Evolution

“What a creep” Wade thought to himself and that's gotta mean something, because normally Wade was the one creeping other's out and not vice versa. Yet here he was; standing in front of a giant freezer filled with various transparent cylinders all neatly labeled with individual names. The point was that those cylinders did not contain lunch and the names did not tell who the owner was – this wasn't some kind of shared refrigerator like in most companies this was a fricking cool box for the scientist's experiments. This creep, Richard Parker, had given every test subject it's own name – and they weren't even awesome or anything! There was no “Bea” or “Nessie” or “Batman”, no, they all had those super lame names like “Flash” or “Bob” or even “Peter” - it was ridiculous! Wade did recall reading that Parker and his wife had no children, so maybe he projected his feelings onto his experiments, which was likely, but also incredibly creepy, god dammit!

Then again; Wade wasn't here to psychoanalyze that guy, he was here to rob him and that was exactly what Wade did. He closed his eyes and wiggled his index finger in front of the cylinders. “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe! Catch a spider by it's toe~!” He stopped his movement and opened his eyes. “Today is your lucky day, Peter!” He took out the tube and shook it a little. “You are going to get Papa a giant pay check.” Wade purred as he eyed the little spider inside. The tiny creature was curled up on it's web, hibernating because of the cold so it was easier to experiment on – Wade guessed. He would probably have to put it into his refrigerator once he got home, but for now one of his pouches had to suffice. The cylinder was of course to big to completely fit into the bag, so half of it stack out, which wasn't a problem Wade decided. He closed the freezer and left the lab the same way he had entered it; trough the window. Normally he would simply jump out, but a squished spider wouldn't get him anything, so he had to climb down all the way, because the labs just had to be located on the upper floors of the Oscorp Tower.

On his way home Wade stopped by Sam's tacos and bought five and two burritos, so that when he came home he could celebrate his successful heist with Mexican food and cold beer. The mercenary strolled to his apartment in a pretty good mood, smiling to himself and whistling a catchy 90ties song.

When he arrived home he went to the fridge to get his beer, totally forgetting about the spider he was supposed to keep cold and immediately moved to crash on his couch and settle for a well-deserved taco-feast.

At some point he put the unwieldy glass cylinder next to him on the couch, but soon after it was tossed on the ground and rolled of, because Wade was shifting a lot while playing a video game. It wasn't until he heard an odd noise that Wade actually looked away from the screen. The mercenary was rather terrified as he couldn't find the cylinder at first, but when he jumped up he saw that it had just rolled behind the couch. “Phew! For a second I thought I just lost my one-million-dollar-spidey.” He sighed in relief and approached the cylinder to pick it up again, when he noticed that something had changed. When he had seen the spider for the first time it had been pretty tiny, by far smaller then Wade's palm, but now whatever was inside the cylinder had grown so much, that it was actually bursting the glass. As the cylinder started shaking from the increasing pressure from the inside Wade took cover behind his couch and held his ears shut until he heard the glass shattering in quite an explosion, single shards being hurled through his living room. “Holy shit, I just made a spider explode.. and it wasn't even inside the microwave..” He gasped, before carefully peering at the remains of his pay check.

What he saw made his jaw drop instantly, leaving the 'Merc with the mouth' speechless for several moments. Instead of spider-goo he saw a curled up kid, probably in it's early teens, completely naked and with the most marvelous piece of ass he had ever seen, covered in some shiny, transparent liquid and shivering slightly.

Wade blinked.

He rubbed his eyes and pinched himself. The merc was rather sure that he hadn't taken a heavy hit to the head since about two months and unless Sam's tacos contained drugs nowadays he wasn't even close to be high. So he closed his eyes and opened them again and when the boy was still lying there, looking somewhat supercooled and in pain Wade decided that his little spider had in fact turned into a human being.

He carefully approached the.. thing and gently shook it's shoulder, because it seemed unconscious. It wasn't or maybe it was, it was hard to tell really, because as soon as Wade has made skin to spandex contact the kid jumped up as if struck by lightning, awkwardly stumbling away from Wade, looking at him terrified and hissed at him, which was totally unfair, because Wade's mask was only rolled up to his nose.

“Erm.. okay, okay.. no touchy-touchy, got it.” Wade said confused. “So.. uh.. I'm not going to harm you, okay? I just wanted to check up on you.” He had lowered his voice to sound less intimidating to the strange creature and it seemed to work, because the boy stopped hissing and seemed to relax , lying down on the floor again as if he was to tired to hold his body up. Wade had to admit, he was pretty worried. His client had told him to get a spider and now all he got was a teen. He sighed and started to slowly approach the kid again, which gained him some more frightful looks and deep growls. The boy didn't seem to be aggressive though, which Wade was quite thankful for – he just seemed to be as confused by the situation as Wade himself. So Wade moved closer inch by inch, gently hushing the kid. “Shh, spider-boy.. not going to harm you, just stay still.. I am just trying to help you..” The kid continued growling and his eyes were glued to Wade, those big hazel orbs staring at him nervously, but he didn't move which Wade took as a good sign, so he moved even closer until he was able to touch the kid again, carefully placing his hand on the teen's shoulder once more. The boy flinched hard at the touch, but when Wade started stroking him gently the growls eventually turned into something quite close to sobs.

They stayed like that for a few seconds, looking at each other, Wade trying hard to not further scare the confused and in fact very cold being. “Okay, okay.. good boy.. uhm.. you are Peter, right? Peter? My name is Wade. W-A-D-E.” He pointed at himself, but the human spider didn't seem to get it, so Wade sighed. “Okay, fine.. let's get you into the bathtub, how does that sound, huh?”

Again the spider did not reacted, so Wade moved even closer and tried to carefully help the kid on his feet. This turned out to be a mistake, because instantly the boy started hissing at him again, struggling to get away from the merc. Peter didn't seem to be comfortable with the concept of walking on two legs either so Wade had no choice but to actually pick him up, carrying him to the small bathroom himself. At this the former spider was so shocked that it actually bit Wade in the neck. The merc cursed and tossed the boy inside the bathroom, where he instantly crawled to the next corner. Wade rubbed his neck and closed the door so he wouldn't have to drag Peter in again, then he started to let water into the tub.

As he waited for the tub to fill, he sat down on the edge of it to watch the feral child. Peter was still looking at him in terror, pressing his body against the wall. The merc felt oddly dizzy and when he stood up to get Peter into the tub he felt a sharp pain in his head. So obviously spider-boy does not only have fucking fangs, no he was also venomous, great, just great.

Wade who was at the end of his patience grabbed the boy by his arm and dragged him over to the bathtub. Peter struggled to get away, but seemed to be to tired to really put up a fight with Wade, but when he noticed the water he started to panic and Wade had to force him into the water with all his might. By the time the kid was sitting in the tub both of them were panting, though Peter seemed to actually like the warm place he ended up in and soon relaxed, whereas Wade was cursing at his new acquaintance until the poison knocked him out for good.