Devil From The Heavens

Chapter 2: Emergence


Quick Note: Did a heavy rewrite of this chapter. More info at the bottom.


There were numerous possibilities for what they could encounter when the Hokage sent them out; this was not one of them. All around the squad of ANBU, writing looked as if it had been burned into every surface within the cavern and on the shattered sphere that took up residence in the center. A feat made more impressive by the fact that the gaping maw of earth they were standing in had an actual horizon.

"Eel, stay by the entrance and let no one though. Hare, look for any additional entrances. Eagle, you and I are going to see what we can scrounge up before anyone else gets here."

The three acknowledged him with a collective 'Hai!' before Eel and Hare went off to do their jobs.

Boar, the squad leader, looked over the room and sighed internally though nothing in his body language portrayed such thoughts. Their sensors had detected an intense burst of chakra, more of an explosion really due to the scale of said event, and the Godaime quickly dispatched them to investigate. It didn't help that it was in Yu No Kuni which meant that it was a possibility that Kumo had detected the chakra as well.

So this was supposed to be a quick in-and-out to gather some idea of what had happened here but anything comprehensive was simply not going to be the case given what they were dealing with.

"We must move quick. Kumo could be on us at anytime."

The two separated to what they believed would be the most relevant areas of study. Eagle went to a curiously worn down path while Boar investigated a strange opening in the rocks.

The ANBU captain did a cursory review of the immediate vicinity and noticed a pair of faint foot prints. Nothing else that suggested that whoever those prints belonged to left.

'Nothing says they walked in either.' He thought to himself as he noted that there was a suspicious lack of tracks in either direction from the entrance or otherwise. Boar moved forward and looked into the crevasse of the sphere. Beyond the entryway, the crack opened into an oddly defined hole.

The inside was as smooth as glass whereas the entry jagged like one would expect a cracked rock to be. Another thing to be noted.

An hour pass where the ANBU Captain along with Eagle investigated the scene with a scrutinous eye as possible before Eel perked up from the entrance. Despite how involved he was with a particularly readable seal, the movement was noticed by Boar.

The ANBU raised a fist and clicked his tongue which gained the attention of the rest of his squad. "I'm detecting rapidly moving chakra signatures." A pause. "Seven of them. I estimate them at 4 klicks out. Their behavior suggests we have not been detected."

Boar nodded. "Pack your things. We're leaving."


6 Hours Before

With a quick Kamui, the three men were teleported to Pain's tower, the self-proclaimed god's base of operations within the village of Amegakure.

Surprised, Konan turned from the balcony that overlooked the village. She had expected them to take longer.

The Angel of Ame looked the strange man that Pain and Madara brought with them over. While tall, he was smaller in stature than she expected. The strange, gold jewelry on his wrists and naked chest didn't do much to help impressions. Did he really have the power claimed in the Sage's tablet?

"Is this the new 'member' you spoke of?" She asked, wary of the stranger. She was nothing if not careful and his capabilities weren't exactly the most well documented. "Yes." Answered Madara as Nagato's Deva Path made his way to her side.

The Uchiha shot him a glance that was almost appraising in nature. "A simple looking one, isn't he?"

She didn't dignify the offhand insult with a response and instead looked up at the man's dull expression. Surprisingly enough, once she overlooked the odd attire, Konan thought he looked rather...normal. A welcome reprieve when considering the 'diversity' of the organization's members. It was then that she noticed the peculiar look of his eyes.

He was under genjutsu. "I take it he wasn't interested in joining?"

"I'm not taking chances with this one. A strong shinobi not joining us is an acceptable loss; he isn't." Madara made a gesture to Pain and the man walked over to Broly who knelt down.

The Deva Path put its hand to the man's back and the seal glew upon contact. Its edges snailed outwards ever so slightly but with the movement of the ink, the pressure in the room grew. The color of the Saiyan's skin brightened not unlike a corpse returning to life and he took a large breath.


Broly looked around his new prison in a daze; his near catatonic state broken by a shift in the room's light. His glow of his chains shifted, just slightly, to a familiar emerald and it was like finding a warm refuge in a blizzard.

He felt some of his strength return. The raven-haired man turned his head, neck aching from a lack of movement, and he inspected his arms. The chains around them were lit by a ghostly flame and that's when he knew that it was his essence returning to him.

He didn't know what as happening but there was no point in wasting time questioning it. The Saiyan pushed himself forward with all of his regained might. He didn't know how long it would last but his gut told him it wasn't going to be long. The empty void was filled with his roar of exertion as the chain grew taut from the force pulling on it. Dust flew off the pillars as Broly shifted directions and threw himself backward.

It was painful but the raven haired man forced his feet under him. With a gargantuan effort, he propelled himself against his bindings. The metal of his restraints ground into his skin like thick knives. It was enough to make most men crumble.

'Come on, come on, COME ON!'

Sweat poured down Broly's face like rain; his bestial growls erupted into a final scream of fury, fear, and loathing before the green disappeared.

With the flow of power cut off, he fell back exhausted. His lungs ached; each breath felt like the gasp one would take after nearly drowning. His heart hammered away at his chest.

The Saiyan let his head fall with grit teeth; they were toying with him. Letting him have hope where there was none to be found.

That doesn't feel like chakra.

Broly looked up once again; his soaked hair stuck to his face. There was a third one. It was a woman this time but she wore the same uniform as the other two. So this was some little club? They were all looking down at him. Like he was just their slave!

The one with the red eyes. It wasn't hard to see that he was the one pulling the strings. Once he was free, he would rip the man's eyes from his head and grind the rest of them into paste.

He will take his time cleansing this world and its history from the face of the galaxy. When everything was gone, only then would he be satisfied.


"That's enough."

The orange haired shinobi lifted his hand and the seal returned to its dormant state.

The Uchiha couldn't help but feel pleased. 'I've never felt power like this before...' The energy in the air could be tasted and it made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.

Konan focused on the stranger with an intensity she usually reserved for combat. "That doesn't feel like chakra."

Pain spoke up. "It's ki. A form of life force manipulation from the time of the Warring Clans."

"Ki?" The kunoichi furrowed her brow. "I vaguely remember reading about that when we were younger. It was mentioned in the occasional history book." She refocused her sharp gaze at the brainwashed man as he stood up. "Of course, like most things from the era, anything substantial about it has been lost to time."

"Though I do know that ki has the distinct advantage of not being chakra, so how are you controlling him?"

"Curious aren't you? Though I suppose there's no harm in letting you know." Madara pointed at his own forehead. "The seal on his head changes chakra applied to it into ki. It's not a perfect one to one conversion so some -" He paused as he looked for the right word. "-quirks are to be expected. It's because of this that I'm able to wield him like you see before you."

The Uchiha went and put a hand on the Saiyan's shoulder. "Now, if you'll excuse me, we'll just be a bit."

As quickly as the shinobi first appeared, he disappeared in the shadow of a Kamui.

A moment of silence passed before Konan looked at Pain. "I know you want to say something."

"We're so close, Konan." The Path glanced at Konan with a hint of something akin to content in its eyes.

She gazed at him in mild confusion. "What do you mean?"

"The Tailed Beasts are no longer needed; we have the ultimate weapon we had been seeking to create." Nagato's avatar looked out at the view overlooking their village. "The world will finally know true pain."

Konan was surprised to say the least. She was so focused on her suspicions that she neglected to think on what would happen if Broly lived up to expectations. The man was suppose to be able to reap entire worlds. A Hidden Village every now and then? Almost pitifully easy in the face of such overwhelming power.

She gave him a rare, albeit small, smile. Soon all the misery they had gone through in their lives would be worth it. "Yes, it will."


Despite satisfaction from a successful mission, Tsunade read the report from the ANBU with a furrowed brow. None of it seemed to make any sense.

There was nothing in any known record of a cavern this size existing anywhere yet there it was. Add on to that all of the cryptic seals everywhere and the evidence of flora that had gone extinct hundreds of years ago and the Hidden Leaf Village had quite the conundrum on its hands.

A puzzle that only yielded more questions once a possible solution was noted in a passage near the end of the report:

'Upon investigating the fissure, it was discovered that an impression was made near the center of the sphere. It was humanoid in shape from a cursory review though due to time constraints further investigation was not done to determine whether or not this was the case.'

So it was possible this whole thing was a prison. For one inmate.

It made some sense. They knew that sealing living beings away was a thing; Jinchurikis were a thing after all. This could have been the same thing on a mind-numbingly large scale. But how someone could have hidden such a thing from everyone for, potentially, centuries? And in such a large space? Not to mention what had warranted such extreme measures to keep something under such lock and key.

Then there was the question of where the hell did this prisoner go?

The only evidence that there was anyone else in the cavern before her ANBU were two sets of footprints right in front of the crack in the sphere. Nothing that showed someone entering or leaving.

She looked up from the papers at her fellow Sannin. "So what do you make of this, Jiraiya?"

"Other than the obvious?"

Tsunade scowled and the Toad Sage nervously cleared his throat. "All I can say is that I can't read the majority of the seals and the ones I can read are extremely complex."

The spymaster put a hand through his wild, white hair. "It would take me years to get anything close to this scale done."

"Well, at least we don't have to worry about a super gifted seal user then. Everything points to this being created centuries ago." The Hokage sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. It was too early for something so complicated.

Wait. She glanced out the corner of her eye. It was getting dark already?

"Still, if it took someone of this caliber..." Jiraiya gestured to the pictures of the cave's walls. "What does that say of what they spent all this effort containing?"

"Nothing good to say the least."

The Hokage decided they had spent enough time on the matter that day already. She had been studying it for hours before Jiraiya had even stepped foot in the village.

"So how's Naruto?"

The Toad Sage perked up. "Not the most subtle way to change a subject but I commend the effort."

"Shut the hell up and answer me."

Jiraiya snickered at how easily he riled up his former team mate. "The blond brat has been bouncing all over the place out of excitement. He's really missed the village."


A clearing near Shimogakure

The Kamui opened up and disappeared in an instant leaving behind the two men.

Madara breathed in the cool, crisp air of the snowy tundra around him. The village nearby was small, isolated, and with minimal forces. This was the perfect location for a quick test.

"This is Shimo." Started the Uchiha. While speaking had no practical applications in the moment, he knew that his subject was listening. "A rather pathetic excuse for a hidden village in the Land of Frost. Prove to me you are worth keeping around by destroying it."

Broly lifted his arm, his palm pointed at the village.

Everything around the two suddenly turned a deep green and the masked shinobi felt a subtle shock go through his system. The emerald around them collapsed as a light as intense as the sun grew in the palm of the Saiyan's hand.

Without warning, the orb of ki blasted away. The force of the blast leaving his hand created a gale force wind that buffeted them and the environment without mercy. Snow beneath the attack was vaporized instantaneously.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of lives were lost in a symphony of blinding light and burning sound. The dome of the explosion devoured every inch of the village like a starved animal. The Uchiha had to lift a hand to block the radiant sight from hurting his eyes.

The shock wave passed over Madara and Broly and lifted the former's robes though he paid no mind to it.

It was over in the snap of a finger.

The Uchiha scanned the small plain of glass that used to be Shimogakure and he found himself chuckling. 'So many paths to take with this power...'

There was something to be said of how absolute the destruction was. No rubble. No corpses. Just...nothing.

Before anything could be done with the Saiyan however, there was the question of properly controlling this weapon of his. His grasp on the alien's mind was merely good at best and tenuous at its worst. Were something to happen during a battle that could affect the link he had with Broly, the monster may fall out of his grasp.

And there goes the planet.

Of course, The Sage thought of such a possibility and put a kill switch on the raven haired man's chest. A simple touch of the seal from a Rinnegan wielder and all of his power would be instantly locked away.

There were two issues with such an arrangement.

The first was that there was no guarantee that they could activate it in time.

Secondly, and more importantly, he did not have the Rinnegan and the one man that did would look at Broly as the answer to his prayers. Nagato believed that they were gathering the Tailed Beasts to make the ultimate weapon. An objective made pointless by the appearance of the Saiyan.

What was to stop Akatsuki's figurehead from making the logical assumption that Broly was a suitable replacement? That just wouldn't do. The Tailed Beasts were vital to the Eye of the Moon plan which used a genjutsu which wouldn't work with ki.

Unless he can convince Nagato to continue with gathering the Biju, he'd have to harvest Nagato's eyes far earlier than anticipated. Konan won't like that so he'd have to eliminate her as well.

"You are both a blessing and a curse, my puppet." He muttered as the alien put his hand down. A ray of sunshine brought some warmth to his mask and the Uchiha looked up. The sky above them had been forced open to make way for the mushroom cloud that had bloomed in the moments following the massacre Broly had just committed.

"A blessing and a curse."


Author's Notes

So this is a bit of a soft reboot to the story. The previous version of this chapter was rather poor in that there was quite a bit that was pointless (the fight between Broly and the inhabitants of Shimo) or just confusing (How the mind control with Broly would work). In fact, I was confusing myself with how I wanted the dynamic between Obito and Broly to be.

So I've tightened the focus of the chapter which will make the rest of the story easier to write. If you've read the previous version of this and left a review, I'd be grateful if you took the time to let me know how this new one compares.

Please leave a review and let me know if the new version is an improvement or not!

Ent out.


Review Responses!

Note: Few review responses this time since the rewrite did render most of them moot.

nivlac: I like to keep pairings, or lack thereof, secret. Though if there is one, it would be someone close to his age so none of the Konoha 11. That's for sure.

Rosco Peeko Trane: While I won't give straight numbers, I can give you a quick comparison.

Power Levels

Broly (with no Ki): Chunin

Broly (in this chapter): 1/4 of the One-Tail.