Twin Hybrid

(Ch8 Home Sweet Lair? )

Doc Ock, Harry Osborn, Spiderman © Marvel Aqua Arachnia © DBR

Whether there was a blizzard outside or a thunderstorm, May played basketball with her dedicated friends. Snow happened to be falling rather slowly.

It was near the end of the game when May shot the ball. It rolled around the ring.

"Score!" May jumped up and down in exhilaration.

She gave her black-haired friend a 'high-five'. Her friend did a victory dance after May gave them winning points.

All eyes were on the other players as off in the distance, someone else was watching the game. The shadows hid its custom fairly well, only the bright orange parts showed up.

May swung around another player and took the ball to the win. It was a slam dunk! She and her team mate danced around in circles like little kids as her other friends mocked her. They didn't need her to brag.

"What's the name? May—Parker! Who- Slam-Dunk-May!" After their little jig, the other went home.

She asked her friend Tiffany, "So you up for practice?" Her short dark hair was tasseled by the wind. She spoke frankly as her blue eyes blinked, "I can't. The cold air is stinging my eyes. I don't know how you manage. Do you stay out her so long you get numb?"

May jokes, "Sometimes. Well see ya. I guess I'll practice by myself."

She waved goodbye, then watched her friends go. When she turned to shoot a hoop, she felt someone behind her. May glanced back, catching the miss shot, and saw a figure much like Spidergirl but in black and adorned with orange stripes on the slender-apparently female-arms and legs. May's look changed to folded eyebrows as the figure stood with its hips on it's legs.

"Well, who are you? What do you want?"

The helmet-like mask somehow slide away the reflective orange lenses revealing blue eyes. "I want to play this game you are playing. It doesn't look too hard."

"Um, that's unusual."

"What can't costumed persons join in a little game?" She moved closer to May. May handed her the ball.

"I never said they couldn't. It's just bizarre." May watched as this visitor missed it and chased after the ball.

Slipping on the snow, she got up and replied to May. "Maybe it is harder than it looks."

"What's your name?"

"Aqua Arachnia."

"Really….you a hero or villainess?"

She laughed. "I'm not sure what I am. You could say I'm a modern "Robin Hood". I take technology from bad guys and use it for better purposes." When is He going to get up? Does he always have to drink? I hope she doesn't ask where I live.

"Cool, I guess. So, why did you want to try out basketball?"

"The challenge," She shot the ball in. "—oh, that's so what I calculated it to do."

"Ever heard of Spiderman?"

May took the ball and launched it in. It hit the wooden outside frame and bounced into Aqua's hands.

"Of course. Everyone's on his bandwagon, or against it. That J. J guy should really retire. Old media gurus'- like him- get old fast."

"So do you patrol the streets often?"

"He, he, of course I do. I have an interesting alter ego as well. I can't really say who I am—would spoil the fun of anyone trying to find out. So who's this Spidergirl?"

"Well, she's the daughter of Spiderman."

"So, did she inherit his powers or get some government to make a mutated freak?"

May dribbles the ball back and forth as Arachnia tries to block her maneuver to the basket.

"She's his daughter all right." May notices Arachnias's blocks and finds a way to get through.

As soon as it's in, Aqua Arachnia has vanished. "Well, what are your powers?" May turned. Snow fell softly on her nose as she looked back and forth and up and up and down.

"You don't like long conversations, do you ?"

Aqua Arachna returned to Ock's hideout. She walked over to his supposed drunk body. "Why is it that everyone who has adopted me has some kind of problem? I really do hope you wake up." She kneels next to him. She looks into his eyes. The tentacles glow a pink color- then to deep red.

"It's not like you to remain like this for long." She takes off her mask. She then gets up and quickly changed behind a large tower into her regular clothes.

"What did happen last night. I never knew your tentacles had a very metallic luster. New anti-webbing coating? Come on Dad."

She inhaled deeply. Aqua Arachnia then brushed her hair from with her hand. "I guess it's my turn to make breakfast. I do hope you are ok."

She headed off into another room. The peeling yellow paint might have been an eyesore, but it beat the sewers or his old lab. The new lab was built underneath an old mirror making factory. Aqua sighed as she washed her hands and checked the refrigerator.

"Barely anything in her to eat. Eggs—still good. Milk—still good. That's about it. For an adopted parent, he should have more money than this, after all isn't he world-famous? Yeah, shame the Nobel Prize missed him so many times."

As she was preparing breakfast the silvery tentacles gathered all the data they 'wanted' and left his mind and tentacles. The silvery liquid mass slithered on the floor. The moving puddle headed into the main room.

Otto finally awoke and groaned. He rubbed his forehead as Aqua Arachnia was running water. He grunted. The top right tentacle pushed him up, as the others helped as well. He asked each of the tentacles what happened. Each of them replied with much apprehension-if that was possible.

Father that voice kept your from talking.

Otto looked at Flo who was speaking first.

I didn't like it messing our mental files.

Mo added to the conversation. He moved in front of Octavius's face.

Who was it?

Harry asked.

I'm scared.

Larry gave his reply shortly after.

"Where is it?" Otto asked Flo. She extended out ward. Her vision saw nothing.

Aqua Arachnia sat the dish down. She looked at her right hand. It felt cold. Arachnia glanced again to see a silvery glob infront of her. It stood up with appendages of silver sticking out.

"Aah!" She dropped a dish onto the floor. "What is that?"

Otto walked over. "That is something I wanted to study."

"What's the Alloy Project doing at the kitchen sink?"

"Trying to study as much as it can, unfortunately it studied every part of me. I'm content knowing that all the A.I I'm connected to are functioning normal. This entiety has the most advanced programming installed that I have ever seen. It will be the best advantage I have over that pest."

"I hope you can control whatever that is."

It soon lept wobbled and leaped at Aqua. All four of Octavius's arms flared upwards to his inner response of freight.

"Get this stupid thing off me!" It run up her arm like a snake. She flung her arm up and down, and accidentally hit Otto in the nose. It only climbed further now onto her neck. "Aiiiiiiiiii!"

"Ow!"

Ock placed his hands on his nose. The tentacles heard a noise outside. "What now?" He asked in a muffled tone. One tentacle grabbed a small Tupper where box and Otto shot out a small spoon from his tentacle and scooped part of the silvery object up. It left her neck and followed the other part of it's structure into the box.

"Aha!"

The knocking still continued. The visitor walked his way down the stairs asking for if anyone was there. He heard a rattle and saw Ock. A box fell at his feet.

Ocks tentacles hissed. "What do you want?"

"Pi-piz-zza Sir. I think I got the wrong house!" He took of without the tip as the hot box remained at the top of the stars.

"Maybe this will be a better day." He closed the lid over the box tightly with his fleshy hands. A smirk rose from his face as Aqua just stared at it in horror.