Spyder616: I have no clue, I've read a lot and just started writing last year and apparently it was a talent I didn't know I had, go figure.
Morring star: I know that outfit and I'll think on it, but I want to see if I can have him hold his own, if Batman can do it then I think Peter can.
Jezrianna: Don't worry I'm not going to rush any relationship, and I only had to go on was the episode but thanks for that info.
Morlin: Spidey will face off against other villains only a little later on. I want to try and find a synopsis for that episode cause I don't get the 3rd season here but I want to have Peter meet Terry.
Dr. Evans: Maybe I will, I'm not a big Titan fan but I'll give it a shot.
Ervin: Sorry I won't do that, they need that kind of weakness. Plus that would require genetic tampering and that could be dangerous. Besides only a few people have access to that stuff.
Winblades: lol, Black Mage, now that's a new one. He'll meet up with a few DC villains don't worry about that.
Kaliann: He'll go to the other homes eventually and yes he'll go to New York too.
X-Over: Yeah I got plans for all of those ideas on the drawing board so far, and I'll get to them when I can. I have no idea how long this story will be but I plan to make the most of it.
The Uncanny R-Man: Yep that's the episode where I got it from. I figured Lois was the kind of woman who would use that to her advantage.
Star Lin: I'm glad you liked it and the Lois scene. That and can you honestly picture Peter anywhere else then NY? I can't. I still look forward to that story.
Dapster: Yeah that would get too complicated so the entire Parker family doesn't exist in the DC world. As for Kara, well I'm not telling maybe it will then again I might chance my mind.
Thanks to: booyah, Bumpkin, Gyre, c-wolf, rockflyer, jedi3, Urazz, Xih, Ldypebsaby, SiriusAboutMarauders, Proponent of EVO
JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SPIDERCHAPTER 5: RETURN OF A HERO
She was here in his arms. Mary Jane, the green eyed red head that held his heart. She was in a blue winter coat and he was holding her close. "Let's run away together...let's just ran off and get married." She pleaded with him.
He gently stroked her face with his hand as he looked into those eyes when she looked up at him. "Not yet." He said and held her close. Then Peter woke up.
Peter woke up to the smell of cooking food. He looked around at the unfamiliar place and remembered where he was. He looked around and saw from across the open spaced apartment. The memory of that night in his life was still fresh in his mind. He remembered that day, it was the day MJ had tried to run away from home and Peter had gone looking for her and had found her.
He would always remember that day. He knew she had meant what she told him, even though only fifteen she wanted to spend the rest of her life with him, and Peter felt the same. He felt a stab of sadness in his heart then as he knew that would never happen now. She was dead...as was his dream of a life with her at his side as his wife. It had been three years ago and ever since that day he couldn't wait for the day they would be together.
But that's all it was now...a dream...a shattered dream at that.
He looked over at Clark making breakfast, at least that's what he figured he was doing since food kept being placed on the table but he was moving so fast he looked like a blur of motion. He got up and went over to the table and Clark had just finished. "Morning." He said cheerfully and Peter gave a slightly annoyed look. He never was much of a morning person himself. "Sleep well?"
Peter shrugged. "Alright." Considering he woke up once in the night and tried to get back to sleep. His nights weren't as bad as when he first was here.
"Anyways I remember how you liked to take photos and I figured you could get back into that if you like." Clark said as he went to a drawer and pulled out a camera and placed it on the table. Peter was both surprised and grateful for this.
"Oh man...thanks, I mean...are you sure I can have this?" Peter asked Clark. The older man just smiled and nodded.
"It's not a problem." Clark assured him. "Besides maybe you could find something to do at the Planet. I mean I'm sure Jimmy would like to have another person around that know about photography more his own age."
Clark looked at the time on the clock. "We better hurry, Lois will be here to pick us up and she hates being late." After breakfast and a quick shower and change Peter was ready just as Lois had arrived.
"Hey how was it with Clark's parents?" She asked them as they left the apartment and Clark locked up.
"It was pretty cool actually, never been to a farm before that." Peter said with a genuine smile.
"Tell me about it." Lois said laughing a little. "I was an army brat, so most of my childhood was spent at military bases. Plus the Kents are a nice couple, and I can see their influence in Clark too."
"How so?" Clark asked her but he already knew the answer to it, this was just for a little fun.
She gave him a sideways look and a small smile. "Well there is the whole boy scout thing you got going for you."
"I thought it was one of my more endearing qualities that you liked about me?"
"It's not...it one of the qualities I love about you." Lois told him with a look of affection, and Clark returned that. Peter just grinned at the two of them, he could tell they had been together if not romantically then personally for years. Like they were best friends who became something more.
His smile faded as that brought him back to MJ. She had been his best friend for years before they became romantically involved. He just wished that they knew how special what they had and didn't lose it. It wasn't pleasant to go through that as he was learning through experience at the moment.
It wasn't until they were in Lois' car they noticed that Peter had been quiet and almost reclusive. Lois and Clark shared a look and Lois decided to try and get him to open up. "So Peter, you have any experience with journalism? Clark told me you used to work for one."
This brought Peter out of his thoughts. "Uh...oh yeah. I handled the Daily Bugle's web page." He saw the grin forming on her face in the rearview mirror. "Yeah, I know. Spider-Man, wed page manager the irony isn't lost on me." He said with a small smile. "Plus I was doing a little freelance photography from time to time."
"That sounds interesting." Clark said. "Who was you're employer?"
"This guy called Jameson."
"Nice guy?" Lois asked and Peter laughed. "I take that as a no then."
"You have no idea." Peter said to her from the back seat. "Let me paint you a picture. A guy with a crew cut hair, black and graying on the sides, always has a cigar has a Hitler mustache and is grouchy 24-7."
"You're kidding?" Clark asked him turning around slightly.
"I wish." He said in humor remembering the man. He was one of the few people he might not exactly miss that much from his world. "The guy also tried his best to make me look like a villain every chance he got. Even distorting the facts to do it."
"Why?" Both Lois and Clark asked at the same time. As journalist they tried to get at the truth.
Peter shrugged. "Don't know. Maybe a spider bite him once as a kid and he never got over it."
Later they arrived at the Daily Planet. Peter looked up and saw a giant cement planet earth with the Daily Planet around it in a ring on top of the building. "Nice." He commented to himself and walked in. He got through security with Lois and Clark and was given a visitor's pass.
They went up to the office floor. It was a lot different then the Bugle that Peter could see right away. The place was more open and there were no cubicles and the only office with walls and a door was one that he figured belonged to Perry White, the man in charge.
"Hey guys what's up?" Someone said to them. Peter looked and saw a redheaded boy maybe a year or more younger then him with spiky red hair and a few freckles wearing a camera around his neck. "Who's the new guy?"
"Jimmy this is Peter, he's visiting with me for the weekend." Clark said. "Peter this is Jimmy one of our best photographers."
"Hey nice to meet you." Jimmy said reaching out for a handshake that Peter returned. "So where are you from?"
"New York." Peter said to him. "Interesting camera, a bit old but then again the older models were built better I think."
Jimmy's face brightened a little. "You know cameras?"
"Yeah, I did a little freelance for a paper in New York, but I had...well I had to drop it, freelance doesn't pay that well."
"Cool!" Jimmy said. He rarely found anyone else to talk to and the other photographers were either out covering things far away or were too old to get most of his live style. While Lois and Clark went about their work Jimmy showed Peter around and told him a few interesting things about the work place.
"So you must be Parker right?" Came a voice from behind them. Both of them turned to see a middle aged man with a slight spare tire and slightly balding.
"Mr. White, yeah this is Peter." Jimmy said friendly.
Perry shook Peter's hand. "Glad to meet you son." He said pleasantly and this threw Peter a little, he was so used to Jameson that this was the complete opposite of what he had been expecting. "I hear you're a photographer?"
"Yeah, freelance mostly." Peter admitted.
"You worked for anywhere I would know?"
"Uh...I doubt it." Peter said trying to think fast. "The paper I worked for...isn't around any longer." He had learned that if you put some truth into lies they were somehow more believable.
"Well if you're good maybe I might buy a few, but Jimmy here is pretty good, one of our best so you got to do a lot to impress me."
"Thanks Mr. White." Jimmy Olsen told him beaming with confidence.
After that Jimmy finished giving Peter the tour and now he was getting a little bored, sure it was nice but without something to do he was climbing the walls so he walked over to Clark. "Hey, I'm going to go check out the city."
"Are you sure you want to do that alone?"
Peter smiled. "I won't go far 'dad' and I promise to bring back the car too." Clark was glad that Peter seemed to be loosening up a little. So Peter tucked in his visitor's pass so he could get back in later and walked out. The city seemed kind of nice, a lot...cleaner it seemed then New York.
He went a few blocks and was enjoying his walk. "Someone please help!" Came a female's shout. Peter knew it was too good to be true he looked around but no one was close enough to see it.
"Damn it, no phone, not even a cop in sight...it must be a universal constant in all realities." He muttered to himself as he ran to the nearest alley where the sound came from. He saw a young woman in heels, a skirt and a blouse with short dark hair maybe a year or so older then him with two men.
One was holding on to her while covering her mouth. The other was looking through her purse and took out some monkey and stuffed it all in his pocket and threw the purse aside. "Well it's not much...but maybe we can take something else." The man said with a cruel grin and pulled out a switchblade and cut off a few of the top buttons on her blouse.
Peter could see the fear in the woman's eyes and new he had to do something.
"Let her go." He said angrily, it was things like this he despised most of all. This wasn't just a crime, it was a violation and it was something Peter hated of all the things he had seen.
"Get lost kid." The other one said.
"Make me." Peter said coldly as he walked up to the man with the knife. Peter had faced things that would cause these so called men to wet their pants if they thought they could intimidate him they were sadly mistaken.
"You asked for it punk." The knife wielding one said walking to Peter with a predatory grin. Peter's face was just passive and showed only his determination and anger. The man swung the knife at his face but Peter easily caught it and broke the man's wrist.
Peter heard the sickening snap over the man's screaming in pain and fell to his knees as Peter let go. The other one seeing this threw the woman to aside and she fell to the ground. She watched in surprise and fascination as she saw the other man charge towards the young man trying to save her. She saw him dodge under the punch and punched the man in the gut, and very hard by the looks of it.
As he was bent over holding his stomach the young browned hair man punched him in the side of the face with a left cross and he went down to the ground and stayed there, evidently knocked out. The other one was struggling to his feet and ran at him. She was going to shout out a warning but he seemed to know it was coming and side stepped him and grabbed his jacket and threw him head first into a dumpster.
Peter saw both of the muggers were out cold and went to the young woman. He reached down to her. "We better get out of here." He gently told her and she nodded and grabbed her purse and fled with him. It wasn't until they ran a few blocks until they slowed down. "Are you alright miss...uh sorry I don't know your name."
"Cathy." She told him. She felt her heart racing and suddenly the reality just sunk in. She never thought something like that would happen to her, and then she realized what would have happened to her if this he hadn't come to save her.
Peter saw her suddenly stop and lean against the wall. "Hey are you alright Cathy?" He asked her worried. He saw her starting to cry and Peter put a hand on her shoulder. She looked at him and suddenly hugged him.
"Thank you, oh god thank you." She whimpered to him. Peter held her close, he had seen this happen a lot of times. After she was over the shot she wiped her tears away. "I'm so sorry...I shouldn't have just done that."
"It's alright, after something like that I'm not surprised."
"Well I'm glad you came for me...I just realized I don't know your name." Cathy told him.
Peter kindly smiled at her. "It's Peter. Do you want me to walk you home or something?"
"I-if you don't mind." She said. She was holding her blouse closed at the top and Peter could tell she was still scared so he decided to make sure she got home safe. On the way there he tried to take her mind of things and he didn't know it, she was grateful for it. They got to the front door she stopped next to him.
"So do you live around here?" She asked him.
"No, I'm just here for the weekend I'm staying at a friends."
She looked a little disappointed. "I'm sorry to hear that...this city...maybe even this world needs more people like you in it."
"Really?"
She smiled at him. "Really, I know the world would be a better place." She kissed his cheek then. "Thank you again, you saved me and you didn't have to...but you did. You're a real hero in my books, I know that sounds cliché maybe even stupid...but it's true."
They said their goodbyes and Peter walked on feeling better about himself suddenly. He had helped a person out without the costume. Did that mean he was still a hero without it? Could he just walk away from helping people or was this who he truly was deep down? Someone who helps others and tries his best to make the world a better place? Well there was only one way to find out.
Peter had found his way back to the apartment, after looking at the subway maps he found the shortest route and with a spare key Clark had given him he got in then lock the door behind him. He couldn't believe he was going to actually do this, he was thinking he must have been nuts or something.
But there was the other part, the larger part of him that had been rekindled that said that this was the right choice. This was the part of him that had tried to do good in the world to help those that couldn't help themselves. He wasn't sure if he still had that same fire inside himself, but after what had happened today maybe he could really do it again.
He got out his suitcase and found the costume and equipment. He was lucky that Clark's apartment window was high up and not close to another window but he guessed Clark picked this place so he could fly in and out without too much worry about someone spotting him.
He put on everything except the mask. He looked himself in the mirror in Clark's room, staring at his face. "Well...it's now...or never." He said to himself and pulled on the mask. He walked out into the balcony and without thinking twice jumped off.
An hour later Clark and Lois were having lunch at a small outdoor café that was near the Planet. They always liked to come here, since it was close to work and it had good food and service. They were at one of the outside tables talking.
"I hope Peter is all right." Clark wondered out loud.
"I'm sure he's fine." Lois assured him. "I mean after all he's a tough kid and if he's lived in New York his entire time he knows what to do and not do in a city. Besides Jimmy is most likely with him."
Clark was looking over her shoulder. "I don't thing so." Lois looked confused then looked over her shoulder surprised to see Jimmy walking towards them.
"Hey guys. I was wondering if Peter was with you guys." Jimmy said seeing them.
Clark shook his head. "No I thought he would have been back by now."
"Stop him! Someone please stop that man!" A woman shouted and all three of them and others looked to see a man running from woman with a purse. Clark stood up out of instinct but looked around to see if there was a way to slip out.
"Look up in the sky." Someone shouted and pointed.
"Is it a bird?"
"Is it a plane?"
"No it's...I don't know who that is."
The next thing the people on the street saw was someone dressed in a red and blue costume with a spider symbol on it, swinging overhead on webs heading for the purse-snatcher. People watched as this new hero picked up the criminal and with an acrobatic air show ended up tying him upside down in webs from a street light and handed the purse back to the woman.
"Thank you...who are you?" The woman asked him.
"You really want to know? I'm Spider-Man." He told her and shot a web-line and took off over the streets.
Clark was smiling the entire time then turned to Lois and whispered as Jimmy was trying to get pictures. "I think we don't have to worry about Peter." He whispered.
A few hours later Peter had landed on one of the taller buildings of the city. He looked around the unfamiliar city landscape. To him Metropolis seemed to a more futuristic then most cities, it was a nice city and already he stopped a few muggings and a bank robbery, which he got pictures of himself stopping. What really threw him for a loop was the fact that people actually seemed relieved to see him and even the cops had thanked him.
This was new to him since most people just hide from him in fear or the cops pointed guns at him yelling to get down on the ground. It was a nice change. "Well so far this has been surprisingly a good day." He said to himself. "Now I only got one problem." He looked around the city. "How the hell do I get back to the apartment from here?" He looked and tried to find a few landmarks but didn't see any from where he was.
"I am so freaking lost...mental note...get a city map of this place as soon as possible."
NEXT UP CHAPTER 6: THE METALIC MENANCE