I had been noticing more and more what looked like gang members checking out the area around my shop and even going so far as to start depending money from people as they entered the area like there was a toll.
So I decided to fix that with what I do best, clockwork bullshit.
I put the last charge of the week into crime fighting so I knew the knowledge needed to fight crime before starting to design a new member of the N series.
This one modled after the my favourite hero/vigilante spider man. I built the body to look like his older comic counterpart from that new ultimates universe and designed his imaginary energy gear to be modled around the word spider, using impossibily small amounts of gravity manipulation he could 'stick' to walls like a spider.
But his spider sense is the real masterpiece in this whole process, see I used a similar principal to my imaginary energy gears by using the imaginary energy, which was the only energy of its kind the gear could use the connection that makes to make a temporal loop and send data back in time even if only seconds.
Now to anybody with any level of science knowledge would call that complete bullshit but you have to remember the original imaginary gear allowed its user to desync themselves from normal timeflow and move well past what physics would allow.
Anyway when I finished the imaginary gear and put the final touches into place I woke up Peter by winding the imaginary gear enough for it to start producing its own energy.
The first indication that something was wrong was when instead of waking up like a robot would (you know calm and slow as it adjusts itself) Peter instead snapped awake and immediately back flipped off the table and onto the roof with eye that didn't seem to really be seeing anything.
"Where am I" he hurriedly asked as he seemed to reach for a mask that wasn't there.
"My lap, I just finished building the body that I'm guessing you soul just possessed" I answer and to be honest that was the only thin I could think of that would explain his already developed personality and seeming want to put on a mask that this body never wore.
"What do you mean body you built are you some kind of mad scientist" I sigh at the question, not because it was dumb but because it pretty much confirmed my suspicions.
"No I was building an atomaton to help make the area around my homeless shelter and my other atomaton's clinic safer" I answer flatly as there wasn't really a reason to lie.
"Oh, well that's better than what I thought but what do you mean possessed, is this not my body" he asks as he drops down onto the floor next to me as he starts to poke and prodd at his own body, "feels real to me" he mutters so I simply poke his chest right above his heart and the panel covering his chest pops open allowing him to see his own internals.
"Wow that is freaky" he says as he god to stick his own hand into his chest but I smack his hand away with a simple 'no'.
"You aren't freaking out as much as I expected" I tell him and he just shrugs and says it's not the weirdest thing to happen to him when suddenly there is a note stuck to his forehead.
"Huh thanks I guess" he says after giving the note a read before handing it to me. Apparently this spider man was dying and along with his whole universe but was one of the few versions that lived through worse than main line comic Peter so TOAL decided he would get another chance but couldn't be allowed to live in the Marvel universe because "cosmic bitching by the tribunal and others" so he found the nears body in a place he would be happy and just kinda yeeted him into it with the insurance that the first person he met would both help him and be his only chance of returning to his multiverse.
"Damn, thats rough buddy" I pat him on the shoulder comfortingly and motion for him to sit on the table for me to check up on him.
I grab a blunt knife I had and chuck it handle first at his head without warning as he goes to sit down, but before it could hit him his arm snached it out of the air.
"Well the precognition works properly I see" I tell him as I check that off the list but he does send me a small pout for my surprise attacks.
"Yeah but it's different than before, it used to be a feeling of danger with a bit of directionality to it but that was different. I knew what was coming and what it was before it even left you hand" I nod and explain.
"Yeah see what I disigned in a temporal feedback loop that sends all the collected data your body and mind process back to the moment it would be needed to either dodge the attack or at least parry it" he hummed and asked me to explain how it managed that, so I did as I walked through all the tests I needed which were a bit different from Chadwick's as Peter here is a combat specialised atomaton so he is quite a bit stronger and faster.
We chatted about some of the science he remembered and I talked about what I had learnt about the city head found himself in and explained about all the atomaton's I had made so far, I even invited Chadwick over and after explaining what happened that made Peter so different from him he was happy to discuss about all the medical knowledge Peter could remember about from his universe and Chadwick returned in kind