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Peter Parker (Earth-19999) was going about his normal day. Well as normal as you can go when everyone forgot who you were. Sometimes he wished that he didn’t beg Dr. Strange to cast the spell, he would really love to have someone to talk to about all of this. Ned would really lift his spirits in times like these, too bad Ned doesn’t even know him anymore.
Sometimes, he stays up at night thinking about all the what ifs and possible ways to reverse the spell. There could’ve been a way to stop it from happening right? Like sending him back in time to make sure he keeps his mouth shut, or erasing the moments from time. Something that didn’t result in losing the only people he had ever loved.
Returning back from all of that, he graduated high school as Valedictorian, the school still somehow keeping the record of him. He desperately wanted to go to MIT but he couldn’t, not when most of his classmates got accepted there, the ones that mattered anyway. So, Peter decided to go to a regular community college in Queens. It has most of the things he wanted to study but he took some of the free lectures MIT offered from time to time. The lectures never failed to make him feel like he should’ve gone to MIT, no matter the consequences.
He was cleaning his room, trying to find some extra money that could be lying around anywhere for some food, when a strange looking portal opened up. It didn’t look like one Strange would open so he immediately ruled out the fact that it was him. He didn’t want to do anything with the portal so he ignored it until things started to float around him. The portal was sucking him in.
Before he knew it, he was pulled into the portal and into another strange place. He was dizzy from the bright colors and motions he went through that he didn’t notice he wasn’t in his room anymore.
Miles Morales (from Earth-1610) walked down the street with his headphones on. He wasn’t really paying attention to what was happening around him, acting on muscle memory to take him home. He made it to the alley he usually scaled to get into his bedroom window. His parents wouldn’t be home for a while so it was safe to do so. He took off his headphones and saw that there was a portal opening in the roof of his room.
Miles looked in and saw a guy falling through. The guy fell directly on his bed and he looked older than him by a bit.
“Um hello? Are you from Spider Society?” Miles asked the guy. The guy groaned and slowly looked up at him.
“What the hell? Where am I?!” He said, panicking and getting up quickly. He got up from the bed and stood in a defensive position.
Miles opened his arms, “Welcome to Earth-1610! I guess you’re new to this stuff?” That got a hesitant nod from the new guy. “Alright so, my name is Miles Morales and I’m this universe’s only Spider-Man. I’m gonna guess your name is Peter Parker?”
“Uh yeah. Sorry to ask, but what was it that you said about Spider Society?” Peter asked. Miles thought about if he should answer. It looked like that guy was one of the only Peter Parker’s to not be in Spider Society.
“Well, there’s a universe where all of the spidermen hang out and discuss things in their universe. Sometimes multiple spidermen are sent out on a mission to defeat an anomaly.” Miles explained to him. Peter was listening with avid attention, not knowing what this spider society was and wanting to know more about it.
“So how do you join in?” Miles winced at the question. Peter noticed and tilted his head at the reaction.
Miles didn’t speak for a beat, trying to formulate his thoughts into words. “About that, I’m kind of banned from joining it as I am an anomaly?”
“Wait what? How are you an anomaly?” Peter asked innocently. He honestly thought anomalies needed to look differently, but then again an anomaly could be anything.
“A spider from another dimension bit me. Meaning I have abilities no other spiderman has. One of them is that I could turn invisible!”
Peter’s eyes lit up. “You can turn invisible? No way!” Peter had found that fact interesting because there are no spiders that could turn invisible, therefore that was enough proof that the spider was from another dimension.
Miles took off his sweater, revealing a black spiderman suit with a red spider in the center of his chest. “Want me to give you a tour of my Brooklyn?” Peter nodded enthusiastically and followed Miles out of his bedroom window.
The boys swung out of the window, Miles taking the lead. To Peter everything looked the same, except it was way colorful than it was back in his dimension. His dimension was very bland and gray, maybe due to the fact that the main beloved Avengers had died. The world mourned them, making it turn into the gray world Peter was accustomed to seeing.
Some things were slightly different, but someone could barely notice. Although, one thing Peter did notice was the fact that there was a lot more graffiti around than in his New York. Miles was located in Brooklyn and Peter never went to Brooklyn without reason so maybe he never noticed the amount of graffiti around.
The two boys settled on the roof of a random building, sitting down and talking about random things. Miles was talking about how his school was a science and arts school so the teachers put a lot of pressure on you. Peter talked about college and how it was going for him. The two of them developed a steady rhythm in their conversation, it was a nice change for both of them.