Spider-man and Nightwing sparred in the middle of the lair while Barbra ran a check on Deadpool and Saiko. While Spider-man had his powers Nightwing was highly skilled in tactical training and more effective hand to hand combat. Spider-man fired two web lines past Nightwing to a skid of equipment and pulled it back towards himself and Nightwing but being a world class acrobat since youth Nightwing leapt from the ground perching himself and riding the boxes across the floor springing off like a loaded spring.

Spider-man watched unable to react in time as Nightwing sailed at him landing a strong powerful punch sending the wall crawler rolling backwards into the wall. "Ok that hurt" Spider-man groaned pushing himself off the ground rubbing his head where it struck the wall when his spider sense began tingling, Nightwings baton came whipping across the room. Narrowly dodging the baton Spider-man jumped against the wall and jumped at Nightwing tackling him off the balcony. The two heroes traded swift blows before separating to land on the lower levels "this can't be right" Spider-man huffed "I have powers and trained in S.H.I.E. hero program. You're just an acrobat!"

Nightwing remained calm and kept his cool unlike Spider-man he wasn't hot headed, Nightwing had patience which came with years of training something he could see Spider-man was lacking. "Power isn't everything kid. I've faced guys with similar powers to yours so I have an idea of what to expect as for your training, since I was 9 years old I was trained by Batman the guy who took on both the league of assassins and Superman and kicked their asses the same way I'm kicking yours" he teased.

"Right and who are they?" Spider-man fired a glob of impact webbing at Nightwings mouth which he easily dodged and retaliated with a wing ding. Spider-man lazily grabbed the wing ding from mid-air "you're going to have to do better than that rubber man" he laughed. Nightwing however only smiled back him like he knew something Spider-man didn't "what's so funny?"

"You didn't think after our first little encounter I wouldn't make a challenge for you did you?" Nightwing asked smugly.

Caught off guard by Nightwings question Spider-man failed to notice the sonic pitch emitting from the wing ding disorienting his vison "what the…? There's something screwy here" he said succumbing to the dazed effect of the sonic waves.

Nightwing raced across the floor striking Spider-man with a powerful round house kick followed by a quick strike to the nerve bundle just below his neck dropping Spider-man to the floor on his behind. "You really rely heavily on your spider sense but throw a sonic distribution into your ears nullifies that early warning sense along with your vison and balance leaving you vulnerable to any attack. Hence the end result…I kicked your ass again" Nightwing explained as he picked up and shut down his wing ding "like I said kid it's not always about power, you have to be smart about how you do things especially if your life is on the line"

"Hey hold up it's a tie! I won our first fight!" Spider-man protested.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night rookie, but you lost accept it and check on your kitty cat friend" on that note Nightwing headed over to Barbra's side leaving Spider-man to return to Tigers side.

Tiger was still out but she had rolled onto her side in her sleep so she was recovering from her encounter with the night birds hood earlier that night. Spider-man dropped into the chair beside her and pulled of his mask sighing heavily as he did so "what are you doing here Tiger?" he asked placing his hand over hers. Peter's eyes traveled along White Tigers face flawlessly smooth mocha skin "ha I never noticed this before you're really beautiful" he whispered.

tiger rolled in her sleep away from him exposing her communicator "I know I shouldn't but if Fury finds out I'm in BludHaven he'll blow a blood vessel" Peter gently leaned over the bed to shut down her communicator his fingers just touching the buttons when Tigers hand shot up and clamped on his wrist with her claws digging into his flesh. "eep!" he winced biting down on his free hand to prevent squealing and waking Ava, or having Dick make fun of him for squealing. Ava slowly turned over still half sleepy but her heightened senses must have kicked in when he invaded her personal space bubble.

"I've told you before Sam if you try that warm water trick on me I'd give you a broom stick catheter" she threatened in a groggy inattentive tone. It took a few moments but Ava woke up and came to attention realizing just who it was holding her hand. Her voice failed her as she looked from her hand to Peter's face she could feel her cheeks start to burn before realising she was staring at Peter Parker the soul person she was angry at.

"Heh-heh howdy Tiger" Peter nervously chuckled.

"Howdy tiger?" Ava parroted. She whipped around in her bed tackling Peter to the floor with her fingers tightly curled around his neck "what gives you the right to just up and abandon your aunt and us to come play hero in this cesspool of a city!" she growled.

Peter fought to pry Ava's hands from his throat, for someone with such a small frame her grip was unbelievably tight. "Tiger… I can't… breathe" he gasped Ava's grip didn't hinder desperate to breathe Peter took a page from Nightwings combat books and swung his legs out and over Ava's side rolling her over so that he was now on top of her and pushed her arms off his neck. "Have you gone completely crazy? You could have killed me!" he yelled.

"Oh don't be so dramatic I would have let go when you passed out" Ava hissed "now answer the question! And get off me!" she added.

"If I let you up do you promise to calm down and let me talk?" he asked

"Peter get off me now" she ordered.

"See you're not calming down and you know how you get when you go all cat crazy" Peter joked. Ava squirmed and wriggled under Peter's weight, for somebody so small Peter was deceptively heavy but she got her legs free enough to swing up around his neck and pin him down and roll on top of him with his face between her thighs.

"Well….this is awkward"

"Hey Pajama man! If you two are done being on top of each other can we get back to work? There is maniac out there still" Nightwing hollered over from the computer station.

Caught off guard by the voice of this stranger Ava hopped off of Peter and snatched up her mask from the side table and quickly pulled it over her face "Peter where the hell are we?" she asked.

Peter stood up and brushed himself off now came the part where he had to introduce Tiger to the guy whose car she hit "I am not the only one tracking the giant guy who attacked Coulson. The green stuff that was in those tubes is made here, my temporary sidekicks name is Nightwing, that's him over there in the rubber body suit" Peter replied nodding at Nightwing.

Tiger looked over to the man Peter referred to as Nightwing, he didn't look much older than themselves "you sure you can trust him?" she asked "he looks a little…rouge-ish" she finished.

"Wow Tiger way to judge by the cover" Peter replied "yes I trust him and he's actually a lot of fun. When he's not having delusional thoughts that he kicked my ass" he whispered.

"I can show you the replays bug boy you got your ass handed to you!" Nightwing hollered over with a cocky smirk "but seriously we have work to do"

"He so serious" Tiger muttered,

"yeah he takes his super hero-ing pretty seriously but to be fair some of the villains around here are insanely wacko like yesterday we jumped by some weirdo named Psycho…"

"Saiko!" Nightwing corrected him.

"…whatever!" Peter deadpanned "either way the guy just wouldn't go down no matter what we did, even when Nightwing electrocuted him he still got up!"

As Peter and Tiger drew closer to the monitor Nightwing and Barbara kept working away digging into Deadpool's background luckily with Barbara's hacking ability she quickly back tracked his file back to a top secret military operation. "Hey Nightwing, this guy Deadpool his jacket is very similar to Deathstrokes. Ex mercenary, recruited for top secret mutant extermination project he was experimented on which shattered his sanity, immediate healing capabilities teleportation, expert swordsmen, marksmen is now a super mercenary…"Barbara trailed off as she reached the final page "his real name is Wade Wilson you don't think?"

"too many similarities between them to be just a coincidence they have to be related" Nightwing stated "might be time ask Selina or Felicia if they know anything about Deathstroke having a wack job cousin and maybe where he's hiding out now"

"Deadpool?" Tiger asked "you can't be serious Deadpool was one of us, a shield recruit he's a good guy" she defended. Peter said this guy was a good guy and yet here he was accusing her friend and former teammate of being a mercenary in relation to Coulson's attacker.

"No he's not Tiger, like I told you and the guys Deadpool is a mercenary after he left shield he went off the rails and betrayed everything Shield did for him"

"I trust Deadpool Peter! I trained with him! All I know about this guy is that he's prone black rubber body suits!" Tiger hissed venomously. Nightwing shook his head and turned his focus to stocking up his gear leaving Peter to contend with his kitty cat playmate.

He strolled up to Barbara who was still diligently streaming through files, now on White Tigers S.H.I.E.L.D personal files her birth place, school records, even her identity files. "Ava Ayala: straight A student, highly trained in karate, judo martial arts father was Hector Ayala predecessor of the White Tiger mantle. He was killed by Kraven the hunter she doesn't seem to untrustworthy although there is a side note here she's too serious commented by…Peter Parker" Barbara chuckled looking over to Peter and White Tiger who were still bickering. "You better go separate those two before you know it they'll argue themselves into the nearest bed"

Nightwing looked over to the bickering duo thinking Barbara might have a point about them as they reminded him so much of them before he became the night watcher of BludHaven back when he was the boy wonder of Gotham, a side kick living in his shadow. Back when he and Barbara were young and in love. "They do seem to have that spark don't they?" he laughed "I'll take Peter to ask Selina or Felicia about another lead on that Deadpool guy and maybe see if there is a connection to Deathstroke" he told her.

Barbara watched Nightwing leave her side to the car with a lingering thought on her mind "Deathstroke. Sure Dick is capable to handle many villains but Deathstroke can rival Batmans combat skills. Sorry Dick please don't hate me for this I'm doing because I still care about you" she thought to herself as she opened a relay link to a closed circuit IP address. With a brief message entitled urgent.

"Just once could you say get in the car!" came Peter's voice over the rumble of the Night birds engine before the duo raced from the lair leaving White Tiger alone with Barbara.

"Well this is awkward" Tiger mumbled looking from the fleeing car to the red headed woman sitting at the computer. Then came the realization that Peter did not explain everything and again ran out on her, "that jerk left me behind again!" she growled.

"You get used to it, Nightwing was the same way when he was younger" Barbara told her "they're boys remember, sitting around doing nothing really doesn't sit well with them"

Tiger slowly approached the computer desk still on guard about being in this strange place "so who are you exactly?" she politely demanded.

"You can call me Oracle, White Tiger" Barbara coolly replied "mind if I ask what brought you to BludHaven?"

Tiger hesitated a moment she didn't know this women and wasn't overly comfortable talking personal missions with her.

"Not a big talker are you?" Barbara asked.

Elsewhere in the city in some dark damp slum Deadpool was enjoying the company of BludHavens rental girls. 3 tall long legged blond girls, no more than college freshmen age were all dancing and grinding against each other in the middle of the room "Boohya! Deadpool party!" he cheered.

"Is this really the best option right now? You know Spider-man will be looking for us and will most likely be pissed about being blown up"

"Ooh quit being a kill joy! Look BOOBIES!"

"Hey! The both of you shut up! Trying to work some 4 way magic here!"

The girls came to dead stop as the stared at the costumed clown arguing with himself in the chair. They weren't overly comfortable being alone the room with someone who wore a mask and was decked out in enough weaponry to drop a rhino but now they knew he was crazy. "Please call Selina and ask if we can go back to the club this guy gives me the major creeps" the one blond begged her friend.

Deadpool slugged back a foamed over beer enjoying his pleasantries when a rogue blast of wind shot through the outside hallway rattling causing him to spill his beer "what in the hell!" he snapped drawing his swords and barging out the door "alright you ghostly dick nobody spills my beer and ruins my party!" he shouted into the empty space. There was no sign of anybody anywhere in the hallway except for the over turned plant pots

"Do you think it really was a ghost?"

"Stranger things have happened"

"I don't care what it was they ruined my 4 way time!" Deadpool whined "excuse me ladies this won't take long" he told the 3 women he left in the room. No sooner did Deadpool step out of his apartment did another gust wind blow through and in the blink of an eye he vanished in a blur of red, black and yellow.

Deadpool was thrown clear across a vacant parking lot crashing down on the tarmac and rolling another 10 feet gasping for breath "I think…my stomach…slipped into my ass" he choked.

"who's the guy manufacturing the new venom serum?" asked a teenager in a red and yellow rubberised suit with a red with a red lightning bolt on his chest and goggles covering a yellow face mask with short red hair sticking out from the top glaring at him like he wanted to beat him like a rug.

"Nice outfit" Deadpool mocked as he stood up on his feet picking up his swords "is there a cartoon convention in town?"

The young man in the yellow suit disappeared in a flash and suddenly Deadpool was thrown into a tree after being hit by what felt like an invisible truck. The tree cracked and buckled from the impact but Deadpool was quick to get back on his feet "who the hell are you sonic the hedgehog?"

The man in the suit simply kept staring at Deadpool "who's making the venom serum, I won't ask again!" he demanded.

"well now if you don't say please I can't tell you" Deadpool laughed as he stowed his swords and drew his twin sub machine guns "now it's time to do the sub machine gun cha-cha" bullets filled the air at rapid fire rate peppering the ground and spraying the surrounding trees, but none hit their intended target as it kept vanishing in a flash until only metallic clicking of empty magazines echoed across the empty lot.

"You just can't cap Kid Flash! Dead dork" the stranger now known as Kid Flash boasted smugly.

"Dead dork? Kid Flash? So you run around naked? Does anybody around here have normal names?" Deadpool exclaimed "I mean seriously faceless man, Night dude and Kid Flash how does anyone take you dicks seriously?"

"there's no need for name calling Dead dick" Kid Flash shot back, mildly offended by Deadpool's remarks before he took off running around Deadpool. The faster Kid Flash ran the more wind picked up creating a cyclone lifting the merc with a mouth into the air.

"Hey! What the? Why is this happening?" Deadpool cried as he began swirling and spinning inside the vortex "I'm gonna throw up!" Deadpool was thrown high into the sky disappearing into the grey clouds above. "Hey we're flying! We're flying!" Deadpool cheered

"We cannot fly!"

"Well it is good to have dreams"

"Dreams yes, delusions…"

Gravity finally came into effect as the vortex abruptly stopped at the crack of gunfire and Deadpool free fell to the ground below "…NOOO!" Deadpool fell like an asteroid plummeting to the surface "OOHH this is going to hurt!" he cried.

Deadpool struck the earth leaving a 7 foot deadpool shaped hole the ground "I…was…right" he groaned. He climbed from the hole with a broken pistol in his hand "going…to cap…your ass" Deadpool stammered. But as he surfaced he saw a blood trail circle his whole then just veer off straight ahead where Kid Flash had crash rolled on the other side of the parking lot with a bullet hole in his leg.

"If that's how you work Wade you have a lot to learn!"

Deadpool turned to see his master assassin cousin Deathstroke brandishing a 45 pistol "you know I can't see why everyone says you're a badass…you look like Jason from Friday the 13th" Deadpool quipped.

Deathstroke simply glared at his buffoon cousin as if he wanted to remove his head from his shoulders "it's becoming harder to remember why I let you live these days" he replied before turning to Kid Flash "the boy trained by the bat is he worth my time?"

"Screw you!" Kid Flash growled.

Disappointed and irritated Deathstroke dug his blade into Kid Flashes knee "I'll ask again the boy trained by the bat who defeated a Talon assassin is he worth my time?"

"Nightwing will put you down you Casey jones reject. And I hope I'm there to see it ha-ha we know about you Deathstroke how Batman always kicked your ass Nightwing was trained by him that is true but a little less known fact…Nightwing beat Batman. He's going own your ass" Kid Flash taunted before blasting away on his injured leg.

"Well Wade my interest is peaked maybe I will stick around for the time being" Deathstroke said "defeated a Talon and rumors of the Bat…worth my time"

tiger has met Nightwing and Oracle and so far is not a fan.

Kid Flash takes the scene and draws Deathstroke into the mix under the rumor that he can be as challenging as the Batman.

who did Barbra email from the lair?

how will Ava react to meeting Felicia and Selina?