"Hey Gamora, can I ask you something?" Naruto whined.
The elderly lady groaned, "If you're going to ask me where we are again, I'm going to slap you silly."
"Both of you are annoying in my eyes," Kurama growled.
"Everything is annoying to you," Minato remembered.
"Shut up!"
"You too," Gamora shouted, "What do you want to ask about?"
"I need relationship advice."
"We're trapped in an infinite desert and you're worried about your non-existent relationship issues?" Kurama yelled.
"I'm your father, you should be asking me about relationship stuff," Minato whined.
"You both have the same fucking whine," Kurama noticed.
"Gamora's a woman," Naruto made a good point, "I'm stuck between four women at this point. Hinata, Kara, Shuri and Barbara."
"Barbara?" Kurama asked.
"I slept with her."
"You didn't sleep with her, you were drunk so you slept in the same bed as her…" Kurama elaborated.
"I missed so many milestones," Minato chuckled, "I wanted to be there the first time you drank alcohol."
"It wasn't that impressive, honestly," Kurama shrugged.
"Give me a little information about each one," Gamora requested as she led the pack.
"Don't forget to tell her that Hinata's married," Kurama said walking behind Naruto.
"You're going after a married woman? Don't be a homewrecker," Gamora said.
"She's engaged," was Naruto's defence mechanism.
As they traversed the vast sandy dunes Kurama simply admitted, "Hinata's a bitch."
"Hey!" Naruto got defensive.
"I'm sorry kid, I just don't like her, but then again I don't like anyone but you, so it's not really an insult."
"Hinata is the most beautiful person I've ever met."
"So you like her just because she's physically attractive?" Gamora sounded disgusted.
"No, of course not. Beauty doesn't have to be physical. She's just so selfless and pure, and humble. Add that to her physical beauty, and she becomes someone you'd love to come home to every night. Funny… I didn't even know she liked me until about a year ago. I spent twelve months planning our lives out in my head… only for her to be stolen by another man," Naruto kicked a rock over.
"She's married. That's a big no-no," said Gamora.
"Yes! Listen to the green one," Kurama demanded.
"She's engaged."
"Same difference," she explained, "Leave her to deal with her husband. What about the other three?"
"Tou-chan? Aren't you gonna defend me?"
"Sorry Naruto, my hands are tied here. You can't marry a married woman… unless you're from the southern part of Fire Country… but we don't talk about the southern part of Fire Country."
"I'd prefer you fuck the Super one."
"Kara?"
"Tell me about Kara," Gamora said.
"Kara is also very beautiful, physically, and it feels like she completes me."
"Oh brother," Kurama rolled his eyes.
"She's like the female version of me. She's blonde, has blue eyes, nice skin, she's so loud and positive. Her smile brightens up the room and I feel like she likes me as much as I like her…"
"But?" Gamora slowed down.
"But she feels too perfect."
"… The fuck does that mean?"
"Am I the only one who feels weirded out by hearing an old lady swear?" Minato asked.
"I'm not even thirty years old! The Soul Stone just split me into two versions of myself. This feeble elderly version and an even feebler child version."
"What happens when we find your child version?" Kurama wondered.
"I was tasked with researching the Soul Stone. I know how to get out, but my younger version is too young to know the complicated process and this old brain has forgotten it."
"So, we can get out?!" Kurama smiled.
"Only after Naruto tells me about the last girl."
"Actually I can get us out," Minato realised.
"Shuri?" for some reason they ignored the Fourth Hokage.
"We don't have to-."
"Shuri," Kurama growled, "I don't really like her much either."
"Oh, ignore Kurama, he just wants me to marry Kara because, as he says, our child would probably be the strongest thing in the universe," Naruto focused on Shuri, "And Princess Shuri is not a girl. She's just all woman. She's so smart and she's so funny, and she introduced me to something called memes. I don't know how I lived my life without memes… it's just that she's a princess, and I'm just a demon. There's no way she could love someone like me."
"The kid's an idiot," Kurama remarked, "Kit, cover your ears and go "La-la-la-la-la"."
"La-la-la-la-la-la-la," Naruto followed his tenant's orders to the T.
"Shuri is madly in love with the kid, but now you can see why it took him sixteen years for him to find out that Hinata had a crush on him," he looked back at Naruto and motioned for him to uncover his ears.
"I feel like a child amongst you guys."
"You are," Kurama pointed out, "You're nineteen. She's thirty. He's thirty. I'm a thousand."
"You don't look a thousand," Gamora raised an eyebrow.
"Tailed Beasts age slowly. It took me nine hundred years to hit puberty, so although I may be a thousand, I'm practically his age when compared to other Tailed Beasts."
"What about Barbara?" Minato asked, already forgetting about the fact that he could get them out of there.
"Barbara is someone out of left field, I'll admit. She's not really someone that I can't live without, we don't talk much but when we do we actually have one or two things in common… the good thing, dattebayo. It's more a need to know more about her, and the more I learn about her the more I seem to enjoy her presence. She's just a mystery that I would like to solve."
"Aww," Minato chuckled, "That's how I used to feel about Kushina," he looked up to the skies.
"If we talk about anymore lovey dovey shit, I'm literally going to throw up on someone, watch me!" Kurama roared.
"Take my hand," Gaara told the young Gamora as she waded through the ankle-high water. She wrapped her whole hand around his finger. He channelled chakra into her. She floated onto the water's surface.
"How did you do that?" she was utterly blown away.
"Magic," he grinned, "Do you know how to get out of here?" the redhead asked.
"I do, but it's so long and hard that my brain can't get it," she cried, "We'll be here forever," the tears rolled down her cheeks.
Gaara crouched to her level. He gently wiped a tear away and activated his inner parent, "Nothing is forever," his inner parent needed some work, but he quickly tried to recover, "Nothing is forever in this place. We'll both get out together and you can live your life."
"You promise?"
"Yes, and I'll make an extra promise. When we get out, I'll buy you some ice-cream."
"Really? How much?"
"A lot. Enough to fill your little tummy to the max," Gaara closed his eyes and smiled.
"I love you, mister," she giggled, "I wish you could be my dad."
Gaara chuckled, "Ah, unfortunately I can't have kids of my own… my kids aren't good swimmers," he said that last part to himself, "But for now, sure, I'll be the father you need."
"Should we cast a vote then?" Naruto asked.
"A vote?" Kurama had forgotten what they were talking about, perhaps the heat was starting to get to him.
"Who do you think I should try and pursue?"
"Honestly, and this is my professional medical opinion… who cares?" Kurama rolled his eyes.
"I say Princess Shuri, simply because you're strong and she's smart. Your child would be perfectly balanced," Gamora cackled.
"I say Barbara, I don't know… the way you described her reminds me of your mother," Minato explained.
"Damn, then it's a four-way deadlock," Naruto growled.
"Deadlock?" Kurama asked.
"I know you like Kara, he likes Barbara, she likes Shuri and I still have feelings for Hinata, so we're currently at a four-way deadlock."
"Do you have a child of your own, Gaara?" a young Gamora asked. She'd gotten tired of walking so Gaara had offered to carry her on his shoulders.
"No, I'm only nineteen."
"But you'd be so good at it… do you have a wife?"
"I'm only nineteen," he repeated.
"Then do you have a girlfriend?" she tapped his forehead as he walked.
"No, I've never had time for those tedious relationships," Gaara explained.
Gamora made a farting noise with her mouth, "You know I don't know what tedious means."
Suddenly she yanked on his hair, "Argh," he looked up at her, "What's wrong, little one?"
"What are those daddy?" she pointed forward.
"Don't say it like that," Gaara deadpanned. Gaara had to squint to see the horrendous four-armed monstrosities. There were hundreds. Each one as ugly as the last. They roared and hissed as they splashed through the water biting at air. They were heading straight for him and his little girl. He felt his back for his gourd… nothing. No sand.
"Let's go," Gaara turned to retreat.
"Can't you fight them?"
"Not without sand."
"We'll have to put this conversation on hold for now," Gamora said.
"Why is that?" Naruto asked. Gamora pointed at something. Kurama, hands in his pockets, looked back at whatever she was pointing at. Grotesque four-armed beasts were running over the horizon. They ran in a bird-like formation, they shifted to chase down the four desert wanderers.
"Let me handle this," Kurama grinned.
"We can both it," Naruto gently nudged Gamora behind him. Naruto tensed up but remembered something, "Oh yeah, you're not inside me."
"What the fuck?" Kurama cursed.
"Let's just get in there," Minato charged. He ran full speed at the approaching creatures. Kurama also ran towards the beasts. The demon enhanced both fellow combatants with his chakra. Naruto activated Kurama Tailed Beast Mode. Minato activated Kyuubi Chakra Mode, outran Naruto at the last minute (reminding the youngster that he's still a child to him in terms of speed) and jumped into the heart of the mob. Naruto assaulted the group from the front. Kurama punched his way through a couple toothy creatures. He bit one of them and threw them over the crowd.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto created two clones that helped him plough through the crowd. He made sure none of them made it past the real blonde. One of the four-armed creatures bit through one of Naruto's clones. The legitimate blonde elbowed that creature before kicking him to death, "Rasengan!" he tore through a few more creatures.
Minato zipped around cutting through fuckers with a simple Kurama-enhanced punch. He grabbed one of the creatures, lifted them up with a Rasengan and slammed them into another to create a vortex of bodies and chakra.
Kurama laughed as he came down for a spinning kick that knocked two creatures out, "How long has it been since I fought like this," he shouldered a creature into next week, "If only there was an infinite supply of these weak things."
One of them slipped past Naruto and began the ran up the sand dune towards Gamora. She wrapped herself in her robes. Kurama jumped over the creatures and broke the alien's skull just as it was about to attack to elderly lady.
"Don't get killed," Kurama sneered.
"Sand!" Gaara shouted as he approached the desert at full speed. Gamora was clutching onto his red hair tightly. The Kazekage was flying over the water. The aliens were clawing at the air behind them.
"Looks like your lucky day, a hundred more are coming our way!" Naruto said looking at the horizon where he swore he'd seen water brushing up against the desert sands.
Miss Martian vs Supergirl
The two superheroines collided with the uninhabited Red Planet. Their momentum sent them deeper into the planet's crust. Miss Martian continually punched Supergirl as they went deeper and deeper. The duo flew through the planet and came out the other side. This time Supergirl was on top.
She punched M'gann so hard, she slammed into the planet. When Miss Martian looked up the blonde was gone.
"Behind you!" Supergirl had run around the entire planet. M'gann was kicked into Olympus Mons with so much force that the extinct volcano spewed tons of smoke into the thin atmosphere.
M'gann shot Supergirl through the smoke, nailing her in the chest with Martian beams. Miss Martian teleported to the blonde, picked her up by the legs and began swinging. She let go. Kara flew. M'gann nailed her with a couple more punches all whilst she was flying through the air. Kara flew into a mountain.
Megan landed. Supergirl cracked her neck.
"Kara, you're not in control of your mind at the moment," M'gann realised that there was no point in fighting Supergirl, she needed another way to end this, "You need to fight the voice in your head," she tried to convince the heroine to regain control of her own mind.
Kara's fists tightened, she was ready for round two.
"You're not mentally strong enough to fight mind control, I'll have to kill your controller for you," M'gan turned to fly away but Kara grabbed her cape and threw her down.
"No you don't," she growled. Megan's eyes went blue. Kara grabbed her face. Martian beams almost destroyed the Kryptonian's hand, "BITCH!" she cried. Miss Martian took to the skies. Supergirl rolled around holding her hand. She didn't have enough energy to pursue Miss Martian.
Ichigo appeared on the battlefield with Light and Rukia. "What? What happened to my clones?" Thanos asked the young king in front of him. T'Challa had no idea what was going on. The brown-haired mass murderer approached the muscular purple warlord.
"They're dying… all of them, and soon you'll be dead too, Thanos," Light made sure to emphasise the Mad Titan's name.
It took a while for Thanos to receive information from his dead clones. The data flowed through him. Light took a step back. The Titan wasn't evaporating, or turning into dust. "So you wrote Thanos in that book of yours?"
Light took another step back. "I'm guessing it'd be unfortunate if my real name wasn't Thanos, then," Thanos approached. Thanos closed his left fist, "The assault continues," Thanos punched Light with his right fist, knocking the man to the floor. Ichigo jumped in to help. Another right hook. Rukia was stunned. Light was supposed to be her masterplan. Thanos backhanded her with his right hand.
The Mad Titan realised that he was in quite the predicament now. He was surrounded by the Avengers, the Justice League, Ben Ten, the adult Shinobi, and the Five Kage.
There was an explosion.
Miss Martian came down at the speed of sound to demolish Ebony Maw. Thanos turned to Black Dwarf who'd been webbed up and mangled by the partnership of Konohamaru and Spider-Man. Proxima Midnight had also been defeated and left on the brink of death by Hanabi, Nightwing, Robin and Batgirl.
"It's over Thanos," Tony's helmet retracted, "It's time to get your sack of chin out of here and retire to whatever dead planet you came from… but first we're gonna need those Stones."
Thanos looked up to the Eye in the Sky, "You know… a while back I noticed that there was an awfully irritating sound coming from that drone of yours. I used my Mind Stone and Soul Stone to trace the sound back to its source, and while you were all distracted I sent Corvus to go silence your helper, that's probably why she hasn't helped you in a while", Thanos explained while removing what remained of his armour.
T'Challa was the first to panic. Corvus' body was no longer on the battlefield, "Some… someone needs to go save my sister!" he exclaimed.
"Wally!" Batman cried. The injured youngster in yellow groggily got to his feet.
"I'm… I'm on it," his speed was below average, but he was still able to run up the cliff and into the forest.
Batman explained, "With Barry still out, Wally's our fastest speedster. He'll get there."
"Yes… lie. That's all the Demon with the Red Eyes said you heroes are good for. For now, you'll have to use your five senses to take on my six Stones," all six Infinity Stones blazed at the same time.
Space and Reality Stones
The waterfall opened up and the Dimension Stone flew closer. T'Challa's eyes were already fixated on the purple Deviant mutant. Tony went after the Stone. The goateed hero caught the Stone. T'Challa tackled Thanos, but the Mad Titan threw him off.
Reality and Soul Stones
Thanos turned the water droplets from the waterfall into bats that swarmed around the heroes. Batman jumped through the swarm, almost using each bat to get closer to the warlord. He held a bat-shaped blade in one hand.
Time Stone
Thanos froze Bruce, grabbed the sword and stabbed him in the stomach.
"Ah!" he groaned before turning into lightning. Thanos was electrocuted. A kunai flew through the bats. Thanos caught.
"Water Style: Water Dragon Projectile!" the giant blue serpent surged through the flying rats, using them as fuel to cause more destruction.
Reality Stone
Thanos turned the bats to water and encompassed the dragon in a casing of water. A larger, fiercer dragon charged in Kakashi's direction. Kakashi protected Batman using Susanoo's ribs.
Superboy went in for a punch.
Space Stone
The half-Kryptonian fell into a portal that opened above Dr Strange. Dr Strange opened a gateway that dropped Conner off in the forest.
Reality and Soul Stones
Thanos sensed Miss Martian's presence and used the Stones to make her visible and tangible. The green-skinned redhead didn't know how to react to being found out. Thanos backhanded her onto Gwen Tennyson who caught her on a pink platter.
"I've got this!" Ben yelled before slapping his Omnitrix, "XLR8!" he announced. The alien circled the Mad Titan.
"This is how I deal with speedsters!"
Time Stone
Thanos uppercut XLR8, punched him back to earth, then grabbed his face in one hand.
Reality Stone
Metal encircled the speedster's legs. Thanos used the alien as a shield to block Hawkeye's arrow then Green Arrow's arrow. He threw the young man away.
Mind Stone
Both marksmen were knocked unconscious. War Machine flew overhead.
Power Stone
Thanos used a simple shield to block the missiles as they fell from above. Thanos turned around. Cassie headbutted him into the cliff.
"So that's what Diana meant by use your head in tough situations," the blonde laughed.
Thanos looked up to see four figures coming down. Bruce, Dick, Barbara and Tim. Thanos hit Batman with a right hook. Nightwing wrapped Thanos' left hand up and nailed it to the cliff. Batman chucked a device to nail Thanos' right hand to the wall. Robin flung a robin-shaped device that exploded in front of the Mad Titan. It created a tight string that pulled Thanos' face closer to the floor exposing his back. Batgirl vaulted over Thanos and wrapped her legs around his neck. Black Panther came in and stabbed Thanos' neck with a vibranium blade.
"Tell your henchman to leave my sister alone! Tell him or I'll kill you!" the king commanded.
"If you kill me, he'll kill her", Thanos laughed through the pain, "Actually I ordered him to kill her nonetheless… it's nothing personal, my liege, but someone has to die before the culling begins," Thanos eyed the Dimension Stone.
T'Challa's hand began quivering. He growled behind the mask, "AHH! Why!" he bashed the Mad Titan, "Why?! Why?! Why do evil men like you exist?! What purpose do you serve?!" T'Challa broke down. Barbara fell off.
"My king, my king, stop!" Tony placed his hand on the Black Panther's shoulder.
"I… I'm… I'm necessary evil," Thanos' eyes closed.
"It's Gaara!" Naruto's voice was full of pleasure. He hadn't actually seen the Kazekage, but he saw the moulding of sand destroy an entire fleet of aliens in seconds. Gaara was scarily strong. With a couple of flicks of his wrist, hundreds of creatures were buried in sand that exploded around them.
"Hold on kid," he growled. A sandy figure protected him as he rose over the herd of aliens, "Kuraru's Will!" he knocked them around like they were toys.
"Gaara!" Naruto waved.
"Naruto?" Gaara smirked. He lowered himself to the blonde's height, "How did you end up here?"
"Same way you did, but at least I found some counterparts," Naruto pointed to the Fox and Minato.
"Hey, since we're all here how bout I get us out," Minato clapped.
"Gamora," the young Gamora reached out for her older counterpart, ignoring the Hokage.
"What's wrong, little one?" Gaara gently placed the child on the desert sand before creating a pair of sand hands that protected all of them from the aliens outside. The creatures clawed and bit at the sand as they climbed around it.
"This is the younger me I was looking for," the elderly woman crouched down to the toddler's level.
"How do we get out?"
"How do we fuse?" the older green lady scratched her head.
"You don't have to fuse," Minato stated.
"Why's that?" little Gamora asked.
"My Flying Raijin transcends the barrier between dimensions… I can get us out of here," he explained.
"Why… why didn't you tell us earlier?" Naruto asked.
"Are you fucking serious?" the Hokage swore.
"What will happen to us if we don't fuse?" the Gamoras asked.
"… You'll never know until you try," Minato shrugged.
"The Fourth Hokage's philosophy, ladies and gentlemen," Kurama growled.
"Naruto, now that you have the physical half of Kurama, someday your mom will visit you when you seem to be struggling… and thanks to that physical half of the fox she'll be able to give you a gift. My gifts are these three-pronged kunai knives with your name of them. The key to the Flying Thunder God lives within these kunai, I know that you won't need me to teach it to you," Naruto obtained the three blades.
"What will happen to you, Kurama," Naruto asked holding the knives tightly.
"Before you got here I was a giant fox, when you appeared I was a pubescent human, I'm guessing that without you I'll return to my more menacing state… that or I'll return to your mind Kit."
"How long have you been in this dimension?" Naruto asked.
"I woke up here, but ever since Thanos' arrival I've been in a weird purgatory between this world and your mind, which is why it takes so long for my chakra to transfer to you, my guess is that when you leave I'll return to the purgatory, and when you kill Thanos I'll return to your mindscape… but as your precious Fourth Hokage says "You'll never know until you try"."
"Tou-chan… let's get outta here," Naruto grinned.
Minato nodded before telling them all to grab onto his body. They followed his instructions. He weaved some handsigns before whispering, "Flying Raijin Level 3."
Everyone disappeared, including Minato. The creatures fell onto a pile of sand. The Dimension went quiet.
Groot chopped off his own arm. He sacrificed a piece of himself to finish off Thor's new weapon. A large woodcutter axe that had been dubbed 'Stormbreaker'. As the axe came down with a thud, sparks of lightning began to form around it. Everyone turned to the God of Thunder, who was lying face down on the steel after taking the full force of a star.
No one spoke. They stood in silence waiting for signs of life… Thor's hand opened up. Lightning flowed from him to the axe. The axe began to levitate.
"Guys! Something just exploded in the village," she tried to connect to the battlefield, but her connection was being interrupted. She threw open a window to see what had impacted the little city. A meteorite had collided with the farthest side of the village taking out a quarter the village. The village, which had already seen destruction thanks to Lord Pain in the past, now had a second crater surrounded by rubble on the far side.
She was lucky to be situated in Naruto's Namikaze Compound which was located on the outskirts of the village. The African princess dragged her mobile chair across the clustered room to her computers, "Can anyone hear me?"
She rolled over to the door, this time sticking her body out the portal to check on her satellite dish. It had been destroyed, "Shit," she was prepared to grab her tools.
"There's no point," a voice called. She looked at the fountain, "That's already been won," a tall, pale and ugly humanoid grinned as he approached.
"I'm guessing you're not the victory party," she joked… Shuri quickly ran back into the building. Corvus laughed as he entered the building. Shuri shot at him with a repulsive grenade. He broke through the door.
"You really are a little brat!" Corvus growled, trying to get up.
"Where is it? Where is it?" Shuri searched through the mess for a small piece of equipment that could get her out of this quandary. Corvus broke through the door as Shuri rolled under a table, "There you are," she placed her hand on a small panther-shaped instrument. Corvus destroyed the table she was hiding under with one swift sceptre swing. He nailed her in the lower spine.
Shuri was struggling to breathe, let alone move.
"You were a brat, and now… you're a dead brat… equally as useless," as he was walking out he set the timer on a bomb to five seconds, threw it into the building and walked out.
"Dipshit!" Wally raced into the Compound and stopped in front of Corvus, "You've los-," the building behind the alien violently ripped apart as an explosion devastated the Main Namikaze Manor.
Wally couldn't believe what he was seeing, "What? What have you done? Where's Shuri?!"
"Our Master was getting tired of her calling all the shots, so I had to snuff her flame… excuse the puuuu-," a bandaged fist ripped through humanoid's stomach. Corvus looked up to skies and collapsed in front of the speedster.
"Naruto? I-I tried," Wally breathed.
"It's okay… I tried too," Naruto looked into the blaze before turning into smoke.
The real Naruto leapt out of the fire and rested the unconscious woman on the ground. The panther-shaped device on her chest began to glow. The short-haired blonde placed his hands on her chest and commenced with performing chest compressions to try put some life back into her lungs. Purple hexagons expanded across her chest from the instrument.
Naruto lifted Shuri's chin before attempting mouth-to-mouth. Wally zipped over to the duo.
"Is she okay?" Wally asked… "Really?" the youngster folded his arms when the mouth-to mouth turned into a passionate kiss. Shuri placed her tiny hands on Naruto's chin. Naruto lowered his large hands to Shuri's armoured waist. The kissing only ceased when both parties needed a breath of fresh air. Shuri's suit covered her face at that point.
Naruto looked up at Wally, "I guess we just found out who's faster."
"Shut up, I'm injured… where'd you even come from?"
"I just learned a technique that allows me to travel through space and time, transporting me to wherever my name is written. I instantly decided to come check up on you," Naruto told Shuri.
"You know; I didn't really need that mouth-to-mouth, Just Uzumaki," Shuri sat up.
"But I did."
"Are you okay to fight?" Wally asked.
"My back is a little fucked… but the suit has healing abilities," Shuri explained.
"Come on, I'll take you to the battlefield," Wally lifted the woman into a bridal carry.
"Hold this," Naruto gave the woman a three-pronged kunai, "When you get to the battlefield, throw it at the bad guy, dattebayo."
Wally disappeared with Shuri in his arms.
There was an explosion in the distance. T'Challa heard it. Tony heard it. Thanos was waiting for it. Upon hearing the faint eruption, he smirked, "She's… she's gone."
"I'll kill you myself!" T'Challa hammered at the Mad Titan's head.
"T'Challa! NO!" Tony tried to calm the man. Thanos' left fist closed.
Power Stone
The fighters had given him enough time to muster up the strength to destroy the weapons holding him back. Thanos backhanded both Tony and T'Challa. He placed his hand on the king's head, "Don't worry… I too lost an important family member."
Space Stone
The Dimension Stone flew into Thanos' hands.
"Instant Transmission!" Gogeta magically appeared in front of Thanos. An upwards kick lifted Thanos a bit. He made a fist.
Time Stone
Thanos slapped Gogeta into the ground. Supergirl came down and charged into the Mad Titan.
Space Stone
She flew right through him. Wonder Woman had finally managed to free Clark from his kryptonite prison. He was struggling to catch his breath but his eyes were fixated on Thanos, "I'll… I'll h… I'll have to cut him down," he tried to get up. Wonder Woman caught him before he could collapse.
Thanos felt his forehead. He was bleeding profusely. He needed to end the battle quickly, "Where's the Stone?" he realised he wasn't holding the little rock anymore.
A giant rainbow-coloured column came down from the heavens. The battles stopped. Everyone waited to see what the giant energy pillar held in store. The giant beam destroyed grass, rocks and everything else it touched as it spread.
"He's here," Mantis felt it.
The column died leaving a blanket of clouds and dust. Three silhouettes appeared. One was skinny and built like a tree, the other was muscular and manly whilst the last one looked like a raccoon straddling the burlier man's shoulder. The dust spread to reveal Thor, in all his awesomeness. He stared intently at Thanos who was about to pay for all his past crimes.
"BRING ME THANOS!" the God of Thunder roared as he advanced at full speed.
"Who does-?" Gogeta questioned.
"- this guy-?" Superman looked up.
"- think he is?" Wonder Woman finished the question off.
Thanos prepared his Gauntlet. He knew that in his current state, he needed to use all six Stones to fend off the god's next attack. His heart sank into his stomach. Something big was coming.
The sand behind the Mad Titan exploded. Gaara assisted the Norse by the weaving an intricate sand structure around Thanos that constricted his body while keeping his left hand open.
Shuri tossed a kunai that allowed Naruto to manipulate space and time and wrap his arms around Thanos' neck. The Titan choked.
"Stop him from closing his fist!" Dr Strange initiated the final attack with his Cloak of Levitation. Everyone rushed forward to hold him down. Others, for a lack of space, helped keep other heroes from being thrown away by the Madman's brute strength.
Thor flew into the air. Everything went dark blue. Lightning came down from the sky to swarm around the god. He pulled Stormbreaker back before flinging it at full power. The axe rotated multiple times before striking Thanos in the centre of the chest.
Perfect.
Thor landed in front of the weakened Eternal as the heroes fell back in exhaustion. It was done. Thanos' Infinity Stones shut down. Large pieces of the moon rose into the sky and reformed into the lunar satellite. The damage they dealt remained though, and the gravity was still a little messed up. Thanos was breathing heavily. His quest had come to an end.
Thor placed one hand on Thanos' ear and the other on Stormbreaker's blunt end, "I told you 'You'd die for that'," Thor gloated, "Do you have any last words, Monster?"
"No-no you… you should've ended my suffering… you… you should've… you should've gone for the head," Thanos didn't need to close his fist this time. He just needed two fingers.
SNAP!
"NO!" Thor could nothing but watch.
(A/N) I realise that in Infinity War, the ending came as a surprise to everyone which was what made it so epic and heart-breaking. I don't have the luxury of surprising considering how most of you probably already realised that in the end Thanos would win, but with this being the final chapter I'd just like to say thank you for reading this fanfiction. There's been a lot of ups and downs so for you to follow up until this point really does put a smile on my face, so thank you and I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Thanos awoke in an all too familiar orange plain. He was standing in shallow water. The wound on his chest was gone, and so was the Infinity Gauntlet.
The world darkened.
A pair of red eyes appeared behind the Titan as he struggled to breathe, "Never have I seen someone fight like you. You remind me of myself in my youth," the deep voice said ominously.
"Have I… have I earned your mercy?"
"Do you have possession of the Code?" the voice asked.
Thanos looked at his left hand, "Yes, you were right. The Code lies within the minds of dying humans as they turn to dust."
"Ah yes, bring it to me immediately. You have earned your life, Dione."
"Thank you…" Thanos looked up at the orange sunset on the watery horizon. When the Soul Dimension livened up again he stopped to think to himself… "What did it cost?"
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CHAPTER TWELVE
Prologue To Darkseid of the Moon
"What did you do?" Thor asked. He looked around. Nothing had happened, "MORON! WHAT DID YOU DO?!"
Thanos returned to the real world. His Gauntlet was fried and the Stones were barely hanging onto the metal. His arm was damaged too, and basically his entire left side was going numb. Using each Stone individually drained him of so much energy, using all six Stones at the same time was almost suicide. Thanos had just enough juice in the Gauntlet to do two more things though.
Space Stone
Without moving, Thanos carried the rainbow-coloured Dimension Stone from the ground into his right hand. His left arm began to hang at his side. He didn't want to stay around for much longer. He couldn't stay around for much longer.
His injuries didn't stop him from having a quick monologue though as the first six Gems glowed at the same time, "No one is safe from my wrath anymore. Katniss Everdeen, Ryu, Ken, Master Chief, Jimin, Mario. Regardless of the universe, regardless of social status, regardless of who you are, regardless of the fandom. With this final Stone I place everyone at my mercy," Thanos slot the last Stone in. Thor stood there trying to contemplate what on earth was going on. When he finally got the idea to launch another attack it was too late.
Power-Space-Reality-Soul-Time-Mind-Dimension Stone
Thanos collapsed into his portal as Stormbreaker fell away from his armour. He was gone.
"Why didn't you hit him?" Kakashi asked. Thor didn't know what to say.
"Did the good guys just lose?" Thor wondered picking up the bloodied axe.
"I think we did more than lose," everyone turned to Konohamaru. The young Sarutobi was staring at his hands. He looked up at Naruto. The blonde's nightmares turned to reality. Suddenly Konohamaru broke apart into little pieces of dust. Naruto lunged to save him but the kid was gone. His ashes collapsed into a dry mess.
"What? What the hell is going on, dattebayo," Naruto grabbed his student's ashes.
"Ah no!" Neji sulked, "Here I was thinking I'd escaped canon," the Hyuuga slowly turned to dust and floated away.
"NEJI!" Hinata rushed to her cousin's side. She watched on in horror.
"Babe," Kiba muttered. Hinata looked over her shoulder. In seconds, Kiba had turned to dust too.
"Oh no, I don't feel so good either," Peter limped to his feet.
"Don't worry," Dr Strange ended his panic, "Only people from this universe are effected by Thanos' snap."
"You knew," Naruto, with bloodshot eyes, picked Dr Strange up by the collar, "You knew this was going to happen, didn't you?! And you came to our universe anyway."
"Stephen, did you know?" Tony's helmet retracted.
Dr Strange swallowed hard, "I put the Stone in this universe, because we needed all the heroes alive. It had to be done, Tony."
Shino grabbed Hinata's shoulder, "I'm sorry Hina-chan, at least you can't forget about me anymore," Shino smiled as he turned to dust. Hinata grabbed her head and collapsed as her three closest friends died around her.
Kankuro turned to Gaara and then to his older sister. The redhead's eyes widened as his only brother began to crack and fade away, "No," he muttered. A single tear rolled down his cheek.
"Honestly, it was about time," Chouji accepted it, he sat down and vanished right in front of everyone's eyes. Who was going to tell Karui?
"Gohan!" the half-Saiyan turned to Krillin, who'd started the vanishing process. Yamcha was not too far behind him. They were both fading away, "Do me a favour and tell 18 I'll be back, and find those Dragon Balls for us, okay."
On Dragon Ball earth, people and aliens alike had begun disappearing and floating away. The seven Dragon Balls turned grey as they too turned to dust and faded away. Krillin and Yamcha weren't coming back any time soon.
"Ash! Tell the ladies I love them," Brock teared up as he began turning to dust. He floated away with the wind. His Poké balls landed on his ashes. One of Ash's balls started lighting up. Charizard, who'd recently been returned to his former glory, escaped his ball and looked back at his trainer.
"Pokémon too?" the ten-year-old wondered. His question was answered by Charizard fading from existence.
To Rukia's misfortune, Byakuya wouldn't be there to greet her upon her return (Along with billions of others who were being taken away by the universal culling).
In a distant world on a cold Russian night, two figures were engaging in a friendly ice-skating challenge that turned into a mixture of competitive skating and an aggressive couples' skate. The silver-haired man pushed his brown-haired partner faster before skating up to his side. The brown-haired man gracefully leapt into the air, spun twice before hitting the ground and skating backwards. Yuri slouched to increase speed. He gave his partner a nod. Victor blushed. He nodded back. Yuri grabbed Victor's hand. He let his body go limp, allowing Yuri to take over. In a matter of seconds they were spinning through their air.
"Yuri…" Victor muttered with eyes closed, "I-," they both hit the ice hard and scattered as flakes of dust. They were both gone.
Dr Strange looked back at Naruto, "But we all saw how badly damaged his Gauntlet was, he won't be using that arm any time soon either… perhaps we could-,"
"No!" Naruto shouted.
"Excuse me?" Dr Strange asked.
"I invite you to my universe, and help you tackle your biggest enemy, so you decide to reward me by killing my men?!" Naruto's fists clenched, "GET OUT! Get out of this universe! NOW!" he turned to walk away.
Tony and Strange turned to Kakashi who just shrugged.
"ALL OF YOU! LEAVE! NEVER COME BACK TO THIS UNIVERSE!" Naruto yelled. He furiously marched over to Shuri. Naruto took his technological shirt off and threw it at her, "JUST GO!" he slipped into a Flying Thunder God portal.
Kakashi sighed to try and relieve the pressure, "I think it's best if you guys pack all your stuff and get going."
Thor was still staring at the space in front of him. He tightened his grip on Stormbreaker. All he had to do was pick it up and drill it into Thanos' head when he had the chance. In fact, he didn't even need to aim for the head the second time. No matter how godly Thanos was, two strikes to the chest would've killed literally anyone.
"I didn't react fast enough," Thor mumbled.
"Let's… let's just go," Clark sighed
Unknown Time – Unknown Place in the DC Universe
Thanos flopped through the portal and landed on a cold steel surface. He was gasping for air and struggling to breathe. A pair of fiery red eyes mercilessly watched from above.
"Do you have it?" the eyes asked.
"Yes," Thanos lifted his Gauntlet to the taller figure. Golden symbols appeared around the Titan's distorted Glove. The Demon with the Red Eyes grabbed the symbols and pressed them against His forehead. He then lifted Thanos to his feet, "Thank you Master," Thanos wrapped his only well-functioning arm around the mysterious being.
"Return to your farm."
The figure began walking towards the spaceship's glass window. He read through the final code.
Loneliness, plus Alienation, plus Fear, plus Despair, plus Self-Worth, divided by Mockery, divided by Condemnation, divided by Misunderstanding, multiplied by Guilt, multiplied by Shame, multiplied by Failure, multiplied by Judgement. N = Y where Y = Hope and N = Folly.
Love = Lies
Life = Death
Self = DARKSEID
The New God sauntered out into the light. All he needed to do was broadcast that Equation across the internet, across all universes, and all free will would belong to him. The end had begun.
Sunset – Destroyed Ruins of the Namikaze Main Manor
Naruto was sitting on a large slab of concrete. Glaive had blown up the Compound in an attempt to kill Shuri. The princess was saved but Naruto's heirloom was not. He still had ten other houses, but this house had all his clothes and all his special trinkets in it.
Something crackled behind the blonde. He looked over his shoulder, "Oh… I thought you'd left already."
"We are leaving in a couple of minutes," T'Challa said with his mesmerising African accent, "I just came here to give you this," the king held his hand out. The blonde accepted the gift. It was a shard of black rock that fit in the future Kage's palm.
"Thank you, Your Highness… but what do I do with this?"
"In its current state, not much… maybe throw it at a few enemies," T'Challa laughed, "It's Vibranium, the strongest metal on our planet. It's what my suit is made of… it's what was powering your black shirt."
"Hey… can I ask you something?" Naruto turned on his slab.
"If it's about your people I had no idea Dr Strange was planning to sacrifice them, I would've stopped him if I knew," T'Challa explained.
"No, it's actually about your sister."
"What did she do this time?"
"No, it's what I didn't do. It's what I'm not sure if I should do," Naruto said.
"… Are you saying what I think you're saying?"
Naruto stood, "I don't know. Throughout the battle I was trying to balance fighting and thinking. I'm stuck between four women, your sister being one of them. But who's a better person to ask, then the brother of the bride?"
"Bride?!"
"No I mean…" Naruto was tired, "What should I do, my King?"
T'Challa tapped Naruto's chest, "Don't use your head. If you overthink it, it won't end well. Basically, love is the only time when using your heart and instincts is a lot more effective than using your brain."
"… Um… thanks."
"So, just make a decision now, and go after her… but if it's my sister I'll have to let you know, she's only seventeen and whatever you do to her, I'll do to you tenfold."
Naruto nodded in fear.
"Good, now run!"
Naruto blitzed away.
Minutes Later – Portal Outside Konoha
"Okay, let's make sure everyone is accounted for," Dr Strange said holding a list of people who had crossed into the anime dimension. The X-Men had already entered the portal and returned to their universe. Captain America's nomads had followed behind them. Tony wanted to give them a head-start so he didn't have to arrest them when they got to the Marvel world.
"Tony, can you make sure all your Avengers enter my portal," Strange gave Tony the clipboard and a pencil.
"Uh sure," the man in a suit limped to the sparkly, rotating gateway, "Okay, let's get going. Bruce, Peter, Thor, Star Lord and your Galaxy Guardians, T'Challa, Shuri…" the duo didn't walk past the billionaire so he repeated, "T'Challa… Shuri."
The beautiful African princess was standing in the darkness with arms folded. T'Challa was standing in front of her trying to explain something to her. Tony didn't really care, he just wanted to return to his universe so we threw the clipboard at Dr Strange and sauntered into the portal.
"He's not coming."
"I'm not waiting for anyone, I'm just going to miss this world, stupid," Shuri punched her brother's arm. The cold breeze raised goosebumps on her skin, she quickly warmed her arms up by rubbing them.
"This world is not ours, if Naruto wants to date his universe's women, then let him," T'Challa looked over to Kara who wasn't really as fazed as Shuri was, "Come, when we get to Wakanda, I'll buy you some ice-cream," the king fixed his sister's outfit before escorting her into the doorway.
"It's time to get going," Bruce Wayne said as he entered the portal. Following behind him were Diana Prince, Barry Allen, Hal Jordan, Cyborg, and the teenage participants of Young Justice. Clark motioned for Kara to enter.
"I know you hate losing Kara, but staying in this universe won't bring Thanos back. Now let's go before we start disappearing too," Kal-El joked.
"Yeah, let's-," space-time warped behind the blonde woman. Naruto reached out and grabbed her hand. Kara froze. Kal-El already had half of his body in the entryway. He looked back and watched Naruto grab his cousin's hips and bring her close.
"Um… oh. I'll just," he slipped away.
"Kara, I choose you. I want you to stay in this universe, and I want us to start a family together and everything. I want you," Naruto passionately whispered. Kara's pink lips were an inch away from his as he mumbled affectionately. He had her in his arms and he didn't want to let go. Until she took a step back.
"I'd love to stay Naruto, and I'd love to love you. But the promises I made were under a false pretence. I thought Thanos would be dead and the multiverse would be saved, but I was wrong, and my universe needs me now more than ever. You have beautiful spinsters in your universe, open your eyes and love them as much you've loved me, as much as Shuri loved you," Kara winked.
Dr Strange peeked through the portal, "I've gotta close this thing, you coming or not?"
"I'm coming," Kara reached into her pocket, "But here, we can use this to keep in touch," she handed the blonde a phone and a charger before entering the next universe. The portal died.
Naruto stood there in the total darkness thinking about what just happened.
Kurama cleared his throat, "Can I give the reader a little insight and tell them that the reason you took so long to get here was because you were telling Hinata that you'd chosen Kara over her?"
Naruto sighed, "Yeah."
"… Can I also tell the reader that you went from juggling three girls to standing in a clearing with none?"
"I think they already realised that."
"Can I tell the reader that if you worried more about Thanos than you did about women, then you might've saved Ko-,"
"How about you shut up, dattebayo."
Sunrise – Another Universe
Armour down. Gauntlet off. Helmet put away. Dione agonisingly limped towards his resting place. He grabbed a cold beer with his right hand as he walked over to his seat at what felt like the edge of the universe. He pulled on his jeans as he placed himself on the chair and looked forward to think about he'd down. He'd saved his life… but at what cost?
"Daughter?" he put the can down next to his chair when he saw the green-skinned walk out over the fields towards him.
"You were willing to sacrifice me for your mission?"
"… How… how did you-?"
Gamora stood there in tears. Thanos got up, walked over to his favourite, and (with Nebula's disappearance) only, child, and smothered her with his huge right arm.
"I'll never do anything to put you in harm's way ever again… we're safe now, little one."
So yeah, the reason this story was rather short was because it's just one long prologue to the main story I had in mind. Darkseid of the Moon. I know most of you wanted some harems maybe I needed Naruto to end up alone in this one to springboard him into the next story. If you're reading this I've probably already started working on the next part of this, but feel free to review this story and tell me what you thought about it. What was the favourite part? Least favourite part? What can I do to make the next story better? (Remember, I can't cater to everyone's opinion because at the end of the day it's still my story) And tell me what you think about making Darkseid the final big bad guy. Anyway, for the last time in this story. Goodbye.
Unknown Time – Somewhere In The Universe
A dark and damp room full of capsules and giant cables was suddenly brightened up by buttons and flashing bulbs. The scientists in the secret laboratory didn't know what to do, they couldn't really do much because pretty soon they began to turn to dust and disappear.
The head scientist quickly leapt across the small lab to hold down a big red button as his legs disappeared, "Find the source of these disappearances! Save us! Find Kakarot!" he cried as he vanished, thus releasing the button.
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The capsule next to the switch exploded in a conglomeration of smoke and dust. The scientists' ashes flew away as a dark silhouette appeared from the white steam. The man placed his large hand on the capsule's hard but transparent material. He took his first breath and said his first word.
"K… Ka… Kakarot!" his eyes rolled into the back of his head, "Kakarot!" pure energy destroyed the laboratory. He burst through the walls and made his way to the nearest planet screaming, "Kakarot!"
He's no Captain Marvel, but I decided to just give people something to look forward to for the next story which is probably already in the works. So, feel free to review the story and tell me what you thought about it, constructive criticism is welcomed and if you have any ideas you would like to voice then just PM and I'll see what I can do about it.
