The story thus far:
Being stranded the first time wasn't fun. At least he had a nice place to stay and a bunch of servant to boot. Now, he was stranded in space, on a strange pyramid ship with a bunch tattoo-head freaks, worshiping him a God. And what the fuck is a Goa'uld? Can it be eaten? There's only one way to find out.
– God Eater –
Naruto gasped desperately for air. There were none as far as his lungs could tell. He tried to speak, but no word came out. But luckily, the inhabitant in his mind didn't need to hear anything to know what he was saying.
"Shit! We're in space, aren't we!?" Naruto asked. The portal had dumped him in space. It had never happened before, but that didn't mean it never would. There were still a lot of problems needed to be solved with the dimensional pendant hanging around his neck.
"Hmmm….? The lack of ground, the lack of air, and being scorched by unseen force that humans call radiation," Kurama muttered as it scanned the surrounding space for anything of interest. "I guessed we are in space. Oh look, a flying pyramid."
"What?" Naruto looked towards the direction Kurama was hinting. His blue eyes widened slightly at the massive object sailing through the void of space. He knew about spaceship from his short time in the human world, but at least they looked like a vessel that could be driven. The pyramid-shape ship looked like something straight out of Egypt – except it wasn't made of stone and mortars.
"Is that a flying pyramid?" Naruto asked. He wanted one, only because it was something new. "And is it painted in gold?"
"The owner has good taste," Kurama responded approvingly and examined the Ha'tak vessel on their approach. Judging from its slow trajectory, it would crash into them in roughly an hour or so. There was plenty of time to move out of the way.
"Oh by the way, Naruto," Kurama continued, "I can't sense any magic or chakra in this place. Maybe it's because we're in space."
Naruto hoped it was because they were in space. He weren't concern about chakra as he had near limitless amount not counting Kurama, but he was concern with magic. Magic powered the pendant, allowing him to create portal into another dimension. Without magic, he had to recharge it himself, which was slow and tedious.
"The pyramid stopped," Kurama noted while Naruto pondered his immediate options. "Something just came out of it. Three things actually… I'm sensing several… I'm not really sure on each of them. I think they're humans, but it is rather confusing."
What was approaching them was a Tel'tak – a cargo ship and a couple of death gliders escorts. The cargo ship was deployed when the sensor aboard the Ha'tak detected life-sign in the dead vacuum of space. That should not be possible for any living organism, and the sensor didn't seem to make an error.
Thus investigation was needed.
The cargo ship slowed on its approach. It stopped several meters away from Naruto, who had gotten used to the lack of air. He could hold his breath for a very long time, but it was safer to produce his own oxygen from his chakra right inside his lungs. And as long as he had something to eat, he could survive in the vacuum of space for a prolong period of time – not that he would.
"Hello there? Mind if I take a lift with you? Know which way to the Elemental Nation?" Naruto asked politely and waved his hands for good measure. "Earth would be fine too. But before that, you got anything to eat. I'm starving."
The Jaffa piloting the cargo ship responded by bringing Naruto onboard with a matter transporter in the form of series of rings. The rings came out from the underbelly of the cargo ship.
Naruto blinked as he found the scenery changed after a blinding light. Instead of being in the void of space, he was being surrounded by four Jaffa in a sealed room. There was no kind of doors visible as far as he could. The two Jaffas in front of him were holding a long staff-like weapon with its bulbous head pointed in his direction. He could see yellow light emanating from within them.
"That's not magic… or chakra," Kurama noted in the mindscape. "How did they do that?"
Before Naruto could utter a word, one of the Jaffa attacked him from behind. The bolt of electricity came from a Zat'nik'tel – or simply a Zat gun – paralyzed his muscles for a fraction of a second.
"What was that? Did you just shoot me!?" Naruto asked as he cocked his head over his shoulder and at the Jaffa, who was simply following order from his God aboard the Ha'tak.
Naruto eyed the snake-like weapon in the man's hand, and it was as unfamiliar to him as everything on the ship. He was in a different universe after all. There were bounds to be some rather strange and perhaps interesting thing. Even so, he didn't appreciate being shot at in the back.
Instead of getting a straight answer, Naruto was greeted with another Zat blast. The second shot inflicted more pain than the first one, but it was nowhere near the level that would injure him. The third shot missed him when the Jaffa head went flying across the room. The head was ripped from the shoulder with the force of a single punch.
Seeing what just happened, the other three Jaffa fired their staff weapon, sending Naruto staggered backward slight from the combined blast. The collectively burned through his attire and exposed his slight scorched skin. And right before their eyes, the skin healed, turning back into a healthy color.
"Ouch..." Naruto said nonchalantly before glaring at the Jaffa, whose eyes were widened. They fired again and again out of sheer fear, but the plasma bolt from their weapon was batted to the side like it was mere annoyance.
The three Jaffas kept up their attack while shouting for help as Naruto walked towards them with a grim expression. Any plasma bolt threatened to hit his person was squatted to the side. The moment a Jaffa was within his arm's length, the Jaffa was also squatted to the side and turned into a mangled corpse with broken neck and spine. With the compartment of the cargo sealed, there was no way for them to escape.
"So what are they?" Naruto asked when he picked up a staff weapon. He twirled it in his hand and attempted to fire the plasma bolt. He figured it out soon enough since the design wasn't that alien to him. There was a switch that caused the staff to fire when flipped. The Zat-gun on the other hand was different. He needed to squeeze the bottom curve to fire.
"I have no clue, Naruto. But they're sure aren't human," Kurama answered as it examined the four corpse from the corner of Naruto's mind. "Are you sure they're dead? I'm still sensing something in each of them."
Naruto tilted his head and looked at the corpse. "Maybe they don't die when their head is snapped in half?"
Naruto inhaled slightly and exhaled flames. The flame scorched the body, burning only the body. It left behind ashes after a second. "How about now? Is it dead yet?"
"It's dead," Kurama answered.
Naruto nodded and about to do the same to the other three corpses, but something lurched at him from the belly of the corpse. He caught it in midair. It was some kind of snake.
"Fuck, I hate snakes," Naruto growled and ripped the full-mature symbiotic in half. "Did it just come out of the corpse?"
Naruto found two more in the other two corpses, but those ones were not as mature as the one that just tried to attack him. He took out a scroll and sealed them after they seemed to suffocate in air, which was interesting to note.
"For later when I'm hungry. We might not find any editable food for a while, and I don't want to eat something that looks too much like us," Naruto said when Kurama about to as. "Now how do we get out of here? Where are we anyway?"
"I believed we are on the small ship," Kurama said when Naruto examined what he assumed to be a door. There was no door handle or anything of the sort, but there was a small device to the right of it with a dozen buttons. It had to be some kind of automated door.
"I really hate technology," Naruto muttered when he tried to understand what the buttons for. He pressed each of them, but they didn't seem to do anything. He got frustrated afterwards and raised his right hand. Chakra flowed along his arm and spirally over his hands. "Why can't they make things simple?"
Naruto punched into the steel door, punching right through it with ease. He then peeked through the wrist-size hole he made and grinned at what he found. "I see you."
The Jaffa on the other side was panting heavily and pointing at a staff weapon at the door. He had informed his God that they had picked up a demon, which proceeded to slaughter the four Jaffa who were supposed to restrain it.
"Hey, can you open this door. I just want to talk, honest to God," Naruto requested.
"Be gone demon," the Jaffa roared and fired at the blast door repeatedly. After half a dozen shot, another hands punched right through the steel. The door was split and a head peeked through.
"Here's Naruto!"
The Jaffa promptly got butchered after that, an act which Naruto immediately regretted. As without anyone alive aboard, he had no way to operate the ship. The controls were completely alien to him.
"Should have leaves one of them alive," Kurama said.
"Shut up, fur ball," Naruto growled as a ringing noise echoed within the ship. The ring that brought him aboard appeared. After blinding light, five new Jaffa appeared. They glance at the surrounding before aiming their staff weapons at him. Needlessly to say, the cargo ship had five more corpses.
"Should have leaves one of them alive," Kurama repeated as Naruto sealed five more snakes into his scroll.
"I wonder how they activate this thing," Naruto muttered and invested the ring shape on the floor, and as he did, it activated, transporting him onto the Ha'tak and sending another square over to the cargo ship.
Naruto blinked as he found himself in a completely different room. The two Jaffa standing guards immediately went alert and promptly died, netting him two more snakes. More Jaffas came running as alarm on the ship went off.
"Oohhhh... free foods," Naruto said and started running amok aboard the Ha'tak.