FirecatRekka: blushes I'm surprise that people seem to like it. About the armors, this story is set after the Message OAV so they have their new armors. I have been told, I think it was Nina that said it, that the new armors was just protection. They didn't have any powers but that the powers come from the Troopers (i.e. Shin causing the ocean to be calm around the ship). As for new attacks, I haven't come up with any. I was thinking of using the old attack from the TV series and first two OAVs. If you want to come up with some attacks, then go for it. This story is going to remain under the Justice League section. I send a private e-mail off to you so that you would know that it has been updated.

Agent G: blushes and duck her head at the praise I still think yours will be better then mine. When I posted the story, decided to cut out some of the URL. I reposted with the URL in there so you should be able to use the link now. Hope you enjoy this next chapter. Might be a week before I post again. I'm working with Janime on the next part of "Steel Shadows".

Janime: Glad you like it. I'm taking you up on the offer for betaing this fic. Thanks for the ideas on the apartment too.

Pip: Thanks for reading the fic. I'll let you know at work or by e-mail when I update this fic.

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Title: Of Justice and Samurai Honor

Author: Star Lin

Part 3

Though it was still dark out, the first sounds of the new day were already starting. The pair on the floor didn't move at first at the sounds of cars moving down below them. It was the sound of a police car that finally caused the ear to twitch on the white tiger. Another movement of the ear and three wiggles of the black nose later found the tiger opening his eyes. Turning his head, he nuzzled at the still sleeping black hair man.

Ryo mutter something and buried himself even deeper into Byakuen's fur and the blanket that was over him. With a snort, the tiger stood up, which caused Ryo's head to hit the floor. "Ouch, Byakuen," Ryo groaned, pushing himself up to rub the back of his head. "I don't know which is worst, you waking me like this or having to shadow after you bathe me away."

Byakuen looked at him with amusement in his brown eyes. "Yeah, laugh it up, Yaku-chan." he said, sitting up completely. He chuckled as the tiger butted his head against his chest. "I forgive you." He stood up and stretched out some of the knotted muscles. He went over to the door, sliding it open. "You head on out and I'll see you tonight, hopefully with a key to a new apartment."

Byakuen grunted and hopped up on the rail of the balcony. Ryo moved to the railing as the tiger jump off. He watched the tiger hop balconies until he landed on the sidewalk and disappeared into an alley. He didn't exactly know where Byakuen had been hiding in the city but he guess it was the large park nearby.

Stepping back inside, he went about getting ready for the day. Ryo slipped into a pair of jeans and red shirt. Gathering up the butcher paper that the roast was in, he stuff it into the sack, and headed out the door.

Hitting the sidewalk once he left the hotel, he stopped by the newsstand down from the hotel. He needed to see if there were any apartments for rent, hopefully near the park or the Daily Planet. There was a diner that he had eaten at a few days ago. It wasn't anything like Shin's cooking, but it was still very good.

Stepping inside, he took an empty corner table. It was only after he was seat and the waitress had brought a cup of coffee that he took in the strange photo on the cover of the Daily Planet newspaper. He blinked, stared, rubbed his eyes, and stared some more. The photo on the front page didn't go away. It was a picture of a person in white and red armor, one of the two swords drawn from the sheaths at the person side, and what looked to be two section of stones or walls falling off to either side of him.

'How...how did someone get a picture of Rekka?' he asked himself. He read the titled above it. "New Superhero save lives in apartment fire. Who is this new armor warrior?" he said aloud.

"Ah, I see you're reading up on the newest superhero," the waitress said, placing a stack of pancakes down for him. "From what I read, he saved a lot of lives."

"I don't think he would want to be called a hero," Ryo said. He ignored the odd look that came from the waitress. "He probably did what he thought was right." And that didn't go right.

"Well, that could be true," she said. "Still if he hadn't show up, a lot more lives would have been lost, especially since Superman wasn't in the city at that time." She smiled at him. "Now, is there anything else that you would like me to get for you?"

"No, this is fine, unless you happen to know of any apartments for rent," Ryo said. At the shake of her head, he let a tiny smile come to the front. "Thanks anyway." He turned back to the paper shaking his head at the image of himself in Rekka armor. With a sigh, he flip to the section about apartments, knowing there wasn't much he could do about the picture now. He just had to make sure he didn't get involved in anything else again.

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Peter finished loading his camera as he waited by the door for Clark and Lois. Since the fall of Lex Luthor, Wayne Enterprise had bought new blood into the business community. "Dick told me in an e-mail that he was going to be standing in Bruce's steed for tonight," he told Clark and Lois. "Something came up at Gotham that Bruce had to take care of."

"Yeah, some joker decided to mess with the shipments of computer programs," came a male voice from behind Peter. He turned to see Dick Grayson, who had slipped by the guards that were checking the invitation of the guests. He stopped, voice lowering so that only the three around him could hear. "BM is taking care of it." He turn back to the door, "I'll show you to where the Press will be meeting before we start the guests show up. It'll be a while before all of the guest arrive for the fundraiser tonight."

'Shit,' Peter thought, 'can't they keep that crazy clown locked up?' He would have to grill Dick for the details on how Joker escaped this time. He followed after Dick and the others, spotting some of the staff from the Wayne Tech building that was in New York.

'New York! I forgot about what I found out from that digging I did.' He placed a hand on Clark shoulder. "I did find out some more information about the armor or at least one that might be connected to the one that is here."

Lois and Dick both looked curious at Peter as he explained about a green armor showing up in New York. A gang was killed and the reporter that had gotten the pictures was found stabbed. He also filled them in on the other four armors that had showed up, fighting the green one.

"I'm going to talk to a couple of contacts in the Police department to see if they might have been there. One of them might know something from the fight that took place." He would also bring the copy of the photo that he had found to the Planet.

"Care to fill me in on what you three are talking about?" Dick asked the three. "What is this about armor?"

Clark thought for a moment about what he had found out. "A person in samurai armor showed up a couple of days ago while I was working with the Justice League," Clark told him. "There was an apartment fire and Ralph Conner, along with Jimmy, was sent to cover it." He pushed his glasses up. "Ralph was a new reporter so he dragged Jimmy closer to the burning building then he should have. A section of one of the walls collapsed but the wall was cut in half. They were both injured but it could have been worse. Jimmy's camera went off at one point and it caught a photo of a person in some type of armor. While searching for information on it, Lois came across an article about some weird cloud formations that was seen over the Japanese Government building."

"Yeah, it looked like the clouds were reenacting a battle." Peter added. Before he could say anything farther, one of the staff for the fundraiser came over.

After a few quick words, Dick turned back to Clark and the others. "Sorry, I need to see to some of the other reporters," he said. "After this is over, I'll like to hear more, since Bruce might be interested."

Clark nodded to the young man. "We'll talk later, Dick."

It was several hours later, after they were filled in on who was on the guest list, and mixing with said guests, Peter froze as his spider-sense went off. He glanced around trying to place what had set it off. It was coming from outside. He looked over at Clark, catching the reporter's eye. He jerked his head toward the doors mouthing out 'Spider-sense.'

Clark frowned and lowered his glasses to x-ray the outside. His eyes widen as he saw the bomb hidden in a parked catering truck. "Lois, go tell Dick that there is a bomb outside the building." He quickly made his to the stairs.

Lois quickly made her way over to Peter. "Where's Dick? There is a bomb outside of the building."

Peter searched for Dick Grayson's familiar dark hair. Spotting the other, he took Lois' hand and pushed his way through the crowd. "Dick," he called out as he drew closer. Just as he was close enough to tell him, an explosion from outside rocked the building.

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Ryo stood on the rooftop of the building that he had found his apartment in, having watched the sunset over the city. Instead of street clothes, Ryo was in slick body armor. He had been luck to find a balcony to look out over the city from, and a stairwell close enough that he hopefully wouldn't have any problems letting Byakuen in and out without the neighbors finding out about the white tiger. The only problem with it was that there wasn't any area that he could convert into a dark room. The apartment was furnished but he was pretty sure he would never get any use out of the kitchen.

"Better head back to the hotel and start packing up," he said. Turning from the skyline, he started running across the rooftop. He had been jumping from rooftop to rooftop, heading for the hotel. He landed on the next roof, starting to run for the other side when he saw Superman rising up beside one of the business building. He began to wonder why the Metropolis superhero was carrying a catering truck up into the air.

He received his answer as the truck went up into a fireball. His eyes widen as he saw Superman thrown back into the building.

"Shit." Ryo cursed. There was no telling what kind of damage was done from that explosion. Building hopping would be the only way to get there without really being seen. He mental mapped out the best way to get there. Three small businesses, a bank, then to the right with an apartment block, and another business.

Taking off, he jumped onto each roof, pausing on the roof of the bank to listen to the faint sounds of fire trucks and police cars. "The police sure are quick here," he said. He turned to the right, angling for the apartment block across from the back, only to be find the very front of the bank exploding. The shock wave sent and the rumble into the apartment block.

Ryo cursed as he pushed up against the rumble that had partial buried him. Blue eyes narrowed at a van that pulled up, several men climbing out of it to enter the back. 'So that's it. The first bomb was probably to distract Superman. The second bomb must have been used to blow the safe.' He was pretty sure that this bomb took out the security system as well. "Looks like I'm not going to be able to stay out of trouble again," he said.

A growl sounded nearby. He smirked as the large shape came into view from the shadows. "Guess you heard the bomb too, Byakuen," he said. "Better keep them busy till the cops show up." A symbol began to glow on his forehead, taking the shape of a kanji. "Jin," he breathed, feeling the power flowing through his veins.

His hand closed around his wrist, making a connection for the power to loop through his body. Fire began to dance around the joined hands. "REKKA!" he cried out, the fire racing up his arms to in case him, and whipping his black hair around his face. The flames started to become solid, much like it was shaping itself into armor.

The first of the eight men to come out of the bank stared at the column of fire that was next to the very large white tiger. "Johnny, you seeing what I'm seeing?" one of the men asked, watching the fire form into what look like an armor from an old Japanese movie.

"Is it a column of fire that turn into a guy in armor and a white tiger?" Johnny asked. The two swallowed as the armor-clad left hand came to rest on the first of two katanas on his left side. The two dropped the moneybags and took off down the street.

"Byakuen, stop them," Ryo said. "I'll see to the others," he added as another four came out of the building. He needed to take care of these four quickly before the last two came out. He ignored the gunshots that rang out from one of the new men. "Don't you know it's not nice to shoot at a tiger?" Ryo yelled, launching himself at the four. He drew his swords, using them to pen two of them to the sidewalk.

He stumble a little as something slam into his back. He turned around to see the third man holding a bent crowbar. The guy's eyes widen as Ryo punched him. He hadn't used all of his strength, only enough that it would keep the guy on the ground for a while. He turned to see the forth one running but he was jerked up by some kind of thick webbing.

"Don't you bad guys know not to play with bombs?" Spider-Man asked. He looked over at the armor wearing person. "Hope you don't mind that I handle this guy. Nightwing has one of the other guys that your tiger was playing with." Spider-Man watched the eyes blink through the eyeholes of the mask. The man turned to see Nightwing had one of the first two tired up while the white tiger sat on the other, licking at a his bloody shoulder.

"Byakuen," Ryo called out, moving to see how the tiger had become injured. Lights blinded him and the sound of squealing tires drowning out the yells of "Watch out!" from both Spider-Man and Nightwing. The last two that had been in the bank must have gotten to the van. The van was now heading for him. 'This is going to hurt for a while,' he thought, placing his arms out, and bracing himself as the van hit. He gritted his teeth to keep his thoughts away from the pain in his shoulders. He dug his heels into the pavement of the road, trying to slow the van down, but still feeling himself being pushed back.

"What I wouldn't give for Kongo's strength right now." He blinked in surprise as another set of hands appeared next to his, blue running up the arms. The van stopped moving even though the tires were throwing up smoke. Ryo brought his hand back and slammed it into the front of the van. He jerked back, bring part of the fan out through the hole that he had made.

Ryo grinned behind his helmet mask as the men finally realized that they didn't have anywhere to go. They held up their hands, Ryo coming around to take the passenger while Superman took the driver. Handing the passenger over to Superman, he went to get the two he had pined to the sidewalk with his katanas. At sword point, he guided them over to the rest of the group.

"Well, I guess you don't need me hanging around," Ryo said. "Byakuen," he called, moving over to the injured tiger. He knelt down next to the tiger, examining the wound. "Looks like a knife," he said. "It could have been worse," he murmured, running his hand against the tiger's neck, the same area where Kokuen-Oh had clawed Byakuen's throat open. "I'll clean it up when we get back."

"You better wait," said Superman. He knelt next to the armor warrior. "Let me take a look." Superman was surprise the tiger only grunted in pain as he used his heat vision to cauterize the wound. "The police will need your statement..." he began, not sure what to call the warrior that was now starching behind the tiger's ears.

"It's Rekka," Ryo said, deciding that it was better to go by his armor's name. It wasn't like he was going to be doing this again. "This is Byakuen," he said, watching the brown eyes become glazed as he worked armored fingers deeper into the fur. "Thank you for helping Byakuen, Superman," he added, blue eyes smiling at all of the superheroes. "And thanks for catching those guys too, Spider-Man and Nightwing."

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Next in Part Four:

Statements are given and things turn back to normal. Days later, Ryo's fellow Troopers arrive for a party. Peter heads back to New York to keep searching for more information on Rekka.

Notes: Throw me some ideas on the bad guy that I should used to get all or almost all of the Troopers involved with the other superheroes, and anything else that you would like to see in the next chapter or farther on.