Title: Natasha and the Spider-verse
Author: Blaney
Disclaimer: If I somehow owned or had any kind of controlling interest in Marvel, Disney, or Sony... lets just say several things would have been done differently. I just enjoy making them do what I want.
Timeline: Basically after Infinity War, and Spider-man into the Spider-verse I touch on elements of Endgame but this was started before it came out.
Summery: Peter asks Natasha for a very complicated favor, that has to do with another Spider-kid. She and several of the Avengers get introduced to the Spider-verse and meet a few of Peter's 'family'.
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This is a snap shot of a larger universe I have planned.
I will do my best to give credit where credit is due, so if you see something I missed, feel free to let me know, I will fix it.
So shortly after Infinity War came out. I had an idea for a 'verse' I call '3 moms'. So 90% of Infinity War is as it happened in the movie.
The biggest change is that Natasha was snapped/dusted whatever you want to call it, while Shuri was not.
Also unlike what Peter said in Endgame, they are aware of the time (in a matter of speaking).
So in this universe Peter gains 3 moms; he has his Aunt May, but then Natasha becomes his Spider-mom (cause I live for those stories) then Pepper will start to treat him like a son.
Below is two stories from AO3 that I directly or indirectly reference. I have enjoyed read... and in most cases re-read. I recommend checking them out if you have not.
You do not need to be familiar with them to understand the story, just that if it sounds familiar, that is why.
Pyotr, Petya, Peter by thescribblerdragon I Like Her by ifnotfornatasha
"Hey Nat, can I take you somewhere?" Peter asked as they walked in the avengers area common room, had just finished training, or to be more accurate Nat just finished wiping the floor with her Паучок (little spider). He was staying at the compound for the summer for training and to bond with the other avengers.
"What, like a date?" Natasha said with a raised eyebrow which is the most Peter has ever seen her act surprised. It quickly turned in to the teasing sly smile she often wore when he would say or do something she could tease him.
"What?! No, I uh want to introduce you to; well I guess family is the best way to describe them." Peter knew he was blushing bright pink based on how hot and flush his face felt. It was no secret that Natasha is a very beautiful woman, and Peter was not blind to it, but he knew that even if he was interested in pursuing something along those lines: A she was way, way out of his league, B he was too young for her too even think about something like that. He was content to think of her as his мама паук (momma spider).
"Family?" Once again her eyebrow came up, "You mean someone besides your aunt, that I don't know about?" She had done a very thorough background check to make sure there were no surprises.
"You and Mr. Stark, and the other Avengers are my family too." He is quick to point out. As they moved to the fridge, to each get a bottle of water.
As they moved out of the kitchen into the living room. Natasha once again marveled at the warmth she felt from his words, because while she was not as cold and heartless as she used to be, especially back when she was part of the Red Room. She always assumed that any maternal instinct had long since, been removed. Yet children, especially Peter and Clint's kids always seem to invoke her maternal instincts.
"But I just found out about these guys recently and they are from out of town, way out of town." Peter finished up, not realizing that it raised some warning bells in Natasha's head.
"Maybe you should tell me more about this 'family' you met and where did you meet." While she tried to sound calm and phrase it as a question, but it was more like an order.
Peter noticed, having started to learn the subtle and not so subtle verbal and physical clues that she projected. He still could not read her, most of the time, but he was learning.
"You remember how we were trapped in the soul stone/world, but nobody besides Dr. Strange, King T'Challa, Wanda and myself remembers because the timeline got reset?" He paused for her to nod; it had been strange to experience that. "Well at first I dreamed about them, uh, my powers have a supernatural element to them, yes the spider that bit me was irradiated and had been genetically modified but it choose me. Dr. Strange said I have a totem like King's T'Challa's Black Panther, its call the great weaver. Well there are many other spider-people; I met them when I was dreaming, and since then I've met a few in person." Peter could tell that Natasha was not happy to hear that, she has been very protective of him. "I wasn't in danger, they never set off my Spidey sense, plus, a lot of them are well, me."
"How is that possible?" Natasha said still concerned but keeping an open mind.
"Have you ever heard of the multi-verse theory?"
"It sounds familiar but no." She said they both sit down on the couch.
"The multi-verse theory, which actually isn't a theory anymore because it's been proven, states that there are possibly an infinite number of universes that occupied the same space but vibrate at the different frequency so they don't interact. The random chance means that major events could go differently; like there is one where the Nazis won WWII and there are a scary number of ones were we end up destroying our self. Well there are several groups that kinda monitor different areas of it, we spiders have a section we call it the spider-verse." Peter stopped to take a breath and gauge how much Nat understood.
"Okay I think I understand what you're saying, but what does that have to do with me?" Nat said while she may not have understood everything, she knew enough, having spent so much time around Peter, Stark and Bruce, not to mention that when she first started at SHIELD Coulson was a closet sci-fi geek, so she is not, science illiterate.
"Well one of the others brought their Mr. Stark, and another one brought some guy named Deadpool, funny but kinda crazy. I figured we are spider-people and you are Natasha fucking Romanoff THE Black Widow..." Peter said he smiled when he said that. He had heard MJ call her that once and it had made Natasha laugh, so he says it like that, whenever he can get away with it. "Plus I might kinda need a favor from you, it's hard to explain, well not hard per say but complicated.
"You know that my code name or rather my made up name has nothing to do with spider powers right?" She said joking
"Yes, I know what your code name means; I'm young, not naive."
"Sometimes, Паучок you are both." she ruffled his hair and smiled when he pouted and looked much too young to have so much responsibility on his shoulders. "Okay, I'm curious about your spider-verse, when do we go, and what is the favor?"
"We can go now, if you have time, and it might be easier to explain the favor when we get there."
"There, where is this meeting place, anyway?"
"It's in the 'in between', kinda like limbo." Peter said, "hang on I need to get something from my room."
Natasha wondered what she was getting herself into as she watched Peter walk down the hall towards the bedrooms. The 'in between' did not sound safe. She schooled her facial features when she saw Peter come back with a watch in his hand.
"Мама паук, are you okay?" Peter saw the apprehensive look on her face before she wiped it away.
"I'm just concerned, this place we're going to doesn't sound safe." Natasha said she was both proud of her pupil for noticing her uneasiness and disappointed that she did not hide it better.
"It's safe, there are people who practically live there, there is a small group of spider-people that call themselves web-warriors they spend a lot of time there to watch out for other spider-people and help out when needed." He looked at her somewhat tiling his head to the side, trying to gauge just how much she wanted to do this.
She smiled and pointing at the watch asked "is that how we get to this 'in between' kind of like Strange's ring?"
"Yeah, same basic principle." He looked up and said "FRIDAY we are going to the in between, if you need either of us, you know how to get a hold of me, right?"
"Yes, Peter I have established a link to your watch and will let you know if you are needed." FRIDAY's Scottish lilt drifted both down from the ceiling and up from his watch at the same time. Peter smiled the human quality that both FRIDAY and Karen have, never fail to amaze him. Even the little amount of time he has spent with Vision, it is very easy to forget they are actual AI.
"Okay thank you FRIDAY." Peter looked back at Natasha, "Are you sure you want to go? You don't have to…" He really wanted her to meet everyone else.
"Yes, I want to go, besides you still have to explain this favor you need me to do." Natasha said walking over to stand by Peter.
"Yes, well..." He pressed a button on the watch after he put it on his wrist. "So um, you know when I said that major changes happen on each world, well minor changes happen to. Like in some worlds I am not spider-man, or I am a girl, sometimes who my parents are, are different... so there is one of us that is a couple of years younger, and his mom sacrificed herself to save the rest of their universe. He didn't get the chance to say goodbye and..." He used the fact that they were stepping through the portal to the in between to cover the fact that he was hesitant to ask the favor, he knew it needed to be done and Natasha was the best person to help, but it was well complicated to say the least.