a spider in the wrong universe

back to the dorms

i enter the dorm common room and i'm immediately met with class 1 A surrounding me.
"are you alright parker?"
"what happened?"
"we saw you on the news!"

all of the noise is too much for me and i take a step back. i bump into aizawa but he puts a hand in my shoulder. he notices my discomfort and says, "i know you guys have a lot of questions, but they can all wait until tomorrow. parker is okay, but he's had a long day and needs to rest."

i nod my head in agreement and make my way to my room. aizawa and mr. hawks follow behind me. as we walk through the hallway, my senses hum and i notice the glances my classmates give me. i open the door to my room and sit down on my bed. aizawa closes it behind us.

"so kid, what happened back there? how did you manage to fight the league of villains off on your own?" mr. hawks asks and sits next to me.

"i don't know, my body just went into survival mode i guess and i was fighting off instinct." that isn't technically a lie, i just left out some information...

"y'know, you're a smart kid. we only found you by using the coordinates you sent us. how do you know morse code?" hawks asks

"my mentor, mr. stark, taught me. we have um some experiences it could have been useful in." i say as i fidget with my fingers. i think back to when he taught me morse code. it was after the vulture incident.

"huh" mr. hawks replies

moving away from the sensitive topic, aizawa says, "why did the league come after you? was this a targeted attack, or did they just want a UA student as leverage?"

"it was targeted. i guess shigaraki and i have some kind of an unsettled score. on my first day in tokyo we had some sort of stand off, and then the league wasn't able to get back at me when we went on the mission to save eri." i reply. my first day in tokyo seems so long ago. my last day in my universe seems even further away. i zone out as i think about the last time i saw mr. stark. i remember seeing my own body disintegrating beneath me...

im broken from my thoughts as mr. hawks says, "peter?"

"y-yes? sorry, i was thinking."

"you seem tired. do you want us to leave and let you have some rest?"

should i tell them now? do i come clean about my universe problem?

"uh.." i think back to my conversations with dr. strange and the soul stone. i need to recruit heroes to save my universe.

i open my mouth to speak but a yawn comes out instead. suddenly, sleep seems more ideal than talking.

"yes please, i'm pretty tired after today. could we talk more tomorrow though? there's something i still have to tell you guys." i say

"yeah of course kid. get some rest." mr. hawks says as he pats my shoulder. i flinch at the nickname.

mr. aizawa gives me a weird look, as if he's trying to figure something out. but, he leaves along with mr. hawks.

i lay down and stare at my ceiling. i think about how tomorrow im going to have to finally come clean. will they believe me? will they help me?

i start coming up with a plan to tell them. i grab my phone and ask karen to compile all of the footage that i showed bakugou. i need the footage from the fight with thanos to prove that i really did fight a big purple alien and travel through the multiverse.

mr. stark and dr. banner would be so excited to learn that the multiverse is real. i think back to all of the lab days i had with them. we've gone on rambles about the multiverse theory before, but i never imagined any of it to be so real. i never thought i would be the one to travel universes.

i miss mr. stark. how am i supposed to save him? how am i supposed to stop him from sacrificing himself. is that really a future i can change?

i stop myself from spiraling and decide to just go to sleep. i have proof of my universe and thanos' existence, i just have to get ready to explain it now.

i close my eyes and let my consciousness fade away.