"Then I..."
Riley said hesitantly, "Actually... sorry, but I'm really not Peter Parker. Although I have his memories and abilities, I really am just a clone. I really..."
Spider-Gwen saw Riley's panic and unease. She blinked gently and said, "You really don't need to agonize over that. There are probably more than eighty Peter Parkers in all of New York right now. One more doesn't make much difference. You can be whoever you want."
"How many?????"
"Wait a second, let me check." Spider-Gwen opened her Spider APP again and started searching around. Then she said, "Uh, there are seventy-two people online right now, but some reported themselves offline because they don't want to be disturbed. Hold on, I'll ask in the group."
With that, Gwen Spider began typing nonstop on her phone. After a while, the phone started going ding ding ding ding ding without pause. Gwen scrolled down the screen and said, "See? In just over twenty seconds, more than thirty Spider-Men replied to me. They're all Peter Parker."
Spider-Gwen looked at Riley and said, "Peter Parker isn't fashionable enough around here, because everyone is Peter Parker. Spider-Men who aren't Peter Parker are popular instead, like me. Of course, female Spider-Men are rare to begin with, and scarcity makes us valuable."
Spider-Gwen shifted positions and looked at Ben Riley. "The ways you differ from Peter Parker aren't disadvantages. They're advantages. Look, there are too many Peter Parkers, and most Parkers are pretty much the same, so they all end up in ordinary laboratories."
"But I'm different. Since I'm female, I can participate in research on in vitro reproduction and artificial wombs. That research group only accepts women, because only women currently have reproductive ability. Female researchers can avoid privacy and ethical issues in certain clinical experiments."
"Of course, there