Flashpoint part 3
"I have to admit, I didn't expect your call…or you bringing some friends" this reality's Cyborg said with a calculated expression on his face
Peter couldn't stop gaping at how huge Cyborg was in this world, the original was big but this gut looked like he may be part Transformer or something "Dude, you look like you morphed with the Terminator!"
"You do seem a bit broader and uh…taller" Barry said with a nod as he saw the massive cannon on his arm "Also nice cannon"
"Have we met?" Cyborg asked with confusion at the two men behind Batman
"Sort of…" Peter said before Barry could say anything "Look it's a long complicated story that'll make your processor crash trying to understand it, just know that me and speedy Gonzales here are heroes that are willing to help you take on a mermaid reject and the only woman on earth that can make Xena look like a Barbie playing dress up"
Cyborg stared at Peter for a long moment before he nodded and turned to Batman "Okay, what do you want?"
"You still need a strategist for your army? Someone to get everyone else to join the fight against Aquaman and Wonder Woman?" Thomas said with a stern voice
Peter still was having a hard time believing that Diana, his wife, the woman who's the very definition of a hero was an apparent war lord that's attempting world domination.
'Thawne better be able to fix whatever it is he's done or so help me I'll rip his mind apart piece by piece' Peter thought darkly
Cyborg nodded hesitantly at Batman "…Yes"
"I'm in" Thomas said
Cyborg was taken back by the man saying he wanted in after refusing earlier "What? You're-"
"But…" Thomas interrupted the cybernetic hero "…We build the army my way. With soldiers of my choosing, starting with the Flash and Spider-man here"
Cyborg looked at the two colorful heroes who both waved back, he was less than impressed but if Batman trusted them or at least thinks they can be of use than he wasn't gone push it.
"The next person on my list came out of the rocket that destroyed Metropolis" Thomas said as he crossed his arms and stared at Cyborg with an expectant look
Cyborg looked a bit confused at that "What are you talking about?"
"Classified information. You're the only person I know who can gain access to it" Thomas stated
"…Me?" Cyborg pointed to himself
"You don't even realize it, don't you?" Thomas said in slight disbelief
"Realize what?" Cyborg asked getting slightly annoyed
"What he means tin man is that you could be possibly the most powerful source of information on the planet. A physical and digital tank" Peter said before pointing his large cannon "And I do stress the word 'Tank'"
Peter saw that the man looked unsure and decided to keep on pushing, his world and his hard-won marriage and life to Diana was at stake after all "Victor…there isn't a brick wall or a firewall on earth that can keep you out"
"Spider-man, you're talking about hacking into the government's systems. I don't hack into government systems" Cyborg said with a pointed look
'Great, this Cyborg is a boy scout!' Peter thought slightly annoyed that the former Teen Titans member was a bit more respectful to 'the man' in this reality. The original would see this task as an awesome challenge
"This is the deal. This is the price for my signing up Cyborg" Thomas said in a tone that left nothing up for negotiating
Cyborg stared at the dark knight for a long time before voicing a question that's been bothering him since he received Batman's call "First I want to know, what the hell made you change your mind?"
"Does it matter?" Batman asked quietly
Cyborg sighed and looked away "I'll see what I can do"
Cyborg took several steps away from the trio and began to tear his way through the government's overrated security
"What are you doing?" Barry whispered towards Thomas with a look of annoyance
"Getting the information we need" Thomas said bluntly
"Your lying to him Doctor Wayne" Barry accused
"Heh, like father like son" Peter said with a chuckle and he swore he saw a ghost of a smile appear on Thomas's face
"We should tell him what we're really up to. He could help-" Barry started only for Peter to cut him off
"Barry, what are we supposed to tell him? That we're trying to find a guy that can travel through time by running really fast that's from the future who's gone back in time and screwed with history to hurt you and turn the world into something out of a nightmare?" Peter said with a shake of his head
"Well…" Barry said uncertain
"Look Barry I know that you've never been really into this whole lying or withholding information from others like Batman and I have been-" Peter said as he placed a hand on his friend's shoulder and nodded towards Cyborg's form "-But do you really think he's going to put off stopping a war between the Amazons and Atlantis and join our insane little crusade?"
"He's right Barry" Thomas said with a grunt "It's easier this way. It's faster this way. And after you fix whatever it is that Thawne did none of this will matter, anyway will it?"
"Did it ever matter to you!" Barry said angrily
Thomas remained quite while Peter watched the two with a guarded expression under his mask. He was about to say something when suddenly he found himself in what looked like Midtown High when he was seventeen years' old
"Hey Peter!" a girl's voice called out behind him
Peter looked back to see his fifteen-year-old sister Teresa approaching him with a big grin on her face "Guess what!"
"What?" Peter asked amused at his baby sister's joyful attitude
"I got the part in the school play" Teresa said happily as she hugged Peter in celebration
"You beat Mary Jane?" Peter asked in shock and happiness that she was able to pull off such an impossible feat
"I know I can't believe it either!" Teresa said as she looked at Peter with a massive grin before it dropped slightly "Do you think…mom and dad will make it?"
Peter frowned at that as he wasn't entirely sure. Their parents have lately been going on longer and longer 'business trips' and Peter could see that it was starting to affect Teresa
Pete than gave her a reassuring smile "Hey I'm sure they will, after all they made it the one you were in in middle school"
"Peter…" his sister said with a frown "They showed up for the last ten minutes and after my part was over…"
Peter winced at that before he cleared his throat "Okay look how about after school we head over to Eddie's and tell him the good news okay?"
Teresa sighed "Alright…"
Peter pulled his sister into a hug and rubbed her back "Hey they'll make it, I know they will"
Teresa's response was to tighten her hold on Peter
"Peter!" Barry's voice broke Peter out of the new memory and looked to see Thomas and Cyborg were both looking at him in concern, least Cyborg was
Peter than shook his head "Sorry was uh, daydreaming is all… what'd I miss?"
"Well I found what you're looking for, took a bit longer than I thought but it's there alright" Cyborg said as he placed a hand on his hip
"Oh good, where?" Peter asked
"New Metropolis" Thomas said as he took a step forward and nodded towards Cyborg "And he's coming with us"
…
"Even in this reality Metropolis still has some of the nicest sewers I've ever been in" Peter whispered to Barry who chuckled in response as the four of them made their way through the elaborate sewer system filled in knee deep water that looked less than sanitary
"Much better than the ones in Gotham or New York" Barry agreed with a fond smile
"You think those places are bad?" Peter asked with a snort as he stepped over a swimming rat "Try the sewers in Germany during Oktoberfest"
"Oh god" Barry said with a look of disgust on his face "I think I might be sick just thinking about it"
"Trust me, that smell does not come off easily" Peter said with a shudder as he remembered Diana scrubbing him down raw after escaping from Otto's secret lab that from some reason was all the way in Germany at the time. He also made the mistake of escaping at the end of the night when people who were unable to hold their drinks made their way to the nearest sink or toilet and let it out
"Which way?" Thomas asked Cyborg who brought up a digital map of the sewer system they were in
"Just follow me" Cyborg said as he led them through the tunnels "I've downloaded the schematics of 'Project Superman'. It's a multi-level facility two miles underground. Redesigned to study subject one and apparently two other rockets that landed on earth subsequently. Subject two and three"
'Two and three huh…' Peter thought 'Hopefully one of them isn't…him. That is the last thing we need now…'
"What kind of security are we talking?" Barry asked
"The kind we want to avoid" Cyborg said as they came to a stop in front of a metal slab that the cybernetic man easily pried open to reveal an elevator shaft.
"Heh sucks to be you guys" Peter joked as he leaped across the chasm and stuck to the elevator shaft and turned to see the others grab on to the cables
"Ahh" Thomas groaned out
"You alright?" Barry asked the older man in concern
Thomas nodded "Just old"
"Hey don't feel too bad old timer" Peter said as he kept pace with the descending group "Time catches up to all of us at some point. It's what you did with that time that matters"
"Your pretty insightful" Thomas commented
"Yeah…" Peter said with a small smile under his mask "And yet people always seemed surprised when I break out the heart to heart stuff"
"Can you blame them?" Barry said with a laugh "Even I sometimes underestimate you"
"How?" Peter asked with confusion "You can move at the speed of light and think just as fast when I can barely out run a sports car!"
"Power isn't everything Peter, it's how you use your powers is what defines you…if I remember correctly you said something like that once" Barry gave Peter a knowing look
"Would you believe me if I said I ripped that off from a fortune cookie I had earlier that day?" Peter said with a smirk
His question got a laugh out of everyone as they continued to descend into the darkness for what seemed like hours before they reached the bottom. Cyborg didn't waste any time in hacking the control panel next to the door while Peter, Barry and Thomas kept an eye out
"I'm cycling their motion sensors and security cameras, but the loop won't go unnoticed for long" Cyborg said before he frowned "dammit, I can't get this door open. It's on a separate system"
"Allow me" Peter said as he stepped forward and cracked his knuckles
"No disrespect Spider-man, but that door weighs almost ten tons and is almost a foot thick of solid ste-"
Cyborg wasn't able to finish as he and Thomas gaped at Peter ramming his hands through the door and tearing them open with a grunt
"Well it's a good thing I can lift three times that and punch through steel" Peter said jokingly as he placed the torn door to the side and made his way inside the facility followed by a smirking Flash
Cyborg looked towards Batman "Where'd you find these guys again?"
"I didn't, they found me" Thomas said as he gazed at the torn steel doors before following the two along with an impressed Cyborg
Cyborg took a glance the plans of the installation and gestured for everyone to follow him don the hall. Peter noticed that there didn't seem to be anyone home as they made their way through several barren corridors and voiced his observations to Cyborg
"There's a skeleton crew working this late at night. So, we shouldn't encounter anyone" Cyborg said before looking towards Batman "I don't know what changed your mind or why…but thank you. With you on board everyone else will be too. We may actually be able to save the world now"
Peter and Barry glanced at Thomas for a moment before they passed a viewing window into a examination room. What Peter saw in there caused him to stop and stare in horror at what it was
"Holy shit…"
Barry stopped to and gaped "Subject two…"
Thomas saw what they were staring at and frowned "That skeleton looks like a canine"
"Krypto…" Peter murmured as he saw the lifeless body of Superman's dog "On second thought, I don't want to know or see who's the third subject"
"Hopefully it's not Kara" Barry nodded before he saw Cyborg gesturing to them to hurry up
Peter took one last look at Krypto's remains before he ran after the others and soon came across a massive vault with Superman's crest on it and only two guards watching it. Thomas pulled out two red batarangs and held them up
"Etomidate, general anesthetic" Thomas said as he prepared to two the small projectiles "Doctor's choice"
"How long have you been waiting to say that?" Peter joked as he watched Thomas nail both guards in the neck who fell to the floor only to be gently caught by Flash who zoomed over to catch both men quietly
"All damn day..." Thomas smirked
Cyborg began to hack into the vault's doors while Peter, Barry and Thomas kept an eye out for anymore guards
"Oi Cyborg, when's the next shift due?" Peter looked over his shoulder towards the hallway that according to cyborg led to the barracks
"Not for another half hour" Cyborg revealed before the panel pinged, indicating he got through and the vault door began to open "We won't have long until they realie that the door's been opened"
"Hopefully we'll be out of here before then" Peter said as he made his way into the vault and stopped dead in his tracks and groaned "Oh come on, seriously?!"
Barry, Thomas and Cyborg followed him and stared in surprise, confusion and disbelief at the figure in the cell.
"This is one of the most powerful beings on the planet?" Thomas questioned as he gestured to the man that was supposed to be Superman…only he was thin as a twig and paler than snow and had a fearful expression on his face
Peter's eyes narrowed as he saw the red lights in his cell on and nodded towards them "Superman get's his power from a yellow sun, but those lamps there are red and red sun tends to render him powerless"
"And it looks like he's never seen the sun a day in his life" Barry said as they approached the cell while Superman stumbled back slightly
Peter held out his hands and had them pause while he approached the glass wall slowly with his hands up "We aren't here to hurt you Kal… we're your friends"
"Kal?" Thomas whispered to Barry
"It's his birth name, given to him by his biological parents" Barry responded back
Kal didn't look convinced and Peter frowned at the sorry state of the man who was considerd one of his best friends. He looked back at Cyborg "How long we got?"
"Twenty minutes" Cyborg said before he frowned "But I wouldn't count on it"
Peter nodded before he removed his mask and looked back at Kal "Can you understand me?"
Kal looked at him carefully before he nodded slowly
"I'm Peter…I know it doesn't look or seem like it, but I'm a friend. We're here to help you" Peter said
"…Peter friend?" Kal said in a small uncertain voice causing Peter to nod which seemed to put the Kryptonian at ease somewhat
"Look I'm gonna be up front with you and say it, the world needs you now. I know that's confusing and probably doesn't make a bit of sense but it's the truth. Right now, two armies about to tear this planet apart and you, me and those guys behind me are the only things keeping that from happening"
Kal frowned at this while he turned his attention to Barry who gave him a friendly smile and waved while Thomas simply stared at him. Cyborg gave the man a careful nod while monitoring the base and saw that the door opening has been noticed and they're unable to contact the guards
'They're coming' Victor thought
Peter took a deep breath and stood before Kal who he saw was even short than him and he was only 5'11.
"Look Kal I know you don't owe this world anything, especially with how they've been treating you and I don't blame you. But a lot of innocent people are going to die unless we do something…so I'm asking you not to help save these people-" Peter gestured to the facility before looking back at Kal -"I'm asking you to help me save them" Peter said as he could faintly here numerous men approaching
"Spider-man…" Victor said in warning as the sounds of approaching soldiers was getting louder
Kal looked at Peter for a long time before he finally nodded "Help…Peter...friend"
Peter gave the man a friendly smile "Thanks Kal, now stand back and cover your ears, Cyborg your up"
The cybernetic man aimed his cannon at the glass as Kal took cover and covered his ears like Peter told him to. Cyrog shot a subsonic blast at the cell and caused the glass to shatter and no sooner than it did that Peter made his way to Kal's side and helped him stand
"Come on little man, we're getting you out of here" Peter said as he and the rest saw several soldiers appear and raise their weapons at them
"FREEZE!" one of the men yelled
"Hmm how about no!" Peter said with a growl as he shot off his venom blasts at the men who were thrown back by the force of the blast and started to whiter in pain on the ground. Peter than looked to see Barry staring at him in surprise "...What?"
"Pretty harsh is all, you don't normally use those on regular people because of how damaging they are to them" Barry said as Cyborg began to shoot his sonic cannon at more approaching soldiers
"Yeah well I don't like bullies" Peter said as he patted Kal's back "Come on, we need to get him into the sun"
"Are you sure about this alien?" Thomas said in a cautious tone "What if he was kept imprisoned for a reason?"
"Look Thomas, I know you and Bruce feel that leaving friends behind because they might be dangerous and out of your control may be alright for you, but I'm not leaving him down here. Now you can either help me get him out of here or you can get the hell out of the way!" Peter growled as her used his body to shield Kal's from the firing soldiers, the irony was not lost on him
Peter than had Kal look him in the eye "Hey you're going to be alright. I'm not leaving here without you okay?"
Kal looked at him and nodded "…Okay"
Peter than looked at the approaching men and narrowed his eyes. He then looked towards Barry "Keep Kal safe, I'll catch up"
"What, where you going?" Barry said in surprise
"To avenge Krypto and work out some pent up rage I'm feeling right now" Peter said before he felt Kal grab his arm and look at him in fear
"Peter…friend... leave?" Kal asked fearfully
"No Kal…you're my friend, and because of that, I'm coming back" Peter said before he leaped at the shocked soldiers and began to attack them with a combination of his webs, that he started to notice he was running low on, and his venom blasts. The ones he couldn't hit with either of those how to make do with his fists
Cyborg was firing on more approaching guards before he felt Batman grab his shoulder
"We need to get out of here!" the dark knight yelled over the fighting
Cyborg nodded "Follow me"
He sent another blast out that cleared the way before he, Batman and the Flash aiding Superman made a beeline for the hall that led away from the vault. Peter saw them as he lifted a guy up and tossed him into his friends before he built up his venom blasts in each hand and smiled darkly at the nearly three dozen men now arriving and surrounding him
"Hey you guys want to know the most common feeling people get around me is?"
His spider sense flared as he spread his hands back with them now glowing a red like color and bits of red bioelectricity sparking from them
"They feel shocked!"
Peter than slammed his hands together that created a small shockwave followed by a sort of bio EMP blast that shocked the soldiers around him and caused them to seize up in pain as their bodies were electrified by thousands of volts of electricity
Peter winced at the stinging feeling he was getting from his hands as he quickly rushed after the others was more men had just arrived
'If this is the skeleton crew, I really don't want to meet the regulars' Peter thought as he weaved his way through a storm of bullets and energy blasts
Up ahead he saw them come to stop at what looked like some kind of doorway before Cyborg blasted it open and jumped into what looked like the sewer system. Peter saw Kal look behind them and towards him when he suddenly started to panic
"Peter!" Kal yelled as Peter felt his spider-sense flare and he jumped and turned midair just as a large energy bolt shot under him and impacted into the ground and shot a web bullet at the guard who tried to fry him
Peter landed in a roll and sprinted through the hole made by Cyborg and ducked just as said cybernetic man turned around a fired another sonic blast at the guards. Peter winced as his ears started to ring from being so close to the sonic blast and shook his head to clear his vision up a little
'Okay ow…now I know how Clark feels every time Luthor blasted him in the face with a sonic device' Peter thought as he forced himself to his feet and followed the group as he heard more guards entering the sewers behind them
"Up ahead is the exit" Cyborg yelled as a bullet impacted above his head an into the concrete wall
Peter made his way next to Kal and pulled him out of the way of a stray bullet "Whoa there Kal, don't go taking bullets just yet!"
They final reached the end of the sewer line and Cyborg kicked the led off and they quickly piled out into the early morning air, the sun was just starting to come over the horizon and cast the sky and clouds in an orange and yellow glow
Kal stooped moving and stared at the sun in the distance with a sort of faraway expression on his face that Peter has seen on the man of steel in the past.
"Beautiful…" Kal whispered quietly as he stared at the rising sun with longing
Peter smiled as he placed a hand on Kal's shoulder "That Kal is the sun…it's what gives you your powers and me skin cancer if I'm not careful"
Kal looked at Peter in surprise before he slowly turned his gaze back and Peter stared to see that Kal was getting taller all of a sudden
'Wait what?' Peter thought before he looked down to see that Kal was starting to float upwards 'Hmm sun's energy is starting to really affect him, must have never been exposed to a yellow sun in years if ever'
"My god, he's flying" Cyborg said in shock as he saw the man start to levitate several feet in the air
"Really?" Barry looked to Cyborg in slight surprise "That's incredible, man you'd have a heart attack if you ever met Mogo…"
"I know I did when I first saw him" Peter smirked at the memory of meeting the Green Lantern's largest member who was an actual living planet!
It was then that the soldiers had finally caught up and trained their weapons on the heroes
"General Lane wants subject zero one alive, the others- Shoot to kill!" the apparent leader of the squad said
Kal turned suddenly with his eyes a glowing red and before anyone could react, beams of red energy shot from his eyes and destroyed the gun that the lead soldier was holding and burning his arm a bit which earned a surprised yelp of pain from the man
Thomas stared at the shocked troops before turning his gaze to Kal "What are you waiting for? Get them!"
Kal looked at the dark clad man in surprise before he looked towards Peter with an unsure expression. Peter gazed at him with a calm expression already having an idea on what the young man must be thinking before he nodded at the floating alien
"Go…"
Kal than shot off into the sky towards the sun leaving a group of shocked soldiers and three equally shocked heroes.
"There goes your savior" Thomas muttered in anger while giving Peter a pointed glare
Peter replied with a shrug "I wouldn't worry about him at the moment, since we now have a bunch of discount G.I. Joe's aiming their weapons at us"
The soldiers had quickly gotten over their states of disbelief and shock and were now aiming their weapons at the group of heroes. Cyborg suddenly fired off his cannon at the man and forced them to scatter while Peter and Barry leaped into action and started to quickly disarm and neutralize the armed men along with Thomas who was having a slightly more difficult time
Fighting thugs was one thing for a man of his age, fighting trained soldiers and lots of them was another thing entirely. Thankfully the men were unable to open fire on the heroes considering they run the risk of hitting their own men and were forced to resort to hand to hand combat
Against a guy with the proportionate strength of a spider and someone who can move at the speed of light, they may as well have thrown in the towel and call it a day
Thomas had grabbed the barrel of one man's gun and forced it into the air and have it fire off before he headbutted the man away and placed another in a head lock while he kicked another away
"These men are armed with weapons designed to take out that alien who left us high and dry!" Thomas yelled in outrage
"Relax Batsy" Peter said with an eyeroll as he back handed another man away from him and stooped another's rifle from hitting him in the head before kneeing him in the gut "Superman will be back…trust me"
"Whoever you think this 'Superman' is Spider-man, he's not. He flew away like a frightened child!" Thomas said in anger
Peter sighed "Really starting to see where Bruce got his impatience from…"
Cyborg knocked a few men away with his cannon before firing another sonic blast "I just need a few more seconds to break into their security systems and I can shut down their suits"
"No need Cyborg" Barry said as he disarmed several men "I can disarm them quicker than th-ARRRRGGGHHH!"
Barry was interrupted by a soldier blasting him with his energy wife and sending the scarlet speedster tumbling to the ground
Peter's eyes widened at that and was just about to punch the man's teeth out when suddenly pink gas appeared and started to surround the armed security force and knock them out
"Gas? Yo Bat's whatcha hitting them with?" Peter asked as he let go of a man who he was about to render unconscious that more painful and slight more satisfying way
"It's not me…" Thomas said with curiosity
Suddenly a wave of mud and water attacked the men who still weren't out yet and knocked to their feet, taking the four men by surprise
"A tidal wave?" Cyborg said with a raised brow "Hmm…"
Suddenly a woman's voice rang out that to Peter thought belonged in a cartoon as a block of dirt rammed into the men and knocked the last of them out "Smells like chalk dust, I know. Sorry! It always happens when I'm transmuting… it's so embarrassing"
"Is that…Metamorpho?" Barry asked as he scratched his head in confusion
Suddenly a woman appeared before the men and Peter had to hand it to Barry, he was somewhat right in thinking it was Metamorpho…If he was a woman that looked like she was made of wood, dirt, clay and had purple hair. She was also wearing some kind of white and pink swim suit with a small bag on her hip
She wasn't bad looking Peter will admit but his eyes have been and likely will be for a certain Amazon princess who he hopes won't try to gut him alive when they meet up
"My name's Emily Sung, but my top-secret code name is Element Woman!" the odd but happy woman said in a loud and happy tone before quietly continuing "Anyone want a juice box? I brought extra!"
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