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Chapter 8- City of Lizards
Next day, school
Willow saw Peter and Gwen talking, and Gwen was about to go so Willow walked to Peter to ask how it had gone with the Lizard last night, as he hadn't called her.
However, her question was answered next moment when the whole building rocked and the washroom wall in front of the locker room burst open, the Lizard now walking out as Willow's eyes widened.
"Oh no!" She muttered as the students all started running in terror.
"Go." Peter immediately said to Gwen. "Go!"
Gwen looked reluctant but ran too as Willow walked next to Peter. "I'll-"
"Get the others out, please, then help me", Peter told Willow, and she nodded.
"All right, be careful", Willow whispered and he nodded before she followed the rest to make sure they stayed outside.
Peter rushed Lizard and sliding next to him, fired some webbing, tripping him. He then leapt on top of him to punch but was flipped down. Lizard grabbed his schoolbag and managed to throw it off, then grabbing Peter, slammed him to the locker room, and then through a wall into the chemistry lab, making him groan in pain.
Lizard then marched into the lab, trying to pin Peter down and strike him as the superpowered teenager struggled against the thing's foot.
"Nowhere to hide, Peter", Lizard taunted as Peter saw his schoolbag nearby and firing a web, pulled it to him just as Lizard lifted and threw him off through another wall, breaking that too.
Lizard stood for a second, then mixed 2 chemicals before hurling it at the giant opening in the wall, causing a small explosion as he ranted. "All these souls... lost and alone. I can save them. I can cure them. There's no need to stop me... Peter."
Then a shoe hit his face, making him growl as Peter, now dressed up as Spider-Man, leapt out while crouching. He fired at 2 vents in the ceiling and pulled, making them hit Lizard on the head.
During that time, Peter had gotten on the ceiling above Lizard and leapt onto him, both struggling as Peter tried to restrain him with webs. They ended up out of the lab as Peter tried to reason. "You're not thinking straight, doc." He leapt and tried to restrain him one more time. "Stop this. This isn't you."
Lizard slammed Peter's back to the wall and Peter leapt off as he sliced the lockers. Peter ended up sticking onto the ceiling and offered. "Let's talk this out." Lizard climbed too and started crawling after Peter who cried out. "Doc!"
They broke some bits of the ceiling as Peter and Lizard both leapt down, Peter firing many webs to web Lizard's hand to the locker. Only, Lizard managed to break it off as Peter gasped in frustration. "Oh, boy."
Lizard tried to strike as Peter flipped behind a few times to avoid before using a web to go underneath Lizard's legs to the other side, facing Lizard once more. "All right, so you don't want to talk?" Lizard roared in anger, only for some webbing to shut his mouth right in that moment. "There you go."
As Lizard tried to attack again with his tail, Peter grabbed it, struggling as Lizard kept using the tail to slam Peter here and there while he was talking. "Don't... make me... have to... hurt you!"
Eventually, Peter was thrown off, the tail coming off and in his arms now, wriggling, while Lizard marched to him, another tail growing behind him.
"That is disgusting", Peter groaned, throwing the tail off before flipping up, webbing Lizard and leaping at him with both feet aimed, kicking his chest. But then Lizard slammed Peter's head into some glass, only for him to be pulled back by an unseen force that slammed him into another wall.
Before Lizard could respond, Gwen appeared and hit him with a trophy, making him gasp as Willow's eyes widened. "Gwen, what are you doing here?"
"How did you just do what you did?" Gwen asked, having seen Willow telekinetically pull Lizard off of Peter.
"Umm….." Willow trailed off.
"Gwen", Lizard interrupted the conversation, now marching to Gwen.
Only, Peter fired a web and started wrapping it all around Lizard, even crawling around him like a spider while doing so, and then he fired many webs, attaching them all to the wall or ceiling, stopping Lizard in his tracks as he was trapped from all sides now.
Peter then webbed the trophy, pulling Gwen to him as he took it and threw it through the window, shattering it while pulling Gwen to him. He exchanged a look and nod with Willow, then told Gwen. "I'm gonna throw you out the window."
"What?"
Gwen was thrown out the window and screamed before being stopped midair via telekinesis, and was gently lowered to the ground, making her smile and then let out a chuckle.
Her life had become really strange in a matter of days.
Police sirens were then heard as Lizard ripped the webbing off while Peter crouched, taunting with a smirk unseen due to his mask. "Somebody's been a bad Lizard."
Next moment, all three were in the library where an old man with a bushy moustache was working and organizing the place while listening to some music, unaware of what was going on behind him.
Peter hit Lizard with a toilet seat and then a book when Lizard threw a table at the man but Willow stopped it in time and threw it back at Lizard, sending him back. She did a spell to break a bone as it screeched but the bone started repairing itself in that very moment.
The old man walked out of the room as Peter was thrown in that direction, falling down and groaning. Lizard marched to him when Willow gritted her teeth, managing to stop him telekinetically.
He tried to struggle, only for Willow to wave her hands and hurl him into the other direction, past her, back into the hallway, where he got up and ran off.
Willow rushed to Peter, helping him up. "You okay?"
"Yeah", he groaned, then told. "Get out of here, you don't have a mask so you'll get in trouble."
"You got a point, call me after this, or Gwen", Willow said with a raised finger as Peter nodded and she walked off, getting to the old librarian. "Uh, sir? There's a situation here, we need to go."
"Oh really? Which punk made a mess?" He asked as Willow led him out where everyone else was.
"Just some things trying to ruin a normal day", Willow shrugged.
"Well people must stand up to these things. Excelsior!" He said before moving off, and Willow smiled, finding his optimistic and exasperated attitude a very good one for reasons she couldn't tell yet, even if it gave her a warm feeling in her heart.
Police were going into the building now, with announcements by them all over.
"This is Lieutenant Williams from the New York City... Police Department. We've got this building surrounded."
"Alpha, let's move ahead. Go!"
At the same time, Willow saw Gwen talking on the phone and knew it was Peter who was on the phone.
As Gwen cut the call, Willow asked. "Was it Peter?"
"Yeah", Gwen confirmed with a nod, then looked at Willow. "He told me to take you with me."
"Where?" Willow asked.
"OsCorp", Gwen revealed. "He wants me run a serum, says you can help. And considering what I saw you do, guess you can."
"Right, so now you know too", Willow shrugged. "And you know Peter's secret as well."
"Guessing he knew about you but didn't tell me because it was your secret to tell?" Gwen asked, with Willow nodding.
"Yeah, it was mine."
"How can you do all this?"
"Magic", Willow smirked.
"Really?" Gwen was clearly in disbelief about that. "Magic's real? Or is it just science we don't-"
"No, magic is very real, honey. Its not science, its actual magic, and I say this as someone who is an expert in science too", Willow told Gwen. "And a lot of other stuff regarding the supernatural is real too. But anyways, let's go to OsCorp and we'll talk about magic later."
"Good idea, we can't delay going there", Gwen agreed, and then she and Willow made their way to the OsCorp building.
Lizard was accosted by a SWAT Team who all started shooting at him, making him screech in pain as he went down, wounded all over while his eyes closed.
The SWAT stood over his corpse, one of them tapping him with his gun to check if he was dead or not. That moment, Lizard's wounds healed and his eyes opened as he sprayed all of them with a green gas, making them choke and cough while staggering around.
Scales then appeared upon them as their tongues grew too, while they became green. They were all becoming Lizards!
Willow and Gwen arrived at OsCorp, Willow looking around. "Wow, this place looks much more impressive in person."
"I had the exact same reaction, only, we got some work to do", Gwen groaned as she then immediately got to work right then and there.
Lizard was now on the streets, going on a rampage as he turned more people into Lizards.
Peter came out of a manhole and started looking around.
Gwen got a call and picked up. "Hi. Where are you?"
"Peter, hi", Gwen greeted, then informed. "I'm at Oscorp with Willow."
"You both have to get out of there now."
"The antidote is cooking."
"No, no, no. Connors is on the way. He's coming to you right now. He needs the device. He's gonna infect the whole city!"
Gwen looked and noted. "Eight minutes left."
"You're gonna wait eight minutes after what I told you? You leave right now and take Willow as well, please. That is an order, okay?
"I'll get everybody out."
"Did you hear wh...?"
Gwen cut the call in that moment and activated the emergency evacuation protocol, making all other workers evacuate the building in that very moment.
"You know, I can speed it up a little", Willow winked, then walking to the cooking antidote, touched it while closing her eyes as she chanted in Latin, her hands glowing.
The antidote heated up and the 8 turned into a 6 all of a sudden. Just 6 minutes to go.
"That's something I really wanna know more about", Gwen commented.
"We have 6 minutes, I can explain the basics", Willow shrugged, and Gwen listened as Willow blew her mind with what she said.
Peter meanwhile was swinging through the city, trying to avoid the cops who were firing at him to capture him. As he swung, he came in front of a flashlight of a helicopter and was shot with a taser shot right in the chest.
It sent a powerful electric shock through him and he fell down onto a cab, breaking it before rolling down to the ground and falling on his face, dazed badly.
The cops surrounded him, making him sit up as one of them cuffed his hands from behind. George Stacy walked to him and kneeling, took off his mask.
Peter's head was lowered so his face wasn't visible yet. At that moment, his eyes opened as he snapped the cuffs and tripped George before webbing a cop and throwing him down while he leapt onto a cab.
Next, he fired webs at the eyes of 2 cops, making them stagger back before flipping and kicking one out. Then he covered his face while firing at another cop and tripping him too.
There was one more near him, about to attack, but Peter swiftly grabbed his hands and flipped him to the other side before flipping and slamming another one into the cab.
He webbed another and snatched his gun, then grabbed another gun and flipped him over the cab where he rolled down.
Peter snapped the gun in two and leaping, hit another, taking him out.
He'd done all this while managing to make sure his face was at angles where it won't be properly visible to anyone.
CLICK!
"Freeze!" George ordered, his gun aimed at Peter from behind. "Down on the ground. Your hands behind your head. NOW!"
Peter slightly turned his head around, and as a flashlight shined on his face, he fully turned, revealing his face to the shocked George, who recognized him.
"Parker."
Peter stood up, taking a leap of faith. New York had good people, they'd do what was right. He immediately told George. "It's headed to Oscorp! And your daughter's there right now." He kneeled, lifting his mask up. "You gotta let me go."
Standing up, he put his mask back on, George still having his gun aimed but now looking reluctant, clearly having doubts about the vigilante now due to knowing it was his daughter's boyfriend.
Peter leapt over a cab and swung away as one cop aimed a gun. George ordered. "Hold your fire!"
But he was one second too late as a shot hit Peter's leg, making him gasp. He still leapt away but the bullet wound was making him bleed.
Lizard came into the building to get what he needed, but Willow and Gwen were already gone from that spot, having made the antidote already due to Willow having sped it up by 2 minutes.
Peter was trying to get to OsCorp but his foot was injured.
The father of Jack whom Peter had saved on the bridge saw it on the news and muttered. "That's the guy who... saved my boy on the bridge."
His friend came in. "Troy, they're clearing us out. Something bad's going down in Midtown."
Troy asked him. "Still friends with Matthews, that crane operator on 6th?"
"Yeah."
"Get him on the phone for me."
"The cops are evacuating everybody."
"Get him on the phone for me."
Peter was on top of a building now. He webbed his wound and taking a run-up, he rushed forwards, leaping and firing a web, but missed the spot, then started falling.
Next moment, a crane held him up, and he held onto it.
Troy had managed to get all cranes lined up to help Spider-Man swing to Oscorp and get there in time.
New York City was repaying Spider-Man for his good actions at last.
Peter swung from there, using the cranes as leverage, and reached close to Oscorp.
Willow and Gwen got out of the building to see George with a police escort. "Dad!" She hugged him as he tried to get her into the car. "I have to get this to Spider-Man."
"Get in."
"It can stop the Lizard."
"Get in the car."
"You don't understand!"
"Yes, I do", George looked at his daughter. "Your boyfriend is a man of many masks."
"You know?" Willow asked, walking next to him and he nodded.
"Who're you?"
"English TA. I know too."
"Okay", George turned to Gwen and took the antidote. "Give me this. Get in the car."
Gwen walked towards the car, then turned to her dad, begging. "Please make sure he's okay."
George nodded, looking at the cure, then turned to Willow. "You get in too."
Willow stood in such a way that her back was to the other cop, and told George. "I can help you." She held up her hand, the antidote telekinetically floating to it. If George was trusting Peter now, he wouldn't have much of a problem with her either.
He looked at her in shock as she asked. "We cool?"
George took the antidote back and nodded. "We cool."
Peter swung to Lizard, trying to fight him as they fell down and smashed onto a light, though Lizard had already installed his device.
Peter was thrown off but used a web to stop himself in time and started climbing back up. Lizard now had a Nitrogen cylinder which he smashed on Peter but he dodged in time, trying to escape the gas.
He then dodged a strike from the tail and using a web, flipped up and kicked Lizard away. He then slid behind Lizard using webbing and swung up to where the device was, almost reaching it when a Nitrogen cylinder was thrown near him and the impact of its blast made Peter fall back down.
He decided to break all the liquid nitrogen valves to get Lizard using some webbing but Lizard grabbed his throat by the tail and lifted him up, smashing both of his web-shooters, then took off his mask.
"Poor Peter Parker", Lizard taunted Peter. "No mother, no father... no uncle. All alone."
CLICK!
"He's not alone." Lizard turned to see George Stacy holding a gun.
"He's got us", Willow stepped up next to George, and pressed her hand as the liquid nitrogen exploded, making Lizard stagger back and screech.
Peter then fired it all on Lizard, freezing and breaking his body parts as he let Peter go, with George firing at Lizard.
"Detonation in T-minus 45 seconds."
Peter flipped and kicked Lizard down where the Nitrogen was, weakening him.
"Hey!" George handed Peter the antidote. "Gift from Gwen." Peter took it. "We got this, Peter! Go!"
Peter nodded and started climbing up as George fired at Lizard and Willow hit him with some fireballs, making him screech in pain.
Eventually, he started healing and climbed up, but Willow held out both hands, stopping him telekinetically as he struggled against her, but she didn't let go.
She could make it easier for herself by just breaking all bones in his body, but if Peter got the antidote up there before Lizard was cured, he'd be a cripple for life, and she didn't want that for him.
However, lack of regular use since leaving Sunnydale meant she wasn't at her peak. So he was struggling and getting closer to her. Willow screamed and pushed her hands forward, pushing him back.
Then the antidote exploded up in the sky, causing a blue light to shine as blue gas dispersed everywhere. Peter had done it!
"The kid actually did it", George realized as Lizard gasped, his green skin turning to a normal shade slowly, and the scales started breaking off to reveal Curt Connors in his normal human visage.
The structure Peter was on started collapsing due to being weakened from the Nitrogen and Peter leapt to avoid, but the impact made him fall down, only to stop midair as Willow held him telekinetically, then held out her hand, grasping Peter's, and then he was pulled up.
They sighed in relief, Curt looking around in shame, curled up in a ball. "What have I done? I just wanted to help people….make sure there was no sickness or deformity. I didn't want this!"
Willow sat next to him and put an arm around. "Sometimes, Dr. Connors, when we think what's best for others and act on it, it doesn't end well. We may have had good intentions at the start, but a mindset like that always warps it into something bad."
Connors looked at her with remorseful eyes as Willow then helped Peter up. "Thanks for the assist, Willow."
"What are friends for?" Willow asked with a smile.
George looked at both and said. "You two…you two saved the city."
"Guess so", Willow sighed as George eyed them, then shrugged.
"You two are heroes", he commented, making them share a look. "But, if either of you step out of line, I'll arrest you both."
"If we go out of line we'll give ourselves up", Willow immediately said.
"And Peter, if you're dating Gwen, fine, you're clearly a good guy, but make sure she doesn't get caught up in this again, or no one will find your body", George warned as Peter and Willow both chuckled.
"I'll do my best", Peter assured as George nodded, walking to Connors and cuffing him. Connors made no move to resist, knowing he was wrong to do what he did.
"So, we saved the city", Peter said, George looking at them one last time and leading Connors away while he looked at Peter apologetically.
"Yeah, we did", Willow sighed. She'd used her magic for something good at day's end, and it wasn't for herself.
Maybe she had learnt her lesson after all.
Well, ended up finishing the climax of the movie here after all, so next chapter shall be Willow returning to Sunnydale for the Xanya wedding with Peter by her side.
And that'll be the end of it as I resolve it all.
So, George survived! YAY! In canon I think he made Peter do the promise because he died due to being close to Peter, and realized Gwen could do.
But that didn't happen here so George is more approving.
Hope all enjoyed and see you all next time with the last chapter.
