To say this year has started off, in the most strangest way, was an understatement. I'm sitting here with my sister's boyfriend, who's now down to just a muscle tee and a pair of black boxers while i'm wearing his clothes.
"God." He groaned, throwing his phone on the nightstand.
This is the third time Miguel has attempted to call Alex as he taps his foot incessantly.
"Lyla, pull up his geolocator." He ordered in a very annoyed tone.
"Hmmmm….that's gonna be a no chief." She says opening a holographic universe map. "He's turned off location services, I can't track him."
"Of course, he did." Miguel grumbled, surrendering with a fling of his arm. "This night….is never ending."
He appeared incredibly tense, as if being here with me was straight agongy. However, I suppose this entire evening has been unusually strange for both of us.
"Send me a notification when that bitch comes back online." Miguel ordered in a low tone. "Un-fucking-believable."
He drops his entire back on the bed,
"Todo lo que quería hacer era ir a casa y tomar una copa y ahora tengo que cuidar niños. (all I wanted to do was go home and have a drink and now I have to babysit.)" he whines in misery, placing both his hands on his face.
"I don't need a babysitter" I shot back "if you want to go home so bad, then by all means, go ahead. I'm perfectly capable of handling myself."
"That's great." He replied sarcastically "I'll leave when your boyfriend comes back."
"So he put you up to this"
Miguel chuckled, holding a finger up to me.
"That's cute, you think Alex and i even talk." He trailed off. "Yeah, Alex put me up to this." He replied sarcastically "That's why I'm calling him."
Miguel reaches over to re-dial Alex's phone number again only to hear nothing back. Miguel is that desperate to be out of my presence.
"Ese pedazo de mierda! (That piece of shit!)" he growls sitting up and turning back look at me."Are you fighting with Alex or something?" Miguel asks me bluntly
"Ugh?! That's none of your business!"
"Then call him"
"No"
"So you are fighting with him,"
"What does that even have to do with what's happening right now?!"
"Because your loving boyfriend gets into these dumb moods and likes to think that not responding to an emergency is an appropriate course of action "
This isn't the first time Alex pulled a stunt like this. However it was usually pressed at Miguel. One of the many reasons why they didn't get along.
Miguel and Alex were complete opposites.
Miguel would never act like this, even if he's pissed. Even when every fiber in his being is screaming to be next to me. He knows how to put his logic before his emotions. So he'll never understand Alex who does the opposite.
"You haven't even explained what's happening" I started throwing my hands up into the air like this motion alone would solve anything. "You hid in my bathroom, breaking glass or whatever in there and…then wait to attack me in the closet and…" I shouted then Miguel cuts me off.
"What? Wait? What did you say?" He asked
"You did attack me!"
"No, the other thing, break what?"
"The…." I started and immediately stopped my own train of thought.
There is silence between us for a moment as i just realize that Miguel had no idea what i was talking about.
"If it wasn't…you…then…"
Suddenly a massive glowing red web is coiled around my arms and my mouth dragging me off the bed and toward the bathroom.
Miguel opens his claws, cutting the long web.
"What's going on?!" I shouted as he helps me to my feet.
"I don't have time to explain but," he holds up his pinky. "Remember I'm the one with the broken pinky"
Why is he even talking about his stupid hand right now?!
"What?! Nothing you are saying is making sense!" I shouted as he blocks a kick to the face. But that only leaves room for the intruder to jump over Miguel to grab me.
"Blaire, darling. Long time so no see" he greets happily. "I've missed you"
Maroon eyes, dark curls and a stunning dimpled smile. It was just…another Miguel?!
Ok. So tonight is officially the weirdest night I've ever experienced. I was so confused, and I don't even know what to ask first.
But clearly my questions sit on the back burner when his hands goes around my neck.
"I gotta admit 2099, that scent tracking? Genius. I mean If I wasn't already here I probably couldn't even smell your little pet." He chuckled "Still as pretty as the last time I've seen her."
"What…?" I stuttered trying to make out any words as he tightens his hold. "I don't…understand"
The grin that laid on the other Miguel's face soon disappears when he analyzes the situation.
"You don't remember me?" He stated more than he asked "you don't…fucking remember…..anything,"
Miguel hits him before he grabs me and makes a break for the living room. He then webs the entire door as he pulls me toward the balcony.
"You have…webs?" I asked more to myself than anything.
"Lyla, please tell me Alex is online." He asks his AI.
"Sorry chief, he's still in no man's land"
"Damn it! I swear to god when that mother fucker gets back….." Miguel growled, turning to me. He presses a few buttons on his watch as his Spider-Man suit begins to appear.
"You're….a spider..?!"
"Blaire. You need to listen to me carefully. Climb down the balcony, run 31 mins in any direction as far away as possible from Brooklyn. It has to be 31 minutes, no less no more."
"Miguel what is going on?!"
He pulls out a wrist band and pops it on my arm and hands me his phone.
"When you get there, you'll dial the first number and tell them it's a code 3."
"I don't understand!"
"Once you call, destroy the phone and do not talk to anyone other than that person. Ok?"
"Would please just tell me!"
"Mother of god! Can you not see I don't have time?!"
The sound of the door breaking makes him throw me out of the balcony and webs every other entrance to keep the other Miguel here.
"Go! Patito!" He shouts "¡Ahora! (Now!)"
The sound of him being slammed into a wall makes me jump.
"BLAIRE GO!" he yelled again "I CANNOT DEAL WITH YOU DYING, SO FUCKING GO!"
With that I ran, for 31 long minutes and I don't even know why it has to be so specific?! Until I realize that this weird burner phone he gave me only gets signal 31 minutes out of Brooklyn.
I dialed the only phone number that's as saved into it and the sound of a girl singing is heard. I'm even more confused.
"Hey so that was the super hot singer, Marbal Brown and I was seeing if I could get time off this…"
"Uh? Hello?"
"Oh…uh…" she started as we both sat confused. "Is this Miguel?"
God what did he say?! Level something?!
"Um my name is…"
"Oh god? Is this Blaire?" She stuttered and immediately gets up from her computer seat as she runs to the other side of the portal systems to look for the protocol. "Crap! What was the protocol?!"
"Is this suppose to happened?!"
"Ok first, calm down. My name is Margo Kess. I am your support monitor." She says reading a stack of paper "ummm…..gees why didn't he just upload this to the freaking cloud?!"
"This is sounding so reassuring right now," I muttered feeling out of breath from running. "I just got attack by two Miguel's? Is this normal?"
"Yes?" Margo replies as she flips through Miguel's preapproved dialogue of answered questions. "What you are feeling right now is a state of stress and your support monitor will ease your…tension" she reads like a script.
"What is that suppose to mean?"
"Don't worry I think I got it. What level did he say?"
"He didn't tell me a level"
"Oh…interesting"
And I hear her flip through paper again. It's like this never ending weird night gets continually more weirder.
"I think he said two? Or maybe 3?" I said recalling my thoughts.
"Level 3?"
"Yes! I think"
"He's wants level 3? That's weird? Ok?" Margo trails off as she slides over to the other side of the computer room and types in the correct coordinates. "Stand by for portal."
Then suddenly the watch that Miguel gave me lights up.
"Ok code set, press the red button on your designated watch band. Hold for 10 seconds until portal appears" she reads off to me. "It needs to be for 10 full seconds."
"Ok"
I could only keep my finger on the button for seven seconds until the other Miguel showed up. He forcefully pulls my arm towards him, and the radiant light gives him a more sinister appearance.
"No, no. My little rabbit isn't running off again."
Then he opens his claws, digging one finger into the motherboard. Electrical sparks fly out as the watch begins to short circuit.
"Woah?! Blaire?! Are you there? The portal is starting to act weird" Margo calls "Hello?!"
"2099 may have erased your memories but no matter, we can get them back" he said nonchalantly
"Erased? What?" I replied, suddenly Miguel goes for the arm that was latched onto me and the other is forced to release his hold as he backs up.
"God, you're so fucking annoying" the other one gripes.
Miguel turns to me and holds the button even when the spark burns his skin. A massive yellow portal opens as he takes the phone and crushes it.
"Go!" He shouted
"What about you?!"
"Just go!"
"Miguel?!"
"¡por una vez! ¿Puedes simplemente escucharme y marcharte? (for once! can you just listen to me and go!)" He begged, desperation in his tone. There was something deeper in his voice. Pain. Something that felt off. "Please!"
I had no time to analyze anything because he pushes me through the gates of the next dimension. Sitting out in a massive bright light and then slamming into someone, the blast alone, sending both of us through a wall.
"Ugh, god….what the hell was that?" He groaned as i sat up and coughed, from all the dust. Dark brown eyes with dark dreads turn to look at me. "Oh…uhhh….i think i found her"
"What?!" Margo barked from the intercom on his spider suit. "Where are you?!"
"HQ" he groaned sitting up and helping me to my feet.
"Hobie!? How did she end up….?!" She shouted
"I don't know i just clocked in" He replied in a dragging tone, while scratching his head. "I barely even had coffee yet. Boss is gonna kill you though," He snickered as Margo types a few things into her computer and sends her virtual self through the building and phases right in front of us.
"Oh god," She muttered "He really is going to kill me."
But i guess that wasn't the worst part. Explaining the spider society wasn't hard, explaining the multiverse and the vast trans dimensional superhero's wasn't hard, Alex was Spider-Man in my universe so….i expected weird things.
But what took the cake as the next day rolls on;
The utmost disrespectful part of this debacle was when i was finally released from maximum security and sent back home to my own dimension…
I wasn't given any information I other than that.
"There's a threat and…until it's neutralized you get to wait here." Margo smiles at me.
Jessica just rolls her eyes.
Apparently each month protocol is changed, and someone stands as a support monitor. For almost two years nothing's happen….until now.
Until it was Margo's month. But everything was fine….or so we all thought.
"Really? 6am….?" I muttered entering my home right at the same time as Miguel does in his own dimension.
"Lyla..…" he let out clutching his shoulder from the immense pain. "Fuck,"
He just needed to sit and wait. His mutated DNA will heal in no time, but until then….
I made my way to the bathroom, switching on the shower while heading towards my closet…
Miguel pull off the now blooded clothes and makes his way to his own closet….
My hands touch the handle right as Miguel grabbed his.
Then we both turned at the same time thinking how weird that it turned on it own.
Our doorway opens, to just….see…
"Miguel?!"
Each other.