"You're up late." Scott said as Peter wandered in.
"So are you." Peter said back as he grabbed something to drink from the cooler.
"Do I have to pay for this." Peter asked, hand on a bottle of orange juice.
"Yes, that's why I'm sitting here. One OJ is $20." Scott said, holding his hand out.
"Really?"
Scott just looked at him.
"Ok…."
Peter took his drink and sat down across from him, sitting there silently.
"Something bugging you?" Scott asked after a few moments "You're twitching like you just drank an entire tanker truck of red bull."
"I… I had a bad dream." Peter said.
"I used to get those a lot. This job is conducive to it, let me tell you."
Peter thought for a second.
"What do you know… about what happened?" Peter asked "To me. To the others?"
"Only what you've all told us." Scott said "Though, I have my theories."
Peter told Scott about his dream.
"No one mentioned anything about Stark dying in the other timeline…" Scott said.
"What if he didn't, what if Stark's right, what if they got sent back in time instead of bringing us back. What if he's not dead, just missing because he's here?"
"Peter…" Scott said "I'm an Inhuman. I'm also part alien. I just spent two weeks ping-ponging around different dimensions. My friends have traveled through time. My old boss was brought back to life after being dead for days. I'm making friends with a plastic robot and two shapeshifting aliens and even I think that's ridiculous."
"But how can we be sure?" Peter said.
"we could go there."
"What?" Peter asked. "go where?"
"We could go there." Scott said.
Peter looked at him like he was crazy.
"Come on." Scott said, getting up and leading Peter down to the hanger.
They climbed aboard the Jet they'd traveled here on and Scott sat Peter down in the co-pilot's seat.
"Wait till you get a load of this."
Scott tapped a few buttons on the control panel and the plane began to glow bright blue. In a flash, the sights on the hanger disappeared, leaving a large, empty room.
"Where are we?" Peter asked as they climbed down
"Earth 1789274. What would be Brookhaven National Lab on our Earth"
The wall of the large room opened up and a robot walked through.
"Good evening Agent Riley. Mr. Stark is currently sleeping; how might I be of assistance?"
Peter looked over to Scott, who simply nodded.
"827" Scott said to the robot "My friend and I are looking for a particular Earth, we were wondering if you could help?"
"I would be happy to help." 827 said
"So… What's going on?" Peter asked, confused as he followed Scott and the robot through the building.
"The plane has special hardware installed," Scott explained "thanks to our metal friend here and his creator, that allows it to make jumps between dimensions."
"So… we're actually on another earth? We've traveled through the multiverse?"
Scott stopped and turned.
"Didn't anyone tell you what we've been doing the last few weeks?"
"Well, yeah, but I thought that was special or something. I went to space, doesn't mean I'm, you know, I'm going to constantly go to space."
They began walking again, eventually entering a large, spherical room.
"This, Mr. Parker." 827 said as the room lit up and the walls of screens switched on "The is Panopticon. We can see everything Mr. Starks' TransDimensional Teleportation and Communication Units can see."
"We just call them 'Stark Devices" Scott whispered
"Wait," Peter said to 827 "How did you know my name?"
Scott folder his arms and looked at the robot.
"Showoff…"
A yawn echoing from the far side of the room announced another arrival.
"Scott… I didn't call you. what are you doing here?" Howard Stark asked as his hover chair brought him to his control console. "And what's Spider-Man doing here?"
Peter's eyes went wide.
"How do you know who I am?"
"I have an entire 36 Petabyte hard drive dedicated to you and your counterparts." Stark said. "I am very well aware who you are Mr. Parker."
Stark turned to Scott
"So, to what do I owe this visit?"
"I am trying to help Peter." Scott said.
"Let me guess, he knows what happened to his other self and it's giving him grief?"
Peter just looked at him.
"I went through the same thing quite a few times, given how my counterparts have died. Let's see what we can do."
Stark picked a device up off the table and waved it over Peter. "Signature captured. Point of divergence?"
"A few months ago." Scott said.
Howard floated up to the control console and began typing away.
"I've got one serious hit. Earth 199999… that's strage. That's your Earth." Stark typed away.
"Hum… best I can tell is that something has causes multiple timelines to become entangled."
"Quantum Entanglement?" Peter asked.
"Yes, quite so… Let me see if I can…." Stark said before stopping.
"I'm sorry, boys, But I can't be of much help to you." Stark said, "My preliminary scans show that world to be teetering on the edge."
"Edge of what?"
"Complete and total collapse of spacetime."