The Black Spiders part 4

"Diana, are you alright?" Steve asked as he and the recently turned nineteen year old Amazon princess were currently enjoying their meal at a new Greek Restaurant that served authentic food from the historic nation

He was dressed in a rather nice black three-piece suit with his hair combed back a bit and was freshly shaven.

Diana who was stealing glances at her communicator looked up towards the first actual human man she ever met "Yes, why is there something wrong?"

She had her hair done in an elegant bun while she wore a single strap blue dress that clung to her goddess like body like a glove that matched her black heels. She a dark red shade of lipstick on and a pair of diamond ear rings that seemed to sparkle with light, on her wrists were her legendary bracelets that unknown to many including Steve and the Justice League not only helped protect her in combat but helped maintain her god like power that she possessed

"No it's just uh you've been looking at your commlink is all" Steve said feeling the slight bit annoyed

"I'm sorry" Diana said with a slightly guilty expression "It's just…I sometimes worry about Spider-man is all"

"Why?" Steve asked with a raised brow "He can hold his own from what I've seen"

"True" Diana nodded in agreement but frowned as she remembered back to when she saw Peter remove his suit after their battle with Darkseid and saw the true extent of his injuries

Bruises that ranged from blue to purple, some even starting to bleed dotted his body, his burnt arm from using his 'venom blasts' for so long and at such levels of power, his broken arm, fractured and cracked skull…

According to Superman and Cyborg, it was truly a miracle that he was even still standing, let alone alive

"Heh what can I say, I'm too stubborn to die" he said with a pained smile

Diana sighed as she pushed the memory from her mind "But Spider-man isn't like me or Superman or even Aquaman Steve. He may come off as some seemingly invincible force…but he's still every bit as human as Batman, you and the Flash are…"

"That may be true…" Steve said in agreement "But don't you think he already knows that?"

"He does, but he often ignores that fact and plunges himself face first into danger as if he could survive anything…and I'm worried that one day, that luck of his will run out" Diana said worriedly

Steve looked at Diana's expression and couldn't help but feel slightly annoyed that his date is focusing on another man, he knows it's not in a romantic way, least as far as he can tell but well his pride may have been slightly hurt. Still Steve decided to do his best to help put her at ease

"Hey, don't worry Di. If there's one thing I've come to recognize and even respect about Spider-man, it's that the guy has a knack for pulling off the amazingly impossible. I'm sure he'll be fine and if it'll help put you at ease and can have some friends of mine check in on him now and see how he's fairing against that guy he's chasing down okay?"

"Steve you don't hav-" Dian tried to dissuade her boyfriend from doing that but he waved her off with a grin

"Hey they guy's your friend, right? What kind of boyfriend would I be if I let him get put on ice?"

Diana placed her hand on Steve's and gave it an affectionate squeeze "Thank you Steve"

…

"HOW FAR AWAY ARE WE?" Black Widow yelled over the roaring wind as she and Spider-man, whose back she was riding on, made their way towards the other two Black Spiders location which has yet to change

"LESS THAN A MINUTE!" Spider-man replied while as he shot out another web line and swung through the evening air of New York City

Widow nodded at the answer and adjusted her hold on Spider-man as they approached the building that the Black Spiders were occupying. It was then that both spider themed individuals noticed something odd about the rooftop of the building

There were mussel flashes and fire balls appearing all over it

"The hell?" Spider-man said with a confused expression under his mask as he landed on a building over looking his and Widow's target to see what was going on.

There down below on the rooftop were the two Black Spiders fighting with a man who had what looked like a blue and white shield of energy before him acting as a sort of shield while bullets bounced off it harmlessly. Peter zeroed in on the man and almost instantly recognized him and couldn't help but groan at who it was

'Great…it's Constantine' Peter thought already starting to get a headache form just seeing the magical con artist

"Who's that?" Widow nodded towards the man who had dropped the shield and was now conjuring bolts of mystical energy at the two assassins "A friend of yours?"

"No…not even close" Peter said as he scratched his head and compilated leaving John to face the two men on his own, dick move on his part he'll admit but the sly exorcist back in his world once nearly sold him out to a demonic with that wanted to impregnate him with little demons just so the guy could collect an amulet that he could than sell to some collector and make enough money to pay of a debt he made gambling

Worse. Halloween. Ever.

"Should we help him or let the two kill him than?" Widow looked towards Spider-man who she could tell was less than thrilled to see this unknown man appear 'Likely a bad history between the two…'

"Much as I want to watch him get the ever-loving crap beaten out of him. My conscious and misplaced sense of heroism compels me to help him…or at least keep him from dying" Spider-man said before he prepared to leap down there and take care of the two men when he saw something drop behind Constantine who was too busy gloating at the two assassins before him

Widow saw this as well "That's the other Black Spider!"

Peter didn't waste any time shooting off the roof towards the unnoticed assassin who was preparing to shoot John in the back

Peter narrowed his eyes at the rifle the man was lifting and just as he soared past the startled assassin, Peter used his suit's arm blades to slice the weapon in half. The wall crawler landed in a crouch and turned just in time to catch the fist from the third Black Spider who now that Peter was up close to could see was covered in an all-black suit that felt like it was made of Kevlar. The mask or helmet had no visible eyes on it leaving Peter to wonder if the material around his eyes was thin enough to see through or not

'One way to find out' Peter thought as he pushed the man back, who had a surprising amount of physical strength, greater than Johnny LaMonica easily, and shot several web bullets at the assassin who quickly weaved his way through them and delivered a fast and powerful jab at Peter's head

Peter was barely able to dodge the hit and was forced to block a kick to his temple by the hyper fast and surprisingly strong Black Spider. Peter was slowly being forced back by the unknown and apparent leader of the hit squad until a lucky hit knocked Petr back until he rammed into Constantine's

"OI watch well you're bloody going!" the English magician said in annoyance as picked himself back up only to find LaMonica pining him down with his boots. Constantine smirked at some of the damage on the man's suit "Aww what's wrong? Upset I got mud on your onesie?"

LaMonica growled and had his fist suddenly encased in yellow energy that caused a look of alarm to appear on John's face who could feel the mystical energy radiating from the fist

"How in the hell?" John said wide aye as LaMnoica reared his fist back to ram into his head when Black Widow leaped on his shoulders and jammed her Widow bites into his neck and shocked him at full power

"GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" LaMonica screamed as he tried to rip the woman off him only for Constantine to kick one of the man's leg's out and drive his elbow into his approaching face

Widow used that moment to wrestle LaMonica to the ground with a combination of the man's unbalance state and her slightly above average strength while still zapping the man with thousands of volts of electricity.

Not too far away Peter, having recovered was busy blocking hits from both remaining Black Spiders with a combination of his suit's arm blades, his speed and agility. Sadly, Peter was hard pressed to handle both men at the moment. Eric was easy to deal with, but this fourth Black Spider was seemingly on par with Peter in both speed and reflexes with his strength just being under his own if the force of the blows are anything to go by

And the two working in tandem, well it wasn't looking too good for the webslinger

Constantine seeing this uttered a quick spell that caused a circle with numerous runes in the center of it to appear behind Spider-man's back and block a kick from the black and purple spider assassin and send him flying from a gust of wind that erupted from it. Eric's momentum was halted when he made contact with a air-conditioning unit and banged his head against it hard enough to render him unconscious

Peter kneed his other opponent away before he shot a quick nod of thanks towards Constantine before he resumed his assault on the slowly retreating Black Spider. After several more painful blows delivered by both men, they separated and each drew in a shaky breath

'Damn this guy is good, like Deathstroke good' Peter thought as he tried to steady his breathing

So far, this mysterious Black Spider has shown to be a far superior hand to hand combatant than Peter was and the other two Black Spiders. While he has received a descent amount of training from the likes of Wildcat, Batman Black Canary and even his former wife Diana, he still wasn't up to any of their leagues…

For the most part his fighting style revolved around his abilities, a brawler like style, a bit of Diana's Amazon training which he's cut back on using around her to avoid arousing suspicion until he can come up with a reasonable excuse of how he knows it and some forms of Brazilian kickboxing that he learned from a fellow Justice League member Fire a while back

This Black Spider however has already used several fighting styles of East Asian origin and even few that he's seen used solely by the League of Assassins and to some extent Batman.

'Whoever this guy is…he's definitely a league or two above everyone else but LaMonica' Peter thought as he prepared to move when his spider-sense flared

The direction it was coming from was LaMonica who had both hands glowing with yellow mystical energy. The injured assassin let out a growl as the energy intensified and he finally got a grab on Black Widow who he proceeded to slam into the ground before throwing her at a shocked Constantine who was about to cast a trapping spell on the Black Spider

Peter's eyes narrowed at the man as he shot off a powerful venom blast only for it to be knocked away by LaMonica and into the nearby water tower on a building opposite of theirs. The resulting hit caused the wooden and metal construct to explode, spraying the nearby bare in water and debris. The fourth Black Spider seeing that Spider-man was distracted by his…teammate…quickly vanished into thin air before man could notice he was still there.

LaMonicqa noticed this however and let out a growl of annoyance "Of course he leaves once things start to get difficult"

Black Spider than centered his gaze on Spider-man's tense form and launched himself at the wall crawler with both hands encased in yellow energy. Peter narrowed his eyes as he felt his spider-sense tingle and used his superior agility and speed to narrowly avoid the powerful and speedy jabs sent his way by the enraged assassin

Black Spider's eyes were beginning to glow red as was the energy around his fist. Peter seeing this jumped back and began to dowse the man in web fluid to either slow him down or even trap him. Black Spider simply grabbed the web strands and seemingly burned it off with his hands before he launched himself at Spider-man and hit him right in the gut

The force of the blow took Peter's breath away and was sent flying off the building they were fighting on and down towards the streets below. Black Spider carefully approached the ledge to see if his opponent had fallen to his death…only to receive a double kick to the face the moment his head looked down towards the busy street below. Peter not letting up in his assault on the man used his thrusters and shot towards his sailing body and delivered several punches to his chest and head before he planted both feet on the man's chest and kicked him away, using his thrusters to increase the power behind the move

KRAKOOOM!

Black Spider made a painful landing into the rooftop and nearly went through it, while Spider-man landed with a grunt and scanned his slowly rising enemy. Black Spider's suit and armor was torn in numerous places and on his chest, was a large burn from Peter's spider suit thrusters. Black Spider growled at Spider-man who was watching his enemy closely, keeping his gaze set on him

"Gotta say LaMonica, your just full of surprises tonight" Spider-man said as he quirked his head to the side "Hey before I knock you out I was wondering if you had anything to say on your partner who just bailed. Name, abilities, favorite ice cream perhaps? I'm not picky"

Black Spider didn't respond as he tore of his mask which revealed a tan face covered in faded scars, part of his check missing completed with piercing green eyes and a snarl

"Yeesh, no there's a face that not even a mother could love" Peter joked as he felt his spider-sense flare slightly in warning as LaMonica ripped off the torso section of his damaged suit "Uh…what are you doing?"

"Evening the odds" LaMonica growled out as Peter saw a large circle on his chest written in some language that he's never seen before; his suit's scanners came up with zilch as well but was able to at least identify faint East Asian influences in its patterns

Black Spider's hand glowed yellow again as he reached up and touched the circle on his chest that also glowed yellow. Peter felt his spider-sense tingling intensify as yellow lines began to spread out from the circle and followed his veins while his skin began to pale until it was almost snow white in appearance

"Oh shit" a recovered John Constantine said as he and Black Widow made their way by Spider-man's side "That's not good…that's really not good"

"Uh you know what that is?" Spider-man turned towards the younger man who already had a cigarette lit

"If I'm right, and I usually am with these sorts of things, that there is an ancient K'un Lun chi holding seal. It contains mystical spiritual energy that can be accessed and used to argument your abilities far beyond normal" Constantine said as he watched the muscles on Black Spider began to expand slightly while the man's glare intensified, his eyes now glowing yellow along with the inside of his mouth

"What happens if one breaks the seal?" Spider-man said as he felt himself tense as Black Spider slipped into that unknown fighting stance he used when they first met earlier tonight

"It'll probably kill him" John said as he prepared to cast a defense spill from what's coming "But until his body gives out, were facing down a guy that could with one hit…kill you"

"That's…concerning" Black Widow said as she set her Widow Bites to their highest setting

"Not really" John said with a shrug "There's a guy out there that can do so without having to resort to those seals…"

At that, Black Spider moved at speeds that Peter saw were slightly above even his

"Oh crap…" Peter said with wide eyes as Constantine's shield manifested and blocked the killer punch erupting into an explosion of mystical energy

KRAAABWOOOOM!

…

Meanwhile back with Steve and Diana…

After enjoying a rather lovely meal Steve and Diana had returned to her apartment and were just making their way to the bedroom, articles of clothing falling left and right when Diana's com began to beep

Steve let out a groan of annoyance as he buried his face in her neck and began to kiss her while Diana very reluctantly answered the call

"Hello?" Diana said as she closed her eyes in delight as Steve began to trail kisses down her throat

"DIANA COULD USE THAT HELP NO-" Spider-man's voice screamed through the speaker with the sounds of explosions in the background before it suddenly caught off

"Spider-man?!" Diana said as she pulled away from Steve and tried to regain contact with her teammate only to hear the sounds of gunfire, and another explosion before static filled the line

She immediately ran towards her room that housed her armor and weapons and began to quickly throw on her attire while making sure to grab her lasso and a sword for her to use while also contacting Cyborg

"Di, what's going on?" Steve asked as he watched Diana don her armor and arm herself with several weapons

"Spider-man is in trouble" Diana said as Victor had finally answered her hail

"Wonder Woman, what's wrong?" the cybernetic late teen asked

"Cyborg, I need you to open a boom tube for me to Spider-man's last known location now!" Diana said in a serious tone

Cyborg was quite for a second before he responded "Boom Tube opening up, I've contacted Green Lantern who just got back, says he'll be there soon to help out"

Not a second later a portal opened and Diana didn't hesitate to jump through it, leaving Steve in her apartment with a confused expression on his face

"The hell just happened?" Steve voiced out loud as he quickly pulled out his phone to make a few calls to find out what was going on in New York…and why the man he had check on Spider-man haven't responded…

…

When Diana stepped through the Boom tube and arrived at Spider-man's last location she was greeted to the sight of a rooftop that looked to barely holding together and a man without a shirt on with lines of yellow mystical energy flowing through his body punching at a mystical shield barely being held up by a man in a torn leather jacket with blood on the side of his face while Spider-man was behind him holding a woman who seemed to be gravely injured

Her eyes narrowed as she saw the unknown man punched through the magical shield and moved at speeds to fast for the average human to catch and lift both Spider-man and the other man up by their throats

"No more games or lip from either of you" the man growled out as he prepared to snap both men's necks in two before moving on to deal with the woman

It was then that Diana made her move and punched the distracted man in the side of the temple and send him flying across the rooftop. Spider-man and his apparent ally both fell to the ground in a huff

"Whew, thought we were done for…" Spider-man said as he rubbed his throat that felt like it was burning from Black Spider's touch

"Yeah" John said as he let out a cough and glared at Black Spider's rising form "Bloody wanker packs one hell of a punch…"

Diana eyed Spider-man's enemy with a calculating gaze "Is this the man you wanted me to help you with earlier?"

"Yeah, well one of them at least" Spider-man said as he stood up and looked to see his sister starting to make her way to her feet, with some struggle

Diana nodded at that answer and drew her sword and aimed it at Black Spider "Surrender now, your outmatched!"

"Yeah like that'll work" John said with an eye roll "Hey while you're at it sweetheart, why don't you ask him to repent for his ways and become a hero"

Spider-man sighed in aggravation "Wonder Woman meet John Constantine, one of the biggest assholes your ever meet"

"You've heard of me?" the street magician said in slight surprise that a member of the Justice League is aware of him

"Yep and none of it good" Spider-man said as he sent a venom blast at Black Spider who brushed it aside with a glowing fist and snarled at Wonder Woman

"This has nothing to do with you bitch!"

Diana narrowed her eyes at the man "Considering your attacking my friend, I believe it does"

She than launched herself at the man who was just barely able to dodge a punch from her and block a fast approaching knee to his face. The force behind the impact it made with his arm caused him to wince before his eyes were covered by a shot of web fluid

"GAH!" LaMonica yelled in surprise

Wonder Woman seeing her enemy blinded sent a powerful punch into the man's stomach that knocked the wind out of him and forced him to his knees, spiting up a mixture of blood and saliva. She was about to reach down and grab him when suddenly another man dropped beside her, clad in an all-black suit and sent a jab at her face that actually took her by surprise with the amount of force behind it

She went skidding back several feet and was about to attack the man when suddenly both him and the injured man vanished!

"By Hera!" Diana said in surprise as she scanned the area for any signs of her foes

"Yeah you better run!" Spider-man yelled before he let out a hiss and rubbed his throat "Okay ow…is that chi stuff supposed to hurt this much?"

"Considering it was corrupted, be lucky it ain't poisoning your life force" Constantine said as he brushed some dust and dirt of his jacket only to growl at the damage it took "Great…gonna take me forever to fix this thing"

"Can you just cast a spell and fix it?" Spider-man asked the man as he made his way towards Diana

"Not when it's damaged by the likes of corrupted chi! That shit's like acid to enchanted clothes" John spoke up before he saw Widow standing next to him and gave her a sly smirk "Well hello-"

"Hit on me and I'll carve your eyes out" Widow said in a dark tone as she mentally raged at losing her target…again

"I'll…be over there than love" John said as he saw that this really wasn't the time to push the alluringly dressed woman, especially in his state

Widow watched the man slink off before she turned to see that the black and purple spider assassin Eric was still out and moved to secure him

'Least I got one Black Spider tonight' Teresa thought tiredly

"Thanks for the save Wonder Woman" Peter gave the woman a grateful smile "That's like what, twelve now?"

"Fifteen" Diana countered with a smirk

"Really, what were the other three?" Peter asked with a snort

"The first one was saving you from being possessed by Starro's telepathic drones" Diana said as she folded her arms and gave the wall crawler an amused grin

"That's-" Peter began before he realized that she was right "…What about the other two then?"

Diana held up one finger "Saving you from Darkseid's attempts to crush you, and yes I am counting that one" she than held up another "And stopping the harpy from trying to fly away with you last month"

"In my defense, I thought she was a pigeon and it looked like she was hungry" Peter chuckled before a green light blanket the area

It was Green Lantern who was looking at them all with a frown "Aww did I miss it already?"

"Who's dumb enough to stick around for a fight when it's Wonder Woman you have to face" Spider-man nodded towards the chuckling Amazon before he gave her a slightly embarrassed look "Uh by the way, sorry for ruining your date with Steve"

"That's alright, you were in the right to call me" Diana said as she patted her friend on the shoulder who nodded

"Would called Superman but that guy LaMonica, was using some kind of magical energy with an unknown fighting style and well…Superman wouldn't stand a chance" Spider-man said as he looked to see Black Widow dragging the last remaining Black Spider, Eric over with his hands bound in zip tie cuffs

Lantern saw her as well and gave her a sly grin as she removed her damaged coat to show she had a fairly attractive figure. He approached the woman with a hint of that swagger he thinks women like "Well hello be-"

"Lantern, try it…I dare you" Spider-man growled out in a dark voice as red bots of his venom blast danced around his fingers

Hal paled at the dark tone that Spider-man used on him and the narrowed lens glare he was getting from the man, along with the glare from the woman he was about to hit on

"Please by all means…I still have a lot of pent up rage I want to work out" Black Widow hissed as she held up her Widow bite that displayed a shock of electricity

"Uhh never mind" Lantern coughed as he placed the unconscious spider themed assassin in a green cage he constructed with his ring

"Smart…" Diana gave her fellow League member a dry look, having grown tired of his 'charm' months ago. She than looked towards Black Widow and gave her a friendly smile "Hello fellow warrior"

"Yo" Black Widow said with a nod before she pulled out a small device and flipped it open and held it to her ear "Ma'am, main target escaped but I was able to capture one of his teammates…one KIA while the last fled with main target ma'am…understood"

She placed the device away and looked towards Lantern with a guarded expression "I'm going to need you to fly me to Langley so I can drop him off"

"Now wait u-" Hal began in outrage of being assigned to clean up duty when he saw the glare he was getting from Spider-man again that seemed even darker than the last one "I mean…I would be happy to…"

Widow smirked at the man before she looked towards Spider-man and held out a hand "Thanks for the help tonight Spider-man"

Peter took her's with his own hand and nodded "Anything for a fellow Web Warrior Black Widow!"

Teresa gave the man a blank gaze while Wonder Woman giggled and Hal snorted

"Web Warrior?" Green Lantern snickered as he made a platform for Black Widow to stand on while he flew her back to the CIA's headquarters

"Shut it" Widow grumbled out as she made her way on to the platform that began to rise

"Don't be a stranger!" Spider-man sent her a wave that to the spy's better judgment she returned as she, Lantern, and Black Spider departed, leaving Spider-man, Wonder Woman and a smoking Constantine on the damaged rooftop

Diana looked towards her teammate with an amused grin "Web Warrior?"

Peter shrugged "We're both spider themed heroes. It'll catch on"

"Don't be so sure of yourself…Peter" Diana said with a chuckle before she saw Constantine approach them "And why are you here exactly?"

The mystic user pointed towards her friend "The guy I'm apprenticing under wants to meet with him"

"Who and why?" Peter asked with some suspicion

"His name is Nick Necro and he wouldn't say, only that it was important that you meet with him is all" John said as he took a drag from his cigarette

Peter groaned at the sound of the man's name "Oh fantastic"

"You know him?" Diana asked with a raised brow

"Yeah, a few weeks ago" Peter said as he rubbed his head "Thinks he's the greatest mage in all of New York City and is a real bastard"

"That's basically him in a nut shell" John nodded in agreement as he took another drag from his vice

Peter eyed the man before him for a moment before he gave a reluctant nod "Fine I'll meet the guy, where is it?"

"The Oblivion Bar" John said with a shrug

"Oh… is it the place over by Chinatown, across from that old book shop with the creepy old lady that I think may be a Deatheater in disguise" Peter said with a slightly surprised expression

"You know where it is?" John said in complete shock

"Well no, I mean I knew that that place had something hidden by some powerful magic but I didn't know it was the Oblivion Bar is all…" Peter said with a shrug before he turned towards Diana "Well thanks for helping me with Black Spider back there…"

"Do you want me to go?" Diana asked with a raised brow while secretly hoping that Peter said no. Tonight was starting to turn into all kinds of fun and she rather not miss out on it

Peter stared at her in slight surprise before he nodded "Uh yeah sure, I mean if you want is all, wait what about Steve?"

"I'll worry about Steve Spider-man" Diana said with a pleased smile as she turned and began to make her way towards the edge of the building "Now let's go see what this Mr. Necro wants to discuss with you"

Peter and John watched her go before they both exchanged glances and shrugged and quickly followed after the warrior woman