Title: Octopus
The possessed Oscorp worker's eyes were black, black goo emerging from his sleeve as he watched the TV in curiosity, looking at the acts of Crimson Spider. "Parker...", it said as the black mass melted out of the terrified worker as he looked for his cat for comfort... but it had disappeared.
The cat escaped the house, yawning as a long whip like tongue escaped his mouth. Running off, following the scent of his blood.
"Yooo hooo!", The Spider swung around Manhattan in search for something... or someone in particular. "Mr. Green Goblin you're late for an ass kicking appointment. Ugh, I hate it when the bad guys get away.", he reached under his mask and rubbed his eyes before hearing a cry for help.
"Help! Police! They've stolen the cars!", a man said as an auto transport trailer drove off. With one of the thieves laughing.
"Hell yeah! We did it", he and his accomplished, who was the driver, high fived before hearing a whistle, turning their heads to see The Spider waving at them.
"Don't panic I'll shake em!", the driver grits his teeth as he tried to serve and send the spider themed hero flying.
The web slinger just looked at him with an annoyed expression. "Seriously?", he asked him.
"Fuck this shit!", the one in the passenger seat pulled a lever, causing the back of the car hauler to open up and let down the ramp. He opened the door and carefully made it to the back.
The driver tried to leave but was dragged back to the seat. "Uh uh, you ain't goin nowhere. So might as well slow down.", The Spider said as the driver slammed on the breaks.
"It won't stop! I swear!", the driver said as The Spider crawled to the back to see a cord disconnected, a blue car falling and tumbling out as the second thief drove away.
"Great, the hobbit took out the breaks.", The Spider shook his head as he pulled him out of the hauler and slammed his feet down in the front of the hauler, stopping it with his bare hands.
A bespectacled young man was about to talk to an attracted young woman, the blue car nearly hit the both of them before they were both lifted up and tied to a light pole. "Invite me to the wedding!", The Spider swung away to stop the escaping vehicle.
He landed on the car as the thief panicked. "I'll shake em!", he said to himself as the wall drawer facepalmed.
"You try the first time and it fails, you try the second time and you seriously think it'll work?", The Spider shook his head before throwing the man out the window and webbing him to a trash can, then leaping onto the hood, shooting two webs at two separate buildings and stopping the car in its track. "That was an experience."
An older man, possibly in his early fifties with graying brown hair, a tall and somewhat muscular physique looked at himself in the reflection of a screen. He wore a white tank top and black jeans. "Dammit Otto, how did you get here again?", he cursed himself.
"Ah, c'mon Otto! No need to be dragging yourself through the mud like this.", Norman said as Otto put in a mechanical harness connected to four long mechanical arms, comprised of a black polymer. At the end of each claw are two sets of four sharp claws, the larger of which are tipped yellow, and attached a neurological chip in his neck. "Proceed with caution."
Otto couldn't help but imagine choking Norman to death, until he left the room. He exhaled as one of his mechanical arm pulled out a key from a console and set it aside.
["Safety Key has been removed. Experiment will not commence unless key is re-inserted.""]
Otto walked into a room with a glass barrier between him and two fusion reactors. The sliding door closed as he inserted his four mechanical arms and began working on the device, sliding on his goggles.
Unbeknownst to Octavius however, is Green Goblin picking up the safety key and inserting it into the console.
["Safety Key has been re-inserted- Warning!: Safety Key engaged, safety protocols initiated. Experiment will commence in 30 second- Warning!: Electromagnetic emitters are set to exceed risk parameters."]
Upon seeing Otto's panicked, the Green Goblin let out his sick and twisted laughter. Otto pulled out his arms and banged on the door. "Hey! Please you have to stop this!", Otto yelled out in fear.
["Experiment will commence in: five seconds."]
Otto looked at the fusion reactor and exhaled. "May god have mercy in my soul.", he said as he let out pained screaming, he grabbed his throat as he didn't notice the neurological interface chip began to melt and merge with his spine. Otto pulled off his goggles and let's put more pained screaming as his mechanical arms waved through the air violently, the light enveloping part of the Oscorp lab.
In the distance, The Spider was eating a burrito before his eye's widened at the light in the distance. "Hey that's an Oscorp lab, people could be in trouble.", he rolled down his mask and threw his burrito away.
Crimson Spider shot out two strong webs, connected the ends to two towers and wrapped them around each other, backing up before catapulting himself to the Oscorp facility.
"What the hell is going on here?", Norman asked people in hazmat suits trying to open the door.
"It's Doctor Octavius sir, he's down but we can't open the doors.", a man said looking at him. Norman pushed him aside and put a key in, before turning it.
["Security Override Accepted."]
Norman and two others entered the room, filled with black smoke. "Octavius. Docto-!", Norman narrowly tripped on something, looking down to see an unconscious Otto trapped under debris.
"Pardon me.", The Spider landed in front of him and lifted off the debris off Otto, in which two hazmat wearing workers pulled him out.
"Sir, he has a pulse. But what's weird is that his harness is fused to his skin.", the hazmat worker said as Otto let out a groan.
"Otto? Otto are you there.", Norman asked in concern for his old friend, Otto's eyes became filled with rage as all he heard was that he was worthless, that he was only recognized when he worked under Oscorp.
Before Norman could say anything else, a mechanical arm grabbed him and slammed him against the wall. "Silence you imperious moron!", he yelled out in rage.
"Hey watch it, he saved to it sorry ass. And not to brag, so did I.", The Spider said as he dodged an attack from Otto's mechanical arm, before being grabbed by another and slammed against the wall.
"Don't insult my intelligence! Norman did this! He tried to kill me because he was jealous of my intellect!", behind Otto's goggles, his pupils dilated. "But he failed! I survived and I have improved, I am now one with my arms. You're the failure, Norman! Your failure had given me new life!", Otto said as he threw Norman to the ground. "And with this new life, Otto Octavius is gone, I am now Doctor Octopus!", Doctor Octopus claimed as his other mechanical arms held down The Spider
"Look dude, I get your angry but keep in mind the next Spider guy who sees you under a pile of debris might view this as a cautionary tale.", The Spider said as he was the slammed into a wall.
"Your idiotic quips do not equate to clever, Spider!", Doctor Octopus grinned as he slammed him around before picking him up by his head.
"Yeah but then again, the ratio of arms to sanity hasn't been established either.", the web slinger said with a grin underneath his mask as he noticed the doc's frustration.
"Do you ever SHUT UP?!?", Doctor Octopus yelled out in annoyance as he threw him across the room.
The Crimson Spider flipped back up and popped his neck. "Not really, my whole shtick is quips sooo my fans expect a certain amount in every battle.", he responded nonchalantly as he leapt out the way of an attack from his mechanical arms. "C'mon Doc, you're a cephalopod I'm an arthropod, let's just hug it out!", he said holding in a laugh as he dodged another attack.
Doctor Octopus used his other legs to climb after him, using his other two to attack. "Your endurance is impressive, but my arms will never tore. And soon they'll rip out-", he was cut off by a beeping.
"An alarm clock? Nice.", The Spider was then thrown across the room again.
"Forgive me, Spider. I have places to go and worlds right conquer.", Doctor Octopus threw a large container at The Spider, who dodged, while he grabbed an extra battery. "Your obituary will have to be written another day.", he grinned as he climbed out of the lab and escaped.
"Great, first a goblin now a murderous octopus... isn't that great?", The Spider rubbed his head as he got up and leapt out the facility.
Eddie was wandering the campus of ESU after doing late night studies, only to notice Harry on the ground covered in sweat. "Harry!", he ran over to his friend and picked him up. "What happened man?"
"Oh y'know, I tried our for the football team and got a little exhausted.", Harry said with a little chuckle.
"So you just passed out on the cement?", Eddie asked him suspicious.
"Yeah! Anyways, me and the others are going to Coney Island tomorrow, you should come with!", Harry said quickly as he walked to the exit.
Eddie narrowed his eyes at him. "Sure.", he said uncertain as Harry left. "Something's wrong... gotta find out."
Doctor Octopus bursted through a wall in his home, looking around in disgust. "I can't believe I once stayed in this dump.", he growled as his mechanical arms thrashed around and destroyed his furniture. "No more, 'The grant reviews today' no nothing! Now I depended on that liar! But no more, the world will fall to me, the Avengers will beg for mercy! Soon, but now I require a source of power that wouldn't abandon me mid battle... hmmm.", he tapped the center of his harness, taking out the battery and replacing it. "I need a permanent solution, and I know exactly who to go to."
At the day of the group entering Coney Island, Harry managed to hit the bell of a strongman game, or the high striker. It wouldn't be surprising if Harry wasn't capable of doing it that effortlessly. Eddie watched this and narrowed his eyes. "Corn dogs? My treat!", he threw his arms around two of his football buddies before walking up.
"Sup dude?", Patrick walked up to Eddie, carrying his backpack as usual.
Eddie rubbed his temple. "Something's different about Harry, what it is I have no clue."
Patrick laughed a little bit. "Oh c'mon, he's a walking ball of confidence and charisma.", he said jokingly before exhaling. "But, maybe you're right. Who knows though, let's just enjoy our day of relaxation before we have to go back to the lectures.", he said before walking off.
He looked around, and saw the Oscorp tower in the distance. "If I were Doctor Octavius, I'd wanna get even with him too. Gotta stay on guard-", he was suddenly broken from his train of thought as his spider sense triggered, he dodged when Betty jumped on him.
Betty almost fell on her face but regained her footing. "Wow, you got some nice reflexes. Considering you were spaced out and all."
"Yeah, I guess...?", Patrick cocked an eyebrow as Betty crossed her arms.
"C'mon, Parker.", Betty reached up and started tugging him by his sleeve. "You gotta have some fun every once and a while. Cuz look at you, you're basically the definition of 'stressed out'.", she said jokingly, though she's not entirely wrong.
Betty dragged him around and they did some random carnival games, and since she had a camera on her just in case a The Spider was wandering around, she snapped a quick picture. Patrick looked at her. "Really?"
"What? I'll give you a copy.", Betty said jokingly as Patrick chopped her on the head. That's when she looked up. "What the hell is that thing?"
Patrick's head snapped around to see Doctor Octopus scaling a building and using his mechanical arms to climb up the Osborn tower. "Oh shit."
"Now that's interesting.", Betty took out the photo of Patrick and took a picture of the climbing villain. "That's a keeper, now let's go-", her eyes widened as Patrick was gone.
Doc Oct was now wearing a dark green bodysuit lined with a black polymer, brown boots and a brown trench coat, along with his welding goggles. He broke into one of the upper floors and into the lab. "Ah, the old stomping ground."
"Otto?", an old partner of his walked around the corner before being picked up by his mechanical arms and brought to eye level.
"Doctor Twaki, such a pleasure to see you again.", Doctor Octopus said with a grin. "Now perhaps you remember, before I left Oscorp I was at work at a prototype long term power source."
"Th-The Megalo-pack-", Twaki was cut off as he was lifted higher into the air.
"My work. And yet when I departed, you took full possession of it. Now in hindsight, does that seem fair?", Doctor Octopus' top left arm popped a long blade and pointed it against his neck.
"It's in RND Vault-8!", Twaki said before being tossed into a wall.
"Thank you.", Doctor Octopus said with a blank face as he stomped his way towards the vault, ripping it open with his mechanical arms and walking in. "Ahh~! Like reuniting with an old friend, that's just not Osborn.", he grinned as he removed the casing, before a web grabbed the Megalo-pack.
"Man Doc, I gotta say, you've got some great fashion choice. Is that a black polymer on a body suit?", Crimson Spider jokingly said as Otto looked behind him to see the spider on a wall.
"Hand over the device.", Doc Oct said as his spider themed enemy tapped his chin.
"Hmm... nah.", Crimson Spider said as his emotive lenses narrowed at him.
"You're in a closed space, and by my calculations. You're severely outmatched.", Doctor Octopus said as all four of his mechanical arms grew blades, lunging at him. The Spider leapt out the way and shot a web at his face, before escaping. "Dammit! You fucking nuisance!", he chased after him.
"Whatever this is, it must be a battery. And since Doc left in such a hurry, all I've gotta do is just play keep-away until his battery's drained.", The Spider thought to himself, before being smacked into a Ferris wheel, and thanks to his adhesive fingers, the battery pack didn't fall out. "Fucking hell, this'll be mildly difficult."
At that point, Doctor Octopus busted through the sign, in which everyone began to run away. "Back to our regularly scheduled carnage.", The Spider popped his shoulder and used a certain type of web setting to create a little strap, attaching the Megalo-pack to it. He leapt up and swung at him.
Betty tripped on her own feet, she looked up as Doctor Octopus was about to step on her, before she was dragged away by The Spider. "Heads up!", The Spider shot a impact web, covering one of Doctor Octopus' mechanical arms.
Doctor Octopus ripped off the webbing and growled. "Hand over the device you pathetic, four limed excuse for a spider!", this was before he had a caramel apple thrown at him.
"Hoho, you such a way with words.", The Spider snickered as he threw more caramel apples at him, dodging one of his strikes as he grinned. Using his webbing to tie the doc up... in which failed as he easily cut through it. "Dammit that works all the time-!", he was then thrown into a stand.
"I gotcha spidey!", the one and only Lance ran at Doctor Octopus to tackle him, in which was dragged away and tossed to the rest of the group.
"Appreciate the effort, but keep clear, you're not pretty enough to save more than once.", The Spider said as Lance nodded and ran off.
"I see it now.", Doctor Octopus grinned as he picked up Betty Brant by her head, she screamed and tried to kick him. "You're weak! You can't bare to see anyone hurt. And you're meager thought process is so transparent, 'stall until his power runs out'? Really?", Doctor Octopus leapt back from a drop kick. "This pack had another hour of energy at least, meaning, I can do so much damage within the hour. Starting with this weak and pathetic child!"
"My god you rattle on so much!", Betty tried kicking Otto to set her self free but it wasn't working.
Doctor Octopus ignored her and started to climb up the roller coaster, with The Spider chasing after them. "Choose! The girl or the device?", he said as he used his mechanical arm to create a hole in the wood, dropping her, in which she grabbed onto the ledge.
"Be good dog then.", The Spider started winding up his throwing arm. "And fetch!", he said throwing it away. In which the Doctor quickly made his way to catch it, just while Spider saved Betty Brant.
Doctor Octopus quickly caught the Megalo-pack, lifting it up in his own two hands. "Finally, it's mine!"
"Too bad you won't get the chance to use it, not as long as I'm alive!", The Spider was then grabbed by the throat.
"A situation easily solved.", Doctor Octopus slammed him around through the stands, slamming his skill into the ground and tossing him into the air, grabbing his ankle and throwing him down in front of him. "See?"
The Spider smirked under his mask, shooting out a web just as Doctor Octopus removed his battery pack. Using this web he grabbed the Megalo-pack. Grabbing Otto by his neck and grinning. "Weak huh? Let's see!", he threw Otto to the ground before grabbing his mechanical arm, spinning him around before the king him into a kids ride. "Does that seem weak?"
Betty took a picture of the Doctor getting put into cuffs, his mechanical arms separated.
Patrick walked up to Eddie, patting his shoulder as the taller young man looked around. "Hey, have you seen Harry around?", this made Patrick realized he didn't see Harry at all in the crowd.
Harry, however, was in the apartment bathroom. Injecting himself with more of the GR-3314, grinning to himself as he saw the brief flash of his twisted self. "Now then, what to do about him."
/End/