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Welcome to the fifth chapter of Spider-Verse: Life We Never Had.
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After the battle at the Parker Residence, which had ended once Norman and his henchmen made a hasty retreat. The sun was going down as Miles was at his dorm room at Vision High.
Having just lost his uncle Aaron, being forced to leave him in a ally. In a rage, Miles was throwing books around, trashing notes on the ground.
"Miles."
He turned around to find the other Spider's crawling in through the window.
"Hey buddy." Aiden said softly, pulling his mask off.
"You okay?" Peter said, placing a hand on his shoulder, "We've all been there. You know, for me, it was my Uncle Ben."
"For me..." Spider Noir said, "It was my Uncle Benjamin."
"It was my father for me." Peni said, sitting on the desk.
"For me, it was..." Gwen said, glancing at Aiden for a moment, "My best friend."
"Miles, the hardest thing about this job is..." Porker said sadly, "You can't always save everybody."
"I know... Aiden already told me that..." Miles said looking away from them, "It was my fault. You wouldn't understand."
"Miles..." Aiden said gently, "None but us understand. Nobody better."
The lock on the door twisted, and all the Spider's jumped up to the ceiling, Peni being squeezed between Aiden and Gwen. Walking in was Ganke Lee, Miles's room mate.
They did their best to crawl out of sight, but the Ganke turned in his chair, to find them sticking to the wall.
"Hey there." Miles said trying to sound casually.
"Do animals talk in this dimension?" Porker said, "Because I don't want to freak him out."
But he did and without missing a beat, Ganke passed out.
After Miles put Ganke in bed and covering him in a blanket, he turned around to find that the other Spider's had already left.
"What's going on?" Miles said as it was only him and Aiden.
"Miles, I came to say goodbye." Aiden said crossing his arms in front of his chest as he leaned back against the desk.
"We can say goodbye at the collider." Miles said slightly confused.
"No, we cannot." Aiden said, pushing himself off the desk, "Because you're staying here."
"But I need to be there." Miles said even more confused, "So you can all go home."
"We are going home." Aiden said and with regret in his eyes he added, "Peter is the only one staying."
"He can't stay here and take my place!" Miles said panicked, "If he stays here, he'll die."
"I know... I just wanted you to hear it from me. I need the goober." Aiden said, holding out his hand but Miles was reluctant to give it up, "Please don't make me take it from you."
"That's not fair! You gotta tell them I can do this." Miles said, holding onto the goober, "I gotta make Osborn pay! You have to let me make him pay!"
"It wasn't their decision! If you come with us, your going to get yourself killed!" Aiden said sternly and more louder than his usual tone, "I'm already sending one friend to his death... I don't need yours on my conscious as well."
"But I'm ready." Miles said, "I promise!"
In quick succession, Miles had his legs kicked out from under him and he was left hanging mid-air. The front of his shirt was held by Aiden as he hung from the ceiling.
"Then venom-strike me or turn invisible on command. Right now." he in an angry growl, holding him as he watched him try it, but to his disappointment, Miles couldn't do it.
"I know how much you want this, I know better than anyone how much you would like to get revenge on Norman Osborn." Aiden said, dropping Miles into a chair before webbing him up, "But your just not ready."
He took the goober as he turned around towards the window.
"When will I know I'm ready?" Miles said before his mouth was webbed up as well.
"I already told you, it's a leap of faith." Aiden said putting his mask back on, "That's all it is." before exiting through the window.
That evening the Spider's were perked on a construction crane opposite of Oscorp Tower, where it seemed Osborn was holding a sort of Spider-Man themed charity event.
"Osborn has a private elevator entrance from his penthouse to the collider below." Peni said from her Mech, "He knows we're coming. He will be prepared."
"I don't care how many supervillains Norman Osborn is going to bring or how many mooks with guns he has. Because they never fought us." Aiden said looking up at the team, "Not us united."
The group swung to the building across and landing on the glass roof where they saw the man himself standing on a stage in front of the guest, ready to make a speech.
"Thank you. It's nice to be with you this evening to celebrate Spider-Man." Osborn said, "He and I were very close."
"What a pig." Gwen said disgusted.
"I'm right here." Porker said annoyed.
"Hold up, look at how the waiters are dressed." Aiden said, the waiters were all wearing Spider-Man masks, "It's in poor taste, but..."
"It can't be that easy." Spider Noir said, "Can it?"
"It's that easy." Spider Noir said, the Spider's wearing a bowtie and pushing a cart where Peni, her Mech and Porker were hidden under.
"I just wanna thank Mary Jane Parker for being here this evening." Osborn said.
This immediately got Peter's attention, as the MJ of this Dimension entered the stage to make a speech.
"Peter. Snap out of it." Aiden said, holding his shoulder, "It's not your MJ, Peter, okay?"
"I'm sorry." Peter said, "I'll be right back."
"Come on Pete." Aiden said, holding his arm, "Trust me. I've been there. You got to move on, buddy."
"It will take one second." Peter said, wrestling his arm free, "Let me just... Oh! Hello." he suddenly found himself face-to-face with MJ.
"I just wondered if we could have some more bread at table twelve." MJ said gesturing over her shoulder.
"Yeah. I'm just..." Peter said struggling to find the words, "I'm really sorry."
"Oh! Don't be sorry." MJ said with a slight smile, "It's just bread."
"I wasn't there for you when you needed me." Peter said, "I didn't even try."
"That's fine." MJ said, a bit confused.
"I know I could do better if..." he said, "I just had another chance to give you the bread that you deserve."
"Are you okay?" MJ said concerned.
"We'll take care of that bread right now." Aiden said, dragging him along.
"For you, they should fill this place up with fresh bread!" Peter said as he was dragged off.
"You okay buddy?" Aiden said as they continued to walk.
"Oh, yeah." Peter said, "Totally."
"Good." Gwen said, "Because we are not getting any bread."
"Secondary ignition in five, four, three, two, one."
The Spider's fought against Osborn's goblin masked thugs above the supercollider, which fired bathing the white room in a pletra of colored lights. Aiden flipped over a thug, knocking him and his laser rifle to the ground before webbing him up.
"Peter, you don't have to stay behind!" Aiden shouted as he back-handed another thug, "I can do it." locking another one's arm before breaking the bone in it in half.
"It's okay! I've made up my mind." Peter said, jumping towards the ceiling, "I'll put the goober in and take over the beam. After you're gone, I'll blow it up."
Peter crawled over the ceiling looking for the entrance point but when he found it, a tendril grabbed his arm.
"Nice to see you again, Peter." Doc Ock said, wrapping the struggling Peter in her tentacles.
Webbing up another thug to the ground, Aiden spotted Gwen glitching mid-swing. Dodging through the bullets fired by Osborn's thugs, Aiden swung over to her managing to catch Gwen mid-air.
Shooting another web, he landed them behind a couple of barrels as they were barraged by Osborn's thugs.
"You okay?" Aiden said, kneeling next to her.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Gwen said, getting back to her feet, "Let's get these guys."
Aiden jumps high over the barrels, leaping over the thugs, catching one with his web and used it as a lasso to throw him away as Gwen used her web to grab the laser rifle from them and knocking them down with his own weapon.
Landing on the catwalk, Aiden used his web to drag another one towards him, deliver a series of blows as Gwen knocks another one against the railing.
Smashing another into the floor, as a thug was wacked aside by the sudden appearance of Porker, wielding his large cartoon mallet.
"What are you?" a random thug said, "Some kind of silly cartoon?"
"You got a problem with cartoons?" Porker said dropping an anvil on him.
"Problem with cartoons?" Aiden said, "That guy obviously has never seen Avatar The Last Airbender." as looked up the ceiling to find Doc Ock ready to kill Peter.
"We got this!" Gwen said, spotting it as well, "Go!"
He nodded before shooting another web and pulled himself upwards, racing towards Peter's aid.
"Any last words?" Doc Ock said, preparing to finish Peter off with one of her tendrils.
"Can I get a minute to think about it?" Peter struggled through the choke hold, "You have a pen?"
"Goodbye, Peter Parker." Doc Ock said before she was punched by an invisible force, "Who did that!?"
Two webs were shot and out of his invisibility came a drop-kick from Miles, now wearing is very own black painted and red colored Spider-Suit.
Upon impact, Doc Ock let go of Peter, who was saved from falling into the collider beam by a web from Aiden as he landed on the ceiling next to Miles, pulling Peter up.
"You're doing it on command!" Peter said surprised but proud.
"It's about time, right?" Miles said before he was put into a headlock by Aiden and having his head rubbed.
"I knew you would come!" Aiden said letting go of his protege, smiling under his mask, "I see you copied my color scheme. Nice." placing a proud hand on Miles's shoulder.
"I love you! I am so proud of you!" Peter said, placing a hand on the younger Spider as well, "Do I want kids?"
A piece of the collider ceiling was thrown, missing them by mere inches.
"Oh, yeah." Peter said casually, "I forgot about her."
"Alright, Spider-Men." Aiden said to the other two Spider's, "This party is getting crazy. Let's rock!"
The trio of Spider-Men dodged and evaded all of Ock's improvised projectiles as the supercollider began to go haywire.
Aiden used a web to catch a collider plate, swinging it back, using his momentum and threw it back at her. The plate connected, slamming her to a wall and she slid down to the bottom floor of the collider.
The Spider-Men landed a building that came forth out of the dimension hole created by the collider.
"Guys." Miles said concerned, "Are you seeing this?"
"Looks like..." Aiden said slightly in awe, "Our dimensions are coming to us."
"Does look cool though, right?" Peter said as among the colorful light, building from different dimensions began to pour out.
"We got to get back up there." Aiden said, as he took a moment to take in stock, analyze the situation, see where everyone was and how they were doing.
Gwen and Porker were still fighting against the Goblin thugs, where on a floating car he saw Spider Noir fighting Tombstone atop of a floating car. He spotted Peni fighting Scorpion on top of a floating bus, being pined down in her Mech.
Scorpion pierced the screen of her robot with his stinger. A powerful kick knocked Scorpion off, launching him over the floating vehicle.
"Pick on someone your own size." Aiden said, his voice dangerously low, "Pendejo."
Scorpion lumbers forward and, in close combat, picks up the pace of the fight with a wide slash of its claws. A series of kicks and punches of Aiden forces Scorpion to stumble backwards.
With a sweeping strike of its tail, Aiden swings Scorpion around before sending him rocketing into passing building.
"Hey." Aiden said as the damaged Mech got up, "You alright?"
"I'm fine. We are fine." Peni said running a quick system scan, "The Mech got damaged but nothing I can't repair back home. Could have been a lot worse if you weren't here."
"Always happy to help." Aiden said as they swung up towards the ceiling.
The Spider's stood around the port where the goober was suppose to go in. And with it plugged in, the Quantum polarity had began to reverse. The supercollider began to reverse the damage, returning to their original dimension.
"Guess this is it." Gwen said.
"Well, nice to know we're not alone." Peni said popping out of her mech, "Right?"
"Damn right." Aiden said, pulling up his mask.
"I got the portal open." Miles said, typing something into the grid, "You first, Peni."
"It was nice meeting you, Miles. Oh and Aiden." Peni said before leaning into him and placing a quick kiss on his cheek, "Thank you. From both of us."
With a wink, she returned to her mech before jumping through the portal back home.
"I, uh, love you all." Spider Noir said, before holding up the Rubik's cube, "I'm taking this cube thing with me. I don't understand it. But I will." before jumping into the portal.
"I want you to have this." Porker said, holding out his mallet and handing it to Miles, "It'll fit in your pocket. That's all, folks." before he let himself fall into the portal.
"Is he even allowed to say that." Peter wondered, "Legally?"
"So..." Miles said turning to Gwen, "Do I get to like the hairdo now?"
"You know I'm older than you." Gwen said, taking off her mask, "A lot older."
"Well, Einstein said time was relative, right?" Miles said, slightly disappointed, "Friends?" holding out his hand.
"Friends. See you around, Spider-Man." Gwen said, shaking hands with him before turning to the older Spider-Man, "And Aiden..."
"I know." he said with a soft smile as he once again watched the love of his life exit his life. He watched as she fell into the portal, back to her own dimension and away from him.
"Your turn." Miles said to Peter.
"Yeah, Yeah." Peter said pulling his mask up, "I can still do it... With me and MJ it's..."
"Go talk to her Peter." Aiden said, "I know from experience you two make beautiful babies."
"That is a bit too quick!" Peter said embarrassed which gave away to insecurity, "What if it doesn't work out?"
"It's a leap of faith." Miles said with a slight smile, "That's all it is."
"Nice one, Miles." Aiden said with a cheeky grin.
"I... I guess." Peter said, putting his mask back on, "Glad to have meet you two. It was... Well, it was a bash."
"It was." Aiden said before he watched his friend jump to the portal, back to his dimension, "Well, this is it. In two days, you've come far kid."
"Thanks to you." Miles said with a grateful smile, "You were not the mentor I wanted, but you were the mentor I needed."
Aiden was about to jump in, but a voice roared with anger, "You're not going anywhere!"
An enraged Norman Osborn stood on a platform, he began to change, his skin became a green color, becoming a muscular, hulking goblin-like creature.
"The Goblin plays for keeps!" the Green Goblin said, his mouth forming into a psychotic grin as a set of green demonic bat-like wings erupted from his back.
"Alright." Aiden said feeling the hate burning through him, "Ready for one last lesson, Spider-Man?"
"Sure." Miles said with a smile.
"Rip and tear." Aiden said they both put their masks back on before they swung towards the king of the Goblins.
Aiden opened the fight with a rapid storm of fisticuffs, Miles to his credit, matches his intensity.
The Spiders sidesteps Green Goblin's lunging body tackle before knocking him away with a sweeping kick to the back. Aiden pushes the attack, catching the Green Goblin with a series of punches and kicks before slamming him into a passing building.
Aiden and Miles rolls backward as Green Goblin slammed at them with a steel beam.
The Spider's flowed together, punches and knee strikes that lead into a final roundhouse as the platform they fought on crashed into a building, throwing them up in the air.
Green Goblin spread his wings to fly up, grabbing the two spiders by the head slamming them into solid ground. He threw Miles away, bouncing him off a passing building.
Slamming Aiden into the ground once again before lifting him up to his face and began to apply pressure. "Thanks to you I will never see my family again!" Green Goblin screeched in Aiden's face.
Aiden slammed his head against Green Goblin's face, making him screech in pain as he drew blood from his nose as he led him go.
"I have seen what you did to your family in my dimension." Aiden said as he regained his breath, "You never cared about Harry at all!"
"You think I don't care about Harry?" Green Goblin screamed, throwing a fire ball at Aiden in a rage which the spider flipped over, "The fact is I do. But my work was all consuming. I was always away!"
Surrounding himself in an flame sphere, the Green Goblin swoops downwards, slamming straight into the Aiden. He is dragged along every inch of the building before he gets launched through it.
"Do you know what that's like?" Green Goblin said unleashes another fire ball towards his foe, "Missing his birthday parties, his baseball games, never being there when he was sick and needed me!? But none of that meant I didn't care about him!"
Aiden jumps over it, using his webs to launch himself forward, twisting over the Goblin's strike and landed on his back. Holding onto his wings, Aiden began to tear them off his back as the Goblin struggled to get him off.
Miles vaults towards Green Goblin, but receives a punch to the face for his trouble, the impact of which sends Miles directly atop the hood of a passing car. But this bought Aiden enough time to snap the wings off.
Jumping off with a kick, Aiden pulled himself closer with two webs and he fought back with a rapid volley of hooks and kicks that Green Goblin can only shield himself against.
Closing the distance as Aiden catches Green Goblin's fist, Miles comes in with another kick as Aiden sucker punched Green Goblin into the air.
"You ever hear of the shoulder touch?" Miles said, placing a hand on Green Goblin's shoulder, "Hey." as an energy-laden shock was send through his body, finally putting Goblin out of the fight.
"That was for Peter..." Aiden said as Miles landed back on the ground, "And Aaron."
"That..." Miles said, pulling his mask up to show his grin, "That felt good."
"Yeah... Yes it did." Aiden said pulling his mask up before holding out his hand, "But this is really goodbye. Remember, to keep doing your own thing."
"Cheeky bastard." Miles said wiping away a tear, shaking hands with him, "I'm gonna miss you something fierce."
"It was an honor. See you in the next life, Spider-Man." Aiden said as he fell back, "You're gonna go far, kid!" and he went back to his home dimension.
And that's chapter five, hope you enjoy.
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