Spider-Man of Earth-13 seemed to be doing rather poorly. Even as Captain Universe, with Cosmic Energy filling his body, he was already several decades old and still did not own a home on Earth.
The Spider-Men from Parallel Worlds had arrived, but there was nowhere to host them. They could only settle everyone in an abandoned underground parking garage in the outskirts, whose only advantage was probably that it had electricity and water.
It was a summer night. Insects chirped from some unknown dark corner, while moths fluttered into the temporarily hung light bulbs.
The conditions were a little rough, but that was no challenge for so many Spider-Men. There were plenty of scientists among them, and Captain Universe was quite fast at gathering resources.
Octo-Parker's plan was to first build an Artificial Sun to power the subsequent equipment, driving a Multiversal Level biological sonar. By searching for totems with resonance frequencies similar to those of the Bride and the Other, they could pinpoint the Single Universe where the Scion existed.
An invisible Spider Web linked all Spider Totems. Whenever a totem moved, tiny ripples appeared on the web, but the usual vibrations were too weak for anyone else to sense.
That was the problem the Spiders needed to solve now. However, after adopting an assembly-line division of labor, they should be able to put together the necessary equipment very soon.
This would take some time. During that period, Deathstroke and the other two had actually been watching everyone from the darkness not far away, while he casually played a round of American cricket fighting with Gwenpool.
The insects the Spider-Men heard were chirping because of that.
With so many Spider-Men present, even Captain Universe could not detect Deathstroke through the magical barrier. Yet Ham, that little pig, kept looking