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After making sure his aunt was in no danger Peter, glowing with happiness and clearly a little more relaxed, came back to me to deliver the news.
-I heard, and now that we can be calm about your aunt, let's go to your friends, I'm interested in exploring this cube, and I guess that will be the end of the aliens' stay in your world... or do you still want to "fix" them? - Noticing Peter's delay in answering, Pierce asked with some disappointment.
-I realise that some of them don't deserve help, but I was thinking, and wouldn't making them back into normal people save the lives they could have taken if they had superpowers? - Peter asked, looking at Ryan.
-You're right in some ways, but if you're so concerned about the deaths they can cause when fighting their spiders, wouldn't it be easier to just kill them? Well, it's a stupid question, but it was worth a try. - Pierce said humbly, looking at the teenager who disagreed.
-Then let's make a deal. I've been thinking about how you can repay me, and now I've made up my mind. I'll help you disarm all the escaped villains, and in return you'll give me half of the Iron Spider suit. As I understand it can self-repair from the resources around it, so you'll be able to restore half of the armour pretty quickly after I'm gone, and I could use some research on that technology. - Said Pierce, holding out his hand to Parker.
-But it's a gift from Mr Stark. - With doubt said Peter, after all he was in unpayable debt to Ryan, but the gift of a man who became to him something like a second father after Uncle Ben was very expensive.
-Peter, these technologies won't go to anyone in this world, and they can't be called particularly dangerous, because how long does it take to replicate the very basics? And the suit is designed for your superpowers and doesn't give any enhancement, and the extra spider legs don't look like a weapon of mass destruction. - Pierce was being a bit facetious, because just because the weapons aren't built in doesn't mean they can't be added afterwards. But the teenager, who had been through too many shocks during the day and was drowning in relief after the doctor's words, had had enough of Pierce's speech and shook Pierce's hand, dispelling his doubts.
-Great, so where are your friends hiding? -Where are your friends hiding? I need the exact address to know where to open the portal. - Said Pierce, taking a couple of steps aside to get some space.
-They've gone to Ned's house. - Said Peter and noticed how Ryan almost stumbled after he said that.
-I'm sorry I didn't hear you, you didn't say that your friends had a device coveted by many villains and decided to hide in your friend's house, did you? - Realising that the delirium was still raging, Pierce asked.
-Is that bad? - Peter asked excitedly.
-No, it's great news... for the bad guys. Peter, your addresses have been on the net for a long time and the villains who know who has the thing they want, having access to the Internet in a minute will know where to look for your friends. - Annoyed by the stupidity of teenagers, Pierce said.
-But if they see any of them, they'll press the button. - Peter decided to lower the voltage level.-Electro can navigate the power grid and it wouldn't cost him anything to fire two charges from the socket at the teenagers and while two bodies with stopped hearts are lying on the floor, take the cube. Octavius might be able to kill at least one of them, but with his intelligence and four manipulators, he'll just grab the cube before they realise they've already lost. And the Lizard is brutal and willing to spill rivers of blood on the way to his goal. Don't look at his size, he's very agile and fast, so tearing teenagers into four pieces is a matter of seconds. - Watching the pale Parker finished listing ways to dead most likely already dead teenagers Pierce.
-Peter take Osborne, I'm a more flexible unit and I can't be distracted by him too. I'll throw a light optical distortion on us, my skills won't be enough for full and long invisibility, so we'll have to cover the distance from the portal to the house in less than a minute, yet the tapes that can hold a super soldier are quite costly. - Said Pierce starting to open the portal.
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Once inside we found no corpses, no destruction, no villains, but there were two Spiders from other worlds who had travelled here to return escaped villains to their comfortable coffins. Maguire and Garfield were chatting peacefully with Peter's friend and only his MJ was looking at the two men in spider suits with a healthy paranoia. Peter here clearly needs to stick to such a girl, it is clear that all critical thoughts and the voice of reason in their pair come only from her, which was quickly confirmed by Parker just in a second relaxed at the sight of his doppelgangers.
-Is everyone here, or are there a couple more Spiders on the first floor? - Entering the house through the unlocked door Pierce asked, drawing the attention of the people in the room.
-Who are you?! - The girl was immediately alarmed and quickly grabbed the cube in her arms, ready to press the button at any moment.
-Guys, it's a friend! - Replied Parker, who came in behind Pierce, pulling on his shoulder the carcass of Osborne Sr.
-You don't have to worry girl, judging by the structure of the cube and its base I want to disappoint you, only a magician can activate it. You have to energise it by pressing the button, which you just can't do. - Said Pierce, staring at the cube with his eyes glowing red for a few seconds, which obviously didn't give MJ any peace of mind.
-Norman? - Maguire asked in amazement, looking at the body stacked against the wall.
-Yeah, your Osborne has decided to confront another spider, but at least this time he's decided not to try to recruit it. - Said Pierce, and receiving a surprised look in return, he nodded towards Parker, blaming all explanations on him, and headed for the cube.
-Peter, explain to the future head of your family that I'm not going to stay in this world any longer than I have to and that I can take down the whole red and blue trio if I want to. - Pierce said a little irritably, when, at his attempt to touch the cube, the girl stepped back against the wall and glared at him with an even more suspicious look.
-Peter, can I trust him? - Asked the girl, keeping her gaze on the guy standing in front of her.
-Yes! -He saved Aunt May. - Parker said confidently, suppressing some of the girl's excitement, and she reluctantly handed the cube into Pierce's hands.
Exploring the cube in a corner of the kitchen Raine listened to the conversation between the Spiders and Peter's friends, but at one point he almost dropped the cube when he heard the explanation of the reason for the two other friendly neighbours being in the house.
-Stop, what have you done?! - Pierce interrupted the guy wailing about the awesomeness of feeling like a wizard, bursting into the conversation.
-Have you waved your hand and wished to see Peter? - Asked rather than confirmed, the lad was confused by the reaction of the alien who'd arrived with Peter.
-Are you Agamotto's bastard son? - Pierce asked, trying to put together a scattered picture of the world. Raine had already begun to doubt what was going on after his conversation with Peter in the hospital, but this moment had finally put the idea in his head that this was definitely not the original MCU. He was becoming more and more convinced that this was most likely some offshoot of the main timeline with a side effect of the mind stone. There was no other way he could explain the reasons for what was happening. It all seemed too crazy. A military man with experience, who had travelled to many countries deliberately undermining the authority of the government and telling people that they were starving only because of the greed of politicians. Wanda's too drastic psychological shift, Pepper's inaction in a situation where Beck can be debunked with a single personnel file, and the complete breakdown of contact with Peter. Stupidity of Strange, some purely childish gullibility of Parker recently almost died because of faith in the wrong person and as a final touch Supreme wizard of the earth is still unable to escape from the mirror dimension. Each new event could be perfectly explained by the general insanity due to foreign influence. And after all he had checked the history and everything had been fine before the snap, this horror had only started to happen after his return. Immersed in thoughts of peace, Pierce ignored Leeds' outrage at his mother's dishonesty and the Spiders' continued conversation about their worlds. He would have continued to wallow in illogic and delusion had it not been for the threatening laughter from the street that caught the attention of all the teenagers chatting.
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