A/N: Third chapter. Naruto/Queen seems popular and I have a few ideas about OC's, but keep telling me what you think.

I'm... uh... interested. Yeah, let's go with that.

Chapter 3: Unusual Phenomena

"Huh. That's new."

Naruto stared at his fingers for a few seconds. That was something he'd never felt before. "Ghost? Could you get out here?"

The small robot appeared next to him. "What is it?"

He gave a metallic-sounding yelp as Naruto grabbed him out of the air and brought him up to eye level, squeezing none too gently. "Care to explain how I suddenly have a mysterious power that I'm pretty sure I didn't have when I died?"

"It's something all Guardians have!" Ghost replied hurriedly. "Whenever one of my siblings brings someone back from the dead, we infuse them with the Traveler's Light. It gives them life, power and purpose."

"I didn't ask for it."

"No Guardian has," the little robot said. "But it's what we've always done. The Traveler created us to search for anyone who can use its Light as a weapon. Other than that, it didn't specify much else."

Naruto stood still for a moment, then let go of Ghost, who nearly fell to the ground at the sudden lack of support.

"Okay," Naruto rumbled, pinching the bridge of his nose. "I'll stomp on you later. Right now, I'm presuming you're leading me someplace?"

"R-right, yes," Ghost stuttered. "We're looking for an old Jumpship. Guardians can't do much without them."

"Alright. Let's go find one."

"Setting up a waypoint now."

Naruto raised an eyebrow and sighed.

"Back in my day, people actually told you where to go, but whatever."

He cocked his helmeted head, curious as to the small square that appeared in his vision.

"That's where you're supposed to go."

"Oh, well that explains it."

Naruto took off on a run, ignoring the mud staining his boots with each stomp.

The two of them came out in the middle of a small room. A ship was hanging on the far wall, Fallen swarming all over it, including a large one that he hadn't seen before. Idly creating a few clones to deal with the rest, he slowly walked forward, taking off his helmet, putting it under his arm.

"Uh, what are you doing?" Ghost asked, starting to get nervous.

"Seeing just what these things can do."

Naruto stopped just in front of the Captain, who growled, staring down at him. The blond smirked back.

"Well? Bring it on!"

The alien snarled and swung at him, smashing two arms into his body and neck.

To anyone else, that hit would have caused some serious damage.

Naruto merely cocked his head to the side, smile disappearing. "Is that it?"

The Captain reared back for another blow, but never got to unleash it as Naruto's uppercut punched through its shield and took off most of its head.

As the headless corpse stumbled backwards, he simply looked at his fist. "Damn. So disappointing."

A few Vandals that had managed to survive Naruto's clones turned in surprise, only to get swarmed as soon as they did so.

With the room looking secure, Ghost materialized and floated over to the jumpship, scanning it.

"Well, it looks mostly functional. The Fallen haven't completely picked it clean yet. We're pretty lucky."

"Hang on," Naruto said, turning to a nearby hole in the wall and putting his helmet back on.

"What?"

"Something big is coming."

An echoing roar sounded throughout the room.

A supersized Fallen, standing a good few meters taller than a human, appeared out of the dark hole, an ornate helmet on its head, a dozen eyes glowing a dull orange.

Naruto's grin grew beneath his helmet. "Now that's more like it.

"Guardian, I really wouldn't recommend—"

"No worries, Ghost, I've got this," Naruto said, walking a few feet away from his floating companion, taking the ship out of the line of fire.

And not a second too soon.

In an instant, Naruto bent backwards at the waist to a spine-cracking degree as a line of bluish-white energy zipped right through where his head had just been.

"Hey!" he roared, looking at a pair of Vandals, two new weapons in each of their hands. "I'm not interested in you! Buzz off!"

Two of his remaining clones rushed the flanking Fallen, simultaneously putting their knives between the aliens' eyes.

"So what's the deal?" Naruto asked.

"Pardon?" Ghost muttered, a little shocked.

"Who is this guy, and why is this room full of bones?" Naruto asked, pointing to the supersized Fallen.

The one that was glaring at them in a towering fury.

"Riksis, Archon of the House of Devils. Archons are the links between the Kells and their Prime Servitors, which are basically the gods of the Fallen."

Naruto stared up at the tall Archon, arms crossed and face a picture of calm. His last Clone stood at his shoulder, visibly more tense than his creator.

"And the bones?"

The Ghost was silent for a second. "He... enjoys offering the skulls of any human he can find to his Prime Servitor. He seems to have made a sport of it."

Naruto closed his eyes. "Hm," he said as he stretched his neck to both sides.

The Shadow Clone glanced at him. "You thinking what I'm thinking?"

"I'm you. Of course I'm thinking what you're thinking."

Ghost looked between them in consternation. Riksis was starting to look very angry.

The Clone thumbed his chin. "Our control is shot, though."

Naruto started to grin.

"Old fashioned way, then?"

"You know it," he said, his smile showing a disturbing about of teeth as he idly flicked his Clone on the forehead, causing him to disappear. "Alright, here we go."