Author's Note: I liked this villain better in Spectacular Spider-man so I'm using his backstory from that, just slightly altered. Alright moving right along. I own nothing.

2. Cracked Drive

Piper web swung her way to Stark Tower. Her father's call had sounded urgent. But he'd refused to tell her what was going on. She made it in record time and pulled open a lab window. She shut it behind her and pulled off her mask. She glanced around, it was still so weird to be in her costume when dad was in the building. She was alone in her lab.

"JARVIS, where's dad?" The AI whirred to life

"Your father is in his lab next door." Piper nodded and thanked the AI before heading into the lab next door, resisting the urge to change first. She poked her head in and found him sitting at the main computer console in the lab.

"Dad?" He nodded motioning her into the room. She smiled and stepped inside. He glanced at her and rolled his eyes at her spare costume, still spandex.

"What's up? It better be good, I bailed on MJ and she's gonna be pissed." Tony laughed lightly and nodded.

"You know sometimes I wonder if MJ is Nat's illegitimate kid. She's definitely scary enough to be." Piper laughed as she set her mask down on one of the tables. "But I didn't call you here to question your friends parentage. Grab a seat." Piper pulled up a chair and noticed that Tony was looking much more grim than normal.

"Dad, what's going on?" He sighed and moved slightly to the side. Piper spotted the USB drive she'd found in her Uncle's house. The SHIELD USB that had revealed that her parents weren't scientists but SHEILD agents. With everything that had happened over the past few months she had forgotten. She stared at it then her eyes flicked to the screen. It was black and simply read 'Password:'. She cleared her throat.

"Did you…" She couldn't bring herself to finish. Tony nodded and motioned her closer. She pulled her chair over and sat staring at the screen for a moment. Then she took a deep breath. Tony laid a hand on her shoulder and stood. She caught his wrist. There was a pause for a moment.

"T… Thank you dad." Tony nodded and left the room. Piper took a deep breath and pulled the microphone towards herself. She stared at the screen for a moment.

"Open up." She spoke it into the microphone and the same mechanical voice from Eddie's apartment spoke.

'Voice Print Recognized. Subject Identified. Welcome Piper Parker.' She blinked at the SHEILD logo on the screen. She bypassed the file with her name on it instead clicking on the other file. This one labeled testimony. She paused then clicked on it.

The screen changed and a new batch of files appeared on the screen. Many of them appeared to be copies written of testimonials. She skimmed a few of them, flinching at the descriptions within. Oscorp had been conducting live human experimentation. She hesitated before she clicked on one of the videos. A familiar face made her pause. He was cleaner, his hair neat and his glasses not tinted red. His skin wasn't as pale, and he didn't have the extra limbs but there was no doubt in her mind who that was.

'This is Dr. Otto Octavius. Subdermal armor test one.' He looked nervous as he tightened the restraints on a tall man. He was stripped to the waist, he had short brown hair, nearly shaved to the scalp.

'Subject's name is Flint Marco. Age seventeen.' Piper's eyes widened. 'The subject will be bombarded with irradiated particulates that will build up in his system, creating subdermal armor.' Doctor Octavius paused and someone cleared their throat behind him.

'Problem Dr.?' The doctor shook his head and flicked a switch on the keyboard. A clear partition rose between the control panel and the teenager, good lord he had only been a year older than she was now. Bright light flashed and particulates began to fly around the room. Piper watched wide eyed as the teen, Flint Marco screamed, holes appearing in his skin. Doctor Octavius reached out to turn off the experiment but a hand stopped him.

'Let it finish Octavius.' The teen was screaming as more and more of him seemed to peel off, lost in the swirl of sand. Piper's hand was pressed to her mouth as she watched the teen melt into a pile of sand. Only then was the experiment allowed to stop. Dr. Octavius was shaking as he turned to someone just out of the camera's view.

'What do we do?' The voice sighed.

'We sweep up and try again.' A movement beyond the partition caught Piper's attention and she swore as the pile of sand in the other room reformed into the teen, though it kept dripping sand as it tried to walk forwards and collapsed.

'What did you do to me!? You said it was a simple test!' A third voice echoed from just off camera.

'Hey Sandman. Chill.' Vents opened and the space flooded with what looked like liquid nitrogen. The sandy figure screamed as he froze in place.

'Hmmm a better result than we anticipated but not what we wanted. Put him in cold storage until we can find a use for him. The screen went black. Piper swore as she snatched up her phone. She dialed fast.

Eddie was walking out of the Bugle when his phone rang.

'I've got a spider in my head.' He laughed at the ringtone and answered.

"Hey Pipes. How's things? Whoa slow down. Ok, ok, Stark Tower. Ten minutes got it." Eddie hailed a cab and raced downtown. He arrived quickly and JARVIS directed him to the main lab.

"Jesus fuck." He shook his head at the video Piper had just shown him. "What the hell are we supposed to do with this?" Piper shook her head.

"I don't know. A few months ago I'd say give it to SHEILD, but that's not an option any more." She rewound the video by about a minute. "He mentioned 'Cold Storage'…" Eddie turned to her.

"You have any idea who was on the other side of the camera?" Piper nodded.

"Yeah, one of them anyway. One of them was Norman Osborn. I'd know his voice anywhere but the other one, I'm not sure. I'm having JARVIS run it through the database as we speak but its gonna take time." She shook her head. "If I can find this Cold Storage though…" She trailed off as Eddie voiced her concern.

"What do we do with that information if we find it? Hand it off to your dad? What about Harry? I mean his dad is already missing, well that's what the world thinks anyway." Piper frowned down at the symbol on her chest. She'd told Eddie everything that had happened with the Goblin, she needed an outsiders opinion on the events. He had been floored at just how bad her luck had gotten. How everything had gone so wrong so fast.

"I didn't say we were going to tell anyone, not yet. This stays between the two of us." She pulled the USB out of the computer. "At least for now." Eddie nodded.

"Sure you don't want to pull your team in on this?" Piper shook her head.

"Not yet. They have their own things to do right now." Eddie nodded and ran a hand through his hair.

"Ok, where do we get started?" Piper shook her head.

"I've been digging for buried Labs, like the ones Octavius has been using. Looking for him while I'm at it. We start there." Eddie nodded. He pushed his chair out from the desk.

"On a lighter note MJ got the internship with the Bugle." Piper grinned, it was nice to know that life continued despite the madness.