Chapter 14: Women of the Web

May "Mayday" Parker strips and then grabs the red and black spider suit. She slips the pants on and then the top. The boots are easy enough to jump into to. Her gloves fit like the metaphor gloves are used in. The mask is all that is left and she can feel the weight in it that her father held for years.

"Can I save my father?" Mayday asks

Madame Web looks at her with a tilted head. "No. He will die and there will be a new center."

"Am I going to be the center?" she asks making sure her suit is on properly.

"No. Women are never the center and never have been. We are the guardians of the Web. The web warriors if you will. Your brother will be the center. He will be a hunter, if he lives."

Mayday looks at Madame Web in disgust, "If he lives? What the hell is wrong with you? My dad mentioned you. Cindy Moon, Silk right? You were a hero. You saved my life as a child and now you want my father to die."

Cindy interrupts her, "I don't want your father to die. I want him to live, the web demands balance and I have to help it or the multiverse could explode. The entire multiverse! Universes full of people and children. I saw that the day your father murdered Norman Osborn with his own hands. He set this all in motion the day he broke the web."

"Broke the web? You need to get your damn eyes checked. He is still alive and so is my sister. You are a coward!"

Cindy walks toward Mayday and grips her hand, "Listen young spider. Your father is going to die and your brother will become the center. That's that. I can't stop it. You can't stop. Nothing can. You can still stop his killer and that is it."

Cindy has a blue light emit around her hand and Mayday blinks and then is on top of a skyscraper. Mayday looks around and hears explosions near the George Washington Bridge. She hears a cackle that makes her feel sick inside and her father yelling a name. Osborn. She swings to the chaos.

Mary Jane Watson-Parker holds her son on a hotel room bed on the outskirts of New York. She turns her television on and sees all news outlets covering the return of Spider-Man. She holds Ben full of sorrow and kisses his forehead.

Mary Jane tells him, "Daddy is going to be back soon and so is your sister."

She hugs him tightly and instantly is in a tunnel surrounded by paintings of different Spider-People.

Mary Jane knows who did this and is curious why, "Cindy honey, if you wanted to talk just call."

Mary Jane walks out of the tunnel and sees Cindy sitting in her cobweb chair.

"I need your help Mrs. Parker."

"I need my son, daughter, and husband to be safe."

"I will protect your son here with all the power of the web, but it's your daughter who needs your help. Very badly in fact."

Mary Jane thinks back to holding May as a baby, "Did I send her into something terrible? Did I let her commit suicide by being like her father?"

"No. May is fine…. I mean your other… daughter." She says gesturing with her hands to the web of life, "April"

"What?" Mary Jane says completely and utterly confused.

"She is alive. Peter just met her. May knows she lives, but they have their own battle to fight. Yours is with April. You need to win her back. You can have her back."

"What do I do?" Mary Jane says holding back tears.

Cindy has blue light surround Mary Jane and says, "Go home."

Anya Corazon barely can breathe with rocks still crushing her chest. No Miles to help her. Peter still retired and Kaine is dead and she has no idea who can help her if anyone. She wonders if when her father died if this how he felt. She wood creak and sees a silhouette of a black skull on blue.

"Spider-Woman nice to see you" a voice from the skull says to Anya.

Anya sees the full blue and black Spider-Man suit and knows it's that future jerk, "How did you know I was here?"

While throwing more debris off of her Miguel remarks, "Please. I am from the future, I practically know your entire life. You don't die here."

"That's reassuring. Venom, Carnage, and this new Scorpion, they want Peter and Mayday."

"Venom is dead. The Scorpion is actually Norman Osborn."

Anya gets on her feet and gasps, "That freak lived? I remember Peter and his bloody fists pretty vividly. What about you?"

"I haven't seen it yet. I am a younger Miguel than when that happened."

Anya spits some blood on her hands and looks at Miguel intently, "You can stop this. Kill Osborn in your time before he comes back. Peter doesn't lose his daughter, we don't lose a Spider-Man, Kaine, Miles, the world would be safer.

"I'm no killer." Miguel says helping her out of all the debris.

Anya whispers as they escape into the night, "The world would be better if you were."

Carnage sifts through the home of the man who claims to be her father. She smells around and feels like she can smell herself. She goes up the stairs and sees a sign on a door that reads, "Mayday's: Enter At Your Own Risk". She kicks the door down and turns on the light. She sees a thousand different colors than when she lived in her cell. She grabs random objects and begins to toss them.

Carnage grabs her head and begins to peel off the symbiote. She looks at the happy pictures of her twin with the beautiful red headed woman and the spider has been trained to kill, and imagines that as her life.

She begins to cry, "I just want a family and to be happy. This could have been my room! I could have been a person instead of a broken mess."

The symbiote covers her entire body when she hears a noise downstairs. The sound of footprints echoes in her ear as she sees the woman from the photos come in the room. Carnage notices her by the long red hair, but she looks so much sadder in person

Carnage has the symbiote expose her face and says, "Are you my mother?"

Mary Jane steps forward and says with a smile and a face full of tears, "Yes!"

AN: Thanks for Reading!

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