Disclaimer:We don't really have anything to say... We've got most of it out so yeah... Well it seems a lot of people have gotten that The Story is taking certain turns rather they like it or not, so... yeah I'm in a better mood than I was when I wrote the least two chapters.

Chapter 15:Deal

Batman growled as he stood shoulder to shoulder with Superman before slamming his fist into a wooden table. Superman turned, away from a glass window which held the team of Young Justice within the room. Superboy laying on a metal table, thrashing wildly with a dangerous spear tip protruding from his chest. Robin and Kid Flash laid side by side, unconscious with bloody gauze wraps around their chests. Next to them sat Aqualad, also with a wrapped chest, his head shaking in disbelief. Miss Martian sat beside of Superboy in a wooden chair, her head bowed, asleep. Across of the room, Artemis sat, rolling her shoulders wearily.

The man of steel looked at the Dark Knight, whom continued to snarl in rage."You need to calm down." Superman spoke to his friends who swirled around, his eyes glaring dangers as the only revealed parts of his face showed the rage that the man was going through.

"Calm down? Calm down? Look back in that room Clark! My apprentice, Barry's apprentice, Aquaman's apprentice, even your clone are all laying in their with wounds that could have been severe! And it's all because of me."

"You?" Superman questioned with narrowed eyes."Bruce, you're putting too much guilt onto your own shoulders. It's as much my fault as it is yours so-" Batman cut the Man Of Steel off, a snarl escaping him as his fist slammed into the glass window beside them, creating a spider webbed like crack all throughout it.

"Are you sure Clark? It's because of my information on Cadmus that they went there and found that... monster! My fault that I didn't stop him before he escaped that night. My fault I didn't stop him from killing Gotham's Mayor. My fault I gave him that mission to Santa Prisca- My fault we tried to convey him and lost Speedy, it all leads back to me Clark. And because of that, I'm hunting him down and bringing him in."

"Bruce, it's not very often that you meet people who can match you move to move but he was, in a way, taught by you and various other great martial artists. Robin even told you that there were more than they could find out! Bruce, these are one of those times you find your match." Batman glared at the Man Of Steel before he shook his head, turning his back to the man and walking away, his cape flapping in the wind.

"Maybe So Clark, but he's killed too many people, and we've all let it slip by for far too long. So it's time this Taskmaster, Shadow Knight, whatever he calls himself now gets brought in." With that, Batman disappeared in a flash of the Justice League's teleporter, leaving Superman behind to shake his head with a sigh if despair before he turned back to look through the spider web cracked glass, at his clone.

"Now we have two major problems, Your Life and Batman's Rage... and I don't know how to save either..." Looking to his left, Superman's eyes zoned in on Zantanna before he walked over towards the magic using woman."Zantanna."

"What is it Superman?"

"I need you to research that spear and try to find Shadow Knight before Batman, and find out how to remove that thing without killing Superboy." The man of steel spoke as Zantanna nodded, a serious look upon her face.

"Right."

~Naruto & Tony Stark~

"A deal huh?" Tony questioned Naruto as he turned around to fully stare at his costume stated form."I'm inclined to ask what type of deal." the man answered as Naruto smirked, his painted lips bringing up into twisted smile as he shrugged his shoulders, taking a seat next to the man behind the ironman suit.

"Have you ever heard of a spirit, well, more the energy of it living inside a person's body?" Naruto questioned as Tony raised an eyebrow, pulling his head back to fully observe Naruto in his Shadow Knight suit with an interested spark in his eyes.

"I suppose it's possible, what with Thor, mutants, technology so, sure, I'll buy it for now, keep going." Tony answered with a dismissing wave of his right hand, Shadow Knight smirking as he leaned backwards.

"Say you're able to... extract that energy being and place it within a robot suit, similar to yours." Naruto finished, Tony's eyes narrowing at the explanation of what Shadow Knight had come to him for. Shaking his head, Tony stood to his feet before answering Naruto.

"I don't know about that. Just from looking at you I know you've murdered people. Granted more than likely most weren't all that innocent, but still, I'm not that inclined to help someone like you." Tony answered as he walked to a small bar within the room they sat in, fixing himself a drink as Shadow Knight also shook his head, standing up.

"But this isn't about me. This is about the being in me. It's dying, and you're the only one with the technology to save it. I mean, think about it, I could have gone to someone lie Lex Luther who would have done this in a split second at the sound of money, but didn't because he can't save the being. You can Tony." Shadow Knight spoke as Tony took a drink, Naruto himself sighing as he lit a Cigarette."What do you say Tony? Can you help me or are you going to take the risk of letting the being in me die?"

Tony looked towards Shadow Knight as said Insane Icon took a long drag of his cigarette before he nodded with a sigh of despair."Alright, I'll help. But I'll need a design, something to go off of. Make me one and come back, I'll help you the best I can. After that though, we're done dealing unless it comes to saving someone's life." Shadow Knight nodded as he put his Cigarette out with a stream of smoke from his mouth before he left the room, Tony Stark falling back into his chair.

~Kyuubi~

Kyuubi's eyes slowly opened as he came to stare at Shadow Knight."What do you want Naruto?" the aged looking beast questioned as Naruto smirked, cracking his neck before rolling his shoulders with a sigh.

"I know how to save you."

"I told you not to-"

"No, There's a man named Tony Stark, one of the greatest minds within the world. I can have him build you a robotic body, which you can inhabit. I just need you to tell me what you want the body to be like so I can draw up the blue prints. Recently I've come into some items that Batman and his sidekicks use, I'll be having that transferred into the body as well as what you want."

"Really... Then this should be fun... Let's begin shall we?"

~Batman~

Batman growled as he stood atop a building of Metatropolis, a scowl adorning his facial features as he stared out across of the city, no Shadow Knight in sight. It was like the young man could appear, disappear, and then re-appear whenever the hell he wanted to! Cracking his knuckled, Batman prepared to jump from the building before a voice stopped him.

"Batman?" It questioned, Batman's body losing its tense state with a sigh before he turned around slowly before staring straight ahead at the figure that had made itself known with a snarl.

"Robin, you should be back at the base, resting." Batman told his sidekick who looked to the side, his face pale from the blood that he had lost during his short battle with Shadow Knight before a serious look came upon his face.

"I heard you were looking for Shadow Knight, because of what he did... You can't do it alone. Not without the League." Robin spoke, Batman's eyes narrowing as he stared down his protege, a low growl escaping him as he stepped forwards.

"You doubt me, Robin?" Batman questioned as Robin shook his head, a disappointed sigh leaving him as he looked directly into his mentors eyes, a frown placed heavily onto his face.

"Doubt you? No, but we don't know who all Cadmus taught him how to fight like, but with the ones he already knows, plus you? What if he goes out and learns more from even more dangerous people? What if he copies even one more mercenary, he'll have the advantage over you. You tell me this a lot, but you're not thinking." Robin growled as Batman stepped forwards once again.

"You have no option in this. Go back to base and sleep. I'm going to find Shadow Knight and I'm going to bring him in." With that, Batman walked to the edge of the building before firing his grapling hook, swinging from it as Robin gripped the sides of his head, letting out a frustrated cry.

~Naruto~

Naruto sighed as he faced Tony Stark once more."So you have the blue prints drawn up?" Tony questioned as he was handed multiple sheets of paper, a frown finding its way to his face as he studied them with a watchful eyes still placed on Shadow Knight.

Nodding, Tony looked up towards Shadow Knight, watching as he placed multiple items out onto a wooden table before he spoke."Can you do it?"

"I can..." Tony spoke,"I'll... do what I can... I have to have a reason for the weapons implanted into the machine though." Shadow Knight sighed as he lit a cigarette, already having foreseen this question making itself known.

"He'll basically be a robot. So basically He'll be followed by groups by S. H. I. E. L. D, The Military, Mafia's, he'll have to have some form of protection besides just basic martial arts and his metal. So can you do it or not?" Shadow Knight questioned as he took a long drag off of his Cigarette, Tony sighing as he looked back down upon the blue prints.

"Yeah, I can do it. You'll have to give me a few days to construct the body and combine it with the weapons, but I'll have it ready. I will have to be funded until I'm finished with this, it can't be traced all of the way back to me, it just can't."

"I can do that." Naruto answered as he placed multiple stacks of money down onto the table with a sigh before he cracked his neck, rolling his shoulders before spinning around, a frown upon his face."And Tony, try to keep it under wraps, more so than what you did with your Iron Man Suits. There are people out there who would rather me just be locked in the hole and the suit you'll be working on... Destroyed." Tony raised an eyebrow before shrugging his shoulders.

~Zantanna & Artemis~

The two young women sat within the empty cafeteria of the Justice League, both frowning."This is getting out of hand." Zantanna spoke as Artemis nodded with a desperate sigh before leaning back in her chair.

"I know, but what do you want me to do? Obviously Naruto's going through a new state."

"A new state? Naruto has fed me information on everything he's done to the League so I don't become suspicious, but I know nothing about that spear, how to get it out, or how to find Naruto and figure it out... What did the museum say on the spear?"

"Nothing, they were pretty vague about it... Look, I'll keep looking for Naruto, at the very least to figure out how to remove that spear. Until then, I don't know what to do." Zantanna looked down at the wooden table, a frown on her face before she answered.

"We put faith in our leader. Come on, we have to go."

"Then let us depart, but remember, Zantanna, We are Mercenaries, More Stealthful Than The Night-" Artemis began, Zantanna ending the sentence for her.

"More Deadly Than The Dawn." Artemis nodded before she spun around, she and Zantanna leaving the cafeteria...

~Batman~

Batman growled as he slammed his fist into the Bat-Computer. He had scanned through Metatropolis, Downtown Metatropolis, and Gotham itself, but he found nothing."Hard day at work sir?" Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred, questioned as Batman shook his head, pulling his cowl back to reveal Bruce Wayne and his rage filled eyes.

"No, I can't find Shadow Knight."

"Who?" Alfred questioned as the Dark Knight shook his head, eyes still filled with rage.

"Taskmaster, he had a name change... He injured Young Justice- Severely. It's time for me to bring him in."

"Should you really be doing it alone sir?"

"It's my problem Alfred, so I'll fix it myself." With that, Bruce replaced his Batman cowl, walking away from his Butler and leaving the Batcave...

~Red Hood, Red Arrow & Bullseye~

The team of three sighed as they lounged in Naruto's bar."What do you think is going through Naruto's head?" Roy questioned as he downed a large gulp of his beer, Bullseye sighing before he answered.

"It's impossible to know... Maybe Pain, Revenge, him being Paranoid, there's just too many possibilities that come to mind."

"Yeah, but for him to kill without being hired, what do we do?" Roy questioned, Jason looking towards both men out of the sides of his eyes with a growl.

"We trust the man that brought us all together." The two men with him looked towards the black haired boy before nodding, all three taking large gulps of their beers.

"Kids Right." Bullseye spoke as Roy spoke...

~Batgirl and X23~

Barbara and Laura sighed as they came to sit across from each other at a wooden table."I couldn't find anything." Barbara spoke with a sigh and shake of her head."He wasn't in the downtown area... what about you Laura?" The red head questioned to which Laura shrugged.

"Nothing, not in uptown." Laura answered as Barbara sighed, leaning forwards, placing her head in her hands as Laura leaned backwards into her chair."Where else can we look?" Laura questioned as Barbara shook her head, still in her hands.

"We can't. Naruto doesn't want to be found. And it's apparent now that if he doesn't want to be found, he's not going to be found." Barbara spoke with a sigh of despair, Laura shaking her head.

"Then what do we do?"

"... Trust In Naruto..." Was the only answer the red head gave before she stood, exiting the place their conversation had been held in, followed shortly after by Laura...

~Naruto, A Few Days Later~

Naruto grunted as he sat on a bed, resembling what you would lay on in a Doctor's office, wires and needles coming from him and attaching to a robot like item. The robot was red and black, in the shape of what Ironman would be. The eyes and mouth of the robot were seemingly more so like that of Red Tornado than Ironman. The top of the head seemed that it could open at the crown. Placed onto the chest of the robot was a glowing white, triangular object. The fingers, as well as the toenails, of the robot seemed to come down into sharp claws. Going over the rest of the body, their seemed to be latched that could open at the operators command and could hold devastating weapons.

"Are you ready?" Tony questioned Shadow Knight, whom nodded.

"About as ready as I'll ever be with this... Let's get it over with." Shadow Knight answered back to the man.

"Right..."

True Mortal:I'm done, I need to take a break. Peace be with you and God Bless You.