Scene: Village Hidden in Time – 12 Hours Before Purge
The Village Hidden in Time wasn't supposed to exist.
Created when Naruto saved a fragment of a deleted timeline, it housed refugees:
A Sakura who loved Sasuke and Naruto.
A Kakashi who unlocked a third Mangekyō.
A Hinata who became Hokage in a one-shot spinoff.
They lived in peace—until now.
Reality bends.
Red editing bars fall from the sky like divine retribution.
And walking among them… is Ben. But not our Ben.
Enter: Voidborn Ben
He looks like Ben—same eyes, same aura.
But the air around him bleeds contradiction.
His words are jagged, coded in a language of discarded drafts.
"You took my arc.
You became the fan-favorite.
You think you're the protagonist now?"
He steps into the village.
His Quillblade is black with censor marks.
And he's here to overwrite.
Back at the Citadel
Amara slams the alert rune.
"Unauthorized Ben detected. Variant 3.7—deleted for nihilism, instability, and reader backlash."
Naruto cracks his knuckles.
"Guess he didn't take the cancellation well."
Ben stares at the screen.
His hand trembles. For the first time, he sees himself not as a hero…
…but as a threat.
Flashback – The Deleted Draft
Long ago, before Chapter 1, Ben's character had different traits:
No empathy.
No allies.
Pure conquest.
That version was cut.
But it didn't vanish—it festered.
Voidborn Ben clawed his way through narrative purgatory, consuming abandoned ideas, until he became something worse:
A sentient deletion.
Now he wants his story back.
The Battle Begins
Ben, Amara, and Naruto portal into the Village Hidden in Time.
They arrive just in time to see Voidborn Ben impale the alternate Hinata with a line of red ink.
Her timeline collapses around her.
Amara screams. Naruto launches forward, Rasengan blazing.
Ben stands face-to-face with his shadow.
"You're me."
"No," Voidborn says, smiling, "I'm what you left behind."
They clash.
Quill vs Quillblade
Ben's Meta-Quill clashes with Voidborn's corrupted version.
Each strike erases and rewrites reality around them:
Ben writes a shield into existence.
Voidborn rewrites it into chains.
Ben pens a decoy.
Voidborn turns it into a betrayer.
Their duel twists the village between genres—sci-fi, horror, romance, western.
Naruto and Amara fight to protect the villagers from narrative collapse.
"If he erases this place," Amara warns, "we lose every alternate possibility—forever."
Ben's Inner Crisis
Voidborn lands a blow—ink seeps into Ben's chest.
"You're not better than me.
You just had better editing.
Better favoritism."
Ben staggers.
He sees it—how much of his journey was "scripted," "lucky," "guided."
Was I really the hero?
Then he remembers:
Amara choosing him.
Naruto trusting him.
The Resistance rising behind him.
He wasn't chosen.
He earned it.
Ben Awakens a New Power – Canonfire Requiem
Ben grips his Meta-Quill.
It burns gold.
"This isn't about perfection.
It's about growth."
He writes three words into the sky:
"Let him fall."
The world tilts.
Voidborn Ben screams as his own contradictions collapse inward.
He is erased, not by violence—but by narrative truth.
Aftermath
The Village Hidden in Time stabilizes.
Naruto looks to Ben.
"You alright?"
Ben nods, eyes heavy.
"I just killed myself… and I feel like I finally understand who I am."
Amara steps forward, holding a fading scroll.
"Voidborn was just the beginning.
The Editors are sending more.
Next… they're targeting the Original Timeline."
Ben's breath catches.
"You mean… the one we all came from?"
She nods.
"They want to reset everything.
Including you."
Cliffhanger – The Chief Editor Speaks Again
From above, a new message pulses:
"Chapter 1: Reboot Pending. ETA: 48 Hours."
Ben glares into the sky.
"Then we have 2 days…
to stop the end of everything."
[CHAPTER END | NEXT: The Original Timeline – Where It All Began (and Might End)]