Author's Note: Once again, I come with yet another exciting chapter into the life of Apollo Justice aka. The Amazing Spider-Man!
Credit to Emiko Nabile Gale, my awesome sister, for helping me out again.
Disclaimer: I own neither Ace Attorney nor Spider-Man...Oh, and I also don't own the rights to Fire Emblem or the Nintendo 3DS (it'll make sense later. ^^; ). I'm just a fan making this for fun. So enjoy! ^-^
The next day, Apollo Justice's class took a trip to KarmaCorp Labs to do more research for its next biology project. Each student is instructed to write a report about the silk-producing abilities of a spider, and to get information and inspiration, they're being taken to see the new web-shooter project, which is also based on a spider's web-producing abilities.. Apollo wasn't exactly sure of how to do this assignment since he's always leaned more towards law, but he had to admit that science has always intrigued him.
The representative of the labs leading the event was Dr. Kristoph Gavin, the older brother of Klavier Gavin and scientist proficient in the research of cross-species genetics. He's been doing research on the regenerating limbs of lizards to create a regenerative serum to heal wounded soldiers and to regenerate his own missing right arm. His studies have so far come out inconclusive, however, his luck may change for him soon.
As Dr. Gavin escorted the group of high-schoolers, a man came over to his side and wanted to talked to him privately for a minute or two. He was a tall, elderly man, with a deep blue suit and a maroon vest underneath. He had a cold, stern look on his pale face, and he looked very sick. This man was none other than the CEO of KarmaCorp Labs himself, Manfred Von Karma.
"I trust that you will have a sample for me to remedy my current...condition?" Von Karma said to him with a hint of intimidation in his voice.
"Of course, of course. All I must do now is find the one key to making this serum work." Kristoph replied.
Von Karma didn't seem patient in the slightest. "Then you had better make haste finding this 'key,' you know that I don't have forever to live and watch you fumble around with your experiments."
"And I shall see to it that your foolishness does not hinder the progress of scientific perfection." said Von Karma's daughter, Franziska, who had appeared behind her father while brandishing a leather bullwhip.
"I will see to it that this key will be found quickly." Kristoph nodded to him as Von Karma silently walked towards his office, with his cane in hand. "And you won't have need of that whip, I promise you, young lady."
"Hmph! We shall see." Franziska said as she glared at Kristoph.
The students continued following Dr. Gavin. Klavier was in the back of the crowd, trudging along, giving his older brother dirty looks and trying to ignore Apollo and Ema, the latter of whom was in stunning awe about each of the exciting exhibits they passed by.
As the group entered the spider exhibit, Dr. Gavin addressed Ema, "Ms. Skye, care to explain this next experiment to your classmates?"
"Wait a second." Apollo asked Ema, "How does Dr. Gavin know you?"
"Oh, didn't you know?" Ema replied. "I have an internship as an assistant here. It's like my home away from home here!" Ema then looked back up to Dr. Gavin. "I would love to!"
Ema then stepped forward in front of the crowd and next to Dr. Gavin. Behind her was a large touch-screen monitor displaying the anatomy of a spider. Ema pointed at the spider's abdomen, "A spider's abdomen can develop up to six types of silk using their internal glands, and spider webs vary not only by the amount of thread used but the shape and size of the thread shot out. This silk's tensile strength is greater than a portion of steel at equal its weight. Hence why KarmaCorp is working on making artificial web shooters."
The students said nothing and Ema wasn't sure if this was a good thing or not.
"What? No reaction? Call it crazy if you wish but this could be really helpful for society, lives could be saved with the strength of spider web." Ema said with a serious look on her face.
"Oh, you mean like in the battlefield for stitching up wounds, and maybe on a construction site for lifting heavy steel girders?" Apollo cut in.
"Why, yes!" Ema said with a smile. "Heh, is he just kissing up to me or something?...Well, whatever, at least somebody's interested in science for once." She thought to herself.
As Apollo continued listening to Ema's presentation of the web-shooter project, he was unaware of a spider that was slowly crawling up his back and near his neck. However, this was no ordinary spider; this was a genetically enchanced spider from a top secret facility deep within the lab.
The spider crawled its way onto an open spot on Apollo's neck and bit down.
"Ah!" Apollo felt the spider's sting on his neck. "Wha?...What was that?"
"Hmm? Is something the matter?" Dr. Gavin asked him.
Apollo was suddenly feeling a headache coming on. He was feeling a little dizzy. "Ummm, y-yeah, I'm fine. Just having a slight headache, that's all."
Apollo didn't really eat anything for lunch after he got stung, Ema tried to convince him to see a doctor but he assured her that he was going to be fine, and by the time he got home he felt better, much better.
Trucy ran to the door happily as she heard the door open. "Welcome home Apollo!"
"Hey Trucy," Apollo rubbed the back of his neck and went up the stairs to head to his bedroom.
Finally he could have some alone time and maybe rest, he stretched his arms and heard a strange crack. His bedroom was a mess, clothes and papers on the ground, messy bed, and there were some posters on the wall.
"Hey Polly, can I borrow Fire Emblem: Awakening?" Trucy said as she walked inside Apollo's room.
"If she's busy playing on her 3DS I can have alone time for now," Apollo thought. "Sure."
Apollo turned to find the game inside a plastic container, only for Trucy to be shocked by the large pink spider bite on the back of Apollo's neck. "Apollo, what's that?"
Apollo turned his head and got a glimpse of his concerned sister's face. "What is what?"
Trucy walked towards Apollo's back, and got a closer look at the spider bite. "It-It looks like you got bitten by something." She gave the bite a slight poke.
Apollo cried out in pain slightly and jumped so high that he literally hit the ceiling and stuck to it, which caused Trucy to fall over. It all happened so quickly and Trucy could not believe what she was seeing.
Apollo breathed, and so did Trucy, the only sound in the room was the sound of scared breathing. Apollo looked down to see his fallen sister. "Apollo...m-maybe you should see a doctor." Trucy said.
"I don't think I want Aunt Maggey and Uncle Gumshoe to know about this." Apollo said quietly as he was still breathing heavily. "Them knowing I'm a human spider might freak them out, to say the very least."
As he said this, he heard the voice of Aunt Maggey calling from downstairs, "Dinner is ready, you two!"
Apollo quickly pulled himself off the ceiling when he heard his aunt's voice. "And speaking of which, we have dinner to get downstairs to dinner. I just hope nothing goes wrong."
As he said this, he opened the door to his room and, not knowing his own strength, accidentally yanked the knob off his door.
"...I suppose a little magic could fix that?...Right?" Trucy said, shocked at Apollo's newfound strength.
Gumshoe, Maggey, and Trucy were extremely surprised with how much Apollo ate. He even ate Maggey's infamous, cardboard-tasting meatloaf, which even Gumshoe had to admit tasted awful, but he didn't want to upset Maggey by telling her. Shortly afterwards, Apollo took a box of ice cream and several slices of leftover pizza and returned to his room.
When he came inside he turned on the lights and tossed the ice cream and pizza on his bed, he stared at himself in the mirror; he looked as handsome as ever. He pulled off his shirt, and noticed he was looking much more like a man than a boy. He looked like something out of a body builder magazine. He gave fierce poses to the mirror. He was even tempted to train his "chords of steel" but he didn't want his family to feel weirded out.
"Oh yeah! Piano-man will meet his match tomorrow." Apollo thought to himself with a smug look on his face.
He was thinking of how many ways he could humiliate Klavier the next day with his now awesome strength and physique: Beat him in a fight? Wrestling match? Basketball?
"It'll teach him to mess with others not his own size for sure!"
Well, how about that? Apollo's getting a kick out of his new powers already! Hope he learns true responsibility over them soon, or he could really get in a mess!
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Excelsior!