Chapter 12: Zero Hour: Salvation
Light bathed Konoha, revealing the village in all its color. Yet, the moon was still perched high above them, and the sun had yet to awaken. The light that illuminated the village was the burning light of fire. Some of the shinobi's fire jutsus had missed, and several buildings were now aflame. And yet, through all of it, the fighting on the walls had not abated. Zerglings continued to leap onto the walls, and the defending shinobi and Protoss continued to repel them.
Naruto looked over at his friends, Sasuke and Sakura. For 2 straight hours they had been fighting on the walls, and for 2 straight hours their actions had changed nothing. Zerglings leapt over the walls still, and despite the hundreds of dead Zerg on both sides of the wall, they refused to give up. It was like the enemy's numbers were truly infinite, while the number of defenders slowly dwindled by the minute.
Sasuke stuck his sword through the throat of one of his opponents, before using his Chidori to cut through another. But it made little difference; there were still so many more. He ducked as a volley of spines flew overhead. As the battle continued, a small group of shinobi fought their way over to Sasuke and the other two. They had a brief exchange, still fighting without pause.
"The Zerg are attacking the main gate," one of the shinobi reported to them, "The number of troops guarding it are being overwhelmed. Shikamaru requests your immediate assistance."
"What of this location here?" Naruto asked, "We can't just leave a gap in the wall's defenses."
"We have that covered Lord Hokage. Go; we'll handle the Zerg here," another shinobi assured them.
The three of them nodded and sped off.
"May luck be with you," Naruto said as he left the shinobi behind.
The three friends raced through the village towards the main gate. Down an alley, then into a main road, before several shapes jumped down from the buildings to block their path. Zerglings that had broken through the front lines were barring them from Shikamaru's position. The group of them started edging towards the 3 shinobi, teeth bared in what looked like a hungry grin. With a snarl one of the zerglings leapt forward, towards them. Sakura sent it flying through a building with a punch.
The rest of the pack rushed in, intent on ripping the shinobi apart. One of them jumped a good 12 feet into the air, high above the rest of its pack. Sasuke jumped up to meet it, and the pair of them met in midair. Both of them landed on opposite sides from where they had begun. One landed on their feet; the zergling hit the ground with a dull 'thud'. Naruto and Sakura finished dispatching the remaining zerglings, before continuing down the road to their destination.
When they arrived at the main gate, Shikamaru and his forces greeted them.
"You're here. Good," Shikamaru looked slightly relieved.
"What's the situation?" Naruto asked him.
"The Zerg are attempting to break down the gate again. We were able to stop the wave of banelings that came first, but the zerglings and hydralisks are proving to be a bit harder to deal with," Shikamaru replied, "The zerglings might not do much individually, but their numbers is more than making up for that. My shinobi tried to clear them out, but the hydralisks are keeping us pinned down, so all we're doing is trading shots, waiting for them to break the gate down."
"Okay, so how do we help?" Sakura asked.
"Attempting to go over the wall and dealing with the hydralisks would be suicide, so I'm not even going to suggest that idea. The only thing that can be done at this point is to help us out when the Zerg get through the gate."
"Just wait until they get here, then deal with them as best we can?" Sasuke looked at his friend incredulously, "That's not exactly the typical Shikamaru Nara plan."
"There's nothing else we can do. The hydralisks would tear you apart the minute you poked your heads over the wall, and even if you could dodge them there's too many for you to deal with in one go. If you have any better ideas, I'd love to hear them."
As he spoke, a small group of phoenixes flew overhead, engaged in an aerial dogfight over the village. The phoenixes were outmaneuvering the mutalisks at every turn, and the flocks of mutalisks were clearly suffering for it. However, there were so many of the flying horrors, and only half a dozen phoenixes to combat them. One of the phoenixes was surrounded, and a glaive wurm struck the ship right in the portside engine. The damaged craft swiftly lost altitude, and crashed somewhere within the village.
Another group of mutalisks harried the small group of Protoss fighters out over the wall, towards the hordes of Zerg. Unable to escape in time, one of the ships was struck by several volleys of hydralisk spines. With an entire side of the craft damaged beyond repair, the phoenix went into a death spiral. In a last ditch effort to deal a bit more damage, the pilot directed his spiraling craft straight into the group of hydralisks that had shot him down. The hydralisks were nowhere near fast enough to escape, and every one of them died in the resulting explosion.
"See what I mean?" Shikamaru pointed at what had just happened, "There's just too many too deal with at this point."
Their attention was drawn back to the gate when a loud crack sounded from it. The gate had large cracks spreading across its surface, and every now and then a claw would break through. They could see the zerglings frantically trying to tear apart the giant wooden gate, teeth and claws ripping at the wood without any thought to their own well-being. It wasn't long before the zergling's front legs were clawing through the splintered wood at them.
"Get ready," Shikamaru pulled out a kunai from his belt, "here they come."
The zerglings finally tore through the last layer of the gate with cries of triumph. In a giant wave the vicious creatures ran towards the defenders, whose numbers looked pathetically small in comparison. Despite being outnumbered 7 to 1, the zealots and shinobi stood their ground. The two groups clashed with each other, making a large line of fighting all the way across the road. The zealots held their own, preventing the first waves of zerglings from getting past, but the waves after them simply jumped over their heads, landing in front of, or on, the shinobi behind them. For all the discipline and training the defenders had, their lines quickly became a chaotic mess. The zerglings proved so agile the defenders couldn't hold their position without fear of being ripped apart.
Shikamaru jumped to the side dodging a pouncing enemy, then used his shadow-stitching to bind it in place. Taking advantage of its immobility, Sasuke quickly stabbed the alien through the head. Another small group of the little monsters ran at them, forcing the pair of them to repeat the process a second time.
Naruto looked around the battle; there were too many enemies for them to deal with. Perhaps now was the time to finally use his new techniques. His hands moved to make the hand seals necessary.
"Wind style! Wind thief jutsu!"
A group of zerglings that were charging towards him suddenly stopped, and keeled over. They all frantically tried to breathe, but they couldn't; there was no air around them to breathe. Feebly, the aliens tried to stand, but to no avail. They twitched a few more times before dying of suffocation.
"Good thing you tried that with zerglings first, before trying it on mutalisks. The Zerg fliers don't really need to breathe, so that probably won't work on anything other than ground forces," a zealot commented on it.
"Still, nice jutsu," Sasuke admired, "Mind if I borrow that?"
"Yes."
"Oh gee, that's disappointing. I was so looking forward to copying that. Oh wait – I already did."
Naruto glared at his best friend, before continuing the battle. The skirmish lasted for what seemed like an hour before the last zergling fell. Shikamaru had immobilized it, and Sakura had kicked it right out of the village. Their little victory had come at a heavy cost; Only 5 shinobi were still standing, and only 3 zealots. Shikamaru bent down to check one of his lieutenants for life signs – he was alive, but no longer in any condition to fight. Sakura knelt down to heal the fallen shinobi, while the others took up defensive positions around her. As she worked, another shinobi came running through the city towards them.
"Sir, the Zerg have breached the southern wall," the ninja gave them a message, "The village's surviving defenders are falling back to a secondary defensive position."
Naruto looked over at his chief strategist.
"What should we do?" he asked him.
"We need to bottleneck the Zerg; get them into a chokepoint. If we can barricade ourselves into a more defensible location, we may be able to hold out long enough. We bring up defenses strong enough in a smaller location, we can stop the banelings and zerglings more easily. With a thick enough wall that allows us to attack out without leaving ourselves exposed, the hydralisks won't be as much of a threat either," Shikamaru told them.
"Okay, how do we do that?" Sakura asked him.
"We retreat further into the village," Shikamaru pointed down the road, "We bring up rock barricades with openings so we can fire out at the Zerg. If we can get into a crossroad section, we can block off the roads leading in, and stop the Zerg from there."
"Alright, if we're going to do that we should –." Sakura began, but she never got to finish the statement.
Right in the main gate entrance, a huge host of pulsing green eggs burst out of the ground and landed in front of them. The shinobi and Protoss backed up. The eggs pulsed for another second or two, and then burst open. From each egg burst forth a human. No. Not human. Not anymore.
These humans were grotesquely altered; some had tentacles sprouting from their body, others had thick bone-like horns or spikes. Naruto noticed that every single one of them had bone-like growth covering their hands, turning their fingers into long deadly claws.
"What the hell are those?" Naruto backed up, horrified at the new monstrosities.
Sakura noticed that some of them had headbands with the Konoha symbol on them.
"Are-are those shinobi?" she asked.
"They're infested," one of the zealots told them, "the Zerg have altered them to be slaves to the Swarm."
"Diiiiieeee," one of the infested moaned at them.
The horde slowly pulled out kunai from their belts, which somehow they had not lost. They raised them slowly, preparing to throw them at Naruto and the others. With sudden speed, the infested threw the blades at them, faster than the shinobi and Protoss expected. Naruto and the others managed to dodge the volley, but one of the shinobi was not so lucky. The unlucky ninja lay bleeding in the road, his body pierced by half a dozen kunai.
"Must ….. kill…" another infested said slowly.
"There's too many of them," Shikamaru said, "Run!"
They turned to run, but something came out of the ground in front of the infested as they did. This new thing looked like a massive insect, with many legs, a squat body, and worm-like tentacle coming from what looked like its mouth. The thing spat a nasty green goo at them, catching them before they could flee. Sasuke found that he was unable to get out of the slime, and that it was eating at his armor. He did however still have the ability to use his hands, as he was glad to discover when launching a fireball at this new enemy. The fireball nearly hit the thing, but the insect-like Zerg burrowed back underground just before it reached it. The fireball sailed over the spot where the thing was burrowed before smashing into the horde of infested shinobi.
They turned to run again, but the Zerg insect unburrowed and spat that green goo at them again. Its aim was off this time around, but it still caught 2 of the shinobi and one of the zealots.
"Go on without us!" one of the shinobi yelled at them.
The ninja would have said more, but a volley of kunai from the infested silenced him before he got the chance. Naruto and the other survivors did as the fallen shinobi said, and fled down the road as fast as they could.
"Shikamaru," Naruto looked over at his friend as they ran, "You need to get down to the southern wall and take command – keep them from falling apart. Sasuke, get back to the main gate and have everybody retreat to a more defensible location. Sakura, do the same with the north wall. I'll rally whatever surviving defenders I can find and disrupt the Zerg advance as best I can."
"Good luck," Sasuke nodded at his friends, "Try not to die will you?"
Naruto nodded. As he ran, he cursed himself silently. He should have just used Kurama's power and wiped out the Zerg before they even got to the walls! Now it was too late; the Kyuubi would do more harm than good with the Zerg inside the village now. That was a mistake he was not going to make a second time.
On the Gantrithor bridge…
Executor Selendis paced up and down the bridge of her supercarrier.
"Status report," she demanded.
"The Zerg's attacks on our base have started to abate," one of the Protoss told her, "The new zerglings that can jump up the cliffs into our base caused a fair amount of damage, but we cleared them out before they could do any significant damage."
"What of the Terrans? How are their defenses holding?"
"The Zerg have overwhelmed the outer walls; the Terrans and our standing forces have been pushed back deeper into the city."
"Where are our forces? They should be aiding the Terrans in this fight."
"They are. Praetor Xelios has taken command of the remainder of our forces in the eastern quadrant and is leading the entrenched defenders alongside the Terran Kakashi. The Praetor's student, Thanatos, has taken his zealots to reinforce the southern wall, which is the weakest point in the village's defenses."
"Then we must send them as much aid as we can spare."
"The shinobi weapons master, Tenten, reactivated our war machines just before the Zerg attacked. She has broken through the Zerg lines with the 5 functional ones, and is headed for the northern wall. Their ETA is approximately 25 minutes."
"Good."
Near the southern wall of Konoha, Shikamaru joined up with the remaining defenders. He met the zealot Thanatos and his forces along the way, and the group of them rallied all the shinobi and Protoss they could find.
"Good to see you still alive," Shikamaru nodded at the young Protoss.
"And you as well," Thanatos nodded back, "What's the plan?"
"We need to set up a defensive perimeter in that square down this road," Shikamaru pointed down one of the streets.
Thanatos nodded, and motioned for everyone to head down the road Shikamaru had pointed to. The whole group ran down the alley, and began setting up for a long siege. They could already hear the screams of the Zerg behind them.
"Hey, commander? Why is the ground so lumpy over here?" a shinobi called out.
"Probably just aftermath from earlier in the battle," another said dismissively.
Shikamaru had his doubts though, and told them to keep an eye on the ground whenever they could.
Near the main gate, Sasuke had joined the fight alongside his former sensei and the scarred Praetor. They too had discovered lumps beneath their feet, but were too busy to really take heed to them. The battle near the main gate was still the fiercest of them all; with hydralisks and now hordes of infested shinobi constantly attacking their position. Xelios and Kakashi were wreaking havoc amongst the ranks of the infested, cutting them down faster than the eye could see.
Suddenly, Sasuke felt the ground shift beneath his feet. He backed up, and the ground burst open, a large shape clawing its way out of the ground. The thing was squat and low to the ground, well armored, and had large horns upon its head. It was a roach.
'Oh, so that's where they were,' Sasuke realized the Zerg's roaches had been burrowed beneath them the whole time.
He jumped on top of the armored Zerg, and plunged his sword straight through its back. As a finishing touch, he channeled a chidori through the blade, and directed it straight into the roach's heart. He looked up to see more roaches all over inside the defensive perimeter. With an enraged yell he leapt forward to save his fellow shinobi from this new threat.
Sakura opened her eyes; they were still blurry. She shook her head to clear it. The last thing she could remember was the ground erupting beneath her feet, and being thrown into the stone wall. She blinked several times to clear her vision for good. Her eyes were met to a horrifying scene: shinobi and Protoss darting all around as zerglings and roaches attacked them all indiscriminately. Even before she could get up a roach spat its vile acid all over one of her shinobi. The poor ninja writhed on the ground screaming as the acid ate through her armor.
Sakura got up quickly, and punched the offending roach, breaking through its shell with a loud 'crunch!'. She was rather pleased with this, but the roach's companions seemed less so. A hydralisk launched a volley of spines at her, and two roaches came at her, one on the left and right. She moved to the left to attack the roach, dodging the volley of spines at the same time. She looked up, only then realizing that was the wrong way to go.
There was a stone wall in her path; she had just hemmed herself into a corner. The hydralisk and roach closed in behind her. Her back literally against the wall, she had nowhere to go to dodge them. She moved to the side as much as she could, and another volley of serrated spines slammed into the wall where she had been merely a second ago. She felt a searing pain in her arm at the same time though. One of the spines had grazed her, leaving a decent sized cut in her forearm. She looked at the roach. The thing was about to spit another one of its globs of acid at her, and this time there was really nowhere to go.
Just then, just as it was about to kill her, something came down hard right on top of it. Sakura blinked in shock. A slender, golden metal spear had skewered the roach through the back and right into the ground. A quick flash of light and burst of heat, and the hydralisk was gone too; disintegrated into a pile of ash.
"Need some help?" a familiar voice said somewhere above her.
Sakura looked up… and up …. and up some more. The golden spear went higher and higher, until it connected to a giant metal waist. On top of that was a massive golden robot thing, with a sloped hull, and a small thing with antennae that looked like it was the robot's head. Sakura's mouth fell open; the thing was huge! It had to be at least a hundred feet tall. The gigantic robot dwarfed even the largest of Konoha's buildings. Standing upon one of the huge robot's leg joints, was Tenten.
"Man am I glad to see you," Sakura called up to her friend.
"Looks like I got here just in time," Tenten commented, "Well come on, get up. True shinobi don't lie down when there's a battle going on."
Another hydralisk burst out of the ground, its armblades extended.
"Don't worry I got this," Tenten yelled.
Tenten pulled a kunai from her belt, and threw it at the hydralisk. This kunai was different though. It was bigger, broader, and it had deadly serrated barbs instead of the normal straightedge. The blade buried itself all the way to the hilt into the alien's shoulder, sending it spinning from the impact. A second kunai hit it in the side of the face, sending it spinning again. The third buried itself in the back of the alien's neck, right at the base of its skull. Its spine severed, the hydralisk hit the ground-dead.
"Nice," Sakura admired, "Those aren't normal kunai. What did you do?"
"I made them stronger," Tenten explained, "Before they were good against light armor and the flesh of humans, but they had proved to be less effective against the armored carapaces of the Zerg. So, to deal with that issue, I reengineered the blade to be stronger, so it penetrates through thicker armor more easily and with a lot more power. Now the blades go through Zerg like they were paper."
"Nice," Sakura said again, "Well then, let's not waste any more time. We still have a battle to win!"
Tenten nodded, and directed her machine, as well as 4 others behind her, into the heart of the skirmish taking place.
Shikamaru heard a noise behind him. He checked behind himself to see a roach unburrowing behind him.
"Impaling shadows!"
Shikamaru turned around to see his handiwork. A huge shadow spike made by the shadow the roach's burrow had made had pierced through the roach's belly, and out the top of the armored shell.
"That's the problem with being so low to the ground," Shikamaru smirked, "No armor protecting the area closest to it."
He undid the jutsu, and the roach collapsed onto the ground.
He looked around; the Zerg were everywhere. Even with Thanatos's deadly skill and furious strength, as well as that of his brethren, they were outmatched. It was only a matter of time before they were completely overrun. He tried to assist, but there were Zerg trying to surround him on all sides. At this rate, things were going to turn out very ugly for him.
Across the village, Naruto was looking around seeing the exact same thing as his friends. He and his fire teams had just run head on into an ambush, and they were paying for it dearly. The Zerg had hemmed them in on all sides, and the roaches especially were thinning them out rapidly. Naruto hit a particularly large roach with a giant gust of wind, sending it through a window into a building. He followed the alien into the building, hitting it with a Rasengan. The roach went through another wall, but it just got back up and spat a deluge of acid. Naruto dodged it, and the acid disintegrated a wall …. and what was a nice looking couch.
Naruto noticed something then: the roach was right under a weak section of the house's upper floor. A good strike and the whole thing would cave in right on top of it. He threw a trio of explosive kunai at the already buckling support beam. With the support beams gone, the second story began to sag under the weight of who-knows-what. The roach looked up in surprise as the entire second story collapsed right onto it, crushing the roach instantly.
Naruto turned to leave, and saw that miraculously, his men had emerged victorious from the ambush. He was about to exit the house and rejoin them, when a telepathic message rang in their heads.
"This is royal zealot Thanatos. To anyone hearing this message, we are being overrun by the Zerg. Requesting immediate assistance."
Naruto was going to respond, but the mental link was cut off before he could. The house above him started to creak ominously. He started to run for the door, but the wall caved in right in front of him, blocking him off. He was forced to back up quickly, and the whole house collapsed with him still in it.
Naruto pushed a large piece of debris off of himself. He coughed, hauling himself out of the rubble of what was a house less than two minutes ago. He looked up; there was no way out that way, or the way he came. The only way out he could see was if he moved through the house, out the other side from where he started. In other words, he was cut off.
"Lord Hokage! Are you okay?" one of his shinobi called through the rubble.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Naruto assured them.
"Hang on, we'll move the rubble and get you out," the shinobi promised.
"Don't bother," Naruto told them, "Get over to the south and help Shikamaru. I'll find my own way out and meet you there."
"You sure?"
"Yeah. Now get out of here; you're wasting time."
"Be careful."
Naruto heard them all turn and run down the road. He turned around, and started to head through the destroyed house. Gingerly, he picked his way over an overturned chair, and a smashed table. The hall forward was blocked though; he would have to find another way around. The hall to the right had caved in too. The only way to go on was to go up the stairs. It didn't help that the only light was coming in through the smallest of holes through the heaps of debris. As he made his way up the stairs, he felt that there was something up with the carpet; it felt as if something heavy but smooth had been dragged over it not too long ago.
Up the stairs, and down another hall. The poor person who had lived here had some serious cleanup to do when this was all over. A crunch underneath his foot made him jump. He looked down and realized that he was stepping on the glass frames of the pictures that used to hand on the walls of this hallway. He followed the oddly compressed carpet into a small bedroom. The floor had broken, leaving a hole to drop down to the 1st floor. He jumped down, and then hauled himself out of a broken window. He marveled at his luck that he didn't have to move anything, and that there was already a path for him to take to get out.
He started down the road, heading towards the sound of battle to the south. But he didn't get very far. The wall in front of him exploded outwards, and a hydralisk burst out of the wall hissing at him. This hydralisk was bigger than normal though; it was at least 3 or 4 feet taller than the others he'd seen so far. It hissed at him, at raised its gigantic armblades to cut him down. Naruto backed up, narrowly avoiding the slash.
"Wind style! Needle Wind!" Naruto immediately counter-attacked.
The wind around him spun and condensed into super thin, super sharp needles. They hissed towards the huge monster, piercing all the way through it. It fell back with a screech. Naruto followed up with another Rasengan, throwing it into a mass of broken glass and wood. He advanced slowly, wanting to make sure he killed the thing. Right as he did, a weird clicking noise sounded behind him. He whirled around to see a large green ball rolling at full speed right at him. With a yell he jumped out of the way, and the baneling smashed into the fallen hydralisk, completely covering it with its acid.
Naruto half expected to see the big hydralisk (he just remembered the Praetor called the bigger ones Hunter Killers) thrashing around as the acid ate it, but there was no such movement underneath it.
'It's got to be dead,' Naruto thought, 'There's no way it could have survived.'
The acid began to become neutralized, and was fading away. No. No it wasn't. The hunter killer's carapace was absorbing the baneling's acid. And worse, Naruto watched in horror as the monstrosity's wounds swiftly closed shut. The thing got back up, perfectly healed. Naruto ducked away, and hid from the massive creature. He reached out with his mind to find that of the Praetor Xelios's. It wasn't long before he found the mind he was looking for.
'Praetor! The banelings. They… their- .'
'Their acid has the property to accelerate the regeneration rate of damaged Zerg tissues by 4000%. We've noticed,' Xelios finished darkly, 'We discovered that just now. We were about to finish off one of those damn infestors and its body guards when a big group of the things came rolling towards us. We jumped to avoid them only to realize we weren't their target at all.'
Naruto would have continued the conversation, but he didn't have time. Giant armblades smashed through the wooden roof he was hiding under and ripped them apart. Naruto rolled out of cover to attack back, but the hunter killer whipped its massive tail at him, catching him right in the chest. He flew backwards. He looked up to see the alien bearing down on top of him, armblades raised. He threw a kunai at it, and backed up until he hit a stone wall. The thing aimed its armblade carefully, making sure it was going to kill the shinobi in one blow. The hunter killer swung its arm down right at Naruto's chest.
The blade stopped inches away from hitting him; something had caught the big hydralisk's arm in mid swing and was slowly dragging it back. The alien strained against whatever was holding it, but whatever it was was too strong, and its arm was dragged back behind its head. Hissing in rage, the alien raised its other arm to kill him instead. Before it could even begin the swing though, whatever had caught its first arm caught the second. Shrieking in frustrated rage, the alien opened its chest. Naruto knew that at point blank range there was no way he could dodge those grooved spines.
Just as it fired its volley of spines, the ground buckled underneath it, throwing its balance backwards. The spines flew right over Naruto's head and punched through the stone wall behind him. Naruto could see something covering the hunter killer's entire body, until only its head was poking out from the mound. The alien started to scream an unceasing scream of rage.
"Sand coffin!"
The hunter killer's scream abruptly stopped, and its head sagged downwards in death. A young man with red hair and jet black eyes stepped out in front of the dead alien. The young man had a red tattoo on his forehead and a huge gourd on his back.
"How many times must I save you Naruto?" the man asked him, holding out a hand to help him up.
"Hey, I've saved you plenty of times too you know. If anything this makes us even, Gaara," Naruto grasped his friend's arm.
"Rather ugly aren't these things," Gaara observed the dead hydralisk buried in sand.
"That they are, my friend. That they are," Naruto nodded.
Down south, Shikamaru was facing off against no less than a dozen infested shinobi. He couldn't find any way to take them all out, not without leaving himself open to at least one of them. Luckily for him, it didn't matter.
A blonde haired girl with a ridiculously large fan flew overhead, hitting more than half of the infested with a huge gust of wind. Shikamaru took advantage of the confusion to kill the others while the girl landed next to him.
"Typical Shikamaru; always needs to get his butt saved by a girl," the blonde girl smiled at him.
"Haha," Shikamaru laughed sarcastically, "Nice to see you too Temari. What took you guys so long? Wait, let me guess. Your hair came undone and you just couldn't bear the thought of showing up to a battle like that."
"More like Kankurō couldn't decide which of his precious puppets he wanted to bring," Temari smirked at him.
"Speaking of which, where is Kankurō anyways?"
"He, Baki, and Matsuri are leading a full frontal assault on the remaining aliens outside the walls. Gaara and I led our teams in to clean up the remainder inside your village," Temari explained.
Shikamaru and Temari ran side by side, rushing to aid in the cleansing of Konoha from the few Zerg that survived the Suna shinobi's onslaught. The Konoha shinobi stood on the walls with their Suna shinobi friends; victory was theirs at last.
Author's Note: Hey everybody, school just started for me again, so things might start to go a little slower, but I'm not stopping the story during school. So if the chapter takes a while, please be patient because I am working on it. Thank you for understanding.
Also, please tell me: What are your thoughts on the new additions? Please let me know whether or not you like my choice of upgrades, and the addition of the raptor zerglings. Thanks again!