Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: The Junior Novel by Steve Behling

Author:Steve Behling [Steve Behling]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316480277
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2018-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Miles stared at the man who looked like Peter Parker. Miles had somehow managed to bring him back to his uncle Aaron’s apartment. With his uncle out of the city for a few days, it would be a perfect place to lay low and figure out exactly what was going on.

Finally, the man started to come to.

“You’re like me,” the man said.

“We’ll see about that,” Miles said, trying to sound tough.

The man glanced at his restraints and smirked. “Well, this is cute.” He took a breath and flexed, as if to break free.

Miles gasped, took a step back, and was surprised that the ropes actually held. He had spent the last fifteen minutes tying the man to a chair, using anything he could find. Ropes, computer cables, extension cords, string—literally, whatever he could find that could be used to bind someone.

“Okay,” the man said. “Now it’s less cute.”

“Why do you look like Peter Parker?” Miles asked.

“Because I am Peter Parker.”

“Then why aren’t you dead?” Miles said, trying to wrap his head around the situation. “Why is your hair different? Why are you older? Why—”

“You don’t look so hot, either, kid,” Peter said. “Most Super Heroes don’t wear their own merch.” He nodded at Miles’s store-bought costume.

“Are you a ghost?” Miles asked, dead serious.

Please don’t be a ghost.

“No,” Peter replied.

“Are you a zombie?”

Please don’t be a zombie.

“Stop it.”

“Am I a zombie?”

“You’re not even close,” Peter said.

Miles thought for a moment. Then he had it. “Are you from another dimension? Like, a parallel universe where things are like this universe but different? And you’re Spider-Man in that universe? But somehow traveled to this universe? But you don’t know how?”

“Wow,” Peter said, impressed. “That was really just a guess?”

“Well, we learned about it in physics—”

“Quantum theory,” Peter said, finishing Miles’s thought for him.

“This is amazing!” Miles said. “You can teach me! Just like Peter said he would!”

“Before he died,” Peter added.

“Yeah, exactly!”

“Yeah, all right,” Peter said sarcastically.

“I made a promise to him, man,” Miles said, his voice serious.

“You want to learn to be Spider-Man?”

Miles shook his head. “No, I have to learn to be Spider-Man.”

The two Spider-Men looked at each other.

“So here’s lesson number one, kid: Don’t watch the mouth. Watch the hands.”

Then he showed his hands to Miles. The hands that had just finished untying the binds that confined him to the chair. Miles’s jaw hit the floor as Peter stood up.

The next thing Miles knew, Peter leaped in the air, kicked the chair toward Miles, and knocked him over. Then he spun a web, covering Miles’s mouth so he couldn’t yell. One leap later, Peter was at the open window of Uncle Aaron’s apartment.

“I’ll take it from here, kid. Have a nice life, don’t be a fool, stay in school,” Peter said.

Don’t go, don’t go, don’t go! Miles thought.

Peter paused in the window, turning. “Trust me, kid, this’ll all make you a better Spider-Man.”

Then Peter jumped right from the window.

Barely a second later, Miles heard a scream, and the sound of Peter hitting the fire escape.

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