Chapter 5

AN: Hey everyone I am back with another chapter for Fox of Atlantis. Now I would first like to apologize for the slight delay on this chapter. I took a little break from this story so that I could update a few of my other stories like "Peek into the Naruto-verse" and my long awaited "Naruto the Dino Sage" story.

It was also due to the fact that I was having a hard time figuring out how to covering the "Travel Montage" up to right before they finally reach Atlantis. Ultimately I decided on the following and I hope you enjoy. Now to answer a few reviews…

Doomqwer: You will have to stick around to find out.

Dragonblood93: Yeah I hear ya…oh and they recently re-added the movie to Netflix so you can watch it there.

Blaze1992: I thought about more people surviving but ultimately decided against it.

Dzerx: two words "Crystal Necklace"…that is also the only reason he has survived and retained his youth for so long.

Wolfking0811: I rated the story "M" as a means of safety and freedom. By rating it that way I have more freedom in regards to violence, language, and any possible light gore. As for what counts as "M" material you can look it up under the Rules and Guidelines tab in the Publish section. However even then the specifics are still kinda vague.

Rebmul: More than 5 people made it; they were just already in the Transport Sub when Naruto and the others got in. Basically the size of the surviving group is the same as in the movie.

Soul Reaper with a Core Drill: Thanks and I am not sure what you mean by short chapters. Other than the very first chapter the rest have been around my usual length of 3,000-5,000 and above words.

Falcon800: Seriously did you even read the summary?

Guest Kakakure: Thanks and I will say that the biggest diverges from the movie will begin to appear after they actually reach Atlantis.

Ethan444: Can't say due to spoilers.

KyuubiMakai009: If this were CANON Naruto then you would be right. However this version of him is not ENTIRELY like his Canon counterpart. Essentially they are all the same except that this Naruto is smarter and able to learn new things faster even without clones.

Well that's all for reviews this time. Now before the chapter starts I would like to thank everyone for making this story so popular. Only 4 chapters and I have already reached over 400 Follows, 381 Favs, and 127 Reviews. This is just mind blowing considering how underappreciated this crossover category is.

Roughly an hour had passed since the disaster that was the Leviathan attack. The survivors of aforementioned attack had unloaded the vehicles stored within the transport sub. These vehicles included the Digger with its massive drill for a nose, several transport trucks, several fuel trucks, and several supply trucks loaded with food, water, and various other supplies.

The survivors were currently standing at the water's edge somberly watching as Sweet placed a bowl with a lit candle in it into the water. The group watched silently for a moment as the bowl floated out into the water.

Rourke sighed as he held his hat in his hands "Seven hours ago we started this expedition with 200 of the finest men and women I've ever known…We're all that's left" he says to the roughly 30 people gathered. The group gains saddened looks on their faces as Rourke continues his speech "I won't sugar-coat it gentleman, we have a crisis on our hands. However we have been up this particular creek before, and we have always come through, paddle or no paddle. I see no reason to change that policy now." He says.

Naruto clenches his fist as Rourke gives his speech. He was partially blaming himself for all the lives lost in the Leviathan's attack. Various thoughts were rushing through his head like that he should have kept his guard up the moment they spotted all the shipwrecks. If he had been more alert maybe he wouldn't have been knocked unconscious and could have prevented the Leviathan from continuing its attack after it grabbed the sub.

The blonde former shinobi is broken from his thoughts as he hears Rourke continue his speech "From here on in everyone pulls double duty. Everyone drives, everyone works. Looks like all our chances for survival rest on you Mr. Uzumaki, you and that little book" Rourke says.

Mrs. Packard takes a drag from her cigarette before adding in "We're all going to die" rather grimly before flicking her cigarette away.

Ignoring the woman's comment Rourke finishes his speech "Okay people saddle up. Lieutenant, I want this convoy moving five minutes ago!" he orders as the group makes their way to the various vehicles.

Helga walks toward one of the trucks before turning to the group "Moliere, you're on point in the Digger. No Vinny, Audrey's taking the oiler. You know the rules I want you 50 yards behind that truck at all times…and Packard put out that cigarette" she says ordering people to their assignments.

Rourke looks over to Naruto who is standing next to one of the supply trucks reading the Shepherd's Journal and walks over to him. When he reaches the truck Rourke looks between it and Naruto before asking "Are you sure you're checked out on this class of vehicle?"

Naruto was in a trance as he read more of the book as he couldn't help but get this weird sense od déjà vu whenever he read it. However Rourke's question broke the chance and he looked up at the man before responding "Huh?" having missed the question.

Rourke deadpans hearing this before sighing "Can you drive a truck?" he asks thumbing towards said vehicle.

Naruto nods his head "I prefer walking that way I can focus on finding our way. However I do know how to drive a truck if you need me too" he says in response to the question.

Rourke thinks it over for a moment before nodding "Very well for now you will drive one of the trucks. However after we make camp for the first time I will have someone take over for you so that you can walk ahead and guide us" he says before heading to his own vehicle.

Naruto gets in the truck and starts it before driving off and leading the now moving group. The group drives up the hill away from the water's edge and into a large dark cavern. As they enter the cavern the headlights of their vehicles begin to illuminate it revealing massive stone pillars. The convoy continues on driving along a windy stone road deeper and deeper into the cavern. After awhile they reach a cliff side and have to lower the vehicles down one at a time using ropes and pulleys before they continue onwards. A few hours later they make camp for the night and get some rest.

After roughly eight hours of rest the group wakes up and continues their journey. Several hours later they reach a fork in the path leading into the eye-holes of what was once a large statues face. Naruto who was now walking in front of the group opens the journal and reads it for a few moments. He then looks up and points to the path on their right and the convoy begin to move forward again.

However as they are nearing the hole they hear a roar and a massive green bug with many legs and a pair of large mandibles appears out of the hole on the left. The bug roars again as it begins to charge the convoy. Rourke turns to the bug "Open fir-" he says about to give the order for the group to shoot it when a knife flies into the bugs head and it falls to the ground lifeless.

The group just watches in shock as Naruto who was once again reading the journal calmly walks over the bug and pulls the knife from its head. He then proceeds to wipe the bugs green blood off the knife using his pant leg before putting the knife away in his coat. The blonde then walks back over to the front of the convoy and begins walking into the hole. However he looks back to see nobody moving causing him to quirk and eyebrow "Well are we continuing on or what?" he asks before continuing on into the tunnel.

The group stands there in shock for a moment as Helga says "Well looks like there is more to our guide than meets the eye" snapping everyone out of their stupor before they continue on after Naruto.

A few hours later the group passes by some water running down the side of the tunnel unaware that three figures with glowing blue eyes and mouths carrying spears are watching them from the shadows.

The group decides to take a short break and Naruto walks over to one of the trucks and grabs a canteen of water before drinking some. As he wipes his mouth off Vinny walks over carrying a plunger for dynamite. Vinny sees the canteen in Naruto's hand causing his eyes to widen "You didn't drink that did?" he asks fearfully.

Naruto raises an eyebrow in confusion at hearing this "Yeah why?" he asks.

Vinny takes a few steps back hearing this "That's not good, that canteen was filled with nitroglycerin" he says causing Naruto to pale and freeze in place. Vinny seeing this takes a few extra steps back "Don't move, eh don't breathe. Don't do anything except pray maybe" he says

Naruto very slowly begins to set the canteen down when he hears someone yell "BOOM!" right behind him causing him to jump into the air a bit. He turns around to see the laughing form of Mole with Vinny joining in as the talk walk off. The blondes eyebrow begins to twitch upon realizing that he was just pranked "I hope you two know that you just declared war on the Prankster King from Hell!" he says with a savage grin. Hearing this and seeing the grin on Naruto's face causes both men to stop laughing and pale a little as they think it might not have been a good idea to prank the blonde.

After a bit the group continues on passing by more giant pillars before reaching a more open area with some crumbling ruins off in the distance. Later that day the group makes camp for the night and while most of the group sits around camp fires eating and talking Naruto is off to the side with working with multiple charts and books out plotting their course.

The next day the convoy once again resumes their trek and after several hours of travel reach pit with a huge pillar in front of them. As Vinny rigs some explosives Audrey looks at the pillar with wide eyes "Wow that thing is huge it must have taken them a long time to carve it!" she says.

Naruto who was standing near Vinny looks at the pillar with a smile as he remembers how it took about 4 months for the Atlanteans to carve the massive pillar. He is broken out of his memories however as Vinny pulls him back and pushes a plunger detonating the explosives and causing the pillar to fall across the pit making a bridge to the other side.

Naruto has a look of shock on his face seeing this before he turns to Vinny who has a wide smile "Hey look I made a bridge and it only took me like 10 seconds…11 tops" he says proudly as Naruto just palms his face in shock. The group continues on once again unaware that the same three shadowy figures are once again watching them from afar with one stopping briefly to stare.

A while later the passes through a region that for some strange reason is covered in snow and extremely cold. However they ultimately make it pass with little trouble and continue on until they reach a point where the road is blocked by a massive chunk of a fallen building.

A few of the group including Rourke and Vinny stand in front of the obstacle as Rourke says "Well looks like we've got a little roadblock. Vinny what do you think?" he asks turning to the explosive expert.

Vinny looks at the wall and holds up a stick of dynamite "I could un-roadblock that if I had like 200 of these. Problem is I only got about 10. Plus about 5 of my own, and a couple cherry bombs, a road flare" he says holding up a bag containing said items. Vinny smirks before turning to Naruto "Hey, too bad we don't have any nitroglycerin eh Naruto?" he asks getting a laugh from Mole who is in the digger.

Naruto merely grins hearing this "Careful you two if I didn't know any better it sound like you might be wanting a repeat of what happened last night" he says getting a chuckle from a few of the group like Audrey, and Sweet.

Vinny and Mole visibly pale hearing this as the events of last night are still fresh in their minds. Naruto had gotten his revenge for their prank on him with each of them getting a specific prank. For Vinny he had filled the explosives experts' sleeping bag full of worms and bugs that he had collected during the day. Mole on the other hand had gotten a large bucket of soap water dumped on him much to the dirt loving digger's ire as it took nearly an hour of rolling around in the dirt to get back to the level of dirtiness he liked.

Roourke turns to look at Mole and says "Looks like we're going to have to dig" causing the diggers eyes to widen in joy as he says "It will be my pleasure".

Mole starts up the digger its large drill beginning to turn and then proceeds to begin drilling into the wall sending chunks of rock and sparks flying out. However after only a few moments sparks shoot out of the control board and the digger backfires before shutting down billowing black smoke from its exhaust.

Audrey walks up to the back of the digger and opens the engine hatch. She leans into the engine housing muttering "I don't understand it I just tuned this thing up this morning" all the while tossing a few parts out behind her.

Naruto who had walked up to the digger with Audrey ducks under a fuse as he continues to watch the mechanic try and fix the digger. He takes a step back as Audrey yells "It looks like the rotor is shot! I'm going to have to pull a spare from one of the trucks" before walking towards one of the trucks.

After Audrey leaves Naruto takes a peek into the engine of the digger and seeing a familiar sight begins to twist a few valves causing the digger to groan before he hits it with a wrench. This results in the digger turning back on and Mole yelling "She Lives!"

Audrey walks back up to the digger and looks at Naruto before asking "Hey what'd you do?"

Naruot rubs the back of his neck sheepishly as he looks at her "Well the boiler in this is a Humac model P-54 stroke 813. Back at the museum I worked at there was one just like it and I would have to give it a whack every once in a while. This was mainly due to the heating cores on the whole Humac line being kinda temperamental" he says explaining his actions.

Audrey was actually pretty impressed by Naruto's knowledge of machines. She smirked playfully as she walked up gave him a light shove "Yeah Yeah thank you very much Mr. Perfect" she says shutting the compartment door. Realizing what she just said she blushes slightly before giving a confused Naruto two light punches to the arm and walking off. Naruto stand there for a moment confused by her actions while absentmindedly rubbing his arm as Audrey had a surprising amount of power even in her light punches. Mole then proceeds to drive the digger through the wall leading the way for the rest of the convoy to follow behind.

About an hour after the group had drilled through the wall they reached an area that had a long stone bridge connecting two platforms over a deep hole. On the platform on the opposite side of the bridge was a large doorway carved into the rock wall. The only source of light in the area was a conical shaped rock formation with several holes in it that emitted a light green colored light.

Naruto looks at the journal and sees an illustration of the conical rock in it along with an illustration of the door. He looks up at the conical rock and says "This is it we are nearly there". Rourke hearing this gives the order for the group to make camp for the night. Audrey questions why it is glowing to which Mole explains that it is natural phosphorescence. Hearing this Vinny chimes in saying it is going to keep him up all night.

A little while latter Cookie rings the dinner bell and walks over to the group "For the Appetizer Caesar Salad, Escargot, and your oriental spring rolls!" he says scooping a ladle full of a mysterious and greasy looking brown slop onto everyone's plates. Mole comments how he wanted the escargot to which Audrey just hands him her plate and tells him to "Knock himself out" before he proceeds to dig into the mystery slop.

Cookie then walks over to Naruto who is sitting a bit away from the group and hands him a plate. He begins to scoop out more of the slop but Naruto seeing this pales "No thank you Cookie I'm not really hungry at this time, what with the big lunch we had and everything" he says politely declining the food which was in somehow even worse tasting than the bug soup he had to eat while learning how to use Senjutsu from the Toads.

Cookie hearing this just nods his head "if you say so, and don't worry there will be plenty left as it keeps and keeps and keeps" before walking off. Naruto then proceeds to go back to reading the shepherds journal.

Sweet seeing that Naruto is once again sitting off by himself says "You know Naruto's always sitting by himself why don't we invite him over?"

Audrey looks over at Narto and nods her head "Hey Naruto why don't you come sit with us!" she yells getting his attention before he gets up and walks over to where they are.

Naruto goes to take a seat between Sweet and Audrey but stops and says "You know Mole unless you want a repeat of before I would suggest moving that whoopee cushion" with a grin. Mole who had just slipped said whoopee cushion on Naruto's seat pales and quickly removes it before taking his own seat.

Naruto takes his seat and reopens the journal and begins reading it again which Audrey raises an eyebrow at before asking "Hey Naruto don't you ever close that book?"

Sweet then chimes in saying "Yeah you must have read it at least a dozen times by now"

Naruto looks up from the book before sighing "I know but it's just that whenever I read this book I get this really strange case of déjà vu. It's almost as if I have read this book before despite having only seen it for the first time when Mr. Whitmore gave it to me. Then there is the fact that it seems like there is a missing page which doesn't make any sense" he says

Vinny raises an eyebrow hearing this "Kid relax we don't get paid overtime" he states with a shake of his head.

Naruto just chuckles hearing this "I know it's just as I can remember I have wanted to get to Atlantis and I guess I am just getting a little carried away" he says with a little white lie as to keep the fact that it is BACK to Atlantis that he wants to get. Naruto smiles a little "Besides that is what this all about right? Adventure, teamwork, friendship…unless you all just in it for the money?" he says his mood slipping near the end. A fact that was only reinforced as each of the group just said they were in it for the money.

Naruto sighs hearing this "Well guess I kinda set myself up for that one" he says while rubbing the back of his neck before wincing slightly.

Sweet seeing this gets up and walks behind Naruto "Something wrong with your neck?" he asks.

Naruto just nods his head "Yeah I think I tweaked it when the sub was attacked…" he says before getting cut off as Sweet grabs the sides of his head and twists back and forth lightly getting a couple of pops from the blondes neck.

Sweet then sits back down in his seat with a smile and asks if that felt better to which Naruto responds positively. Naruto then proceeds to ask Sweet where he learned that which leads into Sweet telling his life story to Naruto. Sweet explains how he is the son of an army medic father and native American mother who belonged to the Arapho tribe. He goes on to explain how he grew up around the Arapho medicine men before how he was drafted into the army half-way through medical school.

It was at this time that Cookie comes back with more food and offers it up but is politely declined by the group who then proceed to secretly dumping their leftovers into the campfire after he leaves resulting in a small explosion.

A little while later the group is setting up their tents and getting ready for bed. As they are doing this Audrey looks at Naruto and asks what his grandfather was like since she never met him. Naruto smiles fondly at this and goes on to explain what Old Man Thatch was like. He even tells her about a time when they went camping together which gets a chuckle from her.

Naruto then asks Audrey how she came to be the chief mechanic of the expedition. She goes on to explain how her dad wanted sons one to take over the family machine shop, and the other to be a boxing champion. However he got Audrey and her sister and when her dad retired she took his spot on the team. She goes on to explain how she is saving her money to open up another machine shop with her father. She then adds in that her sister is 24-0 with a shot at the boxing championship soon.

Naruto sees Mrs. Packard walking by and asks if she forget her pajamas to which she states she sleeps in the nude. Naruto raises and eyebrow at this and looks to sweet when he tosses a blindfold at him stating he will want it as Mrs. Packarad sleep walks. Naruto visibly pales hearing this and then listens Vinny tell how he came from a family of florists but after an explosion that should have killed him didn't he took it as a sign that he was meant to be an explosives expert.

After this the group turn in for the night however they are unaware that the three figures that have been following them slip into camp. One of the figures sneaks over to Naruto's tent and goes through his bag for a bit before pulling out the picture of Naruto and old man Thatch. The figure looks at the picture for a few moments before quickly putting it back and running off when it notices movement in the tent.

Naruto groggily emerges from the tent with a flashlight and some toilet paper before making his way a little ways off from the camp. He sets the toilet paper on a rock and puts the flashlight under his chin as he begins to fiddle with his pants. However he unknowingly shines the light up at the conical rock that is now barely glowing. From the rock a few small glowing insects emerge and fly down toward him. He absentmindedly swats at a few of them before one lands on his toilet paper and bursts into flames setting it on fire.

Naruto jumps back a little seeing this and curses "What the hell?" before a look of realization dawns on his face as a swarm of the insects emerge from the rock and fly towards the camp setting it on fire. Naruto curses seeing this and yells "FIRE!" repeatedly trying to wake everyone up.

Inside of his tent Rourke looks at the clock before scowling "I am going to kill that kid" he grumbles before looking out his tent and is about to tell Naruto go back to bed when he sees the camp ablaze.

Helga runs out and orders people to get some water however Rourke yells "No time! Get us into those caves move it move it move it!" as everyone runs to the vehicles and begins driving towards the bridge. Audrey who is in the back of one of the trucks sees Naruto running in front of a truck that is on fire and yells "Naruto jump! Right Now!" as he does and the truck explodes behind him as he lands in the back with her.

The convoy begins crossing the bridge with the digger in the lead however one of the fuel trucks is on fire and explodes sending deadly shrapnel flying. Naruto seeing this turns his back to the explosion and pulls Audrey to his chest to protect her from the shrapnel. He ends taking a sliver of metal in his right side and coughing up some blood onto Audrey's overalls in the process. However the force of the truck exploding had damaged the bridge as it had just started crossing it. This results in the bridge begging to crack and crumble at that end before ultimately falling down into the pit below. The explosion had also loosened the conical rock on the ceiling which fell landing in front of the digger.

The whole bridge then begins to fall apart as the vehicles begin crashing into one another as they slide down what is left of the bridge towards the dark abyss below. Naruto holds Audrey tight to his chest to protect her as they crash one final time in the dark abyss.

End Chapter 5

Quick End Note: Now I am sorry for the lack of dialogue in this chapter but I was having a really hard time with how to handle the Travel Montage. Furthermore near the end of the chapter I was getting tired and wanted to finish this chapter which resulted in basically a summary of everything past the final camp scene.

Now that the travel montage is done and they are practically at Atlantis I can assure you that the dialogue and other stuff will be back to normal starting next chapter. I state that starting next chapter the diverges from what happens in the movie will be begin to show more prevalently.

Finally the next story I will be updating is my Total Drama Maelstrom story so look forward to that. I also have a new and VERY IMPORTANT poll up regarding it so please be sure to vote.