The Battle in New york
The Battle in New York!! Spider-Man vs. Gaara!!
Ok, so it hit me when I was watching spider-man 3, the Sandman…and Gaara…who would win?? So I let them battle it out in my head for a while and as it turned out they are pretty evenly matched, and wouldn't make for a good story. Even if Gaara threw sand at him all it would do is be absorbed by him, and any hit he made would be blocked by Gaara's sand shield, if not absorb his sand as well. But then I thought, what if Gaara were to replace Sandman? Would Spidey still be able to win? Let's find out…hmm actually this is gonna be a one-shot of them fighting, I'm not really gonna make a story out of it, so let's just say that somehow during a mission Gaara got sucked into a time-space warp thanks to Naruto trying to learn the Hirashin no Jutsu that his father invented…heh..yeah that doesn't seem very possible anytime soon XDD but now onto the story!! Oh and this takes place in the movieverse, not the actual Marvel one. Oh and for my own pleasure, this is the Shippuden version of Gaara, but he still has Shukaku so he is still way more powerful, yet not as bloodthirsty as before. Enjoy! I don not own Marvel, Naruto, Gaara or Spider-man...if i did i sure as heck wouldn't be letting you view these stories of mine for free XDDDD
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New York City
It was a normal day in New York City, well at least as normal as it gets when you have a web-slinging hero around. Spider-Man was swinging along, patrolling the
city, with a small radio headset over his ears, scanning the police frequencies for any possible sign of trouble.
On the other side of the city however many thing were happening, the main one being that a hole in space and time had opened up over a street in Times Square,
and secondly, everyone within sight of it was running away from it, most of the New Yorkers having had some sort of experience with hard to explain things in the
past, namely deranged scientists with octopus arms, psychos flying around and blowing up the city, and lastly having big teethed monsters loose in the streets,
and they were not going to loose their lives now, and so the panic ensued.
It didn't take long for whatever was going to come out of the hole to actually come out, as suddenly what looked like a boy with a gourd on his back came falling
out of it to the street below. Although it was fortunate for the boy that he never actually made contact with the street, as quickly tons of sand began pouring out
the gourd automatically and cradling him as he fell, and then it made contact with the street below, allowing him to come down softly. He then was able to get
himself back up, rubbing his head as he sat upright. "Ugggh..what on earth was that?? The last thing I remember is Uzumaki trying to show me his new jutsu," he
said in his normally drolling tone. He then began to look around, the first thing he noticed was the numerous people running like mad around him, and from him
apparently, something that wasn't entirely foreign to him as people had run screaming from him before, but that had been far in the past and not happened too
much after he had become Kazekage of the Hidden Sand Village.
Then his eyes widened as he noticed the second thing that had come to his attention, he was surrounded by massive structures, buildings the likes of which he had
never seen before, not even in some pictures he had seen in files of the Hidden Rain Village. And as he looked down the street, which also didn't look like any
street he had ever seen before, he noticed the buildings kept going on and on. "Where on earth am I??"
Suddenly his attention was brought to a certain man who was screaming, "Look out!! It's the Sandman!!" The sand wielding red head became very confused, he
had been called many things in his life, but never once was he called a sandman. He made a gesture with his hand and the sand that had been holding him up
gently slid him down onto the pavement, then with another a gesture, the sand now floating and swirling around behind him coiled out, wrapping around the man
and pulled him toward Gaara's person, until he was face to face with him. "Is it your custom to call someone a rude name when you first meet them?" the red head
said to the now quivering man. " N-n-no sir, it's j-just that you using sand, and t-t-there's only one person in the world who c-c-an use sand, a-and t-that's the S-
sandman!" the man said in fear. Gaara actually looked surprised when he heard this, it was an emotion he did not often feel. " A fellow Sand user eh? I suppose I'll
have to meet him sometime…"
He then uncoiled his sand from around the man and let him run off, then he began walking down the middle of the street, now almost deserted except for a few
people coming out of buildings and then seeing him, although by this time his sand had gone back into his gourd, so now it appeared to people that he was just
strangely dressed Japanese boy with a large, strange looking gourd on his back. Gaara had walked down a ways, looking on in amazement at just about
everything he saw in this new world that was so unlike his own, when he walked into a three way intersection. Turning suddenly after sensing a fast movement, it
was then that Gaara witnessed his first car, coming straight at him at 30 miles an hour. Quick as a whip, his sand came out and formed a wall almost immediately,
the car ploughing into it, leaving the red head completely unaffected, but the car a smashed wreck. Thankfully the guy inside the wasn't hurt too bad except for
some large bruises that were slowly forming, but he had been knocked unconscious from the collision. Gaara, looked on in amazement at what lay before him,
having never seen a car before.
It wasn't too long after that, that New York's Finest then showed up, guns pointing at him the second they got out of the car. "Freeze! Hands in the Air!!" Gaara
looked on in confusion, thinking that it was a strange welcoming custom they did in this land, and he wasn't really looking forward to doing it so he kept his hands
down to his side as he spoke to them, "Where am I?" The cops looked stunned and amazed, " What tha heck?! What are you talking about?? How could you not
know your in New York City?! It's only the largest city in the world! Now do as I say and put your hands in the air!!" He said as he pointed the gun threatingly.
Gaara did not understand the weapon in his hands, but gathered from the threaten tone of voice he was giving off and the stance that it at least was some sort of
weapon and that he was in for a fight.
He then got ready to make a move, unsure of what his enemies were capable of, " No, I don't think I will," He said in his mildly threatening tone, "if you all want to
live, I'd suggest you all leave right now, so that way I won't Have to kill you.." The police officers looked at each other with a bit of worry, then the officer in charge
spoke up, " Not a chance bub, you had your chance to back down!" He then fired off a warning shot in Gaara's direction, although the cop had misaimed a bit and it
was heading dangerously close to Gaara. Before anyone had time to react, Gaara's sand immediately came out and put up his shield, catching the bullet in mid air,
and stopping it about an inch from his face. The cops looked on in amazement, but then one of them shook his head, having been around to see the Sandman, he
then shouted out, "OPEN FIRE!!" Suddenly the air was filled with the cries of gunshots, but lucky for our red headed jinchurriki, not a single shot had hit home. The
cops soon began to realize this and a cease-fire quickly came to, then the bullets that had been caught in the sand dropped to the ground. The cops then looked
up to see a very angry looking Gaara peering out from behind the wall of sand. "My turn…" and almost as soon as he had said it, his sand whipped out and began
his rampage against his "enemy."
Quite a few blocks away, everyone's favorite web-slinging super hero was swinging down 5th Avenue when a police broadcast came through on his headset
scanner. "Attention all units, gunshots reported in the vicinity of West 42nd and Broadway in the vicinity of Times Square, eyewitnesses report seeing large
amounts of sand being thrown around in the area, proceed with caution as there is a possibility of the Sandman being in the area." the lady in the intercom said as
the broadcast ended. It had only taken for Spidey to hear about the sand being thrown about, and he was off, swinging ever faster towards the destination.
It wasn't long before he arrived at the scene, landing on top of a building to get a good look at the situation below, which at this moment was not pretty looking.
Below, half of the street had been torn apart by Gaara's rampage against the cops, which unluckily brought more cops, which had furthered Gaara's rampage,
tearing cars apart, and breaking the bones of many of the cops around, all while the red head was simply walking forward, all of his sand swirling around him
causing mayhem in his wake.
Spider-man continued to look onward at the onslaught, and quickly noticed that this was not the Sandman's handiwork. Mostly, Flint would gather up more sand to
himself, or just use what he had to make his body bigger and then crush what was around him, and have any bullets that tried to hurt him go straight through his
body. The sand however instead of being absorbed, was moving around him like water, but moving much faster, and using his spider-sense, he could tell that the
bullets were being stopped in mid air in the sand before they could touch him.
Gaara's ninja instincts kicked in as he noticed a man in the strangest suit he had ever seen in his entire life staring at him. Gaara, at this point being very upset,
didn't like being stared at that much. Spidey's spider-sense suddenly flared and jumped into the air as lighting fast sand came whipping out towards him, like the
tendrils of an octopus and crushing the outcropping he had been standing on. The web slinger landed on the side of a building, sticking to it like his namesake.
"Whoa! Talk about your violent outbursts!" Gaara stood, just watching the strangely dressed man sticking to the wall in a un-ninja like fashion. "Who are you?? And
why on earth do you look like something that belongs in comic book??" he asked in his monotonous voice. Spidey was slightly taken aback at this. "Hey! I happen
to Like the way my costume looks, thank you very much! And you seriously haven't heard of me? J. Jonah Jameson has only been printing bull about me for years
now." Gaara continued to stand there, his forehead beginning to twitch a bit at all the insaneness this world was subject too. The red head spoke in his, again
monotonous tone, only this time, there was a bit of a psychotic nature to it, "I don't know who this Jameson is…I'll ask you again…who are you??" looking up at the
web-slinger he waited for a response. Spider-man stayed on his spot on the wall, but tensed his super strong muscles at the feeling of killer intent making his
spider-sense go off like a dozen alarm bells; he was ready for action but as usual made it sound non-chalant. "Well I'm just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man,"
he said from under his iconic mask with an unseen grin.
The sand-nin continued to stare before he put two of his fingers up towards his head. For a second, sand swirled around him, before he disappeared, which
confused our web-slinging hero. That was until seconds later his spider sense warned him of what was directly behind him. The sand ninja had appeared right out
of a swirl of sand, standing right behind the super hero who was up on a wall a few stories off the ground. Spidey immediately jumped off the wall, spinning until he
landed facing towards the wall looking up at the ninja standing almost non-chalantly on it like it was the ground below. "What the heck?? Did this suddenly turn to
a horror movie?? Your not gonna eat my brains out are you??" At that crack, Gaara lost it, "No…but now your going to die!" Quickly the red headed jinchurriki put his
hands together and performed many hand signs, sand pouring out of the gourd on his back and rushing towards the web slinger with high speed. The web head
jumped straight away from the building, watching the sand follow up after him, trying to keep out of its reach. He fired a web from his wrist at Gaara, only to have it
be caught once again in a wall of sand between him and the Ichibi, then the sand wall wrapped around the web line and pulled at it, causing the still held on
Spider-Man to be pulled toward Gaara. "Oh snap…"
The Sand ninja quickly seized the opportunity to let his sand wrap around Spidey's leg and crawl up his body, the super hero struggling the whole way as the sand
surrounded him. "Sand Coffin!!" Gaara yelled out as he put his hand forward in a clenched like manner. The sand completely engulfed Spider-Man, all except his
masked face. Spidey coughed a bit before speaking, "Man you really have a lot of sand huh??" he quipped, but deep down he was actually beginning to get
worried. "Dang it! I gotta get free somehow! Come on spider strength, don't fail me now," he thought as he continued to struggle with all his might. Gaara was
actually beginning to feel the strain of having to try and hold a man that could bench cars on a normal basis. Add the stress and the adrenaline that was brought
with it, well, it made it much harder for him. "Errgh…you're a feisty one aren't you," Gaara said in his monotonous tone. Almost as soon as it was said though, did
Spider-Man's struggling paid off. Sand burst everywhere as his super muscles broke through the sand, freeing himself, and allowing him to escape onto another
building across the street from the building he had nearly been suffocated on. "Whew…Man that was too close, good thing he can't fly.." Yet Spidey was soon
flabbergasted as the Kazekage formed a platform of sand in front of him then stepped on it to have it float in the air above the street 20 stories below. "OH COME
ON!!" the web head yelled in exasperation as he started web swinging away, trying to come up with a plan to fight this guy, who was now chasing after him with
tendrils of sand shooting out after him every so often, it thankfully not catching him.
Gaara had never liked being made fun of, in the past he would kill just at the mere mention of calling him a monster. But now and days it took a lot to get him riled
up, especially after meeting Naruto and accepting more responsibility as the Kazekage of Suna. But after hearing the person called Spider-Man making a reference
to eating his brains out, he had cracked a bit, his inner demon being a stirred a bit to totally wipe this guy off the earth. Tiring of the chase quickly, he began to
think how he could get rid of the wall-crawling pest quicker. He then took notice of a jumble of iron bars linked together, what the rest of us know as a construction
site, but what had really caught his eye was the huge piles of sand at the bottom of it, raising his hands upwards, he quickly began gathering the sand to him.
Spidey took notice of it too as his spider sense had gone off. "Dang it!!" Quickly the web head took a sharp swing to the left, landing on a wall of a building and
crawled up it to the rooftop of a building that was currently 10 stories above Gaara's current position hovering over the 3-story tall construction site, gathering
more sand to his platform and around him. People around the area were either screaming and running away, some were looking with awe in their eyes, not aware
of the increasing danger they could have possibly been in. And one man actually looked at the redhead ninja and then just kept walking, as if nothing was out of
the ordinary was going on. If one would have been able to hear him, they would have heard him mumbling, "New York is so full of weirdoes now and days ya see
em just walking home from da grocery store…"
High above the streets, Spider-Man looked down to try and analyze the situation a bit, despite the fact that the Sand Person, as he was now calling him, was now
adding more to his arsenal, what really worried him was that they were in a section of the city where there were a lot of people, and a lot of low lying buildings,
which added to the fact that a lot of people below might get hurt a lot easier if one of those solid things of sand managed to miss him and knock off something big,
say a piece of building. He needed to draw him to someplace higher up. It being the Big Apple, it was nearly impossible to go somewhere where there weren't a lot
of people, except for over the Hudson River, but he was no Iron man that could fly. The web slingers gaze drifted over to the Empire State building, the icon of New
York, but more specifically, he was looking at all the tall buildings surrounding it in Midtown. He would have to draw him there if he wanted to try and fight him and
keep innocent lives in check. Suddenly his spider sense went off again, hugely this time, and jumped back in time to dodge a fricking huge hand, with bluish looking
claws to boot, come crashing down on the spot he had been moments ago. "JES..!!" He didn't even have time to finish his curse as another hand came straight
around from the first one aiming straight at him. Spidey quickly shot a web on a wall below him and pulled himself down with all his might, again dodging at the last
second. He then had to move as fast as his spider speed could carry him as an enormous cloud of sand was now formed over the streets of New York, with massive
arms and claws coming out of it, chasing after him. This whole time Gaara was moving after the web slinger, watching his movements, getting ready to time his
attacks accordingly. The demon in him was beginning to reside a bit and thus he was thinking more clearly.
Spidey then had an idea strike upon him, and idea that he had use o at least weaken the Sandman a while ago. Quickly he spotted what he needed, a small water
tower, one of many that were of top of buildings all over the city. Quickly he landed on a building on the opposite side of the street, and then shot two web lines
onto two of the steel girders supporting the water tower up. Then he began to pull, pull with all his might, and fast, as he began to see the cloud of sand bearing
down the street towards him. Thankfully it was just below the level of the rooftop the water tower was now swaying towards under the tension of the web lines
and super strength. He began to time the moment of imminent splashdown, just as an arm of sand came shooting out towards him, "3….2…..1…Now!" The water
tower finally gave, causing hundreds of gallons of water to splash down onto the huge cloud of sand. All in all, Spidey's theory was proven as suddenly the cloud
began to fall apart in front of him to the streets below. He now knew how to beat this guy, with water, and lots of it, somehow he needed to lead him to the river
instead of Midtown as he had originally planned. But sadly that chance would hardly ever come as suddenly he felt sand wrap around his legs and up his body.
"Sand Coffin…" came the monotonous voice from behind him. His spider sense had barely gone off, the relief from the giant cloud of sand being gone clouding his
thinking. Gaara then stepped in front of him so Spidey could see him from his spot of being covered in sand. Then he did something that in Spider-Man's world
would have considered doing something that had a lot of gall. Gaara stepped forward and let the sand recede back a bit and just as easily as he could, took Spider-
Man's mask off. This action then followed with a rebuttal from out hero, " WHAT THA HECK!! THE FLIP DID I DO TO DESERVE THAT!! YOU KNOW HOW FRICKIN HARD I
WORK TO KEEP MY IDENITY A SECRET?? AND THEN YOU JUST COME UP AND….GAAAHHHH!! WHAT THE FLYING HE….!!" Gaara's ears were saved from a curse full by a
thing of sand coming up and covering Parker's mouth. The red headed Ichibi then stepped forward and looked him dead in the eye, and for a guy that doesn't blink
a lot when sand is flying around, it was kind of scary. "I prefer to look my opponent in the eyes when I'm fighting him, fighting behind a mask is stupid unless the
mission calls for it. And it is very rude to fight someone without so much as telling them your real name, let alone not letting them see your real face and giving them
a false name like Spider-Man…" he then got really close, almost an inch away from Parker's nose. " Now..you have five seconds to tell me where the Hell I am, and
who the Heck you really are…and apparently I'm in a different world cause it seems from everyone else's reactions to my reactions at never having heard of "New
York"…are bordering on the outrageous….So you better be really specific…or I'm going to start crushing your bones…slowly.." He let it sink into Spider-Man's head
that he was really lucky to be alive right now instead of dead in seconds.
After the thing of sand was removed from his mouth, Parker told him about New York and who he really was, which the latter he was really, Really reluctant to do,
but did so anyway after feeling the sand around him tighten a bit. Then finally to his relief the sand released itself and flew back into Gaara's gourd. Gaara turned
away a bit as the reality that he was on a different world, or just a different reality, hit home. "You can leave now.." he said to the hero putting his mask back on.
After a while he had not felt him leave and turned to see the wall-crawler staring at him from under his mask. "Why did you hurt all those people down there??
Gaara tilted his head a bit before quickly answering, "They wanted to hurt me first of course, so I defended myself and fought back." "Well I don't know how things
work in your world, but here if you don't listen to the guys in blue suits with badges in guns, you get in trouble, and you made it a lot worse by not only fighting
back but wrecking bits of the city in the process" Gaara quickly rebutted, "You did more damage than me insect…" he pointed to the wrecked water tower
"Arachnid…" Gaara then stared back at Spider-Man after having heard him say the word randomly. "Spiders…they're arachnids, not insects…uhh.. yeah anyway you
need to come with me." Gaara continued to stare at him. " Do you Want to have your body crushed to a pulp??" Spider-Man was about to start yelling at him for his
stupidity and irresponsibility when suddenly both of them were blinded by a flash of yellow light, and standing there in orange and black was Naruto Uzumaki,
having just mastered the Hirashin no Jutsu. " HEY! I Finally found you Gaara-san!! Jeez sorry for the mishap with the Hirashin earlier!" he sweatdropped a bit as he
scratched the back of his head with that infamous foxy grin of his. He then turned to meet the strangest looking man he had ever seen. "Whoa dude…did you lose a
bet or something??" Spidey began to get irked at this " The heck is with everyone beefing on my costume?! I don't mind doing the same with you, who the hell
wears orange??" Naruto was about to get into a mad when Gaara put a hand on his friend's shoulder. "I think it's best we leave now Naruto…" the blond growled
in anger a bit but then sighed in defeat "Aggghhhh…..Fine then…" Naruto put his hand on his friend's shoulder and in a flash both of them were back in Konoha,
leaving a puzzled Spider-Man to look around in wonder then taking of his mask and massaging his temples. "Where do these guys come from??"
Back in Konoha, Naruto grinned as he asked Gaara, "Sooo how was your time on a different world??" Gaara stared at him for a time, long enough to make Naruto
wonder if he had fallen asleep with his eyes open, and just before he began waving his hands in front of his face the red headed Kazekage answered him with a
small smile. "It was interesting to say the least.." He then began telling him of his first trip to New York.
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OMGOSH!! Finally!! I'm done!! XDD jeez this one shot has been on my back burner for a while. I finally realized that Gaara could have Killed Spidey so many different
ways it wouldn't be funny, So since I wanted them both to live, I opted for this way out 3 but anyway, Review please!! I love em and really do take advice from
them. Hope you liked it!