Heal her dammit! She cannot die now!
A familiar feminine voice cried.
Fine! Do it but just heal her!
The voice made the sound of someone sobbing, and Gwen just closed her eyes after spotting a figure in a business suit and tie.
She was sure she was dreaming when she found herself at her school music class where her instruments were covered in spider cobwebs. She went to remove the webs from the drum set when a familiar male voice cleared his throat. She turned to the older spider hero.
"Peter? Did you come into ESU as Spider-Man?"
"Don't remove those webs", He warned.
"Why? These instruments need urgent cleaning".
Spider-Man just shook his head, "The Spider Society covered them on purpose".
Gwen found that as a weird thing to do. "And the reason is…?"
"So you never play the band again".
"Huh?!"
"Music isn't your calling. We are your calling".
"Why do I keep having this kind of dream?" She muttered.
The dream always starts with musical instruments. Then, a fellow spider teammate appears and begins to make her choose to be a Ghost Spider or an alternate Gwen Stacy.
Gwen would then start forming tentacle arms made of Klyntarian slime, leading to her bandmates eyeing her in horror and her dad handcuffing her ankles together. "What are you arresting me for—AAAIIEE!"
She fell into a black hole, and then chains wrapped around her wrists which caused her falling to stop mid-air. The darkness erased itself and she found herself in an office building. Footsteps were heard from afar and familiar whistling grew louder. "Murderdock?" She called out softly.
Instead of who she assumed was whistling, approaching her was a red-skinned literal demon in a suit and licking its yellow shark teeth. "Close but I am not blind". He cackled as he approached her. Gwen tried to break out of the chains but they tightened after several attempts. "You shouldn't waste valuable time escaping, listen to this:
Fall From Following".
The demon held her chin as he made a malicious grin, Gwen faced this situation before and already learned how to slip away. She kicked the demon in the gut area and then lifted him with her legs. High enough to use his goat horns to break the chains. She webbed him to the floor and made a run for it to the door at the other side of the passage.
Unfortunately, the path was wrapped closed by thick web fluid. Gwen tried pulling the silk off but it was no use. Then she tried cutting a path as her fingers elongated into large talons.
"Silly girl, stop running away from the consequences—Mhpf!" The demon was interrupted by a web of silk shot into his mouth area.
"Leaving…again I see", a female voice spoke and Gwen turned around to see MJ, her MJ. "You never gave a what about our dream, didn't you?"
"I have responsibilities—"
Gwen was immediately being choked by MJ's Carnage persona. "Ah, so it's not the band…it's all the bad things that happened to me because of your recklessness".
"The spider society needed me! A lot was going on and—"
"That isn't the real reason. The real reason is so you can see all the Peters that you didn't lose because everyone including me is living proof of your failures".
Gwen managed to kick Carnage up the chin, causing her to loosen her grip on Gwen's throat and escape her grasp. "I don't want to fight you"
"You won't have to anymore, because you finally got what you wanted most. Have a nice life Stacy". Carnage snarled as she impaled Gwen straight through the chest. The blonde shot up, feeling sweaty and shaken.
"Easy Gwen, you just had a nightmare—"
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!" She stood up and prepared to battle the man in a suit using a laser-pointing scanning device on her.
"Easy Miss Stacy, you still have to heal your wounds".
"Where am I?" She observed her surroundings and saw herself in an apartment building. It seemed normal, but she had never been here before, especially with an older man in it who watched her sleep. "You better start explaining why a creep like you kidnapped a young female and watched her sleep, NOW!"
The man put down his device and tapped on his digital watch, "Allow me to introduce myself, Ouroboros or O.B. for short. I belong to an organization called Time Variance Authority. We monitor numerous realities across time and space". He opened a holographic vertical screen that displayed the area where his organization was located. Gwen frowned, "So am I in trouble?"
"No, but you are on trial".
"…but why? I haven't been in your courtroom or whatever".
"It has already been decided that you cannot return to Earth 65".
Gwen was in disbelief and shock, "…what do you mean I can't?! You guys are kicking me out of my dimension?!"
She took out her bracelet and tried opening a portal to her Earth but the bracelet made an error sound. O.B. continued explaining.
"Everyone is safe Gwen but…their memories of you have been…erased".
This caused the blonde to look up at the man in fury, yet he continued, "Earth 65 has been restricted, and everything related to Ghost Spider has been erased." He said, "It was not my decision alone, but your earth was infected, so we had to intervene. We were going to leave you there to be isolated, but the woman you were with pleaded to take you to Earth 616."
Gwen's eyes widened in panic, "Where is White Fox?"
"She is in South Korea right now. It was difficult to separate her from you, so we had to sedate her and teleport her back to her country," he explained. Gwen gritted her teeth in rage, and her hands were covered with black symbiote. Long, sharp claws formed.
"Why are you doing this?"
"I can't tell you now".
"So this is some kind of sick and twisted test I must take!" Gwen growled in her symbiote's voice and her blue eyes became pink. "I never even had a say in this 'decision' you made!"
"I know you're angry right now but you should be glad you are still alive, you get a do-over," He said in attempted comfort. "You have been assigned as a new vigilante of Earth 616 but I advise you not to reveal your identity to anyone in this dimension, memories of Ghost Spider have been erased here, even the other members of the spider society don't know you"
Gwen grits her teeth and instantly lifts O.B. by the collar of his suit, "Do I look glad to you? You just ruined my life, how am I supposed to go around New York—"
"This isn't New York, you are in Earth 616 San Francisco" O.B. mentioned, "I have to leave now but I say this warning, don't tell anyone you're secret identity"
Gwen picked up her phone before O.B. said his final attempt of reassurance, "Ami took a large risk to keep you alive, if you won't do this restart for you or your friends then do it for her"
Gwen's suit shifted into her regular costume, "Does she know who I am?"
O.B. just activated his watch and teleported to universe-knows-where and she wanted to wreck something out of her anger. What Ami did was so selfish! She was on her own, for good this time. Ami must have been moving on with her life as she had forgotten about Gwen.
Ami did make a deal with the Time Variance Authority, a deal that Gwen would survive but at a cost. "You can't erase her birth rights!"
"We can because her universe needs a bit of a reboot" One of the two men explained. White Fox looked at Gwen who was losing consciousness on her lap.
"Fine but do not erase my memories of her, I do not want her to face this restart on her own"
The men glanced at each other, "Fine but she must never know that you still remember her, you both live your lives separately"
In the present day, Ami was in her office and kept thinking about Gwen. She wished to know if she was okay and if she did the right thing. Gwen being alive was all she cared about at the moment. She noticed a video notification of a new vigilante. She smiled and turned her office chair around to look at the clear sky. She did agree to not be present in Gwen's life but she never promised. White Fox was still going to assist the spider, anything to show she will never be alone.
That was a promise she would never break.
To be continued
A/N: I would agree that this fanfic was rushed and not one of my best. I needed to finish it so I could start over with it's sequel: The Good In You.
Thank you all for reading it though!