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Beta: Jebest4781 and Chaos-PSD.

Chapter XXI: Negatives.

Last Time.

"Put the wires on!" Christina yelled as she pressed her gun on Felicia's cheek.

"OK," Naruto said putting the wires on his forehead.

"Wait! How do we know you won't say what you want to say?" Felicia said looking at Christina.

"You have a point," Christina said turning the machine on. "So I'll ask him a question only he would know… Who are you?" After a second, her eyes widened before chloroform soaked rag was put over her mouth and nose courtesy of a clone knocking her out.

Later, Christina was loaded in an ambulance mumbling Shinobi was a man who owned the coffee cart at E.S.U.

"Well, that was my first crazy stalker," Naruto said before taking Felicia to the shadows and disappeared to his penthouse were he bid her goodnight.

Now.

Unknown Location. (1.)

"I knew people didn't like you, Nick. But this seems extreme." Captain America said blocking a strike from a muscular man dressed as a lion as Fury shot at one who's dressed like a bull while avoiding a man throwing water at them dressed in a blue costume from the chest down as the rest of his body was water.

"Did Captain America make a joke? I think the Avengers are becoming a bad influence on you." Fury replied as Captain America blocked an arrow.

"These people, I've seen them in the Avengers files… The Zodiac..." Cap said looking to see that each of the 11 people who were all dressed like a zodiac sign.

"Destroy them!" One man said in a deep voice as his costume was right on the left side of his head to his chest and black on the left and his legs were black on the right and white on the left. "Scorpio wants them alive!" He said in a regular voice.

"I think you owe me an explanation. I can do this all day." Cap said hitting Taurus with his shield.

"We're not out of the woods yet, soldier." Fury said before both of them were shocked.

"The spy is right."

Looking up after falling out their knees, they saw a man in red and golden armor and a hood as well as holding a smocking large gold key.

"Your pain is just beginning." He said before kicking Fury. "I've been waiting a long time for this, Nicholas."

"Scorpio, right?" Cap asked as Scorpio's key glowed. "You want to tell me what it is you're hoping to accomplish here?"

"Captain America. Super Soldier. Hero of World War II. Your job is to save the world. Mine is to destroy it." Scorpio said before a light blinded the heroes and they found themselves tied to a chair with Cap's shield beside him.

"… That could have gone better." Fury said as Captain America looked over.

"It could have gone a lot worse. We're still alive. If there's one thing that hasn't changed since my day. It's that men like Scorpio like an audience, The question is, what's he planning? Who is Scorpio?" Cap asked.

"Our intel is… limited. Criminal, madman, ties to HYDRA. I thought I knew what he wanted. I was wrong. Scorpio was after an object of incredible power, and he found it. The Zodiac Key. Rumor has it that it's not from this world." Fury explained as Captain America sighed.

"The Zodiac Key, huh? So, what's it open?"

"Power, Captain."

They looked to see Scorpio and the Zodiac walking in. "Power the likes of which this world has never seen. A power that will make the Zodiac the new rulers of Earth."

"Big words, I've heard them before." Captain America said as Scorpio held the key at a wall.

"Ah, but you see, unlike the others you've faced… I intend to do more than talk." Scorpio then opened a green portal on the wall. "Do you see it?! The Zodiac Key opens the door to another dimension! And once that door is open, nothing can stop what's coming through it."

"You want to tell me why you're so calm about this? I'm the most cool-headed person I know and even I'm a little concerned here." Fury said as Cap smiled.

"You're a spy, Nick. You keep secrets. You play everything close to the vest. Me, I'm a soldier. And a soldier always has backup." A pouch on his belt opened up showing his card. "Avengers..."

CRACK!

"ASSEMBLE!" Hawkeye, Shinobi, Black Panther, Wasp. Hulk and Iron Man dropped down through the skylight with Shinobi holding his staff.

"HULK SMASH!"

"Drop the key Scorpio!" Iron Man said blasting the key away as the others fought the Zodiac and freed Fury and Captain America.

Black Panther fought against Leo as Hawkeye fought Sagittarius, Wasp fought Gemini, Hulk fought against Taurus and Naruto fought Aquarius before jumping back and threw pellets at him and had Aquarius freeze from the neck down.

And America and Fury went after Scorpio to get the key.

"Shut it down Scorpio!" Cap said hitting Scorpio with his shield.

And was punched by him. "I don't think so, Captain. The creatures on the other side promised me dominion over this Earth! And I intend to have it!"

Fury then grabbed Scorpio from behind. "That's not going to happen!"

"Nick?!"

Fury then pushed the key to the portal and shot it. "Keys can open doors… But they can lock them back, too."

"What are you doing?! Let go of me! Let go!"

He then closed the portal as the Avengers stood over the knocked out forms of Scorpio, Gemini, and Taurus.

"And disaster averted." Iron Man said as Wasp flew beside Naruto.

"Yay! Um, but some of the Zodiac got away. Plus, shouldn't there have been twelve of them?"

"The Wakadan Zodiac has seventeen signs." Black Panther said as Hawkeye but his bow away.

"Don't make this harder!"

"It doesn't make sense. Scorpio could have done this anytime after getting the key. Why wait? Why the attack on you? Cap asked Fury who removed Scorpio's mask revealing an African-American man who's bald.

"Because it was personal. That's why I came to you, Captain. You're the one person on this planet I trust completely. See, Scorpio wanted me to see it. He wanted me to see what he'd done. Because he hates me."

"Why?" Naruto asked as Fury looked down.

"You'll have to ask him. His name is Jacob. Jacob Fury, my brother."

A Week Later. (2.)

Shinobi was looking around the city by himself as Felicia had to help her mother out at the foundation for several days. "What the hell?!" He yelled out seeing a giant red insect-like creature terrorizing the city a few miles out.

Naruto then saw a man holding onto one of the creature's leg.

He is large in size and his body skin is covered with rocks. His eye color is brown and the only clothing he has on is blue short pants with a black belt with a number 4 on the buckle.

This is the Thing, real name Ben Grimm, a superhero and a member of the Fantastic Four

He then saw another hero in a fiery form with a visible '4' in a circle on his chest fly around.

This is the Human Torch, real name Johnny Storm. He is a member of the Fantastic Four and the younger brother of Susan Storm.

Naruto dashed over and creates two Rasengans (Spiraling Spheres.) in both his hands. He got just above the creature and dive down, hitting it on the head. "Tsuin Rasengans (Twin Spiraling Spheres)!" (3.)

The creature hit the ground creating a crater before Naruto flipped to in front of the others. "This a private party or can anybody join?" He asked as the Human Torch lost his fire form.

Johnny has blonde hair and blue eyes. He's wearing a blue uniform with back boots, gloves, and a black belt with a '4' symbol on his chest.

"Jonathan Spencer Storm!"

Before anything else could be said, they looked to see a woman and a man floating down. Naruto looked at their feet and saw that there's a circle under them blurring what was around it.

The woman has a voluptuous body, blonde hair, and blue eyes. She's wearing a blue form-fitting uniform, with the '4' symbol on the chest. She also has black gloves, boots, and a belt.

This is the Invisible Woman, real name Susan Storm-Richards. She is a member of the Fantastic Four and is Johnny Storm's older sister.

The man has a physical build, brown hair with grey sides and brown eyes. He's wearing a blue uniform with a black '4' in a white circle, with black gloves, belt, and boots.

This is Mr. Fantastic, real name Reed Richards. He is a genius scientist and is the leader of the Fantastic Four.

"Is there something you'd like to tell me?" She asked as Johnny looked to her.

"No! And it wasn't my fault! You know, whatever it is you're talking about."

"I suspect your sister is referring to you two roughhousing near the Inter-Dimensional viewer." Mr. Fantastic said patting down a large blue and white glove on a stand before picking the glove off the stand and put it on.

He touched the stand and had a red energy line connect the glove and stand as he looked at the knocked out insect. "This creature is from the Negative Zone. By realigning the creature's molecular configuration, it should phase back to its own reality." He said hitting the creature with the energy tether like a whip and had a red portal form beside it that pulled it back in.

Suddenly, the group was surrounded by reporters who focused on the family instead of the Avenger asking them questions all at once.

"Whoa, whoa! Slow down! What are you vulture's talking about?!" The Thing asked.

"You haven't heard? Reed Richards purposely exposed you to rays that gave you your powers." One female reporter said. "It's all over the wire, he wrote about it in a journal."

A few hours later, Naruto was looking around the penthouse for the family as a news report played about Reed's journal.

"It was an accident, right?" Ben asked standing up. "Doom messed up everything while we were on the station, right?"

Naruto turned to them as Richard explained he did write a paper on biological effects the cosmic rays would have but that he never wrote about the station mission or experiments on them. Ben then walked off to calm down as Johnny put on a jacket and left with Sue following after to talk to him.

"You alright?"

"No, I'm sure I didn't write anything about the accident in that paper," Reed replied as Naruto turned to look out of the window.

"Look, I'll admit, I don't know you as well, or as long as those three, but I know you're not the type to do that sort of thing."

"Thanks, but that doesn't change the fact that they-!"

"They'll come around, they just need to cool off and think."

Reed sighed and went up to his lab to look over the paper he wrote before Naruto sat down on the couch. A few minutes past by and he noticed a green ship fly past the window as an alarm went off before the penthouse shook.

Running to the lab, Naruto forced the door open and saw a man standing in the lab with Reed who was tied up with metal wires that were shocking him.

The man is wearing mechanical armor which covers his whole body, the only parts that are not covered are his eyes. He's wearing a green tunic that goes down to his knees, with a big black belt around his waist. He has a dark green cape with a hood to cover his face, held up by two golden clasps on both sides of his chest.

This is Victor von Doom, better known as Doctor Doom, he is a supervillain, and archenemy of the Fantastic Four. He is also the tyrannical ruler of the country of Latveria.

Naruto saw the sky turn red before seeing Doom had on the gauntlet that opened the portal to the Negative Zone before walking over.

"Tony, we got a problem," Naruto said bringing up his card.

"I see it. we're gonna need some bug spray. Avengers assemble!"

Lightning cracked as Naruto saw Thor flying to one creature before grabbing Doom.

"You dare touch-!"

Naruto interrupted him by hitting him in the chest, pulled the gauntlet off and tossed Doom out of the hole where the Quinjet caught him.

"OK, now what do we do?" Naruto asked Reed as he cut the restraints while the other Fantastic Four ran/flew in after escaping being captured by Doom.

Reed ran and turned off the gauntlet but the sky stayed red as the creatures continued to attack.

"I've closed the breach but there's too much Negative Zone energy," Reed said and explained what they need to do to close and get rid of the creatures and portals.

The Thing jumped out of the hole and started to attack one as the Avengers did the same throughout the city. Naruto dived out and got in the Quinjet as the Human Torch flew past while Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman flew in a small jet.

They flew up to the largest portal in the sky and Mr. Fantastic stretched out to it and was able to close it.

Later, the press arrives and questions Reed if he's responsible for what happened to the city.

"This guy just saved the entire city and this is how you treat him?!" Thing asked but Mr. Fantastic raised his hand. "This was all Doom's fault. He forged the journals and I can prove it." He said and apologizes to the Thing again for what happened.

Naruto stood by the Quinjet and smiled under his mask.

To Be Continued.

A/N: Thanks for reading and let me know of any mistakes.

Beta: Jebest4781 and Chaos-PSD.

1. An issue from the tie-in comics.

2. the chronologically 1st Ep. from The Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes. I used that as it deals with the Negative zone that's used in a couple of Ep's from now in E.M.H.

3. For those that may not know/remember, that's a Sage (Nature energy one with the toads) only technique.

OK, a Ch for both this and Ninja in the Web due to both using Scorpio at the start. Hope you enjoyed them

Nothing else to say.

Talk To You Later,

Lone Wolf Out.