Chapter 3
Peter Parker was having a bad day.
Better make that a bad week.
First it was the world getting taken over by the bad guys. Not just any villains. ALL the villains. They had all come together, literally, and formed an army. From street toughs to mutants. From Nazis to former aliens. It was difficult to deal with.
This army of villians was coordinated and they were decisive. Rising up in a coordinated assault on.well.everywhere, the world was essentially under their control. And there was almost no one left to try and free the US.
Oh yeah, did we forget to mention that? Before the initial assault most of the heroes were captured. Captain America? Out for the count. The Avengers? Captured. The Fantastic Four? Locked up. X-Men? Incarcerated.well not all X-Men.
"Wake up, bub.we move."
Oh yes. The best part of the situation. Parker's only company was a man known as Logan, or even more simply, Wolverine. Not one for small talk, Wolverine. An assassin with a short fuse, 6 adamantium claws, and an inability to sustain harm, who made the Hulk look like a good dinner companion. And Wolverine was teamed up with Peter Parker, your friendly neighborhood Spiderman.
You know the one. Guy who cracked jokes, jumped off tall buildings, fought guys like Rhino, and made bad puns. Teamed up with a guy who actually had negative sense of humor. And upon their shoulders rested the hope for the world.
So yeah, Peter Parker was having a bad week.
By Broadway, Spiderman and Wolverine were avoiding patrols and struggling to figure out a way to free the planet. But how do you go about doing that? They couldn't fight the leaders.way too powerful. And they couldn't free the guards.way too tight security. So they were stuck.
Finding a comfortable subway station to hide out in, Wolverine and Spiderman took a break.
"Hey I got it" exclaimed Parker. "We get fake vomit and."
A blinding flash, and suddenly there was the Living Tribunal was sitting next to the two mutants.
"Hello heroes, I come bearing tidings of hope."
"Good," replied Parker, "cause if you were bringing bad news, I was going to try and give you 3 black eyes. Or bronze.whatever color you golden guys get"
"From the brother across the great divide, comes Earth's great heroes.wait for them.help them.and the balance shall again be righted." And with that he disappeared.
The Amazing Spiderman stared at where the Living Tribunal had appeared for a long time and then looked over at his not so loquacious partner. "Did that make any sense to you? Any at all? 'Brother'? 'Earth's great heroes'? What?!?!"
Wolverine looked at the wall crawler with tired disgust. He thought that Chuck and that uptight boyscout could be annoying, but this was just too much. All day and night, the guy just kept talking. Wolverine didn't enjoy idle chatter, and if Spiderman had not been the LAST superhero on Earth, he would have left him to fend for himself. But in a world where he had only one ally and infinite enemies, Logan thought that it was a good idea to stay by friendly forces. Besides, his gut was telling him that it was important to stay close to Spiderman.which was odd, cause Wolverine was a loner. But something said it was vital to stay close to the other hero, and Wolverine was not one to second-guess his feelings.
"It doesn't much matter bub," said Wolverine as he stretched and grabbed his backpack. "We best get moving before we get caught by something nasty. And it might be nice to find some food and water."
Parker was about to respond until a voice that wasn't quite from here responded from the darkness "Something nasty has caught you X-Man.and you are going to join your friends." From the shadows strode Venom, accompanied by Doctor Octopus, Scorpion, Mysterio, Chameleon, and Rhino. The Sinister Six, who were currently working for the powers that be, had been tracking the duo of heroes for a week. Generally, with Logan's survival skills, it would have been easy to avoid capture. But with Venom's symbiote so keyed on Spiderman, it had been increasingly hard to lose the Six. It looked like time had run out.
Had the two heroes been fresh, and if Spiderman had a full canister of web fluid, the two heroes might have had a reasonable chance of survival. However the heroes were hungry, tired, and beat-up. Spiderman got into a defensive position, while Wolverine's claws slid out from between his knuckles. Logan was not going to get captured again; he was not going down without a fight. The Six circled the two heroes, looking for an opening. All combatants knew that this was going to be a desperate fight. They did not know what was going to happen next.
A bright flash lit up the railway tunnel, and seven beings popped into existence outside the circle. Or at least Parker thought it was seven, as one of the beings seemed to be swallowed by the shadows. As for the other beings, well.Parker had seen many things as a photo journalist and a superhero, but this was out there. Before him was one a large green, dour faced man, a guy with a goatee and a clear hand that seemed to be made out of water, another guy wearing a red jump suit with a lightening bolt on his chest, a guy in all green with a stupid grin on his face, a massive guy with a weird hairdo wearing his underwear outside his tights, and a woman who had to be the most beautiful Parker had ever seen. And with the exception of the grinning green guy, they all looked a little upset.
The underwear guy, who seemed to be the leader and had a big S on his chest, cleared his throat and gave a big smile: "Excuse me, gentlemen? I was wondering if you could help me?"
Rhino whirled around and his teammates, with the exception of Venom turned to face the people who just showed up in the tunnel. Rhino shook his enormous head at the tenacity of this idiotic collection of primary color wearing fools. "Who the hell are you," growled the Rhino.
The underwear guy continued: "There is no need for profanity. Who we are is a long story.we are friends from far far away, sent here to help your planet. We are called the Justice League.my name is Superman." Superman then extended his hand
Spiderman looked at Logan. Is this what the Living Tribunal was talking about? These goofs? Some people had accused Spiderman of being corny, but this Superman guy was horrible. These were the people who were supposed to save the planet? Rhino looked at Superman's hand incredulously, put his head down, and charged. Spiderman began to panic.Superman looked like a big guy and all, but to go one on one with Rhino, when he charged. Spiderman had been on the receiving end of that and it hurt him like hell. And he was a mutant. If Superman didn't move, he would be a giant smear on the wall. Rhino charged and built speed and made contact.
And nothing happened. Rhino had connected, and Superman stood there as if nothing had happened. Superman had stumbled, or took a step back, or even budged. He just stood there, with a sad smile on his face and said "I guess you are not the guide we were promised when we took this assignment. It looks like you represent some of what we are supposed to fight." What happened next amazed Spiderman, and it even caused Wolverine's eyes to widen a bit. Superman picked up a dazed Rhino, held him over his head and threw him across the terminal. That wasn't what amazed Spiderman, as he had seen Rhino thrown around before. He had done it once when he had the symbiote. But he needed a lot of anger, an alien entity, and two arms to do it. Superman had done it with one arm, with all of the emotion one would need when taking out the garbage. Who the hell were these guys?
"Justice League, fan out. Take them down, whatever it takes." Superman looked over everyone and paused when he saw Spiderman and Wolverine, which made the heroes tense up. "Avoid permanent injury when possible." Just before Spiderman jumped to the ceiling to avoid, well whatever these people were going to give out, he thought 'Well this is going to be interesting.'
Better make that a bad week.
First it was the world getting taken over by the bad guys. Not just any villains. ALL the villains. They had all come together, literally, and formed an army. From street toughs to mutants. From Nazis to former aliens. It was difficult to deal with.
This army of villians was coordinated and they were decisive. Rising up in a coordinated assault on.well.everywhere, the world was essentially under their control. And there was almost no one left to try and free the US.
Oh yeah, did we forget to mention that? Before the initial assault most of the heroes were captured. Captain America? Out for the count. The Avengers? Captured. The Fantastic Four? Locked up. X-Men? Incarcerated.well not all X-Men.
"Wake up, bub.we move."
Oh yes. The best part of the situation. Parker's only company was a man known as Logan, or even more simply, Wolverine. Not one for small talk, Wolverine. An assassin with a short fuse, 6 adamantium claws, and an inability to sustain harm, who made the Hulk look like a good dinner companion. And Wolverine was teamed up with Peter Parker, your friendly neighborhood Spiderman.
You know the one. Guy who cracked jokes, jumped off tall buildings, fought guys like Rhino, and made bad puns. Teamed up with a guy who actually had negative sense of humor. And upon their shoulders rested the hope for the world.
So yeah, Peter Parker was having a bad week.
By Broadway, Spiderman and Wolverine were avoiding patrols and struggling to figure out a way to free the planet. But how do you go about doing that? They couldn't fight the leaders.way too powerful. And they couldn't free the guards.way too tight security. So they were stuck.
Finding a comfortable subway station to hide out in, Wolverine and Spiderman took a break.
"Hey I got it" exclaimed Parker. "We get fake vomit and."
A blinding flash, and suddenly there was the Living Tribunal was sitting next to the two mutants.
"Hello heroes, I come bearing tidings of hope."
"Good," replied Parker, "cause if you were bringing bad news, I was going to try and give you 3 black eyes. Or bronze.whatever color you golden guys get"
"From the brother across the great divide, comes Earth's great heroes.wait for them.help them.and the balance shall again be righted." And with that he disappeared.
The Amazing Spiderman stared at where the Living Tribunal had appeared for a long time and then looked over at his not so loquacious partner. "Did that make any sense to you? Any at all? 'Brother'? 'Earth's great heroes'? What?!?!"
Wolverine looked at the wall crawler with tired disgust. He thought that Chuck and that uptight boyscout could be annoying, but this was just too much. All day and night, the guy just kept talking. Wolverine didn't enjoy idle chatter, and if Spiderman had not been the LAST superhero on Earth, he would have left him to fend for himself. But in a world where he had only one ally and infinite enemies, Logan thought that it was a good idea to stay by friendly forces. Besides, his gut was telling him that it was important to stay close to Spiderman.which was odd, cause Wolverine was a loner. But something said it was vital to stay close to the other hero, and Wolverine was not one to second-guess his feelings.
"It doesn't much matter bub," said Wolverine as he stretched and grabbed his backpack. "We best get moving before we get caught by something nasty. And it might be nice to find some food and water."
Parker was about to respond until a voice that wasn't quite from here responded from the darkness "Something nasty has caught you X-Man.and you are going to join your friends." From the shadows strode Venom, accompanied by Doctor Octopus, Scorpion, Mysterio, Chameleon, and Rhino. The Sinister Six, who were currently working for the powers that be, had been tracking the duo of heroes for a week. Generally, with Logan's survival skills, it would have been easy to avoid capture. But with Venom's symbiote so keyed on Spiderman, it had been increasingly hard to lose the Six. It looked like time had run out.
Had the two heroes been fresh, and if Spiderman had a full canister of web fluid, the two heroes might have had a reasonable chance of survival. However the heroes were hungry, tired, and beat-up. Spiderman got into a defensive position, while Wolverine's claws slid out from between his knuckles. Logan was not going to get captured again; he was not going down without a fight. The Six circled the two heroes, looking for an opening. All combatants knew that this was going to be a desperate fight. They did not know what was going to happen next.
A bright flash lit up the railway tunnel, and seven beings popped into existence outside the circle. Or at least Parker thought it was seven, as one of the beings seemed to be swallowed by the shadows. As for the other beings, well.Parker had seen many things as a photo journalist and a superhero, but this was out there. Before him was one a large green, dour faced man, a guy with a goatee and a clear hand that seemed to be made out of water, another guy wearing a red jump suit with a lightening bolt on his chest, a guy in all green with a stupid grin on his face, a massive guy with a weird hairdo wearing his underwear outside his tights, and a woman who had to be the most beautiful Parker had ever seen. And with the exception of the grinning green guy, they all looked a little upset.
The underwear guy, who seemed to be the leader and had a big S on his chest, cleared his throat and gave a big smile: "Excuse me, gentlemen? I was wondering if you could help me?"
Rhino whirled around and his teammates, with the exception of Venom turned to face the people who just showed up in the tunnel. Rhino shook his enormous head at the tenacity of this idiotic collection of primary color wearing fools. "Who the hell are you," growled the Rhino.
The underwear guy continued: "There is no need for profanity. Who we are is a long story.we are friends from far far away, sent here to help your planet. We are called the Justice League.my name is Superman." Superman then extended his hand
Spiderman looked at Logan. Is this what the Living Tribunal was talking about? These goofs? Some people had accused Spiderman of being corny, but this Superman guy was horrible. These were the people who were supposed to save the planet? Rhino looked at Superman's hand incredulously, put his head down, and charged. Spiderman began to panic.Superman looked like a big guy and all, but to go one on one with Rhino, when he charged. Spiderman had been on the receiving end of that and it hurt him like hell. And he was a mutant. If Superman didn't move, he would be a giant smear on the wall. Rhino charged and built speed and made contact.
And nothing happened. Rhino had connected, and Superman stood there as if nothing had happened. Superman had stumbled, or took a step back, or even budged. He just stood there, with a sad smile on his face and said "I guess you are not the guide we were promised when we took this assignment. It looks like you represent some of what we are supposed to fight." What happened next amazed Spiderman, and it even caused Wolverine's eyes to widen a bit. Superman picked up a dazed Rhino, held him over his head and threw him across the terminal. That wasn't what amazed Spiderman, as he had seen Rhino thrown around before. He had done it once when he had the symbiote. But he needed a lot of anger, an alien entity, and two arms to do it. Superman had done it with one arm, with all of the emotion one would need when taking out the garbage. Who the hell were these guys?
"Justice League, fan out. Take them down, whatever it takes." Superman looked over everyone and paused when he saw Spiderman and Wolverine, which made the heroes tense up. "Avoid permanent injury when possible." Just before Spiderman jumped to the ceiling to avoid, well whatever these people were going to give out, he thought 'Well this is going to be interesting.'