Yeah, this arc's kind of messy, but it's important, so bear with me.
I present to you: Out of Time!
Meanwhile, during Tsuyu's time with Kaine, Peter is teamed up with All Might by Adriana to deal with a new threat that has emerged from hiding. A threat that is familiar to All Might in particular.
Nine, who has bonded himself to his salvaged piece of Symbiote and has renamed himself as the Void Knight.
Spider-Man and All Might go to confront him, with Spider-Man in particular donning a new suit to confront him, an armoured suit with glowing blue lines going up and down it that he dons his Velocity Suit.
However, when they confront the Void Knight, they discover that he has found something that will tip the balance of power in his favour.
The Time Stone, one of the last two missing Infinity Stones.
The Void Knight uses it, and suddenly All Might and Peter are back in time…
Right at the time of Nana's final battle with All for One.
Peter and All Might try to stick to the shadows (the former having to break the latter out of his stunned silence at seeing his master alive and well once again), not sure if they should interfere with past events, only for the Void Knight to begin endangering the people around Nana and All for One by trying to interfere with the battle himself, and All Might and Peter would move to help and assist them, with Peter even saving a young man by the name of Ezekiel Sims, and quickly imparting his philosophy onto him when he asks why he is saving him.
However, during the chaos, the Time Stone in the Void Knight's would shimmer once more, revealing how little control the Void Knight had over it, and teleporting them once more across time, this time fifteen years before the start of the main story…
With Nana Shimura tagging alongside them.
Nana Shimura is, of course, shocked at having gone forward in time, fearful of having left All for One to his own devices back in the past, and in the momentary confusion, the Void Knight is able to slip away from them. Resolving to try and find the Void Knight before they damage the timelines once more, All Might having to hush up the fact that Nana is supposed to die during her final confrontation with All for One, and they journey forward to try and track down the Void Knight before he can do anymore harm.
During their time wandering about the past, Nana would be amazed by how far All Might, who is currently rocking his shrunken form as a disguise, has gone as the number one hero and how much people look up to him for hope and salvation, on top of the ridiculous amount of publicity and merchandising that came with it. Nana would never have been able to do this, but she is proud of how far All Might has come in becoming a hero and helping all those around the world with his iconic smile. All Might is warmed to hear his master's praise once more, but keeping the secret of her death begins to eat away at him, which Nana is slowly beginning to take notice of.
Meanwhile, Peter takes the time to go out and look over all of the friends from this world that he has made during their infancy, specifically a young Kazuho and an infant Izuku, out of guilt for everything that has happened to them. All Might tries to console him, to tell him that is not his fault, but Peter isn't so certain.
However, suddenly, they are approached by someone wearing a red and black suit, and invites them to join them. The three heroes oblige, albeit hesitantly, and they follow the person to a strange looking church that bears the insignia of a spider…
And are greeted, at the door, by a young Peter Parker.
The original Peter Parker is shocked by this, as he has no memories of ever being in this world in the past, and is even more shocked when the young other-Peter runs off to join his parents, Richard and Mary Parker, though with no Uncle Ben or Aunt May with them, as well as a young girl other-Peter's age that they refer to as 'Cindy'.
But then, as they are ushered in, they are greeted by a familiar face. A recently familiar face, in fact.
Ezekiel Sims, who welcomes them into what he calls 'Spider-Society', and proclaims that he has been waiting for them for a long time.
Peter is shocked to see him, and the three time-displaced heroes begin to question just what is going on. Ezekiel then says that they should rest before he begins to talk, and asks Richard and Mary to show them to some spare rooms, which the heroes are reluctant to do, as the Void Knight is still out there, and they need to catch him before he can do anymore harm.
However, Ezekiel surprises them once more by saying that he already has his own people tracking the Void Knight, and that they wouldn't be much help to anyone in the states that they are. The heroes reluctantly agree, themselves already exhausted, both mentally and physically, and are led to some rooms by Richard and Mary, who Peter does his best to avoid, incredibly uncomfortable with the idea of interacting with people who wore the face and names of his parents, and still incredibly confused as to what the hell was going on, and why his parents were here, alongside his younger self, one that should also be a few years younger than he actually was at this point, as this version of himself is around four to six years old, while he should only be between one to two years old at this point.
When they wake up the next morning (Peter having slept inside his suit), Peter finds himself being woken up by his younger self, alongside the girl that was with him yesterday, whose name he learns is Cindy Moon. Peter is disturbed by seeing his younger self, but decides to take a chance and asks him about his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. This gets the young other-Peter to go silent and run off, which raises all sorts of implications for Peter.
Once the three heroes find Ezekiel in the church, they proceed to ask him just what the hell is going on, and Ezekiel begins to explain, saying that a long time ago, when Spider-Man had saved him, he had grown fascinated by the young hero, chasing up any lead that he could on him, only to come up short. However, during his search, he had been able to find an old woman by the name of Cassandra Webb, or Madame Web as he calls her, who has a quirk that connects her to something called the Web of Life, making her a sort of seer for him. Through her, Ezekiel began to seek out people to join in his church, his Spider-Society, a group that would uphold the morals that Spider-Man imparted onto Ezekiel all those years ago.
Spider-Man is disturbed to see that Ezekiel had essentially formed a cult in his name, and when he asks if he can see this Cassandra Webb woman, Ezekiel says that she is tired and resting, as her quirk leaves her exhausted after each time that she uses it. Spider-Man and the other heroes are uncertain of this, but find that they have no choice but to go along with it, as right now, Ezekiel might just be their only chance of finding the Void Knight.
And as luck would have it, the Void Knight would soon be found, and the three heroes would begin working with the Spider-Society, under the nose of hero society, to try and catch the Symbiote-monster. During this time, Spider-Man would keep himself away from Richard and May and the young other-Peter, but would end up conversing more with other-Peter's friend, Cindy Moon, and would learn that they had moved themselves over to Japan on Ezekiel's word when Madame Web had identified him as a 'Totem', much like she had done for Cindy herself. Spider-Man begins to wonder as to what this 'Totem' business means, but when he asks Cindy about other-Peter's Uncle Ben and Aunt May, Cindy refuses to answer. Spider-Man seriously begins to suspect that something is wrong with this place.
Meanwhile All Might and Nana begin to work with Richard and May Parker to track down the Void Knight, All Might sometimes even posing as his younger self in order to find information thanks to his buff form. However, during this time, All Might would be forced to take to the ground much, and would finally begin to see the street level of hero society, seeing all the people that have been forced onto the streets because of the Social Darwinist mindset that he has inadvertently pushed onto the world due to his reign as the number one hero, and would begin to regret much of his career even more than he already did.
However, Nana would come to grow increasingly suspicious of how All Might was avoiding the question of what happened to her family and herself in the future, and would begin to try and look into what happened to her son and his family in the future. However, All Might would try to distract and divert her from this mission of hers, and although the former master and apprentice would enjoy the bonding that they were able to have with each other once more, with All Might even laying down some of his issues and latent problems to his much-missed mentor and said mentor giving him some much-needed advice on them, Nana begins to feel frustrated and annoyed at her former student's evasiveness, and decides to go and find the answers to her questions herself.
During all of this, Richard and May would begin to probe All Might, who they recognise as having a closer relationship to Spider-Man than Nana, but All Might would choose to keep his cards close to his chest, only giving out information when he figured how it countered to the information that his Peter had given him about his life beforehand. All Might is the first to realise that these are simply Peter and his family's counterparts in this world, but when he asks if they have any other relatives, subtly asking about Uncle Ben and Aunt May, the two are silent.
Elsewhere, Peter also comes to the conclusion that other-Peter and his family are his alternatives, but still chooses to avoid them and make contact with them through the young Cindy Moon (Cindy herself beginning to grow attached to Peter), not comfortable in the slightest at the prospect of having to talk with the group. Soon enough, he also begins talking with Ezekiel, who he learns is taking on Cindy as an apprentice, to carry on the Spider-Society when he is gone. Spider-Man continues to find the situation to be uncomfortable, and asks again where Cassandra Webb is. Ezekiel is evasive once again, and Peter decides to try and find this Cassandra woman himself.
But then, he is approached by Mary and Richard Parker, at least the other ones, and they begin to draw him into conversations with them that he is not at all prepared for, themselves wondering why he is both avoiding them and yet also asking for information on them specifically through Cindy. Spider-Man is evasive once again, and they are easily able to tell that he is avoiding their questions.
Meanwhile, Nana sneaks off from All Might when they are tracking the Void Knight one night, and goes to where her family's old home should be…
To see that it has been completely destroyed, and the people inside, her family, deceased.
Nana is shocked by this, and when All Might finds her, she realises that she is dead in his future, murdered at the hands of All for One, and is furious at this, demanding to know why All Might hid this, as well as the deaths of her family, from her. All Might says that he did this to protect her, but ultimately tells her that he didn't tell her about this because he knew that it would hurt her. Nana is furious about this, and runs off, filled with angst and sadness at seeing the death of her family, and what her life and legacy will become at the realisation that All for One will still be wreaking havoc from after her death, and was probably behind the death of her family as well, meaning that she would've died for nothing.
Elsewhere, Spider-Man is forced into a difficult conversation with Richard and Mary, in which he tries to avoid talking about himself, but Richard and Mary are able to tell that it is something about them that sets him off.
When he asks if they had anyone else in their life other than their son and his friend, Richard and Mary shake their head. They used to have other people in their family by the name of Ben Parker and May Reilly, but they're… they're gone, now.
Peter at first assumes that that means that both May and Ben were killed in a villain attack, but that is when Cindy and other-Peter, as young and innocent as they are, pipe up and correct them.
May and Ben were sacrificed.
Back with All Might, he spends much of the day searching for Nana, and tries to remember what he got up to during this time. Then, he remembers that he had heard a rumour about someone that looked identical to Nana running about the city during this time, back in his younger days, and uses his recollections of these supposed sightings to catch up to Nana.
He does, and he finds that Nana has run herself ragged trying to find All for One, though has come up short. Nana asks what truly happened to her family from All Might, and All Might reveals that during his last confrontation with the villain, All for One had said that Shigaraki, his successor, was actually Nana's grandson, Tenko Shimura. However, All Might has reason to not believe it, as All for One is known to have lied in the past before, and it's possible that the villain was simply lying to try and get under All Might's skin.
Nana isn't as sceptical as All Might, though. Raising her grandson to be his villainous successor is totally something he would do. It would be the greatest way for him to spite All Might and Nana at the same time. It'd be too good for someone as petty as him to pass up.
However, All Might then tells Nana about All for One's demise, about how he had been killed during a prison riot in Tartarus after his arrest, and Nana can't help but find bitter humour in how All for One, the man who had taken so much from her, died in such an ignoble, uneventful manner. Nana then asks what she has left, if there is even anything left for her, if she should even go back to her own time, knowing that she is supposed to die there. All Might has no answer for that, as much as he wants to have one.
And that is when the two end up encountering a familiar face, the same man who had brought them to the Spider-Society…
And he is planting bombs all across the city. Bombs that belong to the Spider-Society.
Back in the Spider-Society's church, Spider-Man is horrified to hear about what has happened to Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and leaves the room even when Richard and May try to correct the young Cindy Moon and other-Peter. Deciding to finally start seeking answers himself, Spider-Man busts down into the basement of the Spider-Society's church, where he figures out where this Madame Web woman is…
And that's when he finds the elderly Cassandra Webb, locked in a medical apparatus that is keeping the old woman clinging to life, her eyes pale and lifeless, her mouth letting out an endless torrent of whispers and murmurs, talking about 'Totems' and 'Spiders' and the names of all sorts of people, some of whom he knows, and others he doesn't.
And that is when Spider-Man sees the plans on the wall next to him, about the bombs being planted across the city, and finally realises what is going on. Ezekiel kidnapped this woman, and used her quirk to amass a cult around himself, and is now planning on killing anyone who might stand against him.
His spider-sense then kicks up, and he realises that Ezekiel, in his own homemade spider costume, is standing right behind him, and Ezekiel counters that he isn't killing people who stand in their way. He is cleansing the world of villainous filth.
Spider-Man then attacks Ezekiel, but the old man then counters with his own super strength, revealing that Ezekiel has adopted the same powers of Spider-Man as well. As it turns out, during his time here, Ezekiel has been stealing samples of Spider-Man's blood from him during his sleep, through his apprentice Cindy, and has been injecting himself with them in an attempt to become closer to his god, and has now supposedly been blessed with the same powers as him.
At the same time as Spider-Man is fighting against Ezekiel, All Might and Nana begin their own fight against the Spider-Society cultist, and realise that he has planted these bombs all across low-income areas, where villains usually congregate and originate from. The three then encounter the Void Knight, who has come to try and kill All Might and Nana, and reveals his intentions with the Time Stone.
He had wanted to go back in time to kill All Might before he could even become the number one hero, but he didn't have as much control over the Time Stone as he needed, and had no real idea on how to utilise it beyond minuscule demands. But now, with that plan out of the window, he would settle for killing Spider-Man before he could ever become a threat.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man continues his assault on Ezekiel, demanding to know why he is doing all of this. Ezekiel is all too eager to answer, revealing that before he had met Spider-Man, he had been lost, without a purpose, trying to find meaning in the world. But then, when he was saved by Spider-Man and learnt about the way that he lived, he was absolutely fascinated, and desired to do what he felt was right by his words.
What he felt was right, of course, was to start a cult of personality around himself using Spider-Man's motto, and planning on wiping out anyone who he fought would try to harm the innocent, hence the bombs that Sunfire has planted all across the city in the places where the villains congregate.
And as for his followers… well, as Spider-Man had said to him in the past, he had been forced to make sacrifices for the benefit of others. It is only fitting that those who follow in his footsteps, who are taken in by his message, should do the same as well.
Ezekiel is a twisted parody of Spider-Man, someone who takes all the morals that Spider-Man lives by and utterly perverts them, and Spider-Man is enraged by this, attacking Ezekiel before his followers overwhelm him, eager to protect their prophet. Peter finds himself unwilling and unable to fight against the two who wear the face of his parents, much less the children that are other-Peter and Cindy Moon.
However, Ezekiel's followers are able to tear off his mask, and both Richard and Mary are shocked to see the teenage face of their son staring back at him.
It is in this confusion that Spider-Man is temporarily able to break free from Ezekiel's followers, but is once again confronted by Ezekiel, and forced into a confrontation with him once more…
Only to be stabbed in the back by the other-Peter with a needle, and forced into unconsciousness.
Back with All Might and Nana, their fight is going less than well, as the Void Knight keeps forcing them onto the defensive and weakening them. However, they are eventually able to force the Void Knight back onto the retreat, but All Might's time runs out just at that moment as he shrinks down to his smaller form, and they realise that the Void Knight is heading for the Spider-Society church, intent on killing everyone inside.
And that is when All Might gets an idea, and decides to make a call.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man soon wakes up, trapped in his own webbing in a steel chair and with a blood line connected to his arm, filling vial after vial with his blood…
And with the rest of the Spider-Society cultists injecting his blood into themselves.
Spider-Man is scared to see this, especially when he sees Richard and Mary injecting their son with his blood, and this is only made worse when he sees how bad some of the reactions to the cultists are having to his powers, their bodies either rejecting the blood or their new heightened senses overwhelming them. Ezekiel, meanwhile, simply stands amongst them, welcoming them fully into the fold of Spider-Society, even as behind him, the elderly Cassandra Webb is slowly succumbing to her age, muttering endlessly to herself.
Peter is horrified by what Ezekiel is trying to do, and asks what he is trying to accomplish by doing all of this. Ezekiel simply responds that he is carrying out the will of Spider-Society, of the spiders themselves, and cutting out the ill-willed and villainous from society, and protecting the innocent from harm. Peter demands to know how killing people, how bombing dozens of locations across the city and therefore murdering dozens of innocent people, would ever help to protect people, but Ezekiel retorts that none of those people are innocent. All of them are villains, and all of them have done harm and will do harm once more. Peter retorts that he has no right to decide that, and Ezekiel shoots back that he does. He is the prophet of the spider, of Spider-Society and the Web of Life. He has ever right. It is the code that he lives by.
And then, it is Richard and Mary who speak up, who speak of their praise of Ezekiel and the spider, and how this older Peter's arrival has proven that he, and the rest of Spider-Society, are right in what they do, horrifying Peter in how he has inadvertently pushed Richard and Mary Parker further into Ezekiel's manipulations.
Ezekiel pipes up once more, and says that once the bombs go off and wrap the villainous and the undeserving in purifying flames, then Peter Parker, this future version of Peter Parker, will finally see the truth of their vision and join them in purging the rest of their world of the evil-minded and villainous, and help them build a new world in which those who bare the mark of the spider may survive and prosper. Peter, of course, refuses, and Ezekiel simply counters by saying that it is inevitable. His bride is already being prepared. All he has to do now is-
Cassandra Webb then lets out a scream, and the church roof is ripped open by the Void Knight, who extends an oily, bladed tendril down and stabs other-Peter, killing the young boy.
Peter prime lets out a scream at this, horrified by the sight of the child, his alternate, younger self, being murdered right before his eyes, and the rest of the Spider-Society, in a rage at this attack, throws themselves into the fire and attack the Void Knight. Meanwhile, Spider-Man is shellshocked by the sight of his other-self lying dead on the floor, but is eventually able to tear his eyes away and focus on trying to break out of his webbing as he realises that the Void Knight is tearing through the Spider-Society's numbers, killing them one by one, all the while Cassandra Webb is discarded to the side, still muttering to herself.
And that is when the Void Knight stabs both Richard and Mary Parker, leaving them to drop to the ground and cradle each other as they died.
In a fit of rage, Spider-Man finds the strength to tear out of his webbing and attacks the Void Knight, temporarily teaming up with Ezekiel and what is left of Spider-Society to defeat the villain, eventually defeating and destroying the Symbiote and knocking out the man, Nine, that laid underneath.
Ezekiel praises Spider-Man for choosing to save them, but that is when Spider-Man slugs Ezekiel with all his strength, breaking his jaw, having had enough of the mad prophet's manipulations.
And that is what Peter reveals them to be to the rest of the Spider-Society: manipulations. Ezekiel Sims is a manipulator, just like every other cult leader. He's nothing more than a smoke and mirrors conman using other people for his own twisted goals and narcissistic desires. Ezekiel could say that he was trying to hurt and kill others all for the sake of protecting others, but in reality, he was just like every other tyrant, only ever doing anything for his own gain, and forcing others to murder and desecrate just like he had.
Ezekiel Sims was nothing more than a selfish old man, someone who had taken every ideal that Spider-Man had ever stood for and turned them monstrous, and had killed innocents, and had forced others to kill in his name, and that made him a monster.
And Spider-Man?
Spider-Man was the one who stopped the monsters.
Now… where. Are. The. Bomb?
But, as it turns out, Spider-Man doesn't have to deal with that, as a younger All Might bursts through the shattered roof above, having already found and dismantled the bombs scattered around the city.
As it turns out, the older All Might and Nana had pulled off some manipulations of their own, having used the former's memories of what had happened and who he was talking during this part of his life to blow the whistle on the Spider-Society's threat and get the pro heroes into the positions to disarm and destroy the bombs before they could even go off. Now, it was simply time to arrest the Spider-Society for their crimes.
Spider-Man tries to explain what is going on, but the younger All Might, thinking that he is a part of this villainous group and quickly cuffs him so quickly that it doesn't even register in his spider-sense. However, Ezekiel is less than enthusiastic about his loss, and begins to attack All Might, the two going ham on each other as Nana and the older All Might secretly arrive to grab the Time Stone and try and drag Peter out of the fight…
And that is when Ezekiel reveals that he has one last bomb left to play with. The bomb underneath the church.
Ezekiel detonates it, and Peter is just barely able to pull Cassandra Webb out of the way of the blast before she is consumed alongside the rest of the Spider-Society. However, he is unable to grab Cindy Moon, and he last sees her being pulled away by Ezekiel as the church goes up, killing what is left of the Spider-Society, as well as the Void Knight…
Peter screams at this, at his almost complete failure to save both Cindy Moon and his alternate self and family, and the younger All Might comes out of the flames, having survived thanks to One for All. He sees Spider-Man, and goes to take him away-
And that is when he sees who he is with. Nana, his mentor, somehow alive once more.
The younger All Might is shocked into stillness by what he sees, and it is more than enough time for the older All Might to find the strength to grow into his buff form and punch his younger self in the face hard enough to knock him out, commenting that his memory was fuzzy around this time, and had mistaken seeing Nana again as a symptom of his faulty memory.
Soon enough, Spider-Man, Nana, and All Might are able to sneak away from the burning church, Time Stone in hand, and get Cassandra Webb to a hospital. There, they adopt their disguises once they realise that she is finally at death's door herself and sit by her bedside, listening to her whispered rambling as she slowly begins to pass away.
Then, with her final breath, she grabs Peter by the arm and whispers a prophecy to him, of the Web of Life under threat, of many bodies with one mind reaching for him, how the bride would come for him and make him anew, and how everything that he ever knew was about to come under threat…
And then, she passes away, and Nana, All Might, and Spider-Man are forced to leave, with the former two trying to comfort the latter over the loss, and Nana and All Might realising that this was the time that they had to jump away, back to their respective times.
Nana and All Might end up sharing one last conversation with each other, where Nana apologises for exploding at All Might, and All Might apologises as well for hiding the truth from them. Nana ends up laying all of her worries and anxieties out to All Might, saying how she had always been scared that she hadn't trained All Might enough to eventually face All for One, despite having never wanted him to fight the man in the first place. She also expresses that she had worried about if All for One would find out about her family, which he has clearly done, and what he would do to them, which only horrifies her even more…
And yet now, despite knowing that All for One is gone in the future, that the world is safe in her protégé's hands…
She finds that she is not ready to die.
And then, the Time Stone activates, and they are whisked away across time once more, All Might and Peter emerging one week after their initial disappearance, with All Might rushing off to Nana's grave to mourn once more, and Spider-Man slips away to the abandoned ruins of the old Spider-Society church, wrapped in grief and regret and still trying to process the loss of Cassandra Webb, Cindy Moon, and his alternate self and family…
He had failed them, once again.
Elsewhere, or rather, elsewhen, Nana wakes up into a world of ash and chaos, of monsters and mayhem…
She isn't in the past anymore. She is in the future.
And she is approached by a young girl by the name of Spider-Zero, who says that they need her, now more than ever…
Again, this arc is kind of messy, but it is important for the future as it sets a lot of things up, so, again, please bear with me.
But, yeah, there was a lot that went down in this arc, wasn't there? All Might and Nana being reunited, going back in time, Peter meeting his alternate self, the Void Knight, the Time Stone, Cassandra Webb and the idea of Totems, Cindy Moon, Ezekiel Sims, Spider-Society...
A lot of this is going to become important in the future, in one way or another.
You know, the original outline for this arc that I had in my head was for Spider-Man to end up going back in time on his own and meeting Nana, and then revealing that Nana already knew who Ezekiel was, and then go from there. However, then I started thinking that there was no way that I couldn't have All Might feature in this arc due to all the potential chemistry between the present him and his former mentor, then I started thinking about who Peter's alternate self in this story, then I learnt about Ezekiel's connection to 616's Spider-Society, then I realised that I didn't really have much of a plan for Cassandra Webb beyond what I had for her in my head, and then...
Yeah, in case you couldn't tell, I'm writing a lot of this off the top of my head and from the seat of my pants. I've got the basic idea for how I want this plot to go in my head, but a lot of it is also my own ramblings and so on. Do please remember that this is the summary of a possible story and not a story itself. Think of it like a first draft, in fact.