Team Z Chapter 124: Coola's Armored Squadron!, a Dragon Ball Z + Naruto Crossover fanfic

A/N: Hello, everyone. Sorry, it has been 7 months since last time I posted. As you know what was going on in the world, it has been going on a lot lately. If you're worried so much about me, I reassured you don't have to worry about me. I was not affected by the COVID-19 or anything. In fact, I've been avoiding them and practicing social distance in last 7 months. Good thing I'm ambivert, which means I have no problem staying in the house all days or have no problem hanging out with them, but sometimes I do feel like I need to go out, or I do feel like I need to go back home. I am not going to risk myself enough to contact with the COVID-19. Besides, I have asthma, so I don't think it's good for me to go out so often, except shopping for foods anyways. That and I made sure to wear my mask often when going out.

Reasons why I don't update chapters. Well, the usual. Distracted too much, I guess. Actually, more than the usual. Normally, I update every 3-4 months, thanks to my ADHD issue. But the whole world shut down to prevent the coronavirus from spreading anywhere, and of course, I don't think it worked out anyways. So I'm bit depressed because I love to watch sports, and they were also shut down. Even when they come back, fans are not allowed to go there. So yeah, I was not in mood to write the story. Also, I was so busy with the college stuff (lately online) and I had to focus on getting a driver's license. Yes, I'm 27 years old. About 11 years late. Now I've gotten a license and I have more free time now. So yeah, hence it took 7 months to update another chapter. Again, I apologize for making you wait so long.

I hope all is with you :D.

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z or Naruto! Now enjoy my chapter!

Coola Saga

Chapter 124: Coola's Armored Squadron!

Age 763, December 1- Market District, Konohagakure, Land of Fire, Element- With Bulma

Ever since Bulma fired the Ki gun that restored Sakura's power, she had been running and running for who knew how long she had been doing that. There were enemies anywhere no matter where she was, she could not seem to stay out of their sights.

BOOM!

That explosion nearly caught her, as it knocked her off her feet. "AHHH!" Bulma screamed, falling onto the ground. Although she was injured, at least it was not hurt. She tried to get up, only to find that her ankle was tweaked. "Ouch!" But she knew that she could not waste any more time to nurse her ankle, she had to run away. She began limping away.

She regretted a lot of things she had done. 'Why did I go along with Gohan and Kuririn to Planet Element? I thought it was for the vacation! I should have known everywhere they go, there's always a threat!'

The intense battle between Coola's men and Konohagakure shinobi had come around for so long since Coola and his men invaded Konohagakure. While it may seem like it lasted forever, the death toll had heightened drastically on both sides. Even though Konohagakure shinobi had odds numbers against Coola, they had tough time defeating Coola's men, as seeing that almost every of them are superior to low Jounin-level shinobi.

According to the database in Konohagakure, it was said that the population of Konoha was around 80,000 people (60,000 civilians and 20,000 soldiers) that resides in this village. Coola's soldiers must be estimated around 5,000 at the time of the invasion. Given how numbers were diminished the longer the battle had going on, the population of people from each side must be around 5,000 people total right now. Five hundred remaining soldiers from Coola's forces and four thousand, five hundred remaining soldiers from Konoha continued to fight each other to death.

That math came off on top of Bulma's head. She had done math on how much Konoha lost their people versus how much Coola's forces lost their soldiers. Compared to Coola's forces, Konoha soldiers had faced a lot of deaths more than them.

Bulma wanted to go with the civilians to evacuation sites, but she knew not even the evacuation site could save them from being killed. Coola's men probably found them and killed them all.

She was so terrified not too long ago. These Coola's men gave no mercy at any cost. They would kill everyone, no matter what age, and even children. And all animals. Old people, disabled people, and etc. They did not care. They absolutely showed no remorse towards them! They just enjoyed killing them on the order of Coola!

'THEY ARE A FULL OF MONSTERS!' thought Bulma.

"Oh, such an easy prey I've found!" Bulma froze when she heard a sinister voice. She looked up at the direction of the voice it came from. His enemy was floating in the mid-air above her.

It was a frog-alien who wore a scouter that appeared to be the same species as Guure. The frog-alien laughed upon finding her. "A power of level 4.5?! What kind of weakling Elementian are you?! That's what I call it a golden opportunity! That should not be a problem for me to deal with someone with the likes of your power level!"

Bulma gulped. She had not felt that scared since she was running away from Brute together with Inari. She managed to sneak away without anyone's notice. Now she had been spotted for a first time since that incident. She tried to step back, only for her to stumble and fell to her buttocks.

"HAHAHA!" The frog-alien laughed. "It's no use! You can't run away from me!"

The frog-alien opened his mouth very wide open enough for his tongue to stick out. However, the tongue was not just a normal like every person had. Instead, the point end of the tongue was as sharp as the sword itself.

"What?!" Bulma cried, as she hurriedly crawled backward, hoping to run away, but to no avail. That would be the end of her life if she allowed the tongue to pierce her body. It would be all over for her. But she could not afford to die right now. She was much needed here if anyone could count on her to pilot the spaceship. That, and she was too young to die, after all.

"DIE!" The frog-alien protracted his sharp tongue sword-like towards the blue-haired woman. She quickly shut her eyes, as she ducked her head down.

Nothing happened…

Her eyes opened a bit to take a sneak peek only to find that the Jounin male in a flak jacket cut off the top of the tongue off with his kunai, as the tongue flew off and embedded into the tree, nearly pierced through it.

'That was so close.' Had no one saved her, Bulma would be done in by this dangerous tongue. She never thought she would be so terrified of a mere tongue. That tree was the proof that it could have killed her if it was not for that Jounin's intervention.

"You little-!" The frog-alien growled at the Jounin, who then grabbed his tongue and held it tightly afterward.

"Go! Run!" The Jounin looked over his shoulder at Bulma and demanded. "I will hold him off until you're out of their sight!"

"Thank you!" Bulma showed her gratitude towards her savior before she got up and began running away, despite having a sprained ankle.

Once Bulma had gone a far distance, the Jounin looked up at the frog-alien, who struggled to escape his tongue out of his grip. "Just between me and you, she's worth a bang!" He finished with a smirk across his lips, and then licked a bit of his own lips.

"HAHA!" The frog-alien immediately laughed in response. "You wouldn't save her if she was just a fugly woman, you piece of shit, perverted scum!"

"Oh, please say that. You don't know me. I'm a gentleman. I will save every woman even if she was an extremely ugly." The jounin scoffed, as he proceeded to weave several signs with just a single hand. "I just find this woman very attractive. If given a chance, I'd bang her, no question. Though she's Earthling, she's as attractive as almost every woman here on this planet."

The scouter just picked up the reading on the Jounin's power level. Once the frog-alien learned of his power level, he erupted with a laughter. "Only 100?! I can't believe you gave me a scare for a bit, considering your level of confidence. But I see that you're weakest than most ninjas I've maimed and killed!" He pointed his thumb at himself, smirking. "My power level is 250! There's no way you can beat me!"

After the Jounin completed his sequences of hand sings with a single hand, he gently placed his hand on the long tongue that he held it with his other hand. "It's not all about the power level, you know. I am weakest Jounin in this village. However…"

Before the frog-alien could taunt him furthermore, he suddenly felt overwhelmed by the pressure somehow. He picked up the reading on the Jounin with the scouter once again. For some reason, it still read his power level as 100.

"W-What is this?!" The frog-alien started to sweat so much more on his forehead. Why was he overwhelmed all of the sudden? "Your power level has not changed at all! Why?!"

The jounin's lips turned into a smirk. "If it was not for my intelligence and my Kekkei Genkai, I would not be given a rank of Jounin. I've helped leading so many battles to victory because of me."

"What do you mean?" The frog-alien scowled, very annoyed that the jounin did not give an answer immediately. "What is your Kekkei Genkai?!"

"After I completed my jutsu, all I have to do is to touch the living body, their power level would decrease by the third of their power level."

"WHAT?! The third of my power level?! That means…"

"That's right." The jounin chuckled. He pointed his finger at his opponent. "You said your power level is 250, right? Let's do the math. 250 divided by 3. How much power level do you have right now?"

The frog-alien scowled. "I don't really know the math, but I believe it's lower than your power level, isn't it?"

The jounin nodded. "Correct. 250 divided by 3 equals 83.33 power level. So your power level is 83.33! That's a lot, isn't it?"

The frog-alien widened his eyes in shock. "I-Impossible! It can't be that my power level has drastically dropped that much! You're just bluffing!"

"Heh…" The jounin chuckled. "Let's put that to test, shall we?"

"SHUT UP!" The frog-alien screamed in rage, as he retracted his tongue, which also brought the jounin along towards him. "Cut the bullshit out! I have a power level of 250 and you have a power level of 100! If my math is correct, 250 is more than 100, isn't it?! YOU HAVE NO CHANCE OF DEFEATING ME!"

While on way towards the frog-alien, the jounin drew the kunai from his pouch up in front of his face. "By the way, this must be the biggest mistake move of your life. You literally brought me to you without even breaking a sweat here. I didn't even need to use my strength to jump towards you. So you have my thank for saving the amount of my Chakra!"

"What?!" cried the frog-alien in shock. In a blink of eyes, the jounin already slice his kunai through his neck, opening up the wound on the neck, as the frog-alien bled out and collapsed to the ground from the mid-air.

"Too bad." As the jounin began to pull down towards the gravity, he looked down at the dead frog-alien and smirked. "If you were not too cocky to begin with, you probably would finish me off easily."

Unbeknownst to him, there was a huge muscular alien behind him suddenly grabbed his head and then began to squeeze it between his head, which was more enough to make him scream very loudly. "Feel the wrath of my revenge when you killed my brother! IT IS UNFORGIVABLE!"

"S-s-stoooop!" The jounin cried in the pain and begged for the mercy, but his words fell on deaf ears, as a brute frog-alien continued to squeeze his head.

"Too bad... The frog-alien laughed sadistically. "…so bad… bye-bye!" It was an eye for eye. There was no such as mercy in his family. If any one of his family members were to be killed, then there must be some payback! "Off with your head!"

In a mere second, the jounin's head was squeezed until there was nothing left of it, as if the fruit was squeezed into a juice. After that, he dropped the headless body off, and then searched for his next victim. From the look of his face, he really enjoyed the current scenario. Once he found his next victim, his eyes just became crazed and immediately ahead for his target.

Somewhere, hiding in the forest, Bulma witnessed the whole scene about how the jounin managed to kill the cocky frog-alien, and then… that brother of his just merciless squeezing the jounin's head into smithereens.

She covered her mouth with a fear and was very disgusted how much gore she had to witness. There was too many corpse throwing around in this battlefield. 'I must escape and find the shelter for myself! I am going to throw up if I don't…' She had seen something like this before when there was a terror of King Piccolo back on Earth. But… on this planet, this one was a lot worse than what she had witnessed in the past.

There was not a single event where she had seen a lot worse than what she had witnessed right now.

Not even Pilaf, along with Mai and Shu, who wanted to collect Dragon Balls in order to become Emperor and rule the world. Not Red Ribbon Army whose commander wanted to rule the world with their power and fears, plus collecting Dragon Balls, and threatening every civilian who dared to oppose them. Not even King Piccolo who wanted to turn Earth into a lawless planet and seek for world domination. Neither did Piccolo Jr.

Not even Saiyans who invaded the Earth and had slain several of allies (Yamucha, Tenshinhan, Chaozu, and Piccolo). Not even Freeza and his goons who wiped out the Namekians just because he wanted to collect all Dragon Balls in order to wish himself a immortal. Perhaps that was because she never witnessed what Freeza and his goons did.

But this time… she never thought she would run into such horrifying scenes multiple times! Every person who protected her had been killed, and she saw all of them. It all started with Inari who died to protect her, so she could give Ki back to Sakura with that modification gun.

Her tears began to fall off from her eyes, but she knew that she could not afford to hide there forever. They could find her at any time. Despite being injured in her ankle, she managed to run away very hurriedly. Once she ran away very far, far away, she began to sob where no one could hear her right now.

'Why did I agree to go with Kuririn and Gohan?!' Bulma sniffed, still running away. 'If I knew something like this would happen, I wouldn't have gone there.'

Of course, they lied to her about going on a vacation. She should have suspected that something was up from the beginning, but her stupidity just got in the way because she was very angry with Yamucha because of his cheating. She found out that he was a player. He already dated several women until she found out and already broke up with him.

More importantly, she must run away for her life. There was nothing she could do, except hoping for Naruto and others to save the world. 'I'm counting on you guys, Naruto and Sasuke!'

Destroyed Hokage's Mansion- Fayre and Kakashi vs Coola

A sweat that began to drop from the top of the forehead heavily, Fayre's body was filled with all anxiety. "N-No… I-It's not p-possible!" He was too petrified so much that he could not even move anything, let alone his eyes!

Although, as perturbed as Kakashi was, he could tell that they were too strong, but he had to wonder why Fayre was so scared of them, even though there was a boss right there.

Fayre gritted his teeth, still quivering in fear. 'They arrived at last! But they're earlier than my original estimation! They should be here about few days from today! Why today, of all?!'

Kakashi managed to compose himself before asking his current partner without taking his eyes off from newcomers. "W-Who are they?"

"They're…" Fayre scowled, as he clenched his fists, cursing himself for underestimating the time of their arrival. "… Coola's Armored Squadron!"

Coola folded his hands behind his back and watched as a trio of his top henchmen made their way out of their space pods. "At last, you have arrived."

A tall, brown reptilian humanoid set himself into a weird pose, and threw a barrage of chops through the air before finishing off with lifting both of his elbows up until they're at his shoulders and placed his one hand on the top of his other hand. "Neizu!"

A large, green-skinned humanoid alien with long black hair started off with the L pose where he stood on one leg before spinning around on the tip of his toe, and then finished his pose by striking his hand upward and his another hand placed its fist on his side. "Dore!"

Finally, a turquoise humanoid alien with short blond hair that was curled to the left stood firmly as he looked up at the sky and then threw his punches upward before crouching down, while kneeling down on one leg and his another leg stretched out side, and his fist placed on the ground. "Sauza!"

"We're the Coola's Armored Spaudron!" yelled the trio.

"Damn!" Fayre's eyes darkened, as he shot his former comrades a glare. "They're here earlier than I originally estimated!"

"Heh…" Sauza turned his head towards their former Elementian comrade. "Typically, Fye… You always estimate the time of the arrival too early. Your estimation is just as bad as the worm's brain." Fayre scowled at these words. "It happens every time… Be grateful we're here to save your ass. Otherwise… it would have been too late."

Neizu placed his hand on Sauza's shoulder as he nodded in agreement. "That's right! Like he said, if your estimation is exactly accurate, you all would be already dead. Except our Lord Coola-sama, of course!" He titled his head towards Coola, who stood proudly with the smug smirk on his face. "After all, no weaklings can stand up to Coola and us! Heck, this planet would be probably gone before we get a chance to land here."

"We probably won't be able to do the killing and savor their bloods," Dore chimed in. "Good thing we are here early. Now I will enjoy shedding the blood of these Elementians." He grinned, displaying his teeth, as he licked around his lips in amusements.

"Damn you!" Fayre scowled, as he clenched his fists in rage. He always had hated them for so long since he first set his sights on them. He always knew that they were up to no good. Coola employed them under him, because they were most loyalist, and they shall perform whatever their Lord commands them to.

Kakashi had kept himself silence for a while since these newcomers arrived. He could not help but to notice that Fayre was trembling with his whole body in fear. He had to wonder if they spell the bad news for the Element. How could they protect the planet from the likes of them, especially Coola? 'This is not good.' That was all his thought.

Coola was bad enough, but to bring his top henchmen in, whose all are stronger than Paradox and Guure were bad enough. That could mean that Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura would have to work harder to bring them down, then their boss.

"Damn! We might have to change our strategy, Kakashi." Fayre said in a whisper tone, in which Kakashi had heard him. 'If we take them on by ourselves, I don't think I can handle one on three with a little support to back me up. Kakashi is not strong enough to take them on, even if he finds a way to use his Mangekyo Sharingan.'

A while ago, Fayre told Kakashi to use the Mangekyo Sharingan, despite the claim that Kakashi forgot how to use it again. That was Fayre's plan to use his secret weapon to defeat Coola. That only works if they were going one on one. But now, with the arrival of these forces, it no longer worked.

All he could do was to pray that it would shift the favor to them.

"It's good of you to finally come here, Sauza." Coola finally spoke, as his words just drew his loyalists' attention towards him. "I have a mission for you."

"Sir, before you lay out the mission for me, may I request that you debrief me of the recent events?" Sauza titled his head and glanced towards Fayre, as his lips twitched into a smirk. "Like Fayre over there, siding with his fellow Elementian. I wonder why?"

Coola turned his head towards Fayre. "He betrayed me. He had aligned his side with Elementians."

"Oh?" Sauza was not surprised, not even in the slightest. Then he smirked. "It is as we excepted, my Lord."

"Indeed," agreed Coola. "Before we depart for Planet Element, I knew this was the day that he had made the decision to betray me. Not only that he betrayed me, he betrayed all of Planet Trade Organization."

Fayre scowled. He knew that none of them were surprised. It was no secret that he had been plotting to use his revenge on Coola and the Planet Trade Organization. Growing up as a member of Planet Trade Organization, ruled by Freeza (whose was passed on over by King Cold) for over twenty years, he had been filling his heart with the hatred towards the Planet Trade Organization, especially Coola.

'To think my decades long plan would be thwarted by Coola's Armored Squadron! DAMN IT ALL!' Fayre cursed in his thought.

Dore felt his bloodthirsty forth, as he stepped forward and punched his other palm, grinning excitedly. "I assume our mission is to kill Fayre and his little buddy, right?" He could not contain his excitement as he stared down at the trembling Fayre. 'For a long time, I always wanted to rip your body apart. You are a nuisance to me. I always wondered why Coola took you in. But I am so glad that I will finally tear you apart, Fayre!"

His excitement only stopped for the moment when Coola spoke a mere word which shocked everyone else. "No."

Dore raised his puzzled eyebrows, as he stared at Coola. "My Lord?"

Sauza was getting the sense that their mission was not to kill Fayre, but to kill someone else. "What is our mission, Coola-sama?"

"You are to not kill Fayre, but…" Coola pointed his finger at a certain direction, in which Coola's Armored Squadron looked to. "There's several above average battle powers at the battlefield, in which a group may or may not killed Paradox and Guure. Their Ki have diminished suddenly. I want you to investigate the area and kill the people who are responsible for it." He turned his head towards his top henchmen. "Among them, there is a higher battle power, even higher than Fayre's hidden power. I believe you will find it very intriguing."

"A battle power higher even than Fayre's hidden power?" Sauza then smirked, getting pretty much ideas what Coola was trying to point out. "Surely, you don't mean…?"

"Correct." Coola quickly answered, slowly moving his pupils towards Fayre and Kakashi to gauge their reaction. "That battle power may belong to either Naruto or Sasuke."

Their reactions were rather exceptional, especially Kakashi. Kakashi already shook in fear, now more worried about his students, while Fayre seemingly harbored his rage that built up in his chest.

"Understood!" Sauza nodded in excitement along with his comrades. "With that, we shall take our leave."

"All right! Even though someone has that high battle power, they should be a piece of cake!" said Neizu.

Dore grinned. "I like it. The more challenge, the better."

"Let's go!" commanded Sauza. Afterward, they dashed out of the battlefield and onward the next battlefield for their mission.

Fayre watched Coola's Armored Squadron flying away and sighed before looking down at Kakashi's worry face. "I hope you know that Naruto and Sasuke are capable of handling this kind of situation on their own, unlike what you usually handle."

Kakashi nodded. "Yeah. I suppose we are going to fight this Coola guy." He pulled his hitai-ate up to reveal his Sharingan.

Fayre stared into Kakashi's regular Sharingan eyes. 'He hasn't unlocked the Mangekyo Sharingan yet. Looks like I must stall Coola for a long period of time until he found a way to remember how to unlock it.' He shook his head, returning his sight on Coola. "No, you're not going to fight him. Remember his battle power is way beyond than we can possibly imagine. You sit back. I will handle him on my own."

Kakashi widened his eyes in shock. "You can't go off fighting him alone!"

"I know. Right now, I'm too weak to take him on alone. However, if I were to use both of my Ki Syringe, just maybe… maybe I can take him on! It's slightly possibility, but it might be not enough. I don't know how much battle power he has. That'd be nice if I somehow surpass him, but I highly doubt it." Fayre gritted his teeth and clenched his fists so hard that it drew bloods from his palm. "Even so! I vow to take my revenge against him! I am still going to fight him and hope for the best that I might defeat him! Even with a chance I have!"

Kakashi sighed. "Fine. What do you propose we should do?"

Coola folded his arms with a curious smirk on his face. 'What are they planning? No matter what plan they came up with, they have no chance of beating me. Still, it should be interesting to see how they do it.'

Hokage District (Wasteland)- With Sasuke and Others

There was a huge shock on (Outer) Sakura's face with the tears running down her cheeks from her eyes. She fell to her knees next to a corpse—who happened to be Ino—and began to sob. "I'm so sorry, Ino. I don't know what to say, for you to give me a chance to cheat my death. Only if I arrived here early, I might have saved you! You deserve to live over me, but…" Tears dripped onto the ground, but not till Kuririn placed his hand on her shoulder.

"Sakura…" muttered Kuririn softly.

Sakura glanced over her shoulder at Kuririn. "Why did she sacrifice her life, so that I can live? I'm nothing but a useless who is waiting to be saved again and again." She looked down at her best friend. "She's even more useful than I am, and she deserved it more than I am."

"Sakura…" Kuririn tried to say something, but she could not, for she did not know what to say. Gohan was also at loss of words. He, too, did not know what to say.

"I AM SO WEAKLING! SO USELESS!" screamed Sakura. "No matter how much I work hard to get even stronger, I am getting tossed around like a doll! Meanwhile, Hinata is more useful than me, even though there's a difference in battle powers between us!"

"Hey, that's not true!" cried Hinata.

"That's true!" Sakura barked. "Look at me when I'm even trying, I quickly get beaten up as soon as I arrive."

"But you defeated Guure." Gohan pointed out.

"That's not enough!" Sakura frowned, and stared at her clenched hands. "I can't even beat Paradox. He's toying around with me. Just think about what Guure would have done to me if he had not been weakened. Without your help, I would have been dead. But still… it should have been me instead of Ino."

"SHUT UP!" The voice yelled, which drew everyone's attention to Sasuke, who was on lookout for upcoming enemies. "You're still…" He turned his eyes around and glared at Sakura. "…so annoying."

Hinata tried to retort to yell at him, but his glare had frozen her in place, as if she was so terrifying. She then realized he had something to say to Sakura, so she remained silence. The same with the rest of Team Z fighters.

Sakura widened her eyes in shock. "Sasuke…" She had a flashback to when she tried to ask him out and he responded back by saying 'You're so annoying…'. She had realized that Sasuke was right. 'Am I annoying? Even to Naruto? Is that how everyone views me as?'

"Everyone here is fighting for their life, even sacrificing their life to protect bigger than they always have protected. Element." Sasuke stared up at the sky and took a deep breathe before sighing. "It is something they never have fought so hard to protect before in their life. They are desperate to protect Element, and yet they failed, but it was worth for every penny of blood they have shed, so they can give their life for someone who is undeserving of death. It always has been their hometown, but it never has been their planet. What they fight to protect is not like what we have always fought to protect. There's even occasion when we must fight to protect a place that is not even ours! They never have fight to protect the whole life before in their whole life! It was always the village!

"You are looking at the biggest picture, but you never noticed a tiny part in that picture. It is so easy to miss, even if you are looking hard at the picture. That something is particularly important that I have concluded after I died."

Sasuke turned his head towards the stunned Sakura again. "When I'm fighting to protect the planet… I perish that unwanted thought that lingers around in my head during the midst of the battle. Because it lingered around in my head, I was not fighting to protect the planet…" His expression turned sorrow. "…I was thinking about… him."

He stopped talking afterward and turned his eyes away from her again, looking ahead and waiting for upcoming opponents.

'W-What…?' Sakura raised her eyebrows. She was trying to understand what he meant. That was the first time that he had talked so much, but it appeared that he was not happy with her, giving how her latest actions were. Was Sasuke thinking about Naruto because he always wanted to surpass Naruto again? Or was it that brother of his? What was the message that Sasuke was trying to tell her?

Shikamaru smirked after he realized what Sasuke was trying to send a message to her. He would leave up to her to figure out, and he was sure that Kuririn and Gohan came to the same conclusion as him. Hinata already figured out quickly, and Shino was smart, so he understood what Sasuke said. "Sakura…" Her confused eyes turned to him, pleading him to help her. "Ino did not give her life up, so you can mourn her until all your tears have dried out. She gave her life up, so you can continue to fight alongside your partners, because you are value above and all to us, and you are so much needed here. No matter what you may claim, you are as useful as Naruto and Sasuke, in the eyes of Elementians, that is. We are just sacrificial pawns to carry out the necessary plans."

He stood up and left Ino's side, as he was ready to walk away with his hands into his pockets.

"B-But…" Shikamaru stopped, as Sakura tried to spoke up more, but she did not know what to say.

"If what you are saying about the legend of Dragon Balls is true, I can wager that we all have no problem sacrificing our life, even if an enemy we're going to face is way out of our league." Shikamaru glanced over his shoulder and smiled at her. "Should you all survive and defeated Coola, bring us back to life with that Dragon Balls you always mention, would you?"

"Agreed, Shikamaru." Hinata smiled and crouched down next to Sakura and placed her hand on her shoulder. "Don't think for a second that you are a useless. Neither are you a coward. In fact, no one here is useless. Everyone has their roles, even you. We need you at your full strength, so you can kick their asses! Even you may have put up with Coola. Who knows? That is why Ino chose you over herself, because she knew if she survives and you survive, you will be at half strength instead of full strength! That could cause a bit of problems. She fully knew that, so she gave up her life, for you to survive! You are a useful! Remember that!"

"Although I died twice…" Kuririn chuckled nervously, fidgeting his fingers together. "I don't mind dying for third time. I'm already used to death, after all."

"Mom will give Dad and me a fit for sure, but I've been preparing to die, if it means to protect this planet, as I always have been." Gohan stood up proudly. Kuririn smiled down at him. The kid always had a courage since he learned his lesson back on Earth against the Saiyans.

Shino pressed his sunglasses, as he nodded in agreement with Shikamaru.

"You can see that you are not the only one who has prepared to sacrifice to protect the planet." Hinata stood up, as she offered Sakura a helping hand with a soft smile. "We have prepared for this for a month as soon as we have heard of Coola. To this day, no matter what, even if it costs our life, we will make sure that Element is intact! As others have died before us, they also prepared to die, also! But to ensure that the planet is very well intact, Naruto and Sasuke, including us, need your help!"

Finally, Sakura had no longer mourning Ino, as she understood why Ino sacrificed her life. He grabbed Hinata's hand and replied with a huge grin. "Yeah!"

Hinata pulled Sakura up, as her smile transformed into a grin. "Let's protect this planet and die together!"

Before they could have a time to celebrate Sakura's senses, Sasuke cried with a warning to all. They snapped their eyes open and quickly looked over at Sasuke. "They're here!"

Just as he could even have a time to react even with his active Sharingan eyes, he was greeted by a fist right into the cheek, knocking away. It was a simple surprise attack that he could have enough Ki to stop the knockback, but it delivered more damage than he thought. He thought he had time to pick up guards, but whoever just punched him must be the fastest out of the group.

A turquoise man with the blonde hair flew towards him and threw a barrage of punches and kicks, but luckily, Sasuke had the time to pick up his guards this time. This guy was fast, but a bit slower than the previous one. But he was unable to fight back, since the blonde man continued to pressure on him.

He wanted to converse his Ki as much as he wanted to, but the longer he allowed an opponent to pressure on him, the better chance his opponent had a chance to strike him. He powered himself up by rocketing himself upward into the sky, but it was his big mistake.

The frog-like brown alien proceeded to slap right in the face before Sasuke could even blink an eye and knocked him away. His eyes slowly opened, but when he looked back behind him, there was large, green-skinned humanoid alien who floated there waiting for him.

'So, there's three of them,' concluded Sasuke. There was not enough time to stop his knockback, as it was going too fast. Nothing he could do but to let the green-skinned alien make his upcoming attack.

Dore kicked him upward, where Sauza appeared above him and double axe handled him back to Dore who grabbed him by the top of his head with one hand, as if he was the can.

"ARGHHHH!" Sasuke screamed in the pain, as the Dore attempted to crush his head in a vice-crip and violently shook him back and forth.

"SASUKE!" cried Sakura.

Dore laughed, continuing to squeeze Sasuke's head for every second. "You're just another weakling person who looks smaller than me and not to mention your power level is lower than mine. You are nothing but a can! I could even crush a can with no efforts! You should be no different!"

Desperately attempt to remove the vice grip off his head, but to no avail, Sasuke could feel that the blood rising through his head. This monster had resisted everything he tried to do, even attempted to raise his Ki. That still would not budge that monster at all. He started to run out of consciousness the longer an enemy kept applying pressure to his head.

Just as he was about to black out, Gohan blindsided punched Dore right in the face away, forcing him to release Sasuke. "Stop hurt my friend!" The hybrid Saiyan snarled, glaring at all of his enemies.

Sakura leapt and caught Sasuke before he could fall to the ground. Then she set him down on the ground, as she placed her hands on his body.

"Sakura…" Sasuke muttered still in the pain, as he watched Gohan and enemies floating in the sky. "Whoever they are, their Ki is a lot higher than we expected. Their powers are far apart from Paradox and Guure."

"Don't worry. Hang on and do not move, Sasuke." Her hands began to glow green. That amazed Sasuke and others on the battlefield. That was the first time that they had seen Sakura healing. How much did Tsunade teach her in only a month?

"My healing skill is not strong enough. Fortunately, your damages are just a little, so it's enough for me to heal them." Sakura explained. "We don't have a Senzu Bean to spare anymore. Just be careful and do not let them hit you too hard again. After all, we do not have Dende here."

Sasuke stared at her and waited for her to heal him completely. Once his body is healed completely and with her permission, he climbed up to his feet and looked up at Coola's Armored Squadron and Gohan in the sky. "I can't promise that. However, I will try to hold them off and try to minimize the damages to us as much as I can." He looked at her again. "I know you sensed another Ki."

"Ki?"

"Yeah. The Ki in the space. It flares up before these guys arrived. Whoever the Ki was, I'm certain that the Ki is much higher than these guys. It's just that someone suppressed that Ki greatly."

Sakura widened her eyes and looked up at the sky. "You're right. The Ki flared up there few minutes ago. Who could it be?"

"I don't know." Sasuke shook his head. "I can't even tell if that Ki is going to be our ally or our enemy. Judging by these guys, I don't think they knew about it. Either way, I don't think everyone here, except you and me, know that there is another Ki on way here. Anyway, I'm going back there and fight."

Sakura looked back at her former crush and nodded with the smile. "Just be careful, though."

Just then, Coola's Armored Squadron and Gohan descended to the ground, with Kuririn joined him by his side. A little while later, Sasuke and Sakura joined them there.

"Ha!" Neizu barked laughing, on the right side of Sauza. "Just four of you against three of us? Do you think twerps like you can easily outmatched us by the quantity? It must be nice that you have quantity over us, but you, of all people, should know that quality always prevails over quantity! Oh, and you can have some extra helpings if you want to! Still, seven against three will have the same result!"

Sasuke scowled. 'Damn! Just when I thought we weed threats out, there is more of them coming here.'

"Speaking of quantity, where do you suppose Paradox and Guure are?" Sauza called out to Team Z. "According to Coola, these pathetic men must have been killed by your hands. Their corpses should be around here somewhere."

That comment caused the rest of Team Z frozen. They wondered if Coola had an ability to sense the Ki. As previously evidenced by Paradox, he explained that he had sensed the coming of Sakura for a while before. So that should prove that everyone part of Coola's soldiers must have acquired the ability to sense Ki, especially the higher ranks in that force.

Dore took a glance at specific direction and just noticed that someone stood frozen over there and apparently stared blank for a long period of time. He nudged Sauza's shoulder to get his attention and pointed over the yonder. "Look who we found! Is that adorable little prick we see there?" Sauza and Neizu brought their eyes towards the ponder that Dore was pointing out at.

"Oh, that's Paradox!" Neizu stated obviously. "What the hell is he doing there? If he's still alive, he should be fighting them. Unless he's too scared, that is?"

Neizu barked up laughing again after the statement he just made, and Dore imitated him along with it.

When Sauza looked at Sasuke and Paradox, back and forth, it did not take a long to puzzle together, as to why Paradox was in this state like that. "I heard a little story about an Uchiha. Fayre once told us that the Sharingan is incredible and powerful eyes that can trap you into an illusion, which often was not realized immediately upon receiving it. In other words, Paradox is currently under the illusion, or 'genjutsu' is what Elementians call it. Is that right, Sasuke?"

"Damn." Sasuke growled. "How much did that Fayre guy run his mouth?"

He had met him once and just discovered that Fayre was an Uchiha like him. He used to think that there was only two Uchiha survivors. These Uchiha survivors were Sasuke and Itachi. One being spared at the Uchiha Compound, and other one betrayed not only the clan, but also the village. When he found out that there was another Uchiha survivor who was working for the guy that associated with the Planet Trade Organization, he was so furious. What Fayre did was a lot worse than his own brother. Not only that Fayre betrayed the clan nor the village, but the entire planet!

'I will find him and I will kill him!' That was all Sasuke could think of, right now. Just think about what Fayre did working under Coola disgusted him. Knowing Planet Trade Organization, Fayre must have partaken in the genocide of the planets, also.

"Oh, well. What can we expect from this fool falling into the illusion?" Neizu shrugged his shoulders very nonchalantly. "That's what this fool gets for dragging every battles endlessly! Guure warned him so often and he did not listen. But to get trapped in an illusion, that's what I call it a pathetic!"

"Aren't you relieved that Guure is dead? Considering how often you were compared to Guure, just because you're both frogs." Dore teased him a little bit, sporting a smirk on his face.

"It's coincidence that there are two different planets of frog. Except Guure's species live on lands, though. On my planet, there's nothing but a full of water. But yeah, I'm so rejoiced that this impatient pathetic died."

"Anyhow…" Sauza smirked, as he looked at their opponents. "We must complete our mission. Coola just placed a kill order on your heads. I am sure you know what it means. We are here to perform our tasks and required to kill you guys."

Upon hearing the word out of Sauza's threatening words, Sasuke, Sakura, Gohan, and Kuririn stiffened their muscles and immediately shifted into their stances. Hinata, Shikamaru, and even Shino were frozen. Despite knowing that they heard that they were going to be killed so often in their lifetime, it was just that words out of Sauza's mouth were so menacing, like that was the malicious intention. Like he pretty much guaranteed them they would.

"Because I'm in a generous mood, allow us to introduce ourselves to you, so you will know the name of the forces that sends you to the afterlife," said Sauza.

"We're the Coola's Armored Spaudron!" yelled the trio.

The members of Team Z were looking at their poses very dumbfoundedly. The way how Coola's Armored Squadron pulled their pose, it just reminded the first four of Team Z of something else.

"Whaaat?" cried Kuririn in shock. "Their ridiculous poses… They are just like Ginyu Special Squadron!"

"Yeah. Their poses look funny and stupid." Gohan pointed out, and then added. "And uncool."

Kuririn could not help but to contain his chuckle after that little remark of Gohan. "Agreed. I never understood why they thought it is cool. They look like clowns, yet we should not underestimate them. Their power is too… unimaginable."

"We learned our lesson when we fought Ghurd, didn't we?" Sakura reminded them. "We got our ass kicked by Ginyu Special Squadron back on Namek. If it was not for Goku to save the day, we all would be dead. Just be careful and keep minimize the damage done to us this time."

Gohan nodded. "Right."

Kuririn grinned towards Sakura, wholeheartedly agreed with her. "Yeah! Let's give all out with our power!" He shifted his focus back on Coola's Armored Squadron.

Sakura refused to lose her sight on them for a second, while getting into her thought. 'By the way, when will you be here, Naruto-kun? We could use you here right about now.'

The sole survivor of the Uchiha clan was not about to let the history to repeat. Last time they faced against the Ginyu Special Squadron, they were treated as if they were the rag doll and they were tossed around the whole fight. Not to mention it was too pain to witness the brutal abuse against Gohan.

'I absolutely refuse to let a group with ridiculous poses like them to terrorize us once again!' Sasuke thought, his fists clenched, as the anger continued to build up inside his chest.

After Coola's Armored Squadron completed their poses, Sauza spoke up once again, which appeared to be the leader of the squadron to them. "Another reason why I am in a generous mood, instead of having all out wars between us, I have decided that each of us should have a one-on-one matchup. You know, to entertain us from watching the fight. We are more eager to find out how strong you are. However, it is up to you to use the meaning of your teamwork against us as you see fit. But that doesn't mean we will do the same."

Neizu stepped forward, as he stretched his head and cackled each of his knuckles to pop them off in preparation for the upcoming fight. "He is right, no matter how much you want to deny. We simply do not care how more of you guys coming at one of us, there is no stopping each of us! Even if there is a hundred of you, you guys are still no match for us! To provide an example, I shall be your first opponent. Pick your champion and bring them to fight me. Or whatever you want to do."

There was a murmur among these four Team Z fighters, except Sasuke who must have glared at Coola's Armored Squadron and ignored his allies completely. Apparently, there was some agreement between them before Sakura turned to Sasuke. "Sasuke… I believe this is good opportunity to stall the time until we get some help arrive. Four of us can fight that frog guy together and show him what our teamwork is made of."

"No!" Sasuke scowled, starting Sakura, Kuririn, and Gohan. "I don't need your help. I will…" he clenched his fist. He immediately activated his Sharingan again, as it spun around into his eyes. "…handle him alone."

"Are you kidding me?!" Sakura cried. Sasuke shook his head in a respond. "Without our help, you have no chance of winning against that frog guy. Our chances of survival are better if four of us are going up against him together. And maybe even we have a chance of winning against him."

"She's right." Kuririn agreed. "To say you are an arrogant foolish enough to take a strong enemy like him alone would be probably an understatement. Your chance of survival is next to slim if you choose to face him alone."

"Vegeta thought he could take on Freeza alone, and you already saw what happened to him." Gohan pointed out, reminding him of the incident back on Planet Namek. After the battle on the Planet Namek, he, along with others, later learned that Sasuke watched the fight when he was in Other World. "Together, we can show them the power of our teamwork."

Annoyance, Sasuke turned his glare towards them. "Do. Not. Compare. Me. To. Vegeta… ever again!" He took several steps forward, and then he stopped to say few words to them. "And you will just get in my way if you team up with me."

Sakura's eyes were widened, very baffling at the words Sasuke just uttered to them. 'Did he just…' Her feeling just got hurt so much that her eyes started to flow with tears again. '…call us a useless?' But she was so sure that his words were more directly towards her, much less than Kuririn and Gohan. 'Am I really a useless?'

Recalling the words of Shikamaru, Kuririn, Gohan, and Hinata, they just let her know that she was not a useless. But was that what they truly said? Did they say that in attempt to make her just feeling better? Because from the point of her view, she believed that Sasuke thought of her as a useless. Since Sasuke probably believed that, it must mean that the rest of her friends probably thought of her that way.

"The champion will be me." Sasuke announced, as he shifted into his usual stance, aiming to make sure that his eyes were kept on Neizu all the time. Given how these forces introduced themselves, he figured that Neizu might the be fastest out of three. He felt bad for what choice of words he used against them. He basically just called them a useless, especially Sakura. Not that he did not want to fight together with them, but it was that he already formed a strategy on his mind. 'Strategically, if I take him on alone, even though the outcome of the fight already have been decided, that will only stall them for the time being rather than teaming up together against him because that could have been worse. If we were to team up against him, we would be wiped out in such a short time.'

Neizu scoffed. "Perhaps you should heed their words. You probably would have a better chance of fighting against me. Although I doubt you can defeat me, anyways."

"Shut up!" hissed Sasuke.

"Right. If you say so." Neizu lifted his face into an evil grin, and all of the sudden, he disappeared out of thin air. Just before Sasuke realized what he had gotten himself into, he found himself frozen when he felt the presence behind him. "Less talking, more action, right?"

The moment Neizu was right behind him, Sasuke immediately turned around and made an attempt to raise an arm, despite knowing that there was not enough time to parry an upcoming attack. He received a kick right to the side of the cheek, which knocked him away from his opponent. But he was fast enough to stop the knockback and landed on his feet safely.

An avenger rubbed his cheek, his eyes widened, and his teeth gritted in shock, staring at Neizu. 'Not even with my Sharingan?! It's not enough to track his movement with this level of Sharingan. I knew he's fast, but…' His fists clenched. 'His speed is way beyond above than I thought. Damn it! Well, given the difference between our Ki, it shouldn't be surprised that the level of my Sharingan won't track any of his movement. I don't know why I'm even surprised. But still…'

Standing firmly with the arms crossed, Neizu held his head back with the loud laughter. "What's the matter! Is it so obvious that I'm faster than you, even so much that your little cute eyes can't catch my speed."

"Like this…" The voice suddenly whispered right into his ears.

"What?!" Sasuke quickly turned around, only to find nobody there. He quickly scoured the area for the whereabout of Neizu. "Where did he go?!" He could not afford to drop his guard right now. Otherwise, he would not be able to stall for the time being until either Naruto or unknown ki from the space arrived.

"What are you looking at?" Sasuke's body were tensed up at the voice of Neizu. "I'm right here the whole time."

Returning the glance at the original position where Neizu stood before, the frog man did not change his posture once, and he did not even once move. The young avenger wondered if his opponent did not profoundly move even a muscle once. Perhaps he must have imagined due to his heightened level of anxiety. This voice…

It felt so real, though. He could swear that Neizu was indeed behind him at that moment. He was so sure he heard his voice right behind him. It could not be possibly hallucination, right?

"Or at least that's my speed." Neizu announced, smirking very proudly. "My speed may have told you otherwise. I may not be faster than Butta who happened to be the fastest in the universe himself, but I'm still fast enough to make the tea and drink, romancing some women, beating the final boss on video game, or whatsoever and still come back here before you even realize I was gone the whole time."

Sasuke scowled, so much shaking in his body. As much as he did not want to admit, but he was scared a little. What good would his Sharingan do if he could not detect a single movement with the speed like that? 'If he wants to, he could have killed me right behind me just now. Considering the fact that my Sharingan eyes couldn't pick up on his speed, I'm going to be toss around.'

He took a good glance down beneath his feet, it turned out that there was a footprint besides his feet. His sweat began to drop down from his forehead, clenching his fists and gritting his fists. 'He really did move. How can I stop him with that speed? How can I be on par against him? What should I do?'

"No way!" flabbergasted Sakura. "Did you see that? The way he just did that?"

Gohan nodded. "He went behind him. I saw that, too. That was only for a moment."

"I don't think Sasuke could have seen him when he was turning." Kuririn said. "By the time Sasuke could have caught him in the sight, that Neizu guy went back to his previous position!"

Far from behind the trio, Shikamaru stood next to Shino and Hinata. They, too, were shocked by the speed. Now they have more reasons to be concerned about this battle.

"The way he's boasting about his own speed, it's safe to assume he was not exaggerating. He might actually do these stuffs," said Shikamaru.

"Just when I thought there was some limits to speed…" Hinata just could not believe that she was surprised every time she saw someone doing the impossible stuffs that she could never imagine. Guure demonstrated his speed. Then Sasuke showed up, and he was most certainly faster than Guure. Now Neizu showed off his speed. It seemed like speed had no limit, but unlimited speed. "…someone like him just keep popped up. How are we supposed to keep up with them?"

Shino cleared his throat before speaking up. "It's similar to power level, you keep pushing to break the limit and go beyond."

From the other side, afar from the battlefield, Sauza had enjoyed the reaction from the rest of his enemies. "That's so typical of Neizu. That's so like him to brag about his speed." The leader chuckled, only that the hulk-like appearance alien could heard him.

"Yeah!" Dore grinned. "But how long does he intend to toy with him? I want to have fun with them already!"

"Patience." Sauza reassured without leaving his eyes off the fight between Sasuke and Neizu. He certainly never wanted to miss every single of moment from the fight. "You will get your turn after him. What good would a captain do if he were to be very selfish? That's why I allow you guys to have fun with them. Just as always."

Dore punched his palm, as he cackled and popped every single of his knuckles. "I know, I know. It is just that it has been since I have my fun. Being stuck inside the space pod for almost a couple of weeks made me feel itch more."

"Feeling's mutual, Dore," agreed Sauza.

Without a single word to utter, right off the bat, a simple flick of finger had sent a huge gust of winds over and suddenly knocked Sasuke off his feet. Somehow, several drops of blood came off his nose.

"Argh!" Sasuke screamed so loud enough that he fell to his knees and covered his knees in angsty. How could this be? In a blink of an eye, he did not see that Neizu made a move. In fact, in one moment, Neizu just stood there, still smirking and folding his arms, and then next moment, before he even realized it, the gust of wind suddenly knocked him off.

As soon as he opened his eyes, still kneeling on both knees, Neizu was casually laying down on the floor right before his face. The frog man waved his hand at him very ecstatically. "What's the matter? Do you need your mommy's boo-boo for that little bruise on your nose?"

His heart stopped as soon as Sasuke heard a single word out of Neizu's mouth. His entire body started to shake so violently and the feeling inside him started to boil up the heat all the way from the bottom of his chest to his head. He clenched his nails into his both hands so hard enough to draw bloods out of his palms.

HOW DARE HE?!

There was an incident that he did not want to remember, which was the massacre of his clan that night. That incident triggered the memory of his own parents being murdered by his elder brother, whom he looked up to when he was a child, over all again and again.

And Neizu was making fun of his Mom.

Teeth clenched in hard, attempt to contain rage, as it continued to build up in the chest. "S-S-S…" His body was shaking too much anywhere, as there could be an outburst of rage at any given time.

"Oh." Neizu turned his lips into a huge evil grin. "Did I hurt your little feeling?"

"SHUUUUUT UP!" With a sudden outburst of anger, Sasuke brought his fist down towards the face of Neizu, only to miss when the frog man simply tiled his head, which led him to punch the hole in the ground right by the hair next to him.

Immediately right after, while staying still on the floor, Neizu threw his leg overhead and landed the top of his boot right on the temple of young ninja. The sole survivor of Uchiha Clan stumbled over backward. However, the frog man was not going to let Sasuke to fall and land on his back. First, he kind of pulled a half kip up, but never went through with the move completely and he turned a kip up into a backflip. During the backflip motion, he landed a kick on the bottom of his opponent's chin.

Sasuke was hurled through the sky across the ground beneath. As he opened his eyes, he saw the frog man casually flying above him at the same speed as his knockback. Apparently, it was not only that Neizu had an ability to be one of the fastest in the universe, but he also had an ability to match the speed of another objects.

Neizu smirked down at the stunning Sasuke. "Never mind your mommy, I'm really disappointed in you. It is not that we had a choice in this matter when we are simply obeying Coola's command, but we were excited when we learned that you're the strongest of your group and not to mention you defeated either Guure or Paradox. You were supposed to give us a challenge, but it turns out that you're just a weakling like the rest."

Suddenly, the pain exploded in the back of Sasuke's head. He could feel the fist on the back of his head. He just realized that Neizu disappeared once again. Of course, with that punch, he was knocked away, but this time, going upward into the sky.

"SASUKE!" cried Sakura, while the rest of the group was concerned about Sasuke. Sauza and Dore simply chuckled, apparently enjoying the one-sided battle.

Despite feeling great pain in both side of his head, he began to strain his eyes carefully. 'Not yet… I need to focus. It's going to happen anytime now.'

A blur appeared in front of his own eyes. 'There it is!' His body tensed up with a bit of excitement, despite not able to see the clear vision of his enemy. Even though he was able to see the blur, the blur just knocked him away again and following by it, he carefully monitor the blur that followed him down and felt that it was a foot this time that kicked him down further to the ground. 'I think I'm getting the gist of it.'

Right before he hit the ground, Neizu waited for him the whole time and casually kicked him up back into the sky. Every time he was knocked around, the blur was beginning to become clearer. But it was not enough yet. He even tried to defend himself, and he still could not see what Neizu was doing. The attack continued to get through, as Sasuke continued to suffer the beating from the frog man. There was no luck on his side, as Neizu kept knocking him around.

Neizu knocked him down with the Double-Ax Handle. Sasuke concentrated most of Ki into his eyes, as he strained them and focused, carefully monitoring Neizu's movement. Though it was not full clear vision of Neizu, but it was a little remain of a blur and Neizu became transparency now.

Neizu began dashing towards him and delivered an axe kick on the top of Sasuke's head. Much to his surprise, Sasuke managed to block the kick! "What?!" He threw his punch around, but it was also blocked.

'I can see!' It was all Sasuke could think at this moment. An irritated frog man threw a flurry of punches and kicks. For every punches and kicks Neizu delivered, Sasuke suddenly could react to every single attack by just blocking and parrying them.

"What?" Sakura looked up at the Sasuke and Neizu fighting in the mid-air in a speechless. "Has his Sharingan ascended?" Gohan was just at loss of words as Sakura was right now. One moment, Sasuke struggled to defend, and now all of the sudden, he was able to defend.

After Kuririn took a good look at Sasuke for a while, he immediately noticed something in Sasuke's eyes. "No, look carefully. His Sharingan never ascended. It remained the same."

"But how?!" asked Sakura. "If his Sharingan never ascended, then how is he able to…?"

"I am not sure." The former Orin Monk stared at the fight between Sasuke and Neizu in an anticipation. "He must have used the Ki in order to enhance his Sharingan eyes. Or maybe he combined the ability to sense Ki along with the Sharingan. But it's most likely the former, as the latter is nearly impossible to do them simultaneously!"

Sakura could only pray that Sasuke could figure out how to beat Neizu, especially there was a huge gap of power levels between them. But still, she thought they should help Sasuke to defeat Coola's Armored Squadron. 'You just can't take him on alone!'

'What?! How is this possible?!' Neizu thought, still struggled to get past Sasuke's defense. He was so baffled to think that it was so possible for his opponent to be able to block/parry all of his attacks. 'No one can defend against me!'

'I can see! I can see!' Sasuke repeated that words into his thought, while continuing to block/parry all of his opponents' attack. Kuririn's theory was confirmed that Sasuke actually enhanced the Ki into his eyes, so he could see Neizu's movement even better. 'I can see! I can see!'

With the help of Ki-enhanced Sharingan eyes, he began to see the movement of his opponent clearly, where it could be slow-mo in his perspective.

There was an arm that swung towards him from his left side, he casually ducked down, as the arm missed over his head. Another arm swung towards him from his right side, and he also ducked down to dodge yet another attempted wildly punch. While ducking down, there was an upcoming kick towards his head, but he effortlessly deflected it away with his both hands and used Neizu's knees as his springboard, as he bounced over his head. At that moment, his eyes locked into the irritating eyes of the frog-man and then, Neizu tried to uppercut punch, but only to come through the afterimage of Sasuke.

"What?!" cried Neizu in shock.

Before he even realized it, Sasuke popped up in front of him and gave him a swift punch to the nose, as in a payback to him for what he did to the sole survivor earlier in the fight.

"Argh!" Neizu held his nose in the pain. After a while, he realized that the punch that Sasuke gave him made his nose bleed. He was in a quite shock for a while, as there were no words to describe that.

"What's the matter?" Sasuke gave him one of his signature smirk. "Do you need a boo-boo on your nose?"

Members of Team Z down on the ground were rather speechless. They did not expect from what they just saw that. Just before then, Neizu was toying around with Sasuke, but then, all of the sudden, the table was turned around.

"Amazing, Sasuke!" cheered Kuririn. "To channel the Ki into his Sharingan eyes proved to be quite useful, after all!"

Gohan nodded in agreement with his friend. "He might have been able to defeat the frog-man!"

Sauza and Dore remained standing still, as they were watching the battle up in the sky in amusement.

Dore could not help but to laugh. "I never expected this at all, but damn, our friend there is really out of his prime. He's really struggling there, huh?"

"Suppose you're right." Sauza chuckled, as he played along with Dore. "It might as well good time to scout someone new soldier. After all, Neizu is going to retire soon. That is, if he doesn't die here."

"Sasuke…" Sakura, on other hand, still had a bad feeling about it. Even though Sasuke eventually figured Neizu out, but she did not anticipate that it is going to last longer. Neizu might had another trick up his sleeves.

After overhearing several comments from spectators, he wiped the blood off his nose and glared down at a couple of groups. "Shut up!" That prompted Sauza and Dore to laugh at him.

Despite managing to land a hit on Neizu, Sasuke never found a confidence that he could beat Neizu, because somehow, deep down in his guts, that was just a pure luck. 'Something tells me that he's holding back for a while. No matter what happened, I can't afford to go off the trail. I just have to keep my guards up the whole time and keep myself awake and sustain through all upcoming damages. At any cost, I must buy us a time for Naruto or a source of Ki from the outer space to get here! Maybe I can dodge some of them thanks to my Ki-enhanced Sharingan.'

Once Neizu managed to calm down a little bit of rage before it could blow up, he chuckled in an annoyance and held up his threatening fist towards his current opponent. "I'd hate to admit it, but you're the first person to inflict so much harm on me besides Coola-sama, let alone drawing bloods from me! You're also the first opponent that I am forced to use my full power!"

"What?!" cried Kuririn.

"A full power?!" Gohan had to ask that question because he was not sure if he had heard him correctly. "Did he say he never used a full power until now?!"

"I knew it!" Sakura spoke up, which drew the attention from Gohan and Kuririn next to him. "When Sasuke landed a hit on him somehow, at that moment, I thought it was not right. Given how much that frog-man bragged about his speed the whole times, it was no way that he could be outmatched in a term of speed by someone who simply used eyes to be able to track all fast movements better, even with the aid of the Ki! In order to beat someone with that speed, you need to have a speed! Sasuke doesn't have it enough!"

Neizu smirked, as he closed his eyes. "In other words…" As soon as he quickly wide open his eyes, he vanished out of thin air. Before Sasuke even realized what was going on, the frog-man already had his fist into Sasuke's guts, and ended up causing Sasuke to spew out bloods out of his mouth. "I'm at a full speed!"

Destroyed Hokage's Mansion- Fayre and Kakashi vs Coola

Fayre and Kakashi already just had discussed the strategy on dealing with Coola. "You got it?" Fayre asked to make sure that Kakashi had understood all of the strategy that they both discussed, but knowing Kakashi, as a hardened shinobi, he probably already proceeded all strategy they discussed. Kakashi simply responded with a nod to acknowledge it.

Fayre gave him a little smile. "Good…" Then he walked on way to face Coola alone for a long await one-on-one battle between them in any moment. A little smile transformed into the scowl really fast, especially with a huge amount of hatred over the overlord tyrant in front of him. "Let's get over with it, shall we?"

Coola kept his arms folded and made a snicker a little bit. "Care to inquire me about your little strategy? I'm very curious about how that will work out?"

While keeping his eyes filled with hatred towards Coola, Fayre picked up a couple of syringes inside his pockets. "It has been so long time that I have every plan to overthrow you since you abducted me into your spaceship and took me off this planet. This moment is where I take all my revenge on you, not because you took me off the planet, but because you made me do all horrible things that I would never do that on Element! Your attempt to create an inhumane monster out of me had failed to do so, because I will never throw all of my morale value! Unless being forced by you, I will never stoop so low to the level the likes of you and your goons!"

He raised his hands with the syringe in each of them. "For the sake of my brother… for the sake of Rin… for the sake of Kakashi…" That comment just caught Kakashi off-guard. He never thought that Fayre would say it something like that. For decades, Fayre always have hated Kakashi even long before Obito was killed. It seemed like Fayre's perspective of Kakashi had changed somehow. "…for the sake of Konoha… and for the sake of Element… for the sake of all people that you have forced me to slaughter so mercilessly… and for the sake of the universe… I will do my utmost best to stop you and… also for the sake of my revenge and me…"

Fayre gritted his teeth and scrunched his face into a very furious with pure hatred eyes, glaring towards his most hated enemy of all time, Coola, before he stabbed his syringes into his own arms. As soon as he stick them into his own arms, his aura suddenly spiked up, causing the wind to bellow over the stunned Kakashi, who was forced to pull his arms up and tried his best to stay firmly on the ground.

However, Coola remained unfazed, as the unleashed aura continued to grow bigger and bigger that surrounded Fayre. A sudden power-up even formed the crater beneath him. The fragile of all destroyed building nearby began to float up. Even all corpses nearby, like Tsunade and Hirzuen's body, were thrown in the mix with them.

The dark blue liquid inside the syringe seemed to be sucked into the body of Fayre. The Sharingan eyes glowed from his eyes. The rocks from the ground levitated around him.

Kakashi had to bring his hands to his eyes, while focusing on using his Chakra as much as he could to not get thrown away, but he was baffled to witness such an event. 'What kind of power is that from those syringes?!'

The blue liquid from a couple of syringes had not been finished, but while still powering up, Fayre spoke most powerful four words so much that terrified even Kakashi. "…I WILL KILL YOU!"

To be continued…

A/N: And that's all, folks!

Vegeta: Arc Fatigue, really?!

Me: What are you talking about?

Vegeta: How long since you started Coola Saga? And look at how chapters you posted in one Saga! It has been soooo loooooong!

Me: Uh, I'm not sure. But don't worry, Coola Saga will be finally over soon.

Vegeta: Yeah, for another 100 chapters, maybe.

Me: Nah, but I'm sure I will finish Coola Saga soon. Maybe 20 chapters left?

Vegeta: That's still long!

Me: Is that a problem?

Vegeta: Yes... Considering how many days take you to update each chapter lately. I'm sure you will be very old man when you finish the Coola Saga.

Clone Jerry: Let's say if you go by this pace, Jenny.

Me: Stop calling me Jenny!

Clone Jerry: No, because it's hilarious.

Me: Damn you!

Clone Jerry: Anyways, if you go by this pace... 3 to 4 months pace each chapter, at least according to you. 3 months is about 90 days and 4 months is about 120 days. By doing the math, I'd go with 4 months pace... If you were to finish a chapter every 120 days, you'd finish all 20 chapters in 2,400 days. That would mean 79 months. 79 months would be equal to almost 6 and half years.

Me: Oh, shit. I can't wait that long. I would like to finish this Saga soon, but at least I won't be old man when I finished this saga by this pace.

Clone Jerry: Think about it. You're going to do Cell Saga, and all other future Sagas, plus few sequels. I assume it's going to take about 300 chapters to finish everything else. If you still go by 120 days pace, you'd finish all 300 chapters in 36,000 days.

Me: What?! 36,000 days. That means...

Clone Jerry: That's right. It would take 1,184 months. In other words, it would take about 98 and half years. You're 27, so I doubt you'd live long enough. And you'd lose a lot of readers.

Vegeta: (smirks) See?! You better finish Coola Saga faster

Me: Okay, okay... I'm going for one month pace then. If possible, 2 weeks pace! Let's goooo! (Begin writing Chapter 125)

Clone Jerry: That is, if COVID-19 doesn't take you.

Me: (laughs) COVID-19 only exists on Earth! COVID-19 can't catch us here in the outer space anyways! I will make sure to update chapter EVERY TWO-WEEKS TO MONTH!

(Earth Woman suddenly pops up out in our spaceship out of nowhere)

Earth Woman: Hello? Where am I?

Me: WHAT THE HELL?! WHY IS A WOMAN FROM EARTH HERE?!

Clone Jerry: Oh, my bad. I accidentally pressed the button.

Me: There's button that makes someone pop out out of thin airs something like that?! WHAT IF SHE HAS A COVID-19?!

Vegeta: KILL HER WITH A FIRE!

ME: YES! NO COVID-19 ALLOWS! KILL HER!

EARTH WOMAN: PLEASE NOT KILL ME!