Having seen Otto Octavius's "infinite cloning," Peter had absolutely no intention of wasting words on this group. And obviously, as clones, they were probably endlessly replenished as well. Defeating the enemies here was meaningless; only destroying the teleportation device mattered.
"Why is there another Spider-Man?!"
Green Goblin's voice came through, furious yet excited. "It doesn't matter. Even if another seven or eight Spider-Men show up, I can still—"
Before he could finish, blue particle patterns appeared over the newly arrived Spider-Man's body. Before anyone could react, Spider-Man used super-speed to bolt away, carrying the other Spider-Man with him.
Peter carried the likely clone all the way back to Fat Peter's attic before setting him down. Gwen was already waiting inside. Once he was put down, the Spider-Man stared at Peter in disbelief. "Wait, another Spider-Man? Who are you people? Some kind of clone of me?"
"Sorry, I'm not. In fact, my world's technology is far more advanced than yours."
Peter had the nanobots retract his mask. Seeing that suit, the Spider-Man nodded with certainty. He believed that in this world, not even Osborn Industries possessed nanotechnology like that.
And in a universe without any superheroes besides Spider-Man, Osborn Industries was unquestionably the pinnacle of technology.
"Then you..."
"We're from other parallel universes. You probably noticed already—I'm Peter Parker, if you're Peter Parker too."
As he spoke, Peter scanned the Spider-Man before him with his multiverse watch and reached a rather troubling conclusion: this Spider-Man was from this universe, not someone who had wandered in from another universe.
In other words, this universe's Peter Parker had never gone through a parallel-universe story, but he was about to encounter the Clone Saga. Whether that was a good thing or not was hard to say.
But the Spider-Man before him clearly was not