Now to continue where I left off so evilly before with the not so long awaited episode ten! Glad to see you all loved the last chapter, despite it being somewhat censored. I've decided to move my fic to the DC Heroes genre. Please note that I was one of TWO authors writing in the Young Justice genre. So give it up for Benjamin236, he does better than I in sticking with the genre!
He Who Rules with an Iron Hoof: Scarface and Two-Face are two different Batman villains. Scarface is a puppet used by a ventriloquist that is homage to Al Capone, his ventriloquist user is a quiet timid man that was formerly held in an insanity ward, while Two-Face is Harvey Dent, former District Attorney of Gotham City, that had been deformed by acid during a case trial against 'The Roman' (Or so I have read). I hope I cleared that up for you.
Question: Should I give Naruto his own opposite arch-nemesis, yea or nay?
Disclaimer: Calling all cars, calling all cars. The author known as Bonesboy15 has struck again, he's stolen the rights to Naruto and Young Justice. Please know that he is unarmed but still dangerous. Proceed with Caution.
Episode 10: Kitsune Begins
-Kitsune's Den, 9:35PM-
"I won't let you!" Kara shouted as she held Kitsune's legs in a death grip. Kitsune groaned and pulled himself along the ground despite his mate clinging to his legs. He instantly regretted telling her he was leaving to save his friend from getting her head blown off as he was pulling his clothes back on. Kara threw a fit to rival a spoilt child, and when he made his way to the door...she threw him over her shoulder and pinned him to the ground with her very superior strength.
"Kara...I've got to go..." Kitsune grunted out as he flicked his knives and used them to pull him along the ground, "He'll kill them!"
"You could get hurt!" the girl argued. Kitsune looked back at her with a slightly shocked look.
"This excuse coming from Supergirl? Man, it really is game over for me then," Kitsune muttered the last part under his breath. He twisted himself over onto his back and, consequently, twisted Kara onto hers. Although surprised by his motives, Kara stayed latched onto his legs.
Kitsune grumbled before an idea came to mind. He looked down at his older mate and said, "Ok, Kara. I have a suggestion."
"Oh?" Kara asked looking back at him.
"You let me go do this real quick," Kitsune started, before continuing he hesitated a moment, "...and I'll go to the Tower and...Ugh, signupfortheLeague."
The last sentence was said in a defeated and quick tone. Kitsune was unsure how he knew that would actually let his mate release him, but he had a strong inkling it would. Kara looked unsure for a moment, but then a smile grew on her face and she pulled herself up to kiss him softly. Kitsune's eyes widened behind his goggles before he relaxed into the kiss. When Kara broke the kiss, she gave Kitsune a look crossed between worry, gratitude and lust.
"I'm going with you," Kara said. Kitsune stuttered for a moment as Kara glared at him. Eventually his own concern for her safety became apparent to him, and he rubbed his brow in annoyance.
Damned fucking Kyuubi genetics... He thought. He stood up and helped Kara to her feet, giving her a defeated look and said, "I'll wait until you're ready. Just...keep a distance, ok?"
-Libya, warzone, ET (Earth Time) 21:45PM-
"We cannot be more grateful for your help, Batman," a rebel warrior said in a thick accent, "Seeing as they have hired Bane, we thought we would be doomed. Yet, here you are with this team of young heroes."
"Just tell us what you want us to do so I can go home," Superboy growled. Aqualad placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Relax, Superboy," the commander of Young Justice said before turning to Batman, "We're all suited up and ready to move out."
Batman nodded, "You're playing espionage, kids. I need you to draw Bane out so I can put this on him."
Batman held a device up and twisted it so the team of teens could view it, "This is an electrical discharge bomb. Implanted on someone, and it's like being hit by four lightning bolts."
"Yeesh, sounds like overkill," Kid Flash muttered with a grimace. Batman narrowed his eyes.
"Bane can easily destroy a brigade of tanks while being fired upon by seven hundred RPG teams and come out without so much as a scratch thanks to this new version of his venom," the Dark Knight said, "Now does my EDB sound like overkill, Kid Flash?"
"No sir!" the fastest kid alive said with a gulp. Robin snickered and looked over at Artemis and Batgirl. The two girls were quiet ever since being pulled from their activities. Robin was concerned for Batgirl because she looked fidgety. She had been ever since that Joker scenario where she got a concussion. Robin swore he was going to knock the smile off that clown's face next time he saw him.
-Gotham Bank 9:45PM-
"So what are you doing back in town, Scarface?" Jinx asked with a hiss, "No way you'd show your wooden mug after what you did last time."
"Shut up doll," Scarface said, waving his Tommy gun at her from his spot, "I was hired see? Got a lot of berries coming my way for giving the Fox kid a dirt nap. You'd better pray that boy shows."
"You're lucky that my parole officer can probably see me or I'd be sending you flying!" Jinx hissed. A gunman standing behind the bound teen backhanded her across the back of the head. No sooner after he did that did a shuriken fly through the glass door and sink into the back of the gunman's head. The body fell forward and landed on the side, his gun firing into a hostage's leg.
Walter jumped back behind the counter, his hand holding Scarface and his hand containing the handgun were aiming at the door. Scarface had his own Tommy gun aimed at the tied up Jinx.
"Nyeh, come on out and show yourself!" Scarface shouted, "Come out or I'll pump the girl full of lead! You have til the count of ten! 1...2..."
The police surrounding the bank were all looking around to see where the projectile had come from. Some officers were scrambling for a spotlight on the roofs and Commissioner Gordon was trying to land his flashlight on the perpetrator he saw run across the rooftops a few minutes ago. As the Commissioner kept scanning the rooftops, Kitsune dropped down onto a parked taxi cab a good block away, creating a nice dent in the vehicle's roof. The alarm, surprisingly, didn't go off.
Jumping forward to the street and clutching his ankle, Kitsune grumbled to his accomplice that flew down to his side, "Remind me never to try that again..."
"Are you ok?" Kara, who was now wearing a tight long sleeved black shirt and dark orange cargo pants that used to belong to Kitsune as well as wearing a spare set of goggles, asked him with concern in her eyes. Kitsune nodded and rolled his ankle before hopping on it experimentally. Having checked and made sure his ankle was fine, he turned to Kara and put his hands on her shoulders.
"Remember what I said," Kitsune said to her with an ordering tone to his voice, "Stay out of the gunshots. You're a new hero, Flamebird, you can get the hostages in and out after I deal with this puppet freak. Or we can just bolt afterwards. It's up to you."
"Just be careful," Kara, or rather, Flamebird said with a pleading tone to her voice. Kitsune nodded and, on a second thought, kissed her softly before running towards the cops, something his internal instincts were screaming for him NOT to do. Flamebird shifted uneasily from one foot to the other before running after him at a human pace.
"Hello Commissioner," Kitsune said as he rushed past the police blockade. Commissioner Gordon whipped his head and flashlight around and grinned. He held his arms up calling for a hold fire and watched as Kitsune suddenly made a duplicate of himself. The duplicate sped up and crashed through the front door while the real one stopped just outside the window.
"Drill him boys!" Scarface shouted as he, Walter, and the other two gunmen started unloading round after round into the duplicate. The second the first pulled entered the clone, it exploded in a large smoke cover.
Kitsune held his side as the memory of the gunshot flashed through his mind. He took a split second to push the feeling aside before leaping into the window through the glass and into the smoke.
"The mug brought another pal along!" a gunman shouted before reverting his aim towards the window.
Kitsune ran through the smoke with his kunai in each hand. He ducked under a barrage of bullets from the gunman with an Uzi and then leapt up when the gunman had to reload. As the gunman put another clip into his Uzi, Kitsune reversed the hold on his kunai and drove them into the gunman's skull. Kitsune turned the body around, using it as a shield, and placed his hand on the arm holding the Uzi. He lifted the arm and snatched the Uzi before firing off a few rounds into the body of the other gunman.
"Well ain't this a yank in the chain?" Scarface said, aiming his Tommy gun at Kitsune while Walter aimed his handgun at the bound Jinx, "What are ya gonna do now, wise guy? Save your friend, or stop the bad guy? It's not like you's can dust me off."
Kitsune grinned behind his meat shield and tossed his Uzi aside. He dropped the dead body to the ground. Walter moved his handgun towards the now 'defenseless' hero. Scarface laughed and Walter allowed a small smirk to appear on his face.
"Dis is what Joker was worried about?" Scarface asked as Walter walked closer to the unarmed Kitsune. With another laugh, Scarface waved his gun towards the ground, "Get on your knees, ya sap, and if ya so much as snap a cap, I'll pump ya full of lead!"
"Nice to see how well that plan is going," Kitsune said as he placed his hands behind his back. The blades in his gloves were reversed and he gripped the handles of the right hidden blade. Walter kept walking closer, his smile growing slightly as he grew slightly bolder.
"I think you've lost your edge, Scarface," Kitsune said with his head bowed, "Because you obviously haven't done your homework."
"Oh really, wise guy?" Scarface asked, as Walter crouched and the puppet put his Tommy gun against the blonde's forehead, "Then why am I the one holding a rod to your skull?"
"Because I needed you to get close," Kitsune whispered. In a flash of movement, his arms flew out, one knocking the puppet away from Walter's hand and the other slicing the wrist of the ventriloquist. Walter dropped his handgun and his small smile dropped. Kitsune snorted and looked over at the puppet.
"Y-Y-You...you Son of a bitch!" Scarface shouted, sounding slightly distant, "I'll...I'll..."
"You'll what?" Kitsune asked with a smirk as he lifted the doll up and ripped the Tommy gun from its wooden hands, "You'll 'pump me full of lead'? You couldn't kill Batman all seventeen times you faced him! What makes you think you'd have lasted against me?"
"Sh-Shut your mug!" the doll shouted. Kitsune shook his head and turned back towards Walter, seeing him trying to crawl towards his revolver. With a flick of his left wrist, a blade imbedded itself into Walter's one usable hand, now disabling it. Walter released a cry of pain and Kitsune looked back at the doll in his hand. With a scowl, Kitsune pulled a lighter out and walked over to Walter, who was whimpering in pain.
"Wall-ter," Kitsune sung out, as he crouched down in front of the pained man. Getting the ventriloquist's attention, Kitsune held the puppet up along with the lighter in his hand, making the timid man go pale.
"You're a smart boy, Walter," Kitsune said as he flicked the lighter open and shut, "I want you to tell me where the money Joker paid you with is."
"Don't be a squealer, Wally!" Scarface shouted. Kitsune cast a glance at the doll and flicked the lighter shut before pocketing it. He then reached down and pulled the blade impaled in Walter's hand out, earning another yelp from the man, before holding it against the puppet's chest.
"You know," Kitsune said, "I've always wanted to have a flute. What do you think, Walter? Would Scarface here make a good flute? He sure seems durable enough."
"...n-no..." Walter whispered with wide eyes. Kitsune's grin grew.
"Oh yes," the blonde said, lightly tracing the suit of the doll with the blade, cutting the fabric, "I'm going to ask you again, and if Scarface here makes one sound. Just one measly sound. Well...I guess I'll start whittling away."
"Don't tell him anything, Wally!" Scarface shouted. Kitsune sighed and looked down at Walter with a disappointed look.
"Not even two seconds," the thief/hero said as he shook his head. He stood and backed away from the ventriloquist and ripped the fabricated suit off the doll. He dragged the edge of his blade against the chest of the wooden doll.
"...no..." Walter tried to shout, but it only came out as a dry whisper. Kitsune arched a brow.
Leaning down and cupping his ear, Kitsune said, "What was that? Speak up, will you?"
"I'll...t-t-talk..." Walter whispered. Kitsune smiled before setting the doll a distance away from the ventriloquist and making another clone by crossing his fingers. Wiping the sweat from his brow, forming a duplicate out of chakra was new to the blonde, Kitsune tossed the clone Scarface.
"If Walter makes any sudden movements, burn it...slowly," Kitsune said to the clone as he tossed it his lighter. The clone nodded and flicked the lighter open and on, making the slightly delirious Walter pale even more. Kitsune clapped his hands in front of the ventriloquist and shouted, "WALTER!"
The timid man jumped and looked at Kitsune with wide eyes. Kitsune narrowed his eyes behind his goggles and crouched back down in front of the puppeteer. Kitsune sheathed his knife and pulled a kunai out, not once taking his eyes off Walter.
"I'm changing tactics, Walter," Kitsune said, "Nod if you understand." Walter nodded slowly, making Kitsune grin, "Good boy. Now, if Scarface so much as makes a peep, I'm cutting something off of you. It won't come back."
Walter nodded as his eyes widened even further. Kitsune grinned slightly and lifted his goggles slightly before saying, "Now tell me where your money is."
-10:15 PM, Outside Gotham Bank-
"So your name is Flamebird?" Gordon asked the new heroine at his left. Flamebird was shifting uneasily from side to side, her eyes not leaving the bank. They could see Kitsune crouched in front of somebody while the hostages sat quietly, all staring in fear of the blonde goggle clad hero, and as a copy of him held a lighter close to the doll that was on the news.
The girl Jinx, Kitsune explained how Jinx was an acquaintance of his (in this sense meaning a former lover) and how he is now her friend, sat in the chair she was still bound in. He also explained that unlike with Flamebird, he and Jinx were not exposed to any pheromones like Naruto and Kara were. Flamebird trusted her mate's knowledge on himself, but not how the bald Indian criminal was now looking at the blonde with glazed eyes. Needless to say, Flamebird was fighting with herself to listen to her mate's orders.
"Flamebird?" Commissioner Gordon asked. Flamebird looked over at the officer with a sheepish grin.
"Sorry, sorry," she said, "Uh, yeah, that's my name. Do you think he's done in there yet?"
Commissioner Gordon looked back in before he started to pale. He turned back to his relaxing teams and shouted, "Get your arms up! Do it! Aim! Take aim!"
The cops scrambled for their weapons and positions taking aim once again. Kitsune was walking towards the window with Walter over his shoulder. With an ungraceful drop to the ground, Kitsune plopped Walter onto the front steps of the bank. He looked around and held the revolver up, firing a single round before tossing the bullet away.
"I want the News cameras on me, NOW!" the blonde hero shouted. Gordon seemed hesitant but the News people were all too eager. Once he was sure the cameras were on him, Kitsune grabbed the head of Walter Wesker, younger and slightly more deranged brother of the deceased Arnold Wesker, and pulled him onto his knees. Kitsune flicked his wrist and his blade was in his hand.
"I know you're watching you sick fucker!" Kitsune shouted as he raised a blade to Walter's throat, "This is my warning to you, Joker! Next time you want me dead; Do it yourself!"
With that said, Kitsune slit the throat of the Ventriloquist Walter Wesker. He shoved the body forward and the cameras followed. The duplicate of Kitsune came up behind him and lit the doll on fire before tossing it onto the dead body of Walter Wesker. The body lit aflame and the duplicate vanished in a poof of smoke.
Flamebird utilized her super speed and reappeared with her arms around Kitsune's chest. Kitsune gasped from the sudden lack of air. Flamebird noticed this and loosened her grip before apologizing. Kitsune smiled and looked over at the aghast Commissioner Gordon. With a grin he said, "I told you Commissioner, I'm no hero."
With that said, he and Flamebird vanished in a swirl of leaves. Commissioner Gordon sent the officers accompanying him into the building to check the hostages, only to find many of them with bullet wounds in their limbs, but nowhere that would be fatal. The Commissioner rubbed his temples and walked over to one of the bound hostages, an Indian girl with a shaved head and dressed in jeans and a green T-shirt while also wearing several amounts of jewelry. Gordon then unbound her arms and legs, steadying her as she stood.
"Tell me what happened," Gordon said to her softly, "Miss? Tell me what you saw."
"Una ām̐khōṁ... Vināśa kē ikā'ī... Asambhava," Jinx muttered with wide eyes. Gordon shook his head and called for a paramedic to help her with the shock. Jinx was then taken away by a paramedic while Gordon pondered her words. He had done his own fair share of time in a Hindu area as a rookie and learned a good amount of Hindi.
"'The Entity of Destruction?' What does that mean?" the commissioner muttered to himself.
-STAR Labs Greenhouse, 10:21 PM-
"And he's started to become heroic? Why that's not so bad, Selena," Pamela said as she rubbed her friend's back. Selena dabbed at her tears with a bio-degradable hanky.
"But what if he goes over to Batman's side?" Selena asked, "What if...what if I have to face him sometime? What if an alien invasion happens again? I don't want to risk losing my son for the planet!"
"Oh sweetie," Pamela said as she hugged her friend, "It's hard seeing your children grow, isn't it? My babies are growing all the time, and dying all the time, but that's aside from the point. Little Naruto will be fine, I'm sure you'll never have to worry about the chance of facing him in a fight. And there is no way that an alien invasion will happen anytime soon."
-Apokalypse Bound, Darkseid's personal Warship, ET 22:25PM-
"My lord," A servant of Darkseid said while on his hands and knees, "We have learned of a source equivalent to your...Omega abilities."
"What?" Darkseid asked as his eyes narrowed, "This is...impossible."
"But Father," Kalibak said from the side of his father's throne, "Wasn't Kal-El the one to defeat you only three Earth years ago?-Ack!"
Darkseid's only warning of his anger was the red flashing of his eyes. Darkseid had enclosed his hand around his son's throat, his eyes narrowing and the Omega Beam within them begging to be let out. The lord of Apokalypse growled threateningly at the boy in his hands, but quickly averted his gaze to the servant on the ground.
"No, please lord! I beg of you-AIIIEE!" the servant attempted to plea his freedom, only managing to infuriate Darkseid further, and thus becoming a victim of his Omega Beam. The charred corpse lie smoking before the seated God, soothing the dark being's anger slightly. Darkseid released his son before backhanding him away.
"Do not mention that infernal Kryptonian to me, Kalibak," Darkseid said as he stood and glared at his son, "It could be your last mistake."
His hacking son rolled to his knees and said, "I *cough cough* apologize Father. It will *cough-cough wheeze cough* never happen again."
"Hn," Darkseid grunted, ignoring the apology, "I wish to know what that fool was speaking of. Activate my All-seeing device."
"Yes lord Darkseid," another servant said, this one a pilot, as he pressed a few buttons on his counsel. A holographic sphere appeared before Darkseid and the lord of Apokalypse pressed his fingertips together as he sat back down. Darkseid narrowed his eyes at the events happening on Earth, watching with amusement as Batman fought against Bane with the teenage heroes of Young Justice. With a wave of his hand, a newscast of Gotham City came on the screen.
"The once local hero of the Joker Hostage situation at Gotham Mall, Kitsune, is now being searched for in a manhunt. In a bizarre twist of events, Kitsune apparently has called out a taunt to the insane Joker while killing off the criminal mastermind known as The Ventriloquist," the newscaster said. Darkseid arched a brow in interest as he watched the footage of Kitsune slicing the throat of the Ventriloquist. A sudden flash of red in the boy's eye came to his attention and Darkseid held his hand up to the sphere.
"What was that?" Darkseid muttered. He rewound the image to the flash of red and enhanced the image ten times to examine the eye. As the eye flashed red, Darkseid's eye widened in shock before settling back to their neutral stare.
"So...the son of Mara relocated himself from Enerji-torpaq..." Darkseid rumbled, "This could be interesting."
-Fox's Den, 10:56PM-
"Kara...Kara!" Naruto shouted, gaining the attention of his lust filled mate. The second they returned to their apartment, Kara had pulled her own goggles off and flung them across the room. She then tackled her fellow blonde to the ground and began kissing him deeply with their door still open.
Kara panted and frowned, "But...Naruto..."
Naruto pulled his goggles off of his head and tossed them on the table. He got back to his feet and helped his mate stand back up, to which she took the wrong way and leapt onto him, wrapping her legs around his hips and her arms around his neck. Naruto had no choice but to catch his energetic mate, lest she fall to the ground. Kissing Kara softly on the lips to put her in a small daze, Naruto then started speaking again.
"We can't keep doing this," Naruto said, "I mean...I still live with Selena."
"Move out," Kara said as she recovered from her daze and started kissing her mate's neck, disappointed by the lack of enthusiasm he was showing. Naruto arched a brow.
"What?" the blonde said. Kara grinned back at him.
"Move out and move in here with me," the heroine said with a grin before resuming her own actions. Naruto pushed aside the arousal he was starting to feel and thought over her suggestion. No WAY he would be allowed to continue his little sexcapades with Kara back at his home, but Naruto was sure that Selena would have a cow if he suddenly moved without talking to her about it. He also knew that unless he managed to blackmail her, which is impossible, she would never agree to let him move away from her home and into an apartment with a girl that was probably two years older than him. Oh yeah, cuz every mother would agree to that plan, Naruto thought as Kara began grinding her hips against his, Mm...Maybe I should think about this later-NO! No, FOCUS! You've got to figure something out before...hey that feels really good...Focus, Naruto, Focus! Ok, well, maybe if I bring Kara with me to talk to Selena...no that just screams bad idea. I wonder if I can make Kara scream again-Gah! Focus, Naruto!
Kara, noticing the reluctance to succumb to her actions on her mate's part, leaned up and whispered into Naruto's ear, "You either move in with me in Gotham, or move in with me on the Watch Tower. Your choice."
Sorry Selena, Naruto thought before he looked down into his mate's mischievous glinting eyes. After a moment, Naruto grinned and kissed Kara deeply while carrying her to the couch. He moved his left hand up and aimed it at the door, sending a large gust of wind towards it and slamming it shut.
The only sounds coming from the apartment for the rest of the night would be screams of pleasure from both of its occupants.
-Watch Tower, ET 23:02PM-
"This is the Watch Tower, eh?" Superboy said in a slightly amazed tone as he walked around with Megan. Megan smiled, happy she managed to convince her crush to join her in a celestial study session with her uncle. They were currently walking towards the main lab where J'onn was researching.
"Yes!" Megan said with an excited nod, "It's so very fun to walk around and interact with the other members of the League."
Superboy arched a brow before looking ahead of him, "Is that so? Huh...I dunno, I guess I could talk to Kara..."
Megan smiled, "Yeah, she's nice. She's the one who saved that village last month right? From the tornado?"
Superboy nodded, "Unlike...well, unlike him, I can talk to Kara. She's...kind of like an older sister."
Megan smiled again, "At least you're getting better at talking to people."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Superboy asked with a glance at the Martian on his left. Megan covered her mouth before bowing.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean that, I mean I did, but not in a bad way!" the Martian girl said in an apologetic tone. Superboy merely arched his brow and gave her a small smile.
"Relax, Megan," Superboy said, "It's ok. I was only kidding."
Megan blinked before smiling and lightly punching the Kryptonian in the arm. They laughed together as they neared the room they were looking for. Opening the door, they came across a surprising sight. J'onn was standing in the center of the room and seemed to be arguing with Superman. Superboy started to back away until Superman spoke.
"What do you mean you don't know where Kara is?" Superman asked with balled fists. Suddenly intrigued, Superboy and Megan walked into the room, both asking what was going on and for Kara's whereabouts. J'onn sighed and activated the Holo-map, hoping to silence the three super powered aliens. The Holo-map zoomed in on Gotham City
"The last known whereabouts we had of Kara Zor-El is here," the Martian Manhunter said as he pointed to the eastern docks of Gotham City, "We also received reports of a large explosion of several Lexicorp Warehouses. That was Kara's last known location. I've tried raising her on her communicator and I can only deduce two things. One; Kara Zor-El has been kidnapped and her transmitter was destroyed. Or two; She was-"
"Don't say it!" Superboy shouted. Megan put a reassuring hand on Superboy's arm and he started to calm down. Superman walked up to Superboy and placed his own hand on the youngest Kryptonian's other shoulder.
"We'll find her, Superboy," Superman said. He turned back to J'onn and said, "I want the news reports, crime scene photos, anything to help us find her."
"I'll look into it," J'onn said with a nod. Superman turned to see Megan leading a distressed Superboy away, trying her hardest to console him without messing up. The Man of Steel sighed before turning back to the Holo-screens displaying several newspaper clippings, news stories, and pictures displaying the area consisting of the Lexicorp Warehouse Bombing as it had been dubbed.
I hope you're safe, Kara, Superman thought as he began looking through the crime scene photos.
AN: The Ventriloquist and Scarface are dead, Joker has been given a warning, and the Kryptonians are now worried for the safety of one of their own. Will Naruto manage to move away from Selena without any problems? How will Superman and Superboy react when Supergirl announces her leaving of the Watch Tower? What is Darkseid's sudden interest in Kitsune? Will Joker react to Kitsune's public warning? When the hell is Batman coming back to Gotham? These questions and more will be answered in Episode 11: Growing Up. R&R Peeps! PEACE.