Disclaimer: Hey guys/gals! So this something I've had stuck in my head for a while, and decided it was time to do something about. This is my first fanfiction, so please go easy on me. Additional notes at the end!
I do not own naruto, or any of the other sources I'll be drawing upon, all I own is my wonder OC,s, Enjoy!
The Mad Engineer
It is finished
That's the only thing one Chase Denney could think of, after years of experimentation, budget adjustments, and setbacks after setbacks, it was finally finished. The "Planar Gate", a wormhole device that would theoretically create a gate to a new world, one that has never been seen before, an entirely new dimension filled with wonders we can't even imagine.
At least in theory, which is why we were here today, to test the thing and make sure it works, and not explode or something stupid like that.
"Soooo?" asks a mischievous voice from behind me where I was working on some last minute calibrations.
"So what?" I answer the voice, turning to meet one of my coworkers and friends, a Brede Dante.
"So what do you think will find when we turn this puppy on?" my Asian coworker asks expectantly.
Before I can respond, one of my other coworkers, this time a Mathew Wantland, responds in my stead.
"Well if everything goes according to plan" he begins, "then we should find ourselves with a brand spanking new dimension, and a few billion dollars richer" he states smugly.
Brede proceeded to give Matthew a sharp glare that practically screamed "no shit Sherlock."
"Really? I didn't know that." The dripping sarcasm says otherwise.
"Well I'm glad this humble servant was able to help you in these dark times my lord." Matthew taunts with a bow and cheeky grin.
"Shut it" I finally state before Brede tries to use Matthew as human battery... again.
"Let's get this show on the road!" I yell out, "Matthew, status on the quantum computers calculations?"
"Computing!"
"Brede, status on the nuclear reactor?" I scream out.
"Stabilized and ready!"
I turn to the other three other members of our little group who had remained neutral in the argument.
"Logan, Seth, Cole, status!" I shout.
"Gravity well locked down!"
"Area pressurized and ready!"
"Camera is set up and recording!"
"Status Mathew" I yell out
"Still computing" He mutters.
Good, then all that's left is to turn the machine on, and hope to God that it doesn't kill us all. With my hand hovering over the the button, the big red flashing button with a skull and crossbones on it I might add, thanks Brede, but before I press it I... Hesitate, feeling a sense of dread for some strange, unknowable reason.
"Something wrong Chase?" the voice of a concerned Brede snapping me out of my thoughts and the sense of doom I was feeling.
"No" I respond, "Nothing at all." My hand then hits the button, and with what can only be described as tension thick enough to cut with a knife, we eagerly look towards the Planar Gate where we see... Nothing?
"Well that was anticlimactic" Seth states simply.
All I can do is nod along with everyone else.
Getting up from my position, I headed into the now unsealed chamber containing the apparently malfunctioning Planar Gate, telling the guys to find out what had happened, as well as instructing them to turn it off just in case. Inspecting the machine myself, I could find no flaw, no reason as to why it didn't work. Looking up from where I was working, I could only shake my head negatively to those on the other side of the reinforced wall.
"So Now wha-"
Brede is instantly cut off from whatever remark he was going to make, as a massive boom resounded, the likes you would compare to a whip being cracked only amplified to ear bleeding proportions.
As I recovered from the near defining crack, I could only look forward with awe and fear in my eyes, as we gazed at the Planar Gate, or more specifically, what the gate had opened up to.
It was Chaos.
The landscape was pure chaos that was forming and reforming constantly, a place where the laws of physics held no sway, a place where rivers of tar that flew through petrified woodlands beneath crimson skies. Of great stairways ascending into the heavens where they connected back on themselves in an endless loop. These celestial stairways sat alongside castles crafted from bone and fortresses of ichor, while pillars of fire burned forever and never on the horizon. Every dream, nightmare and vision ever had resided here, and it is here they will remain forever.
What felt like an eternity passed, when in reality it had been less than a second before the worst came to past. The Gravity well, the system responsible for maintaining the portal, had seemingly failed, and what was at first a portal to... wherever that was, turned into the likes of a miniature black hole.
I, being both the idiot I was and the closest being to said hole of death, was immediately sucked in. There was nothing I could do, nothing, except pray, and pray I did. As my body was sucked in, and my atoms compressed to degrees physically impossible, I prayed for salvation, for deliverance, to simply live, and I prayed. What I did not expect however, was for my prayers to be answered.
"If that would be your wish, then may your rebirth shape the very stars my child!"
The maddening, grotesque laughter that followed made me question what was left of my sanity. Unfortunately, I didn't really have the time to analyze the mysterious voices sentence, as PAINCRUSHINGDARKNESSOBLIVIONVOIDEND turned into what I could only describe as pulling, and suddenly I was weightless, traveling through the cosmos faster than light itself until in the distance I could see, no, feel a planet, and I was heading right towards it and I couldn't stop myself an-.
And then I awoke
I was on some kind of strange bed (I say strange because what kind of bed has wooden bars surrounding it?), inside a simple looking yet cozy wooden room. If you were to enter the room, it would seem from my limited perspective that I was in the very back left corner of the room, as to my right was a wooden wall with a very large window on it, golden sunlight streaming through, and to my left was a nice looking fireplace that was currently burning at a comfortable temperature, though why it was three times my size was beyond me.
Actually, now that I thought of it, why was everything in the room so big? The only thing in this room I would consider to be normal sized would the the strange looking bed I was currently in.
I tried getting up from my current position to get a better look around when I noticed something strange, I couldn't move. At first I was surprised, and I tried looking over my body to find why I couldn't move a muscle, but when I found that even turning my head to be nearly impossible, I started to panic a bit.
And when the giants walked Into the room, that panic I was feeling turned into a full blown melt down of, O GOD THEY'RE GOING TO EAT ME! And TAKE THE ASIAN, HE TASTES BETTER! Then I remembered that as far as I know, I was the only one in the room.
With the giants approaching me, and me being unable to move I did the only thing anyone could do, I tried to plead for my life.
But once again the strangest thing happened. When I went to speak to my giant captors, instead of the incoherent babbling of "please don't eat me!" and "I'll be a good little slave!" I was expecting, what came out instead was, well, the incoherent babbling of a child.
"WTF" I thought to myself as it was now apparent that only I could understand me now. Just what had these giants done to me?
The giants in the room, a male and female I noted, seemed to perk up with the commotion I was making and practically sprinted to my resting spot, where they looked over bars and down at me.
Of course the female giant was beautiful and the male giant handsome I noted bitterly. The female was wearing some kind of black and red Japanese styled dress, a kimono, at least that what I believe it's called from my time watching anime. Though it did have some modifications I note, like being bare at the shoulders and having a hood attached, which was down right now. Her short white hair was wavy and unkempt, yet instead of detracting from her beauty, it seemed to add to it instead, with the bangs of her hair covering her right eye, giving her a mysterious yet angelic appearance, like she had been blessed by an angle or something. Had she been normal sized, I think she would have been breathtaking, her delicate looking yet hard features and mischievous smile only adding to the fact. The only thing ruining her image of a supermodel was the scar running from her forehead to the left side of her chin, crossing her left eye in the process.
The male giant on the other hand, seemed to be some kind of robin hood impersonator. Wild blonde, almost silver hair flutter about his surprisingly feminine looking face. The giant wore some kind green tunic, with a red tattered cape attached at the collar. Both of his hands were covered with fingerless gloves, but only his left was armored with some kind of bracer. The bow and quiver full of arrows only cemented the legendary archer look. The blood on the outfit, however; did not.
In fact, both of them had a large amount on them, which was most definitely concerning. Where did it come from? Whose was it? Where are my friends, and are they ok? These questions and more raced through my mind, yet none I could answer, nor could I even ask, with my voice sounding like a newborn's, which is to say indecipherable.
Yet before I could really begin to panic and just start wailing like a moron, I noticed something that gave me pause, something that did not match up with the reality I had constructed for myself and made me think.
"Huh?"
As a single scarred crimson red eye and a pair of jungle green eyes stared down upon my form, I could only think to myself.
"Why are they crying?"
After a couple of minutes of awkward crying and hugging from the giants, at least for me it was awkward, the male finally spoke...
"Kare wa ikiyou to Shit imasu."
Japanese? Well that's no fair! How dare they? First they take away my ability to move, then my ability to talk, and now they won't even let me understand them!
"Ureshī!" the giant women yells out.
Those dastardly devils, have they no soul?
"Watashitachiha iwaubekidesu!" the male speaks to his companion.
There probably planning on the best way to cook me this very moment, right in front of me no less!
"Hai, mochiron, watashi wa junbi shimasu." the giantess yells out, before turning and running out of the room. I subconsciously note that the kimono she wears ends at her thighs, with black tights stopping just below the dress, high heels clicking as she runs out. The other, more prominent part of me, is screaming.
"I knew it! She's going to to prepare a ghastly meal of doom, with me as its main course!"
The male giant, finished watching the giantess leave, begins reaching for me with a strange look in his eyes.
"Anata o kirei ni shimashou." The giant whispers to me
Whispers of doom, no doubt meant to frighten me, but it would not work, I'm not afraid!
He then proceeded to pick me up, strong yet dexterous hands holding me surprisingly gentle, I noted in a bit of confusion. After a solid minute of the giant... cooing? The giant finally put me over his shoulder where I'm exposed to to the rest of the room that was hidden from me, like the mirror behind the giant holding a chill-.
"What." I think very confused right now.
As the giant begins to leave the room, all I can do is stare at the fairly basic mirror in confusion because where the hell am I? I see a giant, holding what appears to be a child in there ones or twos, dressed in a simple garb, but I don't see ME anywhere. Yet since I can see the mirror, the mirror should be able to reflect me considering we're right in front of it, yet I don't see me at all... am I invisible? Also, where is this child because I both don't see the giant carrying a admittedly very cute baby with stubby arms, legs, and eyes that resembled twin eclipses, muted black at the center outlined in silver. Nor, I remember getting back on track, did I see them carry one into the room when they first entered. All I can see is me, being carried by the green giant, in the position of... the... child...
"I'm not invisible am I?" I think to myself.
The crushing silence that echoes through my minds is all I need to know that I, in fact, am not invisible. The fact that I even thought that was an option makes me mentally slap myself for being so stupid. Now I have to figure out how a pair of giants managed to turn me into a baby of all things...
I was wrong, so very, very wrong.
I was not afraid, no. I was terrified. And as my eyes gaze upon the massive steaming wooden bucket, easily capable of fitting both the giants in it with room to spare, I could only think
"There going to boil me alive!"
I tried to speak, to plead for my life once again, yet once again I was denied, and all that came out was the wails of a child.
"Ima, ima, naku hitsuyō wanai, soreha daijōbudesu, watashi wa yakusoku shimasu". The giant speaks softly.
Probably describing all the horrible things they're going to do to my corpse ones I'm fried, The monsters, no, demons!
"Well if I'm going out, then I'll take you with me!" I think to nobody in particular.
I then proceeded to yell at the top of my lungs as loud as I could! And by the way he was wincing, I knew I was getting to him. Maybe if I yell loud enough, then I may be able to deafen him!
Redoubling my efforts, I wailed even louder than before.
"Darekaga hai no pea o motte imasu." he seems to mutter, reaching up with his other hand to clean his ear.
"Yes, its working, Victory will be mine!" I think triumphantly.
However, to my shock and confusion, he doesn't drop me into the the boiling water, but rather sets me on a nearby table.
"Huh?" I think in confusion, though not ones stopping my verbal assault upon the giants poor ears. That however, changes rather quickly. My screams of anger and rage turning into screams of panic and "o god please no", as the giant begins to remove his clothes, starting with the thigh high steel tipped boots he was wearing I only now noticed.
"Please don't do what I think your going to do" I whisper in my mind meekly.
Thankfully I am spared both the dark activity I had imagined, and the sight of the giants "little D", as he wraps himself in a towel before walking over to me, de-clothing me in literally one graceful move, lightly sweeping me of my feet with one arm and carrying me over to the boiling water. At this point I didn't care what was going on anymore, only re-re-doubling my efforts of deafening the giant before he could kill m-.
"Ahhhhhh" I internally sigh, instantly ceasing my screaming in favor of enjoying the heavenly heated water. Turns out it wasn't actually boiling hot, only on the precipice of being so, and dammit did it feel good.
A light chuckle above me brought me out of my paradise.
"Darekaga tanoshinde iru." he speaks, amusement dripping from every word.
I attempted to give the now naked but thankfully in the bubbling water giant the darkest, evilest glare possible. Unfortunately, my motor functions are still very limited , and considering the giant's face was above me, I settled for glaring at the water. The resounding laughter that follows makes me wish the giant would just drown me and get it out of the way.
As the giant begins to clean me, CLEAN ME of all things I start thinking, really thinking. The giants, while scary, have actually been pretty nice to me, I thinks bitterly. And although it COULD be a trap in order to lower his guard, I honestly doesn't believe it, even though part of me wants nothing more than to believe it, I don't. The reason I don't is simple, because if these giants are actually as friendly as they have been, and I really am a child, that leaves me with only to scenarios I can think of as being actually plausible. Either the giants somehow turned me into a child in an attempt to do... something with me, or the more likely one. These so called "Giants" are nothing less than my parents in a new life. The reason for this one being the more likely than anything else goes to the voice I heard while being sucked into the black hole.
"may your rebirth shape the very stars." I hear echo back to me perfectly. Photographic memories really were something else huh?
After the heavenly bath, because what else could it be, the gia-, no, not giant, Man. Father, at least potentially. Yet the chances of that odd happening where increasing with every second that passed. Now that I was looking for it, it was easy to see. They way he held me, the way he spoke to me showed not a monster or demon getting a child ready for slaughter, but of a father getting there child ready for supper. Of courses, it could still be a trap. It could... but wouldn't, I knew. The fact that dinner was already made supported this. I still had my worries however, like where was I, how did I get here, were where My friends, why had the planar gate malfunctioned?
Yes, my thoughts were plagued by many questions with no way of getting answers, not yet anyways. One day I would, this I vowed, but until then then I would just have to make do with his current situation, as bizarre as it was.
So there we have it folks! The first chapter of The Mad Engineer. Now I want to go over some stuff with you guys about the story quickly, if you don't care, then peace! If you are kind curious, then read on!
I'm going to try and avoid as many naruto cliches as possible. That includes the mary sue, though it may cross that line at some times, sorry if it ever feels that way.
I'm trying to do something different with this fic then others I've read, not saying other fics are bad, I just had an idea for something different. Instead of being a "ninja" per say, I plan on making a bit more of a mad engineer, in substitute for physical prowess and jutsu, technology will be his main thing. Now I should state that he's not going to be going rambo into a group of ninja and emerge without a scratch. He's going to be an assassin like character, kind like kiritsugu emiya from fate zero if any of you have seen that, though with a heart. That means ambushes, and out maneuvering his opponent. He also won't be starting out with ak-47s or something stupid like that, after all he has to pretty much re-invent the gun, so his starting weaponry will be a little above musket level weapons for a while, and as others increase their power through training and unlocking new jutsus, our boy here will be gaining power through upping his arsenal.
Next chapter will also show the beginnings of something I literally can't find anywhere on this site, except for like, a story or two.
While this is a naruto fic only, I will be drawing inspiration, especially the technology our boy will be using, from other sources, simply because A) I'm terrible with coming up with stuff on my own, and B) sources like MTG and Warhammer have way cooler tech than anything I could come up with, but once again please don't let this discourage you as I will be constantly attempting to make sure our boy does not go Mary sue on us, as they can get pretty boring after a while. A character that doesn't feel or bleed is uninteresting and gets old quickly, I know.
If you have any questions, please either PM me, or leave a review, and if you believe I'm doing something wrong that you think I could do better, please let me know! I'm a new writer and this is my first fanfiction, criticism is welcomed with open arms!
Wow, that was a doozy huh? But I thought I let you peps into some of the elements of the story, and hey, if you think something could be added, or should be removed, tell me why and I'll probably consider it if makes sense. Well that's all I got, soooo... se ya nex- oh wait! I almost forgot the translations for the giants(?)! Here they are and do take note that google translate was used, so if you do actually speak Japanese, and I had them say something stupid on accident, do let me know please. Have a good day/night!
"He's going to make, He's going to live."
"I'm so glad!"
"We should celebrate!"
"Yes, of course, I will prepare."
"now now, there's no need to cry, it will be alright, I promise."
"Someone has a pair of lungs."
"Someone's enjoying themselves"