"Caught in the Web of the Spider."

I sighed, "I am...I was or rather, in my world, I was Spider-man. The original one. I didn't want to tell you who I really was because the version of me living on this world probably wouldn't want me too. But, since Ben figured it out," I smiled, "sorry for lying Franky, I honestly didn't mean anything by it."

Franklin narrowed his eyes, he turned to Ben, "you know this guy uncle Ben?"

Ben nodded, "yeah, he's the original web head alright. Though the lack of costume is confusing."

I shrugged, "got torn up into pieces, besides, which moron where's spandex as a costume?" I noticed Franklin's costume and sighed, "never mind."

"What's going on here?" came another familiar voice as a blonde haired man walked in followed by a green woman with lines running down her chin. He looked at me and stopped, "P-Pete?"

I grinned, "heya Johnny! Long time so see! Look at you, 40 years old and you still look like a moron. Isn't age supposed make you wise or something?"

Johnny blinked turning to Franklin before back at me. He sighed and rubbed his nose, "time travel or alternate dimension?"

I smiled, "alternate dimension. But I'm the same web head you know. Kind off."

Johnny sighed, "it's never easy with you."

May looked at Johnny and me, "you two are way to relaxed about this."

"You get used to it," we replied as one.

Franklin blinked as he landed next to May, "my family's so weird."

I looked at Johnny and then looked over his shoulder spotting the green skinned woman behind him wearing a purple version of the FF uniform. I blinked, "hey ah Johnny, don't want to alarm you, but the Grinch is behind you and she's wearing your uniform."

Johnny growled, "Peter, that's my wife!"

I blinked, I looked at her and then at him, "she's too pretty for you."

The woman chuckled, "I like him already."

"Peter, meet Lyja, she's a Skrull," Johnny said as she and I shook hands.

"A what? Is that a type of mutant or something?" I asked in fake confusion.

Johnny blinked, "you don't know about the Skrulls? Have they invaded your Earth yet?"

"No….should I be worried?" I asked eyeing Lyja.

"No, no….look, maybe it's time we talked to Reed," Johnny said walking away, "he'll know what to do."

I nodded as we all walked behind him, "so….never could grow that beard huh?"

Lyja smirked, "he tried to. I convinced him otherwise."

"Oh, this I got to hear."

We walked into Reed's lab, surprisingly the same one my version used. Johnny walked in and I was amazed at everything inside. I couldn't even begin to understand what these all did, but then again when it came to Reed he always was a few steps ahead.

"Johnny, Franklin, Ben, Lyja, what brings you to my lab," a robotic voice asked as I saw an android the size of my waist come floating down. It was grey, it looked like one of those grey aliens people always went on and on about.

I blinked, "Reed?"

The machine looked at me, there was no facial expression, I could only make out surprised by his tone of voice, "Peter? Is that you?"

"Alternate dimension," Johnny explained with one line, "think you can help him?"

Reed looked at me, "I shall try, please," he motioned me to a table.

I looked at him carefully as I hopped on, placing my helmet aside and waiting as Reed began to waver several different machines around him, each humming away.

"So….you're a robot?" I asked.

Reed nodded, "indeed. My human body perished, my brain was preserved and is held in this robotic suit."

"And….Sue's just like fine with that?" I asked.

Reed stopped for a moment before continuing, "Sue died trying to save me."

I was truly surprised that time, this little detail I didn't know. "What?"

"There was...an accident," Johnny explained, "she saved all of us."

"Girl had to go be a hero," Ben grumbled looking down in sadness.

I blinked, "shit….I'm going to have to my version about not being a hero then."

Reed looked at me, "you have a Sue Storm where you are from?"

I nodded, "yeah, and a Reed Richards and a Ben Grimm and a Johnny Storm. And your doppelganger on my Earth is the reason I'm here. Stupid moron built an inter-dimensional travel machine but made it so easy to hack it took Doom 10 seconds to break into the firewalls."

"I see. I apologize for his actions," Reed replied coldly.

"Forget it, I learnt a long time ago when dealing with Reed Richards you should forgive and forget. Makes life so much easier that way," I sighed.

Reed nodded. He turned to Spider-girl, "and what is you relation to Peter?"

May blinked in surprise, "ah, I kind of came to his world first. When I was chasing after Spyral, remember? He's the one who helped me come back."

"I see," Reed replied as he looked at me. He stepped back to his terminal and began typing away.

I turned to Franklin, "you have her hair."

Franklin blinked, "ah, thanks."

I smiled, I took out my phone and snapped a picture of them all, "when I show Sue this she is going to freak out. I can imagine it now, five minutes about how cute her son is and another ten minutes rambling about how unfair it is that her son has better hair then her."

"Heh, you're Sue sounds like a real firecracker," Ben chuckled.

I shrugged, "you're telling me."

"Wait, that's a phone?!" Johnny asked snatching my smartphone out of my hands.

"Hey! Watch it man!"

"This thing looks high tech!" Johnny said looking it over, "touch screen, camera and...hm, this is a much better version than anything we have in the market in our world."

"That's because our timelines are also out of sync," I said grabbing the phone back, "in my world the time is 2012, here it's 2008. Obviously our tech is also different in certain areas."

"Peter," Reed suddenly spoke up, "are you currently aware that your cells have been dosed with nearly fatal levels of radiation?"

"What?!" May cried out in shock.

Reed pushed a display monitor over, showing his reedings, and in the middle, in big bold words, was one string of words:

Blood Toxicity level: 89%

I sighed, "yeah...I know." The Mutant Spider project was killing me. The only reason I was still alive is because Logan's mutagene allows me to heal the damage the radiation causes. It wasn't...it wasn't fatal, but I was in danger.

"How are you not dead?!" Franklin cried out in shock.

I shrugged, "my body is siphoning out the radiation, I'll be fine."

"By my calculations, it will take ten months for your body to fully recover," Reed replied, "but I cannot understand why though. What caused this change in you Peter? It's highly irregular form our own version's powers."

"I'm not your version," I replied with a shrug, "my blood has a...unique property. I can adapt the power's of other people if I come into contact with an irradiated aerosol version of their blood. It allows me to adapt their powers, to a certain degree," I looked to May, the girl looking surprised.

"Any power?" Franklin asked curiously.

I shrugged, "as far as I know, yes. But it's sort of like a lottery. I don't get all of the original's powers, and it's usually not in the same manner. It's...not an exact science."

"I have good news and bad news," Reed's robotic voice cut in.

"Good news?" I asked.

"You passed through a chrono limited field. Your version of me obviously knew what he was doing. Anyone who passed through his portal machine would automatically return back to their original world. Nothing can stop that."

"That's great news!" May cried out, "you can go back no problem!"

"What's the bad news," I asked in a cautious tone.

"I cannot determine the time you have left remaining. It could be one day, it could be a year."

"What?!"

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