No Rest for the Weary

"Holy Moley! When you said Sparring, I didn't realize it would involve you trying to kill me!" he yelled as he flipped over a few of my Razorbats before blocking a punch by me.

It had been two weeks since the events from the Incredible Hulk, I had been able to heal back up to peak condition and Pete had been kind enough to agree to be my sparring partner.

What he didn't realize was that it was training for both of us.

We were currently in the main chamber, it was about the size of a football field so it gave both of us room to maneuver, him with his web and flexibility and me with my Glider and razorbats.

We were essentially playing a violent game of tag, He had to tag me, whether it be via web, kick, punch, it didn't matter as long as he tagged me. Blocks don't count as a tag and he couldn't turn into his Man-Spider form. I in turn had to avoid getting tagged. We were currently out of costume, both of us in Basketball shorts and T-Shirts except he had his web shooters and I had my Utility belt. We had been at it for about three hours at this point, and both of us were drenched in sweat.

"You need the training." I replied as one of my Razorbats nicked his shoulder, a shallow cut was all that proved I hit him.

"We both need to get better at fighting and avoiding obstacles. There is only so much your Spider-Sense can do." I continue as we take a quick breather and grab some water.

"Good point." He agrees. "Any luck working through the Bone Heads blood?"

Bone Head was Peter's attempt at naming the currently iced Abomination. No matter how many times I've told him otherwise, he refuses to call Blonski anything else.

"Yeah actually, I was able to separate the Hulks Blood and the Super Serum from a portion of his blood. It wasn't easy, but it was worth it." I say as I take a drink of water. "I hadn't figured out how their serum was failing, but it should only be a matter of time."

Slight lie. The serum itself worked like a tweaked Oz formula. While the Oz Formula enhanced my healing factor to Spider-Man or above healing, it also enhanced my physical body to way above captain Americas level. Blonski's serum enhanced the healing factor to near Wolverine levels while giving him Captain America level agility, strength and endurance. The only issue was that it negatively impacted the chemicals in the brain. It caused feelings of Paranoia, greed, and slight socio/psychopathic tendencies. What I found interesting was the fact that the serum kept Blonski alive through the injection of Hulks blood. Logically he should have died like the Stan Lee Cameo when he drank the soda tainted with Hulks blood.

Instead he not only survived, but became Abomination.

Would it be possible to inject myself with Hulks blood? Would the Oz Formula stabilize Hulks blood in my system or would it degrade under the Gamma radiation in the blood and turn me into the Harry Osborn from TASM universe? Dying, Desperate, and Insane? Unfortunately I can't say until I have tested it, but that kind of strength against beings like Thanos or even some of the weaker people like Ultron or even the Chitauri would be appreciated.

Unfortunately that kind of power wouldn't be in my hands until after Loki's invasion, so I will have to deal until then.

"How about we continue this next Saturday? I have some things to do and we are both beat." I say to Peter. "You can use the showers in the exercise room." I offer.

Agreeing with that thought, he showers and leaves. Walking over to my fallen Razorbats, I pick up the one that nicked Peter. I already had a sample of his blood from when the Evolutionary turned him into the Man-Spider and I had to cure him, so this is utterly worthless. Cleaning up a bit myself, I start going through some more of the Evolutionaries files.

As it turns out, his real name is Herbert Wyndham and he was born in the late 1800's and was a student during the 1920's. Due to genetic experimentation on himself, he had given himself a form of immortality. The Comic version was inspired by Mr. Sinister, but due to the distinct lack of mutant presence in this world (Whether it was due to Xavier's telepathic interference or simple lack of X-Gene, I didn't know) I had no idea if his comic book origin was accurate or if it was his MCU origin that was accurate. My only issue is I honestly had no idea what his MCU origin was. I had never been into the MCU Shows, just the movies. Go figure that when I needed the information most, I didn't have it.

I had already gone through his genetic research and sent a slightly toned down version to Oscorp's doctors and geneticists to make better medical treatments for really sick patients. Not only that, but using that information I had been able to figure out how Dr. Dooms DNA was mutated by the Cosmic Storm. This lets me start treatment on him to get rid of his powers. After the research files however, I need to go through was everything else.

But something didn't feel right… In comics he was a genius. He was essentially a god in power, capable of defeating the likes of the X-Men and Avengers yet here he was easily beaten (In comparison) by me destroying his staff. In comics he had an entire research facility hidden in a mountain to conduct his research. Here he was working in an old warehouse working on kidnapped girls.

It doesn't make any sense. Even the MCU version from what I remember was more powerful and more prideful that to lower himself to this standard.

Beforehand I had been distracted by the Hulks movements and before that the fact that Wyndham acted like I expected him to. Arrogant, Obsessed with being the perfect evolved species, yet I completely missed the fact he was working in a warehouse.

So now I was going through his old files to see if there was anything that made him work here. There has to be something to point me in the right direction.

Typing on the keyboard, I search through his computer, combing through to find anything that would lead me to the person funding Wyndham.

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Three hours later

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There! It was heavily encrypted and it looked at first glance to be nothing more than a simple receipt, but it was there!

Hacking into it as quickly and carefully as possible, I crack the code.

"Holy… Shit…"

Looking at the screen, I stare in shock as articles, pictures, formulae so advanced, it would take me years to get there on my own, and so much more flood the screen.

One article catches my eye however.

'Aldrich Killian: The Man Behind A.I.M.'

Is he behind Wyndham's work? Is he trying to create Extremis? Wait… that isn't right, Extremis exists already, Tony helped Maya Henson make it in 1999 while drunk. So what is Wyndham doing researching Killian? And why was he willing to hide it behind such a strong encryption?

Looking through the files I start realizing what was happening.

'Captain America: The first Superhero'

'Spider-Man: Hero or Menace?'

'The Goblin: Heir to Villiany? Or Dark Hero?'

Along these articles were images of us in action, Spider-Man fighting the Green Goblin during the Parade, me fighting Dr. Doom with the Fantastic Four, and Captain America fighting with the Howling Commandos alongsi-

No way.

Captain America and Wolverine.

I KNEW IT! I knew Mutants existed!

In the picture was Wolverine dressed in full army regalia shooting down enemy fighters, his Dogtags barely visible from his position, but clearly saying 'James Howlett' I could even see a few bullet holes in his suit if I looked hard enough. Farther off in the image was Captain America, mid throw, both of them nearly surrounded by Hydra agents.

Underneath each picture was a series of videos detailing our powers and abilities as well as his opinion of us? Clicking the video detailing my own abilities, I start to watch.

'Subject: Goblin Entry 1. The Subject shows promise. Possessing Strength, reflexes, healing factor and speed superior to Subject Rodgers, he appears to be entirely human unlike Subject Arachnid. Blood samples show foreign substance successfully bonded to his DNA. Foreign Substance is unknown at this time. Requires further study'

'Subject: Goblin Entry 2. Foreign Substance is a form of Super Serum. Incapable of recreating it without further samples. Bone Marrow perhaps?'

'Subject: Goblin Entry 3. Attempted cloning failed. Clones show no signs of serum enhancements as template. Testing to see if biogenetic enhancements hold.'

'Subject: Goblin Entry 4. Biogenetic enhancement failed. Clones possess no use to the further evolution of human kind. Attempt to gain more samples of Subject as soon as possible.'

And it went on like that, talking about injecting my blood into various kidnapped girls to see if it would enhance the girls, unfortunately for both him and the girls he experimented on…he failed.

When they showed no sign of enhancement, he put them through more experimentation, not many made it out alive…

Besides that however, it seemed like Wyndham was attempting to create a form of Super-Serum, but what does Killian have to do with it?

Searching through more of the files, I think I come to a conclusion. Killian must have hired Wyndham to create a serum for him, but why? Why would he-

Wait.

Is it possible that the Extremis virus was killing Killian? In Iron Man 3 it caused many who took it to blow up spectacularly … Is it possible that Killian believes that one of the Super Serums could stabilize the Extremis in his system?

"This doesn't make any sense!" I yell as I slam my hands into the computer. Almost hard enough to break it. "This completely deviates from the original MCU! I know I didn't change anything back in 99' when Stark screwed Hanson, but then why is it so different!?" I yell at the screen, throwing my hands up in frustration.

"Wait… What's this?" I mumble as I spot a program. This one named Phoenix.

Opening it up, I immediately get bombarded by dozens of formulas, and just by looking at them, I could tell they were attempts at recreating the super serums, but they were each surrounding another formula.

A formula named Extremis.

"I was right… Sometimes I really hate that…"

What the program seemed to be doing was calculating various serums Wyndham had created and their compatibility to the Extremis Virus. So far none of them achieved more than a 43.18 % chance of success.

Not good.

"Wait… What if…" I mumble as I put in the Oz Formula into the program.

"Running Calculations." A robotic voice said.

"There is an 87.93 percent chance success rate."

No. Fucking. Way…

Quickly deleting the Serum from the program, I step back in shock… This opens up so many doors!

If the Oz Formula can successfully stabilize the Extremis Virus, Whoever possesses that power would be unstoppable to human means. Any human made weapon would be useless in stopping that person, Barring WMD's of course, but the point stands…

If I could get my hands on Extremis, I could make myself more powerful, powerful enough to be able to survive against heavy hitters like Ultron or Malekith.

Looking back at the screen, I quickly memorize the formula for Extremis.

"This is going to be good."