Issue 11: X Factor IV

After waiting for the Blackbird Jet to arrive, the X-Men marched off their air-ship and arrested Juggernaut.

The Adult-Spider-Heroes chatted with the X-Men for a while before waving goodbye as the blackbird took off.

The Spider-Heroes reconvened on top of a nearby rooftop and gathered around before Young-Peter began telling them why they were here, "We're looking for a Bamf that managed to escape from Deadpool's clutches. It looks like a little cat-sized Nightcrawler, and has the ability to teleport through time and space."

Adult-Peter sighed before saying, "I know what a Bamf, is! And why aren't you in need of a hospital right now?"

Young-Peter tried to explain, "Well I have a mutant gene that's at least equal to Logan's healing factor, as well as my Spidey-Powers. Even MJ's got a bit of my regeneration factor when she was bitten by the same arachnid."

Adult-MJ was shocked, she had to rely on the Symbiote to use the powers of Spider-Man and was a little jealous of her younger counterpart.

Adult-MJ then sighed before she asked Young-MJ, "You got your powers from the spider that bit Peter?

Young-MJ looked to her other reality equivalent and asked, "Yeah didn't you?"

Adul-MJ looked to her husband and asked, "Peter, do you think is really possible that these children came from a different reality?"

Adult Spider-Man nodded his head and said, "When you've been in the business as long as I have, you never rule out interdimensional travels and parallel worlds. Not to mention it's happened before."

Young-Peter grinned before he and MJ pulled up their mask.

Spiderling, otherwise known as Annie, widened her eyes as she shouted out, "OMG! You're so young! Dad, Mom, I can't believe how cute you were!"

Adult-MJ lightly slapped her daughter in the back of her head as she said, "Hey, I still am cute!"

Annie rubbed the back of her head as she grumbled and asked, "So are you guys really from another universe?!"

"They're probably telling the truth. I don't have his regeneration factor and your mom is getting my power from a Symbiote. I don't think their clones, oh god, I hope they aren't clones. I don't think I can handle sharing a kid with Wolverine," Adult Peter confirmed.

Young-Peter looked at Annie and guessed her age to be around 10 to 12 years old, seeing her being such a happy child made Peter smile. When he looked back to his MJ, who's face quickly flushed red, Peter asked, "So we name her Annie, huh?"

Adult-MJ wrapped her arms around Annie's neck and leaned her body back into her stomach with a loving hug before she said, "Yep, her name is Annie May Parker."

"She's adorable," Young-MJ patted Annie on the head.

The Adult MJ smiled at her younger self and asked, "So, how long have you two known each other?"

"I've known Pete since we were toddlers! Why? Is that different here?" MJ asked as she lifted a brow.

"I moved next to Peter to live with my Aunt to pursue my modeling career. We met when Peter was in his first year of college. Our Aunts introduced us to each other." Adult-MJ explained.

"Bummer! You missed out on some fun times," Young-MJ said feeling a little sad for her opposite.

Adult-Peter placed his arm around his MJ and said, "We still ended up together regardless of when we met. We've been married for fifteen years."

"MJ and Peter, destined to be with one another regardless of the universe, huh?" Young-MJ commented before she smiled as she held her Peter's hand.

"Blech! Nasty, I have to watch my mom and dad flirt enough in my universe I don't want to see it happening when they're young too! I'm going home!" Annie said shooting her webs out and swinging off in the distance.

"I guess no kid can handle seeing their parents acting lovey-dovey," Adult-MJ said before she laughed and walked over to and hugged the teenage Peter.

"I can't believe how cute you were Tiger! I should have let my Aunt fix me up with you years ago!" Adult-MJ gushed at Peter's babyface.

Young-MJ was shocked, she didn't know how to react because it was technically her doing this.

Suddenly, Adult-Peter grabbed his wife back and said, "You have your own kid, this is my MJ!"

Young-Peter laughed when his MJ pinched his back and said, "I agree! No Parker of mine gonna ogle women from another universe! I don't care if it is me. You will never cheat on me."

"OW! I didn't know if you could classify that as cheating!" Peter joked.

"So you weren't staring my...her curves?" MJ countered.

"Just a little!" Peter answered honestly which ended up landing him in a headlock.

After they were done fooling around, the Spider-Heroes put their masks back on and Young-Peter looked to his future self before he said, "We could use your help. Locating a Bamf his hard enough on our own, but if you guys help out, it should make it easier."

Adult-Peter then offered to aid them, he mentioned that he has a device that can track Nightcrawler's temporal anomalies and began explaining how it worked, "When Kurt teleports he leaves a small tear in space-time that heals over time. During this process the tear..."

"The tear leaks out temporal and cosmic radiation that can be tracked by using a radio-meter!" Young-Peter finished the deduction of his alternant self.

The two MJs' stood next to each other and looked at their husband and future to be husband before saying, "Nerd!"

The two Spider-Women looked at each other and blinked a few times before they started to laugh.

The two Peters rolled their eyes when Adult-Peter declared, "We have to head to our apartment and pick up the device."

The women continued to laugh and joke around as they webbed around NY. Eventually, they ended up in Midtown residential area and ended up entering through a window on the fifth floor of an apartment complex.

When they stepped inside the living room, the Young Spider-Heroes saw the small but loving home the two had built together. They didn't hate it and could feel the warm fuzzy that one got when they saw a happy family.

While they looked at the photos of their kid growing up Young-Peter turned to his counterpart and asked, "Odd, I'm not complaining but why are you so broke?"

The Spider-Parents looked at the younger versions of themselves with a funny and shy expression before Adult MJ said, "Well Pete's a teacher, and I'm working on my acting career so money's a little tight at the moment."

"I'm an actor in this universe?!" Young-MJ shouted in disbelief.

Adult-MJ then flexed her body and said, "Yeah I used to be a model, though if you ask me, still got it. So, do you have any plans to become one now?"

Young-MJ then shocked her counterpart by answering, "Actually, I'm aiming to be a fashion designer right now. Oh, and I'm also pursuing a job as a technician once I graduate."

"Yep, I'm convinced, we really are different people. Me, as a technician? I can barely fix my web-shooters." Adult-MJ declared as she changed her Symbiote's form into her at-home clothing, which consisted of a loose-fitting shirt that said "World's best Spider-Mom" and tight-fitting blue jeans.

Peter pulled off his mask and then turned to the Adult-Peter before asking, "Didn't you patent your webbing formula? Or any, ANY, of your other inventions?"

Adult-Peter scratched his head as he embarrassedly said, "Well it the webbing formula isn't permanent so I couldn't sell it! And due to how busy I am lately, most of my lucrative inventions have been put on hold. The stuff I already made is for a specific purpose; Spidey purposes."

"Dude, you haven't figured out how to make the webbing permanent yet?" Young Peter complained.

"Well, I don't think it would be that hard to figure out, but I don't want anyone to tie my identity to the product," Adult-Peter replied.

Young-Peter ran his hand through his hair with an aggravated expression before he said, "Spider-Man has been around for what, 22 years or so? I think everyone knows what your webbing is made of. As for everything else, you can use your identity as a reporter to just say you were inspired by Spider-Man's technology that you saw him use over the years you spent shadowing him."

Young-Peter then grabbed a piece of paper and started writing down a series of formulas. Next, he handed it over to his MJ and asked her to write down her mixture for the clothing as well.

Once she was done, Young-MJ handed the sheet of paper over to Adult-Peter as she said, "Here a gift from us, to...uh...our...Well, let's just say, no daughter of mine ours is going to have money problems growing up."

Adult-Peter looked to the papers and formulas as felt his rusted Scientific mind started spinning again.

"This is!!!" Adult-Peter shouted with a happy expression.

"Why I'm not broke, of course! I also disagree about your inventions being only useful for Spidey events," Young-Peter said as he looked over some of his counterpart's tech.

"Do you remember the first science kit uncle Ben bought you? What you thought when you opened up the kit?" Young-Peter asked.

Adult-Peter then smiled and said, "I want to make something to benefit mankind. I wanted to use, knowledge, the greatest power in existence, to make peoples' lives better."

"Right! You just need to change your approach to how you view what you invent. For instance, what about the tools you made to take down bad guys. Stop thinking of how they could be used to help you arrest a villain. Instead, think of how what you've already invented can be used to better the lives of others? Continue this train of thought for a while, and I'm sure you come up with plenty of ideas for technology that you could patent for public use."

Young-Peter thought of the many inventions that this Spider-Dad missed out that the Amazing-Spider-Man went on to own Horizon Labs after getting his body back from doctor octopus. Even before that, when he worked at Horizon Labs, he had a similar train of thought.

The Amazing-Peter Parker went on to make a cyro-stasis pod to preserve and transport organs and blood. Sound canceling earphones and a few others he made to swell his pockets.,

While the Young-Peter was thinking of other ways to aid Adult-Peter, the Spider-Dad was going through his box of gizmos.

When he pulled out a flat handheld screen and turned on the device, Adult-Peter smiled before saying, "Now all we need to do is wait."

During this time the Two Spidermen chatted back and forth about various things such as science, different events that occurred in their life, and family.

Peter peaked through the box of old tech, from what he'd gleaned of his work, Adult Peter could make a fortune and with the knowledge Young-Peter had, he could offer his adult counterpart many hints to help him along and live a better life.

Young Peter also had a lot to learn as well. Adult-Peter could teach him many weaknesses of possible future enemies, and while they chatted back and forth, Young-Peter learned a lot while feeling the fanboy in him squealing for every second of it.

He was learning from his personal hero, and as a geek, he could now die happy.

"So, Uncle Ben is still alive in your world?!" Adult-Peter gasped.

Young Peter nodded his head in affirmation as he was shown pictures of them on Peter's phone.

"This was taken a couple of days ago, when the documents officializing my Patents arrived in the mail." Peter bragged as he showed the picture showed him holding a certificate with Ben and May standing beside him.

"So even without Ben dying I still chose to become Spider-Man," Adult-Peter said scratching his head.

"Face it, you've always wanted to be a hero, I just realized it sooner is all," Young-Peter said with a grin on his face.

MJ spent a lot of time talking with her counterpart and pinching Annie's cheeks.

"I wonder if you'll be the same kid Peter and I have someday." Adult MJ pondered.

Annie slapped Young-MJ's hands away and tilted her said before she said, "It's a possibility, but you could also end up not having me at all, you could end up with a boy, or twins, the world your from is just one of the infinite possibilities."

Young-MJ smiled at the girl's intelligence when Adult-MJ said, "She gets that from her father. Although I was surprised to hear that you're a lot smarter than me, maybe I should get Tiger to teach me a thing or two."

"Peter makes a good teacher, he always finds some way to describe what you don't understand in a way that makes you interested," Young-MJ explained.

Adult-MJ moved close to her younger counterpart and whispered, "I remember our study sessions, I was just surprised you managed to 'focus' on the material."

To which Young-MJ replied with a flushed red face, "I didn't spend the entire time studying. We kind of made a fun game out of learning."

Adult-MJ gave a coy smile and whispered, "Tell me!"

Before Adult-MJ could continue teasing her younger self, the Parker twins in the kitchen shouted "Bamf Spotted! Masks on let's go!" at the same time.

Everyone jumped out the window and followed after Adult-Peter who was leading the way. After traveling halfway across New York, the group landed next to Central Park.

The scanner's reading for the Bamf was rapidly going on and off along with the angry shouts of new yorkers yelling, "Someone stole my food."

"Who took my Hotdogs!"

"Son of a, my beer's gone."

Peter slapped his forehead, "Stop a Juggernaut, capture a magical imp devil stealing food from citizens. Just your average day in the life of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Family."

"I agree! Now, let's capture that Bamf!" Deadpool placed his hand around the two Spider-Men,

"Wade!" the two Peters shouted in unison.

Both MJs' slapped their foreheads while Annie asked, "Who's this guy?"

Seeing Annie, Deadpool squealed out as he hopped over near her and said, "It's Spidergirl! Wait, that's the wrong universe! Spiderling! Thanks for the heads up voices in my head."

"No problem!" A deep-toned voice responded to Deadpool alone.

"So, since there are Kiddies present, Deadpool will be switching to PG-13 mode for future S**t talking," Deadpool said with a smile under his mask.

"How did he do that beep with his voice?" Annie asked wide-eyed interest.

"Well, it's certainly not because of the Author! So strap your *beeps* in and *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* because we're working as a team." Deadpool shouted before he cocked his head back and laughed into the air.

"I just want this nightmare to be over!" Both Peters said before sighing in frustration.

They spread out over the park and spotted several angry people fuming about missing food and stolen items.

While they walked, Deadpool was questioned by Adult-Peter, "I thought he Bamfs are a carefree and fun-loving species! Don't they live in small puffball houses and yearn for nothing more than frolicking about the countryside playing with the creatures of the forest?"

Deadpool laughed, "Yeah Normal Bamfs do, but this one was owned by Shiklah and her Bamf are well, a little undisciplined."

Suddenly, Young-Peter had an idea. He walked over to his adult counterpart and Deadpool before he whispered something for Wade to say.

"You want me to say that?!" Wade shouted in shock.

"You would use me as bait. Spider-Daddy, help me, your otherworld counterpart is evil!" Deadpool cried out as hid behind Adult-Peter's shoulder.

"Actually I agree with Spider-Boy! Just say it, Wade!" Adult-Peter yelled.

"It's Spider-Man, and you know it! As for you Wade, quit complaining!" Young-Peter growled.

"But he could end up teleporting me anywhere!" Deadpool complained.

"Not our problem!" The two shouted back in frustration.

Wade put his hands down and stomped his foot before he said, "Fine!"

Deadpool then took in a big breath before shouting at the top of his lungs, "Lockheed got Kitty Pryde to go out on a date with him, and they even kissed." Wade was supposed to stop here, but in classic Deadpool fashion, he kept going, "He took her back to my place and I showed her why they call me D.P!"

The Bamf appeared on top of Deadpool's head and smiled with a wicked grin.

Deadpool gulped as he heard the Bamf laughing before he said, "Don't you do it you little Ba..."

'BAMF!' 'BAMF'

A rich scent of sulfur spread out with the dissipating puff of black smoke. The Bamf could be seen patting its hands off like it just took out the trash and it was about to jump away when both Peters shouted, "Wait!"

The Bamf recognized the Spider-Men as the ones who freed him and listened, "Kitty wouldn't approve of you stealing!" Young-Peter said pointing at the pouch strapped around his shoulder.

The tan satchel leather bag appeared to have shrunk down to fit the current owner and the material constantly glowed with runes, and mystical symbols. Peter had figured that this was the bag they'd been sent to collect.

"I have a proposition for you! You hand the bag over and I'll take you to see a Kitty Pryde that hasn't met any other Bamf yet. Think about it, you get her all to yourself." Young-Peter said pleading with his hands together.

The Bamf looked tempted when the Adult-Spider-Man said, "Better hurry, it might not be long before other Bamfs discover his universe."

The Bamf smiled, held out his hand, and nodded his head in agreement.

"Smart guy!" Young-Peter said as he shook the Bamf's hand.

The Bamf then ran on top of Young-Peter's head hanging the leather bag strap over his face.

Young-Peter took it and watched as it took the shape of a satchel and grew to perfectly fit his physique.

I guess that's a win!" Adult-Peter exclaimed.

"Well, at least that part's done! I guess we can get out of your hair now," Peter said with a smile on his face.

However, it appeared they couldn't go home yet. Everybody's Spidey-Senses suddenly went off as large explosion sent up a smokescreen of dust nearby and shook the ground around them.