Important Disclaimer:I really have nothing to say. I'm not in the mood to write and I'm not in the mood to be happy go lucky. When I start a scenario, I've usually always have my mind made up on it so wait a few chapters. Yes I have a mother fucking idea for saving the damn Kyuubi.

Naruto won't be skipping and prancing out of this chapter back to his team for those of you who are hoping so, this is the beginning of a whole new scenario which will involve a much darker, much more dangerous, and much more of a loner Naruto. This will draw him even farther away from his personality than before so if you're go to BITCH about it, turn BACK NOW! If you're going to have a problem with this short, single scenario name and clothing change turn your BITCHING ass BACK!

I'm not in the mother fucking mood for people who ignore this. I've given you fair warning after fair damn warning so turn the FUCK BACK if you see ANYTHING that you decide you want to run to the Review or PM boxes to BITCH about! For the BITCHERS who refuse this, come running to me about anything I will tell you the EXACT thing on my mind. So leave me the FUCK alone and just go BITCH to another Author!

Chapter 13:BREAK!

Naruto looked around, his face pale and looking sickly. His surroundings began to revolve, the master mercenary falling backwards onto walls each time they spun around him. From within the darkness, a clawed hand darted, slamming through his ribcage as Naruto let loose a ear piercing scream before falling to his knees, blood seeping from his wound before-

~Outside~

Naruto shot from his bed, panting as he looked around the dark empty room. It had been four days since Weapon X had created an artificial mutant Gene for him, which was a replica of that of Remy Lebeau, AKA, Gambit. And through those four days he had learned to use the powers to an extent where he wouldn't just blow everything he touched up.

But through that understanding of his new found powers, had come with a price. His tormentors had injected him with a liquid which had forced him to fall asleep constantly and suffer nightmares so horrendous that... That...

~Naruto's Nightmare~

Naruto lay, strapped to a metal table, a large, burly hand strangling his neck as he stared into cold, dark like eyes of someone who seemed so familiar to Naruto with his bleeding red eyes, spike hair and the facial structure that so closely resembled that of the Itachi man from his nine levels of hell. The man, who couldn't have been that much older than him smirked down onto Naruto as they stared eye to eye.

Of course, staring into the eyes of the man, it hadn't taken him long to come into a black and red world where he was forced to relive his worst moments of his life. Waking up in Cadmus, being injected with the Taskmaster drug, the experiments preformed on him by Cadmus, the tense and hardcore training he had been forced through, his nine levels of hell, waking in Weapon X, the tests, the mutant ability transformation-

Naruto screamed as he thrust his fist forwards, smashing through what seemed to be like a mirror surface. As the pieces fell, his memories fading away from his current nightmare, a cross rose, strapping him to it before three men appeared, The Itachi man, the man who so closely resembled him, and a third person, one whom Naruto could actually remember."Madara..." Naruto growled to the elder looking man who smirked at him before motioning with his hand, swords appearing in all three men's hands before they lurched forwards, the swords slicing through Naruto's black attire as white blood leaked out from his wounds.

Naruto choked on blood as one of the swords went straight through his throat, his attackers stepping back with emotionless faces to observe their handiwork before fading away into the black background, the cross holding Naruto releasing him and allowing him to fall to the black ground below him. The boy coughed heavily, white blood leaking from his mouth before his body became flat and began floating through the breeze.

His Now, Paper like, body caught fire as Artemis and Red Arrow stood on a mountain, releasing stream of arrows, all of which flew through the air and deftly pierced through his paper skin as Naruto screamed, more white blood leaking from his wounds. His paper body landed on the black ground before it enveloped him, dropping him down into an underground fighting arena, his body changing into that of a blond/ white haired, blue eyed boy stood across from another boy, his features blank with spike brass knuckles.

"Not this again..." Naruto whispered with a shake of his head before the other boy rushed forwards, slamming the spiked brass knuckles into the side of his face before following up with a devastating uppercut which sent Young Naruto stumbling backwards. Laughing sadistically, the other boy, whom seemed to be the same age, lurched forwards before slamming both of his knuckles into Naruto's stomach, the boy falling to the ground in a heap.

The other boy kicked Naruto onto his back before straddling Naruto's chest, his fists slamming into both sides of Naruto's face, the spiked brass knuckles doing an unknown amount of damage to the boy's face as an invisible crowd began screaming, about an 'Unfair Fight' the Young Naruto calling out for help, the other boy still laughing.

Suddenly, the ground underneath him opened up, Naruto falling through before he landed in a damp, dark place where nothing was visible. Looking around Naruto let out a choked cry as he shook his head, the same clawed hand from before shooting out and stabbing through his still black, white, and red from, more white blood leaking. Naruto dropped to his knees, a choking sob escaping him as he fell face first into a puddle.

Suddenly, voices began to talk around the fallen Master Mercenary, Naruto trying to fight them away from his beaten form, though there was no one there"... Demon...", "... Deserves it...", "... Nothing but a tool, a weapon for me to use...", "... He will amount to nothing..." Was heard over the other voices as Naruto crawled to his knees, allowing a cry to escape him.

"SHUT UP! Just... Just SHUT UP!" Naruto screamed as he stood, before turning, a Crow flying from the darkness of the abyss before slamming straight into his forehead...

~Outside~

Naruto once again woke with a cry, this time on the floor before he quickly stood. Looking over, Naruto shook Laura, waking her."Get up... We're getting out of here..." Naruto spoke, his voice cracking in exhaustion as Laura drew her head back slight, taking in Naruto's appearance. Dark rings had formed around his eyes, extending up and down two inches of the eyes themselves. The pupils of his eyes were dilated, making them more cat like than Fox Like. His hair was dis-leveled and stood at unnatural angles at certain points. And, something that made the girl extremely worried about the boy's health, was his lips were painted black, the sides coming off to form a twisted smile of paint, like that of Joker's.

His fingernails were sharp and untrimmed, coming down into extremely dangerous point that seemed to be ready to murder someone. Looking back up into the young man's dark eyes, Laura nodded as she stood, her uniform already on as was Naruto's as she observed it. It was Long sleeve leather shirt that had a bullet proof vest pulled on over it, a black hood extending up from it over his head. The shirt extended down into leather guantlets that were tied on over with light black strings. For pants he wore the black cargo version of Weapon X prisoner clothes.

The pants continued on down to reveal that Naruto had gone barefooted, also revealing that his toenails were as sharp as his fingernails. Walking to his bed, Naruto lifted the light weight matress he slept on before removing a handmade mask before placing it on over his head before pulling his hood on over it. Turning around, Laura stared at the, now horrifying, Sight of Naruto. The mask was a white mask, a replica of what you would see in the 2004 Phantom Of The Opera, Red Death scene. However, painted around the edges of the sides and down/ up into points was black paint, his form now resembling that of a twisted Crow, 1996 Version and Phantom Of The Opera 2004 version mashup.

Naruto snapped his neck to both sides of his head before rolling his shoulders."Should I call you... Taskmaster?" Laura questioned, her eyes still trying to comprehend the twisted form in front of her, whom was smirking, said smirk showing.

"Taskmaster? Taskmaster is Dead. Call me... Shadow Knight..." With that, he swirled on his heels, a purple energy enveloping his hands as he attached them to the cell door keeping him within the room before said door exploded, sending metal outwards to behead and impale the two guards that had stood beside the escaping duos door. Shadow Knight bowed, a sadistic smirk on his face as he outstretched his left hand."Lead the way." He spoke mockingly as Laura scowled before rushing into the hallways. Shadow Knight released a laugh before he followed after the girl, his eyes observing all things he passed for future refrences.

Cutting a corner, Shadow Knight lurched forwards, over Laura's shoulder as they came to a group of alerted guards. Shadow Knight released a hollow laugh as he jammed his fingernails into two of the men's guts before ripping them out violently. Laughing again, Shadow Knight quickly stole the dying men's weapons, two silenced pistols, which he opened fire with, quickly hitting bullseye mark in between his targets eyes. Jumping into the air, descending down upon his last remaining prey, slamming his clawed toenails into two's necks before placing a bullet straight through the final man's heart, stealing the silenced AK-47 the man had prepared to fire.

Laughing, one again hollow, Shadow Knight motioned for Laura to lead his way, which she did. Shadow Knight laughed as he rushed ahead of Laura, preforming a baseball slide down into another hallway which held another group of guards. Shadow Knight rushed forwards, lurching into the air, grabbing one of the men's shirts before allowing the purple energy from before to envelope his hands before jumping backwards, the shirt exploding and sending the man's blood over the white walls of the imprisonment. Shadow Knight laughed hollowly again as the men swung around to find the pieces if their leader's corpse before he lurched forwards again, grabbing two of the three remaining men's AK-47's before the purple energy enveloped them, the two men's hands exploding. Smirking coldly, Shadow Knight fired the two pistols he had stolen, bullets hitting dead center in his screaming opponents' heads.

Following this, he smirked even colder as he forced the final man of the squad around before he was slammed to his knees. Pulling back on the man's arms, Shadow Knight placed his foot on the upper back of the man before forcing it forwards, the man's arms coming out of socket and breaking with sickening snaps. Shadow Knight laughed as the man hit the ground before he lifted his foot to hover over the neck of the man."Have mercy?" The guard below him begged as Shadow Knight chuckled.

"No Mercy." With that, his foot came crashing down and snapped the man's neck, just as Laura came around the corner. The girl tried her best to pay no attention to the scene as she continued to run down the hall before bursting through double flap doors, coming to a stop at a double opening. Shadow Knight laughed as he studied them before pointing to the doorway to the left."I think that's it." Shadow Knight spoke with a smirk as Laura nodded.

"Right, let's move!" With that, the duo once again rushed forwards. The two wasted no time in finding a ventilation system that leaded to the outside. Quickly removing the metal framing, Laura climbed in side, waiting for her teammate to climb in afterwards, though he continued to stand outside of it."Come on!" The brunette girl urged as Shadow Knight closed his ring surrounded eyes, a smirk adorning his eerily painted lips as he shook his head.

"Sorry 23, but there's been a change of plans. You go on, you'll get out perfectly fine, but me, I have something I have to do before I leave." With that, Shadow Knight continued to rush off down the hallways of the Weapon X building, leaving Laura to curse as she went on with her escape. Shadow Knight stopped, just short of the door that led to the outside of the building, cracking his neck and rolling his shoulders.

Turning around, Shadow Knight came masked face to masked face with Deadpool who stood at the ready."The readers have been waiting for this battle for two chapters now... And it's about time..." Deadpool spoke as Shadow Knight smirked again, cracking his neck.

"Oh, then trust me, Deadpool... I've been waiting a lot longer." Shadow Knight spoke as he withdrew the silenced AK-47. Deadpool smiled behind his mask as he withdrew two of his guns, spinning them on his fingers as one would do in a cowboy movie before pointing them towards The Master Mercenary.

"Well, 'Insane Icon', let's not keep anyone waiting any longer." Deadpool spoke as the, newly nicknamed, 'Insane Icon', smiled creepily with his paint before lurching forwards, slamming the butt of his stolen AK-47 into Deadpool's cheek, forcing the man to stumble backwards. Naruto laughed as he reared his foot back before slamming it into Deadpool's gut, releasing fire upon Deadpool with the AK-47, the red and black dressed man's body having chunks taken out of his body from the force and speed of the bullets the soared through the air.

Shadow Knight jumped forwards, grabbing Deadpool's arm before yanking it behind his back, placing a foot on the shoulder of his opponent before pulling backwards on the limb until he heard his result, a sickening crack. Deadpool lurched forwards, withdrawing one of his swords, the red and black dressed mercenary made a mad swipe for the 'Insane Icon's' head, the man bending backwards, head touching the heels of his shoes as the sword sailed harmlessly through the air. Shadow Knight bent back right, swinging on his left fight whilst his right slammed into Deadpool's face and sent him crashing backwards. Shadow Knight smirked as he picked up Deadpool's discarded sword, the Merc. With The Mouth popping his arm back into place before withdrawing the other as they prepared to clash."This really hurts Taskmaster! I thought we had something special! What will the viewers think of you stealing something from me!"

"First off, Taskmaster is dead. It's Shadow Knight now." Shadow Knight spoke, his lights shining dimly,"All you are is a loose end who just won't die. Finally, there are no viewers and I'm not stealing this piece of shit from you... I'm just going to impale you on it!" With that, Shadow Knight lurched forwards, slamming the sword he held through Deadpool's abdomen before ripping the other from his grasp, allowing it to slice cleanly through the other mercs arm. Deadpool watched as is arm hit the ground silently, a growl escaping him.

"Alright author man, I'm getting sick and tired of my arms-" Deadpool's sentence was cut off as Shadow Knight slammed his elbow into the older man's face, sending him stumbling backwards. As he did so, Shadow Knight smirked as he reached down, picking up Deadpool's arm before charging it with his artificial mutant ability, the arm exploding as it was sent into the air."YOU BASTARD!" Deadpool called, enraged."DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG THAT'S GOING TO TAKE ME TO FIX! HOW MANY READERS I'M GOING TO HAVE TO ASK!" At the enraged screams, Shadow Knight smirked towards the Merc. With the Mouth.

"Exactly." With that, he lurched forwards again, his knee slamming into the butt of the sword that he had buried in Deadpool's gut before he added the second sword right beside of it. Reaching forwards, Deadpool grabbed the back of Shadow Knight's head before headbutting him. Rushing forwards, the red and black dressed mercenary jumped into the air, kicking Shadow Knight and sending him falling back against the white wall opposite of him. Smirking, Deadpool stomped onto Shadow Knight before said mercenary kicked the leg off of him.

With that, Shadow Knight lurched forwards, his hands grasping the hilts of the swords that were both stabbed through that of Deadpool, charging them with his purple energy before jumping backwards. Deadpool groaned as a large hole made itself known in his abdomen before he was kicked in the face. Deadpool fell to the ground behind him, groaning as his swords came to cling to the ground next to him, both covered in Deadpool guts and blood.

The Merc With The Mouth allowed his head to fall backwards as Shadow Knight stomped onto Deadpool's chest before finding a small amount of lighting fluid on is opponent. Smirking sadistically as he also found a lighter, Shadow Knight sprayed it over Deadpool and the main room that their battle had occurred in. Smirking, Shadow Knight once again shifted through the remaining parts of Deadpool's liquid covered outfit, finding an unopened box of cigarettes. Shadow Knight lit one of the cancer sticks, placing it in his mouth as he exited the building, blowing smoke from his mouth as he observed the cackling base.

"If you survive." Shadow Knight spoke to his opponent who still sat within the fire covered building."And I know that you will, we'll finish this fight. One of the days... Once and for all, Deadpool." And with that, Shadow Knight spun on his heels, rushing off into the night covered forest that the Weapon Base X had sat in.

~Naruto 'Rescue' Squad~

"Are we there yet?" Bullseye questioned as he and the team rushed through a flat forest on motorcycles.

"Yes, in five, four, three, two, Holy Shit." Red Arrow spoke as they broke treeline, finding the base that they had been heading towards in flames."Looks like Taskmaster didn't need us after all. But the question now is, where is he?"

"Nowhere." A girl's voice spoke as the team looked to the side, a brunette girl walking from the treeline.

"Who are you?"

"Laura, X23, I was Naruto's cellmate. And Taskmaster, he didn't make it out of there. He became... something else. He told me to call him 'Shadow Knight' now. I also heard Deadpool call him the 'Insane Icon'. So until someone can find him and help him, Taskmaster remains in that burning building."

"Right." Artemis spoke."Then there's only one place he would go after this, the only place he knows where his equipment is- My House. If we hurry, we might beat him."

"Right. Coming, X23?" Red Arrow questioned as the girl nodded, joining Artemis on the back of the girl's motorcycle, said girl cracking her neck.

"Just so you know, I don't trust you ad if you're lying to us, I kill you." With that, the team shot back off into the forest, not giving Laura the chance to respond...

~Naruto~

Naruto walked to the door of Artemis' house, his 'Taskmaster' gear strapped to him but still dressed as the 'Insane Icon, Shadow Knight'. As he reached the door, his hand gripping the handle before a knock came at the wooden surface, Shadow Knight's eyes narrowing as he withdrew one of his Beretta's before slowly opening the door to the house...

True Mortal:I'm done. I'm not writing anymore for at least twelve hours, don't hold your breath. For now, I'm going to sleep. Yes this is still a Taskmaster, just a short scenario change to Shadow Knight. Sorry if I've offended anyone but I got beat up by my step brother, the damn prick, I'm sleepy and I just can't satisfy EVERYONE. If you don't like the story, I politely indicate you to find another and for those that do thank you. Now, goodnight everyone, sorry if I've offended you, and god bless you.