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Who: Peter, Aunt May, and open!
What: Peter's hanging out with his Aunt and introducing her to everyone he knows.
When: Day Sixteen
Where: Kitchen/dining car

Peter's probably talked nonstop over the past hour about everything on the train and other stuff too. He's so happy to have his aunt back he doesn't even care about the fact he's in so much trouble. He can live with that. Probably. Until he gets bored anyways. But right now who cares?

"-And then we went to this Mountain where this lady-uh Albany and her kids ran this Inn. It was really nice and I taught the kids how to play the floor is lava and uh freeze tag and stuff. That was fun and their mom made like really bomb pancakes and the best lemonade ever-I mean I know I'm not supposed to drink it and all but ohmygod Aunt May it was the best! Like oh my god, I could never give that up." He rambles from where he's leaning against one of the walls.

"-it was a really weird world though. We were there to pick flowers and herd these bat like things called Dralite-they were really cute, by the way, anyways-we had to like also get rid of this giant gorilla-I'm pretty Mr Stark just like.. shot a repulsor beam at it and pretty much just yote it right off the cliff and like-Mission accomplished. But the goats bit! I tried to move them and one bit me on the stomach and oh my god that sucked." He explains in an energetic way that only he can really manage. "But it's okay-I mean I healed up just fine-not even a scar." He lifts up his shirt to show her no traces of the bit in case she was worried.

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Peter really doesn't like thinking about the fact she got shot with an arrow and he has yet to confess to anyone about getting shot in the back of his leg while gagging over Deadpool's hand because Goblins apparently don't believe in common courtesy.

"Hey!" He stands up straight, thoughts pulling away from the first adventure on the train. "Uh, May, this is Gwen-Gwen this is Aunt May. Gwen-Gwen's my girlfriend." He introduces. "She's great. She's awesome. She also has uh... spider powers."

Girlfriend. Okay. May can deal with that even though in her time he was dating MJ. Peter was from before then and she really just wanted him to be happy. That was the main thing she wanted.

"Hello Gwen," she says with a bright smile. "I'm glad to meet you," she says honestly. "I apologise in advance for anything Peter does that is awkward," she teases her nephew, giving him a wink as she speaks. "Would it be rude to ask how you got your powers?" she asks curiously.

"I'm glad to meet you, too." The faint tease at her boyfriend gets a small smile from Gwen and she gives him a soft smile, too. It's very clear she loves Peter in the way she looks at him.

"I don't mind the awkward. It's one of my favorite things about him." She had dozens of things that she likes about him, his awkwardness one of them. May's question about how she got her powers only briefly has her hesitating.

"My bandmates and I were at a gig on stage. A genetically enhanced spider had gotten out of a nearby lab and bit me in the middle of a set. I was sick for a couple days after while my DNA rewrote itself, I guess. Now I have a lot of the same powers Peter does. Enhanced strength, enhanced agility, rapid healing, enhanced senses. I'm my city's one and only Spider-Woman. And my universe's one and only Spider-Person. We're not from the same universe."

Peter's quiet while Gwen relays the story of the radioactive spider bite. When he told May about the bite he might have left out a few details here and there but he told her the gist of it. 'Soo.... remember that spider that bit me on that field trip to Oscorp?' May knew he'd been sick after all that and moody and not at all himself so there wasn't any reason to mention the fact 'it hurt like a bitch for days.'

"Yeah, turns out the multiverse is a thing and there are more Spider-People. Gwen's best friend Miles, is around somewhere but he just recently got his powers-also bitten by a radioactive spider btdubs. That seems to be a reoccurring thing in universes with a spider-person. Also, Mr Stark owns Starbucks in her universe-oh wait, I'm sorry. Starkbucks." He grins at how stupid that pun is.

There was a lot said in that story that May hadn't known. Oh she had guessed that it wasn't a normal spider that bit her nephew, how else would he have gained superpowers otherwise but hadn't pushed him. A part of her hadn't wanted to know because how would she look after him? It was easier to deal with a fever...

"Yours better not have been radioactive. It's bad enough thinking about a genetically modified one biting you," she turns to Peter, looking sternly at him.

"You both are okay though? It was just the fever that you suffered from and these powers? Nothing else unusual?"

"It was just genetically modified. How, I have no idea. I just know it was really bad for a few days, like...a super intense flu, and then suddenly, I was stronger and...yeah. All the powers. Plus one he doesn't seem to have, but that's fine. I like the differences. Sometimes, I just know where I need to be without knowing why until I get there. It's been helpful."

And Miles could shock people with a touch, and turn invisible. She was a tad jealous, but nothing too exciting.

"Yeah, though. I'm okay."

"Uh... I mean... you'd have to ask Norman Osborne about that since it was his Spider." Peter says, sounding a little distracted. "...Except like. Don't go near Norman Osborne. He's sketchy af." He quickly amends because he's just sure May would be more than happy to go yell at Osborne about her Nephew getting superpowers from a possibly radioactive but also possibly just genetically modified spider.

"Yeah-hers is like way more useful than mine-mine just tells me to watch out but not necessarily for what. Which-I'm still sure she was using it to play battle ship the other day."

"That still doesn't sound pleasant. Still I'm glad that there all there is." She still worries about the modifications and what it would have done that wasn't visible but she also knew there was no way to explain why she wanted those tests done in the first place. She'd gone through that worry enough when she discovered Peter's secret.

"Oh I'll yell at him if I ever see him but I won't track him down on purpose," she promises. "No one gets away with that sort of stuff."

"Both are useful skills to have. It's saved your life enough times not to dismiss your Peter tingle," she tells him.