Spider-Man: no way home

C 7

"WHAT?! Hold on, find bad guys? Capture? Send back? To where? Peter I need a little more information than that. And how is MIT to do with any of this?"

"He screwed up a spell trying to get you into college"

I turn to Doctor Strange who is now at the top of the staircase.

"Wait what?"

MJ turns to Peter as does Ned and I.

"I thought that you asked the MIT administrator"

"You used magic?"

"Why am I not even surprised"

"No, that was after. Let's just focus on the good news okay?"

"No. Let's just focus on the bad news. As of now you've detected zero multiverse trespassers"

I am sorry muliverse trespassers?

The multiverse exists?

How is that even possible?

Scratch that why am I just finding out about this now?

That changes everything.

Does that mean that, that Spider-Man was from a multiverse.

That would make sense.

But how would he know me?

Didn't they say they were finding villains not heroes.

Unless that Spider-Man is a villain.

That can't be true, can it?

"So, get onto your phone and scour the internet and... Scooby doo this shit!"

"(Chuckle) you're telling us what to do, even though it was your spell that got screwed up, meaning that all this is kinda your mess"

Doctor Strange gives MJ a look, as do we all.

"You know, I know a couple of magic words myself, starting with the word please"

"Please Scooby doo this shit. You can work in the undercroft"

"The undercroft"

We walk down to the basement, otherwise known as the undercroft.

Ned turns on the light as he stares at the place in amazement.

"Badass"

I roll my eyes as I walk past him.

Peter and MJ following behind me.

"Okay guys about this whole spell thing"

MJ turns around facing Peter as I look around.

"It's totally okay"

"What really?"

"Yeah. I mean I get it. You were...just trying fix things and so maybe just run it by us next time you know. That way when you're thinking I'm about to do something that could break the universe we could like help you. Workshop something or ... brainstorm...  ideas."

Deal"

I walk up so I am standing next to MJ.

"Also when I tell you, hypothetically might I add,  that you could  go back  and change the outcome. Don't actually do it. I thought it was obvious that I didn't mean literally. No need to ask a very hot wizard to break the universe just for us to go to the same college just because we didn't get in the first time"

"Hot wizard?"

"So Hot. Like how you find these people. First your lawyer now him. Honestly at this point I would expect to see a hot multiverse trespasser"

"Oh. Uh okay. Ned?"

"Oh dude I don't care. Seriously not a big deal. Um... ohh a torture rack"

Ned then pulls one of the belts on what is obviously a Pilates machine.

"That is a Pilates machine"

MJ points at it.

"That is..."

MJ points further down the basement.

"The crypt"

"Okay."

I go to grab Ned as MJ and Peter make their way to the crypt.

"So we get the rest of the guys. We zap them. Doctor magic will send them back. And when we get into MIT, a round of stale donuts, my treat."

Ned and I stop as we reach MJ and Peter, now standing next to them.

"Let's catch some multiverse men"

"Hey! Who the hell are these three?"

A look to see a man with giant metal arms.

"These are my friends. This is MJ"

Peter points to MJ.

"This is Gwen"

Peter points to me.

"And this is Ned."

"Hello"

"I'm sorry what was your name again?"

"Doctor Octavius"

We burst out laughing.

He can't be serious.

"No, wait seriously, what's your actual name?"

"Oh is that a dinosaur"

I give Ned a look.

"That is clearly a lizard"

I motion to the creature as it looks at us unamused.

It looks at me the most as if recognising me.

Question is how?

I have never seen this creature before in my life.

Unless it's not me it recognises but another version?