chasing waterfalls [Peter Parker]

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Peter swung into the woods, with me flying behind him. As we weaved through the trees, I spotted a clearing down below. I slowed down and landed on the ground. Peter swung down shortly after. Peter started looking around, and I swear I could hear something moving. 

"Did you see that?" Peter asked MJ and Ned, who were talking to him through the phone duct taped to his chest. 

"No, it's really dark." Ned replied. Leaves rustled, and Peter turned around to find nothing. We walked around some more. I sighed. 

"Okay, you know, maybe he's not here." Peter said nothing, he just tensed up. I stopped walking. "Peter?" Peter activated the magic on his web shooter. I turned around to see a blue mass sucking energy from the power lines. 

"Are you guys seeing this?" Peter asked the phone. 

"Osborn?" Ned asked, and Peter shook his head. 

"No. He was green. This guy's blue." I looked from the blue guy to Peter. "Uh, you wouldn't happen to be from another universe, would you?" He asked, and I sighed. 

"What is he doing?" MJ asked. 

"I don't know, look's like he's charging." Looking at the guy, I wasn't sure how much help I would be. 

"I don't like this. Just web him." MJ responded, and Peter shot out a glowing orange web, only for it to go straight through the guy and hit the tree behind him. I stepped back. The blue guy looked at Peter, then shot out energy at him. He leapt over the blast and landed on a roof a few yards away. 

As he dodged blasts, I decided to go for a different approach. I flew up and blasted water at him. It hit him, and he turned around. I gulped, not wanting to be electrocuted. He geared up to shoot energy at me, and I dodged the blast. This angered him. But he didn't go after me. He looked back over at Peter and disappeared into the air. 

I saw a blast of energy a few yards away, and I immediately flew over. Peter was on the ground, and the man was blasting energy on the ground, leading up to him. I landed next to him, ready to block the attack, but a giant wall of sand rose up. I almost jumped back when part of the sand morphed into a man. 

"Peter." The man yelled. "It's me. Flint Marko." Peter and I looked at each other, then back at the sand man. "You remember?" 

"Uh... I'm Peter, but I'm not your Peter." Marko looked confused.

"What do you mean, you're not my Peter? What the hell is going on?" Peter took a step back. 

"I'll explain everything later, but first can you help us stop this guy?" Marko nodded.

"Okay." Peter looked at the energy man. 

"You try to surround him and we'll pull the plug. Alright, let's go." Peter started running, and Marko morphed back into the sand. He rose up and formed a circle around the man. I flew over to the towers, and shot out water at the wires. This caused it to short circuit, which cut off a line of energy to the guy. 

"Hurry up, I can't hold him much longer." Peter attached webs to the wires, and pulled. He pulled until the wires came loose and broke off from the towers. The man sunk to the ground, the sand following. Marko morphed into a man again. "Different Peter. Weird." Peter now had his mask off. 

The energy man stood up, except he was no longer made of energy. He was just a man, with sparks of yellow energy popping up, and he was naked.

"I got my body back." He muttered. Peter sighed. 

"Hey, um... this is gonna sound really crazy, but this isn't your universe." The man raised an eyebrow. 

"Another universe?" I nodded.

"Yup." Marko looked very confused. I shrugged. "It's a long story." 

"That's what I was feeling. The power. It's different." The man smiled. "I like it." His eyes started to glow yellow, and I took a step back. 

"Easy buddy." Marko held up his hands. Peter stepped forward. 

"It's actually my fault that you're here."

"Like, like the universe, or the woods? I hate the woods." I chuckled. 

"The universe." The man sighed. 

"So what, y'all just gonna stand there and act like I ain't butt ass naked." I immediately looked away from the man. 

"Nope." 

"I am." Marko commented. 

"Uh, no... I uh..." Peter looked around. He found reflecting clothes in the shed near us and gave them to the guy. As soon as the guy put them on, he hit him with the glowing web. Immediately, Marko got defensive. 

"What was that? What did you just do to him?" Peter held up his hands as he noticed Marko getting bigger. 

"No, no, no, it's okay..." 

"Did you kill him?" 

"Whoa, listen. I can explain, you just have to trust me." 

"I don't trust you, I don't know you." He went to swing at Peter, but Peter hit him with the web, and he disappeared. He sighed. 

"I'm gonna stay here and clean this mess up, you should probably go check on them." I nodded. 

"Are you sure you're good here?" He shrugged.

"If I don't do it, they're just gonna find a way to blame me." I sighed, then flew back to the Sanctum.