Ok so this is basically just a version of Spider-man that I decided to sit down and do. There will be a lot of events from the traditional Spider-man stories that will be included in this series but most of them will be dragged out or tweaked slightly just because in my mind this is kind of playing out as more of smallville/arrow type if tv show sort of thing. A majority of characters will be from the Spider-man world, there may end up being a few characters from across the marvel universe as well as a few original characters if I end up liking how this turns out. I am rating this as M but I honestly don't expect it to get any more mature than the average tv show as far as content language will most likely be the biggest thing.
Glass shatters as Richard Parker knocks over a table of beakers in his hurry. The alarms are blaring and the lights are flashing, guards rush through the halls. Richard's first instinct is to back up all of his files on a USB and destroy the hard drives.
"Richard, what the hell is going on?!" yells his wife Mary as she comes rushing into the lab.
"I'm not sure Mary, but whatever set off the alarms is trying to get into the special projects division." Explains Richard as he continues packing as many files into his briefcase as he can and shredding the rest. "That's where all the guards are headed."
"Why are you erasing the hard drives on the Arachnid Project?" asks Mary.
"Because technically our project is included in the special projects division, and if anyone is going to the trouble of getting past OSCORP's highest security division then there is nothing stopping them from getting ahold of this."
"What are you going to do with it?"
"I'm backing it up in a Trojan software and hiding it somewhere safe where only one person will be able to find it."
"We are going to have to leave…aren't we?" says Mary hesitantly.
"Yes," answers Richard solemnly "but if we are lucky it won't be for long."
"But what about Peter?"
Richard had been hoping to avoid the thought of their young son. They would have to leave him with no explanation or clue as to where or why they had gone. He had to remember that this was bigger than just their little family.
"He is with Ben and May, they'll take care of him and keep him safe. Right now all we can do for him is disappear and hope that the attention is focused on us." says Richard with a heavy heart and a lump forming in his throat.
With one last look at the lab and work that had consumed their lives for the last ten years, the couple checked to make sure the coast was clear. As soon as they were sure it was safe they ran and caught a cap to the air strip and boarded a private jet to an undecided location. They were never heard from or seen again.
"Peter Parker, you get out of that bed this instant!" yelled May Parker. Aunt May was the sweetest and most loving human being on the planet but when it came time to wake up she morphed into the toughest drill sergeant the world had ever seen.
Peter slowly pulled his drooling, messy haired face out of his pillow to look at the alarm clock. Seven A.M. as usual.
"Aunt May its Saturday, why do you have me up a seven in the morning?!" complained peter as he sat up in his bed stretching his long arms.
"Because, my books for class say that it is good to get into a routine when it comes to sleeping and waking." Aunt May had been taking nursing classes at the local community college to keep busy and was always quoting her text books as a method of studying. She called it studying but Peter was pretty convinced she just liked having excuses to antagonize him about various aspects of his life.
"Now hurry up, I have breakfast waiting for you downstairs and your Uncle Ben wants you to go help him with some errands in the city." She said as she barged into Peter's room. He had lived with his Aunt and Uncle since he was 8 years old when his parents disappeared without a trace. He had always wondered why his parents had abandoned him but at the same time he always thought that the fact that they left him with Aunt May and Uncle Ben showed that they had at least wanted him to have a good life. With that in mind it was almost hard for him to resent them.
As Aunt May left the room Peter pulled himself out of bed and shuffled across the room to his bathroom. He didn't even bother looking at the mirror until after he had showered, he then pulled on a pair of jeans and a gray v-neck shirt. Next he inspected his light brown mess of hair trying to estimate how much he would be able to tame it today. After several minutes of struggling with it he finally ended up with the messy yet stylish look that he had perfected in recent years.
As Peter came thumping down the stairs, Uncle Ben looked up from his newspaper.
"I swear if it had taken me as long to get ready when I was sixteen then my father would've just made me go through the day in my pajamas." he joked as Peter sat down and started piling his plate with pancakes and bacon.
"Well you didn't have to deal with the insane pressure that gets put on sixteen year olds when it comes to looking good these days." retorted Peter as he drowned his plate in syrup. Uncle Ben shot him a chuckle as he reopened The Dailey Bugle.
"I swear this Jameson guy talks more and more shit every time I open this damned paper."
"Well I don't know dear he does seem to have some decent intentions, even if he is a bit out spoken about them." Said Aunt May, she was always the first one to defend anyone with remotely good intentions. That was always the thing Peter had admired about her most, she always gave someone a chance whether they deserved it or not. Uncle Ben on the other hand was the realistic and brutally honest one. He was always ready to speak his opinion and even more ready to defend it. That was what Peter admired most about him, you could always count on Uncle Ben for the honest truth about anything.
"Alright so what do we need to go into the city for today Uncle Ben?" asked Peter as he started helping his aunt clear the table.
"Well I've got to go to the hardware store on 32nd street and I've also got kind of a surprise trip for you that I think you'll enjoy." He said with a mischievous smirk on his face.
As they started the drive from Queens into Manhattan, Peter stared out the window trying to imagine what kind of surprise his uncle could possibly have in mind for him. As they drove past Middleton High School Peter noticed all of the sports teams were hard at practice getting ready for the start of the school year on Monday. Peter couldn't decide if he was excited or terrified to start school again. It would probably just be like any other year, breeze through classes and spend all day avoiding Flash Thompson and day dreaming about Gwen Stacey. But none of that would be relevant until Monday so he pushed it all to the back of his mind as the car came to a stop.
Peter glanced around confused. "Umm, Uncle Ben this is nowhere near 32nd street." Peter pointed out.
"I know that," replied Ben, "but you aren't going to 32nd street, this is your stop."
Peter took another look around and finally noticed the monstrously huge metallic building standing outside the car. "OSCORP?!" Peter asked dumbfounded. "What are we doing here?"
"Well I know how much you've always wanted to see what your parents did with their lives so I pulled some strings and got you in on a private tour of the facility." Said Uncle Ben with a proud look on his face as if he had just won some sort of competition.
"No way!" Peter exclaimed as he got out of the car and started walking towards the building.
"Now Peter I will be back here to pick you up at five o'clock just go right in and tell them your name, everything should be set up." Yelled Uncle Ben smiling as Peter started running up the front steps to the entrance.
Peter opened the door to the building, his hands shaking with anticipation. This had been all he had ever dreamed about. Finally he going to be able to see the labs where his parents and countless other geniuses spent the entire careers creating major scientific breakthroughs to help the world. As he walked up to the front desk his mind couldn't decide what to focus on first. The main floor was a huge open atrium with several gardens that included ponds, waterfalls, and benches for employees and guests to sit and relax. According to the displays many of the plants were extremely rare and had been the source of many scientific breakthroughs. Then he noticed an entire timeline of life on earth that encircled the entire floor and included fossils, diagrams, and various other extraordinary displays.
"Hello, my name is KARI how can I help you today?" asked the receptionist pleasantly as Peter reached the front desk. Just as he was about to respond he noticed that all of the receptionists were exact duplicates of each other.
"Umm, are you all related?" he asked confused for a moment.
"In a way, yes." KARI answered in a giggling voice. "We are all one in the same, I am OSCORP's central artificial intelligence system. I run every hospitality and assistance operation in all OSCORP facilities."
"Wow that's awesome." Exclaimed Peter. "Anyway, my name is Peter Parker I'm here for a private tour."
"Ah so you're so nice to meet you, you're right on time follow me." Said the hologram as she blipped from here station behind the desk and appeared over by one of the elevators.
As KARI led Peter through a tour of the many different areas and divisions of the facility there was only one thing he could focus on.
"KARI when will we get to the special genetics lab?" he asked anxiously.
"You mean when will we get to the lab of your parents Richard and Mary Parker, don't you?" she asked giving the boy an admiring glance. Peter stood silent as if the AI program had read his mind. "I admire your drive Peter, don't lose that quality it is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity." Something about the look in KARI's eyes showed that her level of intelligence had broken through far beyond the boundaries of a simple hospitality program.
She led Peter through a maze of hallways that seemed to never end when finally they stopped at a door with only one marking on it. The marking almost looked like some kind of web or spider of some sort but Peter couldn't recognize it.
"What were they working on KARI?" he asked.
"I am afraid it is not the time for me to tell," she answered mysteriously. "go." She said as she waved her hand over the key pad opening the door.
As the door opened a burst of senses and memories flooded Peter's mind. The smell of his mother's perfume mixed with the leather of his father's briefcase. He had almost forgotten how many memories he had of them even though he was so young when they left. He slowly stepped through the door and looked around everything was covered in a layer of dust and cobwebs as if it hadn't been touched since his parents left eight years before. There was a crack beneath his feet and as he looked down he notice a pile of broken glass. Peter chose to ignore it as he continued to explore the lab. There were several terrariums covered in spider webs with various labels that he couldn't decipher. They all looked empty aside from the webs. The next thing he found was his father's briefcase shoved under a table as if he had been trying to hide it. Peter bent down and started reaching under the table to pull it out. Just as he did he noticed the slightest of movement in the corner of his eye but when he looked there was nothing there. He returned his attention to the briefcase that was now in his hands and when he did he saw a small brightly colored spider crawling across the briefcase and up his arm. When he attempted to swat it away he felt a sudden prick and then a shooting pain starting in his arm and spreading through his entire body. He collapsed to the ground clutching the briefcase tightly as the world started to spin the last thing he saw was KARI and several medics rush towards him before he faded to black.
Alright so that's my first episode or chapter of my little version of spider-man so far. I know I took a lot of story elements from the recent movies and stuff but I mean there is really only one way to tell spidey's origins so bare with me until I get that stuff out of the way. Anyway please please please let me know what you think and if I should keep going. I mean I probably will keep it going regardless because I had a lot of fun doing this and have a lot of ideas of where it could go but this is also my first ever story so some feed back would be awesome!