A/N: And we're back! Time for the next chapter, the exciting conclusion to the Noah fight! And yes, I do refer to the Noah as an it, so it can get somewhat hard to follow, but stick with me here, there's a reason.

Don't Underestimate Me


"Did you REALLY think I was DEAD!" Out of nowhere a skeletal claw emerged, its pointy claw thrusting at Sasuke's turned back. Gaara and I acted quickly; he put up a large and a yard thick wall…and yet the claw smashed into it. Its speed dropping, but a crack formed, and sure enough it broke through. Placing the wide side of my sword towards it I stopped it in its tracks. But man is it heavy!

"Ahrgh, Arr,.. Gra, S-Sasuke! Move!" He disappeared using his speed. At that moment I turned the other way, letting the claw go right by me. It went by and stopped short 9ft of the others. I breathed heavily, I couldn't believe it broke through one of Gaara's thicker shields, and it took almost everything I had just to stall it! The sand wall fell and we regrouped, wondering what was going on.

"Soldier 6… the energy is gone from the sand, but I think it's been absorbed by him!" Gaara said with his breath ragged from summoning the huge wall so quickly. We all looked to the direction of our enemy.

As soon as the smoke cleared, a collective gasp came from our mouths. The Noah had changed from look from a human to the black skeleton form we saw in the hologram before, with some differences. On the back of its hands sprouted 5 bone blades in the shape of a claw. It looked like it worked like some automatic grappling hooks you would see in batman, except these came from the top of his wrists. Spikes came out of its shoulders and followed down its back gradually turning into bumps. It looked like it grew an extra jaw bone that the Noah wore like something a knight would where to protect its jaw. The worst part is, we only know it hasn't shown all the cards in its hand.

"So, tell me, which one of you wants to go first?" His voice was darker and even sicklier than before, if that's possible. I looked at my team; silently I told them that we all needed to go. They nodded and everybody but Gaara went charging at the monster. I upholstered my gun and shot at it, being more cautious than before. It hit it, but it looked like it didn't hurt the Noah at all. Ten-ten slipped on some brass knuckles with 4 huge spikes on it and smaller spikes around them. She turned out to be surprisingly agile as she threw punch at it while jumping awkwardly to avoid a slash from those claws. But the new Noah bent backward and balanced its weight on those back spikes, allowing it to double-kick her. Luckily she summoned a metal shield, but it did smack her pretty hard. She then threw 10 kunai at it. The Noah shot the claw, and we could see it had an outstretching line connecting the claw and the body. The claw clamped down on the knives, but failed to notice the explosive tags and they blew up in its claw. The long connector was charred and what was left of the hand was the palm, and the pinkie.

But suddenly metal alloys stretched out to replace the missing fingers before turning white like the rest of the hand. Fortunately the claw pulled back before it could attack her again. Sasuke came from the back, sword electrified and started swapping slashes with the monster. It suddenly spun around, the spikes knocking the sword out of his hand, once it was done spinning, it launched a kick, but using his ingenuity, Sasuke rolled on the Noah's leg and came slamming his heel into the hip. The Noah wavered a second, allowing Sasuke to jump in its face saying "Giant Fireball Jutsu!" A blast of fire erupted from his mouth. The reaction blew Sasuke away a foot, he watched the blaze engulf the Noah, but a claw arrived from the fire and tried to grab Sasuke, and this time, it was faster! Another Sand wall protected him, and sand senbon exploded towards the Noah, causing it to back up. It jumped to get away but the senbon followed it up, me bringing up the rear. Using the wide side of my sword I said "Wind push" which increased the speed of the senbon. At the speed they were going it was sure to pierce!

A grin appeared on its face, then it said "Tomb shield!" At that moment, what looked like a sarcophagus appeared and opened, collected the senbon and closing.

Out of the corner of the Noah's eye, it noticed a giant shuriken and caught it with its palms.

"Surprise!" Naruto said as he changed into his human clone form and went to slash him with his Dragon Talons. Thinking quickly, the Noah separated them with an enlarged claw, using the force to back up and fall to the ground. The sarcophagus came in between Naruto and it, and we heard "Open" The sarcophagus obeyed and shot the sand senbon it caught from before at us. But apparently it forgot that it wasn't a weapon and the sand dissipated, the Noah growled and the shield vanished. It saw lasers coming from its side and it used its right claw to expand a protect itself. When it couldn't hear anymore lasers, it lowered its claw and saw Sakura a foot away, gloved fist ready to punch.

"Ha! What can you do little girl? If I can stand lasers to my chest, what can a wimpy punch like yours do?" Needless to say, it gravely underestimated her and we all took a very intelligent step back.

"CHA!" A chakra-empowered punch to the Noah's stomach made the sound of metal crunching, and Sakura made the follow through punch lift the modified body in the air. We could feel and see chakra pass through its body and out its back, the power made a slight impact in the Earthling-claimed cliff. I'm not sure, but I think I saw the Noah's eyes roll into the back of its head.

I nodded to Sasuke and we both ran to Sakura's location. She saw us and gave us a nod, to finish up her combo and start ours, she jumped above the Noah and sledge-hammer kicked him to the ground, just before he landed, I slapped my palm on the ground and said, "Canyon Quake." A crack ran from my palm to under the Noah. Its consciousness returning, it saw it was falling in my trap, so it outstretched its arm and shot out its claws to the side of the canyon, scraping it to a stop. It didn't notice Sasuke flew to the bottom and started collecting energy around him. He looked up at the Noah and yelled, "Lava Spout!"

Concentrated lava pooled around his body, and then shot up at high speeds, right up at the Noah! Sasuke Iron Skin allowed him to not get burned, even though he directed around him. The Noah felt the heat rise below his feet, so he looked down. It made a 'tsk' sound and pulled back its extendable claws and said "Cross Block!" Just as the lava was a foot away, a giant crucifix as tall as him appeared. It looked as if it belonged to a graveyard for Billionaires; it was colored black with a light gray trimming it, and red and gold jewels making an alternating pattern, going towards the middle where a large blue circular jewel was located. When the lava impacted with the cross, the force pushed him up and out of the canyon, but I noticed the lava seemed to be absorbed by the jewels. Landing on an elevated rocky plateau in the middle of the valley it got up and planted the cross in the ground and tool out the blue jewel. "Now you'll see one of my greatest attacks!" We regrouped and saw the red and gold jewels turn black and the whole thing melted in the ground. Suddenly, a tremor knocked us off our feet.

"What the hell was that!" Naruto said turning his head back and forth. Then in the distance, a low growl reached our ears, we tensed up, since it seemed to come from everywhere.

"It's from underground!" Gaara exclaimed, we jumped off the ground, just in time too, because a bony hand stretched from the Martian sand, slamming down and pulling the rest of it up. There we saw a skeleton with some mechanical parts and armor climb out of the ground. Sand was pouring out of its eye sockets and other orifices. "Shit… we're surrounded." Gaara said solemnly. We looked around us Metal from destroyed Normas and Tanks flew to the remnants of killed human soldiers like magnets, replacing any missing parts and providing armor of transforming into weapons.

"This is Resurrection!" The Noah said from atop his perch, "Any dead material in the area of one mile radius gets combined into an army of zombies!" He laughed. We all got in a back-to-back formation going over what we could do.

"Man, this is something out of a bad horror movie." Naruto said, quite freaked.

"If we fight in close-range we could be overwhelmed, and using big and long range attacks could spend what little chakra we have left!" I reasoned, internally agreeing with Naruto's earlier comment.

"I could use my sand but with this many, it'd be like you said, draining. Then I wouldn't be able to provide cover, we can't have that against a Noah." Gaara said, his stoic face showing hints of fear and frustration.

"Looks like I'll have to do it." Ten-ten spoke up.

"You sure? Sakura said worried.

"Yeah, I use weapons, which don't spend my chakra, and I'll you guys to back me up should things go bad. Just get up in the air and let me worry about down here." We understood, so Sasuke took flight carrying me with him, and Naruto summoned two clones to turn into jet packs for him and Sakura. We all flew up and landed on the Earthling cliff, far enough away to not get hit by any stray ammo, and close enough away to observe and provide help if needed.

The zombies seemed curious about the lack of enemies so they focused o Ten-ten, waiting for her move. From her pack she took two scrolls, and unrolled them in a circle around her waist and collar bone, a foot away from her body. I noticed kanji on them as they encircled her, and then she said "Double Dragon Fireworks!" The kanji turned from ink to many different types of guns, all seemed to be modified. Then, two maces with medium length hilt/rod appeared in her hands. Without wasting a second she swung the mace rods and the spike ball sitting on top of it shot out, a strong looking chain connecting the weapon and rod, much like the Noah's main weapon of choice. The spiked mace instantly cracked a skull. Literally. The shattered remains of the skull clicked against the other zombies, watching the body separate and return to scrap. The mace returned to the launching rod with a click. And the floating guns took aim. A ripple of lasers blasted forth, each laser shooting right in the middle of the forehead. The hit zombies fell apart like the first one.

"Good thing they don't come back alive like in the movies." Naruto commented, and a whap and "Ow Teme!" could be heard. But we knew Naruto was - in his own way—trying to cheer us up, and Sasuke needed to take his worry out on someone.

The zombies knew that if they didn't attack they'd die (again) so they rushed forward. Ten-ten spun around with the mace shooting out, producing a circle that smashed though some more zombies. She then jumped in the air, collecting her mace and the guns moved and shot erratically but accurately while moving in concert with her. Landing in a clearing, a zombie jumped as soon as Ten-ten shot her chained mace again, it slung its sword at her, but it didn't know about Ten-ten's ingenuity. She used the rod to block the sword, and then maneuvered the chain to go horizontally through the skull, effectively killing it. We watch as the chain cut through skulls and the mace bash 'em. The guns were still firing with insane speed, accuracy and precision. I looked to the Noah, it seems as though he was completely level-headed, but I bet on the inside he was having a cow.

As soon as the last zombie fell, Ten-ten looked composed, besides the few drops of sweat on her brow. The Noah jumped down, a few yards from Ten-ten. "Well you took care of my army with ease, but I won't underestimate you again." He got a reply of gun magazines falling and new ones popping from a scroll to replace them.

"I'm ready anytime you are ugly." She smirked.

"You underestimate me this time, lasers can't hurt me." Ten-ten just 'hmphed' in response and shot a laser at the Noah, the blast ran straight into it and was forced back a step with a grunt. It recomposed itself, its stomach had a bit of skin pushed in by about an inch and a half. The Noah held the hole in disbelief.

"Sorry, but you underestimated me, and yourself. I have the ability to build and modify weapons. These are my special guns that are masterpieces, even if they're weak compared to your Exous armor, this ammo power is the equivalent of a large canon. So I can still collapse parts of your body, giving you indents like that."

"I wasn't expecting that…" The Noah thought out loud. It also didn't expect all 40 guns cocked and fixed on his position. They shot, and it stretched it bone claws to make a shield. Since it really wasn't a part of its body it wouldn't hurt and it reformed if it chipped. But I gotta say, that looked like it hurt. Ten-ten used this chance to jump as its vision was compromised, using the mace and shot diagonally to its right, completely missing its head, the other crossed over the chain and did the same but on the left side. "Ha, you missed!"

"Not exactly…Nexus Cut!" The point where the chains crossed was the Nexus, and it went from Ten-ten to the Noah. "The chain is lined with micro-blades, super small, but extremely sharp." You didn't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out what would happen if the blade-laced chain reached you. The Noah quickly screamed "Tomb Shield" and the sarcophagus appeared right as the chains were starting to close on him from the side, it couldn't open to absorb the chains, which was a plus on our side. The shield was somewhat holding up, but the edges were being sliced with a horrible screeching sound, the Noah jumped back from the attacks' range, just as the shield collapsed and was sawed in half. Dust covered the two from our sight, but we heard sounds of the guns firing off, slightly illuminating the dust cloud from the inside. The two fighters jumped out from the top dust cloud.

Somehow in the scuffle, Ten-ten lost most of her guns and the two maces, only 3 guns were left. But the good news is, the Noah had a few new dents in its shoulders with some spikes broken off and cracked, left leg, back, and just above the right hip.

My guess is that it charged forward when Ten-ten was blinded and somehow managed to destroy the guns, but not without being shot a few times. As the Noah was in the air, it stretched its bone claws out five yards and set its arms to the side and slapped its hands together, the bone claws were imitating his move, right where Ten-ten was! She fired a few times before cutting the connections with the guns and threw some kunai, and since every action had an opposite and equal reaction, she flew to the Exous cliff.

Gaara quickly softened the landing by controlling the sand to reach up to her and slowly guide her down. She nodded in our direction as a sign of thanks. The Noah landed and smirked "I've gotta admit, this is the most fun I've had in awhile. But it ends now." It raised the blue stone from earlier, "The energy stored from the cross can actually split by taking out this jewel. It can fire a huge blast that's very large and wide. You have now other power than weapon modification. You're doomed."

"I still have two more guns and these ones will beat you." Ten-ten said confidently.

"Bring it on!" The Noah yelled. Ten-ten obliged and took out a dark red scroll and unrolled it. There was some smoke as the weapons were summoned. We waited as the smoke cleared, I was holding my breath. We all were surprise by what we saw next, this was including the Noah. Two shiny black 2000 model 9 mm gun. We couldn't believe it. Something that ancient was expected to beat an advanced Exous? If lasers couldn't even phase him, what will bullets do? I don't know what Ten-ten was thinking. "Ha ha ha! Heh ha! Ha ha ha! Ha! ha! After all that talk about beating me…and this is your plan? What the hell? Ha ha! I think it's time I ended this game!" Ten-ten looked at us and mouthed, 'don't move'. It aimed the blue jewel at Ten-ten and said "Final Resting Place Blast!" A black laser was fired, completely blocking our sight of Ten-ten and the blast was as tall as the cliff that Ten-ten was pinned against.

"Gaara! Status!" Using the sand to see what we couldn't, he then breathed a gasp of fear.

"She raised her guns and firing!" As soon as he said that, we heard the sound of 2 guns firing at the same time, and we saw a blinding white laser emitting from the bullets and it was a 1/4th bigger than the Noah's blast canceling each other out.

After the smoke cleared the Noah fell to his knees in disbelief, "H-how? H-h-how can it be?"

"It's simple really" Ten-ten said in a condescending voice, "I modified them. The difference is… that in today's weapon, the chemicals and matrix that control creation and launching of the laser is very hard to mess with, if you do it wrong, it could blow up in your face. So there are limits to what you can do. But the simple mechanics in these guns give me 98 percent more freedom in modification. In other words, if the modern guns could indent you, these will create a volleyball-sized hole in your chest!"

All of us on the cliff looked at each other. It was obvious none of us knew about these guns. Sasuke rubbed his iron hide, and from the look on his face, he knew one hit from those and he'd be dead.

Acting quickly the Noah shot its bone claws on either side of Ten-ten and gripped tight. He jumped in the air a bit and started to spin around; the remaining spikes made it seem like a buzz saw! If he hits Ten-ten at the speed...it won't be hurt as much if she fired and it could finish her off!

But Ten-ten, she's laughing. She crossed her arms and fired shot at the connectors between the Noah and the claws. It stopped immediately and blood-oil spurted from it in a "X" shape and the liquid came from its mouth. I was gasping at this turn of events. The Noah retracted its claws and it looked like hell. "How d-did *cough* you know-"

"Your weakness? Well, as an accurate shooter I've developed perfect and discerning eyesight. When you were falling in the chasm, I noticed when you tried stop yourself; I saw that your left claw was slower. The only reason it would do that is because when I blew up your left claw and connector! Even though it healed it took minutes longer for your connector, and even though you're black coloring makes it hard to see injuries, my eyesight could see burn marks on your left side." The Noah's eyes widened, telling all of us she was right. "When ever your connectors are hit, your body takes proportional damage."

"Wow" Naruto said, "I never knew Ten-ten was such a Bad-ass Kick-Asser." Needless to say, we all agreed.

"Give up." Ten-Ten said, eyes cold towards the half-dead creature. Me and the gang went down, surrounding the Noah from behind, but still maintaining distance.

"Stay away… or I'll blow up!" The Noah said desperately.

"Too bad you don't have a bomb." It looked to Ten-ten who held a gun to his head; she must have sneaked up on it while it was focused on us. "Did I forget to tell you? Silly me, but I can analyze any weapon I touch. When you charged at me in the dust cloud I managed to scan you."

"You!" It stretched its claws at her but since it was heavily damaged, it was much slower, so Sasuke and I slashed its claws off. In the quick slashing we opened its abdomen, oops. A scream erupted from its throat from the pain. And inside we could see a metal part where its heart was suppose to be, I saw Ten-ten tense.

"Naruto, use your claws to pull that out!" Since it was on such short notice, Naruto made a thin membrane of chakra with only 4 inch nails and snatched the part out. Wires still connected to the main body fought him as he stepped back to fully detach it, so Sasuke electrified his sword and easily cut through the wires. The color faded from the Noah's eyes, and the black tattooing instantly changed to human color.

Through a tired eye its real pupils came forth by fading in. "Thank you" a sickly voice sounded. But it wasn't 'crazy-sick' like before, but 'cancer-sick'.

"Ten-ten, what is this?" Naruto looked at the part in his hand.

"Basically, it's the mainframe. The Exous wanted to use the MW's powers while controlling him, so they couldn't turn him completely mechanical. To override the human soul, they put that in him, it makes a chemical that boost bloodlust while sending messages to their brain that controlled intents, but allowed the MW to fight normally."

"Yes…but I won't live long since that was connected to my heart. But I must tell you my message." It—no, he, told us. "The Exous is making three bombs. Each with the power of 6 nuclear bombs, and it's designed to kill anything biological. One's for here, and one for Earth, and the last for the moon." We all gasped. "It will be done in 8 months, and if its calculations are right, and they usually are, only it and a few really high levels will survive. It will then take the knocked-out high-levels and create more Noahs. So it can wage war with other life forms and gain the advantage. It even is creating another Exous to rocket to other planets and create a base there. Luckily, it isn't programmed to happen 'till 6 months after the bombing." My eyes were wide with disbelief, the others had the same reaction, and Gaara was even shaking. After a violent cough he continued with the bad news. "One last thing…Sasuke Uchiha?" The teen keeled down, "I'm sorry, but it has your brother. He told me to tell you that he was sent on a top secret mission to go behind enemy lines, recon, and destroy assembly lines. He was caught, but it hasn't started assimilation yet, it's saving him for after the bombing. He told me this when I was still Exous, so I never thought I'd do this. But he used the Sharingan to hypnotize me to live a little longer and do this. He took both Naruto's and Sasuke's hands, and the dark color arose again, only to be transferred to Sasuke and Naruto. "Take my power…you'll need it. I was a level 50 mechanized to 85, it'll be helpful. Naruto Uzumaki, they're coming for you and Gaara, I don't have to say why.

The ex-Exous body shriveled up as the power left him, his originally gray hair turning into a blinding white. When he was done he was breathing hard but it was pretty useless without a whole heart. "I'm sorry for all I've done." And with that he died peacefully with a smile on his face.

Shortly after, we buried him. He was a true warrior to the end.


A/N: Didn't expect that twist did you? So now what are our heroes going to do? Review and stay tuned!