Dr. Evans: I was thinking of that, but I'll put it in later in this chapter.
Casy: Well I'll keep my eye open for yours. But I also write several other stories at the same time, but I try to update at least once a week, sometimes more.
Jezrianna: Yep it's Metallo, and Peter will be key to defeating him, since Kryptonite doesn't effect him. I know it was cliché but I like to use them from time to time.
Bumpkin: Well then happy birthday then.
Kaliann: Sorry no job at the Planet, he's not staying in Metropolis.
Star Lin: No problem with the review and I'm glad you found that last part as funny.
Ldypebsaby: Don't know if she might be back, I don't got any plans for it, and if he still has doubts then this chapter will fix that.
Winblades: Yeah you guessed right about the villain, no acid webs though. Thanks though for what you said about the Peter's love/hate relationship with what he does. And there might be a small rivalry with him and Jimmy, but I think a more friendlier one.
Urazz: Well I'm working on like four other fics. So to pass the time you could check those out too. I got two more Spider-Man crossover stories as well.
Metal Dragon1: Yep Metallo and Spider get into a fight in this chapter.
The Uncanny R-Man: There will be a mention of Lex that I just had to do in this, you'll get what I mean when you see it.
Thanks to: Gyre, fire inu, X-Over, c-wolf, booyah, SiriusAboutMarauders, B-master, Morlin, Aaron
JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SPIDERCHAPTER 6: THE METALIC MENANCE
It had taken awhile but Peter finally managed to find the apartment again. It wasn't easy, he had to find the Planet then it took a few tries to backtrack his way back to the apartment. When he got back in it was getting late, most likely after five.
"Exploring the city?" Clark asked him. Clark had heard him come in and gone to see him in his bedroom.
"Yeah...sorry about being late but I got turned around a few times out there." He said slightly embarrassed.
"Hey is that Peter?" Came a familiar voice. Kara poked her head inside the room. "Hi again." She walked in and looked him up and down in his suit. "Okay...I'll admit. The costume is kind of cool." She said grinning at it.
"Uh...thanks." Peter said a little perplexed to see her here.
"Hey I said I was stopping by Metropolis for the weekend, and Lois said I could crash at her place." Kara told him. "So you back in the hero business?" She asked him hopefully. He seemed like a nice guy to her and after their talk she was hoping he would go back to it. The world could always use more heroes.
"I think so." Peter told her taking off the mask.
"Well it was certainly an impressive display." Lois said also coming into the room. "You're just in time, we were going to eat soon so you better get ready."
"Alright." Peter said grabbing going into the living room to grab his normal clothes and changed in the bathroom. A couple of minutes later he came back out ready to eat, he hadn't been able to get back to the place in time for lunch and it's not like he could just go to a fast food place in his Spider-Man suit, even if he could it wasn't like he had any money on him as Spider-Man.
When he came out he smelled something good cooking and saw everyone gathering around the table. So he sat down across next to Kara as they ate. They asked him a few things like anything interesting he had come across.
"Well no super villains at least, just the regular crime you find." He admitted. "Although it is strange not having people frightened of me or the cops shooting at me."
"You mean the police in your world actually SHOT at you?" Kara said. She couldn't believe they would do that.
"Yeah I got the bullet wound scar to prove it." He said in a darker mood. "But I'm not sure which was worse, the people reactions or that movie they made about me."
"They made a movie about you?" Kara said surprised at that. "That must have been so cool!"
Peter shrugged. "Not really. One it wasn't about the real me for obvious reasons, secondly I didn't even get paid or anything. I mean they made a mutli-million dollar move about me and I didn't see a dime about it, I mean you know how expensive web fluid is? Plus when I went to the set they were filming me to save money and started to ask me all these questions and tried to pay me to take my mask off."
Clark shook his head. "I can't believe that, they actually did that?"
"Yeah by the director himself, Sam Raimi."
"Wait, the Evil Dead guy did your movie?" Kara asked him. She remembered watching those movies with Barbara one time. "Who played you?"
Peter winced at that one. "Tobey Maguire."
"The guy from Pleasantville and Seabiscuit?" Lois asked trying not to smile.
"Uh...yeah." Peter admitted. 'Great, now I'll never hear the end of this. I just hope this doesn't get back to the League.' He thought to himself. The rest of the night went pretty well and Clark had asked her if she had finished her homework before flying to Metropolis. The look on her face was kind of funny to Peter but he was sure he didn't laugh at her. She was 'mostly' done as she claimed and Peter offered to help her out if she wanted.
She of course was glad for the assistance, in return she offered to show him around the city, which he was glad for after getting lost. After Lois and Kara had left Peter had asked Clark if there was anywhere nearby that he could develop some film. Turns out Clark just got it there in a few seconds and an hour later he had his pictures back that he took that day. He planned on seeing if Perry would want a few.
Peter had another restless night that night but it still wasn't as bad, but he was still not getting a lot of sleep, but then again he was used to that too. Being Spider-Man, going to school, having a personal life and working did that to you from time to time, well most of the time.
In fact the time at the Watchtower was the longest break he had since he started as Spider-Man. Peter walked to the kitchen counter and sat down. Clark saw him and smirked. "You're not a morning person are you?"
"No...not really." He tried to stifle a yawn. "Coffee please." He asked. Later when he was ready Peter put on a long sleeve shirt on, mainly because of how it hit his costume underneath. Since he went out already as Spider-Man, he figured he get used to wearing the suit under his clothing again.
When he saw Lois' car he hopped into the back seat but found himself next to a girl with brown hair in a ponytail and glasses in black pants and a red and black jacket. "What the? Who are you?"
The girl laughed and pulled off the hair to show it was a wig. "It's me Kara. When I first came here as Kara I decided to change my looks. I mean would you expect a brunette with glasses to be Supergirl?"
"Uh...apparently not." Peter said feeling a little embarrassed. He noticed that Clark and Lois were trying hard not to laugh at his reaction. "Yeah go ahead laugh at the poor boy who just had a heart attack." He told them and that did it, sending them both off laughing.
He looked back to Kara reading the morning paper she brought along. "Looks like you made an impact yesterday." She said and handed him the paper with a slightly blurred image of him swinging away.
Peter smiled then it fell from his face as his eyebrows knitted together. "They spelled my name wrong." He simply said.
"What?" Lois asked him from the driver seat, she and Clark had written that article and she hated getting anything wrong in a story.
"You spelled my name as one word like Superman, it's spelled with a dash after the spider and the m is supposed to be capitalized." He corrected her.
Lois looked to Clark and he shrugged. "I thought that was how it was spelled."
Peter read on and saw a picture of a bald man who was running for Governor, but there seemed to be a lot of controversy over his past 'criminal activities' it had said. "Who's this Lex Luthor?" Peter asked them and he saw everyone tense up. "I take it you've all had experience with him huh?"
"And it wasn't pleasant." Kara said through her teeth. "The guy was a billionaire of a large company but the League finally got the goods on him and sent him to prison. He lost control of his company and now he's running for political office."
Peter looked at the picture as they filled him in on some of the things he had done and Peter got a sense of familiarity. "Great, the guy sounds and looks like Kingpin on a diet." He saw the looks and went to explain how a business man named Wilson Fisk in his reality was the Kingpin of crime in his world and of the dealings he had. "In fact Luthor looks a lot like Fisk...only about 500lbs lighter."
"The guy was that big?" Kara asked him.
Peter nodded. "Oh yeah, think Shamoo but with a I-like-to-crush-people's-heads-with-my-bare-hands type of attitude. In fact that's how I got him so pissed at me, I snuck into his building's security office and took a type of him doing that and released it to the press, he had to flee the country."
"Whoa...nice work." Kara said. "I bet you and Batman might get along well, sounds like his kind of style."
When they reached the Planet they went up together since Peter wanted to see if he could get anything for the pictures. It would be nice to get some cash on hand if he needed it. "Hey Peter!" It was Jimmy calling over to him. "Kara! I didn't know you were here." He said seeing Kara.
She shrugged. "I'm visiting and I thought I would show Peter around Metropolis while I'm here."
"Hey Jimmy, you think Perry would like a few shots I got of Spider-Man?"
This surprised him. "You've been in town one day and you already got pictures of the newest hero in town?"
"Uh...well...I did do this for a living for years...what can I say I got talent." He said and put a shrug at the end of it. Jimmy led them to Perry's office he was on the phone and they waited until he was done. Peter looked around and it had a nicer feeling then Jameson's office and a bit more open too.
"So Peter what can I do you for?" Perry said leaning back in his chair.
"Well I got these photos of Spider-Man and I was wondering if you'd want them?" Peter asked while getting a feeling of déjà vu from this. Perry took the photos from Peter and was surprisingly impressed by what he saw.
"Kid just how did you get these shots?" Perry asked him, he had been in the business for years and he never saw the kind of angles that these were taken on.
Jimmy got curious at that and looked over the desk at a few on the ground. "Whoa...I'm impressed...and a little jealous. I mean where did you take these? How did you take these, and could you tell me that?"
Peter had used his webbing to secure the camera like always so it would be a little difficult to explain that, but he had perfected a few things over the years and one of them was bluffing. "Sorry trade secret, no offence Jimmy but if I told everyone then I wouldn't stand out more. Besides I'm not staying in this city much longer so no need to worry about your job or anything."
"Worried? Heh heh who's worried." He told them, although he was a little. Those kind of dramatic angles were something he had never tried before and wondered if Peter was on a roof or something to get those high angle shots.
Perry had cut him a check and Peter was surprised at the amount. Either Perry was more generous then Jameson had been or Jameson had been screwing him over for years. And given what he knew of Jameson he figured that the latter was true.
"Cool, now that you got some cash you can treat me to lunch while showing you the city." Kara said pleasantly. Peter was about to say why he should pay but stopped himself. He figured why not, he had a new ID given to him by Batman before he left. Which was a good thing since he would need it, but somehow managed to make a whole new identity for him on this planet.
He was sure that what he did was technically not exactly legal, but then again neither was a lot of what he and most heroes did sometimes. But he was just thankful for it, it would have been hard to make a life for himself in this reality with no documents or past to build on. Kara took him to the closest bank to cash in and then she gave him a tour of the city.
They spent hours walking and taking the bus or subways. She showed him all the 'cool' places as she called them. A few malls and stores, they ate lunch at this nice franchise place he never heard of and she showed him a few of the sights the tourist like to visit. Peter had to admit he liked spending time with her.
She kind of reminded him a little of Gwen Stacy, especially the hair, even thought she was still wearing the wig. Kara caught him looking at her as they walked down the street. "What?"
Peter shook his head. "Sorry, it's just that you remind me of this girl I knew named Gwen...you would have liked her."
"Really? What was she like?"
Peter smiled at the memories. It had been a while since he thought of Gwen, she had died nearly three years ago but her death still haunted him. "She was something else I'll tell you that. I mean she really knew how to have fun, and she had this...I don't know...just this way about her." Peter told Kara about the first day they met and how after her father had been killed his Aunt May had taken her in. To Peter she had been like a sister, even though MJ was a little weary of having a girl live at his house she had gotten over it.
He also told her how her dad was killed by a man in a Spider-Man suit and had blamed Spider-Man for it, even though everyone had known it was a fake Spider-Man. Then when she found out that he was Spider-Man she got her dad's gun and pointed it at Peter threatening to kill him. Luckily he got the gun away and he convinced her it wasn't him.
She ran away and later she came back and they talked it out and she got over her hatred. For the next few months, things were great with him, MJ and Gwen. "Well what happened?" Kara asked him. The more she heard the more she liked this girl, then she noticed Peter's mood darkening.
"She died." He simply said. He told her how this scientist Dr. Connors he had helped got a sample of his blood and asked Peter for his permission to experiment on it. Peter had been going to the doc whenever he was hurt bad and needed to be fixed up. Connors had told him his blood might make brake throughs in genetics. So Peter had agreed. Little did he know he would have always regretted that day.
Connors had somehow created some thing by accident. It escaped and it went on a killing spree absorbing all the fluids out of people leaving them gray skinned mummies. Gwen had been one of them, he had seen her body and the expression frozen on her face.
Kara couldn't believe something like that had happened. She saw the pain it caused in Peter. She gently took his arm. "It wasn't your fault."
"Yes it was...it was my blood, I gave the doc permission. If I had she might be alive today and so would all those other people." He said his voice filled with anger and pain.
"Peter." Kara said sternly to him, causing him to look at her and she could see the depths of his pain in his eyes. "You didn't know, you couldn't have known. And bad things happen all the time whether we want them too or not. Even the most powerful of us are helpless at times Peter. There are some things that we can't do, some people we can't safe...no matter how much we want to."
"And how do you know she would have lived anyway? I mean how do you know some other villain or just some thug wouldn't have killed her? If she had lived would she had been in that house with the others that night?"
Peter considered her words. He had years to think about this but even though he knew she had a good point, he would always feel responsible for that. But he was thankful that she tried to make him feel better. "Thanks Kara." He told her.
They walked on then Peter suddenly stopped. "Peter? What is it?" Kara asked him.
"Spider sense." He whispered to her then the front of a jewelry store was smashed open as something was through out and a large van speed to a stop not far from the entrance.
"Peter if you don't mind I think I'll handle this." Kara said with a smirk she went to an alley. Peter was wondering what she was going to do when a blur came out of the alley and over to the store. Then he saw her for the first time in her Supergirl uniform.
It was a blue miniskirt with red boots, white gloves the wig and glasses gone and she had on a white T-shirt with a red S symbol on it and a small red cape on her back. Peter was glad he brought his camera with him as he went into the alley and climbed up to the top of the building and got ready to take a few pictures. He was sure she could handle them, after all from what he heard, she and Superman were nearly invulnerable not to mention really strong too.
Kara floated down to the scene. She landed outside the driver side door and ripped it off, surprising the driver and before he had a change to yell out she pulled him out and threw him across the street. With her heat vision she melted the steering wheel so they wouldn't use this to escape.
"Harry what's going on over there?" One of the masked men asked as he walked around to the other side of the van. When he was suddenly face to face with Supergirl he knew they were in trouble. "Oh crap!" He went for his gun out of instinct but in a blur she had incapacitated him and the two others outside.
Kara smiled to herself. "This is too easy." She went through the broken window into the store, she saw three men with their backs turned to her as everyone else was on the ground. "Alright why don't you just give up now and I don't have to get rough."
"Why what would be the point of that?" Came the voice of the middleman with a high class and slightly British accented voice. When he turned around Kara's heart froze at the sight of him.
"Oh no." She whispered to herself then out of his eyes came a green energy beam and from the feel of it she knew it was Kryptonite powered hitting her in the chest and her sending her through the window and then through the van onto the street making a groove in the road. The blast had weakened her and she sure felt the pain of that. Peter however knew that something had gone horribly wrong at the moment she came out of the building like that.
The man coming out of the building was once John Corben now known as Metallo, the android with a human mind of a criminal. He picked up the truck like it was nothing not caring that the men he hired were running away. He heard the police sirens and knew they would be caught but that didn't matter to him. He already had Supergirl at his mercy, okay so it wasn't Superman but still it was a step in the right direction.
Kara saw the truck and only had one shot, she put everything into it she had and fired her heat vision at the fuel tank. The tuck exploded but she knew she only bought herself some time. "Are you alright?" She looked up to see Clark in his suit floating down to her, she was both relieve and afraid that he was here.
"Superman...watch out..." She tried to tell him. "It's..." But before she finished a green energy beam shot out of the flames hitting Superman in the back. Metallo was walking out of the flames, his synthetic flesh ruined as over half his body was exposed as the metal frame it really was.
"I was so hoping to meet with you." He said grinning with the side of his face that still looked human and he ripped off all the 'flesh' and clothing on his chest and it opened up revealing the Kryptonite powering his body to the two aliens. Both of them cried out and Superman fell to his knees.
"I've been waiting for his day." He said walking to them. He grabbed a piece of sharp metal from the ruined frame of the van, not feeling the heat of the hot metal. He walked over Kara and learned at her. "I think I'll make you watch me deal with her first before I finish you off Superman." He rose the piece of ruined metal over his head ready to bring it down on her. "I'm not sure if you're weak enough for this to go all the way through on the first try...but you know what they say. Try, try again."
Kara looked up in fear knowing he was going to do just that. Then a web substance caught the metal and his hand and he was yanked back. She saw Peter in this Spider-Man uniform on the building behind Metallo.
"They also say you shouldn't play with sharp objects Tin-man." Peter said to him.
Metallo ripped the webbing from his hand and looked at Spider-Man. "What is this? Is every hero in this city busy so they send the rookie!"
"Hey I'm no rookie metal head!" Spider-Man shouted back at him.
"The name is Metallo!" He shouted and through the metal like a spear at Peter but he easily dodged it.
"Well look Metallica or whatever you're calling yourself, why don't you put the nice green rock away that seems to be hurting my friends and we can get down to business." Spider-Man said to him.
"I don't think so." He said menacingly. Peter jumped over him and sprang off the ground hitting him with his feet then as he was flying overhead he twisted and slammed both feet into his face. Metallo staggered back a few paces but not really effected. 'Great, I just pissed off the Terminator.' Peter thought seeing the look on what was left of his face.
Peter dodged an attack that shattered the street, and when he jumped into the air he was surprised that Metallo did the same, caught him and flung him through a window. Peter shook his head and groaned as he looked like he was in a living room. He saw a young woman eating Pop tarts. "Pop tart?" She offered him.
"Uh...thanks but no, I'm trying to watch my diet." He said and got up and jumped out the window. He saw Metallo was walking back to the Kryptonians. 'Okay Peter think, green rock equals bad for them, so get rid of the rock first then worry about the Terminator's evil brother.' He thought.
"Hey chrome dome!" Peter yelled at him as he landed not too far away.
"Don't you ever give up?" He asked.
"No, hasn't anyone told you, you sound like Malcolm McDowell?" Peter said back.
"Who?"
Peter sighed. "No one appreciates the lesser known actors." But seeing the confused look Peter shot out a web line right at the Kryptonite. Metallo looked at the webbing knowing what he had planned and tried to make a grab for the webs but Peter pulled hard and ripped the rock right out of his chest.
"NO!" He cried out in vain. He could feel the power draining from him, his limbs were getting harder to move and his systems were shutting down one by one, he tried to reroute power but it was too late.
Peter noticed how he seemed to slow down and looked at the rock. 'You mean this stuff was powering him?' He was surprised by that twist of fate. 'Now to get rid of it.' He looked around and jumped onto a building and with his webbing placed it on the side of a very tall building when he got back down to the street he saw police were finally on the scene and Metallo looked like a metallic scarecrow.
He ignore him and went to his friends. He saw Superman was up, a little wobbly but up. Supergirl was sitting up only. Peter knelt down to her. "You alright?"
She nodded. "Yeah...damn I hate that stuff. Where is it?"
Peter pointed to a building. "Up there, I figured having that stuff near you guys wouldn't be healthy."
"Well I'm thankful for it." Superman said to him. "I'll have someone from Star Labs get the sample." He looked to Kara. "You okay to fly?"
She tried to stand but got dizzy and started to fall but Peter caught her. "Uh...I don't think so."
"I could take her back." Peter offered. "I mean someone has to stay here and look after Mr. Heavy metal over there and the rock."
Superman nodded. "If that's alright with you?" He asked Kara.
"Hey fine by me, in my condition I might fly into a billboard." She joked. After they grabbed their civilian clothes and camera from the area Peter put them all in a backpack made from webbing and then grabbed onto Kara and swung her to Lois' apartment.
Kara was surprised at how his web swinging was a lot like flying. By the time they got back she was feeling a lot better. "Hey Peter...thanks." She said to him.
Peter took off his mask and smiled at her. "Hey what are friends for?"
"That reminds me...can you help me with my homework? I don't feel like going out at the moment."
"Sure thing." He said to her and after taking turns to change into their normal clothing they got to it and she was glad she had asked him. She didn't know Peter was so smart and he made her homework a lot more understandable then her teachers. They actually got done pretty fast and spent the rest of the day sitting in front of Lois' TV watching a few programs and comparing TV from this world to Peter's until Lois came home for work and Peter decided to go back to Clark's.
He dropped off the film he was going to pick up later that night, hoping Perry would like a few more tomorrow. All in all his stay in Metropolis wasn't that bad. Okay he could have done without the super villain and the new aches and pains by being slammed through that window but considering the things that had happened to him he got of light.
As he made his way back to the apartment he was starting to think maybe he could find a place for himself in this world. He was starting to get friends now he just needed to know what to do with the rest of his life. But he figured that could be taken care of tomorrow.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 7: LIFE IN GOTHAM
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