The Spectacular Spider-Man

Calm Before the Storm

The Peter Parker from this Universe just got off the phone with J. Jonah Jameson to lure the villains to you. Before that, you all assigned names.

Younger Peter: Okay, guys. It could be any minute now.

Older Peter: Yup. Almost done.

Peter: You know, Max was, like... the sweetest guy ever. Before he fell into a... pool of electric eels.

Older Peter: That'll do it.

Peter: All the things I wish I could've done things differently.

Older Peter: Well, to have a second chance.

The Older Peter leans against a nearby steel bar

Older Peter: And there it goes...

Peter: You okay?

Older Peter: It's just... my back. It's kind of stiff from all the... swinging, I guess.

Peter: Oh, yeah, no, I got a middle back pain, too.

Older Peter: Really?

Peter: Yeah. You want me to crack it?

Older Peter: Yeah. That would be great.

Peter: You ready?

He picks up the Older Peter's back and cracks it.

Older Peter: Yeah. That's good.

Peter: How is it?

Older Peter: Wow. That's good.

Peter: Right?

Older Peter: That's better. Yeah. Wow.

Peter: God, this is so cool. I always wanted brothers. We should do this again. Like, all hang out.

Y/N: It's nice.

Older Peter: We should maybe focus on...

Peter: ...on not getting killed tonight.

Older Peter: Yes.

Peter: For sure yeah. That's a good idea. I'll just grab all of your numbers at the end, of battle.

Older Peter: You got it.

Peter: So, you like make your own web fluid in your body?

Older Peter: I'd rather not talk about this.

Peter: No, I don't mean to...

Older Peter: Are you teasing me?

Younger Peter: No, no, no, no, no, no.

Y/N: He's not teasing you.

Younger Peter: It's just that... We can't do that, so naturally we're curious as to how your web situation works. That's all.

Peter: If it's personal, I don't wanna pry. I just think it's cool.

Older Peter: No. I wish I could tell you, but it's like, I don't do it... Like I don't... Like, I don't do breathing. Like, breathing just happens.

Peter: Whoa.

Older Peter: It's like when it releases. It's like a clean release.

Y/N: Can I ask something?

Older Peter: Yeah.

Y/N: Is it like, when you think it, it webs. You know what I mean?

Older Peter: That's a good way to put it.

Y/N: Cause we have a mechanism.

Older Peter: Right.

Y/N: But for you is it like, 'Web'. And it webs.

Older Peter: Not even conscious at this point.

Y/N: It's just like riding a bike.

Older Peter: Yeah.

Younger Peter: Like, does it just come out of your wrists, or... Does it come out off anywhere else?

Older Peter: Only... only the wrists.

Peter: You never had to web block? Cause I run out of webs all the time. I had to make my own lab. And it's a hassle.

Older Peter: That sounds like a hassle, yeah. But I did, actually, as you said that. I was like, oh... I had a web block.

Peter: W-Why?

Older Peter: Existential crisis stuff.

Peter: Yeah, don't get me started on that.

Older Peter: I'm not sure what to say. It's just a natural thing. It just happens. I don't know.

Peter: It's pretty cool man. I wanna see the holes.

Younger Peter: Hey, what are like, some of the craziest villains that you guys have fought?

Older Peter: Seems you've met some of them.

Peter: That's a good question.

Older Peter: I fought a... an alien... made out of black goo once.

Younger Peter: No way! I fought an alien, too. On Earth and in space.

Older Peter: Oh.

Younger Peter: Yeah. He was purple.

Peter: I wanna fight an alien.

Y/N: Me too.

Older Peter: I'm, I'm still, like... that you fought an alien, in space. I'm almost simultaneously really stunned by the fantastical nature of these things. And it's also just like, Yeah.

Y/N: Monday. It's just a Monday. I fought a guy who pretended to be Spider-Man once, did crime and everything. Jonah really loved that time.

Older Peter: I'm sure he did.

Peter: I'm lame. Like, I fought a Russian guy in a, like, a rhinoceros machine.

Y/N: That's cool:

Peter: No it's not.

Older Peter: Hey, can we rewind it back to the "I'm lame" part? 'Cause, you're not.

Peter: Aw, thanks. No, yeah. I appreciate it, I'm not saying I'm lame.

Older Peter: But it's just the self-talk maybe we should, you know...

Peter: Yeah, listen...

Older Peter: Please... You're... You're amazing. Just to take it in for a minute.

Peter: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Older Peter: You... You are amazing.

Peter: I guess I am.

Older Peter: You are amazing.

Peter: Thank you.

Older Peter: Will you say it?

Peter: No, I kinda needed to hear that. Thank you.

*Tingle*

Younger Peter: Alright guys, focus up. Can you feel that?

Older Peter: Yeah.