Back at home, Peter told his Aunt and Uncle he fell off his skateboard, before dragging Peter downstairs to help with the flooded basement. Peter identified the issue and said he'd fix it tomorrow, before Ben asked if the other guy got beat up as well, saying he recognised the signsof a fight and told Peter not to tell his Aunt, before asking him to bring up anything else he found in the basement worth saving from the flooding.
"Really, fell off your skateboard?" Peter-2 snorted.
"Hey, it worked!" Peter-3 defended himself.
"Sure it did." Clint rolled his eyes.
"I see you're a bit of a handyman? Our Peter is the same, a wizard with repairs and tech." Ned smiled.
"See, knew he'd look right through that." Peter-2 teased his alter.
"Yeah, never could get anything past my Uncle Ben." Peter-3 said softly.
"I'll assume you find something important in the flooding?" Cindy asked.
"You'll see." Peter-3 winked.
Peter found an old briefcase underneath some boxes, recognising it as his dads from the night he last saw them. Ben mentioned how 19 year old Richard bought it, and the saleswoman was Peter's mother, and it was how they met. Inside the briefcase was just a few old items and a newspaper clipping of Richard with another scientist.
"Is that Dad's?' Peter-2 asked as Peter-3 nodded.
"Yeah, Uncle Ben explained it to me, think its about to show it."
"Is that how your parents met?" MJ asked Peter-2, who shrugged.
"I have no idea, but I like the idea of it." He smiled.
"That's similar to how Richard and Mary met in this universe, only he was the one in the shop." May told them all as Peter 2 and 3 both had a grin on their faces.
"Who is that with your dad?" Bruce asked Peter-3.
"It says."
Peter explored the items he found, as Ben came into his room to explain the man in the photo was Doctor Curt Connors, a close friend of Richard's, but after his death, they never saw Connors again, he never even called after them or Peter. Ben remarked Gwen, front and centre of Peter's computer screen, was pretty. Peter told Ben he was a good dad.
"Wait, Lizard? This is what he looked like?" Strange's eyes widened.
"Not too bad." Wanda teased as Strange flushed.
"He never even kept in touch? What a jerk." Betty growled.
"He was a jerk, wasn't he?" Peter-3 mused.
"Got a crush, do we?" Scott laughed.
"Yeah." Peter-3 said, sighing as he saw Gwen again, just out of his reach, as always.
Peter then searched about Doctor Connors, finding out there was an Oscorp internship programme he was hosting, as Peter planned to try speak with him, about what his father was doing before he vanished. Peter headed into Oscorp and lied about being an intern, riding up the escalator to the other interns as he passed a presentation about Oscorp's history and its founder, Norman Osborn.
"Smooth lies, really." Bucky smirked.
"I was under pressure! I think I did well." Peter-3 replied.
"I need to teach every Peter Parker how to lie, they're all terrible at it." Natasha stated.
"I'll help." Yelena chimed in.
"Do you really think Connors will be able to help you?" Bruce wondered.
"If anyone could have, it was probably him." Peter-3 said.
"Osborn looks different in this universe." Peter-2 remarked, seeing the hologram of Norman.
"So does Harry." Peter-3 idly stated.
Joining the internship group, they were greeted by Doctor Connor's assistant, Gwen Stacy.
"Oh, you're about to be busted." Eddie grinned.
"Big time." Peter-3 groaned.
Doctor Connors approached the group and explained about his work, asking the interns what they thought, as Peter spoke up, Gwen recognising him immediately. Her and Peter traded barbs about who was the brightest in their class as Doctor Connors took a call and Gwen herded the students out, pulling Peter aside as she did.
"He's definitely got some big ideas, where did it all go wrong and Lizard happen?" Tony pondered.
"I got involved." Peter-3 said.
"I know that look. It's not your fault, whatever he did to himself based on however you helped him, it isn't your fault." MJ told Peter-3 fiercely, who nodded.
"Busted." Hope smirked, seeing Gwen recognise Peter.
"Yeah, not my best disguise attempt." Peter-3 rubbed his head as everyone laughed at him.
"She's going to give you the talk about getting out of there and not ruining it for her, isn't she?" Sersi asked.
"Got it in one." Peter-3 shook his head.
Gwen asked Peter what he was doing as he awkwardly said he loved science, as she jokingly accused him of stalking her. She then told him to stick with the group and not get her in trouble, and they would be discussing it later. Gwen led the tour group on as Peter knocked into a man, picking up his files, he saw it was the same symbols as the work his father did, and began to follow the man, sneaking away from the tour group.
"Yeah, that's definitely going to convince her you're there for no specific reason and belong there, instead of, you know, being up to something." Abe shook his head.
"I may have hoped at least?"
"You tell him Gwen." MJ smiled. She was sad she wouldn't ever get to meet Gwen, they seemed like kindred spirits of a kind. Keeping their Peter's in check.
"Wait, that's the symbol from your father's work, isn't it?" Sam asked Peter-3 who nodded.
"You're about to witness history being made."
Peter saw the man leaving a lab with some others and went to enter the lab himself. Seeing they were testing with textiles that appeared to be spider webs, and seeing a room full of spiders, he went inside of it, brushing his fingers against their interconnected webs, the machine suddenly stopped, releasing the spiders. Several landed on Peter, who struggled to get rid of them all.
"Are those spiders?" Tony asked, an eyebrow raised.
"Well, had to find a radioactive spider of my own of some variety." Peter-3 smirked as the room watched with shock as they saw spiders raining down on him.
Peter Parker belated birthday update, next update is coming...eventually. Probably next week at some point. All other fics aren't abandoned, but they're all on semi-hiatus. They'll be updated when I can.