The Gwenpocalypse. I tied it very loosely to Two Spiders on a Web, mostly for the sake of character convenience. For those interested in the next full update read the bottom Authors Notes.


Arma-Gwendon

It all started with a strand of the web unraveling.

Noir (the nickname they gave him and he'd gotten tired of correcting them) knew it was trouble before Karn opened that mouth of his. The last time they saw a strand of the web acting up they almost got killed by a bunch of demon symbiotes. After the new Spider-Man got trapped over at Stacy's place they'd held off on a lot of their travelin'. Too risky to destabilize the web when they might've been called to help fight a big purple guy.

So it was pretty damn serious when Karn said they had to Spider up and make sure a dimension didn't blow up or something. Noir was up on one of the strands looking over the Spiders hanging around Loomworld. There was Mayday, who'd come more and more often despite her claims she'd only be here in case of emergencies. Billy was in his room thinking up new training exercises while Pavitr and Octavia were off in their corner thinking up new gadgets like they always did.

There were a couple newbies hanging around. There was that dame calling herself Jessica Drew that said she was a female clone of her world's Peter and Cindy - or Silk, as she insisted on being called - were being grilled on what the deal with their little group was by Anya and Ham. Why Ham of all people he had no idea and he didn't bother to ask. He figured he wouldn't like the answer.

A portal opened up at the center and Stacy and her new roommate stepped out, "Hey-o!" she said with a large grin. Mayday greeted them back happily while Noir leaned back on the web. It wasn't that he hated Stacy - he just didn't particularly like her. It wasn't normal for someone with a mask to be so cheery. He couldn't trust it. Noir figured that was why her new Spider-Man was going out with her. They were way too alike.

And that was when Karn opened his mouth.

"Something is happening." The guardian of the web croaked. Guy always sounded like he had a frog in his throat. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up at him, "A dimension has been...altered. Twisted. Broken."

"You mean this one?" Noir jerked his thumb to a strand of the web. Bright side was it wasn't on fire. Not so bright side it was twisting and spreading out like a leech.

"Yes. Earth-31." There was a pause, and he saw Moon looking around awkwardly while everyone waited, "You must investigate. Something is wrong."

"Yeah, I think we got that," Mayday said, "Wanna be a bit more specific there, Karn?"

"I cannot see fully, but it is...spreading. Like a virus."

"That doesn't sound good," Ham said, stating the obvious like he always did. Damn pig, "But I thought we promised we'd keep the dimensional travel on the down low for a bit for Junior's sake?" he gestured to the teenage Spider-Man.

"This cannot wait. I feel the spread will have severe consequences for both ourselves and the web of life itself."

"So what I'm getting here is that we're at defcon five or something," Moon said, "Screw it, I'm in. I was getting bored of all the lectures anyway."

Octavia stayed behind to inform Billy when he stepped out while everyone muttered their agreement and stood in front of the portal. Even Stacy and her boyfriend, who insisted that this would be good practice for whenever he could finally go back, "And I feel bad," he said, "You guys have been really helping me out a lot so it's the least I can do." And then he smiled and Noir would've been lying if he didn't think it was sort of endearing. Somehow the kid didn't annoy him like Stacy did.

They stepped through the portal (he'd never get used to it) and landed on an empty rooftop. Noir landed with a slight roll and thanked his lucky stars that they weren't smack dab in the center of a crowd this time.

"Well, this place looks pretty normal," Stacy said from behind him, "No zombies, no giant spider monsters and nothing that's on fire."

"Let's take a look around," Drew said, "In my experience the cover's often misleading."

They didn't have to look far: the cover was exactly as damning. One look over the edge of the building and they saw exactly what was wrong with the place. Blonde women and girls as far as they eye could see. Normally that wouldn't have been a bad thing - he was partial to blondes himself - if not for the fact that those were the only ones they could see. No men, no different hair colors, not even anyone with a different tone of skin. Just pale blondes as far as the eye could see.

And all them were Gwen Stacy.

"What the-"

"Fuck?" Stacy said, cutting Moon off. She slipped off her mask and looked all around the street below with a wide eyed gape. Even at a sideways glance it was clear she looked identical. Different hair and she was ganglier than some of the ones down below, but identical all the same, "Uh...am I seeing things or is everyone down there completely fucking identical?"

"Woah, this reminds me of the artist strike of 82. Lotta clones came outta that," Ham said. Noir ignored him.

"Guess we know what Karn meant by a problem," Anya said, "This can't be normal, right? I mean I get that I'm in the same team as a cartoon pig but this definitely pushes some lines."

"Maybe a cloning experiment gone wrong?" Drew asked.

"That wouldn't explain how they were so widespread, and the lack of any other distinct individuals present," Pavitr put a hand on his chin. He was getting into one of his moods, "Given the presence of children one can assume it was possibly an alteration of some kind? Given the absence of men I can only assume they weren't born normally."

"Is..Is this normal?" The kid asked.

"Doesn't seem like it is, but I'm new so what the hell do I know?" Moon shrugged.

"Either way Karn figured this place had something wrong with it so we should take a look around," Anya said, "We should probably split up and cover more ground. That way we can-"

The orders were cut off by their spider-senses blaring a crash that came from below. Noir turned to the source of the noise and didn't know whether to laugh or slam his head against the wall when he saw who it was, "Run, you fools!" A rotund Gwen Stacy dressed in a green jumpsuit and a harness with four metallic tentacles shouted, "Run from the wrath Dr Gwen-topus and the Gwen-ister Six!"

He recognized the other members: Vulture, Sandman, Electro, Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter. They'd fought their share of them in other dimensions, but seeing them as different versions of his teammate was enough to give him nightmares. Stacy seemed to share the sentiment, given how she'd sat down and started to rock back and forth while the kid rubbed her back.

"Uh...should we stop them? I feel like we should stop them," Moon said.

"Y-Yeah, we really should." Anya nodded forcefully, "Alright team, let's get down there and-"

"Stop right there!" Another voice interrupted. Noir didn't even bother to say anything and just slapped both hands on his face at the other group that landed on the opposite side of the street, "Let's take them down. A-Gwen-gers, assemble!"

Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, Captain America, Iron Man and Black Widow. And all of them were Gwen Stacy. All they could do was look on in morbid fascination as the opposing Gwens fought each other. Ham seemed to recover first, pulling out a bucket of popcorn from...somewhere and sitting down at the edge of the roof like they were at the movies. Everyone else was frozen in either shock or exasperation.

Eventually the A-Gwen-gers (kill him...) won and began handing the supervills to the police; all of whom were, of course, Gwen Stacys of varying ages. Stacy looked like she was having a panic attack, "So...what exactly are we supposed to do here?" Noir asked eventually, "This place is filled with Stacys, but apart from that seems like it's business as usual."

"I concur. The biggest threat would be eventual extinction due to the lack of males to allow reproduction, but even then that's a far off issue. Karn made it appear as if this dimension's problems were imminent."

"He said it was spreading like a virus. Any idea what that means?" Mayday asked.

"No clue..." Anya said.

"Maybe we could ask the Avengers...uh, A-Gwen-gers?" The kid said. Everyone turned to look at him, "Hey, seems like the best thing we can do right now. I mean they're clearly still heroes and if anyone's got a lead on the world ending threats it'd be them. Wouldn't hurt to ask, right?"

"God, this is so fucking weird." Stacy pulled herself up shakily and eyed the other Stacys in costume, "Like I heard from that other Peter that I died in his universe so is this like the biggest, most fucked up way of karma paying back all the Gwen Stacys out there?"

"Still think it's a cloning experiment gone wrong. That's the only way I can explain why one of you is the Hulk," Drew said.

"Either way we aren't getting anything done here. We either go back to Karn or we ask the Avengers. Which is it?" Noir asked.

They all looked at each other before the kid eventually just swung down. Everyone else followed after him, more out of lack of anything else to do. Noir did his best not to be bothered by the sheer amount of Gwen Stacys and just focused ahead of him. After this he needed a drink. Or twelve.

"Uh, hi there!" The kid said as soon as they landed. The Captain America Stacy looked them and her expression went blank. Never a good sign, "Uh, I know this might be a weird thing to ask considering we just showed up, but could we all talk to you guys- uh, women in private? We got a tip that there might be some kind of big threat and we were hoping you could fill us in."

Nothing. Just the same blank look from all of them - the Avengers, the police officers and the civilians too. The eyes of Mayday's mask narrowed and she stepped back, "Uh...anyone else getting a really bad feeling all of a sudden?"

"Yeah, I'm kinda feeling like a giant hotdog right now." Ham stepped back too. They were surrounded, a voice at the back of his mind said. The group of Spiders bunched up against each other in a circle while all the Gwens stepped towards them in tandem, faces blank and without a sound, "Uh...so who wants to get the heck outta here and call it a day?"

Noir activated his portal watch and...

Nothing.

"Uh, guys...my watch isn't working!" Anya said, voice tinged with panic.

They all pressed and slapped their watches to no avail. It was dead weight, "Something tells me we were lured into a trap..." Drew muttered.

"Oh, what gave you that idea?" Noir snarled.

His spider-sense barely had time to blare before all the Gwen suddenly charged towards them. Noir dodged the bite(?) aimed at his neck and kicked the Cop Stacy down to the ground, "What the hell?!" Someone, he didn't know who, screamed behind him. He dodged another bite and grit his teeth when the Hulk Stacy suddenly grabbed him and lifted him into the air.

"Get. Off." He webbed her gaping mouth shout and kicked her in the face hard. Probably hurt himself more than her, but it was enough to make her loosen her grip. He landed back down in a crouch and heard a scream.

Noir's head snapped to the source and his blood ran cold when he saw it. Anya surrounded by a mob and being clawed and bitten. He almost charged in to pull her out when the crowd of Stacys suddenly stopped and stepped back with an eerie calm.

And there, right where Anya just was, and still wearing the tattered remains of her costume, was another Gwen Stacy.

And she had the same blank expression as the rest of them.

"...Run!"

He didn't know who screamed it, might've been him, but they all followed. Noir swung into the air and kept swinging, just looking straight ahead. The kid, Mayday, Moon and their Stacy were in front of him while Ham, Drew and Pavitr were nowhere in sight. He could only hope that they got out.

Eventually they crashed through the window of an empty apartment building. Noir was the last to get in and he covered the window with a thick net of dark webbing before shutting the curtains. He gripped the red cloth tightly, his breaths coming out in ragged gasps. Behind him the rest of their group were sprawled around the abandoned room, all of them tired and panicked.

"What...What the heck just happened?" Mayday asked eventually in a soft tremble.

"We lost Anya, that's what. Might've lost Pavitr, Ham and Drew too." Noir shut his eyes tightly.

"What the fuck was that?!" Stacy screamed, "They just...did they seriously just..."

"I...I dunno what happened, but it looked like they turned her into you-"

"No, those freaking zombies are not me!" Stacy shouted, making the kid flinch back, "That was...holy shit, this is fucking insane!"

"I knew I shouldn't have joined this group. I knew but I still did it." Moon muttered. She was sitting in the corner with her legs tucked to her chest.

"Did...Did anyone else get bitten or scratched?" Mayday asked.

All of them shook their heads. Except Stacy, "I...yeah, one of em bit my wrist, but I'm pretty sure Venom blocked it."

"You sure about that?" Noir asked.

"Well, I don't feel like I'm turning into a zombie..."

"She's already a Gwen Stacy. Maybe she's immune?" The kid said.

"She better be, cause I'm not keen on turning into one of her clones." Noir smacked his portal watch and growled, "Anyone else's watch working again?" They all shook their heads, "Great, you know what that means."

"We're trapped. Trapped by a horde of Gwen Stacy zombies." Moon started rocking back and forth.

"Yeah...seems like." Noir pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. Soon as they got out of here he was going to wring Karn's skinny neck.


The Gwenpocalypse has begun.

Spider-Man Noir - Safe.

MCU Spider-Man - Safe.

Spider-Ham - Unknown.

Mayday Parker - Safe.

Spider-Gwen - Safe. Immune(?)

Jessica Drew - Unknown

Spider-Man India - Unknown

Anya - Gwenicized.

Silk - Safe.

Probably won't actually update this, mostly cause I have no clue where to take it, but yeah. The Gwenpocalypse. Blame the twisted minds of the guys over at the Spider-Man Fic Recommendation thread for this nightmare. Hope this at least got an uncomfortable chuckle.

As for the actual Two Spiders update, I'll get to it soon. Still deciding on the who should get the POV between MCU and Gwen and also how the confrontation with Stark will go. Currently torn between Peter being emotional and confronting Stark alone or Gwen being the good girlfriend she is and managing to convince them that they should confront him together.

I'm also considering on whether the alternate Endgame ending where the Spider army fights Thanos should be its own mini-fic or not. I feel like it has enough content with the gathering of the stones and fighting Thanos' army that it could be its own thing.