//------------------------------// // Mr Lizard // Story: Noir Spiderman: A Van Helsing Story. // by Adamverse //------------------------------// 1 year later. The people of the world were unfamiliar with those who dwell in the shadows; creatures that hunt during the night, the ones that feed on human flesh. There are things that go bump in the night, and this is the story of the one…who bumps…back. Three years ago, a world famous scientist; by the name of Daniel Sandy, was on his way to achieving the greatest medical achievement since the cure for small pox. You see, during one of his experiments, there was a terrible explosion; so bad that the whole lab was destroyed. Dr Sandy barely survived, but his left arm was too damaged, they had to amputate it. This began his obsession with the way lizards could lose an arm or a tail, and then grow a new one later; he figured he could use lizard DNA so people could regenerate lost limbs and survive in habitats only reptiles can; he had found a way to transfer those abilities to humans. However, on the night of his first test run, something went horribly wrong. He had mixed the chemicals, and his formula was ready to be test. Dr Sandy felt something rub against his leg, seeing it was his cat, he picked the feline up with his right hand and placed her on the table. “You are about to witness a discovery that will that might even frighten Nightmare Moon herself.” The good doctor then turned to the mirror he kept in his lab. “You’re a good man, Sandy. A good doctor, born rich, wanted for nothing; and now, on the verge a discovery that will astound the world.” “If this experiment works, the lizard DNA will become a part of me, and my left arm will grow back. If I fail, then I will die.” He then looks at his cat. “And only your eyes will be able to see what happens.” He prays a little before drinking, “Please Celestia, make it work.” He drank the whole thing in one jug. Once he had finished, he felt nothing; until a burning feeling in his left shoulder. He cried out a little as the burning increased, almost like something was pushing out of what was left of his arm; suddenly, he passed out. When the doctor awoke form his slumber, he looked at himself in the mirror to see the results. It hand worked. He placed his left hand on the mirror, his arm had completely grown back; he was so happy, until the burning feeling came back. He looked at his new hand, his nails were growing; and scales were forming on his arm. It was too late to stop it, he was changing. When the change was complete, this new creature looked at himself in the mirror; it smiled with his mouth full of sharp teeth. “Very nice.” It muttered. All that was left of Dr Sandy’s clothes was the pair of ripped trousers this new creature was wearing. “Time for some fun.” And over the three years, the people of Cloudsdale were mysteriously disappearing; only to have their bodies show up a few days later. The bodies covered in bite marks and scratches, some even missing an arm or a leg. Someone had to stop this thing. In the great city of Las Pegasus, a man wandered down the street; this man was looking for someone, a murderer. When the man kept his pace going, he turned to see the wanted poster on the wall. The walked up to the poster and pried it of the brick wall, “Spiderman. Wanted dead or alive; and the reward is two thousand bids.” He threw the poster on the ground, and then muttered, “Oh, come on.” The man adjusted his mask before saying, “If they’re going to put a price on my head, they could at least make it a good one.” A scream from the distance suddenly caught is attention, followed by a maniacal laugh. “Duty calls.” Spiderman wandered down the street, to find the source of the scream; only to find he was too late. Spiderman walked past the gambling house to get to the location, and past an old church; one that had been abandoned for years. When he found the body, it wasn’t a pretty sitting; the woman laid in the streets, dead; her eyes were wide open, leading Spiderman to believe this woman was scared to death. However, the clue lying next to he was more than enough evidence to tie this murder to its culprit. “A half-burned cigar. The mouth ends covered in saliva, reptile saliva.” When he turned back towards the abandoned church, he noticed a green figure crawling up the wall and in through the roof. “Sandy.” The spider stated. Spiderman climbed to the top of the church, and into where the monks used to ring the bell; the room was covered in dust, cobwebs and old furniture. The perfect place for a monster to hide; he walked across the room, past the bell that hung from the ceiling. Just the he past the bell, he stopped, placing his hands on the two revolvers he had in her pockets. The spider took one more step, then…. “Rah!” Dr Sandy hanged from the ceiling, cigar in his mouth as he roared at the spider; but Spiderman didn’t even flinch. “Evening.” Spiderman greeted as he tipped his hat to the monster. As the creature hanged from the rafters, he smoked his cigar while saying, “You’re a big one, you’ll hard to digest.” “I’d hate to be such an issue.” The lizard man then spun around and dropped from the ceiling, he stood tall and terrifying in front of Spiderman; like before, Spiderman didn’t seem to be scared. “I missed you in Cloudsdale.” The spider said. Dr Sandy suddenly started climbing around him, using the rafters to pull himself up. “No you bloody did not.” He then showed him the bullet wound Spidey gave him when Lizard escaped, but Spiderman managed to hit him once before he got away. “You got me good.” Spiderman then started explaining, “Dr Sandy, you wanted by the Knights of the Holy Order…” Sandy cut him off, “It’s Mr Lizard, now.” Spidey continued, “You’re the murderer of twelve me, six woman…” Lizard cut him off again, “Four children, three dogs; and that rather nasty time I devoured a flock of birds.” He stopped climbing on the rafters and hung from one in front of the spider. “So, you’re the great, Spiderman.” “And you’re a deranged psycho path.” Lizard smoked one last time, he blew the smoke in Spidey’s face and said, “We all have a little problem.” He then snuffed out the cigar on his tongue before swallowing it whole. The monster reptile burped as the spider kept talking. “My superiors would like me to take you alive, so they can exorcist your better half.” He looked the monster right in the eye. “They don’t see you as a monster, just a failed lab experiment.” Lizard then leaped behind Spiderman, snatching his hat, “I bet they bloody would.” He said as he put on Spiderman’s hat. “But personally, I’d rather just kill you and call it a day.” The hunter turned to the Lizard. “Let’s make it your decision, shall we?” “Hmm, do let’s.” Lizard suddenly punched Spiderman into the wall, Spidey managed to get a few shots off from his revolvers, but missed the Lizard; the monster laughed as he ran into the shadows. Spiderman got and turned the hallway Mr Lizard had run down; he then saw the reptile man swinging on the rafters, coming back at him. So the hunter pulled out two buzz saws, he squeezed the handle to get them spinning. “Here I come.” Lizard laughed; Spidey was ready. “Ready or not.” Spiderman slipped to the side and sliced Lizard’s stomach, giving him a large scar; the injury put the monster of and banged his head on the bell. Covering his ears as the bell rang, he cried, “The bells! The bells!” The hunter was put off, until he saw the Lizard was faking it; it pulled the bell from the ceiling and slapped it onto of Spiderman, trapping him inside. Mr Lizard laughed as he walked round to the side of the bell, he put Spidey’s hat on and said, “Idiot, bell rings aren’t my weakness. That’s the other guy you’re thinking of.” He stopped laughing when he heard saw blades cutting through wood; he lifted up the bell to investigate. There was a hole in the floor, he assumed Spiderman cut through the wood and escaped; he was wrong. Mr Lizard felt something land on his shoulders, he looked up to see Spiderman standing on him; the hunter used his blades and sliced into Lizard’s arm. The monster dropped the bell when he saw his left arm fall off; Spiderman rolled out of the bell and watched the Lizard sulk. The Lizard looked down at the arm he just lost, it twitched a little before turning back into a human arm. “No, no, no.” Spidey put his hat back on and muttered, “I’ll bet that’s upsetting.” Mr Lizard turned to the hunter and growled, “Do you know how it took to grow that arm back?!” he growled again and charged towards the human; grabbed him and threw him up through a wooden hatch and then jumped after him, they both were now on the roof. “Ah, Las Pegasus.” The Lizard said as he admired the city around him. He grabbed the spider and started pulling him towards the edge of the roof. “I think you’ll find the view over here, rather spectacular.” He laughed as the two of them stood on the ledge. He lifted Spiderman up to eye level, “It’s been a pleasure knowing you, goodbye.” Then throws him off the roof; the hunter plummeted to the street below. Spidey had one chance, he pulled a grappling gun from his pocket and fire it at Mr Lizard. The creature didn’t see this coming, the hook shot right through is stomach, snapped open then pulled him forward a little. Spiderman swung to the streets, fine and unharmed; he looks up at the Lizard, who looks worried. “You like that? I call it my web-shooter.” Spiderman shouted up to him. Lizard looks at the grapple hook in his stomach, then looks back down at the spider; “No, nonononononono.” He whimpers. Spidey smirks before yanking the cord down, pulling Lizard to the side of the building; but the monster’s tail pulled him back up, he then grabbed the wire and laughed. Spiderman looked up, worried. “My turn!” Lizard shouted. Mr Lizard pulled the wire as he ran across the roof, Spiderman was pulled back up the wall; what Lizard didn’t see was the other edge of the roof, but it was too late. He tripped and fell off the other side, crashing through the lower roof; he held onto the wire and swung through the church. When the cord snapped, Mr Lizard smashed through a stain glass window; meanwhile, Spiderman had landed back on the roof. The hunter turned to see the Lizard falling to the streets, but as he fell, he changed; the Lizard meta-morphed back into Dr Sandy as he fell. Until… “Ah!” Spiderman looked away when Dr Sandy hit the ground, he muttered, “May this man rest in peace.” And drew a cross on himself. The police and the people all gathered around the body of the late Dr Daniel Sandy, one officer checked his pulse, nothing. Another Officer looked up at the top of the church and saw Spiderman standing on top of the bell tower. “Spiderman! You murderer!” he cried. With his work done, Spiderman found and mounted his horse, riding back to his base of operation; a church in Canterlot.