chimera

informal introductions

I know what you're thinking, here we go again. Let's do this one more time, from the beginning... except this time the story starts at the end.

As the familiar world began to collapse on itself around him, Miguel O'Hara clung to the small girl in his arms as he ran. As the void caught up to him, consuming the small girl with everything else in its path, the man crumbled to the dissipating floor, clenching his fists. He felt a gentle hand on his shoulder before a glimpse of orange light surrounded him and the ground became solid beneath him once again.

Okay... maybe we we'll start a bit before the end.

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Obsessed with the multiverse, genius genetics scientist Miguel O'Hara had finally created a stable device that could transport him to different dimensions. With the help of his personal AI, dubbed Lyla, Miguel was able to navigate the multiverse without his body destabilizing at a molecular level, but he could only stay in other dimensions for a short time before the device would overwork itself and implode.

During his exploration of the vast multiverse, Miguel stumbled upon a particular dimension that he grew quite fond of. In this dimension, Miguel O'Hara was a normal human being; one with a happy family and a peaceful life. Jealous of his variant, Miguel would spend as much time as he could in the shadows there, yearning the life he could never have.

These frequent visits from the uninvited stranger did not go unnoticed however, as this dimension's spider sensed something out of place during each of the man's visits. Curious as to what could be alerting her spidey-senses, SilkWeb investigated each time she experienced the tingly sensation. SilkWeb, formally known as Katelyn Summers, is Earth-1042's one and only Spider-Woman. While visiting her younger sister, one of the lead scientists at Alchemax, Katelyn was bitten by a radioactive spider and, well, you know how the rest goes.

The hero was stumped at first when investigating the cause of her spider-sense as no vicious villains appeared in an attempt to conquer New York or ultimately the world. It took her a few times until one day, the laughter of the little girl caught her ear and she turned towards the sound to watch the small girl playing with her parents. It was only then that she noticed the figure in the shadows, watching the family intently. SilkWeb quickly slipped out of sight, using her webs to pull her up to higher ground so that she could keep an eye on the shadowy figure. Once the family had packed up and gone, the man emerges from the shadows and her eyes widen. How could he be the same man that was just playing with the small girl? The tingling of her spider-senses intensifies as the man approaches her position from below and she furrows her eyebrows. She follows him into a dark alleyway from above and watches as the man disappears.

It's not until the mysterious man's next visit that she's able to corner him. Just as he lifts his wrist to tap his strange watch, as he did the last time before disappearing, she shoots a web at the device to stick his wrist to the brick wall beside the man. Her hands and feet stick to the brick wall as she climbs down from the rooftop of the short building.

The man groans as he forcefully pulls his hand off of the brick wall, the exterior of the bricks crumbling slightly as he does so. "I don't have time for this." He states plainly, pulling the silky webs off of his watch.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize I had to schedule a meeting." She replies sarcastically as she jumps to her feet, this time using her webs to pull the watch off of the man's wrist and into her hand.

"Hey!" The man shouts as he reaches for the watch, but the woman sticks his hand to his chest with yet another web. He lets out a frustrated huff as he rips his hand free. "That doesn't belong to you. You have no idea what damage you could cause if-" he's cut off by his body magically glitching as if he was a technological projection.