Hey guys and girls.
welcome to the final chapter for Dead Men Walk Again.
As some of you had just read in Heir Of Bones, the fanfic suddenly came to a halt. I promise you I never intended for that to happen but it did. But I will release a second season to Heir Of Bones. In the meantime.
Descendant Of Slender will take the Monday Slot. And next week, this fanfic will be taken over by Night Raid's God Arc.
Enjoy.
Disclaimers: I own nothing.
Chapter 24: The New Age.
Slowly but surely the sounds of chopper blades beginning to spin echoed through the still mornings of the next day. A heavy mist hung over the water as men and women alike who were soldiers or people willing to stand against the tide readied weapons. Standing while watching them assess their weapons while fighter jets shot off into the sky and began pelting the ground with missiles, bullets and various ordinates to soften up the infected. Naruto watched them give it everything they had. His tendrils slightly spiraled around him as his blood got excited. Seeing everyone giving one last push to stop the apocalypse they dubbed The Second Coming.
But it was now time to get ready himself.
Making his way inside he found everyone waiting outside Rei and Takashi's room. Takashi was outside trying to get Rei to fight one last time byt she kept refusing it. Turning to Naruto there. Takashi asked him to help out.
"Rei-san. Please come out." said Naruto.
"I don't want to fight anymore. We may not survive. We will die should we storm Gentek." said Rei from inside.
"What are we going to do? She may speak the truth. This will be one last fight that a lot of us may not walk away from." said Toshimi as she leaned into Kohta.
Looking around he definitely saw irt in their eyes. The final push was always the worst. The last fight which will determine whether or not you live or die. The tipping point was now. So Naruto knew where Rei was coming from. But he had to get them to fight one last time. He couldn't do this alone. He needed their help.
Play Confidential Music - Unashamed.
Leaning against the wall with the door on his left, Naruto closed his eyes as he folded his arms. Everyone looked on as he slowly smiled.
"This war has brought us nothing but pain and sadness." said Naruto with everyone looking down as well.
"We have lost many comrades. The soldiers who helped Rika-chan set up a place where people can set up camp. Saya-chan's father, and my Aunt Tsunade." said Naruto as he looked down.
"But this fight will be the decisive blow in the outcome. Sure the tides may not be in our favour. Sure a lot of us are not coming out of this without scars. Yes there will be people who will be killed. But we must ensure we fight on. The day to take back our tomorrow is now. The day to say: I am victorious. Is now. The time to fight one last time is now. One last push. One last fight. One last stand. I choose to fight. I choose to push. I choose to give one last valiant cry before I die. Who's with me?" said Naruto.
"I will fight for tomorrow." said Hokuto stepping forward.
"I choose to fight for a new day." said Saeko as she and Meiya stepped forward too.
"I choose to sttand against the tide." said Saya with her mother stepping forward as well.
"I choose to live on my feet then to die on my knees." said Kohta stepping forward.
"I choose to bring an end to this nightmare." said Toshimi stepping foward.
"I fight for the new age." said Rika.
"I fight for the new age." said Kyoko.
"I fight for the future." said Shizuka.
Slowly they heard a click and turned to find Rei standing there. Her eyes red and puffy from all the tears she let out. But her eyes blazed with fury and virtue.
"I choose to fight for the new age where the dream never ends." said Rei.
"Excellent. Take heart in knowing that we have each other's back. And that we will always have someone in our corner who we can count on. Who will never forsake us. We will stop this. We will end this. You know why?" asked Naruto with everyone shaking their heads.
"It's because we have one thing in our possession that they don't have. We have comrades. We are here, a brotherhood of unparalleled skills. We are the elite group unlike any other. A group that has accept the responsibility to uphold the honor of this so called nation. Trust your instincts. Your respect in confidence that you have a team fighting at your side. Is what seperates you from the rest. It is what will make you legendary. When we march onto that battlefield. We march as a team. When we fight the opposition we fight as a team. And when we win the battle. We win as a team. Today is the day you step forward. Today is the day you become one with many. Today is the day that nothing will hold you back. And when we have finished. We can roar in unison so that the world may hear. Alone, I am lethal. As a team, I dominate." said Naruto with everyone cheering at hearing that message.
End song.
"Let's get some!" shouted Kohta with everyone making their way to the choppers.
Climbing on board they flew with many of the other troops to the final fight. Gentek. The choppers flew with great speed as they swerved between buildings and various other broken things in the area. Directly below them was the strike team that went in before them. They were softening the ground forces while tanks fired shells into the crowd of infected. Jets shot past as the choppers, sending down missiles and just destroying the infected in powerful blasts of explosions.
"This is it." said Yuriko with Naruto nodding.
"!Alright sir. Good luc down there." said the chopper pilot as all the choppers came to a stop a few klicks away from Gentek.
Jumping out of the chopper, everyone got ready. Getting Gaara's Gane out, with everyone else getting their powers ready hey made their way to Gentek.
Before they climbed into the choppers, they chose it to be better if they split up the group. The team Naruto had was named Hammerhead. While the one Rika led was called Fireteam. But something was not right. Behind them the sounds of fighting echoed across the horizon but nothing charged forth at them.
"I don't like this." said Takashi over their headset.
"Agreed. Let's keep pushing forward." said Yuriko.
The setting was quite ominous as the teams moved in. Fireteam taking the South Entrance with Hammerhead taking the North. But as they got close to the doors, they were ambushed by the many infected in the area. The earpieces went wild as they called the areas where the attacks came from. Naruto slammed his hands onto the ground, sending many infected and even a few Brawlers and Hunters into the air from the shockwave.
Stretching his arms out beside him while arching his back a volley of tendrils shot out and slammed into many of the infected in the area. Blood coated the walls as Naruto chose the maiming option rather than the harvest option. With all enemies dead in the blink of an eye, they pushed forward.
"Thanks for the hand there Naruto-chan. The enemies here are dead." said Saya over her ear piece.
"No prob." said Naruto as they regrouped in the reception and made their way to the stairs.
Play Mass Effect 3 Soundtrack Stand Strong, Stand Together.
With Saeko and Meiya choosing to go with while the others held off the many hordes of infected that would come in, they pushed on. The Marker had definitely done much damage. But it had blown up a large amount that the only way in was to go in through the way they went in. The rubble around the area was just incredible and even there was a large drop down that you were left with one option. A climb down the flight of stairs to the machine that awaited the key.
Talk about a desend into hell.
They pushed further. Knowing full well, that this was the time that everything would finally be ended. Once and for all. Saya climbed onto the earpiece but but also told Naruto that she found a nationwide broadcasting station.
"Naruto-chan. Say a few words of confidence to the troops out there." echoed Saya's voice from the earpiece and the intercoms all over the world.
"This war has shown us the very means of staying together to fight. If I was banking everything on what we're about to do. I'd be quit already. Cause here we are in the mouth of hell. And we've made it this far, by leaning on each other and the will to stay alive. What this machine does may be the key to stopping this nightmare. But it's our sweat and blood that will make it happen. After everything we've been through. Past all the fire and fury. The one thing I know. Is that we can count on each other to get the job done. Or die trying, if that is what it takes." said Naruto as his team jumped over a few pieces of broken building and shot off to the room which housed the machine.
Looking at Gaara's Bane as the daggers running up the side rippled slightly as thery moved forward.
"Cause somethings. Are just worth fighting for." he concluded as his team made it to the room.
End song.
The entire place was destroyed and wrecked but the machine stood there unharmed and waiting for him. Tesla coild rested all over the place as Saeko stood guard while Meiya got it ready.
"Step 1: Crawl into the dark machine." said Naruto as he stood there looking at the machine.
"You can do this. We can stop this nightmare." said Meiya.
"That we can." said Naruto as he crawled into the machine and faced up with his back to the ground.
"Step 2: The screws go tight all around." said Meiya as three plates came out and placed themselves on Naruto's head with screws drilling into Naruto's skull.
"Step 3: Cross my heart and hope to die. Stick a needle in my eye." finished Meiya with a drill and a laser pointer coming out and stopping by his eye.
A small clamp came out and held his right eye open for the drill to go in. But just as the thing was about to move. Meiya swore at the machine while she slammed her hand on the console.
"What's wrong?" asked Naruto from inside he machine.
"Should we do this. It says thatt anything infected will become uninfected for 10 minutes." said Meiya.
"Do it. For the new age." said Naruto with Meiya hesitating on activating the machine.
Hitting the button, the drill slowly moved to have the laser pointer directly on Naruto's eye. His heart rate began to climb as the drill slowly made its way to Naruto's eye. He kept darting it back and forth as adrenaline surged through his veins. Saeko turned to see this and hissed in pain as the drill entered his eye. Meiya too came to see whatt was going on and she too hissed as the drill pushed further into Naruto's eye.
"Assimilation completed. Link to Marker established." came a synthetic voice from the console as the drill left Naruto's eye and allowed him to crawl out.
With his mind now connected to the Marker and his powers sealed away, he pushed forward by himself. Getting over the door hreshold, it slammed shut just as Meiya and Saeko were about to go with him.
"Access denied. Authroized personel identification needed." said the voice.
"Fuck you bitch." said Saeko as the two sisters began to tear up the door.
Naruto pushed forward as he walked as if he was drunk. His vision being swarmed with Glyphs from the Marker as the voice of his dead mother echoed through his mind but it wasn't the creepy psychotic screams like last time. It was the soothing voice of reassurance that he could do this. Holding the side of the wall, he steadied himself as he pushed on. But as he reached the end of the road to find the Marker there. A gunshot echoed as he dropped to the floor as his shoulder burst into a volley of blood.
Looking up he saw a phantom image of his mother standing there with her arms open while Suichirou stood before Naruto with a pistol pointed at him.
"You've ruined all my plans to create the world in my image. When you destroyed my disciples and the very means for me to ascend into godhood. But when you came acroos the island I was on. Everything fell into place. Now this is the time you and I become one. You will be the one who helps me become a god. Feel honored. Bastard child." said Ichirou as he smirked but that stopped when tendrils swirled around Naruto as if tenticals were coming out of hell.
Play ONE OK ROCK I Was King.
"Me help you? I give you my life to let you ascend into godhood? Give me a fucking breaking." snarled Naruto as he shot his head up to meet Ichirou's gaze.
"Like I'd ever help you ascend into godhood. You bastard!" spat Naruto with his one arm changing into Gaara's Bane and the other into Drill Fist.
Shooting his Drill Fist hand forward, he closed the blades and the elastic tendril connecting the fingers shot out and embedded into Ichirou's abdonem.
"Is that it?" asked Ichirou with a cocky smile.
"Go." said Naruto and the biological drill spin to life.
Ichirou howled in pain as Naruto pulled the Drill Fist out and swung Gaara's Bane. Several daggers shot into Ichirou and Naruto slowly got up. Making his way to the white apparition before him, he clicked his tongue with Ichirou exploding everywhere. Tendrils shot out and collected the bio-mass making Ichirou part of Naruto now. The enemy that salk him was finally dead. And now looking to his mother, he smiled to her face as she cupped his cheeks.
"Welcome my son. you've fought well. But now is the time to end this." said Kushina.
"How?" asked Naruto.
"You become one with us." said Kushina shooting Naruto into his mind.
Staggering back as he looked to find the Marker in his mind, while a platform materialised under him. Kushina stood there as many infected gathered around her.
"We must be made whole. And the only way is to have the key turned in our favour. You will make us whole!" she screamed.
"This Marker here. Is the one from that vial. It was taken as a stabilising agent for the pathogen in your veins. You became the key when you died. You were also the key long before that. now you will make us WHOLE!"
"This isn't the way I planned. So you know what?" snapped Naruto looking his mother dead in the eyes.
"FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU AND YOUR MARKER CRAP!" snarled Naruto as he readied weapons.
The two opposing sides clashed together as Naruto and Kushina;s forces went head to head with one another. He made effortless work of getting rid of them and sprinted to Kushina. Gaara's Bane morphing itself to be the Drill Fistt he drove both hands forward and slammed them into Kushina.
End song.
Kushina howled in pain as Naruto caused the fingers to spin like a drill. Blood went everywhere as tears ran down his face at what he had just done. Killing family was something Naruto never wanted to do. But it had to be done to stop the nightmare.
"Thank you sochi. But it isn't over yet." said Kushina as she melted away with Naruto's hand morphing to Claws and them changing to look extremely sinister and deadly. Peraphs even more deadly than Gaara's Bane.
"Thank you. Kaa-san." said Naruto naming the new weapons Kushina's Touch.
Leaving his mind he looked to find the facility falling apart as sirens blared all over the place. Looking up to the observer's platform to find Saeko and Meiya standing there while tears streamed down their faces.
"I'll see you at home." said Naruto as he shot to the console and punched in some numbers and digits.
Saeko and Meiya bolted out and took the rest of the team out the building as the facility collapsed on itself followed by a huge explosion. Naruto going up with it.
Everyone who was fighting watched as the infected that were attacking them dropped to the floor. Turning to the Marker they found it to be destroyed. The nightmare had ended. the pain of lose was at an end. The new age can begin, the world was in a new stage of peace.
Burt where one of the many pieces of Naruto landed, the cells slowly began to gather together. But as the cells could form a hand, a crow swooped down and stopped the process. But the cell wasn't having any of it and consumed the crow. Slowly using the cells and structure of the bird as a baseline to recreate Naruto.
With the reconstruction down, Naruto stood there.
'I sought to find the truth. Found it. Didn't like it. Wish the hell I could forget it. The things I've done. The people suffered for what I've done. For what I did at that subway station. And for whatever I did will stay with me. My mother was right. This isn't over. Not by a long shot. My name is Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze. And my mission is almost over.' thought Naruto as he made his way to the ones he loved.
10 years later.
A TV screen came to life in a dark room, various women sprawled on the bed all snuggled into the shadowed man laying in the middle of the bed.
"...And in other news. President Hayato Hasegawa together with his second wife Meiya Hasegawa was spotted in America with their daughter Tsunade in Burger King enjoying themselves. According to the president himself, it was just something they all felt like having. As well, the U.S. President has just signed the treaty with Japan to pool all resources together to try and find a way to ensure a better future. As well, today marks the 10th anniversary of the Second Coming Apocalypse. Many people cam all over the world to various key sights involved in the apocalypse. As well, the President of Japan was seen with all his wives and children att the old Gentek facility. The place where the young hero gave his life to stop the apocalypse. Many payed respect to his efforts and many even see him as someone to try and be. According to other sources. Yuriko and Hokuto, are pregnant with Hayato's third child. The Presidential family is getting bigger and bi-"
The TV was switched off as the shadowed man slowly climbed out and made his way to tther lights. Flicking it on he showed himself to be a young man with blonde hair that reached his shoulders. Dulled dead eyes shone in the light as he stood there in his boxers. On the bed were his wives.
1 year after the apocalypse he got married to them all and even worked with many people to bring the city to what it originally was. It took a very long time but the city was soon alive once more. People mourned the dead and even thanked those that fought where they cowerd in fear.
"Do you really have to go and work?" asked his one wife with pink hair that reached her waist.
"I have to. After all, we need to find the place where the Marker signal is coming from." said the man as his wife with purple hair got out and gave him a very loving kiss.
"Don't take too long now Naruto-kun. After all, you wanted anoher child right?" she said only to have Naruto give her ass a smack.
"I did say that. Saeko-chan." said Naruto with a smile.
A knock was heard on the door as he turned to look at the door.
"Yes?" asked Naruto.
"President Hayato. Ther press conference is ready for you." said the person on the other end.
"Thank you. I'll be out soon." said Naruto looking back to Saeko.
"Go. But be back fast." said Saeko letting him go.
"Would never do that to you." said Naruto as he shifted to a man with black hair, black eyes and in a very expensive business suit.
And scene.
So with the whole thing sorted out, the world has entered a new age of peace and prosperity. But what Kushina said to Naruto before she died, rung true. This was not over.
Not by a long shot. Just because they stopped a Marker didn't mean that there was now peace. There was still something out there. And it had to be stopped.
Dead Men Walk Again Part 2: Project Ascension.
Coming soon.
In the meantime. Night Raid's God Arc will be put on Next week Tuesday.
I promise, this will be a good one.
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