"Shards and Shadows". A DOS Worm Crossover fanfiction.

Edit: Now mirrored on Sufficient Velocity!

I had an idea for this crossover (Dreaming of Sunshine X Worm), and I actually typed it out.

I tried to make this fic as PC as possible in terms of at least language, so it may have some characters speak a little OOC to be more PC, but I try to keep to the spirit of the characters.

This story originally appeared (first few chapters) on the DOS Crossover plotting thread, topic/180237/140553015/52/DoS-Crossover-Plotting.

Edit: This is the first chapter of the first arc "Making Friends". It lasts until chapter 6.

The DOS canon world snippet has been changed from what it was on the forum.

I do not own the rights to Worm (by Wildbow), Dreaming of Sunshine (Silver Queen) or the story DOS is based on, Naruto (by Masashi Kishimoto). I also do not own the Discworld series (by Sir Terry Pratchet) even though that is mostly (up to this point) a throwaway gag.

Chapter 1: Shikako: "Where did I end up this time?"

I didn't know where I was or what had just happened, but I was definitely not in Konoha anymore. They definitely didn't have buildings shaped like that, or with metal, and…

My thoughts were interrupted as I sensed someone throwing something at a group of people near me. I turned and ran as the *bomb* exploded. After the initial explosion however, I watched the shrapnel seem to slow down and stop in midair.

I took a second to check my surroundings. I had never seen architecture this technologically advanced in any village. The only place I had ever seen it had been… but that was impossible. Anyway, they had never had bombs that could stop time there, and no one had the chakra I could still feel flowing through me.

My best guess was that this was some kind of genjutsu. I made the hand seals: "{Release!}" I shouted… and everything was still there. Well, I didn't want to reveal this technique in possibly unallied territory, but the smoke from the explosion was still around and there also seemed to be some sort of dark smoke in the air, like when dad uses his 3d shadow technique. I poured my chakra into my gelel stone and created my shadow twin. Which still detected no sign of genjutsu.

I had been able to break out of Yakumo's genjutsu with this technique, one of the strongest genjutsus of all. That it couldn't break this implied there wasn't any genjutsu to break past. This was real.

A woman wearing a red mask called out at me. I startled as I realized it was in English, a language I hadn't heard in decades. "Hey you in the green ninja costume. I don't remember you being invited. You here to join the ABB? It's a great time to join! Great new leader, and our growth rate's been exploding. I'll give you the whole recruitment package later but I need to finish making my big debut. Just stay here and be patient for a bit."

She then hopped down threw another bomb from near her feet into the 3d shadow and ran to a truck nearby. I wasn't quite sure what to do, but I knew that she probably wasn't working on the right side of the law, and she was definitely dangerous, tossing bombs with weird effects all over.

I made my choice running after her. She was near her truck, but she turned and saw me. "You think you can take me on? Well try this on for size!" She yelled as she tossed another grenade at me. I threw a kunai at it and knocked it off course. It exploded on a warehouse nearby, and seemed to start to implode. Until I realized that it was actually just shrinking.

She was going to reach her truck, filled with her bombs in a few seconds unless I stopped her. I called my shadow half back so I could think better, and then rushed ahead. Unfortunately, while I got close to her, three of her subordinates blocked my path and pointed guns at me. Only one actually looked like he was going to shoot me, so I made sure to knock him down, and he seemed to go out. More rushed me, without guns, but I quickly took them out, checking to make sure the two with guns still weren't aiming at me. They weren't. Also none of the ones that had rushed me felt trained. I noted that I hadn't sensed any chakra coming from any of them to soften the blows either. Odd. Even civilians had some ability to shield with chakra.

Unfortunately, that distraction had slowed me down enough so the woman was able to reach her truck. A truck filled with her special bombs, and a grenade launcher.

She ordered her two remaining men nearby with guns to aim them at me and aimed her grenade launcher at a bunch of costumed teenagers who had just exited out of the darkness and said " There. All my little ducks are in a row. Too bad, but you didn't have a chance. Take one more step and I blow you all up in the most interesting of ways".

The woman who had thrown the bombs was talking to the teenagers. I silently sent my shadow out to try and catch her. I tried to make the approaching shadow as unobtrusive as possible as "Bakuda", as the yellow haired teenager had called her continued talking about how she was going to rule through fear and needed to make a big impression.

It was late afternoon, normally a great time for shadow techniques, as the shadows were at their longest length. The problem was that our shadows were perpendicular to each other and she might notice if they shifted on the ground too much.

Thankfully, the distance was still manageable, and Bakuda and her guards were focusing on the other costumed people instead of me. That seemed strange, after all she had no idea what I could do, but on the other hand, I wasn't moving, and there were four of them and only one of me.

I noticed something odd. No one seemed to have any chakra. Well, that's not quite true. They had something similar to chakra, but it was just enough to keep them alive, and didn't seem to be in active use. The only exceptions were the four costumed teenagers and the woman, Bakuda. Even then it was weird. I could tell the pseudo-chakra wasn't spread evenly throughout their bodies.

Bakuda's, the blond girl's, and the bug girl's pseudo-chakra seemed completely focused around a small spot on their skull, or more likely, their brain. However the black suited person and the white-carnival-prince costumed person had it spread throughout their bodies, though it was still far more concentrated in their heads. I spared a thought wondering if the black suited person was male, and if the people's here's powers were separated by gender.

Bakuda was just asking one of her "new recruits" to shoot the teens, when I felt my shadow reach hers. "{Shadow possession complete!}" I called out. All at once everyone turned to me. " Uh… she can't move any part of herself … other than her he- face unless I let her." I managed to get out.

I had kept up my knowledge of English over the last decade and a half and used it to write some of my journals in code. However, I hadn't used it that much, and almost never spoke it. It was hard to remember all the correct words in time or how to pronounce them correctly. Luckily, I was a Nara, so if I spent much time here I would pick it up again very quickly.

For a moment all was still except for the sound of Bakuda putting down her grenade launcher. Then Bakuda told her "new recruit" "Park Jihoo? I changed my mind. Kill her instead". "No, I can't…" he cried out. I grimaced. I hadn't captured anyone besides Bakuda to save chakra. I hoped that hadn't been a mistake.

"Do it or I'll kill you. I don't need to move to be able to kill you all. You know that all I have to do is think at you to kill you. Now go ahead. Shoot her!"

Park Jihoo started shaking as he slowly started to point the gun at me. But then he threw down his gun and started shaking his head and tears started flowing out. "No. I won't kill someone in cold blood."

Bakuda screamed in rage and I felt her try to move her toes, but while her eyes and mouth could move, her feet could not. A few of the foreign-looking faces filled with fear, that slowly changed to confusion and possible hope, while some of the familiar-type looking faces (would it be "Asian" in this world I wondered) started looking around uneasily but they weren't making a move yet.

That did not seem to hold true for everyone as a swarm of insects suddenly swooped in on Bakuda and the others on the truck.

I heard people scream out in fear, and the one remaining soldier with a gun (the second had given his to Park Jihoo on Bakuda's orders) also fell to the swarm. I heard a voice call out to me "Hey, you in the green ninja outfit. Do you get hurt if we attack the person you connected with?"

"No." I called out. Well, not unless something forces them to move a distance like hitting them with a battering ram, but they didn't need to know that.

I then felt a bunch of tiny, not painful pinpricks all over through my shadow connection, and after a few seconds I decided to speed up the process. I took a knockout tag out of my pocket, and walked over to Bakuda, trusting that the bugs wouldn't attack me personally. They didn't. Climbing up on the edge of the jeep, I made sure Bakuda's hands were empty, then I placed the knockout tag on the back of her head and activated it. I felt her grow limp, only still standing through my jutsu. I let my jutsu end with a sigh of relief and Bakuda collapsed on the jeep, near the edge. That just left the other ABB members, and with the swarm distracting them, and the fact they weren't in the best of shape anyway, it was a simple matter to take out with a few good blows, and knockout tags.

I noticed that the person in the black suit had also been busy, and there were few others taken out, including a few with guns I had missed, though they all had what I thought were probably called "Asian" faces in this world, if it had been like my original one. This obviously wasn't my original world, no one was able to create those kind of bombs or control insects like that where I had come from, but the clothing and technology of the architecture implied it was a lot more like my original world then the one "Shikako" had grown up in. So I decided to try and think of this world as similar to my original one, and try to find out how much it differed ASAP. Then I would see about getting back home.

One of the "new recruits" walked closer to me, stopping about 10 feet away. "Ma'am? Do you know how to stop her bombs? She said they would go off at a thought, but they didn't. Is that because of you, did you stop her?"

"No, I'm sorry, I can't help… wait…" I stuttered out and thought back to when she had threatened to blow them up, and the pressure to move my toes. I approached Bakuda.

"Yeah. I'm surprised you noticed that, but her bombs were set off through toe rings. How did you manage that anyway, did you get some sort of feedback from that paralyzing ability of yours? Oh you did, huh? Cool. Hi. My name's Tattletale, and you probably want me to remove them from her for you. I don't know how much you know about explosives… ok more than I would have suspected but… wait what? What kind of explosives are you used to? What ? That makes no sense…. Wh… "

She shook her head. "Anyway its not important right now. I should probably handle removing these. Regardless of your experience, you might just accidentally trigger them and blow up the whole neighborhood, and every one of these 'new recruits' of hers here. Stand back. "

And with that she moved up to Bakuda and started very carefully sliding the toe rings off in a very particular order, making sure not to rub any together and to turn some of them in counterintuitive ways before sliding them off. She then removed Bakuda's high-tech goggles and dragged her over the side, "So she can't just wake up and have a bomb in hand in a second "she called out to me. The black suited person then went over and broke her arms and legs, so she wouldn't be able to escape when she woke up. That seemed a bit harsh since she was already taken out, but they could probably be healed again easily, and she did throw out grenades everywhere.

While she was doing this, I was getting out one of my empty storage seals out to put Bakuda's bombs in. This way wouldn't have access to them, and while I probably wouldn't use them myself (I didn't know what each of them did), it was possible I could study and figure them out and then use them later. I could have put them in the bracer on my left sleeve with the prototype infinite hammerspace instead, but I wasn't too confident in it yet, and didn't want to reveal it until I needed to.

Tattletale just stared at me. "Or you can put them in your own little pocket dimension. That works too. Normally I wouldn't think it was possible for someone other than Eidolon to have more than one power that strong with such little connection between the two, but I think we both know the normal rules don't apply to you." She looked like she wanted to say more, but didn't.

I was probably (definitely if Tattletales words meant anything), making myself stand out even more, but I couldn't let Bakuda keep her bombs if I could help it, especially with the way she was using them. A worry for another time. For now, I replayed Tattletales speech over in my head. First I had seen someone use a technique suspiciously similar to my dad's in appearance, then I had seen someone attack with bugs like the Aburame clan does, and now this girl seemed to be able to pseudo read my mind on the fly similarly to the Yamanaka clan? This group of teenagers had abilities that correlated shockingly well with the signature techniques of the clans from Konoha. This was either a very good sign from the universe that I should consider them this world's representatives of my home village and so trust them, or it was a very bad sign that implied they knew who I was and how I had gotten here.

I had thought it might have been that strange book I had picked up, but that didn't make any sense. Regardless of how odd and out of place the book was, why would a story about a 5th rate wizzard getting sent to another country to save them supposed to send me to this world? Especially since I was pretty sure this world was not the discworld spoken of in the book. Though these were Interesting Times…

Anyway, I wanted to check the theory of how well they matched up with their reality. If the yellow haired girl matched the Yamanaka clan and the insect-costumed girl matched with the Aburame, and the black skull costumed person matched with my own Nara clan, then did that mean the boy with the scepter had some sort of dog related power a la the Inazuka? It didn't really match his costume but…

"Hey Tattletale," I called out to her as she walked back. She shook her head at me and said "Just give me a sec."

"Hey everyone. Bakuda can't blow you up now, but she will be able to if she manages to escape and make another remote. Someone should probably call the PRT and let them pick her up. Also, you may want to look into hanging around people with EMP's, or leave town for a while. There's a chance that even if she does get a new remote and manages to escape, that the detonators have a set range they can transmit to. Sorry, but there's not much else we can do for now. Don't try to follow us though, or else we will go after you as well."

She turned back to me. "Yeah?"

"Is his power related to dogs?" I asked pointing to the white-carnival-prince man.

She replied. "No. The one who creates the powerful monster dogs is Bitch, or Hellhound if you're PC. Speaking of, we should go out to look for her, make sure she and her dogs are ok. If we wait too long, she'll be even less pleasant to hang around." She paused. "By the way, you definitely aren't around here, and you don't even seem to be that used to speaking English. Where are you from exactly?"

I hesitated. This wasn't good. Being near someone who had access to a version of the Yamanaka clan's powers, who didn't think it was rude to use them at all times? With the amount of secrets I held? Maybe it was just a matter of asking for privacy first? It's possible the rules of etiquette are different here.

"I would prefer to keep my secrets my own, if you please".

She grimaced. "But you're so interesting! And I was just trying to see if you needed a place to stay for a while, if you weren't planning to be here."

I frowned, but I did need to figure out what to do for the city, and there was unlikely to be much free food or shelter around the area. I didn't know if my money would be accepted as currency here, or even if the few food supplies I had sealed with me were still good. Theoretically it should stay good forever as it was in a separate space-time. But travelling across dimensions/universes might have meant the rules had changed. Also, they were unlikely to attack me, as I had acted as an ally, and their similarities to the clans in my village gave me a suspicion they would be very important people for me to know here. Also, if they did try to cross me, well, I likely had at least a few ways of escaping they weren't prepared for.

"Yeah, that would help." I was so very glad I was a Nara and had kept up my knowledge of English. Things were bad enough without having to waste a huge amount of time relearning a new language instead of being able to simply remember it with remarkable accuracy, at least enough to get the main point of what was said so far.

"We're going to go meet up with the last of our teammates." Tattletale continued. By now, the Aburame girl and the white-carnival-prince man had walked over and joined us. "Bitch can be a bit temperamental, especially around new people, and her recent situation hasn't been likely to put her in a good mood. You should probably hang back a bit."

I nodded. I was curious though. "What's his ability?" I said pointing to the white-carnival-prince man who waved his scepter. Suddenly I tripped, or would have if I hadn't has as quick reflexes as I did. As it was I barely stumbled. "Wow, good reflexes there. My name's Regent. I control people's nervous systems, make them go zig when they want to go zag, that kind of thing" He told me. Looking at him up close, I could see bright light-blue eyes through his mask. Not white, but definitely unusual. And his power seemed to match with the last remaining major surviving clan of Konoha, the Hyugas. His controlling people's nervous system mimicked their control over people's chakra flows. Also, since I didn't sense anyone other than them with chakra above the bare minimum needed for survival, it would make sense that this would be the analogue. Possibly more useful even, as it could work from a distance.

"Oh sorry." The man (confirmed) in the black suit said. "Introductions. I'm Grue, the leader of sorts of the Undersiders. The girl with the insect powers over there is called Skitter." She waved at me. "You already met Tattletale and Regent, and we're going over to go get our last member, Bitch."

Ok. So that was everyone. But wait, there were other bloodlines from my village that hadn't been represented in this group. I wonder if they were somewhere else.

"Are there any people here who can wood control? Or make strong genjutsu? Or power copy?" Wait… did I use the proper grammar for that? Too late now.

Tattletale looked at me oddly. "There's no one here who can control wood or create it, as far as I know, and I know a lot. Genjutsu is a ninja term that means using a trick or illusion to unbalance your opponent, but you mean more than that don't you? You mean actual mind control or manipulation, or projecting actual illusion worlds. No, no one here has that power as far as I know."

"I told you to stop trying to read my mind." I told her angrily, with a little amount of fear I didn't show. She was someone to watch out for.

"Sorry, Sorry, won't happen again. My power just turns on sometimes when it catches something. As for that last one, Uber can learn any skill or technique by watching it and applying himself, which is kind of like copying. He never joined us for, shall we say, different approaches to life. I think cape life is like a game of cops and robbers, where you don't cause too much harm, and they let you go to prison in a revolving door to help fight the Endbringers. He… tends to think there's nothing more to life than advocating for the "under-appreciated art of video games."

Here Grue spoke up. "On the surface that wouldn't be such a bad thing, but he thinks there's nothing else worth doing, and he'll copy the worst aspects of that game, like beating helpless people up when mimicking GTA."

So, long story short, no Senju, or Kurama clan representation here, and the Uchiha clan was separated due to outlook differences. Ok then.

"I found Bitch. Ms. … what should we call you? You haven't given us a name yet." The Aburame girl, no, Skitter spoke up.

"Oh right. My name is …" and I stopped. The others had given me things to call them yes, but they had identified by names that fit their powers. Well, other than Grue, but that could be just because I didn't know what that was. Even Bakuda meant "bomb" in my native tongue, probably called Japanese here if the landmasses were the same as my original world.

They probably had a good reason for it, as well as the masks they wore. Well if I were to have a name that fit the powers I would be showing what would be appropriate? Well, obviously it had to have something to do with shadows, and while I didn't want to make too much out of my explosions due to them possibly mistaking me for Bakuda, I still planned to use them if I had to. So those would probably be my main two powers shown. What name goes well with shadows and explosions?

And then I had it. Hopefully she wouldn't be too mad at me for taking it as my alter ego, but hey if she found out, that meant someone from home knew where I was and it would be easier to go back. If she never found out, what's the harm?

"Call me {Fire Shadow}." I said.

Meanwhile, back in DOS cannon.

Rincewind didn't know where he was, but he knew he didn't want to be there. A lot of people were staring at him, and they didn't look friendly. He decided he would do what he always did in these situations, run.

He was quite proud of his running. Despite his large size, he was surprisingly fast, and running away had been what had allowed him to stay alive so long, despite what life wanted to say about that.

Unfortunately, he had never had to deal with people like this chasing him. They were even faster than him, and were using some sort of magic to teleport.

"What have you done with Shikako Nara?" One of them said as he gripped him till it hurt.

"Who?" Rincewind asked. Great. Yup. He was being thrown into yet another adventure. Why couldn't he ever be sent to a place full of potatoes and be forced to just live there and eat them? That was something he could actually enjoy.

"Don't play smart with us! We'll see what Ibiki will have to say to someone who tried to kidnap one of our ninja." Another hissed at him.

Ninja? Why did all the crazy things always have to happen to him!

First chapter of first story!

Also, Word is surprisingly bad at spotting my grammar and spacing mistakes. I tried to catch them all though.

I don't know if or when I will ever write about what happens to Rincewind. It was meant as a gag for how Shikako got to the Wormverse.

POSSIBLE SPOILER below:

Shikako has been affected by her travels across dimensions. While she has basically the same level of intelligence as in DOS, she has the equivalent of emotional jetlag from the trip. She feels a need to find something familiar and fit in far more than in canon, and her emotions are a lot more wild and manipulatable. This will be in effect for a few days, and may have long lasting repercussions.