Because no one seems to be interested in the idea I'm going to use Evolution Personified to write the start of a Naruto Beet the Vandel Buster story. No characters from Beet will be appearing, just powers and other things like that. Alex will not get directly involved to much, he's going to actively help Naruto a little bit but wont be teaching him anything, just doing a little construction work.

I do not own any of the fictional settings and characters mentioned in this chapter.

Vandel Ninja

Alex Blinked rapidly from one world to another at random, he wasn't choosing his destination, just waiting for the world to feel right; once he felt the right conditions for the first test of his new amalgamation of power and knowledge, he would stop and find a good host subject, the ultimate weapon stopped in a forest outside a large village, a ninja village that he had obliterated almost four years earlier from his perspective; that particular version had had it coming really, the destruction of the surrounding countryside had been unintentional, turns out he hadn't quite perfected the F.L.E.I.A Jutsu, its' area of effect had still been difficult to control.

Alex had no trouble deciding who to give the star too, almost everyone in this setting was just to predictable, Sasuke was obvious to anyone with half a brain, Sakura would just use the power to try to impress Sasuke, the "villains" were even more easy to read then Sasuke, really everyone but Naruto had little chance of providing any unexpected results.

Naruto was easy to find, being the literal center of the universe makes you stand out like a sun in candle factory to the eyes of those who know what to look for. Alex dropped the star in a clearing and nudged Naruto slightly to the left of the path he would otherwise have taken, he would have likely found the star anyway, the kid was drawn to weird things like a moth to fire.

Naruto Uzumaki, age six, was trying and failing to come up with a prank that would really get peoples attention, he had exhausted all his other ideas and was now in a slump, he happily tossed his thoughts out the window when he saw something sparkle in the sun to his left.

The self proclaimed future Hokage dashed over and scooped up the small purple sphere, he briefly wondered how the black star had ended up inside the small stone but abandoned that line of thought in favor of trying to come up with a way to use the object to prank people. Naruto was unusually sensitive to what humans would call supernatural things, most people didn't know this and those that he had spoken to about it thought he was just playing an elaborate prank on them, because of his spiritual awareness as it was called in some worlds, Naruto realized quickly that something was off about the stone, this realization came a little to late however; the young future ninja didn't have time to react as the Vandel Star leapt out of his hand and buried itself in the skin of his right forearm.

Naruto reacted in a manner most people would expect from the blonde knucklehead, he began running in circles screaming and shouting, it didn't take long for him to collide face first with a tree. Naruto woke up a few minutes later, oddly rested and feeling better then ever, sitting up he recalled the reason for his impromptu nap. In what was more curiosity then confusion Naruto examined his right arm, more specifically the stone imbedded in his skin. He realized that he knew what it was and what sort of creature it belonged to.

"Vandel? But...does that mean I'm a monster?" Naruto stared at the star for a moment before going over everything he could remember from his life up to that point, he had never given much thought to why some of the people he had overheard talking about him called him a monster, but maybe they knew about this. "But that doesn't make sense, if I was always a Vandel then I would have had this all along." Naruto went back to his examination of the star on his arm, noting that it was on the wrong side "It would be on the left if I was a Vandel, but it's on the right. What does that mean?"

"It means you have a choice."

Naruto spun around, unthinkingly manifesting a ball of Dark Fire in his right hand. The person who had spoke was wearing odd clothes, nothing Naruto had ever seen before; his pants were an off shade of blue and made of a material Naruto had never encountered, he wore a white shirt with buttons up the front under a gray jacket which looked like it was made of something similar to the sort of clothes Naruto saw regularly, on top of the jacket was another one, this one made of leather, but it seemed to have been made in a way that Naruto was unfamiliar with, his head was covered by a hood.

"Who are you?" Naruto had noticed the black fire surrounding his hand, but he made no effort to extinguish the flames, he knew what they were and that it was the only method he had of defending himself if the need arose, and he didn't think he could reignite the magic on purpose if he shut it off now.

"For the moment that isn't important. Naruto Uzumaki, a very important person in the future no matter what happens between now and then, you have a choice to make; what will you do with the power you've acquired? Conquer? Destroy? Protect? It's your choice, but for now just think short term. Take some time to look at things differently, I know your perspective has shifted slightly since the star bonded to you, wait a few days and see what you think then." The man blurred and was gone.

Naruto looked around the clearing, checking behind trees and bushes, still holding the magic flames in his right hand, once he was satisfied that the man was gone he released his already weak hold on the dark power; the flames went out instantly.

"Now what?" Naruto asked the air as he rolled his right sleeve down to cover the star and started walking home.

On his way to his apartment Naruto watched the people of the village, he had never really looked at them before, they still backed away from him, still gave him the looks he was so used to at this point, but he saw something besides blind hate now. Fear. They were afraid of him, but he knew they didn't know about the star or his new dark powers, which he himself didn't know how to use yet anyway, so why were they afraid? What was it about a child that could frighten everyone in the village like that?

By the time Naruto got home he had realized that the hate he had always felt directed at him was just the villagers way of hiding their fear, something about him terrified them and they didn't want to admit it, and then there was the way Sarutobi always acted whenever he asked about the way people treated him; the old Hokage would become quiet and evasive with his responses, Naruto knew that the man cared about him and wouldn't lie to him if it wasn't something he felt needed to be kept secret.

"So the old man knows why everyone's afraid of me." Naruto paused. "Not everyone, just older people, and not even all of them, Teuchi doesn't hate me and there are a few others, so it's more that they understand something better then most people; and no one my age seems to know why their parents don't like me. Alright, the Hokage knows and wants it kept a secret, probably for my own protection, maybe even to protect the whole village, if it's that important and mainly involves ninja then that explains why mostly only civlians are really afraid of me, ninja must understand the situation better." Naruto nodded to himself, he had made up his mind. With that out of the way he ate dinner and went to bed.

A week passed and Naruto's resolve in his choice only got stronger, even if he didn't know what it was that had people terrified of him he would make them see that he was there to protect them and make Konohagakure the greatest and most powerful village in the world; he knew that it was unrealistic to aim for world peace so early and that if the world was peaceful then no one would need ninja anymore, so he decided to make that a long term goal.

In the forest we find Naruto holding a small black flame in the palm of his hand, this is all the power he has been able to gain control of in the last few days of practice.

"So that's your decision is it." This was a statement, not a question.

Naruto jumped slightly when the man appeared and spoke without warning. "How do you do that?"

"I could explain it but it wouldn't help you any, even if you understood it. Now, what do plan to do to start with?"

Naruto gave a big fox grin. "I'm going to build a Dark House of Sorcery and make a bunch of monsters to defend the village! After that I'm going to master dark power and become the most powerful ninja in the world!"

"Rather vague." The man imitated Naruto's grin.

"Heh! That's not all, but it's the basic idea, there's a lot of work to do though." Naruto kept on smiling.

"How about I give you a hand getting started." Again not a question.

"How?"

"Pick a location and I'll get the building started. Also I have a suggestion, don't make any of the more obvious monsters, stick with humanoids and small subtle monsters at first."

"Alright. Um...Who are you?" Naruto finally calmed down enough to notice that he didn't know who he was talking to.

"Alex Mercer." Alex didn't bother making the 'nice to meet you' joke.

Artificial Cavern under the village. Naruto decided that underground would be the best place for his secret lair, when Alex told him there were no caves big enough to build in he had been worried, but Alex cleared up his concerns by making a cavern large enough to hold the secret base. Two months have passed and Naruto has mastered the spell to make a door between one point and another as long as he knows where he's going, this was necessary because there is no other way to reach the Dark House of Sorcery that Alex has set the ground work for.

Naruto was panicking, he just didn't have time to live his life on the surface and do the work that needed to be done in the lair, he had to sleep sometime, he was sure he was going to burn himself out. Alex silently applauded the boy when he realized a way to solve the problem on his own without any suggestions from Alex.

One week later Alex 'returned' to the incomplete tower and was looking at a pair of six year old ninja in training. He could easily spot the fake but it would take a lot of concentration for anyone in this world to see the difference, one of the most notable differences between the two was that the Phantom didn't contain the Kyuubi.

"What do you think Alex? I was worried that the world couldn't handle having two of me around, to much awesome you know?" Both Naruto's grinned, though one didn't move from the chair he was sitting in, he was controlling the Phantom at the time.

"Not bad, at least this means I don't have to teach you anything. Anyway, I'm just here to pick something up." Alex walked over to the real Naruto and reached into the seal, to say that Naruto was freaked out by this was an understatement.

"AAAHHHH!" Naruto only screamed because it was a bit of a shock to have someone shove their hand through you like that. "What the hell!"

Alex had only taken a second longer then he needed, he chose to strengthen the seal while he removed Naruto's other guest. "Sorry about that, I'm in a hurry right now." Alex put the bright red flame he had pulled out of Naruto inside a clear crystal and sent it to Eden.

"What was that? That thing you took out of me I mean." Naruto was understandably concerned.

"Important, but not something you need to worry about right now. In a few years I'll bring that one back. For now though I have other people and places to check up on." Alex Blinked out and left an Observation Drone to keep an eye on things.

Alex appeared in a white walled room where a large machine was hanging from the center of the ceiling. "GLaDOS, I have a test subject for you, you'll have to clone them first, keep a soul from entering the body to, I have the original already, just needs a new body." The crystal containing the red flame appeared on a small table near the somewhat insane machine life-form, beside the crystal Alex set down a vial of blood. "You got the soul transfer process perfected right?"

"That is correct." The female computer paused. "This one doesn't like potatoes do they?"

"Not that I know of. As long as you stay reasonable with your tests I doubt she'll try to kill you, just don't go overboard and you should be fine. That's her blood, only use that, no tampering with it or anything, I want her back the same way she was before she died okay."

"Understood." GLaDOS had one of her robots take the crystal and vial of blood to the cloning facility. As always Alex left an Observation Drone to watch GLaDOS, he knew she wouldn't do anything on purpose, but she was insane and prone to making mistakes that could have been avoided.

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And that's another one. I seem to be stuck on Naruto related things at the moment, I will try to finish something not Naruto related and post that next.

So who can guess who Alex is having GLaDOS bring back? And yes, Alex hijacked a version of Aperture Science and keeps it on one of his planets.

If I were to continue this myself, does anyone think I should add a new villain? If yes then how? Take one from another setting? Create one from the Naruto world? Have Alex make one just for this experiment? And if I do continue this and make a new villain, then what sort of villain should it be? Mastermind type? Evil Overlord? Morally bankrupt conqueror? Let me know what you think.

Are there any characters you would want to see sooner then they were introduced in canon? Any other characters you would want brought back to life or saved from dying?

I guess that's all for now.

Hob the Vandel (Possibly a Robot)