Chapter 3: Rebirth
In the office of Oscorp Inc., Norman Osborn stood looking over the city like the brooding strong intellect he was; looking out over the city as if to be searching for answers in his head. He then took out a vile from his pocket that contained a bit of yellow liquid. My legacy he thought as he looked at it. Suddenly his cell phone rang. "Norman here." He said. "Sir it's been integrated!" said the man on Norman's phone and suddenly Norman hung up, and booked it out of his room.
Peter looked out over the land scape that is the Oscorpe Inc. building and science lab. He was over whelmed with joy but then his vision was ruined by a young boy dressed in black with two body guards. Peter's joy dwindled a bit. "What's wrong?" asked MJ. "Bratborn is here." MJ looked over to see the same boy and guards. "Who Harry? Of course he is. His father owns this place doesn't he?" Peter looked at her with raised eyebrows. "Yeah but, he's not in the science club, if you haven't noticed, and he's probably here for one reason..." Suddenly off the bus came a girl with blond hair with a bunch of other girls. Peter pulled a slight smile, till MJ hit him. "OW what was that for?" MJ looked at him with disgust. "Of all the reasons for you to hate Harry Osborn and women for you to be interested in, why is it Gwen freakin Skanksy?"Peter Chuckles. "It's Stacey, and yeah of course she is! She's the most popular girl in school and knock on wood? She's in the science club. Why wouldn't I fall for that?" MJ gets more disgusted. "Well she's only here for extra credit, first off, and she has no depth. She's all blonde and no brain!" Peter smirks. "She's hot?" he says and MJ hits him again and at the same time Peter sees Gwen go over to Harry Osborn, who waves off the guards, and kisses Gwen. What would have been a wince of pain went into his one fist into a clutch. MJ giggles knowing that reaction. "A cripple verses the richest kid in town… hehe.. who will win?" Peter smirks and is then pulled away from seeing the embrace by MJ who brings them to a scientist in front of the rest of the students. "Hello students!" says the scientist. "I am Doctor Otto Octavias; one of the many scientists here and your tour guide for this afternoon. If you all will follow me." And with that, MJ, Peter and the rest of the class enter the huge Oscorp building.
In one of the labs of Oscorp, not far from the tour, Norman stood with one of his scientists, who had black greasy hair, looking in a glass case that contains a large spider that seemed to be extremely antsy. Norman smiled "So it took to the formula did it?" The scientist activates a hologram in a handheld panel. "Yes, unlike how Connors believed." He said through a thick Transylvanian like accent. "As you can see OZ is fully integrated. The spider is ten times more lethal and strong." The spider then hit the glass so hard that it shook. Norman gets another smile in. "Excellent. Any specific modifications besides basics?" says Norman. The scientist then activates another hologram that replaces the previous. It seems to show a fang in its blue glow. "Well the venom is most fascinating." He says. "Biting a well operating specimen is something we haven't tested full on but from the way the Oz formula works it should do nothing, but when it bites any type of injured or crippled specimen, its venom takes a turn for the worst, starting with degrading and deteriorating the injured creature's cells. It's kind of a primal thing I think, you know like a bat will..." "Okay Morbius that's enough!" interrupts Norman. He rubs the glass as the spider rapidly nips at the glass. "This is wonderful" Norman says with a smirk. "Let this exhibit open to the tour. My son will be present." "But sir the spider as you can see reacts to..." Norman interrupts "MORBIUS! Who pays you?" and like that Morbius shuts his mouth. "That's what I thought" said Norman. As Norman leaves no one notices Morbius cover the spider's cage. But Morbius also doesn't notice the chipping at a corner of the glass beginning to crack from the spiders nipping…
Back at the tour, Peter is overwhelmed with thought. Though he wishes he could listen to Octavias talk about his work on fusion energy and all the other fun stuff, he was uncomfortable with the girl of his dreams being with the rich boy behind them, he's got Conners waiting for him at the lab, and today is his murderous psycho fathers birthday (Who he will have to see today). This day is a mess he thought when suddenly the group stops and he runs into MJ. "Whoa what's the…" Suddenly Peter sees the robust Norman Osborn standing in front of the group and shuts his mouth. "Welcome students from mid-town." says Norman. "Now as fantastic as a job you're doing, Doctor Octavias, could I borrow your students for just a second?" says Norman. "By all means sir" says Octavias. Then as Norman leads the group Peter thinks This is my chance but as he tries to break from the group, MJ grabs him. "Oh no! Not right now. You want to be branded for walking out on a rich scientist?" says MJ. So Peter grimly follows the group.
"Fine but after," He says in a whisper. Then just a few steps and a turn away the group is brought to a violet lit room that has a bunch of lit glass cages. "Welcome to the OZ room! Dr. Morbius will take over from here" Says Norman. But as Dr. Morbius goes on and on Peter's thoughts are elsewhere. I need to get out! He thinks and with a slight rush, he creeps out from the group. As he backs up, he accidentally bumps into a covered glass cage, dropping his back pack. As he goes to pick it up, Harry Osborn walks over to him. "Hey Parker, what are you trying to skip out early?" Peter stands up. "No I just need to use the restroom." He says, and as Peter walks away, something with eight legs crawls into his bag. "Oh it's just down the hall that way," points out Harry. "Oh thanks." says Peter as he goes to grab his bag. He notices his research notes had fallen out and as he puts them back in he gets a sudden fiery pain in his hand, and he sees a spider crawl out of his bag. "Hey can I ask you something?" Asks Harry while Peter keeps his hand in his bag, trying to hide the major pain. "Um yeah what?" "Can you like do my homework for me? I know you're like really smart. I'll pay you if..." Peter interrupts "Yeah yeah yeah sure… um gotta go." And with that Peter runs out of the exhibit and quickly out the front door.
He takes a quick peak at his hands and notices large amounts of blood and skin beginning to deteriorate from his hand. SHIT SHIT SHIT! What bit me! He thought. Trying to use his handicap to his advantage and his bleeding good hand in his bag, Peter kinda waves his fake ligament and gets a cab. "To Liberty West and step on it!" says Peter. "No probs!" says the driver. Peter then takes another peak at his hand. It was bleeding even more so, and looked to be becoming infected more rapidly. Also, his vision was becoming fuzzy.
Ten minutes went by quick. Peter hands the man a 20 and runs into the building and makes a left into Conners' lab.
"DOC, DOC!" screams Peter as he drops the back pack and falls to his knees. "Peter!" exclaimed Conners. "Good God boy what happened to you?" Peter began to sweat and go limp. "I don't… know Doc. Something...in the Oz lab…Oscorp…" Conners ran and grabbed a handy stretcher he had, and doing what he could with one arm, helped Peter onto the stretcher. "Hang in there boy" Says Conners. With a quick bit of Peter's blood, Conners runs an analysis with a very advance machine he had much like Morbius's hologram projector only flat. Never thought I'd use this again thought Conners. The machine read OSCORP EXPERIMENT FILE DNA 227 : Arachna OZ: Causes deterioration/death to injured subjects.
Conners began to panic. "Oh no, not the Arachnid! I thought they canceled that when I took my research!" Conners then looked back at Peter who was getting worse and worse. "Peter you've been bit an Oz spider. The venom is treating you like pray! You're dying!"
Peter could see very little now, but he heard and was able to muster. "The formula… the regenerating formula… Use it." Conners looks shocked but gets what Peter is thinking. "Peter that's… I don't know if that will work." Peter grabs Conners by the collar. "Regeneration… cancel degradation… do it!" says Peter.
With a nervous look in his eyes, Conners grabs his new green vial and syringe. With a quick hand and in desperation, Conners takes the fluid in the syringe and walks over to Peter. "Not going to lie Peter… This is going to hurt. … and God I hope it works!" And with a quick jab right into the wound, Conners injects the fluid, and within ten seconds and a long scream Peter's vision went black.
Time-skip
Not sure what time it was or where he was, Peter opened his eyes he sat up and winced a bit with a stretch. His vision was fuzzy and everything seemed to be a bit of a yellow tint, but he could make out the shape of Conners in front of him. "D... Doc?" Says Peter in what seemed to be a raspy voice. Conners seemed more than a little shocked and backed away. Peter blinked and his vision became completely clear but still yellowish. "Doc am… am I alright." Conners loosened up a bit. "Um… well you're alive." Conners said with what seems to be regret.
"Um yeah that's good" says Peter. "But why is my vision all funky and my voice." Peter coughs and reaches for his neck. When he feels it, it doesn't feel like skin, but smooth and in some parts scale like. He then looks at his skin. Even through the yellow tint he could see his hand is now green and scaly. His nails where also long and black. No… no way thinks Peter. He then gets up, a little unstable at first and runs to a nearby mirror, despite Conners' protests. He turns it with hesitation, and when he finally faces it, he sees him but with scales, a snout, green tendril spikes for hair, spikes on his shoulders, yellow eyes, two arms and a tail. With rage and a very loud roar, Peter hits the mirror smashing it to a pulp and drops to the ground while staring at both of his arms and begins to cry. "What have I done?" says Peter as he sobs. "I don't know" says Conners, looking sadly at the transformed teen.