At the Avengers base, Peter set down the controller, sighed, then grabbed Pikachu beside him and kneaded his cheeks. "If you hadn't been pressing buttons randomly, how could the language system have gotten messed up?"
Pikachu scrunched up his face. "Isn't it because you're too bad? We obviously could've fought him for two rounds. When you landed just now, you broke one of his tentacles!"
"Don't you have your own controller? Why did you have to snatch mine? You—" Peter had barely gotten that far when he noticed his phone ringing. He picked it up and said:
"Hello? Gwen? Are you out of class? Oh, you're Spider-Gwen? Sorry, I misheard. What? You ran into trouble? Doctor Octopus? Oh, I see. Well, I'm kind of busy right now..."
"It's fine. The Doctor Octopus in our world is just a researcher. He's easy to deal with. His weakness is his tentacles, especially the third one on his left side. As long as you destroy that tentacle, he'll lose his balance. Yes, do as I say and you'll definitely be fine..."
After hanging up, Peter picked up the controller again. "Spider-Gwen ran into Doctor Octopus too? But we only sent out three robots. Which one did she run into?"
"Let me see. Shadow Spider-Man got Doctor Octopus No. 1, Amazing Spider-Man got Doctor Octopus No. 2, and Spider-Man 2099 got Doctor Octopus No. 3..."
"Then which one did Spider-Gwen run into?" Peter scratched his head in confusion. Then he froze. His expression stiffened as he slowly set down the controller, and his roar echoed throughout the Avengers base:
"No!! Gwen!! Don't mess with him!! He's the real deal!!"
"Ugh..." Spider-Gwen slammed hard into the ground with a cry of pain. Watching the approaching tentacles, she gritted her teeth, climbed back up, and swung