So here is the final chapter of the whole arc, my apologies again.

Also, I got called woke by someone in one of my fics, which is quite funny, but of course, it was a guest review.

Co-Writer: LuciusWalker

Beta: NorthSouthGorem, Potterheadfan7, and FallnHeratic

Enjoy.

Washington DC

Even from the borders of the city, the intensity of fighting could be heard in its full chaotic state.

A thick mist was making it impossible for those present to see what was going on, let alone figure out what to do.

One giant ship descended from space: the Providence Class Destroyer, which carried the Zygerrian military command and was making its final move. The last hour of the war had come.

…

"We are flying over the city, sir."

The crew was on full alert, on the bridge of Flagship Providence. The Admiral approached the Prime Minister, who was smirking as he watched the capital of the planet's most powerful country collapse.

While the Minister could already taste victory, the Admiral showed no signs of any such sentiment, approaching to give his debrief.

"My lord, I must bring you urgent news from the front."

"A magnificent sight, isn't it, Admiral?" Molec said, chuckling while enjoying the sight. "See our enemies' prized city crumble down."

"My lord…"

"Under our feet," Molec said, nearly starting a grin. "That is what these bastards deserve, be submitted right underneath-"

"Sir, the front is collapsing."

The bad news turned the grin into a frown, and that turned into a question.

"Excuse me?"

"We've just gotten reports from the northern and southern flanks about breakthroughs that the Americans are making." The admiral told his superior stoically. "In the north, the enemy has used artillery to strike the command center in Laurel with the commander having been killed. Forces are trying to quickly regroup in Bladensburg, but they are getting encircled at this moment."

Molec clenched his fist angrily, expression darkening rapidly.

"The situation in the south is much worse with all contact with the commander in Fredericksburg having also been killed, communications are nonexistent at this point," the admiral stated, "However our western flank is still holding, so I am urging you to begin evacuations now, while we have the air superiority-"

"We will not," The Zygerrian prime minister told him firmly. "Victory is close, we just need to press on to the White House."

"My lord-"

"What is the status of the offensive?" Molec asked out to the men on deck, "Have the men at Capitol Hill started their attack?"

"Give us a moment, my lord. We're looking into it," one of the crewmates answered, "We've just been informed that the first assault teams have made contact with the first enemy lines."

"Well hurry it up, I want results!" Molec yelled impatiently at the crew members. "I will not settle for a stalemate!"

The admiral however got in the prime minister's face. "Sir, we have nearly sixty thousand men about to be trapped if we do not pull back. We are risking their lives - including your safety, the longer we stay here."

"My safety? What do you mean?" Molec asked, turning to his commander. "Admiral?"

Before the admiral could even answer his question, one of his staff spoke.

"Sir! We've got a new report from the fighting in the capital city - the first line of defenses has been reached, but our forces are unable to reach the second line of defenses the enemy has laid."

"What?" Molec demanded. "Why are they no longer advancing?!"

Meanwhile

"RAAAAAH!"

One Zygerrian was thrown against the muddy wall, finding himself overpowered by one of the Ölüm fighters before then being thrown to the dirty ground.

"No- No-!"

*SQUELCH!"

The fighter did not listen to his pleas as he stabbed the Zygerrian right in the gut with his M4 rifle. All he heard was the alien's cries of pain as he repeatedly plunged his bayonet into his stomach, over and over, until finally, he fell silent.

This was not an isolated incident, as now the whole first line was in a state of chaos. The Zygerrians had reached the trench and entered into brutal close-quarters combat, with no inch being given.

One Zygerrian was seen strangling a man into the ground, only to then be grabbed from behind and stabbed in the back multiple times. Another dead Zygerrian body was having its head smashed in repeatedly by another human with a rock.

There was nothing but hate in those trenches that drove a man to kill another man. Every corpse stacked up on another was a testament to that.

"DIE!"

An American was knocked to the ground by a Zygerrian, who hit him in the back and was about to stomp the unconscious soldier in the head-

"RAWHGH!"

The Wookie growl of anger was heard before the Zygerrian found himself picked up and smashed into the mud by the one and only Chewbacca. He smashed the enemy down to the puddle and slammed into him until he drowned in the liquid earth that besmirched his face.

One Mirialan Ölüm fighter had just slit the throat of another Zygerrian regular he threw to the ground, as he went up to warn Chewbacca.

"Chewie! Behind you!"

Chewbacca grabbed his crossbow blaster and fired at the incoming Zygs, who were running towards the trench to try and get in-

But one Zyg went flying backward as a bolt blasted through his head, while the other two zigzagged across the field to not get hit.

*BIAO!*

Another hit for Chewbacca as the second fell to the ground, but by this time, the last Zygerrian jumped up and right above Chewbacca.

*BLAM!*

A blaster shot ruined his chance before the Zygerrian regular could even enter the trench as the shot killed him in midair, with his body landing next to Chewbacca's position.

"KRRRREEEERRRRRHHHH!"

Chewie reacted to the sound of the scream, which emanated from the ravaged, smoke-filled trench. The source of the sound was a volunteer, the Tusken Mutani, who was armed with a long rifle and his traditional warrior Gaffi Stick, which had been employed to penetrate the skulls of his adversaries, accompanied by the fresh blood seen dripping from it.

"GRAWHL!"

"ERRRRH!" Mutani threw the Wookie a bandolier of thermal detonators before he pointed out on the field. "ERH!"

As there came the second wave of Zygerrian regulars who were seen coming in the hundreds, running literally over the bodies of the first wave of Zygerrians who were killed before they even neared the position.

*PEW!*

Multiple shots came from behind the Tusken and Wookie that killed the nearest Zygs with deadly precision, as then landing right in between them was Jango with both his blasters out and firing with them at the charging enemy.

"dank farrik. They're coming in with larger numbers." Jango said, picking his targets and shooting them while giving orders. "You two focus on long-distance targets, I'll worry about the short-range ones."

Mutani gorked and Chewbacca growled as they both focused their sights on the enemy and started pulling triggers.

The blaster fire continued back and forth as the trenches at their side stabilized for now with multiple Ölüm fighters having joined up the defenses again and firing at the advancing enemy.

Every gun from that first line was back aimed at Zygerrian regulars, seen coming in droves as their comrades up front were getting hit left and right.

"Concentrate fire!"

"Keep up! Keep up!"

"Kill them all!"

It was then that Tayuya and her bunch showed up, reinforcing the line as she jumped right next to Jango and Chewie, she grabbed an ammo patch of a dead fighter and began firing her rifle.

"What the fuck happened?"

"They got inside our trenches, but now they are out again," Jango said, firing one more shot before ducking for cover with Tayuya.

"Yeah, I saw the bodies while running through, I must say that's impressive," Tayuya said with an uncontrolled chuckle. "Pretty sight, not going to lie."

"You have issues, girl," Jango commented. "Real issues."

"I like seeing dead slavers, so what?" Tayuya said, getting out from her cover and firing. "So where's shithead? I don't see him."

Chewbacca growled up to respond and pointed his crossbow toward the destroyed sentry site in front of the whole trench line, with smoke smoldering from it and the E-Web seen destroyed and lying around in a dozen pieces.

"Crap, we need to"

*Get down!"

A massive laser shot flew right over the first trench, hitting a position right behind those who ducked their heads.

*FWOOOSH!*

The sound of jetpack thrusters was the sign of the Nite Owls landing into the trenches, with their blaster pistols out, both Bo-Katan and Sabine who landed right next to Jango and Tayuya.

"Fancy seeing you here!" Tayuya said, turning to the Mandalorian women. "Are you just staying here or joining the fight?"

*Click*

With her blaster readied up, Sabine just looked straight at Tayuya's face, with that being her response.

"Fine, do what you want to."

"TANK!"

From the horizon, three AAT-1 assault tanks were seen coming their way towards them, with men following from behind with cover; the tanks wasted no time firing their cannons at the defensive lines.

"FIRE!"

Their response was the sound of a rocket being fired and hitting the tank on the right side, dead center, and destroying it with one single shot.

It stopped the tanks there, alongside other forms of assaults, confusing both sides.

"Who fired that shot?"

Bo-Katan did a check and called it in her comms. "Rahab. Was it you guys?"

'Nope, it was those guys behind us, who were seen running up to you. So watch your back.'

Now joining up the first trench were the US soldiers with reinforcements, among them being Tarik himself with his blaster out as he walked up to join Jango and Tayuya.

"Good to see you guys still breathing," Tarik said, tapping on Jango's arm and looking around. "Is this all that is left?"

"Well, we were kinda taken by surprise, but we knocked them back," Tayuya said before asking the question. "What's going on? I thought you said we were going to attack."

"We are."

This made everyone turn to the captain.

"We are attacking now," Tarik said, pointing out. "We only have 45 minutes before the ceasefire, so we're taking that capitol building with the time we've got left on our hands."

"Are you fucking nuts?" Tayuya nearly cussed him out fully. "We can't do that in that amount of time."

"It is only a 2-mile run, and we got the initiative now." Tarik looked at his watch to see what time it was and said. "In five minutes we are charging, people. We got artillery batteries and incoming air support, so keep your eyes on…"

Some movement was seen coming from the destroyed sentry position.

"The enemy…" Tarik asked. "Who is in that sentry?"

Mutani gorked a couple of times in response, getting confirmation from Jango.

"Naruto and Yasser were inside of it…"

Sentry position

Inside the destroyed position, the impact of the thermal detonator that had blown the position to smithereens by the Zygerrians who overran the place or used it as cover for retreat.

Though underneath the destroyed structure was Naruto, covered from head to toe in dirt it made him nearly impossible to identify if it wasn't for the blond hair.

'Naruto.'

Trying to breathe only made Naruto cough hard as he inhaled the black smoke around him that had come into his lungs.

"Damn it…that was a close one," Naruto said, holding his hand in front of his mouth. "Kurama."

'Naruto. Look behind you… Yasser.'

Hearing that made Naruto realize he wasn't alone in that sentry position as he turned around and turned to where the old man lay….

Yasser, the old man who was perhaps the eldest fighter of the Ölüm volunteers, lying there with his clothes shredded by shreds and burns, along with his skin that was burned alongside the right side of his face that had taken most of the impact.

"Old man…"

"N-Naruto boy…thank goodness you are alive," Yasser said with the grandpa-like smile he put up with all his strength. "I thought you wouldn't wake up."

"Wake up?"

'Kid, you were knocked out for nearly fifteen minutes. The old man was trying to wake you up this whole time. Using all his strength he still had.'

Kurama's words did little to mention the wounds that the old man had been given, with both his legs blown off and chest burned, with both his hands also not spared, it was a miracle he was still alive.

'He's dying, kid. And the wounds do little to make it easy for him. Tend to him if you can in his last moments.'

Yasser began to cough.

"Old man." Naruto sank to his knees and went through his pockets, pulled out some bandages he wrapped around his hand and he began putting pressure on the wounds with his handful. "Hold on, I-"

The old man extended his hand to grab Naruto's. Precisely the one that was holding the bandages, preventing him from helping.

"I'm… I'm at my end…." Yasser spoke out as his breathing pattern was irregular he tried to speak slowly but kept his gentle smile on. "... No need to waste these bandages on me…"

"Don't talk like that, old man," Naruto told him while still putting the bandages on his gut, but the blood just kept coming out. "Damn it, we need to bring you to a doctor, Levi can help-"

Then the burned hand grabbed Naruto's shoulder, causing him to stop his actions again and see the man smiling whilst staring at him.

"It's okay…you're a good kid…stay that way…." Yasser said weakly. "... My life is without regrets. I have lived as a warrior…and will end it like that…. Inshallah…"

…

Naruto did what he could and removed the bandages, by then grabbing both Yasser's arms and supporting them to be laid on his chest, helping him in his final moment.

"I will join my son and grandson….thank you…"

The last words coming out of the senior's mouth were final to Yasser Halim as he died in the presence of Naruto, with his body given up on all trembling, his life ended there.

"Rest in peace."

Naruto said as he made his final farewell to the old man. Closing his eyelids to finalize it, he laid the man's weapon next to him and properly placed his head for him later to be picked up.

*CLICK!*

*CLICK!*

*CLICK!*

Behind Naruto stood a duo of Zygerrian regulars alongside a Weequay mercenary, all of whom had crawled up into the sentry position and had their blasters pointed at his back.

"Do not move, scum!" The Weequay threatened, slowly walking up. "I will end you if you make the wrong move and turn you to corpse meat like your friend over there."

Naruto just was there on his knees, not even a moment had passed since the old man had passed and already they were mocking him.

The two others went on to corner Naruto from both sides, with their blasters aimed at him, they happened to then recognize him.

"Wait, he's one of the Ölüm Commanders!"

"Then shoot!"

*PEW!*

Three blaster shots at one would be fired, but what followed got all three men to be surprised at what they saw.

All three bolts of lasers stopped in midair, only an inch away from Naruto's head and they hovered like they were frozen.

All by the power of Naruto's hand that was the source of this mystery.

"You're not insulting him."

*SQUELCH!*

The three men screamed in pain as they fell to the ground with burned chests that were caused by the blaster shots being redirected to them, and killing them before they even hit the dirt ground.

All that happened by Naruto's hands, tightened into a fist. He did not say much else, but instead reached his injured hand outwards for his poncho coat and removed it from himself. Placing it then over the body of the fallen Yasser whose face he covered up for now.

"OPEN FIRE!"

The AAT tanks had started firing their cannons, they had picked up their targets between the first-line trench positions they were trying to soften up with continued firing.

*BIAO!*

One shot got very close to hitting the trench as sand and dirt rained over the hiding warriors, with Jango and Sabine both unbothered by the continued pounding of the enemy tanks, they were more concerned about something else.

"Can you see him?"

Jango tried to focus his visors on the sentry position, trying to spot Naruto if he was still there but saw nothing.

"Sorry, kid. But I don't see anything."

"Damn it!" Sabine said growing impatient. "He's probably wounded, we-"

"Stand down!" Tarik told her, ordering the Mandalorian girl. "You're trying to get yourself killed?"

Tayuya held her head down, like everyone else who was hiding in cover as the blaster fire from the enemy tanks continued to shell their positions.

Bo-Katan moved up from her cover and took a closer look at the field, seeing that the tanks were moving slowly up toward them. But then something happened.

"Hey, they've stopped."

The blaster fire stopped as did the tanks, with the infantry also seeming to have stopped firing their weapons, ending their advance for something that made those in the trenches wonder what it was that caused them to halt.

"Why did they stop?" Somebody asked. "They got the initiative, I don't understand-"

"Look. Out there in the sentry."

Whoever pointed out first got everyone in the trench to focus on what was the cause of the pause in the front, something they did not expect to happen in the middle of all this chaos.

In the middle of the field stood Naruto who now wore a long cloak that covered his whole body with no weapon visible in his hand nor around his back. He was walking up slowly to the enemy position.

"Naruto?"

Meanwhile

From a distance on the rooftop of a standing building, both Obi-Wan and Anakin were watching what was happening, and they then saw the whole ordeal happening.

But more than that, they could feel what was going to happen.

"Master."

"I know, Anakin… I know." Obi-Wan told his padawan as he continued to observe. "For now…we can only watch."

Walking down the battlefield, those who were watching the blond from a distance were wondering what he was doing while those who didn't recognize him were heard yelling from the trenches, telling him to go away or duck for cover.

But those sentiments were not shared by those he was approaching, as the commander of the AAT-1 that was observing him, ordered his crew to aim the main cannon.

"Blast him!"

*BIAO!*

One cannon shot was fired and it looked like it was going to hit Naruto right there - until Naruto raised his hand and deflected the shot away to his side.

"What?! That should've hit you!" The commander was stunned by what he saw and ordered his men. "Fire again!"

The AAT-1 tank's cannon, still aimed at Naruto, fired another blast.

*BIAO!*

This time Naruto just held his hand up again, freezing the shot in midair before he decided what to do with it - and sent it back towards the tank.

The tank commander could only curse.

"Kriff-"

*BOOM!*

The top of the AAT-1 tank exploded with a direct hit that killed the whole crew in a single shot.

Naruto proceeded to then move forwards, not taking much of the reactions the Zygerrian regulars were giving by what they had just witnessed.

"H-He redirected the shot!"

"It's a Jedi! A Jedi!"

"Kill him!"

*BANG!*

One Zygerrian regular got hit in the head by a direct shot, causing the already panicking slavers to panic even more.

"Charge!"

That shout of command alone caused all the men inside the trenches to start charging forwards as they were intending to join Naruto, even with the big distance that was between themselves and the cloak-wearing blond, they were coming in by the hundreds.

The Zygerrian regulars tried to shoot back but they started getting overwhelmed by the amount of blaster and gunfire, with many hitting the ground fast while those who weren't started to break rank and run away.

The last AAT-1 tank was still however unfortunate enough to be overwhelmed. Tayuya was seen jumping on the tank with a few thermal detonators.

The hatch opened, and the tank commander tried to aim his blaster-

*BANG!*

The commander's body slumped back down into the tank after getting shot by Tayuya, who activated one detonator with a smile.

"Cooking time!"

Throwing the explosive inside the hatch, Tayuya closed it while hearing the crew shout in panic as she jumped off the tank.

*BOOM!*

The tank erupted with it exploding from the inside with that being the last AAT-1 that was now left as scrap with her now continuing the charge with her men as she commanded them while chasing the fleeing Zygerrians.

"We got them on the run!" Tarik yelled as he readied her rifle. "Give them no moment to regroup, let's go to the Capitol building!"

Running with all their strength, the remnants of the US forces began to advance alongside the foreign volunteers of Ölüm who were also going as fast as they could. By the hundreds, they were going after the enemy with a few stragglers, and they managed to catch up to and quickly dispose of them.

Naruto however did not move a inch anymore, instead, he just stood there and watched. With his mind being in a busy conversation.

'You know you've just exposed yourself in front of everyone, right?'

'That I am aware of.'

'Jedi are watching us at this moment, I can feel them. But they aren't the biggest problem that I've sensed.'

'Yeah, I've sensed them too.'

Naruto's face briefly turned back towards the rear, where the safe zone was. A feeling of more than just the Jedi being here to observe them from a distance.

'Shinobi.'

'I can sense them, and they're close. I can tell you that. So whatever you do I advise you to watch yourself.'

'I can only try.'

*FWOOSH!*

With their jetpacks, the Nite Owls and Jango landed around Naruto with them intending to create a circle around him for protection.

"Kid, are you doing alright?" Jango asked while firing his blaster at some faraway enemies. "We'll cover you, don't worry."

"Jango, I appreciate your concern-"

*SLAP!*

Not expecting it, a harsh slap in the face was given by Sabine as she had caused those around her to be even taken aback by her action.

"You damned idiot, you could've gotten killed!" Sabine said while still wearing her helmet, but the mixture of anger and fear was clear in her voice. "You get shot at by tanks and infantry and then you walk out without even a blaster and use those Jedi mind tricks to scare them?!"

"Wait, Sabine-"

"No wait!"

Watching the berating of Sabine going off, Bo-Katan was quite amazed to see the normally carefree and rebellious Sabine acting just like her mother, a very eerie but similar interaction that she did not expect to see this quickly.

"You two do act like a married couple." The woman chuckled underneath her helmet. "I can see why, Sabine."

"Agh!"

Naruto went back down on his knees as he held his right arm, causing Sabine to stop berating him as she quickly removed the cloak around his right arm, to see he was badly hurt by the explosive ordinance.

"You're hurt…" Sabine's voice changed as she grabbed her med pack. "Stand still so I can patch it up."

"It's nothing, just a scratch." Naruto flinched in pain as his arm got grabbed. "I can still go and fight-"

"Naruto!"

The whole group turned around to see it was Tarik who was running up to them with a blaster in his hand while more of his American servicemen were joining in the advance while running past or around them to try to join the forward Ölüm fighters.

He walked up towards him and kneeled right next to him, seeing the wound he was being treated for was for his arm.

Once he saw it, he shook his head and Tarik spoke. "You're staying in the back, Naruto. War's over for you," Turning to Jango. "I can handle it from here, my men are going to the Capitol building, you can join us if you want."

"RETREAT!"

Then around them, American troops were seen making a tactical withdrawal, their faces seen turning white for the lack of better terms, they looked like they saw something that outmatched them.

"Enemy ship!"

Whoever yelled it made everyone turn to the air, and it was the biggest understatement of the day as they saw it was no ordinary ship that was coming their way.

It was a Providence Class destroyer.

Zygerrian flagship

On the bridge, the Providence destroyer was now in range of the city with full sight of the enemy positions down below them, with the admiral in the company of the prime minister, waiting for no further moments to order his men.

"I want the cannons ready for orbital attacks on the enemy. Crush whatever threat there is to our forces and provide covering fire."

"Ignore that order. I want you to bombard the whole block with whatever firepower you got," Molec stated with intent to overrule. "I want to see their city burn. Everything included!"

"My lord, our men are-"

"THAT IS AN ORDER!" Molec stated with growing impatience. "Do not make me repeat myself!"

*Boom!*

An explosion then rocked the bridge left and right, causing everyone to nearly lose balance for a moment for whoever wasn't sitting down, and answers to be necessitated.

"What was that?!" Molec asked, getting back up from his seat. "I want answers!"

The Admiral walked up to one of his men and looked at the computer screens and saw what it was.

"Just as I feared - enemy ships," The commanding officer of the ship stated. "They've started their assault and they've just hit one of our engines in the back."

"How many? And from where?"

…

The explosion happened as an F16 unleashed a Sidewinder into the Destroyer's flagship. The resulting damage caused the explosion, knocking it out of action. The fighter quickly rejoined the squad, the planes too fast for the turbo lasers.

The USAF squadron, one of many that arrived over D.C. was the first to take it to the ships. Other squadrons, having arrived, were either attacking the ship itself or engaged in several dogfights. There were cheers over the radio when a fighter got their fifth kill, the first of many confirmed Aces for both the F16s and the F22s. They were fighting what was left of the Zygerrian Starhoppers and Vulture droids that had not been shot down before the fighting.

One such Starhopper was the latest victim as it was seen crashing down towards the Potomac River like a burning comet before it crashed into the water. The cause of that destruction was one pilot, a squadron leader who spoke over the comms.

"Good work on that. Now focus on that flagship, people. Its engines are hit. See if you can lay more hits on it."

"Copy that."

"By the looks of it, their shields are down, but that does not mean we can slack off. Our boys down there have taken a heavy beating. So let's relieve them while we can."

"F22's ready to do the job, sir - we're on our way."

And as planned a couple of F22s were seen making their way towards the Providence destroyer, with the covering of a few F16s, they soon were facing the flagship.

"Engaging now."

"Fox 2!"

The jet fighters unleashed their Sidewinders missiles at their intended targets before they quickly dispersed before the turbo cannons could even fire at them in response.

The missiles did their job and laid multiple hits on the flagship as they hit targets near the bridge or even flew over them and managed to do more damage.

National Mall

Down below on the battlefield, the sight of US jets entering the skies was just enough for morale to have been boosted up for the defenders down on earth to cheer for them as they continued the assault for the enemy lines.

One of whom was Zeb who was seen running with a group of volunteers, as he had just run from across town from his patrol stunt, he now was trying to reach the frontline by following the Rangers.

"Yeah! F16s and F22s!" Corporal Dunn shouted while running as he watched the dogfights happen above him. "Give 'em hell, boys!"

"Focus, corporal!" Sgt Foley told him off while leading the group of men. "War's not over yet, so keep your cheers for when it is. We are Oscar Mike!"

The Rangers began running through the streets with whoever they came across started to follow them, volunteers, Marines, and local garrison guys. Anyone with a gun and enough ammo started to rush for the frontline in the hope they were reaching it in time.

While hundreds of men were running towards the fight, they were being observed from a distance by those who were watching in the shadows who felt like now they could come out safely.

Coming out first was the grown-up Jōnin who was part of this secretive team, Hyuuga Neji himself. Seen in his wardrobe of a white kimono shirt with long, loose sleeves, matching pants, a navy gray apron tied around his waist, and black shinobi sandals. He saw the coast was clear.

"All's clear," Neji sounded off as he signaled. "Come out."

Also coming out from the shadows was the rest of the team that consisted of both Tenten and Sakura Haruno, alongside the company of Kakashi Hatake who was the leader of this team.

"It's nearly over, the ceasefire is about to kick off in thirty minutes," Kakashi said as he told his team. "We need to try and locate Naruto before something happens to him."

The Shinobi saw more men running down the street, but not with weapons, instead, they were carrying the wounded.

It was the medics who were busy evacuating the wounded, with some even seen carrying the blown-off limbs of those unfortunate to have gone through the experience.

Sakura watched and felt nervous seeing that, causing Tenten to try and calm her for a bit by tapping her shoulder.

"Hey don't start worrying, he's doing fine," Tenten smiled. "It's Naruto."

"Kakashi."

Who called the name of the silver-haired Jōnin was seen running down the street with its four exhausted paws. That was the pug Pakkun.

"Pakkun," Kakashi kneeled. "You found Naruto?"

Pakkun nodded. "I found the brat, he's not far from here."

"And?"

"Well."

National Mall

"Agggh, damn it!"

Cursing out in pain was Naruto who had just finished being bandaged up his right arm by Sabine, who did it hastily as the presence of the destroyer Providence ship was making everyone nervous as it was flying over the battlefield.

While men around them were retreating to their first trenches, it was the Nite Owls and Jango who were standing there in their circle while providing cover for the young Mandalorian warrior tending to the blond fighter.

"Sabine, we need to hurry, hon," Koska called out. "We can't stay here."

"Almost finished, just need to cut the bandages," Sabine said, trying to cut it but letting out a frustrated complaint. "Damn these scissors!"

"Sorry for my arm." Naruto apologized, slightly dazed. "Looks like I've been banged up pretty good."

'Oh shut it, kid. I am doing the real patching up.' Kurama stated rather annoyed. 'I am nearly done.'

Running up to the group was then Tarik and a few of his men, having come from the frontal forces, he returned to see what the situation was of his friends.

"How's the arm, Naruto?"

"I'm doing alright." Naruto winced as Sabine finished up. "But shooting for me now is out of the question."

"Good, because I am ordering a retreat," Tarik said to them as explosions erupted behind them from the front. "You're the only ones from Ölüm who are still here."

"What? How so?" Sabine asked, confused. "What happened to the others?"

"Gone AWOL, that is what happened," Tarik replied, looking irritated as she explained. "Tayuya took the lead along with the others and had already reached the Capitol building with the Delta operators. But now we need to bring you to safety, you're in the open."

"Help me get Naruto up, will you?" Sabine asked. "He's still hurt pretty bad."

"Let me help." Tarik went on to help Naruto up.

Supported from both sides, Naruto's arms were slung over the shoulders of both Sabine and Tarik who began to drag him towards the trenches, with the chaotic scene of other men retreating also, the Mandalorians were only slowly retreating to provide them with cover.

Up in the air, the combat was becoming more grim with the F16s and F22s seen in more intense dogfighting with the Vulture Droids that were remaining while the Providence flagship had taken a significant amount of damage by the lethal strikes it was taking from the missiles.

But it did little to bring the ship down but instead created more fires as it was slowly still flying forwards, with its defenses even managing to force the jets to take greater distance for their safety.

A Humvee was seen driving up in front of the group, with a man seen coming out of the front seat.

"Captain, we're here to evacuate the wounded." The soldier saluted. "Need help?"

Then one blaster shot out of nowhere was fired from above, and it was going right for the group.

"INCOMING!"

Everyone in the group ducked down for cover when-

*BIAO!*

The Humvee exploded as it was hit by the laser beam, with the impact forcing the group apart, with Jango and the group of Nite Owls having to jump out of the way to not get hit.

But the other three were hit by the impact and slung forwards, causing panic to happen.

"SABINE!" Rahab stood up and ran for them. "SABINE!"

"Kriff!" Jango got back up and joined the tall woman.

Once everyone arrived at the impact zone, Jango and Rahab quickly spotted Sabine lying on the ground covered in dirt as she was facing down, causing the tall woman to take quick action.

"Sabine, Sabine, Sabine!" Rahab grabbed her and turned her around, putting her on her leg. "Come, come, let me remove your helmet."

The smoldering remains of the Humvee that Jango spotted had been spread out across the field, leaving nothing of it left.

Coughing through, Sabine's helmet was removed by Rahab, showing that Sabine was coughing more now she could breathe better.

"Breathe, just breathe-"

Sabine did until she then saw something that made her gasp in horror then, causing her to then hyperventilate.

Before someone could ask her, it was Jango who then spotted what she saw.

It was blood, and it was coming from a few dismembered parts of a leg.

"This isn't good."

"NOOO!" Sabine tried to get up but was stopped by Rahab and soon Jango. "Naruto!"

"Fuck!"

She did not expect a response, with Sabine then seeing that when the dust started to clear out, she heard more.

"Tourniquet it!"

And when it cleared out, there she saw Naruto, trying with his only working arm and his mouth to put a tourniquet around the blown-off left leg of Tarik who was missing it from just up the knee.

But then she fainted and lost consciousness, causing Jango and Rahab to catch her head.

"Easy, easy!"

"I know, woman!"

Naruto bit the cord as he tightened it around Tarik's leg as much as he could, with painful grunts coming from the captain who was reacting more calmly than he should be.

"Arghhh, damn it all," Tarik commented as he saw the extensive damage he was given to his leg. "Looks like my leg's gone. How about you….kid?"

The haze and the smell of iron made it hard to concentrate as he struggled to tighten up the strap around his friend's leg. Naruto's left side of his face tingled and felt damp, but he had no time to pay attention to such a minor thing.

He opened his mouth and his teeth let go of the cord, and he smiled. "Less than a minute."

"Kid."

"What?"

'Your face, brat!' Kurama berated. 'You're bleeding!'

Naruto slowly reached towards the wet part of his face and gingerly touched it. He winced as a flash of burning pain fired through every nerve on his face, and he hissed like a snake.

Yet his reaction was still tame

"Ah, crap," Naruto said with irritation. "Not my proudest moment."

*BIAO!*

The sound of that cannon firing caused Naruto to turn back towards the air, where he saw the flagship firing down to several positions. Still making its advances towards where he now stood.

He stood, as he now was up again and walking, leaving the impacted zone without anyone noticing as Bo-Katan and Koska were seen entering, not noticing they'd just bypassed him with a large amount of dust still surrounding them.

"Sabine!" Bo-Katan ran up to her as she saw the girl's fatigued body. "Is she…"

"She's fine, just exhausted,"

Just then Zeb arrived with the Rangers, who themselves spotted the state of their field commander and quickly took action.

"Captain!" Sgt Foley didn't waste any time by then pulling his rifle away and helping his commander. "Dunn, tend to him. Ramirez, check on the girl."

Zeb himself didn't hesitate to then move over to Sabine and pulled out a canteen of water to try and help her.

"Here."

"Thanks." Koska accepted the water can and began pouring it over Sabine's face. "Here, cool off."

Sabine just coughed at the amount of water being poured over her, getting back to her conscious state. She gasped for air.

"Naruto!"

Everyone turned around to then look for where he was, only for then the hurting Tarik to state.

"Go find him."

…

Walking out of the dust cloud, Naruto was still focused on staring at the air where the destroyer ship was.

Standing there in the middle of it all, Naruto just ignored everything around him that was happening as he then took a deep breath and prepared himself for something.

"Let's do this, Kurama."

'Right.'

Flagship

The situation on the bridge had deteriorated quicker than hoped, with the men on the computers trying everything they could to try and contain the damage.

"Try to get those shield generators working!"

"They are still recharging-"

"Try faster!"

"Defensive systems are overridden but they are keeping those jets away."

"Concentrate fire!"

Molec himself was watching quietly in the stiff state he found himself in. With his hand over his mouth, he started to look nervous now, trying to hide it from everyone else as he didn't want to be seen in this position.

The admiral however was showing signs of restraint but also confident, as now the shields were starting to work again and the attacks of the enemy aircraft were now unable to do any more damage to the ship.

"Just a half hour, and it's over."

Then the ship began to suddenly rock back and forth violently, catching everyone on the bridge off guard as some even fell off their seats.

"What's going on? Are we hit?!" The admiral called out. "Status report!"

"I don't know, sir, it doesn't look like we're hit but…" One of the crew spoke until he noticed something. "We're going off course."

"Excuse me?" The admiral asked, confused. "What do you mean by that?"

"We've lost control, sir. The steering is off!"

"Activate the reserve engines and take manual coordination." The admiral ordered.

"They're already activated! Something's forcing us into a different direction!"

"WHAT?!"

The Providence destroyer was seen tilting as it was making its course away from the fields as it was turning towards the Potomac River with it giving the impression it was withdrawing from the fight.

The fighter pilots themselves who were flying from a clear distance were watching this unfold and were already coming to their conclusion.

"Looks like it wants to make a run for it."

"With that damage, I doubt it will make it back into space."

"It is going for the Potomac River, who's got bets it will crash there?"

The F16s flew back in formation and began like the other squadrons to fly around the destroyer ship that was indeed turning towards the Potomac River.

"Pull! Damn it! PULL!"

The bridge of the ship was in chaos as now all control was lost, and the ship was making a collision course towards the river, where once they had gotten into, there was no way they could get the whole ship out.

With the whole crew either internally freaking out or just outspokenly panicking, the admiral himself was only able to watch as his ship was going down in defeat.

"The Prime Minister's gone!"

The admiral could do nothing but just watch as he then happened to turn his head around and see Molec had indeed just left his seat.

The admiral could then do only the one thing he was prepared to do.

"Prepare for impact!"

*BOOOM!*

That was the last explosion that occurred in the last remaining engine that belonged to the Providence class destroyer, that sound was loud enough to overtake the sound of it making contact with the river and creating a giant splash-wave for everyone to see.

The sight alone of the flagship of the invading force being down into the river was the sole reason for the many cheers and roars of approval to be heard across the battlefield.

Victory it was, having been reached and finalized, it was made possible by many out there who did their part in making sure it was made that way.

Including Naruto who had done perhaps the most in a few hard minutes with his still working arm - as he was responsible for bringing that destroyer into the river by crashing it intentionally, even when it was a huge job.

Gasping for air, the blond sat back to the ground, still not bothered half his face was still covered in his blood, he had reached his limit.

'You did it. You did it,' Kurama said to his host. 'You've improved your strength in the Force, Naruto.

"Yes…barely," Naruto muttered while trying to just breathe and rest. "Damn it, that was heavier than I thought."

'Even when you are halfway at death's door, you still use the Force at your maximum strength. That alone is a great accomplishment.'

Out of total exhaustion, Naruto sighed as he just sat there on the grass with the wounds on his body healing slowly, but the tingling on his face was not, but he didn't seem to care much as he just was tired now.

Not caring for what was happening around him, or even the people who he could feel were running towards him, or what the consequences would be for him using the Force so strongly that by no doubt would detect him.

He just laid down on his back on the grass, closing his eyes as he decided to call it for today and sleep.

'I'm done.'

But if Naruto stayed up longer, he would've noticed that a familiar girl in robes and white eyes was approaching him first before anyone else.

One of many reunions that were to be made.

AND DONE!

Arc is done, after way too much delay, It is done!

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