AN: Honestly, didn't realize its been a little over a year since I updated so I'm posting one chapter today and another one sometime next week. I haven't abandoned the story just working on improving it.

New York: 1:00 PM

The team had been searching for hours. It was later in the afternoon when Nova was flying over the city that he saw the Ninja in the distance effortlessly jumping over buildings. Nova spoke on his communicator and reported to the team. "I see him, he's on the far east side heading west."

"Copy that Nova, we're on our way. Don't engaged." responded Spider-Man as he crawled on the surface of a wall overlooking the city. Nova scoffed, from what Spidey had told them he could easily take him on. This Ninja wannabe wasn't a big deal so he quickly flew down and got in front of the Ninja.

"Stop right there!" he shouted with his arm extended out to stop the Ninja as he floated.

Ninja hadn't seen him and tried to stop before ramming into him. He shifted his feet to the side, letting them scrap against the concrete roof to stop. He managed to halt a few meters away from the blue floating man with the funny looking headgear. "What the juice!?" he shouted out in confusion. 'Who's this guy?!' he wondered with an eyebrow raised. The guy's whole body was glowing a bright blue color and dressed in black, red, and yellow armor.

"Under SHIELD authorization, I order you to come with me." stated Nova.

"Yeah, uh, not gonna happen. Who are you anyways?!" he shouted angrily. Randy was so confused and frustrated, he had to fight Robo-Apes, found out he was teleported to New York, now there's this guy, and what the cheese is shield?

"Nova, SHIELD agent." he stated proudly.

"Never heard of you or SHIELD." He stated.

Now Nova was confused, who hadn't heard of SHIELD. This guy must have been living under a rock not to know but he ignored the comment. "Doesn't matter, you're coming with me!" he shouted and immediately flew at him with his arms extended, hands balled into fists to hit the Ninja.

"Ninja Dodge!"shouted Ninja as he leaped out of the way.

"Just give up now, I'm way stronger than you! I can take you on myself!" yelled Nova as he blasted a barrage of energy attacks.

"In your dreams!" the Ninja shot back as he evaded the attacks and ran towards Nova. Once he was close enough he shouted out, "Ninja Punch!" as he threw a punch.

Nova effortlessly dodged. "Really? Saying what you're gonna do? Ha! That's so lame!" and threw a blast that managed to hit the Ninja in the gut. Ninja kneeled over and held his stomach, those blasts were powerful and honkin painful. 'Note to self: don't get hit again.'

"Guess, I really didn't need the rest of the team here to beat some fake ninja. Just surrender already, you can't beat me." mocked Nova. 'This guy's easy.' he thought as he got closer to tie him up and take him back to Fury.

"Fake!" Ninja yelled angrily glaring up at Nova. He wasn't some fake, he was the real deal, the Ninja of Norrisville! No more Mr. Nice Guy decided Ninja if this guy was going to be insulting him and calling him fake he'd go all out on him.

Ninja pulled out two swords from seemingly nowhere and began swinging. Nova dodged and managed to blast both of the swords out of the Ninja's hands. "Now, what? Hmm?" asked Nova smugly thinking that now that the Ninja was disarmed he'd be easier to take out.

Suddenly, the Ninja shouted "Hydro Hand!" and a hand made of water shoot out his hands sending Nova flying over the building and falling. Nova quickly got out of his initial shock and started flying back up the building. Though once he reached the roof again the Ninja was gone and his team had just showed up. He was also drenched from the attack.

Seeing Nova fly up to the top of the damaged roof White Tiger asked "What happened?"

"He got away." replied Nova angrily.

"I told you not to fight him, what were you thinking?!" Asked Spider-Man angrily at Nova for disobeying his orders. Then noticed that Nova was completely drenched. "Wait, why are you soaked?"

"I thought I could take him, you never mentioned his powers!" shouted Nova irritated.

"Powers? What powers?" Spidey asked confused.

"I don't know he just hit me with a giant hand made out of water." Nova replied as he wrung out his uniform.

"Hmmm" wondered Spidey in thought. The Ninja has powers? He didn't know that, he hasn't displayed them with the fight with the robots. This could be bad, who knows what other powers he has. He contemplated making them fall back until they knew more about his powers or keep looking. He had fought alongside him and didn't seem to be a bad guy.

"Keep looking for him but no attacking until the whole team is there." ordered Spider-Man while looking in Nova's direction sending his teammate a glare. They still had the upper hand in numbers.

They patrolled all day and into the night but they never caught sight of him again.

East Manhattan: 2:00 PM

Once Ninja managed to blast Nova off the roof he figured he had time to get away just in case his teammates showed up. He quickly grabbed his short swords and stuffed them back into his suit. Then he jumped across the roof to an apartment complex and opened the door that led to the roof and ran down the stairs.

He made sure he couldn't be seen and removed the mask. He thought back to what Nova had said 'Guess, I didn't need the rest of the team here to beat some fake ninja.' Others were after him? Who were they? Who exactly was Spider-Man? and What the cheese was SHIELD? he wondered. He decided he'd have to keep it on the downlow so no Ninja-ing out for a while. He then realized how tired he was from the running, battles, and walking around that he fell asleep on the stairs leaning back against the wall.