Chapter 2
The Dark Prince Returns
It had been over a month since Shadow Justice had left the Regime and began their search for the Midnight Phoenix they had sent Cyclone down to the bottom of the ocean to search for the coffin we had then made our way to Nanda Parbat where they talked with Thea whom after using the team as target practice decided to let them join but only if they agreed to do what she asked especially Ruby and they agreed.
For awhile they were treated as only servants and they accepted that except Ruby who was treated lower than dirt and was ordered to always refer to Thea, Oracle, and Silver Dumas II, the new leaders of the League of Shadows and the Insurgency as Mistress due to how she treated Sam and Ruby had accepted her place as essentially a slave to the three till Sam returned that day is today.
While the boys, and Kiara were abused by the League in training Ruby was doing the bidding of the three brides of darkness as they called themselves, one day while sexually pleasing her mistresses they received news from Cyclone he found Sam's Coffin and they brought it back to Nanda Parbat Cain tore open the steel coffin and there inside was nothing but ash the ashes of Samuel Wayne, the ashes of Midnight Phoenix Thea ordered Cain to put the ashes on a bed and called one of the assassin's over and explained that he could control ashes and had the assassin manipulate the ashes to form a human form and had it wrapped up and put in chains over the Lazarus pit and the body was lowered into the pit until it was finally submerged and then the room shook and the door was blown off its hinges.
In walked Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman and Ruby and Cain just stared at the pit hopping their friend and leader would rise as the trio got closer Thea ordered the assassin's to stay back and finally the pit started to bubble and then the bandaged Samuel Wayne came out screaming as if being burned alive by a flame hotter than his own "ahhhhhh ahhhhh" screamed Sam, Lazarus water falling from his mouth and all present stared at the fallen son of Batman.
Finally the screaming stopped and they heard Sam speak "holly crap that hurt like a mother fucker how did grandfather and mother do it for so long I now respect them for their tolerance of pain far more now." said Sam now walking out of the Pit and he pointed at an assassin "you get me a robe please" said Sam and the assassin did as he was told retrieving a robe for his young master "Thank you assassin what's your name?" asked Sam to the assassin "Al 'Asada sir." said the assassin "the lion, a good title, but that's not what I want to know I want your birth name your name before dedicating yourself to the cause." said Sam "Thomas my lord." said the man "Thomas a good name where it with as much pride you where your other name my friend." said Sam "now I believe there are intruders in my house who wanted to stop my inevitable return." said Sam looking at the trinity with his eyes the color of a blue flame.
"Hello Father, uncle and mother." Sam said almost mockingly "Shadow Justice get rid of the riff raff then I'd like to speak with all of you alone afterwards said Sam and he left the Lazarus chamber Cain, Ruby and the rest of Shadow Justice then proceeded to attack the justice trinity and send them away.
They then made their way to the master room where the demons head resides Adam went in first and bowed before his cousin "cousin I'm relieved to see you alive." said Adam "I know Ibn now stand up I want to speak to you as a friend and a cousin not a master and servant you need not bow to me you and I are equals." said Sam "thank you Sam." said Adam "now tell me Adam how have things been since I've been dead." said Sam.
"It's been chaotic to the Regime the war is over but that's because we've been secretly recruiting and caused as much trouble as possible such attempted assassinations on the leaders of the Regime to distract them from our real plan finding your body but as you saw it seems they caught on luckily to late." said Adam "yes luckily now how have you all been personally." asked Sam "well me, Cain, Dean, and Kiara and the other members of Shadow Justice whom betrayed you have been thoroughly beaten in training." said Adam "and Ruby?" asked Sam "well Sam aunt Thea, Silver, and Barbra have been abusing her a different way they've pretty much made her send her amazonian pride to hell and turned into as my aunt put it their personal carpet munching whore." said Adam waiting for his cousin to blow up in rage as he tended to.
"Adam send Dean, Cain, Kiara, and Cyclone in tell Ruby that I wish to speak with her last I need to confirm this with them." said Sam "yes cousin" said Adam and he did and each one confirmed Adam's story of how Ruby was being treated "send Ruby in now." said Sam and they did so.
Sam looked a the woman he had fallen in love and he could see the parts of her the three brides of darkness had broken and he was going to fix it "Ruby come here" said Sam as he stood up "yes Lord Sam" said Ruby as she came to Sam, Sam gently put his hand on Ruby's cheek "Ruby I want you to tell me what Thea, Silver, and Babs did to you." said Sam "yes Lord Sam." said Ruby "Let me stop you there don't call me lord." said Sam "your princess and an amazon at that I want the strong independent kill any man who even thinks of rape girl I fell in love with not this submissive love slave made by the so called brides of darkness." said Sam "you still want that me despite what that version of me did to you?" asked Ruby "yes I do Ruby." said Sam and the two's lips met in a tender loving kiss that Ruby had not felt in years since she had betrayed him.
"Now Ruby continue." said Sam "well we came here to join the rebellion and its not like she refused us but we had to do the most menial of tasks as punishment for what we had done to you but, it was worse for me I was the personal slave girl practically for all three of them they said I would be their toy till we brought you back and then I would be yours to do with as you please, every night I was forced to pleasure them orally till they had cum all over me, they never let me wash my face till I was to bathe and shower with them they said "whores don't need to wash up" they would force me to crawl on my hands and knees in their presence and I guess I was lucky they allowed me in the bed but I had to sleep at the foot of the bed like a common dog whenever I'd complain about that they'd just say thats because that's what you are a whoreish, slutty, mangy, bitch, dog." said Ruby as tears poured from her eyes.
Sam pulled her into a hug "you don't have to continue if you don't want to." said Sam "no I want to" said Ruby and she continued her tale when she finished Sam was now angry at the three who hurt her mentally "Ruby I want you to find the three of them and bring them to me." said Sam "ok Sam" she said and left and returned with the three "Ruby come sit with me." said Sam "now you three I have heard recently that you have not shown our new allies the hospitality they deserve especially Ruby here." said Sam.
"What do you mean sir?" asked Silver "What I mean Silver is from what I've heard you've treated my friends lower than dirt and the woman I love as worse than that." said Sam angrily "I know you three refer to yourselves as the brides of darkness and I'll allow you to continue to hold that name but you will have a fourth member who will be your leader you could say." said Sam "Ruby will be your leader do the three of you understand." said Sam.
"Yes lord Al' Ghul." said the three women "now that that's been dealt with let's all get some dinner what do you say my ladies." said Sam as if a few minutes ago he had not been angry with them "yes sir" the four people said and they went to the dining hall and took their seats during the Sam stood up and started to give a speech "my friends I'm glad that you all made it through life in my absence under the leadership of the brides but listen up I'm not happy with how my friends have been treated yes they betrayed me and the people of earth but this doesn't warrant the punishment you gave them so now they will be promoted to my personal team of enforcers each shall be given their own league title any of you who disagree say I'm being to soft on them well your beneath me your opinion will rarely ever matter, do all of you understand that." said Sam to his followers "yes sir." said the gathered assassin's.
"There I'm glad we all understand each other enjoy your meal friends." said Sam once again changing his personalities at the flip of a coin everybody wondered if maybe it was a temporary side effect of being brought back to life or maybe if something came back with the usually stoic teen vigilante.
"Lord Al Ghul." shouted an assassin as he came running in "yes assassin?" said Sam an object just entered earth's atmosphere." said the assassin "where?" asked Sam "over Smallville, Kansas." said the assassin "Cain it your family's hometown get there stop the celestial object and bring it here I want to know what it is." said Sam "yes Sam." said Cain and he started flying towards Smallville before any of the Regime could.
Cain made it to Smallville and grabbed the object and he noticed it seemed to be made of metal Cain looked and saw it was a spaceship and he just knew it was kryptonian make, Sam took off before anyone from the Regime arrived now doubt his uncle would also be curious about a threat to his hometown.
Cain had left just in time because a few seconds after he disappeared Donna Troy, Cassie Sandsmark, and Diana Prince arrived and noticed that there were footprints in the ground and they had feeling who left them and they returned to Superman who sent Donna to question the new Ra's Al Ghul.
Cain arrived back at Nanda Parbat with the ship "Sam I got it." said Cain as he came to the throne room "great work what is it." asked Sam "It's a ship kryptonian made" said Cain and he set the ship on the ground "can you open it Cain?" asked Dean "probably" said Cain and he pulled up a kryptonian holo computer "there's alot here about the last daughter of Krypton sent here to protect her cousin please care for them as if they were your own Lara Von-El thats my kryptonian grandmother." said Cain and the pod opened to reveal a blonde hair going to the middle of the neck "who are you?" Cain asked "my name is Kara Zor-El who are you are you my cousin Kal-El?" asked Kara "no my name is Kain-El last true son of the house of El my uncle Kal is a disappointment to the house of El, he killed my mother Selene Jor-El his own sister." said Cain and another Assassin came in "my lords Donna Troy is coming." said the assassin "Cain take Kara to my chambers don't let Donna see her." said Sam "got it Sammy." and Cain took her upstairs to the demon chambers.
Sam sat in his throne and Donna walked in "Hello Troy, what brings a regime bitch to my domain may I ask?" said Sam "we got word that a object was falling from space myself, Cassie, and Diana were sent to investigate and we found footprints matching your new enforcer Cain Arashikage so we reported to Kal and he says we should speak with you so tell me you got anything?" asked Donna "why yes we did indeed get word of something falling from space so I sent Cain to intercept and investigate he brought this ship here said it was Kryptonian made so we comb threw it wasn't anything really of interest to myself but I thought Cain would like something from his mother planet." said Sam.
"Yes Kal would also like something from his birth planet to see if it comes from his family." said Donna "hmm Cain come here." shouted Sam "yes Sam." said Cain "Cain would you like to keep this ship or should I send it to the Regime." said Sam "yes sir I will personally escort you to deliver the pod to my tyrant uncle." said Cain "good we have an agreement Donna return to your leader and tell him will bring the pod in a few hours." said Sam "as you wish lord Ra's Al Ghul." said Donna and she left "so Sam what do we do?" asked Cain "we erase all info on Kara in the pod then we take the pod to him." said Sam "do you want us to strip it down for anything else useful?" asked Cain "don't be stupid Cain we've already gotten the most useful thing we could ever get from the pod a new ally now lets delete the info and bring the pod to Kal and make sure Kara doesn't follow us because I know you're watching us Kara" said Sam and the blonde walked in "I want to see my cousin." Kara said "Cain explain what has happened to Kal." said Cain "Kara my uncle is no longer the man he was when he started now he's a tyrant who will stop at nothing till he's brought the world under his oppressive government I should know I helped him build it and I'm no longer proud of it Kara you need to understand we need to stop my uncle or he could enslave all humanity."
"Cain I need to see it for myself." said Kara "Kara if Kal finds out who you are he will not hesitate to use you as a weapon against us, if you and I are family I don't want to see you used as a weapon or hurt in this war because you may just be the last bit of family I have left aside from Sam and the rest of Shadow Justice you all are all I have left so please don't follow us stay here." said Cain and he and Sam grabbed the pod to erase its data "Ruby come here I need you to watch this girl." said Sam and Ruby came down "Ruby this is Kara I need you to watch her and make sure she doesn't follow us to Kal." said Sam "you got Sam." said Ruby.
A.N. I think I have to change the rating because this chapter got really dark I admit that and yes Sam was nicer than the rest of the League of Shadows because he knows everything that happened in between the time he died and came back to life and while he should be angry with them he believes they have been punished enough by the League because despite everything they're still friends so please don't flame how dark this story just got I hope to make the next chapter a bit lighter toned but this is a Batman fanfiction and Batman is one of D.C's darkest heroes.