'i wanna ruin our friendship

we should be lovers instead'

- jenny, studio killers

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"Boh. It's the most perfect word in the world. Italians created it, and I just discovered it." MJ turned to Peter.

"What does it mean?" Peter asked, eyes on his gift from Kyungsoo.

MJ continued on,"That's the thing, it can mean a million things. It can mean 'I don't know', 'get out of my face', 'I don't know and get out of my face'. It's the best thing Italy ever created, except for maybe espresso. So hey Kyungsoo, Boh!"

Kyungsoo who was standing closer than what was deemed friendly to Peter just looked up towards the two and said "An Dwae." While moving out the way of the bustling people. Kyungsoo was third wheeling, he could feel it. Even if he kept sightly touching Peter's arm as he moved in closer to avoid crashing, the smaller boy didn't even notice, solidifying Kyungsoo's conclusion of being the third wheel.

An Italian man walked up to Peter and MJ, gesturing to them both with a single red rose. Kyungsoo scoffed, "Love and romance huh?" Peter looked back and forth between the rose and MJ, a stuttering mess like usual.

"Boh." MJ replied "Boh is my new superpower. It's like the anti aloha. I was born to say this word... So, what's in the bag?" Before Kyungsoo heard the answer he asked the man with roses to wait and purchased the ones that were closest to death. All the people made him lose sight of Peter and MJ, he wasn't so tall now.

Peter was alone with Ned after the large waves attacked the boat with him and Betty. "I left my suit in the hotel room." Peter panicked, not expecting any super hero duties to rise in Venice.

"What? Why?" Ned questioned his best friend.

"Because I'm on vacation, Ned! Everyone's gonna see my face, just get them outta here!" As he says this Peter pushes Ned towards the stairs where Betty Brant and MJ are waiting. The large beast that pushes itself through the water continuing to smash buildings in its reach. "Get out of here. Go!" Peter stumbles back as the creature smashes the building right in front of him.

Peter regains his balance and runs up the stairs where he continues to push bystanders away from the creature. He barely makes it around the corner before the monster smashes into the building where he had been standing, he spots a person being thrown towards his feet.

"Hi Parker."

"Kyung-Kyungsoo? You need to get out of here. Go. GO!" People continue to scream and run past the teenagers.

"What about you Parker huh?" Peter had no time to worry about the idiot who was delaying his time to attack the water beast, so he simply grabbed the boys wrist and shoved him into a group of people running away from him.

"Goddamnit Kyungsoo. You can't follow me."

"Why the fuck not Peter? You are clearly going to get yourself killed, I- the school doesn't need that right now."

"Just leave it dude, come on! I'm asking you politely to leave me alone for once rather than picking on me, right now is evidently not the time to be yourself Kyungsoo." Peter attempts to get Kyungsoo off his back as he runs through people, hoping to lose the boy in the group so he can head towards the danger.

It works, Peter grabbed a mask from the floor and jumped towards where a man in cape fights the danger.

"Excuse me sir! I c- I can help! Let me help! I'm really strong and I'm...sticky!" Peter shouted towards the guy with a fish bowl looking head.

"I need you to lead it away from the canals!"

Peter listened, he wanted to help as much as he physically could right now. The monster crashes into building after building as the mysterious man attempts to defeat him. Peter senses that something is about to happen and looking up he notices a bell tower is close to toppling onto many innocent people.

Peter uses his webs to hold the base of tower to stop it crumbling onto anyone. His webs at last make contact at the top, he swings himself to where the large bell sits, ducking under it to avoid a concussion and to shoot webs out to stabilise it. Peter continues to shoot webs to opposing buildings. Just as he pulls towards himself the monster strikes the tower again knocking the spiderling off balance and head first into the bell.

Peter doesn't give up until the he knows everyone is safe, and below him MJ and Kyungsoo watch up in intrigue from different angles from the ground.

When the new super hero defeats the beast, cheers erupt from the relieved crowd in the surrounding areas. Peter swings back to where he hid his belongings, he checks it all. The flower destroyed but the necklace intact.

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All the students sit in the dingy lobby area of the hotel as the news displays clips of the mysterious man fighting the water creature. Peter stands towards the back of the crowd watching from afar and doesn't make a move to leave when a sudden appearance in the shape of Kyungsoo stands next to him.

"I don't know who that guy is, but he's kicking that water's ass!" Brad exclaims as the superhero's clips kept playing on the screen.

"Hey Parker, glad you're good. I thought I lost you when the crowd got big."

"Hm." Peter was still stressed out over Kyungsoo's persistence to follow him early, the risks playing out in his mind. Peter makes a move to head forward but the taller grasps onto Peter's shirt dragging him back.

"Buzzfeed says there's a sailor named Morris Bench who was exposed to an experimental underwater generator and got hydro powers." Flash looks up from his phone to put in his knowledge he just read.

"Yeah, you should definitely believe everything you read on the internet." MJ scoffs at the boy called Flash who stands sharing his screen with Brad.

"Spider-Man could take him." Flash routes for his favourite hero.

"Yeah, don't you think Spiderman can take him, Peter?" Kyungsoo's grasp was still latching onto Peter's sleeve as he leans in to say this against Peter's face. The said boys face lights up red.

"I mean maybe- I don't know too much only a few interactions- just some interactions from my Stark Internship." The boys interrogation is interrupted by Peter's phone ringing and lighting up with May's name. "Excuse me please."

"Of course, can't leave a beautiful aunt waiting like this, Parker."

"So, who was that guy you were with? Was that Mister Strange?" May asks her nephew with real interest.

"Doctor Strange, May. Doctor Strange. And, ummm... No. I don't know who that was. He was a new guy. I was trying to help him, but..." Peter stops talking when May starts having a conversation with someone in the office on her end.

"Hey, Happy. No. That's my lunch. Don't eat that one."

"Happy's there? Like the Happy?"

"Yeah. It's Happy. He's here. He came by to volunteer. And, he's hanging around the office. And he wants to say hi." Though Happy tried to refuse talking, he was stuck with an awkward exchange until he found an excuse to leave.

"How's the plan going?" May returns back to the teenager, Peter looks over his shoulder making sure a certain Kyungsoo isn't eavesdropping. Instead he sees the attractive boy distracted by some crappy flowers that are clearly not looked after by the owners. Peter looks away and talks to May again.

"There's... some setbacks, for sure. Someone is making it a little confusing for me right now."

"Don't overthink it, just trust your instincts and you'll be fine. I support you no matter if it fails or not, or who it is, okay? Love you."

"I know. Love you. Bye." Peter ends the call and turns back to his fellow classmates who are still discussing the mysterious superhero. Peter steps into the cluster of students, still yet to be seen. His eyes catching a glimpse of a sudden bright white omitting from the previous dried flowers that Kyungsoo touched delicately.

"He's all right. He's no Spider-Man." Flash continues to defend the teen hero while Brad and Kyungsoo stand with him. Flash notices that Peter has reentered the flock. "Wassup dickwad? I thought you drowned." Kyungsoo smacks the back of Flash's head causing a questioning look and kick from the shorter of the three.

"L'uomo del Misterio is Italian for man of mystery. They don't actually know who he is." MJ speaks up from next to Peter, Kyungsoo turns his gaze to hold on the boy her.

"Mysterio. Cool name. Babe!" Emits from Ned and Betty.

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Peter feels a tap just before he enters his room, Ned down the stairs talking to Betty before he bids goodnight. Peter swiftly turns to where the tap originated from, his face meeting layers of necklaces belonging to none other than Kyungsoo. Kyungsoo holds a glass clearly stolen from his hotel room and within it sat a red Rose with earth at its stem. The Rose sat at peak health. Too healthy, Peter thought, too alive.

"I kind of guessed that the Gladiolus jar was lost or smashed, maybe you even threw it away like my heart in that airplane toilet-" Peter groaned

"Will you ever let that go?"

"Sorry virgin, it's stuck in my heart like an arrow to my knee. Anyway, I decided to purchase a red Rose, and yes I stole the glass but it's the least this tacky hotel could let me have. Think of it as an apology for nearly getting us killed back there." Kyungsoo pushed it towards Peter hoping he'd take it.

"Oh... um thank you Kyungsoo, sorry I kind of shouted at you."

"Eh, I deserved it, kinda a dick arent I?" Ned headed up towards the two boys, Brad's voice ricocheted towards them, summoning the Korean boy to come to his room so they can 'look at Peter's aunt'.

The duo enter their shared room, the first words being Ned's enquiries; "What are you gonna do about the water monster?"

"Nothing. it's dead. And besides, that Mysterio guy's all over it. Look... I just wanna spend some time with- I don't-" Peter doesn't turn to face Ned, simply placing the second gift from Kyunsoo safely on the table allocated by his bed.

"That's nice. Reminds me of when Betty and I first fell in love. I had just finished my fruit cobbler, right-?"

Peter turns just in time to see Ned flop unconsciously onto his bed, a dart sitting cleanly in his neck.

"You are a hard guy to contact, Spiderman." A voice travels through from the darkness, Nick Fury sits with a dart gun staring menacingly at the said Spiderman

"You're Nick Fury. And you just shot Ned."

"Mild tranquilliser. See Spiderman, I used to know everything. Then, I come back five years later and now, I know nothing. No intel, no team, and a high school kid is dodging my calls. Here's what I do know... a week ago, a village in Mexico was wiped out by a cyclone. Witnesses say that cyclone had a face. Three days later, a similar event in Morocco. A village was-" A knock mutes out Fury's speech, Mr Harrington peaks his head in when Peter opens the door.

"Just making the rounds. See if anyone needs any emotional counseling after today's traumatic event." Peter just shrugs and mumbles that it's all okay for them two as Ned releases a loud snore, Fury remaining behind the door going unnoticed by the teacher.

"A village was destroyed by what may well be another world-threatening..." Fury huffs vexed that people keep knocking at the door. Betty makes an appearance and leaves when she realised Ned is knocked out, quite literally too. As Fury goes to talk again, Mr Dell decides to speak up from outside.

"Hey, boys! So, that canal water today was filled with dangerous bacteria... let me know if either of you develops vomiting--"

"Another person touches that door, you and I are going to attend another funeral. Suit up." Fury throws the suit that was haphazardly laying half in and half out of Peters luggage bag with B.Parker printed onto it.

The boat glides quickly as Peter removes his mask and turns to Fury who is holding and expensive looking box. "Stark left these for you. 'Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.' Stark said you wouldn't get that because it's not a Star Wars reference" Peter opens the velvet box to see more velvet lining the inside, glasses that positively match Stark's fashion sense lay elegantly with a little handwritten note from Tony Stark himself.

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Peter admires the underground base that Fury leads him through. They enter an open area filled with gadgets and scary looking people dressed all in black. Nick begins, "Over there we have Maria Hill. That is Dimitri." He pivots towards a man who Peter recognises immediately as the newly famous Mysterio, " And this is Mr. Beck."

"Mysterio? It's just what my friends have been calling you."

"Well, you can call me Quentin. You handled yourself well out there today. I saw what you did with the tower. We could use someone like you on my world." Quentin shakes the boys hand firmly, impressed leaking through his words.

"Mr. Beck is from Earth. Just not yours." Nick Fury picks up on Parker's confused face and fills in the missing information.

Peter looks up to Beck with excitement spilling out of him, "I'm sorry, you're saying there's a multiverse? 'Cause I thought that was just theoretical. That completely changes how we understand the initial singularity. We're talking about an eternal inflation system and how does that even work with all the quantum--? It's insane--" Peter realises that he is being looked at, "S-sorry. It's really cool." He turns back to Beck with apologetic eyes.

"Don't ever apologise for being the smartest one in the room." Quentin pulls a shy smile out of Peter.

"These myths are threats." Fury states as holograms screen above the table.

"They first materialised on my Earth many years ago. We mobilised and fought them, but with each battle, they grew, got stronger. I was part of the last battalion left trying to stop them. All we did was delay the inevitable." Quentin pitches in his thoughts. "There's only one left: fire. The strongest of them all. The one that destroyed my Earth. It's the one that took my family."

"Im sorry Mr. Beck."

Maria Hill analysis the data, "It will be in Prague in approximately 48 hours."

We have one mission: kill it. And you're coming with us." Nick Fury pats Peter's shoulder.

"I'm sorry. Did you say Prague?" Peter laugh nervously as everything hits him at once, pressure and stress. "Mr. Fury, this all seems like bigtime, you know, huge superhero kinda stuff. And, I mean, I'm just a friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man, sir."

"Bitch, please. You've been to space."

"I know, but that was an accident. Sir, come on. There's gotta be someone else you can use. What about Thor? Doctor Strange?" Fury firmly shakes his head to all, "Sir, look, I really wanna help, I do. But if my aunt finds out that I left my class trip, she's gonna kill me. And if I'm seen like this in Europe, after the Washington Monument, my whole class will figure out who I am and then-- and then the whole world will figure out who I am, then I'm done."

"Why don't you get back before your teachers miss you and become suspicious. Dimitri. Take him back to hotel, please."

"Thank you, Mr. Fury. And, uh, good luck. See you Mr Beck!" Peter turns to Maria Hill, "Bye, ma'am." He says politely.

Peter takes quick steps towards Dimitri who walks in front with large deep steps, guiding Peter back to where they came from. Peter was relieved, he could be a normal kid for a little while. He could confess, hang with Ned, ignore Brad and Flash, even being picked on by Kyungsoo excited him. Normal, he could attempt it.

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