Edit 03/04/2020: I read the chapter for the comments and ... Damn!
I will never trust Google translator again!
So I had to translate the chapter on my own. Which took longer than I thought, so either I start writing the chapters in English or I will have more work. Anyway, sorry for putting so many misspellings in the chapter!
He was once seen as a hero.
There was a time when he was praised, and his life was filled with happiness for the most part.
His golden days were long gone.
And now, at the young age of 32, he was about to give up. Most of his friends had distanced themselves with a few exceptions (Vic and Wally), and now they had a stable life, hell, some had family already.
And as much as it hurt to admit it he was out of shape, he is. At least two years had passed since his last fight, and he hasn't trained as he did before either.
Almost every morning without fail, his old partner and closest friend Kurama made fun of him, his way of trying to encourage him to continue with this monotonous life of shit.
It is almost always the same, he gets up early in the morning, goes for a coffee, receives insults from the general population, walks a bit of and ends up going back to that now destroyed tower where he once lived with such good friends.
He stayed there for at least two hours, then went to the pizza stall that in his time in the 'Titans' they used to frequent so much.
He ate, went home to watched television, wroted some Icha-Icha, and slept.
There were some days with action of course, like taco days at his favorite stall, he had to go fast before the tacos ran out, and added to some spontaneous visits from Vic or Wally, it was generally the same ... Day after day , for weeks, and years.
And he began to believe that he was going crazy from loneliness. He would get a girlfriend if he could, heck! If it were up to him he would already have a family made.
But again:
"Who would want to date a genocidal? With a rabid dog waiting to bite at any moment." Or at least that's what a girl he invited to date some time ago told him. It was the time he gave up on the girls ... No, he didn't become gay ... Aaaaaggggghhhh! You know what? I will be clearer, it was the time I gave up on love.
And this seemed to be a day like any other, with the same routine already spent so much. He left his small and messy apartment, walking slowly ignoring some looks of contempt and fear that were sent to him.
He got to his favorite coffee and finished drinking his drink quickly.
He went out again, although he raised his eyebrows a little as he saw falling ... Snow?
Curiously, the blonde brought a little 'snow' to his mouth. Then he spat it out giving some curses.
"Damn! This is not snow, this is ash." With some sadness in his eyes under his gaze.
"It is just ash." He repeated sadly, the nature of this place when he arrived was not the great wonder comparing it to his homeland, at least.
But since then things had gotten dramatically worse, pollution had gotten worse in a short period, fortunately this was almost entirely reduced with the next generation of technology.
But the damage was done, the blonde did not know how but nature felt more subdued ... dead, almost dying at least. That had saddened him endlessly for many years, even today in fact.
He came out with a fixed address in mind as always. 'The Titan Tower'
"Hahahaha" The blonde laughed halfway to reflect on something.
"I don't know how we are still alive living in a target for villains as big as that."
On the way, he stopped in front of a television´s store when he heard something of interest in the news.
"Superman has stopped an enemy missile sent by Russian. However, the Russian army managed to impact another missile near Gotham docks. The government has just ordered the navy to march against Russian troops heading to the country in ships. But for the moment there is only one doubt: Is this the start of a third world war? - "The blond walked again with even more regret.
"Hell hell, the government has you on a leash ..." The blonde frowned.
"This is my fault ... If only I had left those Mother Box's, this would not have happened, and the original league would not have dissolved."
He stopped and looked what is in front of him.
And there it was. In that old, dilapidated tower that was once her refuge.
With much melancholy he forced the door to open, entering the building with much nostalgia as on each visit.
He remembered how everyone would get together in the living room to watch a movie marathon all afternoon, night and part of the morning.
The blonde smiled at the big old screen.
"Mmmm. Maybe the solar generator still works?" When the Vic building was rebuilt, it never specified the lifetime of the generator.
Shrugging the blonde ran to the basement, lighting his finger with chakra to light up, because all sunlight had been covered by the ash clouds.
He stopped in front of an old-fashioned machine by today's standards and under the switch, smiled.
He could hear how the gates closed automatically, although the lighting did not return, it is surely due to years of deterioration in the lamps.
Crack Crack Crack Crack
The blonde frowned again when he heard something creaking and falling.
He went back up the basement stairs to the first floor and saw the broken down front door.
With determination and with firm steps I walk to the living room.
The path to Washington DC was shorter than I remembered, but still years had passed since the last time he flew at the speed of light ...
The one hour journey from Jump City, San Francisco to Washington D.C turned into a journey of less than a second, but there were so many thoughts in his head as he looked at the woman in his arms.
'Star fire ...' he could recognize her from all the stories of her by the other Titans and some internet photos from a long time ago, more specifically from the Titans' first active days.
He descended at last, before him was the great and imposing hall of justice that he once called base.
The tourists who completely filled the surroundings gradually moved away from him in despair as he got closer to the entrance of the hall of justice.
To the surprise of all tourists, no security system stopped him from entering there, and even the gate opened by itself.
It was a big surprise, after all, how the hell did they let in a criminal of his stature ? The man responsible for dissolving the Justice League, the man who made Superman in the president's puppet ...
She smiled cheerfully and lunged for the tin man to give him a crushing hug.
"Friend Cyborg! It's you!" Then she looked directly at him, doubt crossing her gaze.
"You look so-" Victor just laughed.
"Old?" She shook her head vehemently.
"Not so sad." She said with pity.
"..." Cyborg didn't reply, his face had a very indecisive expression.
"A lot of things change in 15 Star years." He said solemnly. The alien girl just opened her eyes in fear.
"You don't mean-"
"I told you" the blonde interrupted without much touch, the ex-hero smiled humorlessly.
"Things went from bad to worse with the Titans." Star was alarmed, the rash actions of recently came back to her mind like a tornado.
"I-I'm s-sorry" He apologized with much regret and despair, almost struggling not to cry.
Although the blonde did not know if it was due to the confirmed revelation or repentance.
The blond bit his lip without knowing what to say.
"I-" He stopped to think better of his words.
"Star? Right." She nodded tearfully, the man sighed wearily.
"Sorry," he said with much regret.
"Why?" Star asked confused with wet eyes.
"For posing as this." He said with a guilt that had accumulated for years in his chest.
"What do you mean?" She repeated confused, not knowing what the man with the mustache was blaming herself for.
"It is my fault in the first place that you are here, if it hadn't been for me you would never have jumped to help me or fallen into the portal and I-" Star got up a little to sit down and smile at him gently.
"You don't have to apologize, I wouldn't be a heroine if people in distress won't help" The blond looked at her in surprise.
"How?" Her lips trembled at the question.
"How can you forgive me so easily ?!" He yelled in frustration.
"You didn't force me to do anything! It was I who wanted to help you! I knew what could happen, but look at me here, I'm alive." Star screamed with conviction and out of that almost perpetually happy character.
It was not the bustling Star-Fire who was speaking, it was the exiled, tortured warrior princess of Tamaran, Koriand'r, who spoke.
"You," the blonde said before simply sighing.
"She's like you before all that Darkside shit." Kurama says.
"No" The blonde replied through his mental link. "She is better"
"Star ..." Cyborg interrupted the discussion.
"Do you know where Chronos fell?"
"Who?" The blonde asked.
"... I don't know. I appeared in front of the Tower of the Titans, but we must find him" Cyborg nodded to the words of the tamarean.
"Yes, and if things turn out well we will return you to the past, and maybe you can fix all this mess"
"What do you mean?" Star said.
Vic just smiled.
"Fix the shit of future we're in."
Following the greetings, the three former members of the Titans moved into a room very close to the medical hala. The place was huge and it has a very big screen right in the center next to a big keyboard.
"Very well." Cyborg said approaching the control center and typing. "If Star is here that means Chronos shouldn't be too far from here, or at least he's present in some other city right now so I have an investigation in hand. Let's see, let's search the security cameras." Wires came out of the command board and connected to Cyborg's nape, the man just closed his eyes for a few seconds to examine tons of information in just seconds.
"Nothing" He opened his eyes frustrated. "Or at least nothing in Jump City." He typed again on the command board. "I'll have to ask Night-" "No! You won't. You'd better ask Wally." The blonde interrupted Cyborg before he could contact Nightwing.
Cyborg sighed knowing of the enmity between Naruto and Dick. Without further ado he began to make the video call.
"Wait! What are you-?" "Hello? Vic?" A man with straight black hair appeared in the big screen, with a black and blue suit fitted to his body along with a black mask on his eyes. (Nightwing rebirth appearance)
Cyborg smiled cheerfully at the sight as the blonde just grumbled angrily. "Hey Dick! We have a little problem" Nightwing just raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"We have?" He asked curiously before noticing the blond stain, Blüdhaven's protector frowned annoyed.
"Oh whatever, Vic, just drop it." He said with annoyance.
"Star come here" Dick widened his eyes in surprise. "Don't tell me that ..." Vic nodded solemnly.
Star-Fire came to her side curiously having a slight idea of who the person on the screen is.
"Star I present to you Nightwing, you may know him as Robin" Star was surprised and looking more closely at the features of the man with a mask he was able to recognize his Platonic friend / love.
"You look so different ..." He said with a strong blush on his face seeing the defined muscles of the former Bat-Man sidekick.
"Whatever Dick" Naruto annoyed approached the screen emphasizing the last word a lot.
"Hasn't there been a robbery at an electronics store? Or a lab or something like that?" Dick shook his head.
"Let me guess, time travel?" The blonde nodded.
"Do you remember Chronos?" Cyborg asked him, Nightwing grimaced. "How to forget it"
"Well, you might have guessed it, unless your walnut-sized brain hasn't connected the dots. But either way, we need to return Star to the past." A vein swelled in Dick's forehead.
"Oh right! Says the guy who thinks there is a ramen god." Dick returned the mockery to the blond.
"Oh you- son of a bitch! How did you-" Cyborg slapped the blond!
"Stop fighting idiot!" The blonde imagined Cyborg's head growing to titanic sizes with an annoyed expression. (The chibi expression shown in the animated show)
"O-of course." The blond stuttered intimidated remembering Iruka-Sensei.
"Dick ..." Naruto growled. "You're dead" Nightwing smirked.
"Thanks Dick ..." Cyborg whispered and before I could end the call.
"Wait, friend Cyborg!" Star shouted. "We must unite to find Chronos and-" "Sorry, Star." Dick interrupted Star.
"But I can't leave Blüdhaven, things have been getting worse here since morning." Dick bit his lip, trying to hide his emotions when he saw the girl come back, alive. She was not an illusion, nor an impostor as she had sometimes been. It was her. But ... he cannot leave his city at this time of crisis.
"But I can have Oracle contact them and help them find Chronos." The blonde smiled for the first time since Dick was called.
"Thanks Dick." Cyborg thanked.
"Who is Oracle?" Star asked confused. "Why not contact friend Raven or Beast Boy?" The former members of the Justice League looked at each other sadly.
"They-" Cyborg tried to speak, before a lump formed in his throat that prevented him from speaking. "They are gone." Complete Cyborg with difficulty.
Star's eyes filled with tears, she covered her mouth with her hands. "B-but that's why you have to go back" The blonde spoke trying to raise the spirits of everyone in the place, including his own.
"You are the key Star, if you come back you will avoid all this" "Or at least I hope so" The blond thought.
The screen came on again unexpectedly, a single image, an eye. The image was static for several seconds before a person appeared on the screen.
The person is an adult woman, perhaps a little younger than the blond or Cyborg. Her hair is red and loose falling behind her back; she has rectangular glasses that shine a little in the light of the screen in which I contact them, she is sitting in a wheelchair. (Just look for the image of Barbara Gordon as Oracle)
"Barb" The blonde said smiling. The red-haired woman smiled at the blonde. "Naru" She nodded. "Vic and ..." Oracle's eyes locked on Star. "Who are you little?" I happily ask Star.
Trying to raise her spirits Star greeted her with a lot of noise. "Barb is not that I'm not happy to see you, but ... could you help us with a problem" The blond said in a bit of a hurry.
"Oh sure, sure" Barbara said before coughing a little in her hand and getting serious.
"Dick told me that they are looking for a criminal, something related to time travel ... mmm. Maybe we should call Wally, he has more experience with space-time travelers." Cyborg nodded. "In the meantime, I can locate unusual criminal activity, and review some surveillance camera footage near Star Labs in Jump City and another citys close San Francisco."
"Emmmm, who is Wally?" Star asked again confused. "You never met Kid-Flash, did you?" Naruto asked, Star shook her head.
"Do you know Flash?" She finally nodded. "Well, Wally is the current Flash. Only ... Well, he's more a vigilant now."
"What happened Vic ?! I'm kind of busy so hurry up and tell me!" A voice said through the speakers in the room in a very hasty way.
"Or Wally, Wally, Wally. Can't a couple of friends call their little buddy over for drinks?" The blonde said with a teasing smile on his face.
"Haha. Very funny Nar." Wally replied sarcastically, an explosion rang out in the background. "Where are they?" Wally asked more hurriedly than before.
"We are in the hall of justice." Wally laughed. "Are you still taking care of that old museum? Old man I thought you had stopped being a fellow when- Oh shit! Get out of the way! No! No ma'am I don't-" Cyborg hung up with a grunt.
"He will be here" She said with a sadistic smile. "And I'll show you who a fucking fellow is." Cyborg began to laugh wickedly.
"We better get away from Vic for a while." The blonde said wisely taking Star by the shoulder and pulling her out of the room where Cyborg made big plans to put Wally in her place.
Once the blonde sigh came out. "That was uncomfortable." Star frowned a little, barely, and knows the blonde but noted that the behavior his behavior had taken a one hundred eighty degree turn when Nightwing was called. Curiously I ask the blonde:
"What's your problem with Nightwing?" The blonde just avoided looking at her trying to divert his head to the sides.
"He and I ... we've never been on good terms, of course there was a time when ..." The blond began to mumble a lot of words that Star couldn't hear. "Anyway, he doesn't like me and I doesn't like him. When we were in the Titans we were always fighting." The blonde smiled wistfully. "And for whatever reason, we sometimes fought just over for the remote, even for what we would have for dinner." Star giggled a bit imagining the scene. "Seriously?" The ninja nodded.
"Although there came a point where we couldn't even meet face to face without a fight, that... are one of the reasons who ended up separating the team." Naruto just said with a sour expression.
"Sorry" Star said with embarrassment. "Why do you apologize?" The blonde said genuinely confused. "For hitting you." Star said regretfully. "I was pissed off confused, I didn't even stop to think about-" "Oh that, don't worry," The blonde said with a smile, in fact, a strange feeling told Star that he hadn't done it in a long time.
"I heard that tamareans are very fierce in battle so no problem." Star raised an eyebrow. "And how did you find out about that?" There was no point denying it, so Star just asked the blonde about how he knew about it.
"Well you're not the first tamarean I've ever wrestled with." Naruto said. "Actually, you look very familiar to me ..." The blonde held his chin with his fist. "Do you know a girl named Komannd'r?" Asked the blond, Star opened her eyes in surprise.
"Do you know my sister ?!" He said in a mixture of surprise and anger.
"Unfortunately yes, and it's your complete opposite, I mean, he wanted to stab my balls as soon as he saw me!" The blonde rubbed his member with some fear. "We fought a little and I beat her, I never heard from her again"
"And how do you know his name then?" Star said shrewdly. "O damn, she kept bragging about his greatness in every moment!" The blonde said annoyed rubbing his temple a little.
Star bit her lip, doubt covering her face. There are so many things that she doesn't know right now. "Can you tell me all the things that have changed since I left?" I ask timidly.
"Oh where to start ... Mmmm, well. After you left I joined the Titans, a few events happened that made Wall-I mean, Flash or Kid-Flash at that time join the team with Wonder Girl, Aqualad and more guys join the team. " Naruto avoided being too precise about the events that involved the team. "Well, we were together for at least a year and a half before ..." The blond grimaced. "That Raven's father came." The blonde's gaze darkened, he approached the nearest wall and simply dropped down to sit on the floor with his back against the wall.
"We managed to beat him, but what was left of the Titans was fragmented, and ... Raven sacrificed herself so that we could achieve victory." A cynical smile formed on the blonde's lips. "Gar (Beast Boy) died soon after, followed by Cassie (Wonder Girl), Megan (Miss Martian) was beheaded, Tara (Terra) was petrified, Tula died in an Atlantis revolt, Mal (Guardian) along with Karen (Bumblebee) are retired, Roy (Speedy or Red arrow) went to who knows where, Duela (Duela) committed suicide, Connor (Superboy) disappeared and here we are. We´re only four, five counting you. " Of all the people I named Star, he only recognized a few names, but it seemed that bad luck had been following almost all the Titans.
"We are in a dark time to be heroes. The war is about to start, the Justice League was dissolved by the government, corruption is in all government departments, Superman is now a puppet. There are only a few left who still into the streets, I can count them with the palm of my hand. Although I don't blame the others, having the government breathing down your neck is not pretty. " The blond sighed.
"Do you really think you can do it Star? Do you think you can avoid this future? Save the lives of millions?" Star still had many doubts, swallowed some saliva. A great determination that replaced the doubt filled his face.
"I will do it!" I yell in a warrior voice. Naruto smiled. Wally tapped him on the shoulder ... Wait! Wally?
The current Flash approached his ear and whispered in his ear. "She's really hot but I don't think you should encourage a teenage girl to dress like this little girl, you blondie pedophile, oh poor Supergirl I'll have to comfort her when she finds out that her crush is dating a girl!" The blond try to hit the man dressed in red, but it's not Flash for nothing, he just dodge the blow, and if it hadn't been for Cyborg the fight between them would have lasted a long time.
END OF THE CHAPTER.
Psss Ortizale317
Thanks for the help! And for letting me use the costume design you drew for Naruto.
For those who are interested in seeing his drawings, his Devianart profile is spider123.
And another thing, despite the fact that the future is over, blessed in The Dark Knight Returns, I only use the first part as a reference, so I leave the next two aside, that's why Dick is not a criminal and he is Nightwing. In addition, this fic is based on different versions of the Teen Titans, not only in the animated series, and I plan to include characters from other anime to the story.
And hey your reader!
Take care!
Try to get out of your house as little as possible!