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

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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."

Comments

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Peter sends him a lopsided smile before he nods in answer. His dad really was a Big Scientist, and then he went and died in a big plane crash, leaving Peter behind for some unknown reason. He poked into it all, questioned it.

"Yeah? I'd love to see it. I mean, I'm into all science really so I'd be into any kind of science you had set up there. What got you into nuclear physics?"

[hugedork]

Bruce chuckles softly and shrugs. "I guess I like solving really big problems."

A lot of things had drawn him into his field, but he's not sure if he could pinpoint just one. His skillset and the way his brain is wired had always seemed to lend itself so easily to his chosen field that he couldn't be sure if he'd chosen the field or the field had chosen him. He's good at what he does and he'd really liked doing it before the incident.

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There's something about that answer that makes Peter smile slow, leaning bit a back on his heels as he laughs. "That's a really good reason. Those are some pretty big problems."

Despite Peter's enjoyment of science, he never really considered going into it himself. Well, he never considered what would happen after high school really. He's too lost in the past and now he's lost in the current stage of being Spider-man.

[hugedork]

"Too bad it didn't equip me to find a way out of Wonderland." It's not bitter, because there isn't anything that could have given him those skills, but it's hard to not wish that it had.

"Not that that's stopped me from trying."

[saved]

"Yeah, hard to prepare yourself for magic when you come from a world that doesn't believe in it," Peter says with a light smirk and then he shakes his head, shoving his hands into his pockets. He looks curious now though.

"What sort of stuff have you tried?"

[hugedork]

"I'm stuck on trying to figure out how this place ticks before I can even begin to look for a way out of it. The function of everything is... so different. It's unlike anything I've seen." It's almost exciting to be dealing with something so new and unheard of, but there's a lot at stake. If someone gets hurt because of him, he can't let it be because he was stalling on his exit.

[saved]

Peter nods because it makes sense from what he has heard. "It's all magic based, right? I never... even believed magic was a thing back in the world I came from. I mean, maybe it was and I didn't know, but..."

He was too busy defeating giant lizard men and chasing after metaphorical ghosts to examine it.

[hugedork]

"It's all magic, but there's got to be some scientific rules that govern magic. That's what I'm trying to figure out. I've gotten data from a lot of the magic users here." Not that he's any closer to understanding it, but someone has to do it.

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"Hmm. Wouldn't the rules of magic change based on the world someone came from? So the key is figuring out the rules in this universe, which would help to have data from other worlds too," Peter says thoughtfully as it might help point them in the right direction. "Wonder if there are different universes, how can you be sure any of the rules of a universe applies across them?"

What if science is different here from everything he has ever known about it?

[hugedork]

"I'd like to think that everything is governed by the same science, but this place has me seriously questioning that." In ways that makes him uncomfortable. "I've been trying to talk to people from different world, though. Gathering whatever information I can to put it all together."

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"Yeah, it's probably got some really wacky rules, but it has to be rules or it'd be in total chaos all the time. It's good you're gathering up so much information though," Peter says quietly, sliding his hands into his pockets. "Where are you from? I mean, what's your world like?"

He doesn't want to assume they're both from a place that has a New York City.