Chapter 1. A New Environment

When I found out my father was Spider-Man, I wanted to be him. Now, people just cant stop comparing me to him, and it has really gotten on my nerves

What do they see in me? We are nothing alike.

I have been around the world training in just about every martial art known to man, he hasn't

My spider sense allows me to sense the locations of individuals over a mile away from me, his is not that powerful.

My suit was designed by Reed Richards, he had to make his.

My father is one of the greatest heroes of all time, people would always see the similarities between me and him. But when you find out what I am capable of, those similarities are rather minimal.

And there I was, on top of the Superdome in the city of New Orleans, I have been trying my whole life "escape" from his father's shadow.

The only person who I ever felt like understood me was this one girl called Tsunami. Having met this girl in Japan while on a trip to learn all the different martial arts of that area, We came to be very close, and it seemed that we would become something more, but the fact that I left to continue training severed our connection.

I run off the top of the dome and start web swinging, launching webs swinging from building to building with total ease. I have been doing this forever, and I am glad that I have almost the entire city of New Orleans to myself. The city had been overrun with crime for years, that is until I, better known by my other persona, The Arachnid, showed up. I have cleaned up the streets more in the past 2 years than the NOPD could in the past decade. It was like I was the savior that the city had been needing for a long time.

Suddenly, my spider sense went off. I sense a bank robbery going on about a mile away. I immediately change course and begin swinging towards it. When I got there, I notice that this could not be your typical bank robbing gang, it was someone or something very different.

It was late at night, so no civilians were there, the door had been ripped off and the alarms turned off somehow. I walk in and heard an odd but strangely familiar noise. It sounded like an alien scream. As I was walking back to the vault before I sense a large chair flying towards my head. I react by flipping to the right side. and landing on my feet in a crouching position. I look to find the source and found an odd looking creature and I knew what this creature was instantly. His father told him stories about enemies just like this. This was not just a regular enemy, this was a symbiote and its host. But this symbiote had an odd silver color to it and glowing red eyes.

"Great, I have got a snack to go along with my cash!" It said

"Who are you?" I ask

"Your absolution!" it responded, it then began walking towards him

I knew that I had to stop this thing

"You ain't going anywhere fang face, I am bringing you to an utter end!" I say

The beast shoots out a tendril, I jump just in time and fire webbing at it. It is caught but then breaks out of the webbing like it was nothing then tries to run. It begins web swinging and I start swinging to follow it. As he was about to catch it, a hole that resembled an inter dimensional rift opens up in front of them. We both fall in and I hit the ground and I am briefly knocked out

When I came to, I couldn't see the symbiote anywhere and that the city I was in, was definitely not New Orleans. I stand up and run behind a building and begin climbing up it. When I get on top to get a better view, I could tell this was not just a different city, but a completely different dimension.

I senses danger close by, and swing down to investigate. I see this weird kid with metallic arms that he was using to walk on like my dad's old nemesis, Dr Octopus. This young kid was carrying what seemed like stolen material, since he was jus leaving a store in which the alarm was sounding loudly. While I may be new to the dimension, I am not gonna allow this kid get away. I jump down in front of him.

"Not another step buddy!" I says

"Who are you? You aren't a titan!" The kid responds

"I don't know what that is, and I really don't think it matters." I says back

Just then the criminal is hit by an odd blue beam and blasted several feet away

I turn to see 5 teenage looking heroes.

A ninja martial artist looking dude,

a cyborg,

some green kid,

a weird alien girl,

and a creepy alien girl.

"Gizmo, you are under arrest." The ninja looking hero said

"You can't catch me!" Gizmo said in a mocking tone. His back armor then turned into a jet pack and tried to run

"Titans, Go!" The ninja guy said and they began running after him

"I don't think so" I said

I then began swinging after Gizmo. As I caught up with him, I shot webs at his arms and legs and stuck him to the wall of a nearby building. I then shot webs at his jetpack gear box thing and ripped it off his back. Gizmo was completely immobilized.

"Hey! No fair! I cant move!" he said in a whining tone

"Thats kind of the point you idiot. Now be a good boy and stay there until authorities arrive."

I look behind him and notice the group of heroes starring at me with their mouths wide open in shock.

"Uhhh…Where did you learn to do that?" The green kid asked

I shrugged "years of practice." I said

They didn't seem dangerous, so I ask them a question

"Now, would you guys mind telling me who you are?" I ask

"How do we know we can trust you?" The person who appeared to be the leader asked in somewhat of a condescending way

I was surprised by this attitude

"Dude, that stunt that I pulled, bringing an end to that punk you called Gizmo, that was called justice. If I was a criminal, I would be fighting you guys right now, not talking to you." I responded

"Hey who are you calling a punk?!" Gizmo shouted

I webbed his mouth closed. I calmed down a little and began speaking

"My name is Arachnid. I arrived in this realm accidentally. Where I am from, I am the main hero of my city. I call my self this name because I have the powers of a spider, basically I can do anything that a spider can do. I can climb walls, have enhanced strength and agility as well as extensive martial arts training, and I have this extra sense that allows me to detect danger or even the locations of individuals over a mile away. The one think I can't do however is spin webs, That is why I have these cool web shooters on my wrists "

"Good to meet you Arachnid. My name is Robin." The leader said

"I'm Cyborg, good to meet you." The robot cyborg thing said

"I am Starfire, it is a pleasure to meet you." The weird Alien girl said

"I am Raven" The creepy alien girl said

"and I am Beast Boy, Its awesome to meet you!" The green kid said

"We are the Teen Titans. Protectors of this city." Robin says

"Good to meet you all." I responded

"Now, would you mind telling me more about this place?"

"Sure! follow us!." Robin said

They walked me down the street towards a T shaped tower. When we walked in, The Titans immediately led me to a large window and activated a computer showing a map of the city

Robin started speaking in a serious tone

"This city has been attacked by numerous criminals and enemies, That kid Gizmo you took out is just one of them. The biggest and baddest one of them all…is Slade."

"Slade? What kind of name is that?" I ask

"Don't underestimate him, he is a master manipulator who is obsessed with taking us out and making this town his playground." Cyborg said

right then, a loud alarm sounded

"That doesn't sound good." I said

"Its not, we have detected a strange energy emitting from this area in the sewers." Robin said

"Could It be inter dimensional?" I ask

The team looks at me

"That could be another inter dimensional rift between my world and this one, so this could be either good or bad."

"We need to investigate" Robin says

as they start walking toward the exit, I stop them

"Wait, I am coming with you."

The team stops and stares at him

"If my theory is true, then this could be an enemy from my dimension, or even one of my allies. If this is n enemy, you will need my help because I guarantee you, you have never faced creeps like the ones I have." I states

Robin nods and we walk out the exit together

The sewers were dark and had several dead ends. As the titans got close to what seemed like the energy was coming from, I sensed danger

"Wait!" I said

I senses a large amount of water in a controlled burst coming the teams way

"Get to the sides!" I say

Just then, a huge, extremely strong wave passed by them engulfing the team in water. Arachnid recognized the waves pattern.

"I think I know who did that." I sayed, he starts swinging towards where that wave came from

"Wait!" Robin says, but I was already too far

I swing until I accidentally hit someone, we both fall and I jump on top before realizing who it was

"Nami?" I said in surprise

"Arachnid?" She said after words

"What are you doing here?" we said simultaneously

I help her up

"Its complicated, an inter dimensional rift opened up on me as I was training, I fell into it accidentally and ended up here. Where ever here is." She says

The titans run up behind them. I stop them

"Guys, Its ok. Its an old…friend of mine." I say

"Hi everyone, My name is Tsunami, but just call me Nami, I can control water. Sorry about that wave I sent your way, I thought you were enemies."

"Don't worry about it. We are the Teen Titans, guardians of this realm. Follow us back to our base."

The walk back to the base was a bit the same, still couldn't explore this dimension. Just wanna find a place to grab a fresh soda for decent price. Hopefully these guys will take me later

Once we get back, The team immediately starts questioning my friend.

"Who are you and how did you get here? Robin asks

"First of all, calm down, I don't even know what this place is, I just fell into this hole that looked like a rift in the space-time continuum, and ended up here." Nami said

"Its ok. We only want to help you." Robin says

"How do I know I can trust you?" She immediately says

"Because I trust them." I said

She looks at me with demeaning eyes

"These guys are obviously not our enemy, if they were, we would be dead by now." I said

She could see how serious I was and nods

"So how did you get here Arachnid?" she asks

"Same way you did honestly, was fighting this symbiotic dude then fell into this rift and ended up here." I said

"A symbiote? I heard about those, thats not good." she said

"I know." I said

Just then, the alarm went off. There was trouble downtown and I instantly know what it is

The team, Tsunami and I all leave together, towards the crime scene. I was swinging while Raven and Starfire were flying beside me. The others were running on the ground. As soon as we got there I notice our problem, the exact symbol freak I fought earlier.

"Guys, This is the thing I was telling you about earlier, It is super strong, has a real short temper and is only weak to 2 things, fire and sound." I say

Then I sense a car flying towards us. I immediately jump up and shoot webbing to catch the car. It sticks and I jump back

"We need to attack it together if we are going to have a chance!" I yell at the rest of the team

Robin nods then says "Titans go!"

"Nami, can attack him from a distance?" I ask

"Dude, I can do anything! Never underestimate the power of water!" She says

She pulls water out of a sewer nearby and immediately fires it in high speeds towards that symbiote. It is stunned, but still moving, I immediately try to web it up, but it does nothing. It breaks out and starts charging at me. Cyborg hits it with his plasma cannon but it is unpleased and stretches its arms at me and cyborg, knocking us both back into nearby building, right there I knew this wasn't a normal symbiote.

Raven attempts containing it by using her telekinesis to move concrete around it, but it breaks out easily, jumps and hits her with an insane hammer fist that imbeds her in the concrete.

Starfire shoots her bolts at it, it seems weakened but not enough, as it shoots a tendril and grabs her then throws her into the ground

Beast Boy charges at this thing as a rhino but it grabs and throws him into me. That hurt, but I was still game.

Robin throws sonic charges at it. The symbiotic is definitely bothered but not enough as it sweeps Robin away with its arm.

"Arachnid, how do we beat this thing?" Robin asks

I get up

"Do you have anything that can set it on fire on that belt of yours?" I ask back

Before he can answer, I see a string of webbing hit the symbiotic freak in the eyes.

I look up and couldn't believe what I was seeing, my father, Spiderman was here.

"Dad?" I said

I saw him singing above me

"Son, get out of here, we will handle this." He says back

"We?" I ask

I then notice a familiar red and gold rocket thing fly by me, stop and start playing a strong high pitched frequency at the symbiote. That can only mean one person is here. I look behind me and notice the billionaire Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man standing behind me.

"Oh hey Spider-kid, I mean Arachnid. Good to see you again."

I smile cause I know that we have the best help possible

"Good to see you too Iron Man, and don't call me Spider-kid." I said

The sonic emitters weaken the symbiote to a point at which it has to flee.

My father swings down to meet us, as the west of us come together in a circle

"Devin, I am glad to know that you are ok." Spiderman say to me

i snapped a little bit

"Dad, please don't use my real name, call me Arachnid." I said

Beast boy looks astounded

"Wait, this dude is your dad?" he asks

I was somewhat embarrassed

"Yeah, where I come from, these 2 are some of the best heroes of our dimension." I said trying to be as optimistic as possible.

Mr Stark face plate disengaged, flipping up to reveal his face.

"Yeah, call me Iron Man" he said to the Titans

"And I..am just your friendly neighbor hood Spiderman!" My dad said afterwards

Robin immediately started speaking

"I am robin, that is Cyborg, Beast boy, Raven, and Starfire. We are the Teen Titans, protectors of this city." He says

"Well good. we need your help." Iron man says

just then, A Quinjet came down on the street, we all immediately piled in

This jet was piloting itself, it was used by the Avengers many times, I have heard about it but never been in it until today.

We gathered around a center table with some holograms while Iron Man started speaking.

"In our realm, there has been a strange outbreak of the Symbiotes. Worse than ever seen before. We managed to track its source to this dimension. While Captain America, The Fantastic Four and others have somewhat contained the treat there, Spiderman, myself, Dr. Banner and some others are here to end this threat at its source."

"Who is this Dr. Banner?" Robin asks

I respond

"Bruce Banner is the smartest guy you will ever meet, if you have a question , he has the answer. But what ever you do, Do not…I repeat…DO NOT make him angry!"

"Why not?" Beast boy asks.

"Just….don't" I say

Iron Man continues

"Also, Tsunami, I am happy to say that your father is here too."

"My father is here?" She asks in amazement

Iron man nods

"Yes, Namor is here to help."

He shuts off the hologram and then Spiderman begins speaking.

"Arachnid, Tsunami we are on our way to our make shift base, it is time for you to unlock your true power, with it, we can defeat this threat." He says

"Our true power?" I ask

"Yes, the powers you have are essentially training wheels compared to what you will be able to do afterwards." He says