Kabuto takes control over Mū's body and explains toMadara that he has made him stronger than even his prime. With that, Madara pushes forward and takes down a large portion of the Fourth Division using onlytaijutsu and kenjutsu to dominate them, with the aid of his Sharingan to evade their attacks. Temari tellsNaruto to enter "that mode", but he replies that he is out of chakra and cannot. She later hits Madara with an attack that sends him away, but little to no damage is done. He then uses a powerful flame technique on the alliance, who barely manage to counter it with their combined water techniques. Madara then launches plenty of fireballs at the alliance and also reappearing in the smoke to fight. As he proceeds to defeat even more of them, he is stopped by Gaara's sand. He, Ōnoki and Naruto manage to trap Madara with their techniques. However, Madara activates his Susanoo to shield himself from Naruto's Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan. Naruto enters Sage Mode and attacks him with a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken after Gaara takes Madara away from the Susanoo. However, he activates his Rinnegan and absorbs Naruto's attack, confirming Kabuto's hypothesis on the Sharingan's potential to become the Rinnegan. Madara drops a meteorite on the Fourth Division, but while Ōnokistops the first, he is unable to stop the second meteorite hidden in the clouds. It falls on them crushing and killing a large number of them in the process. There are survivors, but the very few are wounded, including Ōnoki. Madara then attempts to summon the Nine-Tails but fails because it is still sealed within Naruto. He then proceeds to testing Hashirama's cells inside of him by using theWood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees, leaving Naruto and the other surviving shinobi of the Fourth Division in shock.
As the White Zetsu Army clones continue to wreak havoc on all the battlefields, the Allied Shinobi Forcesstruggle to find a way to cope with the situation untilNaruto arrives. Elsewhere, the Daimyō Protection Squad continue their battle with Black Zetsu. Eventually Naruto's shadow clones arrive on all the battlefields, and slowly but surely the Alliance retakes the upper-hand on the battlefield. As reports dome into HQ of Naruto's part in turning the tides of the war back in their favour, Tsunade smugly gestures to Awho solemnly dismisses her. The Sensor Division is asked to check on Madara's status and Ao reveals that he had started to move with a team ofreincarnated jinchūriki. Meanwhile where the remainder of the Fourth Division is located, Kabuto Yakushi puts his trump card into play and uses Mū to summon another to the battlefield. With the coffin blown off upon summoning and Mū just nearly dodging the blow, a sensor amongst the Alliance alerts them to the appearance of new adversaries. Those present are shock to see, however, Mū atop the rock, which leads Ōnoki to realise that the Second had split in two before being sealed. As the second person is revealed to the puzzled Alliance, Ōnoki informs them that Madara Uchiha now stood before them. Believing the masked man to have finally entered the fray directly, Gaara turns their attention to Madara's eyes noting that he had been reincarnated. Throwing them into further confusion, Temari reminds them that the person who they thought was Madara had been spotted elsewhere with an army of his own, leading them all to wonder who that masked man truly was.
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Aneesh
