Special Spider Sense…
Me and Gwen used to be practically inseparable whenever I was not working on my research and even when I was she would be there trying to drag me out and we cared for each other but after our first year at Midtown high school Gwen suddenly left to go to Empire State University and for a while she still hung out with me but not as much since she has a lot of work to do with her being in university which I could understand but she started coming less and less and so I started to push away from her because I felt she was pushing away from me however contradictory that seems which ended up becoming our current relationship with her visiting around once a month and I didn't really question but ever since I saw Miles Warren put his hand on Gwen a while ago I have had this creeping though in my head that I couldn't get out which is the reason I have put off investigating this creep but I couldn't put it off any longer even with the information that Miles Warren has been in close proximity to Gwen for the last two years in which time he could have done anything and he was always capable of cloning people with Gwen's death in the comics being the thing that pushed him to become the Jackal but I can't help but think that Gwen going to university and being in close proximity to Miles Warren has a correlation with her changing behaviour after she left to go to Empire State University, I can't help but think that maybe... what if the Gwen I have known for the last two years is a clone, and the real Gwen has been trapped down here for the last two years.
This thought had been in the murky depths of my brain for quite some time slowly festering and infecting all my thought and I tried to push it down and ignore it thinking that it was a an impossibility because surely what happened to Gwen Stacy in the comics only happened because she became involved with Peter Parker/Spider-Man which is why she was killed by the Goblin and had twin spawns of the Goblin before she died and ended up being cloned by the madman that is the Jackal/Miles Warren and all of these events can be traced back to her getting involved with Peter Parker, because at the end of the day Peter Parker or more specifically Spider-Man's life is full of tragedy and that tragedy usually comes in the form or harming and killing the people around him which is why that stuff happened to Gwen in the comics and why it should not have happened in this reality because Gwen and Peter don't know each other at all aside from a peripheral knowledge of each other because of their interactions with me and that first year in high school that Gwen attended so surely Gwen shouldn't have such misfortune in this reality since she is no longer just the source of a main characters agony anymore and is her won person with her own life.
I know that my thoughts are messed up and I can't rely on some plot points from a comic book being the storyline this universe follows but it is all I can hope for because if it is that means I have disrupted it and all those things won't happen to Gwen because I butterfly flapped my way into this world but I know that my hope is fruitless because this is not a comic book and is instead real life even if there are versions of this reality in comic books this reality has yet to be written because I am inside of it and I am not playing by the hand of some might author to my knowledge and that means I have wacked everything of course and nothing is set anymore if it ever was and that means anything can happen and nothing is set in stone which was why I was so worried when I saved Uncle Ben from his fate because in saving him I might have doomed everyone else as Spider-Man might not have been created due to my intrusion and he wouldn't have been there in the most crucial moments which is why I count my lucky starts that things still worked out, but not everything works out and so far I've had minimal tragedies occur to me with that being the death of my parents which can be all the tragedy needed in the life of a normal person but that changed when I got my powers because I am now no longer a normal person and it is pretty much an unknown rule in the marvel universe that people with powers can't just fade into obscurity and will always be dragged into something and will always have tragedies happen to them and I'm beginning to wonder if maybe this is my first tragedy.
Being lost in my thoughts I had continued to make movements across the room slowly and quietly without really thinking about it and on my next step my spider sense suddenly tingled but it wasn't a shock or anything just a tiny little tingle but even that set me on edge given that I was currently manoeuvring through a suspected villains secret lair and so I stopped my foot before it touched the ground and maintained my position being absolutely still with only one foot on the ground with my foot hovered above the floor where the apparent minor danger was but I wasn't fool enough to ignore my senses like Peter who never trusted his gut and listed more to his head which could turn out to be a boon or a mistake depending on who he was dealing with so I will listen to my head and my gut going forward and right now my senses are telling me there is a minor danger up ahead and no matter how minor I can' risk anything since the stakes are high and I need to stop this guy from getting too close to Gwen because I am a possessive sort of guy even when I shouldn't be, moving my hovering foot backwards I get a look at the floor my foot was about to step on and notice a small spill on the floor which seems to be the danger but this confuses me as well since this small spill isn't actually a danger and while I might have slipped on it my powers were enough that I would easily be able to catch myself with my ability and prevent myself from taking any damage so I am confused as to why my spider sense is perceiving it as a threat.
Hmm maybe it would be better to say that my spider sense is perceiving it as a danger and not as a threat as threat implies physical harm or something harmful while danger can mean physical harm as well but it can also mean other things as well such as physiological harm and a danger to something and in this case my mission is to get across this room being as stealthy as possible and that small spill on the floor was a danger to my mission because while I might have caught myself before I could get hurt I would inevitably make some noise that would alert whoever is in the room and essentially ruin my mission which is why my spider sense perceived it as a danger as it is a danger to my current objective and if I remember correctly this happened quite a few times in the comics as well such as when Peter met with super villain who he didn't know where super villains and when his spider sense went off in there pressure he was on the lookout for a sudden attack when instead the danger of the man in front of him was what was tingling his spider sense, after all these powers while administered in a scientific manner are essentially mystic or something so it stands to reason that the one aspect of spider man that isn't physical might actually be a metaphysical ability that does more than just detect harm and instead detects danger to your person or your goal and Peter's goals in the comics where to fight bad guys and defend innocents which is why his spider sense went off in certain situation where there was no costumed buffoon around.
Deciding to think more on my sudden epiphany later I sidestep the small spill on the floor feeling like my hunch was correct when my spider tingle went away and I continued my journey across the room to the white curtain ahead that either held untold horrors or proof I was incredibly wrong about Dr Miles Warren which I heavily doubt due to the corpse of his assistant Anthony Serba just chilling outside this room but anything is possible, I no longer have time to ponder on the subject as I stand directly in front of the white sheet without a clue of what just might lay beyond it and dreading the almost absolute certainty in my head about what I would fine but I know that I can no longer wait and I steel my heart.
Not knowing if there was anyone behind the white curtain after affirming my goal, I reach my hand out and grab an edge of the curtain before pulling it slightly so that I can get a better look inside, what I saw honestly baffled, amazed and enraged me all at the same time...
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