Twin Hybrid

(Ch10 A taste of the Metallic Power)

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

Ock stayed in his lab for several weeks, as Aqua Arachnia walked in and out of his lab wondering. "Will you ever come to my school?"

He huffed. "Why would I do that?" An arm crashed down on the table below. Frustration with the project had taken its toll.

"You could disguise yourself." She came in and hugged him.

His eyes bulged out. A hug? He had never had one in a long time. "Dis-guise myself? Never! I do not hide from the public in a costume."

She smiles. "The darkness is your cover. It doesn't have to be. Please?"

He looked into her eyes, sympathy would not, however take him over. The tentacles swivel behind him. "No."

A deep sigh escaped her mouth. "You always say that."

"Nothing covers over these machines like a fine fit. Since you are in my lab, I need you to go back to Oscorps lab."

"What for daddy?"

He lifted himself up from the chair and dusted of a table. "I need another part to this special device. Harry has installed a new device to counteract my control over it. It learns alright. I thought I cracked the codes, but apparently they learn that I'm not its creator and do not allow me to know its secrets as I had once thought."

"Do you know what I'm looking for?"

He lifted the dusty page to her. "It looks like this. Just picture the key to the lock. We have the lock, but need this square marked A.P. Got it?"

The night air was no deterrent for Aqua Arachnia. She lived on the thrill of facing danger. Once again, she was caught up with breaking in and entering Oscorps Plant. It was not long before she saw the coveted object on the table before her.

"Since there is a guard shift, they won't know I'm in here now." The gray initialed objected lay on the desk.

A rustling noise hits her ears. The door squeaks open as she lept behind the door and ducked below a table covered in supplies.

The visitor smelled of alcohol. He entered the room and groaned. "I have to keep better care of this. I should bring this to my room. I don't think the guards are doing a good enough job."

The tall, shaggy brown haired man turned. He took the object with him to Aqua Arachnia's dismay. She leapt to her face and shot out a web at his pocket. With a quick pull the object was soon in her hands. A smirk crawled on her face. Not long after a quick laugh evaded her throat.

He turned back hearing her laughing. Harry chuckled even harder. "So, you are the little thief."

"Bye." A large noise echoed after her comment. Instantly, bars surrounded her. She folded her arms. "No biggie."

Harry Osborn walked up to the cage, "Oh, it's a biggie." His arm came forward. A silvery object like the stolen object was facing upwards in his hand. "A.P, do your thing!" The object in his hands fell through like butter. The liquid silver object shot out shoots of metal at the cage.

Her heart banged inside her rib cage. She turned and yanked the bars behind her.

Then the warm metallic liquid shot at her like a warm wet blanket. It covered her from heat to toe. Darkness appeared over her lenses. The object fully emerged. She got up and walked over to him. "Is this to scare me? It's like a bath in tar."

He walked away. She looked at her waist. The object seemed to retreat to four sections on her back. The moving sensation stopped eventually as she reached out with her arm, seeing a metallic tentacle to her right.

"Huh?" Thinking it be a mirage, she looked back to see that Doc Ock was not there. Yet, some how, his metallic arms were mimicked by the intelligent A.I.

"Wait! Come back!"

Harry's pace was slow, but a steady retreat. When he finally left her view, images flooded her mind. She fell to the floor as her mind felt like someone was pulling all her experiences out from her. Her hands pounded the floor. "Stop! Get out of my mind."

Whatever was in her mind left its mark, in letters "Infiltration of Memories Almost Complete."

Tears fell from her face as it contorted. She fell to the ground as the images raced faster than a speedway as she lay still as time moved on its constant course.

Faint whispers wave in and out of her mind. "Do you think it will take to her? Without complete synaptic connections, it might get out of control? Oh really….she's been out for a while. This is the finest test subject yet. Ha! Soon, I'll have better technology than that fluke of a scientist. Osborn technologies will live forever."

A soft grunt echoed her mouth. Her arm twitched and resumed its resting position. With all the strength she could muster, Aqua Arachnia opened her eyes. The vision was not like she had before. Osborn stood infront of her. She met his height exactly, as her arms embraced the cage for support. "What did you do to me?"

He smiled. "What did you do to yourself? You tried to steal it. So, I let you have it. I admit it was rather cruel. I had to see how good my technology is out on you—someone's pet project. You are a pathetic cat burglar."

She rattled the cage. "What happened?" She watched as he walked closer. "I let you partake of my investment. You are now combined with machine."

Her eyes pushed from their sockets, "Combined? What am I? A mutilated freak?"

"Um, for a scientific prize, I don't think I'd ruin a human being. You look normal, in a way."

She glanced at the tentacle. He replied, "Give it orders. Tell it to withdraw."

"With…withdraw."

With a snap, all four A.I .symbiotic arms decreased in sized and shrank to fit into the belt. Unlike spy novels, these were constructed out of a new nanotechnology unseen before. Only a glowing red eye stared back from the belt around her waist.

"If Ock had this technology, he wouldn't have to scare people with the poorly improved technology. Try to rival this."