Chapter 20: Avarice in Spades

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Warning: The following opening monologue contains spoilers pertaining to the Naruto manga as of chapters 599 to the current point reader discretion is advised.

Hidden deep underground sat a member of the Akatsuki wearing an orange spiral mask, with spiky black hair and a hole in the mask for the right eye to see through, he sat impatiently waiting for the day when the nine tailed Jinchuriki Naruto Uzumaki would return to the leaf village so the plan would resume. This Akatsuki's name was Tobi though admittedly that was an alias when he didn't want attention and would claim he was Madara Uchiha one of the founding fathers of Konoha when he did want attention but that too was also an alias what many didn't know was that he was really an Uchiha that many believed to have died during the third ninja war, one who had sacrificed himself for the sake of his team but now was fueled by hatred for everything around him including his old home, his name was Obito Uchiha. In the 23 years since the war Obito had committed numerous atrocities all for the sake of completing a plan that would ultimately make him the ruler of the world, crimes that included but were not limited to; Instigating the bloodline genocide in the Hidden Mist, manipulating an organization that had originally been created to bring about peace into a criminal organization bent on megalomania, unleashing the nine-tailed fox on the leaf, and indirectly murdering his teacher the Fourth Hokage, and his wife just to name a few.

"Why hasn't he come back yet?" Obito asked his spy Zetsu about Naruto.

"Well it could be that someone tipped him off about you or that Orochimaru is dead and now he's being trained to defend himself against you I don't know." Zetsu said which earned him a scowl from Obito.

"Well it doesn't matter all I've done from arranging Yahiko's death, to unleashing the nine-tails upon the leaf and putting the blame on my own clan is apart of the plan." Obito scowled as he remembered how many wrenches had been thrown in the works of his plan of creating an eternal Genjutsu using the moon as a Sharingan eye to ultimately take over the world, however the new variable of the rings of the lantern corps was something that troubled him how was he going to capture Naruto let alone hold him down long enough to extract the nine-tails from his body if he had an alternative power source however as he was contemplating about this a glow of orange of orange light zoomed around the room.

"Obito Uchiha of Sector 2814 you are mine!" The light screamed revealing a lantern that looked like a deformed bipedal warthog wearing an orange and black suit with an emblem of an circle being converged on diagonally by four small lines and a v shape at the top this creatures name was Lafreeze aka Agent Orange bearer of the light of Avarice.

"Who or what in the hell are you?" Obito asked the intruder who paid no interest in his question but rather in his eyes.

"Ooh bright red eyes, I WANT THEM!" Lafreeze Said as he pulled his out his ring and held his lantern close to his chest and then fired a beam of orange light that turned into various creatures of different shapes, species, and sizes which caught Obito and Zetsu off guard, as the apricot colored corps swarmed the two villains.

"GET THEM!" Lafreeze ordered as Zetsu and Obito were doing there best to dodge any attack.

"How is this possible?" Obito asked himself as he witnessed the orange corps descend upon him and his Zetsu army he had kept hidden underground.

"How you ask, it's simple; my light the orange light of greed can only have one master no more and no less any others who covet this light will have to either fight me to obtain it or I'll replicate them by devouring their flesh and store them into the rings database." Lafreeze said cackling like a lunatic as he ordered his corps to attack Obito but most of them just passed right through him like a ghost while Zetsu tried to sneak attack Lafreeze who saw it coming and trapped Zetsu in an orange link of unbreakable chains.

"Oh well I'll deal with you later brat." Lafreeze said to Obito as he made a bib from his ring appear around his neck along with a knife and fork before turning to Zetsu; "As for you my black and white friend I've have a hankering for a salad." Lafreeze said as his teeth ripped through Zetsu's innards before finally swallowing him whole to help recharge his ring slightly.

"Identity stolen, replication complete Zetsu of Earth you belong to Agent Orange." The ring said as Zetsu emerged from it much to Obito's shock. Lafreeze even went as afar as devouring all the mass produced white Zetsu's that were hanging from the ceiling of the caverns as well as the tree they were attached to which infuriated Obito to no end.

"DAMN YOU Lafreeze!" He shouted as he fired several jutsu at the alien until eventually he was able to roast some of him with a massive fireball and drain a huge amount of his ring's power by slaying the assimilated corps.

"Warning: Power levels 15% Consumption required immediately." It announced when suddenly an explosion rocked the cavern crushing most of their bodies including Obito's who couldn't get away due to overtaxing his Sharingan warping in between dimensions. Lafreeze then picked up one of Obito's fingers and chewed before swallowing it and eating the rest of the carcass.

"Replicating; Obito Uchiha of Sector 2814. You belong to..." A pulse shocked the entirety of the Orange Lantern. Its reformed body now quivered and trembled violently. "You belong..." Lafreeze's shape deformed again. Its legs dissipated to nothingness and its torso crumbled to the ground. "You bel..." The ring's voice filled with static, and the alien construct emitted a screech that no warthog could mimic. "Frlzzhwsrrsh." Lafreeze raised its hooved arm high and finally disappeared, leaving only the tangible solid ring floating silently in midair.

"I belong to NO ONE!" An orange shockwave erupted from the ring. The massive pressure doused the burning crimson rage but finished destroying what little remained of the hideout. The broken prison levels collapsed into piles of rubble, and the walls cracked and split open, spilling dirt and soil into the cavern. On the center of the shockwave, the glowing ring reformed its construct Orange Lantern. But instead of Lafreeze, a ghostly figure of Obito Uchiha dressed in a one-piece orange and apricot-tinted black suit smiled wickedly at the sky above. "Yes!" The copy snarled. It cupped its hands together over his chest and seared the symbol of the Orange Lantern ring into its new uniform. As it rose from the remains of the lair, its jarring voice echoed on the valley below he then grabbed the ring and lantern and placed the former in the face of the latter and spoke his oath.

"This power is mine, this is my light.
Be it in bright of day or black of night.
I lay claim to all that falls within my sight,
To take what I want... That is my right!" He snarled as he flew off to find a new hideout to create and figure out how to use his ring within a year.

"Soon everything in this world will be mine to command and mine to control." Obito said to himself as he flew off into the night however unbeknownst to him or anyone for that matter something was coming that would be even more terrible than any of them could imagine.

Well that's it for my first new chapter in nearly a month sorry I haven't updated in a while I've been pretty swamped with school, homework, and my grandmother is on her last legs; though to be fair it's a miracle she's lasted as long as she has when she wasn't expected to live past September. Anyway keep her in your thoughts and prayers and read and review folks.