"Remind me again why I agreed to this." Jesse walked behind Beca who gazed in amazement at the high ceilings and holograms from inside the Oscorp building. While Amy strayed to the side beside Jesse wearing her molecule t-shirt because she thought it would be fitting to their afternoon plans.
"Because we keep your life interesting," Amy answered, "You would've been in your room playing Grand Theft Auto if it weren't for us."
"Point taken." Jesse snickered. It was true, there was never a boring day when he was with Beca and Amy. It's a good and bad thing. Does he see himself being held in a prison cell in the near future because of these two, sure! But if anyone asks, he never did it.
"Now, where do we-" Beca was looking around until she spotted the receptionist, "Ah! Here we go."
They approached the desk and the woman behind it looked away from her computer, her glasses perched at the bridge of her nose and a bored expression on her face.
"Can I help you?" She asked dryly.
"We're here for the internship." Beca said. The woman nodded.
"You'll find yourselves to the left." Just as she was going to get back to whatever she was doing on the computer, when the teenagers made no sudden movements, she turned back to them.
"Sorry?" Jesse asked, confused.
"You'll find your badges...to the left." The woman clarified. She darted her eyes in the direction of the badges organized in rows to the left of her.
Amy was the first to analyze them. Knowing well that their names weren't going to be on any of them, Amy was quick to choose three names they could each pass off. Apologies in advance to Debby, Mark, and Bailey.
"Have a swell day." Amy smiled, patting the receptionist's desk before ushering her friends towards the escalator.
"Bailey." Amy pinned the badge onto Beca's blue flannel and turned to Jesse next, "Mark." Pinning his onto the chest of his green hoodie. Leaving the last badge to be pinned on her shirt.
"And Debbie." Amy finished with a proud smile.
Beca high fived her for her fast thinking while Jesse just silently prayed that they won't get caught.
Once they reached the floor where the rest of the interns were, they lingered in the back of the crowd in a huddle.
"So what's the plan?" Jesse asked.
Beca shrugged, "Let's just see what happens."
Jesse jerked his head back in panic, "You mean- so there's no plan?"
"I didn't think we'd get this far!"
Amy hushed them when the crowd suddenly went silent. They faced forward when someone began to talk in the front of the group and Beca nearly choked on air when she recognized the voice and the familiar red hair.
"What is she doing here!" Beca whispered.
Jesse and Amy tried to conceal their laughs behind their hands while Chloe introduced herself and finally led the group to a room behind her.
"Here," Chloe began, "is where the magic happens. Experiments are tested and researched in this room. Hopefully soon a handful of you will be assisting in a few of them." She winked at the group, gaining a few lingering gazes that didn't go unnoticed by the redhead.
"She's so hot." On guy said.
"Brains and looks? Call me blessed." His friend whispered.
Beca rolled her eyes, "Give me a break."
Jesse smirked, "What? Jealous that other people are admiring your girlfriend?"
"Careful, Jesse," Amy chimed in with a smile, "she's not her girlfriend."
Jesse snapped his fingers, "Right, because Beca's taking things slow." he teased.
"Four years is slow enough, don't you think, Jesse?" Amy placed her hands on her hips.
Jesse nodded, "Definitely."
"I'm disowning the both of you." Beca deadpanned.
The laughter died down as they brought their attention back to the front where Chloe continued to talk about the types of experiments and gadgets that Oscorp has conducted over the years and recent ones that they've been working on.
Chloe glanced to the side and smiled at a familiar face.
"Chloe." The man greeted.
"Dr. Connors." Chloe gave him a curt nod and a smile.
Jesse gave Beca a nudge and Beca nodded, Amy's eyes widened in realization when she recognized him to be the man in the photo.
"You all must be the potential interns," Dr. Connors said, "Pleasure to make your acquaintance."
"I was just about to show them the Tree of Life." Chloe said, holding her clipboard flush against her chest as she looked up at her mentor as he surveyed the group of students.
"Ah," Dr. Connors raised his eyebrows in interest, "I'm sure you all know the idea behind the Tree of Life. How I want to make a world without weakness. Anyone want to venture a guess as to how?"
One student raised his hand, "Stem cells?"
Dr. Connors slowly nodded, "Close. But not exactly. I'm thinking of something more...radical."
No one seemed to know any other possibility that would cross this genius' mind. But lingering in the back of the group, behind Jesse, Beca bit her lip because she had an...idea of what he could be looking for.
"No one?" Dr. Connors smirked.
"Cross species genetics."
Everyone slowly turned to gaze over at the person that spoke. Jesse and Amy slowly allowing a window to open between them where Beca could be seen in the back. The brunette looked up, a bundle of nerves erupting in the pit of her stomach when she saw all the eyes staring at her. Two blue ones in particular looking at her with wonder.
Chloe looked down at the name sheet on her clipboard and nowhere did she find Beca's name written down. So she looked up and grinned at the brunette.
Of course Beca did her research on Dr. Connors before she got here, and the idea he had on cross species genetics, so she elaborated.
"Take someone with parkinsons for example," Beca began, "They develop parkinsons when the brain cells that develop dopamine begin to disappear. Then when you look at a...a zebra fish it has the ability to regenerate cells on command." Beca took a pause and glanced over at Chloe who was smiling, astonished, "You give this person that same ability and...well, they cure themselves."
Dr. Connors smiled, impressed.
"Just look passed the gills on their neck." Someone added.
Dr. Connors raised a hand that silenced the laughter that followed.
"And you are?"
Beca opened and closed her mouth for a moment, unsure of how to respond to that question. What if he knew her by just her name? What would he say? Or maybe he wouldn't know her. But then again she could just say the name on her badge- no, but then Chloe might-
"She's one of Midtown Science's best and brightest," Chloe answered. Beca and her friends looked over at the redhead who kept her gaze fixated on the brunette, "She's second in her class. After me, of course."
"Second?" Beca smirked, "You sure about that?"
Chloe nodded, "I'm pretty sure."
Amy pursed her lips, "Am I the only one that thinks we're getting off topic?"
Dr. Connors chuckled lightly, "Yes, actually. I must be going. Thank you...Debby." he smiled at Amy after he looked at her badge.
"Who?" Amy frowned before she looked down at her badge, "Oh! Right, that's me. Of course."
Jesse lowered his head, one arm crossed while the other propped on top of it with his hand covering his face.
Beca looked over at Chloe who raised a questionable eyebrow, with a tight-lipped smile Beca looked away.
Dr. Connors soon made his way down the hall and left Chloe to continue the tour.
"If you'd gather around." Chloe clicked a few buttons on the pad in front of her, a hologram emerging from the screen on the floor. The students surrounded it in amazement which gave Chloe the opportunity to approach the three friends who were in the process of making their quick escape.
"Not so fast."
They slowly turned around and smiled sheepishly at the redhead who crossed her arms.
"Hi."
"Hey, red."
"'Sup, Chloe."
"...Hi..."
Chloe took a few steps closer to them, an eyebrow raised as she read through their badges.
"Debby. Mark. Bailey." Chloe chuckled, "What's the story?"
Jesse and Amy were quick to give Beca a push forward.
Beca glared at them before clearing her throat.
"They're helping me...with something that I can't tell you about."
Chloe smiled, "And why not?"
Beca clicked her tongue, "That...is an excellent question."
Chloe narrowed her eyes and smiled at her antics, "I'll it slide this one time, Bailey. But you guys can't stray away from the group, don't get me into trouble."
Beca shook her head, "No no, of course not."
Amy and Jesse smiled at the redhead as she walked back to the group to lead them into another room.
"That was close-" Beca went to turn around when she collided with a man causing the files in his hands to flutter to the floor, "Oh, man. I'm sorry."
Beca bent down to pick up one of the folders, papers were sticking out from the sides and Amy immediately recognized the symbol printed on one of them. Acting quickly while Beca muttered another apology, Amy pulled out her phone and brought up the photo of the symbols she took from one of Beca's dad's notes.
"Look." Amy whispered as she showed them the photo just as the man was turning away.
Beca looked at the two circles in Amy's photo and compared it to the ones she had just seen.
"We gotta follow him." Beca whispered, her eyes following the man in the suit who was making his way down the hallway.
Jesse blinked and shook his head, "No. We're gonna get in trouble- Chloe just told us not to stray away from the group!"
Amy and Beca quickly rounded the corner by the time Jesse finished talking, with an eye roll Jesse followed.
"Dammit."
Beca peered around a corner of the hallway, Amy and Jesse pressed up against her back to get a view of the man.
"What's he doing?" Amy whispered.
Beca ignored her as she fixated her eyes on the pattern he was putting into the keypad on the white door in front of him.
They watched the door open with a puff of air, two other men in white suits coming out and the man gesturing for them to follow him down the next hallway.
Once the coast was clear, Beca waved for her friends to follow her. They approached the door and Beca took one look at the keypad and clicked the pattern she saw the man put in, smiling once the door opened with a green light on the keypad.
"The gates shall open."
"This is a terrible plan." Jesse said as he followed his friends inside.
"It's a fun plan." Amy smirked.
From the other side of the door, they wouldn't have expected to find such advanced technology. The room was polished white, conveyor belts of small pellet containers. Mechanical arms stretched out mechanical cables that were similar to a spiders web, a video displayed on a small screen underneath it showing how it was able to pull the weight of an airplane.
"This is insane." Beca marveled at the gadgets and toys around her, her hands just itching to analyze each and every one of them.
Beca looked up when she saw a blue light illuminating off of her and her eyes twinkled with curiosity as she entered the second room.
Jesse looked away from Amy who was trying to pick up one of the containers and turned around to see Beca entering the room.
"Beca!" He hissed, quietly chasing after her but stopping at the doorway once he saw what was inside.
Beca walked along the aisles of spiders crawling up their webs on dozens of rotating pillars. These spiders were vibrant blue, something Beca has never seen before and her curious mind transmitted to her hands that reached over and pulled at a string of web.
"Don't touch!" Jesse panicked.
"Nothings gonna happen-"
"Uh..." Amy pointed up and Beca followed her finger just as the rotating blocks came to a stop with a gust of air.
"Oh god.." Jesse's voice cracked.
Beca gulped as she saw the spiders above her come to a stop. Just when she thought everything was fine, she felt something drop into the collar of her flannel and her head.
"Fuuuuck!" Beca yelped. She swatted away the spiders that were falling from every direction, the feeling of tiny pitter patters on her arms made her squirm which only made it worse as the spiders managed to crawl all around her.
"Pull her outta there!" Amy cried.
"No way! You pull her out!"
"No!"
Beca backed up against the wall, swatting away what appeared to be the last of the tiny menaces. Traumatized, Beca slowly made her way out of the room where her friends looked at her with wide eyes.
"I've," Beca panted, "seen enough. Let's go."
"Playing video games all day doesn't sound so bad now, does it?" Jesse mocked.
They walked back into the work space where they last left the group in hopes of being able to just slyly rejoin them in the next room but when they walked further inside, Chloe stood in the middle with her arms crossed.
"Uh oh." Amy and Jesse muttered.
Chloe walked up to them and turned to Beca.
"Chloe, we can-"
"Don't wanna hear it. Give me the badges." Chloe extended her arm, her hand opened to retrieve the badges that were reluctantly placed into it.
Beca stuffed her hands in her back pockets, "Sorry."
Chloe sighed and shook her head as she turned on her heel and returned to the tour.
Beca hung her head in shame while her friends patted her on the back.
"Well that's that horse shit I be talking about." Amy sucked her teeth.
Beca sighed heavily, "Let's just go- Ow!"
"What is it?" Jesse asked in concern, not seeing anything that could have caused his friend any pain.
Amy raised an eyebrow as she looked over her friend as well.
Beca shook her head, "N-Nothing." she said, her hand rubbing at the back of her neck.
On the train ride back home, Beca was laying with her head on the bench while her legs were stretched out on Jesse's lap. Next to Jesse, Amy sat with her head tilted back. The teenagers had fallen asleep at some point during the train ride, exhausted from their visit to Oscorp.
A man was standing in front of the three, his hand lazily holding onto the pole for balance when he turned to look down at Beca. He took one glance at the bottle in his hand and another glance at Beca before he smiled and bent over the girl with the bottle hovering over her forehead.
Testing the laws of physics with pure determination, he steadied the bottle on Beca's forehead and slowly moved his hand away and watched it balance perfectly.
Beca's eyelids began to twitch and suddenly her hearing focused on the sound of the droplet of condensation trailing down the surface of the bottle until it dripped onto her forehead.
Feeling the sudden wetness reach her skin, her eyes popped open and she leaped off the bench, startling her friends along with the other passengers.
Jesse and Amy blinked away the sleepiness in their eyes and were momentarily stunned when they couldn't locate their friend. They looked around at everyone else and saw them all gazing up, Jesse and Amy flickered their eyes upward and gasped when they saw Beca clinging upside down on the train ceiling.
"Beca?"
Beca lifted her fingertips and in a second she found herself falling and landing on her back.
In a state of surprise she propped herself on her elbows while the woman she had been beside sucked her teeth in annoyance.
"Fuck, now I smell like beer!" She whined.
Beca stood up in a swift motion.
"I'm so sorry about that." Beca apologized with a gentle hand on the woman's shoulder. But when she tried to remove it, it wouldn't budge.
The woman looked at her with an awkward stare and the man who had been drinking the beer walked up beside them.
"Get your hand off her!"
Beca panicked, "Dude, I'm trying. I don't understand- wha-?"
The man shoved Beca aside, the woman's shirt tearing off her body in the process. Everyone looked over at Beca in shock mixed with fear. Jesse and Amy watched with their mouths agape.
"I am so so sorry." Beca tried apologizing again before she found herself being pushed once again.
"What's your problem!" The man shouted. He went to shove Beca again but the brunette found herself twisting his arms and flinging him across the train against the bench.
Beca flinched, "Aw shit- I'm sorry!"
Something shifted in her head and Beca was suddenly dodging another body running towards her from the back. Causing a man to run into the pole that Beca was now propping her feet on while she hung onto the bar above Jesse and Amy who were too busy watching the scene in front of them.
Beca landed back down, her hand wrapped around the pole as she bent down to check on the man with the bloody nose.
"Dude, are you okay?"
Another switch of surface and Beca was spinning around the pole with her legs outstretched and kicked away yet another passenger that tried to attack her. Beca try to pull away from the pole but when her hand appeared to be suctioned onto it, her brows furrowed.
"What the fuck?" With one more pull, Beca pulled off the pole from it's screws and banged one end against the first man's head. By this point, the entire train was gaping in shock. Beca looked around at everyone and shook her head because she couldn't explain herself. She felt the pole slide off her hand and as the conductor announced that they were arriving at the next stop, Beca looked at her hand with confusion when she couldn't detect anything that could've caused this.
"I have a question," Amy finally broke the silence when the three of them arrived at Jesse's house. "What the fuck just happened?"
Jesse looked at Beca who was lingering by the wall.
"Bec?"
Beca shook her head, "Hell if I know."
Amy blinked, "Were you not- that's all you have to say? You did some acrobat shit back there, things I've never even expected you to be capable of, Miss. I-Don't-Exercise." Amy laughed, completely stunned by what just occurred. She turned to Jesse.
"I mean you saw that, right? I'm not crazy?"
Jesse blinked a few times, "I'm...still stuck on the fact that Beca was clinging to the ceiling, so."
Amy flailed her arms around, "This needs to be discussed!"
Beca subconsciously rubbed the back of her neck when she suddenly blinked in realization.
"Hold on a sec." Beca excused herself as she went to the bathroom, leaving her best friends to finish processing what they had just witnessed.
In the bathroom, Beca looked at the mirror and let out a long breath of air as she mentally pleaded for what she was currently thinking to not be true.
With a shaky hand, Beca reached behind her neck where she felt around for what had caused her pain earlier. She felt a bump in the center and moved her fingers down her neck when she felt something sticky and stringy. With a scrunched up face she pulled at the string in the bump and flinched at the irritating pain that followed.
"Please no please no." Beca muttered as she pulled the substance forward where she could see it. There in her hand was a web. Against her back as she did so, she felt something bump against her skin and with a gulp she continued to pull the web forward until the worst was confirmed.
There dangling in front of her, was a dead spider.
"Guy's," Jesse and Amy turned to look at Beca who appeared in the doorway and gasped, Beca stood there with the web between her fingers and the spider swaying in the air, "We have a serious problem."
A/N: Hey guys. I'm posting two chapters just to see if you all like where it's going so far. If you do I'll continue posting. Let me know! Leave some reviews! I wanna hear some thoughts and/or ideas so drop em there
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