Chapter 4

Poison Ivy


[Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Justice League. They belong to Masashi Kishimoto and DC Comics respectively. This fiction is just for fun.]


"Character Dialogue"

Character Thought

"[Alien Language]"

"Telepathic Conversation/ A.I. Talking"

"Jutsu"

"Demon /Monsters/Summon"


(Last Time)

"Interesting, her power is similar to the Wood Release," Naruto said. "Merlin, what is her latest location?"

"No clue. Not even Batman knows about her location."

"Send some our spy-bots to find her," Naruto said as he stood up and began to walk away from there. "Also keep tab on Batcomputer and Batman."

"Master, why do you want to know everything about Earth's villains and Heroes?" M.E.R.L.I.N. asked. He didn't understand why he wanted to know about it.

Naruto stopped in his tracks, turned around to face him. "Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster," He said. "They are not my enemy now, but in the future...I am not sure…I can't predict the future, so it's better to be safe than sorry."

(


Now)

Naruto was doing his daily workouts, pushups, in the open training ground when a small flying disk stopped front of him. It opened and Merlin materialized front of him.

"Master, Spy-bots have founded location of Poison Ivy."

"Good job, Merlin," Naruto said without looking at him or stopping his pushups. "Keep tabs on her."

Merlin nodded before he de-materialized from there.

XXX


It wasn't a good day for Batgirl and Robin. Just a few hours ago, Batman had found out Poison Ivy's plan of turning Gotham City into green forest by using her new super growth formula, so he went after her, to stop her, one of the most dangerous criminal, leaving them to deal with simple Gotham National Bank robbery. But to their bad luck, the robber turned out to be Batman's another enemy.

"Bane," Robin said.

Bane was a large man. "Well, well. Bat has sent his two little sidekicks to fight," he said. He charged towards both of them.

Both Robin and Batgirl moved in time to avoid the attack. Bane pumped more venom into himself and continued to attack on them. Citizens were fleeing the scene, abandoning their cars that Bane was picking up and hurling at them as Batgirl jumped to right and hid behind a mailbox. Pulling out a Batarang from her belt, she waited for a chance for Bane to show his back where hoses fell from the back of his head and ran down his arms to the back of his hands. On his back was the Venom supply. She was waiting for a chance to cut the venom supply while Robin was trying to distract Ben.

Seeing that he could not hit them, Bane roared in frustration as Robin jumped onto the back of Bane's head about to cut the hose.

"What's the matter?" Robin laughed, "Can't—"

A powerful hand gripped the boy. Bane hurled Robin towards the hiding Batgirl, but the graceful Boy Wonder rolled with the throw and came to a stop beside Barbara.

"He seems pretty angry, much more than usual," she remarked.

"Yeah, so I noticed" Robin replied before he smirked and pointed at several small metal pellets under Ben's feet. "But I've done my job."

The metal pellets began to beep before erupting. They encased Bane's feet and legs in a thick layer of ice that immobilized him. Taking advantage of this situation, Robin hurled his weapon as Barbara did the same and they watched as the blades sliced through the air. Bane raised his hands to beat them away, but they were too fast and they struck the hoses…but they did not break!

Robin cursed his luck. "Well, shit!"

"You have to do better than your old tricks." Bane smiled as he balled his fists and slammed them down onto the ice. It took several poundings before it would shatter, but he was free once again.

"He has better hoses and the pack is armored," Batgirl said.

Bane reached for a car on the street. His fat fingers dug into the metal doors and he lifted it over his head with ease. They threw the car like a javelin at them as Robin and Batgirl rolled out its way.

Quickly, Robin reached into his belt to pull out several more spheres and threw them at Bane's feet. They struck the asphalt and erupted and encased the monster's feet that flashed lights that dazed and confused him. Seeing nothing but white, Bane growled and punched wildly. Seeing her chance, Batgirl landed on the back Bane's head, clutching another batarang like a dagger. Out of reaction Bane reached up to grasp her and his fingers found her cape.

"Uh-oh!" Batgirl yelped.

Bane grasped the cape and pulled her off. He whipped his arm back and held Batgirl front of him. He was prepared to slam her into the asphalt...when he felt a light tap on his shoulder.

"Excuse me," an unfamiliar voice said from behind him.

Bane turned his head, but he received a heavy blow to the ribs as he dropped Batgirl. Then he received another hit on his stomach as the impact sent him flying into another building, where he left a large hole in the wall.

"Batgirl, are you alright?" Robin asked, helping her to get up on her feet.

"Yeah," Batgirl said before she looked at her savior. She immediately recognized his face that Batman had warned about. "Ryu?"

"Yes, one and only!" Ryu said, looking at Batman's both sidekicks.

Batgirl had red hair and her costume was dark and looked similar to Batman while Batman's other sidekicks, Robin, the boy wonder...well, he was in a red bodysuit with green boots and a yellow cape. Ryu didn't know why Batman had chosen it for him because it wouldn't help him to blend with anything except a traffic light.

"You know your costume look similar to a traffic light, right?" Ryu asked the boy. He wanted to make it sure that the boy front of him knew the truth about his costume.

Robin nearly fell on his face after hearing his question, causing Batgirl giggle.

"It's not looked like a traffic light!" the Boy Wonder shouted at Ryu.

"Really?" Ryu asked. "Then why is it in red, green and yellow colour?"

Before the boy wonder could protest, Bane came out of the hole.

"Who hell are you?" Bane shouted. He didn't wait for an answer; he toward Naruto with the intention of smash his skull, but to his surprise, his fist passed right through Ryu like he wasn't even there. Not even a single hair of Ryu's head had harmed.

Ryu caught Bane's wrist after his last punch completely passed through him. He easily threw Bane away from him into a car. It didn't hurt him that much as the car bend around him.

Bane stood up. He was completely unharmed. He ran toward Naruto again, but he suddenly froze as he saw Ryu's red eyes. He fell on his knees, clutching his head in pain as he found himself in the gaze of a thousand crows and their strange red eyes.

"Leave me alone," he screamed before falling to the ground, unconscious.

"What happened to Bane?" Robin said. "One second, he was ready to punch him and then the next second, he is on the ground, unconscious."

"I don't know, Robin, but just remember the Batman's warning. Stay away from that man," Batgirl said, watching Ryu corner of her eyes, who was busy with looking at unconscious Bane before she turned to Robin. "He is an unknown actor. There are many things we don't know about like his powers and purpose."

Robin nodded his head as he remembered Batman's warning about Ryu.

"You should thank me for saving your life," a voice said from behind them.

Both Batman's sidekicks jumped nearly a mile in shock before they turned and saw who was talking.

It was Ryu.

"How did you sneak up on us?" Robin asked.

"For Batman's sidekicks, both of you have a very poor awareness of your surroundings," Ryu stated. "I just walked here when both of you were busy in talking."

I really started to hate this guy, the boy wonder thought.

"Batgirl," Alfred voice came from the speaker in her mask.

"Yes," Batgirl replied, walking away from Ryu.

"Batman need yours and Robin's help."

"We're on the way," she said before she turned to Robin. "Robin, let's go. Batman wants our help."

"Then, let's go," Robin said, he was ready to help Dark Knight.

"If you ask me nicely, maybe, I'll help you," Ryu said.

Robin said, "We don't need your help."

"Oh, so you're going to face Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn alone," Ryu told them.

"What?" Robin said as he quickly turned to him. "No one mention that she is with Ivy."

"And how did you know about that?" Batgirl asked, narrowing her eyes at him.

Ryu gave them smirk. "Do you want my help or not?" Both Batgirl and Robin thought for a minute before nodding. "Good!" He walked toward them and placed his hands on their shoulders.

Robin was about to say something, when all of a sudden the scenery around them changed. He looked around and realized that they were now in front of an old, abandon warehouse. He could see numerous tree branches stretching out from its windows and roof.

"Teleportation?" Batgirl asked, looking at Ryu.

"Maybe." Ryu smirked before turning his back to see Ivy's hideout. "Looks like Ivy has decided to start her plan."

XXX


"It's locked," Robin said.

They were outside of the warehouse's back door, trying to open it. Batgirl pulled out a small explosive, which they used to open doors, from her utility belt. Before she could blast the door, Ryu stopped her.

"Allow me," he said. He phased through the door and opened the door from inside for others. Batgirl went in first, followed by Robin.

Inside of the warehouse looked similar to a green forest with full of trees, plants, vines and dark-colored flowers even green grass.

"Hmm, she is really Mother Nature," Ryu said as he stepped into Ivy's forest, followed by both Batman's sidekicks.

"If Ivy's super growth formula can do this then I don't want to know what she will do with Gotham," Batgirl said, looking around.

The trees seemed to watch them as they passed.

"Do you feel like the trees are watching us?" the boy wonder asked as he looked his left and right.

"Not really," Ryu said.

"You're just getting paranoid, Robin," Batgirl said.

They just took another step. The roof burst wide open with huge vines as they wrapped tightly around their ankles and pulled them down before they could react. The vines grabbed their hands and wrapped them together tightly so they couldn't free themselves. The darkness started to take over them. They lost all consciousness.

XXX


When Batgirl and Robin opened their eyes, they found themselves trapped in large vines with thorns and in front of two felonious women, one that looked like she popped right out of a deck of playing cards, and one that had pale, almost green skin, she wore an all green leopard and had red hair.

"Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy," Robin said.

Poison Ivy grinned, moaning as she put her hand to her chin. "Well, well, Batman, your little sidekicks had come here to rescue you, but sadly, they caught in my little trap."

Both Batgirl and Robin turned around to see Batman was in the same condition like them.

"Batman," Batgirl said.

"Now, tell me little bat and bird, where is your third teammate?" Ivy asked.

Both Batman's sidekicks looked around, they found no sign of Ryu.

A voice said, "I am here."

They turned in the direction of the voice to see Ryu. He was sitting on the tree branch.

"Yo!" he greeted. He jumped from the tree to the ground and began walking towards Ivy and Harley.

"Ryu?" Batman said before he turned his head towards Batgirl and Robin. "You've brought Ryu with you. I did warn you to stay away from him."

"Well, It was Batgirl's idea," Robin said as he was trying to keep Batman's anger away from him.

"Robin!" Batgirl shouted, she glared at him. Then she turned to Batman. "It was our idea. That time I thought it was a good idea."

"My, My, a new hero," Ivy said.

Harley suggested, "Hey, Red! Let's play with him."

"Sure." Lifting her arms Ivy summoned vines, which wrapped around Ryu, covering his whole body. "Not much challenge."

"Boo!" Harley said in disappointment.

Then Ryu phased through Ivy's prison, shocking them. He raised his hand that held a throwing star. Sharpening them with wind chakra, he tossed them at vines which were holding Batman and his sidekicks. They cut all vines loose, freeing them from Ivy's trap.

"Don't worry, you won't be disappointed," he said, smirking. In a flash, a beautiful, black Katana appeared in his hand. "Now, let's dance."

"We'll see," Ivy said. Spreading her arms, she sent a wave of vines crawling towards Ryu.

Ryu lifted his katana and rapidly slashed at the air. "Hundred wind blades!" he said, sending the wind blades, cutting through the vines.

Suddenly, the ground shook and foot wide Venus Flytraps emerged littering the ground like a field of bear traps, each one ready to spring shut at a moment notice. Ryu jumped up on a tree branch to avoid traps. He stabbed his sword on a tree branch. He took some shuriken before performing some hand seals. "Fire release: Phoenix Sage Flower Nail Crimson!" he said, unleashing a volley of shuriken with one hand, and at the same time, he exhaled fire-infused chakra onto them, sending them rushing towards Venus Flytraps.

The attack hit the multiple targets, burning them completely. This smaller scale attack did only damage to Venus Flytraps without setting Ivy's forest or a whole warehouse on fire.

Batman and his companion stood around at a safe distance, watching fight Poison Ivy and Ryu. They had taken care of Harley, who was currently lying beside Batman, unconscious. They weren't helping Ryu because Batman wanted to see what he could do.

"He can control fire," Robin said, watching Ryu sent burning shrunken.

"Yes," Batman said as he narrowed his eyes at Ryu. "And from an earlier display of his power, we could say that he also has some degree control over wind."

"Ivy looks angry," Batgirl said, looking at Poison Ivy.

"You can't beat me, not here in my own garden!" Ivy screamed as vines erupted from around her.

"Then I will make my own," Ryu said.

He made three hand seals, causing the ground below her explode. "Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees!" All around them trees started to erupt from the ground, they started to grow rapidly, their branches extended as they began to crush Ivy's garden, warehouse's roof and the whole place.

"Let's go!" Batman said, seeing the place was going to collapse soon. He picked up Harley.

They ran towards the exit.

XXX


The boy wonder dropped knees to the ground, panting heavily from exhaustion. "That was close," he said.

"Batman," Batgirl called, looking towards the warehouse.

Both Robin and Batman turned to see the full-grown forest in the place of the warehouse and it was still growing.

Suddenly, a wooden hand shot out from the forest, holding Ivy; then an enormous creature came out from the forest. This humanoid creature had an oni-like face with a dragon wrapped around its torso. It gave a loud cry before it pinned Ivy onto the ground. Then it moved his second arm near her and opened it, showing Ryu was standing in its giant palm.

"How?" Ivy asked in shock. It was the first time she saw someone other than herself could control the trees in such degree. "How did you grow plants without any source? It's impossible to grow it any surface without source like seed or plant."

"That's my secret," Ryu replied. "Now, sleep." He put an illusion on her as she succumbed to the genjutsu induced sleep. Then he turned to Batman. "She is all yours."

The wooden golem stood on his feet again, leaving Ivy laying on the ground. It placed his hand protectively on Ryu before phasing into the ground.

"That guy is full of surprises," Batgirl said.

XXX


Naruto was walking towards his lab. In his was a small tube, holding the blood of Poison Ivy. He tossed tube up before catching it again.

"I think this price is enough for saving the life of Gotham's heroes." He smirked.

XXX


It had been almost six months. Six months since Naruto was on Earth. In these six months, Naruto had managed to collect various information on Earth's other Heroes and Villains their real identities, their powers, their weakness and many more. He had even succeeded to get some blood samples of metahumans and aliens which were hiding on the Earth. From last six months, he had also occasionally visited the blonde haired cousin of Superman. Maybe, because he had interested in her.

Currently, our favorite ninja was looking at the holographic screens as he and M.E.R.L.I.N. had found out sometimes interesting. Some satellite communications facilities around the world had been sending strange encrypted signals into space and according to M.E.R.L.I.N. they were coded messages in an alien language which they had never seen or heard before. There were also some incidences in the facilities that didn't look like accidents.

"It must be some kind of an alien invasion, if they are damaging the stations," Naruto said, tapping his chin.

"We don't have any information on their language. Even Green Lantern Corps' databases that I hacked have not any information on it," M.E.R.L I.N. informed. "Maybe they are new alien species."

"Or very old alien species."

M.E.R.L.I.N. nodded. "There is also one thing, Master," he said. "Batman is in Metropolis and he is working on the same case."

"Well then, time to visit Metropolis again."

XXX


Kara Kent, better known as Supergirl, was on top of the tallest skyscraper she could find in the city. She was looking at Metropolis City.

"So, what are you thinking?" a familiar voice of Ryu said from behind her. He walked towards her and sat down beside her.

Supergirl turned her head towards him. "You have to stop sneaking on me," she said.

"Nah, it's fun," he replied.

"So, why are you here?" she asked, turning her head back to the city.

"To visit Bat."

She quickly turned her head towards him. "Batman is here?" she asked. She didn't have any clues how he knew all of this. Batman was one of the secretive people she knew and finding about him wasn't easy.

"Yes," he nodded.

"And how did you know that?"

"It's my secret."

"Whatever," she said before turning towards the city.

"So, what are you thinking earlier?"

"Well, I was thinking about my life."

"And?"

"I feel like I'm missing something in life."

"Maybe, you're missing technology."

"Huh?" She looked at him to know how he got to that conclusion.

"From I know you came from an advanced civilization. Their technology was more advance than Earth," he said. "Putting you in Earth is like putting someone from modern age to Stone Age. You miss the technology."

"Maybe." she smiled. "You thought about all of this?"

"Yes," he answered before looking up at the sky. "You know the technology of my home is behind than Earth."

"Really?" she asked in disbelief. She knew he had one of the advance technology.

"Yes, we don't even have vehicles," he told her. "I've learned everything about technology in space. But even though we are not advance in technology. There is one department, we can suppress even most of civilization." He took a pause. "Our Medical knowledge. We can regrow limbs, cure deadly poison and many more. There are many possibilities in our medical techniques."

There was a few minutes silence between them. Supergirl opened her mouth to ask something when she heard sounds of police sirens. Their sharp ears also heard the sounds of bank siren.

"Is the bank robbery common thing in Metropolis?" Ryu asked Supergirl. "Maybe, the Mayor should declare that banks aren't the safest place to store the money."

Supergirl sighed as she didn't know how to answer his question because it was a second bank robbery in this week.

XXX


It was night-time. Dark Knight was the outskirts of Metropolis, spying on a satellite communications facility operated by Wayne Tech. From his binoculars, he saw three suspicious employees of the facility exchanged amiable good-byes with their coworkers. As soon as their coworkers left, their personality turned one-eighty degree. They exchanged some words in some kind of the weird alien language before turning around and walked towards the top of the building.

"What are they doing?" Batman said to himself, looking at employers from his binoculars. He narrowed his eyes as he saw them tampering with the communication equipment. He pulled out grappling hook and went to stop them.

If he really kept the attention to his surroundings, he would have seen a small metallic bee watching him from a distance.

XXX


"This is interesting," Naruto said.

He was in the center of the Maze of Infinity, watching Batman on Holographic screen.

Batman grabbed one scientist before he could detonate the satellite. Then he attempts to subdue three of them, but each of them fought back with amazing speed and strength. Still, he managed to corner one of them on top of the roof dish, but it turned to be useless when other two cornered him.

"End of the Dark Knight," M.E.R.L.I.N. said.

"Not really," Naruto said as he pointed at the screen, showing Superman had arrived to stop them.

Seeing Superman all employers took step back. Superman walked forward, but before he could deal them, he grabbed his head in pain before falling unconscious.

"Well, that was unexpected," M.E.R.L.I.N. deadpanned.

Taking advantage of this situation, three mysteries employers detonated the satellite, but Batman managed to get Superman on his side and used his grappling hook to escape the explosion, before skidding to stop on the ground. He quickly stood up and turned to see the bodies of employers were twisted into such positions that should be fatal to any normal human, but they were still alive.

"Disgusting," M.E.R.L.I.N. said.

Naruto shook his head and stood up on his feet. "It's time for Alien hunt," he said as he watched three aliens fleeing into the forest.

XXX


The three aliens, who had disguised themselves as those employees from communications facility, were walking calmly through the forest when suddenly a fog appeared front them that seemed to be getting thicker as they continued walking forward. They could barely see two feet in front of them. After a few minutes walking forward, it had become too thick. They couldn't even see their faces.

Suddenly, Ryu slowly raised up from the ground behind one alien that had taken form of Chinese employer. He placed his hand on his shoulder and without alerting other two, he swallowed him into the Maze of Infinity. Then he went back to the ground.

XXX


"So this is the true form of these aliens," Naruto said, looking at the glass tank that was filled with a murky, green liquid, containing a disgusting white-skinned alien. He was alive, but in some kind of hibernation state. "Merlin, what is the result?"

"His species is some kind of alien parasite. From initial scan, he may have some kind of Shape-changing ability," MERLIN said. "I can say only this thing at this moment."

"Hmm, it's ok," Naruto said. "Show me all data."

Holographic screens opened in front of him, showing all data about white alien front of him as he began to analysis all data.


(TBC)


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