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Chapter 5 - Timeline

'Martha Parker

Beloved Mother and Sister.

The ground may have consumed her shell but she still lives through our memories.

Born: Feb 4 1970 - Died: Jan 6 2002.'

I read those words internally without any sort of emotion behind it and kept a sad facade on the outside.

It has been a day since I was discharged from and moved in with the Parkers, they were a jovial bunch.

The residence was on the outskirts, somewhere on Ingram Street, it was a two story house and the room they gave me was fairly decent, not too big, not too small.

I can't really complain because I used to live in a studio apartment and this was much better, they got a separate living room, a lawn and a garage.

Anyway, I stood quietly at the long path of the cemetery. Ben enveloped my sides with his right arm and covered Pete with his left while behind him Aunt May stood in a gown with her hands laid over the other, the black shade of her clothes perfectly matched with our suits.

I slowly knelt down and kept the bouquet of flowers I held on the grave, I raised up and took a step back.

May gently patted on my shoulder earning my attention, she reached down to my height and pulled me into a hug but I didn't embrace her back, I stood still taking in the warmth and concern in silence.

Eventually we walked out of the cemetery and reached Ben's car, the looming sadness around us slowly dissipated as the vehicle moved through the busy city streets and before I knew it, we were back home.

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In a few minutes, May prepared us a quick breakfast, destroying our rising hunger.

It was a Sunday morning so Peter didn't have school and Ben had taken a leave from his job.

I fell on the bed with a sigh and looked at the ceiling while my mind began to wander through the same thoughts I always had, mostly about Marvel, reminiscing about the characters and Arcs.

I really need to start my research on the timelines and plot points to get a good understanding about this universe and stuff.

God, only if it was that easy.

-[2 Months Later]-

Ok maybe it was easy and I had extremely underestimated the technological advancements of this universe.

First off, the Internet has grown to a point that things from the Gen-Z period are already underway in the early 2000s.

Mobile phones have already been switched to smart phones in most parts of the world.

Companies like Google, Youtube and such have become widely popular and many people are already trying to pursue streamers as a real career and I was sure it would only grow more in the future.

Uncle Ben had a PC in his room, which let me connect to the world web and I was able to get tons of information through that.

Going through timeline wise I obviously started with Captain America and like most universes it was Steve Rogers, who took up that mantle.

The browser had so many files about him, it was basically impossible for me to read all of them.

He was a war hero of WWll and it gave him an extremely high celebrity status, literally everything about him was on the net, from his favorite book to his family history and the soldiers he worked with, people were obsessed with him.

I was able to look up a few pictures of Steve during his war days and he always had his star painted shield on his back, which checked with the existence of Wakanda.

Wakanda was a very reserve country, there was not much about them on the net and I didn't pry any further than I needed. The last thing I wanted was a visit from Dora Milaje because I tried to look up their country on the web.

Just like Wakanda I found a few countries that didn't exist in my world, Latveria, Sokovia, Symkaria, honestly after a while I wasn't even surprised anymore.

These things were easy, Mutants were the tricky part, it was extremely hard to find anything about them, it almost felt like the government was taking down information about them and was trying to keep their existence under the wraps.

The people obviously knew about Mutants but act like they are nothing more than an urban legend at best.

I did manage to find a couple sites that had yet to be canceled and I got a hint about Magento, there was even a video, the contents were mostly censored, it was a speech by Raven or better known as Mystique. I came to a conclusion that either Future-Past happened or something similar.

While I researched about Mutants, most of the geeks and conspiracists I came across pointed at two things called a Mystery Pyramid and The Phoenix.

The first was a world known phenomenon about a Pyramid that appeared in the middle of Cairo with a nude giant man guarding it.

I'm sure, It was an alternate version of Apocalypse with the same conclusion, the X-Man defeated him but I doubt whether En-Sabah-Nur is really dead, that guy could always resurrect in the comics, one way or another, definitely got to keep an eye on him.

The Phoenix as the name suggested was about Jean Grey, even though her name was never mentioned in any sites, I'm sure of it because it followed the order of the events from the movie.

I'm certain Jean died, very sad for Scott…

Anyway, I was happy, I don't have to worry about Dark Phoniex, that's a big fucking plus.

Other than that, I stumbled upon quite small ones, like Stark industries, Baxter Building, Oscorp, Pym Tech, Rand Inc, they all exist.

This is everything I found overall, well maybe I missed about the Parkers.

Aunt May is a homemaker and Uncle Ben is a cop or used to be one before he shifted to the forensic department, I can clearly see where his sense of righteousness and responsibility came from.

After the first month, Ben suggested that I join school with Peter but I rejected immediately.

School was a huge waste of my time, I still remember all my highschool stuff and joining elementary felt like a bit of a step down.

They did try to force me for a while but after I solved a few mid school level problems, they decided to let me have a term and enter middle school directly.

"I hate school." I grumbled with a sigh, looking at the noisy classroom.

"You will get used to it." Peter shrugged.

"I hope not."

"H-Hey." A stutter made us turn towards the pettiet kid, he had short black hair, his cheeks were slightly blushed and it was clear he was having trouble speaking up.

"Hey." I hummed without caring much.

"C-Can I take this seat?" He asked pointing at the empty chair to my left.

"Sure." I shrugged.

I locked my eyes with his figure until he settled down beside me and just as he took the seat Peter stood and introduced himself.

"Hey, I'm Peter, Peter Parker."

"I'm Harry-I mean Harold Osborn but you can call me Harry."

'Wait. What?'

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It has been a few weeks since I started or to be precise re-started Middle school.

When Aunt May compelled me into joining, what did I expect?

Periods of boredom, obviously.

Noisy, idiotic kids, absolutely.

Sharing my classes with Goblin fucking Jr, never in my dreams.

I mean I knew he and Peter were friends but still.

Harry's sudden existence unconsciously put me on guard against him and the poor kid thought I didn't want to be friends with him and that I was avoiding him.

Which I kinda was but for a whole other reason than the one he had in mind.

I took my time to come to terms with Harry while Peter on the other hand pulled out his golden retriever charm and became close friends with the rich kid in a matter of days and that led us here.

"Finish him Eddy!"

"This guy just won't die!" I grunted at the rich kid in pajamas while I kept smashing the X button in the console like my life depended on it.

"It's happening!" Peter cheered as Kratos pulled the catapult back and aimed himself at the moving statue.

"Yes. Yes. Yes!" Peter chanted as Kratos was released from the sling and unsheathed his blades mid-air in slow motion.

"Finally!" I cried out as he plunged the blades into the statue's eyes and drew it down. As I was about to end the fight, the door opened and an old man in a black and white suit hurriedly walked in.

It was Bernard, Harry's butler and caretaker.

"Master Harold, Master Norman's going to be late for dinner and he might be unable to meet your friends." The old chap politely said with a sad smile etched to his wrinkle filled face.

"Again? Bu-But he promised." Harry asked sadly, his face losing its color as he looked down at the floor, embarrassed by his father's actions.

Peter looked a bit disappointed as he was yearning to meet Norman, 'A real scientist' by his words but Harry slowly stood up, Peter and I followed him, Ned grunted, displeased by the turn of events and walked us down the house till the door.

Oh yes, Ned was part of our little wolf pack too, found the kid in lunch hall sitting alone and Peter adopted him.

We could have still played for a bit more, if Ned's house was not this far from Parker residence and Aunt May would bust our ears if she came to know, we walked back home by ourselves after sun down, so Harry was our only ride.

Peter and I hopped into the back of the car and waved towards Ned as the vehicle slowly moved forward.

"See you in school!" He yelled as the car turned around in the street corner.

I laidback on the seat and quietly stared at the figure of Harry in front. He is very different from the comic character I read of, he is not confident or braty, on the contrary he was timid, shy and soft spoken but there was still some things same as the main universe, like he yearns for his father's attention, I understood that from the very few conversations we had about his family.

Peter and I stepped down from the car at our humble residence in the outskirts, Ben was waiting for us, he stood in the lawn with a bottle of beer in his hand, he gave Bernard a gentle nod, who returned it.

"Get in brats, it's dinner time." Uncle Ben said as he pushed us into the house.

The dinner was fairly simple, meatloaf with a side of steak, Aunt May's special touch makes everything tastier.

As soon as we had the meal, Pete went back to his room while I moved towards the PC.

During the time I spent here, web surfing has become my new hobby.

It's mostly looking up for any and all sorts of news regarding the supernatural and mutants and while I was at that, I came across a specific website that resembled discord from my past, except this was filled with geeks and conspiracists.

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•True_war280

Posted on 12th February 2002

Here it is, yet another proof the Apollo mission was fake.

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The green screening is clear as fuck, I don't believe in government and in my view nobody should.

•Anti_Conspira_sea

Oh god, I hate this, again and again the same thing, just accept the fact it's true, the whole world knows and acknowledges it, other than the collective few like you.

The Apello mission is real!

•True_war280

The whole world acknowledges shit, there are still countries that don't believe in the American government.

Btw I don't take advice from a guy who can't spell Apollo right.

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•Anti_Conspira_sea

God damn it. Autocorrect!!

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•Mynameis_Weeb

Do you guys know about the city on the darkside of the moon?

•Anti_Conspira_sea

Here comes my daily dosage of idiocy :⁠^⁠)

I read the thread till I reached its end and closed the site.

There were a million websites like this but I chose this one because of two things, first, it has an active floating population of 10 million users and second, it's one of the only sites that has Ip mirroring, it is not impossible to track but hard.

I shut down the monitor, hopped on the bed and began to think about the feeds for a few minutes and at some point without realizing, I fell asleep.

"Huh?" I muttered as I found myself in a familiar situation.

I was back in the ethereal darkness that I once resided in.

"Fuck, don't tell me I died again?"

A blaring red light erupted from the black horizon, blinding me for a second before I regained my sight.

I opened my eyes widely and gazed as the whole black space changed into fragments and rearranged into pieces and before I knew it, I was standing in Union Square in the middle of New York.

My eyes involuntarily widened as it landed on the site in front.

The Mad titan stood over a man with the Power stone pointed to his face.

The buildings were all on fire while most of them were broken down to smithereens, blood ran through the streets like water as the wolf-like creatures howled at their master's victory.

The Black Order proudly stood behind their sire as each of them had slayed an avenger.

Ebony Maw had the Eyes of Agamotto in his hands while Dr.Strange's head was missing from his body.

The Black Dwarf had the crushed Armor of Iron-Man under his feet while his ax had killed many warriors of earth.

Proxima Midnight and Glaive stood side by side as each had a head of a hero penetrated into their weapons.

"Resistance against fate is a futile endeavor." The Mad titan stated.

"You are no savior Thanos." The man groaned while withholding the pain. "The universe will and always remember you as the Mad Titan, nothing more."

"I don't care for their recognition, my job is to keep the universe in balance regardless of methods used." Thanos sighed as he looked at the destruction around him. "Your kind was too stubborn to see it."

"You need fucking therapy!" The man spitted the blood clogging in his mouth at the Titan's face.

Thanos wiped it and slowly stood up with a sad look on his face.

"You would have made an excellent general under my command but alas you chose your way." Thanos raised the gauntlet and ruffled the man's hair. "I am truly grateful for your sacrifice, Edward Brock."

"Fuck you!"

The Mad titan clenched his fist as a purple ray of light blasted through the area, turning everything it touched into absolute ash.

The space slowly turned black once again while I stood in shock unable to comprehend what I just witnessed.

"Fascinating isn't it." The silhouette spoke in excitement, breaking me out of my thoughts.

"W-Was it the future?" I asked in fear.

"'A' future to be exact." It answered. "The path you are moving is increasingly similar towards a future like this, that's why I'm here to warn you, to warn you to prepare."

"Prepare for Thanos? The invasion?"

"The Mad titan isn't the only threat in the cosmos, your destiny is bigger than that, start preparing Edward, your time is running short."

It clapped its hand together and summoned a black dagger.

"It's time to rise." It moved next to me in the blink of an eye with the dagger raised up in the air and brought it down towards me.

"Arghh-." I cried in agony as the blade plunged into my chest.

"-Urgh!" Only to wake up with my face covered in sweat and panting for air in the middle of the night.

"What the hell was that?!" I cried out.

[Finally! It's time to Feast]

"Demon?"

[No, Eddy]

A black gooey substance erupted from my body and slowly began to cover my skin, I began to thrash around in panic as it crawled over my limbs and moved over to my head.

I screamed for help but it covered my mouth, I tried to yell but it was of no use as the black shade completely enveloped my face.

["We are Venom"]

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