Triple Crossover Ladies and Gentlemen.
NarutoXStarcraftXMass Effect. Very Minor Star wars crossover, essentially just Lightsabers and a few pieces of tech here and there, nothing major. And maybe possibly, L.o.L...As I feel if I pulled it out to overkill I'd melt my brain.
Anyway, there may be a few questions after you've read this, the main one being "Raxychaz you're breaking away from those horrible hijinks!? I'm so proud of you" Well the second part was a statement but that's irrelevant, XD, and the answer is yes.
When I first started writing I was pretty much pissed 24/7 about Naruto and basically the whole show, I was disgusted by Minato and Kushina's bullshit they pulled, because fuck them, but then I realized it made for poor reading so I'm trying to step away from it.
Hopefully this meets expectations.
Also it will take a while to get to the ME universe, and it will start a little before ME1, like a month or so, nothing big. Because first and foremost, Menma's gotta conquer the Elemental Nations.
Yep.
Gonna be fuuuuun!
Zerg!Menma if the title did give it away.
Start.
"I'm sorry can you repeat that?" Said Menma Uzumaki lowly. He had long spikey black hair was tied into a low ponytail that fell to his mid back, he wore a black skintight sleeveless turtleneck under a black trench coat, his arms covered by elbow length black gloves, red leather strips covered with brass rivets coiling around the black material, his boots mimicked this, while his slightly baggy ANBU styled pants were tucked into the lip of said boots.
He was a handsome young man, sharp features with sharper eyes, they were an amethyst purple in colour, something he inherited from his mother, while his face was marred by three thin black marks on each cheek, a mutation of the skin pigments that was brought on by having the Kyuubi's soul.
His brother, Naruto, had a similar effect, holding the chakra, but he was born with them, Menma's came after the sealing.
"As I said, I'm sorry but you're being banished." Said Minato, with a heavy sigh, his son sat across from him in his office, neither his second son, nor his wife or daughters were present for this meeting. "They're going to need a fall guy, and unfortunately, that burden falls to you, Menma." Minato was aware how much his eldest lamented the title of 'Sochi' or any sort of affectionate forming after his name, so he kept it civil.
"I only broke his fuckin' arm, Minato! The shit-head was trying to leave the village, I'm sorry but assault seems like a gentler offence than treason!" Roared the eldest Uzumaki boy, slamming his hands onto the desk, Minato didn't flinch, to his credit, as Menma was renowned for being quite the intimidating person.
Minato hated that he had to do this, he hated that Sarutobi had given the civilian's so much sway in the monthly council meetings, he also hated that fact that there was a civilian section of the council, as most of the time it was meant a formal meeting for the Clan Heads and the Hokage to discuss a few matters that might have popped up, but if he tore it down then there might be civil war, and he couldn't have that, they were still licking their wounds from the attempt by Suna, once more Menma had stuck his neck out and drew Gaara away, admittedly Naruto had also helped, but Menma refused to acknowledge his younger brother being more than an annoyance on the battle field.
"It's because of the Snakes isn't it? Or because I was apprenticed by Anko, those fuckers just don't trust me! Kyuubi was bad enough, but you're the fuckin' Hokage, they can't do shit against your son, 'Oh well' they must have said 'we'll just be fucking children about a retrieval mission because of reasons' THIS IS BULLSHIT!" Bellowed Menma, it wasn't the first time he'd had trouble with the civvies, in fact a majority of his younger years they tried to start shit.
It was usually dissolved quickly but that didn't matter now apparently.
"Menma, don't think I'm with them on this, it breaks my heart to send my child away. But I cannot risk civil war, they were trying for execution, this was the best I and the Clan Heads could do to help you, you know none of us hold ill will." Well that wasn't exactly true, the Hyuuga weren't Menma's biggest fan mostly because of his liberal insults towards the Heiress and her 'Pathetic attempts at existence' on several occasions.
Though Hanabi seemed to love him to pieces which was an oddity in its own.
That and the Yamanaka clan were against him on principal of Menma's beating the ever-loving shit out of Ino Yamanaka in hopes of 'breaking her fangirlism as it is an insult to our way of life' several of the clan cried sexist, as did several civvies, Menma's equalist views were met with a lot of skepticism.
He found no-one above anyone else unless they proved it, gender, orientation and/or race meant little to the surprisingly open minded young man, at the age of 14 Minato could quite happily say he raised a smart and oddly accepting child.
"There's this thing called military dictatorship, you should try it some time." Grunted the 'Black Sheep' of the Uzumaki family, Minato sighed softly, the pair had always had conflicting interests, especially during the boys youth...well he was still technically a youth but that was beside the point, Menma was a rather head-strong and willful boy, it made his mother proud that's for sure.
"I can't say sorry enough times." Admitted Minato as he lowered his gaze, Menma clenched his teeth tensed his whole body, "You are my beloved child, and I would do nothing to harm you, but it's out of my hands now." Menma bit his lip hard enough that blood dripped down onto the floor.
They stood silent; the only sounds were the dripping of the crimson liquid of life against the wooden floors of the Kage's room.
"How long do I have...?"
"Tomorrow morning." Answered Minato, solemnly.
Menma nodded, brushed the blood off his lips as it knit shut, "Then I bid you adieu, Hokage-sama...I have to get my effects, Jashin knows that Danzo will try to hunt me down for his Root program no doubt." The idea of that left a bitter taste in Minato's mouth, Root was effective and loyal to a fault, so he had kept it around, but he refused to allow his children be taken into it.
Well that and Menma's choice in religion, when Minato found the pendant around his boys neck he was more than a little shocked, apparently Menma had met a man named 'Hidan' during one of his missions and the man had introduced him to the 'Lord of Slaughter' Minato and Kushina were less than pleased when their child began practicing the faith, but he couldn't deny the results, terrifying as they may be.
"Word of advice, tag all the kids...just in case they ever go missing."
"I already have, except you, you never let me." Said Minato amusedly, Menma smirked and gave one last hug to his father.
"You better not have just then, or I'll beat your ass." Minato chuckled nervously at the threat; his son definitely took after his mother in that department.
Before Menma left the room he said, "You know I'm obligated to wreck this place now, right? Matter of principals and all." Minato sighed mournfully at his sons declaration, great. Another Orochimaru, "Calm your tits blondie, I'm not gonna slaughter everyone, just most of them."
Yeah, that was sooo comforting, thanks son.
Uzumaki Household.
Menma had just finished sealing up his belongings, several spare sets of clothes, weapons ranging from Kunai to his odd light-based blade that he got as a 'reward' from Jashin, for services rendered.
It was a cylindrical hilt, shaped much like the horn of a beast actually, with a ribbed pattern, each rib was about 1cm in width, a singular red button was placed just above where his thumb would sit when holding it, and four pronged rose up from the edges of the top of the hilt, they were shaped much like claws, in an X placement.
Jashin called it a 'Lightsaber' the name was quite apt as it would project a blade of pure light, or plasma depending on whom you asked, that could cut its way through anything, the blade could be enhanced in strength and potency with Chakra applied.
It was Menma's faithful blade, he'd not named it, and didn't plan to it was his blade, the only one, it needed no name to be unique, names for weapons were nice, he would admit, but mostly useless, if you knew a weapon was a sword, it was a sword, placing a name onto your weapon led to dependence, should you somehow break or damage the weapon beyond repair you would need another, then you had to readjust to the new weapon, the foreign object, it would be an oddity. Not that he really cared, he would rant constantly, it was good, and it helped him think.
Speaking of thinking he needed to have some idea on where he would go, the mountains were his first idea, but he wasn't really a massive fan of the cold, he didn't mind it, it barely bothered him, but he'd rather be slightly warm than cold.
Perhaps, he'd try...somewhere? Jashin damnit, he wasn't so foolish as to leave without a plan but everywhere seemed like a bad idea, Wave would draw to much attention, Kumo would put him into breeding stock due to their bloodline lust, Iwa would try to kill him, key word there being try (immortality bitches!) Kiri was still in a state of Civil war, against bloodlines, so an equally bad idea, Uzu was in ruins and would be a complete bitch to get to, Ame was the suspected base of Akatsuki, according to Jiraiya's info, Spring country was an idea for sure, but he didn't want to use his 'I saved your princess' shtick just to get residence, and that's no doubt what it would come down to.
Star was also out, mostly because he'd heard some pretty fucked up rumors about some kind of corrupting stone, sure he could go in and investigate, but he wasn't a do-gooder, he was a survivor, nothing he'd do would benefit the saved more than him.
Wave was a big win for him because he got a whole new trade route for Konoha, which opened up to several smaller islands in Water Country, bringing in a few new items and getting him some interesting new foods to try.
I like food, sue me!
Either way he wasn't exactly happy, he for the life of him couldn't come up with an idea, and every time he tried he kept hearing this white noise at the back of his mind, it was Kyuubi, or Kurama whatever, whom was sleeping as usual, it was...something else.
And it was pissing him off!
As he moved around the house to collect his things, it didn't halt, it got a little nosier at some places, and almost silent at others, that was what was worst, and he couldn't do shit about it. "NII-CHAAAAN!" Shouted a little voice, Menma halted in the lounge-room to see his two your old sister, Natsuki, blubbering at the sight of him, begging to be picked up.
She was in a little onesie, with a light blue coloring and white belly, a little kitten hood fell behind her head, she made little 'Uh' noises as she bounced a little trying to get his attention more, Menma sighed softly and knelt down picking up his almost-baby sister, who merely giggled in joy.
"Nii-chan, Nii-chan, Nii-chan!" She chanted hugging him around the neck, Menma was frozen for a moment as she snuggled him the little ball of warmth that she was flooding his being, no matter how many times she hugged him the feeling of her tiny little arms around him made a small jolt go down his spine, the realization that this tiny little being would one day be a full grown adult.
He almost shuddered at the thought of his darling Imoto being forced to fight in some war, sitting on the couch ignoring the white noise completely, he pulled up his knees and cuddled with his little sister, soon the noise of tiny snores filled his ears.
Kushina, whom was in the kitchen making her babies lunch, gushed at the sight, no matter how big her biggest baby got, he was still susceptible to Natsuki-chan's charm. And when she was younger, Tsubaki's, the young blonde girl was currently out the back practicing her tree walking.
Kushina's smile shattered though, when the realization hit her that her baby would be going away, that she'd loose him, and it broke her heart, he played a big part in her life, while Naruto loved spending time with his father, Menma was her special little man, he was a die-hard momma's boy, and he had no problem denying it.
Two Hours later, 1:30 pm.
"No~!" Moaned Natsuki as Menma was trying to detach her from his neck, she was having a nap with her Nii-chan! She didn't wanna stop~.
"Natsuki, get...off, Jashin how is your grip so strong!" Grunted Menma, he'd tore peoples arms off before and yet here his little sister was beating him in grip over push.
"NO~!" She shouted sticking to him like a baby koala, Menma just gave up as she dangled from his neck looking up at him with her big blue eyes, the Jashinist sighed and supported her with his left arm, pulling her kitten hood up, and patting her whisker marks, he and Tsubaki were the only ones born without them, and he got some anyway.
"Who's a cute Neko-chan?" He cooed, she giggled and tried to bit his fingers with her little teeth.
"NATSUKI!" The little redhead shouted with glee, Menma nodded in a mock serious manner, much to Kushina's mirth.
"Yes you are, and who do you love most in the world?"
"NII-CHAN!" She was bouncing in his arms at this point, Menma allowed a grin to crawl up his face at the sheer cuteness of his little sister, "'Cus Nii-chan is the bestiest!" his grin widened so much that his eyes closed, then a harsh depression fell on him, and he fell back to sitting on the couch, Natsuki could somehow sense the change in her big brother, tugged on his coat, gaining his gaze. "Sad?" She asked.
Kushina sat on the couch holding her baby, stroking his hair, "I...I don't want to leave you all..." He mumbled into her bossom, Kushina blinked away the tears that wanted to spill out, "I mean...Every mission I never worried, because I knew at the end I was coming home...but now..." This was what Menma had always hid his doubt, he may be disconnected and apathetic most of the time, but one could not help their humanity.
Menma sat with his sister and his mother, for the last time, for what felt like hours, before he got up, handed a sleeping Natsuki to her, kissed her cheek, and left the house.
Training Ground 44. 3:25 pm.
The noise was getting stronger and stronger, he didn't know why it was only calling out to him now, but whaddaya gonna do? The signal could have tried to reach out during the Chuunin exams but nooooo!
Damned voices in his heads.
"...Ma...er..."
Oh great! That's just GREAT! It's so great its #Awesome, fucking yay! Now he really was hearing stuff.
Taking a sharp left as that was the direction in which he heard the voice, he soon found himself walking on some kind of living material, like the grass was infected with some kind of disease, Jashin only knows.
He came upon a big...thing, it was like an organic castle, of some kind, the middle had an opening, Menma knew he would regret this but he walked in, fuck caution! Who needs it now? Not him.
In the very center of the...construct, was a pool of what could have been acid, possibly, it was a pale green pool of stagnant water, hanging from the wall about a foot before that was an egg/caccoon it was a deep green in colour.
"...P...p...po...power..." Struggled out the voice, Menma thought for a moment, who knows what he'd unleash should he assist this creature, on the other hand, he was just banished, and was very angry at the moment, so fuck the world, except for Natsuki-chan she'd be spared.
And his family obviously, jeeze stop judging him.
Releasing a steady flare of Chakra directly outwards, his eyes glowed dark blue with pure chakra power fleeing his body, the walls of the construct began to slowly rise, before it stood up straight and tall, the pool in the middle began to pulsate, like a heartbeat, as fluids began to shoot upwards into the construct. The small egg in the center fell into Menma's opened hand; the energy flooded the egg as the veins in the thin membrane began to flood blue.
It hatched, quivering quickly, and in Menma's hand was some kind of small leach creature, it chittered at him, rather cutely in a really odd way. It tilted its head, which ended up being followed by half of its body, Menma was still channeling Chakra as the little leach quivered happily, the little ribs under it chittering and trilling.
"Operational...New Overmind required to be established...Survival Critical..."
"Say whaaaa!" Shouted Menma as tendrils shot up from the ground and wrapped around him, they were considerate enough to knock the pack off his back the little leach jumped off his hand and wiggled its way outside, Menma felt all his power falling away, the glowing blue veins in the tendrils seemed to only feed the construct.
He was pulled to his knees as the tendrils surrounded him, Menma saw only darkness, he felt moisture gather around him, and the low thrumming glow of his chakra inside the construct, feeding it, something slapped onto his mouth and nose and in a second he was gone from the world, unconscious.
1 Week later.
Zerg. Overmind. Hive mind. Psionic Energy. Control. Survive.
His mind was flooded with information, of the Zerg, the Hatchery, that construct, where he resided currently, had the last remnants of some kind of massive mind, the Overmind to be precise, and it was with this remaining power, it called upon him, then locked him in, and shoved all the remaining information and power into his skull.
He required a change obviously because of such, the Larva was susceptible to control already but that wouldn't stand for the rest of the soon-to-be horde, his mind expanded, his brain was altered heavily, yet remained the same in quite a lot of ways, the cocoon smashed open a carapace heavy hand bursting out, with it several spines shot out and tore the egg away.
There stood Menma in all his zergified glory, his visible skin turned sickly blue in colour, thin dark brown carapace covered his whole body, layered heavily upon his chest, shoulder, forearms, thighs and shins, from his back emerged claw like tentacles, each had a deadly hook upon them.
Menma's hair had turned into some kind of tendril looking material, looking like black thin dreadlocks, somehow still in the hair-band, his eyes snapped open, revealing glowing purple orbs, trails of misty smoke wisped out of his eyelids, all four of them, yeah...he had four in each eye, one vertical and horizontal set, it made 'seeing' in the cocoon much easier.
He was much taller, rising from his 5' 4" to a proud 6' 7" needless to say he was a little off balance for a moment.
The tattered remains of his clothes fell apart as they met the air, Menma sighed audible and greedily breathed in the fresh scent of forest air, stepping out of the Hatchery he picked up the Larva, it cooed in its odd way and purred as he stroked it.
"We have quite a lot of work, little one." Said Menma, his voice picking up a rolling rasp, though keeping its deep softness, the little creature nodded as Menma mentally instructed it to become a Drone, it seemed with his DNA now coursing through it, the Zerg would be using Chakra as its resource, since those blue crystals didn't exist on the planet, he would have to use solid ore and natural gas deposits instead of the resources of the Koprulu System.
Not that it would matter, the Elemental Nations was rich in resources, it would not take much effort, it would all be broken down into the hatchery's core, the 'acid pit' would break down all things tossed into it, and use the beneficial traits would be used for the construction of the swarm.
As soon as the cracking noise was heard Menma looked down to see the Drone at his ankle, gently tapping it to get his attention, Menma smiled his new fanged set of teeth making the gesture intimidating, and pat the little creature on its head.
"Spawning Pool...about here." Menma led the creature a few paces away from the Hatchery as it mentally nodded and sunk into the ground and creating a large mass that slowly began to pulse, a line of chakra shooting through the creep and into the Drone.
Menma nodded approvingly, two more little larva crawled up through the ground as he ordered them to become Drones, Menma idly noticed that his tentacles 'reeled back' into his back leaving six spikes on his back, two on his shoulders, two on his waist, and two vertically following his spin between those.
He rubbed his chin in thought, making a clone he ordered it to go and collect a few animals around the forest, to dump into the Core, the clone nodded and vanished into a flicker of movement, small blue glowing foot prints dissipated into the creep, he hummed as it appeared that any excess chakra was leached into the creep, that was good to know.
Two Days Later.
Menma nodded in appreciation, the Spawning Pool was active, and Zerglings were milling about the area, roughly two dozen. Out of the two drones he had after the Spawning Pool, he commanded one to become a Evolution Chamber, while the final Drone had begun burrowing into the earth, looking for deposits, following them were 20 more drones, a massive gaping hole rested about 30 paces from the Hatchery directly south of it, deeper into the Forest of Death.
He was entertaining himself by practicing his Psionic powers, lifting a few things, blasting other things with his mind, floating around cross legged in midair, that was actually pretty fun, it appeared that even though it was only a fragment, the Overminds residual power along with his new Zerg biology had began to hype up his 'Psi-core' as he referred to it, Shinobi had a Chakra Core, so now he had a Psi-core and a Chakra Core, to easy.
The added DNA from the various beasts of the forest hadn't given much, a jaguar had given a nice little speed-boost to all new Zerglings, as could be told by the black markings along their legs that along with the wings on their back, the Zerglings could clock in at around 60 Mph, while their carapace was harder due to various insects that had been caught and tossed in, the DNA sequences were adapted to all units, increasing their armor a tad.
What little experiment Menma was really focusing on was incorporating bloodlines into the swarm, his regeneration and longevity had been added, Zerg now healed even faster than they did before, which was amusing to his mind.
A few random Ninja had come around investigating the Hatchery, he had no choice but to toss them into the pit, which send a thrumming burst through the Hatchery and the creep each time, speaking of the creep, he'd created a Queen, and was a little displeased with their design, a Queen should be a picture of magnificent beauty not...those things.
He was fucking around with some DNA using the Human DNA and the remnants of the Overminds memories, Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, that was a Queen if he ever saw on, he just needed to make her submissive, that would mean limiting her Psionic potential, but also would mean he wouldn't have to look over his shoulder ever five minutes.
But he would do more on that later, when he had a suitable woman to take the place, for the moment this Queen would suffice, her commanded her to spew another four eggs onto the evolving Hatchery, he'd gathered enough solid material and raw energy to cause the evolution to happen.
Which was good, more upgrades for his little children awaited. And the use of Roaches, Hydralisks and Banelings, ooh~ he had so many plans for the explosive little munchkins.
He was initially worried that there would be a full-scale investigation, but it appeared that because of the forests reputation that no-one had questioned it, good for him.
He focused on getting the creep as widespread as possible a secondary energy that the Hatchery can use it solar energy, so he had to climb up a few trees and hack off the tops so some sunlight would get through.
A twig snapped alerting to the presence of a being, and a feminine gasp drew his attention, he stopped his mid-air floating and he was given the image of his teacher, Anko Mitarashi.
"Fuck..." Said Menma, burying his head into his right hand.
End of Chapter.
Menma will be getting a tougher carapace and armor in the future, don't worry, think of this as his 'First Stage' there will be roughly 4 stages in total.
You guys suggest who you want Menma's 'Queen' to be, essentially his Sarah Kerrigan, anyone, he's gonna be prancing around the Nations quite a bit, think filler girls as well make this shit unique.
I hope you all can guess what League of Legend Characters I'll be using, hint there will be two in the swarm. Obvious hints are obvious.
Alright, that's about it for now, tune in for next time.