Ch. 28: The Lizard

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Once they made it back to the cafe, Luz quickly ran to her room and took her clothes off and got into her costume.

"Wait, is that your suit?" Willow asked, standing outside of Luz's room.

Her suit was made up of a dark gray shirt, dark gray pants, dark gray gloves, blue hoodie, blue sneakers, and a blue scarf mask.

"Yes, it is." Luz said, putting on some gloves. "It's not perfect but it works. Besides, I haven't really been doing this long, I haven't had time to make a real suit." Luz said, before jumping out the window and swinging to the hospital.

She didn't know what that thing on the news was, so she might as well start there and work her way to where it was heading.

'I better check on the people there, too. Better make sure everyone is okay.' Luz thought, worrying about one person more than most but still concerned about the patients.

She swung there, going into the hole in the wall and stuck to the ceiling. She came face to mask with a cop.

"So, you're that vigilante I've heard about." He said, "I'm guessing you're here about that... thing."

"Yeah." Luz said, "Shouldn't you be trying to arrest me?"

"My younger brother went to the school that got attacked... because of you I still have him. That makes you a good person in my book." He said, "Names Steve."

Luz knew she heard that name before, and it clicked, this was Lilith's partner.

"You're a detective, shouldn't your partner be here?"

"She's reviewing camera footage to see if anyone entered the room that wasn't supposed to." Steve said, "And you won't have to worry, all the patients in this wing have been moved to another wing."

"Thanks." Luz said, dropping down, "Do you know anything about a patient named Amity Blight?"

"That Blight heiress?" Steve asked, "I don't know much about her except that she's missing."

'Amity must be whatever that thing is... the only question is what happened to her?'

The sound of Lilith's voice in the hall got closer.

"That's my que to go." Luz said, firing a web and swinging away.

'Now where would I go if I was a giant lizard.'

That's when she remembered, the news showed it heading to the bay, so she figures it would be a good idea to head there.

"It might be more of an alligator or crocodile since it might need to wet its skin." Luz muttered as she swung towards the bay.

She landed on a crane and looked around, seeing a damaged grate over a massive sewer pipe.

'... I'm never going to get the smell out of my suit.' Luz thought.

She swung towards the pipe entrance and crawled in. Luz gagged from the smell build held strong as she crawled, looking around for any claw marks or shed skin the lizard might have left.

'Crawling in a sewer, looking for Amity, who has become some giant lizard creature... not at all how I thought my Tuesday would go.' Luz thought.

Nonetheless, Luz kept going until she found some damaged bricks, which had a giant hole. She web zipped through the hole made in them. On the other side she found shed skin.

"Okay, that's... ugh... that's a clue." She said, struggling to hold in vomit.

The smell of the sewer just made the sight of giant, shed skin all the grosser as Luz felt her stomach churning.

"Hold it down. Hold it down. Follow the trail." Luz muttered.

She web zipped to the ceiling and started moving deeper into the sewer. The smells got worse and the damage by the lizard was more visual, meaning Luz was on the right track.

'Why did she head down here anyway?'

She heard growling down deeper and dropped from the ceiling and walked towards it. She was in a large open area and saw a shadow on the wall. The Lizard was growing larger, and becoming more... lizardy. Luz slowly moved towards her.

"Amity?"

The Lizard turned, showing a massive 12 foot tall scaly reptile creature, with sharp claws, teeth, sharp spines running down her back, and a large tail. Luz got low to the ground.

"I don't want to hurt you, Amity, I want to help you."

The Lizard roared at her and rushed at her. She bit down on Luz's arm and shook her like a dog toy. She then threw Luz into the wall. Luz hit the wall with her back, sliding down the wall. The Lizard ran at her and slammed her through the wall, which thankfully broke down before the lizard could get through. The Lizard roared and moved away from there. Luz started to pick herself up.

"Oh... my back." Luz said, before noticing something, "Why is there a Blight Industries lab in the sewer?"

The lab was old, doesn't look like it was touched in at least a decade, covered in dust and cobwebs. Luz noticed a massive safe and her curiosity got the best of her. Luz walked over to it, noting that she would never be able to find out the combination... so she pulled the door off. Inside was several files and a flashdrive.

"Hmm." Luz said, grabbing the flash drive, "Let's see what's on this."

Luz walked over to the old computer and booted it up, lucky that the old facility still worked. She put the flash drive in the computer and saw a video file on it. She clicked on it and it started. There was a person in a lab coat adjusting the camera before sitting down in front of it... that's when Luz's eyes went wide.

"Mom?"

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