malciah: Oops sorry about that, I never got that issue so I wasn't sure about that. Interesting idea about MJ, I wasn't really planning on any of that but I might later on. I guess I'll just have to see where the story goes first.
Mightierdandasword: I do have plans on him meeting Static later on but Lana is too old for him. As for May, Ben and the others not technically but if they existed then so would he and that would be too difficult.
Dany le fou: I don't plan on Peter falling for anyone right away, when he does met Kara they'll start off as just friends then maybe things will grow from there. I'm not thinking of actually brining in any more Marvel people, that might be too much. I wanted to have more spidey action at the beginning but I couldn't really think of anything, plus he was injured too so it couldn't have been much anyway. You gave me an idea though so watch out it.
KaliAnn: Yeah he'll fun into her, but remember his girlfriend was just killed not too long ago so don't expect any romance at the beginning.
Ldypebsaby: Yeah Flash is fun to write. The Clark thing just came to me and it was too good to pass up. Plus if you look at Superman does Clark seem like a name that would fit him? And yes Supergirl will be there too.
X-Over: No problem it's not the first time that's happened to me. I just want Spider-man being the only Marvel character to bring over, if there are anymore it might be the Six, but I'm not sure. Plus remember this is ultimate Spider-Man from the ultimate universe, any more characters that might show up would be from that same universe. Peter will meet up with the Teen Titans later on along with other DC characters.
Vegabond: That mutation thing actually happened to Spider-Man in the comic books way back in like the 70's, it was also around the time they introduced Morbius for the first time in the comics.
The Uncanny R-Man: Actually I was thinking he would meet them, but I think he's too old to join up. And I think Martha will try something like that, and yes Kara and Peter will have their first meeting.
Star Lin: Yeah I didn't want Peter to decide to be Spider-man just like that, I want to try and make it seem like he was actually coming to terms with everything. Yes Peter will still do the photography part later on, I mean he has to do something for a living right?
Dapster: Well he will see the Planet but Jimmy Olsen already has the job there, besides I want to send him back to New York, since in DC universe there are hardly any heroes there if any at all.
Thanks to: Bumpkin, hazelle, Gyre, Jezrianna, Brutal2003, TJ Thunder, Manga-faerie, Lady Suneidesis, SiriusAboutMarauders, Morlin, Urazz, Winblades, Showstopper
JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SPIDERCHAPTER 4: THE KENTS
Peter got a small suitcase that he was packing what little clothing he had. He wasn't sure what he would need so he just got the basics. There was still room in his suitcase and was looking through the drawers wondering what else he might need.
Then he came to his Spider-Man costume. He was thinking about whether he would need it or not or if he should just through the thing into space. He thought once again about just quitting but then what would his life be like then? And wouldn't that make all the scarifies he had made all for nothing? He considered that last one pretty closely.
He decided that since he didn't know what exactly he would expect in this Metropolis city, then he might need something anyway...just in case. So he packed it with the hopes of not needing it and walked off to join Superman at one of the new teleportation units. Apparently before now the League members had to use something called the Javelin 7 to get to Earth all the time and this was something new.
He met Superman but he was dressed in a suit, glasses and his hair was slicked back. Peter was a little surprised at this. He had been wondering why no one recognized him as Superman and now he could see why. The suit hid his muscular form and with the hair and glasses he looked like the kind of guy that got beat up for his lunch money as a kid. Something Peter had happened to him a few times in his freshman year in high school.
"Okay...now you look like a Clark." Peter said to him.
Clark let out a small laugh and they stepped onto the transporter and ended up in Clark's apartment in Metropolis. Peter looked around and was amazed at the place. "How much do you get paid as a reporter?" Peter asked as he looked around. This place was huge and nicely decorated.
"A lot." Came a female voice, which made Peter jump. He turned to see an attractive dark haired woman in a white skirt and business shirt top. She walked up to them with a smile seeing Peter's reaction, which was like a deer caught in the headlights kind of look. "So you must be Peter? Hi I'm Lois." She said and extended her hand for a handshake.
Peter blinked a couple of times then shook her hand. "Uh...okay, hi then." Peter was confused to say the least.
Lois seeing this turned to Clark. "You didn't tell him about me didn't you Smallville?" She asked him using the nickname she always had called Clark by since the first day they met.
"Sorry about that." Clark apologized. "I didn't mean to, I figured you wouldn't be here and he could meet you tomorrow, I'm just dropping his stuff here before we head on to my folks today."
"I know." Lois said to him. "That's why I can here early, I just had to met him." She turned to see Peter was trying to make sense of it so she figured she would enlighten him. "Clark and I are involved. I know he's Superman...I just wish he hadn't taken years to tell me though." She said sending a slight glare his direction. Clark sighed knowing he's never would hear the end of it, but he was glad he finally told her anyway.
"Years?" Peter said a little surprised. "Man, I told my girlfriend after a could of weeks."
That make Lois' head whip around to him surprised at that statement, then she cast a particularly nasty look to Clark. "A few weeks huh? Well...better late then never I suppose."
Clark mentally groaned, he wished Peter hadn't had said that. Now Lois would most likely compare that to their relationship and from the look on her face she knew they were going to have one serious and very uncomfortable talk latter on.
Lois picked up her purse. "Well I got to get back to the Planet, nice meeting you Peter and it's nice to know at least one male has the guts to go through with that without taking their sweet time." As she left Peter cast a sympathetic and apologetic look to Clark.
"Sorry about that man, I didn't mean to get you in trouble like that."
Clark sighed. "Yeah well, you didn't know. She'll get over it, I think this is just her way of getting back at me for keeping it secret for so long. So place your suitcase somewhere and I'll fly us off to my parents place."
"Why didn't we just teleport there?" Peter asked as he placed his suitcase next to the couch.
"The teleporter can take a person up to the watchtower from almost anywhere but there are only a limited number of places that it's programmed to go to, besides it wouldn't be safe to have a computer that had the location of my parents place, even if it is in the Watchtower."
"Oh...that makes sense." Not long after that Clark flew them as fast as possible without harming Peter, since most people Superman knew couldn't survive his fastest speeds, it took longer then usual but they touched down on a farm in Kansas.
Peter looked around the place, he'd never actually been to a real farm but it looked like what he'd seen in movies and TV. There was a two story white house and a barn behind it and a field too. It also had a peaceful feel to the place and quieter then a city. Even the Watchtower which if you listened had a hum of power or some kind of computer or machine voices. "Nice place." Peter said honestly.
Clark smiled and put a hand on Peter shoulder as he led him to the house. "Come on, I'll introduce you to my parents." Peter walked up to the house and went in after Clark. "Mom, dad you here?" Clark called out.
"I'm here." Came a female voice and Peter saw an older woman with short gray hair but seemed to have a calm and kind face and aura about her. She saw Peter and smiled and he couldn't help but smile back. "So you must be Peter, Clark's told us a lot about you. So how are you doing dear?"
Peter shrugged. "Better then when I got here Mrs. Kent."
"Please call me Martha, well come in and sit down. Clark can you get your father I think he's out back."
Clark nodded. "Sure thing." He looked around the room then stopped. "Looks like he's trying to fix that tractor again." He said with a smile. As long as he could remember his father had battled with that thing. He refused to get a new one as he kept saying if he could keep going at his age so should his equipment.
Peter watched him leave and shook his head in amusement. "X-Ray vision definitely comes in handy. Must have been hard to surprise him with gifts on birthdays and Christmas."
Martha laughed at that. "You have no idea, it took us awhile to try to put led around the gifts so he couldn't see them."
Peter laughed at the thought of him trying to see through the gifts and not being able to. As they waited for Clark to return with Jonathan Kent he and Martha talked and he soon realized just how much she seemed to remind him of his Aunt May. They were both kind and caring people and sitting there talking to her was both comforting but also brought back how much he missed his family.
When Clark brought in Jonathan a man about the same age as Martha but with glass, gray hair and was going bold up top reminded Peter a lot of his uncle Ben too. He could understand now how Clark seemed to kind to everyone if these were the people that raised him. When lunch came around Peter was hard pressed to eat up since Martha had thought that he could use a little more meat on him and said he looked a little too skinny.
"Trust me I'm fine." Peter said in good humor. "Besides if I eat anymore of this great food my stomach will burst."
"Yes she does that." Jonathan said. "How do you think I got this slight spare tire on me?"
Martha gave a light playful slap to his arm. "I never heard you complain."
"And you never will." He said with a smile.
Clark was enjoying this but then a communicator he kept on him in case of emergency went off. Everyone stopped and watch as Clark activated it and place it to his ear. "Superman I'm here...yes...Alright I'll be here." He put it away and stood up. "Is it alright if Peter stays here until I get back?"
"Of course it is." His mother told him.
"Thanks." Clark said to her then turned to Peter. "Sorry there's some major disaster I need to go, but I'll be back as soon as I can."
Peter nodded. "No problem, believe me I understand." Clark nodded once then in a blur he was gone. Peter looked to the Kents. "So I guess I'll help clean up if you want?"
"You don't have to do that." Martha said as she gathered the plates. "But thank you for offering."
"If you want I could use some help out back." Jonathan told him as he got up.
"Sure, I always wondered what you do on a farm." Peter told him. For the next few hours Peter helped out fixing the old tractor, which was a task on itself, and left Peter greased up and had to wash off. But since he liked working with his hands he enjoyed it. He also did a few more odd things around the place and he and Jonathon talked and joked around.
For the first time in days Peter seemed to feel better then he ever had. A few hours later Kara Kent, who was the last survivor of Krypton's sister planet Argos was walking home from school. 'I'm so glad this is my last year at high school.' She thought to herself. 'It's not like I don't mind Smallville but I really want to get back to the city again.' The only problem was where to go for collage? If she chose Gotham she and Barbara could hang out but Batman might not like her in 'his' city.
There was Metropolis, but she kind of felt like that was Clark's city and she wanted someplace where she was needed but also felt like she wasn't getting in someone else's way.
She reached the front door and the cat of course ran right outside like always. "Hey I'm back!" She yelled out before dropping her stuff in her room upstairs. She reached the top of the stairs when she saw Martha at one end of the hall.
"Oh Kara, we got company over." Martha told her.
Kara groaned. "Is this the kind of company that I need to be 'normal' for?"
Martha smiled and shook her head. "No he's different then normal people. Clark brought him over but he had to leave. He's outback helping Jonathon right now."
"Really?" She asked now interested. "Who is he, have I heard of him?"
Martha got a little saddened look on her face remembering the stories Clark had told them of Peter. "Well he's about your age but I don't think you'd know him."
"My age? Really?" She liked hearing that, most of the other heroes on this planet were either older or younger then her and it was nice if she could meet someone her own age. Granted she was friends with Barbara but she was only slightly older. "Is he cute?"
Martha nearly laughed. "Well you'd have to find out yourself."
"I think I will." Kara said with a grin and speed off to her room to drop her stuff off and changed out of her school clothing into shorts and a plain T-shirt and went to see where they were. She heard some sounds from the barn and saw Jonathan and a boy about her own age with short brown hair.
Peter was throwing a few bails of hey up to the loft, but from the ground up. Jonathan watched as Peter just grabbed the bail of hay and then easily threw it up to the second level "Impressive." He said seeing Peter throw the tenth one up there and he wasn't breaking a sweat yet.
"I'll say." Said Kara from behind walking over to them.
Peter was surprised by the voice of a pretty girl with long blond hair walking over. At first Peter was starting to panic that she saw him throw that bail a lot easier then a normal person should have but remembered about a girl named Kara that lived here that was also a Kryptonian. "Kara right?" He asked slightly hopeful that it was and not some neighbor's daughter here for a visit.
She nodded. "And I guess that makes you Peter right?" Peter nodded at her question.
"Well now that you're here why not help finish this off with Peter?" Jonathan asked her. "I'm getting a little too old for this anyway." He said good-naturedly.
"Sure thing." Kara said and grabbed one of the bails and threw it with easy to the top. It didn't take long for them to finish it up as Kara threw up the last one. "So besides strength you got anything else you can do?" She asked Peter.
Peter smirked and did a back flip to the wall and stuck there. "Well I can cling to almost any surface and stay there, and I got spider like speed, reflexes, agility and balance."
"Spider powers? Eww." Kara said making a face at that.
"Hey." Peter said to her slightly offended. "It's not that bad, and I like them." He stopped for a moment at what he just said. Ever since he got here he wasn't sure if he even liked his powers...but then he guessed maybe that Freudian slip told him the truth about it.
"Whoa, I didn't mean anything by it...it's just...well...I just find spiders a little...gross." Kara told him and Peter gave a mock glare.
"You do know that when I was still in the hero thing I called myself Spider-Man right?"
"Uh...no I didn't...sorry." She said slightly embarrassed. "Wait a minute what do you mean by was?"
Peter sighed. "It's kind of a long story."
"No problem I got the perfect place it's quiet, got a great view and no one should bother us." She said to him.
"Alright...where?" He asked. Later they were on the roof of the barn, he had jumped up and she flew and while up there he explained his past and that he had somehow ended up on this world. Kara was silent for a moment as she saw a side of him she hadn't noticed.
Now she noticed the slight bags under his eyes, most likely for a lack of a decent night sleep. She also felt a familiar pain in herself that she had tried to bury ever since she had woken up on this world. Peter noticed how quiet she got and also noticed the look on her face. "Are you alright?"
"Y-Yeah I'm fine." Kara said but she turned her head away from him and Peter knew at that moment there was something going on.
"You want to talk about it?" He asked her gently. He knew it wasn't easy talking about the pain a person kept inside them so he wasn't sure if she was or not.
It took a moment but Kara thought since he had unloaded on her she could do the same. Besides she was tired of keeping this to herself, she hadn't even spoken about it to Barbara but that was because Kara felt she couldn't completely understand. 'But he might." Kara thought about it. So she decided to tell him.
"It's just...it kind of reminds me of my own story. You see I was born and raised on Krypton's sister planet Argos. When Krypton was in the last minutes of destruction my parents put others and myself into stasis...but when Clark found me...I was the only one left alive. All the other ones failed and...I was the last person of my world. Clark was sent here a baby but for me it was just a few years ago. I still remember my parents...my friends...everyone." She wiped her eyes from the tears that came.
Peter gently placed a hand on her shoulder and she looked into his eyes and saw understanding there. Peter also could see all the joy in her eyes replaced by the sadness and pain of her loss. "It's not easy losing everything." Peter told her and Kara nodded.
"Yeah." She agreed. "Even though I do love it here...I still miss my old life from time to time. But...I can't do anything about that."
"You can just live with it...one day at a time." Peter said finishing her train of thought. They continued to talk on the roof telling each other about their lives, about friends they had made and about all the fun times they had. They even talked about people they cared about, Peter told her of MJ and Kara told him about his boy she was seeing behind her parent's backs at the time of her planet's death.
They talked like old friends up there until Martha called them down for supper. It wasn't until then they realized they had talked for hours and hadn't realized it. "Wow...time warp." Peter said looking at the sun going down.
"Tell me about it." Kara said equally surprised. "Peter...thanks for the talk. It...felt nice to finally talk to someone who understands."
Peter nodded. "Yeah, same here." Both teens smiled and went inside for the meal. By then Clark had come back and they all ate the meal talking and laughing and for a moment Peter felt like part of a family again. He hadn't had something like this in such a long time he had nearly forgotten it. It felt good and when Clark told him they had to go back to Metropolis he was a little saddened.
Martha hugged Peter. "Take care Peter."
Jonathon placed a hand on his shoulder. "Anytime you want to come and visit and help out please do."
"Sure thing." Peter told him with a small smile on his face.
Kara shook his hand. "Well I guess I might see you later then. I'm thinking of visiting Metropolis sometime this weekend, and I could show you around the city sometime?"
"I'd like that thanks." Peter told her. He was glad to have met the Kents, they reminded him of times in his life when he was truly happy and Kara seemed like a nice girl and he hoped they would be friends, it would be nice to have a friend someone his own age, he felt like such a kid around the other members of the League, even Flash although not by much in that department.
As they came back to Clark's apartment it was night and Clark pulled out the sofa bed and set it up for him. "Well I'm going to patrol the city for a few hours, make yourself at home."
"Alright...and Clark, thanks for today. I really needed it." Peter told him and Clark smiled and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"I know this is tough adjusting to everything, I just wanted to show you your life doesn't have to be empty, and that myself and others will be there for you. You're not alone in this."
"Thanks." Peter replied. As Clark changed back into Superman and left Peter decided to chance into his sleep wear and sit down on the sofa bed. It was facing a large TV so he figured if he could find any shows that were on this world that he had watched on his own.
But Peter noticed one other thing. The pain was still inside him and he knew that would never go away, but the loneliness that plagued him wasn't so bad anymore, and for the first time he really felt he might make a home for himself in this world.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 5: RETURN OF A HERO
While in Metropolis Peter makes a choice if he can continue on as Spider-Man