Chapter 3
Elijah and Luke got off the public bus and stared in awe at the Oscorp building, "it's so big!" Luke remarked. Elijah shook himself and beckoned Luke towards th entrance, "come on, let's go" and they entered, the lobby was highly advanced in technology and such and a friendly voice spoke on the speakers, "welcome to Oscorp, the most highly advanced scientific companies in the world, all who wish to join our CEO, Mr. Fredrick must Jae's to the second floor" "welp, we now where to go" Luke stated, "then off we go!" Elijah sprinted towards the escalator, "hey, wait up!" Luke rushed after him. When they ascended to floor two, they caught sight of a group of people with a man who looked to be Mr. Gerald Fredrick, he was a broad man, with red hair and a kind yet disciplined face, some say he's as tall as Norman Osborn was, "hello? We're here to join the tour, this is it right?" Elijah asked, Fredrick replied calmly, "yes, that would be us, now, let us begin" and the group was off.
"this is our main biological lab where we take studies of plants and animals to the next level in genetic research" Gerald showed them the lab, Elijah was fascinated by the science, considering how he was a nerd with science anyway, "this is our chief of genetics, Dr. Curt Conners" "wait, like the Dr. Conners, the same man who was the Lizard?" Luke whispered to Elijah, when they saw Conners stride up to them, Gerald reassured them, "don't worry, using our latest tech here at Oscorp, we were not only able to prevent Dr. Conners from reverting into the Lizard, but also give him a mechanized arm" Gerald showed them as Conners waves with his robotic arm, "so then, let me show you one of our greatest experiments yet" Dr. Conners beckoned the tour group to a series of small glass cages, "using our knowledge in genetic modifications, we might have cracked the code to replicating the same spider that created Spider-man!" As soon as Conners told them this, the group gasped in amazement, Elijah and Luke shared expressions of glee as Conners let them get closer to the case, "now now, Conners, you don't want them to get bitten" Gerald joked, "oh please, Mr. Fredrick, we are totally protected right now" Conners scoffed, "well then, that's all fine and dandy..." Gerald began, "now, let's head to our engineering division" as Elijah started to walk with the group, he noticed a shadey man entering a restricted lab, considering how almost now one in the lab acknowledged his existence, he strode through the lab and squeezed through the door right before it closed. "Woah" Elijah whispered as he looked around, their were spiders everywhere, they had suits, gadgets, and even syringes, that's when he heard the door open and he sprinted into another room quietly, he glanced over and saw two men having a conversation, "listen, we can't keep doing this, having weak subjects to use as guinea pigs" the first man started when the other man replied, "listen buddy, we're gonna make Oscorp be a name to remember, with these spiders at our disposal, we could easily revolutionize modern warfare, just think, an army of military Spider-men" Elijah slightly gasped, they were gonna use these spiders to make a military force, "they would ruin the legacy Spider-man left behind!", what Elijah didn't notice was that a Spider made a webline and crawled down his arm. "Do we seriously need to use this research for war-related purposes? Come on! We have the Avengers, we don't need an army of Spider-men!" The first man exclaimed. Then the spider crawled onto his hand, and bit him, "ack!" Elijah winded as he saw the Spider, he quickly swatted it away, and noticed the two men leave, he came out into the open and shook his hand, "ow, what was that?" Elijah looked at the mark the spider left behind, he suddenly felt very nauseous, "ugh, I'm gonna get so,e fresh air, he left the restricted lab and exited the building, he walked onto the street and felt a strange tingle in the back of his skull, "woah!" Elijah exclaimed as he instinctively jumped out of the way from a moving car, and onto the wall of a nearby building, "what in the?" Elijah then noticed he was sticking to the wall, he started scaling up the wall, "I don't believe it! Am I seriously climbing a wall!?" Elijah exclaimed as he reached the top, "okay, I need some time to think, need some support" Elijah grabbed a pipe, only for him to rip it out of its place with his bare hands, "woah!" Elijah gasped as he got to the top of the wall, he overlooked his surroundings, he felt stronger too, and faster, "I've just come to a realization...I have Spider-man's powers!" Elijah examined his arm, it looked more buff, he then grabbed his cell phone and called Luke, "hey man, I know I just disappeared, but come to my place, I've got something to show you" and with that he hung up and scaled down the wall, he felt a need to use these powers for a greater good, "was it fate? Or just coincidence?" Elijah asked himself as he walked back home with his backpack (yes, he had it the entire time, don't question it!) along with him.