Crash Landing

Watchtower

The air in the space station was abuzz with gossip. While some heroes discussed their own daily lives while others talked about recent missions. Others however were more interested in what was down in the cell block.

Most, if not all of the heroes in the space station have heard rumors of a man who had "attempted" to challenge the Bat, some just scoffed it off, while others didn't worry about it too much as many of the heroes, powers or not all feared and respected the Dark Knight.

One heroine on the other hand was a little more curious on who exactly would try and attack the famed protector of Gotham, and why was he in their jail cell instead of the one in Gotham. Kara Zor-El or more commonly known as Super-Girl cousin of the legendary man of steal himself was currently sitting down in the mess hall with fellow heroes Green Arrow and Black Canary.

"I hate not knowing anything." Green Arrow stated with a frown as he ate some fries. "The main members are keeping whoever it is under wraps and even the lab is banned to go into for a while."

Black Carney nodded slightly her eyes closed as she took a sip of her drink. "It's strange, but not uncommon. They have a reason for doing what they're doing I'm sure." She stated trying to calm down her friend and defend the league.

"Oh come on, don't we get the right to know what is being held up right here in our own base?" He asked her. "I don't like it Dinah." He said glaring at her behind his white mask that covered only his eyes.

Dinah paused for a moment trying to think of something to say but could not think of anything. Arrow gave her a little grin "You know I'm right." He said with some of his usual cockiness.

Dinah gave him a little glare before she shrugged. "Fine your right, but what are we going to do about it? They're not going to tell us till they want to." She said.

Green Arrow thought before a moment before a sly grin grew on his face. Dinah knew that grin all too well and she knew it meant trouble.

"Don't even think about it Arrow." She said in a shushed tone. "The last time you pulled a stunt you almost got kicked out of the league."

The green archer shrugged his shoulders his grin never faltering. "What's the harm of seeing someone that's on lock down?" He asked her before turning his attention to the girl sitting across from him. "You in Kara?" he asked.

Kara blinked for a moment before her attention was drawn to the green archer. She stared at him for a moment before she sheepishly smiled. "What now?" she asked.

Arrow raised an eyebrow at her. "What's up with you? You've been kind of out of it since you got back from your last mission."

Kara's smile faded as she let out a sigh. "I'm just thinking about some stuff, that's all." She said.

"What stuff?" Dinah asked sounding curious and at the same time a little concerned.

Kara just smiled and shook her head. "I just have a lot on my mind, it'll clear up soon." She said. She turned her attention back to the green archer. "So you wanted to spy on someone?" she asked.

Green Arrow's grin reappeared quickly. "Yeah the guy they have locked up in solitaire. Why don't we go see what the commotion is all about?" He said with a grin as he started to stand up.

Kara was about to answerer when she felt a firm hand grip her shoulder. "Planning on doing something Arrow?" She heard a woman speak behind her.

Green Arrows eyes grew wide behind his mask and he quickly shook his head. "Nope, not a thing just going to sit here and eat, nothing more." He said quickly.

Black Canary and Kara both started to giggle softly at the man causing him to grumble. Dinah was able to recover quick as she addressed the woman. "Is there something you need Diana?" she asked.

Wonder Woman nodded with a grin of her own. "I have something I have to discuss with Super-Girl." She looked down at the girl of steal and smiled. "If that's okay?" she asked. Kara grinned sheepishly and got to her feet and followed Wonder Woman out of the mess hall.

When they got a few hallways away from the mess hall and away from over curious ears Diana spoke. "I assume that you have heard of our new guest?" she asked the girl of steal.

Kara blinked and looked up at the heroine. "Yeah, and about the rest of the watchtower too." She said.

Diana nodded slowly before stopping before a door with a one way window. She turned to Kara and motioned her head to the window for her to see through it. Kara did so and walked in front of the door and her eyes got wide at what she saw on the other side.

She saw a guy maybe in his teens wearing a red and blue spandex like suit with black webbing like lines going along it and on his chest was the symbol of a spider stitched in black. He was pacing in a meta-human cell, but that was not what caused Super-Girl to be so surprised, no what made her surprised was that he was pacing upside down on the roof of the jail cell with little problem.

"As you can see-" Diana began, getting the super powered girls attention. "He has very unique powers."

"No kidding." Super-Girl muttered as she turned back around to face the Amazon. "So what does this have to do with me?"

Diana gave her a slight smile. "Well…we need someone to watch him." She said.

Kara blinked and pointed at herself. "You mean me?" she asked surprised.

Diana nodded. "I am needed on a mission elsewhere and I need someone to watch over him. He seemed slightly on edge when I tried to talk to him, so maybe if someone around his age talked to him and watched over him we might get a little more out of him." She said.

Kara stared at Wonder Woman for a moment before looking back through the window at the boy then back at Diana and nodded slowly, her eyes shining with determination. "I'll do it."

Spidey let out a tired sigh as he continued to pace in his cell upside down trying to clear his head, it was not web swinging around his home city, but it was the best he had at the moment. Thoughts were running through his head, thoughts about his home, his friends, and family. 'How are they?' 'Are they worried about me?' 'Are they looking for me?' He scoffed to himself. 'If it was JJ he would blame Spider-Man for my disappearance…and the bomb." he thought grimly.

He paused in his step and let out a deep breath before looking around and slowly removing his mask slightly so he could take a few deep breaths. While he did love his mask it was at times hard to breath in the blasted thing. When the door opened he quickly pulled his mask back down concealing his face once again before turning around and seeing who had entered the room.

Kara entered the room with a slight frown as she stared at the red and blue teen for a moment. She had seen him quickly pull down his mask and turn around to face her and to her surprise those lifeless white eyes seemed to stare into her own eyes. "Uh…hi." She said trying to be formal.

Peter was frozen stiff. He could not move, only stare at the girl who had entered the room. She was wearing a red skirt with a dark blue top with a shining red "S" on her chest and a little red cape on her back. But that's not what made Peter's blood run cold, it was her blond hair, her cute face, and that look like she was trying to think of something, made him speak without thinking. "Gwen?" he asked softly.

Kara heard him thanks to her super herring and blinked at the boy. "Who?"

Peter was snapped out of his little daze when she spoke and shook his head side to side to get the image of her out of his head. "Sorry, it's no one. Who are you?" he asked, his voice soft but at the same time tense as memories started to flash through his eyes.

Kara noticed the stiffness of his tone, and narrowed her eyes at him. "Super-Girl, and you?" she said.

Spidey raised an eyebrow behind his mask. "Guess that's what the "S" stands for." He mumbled to himself. He jumped down and landed on the ground with a crouch before standing up straight and walking over to the blue wall. "Names Spider-Man. Glad to meet another one who thinks I'm crazy." He said sarcastically.

Kara gave him a curios look. "You don't look crazy." She said. "Just confused and out of place." She smiled at him. "I can kind of relate to that."

Spidey raised an eyebrow at her. "Really, were you from?"

Kara smiled sheepishly and pointed to a window that Peter did not notice before. 'Damn one track mind.' He thought. He turned his head to where she was pointing and his eyes got comically wide. He saw the black void of space outside the window with bright stars and a slight glint of the planet earth. "Spa-spa-spa…Your from space?" He asked her.

She nodded slowly and to Peter it looked painfully cute, but painful for a different reason. He let out a sigh and shook his head. "Hey that's cool." He said causing the girl to look up at him. "I've met stranger people, trust me you're the sanest one of them…so far." He said.

She giggled slightly and leaned against the wall. "I was asked to watch over you for a while." She said.

Spidey grinned behind his masked. "A baby sitter? Haven't had one of those in a while." He stated.

She rolled her eyes at him before narrowing them slightly remembering why she was here. "So…you know where I'm from, what about you?" she asked.

Spidey gave her a strange look but smiled under his mask. "You're the second person to ask me that." He said. "New York."

The wall crawler would go on to talk about his home and about some of his adventures in the big apple. Kara just listened to him talk and could not help but smile at him and his at time overdramatic explanation of his adventures. They stayed like that for hours, but to them it felt like no time had passed.

Meanwhile-New York

As the city of New York was busy cleaning up the mess that Doom -and depending on who you ask Spider-Man- had caused. Many heroes were attempting to help, but most of them were either trying to track down Doom's location, or were searching for the friendly hero.

On a cliff side estate not that far from the city a lone man was currently working in a workshop/lab kind of aria as he had on a white undershirt and black sweatpants. He had black hair and a matching goatee. He was currently sitting down on a stool and was typing something on a floating blue screen in front of him. "Radiation levels thirty four percent, chemical levels twenty three percent…" he paused as he started to tap his fingers agents his table.

The man let out a grunt as he spun in his chair and moved over to the side and started to press some buttons. "Jarvis, light the room." He said as he stood up and walked over to a higher point. As he got to the top the entire silver floor started to eliminate as blue holographic images showed the man the bomb sight and the last known location for both Doom and Spider-Man.

"What exactly are you looking for Sir?" a voice asked all around the man in a British accent.

"Something, anything." The man sounded a little desperate and annoyed. He jumped down from his perch and walked over to where the small dent was made when the bomb went off. He kneeled down and examined it. "Jarvis, what do you know about explosions?" he asked.

"Well sir, they are triggered when two different sustenance's come together and create a chain reaction." The AI named Jarvis said.

"And what was this one lacking?" The man asked.

"…A boom sir?" the AI asked.

The man clapped his hands as he pointed at the dent on the ground. "The reports said they only saw a bright light, no noise, even a gravity bomb would have given off a boom…unless it was not an explosion…but an implosion." He stated.

"What does this mean sir?" the AI asked sounding slightly intrigued.

"It means that whatever happened to our web headed pal and the good doctor involves this implosion of a top secret weapon that was very much meant to go boom." He stated.

"A chain reaction gone wrong perhaps?" The AI asked.

The man paused as if to think before shrugging. "Not sure, send the data to Read Richards for his opinion." The man said as he pushed some more buttons and the holographic images faded away. He let out a deep breath as he took a seat closing his eyes and rocking his neck to get rid of the stiffness.

"Penny for your thought?" he heard someone ask.

He opened his eyes and grinned at the girl standing on the other side of the glass door. She was wearing a white business suit and she was had hear blond hair down. "Depends. How big is the penny?" he asked.

She grinned and opened the glass door to the lab and walked up to him. "Well, if you keep missing your work dates, you're not going to have much of a penny left, Mr. Stark." She teased with a little grin.

Tony rolled his eyes and clapped his hands together as he stood up. "Well it's a good thing that I have you then huh?" he asked.

Pepper grinned and rolled her eyes. "Alright Tony what's going on?" she asked.

Tonys' smile faded into a frown as he walked back over to his table. "You see the news?" he asked her.

Pepper nodded. "Yeah, the whole city being evacuated because of a guy with a bomb." She said. "We were some of the first to get out." She stated leaning against the glass wall.

Tony nodded. "Well it turns out that the bomb went off, and in the explosion-"

"Implosion, Sir." Jarvis corrected him.

"-Implosion, that two people were caught in the blast." He said.

Pepper eyes grew wide at what he had just told her she shook her head in shock. "Oh my god. Who?" She asked with concern.

"The bad guy, and a good friend of mine." He said.

Pepper stared at him for a moment wondering who he was talking about before slowly standing up and walking over to him. She grabbed him by the shoulders and pushed him down on his chair ignoring his protests but grinned when they were replaced with soft moans when she started to massage his shoulders and neck. "You're a little tense, you have to relax and take a breath." She said softly.

"Your distracting me you know?" he said but did not make any movement to stop her.

She grinned and slid her arms around his neck and leaned down and kissed the top of his head. "That's the master plan." She said.

Tony grinned as he spun his chair around so he was facing her, "Well I guess, I have to counter that." He said as he started to lean forward.

Pepper grinned as she leaned down. "Go for it…Iron Man." She teased.

Before the two could continue, they were interrupted by the voice of Jarvis. "I'm sorry for intruding sir, but Read Richards is on the other line."

Tony closed his eyes and shook his head in disappointment. Pepper grinned and kissed his lips quick before turning away but stopped and turned her head back to face him. "I'll see you after work." She said in a tone that made Tonys heart beat a little faster as she left and started to climb the stairs to the upper floor.

Tony watched her for a moment before shaking his head and moving to grab his custom made red a gold cell phone. "Hey Reed, what do you got? And uh…make it quick." He said looking back over at the stares.

"Well, the info you gave me was enough. I was able to pinpoint what caused the Implosion. Turns out that the gravity bomb somehow suffered some tension causing the shutters to not work therefore when the bomb was ready for detonation it would not release and all the force was pulled in, causing a black hole like effect." Tony nodded along at what Reed said. "One more thing, when I was examining the detonation code, I noticed it was slightly off. The code in the S.H.I.E.L.D database was changed slightly."

Tony nodded before looking over his room and his eyes landed on one the many suits of armor he has on display. "What's the new numbers?"

"Nine, four, five, two." Reed read off the numbers as Tony wrote them down.

"Alright…thanks, this helps in a big way in finding Doom." He said and was about to hung up.

"Were worried about him too Tony." Reed said causing the inventor to pause. "Doom is our primary focus, but Spider-Man is our comrade and close friend we won't stop searching till he's found and brought back home."

It was silent for a while before Tony responded. "Thanks Reed." He said in a serious tone before hanging up and moving over to one of his suits. "Jarvis, give me a reconstruction of the bomb." He asked. "Enter S.H.I.E.L.D data for gravity bomb, password: Iron Avenger."

The room lit up again and Tony stared at the holographic version of the bomb. He walked over to it and entered the pass code plus the extra numbers he had received and then took a step back holding a holographic keyboard in his hand. "Alright and now enter." He pressed the enter button and… nothing.

Tony frowned and glared at the holographic projection before walking up to it and kicking it only to wince and step back cursing softly. "Jarvis?" He asked, "Who turned on the physical holograms?" He asked.

"I'm not sure Sir." Jarvis said.

Tony was about to retort when he heard something. He turned around and saw the bomb beginning to crack and shake. Tony knew the solid holograms well, they were used by the X-Men in their Danger Room and the Avengers used them to train when they had some free time. And there was always one thing that he had learned over the years of using this technology, and that was…the hologram at this time was very real and very dangerous.

"Lock down…Lock down the lab now!" he shouted as he ran to one of the booths with one of his armors in it and opened it. He turned back around and saw the holographic bomb was still cracking. He looked up to see the glass door being contained with a heavy metal wall "Armor now!" he shouted just as the bomb went off and he was blinded by a bright light.

Metropolis

The great city was bustling with activity, from people going in shops to others trying to get to work on time. Everyone was in a slightly good mood as there had not been any threats against their great city in some time. Many citizens were crowding outside of the most iconic landmark in the bright city, the Daly Planet building with its iconic globe on the roof of the building that rotates like an actual globe.

Flying over there city however was not there usual red and blue protector, no this man was a former marine and was wearing not red and blue but black and green. He had dark skin and his eyes were glowing green along with most of the outline of his body. He was John Stewart, Green Lantern of Earth and a founding member of the Justice League. He was patrolling the city as he had owed the Man of Steal a favor.

He flew over the tall buildings and trained his eyes all around him seeing if anything was off. He looked down at his glowing green ring and frowned slightly. "Getting low on power." He said to himself. He was pulled from his thoughts when he was blinding by the brightest light John had ever witnessed.

When the light had died down the Green Lantern opened his pained eyes slowly to try and understand what had just happened. "What the-?" he asked no one. He noticed police cars driving at intense speeds to get to the location of the light, and the Green Lantern was following along.

At the location of the light which was also a freeway there was now a large crater. Many citizens were running away in fear while other brave citizens approached the crater either curios on what was in it, wanting to help whoever landed, or wanting to get a good story. Simple to say that no one was expecting a humanoid robot slowly make its way out of the hole.

Tony grunted as he slowly regained his bearings and his blurry vision was starting to clear. "Glad to see you are alright sir, I'm glad we were able to increase the change time on the mark forty five." Jarvis spoke as Tony studied the chart of his vitals on the screen in his helmet.

"And Pepper thought I was wasting my time." He mocked with a grin. He grunted more as he slowly got to his feet. "Any damage?" He asked.

"Very minimal sir." Jarvis said as he pulled up a screen of the suit and showing each part was colored green indicating it was hardly scratched. Tony nodded as he slowly started to crawl out of the ditch.

When he climbed out he was surprised to find himself outside in the middle of a highway, in a city. "Okay Jarvis, where are we?" he asked.

"Searching sir." Tony waited for a moment as he waved at a citizen only for that citizen to slowly wave back. "Uh Sir…I cannot pinpoint our location." He said.

Tony let out a sigh as he shook his head. "Great." He muttered before looking over at a group of people. "Uh…hello there. Sorry to intrude, but I'm a little lost, my GPS is on the frits again, you know how it is, can never relay on old models anymore, so could you direct me to a map, and maybe a Denny's?"

The crowed did not move or say anything. They only stared wide eyed at Stark some looking on with interest other's with fear. Tony took a deep breath then exhaled. 'You can never find good help these days.' He thought to himself. He took a step forward but was stopped when a large transparent green wall blocked him from the citizens.

He looked up and saw a dark skinned man in a black and green suit with a green ring witch the wall was coming from. The man seemed to glow a slight green and on his chest looked like a lantern.

John examined the robotic man with a keen eye. He slowly flew down to the ground in front of the citizens and he diminished his shield. He studied the red and gold armor of the robot and only one thought entered his head. "You a LexCorp reject?" he asked the robot.

Tony glared at the green man as Jarvis was busy running the man's facile features through the S.H.I.E.L.D data log he has built into his suit. However he wasn't getting anything, and worse he was having a hard time getting into the S.H.I.E.L.D database almost like it was not even there. "I'm no reject." Tony said darkly. He never let's anyone insult his armor, no one.

John narrowed his eyes as he pointed his green ring at him. "Just come along quietly and I promise not to hurt you." He said.

Tony paused for a moment before he narrowed his eyes at the guy. "Jarvis enter combat mode." He stated simply.

Before John had time to react the robot had lifted its arm and fired a blast of energy out of his open palm at the Lantern sending him flying back and colliding with one of the buildings. Tony grinned with satisfaction as he lowered his palm and began to walk away.

He was not expecting however for that same green light to incase his body and send him high up in the air before crashing him back down hard. Tony grunted as he saw the mid section of his armor turn a shade of light shade of green.

"You want to do this hard way?" Fine by me!?" John shouted. He gave more power to the ring as he used it to start to squeeze what he believed was a robot.

Tony was starting to have trouble breathing as he saw his armor go to yellow. "Jarvis ful—full power to the uni-beem!" The glowing triangle on the robots chest started to glow before firing a powerful blast that was able to snap the green light from around Tony also connecting with its target and sending the stunned Green Lantern flying again, giving the man inside the armor time to breath.

Tony looked around and saw his armor was not in good shape. The damage that the indicator had was a bright yellow for most of the armor. "Jarvis main power to the thrusters." Tony moved his hands to the side as he started to take to the air flying at high speeds away from the fight.

Tony took a few deep breaths as he continued to look over everything. "How bad did we get hit?" he asked.

"Well sir, we took heavy damage to the mid section but a nice charge and some buffering and a cool of period may help." Jarvis said.

Tony nodded as he let out a relived sigh. He was still going over some things in his head like 'Where am I?' 'Is Pepper alright?' and 'who on earth was that guy in green.' His thoughts were interrupted by Jarvis's hectic voice. "Sir there appears to be something heading our way at intense velocity." Tony barley was able to turn around before he was tackled in the gut by a blue and red blur sending both it and Tony crashing into the hard ground with a loud bang.

Tony was slowly begging to fade as his eyesight was getting blurrier and blurrier. He was able to make out a figure wearing blue and red clothing with something flapping behind him, and Tony could make out the blurry image of a red 'S' with a yellow background on the figures chest.

As his eyes slowly closed his eyes he could make out the green outline of another figure land down next to him and ask the red and blue figure. "What took you?" in an annoyed tone before darkness took over Tony Stark.