JLU SPIDER-FRIENDS VOL. I:THE JOURNEY BEGINS
Chapter 9:Home for the Holidays
My first Christmas-based chapter! I'm certainly hoping to get this done shortly before Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve. Now I won't do some more chapters until next year in January, then I would do a chapter centered around New Year's Eve and in February, a chapter on Valentine's Day. Hopefully next year I'll attempt to do chapters that centered around Halloween and Thanksgiving.
Peter and Kara went down the ski slope in upstate New York along with Barbara and Dick, it had been three months since the incident with that time-jumping crook named David Clinton who called himself Cronos. Right now the four friends were having a good time in skiing down the mountain "I'll see you at the bottom Peter!" Kara called out sliding past him, they were hoping that as soon as they were done they would be home in time for Christmas and New Year's.
"We'll see about that Kara!" he said catching up and grabbing her around the waist, both of them tumbling to the ground with him on top of her. Their skis fell off as they rolled down the hill and landed on a smooth surface of snow, with him on top of her. As he pinned her down on the ground, he tickled her as hard as he could making her laugh out loud. It reminded him of the way Gwen Stacy used to laugh, then their bodies pressed together which surprised him 'I just never imagined it before' he thought to himself 'even though I won't dare say this out loud, but for someone who is indestructible, she's very soft'
As they continued laying there, Peter reflected on several events from that time-travelling escapade. Although it seemed to be very exciting to go back in time to the good old days of the Wild West, where they learned that David Clinton had been in jail for six months and a gang of outlaws used the time belt to bring future tech to the 1880s. Luckily, they joined forces with Jonah Hex to right those wrongs and everything seemed to get fixed in 1879 until Clinton used the time belt to escape into the future.
Flashback
Spider-Man, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Firestorm jumped right out of the same swirling white hole through which they had chasing David Clinton AKA Cronos for a long while. They landed in the middle of a street in what appeared to be Gotham, although it happened to be completely different.
"Where in the world are we?" asked Spider-Man.
"Well it looks like Gotham City" Batman answered "But not the way it used to be and judging by my calculations, we must gone into the future."
Their pleasant talk was interrupted by several individuals who came into the light and looked just like a group of circus clowns "We've been expecting you" said the first one who looked like an overweight clown in pink tights. However when the street gang was about to come closer, a bolt of lightning struck the ground right next to their feet. "Bet you weren't expecting us" an unfamiliar voice rang out.
The voice belonged to a black man with long hair and a beard who wore a black suit with a lightning symbol and a blue coat with yellow outlines. He levitated down to the ground followed by four others; a young man in a black bat-suit with red wings and a red bat-symbol on the chest, a man who looked like a Thanagarian wearing a silver-and-black suit with a silver helmet, two teens were also there as well. One was a young man with black hair in a white suit with a red cape, red lines on both sides, and the same coat of arms that was worn by all Kryptonians. The other was a young woman with long brown hair wearing a black suit with a yellow hoodie and the same spider symbol that Peter had on his own suit.
"Static? What's going on here?" asked John recognizing the black man as the future self of an African-American teenager, who was best known for protecting Dakota City in South Dakota. The Thanagarian in silver-and-black armor turned to look at Stewart for a brief second before asking in shock "Dad?!" Stewart stared at him and was surprised to be called 'Dad'. The two teenagers were also there turned to stare at Peter in shock "Dad?!" asked the blond Kryptonian "Daddy?!" gasped the spider woman, now it was Peter's turn to be surprised and he was just as stunned as John.
Flashback Ends
"Peter? Are you okay?" asked Barbara snapping Peter back to reality, he had been staring at Kara for quite a while. Dick grinned thinking that his friend was very lucky, Babs was pretty much thinking the very same thing.
"Oh sorry,… I was… I just got a little carried away" Peter stammered as he got up off of Kara, he couldn't believe that he was staring into Kara's eyes for a brief moment. He also couldn't believe that he was thinking about the future, and about the two teenagers who would be his future children.
"Peter, what's wrong?" Kara asked curiously, she couldn't help but that he had drifted off for just a few minutes.
"Oh nothing Kara, I'm fine" he told her "Come on, let's just finish skiing and get on back to the ski lodge." So with that, all four of them resumed their skiing and went on down the hill. But unbeknownst to either of them, a mysterious figure was hiding right behind one of the pine trees and he was watching them with a pair of binoculars. The figure was dressed in a black snow coat, snow pants, and stocking cap with black snow gloves and boots, he watched in absolute anger and hate as the quartet skied down the hill towards the ski lodge. He seemed especially angry as he stared at Peter Parker "Soon Parker very soon, once again you'll be on the receiving end of our wrath and frustration." He muttered bitterly.
As soon as the four were out of sight, the figure pocketed his binoculars and put on a pair of sunglasses, then he pulled out his phone and contacted his superiors.
"Hello?" said a voice on the other end of the line "Mr. Von Doom, I've just seen the Spider-Man" the figure answered "He was skiing with some friends of his and they just returned to the ski lodge."
"Excellent!" said Doom's voice "Do keep on an eye on him long enough for the rest of us to complete our plans. But whatever you do, don't attack him just yet, we must have a plan of attack first before you do anything."
"Okay, over and out" the man answered before hanging up as he moved towards a snowmobile which he started up and drove off to the parking lot where he loaded it on a small trailer that was hitched up to a truck he currently had. "How obliging of Mr. Luthor to loan me a truck and some brand-new clothes in order to lie low" he told himself as he strapped down the snowmobile and then got into the truck, started it up and drove off towards Metropolis.
4 days later, December 23rd
It was a snowy day in Metropolis and the streets were just filled with people going Christmas shopping.
Also on this particular day, Clark, Peter and Kara were looking for something at Dillard's to give Jonathan and Martha on Christmas Day. Clark was shopping in the hardware department for a brand new tool box to give his father for tool organizing, Kara shopped in the clothes department to give Martha a new scarf to wear with a winter coat and gloves.
Now Peter in particular, was shopping in the jewelry department to give Kara something for Christmas. Just as he was looking through necklaces, he noticed something familiar in the glass case. So he looked closer and realized that he had seen it before, it was a necklace with a crystal that he had seen during his time-travel escapade.
(Flashback)
Spider-Man and John Stewart were completely shocked and surprised to see some young people who just called them 'Dad'. Most of all it was the three individuals who addressed them that were shocked to see them because in this future time period, John and Peter must have already been dead.
"What?!" Peter sputtered "Wait a minute… why did you two call me 'Dad'?"
Before the two teens could answer, a second clown who was dressed up like a scarecrow threw what looked like a cheap imitation of the Green Goblin's pumpkin bombs. "Look out!" yelled the Thanagarian warrior, GL quickly conjured up a giant force field that barely withstood the impact.
"I think now would be a good time to escape while we have the chance" said the young man who was dressed like a bat. "Never!" Diana exclaimed "Amazons never run from battle!" so she went head to head with the clown wearing pink tights, but he just changed his legs into a metal ball and drew out a double-bladed laser sword which she barely deflected with her bracelets.
Batman and Spider-Man fought with the scarecrow clown who could also change his right hand into a buzz-saw, but he was no match for both the Dark Knight and the Wall Crawler at the same time.
The future version of Static Shock and Peter's future son fought against a big musclebound clown who could turn both hands into steel mallets that absorbed electricity, but was no match for the strength of a Kryptonian. While Green Lantern and his future son went up against two clown girls who both could duplicate themselves, when the girls' duplicates were getting too much for them, Peter's future daughter joined in and bound the clones with webbing hand and foot.
Firestorm fired multiple nuclear blasts at one clown who looked more like a mutant hyena that yelped loudly when the fire scorched his fur. "Okay, now would be a good time to get away while we can!" Spider-Man called out to his companions, the others exchanged glances before nodding in agreement "Virgil! Give us some cover!" John called, the electrokinetic did as he was asked as he used his powers to provide a light that was just as bright as the sun blinding the gang of clowns for a moment just before they realized the heroes had escaped.
A few minutes later, Batman, Spider-Man and their companions along with the heroes of the future regrouped at what looked like an old football stadium. "So this is the headquarters of the Justice League in the future?" asked Diana "Oh it's the only thing left to use as a secret headquarters" Static answered sadly.
"So you might as well make the best of it" said a grim voice, they all turned to see an old man with grey hair and carrying a cane. "It's the only place to use as a secret headquarters" the past League members stared long and hard at the old man and realized he looked exactly like Bruce Wayne, only elderly.
"So I get to live another 45 years into the future" Batman remarked.
"Well that's funny, I certainly don't have any memory of travelling into the future and meeting my future self" replied the elderly Wayne.
"And as you can see, we're the only thing left of the Justice League" explained the young Kryptonian sadly with a crestfallen face, the other future Leaguers nodded in agreement but the past Leaguers were surprised to hear that. "But what happened to J'onn, Superman, and the others?" Diana inquired
"They were killed when the whole Watchtower was destroyed" the young spider woman told her, the past Leaguers were completely shocked to hear that.
Batman walked over to the older Bruce Wayne and the future Batman (whose real name was Terry McGuinnis) who introduced them in a funny way. John Stewart talked to the Thanagarian whose name was Rex Stewart and was called Warhawk, he was also the son of John Stewart and Shayera Hol.
"Now I hope you won't mind my asking this" Peter told the two teenagers "But if you two really are my kids, then what are your names?"
"Well… I don't suppose it wouldn't hurt to explain" the brunette girl answered before taking off her mask revealing her face that looked exactly like Kara's.
The young man stepped forward "I'm James Olsen Parker, but my friends call me Sky Captain." Peter shook hands with his full-grown future son, the spider-powered brunette girl then stepped forward and shook hands with her father "And I'm the Brown Recluse, but my real name is Alura Zor-El Parker."
Peter was greatly perplexed "So your namesakes are Superman's best friend and Kara's mother, isn't that right?"
"Yes" James Parker/Sky Captain answered "But don't ask who our mother is, you're not suppose to know anything about the future."
"But I can give you a hint of how you will figure it out" Alura offered, she reached behind her neck and took off a necklace with a sapphire. "You bought this on Dec. 23rd and gave it to Mom on Christmas Day. She liked it very much, and it glows on whoever wears it, symbolizing that they are in love with the person who gave it to them." Peter looked at it for a minute before looking back at his daughter and smiled at her lovingly before turning back to the others in time to see Diana disappear from sight, which was the cause of another paradox in the whole timeline.
(Flashback ends)
Peter was staring at the crystal necklace lost in thought 'So this is the very thing that sparks a relationship between me and the mother of my kids in the future' he thought to himself. For a minute he considered buying something else to give Kara and save the glowing sapphire necklace for next year, then it probably wouldn't be available anymore.
He was so lost in thought that he didn't hear Clark Kent come up "Still trying to decide what to buy Peter?" he asked good-naturedly, Peter wasn't really how to explain what he had been doing. "I just can't decide if whether or not I should buy this sapphire necklace" he answered before Clark nodded in understanding.
"We all get stumped when trying to make an important decision" the older man explained kindly "Back when I was a teen it wasn't always easy to decide what to get someone for Christmas when I dated Lana Lang in high school." Peter nodded, he had been told by Kara that Lana Lang was Clark's high school sweetheart, and her last name also was the family name of the second Ant-Man on Earth-616.
"There's one reason that got me stumped" Peter went on to tell him about his time-travel escapade chasing Chronos into the Wild West of the 1880s and into the future of the late 21st Century where he met Sky Captain and Brown Recluse, who were not only his children but also Kara's as well.
Clark looked surprised "So that's why you're being indecisive right now?" Peter nodded his head "Well anyway, I'm sure that Kara would love to have this necklace for Christmas" he told him. "There's no doubt about it."
Peter considered this carefully, he knew in his heart that the future was based on every decision he made. Once he made up his mind there would be no turning back, so after giving the whole thing some thought he figured it would be wiser to go through with this or just save it for next year. But then it might not be on sale in Dillard's anymore.
"Okay let's go pay for this" Peter told him, so Clark picked up the glowing sapphire necklace and took it up to the front to pay for it. As they paid for the necklace, Peter then put it in a bag full of tissues so Kara couldn't see it, then the two guys met up with Kara and all three of them left the store to get into Clark's car. But just as they were putting bags in the car, Peter's spider sense kicked in; he jerked his head around in time to see a big green semi speed by down the street "Guys, we have a problem!" he exclaimed only for Kara and Clark to hear him.
Both Kryptonians looked down the street where the green semi was going, it was followed by three police cars and pulled a long trailer that was labelled 'LexCorp'.
"Looks like someone has just stolen some goods from LexCorp" Clark remarked as the two teenagers nodded their heads in agreement. "Should all three of us do something or do you guys want to handle it?" Peter asked, the two Kryptonians looked at each other and then back at Peter
"I think all three of us should do something about it" Clark told them "Anyway we could wrap this up in a hurry, then head on home for Christmas." Kara and Peter looked at each other and then nodded in agreement. "Alright, let's go do it" they told him adamantly, so the three of them went down an alley by the side of the street and into three secluded areas where they changed into their outfits. Then they set off after the green semi which was still being chased by the police, as soon as they caught up with the semi, Peter as Spider-Man spread his webs all over the wind shield.
Whoever was driving the big truck couldn't see and cut down his speed, then Kara saw her chance and grabbed the back of the trailer while the semi was slowing down, stopping it in its tracks. Then Superman went up to the right side of the semi, ripped off the door and pulled out the crook who drove the semi. The crook was wearing a brown coat and a green-goggled mask with a black turtleneck and khaki jeans. "Alright you fellas are surrounded, so give it up and come with us quietly or by force" the Man of Steel told them sternly, the crook held up his hands in quiet surrender while Spider-Man webbed up the other thug who suddenly burst out of them with a sudden release of energy.
"What the hell?!" cried Supergirl as the thug ripped his hooded jacket to reveal himself as Herman Shultz AKA the Shocker. "Well it looks like I get first crack at ya, wallcrawler!" he laughed firing his gauntlets causing the arachnid hero to jump in the air, while this was happening Superman tied up the crook he was still holding. "Okay, you just stay right where you are" he told him firmly.
"But what would be the point of all that?" asked the crook with a thick British accent, Superman stopped short when he heard that. He recognized that voice, so he quickly scanned the crook with his X-Ray vision and was horrified to see who it was "Corben?!" he exclaimed just as the crook fired laser beams of green energy out of his eyes knocking the Kryptonian down and causing him to cry out in immense pain. "You have no idea how long I've been waiting to do that!" laughed the man now taking off his mask and removing his coat and turtleneck revealing himself to be John Corben AKA Metallo.
"Superman!" Supergirl cried out and flew over to help her cousin, but the cyborg mercenary turned to fire his Kryptonite battery towards her causing to dodge just in time. But just then the back of the back of the trailer broke open and out came Aleksei Sytsevich AKA the Rhino "Is this little Kryptonian bitch being a problem for you?" he asked.
"Well if you don't mind" Metallo answered "Keep her off my back for a while, long enough for me to make her cousin suffer." So without hesitation, Rhino rumbled towards Kara hoping to dogpile her, but she outsmarted him by tripping him up his feet and kicking him from behind. While this was happening, Metallo turned back to the older Kryptonian who was still lying on the ground and approached him.
"The last time we fought, that ace photographer friend of yours threw battery acid on me just to melt the wires that connected the Kryptonite inside my chest." Metallo raved as he stood over his most hated enemy "But this time there'll be no one to save you"
"On the contrary!" Spider-Man called out mimicking a British accent, Metallo turned around just in time to get a kick in his face from the Wall Crawler. "The game's not over yet!" the mercenary staggered back, recovered quickly from the arachnid hero's attack and glared at the young man. "Don't you ever quit?" he demanded angrily as he ripped a stop sign up out of the ground.
"No" Peter answered "But tell me, did anyone ever tell you, that you sound like Malcolm McDowell?"
"Who?" asked Metallo, who had never heard of the name before.
"No one appreciates the lesser known actors these days" sighed Peter right before he blinded the mercenary's face with webbing, causing Metallo to drop the stop sign and pull at the webs on his face. Right at that moment, Shocker saw his chance to blast Spider-Man and fired his vibrosmashers but the young arachnid dodged just in time and the blast got Metallo instead. In annoyance, the mercenary ripped the webs off his face and glared hard at his colleague "Do you mind?!" he shouted "Watch where you're firing those things!"
"Hey I was aiming for the Wall Crawler!" Shocker defended "It's not my fault that I missed!" Just as he was still talking, the girl of steel or Maiden of Might as you may call her, grabbed him and tossed him across the street where he crashed into a wall and slumped into unconsciousness. Rhino came charging at her again only to get tackled by Superman who managed to regain some of his strength, the horn-headed criminal glowered at the older Kryptonian. "I thought Metallo was suppose to make you suffer long enough to soften you up a bit, only for me to impale you with my horn."
"That's what he was trying to do" Superman told him "But now that Spider-Man is keeping him busy, which was long enough for me to regain some of my strength, now why don't you and me go for a few rounds just to see who's stronger shall we?" the gargantuan being let out a low growl before charging the Man of Steel. He swung his right fist which Superman dodged with ease before socking the Rhino on the jaw knocking him straight into the same trailer that he was riding inside a few minutes earlier.
Metallo who was now up off the ground attempted to attack Superman again, but this time Spider-Man was ready. He leaped forward and tackled the mercenary knocking and pinning him to the ground, luckily Peter was wearing his Iron Spider suit which was completely bulletproof and had all kinds of tools and gadgets.
"Do you have any idea who you're dealing with?" demanded Metallo.
"I'm just getting this wrapped up that's what I'm doing." Spider-Man answered "But as for you and your partners, you're all going to jail where you belong."
"I don't think so" said Metallo menacingly then all at once he managed to throw Spider-Man off of him, but Peter quickly landed on his feet and retaliated by encasing Metallo's legs in webbing. Then he grabbed the android's wrists and extended from the back of his suit the golden spider legs that electrocuted Metallo, finally the webslinger gripped the Kryptonite chunk and with all his strength yanked it right out of Metallo's chest.
Metallo was shocked at what had just happened, then all at once his power shut down on him and he fell down flat on his face. "Well it's time for the cops to come and pick up these guys" he told himself, no sooner had he said that then the whole police force arrived on the scene. With help from the heroes, it didn't take long for any of them to load up the criminals into the back of an armored police van with the Rhino up against the front of the van, Metallo on the left and Shocker on the right. It was a similar fashion to how Superman, J'onn J'onzz, Hawkgirl and John Stewart captured Luminous, Solomon Grundy and Copperhead.
"Good work you two" Superman praised his young compatriots "It was pretty unexcepted when Metallo, Rhino, and Shocker showed up, but it was worth it when we apprehended them in time."
"It sure was" Spider-Man answered "Now let's go on home and get ready for Christmas." So the trio went back into the alley and changed back into their civilian identities, then they got into Clark Kent's car and drove back to Smallville.
The next day
It was a festive afternoon in Gotham City, several dozen families were hurriedly finishing up the last bit of their Christmas shopping. In one part of the mall, Dick Greyson, Barbara Gordon and Tim Drake were finalizing the last piece of Christmas shopping. Barbara was picking out a new neck tie for her father and a belt for Dick, young Tim Drake was just assisting her with picking out the right ones.
Meanwhile Dick was busy trying to pick out whatever gift he needed to buy, but it was so complicated. He still felt hurt even after that fallout he had with both Batman and Batgirl, which is why he stopped being Robin and never put on the suit ever again. After travelling the world for five years, he finally returned to Gotham City, reunited with Bruce and Barbara and met Tim for the first time.
Even though he didn't want to admit it, but he couldn't help feeling sorry for running off the way he did and breaking Barbara's heart. Of course Peter and Kara talked to him about it and both insisted that he should try to make it up to her, as hard as it was to admit, but he knew they were both right.
"Hey Dick, are you okay?" Dick broke out of his thoughts when Tim came walking up, the younger boy was pretty concerned to see his older friend looking very stressed out. "Oh hey Tim, I… I was contemplating on what I could buy that's all."
"Are you sure?" Tim asked, although he was supposed to be helping his two older friends finish their Christmas shopping, but in reality he was actually trying to get them back together again as a favor from not only Peter and Kara, but from Bruce as well. "I just don't know that I should get Barbara anything for Christmas, after what happened between me, her and Bruce."
"But I'm pretty sure she's missed you so much" Tim insisted "After all who knows, she might like it if you gave her something that would make her really happy." Dick pondered those words, ever since he told the kid about the things that led to him stop being Robin, Tim had been very persistent that he and Barbara get back together again. But still Dick wasn't sure if Babs wanted to get back together and go out again, not even knowing that Babs felt the same way.
"Okay little buddy, what do you suggest I'd get for her?" Dick asked good naturedly, so at Tim's suggestion they got a silver chain bracelet with snow flakes and angels. As Dick paid for it, he put it inside a bag with some tissue paper in a similar manner as Clark and Peter had done, then they joined Barbara on the way out of the mall and headed towards the car. But just as they were loading up stuff, a loud scream was heard "What was that?" asked Tim in alarm as soon as he heard it, they were in time to see a whole bunch of people running out of the mall.
"I don't know" Dick answered "But let's go see what it was." They went back inside the mall to see what caused the commotion, they rounded the corner just in time to see security surround a huge muscular man in a green striped shirt and brown corduroy jeans. "Freeze! Don't move and stay right where you are!" commanded the leading officer in charge, Detective Harvey Bullock, but the strange man knocked him down and suddenly formed his hands into a mace and a hammer much to the teens' shock. "This guy must be the Sandman!" exclaimed Dick, who was briefed on what Spider-Man's enemies were like, the other two nodded in agreement "Come on, let's suit up and stop him."
(Of course at this time, Dick and Barbara are in their twenties. Tim is the only teenager at the scene of the crime.)
So with that, the three of them went behind three separate shelf racks and changed into their guises as Batgirl, Nightwing and Robin. Then they rushed to confront the stranger who was none other than Flint Marko AKA the Sandman who turned around just in time to get a kick to the face which knocked him backwards a bit. He recovered from the blow and glared at the one who assaulted him "Well, well, well, who are you kids suppose to be?" he growled in annoyance as he got ready to fight.
"You can just call us the ones who are going to help the police put you away for good." Batgirl told him determinedly, the Sandman scowled as he changed his hands again, this time both became hammers. "I don't think so!" he snarled charging forward and swinging his hammers but Nightwing and Batgirl both jumped and swung over him, Robin however kept him distracted long enough for his two older friends to put a plan into action.
"I'll smash you good little man, just you wait!" roared Sandman "Don't bet on it gruesome!" Nightwing answered giving a signal to Bullock who set off the sprinkler system with a lighter, Sandman was completely soaked from top to bottom. Then the three friends used their electric batarangs to stun him.
The sand-based villain roared in pain as he received a powerful electric shock, then he fell down flat on his face. Afterwards the GCPD arrived and took him away into custody, then the three friends went on their way.
The same day
Meanwhile in Central City, the Flash and Kid Flash were experiencing a major battle with a criminal gang called the Rogues; a team of villains put together and led by the sinister Leonard Snart/Captain Cold.
The current members of the gang were; Mick Rory Aka Heatwave, a criminal with a flamethrower gun, Lisa Snart who was also called the Golden Glider because of her golden ice skates that produced streaks of ice everywhere she went, and her signature gold gun that not only froze people, but could transmute them into golden statues. There was also Mark Mardon Aka the Weather Wizard who could manipulate and control the weather with highly advanced technology, Sam Scudder Aka the Mirror Master with the ability to get inside a mirror and project solid illusions, and finally George "Digger" Harkness Aka Captain Boomerang who was armed with various trick and weaponized boomerangs.
"Now this isn't fair Snart." Flash tried to reason with the leader of the gang while dodging icy blasts from Snart's cold gun and hot blasts from Heatwave's heat gun "It's a horrible idea making it six against two." Just as he was still running at super speed, he slipped on a streak of ice left behind by Golden Glider's skates and slid into a lamppost. Kid Flash ran over to help him up, but Weather Wizard used his wand to stir up the wild tempest of a cyclone that knocked down the teenage speedster.
Kid Flash crashed into a fence and got stuck there, then the other three Rogues surrounded him and were ready to finish him off "Say your prayers kid" taunted Captain Boomerang.
"Yeah! Cause this is gonna be the last day of your natural life little man!" laughed Heatwave drawing out his heat gun.
"So do you got any last words for your speed freak mentor?" asked Mirror Master raising his image projector.
"Well how about goodnight?" said an unfamiliar female voice. "Huh?" Scudder turned around just in time to get punched in the face by a red streak that was very similar to the Flash, Rory and Harkness were also punched in the faces so hard that they got knocked down.
By the time their eyes cleared, they were shocked to see that it was only a teenage girl with blonde hair, wearing a red suit with an eagle symbol on the chest, she also had on a tiny face mask that spread across her face and around her eyes. She was also wearing yellow gloves and boots.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" demanded Captain Cold staring at the young newcomer, his comrades were also staring as much as they were also glaring.
"The name's Jesse Quick" the girl answered "I'm here to give the Flash and Kid Flash some assistance, and you guys are going down hard."
"Oh I don't think so!" growled Heatwave aiming his flamethrower at her, but she zoomed around and knocked him down flat again. Then the Golden Glider used her gold gun to try and immobilize the female speedster, but Jesse Quick quickly ran at her and tied her to the same lamppost that Flash had crashed into.
All at once, Captain Cold and the rest of the Rogues; the Weather Wizard, Captain Boomerang, and Mirror Master advanced on the trio of speedsters only for Flash to take out Captain Cold with one punch. Kid Flash did the same with Weather Wizard while Jesse Quick did vice versa with Mirror Master and Captain Boomerang, then the speedsters tied up the villains and turned them over to the CCPD who had arrived on the scene just in time.
"Well that's a wrap" said Kid Flash happily as they watched from a distance seeing the criminals hauled off to jail in a police van. "You can say that again Bart" Flash answered "And I most certainly agree" Jesse remarked, a brief silence followed until Bart had a very big idea "Hey, why don't we all go get a big belly burger before we head on home for Christmas" he suggested.
Wally and Jesse looked at each other for a brief second before looking back at Bart with big hearty grins on their faces. "Sure! Why don't we?" so with that, the trio took off to the restaurant that Bart had suggested, ordered three belly burgers to go, then they went their separate ways and returned home in time for the Holidays.
The next day; Christmas
The next day was bursting with song, everyone who was home for the Holidays were celebrating all day long and even the whole Justice League was having Christmas in the Watchtower.
Kara was really overjoyed when Peter gave her the blue sapphire necklace, and she thanked him with a big hug and a kiss on his cheek. Barbara was very proud when Dick gave her that angel-&-snowflake bracelet and she became ecstatic when he told her it was so he make up to her for running away the way he did.
Elsewhere
Three sinister figures stood on a walkway overlooking a laboratory where Dr. Octopus and Professor Hamilton were busy working on a new protect. It was four people who were being sedated for some kind of operation, each of them had an anesthetic tube over their mouths. A physician was injecting them with a formula that was none other than the nanites that Amanda Waller had ordered for Task Force X.
"Very soon those recruits will be ready to face off against the Prime Avengers" said the first figure who turned out to Baron Zemo, the other figures who were Lex Luthor and Victor Von Doom nodded in agreement. "I certainly hope so Helmut" Doom answered "But the question is: who will lead these scoundrels on their first mission?"
"I believe Waller was planning on hiring Lt. Colonel Rick Flag, Jr. to do so" Lex told him specifically "He's a well experienced solider and of course if you are/were still planning on hiring the Squad to face off with Spider-Man and his little friends, then he wouldn't want to connected to that in any way."
"Oh I know just the person to do it" Zemo told him before a familiar masked man entered the room. He wore a black-&-orange mask, and black-&-orange body armor with two samurai swords in sheaths on his back and two handguns in holsters on his belt. It was none other then Slade Wilson Aka Deathstroke "So what did you gents want to talk about?" he inquired.
I'm so sorry for taking so long dear readers, I just wanted to make sure that some dialogues were done right. Also it looks like Project Cadmus is up to no good, and all the Prime Avengers are going to be in their first fight against a team of villains. Now who do you think I should include in this story as part of the Suicide Squad? So who do you think was that mysterious figure that happened to be spying on Peter, Kara, Dick and Barbara? Well you'd better wait and find out, since I'm not giving away any spoilers.
Starring the Voices of:
Josh Keaton as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Nicholle Tom as Kara Zor-El/Supergirl
George Newburn as Clark Kent/Superman
Loren Lester as Dick Grayson/Nightwing
Tara Strong as Barbara Gordan/Batgirl
Eli Marienthal as Tim Drake/Robin
Corey Burton as John Corben/Metallo
Jim Cummings as Herman Shultz/Shocker
Daryl Sabara as Aleksei Sytseivich/Rhino
Dee Bradley Baker as Flint Marko/Sandman
Somehow I've been having some thoughts lately as to whether I should include the part where Barbara becomes Oracle and passes down her Batgirl mantle to Cassandra Cain, anyway just sound off your thoughts in the comments below about what you think should happen next.
