A flash of light, followed by an explosion, lit up the D.C. night sky. As the building fell the fleeing civilians made way for the approaching officers and firemen.

"Um...I-I think we need more backup over here!" The chief squeaked into his radio gazing at the sight before him.

Standing at 8 feet, the creature before him had wild, spiky white hair, piercing, white, pupil-less eyes, black sclera, and red skin with an abnormally large nose. It wore traditional red samurai armor with wings on it's back that measured 20 feet 's clawed hands held an oodachi engulfed in red flames. Turning its head towards the city's finest, it's scowl turned into a twisted, toothy grin.

The officers and firemen all turned to leave, but the beast quickly cut them off. Pointing its sword at them it let out an ominous chuckle.

"Be consumed by fire!" It roared raising up its sword.

From the wreckage of the building leapt a young man, japanese in origin and looked to be in his early late teens, lean, and looked to be near 6 feet tall. He had light grey eyes and short, black hair that stopped right above his eyes. He wore a sleeveless black shirt, armored gloves and boots, and a brown harness that held two katanas, both of which he held in his hands. An old, black piece of cloth covered his mouth and nose. He quickly sheathed his weapons and made a series of hand signs. The fire behind him suddenly jumped out at the creature, who then used his sword to block it, causing another explosion.

"Get out of here! You'll only be in my way!" he yelled at them while the creature was preoccupied.

"HQ! Where's that back-up?" The chief squawked into his radio.

"Every other available officer is dealing with another incident in the city. The Justice League has been called and is en route!"

"Dealing with what?" he asked.

Across the city another battle raged on. One of the combatants wore the same type of armor as the winged creature, but it's face was hidden behind its kabuto where only a pair of glowing, red eyes could be seen. Standing just a bit over 6 feet, it pointed its katana towards the figure above it, the light of the moon reflecting off its blue armor.

Floating in the air above his combatant was a young man, who stood at exactly 6 feet. He wore black boots, pants, gloves, and a metal cuirass which was all covered by his black trench coat. He wore a black, full face biker helmet, lifting up the visor to show brown skin and a pair of piercing, golden eyes. As he outstretched his hand towards the squad of police officers, one of the squad cars began to rise towards him.

"Excuse me gents, I need to borrow this." He said.

The armored samurai jumped in the air towards him, his sword emitting a low hum, but the floating stranger thrust his free hand forward. An unseen force knocked the samurai into an adjacent building, where he used the destruction to disappear into the shadows. His foe remained still for some time, carefully looking around for any sign of him, slowly raising the police car above his head.

"Okay, we'll play that game." He said bringing his free arm up and pushing it down. A few of the officers closer to the battle were suddenly thrown to the ground.

"Whoa! Hey! What are you doing?" One of the farther officers asked.

"Can't...move..." One replied.

The samurai, who planned to strike his foe from behind, was also thrown into the ground.

"Wombo Combo!" His foe yelled throwing the police car at him.

"Now for the coup de grace." He said bringing both his hands back.

"You might want to hold off on that." Superman said flying up with Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter.

"This does not concern any of you." The young man said without looking at them.

"When your battle comes here and puts innocent lives at risk, then we become very concerned. Now stand down." Superman ordered.

"How to put this in words you'll understand?" he asked, then suddenly turned thrust his arm towards them. They braced for impact, but were unprepared for the force that barreled into them, knocking them back. Superboy, Wonder Girl and Miss Martian emerged from their hiding spots in an attempt to ambush him, but he quickly turned and sent the same invisible force at them, knocking them back to the ground. There was a banging sound coming from under the now demolished police car. With a final, might kick, the samurai sent the car flying towards his foe, who simply threw it to the side and quickly flew towards him. His assault was cut short as Superboy recovered fast enough to tackle him out of the sky. Superboy felt something throw him off the stranger, who once again pushed his hand down and threw Superboy into the ground.

Superman, Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter recovered from the earlier barrage and headed for the stranger. The samurai then turned the flat of his sword to face the group, muttered a quick chant in a deep, raspy voice, and ran two fingers from the hilt to the tip. The stranger was quick to put his visor back down as a blinding light emanated from the samurai's sword. When the light faded, both the samurai and the stranger were gone.

"Where'd they go?" Wonder Girl asked looking around.

"We'll find out later. For now, let's go help the others. This time, we can't let them escape." Superman said as he flew off.

With both weapons drawn the young man made multiple swipes and lunges as he attempted to strike the creature. Many of these attempts were either blocked or dodged as the creature would flip, jump, or hop backwards on one leg with the other bent and parallel to the ground. It's arm outstretched, palm facing its opponent, the other arm reared back with the oodachi pointing at him. In one smooth motion it performed a back flip, and as it swung its sword the tip of the blade dug into the ground, and a streak of bright red fire leapt from the sword and flew down the street towards the young man. He jumped out the way, but the fire continued until a reached a building and exploded. The civilians inside screamed in horror as their refuge began to crumble.

He suddenly felt two things bolt past him towards the falling building and the occupants inside vanished one by one. The creature was suddenly smashed into a building by a large blast of water.

"I suggest you do not get back up." Aqualad warned standing beside Aquaman.

The young man saw his chance, and went for the kill, but stopped before a sudden burst of smoke. From the smoke emerged Batman, Nightwing, Batgirl and Robin.

"Slow down there cowboy. Let's have a little chat." Nightwing said.

"Stand aside interlopers. I would have that creature's head." He said pointing his sword at them.

"We can't let you do that. What you will do, is come with us for questioning. Now drop your weapons." Batman warned.

Before another word could be uttered, all four were suddenly thrown to the side as the young man in the biker helmet landed beside his masked friend.

"Did you destroy him?" the masked one asked.

His answer came when the blue samurai landed in front of the rising creature, who now sported the same, twisted grin as before.

"That answer your question?"

"What happened? I thought you said you could take him out?" he asked angrily.

"I had...interference." he replied pointing at the approaching figures of Superman, Superboy, Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, Martian Manhunter and Miss Martian.

"This fight is over. All of you, lay down your weapons and you will not be harmed." Superman ordered.

The creature let out a boisterous laugh before looking at the two strangers.

"It seems I'll have to claim your head at another time, cur." Its voice had a deep undertone.

The samurai quickly turned the flat of his blade towards his opponents again.

"No! Don't let him-" the words were barely out of Superman's mouth when the samurai's fingers were already at the tip of it's blade.

"That's our cue." The helmet wearing stranger said grabbing his accomplice by the arm as the light from the sword once again blinded everyone.

When the light faded, along with the spots in their eyes, all four were no where to be seen.

"Well...that could've gone better." Flash said as he began to help the people they rescued out of another building.

"Let's get the rest of these fires out and regroup at the watchtower. We need to know what we're up against." Superman said.

As everyone began to help, in the sewers of the city, the two young men continued on their way. The masked one moved at a slower pace as he tried to get used to the darkness of the sewers after being blinded by the light.

"Bet you wish you had one of these now huh?" His accomplice teased.

"Amon, if you weren't blinded like the rest of us, you could've taken them out while we were all distracted."

"I'm gonna poke a hole in your logic by stating that both the tin man and that walking canary-puppet were also unaffected. It would've been 2v1, odds I wouldn't overcome by the time everyone had their sight back and us in them. Be patient Katsuro, if anything this showed that we now have enough power on our side to bring this little chase to an end." Amon said happily.

"If that's the case then why didn't you end it right then and there?" Katsuro asked incredulously.

"I believe I've already answered your question."

"Whatever. What now? I don't foresee we'll get the drop on them like that again."

"Yeah, and now we have the Justice League on our collective necks to boot. We were lucky this time, they had no idea what we could do so repelling them was simple. It'll be a fight next time, so let's avoid that."

"I'm hoping you have a plan to take out that abomination without using a blade then?"

"Of course. It's time to make use of your reconnaissance skills."

"Finding them will be simple, but I don't see how that ends without violence."

"Trust me, it will end with violence, just not yet. They came here for a reason, so let's find that reason, take it or whatever the case may be, and give them a reason to come to us instead."

They rounded a corner and stopped. Amon removed a glove and put his hand against the wall, removing it to reveal his glowing hand print. Part of the wall slid up, revealing a small bunker complete with a few beds, a bathroom, and a kitchen.

"Sounds like a plan, but where to start?" Katsuro asked laying on one of the beds.

"I...actually don't know. I guess a museum?" Amon suggested, putting a pot of water on the stove.

"It would be a good place to start. We can only assume whatever he's here for must be something ancient."

"And museums are all about removing ancient artifacts that were probably better off buried or hidden from the world."

"What are you going to do while I'm doing that?"

"Lex Luthor is hosting a science fair for all the little precocious brats to bring their retro erupting volcanoes. Among his guests is Theodore Montoya."

"Ah, so it looks like we'll both be hunting our targets tomorrow."

"More like stalking."

"Maybe we could see about scavenging something from the ruins of the Hall of Justice." Katsuro suggested.

"It's been two months, I'm pretty sure anything worth anything has already been reclaimed. Plus they're already looking at rebuilding it I hear."

At the Watchtower, the League and the Team were going over the recorded video of their battle.

"Man, with a nose that long I'd probably be as upset as whatever that thing is."Impulse said.

"A better question would be what it is?" Aqualad asked.

"It's called a Tengu, a mythological creature from Japanese mythology. Over the centuries there have been mixed feelings on whether these things are benevolent or malevolent spirits." Batman answered.

"Looks pretty malevolent to me, especially with that nose." Flash said jokingly.

"What about the other three?" Superman asked.

"The one in the blue armor, most likely a samurai. The kid with the sword, I could also say samurai, or a ninja-"

"Seriously? A ninja? That is so crash!" Impulse exclaimed in excitement.

"As for the fourth person,"Batman continued as if there'd been no interruption,"I'm not sure. All that can be said is that he uses some form of telekinesis."

"It didn't feel like telekinesis. When we where knocked away from him there was no resisting it. It felt like whatever he threw at us pulled us with it as it traveled, but grew weaker over time." Superman said.

"We'll need to remain vigilant then, at least until we have a better understanding of who these guys are and what they can do. Aqualad, I have no doubt that all four of these people are still in the city. We'll need to keep a sharp eye open, especially for this Tengu character. He seems to be the one that caused the most destruction." Batman ordered.

"I'll deploy a team or two to survey the city Batman." Aqualad responded.

"Good. Tomorrow, Lex Luthor is holding a science fair in the hopes of gaining more support to secure his seat as the new UN Secretary-General. Along with that, the Museum of Natural History will be opening a few new exhibits to the public. I suggest you start there."

The next day greeted everyone with a clear skies and a surprisingly happy day despite the destruction of last night. The streets of D.C. was packed with more traffic than usual thanks to the parents wanting to get their child to either the science fair or the museum. Katsuro was one of the first to arrive when the museum doors opened, along with Superboy, Miss Martian, and Beast Boy, who was disguised as a pigeon. Katsuro wore a black, v-neck shirt, along with white pants and shoes. He wore an earpiece carried a small notepad with a pin, giving the impression of possibly being a journalist.

"I think that's our guy." Superboy whispered to her.

"Black hair, gray eyes, lean build. That's gotta be him, but where's the other one?"she asked looking around.

Over at the fair, Amon was walking around and looking at the projects many of the children brought in. He wore a black sweater, blue jeans, and black shoes, along with short black hair. He also wore an earpiece and carried a tape recorder in his hands, periodically mumbling something into it. Also at the fair was Blue Beetle, Robin, Static and Wonder girl, all in their civilian clothing.

"So...do we even know what this guy looks like?"Wonder girl asked.

"Brown skin, gold eyes. That's pretty much all they saw before he put his visor back down." Robin said.

"Hey guys, that's probably him right there then."Blue Beetle said pointing at Amon, who was glaring at a paper mache volcano and mumbling something into his tape recorder.

"Robin to the Watchtower, we've acquired the target." Robin whispered into his communicator.

"So has Alpha team. Either you all are getting better, or these guys aren't ones for blending in." Aqualad replied.

"What's our next move?"

"Same as Alpha squad, watch him closely and see what he's up to."

"Affirmative, Robin out."

Had the purpose of his museum visit been for leisure, Katsuro would have enjoyed the plethora of exhibits throughout the museum. Unfortunately, he knew he was there to locate either his prey, or a clue as to what they might be seeking. Feigning interest in the exhibits but still keeping up with him were Superboy and Miss Martian, with the former using his super hearing to listen in should he start talking.

"So...I'm at the museum, and aside from possibly buying some cotton candy, I'm not really seeing anything promising." Katsuro said.

"Likewise, I've already come across some brat's volcano project. It's still early, and you have the newest exhibits to look at. I hear they uncovered something from Japan. I think it was from one of your many gods named Tsukuyomi or something like that."

"Kinda wished you mentioned that before so I'm not walking through this place looking lost."

"Might help if you smiled and dropped the scowl."

Amon felt an unnatural shiver traveling down his spine and quickly looked around. He was certain the feeling of being watched wan't something he was imagining.

"I want to get closer to hear what he's saying, but he seems to be on guard now." Robin said.

"Wait, I think my beetle may be able to try and listen in." Blue beetle said.

You are correct Jaime Reyes. Accessing his communications now. The scarab said.

As Katsuro turned the corner and entered the new Japanese exhibit, he stopped. Standing on the other side of the room deep in conversation with the museum curator was a tall, slender man with long white hair tied in a ponytail and icy, blue eyes. He wore a crimson suit and pointed towards the orb on a pillar in the exhibit. He looked like a regular man to everyone else, but Katsuro knew who he really was.

"Amon, I've found him. I've found Noburonori." he whispered, attempting to mask his rising anger.

"There? At the museum? I don't see any smoke or hear screaming. Is he posing as an kabuki prop or something?" Amon asked.

"No, he's in his human form talking to the curator."

"Human form? He can do that? I thought they could only turn into animals and go spirit mode?"

"No, they're right up there on the trickster list with kitsunes."

"Well I'll call that an awesome turn of events, especially after last night's fiasco. Any idea what he's looking for?"

"Can't hear him, but he keeps pointing and looking at one of the exhibits. Looks like it's called...the orb of Tsukuyomi."

"Called it."

"Well you get a gold sticker for your prediction. Has Montoya showed up?"

"Yeah, he and Luthor are handing out the medals now. The brat with the volcano came in first."

"So, can we assume they're in cahoots with Lex Luthor?"

"Yeah, so it looks like we'll now have the Light to contend with. We're going to get very popular at this rate."

"So what's the plan? Should we steal the orb since he's practically drooling over it."

"Duh, but we'll do it tonight, after they lock everything up."

"I can steal the orb, you should continue to tail Montoya and see what kind of deal he's making with Luthor."

"No dice my fugitive friend, you know as well as I why I can't leave you alone. We'll bot be there to steal it tonight. It'll be a party, you bring the chips, I'll bring the dip."

"And we'll bring the punch." Superboy said quietly.