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This chapter will end arc 1 but the next one will be just as big.
Chapter 25
End Game
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Queens City Hall, two hours ago
Brock Rumlow walked into the Mayor's office, although it might have well been his office now. The mayor looked horrible sweat soaked and terrified at the events that had happened. Rumlow had called him to enact full, unrestricted use of heavy artillery that the SCU had on hand. The result had been just as much devastation as the monster's had caused. "Rumlow this has to stop as the mayor I'm ordering you to ceas-" his sentence ended abruptly as a gunshot echoed through the room. The lifeless body of the mayor fell to the floor, a bullet lodged in his skull. "I just came here to tie up loose ends." Rumlow stated before leaving the office fully intent on eliminating the post-human menaces, all heroes included. "Prep the chopper for launch I'll be there in ten minutes." He finished speaking into his radio before walking onto the streets of Queens. From what his troops had told him, the regular cops had turned traitor, allying with a mercenary group to deal with his own troops. 'Stacy, you stupid vigilante sympathizer.' He then walked down the street gearing for his own self-prepared war.
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Baxter Building, outside
Peter and Connors raced up the side of the building Peter using his webbing and adhesive abilities, Connors with his enhanced strength and claws. The explosion hadn't been anything awe encompassing, but it was still rather big. This had spurred both of the super powered individuals into action. Their climb however was soon interrupted. The two beings looked up into the sky as they saw a large SCU chopper headed towards the Baxter building, or more specifically, towards them. The gunship lowered itself to their level before a side door opened revealing an armored soldier at the trigger of a machine gun turret. The mounted weapon roared to life as it rained shrapnel down on both Spiderman and his new reptilian ally.
While Peter was able to dodge the incoming fire, Connors was not. He was met with blinding pain as hot metal pierced his hide. To the beast's credit, he did not let go of the building and continued to climb. Peter knew that Connors' advanced healing would keep him alive a bit longer, but under that type of firepower, even the Lizard could be killed. Acting fast Spiderman leapt off the building aiming straight for the helicopter. He slammed into the gunner with enough force to put a dent in the chopper, one that could be seen from the outside. The gunner however was far from finished as he delivered a solid kick to the super human's chest. The kick was far more powerful than it should have been for a normal human. The attack had almost sent Spiderman out of the chopper and onto the streets below. He saved himself via grabbing the chopper door. He then pulled himself in to deliver a stomp kick right into the soldier's head. The blow struck head on, cracking the helmet. The helmet fell to the ground revealing an older man of about forty with a black stubble beard, and brown eyes. He had the hardened look of a man who had taken lives and seen the worst of what war could do; Brock Rumlow was no one to mess around with. "You damn vigilante!" He charged at Peter faster than he could react slamming the young hero into the cockpit door almost breaking it.
"You post-human freaks need to die!" Spiderman grappled with the man before reversing their positions. He slammed Rumlow into the cockpit door before hammering him with a flurry of punches. "Yeah and like your so normal!" peter could tell from their short fight that Rumlow was anything but human. "I'm more human that the rest of you abominations!" he kicked Peter off of him before drawing his handgun. Peter grabbed his firing arm and angled it back, despite this Rumlow still fired. The bullets rebounded inside the chopper, several of them slammed into the cockpit area killing the unsuspecting pilots. The chopper immediately began to take a nosedive. Connors, having recovered from the initial injuries Rumlow had inflicted on him, looked at the spiraling chopper. "Spiderman get out of there!" Peter heard his crossbreed compatriot, but there was little he could do in this situation as Rumlow gave him no chance to escape. "I will kill you then all your other freaky friends!" He delivered a powerful punch to Spiderman's head disorienting him. "And after you all are dead, I'll pay those traitors in the police force a visit. Starting with Stacy!" Hearing this finally snapped Peter out of his disoriented state. Rumlow drew his knife and delivered a two handed stab, or he would have if a red mechanical claw hadn't slice his right hand off.
Rumlow stared in shock as he saw his right hand drop to the chopper floor and tumble out the opened side of the vehicle. Blood spurted from the wound before he let a cry of pain. "Arrrgghhh!" He dropped down to his knees as the web-swinging vigilante clung to the chopper as it rapidly approached the ground. He leapt from the chopper, Rumlow recovering enough to do the same. The chopper smashed into the roof of a six-story building and plummeted to the ground floor. Peter picked himself off of the roof and looked around at his surroundings. He looked at the damage that the chopper had caused and prayed that no one had been inside when the chopper crashed. His prayers were cut short when his spider-sense warned him of approaching danger. He whirled around just in time to see a knife being thrown directly at his face. He caught the blade by its handle, and by instinct drilled into him by Kraven's training hurled it at his attacker. The knife struck Rumlow directly in his stomach, lodging itself below his ribs. He collapsed to his knees, blood seeping from his new wound, and the stump that had once been his right hand. Peter walked towards him, anger burning inside of him. He grabbed the handle of the knife and pulled it free of the man's stomach. Rumlow let out a brief gasp of pain, but it quickly died. "Finish…it…" he said in a raspy voice, clearly at the end of his rope. Spiderman raised the knife before chucking it to the side. Rumlow looked up at him, his eyes bloodshot with bags forming under them, he looked as pale as a ghost.
"I'm not gonna kill you." Spiderman said as he began to walk away but spoke one last sentence. "But I don't have to save you either." He then dived off the building, firing web-lines as he began to return to the Baxter Building. Rumlow was left on the roof of the now burning building, kneeling in a slowly growing pool of his own blood.
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Oscorp labs
The orange goblin creature smiled down wickedly at his still shocked father. "Hello dad." The goblin said looking at Norman. He then looked overs the balcony's edge to see more crossbreeds attacking people. Smiling with wicked intent, "This will be fun!" he then leapt off the balcony and landed in the middle of the lobby floor. The crossbreeds looked at the new arrival before charging it. The goblin merely grinned at the new challenge. He charged the monster's rank punching and kicking every crossbreed that came within his range of attack. Several crossbreeds were lucky enough to get the drop on the orange goliath and began to dog pile on top of him. The goblin snarled in anger as he was brought to his knees by the animal themed monsters. He let out a roar of defiance before his body released a massive burst of flames. The force and heat of the blast sent the now burning crossbreeds in all directions.
All throughout the fight Norman stood by the balcony's railing, looking down at his son. He watched as the goblin, empowered with the OZ formula, rip through the crowd of monsters with ease. He let an unnervingly ecstatic smile spread across his face. "It's even more powerful than I imagined! Harry my boy, you have made me proud this day!" Unbeknownst two the two men, a third figure had witnessed the scene of Harry's transformation and current ongoing fight between the goblin and the crossbreeds. Liz Allen looked at her mutated boyfriend in fear. "Harry…what's happened to you!?" she whispered. As the battle continued Liz was overcome with fear and fled from the scene. She ran out of Oscorp and headed down the street. She didn't know where she was heading, the city looked like a war zone, nothing was familiar. She continued down the street, finally stopping to catch her breath at the remains of what seemed like a restaurant. "What the hell is going on!?" she muttered, completely confused at the situation. The city was a war zone, one of her best friends was missing, monsters were roaming the streets, the SCU were going crazy, and her boyfriend had just turned into a hulking monster.
She finally seemed to have calmed down, when a loud banging noise was heard in the restaurant alley. Against her better judgment she approached the area. The sight she saw looked straight out of a horror movie. A large rat like crossbred was currently busy at work eating the remains of an SCU officer's corpse. Liz stared in silent horror as she slowly began to back away. As she backed away she lost her footing and fell backwards landing on the ground. The slight noise was all it took for the monster to turn its attention to the frightened teen. The monster stood up on its legs and slowly walked towards its ne prey. Liz couldn't move out of pure fear. She was going to die. She was going to die at the hands of this monster and no one would know. The crossbreed leapt at the petrified girl mouth opened, claws out stretched. Liz finally mustered enough energy to bring her hands up in defense. Her hands began to glow, and Liz could feel her skin burning. The crossbreed however was too late to realize the danger this presented. It continued it charge without a second thought. To Liz's horror and relief the crossbreed began to burn before exploding into a cloud of burnt body parts and embers. Liz sat where she was, in complete shock. She looked down at her hands before looking at the remains of the monster. "What the hell is happening!?" she exclaimed.
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Baxter Building
Reed Richards was normally a calm man, he didn't like to panic or experience anxiety, but as a human he was fated to experience these thoughts and feelings at some point in his life. He wished to god that now was not the time to feel them. He was currently racing down the hall with both Black Widow and Hawkeye trailing close behind him. They were close to the storage room, one that held some of the more dangerous experiments meant to be sealed. It didn't help that his fiancé and best friend were in the path of a raging psychopath who was stronger than he looked according to Spiderman. Although Reed didn't know the young man personally, he could tell that when the young hero dropped his sarcastic tone, shit was about to hit the fan. The trio finally reached the heavy vault door that kept the storage areas safe. Or they would have had the vault still been in one piece. Where the vault door should have been now lay a gigantic opening in the wall. The metal was bent and twisted, the hinges broken and mangled. Reed was really starting to worry now.
The group rushed into the vault room looking for any sign of the perpetrator. All they saw as a large room filled with metal containers that were currently holding god-knows-what. The seemingly vacant room was then disrupted as four mechanical tentacles whirled around a set of crates and attempted to slam the heroes. Reed stretched his body out, twisting and turning around the arms heading straight for their source. Hawkeye and Widow, both nimbly dodged the deadly appendages, firing their respective weapons at the tentacles. Reed stretched himself out around the crated the arms had smashed through before, once around the obstruction he saw the man controlling them. Seeing Mr. Fantastic approach, Doc OC recalled his arms and began a defensive retreat, flailing his tentacle at the pliable hero. Richards evaded the incoming attacks, throwing his own punches into the fray. Several of his attacks found their mark striking Otto and sending him flying into another crate. The octopus themed villain recovered quickly, retaliating by unleashing his arms at Mr. Fantastic, nailing him in the stomach. Pushing his advantage, Octavius unleashed an electric surge that ripped through Reed's body make him howl in pain. Otto flung the limp body of Mr. Fantastic at the two remaining heroes. Hawkeye and Black Widow dodged the attack. Wise-ass archer unleashed a volley of arrows; all but one arrow deflected of the madman's revolving arms.
The last arrow had a specialized polymer that clung to the metallic arm. It began to blink before sending a torrent of electricity into the arm. The electric shock traveled down the arm and into its wielder. Oactavius let out a cry of pain as his body was dealt a near lethal dosage of electricity. "Doesn't feel so good, does it jackass!?" Widow took this opportunity to fire several bullets at the currently stunned villain. Otto was able to raise his remaining tentacles to deflect most of the projectiles but two found their mark in his left shoulder and right kneecap. Otto screamed in pain as he collapsed to the floor. Widow leapt into the air and delivered a guillotine drop kick to the man's head. Otto met the ground face first with a resounding crack. The man lay motionless on the ground as the electric arrow finally lost its charge. "Well that's one problem down." Hawkeye said, nudging their downed adversary with his foot. Widow helped a recovering Mr. Fantastic onto his feet. "True…but we don't know what he was doing here to begin with." Reed added grimly. "So what equipment were they after?" Widow questioned. Reed extended hi body so he could reach a computer terminal built into the wall. "Any experiment that's has been unsealed will be registered on the manifest. So far it looks like he was after one item specifically…" Reed suddenly halted mid sentence as he looked more closely at the manifest displayed on screen. "He was looking for an experiment in our upper storage areas, the same floor as the main labs!" "So where is that?" Hawkeye asked. "Right above us, where the rest of the team is located." Widow replied. "We need to move now!" Reed said. The group then bolted for the access doors that would lead them towards the next floor.
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Main Labs
The second team consisting of Captain America, The Human Torch, and Iron Man headed for the final access door that would lead to the main labs. When they reached the door they saw it was knocked off its hinges and the frame had been demolished. "What the…?" Captain America began to say before the Human Torch flew straight past him, looking for his teammates. He flew for about eight seconds before he had to dodge an incoming table, the makeshift projectile smashed into the wall behind him, shattering against the hard surface. Johnny Turned to look at his assailant. What he saw was monstrous. The creature in front of him was larger than the Hulk; it had green fur covering its body from head to toes. Its body was composed of large muscles, and its hands in ended clawed appendages. The creature had a face that resembled an animals or more specifically a Jackal. It snarled at the young hero, revealing it jagged teeth.
"You annoyances keep showing up one after another." Johnny looked behind the massive crossbreed and saw, to his horror, his sister and Ben unconscious. Both looked battered and bloody. Rage surged through the youngest member of the FF. "You bastard!" he let loose a massive torrent of flame, filling the room with the intense flame. The jackal monster met the attack head on bathing in the inferno that the Human Torch had unleashed. He miraculously survived the attack and seized the young super human by the throat. Although gasping for air Torch could see his attack was somewhat effective. The monster's hide was covered I burnt hair and tissue, with some exposed bone as well. The monster slammed the young man into the ground repeatedly until Johnny was unconscious, blood dripping down his face. The monster raised the incapacitated hero to his jaws where he opened his gaping mouth to devour his prey. Before he could snap his jaws to end the young hero he was blasted through the chest with two beams of blue energy. The jackal-like monster stumbled backwards as the gaping hole in its chest began to heal. "Who dares…!" his comment was cut short when a yellow and gold figure fired another barrage of blue lasers at the monster. It howled in pain as the repulsor beams seared away his flesh. "Back off asshole!" Ironman blasted into the room and flew straight into the monster's stomach. The impact pushed the creature into a set of nearby columns that shattered under the force of the Jackal's landing. The beast slowly picked itself up. "You dare to attack the Jackal!" Ironman landed in front of Johnny shielding the unconscious teen from the upcoming fight. "Great, now I have a Hulk wannabe." "I assure you I am far superior the that mass of rage! I am an the messiah of the new world!" Ironman could only grimace at this. 'Great he's a self proclaimed Messiah, he is a fanatic. Just fucking great!' The monstrous beast roared at the top of its lungs but was silenced when a red and blue shield slammed into his hide creating a deep gash in its stomach.
"Last time I saw people standing above other, we had a big disagreement." Cap stood side by side with his armored teammate. "So tell me son, how do you want this to go down?" "You fools! Iguana!" The two Avengers whirled around as a large lizard-like crossbreed lunged at them from the ceiling. Instead of dodging, Captain America hurled his retrieved shield at the incoming creature. The combined speed of Iguana's descent and the force of the thrown shield sliced the incoming crossbred cleanly in half. Its split boy dropped to the floor unmoving. "Well that was anti-climatic." Ironman said. The two heroes turned to see the Jackal, now fully healed looking even more pissed. "You dare to interfere with my vision!? I will rend you all apart!" The monster lunged forward at the two Avengers, who both leapt out of the way. The Jackal smashed through the labs walls and began his assault on the heroes. He lunged towards Ironman who flew out of the way of the beast's rampage. Captain America lunge forward, slamming his shield into the monster's back. The Jackal quickly recovered and slashed the super soldier across the chest, sending him through a wall in the process. Ironman unleashed a barrage of repulsor fire to slow the Jackal down. The monster stormed forward finally grasping the armored Avenger before slamming him into the ground in the same way that he had done to the Human Torch. "Graaaah!"Ironman finally retaliated by unleashing an energy blade from the top portion of his wrist. He plunged the weapon into the Jackal's neck attempting to behead the behemoth. "Rahhhh!" The Jackal howled as he threw the armored hero through several walls. Mile's Warren grasped his neck to stop the bleeding. His healing factor was being pushed to its limit.
Mile's enhanced hearing detected a whirring noise that was quickly getting louder. He moved just in time to avoid Captain America's shield. The weapon rebounded off the walls before landing back in the hands of its wielder. The super soldier had several scratches, and gashes across his suit and body. "I'm not going down do easily!" A table went slamming through the opening in the wall (caused by Ironman). The armored super hero trudged out of the hole, badly damaged (armor wrenched and sparking). "This armor doesn't come cheap, asshole! I'm gonna get my money's worth beating you to a pulp!" The Jackal snarled at the reappearance of the two Ultimates, but he was more enraged at the fact that he now smelled several new scents flooding the hallway outside the room. Several figures burst into the room. Reed Richards looked at the Jackal in shock, but that shock quickly turned to rage as his eyes roamed over his team, his family. He gazed at his soon to be brother-in-law, and his best friend, but when his eyes fell upon his fiancé's beaten form any shred of self restraint evaporated like steam. "You bastaaaarddd!" Reed stretched to a humongous from covering a third of the labs size swinging his enlarged arms while rapping himself around the monster's body. He unleashed a full flurry of punches each one stronger than the last. The Jackal was stunned by the onslaught from the normally restrained Mr. Fantastic. Said hero began to constrict around the neck and torso of the enlarged monster. "Lets see how well you breathe when there's enough pressure to crush an elephant!" The elastic hero continued to constrict his body; he could hear the Jackals bones beginning to snap. "I will not be stopped by such …insolent fools!" The Jackal miraculously ripped himself free of the full-body strangle hold Mr. Fantastic had held him in. He grabbed onto the elongated hero and hurled him into a stone column. The other heroes leapt into action. Widow and Hawkeye began to pepper the Jackal with bullets and arrows. The Jackal barreled through the assembled group and into the hallway, his form converting from the giant bipedal form to a large green jackal/wolf creature. He bolted down the hallway attempting to flee.
"I'll go after him!" Ironman took off in pursuit of the fleeing monster. "Hawkeye, Widow lets move!" Captain America readied his team to pursue but was stopped by a recovering Reed. "We need to stop his plan!" "What would that be?" Cap asked. "He's planning on using the genetic atomizer to convert everyone in the city into crossbreeds. He had us analyze his experiments to create a cure. Now that the info needed for genetic engineering is encoded into the atomizer he'll use it as a bomb. Anyone caught in the energy field it releases will be mutated into crossbreeds." Cap looked horrified at the idea. "How do we disarm it?!" "We can't disarm it. Instead, I think we might be able to utilize the cure in the machines blast, if encoded we can reverse the machine's intended effects." "So we turn every crossbreed in the city human again. Then where is the cure?" A now conscious Sue answered Hawkeye's question. "It's with the Jackal…" She was still badly bleeding and Reed rushed to her aid to help stop the bleeding. "Lets get going then, Octavius is down, and we can probably assume Spiderman has the Lizard busy." Widow's speculation seemed pretty dead on. "Reed stay here with your team and prep the machine for your plan." The scientist nodded his head in agreement as he supported his fiancé. "Avengers move out!"
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Baxter Building
The Jackal ran through the hallways of the building, heading towards its roof. His plan was going smoothly despite losing both Ovtavius and the symbiote. Now all he had to do was bide his time and wait for his device to detonate. Then he could subjugate the entire populace of New York under his control. 'Those fools can't stop me without the cure.' He raised his hand and opened his hand to reveal a glowing vile of blue liquid. 'Let's see if they can stop me without this!' he exited the hallway onto the building roof, an empty area for helicopters and aerial vehicles. He began his transformation back into his hybrid form and stomped towards the buildings edge. He looked at the cure one last time before he chucked the object off the roof. He began to walk away from the edge, but stopped when he heard a 'thwip' sound. He turned around, and his expression turned from calm and confident, to enraged and horrified. Across the roof sat Spiderman, casually tossing the cure up in the air before catching it. "Well this looks pretty important. So how you doing Miles?" His sarcastic tone only served to irritate the Jackal even more. "You are too late! In just a few minutes this city will be mine! My life's work will finally be realized! That fool parker stole everything from me! And now he will know that I was a million times better than he was!" This little rant sparked some in anger that had been boiling inside him for quite some time. "What do the Parkers have to do with all this?" "Not the Parkers! Richard, he stole my work, decided that it was dangerous and absurd! I was trying to help humanity! Beings like you and me are the true inheritors of the Earth, not the stagnant worms that we surround ourselves with!" Peter couldn't believe what he was hearing. This guy had gone off the deep end because of a dispute with his dad. "You are fucking insane! You caused all of this" Spiderman gestured to the ruined landscape of what was once New York City, "for a fucking argument over a science project! You are a complete lunatic. Humanity is not weak. Look at what we done to your monsters! Look at you! Your tired beaten and about to lose! You've lost! Humans win!" This declaration only enraged Miles more. "You insolent little runt!" "Hey I'm sensitive about my height!" Before either could make a move a red and gold figure burst onto the roof. "Miss me asshole?" Miles snarled at the new arrival, Peter however was more than appreciative of Ironman's arrival. "Shell-head! Catch!" Peter then threw the vile of cure at the armored Ultimate. Seeing the object Ironman caught it in his left hand. "Get that to Richards! Me and my scaly friend have a score to settle with this freak!" Ironman decided to trust the hero as he flew off down the building to deliver the cure to Richards.
The Jackal attempted to pursue, but was met with a powerful drop kick by the black and red clad hero. The Jackal stumbled back several feet before he regained his footing. Miles once again attempted to lunge forward but was hit by several shots of impact webbing. The concrete-gum like material held the Jackal at bay for several moments. Spiderman fired a normal web-line that stuck to the Jackal's maw; he then delivered what could be a lethal amount of bioelectricity into his webbing. The electric jolt coursed through Mile's body causing him to spasm, but the madman stayed conscious throughout the whole ordeal. Mile's miraculously ripped through the impact webbing and stormed towards the shocked wall-crawler. Peter prepared to doge but a loud crushing noise distracted him. Before Miles could reach Spiderman a large green blur slammed into his side. Miles was tackled to the ground and then thrown across the roof by his assailant. He looked up to see his very own creation, the Lizard. "Connors? What are you doing kill him!" The enraged reptile growled at the Jackals command. "I'm not your pet anymore!" the enraged beast lunged towards its former master intent on disemboweling him. "You traitor!" Miles roared as he met his crossbreed counter part in a fierce clash. "You threatened my family! You defiled my mind! You turned me into one of your abominations!" Connors slashed and clawed at miles, biting and punching him with all the force his reptilian foe could muster. The Jackal however was fairing rather well. "I gave you a new body! One free of age and deformity! Yet you choose to be human! You choose to be weak!" The Jackal slammed into the Lizard offsetting the creature's balance; this gave Miles the opportunity to deliver a powerful slash into the Lizards stomach, followed by a powerful kick. The Lizard was sent sprawling on the ground.
Before the Jackal could deliver a killing blow, Spiderman planted a firm dual kick into the beast's face. "Raaahhhhh!" The jackal tried to swipe at the nimble hero, but he couldn't hit him. "Stand still you annoying insect!" "For the last time! Spiders!" Spiderman delivered a powerful blow to Mile's jaw (a snapping noise was heard at the impact), "Are!" he followed up with a slash if his claws (cutting into the Jackal's hide), "Arachnids!" He finished his barrage with a powerful knee to the jaw. Whatever bones were still intact in the Jackal's jaw shattered as Spiderman drove his knee into the monster's lower skull. "Uuurrrghhh!" the Jackal spewed blood from his mouth as he fell on his back. Spiderman stood over his foe, claws still unsheathed. "You're done!" Peter turned his head to see the form of the Lizard bleeding. "Connors!" Spiderman rushed to the scientist's aid. "Hey stay with me man…" Peter looked down at the monster's wounds. They were nothing serious about them, but there were still several bruised areas and bleeding cuts. 'I guess overloading the crossbreeds healing factor can cause some lasting damage.' Peter's thoughts were interrupted when he heard a scraping noise emanating from behind him. Spiderman world around to see the bloody form of the Jackal slowly rising from the ground. His body was cut and bleeding, it was a miracle on how his healing factor hadn't given in by this point. "You…ruined everything!" the Jackal began to stumble forward readying its claws. He lunged forward to attack, but was met with four red mechanical claws that stabbed through his stomach, shoulder and upper back. Spider man drove his fists forward sending venom-shocks throughout his body, further damaging the half dead Jackal. Miles finally stopped struggling and Peter threw the nearly dead scientist onto the rooftop. But the Jackal began to stand yet again. 'You've got to be kidding me!' Peter thought. Before the Jackal could make another move a flying shield sliced through the beast's right arm, severing it from his body. Miles howled in pain as his armed fell to the ground, useless. He was then met by several arrows piercing his chest and left eye. He collapsed on his knees as his form began to regress to that of a human's. Miles Warren sat on the ground, bloody, beaten and defeated. Peter saw Captain America and Hawkeye slowly approaching the scene. Peter fired a web-line and snagged the hero's shield before yanking it back to him. He looked over the broken form of the doctor that had once been the friend to his parents, and the brother to his teacher. "Its over Miles. We have the cure, your army is beaten, Octavius is down, Connors is against you, and your body is broken. Face it you fucking lunatic, you lost, humanity one." Miles remained motionless as he continued to sit on the ground. Spiderman waked forward and kneeled down in front of him, "Jackal! …Warren…" The man continued to look down on the ground before muttering something. Peter leaned in closer to listen. "I did it…I proved Richard wrong…it …was …amazing…" Peter rose from his position; he then turned and walked toward the group of heroes that stood before him. "What did he say?" Cap asked him, eyes still fixed on Miles. "He's crazy…" "Well we can't let him go." Hawkeye said. Spiderman turned to look at him, realizing what he had meant. "Do it." Spiderman then walked towards the Lizard to check on his condition. "Do it quickly Clint!" Cap said as he walked away to speak through his communicator. Spiderman kept his eyes to the ground not wanting to see the scene that was about to occur. As much as he knew this was wrong, he couldn't in good conscious let Miles live, not after what he had done.
Hawkeye stood firm as he readied his bow and notched an arrow into place. "See ya mother-fucker!" he then released the drawstring and let the arrow soar. The arrow impaled itself through the skull of the deranged scientist. "Three…two…one…Bang!" as soon as the words left his mouth, the Jackal's skull exploded. Blood and brains splattered onto the rooftop. Peter stood up from his position next to a recovering Connors. "So what's the plan for the crossbreeds?" Captain America looked at him before speaking. "Reed says and I quote 'Look, smile, and wait for the flash'." "The hell does that m-" Peter's question was cut short when the Baxter building began to shake and a massive blast wave emanated from the building. A blinding flash of light that swept over the entire city of New York quickly followed the shockwave. Peter looked away and covered his eyes trying to recover from the blinding light, even his reflective lenses barely helped to shield his eyes from the light. When the blinding flash suddenly subsided, Peter looked down to see the Lizard shedding his skin. It took a moment for Spiderman to realize what had happened. "Richards distributed the cure through that flash didn't he?" Hawkeye walked over to the masked teenager before answering. "Yeah, don't know the science and don't care. It worked." Peter looked back down at the now human Connors and smiled. He looked out around the city, as he did so his smile dropped. The city was damaged, hundreds had probably been killed, thousands traumatized. "You did your best son." At these words Peter looked at Captain America. "You did what you could, we all did. We can't save everyone, no matter how hard you try." Peter's thoughts flashed to uncle Ben and then to Mac. "Your right on that. But we still might need to help with tis mess." Spiderman gestured to the ruined city. "I think we might be getting some help with that." Hawk eye pointed to a group of incoming choppers, each one having a SHIELD emblem on them. Peter smiled, 'Guess were not on our own afterwards.'
Phew! This was a long one but I hope you all enjoy it. I will be starting my avengers and X-men stories soon. This story is not even close to being done, but you will see more characters and more villains.