Author Intro

Hi there, just some quick notes about both the DC and Marvel universes used in this FanFiction. They don't exist, at least not in any real cannon. They are my own versions of the worlds/characters inspired by many different sources. For DC it will mostly be a mish-mash of rebirth, New 52, Young Justice and the DCAU. These are my inspirations for concepts around characters, potentially storylines and the world building, but also elements from other DC media that I enjoy will most likely influence my appraoch. I will try my hardest however to keep the characters consistent and not OOC. For Spider-Man I'm mostly going with 616 storylines and concepts but much more condensed as Peter is only 19, but also with heavy influence from the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon, Ultimate Spider-Man Comics, Into the Spiderverse (Similar events happened in this universe but with the inclusion of other heroes being present in New York, as well as Peter of this Marvel universe not dying and being younger, Miles got his powers during this event and his story is very similar to the movies but with differences that will be expanded on, hopefully, in later chapters), Avengers EMH (and all the other shows that exist in that universe) Marvel's Spider-Man on PS4/5 and the Miles Morales game. I haven't decided if major events such as Civil War and House of M have officially happened so that sort of stuff is up to reader discretion unless specifically stated otherwise in the story as I will build on concepts as my ideas around the universes expand.

I have ideas for where to take this and I know where the story is going but I have no idea how consistently I'll update quite frankly, or how long it'll take to get to the story arcs I have planned. I've had these chapters as well as the draft for chapter 2 on my computer for ages and figured I'd upload them now for the hell of it. So hopefully this will push me to work on this consistently but who knows

Any notes and advice would be appreciated.

Prologue

Marvel Universe – 616161

Sixteen year old Miles Morales was laying on his bed, his dehydrated eyes gazing listlessly at the ceiling above him. He felt numb, defeated and sick to his stomach with guilt and shame. His mind struggled to provide him with any kind of productive thought, instead it only continued to offer the same image of his mentor and friend Peter Parker. To Miles it was simultaneously an image of Pete's heroism and his own failure, one that would haunt him forever. He hadn't felt a pain like this since his Uncle Aaron had died in his arms.

He despised himself at this moment, but he knew deep down he didn't have the luxury of self-pity. Peter was gone, Spider-Man was gone, one of them at least. It was up to Miles now as New York's only Spider-Man to continue Peter's legacy, now was not the time for him to lose focus. It was his time to be the hero Peter knew he could be.

He sat up from his bed and looked at the mask in his hands, the red and white eyes staring back at him. Wiping the mostly dried tears from his face as he stood, he pulled the mask over his face, and approached his bedroom window. Catching his reflection in the mirror, Peter's voice crept into his mind: 'with great power...'

Miles stood taller as he stared at himself in the mirror. "Comes great responsibility" he said aloud, his voice unsteady yet determined. 'I'll try and make you proud Pete.' He thought to himself as he climbed through the window of his bedroom and deftly scaled the building opposite his apartment. Stopping on the roof for a moment, he surveyed the cityscape ahead of him, it felt heavier somehow, but all that told Miles was that he had to get stronger to carry its weight. He breathed heavily, shot a web line across the street and started swinging into the city.

Several Days Earlier

Peter's eyes followed the metal stinger with his eyes as it shot over him. Scorpion had stabbed his tail aggressively in Peter's direction forcing him to lean back to dodge attack. Crash! The tail collided with a monitor that was on the desk behind Peter. Peter couldn't help but think that this office space had seen better days: broken chairs and desks were strewn about the place, computers were smashed and don't even get him started on the giant hole in the wall complete with smashed windows.

Originally the duo had been fighting on the balcony of Fisk tower, but amidst their brawl the two had found them selves air born as they tumbled off the ledge. At that point Gargan had grabbed Spider-Man in attempt to throw him to the sidewalk but the hero managed to grapple with Scorpion and pushed off the side of Fisk Tower sending them both through the wall of the financial office opposite. And so the two adversaries found themselves having a rather intense scrap in an open office space. Fortunately the place seemed to be pretty much empty, it was the weekend after all.

"Now, come on Gargan, is that anyway to behave in the workplace?" Peter quipped.

Trying his best to ignore the Spider's taunts, Scorpion pulled his tail back and prepared a second attack, using this opening, Peter quickly shot a web onto Scorpions helmet, blocking his vision. Before Gargan could react, Spidey tugged on the web, pulling Scorpion's head down into Spidey's clenched fist. 'Whak!' The upward motion of Spider-Man's fist combined with the downward motion of Scorpion's face allowed for a strong and audible strike. Gargan's helmet absorbed the brunt of the blow which cracked the eye lenses slightly.

Scorpion's head was throbbing as he stumbled backward, letting out a cry of frustration, he tried to focus back on Spider-Man and, using his tail, he shot a glob of acid in the wall crawlers direction. The hero had anticipated this attack however, and prepared to launch himself over into a summersault in Scorpion's direction.

"Am I going to have to get HR involved? I'm sure there was something in the company contract about shooting acid at co-workers." Spidey mocked as he twisted through the air and landed backwards, feet first on the upper part of Scorpion's chest, causing him to stumble back.

With precision and haste, Spidey webbed Scorpion's tail to the ground and leapt off him again, just narrowly avoiding Scorpion's frenzied attack with his arms. While he was in the air, Peter observed Gargan's frenetic movements and chose his opening. 'There it is' he thought to himself, as Scorpion's arms crossed each other and he quickly fired a small web bomb at Scorpion which landed right in the middle of Scorpion's chest plate. A fraction of a second passed before the small metal ball exploded, covering Scorpion's entire upper body in dense webbing. Encasing his arms and restricting his movements as if in a straitjacket.

"Gah!" was the only exclamation Scorpion managed to make before Pete shot another, simple web onto Gargan's exposed mouth, silencing him.

"Well, Scorpy. I'll expect your desk cleared by the time I get back, but I gotta go check on the new guy, you know how it is." Peter remarked as he jumped through the hole him and Gargan violently created when they entered the building.

Shooting a web across the street and pulling himself into an upward swing, Peter was able to make his way back to Fisk tower in a matter of seconds, pulling himself up and landing graciously on the balcony of the Kingpin's penthouse office. Inside the office, the lesser experienced (yet still talented), Spider-Man, Miles Morales, was trying his best to avoid the onslaught of energy blasts that Jackson Brice AKA The Shocker was firing at him. Peter's protégé/partner was handling himself well so far, managing to evade the blasts of shockwaves for the time being, but it was clear to Pete that Miles hadn't been able to find an opening to press the attack... yet.

It was then that Peter noticed that the armoured thug known as The Rhino had been able to remove himself from the wall he had embedded himself in earlier, and more importantly he was readying a charge directly towards Miles. Pete burst through the already shattered windows and, whilst in mid-air, shot a tether onto Shockers gauntlet. Before Herman could react Peter yanked on the web forcing the shockwaves, that were still firing from Shocker's gauntlet, to collide with the ceiling above. The Ceiling started to crack and fragments of stone fell to the ground, but Pete knew that Fisk Tower was stable enough to take the blow, Fisk would not risk hiring criminals with such high reputations for collateral damage unless he knew his building could take the abuse, but that was not the pattern Pete was focusing on at that moment, all of them so far held a grudge against Spider-Man. Pete didn't like the implication as it suggested there was at least three more waiting for them in the basement.

Miles was only slightly taken aback by Pete's sudden appearance, but quickly readjusted. His spider sense communicated that Shocker was no longer a threat for the time being, however the tingling sensation hadn't stopped rather than it had warned Miles of a different threat. Deftly jumping into a back handspring in an attempt to dodge the oncoming charge from Rhino, Miles narrowly avoided the brutes attack. While the Rhino attempted to halt his charge, Miles shot a web in the brutes face. "Nice of you to join us..." He delivered across the room to the other Spider.

"Couldn't leave you guys to have all the fun." Peter replied as he landed face to face with shocker and quickly dropped down into a crouch. Sticking his left leg out to the side he swept his body round a hundred-and-eighty degrees with a trained grace and precision, knocking Shocker's legs out from under him. Herman landed on his back and before he even had a moment to register his new position, his arms were webbed to the ground by the hero.

'Boom!' the entire building seemed to shake as a thunderous crash resounded through the room. "Whoa Spidey-Two, how hard did Rhino run into the wall?" Peter asked, mostly rhetorically as he was replacing the nearly empty web cartridges in his web shooters with full ones.

"Ummm, he didn't…" Miles replied. Miles knew this for certain as he was still in the midst of fighting the large armoured brute. Dodging and weaving out of the way of his brutish fists as he frantically swung his arms about himself, still blinded by the web stuck to his face.

Peter cringed at Miles' response as it meant it was as he feared, the collider was back online and seemingly just as unstable as last time. As Peter looked up and watched the younger teen still tussling with the blinded Rhino, his spider sense gave him the slightest tickle of a warning as the room shook as another violent 'Boom!' racketed itself throughout the building.

Last time Fisk used the collider in his basement it was to bring back his family, which incidentally ended in him summoning several other Spider people to this dimension who, of course, all teamed up to defeat him and his several hired villains. They were sent back to their own worlds pretty much mid fight however as the collider grew increasingly unstable. After the Spider-Folks were gone Miles, Peter and Daredevil were left to take down Kingpin. After the fight though they tried to shut off the collider which caused it to explode practically destroying all the labs and research in the basement let alone the collider itself. If it had somehow been reactivated who knows what could happen.

"We need to get to the basement." Peter stated bluntly. To which Miles nodded in agreement as he ducked under Rhino's arm and shot his arms forward, open palmed into the hulking man's chest, as soon as he made connection he felt an energy build throughout his body as a fountain of yellow bolt's of shock came from his hands, causing the villain to yell in anguished pain. At this same time the older Spider-Man had sent a web line either side of the Rhino and was rocketing himself towards Alexei at the speed of a train. His feet connected with the brute's face and Rhino felt as if he had been shot by human sized bullet and staggered backwards.

While trying to maintain his balance Alexei felt two more blows one to the back of each leg as the younger Spider-Man channelled even more of his so called 'Venom Blast' into the back of the crook's knees, causing another cy of pain and making the Rhino lose all strength in his legs as he fell backwards. Miles jumped out of the way of the lumbering mass slowly falling towards him and saw the criminal looking thoroughly tired and pissed off on the floor. Which Alexei was, but before he could get back up and squash the bugs, he felt himself becoming covered in a strong yet sticky substance as both the Spider-Men layered web after web on the villain.

When the two heroes felt that the goliath was sufficiently encased, they ran to the elevator doors. It was an elevator shaft that ran directly from the penthouse office and the basement. 'Boom!' cracks started to run along the walls and parts of the ceiling started to crumble and fall to floor. Peter was certain that if it weren't for their near perfect balance and their adhesive abilities they'd definitely be stumbling around on the floor trying to stay upright. He pushed the thought aside, as the he and Miles opened the elevator doors with their strength. The elevator was already called to the basement it seemed, and after a glance at the other, both heroes jumped down the shaft.

As the two descended the shaft, Peter was thinking to himself and the older hero only felt worse about the situation the more he thought about it. For one, Fisk was definitely still in prison, he and Daredevil made sure of it, as Daredevil's 'friend' Matt Murdoch (Peter was one of the privileged few to know that they were in fact the same person) prosecuted Fisk himself and word would of immediately got to them had he escaped as Captain Yuri Watanabe would've let them know as soon as she knew.

Sure he could of hired people from in prison, Fisk is nothing if not cunning and, unfortunately for the heroes of New York, wherever Fisk is he always be at the top of the criminal food chain. But even with hired help, as far as Pete could tell no one on Fisk's regular staff would be smart enough to have even attempted to rebuild the collider in the time he'd been gone, unless he outsourced… Which brings Peter to his main concern: the personal connections the (so far) three hired goons had to Spider-Man. This had Otto Octavius' metallic claw-prints all over it, he was one of the few people smart enough to reactivate the collider, and he would also definitely enjoy a chance to reassemble his Sinister Six and finally snuff out the two Spider-Men that had been pestering him for too long. The question then was, did the Kingpin hire Otto, or was he working on his own schemes? And if it was the latter, what were they?

Before the older Spider-Man could think more on that question, the two heroes landed on top of the elevator at the bottom of the shaft, Miles ripped the grate off the top of the elevator below them and the two jumped in, ready to open the doors and face whatever was behind them.

"So here we are, in the basement of Fisk tower trying to stop a bunch of Supervillains with a super-collider from toying with the multiverse and threatening all of reality… again." Miles said, with just a hint of irony in his tone. Adding "Does this gig ever get any less weird?"

The older Spider-Man just shrugged, "Not really, you just kind of get used to it." He replied nonchalantly as he pressed the button to open the doors to the elevator. They stood there for a beat before: 'Ding'. The elevator doors casually slid open and Peter looked to the younger hero and quickly added "At least it never gets boring."

Although Peter was wearing a mask, Miles could swear he could see the outline of a grin under the fabric. He couldn't help but feel the need to smile back before the two of them entered into the basement to face whatever was waiting them.

Several Minutes Later

Mac Gargan, AKA the Scorpion, had finally managed to free himself of the webbing keeping him stuck to the ground, normally they would be too strong for him to rip off but thankfully his tail was free enough that with a few well placed drops of acid and some controlled blasts of energy he was able to free himself. After exiting the office building and climbing the outside of Fisk Tower, he finally found himself at the balcony outside the penthouse.

He looked in to see the Shocker, or as he was also known to the criminal underground, Montana struggling to free himself of the same sticky material that incapacitated Gargan just a few moments ago. Shocker had already freed one of his guantlets and was using softer concentrated bursts of energy to loosen his other. He didn't want to be too forceful as he could shatter his arm if he wasn't careful. It was at that moment a blast of acid hit the floor near him, causing him to start. The acid ate away at the webbing and Brice tore his arm away off the floor. Now fully freed he got himself up off the floor and watched as the acid spot grew larger and deeper to the point where he could see into the floor below in the tower.

He strode next to Scorpion, the one he assumed was responsible for his liberation from the webbing "You have my thanks partner," he said in a deep southern drawl "but next time warn a fella 'fore you shoot acid at him. Damn near took my arm off."

Scorpion mostly ignored the comment, Brice was one of the few people, alongside Mr Negative and Vulture, he actually tolerated working with when teaming up against the Spider, or in recent months… Spiders. He was a professional after all and carried himself with a competent head on his shoulders. He knew when to cut his losses and mostly focused on their goal, well as best as you could with the wall-crawlers constantly driving everyone up the… well, the wall… He wasn't a brainless troglodyte either, like the Sandman or the Rhino. He wasn't too smart to have a colossal ego either though, like Doctor Octopus, and he wasn't an impulsive brat like Electro could prove to be.

Scorpion nodded his head in reply to Brice, he knew he didn't actually want a reply he was merely stating his frustration. Gargan used his tail to point over to the writhing mass of webbing on the ground across from them, it's muffled yells of rage filling the air "That the Rhino?" Gargan asked, his voice blunt and uncaring.

Brice simply nodded. And the two criminals approached the angry cocoon of webbing to help get him out. 'BOOOOM!' another thunderous explosion of noise rang through the building shaking the skyscraper vigorously as the two mercenaries were thrown about the room and the entire room seemed to grow brighter and brighter until all that could be seen was the whitest of all white and every thing grew impossibly still and impossibly silent.