If you could choose a different path…would you? Mohinder Suresh, Heroes.
Chapter 14: Sasuke
"Hey, Clank, is the Improbability Drive installed?" TL called.
"Affirmative." Clank replied as he sprung up from the engine room. He pointed to a large, blue button on the dashboard, "Just press that button and the Improbability Drive would activate."
"ALRIGHT!" TL exclaimed as he raised up a hand.
"WAIT!" all other members shouted.
Too late. TL slammed his hand on the giant, blue button.
TL and Xem were sent, flying backwards as the ship suddenly jerked forward. It shifted into a red box, a wagon, Mario's hat, and the cover of White by Ted Dekker.
The Improbability Drive was designed for space travel. Instead of the tedious time required to go from one world to the next, the Improbability Drive causes you to go through all worlds in just about every form imaginable. So, in the end, you won't know what world you'll wind up at or even what species you'll be when you get there. So dress accordingly.
Thankfully, our travelers' first test was a success.
TL and Xem were standing at the place where they crashed. TL was a white badger with gray streaks while Xem was an orange badger with black streaks.
"Xem?" TL asked.
"Yeah?" Xem replied.
"I think I'm a badger." TL murmured.
"I know how you feel." Xem said.
The two looked at their new paws and screamed in pure terror.
POP! POP!
The Fictorian and Roswellian soon returned to their usual hedgehog and tiger forms.
"We have normality." Clank called.
"Well, for a first test, I think that was a success." TL said as he stood up and dusted himself.
"If you call being turned into badgers a 'success'." Rattrap muttered, darkly.
"Xem, could ya check out our current position?" TL asked.
Xem immediately jumped back into the driver's seat.
"Well, it IS an improbability drive…" Xem murmured.
"What's up?" Soul asked as he jumped up to the monitor.
"Somehow…we wound up back at Konoha." Xem replied.
"Ain't THAT weird?" Rattrap asked.
"Still, it'd be nice to see my family again." Hanabi said, "Let's land."
"Hanabi, don't take this the wrong way, but…" TL took in a deep breath before shouting, "YOUR CLAN TRIED TO FREAKIN' MURDER ME! YOU CAN EXPECT ME TO BE EAGER!"
"Well, I guess you have a point." Hanabi said before shouting, "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT GRAFFITI!"
"WHAT GRAFFITI?" TL demanded.
"YOU TELL ME!" Hanabi shouted.
"I DON'T REMEMBER!" TL roared.
"I'm landing just to get some quiet." Xem sighed. He pressed a button and the ship immediately began to land.
"If I get cut in half, I'm blaming her." TL growled, jabbing a thumb at Hanabi.
"How can you blame a person if you're cut in half?" Sylar asked.
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The small band of travelers landed in the center of a forest. TL looked around, looking wary.
"Well, at first glance, it SEEMS peaceful." TL said, looking edgy, "But, any moment now, a band of blood-thirsty Hyugas will come in, looking for me…"
"Soul, loosen up." Ratchet advised.
A shuriken then whizzed past Ratchet's ear, causing the Lombax to jump and pull out his Multi-Disk Gun.
"SEE? I TOLD YOU!" TL shouted as he thrust out his left arm, causing an Aura Arm to spring out and crash through the trees.
"FIRE-STYLE!" shouted a voice, "FIREBALL JUTSU!"
'Could it—Loon's the only other person I know who can use the Fireball jutsu…' was all TL thought before he had to summon a shield of earth with his levitation.
"Where is he?" Xem shouted as he pulled out the Darkside blaster and began firing, randomly.
"Hanabi, can you follow him?" Sylar asked as he tried to cover his ears. All the sounds were obviously driving his super-hearing crazy.
"I-I'll try." Hanabi said, "BYAKUGAN!"
Chakra was pumped to Hanabi's eyes as she looked around, trying to locate their attacker. She saw a figure…with an immense amount of chakra.
"He's over there…and he's got a LOT of chakra." Hanabi reported.
"Got it!" Ratchet grinned as he began shooting his disk-blade gun. However, the blades stuck themselves into the branches (because there was nothing for them to bounce off).
"I'll get him!" TL said as he jumped up.
"He's to your left!" Hanabi shouted.
TL immediately wheeled over and evaded the oncoming punch. He then circled his around his attacker's fist and delivered an open-palm punch to his face. He then delivered a swift kick, but his opponent caught the move and swung TL around by his foot before throwing him into the next tree. TL regained his composure and pulled back his right hand, which began to pulse with red electricity.
"LIGHTNING CLAWS!" TL shouted as the electricity flowed to his fingertips and formed bright red claws.
"CHIDORI!" the attacker shouted as chakra began to crackle in his hand. The two thrust out with their attacks.
Result?
Explosion.
The two were sent into the air. TL landed in a heap, but immediately got back up and charged at his opponent.
His attacker immediately evaded the attack, grabbed TL's arms and put his foot on the hedgehog's back.
"Who are you and what do you want in Konoha?" he asked.
"Don't pretend you don't know me…" TL snarled before spitting out the next two words with surprising content, "Sasuke Uchiha!"
The attacker was wearing a loose, blue shirt with a white fan fanning a red circle, a pair of khaki pants, black hair, and a headband with a leaf symbol on it.
"Who are you?" Sasuke asked with a confused look.
"Gonna play dumb, eh?" TL asked as a red aura began to surround him, "Okay. I can play by those rules."
The aura was absorbed into his skin as he thrust out his arms. His right hand immediately became clawed as his left arm extended by about three feet and his digits became three claws. His fur became a dark purple as his eyes became red.
"Now, you DIE!" TL shouted. He had entered his Ultima form.
He then backhanded Sasuke, sending the Uchiha into the sky before jumping up to deliver a punch to the Uchiha.
Sasuke regained his composure and threw a fistful of shuriken at the Ultima hedgehog, who roared in pain before thrusting out his right hand. A burst of electricity exploded from his hand and narrowly missed Sasuke. Said Uchiha then held out his hand.
"CHIDORI!" Sasuke shouted as he thrust his hand into TL's chest. TL roared in pain as he suddenly fell to the ground, singed fur smoking.
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"This guy…he's taken TL out." Hanabi reported, looking shocked.
"That's it." Xem said, "I'm goin' in."
However, Sasuke immediately appeared with an unconscious TL slung over his shoulder.
"Does this belong to you?" he asked before tossing TL onto the ground.
"YOU." Hanabi snarled.
Sylar put out a hand to stop Hanabi from advancing.
"See that on his head?" Sylar asked, pointing to Sasuke's Leaf Village headband, "Maybe there's more to this than meets they eye."
"Soul DID say that his bros tried takin' on Sasuke…" Rattrap murmured.
"Good point." Sylar said before asking, "Uchiha Sasuke, do you know who this is?"
Sylar pointed to TL's still motionless body.
"I don't." Sasuke simply stated.
"Answers THAT question." Sylar said.
"What question?" Ratchet asked.
"This isn't the Konoha we picked up Hanabi in." Sylar replied, "We've apparently entered an alternate universe."
"Wait, what?" Xem asked, "Alternate universe?"
"The Improbability Drive can drop us off in any world." Sylar said.
"Point taken." Xem said.
"Ow…my head…" TL groaned as he pushed himself off the ground. He then caught sight of Sasuke and his hand flew to the hilt of his UFO Blade.
"Soul, calm down!" Rattrap said, "This ain't the Sasuke ya detest!"
TL's grip loosened on his UFO Blade, but he didn't remove his hand.
"Explanation, please." TL ordered.
"Alternate universe." Sylar filled in.
TL arched an eyebrow. He removed his hand from his sword and put it to his chin.
"That explains a lot. I thought he was just trying to mess with me." TL murmured. He then looked up at Sasuke and said, "We're not invaders! We just landed here!"
"And our Gummi ship's been totaled." Ratchet added, gesturing to the Junkpot.
"Fine, you two stay behind…"
"Better have Hanabi stay behind, too." Sylar said.
"Wait, why?" TL asked.
"What if she sees herself?" Sylar asked. He shook his head before filling in, "Interdimensional rifts wouldn't be very ideal."
"Point made." TL shrugged, "Hanabi, stay behind with Ratchet and Rattrap."
"Alright, but you owe me another training session." Hanabi sighed before walking back to the ship with Ratchet and Rattrap.
"I'll leave you to Konoha, but just hope that I don't run into you again." Sasuke stated. He then jumped from branch-to-branch.
"Three of us again?" Xem asked with a grin.
"Oh yeah." TL replied. He tried to summon up his usual cocky grin, but just couldn't.