Gonna watch Spider-Man Homecoming again before Morbius, so I can mourn the real Adrian Toomes.
"So, these next few will be following you, Peter?" MJ asked Peter-2.
"Yeah, I guess so, the first few years, my dealings with Doctor Osborn, Otto and Flint." Peter-2 explained.
"I do want to see how the other thing wraps up, but I am excited to see different universes." Bruce remarked.
"Is our Peter going to be ok?" May asked. She was glad to see these other two, they were still Peter after all, but she needed to know where hers was.
"He's fine. Remember, you'll see what happens shortly, and as I've stated before, time does not pass whilst you're here." The Watcher said. "Now, please, on with this."
The scene opened up on a school bus, with a girl sat on it, smiling at her friends as a man narrated that she was the girl next door.
"Is that you narrating?" Happy asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yep." Peter-2 groaned.
"Mary Jane Watson. The woman I've loved since before I liked girls." Before the man explained he wasn't any of the people sat around her, showing him chasing the bus and yelling for it to stop.
"Me in your universe?" MJ asked Peter-2, who nodded.
"As far as I can tell, yeah you're this universes MJ, I mean, this universes version of my MJ, you see why this multiverse stuff is confusing?" Peter-2 asked everyone, most of them nodding in agreement.
"I'm assuming that's you?" Abe questioned.
"Yup, that's me before I got my powers." Peter-2 explained. "Back then, I was just regular old Peter Parker, local nerd."
"Catch a cab, Parker!" A jock on the bus yelled as Mary Jane got the driver to stop the bus.
"Jerks." Natasha muttered. "At least this MJ seems nice."
"I'm starting to see how they were so confused when you called out for Peter in the lab, Ned." MJ whispered to her best friend.
One of the jocks nodded to another and stuck his leg out as Peter passed, tripping him and sending him flying.
"How do you not react to that?" Peter-3 asked.
"Years of practise. I haven't seen most of these guys in nearly twenty years, so that also helps."
They arrived at Columbia University as the teacher spoke to them all, addressing them as Midtown High.
"Oh, you went to Midtown too?" Tony asked, unsure where he stood with these two new Peters. He knew his Peter, but these two, they didn't seem as eager to get to know him. Had they said they knew Tony Stark?
"Yeah, so did I." Peter-3 nodded. "Guess it's universal."
Mary Jane waved towards where Peter stood, as he awkwardly raised his hand and waved, she smiled as two girls behind him waved back to her and ran up to talk with her, Peter lowered his hand with a sad smile as he followed the rest of the class into the building.
"Rejected." Cindy said, as Peter-2 laughed.
"Oh God, did we do that?" MJ asked Ned, remembering something.
"What do you mean?" Ned asked.
"A few weeks after the fight, you came to Peter Pans and I gave you a donut as I was serving a weird customer. I waved to you and he raised his hand at first, before putting it down, that alone seemed odd to me. He introduced himself as Peter Parker."
A Rolls pulled up outside, with two men, Harry and Norman Osborn inside of it. Harry tried to get the driver to pull up around the corner, embarrassed that he was possibly up showing all the public school kids with his wealth. Norman told him not to be ashamed of who he was and that he wouldn't be with public school kids if he didn't drop out of every private school he was sent too.
"Doctor Osborn." Peter-2 said firmly, noticing the hostile looks the screen was getting from most of the room, and the stunned look that May was giving it. "He doesn't have the darker half in him, at least not then,
"So, is this your Harry Osborn?" Clint asked.
"Yeah, my best friend." Peter-2 said with a small sad smile as Ned's eyes widened, he looked over to Peter-2 to see the man looking at him, he gave Ned a small nod, answering the unasked question.
"Seems Norman was a strict father." May finally spoke, her voice shaky as she took in the screen.
"He was, Harry hated that about him, but, after a time, he wished he had more of it."
Harry caught up to Peter and they went to go in as Norman rushed upto them with Harry's bag in his hand, meeting Peter for the first time, he learnt what a genius Peter was from Harry, saying that he was something of a scientist himself. Peter and Norman discussed nanotechnology and Norman's research into it before the two of them left.
"He's a genius then, great." Bruce remarked.
"Well, you don't set up a multi billion dollar company as an idiot." Peter-2 noted. "But sadly, the Goblin is just as intelligent."
"What year is this?" Tony spoke up.
"Erm, 2002?" Peter-2 asked.
"Nanotechnology in 2002? And our Peter said our science was advanced. The wider world here barely had nanotechnology starting in 2016."
"He doesn't seem too bad." Peter told Harry.
"He wasn't, at that time." Peter-2 admitted.
"Yeah, if you're a genius. I think he wants to adopt you."
"I feel sorry for Harry, clearly he just wants his fathers approval, and he thinks he'll never get it." Kate said. "I can only guess what resentment that'll breed."
"Oh, you have no idea." Peter-2 laughed.
"Imagine, Peter Osborn." Bucky grinned.
"I'd rather not know if there's a universe where Norman Osborn is my father." Peter-3 piped up.
As they toured the university, the tour guide discussed their experiments with spiders as Peter geeked out over the advanced equipment they had, as Harry looked bored, and Mary Jane tried to fend off the advances of the lead jock.
"At least she wants to learn." MJ nodded at her alter, she guessed, with approval.
"Spiders, eh? Is this going to be what I think it is?" Happy asked.
"The day I got my powers, yeah." Peter-2 admitted.
Peter and Harry discuss spiders as Harry seems bored with all of it, as the jocks try to knock Peter off of taking his photos for the school paper. The teacher reprimands all of them and tells them to settle down.
"What assholes." Yelena spat.
"At least you're trying to educate him." Bruce smiled at Peter-2. "A noble idea, Mr Parker."
"Yeah, Harry was always smart, he just always lacked focus on some things, I guess." Peter-2 noted.
"Always gotta keep focused." Matt said.
Harry told Peter to talk with Mary Jane, as Peter chickened out, Harry went to talk with her instead, telling her spider facts to impress her. The guide discussed that they had 15 genetic super spiders, with Mary Jane pointing out one was missing, the guide said the scientists must be working on it as it cut up to show the spider in a web high above them.
"Genetics in 2002 on spiders that advanced? That's pretty impressive." Natasha said.
"Well, I'm not sure who worked on the project, but it was definitely something." Peter-2 said.
"I don't think they're working on that spider." Flash joked.
Peter approached Mary Jane as the rest of the class moved on, asking to take her photo with the spiders, as she posed for him, the super spider dropped down on its web and landed on Peter's hand, biting him.
"That must have hurt!" Ned yelped, seeing the spider bite.
"Oh, it did." Peter-2 said.
"Mine did too, felt awful for ages afterwards." Peter-3 agreed.
"Is that how our Peter got his powers?" Cindy asked.
"Yes." The Watcher simply stated. "Most Spider-Men get their powers this way."
"I hope we can see that sometime, but I also don't want to see that." Abe stated, as they all turned back to the screen.