NU: RedX Rising

by 26-Lord-Pain

AU, Xover, NaruX Find Out . Naruto is betrayed by those closest to him. After stealing the Sacred Scroll he decides to leave the village once and for all and find himself a place to truly belong. An Ancient Jutsu in the Scroll may help Naruto do just that

37. Urban Jungle Pt4

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Naruto Ultimate 3: Red-X Rising...

Chapter 36: Urban Jungle Pt. 4…

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Normal Talking

Normal Thinking

Radio in use

Demon Talking

Demon Thinking

Jutsu in use

Inner Self-Talking

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(??)

Harley happily bobbed her head from side to side with a small smile across her lips. "What a wonderful day, the plants a green, the flowers are all bright and colorful, the city is in ruins as far as the eye can see, and the people are running and screaming in terror… it reminds me of home." Harley said to herself with a sigh while Ivy was grunting and rubbing her temples with an irritated frown.

"Would you please be quiet Harley, I'm picking up something unusual from my babies." Ivy pleaded before grimacing once more as her head started to feel like it was splitting open. Why in the hell were they spreading out so far? She didn't want to totally cover the earth in mutant plants after all. What was the point? It'd be no different than all of humanity destroying her babies themselves.

"Aw, what's da matter Red? Your head hurting ya or somethin?" Harley asked while leaning back with her arms crossed under her head at the odd angle. Yet for the most part Harley was completely comfortable, she had to admit that when Ivy wanted to improve you, she spared no expense!

"Unfortunately yes Harley, my babies seem more and more active, some of them are even growing at a rate I didn't predict… at the rate their going they'll reach the desert outside the city and possibly a freshwater area where they might just start to take permanent root. And if that happens they'll start adapting to a point they won't need my mist to survive, and could grow at an exponential rate." Ivy explained while rubbing her temples and wondering why she always ended up explaining everything to Harley.

"Wait, how are dey doing dat? Your in control a does plants ain't ya?" Harley questioned with a confused expression and Ivy visibly grimaces as the minds of the many plants start talking to one another… THROUGH HER…

"Yes… no… I don't even know anymore. The plants have grown and evolved to such a state that they no longer need me to give them orders… they've gained basic animal instincts and are starting to adapt a will of their own…" Ivy explained and Harley frowned for a moment, keeping her head back while crossing her arms over her chest.

"So, basically what ya saying is dat they're growing up?" Harley questioned and Ivy nodded her head slowly, the analogy seemed to work better than anything she could come up with.

"Yes, and unfortunately their turning out to be very, very rowdy when they get like this." Ivy stated and Harley tilted her head to one side with a confused expression.

"But your Poison Ivy! Surely you can control a little cities worth of giant mutated plants." Harley stated with her arms outstretched and Ivy couldn't help it as she frowned towards her blond friend.

"Harley, I'm not that…" Ivy started to say only for Harley to start on a rant.

"But you're The Personal Assassin of Mother Nature! The Poisonous Princess of The Plant Kingdom! The Bad ass Botanist Bitch! The Felonious Flower of… of… well, er, your Poison Ivy herself! How can you lose control of a few rowdy Plants?" Harley questioned with her arms placed on her hips and Ivy frowned deeply.

"Harley calm down." Ivy ordered flatly, a deadly tone to her voice as the nagging migraine made her even more moody than usual. Seeing the positively furious look on her red haired friends face, Harley instantly fell silent while Ivy grit her teeth and rung her fingers through her hair. "The area of the city is much larger than anything I've ever tried to control before. The amount of plants spread out across the area is so numerous that I'm unable to control more than a few dozen at a time." Ivy started to explain and then grimaced once more when she felt something… big, start trying to speak to the smaller plants around the city.

"Not only that but my babies have grown to a point where they are as alive as you or me, they are even thinking and talking to one another to some small extent… this is why I can no longer control them, they have started to link to one another, unfortunately their using me as a sort of main hub, thus all my migraines recently." Ivy finished explaining to the blond haired clown girl and Harley frowned for a moment.

"Well that ain't good at all. What happens when they decide they don't want me or you here?" Harley questioned and Ivy rolled her eyes for a moment.

"That won't happen Harley. I'm half plant, and encase you've forgotten, your part plant since I changed you." Ivy reminded and Harley blinked before shrugging her shoulders and leaning back further, her spine making a near perfect sideways L.

"I don't even think about that anymore Ivy, my point is, what happens when dose plants don't like the HUMAN dat's still in us?" Harley then questioned with an uncharacteristically serious expression over her face. In response, Ivy suddenly blinked then mulled that over for a moment before shaking her head.

"They won't. Without me they have no way of surviving a prolonged period on their own Harl. So long as they need me, they'll allow me to do as I wish, besides, any that try to attack me would be Childs play to control." Ivy reminded and Harley rubbed her arms worriedly.

"Dat I understand Ivy, what I don't is what happens ta me…" Harley reminds and Ivy frowned once more.

"You just stay close to me and I'll ensure your protected as well Harl, I won't let my babies hurt you." Ivy tells the blond and Harley grins, though it obviously doesn't reach the girl's eyes and Ivy doesn't seem to notice…

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(Sewers…)

"I hate sewers…" Naruto mumbled as he made his way further down the sewers, those behind him in complete agreement with him.

"Stop whining, at least you don't have to walk in this shit…" Batgirl reminded as she and Cyborg trudged through slime, shit and only god knew what else while following the black-clad thief. Said thief shrugged his shoulders, making liberal use of Water Walking so he wouldn't have to walk in the sewer while Supergirl and Raven both floated over the water.

"Man, how do you do this shit? I can somewhat understand you're an elemental type warrior, but to be able to walk on Water? Since when are miracles on a Ninja's list of techniques?" Cyborg asked and Naruto scoffed.

"It's not, Tin head. Believe me when I say that this little trick is most definitely not the work of the divine…" Naruto stated while Raven sighed and flew next to him while giving him a look.

"Be nice, we're actually helping you for once." She reminded and Naruto gave her a look in response.

"No. I'm helping you guys when you've gotten yourself over your heads. Again." The ex-shinobi stated and Raven rolled her eyes while Cy grumbled under his breath. 'Seriously Kara-Chan, I'm starting to see a pattern, you guys get in over your head, I come save you, and once I save your collective asses, The Kid tries to throw me in Jail…' Naruto suddenly says in his mind, Raven picking it up and frowning in thought, truth be told that was actually pretty true…

'Well it could be worse.' She offered and Naruto snapped his head over to her with a raised brow. 'What?' She mentally questioned with a raised brow and Naruto smirked beneath his mask.

'Your being optimistic Kara-Chan, that's new.' He replied and the girl blinked while looking more than a little surprised.

'Wow… your right.' She mused then sighed before giving him a sidelong glare. 'I swear Naruto, you're starting to rub off on me a little too much.' She intoned mock seriously and Naruto rubbed his chin while keeping a look out for any of Ivy's plants.

'I am? Does that mean your rubbing off on me then Kara-Chan?' Naruto wondered and Raven snorted while Cyborg looked between the two with confusion.

'Not possible, my personality is nearly non-existent since I suppress my emotions, yours on the other hand, it's like a Fungus, it sticks to you and just won't let go.' Raven stated playfully and Naruto shrugged his shoulders.

"Man what is up with you two?" Cyborg questioned and Raven blinked before thanking Azar her hood was up to hide her blush.

"Uh, nothing Cyborg." She offered quietly and Naruto nodded his head.

"Yeah tin-man, why? Did it look like something was going on?" Naruto questioned while turning his head to look at the half metal teen.

"Not sure, kind of looked like you were talking or something… but without actually speaking." Cyborg replied simply and Naruto shrugged his shoulders while Raven floated forward a little. Coming to a corner, Naruto held up a hand to signal for the others to stop while he turned and looked around.

"Can't see anything up ahead… man it'd be so much easier to navigate around the plants if we had some kind of a Sonar to track them…" Naruto mumbled to himself and Cyborg slapped his face in realization.

"Give me a minute, I've got one but it needs a few minor tweaks…" The metal teen stated while looking to his left arm and tweaking a few wires while Supergirl flew over to Naruto and looked at him strangely.

"What?" Naruto finally asked and the blond sighed.

"I wanted to say, thanks for sending me out with Wondergirl earlier." Supergirl offered uncomfortably and Naruto raised a brow.

"After the fuss you made I thought you'd be mad at me." Naruto noted and Supergirl nodded her head.

"And your right, I was more than a little mad. But, while we were out I heard someone screaming for help. Donna wasn't able to hear it and we only just made it in time to save a little girl that was trapped in a collapsed building. So, thanks for her." Supergirl explained and Naruto nodded his head.

"That's one of my main reasons I sent you with her, your super hearing and X-ray vision make you a perfect choice for searching for survivors, your strength and ability to fly makes you optimum for rescue. Raven with her Empathic and Telekinetic abilities is as well but she had to take care of Bird-Brain or I would have sent her out with you two also." Naruto offered and Supergirl slowly nodded her head.

"You know a good deal about us and our abilities if you understood who to send out on a mission like that." She mused thoughtfully and Naruto shrugged his shoulders.

"Not really, I know a basic list of abilities and powers for most of you based on the older heroes you guys mirror. Thus Kid-Flash is fast but he's not strong enough to move boulders. Batgirl isn't able to cover the kind of ground you can without a vehicle, nor is she as strong or fast. Starfire is a warrior by nature but wouldn't be able to locate the civilians that were buried, Wondergirl is the same as Star, and Pink-X is more or less just your average thief. I had to be precise in my choices or something really bad could've happened out there, its one of the many things you learn to deal with when you're a leader of a team." Naruto explained and Supergirl shivered slightly.

"If that's what you have to deal with when you're a leader, then you can have it. I'll stick to being a member of the League away from all the crap leaders have to deal with." She muttered and Naruto chuckled lightly to himself. "Still, I wish Superman and the rest of the league wouldn't always treat me like a kid." Supergirl grumbled and Naruto rolled his eyes.

"My advice to you on that matter, is to get used to it. The sooner you learn to stop caring about what others think about you, the sooner you'll find real happiness." Naruto offered smirkingly and Supergirl huffed while Batgirl gave them both looks.

"Hello, can we please focus, we've got a psycho with control of an entire city to beat unless you'd rather Jump-City become Ivy's personal garden." The older red-haired girl reminded and Supergirl grinned nervously before nodding her head.

"Sorry, just needed to say my peace." Supergirl offered while Cyborg finally finished working on his Sonar.

"Alright gang, my Sonar is up and running, we're clear for the next forty or so feet." Cy offered and Naruto nodded his head before making his way down the sewers, followed by Cyborg and Raven while Batgirl and Supergirl were behind them.

"So what were you talking to him about anyways?" Batgirl questioned of her friend and Supergirl shrugged her shoulders.

"Nothing important." She offered and Batgirl shook her head with a smile.

"C'mon Kara, you can tell me." She offered and Supergirl looked at her with a slight grin across her face.

"I was just having a little chat about non-important stuff…" She offered and Batgirl rolled her eyes.

"Right. And you couldn't do that with me why?" Batgirl challenged and Supergirl took a mock thoughtful expression.

"Well for one, your being all serious right now and he's easier to talk too in that department…" Supergirl offered and Batgirl scoffed while crossing her arms over her chest with an annoyed frown.

"Alright, alright, but we're kind of in a very bad situation encase you hadn't noticed." Batgirl reminded and Supergirl nodded her head with a serious expression across her features.

"I know, but sometimes you need to lighten up or the weight of the world will all coming falling down on top of you." Supergirl offered in retort and Batgirl blinked towards her friend in mild shock.

"That was very insightful Kara." She said and Supergirl smirked.

"Hey, I'm older and wiser than I look, though Clark never seems to notice…" Kara offers then mutters under her breath before flying off to keep up with Naruto and the others, Batgirl hanging back for a moment to reflect on the platinum blond girl's words before following after them as well…

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(Jump-City…)

"Alright, now what do we do?" Kid-Flash questioned while looking to the Lex-Corp building apprehensively. The entire building was covered top to bottom in vines, spore pods, barb shooters, and every other kind of plant imaginable, a mist of Poison Gas surrounded it on the street with four massive Flytraps guarding it…

"I'm thinking…" Nightwing replied while trying to figure out a point of entry that wouldn't kill them as well… Obviously, given the very near psychotic level of security, Ivy wasn't taking any chances this time.

"Well think faster, we can't just stand here all night or we'll eventually get spotted." Kid-Flash stated while tapping one foot with a frown, truth be told he just really didn't like holding still for too long, it kind of bored him to tears…

"Please be patient new friend, Robin needs the silence in order to concentrate." Starfire pleaded while Wondergirl looked over the defenses of the building with a thin frown across her face. While not a natural born leader like Nightwing, she was an Amazon, a warrior born and bred for combat, this was her element, not Nightwings. His was protecting a city, and while she could do so as well, her true element and very nature was in combat.

"If we had some kind of distraction, we could fly over to that ledge right there." Wondergirl pointed out and Nightwing looked to Donna before nodding his head.

"Donna's right, that looks like it's the only way we'll be able to get in undetected." Night replied and BB decided to put in his own two cents.

"But dude, where are we going to find a distraction big enough to draw the attention of all those plants?" BB questioned and his companions gave him a look before all five stopped when they heard a sound. "Is that buzzing?" BB asked with one ear upwards and Night nodded his head.

"I know that sound…" Starfire whispered thoughtfully and Wondergirl frowned.

"It sounds like an insects wings, lots of them." The Amazonian girl thought aloud and Nightwing nodded his head in agreement.

"Yeah, like the wings of millions of mutated moths…" Kid-Flash mused aloud and Nightwing blinked.

"That was an oddly accurate example…" He noted and Kid-Flash pointed to the side with a flat expression.

"What example, there's really millions of mutated moths over there." The teen stated and the others quickly looked to where he was pointing, BB and Nightwing gaping while Starfire gasped.

"It is the Killer Moth!" Starfire exclaimed as the said mothman flew closer and closer to the Lex-Corp building.

"ATTACK!" He exclaimed while throwing a clawed hand forward, his mutant moth army quickly flying passed him and attacking the mutant vines around the massive building. Several of the vines began to lash out, the giant mutant moths dodging them before starting to munch on the vines. Shaking and lashing out the vines tried to throw off the creatures, yet it proved futile for them. Dodging and weaving around the flailing vines Killer-Moth himself suddenly dive-bombed the building.

"CHARGE!" He exclaimed while the rest of his Moth-Army followed him, flying straight at the building, Killer-Moth then pulled up at the last second with a few of his Moths following him. As they flew upwards the other moths started to attack the flytraps below, the mutant creatures easily being smart enough not to get into the mouths of the plants. As the moths were doing this Killer Moth slammed a fist into a nearby Dryad as it got too close to him while he was flying up the side of the building.

"Leave none alive! Devour every plant that you see!" Killer-Moth exclaimed to his army as a few Moths broke off from behind him and flew towards the sides each one heading straight for more dryads. Narrowing his compound eyes as he flew upwards Killer-Moth suddenly jerked to the side to evade a vine as it grew out of the side of the building. Keeping on course, Killer-Moth continued flying upwards until finally stopping and slamming his fists into the solid concrete of the building, soon breaking through and then flying into the building as his Moth Army continued to face off against the numerous plants.

"Dude! For some weird old guy that lives in his basement, not to mention is pushed around by his teenaged daughter, he's seriously tough!" BB stated in shock and Nightwing nodded his head in agreement as he watched the mutated man successfully lay siege to the Lex-Corp building… and with only the help of an army of genetically altered insects no less.

"That a big enough distraction for you?" Kid-Flash questioned while still staring at the spectacle and Nightwing sighed while rubbing his face.

"First Ivy and Harley, now Killer Moth as well… it's a whose who of Gotham Villains around here. Not to mention we've got at the very least a dozen of our normal rogues helping us with this problem… ugh… what a day." Nightwing muttered before shaking his head with a frown. "Alright team, lets move out while we still have a chance!" Night ordered before quickly jumping off the side of the building, a pair of wings opening up as he spread his arms and then started to glide towards the ledge Wondergirl had seen.

"You heard the man." Wondergirl stated with an amused smrik while grabbing Kid-Flash and carrying him as she flew off, Starfire flying next to her while BB turned into a Pterodactyl to keep up with the rest of them.

As they were infiltrating the building, Killer-Moth landed inside and looked around, eyes narrowing. "I know you're here Ivy, you can't hide from me." KM stated darkly while looking all around himself.

"Killer-Moth? Is dat you?" A familiar bouncy voice questioned as Harley looked down at the Moth-Man from a ledge. "What da hell happened to ya? Last time I checked you were just some guy in a silly purple costume with a lame as hell silk spitter gun, and delusions of grandeur." Harley noted while tilting her head to one side and Killer-Moth scowled deeply.

"Things and people change Harley, most of us do at least." He stated and Harley shrugged her shoulders disinterestedly.

"Eh, I like how I am just fine, don't really got an interest in slicing my lips open like Mister Jay." Harley stated and then took a far away look as she sighed. "Oh Puddin, I wonder how your doing without your Harley to help ya…" The psychotic blond wondered aloud and Killer-Moth mentally groaned. 'He's probably the happiest man alive right now…' Killer-Moth thought to himself with a thin frown. Even given her great beauty, flexibility, and loyalty, Harley was the single most annoying woman he'd ever had the misfortune of meeting.

"That's nice and all Harley, but where is Ivy, I'm stopping this madness before it gets anymore out of hand!" Killer-Moth states simply and Harley looks at the moth-man with a confused stare.

"Wha… don't you remember da rules Moth-Man, when one of da big cats goes after something, you second strings stay out a da way." Harley said while trying to remind Killer-Moth of an "Unwritten-Rule" back in Gotham.

"Encase you've forgotten Harley, this isn't Gotham, this is MY city! Not The Joker's, not Ivy's, and certainly not yours!" Killer-Moth stated and Harley sighed while flipping up to sit on the ledge, both hands folded under her chin.

"Boy, when did you grow a backbone Moth-man?" She then asked with a tilted head and Killer-Moth gritted his "Teeth" in fury, Harley suddenly noticing it wasn't a mask he was wearing. "Seriously though, what's wit the way you look now? I feel like I'm watching a rerun of that "Moth-Man" movie… what was it called again?" Harley questioned then wondered quietly and Killer-Moth let out a low almost clicking sound as he started to rise up into the air with his wings.

"Ivy's not the only one with Genetic Mutations to help her you know!" Killer-Moth stated before lunging forward and ramming into Harley, knocking her back through a curtain with Killer following after her. Landing on the ground Killer's eyes bolted open as a vine suddenly slammed into him, knocking him back and into a wall. Grunting, Killer-Moth looked up and gritted his teeth when he saw Ivy, setting on a throne made up of numerous different vines.

"So he's the one who's had all those annoying moths attack my babies…" Ivy noted and Killer-Moth narrowed his eyes dangerously.

"And you're the god damned plant bitch whose stupid "Babies" are endangering my little girl!" Killer growled out angrily, Ivy blinking in surprise, while Harley sat up and gaped towards the Moth-Man.

"You have a daughter?!" She demanded loudly and Killer-Moth merely clicked for a moment while glaring at Ivy. "Wow, who knew you was the Family man type?" Harley wondered aloud and Killer-Moth twitched while crouching low, his claws extending slightly as he did so.

"Would you shut the hell up already!?" Killer-Moth demanded and Ivy scowled towards Killer-Moth, a vine launching at him from the side.

"You shouldn't talk to Harley like that." She stated and Killer-Moth merely flipped over the vine then grabbed it with both arms before ripping it out of the wall with his bare hands, then threw it to the side as he continued to make a low clicking sound.

"Whoa, someone got an upgrade." Harley murmured to herself while flipping onto her feet and then stretched out a bit. "Seriously, do you honestly think you can take us both on alone when those five Titan kids couldn't take us together?" Harley questioned and Killer-Moth clicked somewhat louder, Harley figuring it was the equivalent to a growl for the bug man.

"I don't have to stop you, just keep you busy while my army devours Ivy's plants." Killer stated and Ivy growled towards the insect like man.

"Harley, please show Killer-Moth the exit." Ivy questioned and Harley grinned, then rushed over to Ivy and pulled out her duffle bag from behind the plant woman's throne. Pulling her sledgehammer from the bag and leaning it into her shoulder, Killer-Moth looked at her with a blank expression.

"Uh… didn't you used to use a big ass Mallet?" He questioned and Harley snickered into one hand before grinning towards the Moth man.

"Get with the times ol' sport! It's like you said…" Harley started to say in her normal chipper voice then narrowed her eyes dangerously with a monstrous grin. "… things change." She echoed and then flipped forward, still holding onto the sledgehammer before slamming it into Killer-Moth's midriff, sending him flying back into a wall. "Now this is a real fly swatter!" Harley stated while holding her sledgehammer up, Killer-Moth groaning as he pushed himself back to his feet.

"Now I remember why we "Second-String" villains never took the heavy hitters on…" Killer-Moth mumbled before shaking his head, the clicking noise returning as he then reached to his side and lifted a boulder over his head, Harley blinking.

"Wow… I'll give you one thing Moth-Man, you're certainly a helluva lot stronger than ya used ta be…" Harley noted before yelping and ducking out of the way of the boulder as Killer-Moth cracked his neck then lunged forward. Placing her legs under Killer-Moth to hold him back, Harley then jammed her Sledgehammers handle into his mouth and pushed the moth-man back and off of her. "Ha! Eat steel bug for brains!" Harley stated and an odd look crossed Killer-Moth's features before he literally chomped down on the handle of Harley's sledgehammer, easily taking a bite out of it.

"You were saying Quinn!?!" Killer-Moth demanded and Harley looked at her sledgehammer and then the mutant moth man…

"I'm in trouble aren't I…?" She questioned while Killer-Moth merely clicked lightly again then lunged at her with his jaws opened wide…

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(Sewers…)

Naruto turned to look out from behind a corner, frowning when he saw dozens of spore pods in the next room. Unlike the rest of the rooms before it, Cyborg's Sonar hadn't been able to spot the plants within the room. This was more than likely due to the fact the Pods were only growing out of the roof of the room, leaving the floor untouched. 'Shit, now we'll need another detour, this is really getting annoying.' The blond haired ex-Shinobi thought to himself before pulling back slightly when one of the pods started to twitch. Raising a brow, Naruto watched a pale green skinned hand burst out of the pod as another Dryad pulled itself out of the pod before it fell to the ground.

However, unlike the last batch, her skin was smooth with no visible differences between the leaves that made up her skin, the vines that made up her hair were also thinner, appearing somewhat like dozens of braids all falling down to her shoulders. Twitching and stumbling the Dryad pushed itself up, then looked to its hands as its fingers formed sharp claws. Vines then reached up and stated wrapping over it in the same pattern as the one's over Ivy's body, even forming into a pair of panties, bark then grew over it like armor and thorns grew out to finish off the appearance of the Dryad as it was then pulled up through the roof and into the unknown.

"So?" Raven questioned and Naruto sighed while turning to the team he was working with for the moment.

"This way's a no go if we don't want Ivy to notice us, not to mention the Spore Pods double as Dryad Birth Pods now, we need another detour Cy." Naruto explained and Cyborg grunted while checking his Sonar once more.

"Alright, we got one other path we can take without any of Ivy's plants to bug us. Follow me." Cy stated before waving for the others to follow him as he walked down a hall while looking at his Sonar, the others following behind him. Journeying down the sewers the five teens soon came to another open area and Naruto looked around. The room was about the size of a small football field with the walls appearing to have been dug out for more room, water had pooled in the room and was falling down open holes like whirlpools here and there…

"Looks like the coast is clear." He stated and Cy grinned as they walked into a massive circular room, the walls appearing to have been dug out by something…

"What did all this?" Supergirl wondered and Batgirl knelt down when her foot touched something. Reaching into the water with a Grimace, Batgirl them pulled the object out, then yelped when she saw it was a human skull.

"I really don't want to know!" The red head stated and Raven narrowed her eyes then formed black energy in her hand and lifted several objects out of the water, her eyes widening to see dozens of skulls and other bones had littered the bottom of the pool. Now wide eyed, Raven threw all the bones into a pile to the side, her right eye twitching slightly as she got closer to Naruto.

"Shit, this is bad." Naruto murmured before looking over to a very green Cyborg and mentally rolled his eyes. 'Why is it that these kids can't take a few bones? Its not like people don't die everyday…' Naruto wondered to himself before shaking his head and reminding himself that the kids hadn't had to deal with never being able to save someone before… "Cy, you sure nothings down here?" Naruto asked the teen and Cyborg shook his head and started to check his Sonar again, only to stop when slime fell down on him and he slowly looked up with the others.

Eyes widening the teens all saw a massive plant creature wrapped around the entirety of the ceiling like a long coiled up snake. Its body was green like the other plants, only with dozens of thorns poking out along its wooden "Spine", its "skin" unlike with the other plants appeared much rougher with vines twining and coiling beneath it like muscle, its three glowing green eyes were half closed and its mouth was made up of four separate petal like parts with rows of teeth along the edges of each, and finally its tail was tipped with a spiked protrusion of some kind with dozens of sharp needles like a cactus.

"Ah shit. And I hated giant snakes enough to begin with." Naruto mumbled while the "Giant Snake" hissed while slithering down the side of the walls, numerous vines coiling off of its form from behind and attaching to the dir to take full root. Hissing the thing then surrounded them, blocking the exits while Naruto crouched and the others got ready to attack.

"Talk about your Garden-Snakes…" Cy muttered and Naruto smirked slightly before pulling his two Ninjatou from his back and flipped them in a reverse grip.

"So Tin-Man, any ideas for this sucker?" Naruto asked and before Cy could answer Supergirl cracked her knuckles.

"Just leave this to me!" She stated and then flew off as Naruto tried to stop her.

"Shit, what the hell does she think she's doing?" Naruto demanded with wide eyes and Batgirl pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Proving the League was right for one, they treat her like a kid because she does stupid stuff like this…" Batgirl stated while Supergirl flew towards the massive Plant-Snake, only to curse as it opened its mouth, dozens of barbs flying towards her. Batting the thorns away easily, Supergirl then slammed her fists into the Plants head, knocking it to the ground, only to yelp as its tail came from behind and whipped her away. Once Supergirl hit the ground away from the others, places along the Snake's body peeled back to reveal more barb shooters that now surrounded them.

"Shit! Raven, Shield!" Naruto said quickly and Raven instantly did as told when hundreds of barbs came flying at them from all around. Soon the barbs abated and Naruto grit his teeth with narrowed eyes. "We need to deal with the Barb Shooters first and foremost, after that we deal with the main body of the snake." Naruto ordered as the shield came down and then mentally groaned. "I'm going to kick myself for saying this later, but… Titans, GO!" Naruto ordered as he lunged towards the Snake's sides while the others went to separate sides of the massive snake.

Frowning as she got back up, Supergirl looked at the snake as it hissed towards her and cracked her knuckles. "I really hate weeds." She mumbled before slapping her face. "Duh, Heat vision." She muttered before firing the beams of heat towards the Snake, only for the Snake to lunge out of the way as the beam hit the wall near it. This caused some of the roof to fall down where Naruto was, the Ex-Shinobi cursing as he flipped back from the rocks before turning to glare at Supergirl. "Uh, oops." Supergirl muttered with a shrug while Naruto turned back to his job and twisted on his heel, sending a blade of wind out to slice several of the barb spitters.

As he was doing that Batgirl threw several ice capsules at those she was dealing with, freezing them and then throwing Batarangs to shatter them completely. Cyborg took his favorite route as he fired his Sonic Cannon at the plants, tearing them apart instantly. Raven used a much easier method of getting rid of them by forming her normal black energy over and then ripping the barb shooters out of the Snake. Hissing out in pain the Snake suddenly moved, coiling around the room quickly before ending up in a reverse position it had been in, more slots opening along its sides to reveal more Barb Shooters.

"Shit…" Naruto muttered before teleporting to Batgirl as Raven went to Cy and formed a Shield. The Barb-Shooters then began to fire onto the teens, Naruto swinging and spinning his swords while ducking and moving around Batgirl to keep the barbs away from both of them while Raven held up her shield. Supergirl merely batted the barbs away while the Snake hissed towards them. Once the barbs had abated once more, Naruto lunged at the next few Barb-Shooters with the others doing likewise while Supergirl flew towards the head of the snake once more.

Smirking to herself, as she got closer to the Snake she yelped when it opened its mouth and dozens of twining vines wrapped around her. "Dammit, why can't these things just die!?" Supergirl demanded while taking hold of several of the vines and yanking on them, pulling the Snake with her. Turning towards this, Naruto grinned to himself as he saw something unusual on the Snake, a large hole near the base of its neck where five vines were coiling into the ground.

"Hell, I think she actually did something intelligent!" Naruto noted before swinging his sword and severing a few of the vines, the Snake hissing in pain as it thrashed for a moment. Crying out as the Snake thrashed Supergirl held firm as she held the Snake in place, only for it to bite down and sever the vines, causing her to spin backwards. Hissing angrily, the Plant then retracted its vines and dug into the side of the walls, soon vanishing.

"Well, that was easy." Cy noted with a blink and Naruto frowned darkly.

"I don't think its over yet…" He said flatly then cursed as the Snake suddenly came down at them from the roof with its tail placed into the ground to act as its roots. "Shit, I hate it when I'm right!" Naruto exclaimed as the Snake then unleashed a cloud of Poison from its mouth. "Aw man, why us?" Naruto wondered aloud before spinning one of his blades, causing the Poison to flow towards him before he then twisted on one heel and threw the poison to one side.

"Nice." Cy offered as he looked to the teen and Naruto frowned.

"Yeah yeah, now how do we deal with this freaking monster?" Naruto questioned as the girls made their way over to them and looked up at the Snake as it started to convulse and spasm yet again.

"What next?" Raven wondered before the creature spit out several things that bore a disturbing resemblance to plant bulbs.

"Bulbs? Okay, that's new." Naruto noted for a moment, then cursed when the Bulbs sprouted vines that shot at the Snake, attaching to it while they then developed more Vines, these thicker with sharp thorns on them and round cactus like balls at the very tips of the vines…

"Ten to one, those are extremely poisonous…" Cy noted flatly while pointing towards the plant creature and Naruto growled in his throat.

"Is there anything these fucking plants can't adapt too!?!" Naruto demanded angrily and Batgirl rolled her eyes.

"Less complaining, we need to focus." She reminded and Naruto crouched down.

"Supergirl, try and deal with the Snake, we'll handle these Bulbs." Naruto ordered and Supergirl grinned as she flew towards the Snake, Raven smirking slightly.

'You did that to get her out of the way didn't you?' She questioned and Naruto merely rolled his eyes as he lunged forward and dodged around the many poison tipped vines of the bulbs.

'She's more a liability down here than anything else Kara-Chan. She's strong, fast, and tough, but when she's in a group she has to realize the rest of us DO have limits and that we CAN be crushed and killed if she's not careful! She's going to get us all killed with the way she's fighting the crazy Snake!' Naruto replied while flipping over a Bulb and severed its vine while coming down in a crouch and flipping to the side to evade a swing from one of the other bulbs.

'Sounds like she reminds you of yourself.' Raven noted as she formed a shield to block a Bulb and then ripped it from the Snake before tossing it over her shoulder as it started to wilt.

'Maybe just a little, the blue eyed blond haired thing doesn't help the comparison any either. But all that means is I know how to deal with her better than the league, say she's too young or not experienced enough and she'll just barrel in headlong anyways, trick her into thinking she's helping and she won't get in the way.' Naruto noted then explained while ducking under another vine and swinging his Ninjatou up to sever it from the bulb. Nearby, Batgirl was ducking and rolling away from several vines before throwing a few Batarangs, taking out three of the Bulbs instantly while Cy grabbed two of them by their vines and then ripped them from the Snake. Above them, Supergirl was flying around the Snake, dodging its snapping jaws before slamming into its head and grabbing it by its mouths.

"Alright ugly, time for you to get down!" Supergirl growled out while pulling the Snake out from the wall and Naruto jumped onto its back and swung his swords at its head, the Snake crying out in pain as its head split open to show a glowing green core of some kind.

"That's like the core the Pods have! If we take that out the Snake is toast!" Batgirl exclaimed while Naruto was thrown from the back of the Snake when it pulled back into the roof, Supergirl grabbing him out of midair.

"Put. Me. Down." Naruto ordered flatly and Supergirl shrugged with a smirk as she flew back to the ground and Naruto rolled out of her arms and into a low crouch.

"Alright, where is it coming from this time?" Cyborg wondered while looking around then cursed as it came out of the ground before them, hissing and snarling viciously.

"Well, that answers that…" Raven mused flatly and Naruto snorted, honestly how was the girl always so funny?

"Yeah, unfortunately for us it looks more than a little pissed now." Naruto added as an after thought as the Snake started to convulse and spasm once more. "Oh what new hell is this?" He wondered aloud as the Snake started to cough up dozens of the Poison Spores of the pods they normally dealt with into the air.

"Aw hell." Cyborg muttered while Supergirl gaped.

"That could be a problem." She noted and then cursed as the Snake started to spew poison all around its form, forcing the teens to back up. The spores then started to shoot towards them, the group ducking and evading them as the poison started to spread.

"Man, if we don't stop this thing soon we're going to be in some serious trouble!" Cy exclaimed while Naruto nodded his head and then narrowed his eyes on the poison.

"Supergirl, use your superbreath and push the poison away!" Naruto shouted and Super-Girl nodded her head before taking a deep breath and blowing, sending the poison the opposite direction and back into the sewers. Seeing the Snake hiss before starting to convulse, Naruto narrowed his eyes then teleported above the snake. "Alright ugly, this ends now!" Naruto shouted as he sheathed his swords and then fell into the mouth of the Snake. Dodging and weaving around the spores in the Snake, Naruto grinned when he finally spotted the Core of the creature.

"One Thousand Blades Jutsu!" He exclaimed as the thousands of blades suddenly started to spin around him, tearing the Snake apart from the inside out as it cried out and thrashed before starting to wilt. Naruto then teleported out of the snake as it fell to the ground, green goop seeping out of it. Landing in a low crouch Naruto gave off a few panting breaths while staring at the Snake. "I really hate giant snakes…" He grumbled aloud with a hand to his head and Raven floated over to him.

"Yeah, and how many times have they eaten you by know?" She quipped and Naruto grunted seeing an amused smirk grace her features.

"I shouldn't have told you that story…" He muttered while standing up and then looked around as Batgirl looked over the dead plant Snake.

"Alright, this is new even for Ivy." She finally stated and Cyborg frowned.

"The creatures are getting more and more complex right, chances are this is just a tougher version of the Flytraps we have to deal with." Cy noted and Batgirl slowly nodded her head, seeing as that was very likely.

"Either that or the pods." Naruto reminded with a shrug and Gotham's Dark-Angel nodded her head to that as well since it had a Core like a Pod.

"I don't care either way, its dead already so lets just hurry up and stop Ivy." Supergirl stated and Naruto rolled his eyes before motioning for Cy to lead. The Titanium teen nodded his head before checking his sonar and grinned.

"Alright gang, we're really close so lets hurry up and move out!" Cy stated while running off, followed by the rest of the group though Naruto rubbed his chin as he looked at the Snake for a moment longer. 'If their all becoming more complex… what happens when we dump that poison on them?' He wondered to himself then shook his head as he rushed to catch up with the rest of his group…

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(With Harley and Ivy…)

Harley yelped while evading Killer-Moth's claws as the mad mutant moth man came at her with clear fury. 'Guy goes a way for a decade or so, and is suddenly able to beat the hell outa me? How does dat make any sense?' Harley wondered to herself as Killer-Moth opened his wings and flew into the air, ripping a chunk of the roof out before throwing it at the psychotic blond. Flipping and twirling out of the way, Harley looked to see Ivy was grimacing in pain, though choose to ignore it as she tried to deal with their little moth problem.

'I'll give Moth-Man one thing, he's really got guts to take us both on, no brains, but some real guts.' Harley noted as Killer-Moth cried out angrily and flew straight towards her, making a crunching sound before spotting out a bit of silk that wrapped around the girls legs. "What the hell!?" Harley demanded before yelping as Killer-Moth grabbed her with an evil "Grin" across his face.

"Lame Silk Spitter huh?" He reminded with a twitch and Harley chuckled nervously while staring at Killer-Moth's VERY sharp "teeth".

"Uh, c'mon Moth Man, can't you take a joke?" Harley asked meekly and Killer-Moth narrowed his compound eyes on her. All things considered he didn't think that would work, his old "Silk-Spitter-Gun" had long since been taken by Batman for his little collection, adding the genetic mutation to spit silk out himself had just been for old times sakes, he never thought of using it in actual combat like that before.

"No, not really." Killer-Moth stated and Harley grinned nervously before kicking both legs upwards into Killer-Moth's chin and landing on the ground.

"Cripes your stupid, don't ya know not to give ya enemy a chance ta retaliate?" Harley questioned while pulling a knife out of… somewhere, and started to cut the silk away from her legs. An angry clicking was her only response as Killer-Moth narrowed his eyes on the blond and then grinned evily as he crunched down once more and spit several gobs of silk out. These wrapped around Harley's hands before he then lunged forward and grabbed her, carrying her up to the ceiling he spit out another gob and stuck the girl to it before spitting out more around her body, trapping her in a cocoon that only left her head free.

"Why don't you stick around, I'll hang with you later, Harl." Killer-Moth quipped and Harley blinked before suddenly bursting out with laughter.

"Oh that's a good one, Moth-Man! I thought you didn't like Jokes?" Harley exclaimed then demanded while Killer-Moth floated back to the ground where Ivy was looking at him with one eye open.

"Alright Ivy, shows over call off your plants now!" Killer-Moth stated with a low click and Ivy raised a brow before holding a hand forward. "Wha…?" Killer-Moth wondered before cursing as dozens of vines shot out of the ground and wrapped around his body tightly, the Moth-Man clicking angrily as he felt the thorns pierce his flesh. 'God am I happy I made that serum that made me immune to poisons and toxins!' Killer-Moth thought to himself while struggling with the vines wrapping around his form and Ivy smirked towards the mutant moth-man.

"Sorry, but I don't follow orders, I give them." Ivy stated before pointing down, the vines dragging Killer-Moth down as he struggled with their grip. As he cried out and nearly disappeared into the ground a Green T-Rex suddenly bit the vines and started yanking them up, careful of not touching the thorns.

"I don't think so Ivy!" Nightwing stated as he and his team entered the room, Starfire pulling Killer-Moth free and gasping when she saw him bleeding.

"You are injured!" She said in shock and Killer-Moth grunted while BB released the vines and rushed over to the man.

"I'm fine, I heal quickly and I'm immune to poison…" He grumbled while Ivy frowned towards the Titans and then crossed her arms.

"Robin, nice to see you again." Ivy offered sarcastically and Harley blinked before grinning.

"Hi Captain Tweet tweet! I just love the new outfit!" Harley shouted with a wide grin and Kid-Flash snorted as he tried not to laugh while Night twitched angrily. Smirking lightly Ivy then snapped her fingers as several Dryads popped out of the ground and looked towards the Titans darkly.

"Those are new…" Killer-Moth noted while the Titans got ready for a fight, Nightwing pulling out two new Birdarangs and slamming them together to form a broadsword that he held at his side.

"Titans, Go!" He exclaimed while lunging at the Dryads, followed by Starfire and Wondergirl as Kid-Flash zipped forward and kicked one of the Dryads, sending her flying back and snapping the vine she was connected too. As they did this, BB helped Killer-Moth over to a secluded spot to rest while the Moth-Man healed.

"Dude, what were you thinking jumping in here after Ivy and Harley like that? You could have been seriously hurt!" The Green Teen stated and Killer-Moth grunted once more while ducking as a Dryad came their way.

"I was thinking of Kitten. I lived in Gotham for years before I came here, I know how Harley and Ivy fight and I know how they think… unfortunately Ivy beating me was assured, but I did manage to get Harley at the least!" Killer-Moth explained then reminded as they both looked up only to grimace as a few Dryads started to come out of the roof and cut Harley free. "Well shit…" Killer-Moth grumbled as Harley was freed and fell to the ground, a Vine from the side catching her.

"Woo hoo! Lets do that again!" Harley cheered and Ivy rolled her eyes before giving the girl her duffle bag.

"Focus Harl, we have intruders trying to spoil all our fun." Ivy reminded and Harley nodded her head.

"Right, focus, this is me focused!" She stated and then reached into her bag and pulled out what appeared to be a bomb with jokers face on it. "Yo! Wonder-Brat, heads up!" She shouted and Wondergirl blinked while turning to the villainess, then cursed as she flew out of the way of the bomb before it exploded. Watching this Harley laughed to herself while holding her sides, clearly amused by the look on Wondergirls face. Rolling her eyes and turning back to the battle at hand, Ivy held her hands to the sides and pulled inwards, several Vines, Pods, and Shooters coming out of the walls to aide the Dryads.

Running around the room, Kid-Flash cursed as he dodged and weaved around the flailing vines, only to yelp as one of the Dryads kicked his feet out from under him, sending him skidding forward as a Shooter fired several barbs towards him. Wonder-Girl quickly rushed to her friend's aide, blocking the barbs with her bracelets and then grabbing a chunk of rock that she threw at them, crushing them all. Turning to Kid-Flash with a smirk Wondergirl held a hand towards the red head. "Need a hand?" She quipped and Kid-Flash grinned nervously.

"Well, looks like I owe you one." He offered then pushed Wondergirl down as a spore nearly slammed into them both.

"Actually, I think we're even…" Wondergirl stated simply and Kid-Flash nodded his head in agreement. Flying and dodging around the vines, Starfire started to hurl her starbolts at the pods, destroying them quickly while Nightwing frowned as he dealt with the Dryads. Ducking into a low kick he knocked a few off their feet and quickly severed the vines from them, causing them to wilt and die as he looked around to see more crawling up out of the ground.

"They never end…" He muttered before reaching to his belt and placed a mask over his face, a screen rising over his eyes, two extra plates locking over his ears as poison gas started to rise up out of the ground. "Titans, get to higher ground!" The teen exclaimed while firing a grapple to the roof, and Wonder-Girl lifted Kid-Flash.

"Dude, you think you can fly?" BB asked and Killer-Moth opened his wings before picking up the green teen and flying upwards to a ledge before groaning.

"Yeah, just smack Ivy around a few times for me would ya?" Killer-Moth asked and BB blinked.

"Dude… your being nice to me?" He asked and Killer-Moth rolled his eyes.

"Your dating Kitten…" He reminded and BB chuckled nervously. "One thing though, I like you more than her other boyfriends, but if you somehow manage to break her heart, you'll wish I wasn't from Gotham…" Killer-Moth stated darkly as the ominous clicking returned and BB nodded, looking several shades paler than normal.

"Right…" He said meekly while turning around and saw Nightwing land on a nearby ledge as Starfire and the others rushed over to them.

"Friend Beast-Boy are you and the Killer-Moth of the o and k?" Starfire asked and Killer-Moth scratched his head for a moment.

"What the hell did she just ask us?" The Moth-Man asked and BB grinned before turning to Starfire.

"Yeah we're fine Star, Killer-Moth here is just a little banged up." BB offered and Nightwing frowned before looking to the mutant moth man.

"Speaking of which, what are you even doing here?" Nightwing questioned and Killer-Moth gave the teen a flat look.

"You think I want these two psychos here? I moved to Jump-City to get away from nut-cases like them to raise Kitten in a safe environment!" Killer-Moth stated and Nightwing blinked for a moment.

"But your one of those psychos, and you've tried to do something like this before…" He reminded and Killer-Moth muttered something under his breath.

"Yeah, but I know I won't kill Kitten unlike them!" The Moth man reminded and Night gave him that before turning as the Dryads started to crawl up the walls and the vines rose up out of the poison.

"This is so not good." Kid-Flash noted and Nightwing nodded his head.

"Dude, if X was here he could go all tornado and blow the wind away! Or if Raven was here she could do her magic whatsit to get rid of it… or even if Supergirl was…" BB started to rant and Killer-Moth twitched before slapping a hand over the green teen's mouth.

"Word of advice kid, stop talking." Killer-Moth grumbled out and Night smirked slightly before turning back to the oncoming plants. Only for a burst of wind to come from a nearby hole and blow them back into the poison as Naruto kicked a few rocks out of his way as his team entered into the room.

"What the hell… what've you guys been doing up here kid, learning a new way to get your asses handed to you?" Naruto questioned seriously and Nightwing gave him an annoyed look mirrored by Kid-Flash and Wondergirl.

"Shut up." All three stated and Supergirl flew passed the thief before blowing the poison out a few windows, Ivy frowning while Harley gapped.

"Aw hell its Super-Babe… what next?" Harley wondered aloud while Naruto jumped to the ground, followed by both his team and Nightwings. "Skull-Face, what are you doing here?" Harley asked and Naruto gave the blond haired clown a flat look.

"I told you two NOT to destroy my town remember!" He exclaimed and Harley blinked then took a thoughtful expression before chuckling nervously.

"Woops, I kind of forgot, I was havin too much fun ya know." Harley admitted and Naruto slapped his face while muttering under his breath.

"Just goes to show Harl, can't trust anyone these days." Ivy mused and Harley gave her a look.

"Technically red, we broke his trust…" Harley reminded and Ivy blinked then shrugged her shoulders.

"Semantics." She replied while Naruto pulled his swords from his back and narrowed his eyes on the two.

"You girls really don't have any idea who you've pissed off do you?" Naruto asked with a raised brow and Ivy leaned forward with a smirk.

"Another guy in a costume with a lot of toys, what's to know?" Ivy replied and Naruto narrowed his eyes, Harley looking to Ivy nervously.

"Uh, red…" She started to say only for lightning to spark along Naruto's arms.

"Actually no, no I'm not!" Naruto growled out as the lenses of his mask started to glow blood red, Raven widening her eyes as wind spiraled with the lightning over his arms. "So allow me to show you… exactly who you've pissed off!" Naruto finished in a low demonic tone as he then brought his hands together and sent a burst of both wind and lightning shooting towards Harley and Ivy…

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(Elsewhere…)

Gizmo breathed a sigh of relief as he finally put the finishing touches on the poison to take down the plants around the city. "Now to talk to Temp and see where he is…" Gizmo muttered while trying to call his leader, only getting static when he did so. Blinking and looking at his communicator for a moment Gizmo growled before grabbing a different one. "Looks like I have to call Batbabe…" He muttered to himself while calling the red head with the device that had come from Batman's belt… and he'd wanted to save it to crank call Batman too…

"Hello? I'm kind of busy here Batman!" Batgirl said while Gizmo heard the sounds of thunder and static, two very familiar screams and what sounded like a wild animal tearing the place apart.

"This ain't Bat-Breath! I'm Gizmo and I can't get in contact with my leader Red-X." Gizmo stated and waited for a reply as he tapped a pen against one of the three canisters of his poison.

"How the hell are you talking to me?!" Batgirl demanded and Gizmo muttered under his breath before replying.

"Thank X, he swiped Bat-Breaths tech and a communicator was among it. I was actually saving it to make crank calls to the Batcave or something but desperate times call for desperate measures." Gizmo replied simply while inwardly calculating how they would have to go over the city to hit all the plants.

"Crank calls, what are you, five?" Batgirl demanded and Gizmo gritted his teeth and mentally twitched.

"NO SNOT FOR BRAINS! Now shut up and tell me why X isn't picking up." Gizmo stated then demanded as he rubbed his temples only to frown when he heard a very loud explosion.

"Uh, he's busy throwing bolts of lightning at Harley and Ivy…" Batgirl replied and Gizmo blinked before shaking his head.

"Great, he's pissed off. All right, well we're going to be dousing the city with the plant-killer, smell ya later pit sniffer." Gizmo replied while turning off the connection and frowning heavily before taking his own communicator back up. "Yo, Blackfire and Rei, report to the lab I'm going to need you two for this." Gizmo stated and the two appeared through the roof a few moments later, both panting heavily. "Getting rough out there?" Gizmo asked with his head tilted and Dani grit her teeth.

"What's it look like ass wipe?!" She demanded and Gizmo rolled his eyes before pointing to three cylinders before him.

"Look, I don't have all night to explain how I made these or how vital it is that we get every plant. All I'm going to say is that Dani, you take the east side, Blackfire, the west side, and I'll handle everything in between. The green button will release the poison and keep releasing it when you're within the city limits." Gizmo explained flatly while Dani and Blackfire looked to one another then nodded their heads to Gizmo. "Alright then, lets move out girls, and I can't believe I'm actually saying this, we've got a city to save." Gizmo stated then shivered in distaste as he strapped the device to himself then activated his jets. Pressing another button while pulling his goggles down Gizmo flew out of the base through a long tube, followed closely by Blackfire and Dani…

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(Back with the Titans…)

The Lex-Corp building had seen much better days, Harley was certain her life had flashed before her eyes more in the passed few minutes than should be possible. Ivy was beside her, some of her leaves charred from the electrical current that Naruto seemed to generate now. "Red, you seriously need to apologize to Skull-Face!" Harley stated and Ivy gave the clown girl a flat look as her response.

"I only did what any villain would do Harl, even you." She reminded curtly and Harley yelped while pulling her friend behind a boulder.

"Listen Red, unless you wanna be cooked vegetables I suggest you swallow your pride and apologize already!" The girl proclaimed and Ivy frowned before shaking her head, Harley crying comical tears as she grabbed Ivy's shoulders. "Why red?!" She demanded pleadingly and Ivy rolled her eyes before crossing her arms and looking to the nails of her left hand.

"Because he shouldn't have trusted a villainess like me in the first place." She replied and both heard an odd sizzling sound, thus looked up to see the red-eyed Naruto. Harley couldn't help it as she whimpered lowly as the crimson red orbs narrowed onto them both dangerously.

"Thanks, I'll remember that for future reference!" Naruto growled while calling forth his Chakra into his hands, molding it into both wind and lightning before hurling the orbs at Harley and Ivy, the blond clown pulling her friend out of the way. "Would you hold fucking still already?!" Naruto demanded while throwing more bolts of lightning towards the girl, Harley giving him an incredulous expression.

"What do you think I am, Crazy?!" She demanded and Naruto gave her a flat expression.

"Yeah." He admitted and Harley blinked and then shrugged her shoulders.

"True, but I'm not THAT crazy!" Harley retorted before yelping and running as the furious blond came at them once more. If one looked around they might notice the distinct lack of one, Killer-Moth, who had actually escaped during the insanity caused by Naruto and the many plants around the building…

Said Moth-Man was actually scaling the side of the building, using the insanity inside to get at Ivy's Mister while she was distracted. 'Distracted? More like fighting for her life… that kid is like Batman with demonic powers right now…' Killer-Moth thought to himself before shivering at the thought of such a thing. Looking to either side and seeing streams of energy followed by an odd mist, Killer-Moth grinned as he figure someone had thought to make a plant killer. Blinking as he wondered why he hadn't thought of that himself, the moth man pulled himself to the top of the building and then grinned when he saw the Mister, strapped to the side of it.

"Finally, now to finally end this nightmare…" He muttered to himself while walking over to the Mister. However he then stopped and looked around, half expecting something to pop up. Shrugging, the moth-man walked over to the Mister and then reared a fist back before slamming it into the device. The mister sparked wildly for a few moments before sizzling out, the green mist stopping as he did. Blinking, Killer-Moth looked around once more before scratching his head when nothing came out and attacked him this time either.

"Nothings… happening?" He wondered while feeling almost cheated in a way, and then decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Opening his wings the Mutated-Moth-Man flew into the air, leaving the Titans and his Moth-Army to deal with the remaining plants around the building…

Meanwhile back inside, Starfire flew out of the way of another vine then yelped as a stray bolt of lightning very nearly got her from the side. 'I believe the Red-X is most displeased…' Starfire thought to herself while then ducking towards the ground and picking BB up before a Dryad got him from behind. "Dude! X has gone totally mental!" BB exclaimed while Starfire mentally agreed with her friend, carrying him to a safe place to touch down.

As she did, Kid-Flash rushed across the room, pulling the vines from the Dryads with his speed while trying to evade the poisonous vines. Flipping over some barbs and then cursing as he put on the brakes and ran as Naruto slammed a fist into the ground nearby, shattering a portion of the floor. Coming to a stop and gaping at the black clad teen Kid-Flash shook his head. "Since when was he the son of Zeus?" Kid-Flash asked only half seriously while Wondergirl flew over and pulled him to the ground, a Vine lashing out above them.

"He's not, Zeus's son's rarely had the ability to hurl bolts of lightning like this." The Amazonian girl stated simply and Kid-Flash slapped his face.

"I wasn't being serious Donna." He stated and the girl made an oh with her mouth before pulling him with her as she rolled out of the way of several barbs. "We can't keep up like this." He then said and Wondergirl gave him an incredulous look.

"Are you actually getting tired?" She questioned and Kid-Flash rolled his eyes before giving her a flat look.

"No, I mean we can't keep up like this because while I do love this position, it's not exactly helping us survive at the moment." Kid-Flash stated and Wondergirl blinked before finally realizing she was practically on top of him and quickly got up and helped him to his feet.

"Sorry Bart." She offered and Kid-Flash waved it off only to push her out of the way and zip off as a Dryad with flailing vines coming out of her back lunged at them.

Elsewhere Nightwing flipped over a vine while forming a sword from one of his birdarangs. Holding the weapon he swung it, slicing the vine in half before landing in a low crouch. Narrowing his eyes the teen then held out a second birdarang and twisted it in his hands, it forming into a swords as well. Holding both blades in his hands, Night lunged forwards, evading several barbs from Shooter Plants before swinging his blades and cutting a vine in half. Rolling into a crouch, Night then used his swords to block several more barbs before rolling to the side as a Dryad came at him.

Twisting on the ground and slicing upwards, the former boy wonder cut the vine from its back. Flipping to the side to evade a spore from a pod, Night then twisted one blade in hand before lunging at it and slamming his hand into the pod, ripping the core out soon after. Leaning back quickly to evade as a flytrap tried to snap its jaws around him, Night then swung both of his blades to cut it from its body. Twisting into a cartwheel to the side to evade, Night then swung his blades into two Dryads, disorientating them before he then brought them forward and up, slicing through their vines easily…

"Not bad…" Batgirl noted as she flipped off of a vine and landed next to her old partner. "But when did you get so good with a blade?" She asked seriously and Night smirked beneath his gasmask before answering.

"I've been training myself since X started using a sword. Never thought it'd come in handy in other battles, though I have to admit it's a pleasant surprise." Night replied before he and Batgirl turned as another Flytrap came towards them. "I'll handle this…" Night stated while flipping back and away from the trap. Landing in a crouch the teen then lunged forward, his swords tip down to the ground and grinding along it, sparking as he then jumped up onto a vine and then into the air. Throwing his swords up into the air, Night then quickly pulled eight Exploding-Disks from his belt and held them between the fingers of each hand.

Quickly throwing the disks at the massive plant he watched as each of the razor edged disks dug into the stalk of the plant. Soon finished, Night flipped in the air to evade a flailing tentacle before catching his swords mid-fall. Twirling one blade in hand, Night then threw it straight for the flytrap, the weapon connecting with one of the exploding disks before setting it off. Flipping backwards and landing on the ground in a sliding crouch. Night then held his hand to the side to catch his other blade and twisted around from the momentum of the blade…

"Wow…" Batgirl stated and Nightwing chuckled while leaning his two blades into his shoulders.

"X isn't the only one who's learning new tricks…" Night stated before turning and rushing back into the thick of battle.

"No, no he's not…" Batgirl mused before following after one of her oldest friends and lunging into the fray by his side.

As they were doing that, Cyborg and Raven were with Supergirl as they tried to stop the flytraps that were suddenly growing out of the ground. "Man why did Temp have to go ape shit now of all times?" Cyborg demanded loudly and Raven frowned while forming her energy over one flytrap, then gritted her teeth as she ripped it out of the ground and threw it into one of the others. Breathing into her bangs the girl then turned to give a slightly dull look to Cyborg.

"Bad luck. Karma. The universe hates us…" Raven then offered with a shrug and Cyborg groaned under his breath, why did she always have to do that.

"Would you both stop talking, we're here to stop these stupid plants, not play twenty questions." Supergirl reminded while Wondergirl flew passed her and then threw a lasso over one of the flytraps.

"Kara!" The girl then exclaimed and Supergirl grabbed the golden rope with Wondergirl and both heaved on it. Pulling they soon ripped the flytrap out of the ground before moving on to the next one as Cyborg and Raven turned to see more of the Snakes from earlier making their way up through the floor.

"Aw hell…" Cy muttered to himself and Raven grimaced as well.

"Just when you think things couldn't possibly get any worse." Raven intoned flatly with her head tilted to one side and Cyborg nodded his head in agreement with the gray skinned girl.

"We're going to need some major help with all these plants…" Cy noted and Raven nodded her head in agreement, turning her head to see Naruto had finally stopped hurling bolts of lightning, she grimaced seeing he now had his swords out.

"Well we're also going to need a shoe-box for whatever he leaves left of those two." Raven noted and Cy snorted before shaking his head and lunging at a pair of Dryads, slamming into them and quickly ripping the vines from their backs. Sighing, Raven began floating into the air and off to battle as well.

Back with Naruto, the said blond was never this angry in all his life; these two idiots had officially pissed him off worse than Orochimaru ever could. It was only sheer willpower that kept the Kyuubi's cloak from forming at this point, sheer will and the fact he really didn't need it for them. Roaring out the blond teen suddenly teleported appearing above Harley and Ivy and bringing his swords down, only for Batgirl and Nightwing to block his strike.

"Out of my way kid, those two need to learn a lesson about not messing with someone else's town!" Naruto growled out angrily and Nightwing grunted while holding the furious thief back.

"Yes, yes they do. But not from you, X." Night responded and Naruto gave a low guttural growl towards the other teen.

"Big mistake." He rumbled before twisting down and knocked the two heroes off their feet and flipped over them. Roaring out he brought down both of his blades on the girls, planting them less that an inch from impaling their heads. "Alright you little bitches…" Naruto growled out while leaning down towards both of them, said girls hugging one another for dear life. "I'm only giving you ONE more chance, but if you fuck with my city ever again, I swear to all that is sacred and holy in the world I will hunt you down, find you, kill you, and then bring you back to do it all over again, clone you, then kill the fucking clones as well! You got me?" Naruto demanded angrily and both girls nodded their heads rapidly.

However as that was happening the man plants around the building began to thrash, the Dryads screaming in pain. "Oh what new hell is this?" Night wondered aloud while Naruto looked all around and Ivy grabbed her head, pain visible in her eyes.

"Stop! Stop! It hurts! It hurts! Please make it stop, please make it stop!" She started screaming and Naruto blinked.

"But I haven't touched her… that much." Naruto mumbled to himself and Harley looked at Ivy before feeling the ground shake and shudder. "Alright what the hell is going on around here?" Naruto demanded while pulling his swords up and then looked all around as the other Titans shrugged their shoulders. Seconds later Naruto got a call and placed his hands to his ear to answer it.

"SHIT! Temp we have a major problem out here!" Gizmo shouted and Naruto frowned as he walked away from Harley and Ivy.

"What's going on Giz, Ivy's twitching and shaking like she's dieing or something?" Naruto questioned of the tiny terror and Gizmo took a few quick breaths, the sounds of missiles flying coming from the background.

"Well you remember that poison I made to get rid of all the plants?" Gizmo questioned and Naruto slowly nodded his head. "Well it worked, all the plants that we doused with the stuff have started to wither and die… problem is the rest are already starting to try and adapt to the shit…" Gizmo mumbled and Naruto's eyes narrowed while turning a brighter red.

"Would you get to the point already Gizmo?" Naruto demanded angrily and Giz sighed for a moment before replying.

"Just look out the window…" He stated before cutting the transmission and Naruto blinked before walking to the window then widened his eyes.

"Oh shit…" He mumbled then cursed as giant vines tore through the building at all sides, wrapping around and then seeming to absorb the other plant creatures into itself.

"Aw hell what's going on now?!" Cyborg demanded and Naruto braced himself while looking around and then gritting his fanged teeth.

"Gizmo's poison worked, unfortunately the survivors are pissed off!" The teen exclaimed while rolling out of the way as some… THING started to rip its way through the building a vine grabbing Ivy as it rose up.

"Red!" Harley said in shock only for a pod to enclose on her soon after and lift her into the air.

"Harley! Ivy! What the hell is going on?" Batgirl demanded before crying out as a vine grabbed her.

"Barbara!" Night shouted then cursed while evading a vine himself. The other vines then started grabbing the other Titans while Naruto and Nightwing both flipped out of the building, Raven captured last as the two teens fell towards the ground. Meanwhile the many mutant moths that had been attacking the building earlier were now being crushed and killed by the plants as they continued to rise up higher and higher into the air. "Got any ideas, X?" Nightwing demanded and Naruto narrowed his eyes before holding a hand towards the boy.

"Only one! Take my hand and trust me!" Naruto exclaimed and Night look at him incredulously. "If you don't your dead anyways!" The blond reminded loudly and Night grabbed Naruto's hand as he used a quick Shunshin to teleport onto the roof of a nearby building. Grunting and pushing himself up, Naruto gaped as he saw what they were now facing, Night voicing his own thoughts.

"Oh crap…" Nightwing mumbled and Naruto nodded his head mutely, eyes wide.

The creature was made up of hundreds of different kinds of plants and other vegetation. Spikes visibly formed along its spine, "arms" which appeared more like very long vine-like roots growing from where its shoulders would be, and the back of its head, its mouth was five flower petals of some kind with teeth lining the sides and folding together into an almost beak shape, its head was distinctly lizard like somehow with three glowing green eyes, its massive arms were made up of hundreds of small vines, barb shooters visible at its shoulders with spore pods down the length of its back. Rather than one vine serving as the root for this beast it had hundreds of vines arched into the ground to act as its roots, bark formed along most of its body like armor, giving it a distinctly dragonish appearance…

"Now that could be a big problem." Naruto noted before zooming in on the creature's throat, then felt disgust well up within him. Within the creatures throat was Ivy, vines wrapped around her and coiling like snakes over her body, strange thorns were dug into her and glowing green blood was pulled out of her and into the creature threw translucent vines.

"It's vampirizing her… using her blood to stay alive." Nightwing said with no small amount of disgust as he zoomed away from the disgusting scene.

"Why? She's it's mother, why would it do this to her?" Naruto questioned incredulously and Nightwing snorted.

"If it allows her "Babies" to survive, I'd say she's allowing them to do it to her." Night replied and Naruto remembered the girl was certifiably insane. "The real problem lies with those pods on its arms." Night then said while zooming in on them, Naruto doing the same and growling low in his throat upon seeing the Titans held within them, those leading to the beast's chest where Harley was stationed in a pod as well.

"What the hell?!" Naruto demanded and Night frowned.

"It must be using the others as a sort of shield to ensure no one tries anything against it." Night mused and Naruto grit his and gripped his swords hilts tightly.

"I'm going to make this thing into mulch for this!" Naruto growled out and Nightwing leaned his broadsword into his shoulder.

"Get in line, X." Nightwing stated and Naruto narrowed his eyes on the teen before spotting Raven on the things right arm.

"I'll take the right arm you take the left, we free the others then figure out some way to take it down that doesn't include nuclear weapons." Naruto stated and Nightwing frowned in thought for a moment before nodding his head in agreement with the blond haired ex-shinobi.

"Agreed. But this is a one-time thing X. Don't get too used to it." Nightwing quipped and Naruto looked at the teen with a raised brow and a cocky smirk suddenly crossing his lips.

"That's my line." Naruto stated before both then turned and lunged towards the creature, Naruto teleporting as Nightwing used his wings to fly over. Landing on the right arm of the creature the blond haired ex-Shinobi quickly formed two shadow clones and sent them to either direction away from the creature. Smirking slightly Naruto then lunged up the length of the arm, several barb-shooters suddenly popping up and firing at the blond. Smirking as he ran forward he blocked with his twin Ninjatou, he soon came towards the first of the "People-Pods" he sliced it open and caught Raven.

"Eww…" She grumbled in an annoyed monotone, covered in a sticky green goop while Naruto continued running up the length of the creatures arm.

"It's really great to see you again Kara-Chan, but we kind of have a situation here." Naruto Stated flatly while motioning up the side of the creatures arm, Raven raising a brow before using her powers to float next to the blond Ex-Shinobi.

On the other arm of the creature, Night flipped and evaded the many barbs the creature was hurling towards him. Flipping back to his feet soon after the teen threw a birdarang at the first of the People-Pods on his own arm, Starfire falling out only for him to catch her. "You okay?" Nightwing questioned softly and Starfire blinked before smiling up at her friend.

"I am now." She whispered and Night smiled before looking back up the length of the creatures arm.

"The others are still trapped Starfire, let's get to work." Nightwing stated and Starfire nodded her head, flying beside of Nightwing as they went further up the length of the creature's arms.

Back on the other side, Naruto and Raven were just coming to the next pods, Raven slicing this one open with her powers and caught Kid-Flash from it. Catching the boy with her powers she watched him shake his head before grinning up at her. "Thanks for the save…" Kid-Flash said and then rubbed his chin. "You know if your free later maybe we could…" He started to say and Raven frowned.

"I have a boyfriend." She stated flatly and Kid-Flash blinked before he then playfully snapped his fingers.

"Aw man, all the cute girls always do don't they." He mused aloud while Naruto ignored the red head; soon coming on the next pod he sliced it open, grabbing Beast-Boy by his leg.

"Dude, talk about weird… and man why do we always get covered in the slimiest, grossest, most disgusting shit in the world?" BB wondered to himself as they continued up the side of the plant's arms.

"Complain later, we have a job to do right now." Naruto rumbled out at the green teen and BB nodded before changing into a pterodactyl and flying with the others, Kid-Flash hopping onto his feet and rushing up the side of the arm with them…

Back on the other arm, Nightwing and Starfire came to the next pod as well, Starfire using her eyebeams to free Wondergirl and catch her. "Ugh… by Hera this is the most disgusting thing I've ever had the misfortune of encountering…" Wondergirl muttered while flinging a string of green slime from her body.

"Welcome to our world." Nightwing offered with a smirk before throwing a birdarang at the next pod, Cyborg falling out of it. "Star, Donna, Heads up!" Night called and Wondergirl shot out of Starfires arms and grabbed the metal man by his underarms.

"Ugh… man, I'm seriously going to need a shower after all of this." Cyborg muttered while getting mental agreements from both Wondergirl and Starfire. "What's the situation here Rob?" Cy then asked as he looked to his leader and the said boy pointed to where Naruto and his group were running up their arm.

"We're going to free everyone then finish this plant off once and for all." Night stated and Cy looked at the sheer size of the plant and gaped.

"How short of a nuclear device do you plan on accomplishing this task?" Cy asked mockingly and Nightwing twitched slightly.

"I'm still working that one out." Night admitted as they continued up the sides of the massive plant, soon coming towards the vines on its shoulders…

Meanwhile, Naruto and his group were coming towards their last pod, Naruto swinging his swords and slicing the many vines out of their way as they went. "Dude! You're a plant killing machine!" BB exclaimed as he landed next to Kid-Flash and tried to keep up, only for Raven to pick him up with a black platform.

"Why did you change back?" Kid-Flash questioned and BB grinned nervously.

"Uh… my arms got tired." He admitted and Kid-Flash burst out laughing before grinning towards the green teen.

"You and me will get along just fine!" He decided before rushing forward as BB gaped then grinned.

"Dude! Someone else who thinks I'm funny!" BB exclaimed and Raven rolled her eyes.

"Wow, it really is the end of the world." She mused and got a glare from BB for the barb while Naruto swung his sword at the last pod, Kid-Flash scooping up Batgirl as she spit out some of the green slime.

"Nobody say a word." The girl grumbled angrily and the others decided to take the red heads advice given how she appeared ready to kill someone. "Where are Harley and Ivy?" Batgirl asked while turning her head as the rushed towards the throat of the massive plant creature.

"Just up ahead, everyone prepare yourselves!" Naruto stated and the group got ready, Batgirl flipping back and onto one of Raven's black platforms, as they got closer to Harley and Ivy.

Meanwhile back with Robin and the rest of his group they spotted the last captured Titan and Night threw a batarang at it, Starfire catching Supergirl as she fell out of the pod and twitched. "I officially hate vegetables." She grumbled out before pushing away from Starfire and flying next to the Titans as they continued towards the neck of the creature. "So what now?" She asked and Nightwing frowned for a moment.

"First we get Harley and Ivy free, then we can worry about taking this thing down." Nightwing replied while Cyborg sighed in exasperation.

"In other words he has no idea…" Cy offered with a smirk and Night gave the titanium teen a look while Supergirl giggled into one hand. Coming closer to the massive plant's throat, Nightwing looked to Supergirl and held out a hand.

"Kara!" He shouted and Supergirl grabbed his arm before twisting and throwing the black clad teen towards Harley. Meanwhile on the other side, Naruto smirked, thus deciding not to let the kid outdo him he turned his head.

"Raven!" He called out and the girl made a black wall, Naruto hopping back onto it and then launching himself towards Harley as well. Naruto and Nightwing then both threw a weapon towards the girl, cutting the pod while Naruto teleported to Harley and then threw her up to Nightwing. Catching Harley, Night fired a grapple and swung back over to his team while Naruto teleported to rest before Ivy.

"I know you seriously love your plants Ivy, but this is really not a good place to be." Naruto murmured only to curse as some form of biological shell formed over Ivy's form. Slamming his hands into it, Naruto growled low in his throat before chuckling darkly, taking three explosive tags he placed them onto the shell and then fell back. "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" He cried out and the other Titans began running away as the blond haired Ex-Shinobi grinned beneath his mask. "BOOM!" Naruto exclaimed with a laugh as the explosive notes went off the plant beast roaring out in pain while Ivy fell, only for him to Teleport and quickly grab her. Teleporting away the blond sat Ivy down on the rooftop from before while the Titans landed nearby.

"Well, everyone's safe, but we've still got to take care of that thing." Cyborg noted and Naruto chuckled in his throat while walking forward.

"Don't worry too much kids, I've got this one handled." Naruto stated while walking passed them and then took a quick breath. "Alright boys, time to really bring the house down!" Naruto stated to himself as he dispelled one of his clones from earlier, feeling a surge of energy flow through his body before narrowing his eyes dangerously. "SENJUTSU: SENNIN MODO!! (Sage Art: Sage-Mode!!)" Naruto exclaimed as Raven felt a burst of pure power suddenly start to flow off of Naruto's body while he looked up at the massive plant, then teleported into the air.

Grunting as he got into the air part of the right side of his helmet blew apart exposing one of his eyes to the world. Opening the eye to show a golden iris with a horizontal slit for a pupil and red markings around them Naruto narrowed his eyes dangerously as the lens for his other eye turned pitch black. 'Alright, time to finish this baby with one hell of a bang!' Naruto thought to himself while his suit started to heat up, what was once black turning white while his coat armor and sword remained the only black on him, the X on his mask and chest glowing brightly.

Lunging down at the plant he watched as it suddenly spit up a poison cloud at him and mentally scoffed. Sheathing his swords the blond twisted into a wave of his hands, the resulting wind he created blowing all of the poison away instantly and partly knocked the plant beast down. 'Whoa, I must've really gotten stronger if Sage-Mode does this to my Wind-Chakra-Manipulation!' Naruto thought to himself before bracing his arms against his sides while the plant fired dozens of barbs at the blond haired youth.

Chuckling to himself, the blond twisted and dodged the barbs, the edges of his coat being torn by stray barbs. Grinning to himself the blond then continued on his downward assent towards the creature as it roared out at him, a long snake like tongue coming at him, complete with head and jaws, and snapping its own jaws tight over him. Grinning beneath his mask the blond then formed chakra around his body while closing his eyes. "Senjutsu: One-Million-Blades Jutsu!" The blond called out loudly as a sphere of highly condensed blades of wind wrapped around his body.

Instantly the head of the Snake like tongue was torn apart from the inside out right down to its molecules. The main Plant-Beast roared out in pain as he did, the blond flipping in midair to look down on it as it pulled its tongue back into its mouth. Falling ever closer to the plant, Naruto felt a wide grin start to split across his face while holding his hands out to slow his decent.

"C'mon, Smile ugly!" Naruto exclaimed loudly with a wide grin over his face and the plant roared out at him angrily. Lashing out with hundreds of vines towards the blond, the plant could only watch on as Naruto pulled his swords from his back and started to swing them into the many vines, slicing and dicing his way through the vines easily, soon passing them and drawing ever closer to the enormous plant. Grunting as he felt his power start to wane a bit, Naruto shook his head and narrowed his eyes.

'Alright, time for a quick charge…' Naruto thought while dispelling his last clone, another burst of pure Natural Energy flowing into his body as the X on his mask started to glow even brighter than ever. Quickly sheathing his blades the blond then created two clones, one at each of his sides as they looked around before turning to the original, one grinning under his mask while the other looked wide eyed towards him.

"Aw shit, we're going to be using THAT Jutsu aren't we?" One asked and Naruto chuckled deviously while the other clone started whooping in jubilation.

"Alright Bossu! Lets teach this oversized weed just who's the boss around here!" It exclaimed and both the other clone and the original looked to it. "What?" He asked them curiously and Naruto looked to his other clone.

"Why does he act like we did back when we were a Dobe?" Naruto questioned seriously and the other one shrugged before all three started looking down. "Alright boys, no more time for chitchat, lets finish this thing off once and for all!" Naruto called out while holding his hands to the sides, each clone moving and forming a swirling mass of wind into their hands as he did the same.

"Senjutsu! Fuuton: Odama Rasengan! (Sage Art! Wind-Release: Great Ball Spiraling Sphere!)" The clones and Naruto said at the same time and then placed their hands over Naruto's as he looked down at the plant beast. 'Alright, now its time for an Uzumaki Naruto Original!' Naruto thought to himself before he and the clones merged the three Rasengan's into one massive one.

"Senjutsu! Fuuton: Cho Odama Raserengan! (Sage-Art! Wind-Release: Big Great Ball Spiraling Group Sphere!)" Naruto exclaimed as he and the clones slammed the attack into the mouth of the massive plant. "Open wide!" Naruto shouted over the wind as he and the clones slammed the massive sphere into the mouth of the creature, blown back by a sudden gust of wind once they were. Flying into the air, Naruto watched as the massive sphere of Chakra seemed stuck in the creature's mouth for a moment and snickered darkly.

Unsheathing both his swords, the blond then swung both, a massive X shaped blast of wind pushing the sphere down further into the mouth of the beast. Instantly it started to jet through the massive creature's head and neck, the wind element began shredding apart the creature around it as it went further and further down its body. From the outside it appeared as if some inner force was tearing apart the creature, spiraling down its body and leaving nothing of the creature but bits and shredded pieces in its wake. Soon inside the beast the sphere dissipated a smaller, yet faster Fuuton: Odama Rasengan continuing its path.

Outside Naruto smirked to himself as his clones dispelled themselves to give him back what little power they had left. As they did that the small Fuuton: Odama Rasengan shredded the insides out of the now thrashing wildly plant creature, leaving its outsides relatively fine. Then out of the Odama Rasengan came a rapidly spinning Fuuton: Rasengan, the small sphere spinning faster and faster before stopping and creating a vacuum inside of the beast as it compressed itself. Grinning beneath his mask, Naruto held up a hand and quickly made a seal while giving a mock salute to the creature.

"Alright big guy, time for you to go out with a bang!" He exclaimed as the Fuuton: Rasengan inside of the creature rapidly expanded, expelling its condensed Chakra and wind outwards and ripping apart the plant creature from the inside out as it did… 'Heh, who else but me could make a Jutsu that starts as a large attack, then decreases in size as it condenses its accumulated mass and continues to speed up the smaller it gets before expanding into an explosion?' Naruto wondered to himself with a mental smirk as he watched the attack do just that…

Once the wind had shredded its way through the massive creature, Naruto himself was pushed further up into the air while the Titans ducked out of the way as globs of its flesh and insides were sent flying every which way. Soon standing and looking on to see the massive roots of the plants falling, Cyborg shook his head for a moment before continuing to gape in shocked awe. "Whao…" Cy breathed out in awe seeing the massive amount of damage from the single attack.

"DUDE!" BB exclaimed while gaping in shock and pointing towards the white speck that was Naruto as he still floated in the air. "He wasted that thing with one move!" BB exclaimed while Nightwing openly gaped Raven rolling her eyes as she used one hand to close his mouth.

"Keep your mouth closed, otherwise a bird might make a roost." Raven offered with a smirk and Nightwing slowly nodded his head while Supergirl whistled at the amount of destruction caused by the blond.

"Fast, strong, brave, and fun, I wonder if he has a girlfriend already?" Supergirl wondered aloud and Raven blinked before turning and looking towards the girl with a raised brow. Supergirl merely whistling innocently as she did so, an amused smirk crossing over her features as Raven scowled.

"Wow, that's one of the guys you normally fight Dick?" Kid-Flash questioned and Nightwing grunted while rubbing his face.

"Cy, take X off the list for "Common Thieves" among our normal villains… and then we seriously have to reevaluate his threat level…" Nightwing murmured and Cyborg nodded his head dumbly while watching Naruto as he continued to fall.

Said boy was hitting the teleport button on his belt, only to groan when it started to spark and then steam. "Great, the things fried." He muttered to himself before being caught by two pairs of arms, looking up he saw Blackfire and Dani, and then tilted his head. "What's with your hair?" He asked while looking to Dani's flaming white ponytail and she blinked as she looked at his one visible eye.

"What's with your eyes?" She asked in retort and Gismo decided to make his presence known as he flew over to the teen with gritted teeth.

"What the hell kind of shit did you just pull, Temp!? You were putting out enough power to not only fry your suit but also light up the damn sky like the fucking sun?! What the hell did you do?!" Gizmo demanded angrily while shaking Naruto and the blond shook his head before groaning when he noticed he was almost completely out of chakra.

"Can we please talk about this later… I'm majorly wiped right now Giz." Naruto pleaded tiredly while groaning slightly and Gizmo gritted his teeth before grunting.

"Fine then, lets get the shit licker back to base." Gizmo conceded with a deep scowl, Dani snickering as they started to fly back to Tartarus HQ.

"Oh yeah, Dani, Blackfire, you and the other girls are all seriously in for one hell of a training session when I recover." Naruto stated angrily and both girls groaned, given his ideas on "Training" AKA Torture, they were not too happy to learn that…

"Looks like his team came to get him." Raven noted and Night was silent for a moment then looked over to see a calculative look on Wondergirl's face.

"Something on your mind Donna?" He asked and Wondergirl nodded her head.

"It's nothing but… what kind of attack was that? It spins and shreds from what I can tell. Not only that but its extremely massive and explodes. I can understand wanting an attack to be effective, but the sheer size alone must be hell to use…" Wondegirl noted mostly to herself and Night looked at her then frowned in thought for a moment.

"Yeah… well as far as I'm concerned, X doesn't really know how to use intelligence in the methodology for his attacks." Night mused aloud while rubbing his chin and BB squinted while looking at him with his arms crossed.

"Dude, speak English!" BB shouted while throwing his arms in the air and Night sighed before turning when he heard a grunt, thus watched as Snake and Otacon crawled onto the roof.

"Officer Connors? Your alive?" Night asked with a blink, while also clearly surprised to see the man who had a radio in one hand as he climbed up a fire escape and gave him an annoyed look in response.

"Yeah I'm alive, and I called the rest of the JCPD to let 'em know the coast is clear. I basically told them that they can pull their heads from between their legs and stop kissing their asses goodbye now…" Snake grumbled and Kid-Flash and BB both started laughing, Cy joining in as well while Raven raised a brow with an amused smirk. "Unfortunately, that Pink-X chick got away, Killer-Moth came by and bailed her out…" Snake informed and Nightwing sighed before shaking his head.

"Why am I not surprised?" He wondered and then turned around to look at the city with the others. "Well, looks like the cops are here." Nightwing noted while seeing a van below them and the JCPD waiting on them.

"Funny how they're only ever on time when we're done beating the bad guys." Raven noted before turning around and looking to Snake with a slim ghost of a smile. "Well, all but one or two I guess…" She then corrected and Snake smirked while Otacon chuckled and adjusted his glasses.

"Ugh, what hit me?" Harley suddenly asked and BB suddenly jumped on her and held her down. "Hey! Get offa me! I have rights ya know!" Harley started to shout before the JCPD arrived and cuffed her and the still unconscious Ivy. Dragging the girls back down to ground level with the Titans following they were all treated to Harley ranting. "Hey! I wanna hear my rights! I wanna see my layer!" She exclaimed while they tossed her and Ivy into the back of the van only for her to poke her head back out. "I wanna ham sandwich!" She then shouted only for a female officer to throw her back into the van roughly before slamming the doors on the blond.

"Huh, new addition?" Cy asked of Snake with a smirk, the said man merely shrugging his shoulders in response.

"I think their taking volunteers now… only one requirement for the job, be stupid enough to be a human meat shield for you guys." Snake offered and Cy, KF, and BB snickered while Raven shook her head.

"So, what now, we've beaten Harley and Ivy, survived a killer plant invasion, and made a few new friends along the way." Raven noted while ticking off fingers and Nightwing nodded his head slowly before then turning around to look at the mentioned "New Friends".

"Speaking of which, Supergirl, Batgirl, Wondergirl, and Kid-Flash, it was great working with you guys again." Nightwing said and the girls waved it off though Kid-Flash zipped over to the former boy wonder and placed an arm over his shoulders.

"Then would you mind putting an old pal up? I mean, I like working alone as much as the next guy… but I'd kinda like having someone to watch my back, know what I mean?" Kid-Flash asked and Night looked to Cyborg the metal man grinned as he reached into a compartment in his chest and pulled out a Titans Communicator.

"Welcome to the team man!" Cy offered and Kid-Flash grinned. "You play game station?" Cy questioned and a sly look came over KF's face.

"Are you joking, who doesn't?" He asked while Wondergirl shook her head then walked over to Nightwing.

"If it wouldn't be too much trouble Dick, could I also join your team? The Justice League is… well… I just don't feel comfortable with them, and Diana is always fighting with them now so I haven't been able to fight with a group. And as you know I prefer working with others so…" Wondergirl asked then explained and Nightwing rolled his eyes as Cy and KF argued about something game related.

"Sure thing Donna, and with X's team out and about, something tells me we're going to need all the help we can get around here." Nightwing offers while pulling a spare Communicator from his belt and tossing it to the girl. Looking over to Batgirl and Supergirl, Nightwing smirked towards the two. "So, what about you two?" He asked the two girls with a small smile and Batgirl frowned.

"Sorry, too old to join a group of "Teen" Titans." She offered playfully the teen simply and Supergirl pushed her slightly.

"Your still young at heart." She offered just as playfully as her friend and Batgirl nodded her head.

"This is true, but I don't think I'd fit in here, I'm just too used to Gotham for it." Batgirl mused and Starfire gave a near silent 'Yes' to the side and Supergirl chose to ignore it for the sake of not wanting to know.

"Eh, I'm actually with the JLU now, but I'll see you guys around sometime. But until then, later!" Supergirl offered before crouching down and then jetting off into the air and soon enough into the distance where she seemed to disappear.

"That was such a cool exit." BB said and Batgirl gave him a look.

"It's the only exit she or Superman use." She reminds and BB babbles before crossing his arms over his chest.

"Alright y'all, time to head on back to the tower, I've got to teach Speedy here a thing or two about real gaming!" Cy says while holding Kid-Flash in a headlock, the speedster somehow pulling his head free to move in front of the titanium teen.

"Race you there, Tin-Man!" He offered before zipping off and Cyborg growled before chasing after Kid-Flash the others watching them before shaking their heads.

"The more things change the more they stay the same." Raven noted with a slim frown while BB flew after Cy and Kid-Flash.

"Yeah, but lets not forget, we have new Titans." Nightwing reminded and both Starfire and Raven raised a brow towards the boy. "Thus, we have to commence with… Initiations." Nightwing stated with a toothy grin and Starfire smiled brightly while Raven smirked evilly, Wondergirl wondering why she had a bad feeling about this…

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(Elsewhere…)

Ravager smirked as she looked over dozens of hours of video footage, all of which depicted different battles Naruto had been in, as Red-X, as Tempest, and as himself… "Simply marvelous…" She whispered to herself then felt a presence come up from behind her. "What do you want now?" She questioned coldly and then turned around to face one Uchiha Sasuke.

"What are you doing? Watching all those stupid videos isn't helping us or you." He reminds and Ravager shakes her head while turning around, wondering why he couldn't see what she was doing.

"Actually it does. What I've been doing is watching the actions of The Titans, Tartarus, and your Target." Ravager replied while pressing a few buttons while the other Konoha Nin walked towards her.

"So what have you learned?" Kakashi questioned and Ravager hit a few switches show scenes where Naruto went out of his way to protect Raven, others where all he did was stick an X over her mouth, and such. And then showed footage of him visibly flirting and even dating the dark Titans.

"First. Your Target is in a relationship with the Titan known as Raven. The lengths he would go to protect her are simply mind boggling, he even tore through the city above during the recent attack almost solely to protect her." Ravager explained and Ino watched the videos and couldn't help a sigh.

"I wish I had a guy to treat me like that." She whispered while Hinata felt more and more jealous while watching the screens.

"Anything else? We know Naruto can do stupid things for the wrong reasons already." Sasuke demanded and Hinata scowled towards the Uchiha, as did Ino.

"And what exactly is that supposed to mean?" Ino demanded and Sasuke grunted while crossing his arms over his chest.

"It means he should look after himself before worrying about some girl." He replied and Ino felt her fingers twitched as she wished to reach for a Kunai.

"Anyways, that's not my point. My point is, we capture Raven, Naruto comes to us." Ravager said, deciding to derail the situation and Sakura paled at the thought. While deluded she wasn't stupid… well, not completely stupid and Ayame seemed even less enthused by that idea.

"But then Naruto would come at us like a bull if we did that, a very VERY pissed off Kyuubi empowered wind controlling bull with swords for horns!" Sakura exclaimed, visions of a furious Four-Tailed Naruto making her whimper lightly. "Shit! We'd be lucky if it was only four tails! He'd annihilate us if we touched someone precious to him!" Ayame shouted in her head while Kakashi shivered, having a fairly good idea how that would end as well.

"Yes it's true that might work… but like Sakura said given our and Naruto's recent past its safe to assume that he'd try to actually kill us if we so much as even breathed near the girl." Kakashi reminded and Ravager nodded her head with a slim smirk on her face. She then brought up several occasions on screen of when Raven and the Titans fought with various villains… yet Naruto never showed up? "What the?" Kakashi wondered to himself while watching and Ravager chuckled lightly in her throat.

"Naruto isn't a fool, whenever the Titans take on a lesser criminal, he doesn't get involved no matter how dangerous it seems. When they take on truly violent or evil villains, then he gets himself involved." She replied and Kakashi slowly nodded his head while looking at the screens. "Also, Raven has some level of control over his actions, such as even convincing him to help the city." Ravager went on while waving a hand and Neji frowned for a moment while crossing his arms.

"And since Naruto is trying to hide, that would mean he does indeed care for her greatly if he's willing to risk exposure for her." Neji noted and Ravager nodded her head once more before bringing up several other shots.

"Also, whenever Naruto faces an opponent, he never tries to involve his own team for fear of them getting caught in the crossfire." Ravager stated and Kakashi nodded his head, seeing what the blond was doing.

"Sounds like him alright, since most if not all of his attacks do cause a mass amount of damage and destruction. That's probably why he's always using those gadgets of his… but how does this make a plan?" Kakashi questioned while looking to Ravager who then started changing the different videos to show Naruto fighting against Harley and Ivy. "Wow, he's certainly stronger than I remember." Kakashi noted as the boy moved across the vast battlefield of the city, easily decimating everything in his path or that got in his way.

"Yes, but, notice he almost never uses his larger attacks when a Titan or civilian is in the immediate area." Ravager continued to explain while bringing up a screen and Kakashi snapped his fingers.

"Because he doesn't want any of them to get hurt." Kakashi noted and Ravager nodded her head once more before smirking darkly.

"However, I do have a question, from what you've said this "Uzumaki Naruto" was an orphan correct?" Ravager questioned and the others nodded, Kakashi doing so after a moments pause. Smirking at the pause Ravager then held her finger over a button and tilted her head to one side. "Then explain this…" She stated ominously while a new screen came up, a box zooming in on a picture Naruto was handing to Raven…

The picture was of a beautiful woman with similar features to Naruto, though a paler skin tone; deep crimson red hair and bright yellow gold eyes that seemed to flicker like flames, in her arms was a young Naruto, half asleep and with bandages over his face and forearms…

"Who is that?" Sasuke wondered aloud and Sakura gaped at the woman.

"She looks like… no, it can't be." She whispered while Kakashi paled visibly.

"Uzumaki Kushina…" He whispered and the teens snapped their heads to him, Ravager smirking towards the man. Sighing, Kakashi rubbed his face and turned away from them for a moment. "The village was never honest with anyone about Naruto, not even himself. He was raised by his mother, Uzumaki Kushina, the "Crimson Angel" of Uzu no Kuni until he was eight years old." Kakashi started to explain and then shook his head while Sasuke narrowed his eyes.

"That's not possible, Naruto had no parents or any living family, he said so himself." Sasuke reminded the older man with a deep scowl across his face and Kakashi nodded his head slowly.

"He thought so as well. But, Kushina and… a girl named Rin were both murdered on his eighth birthday, right in front him no less." Kakashi started to explain and both Hinata and Sakura gasped while the others gaped towards him, Ravager merely listening on as he spoke. "That same night, Naruto first tapped into the power of the Kyuubi and mercilessly slaughtered the man, ripping him apart till almost nothing was left. It took ten AnBu to hold him down just so we could sedate him…" Kakashi recalled and shivered violently, Sasuke clenching his fists at his sides.

"So… he was an avenger himself… he also knows my pain." Sasuke muttered under his breath while Hinata brought her hands over her arms.

"P-poor Naruto-Kun… to be plagued b-by those m-memories for s-so long…" Hinata said softly and Kakashi shook his head.

"Naruto didn't remember it. The Sandaime Hokage feared Naruto would abandon Konoha, or worse that he might seek out The Kyuubi for its power. So, he decided to seal away all Naruto's memories of his mother, rendering everything he ever learned from her or gained from her, non-existent. The Sandaime went so far as to seal away anything that might have reawakened those memories in the library of Konoha." Kakashi then explained and Neji grit his teeth while clenching his fists at his sides.

"Then, the things he "Stole" from the library, were actuality his clan scrolls?" Neji demanded of the older Jounin and Kakashi mutely nodded his head.

"B-but that means Naruto was justified?" Sakura demanded loudly and Kakashi shrugged his shoulders for a moment.

"But there's still the sacred scroll of sealing." Ino then reminded and Kakashi grimaced while rubbing the back of his neck.

"No. That was compiled by The Sandaime, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Tsunade and my sensei, his father, and was to be passed onto him on his sixteenth birthday as a gift since it was passed onto the Yondaime from the others." Kakashi explained and Sasuke frowned, calculating in his head before narrowing his eyes.

"And he stole it about four months after he turned sixteen." The teen noted and Kakashi grimaced as Ino looked at him completely appalled.

"What the hell, we're chasing after someone whose only crime is stealing what was already his!?!" Ino demanded and Sakura started to gape before shaking her head.

"N-no, of course not, he also attacked several Shinobi and broke into Danzo's home remember." Sakura reminded and Ino still fumed as she turned to Kakashi and stomped over to the man.

"Who's idea was it to keep those scrolls from Naruto exactly?" Ino demanded and Kakashi grimaced while pulling on his collar.

"That isn't important anymore, Ino. What is, is that Naruto obviously no longer has that seal, and that all of his old memories are finally loose in his mind, thus his increase in skill and aggression. Naruto was a very violent child before the seal, openly challenging anyone who made remarks about himself or his mother." Kakashi reminds and then explained to the ground while Neji nods his head slowly.

"Yes… but not being able to go to his mothers funeral, living with the thought you've always been alone, constantly being mocked for being an Orphan no one wanted… so many things forced onto him that weren't true… a seal ruined his life as well I see." Neji whispered quietly and Hinata placed a hand onto her cousin's shoulder before they all turned to see Ravager clapping.

"Yes and while that was a positively riveting story mister Kakashi. I believe we're getting off topic. Now we look at the facts. Naruto saw his mother die, he protects everyone around him like they might die as well, and lets not forget, he's blinded by the need to get strong enough on his own to defend them, training himself in ways and forms none of you have ever even dreamed correct?" Ravager questioned and Kakashi nodded his head slowly while wondering how she figured all this out. "Right, next few facts he doesn't interfere with the Titans fighting villains he doesn't perceive as a threat and yet would protect Raven with his very life…" Ravager mused aloud and then pressed a button, the nin turning and gasping as the Ternion Trio lumbered into the room.

"Dear Kami what are those things…" Kakashi whispered upon seeing them and Ravager smirked as she walked towards the three, Cinderblock bowing slightly.

"My father's three heavy soldiers will be ample to lure out the Titans… Then my droids and I will kidnap Raven among the insanity before bringing her to that lovely little warehouse you were staying at. Afterwards I will send a message to Tartarus giving the exact location of Raven. That way when he comes to save her, he'll be expecting me, not you, while you will all be waiting to surprise him." Ravager explained simply and Kakashi frowned in thought for a few moments.

"Why at the warehouse?" He asked and Ravager smirked.

"My droids may be able to hide in the shadows in an enclosed space like this, but he's the type of fighter where they will need room to maneuver. Also, I have a few new, heavily modified droids I've just been dieing to test out. And don't even worry about how you'll hold Raven, I have a few things in mind for that as well…" Ravager explains then said darkly while tapping her chin and walking over to the side, leaving the Nin with the Ternion Trio.

"Kakashi-Sensei… I have a bad feeling about this." Sakura whispered before she tried hiding behind Sasuke who merely pushed her to the side.

"So do I." Kakashi whispered while looking at the beings warily…

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(Tartarus HQ…)

Naruto called out in pain while lying on his stomach as Gizmo pealed another super heated piece of his X-suit off of his body. "Dammit that hurts Giz! Can't you be a little more gentle?" Naruto demanded and Gizmo snorted while Jinx helped peal the suit off of him with a slight blush.

"Hey, you're the moron who went and super-heated the fucking thing. Be glad it didn't fuse to your damn skin. I keep telling you not to overload it, but do you listen to me, No, and what do you go and do, you use so much power it fucking bleached the thing!" Gizmo grumbled while removing another portion of the now useless X-suit. "Your just lucky I'm working on that new suit or I'd have to kick your ass for this." Gizmo then stated simply while making a mental note to put a limiter on the new suit so it wouldn't ever overload like this again.

"Yeah well why is Jinx helping undress me then?" Naruto demanded and Gizmo scoffed.

"That should be obvious." He started and Naruto blinked and gave him a look. Dani chose that moment to poke her head into the room and rolled her eyes with an amused smile on her lips.

"Clueless." She stated and Naruto turned only to see the girl had left, making him frown before gritting his teeth as another piece of the suit was pealed off of him.

"Ugh, damn Giz why did the fucking thing do that anyways?" Naruto demanded and Gizmo grunted while pealing yet another piece off of him. "YEOW! Dammit would you stop doing that?!" Naruto demanded and Gizmo snorted.

"Whatever, and as for the reason why it did this, its because your stupid ass overloaded the power grid of the suit. The circuits have fused with the rest of the suit and super heated it, thus the bleaching, and near fusing of the suit to your skin." Gizmo replied while making a note to put some kind of a cooling unit into the suit as well.

"Ugh… yeah well how was I supposed to know it was going to do that?" Naruto demanded and Gizmo smacked him on the head with part of the damaged suit.

"Because psycho I told you your powers are VERY similar to Jinx's! Thus, use too much of it and electronic shit blows up! I think that might actually be why your people didn't have that many electronics!" Gizmo explained and Naruto blinked then considered that, seeing as it was a very valid reason… well it was something to think on at least… Grimacing he then turned to see Jinx bite her lip as she had pulled yet another piece of the suit off of him, leaving him clad only in his black boxers.

"Finally…" Naruto murmured while rolling off of the table and then picked himself back up from the floor. "You have no idea how good it feels to be free of that." Naruto said mostly to himself while rubbing his head and Gizmo rolled his eyes.

"Yeah well go get some rest Temp, you look like shit." Gizmo stated and Naruto nodded his head while pushing himself back to his feet and making his way out of the room with a visible grimace. Watching the blond go, Jinx released her breath and a blush nearly consumed her face.

"Does he have to look so good even though he's taken?" She wondered aloud and Gizmo made a face.

"Ugh… I don't wanna hear about it!" The tiny terror exclaimed and Jinx blinked then rolled her eyes and walked off. "Finally gone, now I can actually get back to work…" Gizmo murmured while getting back to work on the new Red-X Suit 3.0…

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TBC…

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AN: Finally done! And I will not ever make a chapter this long again… well maybe if it's the last chapter for the fic I might. I made it long to reward those of you who have continued to put up with my laziness, as well as to wrap up the "Urban Jungle" arc of the story with a bang!