Episode 8: Anole You're In There Part 1

Outside General Techtronics, Night

A brown haired man in a lab coat and only has one missing arm stumbles out of the front door. When the man reaches the road, he waves for a taxi while he holds his arm stub. When the Taxi cab swerves to the curb, the man steps inside it.

Cab Driver: Where are we headin', man?

?: G-Greenwich… please….

The cab driver tried to look over to check on the man.

Cab Driver: Hey man, you alright? Please don't get sick on the seat, they were just-

?: Just.. Drive!

Cab Driver: Alright man.. Geez…

The man hunches over the cab as it starts driving as his eye pupil turns to a slit like ones seen on reptiles.

Daily Bugle, The Next Day

Peter walks out of the elevator as he walks through the newsroom as he sees Jonah on the phone in his office. He stops by Betty Brant, who was typing up her latest story on her computer.

Peter: Hey Bets. What's Jonah up to today?

Betty: Ned called in a story and he's over the moon and-

Jonah slams his door open and points at Peter.

Jonah: Parker! Where have you been?! I've been looking for you!

Peter: uhm.. I just got here? What's the rush Jonah?

Jonah: I got a report of a giant freaking lizard running around town and I want pictures! I don't care if it's Godzilla or Fing Fang Whatever his name is, I want this scoop! Now go get pictures and don't come back until you do!

Peter: Y-yes sir…

Peter turns around and leaves the office, very confused.

Greenwich Village, Later That Evening

Peter, swinging around as Spider-Man, looks around and lands on a light pole as he sees someone in a dinosaur mascot suit promoting a nearby sushi restaurant.

Spider-Man: Is this what Jonah was excited about? I didn't know promoting a sushi restaurant was rampaging through New York… I guess I can get a picture and then just go home and-

When Spider-Man takes out his camera, he feels his Spider-Sense buzz in his head as he sees some people run out scared from a subway station entrance nearby. He jumps down and runs into it before he flips and clings to a corner of the ceiling as his eyes widen when he saw a grayish green human sized bipedal lizard with red eyes and black slit pupils and fins on its back and neck as it seems to be wearing a torn lab coat, a torn black button up shirt, and torn purplish blue pants roaring in the middle of the subway as security and police alike fired on the lizard creature.

Spider-Man: That's a biiiig lizard… Those bullets don't seem to be hurting it either… I need to stop that thing fast before it hurts someone!

Spider-Man sticks his camera in the corner with some webbing as he webs the lizard creature's hand before it can slash one of the officers and pulls himself there, slamming into the creature's back before landing on the ground.

Spider-Man: Hey Big, Lean, and Scaly! The auditions for the next Jurassic World movie are down the street. Now, let's just go to where no one can get hurt.

The Lizard creature roars as it charges towards Spider-Man with a few quick slashes in succession. Spider-Man dodges 2 of the strikes before the 3rd slash him in the chest. Spider-Man back flips out of the way and sees the slash damage on his costume.

Spider-Man: Hey! Costume repairs aren't cheap pal!

The lizard creature tips a bench out of the ground and throws it at the wall -Man's Spider-Sense goes off as he jumps out of the way in time before tackling the lizard and grabs its arms. The lizard creature roars into Spider-Man's face.

Spider-Man: Two words, pal. Breath. Mints.

The lizard creature's tail rises up and wraps itself around Spider-Man's neck and launches him into the ticketstand. Spider-Man rubs his head before he sees the creature run and leap onto a moving subway car. Spider-Man shoots a webline to the ceiling and swings onto the subway car and kicks the creature. The creature catches itself and clings onto the side of the subway car before crawling back up and swings its tail as Spider-Man steps out of the way.

Spider-Man: Hey! Clinging to surfaces is my thing! If I hear you have a Spider-Sense too, I'll sue!

Spider-Man shoots a webline at it to ensnare it, but it grabs the line and pulls Spider-Man towards him and slams him into the roof of the subway car. Spider-Man is thrown off the car, but Spider-Man quickly recovers and clings to the side of the subway car. When Spider-Man crawls back towards the top, he sees the creature is gone. Spider-Man looks confused until his Spider-Sense buzzes as he sees the Lizard crash through the window and punch Spider-Man and get itself back on top. Spider-Man tries to crawl after it, but the lizard creature's tail slams down on one of Spider-Man's hands hard, causing Spider-Man to fall off the subway car and slam down on the tracks below. Spider-Man gets up and holds his hand as he sees the subway train get farther with the creature escaping.

Spider-Man: Ugh…I think he busted my hand… it hurts like being stomped on by the Rhino..

Spider-Man takes off his glove to also see the web shooter trigger on the palm of that hand get smashed as he groans as he makes a web bandage wrap around that hand and puts the glove back on.

Spider-Man: And it broke the trigger for a web shooter… perfect… what's next…

Spider-Man carefully heads back to the platform and crawls up the wall carefully to grab his camera. When he does, he notices a dirty blonde woman holding a chestnut brown haired baby in her arms as she's calling out the name Curt. Spider-Man raises an eyebrow as he lands down near the woman.

Spider-Man: Are you okay Ma am? What's wrong?

?: I'm looking for my husband Curt… He headed here last I saw him…

Spider-Man: I can look for your husband, but you need to get out of here… some lizard monster thing was here and he could come back at any time.

?: You don't understand.. That Lizard WAS my husband.

Spider-Man's eyes widened under the mask when he heard this revelation.

Spider-Man: What?!

Next Time on TASM: Anole You're In There Part 2

Author's Note: You may have noticed that the title has changed as there's a reason for this. I felt like renaming it to "The Astounding Spider-Man" would make it feel more on brand and more fit the TASM abbreviation better as "The Adventures of Spider-Man" sounded too generic of a cartoon title. It won't affect the cartoon at all in any way and it will remain unchanged. I just felt like making a more character accurate title change that's all. I also used Astounding than Amazing cause Amazing was an overused adjective for Spider-Man, so I wanted to make my own Spider-Man continuity unique. I hope this clears up any confusion. Stay Safe, My Web Army!