By the way everything stated about mandalorian armors is a fact, not something I came up with outa my ass these can be found in the comics and other websites throughout the net.
So without further adue, here it is.
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Mandalore let his eyes pass over each of the assembled men beneath him from behind the T shapped visor. Watching as other mandalorians next to him blew open more sections of the cave's ceiling, making the nine or so men beneath them leap out of the way.
Judging by the casual way they looked as they did what many would compare to one of the jedi's speed and force enhanced jumps, all of them were very fast.
Revan had warned Jolee and himself over these nine men, each of them as strong as any Jedi master of the jedi order, their leader most likely as strong as Master Vandar before his death, considered to be the strongest of the Jedi masters of the order during the Mandalorian wars, and the Jedi Civil war.
There was a brief silence before several of the younger mandalorians released their battle cries, firing wildly by Mandalore's standards, as they rappelled down from the ceilings, many of their captains following, also firing at the nine men who vanished in clouds of white smoke, replaced by logs, pebbles and sometimes nothing at all, or they simply dodged normally, one with red eyes being able to do so more than the others.
Mandalore hefted his heavy repeating blaster so the weapon rested against his right hip, and he held another handle piece along the middle of the weapon with his right hand, before he gripped his rappelling rope with his left. Leaping down with the heavy weapon held firmly in one hand and holding onto his own weight with the other.
Hidan grunted as one of the red lights fired from the mandalorians weapons slammed into his stomach, he could feel every ounce of pain as the weapon burned his skin and his inner organs, including his stomach and liver. He cursed, loudly before he grabbed his three pointed scythe and swung the weapon, allowing it to slip through his fingers and attack the blue armored mandalorian at a distance, the same one that had fired at him.
But, too his surprise his weapon, the razor sharp three pointed scythe which had never failed to cut his opponent when it made contact let out a horrible screech of metal on metal before the mandalorian rookie fell to the floor from the force of the attack. Dazed, but absolutely unharmed from the blow.
Pulling his weapon back he looked at the slightly chipped edge, with no blood on it before he snarled. "WHAT THE FUCK!" His sentiments were soon shared by his "immortal" partner, Kakuzu, as the man gathered fire and wind chakra into his right and left hands respectively, before releasing a massive, stream, burning red hot at nearly three hundred and sixty degrees towards a group of five mandalorians.
Only for the flames to pass over the durasteel and Kavar plated armor like water over rock, leaving the mandalorians completely unharmed as they continued to fire upon the criminals. What the Akatsuki did not know, was that Mandalorian armor was considered to be the finest infantry armor for a reason. It was an all purpose, all environment armor, able to survive all but the sheer pressure of deep space and deep sea operations.
Their suits could survive flames as hot as five hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit, as well as 200 pounds of atmospheric pressure, anything else and the thing was crushed like a tin can. The reason for such high resistance's was the alloy it was made from.
It is one of the few armors that can resist the sheer heat and power of a lightsaber besides Cortosis and Vibro. Of course, if the mandalorians stayed in the fire, they would be cooked alive unless the suit was properly modified for such a thing. But at this point, it left them enough time to survive the quick blast and get out of the flames while continuing their fire fight.
Deidara growled, reaching for one of his clay pouches when Pein yelled to him. "NO DONT! In this cave you'll bring the whole thing down around our ears." The Akatsuki leader yelled before he quickly had to avoid a blaster bolt aimed for his head. Growling as he watched the armored men form a perimeter around Naruto.
The blaster bolts were not so fast that they couldn't be dodged, at a distance if one had good eyesight and reflexes, but he wasn't crazy enough to attempt such a thing while rushing a group of enemies which most likely had other abilities he didn't know about. Unrolling a small scroll there was a puff of smoke, which soon revealed another of his strange copy's.
Whom quickly formed his own handseals, slamming his palms onto the ground before he spoke. "Kuchiyose no jutsu." There was another cloud of smoke, which revealed another of his copies, the three looked at each other before they each nodded and they rushed the mandalorians. Konan, fluidly dodged the blaster bolts, her eyes judging the trajectory by where the weapon was pointing, taking her time to analize her opponent and his possible weak points to exploit when the time was right.
On all armors, the main weak points were the neck, the armpits, and the waist, not to mention the eyes, though she had no idea the possible strength of that visor. She was facing a man in blue armor, which judging by their number was the common foot soldier of this band it seemed. So she grabbed a paper from the origami flower in her hair and in seconds, the thing multiplied, forming hundreds of spinning tiny blades, swarming over the mandalorian youth who screamed in shock as he swatted the air around him wildly as several of the thin papers mannaged to get past tiny places in his armor and began slicing into his legs, arms, stomach, chest and back.
Finally a single paper smashed through his visor, sending shards of glass into his eyes, along with the paper itself which pierced his skull and dug itself deeply into his brain. "AIM FOR THE EYES!" She cried over the chaos of the blasts and screams of Hidan as he slashed and fought wildly. Taking dozens of hits from the confused and startled mandalorians who simply could not understand why he would not DIE!!!
"Amateratsu!"
Came the bored voice to her left before four of the mandalorians were consumed by the flames, their screams ceasing a split second after they had started, their forms vanishing in the dark flames of the Uchiha.
The nearly three hundred pound form of the fully armored Mandalore smashed down on the floor, the visible and audible cracks echoing through what remained of the room, as he kneeled down to inspect the person they were sent to rescue, finding the boy's pulse to be faint, but steady. They had to get him out of here, he moved to pick the boy up when the cry of his men startled him.
Snapping his head back he found many of his men being held up by black, vein-like tendrils. Following them to their source, he found a very ugly looking...thing with a few weird ass faces on it, he could faintly recognize it as human, but if this was the kinda stuff that happened here on a regular basis, Revan certainly needed to warn him in advance, that just wasn't normal.
Still, all weirdness aside, the Mandalorian commander hefted his weapon, aimed it, and let loose on the strange creature. Kakuzu, distracted as he tried to find the weaknesses on the armor he could exploit, having not heard Konan's cry earlier, did not manage to put up his defenses before several dozens of blaster bolts were fired at him, five hitting him in his side. He gasped in pain as he stumbled back, facing the man that had fired, he found Mandalore, the heavy repeating blaster held firmly in his grip before he let loose again, hitting Kakuzu in the chest, stomach, neck and legs as the gattling-gun like accuracy of the weapon sprayed bolts everywhere.
Finally, the strange creature fell back, its vein like tendrils soon releasing the Mandalorians that had been held in their grips. Mandalore relaxed for a moment but a roar to his immediate left startled him, looking in the direction he only managed to catch sight of a blue shark like man's fist before it smashed into his armored head, making him spin around once and stumble back in a daze.
It didn't hurt, since it hit the durasteel helmet, but the sheer force of the blow had him reeling from it. Before he could act, the S class criminal delivered a sharp, powerful kick to the mans arm, knocking the repeating blaster right out of his hand before he grabbed the sides of his head with his hands, forcing the T shaped visor to face him before he delivered a brutal, and very nauseating headbut, Kisame's hardened skull making a ringing sound as it smacked hard against the steel.
Canderous grunted as he fell onto his back, his arms spread wide as he dazedly blinked, trying to regain his bearings. Looking up to Kisame, he watched as the shark man picked up his foot, and moved to smash it down on his head. Canderous's hands rose, and caught the mans foot, holding it up with some effort before he grunted and pushed the sharkman off entirely, making Kisame stumble back.
As Canderous rose back up he blocked another kick from Kisame, catching the man's leg before he delivered a backhand which connected solidly with his ribs. Kisame grunted in pain from the sheer force of the blow, but it wasn't enough to stop him, he grabbed Canderous's extended hand, and with sheer force alone lifted him, up and over, before slamming him down against the stone.
Canderous grunted in pain, looking up as he found Kisame kneeling above him, fist reared back as he prepared to smash his skull, durasteel and all with one chakra empowered hit. Canderous crossed his arms over his head but just as the fist was about to smash against his form, the appendage was suddenly sliced cleanly off the body. Kisame roared in pain, clutching the burned stump of his arm, as the gentle green glow of Jolee's light saber flashed before his eyes and Kisame's arm, was followed shortly by his head.
"Always need to save you." Jolee commented offhandedly as he reached down and helped Mandalore to his feet.
"Screw you." The Mandalorian commander grunted before he looked around, watching as his men were beginning to be pushed back by the Akatsuki, not that the criminals didn't have their own set of bruises to show, but even so, they were adapting quickly and the strike team would soon be obliterated, already 11 of the 42 people he brought down here were unconscious, maybe dead. Its time they took their leave.
He rushed forward, grabbing Naruto and hefting him over his shoulder before he grabbed his rope. "Pull back boys! We're done here."
Pein growled as he used a wind, chakra empowered fist to crudely drill right through one of the captain mandalorians armor, punching a hole straight through his chest as he glared, at the commander who held Naruto slung over his shoulder, a hooded and cloaked man standing at his side with a similar light sword as the one Naruto had, in his hands.
Pein took the weapon from his pouch, watching it flare to life as he used the weapon to lash out at the nearest mandalorian, the armor providing momentary resistance before it succumbed, the mans head rolling off his shoulders before he fell dead at his feet.
Mandalore didn't leave as he waited for his men to do so first.
Watching as the men who were still fit provided cover for those who were carrying the wounded, followed by the rookies, and then the captains. He glared at what he assumed was the leader of this group, watching him holding what he recognized as Revan's double bladed lightsaber made his blood boil, but he knew this wasn't the time to go and get that weapon, when what Revan really cared about here was her son, not the trinket.
Jolee blocked one of the thrown knives aimed at Canderous before he glared at the Mandalorian. "You know, I would love to stand here and defend you as you play who's got more testosterone with crazy eyes over there, but I have a few more years of life I would like to milk out before I die thank you very much."
Canderous glared at the older man, but soon enough pressed a small button on his belt, activating his rope, where it automatically retracted, the mechanism nailed to the outside of the cave, activated by the radio signal.
Jolee moved to leap after him, but his senses caught an attack approaching behind him, ducking down, he avoided the three pointed sickle as it passed over his head before he pivoted back around, extending his hand, watching the white haired man that had attacked, freeze for a second, before Jolee snapped his hand shut into a tight fist, and the sound of, shattering, crunching, breaking, snapping, scraping, and twisting bones was heard, and Hidan's body was soon crumpled into a ball, twisted and gnarled beyond what any human should have lived through, even a few of his ribs were poking out through his back, collarbone, chest and stomach.
Jolee smirked, about to leap up again when he noticed Pein, the Akatsuki leader glaring at him with those unsettling eyes. Looking to his hand, which held the double bladed lightsaber. He extended his hand forward, and Pein, not expecting the sudden force that yanked the lightsaber out of his hand, could do little more than feel the weapon slip through his fingers before it was in the smirking Jolee's hand. "Not yours kid." He said smugly before he finally leapt up, narrowly avoiding some more thrown kunai and Shuriken.
Pein moved to leap up after the older man but as he did Jolee turned in mid air, releasing a quick burst of force lightning, replacing himself with a stone at the cave floor Pein avoided the attack.
The Akatsuki looked at the four holes in the ceiling biding their time as they knew that if they exposed themselves so openly that they may as well kiss their asses goodbye. Soon however they heard a strange whirring sound of some sort. Not able to hold himself back any longer at the thought of his praise getting away from him Pein was the first to leap up, the others following behind him.
As they bounded up to the outside of the cave, all of the ninja gasped at the sight that greeted them, a massive, metal floating...box, which they could only assume was some sort of transportation ship was hovering above the cave, the rear of the vessel open as more of the strange armored men were pulled up some more automatic ropes. Along the edge of the open area were about a dozen more of the armored men, each aiming their rifles at them, but choosing not to fire s the ninja had not done any hostile action quite yet.
Pein gritted his teeth, but held himself back as he watched the largest of the armored men, no doubtedly their leader step onto the platform and handed the unconscious Naruto to another of the armored men, this one clad in golden armor.
He turned around and Pein knew, he simply knew that he was glaring at him from behind that T shaped visor. The old, robed man was the last one to step onto the platform, and soon the whirring sound steadily increased in its intensity before the large vessel lurched to life, raised itself a bit more before it rushed forward, its speed, amazing as it was soon nothing but a speck on the horizon.
The Akatsuki leader let out a low growl of anger before he rounded on his subordinates. "Gather your equipment, then move out. I want to know, who those men were, where they came from, the weapons and vessel that they used and what the hell is their connection to the Jinchuriki."
Itachi, Deidara and Konan nodded before they leapt back down through the holes. Pein let his eyes travel to Tobi and Zetsu, his eyes flashing with anger as he snarled. "And where the hell were you two?"
Zetsu stepped to the side, revealing a single Mandalorian warrior, one with blue armor, dead at his feet. "I figured if they escaped it would be good to have someone to run tests on, as well as study the armor they have."
Pein nodded grudgingly, seeing as how the warriors had indeed taken most of their dead and wounded. He then looked to Tobi, glaring at him for all he was worth. The masked Akatsuki member managed to look nervous even with the spiral mask and scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "Uhhhhh...I was supposed to fight?"
Pein growled, the anger in his eyes shining through quite easilly, Tobi eeped, backing up a bit. "Uhhhh...I'm gonna goooo..." He paused trying to find something when it finally came to him. "Check on Hidan, Kakuzu and Kisame, bye!" He leapt down the hole, leaving Pein and Zetsu alone above. Pein let his eyes travel over to the grass nin. Zetsu, not wanting to be under the man's sole scrutiny, decided it best to leave, and so slowly fell, lower and lower into the dirt until he was swallowed entirely, leaving Pein and his two, copies to their own company.
Meanwhile down bellow, Tobi allowed his eyes to travel throughout the cave, finding Itachi staring at the headless corpse of his former partner for a brief moment before he shrugged and walked off, following Konan and Deidara, both of whom had sparely thrown a second glance at the sight of their injured comrades.
The sound of shifting stones brought his attention to the side, finding Kakuzu stumbling to his feet as he regained his bearings. "Kakuzu-sempai." Tobi chirped cheerily. "How many times did they kill you?"
"Three." The large man groaned from the pain burning through his stomach and chest, not saying anything else before he vanished in a wisp of red and black smoke.
Tobi then looked to the other occupant of the room, who was still muttering curses under his breath as best he could. Walking over to him he spoke when he was at his side. "Hidan-sempai, are you alright?"
The bloody silver haired man snarled before he spoke. "Tobi...look at me...my spine is coming out of my ass and my ribs are poking up my nose...now tell me...DO I BLOODY LOOK ALLRIGHT!"
"Uhhh...no actually." He said. "To be perfectly honest sempai you look worse than dogshit at this point."
For the next hour, Tobi was subjected to trying to dislodge the man's powerful teeth from his ankle.
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Jolee stood along the deck of the ship, his eyes closed as he reached out to Revan, finding the woman's mind with great relief and joy. He smiled. 'Revan'
'Jolee.' Her voice reached him, the relief and joy evident in the emotions that followed. 'Konoha has also sent a team to rescue Naruto, intercept them, stop them from entering a now, unnecessary battle.'
'Allright.' He answered back. 'How do I find them, and what do I say when I do?'
'Spread out your senses, they are close, tell them I've sent you, the man with white hair, and two women, one blond and another brunet will know what your talking about, there are about a dozen others with them, most are wearing white, animal masks...I doubt you can miss them.'
Jolee chuckled and did as asked, spreading out his senses to the world beyond the metal hull and armored mandalorians. It did not take him long, two of the people were quite powerful, their power was a strange one, one that he had never really encountered before, but was similar to those of the men they had recently fought and they also seemed to be moving to where they were currently fleeing. So without another moments hesitation he walked over to the helm of the ship, where a young recruit was currently driving the ship. With Canderous currently overlooking the boy in Med-bay he was left in charge of the ship, and so he'd be able to basically do whatever he wanted until the walking tin can got back.
"Excuse me young man." He said kindly drawing the attention of the helmsman.
"Yes sir?" He questioned, the voice device in the helmet doing little to hide his youth.
"We need to make a small detour, it pertains the mission, so if you please, I will drive us there."
The young recruit looked to the other mandalorians on the bridge, who mostly shrugged, Mandalore had said that the old man was in charge while he wasn't around. "Of course sir." He said after a moment of hesitation before he stood up from the seat and gestured for him to take the seat.
"Why thank you." Jolee said kindly before he sat down and looked at the others. "I suggest you buckle up."
There was scant few seconds for his words to sink in before he turned the ship sharply, making nearly everyone and every thing that was not strapped in fall and crash to the floor.
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As the ship lurched and heaved wildly to and fro, Canderous let out several curses as his form was bodily slammed into the walls of his own ship. Luckily, Naruto had been strapped into the table, and so had suffered very little, though the same could not be said about his medics, having several boxes of some junk fall on them.
Slamming his hand over the intercom he roared into the speaker. "LABAT! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING UP THERE!!?"
To his ire and immense annoyance however, Jolee's voice is the one that answered back. "Oh, if you mean that kid that was here, he really had to go to the bathroom and so I volunteered to take over for him.
"Jolee, I would have known!" The Mandalorian growled through gritted teeth. "I'm never leaving you in charge of the ship again you hear me? You wrinkled old, worthless carcass of a Jedi!"
"Yeah yeah whatever. Look, get back to the loading bay, we'll be having some more visitors soon. I'll brief you on the way."
"Fine!" The Mandalorian growled again. "I'll deal with you once this is done you old bastard."
"I love you too kid."
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Meanwhile down in the loading bay, certain, rust red HK droid heard the voice over the intercom, its systems beginning to flare back to life. His red eyes flared back up, the beady little things glowing eerily in the darkness of the storage room. It looked around, data and files loading themselves back into its processors, memory banks decoding themselves and granting more data to him as it recovered everything it had been programmed to do upon activation.
It looked around the storage room, now of course one would expect to simply find junk in a storage room, but keep in mind that this is a 'Mandalorian' storage room, and so more that 3/4th's of the storage was extra battle rifles, grenades, loads of ammo and personal defensive shield bands.
Apparently, his memory banks identified the voice he heard over the intercom as that of the old, wrinkly, decaying meat bag. Also known to other meat bags as Jolee Bindo.
So arming himself, the HK droid walked over to the intercom.
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Jolee was calmly driving the ship towards where he felt the people Revan asked him to pick up when a voice he had hoped to never, ever, EVER have to hear again.
"Greeting: Hello brown meat bag. Query: Could you inform me where my master is? Statement: It has been so long since I've seen her and I wish her to order me to kill something again."
The old Jedi stared at the speaker before he spoke the only words that came to mind at the moment. "Well that sucks."
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"Wait!" Was Jiraiya's stern voice as he called the team to a halt.
"What's wrong?" Tsunade said anxiously, wondering if Jiraiya sensed some kind of Genjutsu over them.
"Don't you hear that?" He questioned as he looked around.
"Hear wha-" Tenten began, but stopped when a steady, whirring sort of sound reached her ears, growing steadily louder.
The Anbu at their side each drew their blades, forming a circular formation around Tsunade, Jiraiya, Rin, Tenten, Lee and Neji as they awaited whatever was making that sound, which was undoubtedly coming over to them, judging by how the sound was getting louder and louder.
The group looked around, but soon, Tenten noticed a black speck on the horizon, which grew...very quickly. "Get down! She yelled before she tackled Lee, who had been staring stupidly to the ground, the others did the same, as a shadow passed over them, and heated wind blew down on their forms, beating them harshly against the sand. They looked up when it finally passed, watching as the ship turned back around, many of the Anbu, as well as Lee, Tenten and Neji backed away in fear and awe at the strange vessel. Rin, Jiraiya and Tsunade however did not. Tsunade and Rin because they knew that if this vessel was here, Revan had probably called it here. And Jiraiya because Revan had, while she was pregnant with Naruto, told him several stories of her past adventures, and if his hunch was right he would be meeting either Republic soldiers, or Mandalorians.
When the ship turned back, and gave another sharp turn, showing them what they could only asume was the rear of the ship, they tensed when a portion of the ship began opening, revealing several armored men, holding strange weapons, which Jiraiya could only assume were the blaster rifles Revan spoke of on occasion. One man, visibly larger than most, and with a helmet of more broad design stepped forward, grabbing onto one of the ropes, he kneeled at the edge, leaning over as he outstretched his free hand towards the ninja. "Get on." He barked.
"Who are you?" Tsunade questioned, wanting to at least know who these men were before she got onto their ship.
"I'm Mandalore, now no more questions, Revan sent us, we got her kid. Now get on before those freaks with the cloud cloaks show up."
Hearing that they had Naruto, Rin needed little more convincing and stepped up onto the ship, Jiraiya following shortly behind her. Tsunade hesitated for a bit more before she too got on the ship. The rest of the Ninja, while confused were willing to follow their commander and so they too followed.
Only Tenten gave pause at the mans strange words. 'Revan sent us, we have her kid.' Seeing Tsunade, who had been nearly frantic when she heard Naruto had been captured, calmly step onto this ship of strange armored men, with useless looking weapons she could only make one simple deduction. She knew this Revan person, and Naruto must also be on this ship, as well as being Revan's son. Though that made little sense to her because as far as she knew, Naruto was an orphan.
"Tenten!" Neji called, snapping her out of her thoughts. Deciding to ask on it later she too climbed onto the ship. Watching in fascination as they rose into the air before the loading bay doors closed entirely. Sealing them into the ship with the armored men.
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Meanwhile, somewhere deep in dark space a lone figure stared out into the vast nothingness of space, ignoring the cold that existed out within that vast nothingness as he allowed his black eyes to pass over the hundreds of galaxies laid out before him, the zillions upon zillions of tiny specs of life all which were insignificant, reduced to nothingness in his wake. He was an anomaly of nature, a living natural disaster. One day, all would be destroyed, he would consume all life in the universe, snuffing them out with ease. He had all the time in the world, all the time in the universe he could not die, he would never die. So long as the force flowed through the beings of the world, he would live.
His senses found something, a strangeness amongst the monotony of the universe's movements. He turned his massive ship with the power of his mind alone and moved through the blackness of dark space with all the calm and patience of the world.
He was eternal, he had all the time in the universe.
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There, chap is done. Hope you enjoyed it, next update is LS. Next chap for this one we get to see HK (AKA: BEST DROID EVER MADE!) interact with the group.
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