"Garfield High School celebrates five years of its hardworking principal, retired Olympic Gold Medalist Jefferson Pierce..."
"Crush Hogan is set to defend his NYWF Heavyweight Championship against Grizzly in next Sunday's main event. That and we have the 'Pep' Morgan Memorial Battle Royal. Only on Pay Per View..."
"And remember, be a hero by remembering you're not!"
"The Excalibur Mission has been put forth, the mission is being led by noted STAR Labs scientist Hank Henshaw..."
Gwen was surfing through the channels on the family TV, while lying on the couch. It had been three days since Ben Parker had been murder and she had been angry and upset, mostly at herself. A nice friendly kid at her school lost his parental figure, and it was all thanks to her having to hide who she was and what she could do.
It was a Saturday morning and Gwen not feeling like she should do much. She saw Helen enter the room with a tray of snacks for her. "You really need to eat Gwen honey; Kryptonian or not you still need to take care of yourself." Helen told Gwen softly putting it next to her.
"Sorry for worrying you Mum, I just feel so useless. My birth parents sent me here with instructions to be the guardian and teacher of my baby cousin; I land here after being in cryogenic sleep to find out my cousin no longer needed me as a teacher. I try to be normal here but doing so gets a man killed, I feel so useless!" Gwen shouted on the verge of screaming.
"You know, George was all for you keeping your powers secret and you being normal for the rest of your life. But after Superman himself entrusted us to look after you after we found your ship, I think he always knew where your destiny lied. He went through all the effort of having a fake background for you, getting help from guys he would rather see in prison. He will be proud of whatever you decided to be. Remember, your cousin doesn't have the monopoly of being super." Helen told her softly putting a comforting hand on her shoulders.
Helen then placed a key next to her and Kara's eyes widened when she saw it was the key to the attic. "Don't worry about your dad finding out, I will convince him." Helen assured her as she then left.
Gwen slowly picked up the key to the attic, after deciding to have the snacks first she then went up the stairs.
She was directly behind where the attic was, she then focused on floating up until her head was directly below where the attic door was. Using the key she opened the door and went in.
Turning on the light she then looked to where there was a tarp covered large shape. She then tossed it aside to see the dusty old black rocket that she had came to Earth on. She then dusted off the side of the rocket to see the S Shield that served as the coat of arms for the House of El. There was Kryptonian writing underneath it.
"To think it has been so long since I have seen the writing of my homeworld..." Kara thought as she then recited from the writing "Blood Bonds Us All". The motto of the House of El.
She then went to the trunk of the rocket and opened it up. She was remembering one of the last things her biological father Zor El had said to her:
"In the rocket you will find a scout uniform, ambassador uniforms of the explorers of Krypton's past. The glory days, hopefully you and Kal can bring these back. They are designed to fit your form."
She then got out a set of clothes from it and changed into it, the suit seem to be changing its size to fit her. She was now wearing a dark blue bodysuit with the S Shield on it, a yellow belt, a red skirt, a red cape and red boots. Soon she was flying out of the attic's entrance and then through the open window. Scaring Streaky in the process as he was fast asleep on the window sill.
She had felt more free and alive than she had been in quite a long while.
*PB*
Earlier That Day
On that Saturday morning, Peter had gotten some time to mourn with Aunt May. But now it was time for him to try out this using his super powers to honor his uncle's memory. He was in Miles's room at his house wearing the Web-Shooters as well as having changed into the superhero suit that they had put together. They had scrounged together the money they had to put this costume together.
Peter was wearing a red hooded jumper that Miles had a spider logo and web pattern stitched in, a red ski mask, goggles to help his focus when his 'Spider Sense' (as they decided to call it), blue track bottoms, red boots and red gloves which had the top of them cut so he could crawl up walls.
Peter looked in the mirror and excitedly told Miles "I think I look boss considering what budget we had for this, so I now go out and do this Spider-Man thing!" they had put together several name ideas and decided that this was the best one that they could come up with.
Peter then waved to Miles as he then leaped out the window, and then caught the wall to climb down. He then jumped down as Miles yelled after him "go get him Pete... Spider-man!" Miles had caught himself just in time but there was hardly anyone noticing and Miles had not shouted that loud.
Peter then began running down the streets with people giving him weird looks. The looks turned stunned as Peter shot out a web to attach itself to a building to a lamp post so he could swing on up and then began doing the same. He then reached the higher buildings so he could now freely swing around.
He heard shouts asking for someone not to be hurt, he then looked down at an alley to see three thugs were harassing two people who looked like they were in sleeping bags. "You know the rules, this neighborhood is my neighborhood so you have to pay a fee if you want to live in this alley. If you don't have any money then you get a beating!" threatened the leader of a trio a large man with a lead pipe.
Peter then jumped down so he was in front of the trio. The trio then bursted into laughter as the two homeless people looked confused. "We have some Halloween reject who thinks he should play superhero." The leader told his two friends as they kept laughing. The leader told Peter who stood there confidently "I tell you what, my boys and I are feeling generous so run away and mind your own business, then I will let you go..."
The leader was caught unprepared when Peter forced the lead pipe out of his hands. Then to the shock of those nearby Peter then effortlessly bended the pipe into a pretzel shape. Peter then used it to smack the leader in the head. "Here is my counter offer buddy, you and your friends go away and never bother these poor people again and I will let you with your dignity intact." Peter told the leader kneeling down.
"You don't scare us you freak, we will sort you out..." the leader snarled at Peter only to turn around to see that his two men had ran away in fear. "Come back you cowards..." the leader shouted and then faced Peter furious only to be kicked in the gut.
Peter then used his Web-shooters to keep shooting at the leader until he stuck to the wall. "Thank you for that!" one of the two homeless people then told Peter as they ran up to him. Peter was taken aback by the hug they pulled him into. "You think we would be able to call you again, my brother and I have nowhere else to go..." the other one told Peter as he thought of an idea.
"I got a better plan..." Peter said as he then motioned for them to hold onto his back which they done so. Peter then ran out and managed to find the strength to start web slinging away. He left the leader of the thugs who was demanding that they let him out of the web.
Peter then tried to focus on web slinging and be careful as the two passengers were screaming. Citizens passing by caught sight of them and some got video footage or photos from their phones. He then made his way to the Chinatown neighborhood and then landed in front of the FEAST shelter. Soon the two people got off as some staff at the shelter came out to welcome them in.
"We will never be able to replay you for this!" one of them said as they gave him one last grateful hug before going in. Peter was smiling behind his mask but then heard something. He saw some scaffolding at a building and one of the builders had tripped. He was holding on so Peter quickly web slinged towards the scaffolding and caught the man as he lost his grip.
He then brought the man to the ground as there was a crowd gathering. "Thanks but who are you?" the man asked as Peter saw there were people taking pictures and videos.
"Just call me Spider-Man!" Peter said as he then began web slinging away again. Peter smiled when he thought about the people he just helped and saved.
*PB*
At the NYPD Police Station nearing the end of their shift, Jefferson and George were at their desks looking at the TV monitor. It was showing a news report of the appearance of Spider-Man using one of the phone videos footage. "Well I would struggle to give the costume anymore than a 5 out of 10, but the presentation of it I would give it a perfect score for that." Jefferson stated with a small smile as George frowned looking at him disapprovingly.
"Please don't advocate for them Jefferson, I swear more of them pop up everyday and one of these days one of them will mess up big time." George responded looking up from the paperwork he was finishing.
"Come on George, the Spider guy was just being a good samaritan. Surely you can't be against that?" Jefferson asked him facing his friend. He knew George was not the biggest fan of superheroes.
"Sure, but his costume shows he is just an amateur. He might not be so lucky next time he decides to butt in and may just make things work. People like us and normal rescue workers have our training for a reason." George dryly told making Jefferson frown. "I mean I think the people are starting to get the impression that becoming a Metahuman gives them a free pass to be like the Justice League." George continued on as Jefferson shook his head.
"The Justice League inspires people and I see that as a good thing. I bet you can't argue that without them, we may have a hard time the next time aliens decide to invade or if a mad scientist creates an army of giant robots." Jefferson told him and smiled when he saw George grumble. "I remember when Miles and his bud Peter played superheroes all the time, there was a sleepover where I joined in and they made me be that guy with the cold gun that the Flash fights." Jefferson told him leaning back on his desk.
"I am not arguing that they do some good that others can't do, but we have people like that Bat in Gotham." George told Jefferson shaking his head. "I hear that the police in Gotham not only tolerate his presence but actively work with him." George frowned shaking his head.
"Gotham? You mean one of the worst cities in the world, especially before the bat. Don't get me wrong, I am all against vigilante justice but you know before he came around that place was crawling with criminals, corrupt cops and crooked politicians. He made a difference in that city." Jefferson told him and George sighed, he knew he needed a better example than that.
Then the police monitor was showing a breaking news story of a boat out in the water near Manhattan, that had a leak on it. The monitor showed the boat being caught by a flying figure in a red cape. George sighed as he went back to his paperwork.
The footage then showed the figure picking up the boat and putting it on dry land. The camera crew went in for a closer look to show the figure was a girl with a familiar S Shield. "What do you know George, there's another new one. Looks like Superman has a kid sister or something!" Jefferson told George and his eyes widened. He then faced the monitor and has his mouth wide open.
Supergirl's suit is the one from the TV show and the DC Rebirth comic. Plus the Spidey outfit is a combination of the MCU Homemade suit (I have made it no secret I love that suit, I even have the action figure of it) and the wrestling suit from the first Sam Raimi movie.
