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JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SPIDER

CHAPTER 32: FIRST STRIKE

The first thing Shayera notice was the nice warm and hard body under her that she was using as a pillow. She opened her eyes and smiled a bit to see John there. She was in his apartment after spending the night there, in fact by now they both had things over at each other's apartment only his place was always neater and more organized. He even organized her stuff, she liked to sometimes just moves things around either just a little or in another room entirely when he wasn't looking just to see him put it back.

It was pretty funny game she liked to play and of course he knew it was her, but he got her back by organizing her place. She had her own 'system' of finding things and so when he cleaned up it just took her forever to find something again.

She liked her relationship with John, it was different then back home, on her world things were a bit stricter then on Earth there was room for both couples and John did make her life seem less complicated and easier. She still got looks now and then of mistrust from the public and even a few League members but not John. He was always there for her in his own way, and these past few months had been a lot easier with him.

She still felt she had to prove herself to everyone, even Diana was still giving her the cold shoulder at times but then again she was a warrior with a strict code of honor and she knew that betrayal wasn't looked too kindly among her people. But she was working on it, she stretched out in a long shirt with like all her clothing she had to modify with holes for her wings. Well some of her stuff was backless that was the most annoying thing about living on Earth the shopping for tops and then modifying them for her wings.

Sure the clothing here was less boring and mundane as her people's sense of fashion but it was nice to just wear something different now and again. John stirred and started to wake up, "Hey there, you want the shower first or second?" She asked him.

"You can I know how long it takes to dry your wings I'll start on breakfast," he smiled up at her, she always looked beautiful to him when the sun hit her in the morning, she looked like a true angel to him. She kissed his cheek, that was another thing she loved about him he paid attention to the little things like her wings when most people never even thought about it. She walked to his bathroom as he got up and watched her leave with a grin on his face.

Hard to believe at first they were butting heads all the time and there had been times when people thought they would kill each other. Yeah strange how things work out but he was glad they did work out this way. He hadn't been this happy in years. He made his way to the small kitchen area, there weren't any walls and was open to the rest of this place. She started to make her favorite breakfast as well as some for himself.

By the time he had finished she was out and dried up, he had once seen her dry up after they had shared the shower once. That was the one and only time given how much room her wings took up and his shower was kind of cramped. She took great care in drying off her feathers and he wondered just how many other things her people had to put up with by having giant wings like that.

"Smells great as usual," She smiled at him and sat down at her table.

"Well I have tried to teach you a few things," he grinned at her, Shayera was a great warrior and many other things but a cook she was not. She could only cook if it was simple and nothing fancy, besides her work kept her busy anyway.

"So you have duty today?" She asked him taking a piece of toast.

"Yeah but only later, got a nightshift tonight as well as overseeing a training session with Long Shadow to see what he's fully capable of," He took some bacon with his fork.

She nodded her head it would be nice to see what he was fully capable of before they put him into the field so they would know how best to use him. She was kind of glad that the cure seemed to have worked although Batman did tell them that he did give Cadmus the data to cure the rest the fact that they hadn't been heard of was worrying.

After the breakfast she had to leave for a roster check up at the Watchtower. She was putting on a light trench coat to hide her wings; most people didn't notice her when she hides them given that many just saw the wings most of the time. "Hey John before I head on up to the Watchtower I'm going to get a few items that I need to get first is it okay if I place them here and get them later?"

John was putting away the dishes before he went for a shower, "Sure thing if I'm not here you got the key?"

She smiled at him, "Always," She told him as she knew he was talking about the spare key to his place. John began to head to the bathroom as he washed up. He felt good about his life at the moment, after the Marines he wasn't sure what to do with his life but the Lantern Core gave him a purpose in life and then the League formed and that filled his life with duty, something he had ever since he enlisted. But before Shayera and him started to date he hadn't realized that he had been missing something in his life after all. Okay sure he had a few romantic interests here or there but she was different then others, and not just because she had wings either. He was smiling a bit to himself and remembered how Flash told him he seemed much happier now lately and he had to agree. After shaving and then dressing he walked into the main room and was surprised to see her back. "Hey I thought you would be gone longer."

She grinned at him, "Oh it didn't take that long and I got something for you too."

He raised an eyebrow seeing her lean against the counters as he got closer, she usually wasn't the type of person to just buy something on a whim. But when he got close enough his eyes widened as her arm that had been hidden came up and her mace slammed into his face. John went flying back onto a small table breaking in and what felt like possibly a rib or two. "S-shayera…what?"

He got another mace shot to the face and with her more then human strength it lifted him up into the air as he spun and landed on his back. He hadn't his ring on since he usually took it off at nights and hadn't put it on yet. His mind snapped back to the present as her mace hit his chest and as he clutched his sides he saw her looking down on him with a predatory smirk on her face. "W-what…are…"

"Sorry but Shayera isn't here at the moment," She spoke to him and he tasted the iron liquid that he knew was blood in his mouth. "You can call me Shiera Sanders."

He looked confused at her and she stepped hard onto his chest and he tried not to cry out in pain. "Did you really think my people would let me come to this planet without a backup plan? All undercover operatives are secretly given sleeper personalities. In case one of use get captured or go renegade this personality can be activated. Mine was by the end of the battle with my people, I've been watching and waiting and now 'Shayera' will turn traitor again and destroy the League from within."

"No," He whispered out in shock at this. "She's in there she can…fight you…"

She laughed at him, "Please I've been showing up now and then and she still had no idea what's going on. I'll leave and then her personality will come back. She'll not remember any of this," The last thing he saw before he blacked out was her mace heading towards him.

-West Coast City-

Peter was dressed up as Spider-Man again only now he was in one of the cities that didn't exist in his world. He had a hit on Cyber-Spider that he had been seen or at least someone like him had been seen in this city. Flash was with him as well as a couple of other members that were Vigilante someone who looked like a cowboy in blue, white hat and a red bandana over his mouth. He had special six shooters that had some type of glowing ammo of some kind.

Peter wasn't sure given he didn't like guns that much and at first he was afraid that he might be another Punisher but he read up on him and it looked like he only disable and never killed with his guns. It still made him a bit uneasy but at least he wasn't worried about a body count. Finally there was Black Canary, when the beautiful blond joined up Green Arrow asked if he could tag along but J'onn gave him something else to do with another team much to his disappointment.

"So this varmint that buried you under a building is in this town huh?" Vigilante asked adjusting his cowboy hat. They were on a building in the business district that was very upscale and so had a lot of valuable stuff to steal.

"Technically it was only part of a building but yeah, J'onn told me reports placed him here," Peter nodded as he looked around the place. "So far he's stolen a couple of things here and given his nature he's overdue for another heist."

"Yes, thieves usually have a tendency to try for bigger and better scores," Dinah the Black Canary said flipping some of her shoulder length golden hair over her shoulder, "I take it that your hoping he's still in this city and hasn't smartened up and moved to another city?"

"Pretty much," Peter nodded.

"Well then when he strikes then we strike," Flash grinned and slammed his fist into his hand to drive the point him. "And with the four of us he doesn't stand a chance."

"Yeah well this guy has some nasty tricks so just be careful guys." Peter warned them as he could still remember how long it took him to heal up. Although having Kara looking over him was nice, she never did get that nurse uniform though, he had a few nice dreams of her in a tight fitting one piece. He tried to put that thought out of his head, now was not the time.

Man what was it with him? Or was this normal for guys? He hadn't even pictured Jean Grey naked until she commented on how he was the first not to try it. Of course by saying it he thought about it and tried to get it out of his head when he saw the look on her face. Thinking of a woman naked who was right in front of you who could also read your thoughts wasn't good.

"Well it's been over three hours and we've checked out several places that he might have stolen, but I reck'on that he's got to show up it's all a matter of watin' him out." Vigilante said checking his firearms, it was just out of habit to make sure they fire properly since in battle things tended to go wrong.

"Yeah but when that's my problem," Flash sighed and sat on the side of the building, "I'm no good at the whole 'waiting' thing. Having super speed like mine kind of makes me a bit hyper."

"I've noticed," Black Canary had seen him always moving, even back at the Tower when he was sitting he had a leg twitching or something. She guessed he was one of those people who found it hard to just sit still but then again when your body is hyper accelerated like his everything just seemed so slow to you.

'Spider-Man do you read?' Came J'onn's voice in the JL communicator in Peter's ear. He was still getting used to having that thing in there all the time when he wore his uniform.

He touched the communicator in his ear, "Yeah I'm here what's up big man? Get a hit on this walking copyright infringement?"

'If you're referring to Cyber-Spider then yes,' The Martian said to them from his place in the Watchtower, 'A police report states that a man in a black and grey suit with mechanical arms braking into a bank.'

Peter took a moment hearing that, "A bank? He's got a suit that can take him into most places and past a lot of security devices and he just goes and robes a bank?" He turned to the others, "Does that not seem a tad cliché and low brow to the rest of you?"

"Yeah although it is kind of tradition for villains isn't it?" Flash remarked off hand.

"Must be some type of dang villain rule or somethin'," Vigilante took out his guns testing the weight and spun them around and holstered them like a gunslinger in a Western movie.

Dinah stepped forward at that moment, "Well then lets stop talking and get going, you want him and get some answers? Then let's go."

Flash grinned and jerked a thumb at her, "Got to love a woman who knows how to take charge."

Peter grinned under his mask and placed a hand by his ear to contact J'onn again, "Okay buddy where is this bank and how do we get there?"

-John's Apartment-

Shayera was on her way back, it seemed that it had taken her longer then she had thought to buy what she needed, mainly just a few supplies normally she would just shop in her own City but while at John's she found a few cheaper places for her to shop that had better deals. She checked her watch and sighed as she found herself running late already. She just wished she knew why it took so long normally it only took her twenty minutes but now it took her nearly twice as long. She put down her bags by John's door and placed a key in there to unlock the door since John always locked up, he may be the Green Lantern but then again that wouldn't stop a few idiotic thieves who chose to robe the wrong place at the wrong time.

Although the strange thing was that the door hadn't been locked. When she thought she unlocked it and tried to open the door it didn't budge. So she unlocked the door and walked in. 'Didn't I lock up when I left? Or did I forget to do that?' She thought to herself. She tried to remember but couldn't, plus the really odd thing was she knew that John wouldn't forget to lock up, if there was a fire across the street he would make sure everything was alright quickly before he left.

"Hey John you still here?" She asked as she pushed open the door with her back as she picked up her bags. "I just figured that…" She froze at the sight before her. The apartment was wrecked obvious that there was a fight in the room but that's not what gained her attention. It was John's limp form on the floor that got it.

She dropped her bags but she didn't care she didn't even notice when she did she rushed over to him and yet it was like the world was moving in slow motion. She knelt down next to him, his clothing ripped and torn, he had many cuts and bruises. His leg and arm were at angles that she knew the human body wasn't meant to. He was so still she was worried he might be dead. "Please John don't you dare be dead…" She didn't feel the tears she only felt the ice cold dagger in her heart, "I can't lose you too…" She whispered out as she gently took hold of his body.

Shayera took care to turn him over being careful of his neck and body. She looked at horror at his face. It was battered and bloodied there was a small pool of blood on the floor from an open wound on his head. She pressed down on it trying to stop the bleeding. His left eye was swollen shut and his lip was slip and it looked like his nose might have been broken.

Her left hand, which she didn't notice it was shaking as she reached for the communicator. "J'onn!"

"Shayera what is it?" He asked her, hearing the stress in her voice he had never heard her sound so…scared before. Scared was one thing that he never thought he would have thought of her to be.

"It's John, he's been attack in his apartment please we need an emergency transport and immediate medical attention for him!"

"I'm on it!"

She felt for a pulse there was one but it was weak she saw her right hand covered in his blood and she felt a cold rage enter her. She swore that she would find whoever did this and make them pay, she would make them suffer and there was no way for them to hide from her. John was the bright point of her life the only thing that was truly good and she didn't want to lose him not now, not after everything.

There was a suddenly light and the familiar sensation of being moved when she found herself and John on the transporter pad. She was in a daze as she watched the medical staff rush over to them and start to work. She didn't move at first everything was moving slow again and she felt someone pull her away she didn't fight all she could do was watch as they began on the only man on Earth that loved her.

She watched as they loaded him up into a stretched and tried to go with him but felt someone holding her back. It was now that she realized that not only was it J'onn but that he was speaking to her. "Shayera?"

"Y-yes?"

"What happened?" He asked her gently you didn't need to be a telepath to see how much this was affecting her. He wiped a few tears from her face, he had never seen her like this looking like she was devastated and under it he could sense a vengeful need to attack the people responsible.

"I…I don't know I just left and came back and then…I found his place a mess and him…Like that…" She looked down and noticed the blood on her coat and hand.

"Shayera get clean up," He told her softly, "You can't help him now and we should let the doctor take a look at him."

"I want them J'onn…I want the ones who did this." She said in a cold tone.

He nodded his head understanding this, John was his friend too and even he was moved to know who had done this. At the first chance he got he would see if he could sift through his memories to see if he could find out who did it. "I know, and believe me none of us will rest until we know who did this."

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