3rd Person POV:
It has been a week since VAS showed Y/N the truth behind Y/N's parents death, It has been a rough week for Gwen to say the least, helping the guy who got his universe destroyed live in a new universe while he also finds out that he was there when his parents were killed. Y/N was sick the first few days, he is better though now, color has returned to his face and he has been sleeping better. He threw his Spider suit into the bin. That really confused Gwen, why would he throw this away? Y/N never said anything about it or never noticed the fact that Gwen took the suit and now has it.
Y/N used his money to help buy a new apartment with 2 bedrooms and bigger. It cost him $80, the prices of everything still shock him. They moved into it a few days ago and have been living there ever since. Gwen/Spider-Women has been chasing after a known villain named Tombstone, apparently he made a formula that made his skin bulletproof and increased his strength by a lot.
Since Y/N no longer wants to be Spider-Man he made Gwen an interface for inside her mask based of the one he was making for himself. (Pretty much PS4 Spider-Mans interface) She loves it and it's very handy since its patched into the police radios and can also take phone calls. But he also made himself a lens for his eye that so that he doesn't need sunglasses or an eyepatch, which he wears nearly all the time.At this moment of time, Gwen is searching for more leads on this Tombstone, who has been spotted in a warehouse near the docks.
It's a dark and foggy New York night as Gwen lands on a lamp post overlooking the warehouse where Tombstone was reported being. Armed men are walking around alert of any threats and 2 of the guards are dragging a guy into the warehouse, who is pleading for his release. Gwen zooms in and watches but 2 guards inside the warehouse slam the doors shut. She webs onto the roof of the warehouse, landing carefully to avoid making sounds. She finds an open hatch and peaks down it. The man is now tied to a chair and is being attacked by the guards that brought him in. Gwen looks around for any sign of Tombstone, it would help if she had any idea what he looked like. Her spider sense goes off as she sees the guard pull a silenced pistol out of his hip and aims it towards the hostages head. Gwen webs the gun and yanks it out of his hand, the guards look to the source of the webs to see Spider-Women landing into a fighting pose. "It's Spider"
Gwen webs to the guy who spoke and punches him before kneeing him in the stomach and he falls to the ground. "Don't forget the women part, very important" She quips as her sense goes off. Shots go off, loud ones, that she avoids by backflipping over his head. He turns to meet a hard kick to the face, knocking him out. More guards flood in armed to the teeth.
"Oh boy" Gwen sighs as she webs up to the ceiling to avoid the bullets. She expertly dodges them mid-air as she lands, sweeping a guys legs. She pounces to one guard, kicking him, she lands on her hands and throws herself back, kicking another guy. She stands up and grabs a punch, she twists the arm as she moves beside him, pulling him over her and slamming him into the ground, causing him to groan. Her sense goes off as she webs a metal pipe to her, she turns around and whacks one guy, she throws it to another and punches the other guy. She webs a guards hands together and jumps over him, pulling the webs towards her, making the guy hit himself, knocking himself out. She dodges another punch and kicks the guy in the side. She elbows the guy behind her without moving and webs the guy she kicked to the ground.
"That was fun guys" She tells them as she looks around for anywhere else. Her spider sense goes off as a guy comes out of a hiding spot with a gun pointed at her. She webs him to the wall, his arms go into a cross shape, the gun pointed just under his neck. She walks to him in a threatening manner. When beside him she stares at him. "Where is Tombstone?" She asks in a 'threatening' voice. The guy laughs making Gwen confused. "You think I'm afraid of you?" Gwen sighs. "Just tell me what you know about Tombstone"
"I would if I had nothing to loose" He says with a sad look. Gwen furrows her brows. "What does that mean?" He looks at Gwen for a long while, tears form in his eyes as he stares at her. "He has my family" Gwen's eyes widen "You're not here by choice" The man closes his eyes as he begins chuckling, confusing Gwen. The man adjusts his hand so the gun is pointed directly beneath his head, Gwen's spider sense roars as she sees his finger reach the trigger.
"NOO-"
BANG
Gwen stares at the corpse, his head hangs down and blood pours out, the gun falls to the floor and his body slumps. Sirens ring out from outside, Gwen looks at the noise before webbing to the roof and leaving.
It's the morning now, Officer George Stacy walks into the warehouse, beside him is his partner Paul L/N, both in suits, with Paul's being a bit more tidy, with their badges around their necks They both look around seeing evidence markers near the body and the other men being dragged out and put into Police vans. As George and Paul walk in there are met by detective Armstrong. They shake hands as their conversation begins. "Hey guys" Armstrong greets as he shakes Paul's hand. "Hey Nick" George greets back as he points to the homicide with his head. "What have we got?" Nick begins walking over as the duo follow behind. "From what I can see. It was a suicide, victim identified as Arthur Smith, wife and 2 kids went missing 2 weeks ago. Got webbed to this wall" He points to his arms position "and seeing his arms pointed at the bullets entry and exit wounds and with only his fingerprints on the gun and the way that the gun has landed on the floor" He points to the guns position. "That instantly rules out Spider-Women" Before he begins speaking again he is interrupted by Paul. "Woah woah, why are we ruling Spider-Women"
Nick shuffles as George turns to Paul. "You seriously don't think Spider-Women did this?" Nick replies. Paul rubs his hands, he then sighs loudly, before reaching into his inside pocket and pulling out a packet of cigarettes' which causes George to smirk. "You owe me $5" Paul waves him off as he takes one out and puts it into his mouth, fidgeting for his lighter. "She was here, we can tell, maybe she didn't shoot him but" He lights the cigarette and takes a puff, relishing the feeling of the smoke entering his lungs. "She can tell us what happened" George and Nick look at eachother and then look back to Paul.
Y/N sighs, rubbing his eyes before placing his bowl in the sink and he begins washing it. He's just after waking up, but not from a good sleep, he woke up many times during the night which has him in a pretty grumpy mood. He places the bowl on the draining board and washes his spoon. He was awoken one time by Gwen, who told him about her adventures to the docks and the man who killed himself, she's pretty shaken up and he doesn't blame her. He puts the spoon on the draining board and walks to the dining table, grabbing his leather jacket and hoodie, putting them on, he wipes dirt off his black jeans and leaves the apartment, going up to the roof where Gwen will be. He opens the door and gets a chill, the sun is out, but it's foggy and chilly and early. He looks down at his watch, 11AM. Gwen is sitting on the ledge, looking out at the building ahead of them. He approaches her and sits beside her, sighing, his breath visible.
They say nothing to eachother, sitting down and taking in the view. Y/N is trying to think of something to say, but nothing is coming to mind. Cars are honking from down below, the streets busy with traffic and people, as usual. "How are you feeling?" The only thing that came to Y/N's mind. The first thing he was asked by the police after his parents death was that. "As good as I can be" Gwen replies in a monotone voice. Y/N looks to Gwen before looking back out. "It's stuck in my head" She tells him. "The sound, the blood, the body, the gun" Y/N nods. "The traumatic memory is looping in the emotional side of your brain which disconnects the part of the brain that conducts reasoning and conductive processing" Y/N explains, which causes Gwen to finally turn to him. "PTSD only occurs in adulthood in most cases so you do not have to worry about that" Gwen turns back to the view. "I could have stopped him, if only I was fast enough to do some-"
"Don't think like that, don't" Y/N tells her sternly. "This does nothing good for you, only keeps the memory in your mind and thinking of ways you could have done something will destroy you mentally" They sit there for another few minutes until something in Gwen's mind clicks. "He has his family" She stands up and begins walking back which makes Y/N stand up and look at her. "What? Gwen?" Gwen ignores him, which in his mood, annoys him enough to web her wrist and yank her back. Gwen also being in a bad mood, looks at Y/N angrily. "I need to save his family" She yells aggressively. "What do you mean?" Gwen stands there for a second and sighs in annoyance. "Tombstone has his family, I have to find them and save them" Y/N shakes his head "No you can't do that" Gwen shrugs "And why not?"
"If Tombstone has his family it's safe to assume that it was blackmail yeah?" Gwen stares at him for a second but slowly nods. "Ok, so if the deal was try to kill you, safe to say that failed, that means that Tombstone has no use for them yes?" Gwen nods. "So if you go rolling in to save the family what will Tombstone think?" Gwen stares at him for a long moment "That he snitched" She sighs in defeat. Y/N walks over to Gwen, pulling the web off her wrist and pulls her into a hug. "We trust the process" he whispers into her ear as she holds him tighter.
Y/N is walking down the street, it's the afternoon now, the fog has cleared and it's a lot warmer. Y/N is looking for a job, since his money will not last forever. The job he is looking at is being an assistant for a scientist known as Lizzie Conners, a renowned scientist for her work on animal regeneration, like how lizards grow limbs back. From what was on her website she wants to put the regeneration factor of lizards into humans. He turns a corner and sees the lab, not big but big enough. He walks through the electronic doors and into the reception. A women is sitting at the desk, eating gum and typing on her phone. The whole place is white, it's like everywhere is a lab. Y/N leans against the desk in front of the lady, who doesn't seem to notice him. He stands there awkwardly for a second. He clears his throat while adjusting the way he stands. "What you want?" She says, not looking up from her phone. "uhhh, I'm here to see Ms Conners" The receptionist blows a bubble with her gum and pops it. "That door" she replies, she doesn't point or anything, Y/N looks between both electric doors either side of her with an awkward smile.
A women exits from the door on the right. She looks at Y/N with a smile, she's wearing a labcoat and is holding a tablet in her left hand, her right hand in her pocket. "You must be Y/N" She walks over giving Y/N a full look at her, her right foot is gone and a prosthetic foot is visible. Y/N smiles at her and nods. "Well, you're certainly dressed to impress" She compliments. Y/N looks down at his outfit nervously, he is wearing black jeans, black boots, white shirt and a navy double breasted coat. "That's how I was raised Ma'am" Lizzie shakes her head and holds out her empty hand for him to shake, which he does. "Please, just call me Lizzie, please come this way" She holds her arm out towards the door she came from and walked, Y/N follows her as she brings him around the labs. Lot's of tech are scattered around with other people around, not many, around 20 or so. "Most of this tech is my design, although the materiel's for such machines cost a few loans but I got by" She points to all the tech around us as Y/N looks on. "And from what I read you work on animals?"
She nods her head as she slows down to walk beside him. "Right now my main focus is getting Lizards regeneration into humans, imagine what that could do for the human race" Y/N nods "That would be cool yeah, creepy but cool" Lizzie giggles as she continues talking. They walk towards another part of the building and as Lizzie is talking Y/N sees something he seen before.
"I've seen that before" He tells her, pointing to the machine ahead of them. Lizzie looks at the machine and then back at Y/N "The Ganali device" Y/N nods "Yeah, I seen a prototype on your website although it was very low down" Lizzie hums "I rarely change the website, only for when I need employees. anyway the idea was so simple. You load it with an antigen. It creates a cloud which can be dispersed... over a neighbourhood, even a city. Theoretically, you could cure polio in an afternoon" Y/N looks at the machine with a nerdy smile. "That's amazing"
"Well, others disagreed. What if the device were loaded with a toxin? What if you wanted to opt out? You can't... run away from a cloud after all, so here it lies, gathering dust" Y/N and Lizzie look at the machine for a few seconds before walking away again.
It's been a few hours of exploring the lab and it's safe to say that Y/N definitely will get hired. Lizzie has been impressed by Y/N's knowledge and has been asking him lots of questions, which he can easily answer. They are now looking at hologram showing an animation of a lizard.
"What you see here is a computer model of a lizard. Many of these wonderful creatures have so brilliantly adapted... that they can regenerate entire limbs at will." The animation shows the lizards tail being cut off and it growing back. "You can imagine my envy" She says looking down at her leg. Y/N looks at her apologetically. "We're trying to harness this capability... and transfer it into our host subject: Freddy the three-legged mouse."
After a few hours of trying to get the gene of the lizard into the rat, they finally get it. Lizzie pats Y/N on the back as they laugh at their success. Lizzie turns to Y/N, holding out her hand. "Welcome to the team Y/N" Y/N smiles and shakes her hand, she smiles "See you next Monday 9.00AM" Y/N nods.
When Y/N leaves the lab, he begins walking back to the apartment. It's very dark out now. "Look it's Spider-Women" some civilians begin pointing in the air, noticing Gwen swinging around. Y/N looks at her and smirks before continuing his journey back to the apartment. He begins walking down a quiet street when he hears a girl scream. Y/N look at the source of the noise, he looks around and then takes off down the road. He stops at the entrance of the dark alleyway and sees 2 drunk guys holding a women against a car. Anger rises in Y/N as the women begs for the men to get off her. He walks down the alleyway ."LET HER GO" The 2 men turn to Y/N and laugh. The one on the left points a switchblade at Y/N's direction. "Leave boy, let the grown up's have some fun" He tells Y/N, drunkenly. The women is crying and begging as the men turn around. Y/N picks up a full can of coke and throws it at the back of his head, which explodes, covering them in the drink, this successfully pisses off the 2 guys, the one with the knife throws the women to the ground, away from the car as the 2 man stare at Y/N. "You are so going to regret that you fucking fagg-" Y/N webs the car from both ends and yanks it towards him, knocking the car into the guy as it tips over. The guy on the right gets caught under the car and he screams in agony. The other guy turns to his friend and back to Y/N, swaying side to side. "Come at me" He yells, slurring most of his words. Y/N furiously walks over to the rapist as he attempts to swing his blade. Y/N grabs his forearm and whacks the blade out of his hands. Y/N grabs the guy by the neck and throws him into the wall. Then man groans as he makes contact with the wall, he starts to get up but he falls to all fours and throws up. Y/N runs up and knees his head, which hits off the wall and knocks him out as he lays in a pile of his own puke. "Thank you, Thank you so much" The women cries before she runs the other direction.
Y/N stays still for a few minutes, calming himself down as his eye begins to sting less. He exhales loudly. Police sirens ring out as a cop car comes out of nowhere. "Shit" Y/N screams as a police man exits and approaches Y/N. "NYPD hands up now" He yells as the police man comes into view. Paul L/N has his gun trained on Y/N. Y/N puts his hands into the air. "On your knees now" Y/N complies as Paul walks behind Y/N getting handcuffs out from his pocket. "You have the right to remain silent" He slaps the handcuffs on Y/N's wrists and tightens them. "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law" Paul forces Y/N to stand up as he looks back at the damages. "You have the right to an attorney and have him present with you while you are being questioned" He pushes Y/N to get him walking towards the police car. "If you cannot afford to hire an attorney one will be provided for you at the governments expense" Paul opens the door but still looks at Y/N, who looks back at him. "You understand each of these rights as I have explained them to you?" Y/N only nods as Paul gets him into the car and shuts the door.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘖𝘧 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬
ActionBOOK 2 Y/N L/N has landed in a new universe after the destruction of his own. Read along as Y/N discovers hidden secrets, new challenges and more multiverse mayhem. "I can't lose you N/N" "You won't. I promise"