answers to reviewers questions or statements:
Fox Boss: He could he could, but where's the fun in that?
Dragon king156: The fuck?
Phantom Super Sonic: Which one do you want? I can only pull off one at a time.
Pathfinder097: Hmm, around Nazi death camp experimentation kinda dark and yes, she is.
superpierce: When faced with stressful situations, Peter falls back on humor to try and cope. It's a common thing with him.
BookWorm627: With how many times he's been hit in the head, he probably ended up being one.
damienpop90: Nah, I have something else in mind for Peter's questioning.
Spidey's1437: Peter has a tendency to fall back on poor humor and quips as a way to cope with stressful situations. True he knows that Superwoman didn't seem out to get him, but when your standing around talking to someone and literally a second later finding yourself being dangled over the harbor by a flying woman with powers that are near godlike, you tend to panic and stress out. Nah Wonder Woman won't be for another two chapters.
coki13566: No I'm not suing that version of Supergirl.
Kryn Womble: He wasn't acting like an asshole, nine times out of ten, when he's put into a situation like that, he is gonna fall back on running his mouth. He's done it dozens of times in most forms of media, from comics and games to shows and movies.
Chaosrealm: The dark elements for this story will come from something else, but Peter's own previous encounters with the Squadron Supreme and their eventual appearance will be part of it.
Guest: Peter isn't their first visitor from another universe, and so far he hasn't gone out of his way to cause any sort of mayhem, so their gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. Still gonna be cautious, but their not gonna lock him up in a cell a hundred feet below the ground and telepathically rip his and apart to find out everything about him.
ArashiNokitsune: There's gonna be plenty of 'serious' Spidey later on. For now enjoy the light heartedness while it lasts.
FORGEMaster: It's a strong possibility.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or DC characters seen, mentioned or used.
"Spider... man... two, four, seven dash bee six, eight, nine epsilon... Spider... man... two, four, seven dash bee six, eight, nine epsilon... Spider... man... two, four, seven dash bee six, eight, nine epsilon-"
"What are you doing?" Claire said as she stared at the red and blue cladded man with a look of confusion on her face.
"honestly I have no idea" Spider-man said with a shrug as he leaned back against his chair "It's something I heard soldiers do when they get caught or something. Say their name and start muttering numbers and words. Figured I'd give it a try and see how it went"
After dropping the web head into the harbor, and giving the man a very much needed rinse in the harbor's cold waters, Claire gathered up the shivering man and brought him to the Justice League's main headquarters in Washington D.C., the Hall of Justice. After finding the man a vacant interrogation room to set him up in, Claire had called in a few other members of the League to help figure out who this man was and why he was here. Variant and the Flash, Meena Dhawan, analyze Spider-man's vitals and genetic makeup in the hall's monitor room via the various sensors the interrogation room had installed while Claire herself and Batwoman interrogated the man personally.
Or more accurately, Claire sits there to keep the man company as they both wait for Batwoman to finish up her business in Gotham' before she zeta beamed to the Hall.
'I swear to Rao if she's taking this long just because she's fighting off some Penguin goons I'm gonna be very unhappy with her' Claire thought with annoyance.
"So, this place like your guys' headquarters or whatever?" Spider-man said as he looked around the room, stopping to stare at his reflection in the room's one way mirror before he looked under the table to see what was there "Hey someone left a piece of gum under here... looks blueberry"
"Yes, this is our headquarters. The Hall of Justice" Claire said as she resisted the urge to use her X-ray vision to see if there really was gum under the table "We're in Washington D.C."
Claire heard Spider-man's heart skip several beats before it resumed, though now at a slightly higher level than before. He slowly rose back up in his chair and stared at the Kryptonian for a moment before slowly nodding "Oh... cool"
"Not a fan of the capital?" Claire asked with a joking grin, hoping to put the man at ease.
"Let's just say the last time I was in a Washington D.C. of any kind, it didn't end too well for me" Spider-man said cryptically.
"How so?" Claire asked, intrigued by the man's response.
"Found out what getting smacked by a superpowered alien working for the government would feel like. Turns out, not that great" the wall crawler said with a visible shiver at his first and thankfully only meeting with Hyperion.
"Is that a common theme from your Earth?" Claire asked as she leaned forward and rested her elbows on the table's edge "Beings of power working for governments?"
"A lot do, or work for a company that's contracted by the government" Spider-man revealed "Very few are independent lie myself"
"Why are you independent?" Claire asked.
"Never really got on the government's radar. And if I did, I guess they didn't see much use from me" Spider-man said.
Claire hummed at this "Their lost I suppose"
"I thought the same too once" Spider-man chuckled before the door behind Claire opened and a new figure entered the room.
Almost immediately, Claire watched and listened as Spider-man's entire demeanor shifted from relax and calm... to terrified. His heartbeat began to rapidly increase, his breathing had hitched slightly and she could hear his body's muscles tensing as the room's newcomer came to a stop within Claire's peripherals. They were clad in a black and grey armored suit made of Kevlar and metal plating along the chest and shoulders. A long black cape fell from their back while an odd cowl with bat like ears adorned their face.
"Batwoman..." Claire nodded in greeting to her fellow leaguer, though she kept her gaze on Spider-man.
His suit made it seeing what he looked like underneath difficult, he seemed hazy, though she could still make out enough details about him to have a rough estimate of what he looked like. Caucasian, brown hair, a developed macular build, and no signs of any sort of cybernetic enchantments, which meant that Spider-man's enhanced physical abilities were quote on quote, natural.
"Batwoman?" Spider-man said with a snort of amusement as he turned his attention to the dark cladded woman "Really, that's the best you could come up with?"
"Says the man calling himself Spider-man" Batwoman replied as she stared blankly at the wall crawler, her voice carrying a slight electronic growl.
"I didn't pick that name, the announcer at my first wrestling match did" Spider-man said with his lenses narrowing slightly "So what can you do?"
"Why are you here?" Batwoman ignored the man's question with one of her own.
"Cause your friend brought me here. What you think I chose to walk in here and take a seat in some random interrogation room from CSI?" Spider-man snarked.
"The longer you play this game, the more unpleasant this will become" Batwoman threatened.
"Oh I bet it will..." Spider-man muttered bitterly "Let me guess, broken bones? Sharp objects in sensitive areas?"
Claire's eyes narrowed as she detected a slight shit in the man's voice at the last remark. She could also hear Spider-man's heart rate increasing ever so steadily, and the sound of his body shifting ever so slightly on his seat. She could also smell the man's sweat, even through his odd suit, beginning to from on his brow. Despite the man's attitude, it was clear to Claire that he was scared... terrified even.
'But not of Batwoman' Claire thought as her glaze flickered towards the dark knight and wondered if she could see some of the signs of stress the man was exhibiting.
Who was she kidding, of course she did.
"How did you get here?" Batwoman asked as she took a single step forward, her voice rising slightly... and that was all that was needed for Spider-man to suddenly spring up from his seat and back away from the caped crusader.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy there" Claire shot to her feet as well and got between Spider-man and a still Batwoman before things could escalate "How about we just all take a deep breath and relax, yeah?"
"I'm relaxed" Spider-man replied in a curt tone that seemed anything but relaxed.
"If your relaxed than I'm just peachy" Batwoman said as her hands remained hidden under her cape, though Superwoman knew she was armed and waiting for the slightest hint of provocation on Spider-man's part.
Spider-man responded with a growl as his fingers twitched before Superwoman reached over and placed a soothing hand on his shoulder and gave it a slight squeeze.
"It's okay, just relax" she said in a calm tone "She or I won't hurt you"
"Heard that before" Spider-man scoffed as he shot one last masked covered glare at Batwoman before he slowly reached for the chair he knocked ovre when he stood up and sat back in it.
Claire nodded at this before she turned towards Batwoman when she heard the sound of one of her belt's compartments being clipped open. If the slight twitch of Spider-man's head in the dark knight's direction was anything to go by, he likely heard it or maybe sensed Batwoman's intent.
"Batwoman" Claire said with a hard look on her face "Step outside with me please"
The Dark Knight paused and glanced at her fellow Leaguer with a glare of annoyance before she turned and headed for the door. Claire watched her go for a moment before she glanced back at Spider-man and gave him a apologetic smile.
"Sorry, we'll be back in a moment"
"Take your time..." the wall crawler said in a much quieter voice than before, his gaze on where Batwoman was.
Claire nodded at this before she followed Batwoman out into the hall outside and closed the door. Once she was sure that it was locked and secured, she turned her attention to the scowling form of Batwoman.
"You mind explaining what that was about?" the cowl wearing heroine demanded with a growl.
"You were scaring him" Claire stated with a scowl.
"Really, I was scaring him?" Batwoman said in a tone that was just below mocking.
"No Bryce, I mean you were actually terrifying him" Claire said with a shake of her head as she pointed towards the door "I heard his pulse and listened to his breathing, he was approaching a legiteament panic attack with you in there and it got worse once you raised your voice"
Ture she's seen Bryce terrify people, it was what a large portion of her identity as Batwoman was centered around, but the sheer terror she witnessed Spider-man display was like he was doused with one of Scarecrow's more potent Fear Toxin.
Bryce hummed at this before she glanced off to the side "What'd you get?"
The air next to Batwoman rippled for a moment before a new figure appeared, a red headed woman with green skin dressed in a black armored leotard with red markings on the sides that traveled up their chest and connected with a circular black medallion with red markings that connected to a center point on the medallion. Covering part of her legs front was a loincloth like attachment with red markings on the edges and black heeled boots and a black cape with a dark red interior.
"Miss Martian?" Claire said with surprise at that appearance of the other hero and fellow lone survivor from another world.
Last she heard, Miss Martian was visiting Star Sapphire in Coast City for the weekend and to offer aide in helping Carol's company more efficient interstellar craft for future exploration of space.
"Kala..." the Martian beauty nodded at Claire before she turned her glowing red eyes towards Bryce "His mind was somewhat difficult to get a read on, partly because of his body's unique biological enhancements. But from what I was able to see before you ended your questioning, he was telling the truth"
"Are you certain" Bryce said with a look of doubt on her face, even if most of it was covered "Is there a possibility he could've realized you were reading him and forged any feelings or memories he has"
Miss Martian shook her head at this "No, if he did attempt such a thing, I would've noticed with how long and how deep I was able to delve into his subconscious"
"Well, there's one potential disaster adverted" Claire said with a sigh.
She wasn't particularly comfortable with the fact that Bryce had M'gann reading another individual's mind without permission, but she could understand the reasoning. without Diana's Lasso Of Truth or Zatanna's magic, the League was a bit stretched on what they could use to uncover the truth behind this mysterious Spider-man barring Batwoman using her more... violent methods.
Something Claire refuses to have performed so long as she was a part of the League.
"Were you able to uncover anything else?" Claire asked after a few moments.
"I know his name is Peter Parker, born to a Richard and Mary Parker before guardianship was passed to an Benjamin and May Parker following the deaths of his biological parents due to unknown circumstances" M'gann stated as she glanced at the door that led to Peter's interrogation room with an unreadable expression on her face "I also saw glimpses of the man that Batwoman reminded Peter of. A... 'hero', from his world"
"I can practically feel the quotation marks for when you said hero" Claire said with a frown "What'd you see?"
"He's not a very nice man" M'gann said with a shiver "Very not nice. Very mean and cruel to others"
"Nice is a matter of perspective" Bryce scoffed as she turned to re-enter the room before Claire placed a hand on her shoulder, stopping her.
"I'll continue questioning him. Why don't you go see what Meena and Variant have uncovered about our mystery man. Your bound to find something they might've missed" Claire suggested as she spared a glance at M'gann "We'll finish up and join you afterwards"
"What makes you think he'll continue answering anything you ask him? Bryce asked with a blank expression as she shrugged off Claire's hand "Flashing him a pretty smile and making him feel like he's the only man on Earth in your eyes may work for Olsen, but it won't work on him"
"What man would be able to resist two beautiful alien women at the same time?" M'gann said with a sly smirk as she approached the door.
"What she said... I-I think" Claire said with a uneasy grin aimed at the Dark Knight.
Bryce's response was a growl.
...
Peter looked up towards the door as it opened to see Superwoman re-enter... with a newcomer.
"Uhh, hi?" Peter said with confusion as he took in the green woman's appearance "Who are you?"
"My name is Miss Martian" the red headed beauty said with a friendly smile "But you may call me M'gann, P-... Spider-man"
"Nice to meet ya" Peter said with some suspicion in his tone as he eyed the green skinned woman, purely from a tactical standpoint mind you "Also, why's you tell me what I'm assuming is your name? Don't you guys do secret identities here?"
"I'm a shapeshifter" M'gann said with a smile "You'd never be able to find me"
"It's true. When Miss Martian goes to ground, she goes to ground" Superwoman said as she re-took her seat across from Peter "Now than, shall we continue?"
"That depends, is miss scowling and growling gonna be back?" Peter asked as he glanced at the door to see if Batwoman would come back in.
"She's needed elsewhere" Superwoman stated with a slight shrug "And you two didn't seem to be getting along, so I volunteered to continue in her stead"
"Well at least your polite about it" Peter remarked dryly as he stated at the Kryptonian beauty "So, what do you wanna know?"
"Well, let's start with how you actually ended up in my universe and go from there" Superwoman suggested as she gestured towards Peter.
"Magic" Peter answered, causing Miss Martian to giggle and Superwoman to raise a single eyebrow.
"I can't tell if your being serious or not" she admitted.
"I am" Peter nodded "Magic is what got me here. Well more of techno magic with a bit of cosmic manipulation I think. But Magic was like the big one that I noticed"
'What happened?" Claire inquired.
"Gotta a call from some friends that a mutual acquaintance that dabbles in magic was under attack by another guy that dabbles in magic. Went there, we fought, some punches were taken, some one liners used, and I got blasted through a weird door and sent to... well here I guess" Peter said.
"A door?" Superwoman said with a doubtful expression "You got to our universe, via a door?"
"Magic door" Peter corrected the woman "And the door was sorta blasted by the evil magic dude's techno magic stuff so it might've messed it up or something and I ended up here"
"Hmm, not the oddest way to end up somewhere else I suppose" Miss Martian commented with a shrug.
"What is?" Peter asked the alien woman.
"I'm not sure, I haven't really come across anything that'd be odd" Miss Martian said as she tapped her chin in thought.
"Well give me a heads up when you do" Peter said with a grin before he returned his attention back towards the other alien woman in the room "So how did you guys know I came from another universe anyway?"
"We've had encounters with beings from other realities over the years that've been less than peaceful, so the Justice League has set up a number of ways to detect extra dimensional energies and alert us to their presence" Superwoman revealed.
"Oooh nifty" Peter said with wide eyes "My warning system is a breaking news report on tv"
"So was mine, still is in some cases" Claire giggled.
"Heh, yeah..." Peter said before he glanced at Miss Martian again and slowly took in her appearance "Soooo, your a Martian? Like your actually from Mars?"
He only had one word for her and that was... damn. Add the fat that she was a red head, guilty pleasure, what can he say, Peter was starting to find it hard to wanna leave this universe. Maybe he could find a way to make trips once he gets home, if he gets home. When life grows too... real, back in his world, he could swing on over to this place and relax for a while.
"I am, yes" the red head answered with a small, friendly smile.
"Do you have Martians from where your from?" Superwoman asked as she folded her hands across her lap.
"Not that I'm aware of" Peter shook his head "Outside a few movies here and there. There used to be life on Venus though so I guess we had Venustians"
M'gann made a face at this "How... wonderful"
"I take it you have those guys here too?" Peter asked with a chuckle "What are they like?"
"Very unpleasant" M'gann said with a sour look on her face.
Peter clicked his tongue at this before he glanced at Superwoman "So how long am I gonna be here?"
"In this universe or in this room?" Superwoman asked.
"Either, both" Peter said with a shrug.
"That's... difficult to say" Superwoman sighed as she reached up and tucked a few strands of her hair behind her ear "While I can't speak for how long you'll be in this universe, I can say that your time here in the Hall will be brief. Once we follow up on a few things, and are a hundred percent positive that you aren't some vanguard for an invasion of some sort, we can work on finding you a way back home"
"Where am I staying while this is happening?" Peter asked.
"We can help you get set up in New York" Superwoman revealed with a thoughtful look on her face "A familiar environment may help you with adjusting to this reality"
"As long as there's hotdog stands and mom and pop pizza shops, I'll be fine" Peter said with a chuckle before something occurred to him "By the way, do either of you happen to have any-"
Peter was cut off by Miss Martian pulling a small candy bar from... where Peter wasn't sure where she had it, hopefully a small compartment on her suit, and used her telekinesis to slowly float it towards the web head.
"Huh, you read my mind" Peter said as he took the floating candy bar out of the air and began to rip open the wrapping.
"I sensed your hunger, you were projecting very loudly" M'gann said as she watched Peter pull his mask up past his nose so he could eat his snack easier.
Peter froze mid-bite and stared at the green woman for a moment before slowly taking a bite of his candy bar "So... you can read minds?"
"Yes" M'gann said with a nod, her smile still present on her face.
"You've read mine I'm assuming?" Peter questioned as he held Miss Martian's gaze.
"Nothing too deep, I assure you. We simply needed to make sure that-" Superwoman began before Miss Martian interrupted her.
"I have" M'gann's smile now gone "I saw flashes of what your life was like on your Earth"
"Hoped you enjoyed the show" Peter remarked as he took another bite of his candy bar, yeah he was getting another dozen before he left.
"Rest assure, that the Justice League is not like the Squadron Supreme" M'gaan assured the man with a genuine smile "Even Batwoman isn't so bad once you get to know her"
Peter hummed at this before he glanced at Superwoman "So, New York, what am I gonna do about a place to crash and food? I don't exactly have my wallet on me and I'm not looking to take out a lease on a place"
"We'll handle that, which now that I think about it, I better go see that we're already working on it" Superwoman said as she got up to leave.
"Am I gonna be on my own or am I gonna be with someone that's already in New York and works with you guys?" Peter asked as he watched Superwoman head for the door, only to stop and glance back at him with a small smirk.
"You'll just have to see I suppose" she said before stepping out oft he room, leaving Peter and M'gann alone.
"Oh goodie, nothing I love more than cryptic answers" Peter said with a sigh as he ate the last of his candy bar before turning towards the Martian beauty "Is it you? The person I may have to bunk with while I'm in New York?"
"No..." Miss Martian said as a sly grin grew on her face and her eyes briefly flashed red as she placed a and on her hip "Why? Do you want me to bunk with you?"
"That depends, am I gonna end up with your spawn bursting out of my chest?" Peter asked with a smirk as he pulled his mask back down.
"Well that depends" Miss Martian giggled.
"On?" Peter asked with a raised brow before he saw Miss Martian cover her nose with one hand while pointing towards him with the other.
"On when you'll finally shower mister smelly man"
...
"So, what do we know about him?" Claire said as she stepped into the Hall's monitor room to see Batwoman, Variant and Flash were already present and watching a live feed of the interrogation room where Spider-man was.
He seemed to be getting along with Miss Martian if the playful banter going back and forth between them was any indication.
The first to answer Claire's question was the Flash, Meena Dhawan, clad in her form fitting red and black Flash suit "Well we know he's human, approximately five foot eleven, two hundred and sixty nine point seven pounds-"
"He's that heavy?" Claire said with surprise as she glanced at Spider-man's image.
"Dense muscular and skeletal structure" Meena clarified with a snicker "Likely a result of his abilities and the reasoning behind his enhanced strength and durability"
"Okay, what about his suit?" Claire asked as she glanced at Variant "Any idea what it is? Every time I try to use my X-ray vision on it, he appears hazy. And I saw that it's molecular structure was... unstable, for the lack of a better term"
"Still running tests on it, but I can say that whatever it is, it is terrestrial in origin, likely made on his world with highly advance and sophisticated technology" Variant said as her cybernetic eye glowed as terabytes of information surged through her mind "Least I know where to go shopping for some new clothes' when this is all over"
"Can't you just make a hologram of the clothes you wanna wear?" Meena gestured towards Variant's shapely cybernetic body "Would you even be able to feel them anyway?"
"Just because I'm ninety five percent cybernetic doesn't mean I've given up wearing nice clothes" Variant said with a brief glance thrown towards Meena "And thanks to a recent upgrade, I would be able to feel them on me. Won't be quite the same as when I was still fully organic, but it'll be close enough not to matter"
"Fair enough" Meena held up her hand as a sign of surrender "Just don't goo crashing my credit score because I upset you. I'm trying to buy a new place this week"
Claire chuckled in amusement at this before she noticed Bryce's less than cheerful expression "What?"
"Your all taking this too casually" she remarked.
"Would you prefer we act all serious and grim about it?" Meena asked the caped woman with a sarcastic eye roll "Relax Bryce, not every visitor from another universe wants to kill and enslave us all. Just like how not every woman that's in this business is on the up and up"
"Besides, if he was out to hurt us and make way for some interdimensional invasion, he would've done it by now. Not waste his time running around like a chicken with his head cut off" Claire explained.
"Or he's in it for the long haul" Bryce countered with a shake of her head "Let's look at what we're dealing with here and you can tell me why that doesn't seem the least bit suspicious. We have a man with superhuman abilities from another universe that just happens to be seemingly benevolent drop right into our laps after setting off every interdimensional sensor we have, and appears to be everything he says he is. a hero from another world that happens to be misunderstood but has a heart of gold and a smart ass personality to go with it"
"Clearly he's the Anti-Christ" Meena smirked as she examined some data on the man's vitals "We should totally toss him in a cell at Belle Revue and start digging trenches for when his buddies show up to conquer us or pull a Mongol and try to make us a part of his harem"
"His circumstances are perfect... too perfect" Bryce said with a glare aimed at all of them "Or he's meant to keep us distracted while the real threat is still out there"
"And what do you think this threat could be?" Claire asked with a pointed look.
"Bats, I think your getting a little too paranoid about this" Variant said as she paused in her research to glance worriedly at her friend.
"Or perhaps you've all grown to complacent with these sort of events and think that if this does happen to blow up in our faces, you think you'll be able to stop it like the last several times" Batwoman countered in a icy tone.
"Bryce, you know that we never take these sorts of things lightly" Claire stepped forward and placed a hand on her friend's shoulder "We're just a little relieved that instead of him being here as a warning to some impending horror, it's just a simple case of wrong place, wrong time for him"
"So he says" Bryce said as she glared coldly at the live feed of Spider-man.
"M'gann read his mind right?" Meena said as she appeared next to Claire and Bryce in the blink of an eye.
"She did, and she's confirmed that there's nothing sinister about him or that he was at any point lying" Claire said with a nod "And she's likely still looking just to be sure"
"When's Diana get back from Themyscira?" Variant asked as she closed down the holographic window she had up and turned to regard her fellow Leaguers "Can't we use her lasso thing to see if the guy's really telling the truth?"
"Unknown" Meena said with a shrug "You know how she is, gone for weeks on end doing 'Godly' missions or whatever. I helped her out with one once and all I have to say is they tend to be way more complicated than they should"
"What about Zatanna? Can't she use her magic to check?" Variant asked.
"She's currently in Germany helping Constantine and Jason Blood with something related to Morgan Le Fay, but I'll see if she'll be able to lend her aide when she's done" Bryce said with a sigh of frustration.
"Than I guess we're just gonna have to hope for the best" Claire said with a grin.
"Sounds good to me" Meena said as she sped off for a moment before returning with a sandwich in her hands and took a bite of it.
"I'll keep trying to breakdown this guy's suit. There's something odd I've noticed that I wanna take a closer look at" Variant revealed "I think his suit, may also double as some some sort of... data storage of some kind"
"I'll help" Meena said between mouthfuls of her sandwich "Got no more late night plans for the foreseeable future"
"You and that detective break up?" Claire asked.
"Yep" Meena said with an eye roll "Honestly, if your bothered by the fact that your partner is smarter than you, speak up and address it, not go grumbling behind their back and try to hook up with a co-worker"
"We'll share a bottle of wine at Dinah's later" Claire said with a sympathetic look on her face.
"It's best to keep a close eye on him for when things eventually spiral out of our control" Bryce said after a few moments of watching Spider-man show off his web shooters to Miss Martian.
"You really can't help yourself, can you?" Claire said with a hint of frustration in her tone "He's clearly not a threat Bryce, and even if he was, I doubt he'll get very far on his own. And we'll notice any attempts to align with some of our world's more unsavory characters long before he can win them over for any plan he might have"
Unless he's already somehow been meeting with them before hand but that was an argument for another day.
"I was wasn't referring to that, I was referring to the fact that as the first confirmed superpowered MALE on Earth, even if he is from another one, he's going to be the center of a number of people's interests" Bryce said as she glanced at her fellow Leaguers "Luthor, Talia, Waller, Savage, Cadmus and possibly even world governments will notice him and will take steps to either acquire him or at the very least his genetic material"
"But why though?" Claire asked with a frown.
"Why not?" Meena said as she cupped her chin in thought as she watched Spider-man and Miss Martian's conversation, the volume lowered "It's been a scientific curiosity for years now as to why it seems only Females on Earth seem to posses any sort of Meta Gene"
"People are gonna wanna know how it is he has any sort of abilities at all" Bryce said with a nod "And even if they realize that he's from another universe, they'll still search for a way to try and replicate his powers, or at the very least, the ability to gain superhuman powers"
"So your telling me that the various governments of the world will wanna to try and capture him, cut him up all just to see if they can give males superpowers too?" Claire said with a look of disbelief "That's ridiculous"
While she wouldn't be against having a male meta running around, Rao knows the world can use one or two if nothing else than to break up the drama that an all female League can produce from time to time, she doubted any rational person would go to such lengths to make it possible. She was aware that their was an area of science that was working to try and produce such a thing, but so far she's only heard rumors and theories, no actual steps had been taken.
"For his sake, I hope that's only the case" Variant said with a disturbed look on her face "While Waller or Luthor may be out to mass produce more Metas for their own use, gender be damned, Talia or Savage may try to use him for breeding stock to make their own. A near endless supply of potential metahumans that their followers can be impregnated by"
Meena couldn't help but snort at this "Now that sounds like the life, strapped down and forced to have sex with a legion of women on the of chance they they'll have male heirs that'll have superhuman abilities"
"They'd only need his testicles to produce sperm Flash, they won't need all of him" Variant said with a frown.
"Please, we all know that at least Talia will keep him mostly whole" Meena rolled her eyes "Her League of Shadows is nothing more than a glorified harem and you all know she keeps going on about producing the perfect heir and using more 'natural' means to do so. she thinks using science to create a child would diminish their value and potential"
"I am aware" Bryce said with a displeased look on her face.
The League stood in total silence as they considered the ramifications of Talia al Ghul gaining an army of similarly spider powered men and women to use as assassins. It wasn't a very pretty picture, and God only knew how bad things would get once Luthor got out of prison and learned of Spider-man's existence and tried to find a way to harness his abilities for who knows what himself.
"Soooo... who wants to call up Donna and let her know that she and Kory are getting a new roommate soon?" Meena said after a few moments of silence before Claire sighed
"I will"
...
And done.
Next chapter, Roommates...