As the Team made their way back to Mount Justice from the false alarm, even thou there was nothing there of value it seemed that the Light wanted them there and Nightwing was sure it was a distraction from something else and his fears were confirmed when they got a massage from Captain Atom, "we need you and your team to head to France we have been picking up abnormal reading coming from the DOATEC headquarters in Paris, we need you to go and check it out."

"Isn't the DOA Tournament taking place?" Nightwing asked.

"Yes, so that mean security will be heightened but we have faith you will be able to infiltrate DOATEC and find out what is going," Captain Atom said and with that they rushed off to France.

When they arrived the building was ablaze, "Miss Martian, stay on the ship…Batgirl stay with her get me the lay outs of the building and any other information you can get and the rest of you are with me," Nightwing ordered. Nightwing, Superboy and Wonder Girl all landed on a nearby building were two people were standing watching the building go up in flames and collapsed on its self.

'Nightwing…there is something growing down there,' Batgirl said.

"Superboy do you see anything?"Nightwing asked.

"No the heat from the fire is drowning out the heat signatures of anything who might be alive down there," he answered.

"It looks like we will have no choice but to get a closer look," Nightwing said, "Team move out!" he ordered and they all jumped down Nightwing using his gadgets to get down while Superboy just jumped and Wonder Girl flew down.

The three heroes rushed inside the burning death trap that was once DOATEC headquarters following the schematics that Batgirl had sent to them. It wasn't long before Superboy noticed they were being followed.

"I know you are there so show yourselves," he called out and from the shadows the two girls that had been on the roof appeared.

"What are you doing here? It's dangerous," Nightwing said.

"This is our problem we will be the ones who finish this," the purple haired girl said her eyes fixed on Nightwing and she looked rather dangerous despite her small stature.

"So you are the ones who blew up the building," Superboy said angrily. Her gaze shifted from Nightwing to Superboy.

"No we didn't…Helena did to stop Donovan and what DOATEC had become," the second girl answered quickly.

'You guys need to hurry there are a lot of people down there,' Miss Martian said telepathically.

"We don't have time to argue there are people still in this building and we need to get them out," Nightwing said, "and after that you can fill us in on what is going on."

"And why would we do that?" the purple haired girl asked.

"Because we might be able to help each other," Nightwing said.

"Fine we will play along for now," she said before they all rushed forward trying to find a way down but it quickly became unnecessary when they came across the pillars and the hole in the floor.

"What is this…?" the red head said in horror and the others looked to see what she was talking about trapped with the pillars that were still growing were corpses crushed and mangled within the wood.

"Alpha-152 couldn't have done this…that means there is something else down there," the purple haired girl said glancing at the red head nodded.

"Whatever it is we have to deal with it," she replied her expression hardening and they both jumped down and the others followed. When they landed they landed in a pool of blood and as they looked around there were even more corpses littering the floor.

"There is someone still alive," Superboy said he rushing over to see a woman covered in blood but by the look of things it wasn't hers her eyes wide with fear and she sat at the base of one of the pillars her legs pulled tightly to her chest.

"Lisa what did this…what caused all of this?" the red head asked.

"We did…" she said in a whisper, "we should never have freed it."

"Freed what?" Nightwing asked wondering what could have done this. He had never seen anything like this before, not even the Joker had managed to do anything like this before. Then he noticed that she slowly started to point to something behind them. They all turned to see what looked to be a demon covered in the blood of those it had killed its eyes fixed on them.

Superboy charged in first, "wait…!" Nightwing shouted and for a second he thought that Superboy had listened but it quickly became apparent that he didn't stop of his own free will and he was blasted back slamming into one of the pillars and a spike ripped through his shoulder and he let out a cry of pain.

Ayane pulled out a few kunai and launched them at the creature but they stopped mid flight but Kasumi had charged in from another direction and he turned just in time to dodge her kicked. She quickly unsheathed her sword and Ayane pulled out another kunai charging into battle as well. The creature snatched two kunai out the air before they hit the ground and was fighting the two Kunoichi on even terms none of them could gain the upper hand or so it seemed.

"Wonder Girl, get Superboy and her out of here I will help them," Nightwing ordered pointing at the doctor before he charged in throwing Batarang at its back but something unexpected happened a third hand sprouted from its back and it caught it and crushed it. It jumped away from its three attackers looking between the three of them this time it got into a fighting stance before beckoning them forward. The three attacked but they weren't able to land a hit on it, the speed of this thing was amazing it movements were flawless it was almost as if it could read their every move and counter.

As it blocked a kick from Nightwing and Ayane Kasumi managed to land a kick to its head it stumbled slightly and in that moment Ayane and Nightwing launched another attack kicking it in the chest again it stumbled back.

Ayane made a hand sign and purpled flames started forming around her and a ball of energy started to form in Kasumi's hands its head titled as it watched this but made no action to dodge or even counter.

'Art of the Raging Mountain God'

'Torn Sky Blast,' the two attacks rushed towards the creature who lifted one finger and a load screeching sound filled air as a tiny ball of energy formed over his finger and he flicked it. His attack expanded and not only countered the oncoming Jutsu but also blast his three opponents off their feet. When the smoke settled he was the only one left standing the other three weren't badly hurt but enough that they would feel it in the morning.

"They are powerful…we should kill them now," a voice said and in that moment they all felt fear as they had never known if that thing decided to finish them there was nothing they could do about it. But they would at least go down fight as they got to their feet they felt a strange pulling sensation and everything around them started to warp.

The Three that he had been fighting vanished within a vortex, "Where did you send them?"

"Back to their comrades," voice replied calmly.

"Why did you do that?"

"They gave me hope for humanity," a man said as his face was freed of the Zetsu shell his blond hair running untamed on top of his head his eyes no longer purple but blue, he had three whisker marks on his cheeks. The Zetsu didn't know what to make of this statement.

It was morning when the Team arrived back at the hall of Justice accompany by four ninja. A few leaders of the Justice League were waiting for them to arrive, "Miss Martian get Superboy out to the medical bay but be careful. Wonder Girl help the Doctor out," Nightwing ordered. Then he turned to the two Kunoichi, "we can take you to the medical bay if you want to get patched up."

"We are fine but thank you for your concern," Kasumi replied kindly.

"What happened to Superboy," Batman said calmly as the half Kryptonian was led past him.

"We will explain everything inside," Nightwing whispered, the Dark Knight nodded, the two male Shinobi stopped before the Dark Knight.

"We have heard much about you, Batman the world's greatest detective, some even say you may be the most dangerous man alive" Ryu said.

"Hayate the eighteenth master of the Mugen Tenshin," he said watching Hayate then his gaze shifted over to Ryu, "Ryu Hayabusa, the Ultimate Ninja or the Dragon Ninja married a CIA operative Irene Lew. Then there is Ayane they call you the female Tengu and the current leader of the Hajin Mon Sect. Then Kasumi you would have been the nineteenth master of the Mugen Tenshin if you hadn't become a nukenin."

"Wow I am impressed," Ayane said looking over at Ryu.

"He is the world's greatest detective for nothing," Hayate said calmly.

"Now if introductions are done why don't we go inside," Superman said.

"Yes that is a good idea we don't want to be over heard," Ryu said following after the man of steel, and soon the other were following after them. In the library of the Hall the leaders of the League Nightwing, Batgirl and the four Shinobi stood along with Lisa to discuses recent events.

"From what we have gathered in the last few hours DOATEC is working with the Light or at least Cadmus to develop cloning technology and by the looks of things self reliant energy sources," Batman said calmly.

"DOATEC and Cadmus tried to mimic the effect of the Box," Lisa explained.

"The Box…?" Superman repeated.

"Yes, you would know it as Pandora's Box or even the cradle of life," Lisa Hamilton said, "At some point Fame Douglas came across the box and used it to power DOATEC, but some time later Victor Donovan got the idea of opening it and releasing the full power of the box. We didn't know where he learned the secret of opening it but is seemed someone or something knew how to and we believe whatever it was knew what was in the box as well."

"Didn't Pandora's Box contain all the evil in the world?" Wonder Woman said frowning.

"Legend says that but it is also the cradle of life so that would mean life there is inherently," Lisa explained.

"So what was in the Box if it wasn't evil?" Superman asked.

"Ultimate power…or some might refer to it as God," Lisa said.

"So that thing we fought was God?" Nightwing asked.

"You have to remember it was just freed from its prison and it powers were stable yet," Lisa said.

"So that thing is going to get stronger?" Ayane asked.

"I don't know if it will get stronger or just more control of its power it could be both, and the amount of time it will take for that to happen is unknown, it could be a few hours or a few days," Lisa explained, "besides the thing you fought was what was in the box it was a shell containing the power, what came out was a bright golden light. Now that I think about it after we freed it these strange human like creatures appeared with that black armor. They must have been the ones who told Donovan how to open it."

"But if it was locked away that means we can stop it," Nightwing said.

"No if it was locked away that means they couldn't stop it just slow it down," Ryu answered.

"Your clone was never the ultimate weapon it was the key to obtaining it," Lisa said looking at Kasumi, "they tried using Raidou and Genra even you Hayate but you didn't have the power required to do it."

"That could mean Kasumi is the key to stopping this thing," Ryu said looking over at her.

"It seems a partnership is in order," Ryu said, "but none of us can stay away from our village too long…none of us but Kasumi."

"A temporary membership to the team could work that would make the most sense," Batman said.

"So will you agree to it?" Ryu asked.

"It's Nightwing's team so it is up to him," Captain Atom said.

"We could always use the help," Nightwing replied.