Friendly Neighborhood Hero

Setting: Post-Halloween. During Young Justice "Schooled".

Summary: AU: After the Halloween possession Xander's gains the power of an unknown comic book hero, that didn't really take off, that starts his career as a crime fighter.

Pairing: Xander/Artemis.

Rating: FR-21.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot of the story. Disney owns Spider-Man, DC owns Young Justice, Whedon owns Xander, and if you recognize anything that I write, I don't own it.

Author's note: Xander and the others will be fourteen when Ethan comes to Sunnydale early, thus the whole Buffy the Vampire Slayer timeline is skewed. Joyce, Buffy and Dawn moved to Sunnydale when Buffy was 10. He will have the spider-cycle, and the electrified webbing from the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, and the web shooters from 'The Amazing Spider-Man' movie. All three Spider-Man costumes are high end, very high end, think of them like Batmans' costumes. Though he will have the rotating web shooters, there will be different carousels that holds cartridges of different webbing, these will be given to him by Batman, when he joins YJ. The Scooby gang will be a little OOC in this story. In this story the Spider-Man comics didn't really go as expected so it was discontinued. One last thing Artemis will be using MJ's nickname for Peter on Xander. If anyone can make fan art for this story that would be awesome.

Prologue

Sunnydale

June 12, 13:30 PST

2010

Xander, a fifteen year old teen male who stood 6'2" with brown hair and expressive brown eyes, stood on the edge of the high school as he was making the largest life decision in his short life, though he blamed that asshat Ethan Rayne for his circumstances and the decision that he had to make. If he had only bought the plastic gun he was going to get for his soldier costume, until he saw three variations of the same costume.

Xander grabbed the last plastic gun from the bin and was turning to go to the counter when he caught sight of a red and blue costume, with black lines all over it like a spider web. He walked over to it and then noticed the two other costumes, both black but with one difference, one had a white spider the other had a red glowing spider on it.

"Wow."

"Do you like it?"

Xander whirled around and stared up at the older man, "Don't sneak up on a man like that," Xander said as he huffed and then turned to look at the three costumes, "whose costume is this I don't recognize it at all."

Ethan sighed and rubbed the back of his head, "That's the problem, these where supposed to be the costumes of a comic book hero that went by the name of Spider-Man."

Xander looked back at the man, "Who?"

"Spider-Man, he was a nerd who went to a science symposium and was bitten by a radioactive spider and gained the powers of a spider," Ethan said as he got a sly glint in his eye, "tell you what. I will sell you all three costumes for about thirty dollars."

Xander looked at the man with a 'do I look stupid to you' look, "Quit pulling my leg, these three could sell for much more than that."

Ethan sighed, "I have had these costumes since the middle of October, and they haven't sold at all, so that's why I'm selling them to you for thirty dollars. Plus no one wants to buy the costumes of an unknown super hero,"

Xander looked at the costumes, each one looked to be made out of some kind of thin leather or something that he couldn't identify, "I'll take them then."

Ethan nodded and started taking the costumes off of the mannequins and draping them over his arm and then taking them to the cash register, to ring the young man up and gently put them in three separate bags. Xander took the bags and left the store.

Xander stared down at the red mask with white eyes before a profound statement drifted through his mind 'With great power, comes great responsibility.' Xander sighed, then leapt off of the roof of Town hall, landing in a crouch beside his spider-cycle. Putting on his helmet he got on and drove away from Sunnydale, away from the memories that haunted him at every turn.

Gotham City

August 3, 21:21 EDT

2010

Xander sighed as he drove through Gotham, his cross country trip had been exhausting to say the least. He had dealt with a couple of the Flash's minor villains in Keystone City, Kansas, which brought him to the attention of the news media. He was just turning onto the street where his hotel was on when he looked up and saw a person crash into the nearest building. He sighed as he pulled his bike into a parking spot and shut it off. He grabbed his bag and headed for the nearest alley, he reached into his bag and pulled out the black suit with the white spider.

He quickly changed into his costume not forgetting to put on his web shooters and pulled the mask over his head. He scaled the nearest wall to the roof, then ran to the edge closest to the building that the two unknowns had crashed into.

Thwip!

A white substance shot out from his wrist to stick to the building, while he was swinging into the hole that the two made, Xander saw a sign proclaiming that the building for Gotham City Academy. 'Great, even 10,000 miles away I'm heading back to school' Xander thought as he lands in the building. He quickly followed the sounds of fighting to a chemistry class.

"Access Captain Atom."

Xander saw a metal android, a bare-chested man raise its arm and a glow coming from its palm. He fired a webline, catching the androids arm and swiftly pulling it to the side, causing it to fire and make another hole in the room, "Hey robot boy, haven't you heard that a teen super hero gets at least a five minute breather during fights with villains?"

Conner and Amazo look behind the android and spot a male figure crouching on top of a desk.

"Hi there, the name's Spider-Man and I'll be your butt kicker this evening," Xander said as he stared at the robot.

Amazo tilted his head studying this new hero, "Access Black Canary." It opened its mouth wide to let out a canary scream.

Xander quickly dodged the sonic waves, then hopped from desk to desk towards the robot and punched it solidly in the head, causing it to slide back several feet, "Why don't you pick on someone who can hit back harder?"

Amazo looked at the child and had to reanalyze what this child could do then, "Access Superman," the eyes glowed red and twin lasers shot out towards the child.

Spider-Man dodged around the room to get away from the lasers, he shot a webline at a desk then flung at the robot to cause a distraction and then ran at the robot, throwing every single thing at him, while using his spider sense to dodge the robots punches, which he did to a certain extent. Spider-Man slammed into and through the wall.

Kid and Robin made their way into the school and up two stories, only to see a black clad figure fly through the wall in front of them. They then heard "Access Superman." Superboy then followed the black clad person through the wall followed by the android. They then follow all three into the gym, where the black clad figure is crouched looking at the android.

From Robins' point of view, the new person looked like he was ready for a fight by his stance, he wondered who this new person was.

Spider-Man groaned then shook his head to clear out the last of the cobwebs, "Well Mr. Roboto that was a good punch. The question though is, can you do it again." Spider-Man then shot two weblines and the robot.

"Access Martian Manhunter."

The webs shot through the android and dropped to the ground, Spider-Man looked at the robot then his webs, "Well, I could make a joke about my virility but I won't go there."

Kid ran at the android but was blown back when Amazo used Canary's scream. Robin threw his batarangs but they flew through Amazo, using Manhunters intangibility. Spider-Man ran at the robot but flipped over it when it stated, "Access Captain Atom," and then blew a second hole in the gym wall. Spider-Man landed then turned quickly and fired both shooters, snagging the robot he then planted both feet then swung.

Kid, Robin and Superboy stared in stunned silence as they saw the new person throw Amazo into the wall.

"Woah."

"Sweet."

"Huh."

Ivo was shocked, this new upstart had lifted his android off its feet and flung it into the wall, several feet behind it, "Impossible."

Spider-Man looked at the older man, wearing a dress shirt, a red bow tie, green sweater vest and tan khakis, "Not really, you just have to know about how spider webs work." Spider-Man stopped and looked at the man, "Really, a bow tie who do you think you are Doctor Who?"

Ivo looked stunned, did that impertinent child make fun of him, then angry, "Amazo, destroy that bug. Priority Alpha."

Spider-Man sighed in frustration, "Really? I would think that a man of science would know the difference between an arachnid and an insect."

"Access Flash." Amazo ran at the child, but he was dodged when Spider-Man, back flipped onto the wall.

Superboy, Kid Flash and Robin snapped out of their stupor and joined the fight, and all four teens where slowly pushing the android into a corner, when Kid was unlucky caught by the android.

"Access Superman," Amazo then started to squeeze the Flash child to death when it saw an arrow coming towards it, "Access Martian Manhunter." The arrow flew through it, but Kid Flash was also dropped.

Spider-Man narrowed his eyes, "All right Tin Man, and I have had enough of you. On my mark we all attack. Mark." The fight was once again joined Spider-Man waited for the perfect opportunity to strike, and when it did he struck hard. He shot two weblines at the robot and when they struck he let loose with a 20,000 volt jolt along the webs and into the robot causing massive electrical damage to its computer processes. Amazo seized up and slowly fell onto its back, slowly going offline.

Robin rushed over, "Quick, help me disassemble him." Kid and Superboy went to help him.

"Yeah, I put a 20,000 volt charge into that mean machine. It's not getting up at all," Spider-Man said as he worked the kinks out.

"Don't take any chances," a dark skinned teen said as he ran through the double doors, followed by a flying green girl, though they both stopped when they noticed the black clad figure.

Spider-Man waved, "Hi, how's it going?"

"Good," Miss Martian asked as she unconsciously tried to read the persons mind, but was blocked by a strange mental shield in the form of a web.

Careful child, you are not ready to know the secrets that he holds.

M'gann tried to jolt away from the power of the telepathic voice.

Hahahaha, the voice let out a throaty chuckle, don't worry child I won't hurt you, that is in less you try to hurt Spider-Man.

Spider-Man silently chuckled, "Well, it was nice fighting with you all, but I gotta go, TTFN." Spider-Man then quickly left by the opened window that Ivo had used to get in.

All the teens looked at each other and asked an important question, "Who was that?"

Mount Justice

August 4, 1:06 EDT

2010

"The Amazo Android is in pieces and is safely being analyzed at the two separate Star Labs, but Ivo escaped and since he originated the tech he is arguably more dangerous than the android," Aqualad said as he debriefed Batman, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Red Tornado and the Martian Manhunter.

"Capturing the professor will be a League priority," Black Canary stated.

"But we understand that your mission encountered several other complications," Manhunter said as he crossed his arms and stared at the teenagers.

Four looked towards Superboy, who winced at the stares from his teammates.

Batman stepped forward and looked down at Superboy and the others, "Complications come with the job. Your ability to handle them has impressed the League."

Superboy looked up to meet Batmans gaze, "The whole League?"

"Given time, yes. Kryptonians, as you know, have extremely hard heads. Of course there is no shame in asking for help. That's why the League exists—because there are even some problems that we can't handle."

"Please, even if we did need help, we wouldn't get the chance to ask," Robin burst out as he yanked the arrow from behind his back, "look familiar?"

Batman took the arrow and examined it, then handed it to Green Arrow, who got a closer look, "We didn't follow you." Green Arrow took and arrow out of his quiver and held the two up.

"And that's not your arrow, but that means-Speedy!" Robin exclaimed.

Kaldur smiled, "He has our backs."

Kid Flash ran up and snagged the arrow out of Green Arrows hand, "Souvenir!"

Batman cleared his throat, "Now tell us about this Spider-Man."