Down in a sewer a man was holding his amputated arm in pain as he thrashed about down in the water
"It hurts, it hurts" he said as he collapsed against the wall of the tunnel he was in "I need to reach my lab" he said before he hissed in pain before he continued to walk, with each step he felt the stump of his arm throb in pain. It became too much for him and he collapse. "Not now" he said before he passed out in pain, soon roaring in pain and getting up and jumping onto the roof and crawling along the roof, hissing in rage as his tail flicked back and forth. Soon he unleashed a roar for fury
"WHAT!" Peter said seeing what the Daily Bugle had published, which was the kiss Black Cat had given him after finishing off Scorpion
"Okay so who is that and why is she kissing Spiderman?" Anya asked
"Black Cat, she's a thief turned hero" Ned said
"Didn't she help Spiderman a couple of times? MJ asked
"Yeah she has" Peter said "But who took it?"
"Eddie Brock" MJ said looking at the caption
"Eddie, seriously man?" Peter asked
"Okay, okay class take your seats please we're about to begin" a man said as he walked into class, he was a bit chubby and wore cream trousers, white formal shirt, red bowtie, an argyle vest coloured green with white and orange with a lab coat over top
"Where's Dr Connors, I thought he was going to be taking us this term?" Gwen asked
"I'm afraid he has vanished, so the school has asked me, Dr Otto Octavius to take over until he is able to come back" Dr Octavius said
"Okay, I guess that's cool" Harry said
"Ah, thank you Mister Osborne, now I believe it is time for some chemistry, tell me have you explored the effects that water has on some metals?" the doctor asked smiling as he got the materials he wanted to demonstrate out while "This will be a blast" he chuckled before noticing he was missing something "Now just hold on while I'll go and fetch some protective gear, so study your books" he said as he left the classroom.
A couple of minutes after their teacher left the room, they noticed that the room was warming up a bit, a few of them coughed and adjusted their collars, Peter shook his head to focus on the material he was reading when his spider sense was triggered by something
'what is setting that off?' he thought standing up to look around, he noticed that most of the class was feeling the same effects as him, but something like heat wouldn't set off his spider sense, so what was
"Peter?" Anya asked walking up to him
"You okay?" he said catching asked
"Not really, but in a way I am" she said pushing Peter up against the wall and started to give him bedroom eyes before leaning in and kissing him
'What is happening?' Peter thought before the room suddenly felt cooler. Anya broke the kiss off and blushed
"I'm so sorry, it was like I couldn't" Anya said
"That was dangerous, now everyone to the gym locker showers and then get changed into your gym uniform, once you have done that put your clothes into the plastic bags I will provide so they can be quickly cleaned" Octavius said
"Sir, what was that?" Ben asked
"Something dangerous" Octavius said as he looked at the clear substance, "something I also thought that I wouldn't see again in ages"
"What's that?" Peter asked
"Not now, just do what I have asked please" Octavius said looking distressed 'Is he finally back, because if he is that means the city has something to dread' he thought 'Plus if he is back I think I have figured what has happened to Curt' he thought
"So what happened?" MJ asked as the group got together
"I have no idea, one minute I'm studying chemistry, the next I know is that my lips are pressed against Peter's" Anya said
"Did you guys feel hot?" Ned asked
"I did" Ben said
"So what was that?" Oliver asked
"It could have been some sort of pheromone based effects, but I have no idea what would do that though" Cho said
"Okay so someone set off a Love plague, or lust cloud right?" Ben asked
"That wasn't love" Cindy said
"But who?" Peter asked
Under the school, the sewer monster was entering via a hole in the wall it create. It sniffed the air looking for something; what it found was the boiler. So it roared and broke the boiler increasing the temperature making it warmer causing the monster to feel sleepy so he curled up and started to absorb when it bolted up and shook its head before exiting the room and stumbled into the hallways and started to walk down the hall groaned
"Where...how did I get back to the school" the monster said "What has happened to me" it said shocked to see that it was covered in dark green scales. "No, what has he done to me" he said smelling the air. "No there are students in the hallway and judging by their smell it's the chemistry class; so that lab is empty; good that means I can find out what has happened to me" he said heading for the lab
"Sure what is going to happen right now?" Cindy asked
"How about not heading in there" Flash said
"Why?" MJ asked before looking in top see a 8 foot human lizard sitting down while looking at a microscope
"Fire alarm?" Oliver asked
"Why not?" Gwen asked as the group crept over to the door
"I'm going to tell Principal Morita" Cindy said
"Okay" Harry said "Peter, come on...Peter?"
"Where is he?" Gwen asked
"Come on" Anya said
"He better not be heading for that lizard dude" Flash said
Peter had run to his locker and pulled something out of it revealing it to be his spider-suit and webshooters. He quickly slipped them on and pulled the mask on before jumping onto the roof and started crawling towards his class, once at the door he leapt down to see that the Lizard was still there
'Oh boy' he muttered as he opened the door and quietly entered, closing it before jumping onto the roof. He moved slowly as not to upset the lizard, he noticed that it was writing something down, which looked like chemical and genetic information, so he's curiosity got the better of him and he landed and looked over the monster's notes; it was incredibly detailed and advanced "Interesting" he said before he looked up to see the monster's golden eyes looking at him "Um...hi"
"Hello" the monster said before swatting out of the classroom. Spiderman barely got out of the way when he was dived bomb
"Easy there Lizard, I'm not try to hurt you" Spiderman said closing his jaws with a bit of webbing making the Lizard look annoyed at him before simply snapped his jaws opened to break the webbing shocking Spiderman which gave Lizard enough time to swat Spiderman to the ground
"SPIDEY!" two voice shouted out
"Oh you have got to be kidding me" Spiderman said looking up to see Flash and Ben standing behind the Lizard, Ben signalled to Flash to go left while he went right, the Lizard looked down at Spiderman snarling before looking up just in time for Ben and Flash to try and pull off a shoulder tackle which did nothing but send the two to the floor
"What is he made of?" Flash asked
"Scales, he's made out of scales which are tougher then skin" Ben said "WHOA!" he said opening his legs to avoid the claws of the Lizard who scowled at him. Ben then scurried back before getting up and running off. Lizard roared and went to run after them, only to be stopped, looking back Lizard saw Spiderman holding on to his tail
"Got you now" Spiderman said as the Lizard smiled and lifted his tail "Uh oh" he said as he was whipped about by the tail and upon being thrown off landed on Ben and Flash
"Spidey, you okay?" Flash asked
"I can taste my spine" Spiderman said
"Good to know" Ben said as the trio got up, only to see Lizard snarling over them, he leaned back before roaring in their faces
"CURT DON'T!" Ocativus said running around the corner
"Wait, Curt as in Dr Curt Connors?" Spiderman asked
"That's our science teacher?" Flash asked
"What happened to him?" Ben asked
"Otto is that you?" Lizard asked
"It is my old friend, what happened to you?" Otto asked "Was it you know who?"
"Wait, Voldemort did this to Doc Connors?" Flash asked making everyone look at him "What I read"
"No, no this may have been done by an old foe; one I dreaded seeing again" Octavius said
"Who was he?" Ben asked "And what did he do?"
"You wouldn't have know him, but I can tell you he was brilliant but corrupt scientist who had a mind for the dangerous. One of these was highly volatile genetic experiments on humans; of course he was discovered and a panel of his fellow scientist blacklisted him and had him dragged off by SHIELD, for years we didn't hear anything from him until ten years ago when he struck" Octavius said before he turned to Dr Connors "And I believe one of our mutual students has also felt that price"
"Which one?" Ben asked
"Peter Parker! We believe that this deranged man did something to his father Dr Richard Parker" Lizard said "We believe he was the one who caused the accident that killed them"
"Man, I knew about the accident, but to think it was planned out, Peter went through a lot when that happened" Ben said
"Then what happened to turn Doc Connors into the Lizard here?" Spiderman asked
"I was injected with a serum created from reptile DNA a and upon looking at my own blood, something infused with trace amounts of eradiated blood, while the radiation is gone the effects remain" Lizard said
"What kind of radiation?" Ben asked
"Gamma" Lizard said
"Gamma radiation! That means!" Spiderman said
"Yes, I was injected with a serum that combined Lizard DNA with the Hulk's blood" Lizard said
"Can you find a cure?" Octavius asked
"Highly unlikely, but maybe I can control the change like Banner does" Lizard said "And then I will be able to help take him down and makes sure he stays down" Lizard said
"Who are you talking about, maybe I can help" Spiderman said
"Highly unlikely" Octavius said
"Try me" Spiderman said swinging to the floor and grabbing a syringe
"And what are you likely to do with that?" Lizard asked "You can't get through my scales" he said before his tongue was grabbed and stabbed with the needle
"Impressive" Octavius said smiling
"Okay I'll get this to a lab I've been working with" Spiderman said
"Okay" Lizard said
"Incredible, he wasn't kidding" Peter said examining the sample under an electron microscope which was displayed on the screen, "He wasn't kidding about the lizard DNA, thought I'm detecting several types, the main one being Iguana, thought they are trace amounts of Crocodile, Goanna, Gecko and even Komodo Dragon, but what worries me is the part that was created using Hulk's blood; that opens up a whole new Pandora's box of questions. Because due to what I can understand the Hulk's transformation is triggered by the body's natural 'Fight or Flight' response flooding the body with adrenaline, that in turns activated the gamma in Banner's body causing him to shift into the Hulk. Now I believe that the Lizard concoction in some way damaged the transformative properties of the Hulk blood making sure the Lizard's transformation is one way" he noted as he looked something up on the lab's computer and saw that was some kind of counter-agent to the lizard serum. Peter quickly grabbed it with the dispenser and ran outside.
"I hope things aren't too bad" he said as he returned to the school, to see the Lizard was now going berserk on the football field. "What happened?"
"I'm sorry it's my fault" Cindy said, "I got a text message and the sound set him off"
"Don't worry I've got this" Spiderman said
"Yeah well, you might want to hurry" Cho said
"Why?" Ben asked
"Because we've got the police and SHIELD on their way" Cho said
"Great, at least I can talk to them" Spiderman said as he leaped into action tackling Lizard and webbed his tail to the ground "Sorry Doc but this isn't going to be easy" he said getting the dispenser ready to inject the Lizard, only for the Lizard to rip his tail up "Uh oh"
"Dog pile" Flash said as the football team jumped on the Lizard's tail, this caused the Lizard to turn around and snap at them, but luckily MJ and Cindy wrapped a rope around his jaws and pulled it tight
"Spiderman, NOW!" Gwen shouted
"You got it" Spiderman said stabbing the needle in and pulling the trigger injecting the serum making the Lizard shrink down from 8 foot to about 6 foot, his snout disappeared, his scales became more skin like and lighter and his claws shrunk
"My goodness, is anybody hurt?" Connors asked
"No, but you should get out of here" Spiderman said
"I can't and I won't, I nearly hurt my students" Connors said
"So what are you going to do?" Spiderman asked
"he'll be placed in a specialise lab where he can help us while working on the cure to change him back to human" Fury said as he walked out of the shadows
"Will he be hurt?" Gwen asked
"No, in fact it will probably more comfortable for him then out here" Fury said "And don't worry I'll make sure he can teach you as well"
"Thanks Fury" Spiderman said
"Don't thank me just yet Spiderman" Fury said "We still have some things to work on together" he said escorting the Lizard to a Pave Low helicopter "And trust me, I'll be keeping my eye on you"
G'day Guys Grizz here and that was the Lizard chapter, not exactly the way he is usually protrayed in the various form of Spiderman since he's more of monstrous villain, in this he'll be a heroic mentor character who will step up in future chapters including an upcoming one, plus I also set up a ship-tease with Anya even though I have chosen the love interest already
So until next time I'll catch you on the flipside