Tommy, Tina, Dawn, Aster, Tula, Violet, and Daniel were all told by their parents after the fight and injuries they sustained last night with their battle with Electro. And the kids saw as it was the weekend, they'd just go and try to act like everyday kids. Which didn't exactly mean much as they all knew none of them were normal everyday kids.
Luckily there was a carnival down at the beach during the weekend, and they decided to just hang out there for the day.
"I'm not sure I understand the concept of this." Tula commented as Tommy was walking alongside her carrying popcorn with him.
"What, you never heard of fun in Atlantis?" Tommy asked jokingly.
"Where I'm from, we would work and focus on benefiting the society, never do somethings as ridiculous and strange like this." Tula commented as they watched someone play the bell and hammer game.
"Well, looks like you are gonna learn to loosen up." Tommy warned her. "If you're gonna hang with us, you gotta stop acting like a Princess and more of an average...girl...fish."
"I don't see that happening." Tula warned him.
"Mark my words, I will make you have fun." Tommy promised as he didn't noticed someone was coming up and the two ran into each other. "Oh, god, I'm sorry!"
"No, no, it's okay." The girl assured as she got her footing and looked up to Tommy, making his senses go off. For what reason, he had no idea...unless it was for the obvious reason. "Have I seen you somewhere before?"
Tommy sighed and knew this was coming. It was sort of like being a recognized actor. Everyone just always recognizes him. "Yeah, probably-"
"Oh, god, Tommy Parker. We had Mrs. Tetterwort's class together." She recognized, surprising Tommy as he recognized her himself. "Ashley."
"Yes, yeah, I recognize you." Tommy suddenly remembered. "Ashley Moon. How have you been?"
"Well, good. Still stuck in an orphanage." Ashley commented and showed off her white highlights. "Dyed my hair."
"Yeah, looks nice." Tommy complimented.
Tina then suddenly sensed something and looked over and saw her brother talking with Ashley. "Oh boy..." She stayed in touch with a few of her friends back in middle school after she moved up to high school. And all of them knew about Ashley Moon's criminal activity.
They were small crimes, breaking into homes looking for her parents, she never really broke in or stole anything. Hell, Tina gave her a warning the first time Spinneret found her trying to break in, and she thought she was gonna turn things around when she started taking dozens of classes but that turned out to be for her to learn how to fight and break in.
"This isn't gonna end well." Aster could tell as he watched it.
"Even I can tell." Aster's split head agreed with him.
"So, who's this?" Ashley asked and looked over to Tula.
"Ashley, this is Tula. A friend visiting from out of town." Tommy introduced them.
"How do you two know each other?" Tula wondered.
"We went to middle school together before he went to high school." Ashley explained and saw Tina eyeing her. "Well, I was heading somewhere, so I gotta go." She said as she walked off. "It was nice seeing you again."
"You, too." Tommy said and watched as Ashley walk off.
Tina felt like there was something wrong when suddenly the wind started to pick up.
"What's going on?" Aster wondered.
"A sandstorm?" Daniel asked when a giant wave of sand came over to them and showed a face that growled at them.
"Sandman!" Dawn cried out.
Back at STAR Labs, Peter walked into the lounge where Wade was currently lying down on the couch as Peter walked over to the balcony. He was only wearing his mask, and wearing some spare clothes Peter keeps around the labs for a quick change.
"Your heart's in the wrong place. What does that mean?" Wade muttered constantly, Peter not understanding exactly what it means.
"Wade. Take your mask off." Peter asks of him and lies back on the balcony.
"I wish you said pants." Wade commented jokingly, but Peter's known him long enough that he can't hide it from him. "Hey, let's play a game. It's called "Adrian Brody or Adam Brody?" Now, close your eyes and open your mouth."
"You don't need to be funny here, Wade." Peter promised him, wanting to focus on the issue.
"That must be what the writer said, considering we're twelve chapters into this story, and you've yet to make a good quip." Wade stated as he reached up and removed his mask. "And I'm no close to being a character in the next Secret Wars story."
"Wade. You need a fresh start." Peter said as Wade takes his mask off.
"Oh, such a glare." Wade groaned and covered his eyes from the light outside. "It's like I'm on stage at the Gaiety."
"Wade, I believe with training you could be a hero here." Peter informed Wade, believing in his psychotic friend.
"You're wasting your time, S.S. Shipper." Wade stated. "I'm not Spider-Flash material."
Frankie then flew in through the balcony and was carrying some books she needs to get graded. "Understanding of the century." She greeted the man on the couch. "Wade."
"What's with the books, you looking for a spell to take out the doll?" Wade asked and looked to the reader. "IMDB Joey King if you don't get it."
"I'm a teacher at Horizon University." Frankie stated as she placed them down on the table. "Gotta have these graded by the end of the week."
"I'm proud of you, honey." Peter said with a smile, seeing all of his kids have bright futures ahead of them...and he knows Aster just needs to find something he's amazing at.
"Thanks, dad." Frankie said with a smile and then looked to Wade. "It's great to see you like this, Wade."
"Ha-ha." Wade laughed mockingly. "Hey, sorry to say the fan base didn't care enough about your relationship with Morales!"
Frankie then just strolled out of the room to allow her dad and Wade to talk. Peter then got back to work on setting some rules for Wade, knowing he's definitely gonna need them and took a small book he used on Frost when he was helping her train.
"Now, these are some of the rules while you live under our roof." Peter stated and turned to the front page. "First, and this is a big one, no killing. Anyone...unless it's necessary. It's the final card around here." He saw it was a little hypocritical to say no killing after the many...many people they've killed. Technically.
The Thinker went brain dead. Thawne was erased from existence several times. And there were the many AU people they killed, including the Batman Who Laughs and his Dark Knights.
Peter then turned to the next page. "And another big one is when in STAR Labs, label everything in the refrigerator. Frost gets pissed when someone mistakes her...stuff..." When he looked up, he noticed Wade was already gone who knows where. "Wade?"
Down the hall, Wade was already strolling through the halls with his backside parked inside of Wells' wheelchair strolling through the labs.
"Wade!"
"Don't try to chase me." Wade stated as he kept going through the halls. "I'm not ready to be touched again." He then bumped into one of the stands, causing the vase to fall and break. "Those were already damaged after they fell there!"
Wade then stopped and spun around in his chair while Peter walked to catch up with him.
"What am I supposed to do around here, anyway?" Wade asked as he saw how empty everything was. "Sit in a share circle, talk about my feelings? And how would I do that exactly? Because where the fuck is everyone? It's always just you and your little harem, you and the Timeline-Fucker, or the entire group all at once. Do any of them actually have lives outside these labs?"
Peter then grabbed his shoulder, stopping him from spinning around. "Enough!"
Wade then spun his head and gasped at what Peter did. "I said no touching!"
Peter then pulled Wade and sent him flying down the hall, and Wade just got up like it was nothing. "What the fuck? You'd think the writer would throw us a bone. The Flash and Spider-Man is his most popular Spiderverse story, hell it's the most favorited story, only close to being beaten by Tales of the Dragon Riders." He then quickly turned to the reader. "Sequel coming back soon." Then turning back over to Peter. "He can't just dust off some actual good storylines for this story other than a new generation? How about the one the Flash tv show is actually doing? Thawne taking that bitch of a character Iris as his wife, perfect pairing. Yet again, I'm pretty sure Thawne is in Live Like Legends sequel. Oh, how about the never released TASM 3, where Andrew Garfield was supposed to start bringing everyone back from the dead?" He then thought for a minute while Peter sighed and rubbed his head. "No, no, no, I'm not this story material. First of all, I'm not a virgin, second-"
Peter finally had enough of this and grabbed Wade and slammed him into the wall. "I could have left you in the destroyed, in pieces, self-wallowing mess I found you in!" Wade tried to pry Peter's hand off, knowing he's stronger than him so there's no real point. "But this is what friends do. They show up! Not when it's convenient, or when it's easy. But when things get hard. And you just always make it hard."
Wade couldn't help but grin and looked to the reader.
"You are unwell. Everyone believes it's ridiculous that I even considered bringing you here!" Peter stated.
"Wait. One of the assholes who killed Vanessa got away." Wade stated as Peter sighed and lets him go, allowing Wade to fall to the ground and catch his breath.
"Wade, whoever they are, we'll find them and bring them to justice the right way." Peter promised Wade who looked to him in sorrow.
"It was me." Wade stated, and Peter now understood what he meant. "I'm the asshole who got away. I killed every last one of them but me...couldn't kill me." He then started to tear up at the reminder. "We were gonna start a family..."
Peter now finally felt truly sorry for Wade, thinking he could never live in a world if he lost Caitlin when they were fighting Cicada, and he learned she was pregnant.
"We we're gonna be a family..." Wade geared up.
"Wade...Vanessa's gone. I'm sorry, but she is." Peter wished there was a way he could help his friend without damaging the timeline. "This might not be the family you want, but it's the one you need. You have a good heart; you need to stay here where we can help it grow."
Wade then looked shocked and tested up again. "What was that you said? About my heart?" He then walked over to Peter and pulled him into a hug, copping a feel. "I think I'm in the right place."
"This...this just got weird." Peter commented as he pulled Wade's hand off him, but he immediately put it back.
Back in National City, the entire team was in chaos after getting word that Anjelica was kidnapped by the Nightmare Crew, Silver Banshee, and Biogeneral. They want the Phantom Zone projector for who knows what reason, and they don't know what to do.
Well, Kara knows what she wants to do. Burn them all and leave them as smoldering ashes and spread them across the four corners of the galaxy.
Heard of mama bear? Kara's a mama megalodon when you hurt her pup.
And that's without her powers.
"Okay, we are going to find them and we are going to get Anjelica back." Alex promised as she tried to calm Kara down from doing anything drastic.
"Brainy, start scanning every inch of this globe for any trace of Morgan, Nia, or Gwen outside this tower, along with Siobhan and Tucker." J'onn gave him instructions. "We need to find them."
"I'll search every place that they'd have access to and try to track down any places the criminal activity has been constantly hanging around." Lina offered and raced off to so it.
"Madame Web warned us there'd be some cracks in reality, but she never warned us they'd be this bad." J'onn whispers. "We need to rescue Anjelica. Nia, can you dream their location?"
"I can try." Nia said and walked away. "But I'm not sure it'll work if I'm gonna go against someone with my own power set."
"Is there anything I can do to help?" Cessily asked.
"Not yet, just hang back." Morgan tells her.
"It doesn't matter." Kara stated, getting their attention. "Brainy can make a decoy Phantom Zone Projector, and I will take it to the location, get Anjelica back, and then kill the entire Nightmare Crew, Biogeneral, and Banshee with my bare hands!"
"Hey, hey, hey." Peter walked over and cupped Kara's face and stroked her cheek with his thumb to calm her down, something he picked up over the years. "We'll get Angel back, but that's not the right way."
"Then we give them what they want!" Kara stated, breaking off from Peter, nothing being more important to her than her own daughter.
"Kara, we can't give them the Phantom Projector." Alex said as she walked over when held her sister's hand. "We don't know what they want it for, and it's too dangerous."
"I don't care about anything other than the safety of my daughter!" Kara stated.
"And we will get her back, Kara." Alex promised. "Kara, we will find them, and we will stop this Nightmare Crew for whatever reason they want it." She then grabbed Kara's shoulders and looked into her eyes. "I know you're panicking, but if the roles were reversed, you know you'd be telling me the same thing. We need to keep our heads on so we don't do something drastic. You trust us, right?"
Kara started to clear her mind a little and nodded.
"We will get her back." Alex promised and they started to put a plan together to save her.
Patty was back at the prescient and putting everything they were able to put together over the timeline for Black Hole.
"You're telling me that a secret organization has been operating in Central City for seventeen years now?" Cecile asked Patty as she also had Allegra for references after their fight with her cousin the other night.
"Yes, and according to my reference, they have a name: Black Hole." Patty stated as she placed a photo of swirling arrows with a tag on top.
"Oh, that's not ominous." Cecile commented, repeating what Patty stated.
"According to what I've discovered, they started off around the time after the particle accelerator exploded. Abducting and training metahumans, like my cousin Esperanza and potentially others." Allegra said to her.
"And Black Hole's reach goes far beyond theft and training metahumans, they are also involved in international arms deals." Patty confirmed on.
"And they kill anyone who they believe has been compromised, including our mystery man." Patty said, looking at the photo that she got from her contact. "Who's now crispier than the chicken strips Barry likes to eat."
"Okay, Patty, McCulloch has a dozen buildings all across Central City, National City, Starling City, and their biggest competitor is P.A.R.K.E.R. Industries." Cecile warned her as Patty suspects Joseph Carver being the head of it all. "If they don't like what you tell them, what's to stop them from sending over one of their assassins?"
"Well, I'm going to have a talk with Joseph before he goes to have his interview on the Daily Bugle later today." Party confirmed as she walked off to have her talk and Patty was left looking over the board when she got a message saying there's a sandstorm downtown.
Back downtown, the kids were currently in the middle of trying to control the living sand as their powers don't seem to be doing anything to stop him.
"How do we stop this thing?" Dawn asked as she sped and used her speed to keep the sand away from the Ferris wheel.
"I have no idea!" Tina cried as she landed on top of the Ferris wheel and shot several strands of webbing to a merry go round and activated it to stop it from spinning.
"Is there anyone with any good ideas?" Daniel asked.
Tommy landed on the side of a rollercoaster and starts to think of a plan, wondering what his dad said how he defeated Sandman before. Then he remembered he never truly was able to defeat him, only weaken him. But that's when he thought for a moment and realized they can stop him by using his dad's technique to slow him down and their own twists.
"Wait! I have an idea!" Tommy said as he swung and landed near one of the booths prizes. "Accelerate, Aquagirl, keep Sandman back!"
"Who?" Tula asked, never agreeing to being called that.
"What? I thought I'd be nice to give you a nickname." Tommy explained.
"I think it's a good one." Violet stated as she blasted a beam at the sand, causing it to turn to glass.
Violet continued to block off the sand from getting any more sand. Dawn was using her speed to do the same result. And Tula was using her powers to cause the sand to turn to mud.
Tina swung over to her brother who was taking the lava lamps off the shelves. "What's your plan?"
"We're gonna use one of dad's old tricks." Tommy stated and started to open the lamps. "Be a spider and grab me those water guns."
Back at the fight, Daniel was using himself as a shield for the people to get past. "Go! Go!" He cried to the group that were being held and they ran to the opening.
That's when Tommy and Tina swung in and landed alongside the others. They were carrying what looked to be some sort of backpack with a gun in hand.
"What is with the proton pack?" Dawn asked as she sped over to them.
"This is what's gonna help us catch that monster." Tina explained as she placed the pack on Tommy's back.
"Okay, but what is it?" Tula asked.
"It's a coagulation gun." Tommy answered as he took the gun. "This'll stop him in his tracks." He then shot off a blast of water that went through the sand and hits the center.
Tina then shot a blast of ice to hit the form of humanity that's coming through. That caused the form to become angered and flew off, leaving the sand behind and the human being taking off.
"Uh oh." The team all said, feeling something is going to start, and they caused it.
In National City, Kara was alone in the Watchtower as she needed to calm down before she tore apart the city in her anger to find her daughter. And believe me when I say she would do it.
This was the day she was afraid of ever since she learned she was pregnant. The day someone figured out who she was or discovered that Supergirl was a mother. Looking at her phone, she had a screenshot of her, Peter, and Anjelica when she had her fifth birthday.
Breaking down, she couldn't help but remember when Anjelica first learned about her powers.
Peter and Kara strolled on home; Peter dressed nicely with Kara wearing the dark blue sleepless dress she wore for their first Valentine's Day.
"This was a perfect night." Kara sighed in happiness as she took a seat on the couch and removed her high heels.
"Glad you enjoyed it." Peter said as he sat down beside her and gave her a passionate kiss and reached behind her dress.
"Hey, hey, hey, slow down there, Spider." Kara said as she giggled and pulled him off her. "Did you forget the fact we have a few babysitters in the household?"
"Well, if they can't take me showing my wife love and affection, then how have they survived as our friends this long?" Peter asked as he kissed her cheek.
Kara laughed when they suddenly heard someone scream. Jumping up fast, Kara and Peter raced through the house to where they were met with Nia almost breaking down Angie's door as she raced out.
"Call an exorcist!" Nia cried as she raced down the hall as Gwen and Morg'Ann exit the room, a little calmer. And by that, I mean extremely calmer than her.
"Uh...I think your Angel grew her wings." Gwen said jokingly and shocked Peter and Kara as they headed inside and were shocked when they saw that Angelica was currently clinging to the ceiling.
"Mom! Dad! Help!" Angelica cried out to her parents, no idea what's happening with her.
"Oh, my Rou." Kara whispered and watched as Angelica tried to pry her hands off the ceiling. "Hey, it's okay, honey."
Anjelica doesn't seem to listen and was focused on trying to get her hands free.
"Angie, it's gonna be okay." Peter said as he approached her slowly.
"Hang on, honey." Kara said as she and Peter knew it's time, and she began to use her powers to fly up to the ceiling and placed a hand on her daughter's upside down cheek. "It's gonna be okay."
"Mom?" Anjelica asked in shock. "You..."
"Yes, baby. I'm Supergirl." Kara finally tells her daughter.
Peter sees it's his turn and he leaped and flipped onto the ceiling as his suit forms around him. "And I'm Iron-Spider."
Angie watched her parents give their super identifies away and she began to finally release herself from the ceiling and was immediately caught by Kara as she lowered them down onto the bed where Peter joined them.
"We've got a lot to tell you, kiddo." Peter said as he ruffled Angie's hair and knew it was time she knew the truth about everything.
Kara then screamed and tossed her phone, which was immediately caught by Peter, who was on his way to come check on his wife.
"I can see that we are now taking our anger out on our electronics. Hope I'm not on that list of personal things to break." Peter stated, getting an annoyed look from Kara who looked ready to punch him. "Sorry." He said as he placed her phone down on the table. "You know that I make jokes in tense situations."
"How can you make jokes?" Kara asked, tearing up again. "Anjelica's been kidnapped, probably scared out of her mind, and we can't find her anywhere!" Peter grabbed a hold of her and pulled her into a hug. "We promised to never let anything bad happen to her."
"Yeah, well, I always knew that was a dumb promise." Peter muttered, getting Kara to look at him, very confused. "You can't stop anything bad from happening to her, because then nothing will ever happen to her." Kara looked confused, waiting for an explanation on exactly what he means. "She's just like me, a kid who learns from her mistakes. She just wants our approval."
"And now she's being held hostage." Kara stated.
Peter sighed and looked down and patted her knee. "She won't be for long." Kara looked confused on what that means as they have yet to find Anjelica's location. "Because we're gonna give them what they want. We're gonna give them the projector."
Tina quickly flew through the city on a web and made it to P.A.R.K.E.R. Industries before quickly changing out of her suit and racing to hopefully find her dad in his office. She used the entrance only known to her and her brother, considering it was built for those with Spider abilities, and leaped into the office where she heard someone was working.
"Dad?" Tina called out and ran over to see who it was. "I need to talk to you! You would not believe who's back!"
But when she reached the labs, she was shocked to see it wasn't her dad, but instead was Ollie working on a gauntlet that looked to be in its early stages as all the wiring was visible.
"Oh, hey." Ollie greeted Tina; he didn't even realize she was standing there until he got off focus from his gauntlet. "Didn't see you there. If you're looking for Mr. Parker, he's still out. Said he needed to check on a friend."
"Right." Tina sighed, not knowing if her dad is either at STAR Labs or at home. "So...what are you doing?"
"I am working on a classified project." Ollie informed her as he raised the gauntlet off the stand and saw it fit on his hand.
"The Steel Spider?" Tina asked, getting a shocked look from Ollie. "Dad talks about it all the time."
That only shocked Ollie more until he put the pieces together himself. "Oh, god, you're Tina!" He smacked himself, which ended badly considering he was still wearing the gauntlet. "OW!"
"You good?" Tina wondered.
"Yeah." Ollie promised as he rubbed his head from the pain. "You probably don't remember me, but we actually went to school together."
"Ollie, you were the only kid who took me seriously in the fifth grade. Of course I remember you." Tina assured him as she walked over and looked over the schematics for the S.S.
"Really? Wow, I'd imagine I was a one shot memory for you. Here one minute, gone the next." Ollie commented as he got ready to try the firing mechanism. "I'm glad that's not the-"
Before he could finish his comment, his repulser on the palm of the hand shot, only for him being the one to be fired backwards, and the hook ended up plopping to the floor.
"I didn't expect that." Ollie commented.
Tina rolled her eyes and immediately knew what his problem was. "Did you ever think of maybe putting that on the palm? That way, you cut back on chances of that happening again?"
Ollie crawled back off from the floor and looked at his palm, thinking of her suggestion and saw it could work. "Yeah, that's a possibility, but then the hook might not be able to work."
"Then how about instead of a grapple, we create a cohesive material that acts like spider silk?" Tina asked, feeling like she could help out with his suit.
"You'd really help me out with that?" Ollie asked.
"Sure. Why not?" Tina asked, feeling like there's not much she can do about Sandman until her friends/siblings find him and she does have time as she knew her father also had that interview he needed to prepare for.
In the not so distant future, a man with a glowing orange eye, and a metal left arm and a hundred scars look over his once home that was now destroyed. His wife and daughter were cascaded inside of ice and were frozen to death. To the point where they never stood a chance no matter how fast anyone got to them. Reaching down, he picked up his daughter's teddy bear, and he knew there was only one thing left.
Having enough of the death and destruction, and this being his final straw, he got up and walked over to an opening before showing off some watch that once activated showed off several moments of time. He went through all of Earth's history before coming across the particle accelerator explosion, the rise of P.A.R.K.E.R. Industries, and up to recent events when Sandman attacked.
Pushing down on the face of the watch, the man shrieked as he was pulled out through history and shot back in time.