Web of Deception: The Webbed Avenger

Chapter Fifteen: Metamorphosis

EPISODE TWO: CROSS SPECIES

The story behind the masked vigilante known as Spider-Man did, indeed... start small, with a spider.    However, as all stories, it is riddled with other interconnecting stories, creating something far larger than anyone can ever possibly hope to fully understand....

 A journal was what started the domino effect that would forever change my life.  I knew more about my mother a week ago than I do now... I don't even feel like I knew her at all.  When I found that journal, everything I believed was suddenly put into question.  If I didn't know my own mother, who's to say that Norman Osborn wasn't responsible for her death?  I wanted my gut instinct to be wrong, but after reading that journal, and continuing deeper into that rabbit hole, I find myself slowly realizing in this horrible, excruciating way that not only was my father probably right, but I told him he was wrong...

Some may say I went to Oscorp with the goal of getting some kind of closure over my mother's death, maybe to find my own peace with it... but that would be wrong.  I went there to find out the truth.  There's so much I don't know about her, and I need to know; it's not even about her that bothers me.  It's the fact I was learning that my best friend's father might be the man who possibly killed my mother, and more corrupt than some of the politicians in Washington D.C.

Say what you want, tell me that I was just  being a teenager and doing something I wasn't supposed to do... or whatever you might want to say, but it's not going to change the fact that I need to find out the truth, otherwise it's going to eat me alive to not know what happened.

In a matter of a few days I have learned more than I could have in two years.  I've learned that my mother worked on Cross Species Genetics, a project that while it could possibly save millions of lives, is only being pursued because Norman Osborn is dying from Retroviral Dysplasia, a degenerative disease that is literally rotting him from the inside.

A young man by the name of Derek Hale was brought to Oscorp and put into the Cross Species program in a section called the Lycan Project, and given the codename Subject Zero.  He was treated for severe burns, and the loss of his sight and hearing.  Using his blood to create the Lycan Serum, they administered it to him, and miraculously Derek started healing.

Not only did he heal, he improved.  Everything about him, his strength, his senses, his physique... it improved.  However, his anger did not... it got worse.  They assumed it was merely a side effect from the Lycan Serum, but it turns out Derek Hale was a werewolf, and the serum enhanced his abilities to where he couldn't control himself.

When my mother found out, she sought to help him get control back and make sure he could live a normal life.  Oscorp had other plans... they taught him how to fight, how to hunt like a wolf... they made him into a killing machine, and when he was no longer able to be a puppet, they planned on making him be a slave... by hooking him up to a machine where they could extract his blood on a regular basis and create newer, more potent versions of the Lycan Serum.  My mother found out about this, and took it upon herself to make sure Derek was not subjected to that fate.

Derek escaped, but because of it... my mother may have been killed.  I don't know the truth yet, but I'm going to find out, and whatever I got from the Restricted Access area in the Hempstead facility is going to help me find it.

However, that turned out to be the least of my worries... as while Oscorp had created the new and improved Derek Hale... they had just created something new and vastly improved... they created the new me...