Okay, Let's Do This One Last Time...

It had already been an exhausting week for Miles Morales. His father had caught him, well, Spiderman at the scene of another crime, and gave a lecture on 'Great Power, Great Responsibility.' (He could see how Peter got sick of it.)

He had a chemistry test that he wasn't trying to purposefully fail anymore, so that meant studying. Math was math, like always. His only fun class, art, had given an essay on 'The Great White Dudes That the Art World Drools Over' (his street art was a hundred times cooler). The only class he didn't have homework in, History, the teacher was giving a quiz in two days.

His roommate was no help, he was visiting family over the next few days and wasn't available. Even before the spider, Miles couldn't stay still, but the bite seemed to amplify his shaking. When he sat down, he would jitter like he'd just had had three cups of coffee. Miles didn't even like coffee!

That was probably why when he heard the voice of Gwen and saw a portal open up, Miles didn't stop to consider why jumping through portals because your friend? Who's a girl? Told you too.

"And bring your suit!" Gwen had called. Miles almost rolled his eyes. Of course he would.

And that's how Miles found himself in what he considered way over his head in an alternate universe where everyone looked... Odd?

"Where even are we?" Miles asked. He and Gwen were in their spidersuits, on top of a skyscraper with so many tiny textures covering it. The concrete was like a mixture of materials with a difference you could see. The people's faces folded over in strange arrays when people moved. Across the street, Miles could even see through the windows of the taller building.

"Earth-199999." Gwen said. "Some call it the Cinematic Universe." Miles noted her vibrant coloring seemed to glow even more than it did in his world. They were far removed from this world. The lighting, everything was muted and intrinsically detailed. Miles' thoughts were quiter as well. It was almost like an animated movie

"What's my earth called?" Miles asked. "And who gave these names?"

"I don't know if it even has one. Miguel's been giving them classifications pretty much at random for the numbers." Gwen's eyes narrowed. Miles tried to see what she was focusing on. Almost as an afterthought, Gwen added, "Mine is Earth-64, Spider-Gwen."

Miles was about to ask about the whole 'Cinematic Universe ' thing, when a red blur swung past the duo. Miles eyes widened. Another Spiderman! Gwen leapt off of tne building, gracefully, like always. "There. Catch them!"

Miles shot after her. His web secured to the building, and he let out a gasp he didn't know he was holding. The wind was stronger here. It took him a moment to get the right swing pattern. Swish, twip Miles. He thought to himself, swish twip.

"Why are we trying to catch this guy?" Miles asked.

"Miguel wanted me too," Gwen started.

"Who's Miguel?"

"I'll tell you after we catch this Spiderperson. He wants to make an interspiderperson communications web." Gwen started to swing faster, trying to catch up to the spiderperson. Or being. Spider-Ham was a pig. The guy did look normal, but you couldn't tell. Miles settled on Spiderbeing.

"Why?"

"I'm not sure. But I trust Miguel." Gwen said. Off of her next web, she did a totally showing off flip, soaring past Miles, getting closer to the spiderbeing. Miles followed her by launching himself into the skyscraper next to him, and ran gravity defyingly across the building, leaping onto the next one. He totally didn't hum 'Defying Gravity' while doing this. Totally.

The spiderbeing, for luck or stupidity, didn't see Miles and Gwen following them as they swung into an apartment window. The two landed on the building next door. "I feel Aunt May." Miles said.

In the universes, it seemed to Miles that Aunt May (or Aunt Hay, or Mother, or ' Peter's Aunt') was one of the constants. Even though his worlds on wasn't really his Aunt, she still said he could call him that. The two shared ideas and a meal sometimes, and Aunt May would share the best stories of her and 'Liv's' time spent dating. It was a weird connection, but it still worked. Miles looked at Gwen. "Should we try the window?"

Gwen shook her head. "We're trying to make a good impression. Terrifying this spiderbeing (Miles internally cheered) wouldn't work in our favour." Gwen nodded to the normal door of the apartment building. "We'll take off our suits and pretend to be friends of this guy."

"Uhh... We don't know his name."

"Probably some variant of Peter. This is my third time doing this, and they were all Peter."

"What does the multiverse love the name Peter?" Miles asked. Gwen shrugged.

"Do you mind looking away so I can..." Gwen gestured at her suit. Miles winced and walked behind a door of roof entrance thing, whatever they were called, and undid his suit. His clothes were on underneath, and Miles spread them out so it looked less like he had been wearing a spidersuit all day. Aunt May's technology was amazing.

"I'm good!" Gwen's voice called out. Miles turned and saw her back in something in weird detail, like all the thing's here. She looked weird. She tossed a sweater from this world at him. "Here. Blend in."

"My face is still realistic." Miles reminded her.

"Just put it on." Gwen said. Miles struggled on the sweater. As soon as he put it on, he gasped.

"Are you, cartoonish?" Gwen was in the hyperdetail of this world. Dots were on her face, but they weren't freckles. Twinges of red and other colors were blended in, like a painting. Miles looked at his own hands. Small lines marked them. His palms were even a slightly lighter color than the rest of his body. A strange jittering in his atoms seemed to disappear. He half-hoped for a mirror. "How do I look?"

"Like you would if this was your universe." Gwen said. She brushed back a few strands of hair. Hair looked weird, like it was a gazillion tiny strands making it up. "Let's go."

Gwen leapt down from the building with a flip, doing a perfect landing at the bottom. She was better at things like that then Miles was. Miles scrambled down the side of the building to the street. The sidewalk looked like small rocks were in it.

The two nonchalantly walked to the apartment building that the spiderbeing went into. The two turned to the stairs and started climbing. Miles never liked the stairs before the spider. "Do you know what floor?"

"This one." Gwen opened the door to a long hallway.

"And the room?"

"Here." Gwen knocked on the door. It swung open to reveal a youngish women. The face was still recognizable. Aunt May.

"Hey, you friends of Peter?" She asked.

"Yes, well I'm from school." Gwen said. "Miles is my friend. I need to ask Peter something about our homework. I'd usually call, but I was in the neighborhood so it was easier to swing by."

"Of course," May gave them a big smile. "He's in there with Tony Stark! He won a contest and got an internship!" She seemed so excited. "Just wait for him out here."

The two sat down on the fuzzy coaches. They were more comfortable than Miles' coaches. "Tony Stark?" Miles asked Gwen.

"It think she means Tony Potts, that was his old name in my universe. He and Pepper Potts got married a few years ago. The Fe-male suit he made for the wedding was cool."

"Iron-male suit?" Miles asked. Gwen shrugged.

"That's what the press called it. He's behind all of Ironman's suits. Pepper is the one who actually uses them, but people called them the Ironman suits and Ironmaiden didn't stick."

"My universe doesn't have a Tony Stark." Miles said, his brain swimming with information. Ironman? Tony Potts?

Before he could process it, the door to what Miles assumed was Peter's bedroom swung open. A guy in a goatee walked out, followed by a wide-eyed teenager. The teenager turned, and stared at Miles and Gwen.

Okay, let's this one last time.

My name is Peter Parker. I was bitten by a radioactive spider, and for the last few moths, I was your friendly neighborhood Spiderman. I'm pretty cool, saved cats from trees, helped old ladies cross the street, once stopped a car, that sort of thing. I still feel like I could do more, you know? So when Tony Stark asks for my help with Captain America, who am I to say no?!

Tony Stark was talking to May about his trip to Germany. Some internship seminar cover thing. Peter didn't really care. He had been noticed by Tony Stark! Offered a semireal internship! The whole stalking you and knowing your secret identity wasn't real cool, but Tony Stark!

Peter was so excited he almost didn't notice his spidersense tingling. It was really weird this time, like electricity. Peter turned to the coach, and saw two people. His senses were screaming him to see something.

"Oh Peter, your friends came over," Aunt May said. The blonde one waved. His spidersense screamed. Mr. Stark walked over. Peter lifted his foot, and set it down, one after another, until he was right next to the two. Their eyes met.

Everything made sense.

"You're like me." Peter stated. It was like saying a red car was red. Truth. Nothing would make the red car not red and nothing would make that statement anything but the most sincere truth.

"What do you mean 'You're like me!'" Mr. Stark asked. Peter didn't hear.

"How?" Peter asked.

"My name is Gwen Stacy." The blonde girl said. "I'm also known as Spiderwoman."

Peter blinked. "What?"

"I'm Miles, Morales," the other kid said. "Also known as the Ultimate Spiderman."

The girl, Gwen, snorted.

"Hey, if the Miguel guy didn't give my universe a name yet, ultimate sounds good." Miles protested. Internally, Peter was panicking. Aunt May didn't know yet. This would give away his secret.

"Wait," Aunt May said, "Peter can't be Spiderman."

"Wait, she doesn't know?" Gwen asked. She groaned, and visibly slumped over. "Sorry for outing you. All the other Aunt May's knew."

"While this is all nice," Mr. Stark to the rescue! "Me and Peter have a plane to catch."

"You're Tony Potts. You run Stark Electronics. You built the Ironman suits. If anyone can delay a plane, it's you." Gwen said.

"It's Tony Stark. Pepper and I aren't a thing anymore. And it's Stark Enterprises, not Electronics. And I didn't just build the suits, I am Ironman."

"And I'm from a universe where the exact opposite is true. You're Tony Potts, married to Ironman, aka Pepper Potts, and you run Stark Electronics and build the Ironman suits. Pepper Potts flies them. " Gwen said. Peter was flabbergasted. Even Mr. Stark looked taken aback.

"Wait, Peter is Spiderman?" Aunt May said.

"Prove your from an alternate world." Mr. Stark ordered. Gwen shrugged off a sweater she was wearing. Her face melted off.

In it's place was really impressive CGI. Or an animatronic? It wasn't real, it beamed. Like plastic? The hairs were clumped together. A CGI comic book. That was what it looked like.

Miles took off his sweater. The two looked similar, but different. Miles didn't glow as much. It was so weird.

And very off putting. The movement was slightly jarring.

"Look," Gwen said, "we were sent by this guy called Miguel. He wants to make a Spider Web, or a way for all the spiderbeings to communicate. Here's your gizmo."

Peter caught a weird usb drive thingy.

An awkward silence filled the air.

"Well," Gwen said, "we did what we came here for. The gizmo will fit into any electronic device port. If you don't have one, just click the middle button and Miguel will get one to you."

A portal suddenly opened in the room. Gwen and Miles walked through.

"Again," Aunt May said, "what the...? "

Miles was back to his room. The time hadn't change at all.

"Sorry for taking over," Gwen said. "I didn't want to overwhelm your first time."

"It's cool. I needed to stretch my legs." Miles felt so much calmer. And hungrier. But he was always hungry.

"If Miguel needs me again?" Gwen asked.

"I'd love to come!" Miles said excitedly. "I mean, if..."

"Yeah, I'd be fine with it." Gwen shrugged. "I need to go."

The pause lingered.

Gwen opened a portal with her goober. "Bye," she said, and vanished.

"Bye." Miles replied, too late for her to hear. He looked at his desk. Art essays wouldn't write themselves. The page was still blank.

"How did it go?"

"She interfered a bit too much, but it was more of a right place, wrong time. I've fixed the problem, but we have to pay more attention to the major timelines. She brought the 'Ultimate' Spiderman with her."

"Ultimate?"

"Where the multiverse almost collapsed."

"Hmmm."

"I'd recommend a more insular spiderbeing for her next assignment. Maybe Earth-1384? Snowspider?"

"Yeah." Miguel said. "That could work."

So, Into the Spiderverse is beyond amazing! It is easily my favourite animated movie of all time, and the competition is tough. Of course, with the worlds, a million different spiderbeings can happen, and this story is exploring different possibilities. If you have an OC or fandom you want a spiderbeing to appear in, than just ask! Miles and Gwen need to give the Gizmos to all spiderbeings and grow the Spider Web!

-Calm She Jaguar, HarceusMjalga, Out!