"Ow, my head."

Obito sat up, massaging his scalp as he looked around him. He expected to see the cave he was in before he blacked out.

This wasn't it.

All around him were the shattered remains of buildings, looking like someone dropped a million explosive kunai on the place. Standing up, Obito carefully walked down what used to be a village square, taking in all of the destruction.

"Where am I?" he asked out loud, "and where is everyone?"

He stopped abruptly as a large figure marched out of the broken shell of a store, holding a large object in it's hands. "HEY!" Obito shouted, waving his hands in the air. The figure stopped, doing an about face to look at Obito, revealing a metal face with glowing red eyes. It raised the object it was holding and fired at him.

"What the-!" Obito gasped, rolling behind a large boulder as bullets rebounded of it's surface, spattering his face with stone fragments. "Oh, you picked the wrong day, mister", he growled, pulling out exploding tags.

The machine clomped over to where he was hiding and looked around in time to see his target lunging at him. The machine grabbed the boy by the throat and began to squeeze when, in a puff of smoke, the boy was replaced by a log wrapped in tags. The explosion consumed the metal soldier in a ball of flame, causing Obito to shield his eyes from the glare, but when he looked, he only saw smoke.

He pumped his fist in the air, sitting down while admiring his handiwork." Oh yeah! See ya s-", he stopped as he watched the machine emerge from the crater unscathed. The steel abomination took a step forward… and was crushed by a falling car.

Obito watched as a young man walked out, pulled out a gun, and shot the machine in the head, causing it's lights to go turned to the ninja and offered a hand.

"Come with me if you want to live."

"Who are you?" Obito asked

"John Conner" he answered