During Gwen Stacy's first year of college and for an assignment given to her by Nighthawk to do some undercover work; she became an intern under scientist Professor Miles Warren at Alchemax Labs. She was there to investigate and get evidence that Warren was conducting illegal researching and experiments into cloning humans. Thankfully no one really asked questions why a college students studying to be a psychiatrist had decided to intern at a lab.
It was one of the hardest assignments that Gwen had ever had to do for Nighthawk; Warren had started to get a fondness which became creepier and more inappropriate. She didn't know how much more she could take and was thankful when she did discover the secret entrance to his lair where he was doing his more illegal and immortal experiments.
He was working on cloning humans but they were unstable and he tried to fix it by mixing human DNA with animal DNA and even messed with his own genetics to inject himself with jackal DNA. Gwen had snuck into the lair as Nightbird to get the proof and confronted Warren who ended up transforming into a mutated half Jackal form after injecting himself with the rest of his Jackal serum. She never felt more satisfied fighting someone than Warren after all she had to deal with in her undercover role.
Damage Control ended up confiscating his research and equipment which made its way to Tony Stark's possession. He ended up setting up a lab and used Warren's mutated Jackal blood samples to create clones of him that he had built special robotic exoskeleton to keep them stable. So that they could continue the research under him. Especially with contingency project he had set up.
He went down to the lab and saw the ugly green furred jackal hybrid Warren clones at work. "Okay Warren 1; what is the status?" Stark asked facing the lead clone.
"Why is he number 1; I can never understand... I am the real Miles Warren..." snapped Warren 4.
"No I am! I created you all!" retorted Warren 8 and they all started to argue and Stark sighed wondering why must they go through every time that he had to visit.
"I don't care who is real... number 1; what is the status?" demanded Stark as Warren 1 went up to him.
"The Hyperion DNA has synthesised well after we managed to perfect the process... The hardest sample to do and we managed to have it adapt well to the special Adamantium exoskeleton..." Warren 1 told Stark and he was glad that the special exoskeleton he had created with the strongest metal that he could get his hands on was working. The only piece of Vibranium that his family could get a hold of was forever lost in the artic ocean.
He was shown to a special pod with the Hyperion clone inside asleep and Stark grinned. HE had set up this project to clone Hyperion in case he had ever gone rogue or had died and he didn't want the public (and more importantly his company's board) to be afraid with their most powerful protector gone.
"I have thought of something as right now Hyperion has done a runner... I don't want the chance of this replacement to do the same... Scan the brain waves and mind of this piece of plastic goo that used to be a human scientist that we have in study elsewhere... I will arrange for it to be transported. He kind of had a grudge against Hyperion and so could appreciate being the new one..." Stark then ordered.
"Once the specimen is ready; you will allow us to clone and have Gwen back... After what that Goblin and Spider-Man did..." demanded Warren 1 with all the other clones nodding at once.
"You will have your Stacy girl cloned..." Stark promised as he then left as he thought about having a stable Gwen clone could be used as a favour to his little Spider-Man student. If it goes well then maybe he can have the Warrens create a clone of Zarda for his own use but during the process condition it to love him. Maybe even twin clones.
Okay if you want to redo the Jackal story with Gwen Stacy involved then instead of him being a college professor with multiple lairs and labs who managed to crack creating clones and the 90s Clone Saga had it revealed that he wasn't even tenured (though they tried to explain it all by associating him with the High Evolutionary) then I realised that an easy fix would be having her interning at a lab where he worked at. Plus I am not gonna lie; I wanted to have fun by using multiple Jackal clones by having them like the Mauler twins from Invincible where they are both convinced that they are the original deal. Plus while off course evil Hyperions are not rare in Marvel and there was an evil double of him in the original Squadron Supreme comic; Cyborg Hyperion is not really a thing there but there is something related to him that I may have set up in an earlier chapter...
I got a PM message giving an idea for a spin off prequel story but while a full story I don't think I can do; what do you think if I do a spin off story with each chapter being a prequel tale in this universe? Tales of Great Power? Could be a chance to do some parodies or references of certain famous DC stories.
