PSDW: Hey everyone! Well, this is my very first Spider-Man fic that I really wanted to get up as soon as I could and that wasn't until now. I usually stick to Percy Jackson and the Olympians so I decided to stray away a little bit. Anyway, I hope you all like this first chapter! WARNING! A little OOC-ness coming from Peter in this one... I'll try to fix that up as more chapters go on.. So yeah! R & R! :D
Ch. 1
Dakotah White was a normal girl for the most part. She had a dad, and an older brother. The only thing out of the ordinary for her family was that her mom had died when she was young. She went to a normal high school, she had normal friends and she had normal classes. Yeah, she was normal, until she got super powers, a nemesis, and a super hero best friend.
All of this started on a normal day of school. Dakotah went to her locker as usual, got her books and headed to her first period class. She sat down in the AP Biology class and waited for her friends to start to show up. Soon after Dakotah arrived, her friend Gwen came into the classroom and took her seat.
"Hey Gwen," Dakotah said. Gwen smiled and waved at her and turned her attention to something that was on the board.
Dakotah sat there for a second before she took out her backpack and began finishing up her homework that she hadn't finished quite yet. More and more students filed into the classroom over the next 30 minutes along with another one of Dakotah's friends, Peter Parker.
Peter was a strange boy. He was a shier guy who stood up for other people when the beatings were getting too rough or ridiculous. He was very nice at heart and very, very sarcastic. A couple months ago, he was acting very strange. He'd come to school totally beat up and very late. Dakotah was worried for a while but when she asked him about it, he said it was nothing and not to worry. So she didn't. If he did come to school beat up, however, she'd reprimand him about being careful and stuff like that.
"Hey, Peter." She said as he sat down at his assigned seat across from her.
"Hey, Dakotah. Did you finish the homework?"
Dakotah rolled her eyes, "Let me guess, you didn't?"
Peter smiled shyly. "I was busy last night."
"Getting beat up?" Dakotah teased.
Peter rolled his eyes at her this time. "For the last time, forget about it Dakotah."
"What, forget about you being beat up almost everyday? You're my friend, and I'm a natural worrier." Dakotah said.
"Well then Miss. Worrier, can I please see your homework?" Peter asked her.
Dakotah sighed and handed him the paper, "Last time."
Peter smiled childishly at her, "Thank you!"
A couple minutes passed and the bell rang for the class to start. The class passed quickly and before she knew it, Dakotah was heading to her next class.
The day's classes passed quickly and before she knew it, Dakotah was walking with Gwen to the Oscorp building.
"So how are you and Peter doing?" Dakotah asked her.
Gwen blushed, "Oh, we're fine. Everything's going good."
Dakotah smiled, "That's good. Now, what stuff are you working on at Oscorp?"
Gwen's face brightened, "Oh! Well, I have some research I'm doing…"
The two talked about their work until they reached Oscorp Tower. Before they entered the building, Dakotah looked across the way at the construction of the new Stark Tower.
"Wonder what that's gonna look like." Dakotah said.
Gwen rolled her eyes, "Tony Stark's got the biggest ego ever. I wouldn't put it against him to make it flashy."
Dakotah laughed as the two entered Oscorp Tower. Both of them presented their ID patches to the clerk and went into the elevator. Dakotah got off at the 20th floor while Gwen got off at the 21st. The two said goodbye and parted ways.
Dakotah walked into the neurology section of the tower and got her stuff together. She headed to her workstation and started on her research along with her research partner, Bobby.
"What are we doing today, Bobby ol' buddy ol' pal?" Dakotah said.
Bobby rolled his eyes at her in an annoyed way. He pushed his glasses farther up the bridge his nose and said, "Well, if you must know, we are making a serum to expand brain capacity."
"By authority of who?" Dakotah asked. Bobby liked to experiment with things and almost blew up the lab one time. Dakotah was charged with watching over him.
"Dr. Richards said so." Bobby said, holding up a vial of something. "The whole department is to be working on it."
"Has my dad—or Dr. White approved this yet?" Dakotah said.
Bobby stopped what he was doing and looked at her like she was stupid, "Of course he did. Dr. Richards just told us what to do. This was all Dr. White's idea."
Dakotah's eyebrows furrowed. She crossed her arms and tapped her chin. "I'll be right back." She said, walking to her father's office.
Dr. Guy White was the head of the Neurology department of Oscorp. He first started working for Norman Osborn 19 years ago when he was sent on a transfer program in London. He only planned on staying a year at Oscorp but then he met Dakotah's mother and married her the day he was supposed to go back to London. A year later, they had Dakotah and the rest is history.
Dakotah pushed the glass doors leading to her father's office open and stood in front of his desk.
"What's going on with this brain capacity serum?" Dakotah said.
White looked up from his computer and smiled at his daughter, "Nice to see you too, darling."
"Well?" Dakotah said, "It sounds like the Super Soldier Serum and you know how many people failed with that." She sat in a chair in front of his desk. "Let me list them off, shall I?"
White laughed, "Dakotah, listen—,"
"First, there was Red Skull, other wise known as Johann Schmidt, the very, very first failure. Then there was the one that got it right, Steve Rodgers, aka Captain America. Then, there was Bruce Banner who was turned into the Hulk and almost destroyed Manhattan. And those were just a few. There were many other failures and Oscorp will not be on that list."
"Dakotah, this isn't the Super Soldier Serum. This serum will expand brain capacity and allow a human to possess greater knowledge than before. Possibly have other advantages also. This will not be at all like the Super Soldier Serum. That is something that many have long forgotten and will never try to recreate again. Only one person will ever have this and it was Captain America, that's it."
Dakotah sighed, "Alright. Just, let's not get in over our heads. And no testing on humans!" she said, walking out of his office.
White laughed, "No promises!"
Dakotah smiled and returned to her post. She and Bobby continued to work on the serum. The two of them were in the lab, testing options on the computer when something in Dakotah's mind clicked. She used her stylus and wrote out the equation they were trying to solve on the computer.
"What if," Dakotah said, "We replace this 5," she erased a 5 in the equation, "with a 3."
Bobby took the writing pad away from her and finished up the problem. Bobby looked at her amazed when he finished the equation. The computer double checked the equation and made a dinging noise along with a green check mark.
"You did it." Bobby said, eyes wide underneath his glasses.
Dakotah smiled, "I did it!"
Bobby turned to a lower intern and said, "Go quickly and get Dr. Richards and Dr. White. Now!" The intern nodded and ran off.
Both of the Doctors came quickly, the intern following after them. "Did you do it?" White asked.
Dakotah nodded, "There was a slight miscalculation." She said, "That 5 was supposed to be a 3."
White looked at Richards who face palmed. "I'm an idiot." He said. He went over to the computer and made the serum. He held it up for White to look at. It was slightly blue in color, but mostly a glowing white.
White smiled and took it from Richards. "We'll be testing this tomorrow. We'll do it after Dakotah gets out of school so she can see the experiment take place."
Richards nodded, "Sounds like a plan."
The next day was hectic. Dakotah was so excited for the experiment; she couldn't pay attention in class. Peter and Gwen could barely keep her attention for a minute before she blabbed on about something random.
Not soon enough for Dakotah, school was over. Dakotah hurried out of her last class and quickly went to her locker to grab her stuff. Once she got all of her things ready, she made her way quickly down the hallway and towards the exit. She saw Peter and waved at him to come and walk with her. He smiled and did so.
"Where you heading?" He asked her.
"Oscorp building," Dakotah said. "There's supposed to be a huge experiment today and I really want to see it."
Peter nodded, "Cool. What's the experiment about—," Peter suddenly went ridged.
Dakotah put a hand on his shoulder, "Are you okay, Peter? You don't look so good."
Peter looked panicked, "You have to get out of the school now."
Dakotah's eyebrows furrowed, "Wait, why?"
Peter pushed her towards the exit of the school, "Now! Leave!"
Dakotah stopped where she was, "What's going on?"
Suddenly the building shook. Both of the teens looked around. Suddenly they heard screams along with a roar. Peter ran down the hallway with Dakotah at his heals. Peter stopped and turned to Dakotah, "Get all of these people out of here and get out yourself."
"What about you? What are you going to do?" Dakotah asked, her hand on his forearm.
"Don't worry about me," Peter said, "I'll be fine, just get them out before anyone gets hurt."
Dakotah nodded and started herding shocked teenagers towards the exits. She turned to look behind her and saw a huge man crushing lockers and walls. Suddenly, she saw a flash of Blue and Red and she knew Spider-Man had come to the rescue. She smiled, grabbed the remaining teenagers and ran out the exit.
Cops and paramedics waited for them outside. The Paramedics took the shocked kids from Dakotah and ushered them to waiting ambulances. A paramedic approached Dakotah to give her a check up but Dakotah pushed her away saying, "I'm fine, there are other people to worry about."
The paramedic reluctantly went away while Dakotah talked with a cop about what was happening. That was when she remembered about the experiment.
"Dang it," she said under her breath. She excused herself from the cop and made her way to the Oscorp building.
Dakotah made it to the building a couple minutes later. She quickly flashed her pass at the clerk and ran to the elevator. She pressed the button for the 20th floor and tapped her foot impatiently as the elevator made it's way up.
When the elevator reached the 20th floor, Dakotah ran to the closed off observation room. Dakotah ran quickly to the room swung open the door and walked in saying, "I'm so sorry—,"
Suddenly, all Dakotah could feel was numbness and all she could see was a pale glowing blue light and she was deaf to the world.
Oooo! Cliffy! Haha sorry I had to say that ;D... Ok, so you read it, now you review it! Tell me if it's good or not! Flames will be ignored and probably ranted about in later AN's. So yeah, review!