Marvel’s Spider-Man: Across the Multiverse

"You... your name is Gwen Stacy???"

Gwen Stacy's eyes widened in shock as she stared at Gwen's face.

"But… you look different. Are you just... two people with the same name?"

Toby-Spider was also stunned for a moment before curiously asking.

Gwen shook her head.

"I'm Gwen Stacy from another universe. In my world, we also have Peter Parker, Flash Thompson, and Mary Jane."

"Uh..."

Toby-Spider and his Gwen Stacy exchanged glances.

They definitely knew those names—they were their classmates.

Oh, and one of them was standing right here.

"Parallel universe visitor?"

Toby-Spider was shocked.

"So that means... you're also—"

"That's right."

Peter nodded.

"I'm Spider-Man from another universe too."

As he spoke, he struck the large bell twice more.

"The one trapped in here—Carnage—if I'm not mistaken, he's also from a parallel universe."

Toby-Spider suddenly understood.

"So that's why... I always felt there was something off about him."

"Then this one?"

He pointed at the web sack containing the Venom symbiote.

Peter shook his head this time.

"That one is called the Venom symbiote. It should be an alien from your universe, not something from a parallel world."

"What?! It's actually native to our universe?"

Toby-Spider was shocked.

But judging from his tone, he had already begun to see Venom as a sentient being rather than just a mindless parasite.

"It's one of the biggest enemies of most Spider-Men," Peter said with a smirk.

"Right, little Carnage?"

"Y-Yeah, yeah! Just let me out already! I'm not your enemy—Venom is!"

Carnage begged for mercy, unable to withstand the relentless ringing any longer.

But Peter knew exactly what kind of creature Carnage was—there was no way he would let him go.

He didn't even consider recruiting him into the Interdimensional Task Force.

If Venom could barely be considered a self-serving anti-hero, then Carnage was a pure, unrepentant supervillain.

A being of chaotic evil, completely beyond redemption.

For someone like that, Peter had only one thought—

Kill.

Erase him.

No sending him back to his own universe.

Just eliminate him here and now.

There was no better time—Carnage was already trapped.

Now was the perfect moment to finish him off.

"Let you out?"

Peter smirked.

"I might consider it... but that depends on how you behave."

"F-Fine! Ask me anything!"

Carnage shouted desperately.

Peter asked:

"First question—Who are you?

And you know what I mean.

I'm asking about the body beneath your skin—who is he?"

…

Inside the bell tower, a long silence followed.

Only the sound of Carnage's ragged breathing proved that he was still inside, struggling to endure.

Finally, after what felt like forever, a voice emerged from within.

"...Peter Parker.

He is Peter Parker."

"What?!" ×4

Peter was stunned.

"Wait… are you saying you're Carnage Spider-Man?"

But that Carnage Spider-Man was supposed to be a nightmare for multiple Spider-Men—even the Web-Warriors had a hard time dealing with him!

Yet the guy trapped inside the bell didn't match that image at all.

As Peter and the others stood there in shock, Carnage—possibly driven mad by the constant ringing—began spilling everything like an overturned bamboo basket.

This version of Carnage did share some similarities with the one Peter had in mind.

He was still born when the Venom symbiote tried to rescue Eddie Brock from prison.

But the first, and so far only, host it bonded with in that world was Peter Parker.

However, in that universe, Peter Parker wasn't Spider-Man—he was a demon.

In that world, Peter Parker once experienced a deep, unforgettable love—he had fallen for a girl named Gwen Stacy.

But during a battle against the Green Goblin, Harry Osborn, Gwen Stacy was caught in the crossfire and tragically killed.

Enraged, Peter Parker brutally beat Harry Osborn to death!

By the time his rage subsided, Harry Osborn—along with his Green Goblin armor—was almost completely torn apart.

However, when the police and news reporters arrived, they immediately recognized the Osborn Corp insignia on the tattered armor.

From that, they identified the victim as Harry Osborn.

The police immediately ordered Peter Parker to surrender.

Peter could have resisted.

But his rationality had returned, and bound by his morals and upbringing, he chose not to fight back.

Instead, he surrendered.

And just like that, Spider-Man Peter Parker was thrown behind bars.

But this wasn't the end of the story.

At the time, Norman Osborn, the former head of Osborn Corp, had already died from a hereditary disease.

His successor was none other than Harry Osborn.

As a massive corporation with global reach and a net worth exceeding 300 billion (around the 2010s), Osborn Corp's CEO dying an unnatural death was bound to make waves.

It was like waking up one day to see a headline claiming, "Bill Gates was beaten to death by a street thug."

A scandal of that magnitude?

People couldn't get enough.

Soon, wild conspiracy theories started flooding the media.

Some claimed Spider-Man was actually working for the criminal underworld, and killing Harry Osborn was part of a scheme to take over Osborn Corp.

Others suggested that Peter and Harry had been love rivals—a deadly fight over a woman, since it was discovered that Peter and Harry had been close friends, and that a girl named Gwen Stacy had died at the scene.

Some even speculated that Spider-Man was a failed Osborn Corp experiment—a bio-weapon gone rogue, who turned on its creator once the truth came out.

Theories ran rampant.

While Peter Parker rotted away in prison, certain people began making moves in the shadows.

A disgraced scientist named Doctor Octopus managed to steal two items from Osborn Corp's underground lab.

One was his own creation, the mechanical tentacles that he had originally designed, but had to sell to Osborn Corp due to a lack of funding—so, he simply "took them back."

The other was a vial of mutated spider venom—rumored to be the very substance responsible for the mutations of Spider-Man and Harry Osborn.

Doctor Octopus was intrigued by this.

After extensive research, he successfully extracted something from the mutated venom.

By isolating the most aggressive, violent DNA fragments, he refined and cultivated them into a new substance.

Doctor Octopus gave it a name:

Venom.

(End of Chapter)

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