Ronin's Story

Akira Autoro was walking along the streets of Gotham to get to his shift at Wayne Enterprises on time, whilst getting several texts on his phone from several of his friends and ex girlfriends. He sighed at the fact he can't hold together a relationship for a long period of time whilst shoving his hands into his pockets and kept walking towards the street he was supposed to get on to walk on to the Employee's entrance of his work.

It was then Akira heard screaming coming from around the corner. He looked to see people panicking and running from all directions. Realizing that there might be a situation nearby, Akira ran towards the nearest alley to get ready for another line of work.

"My Boss is gonna skin me alive if I'm late, but I gotta do what I gotta do." He muttered as he pulled out an amulet with the Japanese word for prayer on it and started to mutter words into it as if he was praying. As he does so the Amulet starts to glow with a technological glow as his clothes immediately turn into a modernized version of samurai armor with twin Katanas. "I'll just tell her that traffic held me up. Right now Ronin has some work to do."

With that Ronin ran back out to investigate the problem. He noticed two people, a young man and young woman, standing at the street and kept watching the civilians run by. He walked over towards them calmly hoping that they might not be the culprits behind this.

"Good morning folks." Ronin stated simply. "It looks like there's a bit of trouble brewing around the street. I do hope someone give me a nice explanation without me having to use brute force." He placed one of his hands against one of his katanas just in case violence started to erupt. "Because brute force is totally unnecessary."

Daisuke was just minding his own business in his apartment until he heard some havoc going on. He looked out of his window and saw two guys, one man and the other a small girl. Both seemed to be arguing, yet they seem to be working together.

"By Noah's Ark," he said, "those punks are taking my gig! I'll show 'em to mess with me!"

He ran outside, jumped at a nearby window, and landed in the streets. He began walking to where they were casually while knocking out anyone who came in contact with him, which was pretty much everyone else. When he was sure he was a few feet away, he transformed into his "armored" state. If they were going to mess around in his street, they might as well taste the steel in his hand. That was, of course, until some hero arrived.

"Let me guess, a new hero?" he thought, "More like some comic book maniac gone mad. I better straight out his brain with theirs. Yeah, nice plan."

"Hey you three!" he shouted, "Yeah, you! Get off my street you little punks! Unless ya wanna taste my foot!"

He pounced first at the hero. Eliminate the meddlers before the big bait. He didn't want anyone taking his fun from him, be them hero or villain.

Ronin looked to find some person in some metallic suit shouting at not only him but the two people he was trying to ask. "Last time I checked, the street is open to the public of Gotham." He stated only to watch as this person charged at him. He only had one choice in the matter as he activated his rocket boots to give him a burst of flight to get into the air and away from the hit range of his charge. "Don't make decide to send your ass to New Arkham mate."

In his mind Akira was not in a happy mood about having two problems come charging at him. "Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire." he thought, it was then he looked where the metallic armored man came from and noticed knocked out civilians. "I also see you have a penchant for aggressiveness and unnecessary assault on the public. I can classify you as a loose cannon bakaero. You bakaero, I really hate dealing with two problems at once, two possible suspects and one angry idiot with no respect for the safety of the normal citizens, its guys like you that make me sick and mad." He angrily drew a katana and got into a ready stance.

Thirteen and Deco

The streets of Gotham

Thirteen shifted her attention to the scene below her, observing the humans as they crowded around each other. She stood at the top of the largest skyscraper, concealed with Deco's concealment magic. The two of them, to any other person would appear as if they were not there. She was not familiar with any of the people below her, though names would ring a bell. "That one looks like a pain." Deco said from beside her, looking down at a pink haired female. Deco has been the only person she had any kind of real human interaction with, and he was also the one who had taught her most human things. Though she was half human, she was born only a year ago - in an underground facility. What worked in her favor was her ability to pick up knowledge immediately, like learning a language overnight, and the inability to forget. Deco shoved his has in his pockets, though the people beneath him would look like mere dots to most, his vision allowed him to see them as if they were right beneath him. "If the self-proclaimed heroes are stupid enough to turn against one another, then let them destroy each other." His tone was nearly monotone, he wasn't amused. He and Thirteen had come here after following the suspicious female and her accomplice, but hadn't expected so many others to throw themselves onto the scene first.

Thirteen tilted her had slightly, the two of them had chosen to observe for the time being, staying unseen on the ledge of the building. "Their actions are unfavorable to those around them." Thirteen said to Deco. "Civilian death probabilty should they get in the middle is quite high." Deco didn't respond, but instead stared off into oblivious with a bored expression on his face. "One is not human." Thirteen stated. "Oh, interesting." Deco responded, getting into a crouched position watching the two males face off against one another. "Now that doesn't solve our problem does it?" Thirteen looked down at him and back to the people beneath her, the one that wasn't human peaked her interest. However, that wasn't too important at the time being, right now, two villains as society called them - or possible villains were going to get away if she didn't stop them now. The fact the two heroes were facing off towards one another caused her to lose a lot of hope for this day and times society at large. They needed to get their priorities straight. However, she would not argue with this subject, she in fact did not like to work with others, teams were beyond her - Deco was the only person she could fight beside. "Lets go."

The two were then teleported to the street below, a small distance from the others. At this moment, the two were made visable. While neither of them had particular super hero costumes, Thirteen wore a decorative outfit, one of which she would change on occasion. While Deco, just wore a black jacket, white tank top and black jeans with various chains. "You two are in the way." Deco said to the guys in front of them. "Go be idiotic elsewhere." somehow he said this with a straight face. "Thirteen's eyes wandered over to the pink haired girl, her left arm turning into a thin sword and her right into a large one - which looked impossible for her to manage. "I have no interest in anyone but you."

"Just remember this then Air-Runner, you decided to be a little baka about this whole thing." Ronin stated. With that Ronin flew forward to give him a square punch to the Air-Runner's face in attempt to send him flying, when all of a sudden his left wrist then started to flash and blare at him.

"My five minute warning! Shoot!" he muttered to himself. "Gotta jet once I whack this guy's head into gear." As he said this he then noticed that there were a few other people coming in to investigate the problem. "Or I can just jet now, four's something but six is definitely a crowd in my book."

With that he looked at Air-Runner and simply stated. "We'll fight each other another time. Just remember Air-Runner, don't barrel into trouble while I'm around. I fully intend to pick up where the Justice League left off and I don't want a berserk street fighter hurting any innocent people on the sidelines. I have enough on my plate as it is."

Ronin then flew in the direction of Wayne Enterprises and landed in an alley to change into his normal clothing and return to rushing to work as Akira Autoro. "I better hurry before my boss decides to tan my hide inside out!" he muttered before running to the employee's entrance as fast as he could.

"Coward..." Daisuke snarled, "...there is no Justice League. There never is and there never was!!! There are no such things as 'Heroes' in this world, I thought you figured that out..."

Air-Runner descended to where there are four strangers. The two new ones seemed friendly, the others, not. Either of the two seemed interesting enough to make him consider joining them. But he had no time for joining sides. He still had some anger left in him that he wanted to unleash, but both sides seemed...hostile. It would be fun.

"Well," Air-Runner said, still mad, "what are you doing here?!"

Juilet raced towards the elevator as the big gold door sealed shut. "Damn it" She muttered to herself her hair falling out of the messy pony tail she threw it up in, her lab coat looked like she got in a fight with a painter's smock and the smock won. She sighed looking at her watching pressing the button for the Elevator again. She ran her finger of the WE on the door losing herself in thought. She glanced over clearing her throat as a young guy came barreling towards her. She tossed him a smile "I guess I am not the only white rabbit today then?" She flushed at herself pressing the button a few more times. She quickly found herself going over her points she hated having to come to the Wayne building to ask for grants to keep working. As the door open she slipped in pressing the top floor pressing her back to the wall.

Hex and Edge watched silently as the two "heroes" began arguing. The witch rolled her eyes and looked over at Edge.
"Don't they know that we're the bad guys?" She asked, obviously annoyed. Edge just shrugged his shoulders, but his attention was caught by the pink haired girl and her dark companion.
It was like looking into some strange mirror and that made Hex laugh.

"I think their jacking our style, Edge." She said, chuckling madly. But when the girl's arms turned into swords, the witch stopped. "Edge, I think we found a power source."
Out of the corner of her eye she saw him nod at her. One of the heroes left, but the other stayed. "One, two, three, four..." Hex counted. She looked over to Air-Runner and grimanced. "Five. I just hate odd numbers." She lifted her hand to him and sent out a powerful blast of pink energy, sending him tumbling into an alley behind him.

She turned her attention back to the couple in front of her. "That's very flattering." she said smiling. "Did, you hear Edge? She's only interested in me."
She snapped her head back to the girl. "I'm sorry, Hun, but I don't swing that way. But you can have my friend, Edge. Just a warning, he likes to bite."
Edge opened his mouth to reveal his canines, long and sharp. He took out his deck of cards and selected two that he thought would suit a battle like this. He dropped them on the ground and put his deck away. A large wolf jumped out of one of the cards, with long black fur and eyes that glowed with an unearthly fire. It opened it's mouth to snarl and molten lava dripped onto the floor like saliva. A white mist leaked from the other card and the the upper body of a woman was visable. She was young and pale, with long fair hair. She wore a grey gown that was tattered and ripped. Her silver eyes stared out at the young man.
"Sorry." Darkedge said to the other boy. "Attack." His Hellhound leaped at the boy, while the woman stayed back to see what would happen.

Hex snapped her fingers and a pink machine gun formed in her hand. She threw it up in the air, where it floated and aimed itself at the strange girl.
"Bang Bang." Hex said and made a motion with her hand, as if she was pulling the trigger of the gun, which sent out a spray of bullets in the girl's direction.

***

"Right on time." Gabe said with a smile as he entered Wayne Enterprises in a nice suit. He had a job interview and he was not planning to walk away without a job.

Akira looked at the young woman and flashed a quick grin and a nod as he ran to another elevator and hit the button for the department he worked in, manufacturing and testing technology. He hoped he wasn't late for work when he got there as he put his reading glasses on. "I'll just tell the boss I was plain and simply in a bit of traffic due to the disturbance in the city with those crazies with the magic and the berserk man in the metal outfit." he then kept thinking to himself on what he said to Air-Runner.

"Maybe I was a bit dreaming the impossible dream there." He said to himself as the elevator opened and he heard one simple sentence that he loathed very dearly in all his life.

"Autoro! You're late again!" came the screeching voice of his supervisor. Akira slowly frowned as he walked to his station and gave his good morning to his general co-workers.

"Sorry I'm late boss, some crazy stuff happening downtown sorta jammed up the traffic and I had to take another route in a hurry." he called out as he then started to work on one of the department's ambitious projects whilst he kept his eye out for things that he could use for when he's out and about as Ronin. "Ah, I love work sometimes."

Akira was hard at work on one of the many prototypes of the numerous projects at the department, tinkering and adjusting parts as described in small blueprints upon his desk. "This is where the fun begins." he muttered as he worked and listened to the noises of the test department next door testing out the projects that he and other co-workers took pride in building.

Akira sighed as he then finished his part in the project and handed off the work to a member of his team to double check. That gave him a few minutes of a break time before the next project was handed to him so he simply sat in thought looking at spare parts on his desk and wondered what to do with them.

"Well, I could always try to use some of these to upgrade the boots to make them more efficient in flying, or, make a few other knick knacks for investigations that may require to go into another environment like per say, underwater?" He thought, "Or what if I had to go to a reasonably cold environment..? Oh no no no that'll probably never happen unless I suddenly get fired from my job. But I like my job, and I like my pain in the butt boss, I just wonder sometimes about who was the person who decided to put Wayne Enterprises back into business..."

As his thoughts drifted from planning out things to the life he lead nowadays, he pondered about the fact that in both his work and his other job as Ronin, he was alone. That Air Runner dude gave him a hard time about being a hero, he actually said that heroes aren't real.

"That dude didn't grow up in Metropolis like I did." he said to himself before resuming a possible crucial thought. "I can't just keep up with fighting crime and other threats on my own... I need a helping hand."