A/N: So yeah, I'm back on this story. I'm glad so may people like and are willing to leave some well thoughtful suggestions.
Anyway, I don't have much to say right now since I want you guys to consider this chapter another prologue. On the next chapter you guys can expect me to answer some question.
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Prologue part two: The Fox, The Bat and the Big Bad Robot.
When it comes to foreign shipping, the city of Gotham easily boast one of the most busiest and lucrative ports in all of the Untied States. For almost two-hundred and seventy-four days out of a year, Gotham's shipping port is a figurative beehive of activity as a number of dock workers could be seen moving throughout the harbor to oversee the export and import of important goods. Ever since its construction, the port, along with a few outer important businesses such as Wayne Enterprise, never failed to produce a steady stream of revenue that kept Gotham from fall into the red. Thus making it a irreplaceable part of the city's economy. However, despite all the good the ports has done for the city, it also harbors (No pun intended) a, not so secret, dark side.
Over the years the historic dock's have played host various illegal dealings;drug deals, weapon trades and even human trafficking. Effectively proving that there isn't much within Gotham's city limits that is above corruption. Why Batman and his numerous associates even try to play protector for such a depraved city is a mystery to the world. The dark and dank megalopolis was even considered a lost cause by guardian of Metropolis, Superman.
With a frown on his face that allowed two off his elongated to canine jut from underneath his lips, Naruto sat calmly atop a shipping crane dressed in a midnight-blue hoodie, dark denim jeans, black sneakers and wrapped around his waist was his signature steel chain. "Where are those assholes?" The punkish blond said to himself as his eyes scanned the lifeless port. After eating a late dinner with Michelle that was followed by...some intimate fun between the two, Naruto waited until the Colombian born girl feel asleep before he changed into a fresh pair of clothes and decided to see if there was anything left to steal from Gotham's underground. According to a few of his contacts, the docks were worth taking a look at.
As Naruto idly tapped a clawed finger on the crane's rusted surface he suddenly found himself perking up a bit when two sets of headlights entered his field of vision. "Finally." The teen muttered as he climbed to his feet in preparation.
Directly underneath Naruto's vantage point, two nondescript black vans came to a stop. For the next thirty minutes, the vehicles remained stationary as the occupants, a group of six assault-rifle toting men dressed in black suits, made idle conversation. Somewhere during the talks, one of the men gave away the fact that they all are in the employ of Black Mask. "Man, I hope this deal goes smooth. The boss said if I screw up again I'll be looking at a demotion." The crew of well dressed criminals laughed haughtily at the ignorance of their associate. "What?"
"Do you even know what getting a demotion means when your Boss is Black Mask?"
"Um, no. Should I?"
Once more, the seasoned Black Maskers couldn't contain their amusement at how green their newest member was. "Yeah, you really should. Because when the Black Mask says demotion what he really means is that he's gonna duct tape you to a chair and pull out all of your nails with a pair of rusty pliers." As the more seasoned criminals laughed at the newbie's shocked expression a red semi-truck could be seen entering the harbor."Alright, alright. That's enough chuckles, gentlemen, we don't work for the fucking Joker. Put your game faces on." Once the truck came to a stop, two men exited it, one carrying a metal suitcase the other an assault rifle.
Naruto began idly flexing his clawed hands as he watched the two group of criminals began to cautiously interact with each other. The only thing that was keeping him from making his grand entrance was the fact that everyone below were tightly clutching their weapons just in case the deal began to go south.
Five minutes of conversing about the Gotham City Raiders was just enough to put both the gangs at ease to the point they were able to began their exchange without having to worrying about catching a bullet to the temple. "AK-47s, uzis, some of Mr. Freeze's ice grenades, a couple canisters of Joker's laughing gas and, heh, one special little something." With a devilish grin on his face, the head Black Mask goon placed his hand on one of the van's hauls. "Man, you guys are putting together one hell of a armory. What's the occasions?"
"The Green Arrow." One of the buyers said, which incidentally marked him and his partner as Central city criminals since that was the know home of the insanely talented archer, Green Arrow patrolled. "Our boss wants the whole crew to be packing serious firepower because apparently he has this totally foolproof plan on how to get Robin Hood in a position he can't get out of with the use of some stupid, fancy arrow that has a boxing glove attached to it."
"Wait a minute. Are telling the Green Arrow actually has an arrow with a boxing glove attached to it? I thought that was just a freaking dumb rumor."
"Let me tell you something, buddy. It most defiantly isn't just some dumb rumor. Trust me, I even got tagged by one of those damn things. Knocked a molar right out of my freakin' mouth."
With a slight cringe and low whistle, the Gotham criminal couldn't exactly say he and his associates has it any better. "That doesn't sound any better than getting whacked by one of those freakin' batarangs Batman likes to throw around." Putting aside their respective costumed hero blues for the moment, the head Black Mask goon couldn't help but notice no progress was being made to put a end to weapons exchange. "What the hell are you mooks doing standing around!? Start loading the hardware on our good friends' truck. The longer we stay here the higher the chances get the Bat may stop by."
With choir of groans, the mafia-styled villains began unloading the crates of weapons their vehicles held. "Tch, one the main reasons I even decided to sigh up as one of Black Mask's heavy hitters was to avoid physical labors that didn't involve breaking someone's arms."
"Shut up and lift with your freakin' legs!"
With the order giving, two of the suit clad criminals took a crate load of uzis from their van and began carrying it towards the semi-truck.
'Now!' Naruto thought as he jumped from the crane and directly onto a wooden crate that was currently being held by two men. Making good use of his surprise entrance, the wild blond was able to make quick work of two very startled thugs with a few well placed punches and kicks.
At the sound of their accomplices quick defeat, the remaining low rent thugs turned to discover a hooded teen was standing directly on the shipment of sub-machine guns. "How about you guys just save yourselves a trip to the hospital and give up that shiny suitcase."
"Drop him." And with those words said, all six of the conscious henchmen began firing their respective gun.
"Fuck!" Naruto cursed as he quickly tucked into a roll to avoid the incoming gunfire. In a mad scramble he quickly managed to get behind one of semi-truck's large tire just before the men could get a bead on him. "Can't say we weren't expecting that..." For seventeen consecutive seconds his cover held strong until the constant barrage of bullets finally began to take their toll on the rubber, forcing the teen to reevaluate his situation.
Once a break in the gunfire finally came, Naruto allowed his predator-like instincts to decide his next move. Not unlike a hungry wolf in the wild, the spiky haired teen threw caution to the wind and abandon his failing cover to lunge at group with his claws primed for tearing.
The sound of a panicked scream filled the air as one of the Black Mask's goons realized the whisker marked teen was inches away from his person. "Oh God!" The unfortunate criminal shouted as he felt the teen's claws dig into his chest, which caused him to go down like a sack of potatoes..
"Christ!" While the other men were still in shock at his brutality, Naruto wasted no time in taking another gunmen off the board by slashing at the nearest set legs he could reach. The slightly schizophrenic blond had to resist the urge to say 'timber' as he watched a grown man fall to the ground like a tree.
Instead of attempting to get away or helping his down partner, one of the closer thugs was quick to take advantage of the opening the teen's crouched form offered him. "You little son of a bitch!" That shout was followed up by a brutal kick to the side of the teen's head. "Come one guys! Help me stomp this bastard out!"
Like a group of vultures descending on a animal carcass, the group of four swarmed the downed teen violently.
In a bid to minimize the damage, Naruto used his arms to shield his head.
"Don't stop you guys!" One of the two black mask goon yelled as he brought an expensive leather shoe down on the young interloper's side. "We gotta leave a message for any other dumbasses who might want to take on Black Mask's crew!"
As blow after blow came down upon his person, Naruto could feel his self control slowly giving way to his more savage desires. "Grrr! Gonna rip you all to shreds!" The enraged teen roared as began to blindly flail his claws around in a attempt to gain some breathing room.
"I'm getting real tired of this crap." The head Black Masker growled out as he barely avoid being slashed by the teen's claws. "Don't let that little bastard move a inch! I'm going to go get something to end this..." With that said, the disgruntle thug left the three to their task while he marched over to a van. "I swear, this city and its freaks!"
In the time span it took the Black Masker to open the van's double doors, three agonizing screams filled the air.
"Fuck..." Was the only thing the regretful criminal could mutter out before he gathered the courage to look over his right shoulder. Hazel meet glowing blood-red as the last remaining Black Mask goon took in the sight of the troublesome teen standing over three unconscious bodies with a pissed off look on his face. Without uttering another word, the man quickly climbed into the van and shut the doors behind him.
"Grr!" For just a brief moment Naruto consider leaving the Black Masker be, after all, the money filled suitcase was currently just a few feet away from him just begging to be picked up. However, his pride wasn't prepared to let a single man get away unscathed. "We hope you don't think you're getting away without us putting our foot up your ass."
In a impressive show of his abnormal abilities, Naruto quickly covered the distance between himself in the van and tore the double doors off their hinges. The fanged grin Naruto wore quickly faded away when his eyes landed on a large metal storage box. With a arched brow, the blond teen took note a blinking red light. "What the..." And without warning the blinking red light suddenly turned solid green and the top half of the box separated into two halves, which allowed a large cloud smoke to escape its confines.
In the driver seat of the van, the Black Masker crackled loudly as he soak in the look of shock the hooded blond wore. "Ha! Lets see what your little sharp fingernails can do against a freakin' Amazo, ya little freak!"
Before he could even put a face to the name Amazo, Naruto, in the span of two and a half seconds, suddenly found himself forced against the haul of a shipping crate by a freakishly large forearm.
"Hmph, you're not part of the Justice League are you?" Standing at a staggering eight and a half feet tall with a pointed elf ears and a red skullcap, Amazo, the highly advanced super android, effortlessly kept the struggling blond contained between its forearm and a shipping crate. "No matter, I'll destroy you anyway."
Naruto's eyes widen as he watched Amazo's eyes began to glow bright red, just being so close to the android made the teen feel as though he was standing on the sun. "Let us go, you big bastard..." Naruto gasped out as he clawed at the arm that held him in place.
"Just accept your death..."
And right before Amazo could use its heat vision to lobotomize the overwhelmed teen something impacted against the back of its skull, something beeping.
BOOM!
Although the explosion was contained and small it was just enough to make Amazo lose its grip on Naruto.
The moment Naruto was free he quickly put some distance between him and the elf-eared android, a quick glance upward revealed a caped silhouette standing on one of the many cranes that filled the harbor. "Saved by the Bat two times in one night, that's gotta be a record..." Naruto muttered to himself.
Amazo, looking more annoyed then injured, glared at the caped figure. "You are not the Batman." The man-made villain said in a robotic tone.
Clad in a black bodysuit that greatly resembled Batman's own, the aptly named Batgirl stared down at the super android through black tinted lens. Not a single word was uttered as the feminine Bat leap into the air while simultaneously withdrawing three batarangs from her canary-yellow utility belt.
In response to Batgirl's actions, Amazo attempted to put a quick end to the girl by way of its heat vision.
Thanks to the intense training Batgirl puts herself through on a daily bases, she was able to dodge the two beams of concentrated heat with ease. "..." In one smooth motion all three of the batarangs flew from Batgirl's gloved hand straight into the chest of Amazo. Upon impact, the three batarangs exploded.
"Whoa..." An impressed Naruto said breathlessly as witnessed Batgirl land with the grace of well trained ballerina.
As the smoke cleared around its body, Amazo began a slow walk towards Batgirl. "You wish to delay the inevitable? Fine. You will find no objections here, I was built for battle.
"..." With a draw that can make a gunslinger green with envy, Batgirl retrieved her grapple gun from her belt and aimed it in the direction of a shipping crane.
Amazo, take note costumed heroine intentions, attempted to stop Batgirl in her tracks by using its advanced speed to capture the young woman. However, the speed of the grapple gun's reeling ability was just enough to save Batgirl from being tackled by the android.
While one of her hands maintained a tight hold on the grapple gun's fore grip, Batgirl took out more of her batarangs and began to rain them down upon Amazo.
"Pathetic..." Amazo said as it jumped into the air while firing off multiple burst of its heat vision to neutralize the oncoming batarangs. Once the batarangs were no longer a problem, the elf themed android was able to take hold of Batgirl. "It is time to acknowledged your end, human."
"Damn it!" Naruto cursed as he watched Batgirl struggle to escape Amazo's grasp. "We gotta freakin' help her..." But as much as he wanted to do such a thing he couldn't help but to acknowledged the fact he wasn't in much of a position to do anything against Amazo. That is...until his eyes landed on the van filled with weapons.
If Batgirl was worried about being trapped in between Amazo's freakishly muscular arms her mask did a excellent job hide her fear. "..." Getting to her utility belt wasn't easy but it also wasn't impossible, with two of her sharpest batarangs in hand, Batgirl viciously stabbed Amazo in both of his ears. Thanks to the fact that Amazo's design was based off the human anatomy it fortunately shares a number of the same weak points that can be found on the average human body.
Although there wasn't any eardrums to damage, the batarangs clashing against Amazo's gyrostabilizer was just enough to force the android to relinquish its hold on Batgirl.
While Amazo dropped like a ten-ton boulder, Batgirl made good use of her cape. Upon her landing, the silent crime fighter wasted no time in going back on the offensives.
Once Batgirl was only just a few feet away, Amazo quickly snapped back to its feet and attempted to Batgirl's head off with strong straight jab. Unsurprisingly, Batgirl had little trouble avoiding the attack but unfortunately her actions allowed Amazo to take hold of her cape.
"This conflict ends now." That was all Amazo said before it brutally slammed Batgirl onto the concert.
Instead of succumbing to the attack, Batgirl immediately began trying to climb to her feet. However, before Batgirl could properly gather all her bearings a foot impacted against her chest and kept her pinned to ground. "..." All it took was one glance to see Amazo was readying his heat vision.
The moment Amazo's eyes were fully charged he was stopped by a barrage of bullets a mere second before was able to end Batgirl's life. "What foolishness is this?"
Armed with a uzi in each hand and two Ak-47 strapped to his back plus a grenade bandoleer that held three of Mr. Freeze's special ice grenades and four M67 fragmentation grenades, Naruto poised for battle on one of the many shipping crates that filled the docks. "Yeah, foolishness...that sounds about right."
"You ants are persistent." And with that said, Amazo released a burst of its heat vision with intent to take its original target out of the fight.
Using a strategy that could only be found in a action movies or a video games, Naruto dived off the shipping crate while simultaneously firing both of the sub-machine guns. "You wanna fight, ya big bastard!? Fight us!" Although his experience with handling firing arms was limited to arcade games, Amazo's bulky frame wasn't to hard hit.
Paying little mind to the bullet pelted against the surface of its flesh-like exterior, Amazo removed its feet from Batgirl's chest and began a slow march towards the dual wielding blond. "Your tactics are simple. Your weapons are weak. And you lack skill."
Once the uzis ran dry, Naruto wasted no time in grabbing one of the assault rifles. "Such a sweet talker, we just might blush." The kick he felt from the Ak-47 wasn't in the least bit gentle but it only took a second for him to adjust to the weapon's volatile nature. Unlike the uzis, which was loaded .41 AE rounds, the Ak-47s were equipped with armor piercing bullets.
As the bullets ripped through Amazo's torso, Batgirl took advantage of the situation and stuck a glob of explosive gel onto the android's right leg and made a quick dash over to her impromptu partner's side. "..." it took less then a pound of pressure to press the detonator's button.
A grin was etched on Naruto's face as he watched the explosion envelope Amazo's entire frame. "Now that had to hurt." He said while shouldering the high powered assault rifle.
"..." Unlike Naruto, Batgirl refused to lower her guard.
With a look of pure fury painted on its face, Amazo emerged from the smoke while moving at charging speed, the mechanisms that made up Amazo's right leg were now fully exposed to the world.
"Why won't this damn thing stay down!?" Not at all enticed by the concept of playing matador with the charging Amazo, Naruto quickly unhooked all three of the ice grenades and tossed them at the elf eared droid.
Just like what they were designed to do, the ice grenades detonated on contact and left Amazo trapped in a block of ice.
Prepared for the worse, Naruto aimed his fully loaded Ak-47 at Amazo's frozen form while Batgirl withdrew six batarangs. "Fool us once..."
Without any build up, Amazo's heat vision effortlessly phased through ice which prompted the two abnormal teens to use their respective weapons.
"Just fall down!" Naruto roared as carelessly squeezed the Ak's trigger as for Batgirl, she kept her batarangs at the ready. Like before, the armor piercing bullets were actually able to do some significant damage against Amazo but the highly advanced android still didn't falter despite the gaping holes in its chest. "Hey, Bat-babe," The blond teen said without turning to meet Batgirl's eyes. "Cover us."
Underneath her mask, Batgirl's eyes widen as the boy began a mad dash towards Amazo. Although she didn't have a single clue as to what he was planning, Batgirl made a split second decision to support her odd partner and so she threw her batarangs.
A devilish grin made its way onto Naruto's face as the batarangs flew past his person and collided with Amazo. "Let's see ya get up from this!" While Amazo was still reeling from the batarangs, the feral blond unhooked the bandoleer from around his chest and jumped towards the powerful robot. Of course Amazo did tried to mount some kind of offensive, however Naruto had little problems avoiding a wild swing. The moment he was able to get the bandoleer around Amazo's neck, Naruto quickly pulled the grenades' pins and made his getaway.
There wasn't a single sign of panic or fear in Amazo's eye as it calmly reached towards the tactical belt with intent to remove it before its payload could detonate, however, before the droid could even put a single finger on the bandoleer the claw from Batgirl's grapple gun stop its hand cold.
From a safe distance away, Naruto gave Amazo a quick one finger salute. "And that's that!" And then...there was the loudest explosion Naruto has ever heard in his young life, it honestly was enough to irate his highly sensitive ears. Out of pure instinct, Naruto pressed his hands against his ears in a attempt to quell the ringing sound. "Damn it..."
Like a scene straight out of the Terminator movies, Amazo's emerged from a wall of fire with at least two-thirds of its skin missing. "Self destruct process initiated..."
Maybe if Naruto's ears weren't damaged in the explosion he might have heard Amazo's approach. "What the hell!" The partial deaf blond said as two mechanical arms harshly conformed around his being.
"!" Moving as fast as her legs could take her, Batgirl made her way over to the two while withdrawing two batarangs. Once she was in range, Batgirl jumped onto Amazo's back and shoved the batarangs into any visible hydraulics systems she could find. Almost instantly, Amazo's arms went slack and the hooded blond was able to make his escape. As for Batgirl's getaway...she ran into a slight snag.
Upon noticing Batgirl wasn't at his side, Naruto quickly turned to see the costumed young woman struggling to free her one of her legs from Amazo's limp right arm. "8...7...6..."
"Fuck!" A bead of sweat rolled down Naruto's forehead as he ran to assist Batgirl. "Come on move...you son of a bitch!" Even with its arms dangling like a wet noodle, Amazo's grip was like a bear-trap but still Naruto managed to free Batgirl. "Come on, let's go!"
Once Batgirl was on her feet, the two did their best to get away a quickly as they could but the sound of Amazo's voice counting down put the duo in a understandable panic.
"Desperate times!" Naruto shouted before he tackled Batgirl and enveloped his entire frame around her.
"..1." Behind the two, Amazo's self destruct activated, spewing shrapnel and fire all around the harbor.
Naruto bit his bottom lip as the back of his hoodie was burned and shredded due to the intense explosion, for just few precious seconds he was able to withstand the pain but eventually it become too much in his past out.
As the force from the explosion came and went, Batgirl felt the arms that were wrapped around her waist go limp. Out of concern, she abandon pulled out of the accident spooning session and climbed to her feet to check the condition of her savior. It only took one glance at the boy's, admittedly, rugged features to tell he was unconscious.
"..." It would be three seconds later before Batgirl heard the roar of a very familiar powerful engine.
A/N: Truthfully, I got a few things to say but my Friends are outside beeping their car horn so I gotta jet. Please review!