Chapter 10: The Rise Of Super Villains Part II

October 10th, 2010

It had been two days after the incident with Taskmaster and after Naruto had recovered everything, he took extra precautions with security and made sure that his employees were ok. Some were still shook-up and some of his security were in the hospitable but Naruto took care of their expenses and made sure that anyone who needed help got it. He spent time with Linda and decided to follow Coulson's advice and not lose her. With no probable way of getting home, he didn't want to lose his new one.

It was Tuesday and Naruto woke up in his hotel room after a long night of working on the regeneration serum. It was so close to working and if he could figure out the last part of it for use then he could start testing. He woke up, moving the covers off and walked into the bathroom to take a shower and get ready. He had some paper work to do and then wanted to stop by Stark Tower to double check on the floor layouts that were already complete. With his clones helping with the construction of the building, the first 10 floors of the eventual 90-story tower were complete and just needed to be furbished. With Naruto's clones, the construction went very quickly as he was able to work with the construction teams by getting the serious heavy work done with.

He hoped it would be done by the end of the year and operational by the end of January and things were going well in that direction. With the recent success of Naruto's projects, he hoped that once Stark Tower was operational, he could show that he was a serious player in the tech and business world and not just a superhero riding Tony's success. 85 floors of the building would be dedicated to research and development while the remaining 5 Naruto planned to keep for himself and Tony for personal space. A place to live and a place to move his superhero operation.

Naruto got out of the shower and dressed in some dark blue jeans, sneakers, a black button-up with a crimson t-shirt and a dark orange hoodie if he wanted. Naruto grabbed his wallet, keys and phone and walked to the door of his hotel room when someone knocked.

Naruto opened the door to see one of the hotel workers with a food cart and an item with a lid over it. "Good morning, sir." The worker said.

"Uh, morning. I didn't order food." Naruto said as the worker pulled out an envelope.

"A gift, sir." The man said as he pushed the cart in and left it before Naruto tipped him and he left.

Naruto opened the envelope and saw it was from Pepper and Tony, wishing him a happy 20th Birthday. It read: Happy Birthday to New York's best superhero. Naruto smiled as he lifted the lid to see a piping hot bowl of ramen with a tablet and a sealed manila envelope. Naruto's mouth watered as he took a big whiff of the ramen and felt his stomach rumble. He managed pull his head out of his stomach long enough to see the tablet had a note that said turn on.

Naruto picked up the tablet and turned it on to see it activate a video chat with Tony. "Hey, Tony." Naruto said with a smile as Tony smiled back.

"Hey, kid. Glad you got my birthday gift." Tony said as Naruto smiled.

"Yeah, thanks. So, how's it going? Last I heard you were taking care of business in Asia." Naruto said.

"Yeah, business here, show up in suit there, normal business. Although, I'd say you're the one having fun." Tony said as Naruto exhaled.

"Yeah, if your definition of fun is fighting crazy supervillains and trying to take down their mob boss." Naruto replied.

"Oh, I figured you'd have that set by now. Anyway, I managed to take a look at our quarterly earnings reports and they're higher than they have been in months. You're really doing good, kid. So good, in fact that it inspired my birthday gift to you. Open the envelope." Tony said as Naruto opened the envelope to see it was legal papers.

"Legal papers?" Naruto asked as he briefly read them and saw it was transfer of ownership of Stark Tower to Naruto Uzumaki. It stated that Naruto would be the owner of the tower, in charge of daily operations and maintenance but it also named him sole executive. Tony gave Naruto Stark Tower. "You're giving me Stark Tower?"

"Well, Stark Tower has been in your care all this time. You've overseen its construction and getting it off the ground with new tech and ideas. You've been increasing Stark Industries stocks and increasing our profitability without any hand holding from me or Pepper. I think Stark Tower is fine in your hands." Tony said with a smile as Naruto was shocked.

"I don't know what to say." Naruto said.

"Don't say anything. Just keep doing what you're doing. Who knows, maybe you'll make Stark Tower into your own business someday. Make me proud, kid." Tony said as he signed off.

"Wow." Naruto said to himself as he signed the papers. He ate his ramen and sent the papers to the lawyers to finish the transfer of ownership. He then made his way to Stark Tower to get a look at the work and to talk to the construction crew and the architect. He parked his car and walked to the construction sight to see a mob of tourists and pedestrians taking pictures of the structure and of him as he walked by. He walked into the construction yard and talked with the crew, the architect and the head of the construction companies that were building the tower and everything was proceeding on schedule, better even with Naruto's clone helping with the dangerous stuff.

Naruto looked as he saw cranes and heavy machinery bring up steel support beams for the levels of the building while his clones were hovering in the air, putting the tower's basic steel structure in place and were working on setting up floor 70. He took a walk around the fully built 10 floors of the tower and they came out great. He coordinated the layouts of the other floors with the builders so they would know what floors would need larger space for labs or work areas. He spent two hours at the tower before he moved to the warehouse to finish some designs and paperwork. It was around 4 o'clock when he got a message from Dr. Connors that they needed him at ESU.

Naruto parked in the ESU science lab parking lot and walked to the building, answering some emails on his phone. He walked into the lab when the lights turned on. "SURPRISE!" Naruto heard as he looked up and saw Linda, the Connors, Eddie, and Gwen.

"What's going on?" Naruto asked.

"Well, Linda told us it was your birthday so we thought we'd have a little surprise. Think of it as a thank you for everything you've done for us." Dr. Connors said as Naruto smiled.

"You didn't have to do this." Naruto said as Linda walked up to him and kissed him on the cheek.

"Yes, we did. You've been really busy but it's your birthday so you need to relax. Come on. Peter had his Aunt make a Banana Cream Pie. Gwen brought it over." Linda said as he smiled.

"That is good pie. All right." Naruto said as he enjoyed a nice little celebration with some friends. He enjoyed himself since his birthdays in the past were just him, Tony and Pepper while Linda was added later. Naruto kept it simple, since he never had big celebrations before he came to his new home.

He had drinks, some pie and cake and it was a nice little birthday celebration. He then left with Linda around dinner time for a little special Birthday surprise she had for him. They were walking down the street and made it to the NYU campus where Linda had set up a very romantic dinner on the roof of the library where the school garden was. It was nice and Naruto loved Linda for it and spent the night with her.

The next morning, Naruto was walking down the street when a black SUV parked across the street had been following him for days. The driver's side window rolled down to reveal a man with odd shaped head. He pulled out his phone and called a number.

"Yeah, it's Hammerhead. Tell the big man that I've got a dial on the Naruto kid. Yup, where he goes, who he works with and his special lady. Yeah, she's a student at NYU. Oh yeah. If he becomes a problem, we've got a way to make him back off." Hammerhead said as he hung up with a smile.

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October 13th, 2010

It was Friday and nothing serious had occurred since Naruto took down Taskmaster. He still couldn't track down Green Goblin and had no clue who he really was. He was making some progress on Tombstone, using his access and some hacking skills to get a look at his reach and his pull in the city and it was vast. With the super villains that Tombstone was making to try and take him and Spider-man down, he had to have a pull in some bio-tech company and Naruto's first guess was Oscorp. But he would need proof.

Peter had a good week, he was doing well in school, managed to snag some good pictures for some expendable income and he and Aunt May were finally financially secure which was a great burden lifted. Today was an important day for Midtown High's football team as they had a game. Peter normally wouldn't go but Harry was playing so he wanted to be there to support him. Peter was in the stands watching the game go as Midtown was down by two. He saw Gwen cheering and then saw Mary Jane sitting with Gloria so he climbed down and sat next to her.

"Hey, Tiger. Did you just get here?" Mary Jane asked.

"Yeah. Uh, what are you doing here?" Peter asked.

"Flash invited me." Mary Jane replied.

"Flash?" Peter asked as they saw end of the game with Flash throwing a touchdown to Harry in the end zone. It honestly looked like Harry really stepped his game up. Harry was carried off the field by his team mates who were cheering as the crowd started to leave the stands.

"So, MJ. I thought that, uh, at the dance, we—""Whoa, slow down Tiger." MJ said. "It's not like we're going steady or something equally that primitive. We're friends, ok."

"Well sure, but—""I'm gonna congratulate Flash." MJ said as she left Peter. Peter sigh in defeat when Liz walked up to him.

"Uh, hey Petey." Liz greeted him.

"Oh, hi Liz." Peter replied.

"Did you hear? Everyone's going to Coney Island tomorrow. You know, to celebrate the win. You wanna come?" Liz asked as he saw Flash walked with MJ with his arm around her shoulder.

"Wouldn't miss it." Peter replied causing Liz to smile.

Peter finished with Liz then went on patrol, enjoying some rare peace and quiet. Guess the bad guys decided to take a break for the night. Naruto was on patrol on the other side of the city so he had this side to himself and he hoped that it would continue. Unfortunately, the city had other plans as he saw a huge flash of light and the sounds of an explosion in the distance.

"Whoa, that doesn't look too good. Wait, that's Oscorp. Oh man, Harry's dad could be hurt." Spider-man said as he used his new enhanced vision feature in his mask to check the type of explosion and it seemed to be caused from heat. "Even at web slinging speed, it'll take me a while to get there."

He got an idea and shot out two lines of web and made a slingshot. He got situated and kept backing up and when he felt the web was nice and taught, he kicked his feet up and shot through the air like a bullet. He soared through the air, over buildings and spanned enough distance to make it to Oscorp. He shot a web and swung onto the roof and slowly made his way through the ventilation system and managed to find the room where the explosion took place to see Harry's dad being slammed against a wall by a short man with four robotic tentacles.

"Otto! What are you doing?!" Osborn shouted.

"Silence, you imperious moron!" Octavius shouted as he was about to stab Osborn with another claw when a line of web stopped him.

"Whoa, there slinky! Mr. Osborn just saved your life!" Spider-man shouted.

"You!" Octavius shouted as a claw shot out and punched him across the face. Spider-man dropped through the air and shot a web line to swing away when another claw hit him and threw him into a wall with two of them latched on and keeping him from moving.

"For the record, I'm here to save your life too!" Spider-man said, pointing at him as Octavius used his last claw to pin his hand to the wall.

"Do not insult my intelligence, hero! You tracked me down and tried to destroy me as I knew you would!" Octavius said as Spider-man struggled to get free.

"Destroy you? Pal, I don't even know you!" Spider-man responded but that was ignored as Octavius didn't care.

"Oh, but I survived and more importantly, I've improved. I am now one with my arms! Oh you failed, Spider-man! And your failure has given me new life!" Octavius said as he dropped Osborn onto the ground.

"Otto, what are you doing?" Osborn asked.

"Otto Octavius was weak! Call me, Doctor Octopus!" Octavius shouted.

"Look, Doc. Have you thought this through? The next hero who would find you under a pile of debris might find this a cautionary tale." Spider-man replied.

"Glib, does not equate with clever, Spider-man!" Octavius shouted as he smashed Spider-man around the room and threw him into the ground.

"Yeah, well the ratio of arms to sanity hasn't been established either." Spider-man shot back.

"Do you ever shut up!" Octavius shouted as he threw him into the computers. Spider-man groaned in pain as he sat up.

"Sorry, no. I have a certain image to uphold and I would love to go on." Spider-man said as he began jumping around the room, dodging Octavius's claws as Osborn and his technicians quickly made their escape.

Spider-man began jumping around the room and running up and down the walls as Octavius used his arms to follow him, crawling up and down just like him. "You're slowing down, Arachnid. But my arms never tire. And soon they'll crush— [Alarm Beep]" Octavius stopped as his harness began beeping.

"Wow, and an alarm clock too. Those arms have everything!" Spider-man said as he dodged another claw strike.

"Sorry Spider-man but I have places to go and worlds to conquer. So, you're obituary will have to be written another time." Octavius said as one of his claws grabbed a small round disk off his work bench and another grabbed the desk and threw it at Spider-man, knocking him through the wall. Spider-man groaned in pain as he saw Octavius was gone and jumped through the hole in the roof.

"Paging, Dr. Octopus! Ugh, as if Goblin wasn't bad enough. Better tell Naruto about this." Spider-man said as he web-swinged away.

Naruto was on Madison avenue, stopping some thieves who were trying to rob an armored car of money. The drivers happily drove away and the thieves were tied up and restrained to a light pole for the police. Naruto finished with the thieves and flew in the air when he saw Peter swing over and land on the rooftop next to him so he flew down.

"Spider-man, something wrong?" Naruto asked as his mask came down.

"Yeah, you could say that. There was this explosion at Oscorp. No one was injured but there was an accident and now we've got another super villain to deal with." Spider-man told him.

"Was is Tombstone?" Naruto asked.

"No. I think it was an accident but the result gave us a guy with four deadly tentacles." Spider-man said as Naruto looked at him weird.

"I hope you mean, mechanical tentacles." Naruto replied.

"He had on some kind of metal harness. He could control the arms with his mind and he flipped out. He was attacking Osborn and then attacked me. Accused me of setting up the explosion, like I was after him." Spider-man said as Naruto nodded.

"Who is he?" Naruto asked.

"Octavius. Otto Octavius but he's calling himself Dr. Octopus now and he's not right in the head. I tried to stop him but he ran. For a guy with eight appendages, he moves really fast." Spider-man said as Naruto nodded and thought to himself. Why would Octavius blame Spider-man for whatever he was blaming him for? What was Octavius up to and could it deal with Tombstone?

"All right. Well, I'll have Jarvis keep an eye on any leads we can follow. I'm sure a guy with eight limbs is going to be easy to spot. Any idea what he wanted?" Naruto asked.

"No idea but the guy didn't seem stable. He definitely put the mad in mad scientist." Spider-man said as Naruto nodded.

"Right. We'll have to find him. Jarvis will contact you when we get an update." Naruto said as Spider-man swung away while Naruto flew in the opposite direction. 'Doctor Octopus, mental and gave himself a crappy name. Not a good sign.'

October 14th, 2010

Naruto spent most of his day in the lab, trying to finish the regeneration serum. He had 95% of the serum ready and he just needed to finish the last 5% to make something that was ready for testing. Once it got through that, going to the FDA, and get it through the process for use on a global scale. While he worked on that, Naruto had Jarvis track down this Dr. Octopus by running down any leads on where Dr. Octavius would go, known contacts, associates, and what he could possibly want.

Naruto was busy doing work when Jarvis gave him an alert. "Sir, I have managed to track down Dr. Octavius. Traffic cameras picked him up going past West 23rd Street." Jarvis said as Naruto moved to the computer.

"Are any of his known contacts or associates in that general area?" Naruto asked.

"Dr. Elijah Twaney is one of the head engineers of Tricorp and their building is 10 blocks from where Dr. Octavius was spotted." Jarvis said as Naruto nodded and grabbed his armor pack. He put it on, pressed the chest button and his armor folded out and covered his body.

"Peter said he would be a Coney Island, send him a message to meet me there." Naruto said as flew out of the warehouse to Coney Island at top speed and got there in a minute. He flew down the Tricorp building and saw Octavius had already broken in. He flew down and ran through the entrance and saw several security guards on the floor, knocked out and one scared scientist.

"Where's Dr. Octavius?" Naruto asked the scientist.

"R&D, Vault 8." Dr. Twaney told him.

"That's ironic." Naruto said as he ran to the vault to see the vault door was ripped off its hinges. He saw Dr. Octavius up in the air with two of the metal tentacles acting as legs, staring at something.

"Ah, like an old friend. How nice to see you, again." Dr. Octopus said as he used his tentacles to smash the security case and grab the item. Naruto jumped and ran on the ceiling and when he got above Octavius, he jumped down. He grabbed the small round device and back flipped away.

"Sorry Doc, but this doesn't belong to you." Naruto told him.

"STARK! I should have known the wall crawler would have gone to you for help!" Dr. Octavius growled in anger as Naruto smirked.

"What can I say? I'm a people person." Naruto said as Octavius tried to skewer him but Naruto back flipped and stuck to the wall with his chakra. "And for the record, my last name is Uzumaki. Just because Tony took me in doesn't me I have his last name. Don't worry, that's a common misconception about me."

Octavius sent two of his claws to skewer him but Naruto jumped from the wall and rolled to the side. He ducked and back flipped as one of Octavius's claws smashed through the ground. Naruto then spun through the air to avoid getting hit and rolled to the side.

"Hand over the device." Octavius said as one of his claws pinched.

"Sorry, can't do that." Naruto said.

"I should have known you would come after me. My incredible mind anticipated you would try and stop me and I have run through every single end to this fight and they all end in your death. Now, would you like it to be quick and painless or long and excoriating." Dr. Octopus asked as the tentacle claws began spinning like saw blades.

"Do we have a third option?" Naruto asked as he his hearing picked up the sound of a web shooter. He then jumped out of the way to avoid the spinning blades and landed near the entrance to the vault. "I'm guessing that's a no."

"Now it's time to kill you. Once I've settled down, I'll have a wonderful time figuring out how you work." Dr. Octopus said as his claws pinched. Naruto's hearing picked up the sound of something hitting the wall near the vault and smirked.

"Raincheck." Naruto said as he ducked and a huge glob of web hit Dr. Octopus and incased him in impact webbing as he struggled to get free. The webbing constricted his robotic arms as he struggled to get free. Naruto looked behind him and saw Peter arrive. "Nice timing."

"I know, I have a knack for that." Peter said as they left the vault and ran out of the building. "Any idea what Dr. Calamari wanted in there?"

"This. Jarvis, scan." Naruto said as Jarvis began scanning the device he took from Dr. Octopus. Naruto began reading the scans on the device. "It's a power source. Compact and holds a charge for years. More advance than anything on the market."

"Ah ha, so that's what the timer was. The Doc's arms are on borrowed time and he needs that or his tank will run on empty." Spider-man said as Naruto nodded.

"All right, how about a game of keep away." Naruto said as he flew out of the building and Spider-man followed him as Dr. Octopus came charging out of the building.

"SPIDER-MAN!" Dr. Octopus shouted as he saw Spider-man and Naruto making their escape. Spider-man shot a web line at Naruto's foot and held on as Naruto flew them away as Dr. Octopus was gaining on them.

"Wow, guess the Doc is faster than he looks." Spider-man said as he saw Dr. Octopus used his claws to jump to the roof of a building and was gaining on them. "Uh, little faster there, Naruto!"

"Hang on!" Naruto said as he flew down to street level. Pedestrians saw Naruto Uzumaki with Spider-man right behind him as they flew down the city streets while a man with four robotic tentacles chased after him. Spider-man looked back and saw Dr. Octopus change course and go straight towards Coney Island.

"Naruto, he's taken a detour!" Spider-man said as Naruto looked and saw him heading straight to civilians.

"He's drawing us out. Let's stop him quickly!" Naruto said as he turned around and headed towards Coney Island.

Dr. Octopus stomped through Coney Island as the visitors ran in terror and fright to avoid being stomped on or killed. The students from Midtown High who were celebrating their recent football win were running away, including Mary Jane and Gwen. Gwen tripped and fell to the ground and saw Harry just jump over her and keep running. MJ saw Gwen fall and went to help her as they saw Dr. Octopus about to stomp on them when Spider-man swung by and saved them.

Dr. Octopus growled as he chased after him but was blindsided from behind as Naruto bashed into him, knocking him into a food stand. Spider-man swung around the tilt-a-whirl ride and landed on the ground, dropping off Gwen and MJ with the others from Midtown High.

"Thanks for the company, love to stay but I've got a Doctor's appointment." Spider-man said as he turned to see Naruto flip and jump around to avoid getting hit by Dr. Octopus. Spider-man jumped onto one of the Ferris wheel carts as Naruto flipped in the air and tossed the battery to Spider-man. "Oh, and nice throw from rookie quarter back, Naruto Uzumaki."

Naruto then grabbed a claw that Dr. Octopus tried to impale him with and threw him through another food stand but he got right back up as Naruto kept dodging and ducking to make Octavius waist more power. "Hang on, guys! I'm here to help!" Naruto heard as he saw Flash Thompson try to play hero and charge at Octavius from behind so Naruto quickly flipped over and grabbed him just in time to avoid being skewered.

"Stay out of this Flash! You're gonna get yourself killed." Naruto said as Flash nodded and ran back to his group but Naruto was distracted which allowed Dr. Octopus to slam and knocked him through three food stands and grab Liz. Naruto moved the broken pieces of wood and beam off of him and saw Dr. Octopus holding Liz and bargaining her life for the battery so Spider-man threw it to the water.

Dr. Octopus went after it while Spider-man saved Liz. Naruto jumped in the air and saw Dr. Octopus managed to save the battery and was about to replace his old one. He held his arm out and focused his sight on the battery and fired a small beam of energy and managed to blast the battery in half.

"Bulls-eye." Naruto said as Dr. Octopus looked at Naruto in pure rage.

"YOU INSIGNIFICANT BRAT!" Dr. Octopus yelled in anger as he swung his claws at Naruto who ducked and dodged them. Spider-man then shot a line of webbing that managed to stick two tentacles together so Naruto capitalized on this. He quickly flipped to avoid being hit and grabbed onto the webbed claws and began spinning Dr. Octopus like a ragdoll and then slammed him into the tea-cups ride.

"Ugh…" Octavius groaned in pain as Naruto walked up to him, grabbed the mechanical arm ports in the back of the harness and pulled them off. He pulled with enough force to disconnect the four mechanical arms from the harness leaving Dr. Octopus into Dr. Otto Octavius once again, now with a mechanical harness and no arms.

Peter left and got dressed back to normal and began taking pictures for the Bugle as the police arrived with a special van and equipment to take Dr. Octavius to jail and his metal harnesses to police lockup. Naruto was talking with some of the officers and detectives on what happened and what Dr. Octavius wanted at Tricorp when he noticed some drama going on between Flash and Liz and didn't need to use his chakra-enhanced hearing to know a break up when he saw one. Poor Liz. But the focus was on Dr. Octavius and his possible connection to the Big Man. From his weird spouts at Peter and him before, he might have been working on something secret and ten bucks says that has to do with Tombstone. And Naruto was going to find out.

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October 22nd, 2010

It's been nearly ten days since the showdown with Dr. Octopus and Naruto couldn't find a clear connection to Tombstone. Oscorp's lawyers went into full lockdown after Octavius turned into Dr. Octopus and his work at Oscorp was swept under the rug to prevent any media backlash or tie back after what happened at Chelsea Piers. Naruto expected this and because of it, finding a lead from Octavius to Tombstone was proving very difficult and was making Naruto a little agitated. He didn't expect taking down Tombstone and finding the Green Goblin to be this difficult.

Peter told him to relax and not to drive himself crazy. They'd find out everything and take down Tombstone, they just needed to wait for him to slip up and then it would be over. Naruto kept searching for a link while working on other projects and getting Stark Tower up and functional as soon as possible. It hit the papers that Naruto owns and operates Stark Towers, so he needed to make sure he did the best job to prove that Tony didn't give him the tower because of nepotism and that he was someone to be taken seriously.

Currently, he was taking a break and heading to NYU to spend some time with Linda who was working on something big for her journalism class and maybe the Bugle. He parked his orange 2009 Lamborghini Murcielago, another birthday gift from Tony in the parking lot and walked to Linda's dorm room. He knocked on her door and heard come in. He walked in to see her busy working on something on her laptop with papers and folders all over her side of the room.

"Wow, looks like you brought your Bugle work home with you." Naruto said.

"It's not official Bugle work. It's something that started as an assignment for my criminology class and kind of evolved." Linda said.

"Wait, since when were you taking criminology?" Naruto asked.

"I managed to get a last-minute transfer into the class. It's interesting." Linda said.

"Ok, so what's this story?" Naruto asked.

"I think the Maggia crime family is back in New York City." Linda said as she handed him a copy of the New York Times with the article that showed that Italian aristocrat and alleged Maggia head Count Luchino Nefaria arriving in New York City for a business meeting.

"You're kidding, Count Nefaria is here in the city?" Naruto asked.

"Yup, the alleged Maggia head is in the city for a business meeting and I think it has something to do with bringing the Maggia back to prominence in New York." Linda said.

"Right. The old crime boss, Silvio Manfredi was the head of the New York chapter but after the huge bust where he and his whole enterprise were arrested, the Maggia cut ties and went back to Europe. It's what allowed Tombstone to gain control of New York." Naruto said.

"Uh huh and I've been doing some digging and I think that Nefaria is trying to muscle his way in and retake New York for the Maggia. The amount of dock and mob-controlled resources have shot up in the last week. I think Nefaria is here in the city to try and make a power move." Linda said.

"How did you get access to this stuff?" Naruto asked as he looked at the files and saw that some of them had the STARK Industries logo. "You hacked into my database?"

"Ok, hacked is the wrong word. I know your password. It's ramen." Linda looked at him with an 'are you serious' look.

"Ok, but that's only for the obvious stuff. But still, some security upgrades might be in order. Ok, so have you contacted the police?" Naruto asked.

"I did and they say there isn't any evidence. Supposedly, Nefaria is here on a goodwill mission and without probable cause they can't do anything." Linda said. "But luckily I have a super-powered boyfriend who is doing a pretty good job keeping the city safe.

"Smooth transition. All right, let's see what we find and we'll go from there." Naruto said as he worked with Linda for hours until they went to bed.

October 26th, 2010

Naruto was back at his lab, working on stuff and was just about finished with a beta version of the regeneration serum and once he was finished they could begin testing. While Naruto was working in his lab, Peter was there as well finishing up some actual paperwork that Naruto was having him do. It wasn't anything serious, just some shipment orders, requests and contracts for other scientists, projected sales and patterns for the company and potential prototypes for designs and other things they could work on. That last list ranged from ideas to cancer and medical treatments to new technology to be used by law enforcement agencies like new body armor or possible recon drones to be used in their investigations.

Naruto was adjusting the chemical ration to the bonding agent of the serum when Peter spoke. "What's a new-dog?" Peter asked as he looked at one of the prototypes.

"It's some kind of self-cooking hot dog. Uses Nano-technology to cook it. Some weirdo from MIT submitted the idea." Naruto said as he adjusted the ratio to 10:4 on his serum.

"Something tells me that ingesting a tiny metal filled hot dog can't be healthy." Peter said as he put the folder down and rubbed his eyes. "I'm gonna get a cup of coffee, want anything?"

"No, I'm good." Naruto said as Peter stepped out to get a drink. Naruto typed some commands into his computer when his phone rang and he saw it was Linda. "Hey, Linda. What's up? Excited for date night?"

"Get off—let me—shut up!" Naruto heard as it sounded like Linda and someone else.

"Linda. Linda!" Naruto shouted as he quickly connected his phone to the computer. "Jarvis, track the call!"

"Tracking, sir." Jarvis replied as he began narrowing down the call's location using satellites and cell towers.

"Linda, what's wrong?! Who's with you?!" Naruto shouted.

"Shut her—piss off—Dammit!" He heard when the phone call cut off.

"Linda?! Linda!" Naruto shouted as he tried to call back but it went straight to voicemail.

"Tracking incomplete, sir. The phone call was interrupted and my sensors indicate the phone was destroyed. General location, Lower Manhattan." Jarvis said as Naruto ran his hands through his hair in worry.

"Shit!" Naruto said as he ran his hands through his hair. "Jarvis, run through the recording of the call. Every single megabyte of the call and analyze anything that could help you track where whoever was taking her."

"Yes, sir." Jarvis replied as Peter walked back into room and saw Naruto was upset.

"Whoa, Naruto what's wrong?" Peter asked.

"I don't know. I call a call from Linda and I heard her and someone else. I think two other guys and it sounded like they had grabbed her. I tried to track the call but nothing." Naruto said as he kicked over the chair in anger. "Dammit!"

"Whoa, Naruto calm down. Look, don't worry we'll find her together." Peter said as Naruto nodded. "Ok, so who would want to take Linda?"

"I don't know. I mean, my identity is well known, it could be a criminal who thought they could get to me through her." Naruto said.

"Someone who might use her as leverage for a blackmail scheme? I'm sorry, but the guy would have to be either incredibly cocky or brain dead to try and blackmail you." Peter said.

"It could be Tombstone. I swear, if he's done anything to her than I'll— "Naruto, calm down." Peter said, trying to get Naruto to stop thinking of the worst situation.

"Look, Linda needs you focused and ready, not panicking and jumble-minded. She's definitely alive because if they had wanted to kill her to get to you then she would already be dead so that means they want her alive." Peter said.

"Right. Sorry. Ok, Jarvis did your scan find anything?" Naruto asked.

"Yes, sir. Based on scans from the cellphone's path and echo location from the call I can deduce that Ms. Park was picked up somewhere on the corner of E. Broadway and Market street and proceeded to move in a western direction before the call cut out." Jarvis said as he brought up a map on the screens.

"Ok, this helps. What was Linda doing in Lower Manhattan?" Peter asked.

"I don't know. NYU's way too far away for Linda to have gone out for something and she rarely goes that far south and the Bugle is in the opposite direction." Naruto said.

"Ok, so she wasn't going there for school. Could she be writing a story and needed to be there?" Peter asked.

"I don't think so. The only thing we were…" Naruto said as he remembered what he and Linda worked on four days ago. "The Maggia."

"Uh, excuse me?" Peter asked.

"No, it was a story Linda was working on for her criminology class. One of the Maggia heads is in the city and Linda's been tracking a huge uptick in activity that suggests he's here to make a power grab." Naruto said as he brought up the research.

"And take on Tombstone for control of the city and in the process, start a city-wide gang war." Peter said as he looked at the information. "We've got to stop him to protect the city. I can't believe I just said that."

"And I think I know where they took her. Linda said there was an uptick in dock activity and mob-controlled resources. The issue is where?" Naruto asked as they looked over the information, the signal of where Linda was taken and where she might be going and any nearby docks.

"There. The docks by FDR Drive. Pier 16 is the closest active docks to where she was taken. We'll start there." Peter said as Naruto nodded.

"Jarvis, contact Captain Stacy and tell him everything." Naruto said as he grabbed his armor and Peter suited up.

Inside one of the private warehouses at the docks that was surrounded by dozens of black SUVs and armed men, the Maggia crime syndicate was moving goods and resources into a truck that had a red dragon symbol with the words Khan imports in the middle. They loaded it up and once it was done, they locked the doors.

"Sir, we've finished loading the truck." One of the Maggia men told his boss. His boss stepped into the light, wearing a white suit and blue tie. He was holding a gold and diamond studded cane, even though he had no need for it. (2)

Nefaria walked over to three men who were dressed in black facemasks, with black and gold armored with their shoulder pads studded with a symbol of ten rings and the face of dragon in the middle. A symbol of the Tong Crime Syndicate. "I was told the Mandarin would be here." Count Nefaria said.

"This land is not worthy of our Lord. We will suffice." One of the men said.

"Very well. The agreed upon merchandise is in the truck and all the necessary forged documents are prepared. Now, uphold your end of the bargain." Count Nefaria said as one of the masked men held out a metal briefcase and a manila folder.

"Your agreed upon payment and the information you requested." One of the Tong said as Count Nefaria took the folder. He opened it to see information on Tombstone, Hammerhead and all the new crime bosses who took over New York after Silvermane's arrest.

"Excellent. And if the Mandarin wishes to do business, the Maggia are willing to cooperate." Count Nefaria said as The Tong went to the truck and left. "Foolish zealots."

"Sir, why do business with the Tong?" One of Nefaria's men asked.

"Because as much as I despise competition, there is always good money to be made in our business." Count Nefaria said as they walked through the warehouse filled with stolen tech and weapons the Maggia would use to take down Tombstone and his enterprise. "For too long have the Maggia been absent for America, but soon we shall take back our rightful place."

"Let me go, you bastards!" Count Nefaria heard as he turned to see two of his men dragging a young woman through the warehouse.

"Count Nefaria, we found this girl staking out one of our drops and taking pictures." One of the Maggia said, holding up a broken cell phone and a digital camera. Nefaria took the camera and looked through the photos and saw they were off his men at one of the drops, picking up stolen merchandise.

"How did you know my men would be at this drop?" Count Nefaria asked.

"I'm good at being a reporter." Linda said.

"Smart, and witty. Such a waste. Well, I'm afraid that I can't let you live." Count Nefaria said as he pulled out a high-tech pistol he stole from a shipment from Tricorp. "Any last words?"

Linda was worried but then looked to warehouse exit and saw a shadow swing by and smirked. "Yeah, you're going to wish you never came back to New York." Linda said when something crashed through the ceiling, making a small hole and taking the ceiling supports with it. The figure smashed through and landed on the ground in front of Linda and pushed Count Nefaria away and into three of his goons.

The Maggia looked and saw it was Maelstrom, decked out in his armor as he looked at them and you could tell he was pissed even from the blue glow of his mask. "You guys are in big trouble." Maelstrom said as he then kicked the guard holding Linda through the air and into the wall, leaving a large crack.

"Kill them! Kill them both!" Count Nefaria shouted as some of his men helped him up.

He grabbed Linda and ran for cover behind some crates as the Maggia pulled out their guns and fired at them. Naruto's armor gave him protection but with Linda, there was a chance a bullet would deflect or bounce off and hit her so he wanted to get her to safety while he took care of business. He and Linda took cover behind a crate as bullets flew overhead.

"It seems I'm always saving your ass." Naruto said as he covered her from bullets.

"It is an ass worth saving." Linda said as she saw Count Nefaria making his way to a car. "He's going to get away."

"No, he won't." Naruto said as a huge gob of web hit Count Nefaria, sticking him to the side of the car.

Count Nefaria looked and saw Spider-man swing down and land on the car. "You're not going anywhere Count beardo. Now stick around until we deal with your little gang." Spider-man said as he back flipped off the car to avoid a hail of bullets. As he flipped, he fired a barrage of web bullets and hit the three Maggia men who tried to kill him.

Spider-man landed on the ground, shot a web line at the legs of the guy on the right and then flipped to the side, pulling the line. When he pulled, the Maggia man was pulled with him, knocking over the other two. Spider-man then jumped forward and double kicked a Maggia goon through the air and into a crate. He flipped through the air to avoid bullets before firing web lines and yanking two men through the air and slammed them against the wall before webbing sticking them.

Naruto jumped over the crate and close-lined one of the Maggia men who grabbed Linda. He then grabbed the guy's leg and threw him into a crate, smashing it into splinters. Naruto then charged energy through his right arm, the energy coursed through the power conduits throughout his suit and lit up. The energy collected to the energy port on the back of his right fist, he then focused and a small energy blade shot out. Naruto jumped forward and kicked one of the goons across the room and then swiped with the energy blade and sliced the assault rifle a Maggia goon was holding cleanly in half. He then punched the goon in the face and knocked him through the air. (3)

Naruto saw the Maggia goons open a crate holding RPG's so he aimed his right fist at the crate and the energy blade shot out like a bullet and hit the crate, causing it to explode and knocked the Maggia goons back. Naruto now made two small energy blades, one on each fist and went back to fighting. He was slicing guns, knives and metal pipes in half and cutting certain tendons to render the Maggia goons he fought limp and incapable of fighting. Naruto headbutted another guy, then threw him over his shoulder and broke his arm. Naruto then spin kicked another Maggia goon before blocking a swing from a metal pipe.

"Spidey!" Naruto shouted as he kicked the guy away as Spider-man jumped over him, grabbed his shoulders and then front flipped, using the momentum to throw him through the air.

"Nice double team!" Spider-man shouted as he flipped through the air and punched another goon while Naruto grabbed a Maggia goon and did a suplex. Spider-man then kicked the goon he was fighting away, fired a web line to pull him back and then close-lined him. He then jumped in the air to avoid a hail of bullets before webbing an empty crate and throwing it at the Maggia goons. He landed in a flip before jumping over a Maggia goon and kicked him towards Naruto. "Coming your way!"

Naruto turned and then close-lined the Maggia goon hard, knocking out some teeth. Spider-man landed near Naruto as they saw the last guy had grabbed Linda and was holding her a gun point. "And then there was one." Spider-man said.

"Now, here's how this is going to work! I'm taking her and getting out of here." The guy said as he pointed his gun at Naruto.

"Not going to happen." Naruto replied.

"Yeah, what he said." Linda said as she stomped on his right foot, causing him to let her go. She then turned around and punched him across the face and kicked him in the nuts as the guy squealed like a pig.

"Oh, shot below the belt." Spider-man said as the guy that was holding Linda dropped to the ground like a sack of potatoes.

"Nice shot." Naruto said as his mask deactivated. Linda ran over and hugged him as the police arrived with SWAT units and surrounded the entire warehouse and docks. "And the cavalry's here."

"Yeah, a little late to the party." Spider-man said as they saw Captain Stacy, along with SWAT members and officers came into the warehouse and began arresting the Maggia men that Naruto and Spider-man took down along with securing the contraband.

"We came as soon as the call came in. Although, it seems you two had it all handled." Captain Stacy said as he looked at all the beaten Maggia goons.

"Eh, it was easy." Spider-man said as Naruto nodded. "Although with the boys in blue here, we can make sure this stuff gets back to its rightful owners."

"And the cherry on top." Naruto said as he walked over to Count Nefaria and ripped him free of the webbing. "Captain Stacy, may I present to you Count Nefaria, head of the Maggia crime syndicate and the one responsible for all this."

"And I got it all on tape." Linda said as she took off her shoe and moved to sole to reveal a high-tech recording device. "It'll go great with my pictures."

"Nicely done." Spider-man said as Captain Stacy had two of his officers come over.

"Nice job, Spider-man. You too, Naruto. [Sigh] Now, I'm going to have to ask you to release Mr. Nefaria." Captain Stacy told him.

"What?!" Linda shouted.

"Whoa, Captain. Did you not here anything about the smuggling, kidnapping and attempted murder?" Spider-man asked.

"I heard but as a foreign national in our country, Count Nefaria cannot be arrested or tried for any crime he commits on our soil. Even murder." Captain Stacy said as Count Nefaria chuckled.

"Diplomatic immunity." Count Nefaria said with a smirk.

"I'm sorry but I can't touch him." Captain Stacy said.

"But I can." Naruto said as he kneed Count Nefaria in the nuts, sending him to his knees as he shouted in pain. Naruto then grabbed his shoulder and pulled him close. "If I get even a whiff that you're back in the country, diplomatic immunity won't save you then."

Naruto then hoisted him up and pushed him as two police officers would escort Count Nefaria to the Italian Embassy. "Sorry, kids. But there are people in this world that even you can't touch." Captain Stacy said.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that. Something tells me a story's about to come out that will ruin Count Nefaria's reputation." Linda said with a chuckle.

Line Break xxxxx

October 31st, 2010

Thanks to the combined efforts of Spider-man, Naruto, and the police, all the Maggia goons were arrested and the FBI Organized Crime division would take over authority and use the information to combat other Maggia operations in the US and send the relevant information to Interpol. Count Nefaria was driven to the Italian Consulate where he then caught a plane back to Italy within a few hours. The Italian Consulate refused to comment on his illegal activities but they were soon hit with a huge backlash.

The day after Linda was taken, she wrote a hell of an expose on Count Nefaria and the Maggia crime family. Jameson initially wanted to twist the story so that Spider-man was working with the Maggia but the police and FBI would then be on his case for printing the wrong information so he relented. The paper read, Count Nefaria outed as Maggia Head: Showdown in New York City. The expose detailed Count Nefaria's criminal exploits in the city, his smuggling of merchandise for the Maggia, and his kidnapping and attempted murder of Linda Park until he was foiled by Naruto Uzumaki and Spider-man. The police busted all the Maggia goons and the merchandise was recovered but Nefaria was let free.

Suffice it to say, that Interpol now had Nefaria on their watchlist and the rumor was that the Italian government was going to revoke his diplomatic immunity and charge him with his crimes. All in all, it was a solid win for the good guys and gave Linda some publicity for her article.

Currently, Naruto was in his headquarters watching the breaking news about a NASA shuttle that was damaged by some debris. The ship and its crew were supposed to land tonight on Halloween but with the damage it suffered, the chances of the shuttle surviving any longer in space or even land safety were getting slimmer by the second.

"Jarvis, is there anything we can do about the shuttle?" Naruto asked.

"I'm afraid no, sir. It would take too long for another shuttle to reach them and even if you could fly into the atmosphere to do repairs, your oxygen suit wouldn't survive the flight." Jarvis said as Naruto sighed.

[Beep—beep] Naruto's heard an alert go off and rolled over to check what happened.

"Sensor's picked up something moving at the speed of sound within the city limits. It's the Goblin." Naruto said as he walked over to his armor, suited up and flew over to where the sensor last picked up the supersonic signature.

Naruto floated in the air above where the sensor picked up the supersonic signature and saw a trashed limo and some recently made scorched marks and impact craters. "The Goblin for sure and he took someone. Someone important to do this in the afternoon." Naruto said to himself as he pulled out a mini-drone from his belt and it began doing a scan of the area.

'Still playing hero, child?' Naruto heard a voice he hadn't in a long time. Naruto then entered his mindscape to see the 9-tailed fox staring at him.

"Ah, furry butt. Haven't heard from you in a while. I honestly figured you died." Naruto said as the Kyubi scoffed.

'Please, I'm the mighty Kyubi. Nothing can kill me. Besides, I was sleeping.' The Kyubi said.

"For this long. Wow, you must really enjoy your cat naps. So why speak to me now?" Naruto asked.

'Because it's amusing to watch you play hero. Like my own movie in your head. Watching the bumbling adventures of the brat who is trying to play hero.' Kyubi said.

"Hey, I'm not playing hero, I am a hero. I'm keeping this city safe." Naruto told him as the Kyubi chuckled.

'Please the people of this city are so pathetic that they even need a hero. And why be one. In this world, no one could stop you…or us. We could rule this world and get everything we ever wanted.' The Kyubi said as Naruto looked at him.

"Since when was this a we situation. You'd kill me the first chance you get." Naruto said as the Kyubi smirked.

'And I still would but it would be enjoyable. Watching the people of this world scramble at my feet, begging for mercy. And no shinobi to stop me. Nothing in this new world could stop me.' Kyubi said.

"Except I can. I'm your jailor and your furry butt isn't getting out. Even over my dead body." Naruto told him.

'That can be arranged.' The Kyubi said, eager.

"Not in this lifetime, plushie." Naruto said as the Kyubi tried to impale Naruto with his claws but the cage stopped him.

'Don't you dare call me that.' The Kyubi growled.

"Oh…scary. Well, let me know if the plushie wants a magazine or a TV or something." Naruto said as he exited his mindscape.

Naruto refocused on getting any evidence he could when he got an incoming call from Peter's spider-suit communicator. "Spider-man, what's up?" Naruto asked.

"Naruto, I think I know who the Green Goblin is." Peter told him over the communication line.

"All right, meet me at armory." Naruto said as he flew back.

"Wait, back up a sec." Naruto said as he had just finished listening to Peter tell him what he found out. "You think that the Green Goblin, the green mutated menace that we fought weeks ago is Norman Osborn."

"It's a hunch but a solid one. I ran into Goblin swinging through the city and he had a lot to say and he's definitely gotten stronger. But he said that he's got a drive of every illegal thing Tombstone's been doing. Enough to put him away for good and tear down his whole enterprise. He said he'll make a signal of where he has it." Peter told him.

"Most likely a trap. But that might explain the Goblin wreckage I saw earlier. Ok, that part's clear, now about the part of him being Norman Osborn?" Naruto asked.

"I saw the Goblin fly near Harry's penthouse so I got a little suspicious to see if he was targeting Mr. Osborn when seconds later he walked out of a secret entrance I've never seen before." Peter said.

"It's possible. Whatever the Goblin is using to mutate himself could be controlled and believe me, part of me thinks you're right. But don't you think it could be a coincidence?" Naruto asked.

"Maybe, but think about everything else. Goblin has a jump drive with all of Tombstone's illegal activities, most likely super villain related." Peter said as Naruto followed.

"People who were changed by a high-tech company, like Oscorp. Osborn would have kept something to have an edge over Tombstone should he want to. And he probably can do it without implicating himself." Naruto said.

"And Dr. Octavius's accident and the robberies at Oscorp." Peter said.

"Were a way to throw off suspicion it was him. Ok, we'll need to prove it." Naruto said.

"Something tells me we'll have the chance later tonight if Osborn keeps his word about the signal to." Peter said.

"And when he does, we'll be ready. Pete, you'll probably going to want to talk to Harry." Naruto said as Peter nodded.

"Oh, yeah. Hey Harry, your dad is the sociopathic Green Goblin that my boss has been after for a while. That'll be a fun discussion. I'm meeting him at the Bleaker Street Carnival." Peter said as Naruto nodded.

"All right. Tonight, we end this." Naruto said as Peter nodded and left.

The sun was setting as the city was in full swing for the festivities of Halloween as parties and parades went off across the city. Peter was on his way to the Bugle to hand in some photos for Jameson and then head to the Bleaker Street Carnival to see Harry while Naruto stuck around to monitor any new activity.

At Oscorp, the late shift was in full swing as new guards were attentive at every little thing they could see. The guards at the front desk were shocked to see Norman Osborn walk in when he left hours ago.

"Mr. Osborn. Didn't think to see you here at this hour." The guard said.

"If you want to rule the world, you don't punch time clocks." Osborn said as he walked into the building when he heard the sound of a creepy cackle and the building shook.

Osborn ran down the hall as the guards all ran to the disturbance with the alarm blaring throughout the building.

"Mr. Osborn, he took it. Stole it!" One of the scientists shouted.

"A thief, here? What did he steal?" Osborn asked.

"The disruptor proto-type!" The scientist told him.

"Freeze dirt bag!" One of the guards shouted but was then blasted through a concrete pillar by a green plasma blast. The Green Goblin then flew around on his glider as he held a high-tech glowing battle rifle and cackled like a mad man.

"AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" The Goblin shouted as his glider fired a rocket at the ceiling, making a hole for him to escape.

Peter was swinging across town and had just arrived in the alley near the carnival when his phone rang. "Hey, Gwen." Peter said as he deactivated his voice disguiser.

"Oh, Peter, finally. I've been calling. What's up with Harry?" Gwen asked.

"Oh, well he's meeting me at the Carnival. I'm already here." Peter said as he jumped off a wall and landed on the ground. "Where are you?"

Peter looked to his left and saw Gwen right there. "Pete?" Gwen asked as Peter took off the mask.

"Nice costume, huh? I worked on it for weeks." Peter told he and Gwen joined MJ and Liz as they watched the football team, dressed in cheerleader outfits form a pyramid.

"I'm gonna cream, Osborn. Where the hell is he? He's supposed to be the top of our pyramid." Flash said as he struggled with the weight of his team when he saw Peter in his costume. "[Laughs] Look! It's the spectacular Spider-geek!"

Flash laughed but he lost his grip and the entire pyramid came tumbling down with his team mates falling on top of him. MJ and Liz looked and saw Peter in his costume and were impressed.

"I've got to say, Tiger. You fill out that costume quite nicely." MJ said as she touched his shoulder and felt the material.

"Very nicely. You can web me up anytime, Petey." Liz said as Peter blushed while Gwen huffed.

"Puny Parker?! He looks nothing like Spidey! I should've been Spider-man!" Flash said as he walked towards them.

"Don't worry, Flash. You fill out your costume nicely too." Peter said as Flash put him in a headlock but stopped as the fireworks started.

The fireworks lit up the sky in shower of sparks and colors when a lone green firework shot high into the air and exploded to form a scary jack o'lantern face. 'Goblin.' Peter thought as he heard the roar of something flying. He and his friends looked up and saw Maelstrom fly past them with his blue flight trail streaking behind.

"Whoa, wonder what's got your boss in such a hurry, Tiger." MJ said to Peter.

"Peter, we really should find Harry. Pete?" Gwen called out as she and MJ noticed Peter was gone.

More jack o'lantern fireworks went off as Naruto flew towards their location when he noticed Peter swing by them. Naruto nodded to Peter and he nodded back as they found themselves at the old steel smelting factory. Naruto landed on the ground as Peter swung right down next to him.

"This is it. Why can't the bad guys ever pick a nice hotel or park to do meetings?" Spider-man asked.

"Probably because Green Goblin wants an advantage. The heat from this place is messing with my scanner. I can't get a clear read out here." Naruto said as Peter sighed.

"Well, if it's a trap, let's spring it. Race you inside." Spider-man said as he jumped through an open window and landed inside while Naruto kicked open the door. "Always so dramatic."

"He knows we're coming." Naruto said as he looked around and saw Hammerhead, Tombstone's second in command dangling from a chain above a smoldering hot vat of molten metal ore.

"This is so embarrassing." Hammerhead said as he saw Spider-man and Naruto arrive to save him. "First taken by a green freak and now being saved by two punks."

"Happy to see you too, flathead." Spider-man said.

"Now, where is the Goblin?" Naruto asked as he tried to use his scanners to find Goblin but the intense heat in the factory was messing with his equipment.

"Ok, Hammy? Where's the jump drive you have on Tombstone?" Spider-man asked as Hammerhead struggled to get free.

"There is no jump drive on Mr. Lincoln. You think I'm stupid enough to keep evidence against him. He'd find out and make me disappear. There is no incriminating evidence." Hammerhead said.

"Goblin said that he was going to blackmail Tombstone with your jump drive." Spider-man said.

"It was all a set up." Naruto said as they heard the Goblin's mad cackle.

"Yes, yes, I'm a big fat liar!" The Goblin shouted as several pumpkin bombs hit the railing Naruto and Spider-man were on. "I think we all know this is a trap."

Another pumpkin bomb hit one of the containers holding the molten ore. The impact caused the container to spill towards Naruto and Spider-man who jumped out of the way. Naruto jumped to the ground as the ore began to flow near him so he jumped onto another railing as Spider-man swung by when a pumpkin blade sliced his web so he landed on the railing Naruto was on.

"Welcome to Goblin's house of horrors! Or should I say, refinery of revulsion!" Goblin shouted as he appeared in front of them. His hands glowed green as he fired his green energy blasts and his glider began firing multiple pumpkin bombs. Spider-man shot a web to the ceiling and pulled himself away as Naruto backflipped away and landed on the adjacent railing.

The Goblin's glider kept firing at Naruto as he ran along the platform with the Goblin right on his tail a barrage of pumpkin bombs and green energy blasts. Spider-man then swung by to hit the Goblin but was blasted by a green energy blast and knocked back into a pipe.

Naruto jumped in the air to avoid a pumpkin bomb, turned mid-air, and fired an energy blast at the Goblin. Goblin fired one of his own and the two met in the air and cancelled each other out with an explosion that knocked them both back. Naruto spun his body and stuck his feet to one of the huge steam tankers as he saw the chain holding up Hammerhead about to break. He flew over just as the chain broke and grabbed it before Hammerhead took a bath in molten ore but lost one of his shoes. Naruto landed on the ground and put Hammerhead down and saw Spider-man get zapped in the back and smack into a pipe.

The Goblin flew at him with the blade on his glider ready to spear Spider-man so Naruto fired an energy blast that knocked him off course.

"Thanks!" Spider-man shouted as the Goblin set his sights on Naruto who jumped away but Goblin hit him with an energy blast and smashed him into a wall.

Naruto hit the wall hard as that energy blast felt a lot stronger than the last fight with the Goblin. Goblin's glider fired a barrage of pumpkin bombs and missiles at Naruto. Naruto held his hands out, creating a blue chakra shield as the bombs and missiles collided, creating green and red explosions. Naruto grit his teeth as the force of the explosions was stronger than anything he had faced before and soon the shield broke. The remaining bombs and missiles knocked Naruto through the wall and into the ground outside of the factory.

Naruto groaned in pain as he felt concussed from the explosions. He got back up and shook his head, readjusting himself as he heard more explosions going off in the factory so Naruto jumped back in through the hole he made. He saw Spider-man swinging and dodging his best but the Goblin got him from the side with an energy blast and knocked him into one of the molten ore containers.

Spider-man quickly backflipped and jumped away as the Goblin chased after him. The Goblin pressed a button on his gauntlet and the bottom of the glider opened up to reveal a high-tech energy gun. The gun powered up and locked onto Spider-man when Naruto flew forward and created an energy shield. The gun fired a purple energy blast that managed to tear through Naruto's shield and blast him through the air and through one of the molten ore containers. Naruto jumped out of the molten ore with only the smell of melted metal and some singes on his hair.

"Whew, thank you, durability." Naruto said as he powered up but saw that his powers weren't working right away. His blue charka aura was fritzing like it was being disrupted. "What the hell is going on?"

"Sir, it would appear the Goblin hit you with a plasma disruptor. The plasma energy disrupted the chakra pathways through your body and your powers. However, the effects are only temporary." Jarvis said as Naruto clenched his fists and they glowed blue. "Oh, and incoming, sir."

"What?" Naruto asked as he was blindsided by the Goblin's glider and dragged through the factory before the plasma disruptor blasted him again and was smashed into the wall of the factory.

"Dammit!" Naruto said as he shook his head free and saw the Goblin heading straight for him.

The Goblin was about to hit Naruto again when Spider-man swung by and managed to kick him off his glider and onto a pipe. Naruto pulled himself out of the wall and saw Spider-man web Goblin to the pipe, thinking that was it. Naruto took out some electronic binders and threw them at the Goblin's legs, keeping them stuck together.

"Your party manners suck, Gobby. If you want guests to have fun, you should offer out snacks and not try to kill them." Spider-man said as Naruto flew up next to him.

"Oh, tsk tsk, how rude of me. But at least I brought party favors!" The Goblin shouted as his glider fired a pumpkin blade at the ceiling. The ceiling then opened up to reveal hundreds of falling pumpkin bombs.

"Scatter!" Naruto shouted as he and Spider-man jumped and made their way to an exit. Naruto ran as fast as he could with his charka cloak absorbing damage but a combined explosion knocked him through the front door of the factory and outside. Spider-man swung away, jumping, and trying to avoid getting hit but got the tail end of a pumpkin bomb, knocking him through the air and ripping up his suit.

The Goblin grabbed Spider-man by the neck as he flew outside the factory. "Oh, why don't you just give up!" The Goblin shouted as he punched Spider-man into a smoke stack. Spider-man got back to his feet and jumped to avoid two pumpkin bombs as he shot some webs to trap the Goblin.

"Because I know your secret! I know who you are under that mutated face or mask or whatever! I know your real face!" Spider-man said.

"Oh, what is real? Which is real? The one that hides your face, or the one that is your face?" The Goblin said, as he threw some pumpkin blades and sliced up Spider-man's suit.

"I know you're Norman Osborn! We do! And we'll take you down for all the bad things you've done!" Spider-man said as he swung to another platform outside the factory and fired some impact webbing at the Goblin who blasted it with his energy blast.

"Oh, impressive webbing. Now try mine!" The Goblin shouted as the mouth of his glider opened up to reveal another cannon. It began fired green balls of muck that instantly hardened after it impacted something. Spider-man began swinging away as the Goblin chased after him, trying to nail him with the green muck.

Spider-man swung up as Naruto flew by and grabbed him by the arm and they flew away as the Goblin flew after him. He kept shooting the green muck as Spider-man jumped on Naruto's back like he was a surfboard. Naruto flew around a smoking tower as the Goblin launched six pumpkin bombs but Spider-man webbed them and whipped them around back at the Goblin.

They exploded once they hit the Goblin, creating a huge explosion of green smoke as the Goblin and his glider crashed into the roof of the adjacent processing mill. Naruto floated in the air with Spider-man on his back as they saw the Goblin get up, hurt from the explosion. They saw him wince in pain and grab his ankle as he managed to stand up.

"I guess he can be hurt under that mutated skin of his." Spider-man said.

"Let's finish this." Naruto said as Spider-man shot his web shooters but they were dry.

He quickly reloaded his web shooters as Naruto flew forward ready to stop the goblin when the goblin fired an energy blast at them. Naruto created a shield that blocked the blast but the Goblin's glider got back up and fired a plasma disruptor ray and smashed Naruto and Spider-man through the air and into a smoke stack. The blast had enough force that they were sent through the smoke stack and the concrete structure collapsed on them.

The concrete rubble shifts and tumbled off of one another as the massive pile began to move. The top of the pile was about 30 feet high and it was 40 feet wide but soon it came tumbling to the side as Naruto rose out from the rubble, pushing the concrete off him and Spider-man.

"Whew, we were almost pancakes. Thanks." Spider-man said.

"No problem. Thank you, super strength." Naruto said as pushed the 800lb pile of rubble off of them. He looked around and saw the Goblin was gone. "The Goblin's gone."

"We know where he's going. Let's go." Spider-man said as he swung away and Naruto flew with him. They flew through the city to Manhattan where Osborn's penthouse apartment was located.

They landed on the patio and saw the lights were on and the patio door was open. They walked in and saw the Goblin's armor was scattered in a line leading to the couch. They walked closer and expected to see Norman Osborn but instead saw Harry, Norman's son and Peter's best friend laying next to the couch unconscious. He was wearing the Goblin's chest armor on his body along with parts of what looked like a body suit.

"Harry?!" Spider-man shouted as Harry began to wake up and saw he was wearing some high-tech armor and that Spider-man and Naruto Uzumaki were standing over him. "You're the Green Goblin?!"

"No. This isn't my costume. I'm a cheerleader—Argh!" Harry shouted as he tried to stand but fell back down as he grabbed his leg in pain.

"What's going on here?" They heard as Norman Osborn walked in. Naruto looked down and saw an empty vial with traces of a green colored liquid. "Why's Harry wearing that ridiculous outfit?"

"You're not limping." Spider-man said.

"Why would I be limping?" Norman asked as he saw the vial Naruto was holding. "Give me that. Where did this come from?"

"Dad, I can explain!" Harry said.

"What is it?" Naruto asked.

"Globulin Oz, an early stage experimental Super soldier serum. Highly unstable, mutagenic, and addictive! You stole it from Oscorp, didn't you?!" Norman shouted as he grabbed Harry by the arm and hoisted him up. "Why would you do something so dangerous?! So STUPID!"

Harry's eyes narrowed as he got a psychotic look on his face. He grabbed his dad's hand and twisted it with incredible strength. "FOR YOU!" Harry shouted as he threw his dad across the room at the wall. Norman hit the wall and dropped to the floor as Harry held the vial of Oz. "You told me to man up! So, I took Oz to be the son you always wanted me to be. To become a man…like you."

Naruto and Spider-man could hear the anger and psychotic nature from the Goblin in Harry's voice. Harry then dropped to the floor as Spider-man rushed over to him. Harry opened his eyes, feeling exhausted from the episode he just had at his father.

"I must have blacked out, again. I don't remember anything. But I can't be the Goblin. Can I?" Harry looked at the vial and threw it at the wall in frustration. "I never should have taken it! I ruined everything. I'm sorry…so, so sorry."

Harry collapsed on the couch as he managed to remove the armor and was sitting there in the body suit. "This makes no sense. If Har—if this kid is the Goblin, why go after Tombstone? Why attack Oscorp?" Spider-man asked.

"I've had dealing with Tombstone, but when I tried to extricate myself I was threatened by his stooge." Norman told them.

"Hammerhead." Harry said.

"Harry must have overheard. Under the influence of the Oz, his subconscious created a persona, someone who could take Tombstone down. Now, as to why he came after me?" Norman asked.

"Maybe I've still got some anger issues!" Harry said as he began to laugh psychotically.

"And the mutation?" Naruto asked.

"Globulin Oz is unstable and while it does grant its user with super-human strength and abilities, the mutation it creates results in the hulking figure known as the Green Goblin. However, the mutation is unstable and not permanent. I'm guessing that the more Harry has been ingesting the Oz, the more frequent these changes came." Norman told them.

"And the weapons and armor?" Spider-man asked.

"Stolen from Oscorp from our secured weapons vault." Norman said as he looked at the state Harry was in. "I will not allow this to continue. I'll say that I was the Goblin. I created the formula."

"No, he needs you. What good are you to him if you're locked in a cell for a crime you didn't commit." Spider-man said.

"Didn't I? This is all my fault. I drove Harry to do this. I will get Harry help…if you'll let me." Norman said.

"Me?" Spider-man asked.

"If you turn him in, if Tombstone finds out that Harry was the Goblin, he wouldn't survive the night. Please. He's my only child." Norman begged them as Spider-man looked at Harry.

'And my best friend.' Peter thought.

"The Goblin disappears after tonight. He remains a mystery that's never to be solved." Naruto said as he grabbed all the armor and he and Spider-man left.

Line Break xxxxx

November 1st, 2010

The next morning, Jameson was in his office as Robbie showed him the front page of the Daily Globe which showed Naruto and Spider-man fighting the Green Goblin. "And why should I care what the Globe puts on it's front page?" Jameson asked.

"Because their Spider-man and Goblin story and Parker's pictures of it slaughtered our space shuttle coverage at the news stand." Robbie told him as Jameson crumbled the up the paper in anger.

"The people have spoken. Get that traitor Parker here and lock him into an exclusive deal. If they want heroes, we'll give them heroes. Here's tomorrow's front page headline, Spider-man: Threat or Menace?!"

Peter went to school while Naruto was in his lab, locking all the adamantium armor in his lab so he could analyze it later. He sat down in front of his computer looking at the file he had on the Green Goblin with the last passage he wrote about what happened last night.

Naruto looked at the screen and the passage that was written about the Goblin's identity as Harry Osborn. Naruto wasn't sure about how this ended. Something in the pit of his stomach felt that it was too easy and that somethings didn't add up.

"Sir, shall I close the file and assign it as complete?" Jarvis asked as Naruto looked at the picture of the Goblin.

"No, Jarvis. Leave it as open for now." Naruto said.

"Of course, sir." Jarvis replied. "Should we inform Agent Coulson of our discovery?"

"No, not yet, Jarvis. For now, I'll keep this to myself." Naruto said as Jarvis acknowledged his request and set the file back in his private database. Naruto thought that this was the biggest concern he had to deal with, unaware that something had hitched a ride on the space shuttle and soon it would wreak havoc for Naruto and Peter.

End of Chapter 10

1). Veidt is a character from the Watchmen graphic novel, he plays Ozymandias. A hero/villain in the comic. I know it's a DC property but when I watched the Watchmen movie and the graphic novel, I loved the character and thought it'd be a perfect villain for Naruto and the avengers. Maybe even have him be a part of the Masters of Evil in the future. Also, that was a reference to Dr. Doom. I do plan to implement him and the Fantastic Four in Phase 2. Taskmaster will also be back in later chapters.

(2) Count Nefaria from Iron Man: Armored Adventures.

(3) Think of Naruto's energy construct ability like when he unlocks his 9-tailed cloak. He can use them without the suit, but the suit's built in energy channel pathways and conduits make them completely stable and glow similarly to wrist band Taser's Black Widow used in the first Avengers movie. The small blade he made is like the small psychic blade Psylocke uses.

I hoped you guys liked chapter 10. We got to introduce Taskmaster, who will show up again in later chapters to fight Captain America and the Avengers. I hoped you guys liked Naruto working with Coulson as he'll come back in later chapters and their relationship will develop. Count Nefaria and the Maggia will return in later chapters as will the Tong when the Mandarin comes into play. And I'm not using the Mandarin from the Iron Man movie.

Next Chapter, an unexpected hitchhiker leads to an amazing discovery and some unfortunate consequences that Naruto and Peter find themselves at the mercy of. Their lives change and they fight their first group of super villains.

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.

Total Potential unlocked: 25%

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. I

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

Subplot: Attack on the White House

Avengers

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