Primordial in a World of Gods

by BookishTen8

After saving the world from power hungry gods, Naruto seals himself away to stop further wars from destroying the world. However, after waking up a thousands years later, he sees his sacrifice has been for nothing. Villains cause death and mayhem all across the world while the heroes do nothing but lock them up just for them to escape again. It's the return of the Sage of Six Paths

6. Akatsuki Vs Justice League

AN: I've decided on the pairings for Harley, Red Hood and Mammoth. No, Harley won't be paired with Naruto or Deadshot.

I want to remind everyone that I'm not basing the story off of comics since I don't read them. It's all based off of movies so if you want a story line added, send it to me.

Enjoy.

xXx

( Jump City - Titan Tower )

"Umm, guys. You'll want to see this" said Beast Boy from the couch. A majority of the Titans are currently patrolling around the city with the rest hanging around in the tower, mostly in the living room.

Robin stops his katana training and turns towards Beast Boy with a raised brow when he notices his friend's voice shaking. He sheaths his katana onto his back. "What is it Beast Boy?" he asked after noticing Beast Boy's worried tone. Beast Boy points up at the large television screen and Robin follows the finger's trail and widens his eyes behind his back in surprise. "Impossible" he gasped, watching Mammoth fighting Bane on the news.

Beside Beast Boy, Cyborg is sweating while using his computer programming to figure out the possible reasons for Mammoth's sudden power boost. Mammoth use to be fodder to the Titans after they've beaten him so many times. Now, he's fighting and holding his own against the same man who beat Robin's mentor, Batman.

None is more surprised than Jinx as she watches her former ally and friend fight against one of the biggest Villains on the planet. She has heard of Mammoth's change and his new killer's attitude from her boyfriend and the other Titans but she doesn't believe it. She can't believe it! Mammoth may be a Villain but he is no killer. He'll rob and probably beat you up but he doesn't kill. None of them killed when apart of the Hive Five so why would he start now?

"Turn it up" ordered Robin and Beast Boy complies while grabbing the remote control and turns the volume up so they can hear the blonde reporter.

"This is Lucy Grey from Gotham News. As you can see, a fight has broken out in the docks of Gotham City between the crime boss, Bane and an unknown. After a bit of research, we've discovered that his opponent goes by the name, Mammoth. The camera shifts from Lucy to the fight before pointing back at the reporter. As you can see, the fighting has gotten pretty intense." Lucy grabs her seat when another shock wave shakes the helicopter until it flies to a safer distance. "Police have arrived on the scene moments ago but have wisely decided to hang back and surround the area. At the mean time, we wil-wait, what's that?"

The camera turns towards the docks and to everyone's surprise, they see Batman hiding behind an upturned crate and watching the fight. "It's Batman! The Dark Knight has arrived on the scene but it seems that not even he wants to get in between these two monsters!"

( Star City )

Ghost Rider can't help but be in a good mood. It ended the lives of over a hundred evil souls and doesn't have any of those annoying police cars chasing after it. The day would be even better if it didn't have a red blur following it.

Looking over its shoulder, Ghost Rider hisses when it sees a red blur following it and gaining speed fast. It revs its motorcycle which makes it do a wheelie and speeds down the streets of Star City.

Being followed by the fastest man in the world, it doesn't take long for the Flash to appear beside Ghost Rider's motorcycle. Flash places his hands in front of his mouth and speaks. "This is the police. Stop your vehicle and place your hands on your... head?" he mocked while throwing a glance to Ghost Rider's flaming skull.

The Demon/Human hybrid doesn't find the Flash's gimmick funny and shows it by throwing a punch which Flash dodges. The speedster appears by the other side of Ghost Rider and wears a more serious expression on his face. "Fine. If you want to play it like that then I can play."

Before Ghost Rider can try to go for another punch, Flash takes a straight right down an alleyway. Ghost Rider looks over its shoulder in confusion, wondering why and where the speedster disappeared to. Three blocks later, Flash blurs out of another alleyway and tackles Ghost Rider off of its vehicle. The pair bounce off of the pavement until Ghost Rider collides into a brick wall , flat on his back while the Flash uses him as a sort of cushion to ease his own landing.

Flash doesn't notice Ghost Rider's motorcycle driving away without its owner.

Ghost Rider finds itself stuck in the brick wall and moves to get out but a punch to the face halts its movement. Flash takes a step back and starts to dish out a barrage of punches that move so fast that they look like red blurs. Each punch hits Ghost Rider and starts to push him deeper into the brick wall while also annoying it greatly.

Using the fact that it's stuck in wall to its advantage, Ghost Rider uses its arms as leverage to lift its legs up and kicks the Flash away. Barry finds himself flying across the street and lands into a SUV while making a large dent into it from the impact. The speedster gets back to its feet while holding his head. "I get it, you're strong" said Flash, shaking off its headache. At the same time, Ghost Rider pushes itself out of the brick wall and brushes off rubble from its shoulders. "However, everyone knows that speed beats strength."

To prove his fact, Flash disappears in a red blur and runs by Ghost Rider while throwing a punch to its jaw, snapping it to the side. Before it can fix its jaw, Flash appears against and punches it to the other side. Ghost Rider grabs its skull and straightens it with a sickening crack echoing throughout the dark and empty streets.

Flash appears across the street and blurs towards Ghost Rider and throws a punch. To Barry's surprise, he finds his fast punch in the hand of the moving skeleton. He looks at the caught fist before looking up at who's holding it and sees that it's pulling back its other fist for a punch. Thinking quickly, Flash grabs Ghost Rider's flaming skull and ignoring the slow burning to his hand, uses his super speed to vibrate it.

Ghost Rider soon loses its strength from the vibrations and let's go of Flash's hand while also giving up on trying to throw a punch. After ten seconds of the vibrating, Flash let's go and starts blowing into his burnt hand. "Hot! Hot! Hot!"

Ghost Rider collapses to its knees and holds its face, trying to ease the shaking. Placing its fingers in its mouth, it blows a loud whistle, surprising Flash that it can even move after going through all of that. Before he can apprehend the moving skeleton, Flash hears the sound of a loud engine and looks to his left to see a flaming wheel before it collides into his chest. The force throws him down the street and into a lamp post which bends under the force.

Finding the strength to stand, Ghost Rider gets back to its feet and throws a leg over its motorcycle. Revving the engine, it does a 360° doughnut before stopping beside the recovering speedster.

While on his knee, Flash groans in pain but looks up when he feels a sudden increase in heat. He makes the mistake in looking at the empty sockets of where Ghost Rider's eyes are suppose to be and finds a sudden weight fall on his shoulders. He tries to look away and run but something is compelling him to stay.

Ghost Rider glares down at Flash and makes his judgement of him quickly. "Innocent."

For some reason, the weight on Barry's shoulders disappears, leaving him feeling almost as light as a feather. That lovely feeling soon vanishes as Ghost Rider lifts a boot and kicks it into the Flash's face. Flash's head bounces off of the dented lamp post and hits against the hard pavement floor. With groggy eyes, the last thing Flash sees is the flaming wheels of Ghost Rider's motorcycle before he falls into unconsciousness.

( Metropolis )

In the city of Metropolis, three known Super Villains live in an apartment that has three bedrooms, a small bathroom and a living room that is connected to the kitchen. It's nothing too fancy but it is cheap and the owner doesn't care about their 'day jobs'.

One of the Villains is sitting on the couch with a bowl of popcorn seeds in her hand. The hand holding the bowl sparks and starts cooking the popping popcorn while she uses her other hand to flicker through the television channels with the remote control. When all the popcorn seeds are done, she grabs one and throws it up in the air and tries to catch it with her mouth but fails as it gets caught in her spikey blue hair.

"I really wished you didn't play with your food" sighed Giganta as she sits on the other end of the couch. Sometimes, her roommate can just be so immature.

"And I wished I was filthy rich and lived in a mansion with loads of hot butlers but you don't see me complaining" remarked Livewire before she attempts to get another piece of popcorn into her mouth but succeeds this time. She stops flickering through channels when the Gotham News channel catches her interest. "Cool! A fight is going on in Gotham and Bane is in on it."

"Who's the person he's fighting against?" asked Giganta with interest. Not many times when a fight goes down in Gotham and Batman isn't apart of it.

Livewire studies Bane's opponent. "Don't know but he does look familiar. Where have I seen him before?" she asked herself. Maybe she did a heist with him before?

Giganta reconises the familiarity of the large man as well and narrows her eyes at the screen before they widen in recognition. "Wait a minute, isn't that Shimmer's brother?" she asked, remembering the pictures she saw in Shimmer's room which shows her beside her towering brother. He looks even bigger but that could just be the television adding some pounds. What was his name again?

Livewire almost chocked on her popcorn. "That's Shimmer's brother? No way! Shimmer's bro is big, this guy is huge!" she exclaimed, pointing at the screen.

Giganta ignores Livewire and turns her face to look over her shoulder. "Shimmer! There's something on the TV that you need to see!"

"Can't it wait!? I'm in the shower!" yelled Shimmer's voice from behind the bathroom door. Even with the sound of the shower on, Giganta can tell that she's annoyed over having her shower time interrupted.

"Not if it's about your brother fighting Bane."

"WHAT!" The noise from the shower stops and the door opens with the Metahuman running out in only a towel to hide her decency, although she is still wet from the shower as water drips from her hair. She looks at the television and lo and behold, her brother is on it and is fighting against Bane of all people. "What is that idiot doing?"

"Kicking ass, that's what!" laughed Livewire before she throws more popcorn into her mouth.

( Gotham - Docks )

Bane and Mammoth unleash a fury of punches that are moving so fast that they look like blurs to the human eye. It also seems like they are getting very few hits in on each other as they tend to use punches to block. This changes when Bane suddenly grasps Mammoth's outstretched arm and his collar before using his overwhelming strength to lift the Metahuman over his head before slamming him down onto the floor, cracking it in the process.

Mammoth groans over the pain in his back but he rolls over just in time to avoid Bane's foot which crushes the floor where his head use to be. He stands up and tackles the Villain and runs with him into a crate before he throws him into it. Bane hits the crate hard but before he can get up, Mammoth punches him across the jaw and grabs a hold of his face before throwing a few ore punches before the Villain eventually kicks him away.

Bane stands back up, cracks his fingers and walks towards the Metahuman but stops when he hears the noise of crushing metal. He looks down at his feet and sees an assault rifle which is now destroyed from under his foot. Turning around, Bane grins when he sees that the crate he crashed into has a large hole in its side which gives him a perfect view of all the weapons in it.

"Finally! And what perfect timing" he thought before picking up a pair of assault rifles. Hearing the 'supposed' newbie behind him, Bane quickly turns around and fires at the Metahuman with both assault rifles in his hands.

Mammoth covers his face with his arms and continues his run while ignoring the bullets bouncing off the protective suit that Sage made for him. The bullets made of lead feel more like bug bites than anything else. Annoying but harmless.

Seeing as the guns are doing nothing to Mammoth, Bane drops them and picks up a bigger gun from the crate. The gun he takes out so happens to be a rocket launcher which he shoots at the incoming Metahuman. Being so close and running too fast, Mammoth has no time to avoid the rocket which explodes and launches him to the side in an explosion of flames and shrapnel.

Bane drops the empty rocket launcher and walks towards the downed Metahuman. When he gets to his feet, Bane's surprised see the Meahuman is still alive and breathing. Taking a closer look, he notices that his bodysuit is smoking but other than that, there are no damage to it. "You have proven to be a worthy opponent. You have earned my respect. Not many people have earned that privilege so die knowing that" spoke Bane before roughly grabbing Mammoth by the throat and he lifts him to eye level while choking him. "Now, let go. It'll be easy for you if you just let go."

Mammoth grabs Bane's hand and tries to get him to let go but his grip is too strong around his neck. "H-How a-about you l-let g-go" choked out Mammoth before kneeing Bane in the stomach. This causes the Villain to let go and lurch forward but Mammoth uses this chance to punch him across the face. Bane takes a step back but recovers and intends to attack only for another punch to hit him across the jaw. And another and another which keeps pushing him back a step with each punch.

However, Bane takes an extra step back to avoid the fifth punch and punches Mammoth back before he charges with his hands out. Mammoth stops and charges as well until both clash with each overs hands in their grips and foreheads touching. Both clench their teeth as they try and overpower the other.

"You will die tonight!" exclaimed Bane before he starts to inject even more Venom into his body. His already grotesque body enlarges even more as veins throb and his muscles vibrate under the influence of the drug. As Bane's large body starts growing bigger, Mammoth starts to struggle even more under Bane's increasing strength. It gets so bad that the Metahuman is forced onto one knee and struggles just to keep his balance.

"Any last words?" asked Bane who's ready to end him.

Nobody notices Mammoth's cuffs glowing slightly brighter.

Mammoth's arms shake and he grits his teeth but to the surprise of everyone who's watching, he smirks. "Just one. Release!"

Mammoth's cuffs glow an even darker shade of red before they suddenly detach from his wrists and fall to the floor. The news crew, Batman and the entire city seem to have lost the ability to speak as the only sound that can be heard is the cutting of wind from the helicopter's propeller. All of a sudden, the noise returns as Mammoth brings something completely new to the battle.

Pandemonium.

A powerful red energy envelops Mammoth and takes shape of a second skin with a red tail and rabbit ears. His features change, if only slightly. Mammoth's hair starts to grow longer and spikier, his already sharp canines grow even sharper and his eyes change into demonic red slits. The cuts and bruises on Mammoth's body begin to heal and close up with steam escaping the wounds.

All in all, Mammoth looks completely different.

( Metropolis )

"What the hell is going on with your brother?" asked Livewire who is no longer in a humorous mood and is now staring at the television screen in shock and fear. She looks down and notices that her hand is shaking uncontrollably. "What's happening?" she thought to herself as she uses her other hand to grab her shaking wrist to try and stop it.

Giganta doesn't speak, preferring to watch the television screen in a daze. There's just so much... power! She can't take her eyes off of Mammoth, even if she wants to try.

"I don't know" replied Shimmer in disbelief. Her brother has always been strong but what she's watching is something completely new to her. New and terrifying. She watches the screen while inwardly wondering, what has happened to her brother?

xXx

The Gotham News helicopter starts to struggle in the air as powerful winds starts blowing hard against it, just after Mammoth chose to take off his cuffs. The pilot decides that they should leave and flies away to safety, much to the disappointment of the Gotham News crew and everybody who is watching the news.

All in all, Bane only has one word to describe the new Mammoth. "Demon" he breathed out in shock.

That shock quickly finds itself replaced with unbelievable pain. He screams out in pain when he finds his arms bent completely the wrong way. What else, the dark red energy surrounding Mammoth is starting to burn away at the skin and flesh of his hands. He tries to pull them back but Mammoth is gripping his hands with enough force to pop his knuckles.

Mammoth pulls back his head and throws it out as he roars one of the loudest roars anyone ever hears in their entire lives. The shockwave of the powerful roar hits Bane at point-blank range, throwing him across the other side of the docks while destroying it even more than before. When the shockwave ends, Bane is seen on his stomach with his arms and head hanging over the edge.

With whatever energy he has left, Bane pushes himself onto his back to look up at Mammoth who is towering over him and looking down at him with those non-human eyes. No words are spoken between the two as Mammoth grasps Bane by his face and lifts him up.

Ignoring Bane's yells of pain from the energy eating away through his mask and face, Mammoth clenches his left fist and pulls it back. With all of his strength, he throws a punch that hits Bane square in the chest, throwing him across the sea in speeds that cut a trench through the water. Bane flies off in the distance but Mammoth knows that he doesn't need to see the body to know that Bane is dead. One of his punches on their own can break concrete and bend steel. One of his powered punches can easily break steel.

Turning around, he walks towards his cuffs while walking past craters and cracks he made during the fight. He picks up the cuffs and places them back on his wrists. Almost immediately, the power which he was blessed with by Sage subsides and he soon loses a lot of his own strength. He falls to his knees, feeling completely out of breath. While the power is incredible, he always feels exhausted from using it.

Sadly, he can't take a break because he soon notices someone standing in front of him. Looking up, Mammoth sees Batman staring at him with his eyes narrowed. An awkward silence is shared between the two as Mammoth only has one thought in mind.

"Crap" thought Mammoth before Batman blurs in his vision and everything goes dark.

( Brazil - Amazon Rainforest )

"What on earth" gasped Superman in awe as he looks at the massive roots that tower over the rainforest. Wonder Woman and himself have to fly over the clouds just so they can be at a safe distance from the massive roots. From the reports and the evidence in front of them, it's obvious that the only one who has the ability to do this is Poison Ivy. Although, Clark can't remember the last time the Metahuman showed so much power.

"This is Poison Ivy's work?" asked Wonder Woman who, just like Superman, doesn't recall the Metahuman being so powerful.

"Most likely. Lets look around and find her" replied Superman before he flies down to the rainforest with Wonder Woman following close behind. Their arrival isn't missed as the massive roots start to move.

Wonder Woman and Superman split up to dodge the incoming roots that threaten to pierce or crush them. However, they find little trouble with Superman using his heat vision to cut through them with ease while Wonder Woman uses her sword to slice them apart. Even with the size of the roots, it doesn't take the pair long to finish the job and destroy them.

Neither notice a pair of powerful eyes watching them from the shadows of the rainforest. "So this is Superman's power?" thought Naruto as he scans the 'supposed' most powerful man in the world. He had expected the Justice League to send someone powerful but he didn't expect them to send Wonder Woman and Superman.

Wonder Woman is enough for Poison Ivy to handle but adding Superman will only lead to defeat. Which is why he'll need to interfere before anything can get too serious.

"Where is she hiding?" Diana asked while dropping to the forest floor and sheathing her sword.

Superman flies overhead and uses his X-Ray Vision to scan through the forest. It doesn't take him long to find her with his X-Ray Vision and his enhanced eyesight. "I found her. She's hiding in the distance in that" said Superman, pointing at a tower which is made of roots, leaves and flowers.

Diana floats beside her boyfriend and sees the tower in the distance. Without warning, she charges at the tower while ignoring Superman's shout for her to stop. It turns out that she should have as a massive Venus flytrap bursts from the forest floor with its mouth wide open to devour the Amazon in one gulp. However, it doesn't happen as a red beam cuts through the plant with ease.

"Are you alright?" asked a worried Superman as he floats beside a shocked Wonder Woman who stares down at the dead plant that was so close to ending her life.

"I am. Thank you." She says it sincerely but inside, she curses herself for getting too easily distracted with the objective on hand. That mistake has almost killed her.

A mistake which isn't missed by Naruto.

Clark nods and turns to the tower and notices a difference about it. "Good. Time to get ready cause it looks like she's going to grace us with her presence."

The tower made of greenery has a balcony near the top of it and on the balcony is Poison Ivy, walking to the edge with a sense of grace that's hard to find nowadays. With his super vision, Superman notices a clear difference in the Metahuman from the last time he saw her. Her red hair looks to be glowing, giving off an appearance that it's on fire, her smooth green skin looks to be even healthier than normal and her eyes are now glowing a deep shade of green that screams power. For a brief few seconds, he finds himself captivated with her beauty before he knocks himself out of his stupor after remembering about her ability of using pheromones to control men.

"Come to see what I've done with the place?" asked Poison Ivy, waving her hand around to indicate the now thriving rainforest. It's amazing what the mixture of the Green and Nature Chakra can do for the environment. "Quite the improvement, wouldn't you say?"

"This stops now, Ivy" told Superman, sternly. "Come along quietly. You don't want this to get ugly."

Poison Ivy smirks in amusement, clearly not feeling intimidated at the thought of facing two of the most powerful members of the Justice League. "When has this never gotten ugly?" she asked, humorously.

Clark narrows his eyes and glares. "Very well. I warned you." With nothing else to say, Superman blurs at Poison Ivy with speeds that the human eye can't hope to track. Poison Ivy still holds her smirk, having no problem that a Kryptonian is heading towards her. After all, she knows that Sage is hiding somewhere within the rainforest and watching.

Before Superman can catch the Villain, a stinging pain erupts in his right abdomen before he feels an unbelievable amount of pain spread all over his body. He can't hold back the scream from escaping his throat or from shaking the rainforest. Clark has been put through a lot since he has become Superman but none of those experiences can hold a candle to what he's feeling right now. Even fighting Darkseid didn't bring him this much pain. He can't explain it but it's almost like as if every cell in his body is being constantly prodded with a red hot needle.

Almost reluctantly, he gazes down to the source of the pain and sees a black rod sticking out of him. Blood, his blood, drips off the rod and into the forest floor. Feeling a sudden lost of his strength, Superman barely hovers in the air before he finally collapses.

Wonder Woman gasps in horror when she sees Clark get injured. She had seen the black rod shooting out of the forest floor but she got distracted over Clark actually getting hurt that she didn't try to find the source of the weapon that can pierce through the Man of Steel. She notices him waver in the air before he collapses altogether. She moves fast and grabs Clark before he can hit the floor and presses the communication device in her ear. "Teleport us up, J'onn! Superman's injured!" she almost yelled out.

Diana almost signs in relief when she feels the usual tingling sensation of the teleportation system activating. Before they teleport back up to the Watch Tower, she glares over at Poison Ivy and inwardly promises vengeance on her and whoever injured Clark.

Poison Ivy merely smirks and waves the Amazon Princess off as she teleports away.

Superman is known by many names all over the world. Man of Steel, Mr. Invincible and to some, God.

Yet, in front of her very eyes, Pamela has just witnessed Sage take away his Godhood and turn him into a mere mortal like the rest of them. With a smirk, she presses her Akatsuki ring and vanishes to the other dimension.

She can't wait to tell everyone about what she has seen today.

( Gate City )

Deadshot can feel his patience running thin, a feat some may declare as impressive.

The thug he has been following for the last hour is taking another smoke break.

For the fourth time!

"The other two just couldn't keep it in their pants, could they? No~, they had to get frisky with a woman who clearly didn't want anything to do with them" murmured Deadshot in annoyance as he watches the thug from a rooftop across the street. Being in the suburbs, the buildings aren't that high so he has to keep low to prevent himself from being seen but with it being two o'clock at night, the darkness helps him to stay out of sight.

Inwardly, he promises himself that if the thug has another smoke break, he'll just kill him and go on his own. How hard can it be to actually find the Deadlight gang hideout anyway? It's not like he can simply return to Sage and tell him that he wasn't listening when the boss was explaining to him about the whereabouts of the headquarters for the Deadlight gang.

The reason the gang has to be destroyed is because they are one of the many Anti-Mutant group supporters who believe that they should handle Mutants in their own way. Said way being torturing and murdering them, no matter if the Mutants are innocents or not.

The thug finishes his fourth cigarette and walks down the street again. Deadshot watches him from the scope of his rifle until he has to jump over a few rooftops to keep his sights on the target. After fifteen minutes of following his target, Deadshot notices him take a straight right down an alley beside a diner. Having lost sight of him, Deadshot runs towards the edge of the rooftop and jumps off while grabbing a drain pipe to skid down to the floor, safely.

Once his feet touches the floor, he runs across the empty street into the alley. He ducks behind a trio of trash cans and peeks over them to see his target talking to what looks to be a guard. When they finish talking, his target walks into the back door of the diner before the guard closes the door and leans on it with his arms crossed.

Deadshot narrows his eyes and scans the guard. He simply looks like anyone you would find in the suburbs, wearing faded blue jeans, cut up trainers and a hoodie over a T-shirt. However, the mercenary doesn't miss the lump in the back of his pants, signifying a gun.

"One step at a time" he thought before white smoke poofs in both of his hands. When the smoke disperses, an AK-12 with red dot sights and a silencer attachment appears in his hands. He calls her Lucy, after his first girlfriend.

He's sentimental like that.

With the simplest of ease, he aims his rifle and pulls the trigger. The lone bullet sails through the air and pierces through the guard's temple, making him collapse to the side, dead.

Running over to the door, he ignores the corpse and disperses his rifle. He reaches his hands behind his back and two poofs of smoke later, he pulls them back to show that he's now holding a small drone on wheels and a small tablet on hand.

( Think of the drone used in Rainbow Six Siege )

Dropping the drone onto the floor, he connects his tablet, via Bluetooth, to the small device and uses it to control the drone. The drone moves and rolls underneath the door while Deadshot controls its movement and watch where it's going by using the installed camera.

As he drives the drone around the back of the diner, he memorizes every guard, their location and weapons so he can plan his entrance. After scanning the interior, he drives the drone into what looks to be a storage room for meat. It catches his attention since he can see his target walk into it while two guards are stationed in front of it.

However, the meat has been removed and instead, there are tables joined together with some shady people sitting by them, including his target. Deadshot grins underneath his mask as he remembers each and every man in the room.

"Looks like a meeting between all the big shots of the Deadlight group. And here I am without an invite." Placing the tablet onto his belt, another poof of smoke shows a SPAS-12 shotgun in his hands. "Good thing I found one."

Aiming the gun, he shoots a shell through the wooden door and into the guard behind it. After kicking down the rest of the door, Deadshot walks around the corner with one of his gauntlets out and shoots the two incoming guards. With his targets being at the other end of the hallway, he makes his way over, only for a thug to jump out from a doorway and grab his shotgun.

Deadshot struggles with the thug and tries to take away his gun but the guy won't let go of his 'toy'. If there's something that the Akatsuki know about Deadshot, he doesn't appreciate it when someone tries to take his 'toys' away from him.

"Enough of this" he thought before simply kicking the man in the crotch. As expected, the thug let's go of the shotgun in favour of holding his crotch to ease the throbbing pain. This gives Deadshot the perfect chance to aim his gun at the man's head and blow a large hole in it.

Hearing noise to the other end of the hallway, he sees a group of four men aiming their guns at him. With no other choice, Deadshot jumps through the doorway to avoid the barrage of bullets.

The thugs make a move to follow but stop when they hear noise by their feet. Looking down, they notice something metal and cylinder roll by their feet. Before one can curse, it explodes in a blinding flash of light.

Hearing the curses and yells of pain, Deadshot takes this as the moment to turn from the doorway and lay waist to the four blind men. With four pulls of the trigger, the group collapses with blood spilling out of their chests.

Noticing a lack of noise, Deadshot makes his way to the storage room which 'strangely' has a small crack open. He grabs the tablet from his belt and uses it to look through the camera of his drone which is still in the storage room. Low and behold, he can see that the head honchos of the Deadlight gang are hiding behind the upturned tables with their guns aiming at the only entrance.

"Idiots" he thought with a chuckle. When there's only one entrance, that means there's only one exit. The rascist idiots just locked themselves is an airtight room made of metal.

Deadshot replaces his SPAS-12 with a grenade but not any simple grenade that blows up in ones face. The grenade he's holding at the moment so happens to be an Incendiary grenade. Pulling the pin, he chucks the grenade through the gap in the door before closing it. To make sure that there's no possible escape, he kicks the metal door handle which bends under the force of his kick.

Deadshot whistles as he calmly walks out of the diner, ignoring the screams of agony from within the smoking restaurant. What he can't ignore is the green rope that suddenly wraps itself around his torso and arms. Following the source of the green rope, Deadshot sees the Green Lantern hovering in the air with the rope connected to his ring. "I hate you heroes and your timing."

"Too bad. You're coming with me and know that you don't have a choice on the matter" said Hal with a stern glare.

Deadshot raises a brow under his mask. "And the diner that's on fire behind me?"

His answer comes in the form of Green Lantern using his ring to create a large pool of water over the diner before the glass vanishes, allowing the water to drench the diner and put out the fire.

Deadshot whistles in appreciation. "Where can I get a ring like that?" The rope tightens around him, making it hard for the mercenary to breathe.

"Enough. You'll tell me where the Akatsuki headquarters are and who is leading the group" ordered Green Lantern with a tone that means business.

While coughing up air, Deadshot notes how the Green Lantern asks for the leader of the Akatsuki."So they know? Sage isn't going to like hearing that."

"Or what? You're going to arrest me? Put me in jail, only for me to get out next week? I'm so~ scared" mocked Deadshot before the rope tightens even more, making it even harder for him to breathe. At this point, he's simply choking.

"Fine. We have other ways on getting what we want" said Hal, referring to J'onn who can read Deadshot's mind in order to get the information they need.

"SURPRISE ATTACK!"

Hal turns to the sound of the yell, only to see what looks to be an oversized hammerhead with a smiley face painted on it. Before he can comprehend with what he's seeing, the hammer slams into him and smashes him against the pavement. Holding onto the handle of the large hammer is none other than Harley Quinn who greets Deadshot with a oversized smile and a twirl of her hammer when it shrinks down to size.

Over the year of training, Sage had gifted Harley with her new favourite 'toy' to replace the one she got from her former 'pudding'. And this one doesn't come with a bomb like before. Instead, it comes with Seals that activate when Harley wills them to. Whenever she wants, she can increase the length of the hammer and the size of the hammerhead as much as she wants and the best thing about it is that it doesn't increase in weight so she doesn't have to worry about that.

( Thanks to ANBUspider for weapon idea )

"Someone call for help?" she asked, leaning the hammer against her shoulder.

"Not really but it's appreciated" replied Deadshot after taking a few fresh breaths of air. Both turn to Green Lantern when they notice him starting to get up. "I'll race you back to base" he said. before clicking his Akatsuki ring.

"No fair, you cheated!" pouted Harley before she clicks her own ring.

( Washington D.C - White House )

"As you can see Mr. President, S.H.I.E.L.D. was able to subdue three of the biggest powerhouses of the Justice League and only with a handful of operatives and our first three recruits for the Avengers Initiation" said Nick Fury to President Matthews in the Presidential Office.

In front of the desk is a television set which is showing the President of the United States the footage of the confrontation between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Big Trio of the Justice League. Beside it stands Nick Fury who explains everything about the confrontation to the President.

Matthews leans back into his chair and hums in thought. "Impressive, but I'm curious about these Kryptonite bullets. Where did you obtain that amount of Kryptonite?"

"I knew you'd ask that" said Nick before clicking a button on the remote control. The footage on the screen changes to show a large, clean white lab with soldiers and scientists walking around. The screen focuses on what looks to be a glass box and in it is a young, dark-skinned boy who's head is on fire. "Meet Firestorm, the combination of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Martin Stein and high school student, Ronnie Raymond" he introduced.

Matthew blinks. "You're saying that this Firestorm is actually two people in one body?"

Fury nods. "Correct. Raymond controls the body while Professor Stein offers advice, mentally. They are also the reason for our abundance of Kryptonite." The camera shows a scientist pushing a cart in the glass box while also wearing a radiation suit. He leaves almost immediately while Firestorm takes out a simple rock from the cart.

All of a sudden, Firestorm starts glowing so brightly that the screen goes blank for a few moments. When the bright light dies down, it shows Firestorm holding a piece of Kryptonite, the same size as the rock he was holding a moment ago.

Fury places his hands behind his back and watches the President's flabbergasted expression with pride. "As you just saw, Firestorm is our source of Kryptonite. He possesses useful abilities such as super strength, intangibility and flight. But his most useful power is his ability to manipulate matter. With this power, he can turn cement into diamonds, wood into gold and rock into Kryptonite."

Matthew takes a minute to catch his breath over hearing the details of Firestorm's powers. "You're telling me that they can create anything out of any material?"

Fury has to hold back his smartass comment about repeating himself. "Yes. He's a powerful ally to have."

"And I take it that he will be joining the Avengers Initiation" said Matthew as more of a statement than a question.

"If you allow it. His powers will benefit the group, greatly."

Matthew leans forward and folds his fingers in front of himself. After a moment to think, he sighs and stands up. "Very well. Congratulations, Director Fury, you have the official backing of the United States government. I will explain the details to the UN during the next conference" he said while shaking Fury's hand.

"Thank you sir. You won't regret this decision."

"Make sure I don't. You're dismissed."

Fury nods and turns around with his trench coat flaring behind him. When he walks out of the Presidential Office, his calm expression shifts to a stern one. As he walks down the hallway, his phone starts buzzing so he takes it out and answers. "What is it?"

"Sir, we found it."

( Naruto's Dimension )

Ignoring the gossip of his allies from afar, Naruto takes a seat in front of the river and goes into deep thought.

Today has shown the Jinchuriki that the Akatsuki will need to be better prepared to face future threats. especially against the Justice League who will pose a problem if they continue to get in their way. There's also the fact that they have seen through his ploy on making Red Hood look like the leader of the Akatsuki. While it's a bit of an annoyance, he'll admit that it doesn't probe to be an actual problem.

He doesn't want the members of the Justice League to suffer through harm since he will admit that they do keep the peace and save lives. It's just that their naivety and incompetence is also the reason for the deaths of innocent lives as they believe that their way is the only way and whoever isn't with them is against them. He won't be the reason for their deaths but if they do continue to oppose the Akatsuki, he will have to send them something more than an injured Superman.

There's also the idea of pairing everyone up with a partner to increase sufficiency and to prevent capture. From what he can remember, the Akatsuki during his time did the exact same strategy so he may as well follo their example. It's due to Mammoth being on his own that he got captured and Deadshot would be the same if it wasn't for Harley saving him at the last minute.

"Jason and Harley worked well during the attack on Black Mask. Their history and personalities may clash but I'll cross that road when it comes to it. Deadshot and Poison Ivy can prove to be a powerful pair if they can actually work with each other. I doubt Ghost Rider would appreciate it if I were to give it a partner. Works better on its own anyway. Mammoth and Gizmo have experience with working as a team so they'll stay together. That reminds me, I'll need to get Mammoth back and soon." Apparently, the Justice League have a member who can read minds. If they were to read Mammoth's mind, they'll know of his own presence in the world and he can't have that. Not now.

There's too much to do and it seems like there's so little time to do them. Even now, when the government is beginning to make up the group that's known as the Avengers Initiation. A group that has the backing of an actual government and apparently aren't afraid of getting their hands dirty. A plan that Naruto can get behind, only if it isn't for the government power controlling them. From what he remembers Red Hood saying once, they'll just spray a lot of red tape which will make it impossible for them to get some serious work done. There's also the threat of corruption which Naruto won't try to ignore. If it can happen in his own time, it can definitely happen now.

Opening his Rinne-Sharingan eyes, dozens of ethereal orbs spring to life and float in the air, in front of Naruto. Each orb contains an image of individuals all over the world who he has been keeping an eye on since he found out about their potential. With the Justice League and this new Avengers group, Naruto will need to recruit some more individuals into the Akatsuki so they can protect themselves while also having the muscle to fight the threats to the world.

The orbs represents one of Naruto's animal spies who he has watching for everyone and everything. Naruto holds out his right hand before one of the orbs floats down and hovers over it. This orb is different than the others as it doesn't contain just one individual but two. It shows the pair ducking under police gunfire before shooting back with their own respective guns that spit out fire and ice.

"You two will do."

Naruto turns to look over his shoulder. "Jason, Harley, I have two potential recruits for you to find."

"Yay! New friends" cheered Harley in joy.

"Yippee. More pains in the ass" groaned Red Hood while twirling his finger to show his 'enthusiasm'.

"Wait a fucking minute, what about Mammoth!? We gotta spring his ass out of prison" yelled Gizmo.

Deadshot shakes his head. "And this is why I hate working with newbies" he muttered loud enough for everyone to hear. Beside him, Poison Ivy nods in agreement with him.

Gizmo turns around to Deadshot with pure fury on his face. "Fuck you! He kicked Bane's ass didn't he?" Spending a year with the former Villains has made Gizmo grow an even bigger spine which he uses to show no fear to Deadshot or Poison Ivy. Harley still freaks him out though.

Naruto stands and turns around. "No need to fear for Mammoth. I'll retrieve him myself."

( Mediterranean Ocean )

In the wide expanse of the Mediterranean Ocean, a lone body lays afloat in the water with nothing else in sight. Said body belongs to the crippled Bane who lacks the strength and health to swim so all he can do is suffer through the agonizing pain and embrace the sweet chill of a slow death.

However, a hole rips wide open in the sky above the crippled Villain and brings down a bright blue light upon him. Soon, the Villain starts to float up in the air and towards the large hole in the sky. When he passes through the hole, it closes up with nobody to witness what just transpired.

Akatsuki Members: Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Red Hood, Poison Ivy, Mammoth, Gizmo, Ghost Rider, ?, ?, ?

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