This contains spoilers for my story "The Dark God of Thunder" since I haven't finished it yet. I did want to get started on this, so I recommend reading that first to understand the characters I'm using. Also, I will be revealing the ultimate fates of several characters, mainly deaths, and relationships that form.
I hope you enjoy and watch me divert from pre-existing canon.
Warning: this story features interdimensional travel. It can also get really dark at times. There will be Carnage.
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Izuku winced in pain as he slid into bed, trying to ignore the pain from when Kacchan blasted him after school for getting in his way. He tried his best to hide it from his mother, but she kept asking if everything was okay at school. He lied and said everything was OK and just went into his room until dinner. It hurt less when they started eating, but it still felt sore when Izuku sat in his chair since he took a hit to the back.
He was glad when they finally got done, and he could go back to his room to watch superhero clips. Watching some of his personal heroes fight evil-doers helped him forget about his troubles.
Inko watched her son shuffle off to his room, his mannerisms betraying her son's true feelings. She honestly wished he'd tell her what was going on at school, but he refused. It honestly wasn't healthy for him to keep everything bottled up. Inko tried to push these thoughts away as she turned on the news.
Several hours later, Izuku woke up to the sound of screaming from outside his window. He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as he pulled back the curtain to look, not seeing anything for a few moments. Until a young woman began running down the street, clutching her arm as she looked around in fear, all the six-year-old boy could do was watch as a wriggling mass of red tentacles and spikes landed on top of her.
The next moments would be burned into his memory forever as a horrific scream erupted from the woman. The monster readily tore her to pieces, greedily devouring its prey as it recovered biomass. The current host it had bonded to was already starting to die, but he'd do for a bit longer as Carnage finished devouring the girlfriend. The symbiote had just finished licking blood off a severed arm as it tilted its head towards the nearby house, seeing a traumatized kid looking at him in horror.
Izuku saw the monster looking at him as he took several steps back, his flight instincts kicking in as the door opened behind him.
"Izuku, we need to leave," Inko said as she grabbed her son. However, both of the Midoriya's froze up as the monster launched itself at the window. The next few seconds were a blur as Izuku was thrown into the hall, and the creature broke in, its pseudopods slicing up the room. Izuku and Inko made it to their living room when it finally caught up with them, a tentacle slicing through Inko's leg and dropping the mother to the ground.
Inko tried to ignore the pain as she looked at her kitchen and used her Quirk to pull every dish, utensil, and object she could onto the monster. Her adrenaline is the only reason she doesn't pass out.
"Keep running, Izuku!" She shouts to her son as the monster is bludgeoned and stabbed repeatedly. Unfortunately, all this seemed to do is piss the monster off as it pounces on her, shoving various sharpened pseudopods through her body. Inko almost blacked out from the pain as its clawed hand wrapped around her throat.
"No DYING YET, I PREFER MY PREY TO BE WARM AND WRIGGLING," Carnage said as it got to work draining her. It had almost recovered from Thor's lightning attack and then getting lit on fire by that guy in blue, which was a good thing since his current host was nearly used up.
"Get away from my mom!" Izuku says as he runs at Carnage with a frying pan. The symbiote let out a bark of laughter as two of its tentacles slashed across Izuku's body, leaving deep cuts across his chest and one running down his face and neck.
"NEXT TIME, TRY NOT TO ADVERTISE YOUR ATTACK!" Carnage said as he got back to feeding on the mother as her son watched helplessly.
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Batman rushed down the street; his guns were drawn as he tracked the monster. He doubted he had enough ammo, or firepower for that matter, to kill the thing, but he'd make it hurt.
"How's it going, Jason?" Rose Wilson asked her fiance over comms. They found her a safe place to hold up after she broke her arm in the last battle.
"I'm currently following its path of destruction, but I think I'm getting close," Jason answered as he rounded the street corner. Down the road, he saw the remains of Carnage's victim and a hole in a nearby house. If he was quick, he could save whoever was inside.
Not wasting any more time, Jason slammed into the front door and broke it loose, allowing him to see Carnage and his newest victim. The symbiote screamed in pain as Batman's explosive rounds riddled his body, blowing massive chunks away, though its healing factor was hard at work. With Inko already dead, it rushed Batman, who used his last bullet to blow off its head. Carnage took a few moments to regenerate its head, giving Jason enough time to activate his shock gauntlets.
Massive amounts of electricity ran through Carnage's body as it sliced its claws into Batman's armor. Luckily for Jason, it was much thicker than the symbiote had been used to dealing with, allow him to last slightly longer than an average person would in combat against the psychotic lab experiment. Eventually, it got a few lucky hits in, causing blood to flow down Batman's armor. With its opponent now weakened, Carnage threw him out of the house and prepared to pounce.
Jason rolled upon landing, ignoring the pain coursing through his body as he clasped his helmet, making sure to disconnect it from the rest of the armor. When Carnage was in the middle of its arc, Jason flung his helmet into the symbiote's open mouth. It had a few microseconds to process this before a fiery explosion erupted.
Jason watched the flaming symbiote start to flee, and he would've pursued if he hadn't heard crying from the house. Upon rushing back inside, Jason saw a boy with dark green hair and freckles desperately reaching for his mother.
Izuku turned to look at the stranger as his strength failed him, darkness clouding his vision.
Jason didn't hesitate to begin pulling medical supplies out of his utility belt, working to save the child's life. Of course, he quickly recognized the face, though far younger and less augmented, of the time-traveler known as Oni. The current Batman didn't know if this was the same person, just younger or from an alternate reality, but it didn't matter right now. Because there was a wounded kid who was bleeding out as Jason began bandaging him, all while sirens could be heard in the distance, getting closer.
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Endeavor burned away the webs that covered the warehouse, ignoring the cocooned bodies that fell to the ground as he did. The other heroes quickly evacuated a few that moved as he made his way further inside. It didn't take him long to find the nest, especially as the horrific creature screamed in pain as it dropped a child to the ground while grabbing its face. The heinous creature looked ready to use its six arms against the hostage when the fire-based hero attacked, blasting away the monster.
Wasting no time, Endeavor pulled the little girl free from the webbing, and all the horned girl could do was cry as the Pro-Hero checked her for injuries, his hands bandaged up the wound on her neck. Mina Ashido continued to cry as she was lead out to an ambulance and as her mother fought off a pair of paramedics to comfort her daughter. They were the only family left after that monster was done.
Itsy-Bitsy hissed in pain as her flame-coated body smashed through the wall. It wasn't the most painful thing that happened to her. That belonged to her daddies trying to capture her. However, she didn't like that someone interrupted her Japanese buffet or that the horrible child that hurt her wasn't adequately punished. She would have to make sure to find her another day.
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Benjamin Parker didn't think about why his dad was in the hospital or why he cried after his children hugged him. Peter said nothing for several minutes, even after his little sister, Teresa, wrapped her arms around her brother, trying not to cry as well. It took a few minutes for all eight members of the Parker family (six of them being Peter's kids) to untangle themselves and let Peter breathe. The only one who didn't leave Spider-Man's side was Felix and the two-year-old with platinum blonde hair curled up against his father.
"How bad did the fighting go?" Peter asked his sister after his children gave him some space.
"Well, we fought off Raiden's invasion, but we took some hits," Teresa answered honestly. "I think every team took some damage or lost people. Cap is retiring, he lost an arm, and he's handing the shield down to Eli. Thor lost an eye, but I don't think he noticed. When the pocket dimension collapse, quite a few people ended up getting lost, and we don't know where they are."
Peter subconsciously clenched his fist as he thought back to the multidimensional battle against the insane Thunder God. Then his mind drifted to his final battle with Osborn and of Wade's sacrifice. The memory caused his eyes to widen in realization.
"Teresa, Norman kidnapped a girl named Cassandra before we fought. I couldn't make sure she was okay before I had to face him, but is she okay?" Peter asked, internally pleading that she was safe.
"Don't worry, Peter, I'm alive," Cassandra Wayne said as she rounded the corner. The Black Bat had survived, thankfully, but she could see how tense Peter was at the sight of her crutches and cast. "Don't worry, that Goblin just roughed me up a bit before you saved me. I'll live thanks to you."
"Still, I'm sorry you got kidnapped because you knew me," Peter felt the tears well up in his eyes. Cass was already making her way to his side and wrapped her arms around him. Peter used his strength to keep her up, given she was down a leg. "I never should have let-"
"Don't blame yourself," Cass says as she looks into his eyes. "You had no way of knowing Osborn was out of containment."
The pair just stared into each other's eyes some more before Teresa cleared her throat. "So, big brother, would you care to introduce the nice lady to the rest of your family?"
"Right, Cass, this is my family. The oldest girl is Mary, the two next to her, Ben and Richard, Ben's the blonde one," Peter pointed to the various members of his family. "The next two are my twins, Benjy and Mayday; Felix, my youngest, is the one asleep right now." Peter hears his sister clear her throat. "And that right there is my baby sister, Teresa."
"It's so nice to meet you all finally," Cass said.
Teresa just raised an eyebrow, "So, what kind of relationship do you have with my brother?"
"A friend and confidant," Cassandra offered as she shared a small smile with Peter.
Teresa looked about, ready to snark, when Benjamin walked over to Cassandra and looked into the vigilante's eyes. "Are you a superhero?"
"Yes, where I'm from, I'm a hero known as the Black Bat," she answered as she took a seat and began regaling the children with tales of her adventures in Gotham. Peter couldn't help but smile at the sight before Teresa poked his shoulder.
"Seriously, how are you feeling?" Teresa asked her brother, earning a sigh from the beaten hero.
"I'm done, Teresa," Peter answered. "With being a hero, putting myself in danger. I almost got trapped in another world, where I could have died constantly. It put a lot of things into perspective, and I don't think I can keep going."
"Are you sure? You always said you had a responsibility because of your powers."
"Teresa, it's because of my powers that we lost Uncle Ben and Aunt May, not to mention that I lost Gwen, Felicia, Harry turned into a supervillain, and I had to make a deal with the Venom Symbiote to stand a chance against what the Sinister six became." Peter saw his sister flinch and instantly regretted revealing that last bit.
"Is it still inside you?"
"Yeah, but I'm having it stay hidden for now. I'd rather not freak out the kids," Peter answered honestly. "I think I might have gone a bit overboard in the fight. Did I kill anyone?"
"You didn't kill anyone, thankfully," Teresa said as she picked up Felix so she could sit by her brother. The two-year-old woke up jumped out of her arms and onto his father's chest before falling asleep again. The frown on Teresa's face caused him to smirk. "Eddie's in a coma after SHIELD pulled him out of the burning building. You ended up breaking Octavius' back, so I don't think we have to worry about him. Harry, Kraven, and Scorpion are back in prison, so we don't have to worry about them. Mysterio disappeared during the battle, so we'll probably have to worry about him. Logan killed Rhino, so we don't have to worry about him."
Peter was about ready to ask more questions when he noticed Nick Fury knocking on the door. "Sorry for barging in during such a touching moment, but I have something I need to talk about with Peter."
"You can drop the act, Talos; Fury would never apologize if he had something to discuss," Peter said with a smirk as the Skrull dropped his disguise.
"It was worth a shot, but I have to work on the act," Talos let out a sigh. "The Defenders recently took down a HYDRA cell in the city and freed a bunch of kids who were being experimented on. One of them has a connection to you."
"What kind of connection?" Peter took the file Talos offered and flipped it open. Cassandra and his horde of children drew closer, having been distracted by the shapeshifting alien. Cass moved to Peter's freed side and read the file after seeing how tense Peter became.
Cindy Moon: Project Silk
"She was the only survivor of Project Silk, HYDRA's attempt to make a Spider Army. Everyone else either horrifically mutated into monsters or died. The scientist in charge of the Project, Slott," Talos' eyes drift to May and Benjamin, whose ears were immediately covered by their older siblings. "Had his head smashed in by Cindy when she was released from her cell."
"How is this possible? I burned every file on the Oz Formula and everything in Warren's notes. There is no way they could have-" Peter's words falter at the picture on the next page. It featured a young man who looked exactly like him, except that he had a hole blown through his head. "Unless there was another clone. When was Fury going to tell me about this?"
"He had no plans to do so, especially since this particular clone attempted to kill everyone close to you, including yourself, before replacing you as a 'Superior Spider-Man.' Luckily, he went after the wrong person first."
'The kind who'll do anything to protect him.'
Cass cringed at the memory of Wade when she argued with him.
"Wade killed him and wanted to protect you," The Black Bat mumbled.
Peter clenched his fists, crumpling the file slightly, only calming down when Cassandra placed her hand on his arm. "I'm thankful Fury is finally deciding to tell me about this, but why wait until now?"
"Because he felt you should meet that girl and decide what you'll do with her," Talos answered. "She's only a few rooms away. Whenever you're ready, you just have to walk down."
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Herman Schultz, The Shocker, downed some beer with his old friend Abner Jenkins, Mach-IV, a few days after the funeral. Frederick and James were dead, and both former villains couldn't help but feel guilty that they roped them into being Thunderbolts. Sure, they decided to stay on even after Electro fried Atlas and Techno; but the only reason Ross even recruited them had been at the pair's recommendation. Now, Boomerang and Speed Demon were dead, at the hands of an interdimensional supervillain, no less.
"Room for one more?"
Herman and Abner would have told him to beat it, but they froze when they realized it was Steve Rogers who stood next to their table.
"Sure thing, Captain," Herman tried to sit up straight, but he lost the ability to do that to beers ago. He had to grab the table to keep from falling, but Steve grabs his shoulder to hold him steady. "Thanks, Captain."
"Just go ahead and call me Rogers," Captain America said as he sat beside the pair. Though he wore civilian clothing, Steve was recognizable to anyone sober enough to walk, which weren't many given it was almost the last call. "My condolences for what happened to your friends. I may not have known them well, but they fought by our side. To fallen friends."
"To fallen friends!" Abner and Herman follow suit before draining the last of their glass.
"So, Rogers," Abner began. "What brings you to our little corner, and how did you find us?"
"You are the only people who go out to drink in costume."
Both of the former super-villains looked down, having forgotten they hadn't bothered to change into civilian outfits.
"As for why I'm here, several of the Avengers are retiring after that last fight."
"I heard the announcement, like everyone else on the planet. Are you sure Eli is up to the task?" Herman asked, setting down his glass.
"I've trained him, and he's been working with the Young Avengers," Steve answered. "Plus, you saw how he did during the Incursion into Central Park. I think he's ready to be an Avenger. However, I'm here to offer you an opportunity to continue being heroes."
At this point, Abner also sets down his drink, "What do you mean, Rogers? The Thunderbolts were disbanded, and we all got pardons."
"It doesn't mean you have to stop doing good work," Steve says as he slides a pair of envelopes towards them. "I'll leave you to your drinks, but I hope you consider the offer. The rest of your team have already been asked."
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I hope you enjoy it and let me know what you think.