I swung towards my school, and by the time I arrived, Lizard and Spider-Man had already left.
Only the police was there.
George Stacy was talking with his daughter, Gwen Stacy.
"Oh Gwen! Thank god you are okay!"
Peter arrived at the scene, as Peter.
I stopped stalking the group and came out, standing on the top of the school building.
"Yo!"
All policemen pointed their guns at me as soon as they heard me.
"Do you really need to do this!? Threaten someone who is clearly not a criminal? I will sue you guys!"
George said, "Please do. We need to know about your identity."
"..."
"Are you connected to the lizard guy? Did he eat some sort of weird Australian lizard like you ate a spider?"
I sighed at the question.
"Tell Spider-Man to come find me. We will capture that Lizard guy and hand him over to you. Interrogate him all you want."
I gave the police, and specifically Peter a subtle look before swinging away.
After swinging around a bit, I entered a manhole to enter the sewers.
First, I started creating webs out of the thin webs, connecting them all around to create a network for detection.
And then, waited at a less smelly corner.
After a while, the manhole near me opened, and Spider-Man came out of it.
We both looked at each other.
"Did you really eat a Spider?"
"That's the first thing you have to say?"
I sighed and nodded.
Spider-Man said, "Oh. I was bitten by a radioactive spider. I guess that's why our tingle thing is reacting."
"Huh? You can tell that my 'tingle' is also reacting?"
"Yeah."
Oh? Well, I guess it's because we were bitten by the same spider.
Speaking of that spider, I have properly gotten rid of its dead body. Burnt to ashes, and the ashes kept securely in my house in a secret place.
I fear that dumping it into the ocean may create spider-fishes or some other monsters. Afterall, this is a unique universe. I can't know for sure what will happen.
"So, how is it going with your girlfriend?"
"G-girlfriend!? I don't-"
"Gwen Stacy. In another universe, she would have gotten bit by the spider. In all her universes, Peter Parker is destined to die. So, in all of Peter Parker universes, Gwen Stacy is destined to die."
"W-what are you talking about!?"
"Just alerting you. Do some practice with saving people without snapping their necks- OH. I also have yet to do that training."
"...Did you jump across universes or something-"
"Shh! Let's talk later. Lizard is near. I have some things to test."
We both went quiet, Peter probably still reeling in shock. And he must also have lots of questions.
But for now, we listened to the vibrations of my trap webs, and started following around the source.
To my surprise, Lizard was actually wearing a lab coat, and making a video of himself on a computer.
"The strength was insufficient. So, I will need to make more serums. The era of evolution of humans is near-!"
I wasn't too much interested in his cringe villain monologue, so I shot thick webs to stick his tail and whole body to the ground.
Then, I landed over him, and put a thick web between his mouth and started pulling it back like they tell to shove hand further inside a snake's mouth.
"Alright Lizard guy. Tell us who you are-"
"He is Dr Connors from Oscorp! It's in his laptop!"
Spider-Man exclaimed.
Wow... this Lizard doesn't really seem to be too intent on keeping his identity hidden.
He tried thrashing around, but I shot more webs to keep him in place.
And even shot webs over his eyes.
"Alright Spider-Man. You head to this guy's office and try to find out the antidote for this guy's drugs. I will be keeping him subdued.
And try to keep things secret. If the government got a whiff of it, they will start turning our military into Lizards to invade other countries more effectively.
We can't hand over this guy as it is. They will surely experiment on him."
"Ah. Okay! I will come soon."
After Spider-Man left, I turned to the Lizard, ready to do some experiments on him.
First, I pocketed a syringe of Lizard serum inside his bag and put it in my own SILK bag, and then, cracked my knuckles to test my strength.
Lizard first became my punching bag.
I lifted him by his tail and put him over a large pipe, webbing his tail to hold him like a punching bag.
It was... harder than I thought. I guess I don't have the raw strength of Spider-Man.
I took a run-up, and delivered, "Super-Man punch!"
Lizard howled in pain, still not able to speak due to my webs.
But even though I wasn't holding back, I couldn't punch through his scaly lizard being and make him explode huh.
I guess I really don't have much of strength. I am sure Hulk can turn this guy into paste easily.
Next, I used Silk Bullets.
At full power, they embedded into his skin a easily, and webbed him up more. He bleeded, but his wounds healed up pretty quickly, making the web bullets more embedded into him.
Okay... Silk Bullets are effective.
And I discovered a con of fast regeneration. A point future me has to remember.
Remove anything embedded into me before my future regeneration ability makes it worse.
Therefore, I should ideally have some control on the regeneration I want to have in the future.
Next, I made the entire place soundproof with extensive amount of webs.
Then, I took out a gun that I had stolen from a thug.
Making a Silk Bulletproof Vest around Lizard, I started the testing.
Hmm... they are good enough for stopping a pistol's bullet.
He didn't react at all. So I guess Silk Bulletproof Vest is effective.
But it will probably still hurt a little for ordinary people.
Still, I think it is probably the best amount of layers while not affecting my speed too much and not being too bulky.
Hmm... I should gift some clothes like these to my family.
Wait... if I am radioactive, wouldn't my webs be radioactive too?
Giving these clothes to them wouldn't be a good idea before I test whether my webs are radioactive or not.
"Grrrrr...."
Lizard started thrashing around again. Oh. It seems like my webs start loosing strength even before their dissolution time.
Good thing to know beforehand.
Alright. It's time to fight!
"I am here with antidote!"
Tch. Spider-Man couldn't have a more terrible timing.
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