When Peter's not scrambling around trying to make sure the generators are doing their jobs (they are, calm the fuck down Peter), he spends the majority of his time bored out of his goddamn mind because there is fuckall to do when it's pitch black everywhere. It's less a matter of bravery and more a matter of just needing something to do when he decides to go scope out the glowy blobs bouncing around on the Agricultural levels. The first thing he actually spots in the area is a gigantic fuckoff spider though, and he decides "nah. Naaaaaah". Just because he is very much spider-themed doesn't mean he wants to deal with this shit today.
He manages to evade turbo-spider detection while he makes his way out of this forested area, up until he feels something sharp and pointy trying to climb up his pant leg. Okay, so maybe he panics a little, maybe he leaps back in surprise and fires his webshooter at whatever was on his leg. Maybe he even yelps. He's thinking spiders; he'd just found a bigass spider, there were webs that weren't his stretching between a few trees, it wasn't too far of a stretch. What he sees tangled up in his web isn't a spider though, it's an adorable little kitten that is glowing blue and making the saddest noise any kitten has ever made in the entire history of kittens.
Peter made a kitten sad and now he feels like the world's biggest asshole, oh no. Turns out sad kitten noises are also very good at attracting giant mutated spiders, which also sucks. Not wanting himself or his new kitten friend to get eaten by bigass spides, Peter scoops the kitten up and turns to run the fuck out of there, only to charge face first into a giant spider web. He can probably break out just fine on his own, but he is momentarily stunned by this ridiculous irony.
"Oh, come on!"
The kitten agrees that this is bullshit.
A couple hours later, after the spiders and the bullshit, he can be found in the MedBay nursing a few spider bites and carefully picking dissolving webbing out of the kitten's fur. And also he's covered in webs and just. Man what a stupid day. But at least there's a kitten?
Too Spooky: (heads up for some fucked up Infinity Wars flavored body horror shit <3)
So far he'd just dismissed these weird clouds as an inconvenience, something that he'd look into in more depth later. Like, after the lights all come back on, and making sure the generators can get them to that point. He's on his way to check up on said generators when he comes across one of those weird cloudy spots, which he proceeds to just roll right on past it since they hadn't really done anything up until this point. It isn't until he realizes that the clouds are moving that he stops to investigate. Cool, more wacky new tricks that this place is gonna play on them. At this point Peter's ready to just roll his eyes at the latest inconvenience and add it to his list of shit to fix later, but he doesn't quite make it to that point before the cloud starts pulling it's shenanigans.
It doesn't take the form of anything threatening. No monsters, no killer robots, no giant purple aliens with magic space rocks. It's just a lady. A lady that Peter immediately recognizes as his Aunt May. What a twist!
Were he in the right frame of mind, he'd have realized immediately that this is bullshit in several ways. New arrivals don't just manifest in the middle of the goddamn hallway, for one. Unfortunately, he can't make himself logic his way through this one just yet, especially not after she reaches for him. Part of him wants desperately for this to be real, another part hopes to shit that it isn't. While his brain is busy fist fighting itself over whether or not he should trust this, instinct takes over and he reaches back for her. She feels real. He's hugging his aunt for the first time in a year, and there's a hundred different things that he wants to say to her that he can't manage to form into words just yet, but that's fine, he's got time.
Except that he doesn't, because a moment later, May's gone. She doesn't just vanish in an instant, though. Nah, she straight up disintegrates, crumbles into ash in Peter's arms and blows away. Somehow. There's no wind in here, the nanites are just trying to be dramatic.
He doesn't have a chance to wrap his brain around what just happened, since no more than a couple seconds later, a few more human forms manifest from the spooky cloud. His best friend Ned, their friend MJ, a few other kids he knew from school. They all appear in the same way that May had, they all reach for him before they crumble into ash and dust. Before long, there are dozens of people manifesting in the same way. Other people from home, people he met in Hadriel and in Anchor all forming, reaching for him, grabbing his arms while they fall apart before his eyes. Maybe it's just his mind playing even more tricks on him on top of what's already happening, all those months of repressing his fears and traumas coming to a head, but he could swear to God that he feels himself beginning to crumble away again, too.
He isn't, but he's well past the point of being able to apply rational thought to this situation. Panic sets in, and he yanks himself out of grasp of the dust buddies. It's one of those fight or flight situations, and seeing as this isn't exactly a situation he can throw a punch at, he turns to run.
And then slams right into someone else, someone who isn't a crumbling terror-vision. What's up.
NANITES!!!!
While it would be so much easier to just distract himself with diving into fixing the dust-damaged computer systems, Peter is still feeling personally attacked by the cloud bullshit. He needs to find out how it happened and why, if only for his own peace of mind, which unfortunately meant going back out there with a containment unit to try to collect a sample.
Admittedly, he isn't feeling particularly brave when it comes to actually doing the sample collecting, so in an effort to keep himself as far away from the cloud as he can, he's rigged up a complicated sample gathering scheme which involves suspending the containment unit from the ceiling with webs, and lots of other webs rigged up in some sort of pulley system. It's a fucking nightmare in this hallway, okay. He doesn't want to get caught up in the cloud again, don't judge.
Wreckage quest: TEXT, Un: Spides
Who else wants to do something really stupid and dangerous and go check out that crashed ship outside? Because I am so going.
Probably need a driver though. I mean I guess I don't need a licence in space but the last time I drove a car it didn't end too well for the car. We need space Uber.
Peter Parker | Open
When Peter's not scrambling around trying to make sure the generators are doing their jobs (they are, calm the fuck down Peter), he spends the majority of his time bored out of his goddamn mind because there is fuckall to do when it's pitch black everywhere. It's less a matter of bravery and more a matter of just needing something to do when he decides to go scope out the glowy blobs bouncing around on the Agricultural levels. The first thing he actually spots in the area is a gigantic fuckoff spider though, and he decides "nah. Naaaaaah". Just because he is very much spider-themed doesn't mean he wants to deal with this shit today.
He manages to evade turbo-spider detection while he makes his way out of this forested area, up until he feels something sharp and pointy trying to climb up his pant leg. Okay, so maybe he panics a little, maybe he leaps back in surprise and fires his webshooter at whatever was on his leg. Maybe he even yelps. He's thinking spiders; he'd just found a bigass spider, there were webs that weren't his stretching between a few trees, it wasn't too far of a stretch. What he sees tangled up in his web isn't a spider though, it's an adorable little kitten that is glowing blue and making the saddest noise any kitten has ever made in the entire history of kittens.
Peter made a kitten sad and now he feels like the world's biggest asshole, oh no. Turns out sad kitten noises are also very good at attracting giant mutated spiders, which also sucks. Not wanting himself or his new kitten friend to get eaten by bigass spides, Peter scoops the kitten up and turns to run the fuck out of there, only to charge face first into a giant spider web. He can probably break out just fine on his own, but he is momentarily stunned by this ridiculous irony.
"Oh, come on!"
The kitten agrees that this is bullshit.
A couple hours later, after the spiders and the bullshit, he can be found in the MedBay nursing a few spider bites and carefully picking dissolving webbing out of the kitten's fur. And also he's covered in webs and just. Man what a stupid day. But at least there's a kitten?
Too Spooky: (heads up for some fucked up Infinity Wars flavored body horror shit <3)
So far he'd just dismissed these weird clouds as an inconvenience, something that he'd look into in more depth later. Like, after the lights all come back on, and making sure the generators can get them to that point. He's on his way to check up on said generators when he comes across one of those weird cloudy spots, which he proceeds to just roll right on past it since they hadn't really done anything up until this point. It isn't until he realizes that the clouds are moving that he stops to investigate. Cool, more wacky new tricks that this place is gonna play on them. At this point Peter's ready to just roll his eyes at the latest inconvenience and add it to his list of shit to fix later, but he doesn't quite make it to that point before the cloud starts pulling it's shenanigans.
It doesn't take the form of anything threatening. No monsters, no killer robots, no giant purple aliens with magic space rocks. It's just a lady. A lady that Peter immediately recognizes as his Aunt May. What a twist!
Were he in the right frame of mind, he'd have realized immediately that this is bullshit in several ways. New arrivals don't just manifest in the middle of the goddamn hallway, for one. Unfortunately, he can't make himself logic his way through this one just yet, especially not after she reaches for him. Part of him wants desperately for this to be real, another part hopes to shit that it isn't. While his brain is busy fist fighting itself over whether or not he should trust this, instinct takes over and he reaches back for her. She feels real. He's hugging his aunt for the first time in a year, and there's a hundred different things that he wants to say to her that he can't manage to form into words just yet, but that's fine, he's got time.
Except that he doesn't, because a moment later, May's gone. She doesn't just vanish in an instant, though. Nah, she straight up disintegrates, crumbles into ash in Peter's arms and blows away. Somehow. There's no wind in here, the nanites are just trying to be dramatic.
He doesn't have a chance to wrap his brain around what just happened, since no more than a couple seconds later, a few more human forms manifest from the spooky cloud. His best friend Ned, their friend MJ, a few other kids he knew from school. They all appear in the same way that May had, they all reach for him before they crumble into ash and dust. Before long, there are dozens of people manifesting in the same way. Other people from home, people he met in Hadriel and in Anchor all forming, reaching for him, grabbing his arms while they fall apart before his eyes. Maybe it's just his mind playing even more tricks on him on top of what's already happening, all those months of repressing his fears and traumas coming to a head, but he could swear to God that he feels himself beginning to crumble away again, too.
He isn't, but he's well past the point of being able to apply rational thought to this situation. Panic sets in, and he yanks himself out of grasp of the dust buddies. It's one of those fight or flight situations, and seeing as this isn't exactly a situation he can throw a punch at, he turns to run.
And then slams right into someone else, someone who isn't a crumbling terror-vision. What's up.
NANITES!!!!
While it would be so much easier to just distract himself with diving into fixing the dust-damaged computer systems, Peter is still feeling personally attacked by the cloud bullshit. He needs to find out how it happened and why, if only for his own peace of mind, which unfortunately meant going back out there with a containment unit to try to collect a sample.
Admittedly, he isn't feeling particularly brave when it comes to actually doing the sample collecting, so in an effort to keep himself as far away from the cloud as he can, he's rigged up a complicated sample gathering scheme which involves suspending the containment unit from the ceiling with webs, and lots of other webs rigged up in some sort of pulley system. It's a fucking nightmare in this hallway, okay. He doesn't want to get caught up in the cloud again, don't judge.
Wreckage quest: TEXT, Un: Spides
Who else wants to do something really stupid and dangerous and go check out that crashed ship outside? Because I am so going.
Probably need a driver though. I mean I guess I don't need a licence in space but the last time I drove a car it didn't end too well for the car. We need space Uber.