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Miguel O'Hara creates a group chat

Miguel O'Hara names the group chat; HQ Chat


Miguel O'Hara added Jessica Drew, Peter B. Parker

Miguel O'Hara added Gabriel O'Hara, Hobart Brown


Miguel O'Hara added Gwendolyn Stacy, Miles Morales


Miguel O'Hara added Margo Kess, Pavitr Prabhakar 


10:45 PM

Miguel O'Hara: Use this chat with actual purpose.

[ 🙄 x2 ]


Gabriel O'Hara: You are talking to a bunch of teens Miggy.


Margo Kess: Why did you add us two at a time??


Miguel O'Hara: I have to do it in a particular way, Margo. I had to find your @'s.. Which proved to be difficult. 


Miles Morales: you got autism or sumthin' miguel?


Gabriel O'Hara: Nooo. That is me. Not Miggy.


Miles Morales: you have autism?? i thought you guys cured autism-? (・o・)


Miguel O'Hara: We cured cancer. Not autism, Morales.


Miles Morales: ohh


Miles Morales: why did you create the chat at such late hours?


Margo Kess: wtf you mean late hours??


Gabriel O'Hara: Yeah.. It's 5:23 PM 


Miguel O'Hara: That's right. I almost forgot about that.. I apologize Miles. Basically other dimensions have different time-zones, like how Germany is at night when America is at day. It works like that. You can go back to sleep Miles. In HQ it's 5:23 PM but it must be way later for Miles in his dimension. 


Miles Morales: 10:48 pm to be exact.


Miguel O'Hara: Yeah which is why you need to go to sleep. Goodnight Miles.


Miles Morales: night <3 talk to you guys in the morning or sumthin' 

[ 👍 x1 ]

Miles Morales and 3 others went offline 

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New Messages 


7:30 AM


Peni Parker and 4 others went online

Peni Parker: Good morning guys (◍•ᴗ•◍) <3

[ 🖤 x1 ]


Hobart Brown: aye moRning


Peni Parker: I am so happy we have this group-chat, now I don't have to use the dimension watch! It's so out of date anyways •︵•


Hobart Brown: HonEstly, this GC is Going to be soo boRing. Miguel ain't gOing to let uS do nothIng anyWays 

[ 🥺 x1 ]


Hobart Brown: ... 


Hobart Brown: But wHen haS thAt stOpped mE? 

Hobart Brown changed their name to Hobie <3

Gwendolyn Stacy: Miguel really expected us not to change stuff? Yeah not with us here especially Hobie. - 🌸


Hobie <3: Smh aye Gwennie, Miguel doEsn't uNderStanD chiLdreN haVing fUn


Gwendolyn Stacy: Well he isn't online now sooo - 🌸

Jessica Drew went online

Jessica Drew: But I am


Jessica Drew: Just be glad I am not as strict as Miguel

[ 🤨 x1 ]


Gwendolyn Stacy: Then I am changing my name since you won't mind mom - 🌸

Gwendolyn Stacy changed their name to Gwennie 🌸

Jessica Drew: Changing names is probably something Miguel won't mind either


Gwennie 🌸: good I don't like being called Gwendolyn - 🌸

Peni Parker changed their name to Peni 🩵

Peni 🩵: I changed my name too (◍•ᴗ•◍)


Hobie <3: helL yEah mAte, mOtHer yOu goNna ChanGe yOur naMe?


Jessica Drew: I will keep my name the same only because we need some sanity before you kids ruin it


Peni 🩵: You assume we are insane (ò_ó)


Jessica Drew: I just do not need Miguel to slowly go insane


Hobie <3: ThE onLy tHinG he hAs to WorRy aBout iS getTing graY hAir 

[ 💀 x3 ]


Jessica Drew: . . .


Jessica Drew: Miguel isn't that old guys 


Gwennie 🌸: He looks like he's in his 30's - 🌸


Hobie <3: ThE sTreSs goT tO hiM mAteS


Jessica Drew: This is giving me a stroke just trying to read your texts Hobart.


Hobie <3: DaMn 


Hobie <3: I dOn'T waNt tO kIll mOthEr 🥺

[ 🤍 x1 ]


Jessica Drew: . . .


Jessica Drew: How about this, you three can make it up by helping me bake home-made brownies tonight


Gwennie 🌸: Really? - 🌸


Gwennie 🌸: Heck yeah I am coming along, brownies are the best! Especially homemade ones - 🌸

Gabriel O'Hara went online 

Gabriel O'Hara: You had me at brownies


Gabriel O'Hara: may I join in Mrs. Jessica 🥺


Jessica Drew: of course Gabri just save one brownie for Miguel, he loves my brownies 


Gabriel O'Hara: Of course I will 👍

[ 🤍 x1 ]

Jessica Drew and 4 others went offline

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HQ Chat 

9:20 PM


Gwennie 🌸 and 5 others went online

Gwennie 🌸: mom me and Hobie are coming over now be prepared - 🌸


Jessica Drew: How was your day

Hobie <3: me aNd GwEnniE diD a litTle conCert toDay <3 


Jessica Drew: a punk concert 

[ 🖤 x 1 ]


Hobie <3: of coUrse obviOusly <3

[ 🤍 x 1 ]


Jessica Drew: lovely 🤍


Gwennie 🌸: They loved our concert :D - 🌸


Gwennie 🌸: It was very amazing - 🌸

[ 🤍 x1 🖤 x1 ]


Jessica Drew: that is very amazing, what about you Peni and Gabri?


Peni 🩵: me and Gabri were fixing stuff around the HQ (θ‿θ)


Peni 🩵: although it was slightly boring as it's 2099 technology 


Gabriel O'Hara: you came from the year 3145, of course our technology would seem old, we are from 2099.


Jessica Drew: What were you fixing, something in HQ


Gabriel O'Hara: oh yeah, we fixed some simple things like Miggy's watch


Peni 🩵: Yeah and Gabri almost got sent into an another dimension while trying to fix the watch (●__●) 


Gabriel O'Hara: but I didn't. So it's fine! They don't have to know Penniii 🫣

[ 😟 x1 ]


Hobie <3: ThaT couLd hAve beEn baD mAte :(

[ 🥺 x1 ]


Gwennie 🌸: How does that even happen though? - 🌸


Peni 🩵: He accidentally pressed the button to send him to a different dimension ●︵● I mean other than that, today was SLOW.


Hobie <3: Be caRefuL neXt tiMe Gabri <3

[ 👍 x1 ]


Jessica Drew: you guys gonna come over yet or nah


Hobie <3: yeAh We'lL cOmE OvEr nOw 

[ 🤍 x1 ]

Hobie <3 and 4 others went offline


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Jessica hears some slight sound of whirring, Gwen and Hobie leapt through the dimension portal they opened. Jessica placed her hands on the baking tray that had begun levitating due to the dimensional portal being opened to keep it from levitating any further before smiling as the portal closed.

"Right on time guys. I'm sure Gabri and Peni will be on their way shortly?"

Hobie gives a little nod shoving his phone back into his jacket pockets, and slides over removing his laced up boots throwing them into Jessica's shoe rack making a clatter sound. In Jessica's house she was always particular about people walking around with shoes on in her house; she didn't like it but she'd always make it known to her guests to leave their shoes in the shoe rack near the front door. 

Gwen kneels down to unwrap her ballet straps of her ballet shoes and remove them. Jessica turns her back to prepare the ingredients for the brownies. 
"Hobie be a dear and get the flour please."

"Sure. But only because you asked, not because I follow rules."
He responded reaching and grabbing the flour from Jessica's pantry and placing it on the counter. Jessica snickers and scoffs slightly at Hobie's comment. 

"How was your day mom?"

Gwen questioned as Jessica hums in response and turned to Gwen.
"Boring mostly. Miguel has ordered me to practically not overexert myself by doing missions and such.. With the baby almost due."
Leaning her elbows on the marble counter-top Gwen nods at Jessica's words. 

Another dimensional portal opened with more whirring sounds, signalling Gabriel and Peni's entrance. Jessica sighs grasping hold of some items that ended up levitated again. Until the second portal closed.
"We are here!"

Peni announced with a slight smile on her face. 

"We could tell, lass."
Hobie smirked and responded. Peni had held a bag of chocolate chips in her arms as she proudly rolled over using her roller-shoes to Jessica and handed her the chocolate chips.

"Me and Gabri got the chocolate chips like you asked!"
She proudly declared. Jessica chuckles and ruffles Peni's dark locks of hair. Jessica sat the chocolate chips onto the marble counter where Hobie and Gwen sat at.

"Thank you, the both of you."

Jessica thanked Peni and Gabriel. With all the ingredients out and prepared for baking, the group started baking. Everyone was tasked to do a particular section to make it fair for everyone and they at least get to participate in baking. Peni mixed the dry ingredients together like the flour, cocoa etc in a bowl with a whisk.

Once Peni was done mixing the dry ingredients she handed the bowl over to Gwen where she put the dry ingredients together with the wet. 
"I call dibs licking the spoon after you're done Gwennie."
Hobie insisted on sitting besides Gwen.

Gwen snickers and shakes her head as she mixes the ingredients together. Peni grabbed the bowl they used to hold the dry ingredients and whisk before putting it in the kitchen sink. 
"This kinda reminds me of when mamá, Miggy and I used to bake together.."

Gabriel admitted and Jessica smiled at that.
"Huh, I didn't know you guys did that."
She told Gabriel and he just shrugged in response before Gwen handed Gabriel the bowl of mixed ingredients making a yummy, chocolaty paste.

"Miguel usually likes keeping most of his home life out of his work. But you probably already knew that Jess.."
Gabriel looked at the bowl noticing the spoon was gone from the bowl; Hobie had the spoon and was licking the batter off of the baking utensil. Taking the baking tray Gabriel dumped the brownie batter onto the tray that had parchment paper underneath it.

Gabriel grabbed a tool to smooth out the brownie mixture and get the whole tray covered with the batter. Gwen grabbed the scissors to snip open the package of chocolate chips and poured some in Peni's hands so she could sprinkle the chocolate chips in the batter.
"It smells so good."

Jessica scooped up the tray and strolled over to the oven and slid it into the racks before closing the oven door. 
"How about we watch a movie while the brownies bake?"
Jessica suggested. After a couple of minutes the group settled on Jessica's long sofa watching a movie while the brownies were baking.

Gwen lounges out her legs on the couch, her feet touching Peni's knees. Jessica was snuggled against Hobie's shoulder and Gabriel laid his head on Hobie's legs. With everyone relaxed and watching the picked out movie, Gabriel pulls out his phone once he gets a notification buzz on his phone.

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10:06 PM


Miggy 🩸 went online

Miggy 🩸: Gabri.


Miggy 🩸: You got your day pass with you Gabri?

10:30 PM

Gabri 🧣 went online

Gabri 🧣: Obviously 

[ 👍 x1 ]


Miggy 🩸: Good, cool. 


Gabri 🧣: I didn't need it though


Miggy 🩸: I know you think it's not a big deal earlier about you almost being transported to a different dimension.. But to me, what if you disintegrated? 

Miggy 🩸: ... I do not want you to disintegrate.. Like..


Miggy 🩸: How Gabriella did.


Gabri 🧣: We don't have to talk about it.. I understand what you mean 


Gabri 🧣: But anyways.. I will be back soon. I'll be bringing one of Jessica's homemade brownies to you when I get back 

[ ❤ x1 ]


Miggy 🩸: gracias Gabri ❤

[ 💜 x1 ]

Miggy 🩸 and Gabri 🧣 went offline

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HQ Chat


2:40 PM 


Peter B. Parker and 5 others went online

Peter B. Parker: Anyone up to babysit Mayday for the day?


Peter B. Parker: I am planning something special for MJ and I want to make it perfect for her since it's our anniversary today ❤💙


Gwennie 🌸: I wish I could, but I got ballet lessons today but maybe next time? - 🌸

[ 😮‍💨 x1 ]

Gwennie 🌸 went offline

Miles Morales: i can! i'd love to babysit mayday <3 

[ 🫶 x1 ]


Peter B. Parker: 🙏 thank you Miles 


Miles Morales: does anyone want to help me babysit mayday? ^_^


Hobie <3: @Miguel O'Hara I vOtE yOu as TriButE-! 


Miguel O'Hara: what. 


Miguel O'Hara: why me?


Peter B. Parker: Well probably because all you do all day is work until you pass out at your desk.

[ 🤐 x1 ] 


Peter B. Parker: Not even a bed, Miguel. the DESK.


Peter B. Parker: You need the break Miguel


Gabriel O'Hara: agreed.


Miguel O'Hara: But.. But why can't Gabri do it? He handles children better.


Gabriel O'Hara: I'd love to babysit Mayday but Kasey wants me to be with her.


Gabriel O'Hara: We're gonna do couple things like robbing Alchemax's trash together

[ 🖤 x1 😦 x1 ]


Hobie <3: CoUplE goAls yoU mAy puT It.

[ 💜 x1 ]


Miguel O'Hara: You're going to do WHAT!


Hobie <3: gOod lUck mate! TelL mE hOw iT goEs aftErwaRds 

[ 😡 x1  👍 x1 ]


Gabriel O'Hara: Will do 👍

[ 🖤 x1 ]

Gabriel O'Hara went offline

Miguel O'Hara: I.. Hobie do NOT encourage Gabri and.. He's offline. What the shock?


Miles Morales: should we worry about tío gabriel? ⊙.☉


Hobie <3: NahH he ShOulD be FinE


Miguel O'Hara: ... Hobie why encourage this?


Hobie <3: I diD'nT dO nUthIn'


Peter B. Parker: Well.. that's that. Anyways, Miguel and Miles you are stuck with babysitting.


Miles Morales: i am fine with that. i missed mayday 


Miguel O'Hara: . . .


Miguel O'Hara: por que yo dios?

[ 🤨 x1 ]


Miguel O'Hara: Fine. Fine. I'll babysit Mayday with Morales.

[ 😁 x2 ]


Peter B. Parker: Great! I'll be coming over with Mayday ASAP 😄

[ 🌻 x1  👍 x1 ]

Peter B. Parker and 3 others went offline

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Miles looks away from his phone, turning it off to get ready to open a portal to Earth 928 where HQ was at. 
"Mama! I'm heading out to see my friends!"
He called out from the living room scooping up his coat to slip over his body. Rio called back out to Miles.

"Be safe out there Miles! Text me when you are with your friends."
Miles zips his coat up to protect himself from the cold weather outside as he slid over to Rio and kissed her cheek.
"Of course mama."

Heading out of the house Miles quickly made his way to a secret hidden place outside where he could open up a dimensional portal to HQ before leaping inside the portal closing behind him. Arriving at HQ Miles made his way to Miguel's office, he noticed that Peter was already there with Mayday and Miguel.

Peter had handed Mayday to Miguel as he held the young child in his arms with a slight blank stare.
"Parker.. Do I have to do this?"
Miguel complained like a child would do. Peter raised an eyebrow before replying to Miguel's complaint.

"Yes. It's not that bad anyways. Mayday isn't a bad kid."
Miguel sputters slightly with his words and shakes his head at Peter's last words. 
"O-Of course not, I wasn't saying Mayday is a bad kid. She's the sweetest kid ever-" 

Peter snickers lightly at Miguel's words and reassures the taller male.
"I was joking with you, O'Hara."
Miguel lets out a breath of air that he held in. Mayday wiggles in Miguel's arms.

"Okay so, I am going to go now. I assume Miles will be here soon."
Peter announced kissing Mayday's forehead quickly and waving bye before running out of the office with a quick "hey Miles" coming from Peter as he rushed past Miles to go home to MJ. 

Miles chuckles at this before turning to Miguel and Mayday. Miguel looks at Miles, with an awkward silence between the two. Even though Miles did want help to babysit Mayday so he wasn't alone he didn't expect everyone wanting Miguel to do it. Miguel sighs, parting his lips and spoke.
"Uh.. You wanna hold Mayday?"

The next twenty minutes was spent with Miguel attempting to show Miles how to properly hold Mayday.

"Miles, Miles like this."
Miguel instructed lifting Mayday from Miles' arms so Miles could adjust his posture and arms to hold Mayday right. Miguel places Mayday back into Miles' arms. Miles smiles cradling Mayday in his arms properly now.

"Um.. So, how long is Peter going to be away for?"
Miles asked, ruffling and playing with Mayday's orange curls of hair. Miguel sits back and responds.
"Probably around late hours, did you tell your mother that you are out?"

Miles nods. Miles told his mother and father everything about the Spider-Society with the exception of Miguel literally chasing him down like a rapid dog around Nueva York. They would've never allowed him to go back if Miles told his parents about that.. And of course him being Spider-Man. After the whole Spot thing, they of course were worried about Miles' safety but they trusted Miles' trust with the others within the Spider Society to keep Miles safe.

"I kinda wanna braid her hair. Do you have any hair ties?"
Miles mentioned cupping his hands around Mayday's hair stroking it and playing with it receiving some giggles from Mayday. Miguel scratched the back of his neck before answering.

"I can get Lyla to check. Lyla can you check the room by my office."
When Lyla's name was mentioned, Lyla's holographic yellow form appeared as she leaned in towards Miguel and teased him.
"You forgot the magic word."

Miguel heavily sighs before replying in an exasperated tone glancing at the AI that was hovering over his shoulder.
"Please."
Lyla smiles satisfied before glitching over and off into the other room to search for hair ties. Miles chuckles and looks at Miguel.

"You know I am always confused about why you are so annoyed with Lyla, even though you programmed her to act the way she does."

Miles spoke and Miguel huffed a breath of air and crossed his arms.
"Uh, well.. I actually didn't program Lyla, not entirely. Xina was the one who made her initial programming for me."
Miles raised an eyebrow curious about this Xina he mentioned as Miguel didn't talk much about his life outside of being Spider-Man.

"Is Xina your girlfriend?"
Now it was Miles' turn to tease Miguel. Miguel immediately gets flustered and rears his head away in surprise of Miles' tease and corrected the younger boy who sat across from him. 

"What-?! No- no she's.. she's just a friend. A long-time friend actually."
Miguel scoffed at Miles' assumption before making grabby hands for Miles to give Mayday over so he could hold her. Miles handed Mayday over to Miguel as Lyla returned with a closed box full of goodies and random things which you'd usually find in a junk drawer.

Lyla placed it down in front of Miles as Miles opened the box up excitedly looking for hair ties or anything really to put in Mayday's orange curls of hair. Miles dug through the box and grabbed a couple of random hair ties before showing them to Miguel.
"Hey look at the hair ties I found! This one even had a little soccer ball on it!"

He pointed out to the specific hair tie, Miguel looks at Miles before biting his lip and taking the hair tie with a shaky hand. Miguel then used the soccer ball hair tie to braid Mayday's hair into a short braid. Miguel smiled slightly and admitted.
"This used to belong to Gabriella.. Ah it's the only thing I have left of her.."

Miles bit his lip at Miguel's mention of Gabriella and clenched his fist close with the hair ties he was holding.
"Oh.. Well.. It's a nice hair tie."
Miguel nods at Miles' words, using a gentle grasp to braid Mayday's hair taking her hair into three different sections and braiding it.

After Miguel braided Mayday's hair into a neat little short braid he lifted up the orange braid to show Miles and said.
"I did a good job didn't I?"
Miles chuckles before grabbing his phone and taking it out. He pulls out the camera and pointed it at Mayday;

"We should show the others on the group-chat, it's so cute!"
Miles snapped a photo of Mayday and her cute little braid with Miguel's hand lifting it up to show Miles' camera. He then goes to the group-chat.

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HQ Chat


4:40 PM


Miles Morales went online

Miles Morales: [Photo of Mayday]

[ 🩷 x1 🖤 x1 💚 x1 ]


Miles Morales: we braided mayday's hair <3


Miles Morales: ｡◕‿◕｡

Hobie <3 and two others went online

Pavitr Prabhakar: You are babysitting Mayday? 🥹 


Pavitr Prabhakar: Why didn't nobody tell me?


Hobie <3: WelL Peter wAs tAlkiNg aboUt iT eaRliEr, wE juSt asSumEd whOeVer wAsn't onLinE at tHat poiNt wAs buSy.


Gwennie 🌸: Maybe next time you can babysit Pav - 🌸

[ 💚 x1 ]


Miles Morales: i'm sure you'll have a chance to babysit next time pavitr 

[ 💚 x1 ] 


Miles Morales: omg guys hold on 


Gwennie 🌸: ? - 🌸


Miles Morales: [Photo of Miguel sleeping holding onto Mayday who was also sleeping]

[ ✨ x2 ]


Hobie <3: hEh I kNeW Miguel CoulDn't rEsiSt thE cuTeneSs of Mayday 


Miles Morales: yeah (≧▽≦) i knew you guys would want some photos of mayday <3 

[ 🩷 x1 ]

Peter B. Parker went online 

Peter B. Parker: Thanks for babysitting Mayday <3


Peter B. Parker: And the photos too ❤💙


Peter B. Parker: -Replying to Miles Morales' photo- <3 Miguel and Mayday are taking a nap together. How adorable 😊

[ 🌻 x1 ]


Peter B. Parker: I'm saving these photos ❤


Miles Morales: -Replying to Peter B. Parker- no problem peter, you needed a day with mj anyways. are you guys done with your little anniversary night?

[ 👍 x1 ]


Peter B. Parker: Yep! We had a great time. I'll come over to pick up Mayday soon 

[ 🌻 x1 ]


Miles Morales: alright. me and miguel will just be here waiting 

Miles Morales and four others went offline 

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"Are you sure this is a good idea Kasey..?"
Gabriel asked looking over at the slightly taller female that stood beside him. Kasey nudged Gabriel before teasing.
"You aren't chickening out on me are you?"

Gabriel's eyes widened and he immediately shook his head at Kasey, not wanting to seem like a wimp in front of his girlfriend. 
"Of course not. That's silly! Let's just get this over with.. I- I don't like the vibe of this place."
Gabriel replied waving his hand dismissively at Kasey's playful jab of teasing. He was starting to slightly regret coming out to the dumpsters that Alchemax threw useless stuff away that they didn't need. What if they didn't find anything useful at all?

And it was guarded too. Of course it was, no-one can be trusted in 2099 especially people that are against Alchemax, at least in the CEO's eyes of the damned company. 
"Y'know if Spider-Man was here he'd be able to sneak in real quick and grab whatever we needed, quiet as a spider."

Kasey whispered to Gabriel leaning over to him before slightly giggling to herself.
"Get it? Cause y'know he's a spider?"
Gabriel dryly laughs at the mention of Spider-Man and nodded.

"Yeah.. Yeah I get it. But we don't need Spider-Man, we can do this on our own Kasey. Now come on.."
He replied back with an undertone of jealousy, it was stupid but Gabriel sometimes wished that Spider-Man wasn't his brother, even if he's in his spider-suit Miguel would get more recognition than Gabriel does. Yet it's funny as he enjoys Miguel's company. Jealousy is a bitch.

Relationships are complicated.

Gabriel moved out of his hiding spot and moved to the side of the chain-link fence where it remained unguarded and gestured Kasey to come over. Kasey sneaked over. Kasey ordered pointing at the chain-link fence.
"Okay boost me over the fence."

Gabriel kneels down and gets himself ready to boost Kasey over. Kasey steps onto Gabriel's clasped hands and Gabriel lifted up his hands and boosted Kasey over. She grabbed onto the fence and it shook, creaking making a sound which made the duo freeze up hoping the guards didn't hear Kasey. 

"Did you hear that?" 

"Get down Kasey, I think they heard-"

Kasey shushed Gabriel quickly and herself became quiet trying to listen if the guards were actually going to check. Gabriel bit his lip to stop himself from panicking. Kasey clenched her fists to keep herself on the fence. However they didn't. Kasey sighs in relief before climbing over the fence. 

Gabriel climbs up and over after Kasey goes further into the trash-yard without waiting for Gabriel to follow and catch-up. Kasey was already picking the lock on the large trash bin that kept the trash lid closed. Gabriel kept watch to make sure the guards did not sneak up on him. With a little click from the lock Kasey pulls off the lock after unlocking it.

Lifting the trash lid up Kasey digs through the trash for anything useful. To them at least. To make use of something that Alchemax would see as trash. Pulling out some scraps of metal; she shows Gabriel and says in a mostly disinterested tone and shaking the scraps at Gabriel's face like he was a stupid child.

"Hey you could use these for your stuff, y'know.. Umm technology. You are interested in that stuff right?"
Gabriel takes the scraps from Kasey before she goes back into searching more in the trash. Gabriel looks at the scraps that Kasey found before sighing and shoving the scraps he could fit into his pocket to hide it away.

Kasey makes an excited sound before poking her head back out and shows Gabriel a strange orange tinted canister full of neon green liquid. Gabriel tilted his head and pointed at the canister.
"That doesn't look safe, Kasey-"

Kasey just scoffed and rolled her eyes before asking.
"Gabriel, do you know what this even is?"
Gabriel crossed his arms at her seemingly condescending tone with him. He replied with crossed arms.

"If I'd had to guess, maybe a sedative they use in experiments? Probably went bad or something.." 
Kasey only shrugged at his words before turning the canister in her hands trying to look for any writing or something interesting about it. She pauses and notices in cursive writing; Rapture.

Pausing Kasey raised an eyebrow and spoke looking at Gabriel.

"Gabriel..? I don't think this is a sedative, is Rapture the drug didn't you say Miguel "beat" the addiction?"
Gabriel snatched the canister away from Kasey in disbelief, why would they throw away a DNA binding drug? Wouldn't that be useful to them? In some sick twisted way? Gabriel goes to peek inside the garbage himself to see if there was anymore of the drug being thrown out. 

"We can use this against them.. Somehow."
Kasey insisted as Gabriel rolled his eyes and scoffed at her words. As much as he'd love to take Alchemax down, what difference would it make? Gesturing with his hand to the Rapture. 

"I suppose so, but we have to be careful too.. With this."

He gestured to the drug as Kasey sighs crossing her arms.
"Come on Gabe, you aren't changing your mind about Alchemax because of your brother-" 
Kasey was interrupted by a gruff voice that didn't belong to Gabriel

"Hey! You know this area is off-limits right!?"

". . ."

Both Gabriel and Kasey froze looking at the guards who was flashing their bright flashlight at them, Gabriel was the first to react before the guards did anything else by grasping hold of some dirt and throwing it in the guard's sensitive eyes which gave the two time to run and bolted Kasey following close behind, the two could hear the guard call for back-up.
 
"You still got the rapture!?"
Kasey questioned as they sprinted through the front gate. Gabriel points to his pockets and replied.
"It's in my pocket don't worry about it!" 

"That was too close, Kasey."
Gabriel said when he closed and locked the front door as Kasey was taking the edges of her curtains and pulling them over fully to hide them from the windows. Kasey sighs before looking at Gabriel and pointed out.

"But~ It was worth it, we have something against them. We need to talk to Miguel. He has to know more.."
Gabriel pinched the bridge of his nose, not really wanting to get Miguel involved in the situation. Not that he did not trust Miguel per say, but did not want Miguel to react in a bad way. 

"Fine.. I'll text Miggy."

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11:30 PM 


Gabri 🧣 went online

Gabri 🧣: Hey Miggy.. Um we need to talk. Are you up or sleeping?


Gabri 🧣: Honestly if your sleeping, I'd really be surprised.

Miggy 🩸 went online

Miggy 🩸: You wish, what's up.


Gabri 🧣: We need to talk.


Miggy 🩸: Oh sure. Um- about what?


Gabri 🧣: Like in person, Miggy 


Miggy 🩸: Oh. 


Miggy 🩸: Well about what? Is it important? Like are you dying or an emotional emergency?

[ 🤨 x1 ]


Gabri 🧣: Miggy. Why do you always assume that I am dying? 


Miggy 🩸: . . .


Miggy 🩸: Maybe because I am your older brother. Mami would not be happy if her favorite child died. 

[ 🙄 x1 ] 


Miggy 🩸: And.. Um.. Because.. I love you too.. And wouldn't want you to die. ❤

[ 💜 x1 ] 


Miggy 🩸: Anyways... What happened?


Gabri 🧣: I may or may not have gone and robbed the Alchemax trash with Kasey

[ 😃 x1 ]


Gabri 🧣: And almost got caught by the Public Eye and Alchemax security guards.. 😬


Miggy 🩸: YOU WHAT.

[ 🫣 x1 ]


Gabri 🧣: I said this in the group-chat Miggy.


Miggy 🩸: I know that! I did not think that you'd ACTUALLY do it!


Gabri 🧣: Expect the unexpected 😛


Gabri 🧣: I'm at Kasey's place. 

[ 😮‍💨 x1 ]


Miggy 🩸: ... I'll be there soon.

[ 💜 x1 ]


Gabri 🧣: Just keep a low profile, I dunno if the public eye is still out there. 

[ 👍 x1 ] 


Gabri 🧣: Thanks Miggy <3

[ ❤ x1 ] 

Miggy 🩸 and Gabri 🧣 went offline 

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HQ Chat


11:40 PM


Miguel O'Hara and three others went online

Miguel O'Hara: @Jessica Drew You are in charge because I am going to be leaving. I know crime ain't going to hold up even if I am gone.


Jessica Drew: Wait, what- where are you going


Miguel O'Hara: Out of base, home life stuff calls.


Jessica Drew: Ah. Important?

[ 🤷 x1 ] 


Miguel O'Hara: I don't know. Gabri didn't tell me much.


Hobie <3: Is it aBout tHe AlchEmax stuFf? 


Miguel O'Hara: Yep. 


Peter B. Parker: Why does Jessica get to be in charge but not me?


Miguel O'Hara: Because I trust her more than you not to let the place burn to the ground by the children when I get back.

[ 😔 x1 ]


Hobie <3: I feEl liKe thAt coMmenT is tArgEted at Me.


Hobie <3: aRe yOu stilL maD at Me foR encOurAging Gabri?


Miguel O'Hara: No.. More irritated than anything else but Gabri has been known for doing stupid stuff when he shouldn't. Especially if peer pressure is used on him. Or a girl. He's kinda desperate. 


Jessica Drew: Miguel you both are young of course Gabriel is going to be desperate. He's not going to be just like you Miguel


Miguel O'Hara: Well I didn't say that. I just think he lets women treat him terribly.


Miguel O'Hara: Anyways I should go now. 


Hobie <3: TeLl Gabri I saId Hi :D

[ 👍 x1 ]


Miguel O'Hara: OK 👍

Miguel O'Hara and three others went offline

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Miguel kept a low profile as he left HQ to see Gabriel and Kasey, as much as he hated leaving HQ he didn't want to leave his younger brother when he might need something important. Especially if it was about Alchemax. He was hoping to keep his involvement with Alchemax small as possible despite working there still. Not by choice though.

Miguel looked around cautiously before knocking three times on Kasey's apartment door, and with hesitation the door opens and Kasey slightly opened the door; when she did notice it wasn't anyone suspicious but Miguel before opening the door wider and yanking him into the apartment before slamming the door shut.

"Don't slam the door Kasey! It'll draw attention- Like you do NOT want in the first place Kasey!"

"Don't slam the door-"

Kasey mocked Gabriel as Miguel pulls his arm from Kasey's grasp. Miguel looked at Gabriel and quickly stepped over and patted down Gabriel checking for any injuries. Gabriel heavily sighs, at his brother's insistence of checking for injuries.
"I thought I told you I didn't get hurt earlier-"

"I know, but I just want to make sure, Gabri.."

"Anyways.. What were you two thinking?! Trying to get yourself an death wish or something?"
Miguel demanded in a brotherly tone, as he gave a glare at Kasey.
"Hey, we wanted to find something to expose Alchemax for being a terrible company and.. More."

Kasey retorted back throwing her hands in the air in a surrender motion. Before she clicked her tongue and added.

"Which.. We did find something interesting! Gabriel show him."
Gabriel knew what she was talking about. The Rapture.. But Gabriel hesitated for a moment, as he didn't know how Miguel would react to their findings of Rapture. 

"Um show me what?-" 
Miguel began to speak when Gabriel finally revealed the canister of the drug Rapture to Miguel which made him stop in his tracks. Miguel immediately stepped back away from Gabriel like he was the plague. 

"Gabri.. Put that down!- that- that's.. No give it to me! That's dangerous for you to hold!"
He demanded extending his hand but then retracting it. Miguel wasn't sure how to react with Gabriel just held the Rapture in his hands. 

"It is contained Miguel, calm down-"

Miguel glared at Kasey and snapped back at her as it was Kasey's whole idea in the first place so he felt it was all her fault for bringing something up he wanted to leave buried and dead so to speak.
"Calm down? Calm DOWN!?" 

Taking a breath in and out Miguel struggled not to freak out at Kasey, Gabriel frowned and set aside the canister of Rapture on the counter top of Kasey's kitchen to attempt to calm down Miguel.
"Miggy, listen.. Talk to me. Don't blow up on us. I know Rapture is a sensitive subject to you.. But talk to me."

Gabriel grabbed Miguel's clenched hands and Miguel looked away from Kasey, his eyes softening at Gabriel making an attempt to calm him down. Miguel slightly huffed.
"I.. I hate talking about this Gabri.. I don't want to remember bad experiences from that damned company."

"I know but after this we won't have to talk about it ever again."
Gabriel assured Miguel, as he might've not known much but he knew that Miguel despised everything about the company however didn't understand why he didn't try to quit the job at anytime in the three years that he was working for them.

Miguel sighs before mumbling to Gabriel.
"It's embarrassing... You won't laugh at me if I tell you right?"
Gabriel gives him a confused look but nodded and responded patting Miguel's back.
"Of course not-! Whatever it is, I won't laugh. It's a drug we are talking about Miggy, just tell me."

Miguel takes a slow, deep breath before admitting with his chest heavy.
"When I told you that I "beat" Rapture.. Well um I didn't even want to be on Rapture in the first place and.. Tyler he.. Drugged me with Rapture without even my.. Acknowledgement."
 
Gabriel's mouth was agape with.. Shock? No more of a mix of anger and.. Surprise. Miguel seriously thought Gabriel would laugh about his big brother being drugged unwillingly. He didn't know about that part, as Miguel never even told him about that, all Gabriel knew was he thought Miguel just.. got onto the drugs willingly, not.. Forcibly. 

"Yet you still stayed with them in the company?"
Kasey spoke up with a raised eyebrow at Miguel. Obviously she was suspicious, in her eyes Miguel was just Gabriel's slime-ball brother, yet if he was really drugged unwillingly by the CEO; exactly why allow that to happen without trying to achieve justice. 

"What did you expect me to do? Sue them or something?! It's Alchemax we are talking about! They.. They kinda "raised" me from early teenage-hood to adulthood, Kasey.. It wasn't going to be that easy even if I wanted to."
Kasey glares at Miguel and what he said before she seemed to get an idea.

"Well.. Maybe not but you can help us!"

Miguel raised an eyebrow at Kasey's words and Kasey sighed before looking at Miguel and said.
"Miguel, think about it. Tyler, the CEO mind you, unwillingly drugged you. And if nobody knows about it, you won't get your justice.. But more importantly.. We can finally have solid evidence to take down Alchemax!"

Kasey explained which Miguel huffed and pinched the bridge of his nose. It's not like he didn't agree with Kasey's view point but, Alchemax was a huge company and it could be dangerous even for the three of them to come out in public. Sure not alot of people liked Alchemax or Tyler Stone however.. There was much that could definitely go astray and spiral down more. 

Just thinking about it made Miguel's stomach churned, and he shook his head at Kasey.
"No way! I am not going to help you with.. Potentially putting not just me but my baby brother in danger! It's just not worth it!"

 Gabriel huffed and ran a hand through his dark brown hair and he protested.
"I can handle myself, Miggy. I'm not a baby."

Kasey looked at the two brothers, mostly at Miguel in disbelief at his "loyalty" to the Alchemax. Miguel opens his mouth to protest against Gabriel's own protest but Kasey spoke up first.
"Oh, I see. So you are like a dog- loyal to the damned company that has harmed you." 

Both Gabriel and Miguel became silent and slowly looked over at Kasey as the room hit an awkward silence at Kasey's blunt statement. Miguel's face hardened and he turned away immediately, pushing himself out of the room and out of Kasey's apartment. The door slammed shut. Kasey looks at Gabriel as he glares at her slightly before following suit to catch up with Miguel.

"Gabriel wait-"
She flinched as the door slammed shut and Gabriel left too which she sighed to herself, leaning herself over the counter top where the Rapture canister was left there.

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The two brothers walked side by side on the road. Neither Gabriel or Miguel spoke while they walked, the tense conversation was enough for them to leave. Gabriel turns to look at Miguel, his face was still hardened with what Kasey said to him. Gabriel opened his mouth hesitantly and spoke breaking the silence. 

"Miguel... Kasey, I'm sure she didn't mean what she said back there.."

Miguel scoffed at Gabriel's words. He grumbled.
"Sure.. Right, and Kasey treats you bad too Gabriel! I have no choice in the shocking matter when it comes to Alchemax. Tyler didn't want me to quit because I am just this smart hotshot guy.. I guess."

Miguel dismissively waved his hand around at his own words. Gabriel sighs and shakes his head slightly.
"Miguel.. Why haven't you told me sooner..? I could've done something-"
Miguel laughed at Gabriel's naivety when it came to the situation. He reared his head to look at Gabriel and said.

"How would you be able to help me? Tyler drugged me yes, but there was no camera, no actual evidence of what he did to me. Just my word against his, it'll be like an he said she said type of situation. So even if you wanted to help in some way, it would be useless."
Gabriel furrowed his eyebrows, he couldn't deny what Miguel said was true. Gabriel puffed up his cheeks and sighed.

"What he did to you, was wrong.. I hope you know that."

"Of course I do. Shocker wanted to put me on a leash..."

"Like a dog..."

Gabriel finished for Miguel. Miguel grimly nods as much as he hated a label like that, that's what Tyler was hoping for. Miguel shakes his head.
"Kasey is wrong about me, Gabri."
He started walking ahead with much haste to just get off the streets of Nueva York.

Miguel didn't want to be caught out here with Gabriel, especially with the fact the public eye still could be out there to search for him and Kasey. Gabriel speeds up trying to keep up with his elder brother. Gabriel said.
"I know.. I never said she was right for saying that to you. I'll talk to her later okay?"

"Let's just get to your apartment and tomorrow we can get back to HQ. It's too late and we both need sleep."

"Fine. I suppose Jessica can handle being in charge of HQ for a night."

At the entrance of the Babylon Towers, Miguel and Gabriel entered the elevator and used it to go up to Miguel's apartment. Elevator music played in the background making the silence slightly more bearable to the brothers. Once on the 100th floor the elevator dings and opens allowing the duo to leave the elevator going towards Miguel's apartment entrance. 

Upon entering the quiet apartment Miguel slipped off his shoes and placed them beside the doorway. The lights were dimmed in the apartment as always. Miguel steps more into the apartment without a word. Gabriel looked around outside of the doorway cautiously before closing the apartment door behind him, it locked on its own due to the advanced security systems in place. 

Miguel clasped his hands together before turning to Gabriel and suggested.
"Umm.. How about we have some hot chocolate?" 
Gabriel's eyes lit up at Miguel and it looked like there were sparkles in his chocolate brown eyes. 

"Yeah! Definitely!"

After the hot chocolate was made; Gabriel and Miguel sat down on his long, luxurious couch and lounged upon it together. Gabriel briefly glances up at Miguel and leans his head onto his brother's shoulder. Gabriel felt bad for what happened earlier and wanted to talk more about it with Miguel. But he could tell Miguel just wanted to drop the topic that was discussed earlier. 

Gabriel didn't want to push Miguel into the conversations that would make him uncomfortable. Gabriel sips the warm liquid and pulls out his phone. Gabriel sighs as he opens up his screen and goes to messages.

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🖤💜

1:20 AM 

Hobie <3 and Gabri went online

Hobie <3: Gabri? ThIngS go WeLl wiTh Miguel? We haVen'T heArD aNythIng froM yOu TwO in two hoUrS..


Gabri: Oh, yeah. Kinda, Miguel and I are at his apartment. It didn't end well.


Hobie <3: ThAt suCks.. YoU wanNa talK abOut iT? 


Gabri: . . .


Gabri: Yeah. 


Gabri: I accidentally triggered Miguel. I didn't mean too and I feel bad.. But I also don't want to make it worse by bringing it up to him again to apologize. He never liked talking about stuff that makes him uncomfortable to anyone, even me still. 


Hobie <3: Is Miguel okAy noW? 

[ 👍 x1 ] 


Gabri: Yeah. He's calm for what I can tell. 

[ 🖤 x1 ] 


Hobie <3: ThAt's goOd mAtE. 


Hobie <3: I dOn't waNt tO pRy InTo buSiNesS tHaT isN't mInE tO KnOw aBoUt hoWevEr, whAt haPpeNed? JuSt telL mE WhaTeveR YoU aRe comFortaBle shaRinG wiTh Me 

[ 💜 x1 ] 


Gabri: Kasey and Miguel almost had a full-blown argument about Rapture. 


Hobie <3: WhAt iS Rapture?


Gabri: Oh right, you don't know what Rapture is. It is basically a DNA binding drug. 

[ 😀 x1 ]


Hobie <3: WhAt. 


Hobie <3: HoW iS thaT evEn poSsibLe? 


Gabri:  I have no clue about all the details. I don't work at Alchemax. That's where it originated from.


Hobie <3: YeaH. DoEsn't suRpriSe Me thAt Alchemax dId sUcH a thInG. WitH wHaT yOu'vE tOlD me aBout thAt coMpanY iN yOur UniVersE beForE I aM noT suRprisEd.


Hobie <3: GreEdY cApitAlistS 


Gabri: Yeah. 


Gabri: Anyways... I have to text Kasey. I told Miguel I would text her about tonight.


Hobie <3: OkAy, weLl havE a GooDnigHt <3


Gabri: Thanks 💜 you too.

[ 🖤 x1 ] 

Gabri and Hobie <3 went offline

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Gabriel sighs exiting the messages with Hobie, his thumb hovering over Kasey's panel to her messages with him. Gabriel hesitated; he knows eventually he would have to talk to Kasey as he did just leave her all alone. But he felt mentally exhausted after the argument tonight. So he sighs and clicked on the messages to send her a quick message to see if she was still awake. 

Which she did not respond to immediately; either it meant she was asleep or ignoring his texts. Gabriel thought of the latter as it was late. Gabriel finished up his hot chocolate and turned to look at Miguel noticing he was oddly too quiet. Miguel was completely passed out from exhaustion, his empty cup still in his grasp. Gabriel gingerly takes Miguel's cup away from his grasp. 

"At least Miggy is getting the well deserved rest he needs."

Gabriel mumbled to himself relieved that his brother finally was asleep. He expected Miguel to stay up but perhaps that wasn't the case.

Getting up off the comfy couch Gabriel goes into the kitchen to wash out the empty cups in the sink. Washing the cups out, he sighs drying off his wet hands on the neat, white towel hung on the cabinet below the sink. Gabriel turns off the kitchen light. 

Gabriel pulls out a blanket from Miguel's bed in his bedroom and laid it over him to cover him and keep him warm. Gabriel crawls back onto the couch and checks his phone again to see if Kasey responded back to his text message he sent; which still was left unread. Gabriel places his phone on his chest before he shifts to get more comfortable and fall asleep. 

Tomorrow hopefully will be a better day than tonight was. 

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Walkie Talkies


4:32 AM 


Kasey went online

Kasey: Gabriel. Why won't you respond to our private chats? 

Hobie <3 went online

Hobie <3: he'S sLeePinG Kasey. Or hE sHoulD be. He saId he woUld Text yOu to mE befOre GoIng ofFline.

[ 🙄 x1 ]


Hobie <3: iS it ImPortaNt? 


Kasey: Yeah. It's about the rapture. 


Kasey: Wait, did Gabriel tell you anything about yesterday? About what happened?

[ 👍 x1 ] 


Hobie <3: YeAh. SoMewHat 

[ 🙄 x1 ] 


Kasey: Okay. So I won't have to explain much, but we need to figure out what to do with the rapture. 


Hobie <3: WeLl.. uMm hoW aBouT we mEet uP to TaLk about iT?


Hobie <3: BuT maYbE LaTer? SiNcE it'S rEaLly eaRlY riGht noW. 


Kasey: We can just do it now, can't we not? 


Hobie <3: BecAusE.. Gabriel iS sLeEpinG? AnD I doN't thInK wE sHouLd be taLkiNg abOut ThiS wiThoUt hIm. It dOes reVolvE arOunD hIm and aBouT Miguel too. NoT suRe hOw bUt.. Y'kNow.


Kasey: But we need to solve this quickly. 

[ 😐 x1 ]


Hobie <3: I aGreE.. It sOunDs liKe a prEssIng MatTer. HowEveR, fRom WhAt I waS toLd By Gabriel.. It wAs a roUgH niGht for the twO of ThEm. So I tHinK hE woUld appReciatE it if wE gaVe thEm BoTh soMe tiMe. BeForE throWinG thEm bAcK intO an eMotiOnAl sitUatioN likE thIs. 


Kasey: . . . 


Kasey: Hobart. Miguel took illegal drugs. Literally why this whole damn situation happened in the first place. 


Hobie <3: . . .


Hobie <3: YouR jokIng. 


Hobie <3: YOu gotTa be. 


Hobie <3: I mIghT noT be A biG faN of Miguel.. But hE is NOT likE THAT Kasey..


Kasey: What else am I supposed to think? When he tells me that he was drugged unwillingly by the CEO yet despite that he still won't help us go against Alchemax when he absolutely should! Or at the very least, for his own sake.


Hobie <3: . . . 


Hobie <3: I dOn'T thInk You UnDerstaNd the SituaTion Kasey.. EsPeciallY with litTle iNforMation you Have of tHe SitUation.


Kasey: Whatever. I'll see you and Gabriel later. Meet up at our usual spot. 


Kasey: At 3 PM. Sharp.

Kasey went offline

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Hobie looked at his phone in disbelief but also in.. Irritation at Kasey. Then she went offline just like that. He'll admit; ever since he joined up with Kasey and Gabriel in their attempts to take down the company Alchemax he tried to get along with Kasey. However he never got along with Kasey; she was not really sympathetic with anyone unless they agreed with her 100%. 

But he tried to cover up that fact for Gabriel's sake so there wouldn't be any problems or arguments within the group. 

Hobie makes a "tch" sound with his tongue and exits the messages with that particular group chat. Hobie was about to turn off his phone and go to bed in his bedroom himself for a few hours until he had to get up to meet with Kasey and Gabriel before noticing Miguel was online and decided to text him.

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❤🖤


4:40 AM 


Hobie <3 went online

Hobie <3: Miguel? Are yOu stiLl aWake?


Miguel: Yeah. But I did sleep earlier. 


Miguel: I'll be fine. 

[ 🖤 x1 ] 


Hobie <3: OkaY. 

[ 👍 x1 ]


Miguel: Yeah.


Hobie <3: iS Gabriel okAy?


Miguel: Yeah. He's fine. Sleeping back at my apartment, I went back to HQ. I need to get back to work anyways. 

[ 🖤 x1 ] 


Hobie <3: YaY, I aM gLad Kasey's meSsagEs diD noT waKe him uP. Lad neEds his sleeP.


Miguel: Kasey woke me up with those messages notifications though. It's fine though. Just wished she gave Gabriel a break.


Hobie <3: You aNd me boTh. 


Hobie <3: aT leAst yoU agreE with mE.

[ ❤ x1 ]


Miguel: Of course I do, he's my baby brother..


Miguel: Even if he's just as an adult as I am, I still care.

[ 🖤 x1 ] 


Hobie <3: PeoPle haVe diffErenT ways of giVing a shiT abOut othErs, it'S alL goOd mate.

[ 👍 x1 ]


Miguel: Mhm.


Hobie <3: wEll I'll lEt yoU gEt baCk to youR boriNg woRk. I'm goIng to hit the beD.  


Miguel: Cool. Well get some good sleep Brown.

[ 🖤 x1 ] 


Hobie <3: 🖤

Miguel and Hobie <3 went offline

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Hours later.. The sun shines through Hobie's bedroom windows and Hobie slightly tosses and turns trying to keep his precious eyes sheltered from the bright, warm sun. Groaning at the fact the sun kept shining Hobie sits up groggily and scratched the back of his neck deciding it was just time to get up for the continuing day.

Hobie swings his legs over his bed before climbing out and going to grab a casual outfit to wear. 

Usually he'd just throw on the usual clothes, but since he was going out into a completely different dimension Hobie would have to blend in. Grabbing a somewhat casual but trendy outfit from his dark closet and changing into it. Hobie adjusted the outfit to make it more comfortable.

Before leaving the room Hobie snatched his phone off the charger he put on hours before he went to sleep after texting with Miguel and left the room. Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes and checking his phone he got a couple of notifications, from Gabriel and the Walkie Talkies group chat.

Hobie quickly responds to Gabriel's text messages telling Gabriel that he'd be over to Miguel's apartment and to be ready when he gets there. He only got a thumbs-up from Gabriel in response. It was about 2:00 PM so Hobie wasn't particularly worried about being late. Even if he was, he wouldn't care either.  

The next 10 minutes Hobie spent cleaning up his bedroom and tidying up around as his room needed to be cleaned up which he hadn't done for a while if he were honest. He threw his spider suit clothes into his laundry bin to be washed later and hummed as he cleaned up around the small bedroom. After that Hobie leaves his room once again to open up a portal to Miguel's dimension.

Hobie presses a few buttons on the watch on his wrist dialing the number of Miguel's universe into the watch and the portal opened up with a whirrr noise and Hobie ended up landing through on Miguel's couch in the living room. His impact barely affected the couch but mostly the small, light things around the apartment like pens, papers until the portal closed and the stuff dropped back down. 

Hobie bounced himself off the couch. Gabriel turns his head from looking outside the windows and looks at Hobie.
"Whatcha looking at?"
Hobie asked which Gabriel shrugged and looked back out of the window. 

"I don't understand how Miguel can live in this apartment."

Hobie raised an eyebrow at Gabriel's comment stepping over towards him.
"What do you mean?"

When Hobie looked out the window, around the landscape there were large skyscrapers around it but you could only see the tips of the roofs of said skyscrapers. Mostly see the clouds; and the fluffiness of said clouds. Oh, Hobie looked away.
"How high are we?"

"100th floor."

"Damn."

Hobie and Gabriel were silent for a moment looking out the window before Hobie shook his head.
"Anyways... How did you sleep mate?"
Gabriel slightly smiles at Hobie's question and responded.

"I actually got good sleep. I usually do though, I don't usually stay up often like Miggy does. Miggy should really try to get some sleep instead."
Hobie scoffed at Gabriel's comment about Miguel getting more sleep, like Miguel would actually get some good sleep. 
"He's like a work alcoholic, Gabri."

"I know.."
Gabriel trailed off with his words awkwardly and shifted his body around; before he mentioned.
"Um.. About Kasey, are you two doing alright? You seemed mad at her."

"I don't think Kasey respects you if I am honest."
Hobie stated bluntly about Kasey. Gabriel sighs and scratches at his scarf clearly uncomfortable with Hobie's bluntness towards Kasey. 
"Well, she does. She's just.. Worried about the Rapture. It's a difficult situation for her." 

Gabriel tried to explain as Hobie bit his lip at that, sure the situation was difficult but it has to be more difficult for Gabriel and Miguel given the circumstances. At least Miguel wouldn't have to worry about it for now. 
"It's not just hard for Kasey; remember that Gabri. It's not like the CEO drugged her and not Miguel."

Hobie said placing his hand on Gabriel's shoulder and patting his shoulder reassuringly. Gabriel sighs and nods at that, it's not like he disagrees with Hobie but he was used to not being treated by romantic partners in a way like a good, normal relationship. Plus Gabriel didn't think it was a big deal as it wasn't like he didn't get enough sleep, as he had a healthy sleep schedule.

"Well.. Let's get going eh? I don't want to keep Kasey waiting."
Gabriel changed the topic as he didn't want to linger on the status of his relationship with Kasey. Hobie glances at the futuristic digital clock that was hung against the kitchen wall; 2:26 PM. 

With a hum of acknowledgement the two left Miguel's apartment making sure to lock the door beforehand heading out of the Babylon Towers and out into the streets. Hobie glanced around as the flying vehicles flew overhead, even with visiting Miguel's dimension a couple times he'd never get used to seeing literal flying cars.
 
"What do you think we should do with the rapture?"
Gabriel whispered to Hobie when they turned a corner into a dark, sketchy alley in downtown that led to the meeting place Kasey and the two boys would meet up frequently.

Hobie doesn't give an immediate answer for Gabriel's question as he didn't feel like it was his place to decide, or even Kasey shouldn't be the one who decides what they do with the Rapture. Miguel and Gabriel should figure out what to do with it together.

"It's not my choice to make, Gabri. It's yours and Miguel's."

"Right.."

Once inside the abandoned garage that they usually met up in Hobie remained silent for most of the meeting; only being there to make Kasey satisfied and stop an argument if it were to arise. He doubts it would happen but just in case. Kasey was hesitant to let Gabriel have the Rapture and decide what to do with it, she held onto the Rapture all night after Miguel stormed out of Kasey's apartment.

"Just trust me on this Kasey, I can handle holding onto the Rapture. I'll probably just dispose of it and we won't have to worry about it afterwards."

Gabriel tried to reassure the taller female. Kasey clicked her tongue and ran her hand along the canister and sighs;
"What about finally taking down Alchemax? Tyler and the rest of the scientists can finally get what they deserve. Don't you want that?"

Maybe there was a point to that but Miguel was kinda right; many things could go wrong by knocking down Alchemax off its controlling platform.. Gabriel also didn't want to shut down Kasey and make her feel like she won't be heard or listened too so he said. 

"We'll figure that out when we get more evidence, this isn't the end of the world Kasey.. More evidence will be better than just this canister that Tyler easily can lie about and fabricate lies. Right Hobie?"
Gabriel turned his head to look at Hobie for his reassurance. Hobie sighs and gave a slight nod.

"I wouldn't put it past him; this guy sounds immoral to try something like that, it's not worth it."
Hobie replied before thinking for a moment. Wouldn't it be just better to get rid of Tyler entirely?
"Why don't we just decapitate him?"

Gabriel snickers slightly at Hobie's blunt question; while Kasey just looked at Hobie dead in the eyes before protesting.
"We can't just do that!"
Hobie shrugs at Kasey's response with a slight smirk on his face, and raises his index finger up as he added like it was obvious.

"He won't feel a thing."

"Wouldn't it still hurt?"
Gabriel asked which Hobie purses his lips and scratched the back of his head and hair unsure how to answer the question; hell he wouldn't know how it would feel he never got decapitated before.

"Probably."

As far as Hobie was concerned it would solve the problem, but also has its flaws. He wouldn't actually do it, well if Hobie could help it. It would be the last plan if it was the only way to remove him from power that couldn't be solved peacefully. Hobie wasn't a person who gravitated towards violence immediately.

"Anyways, um I think we should head out. Gotta get outta here before it's dark mates."
Hobie said shoving his hands into his jacket pockets and heading out with Kasey and Gabriel, to go back to their place. Gabriel insisted on going with Kasey just in case to keep her safe which Hobie didn't mind so he went on his own to go back to his dimension.

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Mike


7:20 AM


Tyler Stone goes online

Tyler Stone: You have to come into work today Mike.


Tyler Stone: We accomplished a big feat and we need you here. 

Miguel O'Hara goes online

Miguel O'Hara: I see. 


Miguel O'Hara: Well what is it? 


Tyler Stone: You'll just have to see for yourself Mike. 


Miguel O'Hara: . . .


Miguel O'Hara: Fine. I'll be there.

[ 👍 x1 ] 


Tyler Stone: Great! I'll see you soon Mike

[ 👍 x1 ]


Miguel O'Hara: Sure. 


Miguel O'Hara: It better be good.


Tyler Stone: It is. I assure you.

Tyler Stone and Miguel O'Hara went offline 

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Tyler stuffs his phone down into his back pocket and glances over the railing that is overlooking the lower level of the testing room where scientists were working relentlessly downstairs. The scientists have finally seemed to figure out how to make an inter-dimensional portal to travel through to different dimensions.

Tyler always had a belief that different dimensions were possible but now he was going to finally see it in person. Miguel will get to see it too, he is sure Miguel will be impressed with this big feat the team had accomplished while he was off doing.. Whatever outside of work. Probably being lazy again.

"Tyler.. What the shock is this?"

Turning to the sound of Miguel's voice Tyler noticed Miguel looking down quite confused on what the scientists were working on. Tyler waves his hand in a sort of grand gesture.
"It's an inter-dimensional machine Mike. Have a look for yourself."

Miguel recoiled at the nickname. He slightly taps his fingers on the steel railing; Miguel turns his head looking at Tyler as he asks the question trying to seem interested in what the team has accomplished.
"Really? Didn't think you'd accomplish this. Does it work?"

 Tyler snickers and waved his hand dismissively.
"We'll just have to see won't we? Plus innovation can't happen if we do not take risks."

"Yeah, remember the last time you said that? Yeah, Mr. Sims is dead."

Miguel reminded Tyler bitterly. Tyler just shrugged his shoulders, in his eyes it was a necessary death to further the development of science and evolution. Besides death was normal was it not? Everyone would die eventually. It didn't matter to Tyler if Mr. Sims died or not; as it would've furthered humanity's scientific endeavors.

"It was necessary Mike. Plus it happened quite a while ago, you are holding a grudge on our company just for a necessary death in all the schemes of things around here in Alchemax."

"Whatever. Let's just go down there." 

Miguel huffed in a slightly irritated tone brushing past Tyler and heading down the stairs which Tyler follows behind. Upon closer examination Miguel ran his hand along the machine's texture and rim while Tyler went to the other scientists. 
"Do you think it'll be stable enough to open the portal and enter inside said portal?"

He asked the other scientists which Tyler received a worrisome expression from the main lead scientist working on the project; Jordan Boone.
"It's stable to open; but if you go through I am not sure however if it'll be stable enough to walk through."
Tyler clicks his tongue at the male's words despite the warning however he ordered.

"Well not when you talk like that! fire up the machine, further innovation won't progress if we don't try right?"

Miguel eyes Tyler as Jordan sighed but still went over to the control panel to switch on the machine. Miguel stepped back from the machine in caution as Jordan pulled down the level to activate the inter-dimensional machine. It whirred and made loud sounds, the machine was definitely unstable, the metal shaking and creaking after only a couple of minutes of the portal being opened.

"You need to shut this machine down now!-"

Miguel began to order everyone to get the machine to be turned off; when the machine started rattling and making weird noises. Miguel wouldn't have been worried so much but what if it exploded? It could kill everyone in the room including himself, while thinking about it now Miguel wouldn't have been too angry at dying now he thought about it. 

Until Miguel felt a strong wave of the machine literally pulling him off of his feet and into the portal. Leaving the other scientists and Tyler holding onto stuff to prevent themselves from being sucked through the portal like Miguel did. With one of the scientists trying to close the portal Tyler snapped.

"What are you doing? Don't close it! We need to make sure Mike's-"

Despite holding onto a piece of machinery Tyler thought was stable and would prevent him from being sucked inside, it snapped in half and sent Tyler into the portal too before the other scientists could close it. Only then the machine made some loud hissing noises and shut off on its own, leaving the scientists baffled at what just happened.

Miguel groans as he hears Lyla's chirpful voice popping out of Miguel's dimension watch and informing him.
"Looks like you are now in Dimension - 0161. You've also never visited this dimension before;"
Miguel sits up and dusts off himself and looks around to get familiar with his surroundings in this new dimension.

"Thanks Lyla-"

When Miguel looked around, it was just.. Forest. With a city in the distance so he guessed that's where that universe of Nueva York is at. Turning his head back and then that's when he noticed Tyler stuck in a tree, like a cat hanging for dear life. He pauses and gestures for Lyla to go back into the watch which she does without a fuss.

Miguel rolled back down his white coat sleeve to cover up the dimensional watch with a heavy sigh. 
"Should I just leave him up there? He is my boss.. So I have to help him. I don't like it though."
Miguel mumbled to himself rather than to anybody else; tempted to do what he said he wanted to do. He stepped over some greenery. 

Standing underneath the tree Miguel snickered and Tyler huffed looking down at the younger male with an irritated tone.
"Are you going to help me down or what?"
Miguel snickered more at Tyler before saying with a dismissive wave hand, why not tease him a little bit? Miguel thought.

"Maybe I should let you hang there.."
Tyler glared daggers at Miguel and flailed his arms around with a huff. Miguel laughs at Tyler's stern look and sighs. 
"Okay, okay I'll get you down. Just give me a second this isn't particularly easy to get you down."

Once Miguel manages to get Tyler down from the tree, Tyler gets back onto his two feet and dusts off some wood splinters that get stuck in his fancy black suit with a huff. Tyler turns to Miguel and asks.
"Where are we?"

"Shock if I know but there's a city over there."
Tyler rolled his eyes at Miguel's unprofessionalism and nodded as he saw Miguel pointing into the distance. The trip there wasn't far, and for the most part it was silent Miguel in the lead while Tyler was more slow taking in his surroundings and the plants around him. 

"Keep up old man, you're so slow-"
Tyler was about to respond to Miguel's blunt comment but a loud explosion went off, deafening the two for a couple of seconds. When Miguel was able to hear again he started sprinting towards the city explosion. Tyler following behind closely.

"Wait is that an Alchemax building? Where did that portal even take us?!"
Tyler pointed out with his hand towards where the explosion came from which was an Alchemax building albeit a less grand but smaller sized building. Miguel looked over sprinting across an empty road with people outside their cars taking videos of the explosion that had occurred.

"This must mean Jordan's efforts actually worked; I don't think we are in 2099 anymore!"

"Yeah but then what year is it?"
Tyler asked looking around for any sort of date that could clue him in of which year this dimension took place, Miguel ignored Tyler's question more worried about the explosion.

Smoke was swirling its way out of the building Miguel was going to rush himself inside the building just out of habit to see if anyone was inside to save but Tyler snatched Miguel's lab coat preventing him from going.
"What are you doing!? Are you crazy; you can't run inside!"

Tyler shook Miguel by his shoulders like he was acting irrational. Promptly remembered that he couldn't just rush inside, with just his civilian clothes on. Thinking for a moment as he thought of something and told Tyler.
"I am going to get some help then! Stay here!"

Miguel insisted not waiting for Tyler to deny or agree with Miguel and ran off quickly, out of Tyler's view leaving Tyler slightly suspicious of the younger man's behavior.

Tyler attempted to go after Miguel but was stopped by a rapid, painful feeling that made him explode into multi-colored glitches, like the ones you'd see in old TV's or video games. Tyler uses a wall like a crutch and said to himself as the glitches in his body went away faster than they appeared.

"What the..? What was that?!"

Once Miguel was alone and out of sight, he removes his lab coat quickly and throws it to the side, he'll just have to grab it later after dealing with the damages in the Alchemax building. Now in his Spider-Man suit, Lyla pops up again from his watch and glitches to lean over Miguel's shoulder.

"Do you think you'll need back-up big guy?" 

"Get Jessica Drew, if she's available, if not I will deal with this on my own. It shouldn't be that hard. I am just worried about Tyler."
Lyla listened to Miguel's words and laughed at Miguel's last statement. She lowered her pink tinted glasses showing her brown pupils and looked at Miguel.

"You, worried about the CEO of Alchemax? That's a laugh, you talk about him like he's the literal Devil himself."

Miguel stroked a hand through his dark red hair before slipping his Spider-Man mask over his face concealing his identity and responded.
"Because he's my boss? And I'd prefer to have someone keep an eye on him so he doesn't do anything stupid. Anyways get Jessica if you can I gotta make sure there's no further damage done!"

Lyla gives a swift nod and there was a ding sound in Miguel's watch, signaling that she notified Jessica to get to Dimension - 0161 ASAP.
"Lyla, bring me up a map of the Alchemax building, I'll need it to navigate my way through."

Miguel requested before he shot a web to the Alchemax building ledge and quickly swung himself into the building crashing through the window of the floor the explosion came from the smoke from the building swirling out of the window that was broken into.

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Once Jessica was first notified via her watch, she was in the middle of helping Miles with a Spanish test he had upcoming that week. She pauses and looked at her watch and groaned. Miles lifts his head as Jessica had stopped and asked.
"Is something wrong?"

Jessica looks back at Miles and stands up from the desk glancing at her watch for a moment and she responds in a hasteful tone without looking back at Miles.
"I have to go, Miguel needs me."

Miles frowned and also stood up and tried to look at Jessica's watch which she pulled her arm away from Miles' view.

"What's going on? Can I come with?"
Miles asked with pleading eyes as Jessica gives him a motherly look knowing that he was just trying to get out of studying for his Spanish test which happened to be next week.

"Next time, Miles. You have to study, I'll be back soon."

Miles slightly pouted and sat back down with his arms crossed, disappointed that he couldn't come with. If he was honest he was extremely bored but if Jessica insisted he would stay.
"Be safe, Jess."

Miles told Jessica which she brushes back her hair to slip on her red headband, and smirked slightly.
"I'll be perfectly fine, Miles. I can handle myself just fine. Now study, I'll be back to help you out soon. Miguel said it shouldn't be a hard task."
Jessica dials the universe number into her watch and opens a portal which she walks through giving Miles a wave of goodbye.

When the woman arrived at Dimension - 0161, Jessica got a few more new messages via her watch from Miguel. One of the messages read that she had to find a man named Tyler Stone to return him to his dimension and a photo of him attached to the message so she knew what to look for.

Why couldn't Miguel do this himself? Jessica asked herself before shaking her head and began to sprint towards the Alchemax building where Miguel gave her coordinates to go to find Tyler.

Miguel was just hoping that the explosion was just an accident, an unfortunate mishap you could say. However it wasn't; it was a villain, a Doc Ock variant. Shouldn't be too hard but an inconvenience at its most. Looked very familiar to Olivia Octavius from Miles' universe; although she had green eyes instead of brown eyes.

Rushing into the fight once he noticed a teen civilian actually attempting to fight her with a crappy makeshift Spider-Man she was wearing. It looked like she bought it from the store; Miguel rushes in immediately grasping hold of the young teen and pushing himself in front of the older woman to protect and hide the child out of parental instinct.

Olivia launches herself at Miguel with her metal octopus tentacles ready to slice at Miguel without hesitation which he promptly slammed his foot into her stomach causing her to stumble back away, her breath knocked out of her. He didn't mean to kick so hard but he wasn't willing to let himself get hurt or this young teen.

"I swear these pests are so annoying.."

Olivia mutters under her breath irritated at Miguel's arrival; as Miguel pushes the young teen girl to her feet and tries rushing her out of the room to get her to safety.
"Move, move!"

He snapped as she stumbled around and her eyes widened when she looked back, Spider-Senses going off and she cried out.
"HEY! Watch out!"
Miguel looked back just in time to see Olivia who had flung a huge chunk of debris directed at Miguel and the teen. 

With barely time to react Miguel hunched himself over the teen as the huge chunk of debris slammed into Miguel's back taking most of the wrath of the impact throwing the two back; Miguel gritting his teeth to ignore the pain, his vision shaky and slowly growing faint as he passed out still holding onto the girl.

Jessica had located Tyler quite fast as Tyler being smart, stayed in one place which was outside of the Alchemax building Miguel was still inside. The ambulance and police had arrived cautiously but without Miguel. Tyler flinches when Jessica touched his shoulder.
"Tyler, I realize that you are worried but you cannot stay here any longer."

Tyler turns around to face Jessica and look at her, with just more questions in his head than answers.
"What about Mike? And who are you?"
He questioned as he didn't want to leave Miguel in an unknown dimension as this was.. Kinda all his fault, which Tyler was willing to admit.

Jessica raised an eyebrow and placed a hand on her hip; was this another civilian that got lost? Jessica asked herself and immediately asked for clarification from the older gentleman. 
"Who is this Mike?"

"Ugh! Miguel, Miguel O'Hara."
Oh. Didn't know Miguel enjoyed that nickname; Jessica nodded and reassured him with a lie.
"Listen Mr. Stone, I can assure you that Miguel is okay, I found him on his way to get the police and I sent him back to his dimension."

That didn't happen but she wanted to coax the older male so she could send him back to his dimension and make Miguel's job much easier without his identity being revealed. At that Tyler narrowed his eyes not trusting her word 100% but at that point if Miguel was okay and back at their dimension, Tyler would just leave even if he was curious to explore this dimension.

Jessica lifted up her wrist and quickly opened up a portal for Tyler to get back to his dimension, and extended her other arm out towards the portal and explained.
"This will lead you back to your dimension."

Tyler looks at Jessica for a moment and without a word goes through the portal; and promptly after Jessica closes the portal.

Now she had to help Miguel. She rushes into the building cautiously, when Lyla popped out of her watch this time; and informs Jessica.
"Jessica, Miguel is on the 30th floor; he is injured and with a civilian! You need to get up there quickly!" 

"Are you kidding me!? Lyla why didn't you tell me sooner?!"

Jessica asked Lyla like a mother scolding their misbehaving child and Lyla stutters with her words and responds by explaining herself.
"Miguel didn't request it until now!-- He's stuck under a piece of debris, he's not alone up there though! There's a Doc Ock variant up there; not sure if she's still there though. She might've run off."

Jessica huffed realizing that she would also have to run upstairs elevators were just too risky, she didn't need to get herself stuck based on stupid decisions. The stairs it is, Jessica begins to make her way up the stairs to get to the 30th floor. Why did there have to be so many floors in this damned company? Jessica asked herself, frustrated.

It took what seemed like an hour was only a few minutes before Jessica almost made her way up 28 floors and stopped placing her hand on her swollen stomach feeling for the baby and stopping for a breath of air. After a moment of catching her breath she resumed her way up to the 30th floor. Upon reaching the floor it was so smokey that Jessica could barely see ahead of herself. 

Despite that Jessica makes her way through the smoke looking for any sign of life, not just on the look-out for this Doc Ock variant but also Miguel. She mostly relied on her Spider-Sense when she noticed a big chunk of debris she stopped and called out.
"Miguel!? Are you there!"

She didn't have to wait long for his response as she could hear weak coughing from Miguel and a weak response.
"Right here.."
Jessica stepped back before shooting webs on the building debris and started to yank it by her webs to lift it up up off of Miguel. 

Once she managed to get the debris out of the way, Miguel slowly lifts his head forcing his arm up and removing the teen's Spider-Man mask off of her face and stumbled onto his feet which Jessica quickly sprints back over and looked at Miguel.
"Are you okay-- are you both okay?"

"Oh yeah; just peachy.."

Miguel responded in an obvious sarcastic tone and the teen slowly sat up coughing up dust and groaned. Miguel sighs in relief to see the teen was still alive and mostly uninjured. 
"Yeah be sarcastic with me, Miguel! You scared me! You barely told me anything, and the next thing I hear from Lyla is you are stuck!"

Jessica clenched her fists and exhaled, as Miguel got back onto his feet bringing the teen into his arms protectively, which Jessica offered.
"Let me hold her, you are barely able to stand on your own feet."
Miguel didn't hesitate and transferred the teen into Jessica's arms; and Miguel held a hand to his sore back.

"We have to bring her back to HQ. I have a hunch that she isn't just a civilian; but once we get back I need you to check out my holograms in my office to see what information about this girl and her dimension."
Miguel explained to Jessica, she nodded and pulled out her phone with her other free hand.

"I'll do that but for now I am worried about you and her, so let me get some back-up and get you two back to HQ."

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HQ Chat


3:30 PM


Jessica Drew went online

Jessica Drew: @Peter B. Parker @Gwennie 🌸 


Jessica Drew: I urgently need back-up, there is a situation, Miguel got injured and he has someone with him; who is also injured

[ 😦 x3 ]

Gwennie 🌸 and 4 others went online 

Miles Morales: Wait what? What happened? 


Gabriel O'Hara: What do you mean Miguel is hurt!?


Gwennie 🌸: Where are you guys at? - 🌸


Jessica Drew: Dimension - 0161 


Peter B. Parker: We are on our way!


Miles Morales: I'm coming too! 


Gwennie 🌸: Don't worry mom we are coming, is it that bad where we need to get them into the infirmary? - 🌸


Jessica Drew: Maybe, I am not sure yet


Jessica Drew: Please hurry though

[ 👍 x2 ] 

Miles Morales and 3 others went offline

Gabriel O'Hara: Okay guess nobody will tell me what's going on with Miguel..

Gabriel O'Hara goes offline 

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It didn't take long for Gwen, Peter and Miles to get to Dimension - 0161 suited up. Once Peter arrived he helped Miguel back to his feet, while Gwen and Miles took the teen into their arms together instead to help out Jessica.
"They need the infirmary Jessica, especially Miguel.. His back feels fractured.."

Peter decided which Jessica nodded in agreement and looked at Miles before warning him.
"Be careful of her leg, I think it's broken."
Once Jessica mentioned that, Miles eased his grasp on the girl and carried her through a portal that Jessica opened up back to HQ.

Peter afterwards followed through managing to carry Miguel over his shoulder without much of a problem. Jessica last to go through the portal as it shuts after her leaving back to the Spider Society HQ.

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Once back at HQ, Jessica had Miguel and the teen be brought into the infirmary to get their wounds treated; while she went to find out more information about Dimension - 0161 and who was the Spider-Man or Woman of that dimension. Leaping onto Miguel's platform and it automatically lifted up on its own. 

Fiddling around with the buttons on the holograms until she brought up a yellowed tint hologram depicting the first canon event in the dimension; it showed two people, in a Alchemax building. One immediately similar to Jessica as a older looking version of Miles wearing an Alchemax lab coat and the teen Jessica found out her name was McKenzie nearby observing a spider inside of it's terrarium. 

"Don't touch anything Kenzie, I'll be back soon; Mr. Stone needs me for a meeting."

Miles said before leaving the scene of the hologram, leaving McKenzie alone with the spider. McKenzie looks back at the spider before defiantly opening the lid of the terrarium and sliding her hands into the terrarium and scooped the spider up in the open palms of her peached colored hands and spoke.

"Nobody is watching.. It can't hurt just to hold the cute spider right?"

And after a moment of McKenzie holding the spider in her hands, it bites her on the inside of her palm and she immediately yelps and places the spider back in its terrarium. She then uses her long sleeve and pulls it out slightly to cover the spider bite on the inside of her palm. The video ends, as it was the ending of the said canon event.

Jessica wasn't really expecting McKenzie to be the Spider-Woman of Dimension - 0161 but it made sense. But it did intrigue her that there was a Miles in her dimension; albeit an older version of Miles. So Jessica would have to look into that.. Later though. 

"Jessica!"

Jessica turns her head over to notice Gabriel, at the ground of Miguel's office and Jessica swings off Miguel's platform to greet Gabriel. Once she landed Gabriel said in a worried tone.
"Where's Miguel?! Why hasn't anyone explained to me what has happened to my big brother?"

Jessica sighed, feeling bad as she did remember texting the HQ chat and all of them never explained anything that happened to Miguel, so she made Gabriel freak out. 
"I apologize Gabri, listen.. Your brother ended up getting hurt on a mission, he's okay now but he has a fractured back."

She explained to Gabriel and he furrowed his eyebrows in worry, and crossed his arms.
"I just don't want to be left in the dark about things... Especially when it comes to Miguel.."

He responded, caressing and rubbing his tan palms together. Jessica can understand why Gabriel was worried and patted his shoulder trying to reassure Gabriel.
"I understand. The infirmary isn't accepting any visitors at this hour, but tomorrow you can see Miguel."

Clenching his fists slightly Gabriel hesitated to not listen to what Jessica had to say and just march into the infirmary and see how his older brother is doing for himself but Gabriel didn't want to cause unnecessary problems. 
"Then.. I'll stay here for the night, and visit him in the morning."

"That's perfectly fine, I'll let you know if anything changes with Miguel. Thank you for understanding Gabri."
Jessica could still tell he was hesitant but Gabriel trusted Jessica in her words and left Miguel's office. 

The next thing Miguel saw when he woke up was a very bright white light, which Miguel hissed weakly at how bright it was and used his arm to protect his sensitive eyes from the blinding light. There was a pungent smell of hand sanitizer in the infirmary; Miguel could feel an intense pain in his back and winced, the pain almost made him cry.

Miguel attempted to sit up however there was a doctor to stop him from doing so, and he said in an exasperated voice.
"I wouldn't attempt to do any physical work right now. You are very lucky that your spinal cord didn't snap from the force of that debris you endured."

"Qué pasó..?"
Miguel spoke weakly as he forced himself not to try and get back up. The doctor pats Miguel's upper chest showing Miguel that he had a cervical brace that went to his chest to his neck, to keep his spinal bones and cords straight and have an easier time recovering.
"We had to get a brace on you to straighten your spine."

He explained simply, Miguel frowns and asked another question.
"What about.. her? Is she okay?"
The doctor looked confused for a moment before clicking his tongue in realization, then replied to his question briefly pointing at the infirmary bed where McKenzie was resting.

"Oh, you mean McKenzie? It's just a broken leg; she's going to live. She's tougher than some of the Spider-Man's that I've treated. However you are my main priority tonight."

Just the mention of McKenzie being tougher than some Spider-Man he treated made Miguel snicker slightly. Especially considering she was just a teenager. Turning his head to where the doctor was pointing, he was glad that McKenzie wasn't as hurt as he thought. That made him feel better about his injuries; as long as she was okay, he would be okay too. 

"For now though, I have to leave the room, I'll keep the door closed but not fully closed so if you need me anytime I'll just be out there. Also a nurse will be bringing you and McKenzie some dinner later."
The doctor gestured at the door before getting up from his chair placed by Miguel's bed and leaving Miguel alone with McKenzie. 

Miguel watched him as he left and groaned placing his hands into his face caressing his face muscles. Great, just his luck; a fractured back. How will he tell Tyler about this? Would Tyler not be suspicious that suddenly his back got fractured after he said he left to get help and can't come into work? Am I overthinking this too much? Miguel asked himself. 

Just text him, it's not that late and it would probably be better then to be radio silent and raise more suspicion with his boss. Miguel groans before looking at the bed-stand next to the bed Miguel laid in before forcing himself to reach over to grab his phone. Miguel squinted his eyes as he turned the phone on. 

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Tyler


5:40 PM


Miguel O'Hara went online

Miguel O'Hara: I'm not going to be at work, probably for a while. 


Miguel O'Hara: I um, fractured my back. But I'll be fine! The doctor advised me not to do really much of anything to strain my spine. I got a cervical brace.

[ 😦 x1 ] 

Tyler Stone went online

Tyler Stone: You WHAT.

[ 👀 x1 ] 


Miguel O'Hara: . . . 


Tyler Stone: NO. Don't give me the silent treatment Mike, how the shock did you manage to do that while getting help!?


Miguel O'Hara: How am I supposed to know!? I looked up and saw debris flying right at me; and it went dark.

Tyler Stone: ?


Tyler Stone: Well where are you now? That lady said she brought you back to our dimension, but when I got back; you weren't there and I got worried. Almost gave me a heart attack 


Miguel O'Hara: Really?


Tyler Stone: Kinda, not an actual one; Mike! Ugh.. 


Miguel O'Hara: Damn. 

[ 😑 x1 ] 


Tyler Stone: Anyways.. Where are you now?


Miguel O'Hara: . . .


Miguel O'Hara: I gotta go


Tyler Stone: What? No Mike, stop. 

Miguel O'Hara went offline

Tyler Stone: Come back! 


Tyler Stone: and.. He's gone. Dammit.

Tyler Stone went offline

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Tyler makes a loud audible groan to himself, as he notices Miguel went offline and silent on his side of the conversation. Miguel was acting very aloof ever since they got displaced in that different dimension, which made Tyler suspicious. Usually Tyler was used to Miguel's aloofness and hating pretty much anything out of his job like his co-workers; but this was different. 

Tyler hears a knock on his office door and Tyler takes his attention away from his phone, and speaks up.
"Who is it?"

"It's Jordan, we need to talk; Tyler."
Jordan entered the office, and closed the office door behind him. Tyler slids his phone down on his desk faced down and responded.
"Of course.. The portal; have you figured out the damages with the portal?"

Jordan cringed slightly at Tyler's mention about the inter-dimensional portal. He scratched at his sandy blonde hair and sighed.
"It's not terrible damage where it's better abandoned than trying to fix it however it may take.. More than a week to rebuild the inter-dimensional portal."

Tyler clenched his fists at Jordan's words and clicked his tongue. He leaned forward placing his elbows on his wood desk getting closer to the younger male.
"Well? What's stopping you and your team from rebuilding it then?"

Jordan huffed at Tyler's obvious ignorance and pinched the bridge of his nose his tone growing frustrated with the older man.
"Tyler, it isn't going to be easy. This could take longer than a week if more like I said, especially with all the expensive parts we have to buy all over again."

"But it's still possible, yes?"

"Well yes, of course-"

"Then I want it finished by.. Mm let's say the next two weeks, and that's me being generous. I know you can get that done as you are brilliant- ah.. Not as brilliant as Mike of course but I know you can get it finished before that deadline."
Jordan wrinkled his nose when Tyler dared to compare him to Miguel in that way.

Jordan knew that he could never be as smart or know more about genetics than Miguel, himself. Jordan bit his tongue back to prevent himself from snapping at his boss; always being compared to Miguel wasn't uncommon for Tyler to do. 
"I.. Yes, I'll get the team on it then.."

"Good. The sooner it's done the better."
Tyler leans back in his office chair with his blue eyes staring at Jordan as he turns his back to Tyler. His hand in motion to open Tyler's office door. Jordan wanted to say more but he'd rather keep his job and passion project than be fired. 

Jordan was highly suspicious on why Tyler of all people are now so suddenly enamored by the concept of inter-dimension unless he saw.. Something truly interesting from that other dimension him and Miguel were transported to earlier that day.

"Um.. Have a good evening Tyler,"
Not waiting for Tyler's response Jordan left his luxurious office leaving Tyler alone as the younger male went and resigned himself from work for the evening.

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Arachnid Kids


8:20 AM 


Miles Morales goes online 

Miles Morales: you think miguel will let the new girl stay? 


Miles Morales: like.. jessica said she was the spider-woman in her dimension so surely? he logically would right? 

Hobie <3 and 3 others went online

Gwennie 🌸: Well.. I don't see why he wouldn't. Also I don't really understand why Jessica won't let us in the infirmary though. Is that happening to anyone else than me and Miles? - 🌸


Margo Kess: Huh? No.. Well I wouldn't know since I haven't gone to the infirmary yet :/


Hobie <3: wAit WhaT is haPpenINg?


Miles Morales: oh there's this new girl that miguel encountered in a different dimension. 
 
[ 😯 x1 ] 


Hobie <3: OhH reAlly? 

[ 👍 x1 ]


Miles Morales: yeah.


Gwennie 🌸: And ever since the new girl; McKenzie showed up, Jessica won't let only me or Miles into the infirmary to visit Miguel or her. For some reason.. She didn't tell us why though - 🌸


Gwennie 🌸: But she let's Gabriel go inside 😐 - 🌸


Margo Kess: That's.. Weird. Maybe Jessica has a reason for that?

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Hobie <3: WelL It'S nOt Gabriel's fAuLt. He pRobAblY dOesn'T knOw Why yOu and Miles aRen'T alLowEd iNside.


Gwennie 🌸: You're just saying that because you like Gabriel. - 🌸


Hobie <3: ThIs haS noThiNg to dO witH My FeElingS for Gabriel, Gwen.

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Gwennie 🌸: You still like Gabriel. - 🌸


Hobie <3: How abOut We nOt talK abOut tHis? RiGhT now? I thOughT thiS wAs abOut yoU and Miles.

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Miles Morales: i just feel like she's hiding something from me and gwen.


Hobie <3: Jessica woulDn'T dO thAt oN pUrpOse. LikE to be eVil buT

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Margo Kess: You and Gwen probably should just talk to her. 

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Miles Morales: okay.. fine maybe i am just overthinking it, let's go find jessica; gwennie.

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Gwennie 🌸: 👍 - 🌸

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Peni 🩵 went online

Hobie <3: UmM... WeLl.. anYone uP to Some Just Dance aT mY plaCe? 

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Peni 🩵: Oh! Oh!


Peni 🩵: Me! I do! ( ╹▽╹ )

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Margo Kess: Sounds fun, I'll join too! 

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Hobie <3: AlrIght coMe on Over thEn 🖤

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Gwen and Miles ended up finding Jessica in Miguel's office; her eyes concentrated on the yellowish tinted holograms watching some feed. 
"Hey mom! When are you going to tell us why you won't let us into the infirmary?"
Jessica turns her head to look at Gwen and Miles. 

"Oh.. Um, hey..."
Jessica clicked a button on Miguel's dashboard ending the holograph she was currently in the middle of watching and turned her body fully to the two teenagers and swunged down from Miguel's lifted platform.

"Listen.. About that; I don't think it'll be a good idea for you or Miles to go into the infirmary right now."

"Why?"

Both Gwen and Miles asked in unison. Crossing her arms Jessica gave them a stern look before continuing her words.
"Well, I am getting there.. You should understand once I explain the situation. It's about McKenzie. She has.. a version of Miles and Gwen in her dimension and they aren't particularly alive. So I hesitate to expose her to something like you had to be exposed to, Gwen."

Gwen frowned immediately, as she caught the drift of what Jessica meant. Gwen crossed her arms and mumbled a downhearted "oh". Miles bit his lower lip before speaking.
"Wait, I don't think there's been other me's in the multiverse, w-well besides 42 me of course- but we rarely talk to each-other.."

Miles trails off with his rambling; when noticing Gwen's disheartened face. Jessica nods slightly.
"Now with Gwen, I understand her having variants as there are many of her in the multiverse. It isn't particularly a bad thing that there is- was another variant of yourself, Miles."

Jessica corrected herself with a slight awkward cough before adding to her words.
"I do realize she will have to be exposed to this eventually like you were Gwen however I want to do it with more care for how she might take in the information."

That's a pain isn't it? Well at least it was an understandable reason, Gwen thinks to herself. Now she felt bad for McKenzie even if she doesn't know her that much personally; but that version of Miles and Gwen had to have something close with her otherwise Jessica wouldn't have mentioned it right? 

There was silence after Jessica's words between the trio of them before Miles spoke up breaking said silence.
"What was this version of me like? Was he.. Anything like 42 me?"
Miles asked in a timid-like voice as he wasn't sure if now was the right time to ask about something like this.

"Cold and distant? No, he was like you now but just older and went into Alchemax for further education in college for genetics."
Gwen chuckled at that and nudged Miles' shoulder playfully and teased the taller teenager.
"Y'know never thought you would've taken on a job like that. Sounds challenging."

Miles rolled his eyes and laughed too, it was a more embarrassing and awkward laugh however admitting.
"Oh, it doesn't honestly surprise me. I wanted to go into dimensional studies at one point in time so I could see you again Gwen.."

Gwen's face turns a red hue at his words, her mouth in the shape of an "o" as she looks away and tucked some of her blonde hair behind her ear. Jessica looked at the two teenagers with a slight smile and interjected. 
"Do I need to leave you two love birds alone for a moment?"

"Heh.. Sorry I just didn't expect him to say that. Um, is there.. Anything else we should know about this.. Situation?"

Gwen asked as she cleared her throat to recompose herself. Jessica crossed her arms and thought for a moment.
"Well besides that I do have good news about Miguel and McKenzie. They are recovering as expected, we are hoping to send McKenzie back to her dimension in a couple of days as she already had a week to recover and get some crutches."

Miles smiles at that information, glad to know that Miguel and McKenzie were recovering well. 
"Do you think Miguel will let her come back? Even after she is sent back home? We still wanna meet her."

"I am sure Miguel will let her come back anytime she needs assistance, so I wouldn't worry about that."

In the infirmary room, Gabriel was holding onto Miguel's palm while he was laying in the hospital bed. 
"How's your back feeling?"
Miguel snorted at his little brother's question and looked at Gabriel with a slight smirk on his face.

"Oh yeah- I feel like a million bucks. Way much better!"

Gabriel huffed as Miguel responded in a more sarcastic voice and Gabriel insisted with a sigh rubbing his older brother's palm.
"I am serious, how are you feeling Mig?"
Miguel shrugged nonchalantly, the pain was much better than a week before when he first woke up in the infirmary so there's that at least.

"At least it doesn't hurt as much a week before."
Miguel mumbled with a click of his tongue. Gabriel nods and rubbed the side of his own temple and responded.
"Good. Um, has the doctor said anything about you being able to walk and what not?"

"It really all depends but it should heal after three months.."
Miguel paused and caressed his face muscles with his hands, he was very annoyed at the fact he'd be basically out of commission for months. Just his luck; O'Hara luck sucks. 

"Tyler's been wondering where I am ever since I told him about my fractured back."

Gabriel wrinkled his nose at Miguel's mention of Tyler as Gabriel was confused on why Miguel was worried more about his work than himself. He questioned Miguel which Miguel raised an eyebrow at Gabriel.
"You are worried about Tyler in all of this? Why?"

That was a good question, why did Miguel care? In all due respect Miguel should hate Tyler's guts and want the worst for the old man but.. In a sick, twisted way he finds himself somewhat indebted to Tyler, for some reason. Miguel bit his lower lip; and said, well it sounded more like he was questioning himself than a concrete statement.

"I.. Just feel like I owe it to him, to at least care to tell him about stuff like this..?"

"You don't, he might be your boss but it's not like he's your father or something.. He isn't in charge of your life outside of work."

Gabriel corrected with a heavy, exhausted sigh. Gabriel just wanted Miguel to focus on himself and what will help him get better from his injuries and not everything else. Tyler would just have to wait for Miguel to recover fully. Miguel needed a break from the old man anyways, Gabriel mused to himself.

"Y'know what, stay here for a moment I'm going to see if I can take you back to your apartment at least."

Gabriel stood up without waiting for Miguel's response leaving the room that separated McKenzie and Miguel from the hall of the infirmary. Miguel turns his head to see what McKenzie was doing and as expected she was still sleeping; was always either sleeping, eating or on the occasion talking to Miguel which he didn't mind listening to.

It kinda reminded him of Gabriella whenever she used to talk to him about random stuff about her day after school. When she.. Was still here. Miguel shook his head of the painful reminder and looked away from McKenzie. 

But he'd kinda miss that, hopefully McKenzie would understand and be okay with being alone in the infirmary; that is if Gabriel was allowed to take Miguel back to his Babylon Tower apartment by doctor's permission. Although it wouldn't be bad to get out of the infirmary and see something familiar for once. 

Gabriel returned with the doctor into the room, which he held in his hand Miguel's refilled bottle of pain medication and handed it to him.
"So, Gabriel was just speaking to me about hopefully taking you back home, I've decided on one condition that you'll have to stay with a family member to help you recover."

The doctor explained as Miguel turned the bottle around to read the prescription with a bored look on his face. Of course, well that didn't surprise Miguel much as he barely could take care of himself as it is with a fractured back.
"We could see if our mamá could be willing to.."

Gabriel mentioned which Miguel furrowed his eyebrows at the younger sibling. Like mami would want to see me anyways Miguel thought bitterly. He immediately disagreed.
"Uh nuh-uh. Absolutely not Gabri."

The doctor glances between the two brothers as Gabriel scoffs and mumbles some annoyed curses in Spanish before pulling up his phone to text Conchata on his phone.

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Mamá 💙


6:23 PM


Gabriel 💜 went online

Gabriel 💜: mamá? 

Mamá 💙 goes online

Mamá 💙: Oh! Gabri! 

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Mamá 💙: how's my sweet little Gabri? 💙


Gabriel 💜: Could be doing better.


Gabriel 💜: Looks like you found out how to use emojis, that's great! 💜


Mamá 💙: -replying to Gabriel- I already knew how to use emojis hijo.


Gabriel 💜: Oh 


Mamá 💙: Mhm. 

Gabriel 💜 added Miguel O'Hara

Mamá 💙: ?


Gabriel 💜: Miggy, you gotta tell mamá what happened.


Mamá 💙: espera, ¿dime qué?

Miguel O'Hara went online

Miguel O'Hara: ay carajo! Gabri!


Gabriel 💜: Whaatt?!

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Mamá 💙: idioma, hijo! Just tell me what's going on, hijo!

Miguel O'Hara changes their name to Miguel ❤

Miguel ❤: Bien. 


Miguel ❤: I might've fractured my back..


Mamá 💙: . . .


Mamá 💙: OH. Hijo.. How did you manage to do that??!


Miguel ❤: That's what Tyler asked. 

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Miguel ❤: -replying to Mamá 💙- Work. Don't ask.


Miguel ❤: Anyways not important, what Gabri was wondering is if I could stay with you.


Mamá 💙: I see.


Gabriel 💜: So can Miggy stay?


Mamá 💙: Of course he can.. I'll be making empanadas for you two when you get here then.

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Gabriel 💜: gracias mamá

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Chapter Text

Tyler 


7:15 PM 


Connie and Tyler went online

Connie: Mind explaining what happened to Miguel?


Tyler: Whatever do you mean, Connie? 

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Connie: Sabes muy bien a qué me refiero, Tyler.

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Connie: Apparently Miguel fractured his back when he was at work. 


Connie: And if I remember correctly; he works for YOU, Tyler. 

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Connie: Don't feign innocence with me. We both know damn well you are far from it. 

Tyler: Oh. That. Um Mike's technically not wrong about what happened almost 2 weeks ago. 

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Connie: Why wasn't I told about this sooner? Hmm? 

Connie: You know I absolutely LOATHE it when you don't tell me anything about MY son. 

Tyler: And he's MY son too Conchata! 

Connie: You don't think I know that already, Tyler? I carried HIM in MY stomach for 9 months. Not YOU. That shocking hurts, y'know?

Connie: It's like pushing a Sandía out of me. 

Connie: a SANDÍA, Tyler.

Tyler: . . . 

Tyler: What.

Connie: I didn't mean it literally. 

Tyler: You have now put a mental image in my head. It's not pretty. 

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Connie: Oh suck it up, and stop being dramatic Tyler.


Tyler: . . .


Connie: . . .
 

Tyler: Um.. Anyways.. Concerning Mike's injury, it happened when he came back into work for the day. Another co-worker; Jordan finally finished the inter-dimensional portal him and his team were working on. Me and Mike got sucked into said portal, and sometime later he ends up somehow fracturing his back

Tyler: Although that is also unclear due to the fact that Mike won't tell me anything about what happened afterwards.

Tyler: I was hoping you'd be able to talk to him about it 

Connie: Oh.

Connie: I see. 


Connie: I'll try to talk to Miguel about it then.

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Tyler: Thanks.

Tyler: Well I'm going to get some sleep Connie. 

Connie: at 7 PM? 

Tyler: Yes. 

Connie: Okay then. Night Ty

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Pulling the cigarette from her lips, Conchata stared at the chat blankly as Tyler went offline for the night before putting the phone away. The smoke swirled around her as it floated away into the evening air as she exhaled it out of her lungs, she knew she had to eventually talk to Miguel but.. It felt weird.

Which felt odd to say the least.

But also it shouldn't? She was Miguel's mother for god's sake so why is it hard just to talk to him? She told Tyler she would. Then again? Conchata didn't feel like doing it; it was like a chore. But she supposed she would suck it up and talk to her eldest son.

Taking a final and last long smoke of the cancer stick she flicks it out with an ashtray and crushes it further into the ashtray to make sure it's put out allowing the smoke to float out into the evening sky before heading back into the house from being outside in the balcony. Conchata peers her head into the small living room where Miguel laid on her couch staring up at the ceiling. 

Gabriel had gone to bed for the night in a different room so it was just her and Miguel in the room alone for the time being; she stood there for a couple of minutes just staring at Miguel until he finally glances over and flinches when he noticed Conchata was there.
"Umm how.. Long have you been standing there?"

Miguel questioned as he still expected her to be out on the porch balcony enjoying the fresh air or something. Conchata stepped over to him as he laid on the couch.
"Not long, I was hoping to talk to you Miguel."

She wanted to talk to me? Miguel heavily doubted that and scoffed correcting Conchata with a hint of irritation in his voice.
"When you mean talk, do you mean scold? I do not need another scolding from you tonight."

Conchata narrowed her eyes at Miguel, it's not like she was going to enjoy talking to him either. The feeling is mutual. She just said she would talk to him and hopefully find out what happened that week prior. Conchata grabbed hold of Miguel's tip of his ear with her index finger and thumb pinching his ear with her fingers.

"Ow, ow! Stop pinching my ear; ma! I'm already in enough pain with my back, quit it!"
Miguel whined as Conchata tugged on his ear once more before letting his ear go and scolded in an exasperated voice.

"Just listen to what I have to say Miguel! Can't you just do that for me at least? Please?"
For a moment Miguel wanted to just brush her off and tell Conchata to leave him alone for the night but he decided against it not wanting to make Conchata even more frustrated then she already was.

With Miguel quiet, Conchata uses the couch arm as a support so she can lower herself to the floor of the apartment floor and she sits on the floor next to the couch. She then said.
"I.. Got in contact with your boss."

There was a grimace on Miguel's face when Conchata mentioned that she got in contact with Tyler. Miguel doesn't interrupt her with a question on his mind and allows her to continue just listening to Conchata talk.
"And Tyler said he wanted me to talk to you about your injury.."

Miguel opens his mouth when Conchata stops speaking waiting for him to say something. Which he did, but Miguel truly wasn't sure how to explain it to Conchata without telling her that he is Spider-Man; well as if she'd believe that. Last time he tried telling her, Conchata just laughed at Miguel in his face at the Wellvale home.

"It's complicated."

"Too complicated just to tell me? It's just us Miguel."

Conchata reasoned with Miguel, she just couldn't understand why Miguel won't talk to her about it. His head was rested upon the couch arm rest and he pondered for a moment. Conchata could obviously tell Miguel was hiding something but she wasn't sure what.
"You are hiding something from me Miguel."

"Why should I even tell you? You don't care."

Conchata pauses at Miguel's words and turns her head looking at him. Conchata audibly groaned and snapped bluntly at him.
"Miguel. If I truly did not care, I would've told Gabri to find someone else to take you too and leave it at that!"
This is exactly why Conchata was hesitant to speak to Miguel, it was like he was always so negative around not just her; but others as well.

She didn't understand why. Miguel used to be sweet, or somewhat sweet and respectful as a young child. But Conchata supposed it was from her ex-husband's intimidation towards Miguel and Gabriel too. Miguel speaks in a softer tone than before.
"Are you going to tell Tyler if I tell you what truly happened?"

Another pause, Conchata frowned and crossed her legs while she sat on the floor, she wasn't planning on it really. Personally she just wanted to know, as it was the only reason why she got in contact with Tyler which was useless due to him barely even knowing anything anyways.
"Well I wasn't planning on telling him.. Tyler wanted me to talk to you, not to tell him what we talk about."

There was a sigh of relief from Miguel and he looked at Conchata with his brown eyes. Miguel wanted to badly just admit that he was Spider-Man, get it off his own chest. Gabriel knew and surprisingly kept Miguel's secret quiet from pretty much everyone including Conchata. Would she believe him this time around? 

"Mami, the reason why I got injured was because.. I was helping a civilian in danger cause I'm.. Spider-Man."

To emphasize his point to prove to Conchata that he wasn't playing around; Miguel opens out his palm and shows Conchata the claws upon his fingerpads inside the palm of his hands. Miguel sweated as he noticed Conchata was just staring at him; which he couldn't tell if she was in disbelief or about to laugh in his face again. Miguel hoped for the latter.

Conchata reaches out and grasps hold of his palm and poked gingerly at his fingerpad claws thinking they were fake at first in disbelief. She hesitated to believe Miguel at first but now that she had an actual look and feel to it, she realized Miguel obviously wasn't lying or pulling her leg metaphorically.

"You.. Weren't lying about that? At the Wellvale home? When you first told me about.. This?"

"Of course I wasn't, ma.."

Back at the Spider Society HQ, Peter B. decided to visit the infirmary and introduce himself to McKenzie with Mayday in his little carrier that he always brings her around in. McKenzie was sitting up in the hospital bed, there also were some crutches laying besides to the bed so she can use it if needed.

Earlier Peter did plan just to visit Miguel, but the doctor who was assigned to take care of McKenzie and Miguel informed Peter about Gabriel taking him home to their mother. Which would be good, for the grumpy guy; maybe spending time with close family despite the circumstances would be good for Miguel.

Peter leans against the wall looking over at McKenzie for a moment and then speaks up getting the young teenager's attention.
"Hey, you're McKenzie right?"
When she looked up, McKenzie tilted her head at Peter before responding in an awkward tone of voice.

"Oh.. Yeah, haha.. That's me. Uh- or if you want you can call me Kenzie."
McKenzie added to her sentence with an awkward laugh. Peter could tell she seemed nervous; so he replied.
"Cool, I'll call you Kenzie, sure! I'm Peter and this is Mayday! Say hi, Mayday."

Peter pauses to lift up Mayday's little hand and wave it back and forth as a little greeting; and Mayday excitedly said an "Hi!" which McKenzie smiled and waved back to little Mayday. 
"What a sweetheart!"

"I know right!? She's just like a mini version of MJ!"

Peter cheered in an obvious pride in his voice towards his little daughter, with a grin. Even if Peter barely knew McKenzie he was hoping to make her feel welcomed within the Spider Society despite circumstances that led up to bringing McKenzie to HQ. 
"You.. maybe wanna go get some burgers? My treat I'll pay- it'll be a lot better than the hospital food that you've been eating." 

"Think it'll be okay with the doctor?"
McKenzie asked Peter which in response he'd dismissively waved his hand, it was just getting some burgers so nothing bad in theory should happen while they were gone.

"I don't think the doc will mind if I take you for burgers. We'll be back in no time."

With that McKenzie pulls the covers off of her and slowly scoots herself to the edge of the bed where Peter then grabs the crutches for McKenzie handing them to her to use and get onto her feet. Once she gets onto her feet Peter opens up a portal to Dimension - 0161 and does a little curtsy and says in a light-hearted tone.

"After you."

"Why thank you kind sir."
McKenzie plays along with a smile at Peter's warm hearted goofiness before entering the portal before Peter enters with Mayday before it closes behind them.

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McKenzie sits ontop of a building with Mayday while Peter gets some burgers from a nearby burger shop that McKenzie pointed out to him to check out and get food for them from said shop. She was away from the ledge of said building as she was holding Mayday in her arms stroking her hair letting Mayday play with the jacket strings on the jacket Peter allowed McKenzie to use; keeping Mayday preoccupied. 

The sun was out and bright in New York, where there was a slight wind and chill to the air but it was the kind that felt great on a sunny day like this. The air was blowing on McKenzie's short hair; it was like Gwen's hair before Miles' hand got stuck onto said hair in ITSV but brunette. 

"I'm back!"

Peter announces as he climbs up the ladder on the side of the smaller building just in view to look at the Alchemax that had exploded that nearly two weeks ago. Of course the building was in much better shape than before, the gapping hole of the explosion was now somewhat patched up for the time being.

Peter sits next to McKenzie, he now was out of his usual pink robe he'd wear around in HQ and just now is wearing his Spider-Man suit.
"It's quite a pretty day here, isn't it?"
McKenzie only nods in response, however McKenzie usually enjoyed sunny weather like this inside her house.

"Um.. I actually despise hot weather."
The young teenager admitted which Peter tilted his head and asked handing McKenzie a burger that was wrapped up in foil with the shop's name logo printed all over on it and she takes the burger into her hand.

"You do? Why?"

McKenzie thinks for a moment, unwrapping the foil off of the burger and taking a bite out of it while in thought.
"Well.. It's just, multiple reasons why. I used to live in Alaska which unfortunately was closer globally to the sun, which made temperatures feel hotter than it really is. It was also.. Miles' favorite type of weather."

She added the last part in a whisper and bit her lower lip. Peter raised an eyebrow at her words and tilted his head at her wording of a past tense. She must've been talking about her version of Miles but he was curious. He asked.
"Yeah.. Um, what do you mean.. Was?"

McKenzie doesn't respond immediately and adverts her gaze from Peter. She hesitated to answer that question while her hand then stopped stroking Mayday's hair absentmindedly. With that, Peter could tell what she was implying and didn't push her any further than that.

"Um anyway.. What about you, what's your dimension like?"
McKenzie changed the topic; not wanting to stick to the topic of talking about her Miles. Peter chuckles and Peter didn't really notice any differences besides it looked more like a carbon copy of Miles' dimension but more.. Softer in colors. Pastel kind of colors.

"Well it's 2026 in my dimension."

"That's not far off from 2024 in my dimension."

McKenzie commented which made Peter stop and wonder to himself, wouldn't Alchemax be nonexistent at this point? Maybe Peter should ask Miguel later about it as he would know more than himself or McKenzie combined. Peter unwrapped the foil off of his own burger before trying a bite out of it.

"I see. Ehh- This burger is so salty!"
Peter sticks out his tongue recoiling from the salty burger and McKenzie laughs and responds. She had no problem with the fact the burger was salty as she loved salty foods.

"That's what everyone says at first. But they are the best burger places here in New York. Salty and good."

"Hm.. Here Mayday, have some curly fries." 

Peter hands Mayday some curly fries which she immediately grasped hold of the fries he was handing to the young toddler before she ate the fries by shoving them in her mouth. Peter made sure Mayday didn't choke on the fries before going back to his own burger and moved aside the foil so he could continue eating the burger. 

Suddenly there was a blare of an alarm causing the trio to turn their attention away from their food and when Peter noticed a police car with their sirens on, and the familiar red and blue flashing lights as they made a sharp drifting turn around the corner.. Only for a moment later the car gets flipped upon its hood with the siren starting to malfunction and glitch out.

Emerging from the corner, was a black mass? Wait no, when Peter and McKenzie took a moment to focus and notice it was Venom. Or a version of Venom. Must've been one of McKenzie's universe of Venom; easy peasy, Peter would handle this himself as he wasn't injured like McKenzie was.

"Is that the Venom of your universe?"

"I don't understand what you're talking about, what IS that!?"
McKenzie did not recognize the alien that was unfamiliar to her pointing at Venom, and Peter dismissively waves his hand putting on his Spider mask and responds in a nonchalant way shooting a web on a building line and swung to deal with Venom.

"Keep an eye on Mayday for me will you Kenzie? I'll be back soon!"

"Wait- I don't think it's a good idea for you to.."

McKenzie trails off of her protest but Peter was already off swinging to fight Venom on his own and didn't hear McKenzie. Which McKenzie thought was a terrible idea for him to go alone. Mayday squeals as Peter swong off and waved him bye-bye like this was a normal occurrence that happened. Something just felt wrong but McKenzie didn't know what it was.

Peter lands on the side of a building witnessing Venom throwing cars around like he was a child throwing a fit. 
"Hey, Venom! Maybe loosen up on the throwing the cars, you've done enough damage."
Once Peter said that, Venom turns his head over to look at Peter, a car in his hands about to throw another car around like it was a toy. 

Venom lets out a snarl and hurls the car at Peter which due to his Spider-Sense tingling; quickly moves to the side just missing it and not being flattened to a pancake on the wall. Taking his chance he leaps off the side of the building and was about to punch Venom when his plan was quickly foiled and Venom grabbed Peter by his throat holding him there.

"Listen buddy, I get it you're not in your own dimension and you are confused! But just let me go so I can take you home..."

Peter trails off when he notices something. It didn't even look like it came from McKenzie's dimension like he assumed earlier. This Venom had more of a.. White shell around his chest and face acting like armor, that was shaped like bones and a skull. Venom just looked more sleek and modern if that made sense. And material of metal around his big black neck. It was like a necklace but also not?

Venom 2099 moved his arm back that was holding Peter by his throat in a motion to throw him across the street. Only to be stopped by an unfamiliar voice to Peter. 
"Put him down, now."

Both Venom 2099 and Peter pause and look over to see Tyler, holding something in his right hand which Peter couldn't tell what it was though. Venom lets an inhumane snarl at the older male. Peter's eyebrows knitted into a concerned expression and Peter insisted on what he assumed at first to be a civilian. So he tried warning;

"What are you doing here? Get out of here! Let me handle this!-"

Venom 2099 then proceeded to launch Peter into the air throwing him across the street with Tyler yelling something at the big black mass; obviously angry at Venom for throwing Peter. Peter lands on a car crushing the window shield, leaving Peter breathless and groaning in pain. However nothing was broken on Peter's body, thankfully. Peter had to take a moment to catch his breath.

Once Peter manages to get off of the damaged car and he is kneeling using his hand on the hood of the car he looks over. 

Just as Peter looks over he sees Tyler is just staring at Venom 2099 who was kneel down on the ground shaking in pain, with Tyler's eyes showing such hatred in his eyes and superiority. Why? Why isn't Venom fighting back? Or crushing the old man already? Peter gets to his feet shakily; and that's when Peter realized Venom 2099 was being shocked like an animal would be. Which left a sick feeling in Peter's stomach. 

Did Tyler seriously think it was a good idea to put a shock collar on Venom 2099 like that? And shock him like he's an animal? Maybe the older gentleman didn't know that there was always a person inside the symbiote and it wasn't just an alien? It didn't matter why am I giving him the benefit of the doubt; Peter had to stop Tyler before he did anymore damage.

Without further hesitation Peter gets to his feet and runs to stop Tyler shooting a web, the web catching on Tyler's right hand and yanked it causing Tyler to stumble and almost fall, which he huffed and tucked his hand into pocket searching for something; muttering mostly to himself but Peter could hear what he said.

"This is getting irritating."

"Oh am I bugging you?-"

Peter didn't get to finish with his joke  when Tyler pulled a bright baby blue, mechanical orb from his suit jacket pocket and threw it at Peter. His Spider-Sense went off and he caught the mechanical orb and it flashed Peter like a flash grenade; blinding him for a moment and throwing him back.

When the flashing stopped, Peter noticed he was trapped inside the orb that now was a cube shape like prison that was see-through and had a blue hue. Peter frowns now and tries pounding his fist on it trying to break through it confused. But for something that small at first sight, it was extremely tough and kept Peter inside; contained, Peter asked himself in disbelief.

"What kind of technology is this..?" 

"See how easy that was, Kron? Simple yet you couldn't do it yourself. Disappointing." 
Tyler mocked, as he assumed it would've been so simple for Venom 2099 to just listen and apprehend Spider-Man. Guess he wouldn't make that mistake to let him out again. Peter watched from inside the cube prison as Tyler stepped over and knelt down to Peter.

"Y'know from what I've heard from others you aren't that tough from what they said about you, Spider-Man."
Tyler said tauntingly, which Peter scoffed and corrected Tyler, his eyes narrowed at the other man.

"Well.. I was just holding back actually, cause you are older than me."
Tyler stands up from his knelt down position not responding to Peter's attempts of comedy and motioned for Venom 2099 to pick up the cubical-like prison which he did obediently this time. Poor kid, treated like an animal.. Peter thinks to himself, feeling bad for Venom 2099.

Back on the rooftop McKenzie was panicking, seeing the sight that Peter was being taken away prisoner by a unclear male figure and Venom 2099 as she uses her crutches to bring herself to grab Peter's phone he left behind to notify HQ. Juggling with Mayday in her left arm and the phone in her right hand.

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HQ Chat


12:20 PM


Peter B. Parker went online 

Peter B. Parker: Help! There was a villain and they got Peter!

[❓x1 ]

Jessica Drew and 5 others went online

Miguel O'Hara: What? But you are Peter, Peter.


Miguel O'Hara: Is this a joke you are trying to pull on us?


Peter B. Parker: What? No! It's McKenzie! I'm using Peter's phone to text this groupchat.


Jessica Drew: What are you even doing out of the infirmary McKenzie??


Peter B. Parker: -replying to Jessica Drew's message- Now isn't the time to scold me! Peter is in trouble and I am alone on a rooftop! I can't necessarily run right now, webswing or whatever! Or I would've tried helping Peter.


Gwennie 🌸: Hey don't worry we'll come, just tell us where you are at. - 🌸

Miles Morales: yeah, no need to get mad at each other. it'll make it harder to get peter back if we argue. 


Margo Kess: Wait what happened?


Peter B. Parker: Peter got captured by this "Venom" whoever that is..


Peter B. Parker: -replying to Gwennie 🌸's message- My dimension. That's where we are at. He left Mayday with me, and now.. I think I may panic.


Jessica Drew: Seriously!? How many times does Miguel and I gotta tell Peter not to bring Mayday especially if something like this happens!


Miguel O'Hara: It's like we are the older ones, here! Even though he's been born way before I am...


Miles Morales: yeah but everyone here is technically older than you miguel. mckenzie included.


Peter B. Parker: . . . 


Peter B. Parker: Just come here already. Whoever's available. 


Gwennie 🌸: Miles, Margo, me and Jessica are on the way McKenzie. Hold tight. - 🌸


Miguel O'Hara: Think that you four can handle it without me?


Jessica Drew: Well yes it's not like you can go anywhere to help anyways with your back. Just rest O'Hara, you need it. 

Margo Kess: Yep! We got this! 

[ 👍 x2 ] 


Miguel O'Hara: OK. 

Gwennie 🌸 and 6 others went offline

Chapter Text

McKenzie stares at Peter's phone for quite a couple of minutes after everyone goes offline, more particularly one of the names on the groupchat; Miles'. She was quite overwhelmed with all that was happening as of lately; was she just still in the denial process, about Miles' death? She sighs and puts the phone away when Mayday whines which brought her attention to the younger child.

"Hey.. Hey it's okay. It's okay Mayday."

McKenzie comforted as she was cradling Mayday in her arms, while she was sniffling and crying trying to soothe the toddler. With the absence of Peter she wasn't blaming Mayday for her crying. She was waiting for Miles, Gwen, Margo and Jessica to arrive from HQ still on the rooftop.

Which a portal nearby opens on another rooftop which McKenzie immediately starts waving one hand trying to get the attention of the four which Miles leaps and webswings over to the other building top to McKenzie. Then the other three followed quickly. McKenzie sighs in relief when they arrive, Jessica looking more stressed than usual.

Margo gestures to Jessica that her and Gwen would check around the city for Peter which Jessica nods telling the two girls to be careful before allowing the two girls to go swing around the city searching hoping to find Peter swiftly.

"What happened?"

Jessica questioned turning to McKenzie immediately which McKenzie stuttered with her words as she responded.
"O.. Okay well.. Peter went to fight "Venom" and maybe he thought it was going to be easy and he'd be back soon.. But then there was this man with this creature too."

The taller woman narrowed her eyes at McKenzie when she mentioned Tyler and questioned even further crossing her arms.
"Well..? Did you see who it was at least?"
McKenzie furrowed her eyebrows not wanting to answer that question as she was unsure who it was herself and didn't want to mislead them.

Jessica pinched the bridge of her nose to hold back a heavy sigh coming from her throat, frustrated. Great, how fantastic.. Jessica thinks to herself running on hand through her black frazzled hair that she didn't bother to brush her hair that day. Being stuck in position as leader for weeks hasn't helped Jessica's stress and her baby in her stomach.

"I.. I don't know exactly who he was.. However he had weird sci-fi looking technology if I ever saw anything, if that helps anything.."

McKenzie pointed out to Jessica and she pondered that for a second and scoffed slightly either in disbelief or annoyed at the fact that McKenzie didn't know much and that wouldn't help them in finding Peter and getting him back anytime soon. Out of frustration Jessica grabbed the young teen by her shoulders and shook her almost in a violent way despite McKenzie holding Mayday in her arms.

"How could you not?! You've seen the entire thing did you not? Don't you know how hard this is for me to be in a position like this!? First I found out about your situation with your dead version of Miles that happens to be your older brother! Now this!? What else can go wrong with you??-"

"Jessica, stop! You are freaking everyone out!"

Jessica was about to continue more into her ranting out of stress when Miles intervened pulling Jessica away from McKenzie and even Mayday was shooken by Jessica's freakout after Miles did so he paused and eyed Jessica and McKenzie confused now. Miles immediately winced and frowned when he realized this is what Jessica meant when she was talking about McKenzie's situation earlier with him and Gwen.

She was related to Miles? Or more of her Miles, but what difference did that make, why didn't Jessica tell him beforehand when he and Gwen were even talking to her about it? Why hide it from Gwen and him especially..? 

McKenzie turns her head away to hide herself, growing uncomfortably quiet after Jessica yelled at her especially exposing McKenzie about her Miles' death. She just wanted it to be just between her and her family. Mayday was quiet too, her blue eyes just staring at Jessica confused.

"Take her back Miles to the infirmary. I don't have time to waste on this.."

"Fine.. I'll let you, Margo and Gwen handle this then.."

Miles sighs and gently steers McKenzie away and brings out his dimension watch opening a portal back to HQ and McKenzie hands Mayday back to Miles to grab her crutches and the three went through the portal and it closed leaving Jessica on the rooftop with her thoughts. 

Once back at HQ Miles looked at McKenzie and he hesitated wanting to speak as McKenzie seemed already upset as it is with Jessica yelling at her and revealing her wound of her Miles' death, and that made her confused on how Jessica knew about it.
"Did you know?"

McKenzie was the first one to speak, which caught Miles off guard, what should I even answer? I technically did know but Jessica didn't tell me about this other version of me being related to McKenzie. Miles thought to himself. But he could feel why McKenzie felt frustrated and upset at the moment as he could relate to her pain of not being let in with important information. So he stuttered out a response.

"Somewhat, yes. I.. I just didn't know that.. You were my sister. Well- sister from another dimension."

McKenzie sighs and Miles offered Mayday to hand her over to the shorter female, and added in a soft tone to comfort McKenzie.
"Umm.. Wanna hold Mayday? She'll make you feel better.. I know she makes me feel better when I am upset.. I also gotta.. Text MJ about.. Peter."

One moment she's silent, then McKenzie grabs hold of the young toddler, and holds her while Mayday giggles happily at the attention. Miles smiles slightly before pulling out his phone to text MJ hopefully she would be home by now; from her work otherwise they'd just be forced to keep ahold of Mayday til MJ came back.

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Aunt MJ 🧡


2:20 PM


Miles 🌻 went online 

Miles 🌻: mj are you home yet?


Miles 🌻: it's really important, i promise! 🙏 


Miles 🌻: just text me back when you can aunt mj 

2:50 PM


Aunt MJ 🧡 went online

Aunt MJ 🧡: I am home now, what's up Miles?


Miles 🌻: can me and a friend come over?

[ ❓ x1 ] 


Aunt MJ 🧡: Huh? Why? 


Aunt MJ 🧡: I mean I am completely fine with you and a friend staying over but why?


Miles 🌻: we need to talk to you. i'd rather talk about it with you not over text.


Miles 🌻: it's too much to be hashed out here. and i'm trying not to freak you out too much.


Aunt MJ 🧡: Oh I see. Okay well, come on over.


Miles 🌻: cool. i am also bringing mayday too


Aunt MJ 🧡: Wait.. Did something bad happen?

Miles 🌻: well.. um. kinda yeah, i'll explain when when me and mckenzie get there


Aunt MJ 🧡: I'll make some hot cocoa then for you guys when you get there.


Miles 🌻: thanks mj <3 

[ 🧡 x1 ] 

Aunt MJ 🧡 and Miles 🌻 went offline 

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"Okay, MJ is home."

Miles said mostly to himself as he looked up from his phone and McKenzie was slightly staring at Miles but then glanced away when he looked at her. It must've been weird for McKenzie to meet another Miles especially after her Miles' death.
"I see. Shall we go there then..?"

McKenzie asked in a soft voice and Miles nodded in response to her question, they were going to have to anyway, it probably wasn't a good idea to leave Mayday with two teenagers if they could help it. Miles opened a portal to Earth - 616 and the three went into the portal to MJ and Peter's house.

Jessica paces between the two girls who had come back from looking around in McKenzie's New York which wasn't successful with no sign of Peter. Tired eye bags underneath Jessica's eyes as she was trying to figure out a possible plan to locate Peter. Gwen furrowed her eyebrows at the sight of Jessica being alone.

"We couldn't find Peter.."

"Wait where's.. Miles, McKenzie and Mayday?"

Jessica doesn't answer the question immediately, leaving Gwen and Margo on silent treatment; while Jessica was internally panicking in her mind. First Miguel gets forced to take indefinite time off after fracturing his back, then now Peter who gets captured! She shakes her head and stuttered with her words.

"I.. I send them back to HQ-" 

About to continue, Jessica's eyes widened as a strong pain in her stomach which caused her to wince and cry out in a mixture of pain and surprise. Margo rushed to Jessica's side; and asked.
"What's wrong?"

"I think she's having her baby right now Margo.."

Gwen pointed out which Jessica huffed and shook her head. Why now? What unfortunate timing. Gwen immediately opened a portal to the nearest hospital on Earth - 0161 and Margo sighed turning her head to Jessica.
"I wish you didn't, McKenzie knows this place best!- Whatever let's get you in, we can't take any risks!"

Once at the hospital, Gwen and Margo were stopped as Jessica was rushed into one of the hospital rooms as the doctors and nurses wouldn't let Gwen and Margo into the hospital room they were taking Jessica to; Gwen and Margo now alone in the waiting room. Gwen bit her lower lip as the atmosphere got intense and quiet.

"I should've gotten to the HQ infirmary, not here. I don't know what I was thinking.."

Gwen gripped onto her suit pulling on the fabric of the white suit trying to calm her nerves. Margo patted Gwen's shoulder trying to reassure her as she bounced her leg up and down paranoid. 
"You just reacted out of instinct; hopefully it's just a false alarm and Jessica isn't giving birth actually."

"I hope so, but.. It wouldn't surprise me though, it's about time that Jessica gives birth after all these months. Also Jessica has been really stressed as of lately after becoming temporarily in charge which might've been a contributing factor."

Not that Gwen or Margo didn't want Jessica to give birth to the baby but what were they going to do now that all three of Peter, Miguel and Jessica are out of commission? They usually were leaders and kept everything in HQ running properly. 

"Maybe Gabriel.. Could take a temporary charge until things get sorted?"

"I mean.. I guess we could see, right? Better than us doing it by ourselves right?"
Margo agreed, before Gwen took her phone and scrolled to her contacts list to text Gabriel. And she texted him a quick couple texts of paragraphs explaining the situation hoping for a quick response.
 

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Gabriel 💜


3:09 PM


Gwennie 🌸 went online 

Gwennie 🌸: Gabriel! - 🌸


Gwennie 🌸: We need your help! Peter has been taken hostage, and not only that but with our luck Jessica is giving birth to her child, which isn't something we expected! We wouldn't be asking for your help if we didn't need it but with every spider adult possible down, you are our last resort - 🌸

3:20 PM


Gabriel 💜 went online 

Gabriel 💜: I hope this isn't a joke.


Gabriel 💜: What do I need to do anyway?


Gwennie 🌸: -replying to Gabriel 💜- You have to be in charge of HQ. Also why would I joke about Peter being kidnapped and Jessica giving birth? - 🌸


Gabriel 💜: -replying to Gwennie 🌸- 🤷


Gabriel 💜: Me? Be in charge of HQ?


Gwennie 🌸: Yes. Well it's temporary anyways.. - 🌸


Gabriel 💜: ... Um lemme get ready and I'll be there. 


Gwennie 🌸: Just text me when you get to the hospital we are at. - 🌸


[ 👍 x1 ] 


Gabriel 💜: Of course! I'll be there soon 🙏


[ 🩷 x1 ] 

Gabriel 💜 and Gwennie 🌸 went offline

Chapter Text

"Come on guys is this really necessary?--"

Peter had his spider suit confiscated by the scientists at Alchemax so now he was wearing a hospital type-like gown, and even the dimension watch which that made Peter nervous, they probably don't even know about the fact Peter would literally disintegrate without the watch. Of course he tried protesting that to the scientists which they didn't seem to care about. 

Now Tiberius Stone had held Peter's arm still so Tyler could take Peter's blood to the scientists for testing and such.
"It's necessary, you are the original Spider-Man! Well from this dimension anyway.."

"What even dimension are you from?"

Peter questioned pointing at Tiberius with his index finger which the male didn't answer continuing to hold Peter's arm tightly. Too tight for Peter's comfort. Peter just had a feeling Tiberius wasn't from Earth - 928; he couldn't be, since his clothes looked similar to his own dimension's timeline.

Tyler takes a needle from the counter-top and steadies his hand before pushing the needle into Peter's veins of his arm that Tiberius held still and took out the needle after it slowly filled with Peter's blood. Tyler examined the needle full of blood before setting it aside to take it to the scientists later.

"We also need your saliva Parker, open your mouth please."
Tyler ordered, grasping hold of a stick and pointing it towards Peter's mouth which he protested.
"Shouldn't the actual scientists and doctors be doing this, and not you-"

Annoyed Tyler grabs Peter's face to steady it and without waiting for Peter to get ready, Tyler takes the stick meant for saliva checking and shoved it into Peter's mouth swabbing around the walls of Peter's mouth. Peter coughs and gags before Tyler takes out the stick now dripping with Peter's saliva which Tyler then puts down next to the needle with a disgusted expression on his face.

"You could've given me a warning!"

Peter scolded Tyler like he was the younger one here and not Peter. Tiberius rolled his eyes at Peter before saying to Tyler.
"He's kinda right, Ty. He's probably not used to this as any other experiment would be."
Tyler sighs at Tiberius agreeing with Peter and looks at Tiberius before retorting in a snippy tone.

"We don't have time for this, we are in a time crunch. First we need to make sure Parker doesn't glitch and secondly we need results and answers about my own Spider-Man and this is the only way."

Oh, so Tyler wasn't as clueless as Peter was hoping for.. He had some grasp on what other dimension hopping could do and the risks of disintegration. Tiberius released Peter's arm and placed the needle of blood and saliva stick into separate plastic bags using a sharpie to mark them. With that, Tyler snatched the bags and left the room not even with a thank you..

"Your child is an angel isn't he?"
Peter sarcastically said looking at Tiberius trying to make small talk with the other Stone in the room. Tiberius scoffed at Peter and responded rolling his eyes at his statement.

"Oh yeah, totally, 'Angelic' is a word I'd describe Tyler to be. I didn't even know I had a kid until he appeared in my office not that long ago."

Tyler dropped by the scientists' lab and placed the samples he got from Peter on the clean sterilized counter top along with other DNA samples that were labeled from other subjects. One of the scientists' stopped and grabbed Tyler by his arm to prevent him from leaving just as he entered the lab. 

"Hey any updates on O'Hara, Mr. Stone? We were hoping he'd be back by now."

Tyler huffed at the mention of Miguel and pinched the bridge of his pale peach nose and turned to face the scientist pulling his arm away.
"Unfortunately no actual recent update on Mike besides his injury and even then it's sparse. Why? Are you not able to do these tests without Mike or what?"

"We would appreciate having one more helpful hand on board with this Mr. Stone. It's quite frustrating."

Which is understandable, now thinking about it Tyler did find it weird and even stranger when Miguel would be gone; so would Spider-Man of this dimension.. That made him pause and ponder. It was something that Tyler thought about at first however.. Wasn't sure if that could even be possible.

Tyler leaves the lab without a further word to the frustrated scientist; he had to check on Jordan's progress. Tyler had left Peter's dimensional watch with him to tinker with to find a way to disable the dimension hopping function. Peering into the room where the inter-dimensional portal was at and looked around.

Jordan was nearby sitting at a desk, his gaze focused on the watch as he fiddled with it and the components within the watch.
"How's the work on that? Manage to make any progress?"
His tone was impatient and snippy; wanting results which Jordan could tell and he stopped fiddling with it to turn around and look at Tyler.

"Somewhat. For some reason this technology seems familiar to me, like I've seen this.. Kind of work before."
Jordan puts a hand to his chin in thought as he spoke; Tyler quirked an eyebrow up at Jordan's words. Jordan turns the watch around in his hand before pointing out with his finger at the components.

"I can't pinpoint why I feel this way, but this has to be Miguel's work. Or at least assisted in the making of this incredible piece of technology."
Tyler eyes Jordan as he explained pointing to several parts of the watch like the triangle yellow tinted dial; that is used to dial the dimension number and jump through to that particular dimension.

"Miguel has used yellow tapes and holograms at work here all the time.. Maybe I am just looking too much into it.."

Jordan sighs putting the watch down looking at Tyler for him to say something as he's been silent almost the entire time; and Tyler in thought snapped out of his own thinking and cleared his throat before finally saying something.
"I understand your point, I really do.. I myself am getting some doubts and suspicions about it-"

"Do you think Miguel could just.. be Spider-Man himself?"

Gabriel gets out of the comfy bed and adventured out into the living room of Conchata's apartment as quietly as he could; it was still early in the morning where he didn't want to wake anyone. Miguel was sleeping on the couch with one of his arms used as a substitute for a pillow tucked under his head. Mom must've been in her room then. Gabriel thought to himself.

The younger brother then sneaked over to his peacefully sleeping older brother before unclasping the handle to his dimension watch and slid it off his wrist silently. He felt bad for taking it but Gabriel knew that Gwen and the other spider-kids needed him so.. Miguel hopefully shouldn't mind him borrowing it.

Gabriel clasped the watch back onto his wrist, retreating back to the room Gabriel closed the door behind him and Lyla materializes from the watch emitting a yellow glow, her avatar clothes in a night-gown with slippers and she stretches and imitates an yawn.
"You are up approximately 6.5 hours earlier than your usual wake up time, Gabriel."

She pointed out Gabriel's normal sleep schedule, earlier she had to coax Miguel into going for some much needed sleep and not just laying there staring at the ceiling in his own brain thinking about things in his life either it be negative or positive.
"Gwen and Margo need me to be there ASAP. Jessica is giving birth to her child in the hospital and Peter has been captured."

Lyla opens her mouth to speak but then pauses; to process that information. Lyla changes back to her programmed clothing and mused booping Gabriel on his tan nose playfully with her index finger.
"Oh. No wonder why; I might not know you more than I know Miguel but I know you love sleep."

Gabriel chuckles at Lyla's statement before turning his attention to the watch; pressing and clicking a couple of buttons and a portal to McKenzie's dimension opened up.
"Lyla can you notify Hobie and send him my coordinates once I arrive where Gwen, Margo and Jessica are at, please?"

Pleased with hearing Gabriel say please, Lyla nods and does a little playful hand salute to Gabriel while responding.
"On it, don't worry about it little boss."

Gabriel rolls his eyes playfully by the nickname before stepping through the portal; once he stumbled in Earth - 0161 Gabriel had to take a long minute to gain his barrings and not puke on the ground with how unused to dimensional traveling Gabriel was.
"You don't look so hot there, little boss! I should've warned you beforehand as technically this is your first time experiencing dimensional hopping.."

Lyla pats Gabriel's head to try and comfort him through the nausea even if Gabriel couldn't really feel her AI hand on his head. He waved a hand dismissively as the feeling of nausea went away with a dry, weak chuckle.
"No, no you're all good. I should've been prepared.. I'm fine though really."

Gabriel straightens his body posture and looks around seeing that it was an graffiti filled subway, or more like a more secret area of said subway. The graffiti on the wall was actually pretty decent to Gabriel as an artist himself. He points at the graffiti out to Lyla.
"Hey Lyla look at these. Isn't this Miles' art? I'm pretty sure though I entered the right dimension number.."

Lyla admired the graffiti art on the big wall like it was a mural, before correcting Gabriel.
"The tracking system of these watches is never wrong.. Variants of the people you know do within the Spider Society exist Gabriel. That's kinda the point of the concept of multi-verse after all."

"Oh, right.."

"Yeah. Did Miguel ever tell you the time when he met a version of Tyler Stone but he was Spider-Man 2099 in that dimension?"

Gabriel's mouth was agape open in shock at that, no Miguel didn't ever tell him that. Gabriel never even thought Tyler in any kind of dimension wouldn't just be anything else but a dictator essentially. Lyla laughs at Gabriel's reaction and adds.
"Yeah, I am assuming that's a no- but it's always something to think about, right?"

"I just can't imagine Tyler would be a good Spider-Man.."

Gabriel walks past some of the painting cans used for the graffiti that was left in a backpack; kinda just abandoned.. Gabriel goes through to make his way to see a chain type like door, he goes to open it only to find it locked effectively keeping any intruders out or in the case Gabriel within the secret part of the subway. Noticing the old school lock that was outdated compared to 2099's types of locks they had.

"Uh.. Lyla is there anyway I can get past this lock?"

Lyla analyzes the lock with a cheery smile on her face before responding pointing at the lock.
"Get the key. I'm joking, little boss. Don't give me that look, you look like Miguel when you frown. Unless you have a bobby pin to pick the lock you're going to have to climb over it."

Gabriel groans at Lyla's words before readying himself and leaping grabbing hold of the chain fence and awkwardly climbing over it and squeezing himself through the small crack which wasn't that difficult and landing on the other side.
"That wasn't so bad! Come on let's get to the hospital Gabriel."

On the way to the hospital Gabriel weaved himself through the civilians in the streets. Crowded; reminded Gabriel of Downtown but if the whole Nueva York was a part of Downtown. He noticed a huge crowd by a TV branded by Alchemax's logo printed on it; he stopped out of curiosity to see what it was playing on air. It was the news, curated by Alchemax's company. Most of it was normal things like politics or the weather.

Gabriel was about to continue walking but then there was a transition of the news and there was a photo of McKenzie with some details like how old she was, etc.. And the headline read; "Teen missing since the last two weeks; last seen at school, on June 10th. If you have any information contact the number (718)-964-ALCHEMAX."

"Wait McKenzie's missing?"

Gabriel spoke out aloud which a bystander looked at Gabriel as if he lived underneath a rock and interjected informing the younger male.
"You didn't know? The poor family, they are definitely struggling after their eldest sons' death back a month ago.."
Seemed like the Morales family was.. Somewhat recognizable to the public; kinda like they're "celebrities" like Tyler Stone in Earth - 928. 

Not responding back Gabriel continues on his way to get to the hospital telling Lyla to make a mental note to remind him later about McKenzie's situation. Once he finally arrives at the hospital Gabriel meets Gwen and Margo up in Jessica's hospital room.
"You made it!"

Gwen exclaimed with a sigh of relief at seeing Gabriel and standing up before running to hug Gabriel. Gabriel reciprocated the hug and patted her blonde hair on her head. Jessica was in the hospital bed holding onto her newborn infant in her arms. She looked weary and exhausted; it must've been difficult to give birth with two other teens in the room and without the father too..

"The girls have been worrying endlessly. Giving me a headache.."
Jessica groaned softly which Margo and Gwen exchanged awkward glances at each other and in unison they mumbled an apology. Jessica sighs and adjusts herself within the hospital bed to get more comfortable.

"Sorry.. I don't mean to be snippy. I am just very overwhelmed; girls.."
Jessica also apologized; feeling terrible for not only snapping at Gwen and Margo, but at McKenzie earlier out of stress since being temporary leader of HQ and all responsibility that comes with that. 

"Is there anything I can do to help?"

Gabriel asked wanting to ease Jessica's worries, even if it's just by a little bit. Jessica thinks for a moment to gather her thoughts before responding to his offer for help.
"Actually there is something. I want you to gather everyone up at HQ, pretty much anyone whose whereabouts aren't concrete like Pavitr."

"No worries, I'll get that done. Hobie should be able to help since Lyla notified him of our location, right Lyla?"

"Yup! He said he's on his way!"

"Looks like you don't have much to worry about.."
Margo said patting Jessica's shoulder to comfort her and she smiled at that. They were going to get through these difficult times. Even if it is just slower than Jessica had hoped for.

Chapter Text

Gabriel, Gwen and Margo had got back to Earth - 928 to the Spider Society HQ; with Hobie's help they had managed to gather Pavitr and Peni from their home dimensions. It was going to be much easier for everyone's sake to keep track of everyone if they stayed here at HQ for the time being especially after Peter got captured.

Gabriel had also gone to Jessica's dimension upon her request to retrieve her husband and bring her to Jessica so she wasn't alone after giving birth to their infant son, which they ended up naming Gerald. 
"So.. What do you think we should do, Gabri? Since you're in the role of the boss man now."

Hobie asked kicking his feet up on the desk top of Miguel's office and Gabriel gently bats Hobie's legs off with a light, weary smile.
"We still have to get Miles and McKenzie. They should be at Peter's dimension with MJ."
Gabriel pointed out to a yellow hologram showing them at MJ's apartment. Hobie sits up from his slouched position to look at the hologram of the Morales siblings.

"Yep. Should we bring MJ here too..?"

Gabriel pauses for a moment at Hobie's words, he taps his fingers on the desk in thought. It would probably be better just to give MJ the details of what happened but not to bring her into the drama of what they were dealing with.
"No.. She's got enough to deal with in her life. Miles and McKenzie possibly told her so I am not worried about leaving her in the dark."

"Sounds good, mate."

Hobie pats Gabriel's back in a reassuring way before webbing down to leave. As soon as Hobie leaves for Earth - 616, Gabriel hears a ding! noise from his phone signalling that he had a notification which Gabriel promptly checked.

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HQ Chat


11:01 AM


Gabriel O'Hara went online

Miguel O'Hara: Gabriel are you at HQ?


Gabriel O'Hara: How did you know?


Miguel O'Hara: Lyla usually wakes me up with an alarm via watch. Ma was the one who woke me up instead.

[ 👍 x1 ]


Gabriel O'Hara: Oh..

Gwennie 🌸 went online

Gwennie 🌸: I asked him to come to help us, Miguel. - 🌸


Miguel O'Hara: I am not mad Gwen.


Gwennie 🌸: You aren't? - 🌸


Gabriel O'Hara: Why would Miggy be mad? 


Gwennie 🌸: I just thought Miguel would be.. Cause you are like overprotective of Gabri - 🌸


Miguel O'Hara: I am not mad. Don't worry Gwen.


Miguel O'Hara: And I am not THAT overprotective.

[ 🤨 x2 ] 


Gwennie 🌸: You are a little bit. - 🌸

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Gabriel O'Hara: Mhm. Agree with Gwen on that.


Miguel O'Hara: Anyways.. Can I get an update on what's going on with everyone in HQ? 


Gabriel O'Hara: Well Jessica gave birth to her child. And almost everyone else is in HQ with me. 


Miguel O'Hara: OK.


Miguel O'Hara: How's Jess doing after that?

Gabriel O'Hara: As far as we know she's doing great considering the circumstances. 

Gwennie 🌸: We would've brought Jessica back to the infirmary in HQ however I panicked and brought her to a different hospital in McKenzie’s dimension and now we can't bring her back because the doctors won't let us. - 🌸

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Miguel O'Hara: As long as they are safe, it'll be fine. The doctors there will keep an eye on Jess and her family; I don't doubt their capabilities of being medical professionals.

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"Gabe? Any updates on Peter's whereabouts..?"
There was a poke on Gabriel's shoulder and there Pavitr was hanging upside down by a web looking at him with his dark brown eyes. The young boy had a hopeful look on his face

"I'm working on it."

Gabriel responded and Pavitr does a little backflip before landing on his feet on the raised platform before going to Gabriel's side as Gabriel had turned his attention now to the yellow holographs and he got an idea before he starting typing away on the keyboard.
"But I may have an idea.." 

"Are you checking Peter's bracelet IP address?"

Lyla sets herself on Pavitr's shoulder as Gabriel nodded and continued to type away; he should've thought about it sooner due to him having a major part in building the dimensional watches. Pavitr and Lyla watch Gabriel as he typed away until a loud PING! and there was a red dot that appeared on the yellow holographs pointing in the middle of.. Alchemax. Well Earth - 928's Alchemax.

It takes Gabriel a moment before he had a look of disbelief; and Pavitr's face changed into a slight confused expression.
"Well.. At least we found where Peter is right..? Now we can figure out how to get Peter!" 
Pavitr bumps Gabriel's shoulder with his own happily and Gabriel nods at that, despite the circumstances they still found Peter.

"We have to get Peter out of there, fast. Get Gwen and the others, please."

The sounds of metal pots and a wooden spoon scrapping came from the kitchen, Miguel looked up from his phone. Conchata must've been making some food for both of them. A long sigh escaped Miguel as he scoots himself up from the couch. Miguel was thankful the pain had subsided with the pain medication that the doctor back in the infirmary gave him.

The warm smell of a familiar food dish entered Miguel's nose which he perked his head up at the delightful smell; Miguel leans over and grasped hold of the back brace he had took off the night before so it wouldn't interfere with his sleep. Miguel strapped the brace back on tightening it to fit just enough where it didn't hurt him though.

Conchata pressed a few invisible buttons on the top bar of the stove, it turning off the red circle in the middle that she was using to cook before removing the hot soup of the circle and stepped out into the living room.
"You slept in quite abit, lazy son of mine."

She teased, either out of love or just to spite; Miguel couldn't really tell. Miguel scoffed and finished strapping the back brace.
"Ma, you know I've always had a terrible sleep schedule; even as a child."
He stated and Conchata steps back into the kitchen fixing up a bowl of soup for Miguel and heading back once more.

"Yeah well.. I always thought it was you being dramatic. As.. Kids are." 
She excused giving the bowl of soup over to Miguel which he hesitated to eat with how Conchata just seemed salty at everything this late morning. Conchata looks at Miguel expectedly.

Miguel picks the spoon and proceeds to sip on the now less hot soup after it took a moment to cool. Conchata seemed satisfied with that before she was about to speak up when Miguel's device started to buzz multiple times of texts and Miguel checks quickly to see Gabriel texting about where Peter was and his eyes widened. Almost choking on the soup he stands putting the soup to the side.

"What is it?"

Miguel mumbled some angry Spanish curses; Conchata doesn't hesitate to stop Miguel. Conchata demanded.
"Where are you going?!"
Miguel takes his mother by her shoulders and the older woman gives her son a glare with Miguel not explaining everything to her.

"Alchemax has a friend of mine.. And I cannot allow Tyler to do whatever he plans on doing to Peter in there! You know how evil Stone is." 
Conchata takes a moment to process her son's words and sighed nodding. The mother unfortunately knew all too well and wished she didn't.. 

"Go then.. But be careful out there.."

"I can't promise anything ma."
After that Miguel heads off to get to Alchemax in a hurry before anything terrible happens to Peter.

At the back entrance of Alchemax... The group of 6 Spider-People; including Gabriel were there making sure the coast was clear before Gabriel turned to them.
"Okay here's the plan.. Peni and Pavitr you two will go together to disable Alchemax's security systems. Miles, Gwen and McKenzie you three will go get Peter once Pavitr and Peni give the go ahead." 

Gwen helps the two younger Spider-Kids into the vent they were sneaking into the building with before herself, Miles and McKenzie followed behind Pavitr and Peni.
"Oi. What do you want me to do, mate?"
Hobie finally speaks up when it was just the two of them that were left out in the open, Gabriel smiles and responded.

"Simple. Me and you; we are going after Stone. Putting an end to this."

Hobie grins at Gabriel before pulling his Spider mask over his face, he was more than glad to go after the dictator that practically made living in any part of Nueva York like hell in itself.
"Hell yeah finally, let's get that bastard."

Hobie helps Gabriel into the vent and follows lastly before they started crawling through together. Gabriel had Lyla track everyone else's IP address of their watches to keep watch on the Spider-Kids in the building. Lyla quietly guides Gabriel and Hobie through the right vents to find Tyler's office. The two stop crawling at the vent duct that led to Tyler's office and Gabriel peers through the slits of it and noticed Tyler wasn't in immediate view. Was he not in his office?

"Wait where could he be..?"

Hobie mumbles before Gabriel popped out the vent and pushed off of its hinge and dropped down and Hobie followed behind. Once down Gabriel was ambushed by the side and grabbed by his hair roughly and he cries out in surprise, before Gabriel's head was slammed into Tyler's fancy desk causing his nose to start bleeding.

The white skinned, old hand that grabbed onto Gabriel's darker locks belonged to Tyler as he dragged Gabriel along with him as he moved away from Hobie.
"Oi, you bloody bloke! Get your filthy capitalist hands off of my mate!"

Gabriel was surprised that Tyler was even able to move faster as an older man than both of Hobie and himself. Or sneak up on them for that matter.
"Bold of you to say that when I am the one who is holding your "mate" hostage."

Tyler said in a cocky tone of voice barely fazed by Hobie's threat; narrowing his eyes Hobie readied his guitar in the air, he definitely wasn't going to be afraid to beat Tyler with his favorite guitar if it meant getting Gabriel away from Tyler.

"Although I'll give both of you some credit; you managed to get inside without tripping off any of Alchemax's alarms."
It was a backhanded compliment, seeing that Tyler obviously saw himself higher and superior to Gabriel and Hobie. Gabriel struggles in Tyler's grasp but Tyler wouldn't let up on how tight he held him.

"I wouldn't get too cocky there." 
Tyler was about to respond to Hobie's retort when the lights went out with a sharp snap leaving them within the dark of the Alchemax building. Peni and Pavitr must've finished disabling the alarms..

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"Was that supposed to happen..?"

The power went out in the generator room and SP//dr's LED red lights finally lit up in its full potential. Yet, the alarms and defense system was offline like they had needed. Peni's face turned into a thin pout on her lips. What were the chances that she would mistakenly pull the wire that was connected to the lights.

"Hmpff! No.. But there are the back up generators."
Peni pulls out a futuristic flashlight and clicks it on to maneuver her way to the back-up generator. It looked complicated to navigate to Pavitr but to Peni it was a walk in the park.

She was about to start working on the generator when the door hinges open and someone began to walk into the generator room when Peni shoots Pavitr a worried expression. Pavitr effectively shot two webs at the unsuspected person; one aimed for the mouth and the other to trap them against the wall.
"What the shock-" 

That voice was familiar, Pavitr and Peni froze at the familiar voice before Pavitr got closer to the figure only to finally notice it was Miguel who now was dressed in his Alchemax lab coat; he had firmly webbed to the wall. His red eyes behind some tinted circle sunglasses glared at Pavitr as he quickly uses his hands to tear off and release him from the web. 

Once Miguel was released from the web, he tore off the one stuck to his mouth with his razor sharp fingertip claws. Miguel points his index finger at the kids and scolded.
"Maldita sea, ¿por qué están aquí, niños? ¡Os estáis poniendo en peligro!"

Peni was quick to explain as she cranked the back-up generator on, dim red lights illuminating up some of the Alchemax building so it wasn't pitch black dark.
"We are here to rescue Peter on Gabriel's requestment of this mission."

Miguel groans at that, although he probably should've expected that since Gabriel in times of increased stress is known to do reckless stunts like this. It happened more times than he could count, especially when they were younger as children.
"What was Gabri thinking..? Who other than you kids did my kid brother bring with him?"

"Hobie, Gwen, Miles and Kenzie."

That made Miguel stress even more, sure Hobie could handle himself in a fight he knew that; but he was more worried about the younger ones. What if Tyler or the other scientists within the building got ahold of them? The thought made him shudder. Miguel instructed.
"Stick with me you two. We have to reunite with the others."

Miguel leads Pavitr and Peni; Sp//dr following along through the halls albeit slower than Peni and Pavitr with his back pain killing him but Miguel told himself he had to push through the pain; there were more stakes here. Pavitr asked as they ran through the halls.
"Wait, how did you know that we were here?"

"Gabriel told me about Peter. I care about you all, too. It's a no-brainer; If I am here, I can still be somewhat helpful!"
Miguel explained before webbing up a couple of surprised scientists which Pavitr apologized to them; as Miguel webbed them to the wall disabling their movement. They struggled but inevitably were stuck.

Steering them forward to make sure Pavitr and Peni were in front of him so he wouldn't lose track of them in the sterile facility.
"Aww! I knew you care for us, Mr. O'Hara!" 
Pavitr exclaimed with glee, and Miguel doesn't protest against that embarrassed after what he said.

Miguel never truly admitted that he was quite overprotective of his family. Even if they weren't biological related by blood and their flesh. Despite that Miguel formed a tight-knitted bond with everyone. Kind of reminded him of the silky webs of a spider ironically enough. Miguel retorted back, a little taken back at Pavitr's remark.

"Of course I care! I just don't.. Show it much.."

"I'm totally using this to blackmail you, Mr. O'Hara."
Pavitr retorted with a cheeky smirk on his face, Miguel scoffed lightly at Pavitr not believing he would have the confidence to do that.

Peter and Kron were strapped to a holding machine they held experiments in before actually experimenting on them; when the power and defense system was cut the machine powers off and released the both of them which Peter was surprised as he managed to climb out off of the deactivated machine.

"What just happened?!"

Peter questioned turning to look around, it was so dark in there now that it made Peter wish he had his suit back with it having night-vision implemented into the suit. Peter was just glad to be out of being held in that machine finally; it made his older body ache.

"That's the first thing you worried about, old man..? Look! The doors are unlocked!"

Kron pointed out with his hand to the door that was now unlocked and had a green square on the side indicating the sliding door was unlocked. Peter rolled his eyes as Kron had called him an "old man". Kron with haste runs to get to the exit of the particular holding cell, Peter was quick to stop Kron in his tracks by grabbing his arm which he growled turning with a look of annoyance.

"Let go of my shocking arm, old man."

Kron's eyes narrowed at the elder male raised an eyebrow at Kron before Peter lets go his hold of Kron's arm putting his arms up in surrender and sarcastically quipped.
"Well excuse me for being concerned about your shock collar on your neck that your father decided to put on YOU." 

Kron pauses and sighs heavily at that crossing his arms like a misbehaving child; he didn't take into consideration the collar. Kron gestures to the door with his thumb as he responds to Peter's concern.
"Alright, alright we get the collar off first. Then we dip."

Peter nods, fair enough he thinks to himself before pointing to one of the countertops with his index finger. He had an idea on how to remove the collar in a more efficient way that'll save them time rather than searching for Tyler who would have the remote to said shock collar.

"Get on that counter."

Kron sat himself lazily on the lab counter as Peter instructed him. Kron makes a nervous face as he was instructed.
"I am going to have to rip it off, hold onto the counter so I don't hurt you."
Preparing himself, Kron used his hands to grip onto the marble counter as tightly as he could without his Venom's strength on hand.

Using his super strength Peter pulls at the collar, it starts to wear and rip exposing the wires and components as he yanked and pulled. Kron was sweating staying still as possible until the shock collar gave way and finally Peter ripped it in half and peeled it off of Kron's peach body. Peter discards the left parts of the shock collar onto the floor carelessly. 

"Ok.. I am now actually impressed; old man."
Kron retorted which Peter scoffed lightly; guess all the Stone family in general didn't have good manners so that's the best he was going to get to an actual "thank you" from Kron. Peter doesn't respond back and the two cautiously leave the cell room.

Once they left, Peter and Kron ran into the other group now Miguel had found McKenzie, Miles and Gwen and made sure everyone stuck together this time around. Peter's eyes lit up once he saw everyone there; and McKenzie was the first to limp over to Peter as soon as she spotted him and give him a hug.

Peter chuckled and patted the shorter girl's dark brown strokes of hair once she was in his arms holding onto him tightly. 
"Kenzie! Guys!! It's so good to see everyone; a sight for sore eyes- Wait how is Mayday..?"
Miles was the one to answer with the parent's concern, responding;

"She's good, Kenzie and I left her home with MJ. It would be too dangerous to bring her to a literal facility that would experiment on anything that they are able to get their dirty hands on."

Peter laughs nervously at the subtle jab at his habits, as Miles wasn't the first one to complain about Peter bringing Mayday everywhere, whether it be in the middle of a literal fight with a villain/anomaly or HQ in general. Miguel and Jessica would be the ones who often warn him about it too.

"Fine, I'll be better about that in the future.."
The spider relented which Miguel rolled his eyes, not that Miguel didn't believe Peter would keep his word but he'd know that he would have to remind Peter about it so he wouldn't forget about it anytime soon.

"Come on, I can tell you also want a hug from your Uncle Pete."
Peter noticed Gwen and Miles also longingly looked at Peter and gestured his arms out as they finally also jumped to Peter to join the hug with McKenzie. 

"Wait, who is that?"

McKenzie finally asked noticing Kron who was then utterly flabbergasted by her question of who he was, and with an air of superiority he mocked her tone of voice.
"You seriously don't know who I am?! Kron Stone? Son of rich, and powerful Tyler Stone?"

McKenzie wrinkles her nose at Kron's air of superiority which definitely rubbed her the wrong way; as far as in her dimension, Kron Stone nor Tyler Stone have existed yet and there was only Tiberius Stone. McKenzie didn't answer with a response but slowly shook her head for her answer.

"Maybe they don't know you, but I do."
Miguel cut in abruptly before shooting his red, thick webs directed at Kron and he had no time to react before his arms were bound to his torso effectively trapping him within the webs.

"Hey, hey whoa! Miguel what are you doing?"
Peter protested as he shielded the three spiderlings within his arms at Miguel shooting that web at Kron, which he lets out an almost inhumane growl at Miguel.

"Are you still mad at me, golden boy? Seriously?"
Kron hissed narrowing his eyes at the geneticist, referring to the picking and bullying that Miguel had to endure in boarding school from Kron, himself. Despite the bullying Miguel went through; that was the least of his worries about the male.

Kron was definitely an character, an unpredictable one at that and was a murderer multiple times over. Mad was an understatement for Miguel to use to describe how he felt about the spoiled male.
"He's a murderer, Peter! He isn't an ally; nor will I trust him to be around us without some restrictions."

Peter after hearing that gives Kron a side glance, a questioning one and guided Gwen, Miles and McKenzie away and stepped over next to Pavitr and Peni. They all looked uncomfortable now knowing that Kron wasn't really a trustworthy person. Especially the spiderlings.
"Surely he was killing in self-defense right..?"

Pavitr said hopeful that Miguel was just being overprotective and it wasn't all that it seemed. Miguel furrowed his eyebrows, if only it was true; Pavitr has such a sweet soul alike Gabriel and saw the best in everyone. Miguel shakes his head before pulling the web Kron was attached to roughly to keep him by his side. Kron grunts as he was pulled over.

"Ugh.. That's funny kid, you think it was in self-defense?"

Those words made everyone silent Pavitr especially, as he kept close to Peter like the rest of the spiderlings as he was now hesitant to be near the platinum blonde in any capacity. Miguel takes charge in leading the group like he's grown used to. Now they just had to find Hobie and his kid brother before something went terribly wrong.

Peter looks at McKenzie as they walk and when noticing she didn't have the crutches from before and was limping as she walked he asked out of concern for the newer spiderling to the team.
"Hey where's your crutches, Kenzie? Do you need me to help you walk?"

McKenzie stops slightly in walking as she looks at her leg. It was healed as Miles and McKenzie went to the infirmary to check in with the doctor before McKenzie could've been permitted to leave for the mission with the rest of the group; however the doctor said she would have a permanent limp on that particular leg that she injured that day in the Alchemax building.

"I'm stuck with this, unfortunately. Can't run at my full capacity anymore."
Her voice was laced with disappointment, and Peter sighs at that and pats McKenzie's shoulder with his hand to reassure the younger girl.

"I'm glad to see you back on your feet though, kiddo."

McKenzie smiles at that reassurance and she was about to respond when the group heard a loud whacking sound and an untune scream sounding like an electric guitar from the hall and the group went to check. Once there, Miguel's eyes widened to see Gabriel and Hobie ganging up on Tyler. Tyler had his hand raised in surrender with his other on his bruised face.

The shapes of the bruises reflected a guitar shape signaling that Hobie had to smash at the older gentleman with it to get Gabriel away from him. Miguel ditches Kron by letting go of the web string he was dragging him by and rushed to be by his baby brother's side; Peter was quick though to grab the web again to rein him back in from escaping which Kron scoffed at being thrown around like he weighed nothing.

"Oh, Mike! What a surprise, eh..? It's good to see you back.."

Tyler greets in a more desperate voice than Miguel was used to, first time actually hearing Tyler in a more vulnerable light; his sapphire blue eyes softening at the sight of Miguel. Like the older male was hoping the geneticist would help the CEO in some way. Miguel narrowed his eyes at Tyler; it was kinda pathetic to Miguel to see him from this kind of angle.

Miguel snarkily retorted, it actually wasn't nice to see Tyler especially when he is attacking his family that was just trying to protect Peter from the company's greedy, experimental grasp. Who knows what they planned to do to Peter anyway?
"I can't say the same thing to you, Ty. You are attacking my family."

Tyler scoffs immediately at the redhead's words, family only counted to Tyler if they shared the same blood and came from the same last name the male of the household had. Not feelings of closeness, Tyler gritted his teeth. The mere idea of that was incredibly stupid to Tyler for someone as smart of Miguel to have.
""Family", are you listening to yourself Mike? They aren't your family- we are only doing this to further what really matters here; Nueva York!"

The blonde man wasn't really focused on the spiderlings as a concern. They were just harmless children in his old eyes. Hobie clutched the guitar stick even more in his fists. He wanted to drive it right into Tyler's throat with that statement.
"You practically control Nueva York, you old bloke! What better have you done for this entire city?"

Hobie corrected Tyler's slanderous words; throwing one hand in the air at Tyler for emphasis of the punk's point. Miguel agreed fully with Hobie on this, as an employee of Alchemax he knew Tyler was spouting lies out of his mouth. This wasn't for the betterment of the city; both Downtown and Uptown alike, but out of selfish desires to keep the company Alchemax being in control of the entire city with no repercussions of their cruel actions.

Tiberius breaks out into a run as soon as he sees Tyler on the floor rushing to his alter dimensional son's side. Miguel had to halt Hobie and Gabriel from attacking the older male again. Crazy bursts of colours and shard pieces broke out as Tiberius was starting to decay from being in the wrongful dimension. Tyler grabs his father by his shoulders and orders pointing his arm towards the futuristic slide door.

"Get back to your dimension now! Jordan fixed the device so it should be stable enough-"

"What about the experiment?"
Tiberius began to protest against him when Tyler shook his head at Tiberius, not that he wanted to cancel the plans of experimenting on Peter but hopefully postpone them once he got the public eye to deal with the rebellious group and get everything under control again.

Tiberius looked back before retreating towards the room where the dimensional portal resided. This makes McKenzie despite Peter trying to grab her to stop her from running after him into the room, but she was determined not to let him escape back to Earth - 0161. McKenzie wanted to prove herself to the others that she wasn't going to be useless, especially after Jessica yelled at her earlier.

Everybody else hurried behind including Tyler who was attempting to halt McKenzie. Tyler reacted by grabbing the young girl by the scruff of her neck like you would a younger kitten and slammed her into the sterile wall with his body. There was a cry of pain from the spiderling and that's when Miguel pounced.

Almost seeing pure red in his vision, first attacking his baby brother was one thing but one of the spiderlings that were just mere children? That was too far for Miguel to take from Tyler Stone of all people. Peter being the only other responsible adult there grabbed McKenzie and held her back with the other spiderlings.

Miguel now had Tyler pinned to the hard, cold ground. His hands grasped around the father's throat, shaky albeit due to the heavy amount of adrenaline in his large body. With a shocked expression Tyler tried prying the redhead's hands from his wrinkly, peach throat. The nerve of Miguel to go against his own father made Tyler full of rage.

Kron in particular who was watching from the group was smirking at Miguel, relishing in the sight of Tyler finally getting what he deserved even though he wished it for his own hand to be doing it. Ironic, that Kron was literally just as worse as Tyler, if not worse than the father. Tiberius was about to crank the switch on for the portal he paused to watch the encounter play out.

Miguel roared at Tyler, his red eyes more present than the usual reddish brown colour when he was in a calmer mood. Tyler felt the grasp on his neck tightened and he gasped for air into his lungs desperately. Miguel's claws on the tips of his finger pads starting to dig into the skin.
"That's enough! You and Tiberius have caused enough irreparable damage to everybody, including me!"

Usually Tyler wasn't afraid of much of anything but now? Tyler was actually once in his life, terrified of dying seeing that Miguel intended to actually put an end to him and the tyranny he caused. Not when he has achieved so much, he couldn't let his own son kill him. It should be the other way around, since Tyler was the one who made him after all. Without the affair happening, Miguel wouldn't exist.

As much as Tyler didn't want to spill the family secret under Conchata's threatening.. Perhaps it would stop Miguel from killing him out of guilt. Either way he would be screwed in some way, lose-lose situation. Mustering a shrill, pathetic voice that Tyler could manage, he sputters.

"Y-you wouldn't kill your own father would you, Mike?!"

Everyone was in shock at that news, Gwen and McKenzie were in big doubt immediately by Tyler's admission; as they obviously didn't look close to being biologically related. Gabriel's brunette eyes were wide, that couldn't be true.. Right? That would mean him and Miguel weren't actually full brothers..? But Miguel; wasn't in shock. Miguel knew that for quite some time.

Tyler was sure that would've caused Miguel to hesitate or show more of a reaction towards him literally admitting the affair he had with Conchata almost 27 years ago. Blue eyes of his were trying to look for something in Miguel's eyes, but they weren't full of a particular emotion, finally he spoke in a snarky voice.

"Yeah.. I know, dad."

Tyler's eyes widened now with shock that Miguel knew, how? Him and Conchata hid it so well, didn't they? Leaving no chance for Tyler to react Miguel forced himself to tighten his grasp until he could hear Tyler's choking from his windpipe feeling it crushing; until crimson splattered on Miguel's face and his hands trying to stop his own son from killing him faltered and went limp.

It was like a big relief from Miguel's chest being lifted off of his chest once Tyler was dead. It should've been easier but it was bittersweet nonetheless.. Was he now just as bad as Tyler for putting down a monster like him? Or even bad as Kron? Miguel takes his hands and tries to wipe the blood from his face, only smearing it more into his face and pores.

Gabriel was the first to get near Miguel, silently wrapping his arms around his elder brother's shoulders. The two brothers don't speak to each other just relying on their presence for comfort. Gabriel knew he needed to step up and comfort Miguel like he would during Conchata and George's fights as they were children. Be the older brother in a sense this time.

Horrified Tiberius was using the machine crank to support himself from kneeling over, he never seen messed up shit like that- a son murdering their own father in cold blood; Hobie and Peter looked at him and then at Gabriel. Hobie hesitated to ask at a time like this but what were they going to do with Tiberius?

"Well.. what do we do with him, Gabri?"

Gabriel felt abit off, with how everyone was practically looking at him for the next orders of what will happen which is something he wasn't used to, but with Miguel not being in the best mental space Gabriel would just have to make the decision; do what Miguel would do in this situation.

"The tyranny has to stop here and now, I say we take Tiberius as a hostage along with Kron."

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The youngest O'Hara wasn't sure if he should be livid at Miguel for not letting him in that he knew of the affair as soon as Miguel discovered it or at Conchata for being the one to have an affair with Tyler Stone in the first place. Sure, George wasn't a good husband nor father, but it stung to be left out of knowing.

"How did you even know?"

Gabriel's voice was firm and serious lacking his casual tone of voice. Barely registering Gabriel's question, Miguel's gaze focused on the messy crimson splattered in his palms. Adrenaline quieted down in Miguel's system, replaced with a feeling of numbness and relief. His lips parted; Miguel croaked out in a weak, soft voice that was unfamiliar to even Miguel himself.

"I saw Tyler- kissing our mother Gabri, she admitted it herself; she never saw dad in me, but Tyler instead. What else could that realistically mean..?"

"Once we get out of here and into HQ, we will go straight to mamá and discuss this with her. She has lots to answer too."
Gabriel told Miguel gently pulling at Miguel's shoulders to get him to his feet and away from Tyler's corpse on the floor and he slowly stood up to his feet.

Hobie went to grab Tiberius and if the male wasn't terrified already; just by Hobie going in to restrain him Tiberius panicked and cranks the machine lever down and sprinted to get away cowardly escaping via portal, shouting.
"I won't let you monsters kill me as well!"

Surroundings in the room glitched roaring noises audibly and when McKenzie bolts determined to do something to stop Tiberius. McKenzie grasped onto Tiberius by his upper torso stumbling by how the young girl thrusts her weight onto the male and tipped over they both almost halfway through the portal; Gwen sprinted into action to grab McKenzie back.

Gwen didn't think through her actions it was just more based on instinct. When grabbing McKenzie to pull her out before she could fall in however despite her attempts, they still fell into the portal fully. After Gwen and McKenzie fell into the portal Miguel tried running after them which Gabriel held onto Miguel.

"They'll come back; Gwen has her watch! Turn off the machine, someone!"

Miles hesitated as he wanted nothing bad to happen to Gwen or McKenzie; before the dark haired boy could go to turn off the machine and it loudly whirred and started actually breaking apart from the sheer pressure it went through with many usages Alchemax had used it and abruptly exploded violently spraying debris and shards of materials.

Diving for cover, Miles curled himself up on the floor placing his hands over his head to protect it from the carelessly flung about material. So did Peter grab hold of Pavitr, Peni and Kron until it became silent. Too silent for anyone's comfort that it signaled to them that the array of material had ended. Gabriel scans his eyes over his brother to check if Miguel was injured; when checked, none of the shards had cut him.

Kron about to laugh out of the fact that what just all happened was unexpected and that was humorous to the insane individual, there was loud footsteps sounding like boots similar to Hobie's own black ones; loud and booming coming towards the room they were in and Kron slowly said aloud turning his head to look at the others.

"Do any of you have a way to get out of here? I don't think we should stick around for much longer.."

The Public Eye: it's the only possibility that Gabriel assumed and without even needing to be asked Miles opened a portal from his wristwatch and ran through first and Gabriel started ushering everyone else into the portal that led back to Spider Society HQ until him and Miguel were the last ones to get through the portal and closed behind them. 

Just in time for the Public Eye to burst into the room with flashlights in one hand and laser firearms in the other to investigate the facility only finding Tyler's lifeless corpse on the otherwise once sterile floor and nothing else to explain to them what had just transpired in this now crime scene causing Tyler's death leaving the group of armed up men quite puzzled.

Gwen cried out as the portal spat her and McKenzie out onto concrete, holding onto the smaller framed girl protecting her from getting injured. The rocky landing was definitely going to leave a massive bruise later on Gwen's back. McKenzie throws off the crappy store bought mask from her face with a soft groan; sore from being thrown around in that dimensional portal.

"Wait where's Tiberius?"

The first thing that McKenzie noticed after they were spat out of the portal more concerned about Tiberius' wellbeing. Gwen also looked around like McKenzie and the dimension they landed in wasn't Earth - 0161. More like where were they now? Gwen corrected McKenzie inside her head, she could care less about what happened to Tiberius.

Checking the watch once again, they were on Earth 2 currently. McKenzie was about to start panicking when Gwen saw this and reassured her gesturing to her watch.
"Hey, I got my watch! We'll get back to HQ sooner than you can say disintegration! haha.."

That was terrible; why did I say that? Gwen mentally deadpanned to herself, a terrible joke and timing. The blonde gazes down at the watch to type in the coordinates for HQ. The screen was heavily shattered, but it looked like it was just surface damage.

A loud denial sound filled the air from the watch, denying the request of opening a portal and an automated AI voice said, 'Access denied' and again, again as Gwen attempted again and again to get the watch to work. Why wasn't it working?! Gwen furrowed her eyebrows getting irritated with the dimensional watch gritting her teeth.

It was like deja vu all over again when Miguel sent her back to her home dimension and disabled her watch's abilities. McKenzie asked, being completely unsure how the technology worked as her Earth is literally from earlier in the 20th century.
"What's wrong with it..?"

Gwen didn't know was broken with the watch in particular and that's why it infuriated her. Gabriel would know what's wrong with it if he was here to take a look at it. Sighing putting her hands to her hips and responding in an annoyed voice.
"Who knows, it's usually isn't this sensitive."

The blonde wasn't really annoyed with McKenzie more just annoyed at the fact that Tiberius didn't come willingly and it resulted in this situation. How he just called everyone there monsters even though the only reason why Miguel had to kill Tyler was if he didn't there were no telling on how far he'd go to achieve his plans. Experimenting on Peter would've just been the beginning of his sick plans. 

Tyler was dead and hopefully Tiberius would be too much of a coward to continue his other dimension son's tyranny further and they could move on with their lives. It would probably take Miguel and Gabriel some time through to cope with the idea that they aren't really 100% biological brothers. Especially Gabriel as he didn't know about the affair like Miguel did earlier.

"I miss the others.. We'll get back to them soon, right Gwen..?" 

McKenzie speaks up in a soft and vulnerable voice grabbing onto Gwen's arm which she turned her head to look at McKenzie; she didn't know exactly when they'll get back to the others in HQ but it wouldn't be that long surely, they would just have to find a way to fix her watch to get back to HQ.

Gwen was terribly wishing she brought her phone with her to the Alchemax facility however she didn't think she would need it. So her and McKenzie be stuck there until they could get the watch looked at by someone and repaired. 
"Maybe not tonight exactly, but don't worry Kenzie. We'll find a way tomorrow."

The shorter girl nods, and the two set off for the streets to find a place to stay in while they stay in this unknown dimension for the time being. On the way towards a motel, they planned to take some shelter for the time being when a storekeeper cried out.
"Thief! Thief, she's making out with my jewelry!"

"Oh dear."
McKenzie groaned in response, the storekeeper attempting to grab the young female's arm to prevent her from leaving the store with the stolen goods like rings and necklaces.

She scratches and attacks the storekeeper using her long black painted fingernails like a cat would scratch someone. The fight was about to get rough by the way they both wouldn't give up. Gwen gestured for McKenzie to put her mask back on before they went to help to conceal her identity which McKenzie did; slipping the mask back onto her face.

The two spiderlings sprang into action to prevent either party from getting injured; Gwen pushing herself between the middle of them and Gwen looks at over at the female stealing and something just struck Gwen to be familiar. Her white locks of hair and face especially. Black Cat, or Felicia Hardy.

"Felicia..?" 

Felicia is caught off guard by how Gwen recognized her and she attacked Gwen, the storekeeper runs behind their desk after being given the chance to cower. His head only peeks to check what's going on in their own shop. Gwen didn't struggle much against Felicia as her spider powers gave her strength to not be easily knocked over onto her behind by the petty thief.

Gwen throws Felicia off, and she stumbles back almost falling onto her behind the jewelry that Felicia tried to steal clattered to the ground in a mess as she lost her grip on the stolen goods. Felicia hissed in anger before swiping at Gwen with her long claws practically Gwen swerved under and webbed her arm that was swinging at her to Felicia's chest.

This Felicia was even more vicious than Gwen was expecting out of a counterpart.
"Ugh, what is this!? Why don't you mind your own business?!" 

For the next 20 weary minutes Gwen and McKenzie fought tussling with Felicia until she actually surrendered the stolen goods having a hard time fighting the two spiderlings who she thought was going to be easy. Felicia was hoping that they would give up and run off after she scratched and fought at them, like a bully expecting their victim to just cry when they are bullying them. 

When they didn't run off like Felicia was expecting, she made an escape fleeing off like a cat. However, that wasn't the thing that made Gwen feel off about this encounter. It was how Felicia didn't know what webs were. That wasn't really like Felicia, even for a dimensional counterpart. There should've been a spider person in this dimension too, right?

Now the store was practically knocked around like an earthquake by the time the girls were done fighting; mostly just the rest of the jewelry and their displays were knocked over from Felicia batting them about in a fury, would be quite a mess for the owner to clean, tidy and replace anything if damaged.

McKenzie and Gwen exchanged brief confused glances at one other. McKenzie turns to look at the shopkeeper watching the encounter play out too afraid to intervene themselves which they also looked at weirdly at them. Why was he looking at them like that? It was unnerving.

"Come on, Kenzie. Let's get out of here. I don't like the way he is looking at us."
Gwen seemed to grasp the hint at the atmosphere's tension within the area and grasped at McKenzie's forearm and pulled her away from the scene fleeing like Felicia to hide it out for the time being.

A young girl in her living room was holding a remote for a TV, her gaze not showing any clear emotion on her face as she watched the screen. On it was the news displacing the scene where Gwen and McKenzie had just fought Felicia from the cameras recording the inside of the jewelry store earlier. Her face would show disdain whenever Felicia was on the camera.

Headlines describing the scene as a sighting of "metahumans" and a warning within the surroundings of where Gwen and McKenzie had been; to be cautious and stay indoors. She clicked her thumb over the remote; the TV shuts off and when the screen turns off.

The darkened TV reflection reflects the girl's facial features revealing to be the uncannily same as Gwen's; eye color, nose, and the short light blonde hair left untouched from Miles' influence back in Earth - 65.

Back at HQ, Hobie threw Kron into a more secure cell. Ever since the incident with Miles and Miguel, Spider Society had to come up with a more humane way to keep anomalies contained inside. Even if Kron wasn't an anomaly, this was the best way to hold him contained. Better than being stuck in a holographic cube where everyone could see you.

"I get my own personal cell to myself, how special. I feel so blessed."
Hobie leaves Kron to stay within the cramped holding cell with only enough room to contain a bed for him to rest not giving him the time to pay attention without a word. Kron huffed at the lack of attention he was getting; like he didn't matter making his blue eye twitch.

Miguel and Gabriel were already preparing to leave the comfort of HQ to confront Conchata about the affair when Hobie approached the two men. Hobie found this to be a horrible plan to tell Conchata of what they know about the affair with Tyler. Even if Hobie barely knew the woman and hadn't even met her yet but from what he heard from Gabriel about her she wasn't exactly mentally stable.

Could possibly end up like the argument between Miguel, Gabriel and Kasey when it came to the Rapture. Hobie would rather avoid that type of drama especially to ease the other's stress after today's events, so the rebel offers.
"You think it's a good idea to discuss the affair after what just happened today? I could come with you, if you think it's necessary."
 
With Jessica out for maternity, Peter would be the only adult to be left there, it would be better for Hobie to stay back to help Peter run HQ. At this point, the leader role was just being thrown around from one another.
"It's a family matter, mamá wouldn't like it even if you have knowledge about it. I know it's not the time with everything that just happened-"

"Mate, it's not every day you find out that your mother has been hiding an affair for 27 years innit? Go."

Gabriel pulls Hobie into a tight hug, Hobie stiffening at this affectionate touch, but he placed his head onto the shoulder of Gabriel and pats his back. Hobie chocked it up to the insecure male needing reassurance. Didn't mind the affection coming from Gabriel though it was warm, comforting for Hobie.

Miguel interjects this with a brush of the shoulder on his brother's and when Gabriel looked over at Miguel and he gestures his hand obviously ready to leave for Conchata's place once more.
"Hate to interrupt but let's get going, Gabri." 

"Right, right. I'm coming Migs; I'll catch up with you afterwards Hobie."
The male promised to Hobie before scurrying to catch up with Miguel disappearing into the outside with him. Hobie chuckles at this as it reminded him of a penguin before going to check in on Peni, Pavitr and Peter.

Gwen eyed McKenzie as they walk side by side on the pavement of the sidewalk; McKenzie being more slightly slow because of her limp. The two had to careful now that Gwen had a feeling that they weren't particularly welcomed in this dimension. The sounds of life around them continued to blur past them not bothering to stop for the two girls; it felt rather lonely.

Admittedly Gwen wanted to talk to McKenzie about her concern over Tiberius as she felt it was weird, odd for McKenzie to care for someone who was being a threat to the group it had been nagging at the back of her mind, so she decided to ask about it.
"So... Tiberius; what's the deal about him?"

McKenzie tenses up when Gwen asked that question; she genuinely didn't know how to answer this without putting a target on her back metaphorically with the others and how they trust her from there forward.
"The deal? What do you mean?" 

"I mean why were you so concerned about Tiberius over our own well-being."
Gwen clarified further stopping and grabbing McKenzie's arm to stop her too so they could talk it out. Flinching at Gwen's touch McKenzie was uncomfortable with the topic, but she gulped and spoke.

"Tiberuis and I... We have a history together in the past..." 

McKenzie began to explain in a nervous voice when a loud creak of a window cracking open startling the two girls, and they looked up only to see the variant of Gwen from earlier leaning her hands on the window seal to get a better angle looking down at the two. Earth - 2 Gwen must've heard them talking from inside her apartment as they weren't necessarily quiet.

"Who are you two? - get the hell away!"
Earth - 2 Gwen does a motion of shooing her hands attempting to get them away from her apartment which they weren't anticipating coming from well.. A Gwen variant. Gwen knew herself and she didn't act like that, did she?

Gwen backed off with McKenzie hiding behind Gwen herself, yes but Gwen holds her hands out in a surrender motion to calm the other variant of Gwen and assure her.
"We don't mean any harm okay? Relax.. We are just looking for a place to stay. Is there a chance we could stay with you?"

"Why would you want to stay here, in my apartment? I don't even know who you two are!"
Distrust laced in Earth - 2 Gwen's voice; her sky blue-gray eyes narrowing at Gwen and McKenzie. Okayy I have to elaborate myself then. Gwen thinks to herself biting her lower lip underneath her spider mask.

"Kenzie and I.. We don't have anywhere else to go; this isn't our hometown and as crazy as it sounds.. This isn't our home dimension."
Gwen squinted her pink spider eyes as she spoke hoping it didn't sound too unrealistic and have Earth - 2 Gwen slam the window closed and act like this never happened.

A long pause from Earth - 2 Gwen as if she was contemplating it turning her head away from the window seal, the gears in her head turning before groaning to herself and turning back and finally relented.
"Fine. Just don't mess anything up! I'm paranoid as it is of anyone that isn't myself."

Earth - 2 Gwen then retreated away from the window closing it back up like a fast food's driveway window before disappearing into the apartment of hers presumably going to the entrance to allow McKenzie and Gwen inside. Gwen sighs in relief before ushering the brunette to go up the stairs that led up Earth - 2 Gwen's entrance and waited for her to open up.

There were noises of locks unlocking from the sounds it sounded like the variant had multiple sets of locks striking oddly to them, but the two girls summed it up to the paranoia that Earth - 2 Gwen had mentioned. Finally, the door swings open allowing them inside. Gwen and McKenzie came inside to the apartment promptly Earth - 2 Gwen locked the door back up again.

"Thank you for letting us inside, we won't overstay our welcome. It's only temporary till we can get my watch fixed."
Gwen promised immediately after they were allowed inside, eventually peeling off her spider mask to reveal her face which the blonde variant immediately got into a defensive position. 

"You! You have my face!" 
Stating the obvious as Earth - 2 Gwen had her index finger outstretched shakily to Gwen, oh boy having to explain to another version of yourself that is you from the past was going to be a doozey.

"Yes, I do- I am Gwen and you are also Gwen.. You are what we would call a variant."

"A variant, never heard of that.. Oh god, this is seriously making my head spin! I am also "Gwen". What do you mean? I don't remember having that name."

That's not normal, shouldn't every variant have the same name as their counterparts one would assume but that's new.. Gwen gestures out her hands towards Earth - 2 "Gwen" and asked her directly.
"If you don't recall having that name.. What is your name then?" 

It was silent except for Earth - 2 Gwen shuddering.. Either from her still trying to grasp the idea that variants and parallel dimensions existing or her paranoia Gwen couldn't tell until finally she responded.

"My name.. Is Luna Rivers..."

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This is probably not the update you were expecting to come from me. As you can tell by the title of this, I am afraid I have to say but I am putting this fanfiction of mine on a indefinite hiatus because I do not know when I'll be back as of terms date wise to continue. 

Why I am even going on a hiatus is multiple reasons that I feel you guys deserve to know than me just disappearing and never updating this fanfiction again.

I started this back when Spider-Verse was at its peak of popularity in 2023 and I'm not saying it's a dead fandom by any means however with Beyond the Spider-Verse's release date being moved to June 25 of 2027 it's been hard to say the least for me to stay motivated with the lack of the new movie.

I did make this way before the third movie came out and the story is set after the events of the third movie- in retrospect I should've not done that mostly because we don't know the conclusion just yet so there are somethings I definitely would've redone if I started this fanfiction this year rather than when I was seventeen in high school, now I am nineteen looking back at my work and thinking there were ways I could've write this better!

This fanfiction will always have a special place in my heart, as it is my first ever fanfiction that I committed to that I was actually proud of. And not something I abandoned because I lost interest. I never lost interest in this, I want to continue as I look back on the previous chapters to read them even where at points I cringe at some of my old writing however.. I just can't find the motivation.

I guess you could also call it Marvel burnout, and I think others are experiencing that too and not just me. So I've been getting into new fandoms that I enjoy and don't feel burned out from that I feel match with my maturity and current age (I know Spider-Man is for everyone but I am not sure how to explain it than just saying that).

With Disney's decisions in the MCU and Sony with the whole Miles' voice actor drama (that made people hate Miles the character and not the voice actor for some reason?)

That's kind of mostly it, motivation issues and life happened too. My grandma died and I won't get too much into it but recently she did die back in late 2024 around the time where my last actual story update on December 31st so it is still fresh in my mind.

And I guess I am rambling at this point so here's the deal of what will happen- first I'll put a big !HIAUTS! on the title of this fanfiction so it's upfront. And on my account bio too since I am not just taking a break from this fanfiction alone but writing for Spider-Verse as a general.

I thank everyone dearly who took the time to read, leave kudos and lovely comments on this, and I hope when and if I come back perhaps you'll still be here waiting to pick up where we left off on <3