Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

A Tangled Web we Weave: Two

Tombstone was strung up in webbing, the albino mobster struggling weakly to break free. As he had only normal human strength, he wasn't having much luck. Worse, he was suspended upside down and his tie kept flapping in his face.

Spider-man hung from a web nearby, looking at the crook curiously. "So your gimmick is... you're an albino. That's it?" he asked.

"You little..." Tombstone growled.

"Oh. And you shoot people," Spider-man added wryly.

Tombstone made another incoherently angry noise.

(In addition to working for Kingpin, he had maintained a stake in several gangs in New York. He had heard about Spider-man stopping several dealers working for him, and had decided to take steps. Turns out that was NOT a good idea.)

"Well, I called the cops, and I'm sure the evidence I stuck to your back should help them out," Spider-man added cheerfully. "Have a good night," he swung off.

"I hate kids...," Tombstone muttered. He sighed, thinking, 'Mr Fisk is NOT going to be happy about this.'

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The coffee shop wasn't that far from the Academy, and Miles and May met up there off and on. In the weeks following Miles getting powers, he and May had developed a 'mentor and student' sort of relationship. May had helped raise Peter, and had gone through similar stuff to what Miles was going through. Plus, it kept her mind off what happened to Peter, somewhat.

May was, subtly, also urging Miles to tell his parents about his being Spider-Man. He was understandably nervous about the idea. His father was a cop who had disapproved of the hero, so Miles wasn't sure how he'd take it. His mother seemed less of a risk on the issue.

"Patrol went well?" May asked curiously.

"Still basically quiet. I think Kingpin is ordering his guys to lay low until the heat from the collider mess dies down," Miles noted.

"Probably," May agreed.

Of course, the police were trying to get various charges to stick for Fisk, but he had very good and high priced lawyers. As well, he had cleverly made sure that there were no direct connections between him and the building or funding of the collider. It was looking increasingly doubtful they were going to nail him.

"I was listening to the police scanner. Two robberies and an assault stopped is 'quiet'?" May teased him. "And nabbing Tombstone?"

"Yeah, well," Miles looked sheepish.

May just laughed. "Be careful," she reminded him. Neither of them brought up what happened to Peter, but they didn't need to.

"I will," Miles reassured her.

"Here," May passed him the web cartridges, "refills. Let me know if you run low."

Miles put them away. "Does it cost much to make the web fluid?" he asked quietly, "I could pitch in with my allowance."

May actually looked amused. "The money is still coming in from all that licensing Peter did," she revealed, "it's not an issue."

"Thank you," Miles said a bit sheepishly.

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"May! I need COFFEE!" the door slammed open later that day.

May looked in amusement as Lix Octavius staggered in and sat at her table. "You can't get good coffee at work?" she asked as she poured.

"Have you TRIED cafeteria coffee?" Liv asked.

"Okay, that's true," May conceded as she set their cups down and sat across from Liv at her cozy kitchen table.

Miles, amusingly, knew about her re-connecting with Liv after everything that happened. He was a bit disturbed by the situation, but conceded that Liv had never tried to hurt May, specifically. So he was basically staying out of it.

"Uhm... does Fisk know you're coming here? I don't want our friendship putting you in danger," May noted.

"He knows. He thinks I'm keeping an eye on you as well as casing a potential enemy," Liv noted wryly.

"Ha," May smiled.

Liv sipped her coffee, sighing happily. "I missed this," she mused. She looked up at May, "I only moved out of here because I knew Alchemax would do deep background checks on me once they hired me. I didn't want them digging into you."

May looked at her in surprise, "Seriously?"

Liv shrugged. "I would never have moved out of here otherwise," she said.

"Thank you," May noted quietly.

Liv actually blushed a little.

May smiled to herself as she god out some cookies she had made earlier. She had missed this...

"Ooh, yum," Liz beamed.

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"Miles! How's it going?" his mother Rio asked cheerfully over the phone.

Miles sat back at his desk in his dorm room, "Oh, not bad. School's going well."

Thankfully, he thought he was settling into school better. After all the 'Spider-man' stuff, it was really hard to worry so much about academics.

"You'll be back on the weekend, and I'm making your favorites," Rio gushed.

"I'm looking forward to it," Miles agreed.

Rio paused, "Oh, your father wants to say hi."

Jefferson came on, his voice amused as he said, "Staying out of trouble, Miles?"

Miles was really wondering if his dad knew he was Spider-man. Impulsively hugging his father after the collider incident was, looking back at it, not the best idea he'd had.

"Would I do that?" Miles joked.

There was a LONG beat of dead silence.

"Oh gee thanks," Miles laughed.

Jefferson sounded amused, "Let me know if you see Spider-Man, too. I heard he swings around Visions often, I have several co-workers who'd like his autograph."

"I'll keep a eye out," Miles promised a bit dubiously.

They chatted a bit longer, then hung up. Miles sat back, as his roommate looked on in obvious amusement.

"Your dad TOTALLY thinks you're Spider-Man," Ganke noted.

"Oh shut up," Miles sighed.

Ganke just laughed. "Did you decide to look up Gwen in this universe?" he asked curiously.

Like any modern teen, Miles had grown up with the internet as a resource. After all the Collider mess wound down, he had googled 'Gwen Stacy' out of curiosity. It turned out there was a Gwen here, and her facebook photo even kind of looked similar. And she had been friends with both Peter Parker and Mary Jane, too...

"I think it'd be weird and stalker-ish though," Miles admitted. "Plus, we can guess she had a different life than the other Gwen, too. They're different people, really."

"Fair," Ganke admitted.

To be continued...

Notes: I am still assuming this is BASICALLY the Ultimate comics universe. Just FYI.

Ultimate-universe Gwen Stacy had some weird shit happen to her. Including getting killed, reborn as part of the Carnage symbiote, and getting seperated out and recovering. So she'd probably be different than Spider-Gwen.

I'm thinking Aunt May and MJ were Peter's joint heirs. As May seemed more involved with the Spider stuff, I'm assuming she'll keep dealing with that stuff. As well as the 'Spider Cave.'