Chapter 1: Spider-Man & Ant-Man Versus The Chameleon

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Author's Note: Takes place after Tales to Astonish No. 41 (1962) and during Amazing Spider-Man No. 1 (1962).

Time. Space. Reality. It's more than a linear path. It's ever expanding...of endless possibilities...Where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities creating alternate worlds from the ones you know. I am Uatu the Watcher. I am your guide through these vast new realities. Follow me...and ponder the question...What If The Astonishing Ant-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man had teamed up together...

Manhattan, New York

Peter Parker, who was currently donned as his alter-ego, Spider-Man, was swinging away furiously from the Baxter Building after getting into a heated argument with the famous superhero team, The Fantastic Four.

"Unbelievable!" Spider-Man shouted as he's been trying to come up with sure fire ways to make money with his powers and he tried to become a member of the group. Unfortunately, he was soon disappointed once the entire team told him...

"A Non-Profit Organization," Spider-Man angrily grumbled as he kept on swinging from building to building which meant that the team earns no salaries! "Fantastic Four?! Pfft! The Fantastic Bores is more like it."

Talk about a complete waste of time. He'll show them as he vowed to make the Four look like chumps the next time they meet. Spider-Man could've sworn that he heard them yelling at him to come back. It's probably to berate him some more. So what that he didn't make a good impression on them. Who cares?!

Spider-Man sighed to himself as he thought about what to do next. It's been a rough couple of weeks at the Parker household ever since losing Uncle Ben. It's not only been hard for him but for Aunt May as well. He has to step up and be the man of the house now. It's what his Uncle would've wanted him to do.

All that matters now is to find a job. Heck he'd take any job for that matter. Peter felt like nothing but a colossal failure as nothing has been going his way as of late.

What makes matters worse is the ongoing smear campaign against him spearheaded by J. Jonah Jameson at the Daily Bugle. Peter was shocked to learn when he read the latest edition of the newspaper that Spider-Man was accused of deliberately sabotaging Col. Jameson's space shuttle and staging the rescue as a publicity stunt. That's the thanks he get for saving the man's only son?

What nearly broke his heart was the things that his Aunt were saying about his alter-ego when the news broke out.

'Oh dear, someone should find that dreadful Spider-Man and catch him before he can do serious harm!'

Peter often wondered that these powers he've been given were a curse. After Uncle Ben's death and the poor reception with the rest of the city, should he even bother to keep on being Spider-Man?

He snapped out of his depressing funk when he felt something bit him on the hand. "Ouch!! I swear if it's another radioactive spider then I'm seriously gonna lose it!"

Knowing his luck, it would probably be the same one that bitten him not too long ago. It's probably dead by now but he would like to believe that the spider is doing well on its own wish he could say the same sadly.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw something small crawling around the lenses of his mask. Spider-Man noticed several ants on both of his hands as he was swinging. He wondered if he bumped into Reed Richard's ant farm during his fight at the Baxter Building. He stopped for a moment and landed on a roof of an office building. While Peter was trying dust the ants off his costume, he saw that more were coming his way as they had him surrounded. He sure wished for a can of bug spray right about now.

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