Tina McGee has heard about their accomplishments and was called by someone from Oscorp to have a talk with him. Since they're the ones who supply their equipment. "Cross species genetics is finally working." Conners tells the Oscorp visiter, Ratha. "We've used the lizard DNA to help Freddy regrow that limb." He explains to Ratha.
"It's a miracle." Ratha states seeing it himself. "No, it's hard work and promise and a step closer to the primate lab." Connors corrects him.
"But he doesn't have time for every little step. He can't wait." Ratha informs them referring to Norman Osborn who is dying. "He's going to have to. We won't just forget procedure for anyone." Conners states.
"We have to start human trials." Ratha states to them, ignoring him.
"It's not happening." Conners informs him. "Then he is going to die."
"Where are you going to find the people to volunteer for something like this?" Conners questions him.
"As far as anyone's concerned, it's a winter flu shot. The veterans hospital is a nice place to start." Ratha tells Conners and takes the formula.
"Say goodbye to that arm you always dreamed of." Ratha states and leaves him.
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Peter is in the middle of fighting off Shocker in the abandoned subway. "You just never learn, do you spider?" Shocker asks him while trying to shoot him with his shockwaves and Peter just dodges them all while trying to web him to the tracks.
"It's one of my issues." Peter states to him as he keeps dodging his blasts around the subway.
Shocker uses his soundwaves to break free of the webbing. "I think it's finally time I teach you a lesson, and class is now in session." Shocker informs Peter.
"Oh, come on, Shocker. You're got no class, let alone a whole school worth of class." Peter states to Shocker and he hears Caitlin laughing while he webbed Shocker's leg and flips him upside down and webs his hands together so he won't be stupid enough to blow his hands off.
"Don't worry, in about half an hour, the police will find you and save you." Peter promises Shocker and leaves him hanging around.
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Mercury labs, Conners decides to do something drastic and takes the lizard forula himself to see if it will work or not. Once injected, he statrs feeling his DNA changing. His body morphing all too well, he's becoming something entirely different.
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Peter makes it to Caitlin's apartment and sees her still watching the police scanner and walks up on her. "Paging, dr. Snow." Peter calls out and she just rolls her eyes at her friend.
"Looks like Shocker is taken into police custody as of this moment." Caitlin tells him when Peter sees she has a paper out about Flash and Spider-Man day. It's supposed to be happening in a few days and Peter doesn't know if he should attend or not. After all, Peter and Barry weren't the heroes, Ronnie died to keep everyone safe.
"You still think you won't make an appearance?" Caitlin asks him, seeing through him as she always does.
"I don't know, I mean, I know everyone is expecting me, but do you think I should?" Peter asks her, wondering how she feels.
"If I go, will Spider-Man be making an appearance?" She questions again.
"Okay, I'll think about it for now. I'll tell you a day before if I decide to do it or not." Peter promises when they hear there's a disturbance on the Central City Bridge.
"Looks like duty calls." Peter says and puts his mask back on and heads for the window again. "I'll have something here for you if you want to eat." Caitlin promises as Peter is already out the window.
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On the bridge, everyone is running away from the creature that's approaching. Peter comes landing on the high point of the bridge and sees the creature storming across the cars. "This is a new one." Peter states to himself never seeing something like this before.
He watches as the creature throws empty cars over the landing and starts destroying the car holding Ratha and he throws it over the edge. Peter comes swinging in and sees someone inside it and pulls him out as the car hits the water.
Peter climbs back up with Ratha and sees the creature has already disappeared. "Peter? What was it?" Caitlin asks him since she doesn't have eyes on anything over there.
"I know I'm gonna sound crazy, but I think it was a giant lizard." Peter tells her and hearing it out loud, it sounds even crazier.
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The next day, Peter decides to check with Conners to learn how to fight something like this since he's the biggest expert on lizards he knows.
"Dr. Conners, you in?" Peter calls and doesn't get a response when he notices one of the containers for the lizard formula and it's been used.
"Mr. Parker, what may I do for you?" Conners womders seeing him.
"Oh, Doc, I wanted to ask you a question. How would a predator track a reptile?" Peter asks him, knowing if he can figure that out, he can find where this creature is hiding like with Grodd.
"Oh, they don't. Most reptiles are at the top of their respective food chain, kings of their domain." Was Conners response to the question.
"What about vulnerability?" Peter questions.
"Why the sudden interests in the cold blooded?" Conners wonders since Peter has no interest in the past. Peter quickly comes up with the first thing that came to mind.
"I was just watching this documentary last night, I only caught the last few minutes, it got me interested." Peter lies hoping he buys it. "So because of their cold blood, would they react to sudden changes in temperature?" Peter asks him.
"Well, you'd have to catch one first." Conners informs him while erasing part of the whiteboard. "Did you know there's a rumor of a new species in Central City?" Conners asks and Peter wonders if that's what he saw last night.
"What do you know about it? You seen it?" Peter asks him, hoping to get some sort of answer. "No, it hasn't been classified as of yet. But it can be aggressive when threatened." Conners tells him when Peter notices half of his neck skin is reptile like.
Conners walks away and takes his bag. "Doc, you okay?" Peter wonders since it seems like he actually did begin human trials, and on himself nonetheless.
"Never been better, Peter. Never better. Now if you exucse me, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to ask you to leave." Conners says and walks to lock his labs. "I have a new project, and I need to be alone." He tells Peter and he does as he asks.
"Don't worry, mr. Parker. I'll be back. Wonderful things are coming for Central City." Conners states and leaves Mercury labs. Peter's senses go off and he looks back into the labs and sees Freddy and Wilma's cages and they're destroyed.
Peter decides to go back into the labs using his security card and sees Freddy has turned into a monstrous creature, and he's devouring Wilma. "Oh, boy. This ain't right." Peter states and needs to find a place to put new monster Freddy.
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Peter makes it to Caitlin's place to inform her and it's not exactly believable. "The creature on the bridge was Curt Conners?" Caitlin questions, not believing him.
"Cait, after everything that happened in the past year, why do you sound so surprised?" Peter wonders and she sees his point.
"I think there was something imbalance about the equation we gave him and now he's turning into a lizard every time he uses it. I saw on his neck, he had lizard scales." Peter explains his suspicions to her.
"And I'm sorry to say, I think he's planning something for Central City. You hear anything about some sort of reptile or something attacking people?" Peter asks her and she gets to work and finds reports of something new in the sewers.
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Peter makes it near where the recent reports have been coming from.
"Okay, I'm gonna go check out as far as I can go. You know how to run a antidote at Mercury labs?" Peter asks Caitlin who's still at the computer.
"Yeah, of course." Caitlin tells him.
"Okay, get to Mercury labs, access the cross-species file. It's a blue serum. It's under File 690-1963." Peter tells her and she starts to head out and Peter knows now he's on his own.
He keeps walking when he finds a whole lab setup in the sewers. He looks to see dozens of vials of the formula and a video on his computer.
"I spent my life as a scientist trying to create a world without weakness, without outcasts. I sought to create a stronger human being, but there's no such thing. Human beings are weak, pathetic, feeble minded creatures." Conners on the video informs anyone listening.
Peter let's the video keep playing and looks around his lab. "Why be human at all when we can be so much more? Faster, stronger, smarter. This will be stronger than anything metahuman can do. This is my gift to you." Conners says and Peter sees that he plans on spreading his serum across all of Central City. But he would need something that could disperse it all over the city at once.
Peter than remembers the device at Mercury labs that could do exactly that. "Oh no. Cait." Peter states knowing he just sent Caitlin into dangers way this time.
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Conners, once again fully lizard starts making his way from the sewers where he's met with a CCPD taskforce and they try shooting him down, Lizard just heals and releases the toxin to turn them into lizards and continues to make his way to Mercury labs.
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Across the city, Caitlin makes it to Mercury labs and notices the device as she starts the antidote.
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Peter just exits the sewers and has dozens of people honking their horns from their cars and he just gets off the streets and calls Caitlin. "Cait, where are you?" Peter asks her.
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"What do you mean? I'm at Mercury labs." Caitlin tells him since he asked her to go there.
"Okay, you need to get out of there, now. Conners is on his way. He's going to use the dispersement device and infect the whole city with his formula." Peter informs her.
"The antidote is cooking. There's eight minutes left." Caitlin tells him seeing everyone still working.
"You're gonna wait for eight minutes after what I just told you?" Peter asks her and Caitlin gets an idea.
"I'm gonna evacuate the labs." She tells him then hangs up to activate the fire alarm and notices the Ganali device, if this is what he's after...maybe she should get it out of the way.
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Peter is swinging to make it to Mercury labs when a helicopter and it seems to be inviting him in. Peter leaps in to see Captain Singh and detective West.
"Please tell me you have a way of explaining what's happening?" Joe asks Peter. "Long story short, the creature is dr. Curt Conners. He's been working on a formula to regenerate limbs, and something went wrong and now he's planning on doing the same thing to all of Central City." Peter states and tells them to head to Mercury labs to stop it.
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Caitlin notices the Lizard is breaking through the walls and activated the lockdown procedure to close all entrances into the lab and has to find somewhere to hide and sees the air vents.
Lizard destroys the doors with ease and sees the Ganali device is missing and starts searching around for it. Caitlin is trying to stay calm as he searches and must've noticed her location as he breaks open the door and takes the device.
Caitlin tries fighting him with the blowtorch but he's infected and leaves her. She looks to see he's gone and sees the antidote is complete.
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The helicopter arrives above Mercury labs. "So you got a plan or you going in willynilly?" Singh asks Peter. "Willynilly is kinda my thing." Peter answers as they see Lizard has already started the procedure for the Ganali device and Peter knows that means he's got two minutes and leaps out to fight him.
Lizard notices Peter coming in, But was too late as Peter slams into him and they both go falling off of the antenna and they begin to fight on the rooftop.
Peter tries getting back up to stop the device and Lizard tries throwing him off the roof, but Peter was smart and webs his hands and pulls himself at the Lizard as he throws a container of liquid nitrogen and Peter throws it back at him, causing it to explode. That gives Peter a minute as Caitlin runs up and sees them fighting.
"Peter!" Caitlin calls out and Peter notices her and she tosses the antidote at him and he catches it as the Lizard starts getting up. Peter runs for the Ganali device and Caitlin runs back inside as the Lizard chases after Peter to prevent him from stopping it.
The device warns that they've got 10 seconds before it goes off and Peter was able to replace the serum with the antidote to help the victims and Lizard grabs him a second too late as it fires the antidote into the atmosphere, spreading it all across Central City, including Conners.
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"An eerie calm has set in over Central City. Apparently, some sort of asrosolized antidote was launched from Mercury labs, which seems to have counteracted the biotoxins. Residents of the City can rest peacefully, knowing the alleged mastermind of this terror plot, Curtis Conners, is behind bars." The news report goes on and Peter turns it off as Caitlin gets back to his wounds back at his place.
"You did good out there, Spider-Man." Caitlin compliments him.
"You didn't do so back yourself, dr. Snow." Peter replies to her and Caitlin sees somethings bothering him.
"What's wrong, Peter? Is it Conners?" Caitlin wonders since they were good friends before all of this.
"No, it's not that. It's May." He explains and she's confused by that when he continues. "I want to tell her I'm Spider-Man." Peter explains and Caitlin is shocked by that but knows it's time she is let in on what's going on.