Infinite parallel universes in the multiverse; each with their own histories and stories.
Let's explore another one...
Late at night at New York City; a 14 year old black boy was perched on top of a building wearing a black full bodysuit that his best friend Ganke Lee helped him stitched together that he then spray painted a red Spider symbol. He put on his black colored mask with red face paint around the eye lenses. Using the web shooters on his wrist he jumped down and started web slinging around the city.
The boy's name was Miles Morales and for a couple of months now; he was New York's Spider-Man.
Spider-Man had been acting as the superhero vigilante protector of New York for 15 years; his police officer father was never a fan of him and Miles didn't paid much attention to the extranormal problems of the city thinking that Spider-Man would always take care of them. He put his focus on unexpectedly winning a lottery to gain into into the private Brooklyn Visions Academy and that night he went to secretly visit his uncle Aaron Davis who his parents disaproved of and didn't want him to have anything to do with him despite Miles finding Aaron a cool guy.
Unbeknowst to him Aaron moonlighted as the masked thief and mercenary known as the Prowler and had stolen technology from Oscorp that very night he ended up bringing home a test subject from Oscorp's attempts to replicate Spider-Man's powers. This spider was also enfused with camoulflage technology and the same kind of electrical energy that turned Max Dillon into Electro. The spider escaped the bag and ended up biting Miles.
Miles discovered his powers and shared them with Ganke who was ecstatic and was really into the idea of Miles using them to becoming a superhero himself but Miles didn't think that the world needed another Spider-Man.
However he was there when Spider-Man died in his final battle with the Green Goblin himself Norman Osborn; a heartbroken city that lost its hero and Miles feeling guilty that he didn't do anything to help decided that it was up to him to fill that void and got people that against him that missed the original Spider-Man too much or flat out hated the idea of Spider-Man.
Right now he was webslinging through his neighbourhood of Brooklyn; when he spotted a grocery store being robbed by hooded people wearing ski masks. Miles jumped down to tackle them but found them moving about super fast and their punches were quite hard. "Rats... Velocity user..." Miles grunted as Velocity was a drug going around that gave users temporary super speed; the chemical was being developed at Oscorp but after they were shut down the lead scientist on the project sold the chemical to organised crime members to deal it as a drug.
Miles used his Spider-Sense to dodge as well as he could until he saw the effects running out and Miles began webbing them up and taking them down; he then saw more of the criminals going to take out more doses of Velocity to take and used his electrical blast powers which he called his Venom Strikes to knock them back. He was about to take the vials but a black and red blur took them.
"Not you again..." grunted Miles as he noticed a smirking man in a black and red suit with a black mask with red goggles; this man had super speed and was targetting Velocity users to steal their doses so that he could make himself faster. Being able to escape any attempt by police or Miles to find him. Miles tried to attack him but he kept dodging and then stole the vials and was knocked out.
Miles saw police cars arrive and went up the walls and activated his camouflage powers so he could spy; the speedster had escaped but not before deciding to finish off the bodies of the criminals personally. Miles felt tense as he saw a serious looking bald headed black PDNY officer with goatee and glasses look over the crime scene and led the officers to get questioned; this was his father Captain Jefferson Morales long abandoned his birth surname and taking his wife's surname when they got married.
"Captain Morales sir!" said a voice and Jefferson and the police sighed as arrived was a small man in a suit; James Sanders the clumsy forensic scientist who was kind of a butt of jokes and a conspiracy theorist.
"Late again Sanders; seems we got more Velocity users wanting to make quick money with a robbery and that new Spider-Man plus our speedy friend. I would be grateful if you could keep the relations to your parents' case to yourself this time Sanders." Jefferson sighed in agitation as he got colder as he took a closer look at the webs left behind.
Miles decided to escape the scene and go home to get changed and get to bed.
The next morning Miles was in his clothes dressed as he was having breakfast with his parents and his baby sister Billie; "Just want to go to my room to double check that I haven't left anything before school..." Miles said giving Billie a kiss on the cheek before going up the stairs.
Making sure no one was looking he made his way to his father's private study as Jefferson tended to bring his work home. He looked onto the desk and noticed the police files including a notice that they had traced the Velocity drug to a manufacturing plant with the man behind the operation being the Crime Master.
He used his phone to take photos before he made his way down and jumped when he noticed Jefferson there offering to drive him to school on the way to work. Being driven to school in your dad's cop car was never fun, especially when you were secretly the vigilante that your dad hates.
Miles was listening to the latest Danikast; the podcast done by the young Danika Hart to spotlight recent news and stories in New York city; "Another crime made possible by the dangerous Velocity drug and not even our new Spidey is having luck. I urge all of you who have been approached to try it not to and give what you know to the authorities... I heard that people have actually died from overdosed much worse than other drugs. I mean I know the temptation of being able to get work done very fast but nothing good can come from this, especially when we are at risk of criminals who could assault you when a second ago you were completely alone! Wherever you are Spider-Man, good luck..." Danika said and Miles noticed his father trying to get his attention.
"Sorry dad; listening to the Danikast. Apparently there was another incident with Spider-Man and the Velocity users." Miles told him apologetically and Jefferson sighed.
"That girl knows a lot about what she is saying and she maybe passionate and well intentioned but I could go about without her trying to drum up support for that new Spider-Man. You know that new one has yet to answer for the death of your uncle Aaron..." Jefferson ranted but calmed down.
"You didn't seem to like Uncle Aaron when he was alive..." Miles muttered knowing the answer now and Jefferson sighed some more as he stopped driving to look back at him.
"Sorry Miles but... I never got to make amends with my brother before he was killed and there was so much left unsaid that I regret not saying before... I will never get that chance again and Spider-Man won't surrender himself to explain what happened and whether or not he did kill him. Sorry to speak ill of the dead but that Parker guy... When he was alive; he was allowed to not have to answer for the deaths of Captain George Stacy who was a dedicated cop nor the death of his daughter Gwen. I am now kind of scared that the pattern will continue and somehow someway this Spider-Man will cause me to lose you, your sister or your mother like I lost Aaron. My biggest fear, second being that you and Billie will just end up being like Aaron and I." Jefferson said and went back to driving as Miles put his head down.
Miles sighed as he thought to himself "I want to tell you Dad but how can I..."
Miles had come to his uncle Aaron for advice on how to be Spider-Man revealing his powers, Aaron ended up revealing his own costumed altered ego to him as well and manipulated him into helping to take down a crime boss that Aaron got on the bad side of for trying to double cross him. Miles looked at the bodies of the criminals that Aaron had killed ready to be sick as Aaron was smiling at the body of the crime boss.
"We are going places Miles; soon the Prowler will be the new Kingpin with you by my side." Aaron told Miles in his purple and green get up.
"No... I am not doing being your lackey anymore Uncle Aaron! This isn't what being Spider-Man means..." Miles told Aaron as he did a double tale. "Why don't you give up the Prowler now Uncle Aaron, quit while you are ahead..." Miles asked as Aaron looked his way.
"Are you nuts Miles? Why should I? I have Spider-Man as my nephew now; the sky's te limit and this whole city can be ours! Growing up; I had to settle with being someone's muscle or hired help but now I can be the one giving orders and not taking them! We could do great things! You and me... Or do you want to get yourself killed like Parker did? Heroes become martyrs, professionals stay alive Miles!" Aaron told him but Miles looked like he was ready to fight.
"Don't make me fight you Uncle Aaron..." Miles said but Aaron used his wrist gauntlets to start firing bullets at Miles with Miles dodging. They ended up fighting with Aaron's own athleticism, experience and moves able to keep up with Miles lack of experience with his powers. "I can see why mum and dad... didn't want me around you..." Miles groaned as Aaron picked him up by the neck and aimed the claws of his hand warningly at him.
"Don't make me do something that I will regret Miles; you do know that I could go to your folks about what you are doing? You know how much your old man hates Spider-Man, could break their hearts like I broke theirs's Do you really want them to go through that or if they have to find about about your corpse being found in that suit?" warned Aaron with Miles not being able to believe that this was his cool Uncle Aaron.
Miles ended up using his Venom blasts to shock Aaron sendng him back but ended up pushed against a broken statue which pierced through his body. Miles was in shock but couldn't dwindle for long as he heard the police coming and had to escape through the window.
Miles wandered the halls of Brooklyn Visions feeling like he didn't belong thanks to having gotten in through that lottery and he had gotten looks and whispers from how he tried too hard to fit in. Didn't help when people were talking when they found out that the dead Prowler was his uncle.
He met up with Ganke a Korean American boy; "So how is the latest web formula? Holding up great?" Ganke asked Miles thinking about the homemade web formula that they had to pierce together as well as the web-shooters that they did their best to replicate with Ganke's talent in gadgets and computers.
"Secret identity remember..." Miles reminded him and Ganke apologetically nodded as they walked the halls together with Miles smiling as he spotted his classmate and crush Barbara Rodriquez.
"Heard about the encounter with the speedy guy and the Velocity users; if only we could shut them down for good..." Ganke muttered and Miles smiled in response. "You know something?" Ganke asked as Miles showed him the pictures quickly on his phone and then turned it off. "The Crime Master? I heard about him; basically a title of crime bosses who wear wrestling masks... Taking down a Crime Master and this speedy guy will give you more cred to be seen as the legit new Spider-Man!" Ganke told Miles and he nodded hoping that he was ready.
Miles that night as Spider-Man turned up at the Velocity manufacturing plant and saw the armed goons along with the Crime Master who was dressed in a brown business suit, hat and black face mask with white lines. He used his webs to disarm them and used his Venom powers and strength to knock them all out.
He then felt his Spider-Sense and saw the speedy guy in his suit there almost having charged into him as a blur. "I have the rest of the Velocity here..." the speedy guy said managing to push Miles back and punch at great speedy with Miles lying on the ground in pain. "Let me tell you a story Spider-Man... Once upon a time there was a boy who lived with his parents who loved him very much and loved eachother very much! One night at home there was a disturbance as a black and red blur of a man was speeding through the house and ended up killing his mother, the boy's father tried to save the mother but when the police came they put the blame on the father and arrested him. The boy wasn't believed thinking that he was just covering for his father and the red and black 'Speed Demon' he had described was merely a result of the boy's trauma. The father was convicted of falsely killing his beloved wife and the boy was sent into foster care, the boy swore he would one day clear his father's name but couldn't as he died in prison. The boy swore vengeance and would find this Speed Demon!" the man told Miles smirking.
"Let me guess... The boy was you?" Miles asked as police ended up storming in armed with guns and Jefferson leading them.
"Sanders stand down! I know it was you! I just wanted you caught in the act!" Jefferson said as Miles looked as Sanders shook his head in the suit.
"I knew Velocity was connected to the Speed Demon somehow... You see Spider-Man and others; I used my codes to break into the evidence locker and take the confiscated doses of Velocity to take to my personal lab. A lightning storm during my study doses me with the chemicals and the chemicals I was using and it made me more powerful from the average Velocity users... My calculations made me decide that if I became fast enough I could pierce through time and space and go back and change history! But I needed more doses and so I stole them from the users and thought studying their blood could help so I killed them, I would be called in to inspect and collect what I needed!" Sanders explained as he then began dodging the gun fire from the officers.
"Any reason why you are villain monologuing your life story Mr Sanders with you thinking going fast can travel through time?" Miles asked getting up as Sanders shook his head as he came towards the rest of the Velocity and injected himself at great speed.
"I am not the villain of this story! I am the hero and I want to let you Spider-Man know before I give the story a happy ending! I am going back in time and stopping the Speed Demon from killing my mother and thus saving both of my parents!" Sanders shouted out as he felt the adrenaline and speed through his veins and began running on the spot.
Sanders stopped and was on his knees in shock and looked to his reflection in a nearby window. "I travelled through the tunnels of time... I broke the barrier between speed and I made it to my childhood house the night my mother died... I went to grab my mother and pull her to safety before the Speed Demon arrived but I didn't realise how fast I was moving... My hand pierced through her body and I saw my past self... It was me... I was the Speed Demon... It was me all along... A time loop..." Sanders began muttering to himself in shock and began moving about attacking the officers in rage but a well aimed punch with Venom powers from Miles knocked him out and activated camouflage to let the officers take Sanders into custody
Jefferson was now overlooking the facility as the officers searched the entire premises but when he was alone he found Miles appear before him in his suit after turning off his camouflage powers. "I am sorry about your brother Captain Morales but it was an accident... I sent him back when we were fighting, he wanted me to help him become a crime boss and take down his enemies. He found out who I was and threatened my family, I wish there was any other way..." Miles told Jefferson as Jefferson looked away.
"I wish I could say that he would never but I knew my brother... Go, just go... Before I get back into my right mind..." Jefferson shouted holding back tears as Miles sadly web slinged away.
He didn't notice on his way home that spying on him on top of a building was a serious looking older woman with white hair, black goggles and a black catsuit with white fur attached to it. The reformed cat burglar turned vigilante known as the Black Cat looked at the new Spider-Man and shook her head; she had her son being looked after by the infant's Great Aunt May while she looks to see if this kid was worthy of becoming a worthy successor to her late husband.
In another part of the city through a portal was a white blurry humanoid figure with black spots around him; he looked at a discarded newspaper and shook his head. "I am still not home..." groaned the figure that used to be Professor Johnathon Ohm of Roxxon. He remembered that on the night that he and his boss Simon Krieger was showing Martin Li a demonstration of the renewable energy source at Roxxon Plazza that was really a energy taken from the portal technology of a dimension of light and dark when Spider-Man interfered with those criminals Cloak & Dagger. His life's work was about to explode and he refused to let it be destroyed.
He found himself transformed by the whole ordeal and in a new Earth like his own but different and was now going through all the Earths trying to find his way home...
Sorry for the wait and I am putting together the next proper chapter but here is a little something: it will be a long while before I do any alternate universe crossing over type stuff but a taste of things to come. Plus I took the Flash: Rebirth (not part of the DC Rebirth line) retcon about Barry Allen's origin which you should know if you watched the Flash show and decided to twist it around with a twist that could be like it was from the Twilight Zone.
