A/N: Wassup guys. I am back from my vacation, i took a nice week off for myself. It was really nice, just 5 of my best friends and I hanging out, camping, fishing, drinking. Just a good ol' time. I am returning to this story to finish this chapter and get this out for y'all. I hope y'all like this one.
Joseph Bruce was surrounded by darkness, as far as the eye could or in this case, could not see.
A pitch black endless void, the perfect dream.
"Naruto Uzumaki, you can change worlds, you can dimensions, you can change your name. But you can't outrun destiny." whispered a bodiless voice, the voice barely above a whisper, but was heard easily.
"Naruto Uzuamki? What is that Japanese?" asked Joseph Bruce.
"You jest, but allow me to offer you a hint at what is to come" hissed the voice before Joseph Bruce was flung through the void.
The wind felt like glass on Joseph Bruce's face before he slammed into what felt like a wall.
Before him was scene that he was sure he had never seen. He was watching some kind of meeting, one with super heroes from the look of it.
"We need to make a move Bruce" said a man that Joseph Bruce recognized as Superman.
"i agree Clark, but this isn't something that we can rush. We need to be properly prepared." warned Batman
Superman slammed his fist onto the table, causing it to cave in immediately.
"You want us to wait when he marches on our planet as we speak? You would have him bring his army to Earth and allow this to be our battleground? No, we take the fight to him" snarled Superman, looking like the gentle man Joseph Bruce had seen on the news from time to time.
"I agree" said a voice that Joseph Bruce recongized as his own.
The JB in the meeting was different than the JB that Joseph Bruce knew himself to be. Currently, he was 5 foot 9 inches, 182 pounds. Thin but strong. This version of him in the meeting was like another person. Standing at 6 foot 3 inches tall, his hair was trimmed slightly that the bangs on his forehead barely reached the mid-point. Oh and this Joseph Bruce was jacked, he looked like he could challenge Superman's physical form.
The rest of the meeting pasted in a blur and Joseph Bruce was pulled backwards before he was looking at a world that seemed to be what people swore Hell would be like. Flames burst from cracks and holes in the ground, demon like figures swarmed all around.
Joseph Bruce looked around noticing that there seemed to have been quite the massacre, the large amount of limbs and puddles of blood led him to make that conclusion.
As he scanned the scene, he found his older form standing surrounded by the corpses of these monsters.
"Bats, you there?" asked the older JB into his ear communicator
He would never hear Batman's answer as through the smoky air bounced a head, one that donned the scowl of Batman.
The older JB took a deep breath with his eyes closed before his eyes opening revealing them to be golden.
A figure walked toward JB older form.
He was tall, his skin an unusual gray color and heavily scarred. He wore purple armor around his torso and legs. His helmet framed his face, his eyes glowing red with power.
"Young Naruto, you can not succeed where the Kryptonian failed. Bow before me and i will make your death as quick as possible" said the imposing figure.
Naruto as JB assumed he would be getting called in the future shook before he threw his head back and laughed.
"You want me to bow before you. Darkseid, you can suck my dick" crackled Naruto as his body glowed the same gold color as his eyes before there was an explosion of energy and Joseph Bruce could only stare in awe at the massive golden fox, the numerous tails swaying behind it.
There was a blind light and JB covered his eyes. When he opened them, they were no longer on that planet or whatever that place was. Instead he was on what looked like a destroyed Earth.
A blue tinted portal opened and out walked the same figure as before walked out, dropping and kicking a pair of heads towards something behind JB.
Turning, JB saw Robin, a different one than he had most recently seen, but still Robin, looking down at the heads.
"You killed my father and brother, i will not rest until they are avenged" spat Robin
Jb looked the heads and saw it was his own along with Batman's.
standing next to the different Robin was a girl, she wore a dark blue robe. Her hood cast a shadow over the top half of her face but JB could still see the creamy pale skin on her lower face.
He had never seen her before, but then something happened.
She looked at him and said "You shouldn't be things happen when people meddle with time. Naruto or i guess JB, you need to leave. If you want to make a difference, head to the Raven's Gem in Baltimore"
With a wave of her hand and the last words of "Azarath Metrion Zinthos" the scene faded and JB felt his body tossed again
Joseph Bruce gasped as he woke up from his nightmare? His vision? it was hard to say.
His hands climbed up to his face. Joseph Bruce was surprised to feel his face not be a puddled mess.
Sitting up, he looked down at his hands, he was easily happy not to see blood stained hands.
Pulling the blanet up, he was not greated to the sight of a leg that looked like a sloppy stack of legos, but 2 perfectly healthy and normal legs.
Swinging his legs over the edge of the bed, JB was prepared for everything that seemed good to crumble away.
His feet touched the ground and he stood up. This was better than he ever thought it would be, pain free, his right leg was fine.
The door opened and a nurse walked in.
"Mr. Dolson, you should be in bed"
"How did you know I was up?" asked JB as he allowed himself to be pushed back into bed.
"You pulled the finger monitor off of your hand, it sets off an alarm at the nurse's office." replied the nurse as she looked over his vitals.
"When can I leave?" asked JB
"When your mother comes and signs the release forms"
JB's eye widen
"My mom?"
"Yeah your mom was here when you were brought in, she hasn't left since. Now that you are awake, you will be free to go." answered the nurse.
JB said nothing as she finished running her tests before letting him know that he was perfectly healthy.
She left snd Jb took a deep breath as he put his head in his hand.
The door opened and in walked the elder Maria Ortiz.
Her face was calm, but her lack of a smile was like a slap in the face to JB.
She tossed a bag near his feet.
"Get dress" Her flat tone was another gut check
She turned and left the room leaving JB to get dressed.
She had brought his school uniform, which meant that she was taking him to school.
Dressing in a hurry, JB walked out the door finding his foster mom on the phone.
"I will take care of it when i feel it is time to" said Maria before she ended the call and motioned for JB to follow her
Which is exactly what JB not to piss his mother off more.
They exited the hospitsl and Maria looked at him.
"I want you to stop, whatever you are doing Joseph Bruce Dolson" she whispered
JB winced at the use of his full name, but he stood his ground.
"You know that I can't. You can't get this far up a crime organization and just leave" replied JB
Maria stopped working and hissed "So what's your plan? Continue this lifestyle until I end up burying you?"
"No, i work until i earn my exit. I have maybe 18 or 19 targets left over. I could clear that out in a matter of months, while also having enough money to make sure that we never have to struggle again" answered JB
"That is a really stupid plan" countered Maria
JB rolled his eyes but his ears twitched and he spun around, pulling Maria with him. He slid in front Maria, his eyes scanning the area with a seriousness not normally seen by his mom.
A bullet pierced the ground right where he had been standing, causing Maria to let out a scared scream.
"Go inside" commanded JB.
Maria didn't say anything as she quickly ran back inside.
"You know, you should have made sure that shot hit. You nearly killed my mom, i'm going to rip off your head." warned JB
A man dressed in a dark black robe complete with a cloth mask covering most of his face. It seemed almost like a set of traditional monk robes with armor over it. The torso and shoulders covered in a weird metal that seemed to suck the light out of the area around the strange man. The man wore gauntlets of the same metal, but the outside sides of each gauntlet was armed with 3 short very sharp blades. The man's robe was tucked into a pair of boats. A pair of twin swords sat crossing on the man's back.
"Who the hell are you?" asked JB
"My name is not of your concern boy. you should be worried abput your life" said the nameless man, before he shifted his feet and raced forward.
JB went to respond but was forced to block an overhand right swung at his head. Bringing up his left arm, JB used his forearm to stop the blow only for the unnamed killer to slam his other elbow into the exposed ribs of JB.
Jb stumbled back and received a kick to the chest as a follow up, rolling backwards, he avoided the stomp that came after the kick.
Popping up from his roll, JB was immediately pushed back onto the defensive. His normally inhumane speed and strength seemed to be outmatched for the first time.
The assassin shifted his footing and JB tried to figure out the advantages of the new stance before the blitz came again.
Slapping away a clawed slash, the unnamed man in black slid into JB's guard and grabbed JB by the face before slamming his knee into the blond's stomach.
"OOF" grunted JB as he put his left hand on his stomach, his right arm shielding his face from the roundhouse kick that tore through his guarding arm and slammed right into his face, sending the blond skidding backwards, although he managed to remain on his feet.
With Jason:
Jason was running on a treadmill at school when the alarm from the wrist bound bat computer, currently in the shape of a watch, went off (Think Robin's wrist computer from Young Justice), it wasn't a normal crime if Batman and himself were getting the notification. Ending his exercise, he slipped off to the locker room and slipped back into his normal school clothes before running up stairs to the roof.
Approaching what seemed to be a normal water tower, he climbed up to the maintaince ledge before finding the small out of place stain on the otherwise pristine waterpower.
Pressing his hand to the large brown circle, the stain glowed blue as it scanned his palm before hissing open and a voice said "Welcome Robin"
Slipping inside the spacist room, Jason quickly started typing on the computer built into the wall.
As he finished typing, a spare set of his uniform was lowered from the ceiling and Jason stripepd as he started putting on his uniform. As he finished he exited the decoy water tower and started typing on his wrist watch as he jumped down from the tower and landed on his school roof. Sprinting at full speed, Jason finished typing and jumped off the room, his cape fluttered before he pulled it taut.
He glided for around 30 seconds before he was around 10 feet from the ground before releasing himself from his glide to land onto his red Robin themed motorcycle. He grabbed the clutch as he released the throttled and the bike's engine roared before he raced through traffice headed to where the bike's GPS said he needed to head to.
Speeding towards Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Jason couldn't help but get nervous. A powerful metahuman energy spike? The damage and situation had to be contained as soon as possible.
And where the hell was Bruce, this was almost exaclty the kind of thing that he was always prepared for.
Jason would get his answer when he heard the insane laughter of the Joker coming over all the radios.
"HELLO PEOPLE OF GOTHAM! HAHAHAHAHA AAHAHAHHH! DID YOU MISS ME, THE DARK CLOWN PIKE OF CRIME. DAMNIT, I SAID PIKE NOT PRINCE! YOU KNOW WHAT, IT DOESN'T MATTER. BATSY , HOW I'VE MISSED YOU! SO TO SHOW YOU HOW MUCH I'VE MISSED YOU! I'VE LET YOU A SERIES OF GIFTS, THE CITY OF GOTHAM IS RIDDLED WITH BOMBS, YOU EITHER CATCH ME OR BURY HALF THE CITY!"
Jason groaned and said "Son of a Bitch" as he realized that he had to do this without Batman.
Back with JB:
When JB thought that he had figured out the man attacking him style, he would switch it up.
Panting, JB was only able to watch as the man who was attacking him finally pulled his twin swords off of his back.
In a blur, the man dressed in black raced forward, swords swinging to end JB's life.
JB closed his eyes as the swords approached his head.
Unseen to both the attacker and the attacked, J'onn phased into JB's body and moved him to the side just in time for the metal blades to scrape the ground instead of JB's skull.
A tall blond man stood before 3 weird looking kids, one with purple marks on her cheek, one that wore goggles, one that wore a mask that covered most of his face.
He smiled and said to the young kids "The most important thing for a shinobi is teamwork"
J'onn hissed in pain as he was forced out of JB's body.
JB groaned as he rolled to his feet and slid into an stance that he had never taken before.
His eyes narrowed and his pupil slit.
As the swords were slashed in his direction again, he took a step and with an open palm met the blades head on.
Nobody expected them to shatter into a million fragments.
"You've messed with the wrong person" spoke JB in an old form of Japanese
The would be assassin tried to jump back but in a yellow flash, JB was behind him.
The man bumped into JB's chest and spun around in surprise.
JB deflected the side punch from the man's right hand, using his forearm to push the swing away.
Twisting his own arm, JB wrapped his arm around his attacker's right hand, trapping the man's wrist in the folds of his elbow. His hand gripping the man's bicep tightly.
A quick jerk downwards and a upwards knee and the arm bent unnaturally before it snapped, causing the assassin to hiss lightly.
Releasing the arm, JB growled lightly as he looked at the man before kicking him.
Grabbing his head, JB's eyes flashed red as he dropped to his knees and J'onn looked at the teenager clearly going through something mental as well as the assassin with the now broke arm.
Using his tele-kinect powers, J'onn gasped the attempted Assassin and blasted his mind, forcing him into a deep sleep bordering on a coma.
Turning back to the metahuman teen, J'onn tried to enter his mind and was met with a similar image to the one that had forced his ejection earlier.
The same blond man from before, although he was much younger this time around, closer to being a kid than a fully grown adult. The young teenager stood on top of a tree holding another young teenager, this one a girl with long bright red hair.
"You came for me?" whispered the girl
"Of course, i could not bare to lose you." replied the blond boy
J'onn was ripped out of the memory he was viewing and found himself in a sewer.
There was water up to his mid calf, but he simply floated up and out of the water.
J'onn turned his head, looking over his shoulder, only to see a dark wall.
Sighing as he realized tha the only way to go was forward, he continued forward catiously.
There was no forks in the roads per say. There was no side hallways.
No, it was a single long continous dark corridor that seemingly stretched on forever.
That was, until it did not. Giving way to an opening that showered an orange tinted room,
Inside the room was a giant set of gates, seeming held together by a single piece of paper where the two gates met.
There was a snarl that tore through the room, shaking it and sending shiver's down J'onn's phase capable body's shine.
A pair of massive red eyes opened on the other side of the cage and locked on to J'onn.
J'onn mind picked up the non-english language that the being spoke by making the light's of mental connections.
"So, you are the worthless insect who dared enter my host's mind and come into my domain" spoke the being in a deep voice
"I was merely trying to save him from an assassin." countered J'onn
The being chuckled and the gate rattled, but J'onn stood firm.
"You did a poor job then, because you've awaken a monster from our world. One that this world would be unable to handle"
"A monster you say? What makes it a monster?" asked J'onn
"He was strong enough to lock me into his kid's mind, I am a force of nature. capable of shattering the world at my own mere whim."
"You speak to kindly of me Fox. I'm sure Kushina will be most pleased to hear you gushing about what a monster I am' said a calm voice from the left of J'onn.
"YOU DARE MOCK ME? I AM THE KYUBI, SHOW ME THE Resp-" the massive being never got to finish as the blond man from the visions that J'onn had seen upon entering the boy's mind sent out a pulse of energy and the paper holding the gate together shined before the being was forced to be quiet.
"Sorry about that, he's a bit of a ranter" said the blond man
"Who are you? Why are there so many people in this boy's mind?" asked J'onn
"My name is Minato Namikaze, I am the boy's father. The being fox trapped behind the gate attacked our home and i did what needed to be done. I sealed him into my son. I left an imprint of myself, a bubble of my chakra if you will, behind as well. The hope was that I would one day appear to stop my son if he ever got to the point that he was going to release the Fox in a fit of anger. But when you entered his mind, you poppped the bubble and now everything is spilling into my son's mind" answered Minato
J'onn placed his hand on Minato's head and went through the memories. Seeing that this man held unbelievable skill, strength, knowledge, and ability. But with all of that came the blood that stained the ground in his name, the blood he spilt to get what he wanted. And ultimately the sacrifice that his wife and he had made.
"Minato, you're fading fast. The double lifetime of memories will give your son brain damage that not even the Fox would be able to heal, I will place mental barriers to bottleneck the merging of memories." said J'onn.
"Thank you, maybe if my son ever makes it here, i still have the chance of meeting him" said Minato with a smirk,
J'onn and Minato shoke hands and J'onn's eyes glowed before there was a white flash and JB collapsed outside as Robin arrived on the scene.
A/N: And Scene.
I feel like this chapter answers a lot of questions that people had.
1st: How Would Naruto get Shinobi powers?
The answer is from his father. Does this mean Naruto is going to be a Minato clone? Absolutely not, this Naruto is an organized crime family thug. Minato can't fix that, plus it is going to be slow.
2nd: How much of the DC Universe is in play?
The answer is all of it, the vision from the last Justice League Dark movie, the reference with Joker from the Harley Quinn animated show in this chapter alone, should tell you that I am here for this shit. I want to go to different Universe, i want to hit the Flashpoint, i want Naruto to see what his home world looks like eventually, even if i have a different plan for that than a simple return to home.
Ok, if you have any other questiosn that you want answered, feel free to drop a Review, I usually respond to all of those unless they are super negative.
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Ok, until next time
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