"So, are we about to see your amazing wrestling career?" Peter-3 smirked at his alter as Peter-2 mock glared at him.
"I'll have you know I won my only fight, you whipper-snapper." Peter-2 joked.
"I do want to see what you use, did you use all of your powers?" Scott asked.
Peter snuck into the wrestling arena, to see the wrestler, Bonesaw, crush another competitor. Peter watched the crowd cheer for Bonesaw, the commentator telling everyone to give it up to Bonesaw, before asking if there was anyone man enough to stand up to Bonesaw for 3 minutes.
"That guy looks really built, even with your powers, you sure you can take him, you're only just starting out?" Hope asked Peter-2.
"Oh, don't worry, I handled it." Peter-2 smiled back at her, before frowning when the commentator came onto the stage.
"You ok?" Druig asked, seeing the smile drop from Peter's face.
"I'd forgotten about him really, but you see the commentator? He'll pop up a few times in these if they cover my entire journey around these villains." Peter-2 explained.
"Why would he?" Tony asked.
"He's called Quentin Beck. He's my universe's Mysterio. He was tough to fight when he revealed his true self." Peter-2 said.
"Your Mysterio?" Happy asked, perking up, noticing MJ, Betty and Ned, who had more experience with him than the rest, also paying more attention.
"Yeah, he's into illusions, just like yours was. He didn't use tech really though, I think he actually did have something going on." Peter-2 said. "Eventually, I found out about what he was doing, he was working with some others to steal things, you know, the general villain behaviour, but eventually I was able to stop him."
The commentator tried to hype Peter up to the crowd, and hearing he planned to go by the name "The Human Spider", he decided to announce him as "Spider-Man." Peter tried to argue that it wasn't his name, as he was pushed towards the ring, the crowd and the support cast all booing him and threatening him, food and drink thrown at him as Peter climbed into the ring.
"The Human Spider? Really?" Natasha asked, arching her eyebrow.
"I mean, I wasn't planning to be a hero, and I figured it worked well!" Peter-2 defended his past self. "I think it worked out well."
"I like how you got the name Spider-Man from a villain." MJ winked at Peter-2.
"I'd have thought of it eventually!" Peter-2 argued.
The cage came down as Peter protested that he hadn't signed up for a cage match. Bonesaw attacked him as he jumped into the air and mocked Bonesaw, before he used his webs to avoid him again. Before Peter could do much more, Bonesaw attacked him with a chair and then attempted to hit him with a crowbar. Peter then used his foot to deliver multiple kicks to his face and knocked Bonesaw out, being declared the new champion.
"Wow, a gay joke, really?" Cindy asked, annoyed.
"I can't defend that." Peter-2 shrugged. "All I can say was it was a different time really, but I know that's weak, I regret it, it was a dumb thing to say and all I can do is apologise."
"Hmm." Cindy nodded tightly. Peter-3 also frowned at his other self, a sinking feeling in his chest. Is this what Peter-2 thought about others?
"So, new champion? Ever defend that title?" Peter-3 asked his alter quietly.
"Nope." Peter-2 firmly said, seeing a lost look in Peter-3's eyes and feeling a slight pang. Had he done that to him, with his past remark? He'd speak to his other self when they got a moment, clear the air, he mentally promised.
In the back office, Peter was given $100 and told that the $3000 was for lasting 3 minutes, he won in 2, so it was $100 and he was lucky to get that, when he said he needed the money, the organiser asked what part of it was his problem. Peter left the room as another man, with blond hair walked into the room.
"He's ripping you off!" Kingo said, incensed at the dishonesty.
"Yeah, but he was scum, so what can you expect?" Betty asked, taking in the scene.
"What part of that is his problem? He had a deal with you!" Clint growled.
"I've met guys like him before, caring only for themselves and their bottom line." Tony frowned.
"Carradine." Spider-Man 2 growled, seeing the car thief again.
"Wait, Carradine, as in Dennis Carradine?" Spider-Man 3 asked.
"You know him?" Tony asked, before Spider-Man 2 could mention anything.
"He's the one who killed my Uncle Ben." Spider-Man 3 said. "I guess you'll see it if it shows my origins too."
"I thought he had killed mine, but I was wrong. I ended up chasing him down, wanting him dead, and I got what I wanted, you'll see it soon enough." Spider-Man 2 stated, his head bowed in sorrow as he remembered that time.
"I started as Spider-Man to hunt him down as well." Spider-Man 3 informed them. "I never found him, when I did, he had already been killed by this serial killer, Cletus Kasady, and-"
"Wait, Cletus Kasady is a serial killer in your universe?" Eddie asked, eyes wide.
"Yeah, how do you know Kasady?" Spider-Man 3 asked.
"HE WAS A FUCKING PRICK." Venom helpfully added, rising out of Eddie's back once again.
"Yeah, still never not going to find that weird." Clint murmured.
"Hang on, he had this thing with him, it was like you, but red actually." Spider-Man 3 said.
"CARNAGE IS ALIVE THERE?! WE MUST GO TO THAT UNIVERSE AND KILL IT, EDDIE!" Venom demanded.
"Hey, no, we are not killing other versions of your kids." Eddie insisted.
"Wait, what do you mean, your kids?" Spider-Man 2 asked.
"WE CAN MULTIPLY IF WE FIND A SUITABLE HOST, THE SERIAL KILLER CLETUS KASADY OF OUR UNIVERSE BIT EDDIE AS WE INTERROGATED HIM FOR A STORY AND ABSORBED SOME OF MY POWER, IT DEVELOPED INTO A RED SYMBIOTE, NAMED CARNAGE. RED ONES ARE MORE SADISTIC AND PSYCHOTIC THAN SYMBIOTES OF OTHER COLOURS. WE HAD TO STOP HIM AND WE DID. WE SHALL STOP THIS VERSION FOR YOU AS WELL, AND MAYBE ANOTHER ME." Venom told them.
"No, it's ok, I stopped him, Kasady is in prison and Carnage is dead in my world." Spider-Man 3 insisted. "Though I had no clue that thing was an alien, I just thought Kasady had some spider mutations."
"Well two universes both with a Cletus Kasady and in both he's a serial killer? When we get out of here, I'm gonna to have to run a search for this Kasady in our world. If he's alive in ours, I'll keep tabs on him. If he does become a killer, or he already has, I'll stop him." Rhodey promised.
"No, Rhodey." Bucky said softly. "We will stop him. The Avengers, together."
Peter saw the thief running down the hall and let him past, the guy thanked him as the elevator closed and he escaped, the organiser told Peter he could have stopped him and got his money back for him, Peter said he missed the part where it was his problem.
"Why didn't you stop him?" May asked, frowning. Clearly this May and Ben shared her values and had taught Peter right from wrong.
"I was angry." Peter-2 shrugged. "I'm not proud of it, I know I should have, I knew just afterwards I should have, but I felt this guy had messed with me, and I was an idiot with it."
"Did he kill Ben?" Peter-3 whispered to Peter-2 suddenly as May turned away again. "I let my Carradine go and he shot Ben, did that happen to you?"
"I thought he had, he didn't, but this will probably make it seem like he did." Peter-2 told his alter. "I'm sorry if this is hard on you, Peter."
"I'll be fine." Peter-3 insisted, looking away from Peter-2. He didn't want to think about Carradine for longer than he had to, he didn't want to think about how he had failed Ben. How he had failed to be a good person when he first had the chance. He was trying to be better now, motivated by his other selves, but still, he felt he had failed, and he didn't want to be reminded more of the first.
Peter-2 just looked sadly at his alter before turning back to the screen, worried about what he knew would come next.
Peter headed out of the building to see sirens and lights, heading over, he found a crowd gathered around someone, pushing his way through he saw Uncle Ben on the floor. He was told there was a carjacking, Ben looked at him, and simply said Peter, before his eyes closed.
"Oh God." May cried, seeing another Ben on the floor, thinking back to what had happened to her Ben.
"Peter, I know nothing I could say could change anything." Steve said, seeing the look of pain in both Peter's eyes at the scene. "But I am sorry."
"It's not your fault, Mr Rogers." Peter-2 said. "You don't even exist in my universe. But thank you. This was a long time ago for me, I thought I had moved past this, at least more than I have done." he said, wiping a tear from his eyes.
"It's alright to mourn the ones we've lost." Yelena told them. "To carry them with us is the most important part, to make them a part of us."
"I just wish we had gotten to see more of my time with him." Peter-2 told them all. "He was really the best."
Peter heard the police say where the carjacker was heading and rushed off in pursuit, swinging between the rooftops, he managed to get the man cornered in a warehouse, taking away his weapons and hitting him, Peter realised it was the man he had let go from the wrestling building. The man took a step backwards from Peter and fell out of the window, to his death.
"Damn, seeing you use your powers properly for the first time, it looks amazing." Ned told Peter-2.
"Its a pretty fun feeling to use them, even now." Peter-2 admitted. "That first time, it's like nothing else, even if I just had anger fuelling me at that time."
"Don't you feel angry about it now?" Sersi asked. "He did hurt your loved ones."
"I made a mistake." Peter-2 said. "It'll be revealed later, I'm sure, but Carradine didn't kill my Uncle Ben."
"Who did then?" Matt asked.
"It'll be revealed later on." The Watcher spoke up once more.
"Do you regret it?" MJ asked, seeing the look on Carradine's face and on Peter's face as he fell from the window to his death.
"Yeah, I might not have actually killed him, but I may as well have done. I chased him there, I terrified him, and I forced him towards the window." Peter-2 said. "I hunted him down, I wanted him dead and I got what I wanted, so I do regret this."
If you're wondering how Peter-3 knows of them, Kasady and Carnage are in TASM 2 video game. It'll be non-canon if TASM universe and Venomverse are one and the same, as it seems to be, but I'm keeping it as its interesting.