Deidara flew over the Sand Village. His bird kept the guards posted across the place oblivious to what was above their heads.
'Now I get to have some fun with my art,' Deidara thought.
He took his hand out of his bag again and threw three tiny spiders in the direction of the guards.
The spiders each planted themselves onto one of the guards. One of them noticed theirs and shouted, "What is this weird thing?!"
" 'Weird Thing'? You've got no taste. I'll physically teach you."
He made another hand sign and added, "Art is a bang."
The three spiders blew up, critically injuring if not killing the guards.
Deidara jumped off his bird and landed on a rooftop.
"Infiltration successful."
He looked up with a smile.
"Huh?"
There, standing in front of him, was Gaara.
Deidara barely noticed the sand in time to escape its grab. He flew backwards and landed safely on the bird and then maneuvered himself out of the reach of the sand.
"However…you knew it was me…yeah."
"In this desert, there exists no such bird."
In an attempt to skip over a battle you guys already know about, we skip back to Smokescreen and his captors.
"Hey guys, what's going on up there? It looks like the Hokage is in battle with…one of the Akatsuki!"
"Let's go guys! Gaara may need as much help as he can get!"
"Wait you guys, I can't run fast and keep an airtight hold on this thing!"
"So what? It probably won't notice the difference."
Smokescreen would have noticed the difference if he hadn't been watching the fight. He noticed the bird the second it reached the sky.
He had immediately switched to his heat sensors and was surprised to find the bird wasn't alive and another human was riding it.
Switching back to his normal vision he saw the man drop three small objects. A few minutes later he heard the explosions the three things caused.
'Why, I think that guy's invading that city!'
He was surprised when the guy jumped down and jumped back up again. And he was even more surprised to see sand attempting to follow him!
'What is that, special Earth sand? And is there another guy riding it? What kind of planet is it?'
"Hey, who are you? What have you done…AH…"
The sudden shouts of his captors drew his attention back to the ground. They had reached one of the narrow paths allowing access into the city.
Unfortunately, it was the path that hosted its new guard, Sasori.
"My, my, I must thank you for coming this way. If I must be kept waiting I prefer to have something to do."
Just as he was about to strike the last member of the group he saw Smokescreen.
Stunned and at a loss of words, Sasori just stopped and starred at the metal man with no change of the expression on his face.
The last sand ninja took the chance to launch several kunai at him. But he swiftly blocked them with his tail.
"It's rude to attack an opponent who isn't looking."
He quickly whipped his tail into the man's stomach, who flew backwards onto his stomach, barely remaining conscious.
Sasori took a step towards Smokescreen, "Well, well, what are you now? A new secret weapon of the Sand's that they couldn't control?"
Just before the man blacked out he had a last thought, 'He doesn't know what it is either? Does this mean it isn't an Akatsuki weapon?'
Smokescreen gave the man a blank stare thinking that while this man took out his captors, he didn't seem to be an ally for some reason.
Then he realized what it was that was making him uncomfortable, 'the man is wearing the same clothes as the guy on the bird! They must be working together, which means this guy's no good.'
"Hello? Do you speak any English? Me speakee to you, what you are am?"
While Sasori allowed himself a chuckle, Smokescreen was making an adjustment. English? That's the language they're speaking! No wonder he didn't understand anything they were saying! He must be in that place called United States of A-mare-ick-a.
Sasori shrugged, "Whatever. I'll just kill you out as a precaution."
Smokescreen finished the language change in time to catch that.
"No you're not!"
Sasori paused. And he had to jump back when Smokescreen burst through the sand coffin and stood up.
He didn't have time to react further. Smokescreen simply took his leg and kicked Sasori clean into the sky.
Meanwhile, the battle wasn't going well for Deidara. He had resorted to using his final trick, the exploding clay doll.
He just dropped it and made the hand gesture to enlarge his bomb when Sasori slammed into him.
Breaking the bird into two, Sasori crashed into Deidara and the two of them kept flying off and away from the Sand Village.
This is the part where Team Rocket would go "We're blasting off again". But lucky for you, they aren't them and there's no talking Meowth.