Chapter 144 - Counter-Attack Time!

As the two Kages Gaara and Onoki were fighting with the Vasto Lorde Tennyo in the sky, making sure that they stay away from the purple dust she releases, the ninja on the ground are having a difficult time dealing with the combo of Byakko and Genbu as the two complete each other perfectly.

Genbu was able to nullify all the Jutsus in the area, making him only vulnerable in some way to physical attacks, but his high defense and strength make up for it, while Byakko is able to repel all the physical attacks, and only some high-level Jutsus are able to pass through his black lightning clad, not only that but he is very fast and lethal with his claws, and that is without counting the Ceros that both shoot from time to time.

At this moment, the twins, Taro and Jiro are giving their all to protect, and save as many of their allies as possible, just as Taro once again moved a ninja from Suna out of harm's way, he yelled to Jiro "Jiro! How much do we have to wait before going all out!?" and Jiro, who at that moment, uses the Fūton: Kaiten Shuriken(Wind Release: Rotating Shuriken) aiming at Genbu, hoping on the fact that Byakko misunderstands this type of attack and moves back once again to defend Genbu, thus momentarily stopping his onslaugh, replies "Just a few more minutes, as soon as I learn about their abilities I called for back up... He should come soon!".

Thankfully, Jiro's plans worked, and Byakko moved back to block his Jutsu, and his wind release was able to pass through his Black Lightning Clad, causing some shallow wounds, and Temari, who notices this yells "All Wind Release on the tiger now! Shurikenjutsu and Kunaijutsu on the turtle aim at the mask!".

But as the Wind Jutsu were about to hit Byakko, Genbu once again slammed his tail on the ground creating another Petrification Wave, that petrified all the Chakra used in the jutsus or techniques making them stop working and dissipating, and Byakko like a flash of black light moved around Genbu deflecting all the kunai and shurikens.

And right as the ninja were about to lose all hope, from the distance a rumbling sound is heard, then an orange plane-like figure can be seen moving at fast speed toward the Menos duo, Byakko, and Genbu who notice him without losing any time start attacking him with their Cero, but the plane-like figure was able to dodge them all and then land on the ground in a superhero pose, the figure is obviously Mecha-Naruto.

Temari looks at the newcomer and sees the familiar shape, but soon after she notices the difference and says "What... the holy hell... is THAT!?" and Taro and Jiro who as soon as they heard him coming moved closer to the Menos says at the same time "He is another member of the Baransa, Mecha-Naruto a product planned by Orochimaru and re-adapted and created by Kabuto with Ren's input! And now it's the right time to use it!".

Then the Twins move forwards and Taro throws a smoke bomb to his feet, while Jiro throws their protectors high in the air, then as the bomb explodes covering their figure, and then they yell "Fyujon!".

Then as the smoke clears, in the place of Taro and Jiro there is only one tall muscular young man with spiky brown hair, and only a black hakama, who grabbed the falling protectors and put them on his neck then he said in a strange double voice "I'm neither Taro nor Jiro, I'm Tajiro, here to save your sorry your ass!" meanwhile Temari who looks stunned by what just happened and says in a low voice "First some kind of mechanical puppet that moves on his own, and now this... what the hell happened to the world?".

At the same time, Tajiro runs towards the Menos and yells "Mecha-Naruto! You take the turtle one! The tiger is mine!" and Mecha-Naruto replies "Rojer! Rojer! -Dattebate yare" and with the thrust of his jets he moves quickly towards Genbu, and Byakko moves to intercept him.

Tajiro sees this and uses the Shakuton: Kokunai Nenshō(Scorch Release: Internal Combustion), a Jutsu that causes microscopic combustion reactions to take place within the muscles of the user, destroying the lactic acid built up within and giving a boost to the user's endurance and strength, and giving a yellow hue around his body, as a side effect the excess energy released by the combustions is sent to the hair that rose up and took a yellowish-golden color.

With this boost Tajiro quickly arrives next to Byakko yelling "Not this time, mate!" and with his fist engulfed in the yellow fire thanks to the Shakuton: Kogeru Yashi (Scorch Release: Charring Palm), he successfully punches through Byakko's defense forcing him back and severely burning his skin, so much that Byakko regeneration is not able to keep up.

At the same time, Mecha-Naruto reaches Genbu, and grabbing his tail, he swings it around and throws him high up in the air, then he looks at him and points his hands at Genbu and says "Lock... On... Fire!" and a volley of missiles came out of his shoulders and chest while his finger opened and shoot some smaller missiles.

Seeing the coming volley, Genbu thought that it is some kind of Jutsu and uses his Petrification Wave to deal with it, but as the brown wave passes through them, nothing happens and soon Genbu is too late to evade the volley and is hit in full, causing a great series of explosions.

Meanwhile, the fierce battle between Tennyo and the two Kage, Onoki and Gaara, is still going strong, but it reached a situation of stall, as the two ninjas do not dare to move closer to the Vasto Lorde, as they found out that her purple dust is too dangerous, not only it forces you to sleep once you are inside, but it also steals your Chakra and once Tennyo reabsorbs the dust the stolen Chakra is added to hers, but it is also impossible to defend and redirect, the Tsuchikage before tried to once again enter this time protected by a Sand and Rock shield, but the dust still passed through it like the defense didn't even exist, and luckily he was pulled out in time and only lost another 1/4 of Chakra for that stunt.

Then they tried a combination of Wind Release Jutsu to blow away the dust, but once again their effort is in vain as the dust didn't move an inch, at the same time Tennyo seems too lazy to relentlessly chase after them, and instead, she throws one Cero after another, while Onoki tries to distract her and hit her with his Jinton, and Gaara tries to grab her with his sand and pull her out of the dust.

Just as this meaningless back and forth was going on, Gaara notices the figure of Naruto behind Tennyo, falling toward her, forming a Rasengan in hand, but he was about to fall right into the purple dust unaware of its danger, and Onoki who notices the same yells "Wait! Idiot! Don't do it!".