Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Star Wars: The Clone Wars
A/N: I've decided to focus on Ninja In The Web as I had to skip to the Lizards episode as I thought Naruto would easily handle the previous episodes as I am someone who believes that Naruto especially after the two-year training can easily take out most villains without any chakra and only needing chakra (Or his cloak for the very powerful ones/gets so pissed off and do it for a one-hit knockout punch)
That's why I usually give Naruto a weapon in superhero stories. So I do have a chapter for all but one story written out but needs to be beta'd. Mainly did that as email alerts are down again so wanted to wait for a bit. So after A Fox In Middleton gets updated, that will be the focus until it's finished.
Shouldn't be super long as I'll probably have to skip one or two episodes or quite a few will be short with Naruto handling them. Plus I like doing the multi-parts as one chapter too. Then the poll will go down at Midnight after A Fox in Middleton's next update (Ch 11) then I'll leave it up for a rotation, taking it down the day after Ch 12 of that story.
Then shortly after the new story should be up
Remember to vote if you haven't!
Beta: ANUBIS the god king.
Chapter XXXII.
Last Time
Ozma laments the state of the world to Salem, to which she responds that Humanity needs "Someone to guide them", as they once had, and that she and Ozma, the only two with magic, should take on that role. As Jinn repeats Salem's past lesson that "the hearts of men are easily swayed", the two of them theatrically destroy a Nevermore attacking a village, leading the villagers to bow down before them. They soon use their influence to find a kingdom, which they rule over as they raise their four daughters.
As Ozma becomes increasingly concerned about the harsh means by which he and Salem have come to enforce their rule, one of their daughters interrupts their discussion to show that she's learned to do magic. Ozma tells Salem the mission given to him by the god of light, only for Salem to respond that there's no longer any point to redeeming Humanity, but that rather they should replace them with their line.
This prompts Ozma to attempt to sneak their daughters out of the castle, but Salem stops them. Salem and Ozma fight. Back in the present, the teams look on in abject horror, and at the end are shown the burnt doll of one of the daughters before Salem kills Ozma's incarnation.
As Ozma reincarnates again and again, he decides that Humanity cannot be redeemed without destroying Salem. Knowing that this cannot be accomplished by mortal means, he hunts down the Relic of Knowledge, and asks the location of the other Relics, their powers, and how to destroy Salem, to the last of which Jinn responds simply, "You can't". Ozma falls to his knees in despair, becoming a similarly dismayed Oscar kneeling in the snow.
Naruto then caught Qrow's fist from hitting Oscar. "Not yet, Oscar still has his body… He did not ask for this but just woke up one day with Ozpin in his head. I don't know if, or when Oz will fully take over but right now you will not hurt Oscar. Now, look for any food that may be in the wreck and if not, let's go." Letting go of his fist, Naruto turned to go to the wreak for one more look over.
Now.
Beacon Group.
"We need to get move on. It'll be dark before we know it, and every one of you is spewing negativity!"
Maria said as she walked to Oscar as Naruto and his team started putting snow in plastic bags. "There's a trail over there, trails usually lead somewhere."
"Lady, I don't know who you think you are but-" Yang stopped as Maria slammed her cane on the ground.
"No buts! I understand that you're upset. Honestly, I'm still coming to terms with the fact that this is humanity's second time around. But, if we don't move, we die. And I'll be damned if I've lived this long just to die out here in the cold!"
"She's right. Come on." Ruby spoke as Everyone grabbed their belongings and whatever Dust they could carry with them.
Later, Maria sits on Bumblebee as Yang walks her bike. "I'm just going to be another one of his lives, aren't I?"
"Of course not. You're your person." Ruby said to Oscar as Qrow took a drink from his flask.
"Don't lie to him, Ruby. We're better than that."
Land Of Darkness.
Five Nevermores are perched on a rocky outcropping with large purple crystals. They fly away when an airship flies by them heading towards a large purple castle. The airship lowers down to an outcropping that serves as a dock, and Hazel, Mercury, and Emerald hop out. As they proceed forward, they notice Tyrian leaning against the entrance at the bottom of the stairs. His scorpion tail now has a spiked, metal tip covering it from where it was cut off.
"Welcome back, welcome back! I do hope you missed us as much as we missed you."
Emerald and Mercury glared at Tyrian as Hazel walked forward. "Let's go."
The three proceed forward past Tyrian. "Speaking of which, where is our Fall Maiden?"
Emerald stops upon hearing this, prompting Tyrian to giggle, causing Emerald to growl as Mercury looks at her. "Emerald, come on."
"Don't tell me something happened to her?" Tyrian mocked bringing his hands to his face.
Emerald turns around and draws her weapons at Tyrian. "I will cut off more than just your tail." She threatened him.
Tyrian chuckles as he slowly walks toward Emerald. "Careful, little girl. Cinder isn't here to protect you anymore."
Tyrian gets close to Emerald, causing her to back away. Tyrian intentionally cuts his cheek with the blade of Emerald's weapon, smiling as Emerald has a disturbed expression, and Mercury steps up to hold Emerald's shoulder. "Back off, freak."
"Oh, don't misunderstand, I am in mourning just like you. Because it appears you've failed our Queen, and that is a tragedy."
A moment later, Tyrian drops his sympathetic facade and starts to laugh maniacally. Mercury looks back at him in disgust while Emerald has a fearful expression. The two of them and Hazel turn around to proceed up the stairs as Tyrian continues laughing.
In the meeting room, Salem opens her eyes and glares at her subordinates. Tyrian and Arthur are fearfully sitting at the table while Hazel, Emerald, and Mercury are kneeling at the other end of the room. "I would like you to explain to me... how it is you failed so spectacularly?"
"The Faunus Militia split our forces-!"
"Stop."
Hazel remains silent with a fearful expression on his face. "Let me rephrase the question... who is responsible for your defeat?"
Emerald and Mercury stay kneeling as Hazel stands up to give his answer. Salem listens intently. "I take full responsibility."
Crack!
Suddenly, Salem flips the table over, knocking Tyrian off his chair. Arthur hastily stands up from his seat and backs away. "But that wouldn't be fair now, would it?! We all know who's truly to blame…" Salem walks forward and menacingly holds her hand out in front of her.
"I don't-"
Salem motions her hand, and a glyph with her symbol appears underneath Hazel. Multiple Grimm arms come out from it and grab Hazel, forcing him down on all fours and suffocating him. "Emerald…" Salem looks over to Emerald, who is still staring down with a fearful expression. "I want you to tell me whose fault this was." Salem slowly walks over to Emerald as she breathes heavily. "Now."
Emerald closed her eyes in fear. "Cinder! We failed because of Cinder..."
"That's right," Salem spoke placing a hand on Emerald's shoulder, causing her to flinch. "I want you to understand that failure. I want you to understand why Cinder must be left to toil in her isolation until she redeems herself."
Salem walks away from Emerald. Both she and Mercury look up in surprise. "You mean-"
"She's alive?" Emerald finished as Arthur looked over.
"You're joking, how could you know that?"
"Are you questioning our divine savior?!"
Salem looks over to Watts and glares at him. "Of course not, forgive me."
"It's important not to lose sight of what drives us: Love, justice, reverence…" Salem trails as she meets Emerald's eyes briefly. "… But, the moment you put your desires before my own... they will be lost to you." Salem releases Hazel from her grasp and walks back to the other side of the room. Hazel catches his breath. "This isn't a threat. This is simply the truth. The path to your desires is only found... through me."
Hazel stands back up, Tyrian lets out a small chuckle, and Watts straightens his coat. Salem glances outside, where several Nevermores are flying, before looking down and closing her eyes. "And so we must... press on. The Sword under Vacuo's academy, Shade-"
"Ma'am."
Everyone looks at Hazel, with Tyrian glaring. "I have... more to report."
Salem's eyes narrow, and she spreads her hands, causing the Grimm arms to appear around Hazel's feet again. Hazel looks down at them nervously before explaining himself. "Qrow and the children are taking the Lamp to Atlas."
"Not if I can help it." Tyrian chuckled at that.
"And they're being led... by Ozpin."
At this, everyone slowly looks toward Salem with fearful expressions on their faces and Mercury notices the windows starting to crack. "So soon?!" Tyrian asked looking over as Arthur looked down.
"He's the only man with a chance of getting through to Ironwood. If that happens..."
Watts suddenly stops as he and everyone else notice the windows cracking. They then look at Salem, and dark smoke emanates from her. "Leave..."
"Your Grace, I can-"
Salem glares at Tyrian, causing him to reel back. Emerald looks on in fear before Hazel puts a hand on her shoulder. "Come on.
Everyone quickly proceeds to exit the room as the windows start to crack even more. Emerald takes one last look behind her as the doors close. Salem left alone, seethes with anger before calming herself down. Everything is seemingly quiet, but then all of a sudden, Salem yells out in rage and the windows shatter.
Teams RWBY, SHNN, Qrow, Oscar, And Maria.
Back in the snow, Teams SHNN, RWBY, Qrow, Oscar, and Maria proceed on the trail. as The snow starts to pick up even more. "Doesn't look like this is gonna let up." Qrow sighed as Yang grumbled
"Just wanna get this stupid Relic to Atlas."
"Let's hope we don't have to walk all the way there."
"I thought trails led somewhere." Yang sarcastically asked her passenger.
"Do you have nothing better to do than to harass a defenseless old lady?"
Creak!
"Everyone, quiet. Do you hear that?" Ruby asks as everyone stops in their tracks.
They looked ahead to see a large farm, one of the front gates swinging back and forth with the wind.
Naruto pushed his bike ahead and saw a large sign above the entrance that reads
BRUNSWICK FARMS
Everyone proceeds through the farm's gates, with Qrow being the last to enter. The snow starts to pick up even more as he closes the gate and lets out a metallic clang.
The snowstorm started to pick up as they looked at the house before Naruto saw the barn. He walked over and pushed open the door and saw the walls starting to rot before seeing a trailer. He walked in before reeling back at petrified corpses of animals in the stalls before glancing around. "This seems familiar."
He walked to push the double doors open before walking back to the house and stopped to blink. "Wait… Mom told me about something she came across… Shit!" He ran through the snow and up to the house before barging in. "We gotta get the hell outta here!"
"Why?" Shiki asked as Naruto closed the door. "I saw corpses of animals in the barn that reminds me of a Grimm attack Mom dealt with.
"Grimm?" Natsu asked as he warmed by a fireplace.
"Called Apathy… They drain your will to live or some BS to kill you easily or just die in your sleep."
"Like the people upstairs," Yang spoke walking down from upstairs.
"I'll barricade every door here until the snow dies down hopefully by morning." Naruto walked down the hall and to a staircase leading down. As he got to the bottom he saw a wine cellar with Qrow at the bar before sighing. "I think there's a Grimm called Apathy here Qrow."
Looking to see cellar doors that were chained Naruto took two of the bar stools and broke the legs off them to wedge in the handles before jumping back as the doors moved. "Yeah, something's here."
He then walked up to see his teammates nailing boards on the doors and bottom windows before taking more legs he broke off and threw them in the fire.
Morning.
Naruto walked out to see Oscar filling the flat tires before breaking beer and wine bottles on the floor and picking up a match.
"Why are you doing that?"
Naruto turned to Haru and used his thumb to light the match. "These people deserve a burial and I want to make sure no one stays here if they're traveling." He threw the match in and lit every room on fire as he used every alcohol bottle to douse every room.
Later, Yang pulled the trailer with Bumblebee as Naruto rode beside her on his bike before hearing Ruby ask Maria about her knowledge of not only Grimm but her silver eyes as they talked through the night as a precaution. "Isn't it obvious? I had silver eyes too."
Naruto blinked as he glanced back just as Maria's goggles squinted when she smiled.
To Be Continued.
A/N: Thanks for reading and let me know of any mistakes.
Beta: ANUBIS the god king.
I've decided to focus on Ninja In The Web as I had to skip to the Lizards episode as I thought Naruto would easily handle the previous episodes as I am someone who believes that Naruto especially after the two-year training can easily take out most villains without any chakra and only needing chakra (Or his cloak for the very powerful ones/gets so pissed off and do it for a one-hit knockout punch)
That's why I usually give Naruto a weapon in superhero stories. So I do have a chapter for all but one story written out but needs to be beta'd. Mainly did that as email alerts are down again so wanted to wait for a bit. So after A Fox In Middleton gets updated that will be the focus until it's finished.
Shouldn't be super long as I'll probably have to skip one or two episodes or quite a few will be short with Naruto handling them. Plus I like doing the multi-parts as one chapter too. Then the poll will go down at Midnight after A Fox in Middleton's next update (Ch 11) then I'll leave it up for a rotation, taking it down the day after Ch 12 of that story.
Then shortly after the new story should be up
Remember to vote if you haven't!
Next to be updated will be A Fox In Middleton.
Nothing else to say.
Talk To You Later,
Lone Wolf Out.🐺