The Little Monster

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"Well, that doesn't sound good. We have to deal with two power-obsessed maniacs and some kidnapped royal kid! You wanted some action kid, well you sure got it!" exclaimed Flash sarcastically, looking at his sidekick. That statement put Flash on the receiving end of a harsh bat-glare as Batman sternly told the young team that they would not participate in the mission, unless absolutely necessary and that the only reason they were still even here was because he didn't have the time to make sure that they made it out of the building safely.

"So now we are totally useless! You don't trust us at all! We should have just left with Speedy!" fumed Dick.

"I know you all want to prove yourselves, but now is not the time. This is the mission, and the mission always goes before your petty wants," chided Wonder Woman.

"Well, for starters, we should hack and read the data on the computer that the men used to open the door," said Kaldur pointing towards a very expensive and high-tech computer located to the right of the door.

After knocking out the guards, what they found in the computer was a very complex firewall which even took Batman a few minutes to hack, and that's saying something. Once the firewall was hacked and some files opened, the team found a document saying the purpose of the lab, as well as some other information. This is what it said:

LabNumber: 6B
Lab Purpose: To contain and gather data about the jinchuriki of the Kyuubi. The final goal is to be able to control the Kyuubi.
Subject: Naruto Uzumaki- Namikaze
Age: 4
Years Since Capture: 4
Birthplace: Konoha, Hi no Kuni, Hidden Continent
Father: Minato Namikaze
Mother: Kushina Uzumaki
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"Oh my God, I didn't know that Minato had a son! I thought the Kyuubi was killed! Things must have been really bad for Minato to turn his kid into a jinchuriki. We have to get that kid out of there, and fast. Just imagine what Orochimaru and Lex Luthor could do with all that power!"exclaimed the Flash.

"You're right, this is not good, not good at all," muttered Batman.

What is a jinchuriki, what is the Hidden Continent, and who is Minato? No one is telling us anything!" complain Wally.

"Well, it's all kind of hard to explain," said Martian Manhunter, "In the Hidden Continent, there is fuinjutsu, the art of sealing things. With sealing, you can store things in objects without them physically being there after you stored them. It's like a magic trick, when you store something, it disappears, and when you want what was ever stored in there you can take it back out."

"A jinchuriki is someone who has a bijuu, or an extremely big powerful tailed demon, stored in them. There are only nine bijuu and each one has a different amount of tails. The more tails it has, the stronger it is. So this Naruto, has the Kyuubi, or nine tailed fox, sealed in him. This also means that Orochimaru and Lex Luthor are trying to take control of the Kyuubi and it's power, which as you can probably guess is really bad."

"And the whole Hidden Continent thing?"

"There actually eight continents. The eighth one, which we call the Hidden Continent, is hidden, similarly to Wonder Woman's homeland. It is located in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. Most of the people there have powers and civilizations are based on that. The countries have two leaders, a feudal lord and a Kage. Minato was a very strong man and the fourth Hokage. He died four years ago when the Kyuubi attacked Konoha. We are assuming Minato sealed the Kyuubi into Naruto during the attack."

"Now, then. It's time to go. Be careful and don't do anything dramatic. Got it?" said Batman sternly. He opened the door panel, and they stealthy entered the room.
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The room was big and from the rafters, where the team was hiding, could be seen a large glass cell. In the cell could be seen a red, bubbly  substance coming off of a crimson-colored creature that was surrounded by the men that Lex Luthor brought with him,

"What is that?" asked Kaldur.

"That my friends, is a very angry Jinchuriki," commented the Flash, eyeing the creature intensely.

"Let the men knock out the kid before we do anything, that chakra coming off of him can burn you really badly," said Batman.
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The men approached the monster-like child with a box. The men opened the box and removed a large net. The net looked similar to the shock-nets that Batman used except that the small shock-spheres in the net glowed a light blue. The blue glow cane from small gems, the same used in the first Hokage's necklace. The gems were able to suppress bijuu chakra, and there for, weaken the Jinchuriki. The men then proceeded to put on their gas masks and fill the room with sleep gas.

The gas didn't seem to affect the beast at all, in fact, it seemed to make it even angrier and more energized. The beast lashed out at the men, taking several of them out. The men started to shoot the creature with tranquilizer darts, but these also had no effect, not even sticking into the beast. Finally the men cornered the beast and threw the blue net over it. This caused the beast to cry out in pain and the red substance surrounding the beast faded. The beasts claws and fangs shrank, and soon a little bit could be seen. The boy was hard to make out because he was so burnt from the red substance. He was small, extremely skinny, and blond. As the boy fell unconscious, the men fell upon him.

"That's our cue," said Batman and the team jumped down below.

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