Author's Note: I am finally back! After covid concerns, my brother's graduation, and other hectic days, I have returned to ! Here is the next chapter of For Endless Fight!

I do not own Naruto or Megaman Zero.

Chapter 5: "Secret Disk"

(One month after team placements)

As Team 7 teleported to the mission office, they couldn't help but wonder what was so urgent that the hokage sent a shadow clone to personally get them. Looking around, Naruto saw all of the rookies present...and promptly sweatdropped.

Kiba was hitting on who he assumed to be the client.

Sasuke was covered in flour and glaring at Ryu.

Ryu was laughing his ass off.

Arashi's facepalm leveled up.(+1 dramatics, +2 force, +1 consistency, +3 effect boost!)

Ino and Sakura were cowering in a corner while Azura read them the riot act.(On that note, he decided to never piss her off.)

Shikamaru was asleep standing up.(How'd he pull that off?!)

Choji was staring sadly at a spilled bag of chips.

Shino was ignoring everybody.

Sasuke's teammates looked like they wanted to run away from the insanity.(I don't blame them.)

And the client looked about 1/2 a second away from stabbing Kiba with the nearest sharp object.

Naruto looked at Kagura, "Did you guys expect to see something like this when we arrived, too?" Kurenai, Asuma, and Hayate face-faulted when the others, hokage and client included, nodded. Naruto then noticed something on the mission desk. A disk. A DAT-Ax32 disk. A DAT-Ax32 disk made for holding important files with the Neo Arcadian symbol on it.

Unable to stop himself, he bolted over to it, drooling over the possible information inside it. Noticing everyone staring wide-eyed at the uncharacteristic display, he cleared his throat. "Anyone speaks of what just happened and I'll prank them so badly that kitsune and tanuki will pity them for eternity." Naruto threatened, adding his patented glare for good measure. Everyone paled, knowing that he could and WOULD follow through with his threat. Naruto lifted the memory disk and his expression turned serious. He looked at the hokage asked, "Where did you get this?"

Hiruzen returned his stare, "I had a feeling you might know what this is, Naruto. The client found it in some ruins, though I'm surprised at the intensity of your reaction. What is it?"

"This is a memory disk," Naruto answered as everyone looked to him with interest, "It is designed to hold data in the form of images like video tapes do. The symbol on it is of the human utopia, Neo Arcadia, which was destroyed 1200 years ago by a sentient machine named Craft."

Sasuke was intrigued, "Do you know the history of it?" Everyone looked at Naruto eagerly, knowing that this was his area of expertise. Naruto decided to tell them.

"First I need to give the entire background for you to understand fully. 1402 years ago, the world was far more advanced. A man named Dr. Thomas Light created a robot with A.I., which stands for artificial intelligence, so advanced it mimicked actual life." All eyes widened at that. "Sadly Light's rival, Dr. Albert Wily, reprogrammed several of these to cause havoc. Light upgraded one of his prototypes, Rock, to fight them. This robot was dubbed Mega Man. Wily was beaten and later Dr. Light created a new type of robot. This was Megaman X. 'X is a variable representing unlimited potential. But the name also carries notions of great danger.' Those were the doctor's words as his sealed X in a capsule that ran tests on his morality. 100 years later, X's capsule was found by Dr. Mihkail Cain, who used X's schematic to create reploids. Machines made in the image of humans."

Naruto's eyes turned sad, "However, repoids were...imperfect. They began to run wild. Labeled 'Mavericks' by society, they were hunted down. 2 years after an anti-virus was developed, a war broke out. Zero, X's partner, was reactivated and the one who started the war was banished. 10 years later, X created Neo Arcadia. A copy of X took his place when his body suddenly broke down, overstressed from combat. Zero was reactivated again by a resistance force 90 years later. He killed Copy X and the man who started the war took control of the human utopia. Zero helped a caravan of humans who escaped the utopia-turned-nightmare and confronted a reploid named Craft on the space station Ragnarok. Craft fired the laser on the station at Neo Arcadia. Furious at the loss of innocent life, Zero decimated Craft and later confronted the man, Dr. Weil, at the station's core. Sadly, the station's explosion killed Zero as well. My ancestor, Ciel, was Zero's companion and recorded all of this."

Everyone was stunned. Just the implications of feats such as sentient robots was something out of fantasy for shinobi.

Naruto cleared his throat, "This disk is referred to as a DAT disk, made for holding important files like say...reploid schematics." Hiruzen went bug-eyed and thought, May Danzo never get ahold of something like that.