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NMNT Season 3 Chapter 1: The Golden Puck

-New York City, Central Park: Night-

One cold and snowy December night, a sports event was being held outside in an open top arena in Central Park. Most people would dismiss the idea of watching a sport outside in December, but here they made an exception. There were two teams, one team with black and golden yellow jerseys that had the initials 'GG' for their logo and another had blue and white jerseys with a red circle and a pair of hockey sticks for their logo.

"What a night for Super Slam Hockey folks!" the announcer cried, "the Golden Grizzlies have the puck and are going for it! The game is tied at 3-3 and the winning team will get ownership of the famous Golden Puck for a whole year! This, ladies and gentlemen, is Super Slam Hockey's greatest prize!"

(Time for exposition that you don't need but is necessary; Super Slam Hockey is like regular hockey except that there are specially grooved plastic ramps that allow players to get a better angle at scoring a goal. Also the goaltender is a bit more padded than usual. And finally the walls to the ice rink are padded as well)

A red circle knocked his GG opponent into the wall and knocked the puck towards his fellow red circle teammate.

"OOOOOHHHHH! That's super slam for ya folks!"

The teammate then prepared to score a goal.

"And here's the shot!"

The teammate tried to score but the puck was blocked by the GG goalie.

"Denied!"

The home crowd cheered wildly.

"Don't forget folks, hang onto those ticket stubs because one lucky winner at tonight's game is going to go home with a snow-mobile, courtesy of Crazy Manny!" said the announcer.

Over at the stand where the snow-mobile was parked, Crazy Manny himself shouted out, "I'm so crazy I'm giving them away!"

For the crowd, this really was an intense game; the players collided and clashed with their sticks hoping that they would be the team that would win tonight.

The GG team tried to score a goal but was denied by the goalie, who made a spectacular flying save while passing it to a red circle teammate. The home crowd cheered loudly.

"Whoa Nellie, the Bronx Battlers have the puck and are going all the way!"

The crowd started to chant, "Super Slam, Super Slam! Super Slam!"

The red circle player shot the puck right between the GG goalie's legs and the score buzzer echoed everywhere.

"GOAL!"

The crowd cheered wildly, though one fan in particular was really excited as he shouted and cheered loudly, much to the slight annoyance of his friend who was sitting next to him.

"WOO-HOOOOOOO!" Casey shouted, "Super Slam Hockey has gotta be the best sport known to man!"

"Well with this much violence, it's bound to keep Raph happy, that's for sure," said Naruto. (He is wearing black snow boots, black snow pants, a heavy blue sweater, an orange winter jacket, one of Casey's spare hockey masks, an orange scarf and a black fleece winter hat).

"Well I think it's the perfect evolution of a great sport," Casey replied.

"I will admit though, the concessions are pretty good," said Naruto as he ate some piping hot nachos/walking taco from a large popcorn tub, but he had to remove the hokey mask almost entirely in order to eat them, "the only thing I wish I could change in my disguise is this hockey mask, it's too troublesome for me to wear it partially on my head every time I want to eat."

"What?!," Casey asked in a faux insulted tone, "check it out." He then put his mask on. "Now do we look cool or do we look cool?" he asked.

"Let me rephrase that for you; Do we look like assholes or do we look like assholes?" Naruto replied.

"Assholes huh, well this asshole just got us some great seats; I mean we're so close to the Golden Puck that I could almost reach out and touch it," said Casey as he pointed to the trophy in the display case (which was three golden hockey sticks holding up a golden puck).

He then removed his mask and placed it on his head as he idolized the trophy and said, "The Golden Puck, the most glorious thing to come into existence made by...some old guy who died a really long time ago."

"Thanks for that explanation Casey, I feel so much smarter now," Naruto sarcastically replied.

The red circle team scored another goal as the final buzzer rang.

"There's the final buzzer with the score 5-3!" shouted the announcer over the cheers of the crowd, "the Bronx Battlers win!"

Just then three shadows loomed over the ice rink. Casey and Naruto (as well as everyone else) looked up and saw three vehicles with propellers attached to the back that were floating down using parachutes.

"Check out the fancy post game show," said Casey.

"With military power hawks?" Naruto wondered aloud, "I got a bad feeling about this."

The vehicles' drivers (who wore cowboy hats and trench coats) then deployed the landing wheels as they propelled themselves forward very quickly.

They then took out their high tech machine guns and started to fire towards the crowd, making them disperse in fear of being shot at. Naruto and Casey, however, stood their ground.

"Fellas," said the apparent leader in a southern drawl (and was shorter than the other two), "looks like some fans don't wanna give up their box seats." He then pulled out a grenade and pushed a button to activate it. Then he threw it at the two spectators. It exploded about two rows above their heads, but the blast was powerful enough to blow up the general area. Rubble was strewn everywhere as it also landed on top of the two. The three men then stopped next to the golden puck, whose trophy case was toppled over and smashed open. The leader and his two partners (who appeared to be twins) got out of their vehicles and stepped over to the trophy.

"There she is boys," said the leader as he took one last drag of his cigarette before throwing it aside, "Now y'all bag her n' tag her." One twin then picked it up while the other opened up a bag for his brother to put it in. Then he handed the bag to the leader.

"Now let's hit the trail boys, we got all we came for," said the leader as they all climbed back into their vehicles, activated the engines and propellers and made a speedy getaway.

Meanwhile Casey climbed out at the bottom of the pile of rubble.

"Ugh, thank God we were near the edge right Naruto?"

He then made a hasty realization.

"Naruto!"

And he started to dig through the rubble.

"Oh shit, April's gonna kill me if you're dead."

And he dug even more frantically.

"C'mon, c'mon..."

And at last he pulled Naruto out of the rubble.

"God damn that happened so fast," Naruto muttered as Casey helped him reorient himself. However, the hockey-masked vigilante saw that the golden puck was nowhere to be found.

"Ah damn, they took the Golden Puck!" he cursed.

"It's just a puck Casey, nobody was hurt that's what's important," said Naruto.

"Just a puck? JUST A PUCK?! It's not just a puck, it's a symbol! That golden puck comes from the beginnin' of ice hockey and carries us forward to the future of...ice hockey!" Casey exclaimed as he put his mask on, "Don't ya get it; it's like stealin' the Empire State Building or-or-or apple pie! I'm gonna stop 'em!" And he ran off to do just that. Naruto stayed where he stood and pondered the situation for a bit.

"Getting the Golden Puck back feels like something the police should handle; on the other hand, he could hurt himself or even worse: innocent bystanders."

He pondered some more before saying, "Aw screw it, if it were a different situation, Casey would definitely help me without question." He then put on his hockey mask and ran off to commandeer the lone snow-mobile.

However, just before he got onto it, Crazy Manny popped out of his hiding place right next to the vehicle.

"My snow-mobile, it's alright!" he exclaimed happily, "It's all-huh?" Naruto then rapidly climbed onto the snow-mobile, turned on the engine and sped away to help Casey.

"My snow-mobile!" Crazy Manny cried out in anguish before breaking down and crying.

(Dude it's a snow-mobile, your insurance will cover it).

-Central Park-

As Casey ran as fast as he could, Naruto was speeding up behind him.

"Casey grab on!" Naruto shouted as he extended an arm to grab Casey and put him on the snow-mobile. Casey then stopped his running and slowed Naruto to put him on.

"Thanks for the lift Naruto, now let's catch these guys!" he exclaimed and they quickly catches up to the three men in the propeller we powered vehicles.

"We got a couple of rats on our trail Slim," said Twin A as he noticed the snow-mobile behind them.

"And they're gainin' on us, what do we do Slim?" Twin B asked.

"Y'all follow me now ya hear?" the leader, now known as Slim, called out. And the three quickly went through some trees, ramped up and out on a snow bank and onto the streets as Naruto did the same. Slim and the twins then rounded a couple of corners before stopping in front of a underground subway station entrance. They quickly got off and ran down the stairs, bypassed the simple metro card scanner turnstiles and waited to get on the train. As the doors slid open, Slim took out a cigarette and a box of matches (or rather a box containing one match). As he lit the cigarette and threw the box away in front of himself, Naruto and Casey came tumbling down the stairs with the snow-mobile. Slim and the twins then opened fire on the snow-mobile, making it erupt into flames. The two occupants then leapt off of the vehicle just as it slightly exploded and bust into hotter flames (Slim and the Twins were laughing evilly as all that happened while the doors to the train closed). The train then rolled away into the darkness.

As Casey and Naruto picked themselves up, police sirens could be heard in the distance.

"Ugh," Casey groaned, "C'mon Naruto, let's get outta here."

"Hold on a second," said Naruto as he picked up the empty box of matches, "someone from that group of three threw away this match box, Compliments of: The Sierra Hotel."

-The Roof Tops-

Naruto visually scanned the Sierra Hotel, which was across the street from the roof top where he and Casey were standing, with a pair of Casey's binoculars.

"Hey check it out, there's a hot blond in nothing but a red bra and panties watching a movie on HBO, and she's about to take her top off," said Casey (he too had a pair of binoculars and was visually scanning the hotel as well).

"Would you shut up, I'm trying to help you here and I'm pretty sure I would get a lengthy lecture from Master Splinter," said Naruto, "Now would you please focus?" And the two continued their visual scanning.

"Got 'em," said Casey, "Mr. Match Box himself; third floor, fifth room from the end."

-Inside the Hotel: Fifth Floor-

Slim and the twins entered in an elevator and went down to the lobby.

Casey and Naruto then poked their heads out of the door of the room across theirs.

"Why don't we just bash their brains in?" Casey asked.

"Because if they know we're on to them, then we might lose our only chance at finding the Golden Puck," Naruto replied as he put his hand on the door to their room, "but since they were nice enough to go out..." He then closed his eyes and concentrated as he sent a pulse of chakra through the door and over-rid the locking mechanisms.

"How'd you do dat?" Casey asked in amazement as Naruto opened the door.

"Chakra can work in mysterious ways, but it won't last long; now let's go in," said Naruto as they both entered the room and shut the door. They then searched all over the room.

"It ain't here," Casey said at last, "those cowpokes must've stashed it somewhere else."

"Then we'll just have to follow them," said Naruto.

Just then voices were heard in the hallway on the other side of the door.

"I can't believe you left the keys to the van in the room Robbie," said Slim to Twin A.

"Nuh-Uh," Robbie protested, "Bobby's what done it."

"Ain't done it," Twin B, now known as Bobby, "You dun it."

"Nu-uh, you dun it," said Robbie.

"Did not."

"Did too."

"Will you both shut the hell up," Slim complained as he scanned his hotel key-card.

Naruto and Casey, thinking fast, quickly left the room and hid on the window ledge on opposite sides just as Slim opened the door.

"Lights," Slim simply said and Robbie turned them on.

"Bobby, get the keys and let's go the big man himself will be here any minute," said Slim and Bobby did as he was told.

Back at the window ledge, Naruto turned his head to face Casey, who gave him a wordless nod indicating he had heard and understood everything.

-10 Minutes Later: Outside at the Hotel entrance-

Slim, Robbie and Bobby all stood near an orange-ish brown van as three short black limousines pulled up and parked near it. From the last car in line, a middle-aged man wearing a ten-gallon hat stepped out from the back seat.

"Well boys," he drawled in a southern accent, "y'all got what I asked ya?"

Bobby then unlocked the van's back doors while Robbie opened them and showed where the Golden Puck was hidden.

"We got it Mr. Arboost. But uh, it cost a bit more than we figured; had to ditch our para-hawks," said Slim.

"Well ya know me boys," said Mr. Arboost, "money don't mean a thing, send me the bill and add a little somethin' for doin' a damn fine job."

"Why thank you Mr. Arboost," said Slim, "This is my brother Robbie and my other brother Bobby. You boys thank Mr. Arboost now."

"Thank you Mr. Arboost," they said.

"Boys I can't wait to see the faces on those suits when I tell 'em I got their precious Golden Puck," Mr. Arboost gloated, "Wouldn't give me a Super Slam Hockey Team, said my image was all wrong. Who gives a shit if I just got outta jail, big deal! I want a Super Slam Hockey Team! And now I got me a golden barginin' chip, ain't that right boys?"

Meanwhile from up on a window ledge, Naruto and Casey had listened in on everything.

"Time to kick their asses and get the puck?" Casey asked.

"Yes Casey," said Naruto as he made three shadow clones (who all said the same thing at the same time with the original; also they will be labeled as Clones A, B and C), "Time to kick their asses and get the puck." And they all leapt down and landed right in front of them just as Mr. Arboost was about to touch the puck. He leapt back in horrific shock.

"What in the fuck?!" exclaimed Mr. Arboost.

Clone A quickly leapt in through the van's back entrance while Clones B and C shut the doors. Clone B then removed the keys from the door's lock and they both leapt onto the roof of the van.

Naruto then came flying in and leg swept the three brothers and Mr. Arboost off their feet. Casey then landed next to the driver's side.

"Casey heads up," said Clone B as he threw the keys to the masked vigilante, who caught them. Then both he and Naruto got in the van as Casey started the engine and sped away fast.

"What the fuck are y'all standin' around here for?!" Mr. Arboost exclaimed as Robbie and Bobby helped him up," AFTER 'EM!" The three then entered a limousine, Slim in the first one, Robbie in the second and Bobby in the third along with Mr. Arboost. And all three limousines sped after the van.

Up ahead, Casey drove fast as he navigated the streets like it was nobody's business. Unfortunately, the three limousines caught up with him. Slim, Robbie and Bobby each popped out of their respective sunroofs, drew their machine guns and started to fire on the van. Casey swayed swerved left and right in order to avoid the gun fire.

"Keep the Golden Puck safe there," he addressed Clone B, "it's really old."

"You don't have to remind me," Clone B replied as he swayed and swerved with the van.

Just then Slim's limo rammed into the van, making it spin out of control. Luckily Casey was calm, cool and collected as he turned into the spin and reoriented the van.

Just then Slim's limo went to slam into the van again but this time Clone C leapt right onto it. He then punched Slim on the head and made him fall into the interior. Then he punched the limo driver through the glass and leapt back onto the van. Slim's limo went out of control as it slammed into a parked car, the other two limos slamming into the first. Car alarms sounded everywhere as every one of the limo occupants emerged from the wreckage while Casey and Naruto drove away into the night.

-15 Minutes Later-

Casey parked into an alley way and everyone stepped out of the van.

"Good job guys," said Naruto, whose shadow clones saluted him and dispelled. He then turned to Casey and said, "Now we have the Golden Puck, let's just turn it in to the cops and just call it a night."

"No way," Casey protested, "those shit heads are still out there. We gotta catch them and teach 'em a lesson once and for all!"

Just then the two-way radio crackled with static.

"Jimmy, this is Mr. Arboost, do you read?"

"Loud and clear."

"Jimmy we needs us some new transport. Pick us up at 3rd and 128th."

"On our way."

Casey then picked up the walkie-talkie that was attached to the two-way.

"I got an idea,"' he said. He then started to speak into it.

"Alright then Foxy, now that we got the Golden Puck let's put it back in Central Park. That way the authorities will find it where it was stolen."

Casey then handed it over to Naruto.

"That's a big 10-4, sounds like a great idea."

-With Mr. Arboost and the three brothers-

Mr. Arboost chuckled as he listened in on the conversation.

"Mr. Arboost, those morons are broadcastin' on our channel," said Slim.

"Well," Mr. Arboost chuckled again, "lucky for us. Now we know where the Golden Puck will be; saddle up boys, I want that goddamn golden puck."

-Central Park: Super Slam Hockey Ice Rink-

Casey put the Golden Puck right back on the pedestal and gave a thumb-up sign to Naruto, who was hiding behind a strategically blended piece of wall.

"Casey, I swear to God, this plan of yours had better work," Naruto muttered.

Just then a helicopter landed on the ice rink and out stepped Mr. Arboost, Slim, Bobby, Robbie and a few of Mr. Arboost's own henchmen. All the men, except Mr. Arboost himself, wielded a machine gun.

"Hand over the Golden Puck son," said Mr. Arboost.

"You're gonna have to pry it from my cold dead hands!" Casey retorted.

"Alrighty then, boys paint this rink with his blood," said Mr. Arboost and the three brothers plus the henchmen all raised their machine guns and prepared to fire.

"Hold on, hold on let's not get excited here," said Casey as he held his hands and arms in a 'wait-wait-wait' gesture, "There's somethin' I want ya to know, I have FRIENDS." He then smiled smugly as he snapped his fingers, but Naruto didn't leap out from behind the wall.

"I SAID I have friends!"

Nothing happened and Casey began to get nervous.

Back behind the wall, Naruto snickered a bit. "I think I let him suffer enough," he said.

"Hello Naruto, that's the signal?"

"Now son," said Mr. Arboost, "You're obviously just plum loco, so I don't wanna waste any more time on you."

Naruto then popped up from behind the wall and Casey was no longer nervous.

"What I do want is that golden puck, and I always get what I want."

"Well I hope you want a can of ass-whoppin', cuz that's what you're gonna get," Casey retorted.

Just then Naruto leapt high in the air.

"Open fire!" Mr. Arboost commanded and the people around him gleefully obeyed as bullets began to fill the air. Casey quickly took cover behind a very thick and sturdy wall, taking the Golden Puck with him.

"Hey, watch it with the Golden Puck!" he shouted angrily, "It's really old and stuff!"

Naruto then started to punch the henchmen away one by one.

"Slim! We's under attack!" exclaimed Robbie.

"By some feller in some funny hobo costume!" exclaimed Bobby.

"Well this is New York City boys," replied Slim. As Naruto knocked away the last of the henchmen, he turned his attention to the three brothers, who opened fire on him.

Suddenly Casey leapt in the air and (while wielding a hockey stick) yelled, "GOONGALA!"

"What the hell?!" Slim exclaimed before he was hit hard in the face with the aforementioned hockey stick. Naruto then snuck up behind Bobby and Robbie, grabbed both of their heads and made them head-butt each other, effectively knocking them out.

"Alright, we did it!" Casey exclaimed.

"Not quite," said Naruto as he pointed out Mr. Arboost who was running as fast as he could away from the battle. However, he wasn't fast enough to run away for the two who had caught up with him and cornered him.

"Alright asshole, now you're gonna learn what Super Slam Hockey is all about," said Casey.

"Now hold on boys,"' Mr. Arboost said nervously, "we can make a deal."

"Deal with this!" Naruto exclaimed as he threw a punch while Casey took a swing. Both hits managed to knock Mr. Arboost into a goal, making the score buzzer go off (for some strange reason).

"Ha ha ha," Casey laughed out loud as Naruto and he smiled and high fived each other.

-10 Minutes Later-

The police came to the scene and arrested everyone present in the ice rink.

Meanwhile Naruto and Casey watched from afar through some bushes near the edge of the forest.

"Thanks Naruto," said Casey, "savin' the Golden Puck meant a lot to me."

"Don't mention it, you would've done the same for me," Naruto replied, "but now you owe me one."

"Maybe I'll repay it when you're 21," said Casey.

"I'll hold you to that," 'said Naruto.

And the two just laughed together.

-Deep in Space-

A fleet of Triceraton space ship fighters, mother ships and the Troceraton home world travels through the vastness of space.

-The Triceraton High Council Chambers-

Prime Leader Zanramon sat at the head of the triangle shaped table as Commander Mozar entered and walked over to the prime leader.

"Prime Leader, we have traced the trans-particle beam from the Fugitoid's teleportation," he said, "the final destination is a planet called Earth; it is the third planet from its sun.

"Excellent, prepare for a full-scale invasion," said Zanramon, "We will kill all the inhabitants of that world and claim the Fugitoid for the glory of the Triceraton Republic, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

Welcome dear readers to the next installment of NMNT. Some of you are probably wondering why I adapted an episode from Season 2 as the first chapter (and even more bizarrely a filler episode). Well I did this for two reasons:

1. a lot of readers have been constantly hounding me for a chapter with just Naruto in it, original or otherwise. So I decided to please you people by doing it.

2. I think this chapter would be the perfect transition for the next chapter that I have in mind and for the future chapters I have in mind.

The episode in particular was one filler that I actually like, simply because none of these characters ever appear in the series again so it's nice that I don't have to do other episodes where they appear but only for a side plot that deviates from the overarching story. And while you could argue that the episodes that featured the Justice Force were filler, they actually do appear in other episodes whether they are the main focus or not.

So please give a review.