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Bereft
Bialya; September 5th; 10:15AM.
Artemis had been plenty drunk in her high school career but, this was by far the worst hangover she'd ever woken up with, albeit she didn't remember drinking, smoking, or doing anything that would result in mental strain. The sun peeked in through the window of what seemed to be some wooden shed, the creaking sound of rubble being moved around her startled her awake as she noticed suddenly, she was bound by her hands to a chair, "What the hell," she mumbled pulling on her bound wrists.
The first thing she noticed was the intense heat in the shed as if they were in a sauna; the second being a man staring out the window, his back facing her, "What's Madara planning?"
Artemis raised her brow, "I think you've got the wrong-"
"How did I get here?" He asked turning his head to make eye contact with her allowing her to see his Sharingan.
She gulped and pulled on her restraints, "I've got no clue, seriously, we can just talk this out, okay?"
"This is a god-damn war, you can't talk you're way out of this!" The man darted his eyes out the window, narrowing them into the distance, "Is this one of Kaguya's dimensions? What language am I speaking? How long has the war been going on? and what the hell am I wearing?"
"Are you on acid?" Artemis pulled her restraints and quickly leaned forwards, rolling over and slamming the wooden chair onto the ground breaking it apart; she grabbed a jagged wooden pole still strapped to her wrist and aimed it in self-defense at the man who still didn't turn to face her, "What the hell am I wearing?" She looked herself up and down and also found an arrow-filled quiver strapped to her back and a bow laying not too far from her.
There was a long-drawn-out silence until suddenly, the man looked up and sharpened his vision as if looking through the ceiling, "Three ballistic-missiles inbound, four minutes," Sasuke grabbed his head as he kicked the shattered ceramic helmet out of his way and pushed door down to the shed stepping out into the sun, "How do I know that?" he shaded his eyes from the light of the sun and walked out into the sandy terrain.
"Missiles? Did you say missiles?" Artemis nearly choked on her own words as she darted her head in all directions before watching the man leave the shed ominously; she would stay but, if military grade weaponry was on its way, should she really risk staying put?
The two teenagers stumbled out into the sun and as Artemis climbed a dune of sand and stared out into the distance some minutes later, a missile struck and destroyed the shed with enough force to tear a building apart. The man didn't flinch, the explosion barely even registered on his radar but, the bullets flying past them caught his attention whizzing by his head like mosquitos.
Artemis turned and saw dozens of men lined up with at least four military-grade tanks aimed for specifically them two, "Why are they aiming at us?"
Sasuke was silent as he observed and analyzed the threat with his Kekki Genkai; A bunch of useless metal and plastic contraptions that make big explosions with little accuracy and two dozen morons with odd weaponry, "Doesn't matter; I've gotta get out of here…" Sasuke turned around and continued to walk, as Artemis raised her bow and fired an arrow at one of the men taking him down. This is when they began chanting in a foreign language sending large trucks with roof-mounted rifles sending thousands of rounds a second into the distance.
Artemis ducked behind a boulder that stuck up from the sand and pulled an arrow back on her bow; "Are you crazy? Get down!"
The bullets flew passed him as he walked away nonchalantly, he ignored it all until one bullet hit his shoulder dead on, bouncing off of it with a loud crack. "Oh, he's bullet proof, of course."
Sasuke growled as his stride stopped and he dug his feet into the ground, "All of this noise is getting me really upset!" His crimson eyes evolved into the Mangekyou Sharingan as a purple ribcage formed around his body acting as a shield as he casually walked back in the direction of the army. They open-fired on him unleashing thousands of rounds and one man even popped his head out of his Jeep with a rocket-launcher aiming it properly and firing it, hitting his target dead-on. The explosion engulfed him in smoke briefly; the ashes cleared and what was left was Sasuke and his defending shield perfectly in-tact, "So annoying."
They all stopped firing, all was silent aside from the sound of tires on dirt, they mumbled amongst themselves as Artemis wanted to make a break for it but, wasn't even sure which side she was on, "My turn?" Sasuke smiled sinisterly as he glared at an incoming Jeep speeding towards him, "Amaterasu!" From beneath the vehicle a massive flaming structure uprooted from the ground carving the jeep in two and causing an explosion that likely killed the drivers. Artemis was shocked to say the least but, ducked as bullets flew overhead; "So not my day…"
Tanks, after getting within closer range, opened fired with loud cannon blasts that sent smoke into the air after unleashing its ammunition; the explosions bounced off of Sasuke's Susanoo but, he suddenly darted his eyes to the side when he noticed Artemis' cover being chipped away, "Fine…" He sighed dispersing his Susanoo and forming a Shadow Clone that dashed forwards leaving the original to grab Artemis and run with super speed across the sand. Artemis looked back over her savior's shoulder watching his doppelganger as it formed an odd hand sign of some sort.
The Shadow Clone allowed his chakra nature to shift as lightning cackled across his arm and hand, "Chidori!" He shouted as he ran forwards cleaving a tank clean in two before slashing and killing both drivers. Gun fire erupted in the fray and the Shadow Clone was dispersed soon enough but, the two-gained ground as Sasuke traveled at super-sonic speeds in the opposite direction; Artemis was held bridle style keeping her grip by loosely wrapping her arm around his neck.
…
Sasuke skirted to a stop and placed Artemis down, "I'm exhausted," he stated uncomfortably, as if it weren't normal for him to ever be tired, "I have to have been out here for over 24 hours, bare minimum."
Artemis looked up and followed the skyline till she found the sun, covering her eyes she announced proudly, "It should be around eleven in the morning… give or take a few minutes…"
"Who are you?" Sasuke asked turning towards her, "How did I get here?" he looked her up and down for a moment before continuing, "And why are you dressed like weird stripper?"
"I'm Artemis, I don't know," She stepped forwards, getting in Sasuke's face, "And I am not a stripper."
"Could have fooled me," he pointed down to her revealing costume.
"I don't even remember owning this let alone putting it on in the middle of a foreign desert!"
From the sky suddenly came a force of unholy strength landing on the ground between them shattering the concrete while sending Sasuke and Artemis back several feet. Between them now was a snarling, beast of a man with black hair, brown eyes and no shirt but, surprisingly still a pair of pants and boots.
He immediately swung at Sasuke whom caught his wrist mid-swing, "You don't amuse at all," he deadpanned snapping the boy of steels wrist as he unleashed a roar of pain.
Once again, missiles rained down from the sky as tanks approached and fired at the boy sending him into a boulder-like structure. Over a dozen soldiers surrounded them and aimed their weapons, "This has gone on long enough…" Sasuke muttered.
The men yelled in a foreign language as they prepared to pull their triggers, Sasuke activated his Rinnegan, "Everyone freeze!" and that's all it took, an unknown force willed everyone to a halt. They were conscious and aware but, bound by some unseen power, even Artemis was powerless to move, "The ones I don't like can just die," he flashed his Rinnegan and Mangekyou eyes, "Deva Path! Blaze Release: Honoikazuchi!" His energy forced every man holding a rifle towards Sasuke at an alarming rate but, as they reached him his Amaterasu ignited piercing through and burning eight men alive.
He turned towards the two tanks that aimed at him before widening his Rinnegan; the massive hunks of metal floated into the air before crunching and crushing into two single jagged spheres of scrap.
Artemis was in awe as Superboy shook his head and approached the archer; she back-flipped and sent an explosive arrow into his bare chest which did nothing. She repeated the process and backed away simultaneously until he was within arms-length of her, "I don't think so…" Sasuke muttered, "Deva Path," his Universal Pull forced the Kryptonian off his feet and through the air being caught by the back of the neck by Sasuke.
The shinobi lifted his hand up as it was engulfed in lightning, "Chidori," he deadpanned as he prepared to finish off his opponent.
"Wait!"
Sasuke turned to Artemis whom had shouted at him, "No more killing," she didn't beg or whimper but, she did stand up and grabbed his wrist, "Please."
He rolled his eyes and dropped Superboy on his back placing a foot on his chest holding him down, "He was going to kill us; why shouldn't I return the favor?"
Artemis scoffed and folded her arms, "I don't know where you come from but, here on this planet, you can get in serious trouble for killing people!"
"This planet…" Sasuke looked into the sky, "Maybe I'm on a different planet?"
Suddenly, a figure approached from the sky at super-sonic speeds, "We've got company!" Artemis shouted aiming her bow at the target.
Before the figure could make contact; two drone-like planes flew overhead whizzing by them and circling around to approach them, "I got this," Sasuke deadpanned as the two-drones opened fire on the teens with Sasuke's Susanoo ribcage defending himself and Artemis. He prepared to use his Amaterasu to burn them both simultaneously but, before he could he felt a female presence in his mind speaking.
"I'm almost there!"
Artemis gripped her temples and looked back at Sasuke as the drones circled around to continue firing, "Did you just here a girl talking… in your mind!"
"Some sort of mental communication!" He surmised focusing back on the drones, "She could be behind all of this…" He focused his Deva Path on the drones but, before he could act they simultaneously flew into each other completely exploding on contact.
"Nice shot," Artemis noted as she placed a hand on Sasuke's shoulder whom quickly shrugged it off and narrowed his eyes above.
"That wasn't me," He focused in on the distance when he spotted a green-figure with crimson hair floating down to the ground in front of them; Sasuke took a fighting stance and pulled a kunai from his belt.
"Who are you, where are we?" Sasuke vanished in the blink of an eye appearing behind the woman with the kunai placed gently to her throat as she gulped.
Artemis pulled an arrow back on her bow and aimed it at the Martians chest, "What he said, only a bit nicer."
Sasuke suddenly felt incredible force wrap around his ankle pulling him and slamming him into a massive dune of sand; Superboy stood roaring loudly and uncontrollably as this drew the attention of the soldiers. A kinetic energy penetrator slammed into him and exploded as he flew through the sand several hundred feet away; "We better move, I have a feeling someone's about to get really angry."
"Which one?"
The tanks followed the shirtless beast as Artemis and M'gaan took cover, meanwhile a massive purple fist of insane furious energy flew up from the sand like a skeleton rising from the dead only several feet taller and thicker. The fist suddenly grew veins and muscles like never seen before, slamming its palm down on the ground and pulling a full body along with it made of the same purple energy. With its broad shoulders, a head which has a helmet that features a long tengu nose, two spikes over each eye, a slit stretching across its mouth, and demonic glowing yellow eyes; it stood up from within the sand standing at over 80-feet tall, "I am SO sick of this!" His Susanoo's Complete Body sported two arms with extra-appendages forming from his elbows and glowing violet bow in one hand.
Superboy stood to his feet and snarled at the tanks hopping onto them and tearing the steel apart, he looked to the side out of instinct to see the massive Susanoo approaching them. It was then that a tank managed to hit him in the chest with a point-blank bomb-shell sending him flying away. As an expansive shadow covered the men and their tanks they screamed in the same foreign language opening fire on the Susanoo that didn't even flinch even with RPG's and tanks firing at him, "My turn again!" Sasuke glared with a serious expression as an arrow formed in his Susanoo's free palm, using the extra appendage to pull on the bow string he aimed downwards at the soldiers.
Artemis noticed his choice in weaponry and almost smiled, of course, until Sasuke fired his arrow at the ground only around a few hundred feet from the two ducking women as the explosion destroyed the entire group of army-men, their tanks and all at once in a massive detonation. What was left was a seared, scorched land still smoldering from the heat; Superboy shook his head angrily and screamed again before leaping miles away, hopping into the distance.
Sasuke closed his eyes as he floated down in his massive avatar; it slowly shrank and dispersed as he placed his feet down on the ground, "There. Problem solved."
Artemis came out from her cover, "Not solved! Totally not solved!"
M'gaan simply murmured, "You killed all of those people…"
"What if they come after us with more soldiers, with more weapons?" Artemis surmised, "We need to move, now."
Sasuke flashed his Mangekyou at her as she backed away slowly, "What I need is answers, I couldn't care less about some stupid warriors, casualties of war."
Artemis frowned, stomping over to him and staring him dead in the Sharingan, "We. Are. Not. At. War!" She slapped him across the face causing him to widen his eyes in surprise, "When people die, it's a serious thing, I don't know where you come from but, life is sacred here!"
Sasuke, in any other situation, would have immediately killed her just for striking him but, something about her voice, her eyes, they spoke of serious pain that he himself knew plenty of; more importantly, he felt almost as though he recognized her as if they'd met somewhere before, even if briefly.
"Fine," Sasuke finally announced, "No more killing, however I ended up here, I'll play by your rules until I get back."
Artemis huffed snorting at his compliance, "Thank you," She stated sarcastically as if it didn't help all the lives he already took.
M'gaan ran up to them both, "Look, my name is M'gaan and this may sound hard to believe but, we're teammates, friends, I made you cookies!"
Artemis folded her arms and turned to Sasuke, "You know her?" Almost sounding jealous with her tone.
"No, I thought you did?" He deadpanned without even glancing at her.
"Something happened that erased your memories too," she looked into the distance where more trucks approached, "I'll fill you in on the way, Robin and Superboy need our help."
Artemis sighed as she walked with her, "Right, Robin and Super-what-now?"
…
In the distance, far from the direction Sasuke and Artemis had followed M'gaan off to; Superboy roared and snarled as he pulled on his bounds tied to his wrist with two dozen men on one-side and another two-dozen pulling from the other, they just barely managed to hold him down until he yanked on one of the ropes pulling five men to the ground at once.
A single man in the back with a rifle cocked his weapon and approached the man before yet another unknown hooded figure placed a hand on his shoulder stopping him, "You must control his mind!"
"There doesn't seem to be much mind left for me to control," he stated with a raspy voice, "Simon Says," as he approached Superboy with his finger outstretched pressing it to his forehead, "Sleep."
The Kryptonian's rage vanished and he collapsed to the ground unconscious in seconds groaning as he did so; the men eventually gained their second wind and grabbed Superboy by the shoulders and dragging his sleeping body into a caravan where they took off protected by multiple tanks.
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Bialya; September 5th; 7:44PM.
After hours and hours of walking in the hot sun, M'gaan nearly collapsed but, Sasuke didn't care too much. After the sun went down and the Moon came out, the Martian recovered as they continued their trek through the sandy terrain they eventually stopped by a gesture from Sasuke holding his hand out.
"What? Now you want to stop?" Artemis chided as Sasuke pointed into the distance where fighting and explosions of smoke expanded across the area.
Sasuke focused in with Mangekyou Sharingan lighting up both of his eyes; he narrowed them before announcing, "Looks like three people dressed like you two are taking down more army thugs over there, we should circle around them."
"Wait!" M'gaan shouted floating into the air, "That could be Robin and Batgirl!"
She rushed off through the air and towards the battlefield, "Need a lift?"
"Well, I shoot arrows and don't have super-powers, what do you think?" Sasuke scoffed and grabbed her bridle style before taking off and dashing across the sand.
Artemis looked up and, for a moment, she looked into his eyes again and saw the face of death within his pin-wheel atom crimson eyes; like he'd suffered through pain that caused him to mistrust and use lethal force even when unnecessary. She could see pain in his past and, for some reason, her instincts told her to hold him close as he ran; to place her head on his chest and just hold him. He noticed this and felt like he was comforted but, by someone he never even knew? Someone he'd just met hours ago? He wasn't one to be very sentimental so M'gaan's memory loss story was becoming more and more plausible.
They arrived at the scene where M'gaan had landed already with three others facing her, one with red and black body armor and a frizzy head of ginger hair, a slender woman in a tight black and yellow costume sporting a bat-symbol on her chest, and lastly a younger boy wearing a red, black, and green costume with the letter 'R' labeled on his left peck.
Across from them were about a dozen of the same soldiers tied up and unconscious, "Let's compare notes because I am very confused," the youngest boy announced.
…
After several minutes of introducing each other and themselves, M'gaan explained the situation to them using her Martian mental prowess to recall her memories far faster than the others.
"So, the last four months of our memory is just, gone?" Artemis surmised as she folded her arms in disbelief, "It can't be that simple."
Sasuke chuckled for a moment, "And we're a team?"
M'gaan nodded in agreement not even phased by his rude sarcasm or simply not understanding it, "Yea! Us five and Superboy!"
"This must be his then!" Robin held out a torn piece of shirt that had the famous 'S' emblazoned on it.
"Did you see him?" She asked curiously towards Robin as Artemis spoke up.
"I think we did," Artemis looked back to Sasuke whom rolled his eyes, "Some team mate, he tried to attack us a couple hours ago."
Artemis stood closer in his defense, "He didn't know who we are… I don't know who we are!"
"I remember Batman ordering radio-silence; our team must work for him!" Barbara exclaimed putting the pieces together.
Kid scoffed, "How do you know we don't work for my mentor?" he jabbed his thumb into his chest as his stealth-tech shifted the color of his suit from red and black to red and yellow, "Oh, sweet!"
Artemis stomped her foot on the ground looking at everyone in the group, "We look ridiculous!" She noticed Kid switching back and forth from stealth to regular armor, "Quit touching yourself!"
"We need our memories back," Sasuke deadpanned as M'gaan sighed to herself out of simple exasperation, rubbing her wrists nervously she took a breath and built up the courage to allow her eyes to glow bright green.
"For my friends!"
…
Suddenly they all opened their eyes after witnessing a flash of light; they looked around and they were in some sort of odd dimension where their individual memories were scattered around them like a broken mirror.
"I've brought you into my mind to show you what I remember so far," a glowing entity appeared which soon formed into M'gaan, "But, I need your help to piece back together the full story, all four months."
Artemis whom was juxtaposed to Sasuke and on the other side of him was Barbara, Dick, and Wally in that order; "Our broken memories can form a whole… if you open your minds to me…" M'gaan stuttered a bit trying her best not to be as nervous as she had been acting.
"You wanna prowl through our private thoughts?" Artemis exclaimed outraged at the mere implication.
"I have no wish to intrude!" M'gaan insured them all but continued, "But-"
"You need to hack our brains to get our memories back, go ahead, shoot," Robin grinned and gave a thumbs-up.
"My brains all yours, baby, dig through anything you like," Wally winced at the Martian who only smiled awkwardly in response.
Barbara sighed, "I've had a confused head-ache for two hours; whatever it takes…" She rubbed the bridge of her nose trying to fight off the migraine.
The only two left opposing the idea were Sasuke and Artemis, "I'm not gonna be pier-pressured into-"
"I've done things… seen things… things that from what I can tell would horrify all of you," they all tensed up as he spoke in a growl closing his eyes, "Promise, you'll only sift through the last four months…"
M'gaan smiled with a nod looking towards Artemis, she held her arm being nervous about her past, "Only the last four months?"
"I promise!"
Artemis looked to her feet still unsure of her decision when she felt a warm hand grabbing her own; she glanced up at Sasuke whom didn't look at her but, tightened his grip ever-so slightly, "Whatever it takes to fix this…" he muttered.
She felt more secure with his hand around hers, they were strangers to each other but, if their memories were lost perhaps they were more than strangers? The only way to find out for sure was to go through with this plan, "Fine, let's do this."
From her hands outstretched glowing green appendages that expanded and encompassed them all as their memories flooded into their brains like a dam ready to burst and as it did they remembered everything.
The entirety of the last four months rushed through their minds engulfing them in experiences and memories they'd never pictured before, how they'd met, how their team formed, every single detail flushed through their entire psyche. They found out why they were here, it was some sort of power surge unlike anything Batman had seen and since Bialya wasn't a part of the Leagues charter, they decided that The Team was the best covert option to investigate this anomaly. The mission was specifically to discover what the high-power surge was caused by and then and depart unnoticed. After arriving, M'gaan established the psychic link and headed out in camo mode; she arrived in a tent where Bialiyan scientists were testing some sort of device. "I'm in, they're testing something, no they're torturing it… it's- it's alive," M'gaan started as she reached out to the sentient machine; suddenly M'gaan heard a man's voice in enter their psychic link speaking ominously. "What's this? A Peeping Tom?" M'gaan looked around and noticed a man with paper white skin, and a visibly disgusting brain, she blinked at him and said "Who- Who's there?" The man responded by looking directly at the camouflaged M'gaan and saying, "Dear child, Psimon can't see you, Psimon can't touch you but, Psimon can make you all forget!" And with that last word his mind sent a mental attack that traveled through the link and threw everyone into an agonizing frenzy. Superboy leapt off into the distance, Sasuke and Artemis collapsed in their position at an observation point disguised as a shed, Kid, Barbara and, Wally all fell over simultaneously in the same spot they were hiding in. M'gaan herself floated away in pain before collapsing in the sand still fully camouflaged.
"Superboy!" They shouted in unison as M'gaan continued with her rant exiting her mindscape completely, "Four months ago Superboy didn't exist! He has no memories just pure animal instinct," She floated upwards, "I gotta find him, I can't abandon my friends!"
Sasuke held his head for a moment, this is when Sasuke and Artemis noticed they were still holding hands only far-tighter now, "Your hand… its warm," Sasuke muttered as he pulled away, "Thanks for putting me in check; I was a very different person before I came to this world."
"So many 'thanks' in such a short time frame; I think you might owe me one," she coyly smiled I his direction as Sasuke kept his stoic expression.
"I just might," He muttered with a short smile dashing off in Miss Martian's direction; Kid sped forwards poking Artemis in the side of the stomach causing her to flinch.
"Artemis has a crush! Artemis has a crush!" He sped off as the three on foot attempted to follow.
"Ugh, I forgot how truly annoying you are!"
…
M'gaan landed first in her camouflage mode, peeking into a large tent with scientists typing away completely unaware of her presence; Sasuke appeared behind her placing his hand on her shoulder notifying her to his arrival.
They immediately noticed Superboy strapped to a horizontal table facing upwards with electrocution surging through his body; M'gaan flew in unnoticed by anyone as Sasuke looked around with his Mangekyou spotting a sphere of some sort revving its engine as Superboy wash shocked.
M'gaan rushed forwards and pushed several men out of the way shutting down the electro-therapy as Psimon mentally scanned the room and found two mental formidable opponents in the tent with him; "Well, someone is definitely glutton for punishment…"
"Psimon says, forget!" He spoke mentally to the camouflaged M'gaan and just before his mental prowess overwhelmed the Martian; Sasuke grabbed her arm and activated his Rinnegan, "Tsukuyomi!"
…
They entered a mental dimension of mixed objects and floating landscapes; pieces of Mars, her school, images of Naruto but, Sasuke holding onto her was what she was most worried about, "You shouldn't have done this! You don't have mental powers like I do!"
Psimon grew to the size of a mountain as he towered above them, "Yes, run along now, shinobi!" He fired a crimson beam of mental energy towards the two as Sasuke stepped in front of it, "Tsukuyomi!" an emerald shield appeared before them blocking Psimon's psychic blast.
Sasuke's left Mangekyou bled slightly, "I'm not completely useless; Tsukuyomi!" The emerald beam struck Psimon in the face knocking him backwards.
"Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!" Sasuke sent a pillar of flames slamming into Psimon who returned to regular sized forming a mental bubble to protect himself.
"You think physical attacks work in here? This is my domain!" He sent a massive beam of energy from his eyes towards the two as M'gaan floated towards it and blocked it with her own mental defenses.
Everything around them began to fade as her memories began to erase themselves quickly; M'gaan furrowed her brow and shouted, "Not again!" her psionic waves exploded outwards returning everything back to the way it was. She continued to fire back with emerald mental energy bolts slamming into the psychic villain.
Psimon blasted back but, was evaded by M'gaan.
"Nice M'gaan," He turned and activated his Rinnegan with spinning tomoe; running at full power, Sasuke aimed his eyes at but, "I'm ending this now!" He shouted as he focused all of his chakra into his Rinnegan with every drop of chakra he forced the Genjutsu from his eye, "Kotoamatsukami!" an expansive bolt of crimson energy exploded from Sasuke's eye as the representation of his mental attack.
M'gaan pitched in by focusing her own mental power into an emerald beam that combined with Sasuke's creating a beam of multiple colors that slammed directly into Psimon's forehead; "No!" He shouted as the world around them shattered.
…
Sasuke, M'gaan, and Psimon had been staring each other down for several minutes until they all collapsed; Sasuke caught M'gaan before she hit the ground just as Robin, Batgirl, and Artemis arrived. Psimon fell to the ground drooling mindlessly as several dozen men appeared with rifles pointed at them in all directions, "Go!" Sasuke stated as he breathed heavily, "Free Superboy, I'll protect her and keep them busy."
They hesitated for a moment before Sasuke formed a Susanoo skeletal fist with a ribcage to match; the bullets bounced off of him as the chakra-arm wrapped around him and M'gaan. He didn't have much chakra left in him, barely enough to sustain Susanoo for much longer.
"Deva Path: Universal Pull!" As he waved his arms outwards and his Susanoo vanished, an unknown force of chakra exploded outward and forced their weapons out of their hands and into the ground at Sasuke's feet.
His Rinnegan bled, his tomoe disappeared revealing his chakra had finally been depleted; He focused his Mangekyou on burning the weapons before him, "Amaterasu!"
Sasuke huffed heavily, as the rifles burned until it was nothing but smoldering ash, the men were frightened but, not willing to fight the shinobi one on one… They ran into the desert as fast as they could with fear for their lives.
"Wise decision," Sasuke mumbled as he fell to one-knee.
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Artemis, Robin and Batgirl entered the tent with shuriken flying across the room incapacitating scientists and destroyed equipment; one shuriken landed on the console that trapped the sphere like alien device releasing it from its bounds. It beeped happily at Batgirl while Artemis shoved an arrow through the computer console unlatching Superboy's restraints and allowing him to fall to the ground with a breath of air.
He snarled backing away from them all just as Sasuke and M'gaan stepped through the tent supporting each other as best they could, "Trust me," M'gaan smiled, "You're my best friend!" She placed her fingers on his forehead and every single memory for the last four months rushed into his head on a after the other as he suddenly remembered everything about the mission, "So, did we win?"
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6 Hours Later; September 6th; 1:32AM.
Psimon stood in the center of a room surrounded by screens; these screens each had a silhouette of another member of the Light, "The heroes escaped with the sphere and the Superboy," he said nervously.
"That hardly matters," a female voice spoke up, "What matters is our new partners delivery system…"
Behind Psimon, a screen appeared of a Mangekyou Sharingan warping the sphere into existence on the Bialiyan sight; "The Uchiha is getting stronger, even his mental techniques are beginning to over-power my own."
"Don't worry at all about the shinobi's; both of them will die before the year is over."
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Gotham City; September 6th; 1:46AM
After being debriefed and explaining the mission's details to Batman and Red Tornado; Sasuke sighed and ran a hand through his hair approaching the teleporters. As he approached them, a figure leaned up against the wall juxtaposed to the Zeta-Tubes, "I believe we agreed you owe me, didn't we?"
Sasuke stopped in his tracks recognizing the voice as Artemis', "And what exactly would you like in return?"
Artemis smiled coyly, "A drink or two; we'll see where it leads…"
Sasuke smirked slightly, "It's a date," he continued walking as the teleporters recognized him.
"That's not what I meant! It's totally not a date!"
Artemis sighed to herself as Sasuke departed from the room, "it's totally a date…" she dragged her hand across her face having not been on a date since freshmen year of high school, she was nervous to say the least.
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That's a wrap.
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