>>149563761

A real trooper.

>>149563780

I know that'd be preferable, but he's already there, you gotta use him.

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Issue #3 starts with Paul and the Spirit sitting in a homeless encampment, huddle around a barrel fire, they're laying low after another incursion of demons to find them wracked New York.

Paul is still in denial about the whole thing, "They were never married!", "They dated and it didn't work out!", "She had KIDS with me, man.", and "What the hell happened?"

The Spirit simply says, "You'll know what happened in due time, but first, you need to understand."

He steps out into the street and joins the fight agains the demonic hordes, and when the last of them peters out, he opens another hole in reality, and both him and Paul hop through.

A short timeskip occurs, showing Paul's combat skills evolve alongside the Spirit, flashes of similarity appearing in their styles, his arsenal grows as well, gathering anti-demon weaponry from across the multiverse, and in their travels together, a consistent theme emerges, Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, are always, always, ALWAYS together, married, dating, best friends, whatever, what have you, they're made for eachother and anything else is an outlier to end all outliers, Paul included.

This sends a malaise over him, wondering why he had to be in the crossfire of the cosmic rift keeping his MJ and Peter apart.

And when the Spirit notices, he says that Paul is ready, and takes him back to New York in 2007 to witness "The day that ruined it all."

End Issue #3