Previously: Peter and Wanda teamed up with America Chavez to defeat a corrupted multiversal hunter. But the multiverse isn't healing — it's decaying faster. The system has issued a new mission: Assemble the Web-Core.
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🗺️ Location: Madripoor — Lowtown
🕷️ 72 Hours Later
Peter walked through a crowded alley lit by neon signs and cigarette smoke. The city was wrong, and not just in a moral sense — the walls flickered, as if reality didn't fully load.
> 🧠 DUMAS: "Multiversal bleed is spiking. There's a rift nearby. Stable. Barely."
> 📘 SYSTEM OBJECTIVE:
Locate Target: Web-Core Candidate #3
Identity: Unknown Spider — Codename: "Silkblade"
Status: Fugitive
Last known sighting: Zone 6, Yakitori District
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Peter adjusted the hood over his suit. This world's tech could sniff out Stark signatures, so he'd modified his suit with some of Wakanda's "borrowed" stealth polymers.
He ducked into a bar called the Glass Fang — half speakeasy, half black market.
Inside: mutants, mercs, off-worlders, and one cybernetic bartender who eyed Peter suspiciously.
"You lost, bug-boy?" he rasped.
Peter smiled. "Looking for someone who swings."
A pause.
The bartender nodded toward a back table, hidden behind a curtain of LED beads.
Peter approached. Slowly.
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She sat in the dark, sipping rice wine, mask resting on the table beside her.
Her suit was matte black, laced with blood-red strands like spider silk fused with tech armor. Twin katanas rested against her chair.
"Name's Silkblade," she said without looking up. "I don't want trouble."
"Good," Peter said. "Because I already brought it."
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> 📘 SCAN COMPLETE:
Identity: Mei Lin / Silkblade
Earth-1312-X
Origin: Multiverse survivor. Escaped a collapsed Tokyo. Carries residual thread-weaving power.
> Trait Match: 86%
Potential Role: Web-Core Vanguard
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Silkblade finally looked up. Her eyes gleamed with a faint glow — not from mutation, but thread sight.
"You've got a system," she said. "And a curse."
Peter blinked. "You can see it?"
"I lived in a city where the threads ran through everything. Until someone cut them all."
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Before Peter could answer, the bar's lights flickered.
> 📘 WARNING: Interference Detected
Hostiles: 5
Type: Thread Reavers — Former spiders corrupted by multiversal rot
The walls cracked — and five humanoid figures emerged, each in twisted versions of spider-suits. Eyes hollow, movements twitching like broken puppets.
One wore a melted Miles Morales mask. Another looked like a mangled Gwen Stacy. Their web-shooters oozed corrupted silk.
They hissed in unison:
"You are not real. You are not worthy."
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Peter and Mei Lin stood simultaneously.
"Guess it's time for introductions," she said, drawing both katanas.
Peter's suit shimmered into full form, mask sealing tight.
"Peter Parker. Friendly, multiversal, and incredibly done with this crap."
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⚔️ Combat Start
Silkblade moved like a razor in the wind. Every slash of her blades cut through threads, not just flesh — she was slicing corrupted reality clean.
Peter webbed two Reavers into a collapsing freezer unit, using Strike Delay Echo to knock another through the bar's window — which exploded in a flash of blue fire.
> 📘 Chaos Pulse: READY
Activated.
Peter slammed his palm into the chest of the Gwen-Reaver, unleashing Wanda's magic. The creature screamed, body unraveling into code-like strands.
The Miles-Reaver tackled Peter — and whispered:
"You failed us. You abandoned the web."
Peter's eyes burned behind his mask.
"I didn't abandon anyone."
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Mei Lin impaled the last one through the chest — and sang in a whisper. The red threads on her blades pulsed… and the corruption evaporated.
Peter stared.
"Did you just… purify a thread?"
She nodded. "It's what I do. It's why they've been hunting me."
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> 📘 SYSTEM UPDATE
Candidate: Mei Lin — Silkblade
Status: Recruited
Web-Core Member #3
Trait Gained: Thread-Sight v1.0 — Passive ability to sense corrupted multiversal threads
Heroism +10
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🌒 Rooftop — Later That Night
Peter sat beside Mei Lin, overlooking the city. America Chavez floated nearby, having rejoined them with Wanda in tow.
"We've got three now," Peter said. "Four if Wanda sticks around."
Wanda gave a sidelong glance. "For now."
America popped a piece of mochi in her mouth. "So where's next?"
Peter pulled up the holographic map from his system.
> [⚠️ THREAD ALERT: EARTH-818 — ZONE COLLAPSE IMMINENT]
Target: Spider-Man 2099
Codename: Miguel O'Hara
Status: Last Known Guardian of the Web-Hub
Peter exhaled.
"Miguel."
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⚠️ Elsewhere — The Web Citadel, Broken Core
The red-cloaked figure from earlier approached a spider-shaped throne of stone and dying light.
A voice hissed from within:
"The Core is forming."
The cloaked figure knelt. "They found the Thread-Walker. And the Weaver."
The throne pulsed with blue light.
"Then we send the devourer."
Suddenly, the corrupted Gwen-Reaver reformed… smiling wide.