fiction | Part of the journey is the end

5. It's just me and you

Peter and May led all the Multiversal visitors through Happy's apartment, except Connors who wanted to stay in the truck.

"Connors staying in the truck alone is such a bad idea," said Clint.

"All the Multiversal visitors staying there without security is a bad idea," said Stephen. "Especially Osborn and Dillon. Octavius isn't that dangerous at the moment and Marko seems amendable."

"I don't think letting May near them is a good idea," said Steve. "As much as I want Peter to help them, they're dangerous. Peter can handle himself, but May..."

Peter blanched. Steve was right. What was his variant thinking, letting May near them?

Peter felt bad using Happy's apartment like this, but May said he'd get over it.

"Yeah, it's fine," said Tony. "Although I would've liked for Peter to stay at the Sanctum. It's a lot safer there than Happy's apartment."

Electro shot electricity at the TV to turn it on.

"That's one way to turn on the TV," said Natasha. "A way that Thor is never going to try." She looked at Thor, who deflated.

The news said the majority of New Yorkers oppose the Statue of Liberty renovation.

"No shit," said Sam. "It's an awful idea."

"I hope they decide to take down the shield because I hate it," said Steve.

"Did they even bother asking Sam what his opinion was?" Bucky asked. "It's his shield."

"We all know the answer to that question," said Sam.

Flint sat on the sofa and sand fell everywhere. He tried to brush it off the sofa but was unsuccessful.

"That has to be a hard way to live," said Wanda.

"Which is exactly why Peter should help them," said Thor.

Otto had one of his tentacles wrapped around him. With derision, he asked if Peter was going to cook them some cures and some frozen burritos in a microwave as he had no lab or facilities.

Everyone looked at Otto in amusement.

"Well, Peter does have a fabricator in the storage room," said Tony. "It's a pretty good lab if I say so myself."

"I could go for a burrito," Norman perked up from where he was examining DUM-E.

"Osborn seems nice," said Scott.

"But he's also the one I want to keep an eye on," said Natasha. "Whatever situation is going on with him and the Goblin is making me uneasy."

"He can examine DUM-E in the meantime," said Tony. "He did say he was something of a scientist."

"Wait so, Connors, Octavius, and Osborn are all scientists and they're in this situation because of something they did to themselves," Peter stated.

Bruce grimaced. That was a little too familiar to himself. He'd already found similarities between himself and Osborn.

"I wonder how Max became electricity," said Clint. "He doesn't seem like Thor. He's not...godly."

Peter told Otto that he was up first, but Otto insisted that he didn't need fixing by a teenager using scraps from a bachelor's junk drawer.

"Hey, that teenager is smarter than most of us," Steve defended.

"Scraps from a bachelor's junk drawer," Tony said, highly amused. "Okay, let's call the fabricator 'scraps'."