Chapter 20

"Wherein Kendrick makes a new friend and meets an old one."

Thanks to bc7788 for reviewing. Glad you liked it. I was really worrying about not doing your characters justice, but I'm guessing you liked it.

Thanks to Exile037 for reviewing. Yeah, it got a little intense last chapter. I mean, Daisuke and Peter might be dead, Ben and Kendrick are knocked out, and the only spiders left are Connor and adult Peter. It's about to go down.

"Get the fuck away from my friend," Connor said, nothing but anger all throughout his body.

The Inheritor turned towards Connor with a look of amusement. "Or what, spider? You'll fall on your face again?"

"The only person who'll be falling is you," Connor said, as menacingly as he could.

"Unlikely bug," the Inheritor said before charging at Connor.

"Spiders aren't bugs," Connor said before attaching a web to a nearby table and slamming it into the Inheritor. "They're arachnids!"

The table succeeded in knocking the Inheritor off course and caused him to run into the wall. Before he could get up, Connor saw Daisuke's gun, grabbed it with a web line, jumped into the air and landed on the Inheritor's chest. Connor looked at the gun. It was actually pretty simple. There was a trigger, along with a dial on the side that went from low to medium to high. It was on low. Full of anger, Connor turned it to high. Then he stuck it inside the Inheritor's mouth.

And then he pulled the trigger.

Suddenly, Connor felt intense heat on his entire body. The heat from the gun scorched his body, and pieces of his suit were incinerated. He kept pulling the trigger until the heat became too much and he jumped backwards, away from the Inheritor's body.

"Peter!" Connor yelled as he ran to Peter's side. "Peter, are you okay?"

"Connor...," Peter started. He was looking past Connor at...something.

"What is...oh my god...!" Connor said.

The Inheritor...he was dead. Where his head used to be, was a big glob of charred flesh.

"Pe...Peter...," Connor said. "I swear...I was...I didn't mean to..."

Connor looked at Peter when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked like he wanted to say something. Something important. But instead he just said, "Come on. Let's put this fire out. You guys owe me a huge explanation."

It wasn't long before they were all standing in Peter's apartment, a little worse for wear, but otherwise okay. Peter had gotten Connor a new costume, although he was pretty pissed that Connor already wrecked it, when he had just gotten it yesterday. When young Peter flew out the window, he had landed on a nearby rooftop and woke up minutes later with a flock of pigeons sitting on him. When Daisuke flew into the kitchen, he had broken his watch and was now back in his normal Siberian husky form. Now, they were all just standing around in the aftermath of the fire. Well, most of them were standing. May was...on the ceiling.

"Is this what you do all the time Connor?" May asked the charred teen.

"Uh, yeah. More or less," Connor said. "I promise that when I come back, I'll help you control your powers. Deal?"

"Deal," May said before giving Connor a fist bump.

"When you get back?" Kendrick asked. "You mean you're going with us?"

"Hell yeah," Connor said.

"Okay, it took about ten minutes to explain the fire to the land lady, who's like eighty and cranky," adult Peter said. "I told her Mary Jane was cooking pancakes. She understood immediately."

"Hey, my cooking is fantastic!" Mary Jane said, holding a somehow sleeping six year old Benjamin.

"Wow MJ," teen Peter said. "So this is what you look like as an adult?"

"Yep," MJ said.

"And we have kids!" Peter exclaimed.

"They're beautiful aren't they?" MJ said, holding the baby towards him.

"They're...yeah," Peter said. "So...that means you and I..."

"Got married," MJ said. "Yeah...we did."

"That's, uh, not what I was thinking about..."

"Had sex?" MJ asked, rolling her eyes. "Yes, Peter. We had sex numerous times."

"Awesome," Peter said, obviously staring at her chest.

"Come on me," adult Peter said. "That's my wife."

"And that's...my mom," Ben said as he walked towards adult Peter and MJ.

"So...your Benjy as an adult?" MJ asked, he hand over her mouth.

"I, uh, go by just Ben now," Ben said.

"You're so...handsome," Mary Jane said, tears forming at the ends of her eyes. "You look just like your father. With my hair. Would...would it be weird if I hug..."

Before she could finish, Ben had her wrapped up in a hug bear hug. She hugged him back, while she set Benjy on the floor. They were both crying. Nobody said anything. Eventually, they broke apart and Ben wiped the tears from his eyes.

"I'm...I'm sorry," he said. "My parents...you...you're gone in my dimension. And I...I never knew you..."

"It's okay, Ben," MJ said. "It's okay."

Ben went to hug adult Peter while Mary Jane walked to the other spiders.

"So...in my dimension," Peter said. "I'm...dating Gwen..."

"Oh my god," MJ started.

"And...everyone's telling me that she...that she died...but they never tell how..."

"I don't...I don't think it's my place to..."

"Please Mary," Peter said, his eyes pleading. "Please."

"Norman Osborn," Mary Jane said finally. "He had kidnapped her, and..."

"Osborn..." Peter said before angry tears came from his eyes. "Osborn! He...he takes everything from me! Why'd it have to be him?!"

"Okay, I have to ask," Kendrick said. "Who's Norman Osborn?"

"He's...," Peter said. "He's the man that killed my Uncle Ben."

"What?" adult Peter asked, turning away from Ben. "No he didn't. That was Dennis Caradine."

"Wait...Osborn didn't kill Uncle Ben in your dimension?"

"No..."

"Was...was your Ben an agent of SHIELD?"

"What? No! He was a..."

"Yes!" Peter yelled. "That means things are different in my dimension! That means Gwen might not die!"

"That also means you might not have sex with Mary Jane," Kendrick said.

"Yes. Well...," Peter said, again looking at her chest. "They can't all be winners."

"Man, was I really like this as a teenager?" adult Peter asked.

"You were exactly like this," MJ said with a smile. "And that's why I fell in love with you."

"Are you sure it want my devilish looks and charm?" both Peter's said in unison.

"Yep," Mary Jane said as the two Peter's glared at each other. "Exactly alike."

"At least my dick's bigger," adult Peter said.

"At least I can still play in the kiddie section at McDonald's!"

"Shut up!" adult Peter said. "I'll just live through my kids like every other parent does!"

"Oh man, this is too funny," Kendrick said. "This is, like, my greatest dreams, realized."

"This is like my greatest fears realized," Connor said. "I mean, two Peter's? I can barely stand the old one."

"I'm not old!" adult Peter yelled. "We are having an extra hour of training next time!"

"Noooooooo!" Connor yelled in agony.

[Author's note: I'm having way too much fun with these characters. I almost forgot I have to move the story along.]

"Sorry to interrupt," Daisuke said. "But we really should be going."

"Hey, you're not a dog anymore," Kendrick acknowledged.

"Good," Mary Jane said. "Because, no offense, you were kinda freaking me out."

"How so?"

"You were a talking dog. You were like something out of a Tim Allen movie."

"Okay, some offense taken," Daisuke said. "But I'm still a dog. I just don't look like one now."

"Yep," Ben said. "And the form you decided to take was a fourteen year old Japanese kid with weird black eyes. Good thinking, bud."

"...are they really that weird?"

Everyone awkwardly nodded, even six year old Benjamin.

"I mean, not as weird as you being a talking dog," MJ said. "But still."

"And how did you even fix your watch?" Ken asked. "I thought you said it was smashed."

"It was," Daisuke said. "But I got some parts from your stove and fixed it."

"You did what?!" Peter and MJ yelled in unison. MJ ran into the kitchen to find her stove nothing more than a jumble of pieces. "My stove...my beautiful stove..."

"Daddy," May asked from the ceiling. "Since Mommy can't cook tonight, can we order pizza?"

"Uh...I guess we'll have to, sweetie."

"Yes!" May said before she gave Daisuke a high-five. "Good boy."

"You damn dog!" MJ yelled in fury. "You could've at least asked before you destroyed our property!"

"Look at it this way," adult Peter said. "At least we won't all die from explosive diarrhea because of your cooking tonight."

"No more wheatcakes for you!" MJ yelled.

"No!" both Peter's yelled in unison. "Oh wait," young Peter said. "That only applies to you."

"Please, MJ, anything but the wheat..."

"And no more sex until further notice!"

"Take the wheatcakes!" Peter yelled on his knees. "I'll go cold turkey, I swear!"

[Sorry, getting sidetracked again. It's just so much fun...]

"Sorry to interrupt again," Daisuke said, annoyed. "But we have to go. The Inheritors won't wait for us. They'll come back again."

"I can't go," Peter said. "I have to stay here and protect my family."

"No one expected otherwise," Daisuke said, holding out a watch. "This is a cloaking device. It'll keep the Inheritor's away from you."

"Thank you," Peter said. "And good luck. You'll need it."

"Tell us something we don't know," Ben said.

After a few moments of goodbyes, hugs, and chest staring, Kendrick, Daisuke, Peter, Connor, and Ben were back on the bus, ready to go.

"Everyone ready to go?" Daisuke asked. They all gave a thumbs up. "Let's do this then!"

And they were off, teleporting to God knows where.

[Hey guys, this next part takes place after Unstoppable Spider-Man Chapter 9!]

"So," Ben asked Connor. "What's your favorite anime?"

"Oh, so just because I'm Asian, I have to like anime?" Connor asked, an accusing look on his face.

"Are you saying you don't like anime?"

"...One Piece."

"Whaaaaaaaat?" Peter asked. "Dude, it's all about Unlimited Blade Works!"

"I actually like Spice & Wolf," Daisuke said from the driving seat.

"Noobs," Kendrick said. "It's all about Gintama."

"I actually like Triage X," Ben said, earning looks from all the others. "What?"

"So, Ben's a confirmed pervert," Kendrick said.

"It actually has a very interesting storyline!" Ben defended.

"Interesting storyline?!" Peter asked, surprised. "The very first thing you see in that anime is a close up on humongous boobs!"

"Like you can judge looking at boobs!" Ben yelled. "The whole time back there, you were just staring at my mom's!"

"Well, they were pretty amazing."

"Look, while we can all agree Pete is a pervert," Kendrick said.

"Hey!"

"It doesn't change the fact that every woman in that anime has impossibly huge breasts!" Kendrick finished. "Every. Single. One. So, not only are you a pervert, you're a sexist!"

"You know what, screw you guys!" Ben said, before going to the back of the bus. "I'm sorry I asked."

"So, uh, how do we know where we're going?" Connor asked.

"Ask the dog," Peter said. "We're pretty much just along for the ride."

"Well, where are we going now, Old Yeller?" Connor asked.

"Never call me that," Daisuke said, a slight shiver going through his body. "And we're going to...shit!"

"What's wrong now?" Connor asked.

"We're out of gas."

"Gas?!" Kendrick asked, dumbfounded. "You have a inter-dimensional traveling bus with a goddamned Playstation in the back, and it runs on gas?!"

"Nothing's perfect Kendrick!" Daisuke snapped. "I'd like to see you build a flying fucking bus!"

"Are you calling me stupid?!"

"I'm not calling you stupid," Daisuke yelled back. "I'm just saying you're not as smart as me!"

Suddenly, Daisuke turned the wheel, knocking everyone to the side.

"We're gonna have to make a hard landing!" Daisuke yelled. "Hang on!"

Jason Doyle sat in the chamber, bored out of fucking mind. He been just sitting here for, what, two years now? Three? Honestly, he didn't even know anymore. He missed his family. He missed his friends. He missed...hell, he missed the sun. Was it yellow or red? Maybe it was orange? He couldn't even remember.

Suddenly, his spider-sense started tingling. That was weird. What danger could he possibly face here?

The he heard what sounded like a mortar, and he jumped out of the way as a freaking school bus crashed into the room, sending all his stuff flying. He looked closer and...were those other Spider-Men in there?

"Is everyone okay?" a Japanese kid who did not look old enough to drive called back. After everyone gave a thumbs up, he put both fists in the air. "Woo! Not that's how you land a flying school bus!"

"I doubt there's any way to land a flying school bus...," a taller Spider-Man started before looking towards Jason. "Uh, hey. I'm Ken."

"I'm Peter!" the skinny one in the back yelled.

"Name's Ben!" the one in the very back said.

"And I'm Connor," the other one in the front said. "And this is Daisuke the dog."

"Hi," the youngest one said.

"What...the hell...is going on?!" Jason asked.

"We're Spider-Man," Ken said. "Spider-Men. Whichever."

"Um, why were you in this bunker...alone?" Peter asked.

"I was...," Jason started. "Oh no. No no no no no!"

"What's wrong now?!" Ben asked, aggravated.

"Morlun!" Jason exclaimed. "Ezekiel said if I ever left this bunker, Morlun would show up, and there'd be some Great Spider War! And you assholes just broke it open!"

"Ezekiel Sims?" Peter asked.

"Uh, sorry to tell you guy," Daisuke said. "But the war already started."

"It...what?"

"Yeah, it's been going on for a while now," Ken said. "We were actually fighting in it, when we ran out of gas."

"I'm sorry that we ran out of gas, Kendrick!" Daisuke said. "But what the hell did you want me to do about it?!"

"Why didn't you buy gas in Connor's dimension?!" Kendrick argued.

"I'm a dog! I don't have money!"

"Hey!" Jason yelled. "Can someone please expand to me what the hell is going on?!"

All the other spiders groaned.

"All right," Ken said. "Who's gonna tell it this time?"

"I explained it last dimension," Peter said.

"I am 85 percent sure that that is not true," Kendrick said. "Actually, Connor hasn't explained it yet. So..."

"Fine," Connor said. "Okay, the Inheritors have been hunting us. So, we're getting together to fight them. We're getting as many spiders as we can so we can fight them and..."

"Okay, I get it," Jason said. "But if I don't have to be here anymore...I gotta go see my parents!"

"That's, uh, probably not a good idea," Daisuke said.

"Excuse me?"

"It's just, uh, it looks like this bunker was hiding your scent," Daisuke explained. "But since it's broken now, you're now on the Inheritors' radar, especially with five other spiders here. If you stay in this dimension, you'll be putting your family in danger."

"But...but I have to..."

"Hey," Connor said. "I left my brother, my nephew, my friends, and my girlfriend back in my dimension..."

"I thought you said she wasn't your girlfriend."

"Shut up, Parker," Connor said. "The point is, I left them without telling them anything. My family doesn't even know I'm gone. My sister would freak if she found out I was fighting some inter-dimensional war with alternate universe Spider-Men. But, I came along, not just to save me, but to save every spider ever. Because my problems are small, and I'm apart of something big."

Jason stood there for a moment, thinking...

"Okay...," Jason said. "Let's go."

"I don't think so Jason," a voice said. "I can't allow you to leave with this ragtag group of spiders."

"Hey, we're not ragtag!" Peter yelled. "Wait, what does ragtag actually mean?"

"Uh," Ben said. "Google says it's a group of people perceived as disreputable or undesirable."

"Undesirable?!" Peter exclaimed before pointing at Ezekiel accusingly. "I wasn't so 'undesirable' to your mom last night!"

Ezekiel knocked over Jason as he charged at Peter angrily. "My mother is deeeeeeeaaaddd!"

It wasn't long before Ezekiel had Peter pinned to the side of the bus.

"He...hey man," Peter said, visibly shaking. "My mom's dead too..."

"Parker, you son of a...gaah!" Ezekiel started before falling to the ground, twitching in pain.

"That's take care of that," Ken said, dusting his hands off.

"What...did you do to him?!" Jason asked, incredulous.

"Venom blast," Ken said.

"You could do that this whole time?!" Peter asked, looking betrayed.

"I can only use it once before it needs to charge," Ken said. "I didn't want to waste it."

"Why didn't you tell me?!" Peter asked. "We're, like, best friends!"

"It never came up," Ken said. "And I've only known you for, like, a day!"

"We saved the universe together!" Peter exclaimed.

"Well, technically, I did all the work."

"Shut up Daisuke!" Ken and Peter yelled in unison.

"Wait, you guys did what?!" Connor asked.

"We'll tell you about it on the bus," Peter asked, before turning to Jason. "Speaking of which, you wouldn't happen to know where a gas station is by any chance?"

"Hey, thanks for paying for gas Ken," Daisuke said as they traveled between dimensions.

"You owe me thirty bucks, you son of a bitch."

"Hey! My mother was not a...oh..."

Ken walked to the seats where the others were sitting.

"So Jason, tell us about yourself."

"Well, uh, I was at this presentation between Horizon Labs and Web Enterprise, and there was an explosion, and to save my life, this Milf named Adriana Soria injected me with this weird chemical. While she was injecting me, a spider crawled where she had injected me, and the chemicals mixed with the spider and then it bit me. And then I'm Spider-Man."

"...that is the most complicated and convoluted origin story I've ever heard," Ben said.

"Like you could do better," Jason challenged.

"Challenge accepted," Ben said. "I'm the son of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson. My powers didn't come in like it did for my sister. But, when a bomb full of Terrigen Mist exploded and I was exposed to it, it activated my spider powers, and my inhuman gene."

Ben pulled his hands apart as electricity swarmed between them.

"That's pretty cool," Connor said. "But how about this: I was...bitten by a spider."

"Really?" Jason asked. "That's it?"

"Yeah, I realized how lame it sounded after I said it."

"Hey, it's not lame," Ken said. "That's pretty much exactly what happened to me."

"That's why it's lame," Peter said, rolling his eyes.

"Oh please, like everyone doesn't already know you're origin," Kendrick said. "Mister, 'I was bitten by a radioactive spider.'"

"What? That's not what happened at all," Peter said. "Like, wouldn't that give me cancer? No. A few months ago, there was this this wave that went through the planet..."

"Yeah, I remember that," Connor said.

They all nodded.

"Well, while it happened, I was touching a genetically engineered spider, and that wave crossed our DNA," Peter said. "Then there was this whole thing with my uncle being an agent of SHIELD, but I don't wanna get into that."

"What about you Daisuke?" Ken called to the front.

"Yeah, I've actually been wondering that too," Connor said.

They all looked intensively towards the front where Daisuke smiled.

"Oh you know, just your average story," he said. "I was Mary Jane Watson's pet dog for about two years, until I was stolen. Luckily, I had escaped from the truck that my captors had me in, and while I was walking home and crossing the street, a truck full of radioactive spider blood crashed and I was splashed in it, which gave me spider powers and made me a genius. So, I taught myself English and Japanese, stole Peter Parker's costume and moved to Japan where I'm going to school at."

For a moment, they all just sat there, completely dumbfounded. Finally, Ben spoke.

"I take it back," Ben said. "That is actually the most confusing and convoluted origin story I've ever heard."

"Seriously," Jason said. "I mean, why was there even a truck driving around with radioactive spider blood in the first place?"

"Your guess is as good as mine."

"And it crashed?" Connor asked. "Wouldn't, like, everyone who was on the street end up with spider powers?"

"Nope," Daisuke said. "They all just got cancer."

"Fuck me," Ken said. "That is incredibly depressing."

"Yeah," Daisuke said. "Hey, we're pulling up on another dimension!"

Soon, they flew out into the New York skyline.

"Hey, why does every Spider-Man live in New York?" Peter asked. "Seriously?"

"You know, that is a great question," Ben said.

"Hey guys, I think this is my New York!" Ken said.

"No it isn't Ken," Daisuke said.

"No guys, seriously!" Ken confirmed. "Look, my dad is the mayor of my New York, and there's a statue of him right here!"

"Okay, so maybe it's a New York with a similar timeline to yours," Daisuke said. "But it's not yours. I'm tracking the totem of this dimension now."

"Hey Ken, maybe it's actually another you!" Peter exclaimed, happy for his friend.

"Yeah!" Ken said, getting excited. "Step on it Daisuke!"

Daisuke mumbled something about 'stupid humans' and they started moving faster. Eventually, they landed on a rooftop, where a lone figure was sitting in a red and blue costume. They landed and all ran out, ready to meet the new spider. The spider turned around and looked surprised to see them.

"What...what the hell?!" the new Spider-Man exclaimed.

Kendrick was smiling and crying. The spider was wearing the exact same costume as him.

Finally, it was another him.

"Hey...hey you're me!" Kendrick exclaimed with his mask off.

"Kendrick...?" the new Spider-Man asked, astounded.

Wait, Kendrick thought. That...that doesn't sound like me. That...that sounded like...

The new spider took of his mask.

"Drake?!"