Amadeus leaned over his microscope.
What are these abnormalities? He wondered as he continued to study Ben's blood sample.
He adjusted the focus, but it didn't help. He stood up and changed the slides. He could see Peter's DNA clearly, but there was something different about the sample. Sure, there was other DNA that he could not identify yet, but that wasn't what was bothering him.
I just don't understand what's going on!
"Amadeus," Someone said from behind him.
"AH!" Cho whipped around at the sound of a voice and the feeling of a hand on his shoulder. Dr. Curt Connors stood beside him.
"Are you alright? You've been in here all day."
"I'm fine. I'm trying to work through some things."
"I see. Well, you may want to hurry and get something to eat soon." Amadeus looked at the clock; it was half pasted two.
"I can eat later; this is really important!"
"So is a regular, balanced diet." Dr. Connors looked beyond the young genius and microscope. There were candy wrappers, an empty soda can and a crumpled napkin beside the large looking device. Dr. Connors reached over and flicked a switch on the large viewing machine, turning it off.
"Hey! Wha-"
"You need to eat something. I'm here almost as often as you are, I know your habits: you haven't eaten in 24hrs at the very least! Now go! Get some lunch and fresh air and don't come back here for a least two hours." Cho grumbled as he trudged out of the lab. Swoosh! The door to the lab closed behind him.
Connors shook his head and smiled to himself. "That boy." He looked back at the microscope Cho had been working on. Hm. I wonder...
"I'm a student, I need to be allowed to work in peace. After I graduate I'm getting a place by myself…" Amadeus griped as he propelled himself along with his mechanical legs.
Suddenly, an incredible boom shook the corridor!
"What in the world!?" Amadeus ran down the hall towards where he thought the boom had come from. He passed a larger hallway with an observation window to the main Danger room. Dozens of SHIELD personnel were gathered in front of it. "What's going on?" Cho asked coming up to the group.
"Nova and Scarlet Spider are having a knock down, drag out fight!" One of them replied.
"Huh, must be the battles."
"Yes, but it's more heated than usual."
"What do you mean?" Burning piles of sentry's and wall guns littered the floor of the Danger Room. Cho watched as Nova blasted another one—Boom! Suddenly Scarlet Spider appeared on the window they were watching through. A light shown through the window before streaking downward at lightning speed.
"GET DOWN!"
About twenty minutes earlier:
A SHIELD staffer stood before the students. "Alright, I know you kids know the rules, but I have to go over them again anyway so lets do this without any interruptions shall we? Two opponents enter the Danger Room from either side. Throughout the room are booby-traps, mobile guns and other fun toys for you to break. You must avoid them while avoiding your opponent as well. The one who takes out the most sentries and incurs the least amount of damage wins."
"Alright guys," Spider-Man started, "who's goin' first?"
"WE ARE!" Nova and Scarlet Spider said together before they glared at each other.
Peter blinked. "Oookay. Take your places then."
Sam watched Scarlet as he chose a spot to start from. The room was completely open save from the mobile guns that would come up from the floor.
Scarlet took up hold in a corner. I don't know what your problem is you little punk, I hope it was your face.
Sam situated himself in the opposing corner. I won't let you hurt my family again!
"Fighters ready?"
Scarlet held up his hand.
Sam did likewise.
"Alright then…FIGHT!"
Sam blasted off into the air headed, straight for Scarlet blasting him with his nova blasts.
Ben jumped out of the way of every blast: each landing point calculated, setting up the next jump. Nova flew straight at him attempting to keep him pinned to the wall. Just like I'd thought you would, Punk. Ben ran up the wall before quickly launching himself off of it, back flipping over top of Nova. He launched a several webbed bolas at Nova.
Ha! Is that all you've got to go with your fancy footwork? Sam let out a steady stream of his energy blast burning up the webbed bolas. "Argh!" Crap, forgot about the sentries! Sam turned around after being shot in the back by a mobile gun tower. One nova blast later, and it exploded causing a shower of smoke, flames and debris. Now, where did—What!? Sam felt a weight on his back. "HEY! GET OFF OF ME!"
Ben had dove onto Nova's back as he'd dealt with the booby-trap. Ben twipped webbing into Nova's eyes as the helmeted high-schooler tried to shake him. Nova cried out in anger and started flying ahead at great speed in an attempt shake the spider, but Ben tipped Nova's shoulders towards the ground. They hit the base of another gun tower that had appeared out of the floor. The stem of the tower bent and fell began to fall.
"So, why exactly are you so furious with me?" Ben asked before darting away from Nova at a super human angle. The tower fell on top of Nova with a Crash!
Nova slowly stood from the wreckage. "Oh, so now you want to talk!?" He said, taking off after Scarlet again.
"I figured it'd be in my best interest now, so yes. Why!?" Scarlet felt the searing heat from Nova's energy blasts on his back as he dodge yet another barrage. He tucked his shoulder and rolled behind a sentry that had appeared. It exploded the moment he ran from behind it.
"'Why' is none of your business! Just stay away from May Parker, and I won't destroy you! Ack-!" Sam exclaimed.
Scarlet had jumped on him again, this time taking hold of his foot, and used it to kick a brown-clothed foot into his face. "Really!? So you're out here trying to destroy me: my life is none of my business? Whoa-!" Ben cried as Nova took hold of his legs and threw him into the wall. He landed on all fours and took off at a run.
"You really think I could?" Sam asked, floating for a moment.
"I said 'trying', didn't I…. Stop changing the subject!" Ben said ripping the barrel from a gun that had appeared in the wall beside him, and smashing it back into the wall.
His gruff voice, his arrogant nature: everything this guy did made Sam's vision more and more crimson. "You could have avoided this if you would have just talk to me in the…dorms!" Sam said, sending his own gun from atop a gun tower to a group of sentries.
Scarlet had disappeared into the debris. "You didn't have anything interesting to say then, and apparently, you don't now."
"Shut up!" I can't take this guy anymore!
"Do you want me to 'talk', or 'shut up'? Can't do both, Punk."
THAT IS IT!
Sam flew to the ceiling of the room,
FIRST YOU BETRAY PETER,
He turned towards to floor.
THEN YOU PUT ANUT MAY IN DANGER, AND NOW YOU JUST WANT TO GO BACK TO THE WAY THEY WERE!?
With an incredible burst of speed, he dove, fists first, toward the floor.
Oh Crap! Scarlet quickly darted up the wall.
LIKE HELL!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The floor exploded under the tremendous force of Nova's blow. A cloud of dust and debris filled the room, cutting off visibility in any direction, and certainly from in the viewing stations.
Nova hovered above the apocalyptic scene, searching for his prey.
The floor, now concave, was cleared: all the rubbish now a border around the radius of the Danger Room.
Finally, he spotted him.
Ben picked himself up from atop a pile of sentries. He had taken to the upper part of a wall to escape the majority of the shockwave, but it had still hit him, badly. His shoulder was throbbing from his fall, his leg was sliced from sliding across a piece of metal and his chest hurt from the blast. A glow came and hovered in front of him:
"So, Punk, do you think I could kill you now?" Nova asked, raising a hand out in front of himself, towards Scarlet.
"Not in a million years, you little Twerp!"
Sam gritted his teeth. He flew forward and picked up the spider by his collar and slammed him into a wall. "How about now!?" Sam growled, his voice sounding so much like Scarlet's it was hard to tell the difference.
"NOVA! SCARLET! WHAT IN BLAZES DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?"
Either boy looked to see Nick Furry standing behind Nova.
Oh, Crud.