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[waitingforplayer2]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CHIAKI NANAMI.

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<galagamer> This is Chiaki Nanami.
<galagamer> I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

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[heyunderoos]

Being alive here is generally really confusing.

Chiaki, I literally nearly destroyed my own universe one time (well, the me in the future Otto and Norman meet anyway). I think you're fine.

[waitingforplayer2]

that sounds like a story

[heyunderoos]

I only really know what Norman and Otto told me tbh. So, I'm probably missing some stuff. Okay, maybe a lot of stuff.

Beck revealed on live TV that I was Spider-Man. My life kinda fell apart because of it. So, I like talked to this wizard guy about making people forget I was Spider-Man. The spell went wrong, somehow?? Like, the spell was summoning people who knew I was spider-man to my universe from every other universe with a Spider-Man in it, and it was like making stuff collapse. Not great!

and Otto and Norman showed up because of that. They like tried to kill me apparently, but w/e. They're cool now! Beck is also cool, but kinda cranky. Like a rabid possum you found in an attic.

Apparently I like made a new wish with the wizard guy for everyone to forget who Peter Parker was? IDK what happened after that.

The future is really confusing and weird.

[waitingforplayer2]

oh i understand some of that. sometimes people who try to kill you are also your friends

[ She can follow that part at least. ]

so this is stuff that's going to happen to you when you go back home?

[heyunderoos]

Honestly kind of wish neither of us would have to deal with that, but we're kinda just stuck with all the weird trauma I guess.

Yeah, it is. I can't change it. I probably should just deal with it, if it means Otto and Norman get to be okay, but...

I'm not super looking forward to it. That's me being selfish tho. I need to live that, so everything will be okay.

[waitingforplayer2]

i don't really want to lose any friends. if someone i love does something bad, i don't want to just leave them behind. maybe they had a really good reason for it, or maybe they were in trouble.

but i don't know how going home would really work for any of us at this point, you know? i mean, would i even be able to go home or not?

[heyunderoos]

Yeah, same. I just... the murder part is kinda the part I don't like. I don't wanna abandon anyone.

Norman and Otto are both really convinced we'll get home eventually. I don't know how it would work either. I don't know if I wanna go home.

[waitingforplayer2]

you don't have people at home you're missing? what about MJ?

[heyunderoos]

I miss her, and my best friend Ned... so much. I miss May, I'd technically have her, but... not very long.

When Beck outs me as Spider-Man, all of their lives get worse. Because they know me. I can't make their lives worse, Chiaki.

[waitingforplayer2]

but you're their friend... even if i knew things were going to get worse, it'd be so much harder without my friends.

[heyunderoos]

If I'm not there, then I won't be outed. If I'm not outed, everyone is safe. The vitriol people apparently turned on me won't happen and splash back on them.

It's... probably stupid, but I don't want them to get hurt. I don't want my aunt to die.

[waitingforplayer2]

they'll miss you. they won't know what happened, will they?

[heyunderoos]

In the future they forget about Peter Parker because of a spell.

Neither option is good. Its just... a lot.

[waitingforplayer2]

[ Oh. That does make it complicated.

She supposes that he could still try to be friends with them again, but... on the other hand, she understands the impulse to stay. ]

i'm sorry, peter-kun

but i'm glad i get to be your friend here, at least

[heyunderoos]

Its complicated and weird. I don't quite know how to even fix it.

Thank you. I'm glad to be your friend too. I don't think I'd be me in the same way if you weren't here.

[waitingforplayer2]

me either.

you make me better. especially with WEB.

bakugo-kun says i'm not a hero or a villain. and maybe he's right.

but i want to do whatever good i can, at least. i want to work harder at it. so i still want to work on WEB with you if that's okay.

[heyunderoos]

Chiaki, you're a hero to me. I know you're always trying to do the right thing, even if its not perfect or doesn't work out. That's what makes you a hero.

Yeah, its more than fine. Even with what happened at Felfri, I wouldn't kick you out of WEB. I know you were being pulled in a lot of directions. I wasn't doing any better either.

[waitingforplayer2]

[ she's not gonna cry she's not gonna cry

okay maybe a little ]

thanks peter-kun

<3

i'll be back at headquarters soon okay? i think my changes are all done finally so i can help out again

[heyunderoos]

You're welcome. I just... needed you to know.

I'm gonna be checking headquarters on and off, so just tell me whenever you're coming so we can hang out or patrol w/e you want.

Did you change into something else?

[waitingforplayer2]

no, i'm still a nymph. it just took a while to change back this time. maybe cause the fog's thin? also i had to get rid of all the nanites

[heyunderoos]

The fog being this thin probably would make it harder for everyone to get back to well 'normal'.

Are you okay at least? I can kinda guess nanites wouldn't be great here.

[waitingforplayer2]

i'm okay now. the changes were rough but they seem to be pretty much over. i'm not throwing up metal anymore.

[heyunderoos]

Okay, that's, very good. Puking up metal is not- good. Not that any of this is good. I'm glad I just woke up pooka again.