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AN: For the foreseeable future, chapters featuring the three Wandas will alternate between One, Two and Three in that order, although there will be further chapters featuring all three. This chapter will be short, but it sets things up for this Wanda's next couple of chapters, and I have more detailed plans for the activities of the other two.

Scarlet Witch and the Three Spiders

Sitting sharply upright, Wanda winced as the smell of the rubbish in the alley that was her current 'room' reached her nose. She didn't like squatting like this, but she didn't feel comfortable trying to hide in someone's home even if that person almost certainly wouldn't be able to see her. So far at least it wasn't raining, but she wasn't sure how long she'd manage if she had to stay outside on a more regular basis.

"At least they're all right…" she muttered to herself, before she realised who the 'they' she was referring to were.

"Split into three…" she said, looking thoughtfully at her hand for a moment. She still couldn't explain how that had actually happened to her in the first place, but if she accepted that she had been split into three versions of herself, the notion that she could communicate in a dream made a certain sense. After all, this had all started because she tried to dreamwalk into her other selves; if she had been somehow split into three of herself, why shouldn't she be able to talk to her fractured selves when all three of them were dreaming?

It didn't help her deal with her new situation in this universe, but if the other two hers had help from the Peter Parker of that world, maybe they could help her… pull herself together?

"How desperate am I?" she said, shaking her head in frustration as she walked out of the alley, resisting the urge to hold her nose at the smell that was starting to settle on her clothes. She'd managed to find an area where she wasn't actually sleeping on the rubbish, but she didn't want to have to do this any longer than she had to. If she was going to find some way to reunite with her other two selves, she would have to find the only person here who could apparently still see her-

"-three people left in the hospital by this menace!" a voice said as Wanda passed by a window. Turning back, Wanda was able to peer through the open window and see that the people inside were watching a news report showing a figure in black brutally beating another figure, apparently taken with a video camera on a phone-

Wanda bit back a horrified curse when she realised that she was looking at an image of Spider-Man, still wearing the black suit he'd been wearing in their last meeting, hitting a man who seemed to be a regular human being with such force that she was fairly sure her fellow ex-Avenger had broken something in his target.

Wanda had only glimpsed the web-slinger fighting his way through Thanos's minions in the Avengers' last battle, and any brutality there could be excused given the stakes, but this wasn't just a young man letting the high-tech suit use Stark's 'Instant Kill' protocol in a dangerous situation. Even if she assumed he'd been avoiding actually hurting anyone during the fight at Leipzig Airport, Peter didn't strike Wanda as someone who would normally be that ruthless in dealing with his opponents.

In other words, it looks like… the other me… was right to be concerned about the black suit.

The idea that Peter Parker/Spider-Man was essentially possessed by some kind of alien masquerading as his costume was simultaneously amusing and terrifying. He might not be the most powerful hero on his own merits, but from what she had seen of him in action, he was at least above average in various ways; the thought of what he could do if something was taking control of him…

Wanda wasn't sure what she could do about this, but she knew that she wouldn't be able to live with herself if she didn't at least try to find him. If his counterparts were already trying to help 'her', doing what she could to save him from his corrupted costume was almost the least she could do in return.

The question now is if I can find him before he does something we'll all regret…

AN: I appreciate that this was a shorter chapter than usual, but for what it's worth, the next couple are definitely going to be longer, as Peter-2 introduces Wanda to some of the other heroes of his world and Peter-3 explains more about the villains of his own…