Red Witch: Bayville high, Bayville sewers, and maybe just Bayville in general.

Joseph McKinley: It said that he didn't use it, so no it's the canon Lizard I'm using.

Episodic: I'm not sure if I got it or either it just got in after I just posted. Well I still hope to surprise you with how this works out.

A Bleeding Rose: Always nice to hear from new reviewers and I'm glad you're liking this story.

Ivan Alias: Glad you liked those parts and I thought about that thing with two 'Curts' but then how would the Brotherhood know it was him? Well I'll think on it.

Sparky Genocide: Yeah I figured that would be funny (maybe a little foreshadowing too) and this arc will be a in 4 parts so first it will be Peter one on one, then the team.

celtcath74: I'm glad you like my humor and as for Amanda, yeah I figured Peter deals with enough in his life too, so I like to give characters like him a break every now and then.

oceanbang: Glad you enjoyed the teasing and I'm thinking about making them a couple. As for Rogue getting a little jealous keep in mind the MJ and Peter do have history together, not romantic but still, and some girls can be a little protective to their boyfriends, and vise-versa.

Kaliann: You actually got permission? And if you thin this is long now, I'm trying for 100 chapters at least.

The Uncanny R-Man: Actually Osborn was referred earlier I just put more emphasis on it this time around.

Morlin: Spidey will face him on his own first then the team.

Lord Destroyer: Well for a Spyder/Jamie romance, I'm toying with the idea but nothing solid yet. As for Peter helping out Amanda's father, that was basically the idea I had, but I'm not planning on killing Connors, he's too good a character to kill off.

X-Over: No Magneto involvement just yet, he's busy doing something else.

slickboy444: Spider-man's getting involved in this chapter, and you know there will be drama buddy.

And thanks to: psychobunny410, Proponent of EVO, Mark C, ldypebsaby, Damn-my-name-was-taken, Jaguar, Sweegy

SPIDER-X

CHAPTER 36: THE CURSE OF THE LIZARD PART 3

All the X-Men slowly walked into the Kitchen for breakfast. Logan had taken it upon himself to give all the students morning training sine they wouldn't be back to school in two more days. The X-Men got the honor of going first, at six am in the morning. Peter had spent last night patrolling a little and made the mistake of being out till one in the morning.

He had lost track of time but thankfully since there was no school he wasn't busted, but after only five hours of sleep and then Danger Room for an hour he was wiped. He managed to drag himself to the counter and then just fell face first onto the counter debating if he should get something to eat or just fall to sleep right there.

"Hey man you alright?" Evan asked putting some orange juice on the table as he then went to get a bowl. Peter just muttered something unintelligible.

"Like how late did you et back last night?" Kitty asked him. Peter held up a hand with one finger raised. "One in the morning? God no wonder you're like dead on your feet."

"Peter you really should have thought ahead." Scott told him. "By now you should have known Logan would have gone for an early morning training session."

Peter managed to lift his head. "I forgot." Then he yawed and tried to get up and slowly walked like a zombie to the cupboards looking for a few waffles to cook up and then maybe some coffee to help wake him up.

"Peter have ya thought about takin it easy with tha Spider-Man thing a little?" Rogue asked seeing the shape he was in.

"Believe me Rogue, if I had known about today I wouldn't have gone out last night and went to bed early, plus web swinging is a nice way to relax." Peter said shrugging.

Spyder and Jamie walked in then and started to get their own breakfast. "Why aren't you two with the New Mutants in the Danger Room?" Evan asked them.

"Because unlike you high school guys, we've still got to go to school." Spyder said. You would tell she didn't like it.

"Man you're lucky then." Evan said to her.

"Please, I mean I'd rather be in the Danger Room." She said to him grabbing the milk from the fridge.

Jamie and a few multiples of himself were already setting up his breakfast when he threw in his own two cents. "Yeah, I mean the Danger Room is fun, plus after it all you guys get the rest of the day off now."

"I didn't think about that." Spyder muttered then she reached for the last muffin on the counter but Kurt nabbed it first. "Hey I wanted that."

"Too slow." Kurt said grinning he was about to take a bite when he heard a whimper and looked to see Spyder giving him huge gray puppy dog eyes and had her bottom lip out. "I'm not giving you zhis." He told her but when her bottom lip started to quiver he broke down. "Fine here." He said and muttered a few words in German.

Spyder then quickly change to a happy faced girl like nothing had happened. "Thanks." She said brightly and took a bite out of the muffing.

Kurt looked around and Peter laughed. "Looks like she got you with that one buddy."

"Oh my God." Jean gasped. The others looked to her as she came over and put down the front page. "It says that one of the teachers at Bayville disappeared last night."

The others looked at the paper. "Peter don't we have a class with Dr. Connors? I mean what happened to him?" Kitty asked him worried Connors was one of her favorite teachers.

"I don't know." Peter said reading the article. It said there was damage to the home and there was a line about some kind of creature too. "Hey check this out, sources say that Martha Connors was in her own words attacked by a large lizard like creature, is this the same creatures that are said to have attacked Bayville High? Police are denying this." Peter read off.

"You don't like think Forge forgot one of those things do you?" Kitty asked everyone.

"I hope so." Muttered Kurt. He really didn't like that last time he had seen those things and wasn't looking forward to another encounter.

Scott got a concerned look on his face. "I think I should tell the Professor and see if we can get Forge over here to see if he did miss one."

Peter on the other hand had another idea. He waited until Scott and Jean were gone then he went to Kitty and Kurt since he might need the both of them for what he had planned. He found the two and told them to meet him in his room. Peter went through his things and started looking for something he remembered.

"Got it." Peter said pulling out box in his closet.

"Got what?" Peter jumped at the sound of Kurt's voice and saw both him and Kitty in his room.

"Hey guys, close the door will you?" Kitty closed the door and Peter pulled out some articles he had saved over the years. "Guys, I remember reading about Connors before, he was experimenting in a way to re-grow human tissues."

"Yeah like I remember that." Kitty said. She also liked to keep up with the science world as well as Peter. "But what does this have to like do with Dr. Connors?"

"Well he was experimenting in finding a way to blend certain traits of reptiles that can re-grow lost limbs and put it into humans, in fact I think that was what he was working on in that accident, the one that took his arm." Peter explained.

"Vait, you zink zat lizard creature vasn't vone of zose zings that came from Forge's machine, but might be from Dr. Connors' research?" Kurt asked him.

"Well you got to admit, I'm pretty sure Forge did all of those creatures, I mean they're not exactly subtle and we would have heard if any of them were still running around before now." Peter said explaining his reasons. Both Kurt and Kitty had to agree it sounded somewhat reasonable.

"So like how do we find out if he did do this?" Kitty asked him.

Peter pulled out his camera from his desk then looked at them. "We go looking, if there was anything to do with Dr. Connors research it will be in his house."

"But vhat if his family is still zere?" Kurt asked him.

Peter shrugged. "I guess we play it by ear, plus if your home was attacked by a giant lizard creature would you still be in it? They might have left it for a few days, plus there was supposed to be some damage so I'm guessing they might not be there, so are you two in?"

Kurt wasn't so sure. "I don't know...shouldn't ve tell the others?"

"Kurt all we're like going to do is just look around if we can, we may not find anything." Kitty told him.

"Right plus if we get into a tight spot then that's were you come in." Peter said. "We could use someone to get us out of there and far away quickly." Kurt still wasn't sure about this but he wouldn't abandon his friends so he reluctantly agreed.

LATER

The three of them were on the Connors' residents block. It was a typical residential area with simple two story homes, a few with the cliché white picket fences, the typical America family values kind of neighborhood. But when they got to Dr. Connors' home they saw one of the windows were covered and the place looked deserted.

There were no sighs of anyone there, but then again his wife could be out.

"Alright guys lets try the basement first." Peter told them.

"Vhy ze basement?" Kurt asked him looking at the place.

"Well unless using the attic the basement is the most likely place to keep all your stuff, like lab equipment." Peter told him. "I mean that's where I kept a lot of me Spider-Man equipment and the little lab to make my web fluid at my old place."

Kitty shrugged. "I think he's got a point, and I mean no one would see us in the windows from down there." She pointed and they saw that the only windows were covered up. "Plus it looked like he was keeping those windows covered, so it stands to reason he was keeping something secret."

Kurt nodded. "Alright." He looked around for a place to port them and found a nice little spot by a tall hedge. After making sure no one was looking thanks to Peter's spider sense they ported in. When they got there they were in complete darkness.

"Great now we like can't see." Kitty muttered then she heard rustling cages. "Ah! Like what is that!"

Kurt hushed Kitty. "It's just some cages vith animals...I zink."

"You think?" Peter asked.

"Vell...you'll see." Thankfully Kurt's excellent night vision he found the light switch when he turned it on Peter had to quickly cover Kitty's mouth as she let lose a scream at being right next to a lot of lizards and reptiles.

"What's so strange about these?" Peter asked taking his hand from Kitty's mouth. Kurt pointed to a couple of cages and the Kitty and him looked closely at them. They looked kind of like mice only they weren't. They looked like lizards too.

"Whoa...is anyone else getting a Dr. Moreau vibe here?" Peter asked and the others nodded their head. Kitty looked around the makeshift lab for anything to explain what was going on while Peter looked at the blackboard. He wasn't sure but he was certain this was some kind of formula for a biological bonding agent of some kind. He got his camera ready and took a few pictures of the board to get it all, and then a few things around the lab too.

Kurt ported around the upper floor looking for anything else but didn't find anything. When they were all back together again they heard a noise and froze. It sounded like a car pulling up and the three teens looked at each other wide eyed. They heard the front door open and footsteps.

"Kurt get us out of here!" Kitty whispered.

"Wait." Peter said and grabbed one of the small cages with the mice/reptile hybrid. "Maybe Mr. McCoy could use one of these to study from." He explained and the three of them teleported back to the mansion. Meanwhile upstairs Martha Connors sat down at the kitchen table trying to make sense of her life.

When that...that thing had gone out of the bathroom she hadn't been so scared in her life. She had been shaking for hours and even right now her hands still shook at the memory. She knew what had happen thought. Curt and his damn experiments...there was no other reason.

She didn't know how but she knew that thing was him. She knew he must have used himself as a test subject. 'But for god's sake why?' She wondered. She pushed back her brown hair from her face, she had spent over an hour crying before she had called the police. She had told them that Curt was missing, if she told them of her thoughts then they might hunt him down and kill him.

He may have been changed...but somewhere in there was the man she loved, she was sure of it. She still didn't know what to do though. She had just dropped their thirteen-year-old son Billy at school and hus just drove around thinking. She wasn't a scientist and she didn't know how to fix this. She placed her head in her hands and started to cry thinking of how she may never get the man she loved back.

Back at the mansion Peter went to develop his film while Kitty and Kurt took the cage to Mr. McCoy's lab and to get the adults. After awhile he got the pictures finished and Peter found everyone in Hank's lab. All the adults were there and Hank was looking at the creature with pure scientific interests. "Remarkable." He kept on saying taking a few notes.

"Mr. McCoy I think you would want to look at these." Peter said and spread the pictures in order so they make a larger picture of the black board with the formula on it. Hank stared at the studying the formula and copying it down on paper.

Xavier came over to Peter. "Well first off Peter I'm glad you found something to go on, but why didn't you come to us about it like you should have?"

Peter felt a little uncomfortable. "Well...I just wasn't sure, I mean what if we went there what would we say? Hi we're all mutants and we were wondering if your husband has been playing mad scientist and turned himself into a giant lizard? What if I was wrong about it then?"

Xavier thought about it. "I can see your point but you STILL should have come to us."

Peter sighed. "Yeah I know...it's just...Dr. Connors is someone I look up to, and I just wanted to make sure myself that he wasn't in any trouble. I'm sorry Professor, I guess...I guess I still got a few things to learn."

"Oh my stars and garters!" Hank exclaimed. Everyone turned to him. "This is incredible! Absolutely brilliant!"

"What is it?" Logan asked him.

"This formula has the ability to bond together genetic material of completely different species together, I thought that would have been impossible but here it is." He said looking at the pictures.

"You think that you might figure out a way to reverse it?" Peter asked him.

Hank thought about it. "It could take awhile, I mean I'll have to run tests and such before I know for sure."

"Do it Hank." Xavier said. "If that creature described in the papers is a result of this then we may have to stop it. Something like this could be dangerous not only for the public but could also lead to the exposure of mutants to the world, and a rampaging monster is not how I would like us to be viewed by the world."

Hank got a grim expression on his face and started to get to work right away. He knew he was running against the clock and he would have to hurry.

LATER THAT NIGHT

Peter was in his Spider-Man suit going to the high school. He figured that Dr. Connors might have left some of his work there too. It was a long shot but he might find a few notes or something, but since it was late he figured the work crews would be getting out and no one would be there, so he would have the place to himself. He just hoped that Beast could make sense of what they had managed to get from his basement.

While he was getting to the school Principle Kelly was just getting out. He had to come in late because of a problem with the repairs and had to talk to the foreman. Some of the supplies were getting late so now he had to consider pushing back the reopening of the school for yet another day. He made his way through the now empty parking lot going to the only vehicle, his own car.

He wasn't the only one in that area either. Eddie Brock was also looking around the area, after his pictures of those creatures he had been told to find out more about those things and now was the perfect time to look around the school for any clues. He knew there were some strange things going on in this town and he was going to find them.

Meanwhile Kelly fished out his keys and opened the car door, he was about to step in when he heard something from a hedge nearby. "Who's there? Show yourselves!" He said sternly thinking it was another group of kids trying to spray paint the school again. Ever since the creature incident a few kids had painted things like 'Monster High' on the outside of the school, and Kelly was fed up with it.

"I know you're there so come on out!" He was about to go over there but then a growl started up and it was from something a LOT larger then a dog. Kelly backed away slowly. "Never mind, go on doing whatever it was you were doing." He said scared about what he had heard.

Then suddenly something leapt over the hedge and right onto the hood of his car. It was an enormous green-scaled lizard creature in tattered clothing and a menacing glare in its reflective eyes. It crouched and growled at him and Kelly could do only one thing. He screamed like a girl and ran for it.

Brock had heard the scream and ran to the parking lot, he wasn't far and in the streetlights he saw a man with brown hair, in a suit with glasses running for his life from a giant creature. The man was screaming 'don't eat me' over and over as he ran. Brock knew this wasn't the same creature as the other ones, but it was still news.

The creature leaped high into the air and landing in front of the man. The man fell onto his back looking up in terror at the creature. Brock took the opportunity for the picture and set the flash on, he took a picture of the scene and he realized his mistake with the flash too late as it caught the attention of the creature.

It hissed at him as it glared at Brock. So Broke took one last flash picture temporarily blinding the creature as it covered its sensitive eyes and Brock took off running. Kelly also took this time to run off, and the Lizard was momentarily confused as to which prey to go after but it decided to go after its first target.

It turned to face to direction Kelly ran off to and was in the process of going after him when something slammed into its side sending it flying a few meters on one direction in a heap. It snarled at this new attacker and scrambled quickly to a crouching position.

Spider-Man was thankful he HAD decided to go to the school cause then he wouldn't have met this...well...thing. From the looks of it, being half lizard and half human, it was most likely it was connected to Doc Connors in some way. Peter just hoped the thing hadn't have eaten the good doc or something, and from the claws and teeth the thing had it looked quite capable of doing that.

"Great." Muttered Peter looking at the thing as it started to circle him as it was looking for a way to start a good attack. "Where's the Crocodile Hunter when you need him?" At that moment it leaped at him with greater speed then Peter had thought for something that large and bulky looking.

Peter back flipped on the car behind him on the roof as its claws tore through Kelly's car. It tore the door off then twisted its body thrashing its tail onto the roof of the car. Peter jumped and twisted in the air landing to face the creature and saw the huge dent now in the car.

"So let's recap." Peter said to himself. "He's fast, agile and strong too...well that's just perfect." He said sarcastically. The Lizard leaped at Peter again and he continued to doge it the best he could, but it took all his spider sense, agility and speed trying not to get tore to pieces by the things claws or teeth.

At one point Peter got hit by the tail, he managed to block the shot to his ribs with his left arm but the force of the blow sent him flying into the wall of the school. He looked up in time to see it coming at him, so Peter leaped high up into the air and onto the wall and then flipped himself to the roof. Now Peter had only faced a few super powered people in his short career but this Lizard creature was the most unrelenting thing he had ever faced. "Well I guess I'll take the high ground for this battle."

The Lizard looked up at him then leaped onto the wall and used its powerful claws to dig into the wall and started to climb up. "He can climb too! Now that's not fair at all!" He leaped back as the Lizard quickly got to the roof. Peter checked his web shooters. "Well it's looked like I finally get to test out my new shooters in the field." He said to himself and fired his stingers.

The Lizard dodged most of them but a few hit the arm, but they just bounded off. "Great, his hide is like armor, so much for using stingers." The Lizard charged at him jaws wide so Spider-Man shot his impact webbing right into the jaws. The webbing expanded keeping the jaws in an open position.

"There that should keep you muzzled scalely." Peter said looking at the thing thrash its head trying to shake free the substance. Then it started to claw at the webbing cutting it up and ripping it apart. "Ah crap." Peter said under his breath seeing the Lizard free its mouth with only a few strands of webbing in its jaw. It growled at Peter and he knew if it was angry before NOW it was pissed.

It leaped at Peter but it was too close for him to dodge even with the advanced warning and was on his back looking at the jaws of this creature as it was about to literally bit his head off. It dug its claws into his shoulders and Peter grunted in pain but he still put his arms up and braced them against the front of its neck preventing it from getting close enough to his face.

Peter thought back to how he'd seen some of the other students watch the Discovery Channel on reptiles and how they said how cool it was because they were showing how professionals took down large reptiles. Peter hadn't thought it interesting and had left. 'Smart move Peter, mental note; from now on watch more Discovery Channel!' He thought to himself. He managed to move his legs to the torso of the Lizard and sticking to it he kicked out sending the thing flying off of him.

Both of them quickly got up and stared at each other sizing the other up for the next round.

Then both combatants turned to the sounds of sirens in the distance and the tell tale lights of police cars. Kelly had managed to get to a phone and had called in the police. The Lizard growled in frustration at having his hunt interrupted but it knew enough when to run and when to fight.

It ran to the ledge of the building and Peter tried to catch him but it thrashed its tail at him and knocked him down. Peter managed to get his hand up and fired one of his spider tracers at the white lab coat it had on him.

Peter saw that the police cars were getting too close and decided to make himself scarce. It wasn't hard to get out of there with no one seeing him and when he was clear out of sight he reached for his belt and pulled out the little tracker attacked to his belt. He saw that the Lizard was moving fast and decided to go after him.

After five minutes he landed on a building that was near the last place he had seen the tracking device was going. He looked around but saw nothing, so he pulled out the tracker again and if he had built it right (which he was sure he had) and it said he was pretty close, then the signal stopped.

"What the?" Peter shook the device and swatted it a few times. It still had power and it seemed to still be working so that would mean that. "Ah crap the tracking device." He went to an alley that was where the lost location of the tracking device was before it was gone. He looked around but couldn't find it.

"How the hell do you lose a seven foot walking lizard in tattered clothing?" Then Peter noticed and opened manhole cover. As he bent down he saw claw marks on the ground and the cover. "Unless it goes into the sewers where all that metal would interfere with a tracking device...great." He said darkly.

Without a clear signal he wouldn't be able to track him, and not to mention getting lost in a sewer wouldn't help matters. Since the Lizard had a good five minutes head start it was unlikely he would find him anytime soon. "Well...this sure had been a great night so far." He sighed. "I better get back and tell them what I found, I doubt I would find anything tonight at the school, especially with it crawling with cops."

Peter swung off back to the mansion, trying to ignore a few scrapes, bruises and a couple of thin cuts on his shoulders by that thing. Luckily they weren't serious but he knew his Aunt and Rogue wouldn't like the fact he came home looking like that.

Well, unless Rogue would look over him while he got fixed up wearing a nurse uniform, that would make his night. The thought made him smile under his mask as he got back to the mansion and filed that fantasy away for another time.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 37: CURSE OF THE LIZARD PART 4

This should be the last part of this arc. Also I'm thinking of starting up a C2 thing, anyone interested in joining? I'm not sure about starting one until I know there are some people who want to join up. PS. For those of you that skip author's notes, until there are more reviews for Exiles, I won't update Wanda's Thoughts.