chapter three
As we drove, we picked up more and more students, the more we picked up, the fewer I actually recognised, one of the few more important ones was Gwen Stacey, a girl with shoulder length, blonde hair, with pink dyed tips and baby blue eyes. She looked very good, she was an eight, maybe a nine out of ten and she wore a black rock and roll Hoodie. MJ also known as Mary Jane Watson, a girl with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes, a seven out of ten, in my humble opinion. Why was everyone so hot?! I felt singled out for being one of the few not hot people here, the others being peter, ned and some background characters and Peter would soon grow extremely handsome, as the spider powers did their work, it wasn’t fair!
No matter, I could still improve! If not for the spider powers -which I still wasn’t sure I could get- then a healthy bit of exercise.
But first, I needed a source of income. No way I would get a normal job… so how about some games? Candy crush didn’t exist yet, did it? I could probably make a lot of money selling mobile games… Subway surfers maybe? Clash of Clans?
First I needed to make a company to publish the games under. Luckily for me, my neighbor, whom I have a good relationship with, is a businessman, so he should be able to help me through that.
My first day back at school was painfully slow. It wasn’t hard or anything, I had already graduated from High School once before, it was all just coming back to me as I sat in the classes. The only thing that was new was the science class, Midtown high had a way better science class than my previous school. We learned way more there than I ever did in my previous life’s high school. But sooner or rather later, I was let go for the day and took the bus back home. On the ride back, Peter was talking to Ned about the lego death star that they wanted to build that weekend. Yes it was friday, so the weekend was here. One weekend should be enough to start the process of starting my own company. Since I would be having an online company, it should take a month before the business is ready to launch, enough time to fully code a game or two with the help of grey matter. The omnitrix truly was a cheat code. With grey matter I was able to program at an alarming speed unlike anything a normal person could do. Back home, I met with my neighbor, Mr Hanz and started the process. He was more than happy with helping me to start my own business. The name we came up with was Star coding, not very original but it served its purpose. Mr Hanz did all the legal stuff and I spent the days as grey matter, coding away at candy crush, training my body whilst the omnitrix recharged, sit ups, push ups, running, squads… Everything to get my body a bit more toned. As the sunday was drawing to an end I decided to get into Oscorp to get my spider powers. It would be way too difficult to sneak away during our field trip to steal one of the spiders, so, instead, I decided to steal it today, the day before our official trip. I made my way to just outside Oscorp labs and searched for an alley way without any cameras, which I found relatively easily. I tapped the omnitrix awake and swiped through the aliens, “Now, which to pick… Ghost freak or Big Chill… Ghostfreak would work better I think… I don’t think Big Chill can turn invisible, can it? It can only become intangible, right? So better ghostfreak, it’s hero time!”
I gently pressed the screen and, in a green flash, I was ghostfreak. I looked like a gray ghost like specter with a green eye running through cracks on my body, through which the eye could move. My eye was green, as was the omnitrix symbol on my chest. I turned intangible and invisible and floated through the facility, “Let’s see… energy labs… no… technology labs… no… genetic labs… thats it! Now let’s see where my spiders are… Lizards, owls, ravens, axolotl’s there! Spiders… Come to daddy”
I flew into the lab. It was more of a display really, one which no doubt, my class would soon walk through in our tour but I had my objective in sight, several glass boxes with a variety of 13 spiders. First of all, though, I deactivated the cameras, so that no one would see Ghost freak, no matter how briefly. I turned tangible and visible again and grabbed one of the spiders, the biggest out of the bunch and -with the spider tight in hand- I turned invisible and intangible again, flying out of the labs, back into the alley, where I transformed back into my human body, the spider still in hand. I placed the critter onto my palm and, within seconds of being there, I felt the spider bite me. With that done, I smashed the spider beneath my boots and turned into XLR8 to speed back home.
Back home, I stumbled back into my bed, as sweat was dripping down my torso and head, I was in massive amounts of pain as the changes took place and my dna was merging with the spiders’. It was so hot, so itchy, so uncomfortable. It felt as though my entire being was being stabbed with red hot needles and burned alive at the same time. After two hours of unimaginable pain, I collapsed onto my bed. Sweet nothingness enveloped me and I was within Morpheus’ realm. I dreamt of the future, about things I could do, places I could visit and villains I could beat.
During these dreams, the name I would use in the future came to me, from the depths of my subconscious, I named myself Legion, the hero of a hundred faces.
I woke up to my alarm shouting at me to wake up. I groggily opened my eyes and felt just sweaty and uncomfortable… I needed a shower. With my eyes still half closed, I walked into the shower, completely ignoring the alarm still sounding. I washed myself in the shower and walked out, looking at my naked form in front of the mirror, I was a good two inches taller than yesterday and absolutely shredded, ripped with a capital R. I had an eight pack with well defined but lean muscles. My skin was flawless, if still deathly pale and my eyes were a way more vibrant shade of blue. My jawline was much more pronounced. I was a solid seven out of ten at least, still not as Handsome as Flash but getting there. My hair had also grown by an inch. With a satisfied sigh, I dried my hair and pulled it into a bun. I looked at the omnitrix and asked, “Omnitrix, tell me about my new physique, is everything running smoothly?”
“Confirmed, your body has been enhanced to superhuman levels, your body has the option of turning invisible and your body produces web fluid. Originally, the spider bite would have turned you into a freak of nature, with fangs and eight arms but I repaired all that. What you did was entirely stupid and I would advice you to not do something so reckless again, if it weren’t for me, you would be a monster by now”
“Okay, sassy are you… wait does this mean that you are sentient, if you can sass me?” I asked the watch, as I put on a shirt.
“Confirmed, I am a sentient AI built into the omnimatrix to guide the user should Azmuth not be able to, which he isn’t due to you not being in the same reality as him”, the omnitrix’s voice sounded mechanic, clearly not human.
“Well then, good to know”, I muttered to myself as I put on my pants, “I would like to test my new abilities but that will have to wait till after our trip today… I can’t wait to see the creation of the friendly neighborhood spider-man, though I will likely not notice it, it will be a quiet moment, otherwise, everyone would have seen it”
After I put my shoes on, I walked over to the bus station and waited… and waited… and waited… the bus was a whole half an hour late. Though when it finally arrived, I walked on no problem. The bus driver was driving like his life was in danger, rushing from one stop to another. Thanks to his reckless driving, we arrived only ten minutes late to the school.
Before that, inside the bus, I gathered all my courage and approached Gwen Stacy, with my new found handsomeness, I thought that maybe I had a shot.
“Hello Gwen”, I said, as chill as possible.
“Hello, you are-?”
“Oh, em, Alex”, I gulped, “I sit behind you in english and a few rows next to you in science”
“Oh- Alex… Star, was it? Yeah, I know you, you look different though… have you grown taller? I like your bun, it suits you”, She smiled at me and I could feel shivers running down my spine. Talking to girls was scary as fuck.
“I- I w- was wondering”, Gods, don’t stutter like this! Get it together, Star, “I was wondering whether you would like to go on a date? The cinema has a new alien movie coming out”
“Haha”, she chuckled and I feared the worst but then she added, “how bold of you but… sure, that sounds nice, how about this Friday? We can go to my favorite little cinema just down the road from my house”
“Great!”