Still, he couldn't rest too much. There was a second spider around and he wasn't sure what that meant, but he had to look for them to see what it was about. There were too many potential difficulties as to what could happen.
There were potential benefits as well, but he didn't think too much of those, at least not yet.
All he knew from the report about the second spider was that it was a woman and that she used a paralytic drug of some sort, delivered by a dart, at least according to the witnesses. The woman had apparently recovered the darts in the wake of the fight, if there were any.
If the other hadn't mutated the same way as him, well, spiders were venomous and they did use poison to paralyze prey. Or the spider part could have influenced the girl to make the darts.
He discounted the idea of anyone else from his trip to the lab during high school, he was sure he would have noticed somebody else freaking out and/or experimenting with their powers in that neighborhood.
Still, how many field trips did that lab host? And just where did the spider go after it bit him in the first place?
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It was surprisingly easy to find information on Spider-Man, Kodachi found. His escapades had been well-documented since soon after his first appearance. Judging by the photos he had the same amazing agility as her, though he seemed to prefer wading into the thick of things.
He had started to appear sometime about a year ago, about the same time she was bitten. That probably meant that he was bitten a good deal of time before she had been.
There were some contradictions, of course. On the one hand, Spider-Man seemed to be virtually posing for the camera at times, but, if he truly wanted fame and popularity he was obviously going about it the wrong way. The papers, especially the Bugel, were dead set at portraying him as some sort of menace.
"All the more reason to keep low-key then," Kodachi muttered to herself.
Now, the question was, how did the man get exposed to the spider? That would be a big clue to who he was. And if she could find another, she'd be able to tell a little better whether the mutation was stable or not.
If it was the same spider that bit her, then the man had to have something to do with the lab in someway. The roses she had ordered came from the same building, so, unless the spider walked out and then came back to the lab to be boxed up in a shipment of roses, the bite had to occur on the lab's grounds.
Then again, she had no idea how many spiders there were...or how many got away. And the lab wasn't going to give that sort of information to a random person on the street, or admit it to anyone for that matter.
Which didn't matter, because she couldn't find the lab anyway.
Well, the physical location was easy enough to find. It was the only electron microscope of its size in the region. But the real part of the lab that was important to her search, the people and the data, wasn't anywhere near it.
She sighed and leaned back away from the computer and went to check her mail. She set most to the side, bill and notices to be dealt with later. And one she spent several minutes staring at before she set it in the drawer, unopened. And that left one item undealt with.
An invitation to some sort of party or fair. Something to do with a company she had some stock in. She checked the name again.
"Oscorp," she said. She shrugged and thought about it. "I suppose I need to go. Hmm...let's see what to wear?"
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