Answers to reviewers' questions or statements:
Galabrax: The First Born has his own reasons for wanting to help Spider-man, it'll be revealed slowly as to why but part of it relates to sticking it to Wonder Woman, the First Born knows Diana will be horrified to see him even close to her husband, let alone on the same side as him. Yes the Scorpion is someone people would know but I won't be dropping any real hints on who it is yet. The First Born is powerful enough to have taken on Diana without her bracelets on which made her a god in power, easily above New 52 Superman, take on and beat Orion whose strength rivals Superman's, and overpower Ares the God of War another guy on Superman's level, so he's pretty powerful. For now, it's just the First Born, Ares will pop up every once in a while, but that's about it for pantheon intervention until year four where the gods, both old and new start to enter the conflict and it won't be just the Olympians like in the comics, I'm planning to have the Norse ones show up and the reason will be shown in year 3
Guest: The first child of Hera and Zeus born way back before the birth of the other Olympians like Apollo, Artemis, Ares etc. and he's called the first born because he has no name since Zeus after hearing some prophecy of his child overthrowing him or something ordered his destruction but the First Born ended up in Africa somewhere and later on raised an army to fight Zeus but lost, sentenced to the center of the earth where he spent the next several thousand years digging his way out, that's the watered down version
Chaos Sorcerer: No Spider-man won't end up looking like Deadpool in that he'll be a testicle with teeth, that's just too horrible of a fate for him. Yes, we will see more dreams of Diana's possible life with Peter, in Year three especially. There will be a reason as to why Diana never told her mother about Peter or Cassie after she awakens and it's kind of selfish and ridiculous but hey it sort of makes sense. As for how First born knows about the Sinestro Corps, Mephisto told him and well he's watched the news and has seen Sinestro flying around with the League. We'll see another flashback of Peter and Diana this chapter towards the end and during the Year Two Annual that deals with Peter asking her out the first time and going on their first date.
masoliki1: Yes they had a sort of issue or half an issue where they showed what the heroes from the other earth were up to before the start of Injustice, I'll have Diana and Peter from that world mention how they met and started to date and eventually marry in that world when they meet this world's Peter who by then...well he won't be the same quippy guy we saw at the beginning of this story
Spiderfan: Yeah Juggernaut is leagues ahead of Morlun in power and as for him already appearing in this story, no but he has appeared in the past and he'll make an appearance in Year's 3 and 5.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or DC characters seen, mentioned or used in this story
Year two…
The Ultimates stared at the First Born who was leaning against the same vehicle that had the large form of the Titan still on it. The atmosphere was tense and could be cut with a knife. The only sounds were the crackling of fire from the nearby burning wrecks of the vehicles, the wounded Titan and the distant shooting and explosions of Scorpion's men and the Suicide Squad engaging each other
Finally, it was Peter who spoke "No seriously, why are you helping us? Me especially?"
The First Born stared at Peter for a moment before shrugging "Partly because Superman's regime will eventually come for me so I figured I'd ally myself with the people who have the best chance at stopping him…also to spite your wife"
Peter's damaged lenses narrowed at the First Born "…That's it? You saved me from having my brains blown out all over the ground because you actually feel threatened by Superman's side and you want to stick it to my wife!"
"In a nut shell" the First Born smirked darkly "Though to be honest I'm not so much as threatened by Superman and his slaves as I'm more annoyed at the thought of fighting day in and day out, I'm not a real love for the fight like Ares…"
It was then that the Scarlet Spider spoke up "Hey Spidey, can I talk to you for a moment?"
Peter nodded at the man and followed him away from the smirking firm of the First Born. Ravager and Grifter still had their weapons trained on him and Wild Cat and Black Cat both took a green pill should he try anything. Jay was the only one to watch the two Spiders wander off with a worried look on his face
"I say no to his help" Ben said when they were far enough away from the group
"Really, I was thinking of inviting him to join the Insurgency" Peter said sarcastically as he looked over his shoulder at the First Born "And how the hell did he find us?"
"Ares maybe?" Ben suggested
"…Possibly, but last time I checked he and Ares according to Diana were far from friends, guess things changed" Peter said with a frown before he let out a sigh and rubbed his head in exhaustion "This mission just keeps getting better and better"
Ben nodded before a distant explosion caught their attention, causing both men to look off towards the other part of the island where a massive explosion tore through the jungle, fires were illuminating the ash and smoke filled sky
"At this rate, Superman and his cronies will be here soon. There's no way in hell they can't be missing this" Peter said with a growl towards the sky for any signs of the former hero
"So do we call this mission a bust and bail out?" Ben asked
Peter shook his head "No, we still need that Kryptonite if we stand any chance of taking down Superman"
"Why can't we use magic? He's weak against that, isn't he?" Ben asked
"All the magic users powerful enough to take on Superman and possibly win have all gone underground to the point that Batman will have a hard time finding any of them or they like Raven and Shazam, joined his side" Peter responded as he crossed his arms across his chest
"Great…" Ben said with a grim chuckle as he rubbed the back of his head "So I guess we really have no choice in the manner"
"Nope…" Peter said as he turned to look at the First Born who was watching him with a dark grin "…Though he might be of some use to us"
"What do you mean?" Ben asked with a frown
Peter quirked his head towards Ben "Let's just say we may just be able to get rid of two birds with one stone if we play our cards right"
…
"What do you have?" Superman asked as he entered the monitor womb of the Watchtower and approached Cyborg who several minutes ago sent him a message telling him to come up here as soon as he could
"I think…I think I've found the green armored guy from Metropolis, the one that was with Dock Ock and Joker that day" Cyborg said as he brought up the image of Ock, Joker, Harley and the apparent Scorpion on the day Metropolis was destroyed while he scanned through numerous codes and frequencies to confirm his find
"You did?" Superman said with a blank expression on his face as he stared at the image of the architects of his family's death and Metropolis's destruction
"Yeah…" Cyborg said, unaware of Superman's inner thoughts "I'm picking up a lot of radio chatter on this island out in the south Pacific. Sounds like there on that island and are under attack by…"
"By who?" Superman asked, already knowing the answer
"Sounds like…the Ultimates?" Cyborg said in surprise "I didn't even think they were still around"
"Spider-man" Superman stated with narrowed eyes "Which means Batman might not be too far away…"
"That's not all Superman, I'm also picking up confirmed reports of Deadshot, Black Spider, Enchantress and several other villains associated with Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad" Cyborg said as he brought up files on the confirmed criminals and Waller herself
Superman studied the images with a calculating look "Contact the rest of the League, tell them to meet me by the island so we can apprehend them"
"What about Waller?" Cyborg asked the leaving form of Superman
"I'll leave her to you and Robin, she's pulled peoples strings for the last time" Superman said as he left for the teleporter
Cyborg nodded as he went about contacting the various League members and filled them in on the brewing situation while also sending them the coordinates to the island that was the epicenter of a three-way war between the Ultimates, Dock Ock's mysterious ally and the Suicide Squad
…
Back on the island, the Suicide Squad had tracked Scorpion and the Kryptonite he and his men have been collecting to a heavily fortified facility that seemed to be acting as a sort of base for the mercenaries here
It didn't take long for the squad to realize that getting in and finding the Kryptonite will be easy, it was dealing with the several hundred men and two or three dozen Titans that was the real problem-
BWOOOOOM!
Steve was sent flying back by a grenade blast and right into the heavily armed form of the Punisher who was too busy keeping several mercenaries at bay with his assault rifle
"GAH!" Frank yelled as Steve slammed into him and sent both men stumbling to the ground. Frank pushed Steve off him and quickly drew his side arm and began to shoot at the approaching mercenaries "Watch were you're going!"
Steve glared at the murderous vigilante in annoyance "Sure, next time I'll ask the grenade to send me flying into a nice soft pillow with a side of hot chocolate while I'm at it!"
"Maybe I'll save it the trouble and just blow your brains out all over the ground" Frank growled as he shot another mercenary in the head with his rifle "Assuming Super bitch doesn't beat me to it"
"Still hard to believe that he's become something like that" Flagg said as he, Steve, Frank and Deadshot took cover behind a large over turned tree and began to lay down an overlapping field of fire while Killer Frost, King Shark and Diablo dealt with some of the arriving Titan mercenaries
"I'm not, always knew that deep down he was an asshole" Steve said as he reloaded his gun
"There's a story there and something tells me it has to do with you and Wonder Woman breaking up all those years ago" Deadshot said as he aimed for a man's grenade attached to his vest and shot it, ignite him and the surrounding men next to him
He was about to shoot another man before a boomerang lodged itself into the man's head, courtesy of Harkness who had taken cover with Diablo behind a destroyed APC and was keeping a large Titan from getting to close to him and the pyrokinetic
"Steve, better tell Katana to hurry her ass up, we don't have much time or ammo left to keep this up!" Deadshot yelled as he fired of his last rifle round before switching to his hand canons and began to open fire in controlled bursts
Steve used this moment to contact Katana "Found any of that Kryptonite yet?"
"Me and Black Spider are moving through the facility now" the wielder of the Soultaker
"Understood" Steve said as he looked to see Enchantress being slowly pushed back by the overwhelming fire power of several dozen heavily armed mercenaries
Steve was just about to go and help her when suddenly a red streak shot through the man and quickly disarmed and incapacitate them. For a moment, the former ARGUS agent thought it was the Flash…he was half right however when the man briefly stopped and Steve spotted the famous tin hat that adorned the old Justice Society member
"Looks like the Ultimates are here" Steve said as he and Rick watched Grifter and Ravager emerge from the tree line and open fire on the stunned mercenaries while Black Cat and Wild Cat made their way to the facility housing the Kryptonite
"Hey Steve" Spider-man said as he landed behind the current commanding officer of the Suicide Squad "Miss me?"
"Like a fungus webs" Frank said with a dark smirk as he drew his knife and threw it right into a nearby mercenary's face, killing him
Peter narrowed his eyes at the vigilante "You know normally I wouldn't be okay with that, not by a long shot but tonight and for the foreseeable future Frank…punish these assholes"
He then leaped over the slightly surprised anti-hero and charged a group of mercenaries and quickly began to tear through them with a sort of animalistic ferocity. Steve watched the husband of the woman he still loves attack the forces of Scorpion and was about to move to help him when suddenly he was grabbed by a green armored hand and thrown several meters away
Steve rolled with the toss and came up with his side arm drawn in time to see Scorpion pounce at him. Steve narrowly ducked under the mana and shot the armored man several times in the torso only to frown as he saw the bullets bounce of the plating.
Scorpion chuckled at this "Going to take more than a simple nine millimeter to pierce this"
"Then how about this!" Grifter yelled as he took a grenade launcher that one of the dead mercenaries had and shot two rounds at Scorpion who blasted on out of the air with his tail and let the other strike him in the chest
BWOOOOM!
Steve shielded his eyes from the blast before lowering his arms and looking to see Scorpion standing there without any real damage to his suit aside from some scorch marks from the grenade
"…Oh well I guess you can take that pretty well to" Grifter said before he ducked under a sudden swipe from scorpion and rammed his fist into the larger man's gut…and sent him flying back several meters
Steve watched the scene with wide eyes "How the hell…?"
Scorpion landed with a huff and let out a growl of pain as he stood back up and glared at Grifter "Hmm last time I checked Grifter, you're not a meta"
"What can I say, I've been working out" Grifter said as he drew a knife from his belt and held in a reverse grip "Now get your ass over here so I can carve it up…I had a few friends in metropolis that your boss and that damn clown killed asshole"
Scorpion's lenses narrowed as he activated the blade on his suit's tail and he extended his armors claws on each hand "Then let me reunite you with them-ACK!"
Scorpion was interrupted by Scarlet Spider dropping in front of him and covering his face in webbing, cutting off his air supply and sight before the spider rammed his fist into the larger man's armored chest until they became a blur and finished off with a powerful kick to the solar plexus that sent the stunned man flying right into a fast approaching Flash who knocked the man into a several of his men that were coming to aid their leader
Peter watched all of this unfold as he, Ravager, Frank, Rick, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, King Shark and Killer Frost dealt with the last of the mercenaries guarding the outside of the Facility and were about to move in and surround the slowly rising form of Scorpion when suddenly a loud voice spoke up and Peter felt his spider-sense tingle
"ENOUGH!"
Everyone stopped fighting and looked up to see Superman, his arms folded and a glare on his face, flanked by two green Lanterns, one being Hal Jordan and the other John Stewart with Shazam, Raven, Hawkgirl and Sinestro floating in the background
"You are all under arrest" Superman said as he stared down everyone "Your outgunned and surrounded, surrender now and I promise you won't be harmed and you'll be treated fairly"
"Yeah, you and what army jackass!" Grifter yelled before suddenly a red streak zoomed past him and the red masked man was suddenly on the ground and restrained "Wait what?!"
"Flash…" Peter mumbled darkly and felt his spider-sense flare as he saw the man fast approach him when suddenly Jay was standing in between the two men
"Jay?" Barry said in surprise at the sight of the first Flash before him, here of all places
Jay gave Barry a sad smile "Hey kid..."
"Spider-man" Superman spoke as he slowly landed near the three men while the Hal Jordan headed for the facility to secure the rest of the Suicide Squad and the Ultimates inside while Sinestro and John Stewart used their rings to secure and destroy the mercenaries' weapons
Shazam went to secure a still downed scorpion for transport while Raven and Hawkgirl remained hovering in the air.
Peter's eyes narrowed at the man as he felt something inside him suddenly shift "Hey Superman, still sore about the ass kicking I gave you huh?"
Superman's eyes narrowed at the de-factor leader of the Insurgency "Where's Batman?"
"With a hot nurse at the moment" Peter smirked under his mask as he felt his heart rate starting to increase and his body started to warm up
Superman frowned at the answer before a look of confusion crossed Superman's face "What's happening to your bo-"
"Hey Superman, can I ask you a quick question?" Peter said as he fully turned to address the man of steel
"What is it?" Superman asked
"When you and my wife, and let me stress that for you MY WIFE, were still a thing…did you ever meet her siblings?" Peter asked
Superman's eyes narrowed at that "What do you mean?"
"Hmm guess that's a no but don't worry Supes cause he's been waiting to meet you!" Peter said before suddenly the First Born tear through the ground and rammed his fist into a shocked Superman's face
KRA-KOOOOOOM!
"Heh, man of steel my ass!" the First Born smirked darkly
The force of the blow sent Superman flying back right into Shazam, allowing Scorpion to roll away from the two god like men and suddenly cloaked himself with his armored suit. Peter growled at this before turning to see Flash make a grab for him only for Jay to push him back with a small cyclone generated from his arms
Jay then looked at Spider-man "Go get the other's, we're leaving with or without the Kryptonite"
"No arguments here" Peter said as he quickly sprinted towards the facility followed closely by Steve and Scarlet Spider as the rest of Ultimates and Suicide Squad attacked the Justice League
...
And done.
So next chapter concludes the mission to retrieve the Kryptonite with the Justice League vs the combined might of the Ultimates and the Suicide Squad!