7:00 pm est February 12th, 2010

Queens, New York.

It was a quiet night in New York, no villains, no mafia and no wannabe guys with a ray gun holding up a liquor store. Is was nice to be home before 2AM. At least in Peter's opinion.

It was the opening day for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Peter was watching the ceremony with his aunt. With his time cut between school, work and superheroing, the time he and his only living relative had shrunk very much in the last two years.

Peter was sitting on the couch with May enjoying the fireworks and light show from the arena.

"I wish I could of gone to see the opening ceremony. It looks like so much fun." May looked in awe of the bright lights and giant inflatable polar bear, which was covered in small lights.

Despite being 49, May Parker looked like a woman barely out of her 30s. Her thick brown hair and olive skin, courtesy of her Italian ancestry, only had small strands of silver hair and the wrinkles were around her mouth looked to be laugh lines.

Peter just enjoyed seeing her smile. It was a long time since she had been genuinely happy. After Uncle Ben had been murdered, she locked a bit of herself off from the world. She still smiled and laughed but not as much and not as hard as she used to.

He was about to agree with her when his phone went off. He looked at the number and blanched. Peter knew it was serious if he was calling.

Peter answered,"I'm at home, so this better be good." May looked at him, Peter mouthed 'JJ', she shivered in disgust at the mention of the angry man with the Hitler-stache.

It wasn't JJ calling but rather Commissioner Reagan. "I need you downtown, top floor of Police Plaza. NOW." He hung up. His voice sounded both scared and angry.

Peter gave is phone a wary look. He looked at his aunt, a knowing mood on her face.

"He needs you for pictures?" She had a resigned tone in her voice as she asked the question.

"Something like that. Big thing might happen downtown and JJ needs corresponding pictures." Peter got his winter coat and the keys for his moped.

"Just be careful. I don't like that man sending you into danger and shortchanging the pictures you take."

"I'll be fine, I'll stay behind the police line and let Spider-Man take care of the baddies." Peter said, strapping his helmet and goggles to his head and eyes.

May just let out a breath in apprehension. Peter heard it and looked back from the front door. The hero in disguise called back to his aunt.

"Hey," May looked up from the TV, "love you."

She only smiled,"Love you too. Be careful. Please?"

Peter just gave his usual grin,"Always."

The brunette walked out of the door, towards his modified moped. He found the poor, diet motorcycle rusting in a junkyard. Peter bought it for a hundred bucks and slowly restored it. While the frame could be de-rusted and the wires replaced, the motor was more rust than metal. Peter called in Johnny to help him build a new motor from scratch. What came from that was a motor that the world had never seen. An engine that ran on a form a fusion. The fusion came from an ethanol/peanut oil mix that ran twice as long as regular gasoline.

Peter put the keys in the ignition and turned it over. The engine gave a low hum as it started. A quick rev of the throttle sent Peter from East Queens to Manhattan.

5 MINUTES LATER.

Peter looked up at OnePP in apprehension.

"Wonder what's got Frank so scared?" Peter muttered under his breath as he hid his moped behind a dumpster and under a tarp.

He hit the button on his new suit-watch and jumped to the top of the building opposite from from the Police HQ.

His suit came on and with a might leap, Spider-Man landed on on the side of the Commissioner's building and ran up, feet clinging to the panes of glass that lined the building. As he neared the ledge of the roof, fired two weblines and pulled. His patented slingshot technique shot him towards the antenna that shot up from the roof of the building.

He clung to the metal pole, and looked to the audience of his acrobatic display. It consisted of Commissioner Reagan, his assistant, Detective Baker, Danny Reagan, and the mayor of New York, Frank Russo.

"So what's the situation Commish? You wouldn't call me this late unless it was serious." Peter said this as he crawled down the pole to squat on the ledge of the building. Everyone looked incredibly nervous, even Frank had a reserved look in his

"We have a wanted federal criminal in the city. One who could wipe out a whole borough." The Mayor remarked.

"Who?" Spider-Man grew serious as Baker walked forward with a tablet. On the screen was a security cam photo of a man wearing sunglasses, a baseball cap, Jean's and a tan jacket. He was subtlety trying to draw as little attention to himself as possible. But even hidden under all that nondescript clothing was a face the U.S government had plastered on their most wanted list for the last 3 years. The face of one Bruce Banner.

A intellectual prodigy since he was 4, Banner had distinguished himself from others by designing a working nuclear bomb. After a prank gone wrong at his high school involving his designed explosive, he was accepted to Pennsylvania State University to study Nuclear Physics and Engineering.

He was picked up by Army RD in an effort to design a gamma bomb for retaliatory purposes. The bomb would destroy any living organisms, but not destroy any buildings or weapons in the blast. Headed by General Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross, the project was a partial success. A test colony of a indigenous wildlife in the test site were killed by the radiation but not everything was killed that day.

Banner was caught in the blast because a teenager in a jeep had wandered into the test site. In a effort to save the kid, Banner ran out of the safety bunker and threw the young man into a safety trench, but did not make it himself. Banner was bombarded by a deadly amount of gamma radiation but survived somehow. After a radiation team had scrubbed him clean and gave him an anti-rad treatment, he was in coma for three days.

According to statements by troops stationed at the base, General Ross proceeded to yell and scream at Banner mere minutes after waking up from his coma. Calling him a failure and a waste of U.S money, he then threatened Bruce with legal action for allegedly stealing from the Army.

What Ross didn't know, was that the radiation had caused an unexpected change in Banners physiology. According to the General's daughter Betty, Bruce's heartbeat monitor apparently jumped and his blood pressure skyrocketed. His skin and eyes turned green, his bones and muscle began to grow and his height jump to 8ft tall.

Dubbed the Hulk by Army troops, the giant green goliath busted through the wall and escaped into the desert. A wanted metahuman, Banner wandered North America turning into the Hulk in act of so called terrorism against the U.S government. If he was in New York, it would lead to nothing good.

"The Hulk is in the city? When did he get here?" Peter asked after handing the tablet back to Baker.

"He arrived via train at 10 this morning. Based on credit card statements under a false name, he's check into a low-rent apartment building and hasn't left since. You can see why we're a little apprehensive about detaining him." Frank stated as he walked over and looked out at the city's skyline.

"And you think I'm not? I'm not tooting my own horn by stating by how strong I am, but sending me against the Hulk, who may I remind you can knock down a building with one punch, is a really bad idea." Peter wasn't a coward by any means but he was smart enough to see when he was outmatched.

"We've contacted the Justice League to send some of their members over to help. Let's hope that all of you can find a solution that doesn't involve an all out brawl downtown." Mayor Russo stated as he walked over as well.

"You know who they're sending?"

"Wonder Woman and Captain Atom will be here within the hour."

"Two heavy hitters and one of them can deal with the radiation. And it's two I can get along with." Spider-Man shook his head but his back became ramrod straight as two dark thoughts came drilled their way into his mind. "Who else did you notify about Banner's presence."

"The state department and military." Came Frank's matter of fact answer.

Peter just put his face in his hands. "Well me and the leaguers won't get anywhere near Banner now." Came the muffled response.

Danny looked confused at that. "What do you mean?"

"If the Army sends who I think they're sending, me and the League will get caught in red tape." Peter then brought up the Hulk's #1 opponent,"Plus Ross will never let the U.N take custody of Banner in any way, shape or form. He'll take Banner back to some military or government facility and try to replicate him."

He got various looks from that statement.

"Why else would he want Banner alive so bad? The Hulk can't be killed by conventional means. From the reports, his skin is harder than concrete, and heals from pretty much anything. Plus he's immune to radiation. Why wouldn't the government or military try to copy that."

The Mayor was about to refute that when two flying objects came onto view. As they came closer, their appearance became more apparent.

One was a tall male shape, completely a metallic silver-grey in color, save for what looked to be gloves and boots which were a metallic red. He was tall easily 6'3 and would of been considered handsome, though the metal covering his form made it hard in the that regard. A stylized red atom symbol adorned his chest to complete the look.

The other was unmistakable, as she had been seen around the world for almost a century. She's noticeably tall about 6'4 with her boots. She had fair-skin with straight waist-length black hair, blue eyes, and broad shoulders. She had ageless sort of beauty while sporting a voluptuous frame with a sizable bust and well-toned yet muscular build.

She wore a strapless red bustier held up by a brace of gold resembling two W's. She has a large golden belt and blue briefs with five white stars on them. She wore red boots with a white stripe on the front side. Silver bracelets adorned her wrists, along with red star earrings, and golden diadem with a red star that rested on her forehead. She also has a golden lasso, which hung from her belt.

Captain Atom and Wonder Woman had arrived.

Spider-Man tried not to stare at the statuesque woman floating in front of him. So he broke the silence the way he usually does, with his really shitty jokes. "How was the flight? Arms tired?"

The New Yorkers just groaned in anguish. Captain Atom had no viable reaction while Wonder Woman just gained a small smile.

The Captain spoke first,"Annoying vigilante aside"-"Hey!"-"What's the situation?"

As the situation was being explained to Atom, The wall-crawler started chatting up the Amazon.

"So any reason your here and not the Boy Scout? Not that I'm complaining." He was generally curious as to why they sent her and not Superman. While both Superman and Wonder Woman had about the same amount of strength, the Man of Steel had several other powers including heat vision, a super strong freezing breath, and able to see through pretty much anything.

"While the Hulk can match Superman in strength, I have over 3000 years of combat experience. That should help with the angered behemoths rampage should it come to that." The casual way she said her age made Peter whistle.

"3000 years? Wow. Born before Rome was founded and saw Alexander conquer the known world. Historians and ancient astronaut theorists must scratch at your door daily." Peter did a mental fist pump. Why? Cause he got the literal strongest woman in the world to giggle.

*Ahem*

Both heroes looked over and saw Captain Atom with his arms crossed along with the rest of the rank and file.

"Sup, Cap we headed out?"

"Me and Wonder Woman are. You're staying put." Peter's inner prick'ometer was pinging like crazy.

"Yeah no. See this is my town, and if a gamma powered rage machine is here, I'm not gonna twiddle my thumbs while the League handles my problems."

"This is way beyond your pay grade kid. The Hulk can go toe-to-toe with most of the League and walk away. Now's not the time for rookies." With that both League members floated from the roof. Wonder Woman looked back and gave him a small frown, showing she didn't agree with the choice. She then cocked her head in a subtle way, signaling that he should follow quietly.

Spider-Man just looked down in rage. He had been talked down to again by the so called heroes of the world.

"Go." Peter looked back and saw Frank step forward. A smile under grew the wall-crawler's mask. A two finger salute was given before a leaped off the side. He had New York's finest on his side. That's all he needed.

*Thwip*

He'd settle this one way or the other.

"I just hope we end this without Ross showing up."

(With Wonder Woman and Captain Atom)

"That wasn't necessary Nathan, he could of helped us. Alienating other heroes isn't what we do." To say Diana wasn't happy was an understatement.

"I meant what I said Diana. He's too green. He's out of his depth." Atom wasn't budging on this. He had read Batman's somewhat biased reports on Spider-Man and agreed the the Dark Knights assessment of the independent hero of New York. Dangerous, carefree, and the potential to turn.

"And we aren't? The last time we fought the Hulk, we nearly lost. And that was with me, Kal, you and both Lanterns. He's too strong and now he's in the most densely populated city on the east coast." She wanted to give Spider-Man a chance. But the rest of the League was going to be as generous as her. She didn't want to start a fight.

"That's why we take him quickly enough, I can siphon the gamma radiation before he transforms."

"He's going to see you both a mile away you know that right?." Both Leaguers stopped flying and looked up. There was Spider-Man hanging upside from a flagpole.

"I told you to leave." Cap. Atom was getting annoyed. Fast.

"And I don't take orders from you. Seems we're at an impasse." The lenses of the wall-crawler's eyes narrowed in defiance. Luckily Diana flew between them and held them both at arms length from each other.

"Stop it both of you." She looked towards Peter,"He knows we're here.?"

"I think he knows either you or the military know he's here. So going by logic he's got his head on a swivel. And word spreads pretty fast when members of the Justice League are flying down Broadway." The Spider's logic was right. The two were pretty high profile.

Diana just raised a curious eyebrow. "What do you have in mind?"

Peter grew a small smile underneath his mask."Follow me." With that he swung off.

"Diana, we aren't following his lead are we?"

"Let's try the covert approach. If all else fails we resort to the overt." That said the Princess flew after the web-swinger.

Cap. Atom only gave a defeated sigh and followed.

Hey I'm back everybody. Sorry about the wait, i was hoping to get this chapter out last week, but as Jurassic Park taught us, life inds a way.As you can guess Im going with She-Hulk for slot #2. She been my fav Marvel Waifu along with Black-Cat and Rouge. Now im not adding Rouge or any Xmen to this story. As much as i want too, i dont want to pollute the world too much.Also the reason why Captain Atom dosen't want Peter anywhere near the League is because, as a former military man, he dosen't want someone who he considers a civilian (Spider-Man) interfering with what he considers a progressing military op. Its not because I don't like him, I do but I'm trying to be as realistic as possible.I also saw Endgame and it was glorious. If you have seen it, don't spoil it. Idk if you've heard, but a guy walked out of the theater and spoiled who died, he ended up in the hospital with what would be called a well deserved ass kicking.With that I leave you. In the words ot Stan Lee, Till next time True Believers.Excelsior !!