Two dead bodies are found at the Naval Yard and Gibbs and the team are sent in to investigate. One of the dead bodies is found to be a member of the Justice League of America. Now Gibbs has to dive into the DC world of superheros and supervillians trying to find out if the deaths were murder, suicide, or accidental.
The story takes place in limbo, where certain parts from the comic world are used, and certain parts ignored, and from the timeline of NCIS its post-Director Shepard but could be anywhere in the later seasons. Also liberties are taken with characters, such as the fact I kill off a member of the Justice League. I do not own the characters in the following story.
Chapter 1
"...so then I said 'Can't you read...'" the naval officer was stopped mid sentence by his companion who shoved his hand in front of him to motion that he needed to stop. The naval watchmen had been going about their usual routine of keeping an eye out for things or people that should not be there when one of them had heard a noise. The naval officer that had heard the noise pulled out his gun and gave a hand motion to his companion that he would take point and that the other guy would cover him. Sneaking to where he thought he had heard the noise, the officers made their way across the building trying to make sense of the anomalous noise. BANG! The noise rang through the night, this time the officers ran to where they had heard the noise. The officers vaulted up the stairs and rushed out into the cold dark night onto the roof. "What the..." One of the officers said under his breath.
"...and with other news today three bank robberies ensued in Metropolis with still no developments on why Superman did not come to the aid of..." Special Agent Tony DiNozzo was concentrating on the television next to his desk. DiNozzo was in such a state of concentration that he did not notice Ziva David sneak to his side. Ziva turned toward DiNozzo and crept closer starring at him like a lioness getting ready to pounce on an unsuspecting wildebeest. Timothy McGee was typing at his desk but was able to take himself away from his work to watch Ziva and Tony. "Boo!" Tony jumped. Hand to his heart, DiNozzo was panting, "What was that for, are you trying to kill me?" Ziva laughed, "I could have done worse." Ziva scanned Tony up and down making sure he would remember that she was an assassin. "So what are you watching?" Ziva asked while looking at the television. "...one of our reporters was able to interview President Luthor about this issue. President Luthor was confident that even if Superman had disappeared the people would still be safe stating and I quote 'That is why there are emergency services that do not rely on meta-humans...'" Tony settled down and looked back at the television. "Well you see that..." SMACK! DiNozzo was hit in the back of the head. "We have two dead bodies at the naval yard." Leroy Jethro Gibbs had seemingly come out of nowhere just in time to catch his team not doing work. "Right," DiNozzo said while running back to his desk to get his gear so as to not get hit again. "...the last sighting of Superman was three days ago when he saved a plane from crash landing into the Appalachians..." "Murder?" McGee asked as he followed Gibbs toward the elevator. Gibbs sharply turned around. McGee had to stop himself from bumping into his boss. "What did I tell you about that." "Sorry boss." Gibbs slowly turned around and went into the elevator. McGee had stopped in his tracks, with Ziva and Tony snickering behind him "Well are you coming or what," Gibbs said to his team. "Oh sorry boss." McGee muttered as they all went into the elevator.
"...Guards found them here last night." Two charred bodies were sprawled on the floor. McGee was taking pictures of the crime scene while Ziva and Tony were looking around the scene for clues. Gibbs looked at the charred bodies, "Where are they now?" The naval officer escorting NCIS to the crime scene face turned green as he looked from the bodies to Gibbs, "They are downstairs," Gibbs looked at him. "I will go get them," the naval officer said keeping back regurgitation. "You do that." Gibbs moved into the scene. "Watch out Mr. Palmer," Ducky said as the gurney bumped into something. "Sorry Dr. Mallard," Jimmy Palmer said as he clumsily brought the gurney up the steps onto the roof. Gibbs laughed to himself as Jimmy and Ducky came onto the roof. "Sorry Jethro, some of us are not awake yet." Ducky made an accusatory glance at Palmer. "It's okay Duck," Gibbs said as the two guards came onto the roof behind them.
Gibbs moved his way around the scene towards the two guards that had found the dead bodies. "Tell me what happened." Gibbs said, straight to the point. One of the guards started rattling off the details of what went on last night. "Thank you, we will contact you if we have any other questions." Gibbs started to walk away. "Wait sir," piped in the other guard that had remained silent during the retelling of the night before. Gibbs silently turned around. "Jethro..." Ducky said while still examining the dead bodies. Still looking at the guard, Gibbs replied, "Yeah Duck." "This body its..." Ducky tried to formulate his words, "there doesn't seem to be any signs of this body being burned, it seems that the charred body of the second body is mainly on this body...very curious." BEEP. Ducky took out the device used to get time of death, "Well this can't be right." Ducky said. "What is it?" Gibbs turned completely away from the guards. "According to this, it says that this man died less than an hour ago." "Maybe because the bodies were burned that it threw off the readings," Jimmy tried to give Ducky some reasoning. Ducky looked from the body to the device, "Remember this body shows no signs of actually being burned unlike the other body...hmmm." Ducky looked closer at the body that was such a mystery. With a start Ducky lunged back, "Oh dear," he got out.
"What is it Dr. Mallard?" Palmer asked looking at the body that was not burned with Ducky. "I know this man," Ducky barely got out. Gibbs went over to Ducky and squatted down behind him. "You know him to," Ducky wearily looked over at Gibbs, "It's Superman."