Chapter 7 (yes, for real this time)
This'll be a bit different. I say different, I don't even fricking know what I'll write. I mentioned the ever-glorious clone saga earlier, and I wanted to expand on that, as well as the spider-verse and time travel…
The glorious watchtower. The main central hub for all the JLA's activities, as well as the main outpost for watching over earth. I had only two things on my mind. 1; get the flash to help me with the breach room, as well as the time room, 2; keep up with punches, kicks, batarangs and other gadgets being hurled at me by the dark knight. Batman had come running at me and robin, trying to distract rocket from keeping her forcefield around wonder woman up. I could tell by the silence that a conversation had been happening, but the brilliant thing known as spider sense had hidden it from me. Given this was a stealth mission, as well as a takedown mission, I decided to opt for my stealth suit (Gee, I wonder why). As they finished their conversation, robin had detoxed green lantern, and proceeded to jump over rocket, to counter the dark knight. As he was about to attack rocket, I cloaked myself, and webbed both of his hands together. "INCOMING" I yelled, and kicked him square in the chest. "Try not to hurt him too much, he's under mind control" robin said. "A; he was trained in the league of shadows, that wasn't a stubbed toe for him. B; TELL THAT TO HIM!" I said, as he snapped the webbing. Robin charged at him, but he threw him at the wall, and then went for rocket, who flew out of the way. I leapt over to robin, got him up, and took on a fighting stance. The dark knight cracked his knuckles, and took stance as well.
Robin threw smoke grenades at the bat, and leapt at him inside the smoke. I heard people coming to blows, and a few seconds later, robin came flying out, knocked out. Given my predicament, I went into spider sense mode, and everything around me was tinted dark blue "silent mode: suit: highlight all justice league signatures red, and all young justice signatures green," I activated my commlink, "All teams; go hot". I let everything pulse blue, as I closed the lenses of my suit, only aided by my spider sense. I could see the ongoing fight between super boy and man, and Miss Martian, and Martian Manhunter. The dark knight kicked and punched, but landed no hits, as I ducked, dived, leapt, and webbed. I shot two strands at his face, and slid through his legs, before jumping back in front of him. I yanked both the strands flipping him over. I threw the lines, as well as him, at the ceiling. The web lines connected to the ceiling, and he fell, the webbing pulling taunt, and disconnecting from his face, sending him falling to the floor. I quickly pulled his cape around him, webbing it to him, before shooting dozens of stands at him, and connecting them to the walls. To finish it off, I crawled all around him, covering him in a few web nets. I then rappelled off the ceiling, and placed the Nano-tech cure on the base of his skull. He struggled for a few seconds, before going limp. "Suit, scan for traces of neuro-tech" the suit did a full scan on each light wave, before flashing the words "no traces detected" on the screen. "Oh, that was awesome" I said, falling to the floor unconscious.
"Peter… peter… PETER…" I woke up in a sweat, unable to see anything due to the fact of my suit shutting down and my lenses staying shut. I got up from the 'bed' I assumed I was on, and let out a fart. Wafting the smell away, I opened my suit lenses by hand with a sticky noise, considering they weren't made for that. Having looked around in my half-dazed state, I said with a drunken voice and amazement, "This is earth", and I pulled off my mask (Now, you may not get the joke, so watch lee Evans: live at the west end). I saw artemis on the chair near my bed, a blanket half over her. I pulled it back over her, and walked out of the room. I looked outside and saw the entire justice league standing outside of my room. "Good news, bad news, or both? If so, bad news first". Batman and Superman stepped forward. The former spoke first, "We have a proposition for you. The decision came down to a vote, and everyone voted in favour" "What did you vote in favour of?" I asked, when Batman stepped forward, "We want you to join the justice league". And in that second, my entire experience with the team flashed past me, as well as being plain old peter parker. All the time with the team; cooking with Miss Martian, training with Black Canary and Super boy, comparing, improving, and almost blowing up our super suits with Wally, meditation with Aqua Lad, target practice with Artemis, and stealth training with robin. And I furrowed my brow as I put my mask back on. I double tapped my suit logo, first turning the suit functions on, and secondly changing it back to my old suit. And in that moment, time froze for me. The justice league of America, or, Young justice?
I'd decided, "I'm amazed, that there were no votes against my and admittance, and as regular spider man, regular peter parker? I'd accept. But in the past months, I've made deeper connections with this team than I thought I would when you visited me in my apartment. I feel ready to leave the team, but not to join the justice league. Which is why I've made my final decision: I immediately step down from my position on the young justice team, so that a future candidate might take my place, and I further decline the invitation presented to join the justice league". And the members of the justice league all looked at me with sadness in their eyes, except for batman, who walked over to me, and placed a hand on my shoulder, "I'll be needing your identification card". I turned around and shot a web line into my room, and pulled my identity card from the bedside table. I handed it to batman, finalising my decision. He took it from me, but before placing it in his belt pouch, he pulled out another card, and a folded piece of paper, and gave them to me. I looked at the card. It was virtually identical, except for one thing: the words "Young Justice" were replaced with, "Young Justice Consultant". I looked up at him, and lightly smiled under the mask, "Want me to whip them into shape?" he smiled, and nodded. As the members of the league dispersed, I looked at the paper, and saw eight names and pictures, five with call signs written next to them; Ben Reilly – Scarlet Spider, Flash Thompson – Agent Venom, Eddie brock – Anti Venom, Amadeus Cho – Iron Spider, Miles Morales – Kid Arachnid. I looked at the other three names; Bone spider, Goliath spider, Ghost spider. "I recognise the first five of them; what about the three without names; Bone, Goliath, and Ghost spiders?". Batman looked back at me as he started to walk away, "Cadmus clones of you, but with altered DNA. Their costumes are their bodies, there's no facial features underneath. I'll contact The Question to help you find them" I looked back at the list, and turned it over, looking at the large circle with two droplet eyes, and a web pattern expanding outwards in the circle; my other iconic logo ( logo/spiderman-symbol?original=1 here it is).
"What exactly do I call this array of "Web Warriors" you've presented me with?" I asked, looking back up to find him gone. I sighed, "Web Warriors, huh?" I rolled it off my tongue, before walking back into my room finding Artemis awake and glaring. "Care to tell the rest of the team about the new arrangements…" she said, pointing to the Id card and paper. It was at this moment, I knew, I fucked up…