Maelstrom of the Marvel Universe

by choejhulkp9

After an accident that sends Naruto flying through dimensions into a new world, he gets found by a billionaire, playboy, philanthropist and alcoholic. With his help, Naruto makes a new life for himself. Guess that portal wasn't that bad, it also gave him some new powers. He'll need them because fate has a lot in store.. DISCONTINUED AND UP FOR ADOPTION

5. Chapter 4

Here's the fourth Chapter of Maelstrom in the Marvel Universe. Naruto and Peter continue to make New York City as safe as it can be with new Super villains popping up. Also, Naruto's work begins to gain him a reputation and he will use that to help people. Enjoy!

Work, Saving the city and more work

September 30th, 2010

After dealing with Shocker, Naruto and Peter agreed to do nightly patrols together and to find any kind of info they could on the Big Man, the guy who hired Shocker. He was making moves if he wanted Spider-man out of the picture, he was a top priority. The two formed a superhero team, the dynamic duo as Peter jokingly called them but they would do well together, keeping the city safe. While they were also doing that, Naruto was also making his regular life more of a success.

Currently, it was Saturday and Naruto was outside the construction site of Stark Tower. The outline and basic supports were the only things built as of the moment but Naruto said he would devote some clones to help speed up the building. Naruto was currently talking to the head of development for the construction, a lawyer that Pepper had called to help him, Dr. Conners and his wife and Linda. Right now, there was a horde of news cameras and reporters ready to write down statements or ask questions. Peter was there, obviously to take photos for the Bugle and Mr. Foswell was there to write a blurb. They were waiting in front of the podium for Naruto to speak.

"Naruto, I think we're ready." The Lawyer said as Naruto nodded.

"Images all set up?" Naruto asked as Dr. Conners nodded. "All right. Smile people." Naruto joked as Linda chuckled. Linda stayed behind with some security people as the Lawyer went first to address the crowd.

"Thank you for being patient. Mr. Uzumaki has prepared a statement and presentation but will not be taking any questions." The Lawyer said as he stepped down and Naruto walked up as cameras flashed and began recording.

"Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining me on this lovely fall day. It seems that Mother Nature is giving us some good weather. I wouldn't exactly want to stand up here and start sweating." Naruto joked as the reporters chuckled. "When I first came to come to New York City, I'm not going to lie, it was to make amends to someone who I had lied to, and I have made those amends." Naruto said as Linda smiled.

"But that wasn't the only reason, it was to help make an even bigger change. Not just by being a hero, but by helping to create a better future. Which is why we are here at the site of Stark Tower, Stark Industries East Coast hub where the future begins. Stark Tower will be dedicated to research and development of technology and science that will leave behind a better tomorrow. Working along side brilliant scientists and engineers, we will help make a better world. A world of cleaner forms of energy, better medical technology and a better quality of life, it starts here." Naruto said as the monitor on the stage turned on to show the future projects.

"Stark Tower has new projects set up by working with ESU University's own Dr. Curt Conners. Cogeneration plants will help recycle waste heat into usable energy. But our newest form of clean energy will make an even bigger impact, not just on New York but to the whole world." Naruto said as he pulled out a clicker and the image on the screen changed to Dr. Conner's bioelectrical eel energy source. "Bio-energy, given off by genetically altered electric eels. One energy cell of this clean energy can power a New York city block for over a week at a third the cost of regular electricity. This mark of new technology will help cut costs and provide a more efficient and clean source of energy for the entire world." Naruto said as the crowd murmured amongst themselves.

"But that is not the only thing Stark Tower will do. With Stark Industries no longer making weapons, we will be making advancements in medicine and peace keeping." Naruto said as he turned the screen to show the basic prototype for his new deep tissue scanner. "The Stark Model DTS. A new scanner that will able to scan a subject's body through a variety of lenses and frequencies that can detect early cancer cells, viruses in the subjects system, deterioration in brain or body cells, and even fractures and breaks. This new system will help save lives and give hospitals a more effective way to help. Along with our new DTS scanner, Stark Industries will also be creating a new line of medical systems and technology that will help save lives."

"But that's not all Stark Industries will be doing. We will be developing technology for new security systems and law enforcement for the NYPD and police forces all over the country as well as consumer products. Stark Tower marks the point for progress forward. A better future starts today. Thank you." Naruto said as some people applauded and he stepped down from the podium as some reporters tried to ask questions but Naruto just kept walking.

Linda walked up to him and hugged him. "You were great, whiskers." Linda said.

"Thanks, Linda. So it was ok?" Naruto asked.

"I thought it went very well." Martha Conners said.

"I know for sure that we'll be busy from now on." Dr. Conners said.

"Yup. We'll be busy but it'll be a lucrative future. I'll stop by the ESU labs later. I've got some meetings I've to do." Naruto said as Dr. Conners nodded.

"We'll see you then." Dr. Conners said as he and Martha left.

"So you're going to be busy, huh?" Linda asked.

"Yes. But don't worry; I got a clone at the hotel room so you won't be left alone. It's just two meetings today and then I'm going to the ESU labs later. I'll bring dinner and then we'll hang out tomorrow. Thank god it's a Saturday." Naruto said.

"All right, hurry back, whiskers. And bring back some good food." Linda said as she left and got in the car that would take her to the hotel room.

Naruto then pulled out his phone and called captain Stacy of the NYPD. The phone rang for a bit until it was answered. "Hey, Captain Stacy…yeah, I'm done. Yes, I'll be there in a bit. Ok…that'll be fine. Ok. See you in a bit." Naruto said as he hung up and saw Peter walked up to him with his camera around his neck. "Hey, how was the press conference?"

"It was good. Got some great picks and gave them off to Foswell to give to Jonah. You said we had some things to do today?" Peter asked.

"Yeah. We've got two meetings today. One at the NYPD station and the other at the Manhattan hospital to discuss the contracts for some new technology I'm selling." Naruto said as Peter nodded. "And then, we'll head to the Stark warehouse down by the river to see how it's going there."

"Ok, you're the boss." Peter said as they got in Naruto's car and left to the NYPD station. They drove through some traffic as Peter went through some of the photos he's taken.

"So, how's everything going?" Naruto asked.

"You mean in terms of my regular life or our crime fighting lives?" Peter joked.

"Regular life. I know enough about our crime fighting lives." Naruto replied.

"Eh…could be better." Peter said.

"Still haven't talked to Harry or Gwen?" Naruto asked.

"No." Peter said.

"Give it time. If they really are your friends, they'll forgive you." Naruto said as he Peter arrived at the NYPD station.

"You think?" Peter asked as he got out and Naruto went to his trunk to get some files and a briefcase.

"Yeah. If they are really your friends, this kind of thing won't end your friendship. I guarantee when you go back to school on Monday and talk to Harry and Gwen you guys will be back together." Naruto said as Peter nodded. They then walked into the NYPD station where Police officers, detectives, and sergeants were busy at work. Naruto saw Captain Stacy waiting near the front desk. "Captain Stacy."

"Naruto, good to see you." Captain Stacy said as he shook Naruto's hand and Naruto shook back.

"You as well. You know Peter." Naruto said as Captain Stacy looked at Peter.

"Peter, how are you?" Stacy asked.

"Fine, Captain Stacy." Peter said, a bit nervous.

"What is he doing here?" Captain Stacy asked.

"Peter is working for me as a research and development assistant. He's smart and he'll help with some of my projects." Naruto said as Stacy nodded but then had to quickly sign some papers a detective handed him.

"Assistant?" Peter whispered.

"Well I couldn't say crime fighting ally. And I'm not exactly sure what to label your job as." Naruto whispered back as Peter nodded and Stacy finished the papers.

"All right. Come on, we'll talk in my office." Captain Stacy said as he led Peter and Naruto to his office. They walked in to see a small office with a whole bunch of papers and document around, pictures of him and Gwen and some medals and awards he had received for his work. He sat down in his chair. "So, what do you have to show?"

"A whole bunch of things for the police department. Some new systems and equipment I think you'll like." Naruto said as he opened his briefcase to bring out some working models he made in his spare time. And by he, Naruto means his clones. They've been busy bees ever since he got to New York. "Fire and foremost, new tamperproof, id code handcuffs. Made of a non-expensive yet strong and durable steel polymer blend. Impossible for your run of the mill criminal to break free, and impossible to pick. No key required. And the code is unique to each officer so that no one code can unlock any handcuffs."

"Hmm, interesting." Stacy said as he looked at the cuffs. "A bit more complicated than standard cuffs."

"True, but next to impossible for criminals to try and break free. So what do you think?" Naruto asked.

"I like it. I think we may have a deal." Stacy said.

"Good. And I've got some other ideas that you may like." Naruto said as he pulled out some files on other products. "First and foremost, some new updates and computer systems for the building. I've seen some of your computers and honestly I cried a bit. Your systems are a bit dated."

"Ok." Stacy replied.

"And some new detainment cells and restraining equipment. New weapons and technology that can be used by the SWAT and tactical teams and make your jobs easier and your lives a lot safer. So what do you think?" Naruto asked as Stacy looked over all the files.

"Well, I'll have to look over all the files and get these to my superiors and the other precincts, but I think we have a deal." Stacy said as he smiled and shook Naruto's hand. "I'll get these to my supervisor and we'll get back to you."

"Thank you, Captain Stacy." Naruto said as he and Peter left the station.

"I think that went well." Peter said.

"Ditto. We're going to be making a good change here to help a lot of people. Now, onto the hospital. I have a demonstration of the new DTS scanner for the Manhattan General Hospital board." Naruto said as he and Peter got in the car and drove to the hospital.

After a few minutes driving through Manhattan, they came to the Manhattan General Hospital. They parked and walked inside to the main area where nurses and doctors were walking around and people were there for treatment or other medical issues. Naruto walked up to one of the nurses at the front desk.

"Excuse me." Naruto said as the nurse looked at him and blushed. Seeing a real life handsome superhero just made her day.

"Y-Yes, can I help you?" She asked.

"Yes, I suppose to give a presentation today to the Hospital board. I had some associates come by earlier for the demonstration." Naruto said.

"Oh, yes. Uh…give me a second. I'll get the directors for you." The Nurse said as she made some calls.

Naruto and Peter relaxed in the hospital waiting room until the head of the hospital, the director of pharmaceuticals, director of surgery and director of finance. "Mr. Uzumaki." The head of the hospital said as he shook Naruto's hand.

"Naruto, please. No need for titles. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules for this. I promise to be as fast as possible." Naruto said.

"That's all right. Shall we get started?" He asked.

"Lets. The room is set up." Naruto said as he and Peter walked through the hospital to one of the meeting rooms used in the hospital. Inside the room was a finished model of his DTS scanner. Have a few clones work on it during his spare time and done. Hell, Naruto could start his own factory if he wanted to. The board members and some doctors who were allowed to sit in on the showing took seats as other interns and nurses tried to sneak peeks through the glass on the door. The room was set up with the DTS scanner and a presentation queued up.

"Thank you, everyone for giving me the time today. I know your time is precious so I'll try and be as brief yet informative as I can." Naruto said.

"It's ok, Naruto. Please, start." The head of the hospital said.

"Thank you. Today I'm here to introduce to you the DTS. The Deep Tissue scanner, a new breakthrough in medical technology that will help you save lives. Through a system and array of special lenses and lights, the DTS is able to scan the human body through a series of frequencies that can help doctors identify what exactly is wrong with a patient. Small fractures, internal bleeding, ruptured organs, even early growths of cancer cells or tumors. This scanner will help make your jobs easier and save dozens of lives." Naruto said as he showed them scanner.

"If I can have a volunteer?" Naruto asked as one of the interns who was watching stepped forward and laid down on the scanner. "Lie still, please. Peter." Naruto said as Peter pressed the scanner and it started. The two scanner beams scanned the body twice and the results showed up on the screen.

"Well, you're electrolyte levels are kind of high, your cholesterol is good and you might want to get your leg checked out. The scanner is showing some strain on your muscle that look like they could spread to become acute muscular atrophy." Naruto said as the intern got up and thanked Naruto, the doctors were impressed. That machine did what would normally take hours or days.

"Impressive." The head surgeon said.

"Well, that's just a small taste of what the DTS can do. You're more than welcome to take the DTS scanner for a trial run in your hospital to see how it works. After that, we can talk about other options I have for the hospital." Naruto said as the head nodded.

"Thank you, Mr. Uzumaki." The head of the hospital said as Naruto shook his hand. After a few more questions, Naruto and Peter left the hospital.

"I think that went well." Peter said.

"Yeah and hopefully they'll see that my tech will help. Now, the last item for the day. We're heading to the Stark warehouse, we need to see how the development on the projects is going and I've got a surprise." Naruto said as they got in the car and drove to the warehouse near the river.

They parked in the parking lot and saw a lot of other cars and large loading trucks near the loading bay of the warehouse. "Wow, this place is busy." Peter said.

"Yup and will get busier as my work continues. Come on." Naruto said as they walked inside the warehouse to see Stark workers hard at work either organizing all the material in the warehouse, coordinating with the engineers who were working on making more of the energy cells, DTS or the other materials for the medical fields or law enforcement. Stark Engineers and scientists that Tony had come over to work in Stark Tower and for Naruto were busy at work and would work out of the warehouse until Stark Tower was finished, then the work would move there.

"Wow, it's like a factory." Peter said.

"This is only temporary. When Stark Tower is finished, all this work will move there. But for now, we'll be working out of the warehouse. I've got the best security here to make sure that all of the scientists and engineers are protected and to make sure that everyone and all my products are secure. Pepper already submitted patents on all of this so it all belongs to Stark Industries." Naruto said as they walked around the warehouse. Some scientists and engineers waved hello or said hello to Naruto and Naruto returned the greeting.

He then walked over to the head of the warehouse to see how everything was going, Mr. Smith. "Mr. Smith, how goes everything?" Naruto asked as he shook Mr. Smith's hand.

"Everything is on schedule. We've got more requests and orders for our cogeneration attachments. And our orders for the bio-energy cells are up to about 10,000 when I last checked about half an hour ago and that's just in New York. We've got our scientists and engineers working on more power cells and our first order of 1,000 will be ready to ship in two days." Mr. Smith said as he showed Naruto the clipboard of all the relevant data and some papers that needed his signature. "You'll need to sign here, here, here, initial there and one more signature here."

"Ok." Naruto said as he began signing the papers. "All the other paper work was sent to my email."

"Yup, all sent." Mr. Smith replied as he turned the page and Naruto signed the lines he needed to.

"Perfect. Everything is going according to schedule. Keep up the good work." Naruto said as he pat him on the shoulder.

"Yes, sir." Mr. Smith said as he got back to work.

"Good work, everyone!" Naruto said as everyone smiled and got back to work. "Next time I come, I'll bring pizza and beer! Keep up the good work! We're going to help a lot of people!"

"WHOOO!" Everyone shouted as they kept working.

"Nice. I can see that working for you will be a lot more fun than Jameson." Peter said as he and Naruto walked through the warehouse to the far end where there was a security door that said Restricted: No access to anyone except for Naruto Uzumaki.

"Ohh, secret door." Peter said as Naruto walked up to the door and touched the door handle. The door handle had a special scanner system that read all his fingerprints and skin cells. It was the latest in security checks for secret projects, and no one could get in unless he was there. The door then unlocked as Naruto opened it.

"Come on." Naruto said as they walked in and Naruto closed the door behind him. Peter saw it was kind of dark and could see some computers but other than that, nothing else.

"Kind of dark." Peter said.

"Right, sorry. Jarvis, lights." Naruto said.

"Lights on." Peter heard Jarvis say as the lights turned on and Peter whistled in amazement.

"{Whistle} Wow." Peter said as he saw Naruto's secret room, which was essentially his superhero base.

"Thanks. Considering our team up, I figured it would be a good idea to have someplace secure and secret where we could meet up in secret. This place will do for now until Stark Tower is finished and should anyone try and put two and two together and maybe guess who you are, we've got perfect alibi with you being my assistant." Naruto said as Peter walked around and looked at the computers, monitors and equipment for tracking anything in the city.

"Nice set up." Peter said.

"Thanks. State of the art computers set up to a network of various electronic and monitoring devices around the city that feed us real time footage and scans of New York. Should anything happen or if the police get a report of anything, so do we." Naruto said as Peter looked at the computer system that was tapped into anything electronic in the city. Naruto could probably give the CIA a run for their money.

"This is a lot of equipment." Peter said.

"And it'll help make our jobs easier. The second a crime is committed, we'll know. And everything is routed through and connected through Jarvis, Tony's personal artificial intelligence and mastermind. Say hello to Peter, Jarvis." Naruto said.

"Hello, Mr. Parker." Jarvis said.

"Hey, Jarvis." Peter replied. "You're not at all concern about Jarvis possibly becoming Hal 2000? Or that he knows who I am?"

"Don't worry, Jarvis can keep a secret. And his programming is perfection, nothing bad will happen. I trust Jarvis with my life." Naruto said.

"Don't worry, Mr. Parker. You're secret is safe with me. I've taken the liberty of creating future explanations for your sudden disappearances should you require it." Jarvis said.

"Thanks." Peter said as Naruto walked up to the main computer.

"Jarvis is connected to everything here, the second he gets a notice he'll send it to us. Here, use this." Naruto said as he handed Peter a Stark Industries modified smart phone. "I triple encrypted it and set it to your biometrics. No one will figure out your secret and that'll connect you to Jarvis should you need anything."

"Awesome. Can I play Angry birds on this?" Peter asked as Naruto looked at him.

"Moving on. Should the need arise, we'll meet here to schedule patrols and regroup to figure stuff out. But for now, I got some things to show you." Naruto said as he walked over the far wall where a small keypad was located with two lights that weren't on. Naruto put in a few numbers and then next to the keypad, part of the wall moved apart to show another keypad, hand scanner and retinal scanner.

Naruto entered the code, 10-10-90, his birthday, according to this world. He then scanned his hand and then his eye as one of the lights on the keypad turned green. Naruto then turned to Peter. "We'll need to set your security code with a six digit number, and we'll scan your hand and eye."

"It won't hurt will it?" Peter asked.

"Don't be a baby." Naruto said as Peter walked forward and put in a six-digit code, which was his birthday of 04-15-94. He then scanned his hand and eye as the other light turned green. The wall where the keypad was located then broke apart and opened up to reveal another secret room inside the already secret room. "Peter, welcome to the armory."

"Sweet." Peter said as he saw it was a room filled with mannequins which held experimental and prototype versions of other armors for Naruto and even an prototype armor that he was designing for Iron Man. But he also saw that on four of the mannequins were prototype spider suits.

"Hope you like it, I've only managed to create four prototypes for you but I think you'll like them." Naruto said as they walked into the room but as soon as Peter walked in, a green light shined down on him and scanned his body.

"Ah, what'd you do?!" Peter asked as he pat his body down.

"Relax. It's a security measure. That light recorded your biometrics and now they're synced to your suits, so that only you can access them." Naruto said.

"Cool, but give a guy a warning first." Peter said as he walked to the first suit and pressed his hand to the keypad and a light shined on the suit. Peter saw that it was very basic and similar to his current costume in the sense that it didn't seem to be too extravagant or crazy complicated.

The suit was colored dark red and black with a larger spider symbol on the chest. The symbol and most of the suit was colored black, as the black symbol seemed blend with the black of the suit and on the back of the suit, was Peter's old spider symbol. The top part of the suit was red, with the spider-web pattern but the lenses on the eyes looked sleeker and hi-tech. (Superior Spider-man Suit)

"This was the first one I made in my spare time. It's pretty basic, just some rudimentary ideas I had in my head. I thought your look could be a bit different, the bright red and blue aren't bad but not exactly practical at night. This is a more subtle approach." Naruto said as Peter kind of liked it.

"Not bad. So what's it made of?" Peter asked.

"A high-tech Kevlar-titanium polymer. It's a lot lighter then standard body armor but can stop bullets and knives from penetrating. It's also super stretchy and comfortable so you won't feel any more weight or strain." Naruto said as Peter looked at the suit.

"Sweet." Peter said.

"The suit has some extra features. The symbol acts a beacon when you press it, so that if you every find yourself in a sticky situation Jarvis can track you. The mask has some new features as well. There's a built in air filter, incase you encounter toxins, smoke or gas. There's also a voice changer that alters your voice so no one can recognize you. The lens give you clearer degree of vision and also have different vision modes such as thermal, night vision, ultra-violet and it can even pick up different wavelengths of light. There are also built-in headphones that we can use to communicate or to listen in onto conversations. They're connected to the gloves where there are tiny parabolic microphones on the fingers that can pick up conversations from about a quarter mile away." Naruto said as Peter was amazed.

"Less talky, more putting on." Peter said.

"Sure. Just press that green button and the computer will scan your biometrics and unlock the suit." Naruto said as Peter pressed the green button on the console next to the costume. The top part of the costume case shot out a green light that scanned Peter's body and then unlocked the glass case covering the suit.

"Ohhh." Peter said as he took the costume off the mannequin.

"Go ahead, put it on." Naruto said as he turned around and Peter took off his shirt and put the costume on. After about 10 minutes, he was suited up in his new spider suit.

"Nice fit. Comfortable." Peter said in his costume, his voice now changed.

"Glad you like it. The other suits are variations on this one. The black and green one is a specialized stealth version of the costume. It has built in retro-reflective fabric that will allow you to active camouflage if you don't move." Naruto said pointing to the costume that was plain black except for the spider symbol that covered the entire body which was a special dark green color. (Spider-man Stealth Costume)

"This one and the one you're wearing are the only two that are fully operational. The other two, I'm still working on the kinks." Naruto said.

"So what are they?" Peter asked.

"The plated, bulky one is what I'm calling the Spider-Armor. It's plated with a titanium-tungsten carbine polymer steel that can deflect bullets and take a hit from almost anything. It'll also double your strength but a trade off is that the suit makes it so that you're slower and not as nimble. It's a work in progress, I've got some kinks to work out but it'll be good in case of an emergency." Naruto said. (Spider-Armor Mark 1)

"And the last one?" Peter asked.

"This one I actually got from Tony's Iron Man suit. I'm thinking of making a spider-man suit for you, similar to that of Tony's Iron Man armor. Hopefully after I figure out some kinks, it'll give you the abilities of Iron Man, but it's still a very early work in progress. I don't want metal plating so I'm trying to work on a protein-scale nano-technology controlled cloth fiber, but it comes with a lot of problems, including a portable power source." Naruto said. (Only a basic outline of the Iron Spider)

"It sounds like it could come in really handy." Peter said.

"Yeah, but it'll take a lot more time. I designed this as a break-glass-in-case-of emergency suit." Naruto said as Peter nodded.

Then an alert sound came from the computer as Naruto walked over to it and Jarvis began collecting the data that just came in. "Sir, there's an armed robbery being committed at the 4th Avenue branch of Empire United Bank. Reports say the robbers are armed and dangerous." Jarvis said.

"All right, ready to give your new suit a test run?" Naruto asked.

"I'm waiting on you, Mr. Hero." Peter said.

"All right, let's go." Naruto said as he suited up and two left through a secret entrance that tunneled underneath the warehouse to about half of mile into the city where dozens of connecting tunnels and subway lines were there. They could use those tunnels and subway lines to get anywhere in the city. It was a security measure Naruto had put in place so that no one could figure out that Peter was Spider-man because if they didn't see Spider-man and Naruto leaving the warehouse, they couldn't connect the dots. Plus, it also made covering their tracks easier. Just another day in the life of a superhero.

Line Break xxxxx

After Naruto helped Peter stop the robbery and bust the robbers, leaving them nicely wrapped for the police and showing off the new Spider-man suit, Peter had some stuff to do for his aunt. Naruto decided to go see how everything was going at ESU labs so that was his next stop. He flew down to the labs and landed in the parking lot, deactivating his armor. As he walked to the lab, some students and bystanders quickly took photos.

Naruto walked into the labs to see Dr. Conners and his wife on the phones talking to people and Eddie and Gwen cleaning up the lab. "Hey guys." Naruto said as Eddie and Gwen saw him and waved.

"Hey, how were your meetings?" Eddie asked.

"Egh, busy but possibly profitable. So what's been going on?" Naruto asked.

"Oh, Dr. Conners has been on the phone all day. After that press conference, we've gotten calls from other research labs and private firms about our tech and collaborations." Eddie said.

"Good, it means our work is going to continue to make a difference." Naruto said.

"I've even heard that Dr. Conner's work may even get another grant from the college for future projects." Gwen said.

"Nice, and I think I know where we can start." Naruto said as he walked over to the research table to get the gene cleanser, some microscopes, and a laptop that Naruto connected to Jarvis and the STARK servers and some other equipment.

"You think you found a way to fix Dr. Conner's limb regeneration formula?" Eddie asked as Naruto sat down and rolled up his right sleeve.

"Maybe. Jarvis ran some simulations last night and managed to come up with an idea that might actually work." Naruto said as he took a syringe and attached a beaker to it. He then pricked his arm to draw out some blood.

"What are you doing?" Gwen asked as they saw Naruto draw about a small beaker of blood.

"Last night, Jarvis's simulations managed to determine that the mutagenic qualities of the lizard regeneration serum are the only way that the limb regeneration can take effect." Naruto said as he finished taking the blood he needed and rolled his sleeve down. He put the beaker of his blood into a stand and took a dropper to put a few dots into a mixture of the lizard formula and gene cleanser.

"So if we want limb regeneration, the trade off is looking like Godzilla." Eddie said.

"Velociraptor would have been a more accurate comparison, but essentially yes." Naruto said as he put the beaker into the centrifuge and turned it on.

"So what are you planning to do to fix that? And why did you draw out your own blood?" Gwen asked.

"There in lays the solution." Naruto replied. "Jarvis theorizes that my blood may be the key to perfecting the solution so that the limb regeneration works without the mutational side effect."

"Why would your blood be the key?" Gwen asked.

"Well, one of my unique abilities is that my body heals extraordinarily fast from any serious injuries. My training and powers make it so that anything small time like bullets and blades break against my skin but for something serious that actually makes me bleed, I instantly heal." Naruto said as he took a small drop of his blood and put it under a microscope.

"That's an incredible ability." Gwen said.

"Yup, it has come in handy. Here, check it out." Naruto said as he moved away from the desk to let them see the blood sample.

Eddie and Gwen looked at his blood and were astonished with what they saw. They could only see a small portion of his blood and it wasn't under a series of lenses to get a more in-depth analysis. But from what they could see, Naruto had at least twice as much red blood cells as a normal human would and they could see that his red blood cells would split apart and replicate to create more. He also had a larger white cell content, similar to a person with leukemia might have but Naruto wasn't sick.

"This is incredible." Gwen said.

"What is?" They heard as they saw Dr. Conners and Martha walk out of the office.

"Well, I've been working with Eddie and Gwen on a problem and my blood happens to be a key to solving it." Naruto said.

"Naruto's blood is extraordinary. You have to see it for yourself." Eddie said as Dr. Conners walked over.

Dr. Conners and Martha looked through the microscope to look at Naruto's blood and were amazed at what they saw. "This is incredible. I knew you had powers, but your blood shows that you can heal from any injury at a fast rate. And your white blood cells make it so that you remain healthy and your blood stays pure." Dr. Conner said.

"Why are you showing us this?" Martha asked as Naruto walked over to his computer to bring up a file.

"To help Dr. Conners re-grow his arm." Naruto said as he showed the file he had on the lizard regeneration formula.

"That's Curt's lizard formula." Martha said.

"What are you doing with that?" Dr. Conners asked.

"I want to help you, Dr. Conners. I know this formula caused problems and I'm sorry if this rubs you the wrong way but I think I solved the mutation issue." Naruto said.

"I'm not sure how I feel about this." Dr. Conners said.

"I know how I feel. That formula should be destroyed." Martha said.

"Wait, Dr. Conners. At least listen to Naruto before you say anything." Eddie said.

Dr. Conners exhaled as he held Martha's hand. "All right, go ahead." Dr. Conners said.

"I know this is a touchy subject after what happened and I'll understand if you don't want to pursue this, but I feel that I should show you what I've done." Naruto said as he brought up the 3-D models of the formula and what Naruto theorized what he could do to solve the problem. "I know you looked to a lizard formula for their ability to regenerate lost limbs but it had some side effects. I think I may have fixed that."

"How?" Martha asked.

"By adjusting the formula, adding in a diluted version of the gene cleanser…and retooling it to the regenerative structures of my blood." Naruto said as he brought up a simulation Jarvis had prepped on his computer. "Jarvis, run it."

"According to various simulations I've run, by introducing Dr. Conner's regeneration formula with a concentrated mix of gene cleaner and Naruto's blood, the mutational effect of the serum will be destroyed leaving the regenerative qualities active for use. Through more manipulation of the chemicals and Naruto's blood special anti-bodies and regenerative cell properties, the strength and degree of the regeneration can be altered." Jarvis spoke as he showed everyone a 3-D model of what the formula would look like and the process it would take. First by combining the regeneration formula with the gene cleanser and Naruto's body, rearranging the chemical properties and electrifying the substance would cause cellular regeneration on a controlled scale depending on the concentration of the formula and the amount of electricity applied.

Dr. Conners looked at the simulations and saw that it could work. Naruto could have effectively fixed his regeneration formula with no mutative side effects. "I don't believe it. Your blood is the key." Dr. Conners said.

"Well, I've always been a fast healer and my abilities have let me heal from some serious injuries while also keeping me completely healthy. After looking at some simulations for a while, the thought finally hit me that my blood could be the missing link. We can help a lot of people…including you, Curt. This could be the key. But after everything you've been through, I'll understand if you don't want to do this." Naruto said as Dr. Conners had a glimpse of hope in his eye as he saw the simulations.

"After so long…" Curt said.

"Curt?" Martha called to him as she placed her hand on his shoulder and Curt used his robotic hand to touch her, thinking he could re-grow his own hand if this worked.

"Let's do it. We'll need to run some more tests and give the formula a test run before we do anything serious…but let's give it a try." Dr. Conners said.

"All right, we got work to do." Naruto said as everyone got to work.

The group literally spent hours in the lab, going over files, adjusting chemical formulas on the regeneration, gene cleanser and Naruto's blood and setting up testing computers to monitor cell count, bio-organic feed back, plasma levels and electricity output. It was a lot of work but they were hopeful, Naruto even gave the formula a designation, CR-1. CR-1 was called Creation Rebirth formula 1, in honor of Tsunade. When they asked him about the name, Naruto said it was in honor of someone he knew who saved his life once.

They were getting close but it was getting late so the group decided to pick up the work on Monday. Naruto went to pick up some Chinese take out and flew back to the hotel where hopefully Linda was still waiting. He opened the door to his room to see her laying down on the bed wearing a bathrobe and watching T.V.

She seemed so focused on the T.V. that she didn't notice him there so Naruto decided to sneak up on her. He put the food on a table and slowly took off his shoes. He slowly walked over to the bed and when he was close, he slowly reached his hands out to grab her when all of a sudden, Linda turned around, grabbed his hands and pulled him onto the bed. She then rolled him over and sat on him.

"{Chuckles} Why is it that even though I'm a trained ninja and have super powers that you can catch me?" Naruto jokingly asked as Linda smirked and kissed him.

"There are some things that even you aren't smart enough to understand about me, whiskers." Linda said as she kissed his cheek causing Naruto to chuckle. "So did you have a fun day?"

"Fun, kind of. Productive, yes. Although I missed you." Naruto said as Linda smiled and kissed him and Naruto kissed back.

"Well I'm here now. And tomorrow's Sunday so lets enjoy our free time." Linda said as Naruto smiled as he reached his hands down to her bottom.

No lemon, sorry

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October 1st, 2010

Naruto groaned as he squinted his eyes and began to wake up. He reached up one of his hands to rub his eyes and sat up. He scratched his bare chest and adjusted his shorts which shifted a bit when he was sleeping. He heard cute snoring and looked to his left to see Linda sleeping next to him. Her head was laying on a pillow with the blanket below her waist and her pajamas was just one of his t-shirts which reached down to her waist. Naruto smiled seeing her sleeping with such a peaceful expression.

He leaned down and kissed her head, causing her to groan a bit. Naruto sat up, got out of the bed and walked over to the room's kitchen to make himself a cup of coffee. He turned on the coffee maker and put his coffee cup underneath and breathed in the nice smell of fresh coffee. He was pulled out of his thought when his phone went off.

Naruto answered to see it was Pepper's lawyer that wanted to talk to him about a whole bunch of calls Naruto was getting. There were some from other companies and scientists who wanted to discuss contracts about joining the new Stark think tank as people were calling it. He also had calls from Hasbro toys who wanted to discuss terms and contracts for a toy line based on Naruto's abilities and figure.

Naruto didn't see anything wrong with the idea as long as he could approve what the products would be and how they looked. He didn't want toys that made him look like an idiot. After a few hours of phone calls, Naruto was finished and decided to have Jarvis record for any messages while he and Linda spent the day together. Once Linda woke up, the two spent the day together with brunch in Manhattan, a walk through Central Park, some snacks and then dinner at Le Bernardin in Midtown. Overall, it was a nice day for the two of them to hang out as girlfriend and boyfriend and enjoy their time together. There was some issues with pedestrians taking photos and always staring at Naruto but Linda ignored them. After dinner and dessert, Naruto dropped off Linda back at school and kept a shadow clone to watch over her just in case. He then went out on a night for patrol.

October 2nd, 2010

On Monday, Naruto got to work on the regeneration serum when Dr. Conner's was busy with his classes, while also deploying a clone to work at the warehouse to work on the new suits for Peter and himself, while also working on some other goodies as well as his DTS scanners and bio-energy cells. Along with that, Naruto had some clones helping build Stark tower. The Naruto that was at the warehouse was either on phones all-day or busy in the shop. More so on the phones dealing with energy companies, state legislators, political figures and companies about his products.

While Naruto wanted to make a successful business for himself, he also needed to be careful whom he sold his products too. He did thorough background checks into his buyers, denying anyone with clear ties to military or armed forces, or to any companies with bad reputations. He denied selling of his DTS scanners to a shell company which was a subsidiary of another company of Hammer Industries because they dealt in weapons. He also denied selling products to some shell company named Busters because it was a military free-lance company under the ownership of General Ross and Naruto wanted nothing to do with him.

He also denied dealings and shares with Quinn Worldwide, Smythe Industries, Oscorp Industries, Cyberteck Industries, Cross technologies and Confederated Global Investments either because of their past business history or because of their reputations. Naruto was also working on some other ideas for consumer products such as Stark industries tech watches that pretty much combined a smart phone and computer into a small smart watch that fit on your wrist. He was also working on creating new cheap computer programs and tech for schools to improve education, even in low-income areas. He was also working on the new defensive and containment equipment for the police departments and security systems for companies including private retina and hand scanners along with new computer upgrades to mainframe systems like the government's electrical power system.

And speaking of working on stuff for the government, he was also thinking of working more new, renewable and cheap forms of energy to try and help America's and the worlds dependence on diminishing fossil fuel. He was hoping that he could make an impact on the world besides being a hero. If the world could fix its dependence on fossil fuel and diminishing, harmful forms of energy, the world and environment could improve for the better. He was currently working on prototypes for new designs for retrofitting the countries current energy consumption plants with his new prototype designs for hydrogen energy fuel cells. Hydrogen cells were currently way in prototype stage with various corporations, companies and think tanks trying to solve the issues of using it as fuel. If it was possible to make a hydrogen fuel cell that was stable and worked, it could potential power an entire city.

Naruto was hoping he might be able to solve that mystery. Pure hydrogen doesn't occur naturally in the planet and so the process to make it for the hypothetical fuel cells requires a lot of energy use to create it. This is one issue in making hydrogen fuel cells because it is very costly and difficult but Naruto theorized his powers and with the help of Jarvis could make that much easier. He was hoping that when he had solved the problem and had developed the plans, he could present them to President Asher and the government. (I changed the president in this story for a reason. That will play a part in later chapters)

He wanted to help the country and the world with the energy crisis and to really make the biggest effect, he would need to talk to the president and the government about his plan. Granted, he knew that many would think the government shouldn't be involved, but something that could help the world couldn't belong to just one corporation or company. If really wanted to help, he needed to talk about his plan with the president and maybe even the United Nations if he could get it that far. But again, he'd address that when he completed his work.

All in all, Naruto was getting even busier. People wondered how he could possibly do all of this…luckily shadow clones are the key to Naruto's success.

While Naruto was working on stuff for Stark towers, Peter was at home getting ready for school. He had woken up and got dressed for school and decided to get in some last minute web shooter training with his new web shooters that Naruto gave him. He was using soda cans and whatever else was in his room to practice his web shooting.

"You talking to me?! Then have a test of my web!" Peter shouted as he webbed about a dozen soda cans. He pulled back but his foot slipped on a soda can and he fell on his back, pulling all those soda cans on top of him.

"Peter?!" Peter heard Aunt May call.

"Uh…just a sec, Aunt May! I got to straighten up a bit!" Peter shouted as he quickly began webbing everything to get his room clean.

Peter then opened the door as Aunt May walked in to see Peter's room was clean. "My goodness, you did straighten up. I've never seen this room, so…so spare. Where's the clutter? Shoved under the bed as usual?" Aunt May asked as she looked under the bed to see nothing.

"Hey, I'm not five anymore. I don't need to resort to tricks." Peter said, glancing up to the ceiling to see all the clutter webbed to the ceiling.

"Well, I'm impressed Peter. And not just with the room, you have been very good about getting home by your new curfew. Especially with all your work you're doing." Aunt May said.

"Well, Naruto is pretty reasonable for a boss. I'm sure Jameson can learn a thing or two from him." Peter said as he saw the flyer for the Midtown dance float down so he quickly walked behind Aunt May and grabbed it.

"I know, he is a very good young man. But I am very proud, and as a reward you can stay out until 10 and call if you're going to be late." Aunt May said as Peter smiled.

"You rock, Aunt May." Peter said as Aunt May saw the piece of paper in Peter's hand.

"What's that?" Aunt May asked.

"This? It's just a flyer, for the Midtown high fall formal. But I'm not going. I don't have a date." Peter said.

"Oh Peter, you lead such a sheltered life. Oh, why not ask Anna Watson's niece, Mary Jane." Aunt May suggested.

"Ms. Wonderful Personality." Peter thought as he shivered and grabbed his bag. "Yeah, let me think on that. Right now I got to get to school." Peter said as he left his home. He was actually going to be on time so he took the bus.

Students were hanging out until the bell went off to start school so Peter went to find Harry and Gwen and see if they could forgive him. He walked into the quad to see Harry studying and Gwen eating an orange. He sat in between them with a smile but both kinda ignored him.

"Ok, here with my two best friends and neither is talking to me. Should I change seats?" Peter asked as they looked at him.

"Ah, don't be a doff. So you couldn't help me with my Calc test, I'm over it." Harry said as Peter smiled.

The PA system turned on as the football coach's voice came through. "Attention students, Coach Smith here for a quick announcement. After the injury of our starting tight end, and the academic suspension of our backup, the Midtown Mustangs will be holding three days of try-outs starting this afternoon.

"Perfect! I am so there." Harry said as Peter and Gwen looked at him like he was crazy.

"Uh, Harry. You know I'm all about being the encouraging gal-pal, but the word catastrophic bone breakage do come to mind here." Gwen said as Flash was listening to the conversation from his table.

"Yeah, Harry. You see the size of those guys?" Peter asked.

"Come on, if your that worried how about some moral support. Try out with me." Harry said as Peter thought about it for a second. He could be a king on the field with his abilities.

"Uh, I'll pass. No pun intended." Peter said.

Later that day, Peter was at his locker getting his books when Flash talked to Kong. "Hey, Kong. Osborn's trying out." Flash said.

"Cool." Kong said.

"Cool?" Flash asked.

"I need another tackling dummy. I broke my last one." Kong said as he and Flash laughed. Peter glared, now he was going to help Harry.

Peter had gone to tryouts with Harry and the two were in the leading spots for the team with Harry surprising showing some serious skill and Peter using his enhanced agility and spider-sense to gain an edge. After school, Peter did his homework and then went to the Stark Warehouse where he and Naruto had some paperwork to do and Peter helped with Naruto's designs for some upcoming projects.

It was now nighttime and the two were just finishing up patrol as Peter swung from building to building and Naruto flew right next to him. The two landed on a rooftop where Peter kept his bag while on patrol. Peter grabbed his bag and the football he had with it.

Peter tossed it up and caught it on his fingertip. "Yeah, I could get use to this." Peter said as he deactivated his mask's voice changer

"Don't you think that's kind of cheating?" Naruto asked as he sat on the rooftop's edge, retracting his mask.

"Sure I went a bit arachnabatic on Kong but no one stops Flash from using his natural talents." Peter said.

"Maybe because his talents are actually natural. Ours aren't so." Naruto said.

"Come on, Naruto. Don't tell me you didn't do sports at all when you were in school." Peter said.

"No, I did and I always made sure to keep my talents reasonable to how people thought I could perform. Granted I was worried about my secret but still, I had to keep up appearances." Naruto said.

"Well I wasn't doing anything too crazy. Liz, Gwen and the girls though I rose to the occasion." Peter said.

"Don't you think using your abilities for football is kind of a waste? I mean, I never understood the obsession with sports. Sure, they can do all this great stuff but people like Tony and us change the world." Naruto said.

"Hey, Naruto I get that I do. But what's the problem of boosting my image a bit." Peter said as the conversation was interrupted by a bank alarm going off a block over.

"Looks like we're still on the clock. Come on." Naruto said as he activated his mask and jumped off the roof while Peter swung down. They saw the Midtown Mutual bank doors explode and Flint Marko walked out with two large bags of money.

"Stop!" Flint heard as Maelstrom landed in front of him.

"Oh, Marko! Seriously, this is getting old. Where's your pal, O'Hirn?" Spider-man asked.

"{chuckles} I don't think I need a partner anymore." Marko said as he walked away from them.

"Yeah, you do." Maelstrom said as he walked forward and grabbed Marko's shirt but all of a sudden it turned to sand and flew out of his hand. "What the hell?"

"No, I don't." Marko shouted as his right fist grew twice as large and turned to sand and he hit Maelstrom by surprise and knocked him off his feet and into Spider-man. The two rolled on the ground as they saw Marko drop the bags of cash and walk to them.

"Could he do that before?" Maelstrom asked Spider-man.

"No. What—" "Happened?!" Marko shouted.

"I happened! Sandman happened!" Marko shouted as he showed them that his body had turned to sand and he could control it.

"Now that's just wrong." Spider-man said as Marko extended his body forward and turned his hands to mallets and swung but Spider-man jumped up and swung away and Maelstrom back flipped.

Spider-man shot out a web line and swung back to hit Marko but Marko elongated his hand, grabbed Spider-man and then threw him and smashed him into a wall. It hurt but Peter's new suit helped him, lessening the damage and keeping him safer.

Marko then morphed into a giant sand fist and was about to smash Spider-man but Maelstrom jumped in front and punch the sand fist with his own energy fist which dispersed the sand. Marko solidified and Maelstrom swung his fist at Marko's head but Marko just turned his head into sand. Maelstrom then swung at his chest, his legs and then his head again but Marko kept shifting into sand making it harder to hit him.

"Ha, you should try something different hero!" Marko shouted as he then turned into a swirling whirlpool of sand and surrounded Maelstrom. Maelstrom then jumped out of the whirlpool but Marko elongated his hand, grabbed Maelstrom's leg and threw him against a truck. Spider-man swung by and began firing web bullets which punched through Marko's body but since he was made of sand it didn't seem to do anything.

"What happened, Marko? You go on a reality show called Changing faces?!" Spider-man shouted.

"Nice huh? The Big man did this to me, to get to you heroes!" Marko shouted.

"The big man?" Spider-man said.

"Who is he?" Maelstrom shouted.

"Uh, that's need to know!" Marko shouted as Maelstrom jumped forward and swung his fist down hard, causing Marko's body to disperse into Sand.

"And I need to know!" Maelstrom shouted as Marko reassembled himself.

"Fighting you guys has been fun but I got banks to rob!" Marko shouted as he turned to sand and escaped through the sewer grate as Maelstrom tried to blast him but he got away.

"Well, that was…different." Naruto said as he retracted his mask and spit out some sand.

"Yeah, fun." Peter said as he felt he had some sand in uncomfortable places.

"How the hell did he turn to living sand?" Naruto asked as he saw some sand on the street. He took out a vial from his belt and put some sand in, wanting to run some tests later. "I know someone who can control sand, but turning their body into it, is something else."

"Well I've fought Marko before and he never showed powers like that. You heard what he said." Peter said.

"Yeah, the Big man did that to him. Whoever he is, he not a typical crime lord. Unless Marko was a mutant, it takes some seriously advance science to be able to turn a common criminal into an meta-human that can turn his body into sand." Naruto said.

"Meta-human?" Peter asked.

"You don't like it?" Naruto asked.

"Eh, not the best." Peter said.

"I'll come up with something else. For now, we won't be able to find him tonight. We'll try tomorrow." Naruto said as Peter nodded. He web swung away and Naruto flew back to his hotel room to do some research.

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October 3rd, 2010

The next day, Naruto was Stark warehouse, using his armory to conduct some experiments on the new Sandman. He had his computer system set up with several scanners connected to a multi-spectrum laser that would scan the sand sample he took from the fight with Flint Marko. Naruto was currently reading the police file on Flint Marko. A criminal with charges of breaking and entering, robbery, thief, assault and escaping police custody. He's had several arrests with Spider-man being responsible for the most recent ones the past couple of months. How the hell did a burglar go from ordinary guy to living sand?

"All right, Jarvis calibrate the scanners." Naruto said as he placed the tube of sand vial in the scanning tube and locked it in place. He closed the screen to the tube and turned on the multi-spectrum laser.

"Scanners calibrated. Ready to commence scanning on your orders." Jarvis said.

"All right, begin multi-spectrum resonance scan. I want to know how a man was able to turn his body into sand." Naruto said as the scans began to show up on the computer screen. Scans of the sand's molecular structure, Marko's changed DNA sequence and residual electro-magnetic fluctuations.

"It would seem that half of Mr. Marko's residual DNA markers have been altered, most likely do to the effect of whatever experiment turned him into the Sandman." Jarvis said.

"The DNA markers share the same structure of silicon, which makes sense with the sand. But it's a more refined version of silicon dioxide. Hmmm." Naruto said as he looked over the data, trying to figure out how Marko's cells could be infused with this silicon mixture.

"Penny for your thoughts, sir?" Jarvis asked.

"Just thinking. Why sand? I mean, sure sand is very adaptable to certain situations and from the fight it would seem that conventional methods of attack are useless. The big man must have had Marko undergo some kind of experiment. Not radiation based or his sand would have a base radiation residue." Naruto said.

"Possibly electro-magnetic based. The silicon dioxide has a higher base magnetic level, making it easily manipulated by electro-magnetic fields." Jarvis said.

"Hmmm, that's an interesting thought. Electro-magnetic fields would make the most sense for controlling all this silicon. A strong enough electro-magnetic field could manipulate the sand to fuse with someone's DNA on a molecular level. And how he's able to control it. The brain is powered by electrical impulses. Jarvis, apply a small 5 volt electrical current to the top of the vial." Naruto said as Jarvis did and the sand immediately formed to that area.

"Huh, so I was right. Marko's natural electrical current allows him to control his sand. Which gives me a way to stop him. Jarvis, calibrate the energy conduits on the gauntlets. Let's run some tests." Naruto said .

"Yes sir." Jarvis replied.

"And save all of Marko's data to the secured server. Categorized as enhanced. And begin new file, designation Big Man. We need to figure out who the hell he is." Naruto said as he began to work up a solution.

While Naruto was working on that, Peter was just about finished with school. He was at his locker, reading the Daily Bugle that showcased his photo of him and Naruto fighting against Marko or as Jameson called him, Sandman.

"Forget football. As soon as I hit patrol tonight, I'm webbing up Sandy—" "Hey Petey." Liz dragged Peter out of his thought.

"Liz." Peter said.

"Nice moves yesterday. Heard its down to you, Harry and Hobie Brown. Good luck." She said close to his ear as she left, leaving Peter a bit stargazed.

"Course Sandman will still be around after try outs." Peter thought as he left for the locker room.

At tryouts, Flash and the team again favored Hobie Brown as their pick for their new tight end with Flash throwing easy passes and Kong not tackling him. Harry was up next and was surprisingly fast and nimble enough to avoid Kong which drove him mad but he was liking the attention he was getting from Gwen and Gloria Grant. Peter was next and was a bit more nimble, using his powers reach a ball out of his reach and to jump over Kong and duck into a roll. Liz and Gwen were happy for him and Peter was liking the attention. He even used his spidey sense to avoid a dog pile tackle from the rest of the team and as it turns out the coach wanted Peter as first string and Harry as second which Harry wasn't happy about.

After school, Peter patched things up with Gwen and the two talked about the upcoming fall formal. Naruto was currently flying through the city trying to track a lead on Sandman. He was flying down Broadway when he got a call from Linda.

"Hey, Linda." Naruto said.

"Hey whiskers. How goes the hunt for the Sandman?" Linda asked.

"Still going. Since he's sand it makes tracking him a lot harder." Naruto said.

"You'll get him. I know you will." Linda said.

"Thanks, Linda. So how goes the work at the Bugle?" Naruto asked.

"Ok, I guess. Jameson is starting to pitch the reporters to do some more unfavorable articles on you." Linda said.

"Really? Huh, I guess I should have expected that sooner." Naruto said.

"He's an idiot. With all the crazy stuff he writes and how he acts I'm surprised he hasn't died of high blood pressure or someone hasn't sued him for everything." Linda said.

"{Laughing} I'm sure he's on his way to watching his blood pressure. Besides, I thought you wanted to be a reporter." Naruto said.

"I do, but I want to write for a newspaper that isn't yellow journalism. I mean, sure the Daily Bugle is one of the most read newspapers in New York but that doesn't mean it isn't biased. I mean, did you read what he had printed about you?" Linda asked.

"Oh I did." Naruto said as he remembered that headline from his press conference: Rich Boy will ruin New York with new tech. Jameson pretty much wrote that the development of Stark Tower and Naruto being in New York would throw the entire city down the toilet and bring untold destruction. He also spent the rest of the article saying how Naruto's work would be essentially stealing from scientists so he could profit off of them like a spoiled rotten, opportunist, college drop out nobody. That last one threw Naruto for a loop, jeez Jameson had a stick up his ass. But Naruto knew Jameson just wanted to put Naruto down and didn't even pay attention to the facts of what he was actually doing.

"So why aren't you pissed? If I were you I'd go over to him and hang him upside down from a flag pole by his underwear, or set off a paint bomb in his office like we did to the football team when we were younger." Linda said.

"Oh I plan to stick it to Jameson in another way. He'll be getting a defamation of character lawsuit in a few days. Besides, if I just went over there and bullied him he'd be right about me…and I don't want to be that kind of person." Naruto said.

"You aren't, whiskers. I know better than anybody else in this world knows you besides Tony and Pepper and you are nothing at all like Jameson's description." Linda said.

"Thanks, Linda. As long as you and the right people know who I really am, then I'm fine. And if he pisses you off some much why don't you intern somewhere else?" Naruto asked.

"I'm trying. I think I figured that the reason the intern positions were open at the Bugle was because no one wanted to work for Jameson." Linda said.

"Yeah, well keep working. You never know what could happen. Besides, there's some good people there. Betty and Robby seem nice. And my friend Peter is a freelance photographer there." Naruto said.

"Oh I know Peter. He's nice and he really captured your good side. I'm impressed that he's working at the Bugle when he's got to be busy with you and patrolling the city as Spider-man." Linda said as Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"You know he's Spider-man?" Naruto asked.

"Now I do." Linda said as Naruto realized he was just duped. "I had my suspicions but after you brought him in to work for you so closely. I figured you'd want someone you trusted or a fellow hero to work so closely with you."

"I'm impressed Linda. If the newspaper thing doesn't work for you, you could be a private investigator." Naruto joked.

"Yeah, in your dreams whiskers." Linda replied.

"Actually, in my dreams you come to work as my secretary. A sexy secretary outfit on you and it lets us be together more." Naruto said.

"Oh really. A sexy secretary outfit on me. I bet we wouldn't get any work done." Linda said as Naruto chuckled.

"Well, probably nothing business related but we would get other work done." Naruto said.

"Maybe on Halloween that dream may come true." Linda teased.

"Oh don't tease me, Linda." Naruto said as he was drawn out of his conversation as Jarvis got an alert that an armored truck was under attack by a sand creature. "Linda, I got to get to work. But I'll call you later."

"Go get him, whiskers." Linda said as Naruto smiled and flew towards the armored truck.

Naruto was on his way to the armored truck but Peter was already there and was trying to stop Sandman. He punched Sandman, forcing him to disperse and move away from the drivers seat but that caused the truck go swerve off the road and onto a nearby construction site. The truck flew in the air and would have smashed onto the ground and hit some construction workers but Naruto flew by and grabbed the truck before it hit them.

"You guys ok?" Maelstrom asked the workers as they nodded. Spider-man was then knocked out of the armored truck as Sandman chased after him. "Get out of here!"

The workers ran as Maelstrom put the truck down. He saw Spider-man swing around to avoid sand spike projectiles and sand maces. Spider-man fired an impact webbing but Sandman just dissolved and re-assembled his form, making Spider-man's attack ineffective.

"Ha, those kinds of attacks won't work on the Sandman, spider!" Marko shouted.

"Then how about this!" Maelstrom shouted.

Marko turned to Maelstrom and created a sand spear and threw it at him. Maelstrom dodged it, pressed a button on his gauntlet causing the energy conduit channels to glow yellow. Maelstrom then fired a energy blast but instead of a normal blue energy blast, it was yellow. Marko smirked, thinking it would just smash through his sand body but as soon as it hit him, Marko shouted in pain. The energy beam hit Marko's body, sending an energy current throughout his sand body, causing him to lose his shape and slump into a sand pile.

Spider-man swung down to Maelstrom and looked at the sand pile that was Marko. "Not bad there. Electrical current to distort the sand formation." Spider-man said.

"Yup. And it worked." Maelstrom said as they saw the sand began to swirl as Marko tried to regain his form. Maelstrom looked around and saw a cement truck. "You mind?" Maelstrom asked, pointing to the truck and Spider-man smirked.

"I'd be delighted." Spider-man said as he shot a web line at the cement truck as Marko regained his form.

"Ha, you think that'll keep the Sandman down. I'm just getting—ACK!" Marko shouted as Maelstrom blasted him again.

"You know, monologuing is never a good thing in a fight. Any time you're ready, Spider!" Maelstrom shouted.

"Here you go!" Spider-man shouted as he ripped off the cement truck's cement churner tube causing a whole bunch of cement to hit Marko. Marko began to regain his form but was stuck as the cement hardened. "Michelangelo, eat your heart out."

"Nice. I'll contact Captain Stacy and get a cell for Sandman." Maelstrom said as Jarvis called Captain Stacy.

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October 4th, 2010

Late at night in New York, Naruto and Peter had finished a night of patrol and Naruto had designed a specially designed cell to keep Sandman locked up at Rykers and applied a special electrical current on the cell walls that would prevent Sandman from turning into sand and escaping. While Naruto and Peter were happy to have Marko behind bars, there was still the issue of how Marko was transformed and what the Big man wanted.

While Naruto and Peter had finished the patrol, in an abandoned auto shop near the factory district, the people responsible for the new super villains that Naruto and Peter had been facing were making another one. They were creating another super villain by using Marko's partner, Alexander O'Hirn as a test subject. Norman Osborn, Hammerhead and Doctor Octavius were there getting the test ready.

O'Hirn was strapped into a full body cast with two bubbling vats of a liquid that would pour into the molds to fit O'Hirn with full body armor. O'Hirn was ready but Doctor Octavius was a bit hesitant after what happened to Marko.

"I'm ready whenever you're ready, Doc." O'Hirn said.

"I'm not sure you understand the severity of this experiment, Mr. O'Hirn. It's not like regular armor. You will never be able to take it off." Dr. Octavius said.

"But it's tough, right?" O'Hirn asked.

"Yes, nearly indestructible but your skin will merge with the armor. A special meteorite, proto-metal armor but it will be a permanent change." Dr. Octavius warned him as Hammerhead walked up.

"Is it me or does it sound like your boy is talking my boy out of this? Look O'Hirn, you'll be tough, tough enough to bring down the two heroes." Hammerhead said.

"Then what's the hold up?!" O'Hirn shouted as Dr. Octavius's claws closed the case and locked it into place. They then turned the two valves connected to the vats of bubbling liquid as it slowly began to pour into the molds around O'Hirn's body. O'Hirn groaned and shouted as the process was a bit painful. The liquid was poured around O'Hirn's and then was cooled to solidify.

Dr. Octavius was tempted to stop the procedure but Osborn stopped him. "Let it finish, Otto. You owe me a success after the Sandman blunder. I need super mercenaries I can mass produce no matter how much it costs, how many thugs we have to go through, or how many scientists." Norman warned him as Dr. Octavius let the procedure continue.

"I gotta ask, what kind of metal are you using? You know how strong that Uzumaki kid is? Are you sure O'Hirn won't just get bent?" Hammerhead asked.

"I'd like to see him try. That special alloy is one of kind, costing much more than standard titanium or vibranium alloys. Its something that people have rumored to be one of the strongest metals that can be made. One of its main components is meteorite fragments that contain special alloys that aren't found on this planet. Once the meteorite alloys are enriched and mixed with other metals and solidified, it becomes indestructible. I've done some tests before but this will be the first to implement the new metal into wearable armor." Osborn said.

"Adamantium, one of the strongest metal ever created." Dr. Octavius said with admiration in his eyes. The prototype proto-adamantium type armor began to solidify around O'Hirn and showed an unusual design.

"Of course, this is not pure adamantium. More like 10% adamantium and 90% titanium. But, even with the small percentage of adamantium, that armor is something even a hero like Naruto will have trouble with." Osborn said with a smirk.

"What's with the jungle look?" Hammer head asked.

"Ah, the animal kingdom offers many useful ideas. That armor is now apart of him, a thick impenetrable hide. The extra top up there allows for offensive capabilities, making him unstoppable." Dr. Octavius said with excitement.

"The good doctor is excitable and has his quirks, but this approach has confidence. You're Mr. Lincoln will be pleased." Osborn said as Hammerhead got in his face.

"Shut it, we don't ever use the L word. Call him the big man." Hammerhead said.

"What's going on?" O'Hirn asked.

"Mind your own business, O'Hirn!" Hammerhead said.

"Right, my business. Better get to it then!" O'Hirn shouted as he used his new found strength from his armor to break right out of his containment tube like it was made of potato chips. "Cause the Rhino don't want to keep Spider-man and Maelstrom waiting!" O'Hirn shouted as he bashed out of the lab.

October 5th, 2010

It was Thursday afternoon as the people of the city were going about their lives, completely blissful. Students had finished school for the day and were either heading home or hanging out with friends. Other people were out on errands, doing their jobs and doing everyday things. There was big commotion down by the construction site for Stark Tower as some camera people were there watching the construction, getting quotes from workers and getting shots of the various Narutos that were there working the construction site. The dozen Narutos were helping the workers with the hard part of the construction, posting up the metal supports and moving the larger items that would require a lot of manpower.

New York City was being New York City and currently a group of punks had just robbed a corner store and were fleeing in a car.

"Must be 2,000 in here. Score." The leader said as he counted the money they took.

"Yeah, and Spidey and Maelstrom are too busy popping big bads to stop us." The driver said.

"Ta da!" The gang heard as they saw Spider-man land on the roof and looked into the car. He was stuck to the roof and when he looked in, he looked like he was upside. "Say my name and I magically appear!"

Spider-man then flipped and stuck to the hood of the car. "Now you should fasten your seat belt. And you should pull over." Spider-man said.

"Right…o—ok." The driver said.

"NO!" The leader said as he pulled out his gun, leaned out the window and fired one shot which Spider-man dodged by laying flat on the hood. Spider-man then spun his body and kicked the leader in the face and kicked his gun out of his hands. The driver then pulled the hood release lever and the hood of the car immediately flipped open, launching Spider-man off the car. Spider-man shot a web line at the hood and pulled to keep himself steady but that pressure combined with the wind tore the hood off the car.

Spider-man landed on the hood of the car and fired a web line at the back of the car and used the hood as a surfboard. "Surf's up!" Spider-man shouted as he began to car slide. "YAHOO!"

Spider-man then jumped off the hood and webbed it to a building so it didn't go anywhere. He then grabbed a light pole, swung away and landed on the roof of the car and blinded the driver by firing some webbing on the front window.

The driver activated the windshields as they tried to get rid of the webs and floored it. But then all of a sudden the car jerked as if it stopped and then was lifted up. The punks looked out the window to see Maelstrom hovering in the air holding the front of the car with one hand and little effort.

"Now driving that fast is very dangerous. You wouldn't want to hurt anyone now, would you?" Maelstrom asked as Spider-man stood up.

"That's right. Now have you learned your lesson or should we play a game of car surfing?" Spider-man asked as the gang quickly nodded and gave up. "Sweet! Now, everyone say, jail time!" Spider-man joked as he took out his phone and took a selfie.

After stopping that speeding car chase and delivering the punks to the cops and returning the money to the store owner, Naruto and Peter split up on their own agendas. Naruto left to go help work on the regeneration formula at ESU labs while Peter went to the Daily Bugle to drop off some pictures for Jameson and to talk to Betty about possibly going to the Midtown Fall Formal with him.

Peter walked in to the Bugle to see everyone busy working. He walked up to Betty and tried to convince her to go with him. "You don't even have to dance. Plus, if you say yes, I promise to stop asking." Peter said as Betty chuckled.

"PARKER!" Peter shot up as Jameson stormed out of his office. "I pay you for front page material! This stuff belongs back with the funnies!" He shouted as he placed the photos on the desk.

"So you don't want them?" Peter asked.

"Not the point, what is the point, here's the point. Quite harassing my secretary and get me a page one superhero blowout!" Jameson shouted.

"Don't worry, Jameson. When Spidey and Maelstrom go into action, I'll be there." Peter said.

"You better! And I want more pictures of that Nada kid! Any kind of dirt or juicy front page pictures, I want on my desk pronto!" Jameson shouted.

"Uh, can I ask why?" Peter asked.

"Because that guys funny mug sells pictures! And you know what sells the best pictures, heroes failing! Now go get me my…Johnson! I say corn beef not pastrami! You trying to give me gas!" Jameson shouted as he redirected his anger to one of the other Bugle employees.

"Geez. Anyway, you're only 4 years older. When you're 70 and I'm 66, I'll seem quite the catch." Peter joked as Betty chuckled.

"All right, I'll think about it." Betty said.

"That's great! You won't regret it!" Peter shouted as he left.

"It's just a maybe!" Betty shouted to Peter.

Peter left to go finish his patrols but he was in a really good mood. "WAAHOOO! I'm wearing her down!" Peter shouted as he jumped on top of the train to midtown. He ran inside his home to see Aunt May finish dinner and he ran up to her and spun her around and danced with her in the kitchen.

"{Laughter} Goodness, what's this?!" Aunt May asked.

"It's a great day!" Peter said as he sat her down. "For starters, I sold more pics, which gives me a couple extra bucks to add to my disposable income! With most of it going to my new camera fund! And that's not even the best news! I'm going to the formal, Aunt May! I got a date! Almost,…for sure."

"That's wonderful, Peter. I had hope you would change your mind. So I took in your Uncle's tuxedo but you'll have to worry about the corsage and car service on your own." Aunt May said.

"Ah, car service and the corsage. That'll put a huge dent in my new camera fund. Maybe Naruto knows some people who can hook me up. I can't ask Betty to take the bus." Peter said.

"Betty? Who's Betty?" Aunt May asked.

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October 6th, 2010

Friday afternoon in New York is nothing special but a happy moment for many people. Students were on their way home or hanging out after a week of school and working people were excited for their weekend off. Nothing was out of the ordinary except if your were a pedestrian or driver near the Bugle building, you would see a giant man in grey skin armor walking across the street to the Bugle building.

Civilians and car drivers stopped to see the large man walking across the street and took photos as the man's own foot prints were so large and heavy that they made indents into the ground. O'Hirn was going after Spider-man first because he had a history with him and wanted him to pay for all those arrests in the past. O'Hirn was heading to the Bugle to get a lead on Spider-man because he knew that the Bugle was the only newspaper that actually got pictures of the web crawler, and the person who could lead O'Hirn to Spider-man would be the photographer: Peter Parker.

O'Hirn walked into the Bugle building and past the security desk as the guard saw the large man in Rhino armor walk in. He nervously got up to talk to him. "Uh…n-no one goes up there without a pass." He said as O'Hirn looked at the guard.

"Make an exception." O'Hirn said as the guy nodded.

O'Hirn walked into the elevator as Mr. Foswell was already in heading up to the Bugle to talk to Jameson. Imagine his surprise to see the doors open up and a giant man in a grey armored suit with a large horn walk in. Mr. Foswell walked to the side of the elevator as the large man walked in.

"Hit 23, please. These don't work so good on the little buttons." O'Hirn said to Foswell as he held up his large fingers.

"Uh, 23 is already pressed. You heading up to the Bugle?" Foswell asked.

"Yeah. You're name ain't Parker, is it?" O'Hirn asked.

"Uh, no." Foswell said as the elevator began to move slowly up to the Bugle floor.

On the Bugle floor, Jameson was busy on phone calls, Robby was working on editing the new edition of the paper, Linda was helping organize some mail while Betty was talking to Peter's Aunt May who paid her a visit. Boy, was that going to be awkward. Everyone seemed to be fine and everything was normal when all of a sudden the doors to the office were busted inward and flew through the office and smashed into the walls. Everyone took cover and looked to see what happened and saw a large man in a suit with a horn charge into the office.

He stomped on the ground, causing cracks, knocked over desks, punch support pillars and tossed chairs and desks out the window like they were made of paper.

"BRING ME PETER PARKER!" O'Hirn shouted as he kept bashing things as people ran and tried to head for the stairs.

"What does that awful man want with my nephew?" Aunt May asked as she stood up ready to stand up to O'Hirn but Betty quickly stopped her.

"Let's ask Peter later." Betty said as she ushered Aunt May out of danger.

"I ain't stupid! I know Parker takes the pictures of Spider-man! Where is he?!" O'Hirn shouted as Linda quickly took out the Stark phone Naruto gave her and pressed the emergency button on it. It blipped red as it sent a signal straight to Jarvis to tell Naruto that she was in trouble.

Jameson saw everything that was going on and immediately stepped out of his office to yell at his intruder. "Who do you think you are?! Or what do you think you are?! It doesn't matter! I'll give you 15 seconds to write me a check for all these damages or else—UCK!" Jameson was cut off as O'Hirn grabbed Jameson by the neck and lifted him up. "I mean, how may I be of service?"

"Peter Parker! NOW!" O'Hirn shouted as Jameson saw Parker peaking outside the broom closet. Peter had swung over to the Bugle after getting a text from Betty that his Aunt was here.

"Ugh…{Poof}" O'Hirn raised an eyebrow as he just had Jameson in his hands and was now holding a coat hanger. "What the?"

"You know, I know Jameson is a hot head but he must have really pissed you off for you to do all this." O'Hirn said as he turned to see Naruto Uzumaki in his armor with his mask down and Jameson near the elevator.

"{Chuckles} I didn't need him now that I got you." O'Hirn said as he turned to face Naruto. "I've got a grudge against Spider-man, but taking you down is just as good."

"Really? Well, you must be either very arrogant or want to go to jail. Well, since all you've done so far is threaten and destroy some property we go to the police now and get this settled with now before things escalate." Naruto said as he calmly walked over to O'Hirn. "No need to fight a battle you'll lose."

Naruto walked over to grabbed O'Hirn's shoulder when O'Hirn grabbed Naruto's hand and stopped him. "I won't lose!" O'Hirn shouted as Naruto pulled his hand free but he couldn't. O'Hirn was strong. "ARGH!" O'Hirn grabbed Naruto and threw him out the window.

Naruto when flying out the window but stopped mid through and hovered. "Huh, that was weird." Naruto turned around to go back and stop O'Hirn but was greeted with the sight of a charging O'Hirn who jumped out of the building and tackled Naruto out of the air and the two fell to the ground.

"ARGH!" Naruto shouted as that tackle really hurt and caught him by surprise. The two hit the street below as cars swerved out of the way and people took out their phone to take pictures and to see what happened.

"Ugh…that's hurt more than I thought it would." Naruto said as he stood up and walked out of the crater he made and looked to see O'Hirn get up as well. "All right, no more Mr. Nice Hero."

"That was fun." O'Hirn said as he got up.

"Ok, O'Hirn. I don't know what happened to you, but I'm going to give you one last chance to give up peacefully!" Naruto shouted.

"Call me Rhino!" O'Hirn shouted as he charged at Naruto but Naruto just jumped over O'Hirn. Naruto fired an energy blast but it hit the armor and didn't even faze him.

"What the hell?" Naruto said as O'Hirn charged forward, ready to pummel Naruto into the ground. O'Hirn swung his fist and tried to hit Naruto but Naruto kept ducking and dodging. Naruto ducked under a swing and punched O'Hirn in the gut and then in the chest but all that happened was a loud clang. O'Hirn then brought his arms up to smash Naruto as Naruto back flipped away.

Naruto flexed his hands as his punched that used only 20% actually stung him. "Damn!" Naruto said as his hands felt like they hit a really hard wall. "Ok, time to bring it up a notch!" Naruto said as he charged forward and used 50% of his power and did a double kick and nailed O'Hirn in the chest. The power behind that attack launched O'Hirn off his feet, about 50 feet away and on his back.

"Ha, guess that armor isn't that tough as I thought." Naruto said as O'Hirn got back up and Naruto saw that the armor wasn't dented, bruised or broken. "What the hell?"

"{Laughing} It'll take a lot more than that to stop the Rhino! Now to take—ACK!" O'Hirn was shut up by two large impact webbing shots that incased him in a cocoon of web. Naruto turned to see Spider-man swing down next to him.

"Sorry, I'm late. Changing in a broom closet is a lot harder than the comics make it seem." Spider-man said as he landed down next to Naruto.

"Just in time. It seems the big man didn't stop with Marko. Now his partner O'Hirn has changed." Naruto said as the police began to arrive but O'Hirn had ripped himself free from the web.

"Yeah, but into what?" Spider-man asked.

"All right, bug! Time to squash you! Here comes the Rhino!" O'Hirn shouted as he grabbed a cab and threw it at the two heroes. Naruto jumped forward and caught the cab.

"Spider-man, we got to get him out of here!" Naruto shouted as he put the cab down.

"I'm on it." Spider-man said as he swung forward. "Hey, needle nose! Party's this way!" Spider-man shouted as jumped forward, swung around using O'Hirn's horn and swung away. O'Hirn charged after Spider-man as Naruto put the cab down.

"Jarvis, scan that armor and find me a weak point!" Naruto shouted as his visor came up and it zoomed in on O'Hirn's armor to get a read out.

"Scan inconclusive." Jarvis said as the read out came up to show it was incomplete. Naruto needed to get closer and maybe even get a sample of that armor to identify it. Naruto flew after Rhino as Spider-man tried to lead him away from civilians.

"Come down and fight me, you little freak!" O'Hirn shouted.

"Look who's talking!" Spider-man shouted as he swung away as O'Hirn smashed through a cab.

"Yeah, I may have changed, but even O'Hirn wasn't a coward!" O'Hirn shouted as he ran over to a fire hydrant and ripped it off, drinking and washing himself with water.

"Really, you could have fooled me!" Spider-man shouted as O'Hirn took the fire hydrant and threw it at Naruto but Naruto caught it. O'Hirn then refocused and charged after Spider-man. O'Hirn bashed through some cars and tossed them in the air as Naruto quickly flew by and caught them to stop them from squishing innocent civilians.

"This is bad. We've got to get O'Hirn someplace deserted. Jarvis, find me someplace with no people." Naruto said as he followed O'Hirn, and saving civilians who would have gotten hurt from the damage he was causing.

"That may take some time, sir. This is New York." Jarvis said.

"Well do it fast. I can't fight him here. I can't risk innocent people getting hurt." Naruto said as he saved a mother and daughter from falling debris. Naruto saw Spider-man crash into a sporting good store and O'Hirn chase after him. Naruto ran into the store to see O'Hirn about to squish Spider-man with his boot. So Naruto ran forward, charged energy into his fist and hit O'Hirn in the side. The punch had enough energy to knock O'Hirn off his feet and into the store next door.

Naruto helped Spider-man to his feet and took out a business card for the store owner. "Call that number and I'll pay for the damages." Naruto said as he threw the card at the owner who smiled and ran for help. "You all right?"

"Yeah, you're suit absorbed some of the impact." Spider-man said as cracked his back.

"We need to get him isolated. I can't fight him without risking innocent civilians." Naruto said as they saw O'Hirn get back to his feet and his armor was completely fine.

"Geez, what's that armor made of?" Spider-man asked.

"Not sure." Naruto said as his visor did another scan of the armor while O'Hirn ripped a water cooler from the ground and took a long swig.

"Rudimentary scan shows that the armor surrounding Mr. O'Hirn appears to be a titanium composite metal. The other metal I am having trouble identifying." Jarvis said.

"All right, keep me posted. Any ideas?" Naruto asked as Spider-man saw how fast and desperately O'Hirn seemed to be drinking the water.

"I think I got one." Spider-man said as he webbed the water cooler and yanked it away from O'Hirn. "Ok, breaks over!"

O'Hirn charged forward as Spider-man jumped onto the ceiling and Naruto assumed a stance. O'Hirn charged forward with his horn but Naruto grabbed the horn and O'Hirn's head. He then spun his feet and threw O'Hirn into another wall and to the alley outside.

O'Hirn got up as Spider-man webbed a dumpster and pulled it towards him, knocking him to the ground. O'Hirn got back up and charged at Spider-man but Naruto jumped forward, jumped on his back and grabbed his head and did a WWE face slam into the ground. Naruto then back flipped away as O'Hirn ripped up chunks of the ground and threw them at Naruto but Naruto either dodged or smashed them.

O'Hirn looked around and saw Spider-man near a street grate. "Over here, Mouse! Let's play follow the leader!" Spider-man shouted as he jumped into the grate.

"Ha! You think you can hide from me down there?! Think again!" O'Hirn shouted as he jumped down. He thought he would land in the sewer but actually landed in one of the city's steam pipe system.

"Whew! Hot down here! Come on, let's go for a run!" Spider-man shouted as he ran on the ceiling pipes with O'Hirn right behind him.

O'Hirn jumped up to try and smash Spider-man but Spiderman jumped to the ground and O'Hirn's horn smashed right through a steam pipe, hitting him in the face with a lot of steam.

"AHH!" O'Hirn shouted as the steam stung.

"Oh, that's got to hurt!" Spider-man shouted as he stuck to the wall. O'Hirn turned around as Spider-man saw he was sweating and getting very tired. "I couldn't help but notice, you've stopped spouting off. What's the matter, mouth a little dry?"

O'Hirn charged forward and punched Spider-man but Spider-man just jumped away and O'Hirn smashed through another steam pipe. Naruto jumped down the hole to join Spider-man and saw Spider-man jumped from pipe to pipe as O'Hirn tried to smash him but just kept hitting the pipes, releasing more steam into the corridor. As O'Hirn kept punching, he was getting more tire and slower.

"You see, our first thought as heroes would be to smash right through that tough hide of yours." Spider-man said as he jumped to another pipe.

"You can't do that! The big man's guy told me…I'm impenetrable!" O'Hirn shouted as he bent over, trying to catch his breath.

"Very true, which means if that suit can't penetrate, then you can't vent!" Naruto shouted as he punched another pipe and released even more steam into the corridor. "And since you're face is the only part of you that is exposed, it's doing all the venting for you."

"I've got to…I've got to get out of here!" O'Hirn shouted as he slowly made his way to the ladder back to the street.

"Oh no you don't!" Spider-man shouted as he kicked O'Hirn off the ladder. He and Naruto then ripped open some more pipes, flooding the room with even more steam. O'Hirn was too tired that he gave up and fell over, completely tired.

"Come one, come all! Come see the world's largest dehydrated turtle!" Spider-man joked as he stood on O'Hirn.

"I'm gonna crush you…promised big man I'm gonna crush you! Get paid…a fortune. Crush you…crush you…crush you…" O'Hirn said in his sweat filled delirium.

"Is he starting to lose it?" Naruto asked as he walked over.

"Yoo hoo, are you starting to lose it, Alexander?" Spider-man asked.

"Only mama calls me Alexander…and you're not my mama. Not my mama…mama…" O'Hirn said.

"Yes, I think he is." Spider-man said.

"Mama…do I have to go to school?!" O'Hirn shouted.

"I will never un-hear that." Naruto joked.

"So Alexander, tell mama, who is the big man?" Spider-man asked.

"No, no…we don't ever use the b-word…call him…Mr. Lincoln…" O'Hirn said.

"Very good, Alexander. You'll get a very special treat later." Naruto joked as Naruto pulled out some binders and wrapped them around his feet and ankles.

Naruto and Spider-man exited the steam tunnel to see Captain Stacy and some police officers waiting. "Whew. You're gonna need a crane. And a big truck." Naruto said.

Line Break xxxxx

While Naruto and Spider-man were helping the police get O'Hirn out of the ground and to a jail cell, Naruto was surprised to hear that Captain Stacy got word from the precinct and the high ups that Oscorp Industries has created a cell for Rhino at Rykers. The city council and police commissioner agreed since Oscorp Industries had plans already developed and at a reasonable price.

In his penthouse apartment, Norman Osborn and Hammerhead were discussing Rhino's performance and what to do next. Hammerhead just got off the phone as Osborn walked into his office.

"I'm impressed. Rhino actually managed to give that Naruto kid a run for his money." Hammerhead said.

"Of course. No matter how strong, Naruto thinks himself to be. He's still capable of being outsmarted. And Rhino was just the beginning." Osborn said.

"And Rhino is still underground, and Oscorp just outbid Stark Industries in the deal to build his prison cell." Hammerhead said.

"Yes, well, when it comes to locking up dangerous criminals, people will always bow before the prepared. And will be willing to pay handsomely for it." Osborn said.

"Meaning you get paid coming and going. Sweet." Hammerhead said.

"Very. But these midtown brawls are starting to attract attention. People are starting to ask questions about all of these super powered criminals. Best to let things cool down for now." Osborn said as Hammerhead grabbed his arm.

"We cool things down when the big man says so, see. Or do you want people to know who created freak one and freak two?" Hammerhead asked.

"Please, there's nothing to trace them back to Oscorp, or myself." Osborn said.

"Really? Tell that to Dr. Octavius." Hammerhead said as Harry walked in.

"Hey dad, great news. I got straight A's on my midterms, I made the varsity football team first string, and I have a date to tonight's fall formal with one of the hottest—" "Harry." Osborn said, stopping Harry from talking.

"Can't you see I'm in a meeting. Get out." Osborn said as Harry glanced over at Hammerhead and left.

"Yes sir. Sorry. Didn't mean to interrupt." Harry left with a smirk.

"Anyway, we need someone different. Someone who may even manage to put Spider-man and the Naruto kid down for a while. Maybe even permanently." Hammerhead said.

"Oh. Is the big man starting to get nervous?" Osborn said as Hammerhead got in Osborn's face.

"Watch it. The big man ain't afraid of nobody. But he knows that Naruto kid is making an impact on his organization and will need to taken down soon. So can you make someone strong enough to knock him down?" Hammerhead asked as Osborn smirked.

"I may have something up my sleeve." Osborn said.

Back across town in the Bugle building, the police and CSI people were on the Bugle floor, taking statements and evidence from the Rhino attack. "That wall crawler and the Nada kid are as bad as the Rhino! I'll sue them blind!" Jameson shouted as people were tidying up the office.

After the battle, Peter had returned to the spot where Jameson last saw him, in the broom closet. "Is it safe to come out yet?" Peter asked as he opened the door and walked out.

"Peter?! Were you here this whole time?" Aunt May asked as she ran over and hugged her nephew.

"It's ok. I was hiding, I'm good a hiding." Peter said as he saw Betty. "I can also be very heroic. Honest."

"Could we talk for a minute?" Betty asked as she and Peter talked in private. "About tonight, I can't go with you. I'm too old for you, and it's too weird."

"You think I'm weird?" Peter asked.

"Oh, you're not weird, Peter. It's weird. I'm sorry." Betty said as she walked away and Betty walked over to Peter.

"Oh dear. How disappointing. I imagine you need some time. I'll figure my own way home. Good bye." Aunt May said as she left.

Peter sighed as he walked over to one of the desks and helped pick some tossed office supplies and put it on a desk. "Sorry, about that Peter." Peter heard as she saw Linda walk over with a trash can. "With Betty, I mean. It was kind of hard not to hear."

"Thanks, Linda. Well, I asked her and this is what could have happened. I guess I better get ready to reap what's coming to me." Peter said.

"No chance at finding anyone else to go with? What about…uh, what's her name? The girl who works with Naruto. Gwen?" Linda asked.

"Thanks, Linda. But I think she's already going with someone." Peter said as they heard some flying and saw Naruto fly up to the hole in the wall that he and Rhino made and fly through.

"{Whistle} That is one big hole." Naruto said.

"Whiskers!" Linda shouted as she ran over and hugged him as he hugged her. "I'm glad you're ok."

"Please, like a Rhino could take me out. Trust me, I'm fine. A few bruises but nothing big. I'm just glad you sent that distress signal or things could have gotten a lot worse." Naruto said.

"Yeah, like crazy worse." Peter said.

"YOU!" They heard as they saw Jameson storm out of his office and get right in Naruto's face. "You caused all this damage to my office! You and Spider-man! I knew you heroes couldn't be trusted! Well, the world will know all about you and the damage you've caused to my office! And you've got about 20.5 seconds to pay me for all these damages or else I'll call the cops!" Jameson shouted right in Naruto's face, getting some spit onto him.

Naruto wiped the spit off of him and looked at Jameson. "Cool your head, Jameson. That's why I came back. I'm here to give your assistant the number she can call to help repair all the damage the Rhino caused." Naruto said as he walked over to Betty and handed her a business card with a number she could call about damage repair. "And I also have something for you." He said as he handed over a file to Betty.

"What is it?" Jameson asked as Betty opened it.

"They're court papers. A defamation of character lawsuit." Betty said.

"WHAT?!" Jameson shouted.

"That's right. You didn't think I wouldn't read your article about me did you. Or did you think that I was just a stupid, college drop out with no business running a company?" Naruto asked as Peter, Linda, Betty and Robby chuckled while Jameson was about ready to blow a gasket. "Not only did you print false words about my press conference and my quotes, but you also have no backing or credible evidence about anything you wrote about me, which hurts my reputation."

"Oh, burn." Peter whispered.

"So, that law suit should help straighten things out. Of course, my lawyer will get in contact with your lawyers and collect the evidence, which shouldn't be a problem because its in print and I keep records. As for reparations, well a retraction would be nice. I'll let my lawyer discuss the rest after the lawsuits done." Naruto said as Jameson was speechless. "Have fun with that, Jameson. You should be careful about what you print about people."

Naruto smirked and winked at Peter and Linda as he walked over to help move some large debris. Peter chuckled as he saw Mr. Foswell get out of the elevator and remembered what O'Hirn said about the big man, or Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Foswell knew more about New York and the big players than anyone else, so he was the best chance of figuring out who this Mr. Lincoln was.

"Uh, Mr. Foswell." Peter said as he walked over to him. "I was wondering, do you know anything about a Mr. Lincoln?"

"Our 16th president?" Mr. Foswell asked.

"Eh, not that Lincoln. This one may also go by the name, big man." Peter said.

"Oh, you must mean L. Thompson Lincoln. Yeah, rumor surfaces every few years that he's some kind of crime lord, but I checked it out. Lincoln may look a bit odd but he's one of the good guys. A true philanthropist. Straight as they come. Hey, if there is a big man out there, his name is not Lincoln." Foswell said as Peter nodded.

"Thanks." Peter said as he looked at Naruto who looked at him and nodded.

After Peter said goodbye and Naruto kissed Linda goodbye, the two went back to their hideout so Naruto could run a database search on L. Thompson Lincoln. Peter was in his suit with his mask off while Naruto was at the computer. "Ok, I think I got everything on him." Naruto said as he put all the information into the big man file he had on his database.

"So who is our dark and mysterious mob boss?" Peter asked.

"L. Thompson Lincoln, or Lonnie Thompson Lincoln, as he's known legally." Naruto said as he brought up a picture of him. He was a tall man at 6ft 7 at least with a tall, broad build and albino skin tone.

"Lonnie, what kind of name is that? And what's with the skin tone? What, he's trying out for ice demons on Broadway?" Peter asked.

"A skin condition he was born with. Born in Harlem, New York. Troubled youth, some early records of arrest for disturbance and resisting arrest and…hang on…" Naruto said as he began typing away.

"What is it?" Peter asked.

"His records are completely clean. Almost empty until he resurfaced about 10 years ago as the philanthropist the media portrays him as." Naruto said as Peter saw that his record had a huge gap.

"He must have some connections if those records are gone." Peter said.

"That he does. His charitable contributions have him maintain footsteps into nearly every major industry in New York. Government, corporations, technology, this guy is using his connections as a legal way of looking over all of his assets." Naruto said.

"So this guy is the big man of crime we've been hearing so much about. The one who's commissioned all those super villains to come get us. Why?" Peter asked.

"I don't know. Why don't you go ask him?" Naruto asked as Peter smirked and put on his mask and made his way across town to the big man's office. Peter swung from a flag pole and stuck to the side of the building where the big man's office was.

"Naruto, can you hear me?" Spider-man said over their comms.

"Loud and clear. I've got a clear connection and your suit's audio recorder will transmit everything back to here. Remember, we're not trying to bust him yet." Naruto said.

"Oh, why not?" Spider-man asked as he crawled up the side of the building.

"Because if this guy is really making super villains, there's gonna be a trail. And this guy has caused a lot of trouble. Even if we bust him and I'm not sure we could with what we have now, someone else could take his place. But if we get up our evidence, I can take it to Captain Stacy and we can bring his whole operation down."Naruto said as Spider-man nodded.

"Right, I'm going in." Spider-man said opened up one of the windows and jumped in. Naruto was tapped into the building's security systems so he was seeing everything the building was and he was relaying blank images of the office so if the big man went to the police about Spider-man breaking in, there would be no proof.

"Ok, he's in there but you've got security incoming." Naruto said over the comms.

Two of the big man's personal security guards burst into the rooms with guns out. Spider-man shot two web lines at them and yanked them forward. He then kicked them up onto the ceiling and webbed them up there. He then jumped onto the large desk that had the chair facing the window with the view of New York.

"I'm here to see Mr. Lincoln." Spider-man said.

"Then you should make an appointment. But perhaps we'll make an exception for the hero of the day." The chair turned as Lincoln faced Spider-man. "I am L. Thompson Lincoln."

"Please, you're the big man." Spider-man said.

"In my life, I've been called many names. My favorite is Tombstone." Lincoln said as he stood up.

"Back off! I just took down the Rhino! A pale guy in a suit doesn't—UGGF" Lincoln punched Spider-man in the face and knocked him back. Spider-man rolled from that punch and back onto his feet as Lincoln ran right at him. Lincoln threw a punch as Spider-man grabbed it but Lincoln just pulled Spider-man closer, kneed him in the gut and knocked him to the ground and stomped on his chest.

"Don't move. Just listen, and I'll teach you the facts of life." Lincoln said as Spider-man webbed a 8-ball from the pool table and yanked it towards him but Lincoln caught it with one hand and crushed it. But that was just a distraction as Spider-man shot a web line straight up and pulled himself free and managed to kick Lincoln in the face. He then stuck to the ceiling to see that Lincoln didn't even feel that punch.

"Damn." Naruto said as he was seeing what Peter was.

"Give up, Tombstone, Lincoln, big man or whoever you are. Make it easy on yourself." Spider-man said.

"Relax, young man. And allow me to teach you. The big man, whoever he may be, has nothing against heroes. No hero can dent enough crime to dent his income. But you, and Maelstrom are two different stories. Ever since you two showed up, you've changed things. You frighten criminals off the streets entirely, except when you're off battling the like of the Rhino. Then the big man's profitable army of thugs, think themselves beneath the heroes notice." Lincoln said as he walked over to the window.

"So as long as Maelstrom and I keep fighting crime, you'll keep making bigger and stronger super villains?" Spider-man asked.

"Now you're catching on. But there is a way out. Come work for me. You can still save the world like a good hero, I'll even pay you. All you have to remember is to look the other way on occasion. On any occasion I chose." Lincoln said as he pulled out a briefcase of money.

"I can't ever look the other way again. Let's finish this." Spider-man said.

"Egh, if you insist." Lincoln said as he pressed a button on his desk phone and alerted the police in his building.

"Peter, he called the police. We've got everything from him today. Get out of there!" Naruto shouted.

Spider-man grimaced as he shot a web line and left the office as the two police officers showed up. Spider-man swung away from that meeting pissed. "Dammit! I've never run from the bad guys before. I've faced all the bad guys and never came close to winning the war." Spider-man said.

"But now we know there is a war, which means we can be ready. Don't worry, Peter. Tombstone will get his, it's only a matter of time." Naruto said.

"Right. Ok, so what now?" Spider-man asked.

"We keep doing what we do. We stop crime and the super villains Tombstone sends after us. We gather up evidence and anything we can use to nail him. But we've done all we can today. For now, we wait. I heard about a charity gala for the Lincoln dynamic Youth Center Charity dinner tonight. And guess who that Lincoln for that charity is?" Naruto asked.

"Tombstone. So should we do recon? Crash the party?" Spider-man asked.

"No, I'll go to the party, see whatever dirt and info I can get. Besides, don't you have your dance tonight. I've already paid for the limo service. My treat." Naruto said.

"Yeah…the dance." Peter said, dreading going to that because he had no date.

Line Break xxxxx

Naruto went back to his hotel room to get changed for the charity gala that Tombstone was hosting. He wanted to do some on the field recon and watch Tombstone and gather any information he could to add to the file. Naruto figured it would just be a regular gala and Naruto would only be there for a bit so he would bring Linda for a night out. After a last minute donation, Naruto had managed to get a spot at the gala. Naruto had Jarvis connected to his phone just incase any criminals tried to do anything tonight and he also had a clone out on patrol. But he also made it so that Peter could enjoy the night off. He would only contact Peter if he seriously needed back up.

Speaking of Peter, he was back at home standing in the living room in his Uncle's tux with Aunt May making sure he looked ok. "See, a perfect fit." Aunt May said as she fixed his collar.

"Oh, what's the point. Betty said no, Gwen's already going with someone, I already lose the bet to Flash, showing up alone would only make it worse." Peter said as Aunt May fixed a button.

"Well then, isn't it nice that Anna Watson's niece, that sweet Mary Jane is on her way over." Aunt May said as Peter freaked out.

"Ms. Wonderful personality? Is coming here? Now?!" Peter asked as Aunt May walked over to the window to see Mary Jane coming over.

"There she is right now. Oh my, what a lovely dress." Aunt May said as she grabbed the corsage. "Here, I bought her corsage and the limo that Naruto sent over is right outside."

"You—You planned this? Aunt May, you're an evil mastermind." Peter said as Aunt May pushed him to the door as the doorbell rang.

"Just answer the door dear." Aunt May said as Peter walked over to the door. He took a deep breath and opened the door and as soon as he did, he went slack jawed. She made him breathless. Mary Jane Watson was a beautiful red head in a gorgeous black dress.

"Uh—you…you're Mary Jane Watson?" Peter asked as she chuckled.

"Face it, tiger. You just hit the jackpot." Mary Jane said as Peter smiled, boy did he. They got in the limo and left for Midtown high where the fall formal was being held.

A lot of the students were already there such as Gwen and her date, Eddie Brock. Harry and his date, Glory Grant and their group of Flash, Liz, Randy and Sally had just arrived. They exited Harry's limo and walked into the school.

"Thanks for the ride, Harry." Glory said.

"No problem. My chauffeur is at our beck and call." Harry said as they walked in and went to the booth to vote for King and Queen of the Dance. "Who are you gonna vote for, Glory?"

"Pft, me and Liz, of course. Who else if worthy?" Flash joked.

"I think we know the answer to that, don't we Rand?" Sally asked.

"As far as I'm concerned, Osborn can have the crown. His limo, his after party. Dude rules." Randy said as Sally glared at him.

"We're going to Le Hisafeet. The best restaurant in town, my treat." Harry said as Randy and Sally smiled.

"Osborn, you the man!" Flash shouted as he high-fived Harry.

"You know it." Harry replied as Gwen waved to him.

"Hi, Harry. Did you just get here?" She asked.

"Hey, lets get a picture. You know, preserve the moment." Harry said as he completely ignored Gwen.

"I guess that bowtie stops the blood from reaching his ears, or brain." Gwen said as Eddie chuckled.

Harry and his group took a photo as he was bragging about the restaurant they were going to afterwards. "And the chocolate soufflé's a must. They top it with gold dust." Harry said.

"I don't believe it." Flash said.

"No, real good dust I swear. Uh, guys." Harry said as they all had shocked expressions on their faces. Harry turned to see what they were so shocked about. Peter had just arrived with his date, a gorgeous red headed girl and everyone was in shock.

They saw Peter and his date talk to some of the teachers that Peter knew really well as everyone was just in shock at how Peter managed to get a date. "How the heck did puny Parker land her?" Flash asked.

"Pete cleans up well." Glory said as Liz nodded. Harry glared as Peter was now getting the attention so he needed to redirect his friends focus on him.

"You know, it's not just the food. The view from the private room is amazing." Peter said.

"Geeks like Parker do not get girls like her, I mean like us. She must have lost a bet." Sally said.

"Oh, the bet. That's it!" Flash said as he realized a way to ruin Parker's date. Peter and Mary Jane made their way over to Harry and the group as Peter wanted to introduce her to everyone.

"Mary Jane Watson, I'd like you to meet Flash, Liz, Rand, Sally, Glory, and my best bud Harry. They're popular." Peter said.

"Oh, the in crowd." Mary Jane said.

"Exactly." Sally said.

"So, Parker. You actually got yourself a date." Flash said as he wrapped his arm around Peter and got in-between him and Mary Jane. "I mean, sure Mary isn't the 20 year old you wanted to bring but at least she's not fictional. So, I guess you win the bet."

"What'd you bet?" Mary Jane asked.

"Loser dressed like a cheerleader for Halloween." Peter said.

"Well, big boy I hope you got the legs for the skirt." Mary Jane said to Flash as she grabbed Peter's hands. "Come on, Tiger. Let's hit the dance floor. I wanna see what you got." She said as Peter smiled and the two enjoyed their night.

Back across town, Jameson was in his office, getting dressed for the Lincoln Dynamic Youth Center charity gala. The Daily Bugle donated money so Jameson was going with his son Jameson Jr.

"MS. BRANT! This stupid bowtie is defective! I want a new one around my neck in four seconds." Jameson said as he walked over to her for her to fix. Robby was there as well to work on the next issue of the paper while Ned Lee, one of the reporters was bugging Jameson about green lighting a expose on Naruto Uzumaki and Spider-man.

"Come on, Mr. J. An investigation into Spider-man's true identity. See the face behind the mask." Ned said.

"Oh, and if the face is Joe Schmo?" Jameson asked.

"Hold still, please." Betty said as she tried to fix the bowtie.

"All you do is make the web head a regular guy. And who will pay to read about a regular guy?" Jameson asked.

"Ok, then what about an expose on Naruto Uzumaki? Get an in-depth investigation as to who is he. How he got his powers? And what he and Tony Stark are doing?" Ned asked.

"Ugh,…as much as I would like to do that. I've got enough heat from that kid as I can take. Especially with that lawsuit he filed against me, I can't be making anymore exposes that he can use in court. Now, I'm leaving and I better have that finished front page in my email at 10:00 tonight or else!" Jameson shouted as he left.

"Ned, about those two stories? Run with them. See where they lead." Robby said as Ned smiled and left to get some dirt while Betty texted Linda to give her a heads up.

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Naruto and Linda arrived at the charity gala ball for the Lincoln Dynamic Youth Center. Naruto told Linda it was part date, but she saw through his lie. He never really could lie that well, but she was ok with him getting some info. Besides, she got to dress up and eat some nice food and Naruto was paying for everything. Linda and Naruto walked into the party to see a lot of the city's elite and upper class mingling and talking to each other. Linda was wearing a gorgeous dark blue dress while Naruto opted to go for one of his Armani suits. He actually wore the suit because Tony would wear them whenever he had a special event or gala and it looked good on him. Naruto, of course had to ditch his armor for his monkey suit since this was strictly recon.

The two joined the party, getting drinks and eating hors d'oeuvres and talking to some people. Some businessmen walked up to Naruto and chatted with him, handed him business cards and phone numbers about getting involved with some of the business he was doing while Linda chatted with some of the people who represented big media outlets and newspapers. It was an ok night as Naruto also kept an eye out for info on Tombstone and his operation. Naruto had Jarvis archive information on the people who attended the party and their relationship with Lincoln.

Naruto got another soda as Linda walked up to him with a smile. "What's got you in such a good mood?" Naruto asked.

"Well, I've talked with some people who represent The New York Times and I even talked to the assistant of Roderick Kingsley. And I got a few business cards and made some good impressions. I know this night was suppose to be so you could do recon, but I am benefitting nicely from this." Linda said as Naruto chuckled.

"I'm glad. I got some info but I want to wait until I see Tombstone before I leave." Naruto said as Linda held his hand and kissed his cheek.

"And then what?" Linda asked.

"Well, I'll get what info I can and then we can split. Maybe get a late dinner, head back to my hotel room and chill." Naruto said with a smile as Linda smiled back.

"I'd like that." Linda said as she kissed him. They stopped as some music played and Tombstone got on stage to make an announcement.

"If I might have your attention, as many of you know I am your host, L. Thompson Lincoln. Thank you all for coming to help support the Lincoln Dynamic Youth Center. Your donations help many people in need and support the talent and dreams of many young and aspiring people." Lincoln said as some people clapped.

Naruto clapped as well to keep up appearances when he heard something. His ears picked up a strange sound that was closing in. It sounded like some kind of jet but smaller. It had a powerful engine as it was closing in fast and then heard some kind of click and another sound of a small engine…that sounded like a missile.

"GET DOWN!" Naruto shouted as he covered Linda and the windows and part of the wall of the building exploded. People shouted and hit the deck as Naruto covered Linda and used his powers to create an aura shield to protect people from falling glass and rubble.

There was some smoke and dust kicked up as Naruto and Linda coughed a bit but then everyone heard a deep, maniacal chuckle, like something you would hear from a movie starring a psychotic, murdering killer. Naruto was the first to get a glimpse of him and what he saw confused him completely.

"What the hell?" Naruto said as Lincoln saw the intruder and was also confused.

"Hello. Good evening. I am the Green Goblin…and I am looking for the Big Man." Green Goblin said as he shouted to everyone.

Naruto saw the Green Goblin and he was true to his name, green and looked like a goblin. He was a tall and large figure, at about 8 feet tall and very muscular as well. His face and ears were pointed and his eyes were yellow. He wore metallic armor with gloves that covered his chest, arms and pants with a belt. His feet were attached to a high-tech glider that was 4 feet long with wings that extended and retracted. The glider had a high-tech powered engine, missiles and machine guns. (Ultimate Green Goblin with Spectacular Spider-man Green Goblin glider)

Linda took out her phone and began recording everything as Naruto turned to see four goons with jack o-lantern masks on and assault rifles in their hands. They had just exited the elevator and secured the room. Naruto looked around and saw Jameson pull out his Bluetooth headset and began making a call. Naruto reached for his phone and pressed the record button and also sent a message to the police.

The Goblin turned his sights on Lincoln as Lincoln's personal security team flocked to his side. "Sir, I don't know who you are…" Lincoln said.

"Of course you don't. I changed my face especially for you. HAHAHAHA!" Goblin cackled as his glider hovered closer to him. "But I know who you are, crime king. So step down or I start sharing secrets."

"You're making an enormous mistake. Security, this man is obviously troubled. Take care of him." Lincoln said.

"Tsk-tsk. Still hiding behind an army of thugs are we?" Goblin said as the security team fired tasers at him. Goblin just grabbed the taser points and cackled as he sent a surge of green energy from his body and gloves through the taser points which ended up shocking the body guards and knocking them out.

The two other guards rushed the Goblin but the Goblin just backhanded one into the wall. The other guard grabbed onto the Goblin's glider but the Goblin just went full reverse and stopped extremely fast and the force of the movement threw the guard off. The goblin chuckled as he then jumped and hung onto the chandelier cackling like a mad man.

"You should really get more experienced body guards, or learn to fight your own battles! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Goblin shouted as he swung on the chandelier.

Jameson and his son John were watching the Goblin when John decided to act. One of the henchmen was right behind him so he spun around, elbowed the goon in the face and threw her into another one of the goons. John grabbed the assault rifle and cocked it.

"Dad, come on! Let's get these people—ACK!" John shouted in pain as a blast of green fire energy knocked the gun right out of his hands and hit him in the chest, stinging like a bitch.

"John!" Jameson shouted as he helped his son.

"Tsk-tsk-tsk. Foolish little heroes. That was a warning." Goblin said as he shook his finger at Jameson. Naruto concentrated energy into his fist and formed it into a rasengan and then threw it at the Goblin.

"Here's my warning!" Naruto shouted as he threw the rasengan and the force knocked the Goblin and his glider through the windows and out of the building. Naruto then grabbed a serving tray and threw it at one of the henchmen, knocking his gun away. Naruto then kicked one of the tables at the henchmen and knocked them out.

"Go! Everyone, get out of here!" Naruto shouted as people began running to the stairs to leave. Lincoln and his conscious security guards ran to the exits as well as Linda captured everything. "Linda, go! I need to check on something!"

"Be careful!" Linda shouted as Naruto ran to the window and flew out into the city to find the Green Goblin. Naruto hovered in the air and looked around. He saw some shattered windows in the building across the street, most likely where the Goblin impacted so he flew over there to see.

Then he turned to his side to see a goblin-faced missile heading straight for him so Naruto flew up to avoid it. But then the missile banked around and came back after him so Naruto blasted it out of the sky when he heard the Goblin's maniacal laughing and got tackled from behind. Naruto flew through the air but regained control and balance and turned to see the Goblin.

"Well, my main task for tonight was the Big man, but having you out of the way is just as fun." Goblin said he chuckled.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked.

"Didn't you hear before? Call me the Green Goblin. And a big hero like you needs to be taken care of." Goblin said.

"I'd like to see you try. I'm giving you this chance to give up now." Naruto said.

"Hmm, let me think…" Goblin said as he fired a green energy blast at Naruto but Naruto dodged it and fired his own energy blast which hit the Goblin's armor but it didn't faze him. "Oh, tingly."

"Ok, that's new." Naruto said as Goblin then began firing more energy blasts as Naruto flew around to avoid them. He then flew down the street as the Goblin flew right after him, cackling as he tried to hit Naruto with his energy blasts.

"Hold still, little hero! I promise, this won't hurt a bit!" Goblin cackled as he kept firing at Naruto but Naruto kept dodging and avoiding the energy blasts.

"Excuse me if I don't take your word on that!" Naruto shouted as he turned around and fired a dozen energy shuriken at Goblin. They flew through the air but the goblin pressed a button on his forearm gauntlet and his glider's mouth opened up to reveal a machine gun. The machine gun then opened fire and expertly destroyed the constructs and then opened fire on Naruto but the bullets just bounced or broke against his skin.

"Oh, interesting. Now let's try this!" Goblin cackled as the missile pods on his glider opened up to reveal pumpkin faced missiles. They fired from his glider and chased after Naruto. Naruto blasted one missile but when it exploded, it opened up to reveal 6 small pumpkin shaped bombs, which then exploded. They created a large explosion with green smoke and the explosions sounded like goblin cackles rather than regular explosions. That explosion occupied Naruto while the other missile turned around and hit Naruto in the back. The explosives in the missile combined with the explosives in the 6 pumpkin bombs knocked Naruto out of the air and threw him onto the roof of a building, scorched and covered in smoke.

"Oh, I guess the big, great hero isn't all he's cracked up to be." Goblin cackled as he hovered in the air. He watched as Naruto stood up from that attack, with some smoke stains on his face and his tuxedo ripped up. His jacket was gone and his button up was almost non-existent leaving him in a t-shirt and his pants, which were luckily still in one piece.

"That was my favorite suit your freaking jackal!" Naruto shouted as he tore off the button up.

"Oh no no. It's Goblin, not jackal. And I must say that you are much more fun than the Big Man's excuse for security. Let's continue our fun, shall we?!" Goblin cackled as he held his hand over the glider and two orange pumpkin bombs shot out of the glider and into his hands. He pressed a button on the pumpkin bomb and threw them.

They flew through the air but then exploded to reveal spinning glaive blades. Naruto smirked as the blades flew right at him and he punched one of them into pieces and smashed the other one away, causing it to fly off course and crash on the ground.

"Agh…" Naruto gasped out as he looked at his hand and arm and saw small cuts and gashes that quickly healed. "How the hell?"

"Ohh and you heal quickly too. That'll make this much more interesting." Goblin cackled as he summoned more of those spinning blade bombs. He flew at Naruto, firing green energy blasts as Naruto ran across the rooftop and jumped to the next building with the Goblin right behind him. "Stay still, little hero! Let these special blades slice you to pieces." Goblin said as he threw more blades as Naruto flipped forward, causing the blades to fly right under him but they quickly turned around.

Naruto created an energy fist and smashed them to pieces but all of a sudden three blades came from behind. Naruto rolled forward to avoid the blades as they flew over him but then quickly turned around. Naruto then butterfly spun in the air to avoid them but one of the blades managed to adjust its course and slashed Naruto across the cheek. They quickly turned around and returned to the Goblin who cackled while Naruto rubbed the blood from his face as his wounds quickly healed. Naruto got a better look at the blades and saw that they weren't just metal, but they had a small green glow around them, like they were surrounded like a laser field.

"Oh, something wrong little hero? Not use to laser edged uranium treated laser blades. These can cut through anything. Now, let's cut off some more hero!" Goblin shouted as he released a dozen more blades.

The blades flew through the air but then two large globs of web flew right at them and incased all the blades in webbing and stuck them to the rooftop. "So can any super-powered person join this fight or do you have to be a certain height?" They heard as Spider-man landed on the roof.

"Spider-man! What are you doing here?" Naruto asked as Spider-man jumped over to Naruto and handed him his armor pack.

"I was in the neighborhood and I decided to pop on by." Spider-man said as Naruto took the armor and suited up.

"Thanks." Naruto said.

"No problem. So who's the giant green troll here?" Spider-man asked.

"Well how about this? Here I was thinking that the big man would be the main attraction tonight but now I get the two heroes of New York City. Oh goody. Hello, Spider-man, I am the Green Goblin. The new man in charge of New York and I give you this one time offer. Join me, and we can rule New York City." Goblin cackled as Spider-man raised an eyebrow.

"Just Manhattan or all 5 boroughs? Nah, I make it a rule to not do business with anyone green. Or you know, psychotic." Spider-man said.

"Oh, such a shame. Oh well. Let's continue on with the fun!" Goblin shouted as his glider flew forward and the machine gun opened fire and launched two more missiles at the two heroes. Spider-man flipped to the side while Naruto fired some energy blasts that either the Goblin dodged or hit his armor and reflected off. Goblin made a strafing run at the two heroes as Spider-man kept dodging, using his spider sense while the bombs and bullets hit Naruto but he was fine.

Spider-man flipped forward and jumped up and fired some web bullets at the Goblin as Goblin kept avoiding them and fired an energy bolt and hit Spider-man in the chest and knocked him off the roof of the building. Naruto ran to the building and jumped off the roof as Goblin launched more blades at him. Naruto jumped off the roof and flew towards Spider-man and grabbed him. He then spun around as Spider-man webbed the blades and captured them in a net. Naruto then spun Spider-man around as Spidey then threw the net of blades at the Goblin. Goblin saw Spider-man through his own blades back at him so he concentrated and fired a large energy blast from both of his hands.

The blast exploded the blades and created a puff of green smoke. Naruto saw the Goblin blow up the blades and saw this as an opportunity so he threw Spider-man at Goblin like a bullet. Spider-man flew through the air and kicked Goblin in the face, knocking him up into the air as Spider-man web swung to another building.

"Oh, that's got to hurt but excellent form from our rookie quarter back, Maelstrom. And here comes the tackle!" Spider-man shouted as Naruto flew straight at Goblin and tackled him right off of the glider and onto the rooftop. Goblin kicked him off as Naruto flipped back to his feet and threw a punch at Goblin's face but Goblin grabbed his fist and threw him over his shoulder.

As Naruto was thrown over the Goblin's shoulder, Naruto used his legs and kicked him hard across the face. The force of the kick sent Goblin on his back as Naruto landed on his feet and smirked. Naruto saw the glider fly around and head straight at him with the blade extended out but Spider-man swung by and jumped on.

"Whoa, easy there Bessie. Let's get you—WAAAAAAA!" Spider-man shouted as the glider then began flying erratically and flew away. Spider-man shot some web lines onto the glider like horse reins and tried to get control of the glider.

Naruto turned to see the Goblin get back to his feet and cackled. "Now let's settle this with a good old fashion fist fight!" Goblin shouted as he fired an energy blast as Naruto fired his own blast and the two collided in the air and cancelled each other out. The Goblin then charged at Naruto but Naruto jumped over Goblin, grabbed his head and threw him onto the ground.

The Goblin's hand reach up as he hit the ground and grabbed Naruto by the neck and released a shock of green energy. Naruto grabbed the Goblin's arm and threw him across the rooftop and ripped off the Goblin's metal gauntlet and arm armor. The Goblin got back up and charged back at Naruto as the two engaged in a fist fight. The Goblin swung and swung at Naruto but Naruto kept blocking. The Goblin swung and hit Naruto across the face as Naruto used that force to spin around and elbow the Goblin in the face. He then punched the Goblin three more times, kicked out his right leg and then punched him in the gut but all he got was a loud clang from the hit and a stinging pain in his fist.

The Goblin then kicked Naruto away as Naruto rolled back to his feet. Naruto shook his fist as the stinging pain subsided. The Goblin chuckled as he pat his armor and Naruto saw that the armor was completely fine, no dent, streak or even scratch from his punch and Naruto put a whole lot of force and energy into that punch.

"Don't you just love armor. And this adamantium armor is something that even a little hero like you can't beat. Now, little hero…" Goblin said as his only gauntlet released a large blade from the back. "How about we cut off some limbs?!"

Naruto was ready to fight but then looked up. "Actually, you might want to back away." Naruto said as he took a step back.

"INCOMING!" Spider-man shouted as he and the glider flew right at the Goblin. Spider-man flipped off the glider at it smashed into Goblin and knocked him against the roof. Spider-man then fired some webbing and stuck the Goblin and the glider to the roof. "Well, that was fun."

"Nicely done." Naruto said as he walked over to Spider-man and they looked at the captured Goblin. "It's over, Goblin."

"{Cackles}" The Goblin cackled as Naruto and Spider-man looked at each other.

"What's so funny, Shrek?" Spider-man asked.

"Just the special view for the fire and brimstone pumpkin I left behind at the charity gala! The special present I left for our Mr. Lincoln. Any minute now the elite of New York will paint the town red! Or at least the building anyway! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Goblin laughed as Naruto and Spider-man left the rooftop and went back to the gala building.

They entered the gala through one of the broken windows and began looking around, under tables and furniture for the pumpkin bomb that Goblin left behind. "Jarvis, activate the scanner!" Naruto shouted as the eyes on his face mask turned from blue to red as they began scanning the room for any sign of the bomb, whatever kind of explosives or primer it could use.

"Bomb located, sir." Jarvis said as Naruto saw it was in the chandelier. Naruto flew up and looked into the chandelier and saw a pumpkin bomb that was twice the size of the ones that Goblin had used against him. He must have snuck it on the chandelier when he was threatening Tombstone.

"Spidey!" Naruto shouted as Spider-man saw Naruto retrieve the bomb. "Let's send it up!"

Spider-man created two web lines and made a large slingshot. Naruto put it on and both pulled the slingshot back and aimed it up through the hole in the roof. They then released it as the bomb soared about a mile into the air and then exploded in a huge explosion of green smoke with an explosion that sounded like a goblin cackle.

"Whew, that was close." Spider-man said as Naruto nodded. They then heard some clapping and turned to see Tombstone.

"You know, applause from you makes me want a shower." Spider-man said.

"Perhaps, but you should also know that I offered you a substantial salary to do exactly what you just did tonight. And instead, you did the Big Man's work for free. That my heroic friends is what I like to call, irony." Tombstone said. "Last chance. I'm prepared to offer a substantial amount of money to have New York's heroes work for me."

"Save it Tombstone. The day we make a deal with the devil is that day you get a tan. It won't happen." Naruto said as he walked up to him and got in Tombstone's face. "But just you wait. All the super villains you make wont' stop us from taking you down….and it'll be a sweet victory for us. Watching you go to jail…and your empire fall." Naruto said as he and Spider-man left as Tombstone glared at him and then pulled out his phone and dialed a number.

"Yes, connect me to Hammerhead." Tombstone said as he waited for a second. "Hammerhead, I want some of our people to follow Naruto Uzumaki. Find something that I can use against him. If not…find a way to take him out of the equation….permanently."

Spider-man and Naruto returned to the rooftop where they left Goblin and he and the glider were gone. Naruto looked around and saw the Goblin's gauntlet and armor he removed still there.

"Great. This night isn't going so well." Spider-man said as Naruto took the armor and looked it over. "Who was that guy?"

"A new player. And someone we need to stop." Naruto said.

"Yeah, before he strikes again." Spider-man said.

On the other side of town in a secret, secret lab in Oscorp industries lab, a secret door opened to and the Green Goblin on his glider entered. The Goblin jumped off his glider and groaned and grunted in pain as he fell to his knees. He shed his armor as he shouted out in pain as his body began to morph. Soon, he began to get smaller and smaller as his goblin like features subsided and became more human. After about a minute of metamorphosis, the Goblin was replaced with his true identity…Norman Osborn.

Norman groaned in discomfort and stood up as he shook off the now, too large armor and walked over to a closet where his clothes were. He then pressed a button on his phone and activated its recorder.

"Osborn log, number 56. Well, at least the Oz/Globulin Green formula mutation worked. The mutation effects are brilliant and combine with the advanced armor and weapons systems I created, I am now a force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, the formula is still unstable and I cannot control how long I can stay in Goblin form. This time, the form lasted an hour before I had to rush back after the fight. But this night proved to be an excellent night for data. The glider recorded Naruto's powers and abilities and his perceived limitations as well as any enhancements I can make." Norman said as he finished getting dressed.

"However, tonight's greatest achievement had to be in what I was able to retrieve." Norman said as he walked over to the glider and opened one of the secret compartments and retrieved the two laser blades that had actually cut Naruto. During the fight, after the blades had cut and drawn blood from Naruto, Norman had returned them to the glider and put them in a secret compartment with a beaker to collect all the blood that the blades had drawn.

Norman removed the blades and took out the beaker which had retrieved only a half ounce of Naruto's blood. "I finally managed to retrieve a sample of Naruto's blood. It may be small, but the amount of research and data I can retrieve from this is astronomical. And the enhancements this could make to the Oz formula may stabilize the mutational change. The possibilities…are endless." Osborn said as he looked at the blood with an insane look in his eyes.

End of Chapter 4

Hoped you guys like this chapter, more super villains have appeared but Naruto and Peter now know who the Big Man is and who they are facing. But they also face a new threat in the Green Goblin. The two will have to work together to put a stop to the Big Man, put him in jail and to find out who the Green Goblin is.

Now that Osborn has a small sample of Naruto's blood, he can enhance his Oz formula and do who knows what. Naruto will have to work on figuring out how to stop him and do whatever he can to look after himself but also the people he cares about as Tombstone may want to get to Naruto through Peter or Linda.

Naruto has continued to grow as a hero but also as a businessman and inventor, creating new technology at the soon to be completely, Stark Tower. He's starting to get more respect and a greater reputation around the world both as a hero and as an inventor and business leader. His next step is to work on the regeneration formula and help thousands of people with amputations and make himself known as someone who really wants to do good.

I've kept the fights as entertaining as I could make them but again, until the Green Goblin, the Sandman and Rhino aren't that big of threats. I've shown how Naruto will grow in his intelligence, thinking of smart ways to take down the Sandman and he'll continue to do that with new villains he faces. I've also introduced adamantium, the rare and nearly indestructible element that made Weapon X.

I wanted to introduce it so Naruto could soon begin to research the metal and even begin coming up with ideas on how he can use the metal and even acquire some. The Rhino's armor was a test run for Osborn in using Adamantium to make armor as the Rhino's was only a small fraction but Naruto had trouble with it. The Goblin's armor is made of it as well and Naruto will discover the benefits and strengths of this kind of metal for his own purpose.

I changed up the Green Goblin from the TV show, combining it with the Ultimate Green Goblin, because it would make for a more menacing and powerful villain that had strength and abilities that could give Naruto a bit of trouble. Again, Naruto isn't under powered but he isn't familiar with the Goblin and his abilities but he'll be ready for their next fight.

For Peter's new suit, I chose the Superior Spider-man outfit because I liked the design and it was something simple enough that Naruto could make quickly but more different variations will come soon. The Iron Spider will be a bit later.

Next Chapter, Naruto's Birthday comes and he has some surprises for him on the way…both good and bad. Tony has a surprise for him while he and Peter continue to find a way to take down Tombstone and find out who the Goblin is.

If you guys have any suggestions for other villains or heroes you want to make an early appearance or any arcs and marvel story lines you want me to do, leave it in a review or message me and I'll consider it.

Thanks to everyone who left reviews and themaximus Omni-Creator Kami of Anime for the suggestions. I'll take them into consideration.

Naruto's Abilities

Alter Ego Name: Maelstrom

Abilities: Enhance speed. Enhance strength. Accelerated healing. Superior intelligence. Enhance senses. Excellent fighting skills and combat adaptability. Chakra system and Jutsu's from home world. Superhuman durability and resistance to stimuli. Chakra aura cloak, which increases strength, speed, durability and reflexes. Energy projection blasts, capable of stunning and destroying. Capable of aura constructs. Capable of absorbing energy. Capable of Flight.

Weaknesses: Concentrated plasma weapons create a unique radiation, thermal energy and kinetic energy combination that disrupts Naruto's cellular makeup and charka path and temporarily disrupts his powers which can make him vulnerable to damage.

Magic: An unknown form of energy and mysterious elements that can distort his chakra pathways and his body's electrical and cellular makeup.

Marvel Phase 1: Story Arcs: Just to let you guys know what I have mapped our for Phase 1 and what Naruto will have a hand in and who he will meet. Leave a review or message if you have any questions.

Iron Man

Spider-man and New York

Iron Man 2

Incredible Hulk

Super Soldier Program resurface and an unknown organization

Thor

X-men

Captain America

Blade

Ghost Rider

Captain Marvel/Ms. Marvel

Avengers

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any Marvel properties. Both belong to their respective owners, I'm just a big fan.