"And you're sure this is a good idea, sir? He's nobody, doesn't seem all too impressive, to be honest."

"And I told you to shush it. This isn't a war we can afford to be picky on our allies. Besides, he stood up to the Skrulls and managed to hold them off long enough for whoever that powerhouse of a woman was to come and finish the job. He managed to gain the Hulk's respect, and he sure as shit wasn't hesitating to save people from Sentry. As long as he's not with SHIELD, and he's no Skrull, I'll take my chances. Do I make myself clear?

"Yes, sir… As you wish."

"Sir! He's coming to."

Naruto had hoped to keep appearances up, but there was a significant pain in his leg right now and he couldn't help but groan a bit which signaled the others. He slowly opened his eyes and lifted his head, but was met with darkness. Well, all but a certain spotlight on him. Someone came up and dragged a chair over, setting it down and sitting in it in front of him. The one who sat before him was a guy with a chiseled jawline, five o'clock shadow, and an eyepatch, smoking a cigar. "Awake blondie? Good. Cause I have some questions."

Hissing from the constant leg pain, the blonde looked to see a knife in his leg. "Yeah? Interrogation works on people who hate pain. I consider it an ally."

The man grabbed the knife and pulled it out of his leg. "Yeah, and I figured you needed a little wake-up call. Here's the deal." Wiping the blood off with a towel, the man held the clean knife up at the light. "You answer my questions, you give me a reason to trust you, I let you go about your day. You give me any reason to think you'll turn on humanity and I slit your throat right now."

It was a fair deal to be sure, but the ninja champion of a god was no fool. This was intimidation and interrogation. It was information for a cause. And he also knew that if this guy wanted to make him suffer he would. That pause meant something, and Naruto was going to figure out what. "Before I go through with this, the least you can do is let me ask a couple of questions myself. Only fair."

"Mine first, then you can ask yours, and you better think carefully what you ask and what you answer."

"Give me one preliminary question, and I'll answer you best I can."

The glare of both men grew on each other, and the blonde was giving a small smirk as well. Soon enough, the eyepatch commanding officer smirked back. He took his cigar and burned the end out on the blonde's wound. "Think carefully… But sure, one question from you to start."

Taking the pain, the blonde shown hardly a wince besides the leg it was being done on tensed up. "You're obviously doing some secret shit, either you are a resistance force or a wetwork organization. Either way, my first question is simple. Who exactly are you and your team?"

Impressed with the perceptive nature of his captive, the man leaned back, crossing a leg over the other and crossing his arms. "My name is on a need to know, and right now you have to earn that need. But if you must know who we are, then you got the former correct. Resistance against some very manipulative pricks and a sort of final defense in case things fall apart with the heroes again. We got no name, but you can call us the TRUE SHIELD agents."

"True SHIELD agents? Meaning you were formerly, but have since gone into hiding for some reason. Got it… Well, I can respect privacy of identity. Now, what would you like to know?"

"Who do you work for?"

Naruto was taken aback by that but shrugged. "Myself." Seeing the man glaring at him, he rolled his eyes and looked blankly back. "What, you think I'm some government lackey? You'll find I'm my own man. If given the choice to join or fight Iron man, then he can lick the dirt from my boot after I stomp him into the ground. I'm an unknown quantity, not a legal mask with a name nor am I a part of anyone's little club. Yet anyway, technically I'm probationally an ally with Doctor Strange and his merry band, including Spidey and Wolverine."

"Ah, Cage's group." A moment of staring after that, the man in the eyepatch played with his knife, making sure it was sharp enough for the next strike if need be. "Say I believe you, and you're just a random anomaly in the system that's been changing here in New York. Care to tell me what exactly you are doing here?"

"I'd say 'being a hero' but it takes real sacrifice and commitment for that. I've yet to earn that title, but I won't let that stop me from actually trying to do some good." Naruto was waiting for the real questioning to begin. He knew this man was just testing him.

"So you 'wannabe' a hero. In a sense. Charming, but heroes don't try to be heroic, they just are. So tell me straight what your angle is, what makes you believe you can be a hero? Would you die for it? Would you kill for it?" The glare and narrow look, as if he already knew the answer, it unsettled Naruto just a bit.

Taking a deep breath and steadying himself, the blonde frowned. "Baser instincts and training distilled into me from childhood, I'll kill if need be and have in fact done so, to survive no matter the cost. But if it means saving innocent lives, I'll be the shield, whether I die or not from being said shield. But I can't continue to be that shield if I am dead, and I sure as hell can't stop someone who is willing to kill for killing's sake without either breaking them for good or ending them permanently. The extreme situations of dying myself or killing others are something each person must attribute to their own ideals. I've already killed to save myself and others, and I almost died after saving others. If that means I can never be a hero then so be it. But I won't stop helping those in need."

It was a minute of staring at each other, the silence permeating the room as each party awaited something to happen. The older man leaned in, knife in hand. "I know your powers stem from solar energy, quite interesting. You said you almost died from saving others from death, this speaks truly from when Sentry tried to fight off the Hulk. How could you absorb his energy? It's not from the sun."

"It's still Solar Radiation, or at least partly. Using ultraviolet radiation, and cosmic radiation, I was able to absorb a large amount of it myself thanks to my increased energy stores that day. However, it was too much to just absorb it, so I had to expend my energy at the same time. I had to fight it back as well."

"I see… So when he said his powers were like a million exploding suns, it wasn't just rhetorical."

Smirking and scoffing, Naruto turned his head away in thought. "Maybe not that much power, but that was just one section of it from a single attack, he could have been still holding back."

"One last question." Raising the knife up, he stood and placed it at Naruto's heart. "And you better give me a good answer."

Seeing the knife was actually touching his chest, the blond could only fathom that it was still daytime. Though he could almost sense the sun setting. He had to stall. "Alright, but know it might be a long one if it's the question I think it is."

"Who are you, and where did YOU come from? You're not from any central database in America, or any database we could search. Your blood is not human, and it seems to have a Mutant gene but heavily modified. Your muscle mass and skeletal structure are also enhanced, lighter but stronger than our own skeletal structure and your muscles seem leaner. Denser even, more so than could come from training, although we can see you've had a lot of physical training."

"And let me guess, you want the truth?" Getting a glare back and feeling the knife start to gently penetrate into his chest, the blond frowned. "Fine. The truth is? I have no idea. Ra doesn't even fully know yet, and he's been searching for my home since the arena Hulk built."

A scoff from behind the older man came up. "Ra? Great, another psycho with an Egyptian god apparently."

"You wanted the truth, I'm giving it. Besides, Moon knight may be schizophrenic and I agree with that, but he isn't lying about being guided by Khonsu. If you need confirmation, Strange even looked inside and found I was telling the truth."

"Let's say we believe you. Why can't you, or Ra, tell us where you come from?"

Seeing the man was seriously listening, he could almost sense the eyepatch was looking into his soul. "Because I am not the one he originally called for. Ra was looking for a champion who had the power and the skill to be a hero, the heart to do what it takes. Seems he miscalculated, the version of me from another dimension that he originally called didn't come here, I did, and Ra has been trying to figure out exactly where I came from. If you must know, I am not from this world, you already figured that out, and I suspected myself similar to a mutant, but was unsure till you confirmed the gene in me. Where I came from is moot until Ra and I figure it out fully. As for who I am, my full name is Naruto Yuuto Uzumaki. I sense learned that it sounds very much like the Japanese language here. Maybe there are similarities, but all I know is that I learned English, Egyptian, a few African dialects, and made sure I could understand the differences between my root language and actual Japanese. I am a Ninja from where I come from, and once had a different power set. Since Ra revived me from death, my previous powers were taken from me and he instilled new ones. 'Bout as thorough as I can be at the moment. Satisfied?"

Taking the knife back and cleaning the tip, the man started walking around his chair. "I could ask you what powers you have, but I already know about your ability to create certain objects out of light. You can take a beating, but it's just enhanced physical resistance. You seemed to have a healing ability, but it looked minor."

Naruto could feel his body tingling, the same sensation of his defensive power coming into effect. "Yeah? You might wanna rethink that. My healing power isn't minor, and I have something else to contend with high strength and super sharp attacks." As soon as he felt his barrier activate, he smirked. "Come on, stab me again, I dare you."

Normally, he would see interrogators either scoff and ignore him, or try and intimidate him. Not this guy, he seemed curious and shrugged. Before without warning just jabbing his knife against the blond's shoulder, only for the knife to suddenly snap and break off, and Naruto being unharmed.

That got everyone's attention. The older man hummed. "Interesting. Question is, why didn't you have this earlier… it can't be because you were unconscious, I sunk the tip into your chest a second ago."

"You want the answer, you give me mine. Who do I owe the pleasure of this interrogation?" Naruto was hoping his newfound place of invulnerability to their techniques could help get some information on his end. "I mean, you aren't killing me, you weren't going to and you certainly can't now without some serious firepower. You want me alive, I just wanna know who it is I should be thanking for getting me the heck out of the street, and why the theatrics."

A moment later, the two men were staring each other down again. The older man smirked and chuckled. "You sure are a tough bastard. I'll give you that. Alright then, yeah. You're right, we do want you alive." Turning to his team, he nodded. At that, the cuffs on Naruto were remotely opened. "You can call me Fury. And I think we can help each other out. We're trying to expose, and stop, Norman Osborn from taking over the country through political power and villainous might. He's been recruiting some bad customers lately, and we need to shut him down. We need all the help we can get."

Standing up, Naruto nodded. "Alright, but I have a request of my own. You want me in on this to take down someone you think is going to drag the country down through his own personal agenda? I want information on the bastard that wants to capture and kill me."

One of the agents came up. "You mean that robed prick who ran off? What is so important about him?"

"He's after me, and he teamed up against me with the Skrulls. If it wasn't for you guys and that super-powered girl of yours, they would have caught me. And I need to take him down before he actually succeeds in capturing me and using me for an evil ritual."

The team looked at each other. Fury decided to reply. "We'll see what we can find, give us any and all information you can on him. But to be frank? That powered woman isn't one of ours. IN fact, she's as new to us as you are, and twice as sneaky. She flew off and suddenly went stealth mode, our satellites couldn't follow her past three blocks from where she fought your enemy."

"You're telling me there's another player in general who has that much flare and can just vanish?" Naruto stood and rubbed his wrists, and checked around him for his gear. "Well, let's see how that holds up… It seems she is with some people who want to protect others. Another new hero maybe?"

One of the women came up, and the blonde noticed specialized gauntlets on her arms. "We're unsure. All we know is from her brief moments during the invasion, as you said, helping others. To be clear, I have a feeling you're holding back some information about yourself on us, but Fury is the boss. You betray us, I'll crush you through whatever barrier you have, got it?"

Shrugging, it was only a small smile that was present on the blond's cheeks. "I don't betray anyone. I make a promise, I keep it. And I promise to be your ally against Osborn. After that, my promise is complete and I go my own way. Whether we remain allies after that depends on you guys."

"Good enough for me. Like I said, any and all information on your guy and we will do what we can. And whenever we need you, we give you a call." grabbing a device out of his pocket, Fury gave it to Naruto. "Keep this close, but don't let anyone know you have it. Not even your new buddies Strange and Cage."

Taking it and giving it a spin to see what all it had to offer, Naruto nodded and closed it, pocketing it quick. "Understood."

At this time, Ra spoke up. "You want this man's respect, give it top the best of your ability. Fury will make a grand ally."

Offering a hand, Naruto smiled. "Be seeing you soon. And again, thanks for the assist getting me out of that hot zone."

Fury chewed on his new cigar before shaking the man's hand. "Don't make us regret it. Will keep in touch."

Naruto was walked to the exit, and found himself halfway across the city from where he was. It was a very secluded hideout to be sure, but he ignored it and started his way back to Strange.

Though he watched as Spiderman was flinging in another direction. Choosing to follow the bug, he caught up to find him swinging into a hidden passage through a wall. "Hmmm… Nice hiding place."

He waited as more and more people piled in, even a frantic Jessica and Luke. The two were really out of sorts. "This cannot be good…"

"There are too many variables now, the Skrulls have not only attacked, but they destabilized everything in the process. Who knows what will happen, with who is put in charge, in what part of the city, or on what team. We need to be careful, and we need to be smart. What do you think we should do?" Ra was hoping to receive an answer that made sense in this chaos.

He got one. "I go in and see what has Jessica crying her eyes out. Then I find out who everyone is, and then I see if I can help. Information is hard to get in the shadows, being upfront and honest can give you upfront and honest answers." He chose to head on in after a while, only to find everyone about to head out. "Hey everyone."

"What the hell are you doing here?" Danny Rand said as he was behind Wolverine, who looked squarely on the blonde ninja.

"Could ask the same of you. The fancy hiding place took me a minute to find out where everyone coming this way went. The wall is seamless."

Ronin came up, Clint having seen the man's pain. "What happened with you during this entire invasion fiasco?"

"Skrulls came my way, I beat a couple down before they got the jump on me. I managed to get out of trouble thanks to a little bit of help from an unknown woman with crazy powers and a mechanical backpack. I was under some rubble after the sonic wave of wanting to make me throw my organs up. The next thing I know rescue teams are trying to get people out, and I was coming back to the mansion. Next thing I know I see Spidey here slinging his way the other direction." Naruto shrugged. "So, what's up with you all? Is Jessica ok?"

Luke came up to the sun avatar, frowning. "Not one bit, a fucking Skrull that looked like Jarvis took our baby! And now we're heading to the Four to see if we can't get help in locating that green son of a bitch."

Eyes going wide, Naruto took that in. He looked to Jessica and then Luke. "Lead on, if it's in my power, you can bet I'll help you out. We're supposed to be a team right? Child theft is something I'd kill a fucker for."

Hearing that conviction threw the large invincible man for a loop, but he nodded, and pat the shoulder of his ally. "Good, then let's go."

As the team walked out and about, Naruto noticed the entire team having some new members. "And who're the new ladies of the bunch?" he was looking towards the two blonds behind him, Ronin and Mockingbird.

"Hey, eyes off my wife, buster," Clint said, holding Mockingbird's arm.

Naruto shrugged. "Not trying to get any dates here, just wondering. Wife huh? Well regardless, good for you."

Seeing Spiderwoman and Ms. Marvel he was wondering what brought the huge team-up here. "Either I came in late, or they were just busy with other things."

Thankfully he had Ra to give some advice. "You should ask them yourself, though I can guess Mockingbird and Hawkeye being this close means she's no Skrull, but was a prisoner of them possibly. Spiderwoman was with Iron Man, or so I thought. Interestingly, we have so little information from when we were captured by Fury and now. Asking them soon would help. Also, as a word, I cannot really see beyond my space inside your psyche, so, unfortunately, I cannot tell where you came from. But I know this, star constellations in your mind are similar to a quadrant in space that is near the border of this universe and is in line with the universe I was trying to pull the other Naruto from. You may very well be from this universe and was in the way of my summons. We will have to find the Guardians, or call upon the Asgardians for answers. Odin owes me a favor, it shouldn't be too hard."

It was almost no time between their walk and where they found the sleeping members of the Fantastic Four, the original team. Though it was a mess, like something really big happened and wrecked their living space from the inside. Spidey was actually the first to comment on it as he found Sue. "What happened to this place?"

Sue opened the curtain as she answered. "Skrulls took out the building. Nothing we can't fix though, but it's not exactly a good thing."

Seeing everyone come up, the woman of invisibility was surprised. "What brings you all here?"

"The detector, Reed's device, we need it." Luke was straight and too the point.

Enough so that he glossed over the why, so Sue sipped her drink. "Reed's asleep. It's been a very long and stressful few days, as you know."

Jessica walked up, tears still filling her eyes. "My baby, the Skrulls took my girl."

That did it, and Sue sounded the alarm, calling all station now as Reed, her brother, and their rocky companion all came from their beds and listened as they were told what happened, and what they could do to help.

Thanks to Reed's help, the team actually started to formulate some kind of plan… Naruto heard it and frowned. "That's going down a dangerous road… One that can lead to a place Spidey here won't be happy about."

"Hey, we have alien kidnappers, I'll beat some jaws in to find her!" Though the neighborhood golden boy sounded the warcry, their resident mutant was scoffing.

As Spiderman looked to him, Wolverine shrugged. "You're willing to fatally wound if need be?"

"Fatally? Not a chance, but I'll break some legs and pull some teeth out if I have to to help. Just… Look you know my policy."

"Which is why we need to be careful. This isn't so cut and dry, and when it does become such then we're too far gone." Naruto wanted to make sure it wasn't out of order, but he knew he was still the rookie here.

The mantle wearing partner of the real Captain America crossed his arms. "We'll be fine… We've been through tougher spots against even worse criminals. This is just closer to home against shapeshifting aliens."

"I don't give a shit, we go out and find our baby girl." He turned to Reed, Luke Cage crossing his arms. "You keep lookin', we'll shake some streets down. Anything pops up, you let us know."

"Understood… I will make sure to be quick in my search." With that, Naruto walked out with most of the team, the ones who were more powerhouses than normal humans. Thanks to the Super Skrull threats that were still about, the blond ninja knew they needed all the power they could gather for the fights.

Splitting up, Naruto started jumping around and launching himself around the city. As he looked around, he had to wonder what had happened, seeing all the destruction, the still cleaning up support crews and safety personnel. "This wasn't so small contained, this was massive, enough so that even the greatest of heroes came back with unsure attitudes. The Skrulls are devious."

"Locusts, sometimes. They are conquerors, but between them and the Kree, the war causes much damage collaterally. They wanted a workforce, clones, a way to gain power against their enemies. It's not so simple either, the Kree are militant and can be total and utter martial law. There are just too many variables to worm through. This kind of damage, they brought their biggest weapons." Ra hummed as he gave his knowledge.

After a few moments, Ra and Naruto were talking when the blond had an idea. "Wait… Can we hijack a method of finding these things? If Reed can think up a device, then you can help me figure out patterns. Patterns that will let me know who is a real Skrull."

Ra sighed heavily at that. "Not possible like that. Skrulls tend to mimic almost perfectly their targets, to the point they even gain memory and muscle memory. As long as they have you, they can make one of them into you in every way. Though right now they must be in disarray, if some want to be more like us, they will try and find their former friends and attempt to reconnect. Others might be trying to gather and find a way off-planet. I can give you nothing to go off of in terms of patterns of body movement or action, but I might have something… Maybe you can find them using special light spectrums. They shapeshift, but because Light gives off-color and shape to the human eye if we change it past what they acknowledge, we might be able to find them."

Smirking, the blond somewhat chuckled. "And that is a plan. Ok, so, we know the Skrulls are trying to hide, and know they are being hunted. Though who is hunting who is a question to ask, what we need to wonder is this, who is willing to kill any Skrull they see… We better keep an eye out for any aggressors, they get too itchy on the trigger we are back to square one."

As soon as Ra agreed, Naruto got the beeping alarm of Reed calling them all to tell them where the Skrull in. Someone found out where one might be, so with all his power he launched over the buildings and started flying on a disc of golden light to fly there. When he got there, he saw everything throw down outside, Jess and Luke, Wolverine, they took down a Skrull woman and put her into a big dent in a truck, knocking her into submission.

Setting down, the blond was coming up when he saw SHIELD Agents shoot the Skrull. "Shit!"

"They're going to kill our baby…" Jessica and Luke sat defeated. Coming up to the SHIELD agent, he smacked the gun from the dude's hand and punched him.

That got some attention. "HEY! What's the big idea?! You one of these criminals?!"

"I'm someone who is helping them find a kidnapper you bastards! A baby was stolen, this Skrull was our link to find out where the child was taken!" Naruto growled and stood up against them. "Next time someone says there's a stolen child on the line, maybe ask without lethal force, you dicks! Get the hell out of my sight before I kick all your asses!"

Wolverine stepped up with him. "What he said! You've done enough…"

Naruto came up and saw the two parents still down. "What do we do now…"

After a few minutes, the big hero of Harlem looked to the blond. "Something I didn't think I would ever do… Trust some black ops criminal connections. I'm going to go pay Osborn a visit."

"What!" Wolverine reacted with a wild surprise, Jessica herself looking to her husband with confusion and dread. "You cannot trust that crazy goblin!"

"I don't. Not to be his manipulative self or not. But I can trust he'll want to make a deal. He saves my kid, I do something drastic for him. Probably join his ass for some shit."

Naruto crossed his arms. "He grabs the baby, you go about joining him… Then what, you're off the team?"

"Naw. I trick him. We get the baby…" Cage looked up at them with a determined look. "Then I cause a ruckus, giving someone time to grab my baby from his clutches."

Nodding, Naruto looked at him, then to the dead Skrull. Having a feeling, the young ninja knelt down and put his hand to her head, and his hand started to glow. Everyone looked confused until Naruto gasped and smiled. "Alright… That's a solid plan B… But we still have plan A."

The bullet wound healed, and Naruto quickly grabbed her and Luke, pulling them to an alley. Soon the Skrull awoke to Naruto sitting in front of her. "Who…"

"I'm with the ones who beat your ass… Jessica says you agreed to give her information for safety… I have a proposition." Naruto grinned. "You help us... And you, and everyone who wants peace… Well, let's just say we have ideas on getting you all out of here without any more bloodshed on either side."

Seeing Jessica nod, Luke himself scowling but also nodding, she looked to the blond, who offered a hand. "You'll help?... No more bloodshed?"

"As long as I can help, I will. Deal?"

A moment went by, but she nodded vigorously and shook his hand. "I'll show you where we meet. That'll be where the Jarvis Skrull will be."

Wolverine knelt beside her. "Good, now… Lead the way, Skrull."

XxX A.R.M.O.R HQ XxX

"So, you see the trouble? I would assume you're still on the fence with this silence, Ms. Walters?"

Drinking some Coffee, the lean mean green muscled woman of a machine sat across from one of the representatives of a branch known for monitoring alternate realities. She hummed. "I see the trouble, but I am not exactly partial to any governmental secret type of organization right now. I still don't know who here might even be a Skrull."

"We've been checked, and we monitor everyone with the help of others who we are damn certain are not Skrulls. Besides, Skrull or not, this is something that needs attention and you have the know-how to help in case of an emergency."

"Mr. Sky, I know very well that you think this is an emergency, last time someone came from that universe, they targeted my Cousin. Thundra turned around and became a great hero. Now you're telling me more are coming through? Look, keep watching and see if they are here to fight again. If so, I'll help try and calm them down, but I cannot afford to get into the eyes of Osborn's little power trip."

Sky stood up and presented a pager. "Walters, I wouldn't ask if I didn't think this would be a possibility, and I don't intend for Osborn to get wind of this anyway, it should be simple subdue and talk it out without incident. If they come through with serious power, we need some of our own. We need someone with experience with it. We don't expect an answer right now, and this is practically just a fail-safe measure if anything. Just think it over, and if something does indeed go wrong you'll know, at that point, you can choose to engage or not. Deal?"

Drinking the rest of her cup and standing, Jennifer grabbed the pager. "Fine, but if the shit hits the fan, I expect to be well compensated."

"Seeing as our budget is on the line, it'll have to be a practical compensation, but we'll make sure you're satisfied with the payment."

"Good. See you around, Sky." She left with a sigh. As she walked through the streets, she looked up at the night sky. "I wonder how the others are doing…And how Naruto got through the Invasion." Little did she know, everything coming to a head with Osborn was about to give her some answers.