Slickboy444: Yep she's back, you can't keep a good villain down. Yep Donna will show up to help even the odds.
Lvmj: I do lots of research for all my fics, I try to be accurate.
Jezrianna2.0: Why the name change? Also I'm still thinking about the beta thing, and the story format with the tabs was unnecessary for fan fiction, plus from the time you said you would do it to when I got it was way too long, I need someone who can give it back to me in 24 hours or less.
Howlerdrode: No Betty won't be part of that just Kara and Donna and I think it's his naivety that is part of his charm.
The Uncanny R-Man: In the latest issues Cheetah looks a lot different especially the face. Germany huh? Sounds cool.
Nighthawk: Someone else will show up and yeah, even heroes make mistakes and Peter is no exception.
crankywonderjoe: Sorry about that I forgot to write that into the fic last chapter, you'll see in this chapter I promise.
Silver Warrior: Yeah that is what he does and one of his best qualities isn't it? Kara isn't the only member for this team up.
Sean Malloy-1: I get bored easily and if I just worked on one fic then I would get bored with it and that leads to another set of problems.
Stoneman85: Well to be fair she is as tough as Diana, and that's an interesting idea I might twist it around a bit though.
Aaron: I came up with that line after watching a Stargate SG-1 episode before finishing that chapter, although I don't know who Chesire is.
Multifan: I think a lot of people will think that of Peter and Kara with them living together. There will be another 'catwoman' remark in this chapter that I was saving. Let's just say there will be office gossip about those two and leave it at that for now.
And thanks to everyone else as well.
JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SPIDER
CHAPER 19 SISTERHOOD PART 2
Spider…
Spider…
Peter groaned and felt his body slowly returning to him and boy did he ach all over.
Spidey come on wake up…
"Huh?" Peter started to come around and the first thing he focused on was the blond hair, it looked familiar to him, Gwen? No wait Gwen was dead…Kara? He looked and his eyes locked onto her sky blue ones and he blinked a few times. Then he tried to get up and was struggling so Supergirl helped him to his feet. He looked around and saw the trashed labs and then it all came flooding back to him.
"Hey you alright?"
Peter turned to Kara and nodded, "Yeah I've been worse. Where did they go?"
Kara shrugged, "Don't know, they fired on a chopper and I had to save it, they were long gone so I decided to check up on you. Who did this? I saw the purple sphere but I didn't get a decent look at who was inside it."
Peter tried to think back to his attackers, "Okay there was this cat lady with them, some type of female ninja, that sphere was done by Star Sapphire and then there was this other woman."
"An all female team huh? Great girl power gone bad, you know who that last one was?" She asked him looking over the damage, it looked like a major brawl had been here but then again she wasn't surprised by that, it was the kind of things that happened with superheroes but she was also worried about Peter. His costume was torn in a few places and he was a bit shaky on his feet and this was a guy she had seen do acrobatics in the air and land perfectly.
Peter remembered that blond, he let himself get distracted by her and boy did he pay for it, "Imagine a blond version of Wonder Woman only in white and gold and you pretty much got it here, you wouldn't happen to know her would you?"
Kara shook her head, it didn't sound familiar but then again if it had been someone before she joined and hadn't met or read about then it was most likely a new villain, "So…what did they take?"
"Don't know, I didn't get the chance to ask them," Peter said sarcastically then caught the glare Kara gave him, "Sorry but I just got my butt kicked and I'm not exactly Mr. Happy at the moment."
Peter said that in a softer tone and Kara's expression softened too and she nodded, "Well we might as well ask the people here what's missing," That didn't occur to Peter to just ask them, mainly because of how people treated him for years in his old world. It would be lot easier and it wasn't something he had ever tried before. When the police and the people in charge of the labs showed up Peter had to fight the urge to slip away.
He was still getting used to how he was treated in this world, years of being treated the way he had been kind of gives a guy a complex. He let Kara handle it though since she was more at ease then him. After the lab guys looked over the damaged equipment and Peter told the police everything he knew which was a bit more pleasant then he thought it would be like one of the head lab coats came back looking a bit pale. "So doc…what did the bimbo league take?" Kara asked him.
The man was a bit nervous and was ringing his hands. "Uh…well…that's a company secret."
"Oh come on!" Peter threw up his hands, which hurt a little, but he masked it well, "They took a couple of things and one of them had a bio-hazard symbol on it."
"What?" One of the detectives shouted out. "You were working on a biological hazard inside Manhattan!" The cop took the scientists by the lab coat, "So now some super villains have a virus or something? If you don't want to be responsible for the lives that will kill you better cooperate."
The scientist said it wasn't a virus and ran off a few chemicals names. "Uh…did anyone get that?" Kara asked, she wasn't a dumb blind but chemistry hadn't been one of her best subjects.
"I think he means it's a chemical that eats up oil, like in oil spills," Peter said then asked what the device was. They were told it was an experimental EMP generator. "Oh crap, please tell me you're kidding about that last one."
"I'm afraid not, we were researching ways of taking out enemy armies without lethal force and an EMP bomb was the one we were working on here." Peter was afraid to ask but when he asked how powerful it was he knew he wasn't going to like it. It was as powerful enough to take out most of New York City's power.
"Oh crap…" He muttered and looked to Kara, "We need to find them and fast."
"Yeah but how?" Even she knew the damage that would happen if it went off in New York. The damage and injuries not to mentions riots that would happen from all the powers being suddenly knocked off in everything would be dangerous. They started looking around for anything and Kara found something it looked like dirt or something and had Peter take a look at it.
Luckily Peter had also equipped his belt with new equipment and gathered it up. He was glad he had taken a few lessons with Batman and he learned more then just martial arts, he learned a few things about detective work. Plus he thought that utility belt he had was cool. They searched some more but didn't find much else. "Well come on, I need to analyze this stuff and we need to find out where they are," He told Supergirl after some time.
She nodded, "Yeah and we need to see how badly you're hurt, and don't you dare tell me your fine I can see you limping." She had cut off his chance to deny it and he just sighed and shrugged. They left the building and headed home. Kara being faster went ahead to get the first aid kit ready, Peter could feel his ribs hurt but thankfully it wasn't a blinding pain. That meant his ribs weren't broken, and he could still fight.
Kara was a bit worried, she was practically invincible but Peter wasn't. She never thought about how hurt most heroes can get. She remembered how Green Lantern and Captain Atom had been hurt badly on her first mission. Plus the fact that she liked Peter and knowing how badly he could get hurt worried her more then she could ever remember being. It was just kind of surreal when the knowledge that Peter could get seriously hurt or even get killed. She stopped in her tracks thinking about that, what if he did get killed doing this? She had lost so much in her life, her home, her friends, her family…when the thought of losing Peter hit her it was like dagger to her heart.
She felt like crying for a split second but pushed it aside. She wouldn't lose him because she was here in his life and there was no way she would lose another thing she cared about. She heard him come into his room and she found him placing the clues they had found on his dresser. "Alright take off that top Peter," She saw him a little nervous even through the mask and she smiled, "Hey it's not like it's something I haven't seen before right?"
She blushed a bit at the memory of that shower incident and watched him pulled off his mask and then his shirt. She stopped her self from gasping but was still looking worried at him. She bandaged up his ribs and chest and placed disinfectant on a few cuts. "I don't think you need to go to a hospital but you'll need to be careful if you go out again. We might need backup for this."
Peter nodded, "Yeah see if you can use the JL communicator and see if anyone can get here in time, I'll be in the lab working on this stuff." She watched him go into the secret door. She left him to his work and went to her room to use the communicator she had left behind, but then the damn doorbell rang and she sighed. She quickly changed at super speed and placed on the fake glasses and redid her hair with bangs in the front and a ponytail. She decided this would be the 'Kara Kent' that everyone would know.
When she opened the door she wasn't expecting to see her again so soon. "Donna?"
Donna Troy AKA Wonder Girl in her street clothing blinked a few times. "Kara? Is…is that you?" Donna had to admit she looked completely different from how she had seen her a few other times.
"Uh…yeah, what are you doing here? I don't think Peter mentioned you coming over," She tried not to sound cold or anything, she liked Donna but she kept making eyes at Peter and always linking her arm with him and…god she sounded jealous and that couldn't be the case.
"He didn't know, I had some news and I figure you two would like to know…can I come in?" Kara moved aside as she came in, "Where is he?"
"Up in the lab, I'll show you the way," Kara said as they climbed the stairs to the second level and the secret door was still open. In there they saw a bandaged up Peter looking in a microscope and Donna could see all the other equipment and teleporter there. But she was mainly focused on the bruises on his face.
"By Athena what happened to you?" Donna said seeing his injuries. They gave her the run down on what happened to her and Donna's eyes widened at the description of the blond woman. She asked Peter to describe her as best as he could and he believed that it had to be Aresia. She remembered when their Queen had come back to the Island and told them of the news, but now it seemed she had not perished as she believed.
"I believe that was Aresia, she was one of us who went renegade over a year ago…we thought her dead." She explained to him.
"Wait a minute! Wasn't that the psycho that tried to kill all the men in the world with her virus!" Kara exclaimed. She remembered how her and Martha had been looking after Jonathon during that, she had been so afraid that he would die. She considered the Kents her family and she already lost one and if that blond bimbo was up to her old tricks she was going to make sure she never got the chance to start whatever she had planned.
"Yes…her," Donna said ashamed of her actions. She had been friends with her once the fact she went against all their teachings was hard on her and a few others back home too.
"Well we have to stop her and Donna…we could use your help," He said to her and she nodded, "Anyways I think that stuff you found Kara was an industrial grade lubricant."
"So…how does that help us?" Kara asked him playing with her glasses in her hands.
"Well I overheard one of them say they needed to get back to the river. What if that was the Hudson River? And now…" Peter rolled on his chair across from him to where a computer with a one of those flat screens was and entered into a search program Bruce used and now Peter was. "I'm going to look up to see if there is any factories abandoned or recently bought that might have those things."
After some time searching Peter came up with several possible targets. "Great," Peter muttered looking over the list of names of the places and who owned them.
"Wait a minute," Kara said quickly seeing something. "Aresia was raised as an Amazon right?" Donna nodded and Kara pointed to a company that bought out an old factory. "Althea Corp…Kind of the name an Amazon would use since she's like the patron god of the Amazons or something wasn't she?"
"Yes Althea is our goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industry, justice and skill. She is revered amongst us," Wonder Girl told them.
Peter looked up more of the company but so far it had only been around for a few months and he couldn't find what they did. "Well…looks like we got what we needed. I say we suit up and go, we can't wait for the others to show up. Kara get on the communication gear and tell any other members of the League about this, Donna I hope you got your uniform under there we're going to need you."
Both girls nodded and went out of the room when they were out of earshot Donna had to ask Kara something. "Is he always like this? Willing to do whatever it take no matter how injured he is?" Kara nodded, "I do not know weather he is brave…or stupid."
Kara smiled, "I think a little of both." Donna nodded her head.
-Later-
Kara had sent the word out but so far everyone else was busy with something else at the moment and any reinforcements would be awhile. So the three of them had to do this themselves. They found the old factory as the sun was setting. It looked almost deserted but there were lights still inside. "So do we just charge in?" Wonder Girl asked them floating next to Peter with Supergirl doing the same on the other side.
"No, if that EMP is active then it might go off. We need to know if they got it working first so I say stealth is the way to go for the moment," Spider-Man told the two women. They agreed to that plan and easily made their way to the rooftops and Peter had sneaked into a lot of places so he knew where to try and look for ways in. He found a skylight and Kara burned off the locks with her heat vision and the sensor to the alarm that Peter sensed.
They stayed in the rafters of the large factory. It was very open and had old machines that for the most part were in disrepair. A few looked like they were up and running again, mainly a few vats while there was more modern equipment that looked out of place and had to have been brought in.
He saw Cheetah looking over a vile of the chemicals while Aresia was looking over the EMP. Tsukuri was leaning against a large piece of equipment while Star Sapphire looked bored. "So please tell me why the bloody hell we bothered to take this stuff?" The British villain asked them.
"With the chemicals we can threaten to wipe out the worlds oil supply unless they pay us anything." Cheetah said not looking away from her chemicals, "And with the EMP we can also threaten to wipe out an entire city's power without notice for who knows how long. Cars will stop, planes will fall, hospitals will lost power…the works."
Although Cheetah didn't personally want that, she just wanted the money to help fund her experiments to turn her back into a normal human again and not as the cat-freak she turned herself into. Aresia however had other plans, she had told them they were going to blackmail countries and the oil companies but she planned to use the devices anyway.
She was going to turn the world into what it had been, making it more pure and simple. Without all those weapons and machines like the ones that took her family from her. She lost her family in a war and if she couldn't take men out of this world then she would take their ability to make war.
Peter saw that they were going to make a lot more of the oil eating chemical in those vats and it looked like the blond Amazon was figuring out how to make more of the EMPs. "Damn that's a nasty plan, I mean I've heard a few in my day but that would devastate the world without oil and power."
"No kidding," Kara whispered back to him.
Tsukuri however may have been leaning back but as a trained warrior she always kept alert and she noticed when three figured were trying to hide in the rafters. She quickly drew a knife and flung it at them yelling out to the others. The blade just barely missed him as he had to jump out of the way, 'Oh well I guess it's now or never we start the fight.' Peter thought.
Supergirl fired her heat vision at Star Sapphire who brought up a purple energy shield, "I got miss British," She said flying off towards her.
"I have Aresia," Donna said coldly flying off towards the ex-Amazon.
Peter landed and saw both Cheetah and Tsukuri moving on him. "Oh great two more pissed off women in my life just what I need."
I would have thought a man dreamed of two women," Cheetah said with a smirk as she tried to claw slash at his chest but missed.
"Lady you have no idea," he said flipping over a Katana slash from her partner, "But this isn't one of them."
Supergirl kept firing her heat vision at Star Sapphire hoping to collapse her shield but it didn't look like it was enough, "Don't bother trying luv you can't get through this."
"Well see about that," Kara said with a grin on her fast and hit the sphere at super speed causing it and Star Sapphire to be thrown through one of the vats. "I may not be able to punch though it but I can punch it though something else."
Peter was now facing the two agile and quick women that were pushing his own agility and speed to the max. "Hey ninja lady, how come you're the only one that doesn't talk?" Peter ducked and then flipped over her, "I guess you're the strong silent type huh?"
She yelled out with a spin kick but Peter was faster and caught it and flung her into a support beam and webbed her to it. He was about to take a breather when he was tackled by Cheetah. They rolled a bit on the ground until he kicked her off. She looked at him and smiled, "I must know…one animal powered person to another…are you like me under that mask or did you keep your good looks?"
"Uh…yeah I look pretty much the same."
She gave a sad smile, "Then consider yourself lucky," She attacked again and she couldn't help but marvel at his abilities she wondered how he got such powers as they danced their battle. "You know you are amazing, I bet you're handsome under that mask too."
'Great I'm getting hit on by another cat-woman, first Black Cat and now her. Is it me?' He wondered before speaking. "Look I admit you got this cute cat-girl thing going for ya, but I don't date super villains." She just shrugged and leaped at him once more and he fired his webbing at her eyes. She was blinded and when she landed he got her hands and feet after that and then her arms and legs to make sure she didn't try and break the webbing.
Donna was facing Aresia, "You have dishonored our teachings 'sister'."
"I only took it to the next logical step, our Island is peaceful and look at this world. It is full of evil and corruption of men." Aresia spat out the name men like it was poison.
"I admit…there are things in this world I don't like, but there are good points. Not all men are as bad as we have hard of, I know one who is noble and kind and who fights with good in his heart…as long as there are men and women like them in this world I know it can become a great place."
Aresia laughed at her words, "The words of a child mean little to me."
That got Wonder Girl angry, "Fine then with the words of this 'child' can do nothing then perhaps my fists can bring reason into that thick skull of yours."
Donna flew at her, and the golden haired woman had to dodge. She may have had the strength of an Amazon but she didn't have the flight abilities like Diana and Donna were given. The two titan women then struggled together. "You're sister was one of the few that could best me child what makes you think you can stop me?"
Donna managed a punch to Aresia's gut, "Because I am not my sister," She rammed her knee into Aresia's face as they continued to struggle. Peter had finished and so had Kara, she had managed to finally get through the energy shield by forcing Star Sapphire to fire and then with super speed punched her into a steel wall knocking her out.
"Do we help?" Kara asked Peter seeing the two Amazons fighting it out.
"I think this is something she has to do herself…but if she's in trouble then we step in," He said watching the two go at it.
Donna was knocked into some equipment smashing it with her back and groaned. She wasn't doing as well now as she had been. She wasn't as good a fighter as her sister and Aresia she was close but Aresia was a bit better.
She flung herself out of the way as a fist just missed her. "You won't stop me."
Donna looked for anything to help her so far her opponent kept coming after her time and again tying to land a strong blow or get in close. She was trying to figure out a way to use that when she saw something with a lot of cables coming out of it. She wasn't familiar with a lot of technology but she did know that lightning bolt on it a symbol that she knew to mean electrical hazard. A plan formed in her mind in the air looking down at the blond warrior.
"You truly are pathetic you know that? It was a mistake to take in such a weak fool, we should have thrown you back into the ocean for your dishonor. Did you know you're name is now cured on our Island?"
"You lie!"
Donna floated down and smirked at her, "My mother was right about you, you should have been exiled. What do you hope to accomplish? You will never be allowed back to the Island as you are no longer one of us, you have been stripped of being an Amazon since you don't know how to be one."
That had done it as Aresia was proud and didn't want her personal honor questioned by this insolent child and wanted to send her fist though the dark haired young woman's face. Donna deflected the blow with her forearm sending it past her head and into the large green equipment. Wonder Girl quickly got out of the way as the electricity went into Aresia.
The blond screamed out in both pain and rage and after a moment the power cut out and the blond warrior staggered a few steps, slightly smoking and her fist slightly dark towards Donna, hate in the older woman's eyes but then she fell to her knees and slumped down onto the floor.
Surveying the defeated villains Supergirl placed her hands on her hips looking victorious, "Well I call this a success," She said blowing a stray strand of hair out of her face and fixing up her uniform.
Donna was kind of doing the same as her after her own battle, "I agree…you have impressive combat skills," She admitted to her figuring that if she was going to be in the area a lot she might as well try to get along with Kara like they had at the beginning.
Kara smiled a bit and nodded, "Right back at you," She knew that they were actually extending the olive branch to each other. They had started out as friends but whatever was going on Kara didn't want anything to more to ruin that. Besides not liking her for liking Peter was stupid and it was time to grow up.
Peter looked between the two of them and smiled under his mask as the two started talking in a more civilized way. He had know idea what started it but was glad they had worked out whatever it was. He looked down at the defeated female villains. 'Women…who can figure them out.' He mused to himself.
"Well let's make sure all the nasty equipment they stole is nice and safe and these women are nice and secure." Peter spoke as he webbed up the others while Supergirl and Wonder Girl used the metal around the place to make sure Aresia didn't escape.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 20: SISTERHOOD AFTERMATH
