Publisher's Note: Well here's how the world without peter Parker turns out, if your confused about the concept of time travel I'll explain in the coming chapters based on Cosgrove's own explanations, since peter went 20 years into the future he now exist in a world that grew up without him for that duration, that's why the Arc is known as [THE WORLD WITHOUT] Peter Parker. Now Enjoy.

[THE WORLD WITHOUT]

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[CARNAGE] ARC

CHAPTER 24

Future Shock: School Rumble

You spend some time gathering your composure, trying to look for anything in the remains of DOOM's embassy. It's cold, colder than you expected, but thankfully your costume is helping keep you warm. Guess going for more durable materials that keep you warm has an upside.

However, there's almost nothing to retrieve here. No signs of DOOM's labs or anything you could use to help you. Looking at the ruins analytically, it seems like something had assaulted and destroyed much of the building.

But, to be fair, a lot of the nearby area seems to be in ruins as well. They say that New York can be a dump, but this is taking it a bit too far.

You need to find Dr. DOOM and retrieve the cure for Felicia from him. But where should you look?

You need to return home. Uncle Ben, Aunt may, the Watsons… what happened to them? What happened in the last twenty years?

There's no enough buildings to get you to home. And, honestly, you don't want to risk web slinging on some of them, you Spider-sense pinging it as dangerous. It takes you at least an hour to get home. According to the clock you pilfered, it takes you two and a half hours as you carefully make sure you don't injure yourself with any rubble.

Arriving to your street, you look around dread building. The houses are in ruin and disarray. It's unlikely that there's anyone living here anymore. Passing the almost entirely destroyed Watson house, you drop to your knees as you see the state of the home you shared with your aunt and Uncle.

In front, there's three graves, roughly made out of wood, what weeds able to grow overtaking them. The names seem to have been burned into the wood.

"BENJAMIN PARKER, MAY PARKER, ANNA WATSON"

You feel the tears welling before you mask as you desperately try to blink them away. You spend a good amount of time in front of the graves.

How did this happen? WHY did this all happen?

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED HERE?!

You take your time to try to regain your compose as you look at your home. While it's standing (barely), the roof has obviously caved in at some point and several of the walls seem to have holes in them. The building's going to be dangerous to navigate in.

Though hard to tell from the ashen skies, you probably only have about four hours until it gets dark. God only knows what'll happen then.

You spend time cleaning up the graves. Maybe it's just a waste of your time, but it would bother you to leave them untended. When you finish, you look down at the graves. There's no flowers you can lay on them, and it isn't what they deserve but, you'll stop this from happening. At the very least, you hope they're in peace in heaven.

Approaching the house, it's actually safer to head in a hole. The muffled smell of rotting wood hits you as you look around. The second floor is caved in, there's no getting in there. Many of the valuables have been looted already, it seems.

Heading down into the basement, you move carefully. There's no lights down here, so all you're depending on is a barely functional flashlight you found upstairs. Turning it on you let out muffled cursed. The place has been ransacked.

No, perhaps it'd be better to say someone tore up the place. Looking around, you head over to the secret compartment, but it is empty, as you HAD taken everything important from it before you left for Felicia's house. However, the door seems like it's been ripped off in a fury, splinters of it scattered everywhere.

You freeze and look at the fridge to find it open. On the ground nearby, there seems to be the remains of a glass vial with a label shattered, but no evidence of anything having spilt from it.

And no sign of the rest of your blood samples or their vials.

Seems like someone's been here. Worse, they knew where you kept your stuff. Even worse, your blood isn't spoiled- it's gone.

With time running low, you're not sure you could make it to Felicia's before it got dark. However, you should be able to make it to the Stacy Home. Traveling fast, you look at the destroyed areas with an uneasy feeling in your gut. When you reach the Stacy residences, you look around. There's no cameras anymore. Those have probably been long taken or destroyed.

The house seems like it's in decent shape, better than yours was, so you decide to head inside. There's not too much in here, honestly. Going through the rooms, you try to find if there's anything that could give you an idea of what happened. However, there's no power, nor is there any food.

Heading upstairs, your nose wrinkles as you smell decay and rot. Heading towards the smell, you open the door before you stumble back. In a rotted bed, there's a body laying there, obviously years old and heavily rotted. Swallowing the bile you look at where the body was laying.

Seems like it was in its bed, and there's multiple broken or cut ribs as you look around you feel a sinking suspicion of who this is.

Captain George Stacy.

Backing away, you look across the other rooms trying to find Gwen's room. You find it, heavily ransacked- but it seems like whoever robbed this house- it wasn't looters. The door was properly closed and none of the windows were broken in. Whoever left this house didn't have to break in, or did so in such a skillful manner that Captain George Stacy wasn't aroused from his bed.

An uneasy weight settles into your chest along with relief.

Gwen's body isn't here, so why is George Stacy left like that?

Why was this house untouched?

It's like people were too scared to go near it.

There's about an hour and forty five minutes until night.

You decide to head to Midtown high. There might be something you can use there, some food maybe, and you won't have to stay in the same house as Captain Stacy's corpse.

Hurrying to your school, you pause before making it there. Looking around for any signs of trouble, you don't notice any. Midtown High seems deserted but practically untouched.

However, that doesn't mean people couldn't be inside of it.

Should you head on in, or try to sneak your way there and scope out the area before heading in?

You have about an hour and a half until dark.

You move stealthy and scope out the area. While you take your time, you're also vigilant and constantly aware of your surroundings. You're also as stealthy as hell, the dark reds and blues of your outfit are much easier to blend in with the darkening ashen skies.

Surveying Midtown High School, it becomes obvious from the few maintained vehicles and lack of vandalism, plus minor reinforcements and the occasional light from obviously artificial sources inside that this place is not only occupied, but it has several people that are her doing so.

However, with the area in this state, it would be easy to assume that the school has been in this untouched abandoned state like every other building. There's also a few positions on the roof where you can see some reinforcements. God only knows what the inside is like.

This place almost certainly is inhabited. By what, you don't know.

But god, you hope that it's people.

There's less than an hour until Dark

You try sneaking into the building. The windows are mostly covered or heavily tinted, making it hard to see in them. The ground doors are also probably barred or locked. So that leaves the roof.

Opening the door, you let out a cheer until you hear the door hit a can, sending it down the stairwell in a loud, noisy clatter.

A few moments later you can hear movement.

You let the door close and hop on top of the stairwell access and try to hide. You wait for them to leave so you can get a look at them or a way to sneak in. When the door opens, you feel your Spidey-sense blare as you dodge to the side as a woman uses the ledge of the rooftop to flip and kick at where you were standing last.

However, you're still on the defensive, dodging and dipping under each one of the attacks in tune with your Spider-sense. The woman doesn't pause, a strange visor and mouthpiece over her face as she talks out loud. "Doktor, we have encountered one of the Type 3s, they've discovered the location it seems."

As you dodge another blow, she nods minutely. "Acknowledged."

Her firsts and legs start to head up as she begins to increase in speed as you do your best to match and dodge where she'll hit. If even one of them glances you, it'll probably be bad.

Also, what is she? Johnny Storm's crazy assassin daughter?

As you dodge another blow your spider sense suddenly blares right behind you. Throwing yourself to the side, you see the wall in front of you suddenly have a large crater in it. Looking back over, the woman? Who assaulted you has paused, and there's another woman there with long blondish to silver hair holding what looks like an oversized magnum revolver with a silencer in her hand.

This woman's brow furrows, her voice reminiscent of a parody of all bad movie Nazis. "Impossible!"

Before you can retort, you shift your head to the side as a large Alice-in-wonderland-style rabbit appears, its foot cracking the pavement where your head had just been.

"Vat are you? No clone could dodge that!"

Looking at the blonde woman, it seems like scars are over her face at there the jaw meets the rest of the face.

You get up, brushing yourself off. "I'm Spider-man, accept no imitations."

You look around. "Look, I'm not entirely sure what's going on, but I came here in peace. It's just the whole…"

You gesture around.

"Escape from New York, post-apocalyptic hellhole look has made me more than a bit wary. Besides that, did you say clones?"

The woman crosses her arms and nods at Alice, who moves to punch you, fast. However, your spider sense doesn't flare as you don't move. Her fist stops millimeters from you as you continue to look at the woman. You then raise your foot, the rabbit appearing at the end of its charge I few feet ahead of you.

"Seriously, I'm really not liking the attacking thing that'd being done."

The woman stares at you as if unraveling a puzzle. "Zey're incomplete! Zat's why! ZE CLONES, ZEY ARE INCOMPLETE,! FLAWED!"

You look over at the masked woman with the red hair who watches you carefully but minutely gives a shrug as if to say 'you get used to it.'

The rabbit is growling, looking up at you with adorable but undoubtedly dark intentions.

"So... can we talk about this inside? I'm afraid of what might happen when it gets dark out."

The woman nods. "Zere is less zan tventy minutes until ze dark comes. Even if you are ze clone, but a new model, it vould be in mine interest to study you."

You hear a loud, masculine voice, obviously synthezised, from below you. "Try anything, Spider-man, and I, Omega, will be your end."

Looking down at the Rabbit, its eyes glow red. Following them inside, the red haired and masked woman, Alice, keeps a close eye on you as the 'Doktor' sealed down the highschool. The insides have changed a lot since you've gone here. Your taxpayer dollars at work.

When the place is secured you hear a beeping noise come from the 'Doktor's' watch. "Ze Night iz here. Ze Jackal's minions will be out looking."

You look at her curiously before you freeze as a loud cry echoes, even in the building you are in.

WREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

The Doktor curses.

"Carnage."

End of [CARNAGE] ARC

NEXT: [THE WORLD WITHOUT] and [MAXIMUM CARNAGE] ARC

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