Thalanox: I try and not go too OOC, and I try to update once or even twice a week but I got about five other fics I'm working on.
Dany le fou: Yeah that does get annoying you should tell the people problems like that whenever you find them.
Edgy stoner: Yeah I really wanted him to get a break, but it won't be easy when he finds someone else in this world that was in his in the next chapter.
Casey: I honestly have no idea how long this will be either it will be about 50 if I can or 100 chapter if I can do it, plus thanks for that idea.
The Uncanny R-Man: Yeah I liked her too and wanted to keep her, all of those will show up an more.
Morlin: I honestly have no idea if she'll be back or not, if enough people do I may.
Ldypebsaby: They'll be a party after this one, and he's going to NYU.
Wage Shenron: Raven is too young like 14 or 15 and Peter is over 18 too much of an age gap.
X-Over: Oh trust me I'll get to those two and I'm glad you liked it and thanks for all your help as well.
slickboy444: Well Batman does have a habit of helping out kids with hard luck cases, plus I wanted to give Peter a break and Batman did have an ulterior motive, working under him means he can keep an eye on him. Plus I was kind of pissed when I learned they took out Hawkgirl too.
Erich: I think GL isn't from New York but I forget which major city. Spider-Man is in the League but he's not a main member just like all the others that will show up. Remember in the third season everyone in the DC world signed on. Thanks for that joke, and he will hang out with Flash but I wanted to do a little more research before I did anything in his city, plus I did say he already had been with Flash I just didn't write about it, because I didn't want to have three or more chapters that were basically the same.
malciah: There will be a lot of similarities but not much in the way of people from his world in this one, and there's no Oscorp.
Star Lin: You'll see Static and Gear, and you're not along with the Hawkgirl thing.
KTfanfic: Thanks, and of course he will as will the other members of the league and other DC characters.
Thanks to: Bumpkin, Gyre, Jezrianna, Dacl73, android181, hazelle, c-wolf, android181, Joseph McKinley, SiriusAboutMarauders, Nighthawk, KaliAnn, Dr. Evans, TJThunderbird, PureEvilOne, Ervin
Author's Notes: Okay I'm saying this once. Yes Static and Gear will show up and he'll go to Dakota too later on as will other heroes show up too, since in the Static/Batman crossover Batman said Robin was with the Teen Titans so the titans will be in the same timeline and will show up later, and it will be Tim Drake since that was the Robin that fought with a Bo staff, while the Dick Grayson never did. And as for other Marvel villains I'm not sure if I am going to bring them over I mean how do I explain that when I haven't gotten into how Peter got there?
JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SPIDERCHAPTER 9: INITIATION
In one of the teleportation rooms Spider-Man jumped out in a red and blue blur of speed. "Oh crap! Oh crap! Oh crap! I'm soooo freaking late!" He kept saying over and over again. Peter had gone out for a little patrol over the city and he was about to get back to his place and get to the meeting but then of course fate just had to mess with him...again.
Some jerks had tried to steal an armored car and of course he had to stop it. It took a lot longer then expected but he webbed them up and made a mad dash back to his place now he was running late, and he was really late too. "Okay everyone is in the meeting hall so maybe I can sneak in the back way." He muttered to himself. He always talked to himself when he was stressed like this and he made his way in and stopped as soon as he got through the door way.
"Whoa." Was all he said, looking around the place was packed with super heroes, in fact he didn't know there were that many around.
"You're late." Came a low voice and Peter jumped and turned to see Batman behind him. He really hated it when Batman snuck up on him like that, in fact he was thinking of putting a bell on him or something.
"Sorry, armor car robbery. What did I miss?" Peter asked him.
"Nothing much, just a speech and everyone is mingling at this point." He told Peter, he saw Peter looking around at all the faces. Batman had files on every one of them and knew a few personally, some more personally then others as he saw Zatanna. That was a good time in his life, before he was Batman working under an alias with a great escape artist and his daughter, who he had a relationship with. He hadn't seen her since she came to Gotham one night and now here she was and with real magic at her commands. He gave a small smile at how far she had surpassed her father.
"So...anyone I should avoid?" Peter asked looking at the crowd.
"Maybe a few, especially those that might not get your...humor." He told him. "I think I see a few of the safer members you might like." Batman moved off Peter following. There sure were a lot of people here; he was still amazed how many heroes were just going on around the place with no one looking over their shoulder like Fury had with him.
He came to a small group and noticed that two of them were about his age, well actually they looked a little younger but he did feel a little more at ease with them, since he could relate to younger heroes more because adults never had to deal with the kind of stuff they had to. "Hey Bats, long time no see." Said a kid in a modified helmet with a green glass like stuff over the front and in a green and white suit with something on his back.
"Hey who's the new guy?" This was from a kid of about the same age only with dark skin and in a black and blue costume that had a coat and a yellow lightning bolt design that reminded Peter of Flash's symbol.
"Gear, Static. This is Spider-Man, he joined up officially with the League yesterday." Batman told them.
"What? How did you get the sneak peak preview into this?" Static asked him but with the smile he had on Peter could tell it was in good humor.
"Maybe he blackmailed them." Gear said also in good humor. Oh yeah, Peter liked these two already.
"How did you know?" Peter said in his more serious tone, and was glad he wore a full-face mask. At time like this it was always hard for people to tell if he was serious or not with it on. "Did they tell you guys about those pictures?"
The look on their faces was just priceless and Peter nearly burst out laughing right then and there. "For real?" Both of them asked and that was it as Peter laughed at that. "Oh man we just got played." Gear said but still smiling.
"Sorry couldn't resist." Peter told them. "It's kind of a long story, but I've been helping out for over a month here. So you two are Leaguers too, like everyone else?" He had to ask since they seemed to still be about seventeen.
"We're...more like reserve members." Static told him. "We're going to wait a year before we become full fledge members but we wanted to look around and see what our future had in store for us."
"Yeah plus we kind of did our own to help out the League once before." Gear said proudly. "I guess you heard how we put the smack down on Braininac right?"
"Uh...I think I heard something about that...not to sure though from all the missions I've read about while I was staying up here."
"Hold up." Static asked him. "You were livin' up here or somethin'?"
"Until recently...yeah." But he didn't want to go into more detail. Sure the League knew about his real name and stuff but old habits are hard to break and he wasn't too comfortable giving away too much information at the moment.
Static and Gear shared a look. A month ago the League had never been more then seven members and they let no one in on their station unless necessary. "Well I have to get going, there's some trouble and we're going to see who goes where to deal with it." Batman told them after he heard the message from his communicator.
"Alright then." Peter nodded as Batman left. "So...you guys know anyone else here?"
"Besides the original League? Not really no." Gear admitted.
"To bad, cause I could show you guys a few people." The looked to their left and up because on a the shoulder on what looked like a giant robot was a blond hair girl in a blue and white costume with a white star on her chest and a blue mask with some kind of red belt. Her costume left her torso exposed and the bottom were like shorts. She was also on the shoulder of what looked like a giant robot.
"Hey, I'm the Stargirl, but you can just call me Star, and the big guy here is Stripy."
"It's S.T.R.I.P.E." It said in a robotic voice. "I wish you'd stop calling me that."
"As if." She said and jumped off the shoulder to meet them. "Hey, I've heard about you guys." She said looking to Static and Gear.
"Really? That's cool, nice robot." Static said.
"Actually it's just a suit kid." He told them.
"Oh...my bad." Then he noticed that Gear was just staring at Star so he elbowed him in the ribs. "Hey man, Earth is calling you home."
"Huh? Oh right, I'm Gear and I'm in love-I mean it's nice to meet you." Gear tried his best to hide his embarrassment but Star didn't seem to mind. Peter smirked under his mask and he and Static shared a look.
After a few more meets with a few other guys Peter walked around the station, it sure was a lot more crowded now then he saw Kara, Green Lantern walk to him with a couple of guys he never seen before. One was in what looked like a silver suit with an atom symbol on his chest the other guy looked like Robin Hood only in green.
"Hey guys, trouble?" Spider-Man asked them.
"Oh yeah, first mission." Supergirl said happily. She was anxious to prove her worth to the League. "By the way meet Captain Atom and Green Arrow."
Peter looked to Green Arrow then to Green Lantern. "He related to you?" he said that made GL raise an eyebrow but Green Arrow seemed to like it and gave a laugh.
"I guess we do have the same tastes in clothing." GA admitted.
"Well we got to be going, by the way." John stuck his hand out for Peter and he shook it. "Thanks for standing up for Shayera."
"No problem." Peter said and they left for the hanger deck. Suddenly a red blur came in front of Peter. "Whoa Flash where's the fire? Or is there a fire?"
"Nope, at least I hope not." Flash said. "There's some trouble in Keystone and wondered if you were up for a little beat down on the super villains?"
Peter grinned under his mask. "A month ago I would have said no, but right now I'm all for it." Peter met up with Flash in the giant hanger bay, he saw Green Lantern and his team in one of the new an improved Javelins, Peter was told that the League decided not only to upgrade from the original model but also made a few more, since in the past when the original Javelin –7 had been destroyed it was tough getting to the Tower and back until a replacement was finished.
He saw Flash already there and Wonder Woman was with him plus some big guy in a metal black and gray suit. "Hey guys." Peter said waving over to them then looked up to the big guy who seemed to tower over Peter easily. "Yo."
"So you're the new guy I've heard about." The big guy told him smiling. "The name's Steel, nice to meet you."
"Likewise big guy." Spider-Man said and they walked inside of the cockpit and as Wonder Woman took the controls Flash took the co-pilot seat while Peter and Steel took the back seats sitting across from each other. The ship lifted off and went out the docking doors into space. This was Peter's first flight through space and it was really cool, okay so he lived on a space station for about a month and personally knew a few aliens one being one of his newest and closest friends, but this was still pretty cool.
"So how long have you've been in the hero business?" Steel asked him, he was curious about the new member, he spoke to Superman once after the papers showed this Spider-Man guy in Metropolis, and Superman had said that Spider-Man was just passing through. Although he wasn't sure, he seemed kind of young but there was something about him, plus Superman seemed to view him differently then other new heroes too. It was strange and he couldn't put his finger on it but when he got the answer to his question that was a surprise.
"I'm been doing this for about three years...why?" He finally turned to face Steel and the faceplate that mimic his own showed his surprise.
"Three years? But I never heard of you until you showed up in Metropolis."
"It's complicated." Diana said from the front. "But he has been at this as long as he says, and I've seen him in action so don't worry about him." She said with a small smile, he had in fact seem him in the training sessions with Batman and other ones too and when he had joined the League for a few of the more 'smaller' missions. She had to admit he carried himself like a veteran and had obviously been in many fights.
Her own training as a warrior told her that much about him. She still remembered how he had changed from the sullen and withdrawn young man that had literally fallen into their laps. They still weren't sure how he got there. She believed that maybe the gods were at play in this, or the Fates had brought him to them. Although she still could see the sadness and pain that he hid in his eyes, he was glad he was becoming more open about himself and she guessed that he was getting back to his old self, at least she assumed so, since she didn't know him from before.
"So...who's the guy cussing trouble?" Peter asked trying to steer the conversation away from him.
"It's someone named Toyman, he and his little 'friends' are trashing the city, guess he got tired of having Superman kick his butt so he moved his operations out of Metropolis for awhile." Flash told Peter.
"Toyman? What kind of name is that for a villain?"
Flash grinned. "Yeah I know what you mean and his looks are just as bad. I should tell you about the Weather Wizard some time, now that guy is lame." Peter shook his head, another difference from his reality then his own was how lame some of these villains were. Okay Metallo had been a nasty one, but the Joker was a joke and some of the other guys he heard about were kind of silly, not to mention a little more 'tame' then the ones in his world.
He still remembered times like the second time the Hulk had shown up and trashed over three square block and killed hundreds, there was Magneto when he took over the Sentinels (which Peter felt sick the Government had created those monstrosities in the first place), then Magneto's return, not to mention all the guys he had fought like Doc Ock who killed so many people without a second thought.
'Yeah...pretty tame compared to my world.' He thought to himself. When they arrived in the city they flew overhead and as Peter looked down there was an actual toy army down there. There were tanks, scuds, little army toys and stuff. In a giant looking Robot with a domed head seemed to be leading them. It was hard to see but he guessed that was where Toyman was.
Diana took the Javelin in a strafing run and Flash fired the canons, taking out a good chuck of the toy army, but a few of the not so harmless toys returned fired and their ship shook from the impact, warning lights and beeping noises started to sound out as Diana tried to get control of the craft. She managed to stabilize it and landed in a nearby park.
"I'm guessing it's time for the ground assault." Flash said seeing that the ship was going nowhere at the moment.
"Correct." Diana said un-strapping herself and getting up going into warrior mode, she felt the rush of battle calling to her and was eager to answer it. The others got out and made their way back to the battle. Spider-Man hitched a ride with Steel, while Wonder Woman flew and Flash ran. Of course Flash was there first and with his speed made an attempt to dismantle as much of the 'toys' as possible.
Toyman, a small man with a grinning doll head plastic mask over his head wearing normal looking brown pants and a purple sweater with a red bowtie, watched this in his machine. "Oh that's not nice, you break my wonderful toys and that's not acceptable." He said in a kind of creepy Mr. Rodgers type of voice. He activated his arsenal list and found what he needed.
From the center of the machined a hatch opened and giant gumballs fired out, as they landed they exploded into gas that covered the area. Even though Flash was fast he had to slow down slightly in order to take apart the little war machines. It was at this point that the gas was released and Flash got a whiff of it, he tried to run out of the area but the gas was slowing down his body and as the gas reseeded Flash collapsed onto the ground.
"Oh goody it worked." Toyman said happily. "Now it's time to finished him off my little friends." Several of the toy soldiers aimed their weapons at Flash and fired. Flash nearly was hit but at the last possible second Wonder Woman landed in front of him deflecting the shots with her bracelets. Steel and Spider-Man, who was sitting on his back, flew overhead.
"I'll help out with Wonder Woman, see if you can keep the Toyman busy." Steel said to him.
"On it, if there's one thing I'm good at it's making the bad guys hate me enough to forget what they were doing."
"How do you do that?" Steel asked with a smile.
"I annoy the hell out of them!" Peter shouted as he jumped off. He landed on the glass dome of the robot and as he landed he saw the Toyman for the first time. 'Great it's a guy dressed up in an evil Mr. Rodgers toy.' Peter knocked on the glass. "Hey does your mother know that you're playing rough with your toys? You know what happens to bad little boys that don't play nice with their toys right?"
"And what would that be?" The little man asked as he used the controls to make the tentacle like arms to try and hit Spider-Man, but Peter kept dodging. He managed a look and saw Steel and Diana going to work on the toy army as Toyman was focused on Peter. 'You know working on a team really does have its advantages.' Peter thought but put that aside as his spider sense kicked in and he had to dodge again.
"Well the bad little boys get their toys taken away from them." Peter said to him through the glass.
"That's not going to happen!" He said angrily and Peter guessed he hit a nerve.
"Look little man if you want to play army, do it with those little green guys, that's what they're there for." Peter told him and started to web-up the glass.
"Hey! What are you doing?"
"A little redecorating." Spider-Man said as the webs started to cover the machine. Soon the dome was cover and Toyman couldn't see. The giant robot started to move around erratically. Spider-Man jumped off it and landed with the others seeing that most of the toys were destroyed and the rest seemed to be going around with no real directions.
He also saw Flash was getting up and figured his heightened metabolism worked through whatever that gas was by now. "So what's the plan?"
Diana got out her rope and looked at Peter. "I'll get the arms, you tie up his legs. Steel hit him high." She flew up and Peter wasted no time webbing up the legs. It took a lot of web-fluid, in fact he emptied out both shooters in order to get the legs immobilized. He looked up and saw Diana how looped her rope around the wrists of the machine's arms and was pulling as hard as she could. He could see it lean back and when Steel slammed into the dome it toppled over and landed with a giant crash.
"Well you know what they say. The bigger they are the hard they fall." Peter said to himself and jumped onto the chest of the thing as Steal ripped off the cover of the head of the thing as he pulled out Toyman who was flailing wildly. Peter felt a gust of wind and turned to see Flash.
"What did I miss?" Flash asked.
Peter smiled under his mask and looked over the street to see all the toys had been deactivated when the robot wasn't functional. "Looks like you sleep through all the goods parts, but I'll give you the high lights."
After the battle when Toyman was taken away, Peter had to spend the next couple of hours repairing the Javelin, luckily Steel was helping him out. Peter closed a hatch and wiped his brow, or tried to. Sometimes wearing a full-face mask meant all the sweat had nowhere to go. "Well...that should do it." Peter said looking to Steel. "You want to do the honors?"
Steel nodded. "Sure thing." They walked inside where Flash and Diana were waiting. "Try it now." Steel said and Diana punched in the start-up sequence and the engines hummed to life.
"Alright!" Flash said happily. "It's about time, man I thought having two brains on the group would have had that done sooner."
"Not all of us do everything as fast as you do." Peter said to Flash sitting down. "Besides do you know how to fix this thing?"
"How hard could it be?"
"You could have so much voltage running through you if you do something wrong, they would be calling you Flash-Fried."
"Oh...remind me to call you when I need to do any electrical work." Flash said with a grin. Peter chuckled a bit and nodded. The way back to the Watch Tower was a little more rocky since the internal compensators were still a little off, when they landed Peter and Steel offered to stay behind while they tried to completely fix it. It was kind of nice actually.
Peter and Steel got to talking, mostly about science and stuff and they were both surprised at the kind of knowledge both of them had, in fact neither one said it, but they both felt a little more at ease with each other since they seemed to have that in common. In fact they both thought it was nice to meet someone that could hold a conversation about the kind of stuff they were in to.
It had taken a couple of more hours but they eventually got it fixed up. "Well...that was a nice little project. You know maybe I should become a mechanic? I mean if I can fix this thing a simple car engine would be easy." Peter said making a little joke.
"Yeah, you could have a one hour or less policy." Steel said in good humor.
"Well I'm going to get a drink, how about you?" Peter asked the big metal man.
"I think I'm going to see if I can repair my armor, one of the joints has been acting up ever since the fight."
Peter shrugged. "No problem, see ya around big guy." He waved him off and went to see on how the others were doing. So far Superman, Hawkgirl and Batman were still out on a mission, but someone said that Green Lantern's team was back, but not exactly in good shape.
He heard that both Captain Atom and Green Lantern were in the medical wards. He didn't know Atom so he decided to check on John. When he saw him in a chair with Supergirl looking at what Peter saw was a suit that just moved and gave the thumbs up sign was a new one on him. He walked up to John and saw how beat up he looked. "Man John, what happened? Hawkgirl asked if she looked fat in her uniform and you said yes?"
He noticed how Kara looked then and knew something was wrong especially when she turned and left. Peter looked to John. "What happened?" John told him about the giant nuclear robot in Korea and how it all went down and how he told Kara how she had acted.
John looked at Peter as he looked through the glass. "Well...aren't you going to say I was hard on her or something?"
"No...because you were right." Peter said in a low voice and went to find her. He knew John could be a little harsh at times, but Peter also knew that John always was like that because he knew someone had to say what needed to be said. Peter eventually found Kara in the mess hall sipping slightly at her drink and looking not so good.
He sat down next to her. "You alright?"
"Yeah...well...I don't know...I kind of messed up out there, I mean look at what happened to John and Captain Atom." She looked at him and he could see how bad she felt about it.
"Yeah well...we all screw up." He looked around then leaned in close. "You see the first time I went up against the Kingpin I thought I was all that, and you know what happened to me?" Kara shook her head. "I got the crap kicked out of me, my mask pulled off and then they just threw me off the building like I was trash." Kara was shocked by that. "Luckily he didn't just kill me, or took the time to find out who I was...but...well that was my wake-up call, and what happened to you today was yours. It's times like this we learn that what we do isn't a game and there are consequences and people will get hurt."
Kara sat there thinking about it. "Was there any way I could have learned about that without everyone getting hurt?" She asked him.
Peter shook his head. "Not easily or with the same impact, it sucks I know, but sometimes we it's the only way a lesson can be sent home."
NEXT UP CHAPTER 10: HOUSE WARMING