"talk"

'thoughts(demon conversation)'

'private thoughts'

"demonic voice"

I don't own 'Naruto' anime or manga, nor do I own 'Justice League'. This is just a story, my story with beta-reader Sithmaster56a for the fans to read.

Chapter 32: WarWorld: Enemies and Frienemies…

Earth

"Is this it?" asked someone.

"..."

"Answer."

"y-yes…"

The figure smirked and ran their hands over their object of attention. "Is it finished?"

"n-no. It needs a source of power."

"Don't worry about that. Can you do it?" they asked.

"N-no, only he could do it or even come close to it…"

"Your master is dead, little girl."

The now girl's eyes widened in shock. 'Impossible…'. "Y-you, you're lying!"

"I have no reason to lie, you probably knew it too… you just didn't want to admit it."

Her shoulders slumped, sure they weren't the best master/student relationship but she still admired him. Then her eyes hardened. "If what you say is true, then I need your help…"

"Why would I help you?"

"Because this can benefit both of us."

They shared a few looks between them searching for lies. "I'm listening…"

Planet Refueling…

"Agh! This is hopeless! None of these damn databases give us anything useful!" Hawkgirl almost screamed in frustration.

"Keep searching, something is bound to come up." said Lantern rubbing his eyes.

"I know, I know… but… I just can't focus…" complained the heroine. This was paperwork and when you spend so much time on the field you loose the basic abilities like reading without falling asleep. Damn the paperwork! They were the A-team not the paperboys!

"You have to. I know you're worried, so am I! But the more time we lose the greater the distance between us and them." Returned Lantern giving her a concerned look.

"I know the drill, I'm a detective! The first hours of a kidnapping are the most crucial, after the first 48 hours pass, the chances of finding the hostage and the kidnapper drop by 70%... and that's just on the ground." She recited.

"Don't worry so much… if we can't find anything here, now. I'll notify the Guardians on Oa, they owe us one and I'm sure they're eager to get it off their chests. All the lanterns in all the quadrants of the known Universe will be on a look out for them. There'll be no place to hide for those scumbags!" stated Lantern striking a pose with his fist and flashing his ring dangerously.

"Right, let's bring them home." She returned. As she scanned the pages she couldn't get one thought out of her head. 'Hang on, don't do anything stupid…'

Flashback

The team had been able to follow Green Lantern thanks to J'onn who had focused his mind on Lanterns track as soon as the Manhunters had cuffed him. It was a lucky move, otherwise it would have taken a very long time for the Martian to reestablish a link.

"Alright, destination established, time of arrival: 7 hours." said Superman pushing some buttons. "You can take a break Hawkgirl, I'll take it from here."

"Got it, setting the ship on Auto-pilot and releasing steering." She returned relinquishing manual control to the ship and Superman.

As she did, she took a break while the others were chatting and went to freshen herself in the bathroom.

On her return, she caught a glimpse of Shadowman, he was looking intently out the viewports at space like a little kid would at a television screen.

She got a small smirk on her face and sneaked up behind him. "If you stare too much, you'll go blind." She told him from behind.

He flinched and turned around quickly only to be flicked on the nose with her middle finger. "Ouch!"

"Hehehe…" She laughed at his annoyed funny face.

"That was not funny." He snapped at her. "Hey, I've been meaning to ask. How are the windows not breaking? I mean glass is not so hard to shatter, is it?" He asked.

"This, is not glass." She answered knocking on the glass and barely making a sound. "It's a new form of carbon crystal similar to diamond. It's so hard even your thick head won't be enough to even crack it." She returned patting his head.

The ninja glared at her. "Do I look like a dog?" he asked slapping her hand away.

"Maybe with a few lessons and a collar." She commented cheekily.

"Bitch… and I mean that in both ways." He turned back to space and stared at the display of stars and lights coming from different suns in awe. "Suggoy…(trans. : Awesome)" he said out of the blue, he was truly amazed, so much that he didn't even care what he was saying. This was just beautiful.

Hawkgirl smirked, she knew what that reaction meant. "Is this your first time in space?"

"Hm? Yeah, this is soo awesome, I never thought in a million years that you can actually travel between worlds… hell I didn't even know there were other worlds!" he answered a little more excited.

"It sounds like you've been sleeping under a rock all this time." She teased with a smirk.

"Oi, is that supposed to mean something?" he asked with a sharply pount.

"Not at all." She replied. "Actually I'm quite impressed you're taking this so well…" she added.

"Eh?... how so?" he asked curious.

"Well back on my home planet, the first time flying in space is like… well like driving a car for the first time… or your first plane flight, or even… doing it for the first time with someone you like..." she said with a smirk making his eyes widen. "It's like a whole new experience that changes your perspective."

"Really?" he asked. "Like how?"

"Well, we used to call it the 'maiden voyage' for all new rookies. It usually ended with some hot-shots puking their guts out, a few panic attacks or space dementia or some other weird reactions… "

"W-wow… that's tough, what about you?" he asked

"Well, the first time I traveled, I was a bit uneasy…" she spoke carefully. 'There is noo way I'm going to tell him that I threw up 3 times, got a panic attack and almost peed myself… NO WAY IN HELL! I'm taking that to the grave!' "I mean it was a piece of cake for me since I'm not some show off like those guys…" she added.

''Uneasy', my ass. Why do I feel like she's trying to pull my leg?' he wondered giving her a disbelieving look on his face.

"… I guess you must have a knack for this kind of intense stuff." She finished.

"I guess it's because I've seen a lot of weird stuff in my life… so at this point, I don't think anything can really surprise me…" he said actually widening his eyes at seeing a purple nebula with a orange sun for a few seconds. "Still it's so beautiful…"

"You'd think that… but without the layer of protection screens, the solar ration would cook you alive." She said giving it a look herself.

His eyes widened slightly, at that. "Space is dangerous…"

"Yeah, you wish it could stay this beautiful, but there are so many worse things in space that you wish you had never peeked through the looking glass to begin with…" she added before placing her hand on his shoulder. "Just stick close to me, alright?"

He returned a one of his grins at her. "Got it…"

End Flashback

She returned back to reality and continued looking through the files. "You think he's going to be alright?" she asked.

"I'm very sure they all are." Answered GL. "Superman and J'onn aren't going to let him get in trouble." Of course he knew who she was talking about, he knew enough about Superman to know he could take care of himself and J'onn proved his resourcefulness not too long ago. Naruto was a whole different thing.

She actually laughed at that. "I know they will, but that guy has the crappy luck of always getting into trouble. "

"That's true. It's that loose cannon of mouth that always does it." He said.

"When I see him again, I'm going to beat that out of him."

WarWorld

Naruto finally got over his little staring contest with the mirror and looked at the armor he got from Aya.

It looked like a combination of a space suit and combat armor in one package. It had plates on the shoulders, forearms, chest and back, legs and knees; the footwear was imcluded in the suit so he didn't have to worry about boots. Though the armor felt flexible it was a little too big for his size, the footwear was a little discomforting since he couldn't move his legs freely due to the shin guards attached to it, his feet felt cramped. His hands also had armor on the forearms and extended over his hand before it branched out to his fingers slightly, but the palm was free and flexible. In all it felt really sturdy yet flexible, but he wasn't used to it, especially the constricting feel to it, which was why every now and then he pulled the suit at his neck feeling the tightness even though it was purely imaginary.

"Damn, even a monkey wouldn't wear this suit. What kind of ninja would wear crap like this? Or any kind of suit?" He hated suits, he had nothing against their style, but he felt constricted in them, like his body couldn't breathe properly.

As he finished dressing, he noticed the absence of any kind of head-wear or helmet. "Where's the helmet?" he wondered looking around. As if one command the suit came to life.

"Woooww…" cried Naruto in surprise as a compartment on his back opened and pieces of metal starting covering his head like a hand before more pieces clicked into place ending with a face mask with eyeholes and red glass visor, some pieces of armor made a support covering his exposed neck like a collar. He felt a little panicked because the same feeling of constraint returned, this time with the fear of not being able to breath, but surprisingly, he could. After calming down he moved his head around confirming the ability to move freely.

"Damn, this feels weird…" he said placing his gloved hands on his face and feeling them stop on the face-mask.

"This feels… awesome!" he moved around trying to make a pose to the mirror. "I am the…uh… Steelman!... nonono…. I'm… The IRON SHINOBI!... no... um, I am the Cyber NARUTO!" he posed like what he dubbed as moved around, the panic and fear seemed to leave him and his inner child woke up and admired his new 'toy'.

After a few poses, a few laughs and some one-liners, he finally got it together. "Well that was fun, now to get this off and-…(cling) ara?" he wondered as he tried to pull the helmet off but it didn't budge. "What the? No way. How? How do you get this thing off?" he pulled but to no avail except the pain of his neck being pulled off. "Come on! Get off you piece of trash!" he struggled around.

"Oh fuck! I must have touched something… ugha… I can't breath!" he staggered to the door trying to pull his helmet.

As the door opened automatically he tripped on something and tried to prepare for the impact with the ground but it never came.

"Aghh! What in the name of…?" said an all too familiar voice. He had fallen on someone and tried to stand up.

"You! What do you think you're…?"

"H-help! I can't take this thing off! I can't breath!" he said in alarm trying to pull the helmet off.

"What? Is it stuck?" she asked getting off the ground and trying to help him get it off.

"Y-yes!"he called as he tried running at the wall and rammed the helmet against it. "Ahh my head!" He only succeeded in getting a headache.

His legs were quickly swept from under him and hr fell on the ground on his back only to have someone grab the helmet from behind and try to yank it off with their bare hands.

"It's really stuck!" She let go but tried to take it from the front instead and to use her feet as leverage on something.

"Hey, hey! TIME OUT!" called the ninja.

"What?" she asked.

He pointed down at his groin where her foot was menacingly close to.

"Oh… sorry." This time she bent down and try to twist the helmet off. "How is this?"

"Feels like I'm about to pass… out…"

"Wait!" She stopped. "Did you place it on or did it autonomously activate?" she asked.

"W-wha-?"

She started to furiously shake him back and forth trying to keep him awake… "Did you put it on or did it turn on by itself?!"

"Uh-… -self…" he managed to whisp out before losing consciousness.

She started to panic before pulling his head forward and started to feel in the back of the neck finally finding a flap, she lifted it up and pressed a button.

The effect was instantaneous as the helmet disassembled back in its containment unit leaving the ninja's sweaty bear face in her chest.

She checked his pulse and confirmed that he was still breathing. She sighed in relief.

After a few moments, she gave him a serious look before turning into one of annoyance.

"How long are you going to sleep on my chest?" she asked before giving him a good shove into the hard ground.

"Ugh… what?" he said out loud, his mind coming back and checking on his face and glad to find the touch of flesh again. "Oh, thank Kami, I thought I was going to die."

"Your mask has a breather. You were just hyperventilating from panic." She said standing up.

He gave her a look as he stood up and finally recognized her. "Oh, you're the cleaning lady! Thanks a lot for the help..." he tired to say.

"Save it. I need you to listen…" she said before turning her head to the side in haste before returning her attention to him and pushing him to the wall in a surprise kiss.

Naruto was literally stunned, he did not expect that at all.

The world around him was lost, he didn't hear anything he didn't see anything…

Until some huge gorilla of a man stepped in, pulled the young woman away forcefully. "I said: 'He's up to a fight. Finish up later, bitch!'" he growled in anger, slapping her harshly.

Naruto's senses caught up before feeling his blood boil and eyes turn fire. "Hey, fat ass!" he called before punching the guy straight in the face, and grabbed his head with his hands and pulled it down as his knee came up delivering a hard impact to his forehead knocking the bulk out bleeding on the ground a little.

He then rushed to the girl and pulled her up seeing her bruised face.

"You shouldn't have done that…" she said, cupping the bruise.

"Whatever, let's get out of here!" he called starting to pull her.

"It's useless, even if you find your friends, you can't escape this hell hole!" she argued.

"We won't know until we try…!" he argued back trying to sneak a peek around a corner.

"But they have tried and failed!"

"I can't just give up!" he snapped in anger.

She was surprised how his eyes turned red and the whites turned black but pulled herself together. "You don't have to… Listen to me… I don't have time… Just get to the arena and buy some time…" she told him.

"It sounds like you know something." He pointed out, giving her a look.

"I'm just looking out for you. I need your help." She stated.

He gave her a long look; there was definitely something off about her. She was suspicious as heck. "What am I supposed to do?" he asked.

"Survive." she returned giving him a serious look. "Get to the arena and win… and beat Kurgo in 7 cycles." She said running away.

"7 what? Hey!" he called to her but she was already gone. "Damn it…" he cursed angrily.

'Screw that… I'm gonna have a look around anyway…' he said as he started skulking through the corridors.

He avoided guards both living and strange robots.

'Damn, they really are everywhere…' he cursed as he looked around.

As he tried to back track he found that that path was also blocked.

'Damn! I can't turn back either! But how are they boxing me in?' He wondered, but his eyes landed on small device in a corner that looked deceptively familiar. 'Is that a…? Security camera?! Shit! No wonder they know where patrol, they've been looking at me the whole time!' He thought in shock and anger. 'Must find a blindspot!'

Security room

A figure stood over the two guards as they stared at the cameras from their seats.

He stared with interest while the others looked around very bored.

"Anything to report?" asked the figure interested staring at the cameras.

"No, sir, nothing to report." answered one of the guards pressing some buttons without even looking at the keyboards.

"Good…"

Naruto suddenly turned a corner and just disappeared.

The person's eyebrow rose and searched the cameras. "Where did he go?"

"Where did who go?" asked the other guard curiously.

The person sighed lowering their head. "Never mind…"

Naruto

'Phew… that worked.' He thought before starting to crawl on the ceiling, out of the camera's view.

'I got to find Superman and get out of here.' he thought as he increased the pace but still careful enough to avoid any cameras that might spot him.

As he made his way through wherever he was heading, he had no idea. He heard noise get closer and closer, it sounded like a lot of people cheering.

At one point he stopped as he heard the sound of some kind of march. It turned out there was a group of 20 guards coming down the halls. They all spoke in some kind of language that he strangely understood.

"Hell, why do we have to make these damn security patrols anyway? Isn't that what those droids are for?" asked one.

"It's because we're cheap labor and expendable, the droids cost more than we get paid in a year." Returned the other.

"They why the hell is Lord Mongule still buying them?" the other guard returned.

"You must be new…" returned another guard. "Down here, you don't get your average grunts, some of these guys are so strong they can break a man in two…" he added as some of the newbies started to sweat bullets.

"…you're just pulling my leg aren't cha?"

"No, he's not. " added an older guard with scars to match. "You kiddies don't know this, but Champ Draga, he used to be the biggest troublemaker you'd ever seen. This was before Mongule got the droids… Draga used to beat every guard that tried to push him to a bloody pulp… it was so bad that the guards started to fear Draga more than Mongule…." Said the guard taking a pause. "… than one day, I heard Draga managed to buy and threaten a handful of guards and tried to stage an uprising…" He explained.

"… so what happened, did Draga win?" asked the cocky newbie curiously.

One of the guards rolled his eyes. "(Sigh) No dumbass! If he did then we wouldn't be here, would we?"

"… oh… yeah."

The veteran laughed a little. "Tha'ts the story I heard anyway, no one knows what really happened. All I know is that Draga started to fight that day and win every round." He continued.

"Story? You mean this never happened?" asked the newbi.

"I didn't say that it did or didn't. But the guards that were supposedly with Draga all disappear one. There is no real account of what happened, nothing in the news ever got leaked, it's like a tale you hear down here..."

They were right under Naruto right now, and he heard every word trying to remember it for later, right now he had to become invisible.

The swallowed his fear away. "W-well it's a good thing you've got me to around." commented another

"Oh no…" sighed another.

"Yep, best marksman in the new brigade…"

"Biggest loudmouth too…" said another making the other laugh.

"Haha… very funny. But you'll see, when the roof starts coming down, the only guy that's gonna be stading is…" He pulled a particle blaster and aimed it up. "(bang)(bang)(bang) ME!"

"Careful you idiot!" called another guard.

"(Boom!)" the blasts missed the ninja by a few inches. 'KUSO! That was close…' he sighed in relief. "(crack)" he turned to the ceiling and saw that it was starting to seriously crack. 'Oh ooo…'

The captain of the guards turned to the newbie and delivered a disciplinary punch. "You moron! That blaster is set for rapid fire! You could have killed us all!"

(crack)

They only heard the cracks for a second before a part of the ceiling fell down bringing with it a surprised shinobi that fell on the backs of a few guards.

After the grunts from the guards, and the dust cloud made by the rubble. The guards took a moment to notice the ninja who was laying on the unconscious bodies of their fellow guards.

The guards stared in surprise at the ninja, who proceeded to give them a long stare before looking around acting surprised.

"I don't suppose we fellows can tell me where the bathroom is?" He laughed out still attempting innocence smile before looking to see all weapons aimed at his head. "Yeeeah, I guess not." He sighed with small grin on his face, he brought his hands together very quickly and made a few clones.

The guard's eyes widened in surprise. "What the-?"

They didn't have time to finish as they found themselves attacked by the copies with more being made.

The clones attacked with simple taijutsu, kicks and punches to their unprotected faces.

"(bang)(bang)(bang)"

The guards quickly recovered from the surprise and started using their weapons while some did some plain hand to hand fighting, failing badly.

Clones were exploding left and right making a cloud of smoke covering the hall. When the smoke cloud finally settled their eyes widened the man had disappeared but about 12 bodies were on the floor with another 10 standing.

"The hell? Where is he?!" one wondered in panic seeing his fallen comrades.

One of the braver one stepped forward and checked the guards. "They're still alive but they need medical attention."

"What do we do?" asked one.

"We split up. " said the captain of the guard. "We'll split up. I'll take five and search for him, the rest, go find reinforcements. You, you, you, you and you with me" He handpicked five of them and started going down a corridor. The other did the same but took the other way.

As the group advanced. They heard a cheering coming getting closer but getting more boos than cheers.

"What could be holding up the match?" wondered a guard.

"I don't know, and I don't give damn!" said another guard.

"I wasn't talking to you, dumbass." He snapped.

"Screw you!" snipped back.

"Everyone shut up!" ordered the captain.

Finally they came upon a crossroads. "Where does that lead?" asked the captin.

"The charging station for the droids, sir." Returned a guard after some hesitation.

"And there?" he pointed at the right.

"That leads to the nobles veranda." Returned the same guard.

The captain had to think things over and breathed in. "That'll do…"

He pointed his gun and fired the weapon at the video camera blowing it up, before turning it to the other in the hall blowing it also up.

"Sir? What is it? What happened?" asked the guards in panic pointing their guns in all directions.

The captain lowered his weapon and let it fall to the floor before turning around slowly before bursting into at one of the guard and punched him hard in the face. He didn't stop there as stepped to the another guard and punched him into the wall with a few punches to the gut and face.

The other three were just getting over their shock.

"Captain! What's happening? What are you doing?" asked one of the three remaining guards trying to point his weapon at his commanding officer.

The captain merely slapped the weapon away with his hand before pulling the guard in by the collar for another punch to the face.

The two remaining guards aimed their weapons and started firing one after the other but the captain ducked to the ground and grasped the fallen weapon. He aimed quick and shot both the guards in the legs.

"(Ughaaa!)" the screamed in pain and fell to the ground bleeding.

The captain got up fast and before they knew it, he was on them and delivering kicks to their heads knocking them unconscious.

When he was sure no one was getting up, he was suddenly shrouded in smoke before revealing the ninja Uzumaki Naruto.

"That takes care of this group." He then felt a glimpse of memories. 'And that takes care of the other. I was lucky I was able to make the switch in the smoke while no one was looking. I had to take them all out quietly before they snitched me and sounded the alarm.'

He turned back to where he had come in. "Let's see which way should I go? Maybe there's a way out through the assembly, but that veranda filled with nobles, whoever those are, I could change into one of them and sneak out… " He concluded seriously.

He turned around and looked through one of the guard's pockets. "Bingo, this will do just fine."

"Already, let's do this. Ugly head… or whatever this thing is, I go left... weird writing on the back, I go right." He declared flipping the coin in the air.

The coin hit the ground spinning. "And… ugly head it is. So left." He turned to leave but stopped and pocketed the coin. "I better take this. You never know when you're going to need a direction device."

As he sneaked through the assembly he noticed that there was just the bare minimum of visible light. Also, some kind of robots were hanging on some metallic contraptions, probably recharging.

'Hm, all sleeping, I guess.' He noted moving his hands in front of a droid's would-be face. 'didn't know toasters could sleep…'

As he made his way deeper through the mechanical things, he noted a hall at the end, probably an exit.

"Finally, I've got to move fast…" he spoke.

As he moved to the exit, he saw a small red dot moving about on the floor. He gave it little interest until the little thing got to his leg and started going up. Just as it moved another dot appeared also moving towards him, and another and another. Each giving a small fine hiss.

As he turned around slowly, he found more lights on his body followed by more and more lasers turning him into a glowing beacon.

"Aww shit…"

"Intruder alert. Intruder alert. Intruder alert. Lethal Force Approved."

Fueling planet

"Lantern! I think I found something!" called Hawkgirl.

"What?" asked the green guardian approaching.

"This little file, at first it I thought it was just a normal communication address for the docking database input but look at this." She pointed at few sets of numbers.

He looked at it, it was just a random series of numbers. "I don't see anything."

"Look at them again. Don't these coordinates look familiar!?" she asked surprised.

He gave it another look and his eyes widened, he read it twice, and a third time to confirm. "This… can't be."

"That's what I was thinking. But it's no mistake, all of the databases are going to the same place." She concluded putting more files on his table.

Lantern gave them a look before turning to her. "It's time to get some answers."

"Then let's go ask 'nicely'." She returned.

As they made their way to the magistrate's office. They were met with four guards blocking their path.

"We need to speak with the magistrate." Said Lantern calmly.

"The magistrate is in an important meeting, he wishes not to be disturbed." answered the guard.

"This won't take long…" returned Hawkgirl trying to push her way in.

But she was pushed back in the chest by the guards who started powering and pointing their guns.

Hawkgirl gave them a glance. "That was your second mistake."

30 seconds later, the guards were sporting bruises with some mild bleeding on the ground unconscious.

"Was the 'beating them senseless' thing really necessary?" asked Lantern with a sigh.

"He touched my boobs." She answered with no care in the world.

Lantern approached the door and tried to open it with the handle, but to no avail. "It's locked"

"Let me try." The heroine powered her mace and with one swipe blew the look to the door apart.

She marched her way in.

"What is the meaning of this?!" wailed the magistrate.

"We tried knocking." She said as they made their way to his desk.

"We don't want any trouble, we just need some answers." He said throwing the papers in front of the leader.

"These are… very sensitive information! I can't reveal it to anyone!"

"I'm so tired of this crap…" sighed Hawkgirl her patience running thin. "Just tell us or I'll be forced to make him watch as I pull the answers out of you!"

"You beat up my bodyguards! Brake my door and now try to threaten me!?" asked the magistrate in anger and indignation. "I'll have you looked in a cell by the end of the day! And lantern! I'll be logging a formal complaint to the Lantern Corp for- agh!"

Hawkgirl's nerves snapped like a wire and she found herself pulling the fat magistrate out of his chair over his desk and kissing the ground, by his collar.

"I'm sick of your crap! Tell us who you're working for! Who are you giving this information to!?" she yelled at him.

"That would be me…" said a voice from the hallway in the darkness and before they had time to react they found a weight being slammed down on their shoulders pushing them to their knees. "Stand down, Stewart."

John recognized that voice, he heard it more than a few time already. "W-what are you doing here!?...… Hal Jordan!?"

To be- wait

Secret location

Climbing down some dark murky steps two sentries were descending.

"Egh, even after everything that's happened this place still reeks like a dead corpse."

"What do you expect? This is the very bowls of the world."

"Well it would do some good if at least-" Suddenly the sounds of some rocks drew their attention. "What was that?!" they wondered arms ready.

"I heard it too. Maybe an intruder."

"Let's check it out!"

As they left, one of the walls seemed to distort and melt away like a heavy liquid until two figures walked out of the said wall.

"H-how did you do that?!" asked one in silent excitement. "We were right in their faces!"

"An old trick. These feeble guards are all muscle and no brain. Let's keep going." The person commented taking point.

"B-but, why not take them out? They could come back or sound the alarm."

"No they won't, I already have an illusion placed on them, they'll be lost in these corridors for hours. Hurry up!"

"Then why are we in such a haste?"

"There's something… familiar… approaching…"

End chapter