Hey guys I've been busy for while so I haven't been able to write. School, family and some other shit. Not a good excuse I know but its all I got.
Naruto was bored. He had been locked away in Wayne Manor for almost a month. Batman insisted that he had to be trained before he was allowed out into the city. On one hand he understood why Batman had kept him back from patrolling , on the other hand hated he being under house arrest.
"Hell the most fun he had here was when Dickie bird first encounter me."
The young teen had found the blonde meta stalking the hallways. Thinking he was an intruder, the vigilante known as Robin tried to sneak up on Naruto only for it to backfire on him. Naruto had thrown that kid down a flight of stairs. He did not like sneak attacks. Though Bruce wasn't to happy about him hurting his ward.
The one bright spot of living in a mansion was the guy who made all the food. Alfred Pennyworth was the manors old butler who had raised Bats after his parents's murder. He was great cook, but an even better listener and made sure to make Naruto feel welcome in the large house.
"Feeling bored Master Naruto?" The man also had an amazing ability to sneak up on people.
"Nothing to do Al. I've been cooped up in this mansion, stuck on my ass and I can't leave." Was Naruto bitter. Yes, yes he was. He had been locked away in this massive mansion, while Bats and Bird Boy were out saving the world. His claws were itching to come out.
Alfred looked like he had a deep look on his face. Like he knew something Naruto didn't. Finally coming to a decision, Alfred gave Naruto a follow me gesture and led him to a old grandfather clock. To the untrained eye it looked like a normal clock, but Naruto knew better. It was really the entrance to the Batcave. Naruto had been in it multiple times since it had come to stay in Wayne Manor.
"Alright Al, you've got my attention." Naruto said curiously as he followed the butler down the steps. The Batcave was eerily quite with the absence pf the caped crusader and the boy wonder.
"I need to show you something." Alfred declared and then went to the cases that housed the costumes of the Bat clan. But their was a third one now. Alfred flipped a switch that revealed a new suit. One that caught his attention.
It was a an armor that resembled that Bats except it was lacking a cape and sleeves. The cowls point were slightly longer and created some what of an arch. Complete with boots and a belt. The best part of it though it was his favorite color. A deep orange with a bit a black on some parts.
"Al this is awesome." Naruto was truly stunned by this. He had never received something like this. Not that he could remember anyway. But this almost felt like a gift one would receive from a grandfather.
"No thanks necessary Master Naruto. I noticed you were getting a bit restless lately so I took the steps to end your boredom." the butler said with a smile and was now walking toward a new vehicle to the cave. It was a bike. It was sleek black ride that looked highly militaristic.
"Alfred what is that?" Naruto asked as he looked in awe at the motorcycle.
"It has no true name, but that developers called it the POD. A vehicle that deploys from a tank. Its highly mobile and the only reason why no developments for new ones ever came in is because it was to expansive." Alfred described as Naruto sat down. As soon as he touched the hands the bike roared to life, surprising Naruto who jumped at least ten feet into the air and amusing Alfred greatly, "And it's motion activated, keyed to your finger prints."
"Alfred when did you do this?"
"I finished the preparations for both the suit and the POD about two weeks ago. Master Bruce asked me not to tell you about these until you were ready."
"And am I ready?" Naruto asked in anticipation. 'Please say yes.'
"Master Bruce thinks no, but I have watched you trained, talked to you about what you want to do, and have seen you go crazy to get out of the manor. I'd like to think I have a good judge of character."
"Alfred...Thank you." Alfred nodded and Naruto grabbed the suit.
Tonight Gotham had a new hero.
The POD roared down the streets of Gotham. People walking on the sidewalks watched in amazement as Naruto maneuvered around other vehicles. A grin was on his face as he sped up.
-Master Naruto I do hope you are enjoying yourself but their is a robbery going on at 5th Avenue.- Alfred said through the comms.
"I'm on it Al." Naruto replied then took a sharp left. In front of him was a bank that was covered in flames and Naruto was briefly reminded of his first encounter as a hero. Hopefully this wasn't as personal. Shooting out of the flames was a man wearing a grey jumpsuit with a jetpack. He had on a helmet that resembled an insect and attached to his arms were two flamethrower like cannons. In one arm was a bag of cash.
-Be careful Master Naruto. The individual in front of you is Firefly. He loves to burn everything. Buildings and people included.-Alfred warned and Naruto just smiled at the new challenge. This was gonna be fun.
"Lookie here. You must be new to Gotham." Firefly said mockingly from above as he circled around Naruto. "How about you burn!" His flamethrowers activated and shot out a powerful blast of fire at the orange clad hero.
Naruto drove right through the flames. His eyes never left Firefly's position in the sky and his claws ripped through his gloves. Ready for action.
"Your mine bub!" And with that Naruto began the chase. Firefly's aerial mobility made catching him a challenge. If Naruto wanted to catch him, he would need to clip the jetpack. Wind energy began to form around his claws with a light green glow. When it was charged up enough, Naruto swung his claws in a upward motion and three large blades of wind formed. The attack struck Firefly and in the back and he came crashing down.
"Damn you." He cried as began to stand up. Parts of his jumpsuit were torn and Naruto could see the burnt skin. Firefly raised his arm and fired another blast of flames. Naruto jumped off the POD to avoid them and landed on top of the arsonist. He withdrew his claws and landed a solid haymaker to Firefly and his helmet came flying off.
Garfield Lynns was addicted to fire. He loved so much that he didn't even mind the burns that covered over ninety percent of his body. Naruto just saw another twisted soul of Gotham.
-Naruto report back to the cave. NOW- Instead of the kindly butler on the line it was Batman, who didn't sound very happy at the moment.
"Man first night in costume and I'm already pissing Bats off." Naruto said to himself with a satisfied smirk. As the cops pulled up to arrest Lynns, Naruto climbed back onto the POD and sped off.
"Just what do you think you were doing." Bruce Wayne demanded as walked over to the POD. Standing next to him were the two most recognizable superheroes in the world. One was a beautiful woman. Tall and shapely, she was wearing a red armored top and a blue battle skirt. Next to her was the Man of Steel himself. He was wearing his normal blue suit with the large S on the chest and a red cape and boots. With the greatest trio of heroes standing in front of him, Naruto could honestly admit that he was slightly intimidated.
Bats had his signature glare on his face that would make lesser men squarm. But Naruto wasn't most people. There was a reason why Dick had started calling him the knucklehead.
"Decided to take matters into my own hands. Wanted to make my mark on the city." Naruto said he stood up " I see we have company."
"Naruto its an honor to meet you." Diana said as she shook hands with him. Superman followed suit. "Batman has told us about your dilemma."
"Yeah my memory's a bit off. What of it?" If Diana was put off by Naruto's rudeness she didn't show it.
"Using some of my contacts in D.C I was able to find out a name. Does Weapon Plus mean anything to you?" Naruto eyes widened as he remembered something.
Flashback
"How has the procedure gone?"
"Perfectly Doctor, the D.N.A of our donor has bonded well with Weapon X."
Yes, well have him start training in the field immediately. Have Sabretooth track him to make sure he stays in line."
"Yes Doctor and what about his psyche?"
"There's nothing we can do about it. For now he's just feral beast, but soon he'll be the finest weapon I've ever created. Weapon Plus is going to have perfection."
End
"Where'd did you hear the name?!" Naruto growled as he took off his cowl to show his furious red eyes. To Diana he looked like a demon from Tartarus.
"We first found mention of it in the Cadmus file we extracted from the Lab that the protégés destroyed last night." Superman explained as he tried to calm the young man down. Naruto took a deep breathe and slowly his eyes turned into a familiar blue. "We didn't find much, but we found bits of information about experimentation on metahumans."
"Like me." Naruto said as realization set in. He was finally closing in on some of his past. Maybe this Weapon Plus could help him.
"Before you do anything crazy, I would like to investigate Cadmus more to find anything else about this Weapon Plus. In the mean time me and my teammates have gone over footage of you training. Plus the added footage of your recent fight with Firefly." Batman said as he walked to the Bat computer. A few clicks were heard before footage of him training with his claws came up.
"You have the makings of a fine warrior." Wonder Woman complimented with a smile.
"Coming from an amazon warrior such as yourself, that's one of the greatest things I've ever heard." Naruto said as he continued to watch the footage.
"Naruto we still believe your not ready to join us in the Justice League, but there is something else that we think you'd be perfect for." Superman said as pictures of other young superheroes came up. He recognized two of them as Robin and Kid Flash, but there were three that he didn't recognized. One was a teen wearing a black t-shirt with a familiar red S on it, another was a dark skinned teen who was controlling water and finally there was a cute red head that just so happened to be green.
"Were calling it Young Justice. It's supposed to be a black ops team that can strike at the villains, while the Justice League controls the major threats."
"And you want me to join this club." Naruto said with a smirk as Batman nodded. " You know I'm not much of a team player."
"I believe this will be good for you." Diana said "You need more field experience and this will allow you to work with a team around your age and make friends. Who knows? You might just end up a 'team player'."
Naruto still wasn't convinced. He wasn't exactly good with people. He'd just recently been a homeless teen who had been reluctantly taken in by a billionaire super hero. This was kinda overwhelming to be honest. But he no longer wanted to be cooped up in this mansion, no matter how good Alfred's cooking was.
"What the hell, I'm in." Naruto said finally with a smile. This team thing could work out.
"Good now you'll need a codename. Have you thought of anything. Naruto nodded and a smile came to his face. One of his few memories was of a Native American doctor that had helped him after he escaped is torturers. She was one of the first people to ever show him any kindness that he could remember. He reluctantly left her to find his own place in the world. Before he left though she told him about an old warrior. His name translated in to this.
"Yeah you can call me Wolverine."
It had been two days since Naruto had left Gotham. A duffel bag with all the clothes he now owned strapped to his side. Instead of taking the short way via tele porter Naruto decided he wanted to travel all the way to Happy Harbor. Jersey and Rhode Island weren't to far apart and Naruto wanted to see some sights before he settled into his new home. With that said he said a short goodbye to Alfred and left the estate. Bats had even loaned him one of his vintage 63' Harleys to ride. It had nothing on the POD, but it was still a sweet ride.
Now he was only minutes away from the small little town of Happy Harbor. Naruto truly felt at peace for once. Riding down a back road in the middle of the afternoon was relaxing. He was approaching a sign now.
Welcome to Happy Harbor!
The town looked small from far away and he could already tell that it wasn't exactly the most exciting place. That was when a tornado actually erupted from the harbor bay.
'Somethings tell me that that's not exactly normal for Rhode Island.' Naruto though sarcastically. With that though Naruto revved his engines and sped up to not miss the action. His claws were just itching for a good fight.
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Mister Twister. That was what this guy called himself. Twister was a huge robotic figure that had the power to generate fierce blast of wind. He was also tearing down the new team known as Young Justice and Robin hated it. Hated how this guy was handling them easy. Taunting them about facing real heroes.
It was embarrassing damn it.
They would charge at the villain, but none of them could reach him. That included the super strong Superboy and the lightening quick Kid Flash. But he wouldn't give up. He was determined to prove Speedy wrong.
"What's that?" Superboy asked out of the blue. The team looked at the teen superweapon. They didn't hear anything beside Twister shooting his tornados at them. "That motor."
"Yeah it sounds like a motorcycle." KF said confused. In the distance a figure could be made out and Robin had a feeling on who it was. The team weren't the only ones who noticed the rider. Twister saw the new challenge approaching. With a smirk, a launched a tornado at the man.
The figure leapt of the bike, which was blown back by the fierce wind. Three claws emerged from his hands.
"Naruto." Robin muttered under his breathe in realization.
"Naruto? Who the hell's Naruto?" KF asked confused.
Naruto began to dive down towards Twister who launched another tornado towards the teen. With a swipe of his claws, green blades of wind were released which effortlessly cut through the tornado and shredded Twister's arm like butter. Sparks flew.
"What!" Twister roared as Naruto landed on top of the downed villain. Claws raised, he quickly cut straight through the robotic menace. An explosion followed with one figure walking out of the smoke.
Naruto had a smile on his face. This little exercise was good fun. The team in front of him really needed to get there shit together. Twister was small time compared to other villains. Ones like Joker and Sabretooth were much more fearsome.
"Hey Rob, Bats sends his regards." Naruto said jokingly as Robin smirked. The team just got a hell of lot more interesting.
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"Who is this guy?" Superboy asked with a grunt as the team returned to base. Naruto had still to arrived, opting on riding back his battered bike instead of riding in the Ship. The team was confused on what to think of their new member.
KF was under the impression that new guy was strange and possibly dangerous, while Kaldur and Megan were more open minded about a new team member. Superboy truly didn't care about a new teammate. He just wanted to know who took Twister down so easily.
"His name is Naruto. He's someone who caught Batman's attention a few months ago." Robin explained to the team. He was all for Naruto joining the team. The guy was lost in life, but still a good person who was willing to help people. " He can tell you all about himself since he just got here."
Sure enough coming to a stop in the team's hanger was Naruto. His blonde hair as wild as the grin on his face.
"Alright team I need some names cause the only ones I recognized are bird boy and Sparky." Naruto joked. The only ones to smile were Megan and Robin.
"I'm Miss Martian, but my earth name is Megan Morse." Megan said excited to have another friend. The team was still unnerved by her ability to communicate using her mind so she could use any friend she could find.
"I'm Aqualad, but you may call me Kaldur." Kaldur said shaking hands with Naruto. Superboy opted to leave the room instead of greeting Naruto.
"What's his problem?" Naruto said with a raised eye. Sure he could be an ass, but he wasn't completely bad.
"Superboy had problems communicating with people." Kaldur explained. The teen was created to be a weapon so he wasn't the best at interacting with others.
" Yeah I got that by the way he tried to melt me with his heat vision. He does have heat vision right?"
"No and he can't fly either." Kid Flash answered "And whatever you do don't mention Superman. Kinda of a touchy subject."
"I'll try to remember that. So what's with the Red Tornado copy?"
"That is my issue to deal with." A voice answered. Walking up to the team was Red Tornado, the team's new babysitter for a lack of better term.
"Huh, well since that's been settled you guys got anything to eat? Been riding for hours and could really use some food." Naruto said unknowingly brightening Megan's day. She grabbed his arm and led him to the kitchen much to the others amusement.
"Perfect, you can try out some recipes that I saw on TV!"
"Um what?" What did he get himself into?
So there you have it. Chapter 3 of Wolverine finally out. If you have any questions leave it in the comments. Other then that I'm out.
