Not The Kind of “Goo” I’m Used To!

Dr. Conners returns from around the corner, fully clothed once again, with a small pleasant smile on her face and a very small hint of an awkward blush as well. “Sorry about that, my friends.” She says with a very professional tone, as if she wasn’t just getting sucked off in the middle of the lab. As she approaches us she puts an empty vile of the cell replication serum she was working on last time down on the table.

“How’s that going Dr. Conners?” I ask quickly as I nod to the vile, doing my best to switch the focus to something scientific, rather than the evil glare from Gwen that was still piercing deep into my heart.

“Oh that? It has… some side effects.” She says with a small chuckle, and I notice her blush get slightly deeper. “But it does seem to have some positive effects as well. I’ve documented some of my findings, but I don’t feel it is appropriate enough to share with you ladies yet.” Conners says quickly as she opens a drawer on her cabinet and puts the serum inside. “Instead, I think I want to focus on a new possible venture into the world of DNA and cell replication.” Kendra’s expression grows into a smile wide enough to cover her whole face, getting small crinkles under her eyes that, for once, shows a little of her age.

“You… look very excited.” Gwen says quickly, as her own face grows into a similar smile and a chuckle as Kendra’s excitement seemed to be practically contagious in the room.

“How could I not be!” Kendra continued as she beckoned us to follow her, and began to walk deeper into a part of the lab I have never been to before, using security cards and other access codes to get us deeper and deeper into the lab with us quickly following in tow. “Have you two heard about the meteor crash that happened just outside the borders of Wakanda last year?” Dr. Conners asks as her stride only increases in speed, causing me and Gwen to have to move quicker to keep up.

“Are you… talking about the one that they claimed had some alien life form on it?” Gwen asks hesitantly, raising an eyebrow as she quickly gives me a glance that says what the fuck is going on?

“Wasn’t that just some tabloid bullshit?” I ask as I shrug in response to Gwen and turn my attention back to Conners. “I mean, Wakanda is a third world country isn’t it? They probably just saw something they didn’t understand.”

Kendra only chuckles as the two of us speak, and finally she approaches a large silver vault door, not unlike the one I saw at Oscorp. She turns back to us and gives us a look that was almost… demeaning? It was still very much a cheerful and even playful tone, but still somehow it seemed Kendra was looking down on us.

“You two… Where is your curiosity? Your drive?” She asks as she punches in a final code and the door begins to open. “I reached out to some Wakandan government officials about the alien species they claimed to have, and asked if I could spend a year studying it, to see if I could learn anything interesting.”

“Wait… are you telling me-?” I try to say, but Gwen interrupts me with a quick hip check to silence me, telling me that Conners wasn’t finished speaking.

“I’ve had this baby for two months now, learning everything I could. But now, I think it’s time you two get to join me.” Kendra says with a smile as the vault door finally fully opens and the three of us walk inside.

The room was large, but practically empty compared to its size. There were computers and scanning machines on the walls, a couple lights, microscopes and tools, but overall it looked more like a clean room than anywhere you’d conduct an actual study. But what interested me the most though was a metal table sitting in the center of the room with a large glass bottle on top of it, and inside? A black, thick sludge that seemed to be… moving?

“Is… is that…?” I start to say, my eyes wide and jaw dropped as I start to approach the table boldly, with Gwen standing a couple feet behind me, while Kendra beams with pride as she watches our reactions.

“A real, living and breathing, alien substance.” Kendra says as she follows behind me and puts one hand on my shoulder, staring down as the two of us stay staring at the sludge, moving and jolting around like a living creature as Gwen stays a couple feet back still.

“Um… ma’am?” Gwen speaks up in a soft tone of voice. “I… if I may ask, I signed up to work with you on cell replication and design… what does an alien have to do with that?” She asks, crossing her arms a bit as she glares at the glass, causing Kendra to chuckle once again.

“If I may.” She says, motioning for me to take a step back so both me and Gwen had a good view of the glass case and its inhabitance. “Experiment 252-M-84, a parasitic life form from a planet not far unlike our own. Black and gooey in its natural form, but when engaged…” Kendra flicks a couple buttons on the table and it sends a small electrical charge through the machine and into the glass, and you could see the substance inside almost… convulsing? It was reacting? The black sludge started to transform, even harden, into a more physical and rigid state.

“Did it… turn into a big black dick?” I ask with an awkward chuckle. Though I notice Gwen’s eyes quickly glare at me and my cheeks turn a bright red, remembering the last time she heard me say big black dick in public…

“The physical shape that the subject takes is not my concern.” Kendra continues as she turns off the electrical shocks and we watch as the cock turns back into a massless, formless goo. “The point is this creature is fully able to control and manipulate its cells to create whatever form it wants! It can even replicate and heal itself on command to fill more space and create whatever it needs in the moment.”

For a second I was slightly confused as my eyes darted back and forth between Dr. Conners and the substance. I was still just excited to actually be in the presence of a real life alien! I’ve never seen one in real life before! Well, besides whenever Captain Marvel did that presentation on Skrulls at my High School but does that really count? She was born on earth!

“Wait…” Gwen says again, obviously paying more attention to the presentation than I was. “Are you saying… that this creature could be our gateway into understanding everything we need to know about cellular replication?”

“And possibly, even be able to replicate such a reaction inside of our own bodies, yes.” Kendra says with a smile, doing her best to keep a very professional tone, but I could tell that there was a ton of excitement behind her calm and warm expression. “Project Venom may very well be exactly what we need to complete our research.”

“Venom is gonna be such an easier name to remember.” I say with a quick chuckle as I approach the glass again and bend down to look inside of it, admiring the sludge as it was moving like waves inside the tube.

“Well I’m gonna need you to remember a lot more than just a name Ms. Parker.” Kendra says with a smile. “Because I want you to take the first shift tonight. Can you stay a couple hours and run a few diagnostic tests? Study my files first and then see if you can find out any more information on our new gooey little friend.” Kendra says, smiling down at Venom now with a sense of wonder in her eye that every scientist strives for.

“Of course!” I say with absolutely no hesitation. “You can count on me!”