Why the world needs a Spider-man

2~ Project Toby

[a/n sooo... i completely forgot about uncle Ben... I HAVE FOUND A REPLACEMENT don't worry :D let's get on with the chapter!]

"Project Toby has escaped and I need you to find him.' Norman Osborn growled as he rose from his Chair. 'Or you'll be the next casualty. Understood?'

'don't act like you know what you're talking about Osborn.' Octavius snapped at Norman. 'I created the spiders! They aren't able to live for more than 360 minutes outside of their cages. Even if I found Project Toby, it would be dead already. The only way we could still save our research is if the spider had bitten a living creature with compatible DNA. But there are 7 billion people in this world (and I'm still single...), which makes the chance of our project being-'

'My project.' Norman interjected

Octavius sighed, took a deep breath and continued: 'The chance is 0.00000000014%, but, because you couldn't control your anger that number is now zero.'

'What do you mean zero? Why would only one person on the earth be compatible with the DNA of PT?' norman asked, confusion evident in his voice.

'Perker, or whatever his name was, was the lead scientist, after me of course, and you assassinated him because he brought your coffee cold or whatever' Octavius took a sip of his coffee- that stood there for Thor knows how long- before muttering under his breath: 'don't know what you don't like about cold coffee though...'

'get to the point please.'

'Anyway, this guy infused the spiders with some of his DNA. This made it so that the percentage of the spiders DNA having mixed with someone's DNA is zero.'

'Does this Perker have family or something?' Norman asked. Octavius shook his head and sat down on the chair in the corner before continuing.

'The guy was a ghost. Never told us anything about himself. The only reason that he still worked there is because he was so important to the investigation.'

'Why am I just now hearing this? This guy could've worked for the fucking CIA and you wouldn't have known about it! Does he have any family? A dad? A son maybe?'

'don't know, didn't care. Until now.' Octavius grabbed a computer and began searching in silence. They sat there in silence for a good 30 minutes. Octavius scrunched his face every few minutes before he came up with something.

'His name is Richard Parker. he has a mother, a father and a wife. his father is deceased just like him and his wife. His mother might be worth visiting though. I can't find anything about a son but I did find a colleague, named Curtis Conner. He worked, together with Parker, here in Oscorp. They are working on, go ahead and guess, cross species genetics. Maybe we should pay him a visit as well.'

'you're lucky I bought that laptop for you otherwise you would be toast right now'

'I bought it myself but okay.'

[a/n not peter but oh well]

-susanov