Interlude Part 1 Of 2

Like the one in Face It Tiger this interlude takes place at some point after the first act and I will combine its parts into a one shot later.

Marvel 2004

I haven't played the game this world's based on in years so my apologies if my recollection is poor.

Felicia's next stop was the world of the Spider-Man 2 game. As it turned out two weeks after this world's Peter who bore an uncanny resemblance to Tobey Maguire rejected Black Cat and saved MJ and the city from Doctor Octopus's fusion reactor he was killed by the twin Inheritors. This world's hadn't formed the same obsession with men dressed as arachnids as most of her counterparts that assumed the identity of the Black Cat she liked him to be sure and his death was hitting her a lot harder than she thought but they hadn't known each other that long and they'd hanged out mostly for fun. She just returned to her hideout after defeating the Vulture (they were trying to steal the same thing and their timing overlapped) she was just about to start changing into something more conventional when she saw her visitor waiting on the coach.

"What are you a clone?" she responded resuming her activities like it was nothing "I don't have time for that and you can't borrow my stuff."

"Wouldn't think of it." Felicia replied as she got a good look of this counterpart her hair was dyed white like most but it was relatively short she was young to not of legal drinking age yet. "It's not like there's anything worth stealing here."

"If I just wanted to stare at trinkets I'd work at a museum or jewelry store not rob them. Now are you going to tell me who you are and why you're here?" she finished changing and was now in her pajamas.

"How do you feel about Spider-Man?"

"He died a few days ago I hardly think it matters anymore I thought we were destined to be together but we were just having fun we didn't have time to get serious or anything… wait you're not my future self don't tell me some mad scientist revived him a few years from now and we lived happily ever after."

"Hardly." She then proceeded to explain her reason for coming.

Black Cat listened without an ounce of doubt which given the difference between the two's world was pretty surprising she liked the idea (well except for the part of sharing Spider) and she had already made her decision but she wasn't going to give her answer until she got a little more out of her new friend.

"So will you come with me?"

"What if I say no? If there are infinite worlds then there's no shortage of better and more willing candidates. Why me?"

"My reasons are my own. And you can come with me or you can be collected you'd be doing yourself a monumental disservice to decline and I won't allow that not when I know what you're turning down and how many Felicia's have wasted ten, twenty years waiting for something like this."

"We'll it's good to know you're devoted to your cause who knows you and Red might actually save everyone. I'm not tied down here or anything what about this world of yours what's it like."

Felicia explained the Marvel Universe given its complexity compared to this one where there was only one superhero now dead and less than a dozen supervillains some of whom were dead as well it was very enticing for a thrill seeker who was just starting to get bored with the challenges her realm presented.

"Spider will try to stop me from indulging in my hobbies… won't he?"

"Don't worry we're planning the heist of the century right under all the costumed types noses."

"I'm in."

The two swiftly departed leaving Harry Osborn the city's sole defender two months later when the city was overrun by symbiote/sandmen after an unusual asteroid landed in Central Park.

Marvel 75

The world Black Cat next went to was one very similar to the medieval one Kang visited. The difference was in this one the Dragon Fin Fang Foom destroyed the castle of Harry Osborn and his Sinister Twelve before Sir Peter Parker and his Knights could begin their offensive. The death of Mary Jane was an unpleasant result as she had been locked away in the dungeon for three months. Peter mourned as he had for Princess Gwendolyne and nearly gave up on love it seemed everyone he cared about was destined to die. As a result he didn't much care who the kingdom tried to set him up with. Lacking any living relatives after the death of Gwendolyne King George had appointed Peter his heir. The noblemen disappointed at having a future king of mid-tier blood scoured the world for worthy princesses to start this new dynasty. Peter found himself in the same position Gwendolyne that night as he sat in the palace as an array of suitors were brought before him. None caught his interest except for Princess Silver Sablinova off Symkaria like the others she was quite attractive and charming but unlike the others their chemistry was formidable to say the least. Peter had yet to learn much about international affairs but he had a basic knowledge of Symkaria the country was small and quite poor but it offered the most capable band of mercenaries to walk the earth. The two shared a remarkable evening one that went far further than either had intended and the next morning he announced his engagement with the formidable silver haired Princess. King George and most of Parker's comrades in arms manifested their approval of Peter's choice the lords and such believed he could have picked more advantageously but a princess was a princess. Symkaria was currently embroiled in a major border conflict so the date was a year off in that time Peter only saw the warrior princess two more times and his heart slowly led him in another direction. When she was alive Mary Jane hadn't been the Osborn's exclusive servant but at times also worked for The Lady Felicia she'd never much talked about it but the Lady was about their age and had a reputation as an eccentric. Her mother had been a woman of great wealth and noble heritage her father was of low class and a thief for the sake of thieving imprisoned long ago in a dungeon who knows where. When her tutoring was complete The Lady Felicia did not follow the direction of others but choose to train herself and join the knights of The Order of The Spider. No one took the effort seriously of course a female knight there had never been such a thing but Felicia had shown her battle prowess and was enrolled with the others during their campaign against Octavius. They fought day by day at each other's side the air charged with their mutual attraction it was only a matter of time before they entered a secret relationship one with the date of a prior engagement hanging over it. As the fateful day of the marriage of Peter and Princess Silver arrived however death came not for Peter's love however but the noble Knight himself in the form of the Inheritor Karn. Two thirds of the wedding ceremony between Peter and Silver had elapsed when the palace was interrupted by his arrival though the warriors present fought valiantly their resistance hardly bought seconds for the unlucky groom. He was impaled by The Inheritor's spear and the life was swiftly drained out of him. The stunned crowd did not begin to respond until Karn simply plowed through the walls of the palace and moved on to his next target. King George, Jonathan Storm and Silver Sablinova each delivered a speech that night before Peter's remains were burned on a funeral pyre Felicia still aching from the beating cried the whole night as she watched him burn. While others eventually left she remained the whole night and had not yet fallen into sleep the next morning. She was continuing to weep near his ashes when her counterpart arrived through a portal. The Lady didn't see it and was rather spooked when Black Cat made known her arrival.

"Hello Felicia you're in luck."

"The Chameleon's locked in prison. This isn't possible you can't be me. I… I must be dreaming perhaps I'll wake up and find myself in bed with my beloved, that this has all been a dream?"

"Dreaming no the second part that can be arranged."

"What do you mean?"

"It's very complicated I don't think you'd understand. Let's just say I'm you're fairy godmother here to make your wish come true. I can take you to Peter but you'll have to leave here for another world and you'll have to share him."

"That's not a problem a fortnight ago I urged him if he married Sablinova to allow me to carry on as his mistress he never responded or let me know whether or not he was going to go through with the ceremony. If we were discovered I'd take the blame how could he resist an eccentric seductress as myself?"

"What about the kingdom?"

"Peter was the crown prince his position will go to one of his brothers Reilly or Kaine I've fought with both of them valiant warriors to be sure they will serve the kingdom well. Now aren't you going to help me ascend to the sky or something surely you're taking me to the heavens."

"I'm afraid you're mistaken. Our route is a bit more horizontal."

The Lady Felicia gasped as her counterpart pressed the button on her remote and a portal opened. After recovering she was not the least bit hesitant as she was escorted through.

As it turned out King George lived longer than anyone expected but when he passed the land crippled by a war on two fronts the first a bloody civil war between the Parker's the second assisting the Symkarian's in the defense of their homeland from the Latverians the kingdom was slowly conquered by an old enemy of Peter's parents a villainous fellow with a head/skull as red as blood.

Marvel 2010

This is a reality almost identical to the Edge of Time videogame.

Felicia's next choose a world that was quite a gamble because the counterpart or rather counterparts that lived in it could go out of existence at any moment. In this reality an Alchemax employee named Walker Sloan had gone back in time to found the company earlier Peter Parker and Miguel O' Hara had worked together to prevent any damage to the time-stream as well as the death of Peter at the hands of a mind controlled Anti-Venom. In order to save Peter's life the two had switched time periods and were now working on both sides to resolve the issue problem was the cumulative effect of everything that was going on was causing the timeline to adjust itself at an accelerating rate and it appeared that while Miguel was trying to save Mary Jane's life in the present in the future Peter Parker was plagued by an old lover. Alchemax had the genetic material of this world's Felicia and had cloned an army of Felicia's all were enhanced some more than others (Most of them had blue hair and were only slightly enhanced but there leader looked almost identical to the original and was nearly a match for the webslinger) with the DNA of Tigra and an unidentified teleporter. The Black Cats were responsible for security in addition to all of the robots and mutated freaks their leader possessed a key Spider-Man needed and the Cat was anxiously awaiting their "date" it was a date however that would never come. Cat heard the sound of the portal behind her and was astonished to see her counterpart appear. The clone approached the visitor the only clones that looked like her were dormant bodies her mind would be downloaded into if she died on the job so this came as a surprise.

"Felicia is that you the real you?"

"In a manner of speaking."

"Rumor was you were murdered decades ago. Gosh that anti-aging drug has worked wonders on you."

"I'm sorry Cat but I'm not the Hardy you're thinking of. I'm her counterpart from an alternate universe. Can you fill me in on what happened to her?"

"Peter changed the day Red died. He systematically wiped out all of his villains and became the CEO of Alchemax. A few years later he lured my predecessor the real Felicia here to trade her genetic material in exchange for an anti-aging drug he had cooked up. Peter had some rather personal plans for an army of Black Cat clones he didn't tell Felicia that the drug was untested or that he had developed it for himself. It worked perfectly but after he used it on himself he gradually lost interest in Felicia and us and became absorbed in his work time travel technology especially. Felicia moved on with her life and as for us we were demoted to a superpowered security detail my sisters and I never saw him again. Even with my teleportation abilities he's had us chained when we were cloned our memories were buried a result of tampering with our material to give us these nifty powers. He used hypnotherapy to bring our memories up to the surface and made use of the opportunity to instill in us a fear of unenclosed spaces so we could never leave Alchemax. But now his younger self is here before he changed perhaps I can fix everything. Haven't seen Spider in so many years you have no idea how much we've wanted to have a little fun."

"It sounds like this Peter became a real jerk you sure he didn't program you not to fall out of love with him or something?"

"He wouldn't have needed to. You know how Spider is."

"I came here to stop you from meeting him here."

"Why would you?! I can't I won't let you!"

"Calm down. I know you can just teleport out of here but hear me out. The reason I don't want you to meet Parker here in Alchemax is because this time-periods Spider-Man is in the past tinkering around with the time-line if I don't extract you from this reality cutting you off from the time-line than you will cease to exist you meeting Spidey's the quickest way to go I can guarantee you'll vanish in his arms."

"I'll take that chance my life is meaningless without him better to never have existed then spend another day in this cage without my Spider."

"What if I told you that there was another way that you could get what we both want."

"I'm listening."

Felicia made her offer and explained as much of the situation as she knew to the clone.

"What's the catch?"

"You would have to share him with some of your counterparts."

"I've waited nearly a century do you seriously think I'd have any problem with that." Said the clone that worked routinely with hundreds of "sisters"

"That would be a yes."

"Just give me a few minutes there are a couple things I'd like to "borrow" from Alchemax."

"You can't with Miguel in the past the timeline could erase you at any moment."

"It's a risk I'm willing to take. When you take me to Peter I want to bring a gift and an army is as good a gift as any."

"Oh… I see where you're going."

"Be back before you know it."

The Black Cat clone teleported to locations all over the facility and back when she had finished a moment later there was about four tons of equipment ready to be brought with her to her new home.

"Are you ready?"

"Please I was born ready."

The two departed leaving the key this reality's Spider-Man was looking for in an easy to find spot no hassle. This and other effects of her departure set off several chain reaction that dramatically improved the timeline when it was fixed not only was the founding of Alchemax delayed to its proper time but in the new timeline after the Civil War broke out several months later when given an offer Peter simply told Mephisto to go to hell. His second child Annie was born eight months later and Kaine found and returned May weeks after that. An Amazing Spider-Man Family was formed and it had all been unwittingly caused by Felicia's appearance.

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