So, to prevent Norman Osborn from turning into the same monstrosity after using the serum!
After confirming the location of Norman Osborn's secretary—the one who had taken his serum—with Osborn Enterprises' AI system, Dr. Connors immediately went downstairs, hailed a cab, and tried to stop the regeneration serum from being delivered to Norman Osborn.
Meanwhile, Toby, who was watching the news at home with his parents, saw the breaking report about a dinosaur attack on Manhattan Bridge.
"A dinosaur?"
When Toby saw the humanoid "dinosaur" captured from a helicopter's perspective on the television screen, how could he not know what had happened?
It seemed that even without Peter's involvement, Dr. Connors still couldn't escape the tragic fate of becoming the Lizard Man...
Just then, hurried footsteps came from the second floor. Toby looked up to see Peter poke his head out from the top of the stairs and call out to him.
"Hey, Toby!"
Between brothers, no words were needed.
Peter had only called Toby's name, but Toby immediately understood what he meant.
He nodded at Ben and May, who were both looking toward Peter at the stairs. "I'm going upstairs to play some games with Peter. You two keep watching the news."
Ben and May had naturally noticed that Peter had been inexplicably depressed for nearly a week, so they didn't refuse.
May even reminded Toby to ask whether Peter had been dumped at school and to comfort him more on their behalf.
Though Toby was speechless inside, thinking that Peter had been single since birth, he still verbally agreed to ask and comfort him.
After going upstairs, Peter, who had been quiet for several days, still hadn't made the final decision of whether to seek revenge, but he was clearly in a much better mood than before.
At the very least, he now had the time to care about someone else's affairs.
The moment Toby came upstairs, Peter anxiously pointed at the Lizard Man on his phone screen and asked, "Toby, look! Could that thing on Manhattan Bridge be Dr. Connors?"
Peter wasn't stupid. Just days ago, he had helped Dr. Connors complete the algorithm for the lizard regeneration drug, and today, a lizard monster had appeared in New York.
And the Super Spider his father had left behind had given both him and his cousin spider-like superpowers.
Then Dr. Connors' Lizard Regeneration Serum could naturally have given Dr. Connors lizard-related superpowers as well!
Toby nodded, confirming Peter's guess.
"That's right. It looks like Dr. Connors managed to create the Lizard Regeneration Serum himself, but his serum was ultimately nowhere near as perfect as the Super Spider cultivated by your father, Richard. It caused some kind of genetic mutation in Dr. Connors."
Hearing his father's name from Toby again, Peter fell silent for several seconds. When he looked up at Toby again, his eyes had become resolute.
"Toby, I want to stop Dr. Connors!"
"I remember you telling us before that with great power comes great responsibility!"
"Those words inspired me!"
"Before, I didn't have the ability, so I couldn't interfere with responsibilities beyond my capabilities..."
"But now, because of the Super Spider my father left behind, I've become stronger. So I think I have to take on the greater responsibility that comes with this power!"
"I want to save more people!"
Although Toby had a very bad feeling about Peter saying that his pirated version of "with great power comes great responsibility" had inspired him, he was still deeply gratified by Peter's pure kindness.
His own hands were no longer clean, stained with the blood of evil men, but that didn't stop him from admiring the pure goodness in others.
One Bully Spider-Man in the Parker Family was enough. There was no need for another one to go dark.
Peter could freely become the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man everyone loved.
So Toby patted Peter on the shoulder and supported him. "Then you should remember what I said before: I'll always support you."
"If this is what your heart wants, then go for it, Peter!"
"Yeah!" With Toby's approval, Peter no longer had any reservations.
He leaped out through the second-floor window, quickly reached the second basement level, and put on the high-tech Spider-Man suit Toby had prepared for him once more.
But this time, Peter wasn't wearing the Spider-Man suit as a simple cosplay fitting like before. This time, he wore it as the real Spider-Man!
Peter left. For the first time, he became Spider-Man and went to stop the Lizard Man.
Toby didn't stay home alone to play games either. One minute after Peter left, he changed into his Spider-Man suit and left the house as well.
But unlike Peter, who was going to save people, Toby was heading out to kill someone.
Since Dr. Connors had already turned into the Lizard Man, that meant the Lizard Regeneration Serum had been created.
The reason the Lizard Man had appeared on Manhattan Bridge was most likely to intercept the secretary delivering the Lizard Regeneration Serum to Norman Osborn.
And what Toby needed to do was intercept that serum first!
Although the Lizard Regeneration Serum had severe side effects, its effects were genuinely incredible!
The ability to regrow severed limbs was an overwhelmingly powerful healing ability that not even the spider powers granted by the Super Spider possessed!
Toby was very interested in that ability.
So he planned to steal it back and research and optimize it himself, to see whether he could remove the side effect of turning into a lizard monster while retaining that powerful regenerative ability.
Although Toby set out one minute later than Peter, his overall stats were far superior to Peter's, so he quickly caught up with Peter as he swung through the city on webs.
However, he did not reveal himself, merely following Peter from the shadows.
Peter made it to Manhattan Bridge, stopping the Lizard Man from killing Norman Osborn's male secretary, and soon became locked in a fierce battle with the Lizard Man.
This time, Toby was not wearing that red-and-black high-tech Spider-Man suit. Instead, he wore his second, entirely black Spider-Man suit.
In the darkness of night, this pure black Spider-Man suit was like the skin tone of a cotton machine, naturally providing an excellent camouflage effect.
He crouched atop the bridge, and no one—not Peter, nor even the news helicopters in the sky—noticed him.
It was not until Norman's rescued secretary fled Manhattan Bridge with the case containing the Lizard Regeneration Serum that Toby moved again and gave chase.
As for the situation here, Toby trusted Peter to handle it himself.
After all, even the inexperienced Peter from the original story had been able to fight the Lizard Man to a four-to-six split. After Toby's special training, even if Peter still could not defeat the Lizard Man, his life would definitely not be in danger.
Just as Norman's secretary escaped the chaotic area around Manhattan Bridge and hailed a taxi, preparing to rush back to Osborn Manor with the serum—
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