Sup guys, I'm back. Um where to start? Oh right, The Believer's Oath will be on hiatus for a while because I'm working on my other stories. Serpent's Grace will be the next story that will be updated so please be patient. So without further adieu, here's the next chapter.

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A Different Man of Steel Chapter 2: Discharged

Naruto flew through the night sky, thinking about the events that occurred. It had been three week since he donned the alias of Superman and he's already the talk of the town. He already took down local troublemaker Billy Numerous. That fight was interesting to say the least. It ended with a hundred clones of Billy running from an army of Supermen (courtesy of the Shadow clone Justu).His first acts as a super hero and he were already being watched, and by the Teen Titans no less. Everyone he knew in Jump City kept telling him about them.

There was Robin, former sidekick of Batman. Cyborg, a mechanical miracle turned powerhouse. There was Beast Boy, the local shape shifter and former member of the Doom Patrol. The Mysterious Sorceress Raven, a pale beauty with deadly magic. And finally Starfire, an alien like himself that's a representation of happiness made flesh. These five met under certain circumstances and became the heroes of this town.

"Humph, I guess they were checking out the competition. Or maybe looking for a new recruit, don't know, don't care at this point." Naruto said to himself as he landed on the tip of a skyscraper. He reached out with his super hearing, to trying to decipher the various noises. A few minutes pass before he hears an explosion, twenty minutes from his location. His telescopic vision kicks in and sees and fire and bolts of lightning coming from a power plant. A little grin made it to his face, thinking that this was going to be boring night before this happened. With a short breath, he free falls towards the ground before pulling up, scaring those who watched as he came down. A few minutes later, he land in front of the plant and can clearly see a figure in the center of the towers…touching them.

"HEY! Get away from there." He screamed, but his words fell on deaf ears. There was a second explosion. The smoke cleared and revealed two figures. One was clearly not human. He was about 7 feet tall, and made completely out of stone. His teeth were that of a jack-o-lantern and his eyes were red.

The next figure was a young woman, probably 21 or 22. She had blue skin, light blue eyes with no pupil and her hair was electric blue and stood straight up in spikes. She had on a one piece suit that was midnight blue and had a white lightning bolt on its center.

"Well, I feel refreshed. You got the power cells right Cinderblock?" The woman asked the humanoid. Cinderblock grunted and nodded his head, which should've been impossible seeing as he didn't have a neck. The woman smiled and proceeds to gather electricity from her hand. Before she could slam them onto the ground, another pair of gloved hands stopped them. The woman looked up and stared into the face of our main character.

"Mind telling me what a girl like you is doing in a place like this? And with that fellow I might add?" Naruto said. She looked back at Cinderblock, who was ready to fight. The girl smiled at him and said, "I'm just getting what's mine. The name's Livewire by the way."

"Superman, and what exactly would be yours?" he asked. His answer was a bolt of lightning hitting him in the face and sending him into a wall. The girl's posture straightened and she walked towards the downed hero. He looked at her handiwork, only to scowl as she saw a toy dog in the man's place.

"Wow, almost burned my mask off there, and we can't be having that." She almost gave herself whiplash from how fast she turned around. There right in front of her was the man she thought she hit square in the face. Said hero was wiping the dust and smoke from his face. He was about to say something else when there was a rumbling sound. That sound grew louder and louder until you till it was in Superman's ear. Cinderblock charged at the masked man with enough force to tear down a building wall. What astonished him and the girl was the fact that this Superman stopped him with one hand. He looked at Cinderblock's confused look with an impassive one before he cocked his left foot back, and kicked the poor guy across the field. Livewire was sweating bullets, her plan to get the power cells to her employer were almost ruined, by some random guy.

"Well that was rude of him. As I was saying, what exactly is it that you want with this plant? And don't lie to me, I detest hitting women, but I will make exceptions if the circumstances are met." His face was still impassive, which pissed Livewire off to no end. Cinderblock watched as she charged at him with multiple lightning blast, that Naruto dodged, not wanting to give away all of his powers. She then focused on a construction robot. She made a blue sphere of thunder, and threw it at the robot, activating it. Its giant eye glowed blue before walking towards Naruto.

"That's none of your business! But now you have to go!" She screamed, drawing the attention of the Titans, who got there the moment the robot activated. Robin looked at Cinderblock, then Livewire, Naruto & the robot.

"Beast boy, Raven, you guys come with me and help stop Cinderblock from escaping. Cyborg, Starfire, stop that robot. Titans, GO!" And with that they all scattered.

Meanwhile Naruto was staring into the face of the robot, comically shaking in his boots. "OH GOD! I GIANT ROBOT! WHAT EVER SHOULD I DO?" He said before he busted out laughing. Starfire was a little taken back, the robot didn't move and Cyborg sweatdropped. Livewire was seething, "Grrr. I'll show you, you bastard! Kill him!" The robot complied and smashed his hand into the ground where Superman was. Cyborg was about to fire his Sonic Cannon, when he saw Naruto pick up the robot with his both hands, and smash it into the ground, face first. He then turns to Cyborg, who was imitating a fish, and Starfire, who was drooling slightly. Naruto noticed this and Livewire getting away, so he walked up to duo and snapped his fingers at them, bringing them out of their stupor.

"Um, the villainess is getting away so, I'll get her while you guys take care of bucket head there. I kind of have an issue with cowards." Then he just disappeared, no dust, no after image, nothing. He just vanished.

"Okay, come on Star, we got a rabid machine to stop." Cyborg said, getting out of his stupor. Starfire nodded and flew above the machine's head, ready to strike at a moments' notice. While she was in the air she looked at where Naruto was trying to wrap her finger around what type of alien was he. She swore that she met one of his species before, but couldn't pinpoint it. Her musing was interrupted when a giant boulder was coming her way. She charged her power and fired a giant star bolt, destroying the mass of earth.

"Yo Starfire, get in the game! I'm out here by myself you know!"

"Ah, right."

(Somewhere down the street)

"Gotta think of something, quick!" That was the mantra Livewire used while she flew for her life from the masked hero. She remembered that he called himself Superman, and from what he did to that robot she could see why he was called that. There was no way she stood a chance against him, especially since Cinderblock is tied up with the Titans. She had to move. She stopped when she flew over the Main Tower of the city, where it got most of its electricity. She grinned evilly. "He, this will be more than enough to fry Super fag."

Superman watched as she blasted a hole into the city's Main Plant flying in soon after. "What is that crazy girl doing? And did she just call me a fag? And a Super fag at that." he said to himself as he flew in behind her. He used his stealth training to search for her and not get caught. He eventually found her where the energy cells were. She appeared to be absorbing the power from them and adding them to her own. Her skin became bluer while her hair and eye became whiter. When she was done her body appeared to be made out of pure lightning. Little sparks were surging from her eyes while she laughed.

"Now THIS is what I call power!" She yelled as she flexed her 'new' muscles. She was about to leave when she heard his voice. "Great, I got to deal with a girl who's a coward, and a power hungry shrew. Whoopee." Superman then casually walks up to her with a bored look on his face, if you looked under his mask.

"Now that you're all juiced up, I guess I have to rough you up a bit." Livewire gave him a confused and worried look. With the power surging through her she could level 1/5 of downtown, but he's acting like that doesn't matter.

"Ha! Look at me! I have enough power here to run the city for days, what makes you think that someone pathetic as you could ever hope of beating me?" Large bolts of lightning were now flying from her hands. Naruto looked bored, but on the inside, was a little angry. She didn't know that she was giving jabs at Naruto's demon pride, and calling him weak was a big no to him. He cleared his throat to get her attention. He then floated to her level and removed the plates that covered his eyes. She then looked into his ice blue eyes. Eyes that could freeze hell over, eyes that could make a season soldier brake down. The KI that was radiating from Naruto caused Livewire to power down, making her form darker and more controlled. If she wasn't so scared right now and looked closely at Naruto's eyes, you would see them beginning to see his iris slowly goin from blue to red.

"As I've said, now that you're considered a threat, I'm going to have to rough you up a bit, but this can be avoided if you surrender." Naruto's gaze didn't falter and Livewire was adopted a cocky grin.

"Right, besides, you said that you don't hit girls anyway, so I'm…"

She didn't get to finish that sentence because a giant water ball collided with her body, forcing her through a wall and onto the busy streets. She looked around and saw Superman gently float down with a blob of water in his hand.

"You're right; I don't hit girls, much. But as you have just experienced, I didn't hit you, the water did. Water Style: Water Dragon Justu!" The water then formed a dragon's head and was fired straight at Livewire. She dodged and attempted to retaliate with a projectile of her own, but nothing came out. Now she was scared, wondering what happened she tried again, and again nothing. Naruto, still in shinobi mode chuckled at her predicament.

"You haven't figured it out yet? You can't generate electricity because you're drenched in water. In reality, you should've been electrocuted, but I guess you body subconsciously turned your powers off to prevent that." Now she understood, but was even angrier than before. How could this random guy have beaten her, when even the Titan's had a hard time with her? She couldn't answer that because she was now stuck in place. She looked down to see that her feet were incased in ice.

Naruto could only watch as she tried miserably to get out of the ice, only for the ice to creep up her leg. Now furious, the eletro-mancer tried to summon her power again, but this time it worked. She broke from the icy trap and flew into the air, a contrail of electricity left behind her. She was so busy flying that she didn't even notice Naruto tailing her. As she traveled farther away, she began to power down and began to slowly descend. Being incased in ice for so long caused her body to try and warm itself up. Because of that she began to weaken. Before she got to the tenth level of an apartment complex, she began to plummet towards the busy streets. People, in their ignorance were watching as she came crashing down. They would be waiting for a long time for a blue and white splat on the pavement, because Superman caught her just in time.

"Sigh, it's always the crazy ones isn't it?" he asked no one in particular. He hovers over the police station with a now emotionally tired out Livewire in his arms. He walks towards one of the officers who were outside at the time.

"Make sure that she stays asleep." And with that Superman flew towards where Livewire came from, wanting to know exactly what they were trying to steal.

(Back at the construction site)

While that was happening we find the Titans all over the place. Through teamwork, and a giant Star bolt by Starfire, the construction robot finally fell, but not without throwing them around like rag-dolls for a little bit. Beast boy had transformed into a beagle and had his tongue out. Cyborg was on his hand and knees, breathing heavily. Raven was against the wall with her hood down. Robin, who was used to doing this with Batman, was more ok then the rest. Starfire was nowhere to be seen.

"Well, that was annoying." Rave said out of the blue. Cyborg had finally gotten up and walked towards B.B. "You go that right. Yo BB, you see where Cinderblock went? Cause for a living boulder, he can move!"

Beast Boy moved his head up and spoke, "Too tired… Need to… Breathe." Cyborg sighed and looked at their leader. "What about you, Raven?" Slowly Raven got up and concentrated, quickly spreading her senses, trying to find her target. According to her, everyone in the world has a wavelength, a reading of energy that defines them as well, them. She searched until she saw an outline of Cinderblock running towards the Main Tower, where Livewire and Superman was.

"He's close, if we move now we could catch him, but I don't think we should. He's going towards Superman's direction." Everyone thought about it and sighed, things were going to be alright, and Superman could take care of himself if he ran into Cinderblock again. Robin finally got up a looked in the direction of the tower. "Either way, we better get over there and at least capture him. Once you've gotten yourselves together, regroup and head for the tower."

As her team was talking Starfire was staring at nothing in particular, thinking about our masked ninja/superhero. Only one word popped up in her mind when she thought about him…

'Kryptonian… So the stories mother told me were true, there really were survivors.' When she was younger mother, the Queen of her home planet Tameran, would tell her stories about The Kryptonians. According to her, they were men and women of science, and had no real warriors to speak of. That is until they felt the light of the yellow sun. Once they were under a yellow sun for one reason or another, they were the greatest thing to come out of the universe since sliced bread. But something happened that made their world explode, taking everyone with it. They say that there were no survivors, but her mother thought otherwise.

"One day, they would rise once again, and for better or for worse, would change the world. That is what my mother told me. But I thought they were just that, stories to lull me and my sister to sleep." She would've continued to discuss this with herself if Cyborg hadn't shook her out of her thoughts.

"Starfire, hey Starfire wake up!"She looked around and found herself staring into Cyborg's robotic eye. Slightly blinded, she moved from him and looked toward Superman's direction.

"Forgive me my friend. I was remembering something my mother told me, a long time ago." Robin and Raven look worried. They had never seen their friend this distracted before. Ok they have, but not during a mission. Beast Boy looked confused as usual and Cyborg looked, indifferent. "Ok. Well I don't know about you guys but I'm gonna go find out more about this 'Superman'. See what he's all about." He then got up and began sprinting toward the Main Tower. BB had started running as well.

"I'm with Cy on this one, this Superman dude seems cool." He transformed into an eagle and flew off. Raven sighed annoyingly and grabbed Robin and Starfire. She too was interested in know who this guy was, but she didn't want to admit it. So she then said,

"Come on you two. I'm going to need help keeping those two from talking the poor guy's ears off before we can ask him some questions. On top of that, you know full well that they can't be trusted by themselves. Remember the pizza run of last year?" Both Robin and Starfire shuddered at the memories. They couldn't eat pizza for weeks after that. If you had payed attention you could see Raven giving a little smirk, one of the few, and I mean few little leaks of emotions she exhibits. They began walking before Rave created a portal of darkness and they all disappeared. None of them noticed a man watching all that transpired here in the construction site. He had on an outfit that was one part black, the other part orange. His mask was the same, with only his left eye showing.

"Hm, if this Superman has caught the eyes of the Titans, than he may be of use to me." He then began to speak into a device strapped onto his right arm.

"Be ready to deploy the Hive Graduates by 1500 hours (three o clock military time if you didn't know), they have their first mission."

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