Previously in Cross Border Heroes…
Lois, Chloe and Peter cover the unveiling of the exhibit. They run into Clark and his mother while there. To Peter's surprise his girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson is there as a model for one of the pieces. Later that night, Peter and Clark go back to the museum to check on something Peter witnessed earlier. The duo, along with Lois find out that Spider-Man's foe, Sandman wants to steal the jewels that belong to the exhibit. Spidey and Clark thwart his efforts but Peter gets banged up because of it. Now, the conclusion…
Canadian Showdown
Peter was back to his old self the following day, thanks to some TLC from Mary Jane. Even though he was sore, Peter went about his work at the Planet and attending classes at Met U along with Lois and Chloe. The article had a full description of Sandman that Peter provided to Lois and Chloe. He told them that he happened to see someone enter the museum and followed him inside. It wasn't until Peter got a picture of the supposed thief that he knew all too well who it was.
The best thing about their article was that it made the front page. Both Lois and Chloe were very proud of their accomplishment.
Over the next several days, Clark and Peter as Spider-Man continued to watch over the museum in case Sandman made a return appearance. Fortunately, Sandman was a no show.
The following week was the same way, no Sandman. In a way, that was a good thing as the Metropolis Museum was preparing the exhibit to be shipped to Toronto, where it would stay for a few weeks and then return to Metropolis.
As the exhibit was being prepared to ship, Lois and Chloe were at the museum to get more information for their article. Peter was there as well, taking pictures of every item as it was being packed.
Once the three of them got all that they needed, they each headed home to prepare for the flight to Toronto. As luck would have it, Mary Jane, as well as the exhibit itself, would be on the same flight. Peter left word for Clark that he still thought that Sandman would make another attempt at the jewels and if he was able to join them in the Great White North, he could use his talents to prevent the sandy villain from his theft attempt.
Before leaving for the airport, Peter got a call from Clark and he told him that he'd meet them in Toronto. He also told Clark that they were flying Air Canada and that they were staying at the hotel that was part of the Rogers Center. Peter even let him know what time the flight was supposed to arrive and that he could meet them at the hotel sometime later that night or in the morning.
Peter and the girls took off from Metropolis airport about mid-afternoon while relaxing the whole way. Every so often, Peter would feel his spider-sense tingle.
"Peter, is there something the matter?" Mary Jane asked as she noticed that he was a little on edge.
"I'm fine, MJ. It's just…" Peter lowered his voice as he continued, "my spider-sense has been going off every once and a while during the flight. It's not a strong, steady one – it just comes and goes."
"Then it's probably nothing, Tiger."
"Probably, but…"
"Just let it go, at least for now, Peter, and enjoy the flight to Toronto," Mary Jane told him as she rested her head on his shoulder.
"You know, I could really get used to this," Peter happily told the girls as they rode to the hotel in a cab.
"Do you mean having all of your expenses paid for?" Chloe asked.
"Uh huh. Back at the Bugle, ole skinflint Jameson is so tight with the purse strings that you almost have to pay your way to whatever story you're covering."
They all got a chuckle out of that as they arrived at the Skydome Hotel. It didn't take long for them to check in and head to their rooms. Some strings were pulled so that the girls were able to share a room together and that Peter was staying right next door.
After getting settled in, Peter planned on taking in a few of the sights around Toronto and as luck would have it, he ran into Clark.
"Nice to see that you made it. Did you have any trouble finding the place?" Peter asked.
"No, it's just lucky that I know that the Blue Jays play here," Clark replied. "Do you think we could catch a game before heading back home?"
"Sure, we can probably watch one from my room. It has a very good view of the ball field or I think we can get some tickets from the box office. Let's take your stuff up to my room – you can stay with me."
"Thanks, Pete."
After getting Clark settled, Peter decided that they should go over to the Royal Ontario Museum just to keep on eye on it. Peter also wanted to get the 'lay of the land' just in case Sandman made an appearance so that both he and Clark would be ready for him. They spent a good part of the night looking after the museum with no sign of trouble and then finally decided to head back to the hotel to get some rest and prepare for the opening of the exhibit the following day.
Royal Ontario Museum
The next day, Lois, Chloe and Peter went to the museum to talk to the curator about that night's unveiling. Mary Jane went with them to go over what the curator would want her to do that night. Not one to be left out, Clark tagged along.
Lois and Chloe talked to museum curator Theodore Logan while Peter took some pictures of what was currently being displayed as part of the exhibit. In the meantime, Mary Jane was busy getting instructions from Mr. Logan's assistant, Jenna Knight on when to make her entrance to show off Cleopatra's necklace.
While he finished taking pictures, Peter noticed something odd about one of the displays.
"Clark, can you come here for a second?" Peter asked with bewilderment.
"Is something the matter, Pete?" Clark asked, curiously.
"Do you remember seeing something like this when the exhibit was back in Metropolis?" Peter pointed out a small replica of a pyramid.
"No, I don't recall seeing this there. Why?"
"There just seems something off about it."
Peter and Clark went over to where Lois and Chloe were talking to Mr. Logan.
When they were finished talking to him, Peter asked this question, "Mr. Logan, is that pyramid over there part of the exhibit? The reason I'm asking is because I don't recall ever seeing it being displayed back in Metropolis."
Peter pointed out the pyramid to him and they all went over to take a look at it.
"No, it's not part of the original exhibit, Mr. …"
"Parker, Peter Parker."
"Again, it's not part of the exhibit but I thought it would add to the theme of it. Luckily it arrived a couple of days before the display. There's not anything wrong with that is there?"
"Of course not, Mr. Logan. I was just curious about it. Thank you for your time."
Royal Ontario Museum – Evening
Just like in Metropolis two weeks ago, several people had gathered to take a look at Cleopatra's jewels. The event got started without a hitch with Theodore Logan unveiling the jewels and then Mary Jane appearing in full Cleopatra regalia to show everyone the crown jewel of the display, Cleopatra's necklace.
Peter was taking pictures of Mary Jane while the crowd applauded when suddenly his spider-sense tingled. As he scanned the crowd, he was able to get Clark's attention to come over to join him.
"We got trouble, Clark, my spider-sense is going off to beat the band," Peter told his friend.
"Can you pinpoint where it's coming from?" Clark eagerly asked.
With a nod of his head, Peter and Clark went in search of the source danger. No one paid attention to what the two young men were up to, which made their looking that much easier.
"Damn, I should have known. Take a look, Clark," Peter said as he pointed to a now dissolving pyramid that was moving toward the jewels. "No wonder I had a bad feeling about that thing."
"We better warn the…" Clark was saying before he was cut off by a familiar voice.
"I'll take those jewels if ya don't mind," Sandman said to Mr. Logan as he reformed from his sandy composition.
Very quickly, Peter and Clark ducked into the nearest men's room. Peter began to change into his Spider-Man costume, he noticed that Clark was doing the same.
"What are you doing?" a bewildered Peter asked.
"My mom came up with something that I can use to help you," Clark replied as he was now decked out in a blue form fitting suit that had a pair of red shorts on the outside with a yellow belt. To complete the ensemble he had a pair of red boots. "What do you think?"
"Not bad, but what about your face? Someone will probably recognize you."
"I've got a mask right..." his hands rummage through his jacket pockets and turned them inside out. Clark froze and turned to Peter, his eyes wide. "It's not here. It's gotta be in the hotel room."
"Never fear, the amazing Spider-Man is here," Peter said as he fixed a cowl for Clark out of webbing.
They each put on their masks and headed out to stop Sandman.
"Oh no, you don't," Theodore Logan told Sandman. "The police are on their way and there's no way you'll get those jewels."
"That's what you think, pallie," retorted Sandman as he formed a sand block on one of his fists and pounded Logan with it, knocking him out. He then proceeded to smash several display cases and took out their contents.
With the cases no empty, Sandman approached Mary Jane. "You just saw what I did do that guy. Just hand over the necklace and nothin' will happen to you, girly."
Mary Jane then took the necklace off and was about to hand it over to him when a strand of webbing snagged it and pulled out of her hand.
"What the… not you again!!" Sandman angrily exclaimed.
"I knew you would try again but this time I have some backup with me," Spider-Man said as he pointed to his cowled friend.
Chloe and Lois did a double take and said to each other, "Clark?"
"You ain't gonna stop me, webhead, nor your friend," Sandman said as he sent a wave of sand toward them.
The two heroes easily dodged the attack, while the crowd screamed in terror as they made their way to the exits.
Clark was able to make it over to where Lois and Chloe were. "Make sure everyone gets out alright."
"Sure, but be careful," Lois told him.
"I will."
"How did Spider-Man wind up in Toronto?" Chloe asked, puzzled at the wall crawler's presence.
Clark quickly explained, "Peter had a feeling that Sandman would make another attempt to get the jewels, so he got word to Spider-Man that he would be needed."
"Alright, then how did you get involved and what's with the outfit you have on."
"I thought that if Spidey showed up, he might need a hand. So, I had this suit created just for this kind of thing."
"Your mom made it for you, didn't she, Smallville?" Lois asked with a smirk.
"Yes, she did. Now, let's get you and everyone else out of here," Clark replied as the girls left to help people out of the museum.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man was trying to stay out of his archenemy's clutches. The size of the room that they were in made it difficult for the webheaded wonder to move. Because of that, he got nailed by a heavy hit from Sandman.
"Are you alright, Tiger?" Mary Jane asked in a soft voice as she helped Spidey to his feet.
"I'm fine. Just get out of here and with Clark's help, we'll put Sandman back in his sandbox," replied a confident Spider-Man.
With a nod of agreement, Mary Jane met up with Lois and Chloe to help everyone out of the museum.
Once everyone was safely out of the museum, Spider-Man and Clark commenced their plan to get Sandman out of the museum. The first part was for Clark to get the jewels that Sandman had taken from the cases.
"Gimme that necklace, webhead!" Sandman shouted out.
"Come and get me, first," Spider-Man replied as he swung his way out.
"You can run but you can't hide from me."
As Sandman chased Spider-Man, Clark was able to use his super-speed to take the jewels away from Sandman.
"Hey, that stuff is mine!!" Sandman angrily growled out at Clark.
"I don't think so, this belongs to the museum," Clark replied.
"I'll get that stuff back over your dead body."
Sandman was in hot pursuit of his adversaries.
Now that they were out in the open, Spider-Man and the masked Clark Kent were now able to hit Sandman with everything they had. Unfortunately, Sandman could do the same and he did just that when he threw a couple of cars at both of them. Seeing that some of the people that evacuated the museum were in the way of those cars, Spider-Man snared one in his webbing while Clark was able to catch the other one and place it back down on the street in one piece.
That gave Sandman the opening he needed and he began to clobber both of them with his rock hard, blocked fists. Luckily, Clark was able to shake the blows off really easily but Spidey wasn't as lucky, as the latest hit sent him flying.
"How are we going to stop him?" Clark asked as he helped Spider-Man up.
"I've got some special web fluid that I've used on him before and I just happen to have a batch ready to use," Spider-Man said as he replaced his web cartridges with new ones that had that web fluid.
Just as the wallcrawler was about to use his webbing, Sandman realized what he was about to do.
"Not this time, webs," Sandman happily said as he jammed Spider-Man's web shooters with sand.
"Damn it!" a frustrated Spider-Man exclaimed as he tried to unclog his web shooters.
Seeing that his arch foe was busy, Marko took the time to take another shot at the two heroes and flung them several feet away.
Watching the battle, Lois got an idea on how to stop Sandman a whistled both Spider-Man and Clark over to her. Clark bought them some time by using his superior strength to disperse Sandman over their battlefield.
"I think I have an idea on how you can stop him," Lois told them. "Since Sandman is sand, Clark could use his heat vision to turn him into a glass statue."
"Won't that kill him?" Clark asked with concern.
Spider-Man eagerly replied, "No, it's happened to him before and hopefully this will be the last time. Good idea, Lois."
"Yeah, Lo," Clark added with a wink.
"Thanks, guys. Uh oh, here comes trouble," Lois said as she took cover from the oncoming Sandman.
"Now I've got you two right where I want you," Sandman said as he had the heroes cornered.
"I don't think so," Clark said as his eyes turned bright red.
"Oh, I think… Argh!!" Sandman screamed in agony as he was hit with Clark's heat vision.
In no time at all, Sandman was a statue of glass.
A few minutes later, the a detachment of both the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the provincial police arrived at the scene. They easily found Sandman with all the jewels that were taken and a note that saying in detail what had happened. The note was signed: Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man and his amazing friend.
With Sandman in custody, the gang had a chance to relax and catch the ballgame that Clark wanted to see. While Chloe decided to stay behind to put some finish touches on her and Lois' article, the others went to the Rogers Center to watch the final game of a 3 game series that had the defending American League champion Detroit Tigers play against the hometown Toronto Blue Jays.
"Too bad the Jays weren't playing the Metropolis Monarchs. I would have loved to have seen them play here," Clark said after he took a bite from his hot dog.
"A ballgame is a ballgame, Smallville. Besides, seeing the AL champion Tigers is a treat," chimed in Lois.
"Plus, we got the best seats in the house," added Peter as he, Clark, Lois and Mary Jane sat high on some webbing several feet above the highest seating deck where no one could see them.
"The price was certainly right," Mary Jane said as she snuggled up next to Peter.
"You got that right, MJ," Lois agreed as she too snuggled up to Clark.
The four friends enjoyed the ballgame and each others company as they saw the Tigers roar out of the gate to a four to nothing lead after the first inning and the lead grew as the game continued.
"Clark, could you see if they have the score of the Metropolis Meteors and St. Louis Cardinals game on the scoreboard?" Lois asked.
"Sure thing Lo," Clark readily agreed.
Using his recently acquired telescopic vision, Clark read off what was going on in that ballgame to her. "It looks like there was some excitement in that game, Lois. The Meteors starting pitcher, 'Gabby' Veatch pitched a no-hitter against the Cardinals today in their 5-0 win. Plus, right fielder M.J. Clark hit for the cycle for the Meteors."
"Yes!! I hate those Cardinals. It was good that both Veatch and Clark had good games today but they rarely have bad ones."
They stayed at the Rogers Center until the final out was made in the 10-2 Tigers victory but they waited until the park was cleared out before leaving.
"Well, I guess it's time to go and check on Chloe," Peter said after he lowered everyone down.
"By the way, you two were amazing today," Mary Jane told both Peter and Clark.
"I agree. The article should be spectacular with those pictures Peter took with his automatic camera. Not to mention the story Chloe and I put together," Lois added. "You two deserve something for your efforts today." Lois then gave a wink to Mary Jane.
"What kind of something?" Clark asked.
"This," both Lois and Mary Jane wrapped their respective boyfriends in their arms and gave them passionate kisses.
"Now that's something I could get used to," Peter happily said as he came up for air.
"Me too," Clark chimed in.
The End
AN: That's the end and I hope you enjoyed this wonderfully team-up. All that is left is for you to leave a review to tell me what you thought about this story. As always, constructive criticism is welcome but no flames, please.