Norman Osborn, now wearing a purple silk durag simply sat in his office like a statue. His attention was drawn to videos caught of the Bullet Spider in action, fighting common criminals, stopping robberies and even something as small as helping someone find their cat.
"A very fascinating specimen.", Norman says as he continued to watch, being in genuine surprise at the incredible strength, the speed, the agility. "The next stage in human evolution, playing dress up... I see."
The Founder of the greatest weapon manufacturer nods before pressing a button on his desk. "Doctor Stromm."
["Yes, Mr. Osborn?"]
"It's been long enough, let us begin the human trials.", Norman says with a blank look on his face.
["B-But, sir, we can't splice human DNA with animals just yet. The results from the rats where-"]
"Did I ask? Begin human trials."
Jonah sat at his dinner table as he flipped through the mail he was sent, he sighed as he read through the contents. "Jesus, all these bills I gotta pay. I'll have to call the Landlord and see if she'll extend the deadline."
He slapped the papers on the table as he could hear his mother snoring soundly in her room. Jonah let out an exhausted exhale as he tapped his fingers on the table. "What if I steal the money? Make an entirely new persona n shit... nah, seems like too much work, I also don't want a guilty conscious."
"I need money, fast.", Jonah says to himself quietly. "I could take up a full time position at Amigo's Pizza... but then again I wouldn't have any time to actually relax. Not only that but my schedule would be out of wack for months."
Jonah looked through his phone and actually got a notification from the news app. He clicked it out of curiosity and saw that the Daily Bugle was now a asking for images of the Bullet Spider, each being a two hundred dollars each. "They tend to say that but usually, it's not that."
A Caucasian man long hair and a scruffy beard rolled himself through Oscorp's main entrance, he seemed relatively excited as he rolled his way to the front desk. "Hi there! How may I help you.", the receptionist asked.
"Uh yeah, I signed up for the add about the regrowth of limbs.", the man said as the woman nodded and pulled up something on her monitor.
"Your name is Damian Warner, correct?", she asked as the man, now known as Damian, nodded. "Understood, I'll have one of the scientists bring you to the testing room in a minute."
Like any relatively sane human being, Damian didn't like the idea of being shoved into a room and turned into a lab rat. Then, he felt the stumps that originally had legs before sighing. "Ah! You must be Mr. Warner.", said a bald scientist as he quickly walked up to him and shook his hand. "It's an honor."
"The honors all mine. So, how will this work?", Damian asked as he rolled his chair as Stromm began leading him to an elevator.
"Well, you'll be wearing a device that monitors your vital signs while you are being held in a standard testing room in one of our genetic research labs. Of course you will be provided the proper amenities for your time there of course.", Doctor Stromm says with a slight nervous tone.
"Whatever gives me my legs back, I'm game.", Damian says with a nod. They exited an elevator and turned to one of the labs, where he was soon given a ring-shaped device that wrapped around his wrist.
"This'll only hurt for a moment.", a woman says reassuringly before grabbing a device that clamped onto his shoulder. The device had a canister filled with a bright green bubbling liquid that was soon injected into Warner.
Damian winced only slightly as he could feel the tiny needle pierce his flesh and injected that strange liquid. "So now what?", he asked as the woman left.
["Well, the effects should begin to occur soon. Perhaps an hour maybe", he heard Stromms voice through a speaker in his room. It was just then Damian felt his heart began thumping against his chest, sweat began to pour down his pores as his breathing became labored.
Damian began to groan as he felt a pain growing around his stumps, the groan evolved into a scream that pulled out the primal part of the human. He gripped his chair for dead life as he quickly ripped off his folded pant legs, skin began falling off from the stumps as his stumps slowly grew. A strange carapace growing over his stumps as they began to elongate, that's when he felt it... his legs.
Damian caught his breath as he slowly peeled the leathery covering, revealing his newly grown legs covered in a sort of white mucus. "Hah..."
["Mr. Warner, I'd like to congratulate you on your new legs. How do you feel?"]
"Kind of sure I'm going to pass out at any moment actually."
"Maybe I can work as a garbage man or somethin." Jonah says as he stood atop his apartment building in his Bullet Spider suit, he put on his mask and flipped up his hood before leaping into the air. Shooting out a web rope and swinging from a building and onto the roof of another where he sprinted across and leapt into the air again, diving through the air as he grabbed onto a light pole and swung himself off it.
"I can start work before or after school maybe.", Jonah shook his head as he focused on web swinging. "Man... this shit is awesome!", it took time but Bullet Spider thought he was actually getting better at swinging.
"I put on this suit just to get my mind off of all the bills. But that didn't work in the slightest.", Bullet Spider thinks to himself as he perched atop of a buildings edge. "If I find that flat headed bastard, I can probably snag a few couple thousand dollars. I mean really, who's gonna defend a criminal for shit like that?"
Bullet Spider turned his head to the road, seeing a police car chase after a speeding and roughed up looking car. "I wonder how hard it would be to add a little hook to this waistband?", he says to no one in particular as he leapt from the building, landing on the building across as he sprinted after them, leaping off and swung off with a web rope.
Hours passed and the sun had finally set, clouds darkening as rain droplets began to pour out of them and onto the streets of New York. For those few hours, Damian had tried to walk on his own to some success.
["Mr. Warner, once this trail is over we'll be sure to sign you up for a physical rehabilitation program."]
"Understood.", Damian says with a nod as he started scratching at the back of his neck only to feel... scales, it was just then he began sweating profusely once again. He grabbed his stomach as he began to pulsate.
["Mr. Warner. Your vital signs have spiked! We're sending a medical team down there immediat-"]
Damian threw himself off of his wheel chair as his veins began to pulsate. His muscles ached, his bones creaking at the pain he suddenly felt throughout his entire body. He looked at his fingers only for black claws to suddenly start growing out, blood leaking from his fingers as he let out a scream of agony.
"What... have... you... doNE?!", Damian exclaimed as his pained howls became louder as he grabbed his head, he felt something in his mind, as if something was devouring him. His clothing tore apart as he grew, his skin becoming more and more reptilian as a tail ripped through his pants. His gums felt as if someone had ripped through them, sharp fangs began to grow out as saliva poured out of his maw. His screaming became deeper and more hoarse, before finally letting out a roar as his transformation was completed.
Just at that time, the medical staff arrived only to immediately back away in horror. What was once a human was replaced by a seven foot tall reptilian humanoid with quills growing out of the back of its head and trailing down its spine, his legs had become similar to a quadruped. He now wore the torn remnants of what Damian wore.
"Holy shit-!", the creature roared once hearing any signs of life and leapt at the group, before they could run he dragged them into his room and began ripping through them, devouring their intestines as a metal door slammed shut, trapping him inside as screams of the still living medical staff screamed in horror as they were torn apart, bones snapped and turned into nothing but food.
"So, how is the trail?", Norman asked completely unbothered as Stromm turned to him in complete confusion.
"Th-The test subject had transformed into this... thing, it's like with the rats as I told you!", Doctor Stromm exclaimed as Norman seemed to be pleased by this.
"Oh really?", was all that the said before calmly walking back to the entrance. "You're sure he won't escape right?"
"O-Of course, it's a reinforced metal that would give us enough time to create a cure for him.", Stromm sassy as Norman smirked before walking away. "Sir? Sir!", he looked at the door as bulges began to form.
The sounds of growling was heard as the reinforced door erupted open, the creature slithering out and letting out a horrific roar before grabbing Stromm and slamming him down onto the floor with incredible force. A wheeze escaped Stromms lungs as he laid there.
The lizard let out a roar of pain as it was shot in the leg, then it started grabbing its head as it was bombarded with a spray of bullets from men dressed in what looked like heavily modified riot armor. They waited a moment as the creature had finally stopped screaming and fell to the ground. "Clear.", said one of the men as they slowly approached the corpse.
As the other security got the rest of the scientist out, one of the men poked the body only to see something odd. There was not a single hole in its body, within seconds, the creature plunged its claws into the man and tore him in half. The lizard then hit the head off of one of the others as they began shooting at him again, to which it quickly leapt up onto the ceiling and hissed.
"Up there!", one of the security guards exclaimed as they aimed at the ceiling and began firing once more. The monster roared before leaping off the ceiling and through the glass window, the sound of something heavy colliding with a car was heard shortly after.
Norman Osborn saw this and simply went back to his work, seemingly being blueprints to some kind of suit. "Fascinating."
The reptilian humanoid hissed as it sniffed the air, growling as it jumped from car to car. It couldn't even remember itself on how it even got in the sewers, all it knew is that managed to accomplish it.
This reptilian creature was... confused for a moment, it scratched at its temples as if trying to tear those images out with an angered roar. It let out a growl as it could hear the squeaking of rats nearby, it got up and began stomping off as the sounds of swirling animals and flesh being torn apart echoed through the sewer.
Jonah sat at a lunch table, casually eating a fry as he made sure to avoid eye contact with anybody. He went through article after article about the Maggia Crime family. He let out a sigh as none of it had provided him any information regarding the whereabouts of Hammerhead, not even disclosing if he was in prison or not.
"Hey.", Jonah looked up to see Maya sliding into the seat in front of him. To which he was slightly confused. "I slipped out, it doesn't matter anyways. This is super fucking important."
"Oh really?"
"Yes, I'm being dead serious right now.", Maya says as she kicked his shin to get his attention. "There's a rumor going around about this giant lizard thing living in the sewers."
"Uh huh."
Maya rolled her eyes at this. "Just look it up, there's an article about people going missing and their body parts being shat out of drainage pipes."
Jonah looked at her, his attention fully grasped. "You sure it's s giant lizard though? It could just be some psychopath in the sewers."
"Honestly, could be either but I don't wanna find out. Fuck all of that.", Maya says as Jonah nodded, he knew what the as going to do when school had ended for the day. "Anyways, I feel like a bitch for not leading with this but, how are you lately?"
"What do you mean?", Jonah asked as she just rolled her eyes playfully.
"What do you mean what do I mean? Dude, you look... tired, like all the time now.", Maya says as she rests her head on her hands.
"Eh, I've been stressed but I'm fine.", Jonah says waving this off, the blue haired young woman cocked her head.
"If you say so.", Maya shrugged at this as the bell rang, signaling their time there has come to an end and it was time to move to their final class of that day.
After a grueling and exhausting thirty minutes, Jonah quickly sped walk through the campus and towards the entrance. Looking around before leaping into the air and landing over the fence as he began to take off his backpack, looking around as he entered an alleyway.
Minutes had passed until Bullet Spider leapt out of the alleyway, throwing his backpack to the roof and securing it with a web shot. Jonah pulled out his burner phone, an older flip phone he managed to steal from a dumpster as he stuffed it into his pocket.
Leaping off of the roof with a flip, he quickly transitioned to a web swing as he sped through the streets of Midtown. "Even if it isn't real, you can't fake corpses. I'm just more concerned that I won't be able to get the smell out of this suit."
Bullet Spider landed on the edge of a building, looking down to see a manhole cover in the intersection of them. With an unnoticeable smile on his face, he jumped off and used his webbing to grab the manhole cover. Diving in and slamming it shut once again.
He gagged for a moment as the smell bombarded his heightened senses. "God I wish I was nose blind.", Jonah says as he traversed through the sewer, walking on the walls as he carefully listened for anything abnormal.
As he walked through the sewer, the amount of dead creatures increased in abundance. First it was just half eaten rats, a dog collar with a head still attached, then it went to the human victims. Random civilians, burglars, police. "Okay... maybe it is real. I can't really think of any human that would do shit like this."
It all came ahead when he finally found where it could've possibly exited from, a giant hole where a manhole cover should be. Bullet Spider leapt out of the sewer and grabbed onto a light pole. "Trail ends there... if I was a big fucking lizard, where would I go next for a good meal?"
It didn't take him long at all to figure it out, Bullet Spider zipped through the city. He swung back to Harlem and landed on top of a building overlooking the Harlem Fish market that was across the street with a noticeably open hole in the roof. "There you are."
Jonah backed away before sprinting forward and leaping off of the building and onto the roof of the fish market, missing the hole by a bit before back flipping into it. He stuck to one of the pillars as he looked at the floor, the dirt and claw marks littered the place as blood and bones were scattered. "Looks like I was right.
Bullet Spider looked over to see the garage door, or what was left of it as it was completely demolished as of something ran straight through it. Jonah leapt down and quickly entered the garage, jumping through a hole in the wall as saw another one. "Fucking tore through this place."
He managed to slip through a small gap formed from a collapsed part of the building. That's when he heard it, ferocious growling and more flesh tearing. Bullet Spider looked down through another hole even deeper into the building, leaping down and nearly slipping on more blood. The trail of blood and fish guts led to another garage door, completely unharmed.
Bullet Spider slowly inched his way closer as his claws grew out of his fingers. Using his foot, he opened the door only to see nothing but more flesh, bones and... skin. Jonah felt the dead flesh and narrowed his eyes. "Its shedding... if that's the case, he's gotten bigger, hungrier too."
He immediately silenced himself as he looked around, he could hear movements around him. The mutated human couldn't discern where it was coming from, almost as if he was surrounded by an army of them.
That's when the giant monstrosity bursted through the ground and grabbed his arm, throwing him across the room with incredible force. His right sleeve being torn as Jonah could feel his arm being pulled out it's socket. The Lizard roared as it bursted through the wall, its massive form galloping away as Jonah regained his bearings.
Bullet Spider grabbed his right arm and shoved it right back into its socket. "Ugh, I think I'm gonna throw up.", he rubbed his head before leaping through the hole and swung after the creature.
The Lizard was climbing up a building only to shriek in surprise once it felt something tugging against it. Turning around to see Bullet Spider. "Wall crawlings my gimmick, you fat fucking
gecko!", the Lizard roared in response and leapt across to another building with its arachnid foe still attached.
Bullet Spider shook his head as he was slammed against the wall by its powerful tail before being whipped right off with the amount of force it had. The Lizard had grown since its first mutation, now appearing more monstrous than ever before as it stood at an incredible height of fifteen feet, bone-like quills stuck out from his head and led all the way to the tip of its tail.
The creature sniffed the air and looked down to see cars going about their business, civilians just walking along the sidewalk unaware of the predator watching them. Before it could strike, it was suddenly tackled off the building by Bullet Spider as he clawed at its face with his talons.
Shooting a web rope, Bullet Spider wrapped its legs around the monster before swinging them both through a building. Bursting through wall after wall before Bullet Spider leapt off and punched the Lizard into another building. The arachnid swung in through the hole only to be grabbed by his leg, the Lizard slamming him through windows and throwing him through more walls.
Soon after, Bullet Spider was sent hurdling out of the building and onto another roof, he grabbed his side as sat up. Watching as the Lizard roaring at him and leaping away, running into the distance as he took off his mask, revealing his bruises slowly forming as he laid on his back.
"Ugh... there goes that.", Jonah says as he looks at his right arm, around the now exposed forearm was five punctured in his flesh that leaked blood. "Yeah... that could've gone better... Jesus Christ."
The red eyed brunette bit his lip as he twisted the nozzle on his left web shooter twice. Upon applying pressure, the webbing came out as a spray as he would twist his arm to get all the punctured before stopping. "Eh... it'll have to do."
Doctor Stromm slowly pours a liquid into a vial and placed it into a machine, a loud hissing noise being heard as the machine did its work. "Are you sure this will work?", another, dark skinned scientist says in a sort of disbelieving tone.
"Hopefully, if our research is correct, this should completely purge the reptilian DNA from Mr. Warner.", Stromm says as he looked over at it again. "Then again, there's only one way to test it. His hide is thick, meaning he would need to drink it."
"Oh so you made an anti-Lizard serum?", Bullet Spider's voice caused them to suddenly turn around. "Hand it over... also you should probably get better security, because seriously."
"How did you know we were creating the gene cleanser for it?", the slightly younger scientist says cocking an eyebrow, eyeing him up and down.
"Gene cleanser sounds... stupid.", Bullet Spider says as he began to walk down the wall. The machine let out a ding as a light glowed blue, the arachnid lowered himself and grabbed the gene cleanser and putting it into the pocket of his jeans.
"Doctor Stromm! We've narrowed down the Lizard's location to the Broxx Zoo-", a security guard that had entered looked up to see the arachnid.
"Thanks for the tip.", Bullet Spider says as he turns and crawls back through the vent he came from. The second scientist kept staring at him with disdain.
As the sun had began setting, the Bullet Spider walked out of the subway station in the Bronx. "Thank you D train.", he mutters as he began swinging through the streets once again. It didn't take long for him to locate the zoo, even less to find the Lizard as he saw reptiles crawling away from their exhibit.
"Awh, he went to visit his in laws! How sweet.", Bullet Spider snickered as he landed in front of the exhibit and entered. Immediately feeling the higher temperatures due to his suit. "Considering the heat here, my best bet is to dump this fucker into the water of that polar bear exhibit then force that shit down his throat."
The human mutate stood there as he focused in his surroundings. He could feel something approaching him and just as the Lizard leapt at him to strike, Bullet Spider ducked down and kicked the creature into the air.
Attaching a web rope to its chest, he swung the monstrous reptile against the walls before it sliced away at the webbing and lunged at him again. Just then, he pulled out a Glock 22 from some compartment in his pants and shot it next to the left eye causing it to scream.
Bullet Spider laughed as he ran out of the exhibit and into the cold night air where the lizard leapt out shortly after. It sniffed the air in curiosity as the spider just... vanished, it looked over towards the railing to the polar bear exhibit to see a boot. Tilting its head in confusion, it was suddenly drop kicked into the cold water of the exhibit.
Quickly slipping on his boot, he dove after it and once again drop kicked it. The Lizard roared as it threw him into the wall, leaping at him again and pinning him into the wall by its hand. Rolling up his mask, Jonah's fangs emerged as he bit down so hard on its hand that it let out a scream of pain that could've been heard for miles.
Receiving a quick push kick to its stomach, it was then grabbed by its own throat as Bullet Spider smirked, popping the cap of the gene cleanser and pouring it down its throat. It coughed before picking him up by its tail and throwing him towards the entrance of the cave.
"Don't worry, it doesn't take long for the medicine to kick in.", Bullet Spider says as the Lizard began coughing, grabbing its head before letting out a scream.
It's eyes went from a yellow reptilian color to a more human appearance, the muscle and scales it had began to flake off as it got on its hands. The claws popped off as it's arms began crumbling away, hair slowly growing back as more human features returned. Damian looked at his reptilian legs slowly crumble away into dust.
"There, now that's over.", Bullet Spider says with a smile as he pulled down his mask.
"N-No! Please! No!", Damian crawled towards him with crazed eyes. "Please! I need them back! Just give me another dose! I'll be fine next time-", he was then knocked out.
Bullet Spider shrugged as he picked up Damian. "Addicts, New York's worst enemy.", he threw him over his shoulder before leaping out of the exhibit, swinging out of the zoo as he gagged. "This guy stinks, fuckin hell."
After dropping him off at a hospital, he swung back to where he left his backpack then quickly swung back home, entering through the fire escape as he took off his vest.
"Seriously, where do these guys even come from.", Jonah says as he rubbed his abdomen. He slid his makeshift costume under his bed and looked at his arm. "A random twist of fate. A bug bite turned me into a vigilante hunting down the worlds ugliest Maggia Don or sumthin.", those where the thoughts that came through his head as he tore off the makeshift bandage, seeing his wound almost completely healed.
"If only a future me told me to mind my own business.", Jonah mutters as he looks up at his ceiling, the darkness of his room being next to non existent with his developed eyes.
"I should look into contact lenses."
Yuri looked at Damian in his hospital room with a look of disdain. "It's crazy how all that death and suffering came from just a random army veteran.", another police officer says scratching his chin.
"Before the nurses sedated him, they said he was screaming about losing apart of himself again.", Yuri says a dude went over the notes and witness reports. "Sounds like the guy was at least partially conscious in there."
"Can't really go off of that yet, we need for the guy to wake up first.", her partner says before looking at the image of Bullet Spider on his phone. "What about this Spider-Man?"
"Not sure yet, as far as I can tell our interests align.", Yuri says as she sit down on one of the chairs. "It's in our best interest to keep an eye on him whenever he is out and about."
"Well what should we do until then?"
"Check any purchases for the articles of clothing and the vest he's wearing, it won't take long to find a face and name to match him if it was purchased.", Yuri says as she looks at that same image, just barely.
/End/