A/N: hey guys! I'm putting It Takes Losing Something To Realize What You Had on hold for now but I'm starting this spidey!beca story for the meantime. I hope you guys enjoy it. There will be similarities to both The Amazing Spider-Man movies. Like always, let me know your thoughts :) Enjoy
Beca POV
"Beca, sweetie, time to get up." My Aunt May's voice muffled through my closed bedroom door. My eyes fluttered open, squinting when the sunlight hit me. I threw my arms back and stretched my limbs, groaning when I heard them pop. Swinging my feet over the edge of the bed, I stood up. As I walked towards my bathroom I glanced at the picture frame on my desk. The edge of my mouth twitches upwards at the picture of my deceased parents and I. Their sudden disappearance from when I was ten still leaves me with questions and no one to provide the answers.
After freshening up, I made my way downstairs to the kitchen where I was greeted by my Aunt May and Uncle Ben.
"Morning, kiddo. Need a ride to school?" Uncle Ben took a sip of his coffee before turning to the next page of his newspaper.
"No need. I'll take my skateboard" I took a seat across from my uncle and began to eat my cereal. Aunt May poured herself a cup of coffee before joining us.
"Honey, when are you going to get a car? I get worried whenever you take that thing to school. You always find a way to get yourself hurt"
I chuckled, scooping a spoonful of cherrios.
"I'll be careful, don't worry."
Aunt May pursed her lips and nodded.
"Alright, hurry on to school then"
I pinned my new photo of the debate team onto the bulletin board. My gaze lingering on my current crush Chloe Beale. The redhead was smiling brightly to the camera, her red hair flowing over her shoulders-
Suddenly, I was hit with a basketball by my least favorite person in the world: Bumper Allan.
"Whoops. Didn't see you there, shorty" Bumper smirked. His friends Donald and Luke laughed from their place behind him.
"Hello to you too, Bumper" I rolled my eyes and closed the glass door of the bulletin board. Bumper stomped his foot in front of me in a teasing manner, causing me to flinch and step back. The basketball players laughed and walked passed me to proceed to their lockers.
"When are you going to give him a well deserved punch in the face?" I turned around to see my bestfriend's Amy and Jesse standing behind me. Amy stood there with her arms folded and Jesse was busy on his phone.
"Violence never solves anything, Amy" The three of us began to walk towards my locker. Jesse scoffs and slips his phone back into his front pocket.
"Says the one that got arrested for punching a guy and destroying private property during last years comic con."
I begin to unload my bag of my books before turning to Jesse.
"Exactly"
Amy pulls my polaroid camera from the strap around my neck and examines it.
"You're such a hipster." The blonde quirks her eyebrow when I snatch it away. The three of us start to walk over to the quad to spend our remaining twenty minutes. Once we arrived at our preferred table, I took a seat on top of it, my feet resting on the bench.
"Chloe Beale, two o'clock" Jesse nodded towards the redhead and her friends Stacie and Aubrey walking onto the quad. Jesse looked on as Aubrey flipped her blonde hair out of her face. Amy leaned over and flicked his ear.
"Don't be creepy" Amy swatted his hands away as he attempted to shove her away.
I looked back towards the three girls, feeling a sudden warmth in my chest when Chloe leaned back and closed her eyes to enjoy the sun. The sunlight made her hair look twice as vibrant. I subconsciously raised my camera to my face and focused on Chloe, capturing a beautiful photo.
"You know the saying take a picture, it'll last longer isn't meant to be taken literally, Mitchell" Amy said. Before I can come up with a sarcastic response, we turn our attention to a sudden chanting from across the quad. Jesse and Amy walk over to the scene, I hop down and join them. The three of us push our way through the crowd of students, stopping when we saw Bumper holding a freshman upside down, shoving his face into a tray of food.
"Come on, Benji, open up" Bumper shoved Beji's face deeper into the food. Earning laughs from multiple students. The basketball player looked up, his eyes landing on me.
"Yo, Mitchell, get a picture of this."
"Bumper. Put him down, man."
Bumper narrows his eyes at me, "I said take the damn picture"
"Put him down!" I shout, the area becoming slightly silent, "Eugene"
At the sound of his real name, Bumper drops Benji onto the ground. He made his way over to me and pulled my camera off from around my neck, throwing it on the concrete.
"Say it again, Mitchell" He shoves me by the shoulders causing me to tumble back and land on the ground. Amy raises her arm in front of Jesse to prevent him from doing anything stupid. They bend down to pick me up, I wave them off. I turn my head to my camera and reach over to grab it. Only to have a pair of brown boots walk in front of my hand. I look up and see Chloe standing in front of Bumper.
"How about, instead of being an asshole, you go to class. That would be a very wise decision considering the amount of times you've been cutting."
Bumper glares at her before turning on his heel and making his way back into the school. Chloe turns her head over to me and smiles before walking off to class along with the rest of the students that were crowding the area.
I reach over and grab my camera, sighing when I see my lens had been cracked. Jesse reaches down and pulls me up.
"You alright?" I can hear the concern in his voice, I give him a reassuring smile. The three of us make our way to our English class. Taking our seats in the back when we arrived.
Normal POV:
Beca laid her head on her desk as soon as the teacher began her lesson. Her fingers brushing against her camera that was resting on the top right corner. Chloe turned around in her seat to look over at the brunette.
"I thought that was great..standing up to Bumper" Beca raised her head slightly to acknowledge the redhead, "It was stupid..but it was great." Beca grinned and nodded. Chloe's gaze lowered to the polaroid camera.
"Are you able to get that fixed?" Chloe pointed at the cracked screen. Beca nodded. This was the longest interaction they ever had and Beca can already feel her cheeks burning up.
The brunette cleared her throat awkwardly, "Yeah. It's just a simple repair. Not a problem."
"That's good news. I would hate to lose my favorite photographer." Chloe winked before turning her attention back to the front of the room. Beca was certain she now resembled a tomato. She looked over to the peeping tom's to her right, rolling her eyes when Jesse and Amy wiggled their eyebrows. Beca looked back to the front of the room, her smile still plastered on her face.
Finally, the end of the day came and Jesse, Beca, and Amy were walking down the hall towards the exit. Beca dropped her skateboard onto the ground when they reached the bottom of the steps.
"Bec, I can drive you home if you want." Jesse offered.
"Thanks but I wanna skate home today. Later, guys" Beca waved goodbye to her friends before rolling out of the parking lot and disappearing into the street. Amy turned to Jesse.
"I'll take that ride home."
Jesse laughed, "The both of you need cars asap".
Beca opened the front door to her house, placing her skateboard against the wall. She walked further into the house, seeing her aunt and uncle in the living room.
"Hey, family." Beca joined them on the couch.
"Hi, honey. How was school?" Aunt May gave Beca a kiss on the cheek.
"Uneventful. How was your day?" Beca placed her camera face up on her legs.
"Well I went to the mall with Ben-"
"'Went' would mean I wanted to go" Uncle Ben grabbed the remote and changed the channel to the news. Beca snickered at the comment while her Aunt May swatted his shoulder. Just as she was about to continue, the phone in the kitchen began to ring. Aunt May got up to go answer it. Uncle Ben scooted closer to Beca.
"Do you have enough for the repair?"
Beca looked at him confused, "What-" Uncle Ben grabbed the camera. Beca opened and closed her mouth.
"What happened?" He asked, looking more closely at the damage.
"I dropped it-"
"Try again. It doesn't look like it was dropped. More like it was thrown." Uncle Ben waited for an answer.
Beca sighed, "This guy threw it on the ground when I refused to take a picture of the freshman he was humiliating. It's not a big deal."
Uncle Ben handed the camera back to Beca.
"Yes or no, do I need to call his father?"
"No no. It's fine." Beca looked down at her camera. Uncle Ben nodded.
"Alright. Well, you're lucky I noticed it before your Aunt May. Pity the boy if he ever had to suffer her wrath." Beca chuckled.
"Oh, before I forget, can you help me move some boxes from the basement?" Uncle Ben stood up.
"Sure" They walked over to the door that led to the basement and walked down. After about twenty minutes of going up and down the stairs with boxes, they were finished. Uncle Ben was making his way upstairs with the last box while Beca turned her attention to something stashed in a dusty shelf. She grabbed it, blowing the dust off. Her breath hitched when she saw her fathers initials on an raggedy old briefcase. Beca walked upstairs with the briefcase in her hands.
"Ben, get those filthy boxes out of my kitchen! We're about to eat!"
"These are my bowling trophies" Uncle Ben grabbed one from the box and raised it to Aunt May.
"Oh, then by all means, leave those filthy boxes in my kitchen" Aunt May muttered. Her eyes widened when she saw Beca emerge from the basement, carrying a familiar item. Uncle Ben turned around, showing the same reaction when he saw his brother's briefcase. He walked over and sniggered.
"I haven't seen this in a while...it was your dads"
Beca looked up and nodded. She popped it open and slipped her hand inside. Pulling out a cut out of a picture from an old newspaper. In the photo she saw her father and a man she didn't recognize. Beca raised the photo up so her uncle can have a look.
"Who's that?"
Aunt May looked down and resumed chopping the vegetables. Uncle Ben pursed his lips and scratched the top of his head.
"Someone who worked for your dad, I guess"
Aunt May placed the knife down on the table and walked over to Beca.
"Okay, enough, it's time eat. Beca, honey, go wash up." Beca nodded slowly. She finally found something that belonged to her father and her aunt and uncle seemed hesitant to talk about it. Why? Beca walked upstairs to her room, dropping the briefcase on the floor.
After dinner, Beca went back upstairs, closing and locking the door behind her. She sat down on the floor, crossing her legs, and turning the briefcase upside down to empty out its contents. Beca lined up the items neatly in front of her. She looked down at the calculator, an Oscorp ID badge, old train tokens, and her fathers glasses. Taking the glasses out of its case, she walked over to her bathroom. She removed her contacts and slipped the glasses on, surprised that they were her same prescription. Although, a little loose on the sides. Beca walked back into her room and sat back down. She bent her leg up, resting her arm on her knee as she examined the ID badge. Next, she grabbed the briefcase, turning it around. The brunette furrowed her eyebrows when she felt something shift from the inside.
"I could have sworn I took everything out.." Beca tilted the briefcase to its sides. There was definitely something inside. Beca opened the flap, looking inside for any other pockets she may have missed. She turned it over and opened the outside pocket.
She sighed, "What the hell?". The tips of her fingers grazed over the top of the opening of the outside pocket. She raised her eyebrow, slipping her finger underneath the material. Beca ran her fingers down slowly when suddenly she felt them hit a clip, with one more little push it opened. She looped her fingers inside and pulled out a folder.
"Richard Mitchell. You sneaky son of a bitch" Beca looked through the folder, only seeing a bunch of notes about an experiment. She turned the page and found a familiar symbol. Under it was a formula.
"Decay Rate Algorithm?" Before she can look over the rest of the notes, there was a knock on her door.
"Beca?" She shuffled the stuff on the floor and shoved the folder back inside the briefcase.
"Give me a sec!" Beca scrambled onto her desk chair, clicking the spacebar to bring it back to the home screen. She cleared her throat and adjusted the glasses back up the bridge of her nose. She leaned over and unlocked the door.
"Come in"
Uncle Ben opened the door and walked in. He smiled when he saw her wearing her father's glasses.
"My god. You look just like him."
Beca raised them and nodded. Uncle Ben ran his fingers over her mixing equipment. Flipping different switches.
"I know it hasn't been the same without your parents, Bec. You obviously have a lot of questions."
Beca leaned back into her chair as she listened to her uncle.
"Curt Conners. That's the man in the photo next to your dad. Last I remember, they were working on a project together."
"Wha-what type of project?"
"I don't know. His research was very classified." Uncle Ben glanced at her home screen wallpaper, "She's pretty". Beca blushed as she ducked her head at the picture of the debate team, zoomed in so Chloe was in the center of the screen. Uncle Ben turned to leave the room.
"Uncle Ben"
"Hmm"
"Thanks"
Once he left and shut the door behind him, Beca swiveled her chair towards her computer and went straight to Google. Typing in the name Curt Conners into the search bar. She clicked the link that led her to the Oscorp website, showing her an article.
"A world without weakness" she read out loud. She grabbed her phone and called Amy. After two rings, the blonde answered.
This better be good..I was about to go down and dirty on my pizza, Mitchell
Beca chuckled, "I found something about my father. Call Jesse and get over here."
Will do
"Decay Rate Algorithm? What is that?" Jesse looked through the notes in the folder. Amy was seated in the desk chair on Google search duty while Beca was pacing back and forth.
"No luck from Google." Amy turned around. Jesse pursed his lips while reading through the notes.
"This is all a bunch of symbols and words I don't understand. Beca, you don't have a clue what this is?" Jesse placed the folder on Beca's bed and took a seat.
"Not at all. I mean, I recognized those circle things with the line across them from when I was ten but that's all."
"Do you remember anything else? If you saw the symbols then the actual project must have been written down." Jesse shrugged. Amy nodded in agreement before turning back around to look through the Oscorp website.
"It's all a blur. I can't remember anything specific." Beca sat down next to Jesse. Amy snapped her fingers over her head, calling them over.
"Well, what better place to find some answers than where it all started?" Amy pointed at the monitor, "Oscorp is doing this internship thing tomorrow. You should go and sneak away to do some detective work and find your answers."
Jesse shook his head, "She can get into some serious trouble"
"Only if she gets caught" Amy looked over at Beca, "Well?"
"What time does it start?"
"Atta girl. It's at three. I'll go with you since little miss goody-two-shoes over here is against it."
"Hell yeah I'm against it" Jesse scoffed.
"Then it's settled. We'll go tomorrow."
Beca and Amy entered the large building and were instantly mesmerized by all the advanced technology.
"I suddenly have the desire to be a scientist" Amy said while looking up at the hologram that was informing the visitors of Oscorps mission as a company.
"If you were a scientist, you'd probably be the cause of the zombie virus so I vote against it." Beca looked around for any type of-
"Excuse me, ladies"
Beca and Amy turned around to face the lady behind the front desk.
"Hmm?"
"Can I help you two?"
Beca leaned against the desk, "Yeah, we're here for the internship.."
"No problem. You'll find yourself to the left."
Beca blinked, "What?"
Amy raised her eyebrow, she looked around until her eyes fell on the name badges that were displayed on the left side of the desk.
"You'll find your badge to the left"
"Genius, over here. Thank you, miss...Rebecca-oh that's so funny" Amy chuckled.
"And why is it?" Rebecca raised her eyebrow.
"Well you see her-"
"Uh we really need to get going. Thanks again" Beca grabbed two badges with names they can pull off and pulled Amy over to the escalator.
"What the hell is wrong with you?"
Amy rolled her eyes, "Oh calm down. We're good...Lucy?"
"Oh shut up, Cindy"
Once they reached the top of the escalator, they joined the group of potential interns.
"Well, where do you think we should start?" Beca asked, Amy shrugged and looked around for any indication of Curt Conners. It was then when she saw Chloe emerge from the double doors in front of them.
"Aww shit.."
Beca turned around, her eyes widening.
"Shit shit shit shit" They ducked their heads and stood directly behind two people.
"Welcome, everybody. My name is Chloe Beale. I'm a senior at Midtown High and I'll be your tour guide. Where I go you go, that's the basic rule. If you can follow that then everything will be fine but if you forget that-"
"Tell them Lucy and Cindy are in the lobby! We're supposed to be here!" Everyone looked down to see two girls bring escorted out of the building.
"Well...I don't think I need to explain what will happen if you forget" Chloe joked, most of the interns laughed along.
"Shall we" Chloe turned around and led them into a new room.
"Beca we need to get outta here." Amy whispered.
"We'll be fine. We just need to slip away at the right time and-"
"Hello, everyone. I am Dr. Curt Conners."
Beca looked up and saw the man from the photo. The man that holds all the answers to her questions. Dr. Conners began to discuss cross species genetics and Amy decided that this was a great time to casually walk away.
"We'll get caught, Amy. Just chill for a second."
Chloe tore her eyes away from Curt to look to the back of the group. Raising her eyebrows when she saw a familiar face. Bidding goodbye to Curt when he excused himself to go to a meeting, she stepped back to allow the interns to examine the hologram that appeared. She took the opportunity to confront the two girls who were attempting to make their escape.
"Hey, Beca"
Amy slapped her knee and turned around, Beca following suit.
"Hey..Chloe" Beca smiled sheepishly. Amy lowered her head.
"Hey...Lucy and..Cindy"
"Hey, Red." Amy waved. Chloe smiled and nodded and turned back to Beca.
"What are you doing here?"
Beca thought fast, "I work here"
Amy smacked Beca upside the head.
"I-I don't work here. Obviously you know that since you actually do in fact work here so you know that I don't..in fact work here."
Chloe smiled and narrowed her eyes, "You following me now?"
Amy chuckled. Beca shook her head, "No no no. We just..heard about this internship and just wanted to check it out." The brunette looked over to her friend and Amy nodded.
"Alright. Well, stay close and don't stray." Chloe walked back to the tour group and led them into another room.
"That was a close one. Your girlfriend is pretty cool." Amy patted Beca on the back.
"She's not my girlfriend and you know that. Now, lets just get-I'm sorry, dude" Beca bumped into a man in a suit, dropping his files onto the floor. She bent down to help him pick them up. She froze when a paper with the same symbols from her fathers notes was sticking out of a folder. The man snatched it back and walked away into a hallway.
"Come on. Quickly." Beca pulled Amy with her into the hallway. They casually followed the man, being sure to keep a distance. When he turned the corner, Beca peered over the corner.
"What's going on?" Amy whispered.
"Shh. Just keep watch."
Amy turned her head to make sure nobody was looking. Beca kept her eyes trained on the man as he entered a passcode into a keypad, unlocking a white door. When the door opened, two men in lab coats came into view. The man in the black suit followed them further down the hallway. Beca made sure they weren't returning before grabbing Amy and walking over to the door.
"I saw him put in a pattern." Beca looked over the holographic keypad.
"Well, chop chop, before they come back."
Beca pressed on the three circles from the top. Causing a circle to drop to the bottom. She clicked it and glided it up. Beca smirked when the keypad glowed green and the door opened. The two girls walked into the white room.
"What in the hell.." Amy looked down at a table and picked up a capsule.
"Don't touch anything!"
Amy retracted her hand from grabbing another one and followed Beca into a bright blue room.
"It looks like a forest in here. What are those?" Amy walked around the room.
"Spiders" Beca looked closely at the arachnids, "But they're, like, glowing." Beca walked to the other side and into the row. She pulled at the web causing the revolving to stop.
"Beca...what did you do?" Amy peered into the row that her friend was in and looked up to see the webs expanding and soon causing the spiders to drop.
"Ahh!" Beca exclaimed. She shook her head and swatted numerous amounts of spiders off her shoulders, arms, and hair.
"Shit!" Amy leaned against the wall and watched in shock. Beca swatted the remaining spider off her before carefully shimmying her way out of the row.
"The HELL is wrong with you!" Amy pulled Beca out of the room and back into the hallway. Luckily, it was empty.
"Come on, short stack, we gotta leave." Their pace quickened until they reached the previous room.
"Uh oh.." Beca muttered when she saw Chloe standing in the middle of the room with her hands on her hips.
"Show her some cleavage. Maybe she'll show mercy." Amy pushed Beca closer to Chloe as they walked back into room.
"Uhhh...w-we can explain-"
"Give me the badges" Chloe extended her hand out to the girls.
"It's not what it-"
"Give 'em to me"
Beca and Amy sighed as they unclipped their badges, dropping them into Chloe's hand. The redhead shook her head and turned around to rejoin the group.
Beca ran her fingers through her hair, then suddenly she felt a painful pinch on the nape of her neck.
"Agh!" she shot her hand over to her neck and rubbed it. Amy shot her a confused look.
"What happened?"
Beca shook her head, "Nothing."
Beca went straight up to her room once she returned home, wanting to take a look at what the pinch was. Quickly making her way to the bathroom she stood in front of the mirror. Beca reached back and felt around her neck for the source of what may have caused the sudden pain. She frowned at herself in the mirror when she felt something sticky. She used her index finger and thumb to grab it and she began to slowly pull it forward. When it came into view she noticed that it was a web. Her breathing quickened as she continued to pull and pull until all that was left was a dead spider dangling from the end of the web.
"Shit"
A/N: Hope you guys liked this chapter! Let me know what you think. Leave reviews so I know if I should continue :)