Chapter 12

Naruto split in to two and one went with Konan while the other went alone. It seems he was blessed with good fortune as things weren't going awry.

Gotham was child's play for him, but everything could hit a block if any of the big heroes or villains appeared. Green Lantern, Flash, Zatanna, Superman and even the Titans could appear in the city as they had connections to it.

Batman could summon the whole league if he felt that it was needed. It was the reason why he was being so careful and not acting in a villainous manner.

Naruto genuinely believed that the only reward for good was good. He actually wanted them to be happy and he felt sympathy for them.

The things he had said were from his heart.

He wasn't a heartless, manipulative leader. He was definitely manipulative but he actually cared for them and wanted a good life for them.

Regardless, Naruto was happy to meet all the interesting people and was looking forward to gaining more power. Just like he had expected, he couldn't read their memories. It was blocked from him.

It also meant that Barbara and Dick were related to them. Taking that stance, Naruto could guess their identities from their general body shape.

Dick Grayson, adopted son of Bruce Wayne was Nightwing.

Barbara Gordon was Batgirl and Bruce Wayne was most likely Batman. It made sense since the man had many accomplishments and was a genius with money to spare.

All of them were protected except Jason Todd, who had been with the League of Shadows for two years. Reading his memories, Naruto knew all of their identities and it was not just an educated guess.

Leaving that behind, Naruto arrived near the Nuclear power plant owned by the Wayne Enterprises that was supplying energy to Gotham City and more.

Just inside the walls, two sides were in conflict and it wasn't looking good.

Volcana and Firefly were working together to wipe out Gotham City. Both of them had an unhealthy obsession with burning things down and explosions.

Plus, all of them hated Wayne for making things difficult for them.

Volcana was a beautiful young woman with red hair and orange eyes. She was a meta-human with fire abilities.

She was one of Superman's villains from Metropolis but had escaped recently from prison after White Rabbit made a mess.

She hated the government for experimenting on her instead of treating her like a person and teaching her to control the alien powers.

She also hated the Super family for blocking her way.

She wanted to make them feel some pain with this explosion as their friends would disappear.

On the other hand, Firefly was a young man in his twenties that wore a grey flying battle suit that was equipped with flame throwers, bombs and a flame sword.

He was a pyromaniac that had burned down places for fun and money. He burned down places on order so that the owners could commit fraud and get insurance money.

Fighting against these two villains was two of Gotham's expert fighters, Huntress and Black Bat.

Black Bat was a shapely young woman wearing a pure black skin tight costume. She was one of the new Batgirls before taking the identity Black Bat.

Barbara was the first Batgirl and still went by that name, though she had taken Oracle as a name for some time.

From the looks, Naruto could tell that she was an expert at fighting and could read her foes movement.

Huntress wasn't weak either and showed expert skills with her crossbow. She was also a beautiful woman with long black hair and blue eyes.

Unlike Black Bat, her costume was revealing. It was a mix of purple and black, her face was covered by a mask that blocked facial recognition.

Both heroes were doing extremely well against the dangerous foes, dodging the attacks and leading them away from delicate places.

Naruto could tell that they didn't need his help. But, that didn't matter.

Without further hesitation, Naruto flew down while releasing his invisibility. He had to finish his goal before some powerful individual decided to intervene. It was a delicate area, so that was a possibility.

Naruto landed in the center and everything around him was in slow motion. He was moving at Mach 1500 at the moment while everyone around wasn't even Mach 1.

Naruto cancelled the attacks and put the villains to sleep before reading their memories.

Volcana's real name was Claire Selton.

As a teenager, Claire Selton showed an aptitude for Pyrokinesis—the ability to start and control fire with her mind. Her parents sent her to Metropolis's Center for Paranormal Studies so that she could learn how to control her power, but she was soon spirited away by government agents working for a program called Project Firestorm. They planned to train her as a living weapon. Given the code name "Volcana", she was trained and indoctrinated by government agents, but rebelled and escaped.

Now a fugitive, Volcana survived the only way she could: by stealing. This caught the attention of Superman. He unearthed the government agency and its renegade chief, Kurt, and caused it to shut down. He relocated Volcana to an abandoned island where she could find a chance to reorganize her life and turn over a new leaf. Superman made periodic supply deliveries to the island and Volcana took the opportunity to flirt with him when he visited her. During one such visit, she commented that he was always polite and that his mother must have raised him well to which he answered that he'd been lucky in that respect and she agreed with him; showing bitterness that she had never been that fortunate.

She flew from the island once her powers increased and started more trouble in Metropolis, only to run into Supergirl. She proved to be a worthy adversary for Volcana, who was defeated within moments of their encounter.

Unlike others, she was lost and actually had no purpose in life. She was flailing blindly and was an easy target for others to manipulate.

She had caused the lowest deaths among all the villains Naruto had met, less than hundred and all of them had been collateral. Volcana's flames were hot enough to burn steel and when concentrated, she could hit 5000 degrees Celsius.

Reading her memories, Naruto found her an easy target. She liked good looking guys. She wanted to be happy and free.

She seemed to like being stylish, so he could get her into modeling or acting.

Her power was also very attractive. She could be his fire elemental. Naruto was using the same technique that the Inuzuka clan used for their dogs for all these new servants.

This way he could summon them and they were always connected to him. He could continue making them strong and grant them elements.

In the Ninja world, he had many giant monsters as his summons as he was making new intelligent summons beside the ones that were used.

But, all of them were in the other world and Naruto couldn't summon them anymore or he might have summoned his other servants for company.

Finishing with the memories, Naruto put her through lesson that all villains needed. It was time for some good ol torture.

She was bombarded with pain of burning and the emotions of people that experienced arson.

Sending her to the base, Naruto moved to the next target.

Firefly was a man named Ted Carson. He used to work for Fire Department but it awakened his desire to see things burn.

Ted Carson was a muscular and good looking man with blond hair and blue eyes.

He slowly started burning things down and it escalated. He started taking orders from others and made money from his hobby.

He had also been the lover of music artist Cindy but ended up getting caught by Batgirl and Nightwing after he had framed Garfield Lynns as the Firefly.

Garfield Lynns worked as a pyrotechnic on films starring Cindy Cooke. Eventually, she had been forced to fire him, and he had not taken it well. When an arsonist named "Firefly" appeared in Gotham targeting Ms. Cooke, Lynns became a prime suspect. It was discovered, though, that Lynns was actually the first victim of the real arsonist, Ted Carson, who had hoped to pin the blame on Lynns for the destruction of Cindy's career so that he and she could fake their own deaths and live away from her fame.

With two years in jail, Ted had developed a deep hatred for the Bat family and his desire to burn things was bursting.

He had zero guilt for what he did and enjoyed the sound of burning kids alive. To him, they gave the best sounds.

The man was a sick fuck.

Seeing his demented mind, Naruto gave him extra hard dose of punishment and decided to keep him that way until the next day.

With that taken care of, Naruto sent Ted to the base before turning to the girls.

Just like he expected, he couldn't read Black Bat's memories but Huntress was shocking. He could read her memories as she wasn't direct part of the Bat Family and was a vagrant, a nomad.

She moved from place to place but always had a deep love for Gotham. She was Batman and Catwoman's daughter from another Universe.

Helena Wayne was her real name and she had been stranded in the current Universe for three years.

Helena fought alongside her father as Robin. During her father's final moments she defended him from the Bat plane by firing upon attacking Parademons. She witnessed his death when the tower he was inside exploded. She and her best friend Supergirl entered a Boom Tube in pursuit of someone they thought was Darkseid, and ended up in another universe.

Stranded on Prime Earth, Helena and Kara were forced to adapt to living on a world both similar and different to what they knew. Using her knowledge of the workings of Wayne Enterprises, Helena stole money from the company to help establish a life for the two and blend in. During their early days, the two searched for leads on how to return to their Earth. After months of no results, Helena gave up on the search and shifted her focus to fighting crime on Prime Earth. Because Kara disagreed with giving up on going home, the two decided to take their own individual approaches to life on another world. Kara went on to create an R&D company and live as billionaire Karen Starr in the hopes that a means of traveling to other Earths could be created.

On the other hand, Helena remained in the shadows, never staying in one place for long and using fake identities (including the alias Helena Bertinelli) so that no one would be aware of her existence. Eventually, she used money periodically stole from her father's company to gather the resources needed to fight crime as a vigilante. Using the name Huntress, Helena spent years establishing herself as the terror of international crime organizations.

The information he got from Helena was horrifying and mind blowing. He would have let her go, but she was too valuable. He needed to talk to her and carefully digest what he had just learnt.

His world view had just been shattered by what he had seen. He knew powerful enemies existed but this was the first time he knew that they could actually travel to other universes and destroy or enslave worlds.

His world could also become like hers. His goal of power just became bigger by an unknown amount.

The shock was felt but Naruto kept his calm as there was no point in getting worried about it. He was already doing his best.

Naruto returned to normal time and both women found their bodies restrained by the earth as they were seated on concrete chairs.

Their eyes landed on Naruto and saw that the other two had disappeared.

"Greetings ladies, I hope you don't mind the rough treatment. I just wish to avoid a pointless conflict." Naruto greeted them in a friendly tone as he stood in front of them.

"Who are you?" Helena asked as she was looking for a way to get out while intending to get vital information from the unknown entity.

Cassandra Cain, Black Bat, was also the same as she was trying to think of a way to get out.

"I am not your enemy and I have no violent intentions for you. I am the Emperor of Mankind, so you can just call me Emperor or Lord. Just like the rest of the criminal scum, I have given them a second chance at life and rehabilitated them.

So, you don't have to worry about their lives as you will see them soon. I just wanted to express my desire to recruit you for your bravery and skills.

My path is the best for Mankind while your path has already failed you for decades even though you have all the power at your disposal. You are smart ladies who understand what I mean, so think about it. I hope we can meet again on amiable terms and have a long conversation unlike this moment." Naruto patted Huntress on the cheek and disappeared.

He had felt the urge to take her with him but that would have been hasty and dangerous. There wasn't a need to get Huntress by force at this moment and from her methods, she would come to him sooner or later.

Taking her by force would put him against Powergirl, Supergirl from another Universe. The woman was weaker than Superman but she would one shot him and make him a blood stain on the ground if they ever fought.

While Naruto disappeared, Huntress and Black Bat were free from the restraints. They didn't give too much thought to Naruto's words, but they also didn't let go of the words.

The words drilled in to their minds and brought forth the regrets and desires. Naruto's speech was always laced with his chakra that tried to connect with others and show them what he wanted.

His words made them think about the problems of the current system but they also had nothing from Naruto to understand his path.

To them he might be another lunatic, a powerful lunatic.

Unlike Black Bat, his words did attract Huntress more. It piqued her interest especially that gesture, why did he act so close with her?

Was he hitting on her or was there an actual reason?

Huntress left Black Bat as she wasn't part of the team and didn't want her father to get involved. She understood that the gesture was calculated to keep her thinking about it.