Finally finished this. Sorry that it's so short. It covers plenty of ground so I hope nobody minds.

The final scene in particular, I only finished tonight. Hope you Enjoy!

The next morning, before the majority of the ninja awoke, Jiraiya and Orochimaru arrived at the encampment.

Upon news of the alien hiding within the rubber dome (constructed by a lightning ninja) Orochimaru made a beeline to said life-form and, heedless of the now-visible pheromones mixing into the air, the Ninja-Scientist sliced through it and stepped inside, only coming out when he held a vial of Petria's blood within his hand. It went without saying, a scientist's interest in an Alien Lifeform was unparalleled. Even an evil scientist like Orochimaru would have risked death for the intellectual value of Petria's genetic sequence.

And when the Snake Sannin emerged from the Rubber Ball with the alien's blood in a vial and a nefarious look on his face. Tsunade was right there in front of him to give him a fully-powered punch to the stomach, making him drop the vial of blood on the ground and fall to the floor on his back. And this was Tsunade's punch. Orochimaru landed on the floor with enough force for cracks to appear underneath him.

Orochimaru got back up shortly after this, looking mostly unharmed.

"Tsunade. Fancy meeting you here..." Orochimaru told his other former teammate. He, Jiraiya and Tsunade were once the members of a very famous ninja group. That was a while ago, during their 20s. The Trio were now entering their early 50s and were slowly exiting their prime. They'd been fighting in different factions of the World for almost 20 years and each of them were world-class Ninja fighters among other things. "You do realize I'll have to get another sample now right?" Orochimaru intoned, pointing lazily to the broken vial which poured out a bluish blood by his feet. "It seems you've broken my first one."

Tsunade glanced warily at the broken glass at their feet, as well as the blood which poured out of it and into the newly made cracks in the floor. Dimly, she noticed Orochimaru slide away towards the rubber ball again, to collect a second sample of the dangerous alien blood. She intercepted him and punched him again, slightly harder this time, hoping he would get the message. Words wouldn't work with Orochimaru. The snake had made too many self-justifications for his evil actions. The man's evil was only outdone by his debating skills. All Tsunade could hope for was that the man's fear of harm would be justification in and of itself to obey Tsunade's wishes.

"Fine." Orochimaru grumbled after pulling himself off of the ground for a second time. "But if I can't take a blood sample, at least let me collect her ***** for the sake of future battles..."

Tsunade grumbled out a concession and immediately wished she hadn't. That was (one of) the problems with Orochimaru. If you talked to him for long enough, he could get you to do whatever he wanted, just through some weird and thoroughly evil charisma. Tsunade wished to herself that they wouldn't need him as their ally.

When Petria woke up, it was to the inside of a hazmat suit.

Her body, and thus all of her pores, were thoroughly closed off from the outside world by a thick rubber skin which only ended over her eyes and mouth. Her eyes, it turned out, were covered with thin little windows of foggy glass, allowing her to see, and her mouth was covered by only a customized re-breather, allowing her to absorb air into her throat without actually returning air into the outside world.

'Ah...' she thought. 'So they found out about the pheromones.'

In the end, Petria's new fashion choice didn't bother her too much, since the alternative might've been death. She'd only have to be wearing this for a little while anyway. Cui would be there in about ten days to end things, one way or another.

Petria dully noticed a tube coming out from the back of her suit, towards a large glass tank lying on the floor next to her.

"Oh, don't mind me," Orochimaru commented as he sat snidely on the glass tank in front of her, which was slowly sucking the pheromones out from across Petria's body. "I just happen to be a bit of an opportunist. That's all. It felt so saddening to let this stuff go to waste."

Petria responded with a sweatdrop which was promptly sucked into the machine just like everything else.

Maybe she should've used the extinction button while she had the chance. Some of these people had a dangerous way of thinking.

Sasuke woke up, to see his (now former) master Orochimaru hovering over him.

Immediate gestures were made in hopes of assistance. Sasuke may have been thoroughly tied up and detained, but that didn't mean he couldn't squirm in a particularly dignified way.

Orochimaru's grin merely broadened at this, as if amused by his student. Sasuke's eye started twitching violently. I mean, sure he had run away without telling Orochimaru first, but it wasn't like Sasuke was particularly loyal to the Snake Sannin anyway, right?

"Why don't you just sit right here and contemplate the reason why this all happened, ok Sasuke?" Orochimaru asked, with a Cheshire grin, before leaving. Sasuke's eyes narrowed. Some ally Orochimaru ended up being.

Off to the Side, Sasuke's evil-Mary-Sue-elder-brother winced visibly (in a mocking way) at Sasuke's treatment, before going back to sipping some more Punch. In response, Sasuke's blood boiled in his veins. This was hell. This really was Hell.

At Pain's Orders, the Rest of the Akasuki criminal Organization (which Pain happened to be the leader of [don't ask]) arrived on the scene just in time for the final group of ninja to get their power levels measured.

Sasuke, who was still tied up, was also measured for the sake of completion. Sasuke almost unlocked a fourth Tomoe on his Sharingan in rage when it was revealed that his Power level was less then Naruto's who he thought he'd surpassed ages ago. A Powerlevel of 103 was hardly insignificant for a 17 year old boy, but it didn't help when several other people in the Room had power levels of over 300.

Sasuke wanted to kill himself in shame. At this point, he'd be considered an average! He was not an average! He was a famous Uchiha, dammit! And what was with Sasuke's brother Itachi! The scouter said that his power level was only 175! That was obviously fake! Itachi could kill half of the army in the room, by himself! Could Itachi really hide his power level like that?

Itachi made no comment when his power level was shown and only smiled when it was revealed to be only 175. Sasuke was utterly infuriated. Why was this happening to him!

After the Mary Sue that was Itachi, the shark-faced Swordsman that was Kisame had his power level measured. The other ninja grimaced when it was revealed to be just less than 500. They had expected it, but they still didn't like it. Kisame was famous in villainous circles for his high levels of Chakra which were comparable to even a tailed beast. So much so that he had earned the moniker, "the Tailless Beast". Even more terrifying however, was the sword which Kisame carried.

The sentient sword named Samehada, did not so much cut as rip its opponent to shreds on contact with its bladelike scales. It was known to leave its victims with their skin sheared off when it hit. Even scarier though, was the sword's ability to absorb chakra upon contact. Almost 500 power levels per second upon close inspection. And if you were Kisame, the sword would let you absorb the chakra into yourself for a temporary boost afterward. Man and sword made a horrifying combo, which left the rest of the room wondering why Kisame was so respectful to his partner, Itachi.

The newly arrived Akatsuki criminals also came in (the remainder of the organization which Nagato had planned to use for world domination) and their powers were also measured. A blond man in a ponytail, named Deidara, had a power level of 350, but this was supplemented by his ability to fly using explosive clay birds, and his ability to time his explosions, also using clay.

An older, purple haired woman named Konan, had a powerlevel of 140 but held the ability to turn her body into near limitless supplies of paper. An ability more terrifying when you realized that she could telekinetically control said paper and that certain types of paper in the planet of Tsuchi could be programed to explode.

Jiraiya, one of the Legendary Sannin and the one who had escorted Orochimaru to them, held a powerlevel of 300, yet also had the ability to summon a variety of talking Toads (from some other place which supposedly wasn't on the planet) to aid him in battle. The largest of said toads would dwarf even large buildings and held a Power level of about 380. It was similarly ninja-quick for its size and held both the Giant Sword and the smoking pipe of an old timey crime boss. Petria had laughed her ass off after seeing it, much to said Toad's displeasure.

And finally, the evil and snarky scientist Orochimaru had his powerlevel measured and proved to be 390. Just slightly higher than the giant toad and officially where you would start calling Powerlevels immense (in Petria's book). Only, there was something off about Orochimaru's powerlevel and it took a brief spar for Petria to figure out what.

Of Orochimaru's powerlevel, almost all of it skewed on defense as opposed to any offensive maneuvers. This meant that even Orochimaru's strongest punches only hit for 130 worth of powerlevel damage but that Orochimaru's durability was so great that he may as well have a powerlevel of 1140. Add to that, the minor heal factor which Orochimaru had, and the guy was practically immortal on a planet as weak as this. Supposedly, this was all purposeful genetic engineering design from Orochimaru's part. Petria hadn't even known that such a thing was possible.

As for Orochimaru's lack in offense, he made up for it by using the famous grass-cutter sword which (contrary to its name) had the ability to cut into anything, at least a little, if you used it. It was weird, because beyond a certain durability, the sword lost its ability to cut something properly, but it would always without fail, cut into something with at least as the thickness of a blade of grass. Bad for mowing down weaker ninja but great in a long term fight against someone of greater strength. An odd fighting style, Petria decided.

And then, with everybody's strength finally measured, Pain stepped up and preparations were started for the general battle plan.

Three days later, Petria started a basic class on how to use Ki to add to the defenses of certain ninja, because apparently the vast majority of the population didn't know how to do that automatically. The blond haired Leaf ninja from before, named Naruto, was a particularly severe victim of this, otherwise holding the durability you'd expect from less than a quarter of his actual power. Petria planned to fix this.

It would take time, but it was a fairly simple trick for Petria to teach, so she expected to finish it within seven days. Naruto boasted that he could finish it within four, but it did take seven.

Seven days after the initial meeting, the ninja of the defense force split up into a group so that they could individually train for the overarching plan on the defense of the planet. Sans the durability training with Petria, and the restrained form of Sasuke, the Samurai location meeting hall became empty and quiet.

Everybody was out practicing the maneuvers they'd be doing on the battlefield in a couple days time.

Ten days after the initial meeting, all of the ninja reconvened together again. They were as prepared as they were going to get. In less than twenty four hours, an alien invasion would start that might signal the end of the world. The rest of the world had been warned (though earth country and water country still refused to believe it) and that night, everything was as silent as the grave.

At the start of the eleventh day, after said meeting between ninja nations, Cui's spaceship arrived at the planet.

The planet was still one of the smaller ones, Cui decided.

Cui was examining it from outside the balcony of his house-sized space pod. He was currently in the upper thermosphere of the planet's atmosphere and considering his first move on how to conquer said planet with as little risk to himself as possible.

Yep, Cui was breathing in the upper thermosphere of a planet, where almost no air was to be found, without a space suit.

Though they couldn't quite breathe in true space, Cui's species had the ability to survive in ridiculously low atmosphere pressures as if it were normal. This ability had helped them colonize worlds that others could not, and spread more thoroughly throughout the galaxy than any other race could. Before the freak asteroid accident (which had somehow destroyed all of their colonies at once) Cui's brethren had carved out a significant niche of the galaxy all to themselves and were living a comparatively peaceful existence there.

That was certainly not the case now though, as Cui pondered how to best exterminate the life from the planet below him.

The planet, Cui observed, was split vaguely into two continents. One small and one large. According to Cui's scouter, both held rather sparse populations and neither of the continents held anything strong enough to threaten Cui himself. No matter what, this planet looked like mince meat. Still Cui was a surprisingly cautious alien warlord, and due to a nagging personal fear at the back of his mind, Cui decided to play this out strategically.

Obviously, a surprise attack on their strongest being would work out the best here. That way, any counterattack they might try wouldn't be so painful and the worst part of the battle would be done the soonest.

Calmly, Cui checked his scouter for the strongest energy signature on the planet below him. He found it and grinned.

In the center of the control room, where all of the ninja had gathered, a Sensing Water Sphere Jutsu had been set up as a way to track the enemies' arrival and follow their movements.

The sensing technique manifested itself as a gigantic bluish globe of water with occasional small ripples and contortions along it's surface, made to represent the small movements of certain power signatures on the planet. The idea was, wherever there was water, there was some of the planet's power. Therefore, all of the bumps on the surface of the planet represented population centers of ninja or similarly Ki-powered individuals.

Petria had to admit, she was impressed. Her own galactic patrol group would have trouble pooling together the resources to make a tactical map as detailed or comprehensive as this. The fact that this civilization, which was not even space-bound yet, had managed what hers would have trouble with, was kind of humbling.

I mean, sure it took four skilled ninja sitting around it at all times to retain the sphere, but they had no shortage of skilled ninja. There were over a hundred in the room right now along with several more doing last minute training outside. Not all of them could possibly be helpful in the actual battle so it was no great loss to assign four of the weaker ones to sphere-maintenance duty.

Silently, she observed the little lump on the Sensing Sphere which was supposed to represent their base and all of the powerhouses in it. Even now, their unit represented a worryingly small percentage of the overall power on the planet, according to this map. Regardless of even the Hidden Villages which didn't come, they were a worryingly small percent.

The problem was, on this planet, there was only a very small difference between the strong and the weak. Overall, the power was just too spread out to be practical. All of the strongest ninja together would hardly equal Cui's Powerlevel but if you added up all of the weaker ninja as well, along with the civilians and the latent energy in the environment, this sort of power might've even been enough to take on Freeza. Maybe even more then that. It was amazing, yet it was stupid at the same time. Sure, several planets were like this to some extent, but this was the first time Petria had seen the effect to such an insane degree.

Petria glanced again at the tiny lump that represented their base, before circling around the technique to get a better picture of the whole. She had to let it go. The rather insane spreading of power might mean something about the planet but this wasn't the time to dwell on it. She had to be focused for when Cui finally arrived.

Petria suddenly stopped as she observed a small lump manifest itself in front of her, on roughly the other side of the planet. The lump wasn't insignificant either. In pure size, it was almost as large as the lump which their base was situated in, and Petria could tell, it was a lot more dense.

"What's that?" Petria asked nervously, pointing to said lump. Half of the ninja in the room immediately rushed over before reading the data and suddenly sweating. Petria raised an eyebrow. What was that?

"Of all times," Tsuande muttered to herself, face in her hands, "Why did the Three Tailed Beast have to revive now?!"

Cui didn't even bother to do the deed himself. The strongest single* source of power on the planet, had a Powerlevel of 2000? That was child's play to get rid of. An underling's job. There was no way Cui would even do that himself...

So naturally, Cui had called in an underling to do it.

The underling was named Quar. He had a Powerlevel of exactly 3000.

Quar hadn't exactly been eager to do this. Quar just knew that Cui would make him do something exhausting again.

Quar was informed about this situation; the planet and the most powerful being on it.

Quar rubbed his hands together, forced his body into a very particular position, and focused his energies. Quar stood in this meditative stance for several minutes as Cui watched him.

Quar charged up a beam in his hands, for a full 3 minutes before firing it, from space, at this strongest powerlevel on the planet.

Quar fired.

Quar's beam hit the continent, right where this great Powerlevel happened to be resting.

Quar's beam hit the continent and the continent exploded.

It's was the smaller of the two continents, but Cui could tell, even from space, that the rest of the planet was quivering from the explosion.

For the Planetary Ninja Defense Force, the world around them quivered in an intense earthquake.

The stone foundations of the building shifted and fell as the world shook. Inattentive Ninja were knocked off their feet in the sudden violence of the ground. The water sphere rippled violently at this sudden shaking of the Earth. The sound of a giant explosion roared in the distance, an ocean away.

Quickly, Petria checked the water sphere again.

Yes. There was no doubt about it now. A new, small ball of water was now floating directly above that continent which had so happened to disappear from that map in one single shot, before everyone's eyes.

Petria spread the word, though all knew of it anyway: "Cui was here."

Cui smiled from atop his spaceship. That was how one intimidated a planet.

Quickly they sped down through the atmosphere, towards the other continent were they had sensed the second largest power level resided.

The fight was on.

*Yes. Pain had a Powerlevel slightly greater than 2000, but that was currently split among multiple bodies, so Cui's scouter had trouble properly sensing him as a single being. Scouters were finicky things anyway. The power that they sensed was the Three Tailed Beast.

Fight starts next week! Please review a lot if you actually want it out next week. I'd prefer to know I have an audience, and the joy I get from reading (and responding to) comments, goes without saying.