8/26/21. This chapter was edited.

Alright people, let's do this one last time

It starts when it is supposed to end.

Miles releases his hold on him, and as he falls, the only thing he can think about, the only thing he feels, is the absolute certainty that no matter what the boy faces in the future, he will triumph. He is incredibly proud of him.

His last moments in that universe, far from the intrusive and useless worries that usually torment his mind, are dedicated to the boy who has done so much for him without knowing it.

Peter misses him already. Will there be any way to see him again, without screwing up the multiverse in the process?

Miles's smile stays with him as he plunges into the ocean of fast and furious colors that is the portal, in the not-so-distant sounds that he recognizes belong to his New York. His city calls him, and it is not until that moment that he listens to it that he realizes how much he longs to be back home, how terrified he was of dying in a universe that was not his own, of not being able to apologize to MJ.

God, he loves that kid so much for giving him another chance.

The exit of the portal is getting bigger, closer. He's almost there, and Peter is scared of what lies ahead, terribly scared, but he's excited too, willing to take whatever risks it takes.

It's all about a leap of faith, right? He wants to take that leap.

Of course, because that's his life, it's at that exact moment that Peter's spider sense kicks in.

Danger, danger, danger.

Something is happening, what is happening?

There are no enemies or threats in sight, there is nothing to fight or protect against, nothing he can identify. His experience on the portal is just as he remembers it, and although that should mean that in theory everything is fine, although he would like to believe that his spider sense is only somewhat damaged by dimensional travel, Peter knows better.

With a conviction that only comes from the many years that he has been wearing the suit, Peter knows that somehow, things just got complicated.

He goes through the portal.

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Maybe it's because he's more alert than last time, or maybe it's just luck, but he successfully manages to avoid crashing head-on into another billboard.

It would be nice, a good way to start his victorious return to his dimension, if it weren't that Peter was waiting for his bed, his room. The signboard in the middle of Time Square is an unexpected and annoying surprise, one that lets him know he's not where he should be. The advertising of the sign, familiar but at the same time not, indicates that it is not even in the correct universe.

(Koca Soda? Really?)

He lets out a groan of infinite suffering. Damn, at this point he should know better than to believe that it would be so easy to go home; bad luck haunts all Spider-Man.

It's that thought, the other arachnid people, that forces him to venture through the crowded city, perhaps one of the others runs with the same fate and is with him in ... the dimension in which he is now?

Either way, because he can't walk around New York dressed as if he were going to Comic-Con, much less before he knows what Spider-Man's situation is in this reality, he decides to look for some clothing that covers the suit. This is how he comes across the same type of outfit he was wearing recently, with the baggy pants, the green coat, and the uneven shoes; a stroke of luck, he had found everything in the exact same place as before, and the coat had some money in its pocket!

But because at this point he can't expect good things to last, his stroke of luck ends there. His atoms go wild a couple of times as he aimlessly navigates a New York similar to his own, quite determined to make him suffer, and it is at the end of one of these rather nasty glitches that he can almost accidentally observe on a huge screen in the middle of the city the news.

There's a report on the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and his latest heroic act, on him (looks like a man, maybe even a Peter Parker, based on the suit almost identical to his own, though he wouldn't bet on that given the possibilities) promising to investigate, eh, something that seems to have happened recently, something that he intuits perhaps has to do with him, but that of course they don't explain in detail, because the universe always conspires against him and nothing could be that easy.

Ah, he's getting old for this.

The original hero of this universe would probably know why he's in it, assuming his stay wasn't the product of a mistake with Miles's dimension collider. Or, if not, it would be vital to have the other arachnid on his side for his return home, teamwork and all that.

Also, if any of the others had the same bad luck and were running as lost as he was around that place, it was pretty certain that they would also go after the man swinging through the city.

So locating Spider-Man seemed like the way to go.

(It has nothing to do with his curiosity about who wears the mask in this place.)

However, locating the spider in this rare universe is more difficult than he likes to admit. For four long days he searches under every rock for the elusive vigilante to the point that it almost leads him to think that the earth swallowed him. Without daring to visit Aunt May's or MJ's house again because feelings that he is not willing to evaluate right now threaten at the very idea of approaching either of them, the only places to look for the spider are reduced to all his own favorite sites to waste time, which ends up being useless. The spider is absent.

It's frustrating. Maybe the local hero is not Peter Parker here, maybe he has no relationship with Peter, and it wouldn't be so bad if that didn't greatly reduce any ideas he had to find him.

His best option had been to find him during crime scenes; he believed that no matter what, the vigilante would show up to save the day.

It's worrying when he doesn't.

The Amazing Spider-Man doesn't appear in any crime, neither the small ones nor the biggest ones, and that alone is enough to scare him.

Peter, being the human disaster that he was, even in his lowest moments had heeded calls for help; great power, great responsibility and all that. If Spidey ignores this ...

Perhaps the old Peter, the one who had not been sucked out of his home and thrown into another reality, could have ignored the crimes in a world that was not his. But the Peter of now who had met Miles and the others, the one who didn't want to disappoint them and was terribly influenced by them, couldn't leave it at that.

Against all sense of self-preservation, ignoring his weary, protesting bones, Peter B. Parker throws down his coat and puts on his mask, he saves the city as he searches the crowds for the original spider from this dimension.

Where is he?

When he begins to think that maybe he should visit Aunt May after all, his brain decides to give him an outlet he hadn't considered: chasing the bad guys for information. It wouldn't be so strange if the other Spider-Man was trying to save New York (or the world) from something big enough to grab his attention, which would explain his absence; sometimes villains get greedy like this. Maybe he was looking for / stealing information, or infiltrated somewhere? It was possible. It was also an option that the problem of colliders and Fisk was repeated in this place, but he is going to ignore that, as convenient as it would be to have a collider on hand, he's not going to complicate his life thinking about it.

He already saved a couple of dimensions, he would not like to repeat it again, a man needs a break.

(Parker sends to the back of his mind the thought that perhaps, this dimension no longer had a Spider-Man).

Following dangerous criminals then seems to be a good way to find out where his other self is. KingPin, as big and menacing as he is, is terrible at knowing when he has a pursuer, his bodyguards are even worse, even if the pursuer wears a red-blue spandex that screams "Look at me!". This is how Peter, Spider-Man, finds himself behind one of his enemies, following him to his secret lair or whatever, underneath the Fisk Tower itself.

(There are warning bells ringing loudly in his head, but Peter continues to ignore that. Really, it's just a coincidence. Probably every Fisk in the multiverse does their villain stuff under the tower. The location doesn't mean he's trying to kidnap his wife and son from another universe, nope.

But in truth he is not as good at ignoring that. There's a reason he's following KingPin instead of any other criminal.)

And then, because that's his luck, he finds himself looking at another super collider; he doesn't know whether to feel surprised or resigned. Sure, the machine is great to return him to his home, but it also means he has a hero's work to do because, ugh, he's not supposed to let dimensions collapse.

Either way, however, it's the sight of the Green Goblin and the Prowler having a confrontation with the Spider Man he was looking for that leads him to be shocked in the end.

Hey, he really didn't expect it to work! He could already see himself going to Aunt May's house for help, but the unexpected success in his mission leaves him with a sense of pride.

From the ceiling where he stands, just above Fisk and hidden in the shadows, he follows with his eyes the brief and brutal battle that his counterpart faces, vaguely interested. There was a time when he could move as well as that guy, but when you've been in this job for more than two decades you tend to replace flashy, dramatic moves with ones that won't hurt your back the next day.

Whatever, Peter briefly considers joining the fight and helping the guy, but in the end he dismisses the idea. Fighting the Green Goblin is exhausting even on his best days, and obviously the other has the situation under control, no matter how much it may not seem like it to the untrained eye, Peter, as the expert who doesn't feel like getting hit, knows that everything is fine. At least until he sees Norman holding Spider-Man in the middle of the collider, until he sees and feels the resulting explosion.

Eh, maybe he should have stopped that from happening.

His spider sense is conveniently effective in warning him of the explosion and its dangers, but it also makes him take seriously the situation in which he finds himself, enough to get involved.

When the rubble and dirt settles, Peter makes the abrupt decision to quickly leave the building, preferably with a spider on his shoulder. The red-blue is not hard to find among the blacks, grays and browns, but what he sees forces him to wince in sympathy. It's obvious even from afar that the other hero took a hard hit from the explosion, but he will be okay. Peter will take care of that.

Spidey in sight, B. Parker soon finds himself in midair, swinging up to the other with the firm intention of grabbing him and speeding away from the Fisk property, when an impossible sight makes him stop, when disbelief forces him down.

His feet touch the ground at a distance still far from his original destination, too out in the open for anyone to see and attack, but this really is the last thing he cares about.

Because there, in front of the Spider-Man of this dimension, is Miles.

No no no.

Peter's mind panics when his gaze falls on the boy he thought he had left behind, who he thought he would never see again.

His thoughts overwhelm him, they run through his mind trying to understand all the information that begins to accumulate, come together and shape something that he really does not have time to understand right now. He is shaking, and maybe he's breathing too fast? Damn, get your shit together, Parker. This is not the time to be overwhelmed.

He takes a deep breath. He's not ready to see Miles, not so soon, not when he was getting used to the idea that he wouldn't see him again, but if he could handle a reunion with Aunt May and MJ, he should be able to handle the boy.

He will be able, there is no other option. He has work to do.

With determination, he puts every thought that could be a hindrance to the back of his mind. There is a conversation going on between the other Spider-Man and the boy, one that he is not able to hear but that he can almost imagine when he sees his other self push the brat away, when his spider sense triggers one warning after another.

There is no doubt that the hero has a plan in his head, something very selfless and noble, totally brave that has a good chance of failing, and that, that is a no-no. Peter did not spend days looking for the spider of this universe for him to decide to go ahead with a probable suicidal plan, not if he has anything to say about it.

KingPin is coming up, and yeah, it seems like it's time to step in.

He throws himself into the air.

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I have no idea what I'm doing.

I apologize if there are any errors in this fic, English is not my first language and I am doing my best. Do not be afraid to correct me!

Thanks so much for reading!