Aloy was 15 when the Massacre occurred. She was crafting more arrows when both Sora and Kiseki ran in.
"Aloy, honey, we need you to run - get out of here," her mother said.
"Why, mum? What's going on?"
Kiseki didn't answer that question; instead, she said, "Just know that we love you. We'll hold them off until you can get away. Go!" Sora said urgently. Both parents hugged her tightly, then ran out of her room. She began hastily gathering up her stuff.
When she got to the door, she heard a scream. "Mom!" she yelled, then charged outside to see Danzo killing her mother. "NO!" she screamed. Her vision became clearer, even clearer than with her Sharingan active. Tears streamed down her face, or so it seemed until she put her hand up to the drops. It was blood. Danzo looked up, spotted her, and stalked towards her.
Aloy ran. Kunai and shuriken flew at her, which she side stepped. She jumped over bodies and ducked into a side alley. There laid two bodies.
"I have a few moments," Aloy said to herself as she looked around, "I should look to see if these bodies have anything useful." She did, first checking the eyes for signs of life. When she saw that one of them had a different type of Sharingan, she remembered the story of the Mangekyo Sharingan. She took them out, mentally apologizing, and pulled out hers. She then inserted them into her eyes, and healed them, allowing herself to see again. Then she pulled out kunai and shuriken from both bodies' weapons pouches. After she took that, she heard people's voices and walked up the wall.
"Where could I be safest?", she asked herself as she jumped from roof to roof, fleeing, before it dawned on her. "The Cauldron! I can distract them with Watchers and escape undergrou-"
She was cut off by a kunai flying past her head. As the shinobi stalked towads her, she panicked and ran through handseals. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu: Thunderjaw!" she screamed. A thick cloud of smoke obscured her, and when it cleared, she was standing on the mechanical 's back. The shinobi in the area stepped back in shock as the robot roared and flattened a building with its tail. Aloy commanded it to cover her as she fled, and it began firing lasers at the gathered ninja and charging at them before launching discs that shot lasers.
Aloy jumped off of the Thunderjaw and began running. She knew that Cauldron entrances were in strategic places around the village. She found one underneath a tree and activated it. After scanning her, it opened up and admitted her, and then closed.
"MAUI!" Aloy cried, "Is there any way to escape from here? I'm being hunted!"
A figure with long curly black hair, tattoos, and shorts appeared, projected by her Focus. He looked Hawaiian, and he said, "You are being attacked? If so, there is a portal towards the back. All you have to do is activate it."
Aloy was grabbing her armor - a combination of the Shield Weaver and the Shadow Carja Heavy armor. This armor combined the best of both - the Shield Weaver's impregnability and the Shadow Carja Heavy's armor plating and mods. "Good! Lock down the base too! Don't let anyone in except people with my genome!"
MAUI replied, "As you wish. The base is now in lockdown mode. Given the shinobi's abilities and determination, though, I estimate that you have 4 minutes, 23 seconds until they blow the doors down.
Aloy froze. "MAUI. Do you have a base destruct ability? I can't allow them to get their hands on any of this tech."
"Yes," the AI said, "I do. It will take me approximately 1 minute to circumvent the safety features, and you will have one minute left to escape." A tray popped out from a pedestal in the center of the room, and inside was a small drive. Aloy picked the nearly microscopic drive up.
"This is a copy of myself, along with everything that I have gathered. It will plug into your Focus and allow you to take me with you." As she inserted the drive, MAUI asked, "Would you like me to destroy the base? If yes, let me know. You have approx-"
"Yes!" Aloy shouted, cutting him off, "Self destruct now!"
"Understood. Time to Cauldron destruction: T-60 seconds." Two timers appeared next to MAUI's avatar, counting down the time to base destruction. Aloy headed to where MAUI directed her, and found herself in front of a grand portal. It was made of Thunderjaw parts and stood with a diameter of 20 feet. A panel stood to the side, which she activated through her Focus. It scanned her and the portal opened with a whirring, rumbling sound.
At that moment, an explosion occurred. MAUI said, "They have broken in! Hurry, Aloy! Step through NOW!"
"Fan out! Find her!" a voice ordered.
Aloy sighed. "Well, here goes nothing," she said before stepping in, disappearing to another dimension. Behind her, the portal shut down.
Some ROOT executives walked through the Cauldron. "Danzo will want to see this," a ROOT executive said in an emotionless tone. The others nodded as the executive ordered a shimobi to bring Danzo.
"Sir. Look at this," a shinobi told the leader. The executives followed the shinobi to the center, where MAUI was. "Greetings. I am MAUI, the AI built to service this establishment. Let it be known that all doors are permanently sealed and escape is impossible before this Cauldron blows up." A timer appeared and MAUI said, "This establisment will commence self destruction in T minus 5 seconds."
"What?" the ninja asked.
"Four."
"Three."
"Two."
"One."
"Reactor meltdown initiated. Fusion core self destruct begun. Blaze reactors destruct sequence initiated."
Explosions ripped through the Cauldron as the multiple Blaze reactors erupted into flames. Then, the fusion core went critical and exploded.
Although limited in scope, the blast was still spectacular. It completely obliterated the most of the Uchiha compound as well as the training grounds and forest around it, and a mushroom cloud billowed out over Konoha. Winds over 100 mph screamed through the streets, shredding buildings and exposed people in a 2 mile radius from ground zero. Somehow, Sasuke survived, ensconced in his house, but thousands perished.
