Chapter 7
Tenten couldn't believe how fast they'd gotten to another planet much less another galaxy all together. The auto pilot told her that they were in the Solana Galaxy, and nearing the planet Marcadia. During the time they traveled, Naruto's condition had gotten better to the point where he was breathing normally. Now she was looking at it, Marcadia, another planet; she was seeing another planet and was about to go there and meet people. Meet aliens in order to get help for her friend who was also an alien, one of the last of his kind. Nobody else back home could say that they'd done something or even seen something as amazing as this, only she could say that she did. The planet was beautiful, the auto pilot was bringing them in. Upon getting closer to the surface she was amazed at the sight of the beautiful city that was Metropolis. The flying vehicles and advanced technology she could see, only served to excite her much more. Then there were the aliens, she was curious and a bit scared. Upon landing she immediately found herself being approached by a squad of who were most likely law enforcers, and leading them was a woman. She had fox-like ears and fox-like facial characteristics with sharp ears that were about half the length of a Naruto's own, ten functional fingers, and striped tails. She had dark brown fur and noticeable black stripes. Her blue eyes went from the ship to Tenten. She stopped a few feet away from the human girl. "Hi, there miss…"
"Sasha, Sasha Phyronix the Mayor of Metropolis." The now revealed to be Mayor stated. "And while I should leave this to the towing company, I'll make an…exception." She said. "That ship you have belongs to someone who is regarded as a hero of the galaxy; do you know who that is?" the girl was obviously nervous.
"Ratchet"
"That's right, so tell me why you have the ship of a dead hero, said ship was thought to be lost."
"Well, the mother of his child gave it to me to use to save their, son." She could hear the mummers of those around. Nobody had ever heard of Ratchet have a wife much less a child. Sasha looked to the ship with suspicion. Walking over to it, she looked inside to see that there was indeed a young Lombax inside and was the spitting image of Ratchet with some features that obviously came from his mother. The boy was sleeping soundly, likely not even knowing that they'd landed. "H—His name is Naruto, his mom named him that." Sasha couldn't take her eyes off of the sleeping boy.
"Tell me something, who is the mother and where is she?" Tenten froze, she could tell the woman who Naruto's mother was but not where she was.
"His mother's name is…Vendra Prog, but I can't tell you where she is." Sasha turned to the girl with a look of confusion, she must've heard wrong.
"Could you please repeat that name." it wasn't a request, it was an order.
"Vendra Prog." The sounds of gasps and talk of shock were heard as Sasha looked to Tenten.
"Tell me something, what are you exactly?" here was the million dollar question.
"Human, I'm human." A few people fainted upon hearing this.
'A human, a race thought to be completely wiped?' Sasha couldn't believe what she was hearing. 'Humans…the race that was supposedly not only aligned with the Lombax, but was their equals; a Lombax, well half Lombax half Nether, and a human coming here.' She had to know. "Who sent you here?"
"Vendra, she wanted Naruto to be safe." The former shinobi stated. "She said that you might be willing to help us." Sasha chuckled a bit; Vendra had known what she was doing.
"Alright, let's get the two of you set up." After explaining why Naruto was in a comatose state, Sasha found suit to have him thoroughly examined. His body was perfectly fine so all they had to do was wait for him to wake up on his own. At the moment, Tenten was in Sasha's office; there was much to address. "Human, you're a real human." She sounded amazed. "Tell me, is the planet you're from, is it all populated by humans?" Tenten nodded 'yes', Sasha couldn't hold back her excitement; this was the best discovery of a lifetime. There was an entire planet populated by a supposedly extinct species. Sure, the Lombaxes just left but humans were hit by the brute of the war and were supposedly wiped out completely; colonies and all. "Amazing"
"Vendra crashing onto the planet was the first sign of alien life that we'd ever seen and she'd been safely hidden away because she was in a coma, until Naruto started using hip powers."
"Wait, so there were no ships or weapons like the ones we have? What did you guys have." After a quick explanation, Sasha nearly fainted after hearing all of what Tenten had just told her. "One of the most advanced species in all the galaxies, reduced to using weapons so primitive it isn't funny at all; it's sad." She stated.
"You know, when we were still near the, I saw a bunch of broken down ships; there were hundreds of them." the bun haired girl stated, this caught the older woman's attention. Broken down ships?
"A ship graveyard, did any of them look salvable?" she questioned. "Like some were intact to a good point where they could be fixed?" Tenten racked her brain a bit until it came to her.
"There was this one ship and it was way bigger that the village, it had a few holes but aside from that, it was in pretty good shape; I guess, I don't know much about ships." She stated.
"Did it have this symbol on it?" she pulled up a hologram, instantly Tenten recognized it.
"That's the symbol for the Land of Fire." She stated. "It's where we lived."
"What about these?" she pulled up four more symbols. Instantly she recognized those symbols as well.
"Lightning, Wind, Earth, and Water." She said listing them off, Sasha could see it now.
"The current humans must have these symbols mistranslated because these are all the symbols for a single word; hope." She'd studied human language in her free time. That massive ship—maybe even the entire fleet must've been their last hope. "Why does each one represent an element now?" the younger girl didn't want to disappoint the woman, but the truth deserved to be told. It was now part of human history whether they liked it or not. After a detailed explanation and slowly crushing Sasha's expectations, she finished with how the shinobi system currently worked. After the explanation, the woman now had a look of horror on her face. "No offense, but the current humans aren't ready for space travel or even interaction with other species; they sound much to…unstable." While she did take a bit of offense to this, she couldn't exactly disagree with the woman. "Maybe a controlled group to spread out and create a colony and go on from there, but aside from that; I can't in good conscious allow more than that to spread out through this galaxy considering how we're basically next to each other by a galaxy." She stated. "Please understand that if you do decide to use the colony idea then I'll have to have it monitored, stability and a good pace of introduction is an absolute; you don't have to tell me the location of the planet and I won't pry but please come to me if you plan to… I want to say uplift them beyond their planet." There was a bigger picture here and it depended on Naruto and Tenten's decision; the decision of a thirteen year old half-breed and a soon to turn fourteen year old girl. "Now about the—" the door opened revealing a now awake Naruto, he was smirking.
"So did I miss anything important?" he asked cracking his joints loud enough to make them cringe. "That hurt more than I expected." He laughed. He looked and was acting healthy enough, like he wasn't near death's door a couple days ago. "Well?" after a quick rundown, the young teen was all caught up. "That's gonna piss off a lot of people if it ever got out..." he paused. "This isn't a decision that has to be made right now right?"
"Totally."
"Couldn't agree more!" it was a big decision that needed some serious consideration, plus they didn't have any experience in space so 'uplifting' the people of that planet would be much too dangerous as of right now. "Alright, now let's get you both in the official record book and get you some IDs." The process was simple and extremely quick, afterwards there was the subject of where they would stay for the time being. They had no money and this had been their only destination. "You can stay here for now until you ship is properly fixed." She said much to their relief. "In exchange for a few favors." There it was. "There've been a few disturbances with a nearby planet, it's just a specific area with just a few robot pirates that need to be taken out; it's nothing really." She made it sound like it was going to be extremely.
"How dangerous are they exactly?" Tenten questioned.
"They just have a high powered ship and from what I've been told, there are about 37 of them most of them just have simple blasters and a few rocket launchers; totally easy." She explained. The two friends looked to each other. This was a rather interesting way to start off; with a mission from the ruler of Marcadia.
The Next Day – Liana 9
Volcanox armor, it was made from certain extremely rare resources that were most likely illegal but it didn't exactly make any difference. It fit Naruto like a glove and would protect him. Tenten on the other hand was given modified Holoflux armor that would fit her, her armor was white and red; while Naruto's armor was orange and red. "This place is beautiful." She said in amazement, it dwarfed Konoha. The bellowing of a creature flying overhead caught their attention, the creature had no visible wings yet it was flying high and gracefully. "This is what you—" a laser shot missed her face.
"Kill them!" there they were, the 37 robot pirates that they were supposed to take out. Drawing his dual raptors, the half-breed let the laser bullets fly while Tenten ran into cover and pulled out her Raptor Launcher and began loading it. Dodging as many lasers as he could, he began moving forward only for one of the pirates to bring out a rocket launcher. He fired only for Naruto to bring out a psychic barrier and shield himself; thankfully it was a low leveled weapon. Standing up, Tenten locked onto as many targets as she could before,
"Hey!" she pulled the trigger and the 11 pirates that were the targets were blown into pieces. This caused the others to take cover, and thus gave Naruto the opening he needed. Creating a golden psychic blade, he closed the distance between him and his enemies' targets in mere seconds. With speed that they hadn't seen before, they were helpless as Naruto's blade sliced them into pieces with him pulling out his raptors to stop them from shooting him. Those who managed to run were quickly blown to hell; Tenten couldn't hold back her laughter as she used the heavy weapon.
"Wait no—" the last pirate was cut down. Walking away from the remaining bits and pieces of his enemies, the young teen smirked. The smirk quickly went away.
"Switch to anti-high armor rounds." He could hear the ship coming their way, as she switched rounds, Tenten could hear it getting closer as well. Putting his raptors away, he watched the ship get closer; he was focused. The gun from the bottom of the ship was exposed; it let loose a barrage of laser blasts that he barely dodged. "Gotcha." The ship did a U-turn and the gun aimed once more, but it wouldn't get a chance to fire. "Cut!" the gun exploded, the boy had cut the fuel line with his psychic energy causing it to catch fire. "Stasis!" the ship began to twist and turn with stasis causing it to slow down. "Tenten!" the girl came out of cover.
"Boom." Was all she said before firing three rockets, the impact was so loud that it could be heard for miles away. The ships remains fell over the ridge and plummeted down into the darkness. The two looked down into the darkness, it took about ten seconds for the destroyed ship to hit the bottom. "That's a really long fall." They backed away. "You got the bolts right?" Naruto showed her his portable holo-screen to show that he had collected all sixty eight thousand bolts. "They plundered a bunch of ships and robbed a lot of people." This was true, they'd been minor problem for too long but that wasn't going to be a problem anymore.
2 Weeks Later – Marcadia – Naruto and Tenten's Apartment
Nine missions in two weeks allowed them to gain a fair amount of experience fighting with advanced weapons, and allowed Naruto to train his powers and push them further and further; he'd gotten stronger. Tenten had managed to get used to being around aliens and robots on a daily basis. Not to mention the bolts they'd made. They two had decided to rent an apartment in Marcadia until they could decide where they would go next. "I say we go somewhere that gives us an easy route back home." Naruto said.
"If possible we should buy or make a satellite that'll give us a live feed on what's happening." Tenten suggested. "We need to keep an eye on them."
"My mom and your parents." He clarified as they were worried about their family. "Hey did you check the mail?" he asked whilst polishing his weapons.
"Not yet." A sudden knock on the door caught their attention. Walking to the door and opening it, she found herself staring at a cloaked figure. "Can I help you?"
"Yes, I need protection." the cloaked figure said, it was a woman.
"Alright, come in." she ushered the woman inside and looked outside to make sure that she wasn't followed.
"Who's this?" Naruto asked coming from the other room, the hooded woman stared at him. The blonde gave her a curious look and stepped forward, she flinched a bit as Naruto got closer; the half-breed slowly took off her ragged hood. She was a human-like robot appearance-wise. She has brown hair with a torn red band, and yellow eyes. Her light-gray metallic skin was dirty as she hadn't bathed in a couple days, and she wears a red long-sleeved top which shows her navel. She also has black mini-shorts underneath a red mini-skirt, and she had no shoes on. "Courtney Gears?" he was more than confused.
"As in the supposed to be dead pop-star?" Tenten asked coming into the living room to see the female robot. Things had just gotten extremely interesting and extremely complicated for the duo.
Chapter 7 End
