Episode 4 , (Supers) , Harsh Bonding . ( Timeline ) , 44 years after Titan Academy Opened. 2 years after Spike came to this Dimension, Kid Loki De-aged himself, and Conner was born.


Spike was currently sitting in one of the lounges. With Peter, Gar, M'Gann, Jaime, Zatana, and Wally. When Conner wandered in.

Spike didn't understand why Super "man", refused to take this boy in. He was quiet and polite, and did his best to be a "good colt". How could any parent not love him.

"Hey Con," Peter smiled at the clone, "I was just telling Spike how I got my powers."

Conner rolled his eyes, "He got bit by a bug."

"A Radioactive / geneticly mutated SPIDER . Thank you very much," Peter insisted.

Spike just stared at him, clearly not believing him, most people don't. However, then the new kid said something, that indicated the face he was making, was for something else. "Aren't you supposed to be a girl?"

"A Girl!?" In that moment Peter's adolescent voice certainly pitched like a girl's.

"Spider-Mare, the biggest Marvel superhero and one of the first," Spike began listing. "Wears red and blue spandex with a spider logo. A legit genius who built her own web shooters."

Beast Boy started laughing uncontrollably. "Dude! You're totally a girl in his universe!"

M'Gann brought up the obvious, "I thought you just knew Golden age heroes?"

"Spider-Mare is a Golden age hero," Spike insisted.

Conner informed, "Alternative dimensions often differ, in both subtle and extreme ways. It is perfectly possible that Peter was born here decades after his introduction to Spike's universe."

"NERD!" Gar loudly declared, like he did whenever Conner said something scientific. Oddly Peter whacked him upside his head. Conner was learning this kind of behavior was normal among teenagers.

Unfortunately Spike had to break the merriment with a careless question. "What you doing here? Shouldn't you be protecting New York, and sneaking all the hero stuff around Aunt May?"

The room grew gravely quiet until Peter got the will to answer, "My aunt... died... a few months ago."

Spike's eyes grew wide.

"It was my fault," Peter confessed, "One of my Super villain's found out who I was, and came to my house... anyway I was living on the street for a couple weeks doing the hero thing, but Iron Man found me.

"He had been my mentor for the past year after finding out who I was, well how young I was I guess... I figured he was just being over protective when he warned me away from Meta Human fights... I always got in trouble with him for that... He said I wasn't ready for the collateral damage, and I didn't understand what he meant...

"Anyway he legally adopted me and dropped me off here at Super School-"

Conner absent-mindedly interrupted, "I thought we were called, Titan's Academy?"

M'Gann gently sighed, "Not now Conner."

Peter, on the other hand, lightly smiled before continuing with his story. "I live at Avengers Tower. but come here, after school, most days.

"An Avenger will sometimes come by, to help train me for an hour or so. It's pretty cool having all the Avengers as aunts and uncles. Although it's a bit embarrassing to have two dad's, they are great parents. Tony even got himself sober... for me..."

"So..." Spike gaped as he tried to find a sensitive way to ask his question, "You're not a hero anymore?"

Peter shrugged, "I got more safety nets now, but I'm still the friendly neighborhood Spider-man... I'm just not allowed to do Meta fights, without an Avenger helping me.

"With Vision's kids, Bruce taking responsibility over Hulkling, and those mutant kids Tony saved from that abusive 'Umbrella Academy'. We got our own proper 'lil Junior Avengers' group."

Jaime spoke up to distract the little boy from asking any more questions, "What about me? Am I a comic book?"

Spike blushed, "errr I don't know... What's your hero tag?"

Jaime puffed proudly. "Blue Scarab! Ward to the Blue Beetle and Booster Gold!"

"Oooooh," Spike snapped his not claws, "Yeah I heard of the Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett!"

Jaime groaned, "That was the first Blue Beetle. The Scarab on my back doesn't work for my mentor. He's more of a Batman type, using fancy tech to fight crime."

"Batman?" Spike tilted his head.

"Never mind," Jaime groaned, "Anyway, I was basicly a street urchin until this thing," pointing at a large Scarab on his back, "latched itself to me. Next thing I know I'm not only adopted by filthy rich superheroes, but they send me to this posh school, and enroll me here to. Unfortunately the Scarab kinda has a mind of it's own and I have a lot of trouble controlling it."

Wally rolled his eyes, "The thing tries to kill someone at least once a week,"

Spike looked over at the quiet girl, "What's your story?"

Zatana shrugged, "My dad is a stage magician with actual magic powers. He sent me to this school so I can learn to control my magic in a safe environment," she shrugged.

"She's the most normal out of all of us," Gar teased.

M'Gann teased back on Zatana's behalf, "She still kicks your butt during training."