Slickboy444: Thanks I really tried to show just what Peter went through that day to take him down so low. And with MJ I really wanted one of those scenes that just rips the heart out of you. You have no idea how much trouble Lex/Ock will have but it will be grand. You'll who Peter chooses in this chapter.

Sean Malloy-1: Well I can't promise anything in my fics about how lives or dies, and thanks I couldn't remember her name.

KaliAnn: Thanks I really tired to make that really sad because he did try to kill himself at the start of this and you know his life just got worse with Lex and Doc Ock teaming up.

ReadingWhiz89: Yep that's what happened and no Doc Ock will not try that. Besides they would have just had J'onn read his mind anyway. He needs to stay off the radar for the plan to work.

Anthony1: Not much going on? Jeez what does it take to get you excited? But yeah Lex will certainly make things more complicated for the heroes.

Sithicus: You're the first to guess about that, good one. Yeah I felt it was time to show what went down and I thought it kind of ironic the original 'death' of the Green Goblin years back was with him being impaled. She may not have been born on Krypton but her people were Kryptonians.

Aaron: Yep Peter will still have to deal with all of that but he's got Kara with him at least to help. And boy you know that Ock and Lex will be major trouble for everyone.

Worker72: Have you seen the past presidents? They elected an actor and a moron twice, trust me Luthor has a chance if they could do it. There is no Cadmus in this fic.

Dr. Doom: Yeah I think Peter is one of the more tragic in Marvel. Yep some of Doc Ock plans were revealed, and I'll try but making up new OC villains that are good for Peter isn't as easy as you would think for this world I made.

Kamerus: Thanks and I'll keep that in mind.

Silver Warrior: Yep that's how it happened and now you get a deeper understanding of why he tried to kill himself in the first chapter. Well the Peter/Donna/Kara thing wasn't originally planned but this story has evolved since I started out. I like to put balance into things, and I think one of the things that makes a hero are the people in their lives.

Bremics: No I have no plans on bringing in their mother into this.

Multifan: Thanks for clearing that up, and he maybe tell Luthor of that and give him a few ideas later on if he becomes president.

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

JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SPIDER

CHAPTER 24: TRUE FEELINGS

Peter had just finished his shower and was dressing himself up. He had had a rough night but thankfully Kara had been there. He remembered how much better he was being in her arms, he hadn't felt like that since…MJ.

He thought back to what he heard about Donna's offer. Why would she include Kara in a relationship with him unless she thought there was something going on with him and Kara? Was there? Okay sure being in a three way relationship with two beautiful women was nearly every male's fantasy but to be honest he just couldn't go through with something like that.

He did like Donna she was a great friend but did he really want to take it to another lever? Hormones aside not really, she was a great friend but he honestly didn't think a relationship might work out, she was still getting used to the world and to be fair he related more to Kara.

That was another thing he did care for her but was it like a friend or more? Could he really try and make a relationship with the woman he lived with? He finished dressing and found Kara had already started to cook some breakfast, they tended to take turns and today was her turn, although Peter was a bit better cook then her she made some nice food. She looked over her shoulder at him and smiled, "Hey how are you?"

He knew what she meant, after last night of course she was worried about him, "Better…Kara…thanks you know…for being there."

Kara smiled at him and nodded her head. "Hey you know I'll always be there."

Those simple words had several effects on Peter, he had lost so many people that he always assumed that would always be there. Then he thought back to those people that were still alive back home that he knew. He hadn't lost everyone in his life that horrible night just those closest to him. But still after all the death he had dealt with it had been to much.

"Peter?" Kara asked him seeing him lost in thought.

"Huh? Oh sorry Kara…I was just thinking about things…you know I have to wonder how many people back in my world that I know think that I'm dead. Wonder if there was a funeral service?" he leaned back in his chair, "Boy that would be weird to see."

She sat down next to him, "You know you never really talk much about the people you knew in the other world that much. Did you know any of them? You know personally that is."

Peter nodded his head, "Yeah Johnny Storm the Human Torch was a nice friend. We kind of had one of those friendships where we just tried to have a good time. I mean when he got his powers he lost all his friends so we kind of helped each other with that." Those were fun times, the baseball games they went too and just hanging out and of course making fun and pranking each other that was always good.

"Then I guess the Ultimates but they weren't really friends more like…associates." He shrugged, "I was just a kid anyway I think I fit in better with the X-Men."

Kara remembered hearing about all of those teams, it was certainly different that was for sure. "That last one was the mutant group right?"

"Oh yeah," Peter had to smile at that they were pretty cool guys, even Logan to some degree. "Yeah I guess we had more in common cause we were both trashed by the papers and media. There was a running joke to see who could rack up the worst publicity after like a week or something." He laughed at that, but Kara only smiled politely. She just couldn't understand how people could turn against those that were there to protect the people.

"Yeah…I think they would be the ones that would really miss me the most…especially…" Then Peter stopped.

That got Kara's interests, "Oh go on, let me guess…ex-girlfriend?"

Peter blushed and nodded, "Uh…yeah…See this girl Kitty Pryde was a really big Spider-Man fan, her room last I saw still has a lot of posters."

Kara grinned at that, "Oh a fan too huh? That must have been a shock."

"I'm honestly not sure what more of a shock. That she was such a big fan or that they made posters of Spider-Man…I mean I never saw a dime…I should have sued." He joked and Kara laughed. She liked how Peter could always make her laugh. He just had a talent for making you feel better. It was one of the things she really liked about him.

"Anyway we dated for a few months, it was great but both out lives kept getting in the way. We still remained very close friends," Peter sighed and looked down at the moment, "I think she might have been hit the hardest…I wish there was a way to just let them know I'm okay."

Kara wish there was something she could do or say but she really didn't know what you can say to something like that. "Well…you got friends here at least."

Peter smiled at that looking at her, "Yeah and trust me I'm thankful to have you all in my life. This is hard enough but everyone has been a great help to me." Then Peter looked a bit more serious and shifted a little nervously. "Actually Kara there is something I've been thinking about…"

"Oh?" She couldn't imagine what but from the look of him he was serious.

"Kara, what Donna asked well it got me thinking…"

"You're not seriously into that are you?"

"What? No!" Peter said shocked.

"Oh…so…" Kara guessed that he was going to go out with Donna. Peter only thought of her as a friend and all anyways. A part of her envied Donna, Peter was a really great guy hell he was literally one of a kind and she really did like him. She knew that he would be a great boyfriend to any girl. "I…I think you two will be happy." She tried to make a smile but it didn't really work.

Peter saw this and knew there she had to feel differently about this he took her hand in his. "Kara…I'm not going to date Donna. Yeah I like her but only as a good friend nothing more…there's…there's someone else that means more to me."

Kara was surprised at that, at work she heard a few of the younger girls comment on Peter so maybe one of them? She had lunch with Betty, JJ's secretary a few times and she said Peter seemed like a really nice guy and if she wasn't in love with her boyfriend she wouldn't mind making a pass. It was meant as a joke though at least she thought so. Kara looked at his brown eyes, "So…who is it?" She asked feeling nervous.

God she never felt like this since she went on that date with Steven Mathews back in Smallville when he asked her to one of the school dances.

"Well…Kara it's just that…I…like you." Peter said feeling embarrassed, "And I don't just mean as a friend I'm pretty sure it's more then that…"

Her mouth made an O shape for a moment in surprise, "R-really?" She was delighted at the news, "Cause to tell the truth Peter I feel the same way. I mean lately I've just been having these…"

"Feelings," Peter finished for her with a little smile on his face. "Like you just realized that all of a sudden the other person means so much more to them then before."

She nodded her head that was exactly what she felt. She hadn't realized it but they had moved closer together now and were so close that a little more and she might be able to kiss him. She really wanted to at this moment, her heart was racing and she could hear his too. Peter looked into her deep blue eyes, he could smell her perfume and her golden hair looked liked it shined in the light.

Before he knew it he leaned over a bit more and kissed her gently on the lips. She closed her eyes feeling this, soon she felt a hand on her hips and she placed hers on his chest leaning into the kiss making it more deep and passionate. She moaned a bit, he really was a good kisser and felt one of his hands in her long hair. It just felt so…great.

Peter couldn't believe this but he also didn't want to stop. He had been alone for so long he ached for someone to fill the void in him even if it was just a little bit and he knew at that moment Kara was the one to fill it. He tasted strawberries on her lips and felt her running her hands on his chest. God this was just felt so great, she felt great. After awhile they pulled away both slightly breathless and blushing.

"Wow…that was just…" She started to say but she couldn't find the words.

Peter smiled at her, "I think 'wow' said is all. So…uh…I guess…this means we're going out?"

"Yeah…I…I guess so," She smiled shyly at him, although she really didn't mind. She also would have to tell Clark first she loved him but he was too overprotective of her. Maybe she should tell Lois and they could double team him? If anyone could make sure Clark didn't do anything stupid she could. But then she thought of one other person. "So…what are you going to tell Donna? You know she likes you."

Peter's face fell at that. He didn't want to hurt her and he wasn't looking forward to that, "You just had to ruin the moment didn't you?"

"Sorry," She shrugged a little embarrassed. He sighed, he might as well head out there sometime today, it was better to tell her first before word got around that they were dating.

-Watchtower-

Shayera, AKA Hawkgirl was looking out into space, literally. She had ditched her old uniform for a new white and black version. She had a yellow alternate made as well but that was being repaired after a little intense training session with a few of the newer members. She looked at the star that belonged to her old home, one she knew she would never be allowed to see again. She was branded a traitor by her people by fighting against them when they came. But she couldn't have allowed that to happen, they were wrong in what they tried to do to Earth and she had to stop it. It had cost her but it was a price she could live with. Her people had changed since had been on her mission to Earth or maybe she had changed, either way she never saw her people the same way after that.

"Second thoughts?" Came a deep voice and she knew it was that of John Stewart, The Green Lantern.

She shook her head, "No not in the least, it was the right thing to do."

He placed a hand on her shoulder but didn't say anything, neither one of them were good with words. They were more of the kind of people that let their actions do the talking. One of the reasons they worked well together she guessed. John had recently gone through a new look too with a shaved head and that little hair under his chin. She would never admit it but she thought it made him look cute.

She was glad that she had stayed on after all, she and John had worked things out and to be honest it was a bit easier with him by her side. She remembered how she first thought of him as just this thick headed, stubborn man. Later into a lovable thick headed, stubborn man. She never saw that coming until that one day fighting the Joker in Vegas. When she had nearly lost him and how her true feelings for him finally came out.

"So…you busy tonight?" John asked her a little unsure of himself. He hated that about him, he could lead a charge into enemy fire but talking to a beautiful woman for a date and he lost that collective part of him.

She smiled looking at him, "What do you have in mind?"

"Well I'm off duty soon so I was wondering if you wanted to get some dinner together." Then he smiled at her and she felt her heart beat a bit faster.

"I would like that," She took his arm as they walked to the transporter.

"So…how are things with the members?" He had to ask given that there were still a few worried about her he even caught The Question going through her garbage but he claimed to do that to everyone. He wasn't sure what he didn't like more the fact he was doing that or that he believed him.

She didn't know how to answer that, "Not sure…definitely better then before but still…there are those that still don't trust me…not to mention Diana keeps giving me the cold shoulder."

"They'll come around."

"I didn't ask them to, what they believe is their own personal issues."

He looked at her and knew that tough girl exterior of her was someone who wanted to belong somewhere. She lost her home in a way and she had no where else to go. But he hoped to help her through this whether she asked for it or not. Why? Because he loved her that's why, she was a strong woman that he respected. Plus she was one of most beautiful women he ever met and her stubborn nature made her a woman he could butt heads with at times and who could keep him in check.

Oh yeah there was nothing he wouldn't do for her and he knew she felt the same.

-Metropolis-

Lex was in a warehouse he had once outfitted for his more 'special' needs back when he was in charge of Lex Crop. He also had hidden the ownership of this and a few other places just in case and it seemed with good reason. He may not have the money he once had or the power but he was going to fix that with the election.

But he also needed insurance he knew that if-no when he took the Oval Office that all those heroes would be on top of him and with much more then just seven of them it would only take one loose cannon to take him out. Hell they had a giant laser canon pointed at Earth if one of them wanted to they could blow up the entire White house or just his office. He didn't want that so instead he let this strange yet brilliant man Dr. Otto Octavius or Doctor Octopus as he was also called gave him an intriguing idea.

Now they were just in the planning phases but they needed help. Octavius had heard about that ray gun that Lex came up with for taking away the powers of heroes. Now Lex gave up all the blue prints and the only prototype but he had memorized the plans just in case. The League thought they had erased it thanks to the Martian as part of the deal but he was always one step ahead of them. He hired a meta-human to hide the information in his mind. It was a gamble that the Martian would find it but that too had played off it seems as he had missed it.

It wasn't until a month ago that those memories had resurfaced. But the trouble was that if he so much as picked up one piece of that machine he knew that the League would know. He's bet that Batman would have had some type of computer algorithm that could pick up any such transition by him or anyone else trying to gain the parts.

So he and the good doctor came up with another idea since Dr. Octavius claimed he had to remain in hiding until things were ready. He just needed a place to work and a way to get the equipment he'd pay for it. What he didn't know was that Doc Ock had through his travels made a few stops on the way and with his 'arms' decided to pick up some 'quick cash' on the way. He hit a few banks at night and also where there was little or no hero activity. He left the city that night on a train and he was long gone by the time the police were on the scene.

Lex had set up a fake account for his money and he was glad. Carrying all that around in a steam truck was difficult. But with this new lab he had everything he needed and of course it was sound proof and lead proof something Lex said that was a must to have in this city.

He also used the computers here to start increasing his information on all the heroes of this world and even things only Lex knew as well. He had years worth of research into them that he shared and Doc Ock gladly looked it over.

"So what's this you wanted to show me?" Lex asked the man as he saw him working with several or this arms doing many tasks at first. Truly he was multitasking personified.

"Well as you know we can buy certain parts of the device you created without too much notice but some of the parts are high priority and the only way to get them would be to steal them." The Doc explained.

"Yes I know that," Lex said slightly annoyed he wished that this man didn't have to go over details, this was why he didn't like to deal with scientist directly they all talked like that it seemed.

"Well then I had thought of hiring certain people to steal for us, some of them wouldn't know who they were dealing with but there's one part in New York city we need and as you know they've recently gained a few new protectors."

Lex had heard about that. The new comer Spider-Man, Supergirl had relocated there for some reason, Wonder Woman and her sister Wonder Girl were now at an embassy there to represent their own little island. Why he couldn't guess it was just some island in the middle of nowhere of no importance.

"Well with your old contacts I was able to recruit someone to steal it for us after I helped him out with a few things." Doc Ock pulled open a screen and a man wearing a black uniform with grey lines over it was there. The lines went up the sides and he had on metallic boots and gauntlets and a shoulder pads. On the chest there was a spider design on the chest. The man had short blond hair and was holding a helmet in his hands that was black and grey with a visor over the eyes.

"This is James Blanc, a thief that was once in Inter Gang and also in your employee a few times too."

The man nodded his head to Lex Luthor, "A pleasure to work for you again Mr. Luthor."

"Let me make this clear, you aren't working for me, you never saw me got it?" He said in a low menacing voice. The man gulped and nodded his head quickly. He knew that crossing Luthor was never a good idea. Then Lex turned to Doc Ock, "And if he's captured what about telepaths?"

"That's easy," He smiled and looked at the man in the suit, "Please put on the helmet." The man did so and Doc Ock pressed a button on a control panel and James cried out in pain like someone hit his head with an ice pick.

"What the hell was that?" He demanded as his head hurt like hell.

"That was a small device that will help you control the arms as well as shield your mind." He explained as his metallic limbs reached for something.

"Arms?" Lex asked then saw a metal backpack device fitted onto Blanc. He staggered to his feet and it seemed to open up and eight machine like limbs that resembled spider legs acme out.

"May I introduce, through the work and technology that I've done with my tentacles, Cyber-Spider. Our latest thief for hire." Dr. Octopus grinned. "In return for helping us out I gave him the means to be more then just a common thief. He now has what it will take to steal anything and be able to hold his own against certain heroes."

Lex nodded his head this might work and he just hoped that device in his head would help keep all this secret as well. Although Doc Ock was more interested if and when Parker would meet his new creation. He was sure that James Blanc would be a true match for him. Oh yes this would be very interesting indeed.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 25: ONE COMPLICATED DAY