I was sitting on a chair at our housewarming party when I felt a sting on my hand. I looked at it and saw a spider scurrying off. My vision was getting blurry (at one point I think my skin color changed from brown to white like wtf?) Then I just passed out.
After I passed out I saw someone else's life flash before my eyes. It was one Peter Parker who as usual lost his parents but interestingly his sister stayed with him instead of SHIELD. His parents used to own Parker Industries when their plane crashed. This Peter and his sister moved in with Aunt May and Uncle Ben and were slated to become the owners/CEOs of PI when they were old enough. The last point of this Peter's life that I saw was the Oscorp field trip. there were twenty spiders. One if them was this interesting spider with dimensional powers and the ability to make clones of itself in any given place and dimension (ok that is actually cool.) One of the not inter dimensional spiders were missing. When they got in the bus and sat down Peter felt a sting on his hand. He looked down and saw a clone of the inter dimensional spider had bit him and was scurrying off (wait I got bit a spider that looked the same oh shit!) Then he passed out.
Now I was in this weird black area (like where am I?) When I saw someone else. He looked like.. well like me. Weird. Then I looked at myself and saw that I looked like that Peter Parker whose life I just saw. Wait what? How does that work? Oh I got it when we both got bit by the same spider we changed bodies and minds or something. Ugh this sucks. Looking at him I saw he (I?) came to the same conclusion.
"well shit, man" I said.
" not including the vulgarity but yeah man, this sucks. " he said
"I promise to do the best I can do with your body and make sure your world and family stays safe but can you promise the same to me Peter?"
"On my sister's life" he reassured me.
"Thank you, it's an honor to meet you and be you" I said
"You too" he said.
Then all of a sudden we were both being sucked out of this black landscape.
Then I saw millions of Peter Parker's lives flash before my eyes. But I wasn't seeing it like how I saw the first Peter's life. This time it was as if I was watching movies or shows of their lives. I saw Garfield's Spider-Man, but with me feeling his emotions, Tobey's too, the Ultimate Spider-Man too, and millions more than I could count. So much pain, suffering, loss and just a whole shitload of negative emotions. Why was I being shown this!? I tried closing my eyes but that didn't work I just started seeing it behind my eyelids. After several billion lives filled with sadness and Spider-Manning it stopped and I just saw some weird shadow.
"Who are you?" I asked
"the one that caused you and Peter of Earth-313 to be bit." He responded
"Let me guess you're doing this shit for fun huh?"
"Straight to the point, good. In response to your question, somewhat. I believe the correct answer would be 'for science and curiosity'"
"You're a Grade A asshole."
"thank you for the compliment"
"what do you want from me?"
"Oh yes thank you for reminding me. I wanted to tell you that those millions of lives were Peters in this multi verse as well as give you the rules for this experiment."
"So essentially you just made me a super computer of information on Peter Parkers?
" "correct"
"What are your 'rules'"
"1. To keep the fact that you are from another universe close to your chest. If you tell too many people I will bleep your voice. 2. uh well I don't have a two so yeah just that one rule. Oh wait you and Cindy Moon will be the only out of this universe people, everyone else just has spider powers. And I won't tell you who Cindy actually is you have to find that out yourself."
"Ok deal then" I said rolling my eyes. "Now what?"
"You wake up, duh"
I woke up to what I know from this Peter's memories as the med bay of Parker Industries headquarters. Over here in this universe there are four companies known as "The Foundational Four"; Stark Industries, which specialized in weaponry; Pym Industries, which specialized in human enhancements as well as nanotechnology; Oscorp, which specialized in human enhancements; and last but definitely not least Parker Industries which specialized in technology and human enhancements.
But enough about this world I am in, let's discuss me, or rather who I am now; Peter Parker, age 15, born August 9th, 1993, lives in Queens in his Uncle and Aunt's house with his sister, goes to Midtown High in 9th grade, and that's about it for Peter.
I groaned as a way of announcing that I am up to whoever is in this room (I can hear their heartbeat courtesy of my new enhanced senses) and immediately someone starts talking.
"Oh dear Peter are you okay, they weren't able to wake you or Teresa when you fell asleep in the bus it turned out you were both in a self-induced coma and you would wake up by the end of the day it's been three hours now"
I opened my eyes to see Peter's (my?) Aunt may leaning over me with a worried look on her face. This Aunt May looked like the USM Aunt May, with short hair and a relatively middle-aged look.
"Hey Aunt May" I tried.
Wait Teresa was in a coma too does that mean she is from my universe too? Oh wait the shadow said its just me and Cindy from my universe.
"Hey Pete" Aunt May's voice drove me out of my thoughts.
"How's Teresa?"
"Honey worry about yourself for once Teresa is fine she woke up a while ago Ben is with her. Are you okay?"
"Yep I am 100%" I said, flipping put of the infirmary bed to prove that.
"If you're sure then lets go home"
"sure thing Aunt May"
As we drove to our home in Queens, I revised some of my information. Uncle Ben wasn't poor in this universe, but they said they wouldn't live in the penthouse in the PI headquarters until we wanted to. I wanted to move there because then it would be easier for me to Spider-Man. Teresa is obviously a Spider-Person too, considering she went into a coma too. I would tel her the truth first, but not until I could look at her as MY sister not just as Peter's. Next would be Uncle Ben and Aunt May, I would tell them when I tell them I was Spider-Man. Which was when I would ask to move to the penthouse.
"We are here Pete."
"ok aunt May, sorry for scaring you by the way."
"oh hush, worry about yourself for once, Peter, just once is all I am asking."
Looks like me and this Peter are the same way in this aspect lol.
"Sorry aunt May, you know that's not possible."
"I do." She said as she unlocked the door.
"WE'RE HOOOOMMEEE" I screamed into the house.
Uncle Ben came to the door holding his finger to his mouth (yikes!) this Uncle Ben looked like TASM Uncle Ben.
"Teresa isn't feeling too well and jumping at the smallest sounds. She said not to worry so I won't in front of her but I can't help it"
From what he (my Uncle Ben?) said, she was just getting used to the sensory overload from the spider bite. It didn't effect me that much because it had happened to me billions of times now because of Mr. Shadow (yes I'm calling him that.)
"I think I know what's wrong I can help her," I said as I walked up the stairs to go to her room.
"You're a good big brother Pete." Uncle Ben said to me
That made me freeze for a millisecond. My mom always said that I had a very large big bro vibe so that comment made me remember that I most probably wouldn't see her or my siblings again.
I shook my head as I continued on my way to Teresa's room. Now wasn't the time to think about that, Teresa needed help from me.
I tapped the door so quietly you'd think I didn't touch it at all but I knew that would be enough for her senses. Several moments later the door opened slightly revealing bright green eyes and a hint of blond hair. When she looked at my eyes our Spider-Senses amped up for a second, telling us the other was a Spider-Person. Her eyes widened as she opened the door fully quietly and I entered the room and quietly we both sat down on her bed after she closed the door.
"so you needed help controlling yourself after the bite right?" I whispered.
She nodded.
"Ok listen to me" I said, holding her hands.
"Imagine a dial in your head that's at max ok? And now put a label on top of it saying 'Senses'
"Now slowly, slowly move the dial to a lower setting."
After several moments she said "Wow it feels so much better now thanks"
And she gave me a hug.
As I returned the hug I reviewed her 'file' That I had from Peter's memories
His (my?) sister, Teresa Parker, is 13, born May 17th, 1995, skipped two grades so as to be in the same class as me (oh did I mention both of us are apparently geniuses?)
"so..." I said, not getting out of the hug.
"so..." She responded, not getting out of the hug either.
"we got bitten by radioactive (interdimensional in my case) spiders."
"Yup" she said, popping the p with a smile in her voice
"we have spider powers now" a smile made its way into my voice too
"what do you think we should do?"
I sighed, as seriousness made its way into my voice.
"As I said the spider that bit me wasn't the same type as yours, mine was a clone of the interdimensional one. When it bit me I saw all the lives of all the Peter Parkers in this multiverse. It was sad." My voice started cracking. "Billions of times I thought I could use these powers to get money and I paid for thinking that with Uncle Ben's life. And then I realized I could use the powers to save people. And I don't want Uncle Ben to pay the price. There are two phrases that almost all Parkers say. One of them Uncle Ben has said repeatedly to us: 'with great power comes great responsibility' the other was made by a lot of my doppelgangers: 'when you have the power that we have, and you don't do anything, the people who die die because of you.'" At this point, tears were flowing freely as I remembered a Peter that lost everyone because of the Devil's Breath and he didn't do anything about it till it was too late. "I am not telling you what to do with your powers, you can use it or not use it its your choice. But I can't not use these powers for good, the price is too high. For now though, we're sitting ducks you're hugging me and I am hugging you and we're staying like that." I gave a wet laugh "but it's not all sad, we aren't alone and we're not the the only ones with powers. The world is large Tess" (apparently that's her nickname) "and we have a lot of fun in this ride. But remember whatever you choose to do I am there for you and you're my little s-sister no matter what. But enough serious. Lets just stay here and fall asleep." I said, feeling sleepy.
"Me too..." She said, as her voice waned out.
I gave a light laugh as I heard her heartbeat steadying, then after a couple moments, fell asleep myself.
