The sun began to shine brightly through the window, causing Miguel to shield his sensitive eyes. He picked up his glasses, but realized that his glasses would not fit him due to his unique physique. Yawning, O'Hara got to his hooves, looking for something to cover his eyes with. He squinted his eyes, hoping to get a batter look at his surroundings. The living room was empty, minus the furniture and nothing to cover his eyes with.
Deciding to look around, he trotted to the room he was taken to when he was unconscious. Glancing downward, Miguel spotted his costume. He tried to hold it up with his hooves, but it slipped out of his almost nonexistent grasp. "Shock me..." he muttered, once more trying. After a few more attempts Miguel finally managed to keep the costume in his nonfingered grip.
'I sure hope this works.' Miguel thought.
"Lyla." he said. Coming out of the wrist of the costume was a yellow transparent female, a hologram. A special helper AI used by various people in 2099.
"Yes, Miguel?" Lyla asked, now activated due to voice command.
"As you can see, Equestria's kinda changed my body, are you able to change the suit to fit my new body?" Miguel ordered.
"Sure thing, Miguel." Lyla answered, a yellow beacon of light shone on O'Hara, forcing his eyes shut. Once the bright light faded, Miguel opened his eyes and noticed that the once large human sized costume shrunk, now able to fit his pony body. It even had holes allowing his wings to move freely. "How's does it look?" the hologram asked.
"Fits. Thanks, Lyla." he muttered, trying on the costume. Surprisingly, it fit Miguel perfectly, even the mask was able to fit his new head and for the most part block out the light that his eyes seemed to hate. "Gotta see if Parker has some sunglasses, even I can't stay in my costume forever." the stallion said to himself.
"So, you got the suit fitted for ya? Heh, I was gonna get a friend to help me stitch it back together," a male voice spoke to the costumed stallion. Miguel turned around and saw Peter leaning on the wall, next to the door leading into the living room. "Saved us some trouble, I guess."
"I'm not here to make life easier for you, Parker," Miguel reminded Peter. "Do you have anything for my eyes; you do know right?" he questioned.
Peter nodded, "Yeah, I know what you're talking about. Luckily, I asked Rarity if I could borrow these." he said, holding a pair of sunglasses in his hoof. Miguel looked at them before holding it in his hooves, this time he got it on his first try. After placing the spectacles over his eyes, O'Hara noticed that his talons also changed, they were now small protrusions on the end of his hooves.
"Glad to know I could still use these." Miguel noted.
Testing his powers, O'Hara stuck his hoof to a wall, once he realized it's stuck, he placed the other hoof on the wall. He began to crawl up the wall to the ceiling. "Alright. Good." Miguel sighed, hopping off the ceiling and landing on his hooves.
"You're lucky. When I got here, I nearly lost my powers. But yours seem to be fine. Maybe it's because of the experiment that gave you your powers?" Peter said.
"Yeah... Maybe. Anyway, how the shock do I use these?" Miguel pointed to his wings.
"I wish I could help on that department, but as you can see, I have no wings." Peter pointed to his horn, "The sad part is that I can't even use magic from my horn ever since I was brought back to life."
"Magic? Parker, this isn't a child's fantasy."
Peter shook his head, "Have you forgotten where we are and who we are?"
Miguel paused, realizing that he was a pegasus with the abilities of a spider standing next to a unicorn with spider powers as well. "Point taken."
Miguel adjusted his sunglasses and started trotting, and Peter walked out the room with him. "How did you even get here, Miguel?"
"Chasing someone playing with power beyond their control." answered Miguel briefly.
"Um... Maybe we should explain this to all of my friends?" Peter offered.
"No thanks, Parker. I'm leaving today."
Hearing this nearby, while giving Mayday breakfast, Twilight walked into the living room. "Mister O'Hara? Is that true?" she asked.
"Yeah, I have no intention of budding around in a house all day waiting while the one I'm looking for is playing God and doing who knows what in this world," Miguel responded. "Now if you'll excuse me." he made his way out.
"Miguel, wait!" Peter shouted, right as O'Hara was about to walk out the door, "C'mon, O'Hara. We could help you. Remember when we worked together to find the Tablet of Order and Chaos? We kicked Mysterio's butt!"
With a snarl, Miguel replied, "Yeah, but that was because I had no choice. I can handle this on my own."
"No you can't." Twilight insisted.
"What do you mean?"
"What I mean is that you're in a new world, different than whatever timeline and dimension you come from! You could use our help." Twilight answered back to the annoyed spider.
"Yeah, what could any of your friends do that could help me?" Miguel asked sarcastically.
"This isn't their first rodeo, O'Hara." Peter told the time-travelling stallion. "They faced monsters before."
"Yeah, but this is beyond anything they've ever faced, I don't want anyone else getting hurt!" Miguel spat.
"Is that why you don't want us involved? You don't want anypony to be harmed in your battles?" the alicorn questioned.
"I just don't want anyone getting in my way."
"Ignore him, Twilight. He's usually focused on the bigger picture." Peter told his wife. "Listen to us, O'Hara. I've faced gods before. At the very least let me help."
"Peter-" Twilight began to say.
Peter raised a hoof, "I know what I'm doing, honey. I just need to convince him." he whispered.
Miguel sighed, 'I forgot how shocking stubborn he was.' he thought and rubbed his temple with both of his hooves in frustration. "Fine. But only if you don't slow me down or annoy me with your jokes." he declared.
"Says a lot coming from the guy who said the most quips while looking for the fragments."
Miguel held his head with a hoof, "I don't know what was wrong with me then. Madame Web must've done something to my mind when she augmented my powers." the time-traveller said, recalling how he threw out constant jokes for a while, even more so than his predecessor.
"That was strange..." Peter trailed off, the stallion crossing his hooves. "But can I at least convince you to change your mind about all of this? Equestria can be a dangerous place."
"Yeah, what do I have to worry about in this dimension?" Miguel questioned sarcastically.
"Oh, I don't know. See that forest over there? Try fighting off a hydra, or maybe climb up that mountain in the distance and pit yourself against two or more dragons at the same time." Peter replied in a stern tone, getting aggrevated by O'Hara's own stubborness.
Miguel remained still, underneath his mask he scowled at his annoying predecessor, "Shock it. Fine, you can help. But so help me if you so much as annoy me..."
"We won't be a problem, Mister O'Hara." Twilight assured, "In fact, my friends and I will make sure you feel right at home."
"Uncle Miguel?" Mayday called, walking near the door with wide curious eyes. "Are you leaving already?" the filly's innocence broke Miguel's barrier.
'Oh come on! Even I can't say no to that face.' thought Miguel. "Okay, fine. I'll stay. For now." he walked back into the kitchen, "Get your friends, Parker. I'll explain the situation once they get here, got it?"
"Yeah, I got it O'Hara."
"What the shock!?" Miguel shouted.
"Hi! Are you Peter's friend? Once this is over, I wanna throw you a huge party welcoming you!" Pinkie Pie popped up in front of the time-travelling stallion. Miguel looked at Peter with wide eyes.
"Is she always like this?"
Peter nodded, smiling at Pinkie, "Yeah, but you'll get used to it." he answered.
"Calm down, Pinkie." Rarity told her friend, "Let Mister O'Hara explain himself please."
"Thanks, but call me Miguel. Any friend of Peter is a friend of mine." he said with an honest smile.
Rainbow Dash hovered over Miguel, "That's a pretty cool suit. You should let me have a try."
"No thanks." Miguel turned her down, "I prefer this type of technology on someone who can handle it."
"Aw, come on! I can totally handle it!" Dash groaned,
"Ah don't know, Dash. Ya nearly crashed the Spider-Mobile how many times now?" Applejack questioned, not believing the rainbow-maned pegasus at all.
"That happened once!" she paused. "Twice..." she added quietly.
"Spider-Mobile? Really Parker?" Miguel asked in confusion.
His predecessor shrugged, "I need some way to get around Equestria, and since there are no tall buildings to swing from in Ponyville... Well, you see where I'm getting at."
"I guess, but still..." Miguel shuffled in his spot, looking a little uncomfortable.
"Are you alright Miguel?" Twilight asked.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm fine. Just not used to so much company." Miguel admitted.
"Eh. Like I said, you'll get used to it." Peter reminded his successor. Once Miguel sat comfortably in his spot he looked toward the ponies and dragon gathered around.
"Okay, guys. I'm not one for storytelling... But this is important. If all of you are, against my better wishes..." he whispered the last part so that no one could hear him, "Joining me, you need to know what it is exactly you're up against. I got arrogant and nearly lost my life in the process, I'll admit. Because it seemed easy at the time."
Earlier... In the future.
'I just wanna say that I'm jealous of Walker Sloan's progess...' Miguel thought, analyzing a scientist's file using a hologram, and looking over his records. 'Ever since he showed up at Alchemax five years ago, he began to act all high and mighty as if he owns the place. And that's the last thing we need... He even managed to shocking find temporal rifts in a different dimension and is able to harness Quantum Energy if I'm reading this data correctly.'
O'Hara looked over Sloan's current projects, 'He's messing with chronal energy. Not only could he travel back in time, now he could find a way to travel between dimensions...' he realized, looking over Walker Sloan's progess report once more. 'He's building a gateway within the top floors of Alchemax, and I need to stop him.'
Miguel turned off the hologram and faced his apartment window. He scowled looking over the high skyscrapers and flying cars that were passing right by the buildings and his window. 'This is my city to protect. And I'm not letting Alchemax ruin this city or the world across time and space.'
He put on his mask, allowing his window to open. Spider-Man 2099 jumped out, stretching his arms out, releasing his glider of sorts, slowing his descent greatly. Once he spotted a building, Spider-Man shot a strand of webbing from the top of his wrist, allowing it to connect to the high-rise building, 'Sloan may not have time to speak to Miguel O'Hara...' he began to say in his head, arriving at his destination.
Spider-Man landed on a wall, next to a ventilation shaft. He shot a ball of web at the fan blocking his way of entry. 'But people make time for Spider-Man. Especially those messing with chronal energy like this. Now, I gotta use the shafts to catch him off guard.'
Crawling inside, Spider-Man sighed, "For such a high-profit corporation like Alchemax, you'd think they'd either carpet their vents or make sure that I don't listen to their evil schemes. I've done that so many shocking times." he muttered.
He looked down at the glass surface, allowing him to see the lengthy hallways of Alchemax. 'Heh. Perfect. Right on schedule.' Spider-Man mused. He saw Walker Sloan walk into his department with his hologram AI, Joseph.
"Hello, Mister Sloan." the computer greeted. "I take it the project is ready?"
"Yes, Joseph. Mind escorting me?" Walker asked politely. The two began walking, with Miguel slowly following them, not wanting to draw attention to himself just yet.
"Stark-Fujikawa could dismantle our entire corporation Joesph," Sloan started to say to his companion. "I've been thinking... About this business, how we could use this company to shape a better future. Better than what we already have. If I were in charge."
"But sir, Tyler Stone is in charge, remember?" Joseph told the scientist, who chuckled darkly.
'Oh jam it. That can't be good.'
"Luckily for us, so far the portal seems to be a success though unstable, judging by the one experiment that we managed to retrieve from the past. If this is successful, then we could use the other dimension as a gateway, using the device to harness the energy within it, and use it as a testing grounds for a new era of Alchemax. Once that proves successful, we go back in time..."
"And you could dismantle Stark-Fujikawa and any other competing corporation before they exist, and shape the present and future in your image. You're a genius, sir." Joseph realized, and complimented his user, which pleased Sloan.
"Heh. I programmed you well, Joseph." Sloan said before Miguel lost sight of them entering the Time Lab.
'Shock me... He's going to create Alchemax earlier than predicted! Luckily it's unstable, meaning that I have time, but he's heading to another dimension? Then that means that another world could be put under Alchemax's iron fist. I have to stop him before he gets there, and fast.'
Spider-Man reached the end of the vent to the upper levels of the generator room, where he heard it activate. "Shock... He's already starting!" he ran to the nearest entryway, which was a hole leading from the generator room into the lab. Miguel jumped, opening his glider wings.
Spider-Man swung with a strand of webbing, chasing after Sloan, who had just activated the portal. "This ends now, Sloan!" the hero declared, landing in the lab. The scientist turned around, unsurprised by Miguel's entrance.
"Ah, Spider-Man. I knew you'd make it." Sloan revealed.
Spider-Man clenched his fists, "You're messing with power beyond your control! Messing with chronal energy beyond our own dimension!? You're shocking crazy!"
"Not crazy, Spider-Man. Innovative." Sloan responded in a calm, stern tone. He seemed unfazed by Miguel's attempt to stop his plans. "This world will be a better place under my control, but as of now travelling back at will is an unstable process. There is another dimension. One where I can harness enough chronal energy to make a safe trip back to the Heroic Age."
"Heroic Age? What do you have planned there?"
The scientist shook his head, "I don't have anymore time to explain, the other world needs me. You may speak to my associate Tarantula..." he gestured, walking into the gateway portal.
"Associate?" Spider-Man questioned. "Tarantula? What kind of name is that?"
On cue, Miguel felt the ground shake. He turned around, looking at he massive being in front of him. It appeared to be a large Man-Spider waring a blue hoodie covering its head and torso and jeans on its legs. It had four spider legs protruding of its back and lengthy talons.
"Oh right... Tarantula..." Miguel sighed.
Tarantula lunged one its arms at Spider-Man, catching him off guard and knocking him into a wall. 'Right. No Spider-Sense to help me. Why'd Madame Web get rid of that?'
Tarantula roared, grabbing the dazed Miguel by the throat, it hissed in his face. "Ugh." he groaned, smelling its breath through his mask. Spider-Man shot webbing in its eye, causing Tarantula to let go and try to rip the gossamer from its eyes. "Nice try!" Miguel shouted, flip-kicking Tarantula in the jaw.
Slamming its arms down once more to hit Spider-Man, Miguel avoided the attack, uppercutting the monster in the process. Tarantula successfully ripped the webbing off its eyes and roared once more, cleary angered. Spider-Man wasn't ready for the monster to shoot acid from the legs on its back, "Jam it!" the man hissed, barely missing the shot. 'I can distract him...' thought Spider-Man, I just need to time it right.
Tarantula roared, lunging after Miguel, but he faded out of sight the instant he made contact. The monster looked down in confusion, wondering where his target went. "Got ya!" Spider-Man shouted suddenly, appearing behind Tarantula. 'Accelerated Decoy. Makes up for lack of a Spider-Sense, I suppose.'
Tarantula grabbed Miguel from behind. The hero struggled in the man-spider's graps, unable to move his arms. He was thrown by the strange creature and hit a wall, but Spider-Man got back up. Tarantula raised on its arms, punching Miguel in the jaw. Spider-Man once more attempted to break free, but the creature held tightly. He once more jabbed Spider-Man, this time in the gut, knocking the wind out of the hero.
Finishing Spider-Man off, Tarantula threw Spider-Man once again, this time hard enough to leave a noticable dent on the metal wall where he landed. "Shock me..." he groaned, struggling to get up. Realizing he had no other choice to stop Sloan, Miguel staggered to his feet. He slowly stumbled his way to the portal.
Tarantula saw this and followed Spider-Man. Leapong as high as he could, Spider-Man jumped into the portal with Tarantula following him inside.
In the rift, Miguel tried his best to stay conscious long enough until he reached his destination. Something grabbed his limbs, almost as though the portal was holding him back. Miguel looked at a man wearing a red-and-blue costume get beaten, before fading to a horse wearing the same suit and a purple unicorn fighting a strange white monster. "Peter Parker..." the man groaned in realization before vanishing into the vortex.
The man felt himself land on solid ground, his vision blurry from the beatdown he was just given. He saw a group of blurry figures and he pointed up as he slurred, "Parker... I need to f-find..." he remembered saying before everything went black.
"And that's how I got here..." Miguel finished his story to everypony listening. "Walker Sloan's in this world somewhere along with Tarantula. And Sloan plans on bringing some strange creature with him. But he mentioned that there is some residue chronal energy here. Why is that?" he questioned.
Peter's eyes widened, recalling something. Something traumatic, that scarred him to his very core. "I may have an idea..." he replied, causing Twilight to turn her head.
"Peter, you don't mean..." she started to say, only to get cut off. Obviously, Peter's wife was the only person the hero could trust with a secret like this.
"What are you talking about?" Fluttershy wondered.
Peter gulped, "Sometime ago, I began an experiment based off one of Twilight's spells. A crystal capable of time-travel. I abandoned it after a couple days of research and experimenting since it was leading me nowhere and was too dangerous. But an accident caused me to vanish for twenty-five years, but when I came back no time passed..."
"What happened while you were gone?" Fluttershy asked.
Peter sighed, "I-I don't want to talk about it." he replied in a very somber tone, clearly uneasy thinking about what happened while he vanished and stuck in the future. Twilight nuzzled the saddened stallion, trying her best to cheer him up.
"So that explains the energy readings here..." Miguel realized, before looking at Parker's saddened face. "You alright Parker?"
"Yeah... I am." Peter sobered, shaking the flashbacks out of his head as much as he could.
"My word, I haven't seen you like that since we first met you, Peter." Rarity said worried for her friend. "Clearly something must be wrong to warrant such a reaction."
"I said I'll be fine." Peter dismissed with the shake of a hoof.
'I'm not too sure about that Parker,' Miguel thought, not buying a word Peter was saying. 'But I'll worry about him later. For now, I just have to figure out to use this shocking body and find out where Sloan went.'