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"Talking!"
'Thinking!'
"Demon!"
The Line
The Line. That's what Batman calls it. A line that separates the good and the bad. But what the Bat doesn't know is that the line doesn't exist. There is no line. There is no good, no bad, just morals. There is no good nor evil just the thought.
-Fairbanks, Alaska-
In a safe house several miles outside of Fairbanks sits Naruto sitting in a nice comfy chair with a table sitting in front of him with a chess board on top of it. Quiet is standing next to him and is wearing warm clothes for once. After their first meeting in Taiwan Quiet stayed with Naruto for a debt that was needed to be repaid. Of course Naruto doesn't know what debt she was talking about.
Sitting in front of Naruto sitting in a chair is Rose Wilson, otherwise known as Ravager. She has long white hair, a white eye patch, and a lone brown eye. You can tell that she spends a lot of her free time training and working out. She and Naruto met shortly after his mission in Taiwan. Standing next to Rose is Wintergreen.
It's been more than two years since that mission and a lot has changed since then. During the two years Slade set his sights on Jump City and the Teen Titans that live there. Deathstroke tried to get Robin to become his apprentice, and failed. The old man then turned his sights on a young girl by the name of Terra; who in turn betrayed Slade and killed him. Since then Rose took over Vigilance Inc., a search-and-rescue operation set up as a mercenary organization by Slade's ex-wife, Adeline.
Rose move her rook, "I take it you want to know why I'm here?" asked the white haired woman
"That's a stupid question to ask. You wouldn't be here right now if it wasn't important; you would of just called," answered back Naruto as he takes Rose's knight
"Have you heard of Yashida Medical and Medicine?" asks Rose as she takes Naruto's queen
"Who hasn't? They run the biggest medical company in all of Asia, if not the entire world. They have some of the best minds for that field anyway. What does this have to do with this visit?" asked the blonde when he takes Rose's last rook
"They were making a breakthrough with a new type of scalpel," as she takes Naruto's pawn
"All this for a scalpel? There has to be more to this," as he too takes Rose's pawn
"It isn't a scalpel; it's a sword. They have been working on a way to cut skin during operations without causing too much damage to the patient. They call this new technology High-Frequency Blade Technology. A high-frequency blade is a sword reinforced by a powerful alternating current and resonated at extremely high frequencies. This oscillation weakened the molecular bonds of anything it cut, thereby increasing its cutting ability," says Rose as she takes Naruto's rook
"That's sounds bad," Naruto moves his king, "Though that would bring some problems. The use for it would be good for the medical field, but then on the flip side the use it can have on the battlefield. The ability to cut anything is a dream come true to any soldier. Wintergreen, what would you think if this technology come onto the battlefield?" asks Naruto
Wintergreen rubs his chin, "Hmm, it would be impractical for the first few years. It is literately bringing a knife to a gun fight, but with enough training and skilled fighters it can make the battlefield like it use to be up-close and personal,"
"So that's why you want me to steal it from Yashia?"
"Yes, but it was already stolen. A week ago someone from Lex Corp broke into the R&D Department stealing the sword and all the data on it. The sword and the data are located in Jump City's Lex Corp branch," said Rose as she moves her queen
"The Teen Titans will try to stop me, even if they know that the technology was stolen from somewhere else," Naruto scratches the side of his head, "I think I have a way to steal it and they won't even know it,"
"Oh?" says a grinning Rose, "Do tell!"
"Slade set his sights on Robin to take him on as an apprentice. Slade took his time and Robin was going mad without that many clues on who Slade is, or why he was there. He tricked the rest of the Titans into thinking that a new villain was making a play for power, but in fact it was the Boy Wonder all the long. The only one who wasn't fooled was Slade. It nearly broke the Titans apart because of his stunt. Robin went and locked up the suit that he was using, to never be used again. I will use the codes and blueprints that Terra gotten when she betrayed the Titans to infiltrate Titan Tower, steal the suit, steal whatever powers the suit along with stealing the sword and the data for it. They will never know what hit them. Checkmate!" declares Naruto.
Rose looks at the board. During Naruto's speech he promoted one of his pawns into a queen, a rook, and a knight; trapped her king and blocked her other pieces. She was distracted by the blonde's explaining with his plan.
Grinning, "You cheated," says Rose
"If you aren't cheating, then you aren't trying." and with that being said Naruto leaves with Quiet following after him.
Rose looks at the chess board before smirking and shacking her head. In the last two years since she met Naruto; Rose can say that his mind is truly is his most dangerous weapon. The white haired woman will never understand why her father wanted to take on another apprentice when Naruto is the perfect apprentice that Slade could ever asked for. She can never understand her father. When she thinks she has him figured out; Slade does something that any normal person wouldn't do.
-Flashback-
As Naruto walks through the forest after leaving behind Zabuza's and Haku's graves the blonde makes his way back to the beach.
"Naruto," Quiet says over the radio, "Someone is here for you over,"
"Roger that. I'm on my way back. Over and out."
A few more minutes and Naruto arrives at the beach to see a Cessna 208 Caravan sitting just off the shoreline. What Naruto didn't expect was to see Tsunade, Shizune, and Sakura there on the beach unloading medical equipment.
"Baa-chan? What are you doing here?" asked Naruto as he gets closer to them.
Tsunade turned to see her grandson walking towards them. She seeings that he has a few bandages here and there, but what catches her eye is the bandages on both of his cheeks.
"Naruto, let me take a look at you while we talk."
Naruto nods to his grandmother. Tsunade explains that Slade hired her and her students to help the people on the island with any and all injures. The doctor wanted to decline, but when he showed her the check with that many zeros you don't say no.
Slowly pulling the one of the bandages on his cheek; she seeing the damage, "Those won't heal properly, Naruto. They'll scar. What happened?" Tsunade asked her grandson
"My honor was stolen. I fighting in a death match and Zabuza; my opponent was killed, but I didn't kill him. A would-be sniper did the deed. I lost it. Haku, Zabuza's apprentice attacked me. I turned my rage, my anger onto her; killing her. With her death my rage subsided my honor was stolen and my duel was taken from me," explains Naruto as he was lost
Tsunade hugs her grandson, "It's alright. Everything will be alright. Why do you believe your honor was stolen?"
"Mom… Mom always said a warrior's honor was everything. A duel to the death between two warriors is the greatest honor one could ask for. By dying in battle like you will have a peaceful place in the afterlife. A place where you can be a rest,"
"Tell me about you mother. Tell me about the woman that catch the eye of my son,"
"I wouldn't say it like that. Mom didn't like to talk about it. What they did. Mom didn't like what they did just to survive and make sure that their culture survives. Mom hated that her people became what they always feared. Mom wanted nothing more than to runaway, but she didn't know where to go. She said that what she did to make me; she didn't want to do the act, but if she didn't then someone else would of,"
"Naruto, it sounds like your mother raped Minato," Tsunade dreaded the answer
"Mom said our people have lost our way. Became what we feared. Mom said that she got to know Dad before they ended him." Naruto says while looking away from his grandmother.
It pained him to talk about what his mother told him. Naruto already knows what will happen to his people if they continue to follow this path. They will die out before long and there is nothing they do about it.
"Naruto, I have to ask, I gave your father a necklace. Do you have it? It is just a simple necklace with a green gem," Tsunade asks Naruto while banishing the thoughts that her son was raped
"No, I don't have it. Mom always wore it and would stare at it at times; losing herself. When we were founded I think it was lost. Mom cried over losing it."
Tsunade just nods her head. She doesn't like the thought that her only son was raped, but apparently Naruto's mother loved Minato with all her heart. It showed that the woman cared her for son with her dying breath. During their whole conversion Tsunade patched up whatever cuts and buries that her grandson had.
"Tell me about this young girl you are hanging around with? Is she your girlfriend?" Tsunade says while trying to tease her grandson
Not catching what his grandmother is getting at, "What do you mean? Quiet helped me," Naruto smiles at Quiet as they walk back towards everyone, "She has some really cool powers!"
"Really?" Tsunade looks at Quiet with curiosity, "You're Metahuman?" Quiet nods, "I never ran any medical tests on a Metahuman before. I want to do the full works. The only people that actually do anything with Metahumans are at S.T.A.R. Labs." says Tsunade as she grabs Quiet and drags her away.
Naruto watches Quiet being taken away. The blonde could only stare at one of the strongest things he'd seen. Wintergreen made himself be known by clearing his throat. Naruto quickly turned around to face Wintergreen.
"I believe you've done a wonderful job, Young Master. You killed Gato and his two lieutenants and any of his hired help. Not only that, but you manged to gain several bags full of weapons and blueprints," praises Wintergreen, "Did you complete your over objective?"
Naruto looks around before reach behind him and pulls out a thick file, "Everything that Gato owned is here. With him dead and no heirs; Gato Shipping Company is good as dead,"
Wintergreen takes the thick file and opens it up looking through several pages, "Not necessary, Young Master. While you were on your mission Master Slade and I have bought all the shares for the shipping company. And since you have all the proper paperwork; I say you are now owner and CEO of Gato Shipping Company." stated Wintergreen.
Dumbfounded. That is the expression marrying Naruto's face. That was Slade's master plan. The mission was to have Naruto basically end Gato Shipping Company to use legal means to take ownership with his death. With Gato's death as owner and CEO, with no heirs, with no partners, with no share holders everything feel to Naruto with him holding all the paperwork saying he is now owner and CEO.
Now it dawned onto the blonde. While Wintergreen was teaching Naruto he spent a lot of time on business. They both planned this. They planned this mission for two years to make sure that Naruto would one day take over a company and made sure he knew what he was doing.
'Those bastards!' thought Naruto.
-Flashback End-
Naruto walks out of his safe house wearing a heavy coat with Quiet following him with a heavy coat on too. They go around the safe house to a private airstrip with a hanger that is holding their plane. Naruto grabs the handle on the hanger's door and slides the door open with Quiet doing the same for the other door. Sitting there in the hanger the special Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird that Naruto found two years ago.
The plane was made while following the blueprints, but after a few tests runs they found out why it was never fully made. The engines were the problem. The engine would overheat two hours into the flight giving away the position of the plane. After many days reworking the blueprints for the plane, they finally fixed the problem with a set of new engines and a new placement for them on the plane.
A sleek design for one of the best aerodynamic planes every made. Using black stealth paint coating the entire thing for nose to tail wings. The wings form a V pointing towards the front of the plane, making it looks like it'll cut there air. The engine where originally on the side of the plane with the wings connected to them, but where changed from there and place at the back on the plane. The engines being the most costly since they had to be made from scratch are the quietest engines ever built.
Quiet walks over to the plane. A small panel opens up with a small red light for her and she put in several codes. The codes were made so that no one can get into the plane without them; if some did try and got the codes wrong the plane would explode. The light turns green and with it the bomb-bay doors slide open with a lift lowered down. Quiet went first up the lift, then Naruto. When Naruto went up the lift Quiet was already at the controls starting everything up.
Inside the plane is quite big given how small the plane looks from the outside. The compartment with the bomb-bay doors is where a squad of twelve can wait to be dropped off, the next compartment holds all types of different weapons, ammo, and explosives. The compartment beyond that is another place where a squad of eight can be sited, and finally the cockpit where Quiet is currently located.
Naruto sits in the co-pilot chair next to Quiet. The hum of the engine sing. The plane slowly moves out of the hanger and onto the airstrip. Quiet checks the systems once more. The plane rolls down the airstrip, gaining speed as it does so. Gaining enough speed the plane pulls up off the ground. The plane accelerate into the skies, climbing higher and higher.
-–-Jump City-
A few hours passed between flying from Alaska to Jump City. Quiet landed the plane in one of Slade's privately owned airfield. Naruto left Quiet at the plane while he went to have fun with the Titans.
We find Naruto sitting on top of a building that over looks the bay that Titan Tower is located at. Sitting next to the blond is a small police scanner and a small laptop. While the blonde is listening to the police scanner he is looking through the laptop. The blueprints for Titan Tower along with any of the security codes. Granted the security codes most likely have change since then, but the blueprints haven't.
"Cinderblock, Overload, and Plasmus are attacking the mall. I repeat, Cinderblock, Overload, and Plasmus are attacking the mall." says a voice over the police scanner.
And on cue a red motorcycle flies out of a hidden tunnel with a blue car following it soon after. A green pterosaurs flies through the air along side Starfire and Raven. Acting quickly Naruto dives off the building. The blonde rolls when he hit the ground which he bolted towards the docks that are just in front of him. Leaping off the ground and into the waters below Naruto swims towards Titan Tower. Naruto knows that he does have that much time since the Titans have fought and defeated Cinderblock, Overload, and Plasmus in the past. Every minute counts and Naruto knows it.
The assassin turned thief makes it to the shoreline before he dashes towards the Tower. Just before Naruto is seen by the cameras he put up a hood and a face mask. Naruto stops in front of a ventilation duck and rips off the vent duck with him crawling inside afterward. Crawling through the air ducks is surprising easy. The blonde wonders why they are big enough for someone to crawl through them, but doesn't think much about it.
An air vent duck is kicked open with Naruto dropping down to the floor, landing in a crouch. He stands up and walks over to a large safe door. He whistles at the size of it before going over to the computer for the door. Typing in a few commands before a screen pops up asking for a password.
"Hmm, let's see," says Naruto
'Robin' access denied.
'Batman' access denied.
'Titans' access denied.
'Gotham' access denied.
"Hmm, this is getting me nowhere!" growled out Naruto.
Naruto thought and thought about what the password could be. He doesn't have much time left. If he doesn't get it now, he may never get another chance like this again. Naruto looks through the files that Slade had on the Titans; searching for anything. Slade was able to gain a lot of information on the Titans before his death. Such information is the secret identities of Robin who is Richard John "Dick" Grayson, Cyborg who is Victor "Vic" Stone, Starfire who is Koriand'r, Beast Boy who is Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan, Raven who is Rachel Roth.
Thinking long and hard. Robin who was trained by Batman would make it something that is easy to remember, but something that only they would know, something that was important to them at one point or another. Something that only Dick Grayson would know. Something that happened to him. Something that was very dear to him. Then it hits Naruto.
'The Flying Graysons' access granted.
The sound of locks inside the safe door unlocks echoes throughout the room. The safe door opens slowly reviling the suit and belt for said suit.
Grinning, "Bingo!"
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Thirty minutes later the Titans return to the Tower tired from their long battle. It was only thing fighting Cinderblock, Overload, and Plasmus as individuals, but when they combine into Ternion it is another thing entirely.
"Man, that was one tough fight!" says Cyborg as he pops his shoulders
"Dude, I know! Ever since they learned they can fuse like that; those three are becoming more and more of a problem," says a green cat laying out on the couch.
Robin walks into the living area where Cyborg and Beast Boy are relaxing, "We've been robbed."
all the Titans gather where the safe is located in Titan Tower. Cyborg hocks up his arm to the computer reading all the files and camera logs, Beast Boy has turned into a blood hound sniffing around the safe, and Raven is using her magic to create an image of the thief.
"Well, I have some good news and some bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?" asked Cyborg
"The bad," answered Robin
"Besides the Red X suit being stolen, the thief cracked the password protected computer. Which you know is one of the best in the world created by yours truly,"
"Did he use some type of device? Something that we can trace?"
"No, that's the thing. The thief did have a computer, but he didn't use it on the safe. He hacked into the safe by using passwords. Using passwords that you might use. The thief cracked the safe using information that he had on you, Robin. He used 'The Flying Graysons' to open the safe. This thief knows us." said Cyborg.
This sent warning off in the Boy Wonder's head. Someone, a thief found out his secret identities. It is one of the most guarded secrets any hero and to a lesser extent villains. Robin learned from Batman that most of the time when someone learns another secret identity is mostly done on dumb lucky, or with someone with a mind of a genius that looked pass the cap and cowl.
"Beast Boy?" Robin trying to think of anything else
"The thief smells like Slade." answered Beast Boy still in his blood hound form.
This is worst. The thief smelled like Slade, which could mean they are dealing with another apprentice of the mad man. Slade has been dead for two months, but he still seem to cause the Titans problems.
"This bad. With that suit he could do a lot of damage," says Robin as he rubs the side of his head
"What are you talking about, Robin? It's just a suit. What could it possible do?" asked Cyborg
"It's not what it could do, but what it powers the suit. If the thief knows about the suit, then he knows what powers it,"
"What powers the suit?"
"Xenothium," Robin says with regret
"WHAT!?" yelled Cyborg, "You powered the suit with Xenothium!? don't you know how dangerous that stuff is?!"
"Um, what's xenothium?" asked Beast Boy
"Xenothium one of the most dangerous elements ever found on our planet. It can power a city with just a few ounces for five years. That's what it could if it is powered correctly, but if it isn't; well let's just say said city will be nothing more than a crater. The only why to make sure that xenothium is stored correctly is to freeze it near absolute zero." explained Cybord.
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Naruto stares at the Red X suit and belt as both lay on the table in front of said blonde. The Golden Devil grabs his hair and pulls very hard. Naruto just learned what powers the suit.
'Bird Brain is stupid!' thought Naruto as he insulted Robin some more.
"Bad." that's all Quiet just says.
Quiet doesn't say much, but she does know a lot of things. He spends most of her time reading and learning more and more about the world. She is a very patient woman.
"That's an understatement," says Naruto, "Well, we know what we have to steal in order to get into Lex Corp now. I'm going to use the suit and try to burn off what xenothium is left in it,"
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The Titans were alerted to an alarm going off in one of the Lex Corp Warehouses. They moved quickly to the warehouse, but only Robin seemed to move faster than all of them. He knows what's in the warehouse and what it can find. They bust through the door to see Red X sitting on of the crates waiting for them.
Naruto dawned the Red X suit to not only run the xenothium out of it, but to also see what the suit can really do. He'd seen when Robin used the suit and how he fought and defeat the other Titans with it. The suit was made to defeat the Titans if any of them went rogue; just like how Batman made plans to take down the Justice League if they ever went rogue. It seems that the master and apprentice think very much alike.
"You!" Robin exclaim
"Me!" taunts Red X
"Why did you steal the suit?!" demands Robin
"Because it was gathering dust. Such a fine suit," Naruto says while lifting the cape up, "It's so… flashy!"
"Return the suit and we won't send you to jail," Robin is trying to negotiate
Rubbing his chest, "Hmm, let me think… Nope!"
"Titans, go!"
Red X throws his hands out throwing red x shaped shuriken. All the Titans, but Raven dodges them. The shuriken thrown explodes causing Raven to throw up a shield of black energy. She lowers her shield only to see Red X running towards her. Raven throws up another shield, but Red X teleports behind the girl swiping her feet from out underneath her. The thief takes out a single shuriken, but green bolts of energy hit his hand forcing him to drop it. Starfire fly towards Red X firing several star bolts. The thief jumps in the air dodging the star bolts in midair, lands on the wall before jumping off said wall and hops on Starfire's back, and than hops off.
The alien princess turns around chasing Red X. She fires several star bolts at him once more. Red X turns around firing red beams the hit and bounce off the high beams hitting Starfire. A green pterosaurs flies up behind him before turning into a green gorilla. Roaring at the thief trying to intimate him, but didn't do much good since said thief stuck a red x in the gorilla's mouth. The gorilla tries to get the red x out by flexing his jaw and pulling it out, but nothing worked. Thinking quickly Beast Boy transformed from a gorilla to a hippopotamus. Unfortunately he was too big for the high beams falling off and landing on a pile of crates underneath him. Red X lands in a crouch to see Cyborg running towards him.
Naruto throws up his arm firing a single red x. Cyborg throws up his arms to block it for the x to expand. The ends of the x grabs the crates that are around Cyborg crashing them towards the teen. Beast Boy still in his hippopotamus forms rolls onto his feet transforming back into his normal form. Starfire floats behind the green transformer, Raven floats over the crates to their right, and Cyborg stands up out of the wreck crates dusting himself off behind his right arm transform into his ion cannon.
"C'mon on kids, x marks the spot." taunts Red X.
Teleporting an ion cannon blast, hopping off a crate that's surrounded by black energy, twisting his body midair dodging a star bolts, landing on the ground with Beast Boy transformed into a yeti standing behind him. The yeti roars slamming his fists onto the thief, but said thief teleports away from danger.
Red X teleports onto crates behind the Titans. Robin comes out of nowhere tackling him. The roll on the ground with Robin landing on his knees and Red X landing on his feet. The Boy Wonder throws a birdarang at Red X only for the thief to teleport away. Robin catches his birdarang for his to dodge a fist thrown from behind him. Robin stands on his hands kicking and grabbing the thief's hand to throw him. The Boy Wonder follows Red X throwing punches at him. He uses the teleportation in small bursts to dodge the fists. He then leaps off Robin's fist, throwing his balance off, spinning in the air to throw out a kick. Robin blocks the kick throwing Red X into a crate.
Robin grabs Red X's face mask, "Who are you?!" demands Robin
"If I'd wanted you to know that, would I'd be wearing a mask?" says Red X before he shocks Robin.
Being punched in the face, Robin flies back crashing into a few crates. Cyborg and Raven rushes Red X. A red x flies between the two.
"Azarath Metrion…"
Raven didn't get to finish her spell as the red x between her and Cyborg cause her to misfire her spell at her teammate, while Cyborg's ion cannon misfired hitting Raven instead.
"Looks like you got your wires crossed." said Red X before dodging a star bolt.
Jumping and dodging, using the smoke caused by the star bolts Red X fires an x that enlarges hitting Starfire, trapping her against the wall behind her.
"You have beautiful red hair." complements Red X.
Starfire didn't see it that way. She fires star bolts from her eyes hitting the thief. He flies back hitting a crate, then the ground. Looking up Beast Boy is running towards Red X; as he is doing so, he transforms into a polar bear. Punching the ground, red lines cut through the ground causing the ground to open up a fissure. Beast Boy falls in the fissure.
"Watch your step." taunts Red X.
Red X rolls Robin over with his foot to see the scanner he was looking for. Seeing that he found what he was looking for Red X flees. Robin forcing his body up chasing after the thief.
"I won't let you get away with this!" yelled out Robin.
A red x flies out wrapping around the Boy Wonder's ankles causing him to fall.
Swinging the scanner around, "Better luck next time, kid. And thanks for the suit," says Red X before he pushes the button on the buckle to the belt; only for it not to work, "C'mon! C'mon!"
Robin leaps up cutting his ankles free. Red X takes off with Robin chasing after him. The thief jumps through an open sky window. He runs across the roof hitting his belt. Robin dives for Red X only to miss. Red X leaps higher into the air twisting his body.
"Catch you later." says Red X before teleporting away.
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Naruto lands on top of a roof before taking off his mask. He was kinda disappointed with how the Titans fought him. Cyborg has both bronzes and brains. With his high-powered brain he should of found a way to counter some of the moves that Naruto thrown at him. The blonde can tell that Raven was holding back from losing control. With her being part demon she could of easily wiped the floor with him, but didn't. Starfire had the power, speed, and range to easily defeated him too, but didn't want to go against Earth's laws. Beast Boy was the most dangerous one, but he is too immature to use his animal forms in better ways. And Robin was trained by the Batman enough said. All he can say is if this is the team that defeated Slade, then they gotten lucky.
Looking at the scanner the blond now has an excuse to break into the Lex Corp building here in Jump City to really steal what he originally came for. He'll probably has to fight the Titans once more, but if they do a repeat like earlier; well they just aren't great heroes then.
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The night kept going strong as most of the city is asleep. A shadow moves across rooftops til it stops. Red X looks up at Lex Corp building that is standing in front of him. Inside is what he really was after. Smirking at the thought that the Titans won't know that the suit wasn't what he'd really wanted.
Silence. That's what greeted Naruto when he sneak inside Lex Corp. There are a few guards walking around each floor reporting in every fifteen minutes. The thief watches as the guard in the surveillance room radio all the other guards walking throughout the building that he's going to take a piss. Dropping down from the ceiling Red X walks over to the main computer. Typing through screen after screen. After a few minutes the thief found what he was looking for. On the thirty-fourth floor is the stolen High-Frequency Sword and all the data to it. Red X also found that the xenothium on the seventieth floor.
By time the guard returns to the surveillance room it was empty. A few minutes later the Titans arrived and alerted all the guards that there is a thief in the building. Staying to the shadows Red X passes Raven and Beast Boy, then Cyborg, followed by Starfire. He came to a stop when he sees that Robin is standing in front of the vault and the controls to said vault that leads to the xenothium.
Robin hears Starfire's scream. Something isn't right. Red X made sure to sneak pass all the Titans and guards. He didn't knock anyone out or killed anyone. Someone is crashing this party.
"Starfire?" says Robin as he runs down the corridor
"What the matter, kid?" Robin turns around to face Red X, "Don't you want to play? After all, their your toys,"
Red X flashes a hand full of shuriken just before throwing them at the Boy Wonder. Robin ducking the shuriken. The shuriken hit the controls causing it to explode. The vault's door opens up. Red X hops back into the corridor with Robin giving chase. It showed that Red X wasn't as flexible as Robin, but he is making due by dodging not only the trip laser security beams and fighting Robin at the same time. They both leaped off and dropped down thirty feet. Falling towards a barrier that separate the rest of the fall. Red X fires an x the cuts through the barrier with him falling through the hole. The hole closes after Red X passes through it, but Robin hits the barrier.
Red X takes off down the corridor. After a few minutes Robin gets pass the barrier and drops down to run down the corridor to a large open and empty room. Robin can see the door on the other side of the room. He wonders where did Red X gone to. There was only one way in and out.
Red X came out of the shadows, "After you." says Red X before pushing Robin forward.
The floor lit up. Robin looks down as the floor to see the spot that he is standing on is bright red. A laser that is hocked up to the ceiling slides over above Robin. The barrel lights up with the hum of charging up. Robin jumps out of the way as the laser fires at him. The laser tracks Robin's movements following him and firing at his location. Using Robin as a distraction, Red X leaps in front of Robin as the door opens up.
"Thanks for the hand, kid." says Red X as the door closes.
Red X closes the vault door on the other side locking it. Naruto is glad the suit has warmers inside. The temperature inside is below zero. The only way for xenothium to be stored in freezing cold temperatures. Granted the only way to make xenothium completely is to freeze it the temperature of -273.15 on the Celsius scale, but if you're trying to store it as long the ore is below 32.018 F.
"Xenothium ore," Red X says as he works the console, "Enough to power the suit a good long time."
Arms clamp the floating vials of xenothium in its liquid form. He grabs a capsule and begins placing vials in it.
"I love it when the good guy wins." says Red X as he places the last vial in the capsule.
A loud noise can be heard on the other side of the vault, then a shack. A red beam blast through wall that is connecting to the vault. The beam moves and cuts through the wall. The vault door falls over. Robin is standing on the other side holding the laser from the ceiling that has been ripped out of said ceiling.
"You're not going to win," the Boy Wonder growled out.
Robin drops the laser before he leaps doing a spin in midair, kicking Red X into the behind him. Red X drops the capsule when he hit the wall.
"Kid, you are taking life too seriously." said Red X.
they both charge towards each other. Yelling Robin leap towards Red X, only to go over him. Quickly turning around the Boy Wonder throws several small silver balls at Red X. The thief teleports away before the silver balls explode. Red X lands on his hands, jumps off his hands, lands in a crouch, before throwing shuriken at Robin. Robin himself dodges several of the shuriken to only take out his bo staff to block the other shuriken.
The red x on Red X's gloves glowed red before enlarging. The enlarge xs spins at high speeds. Jumping towards Robin taking a swing at him. The Boy Wonder blocks, jumps, dodges Red X attacks. The spinning blades spark off of Robin's bo staff. Robin blocks and locks the spinning blades before pushing Red X away. He then leap towards the thief swinging his bo staff only to miss when Red X ducks. Red X throws a left cross, then a right jab; Robin dodges both and hits Red X with his bo staff.
The blades pick up speed. He leap towards Robin swinging his left arm out. Robin ducks and dodges as the blades cut through the wall. Robin slides behind the thief. Said thief spins on the balls of his feet taking another swing at the Boy Wonder. Robin goes on the defensive blocking the spinning blades trying to not get cut. Robin then kicks Red X away. They cross and lock their weapons together.
"Why did you steal the suit? What are you planning to do?" demands Robin
"Whatever I want!" answered back Red X as he leans back taking Robin with him to only kick him off, "Not everyone likes to play the big villain, kid. I'm a thief. I'm not threatening your precious city, I'm just looking out for number one,"
"So you're not psychic, you're just selfish!"
"Lighten up chuckles," Red X raises his hands up, "I'm not such a bad bad; once you get to know me."
Red X fires xs at Robin. The Boy Wonder hits the first one out of the way, but only to get his taken out from underneath him. Robin looks up to see Red X falling towards him. He rolls out of the way as Red X uses his super strength to crush the flooring. Robin kicks Red X into the wall causing him to hit the floor afterward.
Red X sees the capsule and grabs it, "Plays time over, kid," only to be answered with Robin taking out a birdarang, "Back off, or I'll trip the power core; and the core triggers the rocks. I don't think you want that on your conscience," threatens Red X
"And I don't think you want to be disintegrate." Robin throws back at Red X.
Several arrive behind Red X wearing haze mat suits. One of them blasts Red X knocking him out and, then firing at Robin knocking him out. Waking up, Naruto doesn't know how long he was out for. The last thing he remembers is fighting Robin, then maze mat suit wearing people came, knocking him out with their weapon.
Rubbing his head, "Ok, who were the moon men?" demands Red X til bar are lowered down trapping him, "Huh?"
"Criminals!" Red X turns around facing Robin, "Just like you,"
"C'mon, kind. You really don't think this little playpen can really hold me?"
The bars shock Red X, "You really don't care do you? A lowlife maniac just got his hands on enough xenothium to disintegrate the entire city, and it is your fault!"
"Do you mean our fault?"
"At least I'm going to do something about it. And if you cared about anything other than yourself, you'd be helping!"
"Sorry, kid. Some guys don't like play the hero,"
"I'll be back to take you to jail!" and with that Robin leaves Red X there.
Eying the console, Red X looks around the room. Most of the xenothium was taken showing that this placed was robbed.
Tapping the side of his head, "Quiet, I pick up."
Red X waited for several minutes before a black mist appears with Quiet walking out of it. She quickly saw Naruto stuck inside a cage. He points to the console. Taking the hint she unlocks the bar to go back into the floor. Without saying a word Quiet walks over to Naruto, placing a hand on his shoulder before disappearing in a black mist.
They appear several floors down in front of another vault. Knowing what was inside, Naruto places one of his hands on the vault; shocking the vault that unlocks it. The vault's door swings open reveling a sword, but not just any sword; it known other then the High-Frequency sword. Naruto takes the sword without a care in the world as the alarms go off. Not caring about the alarms, Naruto looks at the sword. He unsheathes the blade to get a better look at it. The blade is tempered high carbon spring steel, with a blade length of 29 ¾ in., and a handle length of 11in., weighing at 3.75 lbs,. The overall design for the sword is am 8th century Chokuto. It shows that the person who created and design this technology wanted swords to come back. Quiet put her hand back onto Naruto's shoulder and disappears in a black mist.
Both Quiet and Naruto are thrown out of a cloud of black mist. Groaning Naruto sits on his knees. That was the worst teleportation to date. But there is a reason for that, and that's the longest distance Quiet has done to date. The young woman herself is breathing hard and is barely staying awake.
"Good job, Tixji." Naruto was treated with a glare.
Let it be known that Quiet doesn't like her birth name. He can never get why she hates it, but the blonde doesn't ask the question. For one, she is his friend and comrade. Naruto respects Quiet too much.
Letting Quiet rest, Naruto turns his attention to the sword he just stolen. The sword was the only thing in the vault, but the data wasn't. He knows that they wouldn't separate the two for they both would be study at the same time. Looking better at the sword Naruto notices that there is a thin line at the bottom of the hilt. He twists the hilt causing it to open up and a flashdrive falls out.
"Bingo!"
Naruto put the flashdrive back into the hilt and stands on his feet. He remembers what Robin talked about and was trying to make a point. Naruto knows that it was someway his fault that the xenothium was stolen. He can't let innocent people get hurt or killed because of his actions.
"Quiet, get some rest and when you feel better head back to the plane. I have some unfinished business to take care of. Take the High-Frequency sword with you; don't want anyone to know that this is what we were really after." explained Naruto.
Quiet nods her head as she takes the sword from Naruto before going back to laying on the ground once more. Naruto dashes off back towards the city. Luckily for the blonde he still has the scanner to track xenothium.
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Professor Chang is a failed scientist plain and simple. He has a brilliant mind, but no one was looking at his work. No one wanting anything to do with his breakthroughs or theists. As he saw a way out, when took to crime. Using what he learned while working for big corporations; blackmail. Chang learned enough blackmailing material to destroy several large corporations.
By using his connects the mad professor runs an underground smuggling operation providing illegal services for higher-tier villains. But Chang grows tired of smuggling, he wants to do what super villains do and take hostage an entire city. Holding all the lives there with a weapon of mass destruction. When Robin came to him telling him that the suit he created that runs off of xenothium was stolen; that's when he knew to strike. The thief would go to Lex Corp to steal the xenothium that's there. Yes, the Titans were there, but they were distracted by looking for the thief. It was simple really; just wait for the opportunity and strike. Now he has four of the five Titans, enough xenothium to hold Jump City hostage, and no one is going to stop him.
Canisters holding the xenothium are loaded up on the back compartment to a modified telescope. The door to the observatory open up with the modified telescope moving into position. The hum of the telescope powers up.
"Buildings, neighborhoods, lives. Countless targets waiting to be disintegrate," Chang chuckles to himself before turning around to the frozen Titans, "Tell me pretty girl, have you seen something ripped apart molecule by molecule? It's breathtaking."
Starfire's eyes glowed green before the ice encasing her head breaks, "You are a bad man!" fires her star bolts from her eyes.
"Oh? If you think I'm bad now; you're going to be really impress once I'm finish with your city; and move onto you,"
"Your plan shall fail! Robin will-"
"Not be joining us," Chang says cutting off Starfire, "Not with your lives on the line. For to risky for good boy like him,"
"You would be surprised with the risks that Robin would take!" Starfire stated.
Chang climbs into the operating booth for the telescope. The telescope spins around facing the open skies.
"Has a nice smell to it, doesn't it?" Chang asks no one really. The telescope moves up as the barrel lowers aiming towards the city, "I've spent years hiding from this cursed city. Now let them hide from me! Prepare to fire!" ordered Chang.
Robin swings down kicking Chang in the head, firing the telescope. The beam fires upwards missing the city, but hits the top of Titan Tower.
"You just made a big mistake!" says Robin.
The back of the telescope opens up, rotates the canisters of xenothium, then closes.
"Attack!" orders Chang.
A red liquid hits the railings that hardens afterward and a beam of red energy flies over Robin's head. Robin jumps over the railing, falling towards the two henchmen that are firing at him. The Boy Wonder lands between the two, the one that was firing the red liquid turns around and fires at Robin. Robin ducks with the red liquid flying over his head hitting the other henchman. Robin kicks the stuck henchman hard enough that breaks him free and then uses the motion to land on the other henchman.
Robin grabs the weapon that fires the red liquid. He runs over to the railings jumps on them and fires at them henchmen below. The henchmen step out of the way. Robin jumps off and slides down the harden liquid. He knees one of the henchmen in the face, punched another, grabs one of the electric rods shocking another henchman, spins around shocking the last henchman.
"Robin!" yelled out Starfire.
Robin turns around facing the henchmen running towards him. He drops the shock rods. He ducks and bobs the red liquid fired him, then upper cuts one of the henchmen. Robin grabs the hose to the breather on one of the henchman's mask releasing the oxygen, another henchman runs behind the Boy Wonder only to miss with the plug being pulled from his backpack releasing the red liquid.
The telescope turns around, "Quickly! Quikcly! Ha!" shouted Chang.
The telescope stops humming to charge. Robin takes out a grappling hock and fires it up at the ceiling. Chang chuckles while pulling a leveler causing the telescope to follow the Boy Wonder and fires at him. The beam misses and goes through the ceiling. Robin quickly swings his body landing on the catwalks. He runs dodging the beam being fired at him several times, til the beam hits the catwalk underneath Robin. He quickly grabs the railing hanging onto dear life.
The telescope aims at Robin humming, "Okay, good boy. Who should I destroy first, you? Or your pretty friend?" asked Chang
The telescope lowers down aiming at the other Titans, "Starfire!" shouted Robin.
Starfire struggles to get free, but to no avail. But just before Chang could fire a red shuriken hits his hand and another hits the controls causing electricity to spark out. Robin loses his grip and falls to his doom, but Red X catches him lands on the railing and toss the boy onto the catwalk.
Robin rolls to his knees, "I'd though you didn't like playing the hero?" questions the Boy Wonder
"Doesn't mean I don't know how," says Red X while jumps over the railings.
Henchmen run towards the duo firing energy weapons at them. The thief and the hero jump up in the air, lands in the middle of the group. They mimic each others moves. It was simple for Red X to mimic Robin's moves because Slade made sure to record all the fights the Titans were in. It was surprisingly easy to take out the henchmen afterward.
Chang watched all his henchmen being beaten down, "No! No! No!" Chang hits the control causing the telescope to fire.
The beam moves upwards cutting through the observatory. The beam moves down and around cutting through not just the observatory, but also the surrounding mountain side. The back of the telescope ejects the canisters of xenothium. Robin lands on the controls in front of Chang punching him to the floor.
Red X lands next to Chang, "Time to get what I came for,"
Robin and the other Titans get in front of Red X, "Times up," says Raven
"Thanks for the help, X. But don't think that means you can just help yourself,"
"No problem, kid. This should keep me going for a while," says Red X holding up a vial of xenothium
"That won't do you much good without this," said Robin holding up the belt to the suit, causing Red X to look down and see that its gone, "Better luck next time,"
Red X slowly backs away from the Titans, "Not bad, kid, not bad at all." before throwing the vial to the ground, causing it to explode.
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Naruto quickly changed out of the suit and simply disappeared in the growing crowd that is starting the new day. Everything went as planned. The High-Frequency Blade Technology and no one knows it.
-Metropolis City-
It is a simple morning with Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor going over several documents for the upcoming quarter. He had to put to the side of his hate for Superman for his company. After all, killing Superman doesn't pay for the bills.
"Sir," Luthor looked up to see Mercy, "The Lex Corp Branch in Jump City has been broken in too. Large amounts of xenothium and the High-Frequency Blade Technology was stolen,"
Luthor frowns, "The High-Frequency Blade Technology was a lose anyway. Yes, the technology was too good to pass up, but it would take years to make anything useful. The xenothium on the other hand will cost a fortune to replace." stated Luthor.
-Author Notes-
This should of gone up faster, but writer's block. Anyway, while I was having writer's block I thought it would be interesting for there to be a reading for this story. Those that are interested send me a message and give me a reason and if I want you to do a reading I'll give more directions. Leave a review and a like.
