An Uchiha in Marvel: Naruto Fanfic

Chapter 32: Chapter 32: Stage Two Awakening



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The World Shakes

Aiden stepped from the crumbling alley into the wet street, flanked by Kiera, Luro, and a heavily bandaged Markus. Above them, the sky danced with crimson light like thin lightning, yet arching impossibly, stretched across the city. It wasn't thunderwater rain; it was power. And it wasn't localized. It was everywhere.

On every screen, every monitor, every drone feed Stage Two had begun.

Red code streaked through digital maps. Connections blinked open between distant continents. Grid nodal pulses echoed like drumbeats across the global net. The message carved into the skies above their city was not just a prophecy it was a broadcast.

"Uchiha Ascendancy: Stage Two Begins"

People rose from their homes, stepping outside into the unnatural glow. Protestors, perplexed families, riot squads lowering shields. Drones hovered, locked in pattern motionless. A breath was held across the globe.

Aiden shut his eyes, Sharingan spiraling.

He reached to touch Markus's shoulder but the elder man tensed.

"You're already connected," Markus whispered.

Aiden looked down. His talisman the shard glinted in his palm as if charging on its own.

"The grid is mine," Aiden said softly, finally facing the sky. "Let them see."

Global Pulse

In a bustling Beijing district, neon signs cut through foggy air. A café's holo-display shifted alongside weather forecasts, meal deals, and banners came the crimson cascade. The Uchiha sigil, ancient script, a streak of red lightning across digital feeds.

Then the lights changed: Blue nodes turned red. Energy lines bent; traffic lights shut off. Every device synced to a pulse. Think(Android)Phones, scanners, biotech implants all glimmered with the shard's resonance.

Within seconds, hologrades were down. Public transit faltered. Even med-drone hubs locked into sequence, machines paused mid-cycle then resumed with new calibration.

Families watched from balconies, confused, enthralled. And then, world leaders on secure lines issued warnings:

"Maintain safety protocols."

"Do not engage Uchiha host."

"Stage Two will correct itself."

But voices quivered when they spoke.

Aiden's Vision

Back in their city, Aiden pressed the shard to the concrete.

Bright tendrils reached outward, wrapping around a surveillance drone hanging above him. It collapsed mid-air its systems winking off in seconds. A silence followed.

He closed his eyes. Began to see patterns.

Through the blinking codescape of the network, he followed the red line as it spread: Tokyo, London, São Paulo, Cairo, Mumbai.

Then, within the signal web, another node pulsed in response:

Stage Two – Activated

It sparked to life in response to the shard's effect, not initiated by Aiden, but triggered by him.

He realized the truth: the grid had been sleeping, and their city was the key but as long as the shard glowed, Stage Two would continue to awaken.

"We have to shut it off," he whispered.

Kiera forward-stepped, scanning the sky. "We need a target."

Luro pulled his handheld. "Coordinates incoming. It's a Center Node Antarctica. The 'Forgotten Apex'. Central vault."

Switches and communications blinked. They gathered, rain dripping in rivulets.

Markus coughed. "If we don't reach it Stage Three."

The crew stiffened.

The Apex Expedition

They moved through rain into broken streets filled with thousands. From Union ambassadors on drones to anonymous chants in rally squares they all watched Aiden with hope and fear.

They piled into a disguised convoy: a law enforcement riff stuffed with makeshift equipment, disassembled drones, and enough tech to cloak their signals from normal scanning arrays.

Kiera sat in the back, monitoring nets.

"A million grid nodes will speak tonight," she said. "If one by one goes red Stage Two becomes permanent."

Drey adjusted Markus's IV port. "He's fading fast."

Markus shook his head. "I've stalled it. But I can't hold on much longer."

Aiden sat at the front, hands on the wheel, eyes red, distant.

The convoy moved, rain-screened mirrors reflecting sudden arcs of static across the horizon.

Arrival at Polar Gate

They arrived at a ring of steel doors punched into the polar ice. The "Forgotten Apex" sealed since 2124, when the ARASHI Kata protocol sank beneath layers of ice, buried to hide Stage One's failure.

A white quad-drone landed near the entrance, broadcasting a low-frequency hum.

Luro made a final call. "Grid link monitoring shows 11 signals converging here. Command capsule approaching from every continent."

Aiden stepped forward, Sharingan blazing.

He pressed the shard to the steel. The door trembled, code streaming as seals recognized the bloodline again. Holoscreens flickered to life on broken consoles.

He sighed.

"Dial it down."

He spoke in cadence, chakra spiraling outward. The shard pulsed, lines of red light streaming across the steel.

The door opened slowly.

Inside: darkness and a spiral of cables descending into a deeper core vault.

He exhaled.

"Keep watch."

Descending Into the Core

They entered a multi-tiered shaft, walls lined with ice-gel panels and info conduits, dripping thawed crystals.

Every step they took echoed with the pull of the network, as if the splice of bloodline to grid, merged into a single signal.

Aiden paused at a large door etched with the same spiral nine-star sigil. It glowed red. Stage Two's heart.

He set the shard on its keypad.

"He's lost power," Drey called Markus collapsed against the wall.

Kiera rushed to him. "We've got seconds!"

The door reacted: steel slid. A control chamber loomed inside, filled with nodes vault copies of shards, interconnected in a pentagram of light cables.

At its center: a Master Core. A crystalline hive suspended in electromagnetic field.

Lights around it blinked slowly.

A hum rose.

"It's synced," Luro said.

 

The Moment of Control

Aiden stepped forward.

He traced the shard's pulse along the cables.

Lights blinked.

"Stop," he murmured. His Sharingan glowed new, extra tomoe spinning outward.

He connected the shard to the Master Core interface.

A line of code streamed upward in ribbon light:

"AUTHENTICATION: UCHIHA TEMPORAL THREAD SECURED."

He smiled, hopeful.

 

The Backlash

But then.

The Master Core exploded in red light.

Every shard interface sparked.

Visions flashed: vault after vault going red. Grid nodes erratic. Digital sky glitching mid-storm.

The spiral sigil flared on Aiden's eye in perfect synchronization.

"Un…locking?"

He staggered back as data poured into the ring of shards around the Core.

A hum deepened like tectonic plates grinding.

 

The Activation Surge

Above them, the Apex rig thrummed. The platform shuddered.

Aiden focused: I can stop this.

He channeled chakra through the shard pushed his internal power outward to counter the surge.

But the shards rim started to glow faster.

The hum grew into a roar.

Kiera yelled: "Disconnect him!"

But Aiden shook his head.

"No it's the only way."

He gripped the shard tight.

Luro launched himself toward the Master Core interface.

 

Cliffhanger: Reality Fractures

The Master Core imploded. Red energy lanced into cables and flesh. Ice suddenly receptive, cables glowed with white-hot energy.

A wave of crimson code streamed outward pulverizing ice, electrifying circuits, fracturing pathways.

The quake split the floor.

Kiera grabbed Markus.

Luro reached for Aiden.

The air shimmered.

Everything slowed.

A dreamlike moment:

Red stars.

Clogs of memory cables.

The shard burning in Aiden's palm.

And then

He smiled.

But not at them.

He smiled at something behind them.

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