(Gotham City-Arkham Asylum)
He walked silently through the halls of this prison. A place designed to hold Gotham's most evil and devious of criminals. All sent here because the system wouldn't allow for them to die for their crimes in killing hundreds of people in the city almost every other day of the week. The criminal justice system called for them to be rehabilitated. Give them another chance it said. Give them a means to reintegrate with society it said. Lethal response to their crimes is wrong unless under the most extreme of circumstance the law said.
Naruto disagreed. When you take lives, innocent lives, your life was forfeit in his mind. Look at the Joker. Scarecrow. Deadshot. Deathstroke. Practically all the monsters in the world wearing human skin lived because society refused to eliminate them. And all due to the fear that such a thing would make them more evil. Bah! Idiots the lot of them in Naruto's mind. How many lives would be spared pain, suffering, and death if the Joker were killed rather then being allowed to live? How many people NOT be assassinated if Deadshot and Deathstroke were dead in the next 10 seconds? How many lives did the Scarecrow torture and ruin with his fear inducing hallucinations?
Too many to count. Someone had to be held accountable and who better then those who inflicted such pain on the innocent masses?
And it wasn't just the convicts in this place who were evil. Some of the guards here were just as bad. Corrupt. Evil. Bribed by those they were meant to keep locked away to give them whatever they wanted. Sometimes they even looked the other way when the more vile convicts wanted out of the asylum and gave them the means out. Access to security codes. Guard rotations. The guard even secretly accessed prisoner files to alter reports for the parole hearings so they could be let out when the meetings were held to discuss it.
And it wasn't just the inmates who bribed them either. The files Tala provided showed Naruto that Cadmus had also invested in this place. Recruiting some of the worst this place had to offer for making "Suicide Squads" to clean up the messes they made, but didn't want to see the light of day for the public masses, much less the Justice League to know. The guards provided Intel to Cadmus when asked. Providing a list of who was in the prison and for how long to give the organization time to recruit the inmates they wanted if needed. In exchange, theses psychopaths got a nice "head start" in escaping the authorities once the mission was over, borrowing deep underground, and plotting future violent acts on the populace.
And all the while, the guards at this asylum got a big, fat, secret tax free bonus check that was untraceable if anyone tried to find out who sent it.
Which was why the guards were among the first to die tonight under his sword. One he had in hand, dripping with blood, and staining the ground where he walked. The reason no alarms were raised was due to the shift of said corrupt guards monitoring the insane in this place were dead. Slaughtered was the more appropriate term. No matter how veteran a police officer or detective walked through these halls in the near future, none of them would have the iron stomach needed to see the carnage Naruto left before him. Only the innocent guards were spared his wrath in this place. They were knocked out or hit with a sleep induced Genjutsu, which caused them to fall over flat on their faces almost at the exact same time.
Normally, such an act of the guards being disabled, or killed would have sent all of the prisoners into a frenzy. This would normally be a chance for them to escape from prison and cause chaos among the masses of Gotham. However, Naruto's presence was not one of joyfulness, playfulness, or even of a perverted nature his of sweet Tala was beginning to love about him. No. This was an entity of death. Of a dark shadow that creep in the night and claims the souls who catch his ire. All the convicts here could sense it in the air and many of them huddled in their cells shaking in fear at the feeling of malice walking the halls of Arkham Asylum. Even the lowest of lowest of scum among these halls felt his presence and shivered in fear of him.
Naruto's first stop among Arkham's worst criminals? The Joker.
Normally, the insane man dressed in clown makeup would be grinning over his next big plan to break out, and to kill Batman in some violent plan for all to see. And to call it a joke no less. There was nothing funny about innocent people dying! Naruto didn't think so and Batman didn't think so. Neither did the people of Gotham or the world at large think so too.
The only difference between Naruto and them was the former was here to do something about it. Not just because it was the right thing to do, but because the Joker was somehow mentally influencing one of his future prospects in need of being freed from such insanity here. Fortunately, said individual was not here, and she was with another prospect Naruto was interested in claiming.
But that could wait until later. Now was the time to focus on this filth sitting in a cell before him.
"So this is the infamous Joker. People speak your name like it is something that is to be feared. To hear it, is to cower and hide from as if you would manifest yourself at the mere word being spoken. Like an apparition or demon. What I see is a pasty faced man wasting his life away to get his jokes and kicks off of hurting others. Pathetic," said Naruto in a demonic voice behind his kitsune ANBU mask and was currently wearing his old ANBU uniform from a long time ago.
"Is this the part where you kill me? We both know you won't regardless of the feeling of dread you're giving off," remarked Joker in a serious tone.
"You think I won't? Isn't that being a bit...arrogant on our part?" asked Naruto with a tilt of his head.
"You heroes are all the same. All bark and no bite. Oh you may break a few bones in our bodies here. A concussion there. But nothing the good doctors in this place can't fix. And the lawyers who we have to defend us can just argue cruel and unusual punishment to get us out early too. And if you do kill us, it makes you the bad guy. Not us. We become the martyrs. The ones that the people say deserved to live to prove that as bad as we are, can get a second chance in life. Do you really want to kill more of us and be hunted like a dog by Batman? By the Justice League?" said Joker with a slight grin on his face at the joke he considered behind the twisted way the world worked.
"You are assuming they can catch me," countered Naruto while Joker was grinning now.
"You don't know Batsy like I do. He will become obsessed with you like he is me almost all the time. He will hunt you down. Use all his resources, all his skills, and everyone he knows to bring you to 'justice' as he calls it. The man is as obsessive as I am crazy. And we both know that is saying a lot," Joker shot back while Naruto used his power to melt the see through glass in front of him.
"And you don't know me at all Joker. I'm not like Batman. I'm not like you. I am worse. I kill because I can. I kill because I do what is right. I kill those who deserve to die and do what the people of this world do not have the spine to do," replied Naruto before walking into the cell while Joker scowled further with his grin having left him.
"I see. You aren't like Batman. No. Batsy won't cross the line of ending a life out of some fear of becoming the very monsters he faces. You will. You will cross it, blur it, and even rewrite it. I don't find that the least bit amusing in the slightest," remarked Joker.
"Of course you don't find it funny. You aren't facing someone who prefers to act as a club over a sword in terms of being a deterrent to psychos like yourself when they run wild in the city streets. You aren't facing someone who holds back on his enemies and resists the idea of ending the life of people like you. You see this world as one big joke to get your laughs and kicks. I see the world in need of a wakeup call to stop tolerating psychos like yourself. Your death is the start of many wakeup calls for this world," countered Naruto while his sword was now letting out electricity.
Before the Joker could say some witty remark meant to bring a laugh to his own person, Naruto struck viciously with his sword to the clown's heart, and proceeded to fry him with it. The Joker's screamed echoed throughout the hall for all the criminals to hear and it terrified them beyond measure. Even Scarecrow, who was considered the Master of Fear for his use of fear inducing hallucination was scared beyond measure. He had also assumed this so called "hero" was one of those who didn't cross the "no killing" line and thought this fox masked ninja wannabe was bluffing. But being in a cell across from the Clown Prince of Crime allowed him to see how wrong he was and how violent this new person was willing to get.
When it was over, the Joker was a smoking skeleton for a corpse. His prison clothes were burned or destroyed in various places. When Naruto pulled out his sword, the body fell forward, and turned mostly into ash. When he turned around, the sight of the neighboring cell holding Scarecrow came into his line of sight, and saw Dr. Crane was indeed terrified of him.
As he should be given what Naruto looked like right now.
"D-Don't kill me. Please!" begged Dr. Crane while Naruto looked at him behind his kitsune mask while flicking the remnants of his kill off his
"No. I don't think I will kill you just yet. I have something else in mind. 'Tsukuyomi!'" said Naruto after he changed his Sharingan and plunged the not so good doctor into a world of what could be called his own personal Hell.
All the people Dr. Crane tormented, hurt, and killed were attacking him a brutal fashion of what was considered a mob mentality. They clawed at him, bit him with their teeth, and broke every bone in his body. When he died, his body rematerialized completely healthy, and the process would repeat itself over and over again for the next 72 hours inside his mind.
While on the outside, Naruto had just stared at him for a few seconds, and walked away when the man's eyes rolled up in the back of his skill before slumping over. Scoffing at such a pathetic man, Naruto moved further down the halls of the insane residing here. He walked by Two-Face, who Naruto knew would require some internal mental help to make the two halves whole again. He walked by the Mad Hatter, the Riddler, and Killer Croc before stopping at the cell containing Victor Fries.
Ripping the cell open, Naruto ignored the bitter cold the room generated to keep the man inside alive. As for the man imprisoned here, he was exactly as the file Cadmus had on him stated. Emotionless. Empty. Ready to die should death come. In fact, it looked like Fries's was waiting for death to come, and welcome it with open arms.
"Victor Fries I presume," whispered Naruto while Victor Fries nodded.
"And I presume you have come to kill me assassin," replied Fries while standing up and made no effort to defend himself.
"You presume too much Victor Fries. I'm not here to kill you. I am here to help you," said Naruto while Fries frowned slightly.
"You cannot help me. My condition cannot be reversed," replied Fries before moving to sit down again.
"What if I told you I could cure you? What if I told you I could make you normal? What if I told you...I could save your wife and you could be with her again?" asked Naruto, as he saw Fries's head snap sharply in his direction, and glared even harder.
"Do not test me assassin. If this is some means to goad a response of violence from me, you are well on your way there," said Fries with Naruto raising his free hand to calm the slightly angered albino.
"I am not testing you or your temper my friend. I meant what I said. I can help you more way then you could possibly imagine," replied Naruto while Fries was a bit curious now and dare he think of it...hopeful.
"How?" asked Fries while Naruto sheathed his sword.
"Through my own means that are beyond you my friend. But for this to work, I need to know the location of Nora Fries. I know you know where she is and it is somewhere cold. I will take you to her. I will take you both to a location where I can cure you both. But I need your trust. Do I have it?" said Naruto with Fries staring at him for a long moment before nodding.
"You do. All I ask, is you save my wife from the prison I was forced to put her in and to save my precious Nora from death once she is removed from it. I do not care about my condition. Only hers," said Fries in a tone filled with passion.
"Very well. Once I take you to the designated location where your wife has been hiding, I will begin the necessary healing process of saving her first. After that is done, I will work on you. Agreed?" said Naruto with Fries nodding.
"I am ready. Though I am curious how you will get me out of here knowing the outside temperatures of this cell will kill me within a matter of minutes," remarked Fries with Naruto putting out a storage scroll.
"I wield many different powers my friend. Some that bend space and time. I can in fact seal you away within this storage scroll of mine. Once done, I head to your wife's hidden location before unsealing you from it," said Naruto with Fries raising what would be a nonexistent eyebrow.
"While I do not fully understand what it is you are about to do, I know there is more to what I see, or hear with my own senses. Do what you must so we can escape from here," said Fries before he told Naruto the location of his wife, which was located in the arctic, and was a place of seclusion not unlike Superman's Fortress of Solitude.
With that in mind, Naruto quickly sealed Fries, as well as a good chunk of snow, and ice into the scroll with him or good measure. He just hoped the poor man was not afraid to be staring into darkness where you could not move an inch. While time in the storage scroll was for all purposes irrelevant, Naruto wasn't so cruel as to let the man suffer there for too long.
Making a Shadow Clone, he gave it the scroll, and told him to go to the location where Nora Fries was "sleeping" within her cryo tube. The Shadow Clone nodded once before it used Kamui to head to the given location. As for the original, he had one more stop to make before leaving this Hellhole meant to cure people, but was in truth only making things worse.
The office of Dr. Hugo Strange.
The man had been work late at night again. Dabbling in his experiments into the deep dark corners of a person's mind. To see what made them tick. To see if he could mold them to his liking. To see if he alter a person to the point where they could become the very opposite of their true self.
The man wanted to play God and loved doing it on his patients.
Naruto was not amused.
"What are you doing here?! Get out before I call security!" demanded Dr. Hugo Strange while Naruto walked into the room as if he didn't hear it.
"And what security is that? You mean the security guards on your payroll? On the payroll of Cadmus? Don't bother using the silent alarm under your desk. They are all dead. Every single one. I know they pulled a lot of strings to get you back in here Hugo. To study the criminal mind. Find out what makes it tick, function, breathe, or just plain live. I know they want you to find a way to make criminals here controllable. To make them do just about whatever it is you want so they can do whatever it is Cadmus wants. Which we both know is to bolster the ranks of Cadmus to one day fight the Justice League. Am I wrong?" replied Naruto while seeing the shocked look on Hugo Strange's face.
"How do you know that?!" demanded Dr. Hugo Strange while Naruto chuckled behind his mask.
"Its not hard to figure out. Cadmus wants a war with the Justice League, but they are not ready for one. The organization is using everything and anything they can get their hands on at this point that would be able to fight against every League member on the planet. Who better to bolster their ranks for the fighting when the times comes? Who better to fight heroes of the world then the villains they put away? Who better to warp the minds of these villains into being soldiers for Cadmus with you as the General? You don't have to be Batman to see just what Cadmus plans to do with you being placed here," replied Naruto knowing Hugo Strange's appointment here was strictly on the quiet side of things and Cadmus put in a great deal of effort to make sure even Batman didn't know of the not so good doctor's involvement here again.
"You won't kill me. You would risk Cadmus coming after you because of my position in their ranks. The Justice League will also come after you for ending my life. No one can hide from one of these organizations, much less two of them when they are hunting for the same person," countered Dr. Hugo Strange while Naruto chuckled.
"They can try to find me. But in the end, it won't matter in the slightest," said Naruto before he drew a tanto hidden within his sleeve and stabbed Hugo Strange into the wall with it.
"ACK! You fool! My death will accomplish nothing!" exclaimed Dr. Hugo Strange while gripping the hilt of the tanto and trying to pry himself free.
"Actually it will. Your death leaves a blood trail for the Dark Knight to follow. A blood trail I can control and make go around in so many circles, the man will be too dizzy to see what else is going on around him. Goodbye not so good doctor," replied Naruto before he left the room before throwing an explosive tag behind him and made the room explode.
Which made the fire alarm go off and the entire building from top to bottom to go into lockdown. Not that it could stop Naruto from escaping. One quick Kamui to the arctic and he was beyond safe from the persecution of any government on the planet.
(Arctic-Unknown Location)
Victor Fries watched with curiosity and a hint of impatience while watching Naruto do what he considered to be his "mystical work" after creating a dome of energy that would keep the cold around Nora from hurting her. Of course Victor had to stay outside of the dome of energy and the strange squiggly lines around it in order to live. But he didn't care about his life. Nora was his life. Without her in it, he was nothing. Empty. Hollow. He might as well be considered soulless. Nora was his soul. Victor had never been what you call a handsome man so finding his other half was considered highly impossible for him early on in life while dedicating himself to his scientific research.
But then Nora appeared in his life. She was a ballerina performing at the Gotham Center for the Musical Arts and instantly took Victor's breath away. It was as if God had made an angel and sent her from heaven to the Earth to show mortals the beauty of the light. To show him the beauty of the light. It took some effort, but he finally got a chance to meet the woman who had stolen his heart. Despite everything, Nora had loved him almost as quickly as he did her. She wasn't a shallow woman. Her spirit was as beautiful as the way she danced. Her smile lit up a room and all basked in the warmth she generated from it. When they married, Victor vowed to love no other. He worshiped the ground she walked on. Her every command, every request, everything she asked of him he obeyed without question. She was his Queen, his Goddess, his entire Universe, and he vowed to let no evil in this world take her from him.
Not even death. Or the illness that would cause it.
'Nora, I have done horrible things since becoming this way. I tried to avenge you, but I failed. When the time comes, I will get on my knees, and beg your forgiveness for not only becoming this monster, but for the things I have done following it. I only hope that I am worthy of it and above all else...your love,' thought Victor while he clenched both of his hands at seeing Naruto open the cryo tube despite knowing it was necessary given what the masked ninja had told him.
I know you fear for her Victor. What I am about to do will no doubt make you feel this way. But don't worry. What I am about to do will cure her. I promise. I have never broken a promise in my life to anyone. I won't start now.
Those had been Naruto's words to him. Yet until Nora was healed. Until he could hold his Nora in his arms again or at least see her stand without fear of the illness claiming her life...he would fear. Yes, for the first time since the accident occurred, Victor Fries would allow the emotion known as fear to creep into his heart and mind.
(Gotham Police HQ-Commissioner Gordon's Office)
"It was a bloodbath pure and simple Commish. Never seen anything like it in all my years as a cop. All the Rookies lost their dinners in there when we stormed the place. Even the veterans like me puked at least once. I can't remember eating half the stuff I wretched up back there after I saw the carnage sprayed all over the place in some of the cells," said Detective Bullock, who had a paled face, and surprisingly slimmer stomach at this point thanks to its contents leaving him.
He had to eat a couple dozen breath mints to get the smell of puke out of his mouth. Not to mention the man wanted to take a super long shower at his apartment to get the smell of blood off of him.
"Security footage?" asked Commissioner Gordon since he had been sleeping when the call came in and some of the veterans he worked with in the past told him it was best not to go see the carnage himself after they got their first.
Judging from the photos taken of the place...they were right.
"None. Some of the guards were dead too. Butchered like most of the convicts who were slaughtered in their cells. Security cameras were turned off. All of them. The witnesses not killed were other inmates, who spoke of some dark weirdo in a ninja getup wearing some kind of animal mask, and killing some of the more...darker elements locked up," answered Bullock with Commissioner Gordon frowning.
"What about the guards not killed? Not all of them were butchered from the report I got earlier, right?" asked Commissioner Gordon with Bullock now scratching his head in frustration.
"That's just the thing Commish, none of them remember anything before it went down. One moment, its business as usual that night guarding the inmates, the next...BAM! They suddenly fall over unconscious without a reason and wakeup to seeing us storming the joint demanding answers," answered Bullock with Commissioner Gordon frowning.
"At the same time?" asked Commissioner Gordon.
"Yeah! Its like someone turned off a switch in their brains and made them fall over into dreamland. I thought they might be in on it, but they all gave the same story and all of the guards were on different levels at the time of the event. No way they could all just fall over at once in perfect sync Commish. The timing of it unnaturally perfect," said Bullock, who despite his eating habits, lack of tact, language, and occasionally crude humor was for all intensive purposes quite sharp in sensing when something was amiss.
It was why the man was a detective after all. The greatest detective, but one you could rely on to have your back when it counted.
Speaking of the greatest detective to ever live.
"Thanks for your help Bullock. Go home and get some rest. Hell, take the next few days off. You deserve it. Lord knows half the precinct at this point deserves the next few days off," said Commissioner Gordon with Bullock nodding.
"Thanks Commish. After tonight, a few days off doesn't sound so bad right about now. Not for nothing, but this incident might scare the criminals into not committing crimes if they fear something happening to them," said Bullock before he left the room.
"Your thoughts?" asked Commissioner Gordon to the shadowy corner where Batman was listening in on them.
"A new player is in town. One who came into Gotham tonight from the sounds of it. If an attack on Arkham was going to happen, someone would have known about it before now. This was done for a reason, but done at the last minute, or on impulse. The sheer brutality behind this attack suggests the attacker does not believe in redemption or rehabilitation for those he killed. In his mind, they deserved to be put to the sword," said Batman while he walked over to Gordon's desk and looked at the photos taken.
"But what about the other inmates this new guy spared. The Mad Hatter, Two-Face, the Riddler, and even Killer Croc were all there watching him walk by. Yet not one of them was attacked in their cells when it happened. Why spare them? Why spare them, but not the Joker, or the Scarecrow?" asked Commissioner Gordon curiously.
"Because none of them have a higher kill count or enjoyed the torturing of their fellow man. One of the few things Joker and Scarecrow have in common is their love of hurting others in their own unique way. Crane used fear inducing gas to make people suffer their greatest fears to the point of dying from it. The Joker uses laughing gas and other "jokes" forged from his sick mind to make people die horrible deaths while smiling in the end," said Batman with Commissioner Gordon nodding since he saw what the Dark Knight was getting at.
"That still doesn't explain the loss of Mr. Fries. His cell is empty, yet we haven't found his body. No blood. No corpse. No sign of him being killed or even a struggle within his own cell. We know he couldn't have orchestrated this because no one has communicated with the man since being in it. The man kept to himself. For all intensive purposes, he is the one inmate who has been a model prisoner," countered Commissioner Gordon while Batman frowned at the mention of Mr. Fries.
"I'm unsure about how he escaped. Or how this supposed ninja assassin got him out alive. Of if he got him alive at all. If Fries is alive, I will find him, and get my answers. Once I have more pieces of the puzzle, the picture behind it will become clearer," said Batman while Commissioner Gordon sighed and rubbed his eyes.
"I just hope this masked ninja or Mr. Fries aren't working together. The last thing this city needs is some plot to possibly destroy Gotham," said Commissioner Gordon before he looked up and saw Batman was gone.
He hated it when the man did that.
(The Arctic-At the Moment)
"Nora," whispered Fries when he saw the woman was freed from the demonic mouth that had swallowed her whole and was chewing on her form with glowing eyes.
When he first saw the creature and it devouring her, Fries had banged against the barrier screaming her name. The idea of his beloved wife, his treasure, his star, and soul being devoured by this demon brought the fear he felt back a thousand times over. If he could cry tears right now, Fries knew he would have done it already, and fell to his knees when taken into its mouth.
But now? Now she was out of the demon's mouth. Alive from the breathing he saw from the rising and falling of her chest.
"I told you I would help you Victor. I am not a liar to those I help," said Naruto while he ran a medical scan over Nora Fries to ensure it worked and was pleased to see the woman was one hundred percent healthy again.
"Forgive me. I had feared the worst. Without her, I am nothing," remarked Victor while seeing his wife now on a table Naruto had somehow conjured seemingly out of thin air.
"Well she is alive and healthy now. Sleeping for the most part. I placed a special seal tag on her forehead to keep her that way for now. The last thing she needs is to wake and see you here like this," replied Naruto with Fries nodding, but frowned all the same.
"Please wake her up. I need to tell Nora what I have become. What I have done. I will not hide anything from her. I will either have her forgiveness or scorn. So long as she lives, I do not care which," said Fries while Naruto looked at him for a second before sighing.
"Okay my friend. But I hope she is as understanding as you believe," remarked Naruto before he walked over to the tag on Nora's forehead and removed it.
And sure enough, Nora Fries awoke from her long slumber. Frowning, she looked around to see a masked man before seeing his nudge his head to the right. Turning further to look at where he nudged his head, Nora gasped at seeing a man who could only be her loving husband standing outside of a barrier in clothing of an prisoner, and in temperatures well below zero.
"Victor?" asked Nora with Victor Fries nodding.
"Nora. My wife. My treasure," whispered Victor happily while seeing Nora rise from the table and held carefully by Naruto when she wobbled.
"What has happened? Where am I? Why do you look different?" asked Nora while she was helped by Naruto to the barrier to see her husband still on his knees.
"I have done horrible things my Nora. After you were put in the cryo tube, an accident occurred from interference of a third party resulting in what I am now. I thought you had died after it happened and as such I became a monster fueled by vengeance. I vowed to avenge you and destroy the man who ruined everything. Only later did I find out that you were alive, still in your cryo tube. Preserved. Protected from the disease that would claim your life. I tried to gain the funds needed to continue my research to cure you of your disease, but the only way to do it was taking the money through crime, and hurting those who stood in my way. I am not worthy of your love my Nora and can only beg for your forgiveness of what I have done. If you do not wish to be with me ever again, to scorn my existence, I will understand, and accept it without question. My only wish, my one true desire above all else, is to see you happy, healthy, and to walk in the warm sunlight. To dance as you danced all those years ago when I first saw you and stole my breath away," said Victor, as he stared into Nora's shocked eyes, and she knelt on the ground so she was eye level with him.
"Victor, you know I have always loved you. I have loved you since the day we met. Your smile, your shyness, your devotion to me, and your work in wanting to save lives. You didn't have to do what you did to avenge me. Even if I died, we would have been together again one day in the afterlife. Surely you believe that?" replied Nora while Victor nodded his head.
"I know. But the idea of you dying so soon...it was an injustice in my eyes. You deserve to live a long life my Nora. So I chose to combat the disease and death itself. My own physical condition is the result of my war with it. I willed myself to live through the pain that came from becoming this with the desire to avenge you. To make those who hurt you know what it means to be hurt beyond measure. In my nightmares, I saw you staring at me behind a frozen prison walls, begging me with frozen eyes to save you. And in those nightmares, I was powerless. You are what matters most to me my Nora. My love. My sacred treasure," said Victor with his eyes showing emotions he had long since buried deep within his nearly frozen heart.
"Oh Victor!" exclaimed Nora as she cried at hearing his words.
"Do not cry! I beg of you Nora. I deserve your scorn. Your rejection," replied Victor with Nora smiling at him while she cried.
"I love you Victor. I always will love you. My only wish now, is for us to be together," said Nora with Victor touching the barrier and saw her doing the same.
"Nora," whispered Victor while he saw her love for him in those eyes.
"I wouldn't worry about that. Victor, I can do the same for you as I did for Nora here. It will be different, but in the end, I can make it happen," said Naruto, as he had read the Fries file over, and over again while acquiring the only other copy of the incident that made Fries what he had become.
It made his blood boil seeing such a brilliant smart man who loved his wife in such a way become this monster driven by vengeance.
"Thank you my friend, but you do realize that I am still a wanted criminal because of my escape by your hands. I will be pursued by Batman and possibly the Justice League," said Victor while Nora looked worried since she didn't want to lose him so soon.
"Leave that to me. Until then, the two of you are going to be spending some quality time on a warm beach enjoying the bright warm Sun," said Naruto with a smile behind his mask knowing these two love birds were going to be spending a lot time together once he fixed the man's condition.
(Wayne Manor-Days Later)
"Is something on your mind Master Bruce?" asked Alfred while Bruce Wayne ate his morning meal and drank his coffee with the morning newspaper in hand.
"Just thinking Alfred," answered Bruce politely, but still serious all the same.
"About what happened at Arkham Asylum a few days ago," surmised Alfred since he saw the news report on TV and the papers were still buzzing about it.
"Yes. Countless dead. Inmates and guards alike. One inmate missing. Not only that, but I just learned Dr. Hugo Strange was working in Arkham at night thanks to Cadmus," said Bruce with a frown on his face becoming a deeper looking scowl.
"Disturbing. Given Dr. Hugo Strange's skills in manipulating the mind and twisting it, I fear he was doing something worse besides treating the inmates that were under his care," concluded Alfred with Bruce nodding.
"That was what I concluded as well. I would have accessed the files in the his office, but it was destroyed along with him. A sword to his gut while pinned to the wall. No doubt from the ninja assassin who attacked Arkham," said Bruce while wondering who had been the mysterious assassin that made so many inmate within Arkham fear him over himself.
"Could he be from the League of Shadows? An agent of certain leader you don't wish to be spoken?" asked Alfred with Bruce not liking the idea of that man doing something like this in his city.
"No. Its not his style. He gains nothing from killing so many. Even if it was to make me look bad, the man doesn't work that way," concluded Bruce while Alfred nodded.
"Some new assassin. Apprentice of Deathstroke? Or Deadshot?" asked Alfred since he knew his Master fought quite a few assassins in the past and at times were looking for potential students to carry on their work in the event of untimely death.
"It is possible. But I would have heard of either one taking on a student by this point. One hasn't taken an apprentice since his failed attempt with that geomancer named Terra. The other uses guns and is not into the whole ninja field. No. This is an entirely new player and is not tied to either one. This is a being of pure darkness. Born of the shadows at a level beyond my previous foes," concluded Bruce while Alfred made a noise.
"Speaking of former students, how is Master Grayson?" asked Alfred since he missed the young man, who left to form the Teen Titans, and wished to go beyond Batman's shadow.
"Fine from what I have been able to gather. We aren't on speaking terms Alfred. We have not been talking for a long time since that night he punched me right in the face," replied Bruce while he glanced at his oldest most trust worthy friend.
"Well...you did keep Barbara Gordon's identity as Batgirl a secret from him for a long time. Not to mention you didn't go to his graduation. Is it any real surprise he took such acts personally?" questioned Alfred with Bruce making a noise now.
"I was busy Alfred and it wasn't my place to tell him. Barbara could have done it too," said Bruce while Alfred sighed.
"Master Bruce, with all due respect, you are a Master of many things in this world. You are a Master of martial arts, science, psychology, the occult, the understanding of magic, and the super natural that goes beyond imagination. But the one thing you have yet to Master and still a novice at being...is a family man," said Alfred before he walked away to handle the now empty plate in front of his Master.
Bruce grimaced at Alfred's words and hated the fact the man was right. He also hated the fact Alfred got in the last word so it could hit home.
(Tropical Island-Classified Location)
Starfire was swimming quickly through the water. She loved the feel of it every time she went for a swim. After the incident where her mind was scrambled to the point where she couldn't remember much regarding the time spent with the Titans, Starfire had found the sudden urge to be with any man catching her fancy. The Tamaran woman's torturously implanted programming to be a sex slave by the Gordanians had kicked in with the desire to "sleep around", as humans called it, with whoever she found desirable.
This of course made things a bit problematic for not only herself, but the Titans, and the Justice League given her situation made Starfire's ability to live on the planet sketchy. On one hand she was a strong warrior and valuable asset should the Earth be invaded. On the other, such things were in question due to her situation in being something else that was not warrior material. It only got worse since Starfire had told the Justice League's Chief Medical Examiner that her sexual preferences for who she slept with were considered to be very...open-minded due to her own culture.
Meaning whoever successfully tamed the Tamaran in the ways of sexual intimacy would ultimately gain the alien woman's loyalty through it. This meant that Cadmus could find a way to use it as a weapon against Starfire to make her talk about the Titans or the Justice League if they captured her. Or, in a worse case scenario, they could use it as a means of turning the Tamaran woman into a breeding factory. Cadmus would be drooling over the idea of producing hybrid children, who could be molded into weapons, and used as such for nefarious purposes against the Justice League.
So with that in mind, it was decided by the Justice League Founding members that until further notice, Starfire was to go on a "temporary leave of absence" until she could regain control of herself and her libido. A small undisclosed tropical island not far off from the States and a nice technologically advanced home built on it was arranged for her to live in until things mentally and physically evened out for her.
Though when that would happen was unknown to both the Justice League and to Starfire herself. It was not easy keeping down the urge to fly somewhere, find a male she found desirable, and mate with him to appease her own sexual needs. The Justice League had specifically placed a "no fly zone" around the island regarding incoming travelers unless authorized and herself until it was determined she could keep her urges under control. Again, it wasn't easy in the slightest. She was a beautiful woman with needs and with each passing day the need to be with a man or even a woman (her species was that open-minded) grew stronger.
It was only a matter of time before the need for sexual intimacy overpowered the Justice League's command to restrain herself from sexual intimacy.
With a sigh of happiness at drying herself off and frustration at being unable to satisfy her sexual urges right now, Starfire walked from the beach to her place of residents. Despite her mind being the way it was, she missed the days of being with the Titans, fighting crime, being with her friends, and of course with her Robin. She frowned at the memory of how Robin had been devastated they couldn't be together anymore and their romance for how long it lasted had ended. From what she had been told from time to time by the Justice League personnel who dropped by with supplies, Robin had become Nightwing now, and still leading the Titans despite his age requiring him to leave now that he was no longer a teen. It wouldn't be long before he went solo, chose a city to protect like so many other heroes in the world, and maybe even join the Justice League.
She only hoped Nightwing would find happiness doing what he was doing without her and find another special woman in his life to help him be happy.
Upon entering her residence once the sand from her feet was gone, Starfire found she was not alone. Her eyes widened in shock at seeing a shirtless, athletic, lean in muscle for a male, wearing gray sweatpants, and no shoes currently sitting on her couch. His eyes were mismatched and had a grin on his face that screamed feral, but in a good way in her mind. Even now, the part of Starfire wanting to give into her sexual urges was calling out for her to mate with this incredibly sexy man, and satisfy her body's needs. The rationale side however, was still in control, and demanded answers.
"Who are you? Why are you here? And how did you get into my home?" asked Starfire while unsure if he was a friend, a threat, or something else.
"In order? My name is Naruto. I came to see you. I got in here through my powers. Oh, don't worry about the security designed to monitor you or any secondary visitors who may try to be here. I have this very impressive system fooled into thinking you are the only one in the house," said Naruto with his smile growing and making Starfire's body become more aroused.
"And why did you come here to see me?" asked Starfire curiously while it was clear he was eyeing her up and down with interest.
Not surprising given how she liked to swim and walk around the beach or her home butt naked with this being no exception.
"To help you with your current problem. Or should I say your current...needs in the way of intimacy," replied Naruto with his eyes clearly showing their lust for her body.
"I highly doubt the Justice League would allow you to be here to help with my...needs in that fashion. You could be in real trouble if they were to find out," warned Starfire, but it was clear her voice was weakening at the idea of informing the League of this intruder.
Even now, her libido screamed with desire.
"Oh I'm sure they would. Feel free to call them. Tell the man or woman waiting to hear from you on the Watch Tower about my presence here. Do you really want to ruin this one chance in a very long time to have your libido and sexual needs taken care of? You know what will happen if you call them, right? They'll swarm in here, detain you, search for me, won't find me because I won't be here, relocate you, double if not triple security at your new home, and you will have to go for years without sexual satisfaction. So by all means, go to that communication terminal to your right. Not five steps from your current position. Tell them about the man who is here to screw your alien pussy until all its needs are met is here sitting on your couch," remarked Naruto calmly while Starfire bit her lip, looked over at the terminal, and then back at him.
"I shouldn't allow you to be here," remarked Starfire weakly while Naruto smirked.
"And you shouldn't be letting your libido feel strangled like it is no doubt feeling right now," said Naruto while Starfire's body ached to be in the arms of this clearly powerful man.
"I still don't know," commented Starfire with her restraint clearly weakening further the longer she stared at him before he stood up and walked toward her.
"I'll let you in on a very personal secret about myself," replied Naruto in a slightly deeper and more passionate tone.
"Personal secret?" asked Starfire while she felt her body burning up now that he was now standing right in front of her person.
"Yeah. You see, the color orange? It is actually my favorite color out of all the colors out there. And the fact your very skin is a nice healthy shade of it? I find it to be an incredible turn on right now," said Naruto while smirking and looking down at her from his clearly superior height between the two giving him a more...dominating appearance.
By this point, any form of resistance Starfire had against being with this blonde haired entity was removed, and she leaped onto his well muscled body. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and kissed him passionately right on the lips before forcing her tongue into his mouth. Her hands grabbed the back his head, loving the feel of his blonde spiky hair, and moaned when her now gyrating hips pressed against his own. She knew instantly from what she felt regarding the massive hard on in his pants that Naruto would be the one to satisfy hers sexual needs. He wasn't like normal humans or meta-humans or any other male being on the planet. This man was here for a single purpose and by all the Gods of the Universe she was going to see to it he carried out said purpose by satisfying her body in every way possible!
"Eager, are we?" asked Naruto once she came up for air following the kiss.
"No more speaking. Strip. Now!" demanded Starfire while she moved her hips and pressed herself further against him and wanted what he had there.
'Damn, I love being me right now,' thought Naruto with a mental smirk before he had managed to make it to the bedroom (having scouted the entire house when she was out) and removed his sweatpants with ease.
Much to the joy of the hot alien woman on her back and on the bed.
"Claim me! Satisfy me!" demanded Starfire, as her eyes glowed green, and desire burned in them for this man to use his manliness to tame the fire burning within.
"As you wish...my horny alien slut," replied Naruto before was on top of her once again and his erection slowly making its way inside of her womanhood.
As for Starfire, she didn't care about being called such a thing. What mattered was being satisfied sexually by this man. He could call her so many things under this planet's Sun and wouldn't care. All she wanted was this man's cock in her pussy and ramming it into her nonstop until she was exhausted. Starfire would gladly become whatever he wanted her to be if he was capable of meeting her high standards of sexual intimacy. It didn't matter if he was a bad guy, good guy, or something in-between the two.
All she wanted right now was this man to give her orgasms. And lots of them!
"So big. So big," whispered Starfire, as she felt him enter her, and felt pleasure from his thrusts.
"So I have been told," whispered Naruto back while he was kissing her and attacked one of her impressive breasts with his mouth.
Starfire found herself in heaven with Naruto working his magical hands over her body and his cock within her body. She must have screamed out in pleasure in several different alien languages unknown to Earth and of course the English language itself on how great this feeling was with him inside her body. He wasn't being gentle and she didn't want him to be gentle. Her body wasn't fragile like most human females on this planet. No! Her body was strong, fit, sexy, and could take any hit in a fight that could rupture a normal human's internal organs while she only got a minor bruise.
"Keep going! I'm so close! So close!" exclaimed Starfire while Naruto kept pounding into her without mercy.
Just the way she liked it!
"So tight! You haven't been with anyone in a long time!" exclaimed Naruto while Starfire held onto him while he thrust into her.
"Nightwing was my first when he went by Robin. He was good to me. But we could only do it that one time. I badly bruised him when it was over," confessed Starfire while she felt him speeding up and trying to bring about her orgasm.
'And no doubt couldn't risk being injured further while on the job. Wouldn't do any good to be put on inactive duty for none crime fighting related injuries,' thought Naruto, but still filed it away in his mind for later.
"I can feel it! I can feel it! I'm going to...to...to...OH XXAAAAAAL!" screamed Starfire, as she came hard, and held onto Naruto with her super alien strength.
Naruto for his part came hard too. The woman's pussy was a vice beyond measure and she was seriously milking him for all he was worth. Damn this woman was going to spoil him. Of course, Tala was no slouch either when they coupled, and Starfire would clearly be a repeat with him in the near future after today.
"Damn that was awesome," whispered Naruto while breathing a bit heavy and Starfire doing the exact same.
"Please...Please give me more. Please tell me you can give me more," breathed Starfire while hoping he could give a repeat performance.
"I can give you more. No doubt. The only question I have for you my dear, is how far are you willing to go to be with me?" questioned Naruto before Starfire managed to roll them until she was on top while they were still connected at the hip.
"If you can satisfy me for the rest of the day, I will be with you to whatever end," replied Starfire while she saw Naruto grin and grab her well developed orange skinned ass with one hand.
"The rest of the day? I was expecting a challenge," replied Naruto before he grabbed her breast with his remaining free hand and enjoyed playing with it.
Starfire enjoyed it too and she would be enjoying it along with the rest of his actions for the rest of the day well into the night well into the week.