Aqua Cola from Mortis Terra
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Walking their way around the halls of the Ring of Fire was definitely unsettling, given who things weren't so lit, and it was an unknown land of danger for the 2 blondes.
Regardless, neither were ready to lose their nerve yet as they continued to trudge through in order to find the exit to the place.
"Hey Naruto… any closer… to finding an exit" asked a still groggy Yang, "None yet" said Naruto as he kept one eye on Yang and another on any potential threats ahead of them.
Luckily they've yet to ran into anyone imposing to their escape as he soon reached a 2 way corner either going left or right.
"Where do you think we should go" asked Naruto to Yang, "Well… since I lost my… left arm here… let's go right" said Yang in order to crack a half assed joke as Naruto continued to drag her along.
Eventually at the end of their long walk, they were faced with a large twin metal doors as they began to push through it to see that their path choice lead them to a small guarded slave sorting room.
"Hey, who the hell are you 2" demanded one of the guards to which the 4 remaining guards came to arms and began to rush Naruto and Yang.
"Toss me towards your left" exclaimed Yang, "Got it" shouted Naruto as he yeeted Yang forward, except this time she had a small knife in her right hand as she used her shoulder to knock the guard down before stabbing him a good 3 times in the side, just as a different guard came up ready to swing down a piece of 2x4 covered with sharp razors down on Yang.
Rolling out of the way, the guard wound up clubbing his own associate in the chest as Yang was barely trying to sit up.
Once the guard had managed to pull out the bludgeoning bladed weapon from his associates chest, he readied to swing it down Yang's head, who decided to roll over and stabbed her small knife first in the guards foot before pulling it out and stabbing it in the back of his calf, before she went and cut through, causing the guard to fall over and howl in pain.
Naruto mean while pulled out a small chain and tossed it over hand towards the guards face, fazing him for a quick second, before he ran up to deliver a straight kick to his knee, causing the guard to fall over and dropping his weapon.
Picking up the piece of pipe, Naruto took a batting stance as another guard came rushing at him with a small ball peen hammer as they began to raise it over their head.
In a nick of time, Naruto swung his pipe and split the side of the guards head open before looking down to the still pain guard where he brought the pipe down over his head.
Needless to say their actions got them the praise and cheers of the slaves as Naruto and Yang got back to their feet and continued to march their way forward, where they finally entered the heart of the ring of fire.
Swimming through a sea of tortured slaves forced to run this facility, Naruto and Yang kept their heads down low in case of them running into guards patrolling the area, while also trying to not causing attention to anyone watching over in the only watch tower.
Speaking of, Orochimaru had gotten up from his chair along with lady Salem, as she was just as pale skinned as Orochimaru, except her veins were popping from her around her body as she carried with her various IV bags strapped around her body as all she wore was a tattered thin black dress, her hair long and white kept in a high bun decorated with various hair pin accessories.
"Hmm, it seems we have some prisoners attempting their escape" said Salem, "They matter not, what matters right now is that we bring forth the young Uchiha bastard and use him as leverage to execute Itachi" said Orochimaru as he picked up the intercom mic.
"Sakura, wherever you are, acquire Sasuke immediately and bring him to the entrance" ordered Orochimaru before Salem put a hand on his shoulder.
"Think rationally my love, should we allow those 2 prisoners their chance to escape who knows what could happen" said Salem as Orochimaru set his sights on her, to try and stop him.
"Allow me dear" said Salem taking the intercom mic from his hand before placing it down before ringing a buzzer next to her chair.
"Everything alright my Lady and Lord" asked Hazel, "Hazel, please be a dear and take care of a pair of scabs we have roaming around the Ring of Fire freely, they must be punished" said Salem.
"Dead or alive, just say the word" said Hazel, "I'll leave that up to you" said Salem with a smile before Hazel made his way outside the door and took out a syringe from within his shirt.
Taking the needle, he injected it within his right arm as he felt a sudden rush of rage as the veins in his arms began to pulsate, before all feelings subsided upon his high reaching his peak.
Snorting in response to how good he felt, Hazel made his way down stairs and towards one of the many entrances to the ring of fire as he searched high and low for Naruto and Yang.
"Show yourselves and come here, and I promise you both you shall live a little longer" shouted Hazel as Naruto and Yang were not that far from him.
"You don't think he's talking about us" whispered Naruto as they hid behind the slaves working the Ring of Fire, "Shut up" whispered back Yang only for their cover to be blown when Hazel spotted them.
"There you are" growled Hazel as he began to approach them menacingly as he went as far as shoving and knocking slaves over to apprehend Naruto and Yang.
Elsewhere
As Naruto and Yang were now fleeing for their lives, Sasuke was busy focusing on escaping the Ring of Fire, which to his accordance was going pretty damn well.
While he did had a gun, he much rather cause little attention towards himself as much as possible, henceforth he was going beast mode with a couple of large knives he managed to pilfer off a few guards.
"Tell me where you keep the damn armory and auto shop here you tongue biter" said Sasuke as he pressed his knife into the neck of a guard, who merely responded by hissing at him.
In a swift motion, Sasuke slit the guards throat open, before tossing their body to the ground.
Continuing on his pursuit to leave the Ring of Fire, he walked the halls till he came up a stair way before he was startled by misfired gunshots.
"I figured something was going on after Lord Orochimaru had called in his apprentice and got no response from the poor girl, guess my intuition was right" said the Marshal as he held a 9 ring revolver in his hand.
"You can tell your Lord that his apprentice is fine, but also he could go hump a damn feral dog" spat Sasuke as he hid behind the corner of the wall.
"Trust me, I don't think highly of Lord Orochimaru even before he wasted this much resources and effort to get your brother over here, and for what to kill him" said the Marshal.
"Then why serve him, if you aid me in my escape, I assure you that my brother will reward you handsomely" said Sasuke, "Sorry, but loyalty is no match for power, and my loyalty is with Lady Salem, even if she chooses to remain loyal by the side of some has been organic mechanic with a god complex" said the Marshal.
"Than a pity you are to die here today alongside your lady and lord" said Sasuke as he had already equipped himself with the handgun and fired 2 blind shots at the Marshal who hid behind the upper stairs, giving Sasuke a chance to ascend the stairs further below the Ring of Fire.
Unfortunately it lead Sasuke only to 2 stories down where he found out the floor was flooded but too his chance regardless.
Entering through the door, it was a place where pumps were all over the place along with a large presence of Limbo Walkers just minding their own business.
Trudging his way throw the knee deep flooded floor, it was only a matter of time before the Marshal caught up with Sasuke as he lit up a flare and held it high in one hand and his revolver in the other.
"Don't even bother trying to escape unless you know how to swim, cause at the end of the tunnel is nothing but an even larger pit where we're pumping fresh Aqua Cola from the damn Mortis Terra" shouted the Marshal as he continued his pursuit to capture Sasuke.
Eventually, by the time the Marshal did catch up, he was already at the end of the road since he was but only 10 feet away from the large pit that was flooding and flowing with water that was within this place.
"Where the hell did that little devil go" said the Marshal as he approached the giant hole in the floor with caution as he began to lower his flare down to get a better view.
And did the Marshal caught an interesting view of Sasuke holding his breath as he gripped onto one of the larger pumps about 5 feet deep in the water.
"No way" said the Marshal in disbelief as Sasuke began to climb his way back up as the Marshal began to fire away at Sasuke, not realizing that bullets plus water equals indefinite inaccuracy with any gun.
So it all played out in Sasuke's favor as he submerged from the water and slashed his leg with a knife, causing the Marshal to drop his flare and miss fire his last bullet.
Pulling on the Marshals leg, Sasuke managed to throw the man on his back, and began to drag himself onto the Marshal as they both proceeded to wrestle in the water.
Eventually Sasuke got the upper and forced his weight over on the Marshal and dunked his head in the water and held him there for a few good minutes.
Any grip the Marshal would try to grab easily slipped from his wet hands, and standing up was but impossible as Sasuke wasn't above putting his leg on the Marshals bad leg.
Nope, it was a simple game of waiting it out before Sasuke was successful in putting an end to the Marshal as he choked out his last breath, before Sasuke went and kicked him into the indoor abyss.
Not fully satisfied, Sasuke went and messed with any to everyone of the machines to force the pumps into overdrive as he intended to flood this place before he escaped.
With Naruto and Yang
Hazel was relentless and merciless as slaves were pushed aside or even killed in his way as he hunted down after Naruto and Yang, who were surprised how the man wouldn't flinch or show any signs of slowing down, no matter how many times they hit or stabbed him.
"Out of my way!" yelled Hazel as he grabbed a slave by their fused restraints and tossed them into the Ring of Fire as their screams of agony can be heard.
"Take this you son of a bitch" shouted Yang as she brought her small knife out to stab Hazel in the side of his stomach, but the man didn't so much as hissed in pain.
Instead he back handed Yang in the face with his fist, knocking her to the ground.
"Hey!" shouted Naruto as he swung his pipe over into the man's face that he met head on, before grabbing the pipe and pulling it and Naruto closer, before he tighten his hold around Naruto's neck.
Lifting him up with one, he bent down and began to pick Yang up be her hair and began to lift them up and bring them towards the Ring of Fire.
"You can both burn in hell for all I care" growled Hazel as Naruto was trying to break himself free from the man's grip as Yang began to slash widely at Hazel, before undoing his shirt to reveal his stash of syringes filled with his need and will to his strength.
Seeing this as her chance to turn the tables around, Yang went and cut herself free by snipping a small portion of her hair that Hazel had on hair before she fell on her ass.
"Alright you asshole, you're about to pay the ultimate price of forcing me to cut my hair" said Yang as Hazel looked down at her and the small clumps he had on hand, before he effortlessly tossed Naruto aside as he nearly rolled into the Ring of Fire as he grabbed onto the railing on time as he finally looked down to see how and why the place got its name.
Below him was industrial size generators that were improvised out of scraps and what not that literally set them all on fire, as the fire burns high and with ire still.
As Naruto began to climb his way up, Yang charged forward ready to stab Hazel in the heart, but the man merely had to deliver straight punch to her face, before knocking Yang down and disarming her.
Getting over on her, Hazel began to wrap his hands over Yang's neck, ready to strangle her from there, but Naruto got back up in time and threw himself on top of Hazel where he tried to choke hold him, but instead played an awkward game of rodeo, resulting in him sending his chems flying and a few landing on top of Yang.
Grabbing 2 of the syringes, Yang removed the cap off of both of them and stabbed them with Hazel's chest before injecting the contents, just as he got Naruto off his back.
Within seconds Hazel was brought to his knee's as his heart was racing way faster than he could handle as his eyes were blood shot and his feeling and control of anything was starting to fear, except for his racing heart, causing him to panic more.
"Gaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh" screamed Hazel as he wanted to end this feelingless feeling, and cease the fear that control his heart, as he began to grip onto his chest and started to move around aimlessly until he wound up falling to his own death within the Ring of Fire itself.
"You alright" asked Yang as she offered her hand to Naruto, "Yeah, I'm good, you" asked Naruto as he took her hand and got back on her feet.
"I could be better, but at least my headache is gone" smiled Yang, "Right, let's leave than" said Naruto as they exited where Hazel had entered.
Unknown to them, only one other person remained vigilant as he was watching everything that was happening through the monitors.
"Hm, never thought I see the day where the Ring of Fire won't burn anymore" said Kabuto as he leaned back on his chair as but only a few feet away from him was Yang's prosthetic hand.
"A shame too, given how this was one of the last few prewar technologies ever collaborated with the legendary organic mechanic, and prosthetic black smith" said Kabuto as he had no use for it.
"Oh well, might as well give it back and then some" said Kabuto as he was in the Ring of Fire's main treasure room that contained pristine pre-war weapons and technology long forgotten and damaged.
"Yeah and then some" said Kabuto as he began to pick up a duffle bag and filled it with a little bit of everything, since today marks the end of the Ring of Fire.
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