Sorry for the wait… Wanted this chapter to be a long one, and combined with procrastination, it took a while to get it out…

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Chapter 8
Little Big Giant


A man with short black hair dressed in detective's clothing entered a large money vault of a bank, where there were several policemen doing investigation inside the former. Clearly, a robbery had happened, as evident of some of the money racks being devoid of dollar bills.

"Detective John Jones!" a policeman said when he saw that man. "We've been waiting for you!"

"What's the situation here?" the detective asked.

"A strange one, you can say…" the policeman replied. "Apparently, the vault door hasn't been tampered with in any way. The security camera outside didn't even capture anyone sneaking into the vault! It's like the thieves broke into the vault from the inside!"

"Surely there are no other entrances other than the vault door, so whoever broke in here must've dug a tunnel or created a new entrance," John said.

"That's what we thought, but we searched everywhere and even checked the floors, but there are no signs of passages created… We checked the air vents as well, but their coverings are still screwed on tightly. The culprit couldn't have screwed it back on when they went back out through it," the policeman told him. "When we got the police dogs to sniff out where the culprits went, they kept on sniffing the wall at the back!" Then he pointed to the police dogs, which were doing what he said they were doing, while some other policemen inspected the wall.

John walked over to the wall, and then the policemen and the police dogs moved away for him to inspect it. The detective looked at the wall from top to bottom and made sure that he didn't miss any details on it. He also touched it to see if he could feel any peculiar, but no matter how he inspected it, he couldn't find anything peculiar about it. It looked like an ordinary wall that had never been tampered with in whatsoever way.

"Are there no security cameras in here?" he asked.

"No, sir," one of the policemen standing next to him replied. "The people here were so confident about the security of this vault that they didn't find it necessary for security cameras to be installed in here…"

"It wouldn't hurt them to install one in here, would they…?" said John.

"We will remind them, sir!" said the policeman. "By the way, have you found anything peculiar about this wall? The police dogs are insisting that there is something peculiar about it. The culprit must've used this wall as an entrance and exit to this room."

"Yet I have found nothing peculiar about it," John replied. "Don't worry; I'll definitely get to the bottom of this. We should go and check the other side of this wall first."

As soon as he said that, the detective and some policemen went outside the bank and walked all the way to the place that was the other side of the wall the police dogs were sniffing. What they saw there was the same as from the inside: nothing peculiar.

Suddenly, something struck him…


FLASHBACK

After Yoshika finished eating her meal and said that she enjoyed it, Youmu, who was sitting at the same table as her, told her that she shouldn't have eaten the dishes as well.

"She's got quite an appetite, doesn't she?" Martian Manhunter, who was also sitting at the same table, asked. "She ate six people's servings! And don't worry about the dish; we can easily get new ones."

"I'm very sorry about her eating manners…" Youmu said to him as she stood up and bowed to him as an act of apology. "I'm sure that if her master is here, she wouldn't have behaved like this… Her master is really the only person she listens to."

"Then we'll have to find her master as soon as possible, then," said Martian Manhunter. "What kind of a person is she?"

Youmu sat back down and replied, "Her master is a wicked hermit. They are hermits who have not been acknowledged by Heaven. I heard that it was because of her selfish nature that she never got acknowledged as one." Then she looked at Yoshika. "I also heard that it was because of reanimating a corpse that she was never acknowledged as one."

"I can see why, since creating undeads is considered a wrongful thing to do, not to mention disrespecting life," said Martian Manhunter. "Is she an evil person?"

"I wouldn't say she is evil…" Youmu replied. "She does whatever she wants and doesn't care about the consequences, whether or not people will get hurt because of her actions, but she certainly isn't the kind of person who would cause havoc and large-scaled incidents. However, I heard she's been caught breaking into people's houses and stealing things…"

"Then she is someone you have to watch out for," said Martian Manhunter. "Chances are likely that she's doing stealing here as well. Is there anything else we need to know about her if we want to find her?"

"She wears a teal dress and has blue hair," Youmu replied. "She's usually carrying around a clear white cloth as well. She can use her hair stick to create holes on walls. Apparently, the harder the wall is, the easier it is for her to create holes on it. The hole created will automatically return to normal after a while."

"She can create holes on walls with ease?" Martian Manhunter asked, and Youmu nodded. "Such ability will allow her to break into places and steal things with ease!"

"I don't really think she'll do any stealing here," Youmu told him. "After all, this is a place unfamiliar to her, so she probably wouldn't do anything reckless."

END OF FLASHBACK


After recalling what he heard at the Watchtower the same day, John, Martian Maunhunter's public identity and disguise, said to himself, "Could it be… her?"


Running at a ridiculously high speed at a place where there were several people and even cars meant asking for accidents to happen, but such wasn't the case for the yellow blur that was doing just that. Despite the speed it was moving at, so fast that one couldn't make out its details, it managed to avoid running into everything on the street. Whenever a car was in the way, it would simply move aside and continue on its way.

Such a sight was a norm for the people of Keystone City, as they were not surprised at all whenever they saw this yellow blur speeding down the street or anywhere in the city. They knew all too well what, or rather, who, that was to be surprised by its appearance.

The yellow blur made its way to a large building that had several people walking in and out of its relatively large entrance. He rushed into the public bathroom located somewhere close to it, and then a few seconds later, a boy with brown hair wearing a red shirt and a pair of blue jeans stepped out and looked at his watch. "Five minutes early!" he said. "It can't be helped if I'm a speedster, right?"

"Yeah, you should learn to arrive even earlier! I'm dying from boredom due to waiting for you and the others!" said a nearby voice.

The boy turned to the side and saw a younger boy with dark brown hair dressed in a similar-looking attire. "Bart! You're here already?!" said the first boy in surprise.

"Of course! I'm faster than you after all!" the boy named Bart said to him. "Plus, there's a reason I'm called Impulse, right?"

"Yeah, yeah… You rush headfirst into pretty much everything the first chance you get…" grumbled the other boy, Wally West. "How long have you been here?"

"Ten minutes ago," Bart replied. "So… we just have to wait for the others now?"

"Yeah," Wally said while looking at his watch. "I told them we'll meet at one in the afternoon, and since they're not like us, who always get to places early…"

"Who says we don't get to places early?" said a girl's voice all of a sudden. Bart and Wally turned to the side and saw nine people standing there: Artemis Crock, Megan Morse, Garfield Logan, Connor Kent, Karen Beecher, Raquel Ervin, Malcolm Duncan, Cassie Sandsmark, and Zatanna.

"Didn't expect us to be here early, eh?" Artemis, the one who spoke earlier, said to the two boys.

"We knew you would arrive here earlier than the appointed time, so we all left early," Megan explained.

"We'd be torturing you if we let the both of you wait too long," said Connor.

"I can wait a bit, though I can't say the same for this guy," said Wally while pointing at Bart with his thumb and without looking at him. "Anyway, nice to know that all of you are here! Well, not all… Some of the ones I've contacted have business to attend to, so they can't come. Anyway, now that you're here, let's go into the brand new mall of Keystone City!" He turned to the building and pointed his arm at it.

The group headed over to the building, and Zatanna looked up at it while commenting, "Wow! It sure is massive for a department store!"

"I've been here twice, and trust me: it's so big that I don't think I've seen every single corner of it yet!" claimed Wally. "This place is so awesome that you'll lose track of time once you're in there! Better hold onto your wallets, because you're totally going to use them often! For girls, mostly…"

They went into the department store, and everyone except Bart, Wally, and Connor watched in awe at the design of the interior. There was a large fountain in the center of the place, and around it were bushes trimmed to resemble various kinds of animals. The building had several floors, and one could see all the way to top as they moved towards the center. Because the ceiling was made of see-through tiles, the sun shined down from it and made it seem like one was outside when they were right underneath it. Needless to say, there were several stores and stands all over the place. The whole place resembled the inside of a palace.

"Wow! I don't think I'll be able to complete my shopping in a single day!" Raquel commented in excitement. "This place looks awesome!"

"I think dad is going to throw a fit if I go back with an empty wallet…" said Zatanna. "Better make sure that I have self-control…"

"We're all old enough to make our own decisions, so why do you worry about that?" Cassie asked her. "Just do whatever you want until your heart's content! That's how I do things!"

As the girls moved on ahead and talked to each other happily about where they wanted to go first and what they wanted to buy, the guys followed them a few steps behind. "Honestly saying, I'm not a fan of going out with girls to department stores…" said Connor. "It's not that I dislike shopping, but it's because they are interested in things… I'm not interested in, and they can spend, like, hours in one store and buy nothing…"

"I think it's the same for all guys," Wally said to him.

"You'll have to get used to this," Malcolm told Connor. "Girls are attracted to clothes, jewelries, and certain kinds of accessories. They'll always spend more time on those items than any others."

"I know…" Connor grumbled.

"Why don't we just let them do the shopping themselves, while we head over to the arcade?" suggested Wally. "They have a large one at the top floor, and that place is a blast!"

"Great idea!" said Garfield the green-skinned boy, excited. "I want to go there!"

"I can hear you guys," said Megan, turning around partially. "Sorry if we bore you with our shopping, okay? You can go on ahead and do whatever makes you happy, so you don't have to follow us all over the place."

Worried that he made her unhappy, Connor desperately said to her, "No, I didn't mean to…"

"I'm not angry, Connor," Megan said to him as she completely turned around. "It's perfectly normal for guys to not be as interested in shopping as girls. You just go ahead and do whatever you find the most enjoyable here. There's nothing wrong with this!"

"Yeah, there's nothing wrong with boys wanting to have some fun without girls!" Bart said to Connor while elbowing him lightly. "Let's hit the arcade now!"

"All right, let's meet again at this spot!" Wally said to the girls. "You girls go ahead and enjoy your shopping!"

With that, the guys and the girls went separate ways.

While the guys were searching for the elevator, Connor said, "Intruders appeared at our headquarters last night."

Wally and Malcolm were surprised to hear this. "What happened?!" Malcolm asked.

"It's no big deal! Red Tornado subdued them before we got there!" Bart told him. "Of course, I wished I had a part in it…"

"Who intruded our headquarters?" Wally asked.

"Don't know who they are," Connor replied. "There were three of them, and all of them were girls. They didn't seem to be dangerous, though. Their clothes are plain-looking, and they only have with them musical instruments."

"Musical instruments? Are they musicians who got lost or something?" Malcolm asked.

"I don't know," Connor said. "Red Tornado later received a message from the Watchtower regarding the appearance of boom tubes in various places, and since those three girls arrived at our headquarters using one, he took them there right away."

"They arrived at our headquarters using a boom tube?!" Wally asked in surprise.

"Not sure what happened after that…" Connor continued. "Wanted to ask Red Tornado about those three girls, but haven't seen him today yet…"

"Let's hope everything is all right out there…" Malcolm said. "Sounds like an invasion is happening…"

"Relax! If everyone who came out of those boom tubes are anything like those three who showed up inside our mountain, then we can deal with them no problem!" said Bart. "What are they going to do with musical instruments? Make music until our ears bleed?"

"That sounds painful and dangerous if you ask me…" said Garfield, shuddering at the thought of bleeding painfully in the ears.


An hour had passed since the guys and the girls went their own ways. The girls had a blast doing both shopping and window shopping. With several bags in their hands and walking through one of the floors, they talked to each other about how they were enjoying things and where they should go next.

As they were walking by an alcohol store, they heard a man angrily saying, "No! Alcohols are not for children! You're not allowed to drink it!"

Curious, the girls turned to the store and saw a seller holding up a beer bottle in front of a girl with light brown hair and a pair of horns on her head.

"Give it to me!" the girl said to that man in Japanese while reaching her hand towards the beer.

"Sorry, I don't understand Japanese!" the seller said to her while pulling the beer away. "I'm going to tell your parents that you took a sip of the beer that is for sampling!"

"Underage drinking? Geez, what is the world coming too…?" asked Raquel. "Kids nowadays sure are behaving more and more like adults… in a bad way…"

"Look, I'm not in a good mood today!" the horned girl said the seller. "Either you give me that right away, or I'll snatch it out of your hand myself! On the second thought, I'll do the latter right away!" Then she jumped up and did just that before drinking from it.

"Hey! Give it back!" the seller angrily said as he reached his hands toward the girl, but the latter thrust her free hand at him and caused him to fly back, knocking down all the racks that were in the way.

CRASH CRASH CRASH CRASH CRASH!

"What the?! How did she do that?!" Karen asked in shock.

"A metahuman?!" asked Artemis, equally surprised.

After the horned girl finished that bottle of beer, she flung it aside before looking at a nearby rack. "Not bad! Beers of the outside world sure taste good!" she said. "I haven't had enough yet!" She grabbed another bottle, pulled off the cap using her bare hand with ease, and then chugged it.

Two of the store's sellers came over to her and told to stop while grabbing her arms, but she spun in a circle and caused them to fly away, one of them in the direction of those girls, but Cassie caught him and then put him down.

Not liking what she saw, Cassie walked toward the girl after that while saying to her, "Hey you! Don't you think you have enough?! You look only about ten years old, and you're drinking alcohol! Have your parents never taught you not to drink until you're at least eighteen?! And just because you have super strength doesn't mean you can abuse it and hurt people who are telling you the correct things!"

The horned girl lowered the bottle and looked at her with a grumpy face. "Don't you grownups ever stop blabbering at me about drinking alcohol? Assuming that's what you're saying to me…" she said in an annoyed voice. "What do you people know about me? This is why I find people of the outside world annoying! They don't know I'm actually an oni and think I'm just a little kid, so they lecture me for drinking alcohol! Why don't you people learn your folklore and understand that drinking is what oni like to do?!"

"Sorry, I don't speak or understand Japanese! You'll have to speak English or a language I understand, like Greek!" Cassie said to her while bending towards her with her hands on her hips.

Not liking the attitude Cassie was showing her and also her face being close to her, the horned girl said, "You want to pick a fight with me or what?" Then she burped right into her face.

"Eeeeew!" Cassie cried in disgust as she pulled back from her. "That does it! I ought to teach you a lesson!"

"Cassie! Don't!" Megan said to her, trying to stop her from hurting that girl.

Cassie tried to slap the girl in the face, but the latter caught her hand and stopped it cold, much to her surprise. The latter then twisted her hand, making her cry in pain, before shoving her forward. She continued drinking from the same bottle afterwards.

"How dare you?!" Cassie angrily said while rubbing her hand. "THAT DOES IT!" Enraged, she threw a punch at the girl's face without a hesitation, but to her surprise, she caught and stopped her fist with ease.

"Want to pick a fight with me for real, eh?" the horned girl asked her. "I can tell you're strong when I grabbed your hand twice, so maybe you can entertain me a bit?" She lifted her over her head by the fist, slammed her onto the floor behind herself, and then spun in a circle before throwing her away.

Such a sight surprised Cassie's friends and the onlookers. "I can't believe it! She's actually as strong as Cassie?!" Zatanna said in disbelief.

Cassie got back up and glared at the girl while growling in anger. "YOU'RE ASKING FOR IT!" she yelled at the top of her voice.

The horned girl beckoned for her to come over while saying, "Looks like you're all heated up for a good fight!"

Cassie let out a cry as she ran towards the horned girl to throw another punch at her, but the latter easily dodged it before throwing her own. The former managed to avoid it as well before throwing another one that struck her in the face. The horned girl moved back from her while rubbing the part that got hit, and then she said with a grin, "Nice going! You're getting better!"

"I don't understand you, and I don't intend to do so anymore!" Cassie angrily said to her.

Both sides ran at each other and traded punches and kicks. Cassie's friends were amazed at how good the horned girl was at fighting. Despite her young appearance, she displayed very good fighting skills that were considered very high-leveled. The fact that she managed to block Cassie's attacks was unbelievable as well, considering that the latter was Wonder Woman's sidekick and had her strength given to her by the Greek god Zeus.

"Who is that girl?!" Artemis asked. "How is she able to put up a fight against Cassie?! I know there are people stronger than her, but that girl looks a lot younger than her!"

After trading blows with each other for a while, the horned girl jumped back from Cassie and then breathed a stream of fire from her mouth at her, but the latter managed to avoid it by jumping aside, despite getting surprised by it.

"She can breathe fire as well?!" Zatanna asked in surprise.

Cassie jumped at the horned girl and swung down her hands like a hammer at her, but the latter crossed her arms over her head and managed to block the blow, though the force of the impact caused her feet to sink slightly into the floor. Not giving her the chance to counterattack, Cassie performed a back flip and kicked her in the chin, and the former's feet wasn't even on the floor when she did that. Such a move caught the horned girl by surprise and sent her into the air. Cassie then jumped, or rather, flew at her and punched her over the railing, coming to a stop when she hit the sign of a store on the other side.

CRAAAAAAAAASH!

Cassie's friends ran up to her, who was floating in the air, and Megan said to her, "Cassie! You didn't have to go that rough on her!"

"If she is able to put up a fight against me, then I'm sure she can withstand a punch like that!" Cassie insisted.

The horned girl got up on her knees and rubbed her back while looking at Cassie. "So… you can fly too?" she asked. "Looks like the outside world isn't that different from Gensokyo after all! I think I'm going to enjoy this!" Then she flew at Cassie, much to her surprise and her friends.

"She can fly as well?!" asked Raquel in surprise.

Seeing the horned girl flying at her, Cassie flew at her as well, and their fists met with each other with a powerful force that created a shockwave that caused all the light objects around them to fly back into the air. The two then traded punches and kicks in midair violently nonstop.


"Awwww… Man! That's the last time I'm losing to you in Super Path Battler IV!" Malcolm said after losing to Bart on an arcade game.

"Just because I come from an era where video games are far more advanced than the ones now means I don't have skills in them!" Bart said to him.

"More like you used your sense of speed to watch my character's movements in slow motion!" Malcolm said to him. "That's cheating!"

"You just got to adapt to whatever challenge is thrown at you! It's not impossible to beat a speedster, you know!" Bart told him.

People around them started leaving the arcade, and they became curious. "What's happening?" asked Malcolm.

Wally, Conner, and Garfield came up to them, and when Malcolm asked them what was happening, Wally replied, "Looks like something is happening out there."

They followed everyone out of the arcade and all the way to the railing. When they looked down, they could see two figures fighting each other in midair. "What's happening down there?" asked Garfield. "I can't see clearly who they are."

Conner narrowed his eyes for a few seconds and then said, "It's Cassie! She's fighting what appears to be a girl with a pair of horns on her head!"

"A girl with a pair of horns?" Malcolm curiously said.

"She's capable of flying, and she's putting up a good fight against Cassie!" continued Connor. "She's definitely a metahuman!"

"So that's what the ruckus is all about!" said Bart. "Looks interesting! Wanna go down there and get a closer look?"

"We better," suggested Wally. "I have a feeling that we may be needed down there…"


Grabbing her by the neck, Suika pushed Cassie backwards, through the railing, and pinned her onto the floor. The oni pulled one arm into the air and readied to bring down her fist onto Cassie's face, but the latter managed to catch her fist. She removed Suika's arm from her neck and then flung her aside. Before the oni could get back up properly, Cassie approached her at a fast speed and kicked her across the place in the abdomen. The oni crashed through the window of a boutique and knocked down the mannequins in there.

Instead of getting back up with an angry face, however, Suika was grinning. She was actually enjoying this fight. "I'm just getting started!" she said while picking up one of the mannequins, and then she hurled it like a spear at Cassie, who knocked it away with her hand with ease.

Suika ran out of the boutique and jumped in her direction with her arms raised into the air. Cassie jumped back to avoid Suika when she brought down her hands like a hammer, and when the latter's hands hit the floor, a ball of fire shot out and flew in Cassie's direction, but she dodged it.

"You sure are full of surprises!" she commented.

Cassie's friends were still watching from the side, and at the same time, they were making sure that the onlookers wouldn't get involved in those two girls' fight. Despite the chaos those two were causing, not everyone ran for safety. Some wanted to stay behind to see what would be the outcome of this fight.

"At this rate, those two are going to tear down this whole place!" Artemis desperately said. "We have to stop them!"

"I'm not sure if I want to get in between them, seeing how strong they both are…" said Karen.

Suddenly, Bart and Wally dashed into scene at a fast speed, and the latter asked the girls, "What's happening? Who's the girl Cassie is fighting?"

"Wally! You're here!" Megan said to him. "Where are Connor and the others?"

"They're on their way here," Wally told her. "So what's the story here?"

They turned to Cassie and Suika, and Megan told him, "That girl with horns was caught underage drinking, and she attacked those who tried to stop her from doing so."

"Underage drinking and beating up people who won't let her drink? Wow! This takes alcoholism and tantrum throwing to a whole new level!" Bart commented.

"And she's actually able to go toe to toe with Cassie?!" asked Wally. "No wonder nobody tried to stop them!"

"If nobody's going to stop them, I'll do it!" said Bart. "Gotta get into my costume first, though…"

Cassie punched Suika across the face hard, followed by an uppercut to the chin. Suika spun back through the air and landed on both feet perfectly, and then she kicked off against it to launch herself forward and ram Cassie hard in the abdomen with her head. Cassie flipped upside-down before she hit the floor and then performed a somersault to get back on her feet, however, so she never actually hit the floor.

Suika then punched the floor to create cracks on it, and then she picked up a piece of it to throw at Cassie, who got out of the way and went for a nearby pot of plant to pick up and throw at the oni, who shattered it with a single punch.

Suika then felt someone tapping her shoulder, but when she turned around to see who it was, there was nobody. She suddenly felt someone pushing her down by her left horn, and when she looked in that direction, there was nobody again.

Suddenly, someone kicked her in the feet and caused her to fall forward, and then Bart got on top of her and pinned her down by the horns. "I got her!" he shouted. "See? That was…" Before he could finish speaking, Suika quickly got back up and then shook her head violently until he was thrown away. "Whoa!"

Suika looked at Bart, called Impulse when in his crime-fighting alter ego, land, and she said, "You want a piece of me too? I can take on several people at once!" Suddenly, she was caught from behind by Connor. "Hey!"

"This is as far as you go!" Connor said to her. He didn't expect her to be very strong, however, so when Suika tried to get him off by shaking her body, he was thrown away. He quickly got back up and turned to the oni. "You're quite a powerhouse for someone your size! Fine by me! It'll be more fun!"

Connor, also known as Superboy, ran at Suika, and both sides met their fists against each other with a powerful force. When Suika tried to punch his abdomen after that, Superboy surprised her by catching that fist, and then he lifted her over his shoulder and slammed her onto the floor at the back. Superboy then swung her around several times before letting go of her hand and hurling her across the air until she hit the side of the floor above.

CRASH!

Suika got off from the wall and said with a grin, "That's the way I like it!" She pulled back her fist and flew at Superboy. When she was closing in on him, Cassie charged at her from the side and knocked her away. When Suika came to a stop from tumbling against the floor and looked up, she saw Cassie running at her. The latter brought down her fist at her, but Suika jumped into the air and over her. Cassie then spun around and threw a punch at her, but Suika managed to block it with her arm.

When Superboy approached the oni from behind, Suika found herself having to block his attacks and Cassie's. While fighting two people wasn't a problem for Suika, these two people were really strong and skilled, so she found herself in a bit of a pinch. Eventually, she escaped getting assaulted by them by turning into mist, much to their surprise.

Suika moved away from them and then changed only her head back to normal. Looking at those two, she taunted, "Ha! Try to hit me while I'm like this if you can! I bet you can't!" Impulse then showed up and ran around her in circles, his speed gradually increasing. "Hey! What are you doing?!"

As his speed increased, a cyclone started to be formed, and then Suika gradually felt her body of mist being pulled into it. "Whoa! Smart thinking! But not fair! Stop it!" she cried. The oni screamed as the cyclone pulled her in completely, so she found herself spinning in circles really fast.

When Impulse finally stopped running, Suika turned back to normal and walked around in an awkward manner, as she was feeling dizzy from the intense spinning. She unknowingly and uncontrollably walked in Superboy's direction, and he used this opportunity to punch her hard in the abdomen and sent her flying towards a wall that consisted of mostly glass panels. The glass panels shattered when the oni flew into them, and she fell out of the department store and towards the pavement before.

THUD!

Superboy panted heavily, thinking he had won the fight. His friends ran up to him, and Wally said to him, "Dude! This is the third floor, and each of the floors is pretty high! Falling from a height like this is no laughing matter!"

"If she can withstand my punches, and also Cassie's, then I think falling wouldn't hurt her much," Superboy told him. "Also, she can fly, so I'm expecting her to fly back up here any second now."

They waited, but several seconds passed without anything happening. "I think you really got her…" Malcolm said.

They began to approach the broken glass panels to look down below, but suddenly, a giant face rose from behind them, surprising them. "Whoa! What the?!" said Garfield.

BGM: Onigashima in the Fairyland ~ Missing Power (Touhou Strange Battle Music Gaiden)

Suika, now a giant that reached the same floor as them, said in a loud voice, "Not bad! You people are doing a great job giving me a challenge, and I LOVE it! Time for round two! Let's see if you can take on me when I'm this size!" After she was done speaking, the giant oni swung her hand at the glass panels, shattering them all, so the group quickly moved back to avoid getting injured by the flying glass shards.

"She became a giant?! Are you kidding me?!" Artemis asked in shock.

Not giving a single thought about the destruction she was causing, Suika moved into the department store, tearing through the floors of the second and third floors. She brought down her hand onto the group, damaging the fourth floor in the process, but they quickly got out of the way.

"We can't let her go crazy here and destroy this store! We should lure her away from here first!" Megan suggested.

"Then let's get out of here already!" said Malcolm desperately.

"Cassie and I will take on her, while the rest of you get out of here first!" Superboy said to the others. "We'll lure her out of here after that!"

"Sounds like a good idea to me! I've never fought anything this big before, so I'm going to see how I fare against an opponent like this!" Cassie said while cracking her fist.

Superboy and Cassie then ran at Suika, while the others did as the former said and searched for someplace for them to get out. When Suika reached her hand toward Superboy and Cassie, they jumped over it and ran across her arm. Suika swung her arm outside and caused the both of them to fly into the air. Cassie remained floating in the air, while Superboy fell towards the pavement below and landed on his feet, creating cracks on it as a result.

"Well, this happened sooner than expected…" said Cassie, referring to how they managed to divert Suika's attention from the department store.

Suika reached her hand towards Cassie to grab her, but the latter flew out of the way and then continued to avoid getting caught by the giant oni. While this was happening, Superboy ran towards Suika's right leg and performed a relatively high jump at it to punch the kneecap. The oni grunted in pain as she looked down before swinging up her leg to kick Superboy into the air. Cassie quicky flew over to Superboy and caught him by the arms. When Suika closed in on them, Cassie quickly carried Superboy out of the way and then placed him a bit of a distance away from the oni.

Meanwhile, the others managed to make their way out of the department store. Seeing Superboy and Cassie taking on Suika, Megan said to everyone, "All right! Now that we're out here, we can use our powers with lesser restrictions! Let's take her down together!"

"Um… Our costumes? Some of us can't fight without our costumes and weapons…" Raquel reminded her.

"Problem solved!" Zatanna said, and then she raised her arms into the air. "Semutsoc gnithgif-emirc ruo otni egnahc!" Just like that, everyone's attires were magically changed into the costumes they wear when fighting crime.

"Yeah! Awesome! Time to go wild!" said Garfield, AKA "Beast Boy", excitedly.

"Got any strategies?" asked Karen, AKA "Bumblebee", who was now only a few centimeters tall and hovering in the air using the help of her bee suit's wings.

"You know what they say: the bigger they are, the harder they fall!" replied Impulse. "It's going to hurt a lot for her if she falls over!"

"So let's bind her feet and make her fall over!" suggested Wally, AKA "Kid Flash".

"Leave that to me!" Zatanna said before pointing her hands at Suika's legs and chanting a phrase backwards. "Sgel reh dnuora parw dna raeppa niahc a ekam!"

Just like that, a long chain magically appeared out of thin air around Suika's legs and wrapped itself around them. By the time the oni realized this, she found herself on the verge of falling forward. While trying to balance herself, Cassie, AKA "Wonder Girl", punched her in the face and caused her to fall back. However, with fast reaction, the oni reached her hands over her head and performed a handstand. Standing upside-down, she split her legs apart and broke the chain with ease. She then got back on her feet and looked at the group of young superheroes, who were surprised at what she did. "Ha! Your plan didn't work, it seems!" she said.

"She's good…" commented Kid Flash.

"Here I come!" Suika shouted as she jumped at them in an attempt to stomp them, but they quickly scattered in various directions.

Artemis, AKA "Tigress", turned to the giant oni and used her bow to fire arrows at her, but they bounced off her body harmlessly. Suika laughed as she approached Tigress, who continued to fire arrows, despite them doing nothing. Suddenly, Beast Boy, in the form of an eagle, flew in front of Suika's face and flapped his wings and swung his talons against it. The oni cried in annoyance while moving back a couple of steps and flailing her hands at him to get him away. Beast Boy avoided her hand swings, flew above her head, and transformed into an elephant before dropping himself on top of it, hoping to press her down with his weight. It would've worked if he was heavier than her…

Suika shook her head and caused Beast Boy to fly off, and he quickly changed into an eagle again to avoid hitting the ground. Suika turned to her with a look of anger and was going to reach her hand to him when suddenly Megan, AKA "Miss Martian", punched her in the side of the face with an enlarged fist.

POW!

Suika angrily turned to her, but was immediately shot by yellow beams fired at her by Bumblebee. Suika tried to swat her out of the air, but she moved around at a fast speed to avoid getting caught. Miss Martian threw another punch at her face with an enlarge fist, and then Wonder Girl flew into her forehead and punched her back a few steps. Superboy then leaped at her abdomen and shoulder bashed it hard. Raquel, AKA "Rocket", followed up with a punch powered by kinetic energy, hitting her in the face with a powerful force that caused her to spin in a full circle before falling over on her front.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

"Nwod reh dloh tnemevap eht tel!" Zatanna chanted while pointing her arms at the fallen Suika, and then the parts of the pavement around the latter's wrists and ankles came up as strips, went over them, and held her down.

However, this wasn't effective in holding down the oni at all. Suika easily tore her hands from those pavement strips and then pushed herself back, doing the same to the ones holding down her ankles. The superheroes moved back from her in shock, as they thought they had managed to hold her down.

"I'm starting to have enough of you people!" she said in anger. "You think you can beat me through teamwork and such? Don't make me laugh! Oni are the strongest! You can never beat me!"

"She's strong!" commented Malcolm, AKA "the Guardian", in surprise. "How are we going to take her down like this?!"

Suika noticed a truck parked at the side, so she bent down to pick it up and then threw it at Kid Flash, Impulse, and Beast Boy, who were in front of her. They quickly ran back before the truck hit them, and then Suika breathed a stream of fire at the truck. Because the fire came in contact with its oil tank, it exploded.

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

When the truck exploded, several very small pellets flew all over the place, and when some of them fell onto Suika's skin, she screamed in pain and desperately brushed them off, only to feel pain on her hands as well.

One of the pellets hit Superboy's forehead and harmlessly bounced off it. Curious, he picked up the pellet to see what it was that made the giant oni scream in pain. "Bean…?" Then he looked at Suika and saw her looking at the spots on her body that got hit by the beans. Wanting to see if she would react the same way again, he pulled back his hand and then threw with all his might the bean at her arm. This caused her to scream in agony. "She's... weak to beans…?"

Suika glared at Superboy and said, " How dare you throw a roasted bean at me?!" She angrily stomped in his direction, so Superboy quickly picked up another bean that was lying on the pavement and threw it at her. Because of its size, it was very hard for someone her size to see it, and by the time she saw it flying towards her, it was already too late for her to dodge it. The bean hit her nose, and she cried in pain while placing her hands over the latter.

"She's weak to beans!" Superboy shouted to his comrades.

"Weak to beans? Ha! That's probably the most hilarious weakness I've ever seen!" laughed Impulse.

"She's really weak to beans? Let me try, then!" Rocket said before picking up some beans from the ground. Using the help of kinetic energy, she managed to throw them at a speed that rivaled a bullet fired from a gun, and needless to say, it hurt the oni really badly when it hit her shoulder.

Kid Flash ran around the place at a fast speed, picking up all the beans he came across. Once he had a hand full of them, he threw them really fast at Suika while running in circles around her.

"Stop it! Stop it!" Suika shouted while using her arms to defend herself, even though it wasn't helping at all, because her arms were in pain from doing so. She tried to step on the speedster in yellow, but he was moving way too fast to get stepped on.

"Reh kcatta dna rehtegot rehtag snaeb eht lla!" Zatanna chanted as she stretched forth her arms. In doing so, all the beans that were scattered all over the place floated into the air and gathered together. There were so many of them that they became quite a large mass floating in midair when all of them were gathered together, and then they flew towards Suika like a swarm of bees.

The oni screamed in terror before turning to run from the incoming beams. Tigress gave Impulse an arrow that had a rope tied to the back of it and told him to run to the other side and pull it. Understanding her intention, Impulse did just that. They pulled the rope from both sides, and when Suika's leg touched the rope, she started to fall over. The oni flailed her arms at the sides in an attempt to balance herself, but then the beans struck her in the back, making her cry in agony while falling forward on her face for the second time.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

The beans didn't stop there, however. They fell onto her and bounced up and down on various parts of her back. To Suika, it was as if she was getting stung by bees over and over nonstop. "STOP IT! STOP IT! ALL RIGHT! I GIVE UP! JUST GET THOSE BEANS AWAY FROM ME! GET THEM AWAY FROM ME! STOP IT!" she screamed in agony with her hands placed over her head. After screaming that, she started to shrink until she was back to her normal size, and then under Zatanna's command, the beans stopped bouncing on top of her and dropped all around her.

BGM Ends

By this time, the oni was in tears and sniffing, and the superheroes gathered around her. "Well, looks like she learned her lesson," said Kid Flash.

"Can't believe that there would be someone who's scared of beans…" said Tigress.

Suika slowly lifted her head and glared at the ones standing in front of her with an angry face. "Why you…?! I won't forgive you!" she said. She slowly pushed herself back up and continued glaring at them. Suddenly, the Guardian stepped forward and slammed a handful of beans into her face. "YAAAAAAAAAAAA!" With that, the oni fell back and passed out.

"Um… Was that necessary…?" Bumblebee asked him.

"She was showing signs of aggression just now," the Guardian told her. "I picked up some beans just in case something like this happened, and I was right in doing so. Glad I actually did something… Thought I wasn't going to get any part in this whatsoever…"

The group got closer to the passed out Suika, and then Beast Boy asked, "Okay, so what do we do with her?"

"Let's contact the league and tell them about this," Miss Martian suggested. "They know better what to do with people like her."


TO BE CONTINUED

Even though this portrayal of the team from Young Justice is from the TV series, this story does not take place in that universe, Earth-16. Since that is the only version of Young Justice I'm familiar with, I used the character portrayals from there, but since I'm not following the storyline there, Kid Flash is still alive and Artemis is a "blond Tigress", like she said she wanted to be at the end of the series.