the cheek startling him.
"What was that for, if I may ask?"
"For saving me from that rock that was going to fall on me, you silly boy…" He blushed behind the mask and he was grateful that it was on or he would be embarrassed to the bone if he had shown his cheeks were colored.
It was an unusual silence but not uncomfortable or comfortable it was one of those silences where you had nothing else to say.
"Hey Felicia, sweetheart how ya doing honey?" Felicia looked up and saw the man she had talked to an hour ago. As they greeted Spiderman could not help but shake his head at the man fail attempt to hit on the blonde haired woman, 'The things I do for love.'
Unknown Lair
Shocker already walked up an old staircase snaking his way up towards his employer sanctuary. The old clock severed as a base for the man he was working for but it didn't help that he lived all the way at top of this contraption.
"Are we there yet boss?"
"For the fifth-teen time I said NO!" Shocker was in a bad mood ever since Spiderman and his girlfriend showed up, they managed to get away and on a positive note for them they did disabled his partner but they lost the van with the money they planned to share with the employer.
A few hundred feet more and they were at the top of the clock tower, where pigeon bop their heads sideways looking curiously looking at the new strangers that appeared before them. They walked in appearing before a hunched over man, it looked like he was tinkering with something he did acknowledge them without taking his eyes of his project.
"You disappoint me Shocker I thought we had a deal, we get the jewels and the money to split amongst us and sell to the highest bidder this priceless jewel but instead I get a failure from you."
"It's not my fault!" He shouted in anger, "How the heck was I supposed to know Spiderman and his girlfriend were going to show messing the whole plan up, I'm the Shocker not 'Future know-it-all' for crying out loud."
"No need for sarcasm, next time get the job done or you're not taking part in our deal and make sure to finish the job when you Spiderman again or else." Shocker growled at the man in front of him but nonetheless agreed with him, he was called over to make some new plans to make sure to better prepare for Spiderman whenever he showed along with female counterpart.
New York Downtown Hospital
The doctors were looking over Norman Osborn. So far, they managed to stabilize his condition however; he has been exposed to large quantities of the unknown chemicals that he inhaled. By the time Paramedics had found him and the doctor under all that rubble, their pulses had been weak and both were in a state of comatose.
They had worked on him but found no physical injury, which they believed, was a miracle in fact he was in perfect health like nothing happen to the man. No one knew what to make of it, for all they knew he would stay in a coma, or pass throughout the night; it was really a tough call.
"So how's the patient doing?" A female doctor asks her male counterpart as he was checking the readouts as she walked right in Norman's room.
"He's stabilized still nothing has changed since the last time we checked on him, at least for the moment." He said writing down his observations down onto a clipboard.
"Well if that's the case, might as well check out then, I doubt he'll be awake anytime soon so let's go." She told him and he nodded his head so far it looked like he would stay in a coma for a very long time.
"Come on I'll buy the coffee and the doughnuts this time, my treat."
He smiled as he put the clipboard away, "Sure thing I could use a nice cup of coffee it has been a while since I had it."
They walked out of the room shutting off the lights leaving Norman in the dark. In the middle of the night though was when the first signs of life that he started to show. The heart rate monitor started to beeped faster as his breathing became deeper as well. His fingers started to twitch at first his eyes moved under the lids as scenes of the accident replayed in his mind.
Dreaming
Osborn crashes into a control panel against the far wall, rows and rows of switches and levers that are knocked all out of whack. A low hum permeates the lab. The monitors of an adjacent bank of computers flashing formulas and data Otto are now furious.
"HOW DARE YOU TOY WITH MY WORK!"
On a workbench, a heated furnace tube spins around the edges of a blue coil and begins to warm a gray-brown liquid. All around the lab, liquids and vapors awaken, creep through a nest of tubes.
"MY LIFES WORK! NOW YOU DO IT OSBORN!"
Osborn struggles to his feet. The robotic arms close in around him again. Octavius picks him right up off the floor with the arms, dangling in the air. Osborn kicks and struggles ferociously to break free but to no avail.
Meanwhile, all around him, the liquids and gases start to move faster, bubbles start to form and they begin to hiss. Tubes swirl with strange gases from coming from under them, smoke and vapor are leaking out of the connections tubes, the entire system is groaning, something has gone terribly wrong and he two men continue with their struggle.
A shrill ALARM begins to sound. Anyone who was left in the lab, including the Security Guards, turned and race for the doors, desperate to get the hell out of there.
Both Octavius and Osborn stop suddenly their assault on one other witnessing the damage they have done.
"Good God." They both said simultaneously
All over the lab, glass tubes crack like ice in the springtime. They hear a strange sucking noise as they see the entire works implodes section-by-section, tubes, gases, liquids, and vapors are all collapsing inward on each other. There is a moment of horrible silence in which Octavius' voice is the only sound in the lab, "Look at we've done?"
KA-BOOM!
Norman's eyes opened wide in the waking world as he finally awakens from the nightmare that he had.
LXD: Still reediting