Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn Page #2

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- We were so worried.

I know, I'm sorry... Watch it!

That's a fly, Peter.

I'm so sorry I kept you guys up.

I'm insensitive, I'm

irresponsible, I'm hungry.

- Drinking?

- I don't think so.

This isn't meatloaf.

This beats all other meat loafs.

- Something is very wrong.

- Yeah.

Nobody likes your meatloaf.

I got it.

- He took the frozen macaroni and cheese.

- I noticed that.

Why didn't you tell me you

didn't like my meat loaf?

You could have said

that to me 37 years ago,

how many meat loafs have I made for you?

Peter? What are you doing up there?

- Homework.

- Be careful.

Sure.

Dr. Connors?

- You don't remember me, I...

- You're the intern from the other day.

- Yes, that's right.

- I'm sure you are very nice young man,

but this is a home, I'll ask you

to make an appointment in my office.

I'm Richard Parker's son.

Peter?

I'm afraid I can't help you much

Peter, I don't know why they left,

or where they were going.

- Good reflexes.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

- I read your book.

It's something. So you really think

it's possible, cross-species genetics?

Yes of course, but for years your father

and I were mocked for our theories,

not just in the community

at large, but Oscorp as well.

They called us mad scientists.

And then your father bred the

spiders and everything changed.

The results were beyond

encouraging, they were spectacular.

We were gonna change lives of millions.

Including my own, then it was over.

He was gone.

Took his research with him.

And I knew, without him I...

I...

I was angry.

So I stayed away from you and your

family, and for that I'm truly sorry.

Say...

Say it worked, say you got it to work.

How much would the

foreign species take over?

What could the side effects be?

It's hard to say, considering

no subject survived.

- The problem was always...

- Decay Rate Algorithm?

- Right.

- Right.

- Can I?

- Of course.

Extraordinary. How did

you come up with this?

Peter, how would you feel about coming to

see me at the Tower one day after school?

Yeah.

Thank you.

Come on Reggie, run it buddy!

Rejected!

- You did that on purpose, Flash!

- No, but I should have.

You better watch your back.

Alright.

Give it up Parker!

One sec.

Why don't you take it from me?

- Go ahead Flash, take it man.

- Go ahead, take it.

Just take it.

Alright, how about this?

How about that?

- Come on Flash!

- Stop playing man.

- Take it from him!

- Come on Flash, take it.

- Do it Flash, stop playing!

- Yo Flash, come on!

Alright, bring it!

Come on Parker! Come on!

They're not gonna make us pay

for the backboard, you know that?

I don't care about the backboard.

- Was that true?

- What?

What I heard in there just now.

Did you humiliate that boy?

Yeah, I did.

But this guy deserved it.

- Did he?

- Yeah.

Is he the kid that hit you?

- Is he?

- Yeah, but...

So all this was about getting even?

If so, I guess you must feel pretty

good about yourself now, right?

Am I right or wrong?

Yeah, I thought so.

Well, thanks to this

little escapade of yours,

I had to change shifts

at work, so you have to

pick up aunt May tonight

at 9 o'clock, understood?

Is that understood? OK, good.

She looks familiar.

She's the girl on your computer.

He's got you on his computer.

I'm his probation officer.

Don't forget aunt May.

OK.

He's a character, that's my uncle.

He's a pathological liar and he

thought you were someone else.

Oh man, you don't have

me on your computer?

I took a photo of the debate team,

you're in the debate team so...

- Right.

- So, he must have seen it.

- I was touching up stuff.

- You were "touching up stuff"?

I'm not gonna answer that.

- Did you get expelled?

- No, I didn't get expelled,

I got community service.

So, you want to... I don't know...

- Want to what?

- I don't know, just...

I don't know, we could...

Or we could do something else, or we

could... If you don't... We could...

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

Yeah, either one.

- Really?

- Sure.

Alright, good, sounds good.

I can't right now, I'm

so busy right now.

Me too.

- But maybe...

- Yeah, just, you know...

- Some other...

- Time, alright.

OK. Alright.

We have protein structurer,

rDNA chromatography,

transgenics testing, that's x-ray video.

That's the only one on the planet.

- We have...

- I remember that.

- I've seen that before.

- The GANALI device.

I remember a picture of

that in my dad's office.

The idea was so simple, load

it with an antigen, make reactive cloud

which can be dispersed over a

neighbourhood, even an entire city.

Theoretically, you could cure a polio

in an afternoon.

It's incredible.

Well, others disagreed. What if the

device were loaded with a toxin,

what if you wanted to opt-out, you

can't run away from a cloud after all.

So here it lies, covered in dust.

What you see here is a

computer model of the lizard.

Many of these wonderful creatures

have so brilliantly adapted,

they can regenerate

entire limbs at will.

You can imagine my envy.

We're trying to harness this capability and

transfer it into our host subject, Freddie,

the three legged mouse.

Enter the algorithm now.

Do you need to take that?

System ready for gene incersion.

Check.

What are we trying to do?

- Free up the proteins.

- Create the immuno response.

Beginning trials, pending...

Failed, subject deceased.

Pending... Failed.

Subject deceased. Pending...

Input algorithm accepted.

Regrowth complete, vitals

normal, blood pressure normal.

Regeneration successful.

Extraordinary.

Thank you.

Meet Fred and Vilma,

our three legged mice.

Hey buddy, I got you.

OK, careful, don't want

to sting you by mistake.

Human trials aren't until next week.

There.

Hey, I thought you...

Didn't you forget something?

Don't answer that, but I'm

glad to know it's working.

You owe your aunt an apology, big time!

Be a man, get in there and apologize.

I'm sorry aunt May, I got...

- Honestly, you don't have to

apologize to me...

- Hell he doesn't.

- Ben...

- I'm sorry uncle Ben, I got distracted...

- You got distracted?

Your aunt, my wife, had to walk 12

blocks alone in the middle of the night,

and then wait in a deserted subway

station because you got distracted.

Ben, sweetheart, honestly, I am

completely capable of walking home...

- You will not defend this boy!

- I'm not defeneding...

- You are defending him! Listen to me son!

- Yeah, go ahead.

You're a lot like your father.

You really are Peter,

and that's a good thing. But

your father lived by a philosophy,

a principle really. He believed

that if you could do good things

for other people you had a moral

obligation to do those things.

That's what's at stake here,

not choice, responsibility.

That is nice, that's great.

It's all well and good, so where is he?

- What?

- Where is he? Where's my dad?

He didn't think it was his responsibility

to be here and tell me this himself?

- Oh come on, how dare you?

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