A Dreadful Thought…
Using my newfound method I push my will out onto the world around me and force my will into the spiders around my effectively taking control of them but not too much control since I am controlling near a thousand of these things and I direct them through the brickwork and holes to the room on the other side and looking through the eyes of a single spider I put it on the ceiling and then look at the lever and command the rest of the spiders to get on top of it and like a pack they swarm towards it and pile up on top of it and I can feel the lever wiggle through my connection to them but it still doesn't go down much and most of the spiders are standing on each other to accomplish this but I know that I spider can handle ten times its own body weight so I don't mind much and give them the command to start jumping at the same time but I am unfortunately not too good at controlling my powers and so my spider on the ceiling jumps as well and ends up falling to the ground but catches itself on a web, it doesn't matter though because the rest of the spiders jumped in synchronicity and once they landed at the same time the lever went down with a slow thud.
The door in front of me hisses and begins to slide open and I get greatly excited that I am finally going to catch this bastard and find all of his horrifying secrets and so I practically all but rush in through the door before my rationality kicks in and I realise that maybe running inside a possible villains lair haphazardly might be a bad idea and so I skid to a stop just outside of the door before I mess up and end up dead and I take a moment to think about what might just be waiting for me on the other side which could be traps, disgusting terrifying experiments and the massive fear I have about the one thing that just might be in this room that ii rally don't want to be in this room but I don't want to think about that and so instead I think up a gameplan for my penetration of this secret room and I come to the decision that I am going to go very slowly step by step into this room while focusing on my senses and spider sense so that it can warn me if there is any danger and at the first sight of danger I will immediately stop and try to sense where it is coming from.
Before I put my plan into action though I have to think about any other variables that might come into play and the only variable in this situation is the actions of people because I can't change anything on the other side of this door and I can control my actions but there is only one other person that can affect the situation and that is the owner of the secret room because they are the only other person that knows of its existence and I know that Doctor Miles Warren is not on the other side of this doorway because I gave it a brief look over when I was scouting the room with the spider but if he is not in there then he is somewhere else and that means at any moment he can come to check on this lab since I don't know his actual schedule and so I take my first step into this room and when nothing sets off my spider sense I take another step and then turn around and stick my fingers to the backside of the metal sheet and drag it back in front of the doorway to the position it was in before but this time I am on the other side of it and with that done I flick the switch closing the door knowing that if Miles Warren does come he won't know that I am here and while I haven't covered up all my traces I did what I can since I can't actually put back the dust on the ground under the pipes in slid in on and so I can only hope that if he does come that he won't notice my tracks since he comes in at the corner of the pipes while I slid in under the middle.
With the door closed behind me I lookout at the room in front of me and I see the room laid out before me and I can see a lot of lab equipment set up all over the place and a lot of high tech equipment which makes me wonder how the mad professor could have acquired it all but I ignore that in favour of giving the room a proper inspection and when I do I realise that while the information I gather using the spider isn't obsolete it is a tiny bit wrong because I thought this room had four white walls using my connection to the spider but it actually has three white walls and at the back of the room is a white curtain drawn across the room and blocking everything behind it from my view and I realise I was not thorough enough with my scouting as I just focused single mindedly on opening the door and getting myself inside and didn't think about the fact that the information I was getting from my scout might not have been correct because spiders usually have eight eyes with some have six or fewer but very few spider actually have good eyesight and they rely instead on touch, vibration and taste stimuli to navigate their surroundings and find their prey with the exception of a few spiders for which good vision is vital so that they can hunt and capture their prey and for recognising their mates and rivals but none of these types of spiders were present in this basement an so I made a mistake using these spiders eyesight to gather information as they did not see things clearly and so while before I might have thought that the deranged professor Doctor Miles Warren was not in the room for all I know he could be since I cannot trust the information gathered by the siders since I should have used their sensitivity to touch and vibration instead of their weak eyesight but there is no medicine for regret only time travel and this is too minor of a mistake for that.
I stretch out my senses to encompasses the entire room with a specific focus on the back of the room behind the curtain and whatever may lay behind it but I hear no movement at all which gives me a sense of relief but I have learned not to trust my senses too much since I have seen too many forms of entertainment in which the main character gets fucked over because they got too complacent or stopped being so cautious and I am not about to make such a mistake and so I go ahead with my previous game plan of moving through the room slowly and focusing my senses to spot anything as I do so.
I move through the room slowly step by step with each step taking a while with my foot moving as slow as humanly possible in case there is a pressure pad or a tripwire or something and so instead of moving with momentum where I would not be able to stop even with my spider sense warning me I instead move slow with each step making sure I am stable and that I am not touching anything apart from the floor and using this method I move across the room slowly but surely encroaching on the white curtain at the back of the room and the entries time I am observing my surroundings and all I can see are expensive machines and equipment that wouldn't look out of place in a lab focused on biology and genetics which makes sense since this guy is the Jackal who confuse everybody and himself just who is who with the amount of cloning he does and I can't stop the dread growing inside me that jumps leaps and bounds with every step I take and with each extreme microscope I see that is used for looking at cells because one of my worst nightmares could potentially be in this room and while I don't want to believe it there is a high likely hood that it just might be behind that curtain.
Me and Gwen used to be practically inseparable whenever I was not working on my research and even when I was she would be there trying to drag me out and we cared for each other but after our first year at Midtown high school Gwen suddenly left to go to Empire State University and for a while she still hung out with me but not as much since she has a lot of work to do with her being in university which I could understand but she started coming less and less and so I started to push away from her because I felt she was pushing away from me however contradictory that seems which ended up becoming our current relationship with her visiting around once a month and I didn't really question but ever since I saw Miles Warren but his hand on Gwen a while ago I have had this creeping though in my head that I couldn't get out which is the reason I have put off investigating this creep but I couldn't put it off any longer even with the information that Miles Warren has been in close proximity to Gwen for the last two years in which time he could have done anything and he was always capable of cloning people with Gwen's death in the comics being the thing that pushed him to become the Jackal but I can't help but think that Gwen going to university and being in close proximity to Miles Warren has a correlation with her changing behaviour after she left to go to Empire State University.
I can't help but think that maybe... what if the Gwen I have known for the last two years is a clone, and the real Gwen has been trapped down here for the last two years...
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