Hey guys, I'm back with another chapter. Also, I decided that this chapter would be more to show Speedy in action. The next chapter will be all about Naruto and his team talking with Zod.
I'm glad a large majority of you liked the previous one and continued to give me feedback. I'd like to address something really quick, many have messaged me asking if it's going to be a harem. The answer is still no. Perhaps sometime in the future I'll write another story and have that one be a harem, but this one will remain a single pairing. Anyways with that out of the way please enjoy the new chapter.
-After Ashura beats Batman and Superman-
J'onn J'onzz usually kept to himself over at the main computer of the watchtower, ready to act in the event that something popped up that required League attention. However, today was different, he currently found himself in the mess hall. Flash had told him he needed to 'socialize' more and he agreed. Though he was regretting it.
He bit into his burger at a slow pace and kept a neutral face as he listened to Flash talk about something he saw on TV in between bites. He was about to ask a question when he heard the receiver in his ear go off. Everyone in the League who wore one heard it.
" Ashura to Justice League, I'd suggest you come down and pick these two up. They need some medical attention. " They heard through their receivers. J'onn stood up quickly and put his hand up to his ear to respond.
"Ashura?! Come in" he waited a few seconds for a response but got none. Realizing that Ashura wasn't going to reply anymore he dashed to the main computer with Flash right on his tail.
"What do you think is going on?" Flash asked as they reached the room. J'onn was tracking their location.
"I don't know. But if Ashura managed to reach us using Superman's receiver then something must have happened. He also said 'these two' the only person who was with superman was Batman."
Neither of the two men realized that they weren't the only ones who left the mess hall. They had gotten the attention of a certain woman. She followed the two as they headed for the main communication center. As she trailed them her thoughts began thinking to herself, " Ashura made contact with the Justice League, but he's no longer a member. Which means he took the receiver from someone, that's what has J'onn all riled up. Wonder what happened. "
Let it be known that she didn't follow the two because of genuine concern, though she did care for a few members of the League. It also wasn't completely because of her curiosity, though that was part of it.
The main reason Huntress followed was because of who had made contact with them. Ashura, youngest member to join the League and one of the strongest. She may not have spoken much with the kid mostly because they didn't hang out with the same people. The most contact they had with each other were simple greetings in the hallways and the occasional small talk in lines in the mess hall. Then there was that one time where he was trying to talk up Flash for her but that was it.
She may not know much about him but she knew this, they believed in the same brand of justice. The only difference between them was that she was more reserved with her thoughts whereas he would openly suggest that they kill some of the criminals.
More than once did the boy speak up during meetings regarding criminals, saying how they'd keep coming back regardless of what they did. She and a small few wouldn't say anything but would subtly nod their heads in agreement. The meetings always ended the same way though, with him being shut down.
She remembers watching the news and reading articles, as well as the many meeting that resulted from him going rogue. She honestly couldn't say she was surprised he left but what did surprise her was what he did following his defection.
She arrived at the entrance to the room but didn't go in. She didn't want to have to explain why she followed. She leaned back against the door and listened in, hoping that manhunter was too preoccupied to notice her presence. She was right.
"I've got their coordinates. Batman and Superman are currently in Arkham Asylum. Neither are answering but they're alright just weakened. I can still feel their presence. Wonderwoman and I will take the Javelin and pick them up." She heard J'onn say.
"You let the others know that everything is all right" She heard him tell flash.
Deciding it was time to go she pushed off the door and walked to her room. She opened her door and sat down on her bed and looked over at one of the night stands. She took hold of the framed picture she had. It was one of her, her mother and father together at the park. Each holding an ice cream cone.
Putting the picture down she looks out the window and stares at the Earth below. " I need to get in contact with Ashura. If I want to get Mandragora he's the only one who can get me close enough. Lord knows the Justice League won't let me get him. "
-Present time-
Naruto was down in the base getting himself ready. He picked up his Sternritter medallion and looked it over really quick, he had finally used it against the man of steel and was not dissapointed. He went over to the computer and saw that Morrow wasn't there surprisingly. Sitting down he went online and did a quick google search. His clones had informed him of multiple robberies at S.T.A.R labs. Each of these robberies had one thing in common. The two people committing them.
Shade and Copperhead. Seeing this naruto narrowed his eyes, Luthor must be up to something. These two are main associates of his. He clicked on a few of the links digging for some more information on what had been stolen. So far all he'd found out were that usually only one thing would be stolen each time.
As he was doing his investigation Sinestro appeared behind him.
"Ashura what's taking so long? Are we going to see this Kryptonian or not?" He asked not liking that he was being kept waiting.
"Be patient Sinestro, we'll be leaving soon. There's something I need to look into first before we go." He replied. Finally, after some more digging around he had a lead. Philadelphia was the only location they had yet to hit, meaning that's going to be their next target.
He can't stop them himself seeing as he has to go look for Zod, but that's what the Sternritter were for.
" Hm, who to send. " He thinks to himself for a second. A smile breaks out on his face as he thinks of something. He pulls out his phone and dials Deathstroke. He only had to wait two rings before the man answered.
" Yeah?"
"Deathstroke, I have a job for Speedy. Would you mind passing the phone to him?" The man didn't respond, he heard movement and then another voice came on.
" Hello?"
"Speedy" Naruto greets.
" Yes sir?"
"Now, now, no need for any of that sir stuff. Hows your training coming along?" he asks
"Good, I feel stronger now than ever. Though I won't know for certain until I'm out on the field." Speedy replied, his tone indicating that he wanted a mission. Naruto smirked, not that speedy could tell. This was perfect.
"Well today's your lucky day. I have a job for you. There's been a series of robberies at different S.T.A.R Labs locations. i have reason to believe that the lab in Philadelphia is the next target. I need you to stop them from getting whatever it is they're after. The two responsible are Shade and Copperhead. I want you to bring Copperhead to me so I can interrogate him.
Deathstroke will be going with you but won't interfere as this is your assignment.
Relay the task to Deathstroke, I'll contact you tonight to see if you were successful, understood?" Naruto asks.
" Got it, I won't let you down " the boy says with complete confidence.
"I know you won't speedy, I have faith in you." With that he hung up the phone. He stood up and nodded his head over at Sinestro letting him know to follow him.
He walked over to the common room where most of the members like to spend time. True enough everyone was there and their attention turned to him the moment he set foot in the room.
"Glad you're all here, I have a quick announcement. Sinestro and I will be going on an assignment to meet with someone important With that being said…" He trailed off as he looked across the room before finally finding who he was looking for.
"Circe" the purple haired beauty sat up a bit straighter as she was addressed. "You'll be coming along with us."
Said woman nodded and stood up, a smile gracing her face as there was finally something for her to do. She walked over to them and stood next to Sinestro.
"While I'm gone Deadshot will be in charge. Normally Deathstroke would be the person in charge after myself however he has his own job at the moment. Morrow, if anything of importance pops up take it up with Deadshot." He ordered before looking over at said man.
"You'll decide who will take any mission whether it be a team or you yourself. Consider this training for what's to come."
The assassin said nothing but nodded, his arms still crossed as he sat back on the couch. He didn't know why Ashura wanted him in charge and not his little girlfriend but he wasn't going to question it. Speaking of little girlfriend.
"And who are you going to meet? You never told us." Killer Frost asks.
"That….is a surprise. Anyways that's all I wanted to say, feel free to do whatever it was you were doing before. Sinestro, open it." He commands. Sinestro does as he's told and points his ring in front of him before a yellow hole is open in the air. The inside of the hole is black and you could make out stars. Naruto turns over to Circe and asks. "Do you have your medallion on you?"
"Right here, I haven't used it yet but you said to carry it around all the time so I do." She replies.
"Good. Sinestro if you would…" The three of them were engulfed in a yellow bubble and lifted off the floor and into the hole. As soon as they were through, the hole closed leaving a bunch of curious Sternritter.
-With Speedy-
The young archer hung up the phone and turned back to his mentor and handed the phone to him. As he does so he speaks
"Ashura said he has a job for me, and by extension, you. We're going to Philadelphia, S.T.A.R Labs to be exact. Shade and Copperhead have been robbing them across the country. Ashura wants me to stop them and bring Copperhead to him for interrogation.
You're coming along but you're not to interfere, this is my job. I'm gonna go get ready." He relayed the message. He turned back and went to get the supplies he believed he may need.
Deathstroke watched his student head to the armory where all his weapons were when not in training and thought to himself.
" So he's testing the boy to see how far he's come along in his training. I'll admit I'm a bit curious to see how he'll do against other opponents. This will be good. " The assassin also headed to his quarters to get ready not that he was going to take much after all. He had the feeling that a simple Katana would do the trick.
A few hours later, after nightfall had arrived, the assassin and his new protege were posted a few buildings away from S.T.A.R Labs on the roof of a building. They were still close enough to see who was entering and exiting the building but far enough to not be noticed unless you were clearly looking for them.
Deathstroke turns over to speedy and hands him a small wireless receiver for him to put in his ear.
"Here, put this on. It'll allow me to communicate with you and vice versa. As instructed I'll be hidden the entire time and won't interfere. If you think you'll be captured or think you'll fail it'll allow you to get in contact with me." Deathstroke explains.
Speedy puts the device in his left ear and nods. He turns around and looks at the building trying to see if he sees anything out of the ordinary. All the lights in the building were turned off already, letting them know that the workers had long since gone home. It would only be a matter of time before the two thieves would make themselves known.
As the expression goes "speak of the devil and he shall appear" the two men in question were spotted appearing near the front of the building coming out of a ball of darkness. Speedy ducks, a natural reaction from his time training.
He watches as they walk around the building and Shade uses his staff to make them an entrance to the building.
"Alright, I'm heading out." He tells Deathstroke as he leaves the building. "Showtime" The young man whispers to himself.
Speedy lands on the ground and quickly runs where he saw the two enter from. It wasn't hard to find out where they were headed since they left a trail behind. The two criminals were headed towards the lower floors of the building. He soon found out that it wasn't multiple floors below, it was just one big floor.
He stayed hidden towards the top and watched as the two men looked around for whatever it is they were after.
"What does Luthor want these parts for anyway?" He heard Copperhead ask. Whether he was asking Shade or just talking to himself was unknown. The man was searching through some drawers as he spoke.
"I'm not sure what they'll be used for, but he said they were important pieces for his plan to take down the Justice League." Shade replied as he used his staff to destroy a metal box.
"Yeah, like that'll work out for him. I swear if he wasn't paying me so much money I'd have told him to beat it." the snake replied.
Speedy who was still hidden above them narrowed his eyes as he heard the exchange. He placed his hand up to the receiver.
"Did you hear that?" he asked quietly.
" Yeah. Continue the mission as ordered. We'll get our answers soon enough. "
Seeing as they hadn't found what they were looking for they turned their attention to the door at the end of the room. It said 'Restricted' on it, seeing as they were criminals they walked up to it and were prepared to take it down.
Seeing his chance Speedy pulled out a steel sharp tipped arrow from his quiver and pulled back. He aimed straight for Shade's right shoulder and was about to shoot, however, right as he was about to release the arrow the man was hit by a bird-a-rang. Copperhead was kicked in the face soon after by Aqualad.
" Damn it, what are they doing here? " He thinks to himself but doesn't move. He was about to jump down and make himself known but stopped, a lesson from Deathstroke popped into his mind.
" Always make your job easier, never take any unnecessary steps. " those were the words Deathstroke had said to him during one of their spars. Why jump down now when he could let his old team tire the two out.
He stayed above and watched his three former teammates take on the two criminals. As he watched the fight another lesson came to mind.
" Always analyze your opponents movements. Learn how they move and they'll be easier to counter. Unless they're martial arts masters people usually have a pattern to their attacks. "
He watches as the three use small variations of the same team attacks and realizes that the moves are based off of their own individual fighting styles as well.
As they moved he watched carefully as he tried to pick out their weaknesses. He saw Aqualad deliver the final punch to Shade and knock him out. He decided it was time. He jumped down from his vantage point and landed right in front of the team.
"Speedy?" Asked robin shocked, clearly not expecting to see his old teammate. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm doing the same thing you guys are." He answers
Kid Flash points at the two and says "You're a little late dude. We already took care of it."
Speedy shakes his head negative. "No, I'm actually right on time. I've been watching you guys fight since the very beginning, rather than get involved I decided to let you take care of them. Makes the job easier you know?"
Aqualad stepped forward trying to get some answers from the man. "If you're here for the same reason why wait to show yourself until now? If the four of us attacked we could have been done much faster. Wouldn't stopping them yourself also be better for you, to show the League what you could do?"
"Normally yes, but stopping them isn't all I'm here for. That was honestly just a secondary objective. I'll be taking Copperhead with me." He said
"No" Robin interjected. "With the commotion we made the police will be here any minute. There's no need for you to take him. We'll let the authorities handle them."
Aqualad's eyes opened wide, realization hitting him like a ton of bricks. He turned to his teammates and spoke.
"He's not taking them to the police. Remember he left us and joined Ashura, that's who he's taking him to. If we let him take Copperhead he'll die for sure." The three quickly got into their battle positions carefully watching their former friend.
Out of the corner of his eye Speedy saw Copperhead trying to leave the area without being spotted. It wasn't working to well. Thanks to training with Deathstroke and Merlyn he picked up a new ability.
He learned how to disguise his preparatory movements. One moment the three heroes see speedy just staring them down, the next he had already shot two arrows at the snake man. One in each knee.
Copperhead hit the ground screaming in pain as the tips of the arrows came out of his knees. With them being there he couldn't bend his legs, his only option was to stay laying there unless he wanted to suffer more pain.
"You're not going anywhere." Said Speedy as he readied another arrow.
"He's not going with you that's for sure." Says Robin. Speedy turns back to them with a determined look on his face. He quickly changed out his arrow for a stun type.
"I don't want to have to fight you guys." He says, he pulls the arrow back and aims right at them. "But if I have to I will."
Robin jumped forward evading the stun arrow that was fired. Aqualad followed as soon as he saw his friend jump into action. Seeing as they were too close Speedy put his bow away and got in his stance for hand to hand.
" Time for spars with Deathstroke to pay off. " he thought to himself. He saw a right hand come at him from Robin and deflected it by moving the boys hand away and turning his own body to the left. As he did so he had to quickly duck as he saw the foot of Aqualad aiming at his head.
As he bobbed and weaved through attacks while at the same time throwing his own jabs and straight rights he made sure never to lose track of Kid Flash, who had yet to move.
He saw an opening when Robin tried to kick him in the back of the head. He grabbed the boy and used his momentum against him. Using the leg he tried to kick him with he pulled him forward and jumped up delivering a hard knee to the boys chin. The attack was strong enough to lift Robin off the floor a few inches.
As soon as he was off the ground Speedy grabbed him by the shirt and turned him around and uses him as a shield to block two incoming whips created by the water Aqualad always carried on him.
"Robin!" Aqualad yelled in worry. He hadn't meant to hit his comrade with his attack. Speedy, using the moment of panic kicked Robin in the back sending him crashing into the atlantian. The two crashed into the wall on the far side of the room.
Out of the corner of his eye he saw Kid Flash tense up.
" He's going to run straight at me. " He deduced, he was right as Kid Flash bent his knees a little and struck. luckily since he had been able to read his movements Speedy dodged to the left, he made sure to move slow enough for Kid Flash not to notice that he would miss but fast enough that the speedster wouldn't be able to stop himself fast enough.
He managed to dodge the punch thrown at him and stuck his leg out. Not being able to stop himself Kid Flash tripped and his world went dark as Speedy hit him in the nape of the neck with a hard elbow.
Having seen that Robin and Aqualad were up again he quickly turned to them and shot two sharp tipped arrows. Both boys jumped out of the way. Aqualad managed to dodge the arrow, though just barely. Robin was not so lucky.
The arrow ripped through his right bicep, the scream of pain drew the atlantian's attention. That turned out to be the wrong move on Aqualad's part as the momentary distraction caused him greatly. Speedy had run towards him and hit him in the stomach with a hard knee. He then flipped the boy over his shoulder and stomping his head only hard enough to knock him out. Nothing that would be fatal, though he'd have a killer headache when he woke up.
He turned to look at Robin and saw that he was reaching towards his utility belt. He didn't know if he was going to try and contact the League or if he had a plan up his sleeve, the only thing he did know is that he wasn't going to take his chances to find out.
he quickly shot an arrow at the pouch he was reaching for and watched as it overloaded with electricity before dying out. He dashed forward and ducked under a weak punch, the arrow in his bicep clearly hurting.
After ducking the punch he countered with his own right hook before swiping Robin's legs from under him and kicking him in the ribs towards his two teammates.
"Give it up Robin, you've lost." He said as he saw the boy try to stand up once more only to fall.
Robin looks over at his teammates in worry and shocked at what happened. He couldn't believe Speedy had actually shot him and then took the three of them down in minutes like it was nothing. He had one thing in mind right before he joined his teammates in dreamland.
" How did he get so strong? " With that his world went black. Speedy went over to Copperhead and searched his person. He found what he was looking for in the mans left pocket. He was carrying a small computer chip.
He threw the man over his shoulder and reaches to his left ear once more. "Mission accomplished"
He looks over his shoulder to the downed form of his old teammates and says "I really didn't wanna have to do it guys. But you left me no choice" He walked away towards the exit and briefly thought about extending an invitation to join the Sternritter. That plan went out the window when he realized even if they agreed Robin would probably be telling Batman everything.
He met up with Deathstroke in the same place where they were earlier in the night.
"I'm impressed Speedy" He says as he takes Copperhead from the young man. "You took down all three of the young heroes at once without so much as a scratch on you." He praises.
Speedy had to refrain from puffing out his chest at the praise. "It was nothing. They were and obstacle. Ashura trusted me with this and I delivered." He replied.
Deathstroke smirked under his mask. Pride filling him as he saw how well his student had done.
"That you did Speedy. Come, Ashura will be expecting a report soon."
Hopefully you guys enjoyed the chapter. I wanted to show how Speedy had changed under the tutelage of Deathstroke and how he would react when facing his old team. As I said at the beginning next chapter will be about Naruto, Sinestro, and Circe appearing on New Krypton and talking with Zod. Once again if you have any questions or suggestions leave them in a review or PM me. Later.