Silver Fox of the Legion
This is a work of Fan fiction. All of the original characters, organizations, techniques, summon animals and events portrayed in this fictional literature are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictionally. Though the majority of the events and most characters take place in and are a part of manga artist Kishimoto's Naruto, and of DC Animated (Mostly Legion of the 31st century & Justice League Unlimited).
Normal speech: I hate paperwork. I bet Minato died just to escape this.
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Scroll/Book/Author notes/Event/ Titles: Village Hidden in the Mist's: Bloodline Limit Purge
Demon/Summon or Fusion speech: Finally, I am free. In your face Minato!
Human Thinking: 'Oh, Shit.'
Demon/Summon or Fusion Thinking: 'Oh, Shit is right! You are royally screwed bitch!'
Jutsu/ Magic/ ability: Wind Style • Silent Wind [Fūton • Kaze no Sairento]
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Chapter 1: Far From Home (Part I)
Sometime in the 31st century, on planet Earth, two teens walked down a hallway with large statues on either side,
"This stinks brainy, I hate running from a fight." Spoke a slightly rotund teen in a black and blue jumpsuit, orange goggles, brown eyes and spiky black hair. He was the older of the two at 16 years old.
"They'll never think to look for us here. That gives us a chance to mount a counterattack." Spoke the goggled teen's companion; he possessed green skin, purple-green eyes and blond hair, he was dressed in a purple jumpsuit. He was clearly the younger of the two at 14 years old and his most unusual feature was the three electrodes on his forehead.
"Attack how? There's only the two of us left!"
"Yes I'm been giving that problem some thought." The one named 'Brainy' answered his comrade as they both walked into the old archive room and he pulled off the sheets covering a large bubble shaped machine.
The goggled teen stared in shock "Oh no…I know you're a level 12 mega genius, but you are seriously out of your mind!"
Undeterred 'Brainy' stood before a console and began punching some coordinates and powering the machine, "There's no other option! All of our teammates have been captured. To save them we'll have to break the laws of time and recruit heroes from the past."
"But messing with history…that's risky even for us." stated the goggled teen.
"Incomplete records from the 21st century show that three members of the legendary Justice League once came to the future. My research indicates now is that time…"
The goggled teen replied strongly "I did my homework too, Brainy. History says three heroes came to the future…"
'Brainy' finished the sentence in a solemn tone "But only two of them ever made it home."
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In the 21st century, Justice League HQ Watchtower, Hologram Chamber,
Fight Program,
Screams and shouts of fleeing civilians echoed in the street of Metropolis just before the Daily Bugle building, Supergirl or Kara In-Ze floated beside her combat instructor Green Lantern John Stewart.
'Damn the Holograms seem more and more realistic every time, though it's still got nothing on the vid-sim games of Argo.'
"You ready Supergirl." John Stewart asked to which Supergirl gave him a cocky smile and replied "Dude I was born ready."
She flew towards the two villains she was facing in this match Queen Bee and Dr Cyber. Not really much in their arsenal to take on someone whose powers are equivalent to Superman, needless to say she dispatched the two training drones.
"So Queen Bee and Dr Cyber…? Not much of a workout." she stated confidently to her instructor, John smiled and spoke to his colleague at the Hologram Chamber's controls "Hear that Ollie, Kara thinks it's too easy."
"Well we wouldn't want her to get bored." Oliver Queen AKA Green Arrow quipped as he punched in some new fighters for Supergirl. Superman stood behind him and watched his Kid cousin's fight against the drones Blockbuster and Atomic Skull.
And doing exceptionally well, Green Arrow turned to Superman "Some kid huh, today's her twenty first birthday but she'd rather be here practicing than go out on the town with me and Dinah."
"Good for her." Superman answered with a smile, Green Arrow continued "Hey at least we wanted to spend some time with her. Ever think how she must feel, she's always an outsider."
"I know a little bit about that myself Ollie…"
"Just a little…you came here as a baby, grew up here. Kara spent most of her life on a planet on a planet with technology hundreds of years ahead of ours, she's gotta feel like she's trapped in the Stone Age."
"I've tried to make her feel at home…"
"How… seems to me you treat her just like another cape."
"I was never happy about Kara going into the family business, but now that she's decided it's what she wants to do. I've tried to step back and let her develop into her own person. I didn't want her living in the shadow of being Superman's cousin."
Green Arrow shook his head "This may shock you but she's proud to be your cousin. She even changed her costume to look more like yours."
Superman nodded as he saw Kara' new Red and Blue uniform, a change from her old White and Blue uniform, "Yes…and I'm very proud, but don't tell her."
"No that's a job for Superman." Green Arrow said annoyed by Superman and walked into the Hologram chamber as Kara defeated the drones.
Supergirl stood anxiously before Green Lantern "Well?"
"Well what." He replied back, Supergirl looked surprised "Aren't you gonna give me notes on all the stuff I screwed up."
John Stewart smiled and patted her shoulder "No notes Kara, I've got nothing left to teach you."
A doorway opened revealing Green Arrow walking in "Not bad Kiddo, you set a new record for the simulation…" he stopped as a translucent sphere of energy engulfed all three of the heroes.
Superman startled jumped into action immediately flying through the wall and to his friends and cousin but stopped as he was too late. The sphere vanished along with its occupants leaving Superman standing there whispering only one word "Kara…"
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Back in the 31st century with the two teens a sphere of energy crackled before them with three figures inside Supergirl, Green Lantern and Green Arrow.
"I'm certain that this must be disorienting for you. My name is…" The Green Skinned Teen with the Compu-Sigil on the forehead, 'Brainy' was cut off by Supergirl.
"Brainiac…!"
"Yes, how did you…uh oh." Brainiac started as he saw Supergirl fly towards him fist cocked back.
She struck but instead of hitting him she struck a force field that nullified her attack, her fists smacking into the force field caused a gonging sound to resonate. Brainiac tried to reason with her "Please calm down, I'm not going to hurt you."
But she kept pounding away, deaf to his words. She was stopped by Green Arrow who held onto her wrist "Whoa sparky! Let's hear what he has to say."
"Thank you, and yes I am a Brainiac but I'm not just machine I'm also organic. The universe conquering Brainiac you knew is my distant ancestor; over time he learned how to pass his code down biologically. I am Brainiac 5, think of me as the black sheep of my family dedicated to doing good to make up for my ancestor's legacy of evil." Brainiac spoke still apprehensive of their reactions, future or not the Justice League especially Superman was known for their battles with Brainiac 1.
Green Lantern spoke in a sarcastic tone "And you demonstrated that by kidnapping us."
Brainiac's companion spoke "We never would've done it if the situation weren't so dire."
Green Arrow asked the question his own friends began to wonder "Where are we anyway?"
"Approximately 1000 years into your future, in what you'd call the 31st century." Brainiac 5 answered drawing Green Lantern's disapproval "Time Travel, swell."
Though John Stewart's disapproving attitude didn't seem to faze Brainiac's companion "It's a real thrill to meet you sir, you're the famous John Stewart father of…"
"You wanna shut up before you create a Time Paradox." Green Lantern snapped at the teen and rightly so, there's no telling what this knowledge may do.
"Sorry, Chuck Taine Code name: Bouncing Boy." Both Green Lantern and he shook hands, while Supergirl asked the second most important question, "Why did you bring us here?"
Brainiac obliged them by going to the console and activating a screen showing the visitors a variety of Teen Superheroes, "We're part of a group called the Legion of Superheroes."
Chuck added "A galaxy spanning force not unlike your Justice League."
Brainiac then pressed a few buttons and changed the screen to show 5 beings "A team of criminals called the Fatal Five attacked our new Head quarters captured all our Teammates."
Chuck added in "They must have something big planned to risk taking on the Legion. But we can't figure what it is."
"We needed help so we sent the Time Bubble to bring back some of Earth's greatest heroes." Brainiac spoke answering the unasked question of how they got there. Supergirl questioned "But why us?"
"It was random we'd have taken anyone." Brainiac shared a glance with Chuck as he answered. Green Lantern spoke up "Ok so how can we help?"
"Whoa time out" Kara pulled Green Lantern and Green Arrow to the side and whispered "Just because he's a cute kid, does not mean we should trust a Brainiac."
"I'm not getting a bad vibe off the kid." Green Arrow stated, Green Lantern added "And apparently neither are you, cute huh?"
Meanwhile Brainiac and Bouncing Boy had a little meeting of their own, Chuck spoke "The date we pulled her from is exactly when Supergirl vanished from the historical records. Brainy she's going to die we have to tell her."
"No… telling her could change history, keep quite Chuck. That's an order."
"Y'know, Brainiac being organic and having a heart not the same thing." Before Brainiac could retort to Chuck's statement, Green Lantern spoke "We're in. What's next?"
Brainiac and Bouncing Boy led them through a hall, "The Lab's this way. The Tech's out of date but we should find enough…"
Brainiac 5 was cut off by a green light that emanated before them, seeing it's source to be an actual floating eye, an approximately 2' diameter sphere. A ray of green energy fired from its pupil; it would've caught them by surprise if not for Green Lantern John Stewart's training kicking in as he quickly erected a shield around them.
A woman walked past the eye, a figure that yelled beauty but a black widow type, dressed in green clothing. Green eyes, light green hair and a replica of the floating eye which she used as a pendant on her forehead. "A Green Lantern…? That's a rare sight in this galaxy these days."
"Take a good look, he won't be here long." The owner of the voice stepped forward, a skull shaped mask covering his face, black pants and shoulder guards adorned him. He was an imposing figure, 7' tall muscle bound, his bare chest showing his numerous scars. He walked forward his gait menacing as he hefted an axe just as tall as him.
Green Arrow worked fast and shot two of his explosive arrows to stun the being, but was surprised to find him unaffected as he ran out the smoke and counter him before he could fire another arrow. Green Arrow was thrown away only to be caught by Emerald Empress who placed a mind controlling disk on his forehead…
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Brainiac 5, Green Arrow and Supergirl rested after the confrontation in the hall, they had lost Bouncing Boy and Green Lantern to the Fatal Five who Brainiac theorized had more than enough power to take on the 'United Planets'. Green Lantern tried to fight against Emerald Empress's Eye of Ekron but it was more than a match for his ring, Chuck was captured trying to help and even Supergirl was along with Green Arrow but because Brainiac 5 was immune to the tech in those disks he was able to save them both.
Brainiac 5 worked on the console as he tried to track the Fatal Five through the disk he pilfered, but alas he came up short, "Tharok was very careful on this one, he didn't leave any chance to trace it."
"Can you still try tracking them with those things?" Green Arrow asked hopeful that there might be a chance, but Brainiac shook his head "Not yet but I've identified the technology their 'Psion Receptors'."
Kara walked in with three cans of Soda, handing one each to Green Arrow and Brainiac 5 "Hey the Soda machine in the Lobby still works."
"Oh, thanks."
"Back on Argo we used Psionic technology in our Remote Controls when we lost on we just had to think at it and it'd beep. Don't know why we bothered they were always in the couch cushions." Kara spoke in an attempt to lighten the situation and maybe give an idea at the same time, Brainiac 5 looked thoughtful "Good Idea, but it won't work the Fatal Five are masking the carrier wave somehow."
"So have to know, why'd you save me first?" Brainiac 5 faltered slightly not expecting this question but covered his expression by covering his eyes under his Super Microscope Visor, "My decision was based on pure logic."
"Really…? Cause Green Lantern's the most powerful." Green Arrow fired back at the organic-cybernetic teen, Brainiac 5 without missing a beat answered "No offense but I really don't think you could follow the reasoning behind a 12th level intellect such as my own." For all his words and warnings to Chuck, Brainiac 5 really didn't want Supergirl to die as well, one of the many reasons he cut himself off from the Hive mind of his home world was because he cared, because he was unique and the collective wished to encourage his uniqueness thus allowing him his leave.
"Guess not." Green Arrow said sipping on his Soda, silence reigned as they sat there, and Brainiac then thought it may be prudent to inform his allies on a certain piece of information.
"The Fatal Five are not the only reason why I decided to enlist the aid of earth' past heroes." Seeing their surprised looks Brainiac 5 elaborated, "After our encounter with Persuader and Emerald Empress, Something I saw on Emerald Empress, something I had discounted as a mere story now leads me to believe that she has a far more sinister plot in mind."
"What exactly?" asked Green Arrow.
"A light green gem, an unknown crystal structure…Her collecting of green colored jewels and gems is not unheard of but she went through quite a bit of trouble to get this." Brainiac 5 pressed some buttons pulling up some videos, what looked like surveillance videos of Empress entering what looked like a Japanese Shrine, "By trouble I meant she did this on her own, she doesn't do anything without her teammates, plus I personally visited the Shrine, the old man caring for the place did not deny anything but showed no fear of the Empress or the Fatal Five and told me he was not robbed he gave the Empress the gem because she actually paid an exorbitant amount for it. The Emerald Empress doesn't pay for anything."
"And..?" Supergirl added.
"The old man showed me a tablet…" Brainiac pulled up a scan of the tablet, "It's messy and many parts are hardly legible but it reads, 'The Ten-tails, the Jūbi…demon of untold power…untold destruction…untold malice was defeated once by the Ri…Se…. Upon…Jinchūriki … was resurrected once again by a mad man during the 4th Shi… war. Defeated once more by Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, Last of his lines…sealed it within…a great tree…' The old man told me that the 'Divine Tree' of the shrine was indeed that very tree and I agree with him, while I couldn't find any such being underneath the tree I could verify that the tree was old, it's origin well beyond even the 21th century. Which I must say utterly baffles me for its not possible for any plant to live that long and the fact that no one even knew about it."
"I believe the Emerald Empress may have found a way to release this being." Green Arrow spoke stoking his beard, Brainiac looked skeptical "I find it highly illogical to believe in demons…"
"Well you better believe cause they all exist, ghosts, demons, angels, gods, magic…it all exists. If this is as old as you say it is then there's a good chance it's true, trust me." Supergirl assured him, "What of this old man?"
"I dug deeper and found that anonymous donations were made for the upkeep of the Shrine, I found a connection from several separate accounts that it was Emerald Empress but not enough proof for me to implicate the man, he most definitely is an innocent. So I didn't bother informing the authorities otherwise they would've torn down the place for evidence and lock him up for practically nothing, plus I didn't want the Science Division to catch wind about the tree, they'd surely chop it up for research." Brainiac 5 waited to be reprimanded by both Supergirl and Green Arrow but was surprised by the smiles the both gave him.
"Criminals are people too; the old man must have helped the Empress a long time ago that's why she cares. While it may not be right by the law for hiding this information from the authorities but it is morally right to protect an innocent old man who has done no wrong and if the authorities haven't changed at all then they would've given the old man all kinds of trouble just for a so called connection." Green Arrow nodded approvingly.
"And I do know that Superman would've done the same." said Supergirl.
"I'm gonna raid this dump, see if I can't upgrade my arrows with some future tech. Kara you might be able to help Brainy over here, so keep trying to track them. Call me when you do." Green Arrow walked out of the room in the Armory.
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Unknown region in Space
Aboard a Cruiser
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"You had the superior weapons and the advantage of surprise. Explain to me how you failed to capture Brainiac 5!"
"Watch your tone, Half-a-man!" Emerald Empress warned Tharok once a small time thief, the left half of his body was atomized by a Science Police blaster during a raid causing it to be replaced by a makeshift robotic half making him more dangerous than ever being just as smart as Brainiac 5 and armed to the teeth.
"I'd hardly call capturing a Green Lantern a failure. He's more powerful than a dozen Brainiac's."
Tharok hardly looked convinced "Perhaps but that was never the plan!"
"You have to learn to improvise Tharok. We're better armed than ever to strike against the United Planets especially after the plan I proposed comes through the universe will be ours for the taking." Empress gave a smug smirk, "Not even the most powerful beings in the galaxy can take on this being and win and so long as I have this gem he will be under our control."
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"What's that?" Supergirl asked as she and Brainiac sat racking their brains for a solution, Brainiac was fingering a yellow ring "Oh this, one of my inventions. A Legion Flight Ring every member's got one."
He handed her the ring, Supergirl smiled coyly "Cute but I don't think this would work out, you're too young for me. Your 14, I'm 21 this relationship would never work."
"Uh…" was the intelligent response of 12th level genius Brainiac 5, Supergirl laughed "Trust me a 1000 years ago this would've been hilarious."
"Right…" taking the ring back "I thought since I couldn't trace the control disk maybe I could trace the missing legionnaires rings but it was another dead end."
"It's a shame our Justice League Com-links don't work here we could track Green Lantern through his transponder." Supergirl' eyes widened in realization as did Brainiac 5's "Come to think of it, we still could if we had a Quantum Tunneling RF Transponder!"
"Hold that thought!" Brainiac tore open a nearby machine as he plugged in Supergirl' com-link, they smiled as it responded positively.
Supergirl went to a console "Ollie get up here we found GL."
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"The signal's coming from this ship, headed straight for the capital of the United Planets…Earth not surprising, seeing as they've tried to destroy it before."
Green Arrow added "With the entire Legion, Green Lantern and a possible resurrected Demon they just might succeed."
"Good news is that my personal cruiser runs rings around their ship, we can still beat them there and hopefully stop the Empress from reviving the being." Brainiac 5 spoke hopefully, he had plenty of contingency plans but nothing for something like a destructive demon, Supergirl asked "Then what?"
Green Arrow his voice confident said "We Improvise."
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They watched as the Legionnaires and Green Lantern flew straight into New Metropolis and the Fatal Five's ship hovered scaring off the authorities as it muscled in.
"You guys get aboard that mother-ship and shut down the control devices." Supergirl told both Green Arrow and Brainiac.
Green Arrow questioned "What are you gonna do?"
"Hold off John and the Legion until you snap them back to normal." Brainiac 5's eyes widened "You won't stand a chance against them!"
"Maybe but I'm the only one who does stand a chance of protecting the capital." Supergirl walked towards the Airlock, Brainiac extended his arm to hold her "You can't go because…because I lied to you! Kara I don't know you but I consider you my friend and I can't let my friend walk to their death. Not when you'd fight the Legion and Green Lantern John Stewart because there's a 20% chance you'd survive but because according to history you don't return from this battle."
"What…?"
"And you knew that all along." Brainiac could feel the scowl behind Green Arrow's words "I'm sorry, I'm a Coluan we're ruled by intellect not emotion and according to my intellect to protect the time stream I had to hide this knowledge but I hoped it wouldn't come to this, you're my friend and I wanted to spare you."
"At this point it doesn't matter, there's still a planet full of people down there who need our help. Do your job and I'm gonna do mine." Supergirl hugged the boy and walked into the Airlock.
All Brainiac and Green Arrow could do was watch her enter the atmosphere, Green Arrow sighed "Well genius, how about putting that big brain of yours to a work on a plan to get us aboard the mother-ship."
Brainiac frowned as he walked to the console and set the engines to full power, "I'll get us in."
Green Arrow righted himself as the ship gave massive jerk flying straight at the Fatal Five's giant cruiser at breakneck speeds, slipping through the ship's defenses. And headed straight into the ship's bridge section, crashing into it…
Green Arrow and Brainiac kicked open a door as they walked out, Green Arrow spoke "I Love the direct approach."
"The rest of the mission won't be so easy. Let's move." Brainiac said leading the way, Green Arrow close behind.
Brainiac stood before a console his fingers attaching themselves to the nodes, he stood there eyes glowing for 5 minutes. "The Fatal Five are this way."
Running through the ship till they reached a service door to the main deck which Green Arrow promptly introduced to his explosive arrow, soon they were face to face with the Fatal Five.
"Shoot."
"I know. I was hoping they'd be out looking for us." said Green Arrow.
"No, Shoot!" Brainiac 5 retorted which Green Arrow happily obliged
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Somehow, Green Arrow and Brainiac have managed to stop the controller, but they must still deal with five-to-two odds. Green Arrow was pinned against a console by the butt of Persuader's Atomic Axe, "Just so you know the sharp parts on the other end, chief"
Persuader smirked evilly "Believe me that's coming."
A Psionic blast from Validus threw Brainiac back, whose own larger battle form was deactivated. Emerald Empress easily picked his slack body by the scruff of his collar and commanded Validus "Tear him to bits, slowly."
But before he could go through with the command a fist sent him flying, Empress was taken by surprise when Bouncing Boy careened into her and rebounded off her into Persuader and Tharok, stopping them dead in their tracks.
The freed Legion cheered their victory, Brainiac sighed in relief as a beat up Supergirl floated in the air before them, roughed up by the looks of it but very much alive. 'Maybe this small change isn't as bad as it might seem…'
But he knew better and was proven right as Tharok slowly stood laughing, his tone more metallic than before "Fools, Everything you did went according to my plan, you're smart Brainiac 5 but you don't have enough experience on the field to outwit someone. You think and overcomplicate things boy, which is why I could predict your every move."
Tharok' skin began to peel off revealing it to be nothing but an android "Like my new invention, modeled after military sparring droids but you can say I've given them a considerable upgrade, their so good that even Empress's Eye couldn't find any differences till the appointed time for them to reveal themselves, you probably realized already where we are but it's already too late by the time you reach us the Fatal Five will have a new ally one that not even all the powers in the galaxy can take on."
The Legion looked on shocked that Tharok had outwitted them, the other downed Fatal Five's skin peeled off to reveal nothing but sheen of metal, the android laughed "And another thing this happens to be a recording and the ship's been rigged to blow which will activate right about now! I'll try and come back to scrape off whatever's left of you fools off the debris if there is any! Ha Hah Ha…"
The screens counted down from five, Supergirl shouted "GL!"
And in response Green Lantern created a orb of green energy encasing the Legion and his two companions as well and not a moment too soon as they were engulfed in the explosion of the ship.
Sweating from the exertion Green Lantern panted hard as he dropped the shield around them, Green Arrow supported him and spoke to Brainiac 5 "Tell your teammates what you told us and tell them to prepare for the fight of their lives."