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

[saved]

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

[saved]

"I have, yeah," Peter lifts himself up on his feet a bit with a smile back her way. "I mean, I didn't hear about the Avengers in my world, but uh... Steve and Billy mentioned them to me. Here."

This has been an eventful first day already.

[araneidal]

Oh, Billy. That's deeply helpful.

'I'm from Billy's world,' she says. 'We're the only two. Anyone you've found from yours?'

[saved]

"I like Billy," Peter says with a smile. "But uh, no. I'm the only one from my world. Most people who know about New York City here seem to know about a version where aliens invaded. I'm just- Mine just had a giant lizard man."

[araneidal]

'A lizard man?' She frowns. 'Is his name Curt Connors?'

[saved]

Peter stares at her for a moment, because wait, is she from his world? But his world doesn't have the Avengers in it. It just has him... he's the only super powered person around. "Uh, yeah, actually. He worked with my dad at Oscorp. It's kind of what started everything."

[araneidal]

Natasha raises both eyebrows. 'Well,' she says after a moment. 'I can think of at least three people who'd be raring to pick this apart in terms of multiverse theory. There must be some overlap with ours.'

[saved]

"Yeah. I mean the science of it is pretty interesting, but... It's kind of harder to find it so interesting and fascinating when I'm in the middle of it. I'll let them do the... picking apart all of it. But it's weird to think of that overlap."

That someone else, someone who is an Avenger could have known about Dr. Connors. He was alone with it. He's- He doesn't know anyone else with super powers.