Answers to reviewers' questions or statements:

Lustful-Angel96: No he won't be speaking to the One Above All, mainly because Peter will likely blow it and tear into the guy for screwing with his life so much or at least letting half the crap that happened in it, happen. Especially with what's gone down in his past which we will see bits of soon and with what will happen in this story.

superspiderfan: It's starting to tether towards a harem, if not here then the sequel at least. but in the mean time we get to see Peter with quite a few women, both hero and villain.

christian a lebron1: Kaine will get someone before this story is over, wheatear it'll be Zola or someone else will be a sort of surprise. But they do seem to go well together, plus Kaine wouldn't have much competition since Hermes just kidnapped Zola's kid and Peter is more interested in Diana… and Zatanna… and Helena… he's got a lot of women on his mind

Dr Death MD: I won't be going through all of the New 52 story arcs, just one's I liked and I think would be neat to have Spider-man in it. First it'll be the first few arcs in wonder Woman that deal with the First Born. After his capture we head into the first incarnation of the Justice League Dark.

masoliki1: I'll show the Kent family, but not the last days storyline. Will mention it though.

Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or DC characters seen, mentioned or used


Julia Carpenter had to hold in a scowl of annoyance as she silently made her way through a series of dark passageways that were filled with murky rat-infested waters that laid under the city of Berlin, Germany. For the past several years now, on orders from the Master Weaver no less, the new Madam Web has been trying to locate someone that the caretaker of the Web of Life believes has some sort of connection to what had really altered the universe and the Multiverse itself.

'And to think this all started because Barry missed his mother' Julia thought with a small flash of rage.

Now she knows she's being harsh to the man but Barry isn't the only person in this line of work that's lost someone he cares about to a monster… and his lost will never compare to what she's lost over her lifetime.

Julia shook her head to clear her mind before her thoughts could go any further down that dark path. She was here because she believes that she's finally located this Outsider as the Weaver had called him and she couldn't risk him getting away because her mind was distracted by painful memories. After several more minutes she came before a large metal door that looked like it was built to withstand a nuclear blast.

'Well it's a good thing I have something more practical than that' Julia thought as she crouched before the door and examined it for cracks or seams to exploit before finding one. She grinned as she held her hand over it and began to channel her 'Psi-webs' into it. It was a trick that Felecia helped her with a few years back, now instead of trying to rip open a door or using lock picks, she could use her Psi-webs and unlock any kind of door that she could with a combination of her spider-sense and her now enhanced psionic powers thanks to the training from the Master Weaver.

Several seconds passed before she heard a distinct click and the door shook slightly. Julia grinned as she opened the door before she sensed and 'saw' something fast approaching her from behind. She quickly ducked as the figure flew over her and landed in a crouch and growled at Julia who had since slipped into a form that Peter's been helping her learn ever since he returned from his training in K'un-Lun.

Julia's eyes narrowed as she took in her attacker's from 'Well this is interesting…'

Her attacker looked a bit like Peter's long dead evil clone, Doppelganger, in that he had six arms and a light muscular build, but that was where the similarities ended. The rest of his body was covered in fur like a Tarantula's and he possessed eight glowing red eyes and a pair of chelicerae's that were leaking some sort of clear fluid that caused Julia's spider-sense to flare ever so slightly.

"And what are you supposed to be?" Julia questioned the individual with a frown as she prepared to move if he attacked again.

The figure hissed at Julia, causing her to snort "Well that's attractive"

The figure suddenly lunged at Julia who in a blur of movement raced underneath the leaping spider creature and brought both her knees up to her chest before she shot her legs out, her feet colliding with the creature's chest and sending it rocketing towards the ceiling with a loud 'Cracking' sound. Julia smirked at the spider creature colliding with the roof of the room and let out a pained whimper before it fell towards the ground with a heavy thud. Julia stood up and carefully approached the being with a curious expression. She could sense and see a faint connection to the Web of Life, but it seemed wrong, corrupted in a sense.

"Seriously, what the hell are you?" Julia questioned as she made to turn the figure over before she suddenly back peddled as several of it's arms lashed out at her. Julia gritted her teeth as she caught one arm and had to use every bit of her physical strength to hold it back before she pushed away as several more limbs came flying towards her. One of the claws nicked her coat and Julia's eyes widened as she saw and filled her with a bit of panic.

Her coat was starting to be eaten away as if acid was dropped on it. She quickly removed the leather article and tossed ti aside just in time to be smacked across the face by the snarling spider creature. Julia went flying into the wall, the surface cracking and splintering under the force of her impact before she was grabbed by the throat and held up by the six armed being.

Julia winced at the force it was gripping her throat before she glared at the figure with narrowed glowing eyes. The spider creature quirked it's head to the wide before it hissed out.

"Diiiiiie…"

"Oh so you can talk, and here I was beginning to think you were some inbred lab experiment" Julia said as she placed her hands on the wrist of the arm holding her up "Since you're in such a talkative mood, you mind telling me where the owner of this place has run off to?"

"Your world will be ours…. And the Spider will be her's and there is nothing you can do to stop it!" The spider creature hissed again as it reared two clawed fists back to ram into Julia's skull.

Julia's eyes narrowed at that "Well… not what I was looking for but still, good to know"

She than secreted a large amount of raw psi-webs on to the spider creature's wrists from her hands taking it be surprise before it let out a pained roar as the psionic constructs began to eat away at it's wrist before Julia kicked it back with her feet. The spider being stumbled away, trying to rip the psi-webs off before suddenly the psi-webs ate their way through the being's wrist and it's hand fell to the floor with bits of charred flesh still smoking.

The Spider being stared down at it's hand in shock before it looked up at Julia with an enraged expression and let out a piercing roar that caused her to wince at the sheer volume before she sensed and saw the spider creature lunge at her with it's maw wide open and it's claws extended outward. Julia tensed and prepared to counter when suddenly she sensed someone behind her and she leaped out of the way as they sent a punch towards her head. Julia landed on the ceiling and looked down to see another figure had appeared, seemingly out of nowhere.

The figure looked up at Julia and spoke in a clear feminine voice as the spider creature landed next to her "Friend of yours, big guy?"

The spider hissed as it glared up at Julia and made to pounce on her when the unknown woman grabbed it's shoulder "No, we're done here"

The spider glanced at the woman with a glare as Julia dropped down not far from them with a cautious expression on her face. Finally, after a few tenses seconds the spider being nodded before glaring at Julia "Before this ends I will tear the flesh from your bones!"

"If I had a penny every time I heard that threat" Julia said with a snort as the unknown woman placed her hand on the spider creature and did something that Julia didn't expect…

The began to shrink!

"Oh…" Julia said in surprise as the two continued to shrink until they were out of sight and Julia could no longer sense them. The second incarnation of Madam Web narrowed her eyes and she tried to locate them but found no trace of where they went. After a few minutes she let out a sigh of frustration as she turned towards the severed hand and shot a psi-web towards it and yanked it towards her.

She caught the slightly charred flesh and looked it over for a few seconds before she wrapped it up in a small cocoon of psi-webs and attached it to her side while she went over to retrieve her coat and leave this place before noticing just how destroyed it was.

"Dammit…" Julia said as she dropped the coat back on to the floor and began to make her way towards the doorway.

Still, today wasn't a complete lost, she was on the right track and it appears that this Outsider was aware of her investigation and was sending his men to deal with her.

'Which means I'm getting far too close for his liking' Julia thought as she wandered through the tunnels back up towards the surface. It was then her mind wandered back to the spider creature and what it said about the 'Spider' being 'her's. It didn't require a genius level intellect for Julia to see that the creature was referring to Peter.

'Now the question is, who's her?' Julia thought with a frown as she began to fade away just as she stepped into the daylight to keep from being seen. She would need to make her way to New York when she gets the chance and warn Peter that something, someone was out to get him… again.

Julia couldn't help but smile a little "I swear that man has about the most interesting luck when it comes to evil women wanting him apparently…"

Helena Wayne's eyes narrowed as she approached the personal yacht of a man by the name of Moretti on a speed boat that she 'burrowed' for this little op. Moretti is a Italian trafficker that's for the past few years now been shipping both young Italian and Arab women that his men had captured along with entire crates filled with enough weapons to supply a small nation's army to either Gotham or New York City for both cities criminal underworld. After a few close calls and near misses, Helena had finally tracked the man down to the city of Torre Annunziata after losing him in Naples.

She nearly got the bastard in the ancient historic site of Pompeii when he was meeting with a man by the name of Ibn who was negotiating for possible asylum for his father Hassan but her dropping in had postponed that little meeting and forced Moretti to flee on to his little pleasure cruise and anchor out about half way out in the bay.

As Helena came up alongside the silent ship, just over half an hour till dawn, she mentally ran over the security she's been able to identify from her earlier reconnaissance as she put on a pair of gloves that used a powerful adhesive like substance with an electric current running through them to help her scale the wet smooth surface of the massive ship.

'Eleven on board. Moretti, four toughs, three crew and three women… guess they're the greeters for the Chairman when they rendezvous' Helena thought with a dark scowl as she prepped her equipment before she silently began to climb her way up the side of the ship 'And one me. Fair odds'

She made it to the yacht's railing and peek out over the edge to see two guards standing not too far away, their backs to her as they discussed something. Helena waited to see if they would move and after several seconds both men began to make their way towards the front of the boat. Before Helena moved she gave her surroundings another quick look and saw that the inside of cabin was dark.

'No meeting tonight, Moretti's going lights out' Helena thought as she silently leaped over the railing and made her way along the deck 'Perfect opportunity'

'I like the isolation… the possibilities… but I'm not happy that Ibn Hassan isn't aboard. Seems like the sort of boy who would be rushing to greet his father. But if tonight's all Moretti… I can settle' Helena thought as she kept and eye and ear out for any other Moretti's people or the man himself, so far none.

She reached about halfway towards the end of the yacht before she pulled out her crossbow and looked dup towards the roof and shot off a small grappling hook and waited for the hook to latch on to the hull. After feeling it grab and pulling on the line to make sure it was secured, she began to climb up towards the radio and radar dishes.

It didn't take her long to reach the top and for her to locate the radar and just as she was about to pull a small device from her belt she heard and saw a young woman burst from the cabin clad in a scanty purple dress. She would have been a very beautiful woman that Helena could have invited to her bed had the woman's face not been marred by a large amount of blood gushing from her mouth and nose.

Helena felt rage surge through her body as she could faintly hear the girl's cries as she collapsed against the railing, her body shaking from her sobs.

'He deserves my undivided attention… and I won't be gentle. But first no interference' Helena thought as she reluctantly returned her attention towards the radar and radio dishes and attached the device that would scramble the signals. 'Can't have you calling for help when you see me standing over your beaten and bloodied men Moretti'

After she finished attaching the device and checking to see that it was running she glanced around the deck below and saw that the woman was gone, likely taken back inside and the guards were still patrolling the deck topside. Helena glanced up at the sky and saw that it was close to morning, perhaps another half hour at the most.

'Plenty of time for a catnap' Helena thought as she found a secluded spot towards the back of the yacht that Moretti's men couldn't reach unless they began to climb the sides of the hull. She adjusted her equipment and used her cape as a sort of blanket and hid herself in the shadows but remained ready to move if she was somehow discovered.

'Hopefully not, could use a few minutes of rest before I have to fight a asshole of a sex and weapons trafficker in the middle of the ocean' Helena thought with a small grin as she closed her eyes and slowly let a light sleep take her. Not deep enough to dream but enough that when she awakens she'll feel some sense of rest.

Had she remained awake, she would have noticed a small powerboat racing towards the yacht.

Half an hour had passed and Helena was awoken to two things, the first was the feeling of the rising sun's light on her face. The second…

Blood…

Helena's eyes narrowed as she carefully emerged from her spot and glanced down at the deck and felt her eyes widened at what she saw.

It was Moretti's crew… or what was left of them.

The deck was covered in blood, organs, torn clothing and scattered limbs. The Seagulls were already starting to land and peck at the still warm flesh with hunger as flies flew lazily around the now stinking corpses.

'My god…' Helena thought as she started at the brutalized bodies before she closed her eyes and took a deep breath and steadied her nerves and prepared to move when she heard a muffled cry of pain from inside the ship.

'That was Moretti' Helena thought with narrowed eyes 'And he's likely with his attackers'

She wasn't hopeful enough to think that the three girls that the man had with him had somehow risen up and killed his guards and the crew. They didn't strike as the sheer ruthless types… or the kind of people that could do this all so quietly that she never heard it.

'Common sense and my mom's voice is telling me to bail out because whatever did this isn't someone or something I want to be around, especially on a small yacht in the middle of the ocean, miles from shore…' Helena thought as she saw a powerboat that wasn't hers docked against the side of the yacht 'But the detective in me and my dad's voice is telling me to investigate this…'

After a few seconds and another scream that belonged to Moretti, Helena made the decision to look into this. She silently descended towards the deck, on the lookout for whatever could have done this as she made her way towards the entrance to the cabin. She could hear Moretti's screams still and muffled voices as she neared the door and was just about to enter it before she felt and heard a heavy footstep. Helena froze as she tried to identify where the sound was coming from before realizing it was behind her. She casted a look over her shoulder and could see the shadow of something big approaching from the rear of the ship. Helena quickly leaped over the railing and grabbed on to the edge and hoped to god that whatever was coming wouldn't notice her small fingers on the ledge.

'Or smell me for that matter' Helena thought as a small breeze ruffled her cape 'Or hear me or have super vision or some shit to see me… or hear my thoughts… fuckin super powers can be a real bitch when the bad guys have them and you don't!'

She waited for several long tense seconds as the owner of the heavy footsteps drew closer and closer. It became a challenge to even keep her grip as the tremors from the footsteps seemed to shake the deck before she heard deep and heavy breathing. Helena held her breath, her heart beating a mile a minute, as she waited to see what would happen before she heard the door to the cabin opening and the unknown assailant's breathing was drowned out by a pained yell from Moretti.

"AAH!" the man screamed "Please stop- AAAAAAAH!"

Helena almost felt bad from the man given how agonized his screams really were now that they weren't being muffled. His screams continued for another second before the distinct sound of someone being struck cut them off and she heard a distinct male voice that was using some sort of electronic device to scramble it slightly to hide the owner's identity.

"Quiet!" the voice hissed.

Helena swallowed nervously as she pulled herself up and risked a peek inside the cabin and was greeted to the sight of Moretti on the ground, his clothes bloodstained and tattered with a woman clad in black and orange with a black spider symbol on her chest standing on his back while an all-black covered man crouched before him.

Helena's eyes widened as she recognized the figure.

'Black Spider…' Helena thought with surprise.

She's heard whispers of the man and a few conversations she's had with Peter recently. Apparently, he was some highly skilled assassin that just one day popped up out of nowhere, killed one of the original leaders of the Black Spider assassination squad, assumed leadership and is apparently wanted by the CIA, Interpol, the Chinese, India, Canada and even Switzerland.

'Wow… he's a little bigger than I thought he'd be in person' Helena thought as she watched the man grab Moretti's head by the hair and lift him up and forced the beaten man to look into his black lenses.

"Moretti, when we first went into business together, what did I say to you?" Black Spider asked with a quirked head. When Moretti didn't answer, his tone turned darker as he slammed the man's head into the ground before bringing back up towards his "I said, what did I say to you?"

"N-Not t-to screw y-you over" he whimpered as tears fell down his blood-soaked face "That i-if I do… y-you'd kill m-me"

"Funny how you now remember that little detail when I've had your people butchered and you on the ground sniveling like a baby" Black Spider said with a snort of grim amusement while his female companion Tarantula chuckled.

"B-But the Chairman-"

"I've already dealt with him and the rest of his damn little family of merchants Moretti" Black Spider interrupted the sniveling man with a cool tone as he let go of the man's head and nodded towards someone outside of Helena's field of vision "Now granted what I'm gonna have happened to you will be far more merciful then what I did to them"

It was then that Helena watched as Black Spider took a step back and a new figure emerged from somewhere within the cabin. For a moment Helena thought it was Spider-man in his old uniform that she saw him wear when the Justice League was first formed but she quickly saw several very large differences that disproved the idea.

First the suit was white with black tear dropped shaped lenses and a large black spider symbol that had the body and legs separated with the eight limbs wrapping around the man's torso with two of the legs running down his own.

Moretti sated up at the black and white clad spider themed man while Black Spider folded his arms across his chest and nodded towards the new arrival "Moretti, meet Ghost Spider. Still working on the name so it sounds more intimidating but his unique abilities more than make up for it"

"Go ahead, ask what he can do" Tarantula said as she pressed her foot down on Moretti's back, causing him to yell out in pain before he answered shakily.

"W-What c-can he do?" he wheezed out.

"What he can do, well that's a bit hard to describe but let's say it involves a bit of magic, a bit of the supernatural and a bit of genetic tampering thanks to a few unethical scientists that I've recruited into my little group of sociopaths. Ghost Spider, be a lamb and do what you do best"

Ghost Spider glanced at Black Spider before nodding and held up a hand that began to glow an ominous white before he did something that caused Helena to nearly lose her grip in shock.

He plunged his hand into Moretti and began to rip out what looked like a ghost version of the man himself!

"Holy Shit…" Helena whispered in horror as she saw what could only be Moretti's spirt or even soul being ripped from him and seemingly absorbed into the Ghost Spider while Tarantula and Black Spider watched.

After several seconds of hearing Moretti's agonized screams his body went limp as the last of his spirit was ripped out of him. Black Spider hummed at the now dead trafficker's corpse before glancing at Ghost Spider.

"Just out of curiosity, where do you put those things?" he asked as he nodded towards the man's arm but only received a blank stare in return. Black Spider held his gaze for a moment before he nodded "Fair enough"

"Now what?" Tarantula asked with a frown "With Moretti dead, our weapons shipments will be cut in half and already the demons we have contracts with are getting pissy about being given whores instead of actual virgins"

"I'm aware of this, but I have the others working on that little issue. Don't worry, we'll have the necessary amount of fire power and unholy support when I make my move against Spider-man" Black Spider waved the woman's worries off.

"Why do you want to kill the Spider?" Ghost Spider questioned in a dark echoing voice that sent a small chill up Helena's spine.

Black Spider didn't answer as he stared out the window in front of him before he spoke in a calm voice "Oh Goliath, see to our little eavesdropper, will you?"

It took a second too long for Helena to realize that she been made and the opportunity to escape was lost as a large silver arm suddenly erupted from the hull of the ship and grabbed Helena by the neck before she could move.

"ACK!" Helena choked out as she was suddenly raised as the owner of the arm tore through the deck of the sip and climbed out with a deep grunt.

Helena's eyes widened as she took in the sight of her captor and quickly deduced he was the one she heard walking around earlier. He was tall, easily over eight feet high and looked to be built of muscle on top of even more muscle. His entire body was clad in silver with only his lenses and a large spider symbol on his chest and likely back that looked more like Tarantula's but red.

"Wow… you're a big one" Helena forced out as she reached for her crossbow before she was slammed into the wall by the large Goliath of a man, knocking the wind out of her. She faintly made out Goliath reeling his fist back to ram through her before Black Spider spoke up.

"Wait…"

The silver fist came to a sudden stop within inches of Helena's pain stricken face. The Huntress watched as the large fist was lowered, and Black Spider entered her field of vision.

"So, you're the Huntress? The one that's been tracking Moretti over Naples?" the man asked with a chuckle as he brushed a few strands of her hair out of her face "What brings you to Italy my dear little crossbow wielding maniac?"

"The weather" Helena spat out as she tried to think of a way out of here "Plus the food here is good"

"Really?" Black Spider asked as he quirked his head to the side before glancing at Ghost Spider who had emerged "Secure Moretti's records and computer. Have Tarantula go through the ship one more time before we blow it"

"Yessss…" the nodded before he seemed to fade out of sight like an actual ghost.

Black Spider then turned his attention back to Helena "Not what to do with you?"

"Let me go maybe?" Helena asked as she used her thumb to press a small little button in her glove when she reached up to grab Goliath's arm "Or you can tell me why you killed Moretti"

"Mmmm, how about no to both and I just have Goliath here kil-" Black Spider stared before Helena saw him tense and his lenses narrowed as he suddenly leaped out of the way as a figure blurred past him and rammed into Goliath, forcing him to release her as he was sent through the hull of the ship.

"Sorry boys, I know that these things are called pleasure cruises, but my friend here looks far from pleasured" a woman's voice said with amusement.

Helena let out a chocked cough as she looked up at her rescuer, Karen Starr, her friend that was the Supergirl of their own home reality before coming here "What took you so long?"

Karen gave Helena an amused look as she placed a hand on her hip, she was dressed like she came from a party and it was a wonder that her clothes hadn't been torn off from the speed she travelled to get here.

"You try leaving a party with more security and surveillance then the Pentagon and fly all the way from California without drawing attention to yourself"

"You love the attention" Helena said as she straightened herself and glanced at Black Spider who was watching the two closely "Heh, not so tough without muscles now are ya?"

"Friend of yours?" Karen asked as she gave Black Spider an unimpressed look as she crossed her arms under her large bust "Honey, you can do sooo much better than twig man here"

"I know, but the 'better' is being threatened by him" Helena said as she aimed her crossbow at the oddly relaxed man "Now, mind telling me why you had Moretti killed and your connection to him?"

Black Spider stared at the two of them for several long moments, or more specifically Karen before he began to chuckle "Wow, Karen Starr in the flesh…"

He then glanced at the hole that she made with Goliath's body "And might I say that what you did there was quite… super"

Both Helena and Karen's eyes narrowed at the way the man said 'super'.

"You don't seem too surprised that I could pull something like that off" Karen said as she tried to scan the man's body but something was blocking her X-ray vision and she knew it wasn't lead which meant-

'Magic… crap' Karen thought with worry. When she first came to Earth, or well her Earth, she thought nothing could hurt her until she was exposed to both Red Sun energy and Magic.

It was then her super hearing picked up movement behind her and Helena and Karen moved to catch an incoming fist from Goliath… and gritted her teeth as she was forced to catch his hand with both of hers and dig her feet into the damaged hull of the yacht as her muscles strained to hold back the silver colored brute.

'Holy shit, does this guy lift planets in his spare time?!' Karen thought as she struggled to hold back the large brute's strength with her own. Not since her long dead cousin and father figure Superman has she struggled this much against another person in raw strength before.

Helena saw her friend struggling to hold back Goliath and made to help before she was kicked in the side by black Spider, knocking the wind out of her again and from the sounds of it, breaking a rib or two as well if the pain flashing through her chest was anything to go by.

'Peter wasn't kidding when he said this guy was strong' Helena thought as she just narrowly avoided a kick from Black Spider that tore through the ship's hull.

Karen heard this and risked a look towards her friend and saw that Black Spider had sized her by the neck and looked like he was about to kill her. Karen's eyes narrowed in rage as they began to glow red before she glanced back at Goliath and fired off a small but powerful blast of heat vision into his face, causing him to let out an inhuman roar of pain before she shot off towards Black Spider.

The black clad assassin in questioned seemed to have sensed Karen's approach and released Helena and leaped away as Karen made to grab him but failed. It was then that Tarantula emerged with a backpack over her shoulder and looked towards Black Spider's crouching form.

"Boss, we go it all"

Black Spider nodded "We're done here then, let's go"

He, Tarantula, Goliath and presumably Ghost Spider all suddenly just vanished, causing Karen's eyes to widen in shock before she quickly scanned the surrounding are with her hearing and numerous visions for any signs of them. After a few seconds, she let a smirk when she saw that they were long gone.

"Yeah you better run!" Karen said as he turned towards Helena to see that she was holding herself up against the wall. She quickly rushed to help her while Helena groaned.

"They weren't retreating because they were losing Karen, they left because killing us would be a waste of time" Helena said with a pained expression.

"Or maybe they just knew how outclassed they were against me?" Karen offered.

"That Goliath didn't seem too outclassed by you" Helena said with a small grin.

"Please, I was letting him win" Karen said with a scoff before she gave her friend a more serious look "So what's next?"

"Let's just get the hell out of here before this place is completely underwater" Helena said as she glanced through the cabin door towards Moretti's lifeless figure "Shame I didn't get to kick his ass though"

"There's always the next guy" Karen offered.

"Yeah, mayb- GAH!" Helena said as the pain in her chest intensified for a moment "Shit that hurts…"

"Let me have a look" Karen said as she scanned Helena's chest and winced "Ouch, two broken ribs and another three cracked"

"Well, guess I won't be tit fucking Spider-man when I get back to New York for a while" Helena joked.

"Well I can always do that for you" Karen said with a grin as she cupped one of her breasts "One session with my babies and he'll never want another's!"

"Which is why I'm keeping you from him" Helena scowled playfully at her best friend "Besides, I had him first, ergo as my dear mother would say… mine, mine, mine!"

"But I called dibs when we saw his picture after coming here first!" Karen whined.

"Well then you should have taken up my offer to come with me to New York when I first met him" Helena said as Karen lifted her up off the flooding deck of the yacht and rose into the sky just seconds before the ship exploded, likely from charges left by Black Spider's people.

"Well if I knew that that business meeting I had would be so boring and that your trip to New York would end up with you fucking the guy, I would have!" Karen complained before she sighed "And now I'll never be able to do that!"

"Why?" Helena asked with a frown "Karen, I was joking when you said you can't have him. I'm willing to let you have a shot at him, so long as you don't try to take him for yourself"

"Helena, I can't go there, not now anyway. 'She's' now there" Karen said as she glanced around as if mentioning her name will cause her to appear.

"Who?" Helena asked but already had a strong irking as to who her friend was referring to.

"This world's Kara Zor-El" Karen whispered with worry.

"Oh…" Helena said before she winced in pain as one of her broken ribs shifted "Huh, was wondering if or when she was going to show up"

"Yeah, she even made her debut by sucker punching Superman through the Great Wall of China and like two days later helped some magic girl and some woman dressed up like a spider kick a bunch of alien's asses when they tried to take over Manhattan or something"

"Heh, that sounds way better than your own debut as Supergirl" Helena joked.

"Ugh, don't remind me!" Karen whined as she adjusted her grip on her friend "So now what? The guy you're after is dead"

"Yeah, and his killer has plans for Spider-man and after seeing some of the things his men can do… I need to warn him" Helena said as she glanced at Karen "Mind giving me a lift to New York after my ribs heal?"

"Like personally or by giving you one of my planes?" Karen asked.

"Preferably the first one since your faster" Helena said.

"But what if we run into that other Supergirl while we're there?" Karen asked with worry "It'll only take one look of me by her to see that I'm her but older!"

"Karen, are you telling me that you'd rather be hiding out on your little island rather than come with me to New York and maybe, and I do stress maybe, score with Spider-man because you might end up running into, well a younger version of you?" Helena asked with a pained chuckle.

Karen thought it over for a moment before she sighed in defeat "Eh, what's the worst that could happen? I mean it's not like all hell will break loose while I'm there. right?"

"Wouldn't assume it would" Helena said with a snort.

Karen nodded at that before she suddenly remembered something "Oh, can we stop by Japan first?"

"Why?" Helena asked with a frown.

"There's something I want to check up on before going to new York and possibly running into this world's Supergirl" Karen said.

"What is it?"

At this Karen smiled "You'll see…"

Peter had to hold back the urge to sigh as he stood in his bathroom and stared at the area where his new Necro-stinger laid. The skin around the area was starting to pale a little and Peter felt the ever-subtle numbness creep in every once in a while. Hephaestus warned him that graphing the shards to the All-Black Necrosword could cause potential problems but at the time Peter didn't really care, all that mattered was getting Diana out of the Underworld.

"Well I'm not transforming into a massive man-spider so there's that…" Peter mumbled to himself before he heard a knock on the door followed by Diana's voice.

"Peter, are you okay in there?"

Peter quickly pulled the sleeve of his shirt down, completely covering the area and responded as he switched on the faucet and pooled some water in his hands to wash on his face "Yeah I'm good. Just checking something is all"

"Do I want to even know?" Diana asked with a trace of humor in her voice.

Peter paused and glanced back down at his wrist for a moment before he mentally shook himself "Nah, nothing to worry about"

After a few moments of washing his face Peter exited the restroom to see that Diana had already taken over his bed for the foreseeable future that she, Lennox, Zola and Hera would be staying in New York with him. After Hermes up and stole Zola's son, they've been trying to figure out where he could have gone. Lennox suggested that Diana meet with their sister Siracca, another child of Zeus who lived in Libya, or well she used to… until Hera killed her.

After a rather violent first meeting between the two daughters of Zues, Siracca suggested that Diana seek out another half sibling of theirs, Milan. So here they were several days later in Peter's apartment, preparing to track down this Milan and see what he knows. Or more accurately Diana and Lennox track him down while Peter keeps an eye on Zola, Hera, make a quick stop at Alchemax to see what's going on, look into the apparent arrival or Supergirl and somehow keep his roommate Zatanna from possibly killing Hera… and maybe Diana.

"And here I thought I took forever in the bathroom" Diana teased as she continued to unpack her suitcase while Peter watched.

"Well now you know what us guys go through, maybe it'll make you a little more considerate in the future when you have to freshen up" Peter said with a grin.

"Or, I'll just take even longer next time to get back at you" Diana responded with a laugh.

Peter chuckled and was about to respond before he picked up something falling in the next room. Peter's eyes narrowed as the sound was coming from his 'trophy room'. Diana watched with curiosity as Peter quickly made his way out into the hall and down towards another door that was left wide open. She followed him into the room to see a wall with several shelves on it, each filled with a host of items he's collected over the past several years. On sitting there on the ground was the helmet that she and Peter discovered in an old coffin that was somehow connected to the web of life.

Diana felt a slight chill crawl up her spine as she stared at the empty eye holes while Peter picked it up and placed it back on the shelf.

"I forgot how unsettling that thing looked" Diana said as she watched Peter stare at it for several long moments before he responded.

"Yeah, Kaine refuses to even come into my apartment anymore because of this thing" Peter nodded towards the old helmet before he placed a hand on the shelf and tested it's stability.

"Have you discovered what it is yet?" Diana questioned as she leaned against the door frame.

"No, so far zilch. I've taken this thing to every mystic I know, same with Zatanna and we've found nothing on it" Peter said as he turned away from the shelf and began to head for the door, ushering Diana out along the way "But I have discovered something interesting about it"

"And what's that?" Diana sked as she watched Peter close and lock the door.

"It's made of Nth Metal" Peter revealed.

"Really?" Diana said in surprise before she glanced back at the door with a curious frown "Perhaps that explains the subtle magical energy I sense in it"

"Zatanna thinks so too, I'm trying to locate Hawkman to see if he could give me some help on this thing" Peter said as he leaned against the door and folded his arms "If there's one man that can help me figure out where this thing came from and what it is exactly, it's probably him. And if not, maybe he'll know who can help"

"I could take it to Hephaestus, perhaps he'll know. Maybe it's one of his creations?" Diana suggested.

"I'll think about it, but for now we have more important things to worry about" Peter said as he pushed himself off the door and the two made their way to the living room. Lennox was in a chair next to the couch twiddling a cigarette in his lips while Zola and Hera kept snatching the remote from the other and changing the channel. Zatanna was watching the former goddess and mortal girl for a moment before she rolled her eyes and headed towards the kitchen for something to drink.

Peter made to follow her when suddenly Hera snatched the remote from Zola and smacked her in the head with it, creating a loud thud and causing Zola to yelp in pain.

"HEY!"

Everyone froze as they all slowly turned to see Peter standing there with a glare directed at the women on the couch as he slowly walked over and snatched the remote from Hera's hands, nearly braking the device in his grip.

"Stop. It" Peter said as he stared down at both women for several tense moments.

"She started it…" they both mumbled at the same time while they each adverted their gazes from the unhappy man.

"I don't care who started it, I'm finishing it" Peter said before he glanced towards Diana and Lennox who both looked equally surprised by Peter's sudden outburst "What?"

"Never seen you lose your temper like that before" Diana said.

At this Peter snorted in grim amusement "Trust me Di, that wasn't me losing my temper"

"Then what was it?" Diana asked.

"Him being annoyed" Zatanna said from the kitchen.

Diana quirked a brow at the answer as she glanced towards the raven-haired woman "Oh, so you've seen him angry before?"

"Yep…" Zatanna said as she re-entered the living room with a cup of juice for her to drink.

"Really…" Diana said as she glanced at Peter who shrugged.

"It's a long story" Peter said.

"A very long, steamy story" Zatanna teased.

Diana's brow twitched at the look the mistress of magic threw Peter before she loudly cleared her throat and turned towards Lennox "Are you ready to go?"

"Aye…" he nodded as he stood up and followed the Amazon to the door.

"You sure you don't need help?" Peter asked.

"I'm sure" Diana said with a nod.

Peter watched them leave for a few seconds before he sighed and glanced at Hera and Zola who were both watching him intently "So… who wants pizza?"

"Pizza?" Hera said with confusion "What on earth is that?"

"You'll see" Peter said as he made his way into the kitchen where the menu and number for the place was with Zatanna right behind him.

"Peter, please explain to me why your letting them stay here?" she asked as Peter looked around the counter for the Pizza menu before finding it under some bills he had to pay.

"Because it's either here or sharing a suite with Kaine at the Hilton and he snores, like a lot" Peter side as he studied the menu "You think Hera is a pepperoni kinda woman or cheese?"

"Does it look like I care?" Zatanna answered as she took another sip of her drink and glanced into the living room to see Zola and Hera watching some news story about the fight that she took part in with Supergirl and Black Widow a few days ago.

"Guess we'll go with cheese and hope for the best" Peter said as he grabbed his phone and began to dial up the place "Also good job the other day. Saving New York, I mean. You looked awesome out there"

"Thank you" Zatanna said with a smile as she placed her glass on the counter and came to lean next to Peter "So… how was London?"

"Oh, you know, the usual" Peter said with a snort "Rhino themed villains, a couple of gods, killer horse people, meeting Diana's mom and her fellow Amazons and finding out that they're not as squeaky clean as I was led to believe and took on Hades and won"

"Oh, that sounds-… wait what?" Zatanna said with her eyes narrowing "What do you mean you took on Hades and won?"

Peter glanced at the woman for a moment with a curious expression "Hades kidnapped Zola and held her hostage in the Underworld, Diana went to save her succeeded but got captured in the end. So, I went down there with Lennox, Eros, and Hephaestus and fought Hades"

"You fought the lord of the Underworld… in his own domain?" Zatanna nearly shouted in shock "Where he's at his most powerful and dangerous?!"

Peter nodded with a satisfied grin on his face on beating such odds "E-yup! I even left a little parting gift on the side of his face to remember me by!"

Zatanna stared at Peter for several long moments before she pinched the ridge of her nose "You are by far the most insane man I've ever met"

"Even more so then Constantine?" Peter asked with a chuckle before it stopped at the small glare Zatanna gave him.

"Shutting up now" Peter quickly said as he slowly inched by Zatanna and nearly ran into the living room.


And done.

Next chapter, the hunt for Hermes continues with the help of a new ally…