Chapter 1: The Bite
Official chapter 1 of the Amazing Spider-Linc! Now, let me explain one other thing. Most of you are familiar with Miles Morales, the Ultimate comics character that became the second person to take on the Spider-Man mantle, so then you must know about how he has 2 powers that Peter doesn't have. First, there's the venom shock blast that he uses to stun an adversary and the ability to camouflage himself and his clothes to his surroundings. I'm planning on having Lincoln get those powers as well, thought it would be more cooler. I'm gonna use elements from both Peter and Miles. Like Lincoln trying to juggle his normal life and his superhero life, along with learning the famous Great Power, Great Responsibility words from his grandfather, Albert. He seemed like the most obvious choice when I really thought about it.
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Tetherby Corporation.
One of the most successful and influential business foundations in the country, the company has made various contributions to economics, science, technology, philanthropy, and other advancements. Run by Anthony Tetherby, his family company has gained much accolades and appreciation for many other big wigs in the US. Of course, like all successful companies, they have most definitely faced their fair share of dissatisfied customers and critiques, but they never let that get in the way of their progress, in their family, no one stops them rom getting what they want. However, unknown to the rest of the world, there have been some shady dealings in the past, but there was never enough evidence to incriminate them so there were allowed to do as they please, without fear of any consequence.
Right now, Anthony was in the middle of an important phone call. The CEO of Tetherby was a well built adult male in his early 30s, he was wearing a dark grey business suit, brown hair and a moustache. He had the imposing figure of a stern and threatening individual. "So tell me Wilson, has Mr. Burley decided to invest in my offer." he waited ad smiled upon hearing the response. "Excellent. Glad that there weren't any objections to the deal. What's that? Some of the workers had a few reservations, you say?" he mused, taking out a chess piece that was a Pawn. "Well, do what you do best. Persuade them." he crushed the piece to small fragments.
Before he could continue with his conversation, his secretary called in. "Mr. Tetherby. Dr. Connors is requesting to see you, sir."
The CEO sighed irritably, this has been the fifth time this week that one of his chief scientists had come forward with a certain complaint that he's been trying to talk to his superior about. "Send him in, Gladys."
Getting up from his chair, he saw Dr. Curt Connors enter. A man in his 40s, Lemming was tall, a bit lanky, and had a head of short blonde hair. He wore a typical lab coat for all scientists that covered a yellow shirt and black tie, blue pants, and black shores. One thing to take note of was the fully roboticarm in that took the place of his right one. From the looks of his expression, he was clearly angry. "Mr. Tetherby, we need to talk." he said.
Sighing, Anthony got up from his chair and approached the scientist. "Curt, what troubles you, my friend?"
"I hear that the field trip to one of our science labs is still gonna happen." Dr. Connors said with a stern glare.
Thetherby merely chuckled. "Is that all? Honestly Connors, I don't see any reason why can't we show young, fresh minds the advancements made here that they may choose to participate in the near future?" he reasoned with a charming smile.
"Anthony, I keep telling you, time and time again, that there are still many safety hazards in the labs. We still haven't cleared out most of the chemicals there, or the spiders. We must postpone the trip." Dr. Connors urged him
"Postpone it? Curt, I understand that you don't want any of the children hurt, but I assure you, the necessary precautions have been placed, and you don't have to worry about a single thing." the arrogant CEO tried to assure the scientist. I mean it is just a simple school field trip, what could possibly happen?"
Even though his boss tried to dissuade his worries, Curt Connors's still had reservations about this. The last thing he wanted was any innocent people to get hurt in that lab, considering the fact that he himself ran experiments there means that if anyone was to point a finger, it would be at him and his boss, but knowing Tetherby, the businessman would probably try to pin it all on him. That was one of the things Curt disliked about working in Tetherby Corp., most of the people there tend to disregard any human life, crossing it off as an unfortunate accident. But he also knew that if he continues to question him, Tetherby would have him fired, and would steal all his research. "Fine." he relented. "But just so you know, if anything does happen, I hope you'll at least have the decency to accept responsibility." the scientist spat as he left, leaving the CEO alone.
Sighing, he went back to his desk. "That guy should learn to let things go." then his phone rang. Picking it up, he answered the call. "Hello? Ah, good to hear from you my friend. Were the weapons I supplied satisfactory enough for you? Well, that's good to hear. You know, I'm certain that you and your organization will go along quite well with no problems whatsoever. Pleasure doing business with you...Big Man."
The drive to the lab took quite a while, but soon Lincoln and his classmates arrived, when they all exited from the bus, Mrs. Johnson had everyone form a group. Lincoln, Ronnie Anne, and Clyde stayed together in a group that consisted of Tabby, Haiku, Zach, Polly Pain, Giggles, Boy Jordan, and Miguel, they followed a scientist that showed them and the other groups the laboratory area. "Alright children, if you all would follow me, allow me to show you a piece of the future. Now, this lab was first established about 5 years ago by Tetherby Corporation. This is but one of many labs where we push forward the boundaries of genetic science, we try to improve the issues of health, technology, and other areas. Any questions?"
Lincoln raised his hand. "How exactly do you do the stuff around here?"
"Ah, an excellent and inquisitive question young man. You see, since using humans for our experiments raises some...legal issues, which our boss hopes to avoid, we figure it would be best to use common animals. We gathered DNA from Rhinos, Scorpions, Lizards, you name it. Now, here is something you might find interesting." he gestured the groups to follow him to a box where various spiders where kept in boxes, each separated into different rows. "For the past few months, we've been trying to unlick the secrets behind the Spider genome. So far, about 32 spiders have been kept here, so-"
"Um mister, there are 31 spiders." Girl Jordan pointed out.
"What?" he said in surprise. Looking into the rows, he saw that there was indeed one that was missing from all the rest. "Hmm, that's odd." he noted.
"This won't be a problem, will it?" Mrs. Johnson asked in concern.
He simply waved it off dismissively. "Ah, I'm sure it got washed away or crawled to some other place. Now, let us continue."
As Lincoln continued to look around the lab, he was surprised by a sudden presence. "Tragic, isn't it?"
The white haired child jumped in surprise, looking to his left, he saw that it was Haiku. "What is?"
He saw as the gothic poet pointed to the spiders. "Those poor little arachnids. It is nothing but cruel to lock them away in such a manner, a manner that prevents them from performing the beautiful act of sucking the blood from their captured prey."
"Uh...yeah, I guess it's wrong." Lincoln half-agreed, not really knowing to how to respond to that creepy analogy. "Anyway, how are you liking the trip so far, Haiku?"
She shrugged, not showing that much emotion. "It's okay. Though I would have preferred the cemetery, I find that it brings a more mystery atmosphere."
Lincoln shook his head, he would be freaked out by this kind of talk if he didn't already hear about it 24/7 at his house. "Man, no wonder you and Lucy get along so well. You both love all things that are otherwise scary to other people, not that it's bad thing. It's actually kind of cool."
Haiku blinked and looked away, to hide a part of her face that seemed to actually go red. "Thank you, Lincoln."
"Yo Linc!" Polly rolled over and yanked his arm to her side. "Did you see those stair rails on the way in? I have got to shred on them!" she yelled excitedly.
"I'm not so sure you're supposed to do that Polly." Lincoln cautiously advised. "You could get into some deep trouble."
The roller derby skater didn't heed his warnings. "Pfft. Come on bro, it'll be fun." she promised before her expression turned mischievous. "You know you could join in if you want. I've got some extra skates and a helmet."
"Will you lay off the guy, Polly?" Tabby said, walking over to them. "I think the last thing on his mind is getting detention. By the way mate, I've got a new song you just have to listen to." she handed him her phone and headsets to listen to her pre-played song. Lincoln put them in and listened, he started to bob his head as he heard the lyrics.
"Wow, sounds great Tabby. You sure know your music." he smiled at her, making the little rocker scratch her head bashfully as he returned her phone and headsets to her.
"Heh, thanks." she chuckled.
Before more could be said, water suddenly sprayed on Lincoln. "Hi Lincoln, wet's up?" Giggles laughed.
Lincoln lightly laughed as he wiped off the water. "Good one Giggles." both shared an amused snicker.
The only one not amused was Ronnie Anne, she sent a narrowed look at each of the girls. Recently, they've been rather friendly to Lincoln, too friendly for her liking. She knew that after the whole Sadies' Hawkins Dance thing, that each of Lincoln's dates had no ill feelings to the boy, it's just that she thought they started to get an interest in Lincoln's friends, but from what she's heard that didn't seem to work out, so now they've been spending some time with Lincoln. And she can't but feel a little jealous.
"Hey, let me borrow him for a sec." she grabbed him by the arm and pulled him away from the rest of the girls. Once they were out of earshot from the girls, she turned to him with a stern glare. "What was that all about Lincoln?"
"What do you mean?" Lincoln questioned with a confused eyebrow raised.
"You were all buddy-buddy with those girls." she pointed out.
"We were just talking Ronnie Anne, I mean it's no big deal. We're just friends." he assured her, until his eyes lit up in realization. "Wait a minute, are you jealous?"
"W-What? No!" she denied, crossing her arms.
"Then why are you so defensive?" he smirked.
The skater girl couldn't ome up with an excuse so she did the best thing she could do, she punched him in the arm and stormed off. All Lincoln could do was rub his arm to ease the slight pain, but nonetheless chuckled. "Yep, she's jealous." he chuckled. Before now, he didn't think that was even possible. As Lincoln stayed at the spot he was at, he didn't notice that up above I'm, was a tiny little spider crawling on the ceiling. It was none other than the missing spider, it had escaped from it's cage and was silently observing from the top, it had mostly stayed on the ceiling, not making a single move, not until it's multiple eyes saw Lincoln. Going with its base animal instincts, it shot a web to the ceiling and climbed down a line until it was to Lincoln's level. It stealthily crawled on the boy's shoulder and carefully went to his hand. Knowing that Lincoln hadn't noticed it, it bit on the hand out of the blue.
"AH!" Lincoln winced painfully, waving his hand, causing the spider to fly off his hand. The white haired child slowly began to feel funny. His sight became more blurred, and his footing began to falter a little. Rubbing his eyes with his fingers, Lincoln started to feel hot, almost like his entire body was on fire, his left hand started to twitch and he couldn't think straight.
"Lincoln? Lincoln!"
"What?" Lincoln finally snapped out of it and saw Clyde waving his hand in front of him. "Clyde? What is it?"
His best friend looked at him in concern. "You alright? You looked kinda out of it."
"Um, y-yeah. I'm fine, just got woozy for a second." Lincoln reasoned.
"Well come on, Mrs. Johnson is telling us to leave." he pointed to the rest of the class who were exiting the building.
"Right, right." Lincoln nodded. Though still a little out of it, he followed the class to the buses where they started the way back to their homes.
After getting off of the bus, Lincoln started his walk to his house, though it was hard to walk at a straight path due to the lingering dizziness he still had from that spider bite. He saw his house up ahead and walked up to the door, thankfully it didn't break thus time and he was able to open it, inside his house was Luna, Leni, and Lisa were waiting.
"Hey Lincoln, how was the trip?" Leni asked.
"It was-It was fun." he answered, a little dazed.
Luna noticed this. "You doing okay there bro?" she asked, her brother looked a little pale kind of like Lucy, and his eyes were drowsy, looking as if he were about to faint.
"What?" he rubbed his eyes. "Oh, yeah I'm fine."
Luna Loud may be overly committed to being a rock star, but she was a sister first, and her instincts kicked in. "I don't know, you look like Lori after she pulls an all nighter." she placed her hand on his forehead. "Oof, and you're starting to get a little hot. You comin' down with a fever?"
Her little brother lightly moved her hand away. "I'm fine, it's nothing serious for you guys to worry about. It's...it's all good..." he tried to assure them.
Lisa then spotted something that actually made her look on in concern. "Hold on a second." she took his hand and they could see the mark left by the spider.
"Oh my gosh!" Leni gasped in shock, and gently took her baby brother's hand. "Linky, what happened?!"
Before Lincoln could form a response, the other Loud sisters came in. "Hey guys, is Lincoln back ye-" Lori cut herself short as soon as she saw the bite mark. Gasping, she and the others crowded around Lincoln. "Oh my gosh! Little bro, you literally have a bite mark on you!" she urgently said. She and the other sisters voiced their shared concern.
"What happened?!" Lola asked.
"You want some water?" Lynn offered.
"It doesn't hurt, does it? Lana asked.
"Here, let Lily kiss it better." Luan held up the infant who made kissing noises, wanting to help her big brother.
Lincoln appreciated that all of his sisters were making a huge fuss over the bite mark, but he really needed some space. "Guys, guys, I'm fine, honest. I just got bitten by a bug." he tried to cover up.
"That doesn't look like an normal bug bite." Lucy said, inspecting the bite further. "In fact judging from the red color of it and given my personal history, it seems to resemble a spider bite."
"AAAHHHH!" Leni shrieked in terror. "Quick, someone draw Lincoln a bath! I mean, I don't how the drawing of a bathtub will fix this, but we gotta do something!"
"You guys are overreacting, I'm fine." Lincoln insisted on calming his siblings' worry, but they still fret over him.
"Sorry elder brother, but I'm going to have to concur with Lucy." Lisa spoke up. "As we all know, you took a school field trip to one of the labs owned by Tetherby Corps." she spat the name of the company. "And given my past employment with them no so long ago, I recall experimentation on the arachnid species. Tell us Lincoln, did one of those spiders happen to bite you?" she inquired.
"For the last time, it's nothing you guys should worry abou-" he stopped as soon as his vison started to get blurry again. "Oh, boy..."
"Lincoln?" Luna questioned, gripping his shoulders. "Bro, you with us?"
In his eyes, there were multiple Lunas talking and before anyone could react, Lincoln fainted on the floor with a loud thud, causing the sisters to panic.
"Lincoln!" they all exclaimed with worry, hovering over his unconscious form.
"Mom! Dad!" Lori shouted.
The white haired boy's eyes rolled back and then all he saw was darkness.
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