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Chapter 23 Rise of the spider part 2
OSCORP
Gwen marveled at the inside of the building, there was so much movement at OSCORP, scientist from different parts of the globe here creating better technology for the whole world to see. Miles couldn't help but chuckle a bit she was just like a kid going to the carnival except this was with out the games and rides and more like an expedition with technology.
"Come now Ms. Stacey right this way." Gwen quickly picked up her paced as they went to the front desk
"Hello Kathy."
"Doctor Warren, how are you?" The receptionist asked typing away on the computer
"Same old, same old except with this excitement of Spider-Man identity being revealed that was surely the most fun week I've ever had."
"Yes the poor kid." The brunette said sadly, "Saved my life when I was trapped underneath a car."
Neither adults noticed Gwen smile falter a bit; the wounds of her best friend being dead were still fresh.
"I don't care what the Bugle says about him in my book he was hero."
"Yes he was…" Gwen smiled warmly as she whispered
The receptionist blinked looking at the blonde, "I'm sorry who are you sweetie."
"Gwen Stacey I'm…"
"She is my intern for the year Ms. Brown, you'll be seeing quite a lot of her here." Miles smiled with a toothy grin
Kathy looked between Warren and Gwen, "Well then welcome to OSCORP Ms. Stacey, hopefully you have a pleasant time here."
Gwen nodded, "I do plan to learn a lot while I'm here."
"That's good to hear, now if you can be so kind to come around I need to take your picture for ID if you will be working with Dr. Warren or else you'll never be able get in here."
Gwen nodded going behind the desk, it took a few moments nevertheless her face along with personal information was in the system. Kathy gave her an ID tag so she was set and cleared to go.
"Alright Ms. Stacey enjoy your time here as OSCORP intern, we except much from them." She smiled
Gwen said her thanks then left with the older man. As they climbed up the stairs Gwen heard over the intercom, "Welcome to OSCORP, born from the mind of our founder Norman Osborn. The OSCORP tower has over 108 floors of innovation our scientific minds are currently pushing the boundaries of defense, bio-medical, and chemical technology. The future lies within…"
Once they reached the top Gwen was amazed at the amount of people there, it was just as busy as it was on the first floor. She then spotted a group of high school students who were being toured by an intern.
"This way Ms. Stacey." Miles lead the way and they came into a lab where science projects where being held. Gwen was astounded by the amount of projects being produced when suddenly a man with one arm came to them.
"Miles you were supposed to be done with the genetics cloning results what's taking so long? You know Norman doesn't like to be kept waiting."
"Not right now Curt I have important business to take care of with my intern."
"Intern I didn't know that you were going to have someone help you, you're that type of man that usually doesn't want anyone around. So who is the poor sap that has too see your sorry face?" The brown haired man chuckled
"Very funny Connors…"
"I am sir."
Curt looked to see a blonde woman; he studied her, hair comb on the top of the head, blonde hair, nice purple skirt that goes to the thigh with a black blouse and a green hoodie to go along with it as well an official OSCORP ID badge.
"You are…"
"Gwen Stacey Dr. Connors." She stuck out her left hand and he shook with his one arm with a smile on his face
"Pleasure to have you aboard Ms. Stacey, I don't know if you are aware but I am OSCORP foremost authority on herpetology."
"Yes I am aware you are currently building a way that the human DNA can somehow repair the damage to one's tissue with cross species genetics." Connors was impressed with the girl, "Person brain cells damage when that said person dopamine starts to disappear, but a zebra fish has the ability to regenerate cells on command, I've read all the work you done, give this ability to any person and that person is curing themselves I'm blown away by your theory of cell regeneration."
Connor nodded his head, "I see you are interested in the field of science, you certainly have a promising one Miles."
"Dr. Connors I'm not just interested in Science I'm passionate about it."
A beep was heard from Dr. Connors pager, "Looks like I'm needed at the genetics lab, Miles I'll see you around, Ms. Stacey I look forward to seeing you again." He disappeared down the hall
Miles looked at the blonde haired woman, "I see you have been following my colleagues work anything else you would like to add?"
"No why?"
"Warren!" A voice boomed
Gwen was startled while Miles Warren cringed he knew who that voice belonged to, he turned to face none other than Norman Osborn.
"Norman how are…"
"Cut the pleasantry why haven't you sent me your files? They were due a week ago! Why haven't you done anything?"
"I…I…" Miles had no excuse he was so busy preparing for Gwen that he completely forgotten about sending him the results of his experiments. Norman was going to fire him that was for sure if he didn't come up with his results, "I assure you Mr. Osborn that I will work overtime to get those test results in."
"See that you do! I'm excepting them in tonight!" Norman jabbed him then he left not paying any attention to Gwen
"Tonight! That doesn't give me a lot of time!" Miles ran after him
"Well I'm not the one who was slacking off with duty when it's suppose to be done Warren. I want those results tonight or you're fired." Norman quicken his pace
"But I can explain!" Warren said in dismay keeping up with Osborn as they went down the hall due south the way Norman came making a right turn
Gwen hurried along unfortunately she lost sight of them once they made a left and entered a secured room. In front of her were three doors, one in front, one in the left and the other on the right, she knew she was locked out of the rooms with no way to get in. She tried to use her intern ID card but she was denied access, huffing in annoyance she looked around trying to find anyone to help sadly no one was coming anytime soon.
Clicking the roof of her mouth Gwen decided to have a look around the building since there was nothing else better to do not to mention that she was completely lost in the world's most advanced towers.
Not watching where she was going she bumped into one of the faculty members making him drop his folder.
"Oops I'm sorry…" She knelt down picking up the folder but couldn't but notice a strange symbol on it. However a hand blocked her view of the symbols.
"Excuse me…" The man said
"Sorry…"
The man eyes her suspiciously then leaves; curiosity getting the better of her Gwen followed the man to an isolated lab away from the others.
She peeked around the corner as he inserts a code in form of a digital molecule she memorized the combination from afar before leaning back into her corner away from his eyes.
She heard voices talking for a few seconds; they left shortly after. Checking to see if anyone was coming there she did the same thing punching the code in soon enough the door was unlocked. She looked around making sure that no one was watching her going in the room.
Gwen entered seeing a machine trifle with some sort of tube placing it in some plastic container, another machine was dealing with silk?
'I didn't know that OSCORP did sewing?' Gwen thought, she looked around some more, in front of her was a blue room seeing it she looked through the glass window. Everything in the room was blue but something else was inside that room another machine rotating in circles.
Opening the door she wanted to take a closer look, she stared in awe as the machine rotated with different types of spiders in their containment. The young Stacey girl entered into the center marveling at the spinning spiders. She tugged the web-line suddenly the machine stopped, she panicked.
However the machine started to whir again, Gwen looked up to see the spiders crawling on the web before they started to fall especially on her.
"Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, gross, gross, gross, gross…." She started to hyperventilate as the spiders begin to crawl all around her. She shakes her body trying to get rid of spiders nonetheless there were many to swat. She starts to rapidly brush herself trying to get rid of them, finally it stops and the majority was off her only one escapes her hiding deep in her hair.
The drama was over so the teenager left before she could get into any trouble or trouble would start to look for her.
Meanwhile Boardroom
"What do you mean that one escaped?" Norman growled, "Are you telling me we have a loose clone!"
"That's what I said Mr. Osborn we grew it in tube a week ago after we obtained a sample of subject 1." Miles rubbed the back of his head, "We thought we had a successful clone but it turns it quickly began to show signs of degeneration."
"I thought you said your are close!"
"We are! It just takes time."
"Well we are going to find ourselves in the streets and without the resources that makes this fun little science project available." Miles cringed as the older Osborn continued, "I want that test tube found and captured no questions asked do I make myself clear?"
"Crystal…"
"Good now leave I have important status to discuss with the Board Members in an hour."
With the conversation done Miles gritted his teeth not showing any of it, he will decide what to do about that foolish escapee for now he'll be focusing on Gwen; speaking of which where is Gwendolyn?
"Uh-oh…" He looked around his area to find his intern, "Oh this is not good I don't want to explain to Mrs. Stacey that I lost her only daughter."
Frantically in the inside of his being he began to panic, he asked if anyone has seen a young girl about 14-15, most if not all replied with a no. Now he was freaking out, how was he supposed to face Gwen's mother and father that he lost their daughter. "Not to mention her father is a cop…"
As luck would have it he spotted the said girl coming from a different location, he eyed her curiously, "Gwen!"
She jumped at the sound of her name
"Mr. Warren hi…" She started
He looked at her discountenance, "Where were you Gwen? I thought you were with me, you nearly gave me heart attack young lady."
"I decided to familiarize myself with the building." Well it was half true; she wanted to see more OSCORP but really wanted to go in to be with her mentor. Then she found that room filled with spiders, she suppressed a shiver.
Little did she know that the same spider that hid in her hair was now on her neck as she continued to converse with Warren.
"Well Ms. Stacey I hope you found your little adventure fun but it's seems that our intern is going to be postponed for today, I have much work to get and I don't want to start you today by being bombarded at least not today." Then an idea came to mind, "But I do have paperwork for you to look at so in the mean time look over the sheets tonight and for the rest of week and we will get started next Monday on small projects."
Gwen inwardly groaned, paperwork as she already had a headache from school she wanted to get down and…
"Ow…" She hissed as the slap on her neck was heard
"Are you alright Ms. Stacey?" The older man asked
"Dandy…" She replied
"Very well wait here and please don't move." He left to search for his papers. The older gentleman came back with a book and a stack of paper handing it to her, "Read it carefully Ms. Stacey it's a book of Genetic Science only 400 pgs."
Gwen took the material stuffing it in the backpack she carried, "Okay Mr. Warren…"
"Miles Gwen, I told you this many times before…"
"Okay…Miles…" She was still weirder out; "I'll try to read this book by next week."
With that they said their good byes and she left OSCORP to go home.
Subway
Her mother always told her never to sleep on a subway cart yet for some strange reason she was tired than usual. She curled herself into ball facing the right while using her pack as a pillow to support her head, something was changing in her and the effect were immediate even if she wasn't aware of it.
Some guy looked at the sleeping blonde carefully placed his beer on top of the side of her head unaware of the transformation that she was going through.
The sweat of that beer bottle came rapidly down the side before it landed on her skin, her eyes bolted open and suddenly she found herself on the ceiling of the car. She looked down, why was the floor upside down? Then she looked up.
"Oh my…"
People were freaked out by this action they only watched at this girl came tumbling down.
"Thanks a lot b**** now I smell like beer." One of the female passengers said.
Gwen freaked, "I'm so sorry…" she places a hand on the woman, "I didn't mean to do that…"
Her hand was stuck on the woman's blouse.
"Umm…" she tried to take it off but it wouldn't budge
"Girl you got five seconds to let go of my blouse…"
"I'm trying…" Gwen desperately said
"I said get off me!" The woman shoved her off along with her blouse ripping. The male passenger either wolf whistled or made a dirty comments as her red bra was revealed.
The woman with her mouth a gaped looked at Gwen, who was using the pole as support, she screamed in fury charging her, "You B****!"
Gwen tried to unhook her hand from the pole but a tingling from the back of her head caused her body to spin and kick the woman to a nearby seats.
The woman groaned in pain, as Gwen settled down looked in horror as the woman was in agony of pain clutching her back.
"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry…" Gwen couldn't believe this was happening, that tingling came back and she nailed another female passenger wearing a green shirt in the face simply by back handing her across the face into a seat. Gwen looked in horror the woman was unconscious, her hand finally got unstuck and her luck was going on a record high as the train started to slow down.
"Next up Downtown Manhattan…"
Gwen thanked God that this was her stop.
Later at Stacey Residents 8:00 PM
Gwen opened the door and quickly closed it; she put her back to the door sighing in relief, what a crazy day. She looked at her hands again for the 10th time today, what was going on with her?
"Gwen honey are you home?" Her mothers voice called out
"Yeah mom it's me…" She had to calm down
"I'm in the kitchen your just in time for dinner, so go wash up."
Right when her mother said dinner her stomach growled, 'Maybe mom's dinner would sooth me.'
At the dinner table her father was reading a newspaper while her mother put the last piece of food on the table, the aroma of the food put Gwen senses on overdrive. Like a hungry animal Gwen grabbed anything that was near her, Helen was taken aback by the amount of food her daughter had on her plate.
Helen jaw dropped when Gwen finished serving herself, she had a chicken leg, the beef, the ribs, rice, beans, salad, green beans, the corn, the mash potatoes, and the spaghetti piled up that would be fit for a king.
Even her father had to stop reading as he watched her devouring the entire plate, both parents looked at each other than at their daughter.
Gwen was so busy stuffing her face that she didn't notice the look of confusion written upon the faces of her parents. That was the case until George Stacey cleared his throat causing the younger one to stop eating.
"So…Gwen how was this internship today?" George asked slowly a little freaked out by the blondes eating habit today
Gwen chewed her food then swallowed, "Well it was disappointing today."
"Why?"
"Well my mentor was working on a project for OSCORP and he kind of left me out waiting for him to finish his meeting with Mr. Osborn."
"You know what that's called? Irresponsibility! How can your teacher just leave you out with no knowledge of that tower what so ever it's on heard of!" George was furious
"Honey I sure it was an accident." Helen tried to sway her husband to calm down, Gwen continued to stuff her face not caring if the juice of the meat was traveling down her chin at the moment she just wanted to eat.
"Gwen!"
She looked up again with the rib in her mouth as her parents looked at her strangely
"Are you alright? You look like you haven't eaten in three years, what gives?"
Gwen removed the rib from her mouth still looking between mom and dad grabbed a napkin wiped her mouth clean drank some water before responding, "I just like your cooking that much mom."
"Then why are you pigging out?"
"Um…"
"We barely been sitting here for five minutes and already you are done with your plate."
Gwen looked down she was 99.9% done with her food, she looked up sheepishly, "It's just that this food looks so good mom that I can't get enough of it. May I be excused?"
Both parents nodded, she said her thanks and left the table. Helen and George looked at each other, "What was that about?"
"I haven't the foggiest idea."
In the bathroom
Gwen splashed water in her face she was looking at bit pale as her reflection showed. She couldn't explain it but she felt jumpy today, that tingling was back and this time her hand shot to catch a fly.
She looked at it hyperventilating slowly, "This is nuts…."
She washed her hands again drowning the fly as the creature wen down the drain. She then remembered that bite on the back of her neck so slowly but surely her hand went to the back of her neck.
She felt around her neck for anything clearing out her hair, soon she felt a hive in the back of her neck as well as a thread.
"What in the world?" Her fingers turned into a fist as she grabbed the thread from her neck. She pulls on it wincing in pain as she starts to pull the thread from her neck.
When she saw it wasn't your average thread it was a web of a spider. At this time she was starting to freak out when she held the web in her hand with a dead spider on the end of it, little did she know with that spider bite it would change her life.
World unknown
A mysterious figure sat in the shadows of his throne room as he watched the event across the multiverse unfold through the web of life. His red eyes narrowed as he sniffs the air, he smirks darkly.
"Another spider may have arisen but the great hunt across the multiverse is about to happen very soon, no spider will be safe."
He chuckles darkly as he watches various different spider-men and women from across the verses.
Little did he know that he was being watched from a different dimension by the Beyonder and Madame Web. Beyonder looked at him with disinterest, "He thinks that he can rule the multiverse well he is not."
"You are already keeping Phoenix safe from his nose you cannot interfere any further Beyonder! You know that you could only use your powers for a time and for emergency only."
"I am well aware of how I can use them Web I am fully aware, now it's time for Xavier to get acquainted with a new hero on the rise, Spider-Gwen."
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