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Wip: The face of Destiny

Summary: Who's to say the Spider-verse was the only universe rigged by their protagonists? And what if one of those worlds didn't have their own, could anyone fill the role? Or in this case, could Gwen fulfill the role of protagonist even if she wasn't from that dimension? Or would be her attempts to finding out what's going on end in the everyone's ruin?

"Shoot, that last part, it sounded different somehow, right? As if was off. Could this cause a glitch?"

Gwen made sure to check her surroundings as subtly as possible, just in case she saw something out of order, that has happened earlier. When she lost her balance on that cliff, it has come natural to her to hold onto the wall even with one hand, she could had pulled herself back together.

Until the cliff started to glitch out, and she let it go out of fear.

She got safe and sound to the ground (her quick reflexes has helped her grab onto her phone, which saved her...why this wasn't the weirdest thing about this place?) And had hastily made friends with this mechanical pokemon. Who could or not be the anomaly that she needed to look out for.

Would be better if she had more information about this case, but what Jess told her before coming here wasn't too descriptive, to top it all off, nothing has been normal since she crossed that portal.

She had a dream, of someone explaining this place in a detail that felt weird in her ears. When she woke up, a note beside her has sent had only made things more confused and in high sight, kind of scary.

It gave her more questions than answers, and compared with has happened before? Didn't make things better.

Gwen still needed to wait to get more information from anyone in the Spider Society, but this is the information she had at the moment.

This world was inhabited by super powerful creatures that roamed freely as animals. And she had no clue how any of them worked.

This place was far away from the whatever was the name of the Web with their canon events; but it seemed to have some events on its own. Gwen didn't know which ones could be.

The phone that has appeared with her in this world, has only one Contact: Miles.

There were many things that she didn't understand, yet after all the things she had seen now, of being part of the Spider Society and seeing so many new recruits come on-

Who the heck is EleSpider?!

(Future scenes under the cut!)

At first, Gwen hasn't thought of checking the phone she had. She has kind of forgotten about them ever since she had her watch; since it did all what her phone use to, but with the people in the Spider Society.

Now that thing was more a hunk of metal in her wrist than anything useful.

Her guardian (the mom of the girl who was in exchange, apparently in some other academy.) The woman had given her some tips of how to use the map; she hasn't feel sure on what type of situation someone her age wouldn't know how to use a smartphone.

Yet this time around it was a RotomPhone, so Gwen appreciated the help.

And it was when looking around that she realized she had one contact: Miles.

It has been a gamble, it didn't need to be hers- the Miles she knew, (specially considering she has already seeing the Miles of this dimension.)

There wasn't any good reason to believe this could be the other one, but among the sea of weird things happening, it couldn't hurt to try right?

It felt weird calling him Spiderman, even if he technically was one. Miguel could say what he wanted about anomalies, but destiny or not, she knew what she saw in him.

Yet Gwen felt herself get frozen in shock as she read the response.

She didn't thought she would ever hear from him again.

Remaining calml, and professional (just in case Miguel could peak, even if she wasn't sure if they could probably establish contact.) Gwen had asked directly, wondering if he could have a clue. Neither Miguel nor Jess had given her too much information before coming, from what Jess mentioned; they were clueless about what was going on in an universe so different from theirs.

Somehow, Gwen felt the response surprise her even if it should had felt obvious.

It couldn't be a coincidence.

Miles was the only one she seemed able to contact without interference, and somehow he apparently to nice this universe well.

Despite Miguel's words about the dangers of anomalies; Hobie had mentioned something interesting to her once she had caved and told him what was Miles's situation (mostly because she felt guilty knowing and being unable to say anything.)

"Ok, not saying I am an expert in this dimensional deal but, if it was that important to be anomaly, wouldn't his universe had collapsed by now?"

Hobie didn't know about canon events, Gwen knew telling that much when their paranoid leader didn't like the guy was a gamble she couldn't risk. But they resonated in the back of her mind, what if he was right?

Right now, she had a few clues of what was going on, but technically she was both an anomaly and someone who needed to complete a role, so she needed to work things carefully or wouldn't end well for anyone.

Canon or not, Miles seemed to be able to do that already.

After learning how canon controlled the lives of the Spider people, Gwen had started to believe there was always an underlying reason that things happened to her, not just coincidences. She just needed to find which one was this.

To answer Miles's question, she decided to take a selfie with Miraidon and Fowglove.

Miles lost his shit.

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"That's better" She felt herself sigh in relief, as she ran a hand though her new haircut.

As one of the mysteries of her current situation, she had realized her hair had magically changed to how it looked before; short and wavy. It was a style she had decided after a list of different hairtcuts, looking for the right one.

The hand incident still made her angry, yet when she had looked at herself in the mirror, had realized she missed the uneven haircut she had gotten to associate with herself, and Miles too.

Gwen has managed to get the cut she wanted, even if it had taken getting the right things- Miles had explained is just how things worked here.

Because it was a videogame in his world.

The implications kind of scared her; not so much being in a world that worked with videogame logic (which wasn't that unheard on the Spider Society,) but more of the thought of, if this world had a similar replica as a videogame, could her life be on something like a movie, or a comic?

Yeah, maybe keep those thoughts down until it was 3 am and she couldn't sleep.

For now, she was taking it easy. They were in the wilderness, she had made a picnic for her and her companions, and was focusing in feeding everyone.

Foxglove, (her sprigatito that she choose on the blind thought hat she had at least heard how to take care of a cat,) had taken his piece out of her hand and ran to hide below the table.

Yeah, there was a reason she named him like a poison; it definitely liked to act as a menace to her at times.

Thought with some sadness, she had realized some of these creatures seemed off-put by her, as if they knew she wasn't from here.

"Agia" Miraidon chirped, sniffing her hands as if it was looking for more. It had an impressive appetite.

Smiling a bit, she petted its head.

It was weird, it felt kind of mechanic, but also warm and alive; it moved like nothing she has seen, and she has already seen a lot from other dimensions. It was also, one of the few pokemon who had been friendly to her since the beginning.

That also happens to be a weird pokemon no one has heard of.

Miles haven't been able to provide too much information. Apparently while pokemon was a well known franchise, this "region" in particular has just been announced, he doesn't have the amount of information he has from others. He would offer his advice in what he could, but even he didn't had it all.

"It couldn't had been that easy." She thought, not surprised of this being her luck.

Looking at the Rotomphone, she thought if he would know about ways to win the trust of pokemon; Foxglove was suppose to be her first pokemon partner, and they needed to get along. It was probably part of her job as a protagonist. Or whatever the heck she needed to do here.

She wasn't doing anything wrong, even if Miguel got mad, she could justify it with working with the best she could.

He didn't need to see every single conversation, besides, wasn't rude to ask for what she wanted and not see how he was doing?

They could talk for a bit about other things, too.

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Moving around has been easier than she expected, Gwen was also working carefully to not temp her luck.

Galar was the place her guardian and her kid were from, it shouldn't be far- but there was no information she could look to how to get there. Even if she could find a way to risk it, she knew what happened when she tried to go out of the house instead of following instructions.

Gwen preferred not fight with invisible walls again, or deal with creepy voices.

Getting up to Kitakami has been a shock, it was supposed to be a far away place; and for what Miles mentioned, it wasn't that common for the protagonist to go too far from its region. There were no more glitches, so she must be in the right track here.

Though if given the chance, she may had preferred to use Miraidon as a ride (even if swinging could work from time to time without recoil, this wasn't New York. The motor lizard was more reliable.) The fly on the plane has felt eternal, and being trapped on a small bus wasn't helping her mood.

Until the teacher mentioned something that caught her attention.

"Oh this is interesting, did you know that Castelia City has a resident super hero?"

Gwen needed all her self control to not jump from her seat after finally getting a good lead.

"A super hero?" She asks, as casually as she can.

Mrs. Briar smiles politely at her, looking thankful for having someone interested in the subject. "Yes! I know a few years ago we had the incident of the two heroes, but this is completely different! It seems to have powers and everything!"

Feeling her nails on her tight, Gwen kept her grip if only to focus on keeping track of the conversation and acting casual. She needed to be the protagonist, and the protagonist probably should be surprised about this.

"What type of powers?"

"Shooting webs, sticking to walls, sending electric shocks, like it's pokemon partner!" She mentioned in excitement, as if she was relating a story from a comic book. "There are only rumors from now, but someone said the hero was bitten by a joltik that was genetically modified, and that's how they got their powers, doesn't that sound incredible?"

"Aha, yeah." Nodded, Gwen felt in the back of her mind how mundane it sounded for her now.

When she texted Miles if he had heard something about heroes, he told her it was the first time he heard about official super heroes in pokemon.

"People had always been into the idea, but the company has never actually done it. There aren't any super heroes in the world of pokemon."

Yes, just as she had suspected from her previous investigation. None of her powers were natural in this place, so it kind of makes sense that the world would react to them.

Sometimes.

"You may hate me for when they fail, but is for your own good."

A voice in her head has mentioned that a while ago, it didn't sound familiar, or even human. And she haven't seen anyone or anything around.

Another thing to the list of mysteries.

Since she was still a novice on this entire pokemon business, (also there were so many species, she couldn't believe Miles could recognize almost all of them in one glance.) So she searched about the companion pokemon of this hero.

Joltiks looked like fluffy, electric spiders. They were cuter than most of the other spider pokemon she had seen, though she didn't have issues with any of them. The pokemon in itself seemed on the weaker side, but it was a first stage which made sense.

Is when she looked at the evolution she got an answer to the clue she had since the beginning.

Galvantula.

She wouldn't forget that pokemon, it has been all that has appeared when she had started to look for the EleSpider; because that was it's title, EleSpider pokemon.

After all this time, she had a lead.

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Okay, Miles was used to weird things, you know? He got bitten by a radioactive spider, there were multiple dimensions with super heroes like him; and now he has been coaching Gwen on how to live in the pokemon world, somehow.

And a part of him knew this was a dream, he remembered going to sleep. But it has never been like this.

He was underwater, around him there was hexagonal columns of crystals that emitted light on its own, white with a rainbow shine that seemed magical. The water was the most beautiful tone of blue Miles has ever seen. It seemed barren of life however, thought he thought he saw something moving behind the crystals.

Miles could breathe fine, and the light didn't disturb him no matter how powerful it got (it contrasted with the dark sky he saw above him, muted by the water.)

"You are interesting." A voice said.

At this point, Miles wasn't sure what to say. Yes, dreams could mean anything, but they weren't normally this vivid, and his memory didn't work this well either. He knew this place.

Gwen had sent her pictures when she visited this lake.

Not from here though.

It didn't help that the voice was...off, light, yet flat. The words were said properly, but seemed as if it was trying to test they were said correctly. Something wasn't sure if it had trouble speaking this language, or what it could say.

More importantly- Gwen had mentioned a voice like this giving her cryptic advice.

"Um." He answered, eloquently.

Was dumb of him to be relieved Gwen wasn't around to see this?

"She has been a welcome addition, we are pleased" It spoke as if it was enthusiastic, yet the pitch felt as it didn't understand how to mimic the tone humans used. "However, now that we know who you are, this seems more your area of expertise."

Miles blinked, feeling that if anything, this was the part that now sounded like an actual dream. When he was a kid he used to have so many dreams of living in the pokemon world and being a champion; like many other kids.

Not to shoot his own horn, but considering Gwen didn't even know the basic fire->plant->water->fire combat system because there was no popular equivalent of this format in her world (somehow, or she just didn't care for those types of things.) It wasn't crazy to think he definitely knew better, at least at the beginning.

"So I would be a better pokemon master?" He asks, sounding almost hopeful.

"Uhhh??" The sound it made was not what expected, but at least, Miles thought it was confusion. "Ah, not why we want from you. It helps, but there are plenty of pokemon masters here. That's not the important bit."

Okay, Miles couldn't believe something so lowkey and neutral could sound harsh. Not that he still dreamed about being a pokemon master, but he felt little Miles inside him feeling deflated.

Regardless, something caught his attention.

"What's the important bit?"

"Ah, you don't know, right." It said, Miles thought two blue spheres- could those be eyes? somehow before he could focus better, they disintegrated like powder in water. "Not sure if we should tell, the web of the spiders is not familiar to us. You should ask who you know it knows."

Frowning, Miles wasn't sure what to say. Sure, there were other spider man and women, even animated spiders who got bitten by radioactive pigs. But that was just, parallel universe stuff; right? How much else it could be about?

And as far as he knows, Gwen knew some stuff about the multiverse, but she confessed the physics part wasn't her thing, and sometimes that Miguel could feel like he asked for ridiculous things. Miles trusted that if she knew something he should know, she would tell him.

Even via text, or phone calls or video...Gwen had told him a lot already, he believed that if there was something he needed to know, she would tell him.

So, who he was suppose to ask? Perhaps it was just general advice and didn't know who he knew.

"Would you want to come?" The voice said. Shocking Miles.

"For real?" He asked in awe, before thinking more carefully about it. He was in the middle of his school year, his dad has been preparing for months for this test to become captain, and it was still months ahead. Gwen told Miles it wasn't a big deal her dad didn't know where she was; but him? Yeah, he couldn't do that. "Look, texting Gwen works well for me- for now at least," He may or may not been distracted checking websites to help her out, instead of doing things like homework. It has only been a few classes. "But ghosting my folks? I can't do that, sorry."

There was a pause, to which Miles wasn't sure how to take. There was a heaviness in the atmosphere, like his spider-sense knew something was out there. Not necessarily to hurt, but...was the type of thing to be alert from.

As if it was a type a power that if it wanted, you were toast before you could even evade; so you couldn't ignore its presence. It reminded him of the stories he had read about.

"Could we found someone to cover for you?" It said out of nowhere, shocking Miles.

"Wait, how? Like faking being me? I don't know-" He started to think, it would made things easy; but he didn't like the idea.

Out of nowhere, one of the crystal's started to project an image; it seemed like his house, with his parents reading a letter. Miles didn't think it was real- the colours were a slightly off colour, things seemed flat. Perhaps it was projecting what it could be?

It could do that? He wasn't sure how to take any of this.

"An exchange program?" His mom read, she seemed intrigued.

"Apparently in the west cost, some fancy program for students into physics." Miles's dad seemed a lot more convinced an impressed. On this angle Miles could kind of read the email- huh, it also mentioned Miles as having "extraordinary achievements that made him the perfect candidate."

Damn, was this being was trying to butter him up? He wasn't sure what was special about him, but it seemed interested, enough to make a fancy letter to make him look great.

"Honey, this sounds amazing!" His dad said in excitement, totally on board. "He must had impressed those teachers at the academy! This is what we had been saying all this time, he has this talent and they see it too!"

Miles wasn't sure what to say, yeah, maybe this video was more of an idealized version of what it could be, but he wanted to believe it was trying to show something feasible. Even if the image didn't show him around; Miles hoped he could be there to show him this.

Sure, this wasn't about physics, and he hopes nothing weird appeared in his records, but it seemed like it was just trying to say that it would help Miles learn more on the areas that he needed. And more importantly, this was something bigger than just himself; it was a mission to another dimension, an opportunity of a lifetime.

This just, made it sounds less crazy, right?

"Jeff, this says is in another country." His mom said with worry. "I know the pamphlet says the school there has great counsellors and everything, but that's too far-"

"Love," He puts a hand on top of hers, smiling. "I know it sounds scary, but think about it. He really disliked this school at first, we asked him two weeks, and he had trouble adapting to his classes at first, but now he has straight A's in physics or Art, and they think he can go even farther. Wasn't what we wanted it for him? To do the great things we knew he could do."

Smiling a bit, Miles hoped he could prove them right. Maybe not in the way they wanted (he still wasn't sure how to tell them he was Spider-man, despite all these months.) But he trusted he was doing something right. And maybe he could do something right in other places, with Gwen, and who knows how else.

Miles promised to himself to find ways to make them proud, even if they couldn't know exactly why.

He wasn't sure how much physics he was actually going to learn here but...hey, going to some place far away was more closer to the truth than having some type of clone faking being him.

Regardless, he wanted to believe they could make this happen, and lowkey as possible.

"And who would be there to replace me?" Miles asked, just wanting to make sure.

"Someone sufficient." The voice contested, it almost sounded like...a purr? He wasn't sure. "We didn't think of it before, but we started to realize this has more potential. We have great ideas."

That part was more risky; even in dreams with the heavy presence, his spider-sense reminded him that this creature was probably more powerful that him, saw things in other light. For now they seemed to be in the same page, as weirder out as Gwen has been, she never sounded afraid of it.

Perhaps if it wanted her there, it was for a good reason.

He had reasons to believe in it, for now.

"I want to read that letter before they see it, and I want to give it to them; if you can promise me someone will take care of my city and everything would be cool...I want to hear more."

The lights suddenly went out, the water became as dark as the bottom of the of the ocean, and a whirlpool suddenly pulled him down. He didn't have webs, he barely could move under the current.

There was no pain, or suffocation, just-pull.

The last thing he heard before waking up, was "Then better make sure we start with the right foot!"

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Miles couldn't believe what he saw in front of him.

At this point, he had accepted than everything was possible, even in this world of creatures he had grown so familiar it had felt predictable- until now.

The battle he saw years ago, something he thought he could only see on television- It was indescribable.

Starting because he couldn't even begin to explain why, how- why they were here?

"So glad to meet you, Miles!" A voice in his mind said, yet by how everyone reacted, Miles realized it was talking telepathically with the others too. "Definitely you were the one we waited for."

We? Was this also the other creature, or it was just how they talked- Hold up.

All this time it has been-?!

Wait, was that its normal type?

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Miles and Gwen were running for their lives, and this once, Gwen was wondering if it was really worth trying to not use their spider abilities for this occasion.

Why do you mean there was glitching monsters looking for them now?!

Miles had taken her wrist, ran turned on a tunnel. She wasn't even sure how he saw it, but as they crouched out of pure survival instinct. The glitching being came by fast- and passed them as if they didn't exist.

With a hand on her chest, Gwen was trying her to control her breathing. She wasn't sure if that thing could hear, or somehow knew? It has been the first time she has crossed their paths with them.

"It has happened so fast-" Gwen thought, a bit anxious. Sure, she has run adjusted to things going south on the last second, or unexpected things appearing at the worst times.

Feeling something cold on her arm, Gwen realized Miles was offering a chilled water bottle, he had one too, of those you bought in the convenient machines.

"Thanks," She muttered, wanting to keep to herself the silent part; thanking for more than just the water. Gwen knew Miles wasn't afraid to open up if needed, but she had more trouble doing so; and asking for help too. Something as simple as water without any words was better for her to feel better than checking if she was fine.

With the sensation of water going down her throat, she felt get more calm, and try to pay attention to their surroundings.

It was night, bug pokemon and other types were around; nothing that seemed too worrisome in her eyes for now. It helped she had excellent night vision, and that ability was passive enough to not cause a fuzz.

Nowadays it was weird, but before- oof, somethings she preferred not remember.

After a few minutes, Miles said. "Okay, those things shouldn't be here, but...they reminded me of something."

Arching and eyebrow, she said, "Of what?"

"Well, sometimes in like the first few games, some pokemon would, glitch? Sometimes it was just straight up black and white code, other skeletons from the museum- yeah I know it sounds like it was on purpose but it was an accident."

"Why it happened?"

"Well- funnily enough, the first games weren't exactly broken, just doing much for the time. You see, as simple as the game has, there was too much content for the cartridges at the time, mostly because the size information was extremely small, and the technology was still kind of archaic at that time.

"The game could fit only so many things, and the gameboy couldn't play them all at the same time at times. Things got misplaced. Missigno appeared trying to fill the space of something the memory couldn't find. Or in some cases, when a specific set of things happened that made the code glitch."

Miles had said very casually, possibly nerding about the coding and creation aspect of games. It sounded interesting, (and perhaps kind of cute,) seeing him like this.

Except that she quickly realized that if Miles was right- well, those things were here because they activated something that that should had been touched?

"Miles" She said carefully, trying to hope there was no reason panic. "What types of things broke the game."

Opening his mouth, his eyes opened in shock, and nothing came out of his lips.

"Well that doesn't look promising."

"Miles?"

Biting his lower lip for a second, he says, "...It was random things, Gwen. This didn't happen just because, most of those glitches were made after doing some innocuous, but random combination of things; it could be unpredictable. There was no way to know."

Taking a deep breathe, Gwen tried to think this rationally. Before, there has been times where things glitched for a second but then it returned to normal- it has looked different. Colorful, spiky, like when she was glitching out in her universe.

Those things- white and black, a pattern of change yet almost computerized. They seemed different.

And for now, it was the first time they found it.

"Okay," She said, softly, nodding to herself, and then turning her head to Miles. "We will keep our eyes open, and try to take note of what could be this; maybe they aren't common, we aren't in those old games right? Maybe it would be fine."

Somehow, Miles didn't seem relaxed, but the smile that he gave her was genuine. "Yeah, we will be okay."

Gwen wasn't sure if he believed, or if she did; sometimes it was better to say it and hope it would be the case.

"Grhmm," Her lizard rumminated, between mechanical and animal like, and then dropped it head on Miles's legs and its chest on Gwen's lap.

"Miraidon!" She chuckle, trying to move the doofus- if her body wasn't being so resilient, that would had definitely been painful.

"Jeez, you are so spoiled" Miles commented, but still caressed its head. Miraidon made more motor sounds.

In the darkness of this cave, in the middle of nowhere, they seemed to forget about all those things for just a second.

Not realizing who was looking after them.

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"THIS IS NOT HOW THINGS ARE SUPPOSE TO WORK."

"And who says how they are suppose to work? Last time I checked you also bend them at your pleasure!"

It was pandemonium out there, as Gwen and Miles hurdled together amidst the sandstorm around them, thought something told Miles there was most than sand, water and wind out there. Not that he could see.

But those voices- sounding larger than life, so loud he couldn't almost thing, it was jarring, demanding.

Powerful.

"THAT- THAT WAS DIFFERENT!"

"Yeah, which it was why it has pestered you about it. Just imagine the possibilities!"

He heard some type of attack- meteors? Was that gust of wind enough for swift?

"It has worked out well, better than the last attempt on that region- It can work!"

"Miles, what we are suppose to do?!" Gwen screamed, because even beside each other, it was difficult to listen to anything.

He couldn't even open his eyes, this- this has been more than he had ever imagined.

But they had gone to far.

And maybe he was reading too much, maybe he was being delusional, but now- He thinks he understand why he was here.

Time to show it off.

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Oh ho ho, that was fun! I had heard from a group of writers than doing warm ups was a good idea, and one of those warm up exercises, sometimes consisted in expanding on silly ideas.

This is self-indulgent to the brim, I haven't done any serious crossover work in probably ten years, but I had a blast. Including how to make a low budget fan teaser. I did the same thing I used in photoshop, when you can't do something cool, add more effects!

Probably shouldn't publish this now, but I put a lot of hours in this, even if is more for me than anyone else. Should I do crazy stuff like this more often, is really interesting to see what you can do. I was impressed with the quantity of details I managed to squeeze both in writing and the video, wonder how many of them are obvious and how many of them are actually vague.

Hope anyone liked it! If you did, please consider either commissioning me or donating to my ko-fi, and if not please reblog!

Have a good night.

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