Answers to reviewers' questions or statements:
Gamelover41592: Things will only get more nuts from here on out.
darthwolf: I'll be making things a bit more evenly matched in this fic than in the comics, gives the whole thing even more suspence because it's now got a more compelling 'who will win' vibe in it.
Harbinger of Kaos: Carol will make an appearnce in Year three and will play a part in the events that go down in it.
rmarcano321: I paired her with him because I like the idea of the two being together, plus this whole Injustice universe offers up some interesting roads to take their relationship. Yes I've played both games. No the X-men and Avengers will not show up in this story.
superpierce: Yeah, always found it odd that Injustice didnt bring in more heavy hitters aside from the likes of Shazam and Wonder Woman to fight Superman, there's more than plenty that could take him in a fight.
spiderspwan 616: Spider-man wont be getting a Greeen Lantern ring in this story.
cabrera1234: In year three when magic takes sort of center stage.
Willian: I have something far darker in mind for these two.
Someone: She died, that was mentioned way back in like chapter 5 when Peter mentioned her heart attack.
Kai: Peter won't be becoming Etrigan's host, I have something better in mind, or worse depending on your perspective.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or DC characters seen, mentioned or used.
Year Two…
Peter let out a surprised yelp as he ducked under a stray energy bolt fired from one of the Supermen androids while men from the Regime tried to attack them from behind. Grifter fired back at the regime soldiers with a scavenged rifle he picked up from one of the super soldiers earlier while Anti-Venom fired off several of his 'web bullets' at the approaching Supermen androids.
"Jay, would you kindly clear the hall!" Peter shouted over the hail of gunfire and energy blasts.
A second passed before a red blur sped pass Peter and the rest and towards the Supermen androids. The robotic guards of the Fortress of Solitude tried to shoot the first Flash but the aged hero proved a little to fast for the Kryptonian cyborgs and sent dozens of punches, each moving at the speed of sound at the powerful drones, creating powerful shockwaves that knocked them aside and caused them to hit each other in attempt to hit him. Seeing the robots were distracted, Peter emerged from cover and aimed at the squad of Regime soldiers trying to attack his team from the rear and shot several web bombs at them and watched as they exploded amongst the soldiers ranks. Some were blasted into the wall and pinned by a thick coat of webbing while others ended up stuck together.
Anti-Venom landed beside Peter and shot several nets made of his own 'webbing' to keep the soldiers more secured while Grifter went and collected several ammo clips from the defeated squad. Peter glanced back at the hallway that was filled with Superman robots and was greeted to the sight of a heavily panting sweat drenched Jay standing amongst a large pile of decommissioned drones.
"Nice work Jay..." Peter stared before he noticed the blood dripping from the man's bruised knuckles and the bit of blood dripping from is nose.
The speedster gave Peter a tired grin "Not as young as I used to be. Been a while since I moved and hit that hard at the same time"
"You gonna make it Jay?" Peter asked worriedly as Jay nodded.
"Yeah, just need a quick breather" the man said before he stood upright "Come on, I scouted ahead while I was dealing with these things. Looks clear for the moment"
Peter nodded as he gestured the rest to follow him.
"Kinda surprised we're not getting hit even harder" Anti-Venom said as he passed a destroyed Superman robot before suddenly there was a faint shake in the ground.
"Thank the First Born for that" Peter said as he loaded up several more web bombs in his web shooters "Kaine told me that he seems to be attracting a lot of the Supermen robots attention while the Regime soldiers go for us"
"Pfft, they think he's the bigger threat?" Grifter said with a snort "Their gonna be regretting that soon enough. Most dangerous guy in the room isn't always the strongest. I'd say ask every guy that I've met with that kind of thinking, but their all dead"
Peter rolled his eyes at this before he saw that Anti-Venom was looking at him with narrowed eyes. It was clear that Brock was still furious with Peter about having Venom with him but for the moment seemed to be keeping such a revelation to himself. Though Peter doubted he'll keep quiet for long, likely waiting until the whole team is together again before mentioning... just in case.
'Can't say that I blame him' Peter thought as he brought up his armor's defensive measure against the Symbiote un his HUD.
It was a simple thermo-pulse, for the lack of a better term, that would burn the Symbiote into submission should Peter believe it was getting out of control. Something it might start becoming once Peter reaches the Phantom Zone projector and tosses the homicidal goo into it. The team moved through the silent corridors, on the alert for any sort of defenses that Superman may have had installed should his home be invaded again-
"Should a bunch of traps or something gone off by now?" Grifter asked as he eyed the ceiling and walls with narrowed eyes "I mean, it just seems to quiet"
"Superman probably hasn't installed anything yet. Too busy getting chummy with Sinestro" Peter said with a dark look under his helmet.
"You would think after having his place broken into before, especially with his family here, Superman would invest in some home defense aside from a few tin men and a couple hundred wannabe super soldiers" Anti-Venom said with a scoff.
"Kryptonians seemed to be naturally arrogant" Peter said with a snort.
It was than that Jay appeared in front of the three in a flash of Speed Force lightning "I think I found the trophy room"
"How far up ahead is it?" Peter asked the elder hero.
"Not far, but it's got a heck of a door on it. Can't vibrate through it" Jay said with a frown as he looked back at where he came from "There were a few Superman robots there, but I took care of them and I don't think anyone else will be coming. Sounds like the First Born downstairs is keeping them busy"
"Told yall he'd come in handy" Peter said with a chuckle as he nodded towards Jay "Lead the way Flash"
Jay smirked a little at this "I got a better, faster idea"
And with that, he grabbed Peter and in the blink of an eye, the wall crawler found himself in front of the door that Jay mentioned. Peter blinked in surprise before suddenly Anti-Venom was there and then after another second, Grifter who immediately pulled his mask back and puked on the ground.
"Eww..." Peter said as he struggled to keep the bile rising in his throat from getting any further.
"Heh, pussies" Ant-Venom chuckled as he looked at the door with a quirked head and grinned darkly as he approached it.
"Think you can open that on your own?" Jay asked the former criminal.
"With a little help" Eddie replied as he held up a Green pill and tossed it into his law tooth filled maw and swallowed it.
After several seconds, the symbiote he wore seemed to shiver as it grew more rigid along the arms and legs and he took on a slightly more feral appearance. The former Venom host then cracked his knuckles as he suddenly slammed them into the crystal like substance that made up the Fortress of Solitude, causing the short to shake as cracks began to form all over it's surface as Eddie forced the symbiote through it's structure and expand.
"So that's what happens when you give a guy that's wearing a Symbiote one of those super pill things... cool" Grifter said with a whistle as the crystalline structure began to fall apart.
"Yeah... cool" Peter said absent mindedly as the last of the door came apart reveal a trophy room that Peter thought surpassed even Batman's if not in quality, then certainly in quantity.
Anti-Venom stepped into the room and looked around before his eyes widened at a particular sight "Is that... the Titanic?"
Peter, Jay and Grifter followed Anti-Venom's gaze and were greeted to the sight of a large old ocean liner. The Ultimates blinked at the ship before Grifter shook his head and looked at Jay and Peter.
"Isn't that kinda disrespectful? Taking what's basically a tomb of hundreds of people and storing it in a trophy room for people to gawk at or something?" the deadly mercenary said.
"Probably, but at this point, it wouldn't surprise me that he'd defile a mass grave like that" Peter said with a shake of his head while Jay examined other parts of the room while Anti-Venom leaped up to the higher levels and began to go through them for any sign of the Phantom Zone projector.
The four spent the next several minutes searching the massive room in hopes they'd get lucky and locate the projector. The room would occasionally shake as the First Born and likely other members of the Ultimates tore through the Fortress's defenses and defenders below as they headed for the Armory. Peter and Grifter were just making their way to a more remote section of the Trophy room, after examining some sort of memorial thing for something called the 'Legion of Superheroes' when Grifter noticed movement in the corner of his vision and bought his rifle up to bear, his finger on the trigger.
"Come on out or I'm going to assume your a highly durable bad guy that I can shoot" the deadly man warned.
"Wait, don't shoot!" a woman's voice replied before it's owner and another figure stepped into his view.
"Well look who we have here" Grifter said as he lowered his rifle.
"Wat is it?" Peter said as he came to see what the man was talking about and was greeted to the sight of John and Martha Kent, Superman's adoptive parents "Oh..."
"What are you doing here?" John asked as he stepped in front of Martha and eyed Peter and Grifter with suspicious glances.
"Oh you know, heard your son was throwing a party and we decided to crash it" Peter said with a shrug as he looked around the room "Say, you guys wouldn't happen to know where he keeps the Phantom Zone projector do you?"
"Why do you want to know?" John asked with a frown while Martha looked at them in shock.
"You want to use it on our son?" she asked in a shocked whisper.
"Maybe... after we use it for something else of course" Peter said as he glanced at Grifter "Watch them, just incase they decide to help their homicidal brat"
"Got it" the mercenary said as he kept his gun half raised and the safety off.
"He's not homicidal!" Martha shouted in outrage "He's hurt! He's hurt more than ever before in his life!"
"Well considering he was beaten to death by Doomsday, I doubt it" Peter said dryly as he glanced over towards Anti-Venom and Jay and shouted "Find it yet?"
"No" Brock replied with a growl as he lifted up what Peter assumed was the rocket that brought Superman to Earth all those years ago before tossing it aside and into a space shuttle while Jay raced back and forth across the room to the point that all he appeared to be was a streak of Speed Force lightning.
Peter hummed at Brock's response and lack of reply from Jay before he turned his attention back to Superman's adoptive parents just as Martha stepped forward "Clark, he needs help. Someone to talk to, not to be thrown into the Phantom Zone"
"Oh yes, of course. I'll schedule a meeting with a therapist so he can spend all day talking about how he dragged the Earth into the middle of a galactic war that's killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people all because the man lost someone close to him like millions of others do every single day, some with more than enough power to level nations with a push of the literal button" Peter snapped with narrowed eyes under his helm as he stepped forward "And while he's at it, he can also talk about how he beat Green Arrow to death, turned a boy against his own father and have him think killing people is okay now, turned my own wife against me and everything she stands for and nearly got her killed because of it and oh yeah, just as icing on the fucked up cake he's made, allied himself with one of the universe's greatest villains to enforce his tyrannical rule!"
Martha flinched at the volume of Peter's voice as he stepped back and took several steps back and tried to regain his composure. He didn't need to see Venom to know that the Symbiote was stirring underneath his armor, he could practically feel it. After a few seconds, he turned away from Martha and John and approached the center of the room and was about to call Kaine to see if he had any luck locating the Phantom Zone projector when he received a call from his clone slash brother.
"Please be good news..." Peter said as he answered the call "Yes?"
"Hey Pete, we found the projector" Kaine's voice echoed through Peter's helmet speakers "It was down in the armory... or what's left of it at any rate"
"Roger that, we're on the way" Peter said as he turned towards the trophy room's door "Don't touch it or activate it until we're all in there. Something tells me the Phantom Zone's prisoners aren't gonna pass up a chance to make a break for it he moment that thing is turned on"
"Right, right, right" Kaine said before a muffled 'thud' could be heard "Dammit Ted, he said don't touch it!"
Peter shook his head in tired amusement as he gestured for the rest of his team to follow him "Come on, the Titans aren't gonna free themselves"
"What do you mean by that?" Martha said with confusion.
Peter glanced back at them with a grim smirk "What? Didn't you know that your 'hurt' son had locked up the Titans in the Phantom Zone?"
Martha and Johnathan's eyes both widened at this while Griter shook his head "Didn't you ever wonder what happened to them? I mean isn't one of them your kid or something?"
"We... we didn't know" John said with wide eyes.
"I'm sure" Grifter said in an unconvinced tone while Peter called Bruce and Barbara to give them a update on his team's status.
"Found the Projector, should be up and running soon" Peter said as he gestured for rest to follow him down to the armory.
"Understood" Bruce said in a curt tone.
"How's thigs going on up there?" Peter asked as he and his team raced through the halls of the Fortress of Solitude.
"Not great, the Yellow Lanterns retreated back to Earth and the Green Lanterns are having a tough time fighting them while trying to avoid getting any innocents killed" Barbara said.
"And Superman?" Peter asked with a frown.
"Sodam Yaht's engaging him while Sinestro is getting his ass kicked by Alan"
"Alan?" Peter said with surprise "as in Alan Scott, the OG Green Lantern?"
"Is there another?" Barbara asked with a snort.
"Huh, our luck is finally starting to pan out" Peter said with a relived sigh.
If only he knew...
…
"All right guys, let's get those kids out of here and blow this place" Peter said as he entered the armory along with the rest of his team.
"Be my guess" Kaine said as he held the device in his hands, having taken a Super Pill only a few minutes ago.
"Do you even know how to use that thing?" Anti-Venom question as it followed Peter to Kaine and watched the spider powered man take the device from his clone.
"Sorta, Bat's gave me a bit of a crash course on how it works before I left" Peter said as he examined the device "Ah, there's the activation thingy"
"So, how does this work?" Kaine asked as he watched Peter fiddle with the device "Can you like, select certain people we want to bring out or it just opens a portal and we just have to hope whatever comes out is what we want?"
"The latter I'm afraid" Peter said with a sigh as he looked at the rest of the team "Okay boys and girls, get ready. The moment this thing is open, every criminal in the Phantom Zone is probably gonna know and may try to get out early for what they think is good behavior. Don't let them"
"Finally, some excitement" the First born said as he held the severed head of a Superman robot "Fighting these machines lost it's luster rather quickly"
"You heard the spider, get ready!" Cash said as he and his men reloaded their weapons and took up defensive positions and aimed their rifles at where Peter intended to open the portal.
"You sure this is a good idea son?" Jay asked with a hint of unease in his voice.
"No..." Peter said with a shake of his head followed by a sigh as he activated the projector and aimed it "But what choice do we have?"
And with that, he hit the trigger and watched as the projector shot off a beam of energy and created a portal into the Phantom Zone. The Ultimates waited for several tense minutes as the portal sat there, waiting for something, anything to come through.
"How will the Titans know that a portal is open?" Rose said as she eyed the portal carefully "Let alone open up close to them?"
"I did my best to try and open a portal to the last play it opened up in and I'm kinda hoping that the Titans didn't go very far. Not gonna lie, this would have been a great time to have Plastic Man around" Peter said as he began to build up a charge for the thermo-pulse and force the Symbiote into a small storage container he had built into the armor. Once the Titans were through, he'd burn the Symbiote off, seal it and chuck it into the Phantom Zone where it can spend the rest of eternity with the rest of Krypton's criminals.
Finally, after several minutes passed and Peter was on the verge of having someone go in and check, preferably the First Born, several figures came through the portal like they were running from the dregs of Hell itself. The first was Cassandra 'Cassie' Sandsmark, Wonder Girl and in her arms was Superboy who, to Peter's alarm, had blood leaking from his mouth. The next figure, holding Superboy's other side was Tim Drake aka Red Robin and behind them was Starfire.
Peter was about to welcome the Titans back, and make a make a Stargate reference because he could before the leader of the group cut him off in a frantic tone.
"SHUT THE PORTAL OFF NOW!" Red Robin yelled before suddenly a blur emerged from the portal and slammed into the First Born with enough force to create a powerful shockwave that shook the entire room, knocking the Phantom Zone projector from Peter's hands before he was suddenly lifted into the air by an armored hand.
"You are not the son of Jor-El… human" the being said with an amused smirk as he glanced around him and his captive.
Peter stared at the Kryptonian in shock as did the rest of the team while he was held up by the throat with a dark smirk growing on the now freed Kryptonian's face, his eyes glowing red and seemed to be on the verge of exploding from the sheer amount of energy emanating from them.
"No matter..." the man said with a dark grin as he tightned his grip on the Peter's neck "You will kneel before me, as he will-"
"I don't know who the fuck you are and frankly I don't care. Drop my other and get back into your prison bitch!" Kaine said as he glared at the man with narrowed lenses.
"G-Genera...l Zod" Peter said as he tried to pry the Kryptonian's hands off his throat "Kryptonian war criminal... All the power of Superman... but with absolutely no restraint"
With a flick of his wrist Zod sent Peter flying into a large crystalline structure with enough force to shake the entire level and causing the others to stumble a bit as the now freed Kryptonian held up his arms and suddenly smashed them against the ground, upheaving the entire room and sending all of it's occupants minus him flying...
...
And done.
Next chapter, The Ultimates vs Zod!