▸ THIRTY ONE ◂

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This chapter replays parts of the sad chapter from before :(( just a warning for those who get emotional from that scene (like me)

The white ball crashes to the ground and sprouts into a tree-like figure. Numerous white strands sprout in the shape of a large tree. 

"Can you be more specific?" Miles says slowly.

"Can you not talk for a second?" Miguel retorts.

Miles shrugs, "Yeah, yeah."

"This here," Miguel waves around to the bright red web that expands around the room, "This is all of us. All our lives woven together, in a beautiful web of life and destiny."

Miles looks around in awe, taking in the vast image around him, "The Spiderverse."

"The Spiderverse?" Miguel remarks, looking at him judgmentally. "Huh, that's . . . stupid."

Miguel watches him grimly, "It's called the 'Arachno-Humanoid Poly-Multiverse."

Miles passes him a look, and Miguel glances away, "Which sounds . . . stupid too, I guess."

Miles reaches for one of the strands of the web, "And these nodes, where the minds converge?"

You all look at the web framing a series of events Miles was inspecting. It showed one instance of every Spiderman being bit by a radioactive spider: just seen and appearing different based on that spider's dimension. 

"They are the canon." Miguel implies, walking beside him, "Chapters that are a part of every Spider's story, every time."

You inspect the vast amounts of canon events every spider you knew shared with you. It was incredible how closely bonded you all were with one another, sometimes you refuse to believe there's someone out there that looks just like you.

"Some good . . ." Miguel says as a round of events is presented with Peter Parkers and Mary Janes having their first iconic kiss.

"Some bad . . ." Canon images of spider people being taken over by several Venoms appears.

"Some very bad." Miguel's face hardens as he reaches up to pull a certain canon event to show.

Expanding the canon memory, several spider people were seen leaning over a person. That person varied from family, friends, captains, and Uncle Bens. It was a significant loss that every spider shared in order to become who they were meant to be.

You notice the image of yourself crying over your Aunt Louise. It was too painful to reminisce, so you look away in vain. Miguel notices and quickly moves the scene aside to show more down the line instead. He stops at Miles' experience with the canon event, the death of his uncle. And you see the pain in Miles' eyes as he witnesses his old self bending over his Uncle Aaron.

"Just keep going." His uncle weakly tells him. 

Miles stares in disbelief, "Uncle Aaron . . ."

Miguel appears behind him, looking at a scene of a young boy in a bright red shirt, "This one, event ASM-90, a police captain close to Spiderman dies saving a kid from falling rubble during a battle with an arch-nemesis."

A model shows the painful scene of that Spiderman holding the dead man, "Captain Stacy . . . I'm so sorry . . ."

Miles looks up to Gwen, who gazes back at him with grief in her eyes. His eyes follow the path of people and their losses and land on Peter B. Parker who turns away from his canon demonstration. 

"That happened to you?" Miles mumbled, to which the man remained silent.

"All of us, Miles." You interfere with a dejected expression.

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