[center][quote=@HenryJonesJr][color=ec008c][b]"So...uh...what's your deal?"[/b][/color] is about all I can think to ask. It's about as eloquent as a jackhammer in a glass factory, but it's all I got. [color=ec008c][b]"Clearly you thought someone else was showing up to see your light show. As far as I know I'm the only one who wears a mask like that, but I've only been on the job a few months."[/b][/color][/quote][img]https://i.imgur.com/ZfvPPwT.png[/img][/center][b]Manhattan, New York[/b]

[color=#ea9999]"Right, right, Spider-Woman, [i]of course[/i],"[/color][color=#ffffff] Johnny muttered admonishingly to himself. [/color][color=#ea9999]"Sorry, it's been a rough couple of ... well, months."[/color]

[color=#ffffff]Peter's screams rang through Johnny's ears as clearly as they had that day in New York. He felt tears forming in the corner of his eyes but gritted his teeth determinedly and fought them back. He had come here in the hope that speaking to Peter might help him put an end to the wallowing and the anger – not to start blubbing in front of a teenaged girl.[/color]

[color=#ea9999]"My name is Johnny Storm. I'm from another world – another Earth, not like Mars or Jupiter or anything corny like that. On my world the guy who wears that mask, Spider-Man, is a friend of mine. Or at least he [i]was[/i] a friend of mine."[/color]

[color=#ffffff]As if hearing his own words back, Johnny's face scrunched up in discomfort. It sounded bizarre, like the ramblings of an escaped mental patient or some soon-to-be mass shooter's stream of consciousness, but he didn't know how else to explain it. If Reed were here, he'd know exactly what to say to make this whole thing make sense – but Reed [i]wouldn't[/i] ever be here, he wasn't stupid enough to be.[/color]

[color=#ffffff]So Johnny was on his own.[/color]

[color=#ea9999]"Look, this isn't going to make much sense and I'm not sure that I'd even believe it if I hadn't lived through it all, but ... my Earth was attacked, conquered by something [i]far[/i] worse than anything any of us had ever encountered before, and my family and I were the only ones that made it out. We tried to escape through time but something went wrong and we ended up being shunted across worlds."[/color]

[color=#ffffff]There was no judgement in Spider-Woman's eyes. At least, if she [i]was[/i] judging Johnny she was doing a reasonably good job of pretending otherwise. Either that or her mark was better at disguising her features than Peter's had been.[/color]

[color=#ffffff]Johnny shook his head as he realised he regretted having even opened his mouth. [/color][color=#ea9999]"I guess I've just been struggling with it all – and I thought seeing old webhead again might help me figure out how the hell I'm supposed to deal with all of this."[/color]