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CHAPTER 8: Still Have Ways to Go

PETER P.O.V.

"Well, so far we can't really determine what's going on at the moment. All of the monitors that were in that facility were shut off." Pepper explains to us. Well isn't that great.

"With that being said, we're going to keep on working on it. You guys should get some rest. It's getting late and you have school tomorrow." Happy says. I couldn't be anymore excited for school right now. It's the only normal thing I've heard all day.

"Well, I should probably work on a way to get back home." Miles says sadly. I feel for him a lot. In a lot of ways I know what he's going through and he knows what I'm going through.

"Hey Miles. I have two bunk beds at my place. You can stay at my house until we get all of this figured out." It would be cool to have two sleepovers in one week, but I don't know how May would feel if I brought a stranger into our house. I mean he doesn't look like he would kill us so it shouldn't be that bad.

"Are you sure you're cool with that?" He asks."Yeah, positive. You can't just wander around in the street."

"Yeah, you right."

"I'll call May and see if she can take all of us home." I pull my phone out. I can take the time to get to know Miles a little bit better.

11:30 PM

So everyone has made it back home and May was very welcoming to Miles so I'm happy about that. Miles had clothes on underneath his suit. We really do have a lot in common.

After the two of us get situated, we both chill out a little bit because let's face it, the two of us deserve it.

"So Peter, how old are you?" He turns to face me."I'm 17. Senior in high school." Even though it doesn't really feel like it."Oh word? I'm 16 and I'm a junior at this fancy school in Brooklyn." Wow, he's around my age too.

"It's nice to finally meet a teenage Peter Parker. The other two were married so they were pretty much grown and probably annoyed by the teenager stuff." Everyone complains about people our age, but I want to know about the other Peters.

"Who were the other Peters married to?" I ask."MJ." He smiles at me, knowing that I was asking for a specific reason."Righttttt." In this universe, hopefully I'll marry an MJ too that I know of."

"So you said you were talking to your friend named Gwen, right?"

"Uhhh, yeah." He says nervously and starts scratching his head. Certainly not just a friend."Is she really your friend orrrrr?"

"I mean, she's cool, funny, and stuff." He keeps scratching his head and goes down to his neck."But if you met her, we could all be this superhero trio or something. She's Spiderwoman in her universe." Ohhhh, a Spiderwoman actually exist. I have to tell MJ.

"She's from another universe. How do you guys hang out together then?" I ask. "I thought the whole thing would get thrown off balance."

"Well, she somehow found a way to do it to where we can hang out and then I would go back home. You know, I can work that long distance really well man. I mean, for us it's long distance. Man, being Spiderman is complicated." Tell me about it. Wait.

"Hold on, you said she found a way to go into different universes without messing everything up?" I sit up.

"Yeah, I mean both of us did." He sits up too and realizes we may have found a lead to fixing our problem."So if we could just do what you did when this happened in your universe, then we can fix everything."

"Yeah, but what about the whole Thanos thing?" He's right. No matter if Thanos is gone or here he's always doing something that's really scary."Yeahhhh, but maybe we could try to make something that will close all the portals."

"You invent stuff?" He asks surprised. Well, I guess I do now."I can make stuff. I made one of my Spiderman suits." I go to my dresser and show him the one I made in Europe."Of course, I didn't get the technology in it. This guy named Tony Stark handed me all of it and I made it." Talking about it is making me sad again.

"Tony Stark did all of that for you?! Wow, that's crazy. Now that I'm thinking about it, Tony Stark is a legend! He's done a lot back in my universe." He says. Wait, was doing a lot or is?

"There's another Tony Stark where you live?" I ask, wanting some answers."Yeah. He's been out just building stuff. One invention after the other." So he's alive over there. I can feel on my face that I just stand there dumbfounded. He's alive in another universe.

"Uh Peter. You okay?" I come back to reality."Yeah. It's just when he snapped to bring all of the people that disintegrated back, he died doing it and I haven't been able to get over it since then." I say as I look down at the suit, still thinking that he's out there somewhere. What if he's different though? What if he acts different?

"Oh. He's really someone that's special to you. Obviously, you're special to him too." Yeah, he is very special."Looks like every Spiderman I meet loses someone important to them." He pauses."In my universe, Kingpin shot my Uncle Aaron, who was the Prowler and he tried to kill me but he didn't know it was me. He protected me and he ended up dying." Damn, that's really rough.

"Well, I remember talking to the Prowler some years ago, and he mentioned he has a nephew that lives here." I tell him, just to make him feel better that the Prowler exist in my universe.

"Yep, that's my Uncle Aaron. It's kind of weird though. I mean he is my uncle, but not my uncle. You know what I'm saying?" That's true. Even if I did consider going to his universe to see Tony, he wouldn't be the Tony that I grew a relationship with. Damnit.

"Yeah, I understand. But you know, we have people that want to help us. I mean, you probably have a ton of friends because you seem really cool. I have two friends, I watch Star Wars, and I'm just a nerd all together."

"You're cool Peter. The fact that you can make your own superhero suit, those other kids playing football have nothing on you!" The two of us laugh."Besides, I don't have that many friends either, but it's the quality of your friends, not the quantity. So take your two friends that were willing to help you fight bad guys vs twenty of them who would leave you from watching Star Wars episodes."

"Well, if you don't think this is weird, you seem like an awesome friend Miles." I say to him, and I regret it 100%. He probably thinks I'm weird for thinking that we're friends already, but I like his vibe. I would hang out with him anyday. Him, Ned, and I could do some really fun guy stuff together. If the universe allows it that is.

"You're a really good friend too Peter." The two of us half smile at each other."So, is there anything you want to do before going to bed?"

"Shouldn't you go to bed? You have school tomorrow."

"It's okay. I'll probably miss the majority of the year anyway."

"Well, if you're cool with it, wanna play video games?" I'm completely down with this idea. I take the Star Wars game and turn on the console. I hand Miles a controller and the theme starts to play.

Now I'm really hoping I don't have a lot to do at school tomorrow.

MORNING

We ended up going to bed at 1:30am. I don't think it was the best move, but it was worth it to be completely honest.

I woke up at 7 and went to go use the bathroom and brush my teeth. Miles was still laying in the bunk bed, but he had his headphones on. What the heck is he going to do while I'm gone? I'm sure he likes to get out and do his own thing, my room isn't that exciting. It's not like an Iron Man room.

"Good morning boys." I could hear May's voice from the door."Good morning Ms. Parker." Miles said so comfortably. Did he meet other May's from different universes too? Weirrrdddd.

After I was done brushing my teeth, I walked out of my bathroom and May was just staring at me."You two look very productive. Miles was folding his clothes and you're already getting ready for school."

"Yeah, that's what I've always been told. My dad doesn't tolerate me being late. Not how I was back in my world." Miles said."Where do you go to school Miles?" May asked.

"I go to a really fancy school. It's kind of like college, and I have a roommate and all of that. I go back to my mom and dad's house on the weekends only." That sounds like a pretty interesting school. How the heck is he going to explain why he's be absent all of these days?

"Speaking of school, what the heck is Miles going to do while I'm going to school?" I look at May, hoping she has an answer."About that. Happy called me last night." She said awkwardly. I couldn't forget that I didn't just have an awkward love life, but May did too.

Apparently her and Happy were feeling two different things, but I could tell May wasn't 100% with her feelings. I think there's still a chance."He told me he needs to make sure Miles is going to be okay. After the whole he can't stay for long periods of time. So Miles, I don't know if you've been to the Avengers Tower before."

"Nope, not at all. I've heard about it though, sounds really cool." Miles said as he finished folding up his clothes."Great. I'll probably take you over there and make sure everything is going to be just fine. Peter, get dressed. Aren't you suppose to be picking up your friends soon?"

"Yeah, I just need to get my clothes on and do my hair. Miles, if you want to use the bathroom it's down the hall to your right."

"Alright, thanks." Miles got some clothes and started going to the bathroom. May walked up closer to me."He's a really sweet kid. I can see the two of you getting close the more he stays here." Now that May noticed it, it hit me even more that I'm going to have to say bye to him at some point.

I know both of us are Spiderman, but he is wayyyy cooler than me. He likes music, he plays video games, and he even talks cool. I wish I wasn't the awkward person that I am.

"Yeah. We have to get him home though so nothing happens to him." I tried to be more positive, but it all keeps coming back to me. Maybe we can find a way for him to come to our universe and we can hang out a bit and then he can go back home when we're cutting it too close. I can make something like that.

"Okay, finish getting ready. You have some work to do." Yeah I sure do. I've already been getting emails from school saying that I have homework. Already…

I put my clothes on in my room since Miles was in the bathroom. I fixed my hair as fast as I could. It doesn't look too terrible. I grabbed my keys and my phone, and since I feel like I haven't seen her or talked to her in forever, I text MJ.

PETER- On my way. Did you get enough sleep?

MJ- I don't feel like I haven't. Did you?

PETER- I went to sleep at 1:30. Miles and I played Star Wars

MJ- Bad Peter.

PETER- Haha. I guess I'll have to manage too.

MJ is honestly a really good girlfriend. I mean, in 10th grade I didn't expect this from her because she was closed off to the public, but she's a really caring person. She was the first person who came to me last night when that whole explosion happened. She helped me when we went back to the Tower, and now she's making sure I slept okay.

How did I get this lucky?

AT SCHOOL

It was finally time to eat again, since MJ brought more food for her, Ned, and I to eat for breakfast this morning. We were all just sitting there, wanting to talk about last night.

"Dude, that was the craziest thing I've ever seen! Way better than a video game for sure." Ned said.

"Yeah, I'd rather watch my boyfriend in an explosion than a character who's on a screen that I don't even know." MJ said sarcastically. I couldn't help but laugh, and Ned started laughing too.

"Guys, Miles had to go to the tower this morning. I think Happy and Pepper are going over some stuff with him. We aren't entirely sure on how to get him home, but Miles told me something last night that might help with Kingpin and the hole in our dimension.

"Like what?" Ned asked."He said this happened in his universe right? Apparently one of his friends found a way to visit without messing up the other universes. I mean, it only solves one of the many problems, but we could find a way to do that with the portals."

"Okay, before we elaborate on that, who was the Thanos guy?" MJ asked. Oh god. A killer. A maniac. So many words that I can use. His hits felt like somebody threw a 1000 pound weight at my face.

"He was a mad Titan. He wasn't a human and he was just insane. He wanted to get rid of half of the universe and he did. He got rid of a lot of the superheroes, including me. He did it so there could be more resources for everyone." I didn't want to keep going on. Because of everything he did, it's the reason why Tony wasn't here. That's where all my anger comes from.

"Wow. Well you said he was a pretty big guy. He could've just sacrificed himself and there would be plenty of resources for everybody." Ned said as he took a bite of his sandwich. The three of us burst of laughter. It was the funniest thing I've heard all day.

The TV in the cafeteria made the loudest noise and it caught everybody's attention. Everyone looked to see what was going on."The news has broken out that there was an explosion in New York last night. Nobody was killed, but there were two Spidermans that were in the building, fighting to stop the explosion."

MJ put her hand on my shoulder. I grabbed her hand and squeezed it. It's official now. Everybody is going to know about the portals in 2 days max.

"Don't let this get to you. Also, don't tell anybody who you are." MJ reminded me. That's the last thing I want to do, especially when all of this mess is breaking out. I start feeling dizzy as I think about it.

"Peter, you okay/" Ned asked, leaning over to look at my face."Peter, you're getting pale in the face. It's okay, we're right here." MJ rested her chin on my shoulder. I couldn't help but tap my foot and stare down at my food, feeling sick to my stomach.

Miles and I have to find a way to end all of this, once and for all.