This is set in the comic's continuity…in a way. An alternate version of Spider-Verse done as a pseudo-sequel to both Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, and Spider-Men. As such, there will be no Inheritors or anything like that. Instead, this will be done with more traditional Spider-Man villains. With that in mind, please enjoy the story…
The Prelude…
The multiverse is a large place, isn't it? And few people know this better than Quentin Beck, otherwise known as the great Mysterio, who has managed to meddle with it more than once. His left attempt ended up landing him behind bars in another universe. That universe is Earth-1610, to be precise, or otherwise known as the "Ultimate Universe."
Delirium began to set in on Mysterio. Though the effects were undiscovered at the time, as it turns out prolonged journeys to another universe can have negative effects on an average person, which Beck was. Without his illusions, he was just a man in his mid-30s in decent physical shape. He was kept in a maximum security SHIELD facility. Where many entered, but few ever left. He sat alone in the center of his cell…mumbling about how he'd destroy every Spider-Man to ever exist.
Guards passed him by, as did the days. Eventually months passed him by, and then it was a year. "One year…" he thought to himself, "One year since I've been locked up in this place…"
He got up and wandered around his cell. It was pure white and was padded with cushions. The only thing breaking up the monotony was the door, which was steel and had a tiny window. Allowing him to look out, and the guards to look in, "This is truly Hell. I must find a way back to my universe…or perhaps I must find a way to destroy the very Spider-Men who put me here. Why stop there?! Perhaps I can even find a way to destroy every Spider-Man to ever exist!"
His cell began to shake and he looked outside. The guards were running around in a panic and Beck, feigning fear, asked, "What's going on out there?!"
One of the guards replied, "Its Norman Osborn! He escaped captivity!"
Beck gasped, "A prison escapee? How dreadful!"
A fireball came right at the guard he was speaking to, and Beck ducked below as a plume of fire went through the window and eventually blew his door down. He stood back up and saw his door had come down. He saw the Goblin, a large mass of hulking muscle with spikes protruding. He looked into the eyes that burned with hatred, and his body which burned of actual fire.
The Goblin paid no mind to Beck and he tore down the wall as he screeched, "SPIDER-MAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"
Beck ran out of his cell and laughed, "Freedom belongs to me! At long last I am finally free!"
He heard yelling from various other prisoners who pleaded, "Let us out too! Please!"
Beck thought about their proposals and got an idea. He could not destroy the Spider-Men alone…but together perhaps? He then stood in the middle of the prison corridor, surrounded by the corpses of various guards, "I shall let you all free if you promise me one thing…and that's if you help me destroy the very person who put you in these cells. That man's name is…Spider-Man. I shall need five recruits from here…we shall be the Sinister Six."
A man in a containment suit chimed in, "If it's anything like Osborn's Ultimate Six, count me out."
Beck shook his head, "No. I've read up on that, and according to Osborn he hired you to destroy him as men of god or something like that. This will not be done out of self-righteous bias, but rather revenge! And do you all not want revenge?"
They all cheered, "Kill the Spiders!"
Beck's small smile turned to a large grin, "Very good…Now then. Who wants to be my five recruits?"
The man in the containment suit finally decided to go with it, "I'll do it, but only if you get this suit offa me!"
Beck pulled off a keyring from one of the dead guards and unlocked the man's cell, and then his containment suit. The man was bald and wore a black leather suit beneath the containment suit, "Thanks…I needed that."
Another thug said, "I'm in next! Choose me!"
Beck walked over and unlocked his cell. He gasped at the man he saw. The guy's face was skinless, and he had a plastic cap over it, "I'm Deadpool. When we getting my gear?"
"Soon enough…" Beck answered as he thought about how different this Deadpool was from the one he knew back on Earth-616.
Eventually he freed 3 other prisoners. One was a short man with a blonde receding hairline. The next was an unassuming man with an Eastern European accent, and finally the last one was Sandman. Beck then decided to free the rest of the goons for fun.
The new Sinister Six walked through the facility. Beck acted as a commander for Electro and Sandman…the only ones with actual powers right now. They all took down the remaining guards who weren't taken out by the Green Goblin's rampage. Luckily, the SHIELD back-up was busy worrying about the Goblin to even notice Beck and his gang breaking out.
They made their way to the supply room, where SHIELD kept all of whatever the prisoner was carrying at the time. The Eastern-European man put on red and silver armor to become the Beetle. The short man stepped inside of the very large R.H.I.N.O. armor and activated it. Deadpool put back on his red and black costume, and lastly Beck put on his Mysterio costume and snatched a little device and placed it on his wrist.
He pressed a few buttons on the device and suddenly a portal opened up. The other members of his Six looked in astonishment.
Electro asked as he stared at it, "What the hell is that?!"
Mysterio answered, "A gateway between worlds, gentlemen. Come along, then. We have business to take care of."
O'Hirn asked, "I thought you said we were going to kill Spider-Man! C'mon, then! Let's take him down!"
Beck looked at Rhino with a condescending look, "You buffoon, you're thinking too small. How fitting for your actual size, though."
O'Hirn growled and Beetle asked, "Just where are you taking us, then?"
"I'm taking you all on a journey." Mysterio, "A journey that has only just begun…we are going to kill every Spider-Man in existence. Not just Morales, not just Parker but any person who dares to have Spider in their name! We must get more recruits first. We aren't going to just be a Sinister Six."
"What are we going to be?" Sandman pondered as he couldn't help but doubt this plan.
"We're going to be the Sinister Six-Thousand!" Beck answered proudly as he marched into the portal.
Electro shook his head, "Guy's insane."
"He is." Rhino replied, "But…if we're going to destroy Spider-Man, might as well go big." The rest of them stepped inside and were greeted by a rundown lab that was surrounded by nothing but darkness. "Where the Hell are we?" Deadpool asked as he looked at the dusty computers.
Beck replied, "This is my lair. It is between dimensions. The middle of everywhere and nowhere. Where is it? Who knows?"
"That didn't answer crap, domehead!" Electro yelled as he was about ready to electrocute the madman.
Beck stood his ground and said, "Stop being so narrowminded and listen! Listen for one moment in your fleeting life!"
They all remained silent and Electro signaled for Beck to go on. Mysterio wiped the dust of the computers and continued, "You say I'm mad, but your universe is not the only universe. I come from a different one than the rest of you, for example. But you see there's more…"
He then began typing at the keys and then the multiple televisions screens across the wall began to turn on. On many different screens, multiple different Spider-Men appeared. Whether wearing red and blue, or black and white, or any other color they were all recognizable as Spiders.
The entire room gasped and Beetle asked, "Wait…you're telling me there's more of those freaks out there?!"
Mysterio confirmed his fears, "Yes! There are more of them! Thousands! If not millions…maybe even an infinite amount of them!"
Rhino gripped his metal head, as if he couldn't comprehend such a thing, "I…I don't believe it. How could we even stop all those mooks?!"
Mysterio realized he was finally getting through to them, and was glad to do so, "For every Spider-Man…there are multiple villains out there who are just as willing as we are to kill them. If we gather a large enough group, then any Spider-Man who may stand in our way will have no chance! We must rise up and destroy this menace to us once and for all!"
At this point, they all finally agreed to his proposal. Even Electro, "Alright…we're in."
"Good. You five must separate and start recruiting for the Sinister Six Thousand. " Mysterio requested, "And you must not allow our plans to slip out to ANY Spider-Man! This remains between us at all times…until the perfect time comes. Then we finally strike at all and every Spider-Man."
Beetle then asked, "Well…why can't you recruit with us?"
Mysterio looked at Beetle, "Because I must develop something to deal with a certain Spider-Man. He is one that happens to be far beyond any of us in power…unless I build some kind of power absorption technology, of course. Taking hints from Doctor Doom's technology, I should have it developed by the time we hit 6000 recruits if you lackeys are fast enough. Now get going! We must hurry."
Rhino asked, "How uhhh…do we recruit exactly."
Mysterio again gave a condescending look to Rhino, "Use the computer and pick a dimension. It's a vast, limitless multiverse!"
They all nodded and picked their own multiverse, each to where they'd start recruiting as many villains as they possibly could. One by one, they all left through the rifts in space.
Mysterio kept on typing away at his keyboard, and then on his monitor the specs of a Spider-Man appeared. This Spider-Man's powers went beyond the power charts he used.
"Captain Universe Spider-Man…" he mumbled to himself, "Your power will be mine. No Spider will hold a candle to me when I'm done with you."
The monitor then shut off and he got up, "But for now…I must wait until the time comes when I have a suitable army to distract you."
Mysterio paced around for a bit then sat back down in his chair, "Maybe this little lab needs some renovations. Perhaps a fortress? Oh yes…I like the sound of fortress."
He folded his hands and began to plot. His plan had finally taken the first steps, and soon it'd fruition into what he would consider his finest plan yet, and perhaps it would be…but time will tell on that. Time will tell…
So that is that. This is just a little prelude building up the exposition for the story and setting up some of the many villains who'll at least have small appearances, and of course Mysterio, the big bad of the story. I hope to update this frequently but of course there might be some problems and maybe the updates will take longer than anticipated. I am writing another story besides this. And both I'm planning on being long running. So, I hope you enjoyed this slight teaser and that'll you'll stick around for more.