Homefront


Peter was in Mount Justice and was waiting for Kaldur to come back from a mission with Roy, when he returned Peter smiled. "How did the mission with Roy go?"

"According to the intel I gathered, there is a mole…" Kaldur said, walking past Peter.

"Do we have any clues?" Peter said.

"Yes," Kaldur said.

Peter nodded, "Good, I assume you don't have school so I'll leave you to it."

As Peter walked to the Zeta tube he waved at Kaldur, "Good luck."

Kaldur waved back as Peter left Mount Justice.

*RECOGNIZED*

*SPIDER-MAN B-03*


It was morning in Gotham City, Harry and Peter were sleeping on a bunk bed in Peter's room with him on top bunk and Harry on bottom bunk. They had gotten Harry settled in and today was his first day at the Gotham Academy.

"Boys!" Aunt May called for them.

The short haired ginger woke up and woke up to Aunt May's call. "It's your first day of school. C'mon, get dressed."

The two lazily got up and got ready, Harry has been settling in quite comfortably in the apartment with Peter and Aunt May. When the two got dressed in their school uniforms, Harry looked at himself in the mirror.

"We look good." Harry said, he later looked at Peter with a smirk.

"Right back at ya pal!" Peter said as they walked out of the apartment building.

They were walking distance from Gotham Academy and there were words exchanged from the students who were whispering about Harry Osborn being in Gotham.

"Osborn in Gotham City?"

"That's weird."

"I thought the Bronx Science Academy was better than our school."

Harry was a little self-conscious about the students until they met a girl with blue eyes and medium length curly blonde hair and Artemis who was in a Gotham Academy Uniform.

"Well, hello there Parker," the girl said.

"Hello Bette," Peter later looked at Artemis and was surprised, "and Artemis?"

"Do you know her Peter?" Bette asked, surprised.

"I uhh… know her through gymnastics class," Peter quickly said.

Bette looked at Peter then at Artemis who cleared her throat. "Yes, I know Peter through gymnastics."

"That's besides the point," Bette looked to Harry. "Hello Osborn, I'm Bette your student liaison, welcome you two to Gotham Academy."

"Thanks," Harry said. "Peter told me how good this school was so I decided to transfer here."

Later a kid with black hair and blue eyes walked up to the group and went between Artemis and Harry. "We'll laugh about this someday."

Peter smirked at Dick and went behind them as he took a selfie on flash. After the picture was taken, Dick was nowhere to be seen.

"Uhh, who's that?" Artemis asked.

"A freshman, ignore him." Peter said.

Bette later led Artemis and Harry away to the campus while Peter saw Barbara and Dick who were standing by. He approached her and waved, making her wave back.

"Dick was that about?" Barbara asked, looking back at Dick.

"Nothing Barbara, just welcoming the new kids." Dick said.

Peter chuckled as the three walked away, Dick elbowed Peter. "What?"

"Dude, ever since you had Harry transfer here, he was the hot topic of this school." Dick said.

"Oh, I bet." Peter said chuckling.

"Of course he would," Barbara said, "Not to mention the whole Goblin incident not too long ago."


Later at night, Peter was in his Spider-Man suit. He invited Harry to join, but he wasn't ready to join yet. He still needed some time before officially joining the team and said he would visit the next time Peter goes to the cave. Robin and Batgirl are already in the cave and Peter did some patrolling and homework before going through a zeta-tube. Just then he saw Artemis and called out for her.

"Artemis!"

Artemis was startled and looked at Peter who was in his Spider-Man. "Pete! Don't scare me like that!" she silently scolded at Peter, she noticed that Harry wasn't with Peter. "Uhh, where's Harry?"

"He's still not ready yet." Peter said, "He is still taking a break before coming to join the team." He opened the door to a telephone booth and allowed Artemis to go in first. She smiled and thanked Peter as he got in as well.

*RECOGNIZED*

*SPIDER-MAN B-03*

*ARTEMIS B-07*

As they got inside Mount Justice, Peter's Spider-Sense made him grab Artemis and dodged a lava blast that was coming at them. Peter spun a web and swanged away from the attacker. He swung past the exit, but stopped as a wave of water came over to swallow them. The wave was brief and it died down and the two teens didn't hesitate to run to the gym area. Peter then used his comms.

"Spider-Man to team come in!" Peter yelled with his comms.

"M'gann, can you hear me!?" Artemis said telepathically.

Peter's Spider-Sense kicked in and looked back at the door which was about to explode so he shot a webline at Artemis, pulling her as he caught her and had her follow him closely. They ran through the gym and into the lockers and showers and Peter used his comms again.

"Spider-Man to batcave, override RG4! Cave calling Justice League, HOJ-Watchtower! B-03, priority red!" Peter screamed. The two started to turn on the showers as Peter grunted.

"Dammit, comms are down!" Peter said. "At least the water's helping."

The room started to shake and Peter saw the water flowing into the showers so he grabbed Artemis and jumped to the ceiling. Artemis was holding on to his neck as he was on the ceiling. Peter looked around, used a sonar on his mask and looked for any areas beyond the shower walls that had a hallway. He saw one area and shot an explosive web at it, making it explode. The hole in the wall showed a hallway that Peter and Artemis ran through which led to the kitchen. Peter looked at the air on top of the stove and then at Artemis.

"Open the vent, I will download cave blueprints." Peter said, projecting a hologram on his left web shooter. Artemis nodded and opened the vents and waited for Peter who didn't take long. Peter's Spider-Sense kicked in and he looked at Artemis. "Get in, now."

Artemis nodded and got inside the vents with Peter following behind her. As they climbed in further in the vents, Peter pulled up a map on his HUD which was located in his mask. "Go left." Artemis went left and Peter followed like before, but his Spider-Sense kicked in and he looked back to see a flame that was behind him.

Peter sighed of relief and continued to give Artemis directions. "Take the first right." Peter later looked at his HUD map and saw a vent cover which was ahead of Artemis. "Drop off at the vent cover." Artemis kept following Peter's directions which led them into the boiler room. Peter later pulled out a holo map from his web shooter and looked at Artemis.

"Follow me," Peter said. Peter ran with Artemis following him, but they heard something come out of the vents and there was a figure though the flames. Peter grunted and had Artemis in a bridal-style carry as he jumped to ground level and used his sonar lenses to find a vent which was by one of the machines. He ran with Artemis following him and shot an explosive web to one of the machines.

As the two teens got in the cent, Peter saw a circuit and hacked the cave's motion and heat sensors to keep the enemies from tracking the two, by plugging the circuit into his web shooter. "Do you know who the enemy is?" she asked. Peter shook his head, "Let's find out. I just downloaded the cave's security footage."

There showed four angles and it showed the new genesphere, Superboy, Kid Flash, Miss Martian, Aqualad, Robin, and Batgirl. Kid Flash was fixing a bike and was asking Miss Martian for the tools to fix it.

"Dork wrench."

M'gann gave Wally a wrench and he proceeded to twist a bolt in.

"Thank you green cheeks." Wally said.

Kaldur approached them. "I have been meaning to ask, any problem juggling school work with your responsibilities here?" he asked.

"Nope." Superboy said.

"Nah." Robin said.

"No." Batgirl said.

"Juggling is just one of my many talents," Wally said, "socket wrench."

"Daily cheerleading has presented a challenge," M'gann said, "oh, but my first loyalty is always to the team, this team, not the bumblebees."

"Artemis and Harry started school today," Kaldur said. "Harry I have complete faith in. But do you think Artemis will have trouble maintaining her loyalties?"

"Nah, she is alright." Wally said. "Besides, based on the looks she's been giving Peter indicate that she will be with us for a long—"

An explosion took out a camera and Artemis started to be concerned. "What happened?" she asked.

"Dammit! The camera's out. I'll try to see what happened from another angle." Peter later changed to another camera angle and it showed water engulfing the 6 and taking out the cameras. Peter changed to another angle and saw the team getting ready to attack, but that camera got taken out. So, he had to change into another angle which showed Kaldur and M'gann going around the corner before they were attacked and that camera was taken out as well.

Peter's lenses narrowed in anger and he punched the metal pipe, severely denting it.

"Goddammit!" Peter raged. Artemis was surprised to see Peter this aggressive. Peter took a deep breath and looked at Artemis. "Sorry about that. But, we should get moving, I don't know how long they will last." Artemis nodded as she followed Peter to a vent opening that led to the library.

"What are we doing in the library?" Artemis asked.

"One of these books lead to a secret passageway." Peter said.

"Cliche much," Artemis said.

"Tell me about it," Peter scoffed.

Peter ran to one of the bookshelves and tried to look for a book that was a switch for a secret passageway. While that was happening, his Spider-Sense kicked in, warning him of not only one android, but two androids. One was a female and the other one was male.

"Spider-Man, Artemis." the voice of Red Tornado said. Artemis beamed up and she was about to call out for Red Tornado until Peter grabbed her wrist and covered her mouth. As he pulled the book switch, it showed a secret passageway. Peter who still had Artemis' mouth covered went inside the secret passageway. When the door closed and the two ran down the stairs, Peter let go of Artemis' mouth who was struggling to escape from his grasp.

"What is wrong with you?!" Artemis asked.

"My sonar lenses picked up two umfamiliar figures, and one of them has the voice of Red Tornado," Peter said. Artemis was silent as she heard the seriousness in Peter's voice.

"So the Tornado has siblings?" Artemis asked.

"I think so…" Peter's lenses narrowed as they ran down the hall, but before Peter could make a left turn, Artemis grabbed his hand.

"So now what?" Artemis asked in panic. "Red Tornado is one of the powerhouses of the League! How are we supposed to take down two of him?!"

"I don't know, dammit!" Peter shouted, he took off his mask as he looked at Artemis with an angry expression. "We're borderline screwed! I can't contact Harry because comms are down and—"

"Attention Spider-Man. Attention Artemis." The voice of Red Tornado was heard in the PA system. "You have exactly 10 minutes to surrender, or the lives of your teammates will be extinguished."

After the voice was finished Peter grunted, but calmed down and looked at Artemis while putting his mask back on. "Let's go."

The two have been running to the hangar and Red Tornado has announced that the two had 8 minutes left. But Peter stopped as he saw a wave of water so he grabbed Artemis and web zipped to the hallway and when they were near the hangar, the hallways were filled with water. Luckily, Peter and Artemis didn't have to swim far and when they reached the hangar, they swam up to the surface and saw the female android shoot lava at two dove underwater and then swam to Wally, Superboy, Robin, and Batgirl who were trapped in metal.

"You guys good?" Peter said.

"Forget us! Help M'gann!" Superboy said.

"Kaldur! Are you guys okay?" Peter asked.

"She is unconscious!" Kaldur said, "I fear she—we won't survive much longer."

The female android flew to Artemis and Peter who dove into the water and swam towards the stairway to help Kaldur and M'gann, but the stairway was blocked by a female android so the went the other way to see the other side was blocked by a male android. Peter looked at the male android and then at the female android, now thinking they had to dive.

"Jump!"

Peter and Artemis dove into the water and a grate was nearby so Peter opened it and they swam up trying to catch their breath.

"6 minutes." Red Tornado said through the PA.

"What do we do now?" Artemis asked.

"We save them." Peter said, "That's how it works."

"Maybe that's how it's supposed to work, but those robots took out our 6 friends!" Artemis yelled.

"I know…" Peter said.

"You know?!" Artemis was starting to get distraught. "M'gann is dying, I'm to my last arrow and we don't have backup! Of course I'm distraught."

"Well, get your act together or drop dead." Peter said darkly, he had his lenses narrowed as he said this.

"How can you be so calm?" Artemis asked.

"I've almost died since I started this hero gig." Peter said, "I was 13 when I got stabbed the first time."

"What good is that now? What chance do we have against unrelenting machines?" Artemis asked.

"And that's why we're going to make an EMP." Peter said.

"How?" Artemis asked.

"Follow me."

Peter and Artemis were crawling into his workstation in the cave and Peter went to one of the lab desks. Peter later took out a blueprint and it showed what looked like an EMP. WIthout hesitation, Peter sat on his chair and started to work on the EMP.

"5 minutes."

Peter was the EMP as he was talking, "I'll need to put it into the cave's main generator."

Peter looked at Artemis. "While I do that, get the other's out, got it?"

"Wow, that fast?" Artemis was surprised, "But, how can I distract them? I'm down to my last arrow."

"Making the blueprint is the hard part. Making the actual product is easy." Peter said while putting on the web shooters. He later looked to Artemis and threw her a pair of his old web shooters, "Since you're almost out of Arrows, take my web shooters, you'll be fine."


Peter and Artemis were later on the hangar and Artemis was supplied with Peter's old web shooters. She shot a web line and kicked the female robot and distracted the two, making the other's surprised, she was using Peter's web shooters.

Peter swung to the main generator and opened the door to the main generator, he later prayed with his hands clasped and said, "Please let this work." When Peter put the EMP inside the socket, it didn't work so he looked down and noticed that the circuit is incomplete so he shot two webs that he made conductible and it created an electromagnetic pulse that temporarily shut robots. It later made the fire cage disburse and the water flush down, allowing Kid Flash, Robin, Superboy, and Batgirl to breathe.

"Kaldur how's M'gann?" Superboy asked.

"She breathes," Kaldur said. "I believe she will recover."

Artemis sighed with relief as Peter landed by her side, "Good job." Peter said, he took off his mask and gave her a smile.

"Thanks." Artemis said.


"Thank you for coming to our rescue." Kaldur said.

"Of course," Peter said. "That's what friends are for."

"M'gann." Superboy who is now known as Connor Kent grasped M'gann's hand.

"I'll be fine," she weakly said.

Peter was now picking up the laser cutter they got out and was looking around to see how this works.

"Will you keep playing with it?" Wally asked, before his mouth was webbed.

"That's enough out of you," Peter said, "You will be freed last. Besides, EMPs shuts down all machines present."

"Spider-Man is correct." The Red Tornado was flying over to them. "What has occurred?"

"You folks came to visit." Peter said.

"Your extremely nasty folks," Artemis said.

"I was not aware I had relations." the android said.

"Where have you been?" Connor asked.

"I was on monitor duty at the Watchtower." the android said, approaching the other androids, "When it became clear, cave communications were down I attempted to investigate, but your zeta tubes were also not functional. I transported to Providence and proceeded here."

Red Tornado knelt by the two androids and the genosphere now known as sphere woke up. "Hey boy." Connor said.

When Peter turned on the cutter, his Spider-Sense kicked in, making him turn off the cutter. "The pulse is turned off." Peter, Wally, and Dick said all together. They looked to see Red Tornado turned them back online and Red Tornado was creating whirlwinds that were sucking in air. They all went unconscious when they had no air in their lungs.


When Peter woke up, he saw the sight of Harry who was in his Hobgoblin suit by his side.

"Harry."

Harry gave a hand to Peter who accepted it and helped him up.

"Peter's alright." Harry said to the other heroes.

Peter looked to see Artemis with Superman so he ran to her and gently shook her.

"Artemis?" Peter said.

Artemis slowly woke up and saw the sight of Superman and Peter. Peter helped her up as Superman said, "She's alright."

Superman looked to the two, "What happened here?"

"What happened?" Artemis started, "The reds happened! Tornado and his—wait where are they?"

"Gone." Robin said, "All 3 of them, gone."


(A/N: Thanks for reading! Harry hasn't been involved, but he will be in the next chapter.)

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