``` BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Rockets exploded one after another among the Uchiha! Fire, thick smoke, screams, and mangled bodies hurled through the air... Their once-orderly formation fell apart.
Their Sharingan could track the rockets' flight paths, but they had no idea how the weapons worked or how they packed such tremendous force.
They tried to block them with Water Release, but the shock waves and shrapnel did most of the damage.
They tried Earth Release defenses too, but thin earthen walls might as well have been paper.
Even the Body Flicker Technique could not get them completely clear. The explosions covered too wide an area!
The more Shikadai fought, the more naturally it came to him. His shock gradually gave way to a wild sense of exhilaration.
Rocket launcher in hand, he kept changing positions under the cover of Yeto's Psychic Barrier and Shinki's Iron Sand, denying the Uchiha a chance to take him out while he poured rockets into their surviving forces.
"Is this what it looks like when future technology crushes ancient people?" Shikadai muttered as he fired.
He remembered how easily Child Emperor had dealt with more than a dozen Jonin guards. He had not fully understood it then. Now he did.
Faced with a saturation barrage of explosions that defied everything they knew, these relics of the Warring States Period could not react fast enough.
He even had the unkind thought that if these Uchiha elites from the Warring States Period saw a grenade roll to their feet, they might lean in for a curious look. And then...
"Retreat! Retreat now!" a ninja who appeared to be the captain of the Uchiha force shouted himself hoarse. His Sharingan bore three tomoe.
He watched his clansmen suffer terrible losses, yet he had no answer to the strange