Hey, guys. Welcome to the next chapter of 'Spider-Verse: The One and Only Spider Duo!'. We hope that you guys will enjoy the chapter. Anyway, take it away, my good friend.

Daniel: Hey guys! Happy to see you all again! This short film really meant a lot to me since as someone who has struggled with mental health issues in the past it's very welcomed to see a franchise as big as Spider-Man, let alone a gem as Spider-verse bring awareness to them.

That's about it...anyway, we don't own anything except for our OCs as the OC Wayne Watanabe belongs entirely to 9655.

NOW LET'S GET ON WITH THE STORY!

It was a crisp night in Brooklyn as we see Miles Morales and his best friend Frederick 'Eddie' Brock returning home after a grueling fight with Mr. Negative and Rhino, and to say that the past few months had been a challenge for the Duo would be an understatement as between getting the crap beaten out of them by their many enemies in their battles to worry about saving as many people as possible to the ever-increasing homework in Brooklyn Visions, their grades faltering, their parents being on their case, plus them trying to hide their struggles from Jessica, Gwen, Peni, and Hida, it was safe to say that the Spider Duo of Earth 1610Z were at their breaking point. They were so close to breaking but they tried very hard to shove their negative emotions down as, even with their favorite songs 'Sunflower' and 'Guess Who's Back' blasting in their earphones, Eddie and Miles could STILL hear the many disappointed phrases of the people around them.

"Miles, Eddie, these grades are unacceptable!"

"You both need to apply yourselves more."

"You need to step up, both of you."

"No vamos a tolelar semejante pereza jovencitos."

"We know you two can do better."

"Being tired is not an excuse."

"We expected better than this."

"No quiero que mi hijo y su amigo abandonen la escuela secundaria." Rio, Jeff, Wilhelm, and Juana's voices rang out in the boys' heads as their girls could feel something was wrong but Eddie and Miles didn't want to worry them so they bore fake smiles and gave their girls gifts to deflect the topic each time it came up, and even when the Spider Duo were satisfying their girls in bed, the boys were unable to feel any pleasure from it due to their negative building emotions. In moments like these, Eddie and Miles wished Aaron was still with them, so they could get some advice from him.

"..." With nothing left to say to each other, the boys then shared one final fist bump and went to their respective homes as Eddie paused before the entrance of his house and took a deep breath to calm his shamble of emotions before entering as he made his way into his room and sat down on the bed as the blonde-haired boy rubbed his head as he was oblivious to the fact of the three familiar figures sitting behind him.

"Eddie," Gwen says as, in a flash, Eddie was once more in his Venom suit and jumped out of the bed as he leaped up to attach himself to the roof with his breathing on the verge of hyperventilation as Eddie then calmed down when he realized that the intruders in his room were merely his girls.

"Venom! What the hell, man?! This has been the 4th time this week our Spider-Sense did not work!"

"I don't know what to tell you, this never happened before. I need to do some research in your mind to find out what is going on." Venom says in their minds as Eddie groans, and with yet another heavy sigh, he retracts the suit and lands on the ground.

"What happened, babes? Today has been REALLY long."

"Well, we noticed that it has been a while since we had some fun, so we thought that we could come~," Gwen says with a sultry tone as she and the others wore sexy lingerie, oblivious to what their boyfriend was really feeling as Eddie sighed heavily and decided to oblige to his girlfriends' wishes as they all had sex with each other, but unbeknownst to them, however, Eddie was not really feeling the moment due to all the emotions that he had been bottling up lately, and afterward when the three girls were asleep and basking in the afterglow of their lovemaking, Eddie was just staring up at the ceiling blankly with his negative emotions revolving around his head as he panted a bit with his heart beating loudly as the blonde-haired teenage boy sweated and yet again he tried to push it down and get some sleep, and he actually managed to get some...only to wake up to find himself being unable to move his body whatsoever as Eddie was left confused by this and tried to move one muscle on his body but found himself unable to as he panicked.

"PARTNER!"

"I can't get out or move us either!" Venom screamed panickedly as Eddie looked around worriedly.

"What's going on?! It's like we are paralyzed!" Eddie shouted as, much to his utter horror, a shadow-like demon resembling himself appeared next to his bed "What the fuck?! Venom, what is that?!"

"I don't know, but I don't like it! Ask for help!" A scared Venom ordered as Eddie tried to desperately call out to the girls but it was in vain as the demon climbed to his chest and the blonde-haired boy felt like he was suffocating as the demon then morphed himself into a gigantic spider.

"OH GOD!" A shocked and panicking Eddie screamed as his face went pale, and to make matters worse many more spiders spurred out of the demon and began to crawl over Eddie, including into his mouth as they started crawling all over the inside of his body, and finally, it seemed that Eddie could finally move and he began to hyperventilate like crazy, which woke up his naked girls as they sat up worriedly.

"Eddie!" Gwen, Peni, and Hida called out in worry as Eddie rose from his bed, holding his chest with his vision becoming blurry and his eyes rolled to the back of his head as the blonde-haired boy then passed out and his girlfriends went over to check on him panickedly.

"Babe! Wake up!" Gwen urged as Peni began lightly slapping Eddie's face to try and wake him up.

"Venom! What happened?!" Peni asked but the symbiote was out cold too.

"Girls! Change! We need to get Eddie to a hospital!" Hida ordered as she and the others quickly put on their clothes and dressed Eddie up as well before bringing him to the Brooklyn Hospital by swinging him through the city frantically as the girls carried their boyfriend to the hospital, and thankfully neither Rio nor Juana had shifts that night as, soon enough, a doctor, who had been examining Eddie, approached them.

"What's his problem, doc?" Spider-Gwen asked in her typical masked tone: a lower volume, and a thick Brooklyn Accent as all three girls knew all too well what was causing Eddie so much stress, the first months as a spider-hero were always the most stressful with the challenge to balance heroism with your everyday life, and they couldn't help but blame themselves for not seeing this and helping him earlier. "Any idea when he will wake up, doc?"

"Well, thankfully, due to you heroes bringing him to the hospital as quickly as you can, he should wake up in an hour or more." The Doctor says as we fast forward to an hour later, and we see a groaning Eddie waking up with a MASSIVE headache to his girls in costume all looking over him worriedly.

"What happened?"

"It was so bad, baby, you suffered a panic attack after a period of sleep paralysis," Spider-Gwen says while she and the others take off their masks as Eddie looks surprised by this.

"What?!"

"You were out for about an hour," Sakura Spider informed him as a relieved Eddie sighed heavily.

"Oh whew."

"This is not a small matter, Eddie!" SP/dr protested as she glared at him. "What happened back there?!"

"Yeah, we legit thought you died." A worried Sakura Spider says as Spider-Gwen nods with a stern glare.

"We know you're stressed. The first months are always the harshest, why didn't you or Miles say anything?"

"We could've helped you," SP/dr added with a pout as a guilty Eddie looked away.

"We didn't want to burden you," Eddie admitted sadly as he placed his hands on his lap. "Our Peter was capable on his own so we needed to be too."

"Classic Spidey self-sacrificing nature," All of the girls thought to themselves with knowing looks on their faces as Gwen turned to cup her boyfriend's cheek and kissed it gently.

"Eddie, you and Miles don't need to go through this alone. We all know what you are going through." Spider-Gwen says soothingly as Eddie lets out a long sigh, realizing that they were right as, after checking out from the hospital, the lovers all swung back to Eddie's home from where Eddie and the girls asked Wilhelm for a walk as, while on their way to 711 for a snack, they also found Jessica, Miles and Jeff walking towards it too as a quick nod between the boys was all that was needed to know that Miles went through the same thing that Eddie was going through, and Jessica and the girls shared knowing looks as they sighed sympathetically, and so over slurpies, all of them had a serious and long talk with each other with the girls especially trying to convey to Jeff and Wilhelm that the boys were in a rough spot, in need of support and that they deserved to be cut some slack as Jeff and Wilhelm agreed to tell their wives the same as, with the stars above Brooklyn as witnesses, the Spider Duo of Earth 1610Z have learned the lesson that allowed their Peter Parker to be such an amazing Spider-Man: You're not alone, and sometimes, even heroes need help.

And done. We hope that you guys enjoyed the new story, and we can't wait to write the next chapter.

Daniel: And we are done! Hope you guys enjoyed this breather chapter before we dive to Across the Spider-verse!

That's about it. Anyway, as always, we will catch you all later.