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The Ultimate Saviours
Chapter 3: Spiral mask
A new world presented a fresh start for Tobi. The Shinobi nations feared the Uchiha name, but here no one knew of Madara Uchiha or any other famed shinobi Tobi could have impersonated. He could in a way be himself here, yet still completely deceive this world's people. Strapping his War blade to his back, Tobi moved his hands and cycled through a variety of hand signs. As soon as he landed, slammed his hands into the ground, creating a series of pillars across the city of Paris. These earth pillars slammed into the summoned creatures. Raising his head, Tobi used the Sharingan and Rinnegan to analyse every aspect of the battlefield. His pillars had knocked back the summoned beasts and given some civilians time to retreat, but that was a temporary solution.
'They cant talk or communicate with one another, these creatures are wild, not trained by the great summoned beasts, but they can still be tamed,' Tobi thought.
He grunted at the annoyances approaching him. The French were running away from a Hedgehog creature, straight towards him. Raising his hand to his mask, Tobi widened his right Sharingan eye. The civilians approached him and without realising it were caught in the singularity of Tobi's space compression Jutsu. He'd store them in the pocket dimension for a little bit, and then release them after the battle. That was fifty people inside the dimension, leaving hundreds more in need of aid. Tobi quickly carried out the necessary hand signs to create a stonewall as the hedgehog fired a barrage of needles from its back. The needles stuck the wall as Tobi went intangible.
'As I thought, wild,' Tobi smirked beneath his mask as a giant chameleon creature appeared to his right.
The chameleon tried to crush Tobi with its left hand. But the arm passed through Tobi and cracked the ground beneath him. Tobi jumped upwards, solidifying as he ran up the chameleons arm. He jumped again, avoiding the lash of the chameleons tongue. Landing on the creature's shoulder, Tobi slid a chakra needle out of his right sleeve and plunged the blade through the chameleon's ear. He left the needle in the blade and jumped off the creature as the Sharingan and Rinnegan appeared in the Chameleon's right and left eyes respectively.
"There's no need to use all six paths, but a show of power can be an important tactic," Tobi mused as he broke off into a run.
He went intangible, passing through the spikes fired by the hedgehog beast. Then he absorbed the spikes with his compression Jutsu. Jumping into the air, Tobi sent the spikes flying back into the hedgehog. At the same time, the Chameleon shot its tongue out, wrapping it around the neck of an ape. As the hedgehog creature howled in pain, Tobi landed on its snout and slashed it across the face with his fan blade.
'General Fury, President Obama, I hope you both enjoy the show,' Tobi smirked as he saw several news helicopters flying over the battle.
Triskelion
Nicholas Fury had a lot on his plate. Some people said otherwise but there was always a crisis for him to deal with. But in all honesty he loved it, after all in Nick Fury's eyes no one could protect the world but him. That's why he had to get his command back, no matter what the cost. Although it came with a heavy price, one Nick privately punished himself for. Peter Parker was dead and the world was left without a real Spider-man. That coupled with the recent problems with mutants had left the world in a fragile state. But worst of all was the number of budget cuts within S.H.I.E.L.D. Numerous projects had to be shut down and Fury had to go out of his own pocket to keep one specific project going.
"Director Fury, there's a situation in Paris, I'm putting it on the view screen now!"
The command centre was a buzz with activity. Fury stood at the centre of a crowd of working agents, all of them monitoring a situation. One such situation had occurred because of an anomaly that had occurred. Fury had the big brains like Banner, Stark and Storm at work, while psychics like Grey (Fury had to correct himself and think Karen Grant) were scanning the insides of these "singularities" as weathermen described them as. Yet most intriguing of all had been the statement Thor had made:
"The life tree itself is in jeopardy, this is the beginning of Ragnarok!"
After giving his two cents, Thor had promptly left the Triskelion and the Ultimates to pursue his own leads. Fury focused his attention on the giant view screen and watched the events taking place in Paris. He recalled Stark telling him that May Parker and Gwen Stacy had gone there to escape the craziness of their lives. It seemed that trouble followed the Parker family wherever they went.
Paris
May Parker ran through the streets of Paris, through the people that were running away from the battle. She looked up as two eagles flew into one another. Tobi jumped off of the other eagle, holding a broken Chakra receiver. He spread his arms out as he fell closer and closer to the ground. When the masked man landed, he shocked everyone by landing nearly smoothly on his feet. A large crater had been left in his wake, yet he showed no sign of broken bones or fear. Tobi looked up at a wolf summon as it stampeded towards him. His hands zipped through an array of Ninjutsu symbols before he slammed them into the ground. The ground beneath Tobi shot out of the ground, forming a rock fist as Tobi jumped off. The wolf howled in pain as the fist crashed into its face.
"AUNT MAY!" Gwen yelled, barging past the panicking civilians.
Tobi heard the girl's yell and broke off into a run. He threw two explosive Kunai, killing two insect-based summons. Then he slid towards Gwen and May. The two women met just as a rhino summon charged towards them. May held Gwen tightly as the rhino got closer and closer. The rhino roared as Tobi slid between it and its prey. Tobi raised his hands, his Sharingan eye spinning as he tracked the Rhino's horn. Utilising his eye, Tobi grabbed the Rhino's horn, stopping it in its track.
"No way, that's wicked," Gwen gasped as she looked at Tobi.
The masked man could crush a Shinobi's neck with one hand, so stopping a rampaging rhino with all of his strength was nothing. He dragged the rhino across the floor and hammer threw it into an iguana summon.
"Tobi, that was incredible," Gwen said.
"Unfortunately you two are in a lot of danger, it would be a shame for you to both die so early in your lives," Tobi said.
"Early, oh Tobi you do know how to flatter," May smiled.
"Get out of here while you still can, let me do my job," Tobi bought his hand to his Sharingan eye as another portal appeared.
"What is that?" Gwen asked.
"Something else that doesn't belong in this world," Tobi said as he began cycling through hand signs.
He finished his preparations and carried out the Earth Jutsu, creating a pillar he used to propel himself into the air. Tobi stayed in midair, keeping his hands together as he looked into the portal. His Sharingan eye narrowed before immediately activating the space-time manipulation Jutsu. A fireball was suddenly propelled from the portal and was immediately sucked into the void of Tobi's eye. He then held out his arms and waited for the new arrival to come. A roar echoed out of the portal as a green-scaled figure flew out into Paris. The creature was a dragon that was just as big as the tailed beasts. It opened its mouth, snapping at Tobi.
'Shinra Tensei,' Tobi thought as he used the Jutsu Pain had used so many times when he invaded Konoha.
The force wave acted like an invisible fist, hitting the dragon in the cheek and throwing it to the ground. Gwen and May ran away from the dragon as it rolled across the ground. They rushed into the cover of an alleyway, watching as the dragon launched fireballs that were quickly swept away by Tobi's fan blade. He landed, looking up at the dragon as it stared down at him. The dragon narrowed its eyes at Tobi, a growl escaping its lips as it looked at the masked man's eyes.
"The Rinnegan, are you the Sage of Six paths?" the dragon asked.
Gwen was shocked by the sound of the dragon's voice. She had watched enough anime to know that some of the words were Japanese. But to Tobi, his world's entire culture based on Japan, the dragon was speaking Japanese like a pro but not like a native. The dragon had difficulty speaking, implying that it was a creature that was never meant to talk.
"I'm the next best thing, what are you though?" Tobi asked.
"My name could not be understood or even pronounced by pathetic creatures like you humans, I am the being who traverses space and time itself, I am the last and greatest of my kind FIN FANG FOOM!" The dragon yelled.
Fin Fang Foom roared, releasing a cloud of saliva that drenched Tobi's robe. Gwen and May cringed while Tobi stood still. The fact that his robes were soaked seemed like no consequence to him. Though he looked at one of his sleeves, his eyes didn't betray any anger.
"I see, a being from another galaxy whom knew the Sage of Six paths, he was the one that taught you to speak isn't he?" Tobi chuckled, using his darker voice as Fin Fang Foom widened his eyes.
"How could you possibly know that?" he asked.
"An educated assumption, the way you speak suggests that you were never meant to talk and your familiarity with my eyes and the summoned beasts around you suggests that at least for a time you knew of the land of the beasts and their sages as well as the sage of six paths, the man who gifted my people with the Jutsu's we now cherish today, though he was no god he did play a part in the chaos that plagues our world just as there are men here who play parts in the continued chaos of their worlds, their countries like the villages have done something to promote the continued chaos," Tobi let out a chuckle as he walked closer and closer towards the dragon.
Fin Fang Foom glared at Tobi as the masked man touched his mask, revealing his Sharingan through the gaps of his fingers.
"I will bring and end to chaos, no matter what kind of line I must cross," Tobi said.
Suddenly, Tobi broke off into a run. Fin Fang Foom swung his arm at Tobi, only for the masked man to phase through his claws. Tobi jumped on the dragon's hand and began running up the arm. He jumped as Fin Fang Foom swung his arm around. Flipping in midair, Tobi threw his fan blade, keeping his fingers locked onto the chain. The chain of the blade wrapped around the leg of a hawk beast. Using the hawk's uncontrolled flight path, Tobi analysed Fin Fang Foom again. He watched the dragon's eyes dilute as it went into a berserker rage.
"Well what are you waiting for?" Tobi mocked the dragon by speaking in his innocent "nice guy" voice.
Fin Fang Foom let out a roar as its eyes glowed. Tobi pulled his fan off of the eagle's talons and dived towards Fin Fang Foom. The dragon gathered air into its mouth before spitting out a blast of fire. May and Gwen widened their eyes as the flames consumed Tobi completely. The man that saved them seemed to disappear before their eyes, reminding May of the explosion that killed Peter.
"Foolish man, no one can oppose me," Fin Fang Foom said.
May and Gwen stared wide eyed at the flaming cloud that had killed Tobi. The fire blast killed some of the aerial monsters as it seemed to fly into orbit, stopping as it reached space. Suddenly, a figure flew out of the smoke.
"IMPOSSIBLE!" the dragon yelled.
Tobi flew out of the fire, his body unscathed. At the last moment, Tobi had used his phasing technique to avoid the brunt of the fire and then the absorption technique of his Sharingan to draw some of the fire into the inner dimension. Having measured the power of Fin Fang Foom's flames, Tobi was able to identify the chemicals the dragon's body must have stored in order to use those techniques. Tobi crossed his fingers together and created a Kage Bushin. The two clones landed on the ground as Fin Fang Foom took to the skies.
"You may have been able to survive that blast, but the next one will finish you," flames rose from the dragon's nostrils as he flew around the Eiffel tower.
The masked man ran across the city, moving at an incredible pace that put professional sprinters to shame. He created two earth clones and had them jump towards the Eiffel tower. The two clones ran up the tower, their feet glowing with Chakra. Tobi commanded his enslaved summon beasts to attack the dragon. The enslaved eagle let out a shriek as it tackled the dragon in mid air. Fin Fang Foom slammed the eagle with its tail and launched a fire blast. Tobi focused on the dragon as it burned his eagle.
"As I expected," Tobi said to himself.
He commanded his two clones to jump from the tower, throwing flurries of Shuriken at the dragon. Fin Fang Foom dodged the blades and launched several small fire balls, burning the two clones.
'His body is a production house of flammable chemicals, while the flames generated by his nostrils ignite the flames of the chemicals he spits out,' Tobi analysed his opponent the way any bearer of the Sharingan could.
Even without the special techniques of the Mangekyou, the Sharingan itself could be used as a deadly analysis tool. That and Tobi's skill, intelligence and ruthlessness was what made him such a remarkable ninja. Even the most simple ninja technique could be used for a killing blow. Tobi placed a special paper seal on a post box and used a stone pillar to launch himself towards Fin Fang Foom.
"THERE YOU ARE!" the dragon roared.
Tobi jumped off of his stone pillar, launching himself towards Fin Fang Foom. He cycled through various hand signs as the dragon flew towards him. The dragon opened its mouth and slammed its jaws down on the masked man. With a gulp, Fin Fang Foom swallowed Tobi whole, a bulge appearing on the dragon's throat as its food fell into its stomach.
"Foolish human," Fin Fang Foom said.
The dragon widened its eyes as a laugh echoed from the streets of Paris. Tobi waved at the dragon, mocking the creature with the act that had annoyed Deidara many times.
"Deidara-senpai would have loved to see this," Tobi laughed.
The inside of Fin Fang Foom's stomach sparked before it began to expand. May turned Gwen's head away as the dragon exploded, covering Paris's most famous landmark with guts and blood. Tobi altered his stance, returning to his true persona as he watched the spatial distortion that summoned the dragon disappear. His simple technique had worked, attaching a paper bomb to an object he would use in the replacement Jutsu and then having that object blow his opponent up from the inside. The explosion then mixed with the flammable chemicals in Fin Fang Foom's other glands and created an explosion that would have made Deidara cry.
'Once again I think of Deidara, how strange,' Tobi thought as civilians and news reporters alike surrounded him.
They bombarded him with questions, though for once Tobi found himself distracted. This world would require new plans and a new Akatsuki for him to use. He needed to prepare and gather resources. People, materials, information, so long as he could use it then he didn't care what manner of life it tread. Men like Deidara and Hidan were contradictions of Tobi's intentions and he had been counting on their deaths. His new gang would be what the Akatsuki had been before, tools to further his ambitions.
'Wherever you are in the world Nicholas Fury, know that I will succeed where you have failed,' a smirk appeared behind the mask as Tobi saw Gwen and May standing inches from the crowd. 'It seems I've already found my first pawns,' he nodded to the two women, intending to meet them later on and collect on the debt they owed him.
After all Tobi knew that this world was vast and that it would be dangerous to use his transportation Jutsu to travel across continents. But May Parker was able to provide the perfect means of transportation through her link with Tony Stark. America would be a fitting stage for his new plan.
The Morlock Tunnels
"INCREDIBLE! This is five times better than anything we've got in the village! (Except for Ichiraku ramen of course!)"
Kitty shook her head in dismay, while Rogue chuckled. Sasuke and Naruto hadn't been at their new home long, but already they were settling in. One such settle technique Naruto had was an introduction to modern day gaming, courtesy of Johnny's I-pod. Johnny sat at the table, grumbling in annoyance as Bobby talked Naruto through the primitive space invaders app. Despite its age and repetition, Naruto was regarding it as if it was the most fun he had had in years.
"Okay shoot that and you'll get a power up," Bobby said.
"Idiots," Kitty sighed.
"Yeah guys could I get my I-pod back, its bad enough I've got someone stealing my bed," Johnny said.
Sasuke settled in quietly, paying no attention to anything that was going on. He was resting on the bunk above Jimmy's bed. While the feral looking boy healed, the Uchiha kept his focus on the numerous articles spread out in the "Daily Bugle" newspaper. After reading a boring story regarding the Bugles return to printed-paper, Sasuke sifted through articles regarding several subjects.
'Upon the recommendation of mutant response minister Valerie Cooper, funds have been cut to global defence organisation S.H.I.E.L.D. the government has begun concentrating its budget on mutant containment facilities. The Chicago police department has reported that riots have broken in their local area regarding the MRD presence within schools. The new Iran government has begun appealing to America to deport its mutant population to American camps, the Iranian ambassador said "since it was American scientists that created mutants it is only proper that the American government should hold responsibility over the issue", two hundred mutant citizens have already been deported, leading to the anti-government organisation known as "Turaab" to release a statement condemning the actions of the current regime against its mutant citizens,' Sasuke read the articles that stood out and turned to the final page regarding local news.
He widened his eyes slightly as he saw the picture of a small, black bag being carried out of a suburb house. Upon reading the article, he squeezed the paper into a ball.
'Local man shoots mutant dead, that mutant was his own daughter,' Sasuke unconsciously tore the paper apart.
He imagined the old man holding the shotgun, drenched in the blood of who should have been the most important person in his life. Fear and desperation had led him to madness. It was completely different from Itachi's situation yet Sasuke still found himself thinking about his brother. His brother's revelation of what really happened that night, that their mother and father had willingly allowed themselves to be killed, that they forced a hysterical Itachi to protect his little brother still hadn't purged Sasuke of his anger. Being in this world only further his anger.
"You don't have to forgive me!" Itachi had said.
'Brother, you didn't say anything to purge my anger, you said you weren't the one to save me,' Sasuke thought as he looked to Naruto.
The idiotic ninja was grinning as he revealed his high score.
"Oh come on, nobody plays that game anymore, of course your gonna get a highest score," Johnny said.
'I don't need to be saved' Sasuke thought as he touched his forehead.
"GAAGH!"
Sasuke grabbed his sword and jumped off his bed. The feral looking boy, Jimmy popped out his claws as he jumped out of bed.
"Jimmy," Kitty said, rushing to the bed.
"Great, can I have the bed back now?" Johnny asked.
"Kitty?" Jimmy voice was woozy as he stumbled forward.
Naruto caught Jimmy as he fell, cringing at how heavy the boy was. Sasuke lowered his sword and leant against the wall. Rogue walked into the room while Naruto supported Jimmy to his feet.
"Is the kid okay?" Jimmy asked.
"He's fine, he's asleep right now," Kitty said.
Jimmy suddenly became alert as he widened his eyes.
"The others, we gotta go back for them," he said.
"Others, what are you talking about?" Naruto asked.
"He's rounding us up…got a bunch of mutants in cages, said he's gonna kill em…said he wants the whole world to watch," Sasuke and Naruto narrowed their eyes as Jimmy weakly explained the situation.
Both Shinobi were angry for different yet similar reasons. They both saw what was going on as wrong. But while Naruto was compelled to help out of his own sense of justice, Sasuke's anger caused him to liken the American government to the village council. Jimmy continued to lean on Naruto for support, as he looked Kitty in the eyes.
"We need to get going before he kills them all," he said.
"Whose he? Who did this?" Kitty asked.
"Mean looking bastard, looked like a Sentinel with skin, his name…is Stryker!" Jimmy growled.
"Stryker huh," Naruto said.
The others looked at Naruto, shocked by the uncharacteristic anger he showed. He squeezed his hand into a fist and placed Jimmy on one of the chairs.
"Thanks for telling me who he is, now I need you to tell me where he is, so I can punch him right in the face!"
The determined look in Naruto's eyes was one Sasuke had seen many a time. In his mind Naruto Uzumaki had made another promise. Whether it was saving the captured mutants or bringing Stryker to justice was something Sasuke didn't care for. He only agreed with Naruto in the aspect that Stryker needed to be stopped, with death preferably. Once Stryker was dead Sasuke could then set his sights on those that were truly responsible for these tragedies, the supposed leaders that formed these unjust laws. Naruto slapped his fist into his hand as he looked at the people around him.
"So whose with me?"
Next Chapter 4: Insult
Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter and I hope I did well with how Tobi fights. We rarely see him fight, even in the Manga but I based his fighting style on sort of an observer and strategist, he analyses the situation outside and within the battleground to form plans as well as instant reactions to the situation. That and I incorporated some of the abilities we know of, his future fight scenes will also include any techniques we have yet to see in the Manga.
Next time Naruto sets out to save the day while Johnny and Kitty argue over what to do. Also Stryker's past revealed