Batman and all related characters are property of AOL Time Warner. Spider-man and its related characters are property of Marvel Entertainment. This fic is in the purpose of practice and celebration of writing. Nothing more. This is a crossover. I would also like to thank Ryexius (I believe that's your screen name. Bare with me if I misspelled it.)







Authors' Notes: This story is a crossover. The setting is the Gotham City of Batman Beyond. In addition to its residents. The city receives one more. Also this story is set during the series of fics of which Cameron Bullock exists. This story takes place after the promotion during Progeny and the events of Ivy-Redux.



Summary: A new hero comes to Gotham leaving interesting evidence behind. A new student comes to Hamilton High who doesn't rate high on the popularity scale. A cop investigates what's behind the sightings and a fellow student shows the new kid the ropes.







Excelsior





"You didn't see anything."

"I'm telling you I saw something."

"It's the height, your eyes are playing tricks with you." Air patrol Sergeant Tim Doyle said to his new partner Officer Ellison Cane. They were in one of the many air patrol units that kept watch on what went above and on the city streets.

Doyle was making sure that the computer was piloting the airship properly. Cane was on observation. They were currently over Upper West Side watching people drive to their homes either in the area or out in the county.

As Cane watched the traffic, he saw something go by his field of vision. It was small and you couldn't see unless you watched closely.

"There it is again." He said to Doyle

"Where?"

Cane pointed in the direction on the glass. Doyle looked over and did notice something.

"We'll call it in. It's out of our sector anyway." Doyle said to him.



They had received a few calls on this night but they weren't difficult to handle. The Upper West Side didn't exactly have the crime problems: The Hill or The Bowery had. Both Officers Lyndon Ryder and Wesley Trens were both experience street cops. They were used to the night shift and of their jobs. They respected them. That was a difference from the rookie or over-zealous cop who was either afraid or felt they could own the streets. Such ideologies would be rejected as they would upset the order that not only the city was built on but life in general.

"Unit 45, Unit 45" The dispatched called out

Ryder grabbed the receiver. "Central"

"Have a report from sky unit reporting suspicious activity on Sprang Avenue. Be advised."

"Will do, Central"

"10-4, 45"

"10-4"

Ryder put the receiver away. "Disturbance call" he said to his partner who was driving. "Don't forget to floor it, Dano"

"Never do" Trens said as he sped towards Sprang. Ryder turned on the lights and sirens. They quickly moved towards the call.

They got there in less than two minutes. They were the first ones on scene.

Everything was quiet.

Ryder and Trens got out of their cruiser and began to search the area. The area was basically a series of small stores and apartments buildings. There were a couple of alley on each side.

"Where should we start?" Trens asked

Suddenly someone screamed out in terror. Neither officer could figure put where it was coming from.

"I guess in the direction of that." Ryder said

Both cops ran towards the direction of the sound. It was coming from the second alley on the other side of the street. It was dark and neither officer could see well.

"Call in for air support will ya." Trens called to his partner

"Will do" Rynder grabbed his radio. "Central we need a halo over at Sprang and Garfield. Second alley on the east side of the street, away from the intersection."

Dispatch relayed the request. "Air unit en route" the dispatcher said

"10-4"

A few moments later the familiar sounds of city life came down on the Upper West Side. An air unit with a massive spot light came down on the area Ryder requested. It illuminated the entire alley. Both officers noticed something that could be seen as disturbing.

About mid way into the alley. Something hung from an old rusting fire escape. It was covered in a strange substance that seemed to be translucent in the light. What both cops found made it even more intriguing.

Someone was struggling to get out of the webbing. Below that was a woman who had been attacked.

"I'm calling medics." Ryder said

"Do that" Trens added

While Ryder called in for the paramedics. Trens tried to aid the woman who had been beaten. Her face showed bruises and cuts. Her clothes were torn. It appeared that something that was about to happen had been stopped.

"Ma'am, do you have any idea what happened?"

"Someone saved me" She said as she shuddered

"Who?"

"I don't know"

"Was it the Batman?"

The woman shook her head slightly. "Someone else"

More emergency vehicles poured into the area with flashing lights and sirens. There was more to look into. Much more.







"What is this funky s&*(?" Police Captain Cameron Bullock asked

"From what I can see it looks like a spider's web." The head of Crime Scene Collection Unit Eden Colfax. She studied the substance as it hung from the rusting fire escape.

The man who had been trapped had been freed by firefighters. However it was very difficult free the man and the firefighters had to use a device similar to the jaws of life to free him.

"Captain" Detective First Grade Adena Grover called to Bullock.

"Yeah"

"The man trapped, turned out to have a record." She handed him a file.

Bullock opened it and quickly read it. The man was Carey McDonald. A man with several prior offenses to robbery. He also had been suspected in a series of rapes.

"Has the woman been checked out?"

"They're working on her at Mercy."

"Let me know what happened."

"Will do" Grover then went back to the perimeter that had been established at the foot of the alley.

Colfax was taking small pieces of the web and putting them into a solution.

"Just preserving the evidence."

"Why" Bullock asked "I thought spider's webs lasted for years."

"They can, but I remember reading about this kind of stuff."

"Stuff?"

"Yeah I think a few months ago. During a crime scene conference in Metropolis. I remember hearing something about webs that would dissolve after an hour it had been created."

"What would be left?"

"Just powder. Stuff we couldn't analyze. We need the webs preserved. I'll have more info by the morning."

"Keep me posted."

"You know I do."

"You think this could be bat related?"

Colfax looked at Bullock as if he had insulted her intelligence.

"What it's not a stupid question?"

"Well I've never heard of bat using webbing to stop their prey. Now the Batman could be getting fancy. Although had that ever been his M.O.?"

"I've never heard of it, my dad hasn't heard of it, and Gordon. She'll deny anything related to the bat."

"Then maybe we got someone new in town."

"That could be one of many possibilities. Such is in fair Gotham."

"Going all Renaissance fair on me, Captain?"

"No, just wanted to be high-minded."

Colfax didn't respond and went back to work. She collected a few more pieces of webbing and put them in the preservative. As she worked strands of the webbing dissolved in front of her. She was curious about what was in front of her. Curiosity drove her to do this job and this was one of many moments that made it very worth while.









It was morning in Hamilton High and the usual comings and goings of high school life were in action. For Terry McGinnis he was trying to fight the daily combination of boredom and fatigue. Such were due to the life of being Batman and trying to slog through American History.

"The year of 1980 can be summed up as two events. The Iranian Hostage crisis and the rise of Reagan. Both worked hand and hand." The teacher went on. "In fact on the last day of his term. President Jimmy Carter worked tirelessly to get the hostages freed. It was only after President Ronald Reagan was sworn in, were the hostages freed. Thereby humiliating President Carter one last time. Are there any questions? Comments?"

The class was quiet as some took notes, feigned interest, or tried to hide the fact they were sleeping. That's when the door opened and it caught everyone's attention.

At the entrance to the classroom stood a 17-year old high school student. His clothes and hair were both conservative. Even Terry McGinnis who was jogged awake by the door opening. Noticed that the kid was a little shorter than he was. By about an inch or inch and a half. His face was surprisingly clear of acne or other skin problems associated with being a teenager. Lastly despite his somewhat nerdish manner he did have an air of confidence around him. It was seen as his brown eyes shone brightly.

"I'm supposed to be in this class." The kid told the teacher

"Oh, well, let me put you in the system." The teacher said as she went over to her desk.

"Your name?" She asked

"Peter Parker"

"And you're a....?"

"Senior"

The teacher typed a few keys on her keyboard until she found what she was looking for.

"Ah here it is, Peter Parker. From New York City, right?"

"Yes"

"Well just find yourself a seat and we can continue. Welcome to Gotham City."

"Thanks" He said meekly

Parker noticed a group of chair in the rear part of the classroom where several of the more athletic driven students were. He noticed that a couple of them looked at him as if he were prey. Ready for the torments and trauma that they had planned for him. The jocks were getting bored. Things had been dull since Willie Watt was gone.

Parker then turned his gaze to the other side of the room where he noticed there was an empty seat behind a student who looked tired but appeared to be in control of his life.

"Hi I'm Peter" He stuck out his hand

"Terry" McGinnis said to him

"Nice meeting you."

"Same here"

Parker sat behind McGinnis and pulled out his notebook. He quickly settled into the fold of his new school. He wasn't bothered by change like other students. He had to deal with a lot of change recently.

The class moved on and eventually the bell rang for lunch. The students emptied out of the class and headed towards the cafeteria.

McGinnis didn't see Parker til he got to the cafeteria. When he saw the guy siting alone at a table and picking away at the cafeteria's latest culinary creation. McGinnis sat down at a table a few rows away. There was something about that kid that made him want to keep his eye on him.

When McGinnis sat down he noticed that his girlfriend Dana Tan was already eating. There was someone else with her. McGinnis didn't recognize who Dana's friend was but she was very recognizable. Her hair was a beautiful red, a real red. Not the kind of red many of the kids would dye their hair to. For a moment McGinnis was entranced not only by the hair but the beauty that went with it. He had a girlfriend and he wasn't going to leave her. But he had to acknowledge the fact her friend was beautiful.

"Hello my name is..."

"Terry" Dana said to him

"Uh, yeah"

"This is my friend Mary Jane Watson."

"Nice meeting you" Terry said to her

"Same here"

Terry sat across from the two girls. "So your Dana's friend. For how long?"

"Actually since middle school."

"Schway"

"Yeah it's something"

"It's just I've never seen you before."

"Well Terry" Dana interjected. "Everyone has a group of people they hang out with it. Whether it'd be friends or work." She stressed the last word to emphasize Terry's job. Which did give him a lot of money, unfortunately he never had the time to spend it because he was always working. Terry hoped he'd have time off to take Dana clubbing in the near future. Or at least just spend time with her.

"What's going on twip?" A deep and coarse voice called out over the noisy cafeteria.

"Nothing really"

Terry turned towards where he was hearing the voice. He noticed a group of jocks had approached Parker's table. While Nelson was there, another one of his goons Dave Masters was doing the talking.

"So what's going on?" Masters asked him

Peter continued eating and ignored what he said.

Masters put down his large hands on the table. "I said what was going on, twip?"

"Just eating and wondering why you guys decided to come over here? I heard homework club is in room 4-R."

"Knock it of, dreg" Nelson said to Parker

"You must be the ring leader." Parker shot back

"You may have been big over in the Apple. But Gotham is a new world."

"Actually I was never big at my old high school. Although a few talk about what I've done there."

"What like win the science fair?"

"Actually" Peter said as he picked himself up from the table and carrying the remnants of his meal. "Yes," He then threw his garbage away. "And a few other things." Peter walked away leaving Nelson and his crew behind.

"What just exactly happened?" Masters asked

"Maybe he pulled some kind of mind game thing." Fellow sportsman Ryan Tolkowski said to the group.

"Whatever happened, I don't like the twip one bit."

"Hey Nelson" McGinnis shouted as he came over. "I saw what you were doing with Parker. Trying to show whose boss around here or what?"

"No, just giving him a little tour."

"Well you just watch out. I'm not going to allow what happened when you pulled stuff on Willie Watt. Or do you not remember a certain birthday present that was destroyed the last time he came here?"

Nelson didn't respond and let McGinnis' comments just sink in. He didn't like McGinnis and he didn't like Parker. He wanted to send a message that both would get. However he didn't want to handle McGinnis. McGinnis knew how to fight and he was that close to beating him in wrestling. But Parker, it seemed like an easy target. A push over. He figured he would go after the geek and prove his high school superiority once again.