Chapter 1 Enter the Spider, Lizard, and Reptile
Origin
You know the story, Peter Parker gets bitten by a spider and gets spider-like from spiders. And the crazy stuff follows behind to many other worlds with similar or different origins to the one & only Spiderman we all know and love. And happened to see other Spiders like boys, girls, men, women, robots, and yes, of course, a pig.
In another world, we get a new kind of Spider, rare among the Web of Life and multiverse. We have seen those rare and few special Spiders in the multiverse. And we see another one as start his story...the story of Naruto Uzumaki-Parker.
Now Naruto didn't have a good start in his childhood after his parents and many others were killed in a plane crash, resulting in him orphan and alone. He wasn't the only one as a good number of people that day lost family and friends, a deep hurt to remember.
The blonde was on his own, homeless, and struggled on surviving on the streets by stealing or doing anything to do to survive alone. He struggled yeah and the pain of losing his parents still hurt him deeply. That changed one day when he was caught stealing & in deep trouble by a harsh store owner but a nice couple helped him and calm things down. This was the day that Ben and May Parker found the young boy that faithful day, changing their lives for the better so a new family can heal.
For you, all see, Ben and May had lost their nephew Peter Parker the same day as Naruto lost his parents. Peter was missing or killed, it was hard to tell but was pronounced dead, which hurt the pair and worked hard on recovering that of losing half of their family, a deep tragedy the pair fought through almost a month. They found the blonde when they walked out of their house for a while and came across the kid about to be harmed Ben stepped in & helped the young boy out.
After finding out that Naruto had lost his family, no relatives nor godparents, or anyone to watch over him from his parents' close & loving friend, Anastasia Hardy who's head of the Hard Foundation. Anastasia was happy that Ben and May had founded Naruto as she had been looking all over New York to find her friend's son which she was deeply saddened by the loss of her two friends & for the young boy going for that.
While Anastasia talks with Ben and May about Naruto's future & what to do next, the young blonde boy was able to remeet his only childhood friend, Felicia Hardy who was happy to see her only friend again & sad for him on going through that but the pair were able to spend a good afternoon together & relax after a long harsh month of pain.
After a good talk, Ben & May decied to adopt Naruto much to his suprised and happiness as he felt this bond with the nice couple & they understand him deeply. Anastasia would stay in touch with the Parker Family, not wanting her daughter to lose her only friend, and saw that the pair are good emotional support for the other, and other things to later talk about.
Naruto would have his name be full - Naruto Benjamin Uzukamki-Parker, mostly Naruto Uzumaki-Parker to avoid the confusion and roll call in schooling. He would grow up well, being great at schooling in his grades and sports such as basketball & bowling. He would meet and gain new friends as the years go by which his friendship with Felicia was growing into something else as the pair are older now. His new friends were; MaryJane Waston who lived next door to the Parkers & got to know her new friend, Gwen Stacy who is a fellow genius like Naruto, Harry Osborn who Naruto helped in his studies which the pair became fast friends, sometimes Flash if he gets out of his bully attitude, Debra Whitman who the pair work in Doctor Connors Labs together, Liz Allen who Naruto also helped in her studies as well & help change her outlook during high school, Ned Leeds who the pair love to play & build Legos, Jessica Jones with good talks between the pair, an interesting/somewhat blonde-haired who was like an ice queen around the school which some people can't remember her fully which is strange, and so on a few to come.
Then one day at a school field trip at Oscorp, where Dr. Stillwell was showing his radiation theories by experimental ray, making a few people worried and nervous of such a dangerous experimental ray being used. The radiation started, lucky it didn't harm anyone which unknown to many, a spider was zapped by the radiation ray and claw away unknown to many people until...
"AHH! Something bit me!" Naruto grunted in pain, grasping his right hand and shaking it, not knowing he throw the radiated spider away from his hand to someone else who got bitten as well.
"AHH!" A certain red-haired shouted in pain, being Mary Jane or MJ for short, throwing her left hand back, sending the spider flying and landing in the trash can, fate unknown for the time being.
Their friends were concerned and asked if they were right but wave it off. However, the pair felt this wave of tiredness and weak for some reason, like got punched in the gut and sickness coming over but had no idea why they were feeling like this.
Lucky, Naruto & MJ, thanks to his friends, got them to a nurse's office for some cover-up & clean-up on the bite on their separated hands. And pass home, get some bed rest to recover as maybe the experimental ray might have caused some uneasiness or sickness for them, which the nurse had a field day on Stillwell's ass, like a lot.
However, that spider could change the pair's life completely and in many ways than one.
Big Time Skip: Story Starts
New York City
We see somewhere in New York, downtown in China Town, a small group of thugs breaking into a store to steal money for a quick and easy heist but just have walked into the spider's trap as their guns were yanked right of their hands by web lines.
"What the!?" One thug shouted.
"It's the Spiderman!" Another thug shouted, pointing at the infamous famous wall-crawler who was on a street light above them.
"Spiderman? Where?" The Wall-Crawler joked, looking around and playing the game as we see he was a young man wearing a familiar red & blue suit that hugged him. His mask had a white eye lens for good protection & HUD connection. The red part of his suit had black web designs like an actual spider. His chest had a white spider symbol and on his back was the black spider symbol. White pads on his gloves and fingertips which on the forearm was computer wrist gauntlet.
This was Spiderman, a friendly neighborhood hero in New York.
"You know it's not nice to rob a jewelry store in my neighborhood. I mean come on guys! This was so last year," Spiderman commented as he jumped off the street light and onto one thug, dropkicking him in the ground and webbed him down while swinging a punch to another thug rushing at him to later web him up.
"On come on!" The last thug grunted before being blasted onto the wall by impact webbing and stuck like a fly in the spider's web.
"Maybe do banks next time guys and a challenge too. It's getting easy," Spiderman commented before shooting a web line and leaving the crime scene before the cops show up.
Spiderman started web-swinging back to an area he left his camera behind, on a timer, and take pictures of himslef in action for his daily day job at a certain newspaper. He checked his photos and saw that a great amount of his ten photos of him web-swinging & taking down the thugs were pretty good.
"Hmm not bad. Hope JJJ likes these and I can get good pay for this week. That would help mom out a lot," Spiderman or rather, Naruto Uzumaki-Parker thought.
Naruto had gained his powers when a certain spider bite him on that at Oscorp & Stillwill's project almost three years ago & had become a costumed hero for two years. He discovered his powers slowly after he rested from the spider's bite and the weekend came fast to him when he started sensing danger before they happened, muscle growth, and was surprised that he can stick to the wall & climb on said wall. He discovered that he had all the powers of an actual spider, mines webbing.
The blonde decied to keep his powers a secret from everyone from his family and friends, not freak them out as haters & the anti-mutant movement was going on. He was afraid on that part and kept working on mastering his spider powers while making a costume & web-shooters. He didn't know what to do first with the suit and powers but started doing show performances and television ones to earn money for his family, which was boosting greatly and was getting to his head, to be honest. He became more prideful and greedy when putting that mask on, it would come back to bite him in the ass very soon.
Naruto could remember that day like it was yesterday even after so long has passed and where he is. He can remember when a top business agent made a deal with him, wanting to become his manager and ringer for a good number of wrestling matches. He got nothing against wrestling sports but wasn't his thing you know. He did agree to it after hearing how much he would be paid, again his greed, pride, and ego getting the better of him.
The blonde or masked man was about to leave until something got his attention as he saw a burglar leaving the office with a bag full of crashes and cops running after him. The cops asked for him but the young man waved off and say it wasn't his problem. This would become a big mistake for the blonde but again blinded by pride and ego.
However, tragedy struck when Naruto came home that late evening and was ready to talk with his parents but became suprised to see police at his home and rushed inside. The police officers sadly informed the blonde that Ben Parker was shot point blake and the burglar was on the run. The rage build-up, so much that he wanted to go and kill the man that took the father he had in this world.
Naruto suited up in his suit and headed up to find the burglar that killed his father but when he picked that scumbag up and in the light, shock and great guilt hit him like nothing he ever felt that day. It was the same burglar at the same wrestling place...the one he should have stopped!
The blonde wanted to kill, kill the bastard that killed his adopted father who was very much his true father but something stopped him, and could even remember those wise words that Ben told him.
"With great power comes great responsibility."
Those words would change Naruto and decied to do the right thing. He throws the burglar out of the window, not before webbing him up and allowing the cops to take him away for justice. He knows that his dad won't want that and understand now. He truly understand what he was trying to tell him after so many years. He had grifts and these powers to do good, and it was his responsibility to do it for good intentions.
But the blonde was blinded by his greed, pride, and ego, which resulted in taking the only father he ever love in his life. That sin, would haunt him to this very day and becomes his drive on changing for the better, using his powers and becoming a costumed hero, known as Spiderman.
Naruto and his mom, May, have healed after the year after Ben's death, being there for each other and helping each other around the house & themselves. He has done his schooling - top of his classes, in touch with all of his friends who helped him a lot during the first year after his dad die, work on his double life as Spiderman and work on a few jobs.
Those jobs were being part lab assistants for a good number of scientists which are Curt Connors and Otto Octavius. Naruto worked well with Otto before the accident almost a year ago, who was his mentor and something of another father figure to him as the doctor helped him on understanding science, using that genius to help people, and try to be better. The blonde did work well for Curt and fellow assistant Gila who the trio were working on a grand project to regrow lost limbs such as Connors's missing arm & Gila's legs. He shared that desire and worked hard with them in the labs on that Lizard Formula.
The next part-time job, which wasn't all bad, and working as a reporter & photographer at the Daily Bugle. Naruto mostly takes pictures of himslef as Spiderman and sells those pictures to the newspaper company, even if JJJ believes & treats the Wall-Crawler as a threat or menace in the world. He did get along great with Joseph 'Robbie' Robertson, Betty Brant, Ben Urich, and Norah Winters.
In speaking of which, Naruto had to swing down to the alley to get change and make his way to the Bugle to show JJJ the new pictures of late, hopeful he's in a better mode but when he's not, and should really watch out. He might get a heart attack of those days with all of his yelling and outburst.
Let's see what happens next.
Meanwhile
Connors Labs
We see at Connors Labs within a college building, Dr. Curt Connors working late on his project and formula again, hoping to perfect the results and finally be ready for human testing. He and his student were working late today, past closing hours.
His student was a young woman with green & purple hair and brown eyes while wearing a lab coat, a black shirt, blue pants we see she has no legs due to an accident a while ago and was in a wheelchair. This was Gila, one of Curt's students & assistants.
"You know you could have left early, Gila," Curt offered.
"It's fine, Dr. Connors. My ride is running late and I'm willing to help out as Naruto is not working today. He plans on swinging by tomorrow to help out on the last tests. We are close doctor," Gila informed, being true as they have passed the animal testing which their rats have regrown their limbs easily and human testing was close.
Curt smirked on that, knowing his two students shared his work and love for sciences much like his friend/college roommate Otto. He was sad about what happened to his old friend in the accident almost a year ago. He shook his head and focus back on his work, mixing the right chemicals in and placed in the mutational ray which they are ready to do the final testing.
"Okay, I believe we are ready. Let's do the final testing, Gila," Curt said, having his mind made up and believing he had done the math correctly for this final testing to not only regrow his missing arm but also Gila's legs and many others.
However, what the pair don't know, is that this would be the start of a nightmare to come.
With Naruto
We see Naruto walking down the streets in casual clothing which is a black jacket with orange sleeves, blue jeans with running shoes, and carrying his bag which has his suit & equipment hidden among his papers & work stuff. He was heading to the Daily Bugle to hand JJJ the pictures he got today of himself or Spiderman, to get this week's good pay and see what his next assuments can be.
"I should call Uncle Aaron and see how he's doing, it's been a bit since we last talked," Naruto thought to himslef, going to talk to his uncle figure and see how's he doing as he took his phone out to call him.
Now there's no relation between Naruto & Aaron but Ben would often take Naruto to his job to see different heavy equipment in motion and how the train station operation systems work, resulting in meeting Ben's friend/co-worker, Aaron Davis.
"Yo, what's up Young Blood," Aaron greeted, sounding relieved.
"Hey Uncle Aaron, how's it going?" Naruto asked.
"Nothing much. I just got done with my shift and heading to Queens to check on your mom to see how she's doing before I check on my brother's family," Aaron replied, making sense and the blonde know about the second one all too well.
Aaron has been trying to reconnect with his brother, sister-in-law, and nephew of late, going straight and different angles. Ben was the one to talk with Aaron and his family, being a peacekeeper between them and pulling attention off. But after his death, well it's a little tense, not it was normally was but tense and work in progress for sure.
"Still tense?" Naruto asked, knowing the answer.
"Still tense. So what's up Naruto?" Aaron asked, changing the subject.
"Heading to the Daily Bugle and turn in some photos I got while seeing new assignments that JJJ has for me. I wanted to check on you and see how you are doing as it's been a while since we talk," Naruto explained.
"Ah, true. Time flies by fast. You know, your dad would be proud of you, Naruto," Aaron said, knowing that Ben, the only man that saw good in him and a second chance be proud of his son working hard to where he is now.
Naruto smiled sadly and nodded his head, knowing his uncle figure was right and had been working hard to make up for his original hidden sin for his dad & using his powers to help others. And never put his own needs first ever again.
"Yeah...yeah," Naruto said, keeping himslef together.
"But anyway, my ride is here. I got to go and run down to your mom's place, I will let her know your heading to work for you," Aaron said.
"Thanks, Uncle Aaron, take care," Naruto said.
"You too Young Blood, bye," Aaron said, as the pair ended the call and went to their business.
Naruto was at the Daily Bugle, entering the building and using the elevator to go to the top floor where he's worked at. He exited out of the elevator and headed into the main office building, a common newspaper company and all, nothing new and all but the blonde was counting down for one thing...
"Parker! PARKER! PARKER! Get in here!" His boss shouted at him, being J. Jonah Jameson or JJJ as many people have called him.
Naruto sighed and thought, "This was my normal routine. JJJ screaming my name so he gets more pictures to incriminate me as Spiderman. Here we go."
"There you are! I need to take a break from taking pictures of Spiderman," JJJ stated, surprising the blonde and everyone in the general area that heard.
"Okay, this is new," Naruto thought, blinking in suprise, and got out of his shocked state of mind.
"How come?" Naruto asked, wondering what's on his boss's mind today.
"I need you to try and find out who or what has been attacking & sacring people around the entrance of the sewers," JJJ replied.
"Sewers? I'm sure a crocodile might have scared people," Naruto suggested, recalling how some people have seen sightings of actually crocodiles living in the sewers but it's mainly a crazy and old legend.
"That's a crazy legend. Don't believe everything you read, kid. But listen, Parker, I need to figure out and take some pictures of who or what's in the sewers. The only thing left behind was very large claw marks on the walls and some people too," JJJ mentioned which made the blonde a little unease on that last statement.
"Yikes...but sure JJJ. I would get on that after checking on those rumors and head down there," Naruto said, taking this new job.
"Good! I have already sent Brock but he hasn't returned my calls or found anything. I hope you have better luck as I need those pictures for tomorrow's front page," JJJ said as he heads back to his main office, leaving the blonde to his thoughts and figure this out while a little tense on hearing that Eddie Brock was doing this job too.
Naruto felt this nameless fear in his heart about what JJJ had told him and the rumors surrounding this mystery thing attacking people around the sewers. It could be anything and he wasn't going head first into this without getting information from his co-workers.
The blonde talked with Robbie and Ben, who the pair confirmed the rumors were true, and showed some pictures & media news about the people that were attacked by this mystery creature at the sewers. And the claw marks were too large to be a normal crocodile in the sewers. That nameless fear in his heart on facing the unknown was growing but control himslef and would worry about it when facing this said danger when going to the sewers of the last attack.
"You seem to be out of place, Naruto," A certain secretary in the Daily Bugle stated, getting Naruto's attention and out of his thoughts to see who was greeting him.
She was a mature woman with short, dark brown colored hair, along with a pair of dark brown eyes, her figure being a very well-shaped one, with firm legs, a wide rear, and also a pretty large chest. We can see that she was dressed in a black and very tight dress, hugging her figure perfectly, making her look even more attractive than before.
This was Betty Brant, secretary in the Daily Bugle and someone that the blonde worked with at the office from time to time, both getting along pretty good.
"Something like that Betty," Naruto agreed.
"Well, I could offer you a private photo on modeling, if you want~?" Betty asked with a seductive tone in her voice and smirk at the blonde which suprised him a bit and small blush on his face.
"I might...I might take that offer for a later date. Why? You're asking me for a date?" Naruto teased back.
"Oh careful, I might jump on that offer sooner than you think," Betty warned with a wink.
Naruto rubbed the back of his head on that and control the flush on his face.
"You know, Naruto. I do often get pretty lonely at home and need help on relaxing," Betty said, trying and sliding the idea of asking the blonde on a date. She was doing the slow method and drawing Naruto towards her as he was a pretty interesting young man in her eyes. And now was a great time as it was only them in her office area.
"Oh sorry to hear that," Naruto said.
"I wish to have someone to...talk to someone. Maybe something else Naruto, you could help me with~." Betty said as she tried to move closer to the blonde but something happened and interrupted her completely.
Someone had pushed the pair and got very close to Naruto, putting his right arm in between her chest & rubbing herself onto the blonde which he blushed fully in suprise & flushed.
The said person was a young woman with medium length hair, which was blonde in color, a pair of green eyes, and also a pretty developed body, which could leave many with their eyes fixed on her, having wide hips and yet a thin waist, as well as a pretty pair of well-shaped and pretty large breasts. She wore a purple jacket with a white shirt underneath, dark blue jeans, and pair of boots while having her handbag close to her.
This was Norah Winters, a journalist that works with Naruto for their stories, him with the pictures and her with the articles.
Norah smiled as she started hugging Naruto behind him and said, "Guess who be working with you on this story at the sewers?"
"Hmm is it winter?" Naruto guessed with a smirk to push his flush and embarrassment attack he had.
"Bingo!" Norah cheered while kissing Naruto's on the right cheek, surprising him, much to Betty's more annoyance as she was this close to dragging that blonde for a date.
"Rrrrriiigghttt," Naruto said, escaping his fellow blonde's grasp and into work mode.
"So I take it, you want to investigate the sewers with me?" Naruto guessed.
"Yes, which the entrance that has most sightings and attacks I know of by the south. And I was able to ask the officers to take a look into it," Norah explained, already being steps ahead.
"Sounds like a plan," Naruto said, seeing that Norah was joining but was worried and concerned for his co-worker/friend as that deep nameless his fear in his heartbeat up a bit.
Betty narrowed her eyes a bit at Norah as she watched her and Naruto walkout. Norah stopped to look back at the brown-haired woman and smirked, that she one-upper her & closer to the blonde now, and alone I might add.
"I hate it when she does that," Betty thought but sighed and calm herself down, going back to work and needing to get her mind off. She's not going to be jealous and let Norah get into her head like last time.
Time Skip
Sewer Entrance - South
We see Naruto and Norah at the south entrance of the sewers, where the most attacking and sightings on who or whatever has been attacking people from workers, civilians, and even police officers who tried to figure out. It was starting to become dark out, sun sitting and a storm would come later tonight.
Naruto had his camera at the ready while Norah asked a few workers around to answer her questions before they leave for the day. He frowned and rubbed his chin in thought, thinking and wondering what could have been attacking people. He knows it wasn't human by what the people had told him and his friend. Something different and was hard to make it for them, due to being overwhelmed or scared for their lives, and who can blame them.
"That nameless fear...why is getting worst? My heart is racing," Naruto thought, feeling his heart beating up and feeling that nameless fear in his heart become more afraid of the unknown. He shook his head and took a deep breath, calming himslef down and focusing on helping Norah out.
"Any luck?" Naruto asked as he saw his fellow blonde walking towards up, both not noting the manhole covered being slightly moved behind them.
"Well before that. What was going on between you and Betty, Naruto?" Norah asked, would answer the blonde's question but had her own.
"Nothing much, Betty was telling me she was lonely at home and wanted some company for some reason," Naruto replied, rubbing the back of his head.
"I see, yeah...That bitch," Norah said, while the last part was to herself in thoughts, being a little jealous and seeing what Betty was planning. Well, two can play at that game but not now.
"I asked the workers if they saw anything but no luck. They only heard hissing sounds before the screaming and inhuman roars. Many are believing it was a crocodile that attacked them but officers are not sure and civilians think it was some mutant," Norah said, getting into her journalist or work mode.
"Same here, no sightings so far. I think we should head back and call it a day. Try again tomorrow as it's getting close to night & storm's coming," Naruto offered, seeing it was getting close tonight and storm coming.
"Good idea. Do you mind walking me home? It would get pretty dark and I don't have a raincoat," Dorah said, using this moment, dark atmosphere to get closer to the blonde and got him hooked now.
"Sure, I have a big enough umbrella for us to use together. And I don't mind walking you, my mom had been already informed that it's going to be late work hours at the office," Naruto said, seeing no problem in working his co-worker/friend to her apartment housing.
As the pair kept talking, they don't notice the manhole covered was moved and something came out as it was getting darker and street lights haven't come on yet.
Then all of a sudden, the blonde pair heard something that suprised and terrified them. A weird sound became something akin to a reptile.
"HISSSSSSSS," A hissing sound was heard, causing the pair to look around in the total darkness, the only source of light being the fading light behind them and shadows in front of them, which whatever was here, was in front of them.
Naruto could hear a deep buzzing noise at the back of his head and his senses were wired onto danger. His Spider-Sense was trigging and going nuts at upcoming danger within the shadows. Norah, being scared a bit at the sound & fear of what's in the shadows. She held onto the blonde teen which he replied and keep her safe in his arms. He was ready to move when seeing whatever was in the shadows and saw a good alleyway to change quickly into his suit.
If his Spider-Sense were going this nuts, Naruto knows that means the danger and threat was something greater or bigger than street thugs he fought. The hissing sound became quieter and footsteps were heard while clicking sounds that were either trapped on the ground & through a mouth of sorts.
Then as soon the light of the street light came up, something jumped at the blonde pair, lunging at them with claws and teeth armed. It wasn't human or croc but rather a humanoid-looking lizard of sorts.
Acting on his quick superhuman speed, reflexes & senses, Naruto used his camera to unleash a powerful & blinding light from the said camera which blinded the creature and opened it to escape. He picked Norah up in his arms, surprising her, and caused her to let out an ep sound as he ran to safety.
The humanoid lizard shoots its head, confused by the flash of the light and eyes trying to change its sitting from the sudden flash, allowing the pair to escape. It then hissed in anger on seeing the prey escaping but grunted and shook its head, like something that wasn't right within the mind.
After running for a quick and short moment, Naruto eventually found a hiding spot for Norah to hide and allowed him to get changed into his suit quickly to fight this lizard-looking creature.
"What the hell was that!?" Norah shouted as the pair finally got a safe place within an alleyway.
"I have no idea, Norah. I have no idea," Naruto said, being honest, still having the blonde beauty in his arms and peak around the corner to see if the creature was following them but to his suprise, it was gone!
This suprised the blonde but had a feeling that the lizard monster might be still around and harm any people nearby.
"What's going on?" Norah asked as she was placed back on the ground by Naruto.
"I think it's gone. I saw no sign of that lizard creature anyway," Naruto replied with a frown as he looked around.
"You think JJJ was right about the lizard monster now?" Norah asked.
"Yeah...you need to leave now, who knows when that thing will return," Naruto replied, his words shocking Norah.
"What do you mean leave?! What about you?" Norah asked as Naruto sighed.
"Need to make sure there is no one else, a worker or someone else around this place, the last thing I need is to see a report of many other murders or disappearances when I know I can at least do this," Naruto explained.
"But-" Norah began, only for Naruto to look at her with a smile.
"Don't worry, I will be fine, you just make sure you get home safe," Naruto said, his words and smile making Norah shut up for a few moments.
Suddenly, Naruto was shocked to his core as Norah's lips suddenly began to assault his own, capturing him into a deep kiss, his eyes widening from the shock.
After a few seconds, Norah released Naruto, who was still in shock, her face being red as a tomato.
"Just make sure you don't get hurt or worse die, you stubborn idiot," Norah said as she began to walk away from the area, leaving behind a shocked and stunned Naruto, whose mind still tried to process what happened.
Naruto's mind was snapped back and sighed to himself as he cleaned his mouth to his lips. Why does this happen to him? Sigh, guess Parker Luck follows him. Being dangerous and luck with women coming around. The night is not over and the monstrous lizard creature was still out there with questions that need to be answered.
After making sure Norah left and changed into his suit, we see Spiderman web-swinging around the area when the most sightings are and where the blonde pair saw the lizard-looking creature. He found nothing out of the open, no workers around, and the beast was gone. Mostly like escaped back to the sewers and that can be hard to track down. There is something about this lizard person that kept getting to our Web Warrior, like seems familiar and something he was working on with two other people.
Spiderman wasn't sure about that but his mind wondered about his teacher, Curt Connors, and how he studies lizard biology a lot. And along with Gila who's a genius & studies the same biology as her mentor.
"Hmm, I know that Doctor Connors was working on lizards for his regrow formula & study biology. Maybe he knows something about this and the picture I got could help too," Spiderman thought, recalling how he took a picture of the lizard creature to allow Norah and himslef to escape.
It was a long shot but the Web-Swinger was going to try his luck but as himself, not a hero as he didn't want to overwhelm Dr. Connors. And it's better this way too.
Later
Connors Lab
It was raining and stormy night, rain hitting hard and flashes of lightning can be seen in the background in the cloudy sky. We see Naruto walking down the streets with an umbrella for cover & protection against the rain as he walked into the Labs, which was unlocked to his suprise. It should have been locked by now, he has a spare key to get in but still strange.
"Doctor Connors! Gila! You two are in tonight," Naruto called first, not wanting to come in uninvited, and got no response back from either of pair.
However and before entering the building further, Naruto bumped into someone due to seeing the said person as it was dark in the hallway and caused the two to fall onto the ground. The blonde shook his head and soon realized who he bumped into, surprising him greatly as it was his childhood friend/close friend & his deep crush he hasn't admitted to.
She was a young woman with long, very smooth, blonde hair, a beautiful pair of almost glowing blue eyes with pink lips that could capture the eyes of many, her figure was one that many women, being pretty tall and having a well-shaped form, showing her time of training it, with wide hips and at the same time a thin waist along with a pretty large pair of breasts that could get the attention of many men and even some women. She wore a white long sleeve shirt with a purple vest over her & have blue/black raincoat on her, white jeans with purple hills, and lastly has a special necklace with a locket around her neck.
This was Felicia Hardy, one of Naruto's friends, and many other things to hidden crushes between them but haven't admitted to each other yet. Hopeful soon but moving on. (Her looks are TAS with some comics and PS4, don't worry the white hair would come around later)
"Ah, sorry Felicia. I should have been looking where I was going," Naruto apologized.
"It's fine Naruto. I should apologize too. I heard your voice but not much as I was upstairs and came down to see who it was here but bump into her instead. Sorry about that," Felicia said, apologizing to her friend.
"Yeah. But why you are here at this hour, if you don't me asking," Naruto questioned.
"Oh, I'm here for some night classes with Dr. Connors but I can't find him nor signs of him or Gila," Felicia replied.
"Really? Strange," Naruto said, not knowing Connors to skip his classes or Gila to not be here as the labs were kind of like her personal home to her.
"Indeed. How about you? What brings you here?" Felicia asked.
"Well, I was normally working on my job at the bugle but something came up and I figure a walk to Connors Lab could help push the attention off my shoulders. And maybe talk to Dr. Connors at something I found earlier today," Naruto answered, not known to lie even if he has to when doing his heroics and all.
"Makes sense and what did you find?" Felicia asked as the pair walk upstairs together.
"Something a bit trouble and was hoping that Dr. Connors or Gila can tell me about that," Naruto replied as the walked upstairs and head to the office on where the doctor should be at.
"I see," Felicia said, seeing that whatever her friend saw must have troubled him and should change the topic.
"How have you been doing for the last months?" She asked, changing the topic.
"Pretty good actually. Despite what happened to Otto to his family and the dream project I help work on, I'm doing pretty good at my job and home. Working at the Daily Bugle is a good job with interesting people and co-workers to work alongside. My mom and I are doing fine at home as Uncle Aaron help out and also mom has been thinking about working at Feast of late," The blonde explained, recalling how his mom wanted to work at Feast after being inspired by the founder's dream and ideals to help people out there.
"That's good to hear."
Felicia understands deeply how Naruto felt that day at the accident on what happened to Otto. Her mother helped with founding the project and shared the dream of fusion project energy, clean energy for cities such as New York, and changes to the world. It was a sad day indeed and anything can happen to Octavius and his daughter, anything indeed. She was, however, happy for the blonde and his family doing good despite what happened to them & have support from others as well. She knows for sure that May would love to work in Feast due to knowing the founder and his dreams for helping people in New York very well.
Felicia then wonder about something else that pop into her mind and said, "How about your love life? How's that going?"
This suprised Naruto, causing him to blush and remember the kiss that Norah give him which he shook off and his love life was confused a bit, to be honest.
"I...uh...well haven't gotten that far to be honest," Naruto replied, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Welll~ maybe I can change that?" Felicia offered, flirting a little to her crush.
However, before the pair could go further, they all of a sudden heard some strange noises and got their attention. Those noises came from Connor's Office and wonder who can be in.
Naruto walked first to the office's door, slowly opening the door and inspecting first but saw the lights were off and hard to make it on what was in the room. He went in first and Felicia followed behind.
"Doctor Connors, you in here?" Naruto asked out, looking around for a light switch nearby.
"Doctor Connors, Gila. You two in here?" Felicia asked out too, seeing no signs of the pair, and looked for a switch on the wall.
Naruto flick the switch, causing the lights to come on but only faded and flicking for a few seconds. He hummed in thought and could guess the storm must have messed up with the generators again.
"The storm missed up with the generators. A power outage must have happened," Naruto stated, seeing a big mess around the office as a storm happened in here and trashed from the looks of it.
"Did we miss something today or a wild party hit the office hard," Felicia commented, trying to lighten up the mode for herself and her friend but worked a little.
"Maybe," Naruto said, looking around to see multiple vials that were smashed or finished of different kinds of chemicals. And what caused his spider-sense to be triggered, claw marks all around the area that lead to somewhere that had no lights on in the office.
The buzzing sound got louder and danger very high was here, getting Naruto on guard.
Then Naruto heard the same hissing sound and something tapping against the hard floor. He recognized those sounds and what would happen next from the last encounter that he and Norah faced. This caused him to act quickly due to his speed and agility to rush over to Felicia, causing them both to fall down and onto the ground to dodge the attack from who stepped into the light. And by what attacked them, suprised them, more for the blonde as he finally saw the full appearance of the creature & who it could be.
The creature was something like a reptile or lizard. He was a large, muscular, humanoid-like male lizard with light green scales all over his body, holden slit eyes, and extremely sharp claws & fangs ready to shred anything to one to pieces. And also a very long lizard tail that looked like could break concrete or bones with ease. He wore shredded clothes of a white lab coat and pair of purple pants. But the nametag that fall off & landed on the floor, caused the blonde pair to be more shocked at who the lizard creature was.
The nametag said, "Dr. Curt Connors." and he was the Lizard now.
Before Naruto or Felicia could say or do anything, they heard another hissing noise of reptile and something else came out of the shadows to appear before the pair, surrounding them from behind while Lizard was at the front of them.
Then out of the shadows, another one came out. A large humanoid lizard, its body is covered by dark purple scales, while also having a more feminine shape to it, long and sharp claws on each hand and also on its feet, a tail that was almost as long as its body, and multiple sharp fangs in its mouth, eyes looking like were glowing golden in color, a long and spiky crest being seen on its head, giving it an even more intimidating air around it. Her attire was a shredded lab coat, pants, and blacktop covering her breast that was a bit big & almost daring to come out but lucky not and covered by the said top. (Cross of Earth 1610 Lizard and fanart of different She-Lizard or female lizard people)
This was formally Gila, who is the second Lizard or Reptile to avoid confusion. And the very same one that attacked Naruto & Norah not so long ago. Here she's again and with Connors to find something within the trashed lab, but no luck and found prey instead.
"Oh I really wish they sense moment through eye sense," Naruto said, hoping Connors and Gila's lizard forms can only see them if they move from Jurrasic Park's T-Rex.
"This is not time for movie moments," Felicia commented, knowing her friend loves Si-Fi movies and Jurrasic Park was one of his farviotes he watched with his friends that one trip they took.
Lizard and Reptile hissed, moving slowly, and walked around the blonde pair, waiting to strike and attack their next prey on the meal. Lucky they haven't eaten humans yet but their hunger is hard to control along with their new reptile minds.
"And I think we have a raptor case than Rexy," Naruto commented, reaching down for something, a weapon to use to suprise the lizard pair, and felt something mental too.
"How I did manage to fall in love with Naruto when he's such a dork sometimes. But he's my dork," Felicia thought and was glad she said to herself & not out loud but she may have to confuse the blonde her feelings as they might not live long enough.
Lizard roared before lunging at the blonde pair to attack and claws drew out to attack but Naruto grabbed a chair and used with his superhuman strength to smash the said chair right into the male lizard's face. He then used one of the chair's legs to throw it at the female lizard's face, hitting her nose and causing her to hiss in pain.
This surprised Felicia and made her suspicious even more, since chairs, especially metallic ones, don't break into pieces like that & Naruto's reaction to danger was far quicker than her own cat-like sense & reflexes & normal standers.
Lizard and Reptile didn't attack again, feeling this danger from the male blonde and could tell he wasn't intimidated by them which they lost the element of suprise. They hissed before rushing out of the office and crashing through the glass window to escape into the heavy rainstorm.
Naruto rushed at the window and looked around for the pair, seeing they were gone and had escaped into the sewers from the manhole below the building.
"They are gone. They went into the manhole down below to the sewers," Naruto said, knowing that tonight might be a long night of patrol to find the lizard pair and cure them of their mutated condition.
"Yeah," Felicia said, not going to say anything about Naruto's reaction to danger or super strength she saw just yet. Later as the pair have to do something to help Connors and Gila.
"You okay?" Naruto asked, being concerned for his friend and hoping she was alright.
"I'm alright. How about you?" Felicia asked.
"A little overwhelmed, to be honest. I think I saw Gila earlier today before coming here as I took her picture with my flash camera to blind her, for Norah and I to escape. I'm overwhelmed on knowing what Connors and Gila have become," Naruto replied, being honest with his friend/crush about the situation they are in and what he would have to do later as Spiderman.
"True, and I'm sure we will find a way to help Dr. Connors and Gila with their condition, Naruto. Maybe they felt something behind as why would they return?" Felicia stated which made sense as to why the lizard pair would come back here.
"I wonder the same thing," Naruto agreed to that, maybe there's some part of them within the mutated lizard being and wonder why they came back here. Good question.
Felicia then noticed something on the floor, scattered around her feet, and saw papers where one of them say Regrow Lizard Formula which trigger her mind. She picked them up and saw it all was about Connors reaches & study on his formula to regrow lost limbs he was working on.
"Hey, Naruto was the project Connors was working on called Regrow?" Felicia asked, looking into the notes and seeing it was indeed the doctor's notes due to his handwriting & science forms in the formula.
"Yeah, the unofficial title of the project. The naming was still in works but was basically using lizard DNA in the hopes to regrow lost limbs," Naruto replied as he help work with Connors and Gila on the said project.
"Well, I think I have an idea on why they came back. Maybe some part of them wanted to find a cure on what they have become before losing themselves," Felicia said, handing the blonde the papers and files on the project.
"Hmm that could be a possibility and I could create a cure from what's left of the lab. The chemicals should be enough as they have started working on it before they lost themselves to their own being. A prisoner of their own bodies," Naruto said with a small sad tone in his voice and know he had work to do, using his scientific mind and getting to work.
Felicia was no genius or top science, that belonged to Naruto's area and saw him going to work. As she watched or help hand the blonde what he needed, she kept thinking back to his abilities she saw first hand. First to sense danger much faster than her and people, reacting faster & speed to match it. Second to have superhuman strength and smash a chair in the Lizard's face & hit the other one with great force on the nose. Third, on how the blonde can get such great pictures of Spiderman and later Scarlet Spider in action. Lastly, her mind started to wonder about a certain school field trip and how it seemly changed the blonde & redhead's life around. Those kept bugging her mind and wonder deeply about them.
Felicia had no idea about her cat-like senses and agility but was born with it for some reason and trained on her abilities for years which is one of the reasons she took gymnastics & athletic training. She really wished that her father was around to answer those questions. She held onto her necklace, a gift of her father which has a picture of her father and herself when she was a child. The last gift from her father before he disappeared and no one knows what happened to him. She pray she will find the answers to that one day and had a feeling that Naruto, her crush, would be a big impact on her life to get those questions answered as he already has.
If Felicia's theory is right, she hopes that Naruto would be fine and come back alive.
Time Skip
Sewers
"Glad I wasn't bitten by a rat. I hate the sewers but is easy to travel due to having spider-powers and knowing my way around due to Uncle Aaron's advice," Spiderman said as he crawled on the walls of the sewers and wonder to find the lizard pair & cure them. He had the said cure formula in his belt for safekeeping and would need to be careful as he already has one bottle to cure them.
This made Web Warrior a bit worried and nervous, to be honest. Not only does he have to be careful and make sure he only has enough to cure both Connors & Gila but just jumped to a whole new different level. He went from fighting street thugs and gangs to battling mutated lizards. Just his luck and all, another day.
Spiderman frowned through his mask as he looked around for any clues to track the pair down which he found none until that changed when his eye lens zoomed down to see some purple & green scales left behind. And by following that, he found tracks as well, being claw marks on the sides of the wall & ground.
"Ah, there we are. Let's see what you two are up to," Spiderman thought as he followed the trail left behind and kept his guard up as he wasn't in his element anymore. He was in the Lizards' lair now and needed to be ready in case ambush comes out.
Spiderman saw found himself in a large opened area where water was nearby from down below and a waterfall coming down to the said water below. Lucky it wasn't overflowing with water as the water down below was being drained and the trail stopped here. He looked around to see if the Lizard and Reptile were around but no luck and his spider-sense started to be triggered like something was close by as a green tail moved slightly past the webhead's head.
This caused the Wall-Crawler to turn his head around, only to come face to come with Lizard who pounced the Spider right into the open area.
"Jeez, I miss you too Doc...but not that much," Spiderman joked as he used his hands to keep the Lizard from bitting his head off and strength to put the beast off.
Spiderman then brought his legs up and throw a double kick to the Lizard, sending him off, and jumped back on his feet. The lizard creature shook his head and got back up on his feet before roaring at his prey in his lair.
"Some welcome," Spiderman dry commented before dodging the tail swing from Lizard and claw attacks before replying with his own attacks on the lizard creature.
The Web Warrior kept dodging or sending punches to kicks to the Lizard who was acting more animal and holding nothing back. No Connors just a beast acting on animal nature. He jumped onto the humanoid lizard's back and webbed his face, holding him down.
"Snap out of Connors! This is not you!" Spiderman shouted to reason what's left of Connors in the creature, struggling to keep the Lizard down but was grabbed and thrown off. Lucky he had wall-crawling and agility to catch himself from being thrown off.
"So you don't wanna try?" He asked but got a roar in response which he shot an impact webbing at the said lizard's mouth, shutting him up and struggling to not the webbing out of his mouth area.
"There you go," The Web Warrior joked until his spider-sense triggered again and ducked on time to dodged a powerful tail strike coming at him.
"Of course forget about her," Spiderman thought as he rolled to the side to dodge the tail strikes from Reptile who joined the fight he didn't want this to be a long fight and needed to inject the serum into them to cure them of being the lizards.
The masked hero didn't want a long fight to go about between himslef and two mutated lizards for a good number of reasons. Mainly he wanted to help them and didn't want to be late on coming home which he was lucky to get some pictures too for his job from a careful place hidden cameras not so far away and hopeful no one would figure out who the Lizard or Reptile are. He could also edit the pictures if needed but anyway and move on.
By quickly dodging the tail swings from the pair, Spiderman was able to switch out for different webbing for his web-shooters and more impact webbing to capture the two in his webs. He loaded up his web-shooters with a lot of impact webbing loads as he know it would take a lot to hold them down and here goes nothing.
Spiderman turned around and flicked his wrists many times, firing web bullets or balls towards the lizard pair. The web balls hit Lizard and Reptile, causing the said web to explode and wrap around where the said web impacted. The pair roared as they struggled to break free and rush at the hero with their claws & teeth ready to tear the hero apart but he fired more and more of his impact webbing to immobilize the pair down & stuck to the ground, going anyway and need to be quick.
"This would be all be over, Connors, Gila. Here we go," Spiderman said, reaching in the back of his belt to grab the bottle that had serum to cure the pair.
The spider-themed hero walked over to Curt first, pouring the first amount down his mouth into his throat and causing the Lizard to hiss in pain as if he didn't like the taste.
"Yeah it would taste bad doctor but trust me it's better than this," Spiderman commented as walked over to Gila and give her the last remains of the cure to end the nightmare at last.
Spiderman or Naruto hoped this can work as ran many tests results for the cure as he can back at Connors Labs. He followed Connors's notes and theories of a cure in case things go wrong which to suprised it was working as he watched the Lizard hissing in pain as he was transforming back to his human form with shredded clothes on his body and scales leaving his body.
Curt breathed heavily as he looked up to see his surroundings and saw that it wasn't a dream and was over but he sadly looked back at his arm that was slowly mantling away to become a missing limb.
Seeing this, Spiderman got down on his knees to free Curt out of the web and help him out.
"It's alright Doctor. It's over," Spiderman comforted the doctor who was free from the mutated nightmare.
"Yes, oh god. What I have done?" Curt asked out too loud to himself, remembering some memories of what the Lizard had done and harming people.
"It wasn't you. It was the Lizard. You and Gila shall be free from this nightmare," Spiderman assured the doctor before looking back at Gila, expecting her to be cured and back to normal but something that suprised him and Connors fully.
Gila wasn't cured and ripped the webbing off her body before roaring at the shocked pair, who couldn't believe it. She wasn't cured or turning back to normal but something happened as her eyes flicked between human and lizard. That was weird and even more when she rushed, leaving the area by jumping into the water below. However unknown to anyone, one of the hidden cameras were webbed onto her shoulder as she escaped.
"NOOO! GILA!" Spiderman shouted in worried he launched a web line to grab the female lizard in hopes to find another cure and wonder why the serum didn't work. But was too late, she escaped and the web line missed the leg to grab her. She was gone.
"I...I...I don't understand. Why didn't work? The serum worked on you. Why didn't work on Gila?" Spiderman asked, being shocked and afraid for Gila, and angry at himslef for Gila to be trapped as a monster for who knows how long.
This caused Connors to hum, thinking and suddenly it hit him as he slowly walked up to put his hand on Spiderman's shoulder.
"The serum, the cure, was made with my own blood as a baseline. When you cure me, it affects my genes & DNA as the cure was meant to heal me of any side effects I have encountered. Not someone else. Poor Gila," Curt said with his head down, seeing that was his fault as well. He should have taken his time and waited until he run all theories before testing on himself & allowing Gila to take it as well.
Spiderman nodded his head, holding back his tears within his mask, and feel very sorry for Gila, one of his friends & what she's going through right. He vowed to work on a new serum to cure his friend of her condition and make this right. This was his promise to her and hope she would be alright out there now.
Deep Sewer Systems
Reptile grunted as she swim out of the waters and into another sewer system, deeper and further away from the Spider - The Prey that beaten the Lizard. She crawled onto land, not noticing the web line on her shoulder that pulled the camera onto land with her. The camera charged up before suddenly a powerful flash of light came out of it and caused the female lizard's attention onto the object that flashed a light at her.
Reptile followed the web towards the camera before picking it up to see what this strange object was to her. She soon saw the camera had a name to who it belonged to which said in bold letters, Naruto B. Uzumaki-Parker
Reptile connected the dots as her golden eyes become forest green for a second and saw a clear picture before her. Her friend, Naruto was Spiderman. Naruto was Spiderman!
"Naruto...Parker...," Reptile said, sounding like a snake, feminine, and predator as her normal eyes became golden again as she started to growl in anger before crashing the said camera in her hand & claws ripping the lines apart.
This wasn't over.
