Amanda Waller walked into a large circular room held within her largely underground facility, commanding the eyes of everyone as she walked into the room, flanked by two massive guards pulling along what looked to be a small child.
In comparison to the size of the guards, or even Waller herself (who was a large woman at 5'9" and around 280 pounds), the child was a mouse amongst elephants, standing at a meager 4'2", and appearing to weigh no more than a mere 50 or 60 pounds. He had sunny blonde hair that spiked in all directions, that bobbed along with him as he walked with his head down, blocking his features from view.
"Convicts, you have been assembled to handle an assassination mission. Your target," a holographic screen appeared displaying a thin man with thick glasses,"Is Edward Nigma, aka the Riddler, currently held in Arkham. He must be eliminated at all cost. Your secondary objective is to-"
"Bah,"A large man bald man, Russain if his accent was to be believed, stood up, throwing his hands in the air,"I don't care about your mission, I am leaving."
He attempted to storm past Waller, only to fall to his knees, a smoking stump in place of his head and neck, caused by a small explosion.
"Now, if there are no further interuptions,"Waller looked around, offering a challenge which none of the assembled criminals hoped to meet,"your secondary objective is to retrieve Nigma's staff," the aforementioned screen showed a picture of a strange green scepter modeled after a question mark.
A hand rose in the front, an African American man standing around 5'10", wearing a basic black ops suit comprised of mesh and kevlar plating, with a rather non descript goatee covering his face, spoke up,"Why are we taking Harley Quinn with us into Arkham? Isn't she a flight risk?"
From her place sitting criss cross applesauce on the floor, a relatively short girl, only 5'7", with blonde hair that was kept in 2 pig tails, made a noise of indignation which was ignored by Waller as she egan her explanation,"As a former employee turned resident of Arkham, Quinn offers encyclopedic knowledge of the lay out and practices at Arkham will be crucial to the mission. DeadShot, will be in charge."
"Ay, why does this bloke get to be in charge?"Captain Boomerang, aka George Harkness, who was an admirable 5'11", weighed 200 pounds, and had short brown hair that contrasted against his tan skin and his black eyes, pointed at the smirking 6'2" and 230 Floyd Lawton, a man with short black hair and a dark goatee.
"Because unlike the rest of you, Floyd has not only been here before, but has already proven his effectiveness."
A small hand rose from towards the back of the group, belonging to a woman with light blue hair and icy blue eyes, and a complexion so pale it was in question whether she was alive at all,"What's with the kid?"
"This," Waller took a step back and to the side, allowing for the child behind her to be seen clearly. He raised his head lightly, allowing them to see that he wore a similar mask to the one worn by King Shark, the 7 foot tall, 365 pound mass of blue/grey skinned muscle, except instead of being designed to hold a set of razor sharp teeth, this one was designed to keep his mouth and nose covered," is Naruto, aka the Demon of Japan. He is your insurance policy."
Naruto's head snapped up, his eyes being a startling crimson with a slit for a pupil, sitting in a sea of black. He didn't look to meet anyone's eyes specifically, instead taking them all in as a predator would look at his prey,"Boo."
Wallers sighed, signalling the guards to begin dragging the boy back down the walk way."Naruto is fitted with an inhibitor collar devised by some of our Mystics, designed to limit his power greatly. He is still quite capable with his collar on, but should the situation become dire, he can be released. HOWEVER, should he be released, he will likely begin to tear through you and everyone else indiscriminately. So it is in your best interest to keep that collar firmly around his neck."
Black Spider snorted,"How much damage can one kid do?"
"While his full background is unknown, Naruto has over 400 confirmed kills in the 2 years leading up to his capture alone, and those are just what we can find based off the bones he kept with him in his… cave."
There was a collective blink of surprise amongst the convicts as Waller stepped back into the hallway,"Just keep the collar on him. Gas them."
Then everything went dark.
About 2 days later
The recently dubbed suicide squad sat in their chairs within a jet that was set to take them to Gotham, where they would be breaking into Arkham Asylum.
Not that could really tell it was a jet, as they were all strapped into chairs, ankles and wrists bound to the chairs as well.
Dead Shot sighed,"I'm getting really tired of that trick."
"You and me both cowboy,"he looked over his shoulder to see Harley Quinn smiling seductively,"You know, when we get to Gotham, why don't you let me show you around? I know some really tight places,"she shook her body in a suggestive manner as she purred seductively.
Dead Shot deadpanned,"Not interested."
"Ay love, if you're throwin that around don't forget to toss a chunk my way, ay?" Boomerang leaned over, smirking in what he thought was a smooth manner.
Harley cringed back in disgust,"No way, go shake your boomerwang at sharky over there."
On the other side of the 6 seater island they were sitting on, the spoken of grey behemoth snorted,"Do that and I'll bite it off."
Killer Frost, sitting next to him, gave him a light giggle, to which he smiled.
Black Spider and Captain Boomerang began to bicker, which resulted in Boomerang being held at knife point by the more tactically advanced Spider, before the sound of an alarm going off (as well as a seatbelt of some nature grabbing onto everyone's chests, grabbed everyone's attention. Suddenly, a metal casing ensnared everyone's chairs before they were dropped from the sky, each person in their own little death trap plummeting to the ground.
As they came screaming down (laughing in Harley's case), Waller's voice came over the speaker,"Remember convicts, your lives, my hands."
The metal death traps opened, dropping the convicts from the sky. Now instead of being liquified and crushed on impact, they would just become a fine paste.
The rigs that had become attached to their chests revealed themselves to be parachutes as they opened. Killer Frost's, apparently malfunctioning, snapped, sending her careening into King Shark, who then went flying into a parked car.
Upon landing, Dead Shot ran over and removed the parachute covering the now destroyed vehicle,expecting to find a crushed Frost under an unconscious Shark. Instead, he found a lightly dazed Shark holding a safe Killer frost to his chest, apparently having taken the impact.
The ice user smiled, patting the behemoths cheek,"Good Shark."
Dead Shot, seeing they were safe, looked around doing a headcount. Everyone was acounted for, except for…
The sound of another jet going over head was heard. Looking up, the 6 members of the Suicide Squad watched as a box similar to the ones they arrived in dropped from the sky. It opened, allowing the small form of a child to be seen falling from the sky. A parachute opened, and a small figure landed daintily by Floyd.
Naruto shook off the parachute, shaking his head and stretching as the rest of the members of the team eyed him wearily… except for Harley, who seemed to be entirely spaced out.
Naruto turned to face the group, allowing them to take in his attire more fully than when he was in cadmus. Black sweat pants, black hoodie, no shoes. A clawed hand raised up to tear off the face mask he had been wearing the entirety of the time they had seen him, revealing the smirking face of a small child with 3 whisker marks on each cheek,"Hey there, you guys look like you like a good party. Say, you wanna take this collar off me? It's really cramping my style."
Before anyone else could respond, Floyd spoke up,"Maybe after we get the job done, but first we need a way to get to some supplies without being spotted by the Batman."
Eric (Black Spider) coughed, pointing down at the manhole cover beneath their feet.
Boomerang sighed,"You have got to be kidding me."
Not an update, just cleaning the story up a bit.