Chapter 10: Attack of Orochimaru

Orochimaru had called a giant robot with missile cannons, lights and a core laser to attack Sonic and the rest of Team Anko. He had also called various Sound ninja to do that exact same thing. To fight between this robot and the Sound ninja would be very difficult, but for the time being, they were forced to make due. Neji's Byakugan could signify that the top of its head and the orb on its underside were its weak points. How to hit them was going to be a very difficult task with the Sound at their necks.

They divided into groups to make this task slightly easier. Anko would cover one area with Tenten, Amy and Sakura, while Kakashi took Lee, Choji and Kiba to another. Sonic, Naruto, Silver and Neji proceeded to weaken the robot.

Anko's area was swarming with the Sound ninja. There were enemies everywhere one could look. Anko took the liberty of attacking first with her "Striking Shadow Snakes!" to summon snakes to strangle several of them before they "POOF!" disappeared into clouds of smoke.

"Shadow Clones." She said. "This'll be pretty fun."

"Listen up, everybody!" she said to her group. "We're gonna have to knock out a lot of them to see how many originals there are!"

"My thoughts exactly!" Tenten said as she bit her thumb and spread the blood on a scroll she unraveled. She spun it around, and from it, thousands of kunai shot out around them. Many of the ninja blocked them, but some couldn't avoid their instant doom. When she rolled her scroll back up, she was holding a pair of broadswords and swinging them around herself as if she'd been using them her whole life, which she had, among other weapons.

Amy took her opportunity to make a high leap into the air and slam her hammer onto the ground, causing the ground beneath her to crumble and for the hammer itself to throw a shockwave at several onward clones. Some were killed, but others leapt into the air and threw kunai at her. "Oh, no you don't!" she shouted as she spun her hammer in front of herself to block the knives and then threw it to her right, causing it to turn at a 360 degree angle, smacking the ninjas into their doom, but throwing one to the ground. This one was real, and Amy slammed him with the hammer as he tried to get up.

"I swear you guys are just trying to go easy on us."

Sakura had less trouble, since she had thrown shuriken in all her directions, throwing many clones into smoke. One of them leapt behind her and grabbed her as if trying to hold her hostage, but grabbed her in an unfortunate spot…

"YOU PERVERT!!!" She screeched as she punched the guy in the face, releasing his grip on her breast and knocking blood from his mouth. This had undone the jutsu, as the clones around her fell over and disappeared. She panted heavily and looked at her hands, thinking, "I guess I really don't know my own strength…"

Kakashi's group was even more surrounded than one would have hoped. They had to deal with several more sound ninja; many of which were also clones. But they took this in stride, as a skilled group was taking these on.

Kakashi took out several of them with his "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu" to throw several clones into submission, while Kiba and Akamaru, now transformed to his master's shape, used "Fang over Fang!" to pierce through the enemies with pure speed. Lee was able to knock many of them down using the simplest "Leaf Whirlwind", and still not requiring to open the Chakra Gates, and Choji swept many of them away with his "Partial Expansion Jutsu!"

There's just no end to these guys, Kakashi-Sensei!" Lee remarked as another ninja performed a "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

"How do we take 'em all on?!" Kiba barked.

"Say Please!"

Anko swept through even more of them by summoning snakes from both sleeves. Tenten sliced through many of them with her broadswords still in tow, and Sakura and Amy worked together like the equals they were.

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Sonic, Naruto, Silver and Neji were having a difficult time battling the colossus that floated overhead. It fired its missiles and its Core Laser any chance it took and it was able to summon robots from its gigantic arms by lowering them to the ground. As they fought through the robots, they thought of their strategy. What's more, Orochimaru stood atop its head, giving all of his minions commands.

"Sonic!" Neji beckoned. "You and Naruto head to the robot's head! Silver and I have the bottom covered!"

"Got it!" he replied as he shot his thumb to the air. Then he and Naruto ran out from underneath the robot and awaited it to lower its limbs again. Silver and Neji kept underneath the robot and fought their own way. Silver collected missiles and shot them at robots using his "Psycho Wave!" and Neji struck their structures using Gentle Fist.

"Neji!" Silver asked. "Do you really think Naruto can save Sasuke?"

"His eyes are better than mine." He replied as he attacked another robot. "Naruto will find Sasuke in the darkness and free him. He is the only one who can."

Silver continued to fight, but thought hard about his inner-conflict.

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Back in the village, Tsunade was about to have problems of her own. She took a look outside the window and noted that a really huge swarm of robots was coming in the direction. And at the lead was Dr. Eggman's "Favorite Assassin." They were coming towards the village at full speed and all the available sources that remained in the village were ready to take them on. The remainders of Teams 8 and 10, Knuckles, Blaze, Cream, Big, Tails, Chris, Guy, Shizune and Tsunade and even Vector, Espio and Charmy were prepared to fight for their lives, yet again. Various ANBU Soldiers were preparing to stand up to the oncoming assault, which Sigma had taken note of.

"Pesky bugs." He said as he stuck his foot forward. "Let's put 'em to sleep!"

His foot shot out and began to orbit the outer ring of the village at Mach 5. There was a bright blue gas shooting from the sole and circled around five times before returning to Sigma and reattaching its limb. The ANBU Black-Ops had then fallen asleep after being affected by this gas.

"Laughing Gas." He said. "It's funny how effective it is."

"Damn." Tsunade thought. "Eggman really thought ahead this time around…"

"Lady Tsunade," Shizune said, "The robot army is coming towards the village and the ANBU are out cold! What do we do?"

"We fight, Shizune!" she replied as she pulled off her green coat and tossed it aside. Then she stamped the ground, causing it to break from her inhuman strength, and picked up a single stone and chucked it at Sigma, as if with perfect aim.

"You ready, guys?!" Tails called out as he pulled up a giant rocket launcher onto his shoulder. "You bet your life, we are!" Chris replied as he loaded Tails' weapon.

"What better time and place to practice my own technique," Vector commented as he pulled out a sash with fifty bottles of sake over his body, "than here and now?"

"Tsunade's gonna be really mad when she sees you took her drinks." Charmy snidely remarked.

"I know, but we're at a life and death time, she'll put it aside."

"Let's not talk," Espio said as his body turned invisible, "and let the fun begin!"

"Tenacious little bugs!" Sigma thought furiously.

"Men!" he shouted. "The village idiots are yours," he turned his attention to Tsunade. "The Hokage is mine!"

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Anko and Kakashi's group were starting to get worn out from having fought several shadow clones, and unable to pacify the real Sound ninja. Their chakra reserves were running thin, but for some reason, the ninja had plenty to spare.

"Dammit…" Anko said, "How can anybody have this much chakra?"

"I don't know…" Kakashi replied, "Not even Naruto would find this easy…"

"I shouldn't have released the first Chakra Gate…" Lee said, "Wintertime has fallen upon my youth…"

"Oh give it a rest…" Kiba said.

Tenten dropped her swords and they disappeared as she fell over. Sakura had used too much energy wiping the floor with the other ninja or clones that groped her. She hugged herself and shivered as well as breathed heavily from exhaustion. Amy fell over and dropped her hammer, and so did Choji.

"Hmph." The lead ninja scoffed. "Is this all you've got?" Then, the shadow clones and he pulled up their kunai and prepared to attack. "We've got plenty to spare."

"This isn't fair…" Anko thought.

"Say goodnight, Pussycats!" he shouted.

Then, suddenly a crowd of shadow clones were being swept into the air and disappearing into the smoke. Many of them tried to leap away, but they were quickly caught by the full force of the "Spin Dash!" But this wasn't Sonic performing it. In fact, the rolling ball was orange. When the spinning stopped, the user revealed itself to be the robot that Silver and Blaze brought from the future.

"Emerl!" Amy called out to the robot.

"Hey, Mom!" he replied. "Sorry to keep you waiting!"

"How did you get here?!"

"Silver and Blaze brought me here from the future and Tails fixed me up! I had to wait an hour, but I was ordered to come here and help you guys out!" He looked down and then said, "I can't copy abilities any more, but that's okay! I've done it before and I accept my handicap!"

He turned over to her. "Get yourselves to a safe spot! I'll take care of these guys!"

As he leapt back into battle, Amy was overcome with joy to see that her "son" had returned to save her.

"What did he mean, 'the future'?" Kakashi asked.

"Forget that!!" Kiba shouted, "What'd he mean, Mom?!?"

"Bark, Bark!"

Emerl fought through the several clones of Sound ninja that kept on popping over, as if they were breeding rabbits. Emerl was able to make good use of abilities he copied from his allies once before, like "Heat Knuckle!" from Knuckles, "Drill Kick!" from Rouge, "Chaos Spear!" from Shadow, and most importantly "Spin Dash!" from Sonic.

"You're just a nuisance," the lead ninja said, "Robot!"

Emerl fought through the foes, but was very confused as to how they keep the energy to do so. He looked around the area to scan how, until he saw a heated trail in Infra Red vision coming from the ninja. They kept going and going, and lead to the searchlights of the robot Sonic was fighting.

"SILVER!!" he called out. He had his attention.

"You're," he noted, "that robot!"

"Take out those Searchlights!! The ninja over here get their energy from them!!"

Silver and Neji looked above to the four searchlights between the robot's arms. Neji destroyed one the robots and passed them over to Silver, who held them with Psychokinesis, and shot them above to the robot's searchlights, knocking them off their hinges and toppling to the ground.

"What?!" the lead ninja shouted as his clones began to disappear, one by one.

"Awww…" Emerl scoffed, "Are your little clones so worn out they can't play anymore?" He got in position and began to glow red. "Well let me take them home for ya." He crossed his arms together and threw them out.

"Chaos Blast!!!"

And on that note, the clones were wiped out and the Sound ninja were officially dispatched. He brushed his hands together and looked at his job well done.

"That was amazing!" Sakura remarked.

"That's my boy…" Amy said with a smile on her face.

"I need you to explain something to me." Kakashi queried. "What did he mean when he said that Silver and Blaze brought him from the future?"

"Emerl always did have a big mouth…" she replied, "so to speak."

"Silver comes from a distant future where his Powers of Psychokinesis are a regular. Blaze comes from another dimension where she is the protector of the Sol Emeralds, her equivalent of our Chaos Emeralds. But why he needs to be here, usually means that he's gotta come here to save his timeline."

"What does he hope to do?" Sakura asked.

"I'm not sure…" she replied. "But I hope he knows if it's right."

"Well, Whaddya know?" Kiba spoke, taking a few sniffs. "We're about to get some company."

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Back in the Leaf Village, the robot squadron has infiltrated the village and those in it are prepared to fight for their lives. Sigma engaged Tsunade, both by order of Dr. Eggman and from anger of being hit by her little "Rolling Stone." The rest fought the robots yet again and managed to draw them off in their own way.

Tails fought by launching rockets from his launcher. They weren't ordinary rockets, they were containers for rings. Actually, they were Dummy Ring Bombs, because they exploded when they came in contact with the dummies.

Chris fought by gearing himself in a mechanical tunic and fighting with a sword. He seemed to be very skilled in the use of this weapon. And he should be. He invented the training program himself. He hacked through the foes with the greatest of ease.

Kurenai fought with Genjutsu to hinder the robots' progress. It was Artificial, but their Intelligence was still affected by her tricks.

Asuma fought with his Trench Blades, like he usually does, alongside Knuckles, who…well, I don't need to say this, do I?

Shino, Ino and Shikamaru incapacitated their foes with their respective techniques, while Hinata fought them with her Gentle Fist.

Vector drank the sake in his arsenal. As if that's not enough, then he swallows a lit match and breaths fire at several unsuspecting robots.

Charmy fought alongside Shizune, who used her Shadow Cone Jutsu and Transformation Jutsu to turn into more Charmies, and dive on unsuspecting robots with their stingers, as well as the original Shizune stinging them with her own needles.

Espio was able to slip by his foes with invisibility, and had his own ninja techniques to get by. He fought by throwing shuriken and kunai at those from a distance, and when there were some grouped together, he wrapped them together with his long tongue and performed "Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu!" to burn them to a crisp.

"Where'd ya learn that, Espio?" Charmy asked.

"That girl Anko taught it to me." He replied.

Cream was able to stand her own against the robots by working together with Cheese. He attacks, then she attacks, and vice versa and repeat. Big, who did not want to see her get hurt, acted as her bodyguard and knocked away any robot that got within five feet of her with his own brute strength.

Tsunade fought Sigma at the top of the central building. He realized her inhuman strength was a force to be reckoned with, so he kept his distance and fought back with his own kicks. But he dodged her attacks, making him very overconfident by mistaking it for her missing her punches.

"What's the matter, Gramma?!" he mocked. "Why don't ya try to hit me?!"

"Working on it!" she shouted as she lifted her leg to the air and hammered it down on him with "Flying Axe Kick!" This hit him, and he went plummeting through the building. He rocketed back up, still too overconfident.

"That felt pretty painful. Would that normally kill a human?"

"We'll see who laughs last, you jackass!"

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Sonic and Naruto managed to leap across the robots and climb up to the robot's head by its arms. Silver, Neji and Emerl continued to fight below them as well as the rest, now that they recovered, if not only slightly. Sonic and Naruto proceeded to confront the snake of a Sannin.

"Naruto Uzumaki." He said. "It's been awhile."

"Save it for the grave, Orochimaru." Naruto said. "I'm only going to ask you this once. Where is Sasuke?!"

"If only I knew." Orochimaru replied with a sneer.

"Stop trying to hide it from me, you worm!" Naruto shouted as his eyes began to glow red. "I know you're trying to hide Sasuke from me in your lair!"

"Once we find that," Sonic continued, "we'll find Sasuke and we'll bring him home, where he belongs!"

"Why do you care?" Orochimaru turned over to Sonic. "You don't belong here yourself. Why do you consider that village of disgusting rats your home?"

"Because they need my help." Sonic replied. "I'll find the Chaos Emeralds, and I'll use them to tear you down!"

"Don't talk so hastily, dear boy." Orochimaru scoffed. "If you hadn't come to our world, your so called 'friends' wouldn't be in this situation."

"I've had enough of you!" Naruto barked as his body began to become fiercer. His hair ruffled, his whiskers thickened, his fingernails became claws, he was spiraling with red chakra, and his eyes became bloodshot red.

"Sasuke is not within my presence right now." Orochimaru then snickered very evilly. "But he will be soon enough."

"Maybe…" Sonic said as he looked down, "all this did happen because of me." Sonic held the Chaos Emerald in his hand and suddenly, his body began to glow. But the glow was very dark. His body turned a dark color and his eyes became blank. "But I will be the one to fix this! Just you see!" he shouted as he floated from the robot's head.

"Well, if you're so angry for your friends…" Orochimaru chuckled as he gestured his hands to come towards him. "Then why don't you show them you care?"

"GLADLY!" They shouted in unison as they headed towards the treacherous demon. He leapt away and opened his mouth, performing "Striking Shadow Snake!" He shot a snake from his mouth, and it attempted to bite Naruto, but he leapt away from it and leapt up to Orochimaru and delivered a boot to his chin, knocking him back. Sonic flew up to him and waved his arm to perform "Chaos Spear!" which managed to send a jolt through the opponent's body, leaving him unprotected for Sonic to ram him with all speed. He fell backward, but leapt back by throwing his tongue around Sonic's neck, trying to return to his position. Sonic was caught by this, but managed to reach his arms around the tongue and pull its body toward him and punch him clean in the face!

Orochimaru fell off the robot, but leapt back up to face his adversaries. Silver took note of this and used Levitation to follow.

"Your abilities are impressive." He remarked. "But they're no match for the power of a Sannin!" he then performed a handsign, and faced upwards, summoning a snake from his mouth to spit a sword from it. He caught the sword in his hands, and pointed it at his adversaries. "Dance with me." He said.

Sonic's hands began to glow and Naruto created a shadow clone to form a Spiraling Sphere in his hand. Sonic then shot a "Chaos Beam!" while Naruto attacked with his "Rasengan!" He was able to block these techniques with his sword, and swung it as if to attack them, before…

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"

A Fireball shot at Orochimaru and burned him to a third degree. He collapsed to the surface of the robot as the figure that shot the technique leapt onto the arm of the robot. He was wearing a the very same blue shirt and white shorts. He was the friend that Naruto is desperately trying to save.

"Sasuke." said Naruto as he and Sonic calmed down.

"Long time no see…" he remarked. "Loser."

"Sasuke, you're back!" Naruto replied, jolly as ever, trying to forget recent events. "It's good to see you again! Come on! Let's take on snake boy together!"

"Idiot." He scoffed. "Look into his eyes."

Orochimaru managed to get back up and restore his body using the "Ninja Art: Mitotic Regeneration" and stood with his face staring directly at his adversaries with now pure glowing red eyes.

"If you look closely into someone's eyes," Sasuke commented, "you can tell if they're kind, evil, bloodthirsty, or within the state of transformation." He pointed at him, "That is not Orochimaru! That is an impersonator!"

"Very good, Sasuke." Orochimaru scoffed. "It looks like you are more aware of your surroundings than I thought…" Sasuke glared at him. "Normally this would be the time where I reveal myself to you…" he chuckled. "But I'm having so much fun in this form. I haven't even gotten to use this sword yet." He pointed his weapon at Sasuke. "Why don't you let me play with it a little?"

Sasuke pulled out a familiar Purple glowing gem from his shirt and drew a kunai from his pouch. "Fine by me. I was looking forward to seeing this thing's power, anyway."

"A Chaos Emerald." Sonic thought.

The fake Orochimaru and Sasuke leapt at each other and clashed swords with each other. They threw their swords together as fast as Sonic could run, and leapt from great distances just as fast. Sasuke performed his "Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" and this time, it missed the target and hit the giant robot. Sonic and Naruto leapt off as the fortress fell over directly beneath it.

"Oh, No!" Sonic shouted, "Everyone's still under there!"

"SASUKE!!!" Naruto shouted to the sky.

When they landed, everyone warped right next to them, and Emerl knelt over in exhaustion, meaning he performed Chaos Control. He pulled the Red Emerald from himself and showed it to Sonic.

"Good to see you again, Sonic." He said.

"Good to see you too, buddy." Sonic replied.

"That's the Chaos Emerald Vector had." Amy remarked. "He couldn't use it, so he lent it to us."

"That's good to hear." Naruto said.

"Wait," Sonic said, "Where's Silver?"

"I saw him go up to the robot." Lee said. "I assume he's over there, with them."

"Sasuke!" Naruto shouted as he leapt into that distance.

Sakura blinked to this. "Sasuke?!?" She then started running in that same direction. "I have to see this for myself!"

"Sakura, Come back!!" Kakashi called out, but she didn't respond.

Sonic ran after the two. Emerl followed.

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Back in the Leaf Village, things were looking rather grim. Many of our heroes were exhausted, and on the verge of becoming robot fuel. Tsunade was tiring as well, but still had plenty of strength to spare. Sigma was still in perfect condition, albeit he, too, was showing signs of fatigue.

"This is crazy." He thought to himself. "She can't still have this much energy to spare!" Tsunade looked at him and thought the same thing.

"I'm through playing games with you!" he barked, as his left arm transformed into a sword. "Likewise." She replied as chakra began to emanate in her right fist. "Let's settle this." The two began to run towards each other and held back their weapons as they leapt towards each other. Before they knew it…

It was a draw.

Tsunade had implanted her fist through Sigma's forehead whereas Sigma had impaled Tsunade through her stomach. Sigma jolted his head in a twitch and Tsunade coughed blood to the floor. They released their strike and stumbled to opposing sides of each other before collapsing to the floor and facing each other.

"You were indeed a worthy adversary…" he said softly.

"At least…" she strained, "we saw this through to the end…"

"My mission is complete…but yours is long from over…"

"Shut up…you…bastard…" she said before closing her eyes.

"Systems…inoperative…commencing…shut down…pro…to…col…"

"…" It was over.

The heroes were still incredibly exhausted, and on the verge of death. They thought it would be over as robots were closing in on them. Until…

A blast of wind shot at the robots and dismembered them as they flew in direction of their wooden prison. It closed up and several blades hammered in, but the container was so strong, it didn't break from the explosion inside.

Purple bombs spread around the area as well as missiles. They exploded on the robots and it was more over than it was going to be.

Some robots were still lingering in the field, but they were swept up by a long tongue and swallowed whole by a very large frog. It belched smoke, and from on top of it came the familiar Pervy sage that everyone knows and possibly loves:

"Jiraiya is in the house, everybody!!!"

Temari leapt aside Shikamaru, likewise Rouge to Knuckles. Kankuro leapt aside Shino and Hinata as well as Omega to Tails and Chris.

"Mission Complete." Omega said.

"Good thing we arrived on the mark," Temari teased, "or you guys would've been toast for sure!"

"What a drag." Shikamaru said. "Saved by a girl."

"I heard that."

"Good."

"Come on, you knucklehead," Rouge said, "You're in enough of a bind as it is."

"Hmph!" he snubbed, "I could've handled those robots lickety-split." On that, he knelt back over. "Yeah, right!" she replied.

"So," Shino said, "You've come to save us."

"Yep." Kankuro replied. "You guys would've been screwed in if we hadn't come!"

"We thank you for your assistance in fending off those foul robots."

"Yes." Hinata continued, "You saved our lives."

Kankuro walked over and knelt in front of her, holding her hand. "I would come from miles to save a beautiful lady like yourself." He kissed her hand, and she blushed in both being astonished and flattered.

Jiraiya's frog leapt up on the roof to see Tsunade standing after completing her "Ninja Art: Mitotic Regeneration." Jiraiya walked over to her.

"Any news on Orochimaru?" she asked.

"Not yet." He replied. "Apparently, the guy in the Land of Rain is an impersonator."

She looked down. "That's very unfortunate."

"The real Orochimaru is still in hiding somewhere out there." He turned back to her. "And Sasuke just engaged him."

"Won't Naruto get a surprise from that…" she remarked as she turned around. "Inform everyone to go home and rest up." As her hands started to wrinkle, she said, "And tell them not to see me until tomorrow." She picked up her coat, put it back on and closed the door behind her.

"So where's Shadow?" Tails asked.

"Come to think of it…" Shikamaru said, "Where's Gaara?"

"They are commencing mission to aid Sonic." Omega replied.

"Gaara wanted to help Naruto as well." Temari replied. "He owes him a great debt…"

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As Sasuke engaged the fake Orochimaru yet again, they were about to clash, until they found their bodies unable to move at all. Also, their immobile bodies were glowing Cyan.

"Don't move, you two." Silver said, holding them with Psychokinesis.

"What the hell is this?!?" Sasuke struggled to say.

"Does he know now as well?" Orochimaru thought.

"SILVER!!!" Sonic called out to him.

Sonic proceeded to kick Silver in the back of the head, releasing his grip on the two. Naruto and Sakura followed behind.

"What the hell were you doing?!" Sonic demanded to know.

"Why did you attack Sasuke?!" Naruto barked.

"Because he is responsible for the destruction of my Future!"

Sakura stared at this sight. "That's crazy!!"

"It's true!!" Silver replied. "To save the world, we must stop Sasuke before his training with Orochimaru can commence!" He placed his grip back on Sasuke and Orochimaru. "I have to stop this before it begins!"

"Is that really the best way?!" Sakura cried out. "Do you really have to kill him?!" she literally cried out.

Silver stood stunned and released his grip again.

"I'll handle this!!" Sasuke shouted before being smacked in the face. Likewise, Orochimaru was smacked. His impact was a fist from Shadow, while Sasuke's was a fist of sand from Gaara's gourd.

"Gaara!" Naruto called out.

"This ends now, you faker!" Shadow yelled to Orochimaru.

As Gaara placed his grip on Sasuke with his sand, he performed his deadly "Sand Coffin..." and "Sand Burial!" crushing him under the pressure. The sand moved away, revealing a log, smashed to pieces.

"You are very annoying, you know that?" Orochimaru scoffed before melting into a puddle of a disoriented colored liquid. "Until we meet again." The puddle disappeared.

It stood completely silent for about a minute, before Sakura broke the silence with:

"Why?"

"Why would you think that is the right thing to do?"

"Because," Silver replied, "He is very dangerous. If I don't kill him, he'll team up with Metal Sonic and overthrow the world."

"Who's Metal Sonic?" Naruto asked.

"YOU!!!" Sakura yelled furiously at Naruto. "This is all because YOU invited him along! If you hadn't encouraged him to come along, Sasuke would still be here with us right now!!"

"Hey!" he darted back, "It's not like we knew this was gonna happen! Nor is it like Silver actually did kill him!"

"Calm down, you two." Shadow said.

"And YOU came in and took our only clue of finding him away from us! If you two hadn't come in, we'd have found out where Orochimaru was hiding! This is ALL YOUR FAULT, you stupid FREAKS!

Shadow and Gaara were stunned by this brutal comment.

"OKAY, THAT HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH!!!" Naruto screamed.

"How DARE you call him a freak! He has gone through things WORSE than you can imagine! But why do you care? You actually lived with a mother and a father for your childhood! He had NO ONE! I had no one! You would never understand what it could POSSIBLY be like to be alone!!!"

After hearing this, Sakura became shocked. Then her eyes filled with tears. Naruto stared at her with very apologetic eyes. But she wouldn't believe him after that performace. She made a hand sign and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. It was deathly silent for a moment before Naruto glared at Silver.

"She's right, you know." He said. "None of this would be happening if your stupid revenge plan didn't have to involve Sasuke!"

"What're you mad at me for?!" Silver defended, "If we don't do something, everything will remain exactly as it is!"

"I think you've done enough! Look at how bad Sakura's feeling!"

"That's not my Fault!"

"SHUT THE HELL UP!!! BOTH OF YOU!!!"

They all turned their attention to Shadow.

"If there's anyone to be mad at, it's Metal Sonic." He said. "All of this is going to go wrong because the Doctor came here to counterbalance Metal Sonic's power with Naruto's."

"He wants the Nine-Tailed Fox's power?" Sonic gasped. "That guy will do anything to beat me, I swear..."

"That's just crazy!" Naruto stammered. "I can hardly control this thing myself. How will he be able to conquer the world with it?"

"I don't know..." Silver distressed. "But if that's the case, then surely he finds a way."

"Even without this power..." Gaara added, "I could sense a great amount of energy emanating from him. He is very powerful, but not omnipotent."

"Then how do we beat him?" Naruto asked quite nervously.

"There is a way."

They turned their attention to Emerl.

"In the future world, I was damaged, but functional." He said. "I could tell that Metal Sonic was truly the one pulling the strings behind this all. But I was able to devise a way to defeat him and Sasuke." They looked at him intently. "Metal Sonic is able to communicate with himself between timelines. He may have escaped here, but if we shut him down in the future and seal him away with Chaos Control…" he pulled out the Red Chaos Emerald, enticing the rest to pull out their Blue, Green and White Chaos Emeralds. "We'll cripple both of them severely, giving us time to find the rest of the Emeralds and reprogram his data, so he won't copy abilities, he won't jump through dimensions, he won't transform, and most importantly, he won't remember any of this."

"Who's with me?"

Naruto and Gaara looked at each other and nodded. Then, the three hedgehogs and the robot raised their arms together and performed "Chaos Control!" to create a rift in Space-Time. Emerl was the first to leap through. But Silver turned to his allies to give them warning: "Prepare for a shock, guys. It's not pretty." He jumped through before Sonic and Shadow looked at each other, while Naruto and Gaara did the same. At that, they all leapt through. As the portal closed, the disoriented puddle from before stood back up in the form of Orochimaru.

"This is very unfortunate…" commented the fake Sannin as his eyes turned black and red, and started blinking.