Chapter 79: Good Neighbors in New York

Miles Morales is a Spider-Man from a parallel universe. To be precise, he is the second generation Spider-Man, the successor of Peter Parker. In their world, Kingpin teamed up with Doctor Octopus and Green Goblin to build a super particle collider in order to find his dead wife and children from the multiverse. The use of the collider will cause space instability. Peter Parker, who is in his twenties, failed in the process of stopping them and was killed by Kingpin. Before he died, he entrusted Miles, who was also bitten by a spider, to destroy the enemy's plan to prevent the world from being destroyed.

During this period, Kingpin turned on the collider for the first time, which brought together Spider-Man from several parallel universes. Among them was Peter Parker, who was in his thirties and had a small belly and divorced his wife, Gwen Stacy, who became Spider-Man because of the death of her best friend Peter Parker, and Shadow Spider-Man, who lived in the early 20th century and fought against the Nazis...

Dr. Banner, who came over because he was interested in the topic of parallel universes, couldn't help but ask, "Wait, so how many living and dead Peter Parkers have you met?"

Two pairs of white eyes of similar shape blinked at the same time.

"You can take off your masks. This building is safe enough." Banner pushed over a chair and sat down.

"What's going on?" Tony propped up the sofa with one hand and turned to look at him. "When I told you about my adventures, you almost fell asleep. Why are you so energetic now?"

"Uh." Banner shrugged innocently, "Actually, I generally don't watch art films, especially those with too much psychological description."

"Art film?!"

"Stop, can we pause for a moment? Miles, you too, don't need to introduce background knowledge that is irrelevant to the current situation."

Moses made a pause gesture to Myers and said weakly, "As you can see, our world is a little different from yours."

Miles put his hands on his knees awkwardly and looked at a newspaper spread out on the table: "It's true that Peter Parker in each universe looks different. For example, I've seen Spider-Man with brown hair and Spider-Man with blond hair. And I wanted to say before that I've never heard of heroes like the Justice League or Superman. I mean, I've heard of Iron Man but..."

"Oh, I see." Tony snapped his fingers. "The world that Superman and Flash went to didn't have the Avengers either. It seems that the number of superheroes in our world is quite dominant?"

"Maybe the villain is also double."

“…You are right.”

Moses said, "To summarize, Mr. Miles Morales, you come from a world without the Justice League. You teamed up with other Spider-Men to defeat Kingpin and help them return to their own universe. Unexpectedly, an accident happened in the end. The female Doctor Octopus in your world did not die. It happened that the particle collider on our side was turned on at this time. You fell into the transmission channel during your escape, and the female Doctor Octopus, forget it, can I call her Little Vick? Little Vick's tentacles chased after you and mistakenly took Myron away as prey, but you stayed behind."

"Tsk, what a shame," Tony said. "Vicki is probably in big trouble. That thing exploding is no joke."

Dr. Banner: "Why did you all start calling her Vee? It's kind of disgusting when you think of our world's Octavius."

"Xiao Wei?" This was the Black Widow who came over to pour tea for her. "I like this nickname, it's cute."

“You wouldn’t think so if you met Doctor Octopus in person,” Myers said listlessly. “She’s terrifying.”

Natasha raised an eyebrow and looked at the adults present.

"A new companion?"

"No," Iron Man insisted, "I don't agree with it no matter what Fury says."

"The director hasn't said anything yet. You're too nervous, Tony."

The beautiful red-haired woman nodded friendly to the two colored Spider-Man before leaving.

"Anyway," Moses said bravely, "we have to find a way to send Miles back next. He just said that staying in a parallel world for too long will cause his body to collapse. Maybe we still have to ask Kingpin or Doctor Octopus about the particle collider. I can..."

"You can't." Tony rapped his knuckles on the table. "I always feel like I forgot something. Oh, by the way, who promised me at Ms. May's house that they would stop caring about Professor Lizard?"

Banner: "Professor Lizard was imprisoned in SHIELD, and he really didn't care."

"Where on earth do you stand?"

"Natasha - you're really nervous, Tony."

Iron Man stared at him. "Didn't you hear what the boy named Miles said just now? What a coincidence! Peter Parker in their world is also investigating the super particle collider. Spider-Man is alone against Kingpin's gang, the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus. The only difference is that there is no Future Pharmaceuticals and no me in the story. Then what? What is the result?"

"But each parallel universe develops differently." Moses tried to reason, "I still have Superboy here."

"Okay, so how did Peter die in Gwen Stacy's world?"

"How should I know? I don't even know her now!"

"Look, even an adult Spider-Man couldn't defeat Kingpin. Why do you think you can at the age of 16?"

"But I—"

"But he's been Spider-Man for at least a year, right?"

Miles mustered up the courage to hunch his shoulders and raise his hands, weakly interrupting their quarrel.

Everyone turned to look at him.

Miles, who has changed out of his uniform, reaches into the inside pocket of his jacket and pulls out a comic book featuring the iconic Spider-Man. "This is our Spider-Man origin story. You see, it says you start being a superhero when you're not even 16. I can still recite the opening quote, 'With great power comes great responsibility.' Almost everyone who has read the comic knows it."

“…”

Moses covered his face with one hand: "Why does your universe still have such things?"

"Actually, I also brought some Spider-Man cereal," Myers whispered, placing the bag of cereal on the coffee table. "My dad likes it very much. Do you want to try it?"

Tony silently reached out his hand to take the comic book on the table, and Moses reflexively pressed his palm.

A spider web quickly trapped Iron Man's hand a dozen centimeters away from the page of the book.

After struggling twice to get free, Tony looked at him and said, "Let go."

"No, this is private."

"Huh, privacy for publication?"

Not far away, the sound of a battle armor being activated rang out: "Let's give it a try."

"Shit!" Dr. Banner sat up immediately, "Calm down, both of you!"

He reached out and took the comic book, then picked up the cereal: "I'm going to make some milk, who wants some?"

“…”

Ten minutes later, a cup of cereal with milk was placed in front of everyone.

The Spider-Man origin comic story is carefully placed at the center of the coffee table, keeping a perfect distance from everyone like its own radiation.

Only Tony's hands remained cuffed to the glass.

"Can you untie it for me now?"

"I, uh, sorry, but I haven't had time to make the agent to accelerate degradation." Moses said with difficulty, "Normally it will last for two hours, let me see how long it has left... God! I forgot about the winter camp!"

He took out his cell phone to check the time, and suddenly found that the screen was filled with missed calls and various text messages.

"I'll call my teacher and classmates and come back right away!"

Life is really hard.

Batman basically doesn't have to worry about Wayne Group now.

Superman has to take care of his career as a reporter for Planet Daily. But he has superpowers, and he is recognized by the editor-in-chief for his outstanding articles. Not only is he given a permanent salary, but he also wins a prize.

Peter Parker has to go to school, save the world, quarrel with adults, and work to earn money.

Maybe add in the fact that I had to take care of the kids (Myles) for a short period of time.

Tony watched him jump left and right on the wall twice and quickly rushed into the bathroom, then turned around and pulled his hands away vigorously.

It's useless.

His assistant robot glides over, carrying a laser cutter.

Thirty seconds later, there was a palm-sized hole in the teapot.

"...At least you don't have to bend over now." Dr. Banner said insincerely, looking at his right hand tied with glass fragments.

Tony didn't pay any attention to this little episode, he picked up the comic book with his left hand.

Before Spider-Man left, he could have sealed the book with spider silk, so even if someone wanted to take it out, it would take some effort, but the other party seemed to have skipped this option.

Is this a special gesture of reconciliation after an argument?

Tony felt a little amused and a little strange to be suddenly treated as a friend by someone, or in that, how should I put it, simple way of communication unique to young people. However, he felt that his position had indeed softened a little bit - only a little bit.

Moreover, we need to fully understand what needs to be clarified. This is our responsibility to everyone.

I skimmed through it first, and then read the first two chapters relatively carefully. While Moses was still not back, Iron Man asked Miles, "In your world, Peter Parker was adopted when he was a child?"

As a derivative comic book in a world where superheroes exist, this origin story certainly won't make the relationships between characters clear, and the true identities of all characters have been blurred. But Tony still remembers what Miles mentioned before, 'Only Ms. May would call Doctor Octopus Little V.'

This suggests that Spider-Man's successor at least met May Parker.

In their own world, the first person to know Peter was Shazan.

When Iron Man first saw the life experience from Moldova to Cyprus, his expression was similar to Batman's, full of question marks.

Thanks to the Justice League standing behind Shazan, Peter Parker would have been deported to any corner of the world for illegal immigration the next day.

But perhaps we should think about it from another perspective. What if Shazan was chosen for this reason?

"I think so." Miles scratched his cheek and tilted his head to think about it. "Ms. Mei's house has Spider-Man's base and photos of him with his elders. What's wrong with that?"

"You may not know this," Tony said meaningfully, "but here he was adopted by May Parker just a month ago."

"And technically, Peter Parker has no blood relationship with Ms. May's husband."

The young second-generation Spider-Man didn't understand at all.

He frowned. "But they both have the last name Parker, and they call each other Uncle and Aunt. And Spider-Man, I mean Peter, looks a lot like his uncle. How can they not be related by blood?"

Peter Parker and his uncle Ben Parker look a lot like each other?

Tony's first reaction was the photo in Ms. May's house, but he didn't think anything of it at the time.

The next thing he remembered was another sentence Miles had said before - 'Peter Parker in each universe looks a little different'.

"Yeah." Tony looked at the first Spider-Man walking back with his phone in the distance and whispered, "I want to know why, too."

"Where were you talking about?"

Moses stood at the table without sitting down, looking at the comic book that had obviously been moved and no one had bothered to cover it up, as well as the palm-shaped hole on the coffee table.

"Why did you take so long to talk?" Iron Man said calmly, "Did the school contact you?"

"No." The young man's shoulders slumped at this topic, "So my friend and teacher called the police. I needed to find time to go to the Houston Police Department to withdraw the report and explain how I got back to New York from Texas."

What's worse is that Norman Osborn's son Harry Osborn saw him leaving, and then Doctor Octopus' factory exploded. Iron Man, who never likes to keep a low profile, called a helicopter to take everyone except Superman and Superboy back to Houston Airport.

Doctor Octopus cooperated with Oscorp and said that he had captured the Green Goblin. From this perspective, there is an 80% chance that Norman can be equated with a super villain.