The Central City Spider (Arrowverse fanfiction)

15- The Big Bad

Thanksgiving. . .

I stumbled out into my living room rubbing my eyes in a pair of shorts to try and wake myself.

"Morning sleeping beauty." Nora said smiling at me.

"What's that smell?" I asked smelling the distinct smell of burning.

"Umm, well I tried to make breakfast this time since you always do it but I failed. So I just got breakfast pizza instead." She said smiling innocently.

I shrugged. "At least you didn't burn my apartment to a crisp."

I glanced at the clock.

"Jeez, it's already eleven. I gotta get dressed and changed, my families going to be here shortly." I said to her.

I took a quick shower and looked myself in the mirror. The scars were red, but then again they always were and they would never leave. Honestly, I thought they were pretty cool.

A knock on the door sounded.

"Barry wants you at Star Labs, it sounds important so quit looking at your scars and let's go."

"How'd you know?" I asked throwing on my clothes before walking out to where Nora was waiting by the window.

"Um? Doors that way." I said pointing towards the front door.

"I want to swing with you." She said opening the window. "We've been dating for like four months if you count the relationship I had with only the Spider. Wait? Are we counting that?" She asked.

"I don't have a problem with it if you don't." I said enabling my web shooters.

"Let's go" I said grabbing her and jumping out of the window. I shot a web behind me closing my window behind.

"Did you leave a note for my family?" I asked as we swung through the city.

She nodded. "And I left the door unlocked."

"You're the best." I said doing a backflip causing her to scream.

"One. I know I am. And two, don't ever do that again." She said gasping for breath.

"Do what again?" I asked doing a front flip this time.

She screamed again.

"That. Please stop flipping." She said sounding serious this time.

"You can run at the speed of sound with the chance you might run into a building and die, but you can't deal with me flipping?" I asked laughing.

"I'm just not a big fan of heights." She said gulping as she looked down.

"Yet you wanted to swing." I chuckled.

"Yeah because it's with you." She said as we landed safely on the pavement in front of S.T.A.R Labs. "That was definitely an experience."

"What's up?" I asked the team as we entered the cortex.

I looked at the glass board across the room that had images of all sorts of meta human. From Electro to the Lizard. Only two more pictures were silhouetted.

"I'm assuming it has something to do with that." I stated examining the board.

Barry nodded. "The Lizard said he had a master, he sounded like something big was coming and judging by the frequent anonymous visits at Iron Heights with these other three we can assume just that. Do you have any idea who the other minion is or who the mastermind behind the whole thing could be?"

"I got a few guesses." I said taking a seat behind the computer.

"Barry when you stopped those men robbing the bank the other day I was going over footage because that poison that was used to melt through the doors as well as the bank vault didn't seem right to me." I said rapidly clicking at the computer.

I pulled up the security feed.

"Watch this, the main guy. It's easy to miss." I said as I played the footage.

As they reached the bank vault the leader stepped back just barely out of the camera. A bulb with a sharp point at the end of it appeared at the bottom of the camera and spat some sort of poison out.

I paused the video and circled the area that I was talking about.

"Mac Gargan, was the man who was arrested if I'm correct. But here's the thing. He has a tail, a retractable tail at that." I said to him. "I dub Mac Gargan, the Scorpion."

Cisco began to clap. "Yes brother, I like that name."

I printed out a quick picture and moved towards the board.

I put it up with the rest.

"So now we have. . .
Electro
Daniel West
The Lizard
The Vulture
And now we have Scorpion." I said to the team.

"Adding you to the team was a great addition. For the first time ever we're steps ahead of our big bad." Cisco said leaning back.

"We don't even know who our big bad this year is yet?" Caitlin noted.

"Actually, we might." I said sitting back at the computer.

"Doctor Otto Octavius, he works for Oscorp. Well used to, he was just kicked out for continuing with dangerous experiments." I spoke.

"On what?" Iris asked.

"It says here, in the classified section that he was using Tritium to try and harness the power of the sun." Cisco said.

"That's definitely a problem." Barry said as his eyes widened.

"So anyway, on the night of the Enlightenment, Otto bonded with a pair of four metal arms which have since created a symbiotic connection with his mind." I started. "We have a genius, a metahuman/tech hybrid, and we have a motive."

I printed out the picture. "Ladies and gentlemen, I think we may have ourselves our big bad."

I said moving to put the picture up.

"Doctor Octopus." I said. "Or Doc Oc."

"My man, you are on fire." Cisco said with excitement.

I pondered around thinking if I could uncover anymore information.

"Very, very smart." A voice hissed through the intercom. "I see you have discovered my secret, my team, you think you have won. Fools, you don't know the half of it. You and your precious city will be burned to the ground." The voice said as the intercom went out.

"Cisco." Barry asked.

"I'm on it." Cisco shouted as his fingers danced across the computer.

"His signal is bouncing all over the place. He's untraceable." Cisco said hanging his head.

"Don't worry, when he strikes we'll be ready." Nora said trying to be positive.

"So what do we call these guys?" Barry asked. "The Legion of Doom? The Animals of Evil?"

"Dude, no." Cisco said shaking his head.

"I thought it was pretty good." Barry said sadly.

"Just no."

"What about The Sinister Six?"