The surviving shinobi no longer hesitated.
Whatever fear or doubt they once carried had burned away.
The only thing left was the knowledge that if they fell here, their entire world fell with them.
They charged.
Minato and Might Guy reached Goku first.
Minato flickered in and out of sight, Rasengan after Rasengan screaming toward vital points. Guy, red steam pouring from every pore, moved like a living disaster—each punch, each kick strong enough to turn stone to powder.
Goku didn't back away.
He met every strike head-on.
He tilted his head past Minato's spiraling Rasengan, then drove a single heavy fist straight into the Yellow Flash's chest.
Minato crashed into the ground hard enough to crater the earth in a thirty-meter radius. The shockwave knocked everyone off balance.
Goku stepped forward and planted his foot on Minato's chest.
One stomp.
Bones cracked. Blood sprayed across Minato's pale face.
His eyes went dull.
He stopped moving.
Guy roared.
"Evening Elephant!!"
The air itself screamed. Five massive shockwave fists tore toward Goku in a straight line. The ground buckled and split under the pressure.
Goku raised one hand.
A golden-white beam erupted from his palm—Kamehameha fired at point-blank range.
The blue-white light swallowed Guy whole.
No scream. No final defiant pose.
Just a long scorch mark on the earth and a cloud of red steam that quickly dissipated.
Kakashi dropped to one knee, tears mixing with the blood running from his left eye.
"Kamui…"
The space around Goku warped violently.
In an instant he—and every shinobi still standing—were pulled into the other dimension.
Tobirama was already moving.
Twin water dragons rose behind him, jaws wide, roaring as they surged forward.
Goku shot upward, weaving between the dragons with casual spins and flips.
Naruto and Sasuke met him in the air.
Kurama's full avatar roared.
Sasuke's Perfect Susanoo drew its blade.
They attacked as one.
A combined fist—Susanoo's armored knuckles wrapped in Kurama's crimson chakra—slammed into Goku's chest.
He spiraled downward like a comet, crashing into the dimension's cracked ground and throwing up a mushroom cloud of dust.
Goku burst out of the smoke at full speed.
Raikage appeared in front of him—Lightning Release Armor blazing—and drove a point-blank Lariat into Goku's face.
The impact echoed like thunder.
Goku's head snapped back.
Before he could recover, Gaara raised both hands.
A colossal fist of sand—easily the size of a mountain—formed overhead and crashed down like divine punishment.
Goku exploded upward through the sand, shattering it into a storm of grains.
Kakashi was waiting.
He flashed forward, left hand crackling with lightning, right hand spinning a Rasengan larger than his own body.
Chidori and Rasengan struck Goku square in the center of the chest at the same instant.
The double impact hurled Goku backward.
His boots tore two long trenches through the ground before he finally stopped.
Naruto and Sasuke dropped from above like twin meteors.
Tailed Beast Bomb Rasenshuriken fused with Amaterasu-infused Susanoo blade.
A single, apocalyptic attack aimed to end it.
Goku planted both feet.
"Ka…me…ha…me…HAAA!!"
The golden beam roared outward, meeting their combined technique head-on.
For several long seconds the two forces pushed against each other—light against chakra, raw energy against raw energy.
Then the deadlock broke.
The collision tore Kakashi's Kamui dimension apart like wet paper.
Reality snapped back.
Everyone reappeared on the ruined battlefield under a blood-red sky.
The aftershock of the clashing attacks created a violent vacuum—a black void that began dragging everything toward it.
The Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki and the Fourth Kazekage Rasa were caught first.
They vanished screaming into the nothingness.
A heartbeat later the void detonated.
A pure white light swallowed the world.
When the blinding glare finally faded…
Goku stood in the center of a new crater.
His right hand was buried wrist-deep in Kakashi's chest.
Kakashi looked down at the fist inside him, coughed once—blood running from his mouth—then went limp.
Goku pulled his hand free and tossed the body aside like it weighed nothing.
Raikage charged again, lightning roaring around him.
Goku met him halfway.
One punch.
The sound was sickening—bone and metal armor shattering together.
Raikage's skull collapsed inward.
He dropped without another sound.
Naruto and Sasuke were still struggling to rise from the earlier explosion, bodies torn and smoking.
Gaara and Tobirama moved at the same time.
Tobirama flashed through hand seals.
Gaara raised both arms—sand surging up in thick spiraling pillars.
They combined their techniques.
The sand wrapped around Goku like chains, tightening, pulling, trying to drag him downward—straight toward the planet's core.
For a moment it looked like it would work.
Then Goku vanished.
He reappeared directly behind Gaara.
Two lightning-fast chops.
Gaara's arms came off at the shoulders.
He screamed—raw, broken.
Blood fountained.
Goku kicked him hard in the chest, grabbed his ankle mid-flight, spun once, and hurled him straight at Tobirama.
Tobirama crossed his arms to block.
The impact still sent both of them skidding backward through the dirt.
Goku cracked his knuckles once.
He looked toward the only two still trying to stand.
Naruto.
Sasuke.
His voice was calm. Almost gentle.
"You two still have something left?"
Naruto spat blood and forced a grin.
Sasuke's Rinnegan flickered weakly.
They both rose—shaking, bleeding, broken.
But standing.
We have given our all in trying to kill this guy, it's not working, let us seal him away, Sasuke stepped forward, his eyes glowing, susanoo forming once more.
Let's do this, Naruto cracked his fists, blood still spilling from his mouth.
You two must not die, tobirama said, taking off his upper body clothes, revealing his scars and strong body, i have a plan, he whispered.