💥ONE SHOT 1: I CAME FOR YOU.

🔹️Part 5: Lurking in the Shadows Part 3/3.

I know, I'm a mess, I said that you weren't going to have to wait long and I delayed 😅 but hey, clean slate and new account haha, here is this part finally 🥳 sorry for the delay 😅 the truth is that I'm a little lazy to write 🤣 and besides to this part I added a lot more content than I had written when I thought it was almost finished 🤭

I hope this part is so long that it makes up for the wait (it's the longest one so far 🥳)

Well, the warning in this part is:
⚠️Tony got pretty creepy (even though he wasn't already? 🤔🤣) and I must admit that in some parts I felt sorry for him 🥺 Am I creepy? I'm getting attached to the villain 🤭😈 by the way, I'm giving you hints of what I plan to write later 🤭

Now I do want to move on to the next part, which will be interesting 😎 but I admit that I will take a while because I have to organize a couple of things that are out of order, I'll try not to take too long so I can move forward with the story, I am about to reach the central theme and one of the ones I am most looking forward to writing 😁

Enjoy! 😘

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💥I CAME FOR YOU.

🔹️Part 5: Lurking in the Shadows Part 3/3.

"Thank you, thank you guys, really I appreciate it with all my heart." Peter commented with his voice broken by tears when he and the other two Peters had separated from the hug.

The teenager let out another sob but more controlled now and stood wiping the tears from his cheeks with the back of his hands.

Peter (Andrew) let out a short chuckle.

"Yeah, yeah, enough." He gave Peter a gentle push, who smiled in response, Peter (Andrew) smiled more and asked. "Don't get emotional little bro and let's go drink those beers, I already left them cooling in the kitchen fridge."

He then looked down, analyzing his Spider-Man suit, frowned, raised his head again and looked at Peter and Peter (Tobey).

"I don't know about you but I need a relaxing shower and to heal these damn wounds." Peter (Andrew) told them with a shrug, grabbed the spandex fabric on his chest with two fingers and gave it a little tug, then let it go and added with a grimace. "By the way, I want to change out of this dirty and torn Spider-Man suit."

The two Peters in front of him nodded.

"Me too." Peter (Tobey) seconded him, analyzing his now torn and dirty Spider-Man suit and grimacing.

"And me." Peter followed them, suddenly made a sad face, he looked down while scratching the back of his neck with his fingers and warned with sadness and regret. "But I have nothing else to wear, all my clothes were left in my apartment, where I lived with my aunt May."

Peter looked up and raised an eyebrow at the doubtful expression Peter (Andrew) had.

"Hmm..." The middle Spider-Man muttered with a finger resting on his chin, lowered his arm, shrugged his shoulders and confessed with a somewhat shy smile. "I'm letting you know that I took the liberty of throwing your clothes just like that, which means they must be all wrinkled, into about four suitcases and brought them to the apartment that we share with Peter 2."

Peter (Tobey) nodded with a smile confirming that but Peter still didn't believe it.

"Really?" Peter asked, his dark brown eyes wide in shock as he looked from one Peter to the other.

Peter (Andrew) nodded, his expression more serious.

"Seriously, I also brought some of your belongings in bags, the ones I thought were important to you." He smiled warmly and specified. "They were some Star Wars Legos, Star Wars action figures, some electronic parts and some tools, a playstation, some books for entertainment and for school, a backpack with its respective things inside, your other Spider-Man suits and another pair of cobweb shooters, oh and socks and sneakers."

Tony let out a heavy gasp from the hiding place where he was still listening to everything with his developed ears, he had to hold on tighter to the beam next to him to keep his balance, but what he had just heard shook him strongly.

As that Peter Parker spoke, Tony felt the memories come back to him, as if everything had happened yesterday, he vividly remembered Peter's room in his apartment in Queens, the place he and his son never returned to, not after Tony took him out of there and took him to live with him in the Tower.

Tony remembered with emotional pain how Peter had thrown at him for days those same belongings that the Peter who called himself Peter 3 had just named, his Peter had had the exact same belongings in his old home and he threw them at Tony in an attempt to get him away from him because Tony was pressuring him by being near him against his will.

Peter was depressed over the deaths of May, Ned, MJ, Harley, Pepper and Happy.

Peter didn't want to see him, he didn't want to be near him but Tony still didn't leave his side.

Tony did it because Peter was self-destructing both psychologically and physically by wanting to be alone, he would sit curled up in the same position for hours, he wouldn't eat, which was the worst thing given his accelerated metabolism as Spider-Man, which Tony had to fix with the power-suppressing bracelet, he slept poorly, he didn't talk, he didn't get up, he didn't do anything that he liked and that distracted him from the loss of his loved ones, he didn't go to school, he didn't bathe.

It was an extremely serious situation so Tony, being the responsible adult that he was, had to take charge because he would never, ever leave Peter alone to die there, which seemed to be what the boy was trying to achieve, his depression was so great that he didn't want to continue living, that's why he didn't think clearly and did what he did.

And even if he had thought clearly and wanted that Tony would not have allowed it, Peter could not decide whether he wanted to live or die.

Peter had to live because Tony couldn't live without him!

So Tony was there to save him.

It wasn't selfish of him.

It was the right thing to do.

Until due to serious mistakes he lost Peter.

But here was Tony to remedy that.

This Peter would come with him to his universe because Tony couldn't live without him.

It wasn't being selfish.

It was the right thing to do.

And Peter would live safely, without running any kind of danger because Tony would not make the same mistakes a second time.

This was his chance to be happy again.

That both of them were happy.

Like father and son.

Remembering once again that stage of self-destruction that his son had gone through deeply hurt Tony, and at the same time it strengthened his desire to protect Peter, this Peter who had taken the place of his other Peter.

Without thinking coherently because of that, because of his need to have Peter by his side under his protection, Tony let himself be carried away by his paternal, possessive, dark and overprotective instincts, taking a step forward, standing on the edge of the barred floor on which he was standing.

He was about to jump, turn on his blue repulsors and fly towards Peter but miraculously he managed to get out of his trance, regaining his composure and remembering that it was not convenient for him to do that at the moment.

He had to continue with his master plan, that way he would get to Peter much more efficiently.

Tony shook his black hair with his hand as he let out a sigh and backed away again, hiding in the shadows of the rafters of his hideout, away from the sight of his Peter, the other two Peters, the suspicious wizard, Ned and MJ.

Peter (Andrew) shrugged modestly at Peter's surprised and grateful look and clarified.

"Obviously there are things missing but well, I brought what I could." He looked at Peter (Tobey), then at Peter, made a sad face and said with pity. "It happens that we both thought it would be painful for you to go back when perhaps you are not ready for that but you have no other option so we decided to intervene so that you would not force yourself." He sketched a small smile and explained. "I looked for your clothes and the other things I mentioned to you and Peter 2 took care of the last details that were missing in the apartment that we rented so that we can live there now."

Peter (Andrew) reached out, placed his hand on Peter's shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze in comfort.

"Whenever you want and are ready, you can go back to your apartment to look for what was missing." He told him with a kind smile, still keeping his hand on his shoulder.

Peter nodded, his eyes a little watery and his lips pressed into a thin line, he bit his lower lip lightly to keep from letting out a sob as his eyes grew more cloudy from the accumulated tears.

Without warning he launched himself at Peter (Andrew) and enveloped him in a hug, resting his cheek on his chest since he was considerably shorter than him.

Peter (Andrew) stood there, arms at his sides and eyes wide open, surprised but the surprise only lasted a few seconds, being replaced by warmth and a feeling of being a protective older brother so he quickly returned the hug to Peter, his little brother, he wrapped his arms behind his back and pulled him close as he rested his chin on his wavy brown hair.

Peter smiled after that and pressed his cheek a little tighter against Peter's (Andrew's) chest.

A sudden flash caused both Spider-Men to quickly separate from the hug, it was because Ned had taken a photo of them with his cell phone.

"Sorry, hug each other again if you want, I just had to treasure this moment, two Spider-Man hugging each other... it's one of the coolest experiences I've ever had in my life!" The boy shouted excitedly, still pointing the camera at the two Peters.

Ned looked at the photo, thought it was very well taken, nodded his head, locked the phone with the button on the side and put it in his jacket pocket.

Peter and Peter (Andrew) burst out laughing, the sound drowning out the metallic creaking of a beam several feet away.

That sound had been generated by Tony, who at this rate was going to break several beams of the building he was hiding in if he continued to use them to vent his anger.

Superior Iron Man was jealous, he wanted Peter to hug him like that and not that pathetic Peter Parker who called himself Peter 3.

He clenched the hand not holding the beam into a fist, clenching the hardened silver suit of his endo-symbiotic armor, his electric blue eyes emitting an intense warning glow and he felt his anger growing further.

Tony took a few rhythmic breaths to calm himself down and when he did, he continued to pay attention to the conversation, especially not missing any of Peter's facial changes, since it was difficult for him to take his eyes off his son.

It's that Tony wanted to see him, or rather needed to see him all the time after three years of not having seen him except in dreams, his own imaginations and holograms with recordings of Peter that he asked F.R.I.D.A.Y. to play for him every day, several times a day, when he felt extremely desperate for not being able to have Peter.

He also reproduced them himself because he had absolutely all of them stored in a super-advanced black watch he wore on his wrist, Tony needed to see that collection of holograms to breathe.

There were many hours of video playback, in which Tony heard Peter's voice, his laughter, saw his smile, his gestures, his movements, saw him interact with him, replayed the many father-son moments they had lived.

Tony used to feel a lot of pain and sadness every time he saw Peter hug him, or him hug the teenager, giving each other loving displays of affection, patting each other on the shoulder and back, playing wrestling.

Tony tickled Peter, making him laugh out loud, and the boy asked him to please stop because he couldn't hold back his laughter any longer, to which Tony tortured him a few more moments with the tickles and then stopped, let Peter catch his breath a little, then grabbed him by the arms, picked him up and wrapped him in a protective hug.

Peter hugged him back with a big smile and told him he was the best dad in the world, and Tony responded by telling him he was the best son in the world, also with a big smile and hugging Peter even tighter.

Tony stroked his hair with fatherly affection, gave him kisses on the head, forehead and cheeks, put an arm around his shoulders and held him close to his side.

Tony would hold him so they could sometimes sleep together at night, or take a nap if they felt like it, in Tony's room or Peter's.

Peter would rest his head on Tony's chest and hold him close, and when Tony wasn't sleepy he would lean against the headboard of the bed and let the boy sleep on him, keeping him close to his side, occasionally giving him some good daddy cuddles, which Peter would unconsciously respond to in his dreams by snuggling closer to him, and Tony would take advantage of that moment of peace and quiet to work on his StarkPad, attending to important matters.

In short holograms served a purpose but nothing compared to the real thing, Peter's voice and seeing him for real was infinitely more real than the recordings.

And it was going to be infinitely more real when Tony touched Peter, when he could hold him for the first time after three years of not having any physical contact with him.

Tony admitted that he had been so desperate for some kind of contact that was real that he had even gone so far as to play the holograms life-size, freeze the image of Peter, leaving it still, he had slowly approached that image and had hugged his holographic son.

And every time he did it, he did it more slowly because he truly hoped that someday a miracle would happen and that Peter would be real, that Peter's image would become real when he touched it, that he would stop being a hologram and be the real boy, real flesh and blood, but Tony also did it with fear because he was afraid that that wouldn't happen, that his son would still be a damn holographic projection.

So Tony felt his desperation growing even more, he also felt sad and very disappointed because it was always an illusion, it wasn't real, when his arms went through the light that formed the hologram they went through simply that, air with light, as if Peter were a ghost, knocking down his dreams that the boy would materialize by magic and giving him a terrifying blow of reality.

So Tony tried not to do that "touching" holograms so often because it wasn't good for his mental health, he felt the reality of Peter's death hitting him hard like a speeding freight train every time he was unable to touch him.

And every time Tony visited the cemetery, which he did quite often, he would leave a bouquet of extravagant and beautiful flowers on Peter's grave, in front of the tombstone that had the following inscription "Peter Benjamin Stark, beloved son of Anthony Edward Stark."

Tony had not carved the surname "Parker" into the headstone because Peter had become a "Stark" when he had officially adopted him.

And to make matters worse, in those times of misery when Tony had had to make do momentarily with recordings, he had not been able to afford to keep watching his holographic son all the time because he had to find him, find the real Peter, so he dedicated many hours a day to an exhaustive search, traveling from one universe to another to be able to find Peter.

By fate that suffering and that compulsive need to imagine Peter, to see him in recordings, to try to touch him, to search for him in the multiverse, had finally ended because Tony already had Peter.

Now he had the compulsive need to not stop looking at this Peter and to touch him, to hold him in his arms, firmly secured in his grip, and incidentally as a gift to bury his nose in his head to smell his hair, so he could feel again the sweet aroma of the green apple shampoo that his son liked so much.

This Peter was real, made of flesh and blood, and to make sure of that Tony couldn't stop watching him talk, gesture with his hands, move in place, the teenager was several meters away but he was here, within his reach.

He was real!

Tony had missed him so much and on top of that Extremis was reinforcing those strong paternal feelings and demanding that he have him with him right now.

Seriously for brief, torturous moments Tony thought he was dreaming, or that what he was experiencing was his own hallucinations, he was afraid that Peter would magically disappear if he stopped looking at him, that he would vanish into thin air, that in the end he would turn out to be a mirage, that the reality was that he was never there.

Tony took another deep breath of air to calm himself down, he shouldn't think that last thing because it wasn't like that, it was his fear talking to torment him, it was all the harm that being away from Peter for so long had done to him.

Because yes, the only fear Tony had in life was losing Peter, he had already been through that once and he didn't want to go through it again, he didn't want this Peter not to be real.

Luckily that wasn't really the case, Tony knew that.

He was so intelligent, so Superior, that he knew it, he couldn't stoop to being so stupid as to think something like that.

Peter was really here, he was real, and soon he would be wrapped in Tony's protective arms, it would be very difficult for him to tear himself away from his side when he finally had him with him.

Tony had a lot of fatherly love to give him and Peter was going to have to endure it, put up with how intense and overprotective he was going to be until he got used to it, accepted it and returned the same kind of love to Tony, until he enjoyed it.

Until he enjoyed their strengthened father-son relationship.

Tony smiled creepily, looking forward to that moment.

"We didn't want to touch anything of your aunt May's." Peter (Tobey) informed Peter with a pained look at having to mention to him his deceased aunt.

Peter nodded, wiped away a tear that had slipped down his cheek with a closed fist, gave a small, shaky smile and said in a low voice.

"Thanks." He cleared his throat to speak in a more decent manner, so that his voice didn't sound pathetically hoarse. "When I'm more emotionally prepared I'll come back and look for some of my things but especially hers, I'd like to have them with me."

Peter smiled sadly, shrugged slightly and clarified.

"I feel that this way a part of her will accompany me wherever I go, I think that it can make not having her a little more bearable."

Peter (Andrew) put on a somewhat serious face and gave him some advice with a warning, speaking from his personal experience, from what he had lived through after Gwen's death.

"Be careful because sometimes the personal things of our loved ones who are no longer here make us feel worse."

Peter nodded again, his expression turning even more sad and miserable, causing the other two Peters to pity him.

"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind." The teenager said while scratching the back of his neck.

"I'm telling you that the apartment we'll be living in is not in Queens." Peter (Tobey) informed him, leaving behind the subject of personal belongings and aunt May.

Peter looked at him with surprise and a hint of pain in his eyes.

Yeah, he had said he was going to live with Peter 2 and Peter 3, but... somewhere other than Queens? Peter didn't know if he could.

It was going to be hard for him to go live somewhere else, and now that he thought about it, it was going to hurt a lot to leave his old home, where despite not having his aunt anymore, every corner of the apartment held memories of her.

That is to say, on the one hand it was very painful and self-destructive to go back but on the other hand Peter wanted to go back, he didn't know if it was right now but he wanted to do it, as he had just told Peter (Andrew) he wanted to go back to take his aunt May's things, and also to take a couple of his own things that were left there.

But putting aside the material what Peter treasured was the sentimental value, which is why it would be difficult for him to leave the apartment, precisely because of the memories of aunt May that remained there.

Peter didn't know that he was behaving just like his other version, the one from Tony's home universe, that Peter had also had a very hard time leaving his apartment, Tony had had to drag him out.

Well, Peter's biggest problem was that he didn't want to lose the memories, although he didn't have to lose them.

Peter could keep those memories because he had them in his head, and he could take them with him wherever he went, and replay them in his mind as many times as he wanted.

Seeing the apartment's surroundings made that easier because the memories came flooding back to Peter's mind, but that was also a double-edged sword because they were bittersweet memories, happy because his aunt May was there but sad because she wasn't really there anymore, and she would never be there again.

Peter wanted to have those memories anyway and he didn't really need to continue living in the apartment he shared with aunt May in Queens for that.

Peter (Andrew) was right, holding on to your loved ones' personal belongings, whether it was the apartment or the personal belongings themselves, could make you worse.

Peter was confused, he didn't know how to feel, everything was very recent, the death of his aunt May was still an open and extremely abrasive wound in his heart, that threatening to consume him.

It was very hard, however Peter knew with certainty that he had to move on, whether he wanted to or not, starting a new life.

Unfortunately the life he was going to have was not going to be the life he thought he would have, living for the moment with Peter 2 and Peter 3, counting on the unconditional company of his girlfriend MJ and his best friend Ned, he could even go to Strange, Rhodes, Happy, Pepper and Morgan if he needed to.

Everyone could accompany him.

But they were not going to accompany him.

At least not for long.

Peter had no idea that the new life he would have would be with a twisted version of his deceased former mentor, who was going to be his father figure in an extreme way, that his life would be lived with a dark Tony Stark, with a Superior Iron Man who was stronger than the Iron Man he knew, who would not allow him to leave and choose, who was even debating whether to let him keep his Spider-Man powers.

Tony already had the black adamantium bracelet safely tucked away in the pocket of his suit jacket that he was wearing under the endo-symbiotic armor, the same bracelet he had made for his Peter, the bracelet he was planning to put on this Peter and he would see if he would take it off later or leave it on him forever.

Tony didn't care at all that this Peter wasn't Spider-Man, not anymore, not if he wasn't going to become Superior Spider-Man, which Tony would never allow because being that person had led his Peter to death.

Tony wanted this Peter just for what he was, Peter Parker, soon to be Peter Stark.

Did Peter think losing the apartment he lived in with aunt May was bad?

He would soon discover that losing his powers, his girlfriend, his friends, the people he loved, his universe, everything he knew... was going to be so much worse.

And he would learn that if he rebellious, drugs were going to be his new friends, Tony had millions of syringes containing strong sedatives and sleeping pills hidden on all the floors of the Tower, especially in the attic, where Peter's room was, in the penthouse, the place where he and his son used to spend a lot of time hanging out, watching those Star Wars movies that Peter loved so much, in the laboratory, where they built everything together.

And most importantly... in the elevators, on the stairs, on the rooftop and in the underground parking lot, the places Peter was obviously going to want to escape to in the first few days or weeks.

All the syringes were strategically hidden behind hard-to-see, well-camouflaged doors, there were even some in furniture such as armchairs, sideboards, dressers and desks, also in Tony's latest model luxury cars and in the robots in the laboratory that would be a temptation for Peter when it came time to escape.

Especially the robots because Peter would try to take them apart to build something that would be useful to him, that would be beneficial in his escape attempt, if that were to happen, which Tony had no doubt would happen, the robot was configured with a protocol to sedate Peter on the spot in a surprising way.

Whether or not the robot was successful... another protocol would sound a shrill alarm throughout the Tower while shuttering all doors and windows with heavy-duty steel shutters, cutting power to the elevators and locking their doors so they could not be used, and vents in the ceiling of the stairwells would emit thick smoke so that almost nothing could be seen, and also sleeping to sedate.

And the advanced watch that Tony always wore on his wrist would also sound and vibrate with that alarm, to alert him of what was happening.

Tony in his speedy Superior Iron Man suit would be there quickly, Peter would have no chance of escaping with Tony being there in a flash and with all the obstacles he had left programmed until he arrived.

So yes, even if Peter managed to avoid the robot's drug, something that Tony had of course anticipated could happen given the boy's incredible spider-like abilities, hence the other security measures regarding the closing of all the openings, the blocking of the elevators and the unusable stairs that he had wanted to add... even if Peter managed to outwit the robot he wouldn't be able to escape.

And if by some miracle he managed to escape all the other obstacles Tony would be there, ready to catch him.

Seriously Peter wouldn't stand a chance.

Tony had to take such extreme precautions because Peter was capable of thousands of evasive maneuvers and was more apt to flee because he was Spider-Man.

Hence Tony was hesitating about whether to let Peter continue being Spider-Man, as he had not yet decided he had created two types of drugs.

The syringes of blue liquid had a more powerful sedative, which would last longer in Peter's body, so that the spider-kid's accelerated metabolism would not burn it out in minutes, and the syringes of red liquid had a sedative for a normal teenager who did not have powers.

Tony had to decide quickly what he would do, weighing the pros and cons of his decision.

And he said it was his decision because it really was, Peter had no say in this, even though it was directly about him, about whether he would continue being Spider-Man, it didn't matter, Tony would be the one to decide that.

Superior Iron Man knew that if Peter was a normal teenager he wouldn't have those kinds of highly developed reflexes, nor those powers that would give Tony so many headaches because he would have to keep them at bay, Peter's rebellion was going to be enhanced by being Spider-Man and Tony didn't want to or had the desire to go through that.

Peter being a normal teenager again, without powers, would be more beneficial to Tony, very beneficial in fact.

He would have Peter more subdued.

The only thing that made Tony doubt was that being Spider-Man was very important to Peter but... more important was that he was safe, and that would only happen if he was by his dad's side and not trying to escape all the time, going who knows where, alone.

Tony wasn't saying that Peter could return to this universe once they were in Tony's home universe because he really couldn't, not after what Tony had already thought and prepared to keep him there, and it didn't involve the security measures he had taken at the Tower, which would be Peter's new home.

Tony had taken measures on that entire universe.

And he would continue to take further measures, starting with seizing the two portal-opening rings and destroying the place that could have more of those pesky powerful objects, the place from which Strange had taken the ring he gave to Ned.

Tony had to find out what establishment it was and destroy it, wipe it off the map.

With everything Tony had already done and planned to do, Peter would never be able to escape, he would never be able to return to his universe, that place that seemed so barbaric to Tony, so deplorable, so miserable.

His son deserved something better, perfect, Superior, Tony's universe and soon Peter's universe.

But well, even with that peace of mind that Peter could only be wandering around his new universe... Tony wasn't at all calm because he didn't want that, that Peter to be wandering around his universe, alone, not this Peter at least.

He had given the other Peter more freedom but because that Peter didn't want to escape from him, he sought him out to be with him, besides later he had become Superior Spider-Man.

This Peter would want to escape from him and to make matters worse he was just Spider-Man, he was weaker, and maybe later he would just be Peter, Peter without powers, extremely weak.

But the most serious thing in Tony's opinion was the damn hero complex that this Peter had, who would give his life to save others, the other Peter being Superior Spider-Man did not do that, he was more selfish and ruthless, he knew how to take care of himself better, he even killed those who were a threat to him, or if they simply bothered him, he was not as reckless or stupid as this Peter, who was kind, gave second chances, played jokes on criminals, did not understand that his safety was a priority, not the lives of other pathetic and useless humans.

Peter didn't understand that the lives of the people he wanted to save and the people he helped the police capture, the lives of the "good guys" and the "bad guys" in his view, all of those were lives that weren't worth it, they weren't worth anything.

Peter didn't understand that his life was the only one worth living.

But Tony would make him understand.

On top of that, this Peter had to be as naive as Tony's Peter was before, anyone could want to take advantage of him, try to rob him or anything, especially if he patrolled or walked the dangerous streets at night.

Yep, Tony didn't want him to walk the streets of his universe alone, maybe it was best to permanently take away his powers and that's it, he just had to put the power-suppressing bracelet back on him and leave it on him forever.

Although there were other ways to strip Peter of his powers, Tony could inject him with a serum he had made himself that would separate the DNA of the radioactive spider that had bitten him from Peter's DNA, but to be honest Tony didn't know if he could do that, he was more convinced that he couldn't than that he could.

Peter's condition seemed to be irreversible, his DNA could not return to what it was before, it would always be altered by the spider bite.

But Tony believed that if he could reverse it, if he could achieve something as complex as that he would have to inject Peter with two doses a day for a week, doses that would gradually take away his powers, little by little, leaving him weaker and weaker, more normal, but probably with side effects.

These doses could cause ailments that would worsen after each injection, quite unbearable discomforts such as severe headaches, muscle pain throughout the body, dizziness, nausea and vomiting.

Tony would never, ever treat his son like a laboratory experiment, under no circumstances would he try something so invasive, he wasn't going to risk Peter's health or make him suffer in any way, not physically, the emotional damage would be inevitable if he ended up taking away his powers with the power-suppressing bracelet but he wanted to avoid the physical damage that the injections could cause, and those ailments weren't the most serious thing.

The most serious thing was that the serum made by Tony could perhaps lead Peter to death, or killing him after the first dose or in one of the other doses, it was a risk that Tony could not guarantee would happen but that was present.

Only two doses of Extremis had killed Peter due to a fatal reaction in his spider DNA, it was not the same as this serum but it was something that had been done by Tony and even by Peter himself, so perfectly one or more doses of this "powers reversal serum" of Tony could do it, kill Peter, and there was no way he was going to risk that.

Tony knew better than to mess with something as delicate as Peter's spider DNA.

Peter was the most important thing to him, he had to live.

The black adamantium bracelet was enough, indestructible, unremovable, and without any side effects, except for the tantrums that Peter could throw, for which Tony was more than prepared.

Over time Peter was able to get used to being a normal teenager again, forgetting that he ever had powers, stopping missing them and accepting his new normality.

Tony knew it, he knew that could happen.

Returning to the security measures that Tony had taken in the Tower... DUM-E was one of the modified robots that had the sedative syringes hidden, it was Tony's favorite robot and Peter's favorite, his faithful companion, now Tony's faithful companion of course, his creator.

Tony also had drugs in pill form, which he would force Peter to take if he became difficult, with the same effect as the syringes, sedating him to stop his escape attempts, tantrums, preventing panic attacks and helping him sleep without nightmares, with the latter Tony wanted to help Peter by sleeping with him, holding him in bed.

He didn't want to have his son far away.

Tony also had the unconditional F.R.I.D.A.Y. who would always warn him about any improper movement that Peter intended to make, that is if he disobeyed one of the direct orders that he would give him, which would be an extensive list, with at the top of the list being prohibited attempts to escape, attempts to harm oneself or self-harm, not eating enough, not sleeping enough, staying curled up somewhere doing nothing, and so the list went on and on.

It was a very strict but necessary list, and it would straighten Peter out, teach him how to behave.

Tony was not going to demand anything less than perfection in the behavior of his son, according to his Superior status, he was going to be Peter Stark, son of Tony Stark aka Superior Iron Man.

In addition Tony had created and configured multiple other protocols that reduced Peter's freedoms and that would not be easy to hack.

Tony knew how smart the teenager was, even F.R.I.D.A.Y. would be safe from his hacking attempts, not to mention Karen, the AI ​​Peter had the most contact with.

Peter wasn't going to be able to get past the security Tony had prepared for him.

Superior Iron Man was unrepentant, it was all for the sake of his son, the means justified the end when it came to Peter.

Tony had left everything meticulously thought out and prepared, and for years had been planning for the return of his beloved son, his reason for existing.

Let's say that from Peter's point of view the Tower where he had spent such a good time in this universe with his Tony Stark, would be like a luxurious cage in the home universe of this new and twisted Tony Stark.

A damn cage with no way out!

From Tony's point of view this somewhat abrupt change was going to be difficult for Peter but there he would be, his dad, to rescue him, help him get up, overcome it so that his son would be happier than he thought he could be.

This Peter didn't know true happiness, he didn't know he would have it next to Tony but once again Tony would be there for Peter to make that mental click and realize.

Ugh, poor Peter because yes, this Tony Stark who was after him, who was targeting him, was twisted, dark, creepy, chilling and possessive.

And very paternal and stubborn.

Peter would always be his target now that Tony had signed him.

In retrospect Peter shouldn't have gone to the Sanctuary to find Strange to cast that spell in the first place, that spell that crumbled everything and then several chains of events led him to this current situation.

Anyway, Peter was going to have to learn to deal with it and the best thing for him would be to do it in a good way but...

When did Peter willingly agree to do something he didn't want to do?

Hard times were ahead for both Peter and Tony.

But well, speaking exclusively about Peter... for the moment the teenager thought that his problems were more normal so he concentrated on what Peter (Tobey) was telling him, who, seeing the surprise reflected in his gaze at having to move from Queens, was quick to clarify.

"We thought a change of scenery would do you good, Peter 1, the apartment is in the city of Manhattan, to help you get your bearings it's at the other end of that super tall tower with a giant A on top." Peter (Tobey) told him.

At the mention of Avengers Tower Peter blinked a couple of times and felt a lump form in his throat, many bittersweet memories had come to him, and they were bittersweet because they were related to Mr. Stark, who was unfortunately no longer alive, so it hurt Peter to remember him because he was yet another loss in his miserable life.

Of all the memories that came to his head, the one that stood out was one from two years ago, when Peter was 15, he was patrolling as Spider-Man, trying to find the criminals who were selling weapons with alien technology, when he went into a dark, dirty and neglected alley to retrieve his backpack, which was gone because it had already been stolen again, and he told it to Happy, with whom Peter was talking on a call at the time.

Happy was very grumpy, telling him not to call him because he was busy taking care of the moving preparations, he had to supervise how they got things from the Tower to the Avengers Complex in the Upstate.

That's when Peter found out that Tony had sold the Tower, Peter (Tobey) mentioning the now sold Tower made him remember it.

How his life had changed since then, Mr. Stark was no longer here so Peter no longer left messages for Happy to pass along to his mentor, telling him about his adventures as Spider-Man or about his life in general.

It was truly sad and painful, Peter missed him so much, he missed the man who had been like a father figure to him.

"The Tower that belonged to Mr. Stark until he sold it." Peter murmured unable to contain himself, with his gaze lost in an unspecific point.

"Mr. Stark?" Peter (Tobey) said with an arched eyebrow, then asked curiously. "Who is he? Is he part of that group of superheroes you said? That you were part of?"

Peter nodded his head repeatedly.

"Yes, he was one of those superheroes, an Avenger because the group was called the Avengers, his name was Tony Stark and his hero name was Iron Man." The teenager said in a melancholic voice.

"Was?" Peter (Andrew) asked, having a feeling that this Tony Stark had died because Peter referred to him in the past tense, he also suspected it because of the sad tone with which Peter spoke of him and because of his downcast look.

Peter nodded sadly, his eyes suddenly watering from forming tears.

"He is not alive anymore, he died after..." The boy was telling but he couldn't continue because his voice cracked a little and a lump formed in his throat, he cleared his throat to recover and looked nervously from one Peter to the other. "Um... I'll tell you later, it's a long and painful story, it's hard for me to talk about it because Mr. Stark... Tony, was someone very important in my life, he was like a kind of father figure to me."

Peter let a tear slip down his cheek, the other Peters were sad for him and comforted him by squeezing his shoulder and whispering to him a "calm down", "take your time to talk about it".

Peter nodded awkwardly, grateful for his words, he wiped away a few more tears with his fists, raised his head slightly and set his dark brown eyes on Peter (Andrew).

"I accept your offer Peter 3, let's go get those beers, my throat is dry." Peter said the last thing with a mischievous smile.

Peter (Tobey) cleared his throat with his fist in front of his mouth and then joked with a sly smile.

"No wonder, MJ took all your baba away with that kiss."

Both MJ and Peter blushed in embarrassment, MJ wasn't easily embarrassed but that comment had that effect on her, whereas Ned and Peter (Andrew) laughed.

For his part Strange didn't say anything about that or about the alcohol they were planning to drink because in that last part of the conversation he was no longer paying attention to them, he was concentrating on looking around with hawk-like eyes, searching for an imminent threat.

Was he very paranoid? Yes but hey, in his defense it was not normal for such complex problems to be solved just like that, as if by magic, and on top of that the attitude of the reckless Peter, the other immature Peter who called himself Peter 3 and the more adult Peter, Peter 2, who didn't say anything about it, made the wizard's hair stand on end.

It seemed like he was the only adult there, he was hoping to at least have the support of the two Peter Parkers from other universes but not even that, so he was going to have to act alone, on his own.

Since what had happened with the closing of the rifts was nothing normal, Strange was going to get to the bottom of it, all to protect Peter, whom he was beginning to see as a son.

As for Tony, he was still trying to recover from what had just happened, Peter had spoken about him! Well, not exactly about him but it had still been strong, besides he had said strong and meaningful phrases like "was someone very important in my life, he was like a kind of father figure to me."

Tony had been shocked to hear his name coming from Peter's lips, from a real Peter and not a dream, imaginary or holographic one, it was as beautiful as it was surprising.

Tony wanted Peter to keep talking about him and this time he wanted to hear a "dad" and not a "Mr. Stark" or "Tony", he also wanted Peter to talk about him with the same affection with which he talked about the other Tony.

That there was another Tony in Peter's life was making this Tony very jealous and bothered him greatly but he knew it would always be like this, where there was a Peter Parker like the one he was seeing there was a Tony Stark.

Tony realized that he was also right in thinking that the Tony Stark of this universe had died, Peter had just confirmed it to him, it was good news, it meant one less problem for Tony since he wouldn't have to look for that Tony Stark to kill him, for the moment he only had to kill Strange.

Tony was also trying to understand why the other Tony had sold the Tower, he couldn't believe he would do something so... he had no words to describe it.

It was his and Peter's home!

Tony couldn't imagine living anywhere else with Peter in his universe.

This other Tony Stark was an idiot, Tony thought his death did good for this universe, and did a greater good for Peter, he deserved a better Tony Stark and he would have him.

Tony crossed his arms, leaned comfortably on his side against the beam and smiled mockingly, he thought "so the Avengers also exist in this universe, wow."

Tony smiled even more but this time with evil and joy because he began to remember how he and Peter killed them, they had devised a plan together, ambushed them and murdered them.

Tony thought with sudden sadness and nostalgia "those were the good times."

Suddenly Superior Iron Man's gaze hardened and at the same moment his electric blue eyes emitted an intense glow, if the Avengers of this universe were to interfere with his plans they would also be dead, Tony would make sure of that, he would even kick the tombstones on their graves or make them explode with a blue shot from his repulsors.

That bunch of incompetents with pathetic hero morals better not get between him and Peter.

"Well, listen up, I'm in a hurry." Strange suddenly called out to everyone, clapping loudly to get their attention, once he got it, he fixed his blue eyes on the two older Peters. "I'm leaving a task for you two, Peter 2 and 3, I think, take care of this Peter until I get back." He ordered with extreme seriousness.

"Where are you going?" Peter asked without understanding anything.

First... why was Strange leaving? Second... why did they have to take care of him? He wasn't a little kid.

Peter felt insulted, it was true that he no longer had a family but he could manage quite well on his own, he was 17 years old, one thing was to live with the two Peters, which he knew he would love, another thing that they took care of him like a little kid, which he didn't like so much anymore.

"To look for answers, I don't believe in miracles like you do." Strange answered simply, he saw Peter's angry look and understood what it was due to, the wizard put on a kinder expression and clarified to him. "And don't be angry, I ask them to take care of you only as a precaution, not because you are the youngest of the three Peters."

Strange had told the whole truth except that he was asking the two Peters to take care of Peter as a precaution, it wasn't a precaution, it was a primordial necessity.

The truth was that the wizard had a bad feeling but he didn't want to tell Peter about it, he had already said too many harsh things to him, it was enough for that day.

He wouldn't worry him, he would look for answers on his own.

"And why would they have to take care of me specifically?" Peter complained tantrum-like while crossing his arms and pouting slightly.

Realizing his somewhat childish behavior he put his mouth back to normal, uncrossed his arms and placed both hands on his waist, Peter didn't want to be treated like a little kid so he shouldn't behave like one.

Both Strange and Tony thought that was very sweet but Strange's affection was normal, Tony's was abnormal.

"Because all this chaos was unleashed because of you, so obviously you will be the focus of the problem if I'm right and there is one." Strange answered the teenager seriously, being an expert in hiding the growing paternal feelings he felt towards him.

He cared about Peter but didn't want to show it too much.

"Good point." Peter said, unable to disagree with Strange, the truth was that he was right.

But he should have explained to him how the spell worked before he started putting it together! Part of the blame was his too, Peter didn't believe himself to be totally responsible for the problem, not anymore, he had thought about it a lot and realized that it wasn't all his fault, most of it was but not all of it.

"I'll talk to some trusted acquaintances I have who might know something, I'll explain everything to them to see if they can enlighten me because I don't have the slightest idea of ​​what happened." Strange said with a shrug.

Unable to contain himself, without thinking too much, he reached out, placed his hand on Peter's brown curls and shook his hair in a fatherly and affectionate gesture.

The teenager's eyes widened in surprise, Stephen smiled slightly and quickly withdrew his hand, a little embarrassed, he cleared his throat and then put on a serious expression.

"I'll be back in a few days, behave and don't get drunk." The wizard asked, but he was more or less giving Peter an order, staring him straight in the eyes.

Peter felt a little self-conscious, why did he feel indirectly scolded?

"As if we could do that." Peter (Andrew) muttered grumpily, referring to the accelerated metabolism that he and the other Peters had.

That metabolism after the spider bite that quickly burned everything, which prevented them from getting drunk, at least with normal alcoholic beverages.

Strange felt his eye twitch after hearing that immature Peter's comment.

Peter didn't screw up like Peter (Andrew) did and nodded to Strange, as if telling him he could go and in the process satisfying him with that simple gesture and the look he gave him, one that said he would behave although... Peter had gotten better at lying since that radioactive spider bit him and he had to keep his Spider-Man identity a secret, so he wouldn't really behave but Strange didn't have to know that.

Peter would drink a couple of alcoholic beverages, but it wasn't a big transgression, and it wasn't that big of a deal given his hypermetabolism.

The wizard nodded to Peter in response, then to the others, turned around, walked a few meters away, extended one hand and moved the other in a circular motion, using the ostentatious ring he had on his index and ring fingers he opened a portal.

When the interdimensional opening was large enough Strange stepped through it, turned around again and after giving Peter one last look, feeling the worry in his heart but not showing it so as not to worry the boy, he closed the portal and left.

The fact that Strange was gone didn't change anything for Tony, investigating him was something he had already set out to do, and killing him too, so when he came back he would make sure he stopped breathing forever and in the process he would keep that ring he used to open portals.

Tony was increasingly eager to kill him after seeing how he behaved with Peter.

What had been that shake in his hair with the hand he had given him?!

Tony wouldn't let him do something like that again.

Only a father could do something like that.

And Tony was Peter's father.

Not that wizard who seemed like he wanted to take the place of the deceased Tony Stark of this universe.

Tony would be the one to take that place.

Nobody else.

"And now what?" Ned said suddenly, everyone looked at him, the boy put on an annoyed expression and added grumpily. "I'm hungry, I'm also dirty because of that fucking dinosaur that destroyed the laboratory and splashed me with chemicals."

"It was a lizard." MJ clarified to him, she had also been there and was also splashed with the same substances but wasn't complaining.

Ned shrugged, then made a dismissive gesture with his hand, dismissing the matter, and answered.

"Whatever, I want to take a shower now."

Peter took a step closer to them, his friends looked at him.

"If you want I'll take you both home swinging with my cobwebs, I still have some left." The teenager offered them while looking at his wrist, confirming that last bit.

"No, dude." Ned said, resting a hand on his shoulder, feeling the cold tiny pieces of his best friend's Spider-Man nanotech suit.

Peter raised his head, stopping looking at his wrist and looked at him doubtfully, he was about to insist but Ned continued speaking.

"Don't worry, I'm not cruel enough to ask you that." He took his hand off his shoulder and pointed at various parts of his body with his index finger. "You're hurt, it's not a good idea for you to carry two people at the same time." Ned put on a somewhat pitiful expression and clarified. "Especially for someone who is overweight like me, I've lost several pounds but I still have some left to lose." He finished, putting both hands in the pockets of his jacket.

Peter became uncomfortable with Ned's comment about his weight.

"Don't insult yourself, Ned." Peter (Andrew) recommended him with a serious expression. "Never insult yourself or belittle yourself, I used to do that because bullying lowered my self-esteem and let me tell you, it's not nice."

Ned blinked at him a couple of times in surprise and amazement, he couldn't believe that a Peter Parker from another universe had given him life advice, it was so cool!

"You're right Peter 3, wise advice, thank you." Ned thanked him with a big smile, very excited.

Peter (Andrew) smiled back but his smile was more relaxed, not as wide as his.

"You are welcome."

"You know? I'm thinking we can leave with my ring..." Ned started to say but everyone cut him off with a serious "no", the boy felt offended.

"You have to learn how to use it well, sometimes you can open the portals and sometimes you can't, you have to practice more." MJ told him crudely.

Ned nodded, he couldn't argue with that, though he wouldn't deny that he'd like to try it because he'd think it would be super cool to open portals to take everyone wherever they wanted to go, if Strange was still here he would have already glared at him for his suggestion.

Ned held back a shudder, that wizard was very intimidating, he didn't understand how Peter had the guts to stand up to him.

But hey, he also stood up to Tony Stark before.

Ned smiled, his best friend was quite a crazy one.

Peter (Tobey) put a hand to his chin, squinted his eyes and analyzed the situation for a few seconds.

"As Peter 1 is the most injured of the three Peters and the second most injured Peter is me because of the stab wound the Green Goblin gave me..." Peter (Tobey) looked at Peter (Andrew) and said to him. "I propose that the two of us who are stronger and less tired split up to take his friends, I can take MJ and you Peter 3 can take Ned, do you agree?"

Peter (Andrew) nodded, Peter (Tobey) looked at Peter and asked.

"And do you agree, Peter 1? What about you two?" He asked Ned and MJ at the end.

"Yes, that seems fine to us." The trio of friends answered in unison.

Everyone organized themselves as Peter (Tobey) had suggested, approaching the person concerned, Peter approached Peter (Tobey) and said.

"Okay, let's go, I'll go with you to take MJ."

"Ok but give each other a discreet goodbye kiss when I leave her, one that's suitable for all audiences." The older Spider-Man joked with a giggle, seeing the embarrassed expressions of Peter and MJ he decided to stop bothering them once and for all, he raised both hands in a sign of peace and clarified. "I'm kidding, I'm kidding, let's go."

Peter (Andrew) put on his Spider-Man mask to cover his face, grabbed Ned, making the teenager put one arm around his shoulders and the other arm around part of his chest, then joining his hands, forming a hug and having a more secure grip, while Peter (Andrew) put one arm behind his back and grabbed him firmly, leaving his other hand free to shoot his cobwebs and swing across buildings.

Ned couldn't hide his fanatic face because he had the privilege of being taken home by a Spider-Man from another universe, and one like this Peter Parker who was super cool in his opinion.

Peter chuckled at the look on Ned's face, then shook his head with a soft smile, Ned looked at him and smiled knowingly, Peter smiled wider.

Peter (Tobey) smiled a little sadly as he watched the exchange of glances between the two friends, he had also had a best friend, Harry Osborn, but he had died, he had lost him, it was another loss in the life he had to live with "Parker luck."

The older Spider-Man shook his head to push away those sad thoughts, put on his Spider-Man mask, walked closer to MJ and held her the same way Peter (Andrew) had held Ned.

Then the two Spider-Man shot cobwebs in opposite directions and left, Peter decided not to put on his Spider-Man mask because he wanted to feel the wind on his face.

Besides... what was the point? Everyone already knew he was Spider-Man, he hadn't managed to solve the problem of his secret identity being revealed, so whenever Peter wanted to he would put on the mask, sometimes yes, sometimes no, this time he chose not to.

Peter shot a cobweb and followed Peter (Tobey) since as he said he would accompany him to drop his girlfriend off at her house, he was grateful to be able to go alone because the truth was that his wounds hurt quite a bit after the battle and he was also tired, he already wanted to get to the apartment that he would share with the other two Peters to take a shower and heal his wounds, and then sit on an armchair to rest a bit, Peter (Tobey) would show him where his new home was and show it to him.

But... Peter would wait for Peter (Andrew) to arrive from dropping off Ned to open those beers he said he left cooling in the kitchen fridge, and after they drank them he would take a well-deserved nap, he needed several hours of restful sleep.

He hoped it would be a dream without nightmares about his aunt May's death, without the Green Goblin's cruel and maniacal laughter playing in the background, without the slanderous words of reporter Jonah Jameson who targeted him, without reliving the pain he felt from the shots of the bullets that hit various parts of his body, when the police wanted to take him away from his aunt's corpse.

They hadn't even let him say goodbye to her properly, they didn't let him take a few minutes to come to terms with the fact that he had lost her and try to process that immense pain.

Peter blinked several times because his vision was blurry due to the formation of tears, doing so made the tears run down his cheeks and were carried away by the wind, Peter wiped away one that was particularly bothering him and continued following Peter (Tobey).

In a matter of seconds the three Spider-Man, Ned and MJ were no longer there.

As soon as everyone had left, Tony walked to the edge of the barred floor of the dilapidated building he was standing on, making a metallic sound from the impact of his heavy suit as he walked, ignited his suit's blue repulsors, took flight and descended to the ground, landing on Captain America's fallen gigantic shield, where Peter had been standing moments before.

Tony converted his endo-symbiotic silver suit into a liquid state and stored it inside his body, leaving him dressed in the clothes he had on in his universe, which consisted of a crisp black suit, a white shirt underneath, a dark grey striped tie, grey tights and shiny black shoes.

Superior Iron Man raised a hand to the top of his forehead, pushed back his black hair slightly, then raised his chin covered by a carefully trimmed goatee and stared with his electric blue eyes at the clearing sky, specifically the area where Peter had been swinging with the cobwebs of his web-shooting devices.

Tony didn't like losing sight of his son at all but it was really necessary so he could start executing his master plan.

Tony continued to look at the sky with his developed vision, remembering how Peter had walked away, he put both hands inside the pockets of his suit jacket, with his right hand he grabbed the power-suppressing bracelet that was at the bottom of the soft fabric and squeezed it lightly between his fingers, longing to be able to put it on Peter.

It's true, Tony hadn't yet decided whether he would keep it on him forever but one of the steps in his plan was to put it on him as soon as possible.

Except for whether or not to let him be Spider-Man, Tony knew perfectly well how to deal with Peter once he captured him and brought him to his universe, the question was what he did now, in this universe.

In his Tony had everything strategically planned, but not in this one because he didn't know all the details, he didn't have much information, he found out about various things all of a sudden and it wasn't enough, he had to find out more, he had already discovered important things but he still needed to discover more if he wanted to be sure of success, he had to start investigating.

Tony put on an expression of absolute seriousness and thought once more about several things he had already thought about before, he repeated them in his head to put an end to everything so he could start acting at once, enough of stalking, it was time to move, to put together a good plan.

He thought about Peter's perfection, which made him want to catch him even more at once, that was exactly what Tony was looking for now that he was no longer stalking and was acting, he was no longer holding back himself so he was looking for a strong outburst of Extremis running through his veins that would demand him to go after Peter now, that way his plan would be even more effective because a father who longs to have his son back with him does the impossible to achieve his goal.

And Tony was already doing the impossible, he invented time travel and traveled through thousands of universes.

Tony recalled Peter's facial expressions since throughout the boy's conversation with the others, Tony had been carefully analyzing each of the perfect features of the teenager's face, remembering the thousands of smiles his other Peter gave him, his eyes full of affection, eyes that he wanted to see in this Peter focused on him, on his dad.

Speaking of his eyes... Peter's eyes were the dark brown that his Peter's had been before Tony injected him with Extremis and turned an electric blue hue, the truth was that Tony was very happy and calm about that, he would make sure that the eyes of the Peter that was now his remained the same dark brown.

Tony knew it had been a mistake to give Peter Extremis so under no circumstances would he let the boy near that concoction, much less inject it into him or let him inject it into himself, knowing that that was very risky for Peter's health.

Tony also knew that not injecting Peter with Extremis would make his relationship with him extremely difficult because he was sure that this Peter with the pathetic hero complex that he had would not want to go with him if he didn't inject him with Extremis but it didn't matter, Tony was going to win his affection the traditional way.

He would not put his son in any danger and injecting him with Extremis again like his Peter would put him in grave danger, even if Tony only gave Peter a single dose, the one that hadn't affected his health, and then destroyed the rest of the Extremis so that it wouldn't be within the boy's reach, nothing assured him that Peter wouldn't secretly manufacture more Extremis to inject himself again, after all Peter had helped him manufacture it.

This Peter didn't but Tony knew how smart he was and that he could figure out the formula on his own.

The problem here was that Superior Peter was a power addict, he would wanted more power, he would injected himself with more Extremis behind Tony's back and would ended up dying from a fatal reaction with his spider DNA, just like what happened.

Or just like Tony thought it happened, he didn't really know the reasons that led his Peter to inject himself with a second dose of Extremis but he assumed it was that one, it was the most likely given his behavior.

No, definitely not, Tony preferred Peter to hate him than to be in danger, the only thing he would focus on now was having him, making him his, protecting him, and he would deal with the rest later, there would be time.

Obviously after some intense emotional work Peter wouldn't mind his father being a villain, he would discover that the world was much more fun when you were the bad guy and not the stupid good loser hero, he would learn to love him, without needing to be a villain himself.

Tony didn't intend for this Peter to be a villain like his previous Peter had been, he didn't intend for him to be his partner in crime, he just wanted him to love him like Tony is, like a father with grey-to-black morals, and to be safe of course, safe from any danger and threat, Tony would keep Peter under his intense control 24/7.

Tony decided to focus on something else after these intense thoughts that he had already analyzed many times.

Now Tony thought about what had just happened, that Peter was no longer there, he had left with the other two Peter Parkers.

Unfortunately for them, none of the three Peters noticed the multiversal intruder lurking in the shadows at all times and who heard their entire conversation from the beginning, none of them felt their spider-sense go off because Tony Stark played it smart, knowing that if he did something he shouldn't do, that is to say attempted kidnapping, he would alert Peter to his presence and that was the last thing he wanted at that moment.

No, but now Tony already had a clever plan forming in his head, he wasn't interested in Peter 2 and Peter 3 at all, he only wanted the one they called Peter 1, that was his Peter, he looked like him in physical appearance, he had the same voice and the same noble personality that his Peter had before Extremis, this Peter was his double, he was the right Peter, the one he had been looking for for so long, with stubbornness, perseverance and obsession.

Tony had been through a lot, visiting numerous universes, with no victorious results so far, he had really lived through everything, getting disappointed every time he found a pathetic Peter Parker who wasn't his, or every time he discovered that Peter didn't exist in the universe he was looking for him in, a mistake in choice that made him lose many valuable hours but on those occasions Tony got his revenge and replenished his energy by killing unfortunate people who passed in front of him.

"Yeah, it's so refreshing to be the bad guy" Tony thought with a mischievous smile every time.

Tony's worst enemy was time, he had to endure the passing of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years, until all that time became three endless and stormy years.

Thinking about what was best for him and not what he wanted, Tony came to a conclusion, he had already endured being away from his son for a long time so now he wasn't going to rush, it wasn't the time to get carried away, Peter wasn't going to go anywhere, he would remain in this universe, Tony would make sure of that so he was going to play it patiently and intelligently.

He was actually already acting, not stalking, but he was acting on a plan that got better and better the more Tony thought about it, he sketched a creepy smile of satisfaction.

Success was going to be certain, Peter would be caught in his clutches very soon.

It was time for Superior Iron Man to lay the cobwebs of that elaborate and magnificent plan that would trap his spider.

It was going to be a plan worthy of someone as Superior as Tony.

Peter wouldn't escape from him.

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Now yes... as I said before in the next part the action will begin 😎

Writing this I realized that until now Tony barely said any words hahaha, because his face to face meeting with Peter hasn't happened yet 🤣 so he had no need to talk to anyone 🤷🏻‍♀️ but soon that will change 😁

We read each other 😘