Tobey and Andrew get lost on the way home
So I have an idea and I wonder what people think of it.
Tobey and Andrew materialize at the same time and place in a New York that isn't theirs and they confirm that by checking their respective homes' locations. They discover that there is another Spiderman in this universe who has mastered the symbiote suit. They meet him at what should be Tobey's home. After a brief confrontation because Tobey doesnt trust symbiotic, Andrew is taken aback because he himself wore a black suit for a while when he tried to properly mourn Gwen. Things get harder when new-Peter reveals that he and Gwen are married in this world.
The Spidermen agree to try to find a sorcerer supreme in this universe and their search leads them to Brother Voodoo, who is this universe's Sorceror Supreme. He says Strange has been missing in some interdimensional conflict (see MoM) but that he'll do what he can to help.
Drumm takes some readings from Tobey and Andrew and hypothesizes that what Strange was trying to do might not have accounted for outside forces and was very difficult to start with. There's some fun explanation for the differences between the Spidermen we've met so far. But they should come back in a day so he has tome to figure this all out.
The Spidermen go out on a justice-spree as three of them make short work of several of Spiderman's rogues whom we otherwise wouldn't see, but it becomes increasingly evident that Garfield is having a difficult time, especially when they battle this universe's Doc Connor, who is particularly vicious.
Rescuing MJ where he failed to rescue Gwen, the battle at the SoL, seeing the black suit and this Gwen, being lost and helpless in a world of magic he can't explain - the emotions of it are getting to him.
They return to Voodoo the next day and Voodoo is grim. He's found the issue. The spell should have worked, but was altered in effect when something went wrong on the receiving end for Andrew. It rejected him and his rejection piggy-backed him onto Tobey, which wasn't supposed to happen, and then Tobey's multiversal vector was altered as well, so they both ended up here. Andrew isn't happy about being rejected by his home. Voodoo says there was nothing to be done about that - it's gone.
How can a universe be gone? Andrew starts panicking. Friends, family, the people he left behind and whom he protected - all gone? Voodoo says the branch off of which Andrew's universe used to exist was removed. Where a whole group of universe's should be, there is instead nothing.
Andrew panics and leaves. The other Spidermen give chase, but lose him. They try every avenue they can thinking they might find him, but he's nowhere to be found. They go back to Voodoo to seek assistance, but Voodoo has been incapacitated. In his study, there is Andrew, reading and learning as fast as a man insane with grief can learn. A battle ensues where Andrew is now wielding magical powers and overpowers the two other Spidermen. They are both rendered unconscious.
When they come too, Andrew has spent the last while finalizing his plan. They struggle to plead with him, but Andrew has been reading. He believes that a universe can't be erased: a clipped branch doesn't cease to exist but just falls to the ground. So he's going to clip this branch and follow the other universes to wherever they've gone.
Voodoo says he can't - he hasn't had the time to even understand the basics of what he's saying would require. Andrew says it doesn't take long to learn how to blow up a lab. A loose monkey could do it. If this universe ceases to exist because of his actions, then they'll probably end up where the other universes did anyway. "Death is like gravity - everything falls in the same direction." And if they don't and it destroys them, no one will know better.
Tobey pleads with him. Peter finally breaks free and frees Tobey and Voodoo, but Andrew has empowered himself. All three of them fight as best they can to overpowered Andrew, but he's making progress. Learning as Andrew goes, Voodoo recognizes that he might actually know what he's doing enough to pull it off. Voodoo, at the last moment, changes a glyph in the spell, reversing the process and shoving the erasure force inward instead of outward, and the power descends into Andrew.
Voodoo tries to save him, but can't do enough. As we look down at Andrew, we realize that he still exists, but the power has changed him. His suit has changed and is now purple and green and aglow.
Tobey asks what's happened to him. Voodoo says that Andrew was brilliant - more brilliant than he expected. He figured out the erasure magic well enough to unleash it, but Voodoo could alter the spell before it was too late. It was a last moment option. Andrew's spell was vulnerable and sloppy, so changing it was still dangerous. So Voodoo had very few options that wouldnt be catastrophic. Reversing its direction was the best choice.
"There is little of him left now. His spell wasn't proper. The effects weren't complete. It erased so much of him but not all. He is a shell now. A void where Peter used to be. Where once there was a garden, now there is only a chasm."
Tobey and Peter sit with Andrew for some time. They speak, but Andrew doesn't remember anything. He asks questions, but the answers slip away and he asks them again.
Tobey and Peter ask Voodoo what can be done. Voodoo says it would take time to figure out the totality of what's happened and that reversing these forces is the same as playing with them. Voodoo will take care of him. But they can do nothing.
Voodoo informs Tobey that his universe still exists. He can at least be sent back. And so Peter and Tobey say their goodbyes and Tobey returns home, leaving Peter and Andrew sitting together, one nearly as lost as the other.
Tobey returns home to his family. They embrace and Tobey asks his family how long he's been gone. They say a week. Tobey says it's a long story and that he's sorry it took him so long to come back. His daughter says to him its okay - she knew he would come back. "There was no way you could just up and forget about us." Tobey breaks down.
Tobey and Andrew materialize at the same time and place in a New York that isn't theirs and they confirm that by checking their respective homes' locations. They discover that there is another Spiderman in this universe who has mastered the symbiote suit. They meet him at what should be Tobey's home. After a brief confrontation because Tobey doesnt trust symbiotic, Andrew is taken aback because he himself wore a black suit for a while when he tried to properly mourn Gwen. Things get harder when new-Peter reveals that he and Gwen are married in this world.
The Spidermen agree to try to find a sorcerer supreme in this universe and their search leads them to Brother Voodoo, who is this universe's Sorceror Supreme. He says Strange has been missing in some interdimensional conflict (see MoM) but that he'll do what he can to help.
Drumm takes some readings from Tobey and Andrew and hypothesizes that what Strange was trying to do might not have accounted for outside forces and was very difficult to start with. There's some fun explanation for the differences between the Spidermen we've met so far. But they should come back in a day so he has tome to figure this all out.
The Spidermen go out on a justice-spree as three of them make short work of several of Spiderman's rogues whom we otherwise wouldn't see, but it becomes increasingly evident that Garfield is having a difficult time, especially when they battle this universe's Doc Connor, who is particularly vicious.
Rescuing MJ where he failed to rescue Gwen, the battle at the SoL, seeing the black suit and this Gwen, being lost and helpless in a world of magic he can't explain - the emotions of it are getting to him.
They return to Voodoo the next day and Voodoo is grim. He's found the issue. The spell should have worked, but was altered in effect when something went wrong on the receiving end for Andrew. It rejected him and his rejection piggy-backed him onto Tobey, which wasn't supposed to happen, and then Tobey's multiversal vector was altered as well, so they both ended up here. Andrew isn't happy about being rejected by his home. Voodoo says there was nothing to be done about that - it's gone.
How can a universe be gone? Andrew starts panicking. Friends, family, the people he left behind and whom he protected - all gone? Voodoo says the branch off of which Andrew's universe used to exist was removed. Where a whole group of universe's should be, there is instead nothing.
Andrew panics and leaves. The other Spidermen give chase, but lose him. They try every avenue they can thinking they might find him, but he's nowhere to be found. They go back to Voodoo to seek assistance, but Voodoo has been incapacitated. In his study, there is Andrew, reading and learning as fast as a man insane with grief can learn. A battle ensues where Andrew is now wielding magical powers and overpowers the two other Spidermen. They are both rendered unconscious.
When they come too, Andrew has spent the last while finalizing his plan. They struggle to plead with him, but Andrew has been reading. He believes that a universe can't be erased: a clipped branch doesn't cease to exist but just falls to the ground. So he's going to clip this branch and follow the other universes to wherever they've gone.
Voodoo says he can't - he hasn't had the time to even understand the basics of what he's saying would require. Andrew says it doesn't take long to learn how to blow up a lab. A loose monkey could do it. If this universe ceases to exist because of his actions, then they'll probably end up where the other universes did anyway. "Death is like gravity - everything falls in the same direction." And if they don't and it destroys them, no one will know better.
Tobey pleads with him. Peter finally breaks free and frees Tobey and Voodoo, but Andrew has empowered himself. All three of them fight as best they can to overpowered Andrew, but he's making progress. Learning as Andrew goes, Voodoo recognizes that he might actually know what he's doing enough to pull it off. Voodoo, at the last moment, changes a glyph in the spell, reversing the process and shoving the erasure force inward instead of outward, and the power descends into Andrew.
Voodoo tries to save him, but can't do enough. As we look down at Andrew, we realize that he still exists, but the power has changed him. His suit has changed and is now purple and green and aglow.
Tobey asks what's happened to him. Voodoo says that Andrew was brilliant - more brilliant than he expected. He figured out the erasure magic well enough to unleash it, but Voodoo could alter the spell before it was too late. It was a last moment option. Andrew's spell was vulnerable and sloppy, so changing it was still dangerous. So Voodoo had very few options that wouldnt be catastrophic. Reversing its direction was the best choice.
"There is little of him left now. His spell wasn't proper. The effects weren't complete. It erased so much of him but not all. He is a shell now. A void where Peter used to be. Where once there was a garden, now there is only a chasm."
Tobey and Peter sit with Andrew for some time. They speak, but Andrew doesn't remember anything. He asks questions, but the answers slip away and he asks them again.
Tobey and Peter ask Voodoo what can be done. Voodoo says it would take time to figure out the totality of what's happened and that reversing these forces is the same as playing with them. Voodoo will take care of him. But they can do nothing.
Voodoo informs Tobey that his universe still exists. He can at least be sent back. And so Peter and Tobey say their goodbyes and Tobey returns home, leaving Peter and Andrew sitting together, one nearly as lost as the other.
Tobey returns home to his family. They embrace and Tobey asks his family how long he's been gone. They say a week. Tobey says it's a long story and that he's sorry it took him so long to come back. His daughter says to him its okay - she knew he would come back. "There was no way you could just up and forget about us." Tobey breaks down.
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