The moment Parker's consciousness expanded to encompass infinite realities, the pain hit him like a cosmic sledgehammer to the soul.
This wasn't mere discomfort—it was agony on a scale that transcended physical sensation entirely. Eight million souls multiplied by infinite dimensions meant that every emotion, every moment of suffering, every death across countless timelines crashed into his awareness simultaneously.
He felt a mother in Reality-7,429 dying of cancer while her children wept. In Reality-12,881, a man committed suicide on the Brooklyn Bridge while his family searched frantically for him. In Reality-94,773, a terrorist attack claimed hundreds of lives in Times Square. In Reality-2,847,394, an entire New York burned as nuclear fire consumed everything.
