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[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

The location? Shea Stadium, circa late 90's. Two innings in, Mets down by two and up to bat. The occupant? Well, it was mostly filled with a semi-decent crown of fake people, but the only member of the crew currently watching the game was the younger Peter Parker.

The current score didn't really concern Peter. Plenty of time left in game to get back, and the game itself was kind of secondary. He was mostly there to reconnect with himself after the mess that was Fairplay, and what better way than the place where he learned one of the other key lessons that made him who he was.

Still, he didn't mind if anyone else decided to watch the game.

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[nottheglamour.livejournal.com]

"Hey. Now this is more like it!" Hear that voice, Peter?

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

"Oh, MJ! Hey! Where've you been?" Peter waved her down.

"Big Pete's been, well, you can probably figure it out on your own."

[nottheglamour.livejournal.com]

"No, not really," she came down and sat next to him, settling in comfortably. She loved a good sports game. Putting her feet up on the chair in front of her, she casually said, "Spill the beans."

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

Peter raised an eyebrow.

"Same thing that happens every time someone one of us is close to unexpectedly basically vanishes into thin air. He kinda lost it."

[nottheglamour.livejournal.com]

Mary Jane looked to Peter with a look of confusion and worry, before turning back to the game, and letting out a resigned sigh. She looked at her hands on her knees, thinking back to the last time Peter had gotten incredibly upset. "He's prone to do that. As much as he cracks jokes and swings on a web."

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

Peter ntoiced the look. "I'm thinkin' I probably shouldn'tve brought it up." He said a little guiltily.

"And it's not something that just came out of nowhere if I'm any indication. Kinda prone to the same thing."

[ladyofthread.livejournal.com]

She had been drawn in by the sounds -- what kind of recreation was this? At home, she didn't really have much time to take in sporting events, nor were they really that popular. So Sandry decided that today, she would watch this strange game and figure out how to play. It looked simple enough -- hitting a ball with a bat and then running the bases. But she knew there had to be more to it.

"So...what exactly are they doing?" Sandry asked no one in particular. Hopefully, at least someone would know the answer.

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

"Playing baseball. Need a rundown of the rules?" Peter spoke up.

[ladyofthread.livejournal.com]

"Oh, could you? I've never played before. Or watched!" Sandry stared at the field intently. One player was running towards third base, and she leaned forward, trying to understand.

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

"Well, it basically goes like this," Peter said and started on the various basic rules involved in baseball.

"There's a few other rules, but they take a pretty involved explanation and don't always come up. I'll tell you what they are if they do though. Anyways, I'm Peter Parker. You?"

[ladyofthread.livejournal.com]

"Oh I'm sorry, I'm Sandry." She grinned at the boy. The sports in this world were certainly interesting. At home, she had never had time to enjoy sporting events, nor were there many this big. Most were just children's games.

"So where is this place? The place we're sitting in, I mean."

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

"Who's winning?"

A grinning green face plopped himself down in a seat next to Peter with a "#1" Foam hand on his head like a hat and a tub of nachos.

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

"Heya Beast Boy. The Phillies are." Peter replied.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

"Booo." Responded the Changling offering the nachos to Peter, "Great idea though, I haven't seen a baseball game in forever! Like, last time the Titans and I had to win a baseball game against a bunch of criminals."

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

Peter ate a few. "It's kind of an annual thing with me. Though I moved it up by a few months 'cuz of the last mission." He said, licking the nacho cheese from his fingers.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

"Yeah I heard a little of that, you guys had a pretty rough go huh?" He crunched away keeping his eyes on the field thinking back to the games he and the Titans used to watch in Jump City.

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. Relatively speaking, I probably got off fairly easy though. I'm more worried about Kory than about my own mental health right now."

After all, Peter reflected, he'd actually had experience with things that messed with his memories and personality. Sure, the symniote wasn't on that scale, but he'd at least learned a couple of things about moving on from weirdness like this.

[godbydefinition.livejournal.com]

Having left the city (for once), it was only mild curiosity that caused him to stop by the Sensoriums as well, while he was out. Still, it was not anything he had been expecting-- he knew of the game, from his time on Earth, but it was nothing that he had paid much heed to, in general.

"... baseball," he commented idly, as he stepped through the stands, watching closely for who it was that was part of the 'crew' in there.

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

"What was your first clue?" Peter replied good-naturedly.

[windyellow]

"Hey dude." Dustin gave a slight wave but otherwise was mostly quiet, and for Dustin this unusual in and of himself. "What's up?"

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

Peter relaxed back into his seat."Watching a Mets game, getting my head together."

[windyellow]

Dustin took a seat nearby Peter, and gazed at the game slightly. "Me too. Man, there's nothing like baseball. Haven't seen you in awhile, dude." A thought came to Dustin slowly as he watched a player get a strike.

"Pete, you been keeping an eye on the omnicomms lately?"

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

Peter's brow furrowed, trying to figure out what Dustin meant, before remembering Dustin's last post.

"You mean the ninja training thing?"

[windyellow]

Dustin nodded. "Yeah. I mean even if you don't want to go to the class, you could learn something by watching the students."

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

Peter thought it over "I'm actually kinda settling into my style, however improvised it actually is. And I'm not sure how much the Earth Ninja stuff'd help me out, since I'm more of an ground-to-rooftop fighter. I'll look into it though."