Spider-Cat 2: The Rise Of Doc Ock

## Summary

For Oliver, life as Spider-Cat is great. Everyone loves him. Well, almost everyone. But that soon changes the day he meets Harry’s new cat, Marie, who he falls in love with. But not long after, a meteor crash lands in Central Park and gives Dodger, Tito, Francis, Einstein, Rita, and Georgette superpowers, turning them into the Mighty Dogs! Dodger becomes the Jack Russell Speedster, with super speed. Tito becomes Hot Chihuahua, with the ability to generate fire. Francis becomes the Incredible Bulldog, with super strength. Einstein becomes the Great Stretch-O-Dane, with super elasticity. Rita becomes Invisible Saluki, with the ability to turn invisible and generate force fields. And Georgette becomes Ice Poodle, with ice breath. Wanting to know more about the meteor, Norman asks his new scientist, Dr. Otto Octavius, to study it using his four mechanical arms. But while doing so, the meteor gives Octavius a bad shock and his arms fuse to his body. Then, he goes rogue, changes his name to Dr. Octopus, Doc Ock for short, steals the meteor, and even kidnaps Marie! Now, with the fate of New York hanging in the balance, Spider-Cat and the Mighty Dogs must stop Doc Ock, get the meteor back, and save Marie, and Ice Poodle must learn that being a hero means using your powers to help people, not using your powers to your own advantage.

# Story

## Chapter 1: Meet Marie

It was a warm afternoon in New York City. Spider-Cat was swinging through the city as people cheered him on. Ever since the day he saved everyone from the terrible plot of Dr. Curt Connors, aka, the Lizard, everyone has loved him. Well, everyone, that is, except for J. Jonah Jameson. Spider-Cat swung all the way home and changed into his secret identity as Oliver.

——

While Winston was cleaning up in the kitchen, Jenny was upstairs in her room, reading a book when the door opened and in came Oliver with his black bag.

”Hi, Oliver!” she smiled. “Harry just called me and he said he got a new cat!”

Oliver smiled brightly.

——

“A new cat?!”

“Yup, that’s right.”

The next day, Oliver was telling his dog friends about Harry's new cat. And boy, were they surprised.

”When are you meeting her?” Dodger and Tito asked in unison.

”Well, as far as I know, next weekend.”

”Hope she’s nice,” Rita smirked.

”Balderdash,” Francis muttered to himself.

——

The following weekend, Oliver, who had his black bag over his shoulder, Georgette, and Jenny were at the Osborns' apartment, sitting in the living room. Gwen Stacy was there, too. Just then, the door opened, and Norman and Harry came into the room, and Harry was holding his new cat. She had white fur, a small pink bow tied in her hair, and a big pink ribbon tied around her neck. As Gwen took a picture of the cat with her camera, Oliver stared at her with dreamy eyes, although no one noticed, except Georgette, who snickered quietly to herself.

”Aw, what a cute cat,” Jenny cooed, scratching Harry’s cat behind the ear. “Does it have a name?” Harry and Norman smiled.

”Her name,” Harry started, “is… Marie.”

——

The next day, Oliver was walking upstairs, though he couldn’t stop thinking about Marie. In fact, he was so busy thinking about her, he didn’t see Georgette walking into him until they bumped into each other.

”Sorry, Georgette.”

But instead, Georgette smirked, much to Oliver’s confusion.

”What?”

”I know you have a crush on Marie.”

”What? No, I don’t.”

”Oh, yes, you do.”

”No. I don’t.”

“Yes. You do.”

Oliver sighed in defeat.

”Okay, I do. Just don’t tell anyone, okay?”

Georgette crossed her heart.

——

That evening, Marie was going through a stroll in an alley, when…

GRRRRR…

Marie looked around and froze with fear; there were three alley dogs, growling at her. Marie gulped and took off at high speed away from the dogs, but they were hot on her tail. But just then…

THWIP, THWIP, THWIP!

Marie stopped and looked back to see the three dogs stuck on a wall by some webs.

”Hi, Marie.”

The white cat looked up to see Spider-Cat coming down on a line of web and hanging upside down.

”Hi, Spider-Cat.”

Spider-Cat was a bit surprised by this.

”How do you know me?” he asked in his best disguised voice.

”Heh, Harry told me the story of how you saved everyone from the Lizard.”

Spider-Cat chuckled.

”I was just doing my job.”

”As a way of saying thank you from those alley dogs…” Marie started to say as she walked up to Spider-Cat, pulled down his mask just above his nose, and kissed Spider-Cat on the lips. Although he was surprised, he knew he had embraced it in himself. When the kiss ended, Marie pulled the mask back over Spider-Cat's face.

”Can you take me home?” she asked.

”You know I can’t say no to that,” Spider-Cat said. And so, Marie climbed onto his back, and the two swung back to the Osborns' apartment.

## Chapter 2: Say “Hello” To Aleksei Sytsevich!

The next morning, Spider-Cat was swinging through the city, chasing an armored Oscorp truck carrying plutonium that was speeding through the city with a bunch of NYPD cars in pursuit. The driver howled and cackled as the truck plowed through the city.

“Say 'hello' to Aleksei Sytsevich!” the driver cackled. Sytsevich was a Russian gangster who started his crime career not long after Spider-Cat's fight with the Lizard at Oscorp. Spider-Cat finally landed on the truck and crawled onto the truck's windshield, much to Sytsevich’s surprise.

”It’s over, Spider!” Sytsevich growled, activating the windshield sprayers. But just then, Spider-Cat's spider sense acted up. He looked ahead to see a bunch of cars driving across an intersection. Thinking fast, Spider-Cat jumped ahead and with his web shooters, created a big web between two street lamps. Thankfully, the NYPD cars stopped in time, but the Oscorp truck didn’t. Sytsevich slammed as hard as could on the brakes and turned to the side. This was a big mistake. The trucked rolled and hit the web. The plutonium in the back rolled around, but thankfully, Spider-Cat glued them all together with his webs. Sytsevich climbed out of the truck and took off at top speed, but Spider-Cat was hot on his tail. Spider-Cat shot a string of onto Aleksei's left ankle and yanked it up onto a street lamp and left him hanging there until the cops arrived.

”This is not over!” Aleksei shouted as Spider-Cat swung through the city while the cops arrested him.

## Chapter 3: Meteor!

The next day was a busy one at Oscorp. Norman was talking with his recently-hired scientist, Dr. Otto Octavius, who was taking Connors's place.

”You know, boss, I don’t know about this,” Octavius said nervously.

”What makes you say that?”

”This office belonged to Connors, you know, before he turned into the Lizard.”

”I know, but try your best not to think about him.”

Octavius sighed.

”Alright.”

——

That evening, Octavius was working on something that will help him whenever he has too much to do: a group of four mechanical arms.

“Those are impressive, Octavius.”

Octavius turned to see Norman, feeling quite impressive about the arms.

”Thanks, boss,” Octavius smiled shyly. And then, he began to demonstrate them.

“These smart arms are controlled by my brain through a neural link. Nanowires head straight into my cerebellum. This of which allows me to use these arms to touch and control anything that is harmful to the human hand.”

Norman put a hand on his chin.

"Say, Otto, if the AI system in the arms is as advanced, that wouldn’t make you vulnerable to them, would it?"

Otto smiled.

"How right you are. And that’s why I have *this.*"

Otto turned around and pointed to to a blue light on the back of his neck.

"It’s an Inhibitor Chip. I developed it to protect my higher brain function. That means that *I* control the arms instead of the arms controlling me."

But at that moment, the alarms went off. Octavius looked at his screen and he and Norman gasped in shock.

”A meteor, and it’s heading straight for New York!” Octavius said in shock.

”Oh, boy,” Norman said nervously.

——

Norman parked his car in front of the Daily Bugle building and ran all the way up to JJ's office.

”Mr. Jameson!” Norman shouted.

“What is it, Mr. Osborn?”

”There's a meteor coming!”

Jameson hooked up to his satellite on the top of the roof. He looked at his screen and gasped.

”You're not kidding. And according to this, it looks like the meteor is gonna crash land in Central Park! We need to call the police!”

And with that, Jameson grabbed the phone dialed the police number.

”New York City Police Department.”

”Hello, this is J. Jonah Jameson. You need to evacuate everyone from Central Park, now. A meteor is coming!”

——

Fagin and his dogs were playing with Oliver at Jenny's house in the backyard, when Winston stepped out.

”Guys, you're gonna wanna hear this,” he called. Everyone gathered in front of the TV to watch it.

”Breaking News: A meteor is gonna crash land in Central Park. The police is evacuating everyone out of the park. If you are in the park or near it, you must evacuate the area immediately.”

Oliver and Dodger looked at each other, gulped, and ran upstairs.

”I've gotta go help them,” Oliver said, putting his suit on. But before he could put on his mask, Jenny hugged him.

”Be careful, Oliver.”

Oliver smiled, put his mask on, opened the window, and swung through the city all the way to Central Park.

——

“Everybody, out of the park, now!”

”Move it!”

As the meteor got closer to the park every second, Spider-Cat and the cops made sure that everyone was out of the park.

”Take cover!” Capt. Stacy shouted, and everyone ducked down. At those words, the meteor landed by some trees, slid for a moment, and slowed to a stop. At that moment, Fagin, Norman, Harry, Jenny, and their pets arrived at the scene. Gwen Stacy was there, too.

”We would like to check out the meteor, Capt. Stacy,” Norman said.

”Sorry. For safety reasons, I can’t let anyone near it.”

Unbeknownst to the humans, Dodger, Tito, Francis, Einstein, Rita, and Georgette managed to sneak past them for a closer look at the meteor when…

”Stop right there!”

The dogs looked back to see Spider-Cat.

“I’m gonna have to ask you six dogs to go back. It’s not safe.”

”Look, we just want to check out the meteor,” Tito sighed. “We promise it’ll be quick.”

Sighing, Spider-Cat let the dogs check out the meteor. It was sphere-shaped, about the same size as a car, and had a lot of glowing cracks all over it.

”*Mira*, man,” Tito said. “It’s glowing like a lightbulb.” And at that moment, the meteor stopped glowing and the other dogs glared at Tito, who chuckled nervously.

“Well, it *was*.”

But just then…

FLASH!

Spider-Cat gasped as a bright light came out of the meteor, sending the dogs flying off their paws.

## Chapter 4: New Powers

“Que Paso, man?” Tito said dizzily, completely blown away by what just happened.

——

”Excuse me?”

The group looked to see Octavius in his Oscorp uniform.

”I was wondering if I could take the meteor to Oscorp with me. I wish to put it on display.”

”Permission granted, Mr. Octavius,” Harry smiled. Norman laughed and rubbed his son's head.

——

”Yo, Frankie, see if you can get some of the dirt of the way,” Tito said. “I heard Octavius saying that he wants to put the meteor on display at Oscorp.”

”Oh, for the thousandth time, it’s 'Francis'! Anyway, I’m a great digger. I'll see what I can do.”

And so, Francis got to working, digging. But after a few minutes…

WHIRRRRRRR…

Francis pulled himself up. And to his surprise, his front paws were glowing yellow.

”What the…?”

Francis dug faster right under the meteor. The minute Francis popped up, it shot straight up and started to fall on Dodger!

”Whoa!”

To everyone’s surprise, Dodger ran at a very high speed to the other side of the lake.

”Huh?”

Dodger ran at a high speed back towards the gang. When he skidded to a stop right in front of Georgette, he noticed that his front paws were glowing red.

”Uh, how did I run so fast?” he said, blown away by how fast he ran.

”And how did I get so strong?” Francis asked. Georgette's nose started to twitch, though she didn’t notice that her front paws started to glow blue.

”Ah-choo!” Georgette sneezed as ice came out of her mouth and buried the meteor completely.

”Whoopsy-Daisy,” she chuckled nervously as Tito walked up to the ice-covered meteor.

”Whoa, that is some ice,” Tito said in awe, and placed his front paws on the meteor. To his surprise, his paws glowed brown and flames started emerging. The flames melted the ice.

”…until my paws melted it. Though for a second, my paws were on fire, but the fire didn’t harm me.”

Einstein stretched out far. In fact, a little too far because when his front paws glowed green, his front left leg stretched all the way to the meteor and wrapped around it.

”Whoa,” he said. He pulled back as hard he could. In fact, a little too hard because the meteor flew out of his leg and straight for Rita. She closed her eyes tight and held up her front paws, bracing herself for impact, when they started glowing pink. She was hoping the meteor crushed her, but nothing happened. She opened her eyes and saw some sort of force field completely surrounding herself.

“Whoa,” she said in awe, and quickly noticed that Spider-Cat and the other dogs were staring. Embarrassed, Rita started to fade until there was nothing in her spot.

”Rita, where’d you go?” Oliver asked.

”I'm right here. Why?”

”Where are you?”

Rita sighed exasperatedly.

“I *am* right here.”

”I think you’re invisible.”

Rita looked down and gasped; she *was* invisible.

“Wanna know something?” Spider-Cat said. I think the meteor has given you… superpowers!”

The dogs howled in excitement.

——

“Careful.”

Using his arms, Octavius carefully placed the meteor on a stand by the front entrance of Oscorp.

## Chapter 5: A Few Ideas

The next day, Dodger was visiting Oliver. The two animals were downstairs, talking about how Oliver got his powers.

”So, when that spider bit you,” Dodger said with a paw on his chin, having just about wrapped everything up. “You've developed the ability to sense danger and climb walls, right?”

”Mm-hm.”

“Now, I remember your web shooters from when I first learned your secret identity.”

Oliver nodded in agreement.

”You know, when that spider bit me, I think it made me know what certain chemicals to combine to make my web fluid.”

”Whooooooo-hooooooo!”

The animals looked up and heard something upstairs. They headed up to Georgette’s door and saw that it had ice surrounding it. Dodger backed up, and, with his super speed, knocked down the door. To their surprise, Georgette was figure skating.

”Hello, guys,” Georgette smiled, but was quickly surprised to see that Oliver had his arms crossed and an annoyed look.

”Barge. Now.”

——

Oliver and the dogs arrived at the barge. Oliver and Georgette were having a discussion with each other while the gang was watching nervously; they knew that this wasn't gonna end well.

”Georgette, you're not supposed to use your powers for fun, especially if you’re a hero.”

Georgette scoffed.

”Puh-lease, I can use my powers for my advantage.”

Deciding to try to reason with the poodle, Dodger stepped in.

”Georgette, using your powers to your own advantage is not what being a hero. It means using your powers to help people.”

”And remember,” Oliver added. “With great power comes great responsibility.” But Georgette rolled her eyes, which clearly showed that she didn’t care. But her eyes quickly widened.

”Uh, how do you know that?”

Oliver knew it was time to tell her the truth, but he wasn’t too sure. He looked up at his Jack Russell Terrier friend, who nodded in approval.

”Well?” Georgette said impatiently. Oliver took a deep breath.

”I'm Spider-Cat.”

All the dogs gasped.

”WHAT?!” Georgette said in shock. “Anyway, where did you learn those words?!”

”I like to keep them in my hea——GUH!”

Oliver was surprised to see that Tito had hugged him. Oliver quickly broke the hug.

”What was that for?”

He looked up to see that the dogs were smiling at their dog friend.

”What?”

Francis chuckled.

”You sure took a lot of guts saving us all from the Lizard.”

Oliver smiled, knowing his friends were right, and he and the dogs hugged each other.

”Thanks, guys.”

——

The next day, while Jenny was out for a drive with the Osborns, Oliver was looking up at the sky from Jenny’s room, deep in thought.

”I want my friends to use their powers to help people. And I know just the place.”

——

The place happened to be Oscorp. Oliver headed down a hallway all the way to a machine called a fabricator. It was something Otto built. Oliver spent all afternoon designing the suits for his friends. By that evening, all the suits were done and they each have masks and badges.

Dodger's suit was red with black lightning bolts all over it and comes with a red mask that goes down just above the nose. The badge had a red lightning bolt.

Tito's suit was brown and had red flames on the sleeves and waist. The badge had a paw with flames emerging. The mask is brown and just goes around his eyes.

Francis’s suit was yellow with metal rings on the sleeves. The badge had a rock in the center. It has a helmet that comes with a mask.

Einstein’s suit was green with springs on the sleeves, bungee cords on the torso, and a badge with a bending spring in it. The mask is rubber and goes around the nose and mouth.

Rita's suit was pink as well as the mask. The badge had a pink paw covered in a pink transparent circle.

Georgette’s suit was blue with pieces of ice all over it. It also had a mask connected to the collar of the suit. The badge had a snowflake. It also had a tiara with snowflakes carved into it.

“I think they’re all set,” Oliver said confidently, and stuffed them all in his bag.

——

The next day, at Oscorp, Norman was in his office, looking out the window, deep in thought. Just then, there was a knock at the door.

“Come in!” he called. When the door opened, Dr. Octavius came in, wearing his arms.

“You called, boss?”

“Yes, Doc. It’s about the meteor.”

“What about it?”

”Well, I want you to use your arms to study it.”

Octavius gasped in surprise.

”Are you sure, boss? There’s a high probability that something bad could happen.”

”Don’t worry. That’s why I want you to use the arms.”

Octavius sighed.

”I'll get right on it as soon as possible.”

”Good. You can go now.”

——

At the mansion, Oliver showed Georgette and the gang each of the suits he made for them. Georgette smirked and immediately started to put hers on.

”How do I look?” she asked with every inch of her suit on.

”Pretty impressive,” Tito said flirtatiously, holding up a flame on the tip of his tail as everyone chuckled, but Francis rolled his eyes, although no one noticed.

”You will wear each of these suits to help. And the masks will each protect who you really are,” Oliver told his friends. “But you can *not* show these masks or suits to anyone else.” The gang looked at each other.

”Not even Fagin?” Dodger said sadly.

”Not even Fagin.”

## Chapter 6: The Birth Of Dr. Octopus

The next morning, following his boss's orders, Octavius got straight to work, studying the meteor. He took some samples, put them in a container, and, with a Geiger counter, scanned them.

”Incredible,” he said in awe. “These readings I'm getting are off the charts. I’d better get another sample.” But as Octavius went to get another sample from the meteor, one of his mechanical arms somehow got wedged in one of the cracks.

”Oh, boy,” he gulped. He pulled as hard as he could, but somehow, the arm wedged in deeper presumably all the way to the meteor's core! Octavius pulled as hard as he could, but the arm wouldn’t budge. The cracks in the meteor started to glow brighter and lightning bolts started emerging and ran down the arm straight for Octavius!

“Uh-oh!”

The bolts started to shock him! It was too much that his Inhibitor Chip broke apart! The minute it did, the arm finally came out of the meteor, and Octavius fell unconscious.

——

Norman heard about what happened to Octavius. He and some guards headed straight into the room to check Octavius's condition.

”How is he?” Norman asked.

”Uh, he’s got a pulse, sir, thank goodness,” one of the guards said. “Though it looks like the armor has been fused to his body.” Just then, Octavius moaned a bit, slowly looked up at Norman, stood up, and scowled. Then, one of the arms grabbed him and threw him into a wall.

“Octavius, what are you doing?” Norman asked, but the arm kept him pinned down.

”SILENCE!!!” Octavius shouted as the guards pointed their guns at him. “As you can see, I am now one with my arms. I am no longer Otto Octavius. You may now call me… DOCTOR OCTOPUS! But can also call me, Doc Ock, for short.” The arms grabbed Norman and moved him close to Ock's body.

”Any last words?!” Ock growled. Norman was too nervous to talk.

”That’s what I thought!” Ock said, walking up to the window. But before he could throw Norman out, a long green line stretched out and grabbed Ock and pulled him back. He looked back to see Spider-Cat along with six dog superheroes. And each of the dogs' front paws were glowing.

”I see you've brought some help, Spider-Cat,” Ock smirked with an evil grin. “You’re gonna need it.” The arms rose and charged at Spider-Cat and the dogs, and they immediately split up. The bulldog grabbed a desk at threw at Ock. His arms rose and picked up the desk. Then Ock turned to Norman, who was attempting to escape through the door. But the top two arms grabbed him.

”Where do you think you're going?!” Ock growled, but Spider-Cat yanked him back with his webs. “Nonetheless, I don’t have anything to do here anymore. I'll be on my way.” With that, Ock grabbed the meteor with his top arms, hopped out of the window, and disappeared in the buildings.

”Dad!”

Everyone looked to see Harry standing in the doorway, holding Marie in his arms.

”You okay?” he asked.

”I'm fine, son,” Norman said, and looked out the window with a sigh. “This is all my fault.”

”What do you mean, sir?” one of the guards said.

”I was the one who asked Otto to study the meteor, and now this happened.”

——

Doc Ock took the meteor all the way to an abandoned warehouse. He opened the door and took the meteor inside and placed it in the old office.

”This will be a perfect hideout for me,” Ock cackled. He got some blue paper and started drawing a robot and everything it’ll have and from different angles.

”The best part is that this robot will be powered by my meteor,” he said. “And this will have four small legs for walking. Anyway, I think that is all for my Octobot. But I will need money. Sounds like it’s time for a bank robbery.” And Dr. Octopus cackled.

## Chapter 7: The Mighty Dogs

At the Daily Bugle building, Mr. Jameson and his number two, Joseph “Robbie” Robertson, were talking about the six dog heroes that helped Spider-Cat stop Doc Ock.

“Jonah, I sure was surprised about the dog heroes who fought alongside Spider-Cat against Doc Ock.”

But Mr. Jameson wasn’t listening.

”Look, Robbie, I don’t really care about Spider-Cat and Doc Ock. All I can think about those six dog heroes. I know what to call them.

“Really? What?”

Jameson looked at the Jack Russell Terrier in red.

”Let’s call this one… Jack Russell Speedster.”

Robertson started saying “Jack Russell Speedster” in a few different speed tones.

”Huh, rolls off the tongue. What about this one?"

Robertson showed his boss the chihuahua with fire coming out of his paws.

"Hot Chihuahua."

W.I.P.