Issue 12: X Factor V

An electric glow covered the south side of Central Park, the two Spider-Men ran over to see their Spider-ladies kicking Shocker and Electro's butt.

After knocked the two around, Young-MJ jumped at Electro as she shouted, "Time for you to chill out!"

Cyro pellet webbing shot out from her wrists, freezing Electro in a thin layer of ice. Before the villain could fall to the ground, Young-MJ switched her webbing back to normal, and wrapped him up before she threw him into a nearby pond.

Spiderling and Adult-MJ kicked Shocker around while hurling insults at him like, "Look Spider-Mom, this punch line it's a shocking kicker!"

Annie punched him in the jaw.

"You said kick!" The shocker said as his head spun.

"You calling me a lair?! I said punch-line and kick! Get it?" Annie giggled while she followed up with another attack.

Annie's Kick sent him flying towards her mom when Adult-MJ appeared in front of him and said, "You know, your outfit reminds me that I need to pick up some quilted quicker picker-upper on the way home." as she gave him a swift uppercut.

The shocker was sent flying into a nearby tree, and before he could retaliate, the Shocker was quickly webbed up, put together with his partner in crime, and had both in cuffs with power dampener technology.

Young-Peter asked for a few to study and take back to his dimension.

Adult-Peter agreed, understanding where he was coming from. It would be a good idea for Young-Peter to have this technology, so he could restrain some of his more dangerous enemies.

While Young-Peter showed off the Bamf, Annie squealed on how cute it was and said, "Forget owning a dog! I want a Bamf!",

The Bamf stood on Peter's head proudly and let out a boastful 'humph' while blowing air out its nose.

Adult-Peter laughed before he suggested that they moved their conversation to a nearby rooftop.

Standing around on top of a hotel, the Spider-Family looked at their counterparts while feeling that they were going to miss them.

Adult-Peter was the first to break the silence when he said, "Well I guess this is goodbye."

Young-Peter looked to Adult-MJ and then to Bamf before whispering into its ear.

The Bamf nodded its head a couple of times then smiled before giving the Young-Peter a thumbs-up and bamf-ing away for a few seconds.

Everyone looked puzzled as the Bamf returned holding something in its hand, Young Peter then said, "Are you sure its the same one from this timeline?"

The Bamf nodded its head before he walked over to Adult-MJ and held out its hand.

"Something for me?" Adult-MJ asked.

"What are you up to, Peter?" Young-MJ asked.

"A present for my new friend, of course," Young-Peter answered as Adult-MJ retracted her suit around her hand.

"Ouch!" Adult-MJ shouted as she pulled back her hand.

The Bamf then crushed the Super-Spider in his hands, resolving a paradox he created by pulling it out of the moment in time before it died.

Adult-MJ's symbiote quickly settled in the new Spider-Gene and pushed her body passed the fever one would normally get and augmented her body. Her muscles became more toned and her body was filled with energy.

Adult-Peter went wide-eyed as he shouted, "What was that?"

Young-Peter smiled and replied by saying, "Now if something happens to the Symbiote, your wife will still have something to protect her."

"Was that spider, what I think it was?" Young-MJ asked.

"Yep, the same Spider that bit Peter. I said I was giving my friend a going-away present," Young-Peter explained.

Adult-MJ grinned and said, "You sneaky little..." She then gave Young-Peter a kiss on the cheek before she finished by saying, "Thank you."

Young-Peter grinned with a red face and felt his MJ pinching his waist.

After talking for a bit, they shook hands and said a few farewells.

The Bamf suddenly smiled and sent everyone, both MJs and Peters, including Spiderling, all back to Doctor Strange's Sanctum.

When they appeared inside the Sanctum, everyone realized that were upside down and a few feet away from the ground.

Young-Peter groaned out, "Really?!" as they both crashed into the ground.

In response, the Bamf shrugged his shoulders and laughed playfully.

"Ahh, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, I see you've returned, with...guest?" Doctor Strange looked at them the group of Spider-Heroes from the other universe and sighed.

"I'll send you back!" Doctor Strange declared as he lifted his hands.

Before Stephen could open a portal, Adult-Peter held his hands up and shouted, "Wait!"

Strange lifted his eyebrow when Adult-Peter asked, "Can I see Ben?"

Peter looked to his counterpart and said, "I don't think that's a good idea, you'd reveal . . . oh, maybe this could work! You can meet Ben but as Spiderman. People seeing you would dispel any suspicion towards me being Spiderman. MJ would also be safer if she came along as well. Can Venom change shape to match my MJ's outfit?"

Adult-MJ smiled as Venom copied her outfit, and she said, "This good enough, little Tiger?"

Young-Peter nodded his head, and said, "Now, to do what I originally came here for." He then took off the satchel of infinite space and handed it over to Doctor Strange.

Stephen smiled reached his hand inside the satchel as he took out a bag of gems.

Giving the satchel over the rest to Wong, Stephen then pulled out a fist-sized bright Green Emerald and Glowing Blue Sapphire from the smaller bag as he said, "These two were modeled after the Mind and Soul Infinity Stones, although they only have a fraction of the Infinity Stone's power, the spells they allow a sorcerer to use are quite powerful. I intend to use the Opal and Topaz to copy your mind and emotions and transfer it to the suit, thus aligning your consciousness and spirit to exist as a sort of magical learning system."

Peter looked at the second sample and said, "Can you do the same for Spider-Woman as well."

Doctor Strange laughed and said, "It would be my pleasure Spiderman." as he held the stones in his hands.

Suddenly a complex spell circle appeared around Peter, MJ, and their Symbiotes.

When suddenly a ghostly figure of the two appeared from out of the stones and flew into the samples. The unimprinted Symbiotes then began to bubble, turn, and twist out in random directions.

After a short while the two Venom Samples broke free from their containers and covered MJ, and Peter.

Like in the ultimate universe the bio-organic symbiotes bubbled over them into a cocoon-like form and shattered away into dust before revealing their new suites.

Peter could feel his new power coursing through his veins. The Symbiote, magnifying his abilities several folds. As he gripped his fist and smiled, Peter said, "I can get used to this."

"I agree!" MJ replied.

The suites were both pitch black when Peter sent a single thought to change the design on the Symbiote into his classic red, black, and blue uniform.

Responding to his command, the Symbiote suddenly spoke out through a mental connection.

"Good morning, Peter, altering pigment and structure." The Symbiote said in a similar tone to Pete's own voice, only with a slightly lower pitch.

With a quick augmentation of the Symbiote's color and shape, Spider-Man appeared in his classic suit once more. He then looked over to Mary Jane who was experimenting with different uniforms until she settled on something that looked like a mix of Red and Black Kaine Scarlet Spider and spider, red fingers, and boots from the Ultimate Jessica Drew's outfit with a slight alteration of a web patterned hoodie.

Peter grinned before he quickly switched around his design to match the MCU look of Spider-Man. He couldn't help it. As much of a fan of the classic, he had to admit the MCU design was sharp, and very to his liking, just without the unnecessary lines.

Peter then made the suit retreat and finally discovered where the Symbiotes stored themselves.

Peter was more than surprised to find out the Symbiote was tucked safely away inside every cell in his body. As a bonus since MJ and Peter's suit was made from the same source they even could communicate telepathically with each other by speaking through their Symbiotes.

"I'm not calling you, Venom. S~o, how about Spideybiote? No that's no good...Spiderbiote? Symbider? Sym-bot? Oh, I got it, Webster! That's your new name."

MJ had settled on naming hers as Spiderling so that she could always remember Annie. The two put on their civilian clothes and said, "Time to go home."

Annie decided to go along as well, she was curious to meet the man her father talked so fondly of.

When the group appeared in their neighborhood, a lot of people came outside to see Peter and MJ being carried by their adult counterparts. Spiderling hung back and watched as MJ's parents, Uncle Ben, and Aunt May come running outside to see what the commotion was.

Seeing their children being carried by two superheroes they felt a little faint. However, their worry for their children overpowered all of their instincts as they rushed over to their sides.

Peter and MJ were suddenly pulled into the arms of their relatives, they were berated with questions of where they were all day and what was going on.

Adult-Peter held out his hand and said, "You have a remarkable nephew and daughter."

Adult-Peter felt his nerves building as was doing everything he could to stop himself from crying.

"Umm, thank you." Aunt May replied.

"Did something happen to them?" Uncle Ben asked with a worrisome expression.

Adult-MJ smiled at seeing how happy his mother looked alongside the Parkers, she then saw her husband was having a hard time speaking when she stepped in, "We happened to come across them while they were in trouble and gave them a lift back."

Adult-Peter shook off his nerves when he said, "Your nephew told me some words that someone dear to me often told me. That person told me that with great power, comes great responsibility. I've tried to live my entire life by this motto and if your nephew lives by it too, I'm sure he'll turn into an amazing person. You did a fine job raising him."

Ben couldn't help but have the strangest sense of familiarity when dealing with Peter's adult counterpart. Uncle Ben shook his hand and thanked him for his kind words,

Annie looked at her Grand-Aunt May and was surprised by how young she was, she even saw her grandparents when they were younger.

"Hey Aunt May, do you think we can get a photo," Young-Peter asked as he pocketed Adult-Peter's cellphone.

"Sure, I don't see why not," Aunt May said as she smiled at the group.

Young-MJ smiled and waved her hands at one of the neighbors, she handed over her own and Adult-Spider-Man's cellphones.

After taking a couple of pictures and saying their farewells, the trio of otherworld visitors webbed their way back to Doctor Strange's place so that they can return to their universe.

Peter and MJ were questioned relentlessly, after lying about Spider-Man helping them deal with a mugger on their morning jog, their guardian's seemed to have gained a bit of respect for the Spider-Hero couple.

Peter headed inside and waited for Ben and May to go to bed before sneaking out to patrol with MJ.

Tonight, they were testing out the limits of their new abilities. Thanks to the Symbiote the two didn't have to worry about wasting their webbing while traveling about anymore. The Symbiotes also ate his different web formulas and could even replicate their effects.

However, they made sure to keep a spare set of Web-Shooters on underneath the Symbiote, in case anything happened to strip them of their Symbiotes.

The upside of it now was that they could web swing infinitely now, as long as they ate enough starchy foods.

The two shouted joyously while they pushed their acrobatics and bodies to their limits. They blazed across the city, hopping across rooftops and swinging from high-risers.

"Not worrying about having to refill our web-shooters freed up the range of mobility and speed greatly!" Peter shouted as whistled pass MJ.

"No kidding! According to Spiderling, we can shoot our webbing for hour consistent hours before we need to eat in order to refuel!" MJ shouted as she ran across the surface of a twenty-story building.

While they were on patrol, Peter and MJ saw a mugger holding a gun on a young couple.

Quickly jumping down, the two heroes webbed the mugger up and promptly saved the victims. However, when they looked over at the defenseless couple, what they saw left them slack-jawed.

The two they saved turned out to be Harry and Liz who were out on a date.

MJ was far more shocked than her boyfriend. She knew Liz was dating Flash, but the broke up before the start of summer break because she Flash was caught kissing another girl.

However, what surprised MJ the most, was that somehow, Liz had kept dating Harry a secret from her for almost a whole month.

"Thanks for helping us," Harry said while holding tightly onto Liz's hand.

"No problem stranger, but you should be more careful around these parts," Peter said before he webbed onto a nearby building along with MJ.

Looking at the two who had been keeping secrets from their friends, MJ tapped her foot against the ground as she said, "That girl's got a lot to explain. I mean Harry's our friend too why didn't they tell us?"

Peter smiled and replied by saying, "Hey we keep secrets too, and since we became heroes we've bailed them a number of times."

MJ sighed before saying, "I think we should do something before school starts! You know, go to a beach for vacation or something."

Peter thought for a second and said, "You know what that sounds good, we could use a break."

After setting the date Peter and MJ continued their patrol and stopped a break-in at a jewelry store, a burglary of an ATM Machine, and convenience store robbery.

They were getting ready to call it a night when they saw an explosion go off at the N.Y Expo Center,

Peter saw the trace of lights signaling gunfire being shot through the air and explosions going off like fireworks.

Rushing into action, the two Spider-Heroes started to zip across the city with breakneck speeds. As they approached the source of the chaos, they saw Ironman being shot at by dozens of Hammertech Drones.

Peter and MJ dove right into the action. Ironman landed on the ground and began shooting his blasters at the approaching remote-controlled robots.

As he was firing away, one of the Drones approached his back, Tony raised his hand and readied a blast, ready to intercept the drone. When he was suddenly interrupted by Peter who came in swinging and kicked the robot in half with both of his feet.

MJ swung down and started webbing up the robots and punching through them like they were made of paper while Peter started using concrete-webbing to put up shields and walls in order to keep the stray bullets from hitting citizens and firing out into the city.

Seeing the help arrive, Tony let out a relieved shout before he asked, "Who the hell are you guys?"

Peter was busy swinging back and forth to rescue citizens from danger. Every time he passed by Tony he added an additional word until it formed a sentence while taking out a drone, "I'm, your, friendly, neighborhood, Spider-Man, you, tin, can! Don't, you, watch, the, news?"

MJ was also doing her best to help the innocents, thanks to their speed and strength they were making quick work of evacuating everyone, while drastically lowering the Drone count.

As a laser passed through a drone near Peter, Ironman shouted out, "Thanks for the help Spidey-People, but I got to fly. Can you take care of the citizens?"

"Leave it to us bucket head, go do what you have to do to end this," Spider-Man declared as he webbed up a Hammer-Bot's legs and began swinging it around in a circle.

Loud consecutive clangs rang out as the webbed up drone tore through and destroyed a row of ten drones.

Ironman took off heading towards the one responsible for this mess while Peter and MJ devastated the remaining Drones.

They could feel their spidey-senses guiding them to each of their targets. If they took that one out then they would be able to protect that section of the crowd, if they took this one out, then the level of overall danger would lower, and if they hit drones where their senses were directing them, then its entire frame would collapse without a struggle.

Their teamwork was flawless as they covered each other's backs and blind spots.

Throwing out their hands and shooting out a line of webbing, the two hook a drone on both it torso and legs. With a single tug, Peter and MJ ripped the robot's body in half and used its broken pieces as a flail to knock out a few more flying drones.

Their strength was far stronger than it used to be, they felt no damage to them as their fists crushed and ripped through metal like it was tinfoil.

With a single notice from Webster, Peter's commanded the suit to switch to his Tazer Semtex settings. He started shooting the targets with shocking sticky web bullets that exploded in a zap of blue electricity once they made contact.

MJ smiled as she learned from Peter's strategy and started to do the same. After an hour of them putting down an army of Drones, they stared down the last of the Hammer Drones.

The two SPider-Heroes then suddenly webbed the drones up in a noose weaving and squeezed them until their bodies ripped to shreds by their combined strength.

As a bonus, Peter and MJ made their way around the battlefield, making sure to break and destroy any of the bombs they discovered with the aid of their Spidey-Senses.

The two walked up to each other and looked at the scene of hundreds of destroyed drones around them.

"I love you, Spider-Woman," Peter said as his adrenaline pumped through his bloodstream.

MJ grinned in the same mood, with her heightened emotions, she looked at Peter with a hint of lust in her eyes as she said, "I love you too."

Reacting to their biology, the Symbiotes pulled their masks back around their mouths and threw them at each other.

Once their lips touched they realized that their Symbiotes still had a lot to learn, however, they were so charged up that they chose to enjoy the kiss.

After sharing a deep and loving kiss for a while, the survivors started popping up, noticing that the commotion had died down.

The spectators then looked over and saw the Spidey-Couple kissing when suddenly, dozens of cameras and phones started taking pictures of the two making out.

Peter and MJ parted with an embarrassed expression.

Looking around at the wasted pile of scrap the two laughed before Peter said, "We should probably check in on the Rust Bucket."

No sooner than Peter spoke, Tony came flying in like a bat out of hell, but to his surprise when he arrived there wasn't a massive explosion waiting for him.

Looking at the remains of the drones and the two Spider Heroes, Ironman was pleasantly surprised that he didn't have them all blowing up. However, he was still worried about Pepper and was searching frantically for her.

After looking around for a few seconds, Tony suddenly heard Pepper calling out to him.

"Tony!" Pepper ran up to him and placed her arms up to his armor, after lifting up his short-circuiting helmet he threw it to the side and the two looked at each other for a while before Pepper said, "I quit! I can run the company anymore."

"Really, well I guess I'll have to take back over," Tony responded.

The two went back and forth bickering for a while, when Peter said, "Just kiss her already bucket head."

Tony looked at Spider-Man and then back at Pepper and said, "You know what? I'm gonna follow the kid's advice." before kissing her.

After the two pulled away Tony awkwardly asked, That wasn't weird right?"

"No, it felt right!" Pepper responded while blushing red up to the tips of her ears.

Without anyone noticing, War Machine, who stealthy approached them somehow, spoke out, "I think it was weird, I mean you two look like a couple of seals fighting over a grape."

Peter laughed before saying, "Are you saying they aren't? Then what am I looking at? Maybe a couple of octopods trying to mate? Wait...is it octopods or octopi?"

Rhodey laughed as the couple rolled their eyes.