Chicago, beside the shores of Lake Michigan, was a sea of skyscrapers.
In just a few hours, a pack of rampaging animals that had gathered here for reasons unknown had torn the glamorous façade off the city's gleaming buildings.
They hunted and killed, tearing into fleeing humans and each other, devouring anything they could to satisfy appetites that seemed impossible to sate.
Norman Osborn flew from the roof of one building to a plaza. The Bio-Armor covering him was already beginning to fall apart, so he had to land and let it feed in its rather disgusting way to replenish itself.
Shang-Chi thrust his sword through the eye of some unidentifiable creature and shouted to Norman Osborn, "It's about time. We're not going to hold out much longer..."
Wesley was already leaning against the base of a statue, his hands holding his gun no longer steady...
Watching the rampaging beasts all around them, apparently riled by something and converging on the plaza, he said with a bitter smile, "Why do they like this place? Is it because dinner's so convenient?"
As Wesley spoke, a bus-sized Giant Wolf leaped between several skyscrapers and pounced on a Giant Bison. Its sharp claws tore through the bison's tough hide. Using the momentum to its advantage, it lunged forward and sank its teeth into the bison's neck...
The Giant Bison bellowed as it crashed through the outer wall of a skyscraper, desperately tossing its head to shake off the deadly attack of the rampaging wolf...
Wesley flinched as two giant beasts leaped over him. He wiped at the blood that had nearly drenched him and stared helplessly at the enormous creatures. "We've got to move. Being the bait isn't fun at all..."
Norman Osborn might have been facing a situation like this for the