Chapter 5
it's been three days since miles' funeral and you've spent the nights wrapped up in his bed surrounded by things that were his.
during the day you've been visiting may to upgrade your suit and also help you learn how to use some new gadgets. you didn't tell her why you needed the suit upgrade or updated spider shooters that made your webs stronger, but she obliged. you were hurting about miles, bad. you had been skipping school to sneak into his bedroom.
you were currently in miles' bed in the purple hoodie he always wore, your teddy bear and his favorite hello kitty plushie of yours in hand. you had tears running down your cheeks as you looked through the videos and pictures you'd taken together. his mom knocked and came into the room "ohh cariño, i miss him too." she said sitting next to you, rubbing your back.
"tell you what? how about you take some of his things? keep them for yourself?" she offered. you furrowed your eyebrows "but won't you want anything to keep?" "ahh no te preocupes por eso cariño, i already ran through here, you should see my room" she chuckled. "are you sure?" you asked, wiping your tears. "i'm sure." she smiled placing a hand on your knee.
you left her house with a garbage bag full of his things. clothes, cologne, the pictures he kept around his room of the two of you, you searched thoroughly around his room for any more of his prowler gear to take, you even got the secret stuffed rabbit he hid under his bed.
when you got home and in your room, you began putting his things all around your room. you sat on
on the bed, tears stinging your eyes as you stared at a polaroid your mom took of you and miles when you were 10. he was on your back, an arm wrapped around your neck other hand holding an ice cream. you had one in your hand, you both had the biggest smiles on your face, in the middle of laughing.
your heart twisted with anger, the love of your life was taken from you. thanks to that oversized fucker, and you weren't just gonna let him get away with it.
you got up and opened the faulty ceiling tile in your bathroom, grabbing the prowler glove and shoving it in your bookbag along with your updated spider suit and shooters. you crawled out of your window and swung in the direction of a bus station
you knew the lab that kingpin was rumored to frequent alot, having gone there for a fieldtrip. so you decided to start there, taking a bus to save your energy. when you got to hudson valley you moved up into the mountains using binoculars to stake out the place. you saw the familiar black bmw that kingpin would drive around in.
your blood was boiling, holding back tears as you quickly got dressed in your spider suit. the upgraded suit had relatively the same design but now the spider logo legs sprawled down across your body, your new web shooters strengthened your webs, and the best part about your new suit was that it could turn invisible - camouflage.
you grabbed the prowler glove and shoved it into seemingly nowhere, thank god for hammerspace.
you made your self invisible and crawled all around the walls of alchemax looking for a way to sneak in. you found a vent at the top and crawled through using your senses to find kingpin.
you heard his gravelly voice and peeked through the cracks of the vent. he was talking to some woman about some collider? "olivia i don't care! just go ahead with that damn project!" he shouted at the lady.
you tried to move down closer to the vent but instead you pressed to hard on it and it fell down. pin and olivia shot their heads in the direction of you hitting the ground, knocking some things off a table.
the woman grabbed some goggles from her table and looked around, spotting you on the floor. "ah we got little spider-girl here" she giggled. suddenly four octopus like machines appeared from her back. "you know i've always wanted to meet you, your powers are so interesting to me." she shot a mechanical arm at you, letting it squeeze around your body.
"i'm not here to fight you you damn squid" you scoffed, wriggling your way out it. you shot webs at her feet making her fall on her back. she recovered quickly, throwing you against the wall with one of her arms. "octopus, actually" she corrected you. you got up and tried turning invisible to sneak away but she caught you "might as well save that, i can see you" she chuckled going to grab you again. you quickly moved your hands out in front of you grabbing the tentacle, breaking it.
she growled and you swung out of her reach, jumping back down to throw her to the floor, her glasses fell off and you stomped at them breaking them. another arm shot at you, roughly throwing you down to the ground. you groaned before snapping back to the reality of the situation.
you looked around for a second now realizing that kingpin was no longer in the room. you swung through the doors of the building looking for any sign of that oaf. the alarms in the building were now going off, workers running out of the building. every now and then some worker would try to fight you, you quickly beating them down.
you snuck into the doors of the collider room, mouth agape at what you saw. olivia burst in the room behind you, throwing you down onto a desk. "olivia take care of that damn insect!" you heard kingpin say from the front of the room. "what's it look like i'm doing?!" she yelled out, giving you another blow.
when a tentacle was thrown at you, you grabbed it and then grabbed the other one she threw at you. you pulled her up into the air before throwing into a wall. you ran to grab a nearby pipe and blow after blow, you beat olivia with it. you reached down pulling her head up by her hair "i said i wasn't here to fight you" you growled throwing her head back down to the floor.
"yo pin, come on man you can't fight your own
fucking battles or what?!" you screamed out, jumping at him, throwing a blow to his head. he grabbed you and slammed you down "i killed one spider, i can do it again" he whispered, throwing a punch to your face.
you sneakily grabbed the prowler glove, putting it on. you shot an air blast to his chest that threw him across the room. "took prowler's little toy huh?" he coughed. you got up and swung the claws through his chest opening the wound he previously had, making him scream out. you shot explosives out of the glove directly at pin, one missing as it hit the wall instead. the room began to shake as pipes began to burst.
you didn't notice him grab his gun, shooting at your arm and your stomach somehow catching the same spot he stabbed a week ago. you cried out, the wound beginning to secrete blood, he was about to shoot again, aiming for your head but you flipped out of the way.
fueled by adrenaline, you growled throwing webs at his feet hanging him upside down before throwing him up against the glass. you jumped on him, legs wrapped around his neck, hitting him with the sharp knuckles of the glove. he walked out as blood began rushing from his nose and cheeks. you jumped down and shot another web, wrapping around his neck swinging back down onto his back making him gag. you jumped on top of him, sinking the prowler claws into his chest making him wail out. you kept sinking it deeper and deeper inside him, twisting it like he had done to you. the brick of the roof began to crumble, falling all around you.
"i am going to watch you suffer and die just like you made me watch miles." you growled, venom laced your voice. you got up quickly to grab a heavy piece of rubble that was falling from the walls, lifting it into the air. "i am going to beat you bloody." just then some glowing orange and purple portal opened next to you and three people jumped out in spider suits.
"oy you cant kill 'im mate" the tall one said running over to pull you off. "what who the fuck are you, let me go!" you screamed out trying to pull away from his grip. the other two people began tying pin up with their webs, hanging him in a spiderweb on the ceiling. "the police are coming and you can't be seen here." a feminine voice said from under the mask. "you gotta come with us" the other spoke, moving closer to the portal.
"you expect me to go in some fucking portal with three random cunts that just popped out of it." you spat backing away from them. "listen we can explain on the way. either you stay here and get caught up with the police or you come where we can help you" the girl said, pointing to the blood that stained your suit. you thought about it for a minute before stepping into the portal after the three of them jumped in. the portal dropped you in some elevator that was going upside down. you looked out and saw what looked like a futuristic new york, flying cars, futurist buildings.
the three of them tugged off their masks. the tall one was revealed to be dark skin, piercings littered his dark skin. the other one had the side of her blonde head shaved, piercing on her eyebrow.
your heart felt like it stopped when the third one took his off. you saw familiar brown eyes staring back at you, gorgeous brown skin you haven't seen in a week, the only difference was his air that was out in a curly afro. "miles?" you whispered, tears stinging your eyes. you fought to hold them back, not ready to cry in front of these people. it hit you like a train seeing that face. "yeah. b-but i'm not your miles." he said, looking down. your eyebrows furrowed wondering what the hell that meant.
"we'll explain everything when we get to miguel." the girl said. "i'm gwen by the way." she told you. "hobie" the tall one spoke reaching out a hand to dap you up. "i'm assuming you already know mine?" you asked to which they nodded.
the elevator doors opened and you saw an array of people scattered all across the building, all dressed in different spider suits. some walking right side up, some upside down, some on the walls. there were so many, you couldn't even count. there was even a cat!
"welcome to spider society" miles said to you. "miguel actually started this whole thing two years ago after me and miles messed up the multiverse or whatever. all of these people are all spider-man, each belonging to their own universe. i'm from earth 65, hobie's from 138, miles is from 1610, and you're from 42" gwen explained to you leading the way to wherever she was taking you.
you groaned, injuries becoming apparent to you again. you tripped a bit before miles caught you "yeah we gotta get you to the infirmary" he said.
after about 10 minutes in the infirmary, you were bandaged and taken care of. gwen, hobie, and miles stayed outside to wait for you before taking you on a short tour throughout the building, and then to some dark and gloomy office.
a man, who you knew to be miguel was standing on a floating platform, it descending as slow as it possibly could. "is he?-" "uh yeah just let him do his thing" miles chuckled.
the man came down off the platform, muscular body clad in a blue and orange spider suit. "what am i doing here?" you spoke up. he looked at you before turning away "you are here because you've proved yourself to be spider-girl." he told you.
"LYLA, do the information explaining thing" he said, a small hologram appearing by his shoulders. "there are these things called cannon events and every cannon event is what holds the spider-verse together. it's what makes spidermen, spidermen." he said, going on to show and tell you about how every single one of them lost a loved one. you watched holograms appear of multiple spider people kneeling over a dying relative, last one ending with you kneeling over miles. he told you about his dead daughter and how he tried to redo everything by placing himself in another universe.
"we track cannon events using high technology, making sure everything is in order." he said, making you furrow your eyebrows. "wait so you know when these things are gonna happen? when these people are gonna die? did you know that miles was gonna die?" you asked, fists clenching. miguel turned his head to the side, sorrowful expression on his face and nod his head.
"wait so you knew he was gonna die and you didn't do anything?" you said, growing angry. "we couldn't do anything, it was a cannon event, it was supposed to happen-" you interrupted him "oh so you couldn't do shit when miles was dying but when i attack kingpin now you wanna send your fucking people to stop me." you spat. "that's not how it works-" he tried to explain, but you wouldn't let him.
"nah you picking and choosing who gets to die because of some fucking code" you spat, the hologram on his shoulder getting upset. "you get to sit up here on your slow ass platform and play god? who put you in charge." you growled, beginning to walk away. "listen, i created this to protect the multiverse, i am and have been protecting every world. i don't play god, i keep things in order because if they're not, worlds could begin falling apart. i brought you here because you are a good spider-man and we could use someone like you on the force" he explained.
"whatever, send me home." you whispered.
"listen-" another voice interrupted miguel. "wait, listen just stick around for a day. if you really want to go home and never be apart of this, then we'll send you home when the day's over." miles said resting a hand on your shoulder.
you agreed and the four of you were dismissed from miguel's office until further notice. they were about to show you around when an older looking peter parker with a pink robe and a baby in his carrier walked up to you. "hey guys" he exclaimed, wrapping an arm around miles. the baby in his carrier shot a web at you and began crawling around your shoulders. "ah you must be y/n! you gonna join this little club?" he asked you. "not yet." miles answered for you, giving you a small smile.
they showed you around, jumping through different universes to show you around. you visited their friend, pav's, universe in mumbattan and hung around there for a while.
after about an hour, gwen and hobie had to report back to their own universes to deal with whatever crimes were happening there. leaving you and miles alone.
"hey, um you know i really think you should join" he said, arms awkwardly behind his back. "i saw the way you held your own there with kingpin and doc ock. you're really good at what we do." he complimented. "thanks" you mumbled smiling at him. "listen i know you have your doubts about this place, believe me i had them to at first. when i showed up here, uninvited by the way, miguel told me my dad was gonna die and i couldn't just sit around and do nothing. so i forced my way back home and i ended up proving him wrong, but then again i am some sort of original anamoly so my universe kind of fixes itself." he told you.
"i think you should stick around, these watches are pretty cool, you could literally go anywhere" he said, geeky smile on his face. "plus it'd be nice to have a new friend around here, you and me are a lot alike" he told you. "well for one we both got that whole invisible thing going on" he showed you, making himself fully invisible. "and who knows what other powers you could have if you stayed here and trained with us and grow as spider-girl!" he exclaimed.
"yeah, i guess you're right" you whispered. "so you in?" he asked, hoping smile on his face as he extended his arm out to you. you thought before making your decision "i'm in." you smiled, taking his hand.