Issue #5: 4+3= HOW MANY ARE THERE?!
Fisk is seen looking over the forest as he holds a pen in his hand, clicking it again and again as he looked stressed. He went through memory after memory as he does so; every memory he had that when he was with his wife and child. He remembered when he was fighting Spider-Man, and his wife and child saw them fighting. They ran away and drove away with a car... only to get hit with a truck and die.
He breaks the pen in his hand, an angry look on his face as he sees a still slightly weak Doc Ock climb up to the balcony. Tombstone took out his dual pistols and aimed them at Ock, only for a tentacle to grab him by the neck and lift him into the air.
Fisk: "I killed Spider-Man. Why did I just see three more?"
Doc Ock: "There's four, actually."
Fisk looked confused.
Doc Ock: "This is good. This is very, very good. This means you can get what you want, and it means that my collidor works. All we have to do is kill a couple of Spiders, and the collidor will bring your family back. As many families as you want."
Fisk starred at Ock for a moment before looking at Tombstone, making him put away his guns and Ock lets him go.
Fisk: "Tomorrow I want my collidor."
Fisk says as he walks away, only for Ock to silently correct him.
"Our collidor."
•••
Back on the bus, Gwen is looking at the Goober Miles broke. Well... that's not what Miles told her.
Gwen: "He broke this?"
Miles: "Yeah. He's actually really embarrassed about it, so, just keep it between us, okay?"
Gwen giggles a bit, making Haedn roll his eyes as he looks out the window. His eyes easily follow the passing trees, the white bark and the orange-yellow leaves blurring together.
Gwen: "Well, I know where we can make a new one. And we won't let him break it, this time."
Miles smiles at this... but then it falters.
"I'm sorry about your friend."
Gwen: "Thanks, Miles. I know how hard this is. To have to figure this stuff out on your own. It's kinda nice not being the only Spider around."
Miles: "Yeah. If you ever decide to do Forensics again, I could always open up a slot."
Gwen: "I'll... keep you posted about that."
Miles smiles.
"Cool."
Their little talk makes Peter and Haedn smile a bit. Then Haedn gets curious.
"Hey. Where are we going anyway?"
•••
In front of a house at night, Peter shoots a web at the doorbell, ringing it. He, Haedn, Miles, and Gwen wait for the door to open.
Peter: "Maybe... maybe we should go."
Gwen: "Nuh-uh. We're right at her doorstep. We're not going."
Peter sighs and stays standing there for a moment before going to walk away.
Peter: "Nope! Bad idea. This is a bad idea."
Haedn shoots a web at him, pulling him back to right in front of the doorsteps. Then a voice is heard.
"You all are very sweet, but, please, no more--"
She stops when she sees our heroes, especially when she saw Peter. He waved at her.
Peter: "I'm not ready for this..."
The woman walks up to Peter, as if she's seen a ghost.
Woman: "Peter...?"
Peter: "... hey, Aunt May."
Peter: "I know this is gonna sound crazy, but I'm pretty sure I'm from--"
Aunt May: "--an alternate dimension."
Everyone was confused by that.
Peter: "Yeah."
Haedn: "How did you know that?"
Haedn asked Aunt May.
Aunt May: "Only possible answer that made sense." *to Peter* "You look tired, Peter."
Peter: "Well, I am tired."
Aunt May: "And older. And thicker."
Peter: "Yeah, I heard that already. About three times."
Aunt May: "Aw, jeez, are those sweatpants?"
Gwen: "Yep. That's what they are."
Miles walks up to May.
Miles: "I was there. When it all happened. I'm so sorry."
Aunt May: "And what dimension are you from?"
Miles: "Brooklyn." *pulls out Goober* "Did Peter have a place where we could make one of these?"
Aunt May takes the Goober and looks at it.
Aunt May: "Follow me."
Aunt May leads the four Spiders through her house and out the back door, bringing them to a shed.
Peter: "Oh, yeah, I got one of these, too. A little shed where I keep my Spider-Gear."
May walks up to the door and grabs the lock, using a key to unlock it which makes the lock glow red and white. An elongated spider-symbol is formed before it opens up, revealing a white light.
Aunt May turns to our heroes and motions for them to follow her.
Haedn: "Can your shed do that?"
Haedn asked Peter as he follows Miles, making Peter mimick him before following suite.
Peter: "Well, this place is pretentious."
The door closes on them and everything goes down, revealing it to be an elevator as the white turns red.
Everyone looks down as more lights turn on, both Haedn and Miles look around in awe at the sight of the Spider-Lair.
Miles and Haedn: "So cool..."
Miles: "Peter, was yours anything like this?"
Peter: "Mine was just like this. Just take away the jeep, plane, imagine it way smaller, and with a futon. I feel sad for this guy."
Everyone walks off the elevator as Peter says this, Haedn and Miles going to look at the Spider-Suits. Peter, however, sees a photo of someone he once knew. He walks up to it and picks it up, revealing it to be a picture of this world's Mary Jane Watson.
He looks at it in sadness before his attention is drawn to Miles.
"Hey, Peter! I think this is a cape."
Miles holds a red cape that was attached to a Spider-Suit. Haedn sees this and laughs a bit along with Charlotte. Peter does as well, making Miles nod with a smirk on his face.
Miles and Haedn then walk past other suits before stopping to look at the one suit that everyone recognized.
Haedn: "The classic..."
Miles: "Wow..."
They both look at the suit, their faces being reflected by the glass wall covering the classic Spider-Man suit.
Aunt May: "Peter knew how dangerous the job was, but he figured the only one to do it was himself."
Everyone walked up to a web-styled board that was covered with pictures of different villains of Spider-Man.
Miles: "Kingpin knows we're coming. We're gonna be outnumbered."
Aunt May: "Don't be so sure. You might need these."
Aunt May says and offers some pens and name tags. The Spiders looked confused before Peter and Gwen's Spider-Sense goes off, looking up as Miles and Haedn's Spider-Sense go off a split-second after.
They all look up to the roof.
Aunt May: "You four think you're the only ones to come here?"
Haedn: "What the...?"
"Hey, fellas."
Miles: "Is-is he in black and white?"
Peter: "Where's that wind coming from? We're in a basement."
Noir: "Wherever I go, the wind follows. And the wind smells like rain."
Haedn: "What...?"
"Hey, guys!"
Everyone turns to see a small girl sitting on top of a red and blue robot, Haedn's eyes widening when he sees the girl. His cheeks sprinkle red as she speaks.
She then drops down to the floor with her robot, speaking in Japanese and greeting everyone in her native language.
She and her robot then do some moves before finishing with a pose.
Peter: "Haedn, please tell me this can't get any weirder."
Haedn couldn't respond as he was blushing, just starring at the Japanese girl before a pig in a Spider-Man suit walks up to everyone.
"It can get weirder!"
The Spider-Ham reaches out his mysteriously wet hand for someone to shake it.
Spider-Ham: "I just washed my hands, that's why they're wet. No other reason."
Just then, everyone's Spider-Sense goes off which also snaps Haedn out of his daze. Then they all gasp.
"You're like me."
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My name is Peter Parker.
My name is Peni Parker.
My name is Peter Porker.
I was bitten by a radioactive spider.
I was bitten by a radioactive spider.
I was bitten by a radioactive pig!
In my universe, it's 1933. I'm a Private Investigator. I like to drink egg cream, and I like to fight Nazis. Lots of Nazis.
I'm from New York in the year 3145. I have a psychic link to a spider who lives inside my father's robot. And we're best friends!
Sometimes I let matches burn down to my fingertips just so I can feel something. Anything.
I'm a photographer for the Daily Beagle. When I'm not pooching around and working like a dog to sniff out the latest story, I frolic and I dance, and I do this with my pants--
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Haedn: "Okay! Enough! God, how does Deadpool deal with all this?"
Peni: "Deadpool?"
Haedn: "Nevermind."
Peter walks up to Noir.
Peter: "So... how did you get here?"
Noir: "Well, it's kinda a long story."
Haedn: "Did a portal open up and suck you into this world? And did you get slammed into a billboard?"
Noir: "... okay, maybe not that long."
Peni: "And, just like you, we're trying to find our way home."
Her robot then makes a sad face, making Haedn look at all them. They're like him. They're all like each other.
Noir: "The only way home is through that collidor-gizmo. But the thing is--"
Spider-Ham: "--one of us has to stay behind and destroy it."
All (Except Peter, Miles, and Haedn): "I'll do it!"
Miles: "Whoa, whoa. No. You guys don't get it."
Peni: "We don't get what?"
Suddenly, everyone but Miles and May begin to glitch as they all cry out in glitched pain. They all fall to the ground, in pain.
Miles: "None of you can stay here! You stay here, you'll die! I'm the guy who's gonna turn it off. And I'm gonna get you all home before I do. Look, I made a promise. So, I have to keep it."
Everyone looks up at Miles before...
Noir: "Who're you again?"
Haedn gets up and walks to Miles.
Haedn: "This is Miles. He's gonna get us home."
Miles smiles at Haedn. Then Peter walks up to the two.
Peter: "Yeah! He's gonna save the multiverse."
Miles: "Yeah."
Peter: "He can turn invisible. Watch."
Miles the tries to go invisible, only to fail.
Miles: "I can't do it on command."
Peter: "He can't do it on command, but it is cool! Show 'em the zappy thing."
Miles tries to use his Venom Shock powers, only to fail again.
Miles: "Can't do it on command."
Peter: "He can't do it on command. But he can do so much more, like... kid, what can you do?"
Miles: "Just those two things."
Peter: "Just those two things."
The others looked unamused. Then Gwen speaks up.
Gwen: "Look, I've seen him in action. He's got... potential. Along with Haedn. He's gonna get us home."
Miles smiles at this.
Spider-Ham: "Haedn? You mean this other kid? What can he do?"
Peter: "Glad you asked! He actually has organic webbing!"
This caught everyone's attention.
Noir: "Organic webbing? How does that work?"
Haedn: "I don't really know...? I can also do some other things, like make stingers grow from my wrists."
Spider-Ham: "Oh?"
Peter: "And he can talk to spiders!"
Peni perked up at this.
Peni: "Really?"
Haedn: "Yeah." *holds hand out, Charlotte crawling onto it* "This is Charlie."
Peni had a sparkle in her eyes as she dashed up to Haedn and Charlotte.
Peni: "That's amazing! I have a psychic connection to the spider that bit me, but I can never actually talk to him."
Charlotte: "Seems like someone's got an admirer."
Haedn: "Shut it, Charlie."
Noir chuckles a bit and pulls Peni away, making her pout before Noir holds up his fists.
Noir: "Okay, little fellas. Kingpin send a lotta mugs after ya, and I'm talkin' hatdboilers. Real biscuit-boxers. Can you fight them all off at once?"
Miles: "Well, I-I actually haven't fought anyone yet..."
Haedn: "I kicked Doc Ock in the face? That count?"
Noir: "SUPRISE ATTACK!"
He sweeps Haedn and Miles off their feet, sending them to the ground with grunts.
Peni: "Can you rewire a mainframe whole being shot at?"
Miles: "Can we what?"
"SUPRISE ATTACK!"
Noir punches Miles in the face and kicks Haedn in the chest, sending them down again.
Gwen: "Can you swing and flip with the grace of a trained dancer?"
Haedn: "Huh?"
Noir: "Can you cut off your feelings so you're not crippled by the moral anguish of your violent actions?"
Aunt May: "Can you help your aunt create an online dating profile so she can get out of the dang house once in a while?"
Haedn: "Um..."
Spider-Ham: "Can you float through the air when you smell a delicious pie?"
Miles: "... what?"
Gwen: "Can you be strong?"
Peni: "Ruthless?"
Gwen: "Disciplined?"
Miles: "I don't know..."
Spider-Ham: "Bwwwoooiinnnng!"
... what?
Peni: "Pychic?"
Noir: "Be a soldier?"
Gwen helps Haedn and Miles up.
Gwen: "But most of all, no matter how many times you get hit, can you get back up?"
Haedn and Miles' "training" continues as they're asked questions and are kicked or punched down to the ground.
Peter: "Uh, guys? Cool it."
Peni: "C'mon, Haedn. Get up!"
Miles and Haedn begin to get up.
Noir: "Get up!"
Gwen: "C'mon, Miles. Get up!"
Miles and Haedn try to get up, only to fall flat back on the floor. Everyone sighs as they walk off for a group huddle, leaving Haedn and Miles on the floor.
Haedn: "Gah, my everything hurts..."
Miles nods in agreement and looks up to the huddled Spider-People, hearing everyone tell Peter that he chose wrong.
Miles looks down before turning to Haedn.
"I need to get some air."
Haedn nods and motions with his head for Miles to leave, the boy nodding and gets up with the help of Haedn. He then walks away, involuntarily turning invisible as he uses the elevator to leave.
This gains everyone elses' attention as they turn to see Miles leave.
Peter: "Miles?"
Miles doesn't respond.
Peter: "Uh... he's invisible, see? Just like I said."
Haedn sighs as he walks off to the Spider-Suits again, looking at the classic suit as everyone else stares at the ceiling.
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