A/N: I do not own Naruto or Zoids

Part 3: Endgame

Chapter 21 – Storm Surge – The Battle Begins!

The morning of Sasuke's promised invasion, Team Nova had positioned themselves in the valley. Red and Shadow were positioned atop large ledges on the west and east walls of the valley respectively. However, valley wasn't quite an accurate term. It was similar to a valley, but it was enclosed on the north end as well. This created a large natural arena, with one open end in the south. This third wall was also covered in ledges; one of these was occupied by Liger, König and the shinobi of Team Nova. Finally, Fury was positioned on the valley floor, dead center between the east and west walls.

"So what's his plan?" Sakura asked Liger of the lone Zoid.

"That will have to remain a surprise." Liger answered her, before contacting Red on a radio borrowed from Konoha. "Any sight of them?"

"Not yet." Red replied while looking through the sight of her rifle. "Nothing more than a- wait! Enemy spotted!" she shouted over the radio after glimpsing Sasuke and several others traveling through the trees.

Tsunade's theory turned out to be correct. Since the forest was thickest west of Konoha, she figured that was the direction Team Blood would approach from. This forced the rogues to pass right by the valley's entrance.

"Whatever you're doing Naruto, you better do it now." Liger told him.

"Will do." Naruto responded before beginning to flare his chakra. At first it was only a somewhat large spike. But then he added the Nine-Tailed Fox's chakra. This influx of demonic chakra caused the "flare" of chakra to turn into a towering inferno of power. As Red watched through her scope, Sasuke's group felt the spike and immediately stopped. When they did, Red added in a little more incentive for Sasuke to change his course. A single shot blasted out of her rifle and vaporized the bottom of the tree the enemies were currently perched in. This forced Sasuke and his team to scatter.

"Feels like Naruto and his pathetic friends want a fight." Sasuke told his group. "Let's indulge them."

"How do you want to go about this?" Karin questioned.

"Kusuna." Sasuke said, turning to his pink-haired companion. "Take your little gang and head in first. I want to see just who all's here."

"Fine." Kusuna responded. "Let's go."

The so-called "Gang of Four" was the first of the hostiles to enter the canyon. Naruto was surprised to see them alive, but he quickly shook it off.

"Is Sasuke still in the trees?" Naruto asked Red.

"Yes, apparently these four are to get an idea of our strength."

Then Liger spoke, "Red, Shadow, don't engage them. Fury, wait and see what they do. I trust your judgment on responding."

"Roger." the addressed three responded.

Kusuna and his group stopped about fifty yards from Fury. They lined up in a diamond formation with Kusuna to the north, Gitai to the east, Setsuna to the south, and Shizuku to the west.

"Only one of you is willing to challenge us?" Kusuna asked the seemingly uncaring Fury.

"I don't see any reason to let the others share my fun." Fury responded.

"Well then, we'll just have to give you a reason!" Kusuna retorted before switching places with Setsuna. "Strengthening Prescription: Chakra Injection!"

Three dark chakra snakes appeared out of Kusuna's collar and bit the other three on the neck. As the dark chakra flowed into them, Setsuna gained red marks, Shizuku gained blue marks, and Gitai's were green. Their chakra spiked, causing a sudden gust of wind to rush through the valley. Fury however, was not impressed.

"Really?" he questioned. "That's the best you could come up with?"

"My, he's a cocky one, isn't he?" Shizuku cackled.

"Right, cocky." Fury scoffed as he drew his two melee weapons. "Let's call it that."

As he brought the two weapons in front of him, Fury flipped a switch at the bases. This caused the blade portion on each to begin rotating like a drill. Once these blades were spinning at their maximum speed, Fury took off like a bullet towards the Foursome, who quickly reacted.

"Fire Style: Fire Run!" Shizuku shouted as he launched a ring of fire at Fury.

"Wind Style: Divine Downcurrent!" Setsuna added while unleashing a gust of wind.

The wind technique engulfed the fire one and created an enormous blast of fire. Fury didn't stop however, instead continuing his charge.

"Stop him, Gitai!" Kusuna ordered.

"With pleasure!" Gitai responded. "Earth Style: Stone Column Spear!"

Dozens of rocky pillars shot up out of the ground in front of Fury. But the Zoid still didn't stop. He used his drills to tear right through the pillars before finally reaching the first of the Gang of Four.

"Setsuna!" Kusuna exclaimed as his blue-haired teammate was torn apart by one of Fury's drills.

As Fury brought his second drill into Shizuku, he was surprised to see that the orange-haired psycho had turned his body into water and was now racing across the ground away from him.

"Not so fast!" Fury shouted as his right drill ceased spinning. He held the drill out towards Shizuku and fired a blue laser shot out from between the blades. The blast nailed the puddle dead center and instantly evaporated Shizuku.

"Two down, two to go!"

By the time Shizuku died, the rest of Sasuke's team began streaming out of the woods. Including the dead two, Naruto counted a total of ten. In addition to Sasuke and Karin, he saw several old enemies: Kisame Hoshigaki, Kagura, Bando, and Aoi Rokusho. It seemed Sasuke really wanted Team Nova dead.

"Here we go." Liger announced before leaping from the ledge. In mid air, Liger activated the Jager armor. When he landed, the Zoid made a beeline for Kisame.

"We can't let him have all the fun!" König said before following Liger. She, upon landing, began engaging Karin. She was joined by Shadow who decided that he was going after Aoi. This left Kagura and Bando. Before any of the shinobi could join the battle, Red hailed them on the comm. unit.

"The orange-haired guy is mine." the sniper Zoid told them. "I don't care what you do about the rest of them."

"I'll go assist Fury with those two. " Kakashi said to the remaining three. "Konan and Sakura, you handle Kagura. Naruto, I'm leaving Sasuke to you."

"Thanks Kakashi-sensei." Naruto told him before the ninja joined their Zoid teammates.

As soon as Kakashi landed near Fury, he realized his mistake. The crazed Zoid was moving to slash Gitai, but had to stop when Kakashi showed up in the way. This gave Gitai an opening to slam Fury in the head with an earthen fist.

"Kakashi." Fury said venomously as he stalked back towards them. "If there is a brain in your head, you will get out of the way right now!"

"Right." Kakashi responded sheepishly. "I'll just be leaving then."

The Copy-nin leaped backwards and away from the three combatants. But he wasn't getting away alone. Kusuna decided that he would have a slightly better chance of surviving against the Copy-nin than against the psycho with the drills. As soon as the two of them were gone, Fury resumed his assault.

Gitai, for his part, was trying to figure out what to do about those drills. Fire jutsu didn't even faze Fury and he drilled right through the Earth Spears. And he had no doubt that his full transformation wouldn't last very long against those drills. So, that would have to be where Gitai focused: removing the drills from the fight. As if reading Gitai's mind, Fury suddenly powered down the drills.

"Since those other two died so fast, I figure it would be more fun to fight you in a straight up brawl." Fury explained while returning his weapons to his back.

"Well then, I guess it would only be fair to kill you with my full power!" Gitai responded, returning to his normal arrogance.

Fury watched, disgusted, as Gitai removed a chakra snake from his arm and crushed it. After drinking the juice, Gitai transformed into his Asura-like state. He grew to twice his original height and gained two extra pairs of arms. Perhaps most disturbing was that he now had three faces on his head, instead of just one.

"Well, now that you've turned into a complete freak show, I want to kill you." Fury said in a calmly eerie voice.

He activated the thrusters in his boots, which lifted him about two feet off the ground. His eyes seemed to flash before he rocketed towards Gitai with his fist cocked back.

"No you don't!" Gitai roared as he slammed his six fists into the ground.

As soon as he did, large bursts of fire exploded from the ground around Fury. The Zoid had to stop his assault to dodge and was hard-pressed to avoid all of the fire.

Across the battlefield, Naruto and Sasuke were staring each other down as the other fights raged on around them.

"So, how'd you do it Sasuke?" Naruto questioned. "How did you bring back all of those corpses?"

"It was actually very simple." Sasuke answered. "Sunagakure's Puppet Brigade developed a jutsu known as One's Own Life Reincarnation. I believe you've seen it in action?"

Naruto froze in shock when he heard this, remembering how Lady Chiyo had used that very technique to revive Gaara after the Shukaku's extraction.

Sasuke continued after seeing Naruto's reaction, "While learning under Orochimaru, I came across a scroll he had stolen when he was experimenting with immortality. Unfortunately for him, he was unable to find a way to adapt the jutsu to extend his own life. After he came to that conclusion, he abandoned the idea. I however, realized just what could be accomplished with such a technique. My Sharingan is powerful enough to completely control someone if I want to. All I had to do was force them to use the technique on the corpses and they would restore life to the dead."

"But how did you get those bodies? I thought Gitai's was destroyed." Naruto asked.

"That took a little more work." Sasuke answered. "You see, I also picked up a jutsu from the former leader of Akatsuki: the Shape-Shifting Technique. With this technique, I was able to recreate that fool's body and use it for the revival."

"You've reached a new low, Sasuke." Naruto told him as he shook his head. "Disturbing the dead is a crime against nature."

"And what is nature going to do about it?" Sasuke taunted.

"She's going to kill you." Naruto replied while closing her eyes. "Because…" As he opened them again, Sasuke saw Naruto's Sage Mode for the first time.

"I'm her enforcer!"

Ignoring Gitai's taunts, Fury stood about twenty feet away and tried to come up with a strategy.

"Alright, whenever he slams the ground, he creates those explosions." he thought to himself. "So at least I'll know when they're coming. What if I charge him again, but come in higher this time? Then when he…you know what, screw it. I'm just gonna kill him."

Fury charged Gitai again, but this time, he flew at full speed. This enabled Fury to slam Gitai's face with his fist before the monstrosity could launch another fire attack. As Gitai struggled to his feet after that devastating hit, he saw that Fury was once again holding one of his drills.

"Sorry, but I got better things to do." the Zoid told him. "See ya!"

A large blue shot from the drill was the last thing Gitai saw before being obliterated.

A/N: And thus the final battle begins! Or is it? That's for you to find out later!

As usual, I want to apologize for how long this took to write. Unfortunately, I was super busy (at one point I had four different essays, a couple of projects, and a lot of DeMolay events going on all at once). Fortunately, I'm a little less busy, so I can focus on fan fiction. I hope you enjoyed this first chapter of the fight. I also hope that you liked how Fury was portrayed and my explanation of how all those dead people are back. I chose that particular method because I figured it would be better than another "Impure World Resurrection" thing. Seriously, why did Kishimoto have to bring back everyone? I mean, some of it was cool, like the Jinchuriki and the previous Seven Swordsmen. But why bring back Asuma, Haku, Zabuza and all of the Akatsuki? Sure they're great characters, but we've seen them before. Come up with new characters!

Anyway, the next update will be Iron Shadow, then back to this. I hope to have this finished early summer so I can start The Strength of Outcasts. I'm really looking forward to that one. So please read and review, and as always, thanks for the support!