Chapter 8: Spider-Verse Part III: Spiders United

Earth 6765

"Holy crap...looks just like my New York after Static Day…" 558 Spider-Man said as the group of spiders looked out at a New York brought to it's knees by Hydra.

"Everyone stay close and follow my lead." American Spider said. "I've been fighting Hydra from the very beginning, and this one seems to be little different from mine. That means I know how they think."

"And what of their hardware? What if it's more advanced and sophisticated than the Hydra of your Earth's, what then?"

American Spider turned to Superior Spider-Man: "There's only one way to find that out. And either way we can't just stay here. We need to find a way off this Earth, and staying in this warehouse doing nothing isn't it."

"So we charge right into a warzone?" Superior Spider-Man asked incredulously.

"You can still fight can't you?" Noir Spider-Man said, interceding. "We're fighters, all of us. It's what we do. Why run now?"

"Noir Spider-Man's right. While I don't condone us having no plan, that doesn't mean we're not going to stand and fight this. And while we're at it we'll see if we can't find anyone else who can stand by us."

Superior Spider-Man shook his head but said nothing further. Tempting as it was for him to keep arguing, he was still more self-aware than the others would give him credit for. And he knew that at the moment American Spider was the one in good standing with the others and not him. So it was that he would have to relent, and allow American Spider to keep leading, even if it was right towards disaster as far as Superior Spider-Man was concerned. So it was that the group of spiders made their way out of the warehouse once again and off into the Hydra-besieged New York. As they ran past the ruined Statue of Liberty, Six-Armed Spider-Man turned to it and said: "Don't worry Lady Liberty; we'll give these Hydra clowns one for you."

Earth 7853

With their now having a reprieve from the battles with Karn's clone and his forces, the spiders stuck on Earth 7853 took the opportunity to relax a bit, and for location chose the headquarters of Captain Universe Spider-Man, which, 763 Spider-Man noted, was exactly where the Daily Bugle was in his reality.

"Remodeled this old place into my base of operations." Captain Universe Spider-Man explained as he led the other spiders inside and showed them around. "After old Jameson died and the newspaper business continued to go down the toilet they let go of it. I took control of it after that. Most of the people who worked here still do though, just doing...different things."

"Like?"

"Well, mostly they help alert me to disturbances happening nearby. My cosmic-enhanced spider-sense is powerful to be sure, but I'm not omniscient. And at times such as this when I'm keeping on the alert regarding something else it pays to have additional information."

No sooner did Captain Universe Spider-Man say this did a woman walk up to him, a woman that 763 Spider-Man realized was the Betty Brant of this world.

"Captain, there's a disturbance in Central Park."

"Thank you Betty." Captain Universe Spider-Man said with a nod before turning to the other spiders: "I can handle it if you want. There's no need for any of you to do it if you don't want to."

"Nah, I could use the exercise." Spectacular Spider-Man said.

"Alright then." he turned to Betty Brant. "Any idea on what we're up against exactly?"

"Reports suggest members of the Brotherhood, Captain."

"The Brotherhood?" Captain Universe Spider-Man sighed and shook his head. "Those fools never learn do they? Even after I defeated their leader Magneto they still run around giving their own race a bad name…" he turned back to the spiders. "Threat's less dangerous than I thought. The Brotherhood's lost most of it's teeth at this point. I think you all can handle it without me if you want."

"Well, I'll take you up on that." Spectacular Spider-Man said.

"I think I'll stay here and work on a new gamma radiation solution…" Bruce Banner Spider-Man said, some awkwardness and guilt present in his tone.

"I'll go." Black Cat said, smiling. "What do you want to do Spider?"

"I guess I can tag along too." 763 Spider-Man said.

"I'll come with you." the black costumed Spider-Man said. "I think four should be enough."

Captain Universe Spider-Man nodded. "Agreed. Not many members of the Brotherhood left at this point. I think the four of you should be able to do it."

"Then let's move out."

As the group left the building and swung off, Bruce Banner Spider-Man turned to Captain Universe Spider-Man: "In order to recreate my gamma radiation solution, I'll need a lab and...a few materials."

"Just tell me what you need, and I'll get it for you. Heck, I could probably conjure some things out of thin air. I can...transmute matter, to an extent. Lately I've been working on improving the power. I'm hoping that one day I'll be strong enough to transmute any element I want into any other element." Then, he smiled. "Maybe even create a few new ones while I'm at it."

Bruce Banner Spider-Man said nothing at first, and Captain Universe Spider-Man said: "There's not much else to do around here these days. I'm so powerful that not too many different supervillains can really challenge me anymore, and I've already beaten the ones who could, either alone or with others. So experimenting with my powers tends to be how I pass the time nowadays."

"Sounds like something out of a science fiction book, but considering my own backstory who am I to judge? Anyway, I need a specific kind of chemical mixer..."

Earth 53610

Hidden away from the rest of New York was the lair of the Green Goblin. It was a small, dark, and quiet place, a place filled with weapons and devices and meant as a place where the Green Goblin could retreat and recuperate when needed.

He stared down at the sinister green colored helmet in his hands. The face of this helmet, the manic grin with sharp fangs, the bulging yellow eyes, it was his true face. It was the face that all in New York feared, the face that kept people up at night, and one that haunted the darkest parts of their mind just as it did his own.

And it haunted one person in particular. His arch-enemy, Spider-Girl. She had been the single biggest thorn in his side ever since he first appeared. And despite his best efforts she simply could not stay dead.

"And to think, I offered the ungrateful little brat friendship. And she rejected it. That simply won't do."

"You. Goblin."

The Green Goblin turned about and saw Karn's clone staring him down.

"How did you get in here!?" the Green Goblin demanded before adding: "No matter. I'll just show you the door, and mount your head on my wall while I'm at it!"

But before the Green Goblin could do either of these things Karn's clone surged forwards and with a single blow sent the Green Goblin flying backwards and smashing into a wall full of various weapons, knocking them all to the ground.

"Down, dog. I seek not your death. Rather, your loyalty."

The Green Goblin cackled defiantly. "The Green Goblin is beholden to no man!"

"You'll want to take this offer. If you do, then you will at last be able to rid yourself of your arch-nemesis."

"You mean Spider-Girl?"

Karn's clone nodded. "Yes. Join me and she will die, along with all others like her."

Green Goblin raised an eyebrow. "Others?"

-X-

"I have to admit, I don't fancy our odds against Karn's clone the next time we run into him." Silk said as the spiders put some distance between themselves and the Forest Hill Queens neighborhood that Spider-Strange said this world's spider-totem resided in. Until such time as they were ready to recruit him or her they wanted to keep out of sight. In the meantime, they made camp in the woods overlooking the neighborhood.

"...now that even our spider-senses don't work we're at a serious disadvantage."

"I'm still wondering how he was able to do it in the first place. You don't just negate the spider-sense. That takes someone who's known us long enough to find some way of countering it. And even with that knowledge concocting something to do that is no small feat either. My money's on Doctor Octopus. A Doctor Octopus anyway."

"I'm more curious as to how exactly Karn's doing it." the Ben Reilly Spider-Man noted. "If we figure that out we may be able to find a way of overcoming it."

"By the time we do that, Karn's clone will already be on top of us again." Silk pointed out before turning to Spider-Strange: "It's only a matter of time before he and his forces come here. If we're going to recruit this world's spider-totem, we should do it sooner, not later."

"Agreed." Spider-Strange nodded before turning to Silk's husband. "You're with me. Let's not hit whoever the spider here is with all of us at once."

The Spider-Man married to Silk nodded. As this was happening, Scarlet Spider made his way over to Spider-Woman as she looked over her shredded glider wing. The superheroine let out a deep sigh as she looked at it.

"Sorry about your wing." Scarlet Spider said before adding: "Maybe Spider-Strange can fix it."

"If he ever gets around to it." Spider-Woman said before shaking her head. "Until he does I'm grounded. Flight without proper steering is useless. Still, I suppose that in view of what happened to some of the others I should be counting myself lucky the wing was all I lost…" she trailed off for a moment before turning to face Scarlet Spider: "...thank you, by the way. For saving my life I mean."

Scarlet Spider smiled behind his mask. He was tempted to remind her of the coldness she'd shown him earlier, but he knew better and said instead: "You're welcome. And thanks for returning the favor. I'd have probably been a spider-kebab if you hadn't been there to blast Karn's clone with those...what are those green beams of energy supposed to be anyway?"

"Venom blasts." Spider-Woman explained before adding: "I may be called Spider-Woman but my powers are very different from my male counterpart's. In fact, now that I think about it the two of us have almost no powers in common at all. But I actually kind of prefer that. I'm not just some female knock-off to him. I'm my own woman, capable of standing on my own merits."

"I can respect that." Scarlet Spider admitted with a nod before adding: "As you can see, I'm not quite like that. I can stand on my own, but...let's just say there wouldn't be a Scarlet Spider without Spider-Man. So I do admire you, for being able to have your own legacy all to yourself."

"...there's no need for you to be self-deprecating. You're a good man."

"Thanks." There was a pause before Scarlet Spider added: "My name's Ben by the way. My real name I mean."

"Jessica."

"That's a nice name."

Spider-Woman nodded, and then privately sighed. She hoped her pheromones weren't at work again. She never could seem to control that power of hers, and it always made her question just how much friendliness any man showed her was genuine or just because of the lustful attraction her pheromones inspired.

Elsewhere, some of the other spiders also conversed, in particular Ben Reilly Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman.

"So you got your powers not that long ago, correct?"

Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman nodded before saying: "Yeah, that's true. I'm still pretty green. I think I'm getting the hang of the superhero thing pretty fast though. I've sort of had to. The bad guys don't just wait for you to be ready after all."

"I know that." Ben Reilly Spider-Man said with a nod. "I've been fighting ever since I first came out of the cloning vat. I'm just glad it's actually yielded it's own rewards."

"Like?"

"Well, I've gotten acceptance where I'm from. That always eluded Peter when he was Spider-Man...and I may or may not be starting up a new business."

"Business?"

Ben smiled behind his mask. "Hey, I have to do something when I'm not swinging around in the red and blues. And while I could probably watch episodes of Sherlock all day and never get bored, I figured I still needed to pay the bills as well."

"Okay, point taken." Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman said before adding: "...I'm not exactly accepted where I'm from. In fact the police are hunting me. They think I'm a murderer."

"Oh. Who do you think they killed?"

"My world's Peter." Gwen explained. "He became a lizard monster and then died fighting me. But I didn't kill him! I swear..."

"Calm down, I believe you. But no one on your Earth did."

Gwen shook her head. "No, no one. Not even my father."

"Does he...?"

Gwen nodded. "Yes, he knows. It's...it's been an awkward, unpleasant experience."

"I'd imagine."

Earth 6765

Upon entering New York itself, the group of Spiders could see plainly just how bad the situation truly was: fires raged, buildings had been smashed or blown out, cars overturned, people lay dead or dying in the streets, and rows upon rows of Hydra soldiers were marching up and down every street, which prompted most anyone in the vicinity to turn tail.

"What happened to allow Hydra to succeed like this?" American Spider wondered aloud as the group of spiders continued to move through New York. Eventually, they saw a group of Hydra soldiers run into a nearby building. Gunshots rang out and dying screams could be heard. Then, the Hydra soldiers dragged out a young man and woman. The man got a rifle butt right to his face, which drew blood and knocked him out. The woman got a handgun aimed at her head.

But before the Hydra agent could fire, American Spider hurled his shield with such force he not only downed the Hydra agent but sent him flying backwards. The other nearby Hydra agents looked up just in time to see a red, white, and blue blur leap down towards them and then lay into them with the full force of his martial arts mastery.

Seeing the commotion, other Hydra agents ran in to join the fray, but these ones soon came under assault from Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, and Noir Spider-Man, the latter of whom also being content to just shoot the Hydra agents with his gun until he saw that their kevlar armor stopped his 30s handgun shots. Undeterred, Noir Spider-Man entered into melee combat and helped his fellows beat up the last of the Hydra agents. As the last one fell, American Spider walked over to the woman.

"It's alright miss. We're here to help."

"You...you look like Captain America…"

"That's because I'm a sort of one miss. And also a Spider-Man."

"S-spider-Man?" the woman asked, and her tone became one of greater fear. As did her demeanor.

"Well, it looks like we're as unpopular here as we are in our native worlds." Spider-Man 2099 noted cynically as he looked around for any more Hydra agents.

"Superior Spider-Man, can you piggyback any of Hydra's comm signals?" American Spider asked.

Superior Spider-Man nodded before placing a clawed finger to the side of his mask. "Tuning the radio inside my mask right now. Scanning...well, this is interesting. It seems that there's to be some grand execution event in Times Square. A 'Baron Strucker' is leading it."

American Spider frowned behind his mask. "I've fought him plenty of times before too. And ordering a mass execution is exactly what my world's Strucker would do. We need to move out now."

"The place will be crawling with Hydra agents…"

"A small number of us just beat over a dozen of them right here. I think we can handle a few dozen more. And I'm not letting Strucker shed any more blood."

Superior Spider-Man sighed. "This is no time to play the righteous crusader. We need to look at the big picture…"

It was then that Ultimate Spider-Man spoke up: "I agree with American Spider. We're not leaving here anytime soon anyway. We might as well do what we can to help out. I say we stop the execution."

American Spider nodded. "Good to see I have at least one supporter."

"Make it two." Six-Armed Spider-Man said, stepping forward.

"Three." 558 Spider-Man added, with Noir Spider-Man soon chiming in as supporter number four. At this, Superior Spider-Man sighed. "Alright fine. But if we're going to throw away our lives, let's at least do it with some strategy. I have a plan…"

Earth 7853

"Free Magneto!" the leader of the Brotherhood radicals shouted as he raised a fist into the air. "Free Magneto and end human oppression!"

As the lead radical shouted this, a small group of Mutants took to causing destruction wherever they could and clashing with the police forces that came out to meet them. Jets of fire from Pyro that were then morphed into giant burning claws slammed into the police and their vehicles both, lighting them ablaze and prompting the police forces to fall back. As this happened, the Toad leaped over one police car and right at one of the fleeing cops, kicking him to the ground and then hammering his fists down on the man's helmeted head, all the while giggling and cackling with sadistic glee.

At least until he saw who was coming his way.

"Back away gruesome. Cops are your friends, not a kiddie-ride."

As Spectacular Spider-Man said this, he fired out some webbing to force Toad to fall back. Spectacular Spider-Man was soon on him though and began engaging the Toad up close and personal, dodging when needed to evade the globs of green that he spat out of his mouth.

"Okay, that's got to be the absolute most disgusting thing I've ever dodged…"

Meanwhile, Black Cat and the two other Spider-Men dropped down to confront the ringleader of the Brotherhood radicals, who 763 Spider-Man spoke to directly: "Look pal, I can appreciate the First Amendment as much as the next guy, but when you start setting things on fire, it's time to tear the soap box down."

"Human oppressors! Pawns of the xenophobic regime!" The man turned to Pyro. "Cleanse them with your holy fire brother John!"

Nodding, Pyro turned to face the spiders and unleashed jets of flame in their direction. Black Cat and the two Spider-Men avoided it, with 763 Spider-Man then going after Pyro directly and firing webbing right at him. Pyro created a shield of fire that burned the webbing as it impacted, and 763 Spider-Man dived to one side to avoid Pyro's retaliatory attacks.

"Brother Victor, Sister Yuriko, vivisect the oppressors!"

At this, two figures that Black Cat and 761 Spider-Man identified as alternate versions of Sabertooth and Lady Deathstrike burst forth, claws extended. Lady Deathstrike darted towards 761 Spider-Man while Sabertooth all but pounced on Black Cat. Both heroes managed to move out of the way in time, with them each then engaging the villain that struck first. Sabertooth tried to slash at Black Cat's head, but she avoided him easily.

"That's not going to do it." Black Cat said as she avoided another claw swipe from the villain, who snarled before going at her again. And once more, Black Cat avoided him.

"I thought you were supposed to be fast Sabertooth." Black Cat taunted. "But at this rate I could avoid you wearing my old catsuit."

761 Spider-Man found himself similarly at ease dodging the attacks of his opponent, ducking, side-stepping, and back-stepping when needed to keep Lady Deathstrike's claws from tearing into him. He didn't even do this for very long before deciding to do to Deathstrike a little something not totally unlike what he'd once done to his Wolverine…

Back-stepping to avoid the next attack of Lady Deathstrike's claws, 761 Spider-Man followed it up by shooting a web-line that stuck on one end to Deathstrike's right arm and then on the other end a building to her left. 761 Spider-Man then did the opposite with Deathstrike's other arm, before then leaping over Lady Deathstrike's head, shooting out some webbing at her legs, and pulling before then sticking the other ends to a nearby car that 761 Spider-Man had landed on. Lady Deathstrike was now held up by the four web-lines and effectively immobilized.

"Pyro! Free me at once!"

But before Pyro could do this, 763 Spider-Man darted towards him again, which in turn prompted Pyro to strike out with another fire attack that 763 Spider-Man dodged. This in turn left Pyro vulnerable to an attack from behind by 761 Spider-Man, who kicked Pyro forwards and into the path of 763 Spider-Man's red gloved fist, which hit him hard enough to shatter his goggles' lenses and knock him out.

As all this was happening, Black Cat was delivering strikes to Sabertooth when she could, and dodging all of Sabertooth's own attacks when necessary. Incredibly, Black Cat found herself able to parry or dodge all of his attacks successfully, and found her own attacks connecting almost every time instead of being countered. The fact that Sabertooth also seemed to be staggering rather than quickly recovering from every attack was also suspicious.

Thought this guy was supposed to have a healing factor…

Sabertooth lunged forwards, but Black Cat dived to one side. Sabertooth tried to grab her leg but Black Cat slashed at his arm. Sabertooth's arm snapped back and he roared in pain as the claws of Black Cat's glove cut right through his costume and skin both. But then, rather than heal, his arm remained cut and bleeding.

"So much for the healing factor, huh?" Black Cat asked with a confident smile.

"The what?" Sabertooth responded, clearly confused. Suppressing her own confusion, Black Cat surged forwards and delivered a karate punch square to Sabertooth's jaw. A few follow up moves of Judo origin were sufficient to finally bring Sabertooth down and get him in a headlock. After that, Black Cat applied just a bit of pressure and Sabertooth was down and out.

"...wow. I actually beat Sabertooth. Me, beating Sabertooth...just...wow."

"...and I just beat slimey the frog here." Spectacular Spider-Man said before tossing the webbed up and subdued Toad to the ground. Now suddenly alone, the ringleader snarled: "Then I will face you all by myself! As long as one member of the Brotherhood stands our cause lives on! You cannot silence our voice!"

"Sure we can." Spectacular Spider-Man said before firing a bit of webbing into the man's mouth to gag him. Eyes lighting up with murderous fury, the man threw off his cloak and hood to reveal the helmet, armor, and "A" logo of Avalanche. Next thing the spiders knew, a seismic wave was being sent out in their direction. All of the spiders scattered to avoid it, and as they did, Avalanche advanced.

He didn't get far though before red tendrils wrapped themselves around his body and pulled him back. A few superhuman punches from the source of the tendrils was all it took to bring Avalanche down. Looking out, Black Cat and the three Spider-Men were surprised to see that it was none other than Carnage standing over the defeated Avalanche.

"That should keep you down and out for a while…"

"Great, first the Brotherhood bozos, now Carnage…"

Carnage looked up at Black Cat and the Spider-Men. "Thank you for helping to contain the situation. I came as soon as I heard, but I wasn't as quick as I'd have liked. Had you all not been here, who knows what damage these criminals would have done."

"...did I just hear that right? Because that didn't sound anything like Carnage…"

"Who's Carnage? My code-name is Antitoxin."

"Antitoxin?"

Antitoxin nodded. "Yes, because I am exactly that to the criminal element. The brass thought it to be an appropriate codename. I thought it was kind of corny personally, but it's grown on me." Antitoxin held out a red taloned hand, the symbiote retracting to expose his human one.

"Agent Bernard Shaw at your service."

"So...you're not Cletus Kassady?"

Antitoxin shook his head. "No. I have no idea who that is."

"But you are bonded to the Carnage symbiote?"

"Why do you keep referring to it as that? The symbiote doesn't have a name…"

763 Spider-Man sighed. "It's a long story." he said before looking around. "I guess we're done here, aren't we?" he looked back at Antitoxin. "Can you take it from here?"

Antitoxin nodded. "Yes I can. I'll make sure these criminals are carted away in good time. A pleasure working with you, whoever you are. New York can always do well to have more costumed superheroes such as yourselves." As Antitoxin said this, he gave a salute, and 763 Spider-Man noticed that over his right breast was a large white star akin to the one in the center of Captain America's costume.

"Well...I don't know about you guys, but I think I wanna go back to HQ and see how things are doing there."

"You go on ahead." 761 Spider-Man said to his younger counterpart before adding: "...I'm going for a swing." he turned to 763 Spider-Man. "Want to come?"

763 Spider-Man turned to look at Black Cat, who smiled and nodded. "Sure." 763 Spider-Man said.

"Don't worry, I'll be waiting for you when you get back." Black Cat said teasingly before then kissing 763 Spider-Man on the cheek.

"Okay...little awkward."

Black Cat chuckled. "How old are you again?"

"That's need to know only lady."

"That's okay, I can probably guess." Black Cat said with a smile before adding:"Come on junior, let's leave the older yous to their fun."

And then, Black Cat and Spectacular Spider-Man left the scene via grapple-claw line and webbing respectively, and the 761 and 763 Spider-Men meanwhile swung off in a different direction.

"I take it you and your Black Cat are together?" 761 Spider-Man asked off-handedly as he and his 763 counterpart swung through the tall buildings of this alternate New York.

"Yeah, we are. That's why she's here. She wouldn't let me out of her sight."

"That's quite a loyal lover you've got there."

"Well, I did almost die. I don't think she wants to lose me again...to be honest I don't want to lose her either."

"I definitely understand that." 761 Spider-Man said with a nod before adding: "When Karn's Clone first came for me and I saw how powerful he was, I was afraid Felicia would die with me. It was a terrible feeling. Especially after I lost Gwen and Mary Jane…"

"Your Mary Jane died?"

761 Spider-Man nodded. "Yes, shortly after we first got together. Killed by the Scorpion as part of my Harry Osborn's insane revenge scheme against me."

"Wait a minute: on my Earth, it was the same thing, only, Mary Jane didn't die and I wasn't in a relationship with her. In fact, it was after Scorpion threatened her that we realized we could never make it work and separated…"

"Ah. So then that would be where our Earth's histories diverged, at least where the two of us are concerned."

"Well, if what you're saying is true, I guess it's a good thing MJ and I didn't stay together. I wouldn't have ever forgiven myself if Scorpion or any of my other enemies had killed her…"

The two continued to swing, as they did passing what they realized was this world's Baxter Building going by the large "4" on the top of it. As they passed it, 761 Spider-Man said: "So...on my Earth, Felicia and I eventually got together. We got married. Are you and your Black Cat…?"

"I don't know." 763 Spider-Man admitted before adding quickly: "I don't know if I'm ready or able to take that next big step…"

"Personally, I think you should marry your Black Cat. I know marrying my Black Cat gave me happiness I never thought I'd have again after losing Gwen and Mary Jane…"

"She has helped me so much, and I do love her a lot." 763 Spider-Man admitted as he and his 761 counterpart continued to swing through the New York of Earth 7853. "...but there are still a few things we need to work out first."

"Whether or not she can accept Peter Parker?"

"No, no we already covered that."

"Need to keep wearing black?"

At this one 763 Spider-Man struggled hard to suppress a laugh before shaking his head and saying: "No, other things. And not all of it is us specifically. Things are a little...hectic, in my world right now. The mood's not exactly good for a wedding."

"Ah. Dark Avengers?"

"How did y-oh, so it happened on your Earth too huh?"

761 Spider-Man nodded. "Yes. Norman Osborn returned, became the Iron Patriot, and for a while everything had gone to hell…"

"Wait, wait: Norman Osborn came back?"

"On my Earth, yes. Ironically, it was the power-struggle between him and Harry that helped bring about the Dark Avenger's collapse. By the end of it all, both of the Osborns were gone for good. And then after that, well...me and Felicia finally decided to make that next step. To officially spend the rest of our lives together." There was a pause before 761 Spider-Man added: "...she's pregnant now."

"Wow. Congratulations."

"Yeah, let's hope I live long enough to become a father." 761 Spider-Man said as he continued to swing, all the while comfortably outpacing his 763 counterpart, who was left amazed with how despite being a little older than him 761 Spider-Man was no less fast. In fact if anything, his age had made him even better. 763 Spider-Man wondered if he would become better with age too and reasoned that he would, at least for a time. Then it would probably start going in the reverse.

"So...do you think it'll be a boy or a girl?"

"We think it will be a boy, but you never know." 761 Spider-Man smiled behind his mask. "Heh, I still remember our trying to figure out what we were going to call him. Wasn't that a fun discussion."

"What did you choose?"

"Well, Mike didn't work. Walter was the name of Felicia's father, but I didn't think that would work for any son of ours. Victor was a no-no too."

"Why's that?"

"Would you name your son after Doctor Doom?"

"Touche." 763 Spider-Man said with a nod as he and 761 Spider-Man finished their swing and stopped on a nearby rooftop. As they did, they looked out at the majestic, dazzling and sparkling metropolis that was this world's New York.

"Really is a beautiful place." 763 Spider-Man noted.

761 Spider-Man nodded. "Yes, it is. Very beautiful. I only wish the child Felicia and I bring into the world could grow up in a place like this."

"Home as is not too good I take it?" 763 Spider-Man asked.

"Well, it's not abysmal. But it's nothing like this place. I mean, you can't even see any litter on the ground, I haven't heard a single police siren all day, Carnage is a good guy here...it's just nice."

"Sort of makes you wonder what you and me could have done with cosmic powers like our counterpart's huh?"

"To be honest, I don't think I'd want that kind of power. I believe it's too much for any one man, at least any one man like me. When Mary Jane died I was so lost. And I almost murdered the man responsible. And I wanted it to hurt too. I wanted him to suffer, not just die. With that in mind, I don't think I'm cut out for those kinds of powers…"

"I feel for ya, I do." 763 Spider-Man said. "It was the same with me when Gwen died. And then I got the symbiote not long after. I almost became Venom. Not exactly a bright spot on my resume."

"So you see; you and me probably aren't the kind of people that can be trusted with absolute power, especially when we know what the saying for it is…"

"Do you think Captain Universe us might go crazy one day?"

"It's possible." 761 Spider-Man admitted before adding: "...although I did ask him about that myself."

"You just asked him?"

"Subtlety's not really my strong suit anymore." 761 Spider-Man admitted before adding: "...and he said he'd taken that into account. He says that if he ever steps out of line certain powerful people from on high will banish him to an alternate reality, and then he'll lose his power."

"Harsh."

"Probably necessary though." 761 Spider-Man pointed out. "A man with that power who lost it could turn this…" 761 Spider-Man pointed to the city. "...from a heaven on Earth into hell. I can understand the desire for precautions…"

"Gentlemen."

The two spiders turned to see Agent Spider fly up to them on his jetpack and then descend.

"Hey Spider-Fett." 763 Spider-Man greeted in a lightly mocking tone.

"Agent Spider." the armored man replied humorlessly before saying: "Captain Universe has detected a disturbance, and he's summoning everyone back."

The two Spider-Men nodded. "Lead the way." 763 Spider-Man said. Agent Spider turned around and took off on his jetpack, and the two Spider-Men followed him via web-lines.

"For whatever it's worth…" 763 Spider-Man said as the two continued their swing. "...I hope you live to see your child."

761 Spider-Man nodded. "Me too. Me too…"

Earth 53610

Rachel sighed as she looked at the framed photo of herself and her brother Ari smiling and hugging one another. It had been two years ago, before Rachel had gone to the fateful exhibit that saw her bit by a very special spider. It was on her thirteenth birthday, when her brother had gone out of his way to get Rachel the comic books she wanted the most.

As she continued to look at the photo, and in particular focusing on the smiling face of her lost brother, Rachel's mind flashed back to the fateful night when she had let a shifty looking man run past her…

"Mom, dad, what's going on?"

"Rachel, it's terrible. Someone's taken your brother…"

"Who?"

"They don't know, but they think they've found the kidnapper's vehicle. It's heading south on fifth avenue."

No sooner had she heard this did Rachel wait until she was out of sight and then change into her Spider-Girl costume. As she took to the air on web-lines, she vowed that she'd find her brother. She'd save him from whoever had taken him, and then make the kidnappers pay. That was the promise she made herself that night when she went off swinging after the suspected vehicle...

"Rachel, can you please take the trash out back?" came the voice of her father, which shook her out of her thoughts and memories of the past.

"Yes dad." Rachel said, before leaving her room and then going off to do as she was told. As she went around to the back of her house and got rid of the trash bag though, an unfamiliar voice from behind got her attention.

"Excuse me."

Rachel turned around and gasped upon seeing what looked like an older man wearing a male version of her Spider-Girl costume.

"...but you wouldn't happen to know where we could find a spider-person around here, would you?"

"Who...who are you?"

"Spider-Man." he said before adding: "...one of them anyway. And I'm pretty sure you're another one...or Spider Girl as it were."

Rachel's heart quickened and her eyes widened. "H-how did you…? You need to leave! If my parents…"

"Rachel, is everything alright?" came the voice of Rachel's mother.

Spider-Man nodded. "Meet me in Central Park." he said, before running off. No sooner was he gone did Rachel go back inside her house, concocted a story to her parents about how she was going to be out for a while, and then made her way out of Queens. After putting some distance between herself and her house, Rachel changed back into her Spider-Girl costume and went to Central Park. When she got there, she attracted quite a bit of attention but saw no sign of the Spider-Man. But then next thing she knew she wasn't in Central Park anymore but instead someplace else, someplace on top of a building.

"What just happened?" Spider-Girl asked as she looked about frantically.

"Calm yourself. I just teleported you to this rooftop so we'd be less likely to be disturbed."

"Who are you?" Spider-Girl demanded as she eyed Spider-Strange warily.

"A friend. Same as me." Came the voice of the Spider-Man from before, who showed up along with Silk and the others.

"What is going on?" Spider-Girl asked. "Why are there suddenly so many other spider-people running around? And none of you asked if you could shamelessly ride off my coattails either."

"We're not from around actually." explained the Scarlet Spider. "We're from different earths and have ended up stuck on yours for the moment. It's a good thing we found you though, because there's something really nasty out for all of our heads, and yours too."

"Why?"

"Because you're a spider-totem."

"A what?"

The conversation was interrupted by the sound of cackling that Spider-Girl for one knew quite well. And indeed, looking up she saw the all-too familiar sight of the Green Goblin flying into view on his glider, only this time he wasn't alone. Flying in with him was another goblin figure, and teleporting into view and dropping down from above were more of Karn's soldiers.

"What the heck?"

"Bad guys. That's all you need to know." Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman said bluntly just as Karn's soldiers all opened fire and the various spiders moved away to avoid their shots. Spider-Strange and the Dark Daemon engaged one another without delay, slinging projectiles back and forth like they usually did. The Dark Daemon also unleashed punishing jets of faltine fire, but Spider-Strange conjured up a sigil to protect himself from the flames. For his part, the Green Goblin of Spider-Girl's world went after her personally.

"I've come back with friends!" the Green Goblin boasted as he hurled a pumpkin bomb in Spider-Girl's direction. Spider-Girl avoided it easily and returned fire with some webbing that the Green Goblin dodged just as easily.

"Ari, stop!" Spider-Girl shouted.

"Ari?"

"He's my brother." Spider-Girl explained wearily before dodging more of the Green Goblin's projectiles.

"Oh."

"It's not his fault." Spider-Girl explained as she dodged more gunfire before kicking two of Karn's soldiers backwards. "He was turned into that against his will. He's sick, and he needs help…"

"Oh please. I've never felt better!" the Green Goblin said with manic glee as he hurled another pumpkin bomb. Once again his attack was avoided.

"Who are these bozos anyway?" Spider-Girl asked as she kicked another of Karn's soldiers back.

"Henchmen for a Multiversal Sinister Six I think." Silk said as she and her husband worked together to take down three more. "There's even more of these idiots helping that Sinister Six fight another army of Spiders right now."

"Wait, there's even more spider people out there?" Spider-Girl asked, her surprise leaving her open to a shot from another solider before Kumo severed his gun with his katana before then kicking him back.

"Keep your head in the game kid." Ben Reilly Spider-Man said as he took down another soldier. "There will be time for 20 Questions later."

Meanwhile, Spider-Strange and the Dark Daemon continued their deadly dance above, spells and mystic fire going back and forth and with each one creating force fields and sigils to block anything and everything that wasn't straight up dodged.

"So where's your new master?" Spider-Strange challenged as he unleashed more Bolts of the Balthakk that the Dark Daemon straight up shrugged off as he continued to bear down on his hated foe.

"Oh don't worry, he'll be along in his own good time. Not that you'll live to see it!"

The Dark Daemon cackled and began hurling more Hellfire Bombs. Spider-Strange avoided these before returning fire. "Karn's clone won't serve you any better than Dormammu did."

"Please! Like you could ever beat him without your old master's help! You're just sore that we can take you by surprise now! That little spider-sense of yours doesn't do you any good anymore!" Again, the Dark Daemon cackled as he and Spider-Strange exchanged projectiles.

"How did he do it?" Spider-Strange demanded. "How did Karn's clone figure out how to counteract our spider-senses?"

Once more, the Dark Daemon cackled. "Like I would tell you? Oh, you must be more desperate than I thought!"

Spider-Strange sighed in frustration. It was true. He was desperate. With his men separated and scattered as they were, and with Karn's clone now having an additional edge over them, Spider-Strange found his self-assurance in his own capabilities growing dimmer, even as the Dark Daemon as usual failed to gain any significant ground over him in their fight.

As the magical battle between the two continued though, Spider-Strange realized that if he wasn't in the midst of the battle, then the only other place Karn's clone could be would be…

"No!"

Spider-Strange suddenly lunged for Dark Daemon, a move the fiend was clearly not expecting. He managed to evade Spider-Strange before he could be tackled but Spider-Strange shot out a strand of mystic webbing that latched onto the Dark Daemon before then vanishing with him in tow.

"What just happened?" the married Spider-Man said as he dodged razor bats from the Green Goblin.

"I think our most powerful member just abandoned us." Ezekiel said as he dislocated one soldier's arm and then threw him away.

"No, that's not it. I think we might be getting some reinforcements very soon. All we need to do is hang in."

"Let's hope so." Scarlet Spider said in response to Silk's statement as he and Spider-Woman kept more of Karn's soldiers at bay via impact webbing and venom blasts.

Earth 6765

"What do you see?"

Superior Spider-Man looked over the feeds being projected to him via his remaining octobots again before answering: "Your Baron Strucker's there alright. Along with well over three dozen Hydra men. In fact, likely twice that number. Remind me again why we're going to be taking them all on?"

"Because it's the right thing to do." American Spider said simply.

Superior Spider-Man sighed at this but said nothing, recognizing as he did that it would be a useless gesture to do so. Instead, he continued to analyze the scene presented to him by his octobots.

"Well...they're lining the condemned up right now." Superior Spider-Man tapped the side of his head to turn on his communicator. "Is everyone in position?"

All of the other spiders answered "yes" on the communicators Superior Spider-Man had given them. Nodding in approval at this, Superior Spider-Man turned to American Spider: "When Strucker tells his men to raise their weapons, everyone will be attacking at once. Our vision will be blocked along with everyone else's, so I hope you can fight blind."

American Spider nodded. "Absolutely."

"Alright then…" Superior Spider-Man turned back to his feeds to witness the scene in front of him. It was a long line of men and women, easily numbering over a dozen, who judging by the blue of their uniforms and the logo were agents of this world's SHIELD. In front of them and off to the side was Baron von Strucker.

"See before you your protectors, cast down by our force of will and power! See those you trusted with your lives and how they have failed you! And see them now pay the price for their failure! See them die for daring to resist the will of Hydra! This city is ours now, your whole country is ours now! And soon, the whole world will be as well! Let their deaths be the first of many in our conquest!"

But as the Hydra soldiers raised their rifles, it was then that Superior Spider-Man made his move. Taking out a flahbang, Superior Spider-Man hurled it into the waiting crowds of Hydra soldiers just as web-lines from above latched onto the rifles of the Hydra soldiers facing the SHIELD captives and yanked them into the air and out of their wielder's hands. Looking up, these men saw the Six-Armed Spider-Man with multiple web-lines coming out of each and every one of his arms. The Hydra agents had almost no time to register the sight before Six-Armed Spider-Man leaped down and right into the now unarmed Hydra agents, who didn't last long against him.

Superior Spider-Man's flashbang meanwhile, had done it's job as far as disorienting the other Hydra agents went, and he followed it up with another. Many of the Hydra agents fired blindly while the spiders all moved in, each one dropping down and attacking from a different direction. The brightness of the flashbangs forced all of the Spider-Men to close their eyes, but this did little to hinder them when their Spider-Sense served as a guiding hand through the darkness.

"Now I know how Daredevil feels!" Six-Armed Spider-Man noted as he bowled over several more Hydra agents, each swing of multiple arms sending several men flying into the air as all the while he evaded gunfire as it came.

"What is going on!?" Baron Strucker demanded. "Who is responsible for this!?"

His answer was a shield that hit him square in the chest and impacted with such force he was sent backwards and tumbling along the ground. Instinctively taking out his gun, Strucker fired blindly, but his bullets hit nothing. Another shield-throw disarmed him of his firearm, and it was as the flashbangs slowly began to clear that Strucker saw the shield fly back to a red gloved hand.

"No! Impossible! You're dead! I saw you die myself back in 1945…"

But then, as the flashbangs cleared completely, the American Spider stepped forward in full and made his presence known.

"So this world's Captain America fell? Then this next one's for him."

And then, before Strucker even knew what was happening American Spider closed the distance, and a red gloved fist rocketed forwards and smashed into his face, obliterating his monocle and sending blood flying out of his nose as he was sent hurtling through the air before sliding across the ground.

Seeing their leader so soundly trounced caused many of the Hydra agents to turn tail and flee as meanwhile Spider-Man 2099 and Superior Spider-Man destroyed the bindings keeping the SHIELD agents restrained, and then gave them some of the fallen Hydra troop's guns. Once this happened, Times Square erupted into chaos as the Hydra troops that stood their ground traded shots with the liberated SHIELD agents. All the while the different Spider-Men bounced back and forth from Hydra soldier to Hydra soldier, until then out of nowhere came a green colored blur that hit Spider-Man 2099 so hard he knocked him backwards.

The newcomer was dressed in a green uniform that along with the red skull with snakes logo on the shoulder clearly identified him as being of Hydra origin. The blood colored spider logo on the front and the design of the mask however, also suggested…

"So many pretenders, so little time to kill them all." the Hydra Spider-Man said, shaking his head as he did before then zipping after Spider-Man Noir. Noir Spider-Man opened fire on him with his revolver, using up the last of his shots as he did. The Hydra aligned Spider-Man avoided them easily before closing the distance, kicking the gun out of Noir Spider-Man's hand, and then laying into him. Noir Spider-Man tried to stand and fight, but Hydra Spider-Man struck too hard and fast for him, sending him tumbling along the ground before then closing the distance between them again. Noir Spider-Man struck out with his arm, but Hydra Spider-Man grabbed it and struck hard in the shoulder area. Noir Spider-Man screamed in pain before the Hydra aligned Spider-Man turned around and put his counterpart into a headlock.

Before he could snap his neck, American Spider's shield zipped through the air before then going right at Hydra Spider-Man's head. The man in green ducked just in time to avoid it, and Noir Spider-Man fired a mess of webbing right at him. Hydra Spider-Man let go of Noir Spider-Man as he fought to tear the webbing off, but this left him vulnerable to the recoil of American Spider's shield, which struck him in the back and sent him tumbling along. Finally freeing himself from the web net as this happened, the Hydra Spider-Man stood back up as American Spider reclaimed his shield and readied himself.

"I have to say, of all the other spiders I've seen, you disgust me the most."

"Feeling's mutual." the Hydra Spider-Man spat before adding: "...but there's only one Spider, and I'm it!"

The Spider lunged at American Spider, but he avoided his Hydra doppelganger easily and then spun around to meet him in hand-to-hand, trading blows with him at superhuman speed. The Spider shot web bullets at him but American Spider caught those on his shield, before then moving in again. The two sent punches and kicks back and forth for a time, each one dodging or parrying that which the other had to dish out.

American Spider tossed his shield, but this time the Spider was ready and evaded both the initial throw and the return. As American Spider caught his shield he held it out to block more web bullets fired at him by the Spider, before then striking out with his shield and hitting the Spider so hard he knocked him backwards. The Spider got back up quickly and came at his patriotic counterpart once again, this time with a knife drawn. American Spider parried both his knife stabs and also kicks that the other man inserted into his assault. American Spider responded with kicks of his own, before then engaging his counterpart in a grapple. The grapple held for only a moment before both men let go, American Spider then kicking his foe back as he released his grip on him.

The Spider came at him again, launching his fist at American Spider as he did. The hero took the blow on his shield, and then advanced again. Spinning after blocking another knife stab, American Spider turned and brought his shield down on the Spider, who held out his arm to meet it. The Spider grunted as the metal shield impacted his arm, but he pressed on anyway.

"Looks like we found this world's spider-totem." Spider-Man 2099 noted off-handedly as he evaded shots from Hydra grunts that he then downed via either superhuman punches or kicks or alternatively, slashes from his claws.

"Doesn't look like a friendly to me." Six Armed Spider-Man said as he continued to plow through any and all Hydra grunts who dared to come near him.

"Well, I guess they couldn't all be heroes." Ultimate Spider-Man noted as he leaped over a spray of machine gun fire before then landing feet-first onto the shooter, which brought him down.

As the fight continued though, a web-like tunnel opened up, something the various spiders all knew could mean only one thing. Sure enough, out of the tunnel came Karn's clone, and several of his soldiers. The latter opened fire on Hydra and SHIELD agents alike, cutting down several before the spiders unleashed webbing on them and turned their attentions to them. Karn's clone meanwhile went straight for the Superior Spider-Man, who managed to move out of the way in time just as Karn's polearm came lunging down. The glowing red top embedded itself in the concrete ground and went right through it, and when Karn's clone pulled it out, a good bit of the ground came out along with it. Karn's clone swung his polearm out in a sweeping arc, but Superior Spider-Man ducked under it and backpedaled on his spider-limbs.

Meanwhile, American Spider broke off his attack on the Spider. "Listen to me: you need to stop."

"Oh, you'd like that wouldn't you?" The Spider said before lunging at American Spider again, who dived to the side to avoid him.

"I'm serious. That man in the helmet's trying to kill us all, and that includes you. He's an enemy to both of us!"

The Spider paused as he seemed to consider this for a moment. Turning to look at Karn's clone, he found himself fleeing when Karn's clone first returned his gaze and then sped at him. The Spider tried to web-swing to safety, but Karn's clone hurled another of his throwing blades at the web-line, severing it and causing the Spider to fall. American Spider hurled his shield at Karn's clone to stop his advance, but Karn's clone deflected it with a strike from his polearm and sent it flying away. The Spider tried to flee, but Karn's clone gave chase, bearing down on him without mercy.

"You want a spider to kill? Try one of them instead!" the Spider shouted before shooting a web-line at Ultimate Spider-Man.

"Hey, what are you doing!?" Ultimate Spider-Man called out in horror as the Spider pulled on his web-line and sent Ultimate Spider-Man flying backwards and towards him. The Spider then grabbed Ultimate Spider-Man and threw him into the path of Karn's clone.

"Nothing personal shrimp, but I like myself too much."

As the Spider said this, Karn's clone lunged at Ultimate Spider-Man polearm extended. Ultimate Spider-Man braced himself for the end, but a shield to the back of Karn's clone's helmet turned his attentions to American Spider.

"You've kept me from my kills for the last time shieldbearer." Karn's clone said before running at American Spider polearm in hand. American Spider braced himself and caught each strike on his shield as it came. As this fight happened though, Spider-Strange appeared with the Dark Daemon still in tow. No sooner did they arrive however did the Dark Daemon free himself and shoot out a punishing blast of green colored fire at Spider-Strange, the jet of flame hitting him so hard he went rocketing down to the ground and leaving a crater where his body impacted. Spider-Strange levitated off the ground after suffering this blow seemingly unfazed, and then turned to the other spiders: "All of you to me! We're leaving this place!"

Nodding, the various Spider-Men all made their way over to Spider-Strange's position, all the while evading more gunfire shot at them by both Hydra agents and Karn's soldiers. The Spider made his way to them as well, but as he closed in on the other's position around Spider-Strange, Superior Spider-Man whacked him with one of his mechanical spider limbs, the force of the blow knocking him back.

"What the hell?"

"Not you. I saw what you did. I'm not trusting a back-stabbing sociopath."

"But wait! I-"

The Spider was cut off when Karn's clone came at him from behind and the Spider dived to avoid him. As he did, the other spiders took that as their moment to at last vanish.

"Damn it all. Cheated out of my feast once again." Karn's clone turned to look at the Spider. "...but I suppose you'll do for an appetizer."

"No wait, stay back! No, No!"

Karn's clone grasped his polearm tightly and lunged forwards. Mere moments later, his appetite had been sated...for a little while.

Earth 53610

When Spider-Strange returned with the other spiders in tow, he was greeted to a rooftop filled with unconscious armored men, and all of the spiders standing over them triumphant.

"Well, that's the last of them, finally. Must have been over a hundred of these guys...:"

"Where's the Green Goblin?" Spider-Strange questioned, not seeing him among the piles of Karn's soldiers.

"Flew off once he realized he was on the losing side." Spider-Girl explained before adding: "...I take it there's more of these guys coming?"

Spider-Strange nodded. "Unfortunately yes. And in fact, they may be here very soon. I need to find the others and bring them here as soon as I can."

"I can see you found some of them already." Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman noted.

"Yes. I'll teleport you all to a new location, but then I need to go. I've finally found where the others are located."

Earth 7853

No sooner had the other Spider-Men returned to Captain Universe Spider-Man's headquarters did 763 Spider-Man ask what the problem was.

"My cosmic awareness in conjunction with my spider-sense is acting up. Something's coming our way, and it will be here very soon."

"Then I guess it's clobbering time." 763 Spider-Man said, which prompted all of the others to turn and look at him.

"...okay, I admit that was kind of cheap."

"No need to get too alarmed. With my power, I should be able to fend off anything the Inheritors throw at us short of the one who killed my Earth 13 counterpart."

"Let's hope so. If you can't beat them back, then I'm definitely wondering what chance the rest of us have…"

As Spectacular Spider-Man said this, Black Cat turned to 763 Spider-Man and whispered: "Hey Spider, I've been wondering: that one in the blue armor who never takes his helmet off. Who is he anyway? I mean, I sort of understand what the deal is with these other spiders, but who's he supposed to be?"

"Honestly, I don't know." 763 Spider-Man admitted. "I met him when I was in an alternate future of our own earth. And soon to be actual future if we don't keep events from happening in our world that happened in that one."

"And that's if we even live long enough to get back home." Black Cat pointed out.

"Yeah, if." 763 Spider-Man said before adding with a sigh: "So, so many ifs…"

"Well, there is a bit of good news." Bruce Banner Spider-Man said: "I've finally made a new gamma radiation solution. With this, we can put into action our original plan where stopping Karn's clone is concerned."

"Good to know." 761 Spider-Man said before adding: "...but let's focus on what's coming our way right now first."

"About that…" Captain Universe Spider-Man said, his eyes glowing brightly as he levitated. "I sense something coming closer. In fact, it's about here."

"Everyone get ready!" Agent Spider said, drawing his firearms as the other spiders all entered fighting stances. What appeared however, turned out to be Spider-Strange.

"Ah, it's you. I thought I recognized a mystic nature to what was coming."

"There's no time to waste. The others are already gathered on Earth 53610. Karn's clone and his followers will be going there next, which means we all need to go there as well." He turned to Bruce Banner Spider-Man: "Do you still have the gamma radiation solution?"

Bruce Banner Spider-Man nodded. "Made a new one."

"Good, then we move out now."

Earth 53610

When the remaining spiders arrived on Earth 53610, they saw the other spiders all gathered and waiting for them. No sooner did they all arrive did Captain Universe Spider-Man remark: "It's as I suspected. I can no longer sense the presence of the Uni-Power as anything but a faint whisper. I'm back to my old self in essence." He raised an arm and shot out a web-line. "...but hopefully, my being out of practice for so long won't condemn me in the end. Only one way to find out I suppose."

"So, do we have everyone assembled?" American Spider asked. Spider-Strange nodded as he used his magic to fix Spider-Woman's shredded glider wing. "Yes. This is everyone. Karn's clone and his forces will probably be here any minute, so we need to be ready for when they arrive."

"Hard to be ready when they can counter our spider-senses…" the Six Armed Spider-Man said.

"I tried to figure out how they could do that, but as always the Dark Daemon was...unhelpful."

"So we just sit here and wait for them to jump on all of us?" Spider-Girl demanded.

"Actually, at this point, yes. That's all we really can do. We can't just keep running. Karn's clone will follow us wherever we try to hide. And even if by some miracle we evaded him there's the rest of his family to consider. We need to stand and fight."

"And we're doing it here? In my home city?"

"Look at it this way." the Superior Spider-Man said: "If you die, at least it's in your own home."

Spider-Girl sighed deeply. "I guess…"

"Way to inspire the rookie." 558 Spider-Man said sarcastically before turning to Spider-Girl and saying: "Relax. It may not look it, but we do have a plan. Most of these guys are either villains we've all fought and defeated before, or the kind of brain-dead mooks that we eat for breakfast. The only real problem is Karn's clone, and if we can weaken him, Spider-Strange can imprison him with his magic."

"How do we weaken him?"

"I have a power-dampener that can null his powers, or else decrease them. And another of our group intends to poison him via gamma radiation. Between the two of us, we can likely weaken him enough."

"I hope so…"

As Bruce Banner Spider-Man heard this, he sighed deeply, which in turn prompted 763 Spider-Man to walk over to him. "You alright?"

Bruce Banner Spider-Man sighed again before saying: "To be honest, I'm getting a bit of, shall we say, stage-fright. So much of this depends on me and my solution. What if it gets destroyed again? What if I fail? I will have let everyone down…"

763 Spider-Man placed a hand on his shoulder encouragingly. "Don't worry. We've all got your back. We'll be helping you the whole way."

Bruce Banner Spider-Man nodded before turning to look out at the other spiders, all gathered together and many of them busy having what might be their last conversations with each-other. "You know, I wasn't able to help my world's Peter Parker. After he became the Hulk, I...I never did manage to cure him. He died against Galactus. I failed him." he turned to look right at 763 Spider-Man. "I don't want to fail again. Now there are so many Peter Parkers in front of me. And I don't want to lose anymore of them."

"Me neither." 763 Spider-Man said before adding: "...especially not yours truly."

Bruce Banner Spider-Man made a soft chuckle at this before saying: "You know...no one's ever expected much out of me. My father despised me, Ross thought I was a weakling, even Betty barely noticed me before I became Spider-Man. And now that I've got so much resting on my shoulders, it feels, well...it's not quite what I expected."

"You'll do the Spider-Man costume proud. I know it."

Bruce Banner Spider-Man nodded. "I sure hope so. If this fails, I won't get a second chance to prove myself."

It was then that one of Superior Spider-Man's remaining octobots suddenly perked up before opening fire in a direction behind the spiders. Sure enough, the lasers fired from the octobot struck several of Karn's soldiers before they could fire their guns, which also prompted all of the spiders to turn to face them. And as they did, they could see clearly a large web tunnel appear, and from it come Karn's clone, dozens upon dozens of his soldiers, and several supervillains.

"I have no interest in prisoners." Karn's clone said coldly. "Slay them all."

New supervillains were present this time around though. Besides the ones from before, there were now four others, one woman and three men.

The woman dressed in a black catsuit with a familiar logo on the belt, as well as equally familiar devices worn over the wrists. A black ops type mask and goggles covered her face though, with only a small red ponytail coming out of the back exposed.

The other three were each a sight as well. One dressed in commando gear of some kind, with bullet straps worn over his breastplate and wrist-mounted machine guns that he activated with a clicking sound. He too wore goggles and a black mask over his face.

The second man dressed similarly to the first, but with a trenchcoat worn over his armor and a fedora worn over his head. He also had not goggles over his eyes but instead one single targeting scope. In his hands he held some kind of cylindrical device that was black and gray in color. And finally, the third man was more monster, resembling an upright, humanoid...ox.

"I'm going to go out on a limb and assume those new faces are an evil Black Widow and some beefed up Enforcers." 763 Spider-Man said, right before the army of villains and soldiers charged, and the spiders in turn rushed forwards to meet them. The forest both parties were in soon became filled with the sounds of intense fighting and battle, and nearby trees were often smashed to splinters or knocked down by the variety of powers, projectiles, and superhuman punches and kicks that were thrown about in every direction.

Most everyone picked a different foe to face. Kumo drew his katana and clashed blades with the alternate Taskmaster. Kaine evaded Boomerang's namesakes before closing the distance and pummeling him. Six Armed Spider-Man engaged his Doctor Octopus, same as before.

Then the alternate Black Widow and Enforcers entered the scene, the group of them going after the 763 spider-totems. The alternate Fancy Dan opened fire with his wrist-mounted machine guns while the alternate Ox knocked down trees in his single-minded pursuit of Scarlet Spider, who did what he could to avoid him. As for Montana, he held out his black and gray cylinder, and out came a glowing purple whip, the whole weapon giving off sparks and flickering, but still very much functional, as demonstrated when a single attack from it severed a tree right in two.

"Great, that Montana's got a light-whip."

"A what?"

"From Star Wars." 763 Spider-Man explained to Black Cat as they both dodged attacks from it.

"I thought they were lightsabers…"

"There's also a light whip." 763 Spider-Man explained before adding after a pause: "It's not in the movies."

Black Cat said nothing, instead just continuing to keep away from Montana's laser-whip, knowing any one hit from it would be beyond even her special catsuit's ability to shrug off.

"What? I'm serious. Light whips are a real thing. Look it up."

"Maybe a little later when we're not fighting for our lives?" Scarlet Spider suggested as he leaped over another charge from Ox and also dodged gunfire from Fancy Dan's wrist-mounted machine guns.

"Touche." 763 Spider-Man said before dodging another strike from Montana's laser whip before closing the distance, ducking under a swing from the laser-whip, and then punching Montana right in his targeting lens. His punch managed to crack it and send Montana flying backwards. Seeing this, Ox let out a roar and charged towards 763 Spider-Man. However, Kaine tackled the brute and began to wrestle with him. This didn't last long before Ox began to overpower Kaine and smash him into a nearby tree so hard he nearly broke it in two.

"Bastard's tougher than he looks." Kaine noted before punching Ox in the jaw, and then doing it several more times before then kicking him off.

"Can still hurt him though."

Meanwhile, as 558 Spider-Man attacked Montana, 763 Spider-Man made his way towards Fancy Dan, who backpedaled and opened fire with his wrist-mounted machine guns. 763 Spider-Man dodged the first spray by swinging into the air, and then dropping down on Fancy Dan. Fancy Dan raised his machine gun into the air and unloaded, but 763 Spider-Man continued to dodge every bullet as he descended, even as he got closer and closer into range. Finally right in front of Fancy Dan, 763 Spider-Man shot webbing into his machine guns to jam them, and then webbed up his arms for good measure. A punch to the face was all it took after that.

"When will they ever learn? No Tracer rounds means I don't get shot. Period."

For her part, Black Cat came under attack from the villainous Black Widow, who wasted no time engaging her in brutal close-quarters martial arts, using a mix of ninjitsu and savate moves to counter Black Cat's karate.

"Is this a joke?" the villainous Black Widow asked contemptuously as she continued to trade blows with Black Cat before adding: "I came here to kill spiders, not a cat."

Black Cat responded by punching Black Widow right in the face, which caused her head to snap back. Black Cat followed this up with a sweeping kick that knocked Black Widow to the ground. She tried to then drive her heel into Black Widow, but she rolled to avoid it.

"From the looks of things, I'm more than you can handle."

Black Widow held out her hands and a stinger popped out of each of her gloves. "Don't flatter yourself." she said coldly before going at Black Cat again. 763 Spider-Man was all set to move in and help her when his spider-sense alerted him to an attack from Scorpion, who he barely managed to avoid. Scorpion went smashing through a fallen tree before then turning around to face 763 Spider-Man, tail extended.

As 763 Spider-Man engaged Scorpion and Black Cat Black Widow, Scarlet Spider and Kaine busied themselves with bringing down Ox, with one dodging while the other attacked and then alternating whenever Ox changed opponents. This continued for a while, before all of the many attacks being sent Ox's way began to stagger him and cause him to flail about. His ever-swinging arms were no less dangerous though.

Elsewhere still other spiders fought tooth and nail against the remainder of Karn's clone's forces. Kumo remained locked in a sword duel with the alternate Taskmaster, and Spider-Strange as always fought against the Dark Daemon, the two's aerial battle taking them high above the forest the others fought in. Also up in the air where Agent Spider and Vulture 2099, the two flying around each-other as Spider-Strange and the Dark Daemon went at it once again.

"How many more times must we do this dance?" Spider-Strange wondered as he continued to fight his arch nemesis.

"Oh, don't worry. Once you die along with the other yous, you won't have to worry about us meeting ever again!"

Back down below, Black Cat continued her fight with Black Widow. The latter managed to grab Black Cat and hurl her over her head. Black Cat went tumbling but then shot out a kick that hit Black Widow hard enough to damage her goggles and send her reeling. Black Cat surged forwards and began getting Black Widow into a Judo grapple. Black Widow managed to break free of this grapple, but Black Cat parried her counterattacks and then responded with more Judo moves. This time, Black Widow wasn't able to fend her off, and after one last takedown move, Black Widow stayed down...or so it seemed. Grabbing a knife, Black Widow tried to slam it into Black Cat's ankle, but the blade didn't go through all the way. Black Cat smiled.

"It's called a durability-enhancing suit honey." And then, with one last kick right to the face Black Cat knocked Black Widow out before smiling.

"Wow. First Sabertooth, now Black Widow. This kitty's on a roll!"

As all of this was happening, Karn's clone was going after different spiders periodically, but all of them knew better than to engage him up close, instead giving him a wide berth. Karn's clone though took notice of Kumo continuing his sword-fight with Taskmaster and surged towards him. Seeing this, Ultimate Spider-Man shouted out a warning: "Kumo, look out!"

The Ninja Spider-Man turned in time to meet Karn's polearm. He knocked it to the side with his katana and then tried to duel Karn's clone outright, but the Inheritor severed the katana blade with one swing from his polearm, which he then drove right into Kumo's chest.

"No!" Ultimate Spider-Man shouted as Kumo fell, swinging to confront Karn's clone. Taskmaster tried to get him from behind but American Spider downed him with a shield throw. As Ultimate Spider-Man dived down to face Karn's clone though, the Inheritor grabbed him by the leg and slammed him down hard into the ground. Ultimate Spider-Man tried to free his leg but it was no use. Extending his own, Karn's clone pressed a foot down hard on one of Ultimate Spider-Man's arms, which caused him to cry out in pain.

"You're a young totem, but you'll do…"

But before Karn's clone could bring his polearm down, Superior Spider-Man had his octobots open fire on Karn's clone from behind. Karn's clone whipped around to the source of the shots and then hurled throwing blades at the Superior Spider-Man. He dodged these projectiles before then going right at Karn's Clone, striking out with one of his robot spider limbs. Karn's clone severed it with another swing from his polearm before then kicking Superior Spider-Man back. He stabbed down with his polearm but Superior Spider-Man's remaining mechanical limbs crossed one another to shield him from the stab. The limbs gave off sparks as the tips of Karn's polearm damaged them and began to eat away at their metal and circuits. Before Karn's clone could finish though, Bruce Banner Spider-Man charged Karn's clone and tackled him, pushing him away from Superior Spider-Man, but prompting Karn's clone to then grab him by the throat with his free hand. He hoisted Bruce Banner Spider-Man aloft, but Superior Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man, and the Spider couple all fired webbing at Karn's other arm to keep him from thrusting with his polearm, all of them tugging with all of their might to keep that arm at bay.

"No matter. I'll simply suck your life force dry instead. You should have known you couldn't take me by your lonesome! You-" But as Karn's clone said this, also siphoning Bruce Banner Spider-Man's life force in the process, he stopped mid-sentence, before then finding himself coughing a bit. When he tried to clear his throat, he just coughed more, until soon he was gagging violently and released his grip on Bruce Banner Spider-Man, who wasted no time putting distance between himself and Karn's clone.

"Hggru-aaackkk-HUAK!"

Karn's clone was now spasming, and fell to his knees, clutching his polearm tightly as he tried to use it to get himself back on his feet again.

"Gamma radiation." Bruce Banner Spider-Man explained. "Guess you Inheritors have a weakness after all."

Eyes lighting up with murderous fury behind his helmet, Karn's clone lunged towards Bruce Banner Spider-Man, but he was already gone by the time the poisoned Karn's clone reached him.

"Now!" Bruce Banner Spider-Man shouted.

Hearing the call, Superior Spider-Man closed the distance between himself and Karn's clone. Karn's clone hurled some throwing blades, but the gamma radiation poisoning his veins threw off his aim and Superior Spider-Man avoided him easily. As he closed the distance between them, he activated his power-dampener. When he did, a bluish colored wave of energy burst forth out of the device as though it had been an electromagnetic pulse. Karn's clone gasped in pain as he collapsed once more. Superior Spider-Man kicked him backwards and Karn's clone went tumbling.

"No power plus poison in your veins makes for a bad combination I'd imagine." Superior Spider-Man observed calmly as he watched Karn's clone spasm and cough violently as he struggled to get up.

"If...if you...think...these tricks of deceit you have concocted...will lay me low…"

"Maybe not by themselves, but this probably will." As Bruce Banner Spider-Man said this, he punched Karn's clone right in his helmeted head. Karn's clone struck out with one arm but Bruce Banner Spider-Man ducked under this sloppy attack with little trouble. What followed this was an attack from each of the other spiders in turn, who came to focus all of their efforts on him.

As this happened, Six Armed Spider-Man finally overcame Doctor Octopus, three arms each taking one of his mechanical limbs in hand and pulling with all their might. The two arms came off, and Doctor Octopus cried out in pain before Six Armed Spider-Man kicked him backwards. At the same time, Captain Universe Spider-Man brought down Ultimate Prowler, Ox finally fell under the combined assault of Scarlet Spider and Kaine, and Spider-Woman flew through a whole row of Karn's soldiers before then firing out a venom blast that American Spider deflected with his shield in such a way that it caused the blast to split and go off in different directions, each beam hitting more of Karn's soldiers.

"Karn's clone is weak!" Superior Spider-Man called out. "Everyone attack him at once!"

Nodding, the now freed up spiders made their way to Karn's clone and each went at him in turn. Karn's clone swung his polearm wildly and thrusted with just as much fervor, but the punishing gamma radiation in his system and his being further weakened by the power dampener ensured that he was hard-pressed to hit any of the spiders at all.

Noir Spider-Man managed to land a hit on him, followed by the two black costumed Spider-Men of Earths 558 and 761 attacking in tandem. Azure Spider moved in, but Karn's clone managed to land a better thrust against him, Azure Spider only barely moving his head out of the way in time. Even so, the glowing red tips of the polearm still scraped against Azure Spider's blue helmet, slicing right through the metal and all but splitting it open, which forced Azure Spider to tear it off as he backpedaled.

But this proved to be a small reprieve for Karn's clone, who soon came under attack by the other spiders. Spectacular Spider-Man tripped him via webbing, and then Spider-Girl delivered a spinning kick to his helmet, followed by Six-Armed Spider-Man laying into him with all six of his limbs, multiple punches striking him rapid-fire. American Spider leaped up and then down, slamming his shield into Karn's clone's helmet so hard he left a bad, snaking crack in it's side. He followed this up with strikes from both his shield and feet that sent Karn's clone right into the path of Captain Universe Spider-Man, who kicked him square in the helmet. Ultimate Spider-Man swung in from above, kicking him in the chest and backwards. Spider-Man 2099 lunged forwards and slashed at him with his claws, shredding part of his clothes, and, to Karn's clone's astonishment, causing him to bleed.

Scarlet Spider performed a web-zip kick on him that knocked him back further, followed by Spider-Woman hitting him with a sustained venom blast. Karn's clone cried out in pain as the venom blast melted and burned away most of his shirt and caused his skin to corrode before blasting him backwards.

As Karn's clone staggered to his feet, he saw 763 Spider-Man use webbing to sling-shot towards him, arm outstretched and fist at the ready…

The impact of 763 Spider-Man's fist hitting Karn's clone at the speed that it did caused a loud cracking sound to be heard, before then Karn's clone's helmet outright shattered, splitting into multiple pieces that went flying in different directions as Karn's clone was knocked down and right on his back. And this time, he didn't get back on his feet.

"It's over Karn." Spider-Strange said, descending a bit until he was hovering right above him. One of his hands was raised and aimed at Karn's clone while the other held the defeated Dark Daemon by the cape.

"You...you fools. Defeat me you might, but you will...never stop...my family."

"Sure we will. And either way, you're not going to see it." With a wave of his hand, Spider-Strange summoned forth the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, and used them to bind and restrain the incapacitated form of Karn's clone.

"I'm taking you back to my Sanctum Sangtorum where I will be keeping an eye on you for a very long time."

"I hope my family feasts on your flesh and bones both."

There was a brief moment of silence before Spectacular Spider-Man said: "Okay, show of hands: who wants to punch this guy again?"

-X-

In the aftermath of the battle with Karn's clone and his forces, the spiders gathered up all of the unconscious soldiers and also the defeated supervillains. Spider-Strange used the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak to restrain all of them as he did Karn's clone, before then creating portals to send them all back to their native realities. As this was happening, 763 Spider-Man gave Bruce Banner Spider-Man a pat on the back.

"See? What I'd tell ya? You did good. Without your gamma radiation solution we might never have beaten Karn's clone."

Bruce Banner Spider-Man nodded. "Yes, I'm glad it worked. And...I'm glad I did right by you this time Peter Parker. You don't know how much that means to me."

763 Spider-Man held out his hand for Bruce Banner Spider-Man to shake. "For what it's worth...I think you're world's Peter would be proud of you."

Bruce Banner Spider-Man nodded. "Thank you. That...means a lot."

As the two Spider-Men finished their handshake however, 763 Spider-Man turned to look at the Azure Spider, and saw that he was now unmasked and with his face plainly visible. Intrigued by what he saw, 763 Spider-Man walked over to him.

"So the man of mystery finally shows us all what he looks like." 763 Spider-Man said in a playfully teasing tone.

"Hey, I don't see anyone else here taking off their masks."

"Okay, fair point." 763 Spider-Man said before adding: "Call it old habits." There was a pause before he said as he looked at Azure Spider's exposed face up close, in particular focusing on the green eyes: "You...you look familiar."

"Do I?"

"Yes, you do. You look like...well, me. But not because you're another me...I can tell you're different. Who are you?"

"You know who I am."

"The Azure Spider? Yeah, I mean, who are you underneath that helmet and armor?"

"That you don't need to know."

But as Azure Spider said this, he turned to see Black Cat looking at his face as well. And after a few moments of doing it, she said: "You're my son aren't you?"

"What gives you that impression?"

"You think I don't recognize my own pair of eyes? You...you've got them. My eyes. I can see some of my face in yours too."

At this revelation, Azure Spider averted his gaze from Black Cat and sighed deeply. "Yes, I'm your son. At least yours anyway." He turned to look back at 763 Spider-Man. "Not yours."

"Then if I'm not your father, who is?"

"Another Spider-Man." Azure Spider explained, which caused 763 Spider-Man to realize: "Ben. Ben must have married Black Cat in the world where I died against Carnage…"

"Wait, what?"

763 Spider-Man turned to face Black Cat. "You remember my battle with Carnage two years ago? Well I was supposed to have died then. And Azure here's from a world where I did die. Scarlet Spider became a new Spider-Man, and I guess, well...you and him got together."

"...oh." Black Cat's demeanor became one of great discomfort as she considered a world where she and Spider-Man's clone were together. She realized in that moment that she might not ever look at Scarlet Spider the same way again.

Elsewhere still, Six Armed Spider-Man was talking to 558 Spider-Man: "Well, I guess since Karn's clone didn't actually kill me that means Gwen will when I get back home…"

Six Armed Spider-Man chuckled at that. "Don't worry, I'm sure Gwen will understand."

"Is your Gwen still alive?" 558 Spider-Man asked. Six Armed Spider-Man replied that she was.

"Well, that's good to know. I think your world and mine may be two of the only ones where that's true…"

"And the world where Gwen's one of us." Six Armed Spider-Man said, pointing to the Gwen Stacy Spider-Woman, who was currently talking with Spider-Girl.

"True that." 558 Spider-Man said with a nod before adding: "...you know the one thing that still doesn't make sense though? How did they find a way to…"

"Counteract our Spider Sense? Yeah, turns out it was Doctor Octopus' doing. Should have known."

"How'd you figure that out?"

"Oh, he...let it slip after I held him upside-down long enough."

At this, 558 Spider-Man laughed. "Wish I could have seen the look on his face when he did."

"It was a good one to be sure." Six Armed Spider-Man said with a nod before adding: "...don't tell Superior Spider-Man that though."

Once again, 558 Spider-Man laughed, this time harder than before.

Finally, after all of the villains had been gathered up and returned to their native realities, Spider-Strange faced the whole group of spiders: "Our foe has been defeated. But the ongoing conflict with the Inheritors is not yet concluded. In fact, I sense that it is nearing it's climax right now. That there is a massive event about to occur on a place called 'Loomworld'."

"Loomworld?"

Spider-Strange nodded. "Yes. That is the place where the Spider-Totems and the Inheritors are destined to have their very last battle. And I believe that now that the Inheritor after us specifically has been dealt with, we must stand by our fellows in this last fight. We must help defeat the Inheritors once and for all."

"But we've already won…"

"Our personal battles, yes. But should the Inheritors win at Loomworld, they will come after us all, and where we were able to defeat one Inheritor, against all of them we would surely fall. So therefore, I think it only right that this spider army go to Loomworld to reinforce the other one. This war must be ended there."

"Then it looks like we've got one last fight on our hands." American Spider said before turning to the other spiders. "Everyone ready for it?"

"I am." Captain Universe Spider-Man said with a nod before adding: "Turns out I still got it. I can fight the Inheritors without the Uni-Power on my side."

"Good to know." American Spider said with a nod before turning to the others. "And what about the rest of you?"

"Well, we don't really have much of a choice do we?" Noir Spider-Man said before adding: "I say, let the Inheritors take their best shot at us. I'm ready."

"So am I." said the Six Armed Spider-Man.

"Me as well." came the Bruce Banner Spider-Man, his voice having more confidence than the other times 763 Spider-Man had heard him.

"I think we're all in agreement on this." Silk observed.

"Very well. Then you all will go forth. I will make sure you get there."

"Are you not coming?" Ultimate Spider-Man asked.

Spider-Strange shook his head. "No. I regret having to be absent from a battle involving just about every other Spider-Totem out there still drawing breath, but someone needs to keep an eye on Karn's clone here and make sure he doesn't escape to rejoin his fellows in the final battle. So I must remain in the Sanctum Sangtorum to keep an eye on him."

"Well, if you can somehow make it…"

"I will." Spider-Strange said. "Don't bank everything on my showing up though. The rest of you will need to win this battle on your own."

American Spider nodded. "Very well." he turned to face the other spiders. "Well people, you heard the man. We've still got one last battle to be in before this war's done. Is everyone ready?"

All of the spiders nodded, including 763 Spider-Man, who clutched his Black Cat's hand tightly and held her close to him. She'd been so silent ever since realizing Azure Spider was her son from another world. He feared she wouldn't have her head in the game for when the final battle came. But there was no going back now. Now, the only direction all of the spiders from across the multiverse could go was forwards, to Loomworld.

"Get ready everyone. I imagine things will be pretty hectic down there."

"I bet I can take more of the bastards out then you." Noir Spider-Man said to Superior Spider-Man, who rolled his eyes behind his mask in response. "Let's just see if we can actually survive while we're down there." Superior Spider-Man said.

As this was said, 763 Spider-Man turned to Black Cat and said simply: "In case...in case one or both of us don't make it, I just want you to know: I love you Black Cat."

"And I love you Spider-Man. The only Spider-Man for me."

And so it was, that with one more incantation, Spider-Strange transported the spiders to Earth 001, where the final battle between the Spider-Totems and the Inheritors took place.

Author's Note: And so with my tie-in to Spider-Verse (and longest Spider-Man chapter ever) concluded we are now halfway done with the story. And a lot more epicness is still to come believe it or not. We also have a fair bit of trivia, so let's get started:

1. Antitoxin/Bernard Shaw and Devon Sterns/Agent Spider are OCs. They have no other versions in the Marvel Multiverse. This is also true of the Ninja Spider-Man Kumo, Rachel Kislanski Spider-Girl, and Ari Kislanski Green Goblin.

2. The Hydra Spider-Man (or "The Spider", as he's called) of Earth 6765 is based on how an alternate version of Spider-Man 2099 was briefly brainwashed into working for Hydra while serving as a member of the team known as the Exiles. He also had a green Spider-Man costume that is one of Spider-Man 2099's alternate looks in Edge of Time.

3. Black Cat's beating a HF-less Sabertooth is a tongue-in-cheek reference to how in the actual 616 comics, Black Cat really did beat Sabertooth. But that was very early in the character's existence, back when he didn't even yet have a healing factor and could also be stalemated by Daredevil. It's still considered a somewhat infamous moment for Sabertooth, and I figured I could poke fun at it here. In my Black Cat's defense, it's clear the version of Sabertooth she beat is weaker than the one from her universe, which is also the same reason she beat the alternate Black Widow. Not all versions of characters are equal.

4. As Spider-Man accurately points out, Light Whips are indeed a real thing. At least, real within the context of Star Wars. They're a part of the old Star Wars Expanded Universe, now known as the Legends continuity. Notable wielders include Lumiya the Dark Lady and Githany.