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The Alien Symbiote Made Me Do It

Chapter 2 - It's Here, But Not For Long

Okay, so, where were we? Oh, yeah, now I remember. So, it seemed that as a result of the whole 'me-coming-back-to-the-lab-to-check-on-everyone-and-not-giving-the Lizard-pictures-to-The-Daily-Bugle' thing, I got some serious Brownie Points from everyone in return. My friendship with Gwen got stronger, and Eddie wasn't treating me like a little kid, as he so loves to do. Life was good despite the hours taken from my life to go be Spiderman. Shocker and Sandman both gave me their share of headaches; between the violent vibrations and the giant hand-hammers made of sand I was concerned about getting a concussion! On the plus side, the photos I got landed me a Free-Lance job at the Bugle.

Then came the Fall Formal. A week before that Gwen came up to me and asked me to go with her! I didn't know what to say or do. Gwen ended up taking my silence for a refusal and so was about to walk away in a funk before I took her by the arm and told her the reason for my refusal. Biggest mistake ever!

For those of you unfamiliar with the inner workings of the Sci-Fi/Comic Book/Video Game Geek World, there is a very special term used to describe people like Gwen: young females who find the idea of two guys kissing to be…arousing. That's right folks, Gwen Stacy is a Yaoi-FanGirl! Someone shoot me now!

Maybe I shouldn't have then added on about my crush on Eddie?

Anywho, she smiles and asks, then, if the two of us could just go together as friends, nothing more, nothing less. I smiled and said, "Why not?"

Later that night Aunt May tells me that her best friend is in town with her granddaughter (who apparently has a "great personality") and that I could take her with me to the Fall Formal. Thank you Gwen for rescuing me! I tell me aunt no thanks and inform her that I'm going with Gwen. She smiles and says, "All right then." My aunt is so wonderful and understanding…if only I could just tell her I'm gay. Would she be understanding about that too?

Eventually Gwen gets the "brilliant" idea to ask Eddie to join us. Since we're all friends and neither of us had actual dates why can't the three of us go together as friends? I'm pretty sure this was part of some plot by Gwen to help move along the process of me asking Eddie to be my boyfriend. At any rate, Eddie agreed.

So the night of the Formal comes and Eddie, Gwen, and I are having a blast when all of a sudden my stupid cell phone goes off (thank god I left it on vibrate). I tell Gwen and Eddie about my boss being at this party, which is now being attacked by some kook, and he wants me to take photos. This didn't sit well with the two. The look on Eddie's face was the worst. It wasn't just a look of betrayal; it was…dare I say it? …heartbreak!

I promised the two that I'd zip over there, get a few shots, and zip back. I gave Eddie a particularly beseeching look as I reiterated the words, "I promise." Eddie looked a little less heartbroken but still definitely downtrodden and said with a slight smile, "Alright, but you better get back here quick Pete." A nod of agreement and away I go!

The fight with Goblin was pretty intense. I get thrown out a window, hitch a ride on his glider, nearly fall to my death, watch the Goblin, on faith alone, leap over a skyscraper as his glider smashed through one end and out the other (wow…just, wow), and then finally search for a bomb hidden somewhere in the ballroom. All in a days work, right? Well I get back to the dance and I can't see any trace of either Gwen or Eddie. So a sit down on the bleachers mumbling to myself about how I blew it, when I suddenly hear the most gorgeous chuckle a person could ever hear. I look up and there's Eddie standing right there, grinning from ear to ear. "I wouldn't say that. Gwen got a call from her father reminding her of her curfew and so had to run. She told me, though, to stay here and wait for you. She said that you would be back sometime; you had promised after all," he said while his grin stretched even further. 'God he looks so sexy in that tux, grinning at me like he knows something…Gwen didn't tell him, did she?'

I end up hitching a ride with him on the back of his motorcycle. Sitting behind him, my arms secured tightly around his waist…I'm so glad the helmet hid the blush adorning my face. Eddie just chuckled and seemed to shrug it off. I'd like to imagine his walking me up to the door was the precursor to our first kiss, which would seal the deal to our new relationship, but it didn't turn out that way.

So finally, the incident: I was running home from school a few days later after hearing on the news that, not only had my bosses son managed to return to Earth safely, but he also managed to bring an intergalactic hitchhiker with him! As soon as I got home I noticed Aunt May standing at the junction between the kitchen and the den. The TV was most certainly not on, which annoyed me greatly, but alas. Turning on the TV and watching the news report I was thrilled to find out that the organism was being brought to the Empire State University BioLab, which meant…I had an in.
Quickly shuffling through my pocket I pulled out my cell phone and quickly called Eddie. The first thing I hear is, "Hello?"

"Eddie, is it there?"

Eddie chuckled and said, "That's right Bro, the Ooze has landed! I figured you might want to come over and worship it so I cleared it with both Dr. Connors'."

"I'm not going to wor-…wait, you got it cleared for me to come over?"

"Yeah Bro. I know you, and I know how much it'd mean to you. Just make sure you leave your camera behind and I'm sure the Doctors would be perfectly fine with it."

"You're the best Eddie, I love you!" I froze stock still when I realized what I'd just said. All I could think was, 'Oh crap, oh crap, oh craaaap!' Oh I was hoping and praying Eddie didn't push it or question it. Thankfully, someone out there still loved spiders.

"Yeah, I know I'm the best," Eddie said in an overly smug tone. I gave a nervous chuckle and then said, "I'll be there in a few minutes, see ya then," and then hung up.

Once I got down there I saw both Martha and Curt Connors on either side of a large glass globe, the black ooze inside, trying to claw its way out.

"It really is alive isn't it." It was more of a statement than a question. Both the Connors looked over at me and smiled. "It certainly is. It reacts to heat and cold like a human. It seems to be especially sensitive to sound," Martha said. "But most importantly, its brainwaves are on a whole other level than ours. I would not be surprised if this organism had some level of ESP or telepathy.

I'm quite sure my eyes were glazing in pure ecstasy by then. I walked over to it and knelt down so that I was at eye-level to it, placing a hand on the glass absent-mindedly. "Do you think it could here our thoughts right now, or would it need physical contact, like Vulcans?"

Curt, Martha and Eddie laughed, I blushed in embarrassment, and the Ooze crawled a little closer to me. At this point there was only a thin layer of glass separating us.

All of a sudden my spider-sense began tingling up a storm, so I looked over to my right where a young blonde woman was standing, seemingly writing down notes. She looked like any other assistant; but there was something in her eyes when she glanced at the ooze that immediately threw up a red flag. It was going to be a long night tonight.

Later that night I returned and watched as Curt, Eddie, and Gwen escorted Martha out of the building. After making sure they were safely out of the way I went over to the roof and looked down the glass dome at the center. Wanna guess what I saw?

A cat-girl.

I'm being serious. Damn anime geeks…

Anyway, some young woman (probably the one from before) dressed in a black and white cat suit was descending from the ceiling using a rope. She pulled an aerosol can out of her pants pocket and sprayed the contents on the floor, revealing the security lasers…smart girl. Using another rope, tipped with a hook, she pulled herself towards the ooze's containment cell. She managed to open it up before I stopped her. She looked a bit surprised for a second before smiling…it was a kind of a creepy 'cat-who-ate-the-canary' type of smile.

We exchanged names, and jokes and then began fighting. Apparently, cats don't fight spiders; they just bat them around. Well Black Cat was certainly giving me a few playful bats here and there. It was almost as if she was just toying with me. Eventually a smashed glass box activated the security alarms. But did either of us care? No.

As a matter of fact, by this point we seemed to be flirting! What the hell was I thinking! First of all, I'm more of a dog person, and second I'm more of a guy person! Hey, did I just step in something? Nah, no way (boy would I wish I had checked to make sure later on).

So any way Dr. Connors eventually shows up and Black Cat says something about, "Three's a corroborating witness," and high-tailed it. I left soon after giving Curt instructions to call the cops; Black Cat had somehow gotten away with the goop!

Tomorrow I'd learn just how wrong I was.

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The Alien Symbiote Made Me Do It

Chapter 2 - It's Here, But Not For Long

Okay, so, where were we? Oh, yeah, now I remember. So, it seemed that as a result of the whole 'me-coming-back-to-the-lab-to-check-on-everyone-and-not-giving-the Lizard-pictures-to-The-Daily-Bugle' thing, I got some serious Brownie Points from everyone in return. My friendship with Gwen got stronger, and Eddie wasn't treating me like a little kid, as he so loves to do. Life was good despite the hours taken from my life to go be Spiderman. Shocker and Sandman both gave me their share of headaches; between the violent vibrations and the giant hand-hammers made of sand I was concerned about getting a concussion! On the plus side, the photos I got landed me a Free-Lance job at the Bugle.

Then came the Fall Formal. A week before that Gwen came up to me and asked me to go with her! I didn't know what to say or do. Gwen ended up taking my silence for a refusal and so was about to walk away in a funk before I took her by the arm and told her the reason for my refusal. Biggest mistake ever!

For those of you unfamiliar with the inner workings of the Sci-Fi/Comic Book/Video Game Geek World, there is a very special term used to describe people like Gwen: young females who find the idea of two guys kissing to be…arousing. That's right folks, Gwen Stacy is a Yaoi-FanGirl! Someone shoot me now!

Maybe I shouldn't have then added on about my crush on Eddie?

Anywho, she smiles and asks, then, if the two of us could just go together as friends, nothing more, nothing less. I smiled and said, "Why not?"

Later that night Aunt May tells me that her best friend is in town with her granddaughter (who apparently has a "great personality") and that I could take her with me to the Fall Formal. Thank you Gwen for rescuing me! I tell me aunt no thanks and inform her that I'm going with Gwen. She smiles and says, "All right then." My aunt is so wonderful and understanding…if only I could just tell her I'm gay. Would she be understanding about that too?

Eventually Gwen gets the "brilliant" idea to ask Eddie to join us. Since we're all friends and neither of us had actual dates why can't the three of us go together as friends? I'm pretty sure this was part of some plot by Gwen to help move along the process of me asking Eddie to be my boyfriend. At any rate, Eddie agreed.

So the night of the Formal comes and Eddie, Gwen, and I are having a blast when all of a sudden my stupid cell phone goes off (thank god I left it on vibrate). I tell Gwen and Eddie about my boss being at this party, which is now being attacked by some kook, and he wants me to take photos. This didn't sit well with the two. The look on Eddie's face was the worst. It wasn't just a look of betrayal; it was…dare I say it? …heartbreak!

I promised the two that I'd zip over there, get a few shots, and zip back. I gave Eddie a particularly beseeching look as I reiterated the words, "I promise." Eddie looked a little less heartbroken but still definitely downtrodden and said with a slight smile, "Alright, but you better get back here quick Pete." A nod of agreement and away I go!

The fight with Goblin was pretty intense. I get thrown out a window, hitch a ride on his glider, nearly fall to my death, watch the Goblin, on faith alone, leap over a skyscraper as his glider smashed through one end and out the other (wow…just, wow), and then finally search for a bomb hidden somewhere in the ballroom. All in a days work, right? Well I get back to the dance and I can't see any trace of either Gwen or Eddie. So a sit down on the bleachers mumbling to myself about how I blew it, when I suddenly hear the most gorgeous chuckle a person could ever hear. I look up and there's Eddie standing right there, grinning from ear to ear. "I wouldn't say that. Gwen got a call from her father reminding her of her curfew and so had to run. She told me, though, to stay here and wait for you. She said that you would be back sometime; you had promised after all," he said while his grin stretched even further. 'God he looks so sexy in that tux, grinning at me like he knows something…Gwen didn't tell him, did she?'

I end up hitching a ride with him on the back of his motorcycle. Sitting behind him, my arms secured tightly around his waist…I'm so glad the helmet hid the blush adorning my face. Eddie just chuckled and seemed to shrug it off. I'd like to imagine his walking me up to the door was the precursor to our first kiss, which would seal the deal to our new relationship, but it didn't turn out that way.

So finally, the incident: I was running home from school a few days later after hearing on the news that, not only had my bosses son managed to return to Earth safely, but he also managed to bring an intergalactic hitchhiker with him! As soon as I got home I noticed Aunt May standing at the junction between the kitchen and the den. The TV was most certainly not on, which annoyed me greatly, but alas. Turning on the TV and watching the news report I was thrilled to find out that the organism was being brought to the Empire State University BioLab, which meant…I had an in.
Quickly shuffling through my pocket I pulled out my cell phone and quickly called Eddie. The first thing I hear is, "Hello?"

"Eddie, is it there?"

Eddie chuckled and said, "That's right Bro, the Ooze has landed! I figured you might want to come over and worship it so I cleared it with both Dr. Connors'."

"I'm not going to wor-…wait, you got it cleared for me to come over?"

"Yeah Bro. I know you, and I know how much it'd mean to you. Just make sure you leave your camera behind and I'm sure the Doctors would be perfectly fine with it."

"You're the best Eddie, I love you!" I froze stock still when I realized what I'd just said. All I could think was, 'Oh crap, oh crap, oh craaaap!' Oh I was hoping and praying Eddie didn't push it or question it. Thankfully, someone out there still loved spiders.

"Yeah, I know I'm the best," Eddie said in an overly smug tone. I gave a nervous chuckle and then said, "I'll be there in a few minutes, see ya then," and then hung up.

Once I got down there I saw both Martha and Curt Connors on either side of a large glass globe, the black ooze inside, trying to claw its way out.

"It really is alive isn't it." It was more of a statement than a question. Both the Connors looked over at me and smiled. "It certainly is. It reacts to heat and cold like a human. It seems to be especially sensitive to sound," Martha said. "But most importantly, its brainwaves are on a whole other level than ours. I would not be surprised if this organism had some level of ESP or telepathy.

I'm quite sure my eyes were glazing in pure ecstasy by then. I walked over to it and knelt down so that I was at eye-level to it, placing a hand on the glass absent-mindedly. "Do you think it could here our thoughts right now, or would it need physical contact, like Vulcans?"

Curt, Martha and Eddie laughed, I blushed in embarrassment, and the Ooze crawled a little closer to me. At this point there was only a thin layer of glass separating us.

All of a sudden my spider-sense began tingling up a storm, so I looked over to my right where a young blonde woman was standing, seemingly writing down notes. She looked like any other assistant; but there was something in her eyes when she glanced at the ooze that immediately threw up a red flag. It was going to be a long night tonight.

Later that night I returned and watched as Curt, Eddie, and Gwen escorted Martha out of the building. After making sure they were safely out of the way I went over to the roof and looked down the glass dome at the center. Wanna guess what I saw?

A cat-girl.

I'm being serious. Damn anime geeks…

Anyway, some young woman (probably the one from before) dressed in a black and white cat suit was descending from the ceiling using a rope. She pulled an aerosol can out of her pants pocket and sprayed the contents on the floor, revealing the security lasers…smart girl. Using another rope, tipped with a hook, she pulled herself towards the ooze's containment cell. She managed to open it up before I stopped her. She looked a bit surprised for a second before smiling…it was a kind of a creepy 'cat-who-ate-the-canary' type of smile.

We exchanged names, and jokes and then began fighting. Apparently, cats don't fight spiders; they just bat them around. Well Black Cat was certainly giving me a few playful bats here and there. It was almost as if she was just toying with me. Eventually a smashed glass box activated the security alarms. But did either of us care? No.

As a matter of fact, by this point we seemed to be flirting! What the hell was I thinking! First of all, I'm more of a dog person, and second I'm more of a guy person! Hey, did I just step in something? Nah, no way (boy would I wish I had checked to make sure later on).

So any way Dr. Connors eventually shows up and Black Cat says something about, "Three's a corroborating witness," and high-tailed it. I left soon after giving Curt instructions to call the cops; Black Cat had somehow gotten away with the goop!

Tomorrow I'd learn just how wrong I was.