Research

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The two walked across the long hallways, one of them humming as the other was gazing excitedly. There were many technological artifacts afoot, it was inspiring Petra had to admit. The tower was lit up with a beautiful blue glow. Many people walked past them, some were working on new artifacts. Many interns were chatting with each other, some were looking at Petra with a confused faces while others just casually continued what they were doing.

"F.R.I.D.A.Y!" Morgan screamed suddenly, halting both of their movements.

"What can I help you with Mrs. Stark?" A robot-voiced woman echoed amongst them.

"Can you be a dear and engage protocol ACDC?" Morgan said in a swift voice,

"Engaging protocol ACDC right away, Mrs. Stark." The robot voice echoed once more before the song Back in Black started playing.

"Now kid, feast your eyes on....." As the mentor quickly tapped numbers onto a padlock in front of them, opening a metal door.

"This." she finished her sentence as she watched how her mentee gaped at this glorious sight.

"Welcome to my lab." the billionaire smirked as she quickly summed a seat from a digitalized glitch of texts. "This is amazing Mrs. Stark!" Petra screamed with laughter as she quickly walked around the room, seeing the different items displayed there.

"Well kid, be glad that you're the first ever person to walk in this lab, other than me that is." The mentor said, walking over to the long table as she spawned digital seats.

"Here, now this is your working place. Soo you can do stuff with these different objects I have. Make some stuff, test your mind, I don't care. Feel free to make yourself feel at home, not really like home but close enough. Toilet's that way and the Wifi password is 1234567." Morgan said as she slowly walked towards the exit of the door.

"Uhhhh"

"What is it, kid?"

"I thought you were gonna help me research?" The mentee asked shyly,

"Oh, well I am going to be researching about them in a different way. You do you, I do I. See you later kid, if you need help just call out F.R.I.D.A.Y." The mentor said in a monotone voice, grabbing the handle of the door while pulling it backward.

"Woahhh is F.R.I.D.A.Y like an AI?" Petra asked cheerfully,

"Why yes, I am, Mrs. Petra."

A robotic woman's voice echoed throughout the room.

"That is so cool!" Petra cheered as her mentor rolled her eyes.

"I'll see you later kid, oh, and if you want you can rest here for a bit in the guest room. Just don't forget to tell your uncle."

"Oh shoot, I forgot to call Uncle Ben!"

Petra whined fearfully, quickly yanking her broken phone out of her pocket.

"Good luck kid," Morgan chuckled as she walked outside of the room snickering, and banging the door closed. Petra alarmingly turned on her phone, clicking the whats app icon several times. She quickly found out that her uncle had called her 28 times, which Petra didn't know was possible. Petra pressed the call button, hoping that her uncle would answer so he wouldn't stress her to death.

"Petra! Where were you?! I called you multiple times and you still didn't answer! I called the school and they said you left already, where even are you, young lady?!" Uncle Ben ragingly said,

"Don't worry Uncle Ben, I'm fine and I'm sorry I forgot to tell you. Also, I'm staying the night in Ned's house." Petra said, trying to hide her shaking tone. Ben sighed,

"Fine, but if you are in trouble or if you need help, call me. That's an order, you hear me young lady?" he said, sounding quite loud on the phone.

"Yes, Uncle Ben," Petra said,

"Good. Now don't forget to do your homework sweetie, I'll see you tomorrow Petra." Uncle Ben said before ending the call. Petra groaned; guess she wasn't sleeping that much tonight.

Petra continued researching nonstop, trying to find where the spiders came from as the clock dinged at 12:00 am. She stretched her arms, feeling that she wasn't getting closer to finding out this mystery did she then think that maybe she should take a draught of water. So she stood up, and her body gave a little crack in response. She tiredly walked out of the large lab room, seeing the hallways dark only then did she remember how she wasn't in her house at all. She then remembered how this is technically her first time inside the lab, not remembering the way to the kitchen or how to get back. She suddenly looked upwards, getting a bright idea,

"F.R.I.D.A.Y?" She nervously said,

"Yes, Mrs. Petra?" F.R.I.D.A.Y chirped back with a surprisingly cheerful echo despite her being an AI.

"P-Please just call me Petra, and I want to get a drink. Can you please help me?" Petra asked the robot, "I will light up a path objectifying your destination now. Please follow the lights to reach your destination." F.R.I.D.A.Y responded as the hallways lit up with tiny little lights on the ground.

"Woahhhhh, that's so cool!" Petra excitedly whispered to herself, cautiously walking along the hallway of luminous lights.

She casually strolled, finally reaching the interns' kitchen. Confidently she walked in, scanning the room for the water dispenser. Finding the water dispenser near the pile of cups and plates when realization struck her. She quickly took her drink, rushing back through the hallway of little lights. She clanged the lab door open, trying not to damage the door. Opening the computer did she then remember one of the spiders saying something about their "master".

She quickly re-activated the place, as digital screens flew upwards, spinning around the spandex hero. She expanded the screen with a touch of her finger, filtering her mask camera inside the video footage file dropper, downloading the video while she was at it. Petra stood up, getting the saved video and displaying it in a wide digital screen format as she turned off the lights to view it better. She started examining her suit, remembering how she had gotten scratched by the spiders in the big fight. She slowly inspected her suit, trying to find a piece of fur the spiders could've left, and finally finding a piece of fur. She slowly took tweezers that were unintentionally left on the table, taking the fur out slowly and putting it in a tube. As chemicals were poured inside, she placed the tube under a digital microscope noticing how the piece of fur was artificial. When she zoomed the lens of the digital microscope closer, she found a piece of tiny paper. "Pablo" was written in gold bold letters; she quickly took that information to good use. She pulled out a digital search panel, typing in "Pablo". It glitched open a bunch of information about him, like how he lives in Ohio, Giga, Ur mom street, number 69. And that he was apparently an influencer on Instagram as well as a Minecraft Youtuber and streamer. Petra quickly shoved all the information down her brain and alerted F.R.I.D.A.Y to tell Mrs. Stark.

"F.R.I.D.A.Y!" Petra alerted

"Yes, Petra?" F.R.I.D.A.Y chirped back cheerfully

"Can you please alert Mrs. Stark that I have the information on who created the spiders and that the spiders were actually robots?" Petra chirped back quickly

"Alert has been set, please wait as I alert Mrs. Stark of your request for her presence."

"Thanks, F.R.I.D.A.Y!"

Petra waited excitedly, skipping her foot left and right with excitement. As the doors suddenly opened, revealing Morgan Stark walking in her glorious steps.

"You got it?" Morgan said with as much cheer as she could,

"Yup!" Petra squealed as she hurriedly reopened the digitally saved files.

That's cool! Alright now get to sleep."

"But Mrs. Stark-" Petra said in a whining pitch

"No buts."

"Fine."

"Good, F.R.I.D.A.Y will lead you to the guest room, good night. We leave tomorrow morning at 7:00 am sharp and don't forget to call your uncle about it," Morgan informed Petra as she waved her hand dismissively, trudging out of the room and banging the door closed.

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