Slickboy444: Well Bruce has been having women throwing themselves at him so he was a good choice for that given Peter's got two of them plus I wanted to show reasons for Bruce's inability to get close. But I guess he'll just have to let the other girl down gently.

Commander: Don't worry I got the perfect use for that thing with Doc Ock and it will be good, I got the end all planned out.

Sean Malloy-1: She'll prove herself in the end trust me. I haven't been able to think of a decent reason for that guy to go after anyone but Batman.

The Uncanny R-Man: Yeah it was that woman but I forgot her real name. When was he with Poison Ivy? And J'onn just seems like the most calm and wisest of them all.

AnT: Well like I said he brought in Tim and Dick because they reminded him of himself. Barbara he didn't have much of a choice. Plus even with the Bat-clan he still keeps them at a distance still, just not as far as others. Yeah I know she was killed but they're bringing her back I think.

KaliAnn: Giving his track record in relationships I think he just didn't want to really screw this up. Yeah that's why I think Bruce can't commit deep down he's too scared to and I agree with you on your last statement.

Scorpion-X: You'll see who he chooses real soon, glad you liked The Question one and from the theories I heard that candy bar one would be kind of mild to what he's said before. I have no idea what episode if any I'll do next.

BlazeStryker: Well I didn't know that about Star, and for your questions. 1) I've never done that yet 2) Not to my knowledge.

Nighthawk: Sorry about the move and no Peter won't go through something like that.

Aaron: Yeah thanks, I wanted it to be both serious/funny to keep it interesting. I figured Bruce's number to relationships he knew how to handle all the tough ones. I wanted to add in Kara's POV in this when writing to show how she was handling this too.

Dr. Doom: Don't you ever read Author's Notes? I clearly stated in the last chapter what I had planned.

Multifan: Yeah I thought about that writers part on the spur of the moment. Even I don't remember writing that part with Mayhem. Well I think J'onn is the most level headed out of all of them. I wouldn't know that about Hawkgirl but then she didn't leave in this fic so that's changed.

And thanks to everyone else as well I would respond to more but I have to limit myself to responses.

AN: This is also the LAST time I'm saying that I don't GET the Justice League Unlimited show, I wish I did but I have to work with are episode summaries. Please remember this. I may not do anymore episode based chapters, I'm not sure if I will because I don't get the show and some summaries aren't that good.

JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SPIDER

CHATPER 23: NIGHTMARE OF PAST PAIN

-Ultimate Marvel Universe, 6 months ago-

Peter was walking home; it had been one of those days. Sometime he hated his life, he had to pull overtime at the Bugle and Norman was still on the loose. But at least school was nearly out and then it was on to collage. He was looking forward to that, no Flash Thomson or others like him around and he could have a fresh start.

He was also moving in with MJ. Peter smiled at that, the two of them have had a rocky relationship over the last few years. They had broken up twice but they always got back together stronger then ever and now they both knew it would work out. They had discussed this and felt that sharing a place would not only cut down on the rent but also would allow them to keep their relationship alive given how busy collage life was.

He had dreamed of this day. Aunt May have voiced her opinions on a man and woman living together that weren't married but she gave them her blessing anyway. MJ's mom was a bit more liberal about it but she liked him anyway given that she saw how happy he made her daughter. After MJ's father left them her life seemed to be better with him out of the picture.

Harry had also been released a few months back completely cured and doing much better thanks to Fury and SHIELD. They were able to reverse the effects and turn him back into Harry and not the Hobgoblin. They were all getting together tonight to celebrate their new lives. Harry got control of his father's company or part of it so he was paying for the collage as a way to thank Peter for helping him get his life back.

He was walking back on that familiar street smiling to himself, for the first time in years he felt life was finally going well for him. Little did he know that this night would change his life forever just like that day he was bit by that spider.

He was nearly home when he heard a roaring sound in the sky. He looked and saw the Green Goblin and his glider. Sure Norman could fly on his own and make these explosive fireballs thanks to the OZ formula, but last year he made the glider as a portable weapons platform. It held lots of firepower and was somehow linked to his mind. It was filled with whatever weapons he had at the moment as well, he used it once to fend of The Ultimates and since then he used it form time to time.

That evil laughter was heard as her zoomed overhead and Peter's eyes widened in horror at where he was going. "Oh God no…" Peter whispered to himself and ran, he ran as fast as he could. He wasn't far from the house when he saw the Norman dive bomb it and several missiles came out of it hitting his home.

He had to cover his face from the explosion and was knocked from his feet. He looked at the devastation and his heart froze. The house was in flames the front of it was blown open and his only hope was that they had been in the basement or in the backyard. He ran to the building jumping through the hole looking for survivors in the smoke and fire.

He yelled out for everyone, but heard nothing. His heart was beating in his ears it seemed as he tried to find them. He felt the flames lick at his body and pushed on, coughing from the smoke burning his lungs. He called out again and again coughing as more smoke got in his lungs. Then he felt something against a foot and saw it was a hand.

There was ruble over where the wrist ended and he quickly tore off the wood and saw it was Harry. His face was frozen in shock it seemed as his eyes just started out into nothing, part of his face covered in blood. He felt like throwing up knowing he was dead. But he had to find the others. He heard the support beams starting to give out and a piece of flaming wood nearly fell on him but he moved on.

Then he saw two forms on the ground. He ran through the smoke as it was starting to fill the room faster and faster and saw the bodies of his aunt and the love of his life. It looked as though MJ and thrown herself over May and he saw splinters of wood in her back, her shirt soaked with blood. "Oh god no, please no." He pegged and prayed. He turned MJ over and she moaned a bit. He looked at May but her heard was at an awkward angle.

He closed his eyes not looking, it had looked like the force and the landed had broken her neck. He looked down at MJ whose eyes slowly opened. "….Peter?" She said in a weak voice.

"Shhh, don't talk please. I'll-I'll get you out, you'll be safe. Please MJ don't die on me I couldn't stand to lose you to." Tears were falling from his face as his.

MJ looked up at into him and smiled sadly. She didn't feel much of anything and she knew that was a bad sign. She was trying to think straight but it was hard, but some part of her just knew that she was dying, that this was their last moment. She felt tears starting to fall from her own face slightly mainly because she didn't want to leave Peter alone to deal with this. She wanted to be there for him but she couldn't.

"P…Peter…I…Love you…" She wanted to tell him that just one last time, she wanted to tell him so much more but it was getting dark and harder to see.

Peter had heard her say something but missed it as he managed to carry her to the backyard. He fell to his knees coughing. "There see MJ we're out, I'll get you to a hospital and you'll be fine just fine…MJ?" He looked down and saw that she wasn't moving. "No…NO!" He shook her and felt for a pulse but couldn't find one. He tried CPR not wanting to let her go but eventually he stopped. Tears coming freely as his shoulders started to shake. He felt like he was dying inside.

"Well, well, well. Who knew that the brave Spider-Man cried like a baby" Peter looked up angrily at Norman there floating in the air.

"WHY?" Peter shouted to him.

"Simple, you took everything from me so I return the favor. It's time to come full circle Parker, time for it to end where it all began." With those words said the Green Goblin took to the skies. Peter just held her as the house behind him finally collapsed and he just cried his heart out. When his parents died he had been too young to fully understand it, when Uncle Ben died he never felt so horrible, then Gwen, and now the only other people that cared about him and who he cared about were dead…he didn't even tell MJ that he loved her back.

When the sirens came Peter gently laid MJ down and closed her eyes kissing her forehead. In all the confusion it was easy to slip away and he picked up his backpack that he dropped earlier. It held his costume the only one he had at the moment and pretty much all he had left in this world. He found a place to change and made his way to the place he knew Norman would be.

It had taken some time and fill with a cold rage he hadn't felt in a long time he made his way to the old Oscorp facility where the spider and OZ formula had been made. The place had been shut down my SHIELD for sometime now and as he entered the place he knew that after tonight one of them wouldn't make it.

Peter searched through the building, it had been years since he had been here but he knew where he was supposed to go. The Lab. The lab where it was all started from, and he knew that Norman was waiting for him. Harry was going to turn this place around make it do more human research. He stopped for a moment remembering his friend that was now dead. Peter's fists tightened so much that his nails dung into the skin of his palm even through the costume slightly.

He eventually found his way in and opened the door. It was dark with little light sources and the place was filled with equipment and dust from the past year. He walked inside his spider-sense was tingling a little but then he knew this was it, the final fight. He had nothing left to lose in this world that mattered except for one thing. Revenge.

The warning when off like an alarm in his head as Norman fired and attack from the shadows illuminating the room with it slightly. "So the spider has finally come." Peter just leaped at him attacking with blind anger and rage and the pain in his soul flaring. "What? No witty come back? No silly banter Parker?" The Green Goblin said with a smirk as the two mortal enemies fought.

Their battle overturned tables and destroyed once priceless equipment and yet they fought nearly tooth and nail. Peter had taken a few nasty hits like being thrown into a computer server, or onto metal tables. But he pushed the pain aside there was no physical pain that could match the emotional pain he was feeling. To him any injury to his body felt like nothing, and far away.

But he landed a few good blow himself to the Green Goblin it self. Time seemed to stop for Peter there was nothing else but this fight, every punch, and kick was fueled by his suffering. He wanted to make Norman suffer like he was suffering.

At one point an explosion knocked Peter from his feet onto his back, his costume torn in places and he looked up to see the Green Goblin leaping onto him. He got his legs up just in time to place them on Norman's chest and kicked him off of him. Norman flew through the air and his back hit a wall.

But this was a wall damaged by their epic battle and a piece of metal had been sticking out. Norman ended up impaled through the back as it poked out of his chest. He cried out in surprise and pain but also couldn't feel his lower body. His mind told him that the shard of metal had to have pierced his spine severing it.

Peter slowly got up surprised to see him like that, he hadn't seen the metal there it had juts been instinct. He walked over to him and looked Norman over as his mouth had blood coming out of it. "So Peter how does it feel?" He coughed up some more blood, "How does it feel to cause the death of all those in your life? How many people have died because of your actions Parker? Your uncle, Gwen and all those innocent people from that monster Connor's made from experimenting on your DNA, oh yes I know all about that. Now because of you your family is dead because of you being Spider-Man. And now you killed me…so how does it feel to only bring pain, suffering and death to all those you touch?"

Peter didn't want to hear it but he couldn't help but feel the pain of those words. It was true, all those deaths were because of him and he knew it. Norman grinned seeing Peter like this. If he had killed Peter then he won but if Peter killed him he knew that the guilt would eat Peter alive for the rest of his life. Peter's life would never be the same ever again and he would live in pain for the rest of it. So he still got in his revenge by making sure Peter's life would be a never-ending hell. So he still won in a sense, he knew that either way Peter would have died a quick death or condemned to a living hell.

He had no one left in this world; he was alone with just his pain to keep him company. "You should be proud Peter…all those deaths without even trying…I'm impressed. I actually had to choose to kill but you do it automatically. Too bad my own son wasn't…as…good a killer…as you are…" Norman hacked at he fought for breath but the defeated look on Peter was worth it all.

Peter watched as Norman died there and knew it was another name to the list of people that had died because of him.

Peter! Peter wake up!

Peter woke up and looked around confused at first to the surroundings and to the wetness on his face. He looked at a blond holding his shoulders as he had sat up. It was then he remembers where he was and Kara was here with him. "Peter?" She asked him with a worried look on her face and he reached up to his face and felt the wetness there and knew they were tears.

Peter shouting out in his sleep and crying slightly, she knew what it was, had waked Kara up. He never really talked about what exactly happened that night only the basics but from the look of him she knew it had to have been a dream of that night. Then Peter just broke down and she hugged him close to her. He hugged her back as his face was near her chest crying.

She felt like her heart was breaking, she hated it when Peter was like this, because the only thing she could never protect Peter from was from his past. She just held on to him rocking him gently and trying to give comfort to him. She knew that Peter had bad days it was most likely he would never fully get over what happened but she wanted to be here for him.

As they held each other Kara had to face it. She deeply cared for Peter and she also knew that she would have to tell him. But not now, right now she just held him until his tears stopped. But he still held on, he wanted her to hold on because he didn't want to be alone

But a part of him kept thinking back to Osborn's words. How long until those he cared about in this reality died because of him? Would he fail to protect them or would his actions cause their deaths? Did he bring nothing but pain, suffering and death to all those around him? He knew that Kara was not like the others in his life back home but what if something happened to her? He didn't think he could start losing people again, not after all of that. And for some reason the thought of her dying cause him more pain then he thought. But he just wanted to hold her, to be sure there was at least one person still in his life that was alive and well.

-Metropolis-

At another time walking the streets of one of Americas more famous cities was a man in a trench coat just walking alone the people there. He looked normal but he was far from that. He was Dr. Otto Octavius AKA Doctor Octopus. Ever since his arrival in this reality he had been researching it, studying it as the scientist that he was only could.

He had started up a file on all the heroes on this world and any powers or weaknesses he could find. Most of them he didn't have much on but Superman was intriguing to him, he had been surprised to find out that he was in fact an alien. He smiled knowing that if had landed in his world Fury and SHIELD would have taken him into custody as soon as he showed up. Ah how different this world was to him, it wasn't as constricting it seemed to the super powered community. But he learned of other things too like the villains in this world.

He knew that Peter had made allies here, he had been a loner hero in his world but it seemed he had joined this Justice League. Well that certainly complicated his plans for revenge that was for sure. But he came up with a plan. He had seen that these villains sometimes teamed up much like The Six had a few times. But as usual they were defeated, it seemed some things were universal. But he did come to an interesting piece of information about the earlier exploits of the League back before that alien invasion of those winged beings.

When he saw that his master plan was taking shape. At first he thought of using the portal technology to slip out of this reality after Peter's demise but then he got a better and bigger idea. If he could ally himself with a powerful force in this world and take care of this league of heroes then what would there be to fear? He already knew of the perfect ones to use against the League if he could find them.

But first he needed someone who had potential to have the power to keep him out of jail and the authorities coming down on him. Also a man who hated the League and would love to see it fall and crushed under his heel.

He had enough money to keep himself going for a bit. He had immediately left New York not wanting to tempt fate on a train. Along the stops he carefully made sure that he broke into a few places for some quick cash and then left the city. He still wasn't sure which hero protected which city. But he now had enough money on him to ensure a nice living in Metropolis as he haunted down his pry.

His friends however were getting anxious for action and to tare Spider-Man limb form limb, he had to calm them down, his tentacles grew more peaceful then under his coat. He needed to be calm and quiet about this, he didn't need some blue and red alien causing him trouble.

He found a decent hotel to stay at as he began searching for his new ally. It had taken a day to track him down, he was on the move a lot but he was holding a debate with one of the candidates soon and he planned to be there and to give him an offer he wouldn't dream of passing up on.

Later a man with a very expensive suit, who was a tall and imposing figure that seemed to radiate power and bold head walked back to his dressing room. Lex Luthor had just finished wiping the floor with his opponent. It had been easy really for him to do so, compared to himself his opponent was a rank amateur. He told his people that he would like to take a few minutes alone, besides he had a couple of guards in the room as well as outside. He was no fool he knew that if he won the election or seemed close to it there were many enemies that would do anything to ensure he didn't win.

He nodded to the two men outside and walked into his room. He closed the door and then noticed that there was another man in here, one he had never seen before. He was sitting his chair like he owned it and had on a large brown trench coat. He wore a pair of small dark shades and his face was squared with very short brown hair. "Who the hell are you? And were is my security!" He demanded of him.

He just smiled at him and pointed. Luthor didn't like this at all and was about to call in the guards outside when he noticed the two guards that were supposed to have watched his room on the floor not moving. "Don't worry they're not dead," The stranger said still smiling. "I didn't want unnecessary complications like disposing of two bodies."

Lex made for the door but a long silver metallic looking limb came out of nowhere and pressed against the door like a hand. He turned back to the man as another one of those things grabbed his suit and hauled him off his feet. He could see now that they came from under the coat and he caught a glimpse of a harness or something about his waist.

"Now don't go and do anything stupid like shouting out for help," He stood up now and walked over to Lex. He slowly dropped him and two of the arms started to fix up his suit. "I'm here to offer you something no one else can."

Lex brushed away the arms not showing any fear at the man, he knew that showing fear was a sign of weakness and in a position like this weakness would be very bad for him. "You have nothing I would want."

"How about the destruction of the Justice League?"

Lex merely laughed, "You know how many people have said that same thing? Myself included? And that was back when there was just seven of them, now there are too many to deal with."

"Oh I know but that's why I plan to fight fire with fire." Doc Ock said with a grin as he told him his plan.

Lex heard the plan, there were a few places that needed work in it but he had to admit. He was impressed with the grandness of it all. It was also ambitious and very dangerous if it failed. "But what if you get caught? Being involved in this will bring me down and then what?"

Doc Ock nodded to his point, "True but if I did and you won the election who would give me a presidential pardon? It would be in my best interests to keep from talking to you, I know you are still a very dangerous man and that I wouldn't last long in a jail cell." That was true this man was very much like an alternate form of Wilson Fist the Kingpin of crime.

He could also see the resemblance only Lex was much slimmer then Fist. But both were very dangerous man and not to be crossed. But that was price to pay when dealing with such men, you always ran that risk of them turning their disappointment and anger towards you.

Lex nodded, "Ver well then…let's get started then shall we?"

NEXT UP CHAPTER 24: TRUE FEELINGS