Cockroach Generation II

Madara slowly raised his left arm from his side, spreading his five fingers through the air, palm facing down. In his left eye, the concentric purple-black ripples began to turn slowly, advancing outward from the innermost tomoe ring layer by layer, like gears dormant deep within the earth's crust meshing together once more, radiating Madara's vast, near-limitless chakra outward at a specific frequency.

Then he brought his hands together, forming an utterly simple seal—the hand sign for the Summoning Jutsu.

His palm struck the ground, and a circle of purple-black formula markings spread outward from beneath his hand in every direction, like a gigantic spiderweb covering the entire ruin. Ancient runes flowed through the markings—the script of the Sage of Six Paths' era. The patterns stretched outward, covering rubble, fissures, fallen trees, and dried bloodstains, expanding hundreds of meters until the entire battlefield was enveloped within that immense summoning array.

The ground began to tremble.

The earth split apart. Not from any single point, but along the edges of the formula markings—the entire battlefield slowly cracked open to both sides like a pried-open shell. Rubble and soil peeled away from the edges of the chasm and plunged into the bottomless darkness below with a thunderous roar.

Something in the depths of that rift answered Madara's summons.

It was the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

After the Ten-Tails had been extracted, its shell had remained dormant underground. When Obito became the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had merged with the God Tree; when the Ten-Tails' chakra was extracted from Obito's body, the God Tree lost all the Tailed Beasts' chakra, and its shell—the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path—reappeared and sank into the depths of the earth. It had not vanished, nor had it died. It