Chapter 2 Enter the Scarlet

It's On Again - Alicia Keys & Kendrick Lamar

Oscorp (Night)

It was a deep and dark night in New York, only the lights of the city keeping it alive and people doing their own things. It has been almost a month since the whole Lizards events and things were finally relaxing down, even a hit of fear of going into the sewers alone but nothing too troubling or horrific.

Of course, many believed that Spiderman stopped the Lizards' events while a certain head of the Daily Bugle see otherwise and all but they enjoyed the information in the said papers and pictures, not the main title trash that JJJ is trying to make people think.

Now we see Osborn Industries or mainly called Oscorp, one of the biggest and best businesses within New York. That company does many operations and projects for energy, chemical, and military. It was closing hours with a good number of people heading home for the night and security guards coming to a final check-up before using the security lockdown protocols & drones to patrol around the area.

However, the night was young and we see a thief coming into the Oscorp's building, the science wing where all of the chemicals and special projects were stored for this thief to steal. The excitement and thrill were in the air for this thief as it was all too easy.

The thief, it was hard to tell who but we can see it was a young woman with blonde hair and orange eyes to her mask showing the said hair out in the hair and eyes not covered. She wore black baggy clothes to hide her gender and many would mistake her as a guy, being an actual ninja of the night, and would steal like a ghost in the darkness.

"Let's see what secrets you have hidden here, Osborn. There's money to made by secret and deep pockets to steal," The thief thought to herself with a smirk underneath her mask, knowing that the CEO of Oscorp has a lot of secrets and many of them could not only make a big heist but also a big score over.

The thief made her way into the deep secrets lab behind by using the keycards she stole and used, unlocking the door, and allowing her to go in to see a massive lab filled with different chemicals and vials to be shown on display. She smirked and saw a jackpot here as she know rival companies wanted different secrets within science seeing this was a gold mine. Such a thrill of excitement for her and excited for this to be one of her big heists.

"Oh, where, oh where is my little buddy?" She sang to herself as she walked around and looked for any signs of some kind of special project within large amounts of chemicals in the lab. Somewhere was a diamond within this gold mine.

Until one project got her attention, she turn to hear her head and saw a table marked as the Performance Enhancements. She smirked and walked over to the table, seeing the vials of the serums and formulas in the enhancements on human biology in the hopes to make super soldiers. Now that was a great diamond.

The thief read the Performance Enhancements on the table starting from; The GREEN, HORN, and finally the CATALYST. The last was a pure blue and green serum in a vial with the words Catalyst written on the sides in bold letters in white. That one was the last remaining with the Catalyst serum in the project and means it was very rare to have, much to the blonde-haired thief's enjoyment as she took the vial in her right hand.

"Come to mamma," The thief smirked until becoming fully alarmed when she heard guards bursting down the door and entering the room with guns drawn. Shoot first and not ask questions it seems.

As much she enjoyed the thrills, she knows that Oscorp has top head security guards and needed to get out of here in one piece as they don't mess around. The guards' open fire, their rifles letting up, and bullets being flown past the thief as she escaped with her payday in hand.

Suddenly the thief tripped at the stairs and was down the ground due to being careless and shook her head in pain. She then heard a click and loading, causing her to turn around in danger, and saw one of the guards bringing his pistols to open fire. The bullet didn't hit her but hit the vial when the thief brought her arms out to defend herself from the bullet as her armor in her arms would stop the bullet on time.

However, the bullet didn't hit the thief's arms but rather the vial in her right and caused her eyes to widen in surprise as the said formula enter her mouth through the black cloth covering her face. The formula was thick and strong to pass through clothing, which caused her to coughed in suprise of taste and felt the side effects but didn't bother her as she kicked the guard in failed jewels down below, causing him to grunt and lowered down in pain which allowed the thief to escape.

If the thief stay long enough, she would have noticed that her strength in her kick had destroyed the guard very much as blood can be seen leaving his black jeans area and something different here. And not only that her speed was doubling all of sudden too!

The thief didn't notice as the thrill and excitement while the need to get out of danger kept her going as she dodged the bullets and guards to escape through the way she came before the security kicked in to shut down the whole building. That was easy for her, this was not the first high company she stole from and won't be last but it an interesting as she was feeling different all of a sudden.

The guards didn't what the hell was going on as they watched the thief being faster, agile, and different than before she dodged, beaten, or escaped them. Their boss was not going to like this, very unhappy indeed.

Once the blonde-haired theif reached out of the Oscorp and in the clear, she started to notice that something was completely different with her and how she wasn't worn out from running like over ten miles suddenly. She touched her mouth area, feeling the wetness of the formula and soon eyes widen in the realization. She reached to take her mask off, showing a natural beauty she was with kissable lips that were covered in the same blue & green formula until she licked them clean off, tasting the same taste as before and connected the dots quickly.

"Well Minerva, you just found a deep diamond in that gold mine that is not worth mailing for boys to buy but something to use. Let's see what I can do," The thief or Minerva thought to herself, leaving the Oscorp area and towards her apartment housing to test her theories of what was happening to her. And maybe find a science to run some test on her in case some bad mutation comes out as she read some articles online about them.

This was going to be interesting indeed.

Time Skip (Day)

Daily Bugle

It was another day at the Daily Bugle, you know, mostly JJJ yelling or barking orders around as he gets the deadline & newspapers sold out. Just another day at the office and things were doing good so far. Today was a little different as JJJ had been talking to someone to secret and hidden reporting on Naruto to figure out how he gets great pictures of Spiderman & in action I might add as it was impossible for others to do. That person being MacDonald Gargan, most people called him Mac or Gargan as he didn't like his full name as much.

Now we see JJJ talking to Norah who had written the Lizards Vs Spiderman information about a month ago which was a great success but again, he wanted to know how Parker was getting those damn good pictures.

"Soo, JJJ, what's up?" Norah asked, not sure what her boss wanted to talk to her after his talk with Gargan.

"I need you to spy on Parker," JJJ replied, getting to the chase.

"Huh?" Norah questioned while tilting her head to the side on that reply.

"I have a gut feeling that Parker has a way to get such great pictures of Spiderman in action that no one here could ever do, not even Brock or Gargan. I have a gut feeling he has a secret and I noticed you work closely with him. I want you to find out what he's up to," JJJ explained which was reasonable, and could just accept that Naruto has good skills in his line of work, but nope his gut was telling him something else.

"Sure, I would see what I can come up," Norah said, having her own intentions on investigating her interest and would keep it a secret. This was for her own needs and won't really mention the whole truth to her boss when she's done which she had a way on to figure out as that blonde owned her a date for saving her life from the lizard a month ago.

Outside the main office, we see Mac talking with Naruto, more like him questioning him and blonde being a bit bored with these questions. He looked over for some help which sadly Robbie, Ben, and Betty can't help but pity the blonde for going over such boring questions and was getting old really fast.

Naruto would be honest, the past month was a little hard for him. Like what happened to Gila - Reptile and how he has been working with Connors or alone on making a cure for her to turn her back to normal as she was still out there and a big danger to everyone she meets. Surprise, no one has heard about the female lizard or Reptile popping her head out of sewers ever since a month ago, a cold trail, and the blonde would discover that trail again. He had a feeling about that and really need to escape this meeting with Mac very soon or he will fall asleep in boredom.

However, Naruto was happy for his mother getting the job at Feast and he pops around to help out as he really enjoyed the place to help people that need help, homeless, or jobless to have nowhere else to go. The blonde and his mom enjoyed Martin Li very much, the founder of Feast who inspired May to join Feast and help people and he was enjoying her company as well, being inspired by her and that helping one person - you help everyone.

Then Naruto felt his phone getting a message with his jacket, reaching it and soon saw he got a message from MJ - Mary Jane which surprised him but later remember the pair had plans today. He checked his phone while seeing Mac was busy and writing stuff done to noticed him. He saw his text messages.

"Yo, Tiger, you ready?"

Naruto smiled and respond, "Yes, I am ready Tigress. Just done with work."

Naruto got up, put his phone away, and started to take leave until Mac noticed him.

"HEY! Get back here you brat!" Mac shouted, running after the blonde-haired teen who was out moving him due to being younger and all.

"Oh sorry, I can't hear you as I'm going into the elevator and my shift is over! Bye!" Naruto called as he waved goodbye, mostly to his coworkers/friends as he entered the elevator, and enjoyed seeing the piss-off Mac missing the elevator as he goes down. He had a guess that a new worker would go downstairs to catch him but he was going up and finding a good place to change into his suit for his patrol with his friend/partner.

The blonde was able to leave on a floor and left an empty elevator to go down to Macy to find much to his anger. He used the back exited to avoid anyone following or spotting him as he changed quickly out of his civilian clothes & into his costume quickly.

Once putting his belt and web-shooters on, Spiderman shot a web line upwards and started web swing out of the area towards where his partner was waiting for him which wasn't very far at all. He saw his partyer who happens to be one of his close friends and the only one that has powers like him join him on patrols together and they both got bitten by that same spider on that very day. That partner is Scarlet Spider or underneath Mary Jane Waston or MJ as her friends call her.

Naruto discovered his friend had the same powers when they did patrols together, him as Spiderman and MJ as Scarlet Spider. Their sense goes crazy around each other and spider-sense telling the other they are friendly to each other. This happened both in and out of their suits, both connecting the dots & talking to each other, being happy to have someone to share with their powers and abilities, and web swing together on patrol was fun for them.

Soon enough, Spiderman saw his partner waiting for him, sitting on the edge of the rooftop waiting for him. She was a young woman with long crimson-colored hair with deep green eyes, giving her an exotic look and beauty. She wore a skin-tight bodysuit, which was black and red in color, hugged her figure perfectly as a large red spider emblem could be seen on her chest, her arms and legs being red in color along with her mark, which had a pair of jagged white-colored eyes on it, with red visors, the mask allowing her stunning red hair to flow free while her face was completely covered. This was Mary Jane Waston or Scarlet Spider now.

"I still can't get over that suit design," Spiderman commented as he landed next to Scarlet Spider who smirked underneath her mask.

"It's got to me, Tiger. It's got to me," Scarlet Spider remarked.

"Yeah you do," Spiderman agreed as he sat next to his friend.

The two spiders stay quiet but had a feeling and their sense told each other that they wanted to talk with one another. Something was on their mind.

"So what do you want to talk about?" The pair asked in union much to their suprised and shared a small laugh as their spider-sense linked up again, hopefully, it was just that.

"My mom is doing good at Feast," Spiderman started.

"Good to hear. My aunt is having a field day of me moving out to my own apartment and all," Scarlet Spider said, recalling how her aunt had a bad outburst with her when she wanted to move out.

"Hmm, she blames me huh?" Spiderman asked or rather stated as it was no surprise that MJ's aunt loathes him to a great level and would use anything to blame him for anything or call the police to arrest him for being who he is, an Asian American, tagging, and delinquent stuff she believes the blonde is.

"She does. I really don't understand why Aunt Anna hates you," Scarlet Spider said, not understanding her aunt could hate one person and rase like that.

"I think you know. She throws stuff out me when we go to school and all," Spiderman reminded.

"I know that. I just don't understand how my aunt can hate Asian Americans when they have done nothing wrong. You are a good person and have shown that through part of our childhood, school, and where we are now. And I know others from our school & work," Scarlet Spider said, looking at the sky and seeing almost the whole city where they were at.

"Some people can carry that hate and become worst when they let out towards what they hate. If we do nothing or stand our ground, we prove them wrong and change things around," Spiderman said with a smirk underneath his mask which his friend can tell he was smiling and glad that he could change a mode around.

"I'm glad for that as I believe you can change things and people around us. Better or worst, I don't care. I do know one thing, your dad would be proud of you, Naruto," Scarlet Spider said, being happy to have a friend like Naruto and how much of an impact he was on her in her life & in general.

Spiderman smiled, almost tears coming down his eyes in joy on that but kept himself together, and yeah. He knows somewhere out there and deep down, his dad would be proud of him for how much he changed his life & what he has become today.

Then the pair's spider senses were triggered, causing them to look down below and saw a number of police cars zooming by with their sires on. The crime was afoot and needed their friendly spider pair to come.

"Ready?" Spiderman asked as he stood and was showtime, the start of their patrol fully now. The real fun begins.

"Always. You?" Scarlet Spider asked as she jumped up on her feet and stretched her arms out.

"Same. No place like home," Spiderman said before jumping off the rooftop and launching web lines to start web swing towards the scene of the crime with Scarlet Spider not so far behind him.

As the spider pair swing towards the crime scene, somewhere else, a few people have big plans for the wall-crawling in different ways to come out into the light.

Meanwhile - Hidden Lar

"I see. Impressive, your genetics and DNA have changed to a deep mutated level. Hmm impressive development," A female voice said, while the face was covered in some kind of silver mask with purple lights and wearing high-tech armor over her normal clothes. That armor was meant for war with purple lights growing on certain areas down to the mask.

This was the Tinkerer who was rising up within the hidden developments of technology and aiming to become the leader of the Underground Gang to order to take down a corrupted company that she vowed revenge on.

Tinkerer had been hired by a thief named Minerva who had an interesting offer and job that captured her attention. She was looking through the remains of the serum called Catalyst and how it affect the said thief's DNA. She was impressed and interested.

"Indeed. So do we have a deal?" Minerva asked, getting to the chase and hoping this genius teen could have a good offer that can help them both out.

"I think we do, Minerva. But you do know that Osborn won't be happy about you taking his project?" Tinkerer pointed out, knowing from rumors that someone close to her used to work for that man.

"Ha! As I care," Minerva said with a smirk and shrug of her shoulders, much to the masked teen's amusement.

"Noted but you should know that Osborn was working with Stillwell and Smythe on a few projects with Catalyst. And I heard rumors that Jameson has been talking with Stillwell and Smythe quiet bit on the phones," Tinkerer said, recalling how much that newspaper doesn't like Spiderman and could do something about if he had that two brainiacs in his pocket.

"Interesting and how would you know that?" Minerva asked, wondering how such a young hacker can get that piece of information so easily.

"It's easy to hack that guy's phone lines and his hate for Spiderman is well known," Tinkerer replied.

"Point...so can you do what I ask for?" Minerva questioned the final reason why she was here. She needs some boost and protection, even with her new superhuman powers that are based on a scorpion from she discovered & Tinkerer explained to her.

"Please, it's child's play. I will be able to create your armor from the data you gain from me from Oscorp's military battle suit plans and the addition of my own to your liking. Trust me, Minerva, you are going to like this suit I will make for you," Tinkerer said, being excited for this task as it not only give her a boost but also the start of a beautiful friendship between the pair.

Minerva smirked and said, "Good girl. I would be happy if you didn't disappoint me. Also, do you believe that Jameson would shoot out his version of what I gain?"

"Knowing him...oh yeah and best way to gain battle data. A field testing. Won't you agree?"

"Agree. I do look forward to what the Spider thinks on what comes next. His greatest match, rival, or something else~. We will very soon~."

With the Spider Pair

We see Spiderman and Scarlet Spider working as a well & effective team on taking down the gang members who decied to attack a store in the open during rush hour. That's a crime and doesn't pay as the pair beat the shit out of them and webbed them for the cops to pick them up.

Now the pair were leaving the crime scene to avoid the police from shooting them as some have been known for doing that. Scarlet Spider was wrapped around Spiderman as he web-swinged them away, together and enjoying being close to one another. Their sense was kicking up but were able to talk to one another.

"Whoa! That was a workout," Scarlet Spider commented as she held onto her friend as he webswings them away.

"Indeed! I do enjoy patrols like this," Spiderman commented as he web swing them away and enjoyed their time together.

"Agree, it's relaxing and enjoyable you know. And a lot easier," Scarlet Spider said, which got her friend to wonder about that.

"What do you mean?" Spiderman asked.

"Not to struggle on hiding this life between us and I do really enjoy working alongside you...and other things," Scarlet Spider replied as she was holding the masked spider closer to her.

"Yeah," Spiderman agreed, being the only thing he could respond to and felt his spider-sense starting to act up again, not in danger but rather something else. And he wasn't the only one.

"Do...do...do you feel it?" The red-haired beauty asked, feeling her spider-sense going nuts, not in danger but rather something else. She could feel her senses flaring up from the back of her skull, down to her heart and veins.

The blonde teen didn't answer his friend/partner and one of his love interests at first as he landed on a rooftop to answer her. He can feel his spider-sense going nuts as well and feel it all around his body. The red-haired beauty was on his lap, feeling that close and her senses reaction to his own.

Mary Jane had her arms wrapped around the blonde's neck and held him close to her as her legs snaked around, wrapping around his waist and not letting go. Naruto responded by that as he reached up and pulled the redhead's mask down while at the same time, the redhead pulled his mask up and face free like her own as they come closer to each other. Both were very close and their senses were on fire, they can feel it between them.

"Yes..," Naruto replied before the pair captured each other lips in a deep heated, lustful, and passionate kiss between them.

Both arachnid heroes didn't hesitate as their heated make up session went, kissing each other deeply and holding each other closely while their lower area teasing the other one. They won't let go and their moment would get more heated & chaotic once they enter MJ's new apartment.

Time Skip (Next Day)

MJ's Apartment

In Mary Jane's apartment, we see it was a nice complex apartment that was big enough for housing not just the main owner but friends as well like around three or four people. The apartment also has an outdoor garden where planets can be seen growing and also plants hanging above in jaws too.

However, we saw that the apartment was a little...well damaged and looked more chaotic than natural clean order it was normally was the other day. On the floor towards the bedroom, we see piles of clothes on the floor, showing to be a certain red/blue and red/black suit while masks to the side as well.

We see Naruto and Mary Jane in the nice size bed with covers on them as they were naked as the day they were born and in each other's arms, peaceful while around them was chaotic a bit. Their senses and being similar spider-based powers, reacted towards each other and hence their heated night got wild & crazy, to be honest, and got out of hand this time.

It has happened before for the blonde and redhead teens. After they got their powers, become costume heroes, and later discovered who they were, both of them would have this spider thing or silk moment between them. They were able to avoid that for a good while until now and things got out of hand for them, in good & bad ways.

Naruto started waking up first and sighted lightly, seeing the aftermath of what happened, and felt a little bad if he would be honest. Sure he has feelings for MJ, but also for Felicia and some others. This caused more uncertain thoughts of entering a love relationship now. If others found out then they would be hurt which he didn't want that and would be honest was hard to love one girl in his love, to be honest as he has to know & meet a good number of interesting women from school & work.

"Oh, God...I really believe my luck has become either good or really bad," Naruto thought, knowing that the news of this event would be an earthquake in a making and shocking one, to be honest.

The blonde's thoughts were cut off as he heard the red-haired beauty starting to wake and also noticed their situation.

"Oh damn, it happened fully, huh?" Mary Jane stated out loud, rubbering her eyes, and got up a bit which Naruto did too.

"Yeah, it did. And did we?" Naruto asked but MJ got onto that quickly.

"It wasn't my month, Naruto. Don't worry," Mary Jane assured with a smile, knowing what the blonde meant by that and they are not ready to be parents yet.

"Okay, MJ. I really think we should talk about this and our current relationship," Naruto said, making a good point.

"Yeah, same here. You don't mind I talk to a few friends about this?" Mary Jane asked.

Naruto was nervous about that, to be honest, and didn't want to hurt someone if they find out what happened between him & MJ. The red-haired beauty sensed and hold him closer to her.

"It would be alright, Tiger. I promise it would work out as you told me about your situation with a few girls in your love," MJ reminded as the blonde had shared some troubling things about his love life to her during their patrol and time together.

"Mostly you and Felicia but knowing my luck...I think would kick up for better or worst hard to say," Naruto said.

"True but don't worry. I will talk with Felicia at lunch as I did plan to talk with her today and could use that to explain a few things," The red-haired informed.

"Yeah...I hope she can forgive me for keeping it a secret, my double life & powers," The blonde said, feeling a bit hurt on hiding them from his childhood friend/first big crush.

"I'm sure she will understand and Felicia could have been onto you about your powers & figure out as you know she's pretty smart."

"That's the truth and we will see."

"Indeed."

Meanwhile

Daily Bugle

"Alright Gargan, here's the plan. I'm going to call Parker to request him to tell Spiderman a big story about a big meeting with crime bosses in a perfect area where a trap is placed. You need to be ready within less than an hour and at the location. Parker doesn't work until today but does get pictures when needed and Spiderman would be right in the open for you to finally defeated & unmask that Wall-Crawler threat," JJJ explained to his new hired man who was different now & on a new job now.

"Hahaha, I gotcha JJJ. I look forward to taking that menace down for good," Gargan said but his voice didn't sound normal anymore but deeper and predator tone now.

JJJ had used his last card on the table to finally take down that freak at last. He made a call to Oscorp as he is a member of the board due to his connection and could help Norman in the public areas to media too. He called a favor with Osborn who was not having a day as someone stole one of his genetic projects but allowed the board member of his request fulfilled. He had Stillwell and Smythe on having Gargan into a project, make a weapon and real name for himslef to finally take down Spiderman.

Spiderman would meet his match very soon, in the form of a stinger from his spider side's natural predator...The Scorpion.

And won't be the only one.

Elsewhere

Tinkerer's Underground Base

"I do believe we are ready Minerva," Tinkerer stated as she had made the battle suit for the thief who was putting the said bodysuit on at last.

"Good as I really want to test my abilities fully on what Jameson has created with his new pet, Gargan. And see what your battle suit can do for me. I really do love your design," Minerva said with a smirk as she puts on her suit fully and completed it with a helmet at last.

Minerva had been training and working on her powers since the two days have passed. She was impressed with how Osborn created the serum to make a super soldier but didn't understand why business/science man never used or tested it as it was working great. She may never know and was glad she had the Tinkerer tested her genetics for any signs of radiation poison which there's none and the suit was perfect to her liking.

Minerva finally step out of the shadows and into the light, revealing what she was wearing now and figure as well, no longer hiding and time to take on her calling as she would be fighting for it. She wore a tight one-piece bodysuit, its color being green with some black parts on the suit, its belly being grey in color, the suit hugged her body at perfection, showing her developed and well-trained physique, armored boots located on her feet along with armored gauntlets on her hands, shoulder plates which were green like her suit, gauntlets, and boots, we can also see that she had a helmet that took the shape of a reptile or a combination between one and a scorpion, with a pair of orange visors for her eyes and finally, a long, scorpion-like tail that was almost as long as her body with a large, extremely sharp, stinger located at the end of it.

It was time for this Scorpion to show why she's alpha & Garage the weakling and see what that hot stuff Spider is all about.