At the Bugle, one of the assistants was pitching JJJ a new ad as Betty kept buzzing an intercom to remind JJJ to keep the blood pressure down and to take his pills, as a visibly done JJJ thanked her quietly as he did so.

"It's a really bad ad idea." Cindy sniggered.

"I'm back? Hopefully I've got a bigger role in this one." Betty smiled.

"JJ really has to keep that blood pressure down here too, ranting about Spider-Man." Rhodey stated, frowning.

"I just like how done he looks with the entire thing about watching his health and the loud buzzing." Happy grinned. "What? I picked up some things from the kid." He defended himself at the Avengers staring at him, agape.

Eddie came in with new photos of Spider-Man, creeping out Betty as she welcomed Peter, telling him to get in with JJJ before Eddie could do too much. JJJ decided to run Eddie's photo, as Eddie asked for a staff job. Peter said he deserved it if there was one, JJJ's assistant who knew Peter was Spidey said Peter deserved it, JJJ asked if anyone cared what he wanted. He told them both that whoever found the picture that proved Spider-Man was really a bad guy could have the job.

"Why is my alter such a sleaze-ball?" Eddie moaned.

"No idea, but I'm not into it and neither is that version of me." Betty cringed.

"I don't blame you, I know he's not me and you're not her, but I'm sorry for what he's doing." Eddie offered Betty who smiled, smiling even more as Ned slipped a protective arm over her.

"Yeah, Peter does deserve it!" Sprite argued.

"So does this Robbie know for sure you're Spider-Man?" Ned asked.

"Yeah he does." Peter-2 smiled. "I think we discussed this earlier, didn't we?"

"So I'm going to guess I'm going to frame you somehow?" Eddie asked Peter-2, who grimaced. "That's a yes."

On the street, Peter saw a news report saying that Spider-Man was to be given the freedom of the city as an old man next to him told him how he guessed one person could make a difference.

"You've got the freedom of the city?" Peter-3 asked.

"I do." Peter-2 smiled. "You don't?"

"They don't exactly like me all that much, at least over the last few years." Peter-3 frowned.

"Wait, that old man, he looks familiar." Tony narrowed his eyes as a few others in the hall did the same.

"I think I've seen him before on a bus." Strange noted.

"He cut my hair on Sakaar!" Thor grumbled, still not having forgiven that slight.

"Didn't he drink at the Tower with us, just before Ultron attacked?! Steve questioned.

"I've seen him, he spoke to Venom and I once!" Eddie exclaimed.

"Who is this guy and how is he there?" Natasha frowned.

"He's an informant who works for me and my kind." Uatu spoke up. "He appears many times, watching all of you, assessing threats, letting us know if we need to intervene to help keep stability or if you heroes can handle it."

"Wait, you spy on us all?!" Natasha asked, furious.

"Of course. We monitor. We watch." Uatu simply stated. "We need informants to do so, he is one. That is the mystery solved, we watch throughout the multiverse, your own universe alone isn't our only focus."

"Not sure how I feel about that, definitely an invasion of privacy." Matt said distastefully.

At Harry's, Peter and Harry caught up and played some basketball as Harry discovered he had no love life at the minute, they dropped the ball and Harry caught it effortlessly, Harry wondered how he did as Peter remarked he had the moves, worrying about the Goblin serum in his body.

"That must be bad, to think you're this attractive man and not have someone special in your life." Abe shook his head.

"Truly, that must be the worst thing ever." Cindy glared at him.

"How has Harry caught that?" Sersi asked.

"It's the Goblin serum in him, he still maintains his powers." Peter-2 explained.

"That'll probably help jog his memory, that isn't good at all." Ikaris frowned.

At her Broadway play, Mary Jane learnt she was being fired due to the bad reviews, leaving to see them replacing her name on the sign.

"They're firing her over that? She would have done better!" Betty yelled, incensed.

"It's the nature of performance, sadly." Kingo frowned. "If you fail, even once, you're done. Take it from me, I know all about it."

At the Spider-Man appreciation fair, Peter walked around taking photos of everything as he talked with Mary Jane, who was upset at her being fired, lying to Peter and saying she was still in it. Meanwhile Eddie photographed Gwen, who said they weren't together and it was one drink they shared, they weren't dating.

"You two really need to communicate better. If she had told you the truth, that she had been fired, what would you have done?" Wanda asked, tilting her head at Peter-2.

"I'd like to think I would have, I know if it was now, I'd have given up the celebration and everything for her, but at the time, I really don't know." Peter-2 frowned.

"Your alter is a real creep, they weren't even dating." Yelena hissed at Eddie, who raised his hands in a peaceful gesture.

"Hey, I'm not him!" Eddie protested. "I like to think I'm not some super creep."

"WHAT ABOUT ANNIE?" Venom teased him.

"Who?" Kate asked.

"That wasn't the same and you know it! I just was hung up on her, I never stalked her, if anything, you did that!" Eddie berated Venom.

"ANNIE BELONGS WITH US, EVEN SHE KNOWS IT, ONE DAY, I'M SURE SHE WILL ACCEPT IT TOO! EVEN IF DAN IS NOT QUITE AS LOATHSOME AS ONCE THOUGHT."

"I'm not even sure I want to know what the baggage is with you two." Tony murmured.

"I'm sure it'll come up at some point, if they're going to torture us all." Eddie muttered. (Yes, I've decided I'm going to do not just the Venom 2 post credits, but both movies, fully)

Down a nearby street, Flint walked through the streets, as some local cops recognised him and chased him, Flint ran into a sand truck and attacked the cops as they tried to circle him, forming a massive sand cloud and dispersing into the sky.

"They don't stand a chance of capturing Flint, do they?" MJ asked.

"Nobody did really, other than me. Kinda hard to cuff a guy who can dissolve before your eyes." Peter-2 nodded.

"Where's he going?" Ned asked.

"Take a wild guess." Peter-3 laughed, thinking with Parker Luck, it had to be just one place.

At the celebration, Gwen Stacy introduced Spider-Man who swung in and hung upside down, telling her to kiss him for the cameras, which she did. Meanwhile Mary Jane caught up with Harry who wondered where Peter was as they watched the celebration together. As Gwen smiled and Spider-Man waved, Mary Jane, having seen it all, stormed off in anger, Harry asking if she was alright.

"What are you doing?!" Most of the room yelled at Peter-2, who scratched the back of his head.

"I was an idiot, I can't really justify it, I was trying to play to the crowd and forgot how that'd make MJ feel. It wasn't my brightest moment at all."

"I don't blame her for storming off and Harry checking up on her." MJ glared at Peter-2, who shrunk under her gaze.

"Neither do I, I'm glad he was there to help her, even if it didn't do too good in the long run."

The cheers turned to screams as the sand cloud approached, Spider-Man chasing it to a nearby bank van. Getting inside, he found Flint robbing it, getting into a fight, Spider-Man saw his fist go straight through him as Flint knocked him out of the van, Spider-Man had to stop several civilians and the drivers being killed in the fight, Flint managing to escape in the confusion, but empty-handed.

"Here's Marko to ruin it all, isn't he?" Ned sighed.

"Luckily Spider-Man is there to stop him, even if he has to stop snogging the woman he isn't dating." Cindy glared at Peter-2 again.

"I said I was sorry!"

"Your punches are going straight through him, how are you meant to stop him when he can hit you and you can't hit him?" Bucky frowned.

"I fought wiser eventually." Peter-2 simply said.

"At least you managed to get him to flee empty-handed." Sam noted.

"That'll just make him more determined next time." Rhodey frowned. This was definitely not over for Marko.

I'm not abandoning this fic anytime soon, don't worry, I meant that after finishing Raimi 3, writing scripts for Shang-Chi, Black Widow and some other stuff before doing the Webb reactions.