Metaru Ikusa
Disclaimer-I do not own Naruto in anyway shape or form nor do I own the Armored Core series on where I get some of my meche ideas and the faction of RAVEN. What I do own are the meches that I come up with, the plot and the Universe that they are fighting in, as this is an AU. And on a side not to flamers, KISS MY SHINY WHITE ASS!!!!
By Franklin D. Rooosevelt
Chapter One-War's Welcome
The gunshots blasted through the air, making the ground shake with its very force. The sound of soldiers screaming filled the city streets like a virus as the soldiers tried to kill their enemies with slugs of steel and lead. Helicopters flew overhead like the vultures in a desert, picking off the soldiers that went astray. Tanks shot large shells of heavy steel, sending them into buildings as well as mechanical monsters. The sounds of war and death sliced through the air like a razor through skin. Many of the fighters and metal monsters wore either burgundy or silver armor with insignias in them representing some sort of team or country.
A single giant metal bird flew overhead, commanding the skies with loud cries of bullets. Its many mouths spat out silver slugs at the ground, hitting several soldiers along the way. When it neared the end of the battleground, the end with the most red soldiers. Then with a loud screech, the hatch door on the stomach dropped a large metal monster.
The thing made it to the ground with a loud shockwave, quaking the ground. As the dust that was kicked up settled back down to the ground, the beast rose to its feet. The machine was bipedal with a human like, slim figure. The legs were front jointed, as a human's would be. The torso jutted forward in a sleek, shuttle like manner. The arms were like the legs, slim and human like with black insides on the armor of the hands. It's glorious shiny silver armor separates to show many black cords, tubes and gears in the joints.
In its right hand was a long black gun with several red stripes running down the length of the barrel. The left forearm held a large blue canister with green rods sticking out of it connected to the arm by thick cables. Both of the shoulders held four flat columns that were at a right angel with the floor, lining its back.
With unseen quickness the large mechanical beast moved through the streets, hovering above the ground a few meters, its right arm rose, pointing the large gun at its enemies. Its finger pulled the trigger, blasting three large green blasts at the red metal vultures. The skin of the vultures flew in molting heaps of steel, pelting the ground and the buildings near it.
Then the silver giant noticed something. Quickly it turned around before jutting back, dodging several large slugs. The smoke, leading up to a red, metal beast, descried their path. It was like the silver one, humanoid but it was a lot larger then the silver one. The legs were large with the calves of them being like large church bells. The torso of it was flat and had pods on the shoulders rather then the vents on the back. The arms were like the legs really think plated. The shoulders were like wrecking balls with large yellow bolts. The head was like a large camcorder, having two blue lenses and a large spike going off the side.
The right hand held a large black rifle with some sort of iron sight on it. The left forearm held a large rod with some sort of bell like nozzle and several black cords connecting to the back of the metallic monster. The shoulders both had large, white steel boxes that seemed to flap open.
Quickly raising the rifle, the red monster shot, trying to kill its opponent. The silver giant seemed to smirk as it moved to the side and raised its black weapon to fire at the red giant. With a quick finger, three blasts of energy fired out of the square like barrel of silver juggernaut's weapon. The crimson beast jumped up in the air, leaving a pulse of energy as he did so. The green energy blasted into the building behind the crimson beast, leaving it in a pile of ruble.
The silver monstrosity looked up as the red beast came down to earth. Its glorious silver arm dropped slightly before a pulse of energy went through it, igniting the blue energy sword. Its red opponent landed in front of the soldier in silver, swinging the weapon in its left hand onto the head of the silver giant.
The silver mass of metal flew back a bit before landing on its feet and staggering backwards, smashing into the building behind him. Glass and concrete hit the floor as the beast moved out of the building, allowing it to crumble down slightly. With the quick shake of its metallic body, debris flew off, hitting the soldiers beneath it.
The red juggernaut looked at its silver opponent before letting out steam out off the pods on its torso. The pods seemed to hover off the shoulders, looking like small guns ready to fire at their target, the silver soldier.
But the thinner fighter saw it coming. The vents on its back opened up, revealing blue energy. The energy pulse off its back, sending him forward at a faster speed then it would normally go. With quick precision, it dodged the red beams coming from the hovering pod like guns. Its left silver plated arm dropped down once again before emitting a pulse of energy and activating the blue energy sword.
The red giant seemed to scowl as it raised the bell like nozzle again, aiming it at the silver giant. With a quick finger, the bell-like nozzle belched out a large stream of flame at its opponent. Its opponent was covered in the flame as well as the streets. As if it was sure that its opponent was dead, the red monster allowed his arms to drop their guard.
But it was a mistake that would cost it its life.
The silver giant burst out of the flame with its blue blade extended. Its arm flicked as the mass of moving metal parts, slicing off the arm that held the flamethrower. The red metal clanged against the floor, breaking the asphalt and concrete that was below it as well as taking a few lives.
The silver warrior stopped behind its red opponent before turning clockwise. Its large black gun smacked against the larger giant, sending it sprawling to the side. Its metallic body smacked against a building, sending a shake through it. Glass and stone fell from the structure, adding more to the rubble below.
The red mass pulled its body out, shaking in pain as it did so. The armor was scared from the battle, making the soldier lose its previous glory that it came in with. Its blue eyes glared at the silver mass. The boxes on its shoulders opened revealing four missiles in each box as the flat columns on the silver giant flipped to where they were pointing at the red mass of metal, going horizontal with the ground.
In a flash, the city and all the on lookers were devastated. The columns were quick to gain energy and blast streams of blue plasma off as the missiles were launched from the boxes in a stream of fire and smoke. The missiles and the streams of blue plasma collided, making a large explosion and sending out a large shockwave that shattered the rest of the glass in the area that the two armored soldiers were fighting in.
Before the red giant could move, it felt several blasts of blue energy hit in the left side. The enter left breast was torn off revealing many components that made up the cockpit in the core. The steal was warped and the many cords that helped in moving the arm shot out sparks, making it almost irreparable.
As the smoke settled, the silver soldiers showed itself as it raised its black gun. The columns now laid flat against its back going at a right angle to the floor. The fallen red giant raised its rifle in retaliation, shaking as the pain wracked through its body. With a loud crash, it was hit with green energy. The red body of steal stopped moving, dropping its arm to the floor. The sparks stopped flying and the body stopped twitching in pain. The red monster had lost the battle.
The operator in the silver monster smiled as he looked at the screen. Everything around him was a dark red. Around him were several screens, showing the damage that he took and the status that the core was in. the main screen also had two small screens coming off it, one showing weapons path and the other showing a radar. The main screen showed elevation as well as what was in front of him.
The pilot smirked as he pressed the button on the side of his helmet. "Head Quarters, this is Raven AC Unit 009 reporting in over," he spoke in to the mice that was hanging off the helmet.
"Head Quarters to Unit 009, what is your status," a static female voice called in, making the pilot grin.
"Mission accomplished, all ground units are taken out as well as the enemy AC unit that intelligence had picked up earlier," he responded. "Funny though, it seemed like it knew a few things about me and tried to block as best as it could."
"What was that?" the voice called back.
"Nothing, probably nothing."
"Alright, just hold still till King Raven comes and picks you up and do not go outside the AC. We are not certain if the sweepers had completed their job."
The pilot shook his head as he pressed a button, making the metal giant kneel. When the meche was kneeled fully to the ground the sleek shuttle like torso started to split into three parts, revealing the cockpit and the pilot.
The pilot was dressed in black jeans and a black tank top covered by a black jacket. Around his neck was a necklace with a small green jewel. His skin looked tan if what was exposed was anything to go by. He also seemed around six foot and twenty to twenty-two years old and moderately skinny. With steady hands, he removed the helmet and placed it near the seat, revealing his face. His face seemed to be devoid of any baby fat, much like his body was. His spiky blonde hair seemed to frame his face due to the helmet that he was wearing. Along his cheeks were six whisker marks, three on each side.
"Whatever you say boss lady," the blonde mumbled as he got out of the cockpit and reached the floor. He closed his blue fox-like eyes as he opened his arms and smelled the air. "Kami, I love the smell of a battle field. The destruction, the blood, the gunpowder…"
Before he could complete his sentence, the blonde heard some movement from the remains of the fallen soldier. His body moved to it, looking at the breast as it was kicked open. He looked at a man with dark hair crawl out of it. The man was in pain as he crawled out. The blood that he was covered in dripped onto parts as he made his way out of the metal beast. What made him abnormal to any human was that he had two fox like ears perched on top of his head as well as a tail coming out of his tailbone.
The man made it to the ground before he was slammed against the leg of his AC. When he looked into the eyes of the person that slammed him, he only cursed where he was. His opponent had not left like he expected. And it seemed like his captor was psychotic if the smile on his tanned features were right.
"So, what is it that you are here for?" the blonde asked with a certain ring that spelled crazy.
The man seemed to snort before answering the blonde's question. "Fryd'c ed du oui Hysegywa Hynidu?"
The blonde shook his head before hitting the man in the stomach with his free hand. "You know that is not the answer I was looking for right kitsune?"
The dark haired kitsune only laughed as he looked into the blonde's eyes. "So, you don't even know your own language eh Naruto?" he asked before getting hit in the face by a fist.
"Ruf'c drec vun yh yhcfan?" the blonde asked. With a shimmer, the blonde was slightly different. His ears were now on top of his head and akin to a fox with blonde fur. "Huf dymg, fryd yht ruf tu oui ghuf sa?"
The kitsune chuckled lightly before coughing up some blood in a deadly manner, as if he was coughing his life away." Fryd fa ghuf ypuid oui? Oui yna yh Y Lmycc YL bemud dryd banvanc y luspehydeuh uv cbaat yht cdnahkdr. Oui yna uha uv dra vaf bina pmuut gedcihac eh dra Nyjah Luna yht dra ehdanacd uv dra xiaah. Yc du ruf fa kud dryd, drana ec y luhdyld dryd ec jano ghufmatkypma."
Naruto cocked his head to the side. "Fryd fuimt ouin xiaah fyhd fedr sa?"
The dieing man in front of the younger kitsune laughed at the question, as if it was obvious. "Famm, cra fyhdc dra uha dryd lyh aht drec fyn pylg du ran."
Naruto sighed as he started to walk away from the scene, reaching his hand into his jacket. "What afraid to kill one of your own?!" the downed kitsune yelled. "The battle that we had earlier sure as hell showed something different! I don't see what the queen sees in you! You are nothing but a pansy! You don't deserve to be one of…."
Before he could finish his little speech, Naruto had planted a bullet through the man's head with the pistol that he pulled out of his jacket. Blood leaked out of the wound as his eyes grew wide in shock. As the crimson liquid flowed down past his eyes, he flopped over, showing a gaping hole about the size of a fist. Brain matter mixed with blood painted a small portion on the downed AC unit.
"Dyga dryd oui cuh uv y pedlr," the blonde muttered before throwing the pistol near the now dead kitsune's hand and walking into his AC. With the quick press of a button, the core closed as Naruto strapped on his helmet, shimmering to hide his appendages.
"Unit 009, sensors had detected a shooting in your area, an you confirm?" the same female voice cackled through his radio.
"Yes, the enemy was alive and shot himself with a standard ground unit pistol," the blonde said. "Anyways, from the looks of the emblem and the dead body below, I would say that all enemy units that occupied this area till now were that of Kitsune Syndicate."
"Roger, King Raven should be there to crane you in right about now."
"Alright, see back at head quarters Baa-chan," the blonde broke out with a smile, only getting wider as he listened to the ranting and raving of the female static voice.
A large plane came overhead, similar to the one that brought Naruto there in the first place. Large clamp like object attached to a steel cord fell down slowly, making sure not to do too much damage to the AC. With a quick grip, the crane was lifting the large mass of metal into the air.
Naruto sighed as he made inside the King Raven. Behind him was another meche. It was slightly large then his with lead based weaponry. It was also blockier and was painted black as the night instead of silver. As the shuttle like torso hissed and opened up, allowing Naruto to get out, he heard a voice from the side. "So dobe, you hade to fight a Kitsune Syndicate member eh?"
"What's it to you teme?" the blonde retorted as he looked at the owner of the voice. He was a man around the blonde's age. He had pale skin and coal black eyes, opting to wear a black jumpsuit with blue pin striping. His hair was slicked back with two bangs going down his face, making it looks something akin to a chicken's ass.
"You know, it would be wise to actually just answer the question, Namikaze," the man spoke out as he walked past the blonde haired man.
"Yeah, but it wouldn't be as much fun Sasuke," Naruto retorted as he followed the black haired man into the cockpit.
"Would you two quit it?!" they heard a male voice call out from the door leading into the cockpit. The man that yelled at them was about ten years older then them. An eye patch covered his left eye. His silver hair seemed to defy gravity, going to the left slightly due to the eye patch. His visible eye was like Sasuke's, black as coal. His choice of wear seemed to be like a standard, a gray jumpsuit. "I swear, you two fight more then there are ground units. Now come on, it is about two hours until we reach HQ so we might as well go over what happened."
Naruto and Sasuke only nodded as they followed the silver haired man into the cockpit.
A/N-Well, this is my first story and I like what I see on it. The language that I used for the Kitsune language thing is Al Bhed as I did not want to translate what I wanted to use, Latin. So, here is the conversation in order
(What's it to you Namikaze Naruto?)
(How's this for an answer?)
(Now talk, what and how do you know about me?)
(What we know about you? You are an A Class AC pilot that prefers a combination of speed and strength. You are one of the few pure blood kitsunes in the Raven Core and the interest of the queen. As to how we got that, there is a contact that is very knowledgeable.)
(What would your queen want with me?)
(Well, she wants the one that can end this war back to her.)
(Take that you son of a bitch.)
Some of the Al Bhed dialogue might be off by a few letters but that is because my actual lettering of regular words was off. So, do not reprehend me on that. And the title Metaru Ikusa should mean Metal War, if I am wrong please correct me. So, please help me out and we will be fine. Also, this is a very loose crossover so do not correct me on the weapons and the AC units. That would be why it is not in the crossover section