Minato with a Gacha

Chapter 10: Face off



The Senju training grounds had become a warzone. Trees lay uprooted, craters pockmarked the earth, and the air reeked of ozone and burnt chakra. Kushina stood at the epicenter of the devastation, her crimson hair blazing like wildfire, chains of glowing chakra coiling around her like serpents. Her eyes burned with a mix of grief and fury—a mother, a warrior, and a widow testing the imposter wearing her husband's face.

"Last warning," she growled, slamming her fist into her palm. Nine-Tails' chakra flickered around her, distorting the air like heat haze. "If you can't keep up, this'll be your grave."

My system buzzed. [Damocles Effect: Threat Level – Catastrophic.]

Kushina moved first, vanishing in a burst of red light. Her fist rocketed toward my ribs, but instinct—or Minato's muscle memory—twisted me aside. Her knuckles grazed my jacket, tearing fabric.

[Ability Activated: Spider-Sense (Marvel). Penalty: Sensory Overload – 10-minute migraines post-use.]

The world sharpened. I felt her next strike before she threw it—a sweeping kick aimed at my knees. I flipped backward, landing in a crouch as her Adamantine Chains erupted from the ground, spearing toward me like javelins.

[Ability Activated: Tracer's Blink (Overwatch). Penalty:Cluster Headaches ]

I teleported in three rapid bursts, reappearing behind her. My palm glowed with stolen energy.

[Ability Stolen: Hadouken (Street Fighter) Penalty: severe hand burn .]

The burning sphere slammed into her back, but Kushina's chains coiled into a shield, absorbing the blow. She spun, lashing out with a whip of red chakra that carved a trench into the earth.

"Too slow!" she taunted.

Kushina's hands flew through seals. The ground beneath me liquefied, swallowing my legs in a vortex of molten earth—[Uzumaki Secret Art: Quicksand Tomb.]

[Ability Activated: Magneto's Magnetic Field (Marvel). Penalty: Metal Toxicity – Blood poisoning for 1 hour.]

I ripped a nearby iron fence from its foundations, shaping it into a platform to wrench myself free. Kushina retaliated with a barrage of kunai, each trailing explosive tags.

[Ability Activated: Jedi Force Push (Star Wars). Penalty: Psychic Fatigue – Tremors for 15 minutes.]

The kunai froze mid-air, then hurtled back at her. She dodged, but the explosions ignited a firestorm. Through the smoke, her chains lashed out, snaring my wrist.

"Got you," she hissed, yanking me into a grapple.

[Ability Activated: Scorpion's Spear (Mortal Kombat). Penalty: Tendon Strain – Reduced mobility.]

A fiery chain shot from my gauntlet, wrapping around her ankle. We crashed into the dirt, a tangle of limbs and chakra, until her knee slammed into my gut.

Kushina's patience snapped. Crimson chakra erupted around her, forming a shroud of Nine-Tails' energy. A swirling orb of black-and-red condensed in her palm—a miniature Tailed Beast Bomb.

"You're not him," she snarled. "But let's see if you can die like him."

[Ability Activated: Green Lantern's Construct (DC). Penalty: Willpower Drain – Emotional numbness for 2 hours.]

A massive emerald anvil materialized above her, slamming down to crush the bomb. But Kushina moved, teleporting behind me with a flash of yellow—Flying Thunder God: Kushina's Version

The bomb detonated at point-blank range.

[Emergency Protocol: Captain America's Shield (Marvel)]

The shield absorbed the blast, but the force hurled me into a boulder. Blood trickled from my nose as the shield disintegrated.

"Pathetic," Kushina spat. "Minato wouldn't need toys."

[Ability Activated: Kratos' Spartan Rage (God of War). Penalty: Uncontrollable Bloodlust – Risk of ally harm.]

My vision turned red. I lunged, fists crackling with primordial fury. The ground shattered with each punch, but Kushina danced away, her chains binding my arms.

"Enough!" she roared.

Kushina's eyes slid shut. Natural energy surged into her body, etching sage markings across her skin 'Sage Mode'

"You want power?" she whispered. "I'll show you power."

The earth itself answered her. Stone pillars erupted, hurling me skyward.

[Ability Activated: Iron Man's Repulsors (Marvel). Penalty:Risk of cardiac arrest.]

I blasted through the pillars, raining plasma down on her. She weaved through the barrage, landing a palm strike that cracked my ribs.

[Ability Activated: Dante's Royal Guard (Devil May Cry). Penalty: Demonic Corruption – Hallucinations.]

I parried her next strike, countering with a blast of hellfire. She staggered, her sage cloak singed, but retaliated with a summoning jutsu.

Summoning

A toad the size of a skyscraper crashed onto the field, its tongue snapping toward me.

[Ability Activated: Pac-Man's Power Pellet (Arcade). Penalty: Sugar Crash – Lethargy.]

I grew gargantuan, chomping the tongue in half. The toad retreated, but Kushina was already airborne, a hurricane of rasengans spiraling around her.

[Ultimate Ability: Goku's Instant Kamehameha (Dragon Ball). Penalty: Skeletal Fractures – Full-body paralysis.]

I cupped my hands, a sphere of blue energy roaring to life. The beam clashed with her rasengans, tearing the sky open. The shockwave vaporized the training grounds, leaving a glass crater in its wake.

The cratered battlefield trembled as Kushina and I faced off, both breathing heavily. Her Sage Mode markings glowed faintly, though her cloak of Nine-Tails chakra had dimmed to embers. Blood trickled from a cut above her eye, and my left arm hung useless at my side, bones shattered from the Kamehameha's backlash. The air reeked of scorched earth and ozone, a testament to the apocalyptic clash of worlds we'd unleashed.

Kushina smirked, though it lacked her earlier venom. "Still standing, impostor? Minato did have better reflexes."

[System Alert: Penalty Overload – 92%. Reckless Protocol Engaged.]

I spat blood, grinning through the pain. "Yeah? Let's see how you handle this."

[Ability Activated: Omni-Blade (Mass Effect) + Hadouken (Street Fighter). Penalty: Plasma Feedback – Internal burns.]

A glowing blue blade erupted from my forearm, its edge humming with biotic energy. I channeled fire into my palm, merging it with the blade in a spiraling helix of blue and crimson. Kushina's eyes narrowed as she recognized the hybrid technique—a bastardized Rasengan infused with raw, untamed power.

"Cheap tricks won't save you!" she roared, weaving hand signs faster than thought.

[Uzumaki Forbidden Art: Eight Trigrams Chains of Suppression.]

Her Adamantine Chains morphed, multiplying into a cage of glowing seals that pulsed with gravitational force. The ground beneath me cracked, pulled downward like a black hole. I lunged, slashing through the chains with the Omni-Blade, but each severed link reforged instantly, tightening the trap.

[Ability Activated: Kryptonian Heat Vision (DC). Penalty: Retinal Hemorrhage – Temporary blindness.]

My eyes blazed red, lasers slicing through the chains. Kushina teleported—[Flying Thunder God: Improvised Mark]—reappearing behind me with a rasengan aimed at my spine.

[Counter-Activated: Spartan Laser (Halo). Penalty: Weapon Meltdown – 24-hour cooldown.]

I twisted, firing a searing pink beam from my palm. The rasengan and laser collided, detonating in a shockwave that hurled us apart. I skidded across the glassed earth, my vision swimming as blindness crept in.

"You're out of moves," Kushina panted, struggling to rise. Her Sage Mode had faded entirely, her chakra reserves spent.

"Wrong," I croaked, triggering my last-ditch gambit.

[Final Ability: Tifa's Final Heaven (Final Fantasy VII). Penalty: Full-Body Fractures – 72-hour recovery.]

Chi surged through my veins, my body glowing like a supernova. I closed the distance in a flash, fist cocked back. Kushina's chains lashed out defensively, but I weaved through them, striking her sternum with a punch that cracked the air itself.

BOOM.

The impact lifted her off her feet, carving a trench through the battlefield. She landed hard, coughing blood, her chains dissolving into sparks. I collapsed beside her, every bone in my body screaming.

For a moment, silence reigned. Then Kushina laughed—a ragged, breathless sound.

"You… idiot," she wheezed. "You fought like a cornered animal."

"Worked… didn't it?" I gasped, my voice barely audible.

She turned her head, studying me with grudging respect. "Minato would've used a sealing jutsu. Clean. Efficient. But you… you adapt. Maybe that's what Konoha needs now."

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