Answers to reviewers' questions or statements:
Harbinger of Kaos: Yes, they did factor in World War Hulk but then they started to nerf his healing factor and that Doomsday can apparently make bone claws that can succeeded where Wolverine's pure Adamantium claws failed. Hulk's healing grows stronger like his strength and durability do when he's enraged. The angrier he gets the more powerful, but they seem to think that after a while Hulk's healing factor burns out like Wolverine's would, it wouldn't, his body will constantly adapt for maximum survival like Doomsday's would only he doesn't have to die for it to work.
Jestalnaker94000: To a point Lantern rings have their limits, most of the time it's the amount of emotion the Ring bearer has or their physical size. A energy blast from Hal is one thing, an energy blast from Mogo is a whole other level.
chimera629: True but Superman would be banking on them to not realize he's gone evil until it's too late which is possible, at least with Billy it would be, Man Hunter might sense what's off about Clark though.
Adtr509: They already have one for Superman, Injustice. Hmm interesting concept and I do like that story.
Dante 101: Yes, he was, plus seeing so many evil versions of the League over the years, it has to get a guy thinking. Nah he just had time to come to grips with it, he can think and react far faster than a normal human, almost as fast as a Flash. So what's a few seconds of shock, horror and acceptance to us, was like several days to him.
Death Fury: Hulk's main advantage in a fight his endurance, the longer the fight goes, the madder he gets, ergo the more powerful he becomes. Best way to take Hulk out, hit him hard and fast to prevent him from dragging the conflict on, which is a lot easier said than done.
gunman: I wont say he's jealous but more sort of envious in a way, at least when he finds out. Clark's with Lana Lang in this story.
Dr Sugearcakes: He has a lead suit to help him resists Kryptonite but it has it's limits but I'm sure he could make something that could protect him from Kryptonite.
DarkJoey: Yeah Clark knows that Peter and Lois are sleeping with each other, and now apparently with Karen. He just doesn't know the fool scope of it yet like him going at it with Diana.
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or DC characters seen, mentioned or used
"Well… it's official… my luck well and truly can't get any worse than this" Peter murmured as he found himself pinned to the ground by the Rhino of all people along a partially destroyed pier near Coney Island just a few days after his shift of monitor duty with Superman.
Now to be fair, the Rhino under the right circumstances was a difficult foe for Peter to fight, but this was just flat out ridiculous. Why was that?
That oversized brute whose only real power is charging forward like a poor knockoff of the Juggernaut or an actual rhino had gotten his armor grafted with AMAZO tech!
Peter let out a pained gasp as the Rhino, his usual grey armor now decorated with red bio lights and pulsating waves of energy across it's surface, pressed his massive foot down on Peter's chest, nearly breaking his entire rib cage.
"Jeez Rhino… where the heck… did you even… get this stuff?" Peter wheezed out as the Rhino stared down at him in triumph.
"That is for me to know bug… and for you to die questioning!" the former Russian mob enforcer boasted as he stepped off Peter and picked him up by his neck and glared at him "I'm finally going to win, I'm going to finally prove that the Rhino is someone to be feared!"
"Well with that BO, your well on your way to achieving that!" an amused female voice spoke up behind Rhino, causing him to frown and turn to see a blonde bombshell of a woman dressed in a black corset, with a black leather jacket over that, black shorts, a pair of mesh fishnets, and a pair of black steel toed combat boots.
It was none other than the Black Canary as she smirked at the Rhino before she unleashed her Canary cry at full power at point blank range.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"GAAAAHH!" Rhino hollowed in pain as he dropped Spider-man to cover both his eras.
Peter used that moment to shoot numerous web bullets at the man's face, sticking his hands to the side of his head and blinding him before he quickly grabbed Black Canary who was surprised by the wall crawler's sudden action and leaped away from the stumbling Russian brute.
"Uh not that I don't mind the safe Dinah, really I don't, but why are you all the way out here in Manhattan instead of either Gotham with the birds or Starling city with Queen?" Peter asked as he landed not too far away from the distracted Rhino and let Canary down.
"Was here to stop one you regulars, Mister Negative, from supplying some of the Triads in Starling City when I happened to notice your little fight with Rhino" Dinah said as she glanced at Rhino to see him rip Peter's webbing off "Hmm… what's with those lights on his armor? He taken up being a signal light in his spare time?"
"No, that's that AMAZO tech that's been floating around lately" Peter sighed as he reloaded his near empty web shooters wit the last of his web fluid capsules, he'd have to pick up some more later from either his home or his lab "And sadly he has the ability to now generate energy blasts, superheat his body and turn invisible"
"Really?" Canary said with wide eyes "Damn, I might be way out of my weight class this time around. Rhino, dumb as he is, is tough enough for someone like me with his usual set of powers"
"Well the upside is that he doesn't know how to really use them" Peter said as he saw Rhino search the area for them before his gaze found their forms "Hell he doesn't even realize that when he's invisible, he needs to walk slower and softer and not talk a lot"
Before Dinah could comment, the Rhino let out an enraged yell as he slammed his hands into the ground, his armor starting to glow as it heated up "I'm going to crush you bug boy!"
"You know Aleski, after hearing that threat from you like the millionth time since we've met, it kinda loses its intimidation factor. Plus, that fact I've always beaten you also doesn't help!" Peter shouted back with a laugh.
The rhino themed man gritted his teeth as he charged towards the superhero duo with a snort that sounded very much like the animal he looks, minus the glowing bright bio-lights and the heat energy pulsating around his armor.
"Wow…" Dinah said with a blank look "Has enough energy to level a building and probably shoot it faster than we can move, spider-sense or not, and he's still charging towards us like some discounted version of the Juggernaut?"
"Like I said, he doesn't know how to really use them, he likely heard it was being give out, somehow had the cash to get it and immediately afterwards came looking for me" Peter said with a sigh.
Given Rhino's line of thinking, which just hurt trying to do because of how stupid he was some- well most of the time, that sounded exactly like what happened. The two heroes watched as Rhino neared them and Peter's cracked lenses narrowed as the large man approached the duo. Peter reached into his belt and pulled out two small blue colored web cartridges and threw them towards Rhino's burning form. The small cartridges collided with Rhino's body and exploded in a cloud of liquid nitrogen. Rhino gritted his teeth in pain as the subzero liquid washed over his armored bulk, causing steam to wash off him as the extreme heat and cold collided with each other and unknown to the large man, caused his armor to begin cracking.
"Think that can stop him?" Dinah glanced at Peter and watched as he seemed to focus intently on Rhino's form through the cloud of frozen nitrogen.
"Yes and no…" Peter said before he glanced at Dinah "How strong is that 'Canary Cry' of yours again?"
Dinah smirked "Buddy, I can shatter steel with it"
"Good" Peter nodded at this before pointing towards Rhino "wait until he gets close to us"
"Anywhere specific you want me to hit?" Dinah asked as she watched Rhino emerge from the nitrogen cloud with an enraged expression on his face before he slammed his hands into the ground and charged towards the duo, bits of frozen metal falling off his armor now as it broke from the force of each of Rhino's footsteps.
"The frozen bits and the areas around them. His armor's likely more fragile because of the intense heating and cooling" Peter said as he felt his spider-sense begin to tingle as Rhino grew closer and closer.
"Got it" Dinah said as she leaned back to unleash her Canary Cry "Better brace yourself, this might hurt a bit"
"I'll be fine" Peter said as he clicked something on the right side of his mask "Let her rip"
"EEEEEEEEEEE!" Dinah yelled at Rhino who powered through her scream for a few steps before he came to a stop and held his hands over where his ears were and shouted in pain as his eardrums nearly exploded and his armor began to tear and break under the sheer volume of the Canary Cry.
Peter, who had activated a small sound canceling device he pulled from his 'Stealth Suit', watched as the Rhino's armor fell off in large chunks until half of Aleski's suit laid in pieces on the ground and the man himself was on both knees and barely holding himself up, disoriented from Canary's sonic attack.
"Stupid… broad…" Rhino muttered as his ears were throbbing painfully before Peter fired off his last explosive web cartridge and watched the man consumed in a small explosion of web fluid, rendering him immobile.
"Heh, try to burn your way out of that!" Peter said as he nodded in satisfaction before patting Canary on the shoulder "Nice work partner"
"I aim to please" Dinah smirked as the duo approached the restrained Rhino. Dinah decided to start off the interrogation "Alright Rhino, where'd you get the AMAZO tech?"
"Huh?" Rhino said as he glanced at the duo in confusion.
"The fancy equipment implanted in your armor that let you do more than smell bad and look like a poor man's Juggernaut. I want names and locations because I know for a fact you can't get this kind of tech at your local RadioShack" Peter said as he folded his arms ad gave the man a hard stare under his mask.
"What?!" Rhino said as his face contorted in slight pain "What?!"
Peter stared at the man for a moment before he sighed "You can't hear a thing I'm saying can't you?"
"Oopsie…" Dinah winced at realizing she made the man temporarily deaf.
"What'd you call me bug boy!" Rhino shouted, unable to hear what the duo was saying, he couldn't see what Spider-man was saying on account of the mask and he couldn't understand what the Black Canary was saying because he couldn't read lips, but he assumed they were insulting him.
"I didn't even call you anything horn head!" Peter snapped at the man.
"Spidey, he can't hear you" Dinah said dryly.
"I don't know what you're saying bug boy but when I get out of here I'm gonna squish you!" the Russian man threatened.
"You count even beat me with AMAZO tech graphed to your dang suit, so forgive me for not feeling very scared you inbred unicorn!" Peter responded with a finger jabbed at one of the flickering bio-lights on the man's armor "also for the last time dude, spiders are not bugs! I mean I've been saying this for years!"
"Considering he spends most of his time smashing his head into things, I think trying to remember something as complicated as knowing what a spider is, is beyond him" Dinah chuckled as she could hear the faint sounds of police sirens approaching "Wow, now they show up"
"That's NYPD for you" Peter said as he cut off an insult or threat from rhino by webbing his mouth up "They show up after the fighting is done to either 'A' arrest me for being a menace on no legitimate grounds and yes before you asked I questioned Daredevil about it, or 'B' because I pissed off Fisk and he's using his connections in the various police departments to make my life miserable"
"Which is it this time?" Dinah asked as she saw the police cruisers approaching.
"Probably 'C' for Captain DeWolff" Peter said as he made out a familiar figure in one of the police cruisers approaching "Ever since she got promoted she's been cleaning up the departments best she can. So now instead of it being only choices 'A' or 'B', it's now 'A', 'B', or 'C' with the last one being a lot more common lately"
"What's she like?" Dinah asked as she watched what she could only assume was Jean DeWolff exit on of the cruisers along with the rest of the officers and watched as she shouted out a few orders towards half her men while she gestured for the rest to follow her.
Dinah had to admit, she was a pretty attractive woman.
Peter, unware of his recent partner's thoughts tapped his chin "Firm but fair and is a lot more tolerant than the previous Police captains I've met on heroes operating here. I can safely say that she's the one cop I've ever come to actually trust. Think of her as my version of Jim Gordon, but younger and uh a woman instead of a man… oh and she doesn't smoke, well she used to but she's been cutting back lately"
"Well the damage is a bit of a wreck but luckily no real property damage like usual when it comes to the Rhino. Wish I could say the same for those damn Teen Titans that Batman's brat is leading" Jean said with an annoyed scowl on her face "They just leveled half a block to stop one criminal and their self-appointed leader spent most of the time yelling at them to follow some ridiculous battle plans I swear he was making up on the spot"
"Who were they fighting?" Peter asked as several officers passed him and Dinah to secure Rhino "Some of my rouges can be pretty challenging, especially to a bunch of teenage heroes like them"
"The Spot" Jean said with a blank stare.
Peter stared at her for a moment before he made a show of cleaning his eras "The… Spot. Not someone super powerful or really dangerous like Electro, Sandman, Beetle, or even Shriek, but the Spot?"
"Yep" the police captain nodded with a straight face.
"Who's the Spot?" Dinah asked with a frown as she glanced back and forth between Spider-man and Jean "One of yours?"
"Yeah… he's one of mine" Peter said in a slightly embarrassed tone "He's a guy covered in these black spots that he throws and could move his limbs through"
"Really?" Dinah said with a quirked brow.
"Trust me… he's not as tough as he sounds" Peter said with a sigh before he looked at Jean "They at least beat him, right?"
"They did but god it was painful watching them fight him for so long" Jean said with a shake of her head "I know that the man can sometimes have a good day and gain the upper hand against someone like Daredevil when he's having an off day but my god it took them half an hour to beat him!"
"I'll swing by and talk to them later" Peter assured the beauty "Been meaning to head over there and check up on them lately anyhow"
"And maybe get batman to teach that kid of his some manners" Jean said with a slight scowl "He treated me and my men like we're GCPD, a bunch of ill qualified, dirty cops that do more harm than good"
"But aren't some in the force on Kingpin's payroll and likely a few other crime bosses here?" Dinah asked.
Jean glanced at her with a frown "Yes, but it's more like one out of twenty cops since I've been moving up the ladder, not every other sixth like in that hell hole of a city that kid comes from"
Peter was about to comment on that before he heard a small explosion followed by a pained muffled yell from Rhino as one of the components for the AMAZO tech in his armor exploded from the damage it took earlier. Peter's lenses narrowed in interest at this as he shot a web line towards the piece that fell off and yanked it towards him before catching it. He gave it a quick look before he hummed in thought.
"Something you want to share Spidey?" Jean asked as she folded her arms under her bust while she and Dinah watched the man.
"This is the third time I've encountered Doctor Ivo's tech being used by someone else. First it was somehow melded with a Bizarro clone, then a Sentinel and now Rhino" Peter said as he held the small component up to his eye to better examine it, he really needed to get around to finishing up making his new suit, it had a built-in analyzer and everything.
"Think there's a connection?" Dinah asked with a frown.
"Possibly" Peter said as he glanced at Jean "I'm gonna need your people to send Rhino's armor over to Horizon labs when you get him out of it"
"So, the esteemed Peter Parker can take his time out of making your little tech goodies and examine it perhaps?" Jean asked with a coy grin.
Peter let out a small cough as he found the piece of AMAZO tech he was holding very interesting "Uh yeah… him"
Dinah's interest was piqued by this as she glanced at Jean and made a subtle head gesture with a look asking 'You know?'. She was rewarded with a wink and a small nod.
'Well, that's interesting. Peter either trusted her enough to tell her or she's a better detective then I give her credit for… probably both' Dinah thought as Prter attached the small tech to his belt and gave Jean a nod "Well miss DeWolff, as much as I like spending time with you-"
"Is that right?" Jean interrupted with a sly smirk.
"Uh me and my assicoate here have to go head over and take down Mister Negative" Peter said as he shuffled his feet.
Jean quirked a brow at this before glancing at Dinah "Why you after Li?"
"He's trying to muscle in on Starling City, thought I'd give him a visit and muscle in on his operations here as a warning to keep out of my city" Dinah said with a simple shrug.
"Uh-huh…" Jean said with a slow nod "Well good luck with that, he's not here at the moment"
"How do you know?" Peter asked with a frown.
"I have a snitch in his gang" Jean said with a shrug "Apparently there's some trouble going on back home, like China home, and mister Li will be out of country for a few days"
"Any idea as to why he left?" Peter asked with his lenses narrowing slightly, Martin Li rarely left his growing criminal empire for that long which meant whatever dragged him away had to be big.
"Something about this guy called the Monkey King shaking up things for Li's family criminal empire back home and his daddy telling him to get his ass back and help" Jean answered.
"Well shit" Dinah said with a frown "Came all the way here for nothing"
"I wouldn't say that" Peter said as he patted her on the shoulder "At least you got to save my red and blue booty from being a bloody splatter on the ground"
"Death by Rhino, could you ever live that down if you somehow came back to life?" Jean asked with a small laugh.
"No… the shame would be so great, I'd just re-die again on the spot" Peter said with slumped shoulders while Jean and Dinah laughed.
…
"So when's your flight?" Peter asked as he and Dinah, now outside of their 'work clothes', slowly made their way down a path in Central Park.
"What flight?" Dinah asked with a quirked brow.
"Well since Negative's not here, aren't you gonna head back to Starling?" Peter asked.
"Pfft, no!" Dinah scoffed "I'll leave after I introduce Li's face to my fist"
"That could be a while" Peter pointed out "I mean Jean's snitch did say he'll be gone a few days"
"Yeah and?" Dinah asked with a frown "I'm willing to stick around. Why you have a problem with that?"
At this Peter paled, realizing how his question sounded "W-What no! No, no problem from me here, it's just… um… well uh… won't Oliver miss you is all?"
Dinah gave Peter a blank look before she responded "He has my two sisters that he's both slept with, Felicity that I swear as the worst taste in men ever which is tragic for such a smart girl, and he has Diggle to kick his ass if he has to. Starling City will be fine"
"If you say so…" Peter said with a nod as they walked in silence for the next few minutes.
"So… how things here?" Dinah asked as they passed by a man on a bench reading a newspaper with the image of Warbird fighting a giant two headed snake clown looking thing on Libery Island.
"Oh you know, same old same old for a city with like three superhero teams operating out of here along with me, Warbird, Daredevil and… you know… him" Peter said the last name with a slight shiver.
"Deadpool back?" Dinah asked, the famed 'merc with a mouth's creepy obsession with either being Spider-man's best friend was well known through the grape vine.
"No, I'd actually prefer him though" Peter said as he casted a brief glance around before leaning in towards Dinah "The Punisher"
Dinah's eyes widened at this "…Oh"
She's met the man before and she has to say, Oliver in his first few months as the 'Hood' where he killed people didn't even register as a joke compared to Frank Castle. Dinah made the mistake of thinking of him as another run of the mill vigilante that liked to kill people, sort of like Red Hood, but after seeing that man in action, the sheer brutality he unleashed on the criminal element… even Jason never went quite as far as Castle.
"Yeah, he got back after tearing through a bunch of drug kingpins and human traffickers down in South America last week" Peter said with a sigh "Wish he never came back though"
"Do the others know he's here?" Dinah questioned.
"Carol and Daredevil do, same with the Society. Teen Titans not so sure but I'm willing to assume that they'll figure it out soon enough. The only reason Castle's been quite is because he's busy setting up shop and arming himself for an all-out war against the criminals here… and the heroes that are going to try and stop him, namely me and Daredevil" Peter groaned "Ugh I can just feel the bullet wounds"
"Don't you have a no bullet suit now?" Dinah asked "Why not just wear that?"
Peter glanced at her for a moment before he sighed "Frank uses armor piecing rounds… and grenades… and rockets… the suit is built for small arms fire and anything under a thirty-five-caliber bullet. Bigger bullets won't kill me but sustained fire may end up breaking bones"
Dinah winced at that "Ouch…"
"Yeah…" Peter nodded sullenly before his face brightened "But I may be working on something that could fix that"
"Ooh, do tell" Dinah grinned.
"Sorry, but it's a secret" Peter said with a laugh.
"Aww… pwease?" Dinah asked with a small lip quiver "I promise not to tell"
"Heh no" Peter chuckled at her antics.
"Not even for a date with little old me?" Dinah asked with a grin.
At this Peter stopped dead in his tracks "Eh?"
"You heard me… a date" Dinah said with a smile.
"Uhh…" Peter sounded as he tried to think up of a response "When you mean date, do you man like a play date or an actual I take you out somewhere date?"
"The second one" Dinah said before she leaned in closer with a coy grin "But I'm curious to know what a 'play' date is"
"It's not like that!" Peter blushed "I meant like we hang out, do some fun stuff-"
"Oh my…" Dinah giggled.
"I didn't mean that kind of fun stuff!" Peter said as waved his rams back and forth "I meant like we go out and beat up bad guys or something like that"
"Oh, so your saying you'd rather beat up bad guys then 'play' with me?" Dinah said with amused grin.
"Yes" Peter said with a nod before his eyes widened at what he said "Wait no! I mean-"
Peter's attempt to possibly dig an even deeper hole for himself was stopped as Dinah placed a finger on his mouth "Tell you what Peter, how about you and I meet up at this bar I've been meaning to try out thanks to some recommendation from Carol and afterwards you and I can… 'Play'?"
Peter stared at the blonde bombshell with wide eyes as she leaned in "And just to let you know Peter… I do wear the fishnets when I 'play'"
She then pulled her finger off his lips a gave him a small peck on the cheek before walking away with a sway in her hips "I'll send you a text later to let you know when and where to meet"
Peter's response was to simply watch her go with only two things running through his mind.
The first thing was she serious about the Fishnets because he secretly hoped she was, and second and most importantly...
What nightmare was coming his way that his luck with the ladies would be this good?
…
And done. Next chapter, Peter looks into the AMAZO tech that's been spreading around a bit, goes on a date with Dinah where they trade stories, their ideal Justice League team rosters and may or may not end up sleeping with each other!