And because we need More Drama, something is wrong with the ship and one of the crew goes to check.

He walks in on the little science experiment with a gun.

He’s hanging from the ceiling and has some sharp teeth. He takes a chest full of automatic weapons fire and devours the goon.

Uh-oh, Morby has vanished and the computers are flashing WARNING

Morby is upset that the goons knocked his lady doctor friend unconscious, starts wilding out on the ship. The goons indiscriminately spray gunfire.

Vampire Morby really doesn’t like the klaxon, he starts totally wrecking the room they locked him in.

Oh boy, a bullet time fight scene.

A half dozen or so machine-gun wielding goons don’t stand a chance against this murderous bat-human hybrid.

He’s inexplicably buff now, though, and the vampire face he was making is gone. He can walk.

Well, I’d call that a success! Let’s treat everyone.

Morby wakes up feeling, possibly, some regret. It might be due to slaughtering a whole ship full of prople, or it might be that his fingernails are pretty fucked-up looking after the bat DNA cocktail.

Something gets tossed overboard, unclear if it’s Morby swimming away, or getting rid of the bodies.

He doesn’t remember murdering all those people, watches some surveilance video and pukes watching himself do it. Then calls mayday, since there’s nobody to pilot the ship.

Which, by the way, is a /massive/ cargo ship or something. Hugely larger than is reasonable, but I guess if you have to put a whole lab on it, you gotta go big or go home.

It was Morby escaping. The ship is now swarmed by cops who don’t seem to realize that the ship was in international waters, where it’s 100% legal to murder eight mercenaries. Undeterred, they press on with the investigation.

Waitaminute, if this is set in one of the Spiderman universes, how the fuck come Morby turned himself into literally the batman!?????????

Pausing this to read to the kids. More in a bit.

Lucien is watching the news about Morby’s cargo ship with dismay, as Dr. Nicholas walks in.

He enters a freezer full of blood bags and starts straight up guzzling from one. And setting his watch to figure out how often he needs to drink more.

But I thought he invented artificial blood. Why not drink some of that?

Morby infiltrates the hospital to apologize to his lady doctor friend. Then furtively returns to his bat-infested lab. The treatment must be wearing off, since he’s stumbling all over the place.

He has some kind of bat/vampire super powers. "I have the constitution of an Olympic athlete."

"For the first time in my entire life, I feel good."

- Guy who brutally murdered eight guys and drank their blood less than 24 hours ago.

He walks into the Bat Cylinder. "I’ve become something... different."

yeah dude, you went full Voldemort face there

So Morby drank his artificial blood, but he’s building up a tolerance. Coming around to needing to murder some more.