~Crossover Cove~

~Lowee Campground~
"Actually, what we should do first is find Neptune and Blanc, having all of the CPUs will give us an edge over the X-Nauts and their leader" Nepgear tried to explainas calm as she could with a bit of a struggle to her tone. Rom quickly looked over at Nepgear to listen in on what she had to say before looking down at Minato and quietly started to explain "Yes, I am Rom...um sir, sensei? sempai? erm..sorry. You see we dealt with this wierd guy who can transform..just like us, he was strong..very strong, he managed to puncture a hole in that guy's stomach with a large shard of ice" before pointing at Casshern in which the hole had strangely vanished causing the little CPU Candidate's eyes to grow wide in shock.
"U-u-um..Ram! help me!" Rom asked before her pink twin ran over to her and explained to Minato "Sorry about that, she's kind of shy around new people" before starting to calm Rom down as Rom asked quietly "How did he recover from that!? he had a giant hole in his stomach..we saw it!" "Rom, calm down, I'm sure there's a reason how he recovered from something that would normally spell instant-death" shortly before Rom went behind Ram and grabbed her fromt behind looking scared as Casshern approached the two White Sisters of Lowee.
Rom turned her head back towards Minato and continued "So after awhile t-these shinobi there perofmred a quick evacuation and brought us all here away from that Grodus guy..Ms. Uzuki seems to know more about these X-Nauts than I do so you might want to ask her about it when you recover enough to move" afterwards turning her head back forward and watched carefully behind Ram.
　
~Lowee Cave: Gentle sleep of the Goddess~
Blanc listened in on the story before she started to feel the weight of sleep on her dull-blue eyes, she looked over at Hidan before she said calmly "I'm going to lay down and sleep, don't bother me" and gently laid herser on the ground curled uup near the warm fire before gently closing her eyes and quietly went to sleep while thinking about what he had said.

 

Lowee: Campground

Kakashi shot a stern look towards Nepgear. The elder shinobi not liking the young CPU canidate putting in an idea that would take more time than necessary to deal with a foe. "We don't have time to go looking for a bunch of missing girls. You said your sister was the 'party leader' before. I'm sure she'll be able survive without us for a while...and didn't you say Blanc was a Goddess like Vert and Noire? If you girls are as strong as you claim to be, each of you should be fine on your own." Hayate opened his mouth to say something when a fit of coughs forced him to remain quiet for a while. "I'm not your mommy. I'm not going to go out of my way just to make sure none of you get a little scraped up! I have to protect Sensei!" Hayate clapped his hands over Nepgear's ears, "That's enough, Kakashi. We don't need to be so harsh on them. They're not shinobi."

Minato listened quietly to Rom and then Ram's words. Since he hadn't met what Rom called X-Nauts, he didn't know what their level of difficulty was. Refusing to put more strain on himself by thinking about things he didn't know, he smiled up at the shy White Sister. "You two can simply call me Minato, if you'd like. Kakashi calls me sensei because I taught him and two others when they were young. The rest of the shinobi here refer to me as Fourth Hokage, as it was my title when I was alive." Saying that felt weird. He was alive currently....but he wasn't back in their world. "A-Anyway...if I'm not mistaken...you were referring to the Flying Thunder God technique that Genma and Hayate performed...correct? But...it takes at least three shinobi to perform that. Who else...?" "Someone named Raido Namiashi came at the perfect time." Yashamaru appeared behind them, smiling kindly, and patted Casshern's shoulder, "Are you alright, Casshern? I wasn't quite sure how much to do to tend to your wound and how much you would do yourself." Moving around Casshern, he knelt beside Ram and Rom and placed a hand on Minato's bandaged ribs. "Minato-sama will be up and about in about three days. Perhaps less if he'd get some rest. You worry me about as much as Gaara-sama does." Minato chuckled and Yashamaru turned to the young sisters, "Casshern's body is very special. What would kill us...isn't so bad for him. I removed the traces of ice from inside him and warmed his inner systems with chakra, but his body...seems to repair itself. Oh...Minato-sama, is there a way to calm Kakashi-san down? He's rather...anxious." Leaning closer to the young Hokage, he spoke quietly, "Did something happen to make him so protective of you and his comrades?" Minato's expression fell as memories flooded to the front of his mind.

Lowee Cave:


Kakuzu rested his back against the cave wall and looked to Hidan. "Put your coat over her. It doesn't matter if your body freezes a little. I'm not going to waste chakra keeping my jutsu active." He waited for the normal protesting stream of curses to be hurled at him...but they never came. Instead, Hidan obliged silently and draped his coat over the small CPU Goddess. "I'm gonna get cold...."

 

-Lowee Cave: Return of a demi-god-

Madara lisped away after the barrage of attacks. Caius had it under control. He wouldn't need the help. He appeared before Kakuzu and Hidan. "Of all places for me to come back to, it had to be in front of that filth of a priest." He noticed the captive Blamc. "Another girl captured. I have no interest. Tobi only wished to have Rin. I presented him with her and he will do with her what he pleases." He walked to Kakuzu. "I know you are a man to respect one who wishes to rest. Don't let Hidan disturb me."



-Lowee: approaching the campsite-

Silica and Maka were in the back talking to each other about the battle strategy back against the two zombies. Pina and Soul were up ahead not really doing anything other than follow Aoi and Blue Heart.



-Dreamworld: A Visit from a Pokemon Master-

Spoiler: DreamWorld

The mystic land once covered from disaster by the terrors of Janaemba had finally returned to its lush and gorgeous glory. The dreams of man had also intertwined with a new species of creature known as Pokemon. A boy had emerged from the palace of dreams holding an Egg. Most likely a Pokemon of rare ability. "Hopefully this will come of use in the future. This land as well. It is flourishing with Pokemon. It is bizarre however that I am a child once again."
The boy moved forward into a field area. The air was so smooth and relaxing. A roar could be heard in the distance. A wild Salamance flew down from the sky. A large and bright beam manifested from its mouth targeting Riley. "Hyper Beam huh. Go, Metagross!" Riley threw his Pokeball, however, instead of his Metagross, a Beldum appeared instead. "What? Does this place effect my Pokemon too?" The Beldum charged the Salamance with a Take Down, but was useless to the Salamance's raw Power. Riley's Beldum fainted and the Salamance seemed to gain strength from the KO. "Return Beldum. Its ability must increase its attack whenever it defeats a Pokemon. I will have to use aura for this one. Go Riolu!" Normally it would be a Lucario, but the world's law's forbade that form happening. Riley began to calm himself as well did Riolu. They were searching for the Pokemon's aura, its being. The two became aware of its weakness. "Riolu, Aura Sphere on Salamance's underbelly!" The attack connected resulting in a critical blow. Riley reached into his pocket and threw a Pokeball to catch the dragon. The ball clicked resulting in a new partner for the trainer.

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Spoiler: Silver's Team

Spoiler: Music

Crobat recoiled hard from Arcanine's attack, flying backwards several yards before gathering itself. Upon doing so, it looked towards its trainer, as though asking for confirmation for a plan that it had itself.
"Nothing to lose. Do it! Brave Bird!"
Nodding (or doing the bat equivalent to nodding at least), Crobat flew high into the air with speed, outrunning any attempt Arcanine made to keep up, and disappearing into the sky, before suddenly coming back into sight, it's wings completely wrapped around it's own body as it tore towards the dog with a shining red aura around it, colliding with Arcanine with enough force that both Pokémon were suddenly thrown across the arena with a massive dust cloud kicked up, shielding both participants from view.
Knowing that the recoil would have knocked out Crobat anyway, Silver silently returned it to it's Pokéball, switching it out for a dark green ball that seemed to be slightly heavier than a regular one somehow.
"Let's do it Gengar!" he said, sending out what appeared to be little more than a shadowy figure with a face.
"Destiny Bond! Then use Explosion!"
With a sadistic grin adorning it's features, Gengar unleashed what appeared to be a pair of spotlights on both Arcanine and itself, before exploding in a huge ball of flames and returning to it's ball. Across the field, the same thing could be seen happening to Crystal's Pokémon, causing both to require a switch out.
"Three down..." Silver muttered to himself, before taking out his fourth Pokéball.
"Magnezone, let's do it! Use Magnet Rise and prepare yourself!"
From the fourth ball came a creature that could only be described as the ungodly hybrid of a UFO and a yo-yo, which instantly covered itself in a spark of electricity and rose into the air. This simple act would ensure that ground-type moves would be useless against it. Which didn't really make sense in regards to moves such as Bonemerang or Bone Rush, being that they were nothing to do with the ground itself and just typed like that to give Marowak STAB damage.

 

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Before Crystal could react, Silver took down Arckee with Gengar's Destiny Bond. She saw him send out Magnezone afterwards. "Alright then..." she said "Bonee, come on out!" she threw a Pokeball and a small dinosaur like creature wearing a skull on its head appeared. "Bonee, use Flamethrower!" Crys commanded. Soon after, a stream of fire shot out of Bonee's mouth (which was somewhere within his skull-like helmet). It hit Magnezone dead-on, causing super-effective damage.

 

Lowee Cave:



Kakuzu knew better than to disregard Madara's appearance here. Glancing over at his partner, he found Hidan snoring annoyingly beside his bounty. "Madara Uchiha... You were reanimated with the rest of us. And you're here in this world too... With Hidan around, I'm guessing this isn't the Edo Tensei again. The people here...aren't the ones in the bingo book. I'm going to have a hard time making money here." He pulled out a makeshift book and flipped through it, showing all the faces, information and stats about the CPU Goddess'. "I don't know what you're doing here...and it won't do me much good to start asking questions."

Gokai Galleon: Cheesy Popcorn...?




Zetsu sighed. "I don't think they're interested," White Zetsu complained. "You'd better pray they're interested," his other half growled at him. Tobi scratched his head and dug around in his pockets of his coat. "Hey, Mr. Zetsu, do you want some Cheesy Popcorn? It's suuuuuper good!" Zetsu's yellow eyes flicked to Tobi's comically smiling masked face and down to the bag in his hands. "How did you get that? They don't even make that here. You've been stealing and hording food from Ame haven't you." Covering the bag with his arm, he pouted, "No way! That's not fair, Mr. Zetsu! I haven't stolen anything." "Can we focus! Aw, don't be like that. Tobi's a good boy."

 

~Lowee: Campsite~
Aoi was yelled at the guy asking him to identify himself he grumbled lowly. "I swear by Arforie, doesn't a CPU get any respect?" He sighed and called out in return. "I am Aoi otherwise known Lord Blue Heart, hailing from Castfield, my companions are Silca of Aincrad and Maka and Soul of Meister Academy, we come unarmed and seek medical attention to Lady Purple Heart or as she calls herself, Neptune!" he said and waited for a response.

 

The Newest Arrival: ....A Monkey?
The Lowee Area

In the snowy land of Lowee a black vortex was swirling about in midair. Suddenly Abu came flying out of the vortex screaming his head off. Finally landing inside the white cold ground. The Monkey landed in the snow so deeply it made an imprint in the snow. The monkey popped his head out of the snow and shook the snow off his head. Abu immediataly began to shiver. The monkey was not use to cold due to being not having heavier fur on and has always lived in the desert. Monkey started to climb out of the snow, only to fall back into the snow. The compacted snow was deep enough only for the monkey's furry little head to see where he was going. Abu tried and tried but failed to get his entire body above the snow and decided to quit and just move on. Beside he was able to move through the anyway.

The Monkey adventured on looking and wondering why he was here in the first place. The Monkey began to think back to when he was in Agrbah with his friend Aladdin. He remember Aladdin scoiling him about not to steal from innocence people after stealing a loaf of bread from an old lady. Abu didn't look how Aladdin was treating him so he ran off to getaway from it all find some alone for to come down. He also remember talking to Iago his fellow animal companion, that told Abu that he should try looting off other people of their money so they could get rich. In other words get Iago rich quick. Abu didn't like the idea of stealing for Iago and left the bird hanging. Later on that day Abu managed to wonder in the deep parts of Agrbah's dark alleys and found himself scared and alone. Then abu heard something behind him and was chasing after him. At that point Abu was scared out of his wits and didn't know where he was going. After that he end up in this snowy place with no warmth or protection from dangerous predators lurking about.

Abu then began to whimper in fear of his life. Knowing very well that no one was there to protect him, he had to be on high alert for anything. The only thing Abu didn't expect was to trip over part of a root that was sticking out of the dirt ground hidden under the snow. The Monkey's foot tripped over the root and cause Abu to roll in the compact snow and started to form a giant snowball rolling down the side of the Mountain.

 

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~Reaper Dig Site~​

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As everyone conversed among each other, Ryoma approached Amuro.
"I'm just gonna cut to the chase here...How come those three have been so quiet?" Ryoma asked, referring to the pilots of the still-airborne Vector Mars, Luna and Sol.
Meanwhile, the Mazinger pilots, having stopped trying to beat each other to a pulp, were examining each other's machines.
"So you've got the Tornado Crusher, Rust Stream and Inferno Blaster, plus another laser move. It's good...But SKL's got one move that yours doesn't."
"Really? What move?" Kouji asked, genuinely curious.
"Oh, yeah, tell you so you can steal it? I don't think so."
"ME steal from YOU!? I think you've got it backwards, pal!"
"It's not stealing if ours is better!"
"Better!? I saw you take damage out there! Just look at your mecha!" Kouji said, pointing out the visible damage on SKL.
"Mazinger Z is made of Super Alloy Z, meaning it's nearly indestructible. Your hunk o' junk wouldn't last five minutes against Mazinger."
Ryo sighed.
"Here we go again..."
Heero stood silently, isolating himself from the rest of the team for the time being.
He thought about the next mission, and where he would be taken next.
Heero closed his eyes, deep in thought.
"Hey there, cutie." Said a woman's voice, instantly breaking Heero's train of thought.
Heero opened his eyes, Haruko's face being the first sight he was met with.
He stared her down, an annoyed look in his eyes.
Haruko grimaced at Heero's silence.
"What? Can't talk?"
She got no response.
"...You're really boring, I hope you know that."
Still nothing.
"Alright, if you're not gonna talk to me, I'll have to MAKE you talk! Ta-kun, get over here!"
Naoto approached Haruko, sighing as he knew whatever she wanted from him wasn't going to be enjoyable.
"What?"
Without saying another word, Haruko grabbed the small child and removed the bandage that was on his forehead.
"Haruko, stop!"
Smiling devilishly, Haruko rammed her hand into the boy's forehead, her entire arm being engulfed into it as well.
She then began pulling, until her hand re-emerged, gripping what seemed to be Naota's skin.
The "skin" continued to stretch as she pulled.
Finally, whatever she was gripping disconnected from Naota's forehead, leaving the boy on the ground, disoriented (though his forehead looked completely fine).
The gross-looking glob of skin that Haruko held slowly formed into a...guitar.
Yeah, don't ask.
She approached Heero, guitar in hand, and began to play Céline Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"...Badly, I might add.
"Eeeeevery night in my dreams, I see yooouuuu~" She squealed, devastating the ears of anyone within a 40-foot radius.
"I feeeeeeel you-"
Heero stopped her, grabbing Haruko by the shirt collar and moving in close to her hear to whisper something.
Haruko's face lit up with a huge open-mouthed smile, excited that Heero seemed to be about to say something romantic to her.
"I...will kill you." Heero whispered into her ear before putting her down and walking away.
Naota approached Haruko.
"...H-Haruko, are you alright?"
Haruko said nothing.
She was frozen in place, including her smile.
Her open mouthed smile then changed, as her mouth rotated to an upside-down position, now a saddened frown in it's place.
Yes, it seriously rotated into a frown. Deal with it.
Tears began to roll down her frozen face.
Naoto sighed.
"Canti, you wanna help me with this?"
Canti approached the frozen Haruko, where he flicked her in the back of the head, releasing her from her frozen state.
Haruko, still crying somewhat, watched as Heero walked away from her towards his Gundam.
Canti patted her on the back, the words "There, there" appearing on his TV-Head.
Seeing that there were many other Gundam pilots other than the group he had come in with, Trowa decided to acquaint himself with them.
He approached the Gundam Meisters.
"I'm the pilot of Heavyarms. I have no name. But if you must call me something, then Trowa. Call me Trowa Barton."
He said very plainly.
Trowa observed the other Gundams in the area.
"I see that you all pilot Gundam as well. I'm glad to know that there are other pilots on our side."
Kidd, Iraak and Dayakka, standing outside their Gunmen, were discussing among themselves what they should do next.
"I dunno, we should really work on findin' Kamina and Simon. If we stick with these guys, we might end up goin' in the completely wrong direction."
"OR they could take us straight to them. If we explain our situation, I'm sure they'll give us the helping hand we need."
"I guess you're right...What do you think Dayakka?"
"I th-think *hic* we should find the closesest club and *hic* parpy it up all *hic* night loooooong." Dayakka slurred, having found himself more alcohol.
"What the-How did you even get that!? WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!"
"Dayo...Dore...Dopr...I have my *hic* ways..." Dayakka said, unable to say his own name.
Kidd sighed.
"Dayakka...Go home. You're drunk. Again."
Finally, the Shadows approached the Materials, the older of the two having heard of them through different news sources back on Earth during the Unbreakable Dark attack.
"So you're the ones that my friend Sonic fought alongside against the Unbreakable Dark all those months ago. It's a pleasure to finally meet you." Shadow said, showing an odd amount of respect to the Materials.

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Patroklos watched in terror as the Sabers attempted to fight off the purple-clad warrior.​

No matter what the Servants did, the man simply blocked it with little effort.​

"Just...What is he!?"​

There was nowhere to run, and fighting back would inevitably end in Sakura's capture- or worse.​

"Damn it...Damn it all!"​

"Aww, what's wrong? Little lad being a poor sport? Guess I'll just have t' put ya outta your misery!" M said, eyeing the discouraged Patroklos from a distance, fireball in hand.
"Hope you don't mind a little fire!" He said as he threw the fireball at Patroklos.
The ball of flame bounced across the ground towards Patroklos, who continued to stand there, eyes closed and fists clenched.
"I couldn't protect Pyrrha..."
The fireball inched closer.
"I couldn't protect mother..."
The fireball was just about to hit him at this point.
"I will not lose another! Not now, NOT EVER AGAIN!" Patroklos called out, turning and swinging his blade at M's fireball, cutting it in half and causing it to dissipate.
"What the..."
Patroklos charged M in rage, relentlessly swinging his blade at him.
M could hardly dodge the enraged swings, taking some cuts as he attempted to dodge.
He managed to get a punch in, causing Patroklos to stagger back and giving M a chance to leap back to a safer distance.
When he landed, he was almost immediately coming under fire from another source.
"Piss off!" He yelled as he threw several fireballs towards the other attacker in an attempt to get him away.
M turned back toward Patroklos, only to be met with the sight of Patroklos's shield flying toward him, already mere centimeters from his face.
Before he could even react, the shield collided with M's face, causing him to be sent flying backwards.
Upon hitting the ground, M's clothing flickered, it's coloration returning to it's original Red-and-Blue form.
M lay on the ground, seemingly unconscious from the blow.
Patroklos caught his shield as it flew back to him.
He turned back towards Sakura, looking to see if Mephiles was still there.
He was gone.
"Where did the other one go?" Patroklos said, looking around for Mephiles.
"Looking for someone?" Mephiles said, having just materialized behind Patroklos.
Mephiles dug his left clawed hand into Patroklos's back.
Patroklos frantically tried to get Mephiles away from him.
"Get your filthy hands off of me, you malfested trash-AAAAAAGH!"
Mephiles sent a surge of electricity through Patroklos's body, knocking him out instantly.
He removed his claws from Patroklos's back, the tips now soaked with blood, and pushed Patroklos's unconscious body to the ground.
Mephiles sunk into the ground, then reappeared before Sakura.
"Now, you will come with us." Mephiles said before opening a dark portal behind himself.

 

~Hogwarts Battle~

"Potters, take care of dark porcupine!" Gokai Red said as he was struggling against Caius who merely wasn't showing the slightest effort, it was time for a change of costume and he jumped back. "Gokai Change!" He said as his form was coated in red and the Mobirates called out the Sentai team this Ranger was. "SHINKENGER~!"
P-ShinkenRed formed a rather huge sword in his hand. "Rekka Daizantou!" As the huge zanbatou was engulfed in flames and he slammed it against Caius's sword in hopes to keep it down "Now woman!" He called out to any Saber.

Harold nodded and fired a Stupfey at Mephilles. "Sorry whatever you are, she's not going anywhere." He said aloud and thought to himself. "If this guy counterattacks, Serenity, you're up." He commuicated to her.

 

~Lowee Gampground: Purple Reunion of Sisters~

Nepgear's ears were immediatly covered before she simply blinked her purple eyes, "Uhhhh....." Nepgear thought before she saw the commotion going on at the boarder of the campsite and Neptune's body being carried by Aoi causing Nepgear to smile. "NEPTUNE!" Nepgear yelled aloud before she ran over to Aoi and the others. After pushing both Iris Heart and the AVGN aside she took a quick look at the body to be sure that it wasn't a fake, turning to the others she immediatly said "Let them in, that's Neptune without a doubt!" before gently taking the body of the Planeptune CPU off of Aoi's hands and dragged her into the campsite.


As she was dragged in Neptune began to smell the burning fire and felt it's warmth slowly touch her hands and face, her purple eyes slowly starting to open and her belly started growling as she mumbled "Neptune needs food badly...." causing Noire and Vert to quickly run over to her sides. "Neptune! You nearly risked your life just to give us time to escape, you could have DIED out there!" Noire yelled in slight anger only for Vert to intervene "That's enough, now Neptune I want you to try and answer this question...where is Blanc". Neptune didn't say anything for a few seconds before she started to explain in a serious tone "Last I saw Blanc we were attacked by those two Zombie guys....one of them grabbed Blanc and used her hammer to knock me out" before pulling out Blanc's hat and finished "I'm not sure, but I think I was close enough to add this into my inventory"

"No way! Those two must have taken Blanc after knocking Neptune out of commision!" Noire explained as she pieced together Neptune's story and looked at the white hat that Neptune was holding, Vert closed her eyes and started to think "Okay, so on one hand we have those two zombie shinobi have Blanc, on the other hand we have Grodus and his X-Nauts running rampant with a disc" before Noire joined the little thinking sesson "And when I was captured back in Planeptune there was a voice that told me we needed to all stay alive, the reason why I was never told"

"Grodus? X-Nauts? Did I get amnesia again?" Neptune asked in confusion before Nepgear said calmly "We'll explain the whole story to you later, right now we need both Compa and Yashamaru to check you out for any injuries" "Ooookayyyy, but I can't move my legs well at the moment, they feel like they were in the snow too long"

"So, to sum it up, Casshern is basicly a undead Zombie?" Rom asked as she listened in on what was said only for Ram to counter with "Uh, no..he's not a Zombie, he obviously has some kind of cheat on that allows his body to regenerate, thus cheating death" "Ram, I don't think he has a cheat, a spell with a regen effect maybe..but not a cheat" "Rom, how else does it explain his strength" "Beats me, maybe he's level 99 or higher" "Then what level was Grodus?" "Beats me, he nearly killed Fred and Uni"

Casshern simply watched this strange conversation closely as the twins tried to figure out exactly how his body worked and started coming up with some rather odd conclusions on the subject, his gaze turned towards Yashamaru and simply explained "I want to thank you for what you've did, but I need to go on ahead and move out now before one of you tries to devour my body" as he started to leave.

 

Lowee Campground:

Asuma relaxed when Nepgear knew who they were. Tucking away his chakra blades, he pulled out a fresh cigarette. "Alright then...if you say you know who they are... Just keep away from Minato-sensei and probably far away from Kakashi." Asuma took a long drag on his cigarette before moving away from the odd gathering to patrol further away for the moment.

Kakashi and Hayate lowly argued over the quality of the 'soldiers' there and what was expected of them.
Yashamaru smiled as Casshern spoke and reached out after him, "W-wait! Devour your body? I...don't know what you mean by that, but I assure you none of us want to eat you." Yashamaru grabbed Casshern's arm, his blue eyes frantic to keep their ally close. "You'll freeze if you go out there now. Wh-why not wait until we're somewhere warmer to leave." Minato patted Ram and Rom's hands, "I don't think he's a zombie....or has a 'cheat', whatever that is. Though I'd be the last person to ask how he healed like that."

Sai followed Noire and Vert over to Neptune. "Zombies? Then...you must mean Hidan and Kakuzu of the Akatsuki. The people that were after Naruto. They have Miss Blanc?" Worry ate at Sai until Genma patted his shoulder. "Don't fret. I'm sure our short tempered little friend will be able to handle herself. But...this has become a much larger issue than just a case of a few missing disks." Raido knelt beside Neptune, touching a hand to her forehead. "I'm going to need to know what those two said when you fought them. Did any key words like 'pay', 'bounty', or 'don't kill' come up? Did they say who they were working for? Where they were taking her? Maybe a meeting place? A drop point?" Raido Namiashi, one of Minato's personal guard and a long standing member of the Hokage's guard. He wasn't going to miss a single detail if he could wring it from Neptune's brain.

Yashamaru nervously looked back and forth between his duty as a medical ninja to tend to Neptune's wounds and his concern as an ANBU about losing someone who held his own against a foe they knew nothing about.

 

~Lowee Campground~


"Well let's see here, one of them kept on blabbering about pay, bounty, and not to kill us while the other one had a colorful volcabulary as he mentioned something about rituals, as we fought they explained that Blanc and I were to be captured and unharmed, I don't know where they went with her, nor who they work for because I was knocked out halfway through the fight. You're better off asking Aoi over there...not me" Neptune simply explained.


"Well this is just great...seems like those two want goddesses as trophies for some odd reason" Noire said with disdain in her tone before she added "The best chance in my opinion would be to split into two groups, one would take on the X-Nauts and the other to deal with those Ninjas". Vert then shook her head before she said "Look, Blanc can wait. If what Neptune said is accurate then those two wouldn't try to kill her at all. Right now however we have a bigger priority on our hands that needs to be dealt with"


"You mean those X-Naut guys, right?" Neptune asked still confused on what they were all talking about before Vert said calmly "Yes Neptune, those guys. Now I say we should send our best fighters back in order to fight them, probably send a couple of healers as well to keep them all alive and well. However we will also need a healer to stay here and watch over those who are unable to fight in their current state like Minato over there"

"Wow, that's honestly the most sensible idea I've heard so far" Nepgear commented as she heard Vert's idea closely before Uni said "Look, Noire's idea covers more ground and manages to get Blanc back" as she facepalmed. IF then stoo up and looked at Uni before she said calmly "Look, if we go through with Lady Black Heart's plan then we will have spread ourselves too thin and the enemy could get us one by one"

Listening in on the discussion of their next move Casshern quietly came to a halt and closed his eyes trying to think about all of the events that had just transpired before, after a few moments with his back facing against the others he turned around and added in his own opinion "If you're going to go after a disk lodged in his head then you're going to need someone who could break through his defenses and keep him immobilized as long as possible, and even then his attacks would be dangerous for those girls if he brings out that barrier again to reflect the attacks back"

 

Lowee Campground: A Helpful Surprise!

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Raido's eyes...hell, all the shinobi's eyes slid to Aoi, but the information Neptune gave was enough. He stood, folding his arms in front of him, "It's them. The Akatsuki is here." Yashamaru turned his head away from Minato, "Akatsuki? Are those the people who kidnapped Gaara-sama?" Kakashi nodded, reaching out and setting a hand on Hayate's shoulder, "Neither you nor Hayate were alive to experience Pain's destruction of our village and the kidnapping of Gaara. I've fought the two members Neptune has just described. Kakuzu and Hidan....they're essentially immortal. They're both dangerous characters...but they can be beat." Kakashi went on to describe Hidan's ritual jutsu and Kakuzu's four other hearts. "In all...let us, shinobi, take care of Kakuzu. As for Hidan...do everything in your power to avoid being cut. Even a drop of blood is enough for him to kill you. Since we don't have Shikamaru or Naruto with us, we'll have to make do with who we have." With Yashamaru distracted, Minato pushed himself up into a sitting position, "Kakashi..." "Minato-sama, please lie back down! You're still injured and your body hasn't recovered enough of it's natural chakra for you to be moving around!" Smiling through the sweat and obvious struggle to stay upright, Minato forced out the words, "Duck..."

"Wind Scythe Jutsu!"
"Eight Trigrams: Air Palm!"
"Fire Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu!""Corrosion Style: Lava Monster Jutsu!"
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
"Cherry Blossom Clash!"

From all around the campsite came a barrage of ninjutsu. Yashamaru tackled, laying flat against Minato and each of the Shinobi tackled one of the Goddess' or their new companions into the snow. Wind Style and Fire Style colliding to enhance the flames. A wave of solid lava landing on top of the flames and finally as the lava began to harden due to the intense cold, the forced air pushed the mass of fire a ways over their heads and someone dressed in pink smashed their fist onto the hardened lava, forcing the entire combo down towards the ground a little ways away from the group. Close enough that they could feel the heat of the flames and the heated wind from the impact. Lifting their heads, they stared out towards the impact site. "Sakura?" Standing in the center of the hole was the pink haired kunoichi. From the trees surrounding the party emerged several shinobi. One carrying a large fan, rushing towards them. "Gaara! Where is he!? What have you done with him!?" Before her feet could reach the edge of their campground, a man with unkempt, black hair seemingly appeared in front of her like magic. "Temari, calm down. He's obviously not here. Obito, have a look around. Is the young Kazekage here?" At the sound of the name, Kakashi's body tensed and froze up. "I..I don't see him. What does he look like again?" "The Kazekage is a young man of about seventeen with dark red hair and tanuki eyes." The man with long brown hair and pale white eyes responded coolly as Asuma and Soushi returned from patrol, "Neji!" The woman wearing blue with long brown hair smiled at them all, "Greetings." "Oh...did our plan not go as planned? Oh! Well these aren't enemies."

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~Lowee Campground~

The ninjutsu came out of nwohere and ichigo fell to the ground in hopes of avoiding it as AOi was udfortnately tackled down as was Dean until Ichigo looked up from the snow and saw... Another Vert? "What the hell? Two of her!?" He thought in surprise as it seemed their ninjas knew these ones and ichigo surveyed them, their clothes were unatural but it didn't hide the power they had at their disposal, he could probably sense their reiastu or chakra whatevere it was called, but he knew one thing, these people weren't weak, the pink haired one, Sakura he beleived it was remidne dhim of Chad's immense strength.

Aoi coughed out from cold wet snow and shivered a bit had it not been for the recent change in warmth from the lava early and looked at the them, he swore people were attempting to kill him, first these Akatsuki people and nwo this. "More friends of yours...umm Kakashi?" He asked the one eyed Jonin.

 

~Lowee Campground: Two Green Hearts!?~


"Alright, who decided to try and ambush us while we were on a adventure..." IF asked as she started to raise up only to notice that there were two Verts, this caused her jaw to drop and her eyes to widen as she struggled to say "Um....um...um Lady Green Heart...why are you standing over there?". "Iffy, what are you talking about, you know as well as I know there is only one CPU Green Heart?" Vert started to explain as she got up and spotted the new Vert in black before her thinking "No way am I seeing this" as she rubbed her eyes.


Pururut managed to stand up and took a quick look around before spotting the new Vert and asked curiously "Vert? Is that you...it's me, Pururut of Planeptune..or rather CPU Iris Heart" while everyone else started to stand up and look at what was going on before them. "Excuse me, but you know this Vert, Pururut?" Neptune asked looking at both Verts before Pururut replied "Well, this is kinda going to be a little complicated to explain but yes...she and I are from Gamindustri but in the year 1989, while you guys are from Gamindustri circa 20XX"


"So basicly, you come from another universe version of Gamindustri" IF said as she summed it up in a nutshell before Pururut added "Yes, I am CPU of Planeptune" and Neptune interrupted both of them as she said "Look, we should probably get going now and deal with this Grodus guy and his minions before they escape from Lowee"
　

~Outside Lowee Basilicom~

Sir Grodus quietly walked up to the outside of the Bascilicom and stared at it with his optics before he said "It's been a fun little trip, but we should probably prepare our forces to evacuate the landmass before those idiots come back, Crump I want you and your men to destroy this place..leave nothing behind!"

"Of course, Sir Grodus..." Lord Crump replied from behind Grodus as hundreds and thousands of X-Nauts and X-Nauts PhD were beside him, in addition to that there was also the Black and Red X-Naut Elites. Floating above the main X-Naut troop were various X-shaped creatures with smaller triangle shaped creatures orbiting them, these were the X-Naut crafted beings called Yuxes which had Mini-Yuxes orbiting around them forming a barrier around every Yux, Z-Yux, and X-Yux.

 

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-Hogwarts-

Harry jumped back and changed his dressphere to Alchemist, then suddenly made a item. Activiting it, he tossed at Caius and Vergil, causing a smoke screen. "Harold, Marvelous, we're heading back to the ship!" Harry shouted to his counterpart and the captain, he gently took Sakura's hand. he said to her, calmly, "Trust me, everything will be alright. Just follow me."




-Lastation-

"Firaga!!!!!!" Rydia shouted, her fire spell being joined by Yuna, Serah, and Vivi. Most everyone who appeared was astride one of Rydia, Yuna, or Garnet's summons expect for Serah who was on her eidolon, Snow on Shiva, Fang and Vanille on Bahamut, Kain and Edge having used their skills. Seeing Black Mage, Edge groaned, "Not this creep again." "Lets have fun than!" Snow said, revving Shiva's accelerator.

Serah and Lukya readied their bows, shooting at the same while Fang and Kain attacked with their spears. Vanille joined Rydia, Yuna, Serah, and Vivi in magic attack, however, Seymour didn't attack. He appeared to be observing the match and had a solemn look on his face.

 

Lowee: Campground: Reunion

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Reverting to normal, Vert smiled at Pururut. "Hello dearest. It's so good to see you again...but my...my friends sure are acting strange." She took a long look at her alternate universe self and shrugged, "I could believe she and I come from different universes. Oh, we should--" "We're not here to talk friendly, Vert!" Temari shoved Shisui away from her and scowled at Vert. The CPU Goddess' smile fell and her blue eyes watered, "Oh...I...I'm sorry, Temari. I didn't..." She started to cry. The sound sending a young black haired boy running to her side. "Don't make her cry, Temari! Vert is very delicate...um, right, Vert?" Kakashi's onyx eye followed the boy and suddenly filled with tears as he lifted his hand to his covered eye. "You....you're..." "Obito?" Minato beat Kakashi to the punch and the young boy's head flipped towards the blonde Hokage. "Sensei!" his eyes shifted to the silver haired Copy Ninja closer to him, "Kakashi...?" Kakashi's world narrowed. First Rin, then Sensei and now...Obito. Shisui noticed the young Uchiha's distraction and moved to answer Aoi's question. "Not all of us are Mr. Hatake's friends. Actually...the others are the ones who know him. I don't know anyone here." Sakura hopped out of the hole and patted Shisui's shoulder, "Don't worry, Shisui. I'm sure you'll meet up with someone you knew." A sorrowful look settled on Shisui's features, "No, that's not possible. Everyone I know is dead. Well...there is Itachi...but I doubt he'd still be alive either... After what happened, I'm sure he's made a choice that has not put him in the best light with the Hidden Leaf Village." Sakura's gloved hands clenched into tight fists, "Itachi...is indeed dead. Anyway...Sensei...huh?" Turning, Sakura found Kakashi hugging the young Uchiha. "Obito...I'm so sorry. I wasn't able to protect Rin...neither here nor in our own world." Obito frowned, "What do you mean, Kakashi? I never asked you to protect Rin." Kakashi pulled back staring at Obito, "You don't...you mean..." "I don't think he's from the same time you're remembering Kakashi. From what you told me...he must be from a moment before he was crushed." Minato, supported by Yashamaru, smiled and hugged Obito as he ran to his Sensei.

Genma, Hayate and Raido greeted Neji and the Fifth Mizukage. "I'm glad we could find another group of shinobi but...this certainly is an odd group. What are you all doing here?" "We had a better spot...someplace with a heater and insulation...but we were attacked." Genma started, "This person had powers that rivaled those of the shinobi here. And now...with our limitations,"

 

~Lastation~

Black Mage narrows his eyes at the new arrivals. "Godamnit... you goody-two shoes always save a fellow hero." he said in irritation and Wizard pointed the WizarGun at him. "What can I say? It's a trait." he said and BM grumbled. "Damn Narutaki and his plans, they never seem to ruddy work!" he complained and lowered his hands as a silvery viel appeared behind him.

"Looks like i live to fight again, but seriously, outnumbering a villian, do you protaginsts have no shame?" eh said and stepped backwards teh viel taking him as Wizard fired a few rounds, only for ti to not penetrate it. "Guess that's that."

~Hogwarts~

Harold nodded to his counterpart and followed with marvelous/GokaiRed lookign to the Sabers, as if nodding towards outside for them to go.

 

-Reaper Execavation Site-

While Lockon smiled at the others, he did look at Shadow in surprise. He began to wonder how the blue hedgehog was doing as he hadn't seen or heard anything of him during the three months after the Unbreakable Dark attack. Setsuna kept quiet as usual, that was until Rei wanted to speak with him. Asuka looked at Haruka, oddly. Tieria examined the Gundams and pondered if they were part of Celestial Being.

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-Hogwarts-

Harry picked up Patroklos and hurried to the Galleon, Serenity spoke to him and Harold, 'Harry, why are you retreating?' 'They seemed too strong for us to fight, Serenity. But of course they might follow us. But I'm not risking that.' Harry told her. Serenity gave a concerned sound, sitting in Harold's mind and trying to find out what was happening on the outside.



-Lastation-

Lukya sighed in relief, Fang watched Black Mage leave and shouted, "Coward!!!" Rydia walked to Haruto and asked, "Hey, are you alright there, buddy?" "No........" Edge said, watching Rydia speak with Haruto while Edward wondered who the Black Mage was. Yuna shook as she thought of her last encounter with him.