Spider-Man Reincarnated in the DC Multiverse

Chapter 11: Chapter 11: The Canary’s Cry



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A Street Echo

The neon buzz of Blüdhaven's nightlife pressed in from every direction glow signs flickering in mirror-shattered windows, bass from distant clubs rumbled through cracked concrete, and the scent of salt and diesel curled around every corner. Peter Parker stood on a warehouse rooftop at dawn, masked and still, staring down at a scene that had the pulse of impending violence.

Below, four men with custom tactical gear boarded a black van plastered with a red insignia three slashes inside a broken circle, the same symbol he'd seen haunting his steps for weeks. Their captain turned back, scanning the rooftops with a handheld drone, his demeanor clinical, predatory.

Peter flexed his fingers. He should move. Intervene. But trust trust still wasn't a luxury he could afford. Gotham had taught him that.

A soft hum rippled through the air as a second drone came overhead. Peter snapped up the camera, webbing it shut mid-air. The sound went silent. He lowered himself, using the darkness as camouflage, as he descended the neighboring building for a tactical entrance.

A swoop of black leather. A tilt of blond hair. A whistle sliced the dawn's haze, moving closer to the van.

Black Canary.

They landed together behind the van, shadows merging.

She kept her voice low: "I counted three suspects. High-grade reinforced consoles. What's your read?"

Peter weighed the moment, then nodded. "Heavily encrypted. Central server's in that rear hatch." He pointed. "I can knock out the AV units cut off your sniper lanes. Then we move."

She smiled sharp, approving. "Sounds good. Team Parker-By-Night, then?"

Peter let himself smile back. "Why not?"

Siren in Silence

They moved in coordination. Canary laced forward, sequentially knocking out the two goons at the rear with precise jabs hands like pistons. Peter followed, dulling the tech-based operators: two with suppressed tasers, one with a rifle.

They cleared the van in under thirty seconds.

Inside, the van resembled a mobile command center three consoles, racks of cabling, a bank of screens showing live satellite feeds. The symbol on the side glowed faintly in the console light.

Canary surveyed the panels: "These guys are mapping energy signatures. Quantum shifts. Multiverse targets."

Peter's jaw clenched.

One console displayed two faces: himself and Black Canary, labeled "Subject Variants #1473, #4262."

Her eyes went hard. "He's watching us."

Peter turned to the server console. "Let's see if we can make it watch us back."

He began working the panel. Canary crouched beside him, scanning the horizon. "They're good fast and coordinated. Probably Lex-backed, but not overtly identical to his goons."

"Maybe part of a larger operation," Peter said.

Canary watched him type commands. "Energy bleed, quantum echoes… his file. I can't override it from here."

Peter expelled a breath. "Let's change that."

He spotted a manual override port beneath the console. As he plugged in a device, Canary spotted movement behind them distant flashes from rooftop vents.

"Mostly rooftops. Two squads," she said. "You want to stay in here, or outside?"

Peter barely heard her. His eyes focused on the screen: flickers of code, error messages, countdown override. His hands moved fast, but thoughts raced faster.

"Got it."

The terminal alarmed with a soft beep. A green overlay flashed: Access Granted. Divergence Override Activated.

Peter grinned at Canary.

"Let's light it up."

Fight Light's Edge

They burst outside in synchronized motion.

Peter webbed the door shut; Canary followed with a can of sonic charge she crushed. It erupted in a silent boom, disabling electronics drones fell with static sizzles, lights popped and fizzed.

The squads attacked, opting for frontal assault, their shots ricocheting off converted metal and broken concrete.

Canary took two down with an angle-kick and a silence-infused shout. One went limp, collapsing in luminous aftershock. Another pilot spun through metal boxes.

Peter vaulted, scattered webs, knocking out two rifle-wielders. One rogue grabbed him; he reversed into a punch that cracked ribs.

They moved like choreographed tension, Eagles of combat and tech.

A command voice over bolted through the smog, threatening reinforcement.

Canary met Peter's eyes. "Need to go."

He nodded. "On you."

They leapt, dropping from the alley into separate paths she vanished amid fire escapes; he swung, tumbling away.

The Sirens' Conversation

Peter perched on a lamppost as dawn broke over Blüdhaven, patching his stomach with webbing.

Canary slid next to him.

"You okay?" she asked.

He wiped rain from his brow. "My shoulder's tweaked, but yeah."

She hunched on the lamp's rim. "You keep saving me, but I keep saving you. Guess that's what teams do."

Peter smiled softly. "I'm glad it's you."

She didn't smile. Then she exhaled, stern: "We did good. And we got them locked out."

He nodded.

A cloud passed. "So… what now?"

Canary flicked eye to horizon. "These guys have resources. More tied to multiversal energy. Lex can't claim it."

"So who can?"

She looked at him intently. "That's a question you'll have to figure out… but I'm willing to help."

Peter's heart squeezed at the vulnerability. "Canary… I appreciate it."

She shrugged. "Just don't call me sidekick."

They looked at each other across distance and strength.

"No," he said. "No sidekicks."

Trust Forged in Dawn

Later, in a safehouse lined with hackable tech and night-vision plates, they reviewed footage.

Canary had hacked reroutes and visuals of Lex handlers, equipment logs showing echoes of cosmic radiation their subjects had, at one point, coincided with Peter's quantum frequency.

Peter looked at her. "What's the next move?"

Canary kissed her knuckles. "We follow the trail. Connect the dots LexCorp → these tech squads → bigger operators."

He weighed the possibilities. "We can't do this alone."

"We won't." Canary's eyes narrowed. "Batman, Oracle maybe even Superman. But first: us."

They reached across the table, hands meeting.

Peter asked softly, "Do you… trust me?"

Her gaze softened. "I trust you."

He released a breath. "Then let's keep moving."

Echoes and Threats

The early hours bled into mid-morning light as Peter and Canary scaled a steel stairway outside the safehouse metal beams stitching the city skyline.

Peter asked, technical: "How do you… do the canary cry?"

Canary paused, looked at him. "Heart hammered, throat wound tight. I tap frequency… serialize sonic arrays at edges of perception. No screen can stop me."

Peter looked at his hands scuffed, bleeding, still trembling from the previous fight. "Sounds intense."

She tilted her head. "I've been training since I was a kid. Streets and promotions, clubs and riots. Gotham's taught me how to survive… and this world just gave me a bigger scape."

Peter looked at her. "So did I."

Silence drifted between them, full of unspoken stories.

Then she touched his shoulder lightly. "Promise me one thing."

He looked at her. "What?"

"Keep your humor." Her voice even tones a plea. "The world around here needs it. And so do I."

He laughed quietly. "Deal."

 

Seeds of an Alliance

They parted at sunrise Canary for a meeting with Oracle in Detroit's metastation; Peter circling back to Metropolis.

Each carried new purpose.

Their minds, still intertwined with the fight ahead.

In a hidden corner of WayneTech, a blue text flashed on Canary's secure pad: Fiber-optic intercepts: LexCorp's Subject Log includes energies from Apokolips.

> Alert: Possible ancient power rediscovery

Meanwhile, as Peter touched down on a Metropolis rooftop, he caught himself humming a soft tune from a comic he used to read. He felt the ring Zatanna gave him warm, and his spider-sense whispered not a warning but a promise.

Not just to protect his new world.

But to help shape it.

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