Peter and Elsa spent the next day packing up the apartment, which Kate paid for a moving truck to help move everything. If she only knew that most of Peter's things filled up barely the floor of the truck.

Not to mention all that Elsa had on her was the bag of clothes, which when Kate discovered, promised to take her on a girl's trip into town to get her more stuff.

As they were doing that, MJ and Ned learned there was no trace of Anna anywhere from missing person cases to the point she doesn't even exist.

Until they could figure out what to do, Anna was going to be staying with Michelle and have an excuse for her family saying she's a student at MIT and how she lost her place before she arrived in town.

It was the most plausible excuse as they didn't know Anna's exact age and she looked to be more of high school age. But it seemed to be enough that they shrugged it off until Anna found another place to live.

Michelle did need to learn who she was going to ask for help as she didn't know what to do when she left for MIT. She had three months to figure out what to do with Anna...there has to be someone out there who can help.


Meanwhile, as a few days pass, Kate kept her promise as when they got settled in, she took them out on a tour all over New York. Their first stop was to see the Statue of Liberty, Elsa was amazed when she saw the giant symbol of America.

Touring all over New York was a wonder to Elsa as it's the longest she's ever been outside in years. And due to the weather, she was able to keep her gloves on for most of the day, comforting her as she was not ready to go out without the gloves.

Peter even got the two girls to pose for a few photos, which was a new experience for Elsa. For photos, she's usually told to be serious, stand up straight, etc. But while Peter was raking the photos, he told her to let loose. Do whatever she felt like doing.

Kate posed like she was leaning on the statue, and Elsa just mimicked the statue's position. It went like that throughout the whole day, Elsa being amazed by the wonders of the new world, Kate having some fun with her new friends, and Peter actually not being miserable for the first time since the spell.

They even met Kate's friends who were LARPers while in Central Park. They were some nice people, and Peter even recognized them as being people who knew Hawkeye and were 'essential' Avengers.

Then to finish off the day, they went to see the Rogers Musical.

One word to sum it all up.

Wow...

"Save us all from the state we're in!" The stage sang as they watched the Battle of New York taking place and people dancing sound with what looked to be bootleg Avengers with their costume designers. "Theresa a future, I know that. With the strength you bring us, we'll rise again!"

In the audience, Kate was a little shocked at how a traumatic event has been turned into...this. Elsa seemed to be enjoying herself, however, so she decided to stay quiet.

Peter on the other hand... was getting some terrible flashbacks. Flashing back to when his family was out, having a nice day. The day he saw Iron Man flying up to Stark Tower and was there when a portal opened up.

The day an alien invasion came down and murdered his parents, as well as his uncle. The day his aunt found him in a police station and promised to always be there with him. Seeing this offset version of Tony didn't exactly help him out either.

Memories of his mentor and hero come into his mind, making him wonder if Tony was still alive would he remember him? Strange said everyone would forget him, but he didn't mention the effect of past events or the dead.

Did his aunt forget everything that he and her went through?

Peter was shaken from his memories by Elsa, who noticed he had spaced out. "Hey, are you okay?"

"Yeah," Peter assured her as he rubbed his head.

"We'll conquer the Chitauri!" Natasha actress sang.

"Then get shawarma when we're done!" Tony actor said as he rubbed his stomach, signifying hunger.

"Sorry. I...I need some air." Peter apologized and quickly got up, leaving the two of them confused as he left.


Pete made his way outside of the theater and took a breath of the cold New York air. He thought he could manage to get through a musical on the life story of The First Avenger.

Throughout Steve's childhood and World War Two, he was able to make it. But up to the Avengers timeline, it brought up too many memories from his past. From the time Tony saved his life at the Stark Expo, to the time he was recruited by Tony to stop Captain America. Then to the inevitable time that he went to space and... died. He died for five years. And just as life was starting to get back to normal, Mysterio revealed his identity.

As he stood in the snow, his senses started to go off, making him look over to the tower down the street from the theater. Looking back to the theater and down the street, Peter saw this could be an easy quick task that could keep his mind off of the memories.

Quickly making his way down the alley, he changed out of his clothes and into his Spider-Man suit he brought with him and chased after what his senses were calling towards.


At the top of the building, someone had sneaked in silently, wearing an all-black suit that hid all of her features. As she made it down on a rope, she sneaked over to a giant portrait that was all white, with only a few marks in it.

The thief then went up to it, felt around before pushing it away. Revealing that behind the painting was a safe embedded into the wall. Once she had the safe in her sight, she took off her bag and revealed the tools she had.

Using the drill to get into the licking mechanism, she was able to unlock the safe and discovered there was a USB drive inside. Grabbing the drive, that's when Peter finally made it and revealed himself. "You're pretty good at that."

The thief turned and smiled under her mask. Working fast, she tossed a smoke bomb that exploded, blinding Peter. But it didn't work for long as Peter shot a web and yanked out of the building and shot a web at her feet, slamming her into the roof.

Peter landed on his feet, as did the thief as she landed and stood up, looking back at Peter with those eyes...you know the kind of eyes.

"Like the view?" She asked him. "It's the only thing you'll catch tonight."

But before she could get away, Peter shot at her hand and was able to web onto her drive and was able to get it away as she fell out of sight. He quickly caught the drive and looked to see it was embedded with some sort of logo.

F

That's not much to go off of.

But that's when he remembered the thief was getting away and that she could be some sort of skilled thief and is likely to do this again.

Peter ran to the edge and started to look around and saw that there was no sign of her anywhere. Sighing, he saw he failed to stop some random thief from escaping but was at least able to keep her from stealing whatever this is.

Yet again, she didn't seem to be random. Like she was a skilled thief and was almost happy to see him. Like she wanted to be chased by him.

Looking down at the flash drive she tried to escape with, he wondered what was so important or valuable she fought as hard as she did. To risk being chased by Spider-Man, and even encouraging him to chase her.

Before he could consider what was on it, his leg was wrapped up in black goo, causing him to shriek in the action. His senses didn't even go off as he was dragged across the roof.

Trying to grab onto the roof, only getting a handful of snow each time, Peter was eased into the air when he came face to face with the creature spotted on the news.

"Yes!" Venom cheered as he successfully captured Spider-Man. "I have found him, Eddie!"

"This is not what I had in mind when I said to find him," Eddie commented as he saw Peter franticly trying to get away and cry in terror.

"What the hell are you?!" Peter asked as he tried to fight Venom off, failing miserably at the task.

"I am the Lethal Protector!" Venom cried out in pride.

"The Lethal what?" Peter asked. "That's a terrible name."

"Told you." Eddie agreed with Spider-Man.

"Shut up, Eddie!" Venom stated as he turned to face the man inside. "I'm being intimidating!"

"Venom! Put him down and let me take over." Eddie demanded.

Venom saw how terrified of him Peter was, for good reason as he's being held up by a being stronger than him. "Fine."

Venom then started to shrink inside of Eddie, causing Peter to fall and flip over to land on his hands and feet just as Eddie revealed himself.

"Hi." Eddie greeted him, no idea what to really say. "I'm Eddie. Eddie Brock. And I am from another world."

Peter was shocked to hear this, but also not surprised at the same time. "Because of course, you are."


After the play was over, Elsa and Kate made their way out and walked down the street.

"Where do you think Peter got off to?" Kate wonders.

"Probably made it home." Elsa took a guess, feeling like he had to save someone as Spider-Man.

"Hm." Kate shrugged and sent Peter a text. Making sure he wasn't in the alley or anything. Quickly, she received a text saying he was gone, couldn't come back in. "So... if he's out of the way, what do you feel of a little girls' night?"

"What's a girls' night?" Elsa asked, not understanding what that means.

Kate was surprised to hear that she has never heard of that phrase before. "Have you never had any female friends growing up?"

"Not really," Elsa admitted with a shrug.

"Okay. That's it. For the rest of the night, we are having a fun time!" Kate declared as she got a taxi and Elsa was gonna feel like she's going to be experiencing a lot of things tonight.


Peter ended upbringing Eddie back to Kate's place, not having any other place where he could've brought him to. Peter heard him out, listening to how he came from another universe and bonded with the alien Symbiote, then was dragged from his world after his fight with Carnage and was on the run.

"Okay...so, you don't know who I am either." Peter recapped and thought of how this could be possible.

"Can't say that I do." Eddie apologized.

Two people with no connection to Spider-Man, not even knowing who Spider-Man is. And according to Eddie, appeared around the same time as Elsa just landed in Mexico.

Is it possible that others have been dragged into their universe after Strange performed the second spell? People who didn't know Spider-Man?

Then he looked down at the flash drive that the cat thief tried to get away with. He started to think of something and quickly went and grabbed his laptop.

When he put it down, Peter attached the drive and let Eddie come over as Venom even revealed himself from out of Eddie's shoulder.

Peter took a quick little glance over at the alien and quickly refocused on the drive. What he found was information, data, specs on a new sort of device that was years in the making.

"What the hell is that?" Venom asked.

"I don't know," Peter said as he looked over what looked to be some sort of cannon aiming at a circle. "But whatever it is...we have a name."

Eddie and Venom look down to where he was pointing and come across the name of whoever this information either belonged to or wanted this information.

Wilson Fisk.

"Why do I know that name?" Peter whispered, wondering where he heard that name before.