And we're back, readers! We return to the ring of "Carol Danvers vs. the Sinister Foes of Spider-Man," ready to see another glorious beatdown! I'd again like to that all of you guys for the support and love you've given this story, it means a lot :) Now, fellow FanFic folk, we continue the saga!

Next up in the ring, the reptilian Hulk of the Spider-Man Rogue's Gallery. Enjoy!

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Chapter 4: The Lizard

"There's an innocent man inside there-he can't be held accountable for what the monster does!"

"He's killed time and again, and you STILL want to keep him alive?!"

"You act like he CHOSE for all this to happen!"

"Well, he DID inject himself with the serum willingly, if I remember you saying so!"

"FOR A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT REASON! He wanted to help mankind!"

"That's how it always starts!"

RRRRWWAAARRRRGHH!

Spider-Man and Captain Marvel momentarily stopped their heated argument to return their attention to the creature. Heavily webbed to the wall, the Lizard continuously clawed, snapped and snarled at the two heroes in front of it, hell-bent on shredding them both into pieces.

"Lizard, shut up," Carol snarled, pointing her glowing fist at the creature threateningly. "The grownups are talking." The Lizard ceased its noise and movement, staring at her with its slit eyes. Carol didn't know it, but she had just made its kill list. It watched as the two began arguing again.

The entirety of Grand Central Station had been evacuated by the police, and the two Avengers had managed to subdue the monster, with quite a bit of difficulty. A bit of difficulty meaning that the couple-who almost never argued about anything-simply refused to give in to the other's idea on how the villain should be dealt with. Even after subduing the Lizard, they continued to heatedly argue about what to do with him.

Peter still believed that Curt Connors was somewhere in there & could one day be saved. Carol felt Connors was lost, fully succumbed to the Lizard, and that he should pay for all those he had killed in his rampages with his life.

In the background, the officers and SWAT units stared at the heroes uneasily, unsure of what to make of the situation before them. A SHIELD team had just arrived to bring the Lizard to the Raft, but upon seeing the two yelling at each other, they remained on the sidelines with the locals. The lead agent, Phil Coulson-already familiar with the Avengers from numerous occasions-cautiously approached Spider-Man and Captain Marvel. The man was unsure of what to say, and in all honesty, being this close to the Lizard, even when it was incapacitated, made him a tad bit nervous.

"Spider-Man, Captain; I think we should maybe, I don't know, start sending Connors to the-"

"Connors doesn't exist anymore!" Carol snapped, making the agent step back. "This thing needs to be put down immediately-it's too unpredictable and too damn dangerous! Hell, Spider-Man says he tried to kill his own son once-"

"And managed to stop himself from doing it!" Peter yelled. "Carol, the man is in there, I know it, and I am not letting you do anything life threatening to him! What if it were you in his shoes?! Would you want me to put you down, too?!"

"HELL YES!" Carol screamed, astonished that her boyfriend was defending this filth. "Nothing justifies murder, monster or not! If I ever went on that path, I'd EXPECT you to put me down, even if it was just ONE person I killed!"

"Really?" the Webhead replied, folding his arms in defiance. "Even if that one person was Mystique?" Oh, if looks could kill, he thought to himself as Carol went to furious to hell spawned seething. Her eyes started glowing, and at that moment, his Spider-Sense went off like crazy. "Ok, maybe that was a bit uncalled for, but that doesn't require you to hit me," said, ready to jump at a moment's notice should his girlfriend try to hit him.

"Yeah that was kind of uncalled for," Carol snapped, "but I'm not going to hit you."

"Then why is my Spider-Sense-"

SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP

"CRAP!" Spider-Man yelled as he grabbed Coulson and jumped out of the way, the Lizard having broken free from its bonds and lunging at Captain Marvel with a frenzy, chomping down on her arm like a hungry beast.

"ARGHHH!" Carol roared as she fell to the ground, the impact of the collision and fall stunning her momentarily. Despite how strong the Lizard was, however, Carol was stronger; grabbing its snout, she pulled its jaw off her arm and then flung the creature into the ceiling. It easily clung to it, faced the Avenger and roared ferociously. "Dammit, you freak!" she yelled as she fired a photon blast at the creature, only for it to dodge and plummet itself down, slamming Carol with a powerful tail swat.

"Carol!" Spider-Man yelled as Lizard then pounced onto her, only for her to grab its throat and hold it at bay as she stood up.

"I've got this, Spider! Get the cops and agents out of here!" Carol yelled back as she punched her opponent into the wall, enticing a monstrous roar from the reptile.

"Dammit, don't kill him!"

"No guarantees!" Carol yelled with a snarl as she flew over to where the Lizard had fallen. She was welcomed with a powerful tail hit to her face, and the creature immediately jumped at her while she was stunned, slashing at her costume, tearing at her in its bloodthirsty hatred for her.

"Ok, that's it!" Carol screamed as she grabbed both of its arms and brutally head butted the Lizard, sending it flying into the wall. "This is my newest costume and you go & try to rip it to shreds?! Wait, why did I just say that? Huh, I really am hanging out too much with Pe-UUMMPHHH!" At her momentary distraction, Lizard charged at her, both crashing into the stairs leading to the dining area. Carol immediately retaliated with one of her more stronger punches, sending the creature flying into the ceiling-clear through and right out into the night sky.

"Oh crap," Carol suddenly realized. "I just send Lizard flying into the sky, out into the open…dammit, if he crashes into some innocent people, I'll never forgive my-" her thoughts her immediately interrupted with a vicious roar as the Lizard came right back through the hole it crashed through at jumped down in front of her, snarling viciously.

"Ok…you're focusing on me; ok, I can work with that," Captain Marvel decided aloud. At once, Lizard pounced at her, ready to bite her face. Carol quickly grabbed its jaws, forcing them to stay open as the creature continuously struggled against her superior strength. "Ha! Nice try, freak, but you aren't biting me any time-" Carol never finished her sentence as she was instantly jerked forward; the Lizard snapped its head backwards, slamming the heroine into the ground, and immediately slammed its powerful tail into her face, sending her flying into the wall. It let out a vicious roar, clearly enjoying the battle.

"Ok, Connors," Carol snarled as she stood back up, brushing rubble off herself and eyes glowing. "You want to play rough? Let's play rough, then."

Lizard immediately charged at the Avenger, only to be blasted back by a powerful photon blast. The impact made the creature roar in pain as it fell onto the ground, snarling and snapping at Carol.

"Aww, what's the matter? Did I hurt the big bag lizard?" Carol mocked in a baby voice, her smirk showing her confidence. It was clearly obvious that Lizard was a regular Spider-Man villain with that: at Carol's remark, the Lizard let out a bloodthirsty & ferocious roar, clearly angry at what she had just said. "Yeah, Peter's jokes are rubbing off on me."

The creature charged at the Avenger once again, and this time, Captain Marvel responded with her own running charge, her fists, glowing powerfully with raw energy. Once she was in rage, she landed a devastating punch on the creature's face sending it flying through the walls.

And letting it crash outside, into the swarm of people.

"Carol, you idiot."

Cursing herself, she rushed outside, already hearing the roars and screams and fire of guns. Once she got outside, she saw the masses of civilians rushing in a panic to get anywhere besides there. Police and SHIELD agents were helping them escape. In the middle of the street, Spider-Man had lassoed a web line around Lizard's neck, trying to keep it from chasing after the people.

"C'mon, Connors, snap out of it! Dammit, you should take lessons from the Hulk about this; he's really got his problems under control. I told him he should write a book, help guys like you."

"Give it up, Spider; Connors is gone!" Carol yelled as she flew over and grabbed the creature in a choke hold. "We need to put it down as soon as possible!"

"OK, seriously," Peter fumed, letting go of the line as his girlfriend clearly wasn't letting the roaring monster go. "Why is it that you can't give him a chance?! You've been given chances when you were recovering from your drinking problem!"

"I didn't go on murderous rampages while I was drunk!" Carol snapped back, her anger returning. "Don't you dare try playing that card on me, Spider!"

"It's the same concept!"

"It is not the same concept at all! I became a drunk because I lost focus on what was important in life! How is that in any way similar?!"

"Connors took the serum because he was disillusioned about what was best for his situation, just like you were!"

"For the love of God, Peter!" Carol roared, raising her hands into the air in frustration, not realizing her mistake until too late.

Free once more, the Lizard slammed Carol with its tail into a nearby car, stunning her. Spider-Man immediately jumped onto the creature's back, attempting to web its snout and lead him back into the station for the two heroes to fight it again.

"Yeehaw! Lizard rodeo!"

The creature slammed its back into a nearby car, knocking the wind out of the arachnid. With a roar, the Lizard chased after the civilians.

"Nice going," Carol remarked as she helped her boyfriend up. "You distracted me and now he's out there. C'mon let's go stop him."

"We are NOT killing him, Carol; that is unacceptable," Peter answered before swinging off in pursuit, and Carol was shocked that he sounded very angry towards her.

Lizard was being fired upon by SWAT and SHIELD agents, trying to get to the screaming mass of civilians. Getting closer to Times Square, the creature let out a monstrous roar-just as Spider-Man appeared and shot some webbing into its eyes.

"Hey, Lizzie, got something on your face!"

As Lizard blindly slashed into the air, Captain Marvel slammed into it, sending it crashing into the ground. "Ok, now how do we incapacitate it or knock it out?!"

"Honesty, I've never gotten this far-usually, he's run off by now and turned back to Connors, hiding somewhere in the sewers. Then he comes back a day or two later back in scales and tries to eat me!"

"That's not helping!"

Suddenly, Lizard tripped Carol with it tail, and before Peter could react, it threw a car at him, which would normally be easy to dodge if not for a bunch of cops behind him that would've been crushed. He just had to take it for the team. The Lizard immediately rushed for the nearest human being to shred to pieces, which happened to be a little girl separated from her mother.

"AAAAHHHHHHH!"

"CAROL! THE GIRL!" Peter cried as he got the car off himself.

Carol immediately rushed over to the creature, which was clearly about to kill this child, and was ready herself to knock this damned monster into next year-

When she noticed that the Lizard seemed to be holding some…restraint?

The monster immediately reared its head back and roared, grabbing its head with its clawed hands, and began stumbling slightly, before slamming itself into the ground, writhering in what appeared to be pain, roaring and snapping.

"That's it, Connors!" Spider-Man yelled as he came up. "You can do this! FIGHT IT!"

Carol was stunned; what was a bloodthirsty creature bent on slaughtering a child ten seconds ago was now a struggling being trying to control itself and its bestial urges, brutally forcing itself to try and reign in the self-control it needed.

"That's it, Connors, you can do it!"

Then, Lizard stopped and looked at the heroes, and Carol heard it speak, which greatly shocked her.

"Sssspider-Man…sssstop me…Can't c-control…"

Then the bestial glint in its eyes returned as Lizard lunged at the arachnid, snapping and clawing at his costume while his hands did their best to keep its throat and jaws away.

"Dammit Connors, you can still fight-"

Carol then grabbed Lizard into a chokehold once more and pulled the creature off of Peter, applying pressure to the monster's windpipe. Slowly but steadily, its vicious roars and snaps and frantic flailing began to falter.

"I'm sorry, Dr. Connors, but this is for your own good," she told the creature. Its head turned slightly, allowing her to see its eye, and Carol could swear she saw a hint of gratitude and sadness.

Finally, the Lizard fell unconscious.

"Coulson," Carol yelled out. "Take him to the Raft."

As the cops and agents began preparing the transport, Carol couldn't help but watch the unconscious monster, and she began to feel remorse for what she had said and believed about the man under the monster. Peter came up to her, placing her arm against her shoulder.

"I'm sorry, Peter."

"What?"

"For doubting you, for doubting Connors…I just was so sure that he was lost inside the Lizard, but seeing him do that…seeing him refuse to let himself kill that little girl, it-it made me realize that you were right. Connors is still in there somewhere, and he needs all the help he can get to save him. He's lucky you've cared so much all these years."

"Well he was one of my professors in college, so I guess I can't just forget about him."

"He was your professor in college?"

"Yeah, this was before he lost his arm and injected himself."

"Well, he's lucky you were there to care," Carol pulled off Peter's mask to give him a loving kiss. "I know; I'm lucky you cared about me with my problems."

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Reviews & feedback are always welcome, as usual. What did you like, what you didn't like, etc. You all know the drill :)

What did you think of this Lizard interpretation? I was unsure of how to go, being when Amazing Spider-Man 688-91 revealed Connors was always in control (I think it was there, correct me if I'm wrong) and ASM's Lizard was kind of similar...I kind of preferred the monster, but what did you think, guys?

Be sure to check out my other Spider-Man/Ms. Marvel stories, especially "Love & War."

Next villian: the Rhino! Until next time readers :)