See the Future

Homecoming I

If someone told me that I would wake up in a dark pub surrounded by people who should be dead this morning, I would have thought they were crazy.

Of course, that’s what happened.

I had been awake for a while now. I’d explored the area and found no exits. At least none that would lead me home. There was a door, but it opened into some weird wormhole kind of vortex.

Eventually the people started to wake. They were familiar, some more than others. Some should have been dead. I’d nearly broken down once he saw Tony, Ned, and MJ there, albeit younger than he remembered. Liz was there too.

God… I hadn’t seen Liz since Homecoming. The last I’d heard of her was during my Mysterio court case where she claimed that Spider-Man had ruined her life. Of course, that was before the memory spell.

Soon everyone was awake. I could spot some familiar faces. Ned, MJ, his old midtown classmates, Tony, Pepper, Happy and tons more.

Tony was the first to speak up.

“All right what’s going on?”

I was about to reply, before shutting his mouth.

What if…

Mysterio?

Could he still be alive? Manipulating things? Was all that stuff with the multiverse real or were Peter 2 and 3 just more illusions?

No… This was real. My spider-sense was sensing any danger and the illusions were definitely a danger.

That meant…

Oh god…

That really was Tony there… and Ned and MJ…

Everyone he lost… was there again.

My train of thought was disrupted by the sudden appearance of someone new. He was an old man. With a bushy white mustache and slicked back greying hair. He seemed familiar.

“Excelsior! You’re all awake!”

Tony took a stance, obviously sensing a threat.

“Oh, I’m not here to hurt any of you! I’m here to help.”

“Help how?”

I turned to see who spoke and… was that Sam Wilson?

“I’m going to show you a future timeline. Well… future for some of you. Others? It’s the past.”

Tony faltered. “Show us a future? How? Time travel shouldn’t even be possible!”

Oh, the irony…

The old man just smiled. “Oh, I’m doing this because of one certain hero over here. He has suffered unnecessarily so I’m going to show his future.”

Suffered unnecessarily?

“Who is it?”

The old man smiled again.

“Before we get into it, I need you all to introduce you by your names and what year you are from. If you are a superhero, don’t say it. It will probably be shown anyway but I just like the suspense!”

With that he disappeared. A screen showed up as the pub transformed into something else… a cinema?

The screen lit up showing an image. Like a movie. It started off with just one sentence.