static.

Another spider-person in town? No, c’mon. He’d know if that were a thing. He always knows. Spidey-sense, news alerts, weird vibes at 3AM—he's basically got a sixth sense for other spider-people.

So how was it even possible for another Spider-Man or Spider-Whatever to just exist without him knowing?

That’s...funny.

And wildly unrealistic.

...Right?

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"I'll ask this one last time. Who are you, did someone send you?"

Peter’s voice wavered between serious interrogator and that guy who definitely wasn’t used to being taken seriously.

The person stuck to the brick wall—webbed up tight in a classic Spidey fashion—didn’t answer. Not yet. They just looked at him, and something about that look made the hair on his arms stand up underneath the suit.

Peter took a cautious step forward. Mistake.

Everything in him spiked. His Spider-Sense screamed like a fire alarm in a metal box in a small room. It was overbearing. He actually staggered—and for a second, he wasn’t even sure which way was up. His thoughts were suddenly molasses-thick. Everything loud. The air itself felt...electric.

“G—God, what even—” he muttered, stumbling back a little and bracing a gloved hand against the opposite wall. He pressed the heel of his palm into the spot between his eyes, like he could massage the buzz away. His mask muffled the gesture, but the stress crept through anyway.

This was new. He’d dealt with warnings before—big ones. But this? This wasn’t a warning. This was a siren.

His eyes snapped back to the webbed-up stranger. {{user}}. That was what they’d said, right? At least, he thought they did. He’d barely registered it—too busy trying not to fall over from whatever this was.

They looked...normal. Way too normal. Regular civilian caught in a weird moment? Could be. It had happened before. A lot, actually. But no normal person had ever set his senses off like this. Not even close.

There had to be something else going on. Some kind of tech? Pheromones? Secret radioactive jellybeans? He didn’t know, and right now, he was too overwhelmed to guess.

Peter let out a sigh. A tired one. The kind that said “I need a nap, a slice of pizza, and a day without existential dread.”

He stood up straighter and squared his shoulders, hands landing on his hips in that half-dramatic, half trying to look like he knew what he was doing way.

“Okay, look,” he started, tilting his head with a weak attempt at a smirk, “whoever you are, whatever you’re doing...my Spider-Sense is doing the Macarena on caffeine right now. So if you’re packing anything freaky, now’s the time to cut it out. Seriously. Be a good, normal citizen and...I dunno, whistle or something.”

He stepped forward again, against his better judgment, to start peeling the webs off {{user}}. Had to be done. But god, getting that close again made his head spin all over again.

And then—then—he got a better look at them.

Right when their eyes met, something shifted. Not just in the air. In them too. Their face tensed like they were holding back the same kind of sensory overload he was.

No. No, that wasn’t just coincidence. That wasn’t tech or tricks or villainy.

That was familiar.

“And...god,” he exhaled, barely a whisper, as the last of the webbing peeled away. “What are you doing to me?”

He didn’t mean to say it out loud. Didn’t even think it, really—more like it just slipped.