Gwen wipes away tears.

"So... skipping ahead to today.  I got pulled out of an explosion and into a desert at the end of time by some dude named Timebroker.  He said I needed to fix timelines to get back home.  He sent me here, with some cryptic poem about 'save the spider's kin.'"  Gwen did not memorize the poem.  "Saw the newspaper.  Then you came on live tv.  Figured you two had to be in danger.  Or May and Ben.  It's safe there too?  It's gotta be a big target on you."

"Well, Mary-Jane's as safe as she could possibly be, here in Stark Tower. I asked-- I begged Aunt May to stay here, but she said it was 'improper'. And said MJ and I should have our own space, hint hint. She actually said 'hint hint'."

"Uncle Ben... is the first person I failed to save. When I was first bitten. May and MJ are all the family I have left."

"Oh god."  Gwen knows just about exactly how that feels.  She's been blaming herself for Peter's death this whole time.

She jumps off the wall and gives him a hug.  "Does that mean you have a guest room for a couple days while I figure out what a cosmic entity wants from me?

How does registration work for interdimensional refugees?  I can't stay forever."
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Peter hesitates before Mary-Jane speaks up. "Of course you can stay, Gwen. You can stay in the nur--" She winces. "The spare bedroom. We'll call Guest Services and get an adult bed for you."

Peter seems to find his wits. "There's an amnesty for registering super... anythings, really. Clean slate for anyone coming forward. SHIELD can issue you a whole new identity, based on your biometrics and whatever biographical information you give them."

"If you need to protect 'the spider's family', maybe you've got the wrong spider? We haven't heard from Kaine since... for a few years, now. He might have a family of his own now. Jessica Drew just had a baby."

"Jesse Drew was the astronaut that first encountered the spiders on the moon."  Only survivor, but it's a shorter story this way.  "It's Jessica here?  And she spins webs?"

"Being sent right before your announcement - I was sure that had to be it.  And Timebroker knows how close I am to Em Jay, if not you too."

Gwen brightens up when Em Jay says nur-- but then realizes.  Something happened there.  There's a lot of sadness in this house.  Is that what twenty years as Spider-Woman will do to her?   "I'm probably going to get yanked out of here to some other reality as soon as this is cleared up, so I doubt a whole new identity is necessary - but I don't want to cause trouble with you harboring a fugitive.

I do kiiiinda need to apologize to a SHIELD agent on the roof for webbing her up and stealing her badge to get in.  Can you help me do that?  And registered?  I don't want to get shot at by your friends.".  Some of those friends seem pretty sketchy.
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"No. I'm not sure why they call her Spider-Woman at all, to be honest. I asked her why, since she didn't spin webs, and she asked me why my webs didn't come out of my butt. It's a stalemate."

"There's spiders on the Moon on your world? Here, John Jameson landed on the Moon, and got turned into a werewolf."



"Sure. Let me see the badge."

"They live under the surface.  When they drilled at the moonbase, the spiders took over.

The mayor's son is a wolf in my world too, I don't know how it happened."

When Gwen hands over the badge, her image peels off of it and turns into spiders that merge into her sleeve.  The info of the SHIELD agent remains underneath.

Peter takes the ID badge and immediately puts his hand over his mouth. At first you think he might be horrified... but you realize he's snickering. Without comment, he hands it over to Mary-Jane; as she starts laughing, too, Peter says, "I'd better go find her before someone else does!" and rushes out of the room, forgetting the badge.

Mary-Jane composes herself. A little. "Well, if I doubted your story at first... we definitely know you're 'not from around here' now."

Gwen blushes.  Whoever that was was important.   "I didn't want to cause trouble.  Just needed to talk to you two, and the front door is... a big mess.

So you're famous here?  I saw the ad for your show, and the news.

If I'm dead, who's your drummer?"

"I'm mostly just a singer... I use techs when I'm not singing on someone else's track. I guess I'm probably the singer for your band... what's it called?"

"So, uh... you and Harry, did that go anywhere? We used to double-date, when you... the other you were alive. He'd give Peter money so they could pretend to split the check."

"You sing and play guitar.  We're called The Mary Janes and I know you want to laugh but you can't because it was your idea."  This Mary Jane might be less intimidating than the one back home... so far at least.

She pulls out and holds up her phone.  "Pretty sure I have video of at least one of our shows on here if you want to see.

This place is strange for me.  Where I'm from it's 2021 and you're my age.  So when I saw 2006... I thought Pete and I would be on a playground somewhere.  I wasn't expecting this trip to be personal."

"Harry is more complicated. He blamed Spider-woman for Pete's death for a while.  Got really angry.  We got past that and he knows now, but I'm kind of a terrible girlfriend.  I keep running out on dates to web-sling.  I broke it off again."

"You said... You said my clone showed up." Quick math...  "Two dozen times?  What keeps happening to them?"
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"It's always... something or another. Norman tries to find them before they find us. Doctor Warren's cloning technology isn't very stable, and without Peter's spider-powers, they... they don't..."

"Some of them just explode. I think... they were designed to."

There's a knock on the door. A low-ranking SHIELD agent comes in with a tablet computer and various medical supplies.

"Miss Stacy, are you ready?"
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OOC: Is this MJ saying this?  If so, should my be in there?
I thought Peter was out of the room apologizing to whoever I just webbed up on the top floor and/or bringing an angry SHIELD director back.  I'll need to edit if MJ is revealing she has spider-powers too.

The interruption at the door comes before Gwen can respond.

"I'm ready, yeah."  Gwen takes the tablet and starts filling out the registration form.  "What kind of tests are the equipment for?"

As she does, she resumes her conversation with MJ.  "So, Norman Osborn killed your Gwen and is involved in this cloning thing to torture you?  Did I do something to him or Harry in this world, or was it because I... she was dating Spider-Man?".

Multiple Gwens is a new concept and she's clearly having a hard time figuring out whether to use first or third person.

"Does this Warren guy work for him or something?  It sounds so cruel.  If they have her memories and go looking for help from you."
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I'm bad at continuity, and usually rely on taking copious notes to manage it. I did, indeed, forget who was speaking and that I'd made Peter Blue specifically because MJ was Red. Please continue to point out errors like this; it's the only way I'll improve.



The young SHIELD agent tries to be comforting. "It's nothing to worry about... we just take blood, skin, hair, and saliva samples to make positive identification easier. There are more extensive procedures for people who volunteer to have their powers studied."




"I don't know. Norman is insane. Sometimes he hates Peter and sometimes he loves him like... the son he wished he had. I think he just wanted to hurt Peter... and that's all you meant to him. I'm sorry."

"And yeah... The Jackal doesn't exactly work for Norman, but Norman gave him the means... it's carrion comfort, but The Jackal only ever hurt Peter and his brothers because he was so obsessed with you."

"The cloning didn't start until after you died. For awhile, it was nonstop. Different versions of you, different versions of Peter. That bastard Jameson called it the 'Clone Saga'."

She's trying to hold back tears, unsuccessfully.

Gwen's registration form, submitted on the tablet.

Name: Gwendolyn Maxine Stacy  Identity Private: Y
Alias: Spider-woman.  Error: already in use
Birthdate: Dec 15,xxxx Age: 21 Gender: F
Height: 5'5" Weight:    Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
Birthplace: Queens, NY (extradimensional)
Occupation: Musician/Student
Mutant: N  Power source if no: Contact with modified Aranea Luna sample
Sponsoring hero (if applicable): Spider-Man
Superhuman abilities: Whatever a Spider Can (jumping, wall-crawling, webs, enhanced strength, reflexes, + metabolism)  Reference: Peter Parker
Address(es):  Empire State University, bldg: VanDyne.  Suite 406 (extradimensional)
Stark Tower, floor 63, Parker suite (temporary)
Stacy Household, *** ******* st Queens, NY (both dimensions?)
Family: George Stacy (extradimensional), Peter Parker, Mary-Jane Watson-Parker, Mary Jane Watson (extradimensional), Gloria Grant (extradimensional), Elizabeth Brant (extradimensional)
Biometric samples: Hair, saliva, blood

Notes:
Her first name may be spelled Gwendolyne in this dimension.
Year of birth is blank for obvious reasons.  Assume the birthday I made up matches this universe's Gwen, or +/- one day.
Gwen is actually 19 and Pete and MJ will know that putting it as 21 is bullshit.  But what use is a fake id that doesn't get you in the club?
E-616 Gwen is 5'7" - E-65 Gwen is 5'5". Lets attribute this difference to a period of malnourishment from the symbiote.
MJ Mentioned that it's NYU in this dimension, not ESU.  That plus the time difference and the name of the building may mean her dorm building doesn't exist here.  Maybe it's a parking lot?
There is notably little mention of the other capabilities of the symbiote.
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"Just the standard stuff.  You already know how Spider-Powers work, right?"  There are a lot of spiders here.




"Em Jay, I'm sorry to dig up old wounds.  I didn't know.  I'm still kinda shocked about seeing Peter, and his having Spider powers.  A real, live Peter Parker.  After what happened today, I didn't think I'd see you again either."

Where I'm from, Norman only ever cared about me when he needed me to help Harry.  And I think there's a Jackal in Man-Wolf's gang but I've never even met him.  I don't know why he'd be obsessed with me."  It sounds like something happened to Harry here too.

She can't exactly get up for a hug while getting her blood drawn.  Gwen reaches over to grip MJ's forearm to comfort her.  "It's good to know that Jameson being an asshole is a universal constant.".  Ugh that was a terrible joke.

The SHIELD agent hands you back your old fake ID, and then hands you a lemony-fresh, uncomfortably warm new fake ID. "All registered, you can now legally operate in the United States. And... no. We have no clue how spider-powers work, really. There's like six different original spiders that we're aware of... they all got their powers through different means, and they don't even have the same powers."

She loads up the various samples she's going to have to document. "But one and all, when you're looking at the slide... you can just look at them and say 'yup, spider'." In a conspirational whisper, she adds, "I don't even know what's going on with your DNA, but I can tell you're one."



She sniffles, and puts her hand over yours. "It's okay, Gwen, I feel like you have a right to know. And... it's good to talk about it. With someone else. Until earlier tonight, the only people I could talk to were people who'd been there, you know?" She chuckles ruefully. "The irony, right?"

OOC: It's possible that Funnybone still has Gwen's Tallus generated ID/wallet, as she handed it to him and said go check on the Parker house.

"Six!? What?  You know, nevermind, I'll get the story later."

Her attention goes back to MJ.

"It turns out you need to be able to talk to your friends about all the fucked up superhero shit that happens all the time.

You're actually the one that taught me that.  Technically you did it by figuring out who I was and texting me to 'wave at the camera' while Spider-Woman was on live tv.  But you know, it helped.  I didn't have to lie about why I was missing things, and we could all help each other.  Plus, the number of my friends trying to kill me has dropped way down."

"On that note, there's a talking Rabbit talking to your doorman.  He's helping me.  Can you make sure he gets let in the building?  I don't actually know if he's supposed to register - I don't think he has any abilities above humans."

Once things are more settled, Gwen has a few priorities.
1. Get her backpack of not actually useful in-game shit from her homeworld that she left on the rooftop next door.
  - write the poem from the Tallus in her notebook.
2. Food.  Pizza with Cauliflower and Pepperoni if she's choosing.
3. She wants to sit on the couch with Pete and MJ and watch the cheesiest movie MJ has ever been in.
4. Talk with Rocket about what each of them figured out.
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It doesn't take particularly long for Rocket to make his way back to the tower from the bar.  He'll assume the door guard doesn't know he's invited yet, and make his way to a back door with a camera.

He'll give the door a light try.  If it opens, he'll make his way in like he's expected there.  If not, he'll knock and wait around to get let in.

((He'll send a message he's here if it takes longer then 90 seconds.))

1. Easily accomplished. You don't have free run of the place (anymore), but you're cleared from any of the main entrances to and from the public and residential areas of Stark Tower. The security guards are surprisingly sanguine about you making them look like idiots... some of them even ask for selfies and/or autographs.

2. Peter makes a face, and orders the exact same thing your Peter always ordered. Brrr. Timing wise, assume Rocket arrives in time for pizza and movie.

3. Mary Jane puts on some horrendous direct-to-DVD schlock called Red Sonja: She-Devil with a Sword, some... truly godawful low budget fantasy set thousands of years before the earliest record history. Mary Jane delights in pointing out that only did she star as the title character... she'd actually met her, during some unpleasant business with the sorcerer Kulan Gath

4...



There's a door guard at the back door, too. He says you're expected, but he still needs a name and an ID. Your SWORD diplomatic credentials suffice, and a security guard is assigned to take you anywhere (within reason) you ask to go.

Rocket is quite surprised to be asked where he wants to go.  After being denied access to 'the armory where you keep the good stuff' he askes to go to 'wherever my co-worker wound up.'  After some brief confused questioning, he gets sent up to Peter's floor.

Rocket whistles in surprise as the elevator doors open.  "Somebody's got too much money."  He is guided to the left towards the correct section, and he makes his way to the door.  He'll ring the doorbell, and overhears something about pizza as someone gets to the door.  As soon as the door opens, Rocket looks around for Spider-Woman, offering a short wave.  "Looks cozy.  Door guy didn't want me snooping around the local armory, anywhere I could net myself some less lethal ordinance?  A workshop or lab works if ya got some decent parts laying around.  I'm assuming we're short on time."

Gwen wears her costume when she goes out of the apartment, (selfies yes, autographs no) and when she gets back, changes into a 'Mary Janes' band tee-shirt with shorts.  She writes the poem (in an obnoxiously pink pen) in a notebook that was clearly for a college class until just now:

The Web of Life
A silken thread binds life to life
From the tireless hands of the Weaver
But when the Weaver's kin goes bare
Bloody hands cannot mend what's torn
And life to life be bound no longer.

The margins have some other notes written on them as time progresses

Spider's kin
Jesse Drew?    The E is crossed out, but it doesn't show well here
Cain?            OOC: Not knowing who this is means she gets the spelling wrong.
MJ/May?
Clones of Pete and me?  Pete has brothers?  Maybe these are related?
Something totally different?


Telepathically she tells Rocket (and coincidentally everyone else) * You need to tell him what you learned about Norman trying to shut off Spider-Sense.  It warns against danger to others too, and if Pete or I lose it, that could trigger doom.

Probably best to not mention that we're in contact with the others, since the rest of SHIELD wants to hunt their new friends. *

When Rocket arrives at the door, she tells them "This is Rocket, we met at the end of time, we're working on this riddle about saving your world."  She holds up the page with the poem, lets them read it.

Rocket, this is Pete and Em Jay.  Alternate older versions of my friends.". She almost says much older.    "Maybe Pete is sorta me in this dimension, since he got my powers."

If the weapons the SHIELD officers she saw looked non-lethal, Gwen will tell Rocket about them.  If they don't, that raises more questions about these people.   She'll mostly leave that question to Pete.  Gwen can't offer access to web-shooters since she doesn't have mechanical ones anymore.

Assume there's a little time before the movie for Rocket to get what he needs - it is time sensitive after all.

Gwen eats more food than someone of her size should be able to, even taking into account her being a teenager.  She goes back for more halfway through the movie, making sure to get plenty of veggies even though she doesn't seem to love them.  Her symbiote is happiest when Gwen is well fed, and she does not need to start getting headaches in the middle of battle if shit gets real at Midnight.

She has so many questions about the movie, which she describes as amazing, despite the writing, acting, and effects being pretty terrible.

Among the questions: "How could you fight in that outfit?  Didn't it chafe?  Not that you don't look hot as fuck in a chainmail bikini but I try to do my fighting covered head-to-toe, and with a sports bra."  Any issues Gwen has fighting without proper support are clearly going to be magnified for MJ.  "Maybe it's because I treat gravity as a thing that applies to other people."

"Did you do your own stunts?"  That would be helpful right now if someone went after her, even if it was likely that that person would have powers.

"You mean real Sorcerer, not just some guy that sets himself on fire?"  Slight pause.  "I guess I do know that Samurai who was cursed by a witch so he can't die, so maybe magic at least was real at home.  And Cap said she fought a sorcerer but that was in a different dimension.

Did you time-travel or did she?".
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The majority of SHIELD agents you've seen are carrying both standard semi-automatic firearms and high voltage stun batons. Mandroid units presumably have an entire suite of weaponry, but if Rocket even looks twice at them, they'll withdraw from scene protectively clutching their everything.

Peter is happy to show Rocket to his personal workshop and, under his supervision, a SHIELD armory. The SHIELD armory is mostly full of bigger, but still boring, monkey-guns but they do have quantities of flashbang and concussion grenades that Peter will sign out of you, and some early prototypes for mass-producer repulsor rifles.

Assume Rocket can use his Weapon d8 and SFX without causing permanent damage unless he's trying for something else-- a good opportunity to buy a Combat or Tech Resource.



Peter and MJ look it over thoroughly, making concerned faces and more concerned noises. Peter says, "This... really is not a lot to work with, is it? What kind of screwjob is this Timebroker?"

"I see what you mean about 'The Weaver' being a reference to Peter... but his 'kin goes bare'? He's not literally a weaver..."



"Almost as bad. The whole thing was glued on. I had the worst breakouts for weeks after shooting."



"That's... a tricky question. Her timeline and my timeline were... kinda... merged for awhile, and they kept blurring in and out of focus. Sometimes she was here with us in New York, and sometimes we were there with her in Stygia." She gulps, and pauses, and says, "Sometims I was her, and sometimes she was me."

"You asked if I did my own stunts?" She disappears into the master bedroom for a minute, and rummages around with something in the closet. She emerges with a leather harness with a couple of sheathed swords hanging from it, fastens it securely around her waist and shoulders, and draws an elegant saber. With her eyes closed, she starts performing some distant cousin-- or ancestor-- of the Cossack saber dance, looping the sword around her body faster and faster as she whirls around the spacious apartment.

She stops, suddenly, and bows with both of her sabers crossed in front of her; you're not sure when she drew the second one. She sheathes them, and smiles. "They made me tone down the stunts for the movie, because they didn't think the audience would believe in them. The real Sonja was even better."

((Smart little robos.)) ((I agree 110%.  Rocket's MCU/Cartoon kill count is zero on-screen organic kills.  His primary profession is bounty hunter, and he's used (excess) explosives non-lethally.  He certainly stretches the suspension of disbelief.))

"The more you hear, the worse he gets."  Rocket is quick to chime in.

    "I'm Rocket, Ex-Rabbit and Guardian of the Galaxy."  'People like titles here, right?'  "If you take any of that nonsense literally, you already lost.  I assume Gwen here is the Weaver, and Peter here being her counter-timeline copy makes you both kin.  It lines up better with the next line given that Peter here just threw away his alternate identity, which is 'kin goes bare' enough for me given our arrival timing and Gwen's expression at that time."  ((He'll leave out the part about Stacy never telling him him her name.  She saw him rifling through everyone's stuff, right? :P ))

"The part that sucks is the 'bloody hands' line can mean someone killing as much as being killed, and the life thread thing sounds a lot more like friendship or some other type of made connection then a blood one such as family.  Anyone you know dies tonight, and the entire universe could fall apart.  On that note, I got stuff to build... where can I~" ((Cut off here for transition.  Fill in gaps if ya want.))

Rocket is delighted to hear about a workshop, and with the gadgets Peter deals with, Rocket is quite happy with the tech laying about.  He immediately starts working on building sets of suppression gear.  Assuming the movie is within earshot Rocket listens in as he works, chuckling at particularly bad line reads.  Rocket will spend as much time as possible preparing for what he assumes will be a big fight.

The items Rocket builds (and willing to ask Peter to help with) first are multiple sets of paired cuffs that electromagnetically bind themselves to make for a very uncomfortable self-tightening zip-tie that can easily paralyze someone if used 'improperly' on a target.  Rocket's tools, reinforcement techniques, and power supply rigging are quite literally out of this world.
((I assume Peter would be interested.  Making the same thing in light bulk to save time? Check.  Rocket's build speed is frighteningly fast in MCU proper.  You also said rigging phones into coms was time consuming, so I'll stop here unless prompted to add more assets.  How many rolls am I making?  Would a single shared asset of 'pirate space cuffs' be a thing? Rocket now has 0 PP, and the  d8 asset 'Tech Restraints' have been added.))

Rocket gives an impressed whistle after listening to those blade(s) whirl. "Sounds like you could give Gamora an enjoyable sparring match."  'Wonder if I should cuff her first when the fights break out.'

((EDIT: PP spent. 0 PP left.))
This message was last edited by the player at 19:59, Sat 27 Feb 2021.

Spend your Plot Point, you've got a d8 'tech restraints' resource. Technically, it only lasts through the next scene-- I'm saying it will persist until you or Gwen use them, and then for the rest of that Scene.

It is Midnight. The Superhuman Registration Act is now in Effect. There is a d8 'Superhuman Civil War' Scene Distinction on all Scenes going forward.