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Midtown High
Ventus was sure that the music he heard had continued playing as they went all the way back to Midtown High, where they were going to use the labs there to develop the remaining cures that they needed for Osborn, Flint, Electro, and Connors. It was still well into the night, with the entirety of the sky still black and showing very few stars (since it's New York), and they let themselves in.
The group went through the school and entered one of the school labs for them to put together the components and cures that they would need for the remaining villains. Once in the lab, Andrew removed his gloves before grabbing a lab coat. He slipped it on as Peter poured out the pieces and components of the cures onto a table.
"Okay, so, uh..." Peter slowly said. He grabbed some of the pieces on the table. "Connors, Marko, Dillon, and um..."
Tobey and Andrew watched on either side of their younger Variant, each of them looking at the pieces on the table.
"Look, I think I can repair the devices for Dillon and Marko, but the others..." Peter said, looking not completely sure of his own abilities. "I..."
"Oh, I got Connors," Andrew announced. He grabbed a glass vial and tossed it up into the air, catching it again. "I've already cured him once, so it's no big deal."
He held the vial and his hands and looked up at his Variants, seeing them looking at him.
"What; it's no big deal," Andrew assured them, his shoulders raised since he was curious about the looks they were giving him.
"Technically, Gwen finished the serum and he and I used it to cure Connors and the people he had started to turn into lizards," Shiny-2 admitted. "But, we were the ones to make up the recipe for the serum."
"There was a lot of body horror in your guys' movies," Ventus admitted with a wince, looking at Andrew and Shiny-2.
"It was all pretty gross, yeah," Shiny said, thinking about Connors, the other people that got turned into lizards, and what he had seen happen to Harry that turned him into Goblin. "But, the point stands, we can get it done."
"Great," Tobey said, getting Peter to look at him.
"Yeah, that's great," Peter agreed, looking at Andrew.
"Hey, real quick," Shiny-2 said, looking over at Shiny-1. "I just have to ask... How did we lose our eye?"
"Y-yeah, that's been on my mind the whole time, too," Harley said, Peter, Ventus, Ned, and MJ nodding in agreement with the sandy haired boy.
"Oh, it was crazy," Shiny-1 admitted. "You remember Xantivas?"
"That clone of V?" Shiny-2 asked. "The guy's been dead for years. Roxas cut the prick's head in half with a lightsaber near the end of their first journey."
"You guys have lightsabers in your universe?" Peter asked, he, Andrew, Tobey, Harley, and Ned looking excited at the thought.
"Okay, there's the big difference between our universes," Shiny-1 said, looking at Shiny-2. "Xantivas lived a lot longer, many more years after escaping us a lot. Eventually, Roxas and I ended up creeping through an army of mutant monsters, trying to escape when he had been drained of his powers. Xantivas found us and tried to kill us, but Mordecai impaled him and killed him."
"Whose Mordecai?" Shiny-2 asked with a frown.
Shiny-1 looked at him.
"I suddenly do not envy your universe," Shiny-1 commented. "Mordecai's awesome."
He sighed out.
"Anyway," Shiny-1 said. "Mordecai might've impaled Xantivas, but the dude didn't die immediately, and he still had a gun in his hand. Just before he fell to the ground and was devoured by the mutants, the guy went off, and..."
He made his left hand look like a handgun. He then raised that up and pointed it at his right eye, mimicking firing it. Everyone winced, including Tobey, even though he had heard this story a few times.
"I looked like Carl from the Walking Dead," Shiny-1 admitted. "But using magic, we were able to save everything except for the actual eye. Luckily, my brother had a cybernetic replacement ready and waiting. It was underneath the robot hand, the arm, the leg, and the ear... don't know why he made that last one."
"Is it, uh... any different to have a robot eye instead of your human eye?" Ventus asked.
"There aren't any big differences," Shiny-1 admitted. "But it's a lot more high-tech. It allows me to see more possibilities of where I can see or shoot as it analyzes full situations. It also lets me see through various things, like walls and people and clothes." Everyone raised an eyebrow at that. "Don't worry. I'm a nice guy and don't use it against my friends and allies... Except for my girlfriend."
Shiny-2's eyes widened at the implications at that.
"I am suddenly very jealous of you," Shiny-2 announced.
"Same," Harley said, thinking about those implications.
"Story time can continue later," Andrew said, grabbing Shiny-2 by the shoulder and leading him towards another part of the lab. "Let's get to work."
"All right," Shiny-2 said, shrugging his shoulders and following his partner across the lab.
The two heroes from a different universe went over to a different desktop, while Tobey looked at the vial that had contained the half-finished Goblin cure earlier.
"I think I can make an antiserum for Dr. Osborn," Tobey announced. He looked at Peter before looking at the vial again. "I've been thinking about that for a long time."
"Yeah, the fact that Osborn's son blamed us for his death for... about five years afterwards kept it on our minds for a while," Shiny-1 admitted.
Peter had a small frown on his face as he looked down at the cure, thinking about Goblin and what he had done. Ventus looked up in concern at Peter, and Tobey and Shiny-1 quickly noticed the younger hero's expression.
"Gotta cure all of them," Tobey informed Peter once again. "Right?"
Peter looked up at Tobey, his face still slightly scratched and some red still surrounding his pupil.
"Right," Peter agreed, a slightly reluctant tone in his voice.
"And that's what we do," Tobey said.
"We help people," Ventus agreed, repeating his words from earlier. "It's just who we are."
"Hell, yeah," Shiny-1 agreed.
They all shared a small nod, before Tobey and Shiny-1 turned and started towards another part of the room. The two of them paused and stepped back as they ended up moving right in front of Andrew and Shiny-2. The groups dispersed and moved around, going to different desktops so they could work on their own respective cures.
Peter looked up to look at the others. Ned was at the door keeping watch through the glass window, making sure that they wouldn't be caught. Ventus stood across the table, waiting to help, while MJ and Harley looked at Peter with surprised expressions on their faces.
"What?" Peter asked.
"Just... three you's," MJ said, giving a small smile.
Peter turned and looked at his Variants as they worked on their cures, then smiled as he looked back at MJ.
"Yeah, I know," Peter said, finally smiling again.
"I-I'm curious," Harley admitted, frowning slightly. "Does this mean I have four brothers now?"
Peter also frowned in confusion, which quickly got Tobey and Andrew's attentions.
"I...I don't know," Peter admitted.
"You guys have another adoptive brother?" Andrew asked.
"Oh, yeah," Peter said, looking over at his Variants. "There's about four of us. "There's the two of us, then we have another brother, who's a synthezoid named Vision. Then we also have an adoptive sister whose five years old, and Vision is married to a witch named Wanda, which also gives us a sister-in-law." Tobey and Andrew looked at them. "We, uh... we have a pretty intricate family."
"Oh, join the club," Shiny-1 said, waving his hand at the two. "My grandfather's a 10,000 year old alien that gets off to killing people, and disciplines his children by killing them... they're all immortal, they just come back." He added that bit to stem their confusion. "Then, his equally sadistic son decided to rape a human woman."
"Mom," Shiny-2 said.
Harley, MJ, Peter, and Ventus's eyes all widened, and then they all winced.
"My brothers and my sister were all born," Shiny-2 explained. "Quadruplets. Then dad decided to separate them to keep some big prophecy from being fulfilled. Then, one of my brothers had some skin taken from his hand and put in a cloning machine, producing me."
"Then we all got together and killed dad and granddad," Shiny-1 said. "Of course, they came back, then granddad killed dad with an immortal-killing knife. Then an ally of ours made it so that granddad never existed. So... yeah, we've got some experience with crazy-ass families."
"Everything's the same with me, to every last detail," Shiny-2 said. "Honestly, your guys' family dynamic is probably completely normal compared to ours." *1*
Peter and Harley shared soft laughs, a little surprised from the words from the warriors from different universes. The two shared a look, nodding at each other to once again reaffirm themselves as brothers, then they decided to all go back to work.
Shiny-2 was with Andrew, and the two of them worked on the cure for Connors. Andrew grabbed a Midtown High thermos to carry the gas that they'd be creating again, they each slipped on some plastic gloves and grabbed eye-protection goggles, Andrew activated the burner, and Shiny grabbed the bottles of Toluene and Optima Methanol.
While they worked on their cure, Shiny-1 and Tobey sat another nearby table, working on a cure for Osborn. Wearing their own goggles and gloves, the two of them moved liquids throughout vials to work on the serum that would be used to restore the mind of the first supervillain that they had fought together.
Ned sat in a rolling chair and rolled it over, moving between the two groups to look at the Variants of his best friend. The young man looked between the two before looking at Tobey, since Andrew and Shiny-2 were standing together working on their cure for Connors.
"So..." Ned said, looking at Tobey. "Do you have a best friend, too?"
Andrew and Shiny-2 glanced over, curious. They both also remembered what all had happened with Harry during their second big "adventure" together (which Ventus and Harley had informed them was also a movie called The Amazing Spider-Man 2, much to Andrew's surprise).
"...I did," Tobey informed Ned, still working on the cure.
"Oh, man, I still remember him," Shiny-1 commented, crossing his arms and looking down.
"Y-you did?" Ned asked, confused.
Tobey was still working on the cure, but he was able to multitask with the young teen.
"He died in my arms..." Tobey informed Ned. "After he tried to kill me."
Tobey raised another vial to move liquid from a big cup to a new vial. While Ned had a surprised expression on his face, all while Andrew and Shiny-2 watched.
"It was heartbreaking," Tobey admitted.
"He's, uh... he's the one I mentioned blamed us for his father's death for about five years," Shiny-1 said. "He had just finally started to see the truth about what was going on when it happened. It was a pretty big tragedy."
Enough time had passed for the two that they had moved on from said tragedy, so they continued working on the cure for Goblin. Ned still had a surprised expression on his face, and Andrew and Shiny-2 looked at him in a condescending manner.
"Dude..." Andrew muttered to Ned.
"Come on, man," Shiny-2 agreed.
"He does this a lot," Harley informed the two.
Ned had a stupefied expression on his face as he looked at the tallest Variant of his friend, and looked forwards in pure shock. He pushed himself to his feet and walked around the desk, passing Ventus, who hatted him reassuringly on the shoulder, having heard this. Ventus stepped to the side and continued to watch and act like he knew what was going on, since he was still far from a scientist.
Ned walked around the other desks so that he was now across from his Peter at another one of the tables. The young teen looked across the desk to see Peter still working on the mechanics on the table, while Harley stood nearby. Peter looked up at his friend, then nodded at the laptop nearby on the table.
"Where were you?" Peter asked, looking at his friend before back down at the pieces of the cures. "Run a diagnostic." *2*
"Yeah," Ned softly confirmed.
The young teen reached forwards and pressed a few keys on the laptop, beginning the diagnostic. He then turned and started towards another side of the room. Peter watched him walk off with a worried expression on his face, having very little hope left that they'd all get through this without anymore casualties.
MJ stepped over to Peter and moved into the seat next to him.
"Hey, you okay?" MJ asked, getting Peter's attention.
Peter looked at her and blinked a few times in surprise.
"Uh, yeah, I'm fine," Peter assured her, taking her hands in his. "Are you okay?"
"Mm-hmm," MJ assured them.
There was a moment of silence as MJ looked at Peter, and he started to look down.
"You don't deserve this," Peter softly said. "I ruined your life..."
"No," MJ hurriedly said, placing her hands on the sides of Peter's face. "No, no, no. Look at me. I'm here. I'm not going anywhere."
"None of us are," Harley assured his adoptive brother. "Don't buy into Jameson's bullshit. The dude just has his own beliefs and is desperate to try to get everyone else to join him in those beliefs. Don't let a bad experience influence how you see yourself."
"Exactly," MJ told Peter. "Listen to your brother and your girlfriend, because we know you better than you know yourself. We're with you. We're gonna get through this, and we're gonna get through it together. Okay?"
Peter nodded his head, giving her a small smile. He looked over and shared a smile with Harley before he looked at MJ again.
"Okay," Peter softly agreed.
"Okay," MJ assured him.
MJ kept her hands on Peter, still being reassuring to her boyfriend. The two leaned forwards and pressed their foreheads together, sharing a moment that they both needed, especially Peter, after what happened throughout this night.
"Thank you," Peter softly and gratefully told her.
Harley and Ventus smiled at the couple's moment, which they had definitely needed after the last couple of days.
Across the room, Andrew watched the couple with a nostalgic expression on his face, missing Gwen even after all these years. Shiny-2 was standing right next to Andrew, and looked between the couple and his longtime battle partner. He quickly understood what was going through Andrew's head, and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder, showing that he was there for him.
Tobey and Shiny-1 quickly noticed the two, and figured out what was going on. Tobey and Shiny-1 looked from the couple, to the other versions of themselves.
"You have someone?" Tobey asked.
"I'm with a girl named River," Shiny-1 said. "Do you guys...?"
"I also have a River," Shiny-2 said. He cocked his head to the side and gestured to Andrew. "This guy, though..."
Andrew gave a small half-smirk, putting on a metaphorical mask and shaking his head as he glanced over at Tobey. He then looked forwards again and continued the process of transferring the gas of the Connors cure into the Midtown high thermos.
"No," Andrew confirmed, still working on transporting the gas into the thermos. He sighed out. "I got no time, for uh... Peter Parker stuff, you know?"
He looked up at Tobey with that half smirk still there, having a feeling that Tobey could understand.
"We can kind of understand," Shiny-1 admitted. "We've had our own share of problems involving our hero lives affecting our normal lives."
"Well, your Shiny somehow managed to keep some form of his second life," Andrew said, looking at Tobey. "Do you?"
"Uh..." Tobey said. He looked at his cure-in-progress, then looked to the side again. "That's a little... complicated."
"To say the least," Shiny-1 commented with a smirk.
"Oh, I understand," Andrew said, still working on transporting the gas. "I guess it's just not in the cards for guys like us."
"Well..." Tobey said. He looked over at Andrew as the slightly version of himself kept working with the thermos. "I wouldn't give up. It took a while, but..." Andrew looked from the thermos and back to the older version of himself. "We made it work." *3*
"Yeah?" Andrew asked.
"Yeah," Tobey confirmed. "Me and... MJ."
Andrew blinked rapidly and widened his eyes.
"Oh, my MJ, uh..." Tobey clarified. Both Shinys covered their mouths and smirked as Tobey gestured over to MJ, then looked back at Andrew. "It gets confusing here."
Andrew started laughing, and that gave Shiny-1 and Shiny-2 the cue to uncover their mouths and laugh out loud.
"Yeah," Andrew confirmed, still working on the thermos.
"Our lives are weird," Shiny-2 commented.
"Dude, that was never in question," Shiny-1 remarked.
Ventus and Harley stood to the side of the room, looking together at everyone else gathered in the lab. Ned was at one desk where a small collection of material and something boiling in a burner next to him. Peter and MJ were still sharing their moment together at their desk. While both of the Shiny's stood with their own respective Peters as they each worked on finishing the cures for their first supervillains.
"Three Peters," Harley commented. "This is something that no one's gonna believe at Thanksgiving."
"Well, between me and Roxas looking exactly alike, and how he and Xion are technically clones of Sora, it probably isn't gonna be that surprising," Ventus pointed out.
"Eh, maybe, maybe not," Harley admitted, shrugging his shoulders. "Whose to know, then."
"Tell you what," Ventus said, crossing his arms in thought. "Once this is all over, I'm heading to V's earth, Earth 475. I'm getting those movies involving these guys, and copying down information in those Marvel comics to find out more about a lot of our friends here. I wanna know if there's anything else we might end up experiencing in the future just because they were written out in those comics."
"Oh, please do," Harley requested. "I wanna see what I've done in those comics."
"I'll have to check," Ventus said. "Anything specifically I should look up for first."
"Uh..." Harley said. "I'll make a request. Get stuff for Tony and Peter, because I'm curious. But also get some stuff for Wanda and Vision."
Ventus looked at Harley with a curious expression on his face.
"I wanna see if there's anything I can use to mess with them," Harley admitted. He gave a small smirk. "You know, saying that they're weirder than me 'cause of something they did in the comics."
"Dude, everyone's done something weird in the comics," Ventus said. "I don't think I'll have to look very far."
Over at his desk, Ned looked up to see that the computer had finished running its diagnostic. He looked up towards Peter.
"Peter!" Ned called to get his friend's attention.
Peter, Tobey, and Andrew perked up and looked towards the teen. Peter jumped to his feet as he and his Variants looked towards Ned.
"Yeah?" all three of them simultaneously asked. Then they all looked at each other and pointed at each other, still speaking together. "Oh, sorry, do you mean..."
"D-I-Uh..." Ned stammered out. "Peter, Peter!"
"We're all Peter," Andrew said, the other two voicing their confirmation as they kept pointing at each other. "We're, we're all...
"Peter, Peter Parker?" Ned tried, very confused at this point.
"Same thing," the three versions of Peter said, still speaking simultaneously while Peter lowered his arms.
"We're all Peter Parker," Andrew said, holding out his arms to the sides. *4*
"See, this is why I just call you guys Tobey and Andrew," Harley said, gesturing to the two Variants of his adoptive brother.
"It's a stable system," Ventus agreed, shrugging his shoulders.
Ned sighed out in annoyance and reached forwards, gesturing towards the laptop.
"The computer!" he remarked.
"Oh!" Peter realized.
He hurried around to the desk to the laptop to check the results of the diagnosis. The others started removing their goggles and gloves, since they were also just about finished with their own cures for the other villains. Andrew also grabbed the thermos to check it.
"Oh, I'm done," Peter announced, checking the diagnosis to see that Electro and Flint's cures were finished.
"Yeah, me, too," Andrew announced, looking at the thermos in his hands.
"We did it once, it was pretty much cake to do it again," Shiny-2 emphasized.
"Man, I'm suddenly jealous we don't have a Shiny," Ventus commented to Harley. "Imagine how much easier it would've been to stop Mysterio if we had an Unleashed with us."
"Oh, yeah," Harley agreed, nodding his head at Ventus.
"Okay, so now, all we gotta do is lure these someplace, right?" Andrew asked, he and Shiny-2 stepping to the other side of the desk to look at the others better. Andrew sighed out. "Try to cure them while they try to... kill us, and then send them home."
He reached forwards, handing the thermos of gas to Peter as Tobey and Shiny-1 walked over to join them.
"Using a magic box," Tobey said, looking at the box on the nearby other desk.
"That's the plan," Peter confirmed with a tiny smile, and MJ nodded in agreement.
"Eh, we've faced tougher odds," Shiny-1 commented, crossing his arms as he and Tobey stood next to their Variants. "Heh. Somehow, we managed to get our Rivers back after we killed their dads."
Shiny-2 softly sighed out and nodded in agreement.
Literally everyone else looked at the two Variants and frowned.
"...You killed your girlfriend's dad?" Harley asked, looking at both Shinys.
"It's a long story," Shiny-1 and Shiny-2 simultaneously said.
"You are definitely sharing that later," Andrew announced, looking at Shiny-2.
"Yeah, so are we," Tobey said, looking at Shiny-1.
"So wait, are you gonna go into battle dressed as a cool youth pastor?" Andrew asked Tobey. "Or, do you got your suit?"
Peter placed down the thermos with the Connors-curing gas, and looked over.
Tobey reached up to the collar of his shirt and pulled it down slightly, revealing parts of a suit covering his collarbone. Andrew nodded, impressed.
"Okay," Andrew said, reaching to take off his lab coat and gloves.
"What about you?" Shiny-2 asked, looking at Shiny-1. "I mean, you're dressed as the coolest person at college, and while that's awesome, I don't think that it really fits the theme of battle."
"Relax," Shiny-1 remarked with a smirk. "Give me a second. And everyone watch your eyes."
Everyone frowned in confusion at that.
Seconds later, light appeared in the center of Shiny-1's chest, spreading up across his body and covering his arms and legs. Everyone was reminded of whenever Ventus had pressed the button for his armor pad as the light spread all across Shiny-1. That light surrounded everything but Shiny-1's head, and then started to glow really brightly, making everyone look away to protect their eyes.
The light died down for a few seconds, and once it was gone, everyone looked at Shiny-1 once again.
This other version of Shiny was wearing clothes that resembled robes that a samurai would wear. There was a black top with green trim that went up the front of his suit, reaching up with gold buttons that had the thunderbolt symbol on them at his shoulders. There were green straps with gold buckles on his sides, golden spiked shoulder armor, a green belt, and black pants that had more straps and buckles on the tops of his thighs, green straps around his knees that made X's, and black gloves, while a black hood with green lines was off of his head, a large hole on the front that would be for his eyes.
Everyone looked at Shiny-1, impressed with his suit.
"Now that is nice," Ventus said, impressed. "And a bit more intricate than my armor."
"I'll still admit that I can see why brainwashed Octavius thought that your armor was better than his suit, though, Ven," Harley admitted, looking at the blonde. "I mean, yours just has an edge that a samurai costume doesn't, even with the gold parts."
"How much did it cost you to make that?" Peter asked Shiny-1.
"I didn't," Shiny-1 informed him. "My brother used magic to make it appear out of nothing after he unlocked his full powers. It was pretty weird."
"Sounds like it," MJ agreed.
"You still got the thing?" Shiny-2 asked Shiny-1 asked.
Shiny-1 smirked and raised up his right arm. He then grabbed his sleeve with his left arm and pulled it down, revealing a large, leather strap that covered most of his forearm. Attached to that strap were little components that looked like grappling hooks.
"Uh, what are those?" Peter asked, confused.
"How do you think I stay up with Spider-Man?" Shiny-1 asked. "I can't fly and I don't have any flying machines, and while I can jump high, it's not enough. So, my brother made me these little grappling hooks with rope made out of a very strong, and very durable material that can carry my weight, and is enchanted to reach as far as I need to."
"Same with me," Shiny-2 said, raising up his own forearm to reveal those same little components on his suit.
He then laughed cockily and pointed a hand forwards. A hook extended across the large room, and this specific one had a tiny hand that grabbed a nearby water bottle. The rope retracted, going back into Shiny-2's arm guard. He caught the bottle, and held it up victoriously.
"I'm kind of a badass," Shiny-2 admitted, raising the bottle to take a sip.
"Clearly," Ventus agreed. "I suddenly really want those arm guards."
"You're fine," Shiny-1 assured him. "You don't need them."
"We can keep talking about this later," Peter announced. "Let's hurry up and figure out the rest of our plan."
"Here's your web cartridges," Ned announced, stepping forwards and handing said cartridges to Peter.
"Oh, thanks, man," Peter said, taking the vials as Andrew took off his lab coat.
"What's that for?" Tobey asked, curious.
"Oh, it's my web fluid," Peter said, holding up the vial. Tobey and Shiny-1 were both surprised at the sight of it. "It's for my web shooters. Why?"
Tobey decided to show why this confused him.
He pointed his arm towards a chair that was stacked upside down on a table, and a web shot out of his bare forearm, covering the desk chair in webs. Everyone jumped in surprise at the sight, with Andrew and Shiny-2 stepping back while Harley's eyes widened significantly.
"Whoa!" Peter shouted in surprise, while Ned went, "What the...!?"
Everyone looked back at Tobey, their eyes still wide.
"That came out of you," Ned said in surprise.
"That's a normal thing for you?" Harley asked, also surprised.
"Yeah," Tobey said, as if this was an everyday thing for him. He looked at Peter, who was also surprised. "You can't do that, huh?"
"No," Peter confirmed, shaking his head.
"I think you're the only one who does that," Ventus said.
"How on Earth does that even..." Andrew whispered, leaning forwards to look at Tobey's forearms in curiosity.
"That's so different..." Shiny-2 also whispered, leaning forwards to see for himself.
"Anyway, we're getting sidetracked," Peter said, waving his hand and leaning down to work on the computer again. "Look, this is where we're gonna do this, okay? It's isolated, so no one should get hurt."
He turned the computer around to show it to show the picture to his Variants. Andrew and Shiny-2 still looked at Tobey's forearm in curiosity, but the two of them, Shiny-1, and Tobey looked together at the picture that Peter had shown them on the computer so that they could get the information, as well.
"We draw them in with the box, that's the one thing they all want," Peter explained.
"We draw them right into our trap, and then we give them all their cures," Ventus quickly figured out. "Once they're all back to normal, then we finally press the button and send them all back home."
"Exactly," Peter confirmed. "All we have to do is figure out how we're gonna get there."
"Oh, we could portal there," Ned easily suggested.
"What?" Peter asked, frowning in confusion while Ventus also asked, "Huh?"
"I'm magic now," Ned eagerly told his friend.
"Yeah, no, no, he's right, yeah, he... he can," MJ quickly informed the two.
"Surprisingly, they're telling the truth," Harley said.
"Yeah, we saw," Tobey confirmed.
"Yeah, he is," Andrew confirmed.
"Brought all of us right to his Lola's place," Shiny-2 confirmed.
"It was pretty wild to see a portal that didn't involve falling twenty feet and then landing roughly on my ass," Shiny-1 agreed.
"Yeah, our portals kinda suck," Shiny-2 confirmed.
Peter decided to ignore the Variants of the clones and focus on the rest of it, looking over at his best friend with an amazed expression on his face.
"Wait, really?" Peter asked.
"Dude, I got Doctor Strange magic," Ned excitedly confirmed, stepping forwards to look at Peter in the face better.
"No way," Peter softly and excitedly said.
"Yeah," Ned confirmed. He reached up and pushed his goggles off. "And I promise you: I won't turn into a supervillain and try to kill you."
Andrew and Shiny-2 nodded in pride, once again remembering their experience with their own Harry Osborn. Andrew then reached forwards and patted Ned on the shoulder. Ned looked over, and the two heroes from a their own different realities gave him proud nods. *5*
Peter and Ventus frowned in confusion, not hearing that part.
"Okay..." Peter said. He looked from Andrew to Ned, still confused. "Thank you?"
"I know I get confused easily, but this is a new one," Ventus commented.
Ned smiled as he looked at Andrew, then back at Peter.
Peter and Ventus still looked confused as they looked at Ned, then back at the others, who were still ready for the upcoming battle against the villains from other universes. MJ had a similarly confused frown on her face, since she also hadn't heard the discussion between Ned and Peter's Variants.
"Um..." Peter said, looking down at the cures for Electro and Flint on his desk. "All right, here goes nothing."
He gestured to MJ.
"What's that thing you always say?" Peter asked. "'Expect disappointment, and you w'..."
"No, no," MJ said, holding out her hand at Peter. She looked around at the others before looking at Peter. "We're gonna kick some ass."
"...Yeah," Peter agreed, looking forwards with a smile.
"Yeah, we are," Shiny-2 agreed, nodding his head in agreement.
"Oh, yeah," Shiny-1 also agreed.
"Cure," Tobey corrected them all. "Cure some ass."
Andrew nodded in agreement.
"I can get behind that," Ventus said, nodding agreement.
"Cure that ass," Ned said.
"Ned, shut up," Harley said. He sighed out and looked at the teen that annoyed him before looking at everyone else. "Let's do this."
They all started preparing themselves for the trip to this place where they'd be fighting the villains, knowing that all of them would most definitely try to go out in a big fight before they actually accepted the cures. Along the way, Andrew and Tobey warned Peter about Goblin, informing him that he was the worst enemy that they ever fought because he always went after their loved ones. The warning well received, the team kept getting ready for one hell of a fight.