August 3, 21:24 EDT

Form a high vantage point on top of one of the city's skyline railways a young woman perched herself on the track looking over the cursed urban jungle.

Wearing a dark forest green combat suit that left her arms, midriff, and lower face bare the girl calmly inhaled the warm summer air as she continued to patrol the city from her perch, with a quill filled with arrows on her back and bow firmly clutched in her hand, as her mind couldn't help but replay the conversation her parents had the other night that she managed to ease drop on.

"Baby, you're kiddin' yourself if you think you can save Artemis from this life…..she's one of us."

Those were the words Artemis' father had said stating like it was a fact that the girl would end up a criminal like he is, and her mother was.

But all those words had managed to do was get Artemis out here in the city, using all the skills and training that "Crusher"had poured into her to stop the criminal element instead of becoming a part of it.

"Whatever happens now it's because of my own choices.." the young archer said to herself. "I'm the one who gets to choose what bus I…."

SWOSH!

A bright ball of light had stopped her from her internal narration when Artemis saw a giant ball of light wiz right past her and bounce around a few buildings right as the glowing sphere crashed into an alleyway.

Pumped full of curiosity and adrenaline the archer steadied out her bow and fired a grappling arrow into the air as she reeled in the cable attached to the projectile so she could swing and gently land across the sky and into the nearby crash sight.

Just as Artemis landed she saw that the glowing ball had started to turn to glowing ash, as the particles started to break and flicker out of existence. With a sharp arrow pulled out and ready for use Artemis slowly started to approach the dying sphere only to see that a person had been inside it, a boy person.

A kid maybe around her age was lying on the ground his face covered in scratches and one deep cut that bleed under his right eye. With spiky blond hair that seemed like it was cut by a barber with shaky hands the boy was wearing a mostly resent dirty black suit with an orange button up shirt that wasn't tucked into his pants. He also had on a dark blue tie that hung under his collar as if he had never the attention to tie it.

Artemis had put her arrow back into her quiver as she set her bow down onto the ground and knelled next to the boy, gently lifting the fellow blonde's head and softly tried to get him to come to.

"Yeah are you all right?" she asked debating on if she should flag down some help or try and carry the boy to the nearest clinic or hospital herself.

"Yeah I think I'm ok.." the boy slowly said as he rubbed his head and began to open his eyes. But the second his vibrant blue eyes meet Artemis' stone cold greys his cheeks turn a light shade of pink as he threw his head back down and over to the side.

"OhhhhhI….I'm not sure actually…" the boy slowly coughed out as he opened one eye. "I might get better if you give me some mouth to mouth…" just as he said that he quickly forced his eyes shut and stuck his tongue out to the side as if he had just crocked.

Artemis' worry turned flat as she quickly removed her hands and let the strange boy's noggin fall back down. "Nice try there, Casanova."

The boy didn't seem discouraged as he pressed his hands to the ground for better leverage and sprang back to his feet. "It was worth a shot." The spiky blond mumbled as he dusted off his suit jacket the best he could.

Getting back up as well the archer didn't drop her caution as she walked around the boy gauging if the fall had caused the kid any more damage than the scratches on his face. "So what was that, the glowing ball thing are you a metahuman?"

The boy bent over and straightened out his pants as he answered back. "No that was just a barrier spell and it should have kept me rooted from where I was before but I didn't have a chance to ground myself before that monster punched me like a semi-truck."

"Monster? What monster?" Artemis asked as she pulled out another arrow and looked up scanning the roof tops.

The boy immediately shot his head towards the end of the alleyway that led towards the street and began to unbutton his shirt from the bottom as he pulled back the garment exposing his surprisingly well toned tummy. "Damn it he's already here!"

The boy started to run towards the street as Artemis ran along beside him. "Wait stop for a second you're not making any sense and what are you doing with your shirt?"

The boy swiped some of the blood rolling of his cheek and smeared it across his stomach causing a giant spiral like tattoo starting from his belly button to appear on his flesh. "I'm opening a portal!" he explained just as a giant dark object feel from sky and crashed onto the street rocking the earth like a quake, and setting off a few car alarms as well.

"Eat this you stupid jerk!" the spiky blond shouted as a giant brown arm with light blue sigils running along itself, emerged from the boy's gut and formed a fist as it struck the unknown monster before Artemis could see it emerge from the dust created from the rubble.

But it wasn't enough as the boy's attack back fried and he ended up skidding backwards from the inefficient punch as the giant arm receded back into his stomach like a scared turtle.

Collapsing a knee to the ground as if he had just been the one who had been hit, the boy let out a small gasp and used his hand to signal Artemis to come over towards him.

Artemis ran over towards him and readied her own weapon but all the excitement didn't stop her from asking questions. "Alright I want to know who you are, how you just did what you just did, and what it is we're fighting!"

Swiping some more blood that still gushing slowly off his cheek the boy answered. "Well I'm Naruto, and what I just did was open a portal from another dimension were I can summon the body parts of whole bunch of different creatures to help me out in a fight or whatever, and lastly if you're a native born Gothamite then the second Evil Dead over there says something you'll know who he is!"

Naruto strange name but whatever Artemis was about to say was caught in her throat as she heard the mysterious creature from the cover of night bellow out.

"Born, on a Monday!"