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That night in our room, I looked through the pictures I had taken throughout the day. My phone buzzed as Michelle was brushing her teeth, and I checked it. It was Peter telling me to meet him out back, Nick Fury wanted to talk with us. I slipped into my suit, and landed on the boat behind the hotel.

"Glad you decided to show up, Ghost-Spider," Fury greeted me. He handed Peter a case, "'Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.' Stark said you wouldn't get that because it's not a Star Wars reference." He opened the case up, and Tony's glasses were inside. The boat dropped us off at an underground bunker full of agents and hi-tech machines.

"You can lose the mask. Everyone here's seen you without it. You'd only be feigning anonymity and breathing through spandex for no good reason." Peter pulled his off, but I kept mine on, I was still wary about revealing my identity. "Please take the mask off, Ghost-Spider."

I pulled my mask off, but turned my head invisible. "Mask off," I told Fury who looked exasperated at me. "Come on."

"Yeah."

"Over there we have Maria Hill. That is Dimitri," he pointed to a woman with dark hair, and a menacing looking man who cocked his large gun as we made eye contact. "And this is Mr. Beck."

The last person in the room turned around, his outfit identical to Mysterio's from the water fight earlier.

"Mysterio?"

"What?"

"Doesn't matter. It's just what our friends have been calling you."

"Well, you can call me Quentin," he and Peter shook hands, then he turned to me, did a slight double take of where my head should be, but still offered his hand to shake. "You handled yourself well out there today. I saw what you did with the tower. I didn't exactly see what you did, but it still helped. We could use people like you two on my world."

"Thanks. I'm sorry. Your world?"

"Mr. Beck is from Earth. Just not yours."

"There are multiple realities, Peter. This is Earth, Dimension 616. I'm from Earth 833."

"I'm sorry, you're saying there's a multiverse? 'Cause I thought that was just theoretical. That completely changes how we understand the initial singularity. We're talking about an eternal inflation system and how does that even work with all the quantum-it's insane-" He stopped, realizing that almost everyone else was looking at him, slightly annoyed. "S-sorry. It's really cool."

"Don't ever apologize for being the smartest one in the room."

"Anyway," Maria Hill said, a hologram appearing on the table.

"They were born in stable orbits within black holes. Creatures formed from the primary elements: Air, water, fire, earth. The Science Division had a technical name. We just called them Elementals."

"Versions of them exist across our mythologies."

"Turns out, the myths are real."

"Like Thor?" I interrupted, "Thor was a myth, and now we study him in physics class."

"These myths are threats," Fury said, drawing attention back to the topic at hand.

"They first materialized on my Earth many years ago. We mobilized and fought them, but with each battle, they grew, got stronger. I was part of the last battalion left trying to stop them. All we did was delay the inevitable."

"The Elementals are here now, attacking the same coordinates. Our satellites confirm it."

"So thank Mr. Beck for destroying the other three. There's only one left: fire."

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