"Dance for me, you rascals!" Madara beamed a maniacal smile, enjoying every bit of dread in the faces of his worn-out opponents that had thought that they'd already had him on the ropes only for the veteran of a hundred battles to truly begin coming swinging after they thought him having run out of tricks.
"This isn't an attack that we can just dodge!" Kouta growled while looking up at the oncoming meteoric shower of the moon's remains upon the Forest of Death. It would take fleeing outside the territory of the entire village to avoid any semblance of the moon's chunks crashing down and that was simply not an option for their goal laid onward in the temple deep within the Forest of Death.
"Agreed, we must go all-out for this." Deiji nodded and pressed his arms to his belly, clutching the spandex layer of his bodysuit underneath the armor and twisting it. A cover of white smoke blasted out from underneath the armor plates of Deiji's outfit and throughout the gas mask covering his face, once the smoke cleared out somewhat, Deiji stood submerged inside a body of a white horse from the bottom up, adopting a centaur-like shape.
Nanaba performed the same motion, letting the wings of the Seven-Tails to sprout from her back as well as the numerous tails from underneath her once the girl took it to the air. With both of his Jinchuuriki teammates using their Partial Tailed Beast Transformations, Kouta let the dark chakra flow freely from himself as well, emerging from the pillar of malevolent chakra fully transformed and coated with the dark, wooden texture all over his skin.
In the Second Stage of his Cursed Seal transformation, Kouta's eyes became obstructed by the plating of wood that spiked upwards in wild horn-like protrusions at its tips while the boy's mouth remained uncovered and only a pitch-black change of the hue of his skin from the Curse Seal tattoos consuming his body entirely could have been seen. Kouta sprouted four arms, two of them artificial and constructs of chakra channels surrounded by the armored plating of his transformation and all four of them bulky enough to appear like heaven-smashing hammers at their forearms. The tube-like cannon that most of the Juugo techniques required sprouted from all four of Kouta's palms.
Kouta roared out into the sky, sending shockwaves that created ripples across the devastated ground. Nanaba and Deiji took off to destroy the meteors that threatened to crush the entire battlefield if they weren't stopped, Deiji stopped halfway through his ascent to examine Kouta's condition. Seeing the transformed warrior hunching over and clawing at the ground, roaring out wildly and sending chakra blasts across the entire place in his wrath, he turned to Tsunade.
"Please beat some sense into Kouta. Sometimes he can't control himself and goes berserk in this state, you seem the only one strong enough to knock him back into his senses a bit." Deiji nodded at Tsunade as if it was even remotely a reasonable thing to request and then blasted off to deal with the meteor storm.
"Chakra Burst!" Kouta yelled out, raising his hands up as more and more of his transformed physique morphed into cannons, resulting in so many cannon tubes covering the boy's body at the end that he seemed like a black chunk of cheese. Each of these protrusions formed a sphere of chakra that then got so close to one another that they created a sort of barrier around the boy and, as he raised his arms up, erupted in an explosive wave all around him.
Orochimaru spread his hands out and tried to weather the overwhelming storm coming off from one of his own allies but the power was too much and it ended up consuming him. One of Jiraiya's brightly colored toads landed before his sage and thrust an adamant-looking shield into the dirt, deciding to become a staunch defender of his summoner but that idea ended up in an explosive failure when the erupting chakra dispelled the summon immediately after smashing into Jiraiya after being thrown back. Tsunade cried out in both frustration and pain when the force of the impact sent her flying alongside her teammates. The blonde thrust the tip of her fingers into the dirt like an improvised rake and forced her feet to the ground, using her unnatural force to shovel her way through the explosive wave.
Morei and Raizo both got sent flying, though their frailest teammate made her way atop of some nearby rubble and just cackled in observation of the destruction, enjoying every second of the light show. Despite having suffered perhaps the most damage out of everyone around. She couldn't stop smacking her thighs and rolling about on the rocky wreckage in a respectable distance of the outraging youth, cackling.
Rarrifa and Faeino screamed out in pain when the force of impact hit them, they both smacked across Saol's expanded body and the suffering fatso somewhat cushioned their damage willingly, while taking in more of the shockwave than he normally should have for the sake of watching over his frailer teammates.
"Calm down, Kouta!" Itachi yelled out and turned his Mangekyou Sharingan toward the rampaging youth, for a brief moment, a flash of crimson appeared in Kouta's own black eyes instead of the usual, golden iris that beamed within the black void in his eyeholes.
"Fool, you forget which one of us has superior eyes…" Madara turned his own Mangekyou to Kouta as well, the Sharingan's reflection on Kouta's eyes changed to Madara's pattern but before Madara could gain full control over the boy's hectic transformation, the shockwave reached him and, due to the distraction over the matter of taking control of this chaotic new factor on the battlefield, it sent Madara flying as well.
Kouta turned his eyes up in anticipation of the massive meteor that was coming to crash on top of him, he put his hands together and raised them up into the sky, due to the overwhelming size of that which threatened to crush him, he didn't have to aim at all so his mind, overrun with demands that he'd kill every living being in the vicinity to satisfy his murderous urges, didn't have to work overtime.
"Concentrated Chakra Wave!" Kouta roared out and unleashed a pillar of hellfire at the meteor. The blast might have been a bit too powerful, however, as it burrowed right through the meteor and left a molten hole in the middle while the meteor continued on its destructive path, prompting Kouta to jump upward with jets blasting through his feet. The transformed Juugo entered into the hole he had just made and burst his chakra forth again, reducing the meteor to mere dust with another explosive chakra wave.
The moon was hefty, compared to the battlefield however and more and more of its pieces were crashing down. Deiji and Nanaba pressed their hands together, letting spheres of chakra of blue, white, wine and black shades to concentrate into a singular, obsidian sphere that they let at the fractions of the moon that threatened them.
"Tailed Beast Bomb!" they shouted out in unison while annihilating the moon fragments crashing at them with a blazing hue of entry into the Cubeworld's atmosphere.
"What a mess!" Orochimaru hissed at the oncoming meteor storm and bit his finger, shuffling through a collection of hand seals and driving his bleeding palm into the ground to unleash a combination of supersized constrictors from the underground that rushed in to tackle the falling moon. Despite the heat from the entering moon chunks setting the serpents ablaze, their headbutts managed to crush the moon pieces into meaningless fragments that rained down from the heavens with nothing compared to the previous weight and danger they've posed.
Tsunade soared through the air, taking off the ground with her herculean strength and rolling back the torn up sleeves while her fists glowed blue, with a furious expression the girl devastated the few moon chunks she could see with simple punches and kicks before landing back down.
"Let's go, Gamaken!" Jiraiya prompted his ally to thrust its sasumata fork at the meteor in an attempt to smash it.
"No way, I'm horrible!" Gamaken became flustered and delivered only a half-baked thrust. He raised his sakazuki shield to protect himself and his summoner from the crashing moon fragment that he had failed to destroy but the falling moon ended up crashing on top of Jiraiya and Gamaken and separating the battlefield section where Team Hawthorn and Team Hiruzen took their stands from where the rest of the ninja alliance was.
"Jiraiya!" Tsunade yelled out and kicked the moon chunk into bits with a push kick, pulling her injured teammate from underneath the rubble. The white hair and the entirety of the youth's face were covered in blood and when the medical ninja moved any part of her teammate's body, the youth winced and wanted to cry out in pain but could only gurgle and cough up blood. "I'm going to need a second to heal him." She looked at Orochimaru.
"Are you sure? Look at Madara, a trick like this has drained him significantly, he's not immortal nor is he almighty, would you not be rather bashing his brain in right now, Tsunade?" Orochimaru suggested with an innocent shrug.
"I'd love nothing more but… The lives of our comrades come first!" Tsunade took a moment and spared a thought imagining Madara's body crunching underneath the weight of her fists but then turned back to Jiraiya as her hands erupted in an emerald glow that substituted the azure gleam of her Chakra Enhanced Strength.
"Great White Punch!" Morei roared out proudly as he unleashed a punch with a mass of water encasing his punch like a boxing glove. The soaring shark-man snapped his leg backward while throwing the punch just to gain that little bit of extra power to it. It remained unclear whether it was needed for the falling moon folded to the awesome physical might of Morei Hoshigaki.
Raizo thrust his hand and let a kunai knife emerge from his sleeve. The ring of his kunai knife was attached to a ring of a chain and the weapon extended to its maximum length before Raizo let his chakra coat it so that the tip of his knife became embedded into the stone. A jolt of Lightning Release passed from the bottom of the chain to the top, glowing with gold as very few artificial electric discharges in the ninja world did. The resulting discharge destroyed the chunk of the moon to a significantly smaller shower of rocks. Raizo leaned back and covered up his face.
"What unforgivable dribble," he exclaimed as one of the tiny pebbles of moonstone cut a meaningless slash on his cheek. "You've ruined the elegance of my murder."
"Cheer up, fartface," Chu yelled at her teammate, "It's not like you don't wrap your head in scarfs and hoods and cover it with masks everywhere you go anyway…"
The young woman raised her kanabo and drove it into the moon chunk just inches away from her head, chakra flared up as the young woman coated her weapon in it so that physics could finally shut up about reverberation and other meaningless drivel and so Kyona Chu could send the chunk of the moon flying back to where it came from until it was nothing less but a gleaming star in the skies above.
"Super Expansion Jutsu!" Saol Akimichi clapped his hands and feet before spreading them and expanding massively in size. "Tsuparri Thrust!" he yelled out before delivering a flurry of arm thrusts and destroying all of the oncoming moon chunks that would have threatened his team.
Despite the final fraction of the moon smashing right where Itachi stood, a murder of crows escaped its destructive landing and just a second later Itachi resumed his stance and observation of the battle from atop of the moon chunk that had nearly crushed him with a nonchalant nature that was signature of the Uchiha approach to battle.
"Now is your chance to strike!" Itachi declared to his alliance and he made the first move, going through six hand seals and expelling a grand fireball from his mouth in an endless flamethrower directed at Madara.
"Your flames are lukewarm…" Madara grunted before going through his own array of hand seals and expelling a flamethrower of his own that not just challenged Itachi's but threatened to overtake it. "They do not burn me!" Madara concluded with a final, resolute push that would have resulted in Itachi becoming engulfed in the clash of Great Fireballs but black flames sprouted over his clothes, forcing the Ghost of Uchiha to react promptly and slip out of his armor and tear the patches of his trousers that became encased in Itachi's Amaterasu.
Despite Madara's best attempts to avoid the ebony flames, he did catch a few of its never-dying sparks and began combatting their expansion. That was before he noticed the wooden-looking arrow spearheading at him from the skies over his head. Kouta smashed into the ground where Madara stood and extended his hand to launch a decimating chakra cannon blast at the legendary Uchiha but Madara's feet wrapped around Kouta's head and sent the young man rolling aside when Madara swung him with his legs, bringing himself back up to both feet and taking a closer look at the ninja alliance he had just pissed off by throwing a shattered moon at them.
Deiji charged onward at Madara, smoke broke his helmet, letting patches of the boy's hair come forth from underneath but they did not stay in the open for long as soon they've turned to horns of the Five-Tails. Madara raised his arms up and grabbed the charging dolphin-horse by its horns, wrestling it to the ground and then forming a Susanoo fist from thin air to send the downed half-beast away from him.
Feeling some of his strength returning already, Madara jumped up to confront the Seven-Tails' rush too. The long tails of the partially transformed Nanaba wrapped around Madara in mid-air while the girl rushed to the skies only to take a dive and threaten to slam Madara into the ground. Madara glared the girl in the eyes, sending her crashing down and forcing Itachi into action to dispel the genjutsu that Madara had placed on the girl.
Madara dragged his arm across his other forearm, exposing sealing glyphs over it to summon a katana in his hand, with a proud battle cry he thrust his blade onward in a stout, two-handed swing that split one of the pair of gigantic boas that Orochimaru sent to subdue him in half. The other snake froze in its coiling before falling to the ground in pieces, cut up like sausage before Madara's image phased back into the limits of human perception, throwing his cracked katana aside to meet the brought back Jiraiya hand-to-hand.
The young man was taking a nasty beatdown before crouching up and letting his ponytail expand and wrap over Madara's arm. Jiraiya swung his entrapped opponent and slammed him around over his head again and again before sending him sliding back and covering his swollen chest with a multitude of busted ribs with his shaking arm. Madara coughed up blood but in a mad stupor of battle rushed on to meet Tsunade in her challenging charge.
Having seen through Madara's tricks, Tsunade threw a cross seemingly into thin air, reading where the Susanoo fist would manifest to crush it into shattered, ethereal splinters and reduce Madara to a stumbling mess. With a proud roar, Tsunade sent an uppercut to Madara's stomach that forced an alarming amount of blood out of the Uchiha's abdomen and sent him flying. Tsunade took it to the heavens as well but not to embrace them, instead, she chose to split them.
"Heavenly Foot of Pain!" Tsunade yelled out, driving her calf into the back of Madara's neck like a guillotine and crushing the Ghost of Uchiha into the ground with her descent.
Before Madara could catch his breath and stand back up, still coughing pain, Morei was all over him, throwing a dropkick at him that Madara managed to avoid with a stumble back. Instead of safety, however, he ran straight into a tomb of chains wrapping around his body. Igaten Raizo unrolled Madara Uchiha from his chain entrapment like a yo-yo right into Morei's clutch. Wrapping his arms around Madara's waist, Morei delivered his famed suplex that managed to crush even the Six-Tails.
"Great White Fall!" Morei yelled out but his proud declaration became drowned out by Madara's own grunts of pain.
"Hey, fuckface!" Madara raised his cracked open head to meet Kyona Chu eye-to-eye as the young lady held her kanabo over her shoulders, ready to smash his head in mercilessly and swing at Madara until his head was just a mass of mush on the ruined forest floor. Madara felt the force of his Mangekyou surging through his body again, it had faltered momentarily after Tsunade had shattered his Susanoo but it was back now. Madara threw his arms to the sides as an ethereal palm thrust sent Chu rolling back like a human-wheel.
The ninja alliance observed in horror as Madara rose from the ground, surrounded by a whirling pillar of blue energy that began taking a clearer shape. A towering monster of dark blue, a tengu nose, and two lines running down from its mouth to its chin and hair, tied to the sides of the Perfect Susanoo stood from its knees to where it could observe the entirety of the Cubeworld and see the ninja alliance facing off against him as nothing more than a handful of fleas compared to his perfection.
The resolve and stamina needed to form the Perfect Susanoo came just in perfect timing, had it taken Madara one second more to recover this ace of his, he'd have been humiliated by a handful of energetic kids. Two main arms of his Susanoo gripped a single, claymore-shaped blade while the arms at the bottom of the wings that his ethereal armor had sprouted adopted a pair of katana shaped out of sheer energy but larger than most buildings all by themselves. In this armor, it would not matter if Madara's body was broken and at its limit, he would not need to move to destroy those rascals. Even if he'd too weak to fight Hashirama afterward, he would not be done in by a handful of brats and that was all that mattered.
The Perfect Susanoo was ready to go a little bit wild now. The battle was as good as over, as far as Madara was concerned.