Thread:Benspider/@comment-29421682-20171205195549/@comment-29421682-20171223003053

For the original A Puff of Responsibility, I have a somewhat interesting storyline which coincedes with Spider-Man's mutation disease;

Basically, after my adaptation of The Six Arms Saga, Spider-Man has to see Professor Utonium frequently in order for him to use the Neogenic Recombinator to keep the former's mutation disease at bay.

Spidey and the Powerpuffs get into another fight with Mojo who then pulls out a new weapon of his; an anti-aging/youth restoration ray. Mojo uses it on the girls, regressing their appearances and minds back to when they were 5 (their approximate age during the original series.).

Spidey, who was not struck by the ray, rushes the unconscious girls back home in order to run tests. But when the girls come to, Spidey and Professor find that the girls also only have their memories up until a certain point in the original show's timeline (I'm thinking between Him Diddle Riddle and Members Only.), meaning that they technically have never met Spider-Man or Peter Parker before.

To remedy this problem, the Professor merely introduces Peter to the girls as his lab assistant (which is partially true, seeing as Peter is the Professor's protege.). Peter also agrees to be the girls' babysitter until he can find a way to reverse the effects of Mojo's ray.

Meanwhile, both Spider-Man's mutation disease and Professor Utonium's Lizard mutation resurfacing become problematic as they begin to find it harder and harder to keep the truth from the girls.

At the same time, some of Spidey's older enemies begin to resurface, ranging from Shocker to Mysterio (this is where the adaptation of The Amazing Spider-Man #66-67 comes into play.) to even Scorcher.

The girls then go off to fight HIM when he tries to cross back over into this dimension.

But while the girls are doing this, the Vulture returns, this time in a plot to restore his youth by modifying his talons to drain the youth force of any young person (this is the beginning of a loose adaptation of The Amazing Spider-Man #385-386 and the last 2 episodes of the second season of TAS, Shriek of the Vulture and The Final Nightmare.), as well as the Scorpion, who had also recently fought Spider-Man and the age-regressed Powerpuff Girls, but lost.

The Vulture attacks Mitch Mitchelson and drains his youth force before being chased off my Spider-Man. After a series of skirmishes, the Vulture finally confronts Spider-Man near the Mayor's office and drains his youth force.

Initially relieved to have Spider-Man's youth and super-human strength at his disposal, he soon finds himself to be a victim of Spider-Man's mutation disease as he begins growing 4 extra arms and mutates into a spider-like monster, changing back and fourth between his human form and his monster form periodically.

Peter Parker, on the other hand, awakens near the Mayor's office and narrowly escapes when security try and detain him. Peter then wanders all over the city and is soon confronted by a gang of street thugs who try and mug him, but he is narrowly saved by the returning Powerpuff Girls. Peter then narrowly escapes again, trying to avoid the girls should they uncover his identity. He then finds a payphone and calls the Professor to inform him of his condition. The Professor agrees to help him.

The Vulture goes to Professor Utonium's aid. The Professor, conluding that Spider-Man's youth force hasn't returned to his body because of his mutation, tells Vulture that they have to go to Mojo Jojo for help, as he is the only one with the proper resources to be rid Vulture of this mutation.

Meanwhile,  the Scorpion attacks and kidnaps Mojo and brings him back to his observatory in order to get him to revert Gargan back to normal. But they soon meet Professor Utonium and the Vulture. Scorpion and Vulture fight until the latter's mutation knocks him out of the fight. The 2 villains then agree to lure Spider-Man to the observatory for 2 reasons; to restore Vulture's youth and to grant Scorpion long desired revenge.

The Scorpion strong-arms the Professor into calling Spider-Man and telling him to go to Mojo's observatory. But when Spider-Man arrives, he is immediately defeated by the combined might of the Scorpion and the young Vulture.

At the mayor's office, the girls learn from Ms. Bellum that Spider-Man was defeated by the Vulture in a fight and to have their eyes peeled for any sign of the latter. But while the girls scour the city looking for the winged villain, they notice lights coming from Mojo's observatory and decide to investigate there.

The Professor reconfigures the Vulture's talons so that they can revert the mutation ailiment back into Spider-Man. But in spite of Spider-Man's pleas, the Vulture tries to revert the mutation back into the former's body, only for his own youth to drain and Spider-Man's to be restored.

The girls arrive just as the Vulture then begins mutating again. When Scorpion tries to strong-arm the Professor again for him double-crossing the Vulture, Spider-Man attacks him, leading into a fight.

Mojo then begins to enter in complex equasions into his copy of the Recombinator, intending to destroy in to ensure that monsters like the Scorpion can't be created again. But while the Professor tries to protest to this, Mojo swats him out of the way. The Professor then explains that he needs the Recombinator's research for a cure (his own Recombinator was destroyed in the fight between the Lizard and Morbius at the Utonium's house.), but as Mojo asks a cure for what, the Professor answers by transforming into the Lizard as a result of the stress buildup.

As Spider-Man and the Powerpuff Girls are fighting Scorpion, Spider-Man notices that the Professor has become the Lizard and is advancing on Mojo and knocks the former out of the way. Spider-Man is then boxed in by both the Scorpion and the Lizard, but manages to trick both by forcing them to headbutt each other as Spidey leaps out of the way.

Spider-Man then finds Mojo's anti-aging ray and fires it at the girls while they aren't looking, turning them back into teenagers.

The Scorpion then pins the Lizard under rubble, but the beast simply pushes it off. The Neogenic Recombinator begins going sparadic, striking the Lizard and reverting him back to Professor. As the Scorpion, the Vulture, and Mojo escape, Spider-Man grabs the Professor and escapes with the girls.

Outside, the Professor explains that he finally cured Spider-Man of his disease by forcibly placing the unstable mutagens from his own DNA into the Vulture, but as the 5 rejoyce at Spider-Man being freed from his disease, Mojo appears and declares that he would never again reveal the secrets of the Recombinator. But when the Professor tries to plead with Mojo, stating that he needs that research to cure himself, Mojo still refuses and leaves the place.