"Colonel Fury... You're the brains of this operation? Have you been backing the Punisher all along? Did you send him after me?" Peter demanded at Fury who shook his head and then folded up his arms.
"I heard of him before he started his crusade and did want to recruit him but he turned me down wanting to wage his own one man war against the superhero community. I don't think that it has fully sunken into him yet that his approach was doomed for failure. Even as the best soldier alive, just a single man trying to kill all the super powered heroes and villains; he was never going to get far just trying to hunt and kill them." Fury then said as Castle went up to Peter staring him down as Peter gulped.
"You got lucky Spider-freak and I am not happy about this so you give Fury a reason to let me then I will put a bullet through your head after what your kind did to my family!" Castle snapped at Peter.
"I am sorry for your losses but I had nothing to do with what happened..." Peter tried to say but Castle glared at him.
"My wife and kids; they were the only thing keeping me together after the hell that was my service... You all took it from me!" Castle snapped thinking off the picnic he had with his family in Central Park; they ended up in the middle of a brawl between the Squadron Supreme and the Masters of Evil. Castle survived but wish that he didn't and as his family was killed. "I saw it all; the careless fire between the so called 'heroes' and 'villains'! The 'heroes' focused on looking good for the cameras and I was left to my grief; my families' death written off as collateral damage and the anger when that Stark mouthpiece came to my door with a check to shut me up; as if they all thought that they could put a price to my family's name!" Castle continued snapping.
Peter gulped as he could feel Castle's pain and thinking about that if he was there; he would definitely try and make sure any civilians were out of harm's way.
"Settle down big boy; we are all friends here now... Relatively speaking..." Fury said getting in between Castle and Peter and Castle reluctantly stood down but not before giving Peter a hard glare. "So Mr Parker... Did you have cold feet about going through with what was asked of you... What are you feeling now since at the first sign of suspicion; you got the Skrullian Skymaster sent after you... What happens when more of Stark's corporate 'heroes' decides that you must be taken care off? What happens when you have someone like Hyperion or Doctor Spectrum after you?" Fury then asked Peter as he gave a sigh.
"Not happy but... I will be helping out... But you can forget about it if you want to me kill someone..." Peter said as Castle went to confront Peter again but Fury put his hand up.
"Easy Castle... I think it's a fair arrangement; let our new inside man inside the Squadron Supreme keep his hands clean and sleep with a clean conscious..." Fury then told him as he then looked down at Sk'ym'x's remains. "Let's get this ready to send a message..." Fury then said.
Days later Peter as Spider-Man was at the Rocket Central with Hill as she was sternly showing him a Daily Bugle Communications news report about him rescuing people from a burning building the previous day; "This is the supposed 'amazing Spider-Man' who has been inducted into the Squadron Supreme after ending the Green Goblin? Sure he did what DBC had been clamouring Nighthawk to do since J. Jonah Jameson was actively in charge but this is how he treats the press?" Eddie Brock the reporter said as he rolled the clip of Brock shoving a microhome into Peter's face as he was exiting the building.
"Saving people from a burning building makes for good PR but treating the reporters like they are next to nothing... That can seriously damage your standing and reputation... You need to be trained hard for your public speaking especially with those who can be your best friends..." Hill then told Peter who glared at her.
"Brock is an idiot who forgot to mention that he shoved that into my face as I was preoccupied with checking on a little girl and her dog who didn't know that he family had gotten out. When it comes to comforting a scared child and some obnoxious tabloid charlatan then I know where my priorities will lie..." Peter snapped at Hill who glared harshly at him.
"You have a lot to learn about the big times kid..." Hill snapped at him and then there was an alert going off in the Rocket Central making Peter jump. "That particular alarm means that there's an emergency meeting for the Squadron..." Hill then told him and Peter was concerned thinking that this could be his first big thing with the Squadron.
Outside a surbaban house; there was Blur hiding by the window looking in and noticing a girl playing with a woman that was wearing a light blue 'SUPER MOM' short. "Why do you keep doing this to yourself Stanley..." Zarda's voice softly told him as she put a hand on his shoulder and made herself known to Blur or Stanley Stewart as he was known in his civilian life.
"Maddy was my wife and Tina is my daughter... They don't remember and now Maddy has a different husband and Tina calls someone else 'daddy'..." Stanley then said as he then went and punched the wall in agitation. "I'm the fastest man alive... Much faster than your old Golden Agency teammate Whizzer... I can get around the entire country in no problem... If I could run so fast that I could get past the barrier of time... Why shouldn't I think that I could fix the mistakes of my past..." Stanley yelled in outrage as Zarda shook her head.
Stanley had told the Squadron about how him stopping tragic moments in his life caused a domino effect and he returned to the present to find that in his home city; the runner that ran through the cosmic cloud that gave him his powers was instead a Whizzer fanboy called James Sanders who became a villainous speedster called the Speed Demon. He ended up having to make a deal with Mephisto who erased his marriage in return for setting the timeline right in undoing what he did.
"I am sorry Stanley but sometimes abusing our powers has consequences..." Zarda told hating having to use 'sometimes' as she knew plenty of superheroes abuse their powers a lot with Stark covering it up before they become a problem. They then found the alert in their communications device and teleported to the Rocket Central.
Deep in space at the distant planet of Xandar; Spectrum and Hyperion were fighting at the planet's capital against the planet's military and space force known as the Nova Corps. The human resembling humanoid species of the planet wore black bodysuits with gold armor on it with the symbol being light blue dots and on their heads they had golden helmets with red star symbols.
They were firing blasts at them both with Ledger creating multi coloured shields to block them with the Power Prism and Hyperion taking them all on; Ledger summoned constructs of tanks to fire upon them as Hyperion just easily swooped them away and used his Atomic Vision to blast at their vehicles and buildings. They easily stormed the headquarters of the Nova Corps and got to the main computer that housed the AI leader of Xandar and the Nova Corps; the Worldmind that presented itself with a hologram of a Nova Corps helmeted wearing humanoid.
Hyperion easily smashed at it causing the remaining Nova Corps soldiers to lose their powers as the 2nd in command reached for his helmet and Hyperion stomped on it. "So Rhomann Dey, is it? I guess with the Worldmind dead and your supposed Nova Force all gone then you're in charge... We accept your surrender..." Ledger smugly told him as Dey then got up and joined his wife and daughter.
"Your day of reckoning will come Spectrum... You will reap for all of the planets and civilisations that you have destroyed..." Dey snapped at Ledger as Hyperion noticed the look of loathing and hatred that he got from the daughter.
"Yeah yeah... Heard it all a million times already..." Ledger casually said as he and Hyperion flew out of the destroyed building and Hyperion looked at the civilians looking up at them with fear and loathing. "Thanks for coming with me Hyperion; man if only I could tell everyone back on Earth that we thwarted an alien invasion before it happened... Unhappy that I was readying planets for NASA when the US is ready to start colonies... I mean come on those species were already dying out when I got there and I only sped up the process... If you ask me, I considered it a mercy death..." Ledger then told Hyperion but saw how he looked down.
"I see the looks of the young here... Fear and loathing... What I have seen from civilians outside the US when we assist the US military..." Hyperion then said as Ledger sighed.
"You have got to stop letting the ungrateful masses get to you Hyperion... We are bringing good old fashioned American liberty to the rest of the world and I do the same here... Some people really don't know a good thing that gets handed to them on a silver platter and it's the same out here... I mean do you remember when the Squadron beheaded Thanos before he could complete his powerful rock collection? The rest of the galaxy doesn't seem to... I still have the brain that I kept from that living planet that was terrorising that solar system... Actually called himself Ego..." Ledger then said as they then got the alerts on the communications device. "Let's take the quick way back..." Ledger told him as he took out the blue coloured glowing stone that was used to banish the Hulk all those years. ago He then opened up a portal and left through it followed by Hyperion who took one last look behind him.
The Squadron were assembled at the table and at the head of the table was Stark looking grim and next to Richmond as Nighthawk. "You called this meeting Nighthawk... Is this going to waste our time?" Blue Eagle demanded as there were groans around the table.
"I assure you that I wouldn't have let our brooding crusader call this meeting if it wasn't serious... He shared it with me as well..." Stark said as Nighthawk showed a metal briefcase that had painted on it 'YOU'RE ALL NEXT!'. Peter gulped as he knew what it was.
"I found this dropped off at Stark Tower..." Richmond said as he opened it up and showed the remains of Sk'ym'x much to their disgust. "I tested it and the results are 100%... These are what remains of the Skrullian Skymaster." Richmond said as they all took this in with deep shock.
"Oh my..." Zarda muttered out in shock and sadness with Peter being shaken and not trying to draw attention to himself.
"Wow... He was the only one of those shapeshifting freaks that I could stand... It was thanks to him that I got this..." Ledger muttered pointing to the Power Prism on his hand.
"So what does it mean..." Nuke then asked.
"It means that someone was foolish enough to declare war on us..." fumed Blue Eagle.
Reused and redone a conversation from my older Spider and Charlatans story with Peter and Castle. Plus here we get more of a glimpse of how most of the main Squadron are like in this verse. Like Heroes Reborn; Blur here had a One More Day esque end to his marriage that was also reminiscent of Wally West post DC Rebirth and the Hell to Pay storyline (no relation to the animated Suicide Squad movie) which was One More Day years before only done so much thousand times better. Plus the original Whizzer from Marvel Comics was a member of the Golden Agency in this verse.
