"What makes humans human… is that we have our own code of conduct."
"When a person abandons morality and the sense of right and wrong—choosing only pleasure and profit—then isn't he actually becoming a slave to those very things?"
"To break free from them?"
"What does that mean?"
Peter stood there, silently repeating the Ancient One's dying words to him.
No matter how he turned them over in his mind, he could only feel that the Ancient One must have seen something in the future—something she was warning him about.
But what was it?
He stared blankly at the glittering lights of the city in the distance.
New York—the city that never sleeps.With its 24-hour subways and restless crowds, even at this late hour the city glowed like daylight under countless lights.
Yet because of the Ancient One's time-freezing spell, the whole world was suspended at this moment.Only faint ripples of strange energy shimmered in the sky above—perhaps the mysterious forces of other dimensions, the very sources of a sorcerer's power.
"I'll take you back,"said Strange, stepping out of the wall.
After speaking with Peter, the Ancient One had asked him to summon Strange—she still had something to tell her disciple before she passed.
"All right. Thanks, Strange," Peter nodded slightly. "She—"
"Call me Stephen," Strange interrupted quietly."She's gone. Completely."
A pang of sadness stirred in Peter's chest. It was odd—he hadn't known the Ancient One well, yet grief still rose in him uncontrollably.
"She was a good person," Peter said seriously."A really, really good person."
Not everyone has the courage to face death—especially someone who possessed the power to live forever.If she hadn't chosen to let go, the Ancient One could have kept drawing on the Dark Dimension's energy and lived on indefinitely.
But she gave it up—for the sake of protecting this world from the darkness.Perhaps even her decision to take in that dark power before had been for the same reason: to shield the world from other mysterious threats.
Someone who truly lived by the title Guardian of the World—she deserved every bit of respect.
Peter was deeply moved by that thought.
Strange didn't say much.He simply escorted Peter back to his room.
Before Peter's soul returned to his body, Strange suddenly turned back and extended a hand.
"My name is Stephen Strange," he said. "Just call me Stephen. I live at 177A Bleecker Street. If you ever need anything—come find me."
Peter smiled and reached out to shake his hand.
"Thanks, Stephen. I'm Peter Parker. You know where I live. If you ever need my help, I'll do everything I can."
There was nothing to hide.After all, Strange had already found his home—there was no keeping secrets now.
Strange nodded, then stepped through a glowing portal and vanished.
Weeks passed after the Ancient One's death.
Peter's life, on the surface, went on as usual.
Mornings: classes (and a bit of secret tinkering).Noon: eating lunch while listening to Ned talk about which girl at school looked the hottest.Afternoons: more classes (and more tinkering).After school: either the lab, hanging out with Ned, or patrolling the streets as the "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man."Evenings: dinner and TV with Aunt May—or a bit of exercise together.Midnight: bed.
A simple rhythm, but not entirely unchanged.
The biggest difference—his new Spider-Suit was finally complete!
Modeled after Iron Man's naming style, Peter called it the Nano-Spider Mk-II.Built with liquid nano-particle tech, it could fold away completely into a wristwatch when not in use—and deploy with a single button press.
The only downside: it lacked an onboard AI like "Karen" from the Iron Spider suit Tony had given him.But then again, artificial intelligence wasn't exactly Peter's field.He was still just a high-schooler, after all.
That night, though, Peter broke from his usual routine.After dinner, he locked himself in his room and told Aunt May he was tired and wanted to sleep early.
She didn't suspect a thing.Better early to bed than sneaking out, she figured.
What she didn't know was—her beloved nephew wasn't planning to rest…He was planning to travel to another universe!
That's right.
At lunch that day, the glowing web pattern in Peter's mind—silent for months—had suddenly flared to life again.
And this time, it wasn't one of the worlds he'd already visited:not Earth-90214 (Noir Spider-Man),not Earth-120703 (The Amazing Spider-Man),nor Earth-1610B (Blonde Spider-Man).It also wasn't one of the universes he'd connected to through resonance:Earth-616B (Marvel's main Spider-Man B),Earth-8311B (Spider-Ham),Earth-14512B (Peni Parker),or Earth-65B (Spider-Gwen).
No—this was something entirely new.A brand-new coordinate.Earth-96283.
Months had passed since he'd last gone world-hopping, and Peter could hardly contain his excitement.At last—something new to explore!
This universe's Spider-Man was also named Peter Parker.
Through the merging of memories, Peter discovered that this world's Peter had quite a colorful life.
He gained his powers at age seventeen.Before that, he was just a nerd—unpopular, friendless.
Until one fateful day, during a field trip to Oscorp, when a radioactive spider bit him.
Peter was slightly amused—this made the fourth Spider-Man whose origin tied back to Oscorp in some way.The Noir Spider-Man got his powers from a smuggled spider idol,and both the Amazing and the Blonde Spider-Men had nearly identical origin stories.
Still, there were some key differences.This universe's Spider-Man produced organic webbing from his body—not mechanical web-shooters like the "tech" types.
But he wasn't quite mystical like the Noir Spider-Man either.At least, Peter didn't see any trace of Anansi, the Spider-God.
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