"I am certain that shockwave wasn't generated normally." Peter ignored Norman's office and opened the window. "I'm going to check it out first. You cover our tracks and be careful."
"I'll be careful." Felicia rolled her eyes at Peter jumping out the window. "He's two years younger than me, you know."
Peter, of course, didn't hear Felicia's complaint; he was descending rapidly. Soon, he spotted a weird flash of light coming from a laboratory floor, which happened to be the one housing Dr. Curt Connors' Savage Strength project—the same floor Peter and Gwen had visited earlier that day.
"Connors? What happened?"
No time to open a window. Realizing something was wrong, Peter simply kicked through the lab floor's glass and landed inside. The moment he entered, he witnessed a shocking sight: A giant reptilian creature, taller than the Hulk, nearly five meters tall, with a tail over three meters long. Its body was covered in glossy, hard, chitinous scales. This was nothing like the Lizard Peter remembered from Spider-Man lore—a human in a lab coat who had merely transformed into a lizard-man. Instead, the monster that appeared before him looked like a bloodthirsty killer straight out of a monster horror movie.
The creature used one of its newly grown hands, unconstrained by mechanical tentacles, to seize two tentacles of a certain octopus, slamming him fiercely against the floor before letting out a roar.
"Dr. Connors?"
Connors turned into the Lizard? How could that be? He has no reason to inject himself with lizard serum or undergo surgery! Unless...
Peter looked at Doctor Octopus.
"Otto?! What did you do?!"
"Just a little experimental mistake, Spider-Man. I knew the Erskine Serum would enhance the Lizard's bestial nature when the lizard serum took effect, but I didn't realize it would also accelerate the cellular mutation."
Doctor Octopus, slammed to the ground, let out a dry laugh, pointing triumphantly at the Lizard, venting his pleasure. "Look! Everyone will see! This is a monster created by Oscorp! Everyone will know that it was Oscorp that created this monster..."
"You did this just for that?!"
"I did this just for that?!" Otto roared, getting up. "I've worked so long, precisely for this moment! I want to destroy everything Oscorp stands for!"
"What does Connors have to do with this?!"
"Well," Otto smiled. "He can help me destroy Oscorp. That's all."
The massive Lizard shattered a containment unit with a punch, pulled out a modified monkey inside, bit off the monkey's head, and swallowed the entire thing.
He was feeding. He was hungry. The Lizard's enormous size required vast amounts of energy to maintain, yet he deliberately chose to consume a smaller creature like the monkey, ignoring the two larger, more massive live humans.
"Connors? Can you hear me?"
Peter reached out to Connors, wary of Doctor Octopus. The Lizard looked at Peter hesitantly, then suddenly seemed to realize something. His golden vertical pupils instantly constricted, and he turned to charge outside. Peter quickly shot a web, sticking to the Lizard's back, but the Lizard's power exceeded the reinforced web's strength, and it snapped during his charge.
Peter then shot a massive amount of the symbiote from both hands, forcefully clinging to the Lizard. The Lizard howled and shrieked, charging toward the window. He was just about to leap down but was tangled.
His golden eyes vibrated, seemingly waiting for something. Finally, he briefly looked back at Spider-Man.
Then, accompanied by an earth-shattering howl, the Lizard tore open his entire back. Massive amounts of scales, along with skin, were brutally ripped off. Blood sprayed from the lacerations, then flowed vertically, exposing the muscle and spinal column underneath. The tangled portion of the back, like a heavy shell, slammed to the ground.
Freed from the symbiote's entanglement, the Lizard shrieked as he free-fell from the hundred-meter-high building, smashed onto the pavement, and then, enduring the excruciating pain of his skin being torn off, dug through the ground with his bare hands and escaped into the New York sewers, rapidly fleeing.
"That's one giant monster."
Felicia, having finished tidying up the Oscorp office, zipped down on her grapple gun, dangling in mid-air as she spoke. "Are you going to go after the monster?"
"No, we have to catch Doctor Octopus first. Black Cat, contact the Avengers. I'll transfer the contact signal to you. Tell them to protect Dr. Connors' family. Connors might go after his family now that he's out of control."
After speaking with Black Cat, Peter decisively turned back. Doctor Octopus was also planning his escape, but Peter abruptly shot out a hand, and a mass of black symbiote surged toward Otto, intent on capturing him directly.
Surprisingly, however, Doctor Octopus's four mechanical arms also spewed out a massive amount of red symbiote. The two sticky biologies wrestled in mid-air. Otto wore a satisfied smile, but Peter frowned. He had noticed that Doctor Octopus had fully functional arms and had initially thought he had finally opted for some high-tech prosthetics. He hadn't expected the final solution to be the use of a symbiote.
"The symbiotes should have been wiped out a long time ago. The secondary symbiotes left by Knull should have lost their activity..."
[They have no consciousness.]
Peter, muttering to himself, heard Venom's reply. He understood one thing: Otto had mastered some way to activate the inactive symbiote remnants Knull had left behind. His eyes narrowed. No time to dally with Otto. He forcefully pulled Otto closer and charged forward.
Otto smiled, confident he could temporarily fend off Spider-Man. His mechanical arms had been upgraded and were incredibly strong with the symbiote's enhancement. Even Spider-Man, strengthened by his own symbiote, might not win in a test of strength.
"You can't stop me, Spider-Man!"
"Is that so, Otto? Why do villains always assume I can't handle you?!"
A cold flash streaked by. A sharp treasure sword appeared in Spider-Man's hand, severing the two tentacles reaching out. Then, Venom grabbed Otto's arm, molecularly merging into Otto's body, and sucked out the entire red secondary symbiote. At the same time, Peter swung the sword to slice off the other two mechanical arms, then let the Dragon Fang Sword revert to being part of his web-shooter.
"You didn't know a wizard friend sent me an unbreakable sword, did you? Of course, I'm sure most readers have forgotten, too."
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