Swallowing The Spider

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My parents are dead and... It's my fault.

They both took a day off from work to spend time with me. But I had already invited Gwen over so I told them to use the time for themselves, maybe have a date.

They didn't want to, they thought that they should get back to work but I didn't want them to. They love me so much and I thought it would be good to have some time for themselves so I bought two tickets for a romantic movie and forced them to go to it.

They didn't even make it to the movie theatre. It was broad daylight and some jackass was drinking at 2 in the afternoon, he veered off of the road and crushed my fathers insides against a lamppost. My mother meanwhile had her torso peppered with shards of glass, she bled out slowly on the sidewalk.

I don't even have someone to blame, the driver also died in the incident. He didn't have any family and had just been fired from his job as a janitor. What am I supposed to do, vow to rid the city of drunk driving?!

I have all this RAGE and HATRED built up inside me and I have nowhere for it to go. I loved them... They spent 12 years loving me unconditionally, if you don't end up reciprocating that then your a heartless bastard.. and I'm not heartless.

This was my fault. I sent them to their deaths. I shouldn't even exist. If I didn't exist they would still be alive. Whose to say that I ain't a bad omen. I'll probably bring death to anyone else I get closed to. GWEN! Gwen is gonna die from being exposed to my unnatural presence. When my soul came here I probably bought something with me. No one just dies and comes back to life Scot free, there is always some price to pay. My price is that all of my loved ones in this universe will probably die. I know it's irrational and illogical but the thought won't leave my brain.

Wait... THIS UNIVERSE! What if I went to another universe? The laws and physics of universes differ but the marvel universes are too similar, I would need to go to a completely different multiverse. I've always wanted to go to the DC universe and now seems like a good time to start preparing. There's not much left for me here anyway.

I'm going to build a machine to cross universes and I'm going to start now. I don't know how long it will take but I will never be able to have a proper life in this universe. I have seen many different versions of dimensional travel in my last life in forms of fiction and everyday I get stronger and smarter, surely I'll be able to make a machine with all these references inside my head.

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It's been 3 years and I am in my second year of high school and I have no friends. I'm just that weird loner who aces all his classes, skips most of his classes and doesn't talk to anyone and just glares at them. People tried to bully me in my first year but I put a stop to that straight away, what's funny is that even though I don't talk and ignore everyone, most of my day is spent with Peter Parker. He tries to talk to me but I just ignore him, he only sticks around me because Flash is scared of me after I kicked his arse in the first year. That's why I don't call him a friend, he just uses me as a buffer zone between me and his bullies except for when I'm skiving off.

That doesn't mean he's not trying to be my friend, he spends most of the time with me talking about science and his ideas which I listen to, he's even told me how he's making a super adhesive which I know will be web fluid in the future. Because I don't talk to anyone he's a lot more confident around me and he's confident to tell dumb jokes which he doesn't have the confidence to say out loud to anyone else. Who knew that it wasn't the spider bite that gave him his bad sense of humour.

After my parents died.. Earl was my new guardian and in charge of all my assets but Earl is loyal and listens to me. I ordered him to sell everything we own, even the mansion and all our assets for the highest price possible. I kept the stock in Stark Industries though I did sell 11% for the highest price possible back to Tony Stark, effectively giving him the majority in the company(which boosted the price a lot) and keeping 25%. The quarter of Stark Industries I own will continue to generate money and give me a stable income so I don't have to worry about anything and focus on my research. We bought a little house in Queens which had a secret bas.e.m.e.nt where I do all my experiments. I sold it all because making a machine, that breaches the barriers between dimensions, costs money.

Gwen.. Gwen and me don't hang out much these days. We are still... I don't know what we are. For the last three years she has been coming to my house and dragging me away from my research to get fresh air. In my first year of high school she came over one time and we ended up having s.e.x and losing our v.i.r.g.i.nities to each other. We never defined what we were but we had s.e.x pretty regularly for the rest of that year. But at the end of the year she told me that she tested out of school and aced all her exams, she was going to ESU. She went to ESU while I started my second year at Midtown, since then we don't see each other that much, but she still comes over every once in a while and we have s.e.x. I don't know what we are, but I don't think it's serious.

I've gotten stronger over the last 3 years, I've completed all of the training Earl gave me and he says he has nothing left to teach me. I've really cracked down in the last 3 years, my body is at the physical peak that it is capable of and thanks to my weirdness I can heal ten times faster than the average human. My IQ has also increased tremendously, I understand all of the things that Peter talks at me about and can even see where he's made some mistakes and apparently Peter is one of the smartest people in the entire Marvel Multiverse. It's to be expected that I'm this clever, I spend most of my time trying to crack dimensional travel that spans from one multiverse to a completely a completely different one. A lot of knowledge of different subjects is needed for that but I do it, I even make sure that I'm not getting behind in other subjects and I can safely say that I am outclassing Tony Stark when he was my age and that too with a broader knowledge base.

I almost forgot, one of the reasons Peter sits near me is because Mary Jane Watson has a crush on me and regularly comes over to chat with me and sit with me though she doesn't get much response. Thought if there's one thing I've learnt about MJ it's that she's stubborn and persistent, she's made it her life goal to make me show more emotions through any means necessary, even up to flashing me a bit of cleavage every once in a while though that affects Peter more than it does me. I've really m.a.t.u.r.ed after my parents death, it put things in perspective.

Anyway today we are going to Oscorp, it's the failed day that Peter is going to be bitten by a spider and become the Spider-Man. I'm not planning to interfere with it, I think every Marvel universe needs a Spider-Man preferably Peter Parker. I might snag the spider at the end though to do some experiments in, I mean it gives powers through a bite, of course I'm gonna get curious.

I'm currently on the bus next to Peter who is currently talking about some new Lego models that are out or something and I'm sat across from MJ who peers over some times and gives me a sultry smirk.

Sigh... It's gonna be a long day...