A/N: I want to point out I started this, story earlier in the Fall than I did with my other crossover: Arashi Uzumaki of the Blue Plague, but still no where in the beginning, so if you want to know what happened in Blue Plague series before the point I used, you got to read the actual books. Just don't let kids read it.
I'm also censoring curse words as it's too many used in more than just saying usual ways that I can't ignore them all. At least with censoring I'm not going against my usual way of avoiding curse wordsof the Blue Plague series Tomas W. Watson, whose wife is Tina Watson. I should also tell you Watson always based a character after himself in his books, and in the Blue Plague series that's Bruce.
Finally, I don't own the Blue Plague series or the Naruto series or it's characters. But I do know the wife of the writer of the Blue Plague series Tomas W. Watson, whose wife is Tina Watson. I should also tell you Watson always based a character after himself in his books, and in the Blue Plague series that's Bruce.
if you see letters with '-' that's me sensoring curse words in case none of you realized that.
If you haven't read it yet, read this first:
Blue Plague's Nine-Tail Fox's Son: The Fall
Blue Plague's Nine-Tail Fox's Son: The Survival
Bruce Find Himself A Couple of New Teammates
Saturday morning, the entire command group was at a table when Bruce asked Temari to point out the two disciplined problems. Temari pointed the two out, telling Bruce their names were Raymond and Julie. Looking at the two Temari pointed out, Bruce saw they both had on pistols and had M-4s across their backs.
"They have weapon privileges?" Bruce asked.
"Barely," Steve replied. He was in charge of testing for carrying privileges inside the clan.
Bruce looked at the two sitting at the end of a table across the hall by themselves. Neither of them looked like they had taken a bath in days.
"They haven't," Naruto said as if reading Bruce's mind. "I can smell them from here."
"Probably thought they can fool us into thinking they were on s- detail," Temari added.
Looking down the table, Bruce stood up, saying, "Be ready to kill them if they make a move." That statement caught everyone off guard as Bruce started toward the table where the two were sitting. Everyone at the command table pulled out pistols and laid them on the table, including Shikamaru.
Bruce stopped beside Raymond, keeping both of them to his front with an open area behind them. "Raymond and Julie, stand up now," Bruce commanded them, and the hall fell silent.
Raymond turned, looking up at Bruce with bloodshot eyes and replying, "Man, go play soldier with someone else. I'm eating here." Julie giggled as Raymond turned back to his plate.
Bruce reached out, grabbing the hair on the back of Raymond's head. Then using his weight, Bruce slammed Raymond's head into the table, breaking his nose. Still holding Raymond's hair, Bruce yanked him out of his chair and threw him on the floor. Before Raymond even registered what had happened, he looked up and saw Bruce, who was now pointing a pistol at his head.
Without taking his eyes off Raymond, Bruce said, "Julie, if you move, you will die here and now. Everyone at the command table has a weapon pointed at you. Now Julie, I want you to raise your hands very slowly above your head."
When Bruce saw Julie raised her hands above her head in his peripheral version, he spoke to Raymond. "Raymond, put your hands on your head. I'm going to grab the front of your shirt to pull you up. Try anything and you can fill in the blanks."
Reaching down to grab Raymond, Bruce heard Naruto say, "Don't you dare move Julie!"
Bruce glance up to see Naruto was behind Julie and had his kunai knife at Julie's neck. Looking back at Raymond and grabbing his shirt, Bruce pulled Raymond to his feet, saying, "Well, I see both of you are stupid."
Holding his pistol to Raymond's head Bruce took the M-4 off Julie followed by her pistol. Then he did the same for Raymond. "Naruto, search Julie," Bruce said.
Naruto put the kunai knife in Julie's back and patted her down, pulling out a small pistol, three knives, throwing them on the floor behind her. Bruce instructed Naruto to do the same for Raymond. Naruto created a shadow clone to keep Julie at knife point before patting down Rayfound two knives, which he added to the pile behind him.
Then Naruto sniff the air and and reached around into Raymond's pants and pulled out a small pistol. "I thought I smelled another gun on you," Naruto said.
"Naruto, lead Julie to the command table," Bruce said as he walked Raymond backward to the command table. Naruto took over for his clone and pulled Julie by her hair, screaming the whole way. They put Raymond and Julie beside each other and zip tied their hands behind their backs.
Bruce looked at the two now as he put his pistol back in his holster. Then he started the hearing. "You two are guilty of not reporting to work detail, showing up under influence of drugs, not showing up for workouts, and then not showing up for punishment duty. How do you answer these charges?"
"You said we can use drugs. That you didn't care," Raymond responded.
"I said you could use them on your time, not on the clan's. If your habit endangers the clan, you are guilty." Bruce corrected.
"I'm not picking up s- for anyone," Julie snapped.
"Oh, don't worry, you are beyond the punishment of s- detail now," Temari said.
"You two are found guilty of endangering the clan, not sharing in the work load, and making others carry your burden," Bruce continued his sentence. "Your sentence is expulsion from the clan, to be carried out immediately. You will be driven one hundred miles from here and left on the side of the road. If you're ever seen by this clan again, you'll be shot on sight. Remember, we have UAVs up all the time and will know if you come close."
The two just stared at Bruce in shock as what he said sunk in. "You can't do that to us. You rescued us. We'll die if you do that to us," Julie cried out.
"We didn't rescue you, we gave you a choice to join the clan and follow the rules. You couldn't even follow the rules. Only time that's acceptable is when you are putting your life in the line to save someone else, which you have not done in your bliss of breaking the rules," Naruto said. "That makes you nothing but scum."
"Thank you Naruto," Bruce said.
"Please give us another chance!" Raymond pleaded.
"You threw away your chance when you didn't show up for punishment duty." Bruce said.
"We'll do it. Please don't throw us out. I'll quit drugs, just don't throw me out. I'll be dead in a week," Julie pleaded, with tears running down her face.
"No, I think you two will be dead in a few days," Bruce replied. Raymond fell down on his knees crying, looking up for mercy. "Sorry, Raymond. The old ways are dead. A man's word, honor, pride, commitment, and loyalty to the clan and humanity are what we measure someone by, and that is what will change this world. Neither of you have those things," Bruce told them. "Temari, get four people and drive these two a hundred miles away and leave them. Put their clothes in a bag with one twenty-two caliber rifle, a pistol, and five hundred rounds. Drop the bag a hundred yards from them after you drop them off."
Bruce moved over to grab the two. He looked back at the hall and called out Kankaro and one other man and two women to help her.
The exiled couple was dragged out of the hall crying as Bruce looked up at the clan. Most people had acceptance on their face few had doubt, only a couple showing hostility. One of those was Jenny Green. "Yes Ms. Green? Do you think I was too harsh?" Bruce asked her, crossing his arms.across his chest.
"You just killed them," Jenny replied, as her husband slapped her arm.
"No Jenny, they killed themselves," Bruce corrected her.
Jenny did not replied as her husband kept slapping her arm, telling her to shut up. When Jenny wouldn't look at her husband, he forced her to sit down.
"At least the Husband learned his lesson," Naruto said.
Everyone in the hall started talking in hush voices. Bruce sat down rubbing his temples, fighting a headache.
"Here," Sakura focus green healing chakra to Bruce's head, which eases the headache.
"Baby, you didn't have much of a choice," Debbie said.
Bruce looked at Debbie. "What? Those a-? I know that. I just got a headache because there's too much to do."
Debbie smiled because she knew Bruce was lying. She looked over at Stephanie and Angela, who were both watching her. "Okay baby, we all know you are still the king of testosterone, but it's all right to admit you feel bad when you have to make a decision like that."
Bruce was fixing to unload on Debbie until he looked at her and saw concern on her face. Having Sakura use medical jutsu to ease his headache probably didn't help. "I'm all right, baby. I'll survive. Thanks Sakura," Bruce siad.
"No problem. It was a little trick Lady Tsunade taught me to help handle stress headaches," Sakura said.
Bruce nodded. Then looked up at Naruto. "How did you know Julie was up to something sneaky?"
"I teach stealth class and let me tell you, she's really good at sneak attacks," Naruto said. "I even talk to Danny about it and she told me Julie would try throwing punches when you aren't looking. Since there were kids here, I thought I spare them from seeing her brains being blown out."
Bruce stood up. "I'm heading out to start working on the trailer. See you guys there."
Naruto went with the family, and for the rest of the morning, they cleaned out the trailer, bolted chairs to the floor, and put in an A/C and heater unit. After lunch, Naruto trained on ninjutsu as Bruce went with Jake try out test rockets on some cars.
After training Naruto headed to the control room where Konohamaru Moegi and Udon was on watch.
"How is it going?" Naruto asked.
"Not much, Naruto. It been rather boring," Konohamaru said.
Just as Konohamaru said that, a tank showed up rolling down the road.
"You were saying," Moegi said.
"Big Daddy One or two, this is Blonde Fox from Mission Control. Tell me that's one of you driving the tank from vehicle storage?" Naruto said
"Blonde Fox, this is Big Daddy Two. Tell everyone to stay off the roa. Big Daddy One is playing," Mike called back.
"Copy that," Naruto responded as Udon send the alert.
They kept watch of the tank as it reached the front gate.
"Mission Control, this is Big Daddy One. Open the f- gate!" Naruto heard over the radio.
Whoever was at the fort must be scared senseless into listening as the gate open.
"Big Daddy Two, is that tank by any chance loaded?" Naruto asked.
"Blonde Fox, I can't be certain, but I don't think so."
Naruto watched as the tank reached the main underground storage area and stopped at the ramp going down to the door. They watch as the tank shut down and a figure jumped out, running down inside the bunker. Then a fork lift drove out carrying a pallet of cases.
"So much for being unloaded," Naruto said as eleven more figures that Naruto guess was the rest of the family joined the tank. They took turn loading the tank. Then they took turn driving the tank and controlling the turret. Soon most of the family went back to work but the tank kept going.
An hour later after Naruto left the control room to get back to work himself, he heard a cannon shot off in the distance.
"Bruce must have found a target to practice on," Naruto said.
Bruce returned later, swapped out kids, and took off again. After all the kids were done, he returned to see Mike, Paul, Willie Connor and Naruto standing beside Debbie. Debbie looked at them and pointed at the tank. Mike Paul Willie and Connor took off like schoolboys on summer break. Paul ran up to the driver 's hatch, telling Bruce he knew how and wanted to drive. Bruce smiled, jumped out and climbed inside the turret, making it very crowded.
"You're not joining them?" Debbie asked Naruto.
"No way. It's going to be cramped even with my transformations," Naruto said.
As soon as the boys were done taking turns, the girls took turns with the tank.
Naruto at that point joined the hall waiting for the food line to open when the family returned. Sitting down, Bruce looked up at Willie, who had called his name. "The M-1 is good toy, but I don't tink it will me much use against a mob of blues with us firing anti tank rounds at them," Willie said.
"Not going to shoot at them with anti-tank. I brought a thousand M1028 Canister shot."
Willie's eyes got wide as Stephanie asked. "What's canister shot?"
Mike smiled. "It turns that five inch barrel into a very big shot gun.
"So basically a bigger barrel weapon," Naruto said.
Bruce smiled and looked at Willie. "Okay, I let you play with my toy. When can we play with yours?"
"What toy?" Naruto asked.
Jake and Matt explained the MRLS--which was a truck with tracks and a box on the back; and patriot missile system which was basically an oversized HEMETT with a box on the back and another two besides it that Willie and Conner brought back.
"Geez what's with you army guys adding with big numbers. Just multiply it and be done with it," Naruto joked.
Bruce gave Naruto the finger and turned back to Willie. "Well?"
Willie looked down at the table as everyone turned to look at him. "That's not fair, Willie," Bruce whined. "Conner, when can we play with yours?"
Conner started stuttering. Maggie, Willie's wife, was just shaking her head and staring at WIllie, was still looking at the table. Then Maggie stated, "You didn't, did you, Willie? Please tell me you didn't." Willie looked up at the ceiling like he couldn't hear her. Maggie put her hand over her face. "You don't even know how the d- thing works! Why would you bring one back?"
"Troublesome," Shikamaru muttered realizing what was going on.
"What are you talking about Maggie?" Debbie asked her.
"My husband is infatuated with the Patriot Missile System. He tried for years to get transferred to air defense so he could play with them," Maggie announced.
"You don't know how to work it?" Bruce asked, shocked. He turned to face Conner. "I guess you don't know how to work an MRLS either."
"No," Conner admitted. "I just saw what they can do in Iraq and thought we could use one to back up the mortars."
Bruce stood up and left the center, muttering very unpleasant words. Stephanie looked at Debbie for an explanation. "They brought back toys nobody knows how to play with," Debbie said.
"I'm guessing since these toys are highly deadly weapons, even Bruce knows better than to play with one without knowing how?" Yamato asked.
"Yep," Debbie replied.
Twenty minutes later, Bruce walked back in carrying a stack of five inch binders and sat them down beside Stephanie. Putting four in one pile, he said, "Stephanie, will you read these four and learn how to operate the Patriot and then these three to learn how to operate the MRLS? Then teach Jake how to do it so he can teach it to me."
"Sure, Bruce," Stephanie replied, smiling at Bruce and grabbing a binder.
"Must be complicated for you to have her teach Jake first," Naruto said remembering Bruce admission of having a hard time understanding Stephanie's work before her presentation on Blues.
"You have no idea. I looked through to see if I could read them myself, and they talk about advanced computer algorithms with radar return. Jake is the only one able to explain them to me, but Stephanie can read through them faster," Bruce admitted.
"You could just have Stephanie teach both of you," Shikamaru said.
Naruto shook his head knowing Shikamaru wasn't there to hear Bruce's admission.
Bruce narrowed his stare at Shikamaru.
"Go easy on him, Bruce. Shikamaru wasn't there for Stephanie's presentation," Naruto advised.
"Jake, bring your notebook tomorrow and stay right beside me while Stephanie teaches us how to play with the toys that the others brought up here." Bruce said.
Bruce then turned away and saw the food line open up. Bruce stood up. "Bruce, don't make Millie mad," Debbie warned.
"I'm going to get something to drink!" Bruce bellowed, walking to the front. He stopped and looked down at a man he didn't recognized who was sitting at the table wearing ACUs with patches. On his shoulder was a ranger tab.
The table stopped talking as Bruce stared at the man's shoulder. The young man looked up at Bruce and asked, "Can I help you, sir?"
"Was that tab earned, Sergeant Pope?" Bruce asked, pointing at the Ranger tab.
"Yes sir. Benning took part of my soul. Myself and Sergeant Simmons graduated together six years ago," Pope responded pointing at a black soldier sitting across from him.
Bruce looked at Simmons shoulder and saw the tab. "Did both of you wrote down you were Rangers when you got here on the information sheet?"
"Yes, sir," they replied in unison.
"All right, first thing, call me sir again and we hit the floor. Next,what are you two assigned to do?"
"Okay, Bruce. We're helping Willie train the recruits," Pope replied.
"What are your first names?" Bruce asked.
"I'm Ted," the young white man replied and pointed at Simmons, "That's Carl."
"Well, if you guys are game, how about joining my team? Are there any more Rangers here?"
"I'm game, Bruce, but I'd like to train the clan when we're not going out." Ted said.
"I agree with Ted. You get in some serious s-, but I really like training people here how to fight. If I can continue to teach when we're in the garrison, count me in," Carl answered.
"You can still train recruits, but how about other Rangers?" Bruce asked.
"Just Willie, Bruce," Ted replied.
Not asking, Bruce slid the chair next to Ted down a few feet, despite the fact there was a man still sitting in it. Grabbing an empty chair, Bruce sat down and started talking to them. Debbie turned around and saw Bruce talking with two men at a table and got up to go get him. SHe stopped when she saw the tab on the white guy's shirt. Spinning around in midstride, Debbie headed back to the table. SItting down, Debbie howled, banging her fist on the table. "He found them!" Mike put his head on the table and started beating his head against it.
"About time. Kiba Sai and I were just wondering if we could convince Ted and Carl join one of Bruce's class just to see if he notice them," Naruto said.
Nancy patting Mike on the back as he continued to beat his head against the table.
"It can't be that bad. Willie's a Ranger andBruce has been doing well around him," Stephanie indicated.
Debbie looked at Stephanie, shaking her head. "Stephanie, the Army stomps out the insanity streak in its officer corp. They don't feel the need to do that in its enlisted ranks. No offense, Willie."
"None taken," Willie answered. "Bruce isn't going to start a war is he?"
"Willie, the question is: how big a war is Bruce fixing to start?" Mike said as he continued beating his head.
Bruce sat with his new team members, talking until 2200, long after the hall was empty. Then he took them to the armory, outfitting them with new gear, including tactical gear. Bruce made it to bed after midnight.