Chapter 36

Hearing the voice calling out to him, Naruto slipped through the women sleeping with him and stood up feeling terribly slow.

The affect still hadn't washed away from his system as the head was just getting back into shape and needed more rest.

He usually slept five hours and he had slept for 3 hours now but sleep didn't matter since it was his regeneration and healing that mattered, and both were slowed down from the imbalance in the system.

His body wanted him to continue sleeping in that comfortable position but Kara's voice couldn't be denied.

He could feel the need.

He could feel the frustration in that voice.

She would have never asked him if it wasn't important and looking at her face, it wasn't hard to see that she didn't want to do this.

"Sorry"

"No problem, it must be something important and all this is my fault so don't apologize." Naruto said as he smiled and tapped her cheek

"Yeah, it is."

"The issue?"

"There is something wrong with the vegetation around the world. Its spreading and nothing can stop it." Kara replied as they walked out of the room

"Let me see, what I can find out." Naruto held her hand and both of them teleported to earth above the roof of a building in Metropolis as he had left a seal.

'Kurama I need your help' Naruto said as he they flew down to the park nearby and sat down on the grass

'I am here'

Closing his eyes, Naruto entered sage mode and let his senses interact with the vegetation around him.

He could feel the increase in nature energy around the planet as something was guiding it.

"Superman, Flash, Blue Beetle, Impulse, Wonder woman" Naruto muttered as he felt their seals and knew they weren't in anything important so summoned them

"Dreamer, what are you doing?" Clark asked as he saw Naruto out of bed and the same went for Impulse and Jaime

They were worried for their friend and even his face didn't hide the weakness that he was experiencing.

"I am here to guide you through this problem. Someone is trying to cover the planet with plants."

With his answer they noticed that the trees were moving.

"Did you find the culprit?" Diana asked as she stood beside Donna

Donna appeared here because she had been holding Diana's hand when the teleportation took place.

"Yes, follow me" Naruto wasn't in the mood to talk and he was having a hard time focusing so he needed to finish this as fast as possible

He didn't even have the ability to control flight properly and let Kurama handle it as he didn't want to crash into buildings.

Flying quietly the group arrived in a land that used to be a desert but now was filled with green.

It was enormous and without knowledge finding anything here would be too much but Naruto could see the giant glowing sign.

I am here.

They really weren't trying to hide.

The group flew through the vegetation and found themselves in a small clearing where they found a woman with red hair.

"Poison Ivy! How?" Kara asked as they saw that the woman already expected them as she sat casually on a throne made of wines

"I am blessed by nature to carry out its will." Pamela replied as she stood up and focused on Naruto

"Are you here to join me?"

"Why don't you stop? Just help out in place where it is needed and not spread it over things, and destroy life. Humans are part of nature." Naruto tried talking to her as she felt familiar somehow

"That is only a temporary solution. Humans will burn away my efforts and capitalize on it. It's their greedy nature that can never be cured."

"Greed, yes. Everyone is greedy at some point. Aren't you acting greedy now? Aren't you acting like the humans you despise?

At this time of difficulty you chose to capitalize on it and spread your influence instead of helping out. Do you think a world filled with vampires is better than this?" Naruto just felt so tired that his words felt aggressive

"I will handle them the same way. They won't be able to do anything once this process if finished."

"No need to talk with the crazy bitch, take her down." Kara was just feeling angry listening to this talk

With her words all of them exploded into action but Pamela was able to keep them away as this was her sanctuary where her powers were the strongest.

The plants were abnormally strong that even Kara got captured along with the rest of them.

"Won't you consider?"

"Why don't you consider joining me? We are the same, chosen of nature."

Naruto sighed, 'Is it ready?'

'Yes'

"Take her down" Naruto muttered as Kurama released the nature energy he had gathered and collided with Pamela's causing her to falter and lose control

They could have handled this without Naruto but that would cause massive destruction and burn down this greenery causing an increase in the world's problems.

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"What do we do about her now?" Impulse asked as her powers were too strong now and they didn't know the limits

"We are taking her in. She will just escape because her powers work differently and won't be stopped by any seal in my list." Naruto said as he looked at the woman whose neck he was holding

It would be so easy to end her life.

Just twist the neck and all this trouble would go away.

Just one nice twist.

Naruto felt those thoughts appear in his weakened mind especially under the pressure from Crucifier and Pamela's complete disregard for human life.

Letting go as the teleportation seal and paralysis seal spread, Naruto stood up.

"Are you serious? Why not let the JL handle it?" Kara asked as she forced him to look her way

"I think you have done enough. Let us handle this and we will take care of her new powers." Clark intervened before a fight started between them

Looking at them both, 'Why is life so difficult some times?'

"I need her once I am feeling better. She has some connection to my case. I need to know what the connection is so you can keep her for now." Naruto replied

"I understood. We will see if we can find it for you." Clark said as he picked up Pamela and left with the team

"You are starting to get on my nerves. Why can't you ask for help without being reminded? Even now when you can barely do anything, your mind chose what you would do naturally. You need to stop thinking like that or you will burn out soon enough. Why can't you see how it affects us?"

"Come on Kara, it was an honest mistake. I am trying to change but nobody changes in a single night."

"I don't believe you. I wonder if you are even trying."

"What do you want me to do then?"

"I want you stop taking life threatening choices. Is it that hard to comprehend?"

"I never thought my life was in danger when I acted."

"Lier lier lier, your danger sense would have told you that it was dangerous."

Seeing her cry and hit him, Naruto realized that his obsession with the solution had caused him to completely ignore the feeling.

How did that happen?

Was he really so focused on something that he could end up dying without realizing?

Flying through the trees as Kara had crashed into him and punched his face, Naruto could only think of those problems while he barely felt the pain as Kara wasn't punching seriously.

"Stop, I will try harder. I will take any punishment if I act like this again." Naruto caught her arm and hugged her

"I will imprison you."

"I don't mind."

"Do you?"

"Actions tell more than words so let us see." Naruto replied as he wiped her tears

Really it was painful hurting your loved ones emotionally.

But things didn't get better from this day and became worse as Green arrow was killed. Nobody knew how it happened but his mansion exploded while he was inside.

There was no chance of survival as the explosion was powerful enough to destroy buildings from afar and killed thousands of people.

The death of a friend and the mounting pressure was getting to everyone's head while the forces in the darkness were moving towards their goal.

This death finally snapped Impulse as he decided to travel into the future to try and find a solution to the problem.

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"Are we really doing this?" Jaime asked as he saw Impulse run around making a machine that was supposed to get them to the future

"We have no choice. People are dying and we have not found a lead. Only the future can unravel the mysteries and maybe give us a solution."

"What if we end up dying? The enemy could have taken over."

"It's a risk we have to take and I doubt the enemy can take over. The only problem is the mounting deaths." Impulse sounded calm and collected but inside he was feeling guilt and depression eating away at him

This was not part of the future and it was looking worse than what he had ever encountered in the future.

Wally was still alive but Impulse was feeling that he might end up dead sooner or later by the hero killer if they didn't find out what was hunting them.

"I told Kara."

"What?"

"I think we needed more help."

"Dude, it becomes worse with too many people. We could get stranded in the time stream or get purged by the natural order. There is also the Time freaking police, it could notice us."

"You could have explained that."

"Ugghhhhhh, Let's get this over with before she appears." Impulse sped up and finished up the machine

He never thought it would ever come to this but life was a cruel mistress.

Starting it up, impulse had designed it to explode once they passed through so no one else could use it.

"I am coming" Kara crashed into them when they were about to enter and all three of them passed through the portal

This was her chance to make things right.

Naruto was breaking down and everyone else was the same. Depression was spreading at the amounts of death around them.

Many of their friends got kidnapped and even killed while they had been unable to stop anything.

The only one that could help them was Dr. Fate but he seems to have disappeared at the beginning of this problem.

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