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[ silent. then, ]

I would have to uphold my promise to you in a different way. That is all there is to it.

[He's quiet for a while, contemplating what that would entail.]

Lotor. I don't want you doing anything crazy to fix your mistakes. As long as I can be with you, I'll be happy. Even if it means living with the consequences of... everything.

[ he has to choose his words very carefully. ]

Is that right... that will be a comforting thought if all of these tokens turn out to be for nothing.

Either way, I think it'll be alright. [ a pause. good partners... good people... they do this, right. ] When it is time, I will discuss my final plan with you first.

[Somehow you still managed to word that last part ominously]

You sound like you have something in mind already.

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...I've been thinking of it, since that night in the hot spring. How best to utilize this "wish" of mine.

That's-- a long time.

[we weren't even dating yet!!! despite seeing me naked so many times already,]

Undoing that. Preventing my own death. I could have attempted the trial at Oriande again—there was always a great many reasons why I could utilize my wish on that. Only recently has that could become should.

[ a bit good, a bit... a lot... self-serving, and not always good. but he's admitting it. trying? ]

I've changed the exact specifications several times over my time here. But I believe I am closing in on doing it in a way that won't be... [ ... ] too crazy.

...Okay.

[He squeezes his hand in a way that imparts his feelings over this: I am going to trust you.

(don't let me down)]

I don't know if it'll help. But... open your hand.

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[ OPENS HAND

no hesitation. just hand. ]

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[Puts a familiar looking spider watch in his open hand. Only it's not a figment of his soul palace. It's solid, and metal, and real.]

I was thinking - if something goes wrong and we get separated. Maybe you can use this to get to Earth-616.

Right now it can't do much more than teleport you a foot. But that still might help in a pinch.

[ oh... that's smart. ]

This is a wonderful idea, Kaine. At the very least... I'm certain that it would make finding your reality easier.

[DON'T USE IT FOR MULTIVERSE CRIMES!!!!]

Just-- don't let this kind of technology fall into the wrong hands.

[He trusting that yours. Are not. The wrong hands.]

[ the trust is almost palpable. you could cut it with a particularly strong breath. ]

I understand.

[ really. he has his own multiverse crime robot. but look. if it all goes well he will not make the multiverse crime robot. maybe just a normal robot. ]

[JUST A NORMAL ROBOT

Leans,]

I might also be in Loomworld. The center of the web. That's where I died last time, so.

There was a carcass there, when I saw it. One quite a bit larger than yours.

[ just... clasps the teleporter on his wrist. it can go into safety with the sentry later. maybe in the spike pit. ]

Well...... maybe it was mine.

I got dragged into this multiverse crap. Spiders were being hunted and killed, across every world, by this freak family of lifeforce vampires. Kill one, and they'd just come back in a new body.

Us spider clones, we realized - their souls were going into cloned bodies. So they were functionally unkillable until we stopped them at the source.

[A pause. He lets out a shaky breath.]

I saw Ben again. It was Ben from another universe, but - he was just like mine. I mean-- of course he was.

[ gently squeezes his hand. ]

...I see. Your reality—and those around it, apparently—seems especially fraught, no?

There's always some bullshit happening that puts the world in danger, but it usually doesn't extend to every reality.

[I mean as far as he knows. He doesn't live Dr Strange's life]

...We infiltrated the world where they were producing these clones, but. Ben... he gave his life to destroy it. I had to watch him die, in front of my own eyes this time.

I went nuts after that. Transformed and went for their stronghold to kill them all. I took down the biggest guy at least.

[ ... ]

I can be proud of you a little for that, can't I?

...Well, it'd feel nicer than pointing out it was a reckless stunt that put the multiverse in jeopardy.

Wasn't it already?

Well, yeah.

Don't think it thrilled Peter, finding out.

What happened then?

The thing that happens when you storm an enemy base alone.

I died.

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