Hello readers! This the Phantom Penance, and I have returned with a whole new fic!
I may not be as frequent with this one as opposed to the man others I have been working on because they're all long term fanfics and it's really hard to juggle them one at a time.
But this one…has been boiling in my mind since March, so I'd thought I'd get a move on it.
First Naruto and X-Men fanfic I HAVE EVER MADE, TELL ME HOW YOU GUYS LIKE IT! (DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING)
SECOND SIGHT
Chapter 1: Fall of the Leaf
To the one who finds this journal, this is a safety measure in case our plans are foiled and we have somehow managed to lose our precious memory, it is placed to remind you who you are and what your purpose is in life. Our name is En Sabah Nur, or the First One in the common tongue. We have spent many nights in the harsh void that was the desert and survived it, better yet, we became its rightful master.
We are the kings of the desert and everyone who thrives on it because of one singular reason: we posses the powers of a god, WE are a god. Opposition and weakness was not and will not be tolerated in our kingdom because like the desert itself, only the strong shall be granted the precious gift of life in our rule.
Recently, I had discovered a new ability that we had amassed through the combination of our divine power and technology, we were virtually impenetrable to the throes of time. This knowledge had further cemented my belief that I alone was destined to rule, to lead only the worthy to a brighter future free from weakness and pain, but it was in my moment of triumph did I realize a lingering truth:
I may never age, but I am still very much capable of being slain in combat. The chance of that ever happening was astronomically small, but fortune favors the prepared, as I have learned in life. I now knew what I had to do in life, to find true immortality and secure myself as the strongest being in existence.
My search had taken me to many strange places, far from the death of the desert that was my home and into lush planes of paradise until I had stumbled across something promising. An entire civilization of warriors with capabilities like ourself in the most isolated corner of the world.
Their abilities ranged in many different forms and fashions, if I were a weaker being, I would admit that it was beautiful in a way, but I knew that these….inferiors were playing god in the midst of a REAL god, nevertheless, they may contain the immortality I seek.
Thus, I begun my Collection phase: to collect their abilities and study them in hopes of making a real elixir of life. Of course, the only safe way to do that was to conquer everything.
As the First One commanded, so it was.
The conquest was slow and painful, he had to admit that these…..shinobi were quite determined to protect their little lives, but they foolishly challenged a force of nature. Nothing can stop the Sandstorm of death that entrapped them.
Their army were of men with superhuman capabilities whereas his was of metal and more were being manufactured to counteract their abilities.
And where was he? Sitting upon his throne in his protected Spire, not that he needed his army to protect him, they protected his growing library of samples.
The First One was currently studying the five most prized samples of his collection, coincidentally, blood and organs of the only five ants that dared to attack him head on. His favorite of the five was one of a woman who healed from his attacks at a remarkable rate, something he felt would be a cornerstone to his research of immortality, but regrowing organs seemed to be too much for her, like her heart when he ripped it out.
The other was of a red head who used the will of the sand to attack for him. The First One was impressed that someone could control something so merciless like that of the sand, so he kept his blood and the brain, he felt that the brain was the source of his power.
The other three were impressive as well. The one who can compose his body out of lighting, the old man who can fly, and a woman who spits out fire and molten rock. All very impressive, but lacking what he needs to complete his quest for immortality.
"Great One," The First lowered his eyes to see one of his metal soldiers bowing down to him, no doubt to give him a report of the battle that enraged outside.
"The remaining fighters have surrounded themselves in the forest areas, destroying any units that try to begin the deforestation process." The robot reported in a mechanized voice.
They wanted to run and hide from him? Try to lengthen the inevitable? The nerve of those ingrates! How dare they disrespect him like that! In rage, the First One's fingers broke through the hard surface of his throne as he stood.
"Open the main door!" He bellowed as he curled and uncurled his left hand repeatedly. "If these spineless cowards will not face me head-on in battle, then they will feel the terrible power of my wrath!"
He left his home and floated across a dead land. What was flourishing in foliage and wildlife was burnt, torn asunder, and ruined by hundreds of dead bodies rotting on the ground. The First One floated above the end of the waste to see a workforce of metal standing closely side-to-side as they slowly cut down the massive trees that loomed high above.
"Master," The commanding machine addressed The First One when he landed to the soil, "You need not concern yourself with this. We have the situation under-"
The robot squawked as circuitry were ripped apart and metal was torn until its head completely separated from its body and floated gently into the hands of The First One.
"None may tell me what I place my concerns, least of all, a weak automaton that I constructed myself." He replied to the headless robot.
He turned to the trees and slowly began to raise his left hand, and as he did, the ground beneath the forest began to break, to shuffle, to grind into dirt, and eventually, rise. Those machines that could began to quickly back away from the rising ground and the roots that were being uprooted.
The First One lifted up his second hand to pick up the entire forest in front of him and to raise it into the sky until he and his army could see massive walls made of wood and a mountain behind it.
Then he dropped the forest.
The trees and the earth fell silently until it reunited with the ground in a sound like the combined forces of thunder and a massive sandstorm. The ground shook violently like that of an earthquake and many of The First One's machines were crushed beneath the falling boulders and the sand. Nothing that could not be replaced.
When the dust settled, the trees were all crushed and uprooted, but the village laid in his sights at last.
"AS CONQUEROR, I COMMAND THAT YOUR LEADER STOPS HIDING BEHIND HIS PITIFUL WALLS AND FACE ME NOW!" He bellowed in a magnified voice at the village. Silence was his response until the walls groaned their way open and a lone figure approached.
The First One raised an eyebrow as he floated to meet the supposed leader half way from the village. With the power of gravity, he willed a circle of earth to rise from the ground so that he could talk to his guest away from the destruction of the forest.
The First One stood two heads taller than his…..unusual guest. It was a man with unruly hair that was silver, he also had an eyepatch with an insignia grafted onto a metal piece attached to said eyepatch, he wore a mask that concealed the lower half of his face and dark grey armor.
"After your little performance with our trees, I figured those walls weren't going to do much." The man spoke in a lazy and uncaring tune, something that was going to quickly annoy The First One.
"So now you realize that it is pointless to hide from me," He replied to the silver haired man.
"We weren't hiding, just stalling time so that our people could get to a safe location away from all of….this." The man explained while placing his hands in his pockets.
"Bah! I care little for those weaklings!" The First One spat in annoyance.
The man shrugged his shoulders, as if to say he didn't care what the giant of a man wanted. "Great, now that we're at this subject, care to explain why you're trying to kill us?"
"I am attempting to conquer this land, you are resisting" The First One explained, "however, your continued resistance to defy me-as fruitless as it is- has impressed me to a degree. I shall offer you terms for surrender: you and every one of your soldiers will submit to my rule and I will grant them life, a very reasonable offer coming from me."
The silver-haired man nodded in consideration before he asked, "And what of the children and the injured, those who can't fight?"
The First One scowled, "Their fates will be determined by me. There is no weakness in my reign. Make a decision now, for my patience with this pointless struggle is at an end."
He refused.
Had this….Kakashi knew what he was dealing with, he might have reconsidered, but I do not give second chances. Little did I know, he had been using that temporary moment of peace to position his men and attempt to attack my army by surprise.
I'll admit, the battle was impressive. He held a mastered degree over the basic elements and was able to conjure a massive behemoth, but it was nothing I had not seen before with the other one I met. He was all alone and was in possession of an unique purple eye with rings in it. I still have that eye, as a spoil of war.
But in the end, I absorbed that man's power and sliced off his head personally. I had thought that by killing their leader, the other soldiers would lose moral and surrender easily, but it seemed that they did not rally to him. Their battle cry was of this Will of Fire, I perceived it as the will to survive at first, but it was later interpreted for me as the will to protect others.
Ignorant fools, all of them. It was meaningless to defend someone who didn't have the stomach to defend themselves, I showed them firsthand that no fire could stand against the might of one who has mastered the will of the desert, the truth that the strongest shall survive, and the weak fall.
But the Hidden Leaf village held one last champion.
I will unashamedly admit that he was the mightiest foe I had ever faced, perhaps ever will face, and our battle was on a proportion that barely I could imagine. He had been waiting all along for when my army was on the verge of destroying the doors to his village, when the gate fell to the ground…
The First One spun back around when he heard a massive explosion. An energy of orange was tearing through his machines faster than anything he had ever seen.
"What is-"
He couldn't finish his question as brute force broke through his shields and pummeled him deep into the earth. He gritted his teeth as this massive force punched him farther and farther away from his troops and the village.
It left him to crawl out of the crater they had made, he growled as he dusted his armor of the dirt.
"Who dares to touch me!?"
"I do." He spun around and faced the owner of the dark voice, but once he did, The First One felt deep inside him something that of kinship, that he had found someone who had also went through a desert of their own and became a god.
It was a young man, but his entire body glowed like that of a celestial. His face was yellow like the short jacket he wore and the rest of his attire was blacker than night. His eyes were slits and several black orbs floated behind him.
'T-This boy….has he become a god like me?' Were the thoughts that echoed in The First One's mind as he stared on in wonder at his new opponent.
"You killed Lee, Choji, Kiba, Tenten, you killed my friends!" The boy growled as he gripped his dark rods in pure rage.
Despite the circumstances that confronted him, En Sabah did something he did not do in a long time: he laughed. Genuinely laughed. He laughed at the boy, for the boy, for no apparent reason at all it seemed. He just laughed.
The boy however, took it as something else. "You think that's funny huh!?"
Eventually, The First One suppressed his laughter to and resumed his normal self, "What is your name, boy?"
The spiky haired warrior remained unfazed as he answered. "Naruto Uzumaki, the Child of Prophecy, soon-to-be Seventh Hokage of the Hidden Leaf, and your end!"
"You're quite certain of that, aren't you boy?" The First One smirked while he folded his hands. "I'll admit, the element of surprise was yours with that first attack, but you posses nothing that can come close to-"
Before he could even blink, the boy's fist was in his face.
He staggered back and then found the fists in his chest, then under his chin, then a foot in his back. The glowing brat was moving in a speed that the First One could not even comprehend! His attacks were fast and strong, throwing him back and forth in whatever direction the boy would hit him.
"ODAMA RASENGAN!" The First One grunted as he felt something-massive!- try to grind his back into bloody meat. The force of this giant ball drove him deep into the earth, deep enough to form a crater.
Rubble cleared away so Naruto could get a good look at his opponent, to his surprise, a hand that was twice his size grabbed the edge of the crater and a body that was growing at an incredulous rate loomed above him.
"An impressive attempt, but for naught." The First One's voice boomed down to his ant-sized opponent. "My armor is composed of the rarest materials known in history. Mere brute strength cannot destroy it or me."
Suddenly, the boy started to grow an avatar made of the same power that encompassed his own body until The First One stared in amazement at a fox-like creature with nine tails and three arms that stood directly at the same level as he.
First he was amazed, then he steadily grew into a rage, "You….brat! NO ONE COMPARES TO ME!"
He punched the creature straight into the jaw. The fox avatar stumbled back a little before landing three blows on The First One. The fox was full of ferocity, he kept landing blow after blow despite being uncapable of even denting the armor he pounded against.
The First One was equally unsuccessful and that was starting to send him into a fury. The avatar was composed of extremely dense energy that stood against each and every one of his attacks, they were locked into battle that was leveling the earth beneath them and neither of them possessed the power to escape it.
"MISERABLE BRAT!" The First One roared in rage. He backed away from the boy and willed his body to form a mechanism, a massive gun, from his chest and arms. The cannon whirred and charged up powerful energy as a purple light shined down the hole of the cannon.
"DIE!" With that, he fired a beam of pure energy. It leveled the ground beneath them as it soared to the unmoving fox avatar. The boy inside it gritted his teeth as the fox held all six of its arms in front of its face for protection.
The energy slammed into the fox with enough force to tear the earth apart. The First One stared in satisfaction as his enemy attempted to block the attack before he exploded, such was the fate of those who dared to challenge a god.
Contented, he turned from the remains of his opponent and began to walk back to his Spire. The machines were well equipped to handle any stragglers that were foolish to fight-
"Wind Style!"
"Impossible!" The First One snarled as he spun around. The boy was indeed alive, and what's more, he was going to return the favor.
The Fox was crouched on all fours (since he has six arms, technically all eights) with four hands to handle the massive blob of black energy that was about to cover its entire back and it was growing fast.
"Ultra Big Tailed Beast Bomb Rasenshuriken!"
The fox threw the massive black projectile with all its might, the ball flew a couple of feet (probably miles due to their size) before it expanded to become even bigger. The First One yelled out when he tried to stop it with his own hands.
Despite his near invincibility, the force of the ball was turning his hands into fire, his feet dug into the ground as the mere power of the giant black ball forced him farther and farther back.
"I-WILL-NOT-ACCEPT THIS!" He roared and reached deep inside him to find the power necessary to survive, and he did. With a mighty yell of rage, desperation, he sent the attack right back at the fox. The fox merely ducked underneath the ball, but that was fatal mistake. The massive ball soared farther and farther behind him till it finally impacted something.
The giant Mountain with the five faces.
The explosion was massive, even for their gigantic size.
The fox instantly knew what was wrong and turned around, only to find his precious home reduced to a giant cloud mushroom and fire. The First One assumed that the boy began to think that he had destroyed his home and everyone that lived in it since he started to shrink back into his base form, with The First One following suit.
He stared with satisfaction as the boy fell onto his knees and began to mumble something, most likely the names of those he had obliterated, their blood on his hands.
"I did not expect this outcome to come into play, and I am pleased with that." The First One declared as he walked up right behind the boy. "In the end, I did not annihilate the last of your people, you did that for me. I express my gratitude, but it is time for me to finish this prattle."
The boy roared as he spun around, only to find a massive hand on his head and The First One entering his mind. The First One raised an eyebrow as he stared at the puddle of water that surrounded him before looking up at the massive, orange, fox with nine tails.
"So you are the source of this brat's power," He spoke to the snarling fox before spitting to the ground. "As I thought, my only true equal in battle turns out to be a mere parasite to true power."
"I'll grind you into dust!" The beast roared as it tried to stab him with its giant nail, but the astral projection of The First One phased harmlessly through it.
"It's clear that I can't kill something of your origin. You are a being made of pure energy," He noted, then he gave a nasty smirk, "However, your mind is far more malleable."
The fox gave the most violent shriek it could as The First One invaded its mind and set it ablaze, until it collapsed in the water, still alive, but undeniably braindead.
The boy gasped and fell back as The First One returned to his own body.
"What…what did you do to Kurama!?" He demanded.
"Do not be so concerned with what I have do to that beast…." The First One chided before blasting the blonde into unconsciousness. "Rather, be afraid of what I shall do to you."
He folded his arms as his machines took the boy back to the Spire for experimentation, The First One stared at the ruins of what was once the great Hidden Leaf Village, now united as ashes with the rest of its bygone era.
Gone was shinobi and assassinations, now was the era of cleansing and rebirth under his rule.
As it turned out, the boy's blood held the secrets for long life, and with that, I did indeed become a true immortal. What of the shinobi you ask? Dead, and their way of life has vanished from history, leaving their only evidence of even existing in my labs.
Despite achieving my dream of becoming a true immortal, I continued my studies on that boy, to discover how he had posed so great a threat to me, just what made him so powerful.
I learned much from that boy, but it became clear that his body quickly could not take much more of my experimentation, so I made the choice to dispose of him, thus truly destroying the shinobi race forever, but not before taking a DNA sample.
From this sample, I began to clone another one of that boy. I did not fear if he would somehow retain his memories and attack me, I had defeated him before, and this time, I had the abilities of his entire race in my arsenal, he would be far from a threat.
To prove my point, I even gave him his braindead pet to draw power from.
Why tell you this? Because this medical lab happens to contain that clone. I do not know how far along he would be in the cloning process, but it is important that you install the command modulator before he reaches the child stage or his brain will grow more resistant to our commands later on as he grows.
Besides this, I am quite certain that others of his village had escaped, but they are no doubt too paralyzed in fear to pose a threat against me.
As for the shinobi samples, they are-REST OF THE FILE CORRUPTED.
A lone man silently ingested all that was told to him. He had witnessed the genocide of mutants a thousand years ago before his very eyes, and it made him sick to his stomach.
It appeared that this….First One was eventually stopped by who knows what and who knows how many years after that massacre, but the First One had counted on that and hid much of his research across the earth for the event of his return.
Who really knew how much of his work was discovered throughout the centuries or if it still laid under the feet of humanity.
"Charles, did you find anything?" The voice of a Scottish woman squawked into the radio that belonged to the disabled man who happened to be one of the most brilliant men when it came to genetics and mutations, also a mutant himself.
"Yes Moira, I found something. Too much of something." Charles Xavier muttered as he looked around ruins of advanced technology that was used for the barbarism of one insane mutant.
Then he stared at the vat, the vat that held a young spiky haired child in a stasis, a stasis no doubt enacted when the computers recognized its power failure.
"Moira, come down here. I'll need your help with something."
Chapter Completed!
What a way to start off a new series, with the destruction of the known shinobi world! Do you all know who did it? It should probably be pretty obvious to those who are X-Men nerds like myself.
If you guys felt like that guy was too overpowered (since he took down Six Paths Mode Naruto) then I did my job right. He's supposed to be one of the strongest mutants in existence and he's backed by the advanced technology of aliens (you wanna know how advanced? During modern Xmen, it's still advanced.)
Just a heads up, I'm gonna be spreadin' out my X-men wings and I won't be limited to X-men Evolution series, I just needed a starting point.
That means Savage Lands! Shi'ar Empire, and I'm not spoiling anything else!
Send lot of reviews and feel free to express what you thought about my first chapter.
MAY THE FLAMES OF YOUTH BE WITH YOU, ALWAYS –Jedi Master Maito "Might" Guy