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(open) new york, i love you but you're bringing me down

Who: Peter Parker (and open)
Where: Directly in front of the mansion or the Library
When: February 22nd, afternoon
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Peter Parker arrives and gets a bunch of eggs to the face. Then he makes a mess in the library with books because what is coordination when you have not slept?

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Option A: Arrival in front of mansion

Here's a thing Peter Parker has just discovered: eggs are painful when they slip into giant cuts on your face.

Also, it is really hard to see through the waves of egg on his face. The carton sticks to his hand. All the eggs have fallen out of the carton and landed on his face and around the ground underneath him. Yep. This is great.

Captain Stacy is dead. Dr. Connors is behind bars. Peter Parker gets to walk away from it all and go home like he didn't get into a huge battle with a giant lizard on top of a skyscraper, like he didn't get Gwen's dad killed in the process. All Peter wanted to do was get his Aunt May the eggs she kept asking for before heading back to her with more blood and scrapes and no answers. He bought the eggs and climbed a wall, and then all of a sudden, he's landed smack dab on his back with the entire egg carton shoved into his own face.

"This day... cannot get any worse."

He rubs at his face which also hurts and then sits up abruptly. The world spins because of it. He has a bullet wound in his leg. His face and chest are covered in scratches and bruises. The spandex is still on under his clothes. Peter blinks as his vision finally clears, and he abruptly realizes he is... not in New York City. It's too green for the area of New York City he had been in, and even if it was Central Park, he can't hear the cars. Where are all the cars? ...and why is there a... mansion? Kinda? Does he have a concussion? It's hard to focus.

It's with an abruptness he realizes he is not in New York City at all, but in... some place else with eggs on his bloody face.

He lets out a sudden huff of air, almost too exhausted to be as shocked as he could be.

"...just kidding."

This day just got so much worse.

Option B: Library

Once he has cleaned himself up but failed to like sleep so he's a little wired by lack of it after such a long battle, Peter Parker has decided the best place to go for information is always the library except he can't quite find what he needs here. His hair sticks up every which way. He has piled the books up so high that he has to narrowly dodge to avoid running into someone coming the other way.

Remarkably, only one book falls from the very top, and he manages to grab hold of it before it hits the floor... but then the rest of the books piled in his other arm topple over and land all around him.

He's not at his best spider-ness since arriving, still out of sorts. He presses his hand to his face. "...please tell me nobody saw that."

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The reaction doesn't surprise him, in fact it makes Billy smile. "Sorry, I didn't mean to just spring that on you. Just back home, in my world, Peter Parker is Spider-man. So, I took a chance?"

"...It's okay. This is new. I heard about alternate versions of people being a thing here," Peter says, and he shakes his head as he tries to process again. Nope. It's really hard to process. "And that Peter is just out with it like no secret identity or are you close enough to him to like... know?"

"Yeah its...its still hard to wrap my head around too and I knew about alternate universes before I got here. It's like time travel, best not to think about it too hard or you'll drive yourself crazy."

Billy stops himself before he starts going on about time travel too, one thing at a time. "We're not really close, we've fought together a few times, he's an Avenger, I'm a...honorary Avenger? His identity was a secret for a really long time."

Peter has to bite down on his lip to keep from asking about time travel. There is so much to comment on here, but time travel. He files that away to ask Billy about later.

It kind of sounds like they were team mates if they fought together. As far as Peter knows, he is the only super powered person around in his universe who isn't like a bad guy. He'd love to have someone else to share that responsibility with. A team sounds awesome, and Peter was on a team. That Peter was anyway. "What's an Avenger?"

Well that's a good question, one Billy can definitely answer, because he's a nerd and he might have this memorized. "The Avengers are a team of people with super powers or just special abilities that "fight the foes no single hero can withstand". We keep the world safe from threats and super villains."

Peter lets out a low whistle at the answer, shaking his head at the thought. It all sounds so much bigger than him. "Geeze. That's... amazing," he says quietly. "I'm the only person with super powers where I'm from at least as far as I know. So that means you have super powers too?"

It's clear by his tone that he thinks that is amazing, but he is trying to hold back and be cool about this. Spoilers: Peter Parker is never cool.

Billy can kinda guess how Peter is feeling. It is so much bigger than them and Billy lives it. Sometimes he still doesn't know how any of his life happened. It will always feel a bit surreal. Peter's question turns his grin a little bashful. It seems like he's being asked this a lot lately. Not that he minds...sometimes it makes other people nervous though. "Yeah, I do."

Billy is also trying to act cool but he's talking to Spider-Man. He's trying very hard not to act like a fanboy, which is what he is. He really wishes Teddy was here so he had someone to freak out to later.

Peter would be completely shocked to think anyone had trouble acting cool around him, but it is mainly because he does not think much of himself or much of Spider-man. It is all so new right now. He tilts his head to the side as he catches sight of the bashful grin on the other guy's face.

"You don't have to tell me about them if you don't want to. It's just- It is kind of seriously amazing to me. I mean, I thought I was-" alone.

The sentence cuts itself off, but the word seems to drift out in the space between them nonetheless. Peter swallows and then shrugs.

Billy will show him some comics one day- as long as it doesn't freak him out.

"No, it's not that. Just- not everybody really likes people with powers in my world. It can freak some people out." He's more than happy to use them, he just likes to gauge who he's showing them to first. He pauses and thinks a minute. Before he can change his mind his eyes are glowing a cerulean blue and one of his hands is as well. In an instant he's holding a book and the blue glow fades just as fast as it appeared. He glances at the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, before holding it out to Peter.

"I can bend reality, most people call it magic. There are a lot of people here with powers or abilities, it's well, you're not..." Alone? "The only one at least not here."

It won't freak him out too bad, and Peter will appreciate having a heads up about people maybe already knowing who he is because they have read about him or seen a movie.

"Oh." People with powers is so new in his world as far as Peter knows. He has barely gotten a taste of how people react to it. Captain Stacy used to think he was a menace. Other people thought he was cool, and obviously everyone was scared of the Lizard Man, but who can blame them for that? "That... must seriously suck especially since powers can be kinda hard to control at least at first."

He really struggled to get a hold of his, and he remembers how those people on the subway thought he was a freak. Peter quiets though as Billy starts to use his powers. His mouth parts, and the smile on his face tugs a bit wider as he watches. Peter takes the book from him with a tiny wondrous laugh which escapes him in his amazement.

"That is amazing. Seriously. Thanks for like... sharing that with me since it helps. Y'know." To not... be alone with the whole powers thing.

Billy nods. "Yeah, it kinda does. I mean, there are a lot of people in my world who have powers and its a lot better than it was but there are still people who don't like it. We still feel like we need to hide." Especially his powers, they could go off without him meaning to.

He shoot Peter a grin. "No problem, it helps knowing there are other people with weird abilities. Are are a few people here who can do things. We uh, train, in the big training center on the first floor. If you ever want to stop by. If you want people to know. I won't mention who you are if you don't." A secret identity is a serious thing.

"You have to be careful. I was told I'd get enemies because of my powers, and that I should keep my identity secret to save the people around me," Peter says, and given the way people around him tend to die, he can't say it was bad advice really.

He smiles back as he shifts on his feet in that awkward, restless way that Peter Parker has a habit of being. "Really? Okay, uh. Thanks. I will check that out. If it really is a thing where so many people have their powers, maybe I can... get used to it, but I appreciate you keeping it a secret in the mean time."

Because he is just... not used to it yet.

"Yeah, uh, that definitely can happen." Especially to Peter, Billy could probably name every villain that likes to go after Spider-Man. Because he's a giant nerd. "There's always heroes who keep their identities a secret and then heroes who chose not to." And then there was a war fought over that very issue.

"You can always wear your uniform too, if you wanna keep it a secret." Billy shrugs, Peter isn't the only awkward one. "Or you don't have to at all, up to you, I just wanted to give you the option. Once you get settled in. There's also a movie theater and a coffee shop and things that have nothing to do with having powers."

Peter winces but nods when Billy confirms that it can happen. "Which one were you? I mean, is your identity a secret back where you're from?" He doesn't know if he would be able to ever be open about it especially as the only one in his world, but-

He bites down on his lip before he nods. "That's a good idea. Might start out that way even if that will probably gain me more attention." Spider-man is good at handling it anyway. "Huh. For this whole being kidnapped thing, they like to make sure we're comfortable."

Billy nods. "Yeah. At least it is to the greater population. My team knows my real identity as do the other Avengers and some other heroes." It's still a sore subject in his world, even after SHRA collapsed and years have passed.

"Well you shoot webs, that would catch attention in costume or out." Billy shoots him a smirky grin. "Oh don't worry, they don't keep us comfortable for long. One minute everything seems totally normal and the next we wake up in a fenced in compound with zombies pawing at the gates. Whatever magic runs this place it likes to take memories from our own worlds and throw us into, what we refer to as events, about every other week." You missed the zombies, Peter, lucky.

Peter nods at that, remembering to keep what he knows about Billy a secret even if he is likely more open about all that here. Wonderland seems like the kind of place where people don't have to worry about that as much.

"Yeah, not exactly subtle with the web shooting," Peter says with a little laugh at the sight of Billy's smirky grin. "...zombies? Are we talking the really slow kinds of zombies or the newer, faster versions of zombies? I mean, it sucks either way, and for the record, I am really, really grateful I am only hearing about this and not having had to experience the zombie wave for myself." He is good with never, ever meeting zombies. "Events. Has it ever done an... event from your world?'

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"They were slow. Or at least no faster than the average person, we could outrun them. It wouldn't have been too bad if we weren't suddenly stuck in this small fenced in village with little to no supplies. Sometimes this place can turn itself into a whole other world." He hated those events, well most of them. He might have missed those zombies, but there could always be more. Best not to mention that on Peter's first day though.

Billy shakes his head. "No, nothing from my world, at least not since I've been here. I don't really know how it works. We did get one from a similar world once. Ever hear of HYDRA?"

"...wow, the whole world can just change so completely until it's different." Peter shakes his head, and he tries to remind himself. Magic. It's a whole new world, and he's trying to figure out what that means, but he wonders if that is even possible in a place that can change so abruptly.

He bites down thoughtfully on his lip and then shakes his head. "No. I'm... really new to all this-- y'know having powers and fighting bad guys, like a few months," Peter admits. So maybe they're in his world, he just hasn't heard about them yet.

"Yeah, its...well its kind of hard to wrap your head around until you see it." Hearing about it but then living through it were two very different things. He hoped Peter's first event was relatively harmless, like his. Billy's first event involved an infestation of puppies.

Billy nods, no HYDRA, that seems like a nicer world. "They are an evil organization started during World War 2, but yeah, we had an event with them." Brainwashing. Billy almost manages to suppress the shudder at thinking about that event, brainwashing Tommy and then what happened with Teddy... in hindsight not the event to bring up.

Peter nods with a little worried expression which doesn't last very long on his face. He hopes his first event is relatively tame too but with the mention of zombies and Billy's talking about the event from his own world-- He doesn't think he believes there are tame events.

Some might just be easier than others.

He looks at Billy, and there's some concern clear in his expression as he shoves his hands into his pockets. "What happened?"

Billy frowns, thinking of a way to explain it without going into too much detail. "Some of us were brainwashed to believe that we were True Believers and that HYDRA was the answer, we thought we were their agents and we tried to brainwash the other residents of the mansion...by whatever means necessary. So some people tried to stop us." And that's all he's saying on the subject. Mostly because he's sure Peter doesn't want to hear his issues about being killed by his (ex?) boyfriend.

He shrugs it off. "But that was awhile ago, it's done now."

Peter's mouth drops, and then he lets out a little hiss of a breath before he shakes his head, because it sounds- That sounds more than a little bit terrible. He glances down at his feet.

"That sounds terrifying honestly to not have any control over yourself to the extent you're hurting other people," he says quietly, catching sight of the way Billy shrugs. Peter's used to shrugging stuff off so he doesn't press more than that. He just sends him a lopsided smile. "I'm glad it's done, and you're free from that event at least."

"Yeah..." Billy trails off but then Peter is smiling and Billy is returning it. "I am too. Things have been better since then. Anyway. If you have any questions about anything I'll be happy to answer them, as best as I can anyway. There's still a lot here even I don't understand."

Moving on from the horrible and going to the not quiet as horrible seems like a good idea.

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