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MAX, FLINT AND LIZARD were waiting for the attack, as the three Spider-Men jumped off the crown of the Statue of Liberty and (Y/N) took a higher altitude, protecting herself from the electric rays that Max was aiming at her, but also avoiding the sand from Flint.

"Okay, Spider-Men, (Y/N)," Peter said as he jumped off the side of the scaffolding. "Sandman's first."

"I'm gonna lead him inside the statue," Peter 2 ran through the floor of the scaffolding with Flint hot on his heels.

"I'll meet you at the top," Peter 3 replied back before he grabbed the cure that had been webbed to the tubes and ran along the path, being thrown over to the side by the Lizard, who pinned him to the ground.

Peter swung through the air close to them and this gave Peter 3 the perfect opportunity to throw it directly at him. "Peter 1!"

"I got it!" he caught it in his hand before Max appeared in front of him, throwing him aside because of the electricity and the cure left his hand when he hit the floor.

(Y/N) noticed how Peter 2 was leading Flint to the inside of the statue and rushed out of the sand's reach as he climbed, and she didn't think twice before flying towards the place she'd seen the device land and grab it with blue mist, going in the direction of the statue.

Before she could get any closer, Max's figure flickered and appeared in front of her, the buzzing electricity throwing her back because of this. She raised her hand in the air and flicked her wrist, which made several identical copies of herself to surround him to buy her time.

"Guys, I'm at the top!" Peter 2 yelled out, his body being covered in sand. "I need the cure!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming!" (Y/N) answered and flew towards the crown of the statue, where she threw the device directly at his hand, seeing how he caught it with ease.

Peter 2 activated the device and this made a yellow light to shine at the top of the statue, covering Flint entirely as the sand began to dissolve from his body and fall into the ground.

Max grew frustrated at the trick she'd pulled on him, and he thrusted his arms out to break electric rays all around him and break the illusion. (Y/N) saw this and joined the Spider-Men at the top of the statue immediately, all gathering to think of the next part of the plan.

"How do we stop him?" Peter 2 asked.

Peter 3 held on his grip to the tip of the statue's crown. "I've never seen him this powerful."

"It's the arc reactor. We gotta get it off him."

"You're not gonna take this away from me," Max shook his head. Peter shot a web directly at the arc reactor and he removed it from his chest without effort. "That's not gonna work."

He shot an immense ray of electricity at them and the group jumped out of the way in time, all while the parts of the scaffolding crumbled down to the ground.

Peter landed on the side, "Okay. We gotta do this up close. Peter 2, go right. Peter 3, go left. (Y/N), you'll distract him. On me."

(Y/N) thrusted her hands down and formed two spheres of energy in her hands to form a dome around Max to restrain the electricity inside, but he reacted quickly and broke free to aim a ray at her and throw her backwards just as Peter 3 attempted in jumping at him, but Max was quicker and used different electric rays to hold him up and tug his arms and legs.

Going noticed by (Y/N), the Lizard had broken free from the webs in his claws and climbed all the way up to the opened portal where Ned and MJ were, she pulled herself into a higher altitude to hold back the Lizard as her friends ran away. Peter got distracted by his friends' cries and shrieks that Max shot an electric ray directly at his chest and threw him back, and he swung up in the air to join (Y/N)'s side and help her.

Meanwhile, Peter 3 was still restrained by Max that the device fell out of his hands, but Peter 2 webbed it up and grabbed it before it got lost, ready to try again before a familiar mechanical tentacle wrapped itself around his chest.

Otto came out from the scaffolding with his own tentacles holding him in place, grabbing onto Peter 3 too before looking at Max. "Leave them. They're mine."

"I don't need your help. I got it just fine," Max said.

Peter 2 fought against the grip that the tentacle had on his neck. "Dr. Octavius, no."

Instead of attacking either of them, the remaining mechanical arm grabbed onto Max's chest, catching him by surprise.

"What are you doing?" Max grunted. "Get it off of me."

The tentacles dropped both Peter's in the ground and it picked up the device from the floor, placing it directly at Max's chest to absorb all the energy inside him with the green lights shining up.

"There you go."

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MJ AND NED ran through the scaffolding and looked behind their shoulders every once in a while to see how the Lizard was still following after them, as they still had the box in hand. Through their run, MJ was able to snatch the cure from the webs as Ned opened up a portal out of panic, trying to get them away but instead opened a portal through the ocean.

This seemed to work though, since the water passed right by them and covered the Lizard whole, throwing him back. Water poured down the floors of the scaffolding as (Y/N) restrained the Lizard's arms as it prepared to launch at Peter.

"MJ!" Peter cried.

MJ threw the cure at him and he caught it with ease, and Peter gave a firm nod to (Y/N) to let the Lizard go, placing the bottle in front of him as it took on a bite, which caused the green cloud of smoke to explode out of it. The effect threw him back, and his eyes turned into a sickly green into their somewhat original color.

Ned seemed too amazed by the scene until MJ grabbed the box out of his hands again. "We gotta hide this thing."

"Oh, right," Ned closed his eyes for concentration and moved his arm in a circular motion that opened a portal to a quiet night scenery.

"Nice, Ned!" MJ cheered before it all died out.

Stephen Strange walked out of the portal with sloppy steps, stumbling as he set foot on the scaffolding and eyed the two. "Where are they?"

He flicked his wrist and the box flew back into his hands along with the golden ring, which caused both MJ and Ned to protest.

"Before you do anything, Mister — Doctor Strange, Peter's plan is working," Ned ranted.

Stephen frowned. "What plan?"

"They're curing them," Ned pointed to the level below them, and Stephen took a step forward to be able to see the scene from below.

(Y/N) carefully joined Peter's side and blew the cloud of smoke away as Peter looked down at the man, who seemed to be in shock as he stared down at his body with tears in his eyes.

"Dr. Connors?" Peter carefully called.

"Welcome back, sir," (Y/N) nodded politely at him, although it was ironic since she'd threatened him a few hours ago.

"Well, I'll be damned," Stephen muttered, he then turned back to face Ned. "Did you just open a portal?"

"Yes, sir, I did."

Stephen only hummed in response and walked away without another word, the red cape blowing back with his steps. MJ and Ned exchanged a look as they watched him walk away, since they were expecting a much bigger reaction.

Meanwhile, Otto stared down at the ripped arc reactor that he'd grabbed out of Max's chest, the glint of admiration in his eyes as he looked at it behind his glasses. "The power of the sun."

A thud caught his attention and he looked back to see Peter 2 a few feet away. "In the palm of your hand."

"Peter?" Otto called, uncertain.

Peter 2 removed his mask and took a step forward. "Otto."

A smile formed on Otto's features. "Oh, it's good to see you, dear boy."

"It's good to see you."

"You're all grown up," Otto chuckled. "How are you? How is she? How's (Y/N)?"

"Trying to do better."

An orange light flickered and a portal opened up in the highest point of the scaffolding, and Stephen walked out of it with a face that clearly said that his patience was running thin.

(Y/N) landed on the ground and Peter immediately joined her side, pulling his own mask off. "Strange, wait, we're so close."

"Skip it!" Stephen snapped. "I've been dangling over the Grand Canyon for 12 hours."

"I know, I know, I know — "

Peter 3 hit the ground on his left side and Stephen looked around, noticing three different pairs of Spider-Man suits in front of him, all while (Y/N) offered a sly smirk, enjoying this.

"I'm sorry about that, sir. I mean — "

"You went to the Grand Canyon?" Peter 2 spoke up.

"He could have used your help," Peter 3 added.

"Yeah, let's go against him," (Y/N) nodded.

"No, no, no. It's okay," Peter raised his hands in defense. "These are my new friends."

"I'll make this situation a lot easier for you, Stephen," (Y/N) clapped her hands together and looked back to face the other Peter's. "This is Peter Parker, and Peter Parker. My boyfriends. In a different universe."

"Oh, great," Stephen scoffed under his breath.

Peter cleared his throat. "They're here to help. This is the wizard that I was telling you about."

"Look, I am really impressed that you've managed to give them all a second chance, kid," Stephen said. "But this has to end, now."

"Can the Spider-Man come out to play?" the familiar, yet maniacal voice of the Green Goblin broke through the air as his figure flew in from the clouds and into the structure, his familiar bombs flying around him.

Otto snapped the bombs around Stephen but Norman managed to snatch the box off his hands, flying away in his glider before one of Otto's tentacles grabbed him from the back. (Y/N) was about to grab onto the box but Stephen was quicker, using an orange rope to tug it himself.

Norman spun his glider and cut off the mechanical tentacle, and Stephen fixed his attention back on the box but didn't notice that there was a bomb stuck in between it. All three Peter's noticed this at the exact same time, eyes widening when they didn't have time to stop it.

"Strange, no!"

(Y/N) formed a protective shield around Peter to pull him aside, but the explosion shook the entire structure of the statue and caused the newest part, which was the Captain America shield to crumble down the levels of the scaffolding, all while the gold rings inside the box broke free.

Since (Y/N) had been distracted, the ground beneath her shook and didn't notice the other ticking bomb coming it's way at her. Peter tried to reach out to grab it, since he noticed the blade on the side of it but he was swooped by Norman's glider and taken away.

Peter 3 noticed this and immediately intercepted it, using his own body to grab (Y/N) against him to move her away from the bomb's direction. The bomb went off a few feet below, but he only looked back at her to see if she was alright.

"Are you okay?" he croaked out.

"Yeah," (Y/N) nodded, not processing what had happened. "I'm fine. Are you okay?"

Peter 3's eyes were red from resisting his tears but he managed to cover it up in a smile. "Yeah."

(Y/N) didn't hesitate to wrap her arms around his figure, since she knew that he probably needed that more than ever. "It's okay."

He sniffed and didn't respond, hearing to what she was about to say. "I'm proud of you. She's proud of you."

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FROM THE HIGHEST point in the Statue of Liberty, Stephen looked all around him as purple streaks formed themselves in the sky, cracking the surroundings and trying to break something out. He clasped his hands together and covered the cracks with orange light, which closed them completely.

(Y/N) left Peter 3's side to search for Ned and MJ, running through the rubble of the fallen structure with her boots clicking under her feet, also trying to find where Peter was.

"(Y/N)!" she heard MJ's voice call.

"Guys?" (Y/N) squinted her eyes to see how Ned and MJ rushed over to her to embrace her, the three of them searching for each other's injuries.

"(Y/N)!" Peter's voice cried from afar. "Ned! MJ!"

"Peter!" (Y/N) screamed, seeing his figure standing on the broken part of the copper shield, where Norman was on the ground too.

"Are you okay?"

"We're okay!"

The relief was evident on Peter's eyes before he turned back to face Norman, staring at him intensely with fiery eyes as the older man removed his goggles out of his head.

"Poor Peter," Norman taunted. "Too weak to send me home to die."

"No," Peter growled. "I just wanna kill you myself."

"Attaboy," Norman grinned.

Peter charged directly at him, firing his webs at him as Norman easily blocked his blows and whistled when he got his blade up, as if he was challenging him to do better. This enraged Peter even further, and he moved back to punch Norman with rhythm before flipping him above his head, crashing him to the ground.

He didn't stop there, Peter continued punching Norman straight to the face without backing down to catch his breath, all while Norman was down on his knees. (Y/N) knew this had gotten too far and began to walk forward, when she felt the presence of Peter 2 and 3 on her sides, all thinking the same thing.

Peter stopped after a minute, grabbing the broken glider from the ground and prepared to pierce it straight into Norman's chest when someone interfered in between the two, holding the glider back.

The anger was bubbling out of Peter's eyes but Peter 2 didn't have to say anything to force him to lower his guard, nodding at him to calm down. (Y/N) ran into the scene, careful to watch her footing as she headed towards her boyfriend.

Before anyone else could do anything, Peter 2's breath hitched at the back of his throat, him falling to his knees as Norman pierced his blade on his side, which made him fall back to the ground.

"She was there. . .because of you," Norman laughed evilly, standing on his feet. "I might have struck the blow, but you. . .You are the one that killed her."

Peter 3 threw the cure in the air and Peter caught it with ease, striking it in Norman's neck as he grunted in pain because of the abrupt move. Norman fell back and groaned, the evil glint in his eye leaving being evident to everyone.

He was confused and guilt consumed him. "Peter. What have I done?"

(Y/N) and Peter 3 ran towards the others, where the latter knelt down besides Peter 2 to assist on his wounds, and she wrapped an arm around Peter's shoulders to ease him down, flicking her fingers on his temple to ooze his thoughts away.

"It's you," Peter 2 breathed out.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm good. I've been stabbed before."

Peter 3 shushed him. "Oh, good, good, good."

(Y/N) and Peter knelt down on the other side and noticed the wound, both wincing at the sight. "Oh, man."

"Hey, nice catch," Peter 3 looked up to face him.

"Nice throw," Peter smiled.

Peter 2 stared ahead, his eyes fixed on the sky above him with a frown. "What? Is that happening, or am I dying?"

They all looked up at a strange cracking sound to notice how the purple cracks formed all around in the sky, and how figures came out of the cracks, breaking through the sun rising sky.

"Yeah, no, it's happening. It's real," (Y/N) confirmed.

"Are there people in the sky?" Peter 2 questioned. "(Y/N), why does one look like you?"

(Y/N) looked up at this and caught a faint figure in one of the cracks, which seemed to wear another version of her blue gown and crown. Something snapped inside her mind when she noticed, but no one seemed to pay attention to it.

"I'll fix this," she muttered, reassuring the trio and herself. She looked back to face her Peter. "Go, while I'll see what I can do. They'll be okay, right?"

"Yeah," the two nodded.

Peter aimed a web at the closest thing to him to push himself off the ground and join Stephen's side at the highest point of the statue. (Y/N) thrusted her hands to the side, finding a better place to land where she could figure out how to help, since she didn't want this to end badly.

(Y/N) landed on the ground and opened her arms with a grunt, blue energy flowing out of her body in waves, which seemed to close down parts of the cracks and Stephen noticed this from above, a worried glance in his eyes.

(Y/N) kept her eyes on the sky to check if the cracks were still open, the blue energy still coming out of her as Ned and MJ ran towards the place where it came from to find her. (Y/N) then saw how the cracks began to close up, but a ring of runes formed around Stephen's form all the way up there, and a frown reached her face.

"(Y/N)?" Ned called out for her, and this made her concentration drop and turn towards his voice, and saw how him and MJ were running up to her.

"Oh, my God," MJ embraced her and (Y/N) couldn't help but pull her even closer, the tiredness already growing on her body. "What was that? What did you do?"

"I don't know," (Y/N) confessed. "I. . .can't — "

A thud cut her off, and three different pairs of eyes all turned to see how Peter hit the ground beside them and they all ran towards him, the four gathering in a group hug as he breathed out, "Oh, you're okay."

"Are you okay?" he asked again, all pulling back from the hug to look at each other.

"Yeah, we're okay," MJ nodded.

"Only physically, but yeah," (Y/N) chuckled drily.

Peter's eyes fixed on her form and his face contorted to one of concern, cradling her face in his hands when he noticed the cuts all over her face, blood trailing down her bottom lip and across her forehead. "Oh, my God, you're bleeding."

"It's fine," (Y/N) reassured. "I promise."

"You sure?"

"It's okay. It's okay."

"Good."

"We should go, right?" MJ spoke up.

This drained the color out of Peter's face as he looked up at the sky before looking back at the group, holding them at arms length. "Yeah. You're gonna forget who I am."

"What?" Ned shook his head in disbelief.

MJ furrowed her brows. "Forget? What are you talking about?"

(Y/N) didn't say anything, since it seemed like it was her biggest nightmare coming true. Her eyes were fixed on Peter, thinking he was playing a joke on them and it was all a bad dream.

"It's okay. I'm gonna come and find you, and I'll explain everything. I'll make you remember me," Peter explained, his eyes red. "And it'll be like none of this ever happened. Okay?"

"But what if that doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" (Y/N)'s voice cracked, but she kept it all together. "What if neither of us can remember you? I can't bear to live like that."

"I know. (Y/N), I know," Peter didn't want her to go through this, but he thought it was for the best.

"There's not something we can do? We can't come up with a plan or something?" MJ suggested. "There's always something we can do."

"Please tell me I can do something to stop this. Please," (Y/N) pleaded, shaking her head with begging eyes. "Why is everything falling apart and I can't fix it?"

"There's nothing we can do," Peter told her, grabbing onto her hands. "But it'll be okay."

Ned looked at him. "You promise?"

"Yeah, I promise."

They extended their hands and clasped them together, doing their secret handshake for one last time, pulling each other for a hug as they both sniffed into their shoulders.

"I'll come find you, okay?" Peter muttered against  Ned's jacket.

"I know you will," Ned wiped his tears away.

"Okay."

"Okay."

"You better," MJ pointing an accusing finger at him, her own tears threatening to fall. "If you don't, I'll figure it out. I've done it once with her, I can do it again."

Peter nodded and they shared a small side hug, and his attention was now pulled back to (Y/N), staring into each other's eyes like no one else was watching. Both dreaded this moment, the day they would have to say goodbye to the other.

"I promise, I'll fix this," he said.

"Magic sucks," (Y/N) sniffed and wiped a falling tear from her cheek. "I hate it."

Peter laughed weakly. "Funny you're the one saying that, but yeah, me too."

(Y/N) cradled his face in her hands, passing her thumb through his bloodied cheek. "I love you."

A wave of emotion washed over Peter's eyes, remembering the talk he had with the other two Peter's about this. His heart twisted in his chest. "I love you — "

"Wait and tell me when you see me again," (Y/N) cut him off.

"Sure," he nodded at her request, voice quivering. "We've said goodbye before, so it stands to say."

"We'll say hello again," (Y/N) offered a weak smile, leaning forward to press her lips against his in one last kiss, pouring all of her emotions to it. Peter pulled her even closer by the waist, and could taste the salty taste of her tears in her lips.

They pulled away and connected their foreheads, swaying from side to side when thunder rumbled above the couple. The ring of runes completely formed itself in the sky and the spell was casted once more, taking with it the villains and the two added superheroes, closing in the cracks once and for all.

Peter took a step back and jumped on the ledge, preparing himself for what was coming and shot one web to swing himself off, leaving all behind him with a heavy heart after he lifted his eyes to nod one more time with Stephen, something that (Y/N) only seemed to notice as she tilted her head.

No more fights. No more fame. All was well, but for a short period of time.