Winblades: Just keeping people guessing this is like my version of Gwen/MJ or MJ/Black Cat in the main comics universe. Plus you got to admit it's fun to read. Although I don't think I could think of anyone that looked like her as a little sister but that's just me.
Jezrianna: Thanks for that I wasn't sure about those powers and that's why I haven't had something come up that she needed it. Don't worry I know how you feel and I got that planned out in a way you might like. Yes there is a love triangle in the works.
Kaliann: Doc Ock will show up later on I'm brining him back slowly so they won't face another for sometime, don't worry he'll chose one of them, but not yet.
Korrd: READ AUTHOR'S NOTES! I ALREADY EXPLAINED THAT LAST CHAPTER!
slickboy444: Yeah there's a love triangle and I got other plans too.
Casey: Yeah that song did fit for him. I'm in Canada we celebrate Thanksgiving sooner then the states thanks for clarifying that for me.
Pokemonmaster14: I'm glad you like it and the triangle I'm doing. But Peter's a bit young for Diana kind of the reason he's got her younger sister in his love life.
Metal Dragon1: Yeah I wanted two new members for that group, don't worry about that mind control thing though. You'll see Doc Ock later on and what happened to his arms. You also forgot that either one of those girls could turn him into a pretzel too.
Nighthawk: Actually, that group were with other villains with the same idea. I think they had Toyman in that group.
Crankywonderjoe: Thanks and believe me I try and balance out what I want and what the people would like to see. It's not always easy but I try to find a good balance.
WDCain: Don't worry I got it all planned out but it's not going to happen like you think it will.No Booster Gold/Spider-Man deal they're just too different. Maybe he'll met Zartanna later on, Doc Ock will attack in a big way and let me just say this to give you an idea. Justice Lords.
Dr. Evan: No not with her I think two is enough three would be redundant.
X-Over: I'm sure Peter would still be affected and we'll have to see if Booster learns anything.
Thanks to: Gyre, The Uncanny R-Man, Spyder616, MondoMage, Comics Girl, Ldypebsaby, Worker72, X00001, Morlin, Wage Shenron, Erich, Drkman, Steph-59, SiriusAboutMarauders, Big B
JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SPIDER
CHAPTER 14: THE SOCIETY PART 2
Everyone gathered together in a meeting room to see what they found. Peter placed the photos on the desk. "Well I was able to get these, I'm not sure who a few of these people are though."
Flash took them and nodded. "Oh yeah that's Grodd, that looks like mostly his old Secret Society only with a few different members." He saw the look Peter was giving him. "Yeah I know lame name but they got a monkey as a leader so go figure." He shrugged at the end then went back. "Let's see…there's that Giganta babe. Killer Frost, man that girl gives me the creeps. There's The Shade, man you'd think he'd learn his lesson by now I mean honestly that guy has been in almost every super villain team and they all get beat."
"Get on with is Flash." Batman said in a slightly annoyed tone.
Flash got back to it. "Okay so the new guys seem to be Livewire, great that girl is just nuts. And finally that mercenary guy, what's his name? You know the one that tried to kill Aquaman."
"Deadshot." Batman told him. "He's a mercenary and trained to kill, remember how hard it was to capture him?"
"Oh yeah…man that guy is going to be fun." He said sarcastically.
"So what did you guys find out?" Diana asked Booster and Flash.
Booster decided to answer for them. "Well it seems that there have been a few other high end items. Skeets, what are the possible machines that could be made from that?" He asked his flying robot companion that he had. This was the thing that the robot was really made for, information. IT had a giant store of knowledge in its database and was suited for this task.
"I have calculated over fifty nine possibilities."
Booster's face fell. "You're kidding? Damn…this might be a little tougher then I thought."
"How about things that a super villain would want?" Batman suggested. "Try to focus on either something that could make lots of damage or control lots of people since that's his M.O."
Skeet took in all the information. "Six possibilities are left. One: Electronic Scrambler, Two: Power Sapping device, Three: Brain Wave Modifier, Four-"
"Wait, go back to number three." Batman interrupted. "That sounds more like Grodd's style."
"Yeah I remember that little helmet thing he made that gave him control over an entire city." Flash nodded. It was also when they defeated him they thought that the helmet had fried his brains yet it turned out he head been faking and escaped from his prison when the guard of those around him were down.
"I also found dirt traces in the facility, analysis shows that they are subterranean in origin so wherever Grodd is he's underground." Batman then thought of something. "Does he have all the equipment needed for that machine?"
"Negative." Skeet replied. "There is at least one more piece of equipment he needs."
"Let me guess." Booster turned to Batman. "We're going to stake out the last place and try to stop them there." Batman nodded. "Well since all the attacks happened at night I'm guessing I better go and get some sleep. I get the feelings it's going to be a long night."
-That Night-
Everyone was taking positions on a research lab in LA. This was a more public facility and had no ties to the military so the security wasn't so tight. They were in three teams in strategic places waiting for them to strike. "Man I hate waiting." Flash muttered tabbing his foot impatiently. He was with Booster and he was just as impatient.
"I got two vans coming over on the east side." Batman's voice came over the communication lines. "They both stopped just outside the building…It's them! Everyone go, now."
"Well you heard the man." Flash said grinning and was of in a blur and Booster flew up into the sky.
By the time the heroes arrived the villains were making an exit and soon found themselves facing them. "Oh crap, I knew this was going to happen." Shade muttered to himself.
"You won't get past us so surrender." Wonder Woman commanded them but getting ready for the fight that she knew they would do. She wasn't disappointed as Livewire, Killer Frost and Deadshot attacked first and the heroes scattered.
Peter was doing his best dodging the electrical attacks from Livewire, so was not making it easy for him. 'Great, why do I get the female version of Electro?' He wondered. "You're quick bug-boy but let's see if you can keep it up."
"Why does everyone call me a bug or insect? I mean really?" Peter said out loud.
Meanwhile Giganta had grown to fifty feet and both Donna and Diana were in the air battling the giant redhead. Flash was busy with Killer Frost dodging all of her ice attacks, at one point he slipped then slide right into Giganta's ankle. "Oh man that…" He trailed up as he looked up and his jaw dropped seeing that he had a great view up her toga. "Whoa…I didn't know she wore pink panties."
The giant looked down and glared at him. "What do you think you're doing!"
"Uh oh." Flash quickly got out of the way as she stomped the ground where he had been.
Batman was busy with Deadshot as the mercenary was firing with a couple of hand held weapons at Batman. He moved swiftly dodging the shots and threw out a batarang knocking one of the weapons out of his hand but he kept on the pressure on the Dark Knight.
"Shade I believe we need an escape about now." Grodd said over while carrying a large device over his shoulder.
"I don't think so monkey boy." Booster Gold shouted out flying towards them and then he found himself in darkness and could see where he was going and then he felt himself slamming into a hard object that when the darkness lifted turned out to be a wall. Grodd had sidestepped while he couldn't see.
Spider-Man noticed the growing darkness. "Oh great this is bad." He saw the villains going into the darkness and he fired a spider tracer at one of them, luckily with all the equipment he had access too he was able to update his web shooters with tracers and a tracking device. Then the darkness grew and none of the heroes could see.
"Where are they?" Flash shouted out. "Can anyone see anything?"
"Not a damn thing!" Booster shouted out.
Then the darkness was gone and so where the villains. "Great." Muttered Flash. "They got away and how he's most likely got the last piece for what he needs."
"Well they didn't exactly get away." Spider-Man spoke up and they all looked at him. "I placed a tracer on them." He pulled out a small device. "We can follow them in the Javelin."
"Excellent work." Diana told him and Batman nodded. "We better hurry then we don't want to give Grodd the time to finish whatever he's building."
-Later, Secret Society Underground Base-
Grodd was making the finishing touches on the machine. "How did they know where we were going to be?" Shade asked everyone there. "I mean just how?"
"Calm down and take a chill pill." Livewire said to him crossing her arms. "Man you're wound up too tight, you need to relax."
"I like to see how well you relax knowing the League is on out asses and will most likely come here soon."
"First off." Grodd said while adjusting the machine. "They can't find this place and secondly I know that eventually they would find out about us, it was only a matter of time, and she's right. This underground cavern isn't listed on any database since I personally erased all reference of it, they never found this place the first time I used it either and soon this machine will be done and you don't have to worry about a thing."
On the streets in front of what looked like an abandoned factory a few miles up were the League members. "Well…this is where the signal cut out." Spider-Man said looking at a small tracking device. "So either they entered a place that's heavily shielded or they found the tracer and crushed it. I really hope it's not the later."
"Well we might as well check it out. " Flash shrugged. "I mean we don't a lot of leads." They opened the front door and they looked around the empty place devoid it seemed of anything.
"Great, why to go Spidey, a dead end and no one has been here in ages." Booster Gold said.
"Not exactly." Batman was on one knee looking over the floor.
"What is it?" Diana asked him looking over his shoulder.
"If no one has been here then why isn't there any dust on the floor." He said and the others looked down and saw that he was right. The floor was a lot more cleaner then the rest of the place. "Look around for something anything that might be out of the ordinary."
The team moved off and spent the next fifteen minutes looking around the place. Donna wasn't sure what might be considered out of place, but she tried to keep an open mind. She was getting frustrated and leaned on a wall and felt something give. She took a step back and noticed a small part of the wall was now depressed and a rumbling sound could be heard.
The center floor opened up revealing an elevator shaft and an elevator raising. Everyone looked at her and she just shrugged. "Lucky I guess?"
"Hey I'm not complaining." Peter said as they gathered in the large elevator and descended down below the ground and came at a huge opening. "Wow, looks like he's ripping you off Batman." Peter said in reference to the Batcave, Wally and Diana who knew of the cave smiled at the joke, Batman was just as impassive as ever.
He moved forward and the other went with them and they found themselves over looking a lower level with a equipment and Grodd working on a large machine with a chair. "Uh oh." Flash said seeing the villain down there. "I don't like the looks of that thing."
"Then let's trash it and the others." Booster said with a grin and flew off ahead of everyone. The others raced up to catch up to him and soon the villains turned around to face the heroes.
Deadshot fired at Diana who deflected the shots with her bracelets. "How did they find us?"
"With my help and a little of yours." Spider-Man said swinging overhead. "I put a tracer on you Mr. Punisher."
"What!?" He looked over himself and Killer Frost was behind him and noticed something and pulled a little red spider looking thing and she showed it to him. "Oh crap."
"Idiot." She muttered and went into the fight taking on Booster Gold. Grodd took the time to start placing himself in the chair and attach a headset to his head. He knew the machine needed to warm up but he hoped the others would hold them off long enough for it to work.
Spider-Man leaped in front of The Shade. "You can't hit what you can't see." He said to him as he used his cane to surround him in darkness. But Peter didn't need to see him, all he did was let his spider-sense tell him where Shade was. He ducked a blow with the cane and punched out sending him flying into a cave wall and he lost his grip on his cane and the darkness faded. He webbed the villain up. "How?"
"I don't need to see in order to hit you." Peter remarked but he didn't notice Livewire and his spider-sense sent off and looked to the side and jumped up dodging an electrical attack. "Oh great you again."
"Well let's just say I'm eager for round two." She laughed at fired more electrical attacks at the roof of the cave where he was hanging onto and as the roof gave way he fell and debris fell on top of him. He groaned pushing the rocks off of him. Donna saw him take the fall and Livewire charging another attackso she flew in front on him just in time to take the hit to her side.
Peter saw her take the shot and heard her scream out in pain and fall to her knees but not out. There was a hole in her costume where the bolt had hit her and a nasty scorch mark on her skin too. She slowly stood up and glared at the pale woman. "Wow, I guess Wonder Woman light here can take it." She grinned at the younger woman. "Let's see how much she can really take it." She fired again and this time Donna used her magical bracelets. They took the blunt of the attack but her arms went a little numb from the energy.
Peter took this as a distraction and fired his webbing into the woman's face. Livewire tried to pull free the webbing but Donna saw this as her chance and ran forward and punched with her might and sent Livewire flying really hard into some of the equipment. The electric woman didn't get up after that, being out cold from the punch. Peter looked at her. "Nice right hook. You okay."
"Yes." She nodded. "You?"
"Fine thanks to you."
They looked to see how the others had done. So far Flash and Wonder Woman had teamed up against Giginta. Diana had given Flash one end of her lasso and together they had managed to tie the giant redheaded woman up with her unbreakable lasso.
Booster Gold had managed to defeat Killer Frost although he looked a little warn out and his suit had ice on a few parts. Batman had disarmed Deadshot and the red and silver glad mercenary was out cold on the cold cave floor.
Grodd had watched his team be defeated but it mattered little in a few seconds he would have enough power to control them and soon after the entire League. He grinned as he could feel the machine powering his brain further then it had ever been done before and he started to feel the minds of everyone in the cave.
Batman saw that the machine was powering up into it's final stages and he pulled out a special batarang and threw it at the machine. It imbedded itself into the machine and a red light started flashing and a huge electrical charge. It overloaded the machine and Grodd saw what was happening and tried to unhook himself from the machine but it was too late and the machine electrocuted him and he cried out. Luckily it only lasted a few seconds but after it was done Grodd sat there staring into space.
-Later-
After the battle and the criminals were sent to the police and Grodd to a hospital although it seemed he was in a coma like state, but then again he had heard that last time this had happened he had been faking so it was hard to tell if he really was like that or how permanent it was.
Peter had been thinking on something. During the fight Donna had nearly gotten herself killed protecting him and here he was not ready to trust Diana's own sister. She trusted Diana and the rest of his friends so why not her? It was nagging him and he knew that she felt a little hurt that he didn't trust her he had seen that before.
'What am I afraid of really?' He asked himself. He had to admit that his life in this world was different then his other one. Things were different here; in fact he was different also. Here he had people he could talk to about his life, he considered Kara a very close if not best friend and he related to many of the heroes in some form or another. So why didn't he tell her?
It was then he realized that he was scared. Everyone close to him had been killed and he fell into old habits with keeping to himself when in his old life when he tried that only felt alone and isolated from the world. He didn't feel that as much now with so many people in on his identity as Spider-Man and to tell the truth it was nice having the others in his life so he didn't have to constantly lie to them all the time.
He found himself going to the medical station where he saw Diana fussing over Donna and he had to smile just watching the two sisters talk and argue. Mainly Donna saying that Diana was babying her and Diana saying she was just concerned. Donna saw Spider-Man and saw a chance to escape. "Spider, hey. Please can you walk me to my room please?" Peter say the pleading look in her eyes and Donna gesture with her eyes Diana behind her.
"Uh…sure."
"Thank you." She mouthed to him and walked out of the door Peter turned to Diana.
"Don't worry I'll look after her." Diana sighed and nodded, she trusted Peter to look after her. Peter caught up with Donna who still had bandage on her side. "How are you doing?"
She shrugged. "Amazon's heal really fast, I should be fine in a hour."
"Well that's good."
"You think we can get out of here?" She asked him with a pleading look. "I need to get away from Diana, I love her don't get me wrong but sometimes she can be overprotective." She sighed remember how as kids she always tried to 'protect' her some times. "But I guess you might know what that's like."
"Not really, I was an only child." He admitted.
"Oh sorry…I didn't know."
Peter nodded. "Hey if you want to get out of here I know a nice place to relax."
Her eyes lit up. "Really? Great, lead on." She wasn't sure what he had in mind but she was glad to go somewhere. When they ended up at the teleporter she wasn't sure where they were going now. She saw him type something in and she stepped onto the pad with him. The next moment they were in a small room with an identical pad.
He opened a sliding door and walked out, she followed and found herself in an apartment. "Where are we?"
"My place." Her eyes widened as she looked at him and he was taking off the mask. She was wondering if he was part spider of something but was pleasantly surprised to see the face of a handsome young man with brown hair and eyes. "Hi." He said putting out his hand for a handshake. "I'm Peter Parker."
She smiled and shook his hand. "It's nice to finally meet you Peter. So…why the change of heart?"
He scratched the back of his head. "Well…I figured after what you did and the fact that I'm trying to get out of a little habit of keeping to myself and all plus I trust your sister and not trusting you just seemed a little cruel to me."
"Well whatever the reasons I'm glad you trusted me. I look forward to meeting the real you."
Peter nodded. "I'd like that. You want something to drink?" He asked as he made his way to the kitchen. The spent the next few hours on the couch talking about their lives she was of course surprised by his story and she told him about growing up on the island.
They both had a nice time and when Donna left for the night to go back to her place she said one final goodbye to Peter. "I'm glad we got to know each other better Peter. I hope we can become close friends."
"I'd like that." Peter admitted and to his surprise Donna kissed him on the cheek as she left in the teleporter. Peter blushed a bit and wondered just how close she wanted to get or if it he was reading too much into it.
He shrugged it off and decided to think on it in the morning, it was late and he had to go to work tomorrow.
-STAR Labs, New York-
Octavius was in the bed he had been sitting in for the last few days. He spent the most of the first day unconscious the effects of the shift had been great on his system but when he came too and found out that he was in fact in another world delighted him. He asked about things like SHIELD, The Ultimates and other things. There were heroes on this world, like on his own but none he knew of.
He had a clean slate here and he told the two scientists what they only needed to know. Maybe here he could start over without anyone knowing about his real past. He had been sitting in that prison cell again. He had escaped a few times over the years but he was always caught and returned. It was the same thing, he escaped, remake his harness and tentacles, Spider-Man would interfere and then he would go back to prison and Fury would destroy his precious tentacles and it would all start again.
He had just been sitting in his cell when he had been taken from his reality. So far the two scientists were pleasant enough and their work was very intriguing and he wanted to learn more about this and possibly help them out. Although he said it was to help him get back to his world, but the truth being that he was just repaying them for getting him out of that prison.
He saw a pile of newspapers as he was trying to figure out this world when he picked up a paper The Journal and he froze seeing the font page. "No…not him…it can't be him…" He whispered to himself. On the front page was his nemesis Spider-Man. "PARKER!?" It was impossible. He had heard that Spider-Man was missing and presumed dead. They found Norman's body and the Parker house was bombed all occupants were killed and he had rejoiced that Norman must have done away with Parker. But here was a Spider-Man but was it Parker? He had to know he had to find out. If it was somehow him then he could never have a life here.
Maybe he could use the device again to another world? It would be nice for a back-up plan but he had to be careful. If it was Parker, and given his luck it had to be, then he had to stay out of the public eye and hide. He adjusted the dark shades he was wearing since his first accident that altered his mind and allowed him to link with his arms also made his eyes light sensitive.
He would have to plan. But a thought entered his mind. If he could get the device working properly then maybe before he left he could get the revenge he wanted. The only thing that he regretted when he learned of Parker's demise was that he hadn't been the cause of it. Now maybe he could get his chance but he needed to be careful.
He had made too many mistakes and he needed to study him and learn what he could.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 15: LETTING GO