Hiei's Justice

Chapter 2

In Blackest Night

If you told Hiei a month and a half ago that he'd be standing in a space station to learn how to fly a jet able to travel both on earth and in space with a very realistic simulator, then he'd use the darkness flame to consume you in a fire so hot that not even Superman can get out unburnt. That little call a month and a half ago was actually a call to invite him to be a part of some group called the 'Justice League', made up of those that fought in the invasion of earth against the invaders, except Batman since he isn't really a joiner and would prefer to work with them part-time. Since Hiei didn't really have anywhere to go and knew that it was likely that he'd get some entertainment and be kept busy with them, he decided to join full-time, this way he should be able to go places with 'credibility' in search for a way to unseal the path back home.

What's more is that he decided to 'claim' Japan as his stomping ground, similar to how Batman had Gotham and Superman had Metropolis, he now had Japan as a whole to watch out for, and he was actually doing a good job so far, though he wasn't able to kill the humans he caught. The stray demons though that were still active were fair game, dispatching them was quick and left no evidence, he was quickly becoming Japan's number one hero, though he was still a mystery to many since he 'just showed up out of nowhere' according to the news at least.

Sadly to do this, he had to reveal what he truly was, a demon, got very confusing when Wonder Woman questioned why he was up from the underworld, said that he'd explain later, just never said when, told them how he came to be here and why he was trapped on this side of the plain. They asked him what they can do to help, he said to stay out of his way since he knew they couldn't help him getting to the other side of life, they agreed but if he needed their help with anything he could ask, he just grunted and went on his way back to Japan to demon hunt.

"Watch your vectors," the voice of Hawkgirl broke into his thoughts from behind him, she was his chaperone for this simulation since everyone else was busy, he had memorized the manual last night but this simulator was more of a realistic exorcise, he adjusted the vectors, "you're learning."

"Hn," Hiei grunted, despite how she comes across, she was actually a patient teacher, if you had experience and you messed up she wasn't, but if you were new to flying or anything, then she was patient, it surprised him quite a bit, everyone else too since they whispered about it earlier.

"Not bad, when's my turn," Flash asked while looking over the fire demon's shoulder, that one was by far the most annoying human that Hiei had ever met, only one more annoying would be a tie between the boy-scout Superman, and the big oaf Kuwabara, he hated them the most.

"You have been working quite well up here in space," J'onn said as he came from the elevator to check on his progress, he had been up here the most besides Hiei and Hawkgirl, they had both been trying to get the fire demon use to space and advanced technologies so he wouldn't be a weak link.

"It is difficult to fail if you take the time to hone your craft and refine technique," Hiei stated bluntly and sagely, he does that often, his way of coping with not having the fox there to give him advice, it was the end of the simulator and he landed it down quite hard, "damn, need to watch that."

"Yes, but you did quite well for your first try in the simulator, especially given that you've never even flown in a plain before," Hawkgirl commented as he stepped out, he made to correct her when she interrupted, "standing on top while Batman flies his plane doesn't count," she informed.

Hiei would have argued about that but alarms started going off around them at that time, "it's an incursion," J'onn stated as they rushed to the nearest window just in time to see large red men with blue gloves and boots rocket out of space and into the atmosphere of Earth, descending quickly. "I'll notify the others," they quickly all left and headed for the hanger where they waited for J'onn, when he got in he quickly notified them, "Wonder Woman is on another case, Superman is dealing with an earthquake, Batman would only say that he's busy, and I couldn't reach Green Lantern." Hawkgirl piloted the jet and they headed down for the planet where the aliens landed and began descending silently as the red robots walked around in search for something, "stop," J'onn commanded as him and Hawkgirl flew the Flash down and Hiei just phased in, "what do you want here?"

"John Stewart, the Green Lantern," the robot asked with an authoritative tone, one you would find in law enforcement of some kind, so one space cop was trying to arrest another space cop, this was going to just be one huge headache after another one, "and it is none of your concern why."

The robot began to walk forward until Hawkgirl got in his way with a low angle and her mace ready to strike, "wanna bet," the robot swiped at her but she dodged and swung with her mace, it grabbed the hander and swung her backwards over his shoulder with ease letting go of her mace.

Flash ran to catch her while Hiei brought out his sword and swung it after just appearing behind one of them, it scrapped against the metal man but that was it, didn't leave anything more than a scratch, so he went with a different tactic while J'onn took on another one, and losing to it. Hiei decided that if his normal blade wouldn't work, he'd use another blade, the robot turned and was about to backhand him, but the demon was too fast for the machine and appeared above it again, this time coating his sword in dark flames, it allowed him to pierce the skull of the thing. He always went with the killing blows, no need to draw out the fight any longer than needed, and they only needed one alive, he jerked the blade out of the robot and went to fight with the next one and was able to see J'onn go flying thanks to an electric staff they carried.

The other two just stood there with narrowed eyes at the fire coming off the sword, their sensor's couldn't even tell how he did that, they should have been able to calculate where he would appear in an instant, but they didn't because their reports suggested no lethal force was ever used here. It was around that time when Hawkgirl came in and knocked one in the back of their head with her mace sending it to the ground, she was going to attack the other one, but it put up its staff to block her mace before sending an electric blast that sent her flying into a restaurant and into a wall. The Flash came in to try and speed around them, but the same one stuck out his staff and knocked it into flash and made him tumble to the ground with a role just as she came out of the wall and flew to him to check on him, "why do I feel like a hockey puck," he questioned, he was fine.

Hiei speed their way with his sword, they began walking again in search for Green Lantern, the one on the left raised his electric staff over his head to attack Hawkgirl while the one on the right stuck out its staff and electrified it to send a blast behind him to strike at the demon with it. Hawkgirl was caught and electrocuted before being slammed down onto a car while the one that fired missed do to the predictability of the shot, and it was just so slow to reach him that it was easy to dodged, the mistake cost the robot its legs before he was cut diagonally at the right shoulder.

The one that slammed Hawkgirl down was about to jab her with the electrified staff when the voice of Superman said, "back off," before flying into the machine and made it crash into a building, he was about to punch him again the robot shot at him from below with the staff. If forced the man of steel back with a powerful laser that he struggled to get past, when he did he grabbed the end of it and broke it before ripping it from the robot's hands with both of his before breaking it again and throwing the pieces away and body slamming him into the ground.

"We thought you were busy with an earthquake," Flash asked Superman as he speed to behind the big man, the man of steel said it was just a 4.0 as Hiei walked past them calmly and stood before the robot as it was getting back up, it looked to be ready to fight again though, great.

"Before you try and fight idiotically again and let us prove that you are hopelessly outmatched against us, why not tell us why it is you are after the Green Lantern of this planet, surely a machine such as yourself would see the more logical sense of this situation," Hiei offered it.

Instead of continuing to fight, it decided to talk since it would be pointless to fight more, "the Green Lantern known as John Stewart is wanted by the high tribunal of Adjouris 5 for the complete destruction of an entire planet, Adjouris 4," the robot informed them much to their shock.

"John would never do such a thing, he isn't the type to do something so terrible," Hawkgirl snarled at the robot, while marching to him and grabbing him by the throat to lift him up with a mace ready, "and you better go back to your tribunal and tell them that, and he's not guilty."

"Yes I am," the familiar voice of Green Lantern called down to them as he floated down to their level, he had his head down in shame at what he'd supposedly done, he used his ring to separate them from the red robot and began walking to the thing, he looked back to them, "stay out of this."

With that order given he turned back to look at the red robot, "your ring," it said as it stuck out its hand, John brought up his hand and gave it his ring, "you will come with me," the robot said as it placed cuffs on the Green Lantern, a yellow light shown down upon them before it retracted them away.

They all decided to go back up to the watchtower, thanks to the psychic connection he had previously been establishing with the rest of the team, J'onn probed some of his mind but was too far by now to see anything other than, "I sense turmoil within his mind," which was the obvious.

"I could've told you that," Flash commented as Superman began walking to the holographic projector and began to pull up a map of Adjouris 5, "we have to go help, who knows what kind of corrupt system they have there, they are probably framing him for something he didn't even do."

"It pains me to say it, literally physically pains me to say it, but I… agree with the red buffoon," Hiei commented as he walked up to the map and everyone deadpanned stares at him, he ignored them, "and Lantern doesn't seem the type to do something without meaning behind it."

"That's true," Superman stated as they all filed out and headed for the jet that they used to fly in, Hiei being the last and therefore set in the back as they made their way forward, it did take some time before they made it to the planet, and when there, "initiate landing procedure," he stated.

He was about to push a button when three ships were beginning to fire on them, and they didn't seem to want to stop either and given that Flash just stated, "they're not responding to our signal," it didn't seem like they wanted to put up with uninvited people showing up to the trial.

"It's clear what they want," Hawkgirl said as she was about to press a button, "I say we give it to them," that did sound like a viable option, but they came here to help Lantern, not to start a war while they were there to help him, the earth would not survive a war with another race so soon.

Which must be why Superman grabbed her wrist and pulled it away, "no, we're not here to start a war," he said as he got up and motioned for the flyers to all do the same, "Hiei, you take the controls, think of it as some more practice for your landing," he smirked to the demon as he went.

Hiei didn't give the man of steel the satisfaction of responding and instead just took his place on the controls and began to fly the machine, blasting from the flyers began to force him to lower the aircraft to avoid them aiming for the jets and stranding them on the planet for some time yet. This brought him down to the city levels, he used his superior demon reflexes to turn the jet and make sure he didn't crash into anything, though at one point he got a notice that two ships were on a collision course for him while coming on opposite sides of the ship, behind and in front.

"Dude," Flash warned as he also saw the ships in front of them, but the fire demon kept on going, they were at least competent enough to know to go for his wings since they got in position to do that, "dude, we're not all immune to fire like you," the red buffoon exclaimed to help warn him.

At the last second, Hiei turned the jet to where the enemy aircraft passed right through them with him in the middle but the sudden action caused them to both lose their focus and the fire demon saw the surprised ship stumble from the action caused since it swerved while in mid-air. That was what he wanted because now since the pilot was shook, he brought the jet they were in up and gently began to lower it until it was on top of the enemy aircraft, once it noticed this it began to go lower and lower until it did a small crash landing on a strip that was clear of civilians.

The fire demon began flying the plane normally now and waited until the others were done and came back to the jet, "good job out there," Superman complimented as he moved forward and Hiei got up so that he could take his place to pilot the aircraft so they could fly to Lantern.

Adjouris 5 tribunal

Inside the courtroom held a floating man talking to the crowd, "there is no excuse for this horror, and there can be no escape from punishment, an example must be made," the speaker was obviously some kind of prosecutor, so it was with delight that Hiei and the league interrupted him.

Superman burned a hole in the dome surrounding the courtroom and floated in, followed by J'onn carrying Flash, Hawkgirl flying in, and then Hiei phasing to the melted part before phasing away and landing where Superman also landed, "order, we will have order, remove the intruders immediately."

Two average sized 'bailiffs' came forward on hovering crafts to begin the removal, but Superman immediately stopped them by grabbing them as if clotheslining them and then tossing them away, some red robots like before began to move forward when Superman spoke up to avoid a fight. "Wait, we apologize for disrupting these proceedings, but John Stewart is our friend," coming under the guise of coming to comfort a friend, nice touch, but he just ostracized them from the crowd so nobody would talk to them so they could do some detective work to help Lantern now.

"This is a public trial," the female judge head admitted, "very well, you may take seats in the gallery, but this tribunal will not tolerate any further outbursts," Superman nodded to the condition and they went to their seats to listen to the rest of the trial that was sure to be rigged.

The prosecutor was ready for his first witness by this point, "I call Kanjar-Ro," in came a strange looking humanoid being that slumped like he had something to hide, after talking with a bailiff, he was put on a platform and rose up to meet the prosecutor, "state your name and profession."

"Kanjar-Ro, I'm… a pirate," so this man in blue with pink skin came to testify against someone else, "now, I may steal some things now and again but it's nothing compared to what he did," he accused looking back towards Green Lantern and emphasized it with a pointing of his finger.

The crowd chattered amongst themselves while the prosecutor pushed a button on his floating podium stand and a pale white beam came from over Kanjar-Ro to hold some purpose that Hiei didn't know, "tell us about your encounter with John Stewart," the prosecutor ordered the pirate.

"It all started with these blasters I… found, I was on my way to sell them to some rebels on Adjouris 4 when he showed up, I figured he was gonna try to stop me so I shot first, his ring tore out my engine but his still wasn't done with me, wanted to know if I was working with anyone. I told him to turn around and see for himself, he tried to shoot my friends but his beam bounced off their deflector shield and shot toward Adjouris 4, there it hit a volcanic fault line… starting a devastating chain reaction, three billion… that's how many were on that planet," he testified.

The prosecutor had no more questions for the witness, "this account is most disturbing, we will recess… 20 petacycles," the tribunal ordered and let everyone stretch their legs and think on what they've been told in a horrible account, though it was clear that it wasn't adding up to something.

Superman, Flash, J'onn, Hawkgirl walked up to Green Lantern while Hiei remained back to think on a few things himself, that story had too many holes in it, and based on Lantern's reaction, it was all true, but it still didn't feel right and his instincts were screaming that at him about it. He absently looked up to look at the destroyed planet and saw the impossible, now he wasn't very knowledgeable on the subject, but he believes that Adjouris 4 has a moon still, a moon that shouldn't exist anymore, let alone stay in the same orbital pattern that it was staying in. He began to search using his demon energy and didn't tell anything since they were too far away, so he raised it higher and was touching the edge of something, but he needed to go even higher, so he did and caused everyone else to gawk at him for releasing so much energy. It was then that he felt it, an entire planet of souls and spirit energy coming from where Adjouris 4 was supposed to be, that damn bastard Kanjar-Ro must have been paid to play everyone for a fool to sow discord into the ranks of the Green Lantern corps, this is just annoying.

"Hiei, turn it off," Superman shouted to the demon that was causing a scene to those that were still in the court room and saw it, when he brought the energy down the others flew or ran up to him to find out what was going on, "what were you doing that required you to release so much?"

"I was stretching my sensing ability to reach to this Adjouris 4, I found spirit energy living up there, an entire planets worth, so I imagine that what we are seeing now is an illusion cast by a powerful thing, living or machine, I've known a few psychics that could potentially do that after some time." They all looked to him like he was mad until he pointed up to where the supposedly destroyed planet was, "are destroyed planets supposed to have their own moon still in orbit," the look he gave them was all deadpan, and when they looked up and saw he was right, they looked and he was smug.

"Fine, we'll go check it out, J'onn and Hiei are with me, Hawkgirl and Flash, you two stay here and buy us some time in court," at least Superman wasn't as idiotic as some of the others, he at least let the fool do what he did best, make a fool out of himself to distract their foes while they work.

"You're asking the world's fastest man to slow things down," Flash gave them a deadpan look as he said that, or at least as deadpan as he could give them with his eyes covered, "won't be easy," he finished the statement as he started, a deadpan look, Hiei left them to get back to the jet.

The other two flew there to catch up with him, when he got there he noticed the energy of Kanjar-Ro, he turned around and stared him down as he watched from the shadows, J'onn and Superman flew in and lowered the ramp, "so what do you expect we will find," J'onn asked them.

"Whatever that little worm is hiding," Hiei said and with a rush of speed struck the pirate in the back of his neck making him fall forward and into the ground where Hiei dragged him towards the jet, "he was following us and now we're going to find out what he knows on our way." As the worthless scum was tossed into the back of the jet, they took off and headed for the illusion that was cast over a world, J'onn rose from his seat in the co-pilot's chair and approached the awakening alien that looked up with defiance in his eyes, though a hint of fear edged in it.

"You have very few choices Kanjar-Ro, you can talk with me and let us finish this as quickly as possible," J'onn began to tell him and earned a bit of a grunt from Hiei, "or you can deal with my colleague here, who doesn't mind roasting your flesh until there is nothing but ash covering you."

Hiei walked forward until he knelt before the pirate, and placed a hand to the criminal's shin, just above his ankle, "did you know that human skin melts at 212 degrees, that is in Fahrenheit, however I've known aliens to have much tougher skin," his hand began smoking now. Superman looked very uncomfortable at being witness to a torture technique of any kind, and he wasn't sure the mental torture would work, Batman wasn't here for his interrogation, "do you smell that, it smells like cattle being grilled," and Hiei seems natural at playing the 'bad cop'.

The man wanted to scream, but before he could J'onn spoke up, "if you don't talk I'm not sure what the worth of the money that you got would be if you're not around to even use it at all," the point that was made was a valid one, and the alien knew it too, so he decided to talk.

"Fine, just get the fire starter away from me," Kanjar-Ro pleaded, he might have talked with just Hiei but the point that J'onn gave was good as well, so the fire demon backed off and let the alien talk, "I was paid to put on that show that put the Green Lantern under prosecution for the crime."

"We already figured that out," Hiei stated as took a single step forward and before the alien could blink was held by his throat while being slammed against the wall, "you better give us something we can use to get out of this mess or you will have me to contend with alone," the threat was clear.

"Fine, it's the Manhunters, they want revenge because long ago they were the Guardian's main source of army based fighting power, not the Green Lanterns, they wanted me to lead them away from their home world so that they'd be able to attack it and gain the power," Kanjar-Ro admitted.

"Finally something useful," Hiei stated as they began to approach the moon of the planet, "show us where the thing is that is hiding the planet," the fire demon ordered and the alien had no choice but to comply, it seems that fear works better than he thought with aliens as well as humans.

They were led to what looks like a very large generator of some kind, "when I was a child on Mars, we had small toys called illusitrons, they could project crude images over objects and even empty space, this is a larger version based on the engineering principles," J'onn informed.

They were outside the ship, all in space suits of grey base color and gold for the helmet and shoulders and belts, even Hiei was in one since he needed air to breath, the alien was in his own suit though of a blue and white color and peach colored helmet, all looking up at the projector. That is when Hiei turned to said alien, "you're very unlucky," the fire demon approached the alien who looked on in confusion, the other two also turned to the scene that was being played out before them, "now we don't need you anymore," the alien was then grabbed by the throat by him.

The fire demon's hands started to burn and the alien started to scream in fear as the suit started to burn as well before a hand grabbed Hiei's wrist, following it back revealed it to be Superman, "we don't kill Hiei, heroes don't kill," the grip began to tighten until Hiei was forced to let Kanjar-Ro go. Yet when the alien was released, the burning of his suit was already done, the air was sucked from him and when Superman turned to help him, Hiei used his own strength to smash the alien's helmet in, he was soon going to die, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, NOW HE'LL DIE," the boy scout yelled.

"Then it was his own fault for putting us through this and being weak," the fire demon remained in place and looked up to the giant machine as Superman turned to him, "and don't give me any pathetic drivel about life being sacred and death isn't justice, because I don't care, now go to Lantern."

Superman made to argue, but a hand on his shoulder form J'onn told him that it would be pointless, the fire demon had values that are not like the others, he's willing and able to kill at any point, so he decided to let it go for now but they would have a long talk when they got back. So there Hiei waited while the other two left to go confront the trial and provide a scene to give him the chance to destroy the projector, and he didn't have to wait long thanks to the advanced jet engine on the ship that brought them there, "that's your que Hiei," Superman finally contacted him.

Hiei charged up a large fist of the mortal flame and with a mighty yell ran straight through the line of machinery and destroyed it in a passive explosion, causing the planet to become visible again with no debris in the sky, "done, now someone come pick me up," he told into his ear.

"Yeah, yeah, keep your pants on I see you now," Hawkgirl stated as she flew the jet past him and opened the ramp just as he jumped inside and closed it just as fast, Hiei walked up and sat in the passenger seat and buckled in, "we have to get back fast, the manhunters are making their move."

"Hn, obviously," he grunted out as they began the trip back to the trial planet to pick the others up, the entire time Hawkgirl remained silent and occasionally sent a look his way, he finally had enough as they began to land at a small tavern on the planet, "what," he demanded irritably.

"Superman told me and Flash how you killed Kanjar-Ro," she informed, so that was it, a lecture from someone else who didn't have any business in lecturing him, "we don't kill criminals, I know that you know that, no matter what he's done there is no reason to kill him," yep, a lecture.

"You don't kill criminals, I don't kill human criminals," Hiei told her as he got up from his seat and almost made it out before his arm was grabbed and he was forcefully spun around to face her, "alien criminals, monsters, if it's not human, I can kill it at my will, you know this," he informed.

"You can, but you shouldn't, killing a person of any race brings greater attention to you, what happens when people find out that you've killed as a part of a hero team, I've killed as a detective on Thanagar, but not as a hero," Hawkgirl told him before walking out herself to get them herself.

Hiei thought while she was in the building getting who they were here to get, more attention wasn't a good thing, that was true since he didn't want to be in the spotlight, he was better working in the shadows, so killing did bring attention to him, yet killing enemies were better. Killing was more efficient and didn't let those that done wrong come back to continue to do wrong, and while he was by no means a naïve fool that believed they could be reformed, he was a realist who knew that the governments of the world could and would retaliate if he did start killing. Usually he wouldn't even be considering anything that these humans or aliens were saying, but he needed a way to get to demon world, and to do that he needed to be able to go places as a hero without restriction, so he'll apologize when needed, and will only kill demons for now.

He turned in the direction of the ramp as he heard footsteps approaching up the entrance, in came some of the same group that Stewart was a part of, a fish-like humanoid creature, a squid thing, a guy with sharp fangs and pointed ear, a big round head with arms and legs attached. The last of the new additions along with Hawkgirl was a large creature that looked like a humanoid pig, all of them wearing the neon green that signified the green lantern corps, "great, let's hurry and leave this place," Hiei stated as Hawkgirl got in the pilot seat and took off into space.

Oa

The planet looked like a battlefield, blasts were coming from all direction on the central battery chamber, the Manhunters had already taken over the guns to most of the towers and have begun their attack on the chamber itself, that along with the actual field units of the attack. Stewart himself looked to be in trouble holding back blasts from reaching him and the Flash when they launched from the jet, the lanterns made quick work of the attackers on their fellow lantern they were in formation, Hawkgirl, fish, squid, beast, head, pig, Hiei standing on pig's back. The head was the one to issue the order to his fellow lanterns though, "you three take the north tower, Killowog and I will take the south," the ball head said, the fish, squid, and beast broke off and left the head and pig to head southward for that tower while Hiei jumped off of the pig.

The head made a shield while the pig made a green beam that cut the south tower in half, with the constant firing of blasters from the robots, the fire demon was forced to short wave teleport often to avoid being hit by them, soon he landed on the ground and witnessed Hawkgirl take a tower out. He raced up the long pathway of the chamber walls and took out as many Manhunters as he could with his sword, a few saw him coming though and blocked with their poles, they didn't last long to strike back since at the same instant they blocked received a flaming fist through their hearts. Hiei saw that Stewart flew to the top of the battery chamber and descended down, more than likely one of the robots got into the chamber, yet the battle still raged outside of the chamber, Hiei jumped over to the middle of a gathering of robots, who soon thought they could blast him. He quickly made them regret thinking that buy creating a vortex of flames and incinerating them, then moved on to more clusters of targets, sending out wave after wave of fire to burn them to ash, one though managed to avoid a wave and landed a hit on his face, he was cut to pieces.

Suddenly the battery began sparking with green electricity, the chamber top was exploding, and you could actually hear something say, "NOW, I AM THE POWER," before a huge Manhunter-like form broke through the top of the chamber and send random tendrils of electricity to attack. A few striking its own forces, and yet it did something else, it started sucking the power from the lantern rings present, leaving them vulnerable to the forces still firing upon them, Hiei speed to the pig as he was about to be blasted and incinerated the robots about to kill the corps member.

Just as suddenly as the big Manhunter monster came, it started to recede back into the chamber looking like a black goo over a green core until there was nothing but darkness in the sky for but a moment, a flicker of doubt across the face of those that served in the corps, was the power gone? Then suddenly the green beam of energy to signify the corps energy source shot up into the sky while also shooting something out of it, sparks started flying from it as well, they created small bursts of fireworks and the power returned to the lanterns who needed it to fight. It didn't take long before all the robots were gone and destroyed, thanks to the lantern corps and the Justice League team that came to help, it soon just became a mop-up operation for those that were left of the Manhunter's forces, Hiei chose to go wait on the ship so that they could go home.

With the help of Stewart, they all arrived quickly after a very touching moment he was sure, Hawkgirl began the launch procedures while Superman, Green Lantern, and Flash still stood and glared at Hiei from just in front of the ramp while the demon sat in a side chair away from them. It wasn't until Lantern walked up to him that the others did so as well, but it was Flash that began to talk, "dude, you killed someone, you don't feel sorry about it, and look like you would do it again," he pointed out in the demon's face, that wasn't appreciated, so Hiei stood up and glared.

"Let me tell all of you something you obviously haven't heard before, all of you are killers," they all recoiled in confused shock at the statement, "during the invasion, what did you think happened to those aliens that were disintegrated by the sun, they all died, and who killed them, all of you." The team looked at him with wide eyes, apparently none of them realized that fact till just now, "but yes, I did actively kill him, because you don't seem to understand something, you're not working with a hero when you work with me, I don't have the same moral code that you people do. My life has been kill or be killed, all of it, so I don't give criminals second chances, no hospitals that offer nothing but another chance at escape, no prison where they offer nothing at all for rehabilitation, the criminals I capture are demons who I just plain kill, it's as simple as that. I get to make that call, because of my morals, because of my ethics, because when it comes down to it, unlike the rest of you, I'm not a hero on the side of the angels, I'm not a villain on the side of the devil, I'm a villain who happens to be on the side of the angels," he told them emotionlessly.

The others just looked at him stunned, he just told them something they found impossible, told them that they were all killers and he was one too, difference was that he didn't care if he was, J'onn empathized with him, but still knew that his way of thinking was flawed, but it was his right. Green Lantern thought that this guy was just about as evil as the worst criminal he could think of, but at the same time, had a point, he wasn't a hero, he was a villain, but he was a villain on their side, he knew how they thought, so of course the former marine saw the tactical advantage. Flash and Superman were disgusted, with him and themselves for not realizing that they killed those aliens, even worse is that he himself admits to being a villain, and they were smart enough to know that having him on their side is better than him being the enemy, for now.

Hiei wasn't done speaking to them though, "though for now I'll avoid killing if it's not necessary, but do not ever believe that you can think of me as someone who shows mercy, because I have none," he walked to the back and sat in a back seat away from everyone else, and they let him.