The Broken Echo Chapter Two: Home Again…

Tapping echoed out throughout the hallway of small apartment. Coming out the bathroom door at the end of the hallway, was Echo, urban camo-styled shorts that stopped right above his knees. No shirt with a white damp towel around the back of his neck hanging over his shoulders as he turned the corner. He wasn't the bulkiest person ever, but he had a good bit of muscle, a small pack of very defined abs. Right over them happened to be a few scars, a star looking kind of scar right over it.

Going up on his chest, a chiseled chest which was covered in more, scars a few from surgery, but most, are either from himself or from his 'home'… Dare he use that word about that place ever again. Sighing to himself he turned the corner and walked away from the bathroom. It was a fairly small apartment, two bedrooms and one bathroom. One bedroom was a home office while he had his bedroom in the "Master bedroom" which was the room right next to the bathroom. The door at the end of the hallway. It was next to a closet that was right across from the bathroom. Stopping near the end of the hallway and turning the corner to the right again, he entered his living room. This room was, well huge for an apartment. He could both play games, watch movies while working out. It was scary how he was able to get his workout equipment in here and have enough room for a couch, an entertainment center, and his large 148" flat screen TV.

His living room was that of a full blown gym and gaming lounge. Walking past the coffee table that was in front of the couch and grabbed a small remote from said table, he then pointed it the entertainment center. Clicking one of the buttons, suddenly the sides opened up and a built in stereo set came out. Then a song clicked on, a guitar began strumming and the drums soon followed along. (Disclaimer, I do not own this song, this song is Kryptonite from Three Doors Down.)

Then, the singer began. "Well I took a walk around the world to ease my trouble mind, I left my body lyin' somewhere in the sands of time, but I watch the world float to the dark side of the moon, I feel theres nothin' I can do~. Yeah… I watch the world float to the dark side of the moon…"

Tossing the towel down onto the table, Echo then walked to the treadmill that rested in the corner for him. He took a step up and flipped it on, pressing a few buttons before he set the speed to 9.5, the incline for 10, and the time for 20 minutes. It started up and he followed along, letting the song play in the backround as he began his daily routine of working out in the morning.

Six Hours Later, 11:33A.M. U.S. G.O.C.

"You called Captain?" Echo said walking into his commanders office.

"Ah, Echo there you are…" He started off the old officer. "There's been an incident…. The Algiman Space station and Space elevator is believed to be under a takeover, but with the communications no with the Algiman, so any Intel we have is limited."

"And let me guess, you want me, another phantom and a squad of soldiers up there." Echo spoke out of turn with a quirked brow.

"Close, you and another Phantom, but command has designated this a high priority mission. So you'll be sent in with the Hell Hounds." He explained, getting a wide eyed look from the casual uniformed blonde.

"Isn't that a bit over kill?" He asked curiously.

"It may. But a situation like this would damage us in a way that would take too long to heal from. Both our reputation and actually manufacturing ability of any space worthy ships would be sunk in the toilet."

A sigh came from Echo before he spoke up. "Then, are we allowed Tier 4 level equipment?" He asked, might as well be time.

A wide eyed look from his commander before a grim look appeared on his face. "So that's what's going to happen after you're done on the station…For what it's worth, good luck…Tier 4 level equipment usage granted….Do me a favor, and write back once in a while at least." A small ghost of a smile appeared upon the old man's face. Looking at his youngest pupil and trainee and remembering when they first met. At arms and ready to kill one another, now master and student, father and son. It was ironic. Very Ironic really, too bad for them they could meet sooner.

Nodding to his superior officer. "Planned on it. Just do me a favor and find a way to keep me supplied while I'm there would ya'?" He asked in a kind of joking matter what shocked him was his commander simply nodded in agreement.

"Well then, I'll go gear up…I'll see ya around boss."

"See ya…Gaki.." A small smirk appeared on his face as Echo seemed to just disappear into the shadow of the office.

"See ya…."

Armory, 1200 Hours, Echo (Naruto)

Echo stood in the armory room, gathering his gear. He was already armored up, instead of the normal Phantom or Spectre gear, he was using HIS gear, which was a class high-4 to low-5. Class 5 being one a kind weapons and gear, unable to be recreated while 4 was Experimental, while 3 was Advanced, 2 was Adept, and 1 was Average.

Mostly black, the plating on the thighs shins and feet made it have a more Exo-skeleton kind of feel with how they looked, and by exo-skeleton, he didn't mean like actually larger than human robot Exo-suit. The knees were covered by a black four bolt metal plate. Right above the belt was a set of pouches with ammunitions, rations, and grenades, and other small gadgets.

On his right and left thigh, were weapon holsters, not normal ones, those that are meant for any and all small blades. At this moment, they each six holster set was filled with plasmatic throwing daggers, recoverable. Its original name was the Type-44 Energy Throwing Blades, or T-44ETB for short, but he just calls them throwing daggers. These ones were special though, instead of just being an energy blade, there was an actual metal blade that there, the energy and plasma just covered the blade to add more power behind it. Then there were the sidearm holsters. One on his hip, one on his right shin, and one under his left arm.

Each holster had a different weapon; the one on the hip had a KE weapon, which was a single barrel single load pistol with interchangeable barrels. This weapon was his most dangerous sidearm. (It's a black weapon that looks kind of like a flare gun, but with a way longer barrel, it was about 14 Inches long.) it was a Long Barrel Heavy Pistol. The real name is a PRRTD-92, but he didn't know what the PRRTD stood for.

Next, was the one under his arm, this was his mostly go to handgun; he doesn't touch the others until he's either pissed, or this doesn't cut it. A small MMTType-25 Laser Pistol. A small weapon that shot a blue laser as a primary ability, but it came with a secondary firing trigger. It shoots a CONTINOUS beam as long as the trigger is held down. Said pistol though does have its limit, it over heats, not quickly, but it does over heat at a fair rate.

And finally, was a small handgun, a simple recreation of the M1911, sleek, black, and simple, along with its holster was a tactical combat knife that went with it, and it also had a small flashlight attached at the bottom. The ammunition was simple enough, a few different types in specially marked magazines that went with said weapons.

Red for Explosive, Yellow Armor Piercing, Blue EMP, Green Hollow Point, Pink Taser, and so on and so on. Each magazine had its color striped down the spine of it.

Next weapon he had grabbed was a Pin-point Energy Dispersal Unit or the PPED, to most people though, they just call it the laser bow. This weapon was, as obviously nicknamed, a bow weapon, but also doubled as a laser blade when in melee combat. It takes specialized gear to use this thing, and luckily for Naruto, he never under prepares, no, his motto is "There is no such thing as being overly prepared, especially if it means you live another day."

This weapon uses a high concentrated beam of a strange mix of Ionic energy and hard light. The hard light being the part that allows you to grab it and then draw it back like an actual bow and the ionic energy is what is shot, though strangely enough, it does take the form of an arrow when being drawn back and about to be fired. This weapon was originally a peace offering from the Canadians or ISDF.

Naruto (Echo) then reached out and grabbed a FAMAS G2 with the railing\handle taken off and replaced with a duel scope, two mods, sniper and marksmen, pretty much turns it from a zoom range from 8 to 16 to an ACOG scope. But the size of the scope never changes. Be that as it's said, it's the same size as an ACOG. Then he started to take apart the rifle to replace the barrel to fire 308 Caliber rounds instead of the 7.62 (A\N No idea if that's what it really fires, can't remember.)

Afterword, he slapped on a silencer, a laser\flashlight. And finally, he grabbed ammunition. Same style as his sidearm, again Red explosive tipped, Green Hollow Point, etc.

Cocking back the pin and taking aim, he started to hook up the scopes computer system with his cybernetics and his neural net. His right eye then shot open a display of schematics, ways to repair it if damaged, and then it moved onto the actual weapon. Said rifle was again simple black gunmetal of a stack base color.

Sighing, he reached up and around putting it on his back and allowing it to magnetize to his armors back. Then he looked to his left, straight at a large class case, he then began walking over to it.

The tapping away of his boots continued as he marched his way to it, his eyes slowly dimmed as he remembered what was in his case, it's what got him to what people called Spectre, and it made his Phantom career. Stopping in front of it, he looked to his right and down at a little key pad. He sighed and typed in the 4 pin-password, his birth date, or well, not the year.

A loud hiss was heard before a popping of a tumbler and a lock clicked, then the door swung open slowly, the darkened class case opened to reveal a pair of melee weapons. Two high frequency machetes, (Imagine Sundowners from Metal Gear Rising, just less bulky and a bit more slim. Still one sided though.)

He grabbed both of them along with their "Sheaths" and put them in place on his armor. One over his left shoulder going straight down, and one on his lower back, right above his waste, the handle hanging off his right side so it's an easy quick draw. This also made them in a rather awkward upside down cross.

Sighing one final time, he turned and began walking towards the exit of the armory, or more or less, his armory. A sudden metal grinding noise was heard before a quick snap and his helm began to shift from the base of his neck up and shift into position. (N\A:I have no real idea how to describe this so I'll just give you an idea what it looks like. Imagine mixing halo ODST armor with Raiden's Body from Metal Gear Rising, and putting Monsoons helmet on, but replace that mask part with again Raiden's visor. That's the helmet and armor in a nutshell.)

He reached over as he was half way outside the door and flipped a switch that killed the lights before disappearing with the door shutting behind him. This was going to be his last mission. Before he returned home.

Fifty-Two Minutes Later

Echo had been leaned back, eyes shut as he was sitting down in the simple Nexus Class dropship. He was sent in with an older man who was the other Phantom, but that wasn't the bad part. At least that man didn't say anything. Black Dog squad, or otherwise known as Hell Hounds, was a group of SDAT, or Strategic Drop Assault Troopers. They were higher on the food chain than most SDAT, what's more, they were actually part of the Army branch.

They was grey combat gear, strangely enough though only one of them was wearing his helmet, probably a sleep though. Wouldn't surprise the Phantom Veteran, the rest were talking to one another. Their commanding officer was busting one of their balls from the sound of it, not that he knew much of the conversation anyways. Nor would he really want to. He shook his head and opened his eyes before standing up and walking towards the cockpit.

Upon entering said cockpit he was greeted by the pilot sitting in his chair working with the controls, they were just seconds away from the space station. This made him smirk before he walked over. "Hard at work I see?" Echo said, attempting but to be sarcastic, but failing horrible as his tone was a simple cold and mono.

"Yes sir. Oh, sir, We'll be landing in 2 minutes."

"Understood." Echo replied with a nod to the pilot who had replied as simply done in the military. Then he left the pilot's cabin before walking to the back of the ship and standing tall in front of them all. "Alright Ladies, this is it, get yourselves ready. We're landing in Two Minutes." He said loudly, clearly, and coldly. He wasn't in the mood to play around, he wanted to find out what happened, get it done, and leave. He never liked going in on mission dark, but no one really had a clear answer of WHAT was going on exactly, so he'd just have to find out.

Quickly walking over to the controls in the back for the lowering system, he leaned on the wall next to them, waiting for the signal that they had landed. Evidently, he ended up falling asleep standing up, oh well; I guess no one taught him about gravity. His body had slid down into a sitting position as he rested.

One Minutes and Thirty Seconds Later.

A loud smack was heard as Echo snapped away, finding the noise of a sleeping SDAT being kicked awake.

"Wake up Kid, we're moving." Said a cocky voice from the man who kicked said soldier. Echo stood up and so did said Kid who had been asleep.

The entirety of the group made their way to the large door\ramp that was to drop as soon as they landed.

A voice was then heard on the ships intercom. "Alright, twenty seconds till landing."

"Lock and load." Said a loud Sergeant to Echo's left. At that point, Echo pulled his rifle out and cocked the weapon back, it was loaded with a yellow striped magazine, so it was ready for any sort of armored unit.

"Ten…" The intercom came alive and started counting down. "Five….Four….."

"Three….Two….One… GO! GO! GO!"

Quickly the ramp opened up and it allowed them to run straight down. Echo taking lead as he was the fastest, he quickly looked around as his steps moved on. He had basically left his team in the dust. Moving straight from the far point of the hanger straight to the hall connecting it. He stopped against the wall and looked around, it was pretty damn dark, power was probably out. Looking over to his right he noticed his team moving to catch up with him. He then opened up a comm-channel to the squad.

"Alright. Alpha-01 and Alpha-02, move and secure the control room for this hanger bay. Beta-01, you're moving to the security stations in here, I want you to find out just what the hell happened. Alpha-03, you go with Beta-01, then when you find it out, Double back here and help Alpha-04 guard our escape route. Alpha-05 and 06, you're with me. We're going to find survivors. Clear?" Echo ordered, as he was looking to them, he got a mix of nodding heads and Yes Sirs from the group. Nodding to them, he then slowed his pace and started down the hallway, rifle raised and at the ready. Two of the Hell Hounds had been with him. Ready for any sort of fight that may come their way.

The group slowly began to creep the hallway, making their way through the armory which had been emptied, the cafeteria, and stopping at the barracks.

With his back against the wall, Echo had his rifle in hand as he looked to the trooper on the other side of the door that was in between his spot and the SDAT.

Nodding to one another, Echo brought his hand around to the control panel on his side, letting the bottom of his rifle's barrel jacket go to use that hand, he brought the FAMAS up and pointed it to the ceiling before pressing a little green button to open the door. Then in a quick set of movements, the SDAT that was next to the door was in cover inside behind a flipped up table, Echo was on the other side of the door, rifle pointed inwards, and the final SDAT was on the floor laser weapon pointed towards the inwards of the room.

"Clear." He said.

"Clear." The second one confirmed.

Echo simple nodded. "Okay, let's move on."

He'd soon find himself regretting that action.

About Thirty Minutes Later.

Sighing to himself, Echo was completely confused, he regrouped with the rest of the squad after finding that this station was, well other than them. Devoid of all life, like they just disappeared off the ship without anyone noticing. It was honestly creepy.

He looked around to everyone else, they were moving things, and talking amongst one another. He simply stood up and walked away and down the hall that was away from Cafeteria where the group was gathered. He was walking towards Hanger T-45.

Upon his arrival to said hanger, he was greeted by the sight of a small military corvette, about the side of two broadsword gunships. Which weren't all that big anyways. Able to support up to life for 6 people, and it actually had a bathroom. Even more than that, this ship seems to of been optimized with both plasma and laser weaponry. Plus it had a lot of different missile looking weapons on it. Sleek and grey for the coloring. He simply smirked to himself. He then made his helmet shut and opened a comm-channel to his Commander.

As soon as said channel opened, Naruto seen his about to be ex-boss's face. "Hey boss…It's time…" He said to Alexander. Who nodded in return and gave a cocky smirk.

"Behave yourself brat, oh and another thing. I may of setup a little something for you. All you have to do is activate your beacon after giving verification codes and you'll get some presents. You better be happy cause the Special Warfare sector was bitching the entire time. There is a satellite in orbit that is set to stay over the Bermuda Triangle, it's loaded with all your equipment. And when I say all. I mean ALL!"

"…Al-…Dad…Thanks…" He said with a sad smile on his face under the mask bit that hid his mouth.

"You're welcome…kid.." A small chuckle came from him before he sighed. "I'll let you get on your way…remember, sent me a message sometime…I'd like to know how my best Phantom is."

"Yeah…I'll see you around."

"You too brat." A ghost of a smile crossed both their faces as he cut the connection. Then he grinned widely. He started walking to the ship and started walking up the ramp, after that, he brought his arm up and opened up his TAC-pad. Hitting a few buttons, he dropped his verification codes and deactivated his Friend of Foe Tag, and he completely deactivated his locator so they couldn't hunt him down. Then he walked towards the cockpit. "…Time for a home coming." He simply said to himself before sitting down in the pilot's chair and activating a forced take off.

Well, that was fun. Anyways, still waiting on more options but so far I've gotten Hinata, Anko, and Tenten…I might of missed on but whatever. Anyways, to answer a question asked, for the OC thing, I'ma have to change that. I meant for Ninja OC. Be them an enemy you want to see Naruto fight, or someone you want him to befriend.

Another thing, that energy bow, imagine how it looks is the Arc from Blade 3, and how it fires is kinda like the Quincy's bow from Bleach.

Some more for naruto! ArtificalOrgan!Naru, Weaponized!Naru, Freelance!Naru, Marksmen!Naru, Straight!Naru, MusicIntune!Naru (likes to dance.) CivilianLike!Naru, ShinobiHated!Naru (Most Ninja's disliked or hated him with a passion.) Abussed!Naru (By his mother) AnimalPerson!Naru, Strong!Naru, Quiet!Naru.

Another thing. NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO INCEST! FUCK THAT! I have a moral thing, you want to fuck your sister or brother or mother or father that's your thing. I won't and won't make ANYONE do it. That's how I feel about it. I admit some Incest stories are okay, but that's only for the STORY, like the fighting and plot, how Naruto(Or main protagonist.) IS! Also….I'm remodeling Naruto's armor cause I thought of something that'd look WAY better. So that'll be in the next chapter. Anywho….Read, Review, and yeah yeah, you know the Drill.

Naruto: *Gives DP a blank stare.*

DP:What?

Naruto: *Continues to stare at him.*

DP: *Quirks a brow.* What?

Naruto: *Proceeds to pull out a rusty spoon and hand it to a mysterious figure*….He's all yours. *Walks away.*

Cloaked Figure: Thank you. *Giggles insanely before slowly approaching DP*

DP:….FUCK! *starts to run away from the rusty spoon wielding psycho.* I LIKE MY LEGS VERY MUCH THANK YOU!

…Dafuq?...I don't know I was bored with this so I put this in there to for shits and giggles. ANYWHO…Thank you for reading. Ja Ne!