Spider-Man: Homesick

Draft 1.0

Cast Chapters Credits

Peter Parker 0. Prologue Disney
Adrian Toomes 1. The Story of Peter Parker so far Marvel
1 New Character 2. The Situation as Oscorp Sony
Dr. Otto Octavius 3. The Vulture Picks his Meal "ILEX1"
Dr. Curt Conners 4. A Meeting of Animals “Moral_Gutpunch”
Dr. Michael Morbius 5. The Itsy Bitsy Spiders
Norman Osborn 6. The Sinister Six
Sergei Kravinoff 7. ?
Dmitri Smerdyakov 8. ?
Eddie Brock 9. ?
Cletus Kasady Post-credits. ?

Chapter 1: The Story of Peter Parker so far:

Following the events of Spider-Man Far from Home, Peter and Aunt May are being housed by SHIELD to
protect them from the public mob, the press, and general hysteria surrounding Parker. Nick Fury is
suggesting, as a worse-case scenario, Peter give up his life as a student and become a full-time young
Avenger, a sanctioned agent of SHIELD. Then he wouldn't have to worry about his reputation just his
own choices. However, Peter wasn't prepared to leave everything behind. Ned, Mary Jane, and Aunt
May, they were all too important to Peter.

 Peter was in his room, quite depressed at his situation but he was somewhat consoled by the
view overlooking New York City.

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 He began reminiscing about all the good times. He could see all of Central Park - the many ponds
reflecting like a mirror. Uncle Ben had taught Peter how to ride a bike there. Brooklyn and
Manhattan Bridges - those were great places to do sprint-swings where he'd try to slingshot
himself across the length of the bridge from one end to the other. Then there was the High Line.

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 He liked the way the concrete pavers zig-zagged, curved, and ran straight with the landscape.
Peter took Liz there once. Another time, Peter took Ned there to let him try out his
 web-shooters and he was actually pretty good! Ned said he felt like Tarzan swinging off the
sides. They all had a good laugh especially when Ned was yodelling the jungle call while swinging
and spinning in circles unintentionally. Tony arrived to nag Peter about misusing his inventions
only for him to join in, having never webslung himself - he was pretty bad - the Iron Man suit
being so heavy.

 He missed Tony - a lot. He wished there was a way out of this mess. Peter could see Avengers
Towers in the skyline. A little further away, Oscorp tower was in the distance, offices lighting up.
He wondered what kind of inventions they were up to as one of the premier tech giants of the
world.

Chapter 2: The Situation at Oscorp:

The month following Tony Stark's death, stock prices of Stark Industries plummeted while stock prices of
all his competitors in technology skyrocketed. Oscorp, Von Doom Industries, Pym Technologies - they all
benefited from the death of Tony. Norman, being that power-hungry man that he is, wanted to
capitalize on this opportunity to seize as many of the industry's shareholders as possible, and he wanted
Spider-Man's blood to achieve this, believing it would take Oscorp to the next level of innovation.

 Octavius, Connors, and Morbius stood at Norman's bedside while he lectured them.

 Norman: "Octavius, you and your team of scientists better be worth all the money I've paid you.
I'm dying, dammit!"

 Octavius: "With Dr. Morbius and Dr. Connors, we will develop a cure for you once we are able to
study young Parker. Speaking of which, do you have any suggestions on how to appeal to
this...spider-boy?...once we've lured him here?"

 Norman: "Yes, he adored Tony Stark, he was his hero, another intellectually gifted individual -
like you three. Now with Tony out of the picture, you two can move in. Act like a surrogate
mentor to him. Impress him with your technology, like Tony does. He'll like that. And that will
endear him to us." Norman wheezed, his condition having worsened over time. Norman
outstretched his arm and pointed to Octavius. "And he knows you Otto. He was applying to
college here in New York, and YOU were one of the professors he met with." Norman wheezed
and coughed again.

 Octavius: "Me?"

 Norman is laboring to speak: "You will talk to him. And you will bring him here. And the rest of
you - will convince the boy to help us."

 Connors: "And if that doesn't work? We should have a contingency plan."

  Norman: "Then we take him dead or alive. You can extract his blood and his organs - any way
you want. That sound alright to you, Connor? Toomes?"

 Adrian Toomes was standing by the window, keeping a lookout in the skies.

 Toomes: "Yeah it does actually. He's been a thorn in my side far longer than I would have
imagined."

 Morbius: "How should we lure Peter out? SHIELD will be nearly impossible to infiltrate."

 Toomes smirked: "Don't worry about that Drac. Tentacles, you're with me. I've got a plan."

Oscorp had been tracking Peter, waiting for an opportune moment to act because they knew that every
now and then, Peter would sneak out of SHIELD base at night to have some fun - a little web-slinging
here, a little meeting with Ned and Mary Jane there. These moments were valuable to Peter who
needed friends to confide all his troubles in and the emotional support to get him through this. And it
was in these precious moments that the Vulture would strike.

Chapter 3: The Vulture Picks his Meal

Night fell and Peter decided tonight the weather was good for a little web-slinging debauchery, as he
saw it now. There were few things that could match the feeling of swinging in the air, the adrenaline of
the free-fall, the instant web shooting to send him swinging, the small aerodynamic movements to
control the trajectory of his body, and the weightlessness between each webshot as he reached
maximum height velocity. There was an athletic thrill to the web-slinging that Peter absolutely enjoyed.
Vulture was perched atop the Oscorp building, having waited days for Peter to make his move. He masks
himself in the darkness far above the city street lights, turbine engines down, the eerie green glow of his
head visor off, and no intention of hurting anyone - yet. Peter simply swings on by a few blocks away
without noticing him.

 Toomes taunts out loud from across the distance: "Peter, it's been too long!"

 Peter looks over his shoulder midswing, recognizing that snarky voice - it was the Vulture! He
web shoots behind him to change his path backwards, somersaulting in the air and landing on
top of a billboard about 20 floors below Toomes: "Toomes...you flew the coop...did it leave a
sour taste in your mouth or did you just miss me?"

 Toomes chuckles: "Hey, that makes two of us criminals out walking free."

 Peter is annoyed by his criminal label and retorts: "I didn't kill Beck. He's lying."

 Toomes just grins at Peter, not caring: "Yeah, well you know the media. 'If bleeds it
leads'...Speaking of which, how's bout I give the Bugle something to really talk about?" The
metal talons on Toomes' boots withdraw from a folded position and slam into the the glass
 panels of the roof. A few pieces fall to the streets far below.

 Peter readies himself for a fight. Not just to defend himself but in the back of Peter's mind, he
thinks bringing in Vulture might help clear his name.

 Toomes launches at Peter, the turbines roaring to life. Peter was already in the air, web shooters
ready. He lands two webshots across Vulture's chassis, and tries to reign the Vulture in as he
flew past him. Peter's feet drag across the roof until he hits the curb and uses it to force Vulture
to U-turn. Then he yanks him to crash into the billboard. Vulture gets up hardly fazed and rushes
Peter head-on with his flight suit: "You should have left town Peter." Vulture closes the gap and
pummels Spider-Man in hand-to-hand combat while he idles in air. Peter is agile and strong but
he's not a trained fighter. He struggles to keep up: "AAARGH!"

 Vulture cuts the engine to drop him beneath Peter, fires them back on, and uses the thrust of
his suit to uppercut Peter high into the air.

 Toomes: "Oh and one more thing - STAY AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!" With that, Vulture clocks
Peter right upside the head.

 They continue fighting mid-air but Vulture is getting the upper hand. Peter kicks him away with
both his feet and web shoots himself away to create some distance: "I haven't seen Liz in a long
time. Besides, she deserves a better father than you."

 Peter runs and loses sight of Vulture: "Okay Peter, remember what you learned - 'gotta keep this
bird grounded!' "

 Vulture taunts Peter: "Come out, come out, wherever you are - the itsy bitsy spider can't go far."

 Peter roundabouts between the alleyways with spider webbing, finds a vulnerable vantage
point, slingshots himself up, and tackles Vulture. Peter latches webbing onto Vulture and ejects
a device that attaches onto a nearby building. It's retractable webbing and Vulture goes flying
backwards. Peter falls and clings to the side of a building face.

 Vulture makes quick work of the webbing with a knife and lunges at Peter, talons first, but Peter
flips backwards and shoots two fists full of web into Toomes' mask and eyes before kicking him
downwards.

 Peter pins Vulture's wings down with wide fanned webbing and fires web bullets straight into
his turbines!: "I've learned a few things since my last fight with you Mr. Toomes." Peter grabs
Vulture by his harness, lifting him up, stretching the webbing he fired. "Listen, you need t-"

 The sound of a high-speed aircraft can be heard in the distance - then a sonic boom. Peter looks
over Vulture's shoulder to see a small aircraft heading in this direction. Vulture laughs at Peter:
"Me too, web-head." And punches Peter in the face! Vulture ignites high-speed mode to shred
the webbing in his turbines and climbs higher above but Peter whips a rope of webbing to
 Vulture's boots and slams him back down the side. Peter: "Did you make some friends in
prison?"

 Peter hears a voice radioing through Vulture's headpiece: "ETA in two minutes." It's evidently
female.

 Vulture: "Make it one, I'm heading to you."

 Voice: "Copy."

 Vulture peels Peter's hands off of him and flies off rushing to meet the aircraft. He's nearly
there. Vulture looks behind him to see that Peter's flailing in the wind, hanging on to a rope of
webbing stuck to his boot - a tenacious one he is: "Like a thorn side Peter, like a thorn," he says.

 The unknown aircraft blasts past Peter approximately a football field away to his left. It was a
young woman. Peter's spider sense flares! He looks behind him and the unknown aircraft has
circled back around.

 Peter hurries to climb the web rope closer and closer to Vulture,"Just like gym class" he's
thinking. They're flying above a body of water now, Central Park, New York. Spider-sense flares!
He can hear an automated voice in Vulture's head piece: "MISSILE LOCK, MISSILE LOCK." Vulture
cuts the turbine engines to his flight suit and folds his wings, nose-diving towards the water.

 Peter: "What are you doooiiingg!?"

 Vulture was trying to whip Peter's trajectory into the missiles but they whiz right past him.
Vulture continues his descent and Peter catches up to Vulture but the velocity is making Peter
lose his spider-grip. He knows he has to stay above ground to be effective but he's hesitant to
let go. They're getting closer to the water, Peter makes a decision to let loose and he tumbles
backwards vertically in mid-air. Vulture's engines blast back to life and he spreads his wings
broadly to slow his descent. Immediately he maneuvers a near 90 degree turn, barely scraping
the lake's surface, his flight suit booming across the water. Toomes has been practicing this
aerial maneuver many times. "I love doing that!" he says to himself.

 Peter struggles to find balance in the air and sees the other aircraft swooping down at him.
Peter: "Oh no!" She grabs him with both of her talon boots, one on each shoulder. Peter is face
to face with his aggressor - this young woman is equipped with a much more advanced flight
suit similar to Vulture's. Her eyes are that same eerie glow like Vulture's except a bright purple.
The woman makes her way to the grassy rambles of the park. She drags Peter's face across the
ground before releasing him to crash into the side of a hill. He bounces off of it, rolls 10 yards
and lands at the feet of Vulture. He is defeated.

 The woman flies next to Peter, jet propulsors winding down before the sound of two boots hit
the ground.
  Vulture laughs at Peter: "Do you like her Peter, she seems to like you."

 Peter can barely move: "Who...who's she?...you're prison wife? K."

 The unknown woman lands next to Peter answering his question: "The Raven."

 Vulture signals to the Raven an execution gesture of his fist with thumb out moving across his
neck: "Go ahead."

 Raven: "Roger."

 She holds her wing to Peter's throat, ready to end him but just then Dr. Octavius slams her 20
feet sideways with all four of his metallic arms! Vulture feigns a shocked expression: "Who the
f@#% are you!?...What the f@#$ are you?"

 Vulture rushes to Raven and Octavius is in pursuit.

 Octavius quickly pins Vulture, one arm per wing, one on his waist, and one on his throat - tightly.
He brings him in closer, face to face. Toomes struggles to speak through the cold metal clamps
of Octavius' machinery: "Easy there...Cthulhu...we're all actors - AGHhhs - remember Doc?"
Octavius gives him a wry smile and says: "Then I want my Oscar," and tosses him into the pond.
Octavius looks back at Raven, standing tall above her on his metal arms, and scoffs: "You are a
magnificent specimen my dear, but you have chosen a poor mentor." He loved to look down on
others but Octavius was sincere in his remark, believing he would be better teacher to the
young miss Astrid - Astrid Rush. Her fallen comrades had called her "Aerial Astrid" for her
extreme piloting skills. Police sirens can be heard in the distance. The glamour of red and blue
lights visible upstreet. Octavius rushes back to Peter who's lumbering his body to make a quick
getaway: "Quickly Peter, uhh, 'come with me if you want to live.' "

 First birds and now Octopi, what next Peter thought but he has no choice. He wearlily extends
his hand for help and Octavius cradles the tired boy in his metal arms. He rushes to Oscorp -
plan executed to precision.

 Peter had passed out from exhaustion but his spider strength will help him heal. He sleeps the
night away.

Chapter 4: A Meeting of Animals

Peter woke the next morning to the smell of crispy bacon. He walked out of his bedroom and saw
different staff bringing in breakfast foods - it was heaven on Earth if heaven was a dining table. Peter
was delighted.

 Dr. Octavius entered the dining room and smiled: "Ahhh Peter, you're awake. Good. Eat."
Breakfast was served: Crispy, crunchy, gnarled, bacon with the right balance between crunchy
 and soft, creamy and fluffy scrambled eggs - not overcooked, not browned, toasted bread, and a
glass of zangy orange juice to wash it all down.

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 And plate after plate kept coming in. The dining staff weren't slowing down any time soon.

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 Then came dessert.

 The french toast was incredibly dense with bread and swirled with egg and a side dish of honey
imported from Brazil. Dr. Octavius smiled and says: "Mr. Osborn fancies the Brazilian honey
while I favor the one from Turkey. The each have their distinct flavors. Try them!"

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 Dr. Octavius: "We Germans love our sweets."

 The stuffed variety French toast being Octavius' personal favorite:

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 A five layer, red-velvet, stack of pancakes, light icing on the top with blueberries and quarter
pieces of strawberries lodged in the icing.

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 Fresh made donuts cut in half and pinch of cinnamon sugar

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 Peter was full and grateful.

 Dr. Octavius: "The best minds need the best foods to fuel their brains, wouldn't you agree
Peter?"

 Peter is leaning back into his chair and unbuckles his belt for more stomach room: "I agree."
  Dr. Octavius: "Speaking of best minds...", Octavius calls Connors in to join them: "You can come
in now."

 Dr. Connors suddenly enters the room.

 Peter: "Y-you."

 Dr. Octavius: "It's okay Peter, he's here to help us."

 Peter: "You're the second person I've met that's supposed to be in jail..."

 Dr. Connors: "I can explain Peter, but for now, let's talk about you."

Dr. Connors and Dr. Octavius explain to Peter how they can enter Peter into protective custody of
Oscorp since Norman Osborn has a contract with the military as a weapons contractor. And because
Oscorp knows a few congressmen very well, or rather he had a lot of blackmail material to use against
them but they didn't let Peter know this. Peter sees a lot of value in working for Oscorp.

 Peter talks about Dr. Octavius: "So why are you guys helping me?"

 Dr. Octavius: "Ever since you were revealed to be the Spider-Boy -"

 Peter: "- Man...it's Spider-Man...sorry, I just...nevermind."

 Dr. Octavius and Dr. Connors exchange glances. Dr. Connors nods in approval, encouraging him
to use the title.

 Dr. Octavius: "Spider-Man...ever since then we've taken a great interest in you. You're ability
to climb walls and endure high altitudes and not to mention your super strength. So we've been
searching for you. It just so happens I was taking a walk in the park when I so happen to see this
scuffle and like any good samaritan, I jumped at the opportunity to help a fellow citizen. This is
how it is. You are you. I am me. So everything is good." Dr. Octavius was a terrible liar.

 After the meal, Octavius met with Connors in private, and they both led Peter to the 85th floor
of Oscorp for further discussion.

 Peter was irked at the sight of Connors: "I can't believe you're out of jail..." but Peter was too full
to argue.

 Dr. Connors: "I'm in a rehabilitation program Peter, and I've been granted temporary pardon for
assisting the government under Mr. Osborn's direction who, as we've mentioned, is assisting
our military with defense.

 Peter wondered: "Jeez, what's Oscorp developing."

  Peter wasn't too happy about this only able to insult Connors: "You're a criminal!"

 Dr. Connors: "So are you."

 Peter: "I'm not a murderer." Dr. Connors countered: "Not according to every media and news
outlet."

 "Stop antagonizing the boy, he's had a rough few days," Octavius said. "Follow along now
Peter," and he obliged.

 On the 85th floor, they walked to the main office which was huge. It was easily the height of two
floors. And it was luxurious, large five-foot square marble tiles, a Rembrandt-esque painting of
nuclei and atoms that covered the entire 3/4th's of the back wall, 8 foot tall panels of glass
plaques with scientific equations printed on them that adorned the right wall as art.

 It was also very clinical where almost everything was decorated in white. A glass office to the
right with the label "QUARANTINE," tables with laboratory equipment towards the back wall,
and a hallway on the left that led down to a pair of double white doors. In the center of the
room was a large gathering table fitted for twelve people. Peter was enjoying the visual treat, he
felt at home in a place of invention and experimentation.

 Some of the staff were there cleaning the grounds, mops and brooms. One man was mopping
quite vigorously inside the quarantine glass office.

 Peter: "I guess this place has to be kept pretty sterile huh? Because of all the samples and tests
run here?"

 Dr. Connors: "Yes."

Dr. Connors and Dr. Octavius talked at lengths with Peter about all his future plans - amnesty from his
status as a fugitive, college, career paths, being able to support Aunt May so that she would never have
to worry about paying her bills again. Peter was quite enamored with the idea. He was tired of living like
a wanted criminal at SHIELD and he just wanted his old life back. Afterwards, Connors began explaining
his current predicament with the lizard side effects while explaining the value of his biology to Oscorp.

 Dr. Connors tried to defend himself: "I have a disease Peter. I experimented on myself using
lizard DNA; it was an attempt to regrow missing limbs."

 Peter: "It was no excuse to try and turn everyone into lizards!"

 Dr. Connors: "The rapid physical transformation gives me a great deal of pain as every bone,
sinew and muscle fiber is stretched, enlarged, and enhanced to accommodate the lizard
transformation and back again. We also believe this ordeal contributes greatly to my manic
behavior as the Lizardman - combined with the fact that my animal brain is wired for violence
 and destruction - predation in other words."

 Dr. Connors: "When injected with a sample of this serum," Connors hands Peter a vial of blood,
"my transformation regresses partially to that of a humanoid lizard. The snout is lost and
replaced with a human-like face. The scales don't go away and neither does the tail but more
importantly, the mind is restored; most of the rabid, feral-like behavior is tempered. I regain my
intelligence at this level. But the drastic transformation takes a toll on the body and mind."

 Peter sympathizes with Connors and sighs: "So what treatments are you guys looking into?
What's Oscorp got to do with this?..."

 Dr. Connors: "I'm glad you asked." Connors faced the entrance: "You can come in now."

 Morbius enters the room, unabashed of his monstrous face but unnerving Peter.

 Peter cautiously says: "Oooohkaaaay.."

 Dr. Morbius: "It's okay Peter. Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Mi --

 Peter: "-Holy shit!" Peter stood up and said, "You're the Dracula-Man. I read about you in the
Bugle, I thought you were just a hoax! Like, like...like BigFoot! Oh man, Ned's gonna freak!"

 Dr. Morbius: "Peter, I'm not a vampire, and you cannot tell a soul about what you see here
today!"

 Peter: "Oh yeah, yeah. Right, I won't tell anyone. No souls will be informed. I'm sorry. So what
were you saying? Your name?"

 Dr. Morbius: "My name-"

 Peter: "Do you burn in sunlight?..."

 Dr. Morbius: "What? No."

 Do you hate crosses?

 Dr. Morbius: "No."

 Peter: "Do you get hurt by holy water?"

 Dr. Morbius: "No."

 Peter: "Do you hate silver?"

 Dr. Morbius: "That's werewolves and no!"

 Peter: "Do you have a reflection?"

 Dr. Morbius: "No! I mean yes!"

 Peter: "Do you hate garlic?"

 Dr. Morbius: "Yes!"

 Peter: "AH-HA!"

 Morbius groans in annoyance but he is taken back by Peter's innocence. This playful gesture
hasn't occurred to him in a long time.

 Peter: "Okay! Okay! I believe you.

 Dr. Morbius resumed his introduction: "My name is Michael Morbius, and I studied biochemistry
with a concentration in hematology in my homeland of Greece. Please do not fear my physical
condition. I, like Dr. Connors, am cursed with an affliction. But unlike Connors, I still possess my
mind at all stages of my disease. So I will not hurt you."

 Dr. Morbius continued: "However, there are other downsides to this disease. My transformation
has given me an unending appetite for...protein, iron...oxygen. My body requires a large amount
of oxygen delivered throughout my organs and muscles because of the physical demands I make
upon it, and so it requires the..."appropriate substances"...to fuel it."

 Morbius was being indirect about his condition, afraid he would scare Peter of the fact that he
feeds on blood and furthermore, that he was vulnerable to succumbing to his own animalistic
instincts like Connors.

 Dr. Morbius: "Worry not, Dr. Octavius has developed a neural microchip that inhibits the signals
in my brain from transmitting feelings of hunger so that I never quite feel the need to eat. It
dampens my appetite but doesn't erase it completely. And I ensure that I maintain healthy
nutrition by feeding through an I.V. bag at timed intervals, 9:00 am breakfast, 12:00 lunch, 5:00
dinner. Other than that, I am in full control.".J

 Dr. Octavius: "The same microchip in his head is a modified computer chip of my own invention.
One that allows me to interface with my mechanical arms. Whereas Morbius' chip blocks brain
signals, mine receives and transmits. In other words, the microchip near my prefrontal cortex
receives synaptic signals from the brain which is converted into numbers, a computer message,
and broadcast wirelessly to the electronic control units, ECU’s, inside my mechanical arms.
These control units communicate on a dedicated network available only to those microchips
called a controller area network or CAN. This is how I control my arms with my mind, just like my
real arms made of flesh and bone. Intuitive, yes?"

 Indeed, Peter was enraptured by the science and technology taking place at Oscorp.

 Octavius was successfully entertaining Peter with a science discussion. Morbius took this
 moment to step back and collect himself while Peter was distracted. He clenched his jaw, trying
to ignore Peter's vitals, but he found himself glancing at Peter's neck, able to sense the heat
signatures of individual arteries and veins. He listened to the way his heart pump blood. A
two-beat rhythm. 1 step, 2 step, 1 step, 2 step, and not a second in between. [Listen while
reading]

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 Morbius' had a finely attuned sense of hearing, able to pick out distinct voices among a crowd
and even specific heartbeats. Some had ticks because of their pacemaker, some had irregular
patterns, heart murmurs, but Peter's was deep, strong, and heavy, pumping blood voraciously
to all his organs, muscles, and veins, no doubt due to his enhanced physiology. [Stop play.]

 Dr. Octavius: "Michael?"

 Morbious closed his eyes tightly and sighed, trying to make his way back to the real world.

 Dr. Michael Morbius: "Yes?"

 Dr. Octavius: "I asked you a question. What do you think about Connors’ condition?"

 Octavius clenched Morbius' shoulder with a smile, a signal for him to keep it together, fully
aware of his peculiarities. Peter waited eagerly for a scientific answer.

 Dr. Morbius: "It's treatable."

 Peter: "So you guys saw me and thought, 'Hey what's so special about this guy that he's able to
live as a human but do everything that a spider can do, right?"

 Dr. Connors and Dr. Morbius: "Precisely."

 Dr. Connors: "Morbius' helped me, Octavius helped Morbius, and so on and so forth. One
person's strengths compensates for the weaknesses of the next. You see, we work together as a
team to advance science while curing ourselves. This is what we are, six scientists, working
together to advance the field of science and technology for the betterment of mankind. And we
need you Peter. We want you as our sixth member. You, me, Morbius, Octavius, and Norman
saving the world."

 Dr. Connors repeats his message: "We need your help, Peter."

 Peter was extremely hesitant because they were asking for a lot but at the same time he was
excited at the prospects.

 Dr. Morbius: "Come Peter, walk with me, there's one more person we want you to meet. The
owner of Oscorp Corporation."
  Peter: "Seriously? He's here? Mr. Osborn? Tony mentioned to him, how they use to both be
arms dealers, except Mr. Osborn was pioneering the way in man-driven jetpacks, robotic
projectiles, gaseous compounds, he's not exactly reknown fo--"he's dying," Morbius responded.

 Arriving at a set of double panel doors with gold handles, Morbius turns around to face Peter:
"Peter, we are all suffering, and we believe you to be the answer to our prayers because you
have successfully bonded with another organism but haven't suffered any apparent
abnormalities.

 "Abnormalities?...sure." Peter thinks of all the complications in his life since becoming
Spider-Man, becoming a fugitive no less, but nothing like what he has seen in this laboratory
today.

 Morbius studies Peter's melancholy, and sympathizes quietly.

 Dr. Morbius: "I understand Peter, but at least you have your physical humanity. In other words,
you don't have eight limbs." They both chuckle. "Come...let's meet Mr. Osborn."

Peter speaks with Norman and they talk about possible treatments for his blood disease. Morbius'
listens intensely, impressed by the boy's repository of knowledge. He has so much potential, Morbius
thought.

 Norman: "We've tried everything we could think of. Concentrated photon energy.

 Peter: "You mean gamma radiation?"

 Norman: "Yes, and it didn't work. And now it's gotten cancerous."

 Norman: "Speaking of cancer, a company by the name of the Life Foundation had found an
organism in nature that repairs living tissue through symbiosis. I bought up their company so
that I could continue their work."

 Norman: "According to the Life Foundation's documents, trace remnants of the symbiote
remain stored in the host's body, specifically the spinal region, after the symbiote switches
users. Upon further observation, we found DNA sequences belonging to the host inside of the
symbiote, like it had made a copy of its genes - a genetic memory if you will. We suspect this is
a way for the symbiote to grow stronger. It was my best chance at curing this disease.
Unfortunately, none of the Life Foundation's subjects were successful, and all other samples of
the symbiote have either been lost or destroyed. Leaving us you, Peter. You're my only hope."

 Norman resigned himself to bedrest and encouraged Peter to take up a scholarship at Oscorp. It
would be fully financed with all expenses paid for, and he'd be working with some of the best
minds in the world. With that, Norman bid Peter goodbye, and Morbius led Peter back to the
 meeting room. The three made a good photo-op, Eddie Brock thought. He was perched far
across the street, on the rooftops of an adjacent building, camera in hand, and soaked in rain.
"Oscorp, Circus for Freaks!" Eddie wondered if that would be a good headline. He reviews the
photograph on his camera, quite proud. Curiously, it seems as if the vampire-man is staring at
him in the corner of his eyes.

 Peter faces Dr. Octavius, Dr. Morbius, and Dr. Connors and gives them an answer: "Well...this
has been an incredible experience. I think I'd like to help."

 The doctors' faces light up in excitement...

 Peter: "But I need time to think on it - the details and all that - you know what I mean?"

 The doctors all agreed: "Of course/Sure Peter/Take your time Peter, this is a big decision. Go
back to the 84th floor, there's a king-sized bed waiting for you. The staff will accommodate
you."

 Peter was ecstatic about the opportunity to get his life back on track.

 Peter retired to a room on a lower floor, tossed his clothes in a laundry basket to shower, and
when he was done, found hot food already delivered to his room. A medium-rare steak with
butter sizzling down the side, the steak was lightly salted and peppered, topped with a garnish
of cilantro sitting on a bed of three pan-fried asparagus. Two sides of crispy scalloped potatoes
and parmesan dusted broccoli hugged the sides and a separate dish of gourmet chocolate gelato
waited patiently to the right.

 Peter thought to himself: "Wow, not even Shield serves this good of food." He devoured the
food like Thor would after a victorious battle and jumped in his bed with a smile wide enough to
see from Asgard. Sleep would merely be an afterthought...Peter knew he was being watched.

Chapter 5: The Itsy Bitsy Spiders

A few hours passed while Peter had remained motionless under the blanket, pretending to sleep.Once it
was past midnight, Peter woke himself up and got to work pretty quickly under the covers because ever
since he saw Dr. Connors out of prison working with Oscorp scientists, he knew they were up to no good
- and no way would Connors would have been released after what he did to New York. And Quentin
Beck? He taught Peter a very painful lesson about trusting strangers he adored. Trauma was Peter's
teacher because he had never met a man who caused him so much pain and hurt through lying. He's
living in the consequences because of Quentin.

 Knowing he was being surveillanced, Peter grabbed a device from his utility belt that he wore
with his civilian clothes. An invention of Tony's for reconnaissance. Peter remembered Tony's
 words: "You'll know what to do with each one of these, any time you're in a stitch." "Thanks Mr.
Stark," and Peter got to work.

 This particular device was housed with microscopic nanomachines equipped with lenses that
when grouped together acted as a remote camera. They functioned like thousands of tiny little
spiders apart of a hive mind. Peter dispersed the nanites from under the covers, using the vents
as a method of infiltration. "All those video games are paying off." He muttered under his
breath. "becauses it's always the vents." He was aiming the direction of the nano-spiders for
where he thought would be kept top secrets - the bottom and top floors. He searched the
basement levels first and unsurprisingly, found men and women in lab coats working,
dilapidated rooms, tanks of electric eels, exoskeletons, stuff fairly par for the course for a tech
giant like Oscorp, and he was pretty excited to see what developments were going on. One thing
was of particular note: Norman Osborn lied about his condition with sulfhemoglobin because
that's not what was making him green. And he did have cancer either. "The nerve of this guys!"
Peter thought. Furthermore, the doctors wrote in his psychological profile that he was going
through so many experiments that it was having an effect on his sanity. Peter was a little
worried.

 Peter decided he would use the nano-spiders to hack into Norman's desktop computer. Little
did Peter know, things would soon take a turn for the worse because what Peter found on
Norman's computer, on the top floor belonging to Norman's main office, would shake him to
the core.

 Peter teared up and wept in disbelief underneath his blanket. "Noo..." he said. He could not
fathom the extent of Norman and the people he just spoke with would go to find answers. It
was evil. It was atrocious. They were inhumane.

 There was torture. There was death - bodies being exhumed from the grave. Experiments on
reanimating corpses. So many dissected bodies being dumped. Norman seemed to not just want
to cure himself but was looking for immortality. Peter stopped browsing Norman's documents
before it damaged him any further. He buried his eyes into his hands and muttered: "It just
keeps getting worse. My life just keeps getting worse." Peter made haste, gathered his things,
opened a window, cold wind and rain in the air worsening his anxiety, and disappeared into the
night.

Chapter 6: The Sinister Six

 It was 2:00 am in the morning and Norman was woken up by the scrambling of the men in the
meeting room. Hours had passed since Peter left. They were all trying to decide what to do.
Norman glanced over at his desktop computer, many folders and documents open - making it
apparent to him that they had been accessed remotely. He made his way to the meeting room
of arguing men: "The boy knows."
 They all looked at him and he repeated his words: "The boy knows too much!" Norman was
furious: "GET HIM!" Norman left, limping towards the elevator.

 Octavius extended one of his mechanical arms to a far away cabinet revealing a tray of syringes
and grabbed one. He handed it to Dr. Connors.

 Dr. Connors is talking to himself: "I was hoping it wouldn't have to come to this Peter..."

 He places himself inside a reinforced pexi-glass room, the one with "QUARANTINE" label on it.
Connors sighs and injects himself with a serum to force the transformation. Octavius is next to
Morbius, with a remote in hand. This remote is directly wired to pylon generators inside the
glass room, able to deliver 75 million volts. He is on standby to administer electroshocks to
trigger Connors' ferality, a machine co-developed with Morbius. What follows is a graphic
depiction.

 Dr. Conners takes a seat inside the room, eyes closed and one hand to each side of his head,
trying to control his headache - the serum already altering the physical and chemical makeup of
his brain. Conners' eyes widen and his pupils dilate, flickering between elliptical and spherical
but the sclera turning a deep amber yellow. There is an intense fear in Dr. Connors' eyes - the
moment where he loses all consciousness and the dreadful thought that this time may be his
last time as a human, a man, a father.

 Connors whips his head back and shrieks in terror and pain. Octavius delivers a voltage of 25
million. Blue lighting flies across the room, sparks land on the ground by the generator. His flesh
crawls and bubbles beneath his skin - he pinches it to stop the movement - his body torques
under the weight of his chest - his pectorals, abdominals, deltoids, trapezoids, lungs, and heart
all expanding, he starts howling in vigor, clawing away at his skin - shredding it to pieces. He
climbs the surface with his claws, each nail puncturing a hole just enough to cling, and a lump
clearly forming beneath his jacket tail. He wheezes through labored breathing - the pain of the
transformation driving him insane.

 Connors falls to the floor on his back, the skin of his face being split apart down the middle as a
snout of muscle and bone forces its way through. Octavius delivers another shock of electricity,
40 million volts. The lizard roars at Octavius. His muscles bleed between the fibers without any
flesh to hold it. His teeth popping out with mid-air trails of blood, long serrated teeth growing in
its place - teeth that were meant for ripping and tearing. The lizard's tail is taking shape,
uplifting the beast's coat tails. Octavius puts the device away. The lizardman retreats into a fetal
position. A moment's silence.

 Blood has pooled beneath the lizard. Scales replacing skin, beast replacing man. He has
transformed, white lab coat in tatters, pants and shirt stretch to the seams. Morbius gags at the
stench of burnt blood. The lizard approaches the wall to face Octavius, and begins slamming his
fists into the reinforced glass wall, over and over. Lizardman yells and whips his body around to
slam his tail into the wall. A single hair-line fracture travels across the impact.
 Dr. Octavius throws lizardman Peter's clothing, freshly containing his scent. Lizardman sniffs the
garments and bonds to his prey. This is how the six use the lizardman, like training an animal for
the hunt. The lizard glanced at Morbius and gave a soft growl. Morbius stared into Conners' eyes
and shook his head in disapproval - because he promised Dr. Connors they would both find a
cure for their madness.

 Dr. Octavius asked Morbius teasingly: "Are you ready doctor?"

 Dr. Morbius: "I am."

 Dr. Octavius is speaking with Toomes on radio: "The boy's escaped with Oscorp's secrets, he
must be intercepted before he returns to SHIELD."

 Vulture: "I thought you'd never ask."

 They unleash lizardman into the raining night, thunder booming, lightning crackling. Morbius,
Octavius, and Vulture follow in pursuit.