And here we are, onto the next arc!

However, I've decided to change up the titles and names of the arcs for this one. Since this arc is going to be focusing more on {SPOILER ALERT} Miles Morales, I've decided to pay tribute to him by taking the titles of his arcs not from the comic book arcs that he starred in, but in the titles of the songs from Into and Across the Spider-Verse!

As such, please, allow us to continue into: Nas Morales!

Meanwhile, the newly minted Eri Morales would find herself growing increasingly happy in her new home as the Morales family, particularly her new big brother Miles, would welcome her in with open arms. Miles would be kind to her, and would show her how he had taken to expressing himself, through his drawings, writings, music, and graffiti art, and Eri would begin to take up drawing and artwork as a way to express her feelings as well.

This newfound passion of hers eventually gets her entrance into the Japanese branch of Visions Academy alongside Miles. Part of the backstory to this is that because of the various villain attacks that have taken place since Spider-Man's arrival into Japan, from Sandman's rampage to the Hosu attack, from the Kamino Incident to Kraven's Last Hunt to even the War of the Symbiotes, a few schools have been forced to shut down due to damages, and others have deemed that it would be better for others to merge together in order to protect their students, hence why Visions Academy is so much bigger than what it is in the usual Marvel continuity, and why Eri and Miles are going to the same academy as well, albeit in different years.

During this time, Eri would also find new friends in Kota Izumi, who had been sent over to Visions Academy by his aunt and the rest of the Wild Wild Pussycats for his safety, as well as Katsuma and Mahoro Shimano, as it is revealed that thanks to the battle between Nine and All Might for the Venom Symbiote, it was judged that Nabu Island was no longer safe for them, and they were send away to Visions Academy where it would be safe for them. All four of them would eventually become close friends, especially Eri and Katsuma, as they would somehow sense something familiar inside the other…

However, she starts becoming aware that someone is spying on them, and confides in Miles, who confides in his father and Uncle Aaron. The former promises to look into it, while the latter wonders if he should take matters into his own hands…

Meanwhile, Miles is finding it hard to settle into this new school, feeling isolated and removed from the rest of the population for being a foreigner, having moved from Puerto Rico to Japan alongside his parents. He at least finds a friend in his roommate, one Ganke Lee, but other than that, he is left lonely and ostracised by the majority of the school for his foreign origins.

However, he does soon find companionship in a pair of girls that had been travelling over from America to Japan on a foreign exchange programme for the different branches of Visions Academy, one Mattie Franklin, an obsessive Spider-Man fangirl with a spider mutation of her own, that being the four spider limbs that are attached to her body, and her friend, a fellow Puerto Rican and a Muslim girl by the name of Anya Corazon, whom also senses something in Miles as much as he does in her.

Soon enough, the four begin to bond over their shared admiration of Spider-Man and what he stood for, with Miles and Anya admitting that they had been saved by Spider-Man as well and gaining Mattie's awe and jealousy on top of it. However, upon seeing multiple students within Visions Academy, mostly children of prominent pro heroes and people of government, criticising the webheaded hero and despising him for his complicated vigilante/hero career and how it has brought much chaos to both hero society and Japan, the four of them would end up starting their own Spider-Man fan club that they would call the Web-Warriors, and, with the help of Ganke's technical expertise, design a website for their club, allowing others who feel the same admiration for Spider-Man to gather together and share their opinions online.

However, a new problem for the crew arises when one of Spider-Man's villains arrives into Miles' hometown neighbourhood, Eradu, to stir up trouble. Screwball fancies herself as the first of a new generation of live-streaming villains, seeking to use the pro hero system against the pro heroes themselves and become a 'Pro villain' as she says, using her criminal activities to elevate her rise to fame and become as popular as the pro heroes that she sets herself up against.

So, in a bit to begin her new career as a 'Pro villain' and her rise to stardom, Screwball sets up shop in Eradu and starts live-streaming her antics, running around, breaking as many minor laws as she can, such as robbing, breaking-and-entering, even jaywalking and encouraging others to use their quirks freely, in order to start herself up and get others to notice her.

The only problem is that Eradu is a low-income neighbourhood, which means that many pro heroes don't see the effort in defending them as it is considered high-risk and low-reward when compared to the other, more higher-income estates and the possible attention and fame that they can award a pro hero for defending them. As such, Eradu is generally avoided by pro heroes and left to defend itself, meaning that villains such as Screwball can run around freely.

As such, Screwball's antics, for a while, goes unnoticed and uncared for, and the people of Eradu are left to have to deal with her on their own terms. Worse yet, the only heroes that are in the area, three sidekicks that go by the moniker of the Garbage Trio, that being Toya Setsuno, Yu Hojo, and Soramitsu Tabe, are being no help, as they seem to be too distracted by looking for something (or someone), simply telling people who ask them to deal with Screwball to simply direct their concerns to the local police department and call for another hero to sort it out, as their mission is too important to ignore.

As a result of Screwball's escapades, Miles would be forced to shelter inside of Visions alongside Eri and his friends until she was caught, which, from the looks of it, wasn't going to be for a while. Worse yet, a few villains would end up becoming emboldened by Screwball's crimes and supposed free reign over the district, and would take to the streets themselves, using their quirks to do whatever they wished.

During one night, a time where Miles was feeling antsy and needing to get out for a while, he would end up sneaking out of the Vision dorms and going out on a walk in the city, his skin feeling itchy and his hands feeling sticky.

Then, suddenly, his senses scream at him, and he ducks down to avoid a metal bat from slamming into his head, its wielder a man trying to rob him. Miles would try to back up from him, but the man would attack him once more…

And Miles, in a panic, would shove him away, right into the wall and leaving a massive crack in it.

Miles would be shocked by this, and would be left frozen in place, unable to understand what just happened. However, he would then hear a few of the mugger's friends approaching from around the alleyway, alerted by the noise, and would make a run for it… somehow turning invisible as he did so.

Miles would end up sneaking back into Visions Academy, confused and panicking about these strange new powers of his despite his supposed quirklessness. Ganke, his roommate, would quickly find out about said new powers and calm his friend down, and would promise to keep them under wraps for as long as they could.

Looking into his new powers, Miles and Ganke would find that his newfound strength, as well as his ability to turn invisible, are just two of his new abilities, as Miles would suddenly have the ability to stick to walls as well, on top of enhanced agility, stronger skin and muscles, and that strange sixth sense of his. Ganke is quick to realise that Miles not only has the same powers as Spider-Man, but has a bonus ability as well, and begins to fanboy about it, only for Miles to hush him up about it. He has no interest in drawing attention to himself like that, especially in the current social climate, as that might bring hell down upon his family, especially Eri, and he's got no interest in bringing that kind of heat down onto them.

However, Miles may not have a choice in this soon enough, as Screwball is still running about the district, sowing chaos wherever she went in order to up her online viewership. Worse yet, the villains that followed around in her wake would begin to cause a little chaos of their own, becoming too big of a problem for Miles' father and the rest of the police force to be able to deal with, and would begin to verge on the threat of attacking Visions Academy itself.

And in the case that Miles may have to one day protect himself from these thugs, Ganke would end up buying him a discount Spider-Man costume.

Meanwhile, Anya would find herself feeling strange as well. Her senses were beginning to grow louder and louder, and her wrists were growing itchy. Weirder yet, which is something that Mattie, her best friend and roommate, has noticed, her body has suddenly grown more toned and muscular, despite her having never worked out before, and she was beginning to feel like she was seeing and hearing better than she was before as well. Mattie would begin to ask her about where all of this suddenly came from, but Anya would prove to be just as confused as her friend was.

But then, one day during classes, a villain, a former dropout of Visions Academy with a quirk that allows him to harden his skin into diamonds, would break into the academy itself, and, out of anger for being kicked out due to his violent behaviour, would begin to threaten to attack everyone inside.

And Miles, realising that this latest villain wasn't going to just go away unless he had been sufficiently convinced to do so, would don the homemade Spider-Man suit that Ganke had got him, and, calling himself Spider-Man as well, would face this villain head on…

And get his butt handed to him.

Time after time again, Miles would try to fight this villain, and time after time again, despite all of his newfound strength and abilities, he would lack the experience to use them, and would be soundly beaten by the villain before he can even try to fight back.

It is only when Anya, running out of the school in a panic to try and save her friend, would be able to save Miles from the villain's wrath…

By picking up an entire bus with her bare hands, and throwing it at the villain, knocking him out.

Miles would be shocked at Anya's sudden show of strength, and Anya would be just as confused as he was. Ducking back into the school before the cops arrive to arrest the villain, they are both thankful as to the fact that no one saw them go outside…

No one save for Ganke and Mattie, of course.

After getting Miles to his room – and witnessing the advanced healing powers that have been afforded to both himself and Anya as well – Ganke and Mattie would both begin to freak out about what they had just done, with Mattie in particular fangirling wildly about it and how the two of them might end up becoming the next great Spider-People-

Only for Miles to shush her, and Anya to do the same shortly after. Neither of them have any want or interest in what both she and Ganke were proposing. Right now, all they wanted was to catch their breath and figure out what they were going to do next.

In the aftermath of the villain attack on the academy, Visions would temporarily close, and all the students would have to go home for the time being. Anya and Mattie would have no place to go, as Visions' dorms were supposed to be their home for the duration of their stay in Japan, to Miles would allow them to stay at his house for the time being until Visions opened again.

However, they would be watched by three eyes, who would notice Eri amongst the crowd, and, confirming their suspicions, move to pursue.

Soon enough, Screwball would hear about the fight in Visions, but would misunderstand what happened and assume that it was the actual Spider-Man who had defended Visions Academy, and, thinking that this next stunt will boost her viewership up to the stratosphere, makes her next livestream and invites Spider-Man to fight her…

Because she's planted bombs all over Eradu, and they'll go off in two hours unless he takes the remote for it from her.

Freaking out, Miles comes to the conclusion that Spider-Man, or any other pro heroes, would get to Eradu in time to stop her, and realises that there's only one person who might be able to stop her.

Him.

So, he dons the shop sold Spider-Man costume once more, and goes to confront Screwball.

And Screwball, thinking once more that this is the genuine article, happily begins the chase with him, forcing Miles to leap over roofs and over buildings after her, putting every single lesson and skill that he's ever learnt from parkouring for years to the test, even snagging a rope with a barbed end on it to swing after her.

And meanwhile, turning away from the dramatic livestream, Anya would notice three individuals approaching the Morales household.

Three figures, three hero sidekicks, the Garbage Trio, who attack the Morales household.

Meanwhile, Miles is busy chasing down Screwball, and is finding it difficult to try and catch up with the villain, who is using a flying hoverboard to get around. Losing hope, he has to stop to quickly catch his breath, and laments that there is only fifteen minutes left on the timer to go before the bombs go off. He's failed to protect the people that he cares about…

But then, he gets a call from Ganke, and sees that the Web-Warriors website is not only blowing up, but most of its members are also residents of Eradu as well and are all cheering him on. Touched by all the support that people are showing him, Miles calls out for his fellow Web-Warriors to send him as much information as they can regarding any sightings of Screwball, and comes up with a plan.

As such, his fellow Web-Warriors are able to help him keep track of Screwball, and then, at the last minute, he is able to trap her between two buildings, latch his rope and hook onto her hoverboard, and then launch himself, using the rope, right into her and bring her down, thanks to his strength and a little trickery with his new invisibility power.

Miles is able to catch Screwball, and that is when she realises that he isn't actually the real Spider-Man. Instead, he's just a kid, and she comments that she doesn't allow minors on her stream. Miles simply ignores her, and finds the remote for the bombs…

A remote which is as fake as the bombs themselves.

Yeah, turns out that Screwball had been lying about the bombs. She never intended to actually hurt anyone. She just really wanted the attention for her channel. Miles is utterly flabbergasted by this, and is more than a little mad at how quickly Screwball is able to write it off, no harm no foul and all that stuff.

But then he gets a call from Anya, and when he answers, he is shocked at what she tells him.

The house is under attack by three hero sidekicks, and they are trying to kidnap Eri.

Horrified by what is happening, Miles realises that there is no way that he'll get back home in time… until Screwball offers him a lift, as payment for helping her channel grow.

Back at the Morales household, Mattie and Rio Morales are beaten into a corner by the ravenous Soramitsu, whilst Anya is held down by Yu Hojo and his crystals, and Eri is being dragged away by Toya Setsuno, the three of them intent on delivering her back to her rightful place by their boss' side. Realising that they are going to take her new daughter away from her, Rio pleads with them not to take Eri away, but the three hero sidekicks are uncaring to her. After all, they've already given their lives away to their boss. They have nothing to gain from listening to her, and no reason to betray their boss-

And that's when Miles, still in his Spider-Man costume, leaps off Screwball's hoverboard and slams down to the ground, a field of bioelectricity covering his body and then leaping out from him and into the three sidekicks as he does, frying them and releasing Eri from their grasp.

Eri flees back into her new mother's arms, but the three sidekicks are quick to recover and attack Miles, beating down on him, though he is only just able to keep up with them with his spider powers, as well as his invisibility and bioelectricity.

However, once again thanks to his inexperience, he is barely able to keep up with the three heroes, and is almost on the verge of failure, right until a new player joins the fray.

Anya, who's just thrown together a quick disguise for herself, and fires out twin lines of organic webbing from her wrists, throwing herself into the fray and using her strength to break Hojo's crystal armour and send him flying back.

And yet still it's not enough. Despite their enhanced powers, they are still two inexperienced children against three seasoned veteran sidekicks, and the fight once again quickly turns against them…

Right up until yet another person joins the fray. A seasoned veteran all of his own, a fabled and elite bounty hunter and mercenary who was supposed to be retired, and one of the few villains from before Spider-Man arrived in Japan who used technology over quirks (hence why All for One never took any interest in him), making him one of the most mad, and most notable villains of all time.

The Prowler, who handedly dispatches all three sidekicks at the same time.

Both the disguised Miles and Anya are amazed by the sudden arrival of the supposedly retired villain, but the three sidekicks, picking themselves back up, would refuse to back down themselves. They were fanatically loyal to their boss, and had no desire to fail him. They would take Eri from them and deliver her to their boss, and they didn't care if they had to kill both the Prowler and the entire Morales family to do so. They'd got away with murder before-

And that's when they notice Screwball hovering above them, her camera out and filming them for all those watching her livestream, hundreds and possibly thousands that they are, to see.

The Garbage Trio have just admitted to kidnapping and murder, live on stream.

The Prowler swiftly knocks out the three sidekicks, and wraps them up in cable. At the same time, Miles and Anya quickly duck away out of sight and shed their shoddy disguises as the police, led by Jeff Davis, arrive on the scene to take the three corrupt sidekicks away, right before Miles and Anya emerge to comfort the shaken Rio, Eri, and Mattie.

And then the real Spider-Man arrives, only to awkwardly realise that, yeah, he was a little too late to do anything.

Soon enough, the family give their statements, and look to the house to see that it is all broken up and damaged, not suitable for them to live in for the time being.

And that's when the other residents of Eradu emerge to help fix it up.

Because no matter who they are or where they came from, in the end, the people of Eradu are a tightknit community, and they all look out for each other, no matter what.

Soon enough, the Morales home is repaired, and Visions Academy is opened up once more. Miles and Anya are suddenly treated as a survivor for making it through the attack on his household by the three sidekicks (though thankfully no one is able to pin the identities of the two fake Spider-People on them), and are properly welcomed into Visions Academy because of it.

However, soon enough, Miles is approached by a young woman who thanks Miles for helping her stream out, and Miles realises that this is Screwball in her civilian guise, having figured out who the fake Spider-Man was and deciding to congratulate him on his efforts. Miles is more than a little pissed off at her for having recklessly endangered his neighbourhood as she did, but Screwball merely waves it off, and promises to lead her 'Fans', them being the other villains that had been encouraged by her antics, out of the neighbourhood. Miles would still be angered by her, less than willing to forgive her for her actions, even if she did help him out in the end, but would be forced to simply let her go, powerless to stop her as she trotted away, eager to begin her criminal livestreaming elsewhere.

But then, later that night, Miles and Anya would be met by the real Spider-Man, who had himself figured out that they were both the people that had been using spider disguises to fight against Screwball and the Garbage Trio.

However, instead of admonishing them like they had been expecting, Spider-Man instead congratulates them on defeating both Screwball and the Garbage Trio, as well as that diamond villain that had attacked Visions on top of that. If it wasn't for them, a lot of people could've been hurt or killed, and Eri could've been taken away to god knows where. He also admits that he wouldn't have been able to make it in time, and he'll ask Adriana to see if she can get some heroes stationed around Eradu.

However, he does ask them how they were able to use the powers that they somehow had, and the two of them lie and say that it was their quirks. Peter, of course, doesn't believe them, as the idea of two people that he saved both having spider-related powers and more, especially after the incident with Toga, but he decides not to press any further on it.

However, Peter finds himself in a difficult position, and lays it out to the both of them: as much as he would like to encourage them to use their new powers for good, if they wished to even use them at all… he can't. At least, not in the way that he can. As it stands, Peter Parker, that being Spider-Man, is one of the most controversial figures in current Japanese society. Momo's already getting flak as it is for copying his style with her suit, and she's got legal protection. If Miles and Anya were to go out, not only as vigilantes, but as spiders once again… Peter didn't want to think about what might happen.

As hypocritical as he knows it is, Peter tells Miles and Anya that while he won't tell Adriana or anyone else about what they had done, they should still just keep their heads down and their powers to themselves. He'd like to encourage them to use their powers for good, but he can't. Not under the circumstances that was current hero society. He couldn't promise that there would be no more villains entering into Eradu and that there would be no more attempts to kidnap Eri again. He certainly couldn't promise that they wouldn't be forced into a position that they would be forced to defend themselves against any of these threats. But, he could damn well try at least, and he couldn't in good conscious condone these two kids risking their lives like he had done before, especially now in a world that seemed to hate heroes no matter what they did.

As much as he knew he was a hypocrite for it, Peter simply advises the two of them to keep to themselves and their families, lest they invite something, or someone, dangerous upon them, if they even wanted to use their powers in the first place.

Miles states that he wasn't even sure what he wanted to do with his life, and Anya agrees. Peter simply smiles and says that he still has no idea what he wants with his life as well, so maybe they're not so different.

With uncertainty, Miles and Anya agree not to use their powers again, though Peter bitterly, yet quietly remarks that they may not have a choice in the future. He never did. The two of them pick up on that, though, and ask why he started out as Spider-Man anyway. Peter answers by saying that someone taught him that with this great power of his came the need to use it with great responsibility. If something happened, and he could've stopped it but he didn't, then it would've just happened because of him.

Miles them asks that if Anya and himself have the same powers as Spider-Man, then shouldn't the same apply to them?

Peter has no answer to that. Again, he knows he's being a hypocrite, but deep down, this lifestyle of his, legal or not, has not been any fun, and it isn't supposed to be, despite how he might make it look with his attitude and way of fighting and talking.

All that being Spider-Man has done is make him and the people around him miserable and brought him and everyone else nothing but pain and loss.

He can't bear to bring himself to send two more people down the same path.

Peter leaves Miles and Anya to their business, still rolling in internal conflict as Miles and Anya are left at a crossroads on what to do with themselves and the powers that they have gained…

All the while, Eri is met by a new classmate of hers, a girl her age who wears a tattered red and teal outfit under a coat that was two sizes too big. A girl who simply introduces herself to Eri as Zero, and tells Eri that she knows about the power that is inside her. A power that is desperate to come out...

Okay, so a lot of you may not like how Peter Parker is written in this arc due to how he basically told Miles and Anya not to be spider-heroes like himself (we'll see how well that goes...) and how, in any other situation, he probably would've encouraged the two to use their powers for good.

However, here me out:

At this point in time, Spider-Man is one of the most controversial figures in hero society's history, with many people liking and even admiring him, and many more hating and despising him for going against hero society. So far he has been attacked by his fellow pros, has had the murder of one of his friends pinned on him, had someone running around and murdering people whilst looking like him, has had heroes gunning for him and people within hero society itself working against him and even almost killing his loved ones. To say that there's a lot of heat against him is an understatement. As such, anyone walking around with his face and mask on is bound to be a target for an irate hero, villain, or anything else.

And before anyone says anything, yes, I'm aware that Peter's friends are all running about with his logo on them, but they're all nearly the same age of him (and are currently going through as much hell as Peter is), which leads to point number two: their age. As it stands, Miles and Anya, at this point in the story, are twelve years old. They're not even thirteen yet, the age that this version of Peter started his career as Spider-Man. They're just children, not even teenagers yet, and there is no way that Peter would ever willingly put children into the crossfires of any villains out there in the world. It's unethical to even think about.

And then, there's the third, and arguably biggest reason. Allow me to explain: back during the beginning of Nick Spencer's run of TASM comics (which is actually pretty good in that it deals with the consequences of OMD and actually calls Peter out on it), Peter found himself being split apart into two separate people, that being Spider-Man, whom was power, and Peter Parker, whom was responsibility. During this time, Peter and Spider-Man have an argument, where the latter says that being Spider-Man should be fun...

And Peter Parker makes it clear that it isn't. That being Spider-Man isn't about having fun, it's about taking up a responsibility and all the struggles and hell that comes with it.

And that's the real crux of his decision: being Spider-Man, being a spider-hero, is nothing short of hell. Once you take up the badge of a spider, you take up a vow that you will use your powers to help other people no matter what, not because of fame or glory, not because you want to, but because you have to, because you need to, because you have a responsibility to use your powers in the name of others...

And it is hell. Being Spider-Man is nothing short of hell.

Don't believe me? Look at what Spider-Man has been through since the beginning of this story. He has been beaten, shot, stabbed, kidnapped, tortured, buried in his own grave, unwillingly clones, possessed by a sentient quirk, is blamed for the death of one of his friends, is forced to stomach the murder of so many of his villains, and is impersonated by a murderer. He invertedly got his friends kicked out of their dream school and their futures ruined, had one of his friends possessed by that same sentient quirk and turned into a raging monster, and has had so many of his friends and family killed by his actions. Uncle Ben (twice), Harry Osborn, Gwen Stacy, and now Kazuho...

Spider-Man has been through hell and back, and that's only so far in this story. There is no way that he would ever want to push that onto someone else, particularly a child.

(Still don't believe me?

Paul.

That is all.)

And yes, in this instance, Spider-Man is being hypocritical, but he knows it. He's not dumb enough to think that Miles and Anya had any real choice in the circumstances that led them to fight against Screwball and the sidekicks, and he knows that there will probably be other times where the two will be forced to use their powers as well. Despite that though, he still doesn't want to have to see these two kids adopt the mantle of a spider-hero and go through the same pain and torment that he, and others like Ochako, Izuku, and Momo, have gone through.

So yeah, I hope that clears things up.

Now let's move on! First of all, Screwball's involvement in this arc was inspired not by her much-despised appearance in Marvel's Spider-Man PS4, but on the Spider-Man: Fake Red manga. If you haven't ever read it, go check it out. It's a really good Spider-Man story, in my opinion. A damn shame that it got cancelled, but we at least got a good self-contained story out of it.

Secondly, we have the introduction of Ganke Lee, the best friend that everyone needs in their lives, as well as one Mattie Franklin, a girl with a spider mutation for a quirk, and also a girl who has once gone by the name of Spider-Woman in the 616 continuity. If there are those of you out there who don't know who she is, then I don't blame you. She's a rather obscure character, especially for someone that has once gone by the moniker of Spider-Woman.

Thirdly... er, I can't think of a thirdly...

Okay, bye!