Octavius Labs, the lab building owned and run by Doctor Otto Octavius an award winning inventor and researcher. The man had brown hair, goggles, a dark green bodysuit and a labcoat. Sitted down at the desk he was about to go up when he got a phone call and answered it after checking the caller ID.
"I must tell you now Mr Wayne that this is not exactly the best day to get this call. I need to prepare for a visiting group from Midtown High. I want to make sure all the exhibits I have set up for them are ready before they arrive." Otto told multi billionaire from Gotham, Bruce Wayne.
"I understand that Otto, I just wanted to check with something. So you are sending back the OZ tested arachnids?" questioned Bruce Wayne on the other end. Otto sighed at the question, what a waste that his testing of the OZ Serum on insects did not wield better results than what he was looking for.
"Yes, I promised that I would send you them if I could not get any results. They will be packed up and ready for transport today. Such a waste..." Otto muttered as he then hung up the phone. Wayne Enterprises had been giving his lab a huge grant to test his old OZ Serum on insects, arachnids and animals to see if they can show any results that could lead to medical breakthroughs.
He then got up to check on the exhibits. He sighed thinking of the lack success that his serum had given him; if he had a breakthrough then he might not have to rely so much on grants, deals and donations. Perhaps gifting young minds with his great knowledge could lighten up his mood.
*PB*
Later the students of Peter's year and the one above it were lining up in front of the school buses; Peter was with Mile sand he could hardly contain his excitement. Then Flash came forward with his friend Carl King a large bald headed boy who was also on the Football team.
"Morales, I saw your cop daddy dropped you and Puny Parker off. I bet being grounded is being put in a cell. Since Parker can't handle catching a ball, I bet he wouldn't last one day in a prison cell!" laughed Flash as Carl and his other friends joined in. Peter and Miles glared at him; they usually end up wishing they could fight back more at Flash's taunting and bullying.
"That's enough Mr Thompson!" snapped a voice and then came a brown haired man in glasses and a business suit, Mr Harrington the teacher that would be chaperoning the field trip. He glared down at the two teenagers who then quieted down. "I understand that Principal Anderson already has to deal with plenty of reports on your behavior. She has told me to warn you that you two must be on your best behavior or else there will be big trouble. I hope that warning is enough for you two to play ball." Warned Mr Harrington and they gave a nod.
As soon as Mr Harrington left Carl whispered to Flash "You know they are bluffing as usual. No way are they going to get us into trouble, especially with the finals in two weeks." Flash gave a smirk in response, even when they got detention the two of them never thought that they would ever get into serious trouble with them being big stars on the Midtown Panthers.
They got on the bus and sat down with Peter and Miles sitting next to eachother. Peter then opened his backpack to show off his notebook to Miles. There was his drawing of the latest formula for his web like substance. "Think of police officers managing to catch criminals with this. They might not have to use tasers." Peter told Miles as he was looking at the notebook. He was not as into science as Peter was but he still found it neat.
"I don't know Peter; I think my dad would miss his taser too much." Miles replied and he shared a laugh with Peter.
"Mine too." Said a voice and Peter and Miles froze when they recognized the voice. They looked up and saw that Gwen was sitting in the seat in front of them along with a girl with glasses and her hair dyed purple, her best friend Dolly Granger. "Miles, your dad is pals with mine. And Peter Parker right?" Gwen asked and Miles began nudging Peter to speak to Gwen. He was hesitant to speak even as Miles kept nudging him. Gwen began giggling a bit like this.
Dolly then noticed that Peter's backpack on his knee was open enough that she could see his copy of Justice League: Gods Among Us in it. "So you like them superheroes?" Dolly asked pointing to the book in Peter's backpack.
Peter paused as he took it out and decided to show them, he then opened it up to show it was autographed on the first age. "When I was 10, my Uncle Ben took me to this book signing the author David Graves had at a bookstore in Manhattan. He told the crowd that he could see a superhero in all of us." Peter told them and Dolly seemed fascinated. Gwen was listening but as Peter closed the book again.
Gwen gave a quick glance to the part of the cover that had Superman on it.
Soon they reached the building of Octavius Labs, Peter could not help but hold his glee when he got out of the door and was staring right up at them. Mr Harrington began leading them to the door. After they were let in Mr Harrington went to tell the woman at the desk that they were the group from Midtown High. The woman made a call and told them to wait.
Soon enough, walking into the hall was a large bulky robot colored dark green, "OMG Miles, that's the Living Brain! Doctor Octavius had been developing it to be able to solve multiple mathematical equations that would be given to him." Peter told Miles with glee and Miles could not help but think that it was cool.
"Greetings students of Midtown High, I am the Living Brain not to be confused with any B-Movie and despite my name I am not an actual brain!" greeted the robot waving his robotic arm to the students who were mostly weirded out by the presence of the robot.
"Hmm, Doctor Octavius thought you would find that joke funnier than you did." The living Brain stated and there were quite some laughs at this. "Anyway, Doctor Octavius and his staff have set up exhibits for you to view and enjoy. I please must ask you all to stick to the group as there are a lot of classified and restricted areas in the lab." The Living Brain told them and motioned for them to follow him.
"A robotic guide? I kind of feel at home here." Gwen thought smiling as she was walking with the group.
The Living Brain took them to several rooms showing off several inventions and equations that had been set up. Peter began telling Miles what he knew of them and Gwen listened in along with Dolly. There were some snide remarks and sniggering form Flash and Carl but they had tried to ignore them.
"Pretty cute for a nerd, isn't he G?" Dolly asked Gwen as she just stayed silent. Finally they came to the final room and then came out Doctor Otto Octavius. Peter was having the biggest smile to be seeing one of his science idols with his own eyes.
"Mr Octavius." Mr Harrington told Otto shaking his head.
"Doctor Octavius, I spent years earning my Doctorate and I expect it to be used." Otto clarified to him and Mr Harrington gave him an apologetic nod. Otto smiled as he faced the students and stated "now to see all of your young minds and I hope you have been having a wonderful time learning and expanding your brains. Does anyone have any questions?"
Otto then pointed to one of the students with his hands up who asked "are you involved in the Superman Theory?" Otto frowned at this as there were mutterings about it. Someone had proposed a year ago that since most of the Metahumans (people with powers) came from America then all the Superheroes were really government agents staging shows to show American dominance.
"Sorry, I don't believe in propaganda such as that. Does anyone have any questions not relating to conspiracy theories?" Otto asked gritting his teeth. Then came the next set of questions:
"Has anyone gotten powers here?"
"How many weapons have you made?"
"has anyone gotten killed here?"
"Students, this is a building of science! We research medical breakthroughs as well as devices to help humanity; we don't build weapons or super powers here! I will take one more question but please be careful with your question as I may end up ignoring it!" warned Otto gritting his teeth looking like he was about to snap.
Otto then pointed to Peter who was excited to be picked. "My Name is Peter Parker and let me just say that I am a huge fan Doctor Octavius! I hope to be a big scientist like you when I'm older!" Peter told Otto who was rolling his eye wondering if he was being sincere. Flash and Carl were coughing about him being a nerd.
"Anyway, I read in your autobiography that your favorite piece of art since childhood was Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and you have been hoping to create a device inspired by it. Any progress?" peter asked as Otto blinked.
"I am afraid that at the moment I have not been able to but I hope one day that I can come up with a way to use Da Vinci's masterpiece as technology." Otto replied with a small smile and Peter felt giddy at getting his question answered by Otto.
Soon it was time for them to be heading back and Otto decided to personally escort them back to the bus. Soon they were passing by a flight of stairs and Carl and Flash whispered to eachother as they decided to push at Peter as he was passing by.
Mr Harrington spotted this and yelled at them both but then everyone saw that Peter lost his footing and balance as he fell down the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs was the cages cages filled with the OZ tested arachnids. Peter ended up falling into them knocking them out.
Miles was yelling at his best friend asking if he was okay and about to run down as well as Gwen and several other students but Otto stopped them. He walked down himself and saw several employees trying to help him up. He grew concerned as he saw that one of the spiders escaped from its cage and bitten Peter on the neck.
The spider was put back in its cage and Otto saw Peter's eyes were closed as the employees were checking his pulse. "We think he might be going into a coma or something Doctor Octavius!" told one the employees worriedly as Otto's eyes widened and there were mutterings from the students. Otto then began yelling at his staff to have an ambulance called at once.
Mr Harrington faced the nervous looking Flash and Carl and told them sternly "you both are in so much trouble now!"
