Epilogue

a soothing song woke Peter from his slumber, the man opened his eyes finding himself back where he had been informed of the power he held that he used against Mephisto .

The Velvet room and it's host welcomed peter back . The otherwordly blue hued train cart rocking along an infinite blackness .

Igor grinned , his large nose shadowing the details of his face just enough to make his teeth shine in the dim lightining of the luxurious cabin , much like his eyes , an hint of amusement and mistery glowing within.

"It seems, honored guest that this short journey is approaching it's end , isn't it ?" the long nosed fellow said calmly.

" yeah , guess so buddy " peter answers in a similar state of calm , sighing loudly .

He wondered if he was even still...

"oh, don't worry , you are still among the living, my master simply informed me of someone wanting to speak with you ." Igor interrupted his musings exchanging them for honest surprise .

And at that moment , the train started losing acceleration before coming to a stop and it's only door opening to a blinding light .

Peter stood up from the chair , and approached it cautiosly before turning to Igor .

The older fellow nodded him along , "go forward honored guest and for the short time it was , you have been one of our most peculiar guests . Good bye and good luck . "

Peter nodded and gave his own good byes before crossing the treshold .

After some few steps the blinding light finally receded and peter found himself elsewhere .

The new area looked like a wonderful savanha , a gentle breeze rustling peter's hair as the sun set in the distance. It seemed empty of human life till he noticed a man sitting under a nearby tree looking on the sunset.

As our hero approached him he noticed some familiar deatils in the figure until he stood just a few feet away , and recognized him.

He looked identical to his final persona . " you are ..."

" pretentious of me bringing you here , isn't it ?"he said , his voice warm and slightly amused. "I suppose something more familiar will do "and with a wave of anansi's hand the savahna gave way to a beatiful scenery of new york at sunset .

Anansi's hand , still raised gently beckoned him over , and Peter not one to be too stubborn with a god (this time) , simply sat on the edge of the building along the first totem of the spider god .

A weirdly amicable silence fell among them , awkardness didn't quite show it's familiar head as they just looked on the eternal sunset the city's noise muffled enough to not be annoiyng in this weird otherwordly plane.

Peter finally curious enough simply asked " Am I in trouble ?" with all the aplomb of a 5 year old who got to the cookies.

Anansi simply shook his head with a smile " what makes you think you are in trouble ?"

"Well, I guess i just ... all the thing with mephisto , my misuse of ..."

"Peter..." the old man just interrupted him gently " one of the other totems across the multiverse is an alternate version of your archnemesis and you saw that he managed to be even worse than him in some ways "

" I am a trickster god, Peter, not too dissimilar from the one you've met before. " anansi looked him in the eye " Virtue is more something in your wheelhouse and I may be more of a story dealer for the spider-god , in order to preserve the web of life and destiny , but I can't say that totem's are supposed to have a moral code even if they tend to be similar to you in that regard ."

silence fell among them once more until the first totem continued "That said, your deal with mephisto had consequences but more for him than for you. Let's just say that the living tribunal's social services are slightly more terrifying than the ones in new jersey ."

Peter audibly gulped , last time he and shocker fought he was still ranting about them like a lunatic having been caught there shop lifting the year prior. Every. Single. Time. they fought since then .

"As far , as what's going to happen to you , Peter... well I can tell you that some things are definetely going to be different. "

"Reality was rewritten once more only it's no longer the same as it was before , some differences are abound , and your personas and your wife's will no longer have awakened , there was no need for them here anymore ."

Peter couldn't help but ask " how ?"

Anansi didn't even sound surprised as he answered " well, let's say I asked a couple friends for help. The beyonder and stephen took care of a couple wrinkles in the timeline and another little thing I am taking care of at this same time. You'll hear how it turns out once you wake up probably. Although to be fair it's just a proposal that both women will have to evaluate . Philemon on the other hand is cleaning up the demonic invasion, he is allowed to since his counterpart had given mephisto some pointers , by the time night falls it will be just a bad dream, one of the ones your city that never sleeps will barely remember come morning "

Fear then clogged peter's throat as he asked " what about May ? B-Both of them ?"

" Your Aunt is Fine , peter , and she'll live out the rest of her natural life . As for your daughter ..."Anansi's tone turned much more sombre at this " she'll still grow without you both unfortunately even if you still found her again, she was important to save the world and that cannot be changed ."

' well I suppose I... ' "Stop it with the guilt , child " Anansi sternly interrupted his thoughts " I 've watched you enough to know how fast you are to it . "

"Listen closely" at this the old demi-god stood up , peter mimicking him quickly . " your Uncle taught you the responsibility of Power ,but responsibility isn't Guilt . Across history People of great power , stained themselves of horrible actions or commited great actions that are sung of today , even across the multiverse someone you may have come to be at odds with here managed to become the greater hero of his earth and guilt did not always dog in their steps even with the consequences of their actions affecting the people closest to them . You didn't choose the circumstances surrounding you that brought you to mephisto , or the hand he had in them and he preyed upon your very guilt. This isn't a call to recklessness mind you , to not care of what happens , but your mistakes aren't what makes the world spin . Other things do and one of them gave you the strenght to overcome someone as strong as that demon lord . So be responsible but don't blind yourselves with guilt .that is all I can offer you ."

Peter could only further internalize something he had started to come to grips with after beating Norman on the Bridge before silently nodding, to the spider-god approving smirk.

At this a web line shot from anansi's bare wrist, latching on a nearby skyscraper , but right before jumping he stopped and turned with an amused expression " Give the Bride my regards once you wake will ya ? Didn't much get the chance for it "

And with that Anansi jumped , web slinging into a blinding light that encompassed peter before leaving him in darkness once more .

A darkness he quickly woke from on a pristine parker industries rooftop , a breezeful night having fallen around him and the two women of his life, sleeping in his arms .

Both him and Rise were back in full costume and mask and everybody's injuries seemed healed , but neither her nor MJ , who was weirdly in simple plain black shorts and sports bra at the moment , the iron spider armor nowhere to be seen, were waking up yet.

At this a still sizable headache and weariness started to settle upon spider-man and after some gentle web work , with both girls strapped to him , he started web slinging back to his apartment.

As he made his way in, dropping gently Rise on the near couch , he was startled by a lamp being turned on ,as he protectively held MJ in his arm bridal style , with the woman uncousciously snuggling in his chest , her red hair confounding with the red of his costume .

"A-Aunt May ? " Peter said realizing he had just taken off his mask as fear filled him at the sight of his mother figure before noticing her non plussed look.

" You could have told me about the impromptu patrol , Petey ." She sighed getting up from the armchair continuing as she took a comforter she then used to cover up the girl on the couch before gently removing her mask . " I know we have a family outing tomorrow but you all could have just played some board games for once. "

"Anyway " she kissed his imitation of a drowning fish face cheek , Mj 's and Rise's forehead before heading for the coat hanger ,and then the door " I have a night at the circle with Anna Watson so I have to leave you. Take care "

Before stopping a moment as the the door closed " You better check on Annie though , before going to sleep she was being terribly fussy "and with a warm smile she was off .

Peter, still a little startled by his mother figure knowing once more, could only notice the small changes to his house as he headed for his ... their bedroom. Drawings on the fridge , toys on the furniture and a big chair in the kitchen . And after leaving his wife on the bed , he headed for the guestroom .

Or what used to be the guestroom .

As he entered, shocks of pink filled his vision, evident even in the dim lighting of a plush tiger nightlite in the corner. Toys, dresses the trappings of little girl room and a bed with a beautiful little red haired little girl sleeping in it .

Peter simply smiled as some new memories started to settle in his mind , before getting close . Annie was sleeping peacefully on her side, the six year old snuggling happily with two plushies . One of spider-man and the other one he could'nt distinguish under her small frame.

Gently he covered her up " Good night , sweetie " before going back to his bedroom.

He was initially surprised to not find MJ in bed, but the light coming from the room's small bathroom clued him in on her location .

Slowly , he headed for the wardrobe and started finally undressing . The wear of the day falling on him even with the injuries now gone . As he placed the costume in the usual compartment, his hands brushed against another fabric . Slowly he took it out seeing his cloth black costume reminding him of ... Kraven .

And another flash of memories , startled the hero bringing him back to those terrible two weeks spent in a grave . Except something was different, remembering the howling wind and freezing rain of the cemetery in kraven's mansion and ... two gentle but strong hands carrying him out of the hole he had dug upwards .

" what the ...? " he could only say before, after hearing the bathroom's door open , he felt his wrist clasped in silky webbing yanked upwards soon followed by the rest of his body suffering the same treatment. He found himself , spider-sense still very silent, in a weirdly familiar situation as the webs hanged him from the ceiling leaving the surface of his forward facing body free .

Wait , not silent . His spider-sense was... Purring?!

"Hey , Tiger" Mary jane's husky tone caught his attention as her body very much fixated it

For starters she had changed , gone were sports bra and shirt , replaced with silkie red bra and white panties lingerie . Both with a beatiful web like see through pattern . Her clothing wasn't the only thing different though . He didn't notice before but MJ's body was ... different from what he remembered. Her Top model assets where still there but they had tone now . Her arms, her legs and even her tummy had some light muscle showing .

And as she strutted towards him , he ... remembered.

He remembered a certain spider-woman in black taking off his mask to kiss him hungrily after getting him out of his grave for the second time . And that woman wasn't Julia .

So he wasn't terribly surprised when Mary Jane shot a web line from her fingertips to hang upside down in front him .

Peter just sighed and smiled fondly before speaking up " we are ... gonna talk about this change later since I think you had an hand in it . But ... welcome back , honey "

"Glad to be here , Pete " she said bubbly with the smug expression of a cat who ate the canary that made her look terribly like Felicia for once . "Now though ... " her tone turned back to lustful " It's payback time !"she sing sang happily before kissing him on the lips.

And as her ministrations started getting frantic, the light's were dimmed under a thin layer of organic webbing , both of their wedding rings still gleaming in the low light.

As the world of marvels around the two heroes kept spinning along a new night , headed for a Brand New Day.

AN: And it's very much done. That took a good year . I may have struggled at times but I am still really happy of the final result .Happy of having gotten this out there and happy for whoever will come to enjoy this fic . So , some small explanation since I want to keep things vague with the ending :

- MJ is the Bride Totem now. Yeah , sorry Silk fans but even she wanted out , so Anansi took the opportunity with the breaking of the deal to course correct a little, offering the two women to make the exchange , which they both jumped on , Silk wanting her normal life back and MJ wanting to make a diiference , with some guilt regarding the aunt may shotting that no longer happened since spider-man ended up n the fringes of the civil war now ,after having been always powerless and having experiences spider-powers during spider-island before and with her track record on career changes she didn't have much of a problem with it . She now works with peter at parker industries never becoming Tony's assistant. Instead she started studying fashion design ,a long her modelling carrer and learned some also creating some outfits with her superior web weaving becoming both a PR marketing and creating a clothing line with peter's help . As for the how , let's say that Stephen from SMT has some time sheananigans under his sleeve , and a certain spider eneded up in the apartment of a couple of newly weds in what was one of their most nightmarish moments. MJ also went through a scarlet spider phase after Ben's sacrifice during the return of the green goblin to honor him . But she is mostly spinneret of course .

-Rise is with her oversea family for golden week so no evoker this time , she also was found with some help from norman's big mouth during the red goblin arc, which did happen this time around , but only after the evnts of P4.

- The events that used to involve silk now have spinneret in them , like spider-Women and spider-verse .She is gonna be even in some of the post new avengers big events and i ' m gonna give glimpses into some of them with small irregular Canon Omakes . I have a decently funny one for AVX.

And that's it ,happy of having finished this fic as I said and an appendix may eventually come with a small nice look into Rise's future . Until then Bye and thanks for reading

R&R