Naruto creates 3 shadow clones, Naruto obviously meant to spawn more, but makes do for now.

In near perfect sync, the quartet of Narutos strike the dragon using Kurama's chakra by forming the shape of his head, biting down on the dragon!

*ROAR!*

The Dragon screeches in pain.

Back to Tails, who manages to gain control of the tornado, but makes a bit of a rough landing in the process. "Whew!" After making a sigh of relief, Tails looks up to how Naruto's doing, then looks back down. "Uh-oh." Though it's not seen, the fox boy seemed to have hit something major during the landing.

Back in the sky, the ferocious fight between fox and dragon continues, but the dragon gains the upper hand by spinning and shaking the clones alongside the real Naruto off.

"You're not getting rid of me that easy!" Naruto Yells, as launches out the hand of his bionic arm like a grappling hook.

The hand manages to grip onto the dragon's snout, giving Naruto zip-line up to the dragon's level. As he gets closer...

*POW!*

Naruto socks the dragon's jaw from below with an uppercut so loud that it sounded like a firecracker. Nearly losing consciousness from the deadly blow, the dragon presses on and breathes fire at the airborne ninja, who's currently above the beast.

Reacting quickly, Naruto shields himself from the flames with his incomplete chakra cloak.

This move causes Naruto to descend even faster, until he finally plummets to the ground!

*CRASH!*

No longer wanting to fight, the dragon flies away, leaving Naruto quite literally in the dust.

A seemingly unharmed Naruto crawls out of his covering his body in chakra, the impact of the landing still left him somewhat damaged, but luckily, the knucklehead ninja's healing factor is still active.

This however leaves Naruto puzzled; something is clearly amiss with his chakra, yet he can still heal just fine. "What the hell's going on with my chakra?" He thought to himself. As much as he'd like to get to the bottom of this; Naruto shifts his focus on Tails as he calls out to him. "Over here!" Tails yelled. The relieved Naruto rushes over on the grassy yet rocky field in the middle of nowhere. "

"Are you okay?" Asked Naruto, much to his relief, Tails is unharmed, but there's one problem... "I'm fine...the tornado's pretty banged up, but still functional enough." "AND I...uh, ran someone over." Tails reveal nervously.

"Okay, great- WHA?" Caught completely off guard by that last comment, Tails signals the puzzled ninja over to the front of the tornado, showing an unconscious Sakura lying face flat on the ground.


Meanwhile, back at Eggman's base, we are introduced to a newer lab that seems to belong to Doctor Rose, as she is seen typing away on the computer. Eggman's idiotic henchmen, Orbot and Cubot enter the room.

"Miss Rose, would like an update on his new adversaries". Rose pays the robots not the slightest bit of mind, almost as though she's the only one in the room.

"Miss Rose?"

Orbot calls out yet again, but no response. "You think she's gone ear blind?"

Asked Cubot. "Ear blind?" Says the confused Orbot. "Yeah, you know; that condition humans have where they can't hear a thing..." Cubot begins to raise his voice.

"NO MATTER HOW LOUD YOU ARE!"

"You fool, the correct term is DEAF, simpleton." The annoyed and pretty disappointed Orbot says. Cubot gasps.

"DEATH!?" "She's a zombie now!?" Orbot tries to clear up Cubot's sore mistake, but-

"I KNEW working with Umbrella would be nothing but trouble!"

Hearing enough of the two bots, Rose stands up with a file in one hand and a milkshake in the other. Rose gives Orbot the file, who reads through it at a very fast pace.

"Thank you, we'll be on our way." Said the now relieved Orbot.

Cubot scratches his head in confusion. "Wait a minute, zombies can't type and drink milkshakes...can they?" "

Just come along, is obviously busy. Says Orbot, growing weary of Cubot's clueless behavior.

Before the two can take their leave, Cubot hovers over to a large body covered in a white sheet of cloth laying on the stretcher. Cubot gets closer and pokes at it with his finger.

*CRUSH!*

Cubot has sealed his fate, when a hand shoots out from under the sheet, and crushes his head like a soda can, making Orbot scream from the horror.

"Now-now, save your energy; we need you in good working condition for later." Says in such a nonchalant manner as she begins slurping on her milkshake.

"Don't fret, Orbot, I'll make you a new friend."Now send those files to the good Doctor, will you?" Orbot fidgets in fear, but complies and leaves the room.

Before Rose can resume her work, she begins to wince in pain and stagger against the stretcher.

The doctor seems to be having a headache of some kind.

The murdering hand that killed Cubot places itself on Rose' shoulder.

"I'll be fine, dear...just focus on your repairs, we're almost finished." Rose says, who quickly recovers from her mild headache.