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A/N: Ok a 4 chapter update for the 2yr anniversary so make sure to read Chapter 44 first. Thanks for a great 2 years sorry this didn't go up by the 1st one Beta had PC problems and I'm having internet issues myself.

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Chapter XLVI: Waking a Dark Heart.

Last Time.

Kage dropped on a roof where he saw that the Ultimen, minus Long Shadow were in handcuffs walking to a Police van before Army trucks pulled up. Naruto saw Waller walk out with Army soldiers holding laser rifles. Naruto pressed a button on his glasses and heard Waller speak. "The Ultimen belong to us."

"Belong?" Wonder Woman asked as Maxwell walked up. "Poor choice of words. But we promise they'll be in the best of care. I swear, we'll make their last days as painless as possible." The Ultimen walked with them as Long Shadow stayed behind with Superman, Aquaman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

The Army tried to get Long Shadow to come with them, only for Wonder Woman to stop them by standing in their way. "Long Shadow's with us." Batman said standing in front of Waller before the Army cocked their guns. Only for Superman and Aquaman to move in front of Long Shadow. "Mine are bigger."

Batman said as Waller raised her hand to stand down. "He's yours... For however long he has." Waller said as Batman just stared. "Who are you people?" He asked as Waller turned her attention back to him. "That's National Security. And if I were you. I wouldn't dig too deep... Rich boy." Naruto narrowed his eyes at that before dropping into the truck the Ultimen went into.

"Sup?" He said as they stared at him. "Listen... How about I take you to my world? There is a small chance our doctors can find a cure. But I can't make any promises for it." The others looked to each other before Wind Dragon spoke up. "OK. It's not like we have any other options." Naruto pulled his remote out and created a portal on the floor having them jump in it.

Now.

Nevada.

"Everyone linked up?" Kage asked as he flew a Javelin with Snake, Mist, Cheetah, and Batgirl. "Yes!" The girls answered before Atom Smasher walked past them in his giant form. Naruto looked outside and saw the entire League either flying beside or in other Javelins on their way to where a couple of rock climbers came upon a large metaling building that killed one of them.

As they got to the area, Naruto saw the Military take the only survivor away from a large Mesa as large metal spiders and tigers attacked everything in sight and absorbed the vehicles.

(For a better picture look at Dark Heart DCAU.)

"It's growing bigger." Naruto heard Batman over the link as he landed the Javelin beside the others. "It looks like one of those horror movies where the creature gets bigger by eating anything in its sight!" Naruto said before creating a clone for Kurama to take over. "And the 'Creature's' must be protecting it!"

"Diana; I've got the General on the line. Patching you through right now." J'onn spike over the link and Naruto heard Wonder Woman speak up. "This is Wonder woman.. Go ahead General." After a moment, the General replied. "This is General Eiling U.S.A.F. we're in the process of evacuating the 3 nearby towns."

"And we need those.. Things locked down!" Eiling finished before Wonder Woman spoke. "Then the first step is containment." Naruto saw the Batjet fly above before it dropped clear gel on the top of the creature. "What the hell was that?!" Naruto asked seeing the gel quickly freeze the creature.

"Fermionic Gas.. Cools to a few temperatures to absolute zero.. I had to freeze Gotham River one time.. Don't ask." Naruto shrugged before he started to attack the spiders with his arrows as the other League members fought with their weapons or powers. Suddenly, another Javelin landed beside him as more Members ran out as Wonder Woman stopped behind him.

"Surround them!" Superman landed by them and raised his hand. "Wait." He used his X-Ray vision and saw the spiders tunneling under them. "They're right under us!" Suddenly, the Javelin fell through a hole as spiders jumped out of the ground and attacked as the ship dissolved. Naruto jumped up, flipped and shot an arrow that hit one spider and shot five more with lasers from the head.

"Wonder Woman; we're 2 clicks from you and we won't get everyone out in time!" Naruto heard General Eiling over his earpiece before hearing J'onn. "Don't worry General. The Watchtower's is now in stationary orbit above the site. I can route all energy into a single shot."

Suddenly a large red laser hit the ground creating a canon between the League and the town from the creature. "Shit. The Tower will be offline for an hour." Naruto said as he held an arrow in his bow before Superman spoke. "That should buy the town some time to evacuate.. Now I want to study them."

He used his X-Ray vision again before zooming in to see each creature shared the same heart. "I think the main spacecraft is replicating itself.. There's some sort of molecular machine in them. A dark heart building around them." The Batjet flew by as Batman spoke up. "We need Ray Palmer. Superman you'll get to him faster he's in Boston."

"Agreed I'll be right back.. Hold the line." Superman quickly flew up in the air as the others looked at the creature on the other side of the trench.

Superman; Boston.

Superman walked in a lab and saw a young woman with brown hair, blue eyes and wearing glasses. She's wearing a lab coat over her clothes.

"Uhh.. Mr. Palmer.. You have company." She said looking at a petri dish before the Atom grew out of it to stand in front of them. "Oh hello Superman.. What can I do for you?" Atom asked as he shook Superman's hand. "Its an Omega leveled situation." Atom looked to the woman before speaking. "Katie please inform the front office that umm.. I'll be out for awhile."

Later, the Atom shrunk to sit in Superman's ear so he can still hear him as Superman explained the situation. "50 years ago, Dr. John Von Neumann imagined that self replicating robots would be how we'd explore the Universe.. Send one robot out and it would create 10 robots when it found a Planet."

"And then send 10 more in different directions." Atom explained as Superman flew. "I think we have one of those in Nevada Ray." Atom sighed at that. "Then we're dealing with the big nightmare of modern technology.. A robot that can build clones out of everything.. What will stop them when everything is gone?"

"Got an E.T.A. yet?" Batman spoke over their earpieces. "Soon.. How's the trench holding up?" Superman asked before hearing Batman sigh at that. "What trench?" Batman asked before they heard the sounds of missiles firing. They neared the battle before seeing Batman having to eject from the Batjet.

"Batman to all points.. I can use air support. I'm falling and falling fast." Superman sped up and caught Batman. "They're pushing us back. And the mother ship is creating more spiders and tigers than we can fight." Batman said before looking down. "Where's the Atom?" He asked before hearing a faint reply from Superman's head.

"Find Wonder Woman and get us down!" They landed beside Wonder Woman and Naruto who unsealed more arrows. "This is hopeless! Every time we destroy one, the mother ship breeds three more in its place." Wonder Woman said before the Atom grew to his normal size. "Welcome to our nightmare. Can you help?"

"Look at those. It's amazing." Atom said looking at the army. "Geek out later help now." Naruto yelled shooting three arrows at once. "Ray, tell them what you told me." Superman said as Atom stared ahead. "These machines will devour everything in sight to replicate.. And once all the inanimate objects are gone.."

"They'll move to animals and humans." Naruto finished as Atom nodded. "We'll need to destroy the central core." Wonder Woman looked at the ship before speaking. "We'll need to destroy the mother ship." Atom nodded before turning to face them. "But making metal out of rock is a microscopic process."

"The mother ship is issuing the orders at an atomic scale.. You can smash up a machine the size of an infection.. Leave a crumb of it intact and it'll start over again. Get me to the main ship. I can shrink down and reprogram it." They nodded before Batman gave the order to help Atom get to the mother ship.

Naruto turned to see Atom shrink and Wonder Woman pick him up and put him in her cleavage. "Watch yourself Ray!" Naruto yelled as Wonder Woman flew off to the ship. Naruto helped to keep the robots at bay as Superman, Wonder Woman and another woman flew up to the ship.

She has long black hair a silver cowl and black bodysuit. She has white gloves boots and cape.

(For a better picture type Kimiyo Hoshi, Doctor Light DCAU.)

Batman gave orders as Naruto kept spiders away from him and Naruto saw Wonder Woman land on the ship. The League continued to fight as larger robots came out of the ground. Naruto heard the Atom explain the ship is a war machine from two planets fighting each other and consumed one planet before going to others to fight the war.

"I can't break the heart but I can give it a heart attack!" Naruto nodded at that before running to Kurama. "I can destroy the entire ship as a backup plan!" Naruto got to Kurama as the ship started to spew black water before Kurama went back into Naruto. "GL, I need you to make the strongest barrier you can since this is going to be big." He went into his cloak and flew up above the ship before creating a ball just as Green Lantern had his ring at the ready. "Ray, get out now!"

He saw the Atom come out before firing the ball. "Bijūdama. (Tailed Beast Ball.)"

BOOM!

The ship including the robots was destroyed before Naruto created several clones and started gathering up any visible pieces before sealing them away. "OK. We'll just send these scrolls into the Sun." Naruto said before Green Lantern created a ball to take each scroll. "Too bad." Naruto looked to see a man with a grey moustache in an Air Force uniform. "That almost beat the Justice League.. We could have learned a lot from it."

"And why would you need that?" Batman asked narrowing his eyes. "Maybe because the Justice League has a space weapon capable of mass destruction all along. And we'll be talking about that someday." He saluted them before leaving in a helicopter. "Figures show them a weapon that can destroy the World and they want to play with it."

Atom said before turning to Superman. "Hopefully we got all the pieces or history could repeat itself." Superman looked at the Military helicopters. "That's why we're here."

A Week Later; Smallville, Naruto's House.

Naruto groaned as he woke before seeing the covers move. "What the he-!" He stopped as Anko popped out from beneath the covers with her hair out of its ponytail. "Morning, Stud. Bout time you woke up." Naruto smiled as he pulled her in for a kiss and ran his hands over her body. "After last night, can you blame me?"

"How about we continue? I brought in some... Help." Anko said as they broke the kiss. Naruto heard purring before looking to see a nude Barb at the doorway. She smiled before changing into her cheetah form and walked over to them. "Anko convinced me to give this form a... Ride~" Naruto groaned as she trailed a clawed finger down his chest before she started to kiss down it.

Later, a shirtless Naruto wearing jeans walked out of his room and stopped at one a couple of doors down. Walking in, he saw Shayera's room that had dust on everything before focusing on her original helmet. Walking over, he put his hand on it before sighing. "I hope you're doing OK... Wherever you are." He said before walking out.

Salem; Tower Of Fate.

"Achoo!" Shayera sneezed while she played chess with Aquaman as Amazo sat by them. She let her hair grow just past her shoulders and she's wearing a white sleeveless shirt showing her cleavage and tight black pants.

"Bless you.. It's your move Hawkgirl." Aquaman said as Shayera looked down at the board before moving her bishop, which Aquaman quickly took with his. "Check in 5 moves." He said as she just stared down at the board. "We'll see." She said as Aquaman narrowed his eyes at her. "Diana told me you regularly beat Batman.. I find that difficult to believe with the pitiful game you're giving."

Shayera remained silent as she moved one of her pieces. "But I should have known better than to expect a proper challenge from a woman." Aquaman said trying to rile her up as he moved his queen. Shayera stayed quiet as Aquaman stared at her. "Such stimulating repartee.. I get better conversion from the android."

Shayera moved a pawn as Amazo looked at Aquaman. "You are aware I'm in the room?" Aquaman ignored Amazo as he moved his king to the middle of the board. "Check." Shayera looked at the board before pushing her king down. "I win again.. Huzzah." Aquaman dryly said with little enthusiasm.

"It's just a game." Aquaman knocked the table and board away as he stood up. "You disgust me." Shayera calmly stood up before leaving. "Join the club." As she left, Dr. Fate came in and spoke to Aquaman. "I told you that wouldn't work." Aquaman sighed at that before looking to him.

"She was once one of the fiercest warriors I'd ever met.. What happened?" Dr. Fate sighed before looking to where Shayera left. "Trying to find her way.. Leaving the Justice League was difficult for her. I provided her sanctuary and a place to meditate on her…." He stooped and placed a hand on his helmet.

"Excuse me." He floated up and disappeared before the table and board was placed back to where they were. "New game?" Amazo asked as he sat where Shayera was sitting.

Smallville; Kent Farm.

Naruto, wearing a dirty blue shirt jeans and work boots, was putting hay in the barn as Kara in jeans and a white shirt fed the cows. Naruto threw the last bale in the lot before jumping down from the cart and up to Kara. He wrapped his arms around her and groped her chest having her smile at him.

"Easy Naruto.. We almost got caught last time~!" She moaned before Naruto moved his hands to answer his earpiece much to her displeasure. "Kage here.. What?! OK, we're on our way." Naruto stood back as Kara turned around. "Grundy's back." He started heading towards the house with Kara following. "Stupid, mood-killing zombie jerk!" She whispered to herself.

Metropolis

Kage and Supergirl landed to see Superman, Green Lantern and Vixen standing in front of Grundy who has red orange eyes.

Vixen is an African-American woman wearing a golden brown costume showing her cleavage and shoulder length gloves. She has animal teeth for earrings, belt and a necklace with a fox head shaped amulet.

She touched the necklace and an astral projection of an elephant came over her before she punched Grundy sending him flying several feet. Supergirl flew towards him breaking glass from the cars behind her and pulled her fist back. Only for Grundy to punch her through several buildings and punch Superman towards the bridge destroying two supports.

Suddenly, Aquaman rose up on a large octopus that held the bridge steady to let the people off. Naruto jumped to the docks but stopped as he saw Shayera land in front of him holding a woman and girl. "Shayera." Naruto said getting her attention. "Miss the hood." She said before Superman climbed out of the water.

"You alright?" Naruto asked as Superman spat out water. "Do I look alright?!" Naruto shrugged as Green Lantern, Vixen, and Supergirl landed by them. Suddenly, Dr. Fate, Amazo appeared by Shayera as Aquaman jumped out of the water. "Perhaps we can help?" The heroes looked at them before Superman spoke up.

"OK; let's throw our big guns at him. Me Supergirl, Kage, Fate, and the android." Shayera stepped forward at that. "Wait. Let me try and talk to him first." She flew off towards the rampaging Grundy before anyone could speak. "Shayera wait!" Naruto yelled missing Supergirl cross her arms and glare.

The others caught up and saw Grundy slam Shayera into a building before they attacked. Naruto dashed forward before going through handsigns. "Fūton: Gouzen Toras. (Wind Release: Roaring Tigers.)" (1.) Wind surrounded Naruto before breaking off and formed into Sabertooth Tigers that attacked Grundy as Superman and Supergirl punched him.

Green Lantern and Dr. Fate attacked from a distance before Vixen attacked his back with lengthened claws on her gloves. Dr. Fate explained that Grundy isn't in his body but is consumed with nothing but rage as Amazo dropped down. "Enough." Amazo lifted his arm and had gold energy form as Naruto's Tigers were dispelled by Grundy.

"NO!" Shayera yelled before being pushed back by Amazo. Amazo shot the energy at Grundy but grunted. "He- He's feeding off of it!" He yelled out before breaking the attack. "I'm sorry. My being here puts you all in danger.. I'll travel several light years away until I find another way."

Amazo disappeared in a gold light leaving the others to look at the rampaging Grundy. They all attacked before Shayera hit him with her mace several times having Grundy scream in pain before she hit him in the ground sending him into the sewers. "Can't see him." Green Lantern said shining a light down the hole.

"Neither can I; there must be lead in the pipes. "Superman said as Shayera looked at her mace. "Your Mace is made of Nth metal.. Your people forced it to fight magical creature.. Right now it's the only thing on Earth to put him out of his misery." Dr. Fate explained as Naruto put a hand on Shayera arm. "You want me to do it?"

"No.. Grundy was my friend.. I need to do it." She flew down as the others waited. Naruto crouched at the hole and watched missing the miffed look on Kara's face. After several moments, Shayera flew back up. "It's over." She walked away having reporters ask her questions about her allegiance and leaving the League.

"Shayera was never kicked out of the League.. She can come back anytime." Naruto said as he stepped beside Shayera. "It was 4-2 in your favor." She looked shocked at that before Superman spoke up. "I believe in second chances and redemption. I believe in my friends." Suddenly, several protesters came out yelling at Shayera having her walk before being stopped by the people she saved from the bridge.

"Thank you." Shayera smiled at that as she left with the others. "You deserve that too." Naruto said having Shayera smile softly at him.

To Be Continued.

A/N: thanks for reading and let me know of any mistakes.

Beta: Jebest4781 and Chaos-PSD.

1. A Jutsu given by Reaper4991 for Naruto to use.

Again thank you for 2 great years and the next to be updated will be Hero Rising..

Talk To You Later,

Lone Wolf Out.