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[babyavenger]

I am finally free from hell. how’s everyone doing? I got sick and it super sucked. totally all better now though and I could really use some air.


[ action option. Spider man ]

[ it has been so long since he’s been able to put his suit on and it’s way more of a relief to hear the familiar voice of Karen. He immediately asks her to find him a somewhere good for web slinging but his options leave something to be desired. Instead he climbs up to the tallest thing he can find and sits there looking over the city. Sort of city. It’s better than nothing. ]

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[babyavenger]

I mean, I gotta know what 'it' is first, but maybe?

[ he kneels down by all the broken parts to get a better look. ]

[makeanentrance]

[He doesn't answer straight away, debating whether to let Peter just work it out for himself. But it wasn't a very clear picture right now and he knew it, so he does reply.]

Robotic legs.

I was trying to get them to walk on their own. One step at a time. Literally and figuratively.

I am working on creating an A.I.

I... should have put together more of their body. Vision, especially, so they could navigate by sight but I... became impatient for results. I think I overloaded the system.

[Now he sounds regretful.]

[babyavenger]

[ That's not the weirdest thing he's heard of considering he has an AI in his suit. Karen's the best. ]

Mm.. possibly.

[ Peter comments, sifting through the parts a little more. ]

Mr Stark is probably the guy to go to for this kinda thing buuut I guess he's no around anymore so I'll see what I can do.

[makeanentrance]

Stark? Do you mean Tony Stark? He wouldn't help me.

I don't even know why you would.

[idontgetpaid]

Fair enough I guess. But geez, you were laid up for weeks? What'd you have?

[outlierdirector]

Oh... sorry to hear.

I've known people who had it. How did you manage to catch that in a desert?

[babyavenger]

bronchitis.

It sucked.

[babyavenger]

mutants?

You mean like enhanced?

[babyavenger]

just lucky that way, ig

[iseegoblins]

Kinda. We're basically people with different genetics that gave us powers.

[babyavenger]

[ SHRUG ]

I don't have a reason not to help you so, why not? I like helping people-like I said, it's kinda what I do.

[makeanentrance]

You've never helped me before.

Very much the opposite...

[He pauses, sighs.]

But this place is... different. Which is... good. I think.

[babyavenger]

right.

where I'm from we call that enhanced.

which.

sounds a lot nicer.

No Offense.

[iseegoblins]

Offense kinda taken. I mean its just what we are, we were born with genetic mutations.

[idontgetpaid]

Gross. That definitely does suck. How'd you not go crazy being stuck inside for so long?

[babyavenger]

bold of you to assume i didn't go crazy.

but uh

i just read a lot. im used to poor health problems so it wasn't anything i didn't grow up with.

[babyavenger]

sorry!

i really didn't mean to offend it was just that i thought

idek what i thought. i shoulda just kept my mouth shut. again, sorry.

[babyavenger]

Hey man, an alternate version of me is just that - alternate. Which is to say, not me.

What that version of me did doesn't predict what I'll do and I happen to like helping people.

[idontgetpaid]

[ He only knew a bit of Peter's history before the spider bite (mostly what he'd read in some of the published material), but he isn't sure whether asking about it was okay or not. ]

What were reading? Anything good?

[makeanentrance]

People who deserve it, you mean.

Not... master criminals who have followed the wrong path for many years.

Even if they now regret it.

[He's very much leaning into a rather theatrical victimized villain mentality.]

[iseegoblins]

It's fine. We just kinda get a lot of shit for it back home. A lot of people trying to use mutant as an insult or something we should be embarrassed about hearing. Probably a bit too defensive because of that.

[babyavenger]

[ he just lets out an exasperated sigh because he could have sworn they covered this already? ]

Um. No? I mean that's a tricky question I guess because who's to say who doesn't deserve help? I'm not gonna help you or anyone else hurt someone but other stuff? I don't have a reason not to.

and you already said you didn't want to do the super villain thing anymore. Push it too hard and I'm gonna be inclined to doubt.

[makeanentrance]

[His paranoia is showing but he tries to tamp it down again.]

It's difficult to think of a Spider-Man who isn't the enemy. Even after MJ and I...

[He trails off.]

[babyavenger]

[ He visibly stiffens at that name. Even after he and MJ what? He doesn't want to think the wrong thing-he really, really doesn't. He sucks in a breath through his nose and lets it out through his mouth. ]

Y-you and MJ...?

[ Does he mean Michelle Jones? Did this guy do something to her? If he did well.. then Peter can't promise he won't hit him. But his gut is telling him it was likely they just had a talk or something, after all he'd definitely think of Spider-Man as an enemy if he hurt her in anyway. ]

[makeanentrance]

[Of course Beck is talking about the one from his world - Mary Jane - who has never even been here but he doesn't know he has to clarify just yet.]

Yes, she trusts me now and we got along so well when we worked together. She's very special.

[He sounds very fond of her.]