Co-Writter: GhostKaiser23
Disclaimer: I do not own Marvel
A Web of Love: Rewoven
Chapter 9: The Estranged Daughter
Kaine and Ben returned to Avenger's tower with their nephews
"Well that was one of the more unusual thing's you've done." Ben said walking with Benjy
"That guy at the Pizza Place was robbing the till. What was I supposed to do?" Kaine asked while walking with Nicholas
"Not staple him to the floor with your spikes for one, not shoving a slice of pizza so he couldn't talk for another." Ben answered deadpanning.
"Oh shut it." Kaine muttered
"Who are you?" Cap asked, stepping out of the tower
"We should be asking YOU that." Kaine snapped
"He's Uncle Steve." Nicholas spoke
"One of dad's friends." Ben added
"Oh well...sorry about that." Ben apologized "I'm Ben and he's Kaine. We're Peter's brothers."
"He doesn't HAVE brothers. Not anymore." Steve answered keeping his eye trained on them.
"Just call Peter and have it sorted out okay? We're not in the wrong here." Kaine defended.
"Fine." Steven glared, bringing his fingers to his ear peace "Peter, can you come to the landing area please?"
"Right away Cap." Peter answered
Cap nodded and took his fingers away
"So...you're "Uncle Steve"..." Kaine asked darkly
"Kaine...You're not gonna..." Ben asked then was stopped
"Yes, I am." Steve answered
Kaine maintained a stare that lasted until Peter came down wearing some lounge around clothes he kept nearby "Hey, what's going on?"
"Just trying to see if these two are who they claim to be." Steve answered keeping a stare off with Kaine
"Cap, they ARE my brothers. They just took them out for a while." Peter explained
"So they check out." Steve broke eye contact.
"I trust you." Kaine answered
"Course you do. He's Captain America." Ben rolled his eyes.
"Yea, even if somehow his side is MEANT to be the bad guys he is still the good guy." Peter joked
"How's that work." Ben asked as they walked inside
"Long story and not acceptable for the kids." Peter thought about Nicky and Benjy
"Oh come on dad. Tell us. Yeah Tell us dad." Nicky and Benjy wanted to know about the story.
"No you two, you need to go and get washed. It's nearly time for dinner." Peter softly ordered
"Err..." Ben rubbed the back of his head
"Don't just don't..." Kaine shook his head
"We've gotta tell him." Ben debated
"Tell me what?" Peter glared
"We...sorta...went and got pizza." Ben confessed
"It was really yummy." Benjy added smiling
"Uncle Kaine was being talked to by a girl who wanted his photo." Nicky added
"Uncle Kaine got mad and everyone stopped staring." Benjy explained
"Oh... really?" Peter asked "Well, then go get washed before you go and have ice cream." He smiled
"Ice cream? Yay! Race ya!" Benjy and Nicky ran inside thinking what kind of ice cream they'll have and hopefully they won't get ice cream headaches again like the last time.
"Kids hey?" Ben smiled
"Gotta love them." Kaine added
"Yeah...okay what REALLY happened?" Peter agreed then turned his attention to his brothers.
"Crap." Ben and Kaine were stuck in a hole with only one way out: tell the whole truth.
*later*
The two clones rubbed their heads in pain
"Ow...Rocky Road..." Ben groaned
"I can't believe you challenged me to that...OW!" Kaine groaned
"Do you think they'll learn?" Natasha asked placing her spoon down
"I don't know who're the bigger children: them or ours?" Peter joked as he saw Gwen wipe off the strawberry off of Nicholas's mouth while Rogue did the same for Ben.
Peter smiled, his family was so amazing.
"Ah Peter, enjoying the "Family Life" I see." Julia appeared in a poof of smoke.
"Julia?!" They gasped
"Julia, what're you doing here? Where've you been?" Peter asks
"Observing what someone else is seeing...it's very difficult without sight you know...but that Someone has their ways." Julia explained
"Er... What?" He muttered in confusion
"Try not to think about it JUST yet...is that Neapolitan ice cream?" She answered then asked about the ice cream
"Yeah, want some?" Jess asked
"Please." Julia smiled grabbing a spoon
"So, why are you here?" Gwen asked, giving Julia her serving of ice cream
"And none of the cryptic nonsense." Peter asked as ice cream and brain teasers aren't a good mix...and He HAS done it before.
"The "Someone" who's been observing you has sensed changes in this universe, changes to things that both destroy AND combine webbing threads." Julia explained
"This "Someone" told you THAT?!" Gwen gasped
"Not in so many words...actually no words at all, the Someone didn't speak, it just played a guitar all the time I was there." Julia answered eating the three flavour ice cream.
"... then how do you understand him? And why tell us?" Peter asked in confusion
"The "Someone" isn't really a "him" Peter...whenever I travel to The Someone's domain, I...just know." Julia explained as best she could "and I'm telling you this because...I...have seen other universes combine together."
"What, how?" They asked
"The threads that connect the different futures are becoming intertwined with each other. They aren't stable yet but they're as close as they'll get until then." Julia explained again
"So THAT'S why I was pulled through?" Gwen asked
"More or less." Julia answered, eating some more of her ice cream "It's not like you don't have a choice of course. You're still in charge of your life, the thread only holds the person but the choices that person makes define it."
"Anyone else confused?" Ben asked, and everyone but Julia held their hand up
"I know...prophecies and this sort of thing give even the greatest geniuses headaches...especially ones based on certain people." Julia sighed
"Hey! You insinuating something?!" Peter huffed
"No, I'm just saying: prophecies and complicated wording get people confused. I'm not saying it's just you Peter." Julia explained
"We can ALL agree to that." Natasha sighed
"True." Ben nodded
"Does that mean we're getting a bigger family?" Nicholas asked
"More mothers or aunties?" Benjy asked
"Err...something like that." Julia smiled
"Yay!" Benjy cheered
"Peter, you should see this." Cap suddenly called through the coms "Hurry to the med bay!"
Peter raced down to med bay to find Captain America there. "Cap what's wrong? What's happened?"
"Look." Cap said, pointing into the med bay. Laying on the bed was a teenage girl wearing a similar costume to Ben, clearly unconscious
"Whoa...this is trippy..." Peter was aghast
The girl groaned in sleep "D...dad...? Wh...where...?"
"She's been like this for a while...she's sleeping like a brick." Cap explained
"Damn. Should we take her mask off? And why did you call me?"
"Because she started talking about "Benjy". The only "Ben's" I'm aware of are your brother and son." Steve explained
Peter flinched, Benjy being the nickname for his son after Ben came back from the dead
"Great." He groaned
"Dad...Benjy...DAD!" she began to scream in her sleep to awake
"Hey, hey, hey! It's okay! It's okay." Peter calmed her down
"Dad, don't go...you can't be gone...you can't!" the girl cried
"It'll be okay, its okay. You're safe." Peter explained
She looked up, surprised to see the costumed face of Spider-Man
"D...dad...?" she cried "Ha...Ha...DAD!" she hugged him instantly
"Err...O...kay..." Peter felt a little weirded out, but with everything that's been going on this wasn't a "massive" deal.
"You're alright...you're alive...where...where's Benjy?" She asked again.
"… He's upstairs having ice cream with Nick, how do you know my son?" Peter asked
"He's here, where?" the girl asked Peter while shaking him
"Upsta-a-a-a-airs." Peter answered
"Benjy!" the girl pushed back Peter and raced off to find him
"Something tells me life's just gotten more confusing." Peter shook off the Tweetie Pie's flying around his head.
*upstairs*
Benjy was in red and blue Spider-Man pyjamas while Nick was in black and red ones with the Black Widow Symbol on them as the two brothers watched TV
"They're so good." Jess smiled "Were they always like this?"
"I'm guessing Anne-Marie had a hand in that." Natasha smiled putting her hand on Rogue's shoulder in gratitude
"Had to keep them occupied while I cleaned up their mess." Anne smiled
"BENJY!" an unknown girl's voice shouted out
"Huh?" they wondered, but Benjy was worried he had done something wrong with that level of noise
In burst the girl wearing the Ben Reilly style Spider-Man suit, looking around desperately "Benjy?! Where are you?!" She called
"Who... who are you Miss?" Benjy asked
"Who are you?" The girl asked
"I'm Benjy Parker, that's my brother Nick." Benjy said, pointing to his brother
"That can't be! Benjy's a baby!" The girl said in disbelief
"Excuse me; who are you?" Gwen asked pretty annoyed at the girl
"Who am I? Who're you?" The girl pointed at Gwen
"Silk-Spider. Who are you?" Gwen glared
"I'm Spider-Girl." the girl explained
"Not another one..." Natasha groaned
"Natasha Romanov? Why're you here?" she asked
"I live here with Peter." Natasha explained simply.
"WHAT?!" the girl was taken back
Julia pulled the girl's mask off when she turned her head revealing a teenage girl with short red-ish brown hair and brown eyes
"HEY! Give me that back!" the girl shouted at Julia
"May I introduce: May "Mayday" Parker. Peter's daughter from an alternate dimension." Julia explained
"WHAT?!" the girls yelled
"So she's our big sister?" Nick asked
"In a sense." Julia explained
"I have a teenage daughter?!" Peter arrived falling backwards in shock.
"What is going on?!" MayDay panicked, spinning around
"Wow." Benjy said as he walked up to MayDay
"You've slipped through dimension's May; this is an version of your worlds past." Julia explained
"So...I'm...everything's the same just...younger?" May tried to process this
"More or less." Julia smiled
"For example, your father has a harem."
"Dad...has a...huh..." May fainted onto the settee
"Our sister's funny." Nicholas grinned with Benjy
Gwen rolled her eyes and got Peter back to his feet "Is everything alright?" Steve asked
"Where were YOU five minutes ago?" Natasha groaned
"Thor broke the TV." Cap explained
"Not again..." Jess groaned
"Why'd he break it THIS time?" Natasha asked
"He got mad when his favourite pro-wrestler lost against, as he put it, 'a weakling'." Cap deadpanned
"Wrestling's fake." Gwen and Peter said instantly
"That's what I said and THAT'S why he broke the TV." Cap explained "He's still in denial about the whole thing."
"Oh... how can a god be so braindead?" Peter groaned
"He's a god that loves fighting. What more is there?" Cap groaned
"He and the Hulk..." Peter rolled his eyes, they heard May groaning awake "Sounds like she's awake." Peter grinned
"Dad?" She whispered
"Er... yea?" He said nervously
"How...how is this possible? You love mom and wouldn't do this to her..." May began to cry
"It's a different dimension May. The world where you're from was unstable, it needed to be rewoven. This universe was the only one stable enough for you to be brought to your father." Julia explained
"That's not REALLY answering my question." May replied
"Who's your mother?" Peter asked
"Mary Jane." MayDay said simply
"MJ?! MJ Watson?!" Peter and Gwen asked
"Yeah." May answered again "It was: You, Mom, Benjy and Me...You'd retired as Spider-Man and I took up your mantle."
"MJ broke up with me after I missed our wedding because of Spider-Man stuff." Peter explained
"That's...that's not what happened back home...You got married...had us..." May answered
"Well here he has us, and we had Benjy and Nicholas." Natasha replied
"It's amazing how one story is interpreted, how Someone has the choice to change fate." Julia calmly explained
"This isn't a story! I've been taken from: my home, my brother, my parents! EVERYTHING!" May shouts at Madame Web
"This is the better outcome. I and Someone else has seen it." Julia explains
"HOW?!" She yelled
"I'm here May." Peter assured, hugging her
May knew this. May knew this hug, the reassuring love of her father, she felt: his protection, his care, his love. The love of a father and daughter. She knew her father was right there with her, in a family where her Benjy was just a bit older, but still Benjy. May cries, not from sadness, but from love. She HAS her father, she HAS her brother and now she has a family again.
Only... A LITTLE bit bigger.
"What's with all the noise." Ben muttered as he walked in
"Oh...not again..." Kaine rolled his eyes jumping to conclusions
"Ben, Kaine...This is May...My daughter." Peter smiled
For a couple of seconds Ben and Kaine were gobsmacked then... "Have we been in a COMA?!" Kaine shouted
"Where have I heard this before?" Natasha thought
"No, you haven't been in a coma. She's from an alternate dimension." Gwen explained
"So... like you?" Ben asked
"Who are you?" Mayday asked a bit nervously
"Uncle Ben and Uncle Kaine." Benjy smiled
"Dad's brothers who've come back from the dead." Nicholas added
"H...how?" May asked
"Long story." Peter answered
"Uncle Kaine... you... you're not scared." She muttered in shock
"Kind of blessing when Julia brought us back." Kaine smiled "Still not winning any "hot or not" contests though."
May went to her two uncles and hugged them knowing her father's brothers were alive. "I guess we weren't around much in your dimension." Ben smirked
1"You're dead, and Uncle Kaine works for the government." MayDay explained
1"Ouch..." Kaine sucked through his teeth
"Well we're here now." Ben smiled
1"Yea..." she smiled
"Sis?" Chris asked as he and Benjy walked over
"Yes?" She asked them with a smile
"You look so cool!" Benjy grinned
1"Ha, thanks. I based it off of Uncle Ben's costume." May smiled
"Good thing it wasn't the hoodie." Kaine grinned
"Why'd ya have to go there?" Ben snapped
1"Hey! I thought it was awesome!" Peter argued
1"Thank you!" Ben thanked and agreed with his brother.
"Hey, it's time for bed." Jess pointed to the clock
"Yeah...It's been a long day." Peter agreed
"Can May sleep with us?" Benjy asked knowing he and Nicky have a new sister
"Yeah can she?" Nicky asked again
1"May?" Peter asked
"Yea... sure." She said nervously
"YAY!" the two cheered, dragging him away
1"Looks like May might be happy here." Gwen smiled
"She's lost a lot. But now she's gained more." Julia explained with a smile
She closed her eyes, seeing their future
May, wearing a new costume, standing next to two others. May now went by Arachne, in her mid-twenties, with two figures next to her. One was wearing a modified classic Scarlet Spider costume and the other was wearing an inverted colour version so it was blue with a red hoodie.
Ah, the three would be great.
"Thinking about something?" Rogue asked
"Just the future." Julia smiled
"Oh really?" Rogue grinned and slipped her hands around Julia's waist
"Yes. Would you like to see?" Julia smiled
"Yeah...I would." Rogue smiled
Rogue kissed Julia, letting her powers work slightly. She saw the glimpse of the future that Julia saw, and was amazed. Julia had wrapped an arm around Rogue's waist, holding her close as she kissed back
"Er... hello?" Peter said the two breaking the kiss
"Yes?" Rogue asked in slight confusion
"Anne... Julia isn't part of the 'harem'." Peter said simply
"Isn't that easily rectified?" Julia smiled
"Told you he'd get another one." Kaine rolled his eyes again "I'm outta here. Night."
"Is the universe against us?" Ben exclaimed almost joking as he left the room
"No it isn't Ben, just wait." Julia said cryptically
"Can you try and not say that while Anne-Marie isn't groping your breasts?" Ben called out
"'Ahm not groping her breasts!" Rogue answered back
"Give it a couple of minutes." Ben answered
"More like eight, once we leave to the bedroom." Julia smiled "And your love life... look forward to tomorrow."
"... Having a lover that sees the future is awkward and strange." Peter muttered
"It's kind of kinky as well..." Jess smiled