Scene: Riftfront – A Fractured World Between Stories
The sky burns with broken punctuation.
Mountains drift like pages in the wind.
Words bleed from clouds.
Ben lands hard on a platform made of folded timelines.
Naruto catches him, half-phased between Sage Mode and something else.
Amara floats above them, glowing with the living heartbeat of the Narrative Tree.
Below them, the battle rages—
Canon vs Chaos.
On one side:
Naruto, Ben, Amara, the Resistance, and remnants of stable storylines.
On the other side:
Chapter Zero and the Unwritten—creations without purpose, without closure, without rules.
The First Clash
Chapter Zero raises its hand, and entire tropes die.
"The chosen one" concept combusts.
"Redemption arcs" dissolve into static.
"Sidekick immunity" is deleted.
Characters fall by the dozens.
Ben grips Riftlight, which trembles in his hand.
"It's not just deleting people—it's erasing the ideas that kept them alive."
Amara sings a harmonic counterpulse.
The Tree of Continuation pushes back, rooting the battlefield in memory.
Naruto Unlocks Final Sage Mode
Naruto is surrounded by alternate versions of himself—every Naruto from timelines that never got written:
Hokage Naruto from a world where Sasuke died.
War-hardened Naruto who never had friends.
Naruto who became a villain to protect others.
They all step inside him.
"I'm not just one Naruto anymore."
His body ignites with Final Sage Mode:
A golden cloak inscribed with characters from every timeline.
He becomes a living story.
Then he leaps at Chapter Zero, trading blows at speeds that defy narration.
The Rift Fractures Further
Amara screams as Chapter Zero's power digs into the Tree's roots.
Suddenly—
Entire chapters begin fighting each other.
A love interest faces a version of themselves written as a betrayal plot.
A comic relief character turns tragic.
A villain learns they were meant to be a hero but the author changed their mind.
The battlefield turns into a civil war of abandoned potential.
Ben dives into the center of the chaos.
Ben vs the Forgotten King
Out of the Rift crawls the Forgotten King—a character scrapped at the last minute during an early draft.
Cloaked in broken outlines and unfinished dialogue, he hisses:
"I could've been the protagonist!
But YOU got the rewrite!"
Ben charges with Riftlight.
"Then earn your ending, just like I did."
They clash.
Sparks of undeveloped power clash with polished narrative arcs.
Ben finally defeats him with the Blade of Resolution, forged by character growth and scars.
The Great Deletion Wave
Chapter Zero opens its arms.
"Let it all go.
Structure is a lie.
Canon is a prison."
A massive wave of white fire sweeps across the battlefield, deleting anything with a defined arc.
Naruto and Amara begin to flicker.
Ben leaps between them and the wave.
"No more.
This story has a soul."
He plunges Riftlight into the ground—
And for the first time, he speaks the words he's been afraid of since chapter one:
"I am the Void Prince.
And I CHOOSE to EXIST."
A black sun rises from his chest, swallowing the deletion wave.
Cliffhanger – Chapter Zero's Final Evolution
Just when they think the wave is stopped, Chapter Zero smiles.
"That was just the prologue."
Its body distorts, forming wings made of first drafts, eyes made of unsent drafts, a heart that pulses with "What if?"
It becomes something new.
Something ancient.
Chapter Infinity.
It can now rewrite both past and future—
—and its first act is removing Ben from his own origin.
Ben screams—
As he watches his first meeting with Naruto, his rescue of Amara, his awakening as the Void Prince—
All vanish.
Amara gasps.
"He's… being unwritten."
Naruto charges, screaming:
"I WON'T FORGET HIM!"
The battlefield goes dark.
And a single word echoes in the void:
"To be continued…"
[CHAPTER END | NEXT: Chapter Infinity – A World Without the Void Prince]