Only two days had oassed and the authorities were swamped with reports of criminal activity skyrocketing with the escaped prisoners and inner prison conflicts had turned into various gang wars and some weren't even waiting until dark this time. Right now early that day Octavius having taken leadership of Fiers' criminal enterprises had sent the men to run amok to distract the police and had sent out Gargan, Tombstone and Kraven with their assignments.
Octavius had taken a reluctant Dillon to the Oscorp Power Grid with him wearing a specialised vest that Octavius had built for him. "Are you sure about this Doc? I have been getting by without hassle by staying off the grid and this grid will definitely give me the type of trouble that I don't want plus will it hurt..." Dillon muttered as Octavius put his human hand on Dillon's shoulder in a fatherly way.
"You have nothing to worry about Max; I have made the calculations and with this amplifying your energy abilities you shall absorb the city's power and become so strong that no one can take you down! Besides; don't you want revenge against what Oscorp had done to you? What better revenge than using their own power grid to turn you great?" Octavius told him assuringly and Dillon gulped as he walke dinto the power grid and yelled in pain as he absorbed the electricity.
He was now producing more electricity from his body and his screams of terror became screams of excitement; Octavius smirked as he saw that this was starting to affect the electricity of the city as he looked back at the buildings around them with some street lamps short circuiting. "You were right Doc... I feel amazing... I have been reborn... I shall be Electro: God of Electricity!" Dillon screamed out loud and Octavius made some sort of signal with his arms and this was the cue for Toomes to fly down and picked Octavius up by the shoulders as Octavius then put a special high tech gas mask on.
"Osborn's power grid is helping start the day of the city's downfall and it is going to be his company's creation that ends it! Everything is in place Otto!" Toomes told Octavius as they both grinned; two men wanting to burn Osborn for how they were burned.
Norman had chosen that day for a test on the latest version of OZ on him; he didn't know how much more patient the Vipers would be with him and he wanted to be strong with the city tearing itself apart thanks to Octavius and his gang. Doctor Mendel Stromm another founding scientist of the company strapped Norman into the chamber to be infused with a gas version of OZ. Octavius's data and research were double checked by other scientists and in theory it should work.
The process started and it seemed to be going as planned with Norman feeling his muscles strengthening and the effects of the medicine spliced with OZ making him feel better. However the power started going off and on again and Stromm ended up stopping the process and getting Norman out as he was feeling disoriented.
He ended up feeling a machine short circuiting in his face and he ended up crashing into containment units for mutated earlier versions of OZ; contaminating him.
Peter was at his apartment with the schools in the city deciding to close for safety and he looked guilty at the news reports of the Sinister Six along with criminals openly running amok during the day. Then the electricity started going on and off, looking like it would blow at any point . He thought back to his last communication with Daredevil when he called to say that he was done being Spider-Man and what his mentor said:
"It's your choice Peter; if you feel that you can't go on but I will be here when you change your mind."
It was like he knew that he would have second doubts about his decisions; then to make matters worse he had gotten a phone call from the apologetic doctor from the hospital. "We are sorry Peter but we are having trouble with the hospital equipment with the unstable electrical power and we are afraid that the back up power could blow as well. The conditions of your aunt and other patients are worsening and we need that cure; the final isotope that we need was due to be delivered but unfortunately the delivery truck which includes other medical supplies have been attacked." the doctor told Peter and Peter sighed as he thanked the doctor hanging up.
Things were getting worse out there and now if he didn't do anything then Aunt May and the other patients could die plus all the other innocents caught in the crossfire; but could he as last time he put on that suit... He messed up and put her in that situation in the first place...
But he can't lose her like his Uncle Ben...
Decision made he went to where he put that spare Spider-Man suit and put it in his backpack; he ran outside and to an alleyway where he changed into the suit. He connected the wires in his mask to his phone's playlist and decided to set the mood by having it play Alive by Warbly Jets. He then took a deep breath as he came to the edge of the building and took his leap of faith as he fired his web-shooters with a new supply as he couldn't help himself with continuing to work on his web fluid.
Liz with her parents still at work hoped that they wouldn't call or leave early as she was so grounded if they realised that she was doing this; she was a bit scared that she would repeat the last time and accidentally burn someone but she felt that she had to help out with no one knowing what happened to Spider-Man.
She had called Sally and they met up in an alleyway with Sally having her back turned to Liz as she changed into the suit that Sally put together for her; acting as lookout. "Standing here in an alleyway with my best friend changing behind me... You know that I snuck out here to help you out and after this I hope I can sneak back in..." Sally muttered and Liz yelled that she was done.
"Go get them Firestar!" Sally cheered as Liz activated her fiery form and flew into the sky.
Peter made it to the power grid where he found Dillon messing with the power grid; "Mr electric; you are the only one on Doc Ock's team that I never beat or even heard of before yet so do you have a name?" Peter asked casually as he had to dodge a powerful electric blast fromm Dillon; he was a bit out of practice reacting to his Spider-Sense in a fight.
"I am Electro: god of electricity!" Dillon told Peter as he started firing more blasts at Peter with him doing his best to dodge.
"Really? No mythology I have ever heard has that name in their pantheon..." Peter joked looking to his web-shooters and was concerned that Dillon could short circuit them. Dillon looked like he was getting stronger and weaker at the same time.
Peter looked closely and it looked like he was having trouble taking in all the power that he was aborbing; Peter ended up managing to use Dillon's distracted state to web him up and throw him into the air as he short circuited on himself and Peter put him down.
"Back from vacation; are you?" snarked a voice and Peter looked behind him and saw Ty & Tandy. "We heard how things are going to hell with you no-showing so we have been helping out. Only so much we can do with all those escaped convicts running amok." Tandy explained.
"Well I am back and thanks for your help; working through personal stuff so I don't suppose you can help out as I need to get where this delivery truck has been ambushed." Peter said and gave the street that he looked up where the truck was before being ambushed.
"So you want to go where the new girl is fighting your Scorpion friend?" Ty asked and Peter paused confused but shrugged it off as Ty opened up a portal for them to go through and Peter saw the police keeping civilians back while taking on the criminals that Gargan came with as there was Liz floating about trying to dodge Gargan while shooting fire blasts at him.
"Spider-Man? You're back? I'm a big fan... You can call me Firestar!" Liz said excited as Peter then saw Gargan snarled while Tandy and Ty went to help take care of the criminals.
Peter then began dodging Gargan but then Peter was tackled by Kraven; "Kraven... I must say that I do like the less furred look better..." Peter said feeling the punch of Kraven with his strength making him groan.
Gargan went to go after Peter but Kraven tackled him; "This is my prey Gargan!" Kraven said as Gargan fought back.
"I have a score to settle with that insect!" Gargan ranted back and Peter decided to take advantage of the dissention amongst the ranks as he went and grabbed Gargan's tail using it to pierce slightly at Kraven's back causing him to yell in pain. He pulled it out and punched Kraven to knock him out and Gargan was distracted by Liz throwing fire blasts at him for Peter to punch at his armor and then knock him out.
The two bad guys were thrown into a heap along with Dillon as the crowd started cheering; officers went towards them and Peter went to the truck and pulled out the box with the isotopes but he felt his Spider-Sense as Toomes swooped in and grabbed it. "Come and get it if you want it!" Toomes taunted as Peter felt the officers coming in with the crowd booing them with Liz looking worried while Tandy and Ty took the time to escape through a portal.
"Looks like the Anti-Vigilante Task Force has a sweep of arrests now!" grinned an officer but then there was Jefferson yelling at them all to stand down. "Captain Davis..." ranted the officer.
"Stand down! We have bigger fish to fry!" Jefferson ordered and the officers reluctantly complied. "I don't entirely like it but I think we need you to stop the rest of them!" Jefferson told Peter and Liz as he started web slinging after Toomes and Liz flew after him.
"You certainly acted like a vulture back there Toomes!" Peter yelled after Toomes as he was dodging the web blasts and fire blasts. Peter managed to get close to Toomes and jumped on his back and caused them to crash on top of a building as Peter managed to easily knock him out.
Peter noticed something happening at Oscorp Tower: "Firestar; can you get Toomes to the police and drop this off at a hospital that badly needs this or sick people are going to die? I got some unfinished business with Doc Ock and I think that's where he is!" Peter asked Liz and she nodded as she took the box from Toomes and picked him up.
"Go get him Spidey! I hope we can be partners now!" Liz told Peter as he nodded and web slinged to Oscorp Tower.
Peter climbed up the walls and got in threw a hole in the wall; he started helping lead out people to safety but soon found Octavius with a machine loading what seemed to be another batch of toxin into it. "Osborn was supposed to be in a lab for some sort of test but I went there to find everything destroyed and the corpse of some rando scientist lying around. No one knows where Osborn is Doc and I think he would know how to save his own skin." Tombstone told Octavius.
"Disappointing but it doesn't matter; on top of his building I will dispel this toxin to the city; at least 40% of an 8 million people population shall perish and it will be thanks to the creation of Norman Osborn on top of his own tower..." Octavius said but then noticed Peter where he was hiding. "Mr Lincoln; could you please take care of this spider problem?" Octavius said casually as he left and Peter had to dodge as Tombstone charged at him with a large grin on his face.
"Oh yeah; you loved fighting..." Peter muttered as Tombstone picked him up and started squeezing him and threw him towards some support pillars. Peter groaned as he got up and did his best to dodge and punch when he could trying to web up the damage and Tombstone.
Tombstone ended up getting hit by falling debris and Peter decided to web and throw them at him and some punches got him down. However more and more pillars and the ceilings collapsed right on top of Peter filling him with immense pain...
