Part Six

"Kill him! Don't hesssitate!" The Lizard roared to his abominations, "Dessstroy the intruder for good!"

Peter flipped over two of the creatures landing gracefully behind them to which he elbowed one in the face and caught the other with a low sweep kick. He was immediately forced back by another one slashing wildly away at him with its claws. "Is this it, Doc?" He landed against the wall and jumped off drop-kicking another in the jaw, "You must be loosing your touch; these are just the general gunk that gets thrown out at me every so often not your usual insane genius variety."

The Lizard snarled, watching the battle from his terminal at the end of the catwalk, "You may be avoiding them, Ssspider-Man but you are not hurting them and when the ressst of my family isss unleassshed we ssshall be invinsscible." He gestured to the growth pods suspended all around them.

After bringing another down two more monsters dived in. Peter avoided both and landed a knee strike as it flew by. "Connors is right." He whispered to himself, "These guys are just going to keep coming at me, I need to stop them. So you guys are made from Venom, so what hurt him?"

One tackled him, but Peter managed to turn the tables and use its force against him throwing into several other freaks. "Sonics practically killed that thing but unfortunately I don't have those on hand. What else?" He fired a web-line and swung over the heads of two other creatures, clipping them in the faces with his heel while passing by. He landed back on the ground dodging the attacks of another.

"The Symbiote never did like fire too much, not as much as it hated sonic noises but fire was up there." Peter grimaced, "Now all I need is a flame-thrower." He knocked another back with a low kick to its shins. Another strike came, forcing Peter into an acrobatic spin. Its scythe arm tore the fabric of his costumer covering his left arm but failed to penetrate the skin. He drop-kicked it and managed to land back on his feet before hitting the floor. "Wait, I don't need a flame thrower, just something that'll cause an intense, overpowering source of heat and force." He spotted Captain America's body on the floor of the chambers. "The explosives, they're in his Pack."

Peter sprinted past the Lizard's army, diving in and out of their hold. He rolled across the ground snatching Captain America's pack along the way and then landing against the railing on the catwalk to which he clung. Moving at lightning speed he removed two charges of C-4 from the pack, "Hope this works." He launched it on his web-lines connecting with two of the closest reptilian symbiotes. With a careful burst of webbing he detonated them. The explosion was close for comfort singing the edges of his mask.

The Lizard watched in horror as three of his creations screamed in pain as fire consumed its body, "No! Why can't you jussst die for onsssce, Parker?" He exclaimed.

"Bad luck, I don't know." He fired more C-4 catching another two before they could even react and detonated the explosives with precision.

The final symbiote was already in the air and tackled Peter before he could use another C-4. Peter struggled to keep the monster away even as it attempted to chomp away at his flesh. He grabbed the C-4 and stuck it in his open maw. "Enjoy the dessert." He detonated the explosive manually and pushed the Symbiote into the chasm moments before an explosion consumed it.

"No, thisss can't be." The Lizard stared at Spider-Man still holding Cap's pack in his hands. "How could you defeat them, they were sssuperior."

Peter shrugged, "Guess they weren't fire-proof." He pulled the two last remaining C-4 charges, "Neither are those pods I'm willing to bet."

"Ssstop!" He screamed in desperation. Spider-Man launched two C-4 charges onto his left and right. They attached to the center of each group of pods and another web-shot detonated them. The explosions tore half the lab apart, causing a chain reaction that swept through the chambers.

The Lizard looked through the clearing smoke already staring at the charred bodies of the future. "You'll pay for that, you've ruined my plansss, dessstroyed my facility and my work, and in your ssselfishnesss ssstoped what could have been the greatessst age thisss world hasss ssseen, temporarily mind you, but for that Parker, you'll pay."

"Don't I already owe you a final?" He asked.

"When we lassst fought we were equalsss, I've sssince injected myself with an sssuperior brand of my formula, and am quite more powerful." The Lizard remarked.

Peter laughed, "Aren't you ever tired of being wrong?"

The Lizard grimaced, "Don't believe me? Well, nothing beatsss experiensssce." He closed his fist, "I'll handle you for the final time."

The reptilian madman charged forward forcing Peter to try and jump over him. Before he could get high enough however; the Lizard's tail wrapped around his waist slamming him into the ground forcefully enough to dent the floor of the catwalk.

Peter flipped back to his feet avoiding the Lizard's tail as it swept by. They engaged each other in a battle of speed and power. The blows and blocks seemed to make the very ground shake. The Lizard eventually wrapped his arms around Peter and slammed the both of them through the lab door and into the corridor outside. Peter wall-walked and landing a kick as he moved through the air.

The Lizard stumbled back but was only momentarily dazed. He punched Peter powerfully across the jaw with his left and then his right fists. He then grabbed his opponent's head and smashed it into the wall with such power that the concrete cracked.

Peter could feel blood trickling down from the left side of his skull but resolved to fight on. He broke free of the Lizard's grip with an elbow to the edge of his nose and collected every ounce of his strength for an uppercut. The blow sent the Lizard straight through the ceiling and into the adjacent floor through which Spider-Man followed.

Upon arriving in what looked to be the command center of S.H.I.E.L.D. a room decked out with panels all focused around some sort of main screen, the Lizard immediately attacked and the both of them crashed into one of the stations.

Peter managed to force him off and rise back up to his feet, "Did anyone ever mention anything about that nasty disposition of yours?"

The Lizard snarled, clearly not in the mood for games and closed in on his target. When he struck, Peter easily slipped underneath and snuck in several blows to the Lizard's gut. The latter stumbled away holding his bruised ribs. He then leaned against the panel and motioned for Peter to come in.

In his excitement he ignored the obvious warning sides and hurtled himself towards the Lizard like a missile. The Lizard on the other hand easily stepped to the side and allowed Peter to slam head-first into the computer. He grinned for a moment but did not lose his focus. He grabbed Peter's ankle and threw him into another computer.

"The failingsss of youth, eh, Mr. Parker?" He laughed and then picked Peter out of the mangled machine by his neck; his costume was torn in several locations around his shoulders and hands.

"You should be talking, Liz." He fired a spray of webbing into the Lizard's eyes forcing the monster to back away and rip it off. "You guys always fall for that."

The Lizard charged forward with such speed that Peter could not even dodge out of the way. They both slammed straight through the main screen and straight out the building. The Lizard clung to the side of the wall and spotted Peter falling wildly to the street captured by wreckage.

"Goodbye, Parker." He said proudly and then noticed the helicopter he had ordered arriving on the roof, "Now, it may not be asss formal asss I would have liked, but I ssstill have a few more avenues to explore. I'm far from beaten."