The Arrival
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Justice League or any related franchise. Contains OP Naruto. You have been warned.
~Unknown Region of Space~
Traveling at warp speeds, two beings can be seen conversing within a mass of energy.
"Uggghhh, are we there yet?"
"No, just 10 more minutes."
"Where are we going again?"
"I've told you this. We are going to see what the disturbance on Earth is about."
"Earth? Don't they have those 'superheroes'? Why can't they deal with it?"
"Unfortunately, my lord, it has something to do with the Mother Boxes and that one god from New Genesis."
"How many times have I told you, you don't have to address me like that. We've known each other for like a million years. And the god your talking about is that Darkseid fellow, right?"
"Yes, that's the one."
"Ah, this is such a drag. I'm not even a God of Destruction anymore, why am I doing this?"
"I thought it would be a good opportunity for you to stretch your legs. It isn't doing you well just sleeping and eating ramen all the time, besides I heard they have created a lot more types of ramen and added a lot more toppings since the last time we were there."
"Well, at least now I might get something out of this trip"
~Earth~
Currently the strongest heroes of the planet earth, also known as the Justice League, made up of Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Superman, Batman, Cyborg and Shazam, are facing off against the strongest being that they have ever fought. Darkseid, the so-called "God of Evil" and "Lord of Apokolips", whose sole objective was to obtain the Anti-Life Equation. In order to accomplish this, he devised the plan to probe the mind of every human to piece it together. With his army of parademons, he invaded planet earth to complete this objective.
"What the hell does it take to take this guy down!" Green Lantern shouted as he got from being punched away by Darkseid for the third time.
"I don't know you tell me" Shazam launches a bolt of lightning at Darkseid, only for Darkseid to tank it and shoot his own omega beams at Shazam, hitting shazam and sending him crashing into the concrete below.
"We need a plan" Cyborg blasts a wandering parademon with his arm cannon destroying it into pieces. "The parademons are easy enough to beat but with Darkseid here, its almost impossible to take them all down.
"It's kind of hard to make a plan against a guy whose been tanking everything we throw at him" Flash runs around Darkseid, unleashing a barrage of punches, while running around Darkseid in a tornado-like fashion.
"Indeed, your measly attacks won't even penetrate my skin" Darkseid grabs Flash mid-air and tosses him a few meters away into a wall cratering it in the shape of his body.
"How about we send him back to where he came from?" Cyborg continues blasting away at the surrounding parademons.
"And how exactly would we go about that?" Green Lantern says from behind Cyborg sending his own energy blasts made of his willpower converted energy.
"They came here through devices called Mother Boxes, which are creating portals or boom tubes. All we need to know is how to understand it" Cyborg replies.
"That went straight over my head!"
"Cyborg! You figure it out while we stay here and fight them!" Wonder Woman says annihilating two parademons with her blade.
"Alright! I'll go get some altitude and you cover. It shouldn't take long," Cyborg flies high into the sky taking out the Mother Box that he had gotten earlier. As he is holding it, the box sends out wires connecting to the mechanical body cyborg possess.
"Connection established." The box says in a robotic tone.
All around the heroes, boom tubes start reappearing, pulling the parademons that they were once fighting back to their home world of Apokolips.
"It's working!" Flash stands up and yells in hope and relief as he recovers from being thrown earlier.
Darkseid's omega symbol on his belt glows as a boom tube also appears behind him, slightly pulling him into it. However, Darkseid is not one to be defeated so easily and is able to resist the pull of the boom tube but is still somewhat struggling against its affects.
"Um, guys it's not working on him!" Flash was getting slightly worried. Their one idea to bring him down and beat him was not working.
"Don't worry I got it!" Shazam gets up from beneath the rubble that he had previously been stuck under and flies towards Darkseid and attacks with a surge of energy, slightly stunning Darkseid before he recovered, grabbed Shazam and pinned him to the ground, giving himself a foothold to withstand the effects of the boom tube. As he lifts a fist to potentially kill Shazam, Wonder Woman throws her Lasso of Truth and binds his hand pulling it away along with the Flash helping her.
"How dare you! I am Darkseid!" Darkseid menacingly yells out, before a red blur shoots out of the newly spawned boom tube resulting in a fist colliding with his body sending him flying away, revealing the Man of Steel himself.
"I. Don't. Care." The now free Superman rips off the control device that had been placed on him earlier, when he was captured, with an earlier fight against Darkseid and flies to him once more. Superman unleashes punch after punch, connecting with each one before Darkseid catches his fists. This however, only allowed Superman to force him onto the ground in a kneeling position before firing his heat vision into Darkseid's eyes to make sure he would be unable to access his omega beams.
Darkseid is then tossed again over Superman and the Justice League begins to join into the fray, with the Flash mowing into him with a speedy barrage of punches, Shazam blasting him with lightning and Green Lantern using the power of his ring to fire an energy beam. The combined force of their attacks pushes Darkseid closer and closer into the boom tube with Darkseid now hanging onto its edges with dear life. Superman and Wonder Woman join in with synchronized punches with force creating shockwaves with every blow.
"Now kid! Slam the door on his face!" Green Lantern commands Cyborg, who heeds the directions. Using his cyber connecting webs Cyborg tries to connect to the box to control it to close the poral but that only resulted in an error message causing the box to explode.
While this was happening, Darkseid had gotten his second wind and punches away Shazam, Superman, and Wonder Woman, who had been attacking him. Batman, who had also arrived from the boom tube at the same time as Superman, threw an explosive at Darkseid resulting in an explosion that veiled the second part his plan to use his belt's jetpack feature, attach it to Darkseid and push him into the boom tube, which worked, to an extent. The fuel ran out and Darkseid was able to escape the boom tube's pull and was able to block and counter the ensuing attacks of the heroes.
Cyborg, who was still tinkering with the Mother Box, finally had his stroke of luck being able to connect with the box only to get the message "INSUFFICIENT ENERGY".
"Shit! It's programmed but I don't have the juice to push it I need a huge blast of power" Cyborg resonated with the fighting leaguers.
"So, this was the source of the disturbance, eh. Huh, really doesn't seem like that much an issue" A deep, masculine voice said in a somewhat nonchalant matter of speaking.
"Huh, who the hell was that?" Green Lantern asked as the heroes mirrored the same line of thinking. The voice did not sound familiar and if it was here to cause trouble, they probably would not be able to handle it seeing as they had their hands full with Darkseid.
"No one in particular, but it seems to me that you are having a bit of trouble with this guy. I guess I can help you guys out" the voice says in a somewhat condescending manner.
"Hey buddy, I don't know who you are, but you should get out of here. This guy is no joke and if you don't want to get seriously harmed, you should leave this place immediately" Green Lantern did not want a presumed civilian getting hurt in this altercation. The rest of the League share with his sentiments giving bouts of agreements.
"Well it seems to me that-" Darkseid having had enough of the stalling yelled in frustration.
"Enough stalling, you heroes will die here by my hands!"
He once again attempted to start attacking the heroes running at them with thunderous footsteps. Key word being attempted as, not even a second later, an explosion and shockwave blowing back the League and everything around them enveloped the area, erecting a dust cloud in all directions. The heroes slowly recovered from the explosion coughing dust out of their lungs.
"What was that?" Shazam flew into the air to scout the area. Nearly a quarter of the city was now a desolate wasteland cratered in 50 meters.
"What the hell!" Green Lantern also looks at the destruction. The other heroes have an eerily similar line of thinking.
Within those couple of moments three figures suddenly made themselves known beside the now recovered heroes, giving them a first glimpse at the person who they presumed to be talking earlier.
One was the shockingly, extremely beaten up Darkseid, who was missing an arm and part of his torso, lying on the ground completely unconscious.
A female, who could only be described as an angel in her early 20's, who had silver white hair in a Hime-style, pupil-less lavender eyes, which gave the impression that she was blind but the League knew better. She possessed pale blue skin and held a pleasant smile which made the hearts of the males of the heroes skip a beat. She worse a lavender dress of sorts, reminiscent of princess attire, with an inflation at the shoulders. This along with an apron-like article of clothing that had a line at the top with a downward pointing orange triangle, two orange circles, and an upward pointing orange triangle, from top to bottom. A red waistband at the waste making her clothing stick to her body tightly showing a well-proportioned body that many women would kill for. She has a sky-blue ring floating around her neck and is holding a gold staff wrapped with orange in the middle and a floating black ball with another sky-blue ring around it.
The male wore a somewhat similar attire though it seemed more attuned to what a pharaoh would wear in ancient times. He looked about 20 and has a black headband with an etched in circle in the middle of the gold metal, holding back his short cut spiky blond hair which seemed to go on in every direction. He has sharp blue eyes and 3 whisker marks on each cheek and a gold earring on his right ear. He wore a gold-plated Usekh collar, covering both his chest and upper back, patterned with a black background and red stripes, separating what appeared to be red magatamas with a white diamond as the center shape. The rest of his upper body was bare save for the gold arm ring and gold vambrace that helped insinuate the rippling muscle and Adonis-like build he possessed. He wore a red sash holding up his baggy black martial arts Gi pants, which held an article of clothing colored black and gold, holding the same white and orange patterning that the woman had. The look was completed with brown shoes held with gold rings.
The league tensed up, seeing as their long-standing foe was now in critical condition and they were not confident they could take on a being that could defeat him that easily. This concern, however, was soon lost with the words that came out of his mouth.
"Yo! What's up?" The heroes were a bit shocked by the greeting, clearly not expecting the man to be so casual especially considering the overwhelming devastation around him. The Flash quickly got over it and responded.
"Nothing much man, we just got our asses handed to us by the big dude and now he's lying over there about to die. Speaking of which, shouldn't we do something about it? Not that I'm in favor of healing him or anything just that it feels kinda wrong to leave him like that."
"Yeah man sorry about butting into your fight, I was just a bit annoyed that he interrupted me and I don't like him. He's a jerk, doesn't even like ramen, but don't worry about him he won't die from something like this."
"That's a relief, I guess. So, pal, what's your name?"
"Naruto. Yours?"
"You can just call me 'The Flash'."
"'The Flash'? Are you some sort of streaker or something?"
"Nah dude, I'm just really quick and I can do things in a flash. So, they call me. The. Flash."
"Oh, I see, understandable."
"So, what's-"
"Ok, enough!" Batman rudely interrupts the conversation that the now named Naruto and The Flash were having. He puts his attention on Naruto and gives him his infamous bat stare "Who are you? And what is your purpose for coming here?"
"Yeah, who the hell are you?" Green Lantern chimes in.
"But I just told him, the names Na-"
"I mean, what are you?" Batman interrupts again.
"Man, you sure have a lot of questions."
"And you're not answering them. Now talk." Batman was getting a bit annoyed by the lax attitude the newcomer was displaying.
"Fine. Fine." Naruto says begrudgingly. "He's lucky I don't like destroying things or he wouldn't even exist right now..." Naruto says to himself while folding his arms behind his back. Though, those with acute hearing heard him.
"Now, now, listen well children," Naruto begins doing a traditional Japanese kabuki dance while kabuki music starts playing. A Japanese style sunset portrait suddenly appears behind him as Sakura petals fall out of the air. "I am the man who has no enemies in the North, South, East, and West. Not even in the heavens! I am one of the Hakaishins. The blonde-haired God of Destruction. Even a crying baby would stare in awe… The great Naruto! That is me!"
Silence permeates the air as anime style sweat drops appear on the side of the head of every hero present, while the still unnamed woman covers her face in shame. Naruto has a cloud of depression hanging over him.
"Is this some new ritual man has created?"
"I liked it. It had pizazz."
"Ok enough games. You got two options. Tell us what you are and what you are doing here and telling us what you are and what you are doing here." Batman was not one to let himself be run by emotions, but this guy was pushing his limits.
"Alright listen up bat boy-" Que tick mark from the caped crusader.
"it's batman"
"Same thing, anyway I don't know what stick you got up your ass but you gotta chill. Your life is too short to be getting so worked up" Naruto replied in a sage-like manner "Take a lesson from the streaker…" "It's the Flash" "…over there. He seems like a pretty chill dude."
"Yeah well that attitude doesn't give answers, which you haven't provided since I asked you. Now you got one more chance to answer my questions or things are gonna get ugly" Batman readies his hand at his belt.
"Are you threatening me? I'll have you know…"
The lady bops the whiskered man on the head with a light tap.
"Naruto-kun, don't get too worked up. It's unbecoming of your status" the angelic lady scolds.
"Buuuut Hinata, he's being meeaann" Naruto latches onto the now named Hinata almost like a child crying because he didn't get his way.
"Now you're being even more immature. Get a hold of yourself or no ramen for the next two centuries" She says as she tries to shake him off.
Almost immediately did Naruto get in upright position, arms folded behind his back.
"Ahem. Sorry about my immature behavior. I suppose I should answer you seriously now" Naruto says in an overly deep voice, trying to sound more mature than he is.
The Justice League just had deadpan faces watching the scenario unfold.
"So where should I start…"
Author Note
So, this is the first chapter of the Retired GoD. Tell me if you like. Be on the look out for the next one and all feedback is appreciated. I'll try and upload it within the next week. Dunno with college and all.
~blakartZ