Answers to reviewer's questions or statements
redvsblue-1: Not sure if I'm going to go that route but who knows maybe. For now, it's strictly Peter and Diana
Jestalnaker94000: Peter just as a knack for attracting powerful women who sometimes are more sinister than he would prefer. Also, no, but Superman and Darkseid in the comics do have a throw down in year four
Blackseal84: Oh, trust me, Diana will be none too pleased to hear that her husband at one point was sleeping with Grail but by than Peter's ex's really will be the lease of her concern in regards to Peter
treyalexander63917: I'm going to introduce one more woman that Peter has had a past with and it'll be a surprise. Also, his brothers are going to be questioning Peter's rather interesting love life as the story goes on, mainly for comedic relief because things are going to get heavy
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or DC character seen, mentioned or used in this story
Year one…
Peter sat quietly in the room along with Huntress, Batwoman, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Captain Atom, Black Lightning, Catwoman, and Batman. On the screen behind the caped crusader was a broadcast that was showing people all over the world celebrating Superman's 'victory' against the invading forces of Parademons
"Sooo… crazy day huh?" Peter coughed awkwardly
Batman leaned forward and spoke in a grim tone "There's no coming back from this for him"
Huntress seemed off put by what Batman said as did Peter to some degree but he wisely kept quite unlike the purple clad vigilante
"No coming back from what? It was a war, admittedly a very short war thanks to Superman. But that's a fact, people die in wars and he saved countless lives" Huntress pointed out
"He slaughtered thousands Huntress" Batman replied
"Yeah, a bunch of mindless drones whose sole purpose is to fight and die for Darkseid" Peter said with a snort that caught everyone's attention. He looked at them in mild surprised "…I said that out loud didn't I?"
Huntress nodded at what he said before turning to Batman "He's a hero in the eyes of almost everyone in the world!"
She than stood up and glared at Batman "But no not in your eyes, even after he saved the lives of your friends and family"
She than pointed towards Black Canary and Green Arrow "Go on than, tell Green Arrow and Black Canary why them still being alive offends you! Better yet why not tell Spider-man to peel over and die since clearly him being here with us is such a travesty"
Green Arrow looked less than pleased to be used as an example "Please don't bring me into this"
"Yeah me to, especially since I was nearly abducted by my crazy ex after she kicked my ass" Peter let out a sigh
"Still can't believe you actually dated her. I mean Grail of all people, really?" Batwoman said with a shake of disbelief
"I was a different man back than" Peter said with a shrug
"Yes he did save them but at what cost?" Batman looked towards Huntress with a blank look "What's to stop him from killing every criminal on earth next?"
Huntress looked enraged by this and leaned into his face "Oh for the love of god! Being a sanctimonious and arrogant asshole doesn't make you right BRUCE!"
The room went quite as Batman turned and gave Huntress an annoyed look while she adopted one of confusion before realization set in
"…There's people in this room who don't know who you aren't there" Huntress said
"Bruce?" Captain Atom said in mild confusion
Batwoman looked amused "Bruce. Striking terror into the hearts of criminals!"
Peter let out a chuckle before speaking in a grim tone "Fear me… I am Bruce!"
Black Canary smirked at this while Green Arrow looked at Batman in slight confusion along with Black Lightning
Huntress looked surprised that Batman didn't tell them who he was
"Wait, you asked these people to fight with you… and you haven't even told them who you are!" Huntress nearly screamed in disbelief and outrage
"They know who I am" Batman grunted out
Huntress shook her head "I can't believe… You know what? I'm out of here!"
Peter seemed surprised as he addressed Huntress "Oh common Hunty don't go! Without you we're stuck with Arrow here being our resident archer and he just dissent have the bod for purple Kevlar like you"
"Hurtful" Green Arrow muttered
"I'm not going to fight against Superman when I believe he's in the right" Huntress said as she began to make her way to the door when Catwoman spoke up
"Huntress wait, there are things you don't know" she said seriously
"And who's fault is that?" Huntress turned towards them as she pointed towards Batman "This man wouldn't even tell you you're on a suicide mission until after you already left and are about to die for Christ's sakes!"
"Look Huntress, I ain't too happy to find out that Batman's been stringing people along without at least telling them who he is, but you defiantly have to hear what the man has to say" Peter said to appease the crossbow wielding vigilante before he turned towards Bruce
"Tell her"
"Superman is working on something, something big" Batman revealed as Huntress looked at him questioningly
"What sort of something?" she asked
"I don't know what it is or how it works yet. But Superman and Luthor are talking about creating enhanced beings. I believe he's going to make a personal army" Batman revealed in a serious tone
"How do you know this?" Black Lightning asked suspiciously
"I can't say" Batman replied
Huntress tolled her eyes "Again you expect us to blindly follow you but you refuse to trust us!"
"Huntress is right Batman" Captain Atom started "The thing I learned in the military is that soldiers have to learn to trust each other. If their walking into a firefight or an ambush, they need to know that their squad mates have their backs and that they can trust their commanding officer to be straight with them"
"The living nuclear bomb is right Bat's, I know we aren't your little army of yes men that you've trained for years but we all willingly chose to side with you. And no offense but the last time I followed a guy who kept secrets from me and the rest of the team, I got an alien parasite latched on to me that to this day still bothers me" Peter said as he folded his arms and stared at the caped crusader
For several moments Batman was quiet before he sighed "Your right…"
The than reached for his cowl and with a few plates on it shifting, removed it to reveal the face of Bruce Wayne.
"Bruce Wayne?" Captain Atom said in surprise at seeing the playboy billionaire was Batman all these years
"Holy crap" Green Arrow said while Black Canary rolled her eyes and muttered 'finally'
"Least now I know why I received a grant from Wayne Enterprise after graduating High school" Black Lightning said as he scratched his head
"Okay next up is Green Arrow than me and then Batwoman" Peter chuckled before he saw something on the screen behind Batman "What the hell…"
"We got trouble" Batwoman pointed out as a news channel showed a bunch of people dressed in cloaks with the symbol of Superman on causing what appeared to be a riot
"Damn it, the cultist" Batman growled in annoyance as he sat up and placed his cowl back on
"The who?" Catwoman asked as she and the rest of the group began to make their ways to the motor cycles and Batman's car
"I'll explain on the way. Captain Atom, take Spider-man with you and try to disperse the mob" Batman said
Captain Atom nodded before grabbing Spider-man by the shoulders "Hold on son"
"Aye Cap'n" Spider-man smirked before he let out an involuntary shiver as he felt the heat off Atom as they raced through the tunnel and into he sky
"You alright?" Atom aske das he felt Spider-man tense up
"Yeah…" Peter said beginning to grow uncomfortable with the nuclear heat coming from Atom. Normal people wouldn't be effected to this degree but well, Peter wasn't in a particularly safe attire when it comes to heat of the extreme kind right now…
It didn't take long for them to spot the crowd that was pulling people from their homes and chanting about removing the scum of Gotham and all that nonsense.
"We're here Batman" Captain atom said as he angled himself and Spider-man towards the group "It looks like they mean to evict everyone from Crime Alley and the neighboring blocks. What's going on?"
"It's a cult that worships Superman. It was formed a little over a year after Superman first appeared and has been growing since then. It's only now become an issue since the events of Metropolis" Batman said over the coms to the entire team "Ever since Superman started his crusade I've suspected they're behind a string of shootings of small time criminals. They believe their helping Superman continue his work after he murdered the Joker"
"And after Apokolips, even more of these worshippers have appeared" Batwoman revealed, having encountered these people before
"Well, Superman did literally smite our enemies from the heavens" Black Canary joked
"Atom, Spider-man do what you can. We're almost there" Batman said before ending the call
"Hmm I wonder what Sunday service is like with these people" Peter thought before he looked to Atom "You can drop me, I'll be fine"
The former Air force pilot nodded and released Spider-man who landed in a crouch before the people, the ground cracking under his landing and slowly stood up and faced the people
"I'm only going to say this once. Stop!" Peter said darkly as he cracked his knuckles
The apparent leader than spoke up "Do not stop. Our cause is righteous! Superman would-"
He was interrupted by an arrow with a boxing glove attached to it hitting him square in the face.
"Time to crawl back into whatever intolerant hole you crawled out of" Green Arrow said as he, Huntress, Black Canary, Black Lightning, Batman, Batwoman, Catwoman and had finally arrived
Peter watched another one of the men speak up as he glared at Green Arrow "We don't answer to you! We serve only him!"
Peter snorted "Look pal, I get it. You're religious and proud to be whatever it is that they call your little cult but I honestly can't take whatever your saying seriously when your dressed in a Superman snuggie of all things"
"Seriously, did someone actually sew the Superman symbol on there or did you buy it of Amazon like that?" Green Arrow snickered
"Heh, Amazon? More like he bought it from EBay" Peter chuckled before he felt his spider sense flare and the man pulled out a shot gun
"I bought this from EBay!" as he aimed it at the heroes
"You two just had to piss off the zealot" Batman said in a dry tone
Batman quickly knocked the shot gun into the man's head and caused it to fire into the air while Peter leaped at the cultists and sent a punch to several that either sent them flying into their friends or knocked them to the ground hard. The rest of the team attacked as well with Green Arrow shooting a volley of Taser arrows while Black Lightning sent non-lethal blasts of electricity at people
"Go in strong and fast! They'll disperse when they realize their outclassed" Batman said as he and Batwoman were back to back and defending themselves from several cultists that were armed with bats
Peter happen to be standing next to Black Canary at the time when he saw her kick a man away before his spider-sense began to flare. He looked towards her and saw the she was getting ready to use her Canary cry and Peter felt his eyes widened
"No wait Canary don't!" Peter shouted too late
SCREEEEEEEEE!
The cultist around her and Peter were forced to the ground from the powerful acoustic… as was Peter as he clutched his head in agony and to several people's surprise including Canary's his suit began to change from the typical red and blue to a dark inky black color
"Canary! Shut it off!" Batman yelled as he saw Peter's suit began to react violently to the heightened acoustic attack
No sooner did Dinah end her shout that another loud voice spoke up followed by a green light.
"ENOUGH!"
Everyone baring Peter who was still kneeling on the ground clutching his head looked up to see Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern hovering there.
"Return to your homes" Wonder Woman said
The group than began to disperse while Superman slowly lowered himself to the ground right in front of Batman. While Green Arrow turned towards Wonder Woman
"We had this handled"
Wonder Woman glared at the archer "No you weren't! You're not needed here, leave!"
Peter had the mouth portion of his mask retract so he could spit out a bit of blood. He accidently bit down on his tongue and nearly severed it in pain earlier when he took a hit from Canary Cry. He then shakily stood up and saw Batman and Superman staring each other down
Peyer let out a snort as he approached the two and grabbed one of Batman's shoulders while Catwoman got the other
"Not here" Catwoman said as she tried to push Batman back "Come on, let's go"
Batman reluctantly turned with the rest following when Wonder Woman spoke up
"Spider-man!"
Peter winced a little at the volume of her voice and turned to see her glaring at him "…What?"
She narrowed her eyes at his tone before she began to approach him. The suit seemed to sense this as he suddenly found his senses clearing and felt himself tense
"I told you to stop wearing this thing!" Diana gestured to the suit
"Yeah well I also told you stop helping Supe's there become a dictator and yet here you are" Peter snapped
He was vaguely aware of his team had stopped and were watching them as were Superman and Green Lantern. He let out a loud and dark growl as he turned towards Diana's two teammates
"Mind giving me and my wife some privacy boys?" he narrowed his lenses at the two. Green Lantern let out a huff as he rose into the air and began to leave with only Superman still there watching them
"I could ask the same of your team" Diana countered as she crossed her arms
Peter looked back towards Batman "I'll stop by later…"
Batman looked at him for a moment before he gave a reluctant nod and turned to the rest "We're leaving…"
The group turned and with just as much reluctance displayed by the Batman departed while Peter turned his attention towards Superman
"Fuck off boy scout! Me and my wife have husband-wife issues to work out. You remember what those are right?" Peter said sarcastically
Diana took a deep breath before turning towards Superman "Leave"
He looked unsure as he took a step forward "Diana-"
"LEAVE!" Diana shouted as she glared at Superman while Peter quietly made a shooing motion towards the man
Superman narrowed his eyes at the gesture before he nodded and shot off into the air. The pair watched him for a moment before they turned to face each other. The atmosphere was tense as the two stared each other down
"So how was Paris?" Peter asked
"Peter why in Hera's name are you still wearing that thing!" Diana growled out
"Would you believe me if I said I like how I look in black?" Peter said in a flippant attitude
Running into an ex of his that tried to either kill than abduct him and then getting a full blast of Canary's scream all in the course of a single day had really put him in a sour mood.
Diana exhaled loudly before she reached out to grab him only for him to take a step back "What are you doing?"
Diana gave him a leveled look "Peter's it's obvious this suit is affecting to you. We're going to have it removed and then we're going to destroy it for good!"
She made another grab for him only to catch her hand with his and narrowed his lenses "Why? What's so bad about me wearing this?"
"Peter it's corrupting you!" Diana said in outrage and disbelief "Every time you put that thing on, you end up worse than before"
"All great power comes at a cost" Peter said quietly with a shrug
The two stared at each other for a long time with the only sounds being distant car horns and dogs barking in the distance. After what felt like hours Diana turned and began to walk away from him
"And where are you going if I might ask?" Peter questioned
"Talk to me when you're not wearing that damn suit Peter. Until then don't even bother opening your mouth in my direction, better yet don't even bother coming back home" Diana growled out as she prepared to take off
"You're going back to Superman aren't?" Peter said with a growl
Diana paused but didn't turn around to face him "…And if I was?"
Peter let out a snort of contempt "Well it would explain why you haven't been coming home as often and when you do it's in the middle of the night at best! So, tell me how long has this been going on?"
Diana turned and glared at Peter "There is nothing going on between me and Superman Peter! We're friends that's it!"
"Is that what you told Steve before he found out-"
SMACK!
The two both fell silent as Peter slowly turned his head and looked at Diana with wide eyes under his mask. Diana looked equally shocked by what she did as she looked down at her hand before looking back at him. Diana looked like she was on the verge of tears as she did something she thought she'd never do…
She struck her husband…
"Peter, I-I didn't-" Diana tried to approach him but Peter took a step back and held up a hand
"Don't touch me" Peter hissed out darkly as he felt the suit shift slightly
"Peter wait jus-" Diana started only for him to suddenly use the Symbiote's camouflaging ability to vanish from her sight
"Peter? PETER!" Diana shouted as she looked around for any sign of him "PETER!"
Not too far away a familiar man dressed in a red and black suit was leaning against the wall, having watched the entire scene and smiled darkly as he faded into the shadows while listening to the Amazon keep calling out for her husband who he sensed was already long gone
"And so it begins…HEHEHEHE-HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
And done.
Yeah things are starting to get a little bad for poor Mr. and Mrs. Parker and believe it or not, it's only going to get worse from here on out