The students of Midtown High alighted the school bus and stood outside the massive tower, everyone being mesmerised. The day of the excursion had finally come and Peter was more than excited to see the wonders of Oscorp. Soon, a man wearing a lab coat walked towards them with a big smile. Peter noticed he had only one hand, but that didn't even seem to limit him at all.
"Hello everyone. Welcome to Oscorp, my name is Dr Curtis Connors, and it is really nice to meet the leaders of tomorrow." He said with a smile so bright it rivaled the Sun. They walked into the massive scientific paradise and soon began their tour and excursion. Curtis showed them his personal research, and explained how he planned on fusing the genes from a lizard into a human being therefore giving them the ability to not only regenerate internal organs but also their limbs. He explained that his missing arm was his main motivation for this and he wanted humans to be able to heal from terrible illnesses. Peter nodded while taking notes, Curtis seemed like a good man, and Peter enjoyed the tour so far.
Then the doctor took them to a where some spiders were in pods.
"You see unlike my lizard research we discovered that it was possible to combine these DNAs of multiple Spider into one, therefore creating a super Spider. You see if we can carefully transfer the abilities of the super Spider into a human without the subject attaining any physical resemblance to the Spider, we can create a—"
"Super human. Or a super soldier, a Spiderman." Peter interrupted him, his eyes shining with bright intelligence. Curtis couldn't help but grin.
"I can see that someone is getting into the internship programme." He said,"Well like the young man said yes we'll be able to create the...um... Spiderman. But we— I do not plan on using this research for military purposes but to help increase the productivity of us humans. I mean death during delivery would end, sicknesses would be a thing of the past—"
"And the world would become a better place. Yes Dr Curtis you've told everyone who cared to listen." Norman interrupted walking towards them.
The students cheered and clapped at his presence, because Norman Osborn wasn't an ordinary man.
Norman led the students deeper into the Spider lab and showed them some spiders in special pods.
"These 15 spiders aren't ordinary. They are genetically enhanced spiders that have different capabilities, almost like superpowers." Norman said with a proud voice, but soon a voice spoke.
"They're only 14 spiders sir." Carla said, looking at the spiders. Norman looked at the pods and confirmed her words. He frowned slightly and looked at Curtis, who looked at the students with a smile.
"Don't worry students we'll find the missing spider so don't panic ok?" Curtis said, walking towards some scientists.
"E-excuse me sir, but if the spiders are genetically enhanced, then isn't their venom enhanced too?" Peter asked, causing some of the students to gasp and start whispering loudly.
Curtis just smiled at him amd they continued the search, Norman leading the students to another lab. Little did they know that the Spider had climbed Carla's bag, and was silently following them. It looked around and saw Peter, but it didn't even pay attention to the puny looking human. But then it turned again, feeling a connection. It spun it's web and swung to Peter's back, climbing his neck, and biting him.
Peter winced as he slapped his neck, but the spider had escaped.
"Are you okay Peter?" Carla asked noticing his actions.
"Sure I am. Don't worry about me." Peter brushed it off, walking forward with a smile.
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Peter's smile disappeared as he retched in the Oscorp toilet. He suddenly felt really sick and took excuse from Dr Curtis who had rejoined them after the spider went back to its pod.
"What is wrong with me!" He screamed, resting his head on the wall. He placed his hand on the wall to support himself, but when he tried removing it, he discovered it was stuck.
"What type of crazy scientist decided to put super glue on the toilet's wall!" Peter complained, trying to get his hand off. But all his efforts seemed to be in vain.
He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself, and then he successfully pulled out his hand. He ran to the rest of the class, and immediately approached Dr Curtis. He explained how he was feeling and lied that he had been sick for a while now, making the Doctor give him permission to go home.
Peter ran towards his house but had to stop in an alley, where he puked some weird black liquid.
He ran to his room and locked the door, sitting on his bed crying. He felt like his insides were riding roller coaster, his muscles seemed to be playing tug of war too. He head was spinning, and he couldn't think well. Then finally he fainted.
Peter opened his eyes and saw himself in a weird room. It suddenly glitched and he saw a teenager walking past him. He tried talking but the boy didn't hear him, more like it seemed he wasn't even there. The scene glitched again, and he saw someone in a ridiculous costume, jumping into a massive clocktower, trying to save a girl that was falling.
Peter shrugged his shoulders already deciding that she'll die, but then he saw her face and he frowned. Her face glitched and instead it was Carla that was falling.
"Go faster!! Catch her!!" Peter screamed at the dude. Then he saw another person who was extremely ugly riding a glider, trying to stop the guy in the costume.
"Save her!!" Peter continued screaming. But it was too late, she had fallen and died. Peter fell to his knees and burst into tears, looking at the guy in the costume take off his mask, also crying too.
And that's when Peter gasped.
The guy in the costume was HIM.
Peter ran towards them, stumbling occasionally.
He ran to Carla and tried to touch her, but his hand just seemed to pass through her.
It seemed like he was dreaming, or even seeing the future.
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With a loud gasp Peter woke up. He was in his room, but looking outside, he noticed that everywhere had become dark. He left Oscorp in the morning, and he pondered how long he had slept. A knock on the door snapped him back to reality. He stood up and noticed that the ground seemed farther than normal. But he didn't pay much attention.
Opening the door, he saw his friends, Carla, MJ and Harry.
He quickly hugged Carla tightly, remembering the weird dream he had. This action caused MJ to frown, but none of them noticed it.
"I'm so glad you're alive. I thought I lost you." He whispered, still hugging her. Although she was confused, she returned his hug and patted his back.
"Relax Peter, I'm here. I'm not going anywhere." She whispered back. He let the trio into his house and they all say down to watch a movie. Harry tried collecting the bucket of popcorn Carla had dropped on a shelf, but he wasn't looking and therefore caused a vase to fall. Harry was about to bend down when Peter suddenly appeared, catching it.
"Woah Peter, it almost seemed like you knew it was going to fall." Harry joked.
But little did he know that that's actually what happened.
Peter suddenly felt a weird jolt, like his body was alerting him of something. Time seemed to slow down, and he noticed the faliing vase. His friends left sometime later, and he received a call from aunt May. She told him that her and Ben went to get some medicine because she wasn't feeling well. They had left since morning though, and had visited some friends and relatives, before going for the meds. But a terrible traffic had delayed them. Peter walked to his room and looked at the mirror, and he almost coughed out his heart.
The reflection he saw wasn't the one he was used to. He was slim, tall and even muscular. His face seemed like it had undergone surgery performed by the Greek gods themselves. He flexed his muscles occasionally, and then he finally understood why MJ was giving him some weird looks. He left the house and ran to a dark alley, running and jumping. He was surprised by how high he went into the sky. He stood staring at his palms, as his brain slowly connected the dots. The missing spider had bitten him!
He slowly remembered the Spider symbol on the costume he saw in his dream.
Looking at the wall, he slowly walked towards it. His had gotten stuck to Oscorp's wall, and now he knew that wasn't a super glue problem. He placed his hand on the wall, and to his surprise it stuck itself. He placed his other hand and it stuck too. He raised his leg and slowly climbed the wall, before picking up the pace, and getting really excited, he jumped from building to building.
"WOOHOOO!!!!!"
He screamed in delight as he jumped like monkey. Standing on the side of a building, hanging like a flag pole, he quietly thought about his dream. He had seen himself shoot webs from his hand, and he decided to try it out. He climbed to the top of the building, took some steps back, and ran forward jumping off the building.
He threw his hands forward, and he spun his first webs. But it came out in a short strand, and so he fell. Peter frantically tried spinning more webs but they all came out short. Until he finally spun the perfect web, and swung through the city.
"This is awesome!" He screamed, swinging.
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May and Ben got home and saw Peter sitting in the living room, watching the news.
"Welcome home you two." Peter said with a big smile, hugging both of them.
"Peter, am I going crazy or do you look a lot taller?" Ben asked, putting on his glasses. Peter just laughed and didn't say anything about it.
He had already planned his actions, next day at school, Flash Thompson was going to regret ever existing.