Chapter 4 - A new visitor
New York, July 27th
Naruto stood on the top of maximum security prison as he watched a giant red haired woman crash through a building. Stryker Island was no Belle Reve but it was a close second. His eyes watched as Wonder Woman flew to levitate in front of the downed woman. (Wonder Woman has her Justice League: War appearance)
"Come on, Giganta." Wonder Woman admonished and the gigantic woman glared up at her. "How long are you going to be Grodd's errand girl?"
"As long as he needs me." The giant red haired woman returned to the Amazon.
"Every time we fight, I always win. What makes you think this time will be any different?" Wonder Woman questioned Giganta as the woman smirked up at her.
"Because this time... I brought some help." With those words, Naruto's eyes narrowed as a chalky white figure dressed in an outfit similar to Superman sailed through the air.
"Bizarro's here to save the day!" The figure sang in a less than perfect voice before his fists crashed into the Amazon. Wonder Woman flew backwards into the Earth, causing a large dust cloud to rise. As she rose to her feet, her eyes took in Bizarro and Giganta grinning before her.
Their attention was taken from Wonder Woman as some of the security guards fired their weapons at the two villains. It did not affect them but it did annoy them. Giganta smashed the tower the guards were on, causing it to break and it would have killed the guards as they would have been crushed by the debris, and Naruto not secretly opened portals to get them to safety.
The guards now dealt with, Giganta saw the cell block her 'beloved' ape boyfriend was in. She over stomped to free him, when a portal opened up between her and the cell block and out walked Naruto. "Get out of the way, tiny," Giganta demanded of Naruto.
Naruto shrugged and opened a small portal to his right side and Giganta thought he was pulling out a weapon. But it was no weapon that Naruto pulled out. No, it was a magnificent and complex read. It was the 2nd book of GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire series.
It was A Clash of Kings.
Naruto opened up the book to where his book marker was and began reading. He got through two sentences before Giganta's voice was heard, "Umm, what are you doing?" She should be trying to free Grodd but it was just…bizarre. Normally, heroes would try to stop her but he was just reading.
"What does it look like? I'm reading." Naruto said, not even looking at her as he moved to the next page.
"I can see that. I mean, why are you reading right now? Aren't you supposed to be, you know, trying to stop me?" Giganta said, still stunned at the young hero's audacity.
"Don't let it bother you. With your weak attacks, it doesn't really matter if I'm reading or whatever." Naruto said as he flipped a page. His nonchalant response angered Giganta enough that she decided to teach this arrogant hero a lesson. She raised her foot high and stomped down hard, destroying the pavement and creating a crater. She smirked as the arrogant hero was now paste underneath her heel. Or at least he should be. Instead of red paste, she felt resistance.
"Like I said," Naruto's came as he forced her foot up with one hand while still reading his book. "It really doesn't matter." Naruto forced her off of him with his superior strength, causing her to fall backwards. Naruto then opened a portal right next to her face and quickly entered it, appearing in mid air right next to Giganta's face as he socked her with a right hook, knocking her out.
Naruto landed on his feet and reopened his book as Giganta returned to normal size and the guards came forward with a inhibitor collar. "Damn, lost my page." Naruto complained.
Back with Wonderwoman
"Enough, Bizarro. Can't you see Giganta's just using you?" The Amazonian tried to reason with the reasonless Kryptonian clone. It was amazing that she did. Maybe she felt some sympathy for the poor demented creature. But, it was for naught. Bizarro stared at her before plowing into her abdomen, sending her skidding away. Bizzaro's attention was then turned to Giganta, who had fallen unconscious and returned to normal size, complete with a power inhibiting collar. Naruto stood in front of her, reading.
"Yes!" Bizarro cried out in fury. Given he was a twisted, malformed version of Superman, everything he typically said was actually opposite of what he meant. He sped forward and punched Naruto. Naruto sailed through the air before crashing into the ground.
Bizarro landed near Naruto. "Boy made Bizarro succeed his love! Boy will live for that!" The Superman clone cried out towards Naruto, meaning to kill Naruto.
Naruto cracked his neck a couple times and spit out some blood. "That actually hurt." Naruto said in wonderment. "So, this is how much I can handle right now."
Bizarro tilted his head at Naruto in confusion before shooting forwards, attempting to slam into Naruto again. The redhead sidestepped the insane creature, driving his fist into Bizzaro's gut, causing the monster to gasp as he was blown through a wall of the prison.
'Damn it, I need to get him away from here, else our fight will unleash the prisoners.' Naruto thought. He closed the book he was holding and opened a portal to toss it back into his room at the Cave. "Guess I won't be able to read with this one."
Bizarro shook the cobwebs out of his head and flew at Naruto, throwing a wild punch to take Naruto's head off. Naruto ducked and weaved, delivering two harsh jabs to the monster's face. Bizarro swiped at him twice more before Naruto caught the 2nd punch by Bizarro's wrist, twisted and threw Bizarro over his shoulder, slamming him into the ground, before slamming his free fist into Bizarro's face, kicking up a plume of dust. Naruto then opened a portal and threw Bizarro through, before jumping through a different one himself.
"Batman," Wonder Woman said as she tapped her earpiece.
"Go, Diana," Batman told her.
"Naruto just threw Bizarro through one of his portals. I need to know where he's going to come out of it." Wonder Woman said. Diana knew Naruto was strong, but she wasn't sure he could handle Bizarro on his own. He needed.
Kansas
The stormy portal opened up within the cornfields of Kansas state. As Bizarro came out of the portal, Naruto appeared him and delivered a double hammer blow, slamming Bizarro's face into the ground.
Bizarro was quickly back on his feet, dodging a few punches thrown by his red haired adversary. "Not bad." Naruto spoke as he lashed out with a vicious straight kick to Bizarro's jaw before pivoting and driving his fist into Bizarro's stomach. "But not good enough". The villainous Superman would be stumbled backwards from the blow as Naruto rushed forwards, his elbow plowing into his enemies abdomen. Bizarro tried to recover and punch Naruto but Naruto caught the arm and used Bizarro's momentum to throw him into the dirt, before punching him in the face, creating a crater.
Bizarro released a cry of rage and punched Naruto, sending him rolling across the ground. Lasers shot from the creatures eyes, plowing into Naruto's back. The red grit his teeth painfully.
Swinging around, the back of Naruto's hand collided with his enemies skull. The clone's stumbled backwards before a fist slammed into Naruto's chin. The amnesiac stumbled backwards from the blow as Bizarro made to slam into him again. On pure reflex, Naruto launched himself into the air, rolling over his enemies caped back. Naruto arm latched around Bizarro's neck and threw him into the air just as Diana came speeding through the air and slammed into Bizarro, sending him skidding nearly a mile.
"Need a hand?" Diana asked.
Naruto sighed as Bizarro was giving him trouble. "I certainly wouldn't be opposed to help. I don't suppose you have a way of subduing him more quickly."
"I do," Wonder Woman said as she showed him a inhibitor collar, "Once this is on his neck, it will prevent him from using any of his powers."
"Well then, we best not waste any more time." Naruto said as he stepped and entered a Muay Thai stance. Naruto blocked a viscous swing from the speeding Bizarro and drove his fist into Bizarro's stomach. The monster gasped and threw several wild swing's at Naruto, though Naruto ducked and weaved through them before delivering three counter jabs to Bizarro's face. Naruto then delivered two straight kicks to Bizarro's jaw before delivering a round house kick to Bizarro's face, sending the creature skidding across the ground.
Bizarro got back up and rushed at Naruto, only for Naruto to turn intangible and allow Bizarro to pass through him. Bizarro was then kicked in the back by Naruto as he turned tangible again. Wonder Woman pulled out her lasso and wrapped it around Bizarro's neck, pulling him to her and upper cutting him high into the sky. She flew up and punched Bizarro back to the ground. Naruto came up and slammed his knee into Bizarro's back right before he hit the dirt, abruptly stopping the creatures descent, before double slamming his fists into Bizarro.
Bizarro was groggy from the repeated attacks and didn't put up much resistance when Naruto came up behind him and locked his arms from behind him, allowing Diana to put the inhibitor collar on his neck. Bizarro immediately felt his strength leave him. "Bizarro no feel so good."
"I Bet you don't," Naruto said as he punched Bizarro unconscious.
Wonder Woman and Naruto looked down at Bizarro before she placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder. "Good Job." She complimented.
Later
"You handled yourself well against Bizarro." Wonder Woman said as Bizarro was dragged away by several members of the League to a secure location.
"Thank you, Wonder Woman. That means a great deal coming from you." Naruto acknowledged.
"Though, I was somewhat concerned when you went after him on your own. Bizarro, though he is a flawed and much weaker clone of Superman, is still leagues above someone like Devastation." Wonder Woman chastised him.
"In time, everybody learns what it's like to lose. So why run from it? If I fail, then I fail." Naruto stated, "In my defense though, Devastation couldn't even tickle me, so there was no conceivable way to know what I could not handle."
"Even so, I came here looking for you, not Bizarro. There is something that I wanted to ask you." Naruto said.
"Well, I've got time now that Bizarro and Giganta have been dealt with." Diana said.
"I was wondering if you would could consider becoming my sparring partner and if I could learn your fighting styles." Naruto stated.
"It sounds like your looking for a mentor," Wonder Woman said.
"Not exactly. I like my team, but I can't spar with any of them. While I can hold my strength back so they don't die, none of their attacks can hurt me, so sparring against me wouldn't be very useful. I need a sparring partner that can take the hits and one that can hurt me. And boxing and Muay Thai is good and all, but I need a style that can better compliment my strength and durability."
"That's still sounds like your asking for me to mentor you." Wonder Woman deadpanned.
Naruto thought about it for several moments and realized that it did sound like that. "Okay fine, it does sound like that, but I'm not asking to be your protégé and one day take your place. I already got the codename figured out. I just want to train with you and learn from you, Diana of Themyscira, not become your sidekick and eventual replacement." Naruto said.
Diana thought it over. She did not have a sidekick or student like the others. She also was not sure she wanted one yet. This would be a good way to see what that might be like, having an apprentice. "I'll come to the Cave tomorrow. And we will see if you have what it takes to spar with me."
Mount Justice, July 28th , 10:00 am
Naruto's feet skidded along the ground as he was punched back by Diana, his arms held up in an X-guard.
"Well, you certainly can take my hits," Wonder Woman said as she walked into view, sporting some bruises.
"Did you think I was lying?" Naruto teased, uncrossing his arms and showing a bloody lip as well as other bruises.
"No, but most can't handle the level of strength I'm currently using." Diana said.
"So then, you are still holding back." Naruto said as he cracked his neck.
"If I didn't hold back, there would be a lot less villains and people in the world." Diana said. People like her and Superman were immeasurably strong. Diana was nearly Superman's equal. People like them had to hold back, since they did not kill their villains. But fighting at their true strength all the time was irresponsible. It could cost innocent civilians their lives, and so, they only fight at the level they need to fight. Still, Naruto was quite strong and very durable, capable of handling much more of her strength than Devastation or Bizarro. He wasn't at her's and Superman's true strength yet but he very well may get there one day.
"Now let's move on to weapons." Diana said as she picked up her shield and a blunted version of her sword.
"Got my own right here." Naruto said as he reached into a portal and pulled out a blunted version of the double-edged sword that Thanos had used in his earlier life before acquiring the Gauntlet.
They both assumed stances and Wonder Woman gave a smirk. "Show me what you've got."
"With pleasure", Naruto said before he jumped into the air and his sword clashed with Wonder Woman's.
1 pm
"You did well today. I'll come by in the morning tomorrow and start teaching one of my styles." Wonder Woman said to Naruto as she walked to the Zeta tube, sporting more bruises than she had a few hours ago.
"Awesome," Naruto tiredly said with a thumbs up from his spot on the floor. Wonder Woman chuckled a little as she was beginning to enjoy this, and would enjoy training this kid.
As she stepped through the Zeta Tube, Naruto lay there on the floor of the training room tiredly, sporting many more bruises that were already healing thanks to his healing factor, and would be good in a few minutes.
M'gann had been watching this 'training session', which was more akin to a fight to the death between two demi-gods, minus the lethal part. She had been concerned for her not-so-secret crush and couldn't intervene earlier, but now that the fight was done, she flew over to help him. "Naruto! Are you okay?"
"I'm okay, M'gann. I'm fine. Seriously, look," Naruto said. Though touched by her worry over his injuries, it was not necessary. He pointed to his bruises and showed they were more or less already healed up. M'gann saw that the bruises were already healing and shrinking and revealing healthy skin.
"Would you do me a small favor and carry me to the couch so I can rest some? I'll make us dinner later." Naruto bribed. He was more than aware of her crush on him. He also liked her in that sense, and wanted to use to tonight to maybe start a relationship with her.
6pm
"Mm, this is really good," M'gann moaned in delight as she dug into her steak that Naruto made.
"I'm glad you like it," Naruto said as he ate his own steak. "That was my first time cooking Steak on a grill. I thought for a minute I had overdone it, but I'm glad it turned out good."
"I was a little unsure about eating it when it was a bit bloody, but I'm glad you didn't cook more than that." M'gann complimented.
"If I had cooked it until the steak was well done, it would have been like trying to eat the leather on my boots. I like leather, but not that much," Naruto joked and M'gann giggled.
"Hey, can I ask you something?" M'gann asked.
"Sure, what is it?" Naruto asked.
"Why did you want to train under Wonder Woman?" M'gann asked.
"Well, you know how I learned how to control my strength so I don't accidentally break someone's spine when I hug them right?" M'gann nodded and he continued. "Well, I can't turn off my durability and reflexes. No human without super strength equivalent to or near Bizarro's could possibly injure me. Plus Wonder Woman is said to be the best melee fighter in the whole world. That's a quote from Batman, by the way."
"Plus, I was getting a little arrogant. I was starting to think that I was invincible, that I could defeat anyone who came after me, even Superman and Wonder Woman. I needed that eye opener. To see that I am not the strongest. Not yet, anyway. It was humbling. The last thing that I want on my conscious is getting any of the team killed, you especially, because I became complacent and arrogant."
M'gann, seeing how the thought of losing any of the team affected him so, reached her hand out and placed it on top of his. Naruto saw this and took her hand in his and they stared deep into each others eyes.
They might have done more, had an alarm not gone off. "Alert: Unidentified object approaching the cave. ETA 2 minutes. At it's current trajectory, it will crash into and destroy the mountain. Evacuate the cave immediately." The computers voice came.
Naruto expanded his senses to sense what this object was and while it was coming from space, it was no asteroid. It was a…
Naruto bolted from his seat and ran outside to see a fireball breaking through the atmosphere.
Naruto focused his powers and raised his hands, a layer of blue energy covering the ship before it slowed down. Naruto was able to slow it down so instead of slamming into the cave like an asteroid, Naruto guided it gently toward the ground. M'gann came up behind Naruto.
"It's some kind of ship." M'gann said as she looked at the ship, "but it's not any that I recognize."
"And then there's this," Naruto said as he looked at the characters, which he assumed were words in an alien language. He knew seven languages but not this language.
Then the glass window on the ship was smashed off, and steam rolled out. Naruto was immediately on guard. "Get ready for a fight, M'gann." Naruto said as he assumed his boxing stance and M'gann floated in the air, her eyes glowing. Soon enough they saw a feminine figure through the steam.
"Who are you?" Naruto demanded, and the woman stayed in the steam, speaking some kind of language which Naruto nor M'gann understood.
"Great, I can't tell what she is trying to say." Naruto groaned in annoyance. This was gonna make things much more difficult.
"Give me a second. I might be able to help with that." M'gann said telepathically as she then mentally established a link between Naruto, herself and the woman. 'Okay, try it again.'
"Can you understand me now?" Naruto asked and the woman in the steam nodded.
"Yes, how did you that?" the girl asked.
"That's my doing. I'm acting as a physic translator. You're still speaking your language and we speak ours, but we all understand each other now." M'gann said
"Can you maybe step into the light? I wouldn't mind seeing who I'm talking to." Naruto said.
"I would, but…um…" The woman sounded unsure about something. Naruto's eyes narrowed before they widened as his enhanced senses allowed him to see why.
"You're naked, aren't you?" Naruto asked as she nodded through the steam, though it was starting to clear. Naruto took off his jacket and held it out for her. "Here. Wear this and cover yourself up." The woman slowly took the jacket and put it on before stepping into the light. She had fair skin, long blonde hair, blue eyes, and a beautiful figure, even though she had covered herself with Naruto's jacket.
"So, now that we are past the language barrier, some introductions. I'm Naruto, this is M'gann." Naruto gestured to M'gann, who waved nervously, as they still didn't know what this alien girl wanted.
"I'm Kara Zor-El." The now-named Kara said before looking around frantically. "This is Earth, right?"
"Yeah. Which begs the question, why did you come to this planet?" M'gann asked.
"I-I'm looking for my cousin, Kal-El. We're from Krypton and I…" She could not get any more words out, as she appeared to be exhausted and she fell forward, unconscious.
Naruto was by her side before she hit the dirt, holding her steady. "Easy, Kara. I've got you."
"M'gann, head back to the cave. Call Superman and Batman and get them here immediately. This is an emergency." Naruto said as he stood and was carrying Kara bridal style. Naruto telekineticly levitated Kara's ship and it floated in the air, trailing behind him as he walked back to the cave. He would not normally bring foreign tech into the base, but he couldn't leave it outside either for some tourist to find.
Mount Justice
Naruto had Kara on a bed in the med-bay, covered by a white sheet. Genso was in the room as well. Naruto was having the computer run a bio scan, make sure there was nothing wrong with her and to confirm her claim.
"Recognized: Batman, 02. Superman, 01." Came the computers voice from the teleporter.
"They're here. Would you go bring them here, please?" Naruto asked M'gann.
"Sure, I'll bring them here." M'gann said as she flew through the cave.
While he waited for M'gann to bring Superman and Batman, Naruto continued performing bio scans on her. The concluded that she was at least not human. She might very well be Kryptonian like she claimed.
Kara woke up at that moment. Frightened as she was in a new environment that she didn't recognize. "What are you doing to me!?" She demanded, though Naruto could not understand what she was saying, as M'gann must have forgotten to keep the psychic translation going. Her eyes glowed red and without realizing it, unleashed her heat vision at Naruto. Naruto put his arms up and blocked the red lasers, as they scattered on impact. Kara's cried out as she didn't mean to do that, and covered her eyes, unwittingly floating into the air.
It was then that Superman gently grabbed her ankle and the two began talking in Kryptonian. While that was happening, M'gann came up to Naruto. "Did she hurt you?" M'gann asked.
"It's not as bad as it looks." Naruto said the little bit of damage caused by Kara's eye beams healed up.
"This Kara Zor-El, from Krypton. She's my cousin." Clark said as he and Kara landed back on the ground.
"Your cousin torched $50,000 worth of custom hardware." Batman pointed out as he gestured to the burning equipment. When Naruto had blocked the heat vision, the beams and splintered into other beams that went in every direction,burning some of the med-bay's equipment.
"Send me the bill." Superman said.
"On a reporters salary? Right," Batman said sarcastically.
"Not to break up the family reunion, but if Kara needs a place to stay, Mount Justice has 10 other free rooms that aren't being used." Naruto offered.
"Thanks, but I was hoping she might stay at the Fortress until she got a hang of her powers." Superman said.
"You mean that fortress you have in the artic?" Naruto asked and Clark was surprised he knew. "Diana told me while we were sparring today. Look, point is, Kara needs to interact with people and learn Earth's culture if she's going to stay here. Plus, she needs to learn how to control her powers, like you said. M'gann and I can help accomplish both. You have a busy schedule and can't see her all the time. At least this way, when you're not busy, you can come by and she won't suffer from your absence."
Superman turned to ask Kara and they spoke in their native Kryptonian language. 'I wish I knew what they were saying.' Naruto thought. Then got an idea.
'Genso, please download the Kryptonian language into my brain, please.' He communicated with Genso.
"Of course, Naruto-san. This will take a moment." Genso said telepathically as he linked to Kara's mind and downloaded the Kryptonian language to Naruto.
"All done." Genso said telepathically and Naruto could now understand what they were saying.
Kara stepped forward a bit and said to Naruto, "I'm sorry about earlier."
"Don't worry about it," Naruto said back in Kryptonian, shocking Superman and Kara, "No real harm was done."
"You speak Kryptonian? How? You couldn't before?" Kara asked in shock.
"I have this little guy to thank." Naruto said as he stroked Genso's chin, who purred at the action, "I had Genso here download the Krytponian language to my mind while you two were talking. So, would you like to stay?"
"I think I would." Kara said.
"Great. I'll let you and your cousin have a few moments and then we'll help get you settled in." Naruto said as he and M'gann walked out.
"That was really nice what you did for her." M'gann said as they spoke telepathically.
"I like to think I have a generous heart. Besides, leaving her alone in an ice fortress is pointless when we can have her here, learning Earth culture and training her powers, interacting with people." Naruto said back.
"Yeah, it'll be just like having a sister. I mean, I have a lot on Mar's but it's not quite the same." M'gann said.
"Because she'd actually be able to relate to what your going through, adapting to Earth culture and all that." Naruto guessed and M'gann nodded.
"You know," M'gann said as she became a little nervous and acted cute, "Earlier, before all the excitement, we were having a moment."
"Well, lets pick up where we left off." Naruto said as he pulled her close to him, the two of them wrapping their arms around each other and kissing each other passionately.
Chapter End
I wasn't sure who I wanted to bring in for this chapter. Either Supergirl or her clone, Galatea, from DCAU. Ultimately I settled on Supergirl.
Infinity got the most suggestions, so Naruto's hero name will be Infinity.
Still not decided on harem yet.