//------------------------------// // Unexpected Visitor // Story: Spiders and Magic: Edge of Time // by MetalJrock //------------------------------// Everypony had returned home while the Parker-Sparkle family went to the Treebrary, where Peter and Twilight laid Miguel down on their bed still in what was left of his costume. "Oh man, oh man, oh man..." the two words were being repeated by a shocked Peter, who's brain was about ready to shut down. First thing that Twilight did was use her magic to remove the human-shaped costume off the former human's body, wrapping the stallion underneath the covers. Bruises appeared around his face and on some parts of his body, showing that he was indeed in a fight before ending up in Equestria. "How...?" was all Peter could muster out, the prince shaking the almost literal cobwebs out of his head. He looked at the unconscious stallion sleeping on the bed. "Man, O'Hara, you really did something crazy today. What happened?" he whispered to the unconscious stallion. "Hey, guys, how's he lookin'?" Dash hovered into the room, wondering about Miguel's status.  "He's alive, thankfully, but he'll be sleeping for a while..." Twilight told the pegasus. Mayday looked at Miguel's resting form, turning to her father to ask a question, "What happened to him, daddy?" Peter shrugged, being just as curious as his daughter. "I wish I knew, sweetie. I'll be sure to get the answers once he wakes up." he answered to Mayday. 'Man, whoever did that must've been powerful. It was probably the work of that evil corporation that he tries to stop, what was it called? Alchemax, was it?' Peter thought, trying to deduce who could do so much damage to Miguel. Luckily for O'Hara, the suit for the most part remained undamaged, but the former human would probably want it in case he was followed. Grabbing the surprisingly undamaged costume in his hooves, he draped ir over his back. "Twilight, honey, I'm going to visit Rarity real quick. Can you keep an eye on him?" "Of course, Peter. Why are you going to the boutique?" his wife asked him. "I wanna see if she can get the suit modified to fit Miguel once he wakes up, I'm curious to see if she can work with material like this to fit a pony. But she can probably do it." "Oh, Peter. What a surprise to see you here so quickly after what happened. How is he doing?" the fasionista questioned briefly. Raising a hoof, Peter answered, "He'll be fine, Rarity. I was actually wondering if you had a moment to spare." "Oh yes, darling, I could use a break from this..." Rarity placed the needle she was using on the table gently, the blue aura fading from it. "What is it?" "Just a little experiment..." Peter began, grabbing the blue costume with his mouth, gagging at the taste of dirt. The hero released it on top of an empty table, where it could not get in the way of anything the unicorn was working on. "Is this Mister O'Hara's costume?" Rarity asked. "I must say, it looks very different than yours. More spider than pony... You wanted to see if I can make a costume based off this, am I correct?" "Uh... Not quite..." Peter rubbed his mane. "Unlike my costume, Miguel's suit is made up of Unstable Molecule Fabric, which makes it near-indestructible which is why despite being in a huge fight, the suit was intact." he explained briefly for Rarity to understand the situation. "You want to see if I could find a way to change the design to fit Miguel's new body... That would seem to be a difficult task, but I think I can do that." the unicorn replied. "And I know, you're extremely busy with what you're doing, so I'll help. I've worked with this kind of fabric before back on my world when I was helping my old friends, the Fantastic Four. Huh, I should've used the design of the suit they owned me to upgrade my own now that I think about it..." Peter began to switch subjects in an instant. Rarity put her hooves over her mouth, "Oh, Peter. Don't worry about doing that. I think I can modify Mister O'Hara's suit for you by myself." Peter waved a hoof, "No, I insist on helping. You never worked with this type of material, and, not to be pushy or boastful, but my experience could help you. It's the least I could do for how many times you repaired my costume..." "Hm... I suppose so, but I don't want to seem ungrateful for all that you do..." Rarity began before Peter interrupted her. "Rarity. Generosity can go both ways..." the stallion insisted once more. With a defeated sigh, Rarity answered, "Yes, darling. Of course you can help. Actually, I am fascinated by these unstable molecules you mentioned," the unicorn used her magic to life up the costume to get a better look at it, "AndI love its design. I can't change the look too much, it's too good." "Heh. Yeah, Miguel, as much as I don't want to admit it to him, has a cooler suit than mine, being futuristic and all." Peter admitted. "We can start whenever you're up for it." "Actually," Rarity started to say, pulling out a supply kit of materials she usually has whenever she gets an order, "Do you wish to get started now?" With a shrug, Peter walked to the table and sat down next to the designer unicorn, who observed the costume closely, wondering how modifying such a piece of fabric would even work. A few hours passed, and no discernable progress was made on the costume, so far they managed to at least change the position of the arms and altered the mask a little to fit the face of a stallion. "I am sorry I couldn't do much, Peter." Rarity apologized. "But I must get back to this order soon." "No, it's fine. You seemed tired anyway, I'll just ask Miguel what to do with it once he wakes up." Peter comforted, assuring the unicorn that he had no qualms. "Good luck on the order!" "Thank you, darling!" Peter dropped the costume on the floor next to the unconscious Miguel, who was still. The stallion was about to leave the room, but he heard something. 'Mumbling? What the heck was that?' stopping in his tracks, Peter turned around and gazed at Miguel, who whispered something in his sleep. "T-Tarantula..." O'Hara quietly spoke. 'Tarantula? Is that like some evil Spider-Man from the future he fights? Is that who did this to him?' Peter thought. Suddenly, Miguel snapped awake sitting upward. His panting grew heavier by the second, sweat pouring down his face. He went to wipe it, but he felt no fingers do such an action for him, he looked to his appendage and saw a hoove instead of a hand. He screamed in shock, and in his panic shook himself out of the bed and landed face first on the floor. "I did the same thing too." Peter said. Miguel opened his eyes and tried to stand, having trouble remaining still, not used to standing on all fours. 'No way. He sounds like him, but... Do we really look like this now?' O'Hara thought. "Parker... Is that you?" Peter nodded, "Yeah. You took a nasty beating, O'Hara. I can still see the cuts and bruises. You were knocked out when you arrived here and was out of it for a whole day." the stallion explained briefly. "Alright, I have a lot of questions, but I think the one I'm about to ask deserves an answer." Miguel snapped. "Go right ahead." Miguel accidentally unfurled his wings in confusion and anger, "Why the shock are we horses?!" he asked. Peter shook his head in disbelief upon seeing Miguel's wings, "Oh come on! How come you get to be a pegasus!?" he sighed, "Life's unfair sometimes..." "Just answer the question!" "Okay, okay! The magic of this world turns us all, or most of us anyway, into ponies, we're in another dimension called Equestria, alright? This is... Kinda my home now." "So, this is where you went after you left? All the sources never specified where you went to." O'Hara realized. "Wait, you mean that there are history books about me now?" "Shock yeah. There wasn't much to go by, but your final battle and legacy on Earth has been documented and preserved for the future generations including up until my time." Miguel revealed. "Wow, I'm a legend on Earth? Weird... I still remember the days where everyone in New York called me a menace." Miguel managed a smile, "Well, ya earned it. Heck, I still remember the whole thing with the Tablet of Order and Chaos." "Have you seen any of the other Spider-Men since then?" The time-travelling stallion shook his head, "No. Madame Web hasn't spoken to us since we parted ways. So, we're on our own for now, Parker." "You mean she didn't send you here?" "No, there's another reason why I'm here." Miguel replied. A voice was heard, getting the attention of the stallions, "Peter?" "Who was that?" Miguel asked. Peter let out an 'oh' before answering, "That's right," he began, watching as Twilight walked in the room to see Miguel awake and standing, but slightly fidgeting with his new hooves. "Miguel O'Hara, meet my lovely wife, Twilight Sparkle." "Oh stop that..." Twilight said bashfully as Peter wrapped an arm around his wife. "This is the same pony that documents said were your girlfriend? Shock, it's a pleasure to meet you," Miguel greeted in a friendly manner. "Congratulations you two." "Thanks..." Peter said. "Documents?" Twilight questioned, "So back on Earth-in your timeline-the humans wrote about our time there to stop the Green Goblin for good?" "What the shock brought you here to begin with, Parker? There are so many holes that not even the records can fill them up. How did you even get here?" Twilight decided to speak up, "I can explain that. A dragon was destroying this town, Ponyville, and there was some magic interference meaning that I couldn't stop it, but I found a book. A spell to summon the 'Greatest Hero in the Universe' it said..." "It brought Parker, didn't it?" Peter nodded, "Yeah, nobody was expecting that. So after some adjustment from my end, I learned how this world operates, and how friendship seemed to be a source of magic here. Heck, at that point I was a broken shell of a man, still torn apart by the death of Gwen..." "Oh shock... That's right..." O'Hara whispered in condolence. "But Twilight helped pick me up, and her friends as well. You should meet them tomorrow, they're awesome." Twilight continued for Peter, "Sometime after we got together we learned that the Green Goblin had stolen the Master of Chaos, Discord's, power and sought to kill Spider-Man. He sent a pony named Sunset Shimmer to steal my crown, the Element of Magic, to use its power." "So we followed her to Earth," Peter continued, the stallion raising a hoof while speaking. "Turns out that a friend of ours, Princess Luna followed us as well. We stopped Sunset Shimmer and brought her back to the side of good, but at that point most of my friends were put under Osborn's control. Luckily, we still had our friends, Spike, and my old friends Black Cat and Wolverine." "After we stopped Osborn's team known as the Sinister Six, Luna bonded to the Venom symbiote..." "Of shocking course Venom was involved..." "Wait, Venom is around in your time?" Twilight asked. Miguel nodded and gave her a vague answer, "You have no idea what goes on in my timeline." "To be blunt with happened next, I died... But Luna used her magic to revive me and Twilight destroyed the symbiote for good... In doing so, a dark entity was placed within me, and it possessed me when we fought Osborn for the last time. Twilight ended him for good when I lost myself, and then we came back here for good to live peacefully." "Daddy?" a young female voice called. "Huh? Mayday?" Peter picked up the young filly. "What the- You have a daughter?" Peter nodded, "Yeah... Mayday, meet your Uncle Miguel." "Uncle Miguel? I actually like the sound of that." O'Hara admitted. "Are you the future Spider-Man dad talks about?" the child asked. "Yeah. I guess I am." Miguel said with a smile. 'I'm a shocking uncle now? Man, Parker got lucky. He deserves it too, what with all the crap he went through.' "Alright, sweetie, don't you think you should be asleep?"  Twilight questioned her daughter. "Ok, mommy. I just heard Daddy taking in here and wanted to see what it was about." May said before hugging her parents and trotting back to her bedroom. "Nice kid." "Thanks."