"Karen, you don't think I'm crazy, do you?" I asked, sitting on top of some building called Wayne Industries.
"No sir," The mechanical voice rang in my head.
"You aren't just saying that to make me feel better either, right?" I frowned.
"Lying is not in my programming."
"Listen kid, we're going to have to ask you to come with us." A slightly familiar voice sounded behind me. I quickly turned around, and sure enough, those same kids from earlier and two people I didn't recognize were standing on the building.
"Wow, you guys really are good if you can sneak up on my spider-sense." I muttered.
"Instant kill mode activated." Karen alerted me, to which I jumped back.
"Karen no! I thought we'd talked about this!" And I thought Tony fixed this...
"Instant kill mode deactivated." Karen seemed to deplete, which I wasn't sure was a good sign.
"Thank you!" I glared down at the suit, then back up at the people, all with weapons raised. "So not in the mood..." I grumbled. "Let's catch up later, weird stalkish people, we can chat over chimichangas or something...wait, no, not chimichangas! Anything but chimichangas! How did that word even- Wade. I should have known." I shook my head. Before they regained from their slight confusion, I jumped off the side of the building, web-slinging my way to freedom. Until they cut off my web and I landed face-first inside their cool weird plane thing. "Ow."
"Who are you?" The one dressed in black and gray walked up with an intense glare. I mean, I'd starred into the eyes of Hulk, so it wasn't that scary, but it was pretty creepy.
"Spiderman, duh!" I pointed to the insignia on my chest. "And who are you supposed to be? Batman?"
"Yes." He frowned.
"See, how hard is it to look at the insignia...well...I guess that that won't work for Iron man...or Captain America, if you think about it...or practically any Avenger...Yeah okay, I see where you were going, but still."
"Venom has a spider symbol." Karen pointed out.
"Shut up Karen, it's warped and made of symbiote." I growled.
"Instant kill mode activated."
"Will you stop doing that!"
"Instant kill mode deactivated."
"Why does the suit even have an instant kill mode?"
"Instant kill mode activated."
"No! No Karen, stop! I am having a long conversation with Tony as soon as possible. Seriously though, why?"
"Instant kill mode deactivated. I believe it is there in case you ever need to instantly kill someone, sir."
"Duh! Now look at what you've done Karen, now everyone's staring at us." I gestured to where five oddly dressed people were in fact, giving us very confused stares.
"What are you doing in Gotham?" Mr. Dark and Gloomy glared at me again.
"Look, I don't want to be here just about as much as you don't want me here. I've just got to get the Sinister Six and go home before Tony ruins everything." I crossed my arms.
"Who's Karen?" The one that had asked him who he was growled. "And who's Tony?"
"Karen's an A.I., and I get how you could've missed that, but how could you not know who Tony Stark is? I mean, the guy's Iron man, he was on the news for forever. Not to mention he's a billionaire." I was suddenly confused. I'd never met anyone who didn't know who Tony Stark was, and it had never occurred to me that someone might not.
"Nightwing, run a search for both." The one in black didn't take his eyes off of Peter.
"Already done, but there's a problem." The one he'd called Nightwing frowned. "The only Tony Stark's that are showing up are...well, they aren't billionaires, and none of them were on the news."
Before I had time to answer, the plane began to tilt. "Robin!" The one in the full red helmet yelled turning around. The plane tilted straight once again.
"Sorry...what?" I blinked. "How's that even possible? What about Captain America? Black Widow? Thor? Hawk-eye?" I spouted out names. After a shake of the head from Nightwing, I squeaked out one desperate "...Hulk?" before I realized that nobody I recognized was here. I glanced towards the door, but apparently they'd learned their lesson last time.
"Nightwing, show him all the Tony Starks that you found. See if he recognizes any of them." Nightwing walked over to me, showing me what was on his holo-watch thing. I scanned through all of them, before one caught my eye.
"That one, there." I pointed out the guy.
"You can't mean him."
"What do you mean?"
"It says here that he died back in 2008."
"That's not possible..." I rubbed my head. "I just saw him a week ago."
"Well, I kind of doubt the FBI database is wrong." He sighed. I felt like I was about to throw up. My head was spinning, and there seemed to be black dots dancing across my head.
"Can...can I go...Please?" I asked. The one in the black cape didn't seem to like it, but he sighed and opened up the door. Before he could get anywhere near a place to let me off, I jumped out. He seemed kind of shocked, as I saw him race towards the edge, but I threw a web out onto a building and went to an alleyway. I felt like I was going to pass out, and I new better than to stay in my Spiderman costume when I did so. I changed into it, grabbing "my" clothes right where I'd left them, and swapping them out. I was starting to see black dots. I quickly webbed them up on the edge of a roof, directly underneath where nobody would see them unless they looked in just the right angle.
I kind of passed out right in the alley.
I looked around me. I was in a hospital bed. I panicked for a second, thinking that maybe someone had found me in my Spiderman costume. Then the memories had come flooding back to me.
A nurse walked in, and I instantly recognized her as Sophie. "Oh! Peter, you're awake!" She smiled, though from her facial expression, she seemed surprised.
"Hey Sophie." I groaned. My head seriously hurt. Bad.
"Wow, we barely admitted you about ten minutes ago. You should've been out for at least another five hours. Not that I'm not glad you're okay, because I totally am!" She added last minute.
"Yeah, it's okay." I nodded. "So, how's Lizzie doing?" I asked, changing the subject.
"She's doing great, thanks! In fact, she's just a block away. She's the manager of The Pizza Factory down there. It's amazing, you should really try it sometime." Sophie beamed. Her and Lizzie really were perfect for each other. A doctor popped her head into the doorway.
"Jenkins, we need you in room 301 ASAP." She told her before she walked out.
"Okay, I'll be there in a minute, just have to get Peter's heartbeat." Sophie smiled, turning back over to me. She pressed a stethoscope to his back. "Okay, now I need you to take some deep breaths for me, and then out." She instructed. I did as told, then she waved a quick goodbye as she walked out of the room towards what I assumed was room 301.
I didn't waste any time getting out if there. Sorry Sophie, but I have accelerated healing, and I don't actually want you finding oit about that.
The streets if this so-called "Gotham" seemed to be getting worse and worse. I went back to the alley only to find that "Batman" had found my suit. In it's place was some sort of really sharp bat-shaped thingymobob with an attached note.
'Meet at the top of Wayne Industries 9:00. We need to talk.'
Really? How was my suit? Were they the ones who contacted the hospital?
So many questions were running through my head. None of them ended well for me. However, if I wanted my suit back, along with my chance at getting home, I guess I was going to have to go climb a building.
