Swallowing The Spider

[Before Transition]

Susan begins to walk away but before she gets too far I call out to her. "Susan!" To which she turns around and waits for me to speak. "Sorry, it's just that this isn't exactly what I was expecting, not to say that I don't like it. It's just that when compared to internsh.i.p.s at Oscorp and Stark Industries this is pretty abnormal for an internship, I was just expecting to basically be a lab assistant helping you guys out with your experiments and research and pick stuff up along the way, it's pretty trusting to just tell me to research whatever I want and get on with it. This is very different from internsh.i.p.s at other companies and I was just wondering why you've decided to do my internship like this, I'm quite excited about the task you've given to me but I imagine that to any other potential interns they would find the task quite daunting." I ask her, the answer she gives me might help me get into the heads of her and Reed.

Susan thinks over my words for a second before figuring out how to respond. "We are 'Fantastic Four, Inc' home to some of the most brilliant minds of the century even if that is only Reed and myself at the moment, well mostly Reed but even so we hold ourselves to a higher standard than the rest of the scientists at the other companies out there and because of that we must have the best and most nurturing internship available. Those other companies just want to get a bunch of drones that follow orders and develop weapons (even if Stark has stopped his production) but we don't just wanna pump out a load of mediocre minds like the rest of them, we wanna take young minds and challenge them, nurture them and ultimately produce the next best minds of the century for future generations so that they can go on to make ground breaking discoveries that will help the world."

Wow that was a whole thing right there, quite inspirational. "Wow, so I'm kinda a test run for you guys huh, trying to figure out how to teach properly." Sue just smiles at me. "Bingo! You see Reed has recently become discouraged by the various other scientists' view of and applications of science which causes more problems, most of them just focusing of weapons. After this years Singularity Conference body of which Reed is a member he decided to-" I interrupt her at this point." Sorry but what is this Singularity Conference body thing?" I ask her, if I was more up to date with the outside world instead of focusing on my research all the time I would probably know this but who cares, that's effort.

Susan continues on after answering my question. "The Singularity Conference is held annually by Singularity University, the Global Summit gives leaders, entrepreneurs, and learners from around the world an opportunity to examine and discuss the latest developments in exponential technologies, the societal impacts of those technologies, and how to apply them to create positive change and achieve personal and worldwide progress. Reed attends every year and after this years Singularity Conference Reed was startled by how many of the newcomers ideas although brilliant were mostly focused on weapons and violence, it concerned him and therefore he began to think about putting together a new group of free thinking individuals to plan for a better future for all of humanity and Earth. Reed plans to mold a new young team so they will come up with solutions to the world's problems and he won't have to worry so much about the earths future."

"So that's why you accepted my internship. Am I being considered to be a part of this new venture of yours?" I ask intrigued by the premise of what she's talking about. "That all depends on you, honestly Reed doesn't think that the creation of this new team is all that urgent and he prefers to focus on his research until it looks like such a new team would be needed so we weren't going to be doing anything about this new team or anything yet. Except that Johnny showed up one day and kept asking us to accept your internship and after a brief discussion we decided to accept it, the reason we accepted is because we decided to view this as a trial run for our future institute, to see if we are actually capable of teaching young minds."

That kinda puts a sting in my crotch that I'm just a trial run but I suppose I can put up with it, after all I'm here to commit corporate espionage not learn. "So I'm just a trial run for this 'Foundation to secure the Future' of yours?" Susan pats me on the shoulder. "Basically yeah but don't be too upset by it, we wouldn't let just anyone intern here, you were the best application we had. Your intelligent enough to hold a conversation with myself and Reed and your old enough to not be too affected by our teachings if it turns out we're terrible at teaching, we'd rather not use an intelligent kid as it would risk ruining there future but with you we are assured that you'll have a successful future regardless of our teachings."

"Wow, that kinda high praise, thanks." Susan begins to walk away. "Don't let the arrogance go to your head, we wouldn't want you ending up like Johnny would we? Good luck on your project, I look coward to seeing it in a months time!" Right, my project which I only have a month to complete.

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So it's been a week and everything carried on as usual with me fixing 'Chantelle' on the weekend with Johnny, attending some lectures on Monday and Tuesday and working at the Baxter Building on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with a smattering of some tutoring session for Math Jane throughout the week, everything is great except from the fact that I haven't come up with a single thing and I only have around three weeks left before the deadline. I'm currently sat in the electronics lab because I'm required to be in the building for my internship even if I'm not actually doing anything productive which f.u.c.k.i.n.g sucks because I can't think of anything.

I've spent so long focused on my research that I can't even think of anything else scientific that doesn't involve my research and I can't think up any new inventions, of course there is Peters web fluid but I wouldn't feel right using that as he has already completed it, there's a difference from taking inspiration and outright taking because I've seen all the formulas that Peter came up with and it would feel like I'm cheating if I used it (plus it would definitely be outed in the future). I've thought of all sorts of tech from the Marvel and the DC universe and how to profit off of it but no matter what I think of it can always also be used as a weapon, the best thing I've thought of so far is the 'Anti-Gravity Boots' that the trickster made in the DC comics but I've also hit a wall with that, I have no idea how to go about making it, well at least not within the next three weeks, If this was the DC universe I may have a easier time but this is the Marvel universe.

I could probably figure out how to make them within a couple of months but alas I only have one, I thought up a few ways to get around this and eventually came up with a schematic that used Gravitonium to create the same affect as the tricksters 'Anti-Gravity Boots' but then I realised that it wouldn't be profitable at all, I was originally thinking to use the tech on aeroplanes to make it easier for planes to crash land with minimal injuries or defend slowly )due to anti-gravity) but with the schematics I came up with I realised that it wasn't feasible. Gravitonium is too rare a metal and very expensive, I lucked out when I found records and some samples of it in the Baxter Building and figured out how to do the anti-gravity but it's too expensive, it's not profitable or mass producible.

So that was a bust and I spent an entire week on it, what am I gonna do...

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