After finishing up the rest of his classes and having a short talk with Gwen and Harry, Peter joined Connor in his lab.
Today was the big day for Peter as well since he hadn't seen the success stage of this procedure. Every mouse till now had died immediately after the transfusion.
It was a big project that could fix so many problems in the world and make the doctor very rich plus get his dream to come true.
Peter knew about the doctor's complex because of the missing arm and wanted this to come true. It was lucky that the experiments had shown some results or the funding might have been cancelled soon.
Just to be sure Peter had reminded the doctor to be careful in the testing phase as he didn't want the man to get too excited and make hasty decisions.
"Look Peter, a miracle." Connor muttered in a serene tone as he showed Peter a rat re-growing its missing limbs.
It was a miracle that could help the people and a serum that could be weaponized in the wrong hands but that was the truth for many things and the benefits outweighed the negatives in this situation.
"Wonderful, doc, what are you going to do now?"
"I have kept watch on the subjects and seen no negative implications yet even after changing the surroundings. So we will test it on a monkey now before we go to human trials." Connor replied as the assistants brought in the new subject to be tested while he wished he could inject the serum into his blood already.
Peter watched as the new test subject will placed safely in containment, cleaned up and injected with the serum after taking its readings.
It was missing a hand and once the serum was injected, the animal thrashed around feeling intense pain and screamed loudly before it lost consciousness and a new hand grew.
Everyone was holding their breath at the scene and it was made worse by the screams of pain.
"It's a success."
"No, there is something wrong with it." Peter stopped the assistant from going inside as his eyes caught the changes.
The monkey had grown some scales on its hand and the nails were extremely sharp.
"Check everything" Connor ordered as he analyzed the new subject.
It was a partial success but it won't sell in the public sector like this. They need to wait and see what else happened to the subject.
He couldn't wait for the beast to wake up so the doctor prodded it with a mechanical arm causing it to wake up after some tries.
Its eyes had become like a reptile and as they watched it, the beast started to become aggressive very quickly.
"It's a failure, check what went wrong."
"It's affecting its mental facilities and causing a mutation or the mutation is causing the vessel to become aggressive." Peter muttered
"Maybe the clashing personalities of the species are causing the affect but we will only know more after the tests."
Peter nodded and watched the testing take place before they started working on trying to fix the problem.
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The issues of mutations and aggressiveness ruined the product. They needed to be fixed, at least the aggressiveness needed to go if the doctor wanted to hand in this home work to the military.
They wouldn't mind some mutations if the product did the job properly without causing other problems.
It went on for hours and soon enough it was already 10 P.M, they had worked with minimum rest and everyone was exhausted except Peter.
Leaving the others to take a nap, Peter left the premises when he heard his radio talk about an attack.
'It's hero time.' Peter thought as he changed into Spiderman and swung towards his new destination.
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Few miles away from his University, a tall man with blonde hair wearing an unusual suit of red and blue with some grey pants was making a scene.
It seems like he was the new super villain on the block and called himself Supercharger. He had attacked the bank, took out the valuables and made a mess of everything around him.
From the looks of it, anyone could see he just wanted to cause chaos and they wouldn't be wrong as that was Ronnie Hilliard's aim.
Ronnie Hilliard's father was a scientist who was interested in the steadily growing class of superhumans, and performed experiments into the mutagenic effects of superhuman powers. The two worked side-by-side on the project, but an explosion in their power generator during an experiment killed Ronnie's father.
Ronnie discovered that the accident had granted him superhuman powers. Enraged at his father's death, he blamed the existence of superhumans for leading his father to his doom as the incident had taken place because of superhumans fighting close by, and vowed to use his own superhuman powers to make others turn against superhumans.
He could see the super heroes were earning the adoration of the people and he couldn't take it anymore.
The monster had caused the death of his only family, his idol with no consequences. He had only been given an apology in return, no justice.
The villain responsible was roaming free and the hero involved had probably forgotten about it by now.
This world was cursed by these monsters that played with their lives. They needed to be eradicated, not loved and accepted.
The grief and rage at the unfairness of the world drove him to madness along with the change in his genetic structure.
"Have a taste of my powers, don't you love Thor than try my lightning." Supercharger said in a sarcastic tone as he shot out electricity from his hands and destroyed some police cars.
"I think it's not marvellous enough so let me show you something better." Supercharger grinned as he tore the overhead electric wires and his body shone with immense power.
The police shot at him but the bullets were burned before they could touch him.
"Hey guys, having some trouble again." Peter arrived on the scene where the lights were still on so people could see him clearly.
He greeted the cops with a friendly tone before turning to his foe.
"Hey dude, come on man nobody wants to handle a bloody power outage. You know how boring life gets in the dark. It will be total anarchy in this place."
"That's what I am aiming for freak."
"Hey that hurt my feelings I look awesome in this suit unlike you. Did your husband make it for you? Haha" Peter said in a playful tone to rile him up and weaken his focus.
"Your mother made it for me." Sc roared and released a powerful beam of electricity that Peter only dodged because of his spidey sense.
'Damn, I almost died.'
"My mother's dead, you parasite." Peter replied as he shot few wind bullets at him that disrupted his currents and webbed him before dragging him away from the wires and smashing him into the ground.
'Oh Shit!'
"Are you alive?"
"Ugg..ug" The man was barely alive from the impact as his bones had been fractures and he was bleeding heavily from his head.
"Okay guys, you can handle it now since he pretty much crippled and shouldn't be hard to move around. I went hard on him as he had no intention of leaving this place without killing you all. Look at that damage and think if it had been lower what would be the result." Peter said as he pointed at the top of the building where he had been standing, it had melted completely.
"What are you?"
"Are you a mutant, alien or one of us?"
"Does it matter? I am doing good because I want to and what I am won't change that. You guys should really stop thinking of Mutants as your enemies, they are just like humans. Good and bad, there is no difference except they are born with powers. I will stop here but you get the point so see you next time." Peter smiled and disappeared from view leaving a battered superhuman and the police along with a small crowd watching from afar or from the roof tops.
'Where is Jess now?' Peter wondered as she was supposed to be training according to the plan he made for her but he didn't know if she followed through or not.
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