"Die... you meddlesome insect..."
The Lizard Man's sharp fangs were already pressed against Peter's mask. Disgusting green slime dripped onto his chest, and he could even smell the suffocating stench of rotting meat.
Peter closed his eyes in despair, Uncle Ben's and Aunt May's faces flashing through his mind.
It was over. All over.
Yet the agonizing pain of his skull being crushed between those jaws never came.
"Roar... aaaaaargh!"
The enormous hand around Peter's neck suddenly convulsed violently, its terrifying strength slackening in an instant. Peter hit the pool of blood with a thud and gulped greedily at the foul air, feeling as though his lungs were about to burst.
He snapped his head up and saw something that would haunt his nightmares for the rest of his life.
The largest Lizard Man had dropped Peter in agony and was now clutching his head with both hands, letting out utterly bloodcurdling screams.
His muscles, already knotted like granite, began swelling like balloons being forcibly inflated, expanding at a grotesque speed that defied every law of biology!
"What the hell?! What's happening now?!" Peter scrambled backward, his Spider-Sense blaring the highest-level death warning in his mind.
Bang! Bang, bang!
The other two Lizard Men nearby also let out horrific howls. Their dark green scales split apart inch by inch, and dark green blood gushed from the cracks like jets from a high-pressure hose.
"The genes inside them... have collapsed." Matt spat out a mouthful of blood where he lay amid the rubble. His Super Hearing let him hear the frantic tearing of cells and the shifting of bones inside all three monsters.
"The serum was unstable... the experiment failed!"
"Get down!!!" Frank roared hoarsely, clutching his caved-in chest.
Boom!!!
Three deafening, muffled blasts erupted almost simultaneously!
There were no flames,