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Chapter XIX: Leverage.

Last Time.

Superman shouts for everyone to get out as he grabs a hold of Barda and the others grab their opponent. Once they're out, Barda turns to Superman in surprise to save her. "You… You saved me?"

Superman, ignoring her fires his heat vision at Granny, causing the machine to stop. "Wonder Woman, Hawkwoman… Catwalk above. Their leader" Superman, panting called out to Wonder Woman and Hawkwoman before they flew towards Granny.

"Go!"

Granny just used her Fatherbox to open a boom tube which sends all three of them out into space. Superman, Wonder Woman, and Hawkwoman gasp for air out in the vacuum of space before Guy arrives and casts a sphere around them with his Lantern ring.

"Showboats! Always leaving the hard work for old Guy..." Green Lantern trailed off as they watched as the Orphanage escaped through another boom tube.

Gotham, November 07, 23:51 EST.

In Marie's and Paula's apartment, Garfield watched Gretchen's interview videos again on a laptop, Gar stumbles across the selfie that the girl took with him. He notices that the photo has 16 million Likes. He closes his laptop lid and thinks.

Now.

Burbank November 16, 16:16 PST.

"Space Trek, scene 16, take 16, action!"

Garfield changed into an alien bird and attacked the Klamulon in front of him to save his commander a Caucasian man with brown hair wearing the same outfit Garfield was wearing.

Garfield grabbed the pistol before the director yelled. "Cut!"

Garfield turned back and Gretchen whispered into the director's ear, forcing him to start again.

"Now, now Gretchen."

Turning back, they saw Naruto waking up with Marie. "That was good, or do you want to be sued for labor laws?"

After a moment, she smiled before calling it a day when noticing the police was pulling up. "I also let the local police know Garfield was complaining you're forcing him to work when he's supposed to be studying, so they'll be watching you."

Gotham City; Naruto's Penthouse 17:17 PST.

Stephanie was walking out the door before looking back to see the kids eating and talking with full mouths.

"OK, kids, no talking with your mouths full," Naruto said ruffling Lian's and Quentin's hair.

"Yes, dad/yes dada."

Naruto smiled as Damien was eating before he sighed. "You take after your mother."

"What do you mean?"

"You're too calm. You never acted out." Naruto finished walking to Xiang in a high chair before picking her up.

The Watchtower, November 16, 21:21 EST.

"Recognized: Beast Boy, B20."

Beast Boy walked in as Black Bat without her cowl turned to him before they walked up to the team with Kage and Aquaman standing in front of them. "M'gann's helping down at the Youth Center. Black Bat will be in charge of this mission, recon only." Naruto said crossing his arms as Beast Boy turned to Forager.

"They always say 'Recon only', but it rarely works out that way."

"With the League, vigilantes, and heroes being restricted because of Lex, this will have to be one. We're going into Russia, where the League needs permission to even step foot in." Naruto said looking at his brother-in-law.

"Russia?" Geo-Force asked standing by his sister who was in a brown color outfit like his.

"We're being sent to check out their Ploshchad 52 base," Bat said bringing up a snow-covered base. "We've got intel of a government-sponsored meta program there."

"No doubt the Russian equivalent of Bedlam." Geo-Force said as Naruto turned to him.

"I know what happened with your country and Russia isn't a happy story, but this could just be their equivalence to Taos."

Taos November 16, 20:20 MST.

A clone of Shinobi without his weapons stood in front of a large room with Dinah, Donna, and Megan sitting beside him. Eduardo Sr was at a podium while Nathaniel sat on the other side.

Naruto looked to see Leslie AKA Livewire, wearing a yellow top over a black tank top her gloves and black pants with leg bone designs on them and ankle-high boots sitting in a row of folding chairs.

He also saw Andy AKA Mist wearing a blue jacket over a turtleneck shirt and jeans sitting beside her with a couple of other teens that he couldn't make out before seeing one walk in while one stayed by the door.

The one walking in sat in the middle of the chairs and is a dark-skinned meta-teen girl with black hair and brown eyes. Her hair is short and slightly curly. She's wearing a white shirt under a dark green jacket.

The other is a slender teenage girl with blue eyes and curly blond hair that extends to her upper back. She's wearing a white long-sleeved shirt under a blue one, short jeans. She also has a purple hat, with a curl of blond hair on her forehead escaping from underneath.

She turned to leave before seeing Eduardo Jr at the door. He said something to her before teleporting to the second podium beside his father. "Guys! You want to get started, we want to get started. So let's get started."

"Thank you, Eduardo," Eduardo said to his son as the girl smiled before walking in to sit in the back. "Hello, and welcome to the STAR Labs Taos Meta-Human Youth Center. I am the Director of the facility, Dr. Eduardo Dorado Sr."

"And I'm just Ed," Ed said with a hand raise so people wouldn't confuse him for his father. "Peer Counselor."

"I'm here to give you answers," Eduardo said before Ed picked up.

"And I'm here to translate from adult speak."

"You have been through registration… It is time for orientation."

"Let's face it, you've been through hell," Ed said with a shrug. "So this won't be quite as painful."

"First things first," Eduardo spoke again. "You are not a prisoner here. You can leave anytime you want too. And you can stay as long as you want too. You set the pace." He then turned to Donna, Naruto and his wives. "You all can receive counseling from Dinah Lance, Donna Prince-Uzumaki, or Megan Morse. And Kage here volunteered to stop by and help in your training from time to time."

The four waved before a teen yelled. "That's not the real Kage!"

Naruto created a clone that dispelled before speaking. "You don't have to train with me or the others here. It's really only for those that want to control your powers so you don't hurt yourself, or others."

"They're crash! Er-great. You can really talk to them." Ed said before motioning to Nathaniel. "Or to your peer counselors, me and Neut back here. We've been through this before and want to help."

"Control is the goal here," Eduardo said before pulling a black metal collar up. "Which is why you'll have the option to use one of these inhibitor collars. These can turn off your power completely if you like. Full disclosure! These are the same collars used in Belle Reve on criminals."

"The difference here is, you're in control. You decide when to wear it, when to take it off or if you want one at all!" Ed said before Naruto looked forward.

"That's for the teens who gained dangerous powers that could injure or kill without meaning too, the collars are just for those extreme cases until that kind of power is under your complete control."

Verhoyansk November 17, 23:23 VLAT.

A camouflaged Bio-Ship flew over the snow terrain before coming up close to the Ploshchad base. The Team of Black Bat, Beast Boy, Geo-Force, Terra, Halo, a clone of Kage in his Dark Wear ran out with their costumes being white and grey as Beast Boy turned into a bird with his suit shrinking into a collar.

Geo-Force and Terra work together to create an underground tunnel to get them past the gates. Halo uses her powers to hide them all from sight via a hologram shield, while they listen in on the conversations inside.

They saw a female scientist turning to a red device that was similar to the Reach's as another woman with short blonde hair in bulky red armor with guns on her back and a whit '01' on the right breastplate walk up to a muscular man with short brown hair and beard wearing grey boxer briefs with metal around his arms, on his back and ankles.

Naruto turned his vision on and saw the others logo on the left of his screen Beasts Boy's was two green B's one reversed. Halo's was purple with a lighter circle on the edge with three energy lines spiraling. Geo-Force's was a light green GF. Terra's a dark purple T. And Forager's was a brown picture of his helmet.

He then had his translator box come up as the blonde-haired woman spoke to the man in Russian.

"Welcome, Lieutenant Dmitri Pushkin, to Area 52."

Dmitri saluted before speaking. "It is an honor, Colonel Olga Ilyich."

"It is an honor you have earned after volunteering and training. Soon, Lieutenant, you will take your place as the newest member of the Rocket Brigade. The binding of a Red to his armor is painful. Fortunately, you will be in a drug-induced sleep." Olga finished as the scientist opened the pod showing another red armor in pieces.

"Understood. And soon the Brigade will be revealed to the world… As heroes whose valor puts the Justice League to shame."

Black Bat hand-signed to the others before running back to the tunnel and had Terra close it. "Forager, prepare extraction, mission complete."

"It is?" Halo asked before Geo-Force walked up.

"Why are we not stopping this?"

"Because they're volunteering to be heroes. They're not being forced."

"But their government will use them as propaganda! They want to be the Russian Justice League."

"It's not our business what other countries do with their military. And they want to be the Justice League here. Better than the Light or villains in general, right?" Naruto asked as Terra pulled a rock from the ground and flew them to the exit.

"Black Bat, Beast Boy's feed," Halo said eyes glowing violet.

"Got it," Bat said as their eyes it up, Geo-Force's green and Terra's purple.

A video of two men and a gorilla came up. "Got confirmed IDs on Black Manta, Captain Boomerang, and Monsieur Mallah."

Captain Boomerang is a lean Caucasian male. He has brown hair with large sideburns up to his nasolabial folds. He has a large aquiline nose and thinks lips.

He is wearing a combo consisting of blue-gray pants, a light blue shirt, and a navy blue duster. He has a beanie hat that matches his coat, adorned with a silver boomerang placed like an inverted chevron. He also has more boomerangs in a black bandolier over his left shoulder.

Black Manta is wearing an armored suit with a manta-shaped head with two large, daunting red eyes. There are small tubes that connect from the back of the head to his shoulders. The hands of his suit are webbed; the suit also sports fins on each of his legs.

Monsieur Mallah is a large black gorilla with a dark gray chest and face. He wears a red beret and a green harness with darker colored circles with a minigun on his back holding a missile launcher.

"They're supposed to be in Belle Reve," Bat said as Naruto sighed.

"Sounds like Task Force X."

"Looks like they're planning a party for the Russians."

"And is that our business?" Geo-Force asked before Terra shot rock up to block the missile as Mallah shot the launcher.

The Team jumped out of a hole behind the villains as Naruto and Bat pulled their bow/crossbow and Halo's grey parts of her outfit glowed orange as she flew. "Black Bat?! You and I have a score to settle!" Manta yelled to the heroine.

"Really? Cuz I'm sure your son and I settled that score two years ago!" She yelled back as Halo created a shield around them.

Mallah, Manta and open fire on them. Beast Boy flies down, turns into a rhino, and rams into Mallah allowing the Team time to approach. Manta goes after Black Bat while Terra and Geo-Force handle Boomerang who threw explosive boomerangs at them. Halo assists them when Boomerang spoke up to her.

"Why hello there little Sheila. Have I got a proposition for you! You're everything I like best in a woman. An easy target!"

Halo gasps as that triggers one of Gabrielle's old memories of a man talking to her. Taking advantage of Halo's distraction, Boomerang hits her in the chest with one of his sharp boomerangs.

"HALO!" Geo-Force runs to her side as she falls.

After taking the boomerang out of her chest, Halo begins to heal. "Hey!"

Turning around, Boomerang was hit by a heel kick from Naruto before Manta ordered the three of them to fall back. Boomerang shook his head before he put up a smokescreen for their escape. Just as the Red Brigade flew up with Dmitri in his armor.

"OK, let's calm down here," Naruto said raising his hands. "We didn't come for a fight. In fact, we stopped the missile from hitting your base." Naruto said as the villains spied on them from a hill near them. "We didn't come here to attack!" Naruto yelled before a missile hit the Red's and Halo created a shield.

"Forager!" Bat yelled as the Bio-Ship came into view and shot at the three villains who attacked them. "Drop the shield Halo!"

Doing so, the heroes attacked the villains as Black Bat pulled her staff out and attacked Manta as Naruto attacked Boomerang with his nun-chucks. Geo-Force attacked Mallah as Terra brought rocks up to protect Halo who was still healing. Geo-Force fell through the ground before appearing behind Mallah, ran up, and melted his gun.

Black Bart was hit with red lasers shot out of Manta's eyes before the Reed's dropped down and shocked the villain.

As the Team gathers themselves, the Rocket Reds turn their weapons back on them as Naruto tries again to convince them that they are not enemies, stating that they could have used Bio-Ship to attack at any time. "All we ask is that you allow us to leave with these men."

Pushkin is not convinced, saying that they have violated Russian sovereignty. "OK, we won't resist, but then word will get out that your secret base was infiltrated by two separate covert teams."

"Just go!" Ilyich orders them all to leave in English.

Taos November 17, 07:07 MST.

Kage, wearing his half mask with a white T-shirt with jeans sat with Ed with Andy, Leslie and the two teen girls in a circle of chairs in the basketball court of the center.

"(Scoff!) Please, as you've ever had to wear an inhibitor collar," Leslie said to Ed.

"As I said, Leslie, that's only for those that have dangerous powers, like Nathaniel who's power can blow up an entire city. When he lost his powers he told me 'Better safe than sorry, I want a collar if my powers ever came back.' And I'm sure there are other meta's out there with that kind of dangerous powers that wants to get rid of them." Naruto said arms crossed.

"What about you?" The blonde-haired girl asked Ed with an Australian accent.

"Me? I used to pray to get rid of my powers. I still don't see myself as the hero type. But, I've learned to accept, even love my meta powers. They're apart of me now. Do I pretend they don't exist? No, no collar."

"Yeah Spike here could go into another business. Oh! Maybe bounty hunting." Naruto said getting the teens to stare at the ninja in confusion getting him to sigh. "Oh come on! It's starting to hurt that you don't get that!" He finished as the blonde created a small tornado on her hand.

Later, the group is about to begin training in a special chamber. Eduardo Sr. watches them from behind the glass, instructing them all to control their meta-human powers, not to let the powers control them. Livewire scoffs at that. "That's too Basic for Mist and Livewire are so beyond this." She said before feeling a kunai at her throat.

"Never forget the basics," Naruto said before pocketing the blade. "Even a basic move can beat an advanced one."

"Call me… Windfall!" Wendy, the blonde-haired teen aid creating a large tornado.

"Take it easy," Naruto said as Wendy creates a cyclone that ensnares Mist and knocks her to the ground. Livewire uses her powers to stop Wendy and is about to attack again for hurting Mist. "Whoa! Leslie!" Naruto said stopping her.

"But-!"

"I'm sure you've done worse when getting your powers."

Suddenly, the wind begins to suck all of the oxygen out of the room, causing everyone else to fall to the ground, gasping for air. In a panic, Wendy realizes that she can't turn her powers off. Eduardo Jr. crawls towards her as Naruto grabbed her before they teleport outside the Center. Wendy falls to her knees, crying, calling herself a monster.

"Wendy, look at me, breath," Naruto said picking the teen up. "It was an accident." She continued to cry as Naruto hugged her.

Belle Reve Parish November 17, 10:10 CST.

Belle Reve guards escort Black Manta, Boomerang, and Mallah back into their cells. Aquaman and Kage stand by, watching. Manta is without his helmet showing he's an African American male with high cheekbones and black hair that is graying around the temples. He also sports a thin ring beard.

He and Aquaman then make eye contact. "Kaldur'ahm, seeing you in those colors turns my stomach."

"Then it is fortunate you cannot see them from your prison cell, Father," Aquaman said before they talked to the Team. "We spoke with Warden Economos about the three dangerous criminals escaping under his watch."

"Let me guess, he had no idea they're gone?" They heard Stephanie over the comms.

"Yep, I think he's with Amanda Waller though. Wouldn't be the first time the Warden here was working for another group." Naruto said remembering a Hugo Strange took over in 2010 while working for the Light so they could hide criminals doing work for them.

"How'd the new team do?" Aquaman asked.

"You know they can hear you right?"

"So?" Naruto asked crossing his arms as Bio-Ship was still near the prison. "I was always asked by Batman when starting when you were in the room. Keeps you from lying about them if they sucked."

"Halo got banged up but she's fine."

"And Terra?"

"She did fine."

"So what now boss?" Beast boy asked after Stephanie spoke. "Press conference?"

"No, best not to let everyone know that the prison Superman tested by trying to escape had criminals escape it anyways," Naruto said before hearing a woman speak up before looking up.

"Amanda Waller."

Amanda Waller is a short, slightly overweight, African-American woman, with black hair clamped back into a ponytail. She sports an unbuttoned navy blue suit jacket, a light-blue shirt underneath, a pair of brownish earrings and a black tie. She also has a knee-length navy blue skirt and black heels.

"What brings the prison's former warden here?"

"My job and duty, when you people aren't interfering."

"So it was your Suicide Squad," Naruto said crossing his arms. "Surprised you got that back after the one in Arkham went awry with Frost." (1.)

"With what's happening, we need to run hazardous missions we wouldn't risk our people on."

"And yet you risk losing Manta on the world?" Aquaman asked Waller who turned to him.

"There are carrots and sticks. Very persuasive sticks. Our operatives know they're extremely expendable."

"Why talk to us now?" Naruto asked uncrossing his arms.

"You expose my operation and I expose your little playgroup," Amanda said as Naruto grinned.

"Or I could call up Cat, Iris, and Lois for an inside scoop showing me training the League's proteges."

Amanda just walked away at that before Naruto heard Beast Boy speak. "She's Bluffing!"

"Maybe, although I did make the Team so you all would learn to fight without your mentors Gar. I also made it covert because no one was ready to be in the crosshairs. Can you say for certain everyone's ready for that?" Beast Boy stayed quiet at that as Naruto sighed. "Right, when they're ready then they decide to get into the spotlight."

Taos November 17, 10:10 MST.

After another therapy meeting between the group in Taos, Mist and Livewire walk away, glaring at Wendy in distrust. Ed and Kage stay with Wendy, who now is wearing an inhibitor collar.

Dakota City November 17, 11:11 CST.

Hardware allows Helga Jace into a laboratory that has been laid out for her. Helga smiles, satisfied. After he left, she then picked a hairbrush out before starting to examine the hair she pulled out of it.

Gotham City November 17, 16:16 EST.

Beast Boy is sitting on his bed looking at the photo that he took with the fangirl, again. He notices that the photo now has 52 million Likes before suddenly it goes up to 52.1.

In Naruto's penthouse, Artemis is letting Lian feed her ice cream before she turns to watch Naruto washing the dishes in the sink and smiles. Brion, Violet, and Tara are all in the living room drinking coffee. Brion notices that Violet seems distant. "Violet, are you OK?"

"Yes, just a little tired," She replied before Naruto calls from the kitchen for a little help. Brion gets up and walks into the kitchen to assist. He kisses Violet on the forehead, letting her know how wonderful it is that she came into his life.

Once he's gone, Violet thinks back to when Boomerang said "proposition" and the memory that it triggered: Henchy offers Gabrielle money which Gabrielle takes. Later, she is walking down a hallway at the Markovian Palace. She types a code on the keypad of a door that opens, allowing the killer of the King and Queen to enter before she was knocked out.

Distressed by the memory, Violet watches as Brion and Tara help Will with the dishes. "He can never know." She said as Naruto glanced towards her for a moment.

To Be Continued.


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