A dirge-like score swelled as a nearly-kilometer-wide meteor screamed out of the heavens.
"a—A meteor? How is that even—"
"Is… is that a ninjutsu?"
"This is impossible—we can't outrun that!!"
Panic hollowed the rank and file. One glance at that falling mountain and every heart knew the gap between both sides.
This wasn't power humans could resist.
Ōnoki's eyes hardened. "It's not over yet! Don't throw your lives away—do what you can do!"
He shot into the sky toward the falling star.
"Everyone, get back—farther!" Gaara barked, pushing the lines into a retreat that instantly turned to near-stampede.
Kabuto adjusted his glasses as the shadow swallowed the sands. "Even us? You'd kill your own side as well?"
Madara folded his arms, voice cool and proud. "Of course. Impure World Reincarnation was made to drag the enemy to hell with you. We'll regenerate soon enough—"
He paused; his gaze found the speck holding back the sky.
"A flying ninja? So you're that two-scales brat from Iwagakure."
[Ōnoki: "Never thought the Lord of the Shinobi World remembered me…"]
[Madara: "You've grown, at least."]
[Mu, Second Tsuchikage: "Ōnoki, you still carry the Stone's Will."]
[Ōnoki: "Sensei—I won't forget."]
[Boruto: "So this… is a god's power…"]
[Sarada: "Terrifying… our ancestor is this strong?!"]
[Mitsuki: "He might be stronger than Mom."]
[Iwao: "How do you even fight this…?"]
[Denki: "I thought that chapter in the textbook was made up!"]
Class was over for the new gen; all eyes were glued to the sky.
On the battlefield of the Fourth Great Ninja War, someone really did call down a kilometer-class meteor.
No wonder the legends sound unreal.
[Hashirama: "Hahaha, Madara, bullying kids again?"]
[Madara: "Pebbles, all of them."]
[Might Guy: "If I had been there—"]
["Oscar": "Please. You're a wheelchair relic. What good are you?"]
（Classmate of Himawari—loud, snobbish, and loves taking shots at her.）
[Himawari: "Oscar, show some respect to Uncle Guy!"]
As the army broke and ran—
A small, stocky figure punched upward. Ōnoki.
He braced both palms against the hurtling star. "Earth Style—Super Light-Weight Rock Technique!"
The meteor's descent slowed.
Gaara raised both hands; dunes swelled into twin sand hands that pressed up beside Ōnoki's.
Together… the impossible stopped.
Madara's brows lifted. "Two-Scales… you've grown some spine."
The frame froze on a miracle: a grandpa and a desert prince halting a falling world.
Relief burst along the lines.
"We're saved!"
"It's stopped! It's really stopped!"
Naruto wiped sweat and let himself grin.
Faces bloomed with the wild laughter of those who'd just dodged death.
[Deidara: "Something feels off."]
[Hidan: "Yeah… real off."]
[Boruto: "No way there's a second meteor… right?"]
[Sarada: "…"]
Ōnoki allowed himself a small, gentle smile and met Naruto's eyes below.
Far above them—far beyond the clouds—
an even larger meteor sheared free and plunged.
It dwarfed the first by dozens of times.
Madara's mouth tilted. "Very well. If you blocked the first… what will you do about the second, Ōnoki?"
The titan slammed into its smaller twin. Weight multiplied.
Ōnoki felt the mass change and went white to the lips.
Stone thundered; shockwaves ripped the desert; fragments scythed outward like a shrapnel hurricane. The ground convulsed as if the earth itself screamed.
"What happened?!"
Shinobi who'd cleared the dunes spun back, horror-struck.
At HQ, Shikaku's pupils pin-pricked. "Report!"
"Incoming from the Relay Division: a sky-blotting meteor has fallen over the Fourth Division's sector! The tremors are from the impact!"
[Boruto: "Holy— Lord Madara is insane!!!"]
[Sarada: "Can shinobi really reach this level…?"]
[Kurotsuchi: "One landfall… how many casualties…"]
[Darui: "How do you fight that? He's playing in a different league."]
[Chōjūrō: "Weapons up. Brace for anything!"]
The new generation felt it in their bones—the marrow-deep despair of that day.
You claw your way out of death… and the second sun falls.
In a blink, tens of thousands were crushed beneath heaven's rubble.
The clean, endless desert became a color-stained graveyard of broken stone and broken hopes.
[Tenten: "Against power like this… the Allied Forces can't win."]
[Kiba: "Maybe only the Five Kage together can stop him."]
[Shino: "That seems… likely."]
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