Volume IV: The Savage Land
This will be the sixth chapter of Volume IV, Peter and Gwen will join Dr. Connors and Vincent Stegron as part of an exploration team to venture into the lost world hidden in Antarctica, a tropical prehistoric land called the Savage Land, joining them in this venture is a Culver University student Barbara "Bobbi" Morse as she's secretly an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. goes by the codename Agent 19, but she's also known as Mockingbird, the team explores the Savage Land facing all sorts of danger, including the self proclaimed ruler of the Savage Land, Sauron and his team of mutates as he sent his forces to capture more slaves for his empire, Spider-Man and Mockingbird will need to team up with a jungle warrior named Ka-Zar and his trusted friend Zabu to rescue the captives and end Sauron's rule once and for all. Meanwhile back home in New York City, Miles and Anya will be left behind to keep the city safe in their teammates absence, Miles is still adjusting to his crush on Tiana as he's still being shy to make a move, he asked Peter for advice before the hero leaves for the Savage Land.
The day is October 4th at Empire State University, time is 3:45 PM as there a protest happening on campus where protesters are shouting "NO MORE MUTANTS!", campus police are here to keep it from getting out of hand, meanwhile at the research lab where Dr. Connors along with Vincent Stegron are still interning high school students with bright minds, Dr. Connors is alone in his office looking at a photo of himself with an Argentine man in a lab coat, whoever he is must be an old friend as they're smiling together, meanwhile Peter and Gwen came into the office to discuss something important with Dr. Connors.
"Dr. Connors, you wanted to see us." Peter said.
"I do, shut the door, I don't the want the interns to listen to what about to share, it's for your ears only." Dr. Connors is being discreet about something.
Peter closes the door behind them as they're alone. "Okay, we're listening. Is everything alright with you? Is it the Lizard?"
"Oh no, this isn't about the Lizard, I'm alright. This is about something else, I've been asked by the University board to take part in an exploration team to Antarctica." Dr. Connor said.
"Antarctica?" Peter is confused.
"Why do they want you to go to an icy continent?" Gwen said.
"Okay, I'll tell you, but this conversation never leaves the room, understand?" Dr. Connors asking for discretion.
"Don't worry, we've alright kept your secret about the Lizard for so long, you can trust us, Doc." Peter assured his trust.
"Very well, the only reason we're heading into Antarctica is cause there's unexplored territory hidden among the ice waiting to be explored, a long lost world." Dr. Connors explains.
"Lost world?" Peter said.
"Yes, about six years ago, there was an exploration team before us, among of them was an Argentine geneticist, Dr. Karl Lykos, he was an old colleague of mine, he and few others were called and sent there to explore unknown territory, they went in but they never came out, after many months have passed, they were presumed dead to the world, never to be heard from again." Dr. Connors said.
"I'm sorry you lost a friend, Doc." Peter said.
"Thank you... now the science committee has asked me to take part in this exploration team alongside scientists from Culver University who are already there waiting for us, I'm allow to bring three students, my assistant Vincent Stegron will be joining, I thought about bringing in older students but since you two know about my condition, I'm asking if you two want to partake in this event, I should warn you both, this is unexplored territory we're about to head into, there's no telling what kinds of danger we'll be face once we go in. So make sure to make your decisions wisely, once we venture into these lands, we may never come out alive." Dr. Connors explains the risks.
"I understand... I'm in." Peter said.
"If you're going Pete, I'm coming too." Gwen said.
"Are you both sure about this? I warned you there could be a lot of risks." Dr. Connors said.
"We know, I'm still coming, Doc." Peter said.
"So am I, we're coming with you." Gwen said.
Dr. Connors smiled. "Thank you both."
"What about you, Doc? Are you sure you're up for this? You got your Lizard condition under control?" Peter said.
"Yeah, I've made enough of the serum to keep it at bay, but that's not my biggest worry. The lizard DNA in me is only growing stronger with time and the serums are losing their effectiveness, I had to improving the formula to keep it working, but time is running out for me." Dr. Connors explains his condition.
"I'm sorry for what you're going through, but you'll find a way to beat this, Doc, don't give up." Peter encourages Dr. Connors.
"Martha and Billy are the reason I'm still fighting, they're my life." Dr. Connors is highly motivated.
"So when is this trip?" Gwen asking.
"Tomorrow morning be at the airfield in Queens 6 AM sharp and travel light, take what you can carry." Dr. Connors said.
"We'll see you tomorrow then, Doc." Peter said.
"Remember, 6 AM sharp. Oh and Mr. Parker, since photography is your day job, bring your camera, might need to photograph whatever we find out there." Dr. Connors reminded them.
"Will do." Peter said.
Gwen walking away while waving. "Bye!"
Peter and Gwen are leaving the lab to see Vincent Stegron supervising the interns as they're making their way to the outside. They're roaming around campus grounds to see an anti-mutant protest happening right now, none of them are pleased to see the hate mutants are receiving as campus police holds up the megaphone and asking the protesters "Attention, dispersed the protest immediately!", campus police intervened to dispersed the protest peacefully without any violence, they kept on walking through till they made it to the parking lot where their bike is parked, they're still processing everything that has happened recently in the past week concerning mutants.
"Can't believe this is still happening, this is the fourth protest this week." Gwen isn't pleased.
"I know, since mutants have been made public to the world, anti-mutant activities have risen at an extraordinary rate in the past week, though there are some people out there who don't share anti-mutant sentiments." Peter said.
"Have you heard from your friends, the X-Men?" Gwen said.
"I called them a couple days ago, even the students at that school in Upstate New York are having a hard time, Charles Xavier is doing everything he can to show the people that mutants are human beings just like them, trying to establish peace, but it hasn't been an easy road for them." Peter said.
"It's not right, all the bad treatment mutants had to enduring." Gwen said.
"I know, it isn't right, but we can't give up on hope, change is possible, it takes time, maybe one day there will be peace for all mutants." Peter said.
Gwen smiled. "I know change is possible, you're a great example of that change the world has already went through."
Peter gave her a warm smile upon hearing that. "You know, MJ is still at work and Ms. Lion is out with the dog walker."
Gwen smiled with the look. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Peter smiled. "Let's go."
Peter and Gwen hopped on the motorcycle and puts on their helmets as they're about to head back home to be alone together.
Around 4:01 PM at Brooklyn Visions Academy Miles, Ganke, and Danika are walking out on campus to head out around the neighborhood, Ganke and Danika are locking arms with each other as Miles could tell that they're getting quite serious in their relationship, something he hasn't done yet, he then spotted his new friend Tiana speaking with some girls she socialized with, Miles has formed a crush on the new girl since he met her.
"Hey, there's the new girl you like, why not ask her to hang out with us?" Danika suggested.
"Like on a double date?" Miles is being shy.
"Yeah." Danika said.
"I don't know." Miles still shy.
"What's the problem, Miles?" Ganke said.
"I... am not good with girls." Miles admits his luck.
"Miles, you don't have to ask her to be your girlfriend, just ask her out, don't be afraid." Danika said.
Miles sighed calmly. "Okay... here goes nothing."
Miles is walking towards Tiana while Ganke and Danika stayed behind and watch.
"10 bucks says he fails." Danika betting against Miles.
"Betting on a friend? That's cold... you're on!" Ganke smiles as he takes the bet.
Miles walked up to Tiana speaking with her new friends as she spotted him.
"Oh hey Miles." Tiana being friendly.
"Hi... Ah..." Miles still shy around girls as Tiana is waiting for him to say something. "... I... just want to say hi."
"Well, okay, see ya." Tiana said walking away.
Ganke and Danika sees that Miles blew it as Tiana is walking away.
Danika smiled and has her hand out. "Pay up."
Ganke rolled his eyes as he hands Danika 10 bucks, she won the bet as Miles is heading back to his friends disappointed he screwed things up with Tiana.
"You okay?" Ganke asking his friend.
"I messed up, didn't I?" Miles felt embarrassed.
Ganke pats Miles's back for comfort. "It's okay Miles, you'll get the hang of it."
"So care to go the Foam Party?" Danika said.
"Sure, you coming Miles?" Ganke asking.
"Nah, I got someplace else to be." Miles said.
"Okay, I'll see you later." Ganke said before leaving with Danika.
"Bye Ganke." Miles waved to his friend.
Ganke and Danika are leaving for the Foam Party on their date as Anya is coming out of the school and walks up next to Miles, she could tell something is up with him.
"Everything okay?" Anya asking.
"Yeah, I... tired asking Tiana out." Miles said.
"Oh, so you and her..." Anya is surprised.
"No, at least not yet, I tried to ask her, but... I blew it." Miles felt embarrassed.
"Why? What happened?" Anya is curious.
"I'm... not great with girls." Miles admits his flaws.
"Seriously? You? You fought supervillains on a daily basis and you're telling me you can't ask any girl out?" Anya teasing.
"Don't make fun, fighting bad guys is easy compared to dating." Miles said.
"Okay, okay, no need to feel embarrassed if you're not great at picking up a date." Anya then thought of something that could work. "Hey, why not ask Peter?"
"Peter?" Miles is confused.
"Yeah, he's pretty good at dating and attracting chicks, why not ask him for some advice?" Anya suggested.
"Huh? That might not be such a bad idea. Let's go to the Spider-Cave and see if anyone is around." Miles said.
"I tried calling Peter and Gwen, neither of them are answering, I wonder what those two are doing in their free time?" Anya walking beside Miles.
At the same time in Lower East Side, at the apartment Peter and Gwen are both kissing passionately on the couch next to their phones with missed calls from Anya as they're enjoying their moments in private without anyone around, Gwen is laying on Peter as he's getting up and sitting down with Gwen sitting opposite on his lap, both of them are still kissing as Gwen is pulling up his white t-shirt and tossing it aside, Peter is kissing Gwen's neck as she's smiling, he got his hands on her hips as he's about to pull up her top, unknown to either of them, the knob on the door is opening up as Mary Jane is entering with her pet Ms. Lion.
"Hey, I'm home..." Mary Jane then looks and quickly looks away. "OH GOD!"
Gwen quickly got off Peter and her top is partially pulled up only exposing her belly button as Peter is getting back up on his feet and picking up his t-shirt, he quickly puts it back on as both of them felt embarrassed Mary Jane had to catch them making out.
"MJ... we're sorry, we didn't know you'd come home sooner." Peter still surprised and embarrassed.
"I got off work earlier today, picked up Ms. Lion, I'm sorry I came in at a bad time. I can come back another time." Mary Jane also felt embarrassed.
"No, it's okay, you don't have to go, this is your home too MJ, we're sorry you had to see all this." Peter apologize.
"Peter and I just wanted some moments to ourselves, we hardly had any since you and Ms. Lion moved in, we wanted to make the most of it while we can." Gwen also apologize.
"I understand, I'm sorry I forgot to tell you I was leaving work early." Mary Jane said.
"It's okay MJ, at least you'll have the place all to yourself very soon." Peter said.
"What do you mean?" Mary Jane said.
"Pete and I have been asked by Dr. Connors to join this exploration team, we're leaving for Antarctica tomorrow morning." Gwen said.
"Antarctica? What could you possibly explore out there in the land of the penguins?" Mary Jane said.
"Some kind of long lost world hidden deep in the continent, apparently Dr. Connors has been asked to take part in the exploration, we're tagging along just in case danger occurs." Peter said.
"What kinds of danger are we talking about?" Mary Jane said.
"We don't know yet, all we know is that the previous team that went in six years ago never came back alive, not to mention we gotta keep an eye on Dr. Connors in case the Lizard condition occurs." Peter said.
"Makes sense, at least they're lucky to have two heroes joining them for protection, even if they don't know it." Mary Jane said.
"Hopefully nothing bad will happen, but in case it does, we'll be ready." Gwen said.
"Well, I'll wish you both luck on this trip, take care of each other." Mary Jane said.
"Always do." Gwen smiled.
"Count on it." Peter smiled.
All of sudden there was ping from the phone on the stood next to the couch, Peter picked up his phone to see that he's had some missed calls from Anya Corazon, he then checks the text to see that she and Miles are heading to the Spider-Cave.
"It's Anya, she and Miles are going to meet us at the Spider-Cave. We should head out." Peter said.
"If we're going to head out of town for a few days, we'll need them to keep the city safe in our absence." Gwen said.
Peter and Gwen are leaving the apartment while Mary Jane and Ms. Lion are staying behind as she felt embarrassed interrupting their intimate moment.
Time is 4:47 PM at the Spider-Cave in Roosevelt Island, coming riding through the tunnel is Peter and Gwen on the motorcycle as they've finally arrived at their home base to see Anya's Vespa parked inside, Anya is in her workout clothes practicing Wing Chun on the dummy while Miles is still sitting around looking at the phone thinking of whether to call Tiana or not, Anya and Miles spotted their teammates getting off the bike.
"Finally you came, I've been calling you both earlier." Anya said.
"Sorry we didn't call back, we were... busy." Peter said.
"Busy with what?" Miles is curious.
Peter and Gwen aren't saying anything as what they've tried to do earlier is private as Anya got a sense what they were up to.
"Oh... you both were..." Anya said.
"What?" Gwen said.
"Nothing, I had no idea you two were..." Anya said.
"Why would you know?" Gwen said.
"Know what?" Miles has no idea what they're talking about as Anya whispers into his ear, his eyes widen upon hearing it. "Oh wow, you guys were..."
"Okay yes, we were, but MJ came home early and interrupted our moment, it's now out in the open, let's not make a big deal out of it!" Peter confirmed it.
"Kay, sorry I asked, what you two do in private is your business." Miles said.
"Okay, now that we're doing explaining it, we got something to tell you." Peter said.
"We're listening." Anya said.
"Gwen and I are going on a trip and we'll be out of town for a few days, maybe more, so we need you both to keep an eye on the city while we're gone." Peter said.
"Are you both up to it?" Gwen said.
"Sure, it's not the first time I've taken care of the city while you two were on vacation." Miles is confident.
"But you did let a mobster escape under your nose." Anya smiled.
"Thanks for reminding me." Miles isn't amused.
"I'm sure you both will do fine together." Gwen smiled.
"Thanks for having faith in us." Anya said.
"Always." Gwen said.
Gwen and Anya are talking as Miles sees Peter going up to the supercomputer to check on anything happening in the city that require their presence, Miles figured this is the right moment to talk with Peter about relationships.
"Hey Pete, can I ask you something?" Miles said
"Sure, anything?" Peter said.
"You've dated girls before, other than Gwen, right?" Miles said.
"Yeah, back in high school, why? You got someone special?" Peter smiled as he's curious.
"Her name is Tiana, she's new at my school." Miles is a bit shy.
"Is she cute?" Peter smiled.
"She's kind and smart." Miles said.
"And cute?" Peter teasing.
Miles smiled and sighed. "Yeah, she's cute."
Peter smiled. "Way to go, Miles, I'm happy for you."
"Yeah, that's the problem, I'm... not very good with girls." Miles admits his flaws.
"Oh, I see." Peter is stunned.
"You got a lot of luck in attracting chicks, right?" Miles said.
"Too much luck unfortunately." Peter said.
"You got any advice for me?" Miles asking.
"Look Miles, it's okay if you're not used to dating, even back then I wasn't quite the chick magnet I am now, I was just a regular wallflower at my old school." Peter told his past.
"You? A wallflower? Get out of here!" Miles smiled.
"It's true, they called me Midtown High's Only Professional Wallflower, I was just your average science nerd being bullied, even I had a hard time fitting in among my classmates and the popular girls wouldn't take interests in me, that was until I got bitten by a spider and my whole life changed after that." Peter explained.
"So you've started dating because you became Spider-Man?" Miles said.
"No, the point is, being Spider-Man and having powers didn't completely change me, it just help me gained confidence in myself and eventually other girls started seeing me differently, but I'm still the same science nerd with a hobby in photography." Peter said.
"Hmm, I see." Miles said.
"Listen, if you want to get a girl, just have confidence and be yourself, if Tiana likes you, then it'll happen." Peter gave some advice.
Miles smiled. "Okay, thank you Peter."
"Anytime and good luck." Peter smiled.
Peter got back to checking on the computer as Miles is walking away thinking about everything Peter told him about picking up chicks, he just needed to be himself when around girls and have confidence, but he's still new to this as he wonders if he'll overcome this shyness when he meets Tiana again, but he's going to try as he wants to be more than just a friend to her.
The day is October 5th as a charter plane has already left New York as it's made it way down south towards South America, making a fuel stop at Caracas, Venezuela, then makes another stop at Buenos Aires, Argentina, then flying all the way to Antartica itself, many hours later a charter plane touched down on a runway, the plane finally arrived at it's destination as the hatch is opening up and Dr. Connors along with Vincent Stegron are getting off, Peter and Gwen are getting off too as they see some scientists here who are also part of the exploration team, they're from Culver University, among them is a 22 year old blond hair woman with glasses standing at 5' 9", she's a doctoral student studying biology, she's eyeballing Peter and Gwen for some reason.
"Greeting Dr. Curtis Connors, we've been expecting you, my name is Dr. Ted Sallis, this is my colleague Dr. Paul Allen, and this is our student joining us on this trip, Ms. Barbara Morse." Ted Sallis introducing himself and his team.
"Just call me Bobbi." Bobbi said.
"Nice to meet you all, this my assistant, Vincent Stegron, and these are my student, Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy." Dr. Connors introduces his team.
"Welcome to Antarctica, let's get going, the chopper is waiting for us." Ted Sallis walks to the chopper.
The whole exploration team followed the scientist as they're boarding the helicopter, sometime later the helicopter is flying over the icy frozen lands of Antartica as Peter and Gwen are looking out to see penguins roaming around the lands, they continue the journey in the air until about 30 minutes later they're about to arrive at a huge mountains surrounding layers of clouds, the helicopter is hovering high up above the clouds as everyone looks out the windows and got to see absolutely nothing, the missing land must be deep below.
"This is it, our destination is down there." Ted Sallis pointing out.
"So the lost world we're searching for is down there, deep within the clouds?" Peter got curious.
"That's correct, now I should warn everyone, there's no telling what we're about find down below, there could be danger. If any of you want to back out of this trip, now is the time." Ted Sallis asking the team if they want to back away.
Everyone on the exploration team are showing signs of backing out of this trip.
"Looks like we're all in." Dr. Connors said.
"Alright, take us down pilot." Ted Sallis said.
"We're going in."
The pilot lowers the helicopter down steady through the clouds in the mountains surrounding a massive land, the windows are cover in clouds as no one can see anything, the pilot is having a hard time navigating through the clouds as he does his best to stay focus and not crash into anything, everyone is getting a bit worried as none of them knows what could happen, the pilot does his best to make it through until they finally came out of the clouds, everyone are relieved that they've made it through safely as they look out the windows to see, a land hidden deep within Antartica, but this place isn't snowy like the rest of the continent, it's filled with all sorts of plant life and has a number of volcanoes, the land looks prehistoric compare to the rest of the world.
"Whoa!" Peter and Gwen are surprised together.
"I'll be damned." Dr. Connor is also surprised.
The helicopter found some open space near the trees to land on, eventually the chopper touched down, everyone got off and started unloading the baggage, they felt the temperature around here, the climate here is too warm compared to the rest of the continent, which is unusual, everyone is still wearing winter gear as none of them were expecting to be in warmer climates on their exploration, Bobbi is the first one to feel all the heat down here.
"Wow, it's quite warm here." Bobbi felt the heat.
"Very warm, how is this possible?" Paul Allen said.
"I don't know, the rest of Antartica is freezing while in here is all warm, this defies explanation." Dr. Connors said.
"I don't know about you, but I don't plan to sweat myself in my coat." Bobbi said.
"Good idea, let's change into regular clothes, makes venturing around her easier without having to hydrate ourselves." Dr. Connors suggested.
"Okay, now that you're all done picking up your stuff, it's time for me to head on back, I'll be back in a couple of days, be sure to leave out the beacon and I'll come pick you up, if there's an emergency, use the satellite phone and I'll come as fast as I can."
"We understand, thank you for the ride." Ted Sallis said.
"Good luck."
The pilot hops back into his helicopter and takes off from the ground leaving the exploration team behind as each of them are changing out of their winter wears into something suited for the warmer climates here, unknown to anyone hidden nearby among the tree is a man along with some kind of beast as they see outsiders have come to the Savage Land, meanwhile Peter and Gwen found a place for themselves to change alone, inside the backpack Peter brought his Spider-Man suit just in case, Gwen also brought her suit with her on the trip as the two are thinking about New York and their friends managing to protect it by themselves.
"How'd you think Miles and Anya are doing back home?" Gwen is curious.
"I'm sure they got this." Peter has faith in those two.
The time is 5:30 PM back in New York City an armored car has been ambushed as many civilians are watching Kid Arachnid and Spider-Girl fighting against Grizzly and Kangaroo are robbing the armored car, Spider-Girl is swinging in the air as Kangaroo is hopping up in the air for a drop kick, Spider-Girl got kicked and fell down as Grizzly caught her and started giving her a strong bear hug, crushing her to death, Spider-Girl is having trouble breaking free and started to blackout.
"Time to go to sleep, forever." Grizzly squeezing the hero.
Spider-Girl resorted to break free by any means necessary, she then raise her foot backwards and swings her foot in for a kick to the groin, Grizzly's eyes widen as he lost his focus from the all the pain he's feeling, he loosen his arms and Spider-Girl uses her strength to break herself free and jumped away from Grizzly as she's still feels the pain in her bones from being almost crushed, Grizzly still feels the pain in his groin as Kangaroos jumped next to him, Kid Arachnid swings down next to Spider-Girl.
"Careful Spider-Girl, that bear ain't so cuddly." Kid Arachnid jokes.
"So I've noticed... by the way, have you figured it out yet?" Spider-Girl said.
"Figured out what?" Kid Arachnid said.
"How to ask her out?" Spider-Girl said.
"Are we seriously talking about this? This really ain't a good time." Kid Arachnid is surprised.
"When it is ever going to be a good time? Hey Jackie Legs." Spider-Girl asking Kangaroo.
"Huh?" Kangaroo said.
"Do you think he should just ask her out?" Spider-Girl said.
"What?" Kangaroo is confused.
"Are you seriously asking a supervillain for relationship advice?" Kid Arachnid said.
Grizzly recovers from his pain and growls in anger, he charges in with his claws out to strike as the two heroes split up before he could land a cut, Kangaroo hops up and joins in on the fun, he tries to drop kick Spider-Girl again but the hero performed a backflip and dodged his attack, she the fired a couple of webbing past the supervillain and pulls them hard to launch herself in for a slingshot kick, Kangaroo got hit pretty hard as he crashed himself against a car nearby, he's down for the count.
"Okay, he's down. Are you still figuring it out?" Spider-Girl said.
Kid Arachnid dodging Grizzly's attacks. "I'm a little busy to think about anything!"
"Stay still, damnit!" Grizzly still attacking with his claws until it managed to scratch Kid Arachnid's mask.
"Ah... okay, that is it!" Kid Arachnid got ticked off.
Kid Arachnid charges up his fist with venom energy as he strikes back with a strong venom punch and sent Grizzly flying towards Kangaroo getting back up as the two villains collided together and both got knocked out cold. Spider-Girl and Kid Arachnid high fived each other after defeating the bad guys and the NYPD moved in to arrest them.
"Now that we're done fighting, you want to give her a call?" Spider-Girl teasing.
Kid Arachnid said nothing as he fired a line and swings away as Spider-Girl smiled, he still being shy about this whole relationship phase he's dealing with as Spider-Girl fired off a line and swings after him on patrol.
At the same time back in the Savage Land, the exploration team are still venturing through the jungles leaving trail markers on the trees to mark their way back to the spot they came from, everyone is dressed up in light clothing, Peter wearing a black t-shirt and blue jeans while Gwen is in a white tank top with blue jeans, Dr. Connors is looking around at all the fauna this land has to offer, it's unlike any in the world, Bobbi is in a red tank top as she's hitting her arms from the bug bites she's experiencing along with other.
Bobbi sighed displeased. "If I had know I was going somewhere tropical, I'd bring bug repellent, these mosquitoes are killing me."
"Amazing, never seen plants like these before anywhere, this all seems prehistoric." Dr. Connors said.
"Like how prehistoric?" Vincent Stegron said.
"Like Ice Age or possibly Cretaceous." Dr. Connors said.
All of a sudden they heard a loud moan sound from a distance.
"What was that?" Gwen said.
"I don't know, didn't sound like a flock of penguins." Peter said.
"I think it came from over there." Bobbi points the way.
"Okay, let's approach carefully, no telling what we're about to find." Dr. Connors said.
The group venture through the jungle to find the source of that sound, but they remained vigilant as they have no idea what they're about to find out here, they kept on going through the jungles until they made it out to open land, all of them are stunned upon witnessing something they never expected to see, a living brachiosaurus eating branches and leaves off a tree, but that's not all they even see a couple of brachiosauruses walking together along with a herd of stegosauruses drinking out of the lake, a herd of parasaurolophus running together across open land, and the pteranodons flying around in the skies, they're actually seeing living breathing dinosaurs here in the flesh.
"Oh my..." Dr. Connors is stunned.
"Holy cow." Peter is stunned.
"This is unbelievable, are you all seeing what I'm seeing or is it just me?" Vincent Stegron said.
"No, we're all seeing it, it's very real." Ted Sallis said.
"Amazing, it's like we're all in a Jurassic Park movie." Peter said.
"How is this possible? All dinosaurs gone extinct about 65 million years ago." Paul Allen said.
"Not these ones apparently." Dr. Connors said.
"Wow, they do move in herds, this is incredible, let's take a closer look." Vincent Stegron is itching to move in closer.
"Stegron, don't! We can't just approach these creatures carelessly." Dr. Connors said.
"Why not? Brachios and Stegos aren't carnivores." Vincent Stegron said.
"That maybe true, but doesn't mean they can't be dangerous, if they feel provoked they'll defend themselves from anything they perceived as a threat. So for all our safety, let's keep a safe distance." Dr. Connors said.
"Alright, this here seems to be a suitable place to settle down, let's set up camp." Ted Sallis said.
The exploration team decided to settle here near the jungle keeping the safe distance away from any dinosaurs roaming around these lands, Peter is pulling out his camera, he roams around still trying to keep his distance and aiming his camera, he took a few snaps of some stegosauruses and brachiosauruses, he finished taking some shots as he looks around and gets a sense that he's being watched but not sure by who.
"Peter, come on, help us out!" Dr. Connors still at the camp site.
"Coming!" Peter as he walks back.
Peter is heading back to the camp site after getting the shots of the dinosaurs, but his intuition about being watched was correct as from a far distance a couple of natives on pteranodons are watching outsiders trespassing onto their lands as they've ordered their rides to fly away and heading back to their home. About 30 minutes later, the exploration team are almost done setting up tents to make camp here as Peter and Gwen finished setting up theirs as they both worked up quite a sweat from the work as Peter grabbed a water bottle and took a drink before handing it to Gwen for her to drink before splashing some on herself to cool down, Peter is looking upon Gwen watering herself as he bra is becoming visible through her tank top.
"Can't believe that it's hot down here." Gwen is cooling herself down.
"Yeah well, we are in an unknown lands surrounded by volcanoes." Peter feeling the heat.
Gwen is looking around to see a waterfall not too far from the camp deep within the jungle as she got an idea.
"I don't know about you, Pete, but I could go for a swim." Gwen smiled.
Peter looks to the waterfall before looking back at Gwen with a smile. "Let's go then."
"Whoa! Where do you two think you're going?" Ted Sallis asking the couple.
"Just heading over there to the waterfall for a swim, we'll be back soon." Peter assured the team.
Dr. Connors sighed. "Okay, but don't stay out too long and be back soon, there's no telling what else is out here."
"Sure, if we run into a T-Rex or a velociraptor, we'll let you know, be back soon." Peter waved to the team before walking away with Gwen.
Dr. Connors sighed. "Wonderful, now I'm really worried."
As Peter and Gwen ventured back into the jungle and the rest of the team are setting up camp, Dr. Connors is getting that strange feeling in his right side that indicates that the Lizard condition is happening again, he looks around to see everyone is busy setting up as he slowly walks away without attracting any attention to himself, he made his way behind some bushes as he can feel the mutation happening to his right limb starting to take shape, he pulls out a syringe full of the suppressant used to suppress the Lizard DNA inside to keep himself human, he quick injected it into his right limb as it's doing it's work and his condition is starting to disappear for a time, Dr. Connor is still human and no one caught him in the act.
Dr. Connors sighed calmly and felt relieved. "That was close."
"Dr. Connors, where are you?!" Vincent Stegron calling out.
"I'm coming!" Dr. Connors said.
Dr. Connors is heading back to camp after injecting the suppressant and he was fortunate that he didn't turn himself into the Lizard on this trip. Meanwhile elsewhere far out from camp, Peter and Gwen are still making their way through the jungle as they can hear loud sounds of water pouring down and follows it to it's source, eventually they made it to the waterfall and a large body of water around it, Peter and Gwen smiled upon finding a source of water to drink and to cool down, Peter came up close and picked up some water for him to drink up to test out.
"Well?" Gwen is curious.
Peter finished tasting the water. "Ah! It's cool and it's drinkable."
"Perfect, let's swim." Gwen smiled.
"What are you suggesting? Skinny dipping?" Peter smiled.
"Actually, I got something else in mind, wait here." Gwen is walking away.
"For what?" Peter said.
"I'm going to go change, no peeking." Gwen smiled.
"No peeking? Come on, it's nothing I haven't seen before, more than once." Peter smiled.
"True, but I got something for this, a new swimsuit I bought while we stopped in Buenos Aires, so don't look." Gwen is walking behind some bushes.
"Fine, not looking." Peter rolled his eyes.
Gwen is hiding behind some bushes as she's stripping out of her clothes while Peter isn't even looking, he looks at the waterfall and then looks upon himself in sweaty clothes as he decides that he needs to cool down too, he puts his camera aside and started stripping out his clothes, he takes off shoes and pulls up his shirt, then he strips out of his jeans and he's wearing nothing but a black boxer brief as he's still waiting for Gwen to come out in her new swimsuit.
"Are you done?" Peter is waiting.
"Almost, don't look." Gwen said.
"Not looking." Peter still looking away.
Gwen is coming out of hiding. "Okay, you can turn around."
Peter turns back and became stunned to see Gwen Stacy in a red strapless bikini, she's all stunning and beautiful as she's showing off all her assets.
"Well? How do I look?" Gwen showing herself off.
Peter smiled. "Like a supermodel."
Gwen blushed and smiled as she looks at the waterfall, then she looks back at Peter's camera next to his clothes, she got an idea.
"Grab your camera." Gwen smiled.
"What?" Peter is confused.
"I want you to take some shots of me, for our private collection." Gwen said.
Peter smiled as he likes where Gwen is going with this, he picked up his camera while Gwen is careful stepping on some stones near the waterfall where the water pours down to the bottom, Peter is following Gwen to the waterfall standing in front of it as she's posing with her left hand behind her head and her right hand on her right hip, Peter smiled as he took a picture of Gwen posing at the waterfall, she then does more poses as Peter snaps more photos of Gwen modeling out here in the wild. Peter finished snapping photos as Gwen stopped posing, she jumps into the water for a swim, Peter got the right idea as he sets his camera aside and jumps in for a swim, both of them are swimming underwater letting all the cold water cool them down, eventually they both came up to the surface for some air as their hairs are all wet.
"Ah, this feels great." Peter felt cool by the water.
Gwen smiled as she splashes some water upon Peter's face as he got splashed by surprise, he smiled and splashes some water back to Gwen as she's laughing, she then swims away to the waterfall as Peter is swimming after her, she made her way behind the waterfall as Peter finally caught up to her and they rolled on the ground together laughing, Gwen is laying on Peter's chest while Peter is laying on his back with Gwen in his arms.
"Gotcha." Peter smiled.
Gwen smiled as she looks upon Peter's eyes as he looks back at her with that feeling of passion, Gwen leans in closer and kisses Peter on the lips, they continue to kiss as Peter still has his hands on her back, he made his way to the clasp of her bikini, Gwen then stopped kissing as she stopped Peter, she raised herself up and put her own hands behind her back, she unclasp her bikini and tossed it aside leaving her topless in his presence, she lean back and kisses Peter again passionately, the two decided to stay here for a bit and enjoy this moment to themselves while they can.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the Savage Land, a couple of pteranodons carrying riders came flying in the air heading towards a citadel surrounded by walls of stones in the middle of the huge lake with a bridge connecting to the mainland, the pteranodons landed down and the riders got off to see their citadel surrounded by their forces and a number of slaves chained up and forced to work on a statue of what appears to be a humanoid pteranodon, coming towards the riders is a mutate called Brainchild as they relay some news to him about outsiders trespassing on their lands, Brainchild heads on back to the citadel ignoring all the suffering the natives here are enduring, Brainchild is making his way inside to the throne where three more mutates are assembled, Vertigo, Barbarus, and Amphibius, all three standing next to someone sitting on the throne as Brainchild kneels before him.
"Brainchild, I trust you have some news." Sauron not seen behind the chair.
"My lord, outsiders have trespassed into our lands." Brainchild relays the news.
"Huh, interesting, I was hoping your scouts have found that rebel Ka-Zar, that fool still stirs up trouble." Sauron said.
"I don't see why you should concern yourself with him, he's only one man and you already conquered this land." Vertigo said.
"I've worked too hard to build an empire here thanks to the slaves we've captured, I will not have everything undone because we've let one man roam around carelessly, he must be eliminated before it ever happens, as for these outsiders, they'll make quite an addition to the slave force." Sauron said.
"We shall send a squad to fetch them for you." Brainchild said.
"No, it's been a while since I've been in action, perhaps it's time for me to join in on the fun. But first things first, Vertigo, your hand." Sauron still in his chair extending his green hand.
Vertigo complied and gave her master her hand as Sauron gripped it and started to drain little of her life energy out of the mutate, he then lets go and Vertigo is still a bit weakened from the drain as Sauron stands up and felt reenergized, Sauron shows his full form, he's a green humanoid pteranodon with intelligences and the ability to drain life force by skin contact, he is the ruler of the Savage Land.
"Let's go get some slaves." Sauron said.
About an hour later, it's dark in the Savage Land, back at the camp site, the team have already set up a lantern to shine some light and gathered around talking about their discovery, just returning to camp are Peter and Gwen as they're both happy together after their intimate moment they've shared at the waterfall, the group spotted their companions coming back after being gone for two hours for some reason.
"Well, you both took your sweet time." Bobbi smiled.
"Yeah, you could say that." Peter smiled as he turns to Gwen.
"I'm glad that you're both okay, was getting worried that something might've happened to you." Dr. Connors said.
"So what are you all discussing?" Gwen said sitting down.
"We were just talking about our theories on these dinosaurs." Ted Sallis said.
"And what's your concussion?" Peter sitting down next to Gwen.
"From what we can gather so far, it seems like these dinosaurs have been here longer, maybe even before the great extinction that wiped out most of the dinosaurs population 65 million years ago." Dr. Connors told the theory.
"And somehow these dinosaurs survived, it is still unknown how." Vincent Stegron said.
"Maybe because this part of the world is isolated from the rest and somehow it must've shield these lands and every living thing in it from the global extinction, enabling them to keep on living in peace." Ted Sallis said.
"I guess it's true like it said in Jurassic Park, life finds a way." Peter quoting Jurassic Park.
Dr. Connors chuckles. "Yeah, I like that movie too."
"Well, if you're all done talking Jurassic Park, I'm going to the waterfall to clean myself, I feel dirty." Bobbi Morse gets up and walks away
"Okay, take care Mr. Morse." Ted Sallis said.
"I'm starving." Peter felt hungry.
"Yeah, me too." Gwen is also hungry.
"Got anything to eat?" Peter asking the group.
"Just have some energy bars, we can't be cooking anything out here in the open without attracting any unwanted attention." Dr. Connors suggested.
Ted Sallis picked through the bag and handed a couple of energy bars to Peter and Gwen for them to eat for energy, Vincent Stegron is looking at a distance to see the stegosauruses making rest for the night near some trees as he's still got that itch for curiosity. Meanwhile far away from camp, near the waterfall some clothes are put aside on some rock as Bobbi Morse is underneath the waterfall completely naked, showering and cleaning herself off. Unknown to her, hiding behind some trees is what appears to be a man with a beast as they can see what appears to be a human female washing herself, Bobbi has her eyes closes rising her hair til she opens them up again and took a peek out of the water while covering parts of herself, she sees absolutely nothing out there in the jungle, she had a sense someone was watching her.
(Later)
About two hours later, the camp went dark as everyone are in their tents sleeping, Peter and Gwen are sharing a tent together and sleeping next to each other, meanwhile in one of the small tent, Vincent Stegron is resting on the ground until he opens up his eyes, he quietly gets out of the tent to see that everyone is asleep except for him. He quietly moves around without making some noise and waking the group up, he looks through his binoculars to see a herd of stegosauruses all sleeping together for the night, he knows that he's been told by Dr. Connors to keep his distance from any dinosaurs, but he can't help it as he ventures on ahead from camp.
The heard of stegosauruses are still asleep as Vincent Stegron is approaching them to see these creatures up close and personal, so far none of them are aware that a human is among them, Stegron smiled upon seeing a stegosaurus in person, from having four spikes on its tail to armor plates on its back, he then quietly pulled out a needle as he plans to take a blood sample from the stegosaurus for research.
Vincent Stegron sighed quietly. "Okay... please don't wake up."
Stegron slowly moves the needle in closer to the stegosaurus as he's nervous, he's sweating from the forehead working up the courage to inject the needle into the bloodstream, he slowly inject the needle point into the skin and stop as he looks at the stegosaurus still asleep and not knowing that a needle pierced it's skin, Stegron sighed in relief that it didn't wake up, he then draws out the blood from the stegosaurus until the vial got full, he slowly pulls the needle out and holds up the vial contain a sample of stegosaurus blood as he smiled.
"HA!" Stegron smiled careless until he quickly puts his hand over his mouth.
It was too late as the stegosauruses all woke up from hearing Stegron loud laugh, they all got agitated and started getting up as Stegron is running away from the herd and heading back to camp, the stegosauruses all rushed in Stegron's direction as the human is running for his life and he looks back to see the stegosauruses heading his way towards the camp site, everyone there will be overwhelmed and killed by the herd.
Stegron kept running until he called out loud. "HEY! WAKE UP! STEGOS COMING!"
Peter and Gwen are sleeping until their spider senses tingle together as danger is nearby, they quickly got out of their tents, as did the rest of the team as they see Vincent Stegron being chased by stegosauruses coming their way, they all rushed out of their tents and quickly ran away from the site as the stegos are closing in on Stegron, the young guy jumped away in time but the stampede came through the camp and destroyed the tents along with most of their equipment, the team managed to get away in time as they look to see the stegosauruses are still running over their camp site and destroying everything in their path, eventually the herd moved on and the team went back to see that almost everything was destroyed, Vincent Stegron is breathing and feeling tired from all the running he did to escape from the herd.
Vincent Stegron sighed in relief as he gets back up. "I"m alive."
Dr. Connors came up not too happy. "Stegron, what the hell happened?!"
"I'm sorry, I know that you told me not to approach the dinosaurs, but I couldn't help it, I had to go in for a closer look." Vincent Stegron said.
"Your curiosity could've gotten us all killed, what you did was very reckless, you endangered the entire team!" Dr. Connors said.
"That wasn't my intention, I'm sorry I screwed up." Vincent Stegron said.
"You're damn right you screwed up, thanks to you, we're canceling this trip, we're going back home." Dr. Connors said.
"You can't be serious!" Vincent Stegron protest.
"I am, we don't have much to work with anymore, so like it or not, we're leaving. Dr. Sallis, do you think you can call the pilot to come pick us up?" Dr. Connors said.
"I'm on it." Ted Sallis dialing the satellite phone and holding it to his ear, but so far got nothing but static.
Dr. Connors could tell something is up. "What's wrong?"
"I'm not getting any signal." Ted Sallis said.
"Try again." Paul Allen suggested.
Ted Sallis dials again and still getting nothing but static. "It's still not working, I don't what's wrong."
"Maybe this land is giving off some kind of magnetic field disrupting any signals from getting in or out." Dr. Connors theorized.
"If that's true, then we're completely cut off from the outside, we're on our own." Paul Allen said.
Peter and Gwen went back to the wreckage of the tents to see if anything is salvageable, he found his backpack with his suit and web shooters intact, his camera only got a crackle lens but still mostly intact, Gwen is looking around to find her suit until they see some pteranodons in the sky flying their way but their biggest surprise were the riders on them.
"Ah... guys!" Peter warning the others.
"What is it, Parker?" Dr. Connors asking as Peter points out to the sky see what's coming. "Oh my god."
"Incoming!" Paul Allen yells out.
Everyone scattered away as the pteranodons are flying towards them for the grab, but everyone on the ground are making their way back to the jungle took take cover behind the trees as each of them split up, Peter is in the forest to see that he's alone without anyone looking, he pulls out his suit from his backpack to change, Bobbi Morse is running at another part of the forest as she's got her backpack in hand with her suit inside, she then starts to change as quickly as she can into her S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform. The pteranodons couldn't process through the trees as they're forced to land outside of the jungle, a group of warriors got off as Vertigo is among them.
"Go and capture these outsiders!" Vertigo gave the order.
These warriors armed with spears are moving into the jungle to hunt down these outsiders for capture, Gwen is with Dr. Connors along with Vincent Stegron, Paul Allen, and Ted Sallis, all five are running together through the jungles trying to escape their chasers until they've stopped as a woman stands in their way, Vertigo unleashed a wave upon the group as all five of them are experiencing dizziness and started losing consciousness except for Gwen who remained standing strong as Vertigo intensified her waves as Gwen is having trouble standing until she went out and fell down on the ground, Vertigo stopped her waves as all five of them are down.
"Take them." Vertigo tells her warriors.
Sauron's warriors move in for the capture until one of them got webbed up, they all look up to see someone in red swinging down for a drop kick, Spider-Man took down another warriors as the rest are tossing in spears, Spider-Man perform some gymnastic flips to dodge them as Spidey fired off a couple of webbings and neutralized two more, Vertigo joins in on the action as she unleashed waves upon the hero, Spider-Man is having a hard time maintaining his bearings, he tries to focus through the waves and fired webbing towards her face, Vertigo stopped her waves as webbing got stuck on her head.
Spider-Man is still recovering his bearings from the vertigo wave until his spider senses tingles but he was too late as Sauron came in flying and took him off the ground, Vertigo finally took off the webbing from her face as her warriors picked up the exploration team and carried them away, Bobbi Morse came out dressed in S.H.I.E.L.D. with batons on her back and yellow lens goggles on her head, she came as soon as possible to see that the team are being carried away by pteranodons, she was too late, but her biggest worry is Spider-Man still up in the air as Sauron got a hold of the hero, Spider-Man recovered his vision to see a green pteranodon man has him and they're high up.
"Impressive, you've quite extraordinary for a mutate, I am curious as to how your life force taste like." Sauron gripping Spider-Man.
Sauron then proceeded to drain Spider-Man of his life energy as the hero screams, Bobbi Morse could see that Spider-Man is in danger, she then pulls out her gun and aims carefully at the creature without having to hit Spidey.
Sauron draining Spidey of his energy.. "Mmm, your energy is so powerful, so magnificent, so delicious, I think I'll keep you alive to be feed off."
Bobbi aims carefully and pulls the trigger, a bullet fired and managed to hit Sauron in the shoulder as the dino mutate was forced to stop the drain and let's go of Spider-Man as his new source of life force is falling down.
"NO!" Sauron yells out.
Bobbi kept on firing her bullets as Sauron can't hold off against this kind of threat, he's forced to retreat and fly back to his citadel as Spider-Man is still falling down, unconscious and unable to stop his descent down as Bobbi is terrified he's about to fall to his death.
"Oh no, SPIDEY!" Bobbi Morse calling out.
Spider-Man is falling towards the tree unable to stop himself from dying, all of a sudden a unknown being is rushing through the branches and jumps up, he managed to catch the hero and jumps him towards another tree, they landed on a branch and this mysterious man saved Spider-Man's life as Bobbi is curious as to who this mysterious savior is, Ka-Zar looks upon Spider-Man still out cold from the drain he experienced at the hands of Sauron, but he's still alive thanks to Ka-Zar.
"You're okay, you're safe." Ka-Zar tells the hero still asleep.
Bobbi Morse is climbing up the tree until she made it to the branch where Spider-Man is, she is stunned to see the savior is a long blonde haired jungle man all shirtless and muscular wearing nothing but a loincloth, Ka-Zar turns around to see a blonde hair female in a uniform.
"Who are you?" Bobbi Morse asking the mysterious man.
"The name's Ka-Zar, I take it this is your friend?" Ka-Zar looking down on Spider-Man.
"Yeah, you could say that." Bobbi Morse said.
"We must move, Sauron maybe gone, but he'll sent scouts to find us, we need to go a safe place." Ka-Zar picks up Spider-Man in his arms. "Follow me."
Ka-Zar is leading the way carrying Spider-Man still unconscious as Bobbi has no choice but to follow the jungle man.
Meanwhile very far away from the camp site, Sauron along with his minions are flying back towards the citadel with their prisoners as the pteranodons landed down and the warriors are taking their captives off, Sauron is still injured from the bullet wound as his mutates came up and helps their lord back to the throne room, Gwen is the first one to wake up to find that she's at some kind of fortress all modern filled with warriors loyal to Sauron, Vertigo and the warriors eventually they made their way to the dungeons where many natives here are locked up in cages, the warriors forced their captives into the cages and locks them up.
"Enjoy your stay in the Savage Land." Vertigo then walks away.
Gwen is still a bit hazy from the vertigo exposure, but she sees many people here all in cages, from the way they're dressed, they must be natives to these lands, so far they're all asleep. Gwen thought about breaking out while she can since many people here are asleep, but Dr. Connors is starting to wake up as Gwen is forced not to reveal her secret to everyone, she went to Connors to help him.
Dr. Connors has his hand on his head. "Ah... where... where are we?"
"I'm not sure, some kind of fortress, those guys who attacked us brought us here and we're not alone." Gwen said.
Dr. Connors looks at the other cages where other people are locked up against their will, all wearing clothing not modern, they might be indigenous to these lands, Connors looks around the cell they're in to see at least three more from their team all unconscious except for Peter Parker and Bobbi Morse who are unaccounted for.
"Where's Parker and Ms. Morse?" Dr. Connors is curious.
"I don't know, they've must've separated from us, I hope they haven't run into danger out there." Gwen said.
"So do I, I hope they're alright." Dr. Connors then felt some pain in his right side.
"Dr. Connors, are you alright?" Gwen got worried.
Dr. Connors has his left hand on his right limb. "I think I can feel it change again."
"Oh no, do you have the..." Gwen said.
"No, all my stuff is back at the camp site, assuming the stegos haven't crushed them all yet, but if I don't get my suppressant in time, I'll start to change soon and everybody here will be in danger." Dr. Connors is troubled.
Gwen is leaning herself against the wall thinking about Peter and what became of him, she only hopes that he's still alive out there and that he'll come to their rescue very soon, for now she must act normal without anyone catching on that she's a mutate.
Elsewhere in the Savage Land, the scouts riding pteranodons in the skies are still searching for any signs of the missing outsiders as they've bypass a mountain, meanwhile inside the cave Ka-Zar and his sabertooth friend Zabu are taking refuge here hiding from Sauron's forces as the jungle man is cooking up something with herbs and meats only found in these lands as Bobbi Morse is looking after Spider-Man resting on the cot, she looks at the jungle man cooking.
"What are you doing?" Bobbi is curious.
"Making something for your friend, Sauron drained him of his life energy, that's why he's resting, this will help recuperate his strength." Ka-Zar said.
"Thank you for saving his life, ah..." Bobbi is curious to his identity.
"The name's Ka-Zar." Ka-Zar said.
Bobbi is eyeballing the jungle man to get a good look at his muscular figure as Ka-Zar noticed it, Bobbi snaps out of it.
"Sorry, this whole visual is... distracting." Bobbi blushing.
"Don't worry, besides you're quite good looking yourself, especially when you're not wearing your uniform." Ka-Zar said.
"Wait, you saw me?" Bobbi looks surprised.
"I was watching you bathing under the waterfall earlier." Ka-Zar said.
"I had a sense someone was watching me, that was you?" Bobbi said.
"I apologize if I seen you in your all natural state, it's just Zabu and I, we don't get a lot of visitors from the outside world." Ka-Zar said.
"It's fine, it's not everyday we run into a modern day Tarzan." Bobbi smiled.
Ka-Zar smiled in seductive manner. "Perhaps we should get to know each other, up close and personal."
Bobbi is looking up Ka-Zar as she gets a sense where this is going, but all of a sudden Spider-Man then started to wake up and still feels a bit weak from the life drain he underwent earlier by Sauron, Bobbi and Ka-Zar's moment got interrupted and ended as Spidey is attempting to move.
"Ah!" Spider-Man is slowly waking up.
"Whoa, take it easy, Peter." Bobbi said.
"What did you just call me?" Spider-Man is stunned.
"It's okay, I've always known who you are." Bobbi said.
Spider-Man then looks at her emblem on her uniform. "That emblem, you're S.H.I.E.L.D, aren't you?"
"Agent Barbara Morse of S.H.I.E.L.D., I go by Agent 19." Bobbi told of her status.
Spider-Man sighed. "Typical of Fury, neglected to tell me that he's sending on his agents on this exploration. I'm guess you're not really a doctoral student."
"I am a doctoral student and a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, I'm a multitasker like you, is it really that hard to believe?" Bobbi said.
Spider-Man then realized something he forgot. "Gwen? What happened to Gwen?"
"She's gone, along with the others, all taken by Sauron." Ka-Zar has a bowl in his hand.
Spider-Man is still feeling weak. "Ah, what... what happened to me? My strength has weakened."
"It was Sauron, he got a hold of you and took your life energy." Ka-Zar explained.
"Ah, kinda reminds me of that time I had my life force taken." Spider-Man remembers that moment.
"Were you attacked by a flying monster that day?" Ka-Zar is curious.
"Nope, just kissed in the mouth by a beautiful mutant." Spider-Man referencing Rogue.
"At least your sense of humor is still intact." Bobbi smiled.
"And this Sauron, let me guess, he's all green with wings and a big beak?" Spider-Man made a guess.
"Yes, that's Sauron, he rules these lands and enslaved all my people." Ka-Zar said.
"I"m sorry to hear that, Mr..." Spider-Man still don't this man's name.
"The name's Ka-Zar and this my friend Zabu." Ka-Zar introduced himself and his sabertooth friend.
Spider-Man looking nervous. "Ah... Hello Kitty."
Ka-Zar smiled. "Don't worry, Zabu loves humans, he doesn't eat them."
"That's comforting." Spider-Man is somewhat relief.
Ka-Zar hands Spider-Man the bowl of soup. "Here, eat, it'll replenish your strength, trust me."
"I could use a bite." Spider-Man pulls up his mask halfway, then took the bowl and sip some soup. "Mmm, this is great, what's it made of?"
Ka-Zar smiled. "You don't want to know."
"Why?" Spider-Man is curious.
"Do you see any cows around here?" Ka-Zar gave a hint.
Spider-Man get's the picture and then puts the bowl aside. "And here I thought this was going be like Jurassic Park, it's a movie where..."
"I know about Jurassic Park, I was born and raised from the outside world, I've seen all three of the Jurassic Park movies." Ka-Zar is familiar with the franchise.
"Oh, so you've also seen the Jurassic World trilogy, right?" Spider-Man said.
"Jurassic World?" Ka-Zar is unfamiliar.
"I guess you missed a lot, but back to the matter at hand, just tell us more about this Sauron guy." Spider-Man is curious.
"Very well, about six years ago our land was at peace, tribes from all over these lands have coexist in harmony, that is until invaders from the outside world came into the Savage Land, beings with remark powers like yours, they've set up a citadel and captured some of our people to be used as guinea pigs for their experiments, those who survived became mutates, Sauron was one of them, eventually these mutates turned on their creator and forced them out of theses lands, after they left Sauron began his conquest to take over the Savage Land, some of the tribes joined him as he and his armies invaded villages and captured most the villagers as slaves, we tried to fight back against him but Sauron and his mutates are just too powerful for us, few us started an underground resistance and continued fighting him for years but eventually Sauron's forces would find and capture us, cut our numbers down, me and Zabu are all that's left." Ka-Zar explains about Sauron and the situation in the Savage Land.
"I'm sorry to hear that, couldn't been easy fight this battle all alone." Spider-Man said.
"Zabu and me will make do with what we got." Ka-Zar said.
"Then how about having a Spider-Man at your side?" Spider-Man said.
"You? No offense, I know that you have powers, but so does Sauron along with four other mutates, they're no joke." Ka-Zar has his doubts.
"Neither am I, I've gone against worst things than Sauron in the past three years, I'm sure between the three of us and one sabertooth tiger, we can save everyone, including my friends. Either way, I'm not leaving without them." Spider-Man said.
"Are you sure about this? It's suicide." Ka-Zar said.
"I'm sure, just like you said, make do with what you got." Spider-Man said.
Ka-Zar smiled. "Very well, it'll be an honor to guide you both to the citadel, it's about time to take the fight to Sauron and end his reign of terror once and for all."
"Thank you Ka-Zar, but first we gotta make a stop at the camp site to retrieve something for a friend." Spider-Man said.
Bobbi pulls the pistol's slide. "Let's get going then."
"One more thing, you got another name to go by? I'd just rather not call you Agent 19 every time." Spider-Man said.
Bobbi sighed. "Fine, call me... Mockingbird."
"Mockingbird, that a cool name." Spider-Man gave a thumb up.
Bobbi smiled as she too likes the name Mockingbird, she now teams up with Spider-Man and Ka-Zar as they're about to go on a rescue mission to save their friends along with the people of the Savage Land.
Back at the citadel, Sauron is screaming out loud as Brainchild is removing the bullet lodged in his shoulder he received earlier from Agent Morse's gun, Amphibious and Barbarus are holding down Sauron as Brainchild is making the final attempt to pull the bullet out hard, he then pulled the bullet out as Sauron stopped screaming and the pain stopped, Amphibious and Barbarus lets Sauron go to calm himself down and recover.
"There, I got it out, my lord." Brainchild holding the bullet.
"That mutate is still out there, his life force is much more powerful and nourishing than the rest of you, I want him here, alive." Sauron said.
"Alive? But with all due respect, he fell when you got injured, he could be dead by now, and there are the possibly that the carnivores would start their hunt in the area, it's only a matter of time till he's eaten." Vertigo said.
"Then I suggest you find him before he gets eaten, cause I'd rather be the one doing the eating, his life force of course." Sauron said.
"Yes my lord, it shall be done." Vertigo then takes her leave.
"And what of our new captives?" Sauron is curious.
"From what we can tell, they're scientists, just like your alter ago." Brainchild said.
"Interesting... as soon as they're fully recovered, bring 'em to me, I may have use for them in my grand plan." Sauron said.
"Understood my master." Brainchild takes his leave.
Later out in the Savage Land, Ka-Zar and Zabu are leading the way for Spider-Man and Mockingbird back to their camp site to fetch something important for Dr. Connors as Ka-Zar is keeping his head on a swivel, looking at every corner of the jungle for danger that made Spidey and Bobbi worried.
"You seem nervous, Ka-Zar, anything we should worry about?" Spider-Man said.
"It's unwise for us to be out here in the middle of the night, predators come out to hunt and eat." Ka-Zar is being cautious.
"What kinds of predators are we talking about?" Mockingbird is getting nervous.
"Besides the Pteranodons, there are the Spinosauruses, Velociraptors, and T-Rexes." Ka-Zar told of the predators.
"I hope you don't have an Indomius Rex out here?" Spider-Man said.
"Indomius what?" Ka-Zar is unfamiliar.
"Oh, it's from the movie, it's a hybrid made from various dinosaurs, born with a killer instinct and can camouflage itself in any environment." Spider-Man explained.
"Wow, I really have missed a lot, not to worry, there's nothing like that here in the Savage Land." Ka-Zar said.
"Good, it's bad enough we had our camp destroyed by a herd of stegosauruses, now we only got carnivores to worry about." Mockingbird is even more nervous.
"Strange, stegos never attack people unless provoked." Ka-Zar said.
"Yeah, one of our own did something stupid and woke up the herd, also got us all killed." Spider-Man said.
Ka-Zar then sees the camp site. "We're here."
Spider-Man is roaming around what remains of the camp site where all the tent are completely wrecked by the stegosaurus herd, Spidey found Gwen's backpack where her Ghost-Spider suit is still inside, he puts it around his back but he's searching through the wrecked tent among the other backpacks searching only for Dr. Connors as neither Ka-Zar nor Bobbi know what he wants from this place.
"What are we doing here? There's nothing left."Mockingbird is confused by this logic.
Spider-Man then pulls out one of the syringe. "There is it."
"We came all this way for that?" Ka-Zar is confused.
"It's for Dr. Connors, he's got this... condition." Spider-Man said.
"Is he a diabetic?" Mockingbird is curious.
"I wish, but it's much worse, he's got this... monster within him, if we don't inject this into his body, Sauron will be the least of everyone's problems." Spider-Man is worried about the Lizard.
"Okay, now we're done getting what we need, we should get going, it's still a long road ahead to the citadel." Ka-Zar said.
"It's too bad we can't ride those flying dinosaurs." Mockingbird reminded the group.
"How does that happen?" Spider-Man is curious.
"Those native to the Savage Land practiced the art of taming the creatures here, the only creatures that are untamable are the Tyrannosauruses." Ka-Zar said.
"Good thing we haven't run into one of those yet." Spider-Man being overconfident.
All of a sudden the group felt a loud pound on the ground as Ka-Zar pulls out his knife and Zabu is growling as they got the sense that danger is coming their way from the jungle behind them, they turn to see something huge coming through the tree, it's a living breathing Tyrannosaurus Rex as it roar out loud upon the group.
Mockingbird gave Spidey the not so good look. "You had to open your mouth, didn't you?"
"Scatter!" Ka-Zar yells out.
Everyone scatters away as the T-Rex is deciding who to hunt first, Spider-Man stayed behind to get it's attention while the rest are running, T-Rex charged at Spider-Man with his jaws wide open as the hero jumps and swings around the jungle while firing back some webbing to get's it attention. Meanwhile a group of pteranodons are flying over the camp site lead by Vertigo as they see the hero still alive holding off a T-Rex as Ka-Zar and Mockingbird are climbing up the tree.
"There! Fly down!" Vertigo points down.
The pteranodons are flying in closer to the trees as Vertigo is unleashing her waves, Mockingbird and Ka-Zar both got exposed to the waves as they're having a hard time maintaining their senses, the pteranodons managed to nab them both off the trees and flies them away from the scene, Spidey jumps up as the T-Rex swings his tail for a hit but missed, the hero jumps next to Zabu as they look up to see that Ka-Zar and Mockingbird have been captured and flying far away by pteranodons.
"No... MOCKINGBIRD! KA-ZAR!" Spider-Man screams.
A couple of pteranodons are flying in where one warrior is tossing a spear at Spider-Man as the hero flips away and dodge, a pteranodon carrying Vertigo came in closer as she unleashed her waves upon Spidey as the hero is exposed, the hero remains strong standing as Vertigo intensified her powers to make him fall down unconscious, but her biggest surprise is the T-Rex coming in with it's mouth wide open, Vertigo stopped and jumps off the pteranodon as the T-Rex nabbed the dinosaur and started eating, the remaining pteranodon carrying a warrior is flying away from the scene as Vertigo is down on the ground to see the T-Rex finished eating and shallowing her pteranodon, the T-Rex then spotted a human on the ground as Vertigo is scared to be eaten, she attempts to run away as the T-Rex is now chasing after her, she kept on running as it's closing in for the bite, Spider-Man then came in swinging and nabbed Vertigo off the ground as they swing towards a taller tree and lands on a branch, Spider-Man has Vertigo as he needs her to find his friends.
"Now I want some answers, where did they take my friends?!" Spider-Man demanding answers.
"I'll never talk!" Vertigo won't answer.
"Oh really?" Spider-Man said.
Spider-Man then webs Vertigo up in a cocoon and pushed her off the tree as she's falling down towards where the T-Rex is down below, she's screaming in fear of being eaten but a web-line is still attached to the cocoon she's trapped in and still at a safe distance as the T-Rex is attempting to feast upon it's prey hanging upside down but she's too high up as Spider-Man still got a hold of the line and holds her up.
"If you don't want to talk to me, then you can talk to the T-Rex, I'm sure he's very eager to meet you!" Spider-Man attempts to break Vertigo through fear.
Spider-Man is lowering down the line making Vertigo moving in closer to the T-Rex is still trying to eat her with it's enormous jaws, she screams but she's still too high up for the T-Rex to reach.
"OKAY, OKAY, I can tell you where they are, satisfied?!" Vertigo breaks.
"No, you're going to show me where, but first things first." Spider-Man said.
Spidey pulls Vertigo up back to the branch as she's going to guide him to the citadel where his friends are as he stands to look down at the T-Rex still down below on the ground.
"What are you doing?" Vertigo trapped in a cocoon.
"Going to get us some transportation." Spider-Man crunches his knuckles.
Spider-Man then looks at the T-Rex refusing to give up the hunt, Spidey jumps off the branch and heads down to face the T-Rex head on.
Meanwhile around the same time back at the citadel, the team is still trapped in cages along with the natives Sauron enslaved for his kingdom, coming down into the dungeons are Brainchild along with his warriors as they unlock the cage with the outsiders locked up, the warriors all aimed their spears at them to force them out of the cage, they then escorted them throughout the citadel, Dr. Connors is still struggling to keep his condition at bay hoping the Lizard doesn't come out, but it's only a matter of time, they kept on roaming until they made it to the throne room where Sauron is still seated, everyone is stunned to see what appears to be a humanoid pteranodon along with two more mutates, one has fours arms and another looks like a frog as Brainchild brought them before their master.
"My lord, the prisoners you've asked for." Brainchild kneels before Sauron.
"Excellent." Sauron gets up and walks up to the outsiders. "Greetings outsiders, welcome to my world."
"Whoa, he can talk." Paul Allen said.
"Why are we here? If you wanted us dead, you would've killed us already, so why are we still alive?" Gwen said.
"Brilliant, you're very smart for a woman. Very well, I'll get right to it, I've already conquered all the Savage Land and captured all it's people, they worked to build my new kingdom." Sauron said.
"Against their will." Dr. Connors isn't pleased.
"But ruling the Savage Land isn't enough, I am merely the first of my kind in this part of the world and it can get lonely just being the only dinosaur-human hybrid, that is where you all come in, from what Brainchild has told me, you're all scientists aren't you?" Sauron said.
"What of it?' Dr. Connors said.
"I need someone specializing in genetic, specifically in cross-species, I need one of you to work one creating hybrids like me." Sauron said.
"You want us to create more of you?" Dr. Connors is stunned.
"We dinosaurs have been on this planet longer than humans, together we shall be a new species, the best of both worlds. So I'll ask again, which one of you can do this?" Sauron said.
Vincent Stegron got nervous as he speaks up. "I can, I have the expertise in genetics, just as long as you don't kill me, I'll do it."
"Stegron, what are you doing?" Dr. Connors said.
"I'm sorry Doc, but it's every man for himself out here." Stegron wants to save himself.
"Indeed, that's how things are out here." Sauron said.
"He can do it too, everything I've learned about genetics, I've learned from him." Stegron sells out Dr. Connors.
"Is that right? Perfect, I've got two geneticists at the palm of my hands, you Stegron will prove most useful alive, as for you, are you in or out?" Sauron asking Dr. Connors for his answers.
Dr. Connors remained calm and fearless. "I refuse."
"Your cooperation isn't really necessary, I have other ways to make you obey." Sauron said.
Sauron walks up to Dr. Connors and opens his eyes to unleash his hypnotic abilities upon the scientists.
Dr. Connors is shaking and resisting. "Ah... what are you doing?!"
"You will obey me!" Sauron unleashing his hypnosis.
Dr. Connors resisted as much as possible until his mind breaks, he is now under Sauron's control. "I will obey."
Sauron smiled. "Excellent, guards, take him to the lab and have him start on his research. As for the other one, keep him here and alive, he might be still useful to me. The rest of them go back to the dungeon and add them to the slave labor."
Dr. Connors is completely under Sauron's control as a couple of guards are escorting the hypnotized scientist to the lab where he can start his work on creating dinosaur hybrids like Sauron, Stegron stays behind as the others guards are escorting the other prisoners back to their cells to be used as slaves, but he's relieved that he saved himself even at the cost of selling out his associates, the guards are taking Stegron into another part of the citadel as Sauron still has some use for him, Stegro is intrigued by Sauron's vision to mix humans with dinosaurs. Meanwhile coming in for a landing are some pteranodons carrying in two more captives they've captured recently, the warriors escort Mockingbird and Ka-Zar into the citadel as Sauron is pleased to finally have the rebel Ka-Zar here along with another outsider, but disappointed that Spider-Man isn't among them, not to mention that Vertigo is missing.
"Where's Vertigo?" Sauron asking.
"We left her behind, my lord, she's probably been eaten by the Tyrannosaurus along with the other."
"How unfortunate, but no matter, at least I've finally removed the last pocket of resistance, I finally have you before me, Ka-Zar." Sauron is pleased.
"Sauron, still a tyrant as always." Ka-Zar said.
"Why prolong this? Your band of rebels have fought against me for years, one by one I've taken each of you down, now I have you, the last rebel, my reign is now unchallenged, the Savage Land is all mine." Sauron said.
"Enjoy it while you can, Sauron, somehow and someway, your reign of terror will end, the Savage Land and all its people will be free one day, that's a promise." Ka-Zar said.
"Don't make promises you can't keep, or will you ever keep again, this is the end for you, Ka-Zar. Guards, take them down below and prepare the execution, have the slaves come out to witness this, the death of Ka-Zar will send a message to all who dare defy me." Sauron plans to kill Ka-Zar before everyone.
The guards took Mockingbird and Ka-Zar away to be executed outside, meanwhile down below in the dungeons many more warriors of Sauron came down and started unlocking cages and escorted the slaves out of their cells to witness the execution, Gwen along with Sallis and Allen are among them walking out of the dungeons not knowing the fate that awaits them all.
At another part of the citadel, Dr. Connors is still under Sauron's hypnotic control as the guards lead him into the lab for him to begin his research for Sauron, but something unexpected happened as Dr. Connors felt the pain inside his body as the guards are confused as to what's going on, his right arm has been regenerated and his skin is turning scaly, the guards are scared as Dr. Connors is transforming right before their eyes.
Meanwhile as everyone has gathered outside as the warriors are armed with spears and bows with arrows aimed at everyone, Gwen and the team are among the slaves as they see a couple of people up on the stage, one of them is a blond hair woman in uniform, so far none of them recognized her as Bobbi Morse, a couple of executioners with axes are coming up to the stage as Sauron is flying down and standing before his slaves along with his mutates.
"Behold, after six years of hiding, the rebel Ka-Zar has finally been captured and this pointless battle to free the Savage Land is over, let his death be an example to any who dares to challenge my reign. Begin the execution now!" Sauron speaking to everyone.
Drums are being played out for everyone to hear, the execution has now started as Mockingbird and Ka-Zar are being forced down on their heads on the stone all covered in dried up blood as they got a pretty good idea what about to happen to them, the executioners all standing with their axes raised up to behead them, just as the execution is about commence everyone then heard a very loud roar from a distance and stopped, they then hear loud pounding the ground as it's vibrating, Sauron then flies up to look above the walls that protect the citadel from outside threats, Sauron got stunned by what he's seeing from a distance. Coming running across the bridge towards the citadel's gate is Spider-Man riding on a T-Rex with Vertigo still trapped in a cocoon, Zabu is running beside the T-Rex as they're heading towards the wooden gates, Sauron is stunned Spider-Man tamed the untamable T-Rex.
"It's impossible." Sauron is stunned.
"CHARGE!" Spider-Man riding the T-Rex.
The T-Rex is running at high speed as he's about to ram through the wooden gates with it's head, he slammed through the gates with all it's mighty strength and caught everyone by surprise as the T-Rex is roaring out loud to everyone, Ka-Zar and Mockingbird are both equally surprised by what they're seeing with their own two eyes.
"Oh my god... are you seeing this?" Mockingbird is amazed.
"I'm seeing it, he tamed the T-Rex." Ka-Zar is amazed.
All of Sauron's warriors got agitated as they're unleashing arrows upon the creature, but they're ineffective against it's tough skin as the T-Rex swings it's tail around and sent several of them off the ground, the executioners are distracted by the T-Rex here as Ka-Zar and Mockingbird took the opportunity to get back up and attack them while they're distracted, a couple of warriors came up with spears, one swings his spear until Ka-Zar caught it and disarmed the warrior, Mockingbird pulls out her batons and strikes back with her skills in Kali, Spider-Man jumps off the T-Rex and came in for a drop kick on Barbarus, Amphibious then attack as Spidey does the flip kick and knocked out another mutate, Brainchild got scared as he ran away, Spider-Man joined up with Mockingbird and Ka-Zar.
"Sorry I was late, I just made a friend." Spider-Man referring to the T-Rex attacking the warriors.
"So we've noticed, your timing was perfect." Mockingbird said.
Ka-Zar holds up the spear and looks upon everyone. "People of the Savage Land, for too long we've been nothing but slaves to Sauron! No more, now is the time to fight back, to take back our home! Are you with me?!"
The people all followed Ka-Zar, they began to attack their captors and caught them by surprise, they disarmed their enemies weapons and used them against them, the T-Rex is still caught much damage around the citadel as Sauron's forces are completely overpowered by this unfortunate event, the women and children are running back to the citadel as the warriors are chasing them down, but they all stopped upon seeing something monstrous inside and turns around to run away, they ran past the warriors as they have no idea what they're running from, coming out of the entrance is the Lizard roaring out loud.
"What the?"
"What is that?"
The Lizard charged in and took down one of the warriors, the others have their spears ready for the kill but the Lizard swings his tail and knocked them out cold, meanwhile Gwen is rushing away with Sallis and Allen to safety until they stopped as a couple of warriors armed with spears stopped them, Spidey came swinging for a drop kick on one and the other thrust his spear as Spidey caught it and side kick the warrior, Gwen smiled as she's relieved that Peter is alive, Sallis and Allen are still running to safety while Spider-Man is alone with Gwen.
"Are you all alright?" Spider-Man asking.
"Yeah, we're fine, thank you." Gwen smiled.
"Where's Dr. Connors?" Spider-Man asking.
"They took him into another part the citadel, but listen he doesn't have much time, he can feel himself mutating." Gwen informed.
"Here, take this." Spider-Man hands Gwen the syringe.
Gwen hold the syringe "Is this what I think it is?"
"It is, take this too, just in case." Spider-Man hands her the backpack.
Gwen opens up her backpack to see the Ghost-Spider suit still inside, she smiled as she gets to be in the action as a hero, Spider-Man swings away to help Ka-Zar and Mockingbird fight Sauron's army, Gwen runs away to find a place to change into costume, T-Rex is still causing a rampage around the compound along with the rebels fighting back against Sauron, Zabu is joining the fight as he tackles a warrior down attacking Ka-Zar, the jungle man smiled as his friend help saved his life, he petted Zabu on the head. Vertigo was tossed aside on the ground before the attack, still trapped in a web cocoon as she spotted an axe slammed down on the ground, she started to crawl towards it as much as possible, she managed to get closer and leans herself against the axe blade, she started cutting the webbing off.
Meanwhile coming out of the citadel is the Lizard as he's roaring out loud, a lot of people from both sides are scared of this creature as he rushed in to attack anyone in his sights, Spider-Man is firing off some webbings to neutralize as the hero stopped to see the Lizard is here causing a rampage to anyone, Lizard spotted Spider-Man as he charges in for an attack, coming in swinging is Ghost-Spider who dropped kicked the Lizard before he could hurt Spidey, the hero gave her the thumbs up for the help. Vertigo finally cuts herself free from the cocoon as she get's up and rushed to her fellow mutates as they see that they're completely outnumbered and outgunned, they're losing the battle for sure.
"Come on, it's obvious this war has been lost." Vertigo told her mutates.
Vertigo along with the three mutates are running away from the battle as Sauron is still flying in the air to see that his kingdom is under attack and his mutates making a retreat from battle, everything he fought for is being undone due to the unexpected intervention of Spider-Man, the tide has turned in favor of his enemies.
"No, no, NO!" Sauron yells out in anger.
Sauron is flying towards Spider-Man at high speed as the hero's spider sense warned him of Sauron coming at him, he flips out of the way as Sauron missed, the hero is being smart to not let Sauron get a hold of him, Spider-Man is swinging around the citadel to avoid Sauron who is flying after him in the air. Ka-Zar is trading blows with a warriors til he slams the spear down on the ground and jumps in for a drop kick, he knocked out his enemy as he didn't noticed another come at him from behind, but luckily Mockingbird stepped in and swings her bo staff hard, knocked out the guy with the club out cold, Ka-Zar smiled as he was saved by a brave woman.
Meanwhile the Lizard is attacking Ghost-Spider who is doing some backflips to dodge his attacks, she still has the syringe in her possession as she tries to find an opening to use it, back up from the citadel he took a peek out of the balcony to see a battle happening downstairs as Ghost-Spider is fighting off the Lizard avoiding his tail swing, she looks around to see there are many eyes around this place, she'll need a place private to inject the syringe without anyone witnessing the truth, she fires a volley of webbing to get the Lizard's attention, Ghost-Spider is trying to lure him back to the citadel, Lizard took the bait as he went back inside going after Ghost-Spider. Lizard made it back inside to see the place is empty, Ghost-Spider is clinging to the ceiling above as she drops and slammed down on the Lizard, the Lizard still maintain it's footing as Ghost-Spider does her best to hold on tight with the syringe in her hand.
"Okay, pray this works." Ghost-Spider holding the syringe up.
Ghost-Spider then slams the syringe down into the Lizard's neck and inject the suppressant into his bloodstream, the Lizard screams out loud and Ghost-Spider jumps off, she watches as the Lizard is crying out in agony, the formula is starting to do it's work as the Lizard is changing back to normal, right back to Dr. Connors, Ghost-Spider rushed over to help the scientist up who seems to be his old self, the hypnotic trance he was under is gone.
"Are you alright?" Ghost-Spider said.
"Yeah, the last thing I remember was looking into that creature's eyes and then my mind went blank. What are you doing out here?" Dr. Connors said.
"Oh, it's a long story, but Spider-Man is here too, we're taking care of things. Come on, let's get you to safety." Ghost-Spider said.
Back outside Spider-Man is crawling up the citadel as Sauron is roaming around the air attempting to get the wall-crawler, Sauron is diving in fast as Spider-Man does some flips on the walls and dodge Sauron, the pteranodon man is flying back up, he flaps in the air looking at the hero responsible for undoing everything he built here, the people are fighting back and his kingdom has fallen.
"MY KINGDOM... YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!" Sauron is angry.
"No, I'm giving these people back their freedom, their lives, even if that means ending your reign of terror for good, Sauron!" Spider-Man said.
"I wanted you alive for you energy, but now... I WILL DESTROY YOU!" Sauron yells in anger.
Sauron charges in flying towards Spider-Man as the hero runs up the wall towards the balcony, the hero jumped inside but Sauron followed and tackled the hero very hard as Stegron is nearby witnessing the fight between two mutates, Spider-Man kicked Sauron off before he got a chance to drain him of his energy, but Sauron is only interested in killing the hero for destroying his reign. Meanwhile at another part of the citadel, Vertigo along with Brainchild, Barbarus, and Amphibious are at a hangar boarding a craft as Brainchild takes the controls, the hangar doors are opening as the craft flies away from the citadel, Sauron is still engaged in combat as he noticed a craft flying away from the Savage Land.
"Huh, looks like your own people deserted you." Spider-Man said.
"I don't need anyone, I've conquered the Savage Land alone before and I'll do it again." Sauron won't give up.
"Don't count on it, Big Beak, as long as there are those who are willing to fight tyranny, there's still hope, even you with all your power can never destroy it." Spider-Man said.
"We'll see about that." Sauron said.
Sauron charges in screaming for an attack until Spider-Man fired off a web grenade from his web shooters and entrapped Sauron in webbing forming a cocoon, he drops down to the ground unable to fly around.
"Huh? What do you know? You look like a fly caught by a spider." Spider-Man said.
Sauron refused to give up as he stands up on his feet despite his arms and wings trapped inside the webbing, he charges in again as Spider-Man strikes with a strong push kick as Sauron got kicked pretty hard off the balcony and falls down towards the lake, Sauron crashed into the water unable to escape from the webbing as Spider-Man ran out to the balcony to see Sauron sticking his head out being floated away in the lake, he defeated the mighty Sauron. Spider-Man then looks down to see that Ka-Zar and Mockingbird have the situation in hand, Vincent Stegron is stunned to see Spider-Man defeating the dinosaur man.
Spider-Man jumps off the balcony and swinging down towards the ground as all the natives have defeated Sauron's warriors, those that are left alive surrendered, many women and children are relieved to be free, but their worries aren't over as the T-Rex Spidey rode on is still around, everyone is cautious as the hero steps past the crowd and looks upon the T-Rex, the dinosaur hasn't shown any aggression towards the hero.
"Hey, thanks for the help, friend... peace!" Spider-Man made a V sign with his two fingers.
The T-Rex then walks away from the citadel's ground and crosses the bridge heading back to it's habitat after it's work here is finished, Ka-Zar and Mockingbird came to Spider-Man's side.
"Wow, it's amazing that you've managed to tame the untamable Tyrannosaurus." Ka-Zar is impressed.
"Yeah, we had a hard time bonding, but we worked things out in the end. Too bad I can't bring him back home as a pet, I could've named him the Spider-Rex." Spider-Man said.
"You're a weird one, you know that?" Ka-Zar said.
"Yeah, I know." Spider-Man agrees.
Ka-Zar is standing before his people. "People of the Savage Land, we've finally did it, WE'RE FREE!"
Spider-Man, Ka-Zar, and Mockingbird see that the people of the Savage Land are cheering in happiness and they all have been freed thanks to them, Ghost-Spider is coming out the citadel with Dr. Connors all normal, Ted Sallis and Paul Allen came out of hiding after the conflict had ended, Vincent Stegron is coming out as well as no one is happy with him given that he sold them out to save himself from death, the people are processing that for the first time in years, they're finally free from Sauron's reign of terror.
"After years of fighting, it's finally good to see that my people got their freedom back." Ka-Zar is pleased.
"Your people earned their freedom back because of you, Ka-Zar." Spider-Man said.
"And it's thanks to you, Spider-Man, you too, Mockingbird." Ka-Zar said.
"Let's not celebrate just yet, Sauron is still alive, we need to make sure that he won't be a problem anymore." Spider-Man said.
"Agreed, let's go." Ka-Zar said.
Ka-Zar leads Spider-Man and Mockingbird away as Ghost-Spider see them leaving this place, Dr. Connors noticed it too, they decided to follow after them as Sallis and Allen reluctantly stayed behind with Stegron. Sometime later far away from the citadel at a shore of the lake, Sauron is freed from the webbing but he is weaken by the battle against Spider-Man, he crawling around on the ground with what little strength he's got left. Spider-Man and the group finally found Sauron nearby the lake still alive as the creature sees Spider-Man again.
"Give it up Sauron, you've lost." Spider-Man said.
"I'll never surrender, I'll..." Sauron is feeling something happening to his body. "NO... NOT NOW!"
Sauron attempts to reach Spider-Man to take his life energy again as he desperately needs it to maintain his form, but he is too late as he's change right before everyone's eyes, his wings are shrinking into his arm and his beak is shrinking too.
"Something is happening to him, he's changing." Spider-Man said.
Sauron is undergoing some kind of transformation as his pteranodon form is disappearing and he's changing into a human laying down on the ground wearing nothing but the pants Sauron was wearing, this man is waking up very slowly to see that he's back in control and get's up to see the people before him, including Dr. Connors who is stunned to see this man again.
"It can't be." Dr. Connors is stunned.
"What is it? You know this man?" Spider-Man said.
"It him... It's Karl Lykos." Dr. Connors said.
Karl Lykos looks upon the man. "Curt, is that you?"
"Yeah, it's me, I can't believe you're still alive, I thought you were dead." Dr. Connors is walking up to the man.
"Stay back! I can't let any mutate touch me!" Karl Lykos warns them.
"Why?" Spider-Man said.
"Because the life force of any mutate fuels Sauron, it sustains him and his powers, right now I'm myself, but if I come into contact with a mutate and absorb their life force, Sauron will come back again, so for everyone's safe keep any mutate away." Karl Lykos explained the risk.
Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider got the warning and kept their distance since they're both mutates, Dr. Connors is also a mutate since he's the Lizard, he's avoiding coming into contact with Karl Lykos.
"Thanks for the warning, Mr. Lykos, as for the other mutates, they're long gone from the Savage Land, so no mutate will be able to feed you, there's no chance Sauron will appear anytime soon." Spider-Man said.
"Good, I like to keep it that way, I don't become that monster again. I take you all have some questions for me." Karl Lykos said.
"We do, but for now let's just go, there's much work to be done." Ka-Zar said.
Ka-Zar offered Karl his hand as he took it and help him up on his feet, he leaves with the group as Sauron is no longer a threat to anyone, the Savage Land is now free and it's people can get back to their lives in peace.
The day is October 6th, time is 11:34 AM back in New York, at Brooklyn Visions Academy as Miles Morales is brushing his teeth in the bathroom as Ganke Lee is watching his girlfriend Danika Hart on YouTube broadcasting on her channel called Danikast talking about the recent events involving Kid Arachnid and Spider-Girl taking down Grizzly and Kangaroo, the absence of Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider yesterday.
"This is Danika hart with Danikast, yesterday afternoon Kid Arachnid and Spider-Girl thwarted an armored car robbery easily and saved some money from being taken. Though Spider-Man and Ghost-Spider were absent since yesterday, it is unknown where they are now, are they on vacation? Do superheroes take vacation? But it's all good, this city is still in safe hands with Kid Arachnid and Spider-Girl keeping an eye on the neighbor." Danika on Danikast.
Miles is coming out of the bathroom. "Your girl sure gave us quite the compliment on the internet."
"Yeah, Danika's got a gift for reporting, one of the things I like about her." Ganke Lee smiled.
"She's got like what? A millions follows on her channel?" Miles said.
"Actually 1.3 million." Ganke Lee said.
"Dang, she's got a gift." Miles is impressed.
"Speaking of girls, any luck with yours?" Ganke Lee is curious.
"She's not my girl yet." Miles said.
"If you keep being shy, she never will be. You just need to ask her out." Ganke Lee encouraged.
Miles sighed. "What if I screw up again with Tiana?"
"Miles, back then you were just a shy kid scared of fights until you got bitten by that spider, your whole life changed after that, you overcame your fear, you're Kid Arachnid, you can overcome anything, just be yourself around Tiana and just ask her, maybe she'll like you for who you are." Ganke Lee encourages.
Miles smiled. "Thanks Ganke *sighed* okay, here I go, wish me luck."
"Good luck." Ganke Lee said.
Miles is leaving the dorm room and making his way down the hallway towards the girls dorm room, meanwhile at one of the dorm room, Tiana is alone feeding seeds to her pet Starling she kept in the cage and fill the cup with water for it to drink, she then heard knocking coming from the door, she closed the cage and walks past a photo of herself with her mother Lenora but no sign of her birth father, she opened the door to find Miles Morales outside.
"Hey Tiana, I hope I'm not bothering you." Miles remained calm.
"No, no, you didn't, come in." Tiana invited Miles.
Miles came inside the room and spotted a bird. "Nice bird you got there, is it a canary?"
"No, a starling." Tiana said.
"It's pretty, listen... uh... I was just wondering if you're free, would you like to go with me to the Foam Party for a drink? Just to hang out and talk and stuff... that is if you want." Miles doing his best to remain calm in front of Tiana.
"Like... on a date?" Tiana said.
"Yeah, I mean... as friends of course." Miles a bit nervous.
Tiana is also a bit nervous since she's never been on a date with someone, Miles isn't the only one shy about going on a date with someone he likes.
"Yeah, I like to go out with you." Tiana then blushed as she said it. "I mean as a friend of course."
"Yeah, sure." Miles smiled.
"Okay, wait outside, give me a minute to fix up." Tiana said.
"Sure thing, take your time." Miles said.
Miles walks out of the room as Tiana closed the door, she leaned her back against the door as she smiled someone has taken an interest in her, she really likes Miles but she hasn't told him yet, for now she's comfortable being his friend. Outside the door, Miles smiled as he finally worked up the courage to ask Tiana out on a date for the first time, meanwhile down the hallway, Anya is taking a peek from her dorm room as she see Tiana coming out of her room and walking down the hallway with Miles on their way to their first date together, Anya frowned a bit as she envied what those two have, she has no idea why she's feeling this way for Miles, he's only her friend and teammate, nothing more.
The next day is October 7th back in the Savage Land, at the citadel many people are pulling ropes tied to the statue of the tyrant Sauron, they all worked together to pulled down the statue with all their combined strength, the statue toppled down onto the ground and cracked into several pieces as everyone cheered for bringing it down. Elsewhere in the Savage Land, a number of natives are repairing their homes wrecked by Sauron's forces, everyone is working together to rebuild their lives after years of being enslaved by Sauron, now they're all free, even Peter and Gwen spent a couple of days helping out along with the others except for Stegron whom isn't liked by his colleagues for good reason. Ka-Zar is walking away from the village as Bobbi spotted him, he smiled as he's giving her a sign to follow, Bobbi smiled as she left and went with him in the jungle behind the bushes for some privacy alone.
Sometime later Ka-Zar and Zabu is leading the way for the exploration team to find their way back to their landing site to be picked up for immediate departure from the Savage Land, Karl Lykos is walking beside Ka-Zar and Zabu as he wants to see them one last time before they leave this place, Bobbi is still fixing up her hair as it got messed up from the private moment she shared with Ka-Zar as Peter and Gwen noticed and got an idea what they were doing together, Stegron is hiding the vial of the stegosaurus blood he obtained couple days ago along with something else that has caught his interest. Eventually the group made it back to the landing site where they wait for the helicopter to come pick them up, so far they haven't run into trouble lately, Ted Sallis left the beacon on the ground to signal the helicopter where to land.
"Thanks for guiding us all safely." Peter said.
"It's the least I can do, what do you all plan to do with this discovery once you get back to civilization?" Ka-Zar said.
"Normally I'd report this to the committee, but given everything that has happened here, what your people went through, it's best to keep this to ourselves." Dr. Connors said.
"That's very kind of you." Ka-Zar said.
"Somethings are best left unsaid, the last thing we want is for a Jurassic Park to be built out here in Antartica, besides your people deserves to live in peace." Peter said.
"And we will, thanks to the help of your heroes, everyone will get back to their lives." Ka-Zar said.
"Life finds a way." Peter quotes Jurassic Park.
"What about you? You coming?" Gwen asking.
"I do miss the modern world a lot, but the Savage Land is my home now, as long as I'm here, I'll protect it with my life.' Ka-Zar said.
"That's great, this place has it's own hero." Peter smiled.
"How about you, Karl? You miss home too." Dr. Connors said.
"I do, but I must stay herel, now that the mutates are gone from these lands, there's no chance Sauron will come back anytime soon, I'll stay until I can find a way to be finally rid of Sauron for good, please understand me." Karl Lykos said.
"I understand, more than you could know." Dr. Connors referencing his Lizard condition.
Everyone then hears noises coming from the clouds above the Savage Land, coming down from the clouds is the helicopter as their rides has finally arrived to pick up the team, the copter is coming in for a landing as everyone kept their distance, the helicopter finally touched down as the pilot comes out of the cockpit to see everyone is still alive.
"Glad to see you're all still alive."
"Barely, we've ran into some trouble, but we're all okay." Ted Sallis said.
"Alright, time to get on board and head on home." Paul Allen said.
Everyone started to board the helicopter loading their luggage as Ka-Zar and Bobbi remained behind to say their goodbyes before departing ways.
"Are you sure you can't stick around a bit longer?" Ka-Zar smiled.
"Flattered, but my place is back home." Bobbi smiled.
"I hope one day we will meet again, Ms. Morse." Ka-Zar smiled.
"Me too." Bobbi smiled.
Ka-Zar and Bobbi kissed each other goodbye till she left walks towards the helicopter and looking back at Ka-Zar one last time, she then boards the helicopter with the others as Ka-Zar, Zabu, and Karl Lykos are watching the helicopter lift off from the ground, departing the Savage Land, the helicopter past through the clouds as Ka-Zar and Lykos went back to the village. The helicopter is still hovering up through the clouds until it finally made it outside and flies over Antartica, taking it's passengers back to the airfield where everyone can go on home, their adventures in the Savage Land is now over.
Time is 7:45 PM back home in New York City at LaGuardia Airport as May Parker is waiting with Mary Jane, Miles, and Anya, here at the airport is also Martha Connors and her son Billy, everyone is waiting for their loved ones to come back home from their trip in Antartica, coming out are Dr. Connors along with Vincent Stegron, Peter and Gwen spotted their friends here as they rushed to hugged them.
"Peter, Gwen, you're home!" May hugging and smiling.
"Yeah, we're home, we go so many things to tell you." Peter smiled.
"Yeah, me too." Miles smiled.
"Martha! Billy!" Dr. Connors smiled.
Martha and Billy came up and hugged Connors as they're relieved he's back home all normal, meanwhile Peter and Gwen are hoping into the car loading their stuff in, Anya and Miles are riding on the vespa behind the car as everyone is about to head on back home as the Connors are happy to be reunited again.
The day is October 8th at Empire State University, time is 7:05 AM where almost every student who got here early is roaming around campus hanging and waiting for class to be in session, campus police roaming around making sure there's not another anti-mutant protest again, meanwhile at the research lab as Dr. Connors is speaking with Vincent Stegron about a decision he made recently concerning Stegron's place here at the university.
"You've been expelled." Dr. Connors told his assistant.
"What? You can't be serious!" Vincent Stegron protest.
"I am serious, you endangered everyone back in the Savage Land, you even sold all of us out to save yourself, I can't have someone like you working beside me, someone I don't even trust anymore." Dr. Connors said.
"I've been here for four years, I'm this close to getting a PhD and now you're taking it all away from me!" Vincent Stegron protest again.
"You should've thought of that the moment you put all our lives at risk, as of right now you're done, Stegron, pack up your stuff and get the hell out!" Dr. Connors is upset.
Vincent Stegron is angry that he got expelled from the university and he lost his chance to get his doctoral, four years of hard work for nothing, Dr. Connors can't have Stegron working with him anymore, Stegron picked up his stuff and left the lab all disappointed as Peter and Gwen came into the lab to see Stegron all mad and angry as neither of them are aware what just happened here.
"What was that all about?" Peter is curious.
"Vincent Stegron is no longer part of this university, after what happened in the Savage Land because of him, I don't trust him anymore, I took this to the board and he's now officially expelled." Dr. Connors explained.
"I don't blame you, none of us saw how arrogant and selfish he truly is." Gwen agrees with Connors decision.
"But I'm glad that I have you both around, you two are the only ones outside my family who knew about my condition and never told anyone, you're the only ones I can trust, which is why I like to have you both as my new assistants." Dr. Connors said.
"Us?" Gwen is stunned.
"You both earned it, through your trust and dedication to this department." Dr. Connors said.
"Thank you Doc, we're honored." Peter said.
Peter and Gwen have both been made Connors assistant in Stegron's place, this is a new day for the couple.
At the same time back in the Savage Land at Sauron's citadel, Ka-Zar and Zabu are looking through what's left of the lab, it's got everything Karl Lykos needs to continue his research, he is looking for something he needs to figure out a way to purge Sauron for good, he's looking around trying to find it but he looks trouble as whatever it is, it's missing here.
"Is something wrong?" Ka-Zar said.
"Yeah, there is a book where I write down my findings, including in Dino splicing that created Sauron. I remember that it's here, but it's gone, someone must've took it." Karl Lykos said.
"But who?" Ka-Zar said.
(New York City)
Back in New York City at the apartment of Vincent Stegron as he opens up his backpack to pull out a book written by Karl Lykos, he opens up the pages to see everything the scientist wrote down in his research in splicing Dinosaur DNA with humans, this subject intrigued him after witnessing a human who became part dinosaur, he knows that this is possible. He pulls out a vial of Stegosaurus blood he got from the Savage Land and holds it up, he smiles sinisterly as he got great plans for it.
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