Peter dusted himself off and got ready for his date with Mary Jane, who saw a picture of Gwen kissing Spider-Man in a newspaper on her way there, souring her mood. At the restaurant, Peter was stopped by the host, who happened to be the same man from the theatre performance and the wrestling announcer, who kept calling Peter "Pecker".

"That's a good way to keep Mary Jane angry with you." Tony frowned.

"It isn't my fault she saw it!" Peter-2 protested.

"Maybe don't kiss random women next time." Peter-3 glared at his alter. He understood it was the heat of the moment, he did, but knowing his alter had a happy marriage eventually, it annoyed him to see his alter having risked it before, especially with an alter of his own Gwen.

"Is that Mysterio again?" Bruce asked, askance.

"Yeah it is." Peter-2 shook his head. "This time, at least he wasn't been a hindrance, other than the name calling."

"Did he know your secret identity?" Rhodey questioned.

"Yeah, he knew all along, since the night of the ring fight." Peter-2 told them. "He laughed about it at one point, how he made sure to always appear at moments to give me the most irritation."

Peter told him he planned to propose and to hide the ring in champagne, to be given at a hand signal. The man said he would as Peter waited for Mary Jane, as she arrived, they talked about her play, the subject turning to Spider-Man being a star for the city. Peter then waved as he saw Gwen Stacy there with her parents, trying to talk with her and Mary Jane whilst preventing the host from bringing the ring, thinking he had sent the signal.

"That's an extremely cliche proposal." MJ said, looking at Peter-2 with a dead-eyed gaze as he gulped, not noticing the slight twitch at her lips.

"She's not going to like talking about her play." Cindy shook her head.

"Well it wasn't like I knew she had been fired, she kept it from me!" Peter-2 protested.

"It always comes back to Spider-Man, doesn't it?" Flash questioned.

"Sometimes, I really wish it didn't." Peter-2 grumbled as Peter-3 nodded in agreement.

"Of course she's there, this is going to go amazingly well, isn't it?" Eddie grumbled.

"He definitely knew you didn't give the signal then, didn't he?" Tony asked, chuckling.

"Absolutely." Clint agreed.

Gwen left after kissing Peter's cheek, angering Mary Jane, who stormed out of the restaurant after arguing with Peter about his feelings for Gwen, which he said he didn't have, and she was just a friend from school to him. The waiter then brought out the ring, thinking Peter had given the signal again, after Mary Jane had left.

"This is going about as bad as it possibly could, isn't it?" Ned winced.

"You could say that." Peter-2 agreed.

"I can see why she won't believe you, with Gwen acting like that." Steve noted.

"Why is he so determined to mess with you like this?" Sam questioned.

"Because he's an asshole, like our Mysterio was." Bucky snorted.

"Well, true." Sam agreed.

Peter then tried to call Mary Jane to apologise for his actions, her listening to his voicemail but missing him when she decided to pick up the phone. Peter then received a phone call, asking him to come to the police precinct to talk to Captain Stacy.

"Like passing ships in the night." Strange shook his head.

"What does Gwen's father want you for?" Peter-3 asked his alter.

"You'll see." Peter-2 grimaced.

Captain Stacy explained how Dennis Carradine was only an accomplice, and Flint Marko killed Ben Parker, as Peter recognised Marko from the bank truck, running the night Ben died again through his mind as Captain Stacy talked. Peter then said the police weren't doing enough as Stacy said they'd catch Marko.

"Wait, Marko killed Uncle Ben?" Peter-3 asked. "You never mentioned this before."

"It didn't matter who did it. It was done." Peter-2 simply replied.

"Of course it matters! YOU HUNTED DOWN AN INNOCENT MAN!" Peter-3 yelled.

"Hardly innocent." Nebula scowled.

"Look, you don't have the full story yet, when you do, you'll understand." Peter-2 tried to placate his other self.

"Don't defend that monster. At least tell me you caught him."

"I did." Peter-2 nodded.

"At least your past self has the right idea, hunt him down, at all costs. Bring him to justice." Eddie frowned.

"Like I said, it isn't so cut and dry. My past self was blinded by rage and didn't have all the facts. When you do, I'm sure you'll think like I do." Peter-2 rationalised.

Back at Peter's, as he listened to radio scanners, Mary Jane dropped in, telling him she heard what had happened from May, and that she was there for him, and forgave him for his mistake with Gwen. She said everyone needed help sometimes when Peter insisted he was fine, and she left before he fell asleep listening to the police scanner.

"She really cares for you, she knows you well enough that she knows you'll do something stupid if caught up in your own head, if you're enough like me." Peter-3 smiled.

"Yeah, she was the best." Peter-2 gave a small smile back. "I was stuck in my own head alot, too much if anything."

"You need to be Peter more, this obsession, it's clearly eating you up, it's only going to get worse, isn't it?" May asked her nephew sadly.

"You clearly know me so well." Peter-2 drily remarked. "I'll admit, it got bad."

Apologies for the lateness, been working alot of hours recently and had MCM, The Jubilee as well as The Boys, Kenobi and finally watching all of Stranger Things.