Ultimate Spider-Woman Origin

Issue 10.5: Mary Jane Loves Ultimate Spider-Womam

Reed motioned at the large piece of equipment he'd been working on and I piqued up. "You've got a scientific curiosity right? This is a transdimensional inverter I've been working on... do you want to see this machine tested?"

"Do I!!" I beamed as I followed him to the transdimensional machine. I examined it closely as Reed explained it's principles to me in detail. "Wow. How do you factor in... Oh you've used Heisenberg compensators!"

I watched excitedly as Richards powered up the machine he'd been working and a rift started to form as he explained the process and the math. I enthusiastically asked questions about fine details. "We're Earth-1610. Some of the earths out there are really strange - Earth-2149 is full of zombies... but this one might interest you. Earth-TRN454 where everyone is genderswapped..."

I shook my head. "Not really Reed. I think that would just confuse my problem." I said.

We were so preoccupied that we didn't notice the transdimensional bifurcation until it was almost too late. My spider sense went crazy as the dimensional rift divided into two in a process that looked like an amoeba splitting.

I stared at the second unexpected rift and saw something that made me sick and terrified. A horrible red black pseudopod squirming through, the reading on the nearby monitor reading Earth-602636 then Error 0x000000EF then Earth-602636.

"Oh damn." Reed growled as he tried to shut it down. "The rifts are twinning and self powering. Shutdown isn't working. I need to close down the first rift... you need to disable the Heisenberg compensators. If we don't the rift twinning will increase exponentially and will create a singularity in... twenty seconds..."

"On it!" I said as I leaped forward, spider sense unbearable. Being at an emerging event horizon did that. I smashed the compensators and the sudden explosion threw me backwards into the second rift where the red black thing came from. "Arrrgh!"

Pain. Like lots of it! And then an explosion. I found myself curled in the ruins of the lab, body smoking. Nearby a lumpy red thing wriggled then stretched and shot off into the smoke. "Oh no..." This wasn't the lab either. It felt wrong. I pulled down my mask. "Reed?" The lab was subtly different. Where the heck was I? What was that thing? It had looked like the symbiote. But it was covered in teeth.

I sagged limply as I tried to get my breath, smoke from the explosion roiling slowly about me. I pushed the broken office chair aside and moved through the rubble to inspect the ruined lab equipment. "That's not the transdimensional machine..." I muttered. It was still expensive equipment though. Some kind of sensor. And the room was larger. Someone was going to be out of pocket.

My body ached and my spider sense still throbbed dully in the back of my mind as I searched for the thing that had come through with me. "Doctor Reed?" I said again. No answer. For some reason I wasn't surprised. It was like I first thought. Everything was a little off. "Great. This is just great. I'm stuck in an alternate universe..."

There was a distant ding of an arriving elevator and voices. I spotted the thing wriggling and pulling itself horribly towards the elevator. I webbed it down. "What the?!" a voice asked. It was strangely familiar. A female figure moved warily forward through the drifting smoke. "Hello?" The figure called, the vague shape coiling menacingly out of my webbing and moving away from the figure. "This is Sue Richards, identify yourself!"

Behind my mask my eyes widened. She wasn't a Richards. She was a Storm... where was I?

I moved back and my shoulders pressed up against a force field... one of Sue Storms' ... er Richards' spherical force bubbles around me. There was a loud crashing sound as the roof above Sue collapsed. Thank god she was able to bring up a shield around herself moments before she was buried by tonnes of debris. This was not good! The shield around me vanished.