Slickboy444: Yep I felt it was time for Peter and Kara to come together. Donna is up next of course. Yeah I wanted to have Kitty in there as you know. I'm a sucker for GL/HG fluff but I'm not sure about Bruce/Diana maybe in a sequel.
Sean Malloy-1: Yeah I thought about it but I can't fit him in this fic sorry. I would need a great set up for a character like that and it would take a major rewrite to what I got planned out.
KaliAnn: Glad you liked the couples moment and yeah you bet trouble is in store for Peter. As for the withdraw I don't think so it won't be that bad I think to cause that.
Commander: You'll see what that ray is used for later on, and I hope you like the Cyber-Spider I put in here too.
Cylon One: Yeah trust me it will be very nasty what the villains are up to. I've been thinking about Vigilante I'll try but I promise nothing.
Jarr Jar: Actually you're wrong I get very little from the TV show and I don't know what this Octobot thing ispeople keep telling me. In Ultimate comics Kitty's room really is covered in Spider-man posters.
Worker72: I called the current President a moron NOT Hilary. And Peter can't break up with Donna cause they weren't together they were still just friends so technically he wasn't hers.
Anthony1: Clark's reaction will be soon, well I think action shouldn't be in every chapter only when it's necessary it's the characters after all that make the story and that's what I focus on.
Sithicus: Good I had hoped people would like how Peter/Kara are together. Yeah I wanted to show more of HG/GL and their relationship I felt it needed a bit more exploration. Hope you like the battle of the spiders coming up. Well that ray gun worked on that evil J'onn and he's an alien.
ReadingWhiz89: No I didn't get the idea for Cyber-Spider from that show and no more Marvel characters will show up I already SAID that in Author's Notes
Aaron: Yeah you know Flash will rib him and stuff, I may put in the Clark reaction in the next chapter but the Donna talk will be in the next one.
AnT: Did you read that chapter where Green Goblin is dead? He's dead and he's NOT coming back this time, so no on that.
Dr. Doom: Actually I don't have a problem coming up with OCs heroes or villains. Thanks but I won't use them got enough planned as it is. I also won't have Darkseid in this maybe in another fic.
X-Over: Well I got no plans for them going to another planet at the moment. If I do it will most likely be just some random one.
Multifan: Yeah they might want to meet the other Marvel characters too for those reasons. Kitty being a fan and them going out is actually canon. Although they just started to date at the moment. I think Kitty's driving and cooking is just for Evo. Maybe I should have Lois and Kara together later on. I never saw Starcrossed so I wouldn't know. Peter might be a bit suspicious but the legs look different then the arms of Doc Ock.
And thanks to everyone else as well I would respond to more but I have to limit myself to responses.
AN: Steven Mathews, and James Blonc AKA Cyber-Spider are my own OCs that I made up for this fic. Also so are Tanya, Tim and Devon (You'll see them later)
JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SPIDER
CHAPTER 25: ONE COMPLICATED DAY
Donna was making breakfast for her sister and herself, actually it was her first try it had been some time but she finally got the hang of this. Cooking was so much more difficult then back home, back then you hunted or fished, cleaned and then cooked it. Or you picked the fruit, it was simple but compared to all the foods she had eaten so far she realized that the food back home was very plain. She wasn't sure how she was going to enjoy the food back home now. Diana and her had joked once that Man's World had spoiled their stomachs permanently.
A yawn brought her attention to her big sister coming out of the next room in her usual robe, she knew that her sister hadn't gotten home until late last night, her League duties and her new ones as Ambassador were starting to tire her out. She was thinking of convincing her sister to take a day off or two and just relax, "Morning, I got breakfast nearly done. So how are you?"
Diana made herself a cup of coffee and thanked whichever of the gods made this, she never knew how some people could function without it at times, "I don't know what's harder fighting super criminals or doing all that damn paper work…I swear Hades must have been behind all the bureaucratic garbage if I didn't know any better."
Donna slid her a plate of food and Diana picked at it, it was surprisingly tasty, "You've got talent for this."
Her younger sister just shrugged, "It's okay but I prefer photography."
That surprised Wonder Woman, "Oh? How did this come about?"
Donna sat down at the island counter across from her, "Well I once saw Peter develop film once and it was very interesting," She didn't put in the accident in the dark room when he had accidentally touched her in what her mother would call an inappropriate place but she knew Peter didn't mean to. Although it did give her a thrill she never felt since her last relationship. "I just sort of talk to him and he showed me how cameras work and everything…I've been kind of taking photos myself, just trying to find my 'style' I guess. It's a nice little hobby on the side that makes me happy."
"You never were good at the arts," Diana smirked at the mock glare of her sister.
"Oh? And how about that vase you tried to make?" Diana winced at that, she had tried to make a simple vase but after over thirty attempts she couldn't get it just right. She had ended up smashing the pottery wheel in her anger. Their mother had decided to not try to teach her anything artistic after that.
Diana decided to change the subject, "So how are things with you and Peter?"
Donna shrugged, "Well…I took your advise and now I'm just waiting to see how they take it although I kept getting strange looks lately."
Diana nodded, "Yes I know it's all over the league now."
"Why would they care?"
"Well…it's just that this is kind of unusual out here," Diana personally saw nothing wrong in it, it was part of their tradition and her sister was old enough to decided what she wanted to do in her life out here. And it wasn't her first relationship they both have had their share back home before they both left for Man's World. Although relationships with men were proving very complicated, and if Bruce kept acting this way she may have to turn her sights to someone else. She was a woman with needs after all and if Bruce couldn't or wouldn't help with that then maybe it was time to move on.
The only thing was she didn't really see anyone as interesting. Sure there were a few attractive people so far but no one that made her feel like Bruce did.
Donna sighed, "It was so much simpler back home. You just go up to someone tell them how you felt and if they were the same then you start a relationship for a few decades or so."
"Yes…that reminds me are Agapi and Gina still together?"
Donna smiled at her, "Still together."
Diana shook her head, "What has it been? Over two hundred years?" Everyone knew of Agapi and Gina, those two had the longest relationship going. When you're immortal being with the same person for centuries tended to get old but those two were truly in love with one another and it seemed nothing could break them apart. It was good to see that actually.
"Sometimes I don't think those two will ever be apart," Donna smiled then a thought hit her. "How did Superman take it? I mean giving that his cousin is involved?"
Not it was Diana's turn to smiled, "He only found out yesterday apparently someone made a comment about it to him…you should have seen the expression it was like half shock, half surprise. He came up to me asking what was going on with you and I explained to him a few Amazon costumes and how what you did was perfectly reasonable to us. I also explained the other way was you to challenge Kara for the right of having Peter."
"How did he take that?"
"Better then I expected actually, he was raised with 'old fashion family values' as Batman once told me. He respected out costumes but he was still a little on edge about it. I don't think he's ever had to deal with a situation like this and I told him this was between Kara, you and Peter and we shouldn't get involved." Wonder Woman said. She knew Clark was a very kind and caring person but at times he was also so naïve in his own way.
There was a knock on their door but it wasn't the front one it was the one to the balcony from over thirty stories up balcony that is. They both looked at one another and then crossed into the den and saw Spider-Man there. He waved a bit uncertainly at them and Donna smiled and waved back, "I'm going ot go see what he wants." Donna told her sister and went to the glad French doors. Diana decided to go back to the kitchen and finish her breakfast and to give them a little privacy.
Donna closed the door and looked at Peter with a smile outside on the small balcony, "Hey Peter what are you doing here?"
Peter looked a bit nervous he was shuffling around a bit and she could tell something was wrong, "Donna can we sit?" She nodded her face losing its smile as they sat down on a couple of chairs, "Donna I heard about that…offer you gave Kara…well…I know that most guys would love having two beautiful and incredible women in their life…"
Donna frowned, "I sense a 'but' coming…"
Peter nodded he took off his mask so she could see his face and his eyes, "Donna believe me when I say you're important in my life…You're one of the few closest friends I got here and I love hanging out with you and I do care about you…But I'm just not the type of guy that goes around with two women under each arm. That and…Well even though I do care for you I care for someone else more."
Donna sighed and closed her eyes, she knew who it was, "Kara is very lucky."
"Is it that obvious?"
Donna smiled at him and shook her head, "Peter you could see it from the Watch Tower," Although she was disappointed she was also happy for them. They were true friends to her and she respected them both. True that tradition stated that if she wanted to she could challenge Kara for ownership of Peter but being here she had learned that things worked differently. Besides she didn't want to lose either Peter or Kara as friends.
She got up from her seat, "Well my breakfast it getting cold."
Peter saw how she looked and he wished there was something he could do, "Donna I'm sorry I…I never wanted to hurt you."
She smiled sadly at him and cupped his face, "I know…" Then she kissed him she had to do it at least once. After she pulled from a dazed Peter she looked at him, "Kara is lucky…but just tell her that if things don't work out with you two I will be there to take her place you understand?"
"Uh…yeah I do…" Peter gulped he knew that she was serious and the suddenly image of her throwing him over her shoulder tied up came to mind and he wasn't sure if he was far off with that. He watched her leave a bit add looking and even though he couldn't help what happened…He felt lower then dirt.
"Peter…" Donna said over her shoulder, "Do me a favor…just…give me my space." He knew that she was telling him that and not asking. So he nodded and pulled back on his mask and jumped off, he had to get to work soon and hopefully something there would keep his mind off this. Plus he had to tell Kara how it went as well.
Diana watch her little sister walk in, in a sullen mood and just fell into her chair with a sigh, she knew things didn't go well and wondered what had happened. "Are we cursed?" Donna asked out of the blue, when she saw her big sister's confused looked she elaborated, "In relationships is our family cursed? I mean look at mother with Hades, then you with Batman and now…Me with Peter…Did the gods place a curse on our family?"
"I take it things didn't go well…"
"You heard that saying 'let's just be friends'?" Diana nodded, "I think I just got that…" Donna sighed heavily and rested her head on her arms.
"I'm sorry things didn't work out…Did he say why exactly?" Diana wondered what else could have made Peter choose that, she wondered if he wasn't over the death of this old love.
"Kara…He's in love I think with her…" Donna said and Diana nodded now. She had noticed how those two were very close and she knew Peter was the honorable kind of man that gives his heart to only one person at a time. If it had been anyone else she might have been tempted to smash their face in but knowing Peter he had the courage and come say this to Donna's face and also she knew Peter had it rough as it was already.
"It will alright in time…" Diana offered. Donna nodded she did know, but that didn't mean she hurt a bit at the moment. She just hoped that in time she would be able to stay friends with Peter and Kara the reason she offered to share him with Kara was to avoid loosing them. Diana then got an idea, "How about we just spend the day together? Let's just forget the men in our lives and just take the day off and enjoy life."
Donna thought it over and shrugged, "Sure why not…Beats brooding all day long, I don't know how Batman does it," that got her a piece of Diana's breakfast thrown at her face, "DIANA!...I'll get you for that!" She picked up some of her own plate ready for a food fight.
-The Journal–
Peter arrived to work a little later then usual, mainly due to the fact some idiot couldn't take the time to buy his own car so he figured to take someone else's and cut out the middle man as it were. Well that guy was now hanging from a street light in webbing thinking his live over as the cops were waiting for his webbing to dissolve. They had learned over the months that it was best just to let the webbing disintegrate and then take them into custody.
He arrive on the main news floor and everyone was busy it seemed. He walked through the many rows of desks, "Hey Peter!" He looked over to where one of the people that worked there at a computer station. His name was Tim, a kid younger then him who was actually JJ's nephew although he looked nothing like him. He wore glasses, a mop of curly blond hair and a little acne. He was your basic geek so of course Peter liked him, he reminded him of how he was not too long ago.
"Hey Timmy what's up?"
"Something it wrong with the damn site," He showed Peter how the newspaper's web site was acting up, broken images and links all over it. Thankfully since Peter had been the web operator of the Daily Bugle as well as freelancing photographer he knew a lot about computers and helped Tim out now and then.
"Let the master at work," Peter smiled and sat down at the station and Tim grinned and rolled his eyes as he made room. After about five minutes Peter swore, "Damn hackers…Some moron with no life managed to put a virus into our system…I think it was some kind of Trojan Horse virus, most likely when someone here opened their mail without using a virus scanner."
"Oh great," Tim moaned, "That's just what we need…Well cleaning the virus shouldn't be too much of a problem." He looked through a collection of disks, his own personal anti-virus programs were written on them. "But finding out where it came from will be a real 'joy' to find."
Peter patted him on the back, "Good luck with that, but I got another job to do."
"Yeah well thanks anyway now if you'll excuse me it's time to impress my Uncle with my mad computer skills." Tim laughed and went to work. Peter smiled and shook his head but then his frown returned he just couldn't get the look on Donna's face out of his mind. He sighed as he walked to JJ's office with a few photos. Betty of course was there hard at work.
She smiled at him, "Hey Peter he'll be right with you he's in there with Devon Walker."
Peter nodded, Devon was one of the The Journal's best field reporters, he was a bit stocky build and had short brown hair. He was also one step from a chain smoker even though he kept on trying to quit. There was a pool in at the paper in how long he could 'quit' smoking before someone saw him light one up. The door opened and out walked Devon with a cigarette in his mouth but unlit.
"Hey man how's it going?" Peter asked.
"My lungs will be lucky to see me through till I'm forty, a stupid dog bit my leg today and now I got to find this little turd of a stooly for a story I need and worst of all…he lives in Jersey, I hate going to Jersey. So…How was your day?"
"Uh…I told this girl I know that I wasn't into a three way with her and my other female friend," Peter said he wasn't sure what to say compared to all of that besides not many people would believe that anyway.
Devon looked at him, "They good looking and willing?"
"Uh…well both good looking but I'm not sure if the other would want to…"
"You're a real stand up guy Pete, a moron but a stand up guy good luck with that." He waved off as he went to the parking lot. Peter sighed as he went to give JJ the new photos and wondered how Kara's day was going.
Kara was working on proofreading an article for print after she had sorted out the memos for this floor. She kind of had a few odd jobs to her duties thankfully she was a great speller and thanks to a little super speed now and then she was the fastest worker at times. She was wondering how things went with Donna and hoped to meet Peter later.
"Hey Kara how's it going girl?" Kara turned to face the warm smiled of Tanya Smith. She was about a year older then herself, a bit taller, dark skin with her long brown hair in deadlocks. She was also one of the new friends she had make while working here.
"Oh the usual grin nothing…major," She tried to act like nothing was going on but then again Kara never was good at lying at could see it written on Tanya's face as she raised an eyebrow.
"Uh-huh…You sure about that?"
"Um…yeah…of course," She tried to give off a humorous smile but it felt too forced and most likely looked like it too.
"Okay are we going to have to go through the whole thing with you deny what's going on and I keep at it until you crack? Cause I got a busy day ahead so if we could skip all that it will be nice."
Kara just groaned, "It's nothing…really…it's just that…well…you know me and Peter live together right?"
"He finally ask you out?" Kara's jaw dropped at that as her fake glasses slipped down her nose a bit, and Tanya just had to laugh, "Girl did you honestly think that a man and a woman can live together and something not happen? I mean unless you two were related or gay it was bound to happen…So spill girlfriend did he?"
"Well…not yet we just kind of told each other how we feel…" She blushed a bit and tried to look busy.
Tanya however was grinning, "Well it's a start, you know everyone was wondering if something was bound to happen. Oh well it will brake the hearts of a few of the boys were knowing you're off the market."
Kara just roll her eyes, she tried to make her 'Kara Kent' persona look plain and nothing special. It was easier to hide herself as Supergirl that way. "Oh please I've only been asked out twice."
"True but I know there were a few working up the nerve, well I hope things work out for you two hun." Tanya patted her on the shoulder as she left to do some work and Kara sighed hoping it would all work out.
-Later that Day-
Peter now dressed as Spider-Man was doing his usual routine over New York. He wasn't on any League roster at the moment and web swinging always helped him to relax. He gave his boss a few pics of a fight between Spider-Man and Copper Head. Some villain that wore a copper colored snake suit and one hard head. Peter still had a bruise on his lower back from that guy.
So far he met with Kara at lunch and told her how his day went with Donna. So far they would both give her time and her own space. Kara also suggested they go out to see a movie tonight, after today he could use it. He landed on a roof top over looking this New York, it was still strange for him to be here. It was home but yet it wasn't. There were differences the one was now the people treated him here, some smiled, waved and cheered him on. It was still odd to him, after years of having the opposite, he wondered how the others would take to this? The X-Men alone could do really well here and they were just as persecuted as he had been if not more so.
"You know…after all the crap I've had to dealt with…all the deaths, monsters, and pain…It's nice here," he was just talking out loud a nasty habit he had formed over all those lonely years on his own. "I got good friends, the cops don't shot at me always a plus, and now I finally think I can open my heart again to a very great woman…"
Peter sighed thinking about Kara. When he dated Kitty Pryde part of it had been because she had powers and could take care of herself. One of the reasons he and MJ's relationship had been so rocky for so many years was because she could always get seriously hurt. Kara however could take getting a tank droped on her. Even Peter knew he wouldn't be as lucky. He knew that he wouldn't have to constantly worry about Kara, she was a big girl and could kick his ass if she wanted too.
He smiled at that image, that was a first for him. At least relationship wise he'd had his fair share of getting his butt handed to him. He looked over the city and took a breath of it. "They may not be my real home…But so far it's a good life. You know despite this morning this hasn't been too bad of a day."
Then a few blocks away a loud explosion was heard and he saw smoke rise up, "Oh for the love of….What the hell did I do to deserve the wrath of the gods in TWO universes?" He signed and jumped off the building heading for the explosion.
Five minutes later he found what looked like another lab complex, "You know this is the second kind of these places that got busted into this way in two months…they really need better security." Peter said to himself swinging through the hole in the building into a machine room of some kind. There was smoke all over the place and over turned lab equipment. He just hoped that all those members of the Sisterhood were still in jail because he was getting a bad sense of Déjà vu.
"Help…please someone…"
Peter scanned the area and saw a hand under a pile of debris, "Hang on!" Spider-Man shouted out and leaped over twenty feet to the area and pulled it up. "Man this thing must weight a ton…good thing I can lift ten tons." He lifted the pile of ruined machinery off the and someone crawled out, he looked like a technician.
"You okay?" Peter asked putting it down.
"Y-yes thanks…"
"Is there anyone else in here?" Peter asked looking around but it was hard to tell a few of the lights kept on flickering and the smoke from a few fires didn't help.
"I don't know I think so...well…except for that guy with the metal arms."
That made Peter freeze as he his blood froze for a moment, "Metal arms?" Then his spider-sense kicked in and he jumped but he heard something slam into the ground with major force but also something hitting him in the back as well. He could tell it was metal, it was powerful and it hurts like hell when it hits him. He landed and skidded over the ground.
"Okay…I've think I've officially run out of ways to say…ow."
"Too bad I was hoping to expand that for ya."
Spider-Man looked up at an athletic looking man in a black and white costume with a spider symbol on it with metallic gauntlets, boots and some freaky looking streamline helmet. From behind his back came several thick metallic legs. The legs has some kind of very moveable cylinder looking part with thicker more armored joints around it making it looks like spider legs. Now the center part looked very familiar and wondered if under that helmet would be a familiar face of someone he had hopped to never see again.
The helmet distorted the voice and if this was some freaky duplicate of one of his major enemies he wasn't sure. Peter just got to his feet noticing that the man he rescued was getting out of there. Good one less person to worry about. "Okay now before I sue you for copyright infringement just who the hell are you?"
He stepped forward, "You can call me Cyber-Spider and trust me, you won't be around long enough to complain about me stealing your shtick. Besides I'm a their…It's what I do."
Spider-Man looked at him as he got ready for a fight, "Great…first he steals my whole 'spider thing' and now…He's doing the one-liners, now that's just gone too far pal. The spider thing I don't got a problem but no one does the one-liners but me."
UP NEXT CHAPTER 26: SPIDER VS SPIDER
Sorry for the wait folks but I'm just getting
over laser eye surgery so my vision is good sometimes and blurry the
next so keep in mind I wrote this chapter almost half blind at times lol. I'm amazed I was albe to type this period.
