A few things before I start the latest short stories.
There IS a heavy theme of family and togetherness. I typed the first chapter while I was in the hospital when my daughter was born. It kind of influenced a lot of my plot.
I like to cherry pick from the myriad of continuity available. I recently fit a little of the Marvel Adventures into my (mostly 616) plot.
I apologize to those having a hard time following anything I do. I've read hundreds (possibly over a thousand) of Spider-Man issues, so I write like something I would enjoy reading. I'm not perfect, so I may get some details wrong.
About 75% of the story is pure Marvel. The last 25% is me twisting things together, making absurd connections, and generally being a nuisance. This story is mostly a collection of my fan theories given form.
Just about every character that has a name has been used in one comic or another, and I encourage everyone to support the industry and buy the issues to find out more about them. Even Leni was an alias Mystique used on occasion. I think the only original characters that had speaking roles was the bartender and the parasite.
The extra Spiders come from familiar, but slightly different universes. Pete and Jessica, about the same as the normal Ultimate universe, except their a bit older. Like from the Marvel 1717 universe or something. Spider MJ is already established as coming from a universe where they never encountered the Exiles. April is from an alternate future of another universe where things went kind of bad. And Miguel is from a possible future. And they're all in a Marvel 717 universe of my own design.
I've already established I'm not a fan of Silk (although I may use the codename). She will not be appearing in any form.
Comic book science. I try to make it plausible (within the realm of fiction anyway). Especially with the other nerds Peter has been hanging with.
I guess I confused a few people with my last chapter. I tried to be clever and hint and imply a few things. I made the story up and tried to hammer it into the timeline.
Chat was killed being hit by a car. No revenge plot, no conspiracy, just something that could happen to anyone. This was the third person Peter lost as Spider-Man. (For those of you savy enough, I'm counting that relationship after Betty Brant, so her brother was the second.) Emma is distraught losing her best friend and rips Peter's memories of her away. Waking up in the cemetery, confused and finding Ben's grave sets him on a spiral of depression that plays to the concept I had of his powers fluctuating with his mood. Mental Confusion+Circumstance causes him to feel like a failure, strong enough feelings that cause him to temporarily lose his powers. In escence, Emma caused the power failure at the time of the first Sinister Six attack, while she at the same time was joining the Hellfire Club.
The blonde transferring schools is Gwen. She was in the Marvel Adventure stories. I wanted a plausible explanation for them all to interact, yet not remember each other later. Captain Stacey realizes something is "off" at the school, and doesn't want his daughter involved. Admittedly, I haven't read as much of the Marvel Adventures stories, so I'm not sure how much she interacted with the main cast. But I'm going off of them interacting with Chat involved, so when those memories are erased, their interactions are forgotten or smudged enough they don't realize they know each other later.
As always, I welcome questions and comments and I hope you enjoy.