Well, back with another chapter. Sorry for the late upload, but quarantine was a doozy. To make up for it, DOUBLE (Or if y'all are lucky, TRIPLE) chapter uploads. Each in a different story so this one (obviously), my borderlands story "Living on the edge.", and either my MHA story, cuz a lot of y'all been making noise on that one, a comeback of my Friday the 13th story, or a possible new story *cough cough* fallout *cough*. Who knows, but what I do know is that you came to read this story, so with that, enjoy.
Sombra's Hideout
"Annnnnnd done. Ish." Wrench put back the cover piece to Cyborg's chest. "It'll keep your signal decrypted from any frequency you don't recognize, but only for a few hours. My technological expertise doesn't extend to augmentions, especially some like you, who's fully dependent on it for survival."
Cyborg sighed. He hated being reminded his livelihood always depended on the circuits that were in his body. Still, he had to give it to Wrench. He was able to give Cyborg an ability even he couldn't give himself, and all he did was Jury-rig his circuitry.
"Appreciate it either way. Think it'll be able to pick up my friends' signal?"
"As long as they didn't change it, it should be good." Wrench said. He saw Peter talking with Sombra about something, probably about the new friends that somehow ended up from some place called Jump City. Even though they said it was in California, all the contacts Wrench, Sombra, and Peter had there came up with nothing. Peter walked over to Cyborg and Wrench with Sombra, as Raven and Rogue grouped up all together.
"It seems there's only the one possibility that explains how you three are here." Sombra started.
"We're from an alternate dimension." Raven simply said.
"So, do you guys have dinosaurs with lasers that are in cahoots with the dolphins?" Wrench asked. "Cause if so...it was your fault for trusting the dolphins."
Raven looked at Wrench, with obvious confusion. "No. And what does it matter if it was true for our current situation?" Peter stepped in before Wrench got thrown through a window, or turned into mush.
"Ignore him, he has a weird way of making friends." Wrench rolled his eyes, although no one could see it through the mask.
"So Widow really is back on the hit list for another secret organization?"
"From what Seth told me, or gloated at me, she's collateral damage to them. They want Gérard. Whether he's working with them or his life is in actual danger, I don't know."
Sombra pondered for a second. "Well, it wouldn't make sense for Gérard to work with them. I checked his files long ago. S.I.N was one of the organizations he was spearheading for, along with Talon."
"Yeah well, threaten someone's life or throw enough money at them and their sure to start being a yes man to everything you want them to." Peter looked towards Cyborg and Raven. "We should start looking for your friends. Sooner we regroup, the sooner we can figure out how to deal with S.I.N, and how to possibly get you all home." Cyborg nodded.
"Sounds solid to me." Cyborg said. Peter turned over to Wrench and Sombra.
"You two let me know about any more energy outbursts while we're out. Someone is in that fighting tournament and they might have some answers we need."
"Roger that Captain." Wrench said. Sombra nodded her head as they both went back to their computers. Rogue spoke up.
"I'm coming with ya Peter. Lord knows what kind of trouble you'll get yourself into."
Peter rubbed his neck nervously. He knew Rogue only involved herself in things for two reasons, if she was asked to help with something, or if she was extremely worried. Remembering what happened with Talon and the multiple times they both were in deep shit before Stryker's interferences, he wanted her as far from this as possible.
"I don't know Rogue. I'm just helping them find their friends, I don't think it's gonna need all of us to find them."
"Bullshit." Rogue simply said. "You and I both know how Talon ended up, broadway was nearly destroyed and you knocking on deaths door. Who knows what'll happen with this S.I.N organization."
"Can we go already?" Raven asked impatiently at the exit. Peter used that as an excuse to slip away from the current one sided conversation he was having. "Look we'll talk later, promise."
Rogue sighed deeply as she looked at the exit for a few more seconds. She didn't realize she was daydreaming until she felt a hand on her shoulder. Turning to he left, she saw it was Wrench's. "You know him better than I do Rogue. You should've been used to knowing he acts like this."
"I know...but it always seems like he's hiding something. Like he has an ulterior motive of some sort."
"Now you talking crazy Rogue." Wrench said. "Pete doesn't keep secrets. At least not good ones. He would tell us if something was wrong."
Monterrey, Mexico.
After a few hours of driving and tracking down the other Titans' signals, Peter, Raven, and Cyborg ended up in the city of Monterrey. Peter didn't know for sure, but had a feeling this was one of the stops the train was supposed to take before he got separated from Juri. He knew going after her was dangerous and probably suicidal as she seemed ready to go off at any minute, but he needed to know for sure if she could be trusted after his run in with Seth.
"Let's try and keep a low profile for right now. Don't need S.I.N to pick up on us after what happened in the desert." Peter added.
Cyborg started speaking up again. "Look, no offense to that plan, but the way me, Raven, you and the rest of the Titans are dressed, discretion kinda left the window."
"Fine. Let's try not to draw anymore attention to ourselves than what we already have. Sound good?" Just as Peter said that, there was a loud sound that sounded like it was caused by some heavy metal meeting some heavy force. "Guess that plan went out the window immediately." Peter said as he started running towards the noise. Cyborg and Raven followed close behind him as they turned a corner and witnessed a man with boxing attire fighting a women with a spider logo on her back, similar to Peter's. It was definitely Juri, but what they saw was crazier. Juri had blocked the guy's punch with her foot, and somehow he was wincing in pain from it.
"C'mon Balrog, don't tell me all that time in shadloo left you weaker..." Juri taunted.
"Shut up bitch!" Balrog yelled. He winded up his free hand to hit Juri, but she used his force to have him miss her and start running towards Peter. He tripped Balrog and quickly got a few feet away in case of a retaliatory attack was coming up. Juri laughed and turned her attention to Peter.
"Did you miss me that much Spidey?" Juri asked teasingly. "To the point you need your stupidly dressed friends to help find me?"
"Trust me, I would love nothing more than to let you get lost in the deserts of Mexico, but for the time being I can't. And by the way, you are not that important to where I gotta call my superhero friends to help find you."
"Throwing the word friend around real loosely, aren't you?" Raven replied. Peter was about to retort to her comment when Balrog got back up. Peter got back into his fighting stance and focused in on Balrog.
He psyched himself up by throwing a few fake jabs in the air. "Don't care how strong you all think you are. If y'all with the one eyed freak here, I'm putting you down." Peter saw Cyborg and Raven getting ready to make this a quick fight, but he waved them down.
"I don't think he'll be that much trouble, much less any to begin with." Hearing the insult got Balrog riled up like Peter planned to. He knew trying to fight a boxer head on, especially one this easily angered, was damn near suicidal. So he was going to use every fighter's most useful and easily manipulated move to his advantage.
His momentum.
Balrog had thrown a flurry of punches, but Peter was able to dodge all of them each at the last second. He then used Balrog's final punch to counter it by shooting a web in his face, following it up with a roundhouse kick.
"Ooooo, how's that glass jaw you got there?" Peter taunted. He figured that it would've been enough for most people he fought, except Balrog wasn't most people. His face was still covered in webs, yet that didn't stop him from getting back up and swinging blindly. Peter dodged a punch, but Balrog wasn't stopping and was heading straight towards the other three people he was with. Balrog probably would've hit them if Raven didn't put up a black energy shield at the last second and had him bounce off the sudden solid object he hit. Peter took this opportunity to try and take down Balrog by shooting a web line to pull Balrog towards him and followed up by running towards him and punching him in the face, followed by pulling him with another web line and another punch, and then finishing it all off with a spinning kick to the face. After a minute of waiting to see if Balrog was still conscious, it was concluded Spider-Man was the winner.
A slow clap emerged from behind Raven and Cyborg, which meant Juri was the peanut gallery at the moment. "Well now...if only you've fought me like then when we first met."
"Yeah well, you decided to, oh I don't know, try and KILL me when we were on the yacht."
"And yet you're still alive, so quit bitching about it already." Juri said. She then turned her attention to the two new people in Peter's company. "So, who are your lackeys in tow?"
"We're not his lackeys." Cyborg added. "We're just temporary partners for the time being."
"Mhmm. Exactly why you followed him to Mexico instead of doing whatever it was you were supposed to be doing."
"We just got torn from our world into yours. If it was up to me, I would've still been in my room meditating." Raven added.
"Besides all that, you got some explaining to do Juri."
Juri turned her attention to Peter. "Oh really? Like what?"
"Ah you know, the usual. What's your shoe size? Favorite food? Why did you sell me out to Seth as soon as we left Japan? The normal things." Juri chuckled as she cupped her hands together.
"And you seriously believe him? Let me guess, he also said that he was one step ahead of you and has a short leash on me regardless of how uncontrollable I am."
"Well he didn't have to tell me the second part. Kinda of figured that part out a while ago." Peter said. "But it also doesn't help your case that you destroyed my phone to make sure I had no contact with anyone, or that your eye is about as traceable as a tax return." There was a sudden beeping noise emitting very lowly from cyborg. He looked at a monitor on his arm and saw the reason for it.
"You two might wanna step back. Tin man here might explode on us if we're not careful." Juri said, trying to rile up Cyborg. In her mind if this guy needed to almost cover his whole body in technology, he was either a very good fighter who needed a serious upgrade, or was weak without technology.
"As funny as a jab at my condition would usually be, I don't exactly find it funny. And either way it's not a bomb, I just got a position on the other Titans." Peter and Raven nodded their heads, while Juri just scoffed.
"Whatever...c'mon Spidey. We got another location for the tournament in Africa." Juri took a few steps forward, then noticed the lack of mismatching footsteps behind her. She turned around and saw that Peter hadn't moved one inch. "Is there a problem?"
Peter nodded his head very calmly. "Multiple actually. These guys got separated from the rest of their group, I got my people back at home saying they have some intruders..."
"And the part where I give two shits about any of this is..."
"The part where I don't know if you can be trusted. I already know the rap sheet you got on you, but the fact you got three different government agencies chasing you, and working for a organization that was associated with terrorists...it's hard to say how long before I'm used as the human shield." Both Cyborg and Raven were impressed with how Peter was standing his ground, but could tell the look on Juri's face was telling them that they might have to get involved after all.
"Oh boo hoo, they lost their friends, your friends are in trouble." Juri mocked. "Seriously, do you need a bandage for that bleeding heart of yours, or you want me to open the wound further."
Peter chuckled and turned around. "You can beat up all the people in this tournament you want. You want me to trust you, you send me some information I can use against S.I.N. Until then, I'm not risking other people's lives and crawling in the mud with you." He then looked at Cyborg. "Lead the way." The three of them started walking to the rest of the Titans while Juri yelled after them.
"Oh you totally are!"
5 hours later, Sombra's base.
"Uhh Wrench, what are you doing?" Sombra asked, looking at the mess that was Wrench's working table.
Wrench turned his attention to Sombra. "I don't know Sombra, what does it look like I'm doing?" He moved his hands back to what he was working on and burned himself working on it. "Owww, oww, that hurt owww."
Sombra laughed at him. "If I had to guess, I would say you're creating your own version of a hacking device."
"And you would be correct my heavily wired up friend. Peter's broke, so thanks to your old new phone you never use, he now has another one to inevitably break." A door opened, and in came a large group of costumed people, Peter being among one of them.
"And speak of the devil himself." Sombra said. "You do realize the point of my secretive hideout is to be a secret, right?"
"Yes Sombra, because I have every intention to ransack your rented out motel base." Peter said sarcastically. Wrench finished his work on the phone, then turned his attention to Peter.
"So, who are all the new people? Excluding cloak girl and the man of steel?"
"Hey, I like the attempt at a nickname, but I'm pretty sure there's some infringement along with that." Cyborg said. Wrench's mask lit up with question marks.
"Infringement?"
Peter didn't have a clue what was going on, so he decided to answer Wrench's originally question. "Look never mind that, these are the people I told you are from another dimension. The rest of the Titans, Robin, Starfire, and Beast Boy."
Starfire was the first to speak, and very excited to do so. "Pleasure to meet the both of you! I am the excited to meet two new friends."
"Umm Pete, why is this girl orange and speaking weird?" Wrench asked.
"She's uhh, how do I say this without a lot of confusion?"
"She's an alien from our dimension. And she talks like that...actually I don't know why she keeps talking like that." Raven added. Wrench nodded his head as he focused on Beast Boy and Robin.
"So I'm guessing greeney over here has powers while cape boy has none."
"Your analogy of these people is overwhelming Wrench. It's not exactly the most important thing right now."
"You know I don't trust people at face value. I'll take your word their decent, but I'm still remaining vigilant, less one of them gets any funny ideas."
"I feel so threatened by the guy wearing spikes on his vest." Raven said with her usual monotone voice. Peter tried not to let a slight laugh leave his mouth, while Wrench's mask lit up with some exclamation points.
"Touché. Also catch." Peter webbed the object Wrench threw and saw it was a new phone, along with all his old hacking programs. "Managed to fix up another phone for you to hack on. Don't let this one get crushed again."
Peter smiled and put the phone in his jacket pocket. "No promises."
"Peter, err Spider-Man." Robin said.
"You all can call me Peter. Unless we're unlucky and run into one of the many people that want to kill me, then I kinda don't want my real name out there, ya know?"
"Righhht." Robin could tell he was trying to be sort of jokey to ease off some tension going through both groups right now, but needed confirmation on a few things. "I don't mean to sound impatient or desperate, but is there someone who's able to get us back to our dimension?"
"I'm gonna be honest, I really don't know. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely some smart people in this dimension that I know, but dimensional travel is something that carries a lot of risk most of them can't afford. I can try to see if they can build some sort of gateway but no promises."
"Aww man. The Tower was our home. Where are we supposed to stay now? We're basically homeless." Beast boy brought up.
"Wellll…"
"We're not homeless?"
"It's...a grey area. I uh, kinda live in a mansion full of mutants. It's a long story, but it's a safe haven for mutants mainly, but a safe spot for anyone who supports mutants. If I explain your guy's situation, then you'll have somewhere to stay until we figure out what's what."
"Sounds like a plan." Robin said. "When can we go to this place?"
"As soon as I figure out how we're all getting back to New York without attracting public attention." Peter said Wrench raised his hand in a sort of jokingly manner, but started to speak.
"This is more directed to Peter, but uhh Rogue kinda went to go get the X-Jet we took from the mansion to get over here."
"You guys stole an X-Jet?"
"Stealing is a very serious accusation Parker. I like to think of it as borrowing indefinitely."
"So, it's the same context as stealing? Or am I missing something?" Starfire asked.
"Ohh, this is gonna be a long exercise in patience with the Titans and Wrench, isn't it?"
And with that marks the end of this chapter. Once again, sorry for the long wait, but quarantine kinda messed up a lot of things for me. My final year of highschool being one of them. Yes, your eyes don't deceive you, I'm in my last year of highschool. There's probably been a lot more fanfic writers younger than me but I don't have the time to check. Well...technically I do, but that's besides the point. Once again, hope everyone is safe, stay inside, don't go outside unless it's necessary. Once again, double upload is happening (or triple if another chapter of my Friday the 13th story makes a comeback, or if I release this fallout story I'm working on) on this story, as well as my Borderlands story "Living on the edge" probably either the same day later into the day, or the following day after. That being said, hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and until next time.
