Legacy 2
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Ruben pushed his long blood red hair back with his hands, and watched Penguin squirm under his gaze.
He paced back, and forth, contemplating what to do with the securely tied Penguin. He had time, his mom was safe, and he had already warned Wade to set up the best security possible, and to remove her from the hospital, and into one of their secret underground bunker. They had the money to hide her indefinitely, until he stopped the people targeting her.
"This place feels like the Bat's home," said Penguin with a shiver. He stared off into the dark cave that was Ruben's secret base. It gave of an ominous feeling.
Ruben's fist smashed into Penguin's chin. His emerald green eyes burning with fire as a thought entered his mind. Penguin could have just as easily gone after his mother first, it was only luck that had kept his mother safe, only luck that Penguin had a big mouth.
"Uncalled for!" screamed Penguin. He spat out blood, and glared at Mr. Possible. "Is this how you treat all your guests?"
Ruben pulled out a kunai, and lowered himself. He placed himself face to face with the man, and his spectacles.
"Is this suppose to scare me?" asked Penguin with a scoff. He knew heroes didn't kill.
Ruben placed the cold knife against Penguin's exposed neck, and looked the man into the eyes.
Penguin visibly cringed, and tried to look away.
"Look into my eyes, and tell me you don't think I'll cut your neck open," ordered Ruben, and added a little more pressure onto the knife. A small cut appeared on Penguin's neck.
Penguin hesitantly looked. He saw angry green orbs staring directly at him. He could see the rage behind them, he quickly shirked away when he realized that it was all directed at him. The knife was pulled away when the point was made, and his captor started pacing again, before speaking moments later.
"I am only going to ask once, and if you decide to be smart with me, I'll put a water tank over your head, and fill it with gasoline. Put a straw in your mouth, and watch how long you struggle to live until you die." stated Ruben with a cold tone, "And if you don't drown quick enough for my taste I'll light you up."
Penguin gulped. The kid had imagination that was for sure. "Got it."
"Who are the ones who ordered Drakken to kill Kim Possible, and Ron Stoppable?" asked Ruben.
Penguin took in a deep breath, and spilled his guts.
•Sometime later
Joker, Two-Face, Deadshot, Shego, and their job provider(Boss).
Those were his targets, and together they called themselves the Organization. Shego was his primary target, and the others were going to fall with her. The five had gathered to accomplish heists that they would never be able to do alone. Everyone was in it for the money, except Joker who did it for the chaos.
Ruben looked at Penguin. He looked at the unconscious criminal's face. The man would be lucky if he remembered his name when he awoke next.
He threw Penguin's body into his car, and set it on auto-pilot. It left following the instructions given to it. AI super cars were incredible, because it could dump an unconscious criminal at the door step of the Police Station.
Gotham was about to meet Mr. Possible. He was angry, and he was ready going to destroy the cult responsible for his mother. Shego was his mother's old nemesis, and Drakken's old partner. She was after revenge, but now he was after vengeance as well.
Ru gathered what he would need, and waited for his car to return. It was in the garage, it hadn't taken all that long to throw Penguin at the police station's front door. The car was capable of traveling at the speed of sound after all.
He called a hotel in Gotham to reserve a room for him. He would go as Ruben Uzumaki at day, and hunt for the Organization members at night as Mr. Possible.
Ruben closed his phone, and hopped in the car. It turned on, and started to slowly exit out of the base. It knew where to go, and moved itself. The car would take two days to arrive at Gotham, traveling at a sedate pace, but he was going to arrive to Gotham by midnight. Ru closed his eyes, and fell asleep. He would need a nap to stay awake throughout the night.
The alarm he had set woke him just as he reached Gotham. His well rested mind quickly made him realize that he was about to go head to head with experienced villains. He exited out his car, and disappeared into an alley. From there he climbed the buildings, and quickly scouted the buildings. He would go to his hotel in the morning, but he would explore during the night.
The City itself was different from Enerton. The buildings were more dark, and had a more robust feeling. The city had seen better days, its entire nature seem dirtied. Enerton was the same at night, but bright during the day. Gotham felt like a city consumed with greed, and hate.
Ru took a deep breath through his mask, and started running on the buildings ledges. He saw cars fill the street below, despite its condition it was very populated. He pulled out a small glass, one that was connected with his computer back at home, and let it guide him.
Penguin had said that the next meeting for the Organization would only occur when the next job was available. Their boss, Oscorp. This of course meant that he wouldn't be able to confront them all at one time, not that he would. To do so alone would be suicidal, he was skilled, but he wasn't Superman.
Penguin did know where one Villain was hiding, and had assured him she could help speed up his hunt if he could convince her, but Penguin also warned him she was a tough nut. Penguin had given him all the info he could in exchange for his own life.
Ru used the GPS feature of his glass, and let it guide him through the new city. He took a break when he spotted the tallest building in Gotham. His glasses automatically bringing up information of it. Wayne Enterprise, built well over two decades ago. Ru scaled the building using his suits unique perks, and reached the top. He steadied himself at the tip of the building, and took in Gotham. His sharp eyes taking in the streets, and city blocks. He now knew a part of Gotham.
A part of the City's layout imprinted in his mind. Ru could see the building he was looking for in the distance, his glass automatically zooming in. He could see just the edge from where he sat, it seemed to be an abandoned Warehouse.
Ru opened his arms up, and jumped off. He dived down, and passed the side of the building. His suit created his wings, and he glided much like a flying squirrel. He maneuvered himself from crashing into any buildings, and continued to steadily fall. He didn't fly long enough to reach his goal, but he did land close enough, and continued a steady pace on the rooftops, and ledges.
He took off his glasses, and dropped onto the door step of the warehouse. It was an old export, and import for exotic plants. The faded labeled said as much, just as his glass had said earlier. This was where he would hopefully make his first alliance. Penguin did say she was pretty pissed off at Joker, and Shego in particular. Hopefully he would be able to play upon that, and use a villain to even out the difference in power. He wasn't above using dirty tactics. He was after victory, and if that meant working with a villain, then he would.
He opened the door cautiously, and walked in. The inside wasn't what he had expected. It was more lively inside compared to the outer appearance. It might have been the perfect representation of Gotham to its civilians. The warehouse was well lighted, and there were many tables neatly aligned in a organized pattern, or at least he presumed, he couldn't see very well beside what was in his line of sight, the plants were all tall, and obscuring his view. Various pots of plants laid on each table. Ruben only recognized one plant, and that was the Venus flytrap, it was far larger than what one would find in nature.
He was a genius, but nature wasn't his forte. He knew his poisonous plants also, but the ones before him were something he would have learned of had he pursued a career in botany.
"And who might you be?" asked a sweet voice from within the jungle of plants.
Ru's sharp eyes spotted her red hair. It was almost similar to his blood red hair, but her's was a lighter shade. He stepped forward, and said, "I am here to ask for your assistance."
He watched her cautious as she stepped out of the plant she was hiding behind. She was beautiful, and her clothes seemed to be made out of leaves, a strapless like bathing suit. She smiled at him with an amused smile. She didn't seem to be taking him serious.
"Are you some new hero?" she asked with an amused tone.
"New to Gotham only," he replied, and continued, "I'm after the Organization members, and I heard from a reliable source that you might help in my heroic quest." His tone was sarcastic as he finished his sentence.
Ivy chuckled, and disappeared into the foliage. "And why would I help a newbie like you, you don't look like you would be much help to me even if I did decide to suicidally go against those people."
Ruben moved when he saw the plants start to move, but his reaction was to slow. A vine grabbed his leg, and tossed him into the forest of rare plants. His body smashed through the pots of said plants, and he somehow fell into a deep pool of water. His mind was quick to realize that the plants would obviously need plenty of water, and he had just fell into the plants water. He regained his sense quickly enough, and rose out of the water, but he screamed when he felt electricity surge through his body. He could hear Poison Ivy chuckle, and he dragged himself out of the pool. He gasped, and struggled to stay conscious once he forced himself out of the electrified pool. His suit was no longer functioning, did she know of his suit, and did she cook up a plan almost immediately to weaken him?
"Color me impress, you must have a lot of endurance to still be alive," said Poison Ivy as she reappeared in front of him. She back away with another laugh, "I noticed your little super suit the moment you stepped in here. My plants could smell the waste on you, the subtle smell of burned oxygen, which your suit use to power itself. A nano suit, quite expensive."
Ruben got up with some struggle. "I was surprised by that cowardly attack of yours."
Ivy faced him with a smile, "I don't fall for taunts so easily, and besides I don't think you are one of those foolish people who believe in a fair fight."
"What makes you say that?" asked Ru, and grunted when he felt a sharp pain in his arms, and legs. It was as if he had a needle cutting through his veins.
Ivy noticed his pain, and smiled. "When I threw you into my plants, I through you into one specific plant. You should be feeling intense pain, and paralysis, that is about all it really does, and to answer your question, a fair fighter would not use a super suit."
"You could have given me a simple no," replied Ru, and focused away the pain. His body quickly becoming numb, it was easy for him to do so at will, which was something many would take years to master.
Ivy moved her hands toward him. Vines rose to meet her desire, and whipped themselves toward Ru.
Ru threw himself away from the vines, but only to have the air knocked out of him when a tree branch had literally grew from his blind spot. He hadn't thought she would know a normal person's blind spot, but she apparently did, and used her plants to subtly take advantage of that weakness. He rolled into a coughing fit, she was simply too experienced to win against, and now his body was feeling heavy. He had expected to at least stand on even foot against this super villain, and use his well trained body to at least defeat or escape her if things went bad, but now that seemed impossible.
"You wouldn't have lasted a minute against the organization." stated Ivy with another laugh.
Her vines tossed him back into the pool of water, but this time it wasn't electrified anymore. Ru felt the hard impact, and was basically belly flopped into the water. He was once against airless, and struggled to reach the pool's edge. He found it hard to move, and he couldn't find the energy to pull himself out, he could see Ivy watching him from atop a large plant, and speaking, but he couldn't hear her. He instead focused on pulling himself. He tried, he pulled with his numbed hands, and gripped the smoothed edge of the pool as best he could, but his hands slipped off of the stone. He plunged back into the cold water of the pool, and he could see Ivy watching him curiously as he started to lose consciousness. His eyes slowly dimmed, and his struggling hands calmed. His right hand unconsciously reached for his necklace as he always did when stressed. Everything became slow as he realized he was dying, his eyes observing everything above the water.
Ivy wasn't going to save him, she was the one to throw him there, he didn't understand why he would believe the best in her, or why at times he would believe the best in people. She disappeared from where she had once been, and he could feel his body hit the bottom of the pool. He was going to die. His body was going to be found drowned in a pool, and his grandparents would be devastated, his mother would also be once she woke. She would wake, she was too strong to stay asleep forever, but would she be strong enough to hear the news of his death?
"Are you quitting already?" asked a soft whisper, it mocked him, "You don't sound like an Uzumaki to me."
Ru answered it, maybe it was because he accepted that he was dying, and was becoming delusional, but he answered it nonetheless.
"Shut up you shitty bastard," he replied, and stared out into the lights above the water. "I can't even must up the energy to twitch right now, I don't give up, I'm just paralyzed, in pain, and fried like a fish."
"If you had the energy to move then you would continue to fight?" asked the same voice. It seemed amused by his answer.
"If," replied Ru, and continued sarcastically, "But I know I don't have a adrenaline shot on me."
The voice chuckled. "I was thinking something more spiritual, besides he would be pissed if I let you die."
"Whose this third person now?" questioned Ru to himself, but when the voice didn't answer back he decided he was sane again.
He felt his lung swallow in the water he had been holding back, but a moment after he felt a new rush of strength. The air filling his lung evaporated, and he coughed out bubbles of water. The feeling in his legs, and arms returned, and he felt his body become light. He laid at the bottom of the pool wondering if he was imagining the feeling, but when he pulled himself into a standing position beneath the water he realized that he wasn't. He looked up, and jumped. He had been aiming for the ledge of the pool, but instead he shot out of the water, and onto the steel beem that was a part of the warehouse's ceiling.
Ruben searched the warehouse. His eyes scanning the room for Poison Ivy, but she was nowhere in sight. His instinct told him to hunt her down, and take revenge, but his rational side quickly quelled his new born rage, and made him see reasons. If he chased after her carelessly he would end up poisoned, and end up dead. Then the recent event quickly caught up to him. The voice had helped him. His eyes trailed down to his necklace, it was glowing. The voice had come from inside his head, did the necklace talk to him? It had also known his name. His mom's word replayed in his mind.
It had once belonged to his father.
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