The marvellous spider-man

Chapter 1

"Ugh, I hate spiders," said Gwen Stacey to Peter Park, though neither of them knew just how ironic those words would be in a few minutes.

In his mind Peter, a skinny fifteen year old in a white shirt, jeans, and glasses, looked at the spider on the wall, wondering just how it had gotten inside. Their class was having a field trip in a laboratory at Oscorp. He thought, Phidippus audax, a common jumping spider in North America. However, what he said to Gwen was, "You'd better keep your distance then. He's a jumper."

Gwen, a pretty, blue eyed, curly haired blonde in jeans and a blue shirt, immediately moved away, making 'eww' noises.

"Gee Pete," said Harry Osborn, a short red haired and freckled kid. "That was kind of mean."

"What?" said Peter innocently. "Just giving her fair warning." And with that Peter took a picture with the camera around his neck. "By the way, tell your dad I said thanks for letting us see his lab for our field trip."

"I will," said Harry. "If he's home tonight."

In the white walled laboratory filled with all sorts of scientific equipment, including a giant laser in the back, Dr. Connors* paced back and forth talking to a crowd of students. Dr. Connors was a middle aged man with a pleasant demeanor, and was very enthusiastic about the new science he was presenting. The most striking thing about him, however, was that he had an arm missing, cut off at the elbow, and you could tell because his left sleeve hung too loosely for something to be there. However, he didn't mention it or say how he got it. He just talked about science, a very weird kind of science.

Dr. Connors said, "Neogenics is the science of taking the genetic traits from one species and applying them to another. One example is if we gave a cat a fish's ability to breathe underwater. That's an extreme case however. A better example would be if we gave a human being a lizard's ability to regrow a limb." He waved his stub of an arm. "Probably wishful thinking on my part though."

The class actually laughed as Dr. Connors inserted a small test tube into the side of the machine.

"This device, the Neogenic Transmitter, uses real samples the DNA of one species and applies it to another. However, simply taking genetic samples and injecting them into another host causes certain problems, so the Neogenic transmitter doesn't do that. Instead it uses a process called Eugenic Transcription. Would anyone like to venture a guess as to what that means?"

Peter's hand went up.

"It's like a copy machine," he said. "You use one DNA sequence as a base and alter the DNA of the target to match. That way you give the target the genetic traits you want but only with material already present inside the targets body. Just like a copy machine you still have the original DNA strands when you're done."

"That is absolutely correct. Well done. The radiation in the first machine is shaped by the DNA samples we give it and then used to bombard the DNA of our target."

As Dr. Connors started talking again, Peter felt pleased with himself, until he felt a balled up piece of paper hit him in the face. He looked over and saw Flash Thompson, a big guy and star of their high school football team. There he was in his sports jacket mouthing the word 'nerd' and laughing quietly with the other football players.

"What do they think is so funny?" said Peter.

Gwen put her hand on his shoulder. "Just ignore them."

Peter sighed, while Harry fidgeted at the sight of Flash.

On a screen in the back it showed an amoeba, an organism that looked like a bunch of link sausages, and another organism that was in-between, made of individual links but transparent like an amoeba.