JLA: New Golden Age of Heroes: Snake in the Grass1

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Snake in the Grass Part 1

(2 years ago from today)

(Tokyo, Japan. October 23rd, 15:23)

Walking out of a local high school on a very cloudy day, a trio of girls laughed as they walked along. One of them in particular had long black hair tied into a ponytail, a simple black and blue school uniform with a white cape-like thing on her back.

“Tatsu-chan, you going to see Takeo-kun?” One of her friends asked with a teasing tone as she just chuckled.

“Reiko-chan, don’t tease. Takeo-kun and me are just friends. You know I am with Maseo-kun. If you want, I could put in a good word for you if you want.” Tatsu said with a smile as she looked at her watch. “Ah Che’. I was supposed to meet with Takeo and Maseo at their father’s Dojo for training. Sayōnara, Reiko-chan and Yuki-chan.” She then ran ahead at this, not realizing something was sneaking ahead of her…a shadowy serpent following her.

She headed down towards a large dojo, but stopped when she saw the door was knocked down by something. Her eyes widen in shock as she ran inside and gasped in shock at what she saw, as rain began to fall. Laying on the ground of the garden was a teenage young man dressed in a school uniform his eyes glazed over as beside him was a bloody katana blade with a black hilt with a silver string tied to it.

“Maseo-kun!” She yelled as she ran forward as she went to help him. “Maseo-kun, wake up! What’s wrong?”

“I apologize, my dear…but I don’t think he’ll be waking up.” A young, dark voice said in the shadows as her eyes widen in shock as she turned and saw someone who looked a lot like the young man on the ground, with longer black hair with a school uniform on as well.

“Takeo-kun…wha-what did you do!?” Tatsu asked in anger, picking up the sword and pointing it at him, glaring darkly as he just chuckled, which oddly sounded like eight serpents hissing at once.

“I’m sorry…but Takeo isn’t in right now…” He said with a smirk as got out a sword that had a silver and black hilt with a faintly glowing blade. “Like it? It’s a sword that I took from your little mate and his brother…” His eyes suddenly went from brown to a red color like a serpent’s. He then ran towards her, slashing quickly with his sword, making her yell out as she was sent back, groaning as she was about to turn but ducked from a sword slash, which cut her hair by the pony tail, making it much shorter.

She backed up as a giant burst of wind came down as a silver-clad young man jumped down, a yumi bow in hand with two swords on his back behind a quiver. “Wait…you’re…” The girl began as he just nods.

“I am Bushido. You should run. Now.” Bushido said, his appearance mostly hidden as the rain began to fall as he got out an arrow and fired it, as the Japanese symbols glowed on the side as it glowed brightly, turning into pure silver light, the same color as the moon’s glow, as the man just dodged.

“So Susan’oo’s student comes, yes? So the girl must be special…” the mysterious man said with a hiss as a sudden wind came and knocked the sword out of his hand as he hissed in anger.

“I am sorry, Orochi…but you shall not have this day nor the Soultaker. So says I…Susan’oo’s heir, will stop you.” Said a voice from above as a man floated down with a gust of wind under him. “As I am the protector of Tokyo…Samurai!”

The Teen smirked but watched Orochi, who smirked darkly. “So…you wish to protect the girl, hmm?” He looked at the two calmly. “Why? She is weak, it’d be wise to just let me kill her.”

Samurai frowned as he unsheathed a jagged, mid-length sword with a jagged appearance with curved spikes on the side as Bushido put his bow away and got out two katana blades out as he got into a pose. “It is unwise to go against those who aren’t used to your kind, demon. If you want her or the blade, you must get past us.” Bushido said with a glare.

Orochi hissed at this as he says “Another day, Samurai…another day…” He then laughed as he vanished in the darkness. The two samurais frowned as they looked to Tatsu, who picked up the still glowing sword as she put it away.

(Present day)

(Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo Airport, March 13th, 12:23)

Stepping out onto an airport, Bruce Wayne walked out as he looked around with a nod. “Looks like we’re good to go.” Bruce said to the people behind him as they walked up. The group with him was Oliver Queen, Dinah Lance, Diana Prince, Clark Kent, Jason Blood, Zatanna Zatara, Billy Batson and Hal Jordan.

“So Bruce, what’s the plan?” Diana asked, a suitcase at her side.

“Well, lets see: Barry is on a week-long vacation with Iris, J’onn is off in space, Ted is at the gym, Arthur said he and Garth had some business in Atlantis and the rest of us are here.” Oliver said with a shrug. “What’s not to get?”

“Why are we here?” Billy asked, looking confused. “I mean, if this is a business thing, I can understand Oliver, Dinah and Diana. But what are the rest of us doing here?”

“Well…My boss wanted me to get this for the next issue of the Daily Planet, so I was thinking you’d help me out for WHIZ?” Clark said as Billy gained a huge grin. “If your OK with that, that is.”

“Why wouldn’t I be?” Billy asked with a grin as Jason only chuckled.

“And J’onn and I are here to play as ‘body guards’ of sorts…and Diana is apparently here to keep things safe for Amanda’s sake.” Jason said calmly as he looked around as they walked outside of the airport.

Near by, an explosion is heard as Oliver sighed. “If I didn’t know that sound already, it’d be too soon.” He looked to the left as he says “Yeah, that’s what I thought.” As he saw a group of people running away screaming as the group walked and saw a man coming down the streets, laughing evilly.

The man in question appeared to be a being made entirely of black, ink-like material with razor sharp-clawed hands, pitch white eyes and black hair made of more solid ink on his head. But the odd thing was that he had what looked like armor that appeared to be made of white, single sheets of paper and took the form of samurai-like armor.

“…Who the heck is that?” Dinah asked, confused as she saw a Japanese girl dressed in a one-piece with long, wild pink mane of hair, cat-like eyes with dark pink eye liner and cat ears and a tail with padded boots and gloves that look like cat gloves.

“A man who is apparently into cats.” Hal said as he saw the cat woman smirked as she hissed at a few cops before jumping up as a man dressed in red high-tech armor with a black jumpsuit with clawed hands and boots with metal tips on it’s helmet, throwing out shurikens as it walked towards a man, getting out a red sphere that changes into a small blade.

“Figures…” Oliver said as he went towards an alley and got out a bow from his briefcase until a silver-coated arrow suddenly flew from the rooftops and hit the man in the head, knocking him down. “…OK, that’s not one of mine.”

A large yellow robotic orb next to a small, robotic humanoid with black bits on it’s body and a pitch-black phantom-like creature with a kabuki mask looked up as they saw a young man dressed a silver armor with a silver mask with shoulder pads that looked like half of crescent moons with black pants and shirt with a crescent moon on it.

“…Who is that? Mun-sama?” Oliver asked flatly as the man glared as a sudden wind began to pick up as they looked up as the ink man growled at this.

“Samurai…” the man growled as the red-clad warrior got up, as Billy went wide-eyed as he saw it had an arrow through its head, the tip coming out of where its right eye should be.

“OK…that’s not right…” Billy said as the group saw the man take out the arrow as the wound healed, dark red and black ink on the arrow as they looked up, the wind picking up more as a man came down, a jagged sword in hand.

The man in question wore green and white samurai-styled outfit with a green jacket-like cloak over his shoulders with a kanji that represents wind on his back, black hair tied in a topknot with a short goatee on his face and a trail of wind behind him.

“Uehara Daizo, known today as ‘Brushogun’.” Samurai said with a frown as he floated down and looked at the other warriors as the five creatures glared. “And I see you have Saico-Tec, Timoko, Mecha-Boi, Nya-Nya and Scarface, I see.”

“Indeed I do.” Said Brushogun as he used a sphere of ink to create a sword as Saico-Tec got out a few glowing shurikens, Nya-Nya’s claws grew out as Timoko’s hands turned into spinning blades and Mecha-Boi powered up a missile when suddenly Mecha-Boy’s missile was sliced in two from a slice from behind, causing an explosion to happen that reduced him to a pile of ink.

“Wha-?” Before Saico-Tec could react, his arm was slashed off as Brushogun turned as Samurai groaned.

“Reckless as always…” Samurai said as the heroes turned to see the source of the attacks. It was a girl, no older than 19 at the youngest, with neck-length black hair, dark brown eyes with a black domino mask on her face and a black one-piece jumpsuit with short sleeves on her arms and legs that show off her legs quite well and a pair of black shoes.

“Brushogun…you are not welcome here.” The girl said, glaring darkly at him as Brushogun just chuckled.

“Oh, what are you going to do, little girl?” asked Brushogun with a smirk as the girl looked around and saw a fire hydrant and smirked before…throwing her blade right at it, hitting it with pin-point accuracy.

“That’s not smart. She just threw away her weapon.” Said Oliver flatly as Dinah looked at it with confusion as a sudden wind came in and blew away the ink-based villains as the girl looked at Samurai, who glared.

“Katana, what are you doing?” Samurai asked as Katana ran to where the hydrant was.

“It is my plan, Sensei. Bushido, keep them from getting to me and sensei, please make sure to have a wind ready to send it down.” Katana said as Bushido nods as he sent out blasts of silvery energy at the creatures as Scarface slunk over to attack, but Samurai suddenly flew down and sent down a burst of wind as the blade made contact, sending the black ink was sent back and splattered on a wall, as it slowly began to reform.

“OK…NOW!” said Katana as she yanked her sword out and slashed the top off, making water come down as Samurai saw this and nods.

“I see now…” He then sent a wind tunnel to send the water at the creatures, as they all yelled out as they were soaked, as Hal whistled.

“Impressive.” Hal said with a nod as Brushogun was hit with the blunt force of the watery attack, sending him into a wall as the police arrived to hand cuff the now less-ink covered man as his face was partially melted off as they began to clean up as the three swordsmen then quickly left in a burst of wind under them.

“…Well, they sure know how to make an exit…” Jason said calmly as Billy had a huge grin.

“OK, you got to admit, THAT was cool.” Billy said with a grin as Bruce just chuckled faintly.

“Listen, Oliver and I are about to head to our meeting. You can all do whatever you need to do.” Bruce said as Oliver nods.

“Yeah, while we’re at the boring meeting, you guys can go hang out in Tokyo and take in the sights. We are here for a few days, after all.” Oliver then went off with Bruce, Diana and Dinah following after them.

“We’re gonna go with. You guys have fun.” Dinah said to them as Hal rolled his eyes.

“Yeah, that figures.” Hal said with a sigh as he looks at Billy, Jason, Clark and Zatanna. “So…what are we gonna do?”

“I think me and Billy better follow after them.” Clark said as Billy nods as the two quickly went after them, as Jason went off somewhere as well.

“I’m going to look for the local library to get something to read.” Jason said calmly as he left, as Zatanna looked at Hal.

“Looks like we can explore for a bit, Jordan.” Zatanna said as the Lantern nods and went off, as the heroes didn’t notice a familiar young man with pitch-pale skin with red eyes looked down at them before vanishing.

(Later…At Tesshin Industries. March 13th, 13:25)

“OK, here we are.” Bruce said as the two businessmen looked up as Dinah and Diana stood by them, Clark and Billy getting their stuff ready to go: Clark getting a note pad for questions and a camera for Billy to use.

“Well, well. Look who it is with two hot dates: Bruce Wayne and Oliver queen.” Said a voice as Billy turns to see a tanned skinned young man, around 17 or 18, with neck-length messy hair, earth-brown eyes, a slight scar from a blade on his cheek, and a grey suit on his person.

“Well, if it isn’t Christian Natura. Nice to see you again, kid.” Oliver said with a smirk. “And yeah, you got that right with Dinah. But she’s off limits, kiddo.”

“Heh, I’m not one to try and pry, Queen.” Christian said with a smirk. “So Bruce, leaving the Bachelor life yourself? Eh, I’m thinking of sticking to it for awhile.

“Wait…what?” Bruce asked as he and Diana looked at each other as the two quickly looked surprised.

“It’s not like that!” The two both said at once as Billy only snickered while Clark had an amused look on his face.

“Konichiwa.” Said  a voice as a young man walked out. He had shaggy black hair and wearing a black suit. “Takeru-sama is waiting for you upstairs, valued guests.”

“Arigato.” Bruce said calmly as the young man smiled.

“I am Orsono Ryuku, I am Yamato Takeru’s personal assistant.” Ryuku explained as he lead the group inside as Christian gave a whistle.

“Whoa.” Said Christian as a large collection of machines were shown inside as a secretary waved to them as they headed to the elevator, going up the levels before getting to the Top floor, where the meeting will take place.

When they walked out, beeping is heard as someone says “Awaya. What is with this stupid game, it cheats!” Bruce raised an eyebrow as he looked and saw a 19 year old girl with a black and white suit-like outfit as she worked on a game.

“Tatsu-chan, these are our guests. Put that game away and get them some tea.” Ryuku said as the girl quickly put the game away as she nods.

“Hai. Osoreirimasu!” She gave an apologetic bow before leaving as Oliver gave Ryuku a scowl.

“Easy there, buster. That’s no way to treat an intern.” Oliver said as Ryuku gave him a look, but then a throat clearing is heard.

“Ahem, Ryuku-sama. Do not anger our guests.” Said a voice as a man about a year younger than Bruce walked in. He had neck-length black hair, dark brown eyes and wore a simple black suit. “Wayne-Sama, Queen-Sama, Natura-sama. It is an honor to meet you all here.”

“Same to you, Yamato.” Oliver said with a nod as they walked into the meeting room and all sat down.

“Of course, you know why we’re here, right?” Christian asked as Yamato nods.

“Hai, you all wish for me to join your alliance. How will this benefit my grandfather’s company, however?” Yamato asked, curious.

“Well, for one thing, we each have one thing in common: We all want to help people. Think about it: I have all of those charities out there for the orphans in Gotham and other cities, while Bruce has his Foundations based on his parents that help with medical research and Oliver has his relief for out of work people at the Glades in Star City.” Christian said, as Yamato nods.

“and I have many different charities to keep the culture of my country alive and thriving, yes.” Yamato said with a nod as he rubbed his chin as Tatsu arrived with a tray with cups and a teapot on it.

“Konichiwa, I have the tea.” Tatsu said as she set the tea down and poured each of the guests a glass.

“Thanks.” Oliver said with a nod as Dinah also took a glass.

“Thank you.” Dinah said as she took a sip and hums. “Hmm, really good tea.”

“Agreed.” Said Diana with a nod as Christian nods as he gave Tatsu a small smirk, which she returned as she walked out with giving them a small bow and leaving.

“Listen…you don’t have to say yes right away, but you know…” Christian began as Yamato nods.

“Hmm…I’ll give you my answer at dinner tonight. You can invite the rest of your guests when we are there.” Yamato said with a small smile, as Bruce, Oliver and Christian nods as Tatsu looked into the room with a sigh.

“Wonder what to expect out of this…” Tatsu said as she sighed and quickly left and headed down a hidden stair case, heading down into a hidden dojo under ground, where three statuettes held familiar costumes of Samurai, Bushido and Katana as she got to her knees and gave a small bow to a stand.

“I apologize, Maseo-kun…but your murderer wasn’t here today…” she said as she looked up to a glass case, which held the sword that Orochi tried to steal, as it’s blade glowed bright white.

Little did she know, a figure was watching over the building in question was the very pale man from before, a dark smirk forming as fangs grew from his mouth. “Soon Samurai…our never-ending battle shall come to it’s end tonight…” He hissed as he licked his lips with a forked tongue, a very long blade forming in his hands as he laughed evilly, which sounded like 8 snakes hissing darkly at once.

End of Part 1

OK, so this is the end of this part of the arc. I hope you all enjoy it and please Read, Review and Suggest away!