Power
A smart man once said if you want to test a man's character, give him power. I never really understood that statement because I couldn't relate to it…not a lot of people can...but then again, things can change at any time. This whole thing started on
/a warm April morning. You may expect me to be this confident, good looking, teen with a lot going on for him, but that's not the case. I'm the guy usually listening to his weird playlist of music while staring out a window contemplating...what if?
/My mind just shuts off for a bit as I wonder about anything I can think about, and it all ends once the bus stops and I start to get up. As soon as I get in the school, I meet a couple friends and don't go in my day time trance until I get in my first
/period. In the meantime, it's just me and my three friends: Randy, Scott, and Hart. "We need a little more to do here", said Hart, as he played with a pencil, bored as ever. "Like what?" Says Scott, looking like he had been up
for three weeks straight, "This school doesn't have too much to offer us." "Well we could always explore and not stay in the same place as usual, not a lot of people like to hang out in the lunchroom a lot." "what do you say
about it, Rand ol pal." Randy stares out of his cell phone and let's out a small "hm". I get through the doors, and Hart gives out a big wave hello. That usually stirs up the day a bit. "How's it going Gabe?" "Nothing
as usual, just the same old day as usual, but one day something interesting will happen, New York is a place of possibility." "Or so they say," says Hart, as the bell rings starting what I thought is a pretty average day. Then I walk
in the room to see everyone going back out the door. "What's going on?" I say as I begin to walk the other way. No one gives me a direct answer, all I hear is "YEA, surprise field trip." I found it weird and surprising, but a day
out of the classroom is good enough for me. I get out and into the bus where I hear the bus is headed towards the biggest skyscraper, and science building, in the world...OSCORP. That would be an interesting, if any of my other friends were here,
/but I was here with Randy. He's not that bad, it's just that he's always on his phone and doesn't talk much unless, he turns it off or run out of battery. Which should happen in...3...2… "Whoa we're going to OSCORP?!" He yells as he interrupts
/a teacher explaining the rules of the trip and why it came to such a surprise. The one rich kid in our school, Harry, wanted to invite the class to his father's company. After that I try to block out the whole money thing, just doing what I usually
/do. Stare out a window and hope for the best, except for Randy going on about how he's excited for the trip. When we finally arrive, I wake up from my daydream and we go off on the tour. We see what this big company has to offer and to be honest it
/was the most amazing tour I've ever seen. We see everything from the robots of the future, to the advancements they can make to make our spaceships escape our solar system. I was enjoying myself, but I take a small look at rand, and he doesn't look
/to happy. "What's wrong? You want to rub your sweaty hands all over this stuff." "Just want to see this stuff in person, you know maybe see what makes this stuff tick," he says as he pointed out how the glass separates us from
getting the know the actual thing. I see his point but, I want to try to avoid getting into trouble. My parents are already mad about me failing science, I don't want them finding out I was screwing around with it either. "So you do want your
sweaty hands on everything right now?" I say with a smirk. "Well yea...if we are coming here to OSCORP because of a rich kid wanted to seem more popular, I'm gonna want to see what his dad is working on." As he says this we pass a door
open as a guy in a lab coat comes out, and as it begins to close Rand steps in and holds the door out for me. "Come on man, get in," he says frantically. He didn't want to go in alone and I didn't want to wait out for him. As the group we
were in goes farther and farther, the opportunity starts to fade, so I rush in with him as he closes the door quickly. The room was dark. Way too dark. We couldn't see anything, as we clung on to the walls. "Look for a light switch" I say
as quietly as possible, not knowing what we have gotten ourselves into. I pat on the walls as much on possible until I felt a small screen with a dimmer function. I raise it curiously, as we see the light expand and we see an array of animals. "Whoa,"
/we both say as we stated at each one of them. "These things are really weird looking." I say as he looks carefully trying not to touch anything. "These things don't even exist in real world, I mean have you ever seen a rat with scales?"
He says pointing out the bizarre animals in glass cases. I looked around until I saw the spiders. Next to sharks, they have always been my favorite animal/insect. The eight legs, the ability to make a strong and sticky silk to catch flies, they were
/awesome in my book. "These just look like regular spiders," says rand scratching his head wondering what's so special about theses guys. "Only one way to find out," I said with a smile. I may have not wanted to go in here, but
we are here now and dammit we are going to do something about it. I grab a small plastic container, grab all four small spiders, and put them in. Then we hear a voice right behind us, "HEY, what are you kids doing here!?" We turn around
and I put the top on as quickly as possible. I'm so grounded for this.