Epilogue
A spider person would be swinging from building to building, with a half torn mask and getting his web cut off. They fall on the top of a building hiding from a guy in a yellow suit. He fell to his knees trying to calm down and putting his hands back together, closing his eyes and reminiscing of a time before this life. When he opens them he is back to before he transitioned, looking at themself in the mirror finishing a prayer and not liking what she was wearing, a black and white button up with a sweater and a skirt. Sighing before exiting the bathroom at her parents lab as both are hard at work on their computers.
“Back then I was thirteen and I’d always ask my dad to bring the three of us to the ice cream shop. They had the best flavors and was one of the only places I went to, since both of my parents would keep me home to study.”
“Dad! Dad! Dad! Can we go to the ice cream shop like we do every year? Please!” She asked looking over his work before he would cover the screen with his arm. Looking down on his child, almost disappointed, sighing and looking back at his wife as she glared at him to make a response for her.
“Sorry kiddo…we gotta get this virus ready and I think you can wait longer right.” He gave an awkward smile, his wife being mute smiled softly showing he said something right. Filling the man with a sense of pride, rather than having to let down her daughter again…
“It’s already-“
she looks down to her wrist, before looking back up to him.
“ Eight! Come on, the place is about to go down and they probably already ran out of white chocolate raspberry milkshakes!”
I was 13 at the time but still loved the time she spent with her family. Even if they tried to hide her tendencies to dress masculine, usually telling themselves it’s just a phase but slowly warming up to it. He would hug her tight and bring her to show her what they are working on, she didn't realize it at the time but this code was beyond some regular code it was…alive.
“This is what we’re doing to help protect ourselves, this will revolutionize computer warfare. This virus, it can…well we haven’t tested it yet but in theory it should be able to infect and absorb information into itself! It can grow and adapt into lengths the human mind cant comprehend! So…how about you do the final touch.”
She was filled with joy to say the least, her father would never ask her to do something like this. He’d usually ask her to nicely leave the room and stay on her phone, the only time she gets to hang out with them is when her parents take her out to eat on a special occasion if it was a good day at the office which is well rare, given the long business hours. She looked at the one button she had to press, the R-key a weird choice to start a code but pressed it gleefully. The keyboard flashing a bright light before a machine in the distance sends in an ooze transporting it into a little vile. A little bump shows as it looks to the family, specifically the child, it wanted what she had…joy.
Did I help!?”
She exclaimed with too much joy, kicking her legs and pumping her fists ecstatically, it was cut short as the dad forced her to calm down. He looked to her dad with a smile as a door switched open as a man with a black suit and green tie entered the room with two bodyguards and a small boy next to him also looking next to him also the two locking eyes and too each other. The two men would pull the kids apart glaring at each other.
“Norman…” he glared at him, crossing his arms with his wife going next to him.
“Richard…” the dad glared back at with a little bit more malice towards the man in front of him.
Rey and the boy would jus t be looking at each other with glee, Rey had friends but all of them would..ditch them for the popular crowd. Rey took a breath as she would put her hands together.
Past Rey: “On the count of three say your favorite dinosaur, don’t even think about just saying it.” He was taken aback a bit but he sighed nodding, as she stopped back to closing her eyes
“One two three-“
“Velocraptor!”
The two exclaimed together as both of their eyes lit up, as Rey pumped her fists up and showed a bright smile.
“Did we become best friends!?”
“Yup! What's your name?! I’m Reyya!”
She said her name happily, as the boy took her hand out shaking it ecstatically.
“I’m Harlet Osborn! Wanna hang out!”
“It’d be a pleasure Harry!”
She runs out with him, with Harlet like the nickname as the two men would start arguing calmly, giving some calm and aggressive remarks about each other as the two leave the room. The two sat in the lounge area and would be talking a bout whatever mostly about where the superhero movies will either be good or bad story or effects wise .
“It’s stupid that the director said the bad cgi was on purpose, right! Like why.”
She was hunched over in the lounge chair as the boy looked at ehr with a small smile not being around most people with his dad always having him focus on his studies. Having her bring up the question looking up at the ceiling with him, setting her hair down feeling way more comfortable.
“What do you usually like to do, I usually practice my gymnastics and dancing. I do those just to be able to do some parkour and have some bragging rights. Could I show you!?”
She exclaimed excitedly as he nodded, she ran to the center and does a front roll into the wall and sidestepped off it into a backflip landing on her feet stumbling a little, putting out jazz hands as Harlet would clap quickly.
“That was cool! I usually just…draw some things, could I show you some on my tablet?”
She walked over and a holographic display showed a couple characters in poses. She smiled and looked amazed at the detailes clearly he was talented and she was speechless.
Father usually has me studying but when he isn’t looking I do this in my past time. I just wish he wouldn’t focus on my studying too much.
She looked over, with a sad look but she couldn’t feel anything else but feel bad, she gave a sad look also.
“Strict parents also, I feel that. My parents don’t let me do things like even go out.”
Harlet sighed, looking at his learning and took a deep breath.
“I only have my dad, my mom passed away during childbirth so I don’t really know how it is with two parents..”
He said with a tearful eyed look turning into a blush of embarrassment as he is hugged by Rey, hugging back, liking the warmth of a friend, not even his dad would give him a hug even if he did everything he told him.
“How about I ask a different question, what do you want to do in the future?”
She said softly, giving a nice smile as he looked down to her. Hey the two are having a moment as he smiled. Letting go and clearing his throat and giving a determined and happy smile.
“I want to make my dad proud and get tons of friends! What about you?”
He exclaimed before asking the follow up question and it took Rey a bit to answer before answering herself. Looking at her reflection through the glass table before finally giving in.
“It sounds weird but I want to be a b-“
A gunshot would be heard through the hallways, as her dad ran to her with an eye out and blood coming down his head. Holding the virus, handing it to her as a guy in a skull mask would be exiting from the elevator, as he took his sword out from the mom. Rey began to cry at the sight before her dad would direct her sight on himself.
"Sweetie! You gotta take this and hide this wherever you can! Please! I’ll hold him off but promise me! Don’t let anyone get their hands on it! Go!”
Everything was happening so fast, her mind was making up tons of questions but she just ran leaving Harlet, the man in the skull would dash by Harlet as Robert would dash behind him. The skull mask would try to stab at her with the jar before this man would be tackled by Robert before he could even land a punch, he was stabbed in the stomach before cutting off his head.
The man in the skull mask: “You…Osborne’s kid tells your pops that killing the kid is gonna cost extra.”
He left running off for the girl, Rey would be bumping and holding the jar from people breathing heavily, asking things such as; are her parents ok? Who was that? What is this? She then remembered it was the virus her parents developed. As it would make a little hand on the girl's finger looking up to her. She would make a turn slightly tripping on her amazingly she was still holding the jar but it was slightly cracked at the bottom. The skull masked man would come down and make a phone call turning around thinking he won.
The man in the skull mask: “Taskmaster here, got the package you wanted Osborn. Got the kid she was hanging out with that was your kid right?”
He say picking up the phone, with Norman on the other end
“Is the virus intact, I need that to show to general Ross. He wants more ways to strengthen the defense system and I don’t want the virus to overshadow the weapons Oscorp is developing.”
“Yeah… just about to pick it up from the kids hands.”
Taskmaster started to argue the details with Norman. As the virus would crawl out of the crack, it had just enough space for it to get out as the virus thought of escaping. It looked to the girl, crying out as she T her best to get the arrow out of her arm. But then…it did the unthinkable . It began to absorb the girl into itself, the task master would take out another arrow the girl’s face, the two disappeared as the virus would make an escape and latch onto a nearby truck going to the nearest city dump as it would then lay dormant for 2 years