Chapter 1523
With a 'Bang!', the clinic door was pushed open. Harry rushed in, full of energy. Seeing Peter, who had just walked down from the second floor, he asked with great confusion, "Why are you here? I went to your place to find you, and your aunt said you didn't come back tonight. I was worried for half the day."
Peter yawned and stretched, saying, "The doctor isn't here, and this clinic's location isn't exactly safe. I'm staying here to guard against thieves."
Harry walked quickly to the island counter, poured himself a glass of water, gulped it down, and then said, "Quick, hurry up and pack your things. Come with me to Hollywood!"
"What's wrong?"
"I called Mary Jane last night. She was fine, but that doesn't mean my father hasn't taken action. Earlier today, I learned from our old butler that my father has already sent people to Hollywood to persuade Mary Jane to break up with me!"
"But as it happens, when my father's people arrived, Mary Jane was on location elsewhere. They didn't find her, so we have to go there immediately and stop them!"
Peter didn't ask why he had to go or anything like that. He could see that Harry was extremely panicked, so he immediately grabbed the phone nearby and said, "I'll go home now to pack my luggage, and then we'll go straight to Los Angeles."
"There's no time. We have to leave now. I've already prepared a plane."
"A plane is too slow." Peter pulled Harry out of the clinic door, then took a ring out from his chest and said, "You have to know, times have changed... Open!"
More than ten minutes later, Peter and Harry appeared in an alley in Los Angeles. At this moment, Harry was still dazed; he had never been exposed to magic, let alone know how his good friend opened a portal.
But now he was even more anxious about Mary Jane's situation. As soon as he landed, he wanted to rush to the street to find the person sent by the elder Osborn, but Peter held him back, signaling him to calm down.
"God, Peter, stop wasting time. Do you know what terrible things will happen if my father's people find Mary Jane? Do you think Mary is as gentle as Gwen?"
Harry reached out and covered his face, saying, "She is a fiery girl and extremely self-reliant. I heard she wanted to go to Hollywood to develop her career, and I tactfully suggested I could invest in her, but that sentence made her angry for a week because she felt I thought she was the type of parasitic vine that only knows how to cling to others."
"She got the role on her own merits, but because of my status, others misunderstood her. I'm already very guilty. If the people my father sent say some nasty things to her, I really don't know how I'll face her."
"Then how do you plan to find her?"
"I..."
Harry was choked up. He realized he was a bit flustered by his concern, and hadn't even investigated who his father had sent or which hotel they were staying at.
"Although Uncle Osborn might not have deliberately hidden it from you, he definitely cares about the Osborn family's reputation. The people he sent are definitely not employees of the Osborn Group, nor are they his friends. It's highly likely to be someone he previously did a favor for and who is convenient to get to Los Angeles."
"But there are too many people like that. How are we going to find them?"
Peter scratched his head and said, "Wait a moment, I'll find someone."
Peter took out his phone and started typing rapidly. After Harry leaned over, he discovered he was asking in a group chat that was constantly scrolling. After a while, one of the avatars in his contact list flashed, and Peter immediately clicked into it.
"Hey, Peter 7865, you're in Los Angeles, right? My friend and I have run into some trouble, and we need your help now..."
Peter typed away, and Harry asked curiously from the side, "Who is this? You have friends in Los Angeles too?"
Peter shook his head and said, "This is a Spider-Man from another universe. It's the Spider-Army I told you about before. They are now scattered all over the world, doing all kinds of missions to earn credits."
"The Stark Group's aerial transport project is spreading out on the West Coast. I guess many Spider-Men have come to help. I didn't expect that there would happen to be one in Los Angeles. He'll be here soon... Oh, he's here!"
Peter and Harry looked up together. A figure blocked the sky, did a somersault in the air, and landed on the ground in an extremely cool pose. He stood up, clapped his hands, and walked toward Peter and Harry.
"Oh, hello, 7865. I'm Peter Parker from this universe. Nice to meet you... My god, who is this?"
Peter let out an exclamation because a small figure walked out from behind this Spider-Man. Spider-Man turned around, picked her up, held her arm, waved, and said, "Hello, Spider-Man from the central universe. I am Spider-Man, and this is my daughter, Mayday."
The Spider-Man in front of them didn't hesitate much and took off his mask directly. But Harry let out a surprised "Ah" because the Peter Parker in front of him was a middle-aged man, not at all as young and robust as the Peter he was familiar with.
"Hi, hello. So this is what Spider-Girl looked like when she was little?" Peter said with a smile, "She really should come and see how cute she was when she was little, woo-woo~"
Peter made a strange sound with his mouth, teasing Mayday with his fingers, while middle-aged Peter sighed and said, "You should be able to imagine how much we argued when I first met Spider-Girl."
Peter showed a helpless smile: "I guess you definitely didn't support her being Spider-Man, and she felt you weren't her father, so why were you bossing her around?"
"That's exactly it." Middle-aged Peter spread his hands and said.
"Hey, hey, hey, can someone explain to me what's going on?" Harry walked over, looking confused.
"As you can see, this is me from another universe, and this is my daughter from another universe..."
When Peter said this, he suddenly realized something, and an awkward expression appeared on his face.
Harry knew Peter very well. Seeing Peter show such an expression, he narrowed his eyes suspiciously, but he was still more worried about Mary Jane's matter, so he asked, "Alright, what should we do next?"
"There are a few more Spider-Men in nearby cities. I'm gathering them, and while they are on their way, we can go take a look at Mary Jane's film crew."
Peter touched his chin and speculated, "There must be many reporters near the film crew, so that person would never dare to expose his connection to the Osborn family, otherwise it would damage the Osborn family's reputation."
"So we'll rush to the film crew first to see if there are any suspicious people around, but at the same time, we can't be discovered by Mary Jane, which is why we need another helper to distract him."
But at this moment, middle-aged Peter, who heard a familiar name, frowned and asked, "You came here to find Mary Jane, why is she in Hollywood?"
"She's filming in Hollywood." Peter hurriedly explained. He showed a fake smile, pushed middle-aged Peter forward, and said, "Let's hurry over. It'll be too late if we're any later."
Harry crossed his arms, looking suspiciously at the backs of the two Peters, guessing what kind of riddle they were playing.
In the corridor of the New York Stark Tower, Stark walked in front, while the other Peter chased behind.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute! Mr. Stark! You can't just rush into the central universe's laboratory like this. We agreed before we came!"
"Schiller tricked me!" Stark turned his head and raised his voice, saying, "Peter, you silly boy, this cunning psychologist cheated our universe out of its resources. I'm just here to take back what belongs to us!"
"But, but he also saved everyone. It was he who resurrected those who died because of Thanos..."
"But he actually dared to trick me. I must settle the score with him!"
Saying this, Stark strode toward the laboratory and pushed open the laboratory door with a 'Bang!'.
In the laboratory, a figure was busy in front of the experimental bench with their back to the door. Stark, who rushed in, didn't even think and shouted at that side: "Hey, you stupid Iron Man of this universe, where exactly did you hide that damn psychologist? You... Howard??!"
Stark froze in place because the person who turned around in front of the experimental bench was not himself from another universe, but looked very much like him. It was his father, Howard Stark.
But Howard seemed even more surprised than him. He opened his mouth wide in shock and said loudly, "Why are you still here?! Didn't I tell you to hurry up and take refuge?!"
After finishing, he started to pack up the data on the experimental bench in a flurry, then pushed Stark out, saying, "Leave here quickly, find a place to hide. Don't you know..."
Suddenly, a burst of hurried high-heeled footsteps came from the corridor. With a 'Bang!', a beautiful woman wearing a full professional suit walked in from outside the door. She didn't even look at Howard, her gaze falling straight onto Stark, and she roared at him.
"Anthony Stark! You'd better explain Helen's background to me immediately, what is your relationship with Loki Odinson, and what is your relationship with Pepper Potts!"
"And, is Helen Stark's mother among these two people? If so, why don't you get married?!"
Stark had turned into a statue because the lady who appeared in front of him was none other than Howard's wife, his mother—Maria Stark.
And another sense of crisis instantly replaced his shock at seeing his parents again because Maria was staring at him with a very unkind look. Stark was very sure that if he couldn't give an answer within ten seconds, he would be dead today.
But at this moment, Howard took a step toward Maria and looked at Stark righteously, saying, "Yes, Tony, you really should explain to me and your mother properly. There must be some misunderstanding here. You're not the type of person who has a child out of wedlock and doesn't take responsibility for the other party's reputation, right?"
Howard was desperately winking at Stark. Maria rolled her eyes at her husband in annoyance. Stark opened his mouth repeatedly; he really didn't know how to answer. When the gender-swapped version of Loki appeared in front of him with a child, the shock he felt was still fresh in his memory.
But besides the feeling of shock, he couldn't imagine how this story happened at all, because no matter how you look at it, the fact that the Stark of this universe hooked up with Loki was truly shocking. What was even more shocking was that it was also possible that he hooked up with Thor, or Thor hooked up with Loki, or it could be...
In the instant he recalled these things, Stark's genius brain was filled with this terrible ethical relationship, so much so that after he said "Ah" a few times like a dementia patient, he couldn't even make up a story that wasn't so outrageous.
Just at this moment, Peter looked at Stark innocently and said, "Oh, Mr. Stark, no wonder you looked at Loki several times after he was resurrected, and your eyes were a bit strange..."
"Shut up, that was..."
"You also told me before that you didn't expect the evil god Loki to be quite pretty after turning into a woman..."
"Peter!"
When the angry Stark turned his head back and met Maria's gaze again, the storm in her eyes was already enough to tear him apart.
End of Chapter
