Sanji Himura Presents
A Naruto/Dawn of Justice Crossover Work
The Missing Meta-Human
Foreword note: I just saw Batman v. Superman, and thought that this story was too good to pass up writing.
Chapter 1
Encounter at Detroit
48 Hours after Superman's Burial in Smallville, Kansas
It was a chilling 54 degrees in Detroit, Michigan, former Marine John Stewart was patrolling the city by way of his Green Lantern ring. Stewart, a member of the Green Lantern Corps., is one of the two Green Lanterns that are responsible for the sector of space that Earth resides, Sector 2814, as intergalactic police men for the Guardians of Oa. So far, nothing to report to his direct superior in the Guardians, Ganthet.
"City patrol log," Stewart spoke into his power ring, "nothing to."
Suddenly, he was cut off from further exposition into his log when a meteor zoomed past Stewart on his way to Earth. Thinking relatively quickly, as the situation demanded it, he willed his ring to project a baseball glove to catch the meteor.
Flames died down as Stewart is in pursuit of the object, which revealed a person. Letting the shock only flutter for a moment, the shock didn't do anything for his construct to catch him.
At eight thousand feet in the air, man meets glove, and John let out a breath that he didn't know he held in. Bringing the person close to him, he knew that he couldn't identify him based on looks that burnt away, and he was certain that the man was somehow still alive. The question that remains is how to bring him to the hospital without revealing that he was a Green Lantern.
"Phone Mode, Call Carol Ferris."
12 hours later
Inside stately Wayne Manor, the aging Bruce Wayne was facing a moral dilemma. How to convince the other meta-humans, The Flash, Cyborg, and Aquaman, to team up together and take on this new alien threat? Throughout his career as Batman, he generally worked alone, but when he did take up a Robin, the often too good, but bullheaded, Dick Greyson or the overzealous Jason Todd that ended too quickly, he often left them out of his investigations, often driving them to find avenues of stress relief. Thankfully, he had an Oracle as his information broker to keep the Bat-family straight. Right now, she is trying to find the meta-humans on Lex's list.
Opening the files on the Bat-computer again, he reread the data that Lex managed to gather on them. The Flash, real name Barry Allen, was a crime scene investigator for Central City Police Department. He is still currently employed by the department.
Cyborg, real name Victor Stone, was a former high school football player who was involved with an accident with a box, and was forced into an experiment where seventy-five percent of his body was replaced with cybernetics. His whereabouts are unknown.
Aquaman was the most mysterious to Lex, and anyone in the surface world for that matter. All that was known about him other than he breathes water. His whereabouts are somewhere in the ocean.
Looking up from the monitors, he sees Alfred approach him, "Master Wayne, you have a phone call from a Ms. Lane."
"Personal," Bruce asked his butler.
"She was asked by her paper to write an expose on the life of Clark Kent, and she was wanting to, how did she put it, ask the second most hated person in Lex's phone book."
"Second most? I'm touched. Tell her I will meet her at Restaurant Spring in Metropolis on Tuesday for lunch, and call them to make reservations under Wayne for 12:30."
"Yes, sir. Also, Ms. Gordon called by way of the green phone. She has news of a meteorite that nearly struck Detroit last night."
"Anything damaged?"
"No, sir, however, the hospital in Coast City did have an admittance in the burn ward last night of an unidentified male in his late teens, early twenties, judging from his dentals, however all efforts to identify the man have failed, FBI, CIA, INTERPOL, none of their databases can identify him."
"Any identifying marks that we should be alert of while I prowl the streets tonight?"
"There are two. One that flares at regular intervals, and though a miracle in of itself, a tattoo on his left shoulder that resembles a whirlpool with an arrow."
"Get to interpreting these marks, Alfred, and send them to Oracle. Tell her this is a priority."
"Yes, sir," Alfred replied as he prepared to send the photographs to Oracle.
Author Notes and Statistics
As I have stated at the top, I saw Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice today. While it is a good film, I don't recommend you see it in the theaters. This story is spawned by an overactive imagination.
I would like to state that this is set in that film's universe, so anything that may or may not happen in that universe will have a direct result in this story. In other words, if it doesn't happen in the films, it won't happen here.
One thing to note in the choice to use John Stewart as the Green Lantern of Earth. This choice is conscious on the fact that Hal Jordan will NOT appear up to and including the Green Lantern Corps. film, which according to my sources will happen in 2020 (a long time off, and well past the Justice League films, I know). I would much rather cover my bases here with film continuity rather than undergo a complete rewrite of the story later when I am proven wrong.
Besides, Earth has 4 Green Lanterns in Modern Age DC history (anything past 1985). Using one, and only one, and writing the others in if they come into play is a lot better than screwing up with the film timeline and writing them all in now and killing them off later.
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