Peter P.O.V.
I'm just staring at the clock, waiting for it to be 2:45 so I can go home and get all of this taken care of. I don't want to hear about portals, dimensions, or multiverse ever again.
They said it was going to happen tonight. That guy is doing this for a reason I can't even guess. Every bad guy has some type of motive, what is his? Whatever it is, I don't want the people I love to have anything to do with this. It should be me and this portal, that's it.
It makes MJ's words come back to my head. This whole time, has she felt like I'm trying to push her out because she doesn't feel like I'm letting her in? Of course I want her to love me for being Spiderman, but the possibility of that guy doing anything to her. Doing something I might not be able to save her from.
Falling off a tall building, and as I try my hardest to shoot out enough webs so she doesn't fall, so she doesn't…. I can't even bring myself to say it.
"Dude, after you're done fighting that guy, I think the rest of the episodes are going to air by the time you're done." Ned says. I can tell that ever since I drove him and MJ back to school he's been trying to get me to forget about it and everything goes back to normal. So far, it hasn't been working.
"Yeah Ned, we can talk about that later. Just promise me something." He nods at me, fully engaged with what I have to say."As my guy in the chair, promise me you'll do what I need you to do. Listen to every word and take it like life depends on it. I have no idea how this is going to go tonight or in the future, but promise me."
"Okay, I promise Peter." We do our handshake and knowing that he understands what I'm saying makes me feel a lot better. The bell rings and I am ready to get the heck out of here. This is hands down the most interesting first day of school I've ever had.
We go to MJ's last class and I can feel in my heart that she's mad at me, or things between us is starting to get a little testy. I should've known something big like this would come up. That teaching her how to swing and that feeling of happiness would turn into something serious and we would have a disagreement.
I just hope it's not enough for her to question how I feel about her. She has a book in her hand, and she looks ahead and smiles at Ned and I awkwardly. I'm hoping she isn't mad.
She goes for my hand and we walk waffle style again. I think this means she isn't mad, but it looks like she's not trying to say anything. Should I try to say something? I can't have her feel like this. Everything is going so great between the two of us. None of my hero stuff can mess this up. I won't let it mess things up.
"Were you reading in class?" I feel like no matter what you can always make MJ talk when a book is being mentioned in a conversation."Yeah. It's about this girl who had to get her leg removed. It's a dystopian society and the leaders infected her leg because she didn't obey their rules, and she just met a boy and you know how that goes."
Maybe if I just keep talking about books and the multiverse doesn't come up in her head ever again, I won't have to keep telling her she cannot get involved with it. With my free hand, I reach into my pocket to get my phone. A text came from May.
MAY-Mexican for dinner tonight? Out of course
I forgot I promised to do something with her
PETER- Yeah, sounds good.
Butttt I have a whole portal to take down. How am I going to go out to eat and defeat an insanely large dude from sucking our whole universe until a hole? I can't even tell you.
The three of us are driving in the car and I go to drop Ned off at home first."Hey Peter, tell me everything that happens." Ned says when he gets out the car."I will. Later Ned." He closes the door and I wait for him to go inside.
Crap. MJ is staring at me so intense that I can hardly look into her eyes right now. I know she's mad. I know she's probably going to insult me.
"So Ned is in the middle of the dimension thing?" She asked me. I find the courage to look her in the eyes."MJ, it's not like that. I'm telling you right now."
"Then what is it like, Peter? Ned gets to help and I'm the one who has to stay at home and I have to be the damsel in distress." Oh no, I don't want her to think that I think of her that way. She's the strongest girl I know.
"MJ, I don't see you as my damsel in distress. I just don't want those people to hurt you."
"How do you think I felt when you told me yourself that you're Spiderman, and you had access to killer drones and who knows what else?. I was scared for you Peter and I didn't want anything to happen to you. That's why I always followed you everywhere and you didn't say anything then. That's when I realized that when I saw what you could do, I believed in you.
You don't believe I can be there for you. Of course it's a possibility that something could happen to either one of us, but I'm not going to sit here and worry when I can be right by your side. Just like you told me when we were swinging from building to building. Together, like a team."
I'm speechless and I'm not even trying to argue with her. She's right. All of those things I told her that night was true, and everything that happened in Europe she was there for me, fighting those drones with me it felt like. It felt good to know that she was helping me.
I do need help, and I need to know that she's there for me. "You're right MJ. I just, I always feel like everything is on the line when I have to save the world. If anything were to happen to you, I don't know what I will do. I want to know that you're there. That you not only want to be there but that you care."
"And I do." She says confidently. The two of us smile at each other, relieved that we finally came to an agreement, and we know that our relationship is so much more than we both realized. At the same time, we both lean in to kiss each other.
No matter if a new Avengers team comes, she's the best team member.
NIGHTTIME
The time has come, and I still haven't told May about any of this. Ned and MJ know, and Ned plans on driving to be the guy in the chair as MJ is there to give me a reason to keep fighting, and the professional at using a mace.
May and I are eating our food, and I know she's had a long day at work so I know she's been waiting for this. Even better, I figured out how to make the chip to shut the machine down.
Mr. Stark inspired me with everything he's invented to figure it out.
"Peter, what are you thinking about? I swear, you've always been a kid who has their head in the clouds, but also a kid who's looking for something up there." I laugh at her as she hasn't even put the food down yet.
"May, I have something to tell you."
"Oh Peter, what is it?" I pull down my shirt and show her my Spiderman suit. She looks at me in shock, but I need to explain myself first before she says anything."Mr. Stark has a mission for me. These bad guys are trying to put a hole in the dimension, and I have to use a chip to stop it. It's suppose to happen soon."
"Peter, do you know what to do? I mean is that the only thing they told you?"
"I guess it's that simple. I don't know what half of it means but I have to try, right?" More like I have to get this right or we might have to cram more than 14 billion people in our universe.
"Okay. I need you to be careful. You're taking on way more than you were before, it's worrying me." I hate it when May gets worried, because it breaks my heart to think about how stressed she was with Uncle Ben. That's why she's always stressed all the time.
"Don't worry May, I'll be able to do it." I push my plate aside, because if I'm gonna have to do a lot of swinging and fighting, throwing up tamales is not what I planned for my attacks.
"Shouldn't you go now and try to scope it out?" May asked."I guess I should. Wish me luck May!" I say as I get up from the table.
"Peter, do you want a to go box?"
"Uhhh, sure." I say and I leave just like that. I go to a really dark alley and take my regular clothes off, just wearing the Iron Spider Suit. The head piece appears on my face which is my favorite part about the whole thing. Then I start swinging.
I pull out the tracker and track where this is all going to go down. Apparently it's at a facility I've never heard of before, and being a science guy I know a lot about facilities.
"Hey Peter, are you on your way?" Ned asks me through the little walkie talkie we used a long time ago."Yeah, I'm heading over there right now. It's just one building that isn't surrounded by anything else."
"Sounds like something a bad guy would do to not look suspicious." I hear MJ say. Hearing her voice and knowing that she's involved makes me feel a million times better. All of a sudden I see a big plane in the sky. That has to be Happy Hogan himself. It's good that he's here too.
I get to the building and I land on the ground, looking around to see if any windows give anything away. I see lasers shooting like crazy from a huge rectangular window. Well, I think the receptor is in there.
"I found the receptor. Looks like they're fighting already and they haven't even seen me yet."
"Crawl around and try to put the chip in the machine." Ned tells me.
I use my web to propel myself to the window. I open it and I start crawling on to the ceiling. A really big, muscular, and slimy green monster is hitting the ceiling and the walls like a mad man. My senses start flaring up and something is flying towards me. I shoot another web and move out of the way before it hits me.
I don't know what it was, but I'm just glad I was able to dodge it."Peter, are you okay?" MJ asked.
"Yeah, I'm okay. Are you guys okay?"
"Yeah, we're just sitting outside of the building making sure nothing happens outside of it."
"Alright, I'm gonna try to get to the receptor and put the chip in there before someone attempts to kill me."
"Peter! You have to hurry, Kingpin is trying to make it go right now!" Happy screams into my ear. I look over and I see the big guy I saw on the screen with the purple suit dude. I'm actually in the same room as them and it stresses me out even more.
"Yeah, I see that. I'm going right now." I quickly swing my way over to it, but I look over again as Kingpin says."NOW!" A whole bunch of light connects to each other and before it hits me, I swing around it. My senses pick up again and the green dude knocks me off. I quickly shoot a web to the wall and stick to it.
"Dude, you really gotta start fighting and not flail your arms around like a mad man all the time." I say for comedic purposes, but he definitely didn't find it funny because his humongous arm swings at me again. I shoot another web and I land on a part of the receptor. He stares at me and growls, and I really don't know what to do.
"Peter, be careful!" Ned yells. It really doesn't feel great when everybody is shouting orders at me. I see the little slot that looks like my chip goes in, but how in the hell am I going to make it over there?
I shoot a web at his arm and right when I sense that it catches him off guard, I throw it to the lights the receptor is creating. He screams in pain and I make my way over there. As I'm looking at different slots, it's the most confusing thing ever. Which one is it?
I turn to see the green guy targeting me again, but then he gets knocked off and I don't even know how. I look at him in confusion and that's when my confusion grows greater.
Another person is swinging across the room, fighting the green guy. They're getting hit a lot, but it seems like they're holding their own. I still sit there in shock.
"Guys, there's another person fighting!"
"Another person? How did that happen?" MJ asked."I don't even know, but this is unbelievable." The only word I can use in this exact moment. The green guy takes his hand and starts choking them, and I know I have to help. I swing myself to them and start fighting, but he hits both of us off, causing us both to shoot out a web so we can stick to a pillar.
I look at the other person. They have the same suit I have, but it's majority black with some red in it. My senses start going crazy and I can see that they have senses too.
"You're just like me." They say."What's your name?"
"Uh, my name is Peter. Peter Parker. What's your name?"
"My name is Miles Morales."
And so the world has some explaining to do.