Chapter Eight: Secret Identity

Peter walked toward Osborn Industries with his friend, Harry Osborn.

When they entered the building they were greeted by Otto Octavious.

"Hello Harry, it's nice to see you again" Otto said.

Harry looked around for a second, "Where's my dad?"

"He had to go to a meeting" Otto replied.

"He told me he would 'personally' giving us the tour" Harry said a hint of anger in his voice.

"He told me tell you that he is terribly sorry" Otto said.

Harry looked at the ground, 'If he's SO sorry then why doesn't he get his sorry ass down here!' He thought.

Norman was never there when Harry needed him. If Harry missed the bus and needed a ride to school, Norman would be in a meeting. If Harry broke his arm playing in the back yard, Norman would be in his office. If Harry needed him to come to parent teacher night, Norman would be to busy.

It's been like that for his whole life!

But it's gotten worse over the past few years since his mom died.

At least when his mom was around there was at least someone with him, his mom was kind and gentle. And it was so hard when she died tragically.

"Shall we start the tour?" Otto asked.

"Huh… oh… YES!" Harry said.

The tour lasted for about an hour. It was much better than the tour they had gotten on the field trip. And it was less crowded.

Suddenly they came to four mechanical arms.

"This is my single greatest invention, the arms!" Otto exclaimed.

This caught Peter's attention and he rushed over to them.

"The arms will hook up into my spine so I can control them as if they were my own!" Otto said.

"What are you going to use them for?" Peter asked curiously.

"I'll use them to touch dangerous chemicals without harm, like the X drug…" Otto said.

Otto suddenly remembered his mission.

"Uh, let's move along to the blood tester machine!" Otto said.

They walked up to a large machine.

"WE use this to study people's blood" Otto said looking at Peter.

Otto reached into his lab coat and pulled out a needle.

"Hey Peter, why don't we do a demonstration…" Otto said.

Peter's spider-sense went off and he took a step back from Otto.

"Uh, no thanks I don't really like needles…" Peter said and he turned away from him.

Otto lunged forward quickly and jabbed the needle right into Peter's neck and pulled back on it getting a small amount of Peter's blood.

Peter was really angry.

"WHAT THE HELL! I SAID NOT TO DO THAT!" Peter yelled and then he ran out of the emergency exit of the building. Harry chased after him but by the time Harry got out of the emergency exit, Peter was nowhere to be seen. Harry decided to go looking for him.

-- Norman's Office--

"After doing some tests I have discovered something shocking" Otto said as he stood in front of Norman's desk.

"Not only, has his body been running at the normal rate, but his body gotten better!"

"How much better" Norman asked.

"MUCH better in fact his muscles are extremely powerful, so powerful that he could lift a truck and run at incredible speeds, and jump twenty feet into the air!" Otto exclaimed.

Norman was speechless.

"And the next thing I determined was incredibly shocking…"

"What?"

"There are webs in his wrists and unlimited supply of webs!" Otto yelled.

"Are you saying that…" Norman started.

"Yes" Otto nodded.

"Spider-man…"

"Peter Parker is Spider-man!"