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Dark Sorcerer.
Chapter V.
Our situation was becoming worse with any day. While Justice League dealt with the situation caused by the Manhunters, Luthor alongside Ra's Al Ghul plotted their destruction. All was now on my shoulders and my only ally was very unwilling to involve himself with matters of the 'surface dwellers'.
Naruto Von Doom. Start of the Illuminati.
Cheetah evaded the attack from the assassin, who was clad in black from head to toe. Judging by the tight costume, which left absolutely no place for imagination. She evaded the strike one more time when they were both stopped.
"Enough." Said Luthor, who looked over the match. "As you can see, Cheetah will serve our cause well."
She hated his voice. She was Barbara, not Cheetah. She hated Luthor, who tried to turn her into emotionless weapon of his. She hated the high middle-aged man in green robes. But she had no other choice, with them, she at least had the roof over her head, the food on her table, protection of the state… And slight chance to finally be normal, which she knew never will become real.
But denying men like Ra's and Luther was even more unwise, than believing in delusional dreams.
Assassin slowly get off the mask, revealing the face of Thalia Al Ghul.
"I hope she is to your liking, daughter." Said Ra's. "From now on you will work together."
"As you wish, father." Bowed Thalia. "Anything else?"
"There is another one. A gift from the Cadmus."
Doors opened revealing a blonde girl in white tight costume.
"Meet Galatea. She will help you in your future missions. As will other members of your growing team, who we will gather with time."
"The codename of your team shall be Vixens. I hope that you will serve the state well." Smiled Luther.
Latveria. Castle Doom.
"So… you need an enforcer of sorts?"
"Yes." said Naruto sitting behind large dining table, with glass of wine in his hand. "I need someone, who can be a 'hand' of mine in delicate situations. So… I need you on constant basis. And you… well Waller wants your head. You need a place to stay. And Latveria can provide the good pay and the hideout."
Man with one eye and grey hair looked down. He knew that Von Doom was right. Waller was breathing in his neck, he needed to take a breathe, set up a new camp, get new connections, allies and Doom's proposition was a perfect fit. But Deathstroke has lived a long life, so he knew when he can trick the employee and when he shouldn't. Doom was of latter, and in position Deathstroke was, he without a doubt cannot be a chooser.
"Okay. I agree." Said Deathstroke the Terminator. "You have your enforcer or whatever you wish, just don't cross me."
Deep under the surface of the Ocean. USA submarine.
"Sir, radar is peaking the strange signature." Said one of the sailors. "Bering Zero, One, Zero." The captain turned his head to the sailor. "At this depth? Establish the radio contact." Ordered he to a woman behind him, who instantly pushed several buttons on the console.
"I have tried all sequences, no response." Responded she.
"Whatever it is, it's big and going right at us."
"Evasive maneuvers. Down twenty degrees." The submarine started to sink deeper, whoever the speed of the unknown object increased. "It's closing sir!" Someone yelled, before the submarine was rammed. A red light and alarm instantly activated, while submarine was still moving.
"Damage report!" screamed the captain. "Starboard's rudders are out." Screamed one of the sailors.
"The hostile craft is returning!" screamed the woman. "Prepare the torpedo tubes." Ordered the captain.
"There is no time captain!" screamed another sailor. Another ram nearly made captain to fall on the metal floor. "This is the USS submarine Defiant, we have sustained the heavy damage and we are going down, I repeat, we are going down."
Several days later. Latveria. Castle Doom.
"I need you beside me on the World Assembly."
Those were the words of Aquaman, when he entered the Castle Doom. Naruto, of course, knew about the situation with the US submarine and he felt that this was just the start of something really problematic.
"As you wish, my friend. As promised, Latveria and my army and of course, their King, shall stand by your side. Just say the word."
Arthur slightly smiled, he feared that his friend will not support him with his stunt, but his fears were for naught, many may had told that he was a bastard, but just like his father, he had never broken an oath, or discarded his given word.
After all, one of the first lessons Naruto learned from his father, was the one, where he said that the man's worth can be measured through the worth of his word. Maybe that's why the son and father spoke rarely and even more rare gave their words and oaths to someone.
Men like them knew the worth of their words.
Secret base of the Cabal. With Lex and Ra's and Orm.
Three men clanked their glasses together, celebrating the good progress of their plan.
"Orders to patrol in that quadrant were really good ide Orm, as were the rising number of Atlantean patrols there." Said Lex.
"Thank you, Luthor." Said Orm. "Now all that is left, is dealing with my brother, his son and his surface ally. But I already hired the professional for this"
"Of all of them, Doom will be most problematic." Said Ra's. "Fortunately, I also have someone for this."
Male figure in ninja robes entered the room.
"Gentlemen, this is Crow, one of my most promising agents." Said Ra's. "If there is someone, who can deal with our problems, it is him."
"Well…" said Orm, placing his empty glass on the table. "I must return, while I wasn't suspected, I swear if Mera wasn't so beautiful I would have killed her with my brother and his bastard of a son. I leave everything in your capable hands, gentlemen."
With these words, Orm disappeared in blue magical mist of teleport.
"What shall we do about him?' asked Luthor.
"Getting him in our Cabal wasn't really good." Said Lex. "But we steal need someone, who can take care about the depth of the ocean. Is there someone else in your mind?"
"Yes, if Orm fails, there is always Black Manta." Said Ra's.
World Assembly.
"This is an outrage! First you stole the nuclear reactor and now you threaten us!" screamed one of the diplomats. "Doom, why do you support this… this man?" finally remembering where he was, man corrected himself, not letting a large scandal start, because of his words."
"Doom, gave his word, as ruler of Latveria, when alliance between the Latveria and Atlantis was formed. And Doom will follow it. And before you try to question anything… remember that Doom has an army of robots guarding the entrance to this building."
Several minutes they argued about rights decisions and alliances, until Aquamen had enough of this, stating that he will not tolerate this nonsense anymore and claiming that since he had warned them, he had no reasons to be here, Aquaman left the room.
Members of the Justice League tried to hold him off, to give the diplomats some time, so they will manage to reach some conclusion, but Aquaman pushed them aside and went past them, followed by Doom.
Were it naught for Naruto, this day may have gone really wrong. Doom Jr. turned his head to one of the high buildings, when he noticed something shiny on the roof, quickly, understanding that he will not get the Aquaman out of the line of fire, and hoping that his special armor will manage to hold the bullet, Naruto covered him.
As he hoped the fusion of adamantium and vibranium protected him without any kind of trouble. However, Bullet still had some naughty surprise in it. Some sort of gas was inside. It knocked oput Doom and made Aquaman quiver in spasms.
Atlantis. Throne room.
"This isn't good." Said General Bark. "Young prince is well… unable to take the throne. You, my lord must lead us in this dark hour."
"This pains me greatly, but I must invoke the martial law and mobilize the army." With fake sorrowful expression, Orm walked to the throne.
"Orm! Orm!" screamed the voice of Mera behind two men, seconds later, woman with long red hair, dressed in green dress and with crown on her head run into the room.
"Mera… my condolences." Said Orm.
"Condolences? You speak as if he is… is…" she tried, but it was too hard for her to end the sentence.
"No of course not." Said Orm. "As we managed to get from our reports Doom took the bullet for our King, but there was some kind of poison inside. Poison or gas. We don't actually know. But both of them are in the hospital now, and we must take appropriate action for this kind of… insult."
Hospital. With Doom.
No matter how hard the doctors tried, they didn't manage to get Doom out of his armor, and since he had no visible wounds they decided to treat Aquaman. After all, the one alive King is better than two dead.
However, several minutes later he was up and running. He left his room and went to the one, where was Aquaman. However, getting there was a bit more… problematic than he thought.
After all… When a ninja with unsheathed blade waits for you in the corridor…
Doom got the katana he had hidden in his black cloak, out of the pocket dimension attached to it and blocked the strike of his enemy's chokuto. It's been a while, since he fought on the blades, without use of magic arts or anything else, but his skills didn't become rusty, he skillfully dealt with the strikes of his opponent.
Whoever with each clash of blades, he felt some strange waves of nostalgia, as if this man was someone, who he already met and fought before. With lucky strike Naruto managed to cut the crow mask in two.
"You…" said Naruto.
It was before he was transported to his foster father's dimension. His first day in the academy, first sparring match. When he met this boy for a first time… He was absolutely sure that he will not be himself if he will not beat all the shit out of him.
"Sasuke…" said Naruto.
Dark haired youth narrowed his eyes. He too felt the strange similarity with that armored warrior and he was really surprised, when he called him by his name. He was surprised enough, to miss the strike to his chest.
"I do not know, who you are and why do you seem so familiar…" started Sasuke, clenching the wide wound on his chest. "But you made it personal."
He threw a smoke bomb to the ground and left the hospital corridor where they fought each other. To Naruto's surprise, he disappeared in the smoke, just vanishing from any kind of his visors, it was similar to teleportation, but also different, seemed like that trick that always did the ANBU in the village.
The village… meeting with assassin, who turned to be a face from the past really brought something from the bottom of his heart, something that he thought he buried long time ago. This aching sense of broken hope.
Meanwhile, masked as Aquaman, J'onn posed before the journalists alongside Batman and Superman. And assassin took the bait. Unfortunately for him, Justice League wanted this to happen.
Even armed to his teeth, Deadshot, super assassin was no match for their combined might.
"Deadshot?" asked Diana, who was holding him in her iron grip.
"I had run into him for several times, he is a hired gun, once was tasked to kill me." Said Batman.
"A lot of fun on Christmas night, eh Bats?" said Deadshot, not even slightly nervous because of the situation he was in.
"Who you are working with?" glared Bats.
"Hey, Bats, you know the rules. No talking." Said Deadshot. "But if Wonder Tights will make it worth my time…" Bats grabbed his shirt and threw him into the wall. Diana stepped forward, but Superman stopped her.
"He knows what he does." Said he. "Let him."
Several minutes later, Batman returned, with his face as unreadable as ever. "He said that he was paid with gold. Specifically, with old Spanish doubloons."
"Which means…"
"Atlantis." Said Superman, while Green Lantern landed near them rubbing his jaw. "It's too late to warn him, he has already left."
Near Atlantis. Several hours later.
Naruto knew that those 'heroes' will fail. He knew that he will be forced to deal with everything himself and yet, he was caught unprepared. Aquaman started to act sooner than he predicted, still the result wasn't as bad as he feared, but worse than he hoped.
His ally cut of his arm, to save his son, was it not for Doom's intervention he would have bled to death right there, but Naruto managed to get him out of there. And now, alongside the memebers of the Justice League, he stormed the Arctic war post of Atlantis.
While Baman dealt with reactor, Naruto and Aquaman dealt with Orm, however, he wasn't alone. Karasu, or rather Sasuke was here too. Katanas clanshed together, while Aquaman's hook blocked Orm's trident.
Seeing that his ally is in rather disadvantageous position, Naruto get a dagger from his pocket dimension and second later it was deep in Orm's right arm. However, Sasuke tried to seize this opportunity and attacked, but Naruto made an opening in his defense, having a plan in his head.
He steed to the left, letting Sasuke got carried by inertion and hit his face with his elbow with all his might. And Narut always hits hard.
Motionless Sasuke fell to the ground.
Several days later. 'Cabal's' secret base.
"He lost." Said Ra's.
"Just as we predicted." answered Luther.
"This means that his place is now empty."
"Yes Manta, yes." said Ra's.