Surprise! Extra chapter. If you're reading this right when it's posted, I posted the Queen Vanessa chapter behind this one in case you were wondering where it was.

"Help! Help!" shouted Hat Kid as she carried an unconscious Spider-Man back to the beginning of the icy death trap. Her own body was starting to freeze as the biting winds had picked up since they had entered and night had set in.

Coming around the corner, she felt more safe as she saw Venom coming around the corner, the goopy alien asking "What on earth happened?!"

The hyperventilating child tried her best not to break down as she explained, "In the manor, there was this evil thing! We hid from it, but then Spidey got in a fight with it, and the time piece-".

Instead of offering any input, Venom clung his gooey essence to Hat Kid, startling the fellow alien. She was even more weirded out when she heard the symbiote's voice in the back of her head saying, You were not being coherent, so we lowered your stress hormones. If you do not wish to recall whatever happened, we can check the memories in your head with your permission.

Taken aback by the symbiote's straightforwardness, she simply replied with a mental nod as she allowed Venom to access her memories. The Klyntar proceeded to watch the memories of the scared little girl, hiding from the murderous Queen as she stalked them in her house, nearly being sliced to ribbons had it not been for the Peter's interference, and the shattering of the time piece as she woke up to find both combatants on the ground.

Remorsefully, Venom comforted, The horrors of which you had experienced should never be burdened on one so young. We apologize that we could not have helped, but us and Peter had disagreements on our condition.

"It's alright," the girl dismissed, too on edge to give a proper answer. She looked at Spider-Man's limp body and asked, "How are we going to move him?"

Descending off her body, Venom simply stated, "Leave that to us." Then, he re-entered Spider-Man's body and reformed the symbiotic Unlimited suit. Standing the arachnid up, Venom explained through Peter's voice, "We did this when we had first bonded. We do not need the host to be conscious in order to subjugate their body. However, we have refrained from doing that as of late."

Accepting his explanation, Hat Kid recommended, "Well, we better go see Snatcher. He's going to want to know why Spidey can't take anymore contracts."

"But are we not hiding our existence from him?"

"I think he already knows," sighed the explorer. After all, spiders didn't have black tentacles last she checked. And so, using Spidey's body, Venom and Hat Kid swung to the tree where the spirit resided. Thankfully, he was sitting inside the stump reading a book.

"Kiddos! You actually survived! Impressive, especially when that's where most of my contractors go missing. And you made it back without being turned into ice cubes, so good work!" the shadow congratulated.

"Well, not exactly," Hat Kid said. She glanced at Venom, who left Spider-Man's body, allowing him to slump down onto the ground at Snatcher's tail.

"Good peck kid, what happened to him?" asked the Snatcher with confusion.

"He got in a fight with the creature in the manor over the time piece." Venom bluntly stated.

Snatcher smirked a bit as he saw who he was talking to. "So you're the one with that strange life force, aren't you? Figures that's why the kiddo switched to a better fashion sense. Well whatever! I'm not gonna complain about a bigger labor force!"

Angirly, Venom retorted, "We are not your slaves! You failed to convey the dangers in your initial contract, demon."

Not enjoying being called out, Snatcher fired back, "Hey! If you pesky little trespassers hadn't decided to invade my forest, we wouldn't be here right now. Now zip it sludge stain, before I show you things that'll make you wish you went in that manor too!"

As Snatcher prepared some magic and Venom bared his fangs, Hat Kid stepped between them, pleading, "Please! I just want to rest. Snatcher, can we please stay here while Spider-Man gets better?" Until we finish all of our contracts?"

The shadow contemplated the idea, stroking the strange outcroppings on his neck in thought before saying, "And why should I let you stay in MY tree? I've had contractors sleep in mud blankets and mushrooms."

Seeing his more business orientated line of reasoning, Hat Kid convinced, "Well, none of them had super spider powers or were aliens. We were able to do your hardest chores! Would you want that to go to waste?"

Once again going into thought, Snatcher sighed as he relented, "Alright kid, you rest your case. You, the living oil spill, and bug boy can sleep in this tree for the night. BUT, once wakes up, it's eviction time."

"Thank you!" Hat Kid cheered, though Venom still watched Snatcher with a wary look.

"Yeah yeah, just make sure you get up in the morning, you still have a contract to fulfill." And with that, the Snatcher disappeared into the floor as he searched for a new haunt while the contractors took his tree.

After the soul snatching demon had left, Hat Kid had taken whatever materials she could from the outside and made them into two leaf blankets with some symbiotic webbing. Soon, she had propped Spider-Man up on the chair that Snatcher sat in, while she made a spot to sleep in with mushroom pillows and a leaf blanket. Venom inhabited Spidey's body until he awoke in order to keep him alive.

"Venom?" the little adventurer asked before going to bed.

"Something on your mind, young one?" spoke the symbiote through Spider-Man.

"Do you think I could have done... better? To help Spidey when we were in the manor."

Venom took a deep sigh before replying, "We could always do better, but all beings make mistakes. We know this better than most, ever since we arrived on earth. But it is best not to dwell on them. You require rest."

"But it's my fault for not saving him! He's like this because of me!" cried Hat Kid as she sobbed in the blanket. "Do you think... he'll wake up again?"

The symbiote felt bad for the little girl, not just because of what he had seen in the manor, but her past as well. It should have been predicted that she would be carrying around some guilt.

"We will not lie to you, we am not sure. But Parker has survived nearly everything thrown at him, including me. He is nothing if not annoyingly durable, so have faith." instructed Venom. "And we know he would not want you blaming yourself when he was trying to keep you safe. He did what he thought was right."

Still sniffling, she gave a weak "Alright," before saying goodnight to Venom, who wished her well before they drifted off to sleep.

Waking up far earlier than her fellow alien and her spidery companion, Hat Kid gave a muffled yawn so as to not wake the merged being. Then carefully, she shuffled out of the tree and got up to go find Snatcher. On her way, she picked up some berries to eat for breakfast, hoping they weren't poisonous.

After some searching, she found the spirit farther along the Subcon Village path wearing a mail delivery hat of all things. Spying his little contractor, Snatcher greeted, "Good Morning! Are you ready to complete your contractual obligations? Oh and speaking of, I'll be take this," as he propped off Hat Kid's hat to grab the manor contract underneath.

"Ready," Hat Kid replied with a tiny salute. Even through her emotional turmoil and soullessness, she still kept her adorable charm.

"Alright! Now, no matter what you think, I'm not heartless! Every so often I sneak into mailboxes and steal letters. Then deliver them to my minions. That way it's almost like someone cares for them. But our last mailman has gone... POOF! You'll have to do."

Surprised by his upbeat demeanor again, Hat Kid was even more taken aback when he added, "And I've got a gift for the occasion! Although it requires a special kind of hat to use. I hope you've got it!" Then with a snap of his fingers, a gift box appeared. Curious, Hattie opened it up, and was pleasantly surprised to find a scooter badge sitting inside! Holding it up with joy, it was slightly dampened when the Snatcher told her, "This badge is only a rental. I need it back before you leave. Remember to put it on your Sprint Hat, or it does absolutely nothing! HAHAHA!"

"Got it," she replied as she switched to her trusty Sprint Hat. Clipping the new badge on, she looked up to the Snatcher for further instruction.

"All of the minions that are awaiting mail are holding up a sign that says, you guessed it, mail! Once you're done, come back here and clock out, get it?"

Nodding her head, Hat Kid took off on her new hot rod as she bustled around the Subcon area. Every time she passed a minion, she yelled something along the lines of "Choo choo!" or "Special Delivery!" as she tossed each minion a package.

"Thanks newbie!" each of them yelled as she gave them a peace sign as she went along. Her routes took her all across the forest, from the Subcon Village path, to the fiery section of the forest, where she said hello to some fire spirits. She found some more landmarks, like a fenced off courtyard that screamed "STAY OUT" and another area where those cursed headless angels deceptively stood. She made sure to avoid those places like the plague. Overall, this was the first contract she could say without a doubt she had fun with, no moral complications or anything.

As she delivered the last package to the minion in the Village, Hat Kid stopped at the broken bridge and stared across. Every bone in her body screamed at her that she shouldn't go back, lest she suffer the same fate as Spider-Man or worse. The memories still felt as fresh as knife wounds in her mind.

But another side of her, one that rose above the primal instincts of fear and to higher reasoning knew that she couldn't turn her back. She had seen the purple time rift as they fled, and heaven knows what would happen if she didn't fix it. It was her responsibility as a guardian of Time to protect the time stream.

With great power comes great responsibility Hat Kid told herself, Spider-Man's mantra giving her courage. I know what I have to do Tim. And with that, she took off her sprint hat and switched to her top hat as she braved the blizzard once again.

Meanwhile, in the tree, Venom had been out and about. Detaching from Spider-Man's body, he freely wandered around the area to explore a bit in his sludge form.

"Darn you Parker, even years after our first separation your ideals still bring us nothing but trouble" he angirly vented. Ever since Eddie had adopted the "Lethal Protector" trend and since Flash had taken them across the galaxy, Venom found himself always coming back to the human ideas of empathy and justice. He still did bad things sometimes, but now he felt remorse, guilt, and many other human emotions. All thanks to Peter's strong moral compass. While Venom brought forward the worst of Peter when they had bonded, Peter had in a way brought out the best in Venom.

He had even adopted a special connection to the little hatted child that Spider-Man now called company. There was something about her innocence that Venom wished to preserve any way he could.

If only my original host could see me now the symbiote entertained to itself. His first host was the parallel opposite of Spider-Man, always looking to fight for the wrong reasons, whether to conquer or to kill. The symbiote had been exposed to the best and the worst the universe had to offer.

Turning its eyes back to Peter, he said, "You better come back, we cannot learn to be more human without a human," before turning forward again waiting for Hat Kid to return.

Hat Kid had returned to the broken fence at the edge of the haunting estate. After blowing off the ice walls from before, getting through the ice platforms was really not that hard. Of course, she would have felt much more confident if she had Spider-Man to help her again. But she couldn't rely on that now, not when she was already staring at the windows of the manor. Taking a deep breath, she charged forward once again towards the Queen's manor.

As she ran across the ice lake, she noticed that the window they had jumped out of had been sealed with wooden planks. So much for the easy way she sighed internally. Not wasting time and risking limbs by going to the front door, the explorer ran around back to the basement door again. Sure enough, there was another loud BOOOOM! as the doors burst open again. Gulping, she summoned the courage to step back into the manor as she heard the doors close behind her once again.

Walking back into the leaky cellar, she was once again disgusted by the cold water that was flooding the room. Walking to the door that lead upstairs, she cursed in her alien language to find the Queen had locked the door again This time, she wasn't sure there would be a key.

Giving it a shot though, Hat Kid entered the room that held all the beer kegs. She searched every nook and cranny she could find as her search came to no avail: no key in sight.

As Hat Kid leaned on a beer keg to collect her train of thought, she gave a surprised, "Oh!" when she actually moved the keg, causing her to fall down. Pulling herself up from the stinky water, she was intrigued by a hole that seemed to be hiding behind the keg. Looking into it, she realized this might have been a ventilation shaft. If she could wiggle her way through the shaft, she could potentially get up to the attic without alerting Queen Vanessa once!

"Okay, here goes," she said to herself. She then got on all fours and crawled into the vent hole, slowly making her way to what she thought was up.

Snatcher looked down at his watch. The kid's been out for nearly two hours now. Surely she had enough navigation skills to not get lost in this forest, didn't she? She's been up and down the path all day long.

"I bet she stuck her nose someplace it doesn't belong again,"commented the soul stealer. "Seriously, do alien kids have even less brains than normal kids?"

"Well they certainly have more heart than you."

Turning around, Snatcher was met with the wide white eyes of Venom occupying Spider-Man's body. "Ah, the body snatcher! Tell me, is your host in there awake yet? I want my tree back."

Venom gave an annoyed growl as he answered, "He is still incapacitated, and we are his only life support as of now. We came to look for the hatted child. She had contracts to do with you, so we had assumed you would know of her whereabouts."

"Huh, so the hat brat didn't run back to you after finishing her chores. I was going to search there once 2:00 hit. She was due to clock out an hour ago."

"Do you have any idea where she could be?" asked Venom with concern. The last thing he wanted was for her to get injured while Spider-Man was out, lest he be blamed for it by the arachnid or she becomes ill.

"Hmmm, I last saw her take off that way towards the village. She's on a loud little moped, hard to miss." he informed. With a nod, Venom took off swinging down the path, leaving Snatcher to once again contemplate her whereabouts.

"Where are you, kiddo?"

PLOP!

Hat Kid cringed at the sound of the impact, having hoped to make a stealthy entry. Instead, she dropped on her hands down to the floor, making wood creak as she got up and dusted herself off.

Luckily, Queen Vanessa hadn't stayed up here for long, otherwise her journey would be coming to an icy end. Turning around, Hat Kid eyed the purple rift she had left there earlier. It was now growing in size since the last time she had left it, growing more unstable my the second. Without a moments hesitation, she dove straight in, bracing herself for what was next as the brilliant white glow consumed her vision.

When she had landed in the rift, the first thing she noticed that she was standing at a tall building whose sign read: Empire State University. Seeing nowhere else to go in the purple void of the rift, Hat Kid walked up the stairs to enter the building. However, before she could even open the door, she noticed a storybook page laying on the ground. Picking it up, it was shown to be blank like all the others before. Pocketing it for later, Hattie pushed the door open.

Inside, she found herself in a big open space. Hallways opened in either direction leading to various departments like humanities, mathematics, and so forth. What intrigued her was that inside, there appeared to be no roof, and there were floating hunks of rock. On each rock, she read a sign that said 'Science Hall' and 'Experiments in radioactivity' and an arrow pointing upwards. Hopping on the first rock, she easily navigated her way up, picking up 3 rift pons as she went, until she stood on the last rock. Hopping down and onto the 5th floor, the signs saying 'Science Hall' continued down. As she walked further down, two double doors lay open to her and she stepped inside.

What lay before her was a strange contraption, looking almost like a gun. It seemed that this was the radioactivity experiment that the signs were talking about. In the middle of the gun's line of fire stood another story book page, and in the back corner of the large room lay a cauldron she could use to advance.

"Already?" Hat Kid wondered out loud. Usually purple time rifts provided more of a challenge, but she wasn't one to complain about an easy job. She grabbed the storybook page and walked up to the cauldron, pleasantly surprised the trip up to the science hall had given her enough to advance. Making sure she didn't miss any pages or pons, she hopped into the cauldron and proceeded further in.

This time, the rift spit Hat Kid out onto the top of a roof. Looking around, these rooftops were the only platforms that could be seen at the moment, so she decided it was best for her to just continue down the directed path. She stumbled onto more rift pons as she continued along, jumping as effortlessly across as back in Mafia town. Along the way, she spied a few establishments like Joe's Pizza, Nelson and Murdock's law firm, and a far off skyscraper that read Stark Industries.

Where have I heard of these before? wondered Hat Kid as she proceeded onwards through the rift. Aside from picking up rift pons and the occasional story page, she didn't find any kind of unique challenge about this rift, at least so far.

Coming to a stop at a crushed metal pipe, she realized that the buildings stopped here and instead descended into busy traffic. Looking a little higher, Hat Kid saw some hook shots lining the top of the street, which she guessed were put there on purpose.

Taking out and equipping her hookshot badge, the little alien aimed the umbrella at the hookshot before firing. Better to be safe than street pizza after all. Once she was sure she was locked in, Hat Kid swung across the hookshots as they kept getting lower. Finally, after 6 swings, she had descended safely to the sidewalk and ungrappled, landing on a rift pon as she continued on her way. After a bit of walking, she found that the building and the sidewalk ended. Where it did, a lone building had its doors open, signaling that it was where she should go.

As she entered into a brick hallway, she saw various posters on the wall all saying something along the lines of, '$100 to any man who can stay in the ring for three minutes with CRUSHER HOGAN!'

When she had reached the need of the hallway, Hat Kid found herself in a big stadium with a fighting ring in the middle. In the bleachers, she could see the glow of another storybook page and a rift pon. Walking up to the bleachers, she grabbed both before walking back down into the ring where a cauldron was sitting. Inserting the appropriate amount of rift pons, she jumped in once again.

"Kid? No more of this hiding nonsense, where the heck are you?" called Snatcher as he floated through the section of the firelands. It had been nearly 6 hours since the kid had last taken off, and he was starting to get sick of waiting. He had agreed to help Venom find her if only to get the stinking contract over with. It still baffled him how the easiest contract turned out to be the one that was taking the longest.

"Have you made any progress?" asked Venom as he came swinging in.

"Nada. There's no way the hat brat could have gotten out of the forest with that contract still hanging over her head. But I've checked almost everywhere she could have been," the spirit replied.

Venom started to lose his cool. He was getting anxious now. He needed to find the girl and soon. Night would fall soon, and it has been proven that Snatcher wasn't the only threat in this forest.

"Boss! Boss!" cried a Subconite as he came speeding in, exhaustion present in his voice.

"What is it minion?" asked the soul stealer.

"The newbie! She went back into the manor! I've been watching it like you said, and I saw her go in the basement. She hasn't come out!"

"WHAT!?" roared both Snatcher and Venom, hurting the minion's hearing. "Why on earth would she want to go back there? Did she not see the statues. And why did you not report to me earlier?"

"Sorry boss, the blizzard's been acting up ever since the two newbies broke into Vanessa's house. I was lost for a while. But one of those time rift thingies from your books was floating around the last time they were there."

"Curses," muttered Venom. He should have known she would be going back there next chance she got to repair that time rift. If only he had anticipated it sooner...

"Well sludge stain, I don't know about you, but I refuse to lose another contractor to that witch. Especially one that's keeping the fabric of time from ripping my forest into oblivion. You coming or no?" the Snatcher offered.

"Gladly," the symbiote replied. With luck, this would be his chance to bury whoever was responsible for putting his host in a coma.

As she exited the elevator, Hat Kid looked at the flyer she had. She couldn't believe that it had literally taken a poster reading 'The Amazing Spider-Man" for her to figure out that this time rift was based on Spidey.

She had plopped into the middle of a recording studio where there were cameras all pointed at a brick wall. When she went behind the wall, she found another story page, but more importantly, she saw a poster advertising her arachnid companion on live television.

"Peter sure has a good life," she had said to herself. A job as a superhero AND an icon for television? It seemed like Spidey had all the luck in the world. It was almost like her life before what happened on her planet.

Shaking her head clear of the memories, Hat Kid had continued through the building before spotting an elevator. Assuming it was left wide open for her, she entered and punched in the ground floor.

Now that she had exited the elevator, the entrance to the building lay open to her and she stepped outside, expecting another city block. Instead, there was only a narrow path forwards. The path led up to a modest two story home with yellow police tape all around. The little explorer was even more taken aback when she saw blood on the street.

Worried about the sudden shift in atmosphere, she hesitantly opened the door to the house. In the living room, she found a cauldron for her to jump into. However, as she counted her rift pons, she found she was one short. Running back outside, Hat Kid saw the familiar glow of a rift pon on the top floor. Wall running up to the window sill, she grabbed on and pulled herself up. What she found was a lot more than she expected to see.

Drawings on the walls detailing different costume ideas, a chemistry set with fully armed web shooters, and most importantly, a red and blue costume that matched the mask with triangular tear drop lenses. This was Peter's room and the birth place of Spider-Man, no doubt about it.

But if this is Peter's house, what happened out there? wondered Hat Kid as she jumped back out the window sill with the rift pon. Going back to the cauldron, she inserted the pons, allowing the hatch to open and she slipped in.

Arriving in the next level, she was yet again put on a rooftop. This time though, the buildings were waaaaay higher and there were waaaay more hookshots. She couldn't even see where they ended from the top of her roof. Taking out her umbrella to swing, she grappled onto the first hook and started swinging.

While she was swinging through the city, she noticed that the hookshots were all placed at different levels, to the point where she can go from swinging right above the street to nearly crashing into the top floor of a building. It felt much sloppier than any set of hookshots she had swung across.

Finally, her swinging journey came to a close as she approached an old warehouse. It was dark save for the multitude of police cars outside, and if it weren't for the moon, she would never have be able to see inside. She walked past the fence and into the warehouse, but it was immediately blocked after by a wooden crate. Using her brewing hat, she broke the crate open with a potion and continued onward. In the corners, she spied a story page, which she grabbed before going up.

There were no stairs that weren't locked behind doors, so she had to get crafty. Using the cargo containers as platforms, Hat Kid hopped between them as she tried to get to the second level. There were also some dweller platforms outlined, so she used those to her advantage as she clambered up to the second level.

When she had made it up to the top of the building, she noticed that now a police chopper was pointing a spotlight through a broken window on the other side. Stepping into the light, she was surprised to find that the shadow she created was not a shape of her and her hat, but was shaped like the spider on Spider-Man's original costume.

Down below, she could see the cauldron wide open, but the only way in was to jump from the window. Taking a running start, she used her first jump to get her close to the cauldron before using the double jump to readjust her position. She corrected her momentum and went speeding down to the final level.

When the time rift spit Hat Kid out again, she found herself at the end as the now repaired time piece swirled in the rift casing. But she didn't care about that right now. Right now, she was amazed at the void of the time rift. Instead of the usual purple void of space, the rift was now filled with a brilliant golden color as a massive web stretched in all directions. Contained in each web, one of Spider-Man's many memories or counterparts in both their superhero lives and their personal ones.

Hat Kid couldn't believe everything she was seeing. It was one thing to hear about Spidey's adventures and trials from him, it was a completely different experience to actually witness them. In one, she could see tons of Spidey's counterparts and himself in what he had called the 'Spider-Verse' event. In another, Peter was seen taking a girl with red hair out to a pizza parlor, the woman Hattie could only assume was Mary Jane. In yet another, she saw him and 3 other Spider-Men battle that fish bowl guy they had beaten in Dead Bird Studios to save all of reality.

Yet for every good memory Peter had told her about, she saw just as many bad memories he had never mentioned. One memory had Spider-Man screaming at a man dressed in green as he held a blond woman in his arms. Another showed what could only be described as an 'Anti-Venom' driving its tendrils into Spider-Man's body, no doubt causing him no small amount of agony. One even showed him being carried by a man in a blue spider suit, where he appeared to be on the brink of death.

It was all so much for Hat Kid to absorb. Turning away from the golden display, Hat Kid found one more storybook page lay on the ground. Instead of saving it for bedtime stories like she usually did with purple time rift books nowadays, she pulled out all the pages she had collected on her journey through Spider-Man's rift. Then, she took the last piece and put it all together, causing the pages to glow.. She had to drop the book to shield her eyes.

When the glow had ceased, Hat Kid looked down, and where there had once been a few piles of paper, now laid a comic book titled "An Amazing Fantasy". Picking up the comic, she saw the cover contained Spider-Man holding a man under his arm while web swinging as his text bubble said, "Thought the world may mock Peter Parker, the timid teenager, it will soon marvel at the awesome might of Spider-Man!"

While there was still a time rift to be fixed, this part seemed amazingly calm for a purple rift. Not to mention time worked differently in the rifts than in the real world. Seeing nothing wrong with staying a little longer, Hat Kid sat down and started to read the intriguing comic.

And so she read. Every single page she analyzed down to the smallest details. She learned everything, like how Peter had once been the nerd of his entire school, and how poorly he was treated by his peers. How kind and wise his Uncle Ben and Aunt May were. The creation of the famous costume and the invention of the web shooters. She even got to see the true birth of Spider-Man, where that weird radiation gun thing had zapped the spider that gave Peter his powers, and how he adapted to them.

She had expected Peter to be as selfless as his modern day self throughout, but she actually found him to be quite shallow at first. Looking out for only himself, he only used his powers to make a quick buck before. He had snapped at his Uncle when he was dropped off at the wrestling match when she saw him recite the famous 'With great power, there must also come great responsibility' quote, though he apologized later on. The young man proved how little he cared about anyone but himself as he even let a burglar get away without so much as a fight! This seemed to really tick Hat Kid off. How could the person she had come to trust so much be so self-centered?

As she read on though, she started to understand how the Spider-Man of the present came to be. As Peter came home from showbiz as Spidey one day, Hattie learned that Uncle Ben had been shot, shocking the little girl. So that's why there were police cars in front of his house realized the little girl.

She saw the enraged teenager web swinging down the street, determined not to let the killer get away with this. She read where Spidey had finally caught up to the burglar, and was just as appalled as he was when they both recognized him as the man that Peter had let get away. For a split second, Hattie thought that Spidey was going to kill him for what he had done, but was utterly surprised to find that he only threw the man responsible for taking away his father figure down on a web cocoon.

She couldn't help but feel extremely sad for Spider-Man as he lamented his failure, blaming himself for what had happened to his beloved uncle, as his lean, silent figure faded into the now understood how "With great power, there must also come great responsibility."

As she closed the book, Hat Kid was flabbergasted at everything. Of all the things that Spidey had ever shared about his adventures, he had always beat around the bush whenever it came to why he started being a superhero. Now she understood, and she now she had some questions to ask the web slinger whenever he woke up, it he'd allow it.

Closing the comic and taking one last look at the golden space, she started smacking the rift casing repeatedly until it finally broke. Picking up the time piece, she was greeted with another flash of light as she was ported back to the real world.

Back in the real world, Hat Kid plopped on her butt as she landed with the time piece in hand. She was about to put on her dweller mask to make her exit from the shafts, but stopped as she felt the all too familiar aura of the insanity behind her. Turning around, sure enough, Queen Vanessa was standing behind her, and she gave an awkward, "Hi?"

"You dare enter my home again! You will suffer, child!" erupted the cursed Queen.

"She will, but under MY TERMS AND CONDITIONS!" roared another voice, before a blast of magic burst through the blocked window, sending Vanessa tumbling back down the staircase.

"Hurry up oil spill! I don't wanna be here any longer than we have to!" Snatcher ordered.

"Oh suck it up, New York blizzards are WAY worse than this," came another familiar voice. On cue, Spider-Man, without Venom speaking through him, flew into the room and picked the little girl up. "Kid, we have GOT to set some boundaries on the hide and seek areas."

"Spidey!" Hat Kid squealed as she hugged her friend, who patted her back as he gasped for air.

"Kid, I know I've been out for a while, but can you not add crushed ribs to the pile of injuries while we're here?"

"Sorry," she apologized sheepishly. "Can we talk alone later though? I wanted to ask you stuff."

"Sure thing, just not right now. We're kind of in the middle of something," the superhero replied.

"AHEM! I know this is very touching and all, but can you save it for AFTER we leave the frozen hellscape?" Snatcher interrupted.

"Good idea," Spidey commented before spinning a symbiotic web and swinging away, the soul stealer following suit.

"Come back my prince! COME BACK!" screamed Queen Vanessa, whose fury heightened the blizzard ten fold. It didn't matter though, as Spider-Man and the others were all long gone. by the time she had regained her senses.

"Hey, thanks kid. I don't know if I ever would've woken up if you didn't fix that rift. Good job back there," Spidey said as they swung back. He then turned his words inward as he thought, And thanks for keeping me alive while I was out. Maybe there's something different about you after all

Finally you understand Venom sarcastically sighed, though he was glad that Spidey was starting to see the good in him.

"It's what you would've done," Hat Kid replied proudly, simply happy to have her brother back.

I'm not the best when it comes to platforming once again, but I hope the rest of this chapter was a good read for all of you! And to all of you other fellow Marvel nerds out there, hope you caught the references!