Disclaimer: I do not own The Amazing Spider-Man! I only own my OC, "Madeline Beckett" and any other characters I make up along the way!

Author's Note: I am so SORRY for being gone so long! I had to study for exams, stress for exams, DO my exams...and then I got writer's block. I literally have no idea where it came from, but it stuck with me a good long while. I don't know how well this chapter is going to be, but let's hope you think it's good!

Enjoy!

I had a skip in my step as I walked to school the next day. I took my sweet time getting ready, putting on a white blouse, a black pullover sweater, a black skirt, white boots, and a headband to top it all off. All in all, I felt really cute today. And if I felt cute, then I looked cute.

Peter had told me that he had to be at school early, so it was just me walking.

That is, until Eddie showed up.

I had my headphones in my ears as I was walking, so I almost didn't notice him at first. But then I noticed him when he obviously sighed.

I rolled my eyes at him as the light turned red, signalling to pedestrians to start walking. "What's wrong?" I asked in my head.

"Oh, nothing," He mused. "You've been doing so well with Peter that I haven't been able to see you much. I just wanted to see how you were doing."

I smiled, which must have looked weird to the people around me. "Thank you for being so kind. I'm doing fine. I'm getting Peter to open up to me about being Spider-Man. That's good, right?"

"One step closer to home," Eddie agreed.

I literally stopped in my tracks when the realization of what he said hit me. "Home?" I asked, starting to walk again.

He nodded. "Yeah, home. As soon as you're good here, you're gone."

"Gone," I said out loud. What if I don't want to be gone?

I turned my head to ask Eddie this, but he was already gone. The bell for classes went, so I had to dash inside the school so I wasn't too late for my first period class.

Home, I thought as I tapped my foot to the rhythm of the clock. Home.

The bell finally rang, and I beelined for the bathroom. Luckily, there was nobody in there. I did my business, but it was when I was washing my hands, looking into the mirror did my mind go back to home.

I hadn't even thought of home lately. Okay, that was a lie, I thought of home when I was looking for the first aid kit. But I mean like, I hadn't thought of going home in so long. Did that mean I didn't want to go home?

I didn't have much time to dwell on it anymore, because I heard a sudden crash from one of the stalls. I turned my head towards it. I thought that I was alone in here.

"Are you okay?" I asked, walking towards the stall. The ground underneath started rumbling, and I felt worry starting to grow in the pit of my stomach. Warily, I opened the door, and gasped when I saw the toilet sink into the ground, the tiles surrounding it crashing into the ground.

I slowly backed away from the stall. My head was screaming at me to run, but the signals weren't making it to my muscles. I just froze in place.

Which was really bad, because something was coming up. I didn't know what, and I didn't want to, but when you were basically an icicle there was nothing you could do.

My jaw and stomach dropped when I saw a rather large, scaly, clawed hand erupted from the hole, sinking its claws into the ground. Unfortunately, I just stood still as the lizard that has been terrorizing New York City climbed its way out of the ground.

"Oh my God," I whispered. I managed to get a good look at him while he didn't see me, and Peter was right. I could just make out Doctor Connors's facial features.

Unfortunately, my shell shocked body was finally noticed by Connors as he knocked the rest of the stalls down. "Oh...man. Ni-nice lizard?" I tried.

Connors just roared and reared his arm back to claw at me. Finally, my body reacted and I screamed, lunging for the side that the door was on.

Doctor Connors barely missed me, his hand busting up three sinks. Water began filling up the room as he turned to face me again. "Don't, Doctor Connors!"

He was clearly far beyond reasoning as he roared again, this time raising both his arms to attack.

I wasted no time in screaming again, not taking my eyes off of his hands for a second as I managed to open up the door and dash out. Just as I stepped out, Connors busted after me, knocking the wall surrounding the door down.

I fell to the ground, smashing my elbows on some of the ruin. I got a few scratches, and I scrambled to get up as the whole hallway realized what was going on and started running in the opposite direction.

I was almost trampled like Mufasa when I felt a strong grip on my arm, and I looked up to see Gwen lifting me off of the ground. "Are you okay? What happened?"

"I thought all the jokes about Hermione getting attacked because she went to the washroom alone were funny," I froze when I heard another one of Connors's growls. "Not so much anymore."

Gwen laced her fingers with mine. "Come on, we gotta get out of here!"

"But what about Peter?" I asked. If Connors' was here, no doubt he was going after Peter. He told me last night that he found Connors' lair and that he and Connors got into a fight-that's why he was all injured when he came to see me.

"We can find him later," Gwen said as he squeezed past people. "Right now, we have to take care of ourselves."

"Gwen that lizard is Doctor Connors," I blurted. It was an accident, I swear!

"What?" She asked, spinning around to face me.

We both ignored the screams of the teenagers around us as I said, "Connors was very serious about the cross species genetics. He perfected this equation and that's how he ended up as the lizard."

"Maddie, that's crazy talk!" Gwen exclaimed over the police and ambulance sirens that had started to blare.

"I wish it was, Gwen," I admitted. "But I'm not kidding."

"Mads, we can talk about this later, right now, we gotta book it!" Gwen argued.

"I have to find Peter!" I told her.

"Mads-"

"Gwen, I'm not leaving here without him," I interrupted. "Have you seen him?"

Hesitantly, Gwen pointed to the hallway that she had last seen my boyfriend, and I gave her one last hug before we both dashed in opposite directions.

My legs and lungs burned as I finally caught sight of Peter. Unfortunately, he was being thrown into a classroom by Doctor Connors.

"Peter, no!" I screamed, running after them. I passed the emergency fire equipment and paused. Without hesitating, I smashed my elbow through the glass, shattering it. Enough of it broke so that I was able to reach in and grab the fire axe that was inside. It was fairly heavy, but I was able to carry it in my hands. Once it was in my grip, I went after them again.

I screamed as Connors came crashing out of the room, Peter (in his Spider-Man suit) on his back. He had this webs around Connors as if he was trying to lead a horse. I ducked behind some lockers so that they couldn't see me and winced every time I heard Peter groan. He still hadn't recovered from his wounds from the other night!

They battled for a bit, Peter trying to talk Connors out of it all the while. After I saw Connors fling Peter into a hallway was the moment I decided to strike. I ran as quickly and as quietly as my feet could take me, and when I finally got to the two of them, Connors had Peter's throat in his hands, slamming him against the window.

I decided to charge at him so that I wouldn't lose my nerve. And it worked! When I got to Connors, I wasted no time in burying the axe into his side. And stabbing a person feels really weird, I recommend you don't do it unless completely necessary.

Connors roared in anger. As he flexed, I pulled the axe back out in case I needed it again. I made a disgusted sound at the green blood that was left behind, but my focus was quickly taken away from it as Connors fixated his attention on me.

Well, his attention was away from Peter, and that was what I wanted, wasn't it?

I raised the axe in defence as Connors (well it sounded like him) said, "Madeline." He lifted his arm to attack and I tensed my arm muscles, ready to swing.

But Connors's blow never came, because Peter used his webbing to pull Connors's arm away from me. He then took the opportunity that I had created in distracting (and injuring) Connors by wrapping him all in the webs. And by all, I mean that Peter crawled all around the guy, getting the web on him. After Connors was incapacitated, Peter shot out webs to the walls to secure Connors in place.

He shot a web out towards me, it landing on the in the axe. Peter pulled me towards him, before grabbing the axe and throwing it out the window, smashing the window. He gathered me into his arms before saying, "I'm gonna throw you out the window now."

"What?" I said incredulously.

Before I could even think, Peter had tossed me out of the open window. I screamed as I fell, bracing myself for the impact with the ground.

I didn't hit the ground, though, as I felt the stickiness of Peter's webbing make contact with my stomach, stopping me from breaking my back. That would have been the worst way to die.

I swung for a bit, regaining my breath. He did not just do that! I told him that I wanted to help him with being Spider-Man, and then he goes and ignores me!

Well no one ignores Madeline Beckett!

I pulled on the webbing. If it was strong enough to hold my weight, it might be strong enough to climb...

No time to lose. Peter might be in trouble. Firmly grasping the webbing with one hand and moving my other hand higher up on the string, I began pulling myself up. And surprisingly, it was working. I guess Peter had to make the material really really strong for what he wanted to do.

I moved quickly, trying not to take too long in case the webbing snapped. I finally managed to make it back up to the window. I had to be careful so that I wouldn't cut myself on the grass, but of course I got one of the palm of my hand.

It wasn't too bad though, so I just ignored it as I leaped over the side of the window. Curiously, Peter and Connors were gone. I saw a trail of the slime that was emitting from Connors, and decided to follow it, because if I decided to follow it, Peter must have too.

I didn't have a weapon on me, since Peter threw my axe out the window, so I had to rely on my wits to keep myself safe. I mean, I'd been doing a decent job so far.

I was so caught up in trying to find Peter that I didn't even notice when I almost bumped into someone. And I was pretty surprised over who it was.

"Mr. Lee?" I asked. It was the old librarian, who was most known for wearing his headset, listening to whatever music. Whenever he had those things on, you could forget talking to him. A whole fight sequence could go on behind him, and he wouldn't even know.

He didn't notice me and kept walking. "Mr. Lee, wait!" I said, grabbing his arm. He finally realized I was trying to gain his attention and took off his headset. I could faintly hear the sounds of classical music as he said, "Yes, dear?"

"Are you okay? The giant lizard was here a few minutes ago! Are you hurt?" I asked, though truthfully, the old man looked unfazed, clutching his brown lunch bag.

He just shook his head and smiled, patting my head. "Oh, you kids," He said cheerfully as he put his headset back on. He had a skip in his step as he turned and walked away.

Whatever, I thought, shrugging it off. As long as he was okay.

I kept walking until I made it back to the girls bathroom, where I saw Peter starting to enter. I picked up my pace to a run, and he obviously heard my footsteps, because he stopped just before going into the bathroom and turned towards me.

He wasn't wearing his mask anymore, so I could see the clearly shocked look on his face when he saw me run up to him. "What are you doing here? I thought I threw you out the window."

"You know me," I said as I stopped in front of him. "I don't like missing the action."

"Mads," Peter started, but I cut him off.

"Peter, I told you that if I was going to support you being Spider-Man, then I was going to help you," I said. "And I can help you. Just let me stay."

Peter looked like he was going to argue, but he was cut off by the sound of police officers, "We are from the New York City police department. We have this area surrounded."

Peter looked like he wanted to jump off of a cliff, but finally nodded. "You're an idiot, you know that?"

"Yeah, but I'm your idiot, remember?" I said cutely, batting my eyelashes.

Peter rolled his eyes, but I could see the hint of a smile on his lips. "First sign of danger, and you're out of here."

"I can't promise that," I said as Peter took my hand, tugging me inside to the bathroom with him.

We stuck to the walls in case Connors was inside the bathroom, but it pretty much looked unchanged since he first destroyed it. Peter spotted something, nudging my arm. He pointed, and my eyes were drawn to Connors' Oscorp lab coat ensnared in some of the wreckage.

"We're gonna have to go down there, aren't we?" I asked, taking a peek down.

"Yup," He answered, moving towards the hole.

I groaned. "I had to pick today to wear my good boots..."

Peter went down first, so when I jumped down the hole after him, he caught me, just like when I fell out of the tree, or when I jumped out my window.

"Are you okay?" He asked as he put me down.

"Just dandy," I answered. Peter put his finger to his lips, signalling me to be quiet. I nodded, and we started cautiously walking down the sewers.

It smelled worse than Ian's socks after he had a long basketball practice. My room being right next to Ian's, he liked to come into my room with his stinky socks and chase me around. I also had to avoid little puddles so that I wouldn't get my feet wet.

But gentlemen that Peter was, whenever we came across a big puddle, he would pick me up and carry me either across or around, because apparently Peter didn't care about nasty puddles.

"Listen," Peter said as he put me back down. "I need to call Gwen."

"Why?" I asked.

"She's the only one up there, and I need her to make an antidote for Connors," He answered.

I shrugged, pulling my phone out of my skirt pocket (do you have any idea how hard it was to find a skirt with pockets?). "Then I'll do it."

"I can do it," He insisted.

I shook my head. "Who's got the spider senses, like hearing?" I asked, and he stayed silent. "Exactly. I'd rather you listening for Connors than distracting yourself with Gwen's voice."

I quickly picked her name on my contact list and waited for her to pick up. It literally rang twice when she did. "Mads? Where are you? Are you okay? And did you find Peter?"

Seriously, sometimes I think that Gwen thinks I actually was a robot. "I'm fine, and I found Peter. But we're in the sewers right now."

"Why are you in the sewers?" She asked.

"Gwen, I promise, I'll explain everything later. Right now, I need your help," I told her, and put the speaker part on my shirt so that the sound would be muffled. "What do you need?"

"I need her to get to Oscorp and run a serum. It's a blue serum, and she needs to get to the cross species file. The number is 12389," He answered, looking back to the front.

"Gwen, I need you to go to Oscorp," I started. "You know how to run serums, right?"

"Mads, I could run a serum in my sleep. You know that," She said.

Actually, I don't, but Gwen doesn't need to know that. "Right, sorry, still a little frazzled. Anyways, it's a blue serum, and you need to access the cross species file. The file number is 12389," I instructed.

"What's the serum for, Mads?" Gwen asked.

"It's the antidote to stop whatever Connors is," I replied. "Can you help me?"

"Of course. But after, could I possibly get some answers?"

I looked over at Peter, who surely must have heard what Gwen asked. He hesitated for a second, before nodding.

Oh thank God. I'd hate to have to choose between my boyfriend and my best friend. And knowing me, Gwen would win.

"I promise."

"Then I'm on it."

We both hung up, and I tucked my phone back into my pocket. Just before Peter and I rounded the corner, I stopped him. He turned his head to ask me what was wrong, but I just smiled and kissed his cheek.

That replaced the serious look on his face with a smiling one for a couple seconds. "What was that for?"

I shrugged. "For being you."

Peter smiled again. "Well, that's great, but right now, we have to find Connors. You can thank me for being me later."

The two of us finally made our way around the corner, and I was honestly surprised at the computers and other sorts of technology that was set up. Why was it set up? In a sewer? This wasn't the Phantom of the Opera.

Peter stood in front of me slightly and jumped on top of the platform before taking my hand and pulling me up after him. He dropped his bag to the ground, and I followed him as we investigated what was going on.

There was vials of a greenish liquid, along with what looked like an injector sort of thing. I was guessing that was what caused Doctor Connors to suddenly Hulk out on everyone.

"Stay close," Peter whispered to me, and I nodded in response, moving towards Peter slightly more.

For some odd reason, a laptop was set up with the screen on. It looked like it was a recording program, and Doctor Connors' face happened to be on the screen. Peter and I exchanged glances before he cautiously pressed the space bar, playing the footage.

"I spent my life as a scientist trying to create a world without weakness, without outcasts," Connors began. "I sought to create a stronger human being, but there is no such thing. Human beings are weak, pathetic, feeble minded creatures." Well, I felt offended. I kept watching Doctor Connors as Peter looked around the lab more. "Why be human at all when we can be so much more? Faster? Stronger? Smarter?" The images on one of the screens changed so that it showed the clear differences between who was Doctor Connors and who was the lizard. "This is my gift to you."

If this was a gift, I didn't want it.

There was a tip on the screen, and it suddenly zoomed out. I recognized the thing to be a building, and it kept zooming out until it showed a tip. And from the one picture of the lizard, it suddenly started becoming multiples, doubling and doubling until the whole screen was filled.

My stomach dropped as I realized what Connors was planning. "Oh my God," I breathed, sinking slightly into Peter's side. "He's gonna infect the whole city. He's going to change everyone into one of those things!"

"Oscorp," Peter suddenly said, and I whipped my head to face him.

"What are you talking about?" I asked him.

He pointed to a bunch of blueprints that sat in front of the computer on the table. I leaned over his hand to see a drawing of the Oscorp building. "He's going to use the Oscorp building to do it."

"Oscorp," I repeated, and my heart started racing when I remembered a crucial detail about Oscorp. "Gwen! We sent Gwen to Oscorp! Peter, we gotta go after her!" I panicked, starting to run back the way we came.

"Madeline!" Peter said, grabbing my arm to stop me. "I know you want to help, but I draw the line here."

"Peter-" I started.

"No, Mads. I don't want you to get hurt. And I know that you're perfectly capable of taking care of yourself, and I love that about you, but there are some times where you can't protect yourself," He said, and he put his hands on my shoulders. "I'll get Gwen. I'm gonna get you up there, and you are going to go home to your mother and Sara, and keep them safe." Peter took his hands off of my shoulders and went for his backpack.

"But Peter-" I began as he reached for his backpack.

Peter tensed slightly, before turning around and kissing me full on the mouth, stopping any sort of arguments from my side. His kiss said everything that we both were feeling. Desperation, frustration, love. I never wanted this kiss to end.

Unfortunately, it did, and Peter drew back. We were both left a little breathless and he leaned his forehead against mine. "Please, Mads. For me, go home and stay safe."

Everything in my was screaming at me not to lie to him, but I did it. "Okay," I whispered. I pulled back from him and grabbed his backpack. I rifled inside of it until I found what I was looking for. "Now is really not the time for people to be finding out who you are," I told him as I held up his Spider-Man mask.

He moved to grab it, but I hesitated. Instead, I pulled the mask over his head, folding and smoothing the little creases as I did so. Just before I pulled the mask over his lips, I gave him another quick "good luck" kiss. It was short, so right after, I pulled the mask over his lips. "You're going to suck at the whole 'anonymous' thing if people can see your face."

I couldn't see Peter's smile, but I knew it was there. "You said that to me when you found out I was Spider-Man."

"I know, and I still mean it," I said. "But now's not the time to impress me with your vast memory of our relationship. Right now, you've got a city to save."

Peter started climbing the ladder under the manhole, me right underneath him. He popped the manhole cover up, jumping the last few steps. Then he reached down and pulled me right out. We barely missed getting hit by a car, and he quickly moved us to the sidewalk so that we were safe. I couldn't help but think that that was the second time Peter has saved me from getting hit by a car.

He whirled me around so that I was facing him. "Go home, get your family out of the city. I'll take care of the rest."

"Save Gwen," I told him.

"I will," He promised, giving me a kiss on my forehead through his mask. "Madeline, I want to tell you something-"

My heart skipped at the tone Peter was using. Was he really going to say what I think he was gonna say? Without thinking, I clamped my hand over his mouth, stopping him from speaking. "Oh, no you don't. At least until after we're out of this life or death situation."

"Okay," Peter promised, and after another kiss to my cheek, he ran off.

"And stay safe!" I finally called after him. I don't know why, but I always had to have the last word.

"When am I not?" He called back as he shot out his webs at the buildings and the like so that he could move faster.

Oh man, I could already feel the worry building up in my stomach. And not just for Peter, either.

"Madeline?" Gwen said after I had called her.

I moved away from the screaming crowd so that I could hear her better. "Are you still at Oscorp?" I asked.

"Yeah, the antidote just started cooking," She answered.

"Gwen, I need you to drop whatever it is you are doing and get out of there," I told her.

"Wait, what?" I heard her muffled voice. "Why?"

"Because Connors is on his way to Oscorp and he's not in a good mood," I replied. "He's got this device that he's gonna use to infect the whole city with whatever he's got. Gwen, he's going to turn all of New York City into giant, lizard, mutant freaks!"

"There's eight minutes left," Gwen argued.

I face palmed myself. Sometimes, my best friend and I were too alike. "Gwen, I don't think you get it. People are going to die. Unless you get out of there, so will you. You have to get out right now or I swear to God I'll go there and get you out myself."

"Mads, I'm going to get everybody out," Gwen said, before she hung up.

She just hung up on me! "No, no, no, no, no!" I stuttered, pressing the redial button over and over again. She must have turned her phone off.

"No!" I screamed, kicking the way beside me. I put my hands to my forehead, pushing my curls out of the way. There was only one thing to do.

It was my fault that Gwen was there. I could have stopped Peter from wanting to call her, but I encouraged it. I gave her the instructions, and now it was my fault that my best friend-my sister was in trouble. I turned my head to look down the street where my home was, and then looked forwards to the street that lead to Oscorp.

"Are you going to let your best friend face Connors alone?" Eddie asked from beside me.

"Hell no," I immediately said, and then I took off.

TBC...

Sorry if this is sort of a cliffhanger! I would write more but I'm tired as hell. At least it's something!

I also have a few pieces of news that I am going to release closer to the end of the story! Get excited!

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