Madara vs. Xehanort

## Description

*Some villains think that their way is for world peace, such as these two black-clad elderly masterminds. Will the legendary Uchiha be able to execute a man with No-Heart, or will the Heartless man’s unlimited power be too much for the shinobi to handle?*

## Interlude

Hiro: The most dangerous weapon a villain of any story can use is their wisdom. Experience gives the villain nearly unlimited power where even their words are weapons that even can control others for their own gain.

**MBStarscream: The villains who use their wisdom to gain use their mind and body to control and destroy anyone who dare challenges them are always the best, like these two.**

Hiro: Like Madara Uchiha, the “peacekeeping” shinobi of legend from Naruto.

**MBStarscream: And Master Xehanort, the Keyblade Master of darkness from Kingdom Hearts.**

Hiro: I'm Hiro Hamada.

**MBStarscream: I'm MBStarscream.**

Hiro: And it's our job to examine both warriors' strength, abilities, weapons, and weaknesses to see who would win in a fight.

## Madara

Hiro: Born during a violent time and era known as the Warring States Period, Madara Uchiha was one of the 5 children of Tajima Uchiha. As a child, Madara and his siblings were drafted into the battlefield against the enemies of the Uchiha, the Senju.

**MBStarscream: Unfortunately, 3 of his siblings died young, and only he and his brother, Izuna, were left alive. Madara grew quite close to Izuna, sharing in their struggles through the battlefield and the losses they suffered, and they even competed with each other to become stronger.**

Hiro: One day, he met up with a member of the Senju, Hashirama. Despite them being on opposite sides of the battlefield, the two quickly developed into close friends, and even shared the same ideal world where there can be peace between the lands, where children didn’t have to fight. However, after they both discovered which clan they were a part of, Madara ended his friendship with Hashirama so he would have no regrets of killing him in the future, a resolve which awakened his Sharingan.

**MBStarscream: For the next two decades, the Uchiha and Senju continued to battle, with Madara and Hashirama frequently fighting each other, eventually becoming the clan leaders. During one fight, tragedy struck, and Izuna was struck down by Tobirama Senju, Hashirama’s brother, prompting Madara to retreat with his brother. Sadly, Izuna's wounds were fatal, and in his last moments, he gave Madara his own eyes so he could obtain the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, restoring Madara’s vision and giving him greater resolve than before.**

Hiro: But even with this new power at his disposal, Madara lost the next battle, finally defeated. However, Hashirama spared Madara’s life, and even offered up his own life if it meant peace could be restored between both clans, which truly touched Madara. He accepted Hashirama’s offer of peace, finally ending the several decade long war and bringing the Uchiha and Senju together.

**MBStarscream: With the two of them at each other's side, Madara and Hashirama built together a village of peace, where no children would have to fight in war and die again. Happy ending! Heh, right? Right? ...Why are you looking at me like that?**

Hiro: Things *seemed* to be looking up, but--

**MBStarscream: Ugh, I hate when people say that, cuz you know it's never a good thing!**

Hiro: --Madara and Hashirama’s visions of peace differed from each other drastically: While Madara sought peace by controlling the land, Hashirama sought peace by working together and joining with other clans. This conflict of ideals, as well as discovering the endless cycle of hatred and pain caused by the Uchiha and Senju and the constant repeated failures of peace for the world, led Madara to believe that Konoha was a failed experiment.

**MBStarscream: No one was on Madara's side on this, ultimately leaving Madara with the decision to leave Konoha. After several attacks on the village, including with the Nine-Tails Fox at his hand, Madara was ultimately killed by Hashirama in their final battle. Okay, now we're done, right?**

Hiro: I wish. As it turns out, Madara had a secret back-up plan all along, the Mangekyō Sharingan technique known as Izanagi. By trading the sight of his right eye, Madara came back to life, effectively making his death an illusion and changing reality.

**MBStarscream: You gotta be kidding.**

Hiro: After leaving a copy of his body to fabricate a corpse, Madara went into hiding and transplanted into himself parts of Hashirama’s flesh. These cells activated near the end of Madara’s natural life, not only awakening his Rinnegan, but restoring the sight of his right eye. For the next several years, Madara planned his ultimate dream of peace known as The Eye of the Moon.

**MBStarscream: (Sighs) But with not much time left, Madara transplanted his Rinnegan into a young boy named Nagato, hoping the child could revive him in due time once he passed away. However, Madara needed an agent to act on his behalf and lead Nagato into reviving him.**

Hiro: After multiple years of waiting, in came Obito Uchiha, who was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Using the cells of Hashirama to repair Obito’s broken body, Madara slowly began corrupting the young Shinobi into a man of darkness, manipulating the events that would later lead to the death of Obito’s love interest, Rin Nohara. Having lost all faith in humanity from that point onward, Obito agreed to help Madara with his plan of achieving the dream world.

**MBStarscream: Thus, after giving Obito a companion in the form of Black Zetsu, who he believed to be his very will, Madara drew his last breath. Okay, we gotta be done with the story now, there's nothing else to--**

Hiro: Until he was brought back to life again, thanks to the reanimation jutsu used by Kabuto Yakushi.

**MBStarscream: OH, COME ON!**

Hiro: We're getting to the end, I promise! Once again back in the land of the living, Madara sought to fight in war once again to achieve his ideal dream of the Shinobi world.

**MBStarscream: However, trouble struck with Madara realizing he was an Edo Tensei instead of being normally revived like how he wanted to be. After multiple battles, including fighting his longtime rival Hashirama once again, Madara used his subordinate, Black Zetsu, to take control of Obito’s body after the latter was defeated and lost the power of the Ten Tails jinchūriki.**

Hiro: With Zetsu performing Rinne Rebirth, Madara was finally properly revived, his full power now restored. After having fought and easily defeated Naruto and Sasuke, Madara sealed the Ten Tails into himself, becoming a jinchūriki. Even with this immense power, Madara was still held back (and nearly died) thanks to the efforts of Might Guy and a powered up Naruto and Sasuke.

**MBStarscream: Against all odds, however, Madara managed to awaken his Rinne Sharingan and used his ultimate move: The Infinite Tsukuyomi, with the entire world under the influence of it and being stuck in the dream world he fought and sought for so long. Thinking he’s won, Madara gloated his victory and prepared a final battle with Naruto and Sasuke... until he got backstabbed by Black Zetsu, who was planning to betray Madara all along and bring the revival of his true will, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.**

Hiro: Overflowing with the Chakra of all those trapped in the Infinite Tsukuyomi, Madara’s body was replaced by that of the revived Kaguya. After Naruto and Sasuke sealed away Kaguya in her own dimension, Madara’s body was spit out and freed, but due to the loss of the Tailed Beasts, Madara didn't have long before he finally died. For real this time, I swear.

**MBStarscream: With all the remaining time he had left, Madara decided to speak to Hashirama once more, admitting that his dreams of the Shinobi world were inferior to Hashirama’s due to his own having died while Hashirama’s lived. Even after everything that had happened, Hashirama still saw Madara as his friend, and promised to drink as war buddies. With Madara somenly agreeing with his old friend, he passed on for good, the false savior’s ideals of the dream world ending with him. NOW, are we done?**

Hiro: Yep. We're done.

**MBStarscream: Oh, thank God! I don't know how much longer I could've talked about convoluted Palpatine-esque resurrection contingency plans!**

Hiro: The array of powers Madara had to aid him against opposition to his dreams was simply astronomical. His gunbai fan serves as his trademark weapon, with which he can redirect the ninjutsu of others as well as simply bludgeon them. Ninjutsu, various supernatural attacks and techniques, can be performed through weaponization of life energy, or chakra, and as the reincarnation of the otherworldly shinobi Indra Ōtsutsuki, Madara has inherited Indra's own immense chakra reserves.

**MBStarscream: Ninjutsu that shape fire are Madara's specialty, and, after grafting Hashirama's cells onto him, he gained his former friend's own heightened healing and proficiency in wood-aligned ninjutsu. An anomaly of the Uchiha bloodline is yet another tool in Madara's arsenal, and easily one of his most devastating.**

Hiro: The anomaly in question, the Sharingan, manifests in an Uchiha's eyes, granting them detailed sight that can view matter on a cellular level and by extension, the muscle movement and chakra flows of his enemies. The Sharingan is also the source of its user's mastery of illusion casting, powerful enough to compress entire lifetimes into a fraction of a nanosecond and killing their victims both in the illusion and reality. Other Uchiha like Sasuke and itachi have cast these illusions and broken out of them, giving credence to the idea that Madara can as well.

**MBStarscream: During his machinations to prepare the Infinite Tsukoyomi, these abilities were increased in their effectiveness, and several more accompanied them. His usage of Hashirama's cells also gave Madara the Rinnegan, and with it, access to the godlike ninjutsu of the Six Paths. Among the abilities of the Six Paths are such skills as creating invisible clones, conjuring meteors of chakra, absorbing the chakra of others, and tearing apart souls.**

Hiro: His own Sharingan, which he could swap to when not using the Rinnegan, developed further into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, which let him summon an ethereal samurai made of his own chakra. However, it is his sealing and absorption of the Ten-Tails, an ancient monster tied to the history of Indra's bloodline, that is the capstone of Madara's skillset. With its power, Madara can draw upon a creature of continent shattering proportions and its Truth-Seeking Orbs, orbs of chakra that obliterate anything they touch down to the spiritual level.

**MBStarscream: Across the history of the world, few if any villains could hope to match the reputation left by Madara. Before the plethora of powers he acquired, the Uchiha prodigy could fire and react to attacks moving at light-speed. His skill was already enough to devastate entire armies, and that experience only grew as he furthered his insane plots.**

Hiro: Once he sealed the Ten-Tails within himself, Madara reached a level of power comparable to Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, the original holder of both the Rinnegan and the Six Paths, who helped created the moon. By the time he could finally cast the Infinite Tsukoyomi in this state, the God Tree Madara needed to ensnare humanity with could spread its roots around the globe. With this much power and intellect, Madara should have achived the new world order a long time ago, if a few flaws weren't in the way.

**MBStarscream: Despite his enormous reserves of Chakra, they’re still finite, and using too much Chakra or techniques can drastically lower his reserves and weaken him. While his Jinchūriki form renders him immune to Ninjutsu, Senjutsu and Taijutsu attacks can still harm him. But above it all, like most Shonen big bads, Madara’s own hubris is his biggest weakness.**

Hiro: Madara’s blatant arrogance let his massive power go to his head and made him too cocky. This was most evident in his second violent encounter with Hashirama, where he believed that Kurama alone would be enough to close the gap between him and Hashirama. Simply put, it wasn’t.

**MBStarscream: But when you have the godlike power Madara has, you're willing to believe you can do anything. And with his power, Madara will do everything he can to ensure his dreams of world peace through domination are realized, regardless of who stands in his way or who he has to manipulate.**

*Madara Uchiha: Man seeks peace, yet at the same time yearning for war... Those are the two realms belonging solely to man. Thinking of peace whilst spilling blood is something that only humans could do. They're two sides of the same coin... to protect something... another must be sacrificed.*

## Xehanort

Hiro: Born on Destiny Islands, Xehanort was always a curious young man, edging his scientific discoveries of the Darkness inherent in all worlds. The world of Destiny Islands was just too small for him, and when being met with a future version of himself, he saw an oppurtunity to satisfy his curiosity.

**MBStarscream: After some time-travel shenanigans, he came back from the future and started his Keyblade training under the Master of Masters, alongside his brother-in-arms Eraqus. Eventually, Xehanort and Eraqus were granted the title of Keyblade Masters, and Xehanort swapped out his old keyblade for the fabled No Name, which was passed down to him presumably by Luxu, the Master of Master’s apprentice.**

Hiro: After some time, Xehanort and Eraqus both grew old and began training three new Keyblade warriors - Terra and Aqua. Xehanort found another boy with the ability to summon the Keyblade, Ventus, and broke his heart in two halves - a light and a dark.

**MBStarscream: Sometime later, Xehanort did battle with these three as they caught wind of his plan to reopen Kingdom Hearts with the χ-Blade, and in turn he took over the body of Terra. This would lead to the creation of what we know as Terranort. Also, he has amnesia now.**

Hiro: Studying under Ansem the Wise, Xehanort’s curiosity never truly fell, and he began to research darkness in secret. In turn, he transformed his body into two halves in an experiment - his Heartless, Ansem, and his Nobody, Xemnas.

**MBStarscream: After a new Keyblade wielder, Sora, defeated both his Heartless and Nobody, Xehanort was reborn as the old man we know and love. Then, he enacted a new plan to open Kingdom Hearts after his old one failed - he would use 13 darknesses and 7 lights, and together they would clash in the Keyblade Graveyard, awakening the χ-Blade and awakening Kingdom Hearts, all to satisfy his curiosity. And the lore of Kingdom Hearts would just keep getting more and more bonkers from there.**

Hiro: A Heart is one of the three parts which comprise a being in the Kingdom Hearts universe, the other two being body and soul. The heart is the essence of the being. The destruction of the body and soul will not kill a being, as the verse lacks a “proper concept of death”, and instead the being will return as a Heartless or Nobody.

**MBStarscream: Only the complete destruction of a heart will definitely kill someone, but even then, a shattered heart can potentially restore itself, as shown with Sora. The heart is made of light and darkness, and Xehanort can move his hearts into others, possessing them.**

Hiro: Darkness is half of what makes everything. Darkness creates and feeds off of primal emotions such as revenge, hate, greed, and fear. In the process, it makes those it affects experience and exhibits these feelings while constantly making those feelings stronger, eventually leading to the affected becoming a Heartless and, rarely, a Nobody.

**MBStarscream: If one relies too heavily on the powers darkness gives them, it will swallow their hearts in a matter of time as Riku almost lost his heart from using Corridors of Darkness frequently. Xehanort has not only made darkness his own, it's heavily implied he has become a being of pure darkness. Darkness can be used to travel between realms, or banish beings into the Realm of Darkness.**

Hiro: The Realm of Darkness is a realm that breaks down matter, and is divorced from the flow of time. Using darkness, Xehanort is able to send the souls and hearts of others to a void beyond both light and darkness. Nothing exists here, leaving the target alone forever. He is also able to corrupt spells with darkness, turning them against the user. He can also remove all the darkness from a being, recreating into a being that serves him.

**MBStarscream: With the χ-Blade, Xehanort can begin to control and manipulate light as he pleases, since Kingdom Hearts is the source of all light throughout the worlds. He can even rip the light out of a person if he pleases, which can seriously hurt their chances at beating him since light is often a necessity to harm a user of darkness.**

Hiro: Xehanort’s repeated use of time travel has turned him into a living space-time portal, with Riku saying he “transcends space and time”. Nomura explains what this actually means, that Master Xehanort is immune to time stops now, and young Xehanort his time controlling abilities.

**MBStarscream: These abilities include the ability to reverse time, summoning other versions of himself across time, slowing down time, resisting time stops, and completely reversing a battle to its beginning, healing and retaining prior knowledge in the process. Time, huh? Thanks for the--**

Hiro: Ahem, y discarding his physical form, Xehanort can travel to any point in the past he has lived through himself, and reminder, he’s really old. Young Xehanort is also able to time travel, doing so without sacrificing his physical body to fight Eraqus’ students in the past.

**MBStarscream: In short bursts Xehanort can also use Time Reversal Magic to reverse time a few seconds backward without the need to charge up. If Xehanort wants to take it further back into the past, like the beginning of the fight itself, he needs to charge up the ability for a small duration, but leaves himself vulnerable in the process. The spell at that point however can only be broken by some specific means a la Keyblade and reality shifting.**

Hiro: Besides the ability to regenerate as a Heartless over time and healing spells, Xehanort has one other option to restore himself: Absorbing another being into himself alongside the remnants of the organization via his proxies. This new form is described as being his thoughts made flesh, which is stronger than his prior state. Terra was able to do a similar thing, albeit less impressive, by manifesting his thoughts into his armor despite xehanort taking his body and sending his Heart into a distant void.

**MBStarscream: Furthermore, Vanitas Remnant is required to fight before you can fight young Xehanort, who was stated to be a canon fight by Nomura in the previous comment. Considering Xehanort possesses this ability, he should be able to regenerate in this state as well if need be. Maleficent could also achieve this, to a lesser degree.**

Hiro: Keyblade users are unaffected by the “Laws” of different worlds, such as the curse within the world of Pirates. Young Xehanort is shown manipulating the laws of the Toy Box world, splitting it in two. He's even capable of sending Sora into a video game with the world. Another demonstration of this power is the “laws” of castle oblivion turning Sora’s friends into cards.

**MBStarscream: The Power of Waking is an extremely rare ability meant to awaken sleeping worlds and travel to them via Hearts. The ability, however, can be used to rewrite entire timelines, undoing death but leaving tears in time. Xehanort is fully knowledgeable on the ability, with Terranort practically confirming he has the ability. He chooses not to use it, however, as overusing the ability can lead to forced removal from the universe.**

Hiro: Just like any other Kingdom Hearts character, Xehanort can use his Keyblade to use devastating elemental magic attacks. It’s worth noting that, the higher the spell skill, the higher the toll on the caster’s body is. These include fire magic, ice magic, electric magic, earth magic, wind magic, time stop magic, telekinesis, telepathy, teleportation, and one of his most dangerous spells, Doom.

**MBStarscream: Other spells Xehanort has in his Keyblade are Collision Magnet, Renewal Barrier, Vanish, Meteor, Sonic Attack, Whip Wave, Luxord, Xigbar, Xion, Larxene, AOE Lasers, Siax, Marluxia, and summoning more Heartless, Nobodies, and Unversed to fight for him.**

Hiro: Xehanort can put Sora in a sleep so bad, that it entirely destroyed his powers, previous people connected to him, and induced a nightmare in the form of the Armored Ventus Nightmare, paralyze an opponent via Bind, confuse enemies with... Confuse, minimize enemies with, uh, Mini, view his opponent's health with Scan, manipulate locations like Doctor Strange, create pocket dimensions, erase one from existence, and can remain in the Realm of Darkness without any armor.

**MBStarscream: Through channeling one's strength of heart, the user can summon a Keyblade to use in battle. Through the use of the Keyblade, the user is granted increased strength, speed, durability, and increased magical power, as well as access to special abilities, such as turning his Keyblade into a Keyblade Glider.**

Hiro: The Keyblade Xehanort currently possesses was originally the Keyblade of the Master of Masters, which enables the user to see the future through the eye inlaid in the blade. After the 13 darknesses and 7 lights clashed, Xehanort was able to awaken the power of the χ-Blade. This weapon is what originally stopped the age of fairy tales, and split the Kingdom Hearts multiverse into separate worlds that manifested as your favorite Disney films.

**MBStarscream: This weapon also has unique teleportation abilities, as it seems to be able to open portals from any point in space to aid Xehanort in combat. It can also affect the light and darkness of an individual, to the point where they are either pure light or pure darkness. Xehanort uses this weapon to control Kingdom Hearts, as it is linked with it. The weapon has “higher dimensional power”, and wielding it is said to give power beyond mortality. All other keyblades are merely inferior forgeries of it.**

Hiro: Functionally identical to his Keyblade Armor, Xehanort has specific armor he wears which should function the same as his Keyblade Armor, shielding him from darkness. The Real Organization XIII are the thirteen darknesses Xehanort would use to bring out the χ-Blade by placing a piece of his heart in 12 vessels and having the 13 of them clash with 7 warriors of light.

**MBStarscream: Imparting a piece of his heart into the members grants them his own abilities on top of their own and allowing them all to telepathically communicate, track each other across time and space, and meet up when necessary and possible. Many of the members are Xehanort himself, while some others are either his creations, people he’s controlling, or people he recruited to his cause.**

Hiro: Xehanort has tapped into the power of Kingdom Hearts through the χ-Blade enough times that it’s acceptable to give him in a vs debate, much like giving Eggman the Chaos Emeralds. Kingdom Hearts’ power was responsible for the creation of the original world before the Keyblade War would cover the world in darkness and result in the shattering of Kingdom Hearts’ protector, the χ-Blade.

**MBStarscream: The world was saved due to the light within the hearts of children, but the original world that once was, was scattered into multiple realms. When Xehanort absorbs the power of Kingdom Hearts, his power increases to an extreme level beyond that of which the likes of any other Keyblade Master could handle. Xehanort can also fill Kingdom Hearts with darkness in an attempt to destroy all worlds and return them to their very original state as one singular universe. Xehanort is implied to be able to survive this, so he can control those who would eventually rise to try and fill the world with darkness.**

Hiro: Despite his old age often causing opponents to underestimate him, Xehanort is truly an incredibly formidible foe to behold. He's taken on Sora, Terra and Aqua without breaking a sweat, destroyed the majority of the Land of Departure with a pseudo black hole spell, struck down Master Eraqus, kept up with Ventus, powered through an extensive beating from the Lingering Will, and, even after being weakened by the latter, survived heavy punishment from Sora and ultimately outlasted him.

**MBStarscream: But much like his opponent, Xehanort can be arrogant to a fault and doesn’t care about the lives of the other Organization XIII Members which led to a few members ultimately betraying him and contributing in some ways to his downfall. Also, while his time travelling abilities are impressive, he needs to give up his physical body in order to do so, and he relies more on his cunning and magic due to his old age.**

Hiro: But there's no denying that Master Xehanort's accomplishments could truly make him the greatest Keyblade Master of his time, no, of *all* time.

*Master Xehanort: They say ruin brings about creation. So what, then would another Keyblade War bring? When the darkness falls, will we be found worthy of the precious light the legend speaks of? I must have these answers. The χ-blade needs to be forged and with it, the door to the Keyblade War unlocked.*

## Fatal Fiction

*Mario flips a coin.*

Hiro: Well, Madara has an edge over Xehanort in terrain, but will be enough for him to win a battle with a Keyblade Master?

**MBStarscream: Would this be like Palpatine vs. Aizen but reversed?**

Hiro: Maybe.

*Fourth Shinobi World War battlefield*

In an empty, barren battlefield that had been ravaged by war a fair-skinned man with long black hair, red plated armor and Sharigan red eyes stood alone. The name of this man alone sent shivers down people's spines: **Madara Uchiha**.

But he wasn't alone.

Madara suddenly turned to look behind him. Standing there was another man, old and bald, with a silver curled goatee, pointed ears, and yellow eyes. He wore a white and black coat with a red inner lining, which was worn over a white shirt with two thin black belts, as well as white gloves and calf-high black boots.

"Who are you?" Madara asked coldly.

"You can call me master." The man replied. "Seeing as how you have already surrendered to the darkness, you will soon obey my will." Madara just grinned amusedly. "You seek to control me? It seems you have a desire for an early grave. Shall we dance, "master"?"

"Let the war begin." Said **Master Xehanort** as the χ-blade materialized in his hand.

**FIGHT!**

Xehanort jumped into the air and came down on Madara at the same moment his Keyblade collided with the ninja's gunbai. The combatants parried each other's blows as they touched down. Xehanort swung his blade upward, knocking Madara into the air; jumping to meet him, Xehanort slashed at him before flash-freezing him with a point-blank Blizzaga spell. With another strike from his χ-blade, the ice shattered and Madara was knocked back. Madara immediately retaliated with his wood elemental jutsu which slammed into Xehanort. The Keyblade Master deftly dodged every following pillar of wood bursting from the ground, then shot a blast of darkness at Madara. Madara held out his gunbai in front of him, the fan absorbing Xehanort's blast. The shinobi then turned the fan to face Xehanort and sent back a beam of energy that the Organization XIII leader managed to block with his χ-blade.

Madara took a deep breath, then blew a huge blast of fire that expanded outward. Xehanort, however, conjured a massive pillar of fire to shield himself, then rushed through the flames with his blade ready. Madara blocked Xehanort's strike with his gunbai and the two engaged in a blade clash. "You will never best me." Madara boasted. "You haven't disappointed me yet, however, so pray you don't before you die."

"You have it all wrong." Xehanort responded. "I have foreseen that it is *you* who will fall. The future is already set in stone." "Maybe you're looking into the wrong future." Madara replied before planting a kick into Xehanort's chest, knocking him back. Madara then slammed a palm onto the ground, creating a wave of roots. The growths of wood reached out towards Xehanort, but before they could ensnare him, Xehanort teleported through a keyhole and reappeared behind Madara, before hitting him with a three-hit combo of slashes. He knocked Madara down with a kick to the back, then caused a column of earth to erupt from under him, launching him into the air. Xehanort followed up by calling down three bolts of dark lightning that struck their target.

Madara lifted his head, glaring at a smirking Xehanort. "Are you certain that I have read the future wrong? Because so far, it seems to be coming to fruition." Suddenly charging at blinding speed, Xehanort knocked Madara back with a strike from his blade. Madara got up and readied his gunbai once more. "I *will* spill your blood, old fool. Make no mistake there." He snarled. A glowing blue ribcage and arm then enveloped the fallen founder of Konoha. He had summoned a fraction of Susanoo.

As Xehanort charged again, Madara summoned the arm of his Susanoo to grab him, before exhaling a point-blank fireball at his foe to burn him before tossing him to the ground. Xehanort slashed at with his χ-blade, but Madara dodged every strike. Xehanort's next attack was blocked by a spiritual sword. The two masterminds clashed their blades again, sparks flying with each hit, neither getting an advantage. Madara then sweeped the Susanoo's sword across the battlefield for a single massive slash that cut Xehanort down, forcing him to one knee. Madara grabbed Xehanort's throat with an evil smirk. "Even with those visions, you never could've forseen this outcome."

Madara threw Xehanort into the air and made a hand sign, causing roots to sprout up from the ground. Growing rapidly, the roots constricted Xehanort like serpents as they formed into a large tree. Madara then activated his Rinnegan as his incomplete Susanoo formed next to him and both of them make a hand sign. Xehanort then looked up, and his eyes widened as they lay on the massive meteor that came down from the sky, rocketing towards him. Xehanort shut his eyes just as the meteor crashed into the tree restraining him. Madara's eyes began to glow, and he summoned another, much larger flaming asteoroid to crash into the first one, making it explode.

Madara smiled at the crater where Xehanort once stood... not noticing the darkness seeker himself teleporting above him and summoning his own giant meteor. "Neither could you have foreseen this." Madara's smile disappeared within the time it took for him to look up at the meteor that was hurling towards him, and sliced it in two with a swing of the Susanoo's sword. Xehanort came down upon him once again, forcing Madara to a knee with a strike of his χ-blade. Moving blindingly fast, Xehanort slashed at Madara again and again and again, until a final strike sent the ninnja flying towards the foot of a mountain. Xehanort stepped forth, smiling evilly. But as he got closer, Madara emerged from the dust, clad in samurai armor.

The Susanoo had been fully formed.

Madara and Xehanort narrowed their eyes at each other with a "Hmph!" before charging at one another. The Susaono's sword and the χ-blade clashed together with enough force to cause a shockwave, followed by a breakneck duel between the combatants. Susanoo threw a whirling disk of energy beads at Xehanort, but they were blocked by the master's blade. Xehanort shot a burst of dark flames from his χ-blade, but Susaono blocked by thrusting out a palm before swinging with an upward-slash of a blue sword. Madara formed a handsign and it drastically increased in size, its blade glowing a brighter blue than ever.

Susanoo gently touched the tip of its sword on the ground, then swung it up and across, creating a vast shockwave from the ground. Then it swung horizontally, the shockwave actually carving conveniently-placed mountains clean in half. Xehanort was floored by such an attack, but only for so long before he summoned thirteen copies of his χ-blade, which all slashed at Madara. Madara charged at Xehanort, but the dark Keyblade Master teleported behind him and slashed at him again with his thriteen χ-blades. Madara turned around with a fierce glare and furiously tried to attack again, but Xehanort sent a flash of light out of his χ-blade, blinding the ninja.

When Madara regained his vision, he was quick to notice he was surrounded by the other twelve Seekers of Darkness appear, each wielding their signature weapon. They all charged at him as Madara readied himself. Aided by Susanoo, Madara fought off the Seekers of Darkness the best he could despite their overwhelming numbers, and with another devastating slash, they were all knocked down. Evil laughter caught his ears, and Madara to see Xehanort raising his χ-blade again. Before Madara's eyes, thousands of Heartless were summoned by their master. Readying Susanoo's sword, Madara charged and cut down every Heartless he could, but every monster he struck only reformed.

Madara looked around for Xehanort, and when he found the original seeker of darkness, his eyes narrowed with anger and he lunged forward, sword poised to impale his foe through the heart. Suddenly, his sword stopped inches from Xehanort's chest as Madara was frozen in mid-air, completely immobile. Xehanort sent the frozen ninja towards the ground with a kick and fired a burst of iciciles from his χ-blade down at him, freezing him solid on contact. Xehanort flew down towards Madara, ready to shatter him to pieces with a strike from his χ-blade...

When an explosive force broke Madara free from the ice, launching Xehanort back up into the air. Xehanort landed swiftly on his feet and saw Madara garbed in white and armed with an ornate staff. The Uchiha Clan leader had tapped into the full power of the Ten-Tails.

Madara's first move was to summon four invisible clones that attacked Xehanort from all directions. The real Madara then suddenly appeared behind Xehanort and impaled them with his shakujo, before sweeping his staff outward to fling him off of it. Xehanort got up and turned around to see black orbs floating around Madara and readied his χ-blade. The Truth-Seeking Orbs flew forward while spinning in a circular formation, but Xehanort easily dodged them and lunged at Madara, who blocked his χ-blade with Susanoo's sword once more. Only this time, he managed to disarm Xehanort and kicked the shocked master back. Madara held his hands out and fired out streaks of lightning from his fingertips, but his attack was blocked when a large pillar of earth rose between Madara and Xehanort.

Diving to the left, Xehanort picked up his χ-blade and released a huge surge of fire from it, hitting Madara in the torso. Madara fired a thin beam of light from his mouth towards the floor, before sweeping it upward and into the air so fast that Xehanort had no time to react or block. Madara then summoned an invisible clone of himself and sent it rushing towards Xehanort to hit him with a swift punch, but Xehanort managed to impale it with his χ-blade. Casting the clone aside, Xehanort charged at Madara as the ninja extended his hand forward.

The Truth-Seeking Orbs flew into Xehanort, blasting him into the ground. Madara then caused the broken-up ground beneath him to float up into the air, encasing him in a large platform made from levitating debris. An invisible clone of Madara then appeared to strike Xehanort, knocking him to another floating platform, before four more clones appeared and punched back to the ground. Finally, the real Madara flew high above the battlefield, as he formed more debris into a swarm of large planetoids. Xehanort looked up just in time to see them flying towards him, and jumped high into the air, effortlessly slicing through each planetoid with his χ-blade before lunging up at Madara.

The χ-blade pierced through Madara's chest at the same time the ninja's shakujo impaled through Xehanort. They stared into each other's eyes, ignoring the pain, waiting for the other's eyes to lose their light. Neither succumbed to their wounds, nor would they stop going until a verdict was decided. "You are indeed strong." Xehanort admitted. Madara, flattered, replied with, "You likewise have given me quite a fight. But if you thought you could still win... cruel reality says otherwise."

"I was going to say..."

Xehanort suddenly teleported away. Madara turned to see him holding his χ-blade towards the air, dispelling the sky in the process. Kingdom Hearts itself appeared in the sky, filling Madara with awe. Xehanort then absorbs the light from Kingdom Hearts into the χ-blade, shrouding it in darkness. Madara, in response, used the Deva Path to cast a repelling force that was followed by the Truth-Seeking Orbs.

"...not strong *enough!*"

Xehanort fired the gathered light as a powerful beam of energy, meeting the violent soul and orbs. The magic blast easily overwhelmed the Deva Path and orbs, leaving Madara at its mercy. All he could do was scream as he was consumed by magic until he had been completely disintegrated, not a trace of him left. Xehanort landed on the ground and watched his Heartless roam the land. "Out of all the hearts I have seen," he said, "yours was darker than any other. You would've been a perfect vessel for me..."

Xehanort raised himself up on a pillar of earth as his Keyblade disappears and he folded his arms with an evil smile. "If only you were good enough."

**FATALITY!**

## Results

**MBStarscream: He'll be back, I'm sure.**

Hiro: Madara had plentiful skills, effective illusions and a definitive killing technique, but Xehanort was simply far too powerful for him to take down easily.

**MBStarscream: At *most*, Madara could generate a whole yottaton of destructive energy via spreading the roots of the God Tree across the world, but that would hardly matter when the χ-blade gives Xehanort total control over Kingdom Hearts, which makes up the entire KH universe even when it was split into multiple realms.**

Hiro: It should be worth noting that “worlds” in Kingdom Hearts aren’t just planets, the cosmology makes it so that each “world” is in actuality a solar system at bare minimum, since we can see celestial objects in them, and Stitch’s world is outright referred to as a universe. Some “worlds” even have separate dimensions in it. This is important, seeing as how Xehanort was going to destroy ALL of these realms by filling Kingdom Hearts with darkness, solidly putting Xehanort at low multiversal to even flat out multiversal levels of power with the χ-Blade.

**MBStarscream: You could argue he even scales to this shit *without* the χ-Blade since Sora, Donald, and Goofy could survive hits from him with it, and he can fight pretty on par with the trio normally. Hell, Sora and Riku even fought Xemnas when he had a portion of Kingdom Hearts, and Xehanort splitting the Toy Story world in two should make this relatively consistent as well. Nort takes power by a massive margin, and nothing is gonna save Madara from that, no matter what you do.**

Hiro: Speed is more or less the same. Madara functioning on baseline power could match light-timing opponents, but Xehanort at bare minimum scales to Roxas traversing through worlds in seconds, putting him at minimum millions of times light speed, and this is only with the solar system sized interpretation. The feat can get as high as quintillions with the universal interpretation.

**MBStarscream: It's safe to say Xehanort dominates stats, but even worse for Madara was his hax. Holy shit, Xehanort had lots of it!**

Hiro: Xehanort could kill Madara in five seconds tops with death hax, transmutate him, reverse time and even stop it, seal him, warp reality, power null him, and that's just scratching the surface. He could even attack Madara on a conceptual level with either his χ-Blade or non-physical interaction, meaning he can attack his soul. The worst part is that Madara has... no way to truly kill Xehanort.

**MBStarscream: Yep, destroying his physical body won't end the fight. See, Sora, even while he was “conceptually in pieces”, didn’t have his heart destroyed, and after learning the power of waking, came back to the fight. The same can apply to Xehanort, meaning that killing the old dude is nearly impossible without similar conceptual manipulation to destroy his heart, and since Madara has none of that, Xehanort can literally come back from everything the ninja throws at him.**

Hiro: Overall, the darkness truly went to Xehanort with his superior stats, hax, and versatility.

**MBStarscream: Sorry Madara, but compared to Xehanort, you're a Nobody.**

Hiro: Master Xehanort wins.

## Advantages

### Xehanort (Winner)

* Stronger
* Faster
* More durable
* Madara has no way to destroy his heart, making it difficult to permanently kill him
* χ-Blade grants him many abilities that Madara couldn't resist, such as reality warping, spatial manipulation, sealing, etc
* Has much more hax
* Has time dilation/stop
* Extreme amounts of cloning and summoning