Justice That A Spider Brings
The Beginning After The Ending
Disclaimer: I don't own Ultimate Spider Man or Justice League Unlimited.
"Why?" That single word can still have a lot of meaning and feeling into it given who said it. It was a young man, definitely the age of the average High School student. But he wasn't at his High School because this day was supposed to be one of his greatest times in his lifetime. It was his winter break with Christmas and New Year's Eve to follow and also to bring everything together. He was Peter Parker, the Spider Man of New York and he will not forget how his plans had turned downhill in a fell swoop leaving only a broken heart as the one thing he has left in his freezing body in an alleyway in the snow.
He will propose to his girlfriend Mary Jane, he will get a promotion in SHIELD with his teammates celebrating with him. And he was going to make his Aunt May feel like they both were truly a family. But it was not to be.
Mary Jane instead went to Peter but not to propose they will be engaged to be married but to break up bitterly. It turned out that Peter had not realized that he had left Mary Jane alone and desperate, both attitudes that will convince a girlfriend to seek comfort and love that will not ignore her; and all that meant cheating on Peter with Harry Osborn, Peter's best friend. And to top things off, Mary Jane slapped Peter with a mean slap that left a nigh permeant mark on his right cheek while both her and Harry laugh at the sad sight.
As for SHIELD or the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division of the USA government, they had their own team of Superheroes about Peter's age in order to teach him some responsibilities, the benefits of a team and some self-control. But that was what Peter thought until the truth came crashing down hard. SHIELD only wanted Spider Man with them in order to show that they can both take care of a troublesome hero and 'get rid of unwanted assistance'. Peter knew that his efforts were never appreciated but to go this far, it was unthinkable for sure.
And that is nothing when Peter went home to see that all his belongings were stacked right inside the front door and an angry aunt was there too. She received a report from Peter's school, from Mary Jane, and a message from SHIELD all in one go to say just one thing; Peter is nothing but a wall spider and a menace, a nuisance, and never to be a real hero like all those in SHIELD or the other Superheroes in the world. That was enough for Peter's Aunt May to snap and furiously denounced Peter as her nephew.
But why is Peter all alone and only with a broken heart? Because he tracked down Mary Jane and hacked into her personal secrets and exposed them all over Harry's company network so that everyone in New York knew about them. He then snuck into SHIELD and also hacked into their computers but this time, to deactivate and lock everything mechanical from working ever again, and he stole from his Aunt May her to sell her house and into an elderly home that was the only one cheap and were not that easy on senior citizens.
By the time anyone that broke Peter's heart had found out about what the former did, it was too late. Mary Jane was shamed and outcast by society and even was rejected by Harry when she tried to fix it and the latter thought that Mary Jane was only interested in him to file his company into bankruptcy. SHIELD couldn't stop their ship, the Tri-Carrier, from crashing into New York thus framing them for traitors and instantly put out of business and that included all the young heroes who were currently connected to SHIELD, not former. And Peter's Aunt May had to spend the rest of her days without her funds and her old home and in a cruel and corrupt elder's home. They all had gotten the punchline when they considered Peter's broken heart to be nothing but a big joke. And they couldn't even try to track down Peter and get any revenge; Peter knew them too good in order to flee to blind spots and cut off any of his tracks.
"Why did all this had to happen? Why did they all lied and believed all but me? Why did I have to do all that to them? I loved them!" Peter was shivering in the little alleyway that even fleas and rodents avoid so that he will finally be left alone and wait until he froze to death, finally ending everything. Everyone's hatred and mistrust of Spider-Man and Peter Parker himself. But it seemed that fate had other plans and put them to friction when Peter said these words. "I wish for a new beginning, to start over and make everyone happy for once. I will learn from my mistakes! I will be a better person! I promise! I PROMISE!"
The next everyone knew, Peter's voice was no longer in the air and in fact, they didn't even heard anything when a bright light had engulfed the broken boy which also sent out a paralyzing every single living thing within a few miles of radius. When the light dimmed out and the paralysis had lifted completely, there was no more Peter Parker and there won't be another Spider-Man again. Instead there will be a much better hero that New York wanted but will never have for themselves, ever.
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"I really don't know what to say Doctor." A nurse talked to her superior out of a hospital room. "He is a real piece of work. All of us are shocked that he is still alive." The head doctor, from what his uniform and expression seemed to tell, sighed. "In total, he has bruises and cuts all over his body. There were some bones that seemed to never have fully healed. But that is not the most shocking thing." The head doctor nodded for her to continue. "Our medicine is not doing a thing to help and instead his own body is slowly but surely healing itself in a rate of days and mouths into minutes and hours!"
"WHAT!?" The head doctor yelled which caused the nurse to cringe and some windows to ripple and shake. He then ignored all that to snatch the clipboard from the nurse and look over it himself. And he saw that the results can't be denied. "I personally never seen such results about any of my patients before! Maybe he is a…"
"DOCTOR!" Both of them turned to see yet another nurse that wore the same uniform as the first one but had black hair to the blonde one. "We need your help, our latest patient is awake!"
"Then you need to calm down because it is not like he is on a rampage upon awakening…" The head doctor said but then,
"That is exactly what is happening Doctor! We had to strap him down because he started to move violently when he started to show signs of waking up! He already destroyed all the machinery inside his room!" The second nurse shouted and the head doctor saw the emergency so he hurried along to see the same patient, struggling against his confides.
"Son! You must calm down! We are trying to help you!" The head doctor tried to restrain and reassure his patient but when the latter actually halted his violent movements, no one felt reassured themselves.
"Help…me…?" He said in a raspy tone and just in time for the morning sun's glaze to move into the room and land on the patient; he was Peter Parker! But not the one who was rejected by his loved ones and ruined them in retaliation only to wait for death in a snow covered alleyway. This Peter Parker is much older looking and thus more mature looking as well. Not only that, he seems to have fallen out of the sky and out of a battlefront given his injuries both external and internal.
"Why…don't…you…" Peter said and when the doctor moved to get a better hearing, "HELP YOURSELF!" Peter roared and shattered his bindings in one single burst of energy and struck the doctor on the chin, sending him into the door and away from Peter. Meanwhile, he ripped off everything either holding him down or injected into his body.
"Wait sir! You mustn't!" The nurses present tried to stop him but they were instead sent away from Peter and attached to the walls like some kind of spell was placed on them! "What is this? What is going on!?"
"That is not of your business but don't worry, I will tell my guys that you taste bad and someone will get you down sooner or later." Peter said as he finally got out of the bed and did some casual stretching. "Now I must my exit stage right!" Peter charged for the only window in the hospital room, ignoring the cries from the nurses.
Outside, Peter saw that this city reminded him a lot about New York but there were some buildings he never seen before and he had been around the entire city of New York plenty of times since he became Spider-Man. Regardless, Peter needed to get on the move and seemingly to look for something. "Where are you old friend? Where have they taken you?" Peter said when he landed on the windows of a vacant building with the help of his sticky fingers, literally.
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Later that day,
"I am here, what is the trouble?" A squad of police cars turned to see someone drop in that they were overjoyed to witness, and when I say drop by, I mean it. This guy came from the sky and landed like a bird near the policeman.
"Superman, of thank goodness you can make it. This new type of criminal is unlike anything we ever seen. We can't even purse him on the rooftops in our cars!" One of the policeman shouted, addressing this man with a strange suit and hairstyle as 'Superman'.
"Calm down, I will see to this problem once you tell me that you can track him." Superman said and the same policeman nodded and led the strange man to one of the police trucks that was present along with the police cars. On the truck was a portable computer that showed the city with a dot heading in a certain direction. "I think I catch up and intercept. As long as you will still monitor him so that I don't lose him."
Superman then reached for his left ear, as if something is hidden there, while the police hooked him up with their communications section on another one of the trucks. Then Superman launched into the air into that same direction.
In that part of the strange city, Superman had been following the police's direction and was able to finally catch up with this 'new criminal' in question. And Superman didn't know what to think about him. It was like a man who was dressed like a ninja, "But he is nothing like Batman." Superman said to himself and still pursed him. "Stop!" The figure didn't. "Stop!" It was like this criminal still didn't hear him. "STOP!"
Superman just had to lose his patience and destroy that last rooftop the figure was on. Still it was enough to get the latter's attention. "And everyone said I looked hideous and ridiculous. I bet you made that with leftover threads." The figure mocked Superman and only got this man in tights even more impatient.
"My mother made these and you should know better!" Superman shouted in retort but that only made the figure chuckle. Meanwhile, Superman got a good look at this 'new criminal', he was wearing a black cloak that seemed to move like it was alive somehow but still kept the figure's identity hidden with the help of a black outfit under the cloak.
"Oh yeah? I made this piece of work by myself. No one ever taught me how to do it I had to try it for myself. Mama's boy you are." The figure remarked and that was the final straw broken off the camel's back for Superman. That man in tights flow off that rooftop and charged at the figure who didn't seem that worried at all. Perhaps that was because the figure moved one of his fingers and Superman hit himself while in midair, effectively causing him to miss the figure.
"What?" Superman was baffled, it was like his body moved on his own at the last minute so he couldn't stop himself from hitting his own face. Still Superman got up to see that his target wasn't present. It sure didn't take long for another punch hit Superman, in the opposite cheek as before, sending him to the ground.
"Ow. That is real steel-lined skin. I wish that I had it to. Punishment seems to be the only make-up I ever tried on. Let's see just how sensitive your skin is to it too." Superman looked up to see the figure towering over him while shaking his hand slightly of a bruise. Somehow, Superman was shocked to hear that the figure had minor injury hitting him; something told the latter that this wasn't normal for Superman.
Nevertheless, Superman tried for it again but instead he felt something burning at his skin, really bad. Roaring in pain, he saw that he was bonded with some kind of string that gave off the same glow and freeze burn as cold ice! Just how did this figure handle such dangerous stuff in order to bind him like common rope!?
"Now be a good boy and stay where you are, I will be out of your stupid hair soon. This place stinks, really." The figure then left Superman but then suddenly jumped from that rooftop and landed on a glass planed skyscraper that was an entire highway's width! Superman was shocked at that display and then turned to see what the figure was trying to keep a good distance from. "Diane!"
The one that Superman called 'Diane' was a woman that was dressed in ancient and classical roman war design but suited for the figure of a woman perfectly. Her chest plate had the colors of the USA. On her belt was some kind of golden lasso. She had some kind of tiara in her hair and the silver bracelets looked powerful somehow. "I will like a pair of those." The figure chuckled and convinced this 'Diane' to scowl.
But what surprised the figure was when Diane flew to him a lot like Superman! "Who are you? And what did you do to Superman!?"
"I didn't kill your boyfriend so you don't need to get all war girl on me and try from my head. You will get killed anyways." The figure said and Diane didn't seem to buy it. "Like this!" Diane's eyes widen when she felt an incredible pain in her left side and saw that she had a fresh wound like a bear clawed it. "And this!" Diane gained her focus and saw the figure was going to make a slashing motion with his arm but she wasn't going to take chances by trying to block it, with her bracelets! "Oh, I love those. Gimme." The figure then surprised Diane by somehow snatching her bracelets and she didn't feel a thing of a difference of pressure on her wrists.
"What!?" Diane was not back in still shock at what the figure did. It was like this never once happened to her before. And now she was feeling something else, a rising anger at this humiliation.
"Bah!" The figure grunted and threw those bracelets back at her. "Too small, better for a preschooler than you. Now scram!" Diane then screamed when she felt bonded, a lot like Superman, but with some kind of rope that had fire as its threads! Diane then was kicked out of the sky and landed near Superman who was still struggling through the pain in order to free himself.
"Those two look perfect for each other, don't you agree?" The figure said when he suddenly raised a fist to punch someone that truly came out of nowhere, shaking this new person in tights out of his senseless. But before this guy could fall, the figure caught him and saw this guy was much younger than Superman and Diane but wore something that was worse than both of theirs. It was like some of Halloween costume with a face mask that seemed to have earphones in the shape of thunderbolts like the one on the chest section of the costume. "I guess you do."
That same man was thrown back to where Diane and Superman were still struggling but this time, the former was able to use his gloves to remove the bindings and throw them away from the figure land and collected them. But when the figure first landed, someone got the drop on him and landed a right hand at his face and before the figure could recover, the first three costumed heroes had their own hit at the same place until they heard the sickly sound of bones cracking.
"Darn it. Now my head on wrong." Those four heroes were shocked and surprised to see that the figure was still alive even with his neck snapped. What set them off was that the figure took his hands into his hood and with the same sickly sound, "There that's better." He fixed his broken neck! "Now then, why were you treating me like an alien invader? Your people look up to you like heroes."
"We are." Diane said with everyone looking at her like she was doing something unthinkable, for her. "We are part of a group called the Justice League."
"Justice League?" The figure said. "Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, New Warriors, SHIELD." The figure counted on his fingers of names that neither one in his audience knew about. "Yes I think Justice League sounds better than the rest of them. At least you even sound professional and from the sounds of it, the people actually approve of them more than any of them."
"Just what are you talking about!? Who are you!?" The one in the red, one-piece costume shouted.
"Don't you know that it is rude to demand someone's name without giving one's own?" The figure said and before the red colored hero could retort, every other hero stared him to be quiet about it.
"Fine we will."
"Don't count us out." The figure turned to see yet more unfamiliar heroes. One was almost the same size as Superman but with a complete black costume off a bat by the horns and eyes. Another was a woman dressed with a hawk's mask and wings as well as a morning star spiked club on her belt. Finally, there was the least human of them all, it was a green humanoid with some kind of outfit with blue and red coloring.
"Of course, of course." Superman said to break the ice. "My name is Superman, this is Diane or Wonder Woman." He pointed to the first female hero. "Flash." The red colored hero waved. "And Green Lantern." The green hero did nothing and so did the figure. "They are Batman, Hawkgirl and the Martin Manhunter."
"Manhunter? Don't tell me that you want me for a little cash!" The figure sparked that up once he learned the 'martin's' name.
"Not at all. I prefer to be called John Jones." The 'martin' said and the figure nodded at the alternate name.
"Now that is done, how about you. What is your name?" Hawkgirl shouted and the figure said nothing until he reached for his hood and pulled it down to reveal that he was wearing something of a wedded face.
"I was once called Spider Man. But that is all in the past…" The figure finally said until he gave all the Justice Heroes the one last surprise when that same face started to peel off to reveal yet another face but much more human. "My name is Peter Parker. I am from another universe entirely and as I was given the chance for another life, I will gladly do what I can to serve your Justice League and protect my new home."
And with that said, Peter's new life as a new hero begun but the days of fighting aside these new heroes will never be remembered by parents and soldiers for reasons they don't tell children or other civilians. Instead, it will take another generation of heroes to bring this spider from the shadows and into the light as the hero he will gladly do anything to prove as, even die.
End of Chapter 1.
*I can't believe that the longer I work on my stories before 2015 ends, another story came to mind! I do hope you still like my work because I don't know what I will do without you guys! You all be really helpful for my work. I hope that now I am off of school until New Year's Eve and the first week of January ends, I will be able to really get busy.
Another thing for you all to know. If you read One Piece manga, then I will let you know that I will taking inscription from Doflamingo's String-String Fruit moves. And remember, I don't own One Piece.
One last thing, this chapter is from Peter's first experience in the DC Universe so of course I will treating the DC heroes like late introduced characters but expect in the next chapter for much better details on the names of the heroes as Peter adjusts to his new world, his new multiverse altogether. Thank you.*