[Peter's first person POV]

  After dealing with Shaw, I got out of the mirror dimension. Emma and Chat were still waiting for me in that alley.

  "Hey," I said casually as I walked up to them.

  "Hey? What about Shaw?" Emma asked with a serious expression. She knows how strong Shaw was, so obviously she would be worried.

  "He won't be b us anymore," I said.

  "Where is he? Did you kill him?" She asked.

  "I don't want to talk about it. I say he won't be ing after you guys again. But you already know about his hen, right? Without Shaw, they will be fighting among themselves to take over his seat. That's where you e in. up the final loose ends along with your eammates," I said as I opened a portal back to the base.

  "What about you?" Chat asked as we all walked through the portal.

  "I'm still in the middle of my training. So, for the few weeks, you people will have to take care of things here. I'll drop in from time to time to see how things are going," I said as I walked to the fridge and took out a bottle of water.

  "Alright, sounds good. And what about yirlfriend's training?" Emma asked.

  "Michelle needs real-life situations. So, take her with you and show her around the ropes. With her brain and the training program in her suit, she should be fine. Don't worry. If something happens, I'll be there to help," I said after drinking some water.

  "Sounds like you have everything figured out," Emma said as she sat on the chair before the puter.

  "Yup! I had enough fun for now. Time to train," I said as I opened a portal baar-Taj. "Oh, by the way. Tell Frank that he's in charge of the team till I return. He's smart enough to know what to do."

  Emma nodded. "Sure."

  "Are y to read my mind, Emma?" I asked as I felt her psychiergy around my head.

  "That's a nice power you got there, Spidey. Nullification?" She said as she retracted her psychiergy.

  "Who knows? Anyway, if you want to know something, just ask me," I said with a shrug before stepping through the portal.

  ..

  After a month at Kamar-Taj, my uanding of magic had grown expoially. The daily grind of training with the A One had pushed me to new levels of power and uanding. Summoning spells, reality ing, and even more advanced magic came naturally after the intense, grueling days of practice. But I knew I was only scratg the surface of what magic could do.

  Wanda joined me after the first week. I could tell she just wao finally master her reality-ing ability, and we pushed each other harder thaogether, we sparred, bey to our will, and learned how to weave magic with precision and power. The A One's guidance was invaluable, pointing out our fws and f us to overe our weaknesses. Wanda's agic had a fluid, natural quality, while my oroach was more calcuted, more... deliberate.

  Then it happened.

  About three weeks in, during one of our training sessions, something inside me shifted. I wasn't casting any spell in particur, just w through some basic reality-ing exercises. But then, out of nowhere, an unfamiliar energy burst from my body. It wasn't magic. It wasn't Chi either. This was something else entirely—raw, untrolble power.

  I barely had time to react before the ground arouarted to crack. The walls of Kamar-Taj began trembling, and the very air itself vibrated as if the dimension was destabilizing. Wanda stepped back, eyes wide, clearly sensing the same thing.

  The A One appeared almost immediately, her calm demeanor masking her . "Peter," she said, her voice steady, "you must trol it."

  "I'm trying," I gritted out, feeling the energy surge through me, threatening to tear everything apart. My body felt like it was on fire, but this was different from any spell ic I'd ever felt. It ure force, something primal aructive. The mirrors on the walls shattered, and the sky outside darkened unnaturally as if it were responding to this outburst.

  Wanda tried to stabilize the area around me, casting a barrier of agic, but the new energy ripped through it like paper. I ched my fists, trying tn it in, but each sed felt like the power was slipping further from my trol.

  The A Oepped forward, pg her hand on my shoulder. "This is not something you fight, Peter. You must guide it. Accept it."

  "Accept it?" I snapped, barely able to tain my frustration. "It's tearing this pce apart!"

  "You ot reject what is part of you," she said calmly, her eyes log onto mihat Celestial power is a part of you."

  "You knew?" I yelled while barely holding onto this raw energy.

  She nodded. "I se the first time we met. But you weren't ready back then, but now, you are. Trust yourself, Peter. Let it flow through you. And above all, don't fight it."

  I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and focused on the power that was c through me. I could feel it fighting to eliminate all the magid Chi I had in my body. It wants to repce them and take the top pce. So, Sims wasn't lying back then. This overwhelming power... This feeling... So much power...

  As the power surged through me, I felt everything blur for a moment. My vision dimmed, repced by a swirling void, dark and suffog. My surroundings vanished, Kamar-Taj, Wanda, and the A One fading into nothingness. All that remained was the overwhelming force c through me, like a sting inside, and then... the whispers.

  "You are more than this," a voice echoed from the void, cold aive. "You are beyond magic, beyond any mortal limitation."

  I couldn't tell where it was ing from—inside my head or from some distant pce. It spoke with an authority that was almost intoxig.

  "Why bind yourself to the straints of the weak? Why struggle with spells and the petty games of men?" the voice tinued, each word fillih a dangerous sense of fidence, superiority. "You are superior. You are power itself, Peter."

  Another voice joined in, this one darker, almost growling. "This world, these people... they don't matter. Only power matters. Only you matter."

  My hands began to glow with that unfamiliar energy again, the sheer force of it vibrating through my bones. I felt a pulse of anger, of hunger, rising inside me. The o prove it—to show the universe what I was capable of. It was as if the whispers were fanning a fire I didn't even know was there.

  "You could reshape everything," the first voice urged. "No more struggles, no more weaknesses. You could owy itself. You don't need Kamar-Taj. You don't need anyone. You are enough."

  I gritted my teeth, trying to hold on to my thoughts, but the temptation was overwhelming. The power felt... right. It was calling to me, me the ce to cast aside everything that had held me back.

  "Why should you care for their world? For their lives?" the growling voice pushed further. "You are beyond them, above them. Take what is yours, cim your destiny."

  The words dug deep into me, amplifying the raw emotion and primal force swirling in my chest. I could feel myself slipping, my thoughts clouded by the allure of power. The whispers grew louder, more insistent. I was on the edge, standing at the precipice of something enormous, something terrifying.

  And then, for a brief sed, I wa. I wao give in. To embrace that power, to let go of everything else, to feel superior. The whispers promised so much, and I could see it. I could see the world bending at my feet, the sky itself reshaping at my will.

  But then, from somewhere far away, a faint voice cut through the chaos.

  "Peter..."

  I looked back with a rge grin, intoxicated by that raw power c through my body. "Who are you?" I asked.

  Then with a fsh of light, he came in front of me. It was... Me! The real me. Not Peter Parker. No, that's Alex Wilson. The me from my past life. There he was standing. His body was shimmering with a golden energy that wasn't magic or Chi.

  "You..." I whispered as I stood frozen in pce.

  He gave me a faint smile. "You have a choice here, Peter... No, Alex."

  "You are me, aren't you?" I asked as I stared at his face. We looked so simir yet different.

  "Nope. I'm just an alternate version of you. I assing by and thought, 'what the hell? Let me che this idiot.' So, here I am," he said as he shrugged.

  "You are like the A One... Ay from a higher realm, right? You surpassed everyone, right?" I asked.

  "I'm nothing like that. I just said I'm an alternate version of you, but yeah, you say I've surpassed everyone in multiple realities," He said with an arrogant grin, praising himself.

  I threw a bolt of celestial energy at him to test him. His arrogant smile didn't disappear, instead, he casually caught the bolt with his hand.

  "Quality: Decrease," He said.

  Instantly, the bolt of energy decreased in quality, turning into low-grade energy before disappearing just like that.

  "What?" I said, stunned by what I saw. He didn't use any magic or Chi, and he did it casually.

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  AN: Yup. That's the OG Alex Wilson from My Harem in DC & Marvel Multiverse.

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