crack-headed crossover comicfic

[holli]

Peter woke up the first time in an alley, his head pillowed on a foul-smelling paper bag of elderly fast food. He remembered the fight, with one of the weirder hugely destructive costumed crazies he'd met of late, and he remembered how the fight had spilled out of Doc Connor's lab, and into the one across the hall, where they'd been working on something extremely complicated-looking. And glowy. And then a bright flash, and then, alley, and the smell of fries long past their sell-by date. "Ugh. Freakin' supervillains."

And then he heard the sound of a woman, screaming.

Well, that he knew how to deal with. Peter scaled the wall, and got a good look at the skyline. A skyline. Not the New York skyline, which was significantly less threatening-looking. Also less gargoyle-intensive. "Oh crap, not again. If I'm in another freaking foreign country, I'm making MJ send me tickets home. No more stowing away for ol' Spidey." He was talking to himself. "Am I talking to myself? Well, I'd might as well talk to myself, because nobody here's gonna understand a word anyway--" The woman, he could hear, was begging for her life. In English. "Oh, thank goodness." He crossed the rooftop, then swung down into the street on the other side.

"Don't worry, ma'm, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is at the... rescue." Or would have been, if a boy in green tights hadn't swung past him, taking the thug out with a few ruthlessly efficient moves. "Well, phooey."

The kid-- well, that wasn't entirely fair; he looked Peter's age, if not older-- nodded to the woman, and handed over her purse. She took it, hesitantly, and ran.

"Not even a thank-you, huh?" said Peter. "It's always the same. I'm just glad she didn't throw a bottle at my head. No respect for the profession."

Green Tights just looked at him. "Have we... met?" he asked, the look on his face way too unreadable for someone his age. Peter didn’t think he could be that unreadable, and he had a lot less face to show in his costume.

"Well, no, but I'm sure you've seen me in the Bugle. Do you get the Bugle here? I don't actually know where this is, exactly; I was in New York when I lost consciousness and I'm pretty sure this isn't New York, but at least it's not Brazil oh man did you hear about how I ended up in Brazil unhh."

While Peter talked, the boy had removed a small canister from his belt. Peter hadn't paid much attention to it, until the boy held it to his face, pressed a button, and sprayed him with something that put him to sleep even more efficiently that the super-villain had.

Peter woke up the second time with an even more splitting headache, and no mask.

Comments

[gchick.livejournal.com]

Whee! What fun!

[stephl.livejournal.com]

Meep!!! Keep writing this, puh-LEEZE!!!!

Many, many years ago...

[galvan-joisner.livejournal.com]

...there were cross-overs between Marvel and DC. Among them, Spiderman and Superman, Spiderman and Wonder Woman, and several others. I imagine that Spidey and Bats at least heard of each other once or twice.

Re: Many, many years ago...

[holli.livejournal.com]

Oh, they probably have. But this is Ultimate continuity on the Marvel side, so Petey's 15 and, I suspect, has ADD. And as for the Bat side of it... well, when there's 60 years of continuity you kinda have to pick and choose. Besides, I've read a few of those crossovers and they're mostly both really silly and pre-Crisis, and so can be safely ignored. Remind me to show you the "Batman vs. The Hulk" I found online-- it is just completely ridiculous, bless its little heart.

ohmygodIamsogeeky

Re: Many, many years ago...

[mib24601.livejournal.com]

Many, many years ago, during the whole Clone Saga thingy, Dc and Marvel published a crossover called "DC vs. Marvel" (Very Innovative). It begins with Ben Reilly, the Spiderman clone (Who we thought at the time may be the real Spiderman) accidently transported to Gotham city where he met up with the Joker. The Joker remembered Spiderman but Ben had no clue where he was or who the Gotham characters were (as it was Peter, the real Spiderman who had been to Gotham in "Bathman and Spiderman" years before)

(A few fun things from DC vs Marvel. Bullseye finds himself in the Batcave, where he shoots a dart at Batman, who ducks and beats the crap out of Bullseye. Robin [Tim] is Transported to the Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters where he makes out with Jubilee until it comes time for their fight and Robin beats the crap out of her. Then they continue to make out. Also, Wolverine and Gambit steal the Batmobile. - Cracky goodness, as written by Peter David, whose Young Justice run beats the current Teen Titans run by far.)

OK, after the whole DC vs Marvel thing, there was a mini-series called "Access" about a superhero named...wait for it...Access, who could travel between the two universes. His job was to keep DC and Marvel from interacting again. Frankly, he sucks at his job. Venom goes to the DC universe and fights Superman. Access brings Spiderman (Peter again now that the clone saga is over) to DC where Spiderman and Superman team up to beat the living daylights out of Venom.

With that resolved, it seems liek everything will be fine. But then, Jubilee has Access bring her to DC so she can make out with Tim some more. And they do. Then he tells her that he has a girlfriend (I don't think Spoiler was introduced yet, I think it is his girlfriend from the early issues of Robin, from about 95 or 96). Upset, Jubilee takes it out on Robin, by making out with him some more. That'll show him.

Then Scorpion shows up. I don't know what happened after that as I couldn't find the rest of the series (the comic shop near me sucked and I honestly wasn't as big a comic nerd back then as I am now so I didn't go around to search fro the rest of it) but I'm pretty sure Robin and Jubilee kick Scorpions ass. And then they probably go back to making out.

All of these situations are "Post-Crisis" and although there haven't been any X-Men or Spiderman crossovers since then, they tried to keep those crossovers as far in continuity as they could. (Oh, I almost forgot, in DC vs Marvel, Ben Reilly [Spiderman] beats Superboy, as proof of Superboys suckiness back in the day.)

A few more things. Ultimate Spidey ain't got no ADD and I have Angel Season 3 now. It's GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. I hope your summer is pretty good.
- Stephen

[(Anonymous)]

Some Batman-y goodnes for you:
http://www.applegeeks.com/index.php?comic=110
Enjoy