NUEVA YORK, EARTH- 928.
━ chap 22. leaving miguel behind !

Back inside at the HQ Spider-ling society in Nueva York, Spider-Byte, aka Margo Kess was seated at the control panel of the Go Home Machine, and swiped through many different hairstyles for her avatar. She was completely not up to date with what just happened, and wouldn't know till later on.

She was making comments on each different hairstyle presented in front of her, as she continued to swipe through the screens, not really liking them on her avatars head.

Spider-Byte was very unaware of the fact that, the Morale's siblings were already in the area she was in, and were currently using their invisibility power to sneak up to the control panels.

(Y/N) slightly yelp quietly when air was released out of the metal cracks on the floor, causing Miles to quickly pull her way from it, and glanced at Margo to see if she heard it or not, them now moving closer to her.

They weren't so lucky because Margo did hear the small noise, and now looked up from the screen in front of her, as she turned it off. She stood up in confusion, staring around the area for the source of the sound, and switched her suits mask on to scan the place.

"Hmm." She hummed to herself when she spotted nothing on the screens, and made that disappear also, as she jogged up a few steps away from the controls. She didn't see how the cords hanging off the roof moved around, showing that the siblings were crawling across them behind her.

A thumping sound was heard behind her also, as the duo landed on to the floor now still invisible, and got to work on figuring out the control panels. (Y/N)'s cheeks were still wet with tears, and didn't bother wiping them away, as she pressed buttons on the keyboards in front of her, Miles doing the same thing.

The control panels began to turn on at their touching, causing the electronic to crackle, and beeping alive with an orange glitching colour. Seeing all the screens switching on, Margo became even more on alert then she was now, "What?"

She shot a holographic web at one of the control panels tables, quickly pulling herself over to it, as an automated voice talked from the speakers, "Initializing Go Home Machine."

All over the machines screens were many different controls to be shut off, as Margo made them all appear above the tables, and began to desperately type away, trying to shut the machine off from going.

Up above her on the panels in the walls, (Y/N) and Miles' figures were perched on it to press their hands against the screen, as it made the process speed up knowing they needed to go, like right now. Her red venom somewhat spiked into the machine, making it glitch momentarily unaware to both parties involved.

Just as Spider-byte shot another web up to the wall they were on, the duo leapt back down onto the ground floor, as they saw her where they once were, most likely dealing with the issue up there.

Miles had one of his sisters arms around his shoulder to hold her weight up, as he realised she was lagging behind him when they moved, and helped the both of them jump over a table in their path.

The long machine arm that was shaped in one red, glowing eye at the end shone its scan over the siblings, as it was collecting the DNA of where they both came from to send them home.

"Dimensional signature identified." The same woman's automated voice spoke through the room, as on one of the screens had Earth- 1610, and the other one was... well somewhat glitched in way where it was unreadable.

Margo fired a web at where that voice came from in hopes to stop however was inside, but once again didn't capture anything. She landed beside the robot, and grabbed the end of it in her web, as she snapped her head towards the Go Home Machine now opening up.

The massive hole inside the ceiling slowly opened up to shine a bright light down, and a whirring sound followed next, as a Spider like machine began to crawl out from the hole.

Margo now became more frantic seeing this, and swinged herself back to the control panels, just as alarms beep in the background, while she types hard on the keyboards.

"Come on-" Her voice was a bit distorted, when she made her avatar spilt into many other holograms, and all went to work on the controls in different sections of the room, "No, no!"

The spider like machine was now fully out of the opening, as its beady red eyes look down at the two figures still invisible below in the middle, seeing that (Y/N)'s head was now limply resting on Miles' shoulder, and his concerned face staring back up at the machine.

"What's happening?" Lyla now appeared beside Spider-byte with a baffled look on her hologram face, as she brought up smaller screens of the controls in front of her.

Spider-byte rushed straight though the AI which made Lyla move into a different spot in the air, "The machine activated on its own." She answered in a quick breath, fingers still typing away on the keys.

"How is that possible?" Lyla retorted in slight disbelief, the AI already have some idea who could be behind this, and was very much so going to help in any way she could, as she pretends to frantically swipe through the controls.

"It isn't." Margo shakes her head still covered in her mask, and moved spots with Lyla again to work on opposite ends together, glancing at the AI for a second, "It's not possible for the accelerator protocol to engage without entering a sequence key."

Back in the middle of the Go Home Machine the siblings were now standing closer together, as they watched the Spider's legs stretch out to grab red webs with its claws, and started to make a barricade around them in a dome, beginning from the top and up.

"How 'bout this?" Lyla placed herself in front of Spider-byte to somewhat sabotage her advances, and pressed many keys at once to make the system glitch, not caring about what Miguel would say after this.

"No-no-no-no-" Margo groans a bit annoyed at the hologram girl, and waves a hand where she was to make her disappear for a moment, "You're getting in the way!"

The colourful glitching barricade around the Morales siblings was getting bigger, and stronger as the machine was close to finishing it, which made an electrical whirring sound. Miles was being careful to avoid each claw moving around them, and kept his half concisions sister against his side tightly.

When Margo paused her movements on the control with her fingers, she tilted her head upwards to really focus on who was inside the machine, and gasped gently seeing the figures (Y/N) and Miles huddled together.

Now feeling conflicted on what to do as she thought of those two like her friends, the Spider-ling frantically glanced back and forth between the controls, not knowing what to do in that moment.

The Go Home Machine continued to wrap the red lines around in the selected places, as (Y/N)'s Spider senses suddenly went off in a painful way that caused her to groan loudly, alerting Miles still holding onto her, who looked up at her with teary eyes.

She had a feeling she knew who was about to arrive to this get away party, and released a shaky exhale to prepare herself. Pushing up from Miles' side in another pained groan, she placed herself in front of him, and gripped her forearm inside her palm, as she stared through the small gaps in the barricade.

Not even a few seconds later appearing from out of a door was Miguel, who slammed through the glass and caused it to shatter everywhere in pieces. He landed in a heap against the floor, as he scrambled up on all fours to pick himself up, "Stop her! Now!"

"Man, what does it look like I'm tryna do?" Margo stressed in an exclaim at his bellowing voice, herself being behind his running away figure, and raised her shoulders up in offence.

(Y/N)'s heart began to pound faster in deep fear, as her eyes went wide seeing how feral Miguel currently looked running towards where they were. She could see his fangs now out, his scarlet eyes glowing dangerously, his curly hair messy and all over the place, and his claws were out on his fingertips.

She pushed her brother back behind her more to protect him, which made Miles grip onto her suit alarmed also at Miguel's sudden dramatic arrival. She had to ignore the throbbing pain in her head for the time being, as dealing with the man she once loved came first for now.

Miguel grunts when he made his talons appear on the sides of his arms, and took a massive leap into the air as he arrived at the edge of the path. He shouts loudly as he landed on the protective barrier around them, gripping onto it with his Spider features.

(Y/N) whimpered in the back of her throat startled, as he began to rabidly claw at the barrier separating then, and pushed herself back with Miles, their once invisibility now gone to replace them being visible to everyone

"Do something!" His voice was a powerful, and demanding bellow again, as all he could see right now was red, and the scared features of the woman he loved. Yet that didn't stop him, and continued to desperately use his claws the break the barrier, "NOW!"

Margo's mask retracted from her face to reveal her stressed expression, and did listen to the boss man's words, until the figures of Peter and Gwen swinged through the room to land on the metal floor.

"Miguel, stop!" Peter shouted in a somewhat exclaim once he dropped from his web, coming to stop beside Gwen who also yelled after his next serious words, "Think about what you're doing right now!"

He of course didn't pay any mind to the new incomers behind him, grunting fiercely as he still tried to claw the barrier in more feral movements from where he was standing. Seeing him acting like this, Peter slowly turned his head back to Gwen with wide eyes, really wondering how Red even loved someone like him.

"(Y/N)! Listen to me-" Miguel's clawed hands sticked into the barrier blocking him from them, as he began to try and created a hole in it, straining as he does so, "You need to stop-!"

She stood up straighter with an arm outstretched in front of Miles' quivering figure, and stared at the male through her lidded eyes, "No. It's you that needs to stop!" She seethed out through her teeth, completely in disbelief at how he was acting right now. The Miguel she met all those months ago would of never acted like this, and at the realisation, it made her aching heart hurt more.

Hearing her backchat towards him a feral, and primal growl escaped his lips, fangs now baring at her through the small gap he was making with his claws, and pure strength alone. His wild eyes stared into her slightly terrified ones, and pulled apart the barrier more seeing it, now yelling out feeling himself straining.

She wouldn't lie but.. he was genuinely scaring her now. She's never seen such a ravenous, look from him, nor seen him use his abilities to this extent to get what he wanted. She didn't even want to think about what he'd do if he caught them, and that thought alone made her shiver, as she pushed Miles more behind her taller body.

Margo had the count down till the machine would send the siblings home on her screen, as she typed away one more time, and a button to shut off the technology appeared next, awaiting to be used or not.

She hesitated to actually press down on it with her fingers, and looked up to where Miguel was still trying to break the barrier, and then towards the siblings, who stared right back at her from inside the machine.

(Y/N) slowly shook her head at the other girl, face holding nothing but a pleading expression for her to let them go free, as she slides her hand into Miles' one who stood beside her now. It was all up to Margo now if they got home or not, and they didn't know what to expect from her.

Margo knew straight away what her answer was once she spotted (Y/N)'s look of despair, as the girl was a big admire of Red Venom, and wouldn't let a girl down in need. Her hologram finger lingered over the 'yes' option for a second longer, as she glanced back up to send a knowing look to the siblings, who brightened up in realisation.

(Y/N) breathed a shaky sigh of relief slowly as she sent Margo a small smile, before turning back around to Miguel still trying to get in, "I'm sorry it had to end like this, mi amor..." She whispered through a voice break at him, as his still feral eyes shot up to hers, and somewhat soften for a second hearing her words, before they went back to normal as he continued clawing.

"But... we're going home. And I don't care if I'm on the brink of death," She closed her eyes for a few seconds, inhaling deeply as her suit's mask transformed over her eyes.

Once that was done she opened her gaze back up, to now become Red Venom, as she turned her pain into power, "nothing's going to stop me from saving my family."

"NO! RED-!" His bellowing, desperate cries went deaf to her eyes as she looked up at the machine with Miles right beside her, both ready to be transported home safely away from this hell hole. Realising the machine wasn't going to be shut off, he began to yell out her name even more through pleads, begging her to not do this, "Don't do this, please-!"

Just as the siblings were levitated above the floor for a few seconds, through her mask she spotted Miguel's watery, but raged gaze on her, and tried to ignore the agonizing clench to her heart seeing him like that. It didn't help her either, as all she could hear was his cries for her to stay with him.

Taking Miles' hand in hers tightly, she put a brave face on as she turned away from the man who she gave everything to, and let herself be dragged through the machines portal to the place she calls home. She had no clue what horrors waited for her on the other side though.

An explosive whoosh sounded through the room just as the figures of the siblings disappear, and left nothing but a small spark of red venom in their wake. The Spider like machine crawls back into the hole in the ceiling, as the light from it shines down on Miguel's heavily breathing figure.

His broad shoulders were moving up and down in suppressed rage, as the others only saw his back and his face was hidden from view. The eye like machine arm comes up beside him, as it tilted its head and went to scan his figure with the red light.

However before the machine could do so, a yell escaped Miguel's mouth as he grabbed the technology and ripped its head off easily, throwing it towards where the other Spider-lings were watching silently.

"O-okay. Enough." Peter was the brave one to first talk to the still feral male, and raised a hand in the air for emphasis, sighing tiredly, "It's not the console's fault."

"All they had, all she had to do was listen!" Miguel's voice was a violent grow in answer, as his back muscles tensed up when he moved his shoulders, and gritted his teeth, "Why didn't she just listen?..."

Gwen's eyebrows raised in growing frustration also, as she scrunched her knuckles up by her sides, and took a step forward to be a little in front of the group, "Maybe you weren't hard enough on them!" She yelled out in an exclaim before glaring a little at Miguel, "Oh no wait, you were on Red! And now look what happened!"

"Gwen, don't do it, not while he's like this." Jessica tried to mumble her warning to the younger girl, shaking her head in emphasis, as she placed her hands on her hips.

"You let them go." His voice was strangely calm now which alerted everyone, and he turned his head just over his shoulder to glance at the teen, "You didn't catch them, Gwen." He fully faced the others now, as his glowing red eyes were full of rage, and had his fangs bared in a frightening demera, "And because of that, (Y/N)'s life is in more danger now!"

Peter raised both of his hands up into the air, signaling for them to calm down before anything bad starts up again, as he looked between the two, "Okay, let's all just take a breath-"

"Peter, you want to back me up?" Gwen talked over the adult in hopes he would to as she asked, and didn't take her wide gaze off of Miguel still standing on the machines platform.

"Well, okay, Miguel, as a father of two daughters," He began to voice his opinion, motioning to Mayday strapped on his chest, and couldn't motion to (Y/N) as she wasn't there right now, "a-and the son of a mother-"

"Yeah, actually, stop talking." Jessica was quicky to interrupted his rant before it got started, sending him an incredulous look that had Peter mumbling his agreement, smiling awkwardly.

Gwen inhale heavily to calm herself down, and pinched the bride of her nose at Peter's lame attempt at backing up, "I'm sure if you try and talk to (Y/N), things might end up differently-" She went to walk forward more, but flinched back with Miguel arrived where she was.

He aimed two red webs at both ends of the pathway, and tugged himself forward to land gracefully in front of her smaller figure. He stood up tohis his full heigh that towered of hers, "I tried that." He grunted as he began to walk forward, making her walk backwards in sync.

"Are you hearing yourself right now!? She's supposed to be the woman you claim to love!" Gwen exclaimed in disbelief as she got out of his way, and instead stood behind him, pointing an accusing finger at his broad figure, "And yet all you've done is hurt her, and chase her away! It's like you don't want to save-"

"Of course I do! This is what this entire operation is about!" Miguel shouted back with a snarl in her face, daring her to think that comment again. His red rage filled eyes glance down at his wristband for a second, and just saw a familiar red bracelet poke out if it.

He clenched his jaw to suppress his trembling bottom lip, and turned away from Gwen to contuing walking, "I love her more than anything, or anyone in the god forsaking multi-verse. That's why I cannot  lose her.... I won't, not again." He whispered through a slight voice crack to himself, that was very inaudible to the group near him.

"Do you know for certain what happens if the siblings break the canon?" Gwen retorted back after hearing him going silent, as she slipped in behind him and crossed her arms over her chest, suspicious of the male now.

Miguel's walking came to a stop at this, as he paused where he stood for a couple of seconds. That was until he sharpy span around, and went into Gwen's space, now walking her backwards, "Do you want to find out?" He lowly threatened, before calling back to Jess watching, "I told you she was a liability."

Gwen was pushed back to the edge of the pathway, as she had no way to go around his intimidating figure towering over hers, "You're wrong." She fired back to him, and then her wide eyes land on her mentor, "Jess, tell him he's wrong."

Jessica closed her eyes momentarily with a sad sigh, and reopened them to look at Gwen behind the boss man's figure, "He's not." She disagreed hesitantly, not enjoying this one bit at all.

The blonde's face drop hearing her answer, and gave Jessica a disbelief expression, not believing the woman whom she once looked up to betrayed her like this, "Are you serious right now?"

"I told you: You let them get away, I can't help you." Jessica's voice dropped into a cold one, along with her face as she turned her head away from Gwen's glaring expression now.

"I'm not coming." The teenage now hateful seethed up at Miguel, as she had to crane her neck up to actually meet his stare down on her, and scrunched her knuckles up tightly.

His head was pointed downwards to her, and his eyes held a dangerous glint to the, as the dark lights casted a intimidating aura around him, "You're right. No one can be trusted to save (Y/N), expect me."

Gwen didn't have any time to understand what he meant, or to protest about his words, as something or rather the Go Home Machine's spider arms had clasped onto her shoulders in a hold, "What the hell!?"

She exclaimed and grunted as she was forcefully pulled away from the edge by the claws, and now into the air, as Miguel watched with an unbothered expression. She tried to web a shot away, but was stopped by the claws grabbing onto her more, and was trapped in a hold she couldn't get out of, no matter how much she wrestled around.

The machine placed her down in the middle of the platform, as she began to try and jump out of any gaps free in the building barrier, but was once again stopped by the Spider claws grabbing her in their metal.

Just as she managed to shove off the claws wrapped around her, she grunted a huff and stared at Jessica along with Peter through a sudden serious expression, "We are supposed to be the good guys."

Jess' eyebrows furrowed in deep thought hearing this, as she looked to the side just as the Go Home Machine sent Gwen home, creating a massive explosive whoosh that lit up the entire room. At her being sent back home, Peter, Spider-byte, and Lyla all had sadden looks on their faces, not knowing what to feel about this now.

Miguel's head was tilted down to the floor with heavy breaths escaping his lips, "We are." He eventually rasped to himself, as he himself knew he could be viewed as a villain for what he was going to do, but it was all for the sake of the one whom he loved the most, and he'd do literally anything for her in a heartbeat.

Suddenly remembering all the Spider-lings behind him who were probably also having an internal crisis also, he turned around slowly to face them all, "We are." He repeated loudly to them all, as he glanced over the quiet group.

His brows shift into a deep frown once he revied nothing back, and began to walk forward as he typed something on his AI watch, all while talking to the two near him, "Jess, Ben, come with me."

"Hell yeah!" Ben flexed his buffy and muscular arms out hearing he was needed, and showed off in pride as he went to follow after Miguel's figure.

A portal to where the Morale's siblings lived opened up in front of Miguel, as it made a warbling noise when it materialised in the air, "And somebody catch spot." He orders to the others not being requested to come along.

"Yeah, sorry, I uh, I got to get her down for a nap." Peter rambled out his excuse to not follow, as he didn't want to anymore after everything that happened, and it caused Miguel's face to scrunch up in annoyance.

"Not you." He snapped once the other male was finished, and turned around a little to point a masked finger at him, just before he disappeared into the portal with the other two, "I've had the right amount of you."

Mayday sputters out in a raspberry with her tongue, before laughing and squealing as she grips onto something red around her wrist, cooing down at it.

Peter sighs softly seeing his daughter looking at the red piece of thread, a part of (Y/N)'s suit that must of ended up there, "You miss her too, don't you?" He mumbled sadly, and pressed a kiss against Mayday's head.

......

Elsewhere in an unknown universe, well supposedly not to the two now entering it, a glitching and glowing orange poral opens up on top of a roof, as the figure of a screaming Red Venom pops out of it.

She was thrown out of it at top force, as she skids along the roof and into a few air vents placed there, that cause them to be crushed in her bad stumble, and now snap off to land on the cement.

Pained grunts, and groans escaped her lips, as she was rolling across the ground with her already wounded body, and tried to regain her footing, but was sent face planting inside.

The rain flowing down from the dark skies of home didn't help her either, as it made her now drenched, along with everything she was trying to grip onto to help her fall.

She ended up flipping onto her back when her suited foot got caught in a dent on the roof's cement, causing her to yell out when her back landed into the entrance of the apartment buildings roughly.

Red Venom's head bumped painfully into the door with a thump, and it made her bite back a sob of pain, as she cradled the sore spot. She scrambled back behind the side of the door, and took a few deep breaths to calm her pants down.

However, her eyes suddenly went wide in absolute horror, and felt sick to her stomach as she soon realised something, or rather who wasn't beside her leaning on the wall right now.

Where was Miles?

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coughs welp this was the last chapter with y/n and miguel actually together in the same scene, and now.... its just angst followed by annoying cliffhangers (so sorry guys) 🥲🥲

don't worry though cause my new miguel fic im working on will solve all the problems this fic caused i promiseee, and this time there will be actual smut also WHAAHAH👹 also i will say y/n lives and breathes mariah carey's songs in that story... fair warning now

getting super close to the end guys which im sobbing about, but plss don't be silent readers yk how i love reading your comments pookies <33

also if anyone has forgotten this is y/n's suit,
aka red venom's

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