a spider in the wrong universe

a multiversal secret

mr. hawks flies us over to mr. aizawa's classroom and i look down at the UA campus. i try to take it all in. i take note of students with physical quirks and it really hits me how different this universe is from mine. you would never see anything like this back at home.

we fly in silence, mr. hawks concentrated on the flight, and me lost in thought. the flight is soothing and reminds me of the times mr. stark  has carried me in the ironman suit. usually, it's when i'm injured so it's not as comfortable as this, but mr. stark being there always brought me comfort.

mr. hawks lands right in front of the main school building. we walk through the hallways as i fiddle with my hands nervously. as we make our way to aizawa's classroom, students stop and stare at the #3 pro-hero in their presence.

we get to 1 A's homeroom and i knock on the door. i hear a muffled "come in" and open the door. i see mr. aizawa laying on the floor inside his yellow sleeping bag and chuckle a little bit.

"ah parker." aizawa sits up. "are you here to continue our conversation from yesterday?"

mr. hawks sits next to aizawa and i take a seat across from them.
"yes, there um may be a little more to the situation than you might of thought." i say nervously.

even through the sleeping bag i can see aizawa's confusion. "what do you mean?" he asks.

"well, the league of villains wasn't just targeting me for fun or because i one upped them or something. they may know... a little secret of mine."

"a secret?" hawks interjects

"yeah. the other night i was telling a classmate about it and i didn't realize it, but the league must have been eavesdropping. i think they've been tailing me for some time, but i was too focused on my work study to do anything about it. that night, they overheard what i said and decided they wanted to see if it was true for themselves. so when they showed up in my class, they held that secret against me to make me go with them. and they found out that my secret really is true." i dance around the subject of my secret because im not sure if im really ready. my body has already run through the little amount of food that i ate, and my nerves are making me feel uneasy.

"what 'secret' is this parker?" aizawa looks at me expectantly

"this is going to sound crazy. but i promise you it's true. i'm not from...here. mr. hawks, do you remember when you found me in tokyo that one day? i was obviously very lost and couldn't speak any japanese?"

"yeah kid. i remember."

i flinch at the name and a flare of anger flashes through my body. but it's gone as quickly as it came.

"don't-don't call me that. please. only mr. stark calls me that." i look at hawks and he looks a little hurt but he doesn't say anything, he just nods his head. "well, i was so confused because i just randomly woke up in that alleyway. right before that...i was on another planet with mr. stark. we were on titan fighting thanos."

"ki-peter what are you talking about? what do you mean you were on another planet?" hawks asks, shocked.

"i'm not from this universe." the room stilled as i said that.

mr. hawks has a mix of confusion and shock on his face, but aizawa is scarily calm.

"where i'm from, it's not common to have quirks or any kind of special abilities. almost nobody has any super powers. and the people that do have them usually got it by some kind of experimentation. i got mine from a radioactive spider. i wasn't born like this." subconsciously, i feel the back of my neck where i was bit when i was 14.

"the only 'pro-heroes' we have in my universe are a small team of heroes called the avengers. i'm kind of a part of that team. we were fighting this alien named thanos and we-we lost." i take a second to pull up the footage from titan. "here, i can show you."

i play the footage and i'm forced to live the moment for a third time. i watch hawks and aizawa's reactions as the video plays. i can't bear to watch the footage myself.

the clip plays from the spaceship interrupting my field trip to MoMA, all the way to me dusting and ending up here. hearing my reaction to getting dusted sends a chill up my spine and causes my senses to blare in my ears.

"thanos was that big ugly purple alien. and he was after these things called the infinity stones. there are six of them and they are insanely powerful. dr. strange, he's one of the super heroes in my world, cast a spell that sent me here instead of wherever everyone else went after the snap. i'm supposed to recruit other heroes to help stop thanos. because thanos plans to attack and destroy every universe, not just mine. but he can't do that without all of the stones. somehow, i have two of the stones right now. that's what the league of villains is after."

there's a long pause of silence.

"peter i- i don't..." hawks starts but doesn't finish

i look at the two of them, unsure what to do now.

"i promise you i'm telling you the truth, i can even show you more-"

"parker who else did you tell?" aizawa interrupts.

"bakugou" i say

"and the league of villains overheard you telling him?"

"yes. but i don't-" the realization dawns on me. they might try to use bakugou for more information.

aizawa finally gets out of his sleeping bag, "we need to find him now. we need to secure the both of you and keep you out of the league of villains grasp."