Welcome to the Justice League
To my reviewers:
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Disclaimer: (Repeat after me.) I do not own Inuyasha or Justice League. Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and the Justice League belongs to DC Comics. The only characters I own are Karin and Hitomi. I make no profit off this fanfic. Please don't sue me. (Great Job boys and girls, have a cookie)
Chapter 23: A Great Power is Revealed
"This is a priority alert from U.S Space Command. We are requesting a rapid response force, to contain and counter an extraterrestrial landing."
That was the order that was given after a rock climber reported finding some type of alien wreckage.
The military attempted to isolate the strange phenomena, only to be attacked by some small Nano technology based machine, which formed a shape of an overgrown spiders and tigers. The mechanical spiders ate the troop's helicopters and tanks while the mechanical tigers attacked the soldiers.
The troops fought valiantly, they tried shooting their guns, throwing grenades, hitting the machines with flame throwers but it didn't even slow the machines down.
J`onn relayed the message to the heroes in the Watchtower , "Attention Justice League, a foreign alien machine has been spotted in the mountains of Nevada. The United States military has requested our assistance."
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The heroes were in a rut trying to organize themselves into groups in the Javelins.
Karin used this to her advantage as she snuck into one of the Javelins compartments, with Kirara at her side.
She knew her parents would probably ground her for the rest of her life if they had even the slightest idea of what she was up to, but this is something that she needed to do.
'At least that's what 'you're' telling me,' Karin thought as she gripped the Tetsusaiga in her hands, as it continued to pulse.
The sword began pulsing the moment Karin's father made the announcement. When she touched the fang made sword, Karin was overflown with a desire to join the mission, and that's why she's here now.
Her uncle Sesshomaru once told her that the sword will tell her when she's ready to use it and when that day comes, to 'listen' to what it says. "Trust the fang, it will tell you what to do."
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Nevada: Extraterrestrial Sighting
A massive group of the Justice League heroes made their way to the extraterestrial sighting. Those who couldn't fly, or had their own transportation, took the Javelins. Kagome and Hitomi were in one of them, with Kagome piloting
"It's growing bigger," Batman informed the team in their com-links. "It's consuming everything around it and converting it to mass."
"And those spider things?" asked Wonder Woman.
"The same," Batman answered, "And once their done with the daubery left over from the army, they'll head for the closest towns"
"Why did it have to be spiders?" Kagome groaned to no one in particular. After facing Naraku, she had grown a true hatred for spiders.
"I have the communications feed from the General on the ground," J`onn informed those in the Javelins.
Diana answered the feed, "This is Wonder Woman, go ahead General."
"This is General Island in the U.S.A.F, we are evacuating the nearby towns. We need those 'things' locked down," the general informed them.
"We got to find a way to contain them," said Kagome.
"I got something that may buy us some time," said Batman as he fired missile from his Bat Plane, at the giant alien machine. Once the missile hit its target, ice began to from on the machine.
"What the hell was that?" Hitomi asked, not understanding what just happened.
"Thermionic gas," Batman answered, "It's cooled down a few degrees below absolute zero."
"And you have that on your plane because why?" Kagome asked just as shocked.
"I had to freeze the Gotham City River once," he said simply.
"Of course he did," said Hitomi sarcastically, even after all these years, it's hard to believe some of the things Batman had lying around.
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The mechanical spiders tried to retreat back to their home base only to find it covered in ice. They all turned around and began to charge down the mountain ridge to attack the nearby towns.
All the heroes who could fly, began to attack all the spiders with their strength or energy attacks.
By then the Javelins landed, and all the heroes exited off the ship, immediately attacking the mechanical spiders.
Kagome shot her arrows at the spiders and most of them disintegrated once they touched by the sacred arrows light.
Hitomi attacked with her trusted yōkai claws.
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Karin came out of the compartment once everyone was out of the Javelin, 'Good thing Kaa-san and Hitomi weren't on this jet.'
She and Kirara used the emergency hatch to exit the ship. Kirara transformed into her yōkai form once she reached the ground, Karin climbed on the neko's back and they flew back a safe distance away from the fight.
Karin looked down at the Tetsusaiga and pulled it out of its sheath. The sword continued to pulse, and slowly transformed into its legendary form. She stared in bewilderment at the amazing fang blade. This was the first time she had seen it in this form. She lightly brushed the top blade with her hand, careful not to cut herself.
After she was done admiring the weapon, she gripped its hilt ready to use it, only to have it pause in its pulsing.
Karin loosened her grip understanding the message, 'Not yet.'
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"Everyone surround the spiders and close them in," Wonder Woman ordered.
"Wait a second," said Superman as he looked at the mountain ridge with his x-ray vision. With it he saw the spiders crawling under the mountain and heading in theirs direction, "THEY'RE RIGHT UNDER US!"
Just like that the spiders lunged from under the ground and attacked the League.
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"This is General Island, we're in the town of Goldhanger. We won't be able to evacuate the people in time," he informed.
"You won't have to," said J`onn interrupting the call, "The Watchtower is now in stationary orbit of the sight. The Binary Fusion Generator is prepared to be fired."
"The what?" asked the General.
"It converts our space station's entire power source into a single shot. It's just one notch under a nuclear weapon," J`onn informed. The League had this weapon stored just in case anything like the Thanigarion Invasion happened again.
General Island looked at the sky horrified, "You can't be serious?"
"Very," answered J`onn, "Pull your men back, General. We can't hit the aliens directly because it could scatter them for miles. We'll burn a trench around them."
The General ordered his men to fall back, angered that the Justice League even had such a powerful weapon pointing at the Earth, 'Who do they think they are?'
J`onn was finished making the necessary preparation for fire the Generator to be fired. "Karin," he called through the intercom in his daughter's room, "Come to the monitor rooms at once."
No response came.
"Karin," he tried calling her again. When she didn't respond a second time, he did a mental sweep around the entire Watchtower and didn't find a trace of her. On a hunch, he searched below to the battle sight and found her there. "No," he said out loud.
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Kagome had used the last of her arrows and began using her katana to fight off the mechanical spiders.
"Kagome," J`onn called her telepathically, "Karin's down at the sight with you."
"NANI!" Kagome yelled out loud and searched around trying to find her daughter. It was only when she looked up she could barely see Kirara's outline in the sky.
Using his mind J`onn connected to Karin's mind, "Karin what are you doing?"
"I had to come," the young girl responded, not the slightest bit sorry that she did.
"Why is that?" Kagome asked furiously.
"Kaa-san, I have to be here…the Tetsusaiga told me to," Karin explained.
J`onn and Kagome were speechless, they were both confused and angry about Karin would deliberately do something like this, knowing how dangerous the situation was. And unfortunately nothing could be done about the situation now.
"Karin," J`onn said as calmly as he could, "We're about to fire the generator at the sight. Brace yourself."
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"Everyone fall back," Superman ordered as the heroes retreated.
With that warning, he fired the generator. The heroes watched as giant white beam of light fell from the sky, creating a giant trench around the giant machine and mechanical spiders. Most people and heroes had to shield the eyes at the intensity of the bright light.
Once the weapon was done firing, the entire Watchtower was now running on reserved power, "We have one hour to see if it worked," said J`onn
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"That should buy us some time," said Superman. "Now I want to learn about these things." He used his x-ray vision to examine both the machine and the spiders, "The machine is replicating itself into the spiders," he told the others, "Some kind of 'Dark Heart' is forming around itself."
Batman looked at the trench from above in his Bat Plane, "We need The Atom," he informed the Man of Steel.
"Agreed," said Superman, as he flew off to get the Nano expert.
Kagome looked over at Hitomi after the conversation, "Fox, I need you to take me somewhere."
Hitomi gave her a questioning look, "Where?" Kagome pointed upward to where Karin and Kirara were, "Oh, Hell no!"
Kagome hopped on the kitsune hanyou's back and they ran in Karin's direction.
Both Wonder Woman and Green Lantern looked at the direction they were going to see what was going on.
"Great Gaia, what is Karin doing here?" asked the Amazon.
"I don't know," said Green Lantern, "But I'm pretty sure Miko's gonna give her hell for it."
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Kirara lowered to the ground as soon as Kagome and Hitomi arrived.
"WHAT IN KAMI'S NAME WERE YOU THINKING?" Hitomi began to yell, "THOSE THINGS COULD HAVE TORN YOU TO SHREDS! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? " The kitsune hanyou continued to rant to her student.
Kagome would have joined in on the rant, if she didn't notice the Tetsusaiga transformed in Karin's hand. Her eyes widened at the familiar sword as its enormous power tingled her senses.
"WHY AREN'T YOU SAYING ANYTHING?" Hitomi yelled at her grandmother.
Kagome walked up to Karin and looked her dead in the eye, "Kar-chan, why do you think the sword wanted you to come here?"
Karin was a little surprised that her mother wasn't yelling at her. She looked down at the sword and thought of the right words to use, "Because those things can hurt a lot of people…and I want to help stop that from happening."
Kagome looked down at the sword and then turned her head to look at the alien machine and spiders, then turned back to look at Karin and made up her mind of what to do, "Fine," said Kagome.
"WHAT?" said J`onn, who had been listening in Kagome's mind, and Hitomi at the same time.
Kagome didn't answer them and got on Kirara behind Karin, "Let's go, Kirara" she told the neko, who took off flying back toward the alien machine.
"Kagome, are you sure this is wise?" J`onn asked telepathically.
Kagome nodded mentally, "The Tetsusaiga believes that Karin can do this, otherwise it wouldn't have transformed. And as much as I hate to admit it, it's probably the second best weapon we have right now."
J`onn had to agree with that, he could sense the power of the Tetsusaiga the moment he laid eyes on it. He actually looked forward to the day that Karin was strong enough to control it, 'I just didn't think it would be this soon.'
"Be safe," J`onn finally said to both his girls after a few moments of silence.
"We will," they both told him
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Kagome, Hitomi, and Karin arrived in the nick of time.
The mechanical spiders were finally able to pass the trench and started heading right for the League.
"Are you crazy!" Green Lantern yelled when Kagome came back with Karin, "Get her out of here!"
"It's okay," Kagome said too calmly for anyone's liking, "She can help us."
"No offense ma'am," voiced a hero named Vigilantly, "But this ain't no place for youngins."
Karin walked up in front of the team of heroes ignoring all their protests.
"What is she doing?" Wonder Woman questioned to Kagome.
"She's waiting for the right moment," Kagome answered.
Karin watched as the mechanical spiders came charging at them. She gripped the hilt of Tetsusaiga with both hands waiting for the right moment, 'Just a little more.'
The scent of the power coming from the mechanical spiders brushed against the wind. Karin's own power also began to carry with the wind, it stung her nose with a foreign sensation.
That's when she realized that was what she had to do, she had to slice right when the part where the two winds collide.
Kagome watched at what was transpiring, "Come on Kar-chan, you can do it."
The mechanical spiders were drawing near and the League readied themselves for another fight.
'Now,' Karin said to herself. She lifted the Tetsusaiga and swung to the side, shooting streams of energy toward the mechanical spiders reducing over half of them to ash.
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When the attack stopped, even the mechanical spiders were stunned at what just happened.
Many heroes' jaws literally dropped at the sight.
Hitomi couldn't believe what she had just witnessed, and what her young student was capable of. She had heard stories of the InuTashio and his three legendary swords, 'but I had no idea that such a power could exist.'
"What was that?" asked a stunned Vixen.
"That was the Kaze no Kizu, or the Wind Scar," Kagome explained, "an attack that can take down over a hundred enemies with one swing of the yōkai blade."
Green Lantern slowly turned his head to Miko, "…and you gave it to a ten year old?"
"Technically Inuyasha did, you were there remember," Kagome reminded him.
This didn't sooth his uneasiness at all.
The spiders got over the pause and continued to move forward, the League shook off their shock and continued the fight.
Karin fought as well, she stayed Kirara and sliced the mechanical tigers and spiders with her Tetsusaiga.
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Thanks to Karin's attacks and the help of The Atom, the 'Dark Heart' was shut down completely.
The army came to the scene fifteen minutes later. Hitomi took Karin and Kirara out of sight so that the League wouldn't get any negative publicity about having a child with them.
The military choppers took the 'Dark Heart' machine away along with all the mechanical tigers and spiders.
"I don't suppose you need any help destroying that?" asked Superman. "We shouldn't let that kind of technology fall into the wrong hands."
General Island turned to the Man of Steel, who was standing in front of the other League members, "We can learn a lot from it, it nearly defeated the Justice League after all."
"Why would you need something like that?" asked Wonder Woman with a suspicious glance.
"Maybe because the Justice League has a secret weapon of mass destruction floating above the planet," answered General Island, "We're gonna talk about that someday…I'll see to it." With those final words the General entered military chopper and took off.
"Amazing," said The Atom, "We show him a weapon that destroyed its creator and after everything he saw, he wants to play with it. What's gonna stop history from repeating itself?"
"We are," Superman said simply.
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Watchtower: A Half Hour Later
Kagome firmly told Karin to go straight to her room once they landed on the Javelin hanger. Karin nodded and took Kirara with her to her room.
Kagome, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Hitomi, and J`onn were in the meeting room.
"What Karin did was incredibly reckless," Green Lantern stated his concerns, "She could have been killed!"
Kagome sat in one of the chairs and laid her head in her hands.
"We're aware of that!" yelled Hitomi defending herself and her family.
"How did she even get on the Javelin?" Wonder Woman asked.
"She snuck in when we were organizing groups," said J`onn who only knew what had happened after he watched the security footage.
Batman raised a brow after hearing this. The Dark Knight was a little impressed on how she evaded everyone and stayed hidden for that long.
"She can't go into battles with us," Superman stated, "It's bad enough we got one ten year old on the team," he said referring to Captain Marvel.
J`onn looked over at Kagome who was quite throughout the whole thing because she was deep in thought, "What's troubling you?" he asked, knowing that it wasn't because Karin went to the Dark Heart sight.
"Karin used the Kaze no Kizu …it took Inuyasha months to even find out about that technique," she explained, "Not only did Karin figure it out on her own, she managed to do it on her first try."
"This worries me as well," J`onn admitted, "She is indeed more connected to the sword then Inuyasha was, and if she keeps this up she might even surpass Sesshomaru's skills."
Kagome nodded in agreement, "So what do we do, nurture her or shelter her from this?"
That was a question neither parent knew the answer to.
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Karin waited in her room, on her bed, for her parents to come.
Kirara sensed her charges uneasiness and licked her face to cheer her up. Karin smiled and began to pet the neko's head, "Arigato for all your help today. I couldn't have done it without you."
Kirara meowed in response as rubbed her head under Karin's chin, her way of saying 'you're welcome.'
Karin's door opened a moment later and her parents walked in.
Kagome sat at the edge of the bed while J`onn sat in a chair next to the head of the bed.
Karin spoke first to break the silence, "How much trouble am I in?"
"A lot," answered Kagome, "And not just with us either."
Karin nodded expecting as much.
"Karin, do you understand why we're all upset with you?" J`onn asked his daughter.
Karin nodded again, "I could have been seriously hurt or worse," she said honestly. "But I had to help… once Otou-san said what was happening, the Tetsusaiga it…it started calling to me."
"What did it tell you, Kar-chan?" Kagome asked curiously.
Karin shrugged, "It didn't say actual words to me or anything…I just…I wanted to help everybody and it made me feel like I could."
"And by everyone, you mean your mother and your 'aunt' and 'uncles,'" J`onn asked. Karin nodded yes.
Kagome took a deep breath before she spoke, "Kar-chan, what you did with Tetsusaiga today was…incredible, but the way you went about it is wrong," Karin nodded understanding. "Your Otou-san and I have been talking about what to do with you and the Tetsusaiga. It's pretty obvious that you can 'use' it…But we're concerned if you're 'ready' to use it."
Karin waited for them to continue.
"So we are going to ask you, dear one," said J`onn, "Do 'you' think you're ready to use Tetsusaiga? Really ready to use it?"
Karin blinked a few times at the question. She hadn't really thought of that, was she ready to use the legendary fang that had been passed down to her. Karin went over the fight in her head, recollecting her using the Tetsusaiga and the overwhelming power that she felt from it.
She also thought of the Justice League, many of her family friends and loved ones had gotten seriously injured though out the fight and still kept going. That type of fighting, is something she wasn't ready for.
After a few moments Karin finally answered, "…no…not yet."
Both adults sighed with relief.
Kagome reached for the Tetsusaiga that was between Karin and the wall. "We called your Sesshomaru Oji-san…he agreed to train you on how to use Tetsusaiga," Karin looked up eagerly at the thought, till she heard the one word children hate their parents to say.
"But," J`onn interrupted, "You're not allowed to use Tetsusaiga in a fight until you're eighteen, alright. It's far too great a weapon to be used for training or minor fights."
Karin thought about it for few moments, "What if it's an emergency?" Kagome and J`onn gave her a stern 'Don't even think about it' look. "Okay," she finally agreed.
Kagome gave Karin a hug and J`onn kissed the top of Karin's head, "We love you, Kar-chan,"said J`onn.
Karin smiled and hugged her mom tighter, "I love you both too."
Both adults got up and began to walk out of the room before Kagome turned her head, "Oh and Kar-chan before I forget, you're grounded for a month."
"WHAT!" Karin yelled.
That's a wrap for this chapter folks. So what do you guys think? Next time: Here comes a whole lot of trouble. Be warned that the next chapter is gonna have a bit of a faster pace, for plot purposes.
Till then my readers