Peter, Morg'Ann and Kara have been having a rough time you could say.
With Superman off world, the three of them are basically everywhere, stopping crimes, disasters and more.
Stopping trains, catching thieves, and Kara's been doing her reports jobs.
Everything seems to finally be calming down in the world.
Peter was strolling while listening to his phone about the President's one year anniversary of the alien registration act.
"You're about to hold a summon at Camp David on the anniversary of the Alien Amnesty Act. Can you say a few words about what this legislation has meant to you the past few years?" Kara asks.
"Of course. The impact has been far-reaching and profound." The President says.
"Yeah, and we finally don't have as many alien racists." Peter agrees as he continues to walk down the street when he feels his senses go off. They've been doing it a lot recently. Almost constantly when he's alone.
Like he's being watched.
He quickly turns around and sees nothing.
"What the heck is going on?" Peter asks himself. His senses never go off for no reason. There's always a reason.
That gets interrupted when he gets an alert of a break in.
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He and Kara make it there first and sees there are two people breaking into somewhere with an alien injured on the floor.
"You know, I hope you guys wanted to get captured. Because you two are really stupid if you wanna rob in our town." Peter states.
One of them activates a device that was enmities a high pitch of some kind, but Peter blasts it out of his hand.
The girl throws something and Kara lasers them.
"You had a plan D, right?" Kara asks.
The man pulls out a gun that the two of them blast.
"Anything else?" Peter wonders.
He drops one more thing and they see it's a bomb.
Kara quickly covers it with her cape as the two run in and locked the door behind them so they couldn't get in.
The DEO show up later and J'onn even came in, the man who was attacked was a friend of his.
"I heard the attack on the news. He's an outspoken advocate for alien rights, and most likely a target of a hate crime." J'onn tells Peter and Kara.
"No, actually, it was just a coincidence, J'onn." Peter says as he gestured inside the vault. "It was a high level robbery. They were prepared for the two of us. Not well, but they were prepared nonetheless."
"They stole an EMP from his lab. If they blow that thing, it could take out the entire power grid." Kara explains to him.
"They cut off his tusks." J'onn informs them. "The very thing that distinguishes him as alien."
"Yeah, so they can get inside, through the biometric scan. Like when someone cut off a thumb in the movies to do the same." Peter defends.
"Look, I've been living amongst the people, getting a feel for what's been going on. There's a fresh wave of anti-alien sentiment. I can feel it." J'onn tells them.
"We're sorry about your friend, but in this case, it was just a coincidence." Kara assures him. "I'm late for CatCo, but Peter and Brainy are on the case, we'll find them."
"All right." J'onn agrees and they leave.
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Peter returns to the DEO and finds Brainy.
"Brainy, you got anything for me?" Peter asks.
"Well, I was able to stitch together various images from surveillance at Vose's lab, and your mask's recordings and ran them. The images were rudimentary and brought up 754,231 potential suspects. I cross checked each image with known associates and narrowed the identification down to two." Brainy says as they walk over to the computers and he shows the two.
"Otis and Mercy Graves. Family team up." Peter comments on them. "We know anyplace they could be hiding?"
"Negative. However, I was able to identify an ex-employer who might be able to help with an address." Brainy replies as he shows the employer.
"Luther." Peter complains.
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Peter and Kara go to visit Lillian Luther in prison and see Lena's also there playing chess and they're kinda surprised.
"Oh, dear. I hope I didn't have that same expression when you showed up this afternoon." Lillian hopes.
"No, mother, your face was a mask of enigma as usual." Lena replies.
"It's what keeps me looking young." Lillian snarks.
"Okay, back to the subject in hand. Ms. Luther, we're looking for Mercy and Otis Graves." Peter tells Lillian. "They worked for Lex before you. At Cadmus."
"Mercy was Lex's head of security." Lena tells them.
"And then turned State's evidence on him, betrayed him." Kara finishes. "Put him behind bars."
"So you think I'd help you as some sort of revenge?" Lillian asks. "I'm not vengeful anymore. My heart's grown several sizes in here."
"Says the Grinch who stole Christmas." Lena replies.
"A few months ago when the planet was being terraformed by those other Kryptonians, I was in my cell, under a mattress, hoping the ceiling wouldn't fall and crush me. And I realized I didn't want to die alone. And if I didn't want to die alone, I had to change. So, what do you want to know about the Grave siblings, besides they're monsters." Lilian asks them.
"A list of every Cadmus location you think they could be using to hide." Peter tells her.
"Just domestic? Or international?" Lillian asks.
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They return to Central City when they learned the alien bar was attacked.
"This was a hate crime, no doubt about it." J'onn tells them.
"Agreed." They both reply.
"I still believe the attack on Dr. Vose was motivated by anti-alien sentiment." J'onn says. "He was a me,her of a support group here. You should dig into it, see if the two attacks are connected."
"But his lab was robbed by ex-Cadmus operatives. This...this was an explosion outside of a bar. I don't think there's any reason to believe they're related." Kara says.
"I might be on ex-Bossman's side on this one, Skirt." Peter tells them.
"I've been trying to tell you the climate towards aliens is changing." J'onn says.
"Yeah, but it has been for the better. There will always be extremists like whoever attached the bar, but I think the country has made incredible progress. The President is about to celebrate the second anniversary of the Alien Amnesty act. And for the first time on earth, aliens are embraced as citizens with equal rights."
"Which is part of the backlash. The assimilation with aliens has sparked fear among many humans. And aliens are feeling the brunt of that anger." J'onn says.
"We're aliens, and been all over the world recently and have never felt more welcomed to the world." Kara says.
"We're embraced is because we look human, Skirt." Peter says. "Most aliens don't get to blend in like us."
Kara leaves a bit mad at the two as she leaves the bar.
"Well, I'm in the doghouse now." Peter complains.
"She wants to remain hopeful. It's one of the things we both find admirable about her." J'onn tells him.
"Yeah...but how long can it go on for?" Peter wonders and leaves.
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Peter decided to finally see once and for all what's happening when his senses are alerting him on something and strolls the streets out in the open.
After a while, his senses aren't saying anything is wrong and he thinks maybe it had to do with the robbery...and that's when they do go off.
Instead of turning around or anything, Peter quickly pulls out his phone and takes a picture of the direction that the warning is coming from.
He looks at the photo and what he sees is confusing.
He sees some girl wearing a blue jacket that's covering most of her face but he can see she has short blonde hair. She doesn't exactly look like a threat, she seems kinda nervous.
Peter quickly turns around to see if she's still there and sees nothing.
"Who are you?" Peter wonders, confused to who this girl is.
Peter decides to return to the DEO, and finds Brainy.
"Brainy, do you think you can run facial recognition off of this woman?" Peter asks him, showing the photo.
"Of course, I'll let you know when I find the results." Brainy tells him. "But this might be more urgent. I used the info you got from Lillian Luther and found a location for Mercy and Otis. Would you believe it's an abandoned warehouse?"
"Of course it is." Peter whispers and contacts Kara.
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The two heroes make it and see nobody in sight and Brainy is hacking into the computers.
The two do them come across the computer system and sees someone called EarthFirst29.
"I have a lead on a Phorian at my son's school. Anyone know how to take him out?" Peter reads a comment and someone replies with a link to make a bomb.
They look and see a lot of haters about aliens and about EarthFirst
Suddenly, a call comes in and Peter answers.
"Hey, I'm glad you picked up. That weapon you sold me, it barely burned through the Phorians."
"Who is this?" Peter asks.
"What do you mean? It's Karen."
"Mom, Cary won't let me use the computer."
"I got to go."
They're shocked at what they're hearing and looks across the boards and see nothing but alien haters.
"These chat rooms on the computers..."
"All filtered through the dark web." Brainy tells them. "ISPs originated from all over the country. Yet untraceable. But I did find something in a deleted email cache. Blueprints of Camp David."
"They're going to attack the alien summit." They both reply.
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"I'm not gonna cancel the summit." President tells the two.
"The Graves siblings are dangerous operatives. I'm afraid of what they could do to you and your alien guests." Kara says.
"So am I. But there's always someone to be afraid of. Some force, some threat that is beyond our control. And yet, we carry on. A leader who caves to fear is no leader at all." President tells them.
"I'll get into contact with the Secret Service, the DEO, coordinate with them." Peter promises.
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Everyone is watching the summit for anything to happen.
"You got anything on your scanners?" Kara asks Peter.
"No, nothing so far. But with Morg'Ann as the President's guard, she'll be safe." Peter says when his alerts go off. "Spoke too soon. EMP inbound." He says as it flies through the air and Peter goes to stop it when it explodes in his face and his suit shuts down.
Brainy was able to reactivate everything but Kara watches as Peter's suit shuts down and his nanotechnology is malfunctioning and he plummets to the ground when Kara catches him.
"Why is your suit not working?" Kara asks.
"The arc reactor is sensitive. It needs to reboot itself. Until then, I'm not safe." Peter says when they notice people unconscious. "Not unlike the President is now."
"Alex, they're in DEO uniforms!" Kara tells them.
Kara flies in to help, Morg'Ann is watching for anything and Peter runs to the camp.
They open fire and Morg'Ann blocks the bullets with her shield.
The sister goes to shoot the President in the back and Peter quickly flies in and stops the bullet. But unfortunately, the bullet hit a piece of healing nanotechnology, embedding it inside of Peter.
Kara and Morg'Ann run over to him.
"Peter, are you okay?" Morg'Ann asks as they turn him over.
"Ow." Peter says as they see the siblings are escaping. "Go...stop...them." He tells Kara and she goes off to stop them.
"Is there anything I can do?" Morg'Ann asks Peter.
"Back...away." Peter warns her and Morg'Ann does so as Peter gets on his knees and his suit finally reboots and he deactivated the area where the bullet entered. His arm starts to humm as he activated a magnetic pulse and it rips the bullet out so that his powers can heal him.
He screams in agony as his mask retracts so he can breathe more easily.
"I'm gonna be...okay." Peter peomises as he pants.
Kara tries her best to stop the siblings when suddenly her ears start ringing.
"Supergirl. I know you can hear me. You filthy roach. You need to know you won't stop this." Mercy tells her.
"I'm stopping you both." Kara promises.
"This isn't one of your battles where it's good vs. evil. Because we are the good guys, fighting to save this country. We'll do whatever it takes to win."
Mercy turns a gun on her brother and shoots him.
"Help!" He screams and Kara goes to save him only to see he has a bulletproof vest on. "You really thought my sister would kill me?"
Before Kara could do anything, Mercy is thrown at her feet and is completely webbed up.
"What?" They both ask when someone walks out and Kara has never seen her before.
She's dressed in an all white and black suit with what looks like ballerina shoes, half black and white pants and has a hood covering her mask that's all white with pink eyes outlined that looks like an alternative version of Peter's suit.
"Think she's yours." The woman says.
"Who are you?" Kara asks.
"A friend." She promises as she leaps before swinging through the forest.
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"A female Spider-Man?" Alex asks as the two of them as they bring the Graves twins in. "Is that even possible?"
"Negative." Brainy informs them. "Spider-Man's powers are based off of a one in a million chances. Morg'Ann here for example came from the same environment as him and her powers are not the same as his. The female can't be a Kryptonian-human hybrid."
"My doppelgänger from Earth-1 was bit by a radioactive spider. Is there anything like that here?" Peter wonders.
"No, but this could be about the photo you asked me to look over." Brainy says.
"What photo?" Kara asks.
"I found out I am being stalked." Peter explains. "Someone is watching me, so I was able to snap a photo of someone. Who is it?"
Brainy looks hesitant to tell him and now Peter is worried to who it is. "I found nobody in our database, so I expanded it to everywhere and what I found...was strange to say nonetheless." He shows the facial recognition from the photo and who it is.
"That's...not possible." Kara whispers.
"She can't be. She died." Peter tells Brainy.
"Which is why I couldn't get a match, because I ran it through the living. When I ran it over security footage, social media, they all brought back the same images." Brainy says as he shows street camera footage of Peter and Gwen back years ago, photos from her social media, even the news report on her death showed the exact same thing.
A 100% facial match to deceased Gwen Stacy.
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Peter is at his home, completely confused to how to feel now as Kara sits next to him.
"You gonna be okay?" Kara asks him as she gives him a comforting hug.
"I don't know." Peter tells her. "I felt her die in my arms...she shouldn't be alive. She can't be alive. And now...she's stalking me. And now she's out there, dressed up as me without the tech and I don't know how to find her."
"We'll find her. When I talked to her in the woods, it's like she didn't even know me." Kara tells him.
"Maybe she doesn't remember anything." Peter guesses.
"Maybe someone made a clone of her?" Kara wonders.
"Why would they do that? Bring her back to life and give her my powers to...save people?" Peter questions when Kara's phone goes off.
"Hey, Alex, what's up?" Kara asks.
"Are you with Peter?"
"Yeah, he's here." Kara says.
"Turn on the tv, right now." Alex tells them.
They're both confused as to what this could be about, but they do as she says and are shocked.
"This footage was made available to us earlier that showed the attack on Camp David. The footage has been made available to us through the Daily Bugle." The news says as it shows J. Jonah Jamison.
"But that's not all, folks. There is also the biggest mystery of all time that has finally been solved. Who...is...Spider-Man? Well, here's the big blockbuster, brace yourselves you might wanna sit down." Jamison tells them.
The footage changes and shows Peter trying to pry the bullet out of him and shows his mask retracted and the image freezes.
"Spider-Man has been identified as one Peter James Parker."
Peter and Kara look in shock and fear.
"WHAT THE FU-?!"