Other M Chapter 16/17 –Naruto Style–
Naruto had head in the direction of the Geothermal Power Plant, after she had taken care of the creature known as Vorash back in the Garbage Disposal Chamber. But when she reached the room leading towards the Power Plant, she saw a sight before her. Hung on the wall, was the Mystery Creature's empty shell, hung by hardened trails of slime with dried blood spilt on the floor below it. Naruto gazes up at the shell; she could remember the creature's distinct shriek-like cry from when it attacked her and the other Troopers back at the Exam Center in Sector 1...
She brought her hand to her arm cannon, and continued on past the disturbing display, entering a glass tube-like walkway. Several machines blocked her path using purple electric fences, but with her Wave Beam, she shot through the glass without breaking it, and damaging the units long enough to allow safe passage. Naruto walked through the open door, and walks slowly across the passage onto a large platform, now inside the Geothermal Power Plant. It was dark, and she had trouble seeing in the hazy darkness. Even if the heat below did give some semblance of light, it wasn't enough. She gazes to her right and saw the flash of a laser pointed by a Federation Trooper. She takes aim immediately.
"Naruto! Get out of the way!"
Her eyes widen; it was Sasuke! Naruto leaps over to Sasuke's position behind a pillar just as a loud roar echoed in the large chamber. Sasuke tries to target a creature flying around the chamber, but it was too dark for the Uchiha to properly get a fixed target.
"Man! Can't see a thing in here," Sasuke said, as he kept his Plasma Gun at the ready, "We gotta clear out! Where's the exit at?"
Naruto gazed around, and spotted the way she entered... but a pillar of flames erupted from the darkness, destroying the walkway leading to the door. The creature lets out another low cry as it circles the chamber.
"Damn," said Sasuke, "we're stuck... this ain't good. Well, only one thing to do, huh? Let's tear this thing up!"
But before Sasuke could move, Naruto held her arm out to him.
"Wait! Sasuke! Leave this one to me! Don't waste your plasma!"
Naruto readied her cannon and heads out, but quickly sprints to the right, dodging a fire blast. She looked around, but again she moves to dodge the green fire blasts coming from above.
"Naruto! Blast the eruption port to get the magma flowing!" came the communication from Sarutobi.
Naruto runs to a safe-enough place and looks around. Using her visor, she locates the eruption port.
"Use your Super Missiles!"
Naruto was authorized to upgrade, so she turned on the use of her Super Missile power. She quickly locks on-target, and fires a powerful missile blast. The explosion was enough to completely shatter the panel. Lava now pours into the chamber, and it brightens the room considerably. Naruto runs to the center, looking for the creature as Sasuke keeps track himself from his position. Suddenly, a loud cry echoes from near the lava flow, as it finally reveals itself, lava splashing harmlessly off like it was mere rain water. Naruto gasped in shock. The creature lands atop the platform and slowly stalks toward Naruto. It was Orochimaru!
Orochimaru was a large lizard/dragon hybrid. Pale white skin with traces of purple around its scaly stomach and hardened lizard skin around the upper arms. From the back, two large mutated human hands with pinkish purple web fused it the ash gray skin were its wings, the fingers tipped with long needle-like spikes. Its golden eyes with purple fang marks down the high cheekbones shine brightly with malice, as a long tongue slipped from its elongated snake-like maw with each growl it released. The head was elongated from the pointed jaw line, with the hood of a cobra around the sides with trails of smaller snake-like hair dangling from the back. The arms were long, with long spider-like fingers; even thee hands were the motif of a purple cobra's hood. A long purple rope-like tail covered with spines swayed behind it, the end tipped with a hooked dagger-like claw.
Naruto is frozen, unable to move due to the shock of seeing Orochimaru again. Orochimaru airs his lungs and roars at her.
"Orochimaru?!" Naruto just could not believe what she was seeing. She could never forget that scaly face of pure evil, as Orochimaru stalks over a panic-stricken Naruto. Orochimaru was the one who made her an orphan, killing her parents Tsunade and Jiraiya when she was a young child. She still struggles to react, and Orochimaru continues shrieking, his claw-hand-shaped wings flapping. Sarutobi is watching the scene from the control room.
"Huh? What the...? Naruto! Do you copy?" he speaks to the COMM., "Naruto!"
Naruto didn't respond because she was hyperventilating.
"Naruto! Use your Plasma Beam!"
"No!"
"What's your status?!" Sarutobi yells.
"It can't be!" Naruto yelled, closing her eyes, scared.
"Naruto! Do you read me?" Sarutobi shouts again, unaware that someone was walking right up to him. But, Sarutobi's senses alerted him to danger. He looks, and a shot is fired; Sarutobi's earpiece comlink falls to the floor.
Back at the Geothermal Power Plant, Orochimaru roars once more at Naruto.
"Naruto!" Sasuke shouted.
Orochimaru grabs Naruto within his large scaly hand, pinning her arm cannon down. Naruto's other hand was free, but she was effectively trapped by her resurrected arch nemesis. Her armour begins to dematerialize, first flashing with the left arm.
"Let her go!" Sasuke yells angrily at Orochimaru.
Hearing Sasuke, Orochimaru lets out a low annoyed growl at the man who takes aim with his Plasma Gun. Orochimaru flies into the air, still holding onto the struggling Naruto. Her armour completely disintegrates. Sasuke saw enough, and shouts out as he pulls the trigger, firing his weapon at Orochimaru. Orochimaru reacted with cat-reflexes, spinning about to dodge the beam of green energy. But in the confusion, Orochimaru drops Naruto. She plummets to the ground screaming, and barely manages to reactivate her armour in time. There she lay, back in her protective Chozo Powersuit.
Sasuke was livid.
"Hey! Hey, punk! Don't you know how to treat a lady?!"
Orochimaru moves in to strike at Sasuke.
"Man! You got no style! I think I got to teach you a lesson about subtlety. Come on!"
Orochimaru decides to swoop in, and Sasuke begins to charge up his Plasma Gun.
"Sasuke, don't do it!" she calls out to him, not wanting him to fight off Orochimaru.
Orochimaru lands and lashes out with a swipe of his claw, but Sasuke back-flips over the lunging attack.
"Hunh! Come on you piece of shit!"
Orochimaru gave a sneer, and sweeps his tail around. He strikes Sasuke hard in the solar plexus, knocking him off the edge of the platform as well as dislodging his hooked Plasma Gun from his armor.
"SASUKE!" she yells in horror.
Sasuke was screaming as he falls toward the lava. Naruto regains her composure and rushed over, however Orochimaru cuts her off. She backed up, as Orochimaru airs his lungs, and lets out a prolonged roar. Her visor flashes, combat-ready, and activates her Plasma Beam.
She fires a Plasma Beam shot and Orochimaru took to the air to avoid, giving Naruto plenty of room to start running. Orochimaru flies, hovering over her, but she was quick in dodging all his tail stabs. She charges up her weapon and nails a direct shot with the snake lizard's face when he landed. Orochimaru snarls, and counters with a quick tail swipe, knocking her back. She kicks back onto her feet but was grappled and smashed into the wall. Orochimaru proceeds to drag her along the industrial wall before pulling her up close and prepares to breathe fire while floating towards the platform, but was given a charged Plasma Beam to the face. The hold loosened and she kicks back, landing back on her feet despite damage to her armor. Orochimaru lands with a hard crash, sending out a minor shockwave of displaced air. He stalks towards her, before lashing out multiple times with his claws or bladed tail tip, but Naruto was swift to evade each lunging grapple attack. She fired a missile but he simply swatted it out of his way and sent it into the wall.
"Haa!" She leaped over another tail swipe, and fired a charged Plasma blast, pushing him back from the force. Orochimaru panted, but she rushed right at him, grapples him by the neck and pressed the barrel into his mouth. BANG! Orochimaru choked on plasma as he's pushed close to the edge and she back flips away. The snake fiend shrieks out in rage, as an aura of darkness now covered over his entire body turning it pitch-black with a purple outlining. He looked a hell lot more menacing this way, and his eyes now shining a fierce gold. He took flight again, snarling before gathering energy into his mouth that he spits out as a molten ball of magma. It impacted the center of the platform and created a fiery green shockwave that spreads out past the edges, but Naruto was able to safely jump over the shockwave, whilst charging her cannon again.
But the ball of plasma she fired bounced off the aura-toughened skin of Orochimaru. With a Severus Snape-worthy sneer, the snake fiend launches his tail right at her but she narrowly avoids the strike. But he was quick in launching his blade tail once more, striking her. He lands with a smash and lunged but she quickly recovered, and continued to Sense Move each of his attempts. Somersaulting over his sweep, she ran to get as much distance as possible. She takes aim with her charge, and unleashes a Super Missile. The explosive ballistics weapon explodes heavily, knocking Orochimaru back and dissipating the black aura of his. Again, she races at him, catching him off guard and unloading an Overblast right into his face before jumping away from the wildly-swinging tail. Using the quickness of her charge, another charged blast struck him in the face. He took to the air but Naruto was preparing another charge which she released, catching him in the torso. She moved to evade the tail strikes while charging, firing her beams at him. On the thirteenth stab evasion, she pirouettes and points up at him.
Orochimaru shrieks a cry as he was blasted right out of the sky by Naruto's Super Missile, and collapses on the edge of the platform. She walked up to Orochimaru, staring down at the apparent dead alien. After a few moments she turned around and walked towards Sasuke's Plasma Gun. She stared at it longer than the lifeless body of Orochimaru.
Suddenly she heard the whoosh of wings spreading. Orochimaru roars out at her as he took flight despite his injuries, and heads straight at her, claws outstretched. Naruto retaliated with a shot of her plasma. Orochimaru evades. She jumps into a back flip narrowly avoiding his closing hands and fires again. Orochimaru dodged again, pulling into a spin. Naruto lands in a crouch as the flying snake lizard dragon smashes against the wall. With a shriek, he unleashes a powerful gout of green flames that shot across the air and super-heats a section of the wall. Springing with his clawed feet and putting his body into a drill-like spin, Orochimaru with one defiant roar, smashes through the wall and escapes the Geothermal Power Plant.
I wondered if Sasuke was conscious as he hit bottom... Unbearable thoughts welled up in me, making me want to get as far away as I could. I regretted not being able to protect him... and I regretted thinking, even for a moment, that he would betray me or fail to come to my aid at the expense of his own safety.
She had to leave the area. The door was still locked shut; however her exit was now the hole Orochimaru made in his escape. A Grapple Point had descended from out of nowhere, and Naruto takes aim, and lassos a rope-like beam, and swings up and through the recently-made hole in the wall using the Grapple Beam. She decided to leave the area, and make her way back towards the Elevator to the Main Sector...
Meanwhile, The Deleter was on his way towards Sector 1...