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Cadmus; Washington DC, July 5th 12:02AM
Dr. Desmond nervously paced through his personal lab; he had sent a request to his boss for a brief meeting. He had sent that request hours ago and was still waiting on a reply.
He paced around his lab for several more minutes until the lights dimmed on their own; it was time.
Multiple bright screens slowly descended down around Desmond, forming a circle. One screen lit up with a censored silhouette of what seemed to be a man appearing as the other screens followed suit. All the silhouettes had unique shapes but, they were all undistinguishable.
"Dr. Desmond," the man on the first screen addressed the doctor in a filtered voice, "Why have you requested an audience with the Light?"
Desmond felt a drop of sweat slip down his temple, "I apologize for calling you at such a late hour-"
"Get on with it," another screen demanded sounding aggravated.
"Of course," Desmond looked up as if recalling events, "This morning we had a small fire here at Project Cadmus; the origin of the incident is still unclear but, it seems to have attracted some unwanted attention." Desmond cleared his throat and continued, "Four sidekicks, Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Batgirl and one strange boy with even stranger abilities breached security and released the Project Superboy, the weapon is under our telepathic control and turned against his would be liberators; we currently have them contained and we don't believe the League knows they're here," Desmond paused and waited but heard nothing, "My question to you is… what should we do with them?"
The man on the screen was silent until he broke that silence without restraint, "Clone them."
Another screen spoke up, "The substitutes will serve the Light."
Desmond raised a finger, "And the originals?"
"Dispose of the source material; leave no trace."
Desmond cocked a sinister grin as the screens faded to black and propelled back into the ceiling.
…
Sasuke was more nauseous than actually injured; his head spun and his ears rang. He had been hit across the temple with the same approximate force of a speeding sports-car crashing into a brick wall; he was dizzy to say the least. He tried opening his eyes but all he could see was a blurry room with blurry objects. One thing did catch his eye though, a man stood directly in front of him. His face was hidden under a white porcelain cat mask but his left eye was a glowing crimson red.
"Time runs short." He spoke in a mumble, almost inaudible, but Sasuke caught the man's words, "You've been through far worse in the past, you must awaken." Sasuke groaned his eyes barely fluttering, attempting to lift themselves up but failing.
"You must awaken now!" The man's crimson eye flashed brighter; the intensity woke Sasuke instantly. He could never forget the terrifying feeling of staring into a malicious Sharingan.
Sasuke scanned the room with his onyx eye; the room was void of life aside from the team. Was he dreaming? Hallucinating? Was it another Cadmus trick? Did it matter? He was trapped and he needed to escape. He remembered how he was beaten; it was so out of character for him. Being beaten because he talked too much? He used to laugh at those who did that in battle and now he was one of them. No, he refused to be a joke of a hero, if he was going to get out of this with himself alive and more importantly his friends alive… then he needed to be ruthless again.
Sasuke flexed, his muscles strained as he pulled on his restraints. The metal creaked and strained as they came loose from the wall, but just then as his restraints were about to fold under the pressure, the boy who beat him walked into the room.
He walked up to the five heroes and stared, he narrowed his eyes as he realized Sasuke was awake.
"I don't suppose you're going to get us out of here, are you?" Sasuke asked aloud as the clone continued to stare. He stayed silent as Sasuke scoffed at him, "Didn't think so."
He pulled on his restraints once more, ripping them from their place on the wall. Superboy's eyes widened as Sasuke dropped to the floor of his pod. He struck the glass separating him from the rest of the world but, it did nothing. The glass didn't even crack.
"My chakra reserves are low right now; I could use a hand you know." Sasuke struck at the glass once more as Superboy continued to stare wordlessly.
"Can you even talk?"
Sasuke received no answer as Superboy mumbled something under his breath but Sasuke couldn't hear it. He ignored it and struck at the glass once again but to no avail.
"I said I can talk," Superboy repeated as he approached the pod that held Sasuke.
"I don't really care; I was just curious." Sasuke punched at the glass again leaving no mark, "Damn, this'll be harder than I expected."
A voice called out from a different pod, "Why are you staring at us?" Kid shouted, "It's creepy!"
"If you aren't going to help us get out, then leave us alone," Sasuke rammed the glass with his shoulder attempting to crack it once again but failing. He took a step back, covering his purple ripple-pattern eye and focusing his chakra through his crimson eye as the three tomoes spun before forming the Mangekyou pattern again. "Amaterasu," Sasuke focused the black flame through his sight-line and onto the glass, instantly burning a small hole in it. The hole expanded as a small trickle of blood slipped down Sasuke's cheek, the flames spread across the glass until the hole completely engulfed it.
Superboy stepped back, "w-what?"
"Inferno Style: Flame Control!" another trickle of crimson followed the last as the flames died down and dispersed. "Two choices; fight me or help me. And you aren't going to like fighting me a second time."
The clone contemplated as Sasuke jumped onto Kid's pod and began freeing his friends; Batgirl and Robin picked and unlocked their own shackles by the time he had made it to their pods.
Aqualad moved towards the clone and smiled reaching his hand out, "If you are anything at all like Superman then you will help us escape."
Kid zoomed next to them, "If it means anything we can totally introduce you to Superman."
Superboy raised his brows in surprise, "Have you all met Superman?"
They were about to answer 'yes' when Sasuke walked past them casually, "No. We're leaving." They all turned to follow him with curious grunts but Sasuke stopped and turned back to the clone who seemed lost and unsure, "Are you coming?"
"I don't know who I am anymore. I thought I was Superboy but, that was a lie. I'm just a failed experiment."
"I didn't ask for your life story but," Sasuke scoffed and stepped closer to Superboy, "Who said anything about failed? The only way you can fail is by going against what you feel is right. So if you think stopping us is the right thing to do then go ahead and try but in that case you will fail."
Superboy thought for a moment as they all stared at him and awaited his answer. He looked up and smiled, "You're gonna wanna take a left."
…
The man in the porcelain masked narrowed his eyes as he watched Sasuke and the others file out of the room and towards the elevator. He sighed and dropped from the ceiling he stood on catching Sasuke's attention causing him to whirl around.
"You…" He mumbled as the man flipped up the collar to his white haori with red flames sowed into it. Sasuke could swear it was familiar but, he lost his train of thought when he was tugged roughly on the arm.
Batgirl narrowed her eyes at the man, "What's wrong? Who is that?"
"Go with the others; I'll catch up." Sasuke scowled at his opponent who stood passively waiting. He seemed so… familiar. Could it really be Madara?
"Sasuke, if they find you-"
"They won't do anything, Superboy was their best and only shot at taking me and they blew it. Go."
Barbara sighed giving Sasuke a warm, worrisome look, "Fine but, you'd better find your way back to me."
Sasuke didn't even spare her a glance as she left down the hall to catch up with the others meanwhile Sasuke stepped closer and smirked, "So who is it behind that mask? I saw your Sharingan so just tell me which Uchiha I'm meeting right now?"
The man was silent but not unresponsive as he pulled out a kunai and twirled it between his fingers. He lifted his head and spoke, "You should know better than most that you don't have to be an Uchiha to wield a Sharingan," his voice was deeper but not by voice modification but by simply using a deeper voice to hide his own.
"I'd say Kakashi but the hair doesn't match," Sasuke pulled a kunai of his own and gripped its hilt as he slid into a fighting position.
"Perceptive," the man leapt at Sasuke with incomparable speed as he stepped into Sasuke's range, his kunai thrust was denied as Sasuke stopped it with his own weapon. They each struggled to get leverage over the other; Sasuke pulled out and swung back in with a round house kick which was swiftly blocked by them masked man. The man reeled back for a moment before attacking with combinations that were difficult to deflect. He threw a right straight which Sasuke managed to deflect upwards assuming it would give him an opening but like a miracle his hand flew in to grab Sasuke's wrist before he could chop at his throat. They stood stalemating each other for seconds before Sasuke brought his feet up quickly and drop kicked the man across the room.
"You're good. Mind telling me who trained you?" Sasuke asked as he cracked his neck and stepped forwards.
"A good man," the man sighed under his mask aggravating Sasuke further, "My question is what you think you're doing trying to master the Rasenshuriken?"
Sasuke flew in with a fist aimed for the man's face but he easily side stepped it as he did the same for the rest of his physical attacks, jab, straight, right hook, round house, side-kick, each one dodged completely. Sasuke threw everything he had into the speed of those punches but they continued to be dodged as Sasuke grew aggravated. "Amaterasu," the black flame shot from his Mangekyou Sharingan and towards the man but, instead of burning him to ashes, the flames passed by him. In a feat of speed he managed to effortlessly dodge the Amaterasu which not even the Raikage could do.
"I asked a question you know, it's a little rude to ignore people when they talk to you," the man crossed his arms and smiled under his mask.
"I don't care," Sasuke balled up his hand and swung at the man who tilted his head to dodge. The man had amazing reflexes but, his actual punching speed wasn't too impressive. He sent a palm into Sasuke's chest but the ninja managed to dodge, with the help of his Rinnegan, he narrowly escaped the attack or so he thought. As the hand passed by him he felt a force strike him in the side with enough force to shatter a building. He flew into the side of the hall which seemed to be narrowing as the battle progressed or perhaps it was his own doubt but, he didn't have much of that. He definitely couldn't use it here, there surely wasn't enough space for it but, he could try something else.
Sasuke bit his thumb opening a small cut the let lose the perfect amount of blood; he placed his bloody finger on the seal wrapped around his wrist and in a puff of white smoke came his trademark short sword, "Chidori blade." The blade was suddenly immersed in blue electricity surging through and around it.
"What good is that if you can't hit me?"
Sasuke was silent in response as he dove forwards swinging and slicing with expert marksmanship, each strike prepared to slice him in two. He had to be ruthless. He swung and as the man dodged to the side Sasuke used his Mangekyou to track the pattern of his dodging. Left, right, left, down, up. He memorized it and after only seconds longer of striking pointlessly, he swung his blade to the right suddenly slicing through his opponent completely. The blood on his blade slowly faded away as he realized what was going on immediately. The man burst in a puff of smoke revealing a computer from the room feet from them, "Substitution Jutsu? What is this, the academy?" Sasuke turned to see the man walking towards him from down the hall holding a massive Rasengan in his hand easily the size of a wrecking ball.
Sasuke stepped back for a second and tightened his jaw at the sight; he'd have to use it if he wanted to survive that. The massive orb shrank down to the size of a small basketball.
The man started running at him with incredible speed; Sasuke couldn't dodge the attack so he embraced it. He allowed his hand to be covered in the blue lightening style attack as he charged forwards to meet the man's attack.
"Rasengan!"
"Chidori!"
The attacks connected creating a shockwave that shook the compound vigorously. The metal walls bent and warped under the pressure as the two opposing forces were negated and sent fifty feet apart onto their backs. Sasuke held his head in ache as he got to his feat slowly, "That felt familiar; just who the hell are you?"
"If you make a single scratch on this mask I will take it off and show you who I am," The man declared as he pulled a kunai from his cloak sleeve and held it out in defense.
Sasuke groaned, "Whatever, I've already decided to kill you anyways," Sasuke pushed chakra into his eye as he folded his hands in a single sign.
"Amaterasu," Sasuke's right Mangekyou Sharingan flared as the black flames burst to life in his sight line as the man dodged to the right quickly evading the flames as Sasuke followed up by pumping chakra into his left Rinnegan eye. "Inferno Style: Flame Control," the flames froze in midair before changing direction and chasing after the fleeing man. He back flipped out of the way of the flames before moving quickly to the left to evade its landing. The flames erupted behind him as he quickly ran up the wall and vaulted off aiming for Sasuke. It all happened in a fraction of a second, Sasuke spotted the man as he landed and used the Amaterasu. Considering his reflexes and reaction time its not surprising that the man saw the attack forming and muttered two words in an act of desperation. "Mangekyou Sharingan."
His Sharingan grew ever brighter as the space around the flames began to warp. A hole in space and time opened up sucking in the flames and closing up afterwards. Sasuke saw it all; his Rinnegan could perceive any movement even faster than light so he saw very clearly what had happened.
Silence filled the air as Sasuke's eyes widened, "You… you're…"
From the edge of the man's mask came a streak of red most likely from his eye as using a Mangekyou's special ability takes a lot of chakra and puts major stress on the users eye.
The man hung his head and chuckled lightly, "I guess the fun and games are over then?" He reached for his mask and grabbed it by the eye holes he pulled it off revealing a familiar face. With a puff of white smoke his hair color was revealed as bright yellow. Sasuke immediately recognized the man behind the mask.
"Naruto…"
Naruto smiled as his Sharingan reverted to its three tomoe state, he stepped forwards extending his hand towards Sasuke who was baffled. Sasuke stared at his hand for a few moments as he processed this revelation.
"We have much to talk about, old friend."
Sasuke's face went from shock to its usual stoic expression as he stepped forwards and grasped Naruto's hand, "Man, even in another dimension I still can't get you off my back."
Naruto smiled brightly as his Sharingan closed to conserve chakra, he chuckled as Sasuke began with the questions.
"When did you get here?"
"Only about a week after you left."
"It's been months! Why didn't you call? They have really cool phones here you know?"
"Pshh the IPhone is a total sham," Naruto smiled, "I've been using this eye to travel between this world and our own. Gathering knowledge and using this new power to master any Jutsu I could get my hands on."
"Naruto… why? Why are you doing all of this?"
"I'll explain it all," Naruto gazed at Sasuke with his heart in his eyes, his sorrow purged his heart with sadness as he spoke, "A few days after you left… Madara escaped."
Sasuke interrupted immediately, "You left him alive?"
"The Lord of Fire wanted to study him and learn to combat the Infinite Tsukuyomi if it would ever become a problem again but, he escaped captivity and…" Naruto choked as a tear slipped down his cheek, "He wiped us out."
Sasuke's entire world came crashing down around him as realization hit him like a truck, "He… what?"
"He spent four days annihilating everything that came his way, destroying villages, cities; even the entire Land of Iron was wiped from the map completely. Vanished into the ocean," Naruto allowed more tears to fall as he remembered, "As I floated only feet from the destruction; helpless to stop him."
"You can't be serious…"
Naruto tightened his jaw and wiped the tears from his face taking a deep breath, "Very serious and if we're going to beat Madara we need to start your training as soon as possible."
"Training? Why would we need that? We already beat Madara before, right? All we need to do is team up again and we'll be unstoppable." Sasuke smiled as he tried to lift Naruto's spirits.
"That won't work this time! Trust me, I'll train you and everything will be great. Let's go." Naruto tugged on Sasuke's arm pulling him towards the exit.
"Woah don't just brush passed this, why can't we just beat him like last time?" Sasuke had known Naruto for a very long time and while most of that time was spent as bitter rivals, he liked to think he was his one and only friend although, he'd never admit it. In this case he knew Naruto well enough to know when he was disappointed, guilty, and self-loathing all at the same time.
Naruto chuckled nervously as water welled up in his eyes, "Well, remember how the Rinnegan can absorb chakra?"
"No way…" Sasuke knew what he meant now; it was all that he could interpret from those few words.
"Madara stole Kurama and all the other Bijuu from me, I don't have my Six Paths power anymore and to make things worse, Madara has everything I had plus his own power and a few other techniques he absorbed during his rampage." Naruto sighed and rubbed his abdomen where the fox used to sleep, "He's gone and sorry to say I'm not as relieved as I would have been only a few years ago."
Sasuke took a grim look for himself, "We'll get him back… I'll get him back for you."
Naruto looked back, "Madara is in this world and he's trying to re-perform the Infinite Tsukuyomi, I' don't know why he hasn't done it yet but, we have to find and stop him!"
Sasuke smiled, "Just like before? The greatest fighting team in Konoha? We're one short."
Naruto looked down at his shoes, "I don't know how she died but I assume it was painless. I do have hope that she's out there somewhere trying to piece our world back together but, we can't know until we finally put an end to Madara Uchiha."
They spent a moment of silence for their fallen comrade before Naruto tugged on Sasuke's arm, "Alright, let's go and start training asap! Madara won't know what hit him!"
"Wait…" Sasuke stood firm as he looked in the direction that the others had traveled in earlier, "We can't leave them."
"Yea, you totally can. Didn't you try to kill your last partner?"
"I'm a different person now or… at least I'm trying to be," Sasuke squinted his one eye and gave a small smile, "And that starts with saving them." he walked a few steps away and retrieved his short sword.
"Well, I know they're on the top floor by now so I could try throwing my sword through 52 levels of concrete and dirt or…"
Naruto smiled and crossed his arm as he boasted his skill, "Don't look at me, I don't possibly have anything to get us up there quickly."
Sasuke scoffed, "Shut up and do it." His face as stoic as ever, he was only slightly surprised by the tugging on his arm as Naruto shouted, "Hirashin First Step," in a flash of golden light they vanished.
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Dr. Desmond could officially be considered insane as he stood between the heroes and the exit to the facility. He held a glowing blue test tube in his hand as he manically screamed at the children.
"You want to see power? Blockbuster will show you power!" Desmond popped the cork on the tube and drank its contents. After a few seconds his muscles tightened and bulged as he shattered the tube in his hand. His muscles grew as they tore at his skin; he grew several feet taller while his skin faded into a grey complexion. His eyes turned blue and his voice became warped and deep, although he didn't talk rather growled and screamed.
The heroes readied their weapons and prepared for a fight when suddenly from the center of the room came a flash of golden light revealing Sasuke and Naruto.
"Awh yea, here to fuck shit up," Naruto exclaimed as Sasuke rolled his eyes and sighed at him.
"Your such a loser, let's just take care of whatever that is," Sasuke jabbed his thumb in Blockbuster's direction as he pounded at his chest with his fists.
Naruto scanned the beast for a moment, "There are tons of weaknesses in his stance for starters."
The team watched in awe as took over the situation completely; Aqualad stepped forwards with determination, "We will help you and your unknown ally." He stated and didn't ask which was a trait that Sasuke admired.
"No, you'll take Superboy out of here, this night is over," Sasuke turned back to Blockbuster who mindlessly grunted for no reason.
Aqualad tried to reply but felt an intense aura of bloodlust waving over him like an ocean, the rest of the team felt it and turned immediately, Batgirl spoke first, "There's no point in arguing when he gets like this, we should just go."
Kid scoffed, "What a rip, he gets all the action?" He zoomed towards the exit quickly as Superboy ran after him silently.
Aqualad and Robin shared a quick glance before nodding, "Well it's not like we could stop him…"
Sasuke cracked his neck and focused his chakra through his eye, shifting his Sharingan into the Mangekyou and collecting his chakra into the Rinnegan; Naruto focused on his surroundings for a second as he felt the natural energy around him flood his body quickly. Naruto opened his eyes as an orange pigmentation covered his eyelids, his blue iris turned yellow, his pupil elongated, and his Sharingan slowly formed the triple edged Mangekyou.
The two charged with tremendous speed and accuracy, both slamming their fists into Blockbuster's abdomen pushing him back and into the wall. Sasuke looked up quickly to realize he had barely been fazed by the attack, Naruto quickly back flipped out of the way as Blockbuster back handed Sasuke through a concrete pillar and into a wall.
Naruto used his Sage Mode as a sixth sense combined with the Mangekyou Sharingan's perception and movement prediction to completely avoid every attack Blockbuster threw no matter how quick or how close. Naruto jumped over the beasts right cross and used it as leverage to back flip over the behemoth and leave a white paper with red Japanese markings stuck to his mouth. The mutated scientist screamed as the explosion covered his body and shook the building, "Heh, exploding paper, works every time in this universe."
Sasuke dusted himself off and stepped closer to Naruto, stretching his tasked muscles. He pointed into the smoke, "Look dumbass, you have a Sharingan now, he's still up and it looks like his vitals are completely normal."
Naruto winced and searched through the smoke, "Aw man, you're right."
"What now?"
"You wanted to learn the Rasenshuriken, right?" Naruto smiled and looked over to Sasuke who whirled around quickly as Blockbuster cleared the smoke around him with a quick wave of his arm.
"Are you serious?" Sasuke asked as Naruto smiled at him.
"Just form a Rasengan," Naruto smiled and looked over towards Blockbuster, "Earth Style: Stone Shackles!" the earth below them came bursting upwards from beneath the concrete floor, wrapping around the beast and trapping him for but a few moments.
Sasuke formed a Rasengan in his hand and Sasuke smiled, "I had to figure it out on my own but, since I'm here to teach you…" The former Jinchūriki placed his own palm underneath Sasuke's and pulled his hand up high. As their hands rose through the air, slowly making its way above Sasuke's head, the Rasengan grew in size and began to form spinning blades of wind around it. The center grew brighter and slightly larger than a watermelon as a high pitched whine accompanied its amazing chakra.
"Wind Style: Rasenshuriken!" Sasuke and Naruto shouted in unison as they launched the attack forwards, skipping across the air until it made contact with the mad scientist and detonated around him. The resulting explosion formed a dome of blue energy as sparking white chakra attacked Desmond on the cellular level, frying his body and knocking him unconscious from the pain.
The explosion also disintegrated the remaining support pillars for the building causing it to collapse as Naruto grabbed Sasuke and disappeared in a flash of golden light.
Outside the building, the team watched as the street shook briefly and then gasped as the complex crumbled and collapsed before them.
Barbara pulled her cowl back and stepped forwards, "Sasuke…?"
A flash of golden light startled them as Naruto and Sasuke appeared behind them, collapsing quickly to the ground.
"Phew! That was close!" Naruto looked around as everyone stared at him with shocked or confused expressions, "What?"
…
After about ten minutes of explaining and back stories, the team finally knew who the stranger was, although; Kid was the first to speak up, "Well, inter-dimensional friendship for the win, right everyone?"
Superboy sighed as Aqualad stepped forwards and raised his hand for Naruto to shake, "It's nice to have met two new allies today, instead of one."
Naruto chuckled, "If you ever need anything, just give me a ring; now that the introductions are done and the day is saved, me and my buddy here need to get back to our world so if you don't mind…"
Barbara nearly tripped trying to get the front of the group as Dick tried to stop her and failed, "You're leaving? Like for good?"
Naruto chuckled louder, "Of course he is!" he said between breaths, "We don't belong here and my eye has the power to send us home, we need to regroup to uh… to do stuff…"
Sasuke put a hand on Naruto's shoulder, "Can we talk, real quick?"
Naruto smiled brightly and opened his Sharingan, "Sure thing, we can do it back in the village or what's left of it…"
Sasuke smacked the former demon host in the back of the head, "I meant like ten feet away, dumbass."
"Jeez, fine."
They stepped away from the team as some of them crossed their arms, being left out wasn't something anyone enjoyed.
Sasuke turned away and faced Naruto, "We shouldn't leave."
If Naruto had been drinking something he would have done a spit take immediately, "What do you mean?! This isn't our home! The village-"
"Is gone, our entire world is gone according to you, and I've never been sentimental but, I don't want to see that kind of destruction." Sasuke crossed his arms and sighed, "This Earth has some amazing heroes with insane abilities, you don't think Superman would be able to help against Madara?"
"Well, yea but-"
"Plus, they have advanced technology and training equipment that could help me prepare," Sasuke reasoned with a small grin forming on his face as Naruto's contorted into one of exasperation and stubbornness.
Naruto sighed and looked away, "I don't know if we should abandon-"
"They have some really attractive girls here, too," Sasuke mumbled stopping Naruto in his tracks.
"…" Naruto looked at the team and back to Sasuke, "I guess some new training equipment would be nice."
Sasuke chuckled under his breath and shoved Naruto forward as they approached the team once again, "So, what's the verdict your honor?"
Naruto sighed, "Yea, yea we'll stay…"
Barbara and Dick smiled as they jumped and embraced Sasuke, they laughed for a moment as Sasuke closed his Rinnegan eye once again feeling content that the danger had passed.
Superboy sighed to himself and turned around, looking up at the moon, "It's… bigger than I thought."
Kaldur and Wally smiled, "We can totally show you the sun too but, it's like one in the morning right now."
Superboy narrowed his eyes and pointed up at the moon, "Somethings coming."
He was right, from the sky floated down the entire Justice League including, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, both Green Lanterns, Aquaman, Red Tornado, both Hawks, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Captain Marvel, Zatara, Captain Atom, Martian Manhunter, and Batman; the non-flying heroes were carried by Green Lantern constructs as they landed and dispersed their energy. Some heroes had landed on the outskirts of the destroyed building looking down on the scene while Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and a few other main heroes floated down landing right in front of the teens.
Superman starred wordlessly at the collapsed building but, didn't flinch until Superboy stepped forwards and lifted his torn white solar-suit revealing a red 'S' emblazoned on it. Superman's eyes widened immediately before narrowing into a frown, "Is that what I think it is?" Batman broke the silence referring to Superboy whom immediately felt prosecuted.
Kid Flash took a step forward without eyeing any of the heroes and placing a hand over part of his mouth so that Superboy couldn't see, "He doesn't like being called an 'it'."
"I'm Superman's clone!" Superboy announced as everyone took a quick double take at the scene.
Batman looked passed them all and focused in on Sasuke and Dick whom both had their arms crossed and eyes focused elsewhere, "Start. Talking."
…
After several minutes of explaining the situation and what had occurred over the last 12 hours, the League made their move by sending the Green Lanterns and a few other heroes to escort Blockbuster to a secure facility known as Belle Reeve. Leaving half the League still discussing what they should do with the teenagers, Superman, Batman, Flash, Guardian, Aquaman, Red Tornado, and Captain Marvel finally came to a decision and approached the clone and his friends.
Superman stepped up first, walking towards and sighing as he did so, "We'll uh… We'll figure something out for you, The League will, I mean; I better help them square that Blockbuster creature away," he finished and floated upwards for several seconds before accelerating passed super-sonic creating a loud boom with his speed.
Batman interrupted the silence from behind, "Cadmus will be investigated, all 52 sub-levels, but let's make something clear-"
Flash interrupted him quickly, "You shoulda called!"
The dark knight sighed and continued, "End result aside, we are not happy, you hacked Justice League systems, disobeyed direct orders, and endangered lives," he narrowed his eyes as Naruto whom scoffed at his entire speech.
"Regular Genin day in Konoha, am I right?" Naruto nudged and unamused Sasuke whom didn't take his eyes off of Batman.
"Who is this?" the knight asked.
"He's uh, well, I'll explain later," Sasuke said as he pushed Naruto away from him with discontent.
"Needless to say, this will not be happening again," Bruce finished.
Superboy chuckled as Aqualad took a serious step forward, "I am sorry but, it will."
"Aqualad, stand down," Aquaman stated firmly but, he was ignored as Kaldur frowned.
"Apologies my king, but, no."
Aquaman raised a brow at this in slight confusion, he's never been back talked to by his subjects but, Kaldur was no ordinary subject.
Sasuke stepped passed Kaldur putting his hands out, "You guys are kidding, right? Playing Mommy and Daddy trying to ground us? We did good work here today, we completed a mission even you yourselves weren't completely sure of but, because we didn't run it by you first, we're being prosecuted?"
Aqualad spoke up, "Agreed, we came together today and against your will we forged something powerful, we became a team…"
Flash rubbed his temples, "Look, if this is about what happened at the Hall-"
"It isn't!" Batgirl shouted pulling her cowl off and tossing it aside, "We worked together like I never thought we could and we did it because we knew we could not because we knew you didn't want us to! We did more than prove ourselves as good side-kicks today, we proved ourselves as real heroes!" the others looked over at her with slight surprise but, in agreement none-the-less. Sasuke was especially proud but, simply focused his eye back on the adults before them.
Batman was about to speak up when he was interrupted by Superboy pushing passed the others and announcing himself, "Why are we letting them decide whether or not we do this? It's simple," he got closer to Batman putting a finger in his face, "Get on board, or get out of the way."
They were all shocked but, Batman saw something else, he saw promise; noticing it immediately, he loosed a faint grin almost impossible to see without a Sharingan.
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Mount Justice; July 8th; 8:04Am.
Inside a massive hollowed out mountain just off the shore of Happy Harbor, Rode Island, stood Sasuke, Naruto, Dick, Barbara, Superboy, Kaldur, and Wally all in civilian clothing lined up in front of Aquaman, Black Canary, Red Tornado, Captain Marvel, and Batman, "This cave was the original secret sanctuary of the Justice League; we're calling it into service again since you all are determined to stay together and fight the good fight, you'll do it on League terms."
"Red Tornado volunteered to live here and be your supervisor, Black Canary is in charge of training; I will deploy you on missions," Batman finished as Dick spoke up.
"Real missions?"
"Yes but, covert."
Marvel spoke up from behind them, "The League'll still handle the more obvious stuff, there's a reason we have these huge targets on our chests."
Aquaman smiled at the teens and continued for Marvel, "But, Cadmus proves the bad-guys are getting smarter; Batman needs a team that can operate on the sly."
"The seven of you will be that team," Batman finished.
Sasuke raised a brow as Wally stepped out of line and began counting the teens, "Seven?" he stated, "I count six."
The teleporters behind them fired up as Martian Manhunter stepped through with another person behind him, in a flash of light, a teenage girl around 5'6" walked in with her arms behind her back and a nervous grin on her face. She had a long red hair and green skin to match Manhunter's, her outfit consisted of a white short-sleeved shirt with a red 'X' across the chest and a light blue skirt with red boots, "Hi, everyone, I'm happy to be included."
"This is Miss Martian AKA M'gaan M'oorse; she's Martian Manhunter's niece," Bruce announced as Manhunter placed a hand on her back and motioned for her to approach them.
She approached Naruto first as she held her hand out, "M'gaan," she said simply as Naruto awkwardly shook her hand, "Naruto."
Suddenly her right eyes swirled into a crimson red color, "I… like your eye," she muttered nervously as Naruto smiled slightly caressing the skin under Kakashi's Sharingan.
"Today is the day."
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I already had most of this chapter finished but, In light of the news on Young Justice Season 3! I decided to complete the chapter and take the story off Hiatus!
YAAAAY
Don't expect frequent updates though, I still plan on making this a long story with many chapters and good quality writing which takes time and effort which is hard to juggle along with College, work, social life, and so on.
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