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Chapter 4 – Life and Destiny

-=Earth-1610=-

-= Visions Academy, 7:30am =-

Miles woke up from bright sunlight shining down on him. He shields his eyes from the light. He then gets up from his bed and walks over to the window, which was beaming down the sunlight like rays of fire and shuts the curtains closed, still leaving dims of light. Miles took a deep breath and looks behind him to see Ganke rolled towards the wall to his right and was sound asleep on their bunk bed to which Ganke had the top one and Miles had the bottom one. He walks over to a mirror like a turtle and grabs a piece of mint gum and started chewing it in his mouth. He then felt stressed and places both of his hands on the wall and stares at himself through the mirror. He knew what he did was a mistake from yesterday. Miles still to this day questions himself of what he had become. Miles was so disappointed that he completely missed out on the essay test, it was very important that he attends that class before Winter Break. But due to the car chase on Bellington Road, He had to hero up, or things could have gotten worse without his help. He had to sacrifice his essay to do the heroic thing. Even though he did the right thing still consequences came to him.

He had to do the essay very late at midnight in detention which it did tired Miles out so much. The more Miles thinks about the essay struggles, it was more like something in him just snapped like a small fuse in his brain exploded in his emotions. He started breathing like a bull, his eyebrows sharpen in anger, and his entire body was shaking. He felt so angry about missing out on that test that he had to do it so late at night. He started wishing he never had these powers. His hands started clenching on the wall which it started to crack.

But he stopped himself… and breathed. His anger hid behind his face and now it was just plain old Miles.

He looked at himself confused. "What just… happened?" He thought.

Ganke suddenly wakes up with a very lousy yawn. Miles turns to look at him and rolled his eyes at him with a smirk. "Morning, Ganke…"

"Morning…" Ganke yawned as he drops himself to the floor on his feet.

"How's your nap?" Miles asked.

"Great…" Ganke moans. "…and how did your second detention go?" As he picks up a small bottle of Listerine and puts the mint liquid in his mouth.

"Horrible…" Miles replies. "Way worse than the first time for missing out on school for two days in a row…" He takes a seat on his bed. "I had to redo the essay last night!"

Ganke made a weird moan like if he is trying to speak. He did a nod to let him know he understands.

"Man after being Spider-Man for two days… I feel like everything has changed-"

Ganke walks over to the back window and spits the mint liquid out into the air.

"Dude, that's disgusting!" Miles uttered.

"I don't know where else to spit, man!" Ganke snapped. "Our dorm doesn't even have a bathroom.

Miles scanned their dorm, "You do know there's a bathroom across from our dorm…" He implies. "Right?"

Ganke had no clue as to what Miles was talking about, he walked over to the door and opens it. He scans hall back and forth, to only see what was in front of him… Miles was right. There was a bathroom across from their Dorm. Ganke now regrets spitting out his bacteria into the air of NYC. He may even have a cold and made other citizens get a cold as well. He closes the door softly and looks at Miles which he furrowed an eyebrow at him.

"ugh…" Ganke jested as he slaps his forehead.

"Now you know, next time!" Miles tease.

"Yeah, yeah…"

Miles then lays on his bed. He lost a lot of sleep from last night. He only slept from 2 o' clock in the morning (which was the time he finished the essay) to seven-thirty in the morning. His mind was yet more drifting apart and was now flashing back to various events that happened during his early days as Spider-Man. But then he thought of something that he wished he did earlier.

"I should have asked Peter how to balance the life and the hero stuff…" he thought.

Ganke's phone notifications went off. Miles turned to Ganke but turning back to the roof probably feeling that it was his parent telling him "Good Morning, Sleepyhead!" He grabs his phone which was sitting right next to his laptop. Turns it on. The look on his face was just very clear. Shock, paled, froze, disbelief, and surprised. He turned to Miles with that very clear face. Miles notice the blur vision on his right that Ganke was looking at him. He turns to him and his face was recognizable to how everyone reacted to when The Spider-man before him died. Ganke stares at him. He opens his mouth and was ready to tell him something that will traumatize Miles.

"Someone broke into the Brooklyn P.D" Miles then became concerned as he slightly lifted his head from the pillow.

"Your dad was there…" Ganke said. Miles quickly sprang up into a sitting position.

"His condition?!" Miles question in a worried tone. "I- Is he okay?!" he stuttered.

Ganke stared at him for a good minute. He passed his phone to Miles. All were seen on Ganke's phone, was a news headline titled.

"Brooklyn Police Department Break-In Attack"

Miles' face began to sweat, and his fear of the past began to grow when he sees the photo of his father, in a hospitalized bed, being inserted into the back of an ambulance truck. But it wasn't just that. Jeff' body was so brutally injured by the incident, that the face wasn't even recognizable. His face was so bruised and was like if his face was pushed against frozen meat. Miles had a feeling it was like the Uncle Aaron situation all over again.

KNOCKNOCKKNOCK

Three knocks came as Miles and Ganke then turned to the door.

"Mr. Morales…" The Principle called out. "Your—Father… ehmm."

He paused. Miles face was still sweating and began to feel a sense of traumatization through his body.

"Your Mother is here to pick you up—and…" He paused again. "Your— Father…"

Miles stomps up to the door and opens it. To only find Principle Morita with a cold and sweaty face. He was surprised by the fact Miles opened to the door very swiftly and his face was sweaty too!

"They—just… ehmmm" He paused again and took a deep breath to stare at Miles with a serious face. Miles emotions will suddenly change after what Morita will confess.

"They just reported, that your Father went into coma statics…"

-= Somewhere on the streets of Brooklyn… =-

Miles, pupils were small from the change of him and his face was still sweating at this time. he was traumatized. This was a feeling he hadn't gotten since the death of his Uncle. What happened at The P.D.? he thought. What could he have done to save his Father from being injured? He doesn't know. Because he doesn't even know what happened. Miles was sitting in the passenger's seat in Rio's car. Rio's face was the same as Miles face but, her eyes were wet from mourning and she emotionally was traumatized. Rio was trying to focus on the road but her eyes kept drifting off to Miles to which his body was quivering. She knew he was more traumatized then she was. Especially after what happened with Aaron. She decided to talk sense into her son.

"Miles…" She lisped. "Your father is gonna be okay. He just resting. "

Miles didn't respond. Just silence filled inside the car. "Miles?" Rio tries to call his sons attention.

Miles finally turned to her in a very slow and disturbing way. Rio's eyes were drifting back and forth from Miles to the road and every time she turned to Miles. All she can see in her Son's face was horror.

"Don't be afraid, amor-"

"Why does this keep happening!" Miles quivered. "To our family?!"

"It happens all the time to other families, hijo."

"I don't want it to happen to ours!" Miles continued. "It all started with Uncle Aaron and now dad!" as he turned away from his mom.

Rio tried so hard to find a way to calm her son down but, she can't put her words into order. Because she felt the same way Miles felt when she heard about her husband. She knew this would happen to him. Ever since he took on the job as a detective four days ago. She wished he never did. But she knew it was his job to protect the people he loved, like his family of course.

Miles didn't know what he is feeling right now. All he wants is to find something to make him happy. He just can't seem to find the right files in his brain to do so. He was bummed, gloomed, depressed, and full of horror.

-= Brookdale Hospital Medical Center =-

Miles and Rio were in the elevator to go to the 4th floor to visit Jeff, Miles' father and Rio's husband. They were both very silent as they both scanned the elevator as it moved upwards and also avoiding eye contact with each other. Till finally, Miles found something for him to talk to his mom about.

"Dad told me the story on how you guys met. On the way to school- I mean." Miles started as Rio turned to his son slightly letting him know he has her attention. She started to smile and chuckled. She was surprised he told him that story. She wondered if he ever told him about how she felt about it.

"Did he ever told you about how we first interacted?" She asked.

Miles thought about the story Jeff told him. "Like… the shoulder touch?"

Rio smiled widely which also made Miles smiled. the feeling they both were having earlier in the car was suddenly now disappearing. This was something Miles needed. "Not just that." She answered.

"The slapping part?" Miles started when he asked the question.

"mmm…" Rio muttered. "I guess we can start from there."

"Why did you… do that?" Miles asked.

"Because I… don't like-" Rio pauses as she thought back at her memories back in High School when she met Jeff and Aaron for the first time. "Cool boys." She smiled.

Miles felt confused for a moment. "wwWhy?' he asked again in a curious tone.

"Because Chico, I don't like boys who think they are cool. They are really embarrassing, awkward, and quirky. I like boys who are normal, at first… your father came to me acting cool and then- I slapped him and he ran away in an embarrassment." She emphasized. "But, for some reason, I felt like I hurt him and wanted to apologize but he was running so fast that I couldn't catch up. So, I shrugged it off. But then the next day, he came up to me again. I thought he was gonna act cool again so I was about to slap him again but… he quickly apologizes for the way he acted. That's when I realized… He was a normal boy. I then felt a lot better about him. We talked and talked. Got together more and going out to place. Which then I met your Uncle which no wonder where he got the cool acting from. As time passed, we graduated and got married and had you." She finished.

Miles was intrigued by each perceptive his parents gave on how they met. He found his dad's story more intriguing than his mom surprisingly.

The elevator opened and they both walked out of the elevator and turned to their lefts, walking towards the lobby. A nurse then walks by Miles and Rio and accidentally elbowed Miles. Miles turned to her and was about to call her out. But he didn't… something looked awfully familiar about her when she turned slightly behind her. Her hair was all wacky and her glasses were shaped like an octagon, she also had a bandana around her wacky hair. Miles tried to put together who she was. He was about to walk towards her cautiously but then his name was called.

"Miles!" Her mother called as she signals him to come over. Miles looked back to find the familiar nurse. But she was gone.

Miles and Rio were making their way to Jeff's room alongside with Madani and was telling them about his condition. She describes that he broke his left arm and almost broke his spine but was painfully hurt by the large fall he took. She then went on saying when the doctor described to her that he could have been nearly killed from the fall If it was more than 3 stories high. But luckily it was just 3 stories.

"I- thank you for the information, Dinah we really appreciated." Rio thanks Madani gently.

"No… please um-"

Madani, Rio, and Miles stopped as they finally arrived at Jeff's room and looked through the window where they saw Jeff on a hospitalized bed with a cast on his left arm, and a tube fluid was attached to his pectoral muscle, and a blanket was covering him from his waist and down. The emotions welled back into Rio and Miles as they see they're family member laying there. All motionless. Madani then turned to them.

"He saved my life." She softly said. Miles and Rio turned to her as they see the amount of pain in her emotions. She wiped a tear from her left eye.

"You can- go in and see him if you w- want." She insisted.

They both watched Madani walked away from them. Rio then turns to Miles. "Listen I have to go to work and other patients need me, Mr. Morita is going to come back and pick you up in…" She looked at her watch. "20 minutes okay."

Miles looked at his father. The pain inside swelled hard. And still, he imagines him beating the guy who had his father in pain. "What if I don't want to leave?"

"It's school hijo," Rio replied. she too looked at her husband. She is in the same position as Miles is in right now. But needs to move on from it. "Just… remember he'll be okay. Alright?"

Miles wanted to counter. But she had a good point. He let it be and started to enter his fathers' room as Rio walked away from him.

He walked up to his father on the right side of the bed. He was shirtless, the fluids he saw were rushing into his father body from the tubes that were injected into him and was able to see his cast signed by his other co-workers with little messages like "Get well soon, Hope to see you soon, And Stay strong my friend!" One of them came from Madani saying "Thank you, for saving my life. -Dinah Madani"

Miles smiled at the amount of support to his dad. He decides the write one of his own. He found a sharpie sitting on the small desk but then suddenly notice a folder saying 'CLASSIFIED' colored in red. He picked it up and a small letter fell from it with a note from the Captain of the Brooklyn Police crew.

CAPTIAN GEORGE STACY TO SPIDER-MAN

Something felt familiar about that last name- Miles then picks up the letter and opens it up. He then reads it.

"Spider-Man,

Recent events have occurred in the state of New York and Brooklyn. After the explosion of Fisk Tower, it would seem that three people who have YOUR ABILITIES, suddenly showed up in Coleman Square Playground. We kept telling our interviewers (who just can't stop get on our backs about this.) that they are just people in cosplays who do physical stunts but they don't seem to believe us. Please with all of your might FIND THOSE CRITTERS AND STOP THEM!"

Miles took a moment to breathe from the statement. The last time he saw strangers with his abilities were Peter B., Gwen, Porker, Noir, and Peni. Could the Supercolliders destruction have just caused more dimensions to open up? If so, how many? He only knows five have opened but there could be more dimensions opened! The letter continues on.

"Also, I would like for you to investigate on that mysterious Li guy that broke into the department and injured Jeff. more can be seen inside the folder. Can't believe I'm saying this but, help us Spider-Man.

Salutes from Captain Stacy"

Miles then drops the letter onto the table and picks up the Classified folder and opens it. All there was… were the photos from reporters that exactly what the letters were described as.

There were three Spider-Man. They all had almost the same suits that Peter had but they are different from each other. The Tall one is more in shaded and the spider logo was bigger and more common in style, the other had silver linings and the spider logos was silver too and the last one looked to be in advancement like if he came from 2023, like how Peni came from the year 3145. He then flipped over to more photos of them swinging together and another to which they were on top of the Brooklyn bridge. And the final one which was a photo of them looking over a grave which to Miles guess is his universe of Peter Parker's grave.

But then something caught Miles left eye, what seems to be a secret ops type of document. The document had a picture of a Chinese person, his hair was short and it almost resembles a mohawk style to it. His skin was white but also shaded with a little bit of brown, He looked at the name of the person.

Birth Name: Martin Li

Codename: Negative

Miles remember that his father told him about the codename that for each of the Ops soldiers were given a codename and they always have to call them whether they are on base or out on a mission. He flipped the document and what was also intriguing was he was also used for a military experiment and was testing a special serum called 'Super Soldier Serum.' But that page was stamped saying 'TERMINATED.' He flips again but the document finishes there but then he finds a CD lastly in the folder that it looked to be rendered. He picked up the CD and organized the pages of documents, Photos, and the letter the from the Captain. He looked at the CD which was inside an envelope. He then looked through the clear plastic side and a name for the CD was written.

The P.D. Incident.

He took out the CD and held it in his hand and looks at his father. He knows what he must do. He knew what was his mission. It was a challenge, but he remembers from what Gwen said back in his early Spider-Man days "No matter how many times you get hit, you always find a way."

"I'll find him…" he whispered. "I promise."

-= Visions Academy 12:30am =-

For hours and hours and hours nonstop. Miles didn't even realize how long the footage was. His eyes became hot red and he had his hands clasped on his left cheek from boredom. He has the speed to 2x to get through most of the footage from what happened at the P.D. with his dad involved. The recording length was legitimately a 12-hour long video. Most of it was detectives and officers and sometimes he even caught his dad in some parts of the footage, just doing their work.

It was very late at night as citizens outside walked quietly through the streets of Brooklyn and the sound of cars, horns, and sometimes even pigeons chirping. The window to Miles right was open so fresh air could hit his face.

It was yet again an exhausting day for Miles Morales. So many essays, pop quizzes, and couldn't stop imagining of his father's injuries. Miles was all over the place today. But luckily there hasn't been any hero up required so Miles was just in citizen clothing all day long.

Suddenly he came upon something when the timestamp got to 10 hours and 43 minutes and 35 seconds and the things around that time started to get suspicious. Miles sets the video speed to normal and watched it from there.

The camera was placed somewhere in the left-bottom corner of the room possibly. The room was dark till suddenly a light shimmered in the left corner which made Miles jumped a little. Still staring at the screen, he then watches a man fading into physical appearance. Miles became uttered shocked.

"What? He is using Invisibility?" Miles thought. "Maybe it's apart of that serum from the experiment."

As the video progressed the man (Martin Li) silently walked to where his Dad's office was and he still remembers how it looked since every time when his dad takes him to his job on Dad takes his son to his job day almost every year of his life. For sure he knows it will probably not happen this year since his dad was injured.

After 15 minutes into the footage. Miles was left still wondering what is Martin Li doing there in the first place. But suddenly he finally saw his dad walked in very cautiously. Miles then had his left-hand rest on the desk. He was now in full attention of the video. He sees his father enter the room as Li turned around to face him. They both seemed to be having a conversation, probably a serious one. Miles' heart was pumping harshly like if electricity is zapping his heart a thousand times. He watched and he watched.

And action began as glass sheets began to break and grunting from Jeff and Li from them punching back and forth. He then sees Li getting an uppercut by his dad and flew out the other side of the glass wall and landed harshly on the ground as his Dad rushed up to him with a baton but before he could even whack him Li started to overcome him. More fighting continued as both Li and Jeff were left on the ground near the receptionist office where Miles can see clear his father throwing Li on the ground. Miles' hands were trembling and his hands were clammy and his forehead was sweating. It felt like to him as if he is seeing and Action, Spy, and Thriller movie. Miles was then finally able to hear them speak verbally.

"You still got it, don't you?"

"Huh? Why did he say that? What do you mean he still gets it, dude?" Miles subconscious says sarcastically.

Jeff then went on yelling at that he was the one who killed Aaron but then immediately denies it by saying.

"My Boss did."

He slashed both of Jeff's inner calves' as more stunts were performed by Li. Miles now doesn't want to see it continued anymore. His heart was pumping like a subway train. But then a voice was calling out.

"Miles!" Ganke semi-whispered. Miles paused the footage and turned to see his friend sitting up and his eyes were also steaming hot and his eyes lids were half shut. "Go to sleep dude! It's 1 o' clock in the morning.

Miles then look at their clock and sees it was indeed 1:00 am.

"Oh- erm- um…" Miles paused. "yeah, I'll shut it. Sorry, I just…"

"Don't worry dude we'll look at the footage tomorrow after class," Ganke muttered with of course a whispered tone.

Miles then nods quietly he then ejects the CD from Ganke's laptop and slides it back into the envelope. He then realizes where he needs to hide the envelope and he knew where. In his backpack. He snuffed into his backpack gently and zips up his backpack afterward. He went over and shut the window closed and locked it.

He then launches himself onto the bed that is under Ganke's top bed. His mind was yet back to the moment to when he saw his father laying on a hospitalized bed, just motionless. He wished he could have done something about it. He had wished a time machine exist for him to go back in time to help his dad. But he couldn't. Miles then shut off his Lamp and grabs his headphones and his iPod and starts playing Sunflower on it. Miles then Puts the headphones on and slowly shuts his eyes lids as the music and the lyrics flow through his head. Miles started to smile as all the dark feelings went away and the happy feelings came back and he pictured Gwen in his mind from when he first met her in the Science class, the accident on the hall, when he found out she was a spider-woman from another dimension, and their goodbyes when they became interdimensional friends.

Miles then felt something that was bothering his eyelids as if it was already the next day. The light grew brighter and brighter as a familiar voice spoke that Miles thought he will never hear again.

"Miles!" The voice called. It couldn't be her. There was no way to travel from one dimension to the other. "Miles!" The voice continued calling. Miles this time struggling to open his eyelids. He blinked once then blink twice as his name was called in a mild tone.

"Miles!" He finally opened his eyes and couldn't believe he was smiling more than often. "You got a minute?"

It was none other than Gwen Stacy.

A/N part 2: Hope you all enjoy the chapter! I'm sorry the update took longer than I was anticipating but that's all because of school. Also, after watching "Avengers Endgame" I had written the "Thor vs. n00bmaster69 One-shot." Anyways coming back to this story. Next Chapter will be named "Spider-Gang." Which a little tease It will go back and forth often between the Three Peters side and Where Miles and Gwen are at currently. Look forward to more updates! See ya real soon!