Peter and Dick returned to the kitty cat club to find it was still active, it appeared that BludHaven was a nightlife city. The floor was crowded and the booths were packed cops, guys in suits and even politicians were groping at and fondling the waitresses a sight that Peter could only roll his eyes on. "Guessing there's a higher than average divorce rate?" he asked turning to Dick who like wise was ashamed of his coworkers.

"you know there's nothing wrong with having fun once in a while but I know a lot of these guys wives…sad thing is they think their husbands are loyal" Dick sighed. The two young hero's made their way to the nearest booth their eyes scanning the club still waiting on either Felicia or Selina to pass by.

"So you and Saiko have some kind of history?" Peter asked over the deafening music the incident with Saiko was constantly replaying in his mind, the way he moved the precision of his strikes it was like he and Dick had similar training and it was bothering him. Since Dick and he were so closely matched (despite the fact that Dick had no powers) was a real worry especially if more than one person was capable of beating a superhuman. Dick however seemed to ignore Peter's words but that twitch from the corner of his mouth hinted at something else "ok so that's a nay -nay zone what did Barbara mean when she said you're just like him?"

"Peter I like you, but I am very close to beating you with this table" Dick warned. There was a bite in his tone which Peter gently backed down from "ok sensitive topic" they resumed their silent stature avoiding speaking to each-other by scanning for Felicia or Selina but it was hard to focus with a room full of half-naked beautiful women.

As time continued to pass Peter and Dick grew board tapping their fingers irritably on the table top but they continued waiting "this is boring as hell I'm a V.I.P" Peter groaned

"Will you please zip it" Dick aggressively suggested as his hands clenched into fists.

"Sheesh Dick you sound like you're married"

Both Dick and Peter spun in their booth to face a red headed boy roughly their age while Peter stood blank face Dick was all smiles "Wally…been a while" he smirked.

"Yeah buddy it has" Wally smirked scooting in next to Peter "so who's the newbie? New partner?" Wally asked earning a glare from Peter.

"Not quite, he's a friend visiting from New York City" Dick replied,

"Ahhh he's a Yankee!"

Ava toured Nightwings lair checking out his tech and toys "impressive stuff who is his designer?" she asked

"Designer?" Barbra parroted "Dick learned how to make this stuff when we were kids, all his gadgets and training came from his mentor" she explained as Ava picked up a wingding and started examining it.

"It's like a modified shuriken right?" Ava asked "they're throwing weapons…so what else does Night boy have?"

"He's partial to his sticks" Barbra replied with a roll of her eyes "but other than those he's always been more of a fist to face kind of guy"

There was something Barbra's voice Ava could hear it, she just couldn't place it. It was in the way she referred to past tense stuff compared to now almost as if she preferred the past events, Ava could only think of one thing that trigger this emotion "you and Dick were teammates weren't you?" she asked.

Barbra froze up for a second; did she cross this bridge with this strange girl or did she do what Dick learned to do keep people away at a distance… "Yeah we were a long time ago, we actually started as partners but Dick left for a while to lead a team of the next generation heroes…"

"That sounds like Peter when he came to us" Ava thought to herself.

"…Dick grew into a hero in his own light and out grew us…he left Gotham and me" she finished.

"He out grew you? Like he didn't…"

"we were a team once and then he became a solo act it happens Ava some are destined to be great it was in Dick, as much as I didn't want to admit it to myself I saw it in him and I see the same in Peter… as do you" Barbra turned to Ava who was now wearing the look of an upset teenage girl and Barbra could sympathize Ava was walking the same line she did "guys like them Ava… they're the ones you have to hang on to or you'll regret it the rest of your life…trust me" she finished.

"you and Dick? Didn't it you know affect doing the job?"

"not really as long as you remember to trust each other and that you're both wearing the suits"

Ava fiddled with the wingding a little more while she processed what Barbra told her Dick out grew her after being together for so long and she wondered if Peter would do the same to their team. Then there was the situation back home with Coulson, he was still dying from the poison that the giant brute injected him with "Barbra random question could you find something on a big guy with green hoses attached to his body?"

Barbra spun back around to face Ava "we've had a run in with one just last night someone's vast producing a serum based on venom it's a chemical that juices the body to super proportions" she explained. Ava tried poking over the chair to see the screen but Barbra blackened out the monitor "Ava your file says you're trained in martial arts right? How about a little girls sparring match?"

"Oh you're on" Ava smirked. Barbra didn't know what she had started but she would soon learn Ava Ayala was nothing if not competitive.

Peter, Dick and Wally had cracked open a bottle of house whiskey to settle some established wave of news mostly of worry, the venom serum was reaching out to keystone as Wally just explained.

"Dick slow down man you're driving…" Peter trailed off for a brief moment as an idea shot through his mind "if he gets loaded I get to drive the car home!" "…never mind bottoms up" he smirked.

The guys had been waiting for near an hour at their booth discussing their growing epidemic infecting all their cities when finally at long last Felicia Hardy's hands slid over Peter's shoulders and her plump lips pressed against his cheek "sorry to keep you boys waiting but such is the nature of selling pleasure" she moaned.

"You can make it up to us by telling us where we can find the whack job with the swords" Dick snapped.

"Oh what a grouch. What's a matter cutie sex with the red head a little disappointing?" Felicia boldly prodded at him brining a shovel to the face expression to both Peter and Wally's faces.

"She really just go there?" Wally laughed to Peter "and why is she only paying attention to you? Hey honey how about throwing some sweetness my way?" Wally added with a quick wink.

"Oh you poor simple moron"

Felicia looked over to Wally with a devilish grin dashing across her lips "ok shorty since you asked so nicely" Felicia turned her head to the bar and waved to dark haired gothic girls over one was dressed in a leather suit with stiletto boots and handcuff bracelets the other one was dressed in a full body suit with studded belts. "Shorty meet sugar and spice" Felicia smirked "girls shorty wants some sweetness…be creative and introduce him to it"

The girls escorted Wally through a well-hidden door by the bar leaving Felicia with Peter and Dick "hope your friends adventurous" Felicia giggled "but down to business, your boy in the body suit called in a little over an hour ago looking for a good time but I told him to stick it. The number was from some rundown tower apartments on the lower east side. Did that lunatic give you boys the slip?"

Dick shrugged off Felicia's little hint and turned his attention to Peter "we just might be better off on our own kid" he said.

"Easy Dick" Peter coaxed "Felicia can you help us?" he asked.

Felicia simply smiled and sat down beside Peter "of course…for a price, how well can you dance?"

"That's just funny" Dick laughed watching Felicia drag Peter onto the dance floor.

Tiger and Batgirl, for some reason Dick kept her a suit in the lair, Tiger swept Batgirls legs out from under her but she quickly recovered and back flipped onto her feet "not bad, some room for improvement, but not bad" Batgirl complimented.

"Improvement?" Tiger laughed "I've been trained by the best" she stated before blocking an incoming punch and countering,

Batgirl quickly deflected the punch and countered with an elbow shot to Tigers lower ribs "maybe the best in New York…" Batgirl rolled Tiger over her shoulder and slammed her to the ground "…but out here that's Childs play" Tiger kicked up but Batgirl blocked it and spun her around away from herself "you're good but you can still build on your skills"

Tiger hopped to her feet taking a ready stance "we'll see" she retorted with her natural enthusiasm "come and get it"

Once more the two girls squared off demonstrating their skills Tiger and her Shield Judo against Batgirl and her various martial arts. Batgirl redirected Tigers next punch "so your friend Peter's gotta pretty cute butt in those tights…"

"Say what now?" Tiger suddenly went dumbfounded and missed her chance to dodge a kick that connected to her face knocking her to the floor out cold

"Oh, ooops sorry kid" Batgirl gasped fearing she may have struck the Jr hero a little too hard.

Felicia returned to her office to find Selina behind a wardrobe shadow wall showing a silhouette changing her outfit into a skin tight black leather body suit with a belt and whip hanging off her hips "well did you learn anything from your little playmate?" Selina asked pulling a mask over face revealing the shadow of a cat on the wall.

"actually I did, that kid who doesn't shut up let it slip to the girls, during his fitting, that your little police officer eye candy is actually Bruce Wayne's trust fund step kid" Felicia smirked "and Lacy found out that since there's these super junkies running around the cops are sitting close to home so the Queens consolidated foundation will be nice and easy pickings" Felicia was smiling like the cat that ate the canary "let's go shopping"

Deadpool sat in an office irritably tapping his fingers on the side table waiting on the faceless man while Deathstroke stood silently in the corner staring out the window watching the sky darken with approaching rain clouds. *tap*tap*tap-tap* Deadpool's incisive tapping was begging to annoy him *tap*tap*tap-tap* "will you please stop that!" he ordered "it's so damn annoying"

"I'm bored" Deadpool whined "can I sing?" he asked "ohh-ohh let's get some chimmichungas|"

"Deadpool shut up" the faceless man entered his office and sat at his desk "Saiko has failed me and is now in custody so Wade have you reconsidered my offer?"

Deathstroke turned around to face his client "I have, but I need more evidence rumors of the conquest aren't enough…send a tester to prove they are indeed worthy" he replied.

"Very well" the faceless man replied picking up his phone "Shrike I have a contract for you to fill"