Secret War

The star radiated light in the darkness, illuminating a pool of thicker darkness.

Countless black human figures struggled to get up from the pool of darkness. Their bodies are constantly melting and collapsing while trying to put themselves back together. They opened their mouths in silent screams, desperately reaching out to him with ominous and terrifying hands.
He fled without looking back.

He pushed open a door and entered a circular hall. The flaming torches on the walls provided high enough lighting.
There is a display piece in the center of the hall. More than a dozen blood-stained swords penetrated a thin body from different directions and fixed it in the air.
He screamed across the warning line.

He standing in front of a towering mirror.
There is a white stone tablet to the left of the mirror.
【Who is the culprit】
He read the words above.

Spider crawls on the web.
The spider rests on the web.
The spider eat on the web.
The spider spit out its silk.
A gust of wind carried it away.
And a hand grabbed it.

Peter wakes up to the warm sunlight and finds himself hugging Tom's arm tightly.
Well, you just can't help it, can you? he thinks.

He stares at his partner's body for a while, then turns to look at the window. The curtains were still closed, so he begins to listen, another steady heartbeat in the room, two cars on the road, the footsteps of ten pedestrians on the road with varying frequencies, a gust of breeze through the treetops.

They are gentle, slow and comfortable, a very different rhythm from New York.

Peter put his fingers on the back of Tom's hand, the older man's warmth and breath wrapped around him. Peter closes his eyes in relief and indulged in the song. Until the person beside him let out a long breath.
He withdrew his attention from his long journey and looking up at Tom. "Good morning."

"Good morning sweet." Tom gives him a smile. "Did you sleep well?"

"Very good, no nightmares. It feels completely different to me here than in New York.," Peter responded with a smile.
"Really? Do you like London?"

"I don't know... the last stop on that European trip was London, but I didn't have time for serious sightseeing." Seconds later the boy realized how bad his social skills were.

"I'm sorry." He hears Tom's voice full of apologetics.

"It's okay,Tom. I want you to be my tour guide. Would you like to?"

"Of course, gladly. Whenever and wherever."
Tom leans over and hugging his boyfriend in a comfortable stance.

"Always?"

Tom blinked in surprise and replied immediately with a smile.
"Forever."
"I will always guide you and let you find your way."
He lowers his head and kisses Peter's hair.

After nine they had to get up because Peter's stomach started to protest hunger.
"So Peter, what's your plan next?" Tom's voice comes from the kitchen, along with the sizzle of fried eggs.

"Um... Go to see Doctor Strange and ask him for help? Or I can try to contact Captain Marvel? She'll be on Earth in about a few days. Then they'll be the main force in this case and I'll be in charge of support!"

"You should finds her and quit this mission first! Pretend you are sick or just disappear! Or you just don't go back to your universe!" Tom, with his head sticking out from behind the refrigerator door, looked kind unhappy with the boy's answer.

"I can't do it in this way. At least I need to go back and explain to them. I can't just let them worry and I can't run away irresponsibly."

"How do you explain it? Tell them that you know the future so you can't take part in this fight? They'll think you're unhinged, and Nick Furry might even lock you up, so don't go back!"

"Actually, I’ll going to tell them that I meet a Peter Parker from another world and I decided to move to his universe......"

"Then they will definitely send you to Ravencroft Institute." Tom sighs helplessly.

"You're talking something weird again, I've never heard of that place."
Peter jumps from the ceiling and holds Tom's hands to reassure the man.
"Don't worry about it,love. They don't even know the magic crystal in my left hand. Even if they put me under house arrest, I can come directly to your world."

"But——"

Don't go back, don't go back.

I have to go back.
He will definitely go back.

He knew the risks of this.
I know how dangerous this is.

Stay here, stay here, please stay here.

Two pairs of identical brown eyes looking at each other, but they contained very different emotions.

Tom's hand snaps around Peter's left wrist, and they both pretended not to notice the older man's shaking.
"……I don't want you to hate me, Peter. But I'm, scared."

The younger man put down his cutlery and strokes Tom's arm gently.
"I would never hate you, Tom.I love you, I understand what you mean. If I were you, I might have reacted worse." Peter tries to put his lover at ease.

"You're too anxious, Tom. Trust me. I'm Spider-Man, and I'll be fine. I promise."

If it isn't for them holding hands, Tom would have jumps out of his chair.

He just stares at Peter hard with his eyes.

Peter doesn’t move his eyes, he looks back with a calm, determined look. His right hand still on Tom's arm.

"Yes, true.You're Spider-Man."
Tom is silent for a long time before finally nodding and letting go of the boy's grip.”You’ll be fine.”

Peter broke the silence a few minutes later.
"Besides, Tom. What about your future job? Your resignation will have a bad impact on your future movie career, right?" Peter put the last bit of fried egg in his mouth, but his left hand didn't let Tom go.

"About that...I can't tell, I think they'll forget about it after a while? It just so happens that I can take a long vacation too." Tom reaches out and hugging Peter. "You need stay with me more, or I will be bored to death."

"Okay, don't worry, you big boy who is afraid of loneliness, I will definitely come once every three days."

"Three days?"

"Then two days? You can't expect me to come every day…..."

"Well, yes. If you come every day, I don't think even you will be able to hold on."

"What... hey! language! I'm still underage!" The boy's cheeks quickly turns red when he reacted, and he raises his hand and punches the man gently.
Tom let out a string of happy laughter.

It's almost afternoon, Peter site on the sofa watching the ever-changing TV screen without paying any attention to it.
His mind is full of what happened last night when he and Tom were in bed.
"Marvel has many universes and many Peter Parker, but the only one I like is you, and the only one that matters to me is you."
"I love you."

"Tom, I really appreciate your willingness to give up your career to save me..."
"I was really scared when I knew your company was going to let me die, I don't care to be laughed at by you, Tom, really. My first thought was if it really happened as it was written... "
"Thank you."
The teenager shyly put his hand on the other's arm.

Tom made a quiet smile. It was dark in the room, but he knew Spider-Man could see it. He pulled Peter into his arms. "You know you can come to me when you want a hug."
Peter didn't say anything but wrapped his strong arms around the man.
The room was so quiet that even Tom could hear their heartbeats.

Just when he thought the boy in his arms had fallen asleep.

"May blessed us," a whisper.

Tom's body froze. Is this a dream talk?

But apparently Peter Parker is going to prove Tom Holland wrong.
"I told her about you after I got back from Europe."
"I told her that I like you, but I don't know what kind of relationship it is. And isn't it too weird to be in a relationship with someone who looks like me."

After a pause, the boy continued to whisper.
"But May smiled and told me that I would understand eventually. She told me that at that time I just need to follow my heart."
"Although she also agreed that it was weird for me to be in a relationship with my actor, but she told me it wasn't a problem, after all we live in a crazy world."
"Then she told me she'd bless us by then. Even if she can't get into your universe."

The room was quiet again.

Joy, surprise, and excitement. Trust, Gratitude and Happiness. They jumped up and down like champagne bubbles.
Tom held the boy in his arms tighter, as if he never wanted to let go.
"I think we need to start planning our wedding."

I'm having a wedding? After we clean up the alien mess? Should I tell the Avengers the whole story?
Without warning, Tom moves eagerly in front of Peter, who was still reminiscing about the last night.
"Want something to eat sweetheart?"

"What—hey! What are you doing! Calling me sweetheart and hitting me?"
After turning over to avoid the opponent's full-strength fist, Peter shouts in dissatisfaction.

"No offence, I just want to see if your spider sense is still working." Tom standing up and twisting his shoulders. "I'm going to a nearby restaurant to get some Chinese food. Is there anything you want to eat?"

"Bring me a churro?"

"Churro? ……I remember I played you eating this thing on a wall, maybe you can show me by myself later?"

"How could you make such a strange request... Are you really my number one fan?"

"Of cause I’m!! And I also want to see you hanging from the ceiling to drink water, can you do that?"

"Enough, go get our food!" Peter grabs a pillow and throwing it over.

"Okay alright, you're a guy with a high metabolism, see you later."

"Well, see you later."

Peter watch Tom walk towards the door and watch the door open. The bright sunlight rushes in, trying to fill the room, and they make it almost impossible for him to see the man's expression.
The man stays at the door for a while before going out.

"I'll be back soon."
He heard Tom say that, in a serious tone like he was making a promise.

The door is closed.

When Peter opens his eyes again, there are dust flying in front of him.

Screams and car security alarms swarmed into his ears, and he even smelled blood in his nostrils.

"WTF?!"
Following the spider sense, he hurriedly throws a flying billboard back with the cobweb, and then jumps sharply to the left.
The explosion sounded behind him, and the ground he was on had turned into a two-meter-deep pit.
"This is too foul!"
Peter hurriedly put on his hood and shot out a cobweb.
"Hey! Interested in mining?"

On the road stand three strangely shaped alien creatures he had never seen before, and the destructive light balls flew one after another, and the word "street" was no longer applicable here.
What is this new enemy? Where are the aliens we dealt with earlier? What about the bomb that could blow up the solar system? ?

Peter swings through the shabby streets of New York, doesn't get any signal from the Avengers, and fights guerrilla alone.
His Cobwebs are no threat to those monsters at all, the web begins to dissolve as soon as it touches their body, let alone trips or binds them.
"Aren't you some alive toilet cleaners guys? Stand up to overthrow human tyranny to refuse to be flushed down the toilet? How heroic! But violence only scares people away! We should sit down and negotiate peacefully!!"
Peter use a cobweb to pick up a cement block on the ground and smashes the nearest alien creature. It fell to the ground and quickly got up again, and the tip of the tentacles begin to generate a ball of light.

Danger Danger Danger Danger!
The spider senses makes a loud warning, and Peter shoots a cobweb at the building on the side of the road to avoid it.

Those alien creatures are really tough, and dangerous light orbs have appeared in his path several times.
Not to the extent that the traps are placed on the prey's movement route, but to the extent that the trap is placed on the prey's escape route.
"Looks like you guys are very good at physics! Have you gotten an A since kindergarten? I guess that's the only way you can develop a spaceship!"

While flying in the air, Peter shot a web with his right hand. Peter grabs the blown up road pole with his left hand and threw it behind him at a tricky angle.
After the spindle-shaped body was penetrated this time, the tentacles on the starfish-shaped head twisted and drooped frantically a few times, and never moved again.

"Yes!!"
Spider-Man let out a cheer and jumping high immediately.

The two remaining monsters seemed to be enraged by the death of their companions, and they sped up their attacks.
Peter was able to avoid the ball of light and land on the top-floor outer wall of a sloping building. Before even the thought of gasping could form a spider sense, it sounded again, and he had to take off again.
A human scream rang out from the building which hit by several balls of light, followed by the sound of falling stones.
So Spider-Man adjusts his direction and jump towards the flying ball of light.

Peter’s stomach tensed as he comes to the front of the collapsed building.
It has nothing to do with spider sense, he just simply feels ominous, dangerous, and terrifying.
The interior of the building is dark, with no light shining in, and none of his senses could capture what is in that darkness.

"Is anyone in there? This is your friendly neighbor Spider-Man, and I'm here to help you!"
Peter meant to say it, and he should have do it, but his mouth chose to remain silent, and his stomach hurt even more.

I should got in, there are people in there who need help.
I should go in, the survivors inside were probably injured.
I don't want to go in.
There are civilians trapped inside!
I don't want to go in.
I should go in, I'm Spiderman!
I shouldn't have go in.
I'm an Avenger and I should help them!
I——

Peter's torso twitched violently as his fingers shrank to a centimeter from the darkness, he frantically rips off his mask and starts vomiting.

How does that feel.
Nausea, cramps, loss of strength, difficulty breathing.
It wasn't until the vomiting over that Peter notices that his spider sense had been asking him to stay out of the darkness at all costs.

Absolutely shouldn't go in.

Peter takes a deep breath and staggering to his feet, shaking off the vomit that remained on the mask.
He takes a few more breaths, then noticed that the alien monsters had disappeared.
With a look of fear, he takes one last look at the ominous and deep darkness, and turns to leave.

My movements start to sluggish, and now even my brain's processing power is weaker? Peter thought so as he looked at the glass building in front of him —— the building where Ned Leeds once lived, and the other buildings around were turned into gold, meat, and candy.
God, this looks like alchemy, which wizard screwed up his experiment?
Peter swallows the lump in his throat and remembering he should have call Ned and MJ. He pulls out his phone and finds he had 58 missed calls and 40 unread messages.

【Ned】

09:24AM
: Earthquake! ! !
: How are you bro? !
09:26AM
: People on the street started running away! What happened? what should I do?
: I can't find your location! Where are you?
: Call me.
09:40AM
: [A video] The camera shakes, the falcon is in the air pouring fire on something on the ground with some kind of weapon, and the crowd is running, their screams mixed with air defense sirens.
09:50AM
: [A video] Part of the sky became a shattered mirror, and through one of the cracks the torch of the Statue of Liberty was visible. Someone in the video says "Holy shit."
09:55AM
: I don't know, but Nick Furry just called me! He says he can't find your location. Seriously, where are you?
09:58AM
: [A video] The cracks in the sky gradually close.
: Thank goodness.
10:13AM
: We were going to the shelter, but a monster appeared! Someone is using a portal to evacuate the crowd! ! God, can you believe that magic exists?
: I must go, I will inform MJ to let her find the wizard.
11:30AM
: My family and I are in Nepal now and I built a signal receiver myself. We are all safe and I hope you are too.
12:21AM
: I heard this is happening all over the world.
: What is dimensional collapse?
1:00AM
: I love you, brother.
: Forever.
01:10PM
: I hope you can see my text messages.
02:38PM
: They say Mount Everest exploded.

【MJ】

09:25AM
: Hey loser, stay safe.
09:29AM
: [A video] An incomparably huge black shadow covered the sky, as if the night was covering the earth. People had to turn on flashlights to see around. Some were weeping in horror, some were running away, and the air-raid sirens were blaring sharply.
The person filming the video apparently took several breaths to regain the ability to speak.
"I'm in Shoshone, near Las Vegas. This damn thing popped up a few minutes ago, I don't know how big it is, the whole sky is black. It, it looks like it's made of rocks...etc Wait, is that some kind of pipe? (Zoomed in, but the image is blurry) Shit, I don't know what it is. I, I thought something like this would only happen in big cities."
After a few seconds of silence, the photographer pointed the camera at his face, his green eyes filled with fear and tears. He continued. "Damn it, I think it's like movie Independence Day. I guess I'm not able to going home……hopefully this video will make people remember me, you know. But I guess it's going to be hard. Anyway, my name is Ben—"
The camera suddenly stopped moving, and then the picture returned to the giant in the sky. After a 30-second silence, the photographer started screaming: "Fuck, fuck, fuck!!!! It's moving! It's moving!!!!"
A minute later the huge object slammed down towards the camera.
09:38AM
: Do you know what happened? ! I tried to see Nevada and Utah from satellite imagery, but almost the entire west was covered in smoke.
09:41AM
: Dr. Bruce called and asked if I knew where you were, what was going on?
10:02AM
: News reports say the whole of Washington D.C. has been turned into a literal graffiti. Everything becomes a floor plan!! Washington now has become a damn cartoon!! Are we being attacked?
10:10AM
: I saw a few alien ships leaving, tell me you weren't on it.
10:16AM
: Ned asked me to find a wizard?
10:40AM
: My family and I are in shelters now, and the military is starting to move into New York.
: Don't worry about us.
11:30AM
: Don't be arrogant, take care of yourself.
12:12AM
: We are evacuating from New York. You better do the same.
: See you later loser.

【Doc.Bruce】

09:40AM
: Peter where are you? We need you.
10:10AM
: We suspect that another universe collided with ours.
: Communication systems have been affected, hopefully they won't break down any time soon. We have to find some other means of contact, do you know how to send a telegram?
12:21AM
: Don't come back.

【Wizard】

09:37AM
: Contact me as soon as you see this message.

【Unknown】

09:31AM
: Peter Parker, where the fuck are you?