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Welcome to the fourth chapter of Spider-Verse: Life We Never Had.
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Now story time.
Aiden holding plastic bags with Chinese take-out, returned to the Parker residence. Stepping through the front door, he took off his mask and he immediately noticed Spider Noir laying on the couch, looking at a Rubik's cube while Porker was sitting in a seat close to him.
"This is..." Spider Noir said, pointing a the cube, "Purple."
"No." Porker said.
"Blue?" Spider Noir said.
"Why does Spider Noir sound like Johnny Blaze?" Aiden thought, "Questions for later..." as he walked past the living room and into the kitchen where he found Peter, Gwen and Peni.
"...It will probably take me till morning." Peni said to Peter and Gwen, "Oh, hey Aiden."
"Did you find Miles?" Gwen said, as an awkward aura began to form between her and Aiden.
"Yeah, yeah... he's just clearing his head, he'll be back soon." Aiden said, looking anywhere but at Gwen, "Hey Peni, is it okay with you if we work together on the goober. Two heads are better than one."
Peni's face lit up when she heard him say that, "Yeah, of course." she said, grabbing him by the hand and drag him out as her mech follows after them.
Gwen frowned as she stared at the door the two left through.
"What's with that look?" Peter said moving to make himself a cup of coffee, "Are you jealous or something?"
"What? Of course not. Why would I be jealous?" Gwen said annoyed crossing her arms, "Peni is just a kid excited to show him what she can do."
"She's actually nineteen." Spider Noir said from the couch. Peter, Gwen peaked around the kitchen door to look at him while Porker did the same from his chair, "We had a little chat earlier. It just happens her clothes look like a school uniform."
Inside the Spider Lair, Peni had put on some music from her robot as she and Aiden worked on the new Goober, while he eat his food.
"While they're counting. Even score, got the tally. Knock 'em off at the finale Go, go!" boomed out of the stereo.
"Is Chinese your favorite type of food? Because that's a lot of it." Peni said as she watched him empting another box and threw it on the trash pile, "You eat enough to feed an army."
"No, that Chinese joint was on the way back here. It's because of my organic webbing. My metabolism is through the roof because of it." Aiden said pointing to his wrists, before indicating the radio, "So... This is music from the future?" as he continued to eat.
"Yeah!" Peni said, "You like it?"
"Not my usual cup of tea, but yeah I like." Aiden said as he handed her a tool, "Sounds a bit like Xenia Pax."
"It does, doesn't it?" Peni said with a smile, "Great minds think alike!" as they continued to work.
"...Okay, I'm just going to ask." Aiden said, pushing himself off the table.
"Yes." Peni said quickly, "I am single."
"...What." he said flatly.
"What?" Peni said, hiding her blush from him by focusing on the screen, "S-So... We were sharing Spider stories."
"Uhm right." Aiden said putting the awkward situation behind them, "I believe it was your turn to ask."
"Right... uhm..." Peni said trying to think of something, "What about your first run in with the authorities?"
"Now that was something." Aiden said with a small laugh, "I had been active for a while now, the Daily Bugle had already label me as the mysterious Spider-Man."
It was during the evening in a parking lot. A car thief named Herman Schultz, brakes into a car. As he begins to hotwire the car, he was startled when he heard someone from the backseat.
Aiden was wearing a different Spider suit, with a large red spider covering his upper body, his lower body covered in black.
"You know, in the future, if you're gonna steal cars." Spider-Man said casually, "Don't dress like a car thief, man."
"What!?" Herman said looking behind him, "Are you a cop?"
"Really? You seriously think I'm a cop?" Spider-Man said, looking over himself, "Cop in a skintight red and black suit?"
"Your... Your that Spider dude." Herman said shocked when he realized who was in the car with him.
"It's Spider-Man, actually but points for trying." Spider-Man said wiggling his finger at him, "You know, you're... you got a mind of true scholar, sir."
Herman attempted to get out, but found the door being pulled closed by a string of web. Failing several times, Herman rolled open the window as he looked scared behind him.
"Good thinking, good thinking. Get the window." Spider-Man said as he watched Herman crawl out of the now open car window, "There you go, you got it!"
Herman stood back up, looking into the car to find Spider-Man gone. He turned around only to be kicked back.
Recovering he saw Spider-Man standing in front of him, blocking his escape route. He pulled out a knife, holding it to the side.
"Is that a knife?" Spider-Man said curiously, "Is that a real knife?"
"Yes, it's a real knife." Herman said, "Just let me go..."
Spider-Man falls on his knees, weakly holding up his hands, "My weakness, it's small knives." he said dramatically, "Anything, but knives!"
Suddenly Spider-Man shoots his web, capturing the hand of the thief holding the knife. "Oh, it's so simple." Spider-Man said, "That was cool, man."
"What the hell is this?" Herman said looking to his webbed up hand.
"Just webbing that I shoot out of my wrist. Pretty gross actually." Spider-Man said, shooting web again capturing the thief's other hand. He pretends to sneeze and shoot another web which lands in the middle of the Herman's crotch.
"Come on, let me go!" Herman said but Spider-Man keeps shooting web at him as he laughed, "Stop it! That isn't funny!"
"It is kind of funny." Spider-Man said as he shoots another web which lands on the thief's mouth, shutting him up. At that moment a cop, officer Frank Castle arrives on his bike. "Oh, the boys in blue are here! I got him!"
The officer Castle stops his motorbike arrives, he points his gun at Spider-Man, "Freeze! You in the tights, don't move!"
"You serious?" Spider-Man said.
"Who are you?" officer Castle said.
"Seems no one gets the concept of the mask." Spider-Man said as he moves towards the cop.
"Freeze!" Officer Castle starts shooting at Spider-Man, which the Spider themed hero easily dodges and then disarmed him of his gun with a web.
"I just did eighty percent of your job!" Spider-Man said, throwing the gun to the ground, "That's how you repay me?"
When the rest of the police arrive, Spider-Man shoots a web makes a run for it by swinging away.
Later that evening, he swung through the night sky of New York, after a thrilling chase from the police helicopters. He loved the feeling this new freedom gave him. His ears picked up the sound of sniffing and the sound of crying.
Following the sound, he touched down on a roof with a water tower on it. In the shadows, he could make out a female, sitting there with her leges pulled up to her chest.
"Hey, are you okay?" Spider-Man said as he carefully approached the girl.
When he got a better look at her, he saw that it indeed was a girl. She had long wild curly brown hair with a streak of white in it. But to his surprise she had skin covered in blue fur, and a forked tail.
Tears shimmering in the corners of her completely yellow eyes.
"Okay, I admit..." he said surprised, "Did not see this coming." before crouching down.
"Your... That Spider Dude." the girl said, speaking with a Southern accent, "Your real?"
"Actually it's Spider-Man. I'm real when it's useful." Spider-Man said, "What about you? You got a name?"
"Anna Marie." she said, drying her eyes, "Am I... Don't I scare ya?"
"Your appearance is a surprise, but something so cute can't be scary." he said half jokingly, "Is everything alright?"
"Just a argument that got out of hand..." she said, "My powers got a bit out of control."
"Those things happen." Spider-Man said, "Can I help you with anything? Maybe get you back home to... where ever it is."
"I live at a boarding home in Bayville." she said.
"That's not too far." Spider-Man said standing up and holding out his hand, "Let's get you home Anna Marie."
She smiled up at him, her gloved hand accepting his hand, "Call me Rogue."
Back in the present, Aiden had finished up his food as he finished up the story. They were now continuing to work on the goober.
"Okay, this has been eating away at me. What you said to Miles..." Aiden said, "Did you really had to rewire a mainframe while four tentacles try to penetrate your every hole?"
"...Yeah..." Peni said embarrassed, "That was a weird situation."
"Hey, no judging here." he said trying to reassure her, "I once had to sleep with the Goddess of Death to prevent Ragnarok."
Later that evening, taking a break from creating a goober. Aiden walked back into the house through the backdoor and into the kitchen where he came across Gwen, who was busy making tea.
"Oh, hey." Aiden said a bit awkward.
"Hey." she said softly, "Do you... Do you want some?" referring to the pot of tea in her hand.
"Yeah, sure." Aiden said as he watched Gwen fill a second cup.
The two of them stood in silence, with Aiden leaning against the counter, looking out the window into the garden. He noticed Gwen observing him as she put a single teaspoon of honey in his cup, just the way he liked to drink his tea.
The silence between them was only broken when he gave a soft, "Thanks." and for a while the only sound was of the drinking of tea and the voice of Spider Noir, who was still trying to guess what color was on the cube.
"Aiden..." Gwen finally said breaking the silence between them, "...Why won't you look at me?"
"I do not..." Aiden said placing the cup down, sounding as if it was dealing him a great deal of pain, "I don't look at you... Because... Your still as beautiful as the day I lost you."
Gwen's eyes widen as Aiden seemed to crack, the man who she had perceived as practically leading the Spider's was breaking down.
"I'm so sorry..." he said, still doing his best to not look at her, "It's been more than a year but... I'm still not over her..."
"It's fine." she said softly, placing her hand over his.
"I love your hair." Aiden said, finally looking at her, his eyes were wet from the tears he forced himself to keep inside, "Like I said, my Gwen had longer hair, much longer. But you definitely make that haircut look amazing."
"R-Really?" Gwen said, feeling her face heat up.
"Yeah, really." he said, "Your suit is pretty spectacular too. Not as spectacular as mine though."
"That's the Aiden I know." Gwen said with a small smile.
"So I exist in your universe as well?" Aiden said remembering their conversation from the bus, "Where we..."
"Yeah... We where the same as in your universe." Gwen said with a sad smile, "...Your still as handsome as the day I lost you."
It was during the Gwen's second year as Spider-Woman, she had defeated her dimension's Electro at a power grid with the assistance of her Aiden.
Recovering from the fight, Gwen manages to get up and starts making her way to Aiden.
"I think we can still make our flight!" Aiden said cheerfully when loud chackling surrounded them.
"Aiden, stay here." Gwen said to him.
It was Harry Osborn, wearing an armored green power suit while riding a glider. Chackling insanely, he flies in between Gwen and Aiden, when he notices the man and realizes the real identity of Spider-Woman.
"Harry, what did you do?" Gwen said worried.
"What you made me do." Harry spat at her, "You were my friend and you betrayed me! You killed Peter! You can give people hope. You take it away? I'm gonna take away yours!"
"No!" Gwen said realizing what he was about to do, "Aiden, run!"
As Aiden turns to run, Harry quickly grabs him. Gwen quickly shots a web and follows Harry as he flies off with Aiden.
"Harry, stop this right now!" Gwen said as she followed him to atop of a clocktower, "This isn't you, Harry! This is not you!"
"Harry is dead!" Green Goblin spat at her, "There is only the Goblin!"
"Harry, this is between you and me!" Gwen said, "You wanna fight? Fight me, let him go!"
"Very poor choice of words!" Goblin giggled as he dropped Aiden from his glider.
Gwen jumps up grab him and they crash land through a clock tower and onto a walkway. "Are you okay?" she whispered.
Aiden shakes his head, just then Goblin drops a pumpkin bomb causing Aiden to fall but Gwen grabs him by his arm. Gwen puts him down and goes off to battle it out with the Green Goblin.
The battle between Gwen and Goblin rage through the clock tower, the smaller interior limiting her was caught in the middle and nearly falling until he catches on to Gwen's web.
Goblin then pounces on Gwen and pins her to a clock wheel, she tries to hold him off and wedges her foot on the mechanism to save Aiden.
"Gwen!" Aiden shouts.
Suddenly the mechanism moves Gwen's web snaps sending Aiden plummeting down, the clock damage knocks out Goblin but Gwen leaps through wreckage and tries to save Aiden using her web.
The web manages to catch him but it's too late as the fall snaps his neck, killing him instantly.
Gwen goes down and takes off her mask as she approaches Aiden's body.
"Aiden?" Gwen said, freeing his body from the web and holds onto him, not wanting to believe he's dead Gwen continues to try and wake him, "Breath. Hey, Aiden. Hey. You're okay. Aiden?"
Gwen starts to weep as she cradles his lifeless body, "Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me. Aiden. Aiden! Don't leave me as well! Please!" she holds onto Aiden's body as she continues to weep.
In the current time the two had moved to the living room, the other Spider's had gone off in the house elsewhere leaving the two alone. The Spider-Woman was shaking, having relived the moment she lost her dimension's version of him.
"Gwen..." Aiden said putting her in an embrace, her head resting on his shoulder, "I-I'm so sorry."
"Don't be." she said, her voice muffled from resting in his shoulder, "Knowing that there is still an Aiden out there, being a hero, its just good to know."
"Actually, two Aiden's." he corrected her, "According to Miles, I'm Iron Man in this dimension."
"Right." Gwen said with a slight chuckle, "And I'm Captain America."
"Now that would be something." Aiden said with a chuckle of his own.
Silence fell between them once again, but instead of the tense one, this was just the two of them sitting on the soft couch as they just sat there, enjoying the moment.
Aiden suddenly heard soft snores. He looked to his side to find Gwen having fallen asleep against him, every now and then she let out a small cute snor.
He smiled to himself, seeing how peaceful and beautiful she looked when she was finally at rest.
He gave content smile, resting his own head against hers. And so after a long day, he too fell asleep.
"Blue?" Spider Noir said, pointing to the Rubik cube as he, Porker and Peter walked in.
"Still no." Porker said annoyed.
The trio stopped when they saw Aiden and Gwen sleeping on the couch, resting against each other. What the two didn't know or realized was that they had been holding hands, which they still did in their sleep.
"Isn't she like way too young for him?" Porker said gesturing to the two.
"The age difference is only six years." Spider Noir said, "I heard of weirder in my dimension."
"Whatever, good for them." Peter said aloofly but with a slight smile, "Aiden, make me proud buddy..."
Ten years ago in Aiden's home Dimension, he and his Gwen exited the movie theater after the showing of 'Space Conflicts: Chapter IV - A Renewed Faith'.
They walked through the streets of New York, thronged with night revelers and lined with closed shops, the setting sun painting the sky an orange hue.
"You seemed to be really enjoying yourself." she said.
"I did. Dad doesn't like me going to public movie theaters, so it was a nice change of pace." Aiden said with a smile, "W-What about you? Did enjoy yourself?"
"I did." Gwen said with a smile, "I-I had fun with you."
"T-That's good to hear Gwen." he said, "So uh... about..."
"Is this about what you wanted to say yesterday?" Gwen said curiously, "When you suddenly disappeared?"
"A-Actually yes." Aiden said, rubbing the back of his head as he was needed as Spider-Man, "I have been feeling this for a while now but... I mean... I liked you as a friend for a while. But I've realized that you're not just a friend to me. You are more than that."
"L-Like a best friend?" Gwen said, hopeful that it was going the way she was hoping.
He held her hand, both staring into the others eyes.
"More than that." Aiden said, looking down into her blue eyes, standing close enough that he could count every light freckle decorating her face.
"For a while now... You're all I can think about, day and night." Gwen said as she looked up into his eyes, "Does that... does this mean that you..."
"It means that I love you." Aiden said, "It already slipped out, but... I'd... like to know how you feel. Will you be my girlfriend?" He was cut off by something soft on his lips, Gwen was kissing him once again, standing on her toes to reach him.
Closed his eyes slowly and Gwen put her arms around his neck. He followed her by putting his arms around her waist. The kiss was soft and sweet.
Aiden pulled away after a minute and looked into her blue eyes softly. Gwen got a wide smile on her face.
Morning came with the sun shining through the curtain's in the Parker living room, as it was Gwen who woke up first, the house had gone silent as everyone seemed to still be asleep.
Soft snores where heard to her side, finding the sleeping Aiden next to her, instead of a frown had a relaxed expression, he looked so peaceful. Even if he was a bit older then her Aiden had ever been, she still thought he was highly attractive.
She smiled to herself as she leaned back to lay her head on his shoulder, closing her eyes as she enjoyed the moment as she returned to sleep.
Aiden turned in his sleep and he finally woke up, looking around to find himself still in on the couch and Gwen still asleep against him.
"Gwen." he said softly, "Time to get up."
"...Just a few more minutes." she muttered, into his shoulder, hiding her smile.
"Oh, alright then." he said with a smile, returning to his sleeping position, head resting on top of hers.
Hearing footsteps from upstairs, he slightly looked around to see that is was Aunt May.
"Good morning." Aunt May said when she noticed him awake, "Seems you two been sleeping well."
"Uh yeah..." he said a bit embarrassed, "I guess we did."
"Love seeing you two together. You always were my favorites." Aunt May said with a smile of her own, "Now time for breakfast." walking towards the kitchen.
"Wait a moment." Aiden said, "Let me help..."
"Nonsense." Aunt May said waving him off, "You just sit there and let me."
Aiden smiled but the moment of peace was interrupted when the front door burst open, making the two jump up from the couch startling the two as Miles came in.
"My uncle!" Miles said distressed.
"Miles, what happened." Aiden said concerned, immediately walking towards the young boy.
"My uncle Aaron, he's the Prowler." Miles explained, clearly panicked, "He works for Osborn. He tried to kill me!"
"It's okay. Miles, it's okay." Aiden said reassuring the younger boy, "We're gonna figure it out."
"Were you followed?" Gwen said.
"No..." Miles said, shaking his head, "No, I don't think so."
At that very moment, their Spider-sense went haywire. The Spider's just pulled up their mask as the doorbell ring.
Without missing a beat, a tendril shot through the door, and in came Doc Ock.
"Cute place." she said, "Real homey."
"Oh, great." Aunt May said annoyed, "It's Liv."
Aiden gave a quick look over his shoulder to Aunt May as Miles said, "I guess I was followed."
"Get out of here, kid." Aiden said, gesturing for him to run towards the backdoor.
He intended to do just that, but the back entrance was blocked by the figure of Tombstone.
"You messed up bigtime, kid." the albino said walking into the living room, "Very sloppy."
A tall, bald, scorpion like supervillain walked in as well, speaking in Spanish that Aiden understood as "Well, look at these little spiders."
"Let me guess." Aiden said as Gwen got ready for combat, "You're Scorpion."
"Would you mind taking this outside?" Aunt May said.
The Peter, Porker and Spider Noir came from upstairs. Seeing the situation immediately joined the others.
"We don't pick the ballroom." Spider Noir said, ready to throw fisticuffs, "We just dance."
Peni just came in holding the new goober, something Doc Ock's eye immediately caught.
"I think I'll be taking that." she said and shot a mechanical arm towards her.
But Aiden jumped forward, picking Peni as he went and pulled her out of the way. Pushing himself off the wall, he landed on top of Peni's Mech, putting her on it and taking the goober.
Doc Ock tendril lunges towards Aiden but he jumps out of the way, he flips backwards and off Doc Ock as Peter gives a few hard punches.
Crashing through the window was a third villain, the one called Prowler. Immediately the villain in purple stared down Miles, who froze and began to fade in and out of fright.
"Leave that kid alone!" Aiden said, preforming a drop kick but the Prowler shielded himself.
Prowler lands a high kick against Aiden. With a failed knee strike, the Prowler is forced to stay on the defensive, parrying and sliding backwards from Aiden's oncoming attacks.
With another kick from Aiden, Prowler was send flying through the wall.
Peni in her Mech was thrown through the front window and into the streets by Doc Ock as the fight spilled out of the house and into the streets.
"Miles." Aiden said, placing the goober in his hand, "Go, get out of here!" Before using his web to launch himself out of the hole Gwen had made and the Scorpion had followed her out of.
As Scorpion gives chase, but Gwen turned around and with a powerful kick forced him downwards.
Shooting web towards him as he landed on the streets, Aiden shouted, "Get over here!" before following it up with an axe kick that sends Scorpion rocketing back to the streets.
"Come down here!" Tombstone said as he shot at Spider Noir with his gun, but the monochrome hero evaded by jumping up to a roof, "And fight like a man!"
"I don't suppose I could convince you to come up here and fight like a spider?" Spider Noir said, shooting a web and pulling Tombstone up.
Aiden swings up and knocks Tombstone into a nearby car. With a string of web, he dragged Doc Ock back to him and knocking the good doctor into a fence.
Landing on top of a car, Aiden heard the sounds of a an explosion. Turning his head in the direction, he saw that Osborn had gotten out of his car, having shot a fireball towards the Prowler who had Miles at his mercy at the top of the house.
Osborn charged another attack, ready to kill Miles as well.
Aiden leaps off the car, evades through Doc Ock's tendrils, using his web to pull himself closer to deliver a dropkick square to the chin.
The impact forces Osborn to slide back through the same fence, "Get out of here!" Aiden shouted towards Miles.
And that's chapter fourth, hope you enjoy.
Many thanks to everyone who read, review, favorite or follows this story, you beauties.
And I don't know how old Peni is, just thought her being an adult would be funny.
As for the flashback with younger Aiden, his suit looked similar to Spider-Man's House of M costume except black instead of blue of course. I also included that flashback pretty much so I could have Rogue make an appearance. No she doesn't have Nightcrawler's power permanently, she just absorbed too much of it.
I know the Harry from Gwen's dimension was different from the Spider-Gwen Comic's, but Spider-Verse's Gwen is also very different from Comic Spider-Gwen.
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