chapter five
That Friday, I was in my home, getting ready for my date with Gwen Stacy. I put on a simple black polo shirt, a nice pair of brown pants and I wore my hair in a ponytail. I looked at my face in the mirror and noticed some stubble growing on my face… that wouldn’t do, so I grabbed a razor and trimmed the growth down. Looking at me after that, I was pretty pleased with my appearance, I had grown quite handsome since the spider bite and was ready to impress. Looking at my phone, I noticed that I was late, I wouldn’t get there on time… that is unless I had some ‘help’... So I stepped outside my apartment and swiped through the omnitrix aliens, landing on XLR8. I gently pressed down and was transformed in a flash of green light, into the reptilian, humanoid form of a Kineceleran. With great speed, I zoomed over to Gwen’s house, which was in one of the nicer parts of queens, where I detransformed and knocked on the door. After a few seconds of waiting, I was greeted with the face of Captain Stacy, Gwen’s father. He was a middle aged guy with short, brown hair which was starting to go gray, his blue eyes were the same baby blue as Gwen’s, he looked handsome, a total DILF, “Ah, you must be Alex. You asked my daughter out on a date right? Well, let me tell you something, if you ever hurt her you will be in a world of pain, I will protect my sweet little girl with everything I got, so don’t you dare break her heart!”
“Understood loud and clear captain” I nodded to him, seeing that Gwen had snuck up behind him, scowling, “I am not 5 anymore! I can handle myself”, she groaned. She looked beautiful, her long, blonde hair recently dyed at the tips, she wore a baggy hoodie and jeans pants, with an earring in in her nose… strange, that wasn’t there the last time I saw her… thinking back on it, I hadn’t seen her all week since the trip to Oscorp, she had been sick, or so the teachers told us… truly strange but nothing to focus on now, now, I had a date to go on. We walked down the streets to a local cinema, where we bought tickets for the new alien film ‘Martian monsters in Germany’, quite the unoriginal name but who was I to judge, I had named my company Star Coding…
We split the cost for the tickets and I bought our snacks, popcorn for Gwen, Nachos for me and a big soda for both of us. We walked into the cinema, lightly chatting as we went inside. It was still some time till the screening started, so we talked about everything and nothing at the same time. We talked about school, about our hobbies, apparently, Gwen had some drums which she played in her freetime. She also used to do gymnastics but hadn’t done that for a good two years now.
“Yeah, I love coding”, I told her, “I recently programmed my first app, a game called candy crush, once my company is set up, I will release it for phones and computers alike, it is like a tile matching game centered around candy, I have already developed the first 300 levels and plan to create more as time marches on”
“Really? I didn’t take you for a geek”, Gwen said, snickering.
“I just love programming, doesn’t mean I have to be a geek”, I explained, “Just as you are playing drums, doesn’t mean you are a professional musician… so, what are your plans for the future, what do you want to do with your life after school?”
“I honestly don’t know, maybe I’ll become a professional drummer, maybe I’ll go into the police force like my dad, maybe something entirely different. I still have more than enough time to choose something, what about you?”, she cocked her head to one side, looking at me with those piercing, baby blue eyes.
“Oh- well, I was hoping to earn my money with my apps, if that doesn’t work out… well I can always go into the military right? Or maybe work as a secret agent”, I formed my hands into finger guns and pretended to shoot into the air.
“haha”, she chuckled at my antics.
Then, the movie started running and we quieted down. Just as expected it was a trashy film but a funny one, so bad that it was already fun again. We laughed and smiled, after the movie, we joked about it and about how we would do somethings differently than the protagonists. I walked her back to her house and said, “It was nice, did you enjoy it too?”
“Yes, it was quite enjoyable”, she nodded, “I hope we can repeat this some other time? A second date maybe?”
“I would love that”, I beamed at her, my mouth, wide open, showing my pearly whites, “See you at school!”
“See you at school!”, she replied, a soft smile on her lips. I walked off and, once out of sight, activated the omnitrix to get to my apartment faster…
The next day, a saturday, I went on my first real, crime fighting expedition. I raced from one alley to the next as XLR8 until I found a crime being committed, it was a woman getting mugged by a man with a gun. I raced down towards them and -with my super speed- took the weapon from his hand, stopping in front of him ,“Now that wasn’t very nice, now let us get you to the police”
I picked the mugger up and ran towards the nearest police vehicle. Inside sat two police officers, “Hey guys, this guy just tried to mug someone, I thought I would bring him to you, no need to thank me”
Without waiting for a response, I ran away.