Hiei's Justice
Chapter 1
Secret Origins
"Not good, not good, not good," a large blue ogre yelled to himself as he was running through the halls of the office of spirit world, this was one of the worst things that could possibly be happening, sirens were blaring all around him and gates were slamming shut for a lock down. They had gotten word from the living world that various meteors were striking at it, these meteors contained spirit energy foreign to all of them, and so they were now putting a lock down on all spiritual beings, no matter who they were, how powerful, they were ordered to spirit world. Not just the spiritual beings either, they had received word that all demons were ordered back to demon world as well, at least the demons that could get back at least, the others were ordered to lay as low as possible and not draw any attention to themselves, and that meant any attention.
The ogre just now reached his destination, Koenma stood pacing back and forth in his office when the ogre came inside of it in a panic mess, "Ogre," the young spirit prince barked as soon as the mess of an assistant rushed into the room, "where have you been, this is a state of emergency."
The ogre stumbled to stand at attention at the focus of his boss, "sorry sir, my hydrangeas needed to be watered, I forgot to water them before I left home," his boss stared at him with a blank expression before jumping up and smacking the ogre as hard as possible on the head.
"This is no time to be worried about something like hydrangeas you oaf," Koenma shouted at the ogre for doing that right now of all times, "we're facing a large crisis on our hands, we need every available asset we have ready to help defend the other worlds from whatever threat is coming." He began walking past the ogre before kicking him in the shin, hard, it made him fall to the floor in pain while Koenma just went back to his desk and climbed to his seat, "but while we wait, we need information, my screen is on lock down as is the rest of spirit world," he told him plainly.
"Are you really suggesting keeping Yusuke in living world to investigate whatever this is," the Ogre asked him incredulously while stepping back, "but sir, he's our greatest asset for any problem in the future as well as now, we can't use him and put him into that kind of harm's way."
"I know that you oaf," Koenma snapped at the assistant before looking to his desk, "not to mention we just got off having to deal with the Dark Tournament, he's tired at the moment, pulling him back into everything after that is too much to take on right after another. At first I thought about having Kuwabara do it instead, he didn't take as much damage as compared to Yusuke and his own spiritual awareness is better than most psychics right now anyways, however this mission requires stealth and a moral flexibility, not something that he has. Kurama is the hole package, level headed, spiritually aware, expert thief, morally flexible, stealthy, and nothing would be wrong, except he has school and as repeatedly told me that what his mother wants will often take precedence over what it is that spirit world wants."
"Well if you're going off of those people, that means we've exhausted all of our useful assets, right," Ogre asked dumbly while screeching his head, Koenma looked at him as if he was stupid before it dawned on him, "you can't use Hiei sir, he'll run from us the first chance he got."
"I know," the toddler told him with a snap, "but he's the only choice that we have, stealthy, expert thief, moral flexibility, spiritually aware, and able to at least blend into the area in a crowd, problem is he's ill mannered, hates all humans, and has a violent tendency, not good for a spy." Koenma put his palms on his eyes and hung his head, "why did these invaders have to come here now of all times, just a few more months and we could send Kurama during summer vacation, but we need a solution now," honestly he was thinking of banging his head on the table right now.
"Honestly sir, I can't figure out why you never just let him go home and be done with it, he's already found his sister and made sure she's taken care of, he doesn't really need to stay here does he," the blue moron asked out loud to him and an idea finally formed in his head from it.
"Ogre," Koenma snapped at him and said man stood straight up, "you wonderful brilliant moron," he said more happily before pressing a button on his desk, "get me Hiei here now, and be quick about it, the barrier will be up fully in twenty-four hours before this invasion begins." Now all he had to do was to sit back and wait, Botan will fetch Hiei and he could put a plan of his into motion, "Ogre you actually helped us out, so you can have the rest of the lock down off after everything is locked down fully," the blue skinned man jumped for joy at the reward.
It was only after about thirty minutes did they wait and in came a short man standing at four feet and ten inches tall without his hair was a stoic faced black dressed fire demon walking into his office as if he didn't want to be there, and he didn't, "what is it, I was busy," Hiei demanded.
"Busy sleeping I bet," Koenma muttered to himself before he felt the heat in the room begin to rise a little, so he coughed into his hand and spoke, "since you're blunt, I'll be blunt, I have one last mission for you before you get to go home, and it is a stealth and observe operation. All you have to do is go to what is to be a landing sight of a crash we are projecting will hold an invasion, that is why the spirit world is going into lock down right now, to keep them out, we want you to observe and report back, after that I'll personally see you leave back to demon world."
"But sir," Botan spoke from her position just beside of him, "the living world has their own heroes, many who should be more than enough to deal with the likes of whatever invasion is coming our way, remember what happened with that one alien so many years ago, lock down wasn't called then."
"That was completely different, that alien was on the living world's side first, so we had no way to prepare for that situation, nor will the heroes be prepared for what comes, their forces are quite the sizable assault, large numbers will overwhelm them," Koenma told with even certainty.
"So I'm being sent because if I fail then that is also one possible future threat out of the way, right," Hiei stated with dangerously narrowed eyes, at the toddler sitting in his chair and noticeably shaking from the gaze cast his way, "so you need skill and someone disposable."
Koenma still looked at him with a bit of fear as he said, "yes Hiei, in the event that this mission fails and the invaders kill all of living world, you will not receive any help from us, so you will die, but if you succeed then you'll get to go home as soon as it's done, what is your answer?"
Hiei stared at Koenma with a look of contempt, he was being used to bring in information and let them know what is going on when it's over, knowing no information beyond that other than it could possibly be a suicide mission, so in short he was being used, and yet, "fine, where is it?"
"You'll be going to the first landing sight, a city named Metropolis, located in America," Koenma informed and already Hiei hated this assignment, he hated dealing with humans, but he hated dealing with Americans the most, all demons did, why they chose other places to stay while there. "I know, nobody likes that place for the same reason you demons do, but at least Metropolis is no Gotham, now that place would make you scowl in disgust, at least with Metropolis you have clean air and lower crimes to watch until it hits tomorrow night, so go, and do be careful." Hiei didn't say anything as he turned and walked away, the decision to do this was going to be one of the worst he's ever made, he can already feel it in his very being, and with each step it seemed to take him closer than ever before to the biggest migraine of his entire life.
Next Night
Hiei knew it, nothing but a migraine, all throughout last night and this night he's had to stay away from some red and blue boy-scout that flies through the skies, going from one place or another, Hiei just found a tree in the park and laid down on a branch and waited all day, got some strange looks. Others just looked up and blinked before walking further off without saying a word, it eventually got to the point where some people got ticked off and decided to call an officer, that officer came only to find nothing there, because Hiei went to a different tree on the other side of the park. That was at least an interesting game to play while waiting for the night to come, laying in a tree until someone calls a cop on you for sleeping on a branch, apparently that was illegal for this place, and then when the cop came go to a different tree on the other side of the park, a nice game.
Eventually though it got to be nighttime and so he chose to instead wait on a roof overlooking the park, a good view from the height and not too high so that no detail was missed on the ground, also gave him a clear view of the sky that looked to be quite clear, other than a few clouds. That is when the loud beeping in his ears sounded, a beep in quick succession going on a loud loop, his ears caught it and forced him to take his eyes off the sky to look in the direction it sounded to be coming from, but then he had to hide as the big boy in red and blue flew overhead. He went to the same place that the noise was coming from though, so that meant it was probably a high frequency that he was hearing, his own keen ears must have picked it up along with the boy-scout, apparently one of his many powers was enhanced ears as well.
That is when it happened, in the sky was a large ball of flames coming from space, it was showtime now, it flew at an angle until eventually it passed by the area where the boy in blue had entered and skidded to a halt, destroying the park, and sopping just outside on the street by it. It was still flaming by the time emergency services finally arrived and tried to put it out with water, it was slowly cooling for other people to get a good look at it, it was a large brown rock, a meteor that was smoking and releasing smoke as many other emergency services arrived to the scene. Then came the rumbling, followed by a crack and then finally came a white L shaped appendage that crashed through it with yellow slime hanging off it, it slammed down to the ground almost hitting two officers before the boy in blue saved them, almost getting hit with another appendage. He dodged it in time to avoid it and flew the two officers to the ground before yet another one came from the meteor, this one between the two that had already come out before it used its strength to raise out a deformed red and white head, with a black top foot print on the front of it.
These invaders looked to be organic in nature, so at least it can be killed, but then its 'eye', turned into a singular black dot that then lit up red and shot a laser out destroying a police car with only a single blast, then came the man in blue come in and fly straight for it. It noticed him and shot at him before he could get too close and sent him flying back and bounce of a building roof before falling to the ground making a crater, the thing kept moving while the officers there kept shooting at it before it shot another blast at them again.
Then came a few more shots that destroyed the buildings before a large sound came from what appeared to be a black flying craft in the shape of a bat that also headed for the invading force, it unleashed two rockets at it and the alien let it hit dead on since it knew it wouldn't work. The jet then flew around it forcing it to focus its fire on it with quite a few shots before eventually the man in blue came back and delivered a hard right to the large tripod thing before delivering a couple axe handles that knocked it over and into the bridge it had been moving past. Then blue boy got on top of it and tried to pry open some of the outer shell to get inside the noticeably tougher exterior, only for said tripod to notice what it was doing and blast him off and into a far off building, the tripod rose up from the bridge legs as the flying machine came back in. This time it did an amazing thing, it shot a couple missiles again did as little as it did the last time before getting shot at by the tripod again, only for it to then be joined by another that came out of the same meteor, and then came another one for the party to start, what a mess this was.
That was when something else happened, all of a sudden the boy in blue flew off, but his face didn't scream to be that of a coward's, but the one in the black jet seems to have now gotten some reinforcements from other jets that came in and did the same thing he did. Seeing as how it did just as good as the last times though, you can understand why the tanks also showed up, the tanks that then did just as good as the missiles from jets though had Hiei wondering why they even bothered to show up if they were also going to be useless.
It finally got to the point where Hiei got board of watching the humans get slaughtered for hours on end and decided to do something off the mission book, he raised his spirit energy and with a quick burst decided to find out where exactly those that were defending the world were gone to.
Later
After searching in the general direction they went off into, Hiei finally spotted them coming out of a government facility, along with a new green friend, also saw the soldiers all transform into white humanoid creatures as well, that was strange, but not the strangest thing he could have seen. They began firing on the three heroes, the one in black and the green one jumped out of the way while the one in red and blue was shot into a jeep with a laser, the one in black threw an explosive from behind another jeep that took some out, one came from behind to shoot them. The green one saw this and phased through the one in black before getting shot himself, the one in black threw a bat shaped throwing projectile at the one who shot him, the one in blue came back and lifted a tank to shield them while they started to slowly head towards the black jet.
The green on paused when the one in black put him in the machine and looked in Hiei's direction, his eyes glowed a pale orange and he heard a voice in his head, 'please help us,' before he felt the connection cut, the green guy was obviously a telepath, and he expected Hiei to help.
The jet fired up and began to take off as the one in blue came in and threw the tank he was holding on the invaders to take them out in a massive explosion, they both took off and left Hiei there to try and play catchup, but he was left with an even bigger problem thanks to the telepath. Now they knew he was there, knew that he had been following them, and the telepath will now tell them that and expect him to help them, being a hero was not part of the agreement and being a hero was not ever a part of his character, he was now and forever a demon, a villain. Yet, if he wished to go home, wished to put an end to his stay here in the living realm, he'd have to do something, these humans and heroes are taking too much time, if spirit world doesn't hear from him soon they'll assume he's dead and close off all access to demon world, to his home.
With that in mind he jumped up just as white triangular ships flew overhead in pursuit of the heroes, they wanted help, he'll help until them help him without them even knowing it, he waited until the ships broke off one group going after the boy in blew while the others went after the black one. When he thought it was enough and the one in black was about to get hit, Hiei acted by summoning the mortal flame and slamming his fist through the ship he was standing on, before speeding for a different one and using his sword to slice it in two and flipping to stab into another one. He took the stab and began cutting until a crescent shape was made, the ship started to spark to explode before he jumped off again and landed on a wing before slicing that flight component off, he jumped just in time to see the black jet get shot and fell with a smoking wing.
It was caught by a green light, following the green light showed it to be from a dark skinned man in a green uniform, and Hiei didn't have time to look on any further because one ship spotted him and fired at him, he dodged by using his flames in mid air to go above it spun to heel drop. This created an explosion that destroyed the ship and made him speed to a mountain side cliff to avoid being hit with a laser from another ship, the laser was blocked by a woman in wings with an electric mace that directed the blast while the one in green came in and sliced it in half. The one in blue spun one around and let go to make it slam into a mountain side, before going off and destroying one by flying into it, the green skinned one used his phasing ability to let the lasers shoot through him and into another one to destroy it, two destroyed each other. Hiei speed forward and used his fire to spin around and tunnel through another one that was coming up behind the green uniformed one before crushing one with his mortal flame covered fist, shooting out flames into a long spring-like form to evaporate one behind him. One blast shot to close to the winged one and forced her to crash into a mountain ledge before a woman in red and blue with silver bracelets came in to block the incoming lasers and direct them back to the firing ship, the ship crashing into them was prevented by the green uniformed one.
At long last the battle was won and they all gathered together where the black jet, a red blur zooming in and held a piece of the black jet, "hey bats, I think you dropped this," he gestured to the wing piece before spotting the woman in red, "whoa, where have you been all my life?"
"Themyscira," the woman said and the one in red had a blank look, "the home of the Amazons, though you probably thought it was merely a legend, I assure you it's as real as the ground on which we stand, I am Diana, princess of the Amazons," she introduced herself to them all.
"Pinch me I must be dreaming," the red one told anyone who would listen, the one in blue elbowed him instead, "ow," which was the appropriate response seeing as how that elbow could have destroyed the speedster then and there, but Hiei chose not to comment on that.
"Themyscira is protected by the Gods, but I could not idly stand by while the rest of the world was in danger, and it was lucky that I showed up when you did," Diana told them as they listened in, though at least Hiei was thankful he wasn't the only odd one out, the others seemed to know each other.
"No, not luck, I telepathically summoned them, even the one that was following you from Metropolis," the green skinned one said before looking to the one that almost didn't help them, the blue one and the black one turned to Hiei and rose an eyebrow, wondering why he just helped.
"Look, I'm usually pretty quick on the uptake, but would someone please tell me what the heck is going on here," the one in red asked everyone and Hiei knew exactly his role in the group, he was another fool like the oaf with the 'manly honor' and spirit sword from the Dark Tournament.
J'onn J'onzz was his name and apparently he came from Mars to warn the human race about the impending alien threat, yet human stupidity got in the way again, "so, J'onn J'onzz, you came from Mars to warn us," Dianna asked as Superman finished repairing the wing to the black jet.
"We first encountered them a thousand of your Earth years ago, it was a golden age, our Martian civilization was at the height of its peace and prosperity, and then… they arrived, where they came from, no one knew but they were determined to make our planet their own. We Martians were peaceful people and the taking of any life was abhorrent to us, but we quickly learned the ways of war, for centuries the battles raged on, every trace of our once great civilization was obliterated, we fought valiantly but the invaders were parasites who fed on our psychic energy. As we grew weaker, they grew stronger, they even absorbed our shape-changing abilities, finally a small group of Martian survivors planned one final desperate attack, inside their underground stronghold we unleashed a powerful nerve gas which paralyzed them. The attack was successful, but the cost was dear, I was the only survivor the last of my kind, I sealed up their citadel to keep them in a constant state of suspended animation, for over 500 years, I stood guard over them, but while I was in a hibernation cycle astronauts unsealed and revived the invaders."
The all listened intensely to J'onn J'onzz's story and after it, the green uniformed one spoke up, "those astronauts never said anything about finding life on Mars because some pencil pusher in Washington probably decided it should be classified information," that was reasonable.
"With all the Martians gone, the invaders had nothing left to feed upon so they turned their sights to Earth, I narrowly escaped and came here to warn of the coming danger, while I was being held against my will the invaders sent advanced agents to disable Earth's defenses," J'onn informed.
"That's why they sabotaged the deep-space monitoring network so we couldn't detect their activities," the man in black spoke up, he occasionally sent a quizzical eye to Hiei, but the fire demon ignored it and focused on the conversation that was happening, and what it all meant.
"Though it may already be too late to stop them," J'onn said as he looked off into the distance where clouds began to form, "the invaders are nocturnal, they want to blot out the sun so they can live in perpetual darkness," he informed them all, though Hiei didn't see anything wrong.
"Friends of yours," the red one told the one in black who glared back, he backed off and went to stand behind Martian, "what's the problem, can't you just whip up another batch of that nerve gas," he asked the Martian, though Hiei had a feeling that it won't be anything as simple as that.
"Unfortunately, no, the gas can only be made from a rare Martian plant, I brought a sample with me, but it was destroyed when I was captured," J'onn informed them sadly, this was getting too troublesome, if Kurama was here he could make a nerve gas similar to the Martian plant.
"Tactically, we'll have multiple objectives so we'll need to split into teams," the green uniformed one said, the one in red wanted the Amazon, but from his own experiences, Hiei knew that wasn't a good idea, but instead he went with the green uniformed man instead, that was one team. Next was the team of the boy in blue and the one with the wings, though why anyone would want to pair with someone with such an obvious weakness was beyond him, both of them had obvious weaknesses, the one in blue had a rock, and the wings was a weakness in of themselves.
"Alright, now we saw that you have some type of fire powers, yet we never got a name for you, what is it," the boy in blue asked the fire demon, he could tell them the truth, but humans have already proven inept about all of this, he could tell a full lie, but he knows they'll find holes in it.
He decided to have give them some half-truths and vague answers, "Hiei Jaganshi, and yes I do have fire powers that enhances all my physical abilities," that was the truth, somewhat, "and I don't need a team, I'm more than capable to handle a factory on my own," that was true as well.
"You're an unknown to us, J'onn we can understand the unknown with him, we can understand the unknown with Diana, but not with you, with you we only just met you and all we have to go on is who you are, and the fact you didn't help until asked by J'onn," the one in black stated.
Hiei weighed his options, the one in black was clearly the smartest of the group given how he pieced that together so quickly, but what to tell them, the truth or continue with the vague lie he started, though he could tell them a complete lie, the detective's lie, "we're waiting," wings stated.
"I've been given a mission to report on what the outcome of this invasion will be, if the invasion is repelled, I get to go home to my own plain of existence, if the invasion is successful… well everyone will be dead anyway, I was chosen for expendability," that was the honest part.
The others looked at him honestly a bit shocked that someone would be chosen on a mission like this just because they were expendable and they were using a path to his own home to force cooperation, it was the one in black that spoke up, "fine, me, you, J'onn, and Diana, let's go." Hiei glared at the back of his head but decided it was easier to follow instead of arguing and getting himself a headache, or so he thought, the one in black flew inside of his plain while he stood on top of it and Diana and J'onn flew beside each other, they were going to Egypt.
Egypt
The factory didn't look that big, but Hiei could tell there were many other roots that dug deep into the ground as it pumped the nutrients from there into the sky, however one of the most noticeable features was that there were no openings for them to get inside other than the obvious. The man in black, who was now known to Hiei as Batman, peaked out from behind the corner of the ruble they were hiding behind to get a good look at it, a tripod walked by and he went back into hiding, the Amazon though, "hiding like cowards is not the Amazon way," Diana stated.
Batman looked back to the machine, "they must have a weakness, when we find it we'll strike," he argued back, and the fire demon nodded as well, he didn't like hiding either, but if they were going to get through this then they needed to be smart about it and not go in blind.
J'onn then phased up from the floor before going tangible again, "I have scouted the outer walls, there are no opening," that was a bit more suspicious, they may be nocturnal but that still meant that some opening should be there for after the blot out the sun, that doesn't sound very good.
"Then we'll make our own," Diana said before flying off, J'onn was going to stop her before Batman put his arm up, the message was clear, the woman took off her lasso and wrapped it around one of the legs of a tripod before taking it around the legs of the creature. She finally stopped on the 'knee' of it and said, "Hera, give me strength," and pulled with all her might, the legs closed together and it tripped and fell into the wall, crumbling under the weight of the invader life form, Diana stood on its head and gestured to her opening, "there's your opening."
"Not bad," Batman commented at her direct approach, Hiei used his speed to phase to the leg before jumping in while J'onn only flew up and into the hole while finally Batman used a grappling gun to shoot at the edge of the hole and was rocketed up and into the hole where he landed.
Diana was blocking lasers with her bracelets while the invaders fired, Hiei sped past the first and second and got to the third before incinerating him with his fire and jumping to roundhouse kick the other one down before putting his hand on his chest and incinerating that invader as well. The last one ran away from him and was about to hit a stream of light before he stumbled to avoid it and continued to run, Hiei saw that and from the look of Batman, he did as well, "they run like cowards, what are you waiting for," Diana asked as she ran further inside the base. They ran throughout the base until eventually invaders blocked their path and they had to change directions, they ran again until it happened again and they had to hold off and change until they were blocked again, "they've blocked us off again," she said as she blocked their fire.
"It's almost as if they know what we're thinking," Batman said as he took out and explosive batarang from his belt and threw it at them where it exploded and made them scatter themselves, he looked back, "any ideas J'onn," he was unmoving now, "J'onn," he said louder.
J'onn's eyes stopping glowing and he replied, "Superman and Hawkgirl are down, they have failed, I can sense it," so that was their names, the one in blue must be Superman and the winged one was Hawkgirl, "this way, hurry," he said again and went down a different path.
They ran as many other doors closed around them in a liquid type of substance that solidified to block their path, one opened behind them and blocked their way, Hiei looked back at sent a spiraling flame their way that burned them before they got to a wall that blocked their path. Close to the ceiling of the wall was a hole that J'onn and Diana flew up to go through while Hiei jumped up and Batman fired a grappling hook to reach the top, the ran and rounded a corner and Hiei looked back, "we lost them for the moment," he told them as he looked back at them.
Batman put on a knuckle that seemed to be electrified now that he had a moment, "look," J'onn called their attention and they walked over to him to see what seemed to be a control station around them, "it's the central core, we remove the ion matrix crystal the whole plant will shut down."
"I can get it, I just need a diversion," Hiei told them and they nodded, Batman took out and threw a batarang that cut through a pipe while Diana grabbed a tube and pulled it loose to douse them with gas to get the attention on them, J'onn got ready for a fight while Hiei made his move. He seemingly blurred out of existence in a quick shimmer before reappearing in the same manner in front of the crystal, the invaders began firing on them while Diana blocked and J'onn phased through and began attacking them, Batman jumped down and attacked with his electric knuckles. Hiei used his enhanced resistance to grab the crystal from within the containment unit, to be honest it burned a lot more than what he first thought but pushed through it until he finally pulled it free and jumped off the platform, yet was unable to get down safely do to the invaders shooting.
They shot at him so much while he was in mid-air and unable to use his fire effectively from holding the crystal as well, he got hit multiple times, Diana flew over to him and grabbed him from the ground while Batman ordered, "get him out, now," while throwing an invader off him. J'onn was going to get the crystal but Batman beat him to it, J'onn flew out of there instead along with Diana and Hiei, they flew faster than Batman though, and because of that they were able to get out before the door closed, sadly though, Batman wasn't fast enough and it closed on him.
Hiei regained his senses just in time to see it and ran off and slammed his fist into it, someone sacrificed themselves, he was no stranger to death, but having it have to happen now of all times wasn't desired, in any form, however sudden blasts shot the door and dented it before going back. Hiei made to knock it down with a fist of the mortal flame before J'onn put a hand on his shoulder, "wait, there's nothing more we can do for him, he's gone," he told him openly, though with his mind said, 'you know as well as I that he's alive, I'm mentally shielding him but you feel him.'
Hiei didn't make any move that the mental notice got through just shrugged off his shoulder and turned around to walk away with a grunt, "Hera, help us," Diana prayed to her gods since nobody else was going to help them right now, or at all really, but they didn't need to know right now.
Metropolis
Hiei, J'onn, and Diana all left Egypt and flew, or in Hiei's case ran, to Metropolis in order to meet up with the Flash and Green Lantern, they waited on a rooftop and watched the city destroy itself, "perhaps mother was right about mankind, they're nothing but untamed savages," Diana stated.
"Do not judge them too harshly," J'onn stated sagely, or as sagely as one could when speaking for mankind, "they act out of fear," they watched as the other two came and Green Lantern stopped and helped trapped kids while Flash was just, ironically, behind him probably because he got lost.
"Sorry we're late," Green Lantern apologized when he finally landed and Flash came in on the other side, "had to stop and help some civilians, but what did you call us back for, and where is Batman," he asked not really liking what is clear to him and everyone else, he hated it.
"Superman's been captured, he's trapped somewhere inside there with Hawkgirl," Diana pointed to the factory in the distance, thunder rang in the distance like an ominous omen, she decided not to mention Batman, she didn't like the loss of a friend, even if she didn't know him for very long.
"Batman acted heroically… to the very end," J'onn decided to be the one to inform them since Hiei wouldn't really tell them with any tact and truth be told he didn't really care, but to put up with these people effectively he had to make it seem like he did care, and he really hated that.
"This is not good, definitely not good," Green Lantern growled out while walking over to the edge of the building roof, thunder rumbled in the distance again, they all snuck over to the factory and hid behind ruble, "if Superman and Hawkgirl are in there, someone's gotta rescue 'em."
Flash looked hesitant to go in one of those things, "I just can't believe we're doing this again," he then turned to look at J'onn, "you are sure they're still in there, aren't you," he asked just to be safe, he didn't answer for a moment so Flash prodded again, "J'onn," he called his attention.
"Yes," J'onn finally told them, "your friends are alive, but we must act quickly, the Imperium is coming," he said ominously to the confused heroes, "the supreme intelligence that controls these invaders, we have met before," the others looked apprehensive now, questioning the Martian.
"Okay, we're going in, Flash, create a diversion, Diana watch my back," Green Lantern ordered, and Flash zoomed off through the legs of a tripod while the others went in and past the giant while the Flash picked up a rock and through it at the tripod hitting it on the head.
It looked over and down at the red clad fool waving his arms around before putting them to his mouth to call out, "tag, you're it," before blowing him a raspberry and running off to avoid to laser blasts, it walked out of the smoke from the blasts to see Flash by a bolder, "not even close." He yawned to emphasize this point, "come on slow poke, I dare ya, over here," he called out as the tripod walked his way and lifted his foot before it stepped down as the Flash speed away, it exploded though, "ooh, you really stepped in it that time," it fell over and exploded.
Hiei and the others snuck around until they were beside a pumping tube before they either flew or speed into a hole previously made by either Superman or Hawkgirl that wasn't healed, they flew through and down a path until Lantern asked, "where are they being held?"
"This way," J'onn informed before changing directions and landing down a path, the others did as well and Hiei slowed his pace to keep them in his sights just as Flash also caught up with them, they then heard some alien chatter and backed against a wall for cover before they were seen. J'onn looked around the corner barely and then looked back to them, "wait here," they nodded before he turned back and turned into an alien invader and went around the corner and talked in the same language, the invaders came around the corner before J'onn came up and stuck his hand through them.
"Is it just me or does he creep you out too," Flash asked absently, and even Hiei had to agree that he was a bit creeped out by the Martian, but decided not to voice it as they continued to walk for a while, this place was bigger than what he first thought it was, thankfully they had a guide.
"We are close now," J'onn said after they had been walking for some time, they soon came to a wall that he put his hand against as if searching for something, "I sense they are somewhere beyond these walls," Diana came to give it a push, but it didn't budge from her power.
"Stand back," Green Lantern said as he approached and focused his power into a concentrated blast of emerald light, Hiei could sense something big approaching, so while Lantern was using his laser, Hiei decided to unwrap his arm wrappings to reveal his black dragon markings to them all.
Since he was behind them they didn't see what he was doing so they had no way of knowing why or that he even did that, but soon Green Lantern broke through and made a full circle so they could see what was inside of it, Superman and Hawkgirl were being held upside down in the room. Diana, Green Lantern, and Flash both ran up to their comrades as J'onn stepped into the room, Hiei did so as well and felt something off, but thought that this was a good opportunity for him, J'onn said something, "wait, something is not right," he said and both of their red eyes opened.
The wall behind them sealed shut and Green Lantern ran to it to get there before it closed, he was too late, "it's a trap," small holes opened in the wall and in came gas that was designed to knock them out, Hiei could have done something as everyone was chocking, but decided not to.
"Lantern… your ring," Diana said as she too was going down, Flash seemed to already be out like a light and J'onn was on the ground fading fast, but soon so she was as well, Hiei held out for as long as he could to make it look like he was struggling, but he too was sent to the floor as well.
Lantern was down to his stomach from already inhaling the yellow mist, "can't focus, can't," he too was fast asleep after that, and the last one down was Hiei as he watched the fake Superman say something to the fake Hawkgirl, he closed his eyes and let his own plan begin after.
Later
Hiei awoke to the sound of Superman calling out to J'onn, "J'onn, J'onn, wake up," said man was also groaning and waking up slowly as he got a look around saw that everyone else was captured, "you shouldn't have risked your lives for us," he told the Martian in the same position now.
"Would you have done less for me," J'onn asked back, though Superman didn't answer that, he couldn't because the others soon awoke as well from his left, Superman was on his right, Diana on Superman's right, above them was Hawkgirl, Lantern on her left, and Hiei on his left.
"Earth's mightiest heroes," an invader called out as it was on a platform, it shifted form to a man, "welcome," Hiei heard Superman mutter a 'Senator Carter', "unfortunately, the real Carter never returned from Mars, and thankfully we used that to have you weaken Earth's defenses. You were so eager to cooperate, thanks to you the humans were totally helpless against us, and now it's over," the invader said as he opened a hole in the ceiling with a control panel, down from a large ship came a still quite large ship, carrying one thing, "all hail the Imperium."
The group of soldiers now all bowed as the bottom of the ship jet out some steam and then before them floated a large bubble of black and purple with tentacles at the bottom of the creature, the soldiers formed two lines and the creature floated between them looking right at J'onn. "J'onn J'onzz, it's been a long time," there was no mouth moving so it was obviously speaking through telepathy, it motioned with its tentacles and brought forth J'onn's organic seeming binds to set him in front of him directly, two invaders came to J'onn with electric prodder type poles. The touched his body and the other could only watch in horror as J'onn writhed in agony before he reverted to what Hiei could only assume was his normal form without the blue cape or trunks before collapsing on the ground, "much better, you have defied us for centuries."
J'onn began to rise from his laying position to look the thing in its nonexistent eyes when he said, "and I will never bow before you or any of your kind," he said defiantly as he stood up fully and stared at the being without any hesitation of any kind, Hiei would applaud him if he wasn't bound.
"Then we will personally see to finishing what should have been accomplished long ago, the elimination of the last Martian," the Imperium said as it took it's tentacles and dug them deep into J'onn's skin and looked to be about to rip him apart before taking him deep inside of himself. The series of electric shocks that followed forced him to yell out in pain to force him to submit, "yield to us, J'onn J'onzz," the Martian struggled more, "why do you resist, embrace this truth, after all these years, you have finally lost," the Imperium pressed his winning to J'onn.
Hiei now knew that this was the final time to act, summoning his dark flame and letting it coat his right arm before breaking the rough material holding the others, at the same time of his release he struck at his left arm binding and leg bindings and jumped off before an explosion occurred. That explosion was soon revealed to be Batman, hanging off of the area holding the crystal powering the factory they were in, "I mentally shielded him so he couldn't be detected," J'onn explained before Batman put in a devise in the containment area of the crystal turning it from red to blue.
"I reversed the ion charge," Batman stated stoically while they invaders shot at the crystal to destroy it, but it was shielded, Hiei turned and destroyed Superman's organic bindings with four well placed dark flamed punches as the effects took hold of the factory and shot beams out of it. Those beams did an interesting thing to the clouds that were blotting out the sun, they dispersed them and at the right time too, because of the time of day it brought out the sun and showed off the invader's weaknesses, Batman got to Diana and brought out a tool for laser cutting.
The sun burned all invaders, including the Imperium, as he began to burn he lost his grip on J'onn who burst out of the blob of mass and brought it out further into the sun, "you live underground and shun the light, why, does it burn your pale, putrid skin," J'onn asked as he pulled the tentacles.
"Ultraviolet rays, coming from the depths of space, the invaders have no resistance to our sun's radiation," Batman informed before the invaders shot at them and Superman went to the platform and raised it to where there was a shield to protect them from the oncoming blasts.
"So you did find that weakness after all," Diana said as she broke free from her bindings, Hiei moved and destroyed the Lantern's holdings so he could use his ring on the others, Hiei sped to the ceiling before rocketing down to the ground with flaming fists lit up with dark flames. The invader in the form of Carter was obliterated with a single punch before another one had a hole through his chest, using that as a launching pole of sorts he grabbed it with his left hand jumped over the dead alien to back heal kick the one behind it, before tossing the corpse. It landed on two more invaders before Hiei sent a wave of fire that incinerated them on impact, he checked to see what happened with the others, Hawkgirl was taking her mace to the invaders knocking them into nothing left and right, Flash was running past them at speeds to force them down. Green Lantern used the energy in his ring to force an air bubble around some that pushed them into the ground, Superman and Diana went for the ceiling and decided to break the walls to let more sunlight pass inside so that the invaders could burn alive from their time in the sun.
Soon those that could fly joined in to destroy the ceiling and began to tear away at it, and yet the one thing they couldn't do was let the Imperium get away, but when J'onn was forced to take more pain in small bursts then he was able to handle, he was knocked out and forced to let go. The invading leader began to go back and into his ship so that he could escape, Hiei couldn't let that happen, so he sped to a piece of the roof that hasn't been broken yet and charged up his final attack, and when the ship carrying the Imperium was lined up with the larger one, he fired. "Dragon of the Darkness Flame," the large black dragon made from fire was forced from his hands and shot through the sky, incinerating the smaller ship as well as a part of the much larger ship as well, the large force was then called back and forced to eat the rest of the ship as well after that.
Superman and Flash all gathered the civilians and got them out of there thanks to Lantern's constructs, Diana carried Batman out of the falling apart factory from the repeated attacks, Hawkgirl carried Flash out while the others flew, Hiei was already out of the factory and ran. The others watched as their work was smoking, incinerating, and all around burned to the ground, it was almost over, all that was left was to clean up the remaining invaders that stuck around, it took a little time but they eventually destroyed all of the remaining invaders.
After the invasion
Hiei was walking along the path to where the only portal left for emergencies to spirit world would be, it was in a back ally going into a random building, but it was really a front for the portal to spirit world, only, there was no portal, no way to access it, he banged on the door a few times. After that he blasted it down and went through the smoking ruins, only to find the only object in there to be a slab of concrete that would usually hold the portal on it, a usually glowing green rectangular portal with a circular swirl in it, used for agents other than ferry girls to use. Yet there was no portal, nothing, there was only a slab of concrete, he slammed his fist in it and something floated down from on top of it, he didn't see it because the slab of concrete was ten feet tall, so what floated down from the force of his strike was a yellow note, it was snatched and read.
"Hiei, I was able to view quickly that things were not looking good, and it is at this point where I wrote this, spirit world has been sealed up forever, souls will still be able to get here when they die, but from this point on nothing else can get to here or demon world, never again I'm afraid. I'm only writing to you as a courtesy, it is clear to me that the heroes will fail now that three of their best, Superman, Hawkgirl, and Batman are dead, so I've ordered the entrance to be closed for good so the invaders won't make it to spirit world, if you've never found this I'm sorry. If you have found this then know that I've saved Yukina, Kurama and his mother, Yusuke and his family, and even Kuwabara and his family is safe, depending on the outcome of you finding this know that they are safe and now you will need to find a reason to keep on living now. I would ask you not to do anything reckless but we both know you, if the invaders won, stay safe while taking them all out, if the invaders lost despite what I'm seeing to be highly unlikely, please help the people, be a villain to help or a hero to help, stay safe and again sorry, Koenma."
Hiei wanted to roar, he wanted to scream until his energy was gone, finally use that trick to use his life energy to end things for him, but he knew he couldn't, that was the cowards way out, and he was a warrior, a true warrior made for killing, but now he has nothing to live for, nothing at all. Except maybe that one thing, he got a message from the other heroes to meet them on a building called the Daily Planet, he didn't go the first time they called, but now it was the third time, he ignored it and came here to finally go back after killing the last of the invaders here in Japan. It wasn't too late though, he could use that call to see what hey wanted he supposed, and if it was a way to get information then he would use that to his advantage, he wouldn't become a hero per say, but he will use the heroes to find a new way to get back to spirit world, he will return home.