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JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SPIDER

CHAPTER 37: LEAGUE VERSUS LORD

As the League members were all launched J'onn went into a corridor and waited. Not long after he got there the Justice Lord versions of Superman and Wonder Woman showed up as they began to talk. "Things are going as planned, all the League members on duty should be finding out they no longer have control of the Javelins."

Superman nodded his head, "Good then how about the station crew?"

"Already taking care of for the most part," Wonder Woman had been systematically disabling doorways and holding most of the crew in certain sections after J'onn tampered with the communications.

"And those that are free I can easily gain control over," J'onn told them. For the past few hours he had been systematically implanting telepathic commands into the minds of the crew. They would now follow his orders to the letter if he chose to command them.

"Good, I think it's time we take this to the next step," Superman stated crossing his arms. "We want to destroy their reputation so I think the best way is to use that laser weapon on the station. The giant laser, we fire it at the planet but we also link it to the main reactor so when it fires the Watchtower erupts in a ball of fire. The remaining League will then have no base, no backup and the world would see them as the villains."

It was poetic irony to him, their world saw them as the villains so maybe it was time to return the favor. The other two had thought about this but this wasn't their world. So what they did here they wouldn't care too much. If there were an infinite numbers of Earths then nothing they did really mattered in the grand picture. Beside they just wanted to get this revenge over with, get their powers back permanently and then go back to their own world.

While this was going on Spider-Man, Green Arrow, Vixen, Long Shadow, Flash and Donna were waiting for the others to sneak onboard. "You know how come you didn't tell us about this little teleporter?" Vixen asked Wally.

"Uh…well Batman said not to," He told the beautiful female hero while scratching the back of his neck. "And when he told me he gave that little look that says 'Tell and it's the last thing you do' type of look."

She nodded her head, "Ah, okay." Everyone else had pretty much heard of his legendary glares and that he when he told you something with it, it was best to do it.

They watched as the first to show up was Superman as he came through the small device, since it was only large to do one at a time. The hidden room wasn't much bigger, more like a walk in closet really with a control panel on the wall. Then came at first what kind of looked like Batman only with a different look. But when someone that looked a lot like Kara with a new look and uniform everyone was surprised. Especially for Peter who just stared at her, "Kara!"

She looked surprised at Spider-Man, "I take it you know me, or the other me, your me…you know what I mean." She shook her head trying not to think about it too much. All this stuff got confusing and gave her a headache.

"Uh…yeah, you could say that," Peter nodded. It was certainly weird that was for sure, she looked so much like his Kara but yet different. He had to admit the new suit was certainly something new.

"I bet Kara, our Kara would wish that she hadn't taken her communicator off for his," Donna smiled knowing that Kara would have loved this.

By now their Batman had just walked through the teleporter. After that they all pretty much filled each other in on what they had found. So far it didn't look good, it was obvious that Doctor Octopus not only was in this world from Peter's but he had freed the Justice Lords. Somehow he had given them back their powers.

Peter didn't like this at all, he knew something was up. Doc Ock wasn't stupid and he bet there was something else here going on. The problem was that he usually only figured it out a little too late to stop it sometimes.

Batman was the first to speak up after they were all up to speed, "Okay first things first we need to figure out how many of the Lords are here."

"That should be simple," The Lord Batman said going for a control panel and started a search, "All the heroes seem to be in the Javelins all except for those here and also Superman, Wonder Woman and J'onn. It's a safe bet whatever they have planned they wouldn't be there."

"We need to get Shayera out of the brig as well, chances are she's still in there and we could use all the help." Superman stated, he hated it when the others told him about that and he personally didn't want to believe it.

"Problem," The other Batman said from the control panel looking at the readouts, "They locked down that whole section, even with the internal security the way it is it looks like an alarm will trip."

"Great so how do we get in?" Flash asked them.

"Well we could try a combination of the ventilation system and those small areas where all the power cables are protected." Peter told them. They all looked surprised at him for a moment, "What? What did you think I was doing when I first got here? I was going all over this place before you guys opened this up and I spent some time crawling around in there."

"How many can get in there?" Superman asked him, since he wasn't too familiar with the inner layouts like Batman would be.

Peter thought about as he looked at the others. "Well…those areas are kind of slim. I don't think the larger guys would even fit into there, plus you'd need some agility to crawl through it."

"Well then I guess that leaves you and me out kid," Green Arrow grinned and elbowed Long Shadow lightly.

"I can go," Vixen said stepping up next to Peter, "I can be pretty limber when I have to be," She grinned at Peter as he desperately tried not to picture just how and in which ways.

"I think we also need to look for J'onn," Wally spoke up, "If that is the Justice Lord version then we need to figure out where he is as well. Not to mention where Diana is, if she's the other one too."

Donna hadn't thought of that and her eyes widened at that thought. The Justice Lord Batman had an idea and looked thought the data of main teleporter. It was a long shot but it also was the only chance. He looked up when Superman last used the main teleporter. They seemed to keep a log entry and he back tracked its location. "Here, the other Superman was taken from a place in New York. Looks like a warehouse district near Manhattan. If there are any clues or if she's anywhere that's that first place to look."

"I'll go then," This world's Batman said moving the other aside as he set the teleporter to those coordinates. The others looked at him and he noticed this, "Look someone has to go down there and I'm the best one to look for clue or to sneak in."

"You do realize that most likely my Green Lantern and Hawkgirl are guarding her right?" His counter part told him. Given that they weren't on the station it was logical to assume they were with their captive Diana.

"Then I'll go with him to help," Donna said, if her sister was in danger then she would go and help her. Besides it would give her the chance to see why her sister was so taken by Batman anyway. She noticed him looking but gave him a fierce Amazon stare. Bruce considered trying to tell her that he was going alone but then she was a LOT like Diana. And she was just as stubborn as her too and would most likely go anyway.

"Fine then, but just stick to my lead," He said to her. Eventually they came up with a plan that while Spider-Man and Vixen would free Shayera, the others would take on the other three members of the Lords before they could react. So everyone split up into three separate teams.

-New York Area-

Batman and Donna found themselves looking at a large warehouse as they teleported down. "Well what are we waiting for?" The young Amazon said and started off only to be held back but Batman.

He held her back and looked at her, "Hold on, we shouldn't go barging in. For all we know they're prepared for something like this. We need to get in a side way and make sure not to be seen in case they are there."

She crossed her arms, sneaking around like a thief in the night wasn't very warrior like to her. But he was more experienced with this type of thing, "Okay but hurry up."

Meanwhile Diana was held up against a wall with heavy metal restraints. She had come too a few hours ago, and even though her body had healed up a little but she still felt like hell. She felt the cold metal against her neck and wrists when she woke up and realized she had lost her bracelets. She was furious but kept it in check she looked around and saw she was still in the warehouse.

She had been struggling for over an hour before she got tired, 'Damn it, the only other time I've been in this was back in Kasnian.' That had been a few years back when they met Vandal Savage. So after that first hour she just stood there bored and went to giving everything a close inspection. It was pretty empty really, except for some basic things. Tables, some equipment and nothing else, they even turned the lights off so it was pretty dark.

The only light was from the partially painted over windows or the broken ones. So for the last few minutes she spent her time counting things. Mainly cracks in the floor, or support beams. Anything really just to keep her mind occupied since none of the Justice Lords seemed to be around. But then again she couldn't see all of the place and there were enough hiding spots.

She hung her head trying to get back to thinking of a way out when she heard a sound. There was a dark reddish shape in the shadows and when it came closer she smiled seeing it was Donna, "Hey big sister, see what happens when I'm not around?"

Diana smiled broadly at that, "Yeah I know, can you get me out of this little sister?"

"I may be help with that," A voice from the shadows said silently and her heart warmed a bit seeing Bruce here. She could always count on him to show up when he was needed. But then just when things were looking up a green beam of energy hit Batman in the chest throwing him into the shadows.

Donna turned to area of where it came from only to get an electrified mace in her face. Donna hit a wall hard and looked up with a sneer on her face at the Justice Lord Hawkgirl and Green Lantern there. "You know I just knew that someone was bound to show up here, so we thought to set a little surprise," The Justice Lord GL said to them calmly.

"Yes and although I was bored to death watching the Amazon, killing her little sister and Batman will be well worth it," Hawkgirl grinned from behind her metal face mask.

-Watchtower-

Peter pulled open a vent with Vixen right behind him. He was sitting on the wall and handed it down to her. "So just how limber are you anyway? Cause this gets a bit tight."

She smiled at him and touched her amulet, then she jumped onto the wall in a way that mimicked him, "I have the power of any animal and that includes spiders."

"Hey lady don't start stealing my thing, I only heard of one other spider hero and him and me are too different," Peter remembered how Static and Gear told him about that African hero. He couldn't remember the name, something with an A he was sure of that.

"What's a matter, jealous?" She asked him teasingly as she then crawled into the vent.

"I'm just a little protective of my unique nature is all," He joked following her into the vent, it was a good thing he wasn't afraid of small spaces. Although he had to keep his head down, since looking up only gave him a perfect view of her backside. 'Why do these things always seem to happen to me?' He thought trying to focus.

They came out of an elevator shaft. "Okay you see that small tunnel down there to the left?" Peter pointed to a small one down a few levels, "We need to get to there."

"Not a problem," Vixen told him and jumped off the side of the wall. She free fell down the shaft and grabbed the cables. With it she spun around a bit and threw herself into the direction of the small open passage, where cables were running in and out of it. Vixen also put in a flip as she landed onto the wall sticking to it.

Peter saw all this and looked at her, "Okay just to let you know, if you ever put on a spider like costume and call yourself Spider-Woman…I'm suing." He told her as he made his way down there. She had to laugh at that, unlike a few heroes she could name he was pretty fun to be around. He had this sense of humor that seemed to take the edge off of the stress of the moment.

They continued to work their way down several levels, it was slow work since they had to take several different routes but after a bit Peter came to a vent below him. Now even though he didn't know the station like the back of his hand he had a very good idea of where they were. He was sure they were in the right area so he punched the grate and looked down. He looked to the sides and saw the large printing on the wall.

"Yep, Level 12 Detention Center," He said up to Vixen. He dropped down to the floor and waited for her to drop down. She landed with perfect grace and he had to wonder if that was just her own abilities or animal ones? Given that she was a model it was a hard choice, "You know I never got why they call places like this detention centers, sounds like some place you put kids who misbehave in school then a prison."

"I can see you're point, I mean why sugar coat it. So which cell is she in?"

"Oh we have other issues first."

"What? What other issues?"

"You know how they were working on those new security bots? The ones used just in case the Tower needed more internal defenses?" He asked her.

She got a bad feeling where this was going, "The ones there aren't supposed to be put in use for a few more months?"

Peter nodded and pointed behind her, "Looks like the tech boys were a little ahead of schedule." She quickly turned to see several defense drones of various size and shapes. Both got into fighting positions.

"Remind me to lodge a complaint about this later," She said to him.

-Elsewhere in the Tower-

The others were making their way to the main control room. Flash decided to scout ahead since he wasn't much for keeping with the others. He zoomed past most of the other crews and stopped just outside of the opening to the control area. He took a quick look and saw J'onn there or at least the one that looked like his J'onn. 'Okay then evil green guy in there so where is evil Supes and Wondy?' He thought to himself.

What he didn't know is that when J'onn was making a final tally he found several heroes hadn't been reported in the launch bay. He had tried to find them with the security but found nothing. He took a closer look at the data and found there was something wrong with the system. He wasn't as familiar with it as his counter part but he knew that someone had hacked the system. 'Superman, Wonder Woman we have a problem,' he sent telepathically to them.

He filled them in and all of them agreed that something wasn't right here. J'onn raised the security level silently as Superman worked in the reactor room finishing his work. Then he sensed it from one of the crew members. He looked into their mind and saw Flash there making his way towards him. Flash thought he was just looking busy and didn't notice one of them crew looking at him from the corner of her eye.

J'onn was controlling her at the moment looking through her eyes. He watched as Wally left in a blur to report back and J'onn didn't like this at all. 'I think it's time we need to put our backup plan into effect.'

'You sure about that?' Wonder Woman thought back as she made her way to the central area.

'Yes, Flash was looking in on me and I know he's not alone. I'll keep them busy while you get the rest of the plan ready Superman.' He got a mental nod back from the Man of Steel and he prepared himself for this little backup plan. They had thought that if things went wrong or a complication came then it would be best to have another plan handy. He stood very still as his eyes began to take up that familiar glow of his telepathy only this wasn't a simple use of it. This was something that he had only done a few times before, he reached out with his mind and forced his will onto all the people that he could get. He found the thoughts of the heroes there and he was surprised for a moment.

He felt the others there but he also felt the familiar presence of Batman there and it wasn't this world's it was theirs. They had thought that he might show up, he had the technology to follow them. He also had one of the most difficult minds to enter so he didn't even try. The others were a big too strong, but thankfully the work crews would be better anyway. Nothing worked better then human shields.

He sent this little information to the others, from Wonder Woman he got mixed emotions but from Superman he got nothing but a cold anger and even hate. He had to admit he felt a bit of that himself, since Bruce was the only one that hadn't suffered like they had. So he went back to what he was doing, expanding his mind and influencing all those around him, everyone in the command area just stiffen.

When Flash got back to the others he told them what he saw, "Well I only saw J'onn up there so I think we can jump him."

"You really think he's the evil one?" Long Shadow asked looking at the others. When he joined the League this wasn't what he had thought he would be doing if he was honest with himself. The League were his heroes and going up against them, even the evil versions would be tough.

"Don't worry about it," Green Arrow told him, seeing the young man's apprehension. "We got them outnumbered and outclassed."

"Actually I think we have another problem," Supergirl said and pointed to the hallway. At the end of it many of the stations workers and operators were forming ranks there but with blank expressions on their faces.

"What in the world?" Superman asked seeing this.

Batman narrowed his eyes, "It's J'onn he's controlling them!"

"Great we can't hurt them can we?" Long Shadow asked tensing up looking for the others for what to do.

Green Arrow took out an arrow, "I don't think we have an option son, looks like they aren't giving us a choice in the matter."

"He's right," Batman said grabbing a few batarangs, "We'll have to fight through them and get to J'onn. He can't focus on all of them and defend himself at the same time."

"All right," Superman said readying himself seeing more and more workers there and heard many more coming from not only in front of them but from behind as well. He really didn't like the idea of hurting these people and he would do his best to try and not injure them too badly. "But try not to hurt them too badly."

The others nodded and then pure chaos happened as all the workers suddenly charged forward. Even though the heroes had the power and skill on their side and normally they could have easily taken them down. These people were the innocent puppets and not in control of their actions. So this would be a very tough fight not trying to hurt them while trying to not get hurt themselves. The last thought Superman had before the crowd reached them was that he hoped the others were having an easier time.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 38: LEAGUE VERSUS LORD PART 2