It was a boring day at school. And I mean REALLY boring. So boring that our protagonist was trying to stay awake when the teacher was talking. He just didn't really care about what the heck an atom was, and you have no idea how happy he was when heard the bell ring.

Oh wait, I think we should introduce our hero. This is Ben Tennyson, a Teenager from New York that's no different than you and me. He is sixteen years old and he has normal trouble. You know, over-due projects, crushes, all that shtick. That stuff is super boring, but relax that's not what this story is about. This is about something amazing that happened to him one day.

"Okay, I'll finish tomorrow" the teacher said as the class all got out of their seats, ready to leave the room. "If you have any questions about today's lesson, let me know" everyone was getting their things as were ready to leave the class room. Ben was hoping he can get home and do what he usually does-do homework, watch a little TV, and read comic books.

"Wait class, there was something I almost forgot about" The teacher said. Everybody turned around and everyone (including Ben) groaned, because they really wanted to get the heck out of that class room. Most of them had very important things to do with their lives, but they had to stay to listen to him.

"What do you need to tell us, Mr. Money?" a girl named Kylie stone said. This is one of ben's closest friends, who he's known since they were twelve. He has always had a huge crush on her but was always too nervous to say anything. Man, I wish I was friends with a girl I had a crush on.

"I just want you all to know that you better hand in your permission slips for a field trip, because tomorrow we are going to the spider exhibit!" This was the thing every student there didn't want to hear. They HATE field trips. They thought it was too damn boring, and the places they choose aren't even that cool. I've never been on one, so I don't really know about it. However, there was one student who was excited. This was Ben's cousin Gwen, who practically was born a minute before Ben was. He's known her for as long as he could remember, and they have some very different personalities.

Everyone handed in their permission slips, with Gwen being the first one to hand in her permission slip, with a huge look of excitement on her face. Next was Kylie, who handed in her permission slip, and just walked away after she picked up the backpack. Soon everyone else handed in their permission slips, until ben was the only one left in the class room. Ben walked up to the desk, and decided to talk to Mr. Money. Who knows, maybe he'll talk Mr. Money out of letting him go on the field trip.

"Mr. Money, no offence, but I'm not really interested in being in a spider-museum" Ben said. "And I'm pretty sure that my parents didn't sign the permission slips. Is it okay if I just stay here and go to math class instead?"

"But your parents already signed the permission slip a week ago, Tennyson. I'm afraid you have to go" This is something Ben really didn't want to hear. Ben thought that his parents weren't going to sign the permission slip, mainly because he hid it from them. That's how much he really didn't want to go on this trip. But his parents must have found it, because he knew they were always looking through his things.

"Well how do we know it was my parents?" Ben asked. "Maybe it was someone else's signature, not theirs"

"Because this is clearly Sandra Tennyson's signature, and because she handed it to me this morning" Mr. Money said as he pulled out the permission slip. Ben looked at it, and he had no doubt that was his mother's signature. "Now history class is going to be starting in a few minutes, I suggest you make an effort just to get there"

"Yeah" ben said as he walked out of the room. He couldn't believe his parents signed the permission slip and didn't tell him! What parents neglect to tell their own kid about signing his permission slip? He thought they wouldn't even let him go in the first place, even if he handed them the permission slip!

Not before long school had ended. Everyone exited the building, either on foot or on skate board, except for Ben and Gwen, who were both waiting for their grandpa to pick them up. Maybe I should also talk more about him as well. Max Tennyson was a man that was adored by many. No one adored him more than his grandchildren, who always waited for him when school got out. They didn't care if they were running late or if he had some sort of mishap, as long as they could see him, Ben was happy.

"So you really don't want to go to the spider-exhibit?" Gwen asked Ben nicely.

"Not Really" Ben said. "I'm not really into spiders. I'm more into things like super heroes or book factories. I think a spider-museum is going to be boring"

"Hey, it's going to be fun!" Gwen said to Ben, much to the latter's annoyance.

"You say that with every field trip, and I always end up thinking the opposite"

"Oh come on, I'm sure something will happen that'll change your mind" Gwen said to Ben. Ben was going to say something when he saw this beat-up RV pull up next to the school.

"Hey, it's grandpa!" Ben said as he grabbed his backpack. Gwen grabbed her thing as well as they walked up to the RV, glad to see their grandpa again. They opened the door and got right in, and Gwen sat down as ben closed the door. Grandpa max started driving off as ben sat down, thinking about that field trip he had no choice to go on.

"So, how was school?" Grandpa max asked.

"It was okay. Tomorrow we're having a field trip and I have no choice but to come"

"I'm guessing your mother already signed the permission slip?" grandpa max asked.

"Yeah" Ben said as he pulled out his phone.

"So where are you guys going?"

"To the spider-exhibit" Gwen said.

"That sounds fun" Grandpa Max said. "I used to work there a long time ago"

"I thought you were a plumber" Ben said as he pulled himself away from the phone.

"That was before I became a plumber" Grandpa Max said. "It's a really cool place. You know Ben, you might like it. There are a lot of cool spiders there"

"I'm not super sure of that" Ben said. He went to go see his text messages, but there weren't that many. Just one from his friend Jackson linking him to a funny video on YouTube and one from Kylie, which said "Are you going to the spider-museum tomorrow?" He wasn't surprised that he did get that many texts. He wasn't really that popular, and he's also kinda shy. He doesn't have that many friends, and the friends he did have they talked to him first, not the other way around. Except for Kylie, though.

He replied "yes" he thought if he was not going to have a choice in going, t least someone else he really cared about was going to be there. Grandpa Max soon stopped at Gwen's house, and she got off. She got her things, waved goodbye, and he drove off, bringing Ben to his house.

"So are you going to go that that spider-exhibit?"

"Yeah" Ben said.

"Kylie's going, isn't she?" grandpa max said.

"Yes she is. If I'm not gonna enjoy it at least I'll be near someone I care about"

"I understand" Grandpa Max said. "I remember a girl I used to like in high school, her name was Margret. She was a very nice girl, and we were good friends. However, I could never bring myself to tell her how I felt, and when I decided to, it was too late. She ended up falling for another man, and she didn't really hang around me anymore"

"Not to sound rude or anything, but are you trying to tell me something by this?"

"Yes I am. If you have feelings for a certain girl, then tell her how you feel. Don't let your fear get the best of you" This was around when Grandpa max stopped at Ben's house, and e stopped the Rv. Ben went back to get his things, and he got off the Rv, (of course after saying goodbye to his grandpa) and he walked towards the door, thinking about what his grandpa said. Maybe he should go tell Kylie how he felt. Maybe he should tell her he likes her.

He opened the door and walked into his house, right into his parent's home. Standing there were both of his parents, who really looked as if they were excited about something. This kinda scared ben, because he thought it wasn't good news. Then again, if you walk into your parents who are smiling, when is it good news?

"Okay, can you tell you tell me guys why you're excited?"

"We heard about your field trip tomorrow!" His mother said. Her name is Sandra, AKA the woman that put her signature on the permission slip.

"Yeah, I know. You already signed the permission slip and handed it to the teacher, from what I heard" Ben said. "How come you did that without asking me first?"

"Well, he didn't tell you because we knew you weren't really interested in going. But we think it would be fun for you, so you shouldn't try hiding the permission slip from us"

"Gwen told you about it, didn't she?"

"Yes"

"You guys know I don't want to go!" Ben said.

"Hey, wouldn't it be really cool to see all the different types of spiders?" Carl said. "I mean, I think it would sound pretty cool"

"Not unless they were experimenting on some of them"

"Oh come on, that kind of things only happen in comic books" Sandra said.

"Besides, you always complain that we don't let you do anything" Carl said.

"Wait, when I wanted to go see Pacific Rim you said no because you thought it sounded too violent, but a place with many venomous creatures is okay with you guys?!"

"I'm not worried because their kept behind glass" Sandra said. "Besides, who knows, maybe it'll be very interesting" You never know what going to happen" his dad said. Ben, really angry, just marched up to his room, slamming the door as he entered.

"I'm not sure he likes it" Sandra said.

In his room Ben stayed there the whole night, just really angry at his parents. They always did things like this behind his back, and he never liked it. This really irks him to no end, and he doesn't know why they do it. Ben tried to calm himself down by going under his bed and pulling out something his parents doesn't know he has-some batman comic books. No really, I don't read batman (because I'm more of a marvel fan) but I've been reading about them. And if you have, then you'd know why he would have to hide it from his parents. He recently picked up Batman #39 and he was really interested in what was going to happen next in the story. I had to go look that up, to be honest.

He grabbed his radio and put on his copy of American Idiot by green day, something his grandpa gave him. He loves Green day, which is something else his parents don't really know about. This was probably his favorite one of their albums (Or CDs, since I'm retro, and no one calls them albums any more) and he listens to it frequently. Epically when he's angry, because somehow it's always managed to calm him down.

Wednesday came soon enough, and ben wasn't ready for it at all. That mean he had to go to the spider-exhibit, and he really did not want to go. However, he knows he can't talk his parents out of making him, no matter how much he wanted to, and that his parents at least signed the permission slip, so he had to come. On the bright side Kylie was going to be there, so maybe it wasn't going to be that bad.

He tried to get as much sleep as possible. He tried to sleep in, hoping that his parents were going to try and wake him in time, fail, and he was going to miss the trip. But then he started to regret this idea, because he told Kylie he was going and he's never broken a promise to Kylie. But he liked sleeping, so he tried to sleep as long as he could. At least he can do that.

"Wake up Ben. You're going to be late" Ben's mom said as she walked into his room.

"That's the plan" Ben said as he pulled the blanket over his head. His mom kept shaking him but it didn't work. She stopped for a bit and tried to think, and noticed the window was right across from the room. She noticed the blinds were down, and she got an idea. She walked over to the blinds and she pulled them up, which shone a huge light in ben's eyes, waking him up.

"Now get ready or you're going to be late for school" Ben got ready within minutes, changing into a black short sleeves shirt with jeans and sneakers. He ate a quick breakfast down stairs and he ran outside, saying goodbye to his parents.

He stood outside for ten minutes, waiting for the bus when it arrived, much to ben's luck. He was just glad it didn't leave without him this time, unlike the last three times when he had to end up walking to school. He never liked walking to school or back to home, because it was such a far trip and he honestly thought it sucked.

Soon he got onto the bus, which was crowded with people talking. He tied to make his way to an empty spot, hopefully with someone he knew or could at least stand. This didn't come to pass though, as Gwen was sitting next to (and busy taking to) her friend elina, His best friend Jackson got stuck with someone that Jackson couldn't stand either, and kylie was sitting next to her friend, a Jock named Cody brock. Ben never liked this guy because he thought he was a jerk, and because he and Kylie treats each other like they were dating. So he saw that he couldn't sit next to anyone he wanted to.

This is just not my day, is it? Ben thought as he made his way to the back. It was freezing in the back, and the only seat avadeabile was next to a nerd who was obsessed with Pokémon.

Really not my day. He thought when he sat down, as the guy was debating with himself if Pikachu or Meowth would win in a fight.

...

About two hours later they finally arrive at the spider-exhibit, and ben still wasn't happy. Bright side, he didn't have to sit next to Pokémon boy anymore, not so bright side, it was so boring. Or to him, at least. Everyone was looking at the cool spiders, except for Ben, who wished he could be anywhere else. They all came to these special spiders, each one cooler than the last, but ben really didn't like it.

"Hey ben, look at this" Gwen shouted as he walked over to her. Ben had no idea what was going on as he walked over to wen and the others, who were all gathered around one specific exhibit. Everyone looked at them in amazement and shock at what they saw, and ben squeezed his way to the front to see what everyone was talking about. What he saw were these strange looking spiders, that didn't look like any spiders he had ever seen before. These were a bit bigger and they were purple, with strange marks on the backsides of them. Ben thought they kinda looked cool, but yet he still wondered what they were.

"Excuse me, I've never seen these kind of spiders before" Ben said. "What kind of breed are they?"

"Oh, these are a brand new type of spider, given to us by Oscorp industries. These are genetically altered spiders, with stronger web lines and faster endurance" the tour guide said.

"So these have been experimented on?" Kylie asked.

"Why yes, they have" The tour guy said. "We're not sure how safe these spiders are, so we are to make sure that every single one is present and counted for"

"Mutated spiders" Gwen said. "Hey Ben, doesn't that sound like something from a comic book?"

"It kind of does" Ben said. "And I have to admit, this is kind of cool"

"Excuse me" Kylie asked the tour guide. "What would happen is someone was bitten by one of these?"

"We honestly don't know" The tour guide said. "What we do know is that either it might kill you or give you super powers. Most likely the former"

"This is really cool" Ben said. He looked at the plague to see what they were thinking about naming these new species when he noticed something strange. The sign said there were five spiders in the case, but ben only saw four. He also saw a tiny bit of the case was lifted, most likely by someone who was trying to clean it, as he saw a small dirty spot that guy must have missed. By the look of it the spider escaped, and it might be crawling around freely.

"Excuse me sir, the sign says there's five spiders, but I only see four" Ben said. The tour guide looked at the case, hoping that Ben was wrong. He counted the spiders at least ten times to make sure, but he found out ben was right-one of them was missing.

"Uh oh, looks like one of them escaped" tour guide said to the class. Everyone started freaking out because of this, and Ben just hid in the crowd, not noticing something crawling up his leg.

"Relax, it's nothing. I bet someone else who works here already found out about the sider and is working his or her way to finding it and catching it. Regardless let's move on" the tour guide said. The group moved on as Ben walked along with them, not noticing that something was standing right on the back of his palm. Something that looked like a spider.

"Ben, what's that?" Kylie asked when she noticed the spider on Ben's hand.

"What's wh-" Ben didn't notice that the spider was on his hand until the spider bit him. Ben grabbed his hand in pain as the spider-jumped off right before it crawled away, not to be seen again. Kylie looked over at it, as she was very startled by what happened.

"Great just I needed" Ben looked at the spider bite, wondering how he didn't notice that spider on his hand. The bite started bleeding, much to Kylie's shock. Ben looked at it and started having a werid feeling in his stomach, which made grab it, while looking like he wasn't well.

"Oh my god, are you alright?!" she asked.

"I'm fine, just a little dizzy" Ben said as he started to stumble over. His entire head was busy, and really felt like he was getting sick. He was sick to his stomach, and constantly feeling like he was going to throw up. He had no clue on what was happening to him, and he felt as he needed to get out.

"Mr. Shane, Ben needs to step outside or a minute" Kylie said. "I don't think he's feeling well"

"Well, if he's sick then surely he could leave" The tour guide said. Ben walked out of the building as everyone else moved along, and he walked out to the stairs outside and then threw up into a waste basket. He really had no idea what was happening, but then he looked at his spider-bite. He started to wonder if that had anything to do with his conditions.

"How the heck am I supposed to tell my parents about this?" Ben asked himself. He sat there, trying to get over a headache he had for a few minutes when Gwen walked outside. He quickly pulled his sleeve over his hand so she wouldn't see the spider bite and still sat there, thinking to himself.

"Ben, are you feeling alright?"

"Not really" He said. Gwen put her hand on Ben's forehead to see if he was running some sort of fever, and she saw he was. She also looked at ben, and thought he really didn't look well. Like something was literally eating him up inside.

"I'll call grandpa and ask him to come over quick. It's strange, you seemed just fine a few minutes ago" Gwen said as she got out her phone. As Gwen was distracted, Ben used the moment to look at the spider bite and wonder if it had to do with how he was feeling. He quickly pulled out his phone and looked up several spider-bites, none of which looked like the one he had. He saw Gwen hang up the phone and quickly put his phone back in his pocket, and sat in the same postion he was sitting in right before she got on the phone.

"Okay, grandpa will be here in twenty minutes. Please stay close by" Gwen said. As she went back into the building Ben felt the urge to throw up. He saw the garbage Can at the park across the street and quickly walked all the way over thee during a red light, and he threw up in trash can. He wiped off the last of his throw up as he walked down the street, not noticing the light had turned green. He didn't bother to notice, mainly because he was too busy thinking on how he was supposed to tell his parents about both how he was bit by a spider, and that he felt sick but he suddenly felt better almost instantly.

He was so deep in these thoughts that he didn't notice a car that was coming towards him, and the guy was pretty tried, so he didn't notice Ben either. Ben was still walking away when he felt the urge that he need to jump out of the way, which he did before the car hit him. Ben didn't know how he couldn't notice that the car was nearby, but he somehow knew that he needed to get out of the way. It was almost like he sensed it. He stood there, touching a poster for the Jonny Bravo movie as he wondered how this could be. He was going to walk back to the building when he noticed that his hand was stuck to the poster, and he couldn't get it off until he ripped it off, almost as if it were attached to his fingers.

Ben thought this was bizarre to no end, but he started thinking about what was happening to him. He thought he must still be sick or something, because this wasn't normal. He knew he got plenty of sleep last night, so his wasn't something he was seeing because he was tried. But he thought about something. He noticed how that poster was sticking to his fingers, and he wondered if the same was going for his feet. So he took off his shoes and tied the shoe laces together, and he put them on his shoulder. Then he tried climbing up the wall, with great success. Soon what he thought was weird he soon thought it was the coolest thing ever.

When he got on top of the wall, he sat there, wondering what was happening to him. He then looked at his spider-bite and thought for a bit. First he was feeling sick to his stomach after the spider bit him, then all of this started happening. He was sticking to the wall and he was sensing danger everywhere, and all of this happened after the spider bit him. This made him come to one conclusion: This spider that bit him was the radioactive spider that escaped. There was no other explanation.

He still thought about this when he saw His grandpa pull up, and stick his head out of the window. Ben looked down when he noticed that, and he waved to his grandpa.

"Ben, what are you doing up there?" He asked.

"Just thinking, grandpa" he lied as he jumped down. Somehow he managed to land on his feet, which surprised his grandpa to no end. When he tried that in gym class a few years ago he landed right on his face, almost breaking his nose. He ran over to the van and got inside, much to his grandpa's surprise, because of what he was told on the phone. He was told Ben was sick, but he seemed just fine right at the moment.

"You know, Gwen told me you were sick" He said, bringing the subject up.

"Well, I was, but somehow I feel much better" ben said as he sat down. "I don't know how to explain it"

"Well, that's very strange" Grandpa Max said. "Makes me wonder if you were faking it just so you could get out of the science exhibit"

"Well, that is very possible" Ben said. "But I threw up into that trashcan over there. I'm sure that I can't fake that"

"Well, just wait here for your cousin. Maybe she can explain this all to me" Grandpa Max said. Ben just sat down, and decided to look on Facebook. After a while Gwen got back on the RV, very shocked to find Ben well sitting down while listening to Foo Fighters. She thought Ben was very ill, and as you can guess, she didn't know about what had just happened to Ben. But she was confused by what she was seeing right here.

"Are you okay?" she asked in concern. "You seemed sick a few minutes ago"

"I'm guessing I need some fresh air" Ben said. "It was very strange. Almost like it was gone as soon as it was there"

"I can't believe you Ben" Gwen said. "I know what you're doing"

"Huh?"

"It's very mean that you faked not feeling well just because you didn't want to stay in that room" Gwne said. "You know, Kylie was very worried. She asked me if you were going to be okay"

"Look, that's not exactly what happened, I just-"

"Oh my god, what happened to your hand?" She asked as she saw the spider-bite.

"A spider-bite. Don't worry, I looked it up. This one's not too bad" he lied, not knowing if it was bad or not. Gwen looked at it.

"Are you sure?" Gwen said as she looked up at Ben.

"Yes! God, you're almost as bad as my parents!" Ben said, joking. Gwen smiled and rolled her eyes and walked over to the next seat, still wanting to keep a close eye on Ben...