Chapter 2 part one

I did want to update this story sooner but shortly after I released the first chapter I got swamped with homework and studying for exams which left me drained for a while and then my third semester started earlier than I thought it would plus I wanted to update my other story as well.

Just to clear things up Peter and the rest of Avengers will only use lethal force on individuals that have no hope for redemption and will also not savagely beat their foes leaving them with broken bones and other serious injuries like some other individuals *cough*Batman*cough* that will often cause more harm than good.

At the end of the chapter I will explain why Peter was willing to kill Darkseid and why he is darker than he usually is and it will be a good reason in my opinion.

Thanks for all the positive reviews because that certainly helped me write this story faster right up until I got swamped with homework and started to get less sleep from having so much homework which delayed this chapter.

Disclaimer-I do not own Marvel or DC

In a unknown location...

The only sounds heard were the sound of someone's frantic footsteps with the sound of dripping blood along with pained breathing as someone tried to outrun some unseen foe.

The next sounds heard were a group of people calmly walking after the injured person with them going in the same direction as the injured person.

'I just need to delay them long enough so that the rest of the Avengers can get the help we need to stop these monsters.' Thought Spider-Man as he stopped walking as he found himself at a dead end with no way out other than the way he came from which was quickly thrown out the window when the group following him stopped at the other end of the hallway he was in.

Spider-Man mustered up whatever energy he had remaining and turned to face his enemies and stood his ground not caring that most of his bones were either fractured or outright broken in some cases with some heavy blood loss that was staining his costume a dark crimson with all the blood he was losing. Unfortunately he could not make out what his enemies really looked like because his vision was fading in and out and the building they were in had most of its lights broken or flickering on and off casting nearly everything in shadows. The building had been hit hard by an explosion nearly leveling it were not for the increased sturdy design of the building that could take much worse blows.

(Listen to Already Over by Red)

"Look at the insect trying to protect his worthless comrades. If you weren't so pathetic I would find it inspiring but sadly just like any other insect you need to be stomped on to get rid of such an annoying pest." Said a masculine voice with clear hatred aimed at Peter. The man then spat on his face. Peter did nothing but simply keep staring the man straight in the eye which was difficult to do given that one of his eyes was nearly swollen shut and was covered with blood from a nasty cut on his forehead that was still heavily bleeding.

"I think we should just kill this insect now Superman so we don't have to worry about him messing up our plans." Suggested a woman to Superman who was previously talking.

"You know you guys sure are making a big fuss about me when they are so many others that can and will fight you and beat you. Besides I can still probably beat most of you with my hand tied behind my back." Joked Spider-Man before he punched Superman in the face and sent him flying into a nearby wall shocking the people with Superman that he was still this strong despite suffering such grievous injuries. This caused the woman who was previously talking to Superman to grab Spider-Man and brutally punch him in the face before throwing him into a nearby wall with Spider-Man then going through said wall.

"You're going to have to try harder than that to kill me. Believe me stronger people than you have tried to kill me and they failed each time. So let's finish this little dance so I can go back home and spend the night watching Star Wars with my friends." Joked Peter after he picked himself out of the rubble but not before coughing up a rather large amount of blood.

"You are one persistent insect and I cannot let you stop us." Said a third person before he grabbed a nearby metal pipe and then broke it so that there was a razor sharp edge to it before throwing it at Peter who was unable to dodge in time due to his injuries and that Hawkgirl had managed to grab him so he could not fully dodge the sharpened pipe. However he managed to move enough that the pipe hit the side of his stomach but still hit pretty deep.

Peter yanked out the pipe out of his stomach and then stabbed said pipe into Hawkgirl who was holding him causing her to let go of him and allow Peter to web two of the attackers to a wall before dodging a fist that would have taken his head clean off had he not dodged it in time.

"Why won't you just die!" Yelled Superman who just tried to kill Peter before he started to send a bunch of rapid punches at him.

"You guys just do not know how to give up." Joked Peter as he dodged each punch with his natural agility. However Peter was unable to dodge someone throwing a spear at him with said spear going through the middle of his back just below his heart with the spear pinning him on his back to the floor. Now that Peter was unable to dodge Superman attacks, he sat on Peter's stomach after breaking enough of the spear that it would not get in his way as he started to punch Peter repeatedly with each blow sending shockwaves through the floor and building. Peter felt the unimaginable pain of each blow for a minute before he simply felt nothing at all.

'I guess I can finally see you again after all these years Uncle Ben' Thought Peter as he felt his body becoming icy cold as all the warmth left his body. However before Peter finally succumbed to his injuries he saw a picture of a beautiful raven haired with a gorgeous dress as she laughed at some joke he made on one of their dates with him hearing her angelic laugh as the life left his body with a happy smile on his face knowing that he helped save the love of his life.

Superman who had been treating Spider-Man as a punching bag finally stopped when he felt a slender hand firmly grasp his shoulder and say "Stop Superman he is already dead, what would be the point of continuing this when we have more urgent matters to attend to like getting out of this building before it collapses on us." and true to the woman's word the building was shaking quite violently and looked as though it could collapse at any second.

"Thank you Wonder Woman, now let us get out of here before we are trapped here as well." Ordered Superman before his group left the building right before it collapsed.

"Now no one can stop the Justice-"

(End song)

In present time...

"AHHH." Yelled Peter as he woke up from his nightmare with his body covered in sweat and his heart racing a mile a minute. Thankfully a thunderstorm had covered his scream so as not to wake up the others with the exception of the people with the more sensitive hearing among the Avengers or those that were not sleeping. Noticing that he was now in their base that given to them by Penguin when they arrived in Gotham as thanks for saving his life and saving the world. As Peter got out of bed and made his way downstairs, he remembered how things changed when he and the Avengers entered Gotham for the first time two days ago with them also revealing their identities to each other as well...

Two days ago on the outskirts of Gotham with the Avengers...

"I just realized I forgot to say this but where did you find this Limo?" Questioned Agent Venom who was playing Poker with some of the other Avengers to pass the time on their trip to Gotham.

"I actually found it lying around in some parking garage and after removing the bomb attached to the bottom of the car, I took it but not before leaving an I.O.U. in the spot the limo was in." Explained Deadpool from behind the driving wheel. You may ask why he was driving what was probably an expensive car, well the answer was simple in that they did not trust him to do anything else and that Mystique was in the passenger seat ready to shoot him should he do anything stupid.

What none of the Avengers knew was that the limo belonged to none other than Lex Luthor whose life they had inadvertently saved when Deadpool stole the limo and that Luthor wanted to actually thank whoever stole his limo because they discovered the bomb and that it was meant to go off when he entered the limo.

Back with the Avengers again. After losing his tenth straight hand to Spider-Man, Sabertooth threw his cards into the air "I don't know how are you winning but when I..." Growled Sabertooth before he perked his head up and appeared to be listening to something.

"What is it Sabertooth?" Questioned Loki with him getting a shush from Sabertooth.

"Deadpool stop the car now! I hear gunfire nearby and I can also smell a lot of blood with most of it pretty recent." Said Sabertooth before he got out of the car once it stopped with the rest of the Avengers coming out of the limo as well. They could all hear the sound of gunfire now that they were outside the limo now.

"Okay Avengers stay together and let's find out what is going on. Sabertooth you take the lead since you can lead us there the fastest. Remember try not to use lethal force on these guys unless needed." Ordered Spider-Man before Sabertooth ran into the woods with the rest of the team following him.

After a few minutes of running the team found a rather odd sight. They were looking at a group of thugs wearing what looked like scarecrow masks with them shooting at a large rock that a rather short and fat man was taking cover behind. That was not the odd thing though, no the odd thing was that the short man was occasionally peeking around the corner of the rock and shooting what appeared to be bullets from his umbrella.

"You should have ran when you had the chance Penguin because now Scarecrow is going to rule Gotham far better than you ever could." Shouted one of the masked thugs while reloading his gun before aiming his gun at the rock again. However before he could shoot his gun, he felt a hand wrap itself around mouth before being dragged into the woods unconscious. After 2 more of the thugs disappeared in a similar manner the remaining grew fearful and was wondering who was attacking them before they briefly cried out in fear and was silenced almost as soon as they cried out in fear.

Penguin had still not moved from his cover incase it was set up to lower his guard and then kill him afterwards.

"You can come out now you know. All the thugs are taken care of." Stated a person whose voice Penguin had never heard before. So being a curious man he peeked around the rock he was hiding behind and saw that the group of men chasing him were webbed together with them hanging from a tree as they moved slightly with the breeze as another group of people stood in various places around the clearing.

"Who are you guys because I sure as hell don't recognize you." Said Penguin while safely observing them from behind his shelter.

"We are relatively new to here and you can call us the Avengers. Also we did just save your life." Said Loki with his ever charming smile present.

"Well that may be true but how do I know you are not here to finish the job those men failed to do and kill me when my guard is down?" Questioned Penguin with him raising some rather good points.

"If we really wanted to kill you, do you think we would have stopped the guys shooting at you and then kill them after they killed you or kill you after we defeated them. I mean we did announce our presence after all which kind of ruins the element of surprise." Explained Loki while also raising some good points on his end.

"Do I have your word that you will not attack me?" Questioned Penguin after realizing that if these people wanted to kill him they would have done so already.

"You have our word, my good man." Promised Loki. With that said Penguin left the cover of the rock and now he got a better look at the people who rescued him. What he saw was one of the most unlikely teams he had ever seen and that was saying something considering who lived in Gotham.

"You have got to be one of the oddest teams I have ever seen." Said Penguin with him meaning every word of it.

"Well that just hurt." Joked Deadpool.

"Do you need help getting back to town?" Questioned Spider-Man who decided to ignore Deadpool with most of the others doing the same.

"As it so happens I do need to go to Gotham and I assume you want me to pay for it as well?" Questioned Penguin with a slight sneer on his face at the payment thing.

"We were already going to Gotham and we don't want money for helping others because no real hero ever does that." Said Spider-Man after he put his hand over Deadpool's mouth before he could say how much he wanted to get paid for this.

"Well that is surprising but I will believe it when it happens. So you are going to lead to me to your car and get to Gotham or are we going to just sit here?" Said Penguin with a little bit of irritation in his voice over everything that happened the last few days. Seeing no point in sticking around the group left with them leaving the men hanging from the tree branch but would later call the cops to tell them where to find them.

Once they got back in the limo, the rest of the trip was rather tense and quiet with the silence being broken occasionally with them asking Penguin about something and just ignoring them or Penguin giving directions to Deadpool on where to go.

After a while they arrived at the back of a place called the Iceberg Lounge with the Penguin thanking them for their help and saying that if they ever needed anything to just ask him and he would do it so long as it was within reason.

The next day the Avengers did call in that favor wondering if Penguin could possibly help them find a base of operations in Gotham. To their surprise he did and that the place they got looked rundown on the outside but on the inside the place had nearly anything they would need while in Gotham. The place had 10 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms. There was a modern kitchen with all the modern amenities they might need. There was a large living room with a big smart TV that was hooked up to a DVD player, a DVD case that was currently empty, and a surround sound system. They even had a highly customized computer that was state of the art. There was a dojo equipped with a fully modern gym for them to exercise and train in. There was also an equipped garage that was currently empty but Penguin did leave that he would get them two cars of their choice through perfectly legal means for them to use later.

The reason why this place was so nice was that it was one of many safe houses for Penguin should anything go wrong. The building was an office building in the 1920's-1940's until the business failed when the owner died. After sitting neglected for a while it was chosen to be rebuilt as an apartment complex as part of a project to renovate Gotham and make better, cheaper housing for everyone. However the project was scrapped before it could ever be finished. So for another period of time it was left unfinished until the Penguin discovered it and thought that it would make a good safe house given its appearance and location. So over the past few years Penguin had his men discreetly finish remodeling the building so as not to catch the attention of Batman.

While the Avengers were wondering why Penguin did all this for them, they decided to ask a later time because they liked the place and it suited their needs. Also it was better than where they stayed the night before which was an old rundown motel that had a layer of grime everywhere with some rather suspicious stains in the rooms that looked a lot like old blood. The reason why the Penguin was so generous with giving them their base was that he discovered who they were and what they did after he returned to the Iceberg Lounge and did some research into who they were. Needless to say Penguin decided to do whatever he could to help them after all they did save the Earth and killed a major threat to it, along with them saving his life even though he was a known gang leader. It probably also helped that a certain bald billionaire discovered where the Avengers were and that they needed a base, so when he discovered that the Penguin was going to give a base of operations, he gave Penguin a call and promised to cover the cost that Penguin spent on the base.

Later that day...

After spending the rest of the day putting the finishing touches on their new base and getting some food for them to eat. Needless to say Spider-Man and the rest of the Avengers were tired if not physically then mentally.

"Um... how are we going to make this whole team thing work when most of us don't even know each other's real names? I mean if we did not live together then it would it not be such a big deal but since we are it would make things weird to say the least." Questioned Agent Venom with most of the other Avengers realizing it was a good point.

"That is a good point but can we really trust each other with our real names?" Questioned Spider-Man knowing from personal experience what could happen if too many people found out his secret identity.

"Well Me and Amora were thinking of something that might help in that regard." Suggested Loki with him gaining the attention of everyone in the room with that sentence. "We were thinking of ways for us to communicate and assemble when we are each doing our own thing making it rather difficult at times to get together to fight crime. What we were thinking of is a rune that will look like a tattoo that will go on our left shoulder. The tattoo would serve a few purposes. The first is that it would allow us to teleport to whoever sends out the call for the team to assemble. The second is that only members of the Avengers will be able to see them thus making it rather difficult to infiltrate and sabotage us from someone who is a shape shifter or something along those lines. Each tattoo will be different and cannot be replicated. The tattoo will also serve the purpose of altering our features should anyone see us unmasked or something like that without our permission." Explained Loki with many of them thinking that it was a good idea and would make it easier for them to assemble when needed.

"How do we know if this will work for sure?" Asked Spider-Man not wanting this to backfire on them.

"I have already tested it on myself earlier today when I went shopping for furniture and other things with Deadpool and Agent Venom. We did not need to use an illusion spell once and no one recognized us despite being in our costumes in broad daylight." Loki explained with many of them wondering if he was telling the truth.

"In case any of you were wondering he is telling the truth because I agreed to be the test subject for the tattoo thing and walked around the whole day for the most part without my mask on and not once did someone freak out at my appearance. Plus the tattoo made me look like a hunk which helped with the ladies if you know what I mean." Suggested Deadpool with the last part causing many of them to facepalm or groan at what he said with Fiona being the exception because she did not know what that meant with her amnesia.

"I will tell you later what that means when not surrounded by so many people." Said Mystique to Fiona after seeing her confused face before Deadpool could say something perverted.

"So does everyone think this is good idea?" Questioned Loki.

"I will go first to make sure it works however I want this done in private." Said Spider-Man with walking him towards his room with Loki following after him.

In Spider-Man's room...

"I want to my tattoo to work just like everyone else's but I want the image modifier to work on the other Avengers as well. Most of them are former enemies or people who I have a bad history with which is why I only want you, Agent Venom, and Fiona to know what I really look like until I know for sure that I can trust everyone else." Explained Spider-Man with him getting a nod of understanding from Loki who had heard stories over the years about Spider-Man and how those that were close to him usually got hurt by his enemies because they knew who he really was.

"Are you sure about this?" Questioned Loki while understanding Spider-Man's decision he knew that this could potentially come back to bite him. "However I feel like I should tell you about a close friend of mine back in our reality. Her name is Verity Willis and she could see through any kind of lie including illusions. Despite this unique ability of hers, we became best friends and perhaps something more had we not been flung into this reality. My point is that sometimes not having to lie to someone about who you are and what you can do is something that can help you feel free and know who you can really trust. I want you to think for a moment about trust and just what it would mean to everyone else here if you revealed who you really were." Said Loki who managed to take Spider-Man by surprise with what he said.

Sitting down for a moment Peter decided to think over what Loki said and what his old and new memories told him about trusting others with his secret identity.

While Peter was thinking over what Loki said, Peter did not notice Loki leaning against the door and put a silencing spell on it so that the people on the other side of the door could no longer hear their conversation.

Outside Peter's room a few minutes ago...

"Deadpool are you sure we should be listening to what Peter and Loki are saying?" Whispered Fiona as her and the rest of the Avengers were huddled near the door with Deadpool having a cup next to his ear that was on the door allowing him to better listen to what Spider-Man and Loki were saying while randomly holding up signs that said what Spider-Man and Loki were saying similar to a certain Coyote.

(AN: Just think of Wile E. Coyote from Looney Tunes when he used the signs to talk and you can picture what Deadpool is doing.)

"Hey Deadpool where did you get the signs and how do they already have written on them what Spider-Man and Loki are supposedly saying?" Questioned Carnage only for no one to listen him as they were too busy paying attention to the signs and thinking about what they knew about Spider-Man. "Fine ignore the former psychotic mass murder, see if that helps you." Grumbled Carnage to himself after he realized that everyone ignored his question.

"You say something Carnage?" Questioned Sabertooth after he realized that Carnage might have said something.

"No I didn't say anything." Replied Carnage with a somewhat sarcastic tone. Sabertooth just shrugged his shoulders and resumed to what he was previously doing.

"Dammit Loki just cast a silencing spell so I can't hear anything from the room anymore." Said Deadpool after he threw the rest of his signs at a nearby wall where they stuck in a formation similar to a star.

"How did you do that?" Questioned Fiona curious as to how that was possible.

"I honestly have no idea, though it is weird how they stuck that way." Replied Deadpool with the last part mostly whispered to himself. So focused in his thoughts that he failed to notice the door to Spider-Man's room opening until he turned around and came face to face with what looked to be an angry Spider-Man.

"Care to tell to me why you were listening to my conversation with Loki, Deadpool?" Questioned Spider-Man. Looking around Deadpool noticed that everyone aside from Loki had disappeared from the hallway.

"Umm... I was looking for the bathroom?" Replied Deadpool with a reply that would fool no one.

"Do you even believe that will work for a second?" Questioned Spider-Man with one of his lenses raised up with slight disbelief.

"No, not really." Said Deadpool with his shoulders slumped in defeat for coming up with such a lame excuse for why he was spying on Spider-Man.

"Just don't do it again." Said Spider-Man before walking back to the living room where the rest of the Avengers ran to after they left Deadpool behind.

Deadpool gave the Avengers the stink eye though it was hard to tell thanks to his mask and that most of them decided to ignore it.

Seeing that that everyone was in the living room and were at the same spot he last saw them in, he decided to say what his decision about his identity was.

"Alright everyone I have somewhat begrudgingly decided to reveal my secret identity to you guys, though I want your word that you will never reveal it to anyone or use it against me should you ever turn evil again." Ordered Spider-Man with a rarely heard serious voice. Seeing that everyone nodded yes, even Carnage, Spider-Man lifted his hands up and took off his mask showing a relatively young man with brown eyes and hair with an unassuming face. "My real name is Peter Parker." Said the now revealed Peter Parker.

Looking around Peter saw a various reactions from everyone. Agent Venom had his jaw hanging wide open in surprise along with Carnage. Mystique, Enchantress, Sabertooth, and Fiona had looks of mild confusion on their faces. While Deadpool and Loki seemed happy that he revealed his identity.

"I cannot believe that you are Spider-Man. I mean I used to bully you in high school and everything and the whole time you were Spider-Man." Said Agent Venom with a slightly awe filled voice.

"Wait Flash! You're Agent Venom." Exclaimed Peter with surprise in his voice. After Peter said that Agent Venom had the symbiote reveal his head showing a rather attractive man with dark blond hair and blue eyes. "That is quite surprising actually, though I think I might have known that from somewhere." Said Peter with the last part whispered to himself.

"We will definitely have to catch up later and swap stories." Flash suggested with a happy voice.

"So how do you two know each other?" Questioned Sabertooth curious as to why they were so friendly with each other.

"We used to go to school together. I was a nerd in every way from the glasses to my book smarts and lack of physical strength. Flash on the other hand was one of the most of the popular guys in school and star of the Football team, he also would bully me on a daily basis because I think he was jealous of me and that I was an easy victim for him. Though we did later make amends and become friends with each other." Explained Peter with Flash looking ashamed at the bullying part.

"Well aside from that anyone else want to reveal who they are?" Questioned Peter while looking around the room.

"Pick me, pick me." Exclaimed Deadpool while jumping up and down in his seat with his hand raised in the air waving around excitedly.

"Alright Deadpool say what you want." Said Peter while trying to resist pinching the edge of his nose from the possible oncoming headache that comes whenever he meets Deadpool.

"First can I just say that you are more handsome than what I imagined. Second my name is Wade Wilson and I love Chimichangas more than anything else for the most part." Deadpool explained after taking off his mask so everyone could see what he looked like. Peter was literally pinching his nose in slight frustration after hearing what Deadpool said.

"Alright does everyone else want to reveal who they really are? Also Fiona don't worry you don't have to do this part since you have amnesia." Asked Peter with him getting nods from everyone and a thankful smile from Fiona.

"Alright my name is Victor Creed but call me Sabertooth when in the field or in costume." Victor explained with him just getting a nod from everyone.

"I prefer being called Mystique but if you must know my real name is Raven Darkholme." Said the now named Raven with her getting a smile of encouragement from Sabertooth when it looked like she might not reveal her name.

"Most of you probably know me as Carnagebut my real name is Cletus Kasady and like most of you I am going to do my best to be a hero." Revealed Cletus with his symbiote receding from his head to show his real face to everyone.

"As I am sure most of you already know my name is Loki Laufeyson but please call me Loki." Said Loki with very few showing a reaction to his reveal which was not that surprising to be honest because all of them knew his first name.

"Alright I suppose I am next and probably last. Most of you probably know me as the Enchantress but if you must know my name is Amora and no I do not have a last name or anything like that." Said Amora with the last part being said to avoid potential questions about her name.

"Alright now that is out of the way, why don't we get started on the tattoo's, so whose first? Also Deadpool yours does not count because it was just an experimental one so I will have to give you a permanent one now along with everyone else." Loki asked with the last part being said so that Deadpool would get the final version of the tattoo and not the prototype one.

One by one everyone stepped forward and got the tattoo on their left shoulder. The process was relatively simple actually. Loki would cast a spell that no one aside from Amora could understand and would touch there left shoulder where they would feel a light burning sensation before it quickly went away.

Peter had a smaller version of the spider symbol that was on his classic costume.

Cletus had a rusty butcher knife with what appeared to be rust stains on it until you looked closely and saw that it was dried blood.

Flash got a football with the Venom symbiotes colors instead and the string shaped like the spider symbol on the symbiotes chest.

Fiona had a bird soaring into the sky. When she asked why it was a bird Loki replied with "Because out of all of us you are the most free with a blank slate that is cleaner than most of ours."

Sabertooth simply had the head of a sabertooth tiger with blood dripping from its fangs for his tattoo.

Mystiques was a chameleon that seemed to almost constantly change its colors but it was subtle enough that you would not notice it at first glance.

Amora had a heart shaped tattoo with a green vein like pattern on it.

Loki's tattoo was a fox with a snake coiled around the fox with the mouth of the snake near the fox's ear that almost appeared to be whispering into the fox's ear.

Deadpool's was the symbol he wears on his belt which looked similar to his mask but smaller and more round.

"Okay now that is out of the way, why don't we discuss how we are going to make money to finance everything and yes it has to be done legally. Also we need to find info about the heroes and villains of this world as well." Said Peter with the money part getting some minor groans from a few people. "However because we all had a pretty tiring last few days and have not had much time to rest since we first got here, so how about we get some rest for the night and focus on this tomorrow." Suggested Peter with him getting some grateful smiles in turn.

Soon after Peter said that everyone but two people went to bed. Those two people were Loki and Amora who each had suspicious grins on their faces.

"Loki are you thinking the same thing I am thinking?" Asked Amora.

"I believe so my dear Amora." Responded Loki.

"Then shall we head out before anyone realizes what we are doing. Also we have to return before anyone wakes up so we have about 5-6 hours to do this, so are you ready?" Asked Loki with him offering Amora his hand while saying the last part.

"Oh I was born ready." Responded Amora who wrapped herself around Loki's arm before they disappeared in a green fog.

On a rooftop outside the Avengers current base...

Covered with a camouflaged cloak a figure was listening to the Avengers whole conversation without any of them knowing thanks to a listening device it had aimed at their base. Once the figure saw that everyone was going to bed, it put the listening device away and then slowly got up and left the rooftop knowing what it had to do. Its current objective was to find any information about the heroes and villains of this world and it had learned about the best place to do it.

Back with Peter current time...

'That was a wicked dream or at least I think it was. But why did it feel so real?' Thought Peter while going downstairs to get something to drink to hopefully calm his nerves. Peter was surprised to see Fiona downstairs wearing a pair of pajamas while watching a rerun of the Looney Tunes.

"Hey Fiona what are you doing up this late?" Asked Peter as he took a seat next to Fiona on the couch after grabbing a glass of milk to drink to hopefully help calm his nerves.

"I couldn't sleep that well. I keep getting dreams of people I don't know and I cannot make out what they are saying and what they really look like but what I do know is that my hands are covered in blood and it scares me as to what could cause that." Explained Fiona with a subdued voice.

"You know you are not alone in this right?" Asked Peter. Getting a nod from Fiona he continued talking "Everyone on the Avengers has had blood on their hands and often have their own way of dealing with it. I lost people very important to me because I was unwilling to kill my villains and was often rendered helpless as I saw them kill those that I loved and not being able to do one thing to stop them." Peter explained in a voice that was filled with equal amounts of anger and sorrow.

"How did you handle it?" Fiona asked while looking at Peter with a curious look on her face.

"To be fully honest I did not handle it the best at times and even stopped being Spider-Man at times because I blamed myself so badly for their death. But eventually I would remember what my Uncle Ben said to me and see someone in trouble and then suit up to rescue them. What my Uncle said to me are words I live by every day. He told me that with great power comes great responsibility. Those were some of the last words he said to me. What happened afterwards is a story for another time." Finished Peter with a small smile and a look of regret on his face. Peter did not know this but some of the Avengers had heard what he said to Fiona and he got some sympathy from them for what he revealed. Peter did not know this but a lot of heroes and villains held some form of respect for him because he came from nowhere and was often called a menace by the public and many thought him to be a joke of a hero. However many people learned over the years learned just how strong Spider-Man was, if not in raw power then in his heart and never give up attitude.

"Why are you watching the Looney Tunes anyway Fiona?" Asked Peter when he noticed that Fiona was looking at him with some look in her eyes he could not place until he noticed her face changed into one of surprise.

"Is that what this is called? I merely thought it was a late night news program. I found out that it is either rabbit or duck hunting season with the two of the reporters unable to decide which one it is." Said Fiona with a voice that said she believed that.

'Must resist urge to laugh... urge to resist laughing failing by the second.' Thought Peter before he broke out into laughter."HAHAHAHAHA." Laughed Peter before he fell on the ground laughing with some of the other Avengers laughing as well though they managed to hide it better so as not to alert them that they were not alone. Seeing the confused and slightly angry look on Fiona's face Peter did the smart thing and stopped laughing. Ignoring what sounded like other people laughing though it was very quiet, he decided to explain what was funny.

"Fiona the reason why that was funny is that the Looney Tunes is an old animated TV series from years ago that was a comedy and is not supposed to taken seriously." Peter explained with his usual goofy grin on his face. Peter did notice that Fiona had a look of relief on her face when he explained what was funny.

"Thank you Peter for saying that." Said Fiona with a thankful smile for him explaining that.

"It was no problem. Would you mind if I saw what else was on?" Questioned Peter who grabbed the remote after Fiona said it would be okay.

Flipping through channels Peter was not surprised that very little was actually on. This was quickly changed when he changed to a news channel that said something that changed his mood almost instantly.

"Breaking News Gotham it appears that the Joker has been spotted near Gotham Hospital. I have just been alerted that there is footage of him and his known accomplice Harley Quinn appearing to have a fight. I should warn parents that children should not watch the following footage." Said a rather attractive Blonde woman.

The channel then brought up a video that was of decent quality and appeared to shot from a camera phone showing a woman dressed up similar to a clown with a skin tight outfit that showed off her curves and a man that looked like a deranged clown with a purple suit and green hair.

"Harley what I have told you about leaving without telling me about it?" Asked the Joker with rage clear in his voice.

"You told me that I am supposed to tell if I am leaving the base and that if I ever did leave without your say so then you will have to punish me." Whimpered Harley in what sounded like a very sad and scared voice.

"Well my dear Harley your lesson is going to start oh so soon but not here, no it will be where no one can stop me." Said the Joker before dragging Harley off-screen into an alley where the sound of a car doors opening and closing was heard before a car is seen racing out of the alley.

"Folks this footage was given to us by a concerned citizen whose identity we have promised not to reveal for safety reasons. One can only imagine the horrors that the Joker has planned for Harley Quinn to give her a supposed lesson. This is Vicki Vale from Gotham News." Said the now named Vicki Vale before the news went to commercials.

At the end of the video Peter had a look of cool anger on his face with him unknowingly bringing out his stingers a little before retracting them when he saw them out.

"Fiona please wake up the others." Said Peter in a calm voice that hid his anger rather well.

"Alright." Said Fiona who did not like how Peter was sounding and to be honest it was kind of scary.

Fiona quickly left to wake everyone up which caused some screams of surprise when she literally opened there doors and woke them up by roughly shaking them or pulling them out of bed and dropping them on the unforgiving floor.

While Fiona was waking everyone up, Peter left to his room to suit up. After suiting up Peter returned to the living room to find that Mystique, Agent Venom, and Deadpool were yawning while everyone else looked to be quite alert and wide awake with Fiona now wearing her armor again along with everyone else suited up as well.

"Where are Loki and Amora?" Questioned Peter when he saw them missing.

"I don't know they weren't in their rooms when I went to wake them up." Said Fiona.

However before Peter could reply he heard something from behind him and turned around to discover that Amora and Loki had just teleported into the living room with about 3 duffel bags filled with money.

"Please tell me you did not just steal that money?" Questioned Peter hoping that it was not true.

"We won it in a perfectly legal way, so no we did not steal it." Said Loki which caused Peter to relax somewhat. "We won it from playing at Casinos in the area and a few others in nearby towns. What you see here is what we got from all those places combined minus the cost of the duffel bags. All told we got about 1-2 millions dollars here" Said Loki with him getting some whistles when he revealed how much money they made.

"As long as the money goes to helping us then I have no problem with it so long as it was actually legal and that you tell me when you are going to do something like this again." Said Peter.

"I have no problem with that." Said Loki with Amora agreeing as well.

"Alright now that is out of the way I can get back to business. Earlier this morning I saw footage of the Joker dragging Harley Quinn away from a Hospital in Gotham. It appears that he is going to teach Harley a lesson and given what we know about the Joker it will not be pleasant for Harley at all. So our second mission as a team is to rescue Harley and make sure that the Joker is captured and stays behind bars." Explained Peter getting looks of understanding and even anger in most of the Avengers faces or eyes once they understood what he was implying about the lesson Joker was going to give Harley.

"I think this monster needs to be put down or taught the meaning of pain personally." Said Deadpool in such a serious voice that it shocked those around him since they did not know he could be serious like that.

"Alright I want to split into teams of three to cover more ground quickly. Once you find the Joker report to the others where you are so we can make sure he does not escape. I am going with Deadpool and Fiona. Sabertooth, Loki, and Carnage are team 2. Mystique, Amora, and Agent Venom are team 3. Any questions because if not then we are moving out. Also this storm does not look like it will let up anytime soon, so be careful out there." Ordered Peter in a voice that was surprisingly firm and gained some respect from the others for acting so quickly and decisively.

Seeing that everyone understood what they needed to do they split up and went in three separate directions to find the Joker and Harley Quinn before anything too bad happened.

At an unknown location in Gotham...

Harley could barely believe why her precious puddin was doing this to her. All she wanted to do was visit the hospital where Ivy was staying and see how she was doing. It was supposed to be a simple in and out. Harley had been devasted to hear that Ivy had ended up in a coma after helping to fight Darkseid's forces and most of her plants at the same time dying causing her to enter a coma or at least that is what she heard on the news from an interview with Supergirl and Batgirl for why Ivy was not locked up in Arkham yet like most people suspected she would be and was in a hospital being treated for her coma.

Yet somehow the Joker knew what she was planning on doing and managed to grab her before she could even see Ivy. He then proceeded to take her back to their current base and lock her up in his 'fun room' while deciding what would work the best to teach her a lesson. Her outfit also managed to get cut up a little in the process.

The fun room was a homemade padded cell covered with drawings showing the Joker committing various crimes like murder, blowing things up, and even showing him brutally killing a Robin with a crowbar. This room was starting to make Harley realize that the Joker cared for no one but Batman, however she hoped that she could convince him one last time to care about her instead. These were her thoughts when the door to the room opened and in walked the Joker.

"Harley my dear, your lesson will start in just a minute but first I want to know why you were so insistent on seeing Poison Ivy despite my explicit orders not to see her?" Questioned the Joker with barely contained rage and glee which was itself a pretty scary combination considering it was the Joker.

"Like I said earlier I just wanted to make sure Ivy was okay because she is my only friend that I have in this world." Whimpered Harley with a pleading look in her eyes not to get her lesson. Which is why she was unprepared for the Joker to raise his hand and slap her hard enough to send her flying to the ground with some blood flowing coming out of her mouth from the force of the blow.

"Wrong, wrong, wrong, and even more wrong. You have no friends in this world and Ivy was just using you can't you see that? I am the only person in this world that you will need and you better remember that from now on. Understand?" Ordered the Joker while holding Harley up by the front of her costume. When Harley didn't respond to his question he shook Harley rather roughly before asking "Do you understand?" Almost yelled out the Joker.

"Yes I understand Mr. J." replied Harley in a voice filled with sadness.

"Good my dear, now it is time for your lesson." Said the Joker before almost dragging Harley into wide open area with a large glass chamber in the center that appeared to be airtight with only a door open, that was currently being held open by a nameless henchman. There was also random henchmen patrolling around the whole area armed with assault rifles and various other weaponry. "You see my dear Harley I was going to use this on Batman but since he is not here and I want to do a test run, you are going to test it out for me." said the Joker before throwing Harley into the glass cage with the thug closing the door shut after she was thrown in.

"Activate the chamber." Ordered the Joker before a henchman flipped a switch and the sound of gas hissing could be heard in the chamber. "Now Harley you may be wondering what that gas is and if it poisonous. The answer to that is yes and no. You see I designed the gas off of the same chemical that turned me into the man you see before you. My plan is to turn Batman and everyone else into people just like me with me as there king. Unfortunately most subjects exposed to this gas so far have died during the transformation process so good luck." Explained the Joker with a sick and twisted grin but before he could attempt to give his signature laugh he was rudely interrupted by the sound of glass shattering and the sound of gunfire with some of his henchmen falling over dead. He also saw a red figure briefly illuminated by lightning flying towards him with his fist aimed at his face.

3 minutes ago outside the warehouse that Joker is in with Spider-Man and his team...

"That warehouse over there has some bizarre thermal signatures according to my mask." Said Peter with Deadpool and Fiona standing next to him while being drenched in rain with the occasional lightning bolt going off. "I think this might be the place we are looking for. Fiona I know you once used a power that let you see Darkseid from half a city away, do you think you can see inside the warehouse?" Questioned Peter while turning to Fiona to see her response.

"I can try." Said Fiona before her eyes gained a blue glow to attempt to see inside the warehouse. "It is no use, the warehouse is covered with some kind of material that I cannot see through." Said Fiona with a slightly down voice at not being of more use at the moment.

"At least you tried." Reassured Peter before turning to Deadpool who had somehow pulled out a customized sniper rifle with a large scope attached to it. "Deadpool where did you get that and what are you doing?" Questioned Peter upon seeing Deadpool aiming the Sniper Rifle at the warehouse with him making minor adjustments to it as he was aiming at something.

"If you must know I am about to rescue Harley from dying in a gas chamber." Said Deadpool.

"I will believe you on this as for the most part you are not wrong about certain things. Deadpool you provide covering fire while Fiona and I enter the building to capture the Joker and rescue Harley. Deadpool after you take out as many threats as you can, I want you to teleport into the building and help us with any remaining thugs, also remember not to kill anyone unless you have no other option. Fiona since you have no codename yet what you would like to be called?" Said Peter getting a thumbs up from Deadpool who looked ready to shoot any second now and a slightly confused look on Fiona as she tried to think of codename.

"Why not Phoenix? I mean you did have a past life and now you have a new life and new friends to help you, plus you are kind of scary powerful, I mean I saw you take a rocket that is strong enough to blow up a tank and brush it off like it was nothing before beheading the parademon that shot it at you." Said Deadpool surprising both Peter and Fiona with the suggestion and slight insight about Fiona.

"Phoenix? Hmm I like that name." Said Fiona with a smile on her face about her new codename.

"I just sent a message to the others where we are and that they are on route to us. Deadpool, me and Fiona are going to enter through the windows over there." Said Peter with him pointing a finger at the windows he was mentioning. "Right before we enter the window I want you take out any nearby guards so they can't shoot us when we enter." Said Peter with Deadpool giving him another thumbs up to show he understood. Nothing left to say Peter leapt from the building they were currently on with Fiona flying right behind.

Right before Peter and Fiona were about to crash through the window, the sound of Deadpool's sniper rifle going off was heard as Peter saw bullet holes appear in the glass seconds before they crashed through and the bullets taking out nearby guards, though it was non lethal shots. Peter saw all this in the span of 3 seconds before crashing through the window and instantly webbing a guard to a wall taking him out before Peter even landed on the floor.

Seeing that Fiona had things handled by herself, Peter jumped off the walkway he was on and aimed himself towards to the Joker who appeared to be attempting to laugh before Peter punched him hard and webbing him to the floor. Briefly looking around Peter saw that Harley was unconscious in a sealed glass chamber in front of him and that something appeared to happening to her judging by her convulsions. Looking around Peter looked for an off switch and found it before turning the gas off. He then backed up and ran towards to the chamber before crashing through it, grabbing Harley and quickly leaving said chamber. All this happened in 10 seconds.

After checking Harley's pulse to make sure she was still alive, Peter was relieved to find a faint but steady pulse from Harley. Looking around Peter saw that Deadpool had arrived a little bit ago and was now helping Fiona with taking care of the remaining henchmen.

In just under a minute Peter and the rest of his team managed to take out the henchmen, rescue Harley and capture the Joker, all without one person being killed or maimed.

"Good Job everyone." said Peter after a finding a blanket to wrap around the unconscious Harley who seemed to be slightly trembling from whatever was in the gas. Taking a closer look at Harley, Peter noticed that through rips in her costume he literally saw her skin changing color into a chalky white with her hair slowly changing color as well. Seeing this happen alarmed Peter and the others when they saw the change as well and that it was accelerating also.

"We need to get her back to base as soon as possible or even a hospital though I doubt they would know how to treat her or even would for that matter given her history." Said Peter while trying to think of a way to get them back to base quickly. "Deadpool I want you to head back to base and take a sample of her skin or blood or whatever you can get a hold of when you get back before giving her medical attention. Fiona and I will stay here until the others arrive to make sure that the Joker does not escape and I might even find a sample of her blood and the gas in the chamber." Ordered Peter while carefully handing Harley to Deadpool who did not complain.

"Aye, aye captain will do. Also if we kill Joker then I call dibs." Said Deadpool before teleporting back to base with Harley.

"Alright Phoenix, you and me are going to search this place up and down looking for evidence, whatever contained the gas and maybe a blood sample of Harley's." Said Peter while checking to make sure the Joker was secured with his web and that he was really knocked out and not faking it. Poking around the base Fiona was surprised to find what appeared to be a padded cell with all sorts of crazy drawings on the walls depicting violent acts like murder among other things.

"Spider-Man I think you need to see this." Yelled Fiona to get Spider-Man's attention. When Spider-Man saw the room he knew without a doubt that the Joker was insane but how badly had yet to be seen.

"Hold on I think those were drawn in blood." Said Peter when took a closer look at the drawings and he saw the almost invisible lines that appears when someone uses too much paint or something like that around the drawings. Scraping a piece off the wall, Peter rubbed it between his fingers and noticed that it was indeed blood. However the amount of blood needed to make this many drawings was staggering and then given the level detail put into some of them he wondered how long this room has been around. However Peter looked around the room some more and noticed that there appeared to fresh blood on the floor.

"Phoenix can you grab me a vial or something like that for me, preferably sterile. You can make it sterile by using your heat vision on it but make sure that it is not glowing or melting because then it will be useless." Asked Peter with Fiona leaving to grab a vial or something like that.

Looking around the base Fiona found what appeared to be a chemistry set with clean looking vials as well. Using her heat vision like Peter asked her to, Fiona sterilized the vials before returning to Peter.

"Is this what you want? Also I sterilized them just like you asked." Asked Fiona while holding out the rack of vials that she sterilized.

"Yes that is exactly what I am looking for." said Peter before grabbing a vial and putting the blood in there. However before Peter left the room he noticed that the cushion he was standing on felt slightly more uneven than the other ones. Picking up, or rather ripping out, the cushion Peter was horrified to find pictures of various murders that the Joker had committed. He even saw a few of him beating what appeared to be a teenage superhero to death with a crowbar. He also pictures that the Joker took as blackmail for certain officials which might explain how he was able to escape custody so quickly and was never tried for his crimes. Grabbing the pictures and stowing them in a makeshift bag he made out of his webs Peter and Fiona left the padded room and explored the rest of the base once the rest of the Avengers arrived and were brought up to speed. Mystique and a few others looked murderous for what the Joker had done. In less than an hour they had enough evidence to put the Joker away for over a dozen different crimes ranging from the obvious murders he had committed to the selling and making of various weapons.

"Now what to do with the Joker for now? Any ideas, aside from killing him at the moment." Asked Peter with Carnage raising his hand surprisingly.

"I have an idea and best of all it won't kill him." Said Carnage getting raised eyebrows and lenses from everyone, however that did not stop Peter from motioning for Carnage to continue. leaning in close to the other Avengers, Carnage whispered his plan to them and needless to say they liked it.

"I like it, however since I cannot officially approve of this behavior, I am just going to go on a quick web swinging trip for the next few minutes or so in the surrounding area and I will return just in time to find all of you gone and your finished product." Said Peter before leaving through the window he crashed through earlier with most of the Avengers following his lead.

"Alright time for daddy to get to work." Said Carnage while extending his claws and walking towards the now awake Joker who was trying to break free of the webs holding him with no success. "The wheels on the bus go round and round. The wheels on the bus go round and round all night long." Quietly sung Carnage while doing his task with the sound of painful screams echoing throughout the building with the rest of the Avengers leaving to make sure the henchmen were still captured.

5 Minutes later at GCPD...

Commissioner Gordon was having a very long and bad week. First there was the invasion and the inmates at Arkham breaking out. Then he had to wait over a day to find out if his daughter Barbara was alright. He knew she could take care of herself, after all he knew she was Batgirl but he let her think that he did not know so as not to worry her and allow her the freedom to make her choices in life even if he did not improve of them sometimes. The most recent troubling and headache inducing event was the footage of Joker and Harley Quinn on the news and then there complete disappearance. It was times like this that sometimes made him wish he never came to Gotham in the first place.

Gordon was all set to retire for the night and head home when a officer from the front desk came running into his office.

"Commissioner you are going to want to see this outside the station right now." Exclaimed the officer with a slightly panicked and horrified look on their face.

Grabbing his gun, Gordon quickly left his office and followed the officer to the front steps of the GCPD where he came across a sight that shocked even him.

Lying across the steps leading into the GCPD was the Joker in a small pool of blood with the words 'Make sure he does escape again or he will die' were carved directly into his back with at least two other officers standing guard. Luckily or unluckily if you asked some, the cuts were shallow enough that the Joker would not immediately bleed to death or deep enough to kill him in seconds but would rather leave scars showing that for the rest of his life.

"When was this discovered?" Questioned Gordon of the officer he followed out here.

"Just a few minutes ago. I was sitting at my desk doing my job as usual when I heard a loud thud and when I went to investigate I found him lying outside just like this with his back facing the door. I called in for someone to keep an eye on him and immediately left to grab you. So is it really the Joker sir?" Questioned the officer after explaining how he found the Joker.

"I can say without a doubt that this is the Joker, though I don't know who would be able to do this to him. Also he is still alive so as much as it pains me to say it, get him medical attention now." Ordered Gordon after examining the Joker more closely and saw that it was indeed the Joker with a large black eye and broken nose that seemed to be from one hit which made him wonder who was capable of doing this.

Back Avengers base...

At the Avengers base Spider-Man was currently looking over a still unconscious Harley Quinn whose skin seemed to be a chalky white with red and black hair. For the moment she was fine and aside from the obvious physical changes to her body nothing seemed to be wrong with her. Deadpool had done a surprisingly good job of making a makeshift medical area for Harley. Deadpool had somehow converted his bedroom into a medical room complete with the equipment Peter or anyone else might need to treat an injured person.

"Alright Deadpool I want you to keep an eye on her for now and make sure to let me know if anything out of the ordinary happens or she wakes up. Meanwhile I am going to talk with the others for what to do with her among other things." Said Peter while turning to look at Deadpool who was standing in the corner of the room while Peter checked on Harley.

"You got it Spidey." Said Deadpool before grabbing a chair and sitting next to Harley's side.

While on his way downstairs to the living room Peter was walking past his room and noticed that his room door was slightly ajar. Looking inside Peter saw a flash drive on his bed with a note attached to it. The flash drive looked ordinary enough and it was not setting off his spider sense so he figured it was safe to pick up. Reading the note attached 'From a friend. I know you will find the info on this very useful.' was all it said and that it seemed to be almost computer typed given how neat the handwriting was.

'I will have to look at this more later.' Thought Peter before pocketing the flash drive and closing his room door before continuing downstairs to join the others.

The sight downstairs was one that was interesting to say the least for Peter. Loki and Flash were trying and failing to hook up a PS4 that Loki bought earlier to have something to play, to the TV. Amora and Mystique were gossiping like old friends with Fiona sitting between them while looking pretty uncomfortable not being not used to something like that. Carnage was in a corner trying to take nap on a web hammock he made with Sabertooth lying in a similar hammock in another corner. Meanwhile it looked like someone had tried to start dinner but had given up halfway through making judging by the fact that some food was lying on the kitchen counter that seemed to half prepared.

"Can someone please tell me what happened?" Asked Peter once he was in the middle of the living room.

"Sure. I was starting to cook dinner for everyone but I couldn't focus on it thanks to all the noise everyone was making and that I didn't get much sleep over the past few days. Loki started to hook up the PS4 to the TV but was having trouble doing it so he asked Flash to help him hook it up only to discover that Flash knew as much as he did about electronics. Sabertooth just wanted to take a nap and was too lazy to go upstairs so he had me make him a hammock to sleep on which sounded like a good idea to me, so I did it as well. Amora and Mystique wanted to have some girl talk or whatever it is called and decided to bring Fiona into their conversation as well which eventually helped me to choose to take a nap like Sabertooth." Explained Carnage which caused some people to look at him weirdly for him to notice so much. "Hey I might be insane but even I notice things, after all I'm not stupid like some people think." said Carnage when he saw all the looks he was getting, which him earned him some shrugs from some of them for his answer.

"Would you please finish dinner?" Asked Peter who wanted to eat rather badly given that they were all pretty hungry and were running on fumes.

"Alright, though I want everyone to at least try it." Replied Cletus getting off his hammock and having the symbiote change its appearance to clothing a chef would wear.

"Alright everyone while Cletus is preparing dinner for us, I believe we need to think of a way to make money with it being perfectly legal. Now I have some ideas of my own but I want to hear yours first." Said Peter getting some nods of understanding.

"One possible idea for me and Amora along with anyone that is good at poker and similar games to join us to help make us money." Suggested Loki.

"That is a good idea and a decent idea for getting us money for now but eventually they will catch on to you and possibly even gain the attention of a hero here, plus it would not be consistent enough to make a decent living off of especially given the cost of things we will eventually need." Explained Peter raising some good points. However before anyone else could talk, they were interrupted by Peters cell phone ringing.

"Hello, who is this?" Asked Peter when he answered the phone.

"This is Deadpool and I was thinking that I could take on possible mercenary jobs for us. Don't worry I won't take on jobs that will be bad or paint us in a negative light, I will only take on jobs that will benefit us. Also before you possibly ask Harley is still unconscious but she seems to be doing better." Said Deadpool over the phone making Peter pinch his noise in frustration before replying "We will have to talk about that more later." Said Peter already imaging Deadpool wanting to rant about the advantages to mercenary jobs before hanging up.

"I have a possible idea for me and Cletus but I will need to discuss it with him in private later to see if he might like it." Said Flash.

"Now some of those are decent ideas but I was thinking of starting a company that would allow us to make money and give us legit jobs in the process." Suggested Peter which caused some of them to have looks of interest. "I mean some of us have a wide range of skills that would be perfect for the corporate environment. I mean Loki and Amora have managed to manipulate who knows how many people over the years with just their words alone and repeatedly at that? Also Sabertooth would make one heck of a chief of security or whatever they are called given his literal decades of combat experience and would know nearly all the tricks for evading security. Mystique would be for both security and a excellent sales person with her charm and manipulative habits." Explained Peter causing some of them to adopt expressions of deep thought for what he said.

"Just pray tell would be doing as this company?" Asked Mystique not wanting to be used for just her abilities.

"Well we know from experience that most people don't have the means to really defend themselves from super powered fights or villains so we would be devising ways to safely do that or improve existing methods. I once read a book where the police had a bullet that upon contact with a solid surface like skin or something like that would release a powerful sleeping agent that was nonlethal and if you think about that for a second how many criminals would be uninjured when captured by cops and not hit by a bullet. Another one is improved body armor that is way lighter than what people here have and make it cheaper as well. Of course I have many ideas and some are more practical than others. Before the whole thing with the Red Skull and everyone getting inverted I was designing a new kind of prison that would hold super powered individuals better than ever before and also help them be better people. Best of all if everything goes well we should be making at least this much after the first month or two." Explained Peter before grabbing a piece of paper and writing a number on it for everyone to see.

"Hmm...mama likes." Whispered Mystique already imagining what she could do with that kind of money.

"Are you sure about those numbers?" Asked Sabertooth curious as to how they would make that much.

"I am 90% sure we will making that much as a whole in that time and then in at least six months to a year we will be making close to that amount individually." Said Peter causing many of them to have almost literal dollar signs in their eyes.

"Just one quick question what will this company be called?" Asked Loki curious as to what he would choose.

"Well I have an idea for that and the current name is 'SLAM'" Said Peter before he was interrupted by the sound of a loud slam from upstairs before he could say the companies name. What surprised everyone even more was an awake Harley Quinn with a large mallet that had fresh blood on it standing on the top of the stairs with a scared and slightly angry look on her face.

5 minutes ago with Harley Quinn(her POV)...

The first sound she became aware was the sound of heartbeat monitor and that she was not currently in pain, in fact she felt better than ever.

Opening her eyes and looking around Harley noticed that she was in a makeshift hospital room with all sorts of equipment hooked up to her or just laying around. She also noticed a chair next to her that seemed to have been used pretty recently judging by the recent butt impression still showing on it. It was then that Harley noticed that her skin seemed different somehow. It took her a moment to realize that it was chalk white. Panicking Harley grabbed a nearby glass of water and poured it on her arm to see if it was makeup or even paint only to learn that her skin stayed the same.

'Okay Harley you just need to take a deep breath and try to remember what happened.' Thought Harley while taking a deep breath to calm herself down and figure out what happened. 'Let's see the last the thing I remember is being thrown into that glass chamber with that weird gas filling it and then sound of gunfire and glass shattering. Did Batman save me? No then I would be in an actual hospital or in that beloved cave of his. I vaguely remember someone wearing red and being quite fit judging by the muscles I felt for a moment.' Thought Harley remembering that when she was exposed to the gas she was in and out of consciousness for several minutes before finally succumbing to unconscious.

"I knew that I should have not eaten that extra, extra spicy burrito being sold by a shady guy but no I just had to see if it was true about it being so spicy." Said an unknown person from what appeared to be a bathroom attached to the room.

Curious Harley slowly got up from the bed which is when she noticed that she was still wearing her old costume though it was cut up at spots and the sleeves were missing along with her headpiece. Deciding to look at her appearance more later she crept towards to the bathroom only for the door to suddenly open and barely miss hitting her right in the face. Backing up slowly Harley saw a man wearing a dark red outfit coming out of the restroom.

"When will I learn not to eat really spicy food from a really shady place before doing an important task... probably never." Said the masked man while drying off his hands with a towel before throwing the towel back into the bathroom and then closing the door with his foot. The man then began to walk towards her bed only to notice it was empty and that she was gone.

"Hmm... I wonder where she could have gone? I mean the door is still closed along with the windows and nothing seems to be missing aside from her." Questioned the masked man while looking around. While he was doing that Harley had taken out her hammer and was steadily creeping up on him. Right as Harley was about to hit him, he turned around.

"Oh there you are." Was all the masked man was able to say before Harley hit his head hard enough that he was sent flying across the room and landing with a splat against the wall with his body falling to the floor with blood now staining the wall he hit.

Panicking Harley ran out of the room and dashed for the stairs only to see a group of people seemingly talking to each other about how to make money. Harley did notice that not one of them looked normal. One was a woman with blue skin and red hair that had yellow eyes. Another seemed to be a wearing a black and white costume that almost seemed to be alive to her. One person that scared her the most was the man in the kitchen who looked like a demon with a large mouth full of teeth and long claws that appeared to be sharp enough to cut through solid steel like it was butter, change his appearance to look like a normal person wearing chefs clothing.

"Just who are you people and where am I? Start talking soon or I will bash your heads in with my mallet here." Said Harley adding the last part to hopefully scare them enough to tell where she was or something.

"We are called the Avengers and you are in our base. You can call me Spider-Man and if you can calm down then I can tell you what happened. Also what did you do with Deadpool?" Replied Spider-Man asking the last part since Deadpool was supposed to be watching her.

"Is that who was in the room with me? Sorry I might have accidently killed him when I hit him with my mallet." Said Harley Quinn almost whispering the last part though everyone was still able to hear her.

"It will take a lot more than that to kill me." Said a voice that caused to jump and reacting on pure instinct hit the person she now knew as Deadpool again.

"AH a zombie... so cool but I have to kill you now." Shrieked Harley before repeatedly hitting Deadpool again and again with her mallet until his head was nearly just junks of flesh. However before she could hit him again, she realized that someone was holding back her mallet. Turning around Harley was surprised to see Spider-Man holding back her mallet with one hand while displaying almost no effort in doing so.

"Could please stop hitting Deadpool now? He is a not a zombie, he just has a really powerful healing factor that lets him survive just about anything. He will probably be back to his normal self in at least 5 minutes. Now why don't we calm down now and I can tell you what happened while Deadpool heals himself." Suggested Spider-Man in a soothing voice that helped Harley calm down and slowly lower her mallet until it rested on the ground. "Let's go downstairs and discuss this in a more comfortable place." Said Spider-Man before starting to walk downstairs with Harley following him.

"First thing I want to know is why you rescued me and how did you even know about me being taken by the Joker anyway?" Asked Harley once her and Spider-Man sat down on a couch.

"Well we found out that you had been taken by the Joker from the news of all places surprisingly when someone captured footage of the Joker taking you from nearby the hospital. As for why we rescued you, well you remind me of someone who was manipulated by others to be something they did not want to be. Also I cannot stand it when someone abuses women like the Joker has done." Spider-Man said with a dark tone at the last part.

"That does explain why you rescued me but how did you know to find me. I mean I was expecting either no one to show up or Batman to arrive at the last minute and send both me and the Joker to Arkham Asylum where they would probably put me in the hospital for a day or so then lock me up with everyone else there. Why didn't you turn me in when you rescued me anyway?" Asked Harley while tilting her head.

"I am pretty sure I said this earlier but just to clear things I don't think you are at heart a bad person. What I am about to tell you does not leave this room alright and you will have to pinky swear not to tell anyone else alright." Spider-Man said while holding his pinky out.

"Alright I pinky swear Mr. Spider-Man." Said Harley after crossing her pinky with Spider-Man's.

"Alright the secret is that most of the people in this room are former villains and some of them have a kill list over a mile long or longer. However due to recent events in our home dimension they were given a second chance to be the heroes they always could be but never did become." Explained Spider-Man who was amused at the shocked look Harley had.

"You mean everyone in this room is a former villain?" Whispered a wide eyed Harley not wanting to get heard by someone else.

"Everyone aside from me, Phoenix the woman in armor, Agent Venom who is the guy in the black and white military outfit with the spider symbol, and Deadpool who was never really a true villain or hero but something else entirely." Spider-Man whispered back amused at how Harley was reacting.

"Then why are you with them?" Asked Harley not getting why they were a team if most of them were former villains.

"That is a complicated answer and quite lengthy at that." Answered Spider-Man.

"You can tell me right? I am really good at keeping secrets." Asked Harley with puppy dog eyes that would break a lesser man with how adorable they were.

"I will tell you but after dinner all right?" Said Spider-Man while secretly trying not to fall victim to the infamous puppy dog eye look.

"I suppose I can wait but you better tell me after dinner all right. Also what is for dinner?" Demanded Harley.

"That will work." Spider-Man replied before turning to face Carnage. "Hey Carnage what are you making for dinner?" Asked Spider-Man.

"I am making my family's own secret recipe chili." Replied Carnage while cooking the now announced chili.

"I love spicy food so make sure mine is extra spicy." Ordered Harley.

"Will do." Replied Carnage before setting out to do just that.

"So Harley do you want some TV before dinner is ready?" Asked Spider-Man who had grabbed the remote before Harley could.

"Give me the remote." Demanded Harley before trying to get the remote from Spider-Man who held it out of arms reach from Harley. During their mock fight for the remote they failed to notice a certain red and black figure sneak up on them and grab the remote before either of could stop him and turn to "Spongebob Squarepants?" Asked Spider-Man when he saw what Deadpool chose.

"Spongebob is awesome and besides I am sure what we need right is mindless cartoons after the day we had." Replied Deadpool from the lounge chair he now took residence in.

"Works for me. Also no hard feelings for me bashing your head in?" Asked Harley in a slightly nervous voice.

"Not at all. If I had a dollar for every woman that tried to bash my head in, I would be a millionaire by now." Answered Deadpool in such way that most of the Avengers believed him.

"You must have angered a lot of women for that to be possible." Joked Harley.

"I probably have but someone called Rocket had an entire army of women he had majorly pissed off to chase him and try to kill him, so he has worse luck than me in that regard." Half joked Deadpool.

General point of view...

"Hey dinner is ready. Come get it while it's hot and before it's all gone." Yelled Cletus from the kitchen before the sound of everyone scrambling for the kitchen was heard. Turning around Cletus was slightly surprised to see everyone sitting at the table including Harley with hungry looks on their faces. Cletus then proceeded to give everyone some chili before taking a seat himself.

Peter proceeded to raise his glass "A toast to the Avengers, may we continue to be awesome and keep kicking ass." Said Peter with the rest of the Avengers toasting as well along with Harley, not knowing what was coming next and what they had started but first they wanted to enjoy the good meal that Cletus had made.

Chapter end

I know last chapter one of the biggest complaints I got was how okay Spider-Man was with killing, well let me tell you why I did that and how it makes sense. First off Peter now has the Other which Kaine has as well and when Peter went through the portal a part of the Other got ripped from Kaine and put in Peter. The Other is a violent being that sees itself as the ultimate predator and everything else is prey to it. The process sending of splitting part of itself from Kaine was rather painful for the Other and as any hunter knows a wounded predator is quite dangerous, plus as shown while in Kaine it is always whispering or yelling at its host to kill anyone that gets in their way or is a perceived threat. Reason two is that he now has Doc Ock's memories from when he inhabited Peter's body and Peter was very angry at what Ock had done in his body. Reason three is that Peter now has his memories from before the deal was made with Mephisto and now those memories of his marriage with Mary Jane along with a few other events are now clashing with the memories he has of his life after the deal with Mephisto so now Peter is struggling to decided which memories are his real memories and which ones are the ones that Mephisto gave him. Also in my own opinion of the deal with Mephisto certain memories of Peter's were either altered or erased so certain events would not have had as a big a impact as they once did. This combination has made Peter slightly unstable and has altered certain things in his personality, now he will be able be like his normal self at times but will not occur as much as usual until he has the chance to sort all his memories out and come to terms with what Doc Ock has done among other things.

I originally planned to put more in this chapter but after writing this much I noticed that it would be difficult to put the rest of what I had planned for chapter 2 without making it flow rather badly and have it be way longer than necessary so I made the decision to make this chapter a 2 part chapter with the next part containing the Justice League returning, the rest of what I have planned with the Joker, The Avengers meeting Supergirl and Batgirl as they help Harley visit Poison Ivy.

In the comics Rocket Raccoon has his own series and literally had an army of his ex-girlfriends chase him down and try to kill him.

The person who was listening the Avengers in their base is the same person who gave that flash drive to Spider-Man. This character is from Marvel and will be a member of the Avengers later in the story. The only hint I will give about their identity is the color Red.

I would have this chapter out sooner but I have been renting Game of Thrones to watch with my family and it is quite long and really good.

Also another thanks to pravus666 for helping to make this story possible and to check his stories out.

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