AN: This took me far longer to write than it should have, but life has kept me busy so I haven't had as much time to write as I would like and that contributed to why this was delayed. Hopefully my update on my NarutoxShaman King fic won't take nearly as long as this did especially because I have some of it done, not a lot but some of it.
Next thing people have continuously pointed out that Naruto can fly. This is a fact that I am aware of, I've read the magna since just after Sasuke's fight with Itachi so yes I know that Naruto could fly. The reason I didn't have him fly is because it is part of the story and the reason why will be explained. Another thing I'm sure people will bring up is Naruto's ability to breath in space. Since technically the events of the Last Naruto movie hadn't taken place he is not aware that he can breathe in space, something else that will eventually be brought up.
Another thing this will be a NarutoxDianaxKara pairing with one more person possible in the future. That is to say that their won't be other women interested in Naruto just that Diana and Kara will be the only ones he's actually with.
Now that I got all that out of the way on with the story.
Disclaimer I do NOT own Naruto, Justice League, or anything else that might appear in this fic.
Chapter 2: Supergirl
"Talking"
'Thinking'
(Author Notes)
Naruto stood on the edge of a skyscraper in his Fox costume looking down at a random city before leaning forward and letting himself' fall over the edge. For a moment Naruto let himself enjoy the sensation of falling as wind swept through his sun-kissed blonde hair, before he flipped himself around and disappeared in a yellow flash. The people in the city not being given enough time to even register that it looked like someone was falling to their death.
When Naruto reappeared in another yellow flash he landed in a crouch, his hood once more covering his wild blonde hair, and then he shot off across a rooftop, the scenery around him completely different from what it was a few seconds ago. Unlike most Heroes who based themselves in one city, and occasionally ventured out to others if it proved necessary, with his father's Hiraishin Naruto could warp to any city that he had tagged with the Hiraishin seal allowing travel across the country in a matter of seconds. As such Naruto wasn't based in a single city and instead went where he thought he could help.
At the moment things seemed to be pretty quiet, at least nothing that needed him to get involved with, so Naruto was taking this time to relax a little. It had been about a month since the parasite like aliens invaded and the Justice League was formed and things had started to return to normal. Or whatever classified as normal in a world filled with superheroes and villains. Currently the League members were either out on assignment, Superman, in their chosen cities, Batman, or monitoring things from Watchtower, J'onn, Hawkgirl, and Flash. Diana, or as the media had started to call her Wonder Woman, was out exploring the world and getting accustomed to it.
"Fox,"
'Well that didn't last long.' Naruto thought, using two fingers to activate the earpiece in his left ear that acted as his communicator for the Justice League. "Fox here, what's the situation J'onn?" The fox themed Hero asked looking up to the sky as if he could see his green skinned comrade.
"We have three unknowns from space currently making their way to where we have determined to be the city of Detroit." The Martian informed. "Hawkgirl, Flash, and I are currently on route to intercept them."
"Detroit?" Naruto repeated. "Isn't that Green Lantern's home city? Do you think it has something to do with him?" He asked. Because Green Lantern didn't hide his identity like most Heroes did it was made common knowledge among the League where the dark skinned man was from.
"It is uncertain," J'onn replied. "We have been unable to get in contact with him."
"Alright I'll be right there." Naruto said.
"Understood," The Martian Man Hunter answered before cutting the connection.
Using the Hiraishin Naruto appeared in Detroit. Since forming the Justice League Naruto had made sure that he had a few Hiraishin markers in both Detroit and Central city the home city of Green Lantern and Flash respectively in case he ever needed to get either city quickly, like he had done before hand with both Gotham and Metropolis. Closing his eyes Naruto tried to sense any strange chakra in the area. The people of Earth did in fact possess chakra, or more specifically just plain life energy, as Naruto had discovered but it was so small and insignificant that Naruto had to be actively searching for chakra to even sense it. At the moment he couldn't feel anything out of the ordinary.
'So either these guys have no chakra or they're machines.' Naruto theorized. Luckily the shinobi was saved from having to search the entire city when he spotted the Javelin, a white ship designed to travel both in space and undersea, to the east of him. With his direction decided Naruto took off across the rooftops.
Fox arrived in time to see Flash lying on the ground with what looked like a robot with a mostly red colored body with blue gloves and boots and holding a staff in its hands, above him. A quick look around revealed that there was a total of three of them. Forming a Rasengan Fox ran at the alien machine, "Rasengan!" The spiraling sphere of destruction slammed into the metal man's midsection as the sound of metal being grinded into was heard throughout the area before the unknown enemy was sent flying back. Turning to Flash, Fox helped the red speedster back to his feet.
"Thanks for the save." Flash thanked.
"No problem. Unlike a certain self-proclaimed Fastest Man in the World I'm not usually late." Fox joked good-naturedly before turning serious. "So do we know what these guys want? Or who they are?" Fox asked.
"No a clue on who they are," Flash replied with a frown. "But they are looking GL." He finished.
The two Heroes conversation was cut short when the other two robots opened fire on them using their staffs and the two were forced to dodge. Hawkgirl flew in from above and managed to hit one of the robots with her mace. She swung around and tried to attack a second but was stopped by the machine using its staff to block her attack before using the end of it to blast her away with a discharge of what looked like electricity and through a window of a restaurant.
The three robots then regrouped with one another and continued their search unconcerned with the people and things around them. Seeing Hawkgirl taken down Flash rushed the group of three but one of them suddenly holding out its staff was enough to see him knocked off his feet and landing painfully on his back.
Fox pulled out some kunai and threw it at them, but like expected none of the robots did anything to block the attack. That's why Fox had a smirk beneath his mask as the last kunai landed at the feet of the robot that was leading his group, an Explosion tag burning away.
Ka-boom!
That smirk soon turned into a scowl as the three robots walked out of the blazing inferno undaunted. A recovered Hawkgirl tried to attack the leader but it simply raised its staff above its head burying it in Hawkgirl's stomach, shocking her in the process before slamming her into the hood of a car. The alien machine stood over Hawkgirl its staff poised to strike, luckily for Hawkgirl something smashed into the robot and drove it into the side of a building.
That something turned out to be the Man of Steel himself. Holding the robot up against the building Superman was about to punch it when he felt something hit his back that stung. Turning around the black haired Hero caught a brief glance of one of the robots holding its staff pointed out at him with its tip smoking a bit before a strong steady blast was unleashed. Fighting against the stream of energy Superman steadily made his way to the robot that was firing on him until he was close enough to reach out with his arms and wretch the staff out of the machine's hands before destroying it completely and proceeding to pick up the robot and toss it at its recovering companion.
"Hey we thought you were busy with an earthquake." Flash pointed out as he appeared behind the Man of Steel.
"It was just a 4.0." Superman answered before looking over at the two downed robots. "You mind telling me what's going on here?"
Flash opened his mouth to answer but a flash from behind them stopped him from saying anything. When they didn't feel any pain what so ever the two Heroes turned around to see Fox standing between them and the third robot with a Hiraishin kunai held between his hands as he blocked a shot from the alien robot. "You guys should really be more careful." Fox warned them as J'onn flew down from the sky and smashed the robot into the car that it had been standing on before he jumped off and the car exploded.
The Martian was walking away from the wreckage not seeing the robot emerge from under the destroyed car, easily lifting it over its head and throwing it at J'onn.
"J'onn!" Flash shouted dashing off and moving J'onn out of the way of the car. In contrast Superman didn't hesitate to move into the path of the destroyed car and stop it with minimal effort. Unfortunately it was at that moment the car exploded in a fiery inferno.
The two opposing groups squared off each getting ready to attack the other; a Rasengan in the palm of Fox's hand, Superman ready to use his Heat Vision, and the alien robots getting ready to fire their laser staves. Just as Superman and the robots opened fire a wall made of green energy appeared between the two groups.
"Stop!" A voice ordered seriously. From a cloud of smoke Green Lantern appeared revealing himself to be the source of the wall. Landing on the ground between the two groups Green Lantern had a grim look on his face.
"Better late than never," Flash said with a smirk on his face. While the others seemed slightly more relieved to see Lantern, Fox could tell that something was wrong and he was only surer of his theory when Green Lantern walked up to the group of three robots and they looked at him expectantly.
"You are the Green Lantern known as John Stewart?" The leader, who Naruto noticed with a fare bit of satisfaction' was the robot that he had slammed his Rasengan into if the slight spiral marking was any indication, asked monotonously.
"I am." Green Lantern answered simply.
"Your ring?" The robot asked holding out its hand. With a pained look on his face Lantern took off his ring and handed it over.
"What are you doing?!" Flash demanded not believing what he was seeing.
"Stay out of this!" Green Lantern snapped looking at the gathered Heroes from over his shoulder before turning back to face the robots.
"You will come with us." The lead robot said as his companion put large metal cuffs on John before they all disappeared in a beam of light that came from the sky, leaving behind a group of stunned League members.
Watchtower
"I sense turmoil, a heavy heart." J'onn said to the others as he looked away from a window that over looked the Earth, informing the others about Green Lantern's state thanks to the psychic that the Martian had with each of the League members.
"I could have told you that." Flash muttered loudly. Naruto wasn't going to say it out loud but he could have also told the group that, his empathy ability letting him pick up a lot of self-loathing from John from the moment that he arrived.
"He's looking at stars." J'onn continued, ignoring Flash's comment.
"But which stars?" Superman asked flying over to a control panel that showed a large holographic map of the universe. The others joined him when he brought it up, J'onn looking at map carefully for the stars that Green Lantern was currently looking at.
"There," J'onn pointed up a group of stars that matched the ones that he saw as Superman brought it up.
"Ajuris 5," The Man of Steel read out loud.
"Okay so we know where he is," Hawkgirl started. "But do we know why he's there to begin with?" She finished looking at the others expectantly.
"It has to be about something that happened while he was away from Earth." Fox pointed out. For the last few years Hal Jordan had been the Green Lantern that monitored the sector that Earth was in until a few months ago when he was reassigned and John Stewart took over. "We just don't know what it is?"
"We can ask him once get to Ajuris 5." Superman decided, "Let's go." He finished as he and the others, with the exception of Fox, started to leave.
"Actually," Fox began, causing everyone to stop and look back at him. "I think it might be better that I stay here."
"What? Why?" Hawkgirl asked curiously.
"Yeah Fox, Lantern needs us." Flash told him.
"I know and I want to help him." Fox replied holding his hands in front of him in his own defense. "But I got a few reasons to stay here. One I don't think it's a good idea to leave Batman and Diana to look after the Earth on their own so soon after the Justice League was formed. Plus with my Shadow clones I can keep an eye on all the monitors in case anything does come up." Fox explained his reasoning getting the others to agree with his reasoning.
A smirk appeared on Flash's face. "Are you sure you don't just want to use this chance to spend some quality time with our Amazon Princess?" Flash teased his friend and rival for the title of "Fastest Man in the World." With a roll of her eyes Hawkgirl started pushing Flash in the direction of the elevator that would take them to the hangar, J'onn following silently behind the pair.
The Man of Steel watched his departing comrades with a smile on his face before returning his attention back to Fox. "Alright we'll see you when we get back." The Kryptonian said before continuing. "Would you mind helping keeping an eye on Metropolis while I am away?" He asked.
A wide grin spread across Fox's face, although Superman couldn't see it unless he used his x-ray vision, instantly figuring out what the Man of Steel was really asking. "Sure," Fox replied. "I've been meaning to visit and this gives me the perfect reason." The shinobi Hero decided before pulling out a Hiraishin kunai and tossing it to the Man of Steel. "Here take this just in case you need my help." Fox added before he and Superman said their goodbyes so that Superman could catch up with the others.
Metropolis
Fox looked down at the city called the City of Tomorrow from where he sat atop the globe of the Daily Planet, doing his best not to draw attention to himself or risk having a certain reporter badger him for an interview. No matter what city Fox visited in the U.S. he had to admit there were few like Metropolis and the city was deserving of its title as the City of Tomorrow.
"Fox!" A female voice shouted from above him the shinobi turned Hero. Looking up Fox spotted Diana flying down towards him.
"Yo," Fox greeted the Amazonian Princess with a wave of his hand. "How was your trip?"
"Enlightening," Diana answered though even she knew how much of understatement what she just said was. Even being out in the world for just a day revealed how everything she learned of the world outside Themyscira was both right and wrong. She learned and witnessed the horrors and injustices that her sisters told her about. But she also found people, men included, that fought against the darkness that corrupted the world doing what they could to help others opposing those that were driven by greed and the desire for power. But she wasn't there to talk about her trip. "One of your clones informed me that you were here. They said there was a situation involving Green Lantern and the others went to investigate."
"That's right," Fox replied standing up, the red scarf around his neck and his cloak billowing in the wind.
"Why wasn't I called?" The raven haired Princess asked.
"There wasn't enough time." Fox answered with a shrug of his shoulders. "The others left as soon as they knew where Lantern was. Since we didn't know what was going on we didn't want to waste any time."
Diana nodded her head in understanding, but looked at Fox curiously, "And yourself? Why did you choose to stay here instead of going with the others to help Green Lantern?" Wonder Woman asked curiously.
"To make sure that you and Batman had enough backup if something happens here." Fox told her honestly. "Besides that a lot of my elemental jutsu would have been restricted while in space." Fox admitted as he would only have use of his Rasengan, Shadow clones, and a few other jutsu. Even with those limitation placed on him Naruto knew that he would be able to take on anything they might come across, but he still felt that it was a better idea that he stayed on Earth. "Since I stayed behind Superman asked me to help keep an eye out here." The shinobi finished. As if in response to his statement the two Heroes could here sirens in the distance. "Looks like duty calls." Fox said, an excited grin spreading under his mask at what was to come, before he kicked off the Daily Planet globe in the direction of the sirens.
Diana blinked a couple of times in surprise not expecting the speed that Fox had taken off in before she flew after him.
"What are you doing?" Wonder Woman asked once she caught up with her comrade and found him standing on a building across from a bank surrounded by Metropolis Police cars.
"Watching, waiting," Fox replied aloofly.
Diana was about to question him some more but the sound of crashing and guns being fired drew her attention down below. "What is that thing?" She asked out loud. Out of the destroyed front doors of the bank walked a huge creature. Its appearance was very similar to that of a human male but that was where all similarities ended. While human in shape and form it was much bigger than any normal man that Diana had ever seen with grey skin, chalk white hair, and yellow colored eyes. It wore a tattered black suit and carried a bag filled with what Wonder Woman assumed to be the currency of the United States.
"Solomon Grundy," Fox responded, "Immortal undead zombie with super strength." He informed her. "Not all that bright though." The shinobi added in the end.
The Amazon Princess watched as the zombie didn't seem to be fazed by the bullets that he was being pelted by, besides being annoyed by them, as he picked up a destroyed door that had been lying at his feet and throwing it at the police officers, causing them to scramble away from it. "We have to stop that thing." Wonder Woman decided about to go down there and confront Grundy only to be stopped when Fox placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Hold on, I'm only here to give help if needed." The fox themed Hero reminded her.
Diana furrowed eyebrows in confusion. "And they don't look like they need help?" Diana questioned gesturing to the cops down below.
"They're not who I'm talking about." Fox said back looking up to the sky and seeing someone flying down towards clash that was happening.
"Then who?"
"You're about to find out." Fox answered simply as Diana followed his gaze.
"That's enough Grundy!" A female voice commanded. The owner of the voice was a girl in her late teens with pale blonde hair that went down to her mid-back with black hair band, dazzling pale blue eyes and luscious red lips. Over her decently sized chest she wore a white shirt that left her slim midriff exposed, a small blue skirt, a red cape, which was nowhere near as long as Superman's or Batman's as hers stopped at about her waist. On her feet she had on a pair of red boots and simple white gloves over her hands. Over her chest Diana spotted a familiar red shield and 'S' that the Amazon Princess had only spotted on one other person. "Give up and turn yourself in." She finished while glaring down at Grundy.
"Is she related to Superman?" Diana questioned her companion, sparing a glance but keeping most of her attention focused on the situation down below.
Fox nodded his head as he stared down at the blonde with a fond smile on his face, "Supergirl, she's his cousin." He replied quietly, a weak attempt at keeping his presence a secret from the Girl of Steel.
Grundy lets out a grunt as he dropped the bag full of money and rushed to pick up the nearest squad car, the police officers running away when they noticed the zombie coming closer, before he threw it at the flying blonde girl.
"Yeah I didn't think you would." Supergirl admitted. With practiced ease the female Kryptonian caught the squad car and proceeded to lower it back to the ground. After safely setting the squad car back on the ground the Kryptonian flew at the zombie and met a charging Grundy halfway. Supergirl was easily the faster of the two lashing out a couple of punches that would have broken the bones of most to its chest before ending it with an uppercut. Grundy if nothing else proved that he was resilient because although he staggered back a bit he recovered quickly enough and succeeded in grasping Supergirl's cape in his hand before he spun around and tossed her up into the air. Supergirl managed to right herself in mid-air before she slammed into anything. "Ok," She said, tossing her cape back which had flipped in front of her to cover her face. "Let's try this." The blonde Kryptonian finished her eyes glowing red as she used her Heat Vision on Grundy.
The zombie threw his arms protectively in front of him to block the Heat Vision. Not seeing the effect that she was hoping for Supergirl once more charged at Grundy. This time though the Supervillain was better prepared as the second he felt that the Heat Vision stopped he focused a glare at the quickly approaching Supergirl and threw a punch at her. Two fists collided and for a moment in a stalemate before Supergirl pushed Grundy's larger hand to the side and closed in on the remaining distance before landing another punch on to Grundy's chest. Grundy let out a grunt and almost buckled over from the hit but instead he brought both his arms around Supergirl and tried to crush her against him.
While a bit uncomfortable, in more ways than just one, Supergirl realized that Grundy's efforts to crush her were proving futile. With a smirk quickly a spreading across her face as a plan formed in her head Supergirl flew up into the air Grundy going with her. When the zombie realized what was happening he tried to release his hold on the blonde alien only for Supergirl to grab hold of his tattered sports jacket and took him up higher, soon enough flying above most skyscrapers. At the apex of their vertical climb Supergirl dove straight down to the streets below, Grundy failing his arms around wildly and clawing at Supergirl in attempt to stop the inevitable. When they hit the ground they created a crater around them along with a small earthquake. From the crater Supergirl flew up with a self-satisfied smile on her face and her hands on her hips as she looked down at a knocked out Grundy. Finally Supergirl dislodged a nearby streetlamp and wrapped it around Grundy, using her Heat Vision to weld it together, before leaving him in the care of the officers for transport. "That should hold you." Supergirl declared cleaning her hands of imaginary dust before turning her attention to the remaining officers. "He's all yours." She finished before flying higher into the air.
Supergirl had the full intention of leaving, her mind already concentrated on what other crime she might be needed to prevent while her cousin was away, when a voice called out to her and made her stop. A voice that she was all too familiar with but had not heard in a long while.
"Supergirl!" Fox called loud enough for the Girl of Steel to easily hear with her super hearing.
Even as her eyes trained in on the source, a large genuine smile graced her beautiful face, a part of her wondered at his use of her Superhero name. Supergirl scarcely spotted him on the roof of a nearby building before she shot at him at speeds that equaled that of her cousin's that had people claiming he was faster than a speeding bullet, "Fox!" Supergirl shouted, still having the presence of mind not to shout out his real name where anyone could hear her. That of course didn't stop the Girl of Steel from pulling the shinobi Hero into a hug.
Fox let out a wince at the strength behind Supergirl's hug. "Hey Supergirl," Fox managed to get out. "Mind easing up a bit?" He asked a bit uncomfortably. While he was more resilient than most of the humans on the planet that didn't mean that he could deal with a Kryptonian's super strength.
Supergirl released Fox from her hug to smile sheepishly at him before that smile turned into a light glare. "Where have you been?" She asked him punching his shoulder lightly. "I haven't seen you in months!" Supergirl pointed out.
It was Fox's turn to smile sheepishly at his fellow blonde, not that it could be seen with his mask on, as he rubbed his shoulder. Just because she punched him lightly didn't mean it didn't hurt when her super strength was factored in. "Geez what is it with girls having monster strength." The shinobi muttered which caused Supergirl to roll her eyes; it was something she caught him saying more than once in reference to her super strength. "Sorry," Fox eventually apologized to his fellow blonde. "I've been busy." He explained.
"Says' the guy that can travel across the country in a few seconds and make copies of himself," Supergirl remarked before her gaze shifted to the other person that was standing on the roof. Her attention so focused on Fox that she hadn't even noticed the beautiful woman standing only a few feet from her dear friend until that moment. "Oh."
Fox decided to handle between the two Heroines. "Diana this is Supergirl, Superman's cousin." Fox started, avoiding calling her Superman's younger cousin only to have it denied by the female Kryptonian on the grounds that she was technically the older one between her and her cousin. "Supergirl this is Diana, or as she is being called-"
"Wonder Woman," Supergirl cut Fox off joyfully as she held her hand out to the Amazonian Princess. "It's nice to meet you."
Diana blinked a couple of times in bewilderment at Supergirl's reaction before she recovered and smiled back at the younger girl. "It's nice to meet you too Supergirl." Diana returned the greeting.
"Kara, my name is Kara Zor-El but you can call me Kara." The blonde Kryptonian said.
"Then it would only be right as a sister that you should call me Diana." Wonder Woman decided.
"Sister?" Kara questioned with Fox feeling just as confused as Kara looked.
Diana nodded her head before she explained herself. "We amazons are raised with the belief that all women should be considered as our sisters." She informed them.
"Ok," Kara said still sounding a bit confused by the princess' statement before turning her attention back to Naruto. "So any particular reason you finally decided to pay me a visit?" She asked him.
"Superman wanted me to help keep an eye on Metropolis while he was away." Fox told her.
Kara frowned as she crossed her arms under her chest; unintentionally make them look a bit bigger, as she narrowed her eyes at Fox. "You mean you're here to babysit me." She accused the shinobi, "And with Wonder Woman." Kara finished sparing the Amazon Princess another glance, taking a note of how beautiful she really was and flying closer to Naruto as a result.
"Diana found me looking to see what the situation was with Green Lantern and the others." Fox claimed as he gave her an eye smile neither denying nor acknowledging her accusation before he tried to change the subject. "How's university?" He asked her.
Kara let out a huff understanding what Naruto was doing but choosing to let it go anyway, the target of her ire would be her cousin for thinking she needed a babysitter while silently thanking him for the chance to meet up with Naruto. Even if not entirely unwanted company was included. "It's annoying." Kara stated annoyed. "I learned everything in their math and science department back on Krypton and I've read and memorized the material for all the other subjects."
"From what I understand an education from colleges and universities are important aren't they?" Diana questioned her. Besides combat training Diana was also taught many lessons about the history of her people and the world in general. As a child she found those lessons boring but as she grew older she realized how important they really were, especially when she eventually took her mother's place as Queen of the Amazons.
"Yeah but Kal-El insists on me getting the 'college experience' and focusing on that. Really he's just being over protective and uneasy about me being a full time Hero." The Girl of Steel grumbled. She loved her cousin she really did, but she didn't love how he kept such a close eye on her.
Diana wondered for a moment who' Kal-El was but from the context of their conversation she could guess that Kal-El was Superman.
Wanting to avoid getting further annoyed with her cousin Kara turned her attention to something else she wanted to ask Naruto. "So," The female Kryptonian started, tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear. "If you were here all along, how did you think I did against Grundy?" Kara asked keenly.
Fox scratched the back of his head before answering honestly. "You rushed in and tried to overpower Grundy when you were easily faster than him. You might have been stronger than him, though not as strong as Supes; you shouldn't rely on your strength alone to beat your opponents, especially when I've helped you with some Taijutsu Kara." Fox reprimanded the girl lightly.
"I know I just forget about the lessons you give me sometimes in the middle of a fight." Kara said slightly dejected.
"I think she did wonderfully." Diana defended the younger Heroine.
Seeing the slightly depressed look on Kara's face Fox hastily tried to reassure her as well, "Diana's right." Fox agreed. "Besides it's not like I didn't rush into every situation without thinking when I was younger." He supplied revealing a small bit of his past to the two women. "At least you can take care of yourself if anything happens, plus you're incredibly smart too. I usually needed someone else's help before I got myself out of trouble."
"Really?" Kara asked sounding surprised, blushing a bit at his compliment. "I didn't know that." In her mind since the day she first met Naruto he had been this been amazing Hero on equal standing with her cousin. To hear that that wasn't the case when he was younger was kind of an eye opener for her.
"Yup," Fox acknowledged readily. "I was kind of a hopeless case when I was younger." He freely admitted as he gained a distant look in his eyes, remembering some of his adventures he went on, the people he met, and the bonds they formed. A smile appeared on his face. "But it was thanks to that that I realized that we're stronger when fighting alongside others." Fox finished. He might not have been some sort of complete badass, still a badass just not a total badass, but the bonds he ended up forming with those he met was what gave him the strength and drive to face the challenges later on in life.
"Alright how about you help me," Kara offered feeling a bit more cheerful after Naruto's short speech. "It's been a while since the last time you gave me a lesson on hand to hand combat. Maybe it's time for a refresher course." Supergirl stated somewhat eagerly.
Fox thought it over for a second and couldn't really see anything wrong with it. There was nothing going on at the moment, otherwise his Shadow clones in Watchtower would have alerted them, so sparing with the female Kryptonian might actually a better use of their time instead of just patrolling around the city and waiting for something to happen. "Ok," He agreed getting the blonde girl to cheer. "And it's called Taijutsu." Fox corrected her.
"Whatever," Supergirl said dismissively.
Fox sighed before turning his gaze to Diana. "You want to come with us?" The black clad Hero asked.
Diana thought it over for a second but in the end couldn't think of anything else to do with her time so she eventually nodded her head, "Sure." She answered, much to the slight displeasure of Kara.
"Alright hold on." Fox told them as he placed a hand on both their shoulders before they both disappeared in a yellow flash.
Just as the trio of Heroes disappeared a certain reporter barged onto the roof, with her trustee cameraman who was hoping to get a chance to talk with a certain blonde Superheroine, and immediately started to curse out loud once she realized that they were up there by themselves having been in the bank when Grundy robbed it. Seeing the Girl of Steel stop to talk to the elusive Fox and the newest Heroine Wonder Woman, Louise Lane moved as fast as her slender legs could carry her to the roof of the building in the hopes of getting an interview with the three Heroes. Maybe even an exclusive on the Justice League.
Unknown Location
When the three Heroes appeared in another yellow flash they were no longer in the City of Tomorrow but instead they were in some forest. Besides trees the Heroines could see a relatively large wooden house, a giant lake which had a large orange toad lounging casually in the water, and large open field between the house and the lake. Supergirl was gaping at the toad, having been here before, while Diana was looking around curiously.
"Welcome to my home." Fox said, pulling his hood off to reveal his sun-kissed blonde hair, mostly to Diana. "Well one of them." He added as an afterthought, having a couple of apartments in different cities.
"That is one big toad," Kara gaped, actually having to look up to see its head.
Naruto focused his attention on the toad, "Kichi just how long do you plan to laze about here?" The shinobi asked his old friend, the orange told refusing to leave after it had been summoned so he could relax.
Gamakichi looked down at his summoner. "Come on Aniki I'm on vacation." Kichi told Naruto.
Fox raised an eyebrow in question. "A vacation from what exactly?" Naruto questioned him. "I'm the Toads only summoner." He pointed out.
"Oh yeah," Gamakichi retorted. "Let's see you hang out with Gamatatsu for an entire day. Plus pops wants to retire soon so he's been teaching me what it means to be the Toad Boss." The giant toad explained. What it wouldn't give to go back to the days that he didn't have to worry about anything and just relax all day. Back to the days he could ride on top of Naruto's head.
With a sigh Naruto nodded his head in understanding. "Fine, but we're going to be training just to warn you." Fox stated.
Taking a closer look on the two Heroines with Naruto a sly smile, or at least what passed for sly on a toad's face, appeared on Gamakichi's face. "Who would have thought that you'd be such a ladies man Aniki, having two such beautiful girls all too your-self." Kichi said sending the blonde shinobi a wink.
"Shut up," Fox muttered, doing his best to ignore the looks that Kara and Diana were sending his way. "So what do you think of my home Diana?" The shinobi Hero asked the Amazon Princess.
"It's beautiful." Diana decided, "And quite peaceful." She finished.
Fox nodded his head in agreement. "That's part of the reason that I chose to live out here. It's peaceful and with all the nature it really reminds me of home." Fox said as he led the two Heroines to the open field.
"How do you even afford to live out here?" Kara asked.
Fox gave her a look of confusion. "I've never told you?" He asked her back.
"No," Kara answered crossing her arms.
"Weird," Fox murmured. "It's how I first met Superman. I wrote a book." He explained.
Kara and Diana looked at Fox in surprise, "A book." They both said at the same time before Kara realized something.
"Hold on," She began. "I don't even know how you met Kal-El." The Kryptonian realized. "I don't even know how you got here. I know that you aren't originally from Earth, but I don't know where you are from or how you got here." Kara pointed out.
"How about this then," Fox started. "If you beat me in our spar than I'll tell you." He offered.
Kara narrowed her eyes suspiciously. "And if I lose?" She asked.
Fox shrugged his shoulders uncaringly. "Then you have to go on not knowing." He stated with foxy smirk under his mask as he stood at the center of the field with Kara across from him.
"Guess I'll just to beat you then." Kara returned confidently, as Diana backed away ensuring the two had enough space for their spar, "Any rules?" The Girl of Steel asked.
"No Heat Vision or Super Breath and I won't use any jutsu." Naruto said and got a confident nod of agreement from Kara.
At some unsaid signal the two blondes charged at each other, Kara not hesitating to fly just a bit above off the ground seeing as Naruto didn't say she couldn't. Kara threw the first punch but Fox easily dodged around it and responded with a punch of his own, having to add chakra into his limb in order for it to have any effect on the Kryptonian.
Kara pushed through the bit of pain that Naruto's punch managed to cause and tried to hit him with an upper cut only to have Fox flip backwards. Kara refused to let up and followed after Fox delivering blows to the ground every time she missed and leaving a crater in her wake. Fox pushed off the ground and jumped over Kara. The blonde Kryptonian reacted as would be expected of someone possessing super speed and managed to spin herself around a kick at the ready. Naruto managed to bring his guard up in time to block the kick, noting that Kara was at the very least holding back from using her full strength seeing as the bones in his arms weren't pulverized, but could do little else as he had yet to even land back on the ground and instead was sent a few feet away.
Fox managed to righted himself midair and get his feet back under him even as he slid back a few feet kicking up dirt as he went. Naruto had a moment to appreciate his healing factor, already feeling the bones in his arms which were either broken or had multiple fractures healing, before Supergirl was once more on him a confident smile adoring her beautiful features as a result of their last small confrontation. Fox took a small bit of pleasure in wiping that smirk off her face as he blitzed at her faster than what she had been expecting. With every series of blows that Fox managed to land Supergirl grew a bit more frustrated and her attacks became a little more while.
After landing a kick to Supergirl's midsection Fox moved back. "Calm down Kara," Fox advised her seriously. "Stop for a second breath and remember the things I've taught you in our previous spars."
"What I remember," Kara said, a bit of a growl in her voice as she took a deep breath. "Is that shinobi are masters of deception and that you have a bet to win." She pointed out.
"True," Fox agreed with a nod of his head. "But I'm also your friend and this is spar supposed to help you." The shinobi pointed out in return.
With a nod in agreement Kara closed her eyes as she took one final deep breath before snapping her eyes open. A grin spread across Naruto's face from beneath his mask instantly sensing the change in Kara as she seemed far more focused than before. This time when Kara took to the air she didn't charge straight at Naruto instead choosing to go higher into the air before diving down, her fist cocked back. Realizing what Kara was attempting to do Naruto jumped back as quickly as possible to, hopefully, get out of range.
Within seconds Kara's fist impacted with the ground shattering the ground beneath it and a good area around her while causing a small earthquake at the same time, which Fox tried to keep himself from falling over from. Kara didn't let this small advantage go as she flew at Naruto while lashing out with a back heel kick. Fox managed to block the kick once more and this time managed to keep him-self from being thrown back. Kara didn't stop there though as she used her ability to fly to move above Fox in attempt to deliver a kick to the back of his head, which Naruto had to roll forward in order to avoid.
Standing back up Fox faced Kara. "That's better." He commented.
"Just don't blame me when you lose our bet." Kara replied confidently.
Fox had a smirk on his face as he threw a punch at Kara that was immediately deflected and the ones that followed with her enhanced reflexes. At that point most people would have been discouraged about their chances of winning. Most people weren't Naruto Uzumaki. He had faced insurmountable odds before and came out on top fighting an opponent with super enhanced abilities wasn't about to get him down. Stepping back Fox let Kara throw a punch at him as he pumped more chakra throughout his body before he just blurred, even to Kara's eyes. He grabbed Kara's outstretched arm and threw her over his shoulder, the Girl of Steel stopping herself from being thrown to far away.
Kara had just straightened herself out when she found Naruto's face centimeters from her own, their noses nearly touching, the close proximity surprising her causing her eyes to widen and her cheeks to redden. "Wha-" Kara attempted to say only for a single punch to cut her off and send her up into the sky. Recovering from Fox's punch Kara looked down at Fox trying to come up with a plan.
Fox didn't give her that time as he pumped chakra into his legs and jumped into the air after her. While the two started to trade blows again Kara took some comfort in the knowledge that she had a slight advantage over Naruto at the moment since while the blonde shinobi could jump high into the sky he couldn't fly, she just had to wait him out. As expected after a few moments Naruto began to descend back to the ground, Kara waiting a second before flying down after him. A frown appeared beneath Fox's mask as Kara grabbed him by his coat and sped up their decent towards the ground, realizing that he made a mistake similar to the one Grundy made earlier. Normally the shinobi could have used a replacement jutsu to get him out his bind, or use one of his other jutsu to force Kara to let go of him, as it stood no matter how much chakra he channeled into his limbs Supergirl wasn't about to release her hold on him. Understanding a bit of pain was necessary for her to win.
Before he knew it Fox felt him-self be slammed into the ground with Kara landing on top of him as dirt was kicked up all around them. When he finally opened his eyes as the dust started to settle Fox spotted Supergirl straddling his waist, one hand on his chest keeping him pinned down and the other pulled back ready to strike.
"So do you give up?" Kara asked with a smirk on her face.
Instead of surrendering immediately as she imagined Kara watched as a mischievous look appeared in Naruto's eyes, a look that Kara both enjoyed and dreaded depending on whether the target of Naruto's prank was her or not. At the moment she was definitely dreading it. "You know I could really get used to his." Fox commented almost casually if it wasn't for the teasing tone in his voice that Kara picked up on. "It's such a nice view." He finished, his eyes flicking from Kara's face before moving downward for a second before returning to looking her straight in the eyes.
Finding herself curious about what Naruto was talking about Kara looked down and finally noticed the position that they were in, more specifically what it revealed. Because of her position on top of Fox, Supergirl's skirt had ridden up slightly exposing a lot of her leg and almost revealing her underwear to Naruto. Cheeks turning a dark red Kara instinctively threw a punch at Naruto's head only for the shinobi to disappear thanks to his Hiraishin at the last moment to avoid her punch and reappear only a few feet away, Kara's fist digging into the ground where Fox's head had been.
"Okay I give up." Fox said with a bit of a chuckle, that chuckle turning into full out laughter when he saw the glare Kara was sending him with a blush still apparent on her face.
"That was an excellent fight," Diana complemented the two, not having heard the last exchange that happened between the two blondes she didn't understand the reason behind Fox's laughter or Kara's glare.
"Thanks," Supergirl said in a bit of a huff giving Naruto one last glare.
Fox grinned at Kara and gave her a Kakashi patented eye smile before turning his attention to the raven haired princess. "So what did you think Diana?" The shinobi asked her for her opinion.
Diana crossed her arms under her breasts, unintentionally making them appear bigger and causing Kara to look down at her own noticeably smaller chest in comparison and frown, as she thought over the fight that she had just witnessed. "Well I won't lie by saying that you two were on even grounds at the beginning of your spar," Wonder Woman started. "What Fox meant was clear after your first clash, even more so after Kara listened to Fox's advice and took a moment to calm down and exchanges that followed. Kara using your powers to help enhance your hand to hand capabilities to bring you to an more even footing with Fox and his skills, despite the difference in your apparent abilities in hand to hand combat, was an excellent idea and with more practice you'll only become an exceptional warrior in the future." Diana finished, giving the younger girl a gentle smile.
"Thanks," Kara answered, feeling a little embarrassed by Diana's positive analyze of her skills. "I doubt I would have done nearly as well if Fox hadn't been holding back so much." The Kryptonian admitted somewhat humbly. For her all her powers and strength Kara was at least still conscious of the fact that the only reason that she had won was because Naruto had restricted himself far more than he had her at the beginning of her spar.
"You shouldn't underestimate your own skills." Diana advised the blonde Heroine, as she gave a glance in Fox's direction.
"Diana's right." Fox agreed instantly. "While you're not exactly new to the Hero business you are still learning to be a proper fighter with an actual style and not just throwing out super powered punches and hoping it will be enough to knock the other guy down." He said, giving her another eye smile. "Give it some time and keep up practicing and training and you'll be kicking even Supes ass before you know it." The shinobi Hero finished confidently.
Kara giggled a little at the image of her proudly standing over her knocked out cousin, who had swirls for eyes, which Naruto's statement invoked. "Alright," The Girl of Steel relented in agreement with a beautiful smile on her face.
Diana smiled as well as she watched the younger girl before turning her gaze to Fox. "That being said your skills were still quite impressive Fox, I'd enjoy a chance to spar against you myself, without any restrictions." The Amazonian Princess stated with a challenging smirk on her face, as she looked right into Fox's eyes.
"Whenever you want I'll be ready." Fox returned an excited gleam appearing in his eyes. For a moment the two trained warriors stared at each other down waiting for the other person to make the first move. There little standoff came to an end when Kara stepped in between the two of them.
"That's going to have to wait." The female Kryptonian stated as she looked toward Naruto. "You promised me a couple of stories if you lost remember?" She reminded him. Wonder Woman also looked at Fox expectantly admittedly curious about the shinobi's origins and how he came to possess the strength he does.
"Right," Naruto replied as he rubbed the back of his head, their small bet had actually slipped his mind for a second. "Well," The blonde shinobi started only to stop midsentence and look straight up to the sky. "Somethings happening, Superman just used my Hiraishin kunai to call me." Fox said seriously.
"What?" Diana said a bit surprised. "How can you tell?" She asked him.
"The Hiraishin kunai sends out a sort of beacon that I can sense." The shinobi Hero explained.
"Even with how far away they have to be?" Kara questioned this time in slight amazement. The distance between them and the tri-pronged kunai that her cousin must have had been carrying being infinitely great.
"That's the beauty of seals, especially Time-Space ninjutsu." Fox said with a shrug of his shoulders. "I just need to know how it works and have enough chakra to use it."
"Okay then," Kara said as she put her hands on her hips. "What are we waiting for then, let's go."
"We shouldn't waste any more time." Diana agreed. "The others could be in danger."
Naruto looked at Kara confused for a moment before he realized that she planned to go with them, Diana being a given, but he also knew Kara long enough that nothing he said would dissuade the blonde girl from going with them. "Ok," He agreed as he held out his hands for both Heroines to take. "I've never traveled this far, and with passengers, so it might take a bit more out of me and be a bit rough." Fox warned them, which they responded by nodding their heads to show that they understood before they all disappeared in a flash of yellow light.
When the three Heroes reappeared they were standing in a hallway with the rest of the members of the Justice League, including a pissed off looking John Stewart, and five little old blue-grey skinned men wearing red robes along with the green glow and lantern symbol that Green Lantern had. Fox was a little worn out, traveling across the universe taking a lot more chakra than he was expecting but still nothing that he was overly concerned about and wouldn't recover in a few minutes. Diana and Kara feeling a little dizzy.
The three newly arrived Heroes looked around for a moment before Fox addressed Superman. "So, what's going on?" He asked, as he picked up his kunai.
Superman looked at the three of them curiously. When he used Naruto's kunai he was obviously expecting Fox to show up and knowing his cousin he wasn't all that surprised that she showed up with him. What caught him off guard was the fact that the raven haired princess happened to be with them, it made his inner journalist curious about what the three had been doing together before they appeared, but at the moment they had more pressing matters to attend too though Superman would freely admit that he found the things that that Flash was currently grumbling under his breath to be amusing. "We have a situation." The Man of Steel stated seriously.
Oa
Oa was regarded as one of the oldest planets in the universe. It is also the home base for the Guardians, the little blue men, and their Green Lantern Corps. And currently it was being attacked by an army of Manhunters, the name of the robots that had been sent to retrieve Green Lantern as Naruto, Diana, and Kara learned as Superman explained everything they had discovered since arriving on Ajuris 5. Oa had intricately built towers that made the planet look all that more beautiful, Naruto wasn't all that thrilled by the lack of nature that he saw. At the center of the city was a fortress with a giant column of green light shooting up into the sky and this was the building that the Manhunters were focusing all their attention on.
Green Lantern transported everyone from Ajuris 5 in a sphere of energy the group arriving in time to hear the leader of the Manhunters issuing out orders.
"They can't hide in there forever." The Manhunter stated confidently. "Rip it open! Rip them to-" The robot continued to say only to finally notice the Heroes arrive. "They can't stop us brothers no one can! Attack!" He commanded, pulling out his staff and extending it to its full length.
As Fox landed on the ground beside Flash grateful that the planet had an atmosphere that allowed them to breathe before he got to work, pulling out a pair of kunai he channeled his Wind chakra into the small blades and charged at the enemies. Up above Superman and Supergirl were tearing through robots like they were paper. Kara grabbed one of the robots, the metal being crushed under her strong grip, before she threw it at group of the Manhunters and used her Heat Vision to cause the one she threw to explode taking the others with it.
While Fox wasn't pushing himself to run as fast as Flash the shinobi was still running faster than the Manhunters could follow making it impossible to hit him with their staffs as they fired at him. Closing in on a group of Manhunters Fox used his wind enhanced kunai to slash at the Manhunters cutting off limbs and moving to the next group, those robots he dismembered exploding soon after.
"Wind Style: Air Bullet!" A single Air Bullet was released from Fox's mouth nocked many Manhunters onto the ground. Acting quickly Fox went through another series of hand seals before slamming his hands onto the ground. "Earth Style: Rock Pillar Spears!" He called summoning forth a multitude of rock spears to skewer through various Manhunters.
Three Manhunters fired down at Fox from above forcing the shinobi to dive to the side in order to avoid being hit. Getting back on his feet Fox threw a kunai with an Explosion tag attached to it. Like back on Earth the explosion had little effect on the trio of Manhunters but Fox only needed it as a momentary form of distraction as the smoke obscured their vision of him. The Manhunters floated through the smoke, what they didn't expect was for Fox to be right there with a Big Ball Rasengan in each hand. The Manhunter in the middle was grinded into nothing by the two Rasengan while his two compatriots were torn in half.
As Fox landed back on the ground, and the Manhunters exploded above him, he missed the one Manhunter that was taking aim behind him. Fox only spotted the robot when it was about to fire luckily he was saved when Wonder Woman's lasso went around the Manhunter's neck. With a powerful pull Wonder Woman first slammed the Manhunter in to the ground, a creator forming under it, before the raven haired Amazon spun around smashed the Manhunter into a few others and leaving them in a heap.
Landing so they were back to back with one another Diana glanced at Fox from over her shoulder with a smirk on her face, "Seems I always have to watch your back." She remarked lightly referring back to when she blocked the fire from the white parasitic aliens. A Manhunter rushed Wonder Woman but with a singled punch to its midsection the Amazon Princess caused it to drop down to its knees before a kick sent it crashing back. With the Manhunter taken care of Diana turned around to face Fox, an action that Fox mirrored.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Fox claimed performing a few hand signs before holding up one of his Hiraishin kunai off to the side, a sealing matrix appearing in the air in front of it, blocking the blast from a cannon' that was part of the main building, which after being absorbed by the seal was shot back destroying the cannon and the Manhunter inside. The two Heroes smiled once more at each other before they each lunged at a Manhunter that was behind the other.
Kara had taken one of the staffs from a Manhunter and was using it to drive others back. Spinning around Supergirl slammed the staff into a Manhunter's head that was trying to sneak up on her from behind forcing their head upwards. Pulling back a bit Supergirl flew a little bit higher and spun on her side bringing down the staff right on the Manhunter's head and sent it rocketing to the ground below. Turning around Kara blocked the strike from another Manhunter with her own staff; they traded strikes for a moment before the blonde Kryptonian used her superior speed to get inside his guard and punched it in its chest which caused it to go flying before slamming into the side of a building. Activating the staff's ability to use electricity to stun opponents Kara put it at maximum output before throwing it like a javelin sending it through multiple Manhunters.
A wide smile spread across Kara's face as she looked around for Fox before it turned into a frown with narrowed eyes when she spotted him with Diana. Kara respected, liked, and even admired Diana, she really did. Only a couple of months and Wonder Woman was already considered a great Superhero, so how could Kara not look up to her even a little. But seeing the beautiful Amazon Princess so close to Naruto and talking so casually with him, while in the middle of a battle no less, seriously annoyed her. Supergirl was so focused on Fox and Wonder Woman down below she completely ignored the Manhunter that was flying towards her from her side. Acting on instinct alone she thrusted her fist out knocking the Manhunter's head clean off without looking at it even once.
Superman paused as he was about to tear through another Manhunter when another robot's severed head flew in between him and his current opponent. Following the trajectory to its source Superman noticed the headless body of the Manhunter fall to the ground and away from Kara who still had her fist held out, the blonde Kryptonian's attention elsewhere. Switching his gaze to what his cousin was looking at Kal-El shook his head and turned his attention back to the Manhunter when he realized it was Fox and Diana that she was staring at. Maybe he should be concerned about his cousin's not so small and obvious crush on Fox, obvious to everyone but him. She was his younger cousin after all, despite how vehemently Kara claimed the contrary since she was born first, so he should be cautious of any guy that she took an interest in. But Superman knew that if he said one word about it to her he'd live to regret it. 'There are somethings even Superman can't do, or should even try.' The Last Son of Krypton thought.
Flash was running up the side of the fortress dodging around the laser blast of a group of Manhunters who were positioned on one of the fortress' walls. Unfortunately the Manhunters constant fire destroyed parts of the fortress causing some wreckage to loosen and hit Flash while he was distracted by a blast that had come close to hitting him straight in the face, knocking him on his back. Seeing Flash knocked defenseless Green Lantern landed in front of the downed speedster and quickly created a barrier with his ring. Lantern instantly felt a great strain on himself with just keeping the barrier up as it suffered under a barrage of laser fire.
J'onn had been taking out his own fair share of Manhunters using his intangibility to phase a hand through them before becoming tangible again and causing them to short-circuit, all the while taking extra precaution in not being hit by their electrified laser fire. The Martian had just twisted a Manhunter's arm behind their back and pushed them away when he noticed Flash and Green Lantern's situation. Flying down J'onn landed beside Flash and took a hold of the speedster before phasing through the ground getting them both out of danger.
Seeing that J'onn had taken Flash out of harm's way Green Lantern let the barrier drop before taking to the air and firing a blast with his ring, his attack being joined by five other blasts of green energy, destroying all the gathered Manhunters. A bit surprised at the support John Stewart looked over his shoulder to see five other members of the Green Lantern Corps flying alongside Hawkgirl.
"We've got your back John." One of the Lanterns' said as he moved to fly beside John. Most of the Lantern's body was just a ball with his face taking a majority of the front side the rest of body consisted of four legs, with three toes on each foot, and his arms. The Lantern's name was Galius Zed and he along with the rest of the recently arrived Green Lanterns, with the exception of one, had been disparaging John when he first arrived on Ajuris 5 wanting nothing to do with him for the perceived slight he brought to the Green Lantern Corps.
John just spared his fellow Lantern a cold glare and flew away without saying anything to Zed as he rejoined the other members of the Justice League and Kara.
"Things seem to be going well." Superman commented as he took a careful look around at the reduced enemy forces.
"Speak for yourself." Flash groaned rubbing his head. "I'm going to have a killer headache for a week."
"Fortunately Flash doesn't seem to have suffered any serious mental injury." J'onn informed the others having taken a quick look over the speedster once he had gotten him out of harm's way.
"Even if he had I doubt we would have been able to tell." Hawkgirl added.
"Hey!" Flash protested.
"Did anyone see what happened to the Manhunter that was shouting out orders?" Fox asked getting things back on track. Everyone exchanged glances but eventually came to the conclusion that the leader had somehow slipped by them.
"Where would he have gone?" Wonder Woman asked, as she and the others looked to Green Lantern for answers.
Green Lantern looked toward the building that a large number of Manhunters were still guarding. "I have a good idea." He muttered grimly.
At that moment more Manhunters showed up and started to attack the group, the five members of the Green Lantern Corps already moving to intercept them. "Go," Superman told John. "We'll handle them."
"It'll be easy," Supergirl declared with a confident grin as she palmed her fist in her other hand. She looked at Fox and her excitement was clearly evident because of the gleam in her eye. "What do you say Fox, want to see who can take down more of those tin cans?"
Fox returned Kara's grin with his own from beneath his mask. "You're on." He replied and with that the two took off becoming nothing but a couple of blurs of red and black one flying across the sky the other the ground.
"Right," Green Lantern mumbled seeing the two blonde's take off before shaking his head. "I'll leave them to all of you." He finished before flying off in the direction of the towering pillar green energy.
When Green Lantern entered the fortress through a hole that had been made in the ceiling his eyes swept the room searching for the missing Manhunter, not being able to see it but his instincts telling him that the machine was there. The room was circular in design with a giant green lantern at its center that was releasing the towering energy of will power, an opening in the ceiling to allow the energy to flow out.
From the shadows the lead Manhunter snuck up behind Green Lantern before shocking him with its staff at full blast causing Green Lantern to plummet down to the ground.
Even though he felt slightly numb Green Lantern forced himself to stand back up. "Manhunter, stop!" He ordered using his ring to trap the Manhunter in a sphere.
If it could the Manhunter would have sighed at the constant interruptions as he turned to face Green Lantern. "Not till we've reclaimed what is rightfully ours." Manhunter replied coldly.
Green Lantern raised an eyebrow in curiosity at the statement, "Yours?" He asked.
"The power the Guardians stole from us." The Manhunter claimed slamming his electrified staff into the barrier.
Green Lantern let out a grunt as he concentrated to keep the barrier up but eventually had to let it fall when the Manhunter forced its staff through it enough be able to fire at him. Taking into the air in order to avoid the laser fire Green Lantern returned fire with his ring only for the Manhunter to dodge the blasts. Green Lantern tried to hit the Manhunter from close range but he ended up in a stalemate with the Manhunter who used its staff to counter Lantern's ring. "It was never yours." Green Lantern grunted out. "It was always the Guardian's."
Breaking the stalemate the Manhunter pivoted around Green Lantern and slammed his staff into the Manhunter's back and electrocuting the dark skinned Hero. "And they betrayed us." The lead Manhunter claimed as it watched Lantern fall, smoke coming off his back, "Abandoned us, just like they abandoned you. None of them lifted a finger to help you and were willing to let you sacrifice yourself for their own sakes." The robot pointed out. "Why would you continue to fight for them?" The Manhunter demanded.
Green Lantern did nothing but glare up at the Manhunter from where he lay.
"Pitiful," The Manhunter scoffed as it turned its back on John Stewart and floated towards the giant lantern.
Green Lantern's eyes widened once he realized what the Manhunter's intentions were. "Wait!" He shouted lifting his hand and firing a blast from his ring. The Manhunter instantly spun around batting the energy blast away with his staff and shot one back causing Green Lantern to be thrown onto his back. Struggling to lift his head Green Lantern watched as the lead Manhunter entered the giant lantern. "No!"
Green sparks came off the lantern hitting various spots around the room and causing things to crumble. Three Guardians arrived, the rest of their group taking care of their fellow Guardians that had stayed back on Oa and as result had been doing their best to fend of the Manhunters until help arrived, a look of despair crossed their face as they watched the Manhunter slowly be infused with the power of the Green Lantern Corps.
The power left from Green Lantern's ring causing his eyes to revert from green to black. Behind him the Guardians' also lost their power causing them to fall to the ground. John rushed to their side and lifted one off the ground. "All is lost." The Guardian muttered, watching as the Manhunter lost its armor and became a giant figure made out of green and black energy, before falling unconscious.
Green Lantern laid the elderly alien down on the ground gently as he turned to watch the lead Manhunter tear through the roof and make his way outside.
Fighting amongst the others stopped once green lightning started to come off the fortress that the Manhunters had been trying to invade/defend. Soon after the members of the Green Lantern Corps seemed to lose their power as they fell out of the sky needing to be saved by Superman, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, J'onn, and Hawkgirl as moments later the lead Manhunter to crash through the roof.
"What is that thing?" Hawkgirl asked no one in particular.
"Looks like the Manhunter with an upgrade." Fox commented.
"What about GL?" Flash asked worriedly.
"I'm sure he's fine." Superman reassured.
"I can still feel a psychic connection established with Green Lantern." J'onn informed everyone. "He is fine and is helping some of the Guardians but he failed to stop the Manhunter from reaching the source of the Green Lanterns' power." The Martian stated getting the information from Green Lantern. "Green Lantern has a plan to stop it but he needs to make sure the Guardians are safe first so needs us to buy him some time." J'onn finished.
"Then we'll have to see about stopping the Manhunter ourselves until he gets here." Diana declared as she took off towards the power upped Manhunter, Flash, Hawkgirl, and J'onn following her soon after.
Superman watched them fly off for a moment before turning his attention to Fox. "She wouldn't happen to remind you of someone sometimes would she?" The Man of Steel asked rhetorically with a smirk on his face.
Fox pretended to think about it for a second before answering. "Kara?" He offered.
"Hey!"
"Well yes her too." Superman agreed getting another shout of protest from his cousin. "But I was actually talking about someone else." He stated looking pointedly at the shinobi Hero.
Fox ignored the look that Superman was sending him to shrug his shoulders nonchalantly. "I can't think of anyone." Fox replied in faux obliviousness. With a smirk hidden by his face mask Fox charged at the lead Manhunter.
"Right," Superman said, not for a second believing that Diana acted a lot like he did when he first arrived on Earth, as he took off up into the air.
"Kal-El, don't think I'm going to forget about you agreeing with Naruto." Kara told her cousin under her breath giving him a light glare as she flew beside him, as Superman suppressed a groan.
The Heroes were weaving around the Manhunter attacking him when they had an opening, but they were also forced to be extra careful as the Manhanter seemed to be able create constructs similar to the way the Green Lantern Corps' could. Superman, Supergirl, J'onn, and Wonder Woman punched the giant energy being causing it to stumble back but it quickly recovered and swiped at the three Heroes. Hawkgirl came up from behind and slammed her mace into the back of its head. With a grunt of pain the Manhunter turned its head and unleased a blast of energy at Hawkgirl that was intercepted by Wonder Woman who used her bracelets to block the blast.
"Hey tall, green, and ugly down here!" Flash shouted up at the Manhunter drawing his attention. "Think you can catch me big guy!?" He asked. In response the Manhunter tried to crush the Fastest Man in the World by stomping on him only for Flash to easily sidestep him. "Come on you can do better than that!" Flash mocked only to dodge energy blasts a second later, "Seriously that it?! You're going to put me to sleep here!" He claimed going as far as to even fake a yawn. "By the way you might want to look up!" Flash finished with a smirk pointing a finger upwards.
Looking up the Manhunter saw Fox far above him, being held up in the air by Kara, a Rasengan forming in his hand. Supergirl released her hold of Fox letting the shinobi to dive down at the Manhunter, adding more chakra into the Rasengan as he fell.
"Ōdama Rasengan!" Fox shouted smashing the spiraling sphere of destruction into the Manhunter's face.
The Manhunter let out a roar of anger as he tried to blast the shinobi but the quick creation of a Shadow clone got him out of the way. The Manhunter wasn't deterred though as he immediately tried to swipe at Fox only for the dark clothed Hero to dodge around his swipe and land on his arm.
Dashing across the outstretched arm Fox began to channel chakra into his legs as he ran to the Manhunters head making him faster. With a single jump Fox reached the Manhunter's head and delivered a roundhouse kick to its head. "Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu!" Performing hand seals faster than most could follow Fox unleashed an inferno, the flames taking the shape of a dragon that crashed into the Manhunter.
The Manhunter stumbled back by the force of the kick combined with the fire jutsu before letting out another roar as he fired an energy blast at Fox only for Supergirl to swoop in and get him out of the way.
While the others were distracting the Manhunter, John was talking with the other members of the Green Lantern Corps and explaining their plan.
"Are you sure this is going to work John?" Kilowog, a big pink skinned alien and a combat trainer for newly made Green Lanterns, asked hesitantly as he and the others snuck up on the Manhunter.
"It has to. We don't have much of a choice." John stated seriously looking around a corner from within the fortress at the others fighting. "With him absorbing all the power it would be too much for just one of us to take, if we work together we just might have a chance."
"Might?" Zed repeated skeptically.
With a sigh Kilowog shook his head as he got serious. "No John is right. Even if this doesn't work it is still or responsibility to try and stop it." The pink skinned alien decided. "If we don't the Manhunter will destroy Oa, the Guardians, finish off the Green Lantern Corps, and who knows what else." Kilowog said grimly with the others agreeing shortly after.
When John noticed the Manhunter's attention completely focus on Fox after it was hit by the fire dragon he knew that they weren't going to get a better chance to stop it, "Move!" He commanded as he and the others rushed the Manhunter. The Manhunter only took note of them after they had surrounded it but paid them little mind seeing as they lost their power. "In brightest day, in blackest night," John started to chant, the others following his lead. "No evil shall escape my sight."
The Manhunter's eyes widened in horror once it realized what they were trying to do and the slight dip in its power as the energy started to return to the Green Lanterns. "No!" It shouted as it moved to stop them only to be immediately assaulted by the members of the Justice League and Kara. With so many people attacking it the Manhunter couldn't concentrate and attack the Green Lanterns. "Help me my brothers!" He called summoning whatever Manhunters were left.
"Not so fast." Fox said brining his hands together in a cross hand seal, "Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu!" The shinobi shouted a mass cloud of smoke obscuring him from view and once it dispersed it revealed thousands of Shadow clones easily enough to match and outnumber the remaining Manhunters.
"Seriously," Flash muttered. "He can create an army?" He asked disbelievingly. Flash had seen Fox use his Shadow clone jutsu before but never to this degree.
"Let those who worship evil's might," The Green Lanterns continued reciting their oath, their rings glowing brighter as more energy was drawn into them. "Beware my power-Green Lantern's light!" They finished loudly.
The Manhunter's form started to become unstable as he lost his shape only regain it a few seconds later. "NO!" The Manhunter roared as it did its best to fight against the Green Lanterns efforts. "This is my power I rightfully deserve it!" He shouted forcing some of the power to return to him and causing the Green Lanterns to weaken.
"Shut up already!" Fox shouted, using a couple of Shadow clones to throw him at the Manhunter. Summoning his chakra the shinobi sent it straight at the Manhunter in a pale imitation of his mother's chains or when he used Kurama's power.
"What are you doing?!" The Manhunter demanded as he felt himself start to weaken once more.
"Hal Jordan told me a few things about the power of the Green Lanterns when we hung out," Fox began as he forced more chakra at the Manhunter. "How it's based on a person's will. Well my chakra is an extension of my will and when it comes to a battle of wills I'm always going to win!" Fox declared his eyes burning bright with determination.
The Manhunter couldn't deny Fox's claim as every second that passed it could feel itself losing control even faster as its consciousness began to fade and the Green Lantern Corps gained ground. "NO!" The Manhunter cried once more as it finally lost its stolen power to the Green Lanterns who absorbed it all into their rings. What was left behind was left behind was a formless black wisp of energy that faintly looked like the Manhunter as it was surrounded by Fox's chakra, only to disperse completely once Fox cut the flow.
Once the lead Manhunter disappeared the remaining Manhunters that hadn't been destroyed fell uselessly to the ground. Later the Guardians would explain that the Manhunters, while capable of individual thought and action, were part of a collective' sharing information with one another almost instantaneously. Though so there wouldn't be confusion amongst the ranks a single Manhunter was designed to lead the rest making any final decisions that the collection of separate thoughts came up with. In essence a General who would lead his soldiers. With the lead Manhunter destroyed the rest were left vulnerable unable to do anything for themselves and shut down.
"So who's in charge of clean up?" Flash asked looking around at what remained of the Manhunters. "Not it." He finished quickly raising his hand.
After the Green Lanterns had returned the power they held in their individual rings to the giant lantern within the fortress everyone gathered outside.
John Stewart stood before most of the Guardians, the only ones not there to see him off those who were still weakened from holding off the Manhunters at the beginning of battle. "We chose wisely when we offered you the ring." The Guardians spoke person said. "Thank you, John Stewart." He finished as he and the others gave the Justice League member a light bow.
"You don't need to thank me." Green Lantern denied with a shake of his head. "This was the right thing to do and I couldn't have allowed the Manhunter to destroy everything that the Green Lantern Corps stood for." The dark skinned Hero claimed.
The Guardians smiled at Green Lantern's words. "Whether you believe you deserve our thanks or not you still have it John Stewart." The Guardian said. "May you, and your companions, have a safe journey home." He said with a final smile before he and the other Guardians reentered the fortress.
Next to approach John were the other members of the Green Lantern Corps all of them with happy expressions on their faces.
"You plan worked. We would have lost today if it weren't for you." Zed said in slight admiration. "I guess we should have known better when this all started. We should have believed in you."
John looked at each of the Green Lantern members and could see the slightly regretful look that had taken place on their face. Despite knowing that he should just let it go and that even he thought himself guilty at the beginning the knowledge that they, his brother in arms, had turned their backs on him when it mattered most left him with a deep sense of betrayal. "Yeah you should have." He stated somewhat coldly, only sparing Kilowog a small smile to show his appreciation for when the pink skinned alien stood up for him in court and that convey that he didn't hold anything against him. Moving passed them Green Lantern made his way to the members of the Justice League, the people who believed in him when even he didn't. "Let's go home." Lantern said holding up the hand that held his ring.
"Thanks but I have a faster ride." Fox spoke up as he placed a hand on both a hand on both Kara and Diana's shoulder, ready to use the Hiraishin to take them all back. "We'll see you all when you get back to Earth."
"Hey hold on." Flash cut in before they could leave. "If you can get back to Earth so fast why not just take us all with you?" He asked.
"Because," Fox began. "You all need to pick up the Javelin and I don't want to risk taking to many people over such a great distance." The shinobi explained. "Later." He finished giving the other an eye smile before he, Kara, and Diana disappeared in his signature yellow flash.
When the trio reappeared they were once more outside Fox's home in the woods, Gamakichi still lounging in the lake giving a small wave when they appeared.
"I don't know about you two," Fox began heading towards his home. "But after that battle I could really go for some ramen." He stated before glancing at Diana. "Besides I remember promising someone a chance to try it."
"I'll have to admit your talk about this ramen has me curious to try it." Diana said sparing the shinobi a smile. "Though I believe you promised me the best ramen in the world."
"Trust me," Fox retorted. "The stuff I can make is a thousand times better to the manufactured stuff you'll find in most of the world." He finished leading the two Heroines into his home.
"That's not the only thing you promised." Kara reminded the both of them, "You also have to tell us how you came to Earth." She stated.
"Fine," Fox relented. "I'll tell you as we eat."
In space a transport ship was carrying the scraps of the Manhunters to be melted down as ordered by the Guardians. From behind a much larger ship, the size of a small moon, closed in on the transport ship. At its front there was a symbol of three cicles in a triangle formation with two lines connecting the three circles. In a matter of seconds the ship was destroyed, its pilots killed, and its cargo stolen.
"Their technology is dated and obsolete." A synthetic voice said emotionlessly as drones scanned the remains of the Manhunters. "Their programming leaves much to be desired for as well. But they have potential as well, if nothing else than as cannon fodder as well." The being decided, as it turned to walk away, a few telekinetic commands causing the droids to start rebuilding and improving the Manhunters.
AN: Alright that's it. That bit in the end was the beginning of a future chapter that I will get around to eventually. Next chapter Naruto reveals how he came to earth with a bit more. Honestly it's going to be a bit of a challenge for me to write. One last thing before I end this I would like to remind everyone that I'm not an expert when it comes to the DC universe so I'm sure that inconsistencies will appear in this fic please try to bear with it.
So long and please remember to review.