An end in sight to a bad day...

I'm looking at Dr Connors in a cage, trapped and **** to watch as the Lizard sits on a throne, hundreds of other people forcibly changed into lizards struggling to get used to their new bodies. My forces wasted no time charging in straight for the Lizard himself, I tried to direct them to only deal with the Lizard, to leave Connors unchanged. I think it worked as I watched the scene inside this mind change, slowly returning back to New York and what I assumed was Connors home, with his family inside. As the scene changed, the cage around Connors vanishes, Connors able to stand back up and watch as this army of Parademons beat the Lizard down until there was no fight left in him. My power went to work, forcing the Lizard down, giving Connors back control as my Invasion **** began to work on Lizard further, doing as the power said and beginning to alter Lizard, slowly turning him towards becoming an Ally.

I watched unseen, as Connors walked over to see the Lizard, beaten down, these what must have been strange monsters to him helping him to regain control of his mind and body. I heard him speak to Lizard, " You... You tried to eat my son... You hurt so many people... I don't know what these things are, where they came from or who's helping me... But I'll do anything to stop you from EVER getting out again. If it means being able to see my family again, to KNOW their safe from YOU, then I'll put everything I have towards whatever goal they have... You won't endanger my family again." With those last words I found myself pulled back to the world, my ability working on the Lizard as it continued to leave Connors in peace... "This is... gonna be interesting to explain..." I thought out loud, my power working to make the alterations to Lizard's mind for several minutes more. When it finally finished I watched as the Lizards body slowly shrank, returning to a more human appearance and finally losing all aspects of the Lizards appearance, leaving behind only the normal appearance of the one armed Dr Connors... I don't know HOW those pants survived but I'm sure glad they did, gently I picked him up and used my power to fly back towards the others.

I arrived to see Shocker **** with Betsy and Bambi standing over him, the police arriving and immediately working on getting the gloves of the suit off Shocker, making sure he was disarmed before carrying him back into their transport. I sent a message to Peter after a minute, letting him know we've done all we can, the Six are down and asking Peter where I should bring Dr Connors too. I got a response quickly, being asked to meet back up on the roof Miles had first asked us to come to in order to help them. So with that I relayed the info as we left to meet back up with the rest of the team and from there return to the Jet, myself staying there with the Dr while the others took turns heading out and working on helping some more while we had the time.

The arrival of the Spiders didn't take too long, each of them looked like they'd been running around like crazy though. Peter was the first to come up to me and the **** Connors, the other two moving a little slower as they let Peter check the doc. "How is he? For that matter how'd you get him to turn back from Lizard?" Peter asked me curiously. I explained I used an ability of mine called Mental Invasion to deal with Lizard once I'd knocked him out. "Wait, run that back, you KNOCKED OUT the Lizard?" I heard from Miles as he and Gwen moved closer. I raised a palm and threw out an Impact Palm that dissipated before it could hit anything. "That has a LOT of **** behind it, took more than I expected but I'm glad it worked without any serious injuries. What happened with you three anyways?" I asked as the rest of the team returned at last, fully planning on heading back and getting some rest from such a hectic day. Gwen started with "Well at FIRST we had to deal with Tombstone, Chameleon and Kraven. After that we headed to another place that had some heavy damage going on, ran into the Wrecking Crew over there, that was fun... Hey can you do anymore of that healing stuff?" She asked a moment before I threw out the Regen Sphere, stretching it's radius around all three of them. Miles and Peter thanked us, Pete saying he was gonna try and help Connors as best he could. The rest of the team began heading into the Jet and I gave Pete a phone number, "Here, give that number a call if you need any help outside Hero work. A job, place to stay, anything like that. In fact I hope you two will help make SURE he calls that number." I said turning towards Miles and Gwen, I got a chuckle from Miles in response before they both agreed to help Peter make that call... With that I headed up, took my seat in the Jet and we headed back to the Mansion.

Arriving back was interesting, we'd been gone for a few hours at least, it had taken us longer than expected to help with the rescue efforts and the Sinister Six. We got back to find Jenny and Laura waiting, one with a beer and the other with a smile. "Welcome back team! How was the web head?" Jenny asked as we came down the ramp, Jean moving over to talk and explain all that had happened while Ororo stopped me for a moment. "Zane? Go get some thing to eat and some sleep, you've been on two missions today against some strong opponents. You must be exhausted." She said, right as I felt it really hit me what all I'd done in one day, fighting against Juggernaut, Rhino AND Lizard in one day? That was already a lot more than I'd expected to be going through today, to say the least. I mean it was nothing less than a miracle I hadn't been hit by any of them, I would definitely need to bump up my Endurance further though. If the vision was accurate, then a day like this against that many opponents was going to be NOTHING compared to the last threats and the LARGEST ones the vision had shown me. I headed for food and bed, barely getting to eat and head into the room before getting caught in a huge hug by Rogue. The Southern Belle practically flying me into bed as I swear she sensed just how tired I was finally feeling, she snuggled up with me and we slowly drifted off to sleep...