I would've had this one out sooner, but I was on vacation, and was taking a break.
I own none of the content, and I hope you enjoy.
Attack on Gorilla City (1)
Peter and Caitlin walked into the Cortex after they got a call from Barry asking them to come to STAR Labs, due to something urgent happening. It probably wasn't urgent enough, due to them not being sped over by Barry like last time.
The both of them had just returned from Earth-38. Peter, due to having go back to work at the Bugle, and he was glad to get a break from listening to Jameson yell all day. This made Peter wonder why he didn't just quit, and take Tony up on his offer to work with him. Then again, it was probably due to the fact Spider-Man related stories were still a hot topic for the Newspaper, either in paper form or on the Bugle's website.
And Peter got a kick every time he gave Jameson the photo's, knowing full well he was Spider-Man, and Jonah was clueless. Even though he worked there as a Freelance Photographer for several years already, and so far only Ben knew he was Spider-Man.
On the bright side, he didn't have to live in his previous apartment anymore. Tony had said that the rooms in Stark Tower was almost complete with the remodel, and said they could start moving in now if they wanted to.
At first, Peter refused the offer, he didn't want to mooch off Tony's money. Even though a small part of him told him he should a little bit.
He only caved after he knew Tony would bug him about it, even though Pepper, Rhodey, Felicity, and Bruce would try to dissuade him. And also the small part of his conscious won as well.
Tony had given the others their invitations as well, with the exception of Thor, who was unreachable.
The apartments were going to be used for when they were in the area, or if there was some threat that needed to be taken care of, and they needed a base of operations. The good news was, that nothing was happening that needed them to assemble again. Although, Peter was thinking of visiting Kara and Cap in National City, or visit Bette in San Diego.
While for Caitlin, she had spent the entire day at the Triskelion giving her first report to Fury. The report consisted of her time on Earth 1 so far, bio's on everyone she met, after she asked for their permission first, she had made it clear she wanted everyone to be in the loop regarding that.
Fury had asked her to go into more detail regarding Meta-Humans and how they were created. And to also see if she could get more information regarding Oliver Queen and Star City. After she had made a mention of the Archer in her report. Caitlin had said she would try, due to Barry telling her about Oliver's distrustful personality towards new people, and he probably wouldn't considering talking to her.
Unless she could get Clint or Natasha, or the both of them to go with her, as a way to break the ice, pun not intended by the way.
She would've thought Fury had already asked Bette and Kara about Earth 1, but she knew the Director was known to be thorough, and was the kind of person who wanted all his cards on the table before doing something.
She knew he wouldn't try to cause harm, and knew everyone on Earth 1 could be potential allies.
"So, what do you think Barry needs us for?" Caitlin asked.
Peter shrugged and said," Who knows, it has to be serious, but not serious enough that would need Barry to speed us over here."
Caitlin looked slightly pale at the mention of that and said," That is something I do not want to do again."
Peter chuckled and said," Well, this is coming from someone who likes to do tricks while surfing on ice walkways."
Caitlin shrugged and said," I'm much of a fan, but Frost likes it. And I do admit, it is fun."
'Heh, I knew you had an idea what fun was.' Frost teased.
'One of your ideas of fun is to beat people up.' Caitlin deadpanned.
'Only if they deserve it. The ones that do are idiots. And I've seen and met a lot of idiots.' Frost defended.
Caitlin mentally sighed, she loved Frost and all, but sometimes she was a handful.
The two of them walked into the Cortex to find everyone, minus HR, and there was someone new there, who looked extremely worried about something. And she also looked familiar to them.
"Wait, Kitty Pryde?" Peter said confused.
'Kitty' looked at them in confusion and said," I'm sorry who?"
Barry shook his head, knowing why they thought that and said," Uh no this isn't you think it is. Her name is Jesse Wells from Earth 2. Jesse, these two are Peter Parker, and Caitlin Frost from Earth 38."
"Wait, your name is Peter Parker?" Jesse asked, with shocked look.
"Yeah, do you have a version of me on your earth?" Peter curiously asked.
Jesse looked like she was about to answer, but said," Do you know anyone by the name of Gwen Stacy?"
Peter shook and said," No, but I do know a Captain Stacy on my earth. Why?"
There was a slight flicker of sadness, and she said, "I'll explain later."
"Right, so you said Harry went missing?" Barry said.
Jess nodded and said a slight shaken tone," It's been two weeks since he disappeared. I mean, no one's seen or heard from him since."
"Slow down. Just start from the beginning. Okay, why did your dad go to Gorilla City?" Barry said.
"Wait, can we slow down even further? What the hell is a Gorilla City?" Joe asked.
"Ok so… there are sentient highly intelligent evolved gorillas inn Earth-2. And they all live in a city deep in the heart of Africa."
"Uh question, you guys aren't dealing with a Planet of the Apes scenario, right? Cause, that movie freaks me out. And how evolved are they?" Peter asked.
"They can talk telepathically, and no we aren't. The only things we have to worry about are Meta-Humans." Jesse explained.
"We sent Grodd there, we'll explain more about that later, when he went after Fay Wray here." Cisco said.
"Who's Grodd?" Frost asked.
"Gorilla that was affected by the Particle Accelerator, and became smarter." Caitlin said.
"Ok, why would your father want to go there?" Joe then asked Jesse.
"I mean, we received a mathematical cryptogram at our STAR Labs. It was highly complex. It took a week to decode it, but my dad and I did." Jesse explained.
"What did it say?" Iris asked.
"It was an invitation. From the gorillas to my dad."
"Yeah, that doesn't sound like a trap." Peter muttered.
"Why Harry?" Barry asked.
"They wanted to meet him. So he mounted an expedition with ten other people, and they went into the jungle. But the they failed multiple check-ins, and a search party went in after them."
"And all they found were bodies, right." Frost stated, knowing that was the case.
Jesse nodded and continued," But no one's seen my dad. But does it mean-"
Frost went to put a comforting hand on her shoulder and said," And that gives us more reason that he's alive. They needed him for a reason, we'll figure out what it, and find him."
Jesse gave her a grateful look and said," Thanks, I-"
She was interrupted when HR came into the room.
"Oh! There you guys are. I've been looking all over for you. Are we going for coffee or what?" He said.
"Dad!" Jesse happily said and ran over to HR and hugged him.
"Ah, oh. Yes, that's how you say good morning, people, with hugs, hi." He said.
"Jesse, that's not who you think it is. This is HR, you met him briefly before you left last time." Caitlin explained gently.
HR bowed and said," At your service madame."
"He's Harry's replacement." Wally said.
Peter looked at Frost, and they were both wondering what they meant by that.
"Some would say improvement." HR joked.
"Um, this is Harry's daughter." Cisco said.
"Yeah."
"He's been kidnapped." Cisco further explained.
HR groaned in embarrassment and said," He… I didn't know. I'm so… I thought-"
Jesse looked saddened and said," Sorry about that."
HR apologized, again, and Jesse walked away for a moment.
Peter sighed and then noticed Barry looking like he had something on his mind.
"Hey, are you alright?" Peter asked.
Barry sighed and said," The future."
Everyone was then in the training room, and Barry was showing them the board again.
He pointed at one of the headlines and said," This headline from the future: 'The city still recovering from a gorilla attack.'"
"So you're thinking this headline, and Harry being taken are tied together." Joe said.
"I mean, it can't be a coincidence, right? Harry getting lured to Gorilla City? Grodd must be planning something." Barry explained.
"Seems like he's planning to come back to this Earth." Caitlin said.
"And not alone by the sound of it." Cisco agreed.
"Yeah, I mean they probably need Harry to make a portal for them to be able to get here and attack. And all we need to do is rescue him, and maybe that'll stop whatever this Grodd is planning." Peter said.
"Which will change the future." Barry realized.
"And change my future." Iris realized as well.
"So we save Harry, we save Iris. But you're not sure." Joe said.
"No, but… I'm going either way. Harry's my friend, I'm not gonna just abandon him. I'm going back to Earth-2."
"And I suppose you'll want somebody to come with you who's gonna open those breaches for you?" Cisco said.
"We had so much fun last time." Barry said, even though most of it wasn't.
"Fun-sh. I'm in."
"I'm gonna go to. Strength in numbers and all. Also, I don't want to pass up on going to another Earth." Peter said.
"I'm not going. I mean, I can help watch over the city, and possibly help Killer Frost's image." Frost said.
"Well, that means I'm going too. I have a special connection with Grodd. Maybe we can use that to get through to him." Caitlin said.
"Yes, okay. And yeah, we could use the help Peter, thanks." Barry said.
"Great, yeah. I'm coming too." Jesse said.
"No. I'm sorry, Jesse, no." Barry disagreed.
"Look, I didn't come here for you to take all the risk. I'm going to help."
"Your dad would kill me if I let you come along."
"I'm a Speedster now, I can take care of myself." Jesse reasoned.
"I know, which is exactly why you need to stay here. I mean, this city needs protecting while we're gone. Besides, maybe you can teach Wally a thing or two." Barry said.
"Wait, what is he talking about?" Jesse asked.
Wally grinned, and showed her by vibrating his hand.
"Wow. So you're, you're a Speedster now." Jesse said.
Frost smirked and leaned over to Caitlin and said," Do they have a thing?"
Caitlin shrugged a little and said," Sorta yeah."
Peter who heard that nodded, and then stopped Jesse when she was walking away.
"Hey uh, so you're a Speedster then. I would've thought it was intangibility."
Jesse shook her head and said, "No, I mean I can phase through stuff. I take it this has to do with this Kitty Pryde person?"
"Yeah, but it's nothing important. But, do you have a version of me on your earth? Cause Caitlin already met her counterpart, it will be cool to meet a version of me." Peter excitedly said.
Although he was hoping he wouldn't meet a gender-swapped version of him, now that would be just weird to know there was a female version of him.
Jesse gave bit her lip, and said," Yeah, I'll have to get back to you on that. Right now, I think you have to prepare for Gorilla City."
Peter knew Jesse was hiding something,
"Right, Planet of the Apes-escque mission, this will be fun." Peter muttered.
He ignored the giggling from both Caitlin's behind him.
Later, Peter was in suit, minus his mask, and he was trying not to laugh, or feel annoyed by Frost's doting over him like how Aunt May would, or MJ in her own way.
"So you got extra web fluid, checked all the functions of the suit. Is Karen online? Karen, is everything alright?" Frost said.
"I can assure you Miss Frost, everything is operational." Karen said.
Frost nodded and muttered," Right, now what am I missing?"
Peter sighed, and placed a hand on her shoulder and said," Cait's, I'm going to be fine. I know your hearts is in the right place, but I'm been through worse."
Frost sighed, and pulled him into a tight hug. Peter was momentarily surprised, but hugged her back. She then lets him go and looks him straight in the eye.
"I'm your best friend, just stay safe, please."
Peter would've made another joke, but he could see the concern, and fear in her eyes.
"I will, you have my word. I have faith you will help Wally and Jesse protect the city as well."
"Hey, I'm a trained Agent of Shield, and mutant. The criminals won't know what hit' em."
Peter smirked and said," Now who's being overconfident?"
Frost lightly slapped his arm, and Peter chuckled. They didn't notice Barry giving Iris a smug look, due to him doing the same thing, but it was about her looking out for Wally while he was on Earth-2.
Iris herself ignored the look, even though it made Barry look cute. She was focused on the interactions between Peter and Frost. It made her think back to her previous thoughts of knowing about Frost's crush on Peter. She hadn't gotten a chance to interact with her that much, due how the past couple of days being hectic.
But considering she was staying to help out with Wally and Jesse, that meant she had time to talk to her, and get to know her more.
They heard the door open, and they all looked to see Julian walk in, and he dressed as if he was ready to go on a Safari.
Peter like Joe, chuckled at his attire.
Peter was just about say what was on his mind, but Cisco beat him to it and said in amusement," Indiana Jones much?"
"Cisco, my friend, this is not my first expedition, and believe me, this is the perfect attire."
"Wait, Julian, what's going on? I thought you were gonna cover for me." Barry said confused.
"I spoke to Captain Singh. He thinks we're at a Morphology Conference up in Bludhaven. So if it's all the same to you." Julian said.
Barry nodded, accepting Julian coming along. He had a feeling Julian wanted to go after he told him about traveling to Earth-2, and he was very interested at that.
"You don't have to come, Julian. You don't even know Harry." Caitlin said.
Julian chuckled and said," A chance to travel to another dimension. I mean, I wasn't gonna miss that. I already met people from another earth, so I think going to one is the next step."
"Hey, that's one of the reasons why I'm going as well. I don't know Harry either, but I plan to help him as well." Peter defended.
"Well, we're not going sightseeing, though." Caitlin continued.
Julian's answer to that was to bring out a Pistol he had and said," Neither am I."
"Well damn." Cisco said impressed.
"All right, Jesse, Wally, Frost, you make sure this city's safe while I'm gone, all right?"
"We will." Wally said.
Frost nodded and said," No need to worry. And Barry, keep Peter in line, please."
Everyone snickered at that, while Peter was a mix between embarrassed, and slight annoyance.
"Hey Barry. If you… if you see my dad, just tell him-" Jesse said, but Barry interrupted her.
"You'll see him real soon, Jesse." Barry reassured.
Peter nodded at that and said," And that's a promise."
The five of them walked up to the platform, and waited for Cisco to open a breach. Barry then turned around, looked at Frost.
He grinned and said, "And don't worry Frost, we'll get your boyfriend back in one piece."
Peter and Frost both had identical pink faces. And Peter was the first one to jump into the portal, followed by everyone else.
That just left a slightly flustered Caitlin Frost,
A second later, the five them found themselves in a forest. And Peter looked around, impressed with what just had happened. And he could hear animals in the distance, and also roaring of sorts.
He didn't need his Spider-Sense to know something bad was out there. Which made him hold off on getting payback at Barry for the comment he made earlier.
"How was that?" Cisco asked.
"Bloody brilliant." Julian praised.
"God to say, this will never get old." Peter said.
"Well, we're here." Barry said.
Peter and the other gazed at the structure that was outside the forest. It looked like an entrance to somewhere, and the most noticeable thing was the Gorilla statues.
"Huh, welcome to the Planet of the Apes, but on a fortunately, smaller scale." Peter muttered.
"Welcome to the Jungle, baby." Cisco said under his breath.
"C'mon let's go." Barry said, and they followed him as he walked.
"You guys go ahead on walking. I'm taking to the trees." Peter said.
He then placed on his mask, climbed up on a tree, and surveyed the surroundings. The others had watched him do that, and in some capacity, they were sorta creeped out by that.
They all walked in silence for a few minutes, while Peter either jumped or swung from tree to tree, and Cisco decided to break the silence.
"Earth-2 Africa, not hot. Guess global warming isn't a thing here." Cisco, and then slapped himself. "But bugs are. Sorry if I'm killing your family, Pete." Cisco joked.
Peter rolled his eyes, and said," Funny, but you do know Spider's are arachnids, right? Not bugs."
"Joke killer." Cisco muttered.
Peter was tempted to web his mouth shut, but he refrained from doing it.
"So, someone please help me out. How exactly does saving someone on this Earth, prevent an attack on ours?" Julian asked.
Barry explained by saying, "If Grodd is planning an attack, he's gonna need to open a breach to our Earth, and the only one over here that can open is-"
"Harrison Wells." Caitlin said.
"Harrison Wells, yeah. So if we save him from Grodd, then he can't get to our Earth, the attack never happens, we change the future, and we're one step closer to saving Iris." Barry explained further.
"But in layman's terms, think about all the movies and TV shows that deal with time travel." Peter said from a tree he was stuck on.
"Karen, are you seeing anything?" He then asked his AI.
"Nothing out of the ordinary. But if you want me to hack into this Earth's satellites and sweep this entire area, I can do that."
"Oh, really? Cool… how long will that take?"
"10 minutes."
"Yeah, let's just use Infrared Vision." He said.
"Activating now."
Peter's vision showed all the heat signatures nearby. He saw everyone on the ground, and as he looked around, and moved to another tree, he couldn't see anyone else.
Meanwhile, back on Earth-1, Caitlin was looking over the monitors, and was trying not to listen to the conversation Wally was having with Jesse. From what it sounded, Jesse didn't seem interested in Wally for some reason. And she could guess from their previous encounters, there was an attraction between them.
She would only offer her advice if any of them needed it. And then saw Iris and Joe offering their advice as well.
With what was going on with Wally, It was sorta a distraction from feeling worried about Peter and the others though. Even though she knew Peter was capable of handling himself, she was still his friend, and she had a right to feel or be worried.
She then got out her thoughts when she heard a beeping, and looked at the monitors. And she saw that there was a Bank Robbery was in progress.
"Guys, we got a robbery at O'Sullivan Bank. Think you guys can handle it?" She said.
Both Wally and Jesse nodded, and sped out of the room.
Caitlin sighed, she had a feeling she should've gone with the others to Earth-2.
'Your right, we should've gone to Earth-2 with the others. We could've been kicking some Gorilla ass right now.' KF said.
"Hey, are you alright?" Iris asked as she leaned on the monitor.
Caitlin waved her off and said," It's nothing, just regretting a decision."
"Right, uh, not to make you feel down or anything. But, did our Caitlin tell you the evil version of you is from that Earth?"
Caitlin nodded, when she and her counterpart talked the first night, they talked about Caitlin Snow of Earth-2. Apparently she was the living embodiment of what Frost could've become if she ended up becoming bad.
Frost herself felt like meeting her, to see if she could talk some sense into her. But Caitlin had shot down that idea when she told her that she was dead. Frost was surprised and shocked by it.
Hearing a version of you was dead, was pretty earth shattering, and Frost made a promise to herself and her counterpart that they either one of them wouldn't end up dead. Even though Earth-2 Caitlin didn't die because of her powers, it was still in the realm of her promise.
"Yeah, she did. Even though the story of who did, and her and your guy's relationship with Zoom was interesting."
Iris winced at that part of the teams life and said, "Yeah, he had all fooled there for a while. But he got what was coming to him."
"Yep, but still, from the looks of it, things are going to be quiet for a while. It gives me more time to learn more about this Earth, and to see if there's anything similar to my earth." Caitlin then chuckled and said." It still amazes me that alternate universes exist though. When Bette told me she was from this Earth, I was skeptical, even though I believed her, I mean, weirder things have happened."
Iris grinned and said," I know the feeling, ever since the Particle Accelerator, thing have been different. Although I'm not sure it's good thing it happened or not."
"I can see where you are getting at. Y'know, this has to be one of the few conversations we had. I'm not trying to avoid you or anything, but it's been a busy couple of days." Caitlin apologized.
Iris waved her off and said," It's no big deal."
Iris was about to ask her about how she was helping their Caitlin with her powers, but she then remembered what she thought about earlier.
Iris smirked and said," So, what's the deal with you and Peter? I know you guys are close friends, but is there something more?"
Caitlin blushed and stuttered," U-uh, well we're just friends. I told my counterpart that."
Iris gave her a knowing look and said," Take it from someone who took a while to figure out her feelings for someone."
Caitlin sighed and said," Ok, maybe I do have a small crush on him. I not sure if I'll tell him or not. But if you tell him, I will make sure to freeze you." She lightly threatened.
'I could've come out. Make the threat even more interesting.' KF suggested, but she was ignored.
Iris didn't looked fazed, but merely smiled and said," I won't, talk like this is between us girls. How about we go to Jitters and talk some more. I'll buy, ex-employees get discounts."
Caitlin smiled and said," I would like that."
As she got up to leave with Iris, Caitlin wondered how the others were fairing.
'Just relax, everything's going to be fine.' She told herself.
Meanwhile, back on Earth-2, Peter was starting to get a bad feeling. He didn't need his Spider-Sense to know something was off. They had been following the tracker for half-an-hour and they hadn't seen any sign of the Gorillas.
It was either they were good at evading the Gorillas, or they were hiding, and waiting for the right moment.
"We're close guys." Cisco said.
Peter jumped down from his perch, and walked alongside the others. Cisco then stopped, when he found where the signal stopped. He then heard another noise, coming somewhere close.
And they didn't see Harry, which meant something bad was going to happen.
"Does anyone hear that?" Caitlin asked.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Peter muttered.
He then noticed something on the ground. He saw a device, and gulped, the device, which was probably Harry's, was in a large footprint.
"It's a trap." Barry said.
Peter's spider-sense started to go off, and he was normally dodge, but decided against it. They were in the Gorilla's territory, and fighting or doing something close to it, will spell bad news.
Peter then felt something hit his arm, and his vision started to spin. He then fell down, along with the others. And before he went unconscious, he saw the outlines of the Gorillas who had ambushed them.
Next up, the fight between Peter and Barry vs Solovar.
As you can tell I finally revealed one of the face-claims to my version of the X-Men, who reside on Earth-38 with Kara and the others. But just to clarify, Kitty Pryde's face-claim for this is Violett Beane.
And you guys can guess who I was teasing earlier with what Jesse was asking.
Till next time.
