Another Vigilante?

Next Time?

"Ok, alright. So i'm gonna move in front of you and grab your other hand as well, okay?" Peter said "okay." Dick answered. As Peter moved he asked if Dick had his mask on. He already knew the correct answer but he didn't know what Dick was seeing. "So you have your mask on, right?" Peter clarified, Dick nodded in response. "Follow my hands, i don't want to pull you. Alright now take these two fingers," Peter tapped on Dick's pointer and middle fingers "and we're gonna run them along where your mask is" as soon as Dick's fingers went around his eyes a few times he realized his mask was an illusion. All of a sudden he couldn't feel the mask on his face anymore.

"Am i wearing my suit? Or am i wearing what we went to Stephen's in?" Dick asked "what we went to Stephen's in, here feel the jeans? And the cloth shirt?" Peter took Dick's hands to his jeans and shirt. Again suddenly Dick's suit changed into what he was wearing before. "Is it, raining?" He asked trying to go through everything one by one but also as fast as he could. "No, here feel your hair. Is it wet at all?" Peter answered. Dick's hands left Peter's and went to touch his hair. Once again he found it was dry and so it wasn't raining anymore. "Are we on a rooftop?" "No If you extend your left arm you should feel a wall." Dick extended his left arm and, sure enough, it hit a wall.

Now Dick was in Peter's apartment, but he couldn't see Peter. Instead of Peter standing in front of him, it was Catalina. "Hey Peter?" "Yeah" When Peter spoke Catalina's mouth moved but, it was still Peter's voice? No it wasn't? Was it?! Dick couldn't tell. Dick's shaking came back and Peter reached his right hand forward "NO!!" Dick shouted "i'm sorry. Could you just stay over there Peter? I gotta do this one on my own" "i'm sorry, I probably don't look like Peter to you right now. I'll stay over here" Peter apologized, he hadn't thought about himself being different for Dick.

Dick took a few steps back and breathed deeply. The only thing he was forcing himself to think was "breath in, breath out" over and over again. After a few minutes Dick stopped shaking and focused now on how to get Peter back. Even though Dick wanted to simultaneously run out of Peter's apartment and also punch Catalina's illusion. He instead ran at Peter and hugged him, surprisingly it worked. Peter became Peter immediately after Dick realized Peter was taller than Catalina.

"Um, hey. You okay now? No more illusions?" Peter asked. "Yeah, no more." Dick answered letting go of Peter and taking a step back, he was also relieved that the illusion ended before he could be tricked into reliving something he would much rather forget. Peter looked lost in thought for a moment before asking "do you think he's gonna show up to places we are going to?" "He might, that is what he's done so far" Dick answered.

Suddenly the two heard clapping "good job escaping the illusion. Maybe next time i'll just have to attack both of you." Mysterio said before disappearing once again in a green cloud of smoke. "Ah jeez, next time? I haven't really dealt with his new illusions. The only time i did, Stephen took the most care of it." Peter said "well you know how to deal with them right? I mean you just helped me and you've fought him before." Dick said trying to be encouraging. "But I wasn't to sure what i was doing with you was going to work, that was completely chance. And when i fought him before he was using drones and all i had to do was close my eyes and use my spider sense" Peter told Dick.

After a few minutes the duo decided they would deal with him when he showed up, they had just dealt with him and felt that they at least knew how to get Dick out of an illusion. "So uh, what do you want to eat? It's way past the time we normally eat so i was wondering?" Peter asked. The two ended up making grilled cheese and Dick still hadn't gone over the sheer amount of food Peter had to eat. After they ate they played some video games on Peter's couch before eventually both falling asleep right next to each other.

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