Empire State University, Night.
Naruto was talking with Harry, M.J., Felicia, and Shuri as a club was hosting a fair to get people to join. He looked towards a building and saw that Peter was inside working in the lab with one of their professors, Curt Connors, for extra cash. As Connors has been working late nights on reptilian DNA for its regenerative powers to help people who've lost a limb.
At that thought, Naruto looked down at his own robotic arm and flexed his fingers. A few minutes went by before Peter ran to them, bag around his shoulder.
"Hey, guys!"
"Hey, you. You look familiar. Guys do we know this guy?" M.J. asked the group before Harry spoke.
"I had a roommate his size, but I didn't see his face much. He was always working, or studying."
"OK, cut it out. Some of us have to earn our mochaccino money."
"So lose the studying," Harry said taking a sip of his latte.
"Come on, it' a funfair so lose the laptop and have some fun," Naruto said moving forward.
And missed Felicia's hand trying to grab his ass.
"Oh my God, I forgot to give Doc Connors tonight's readouts!" Peter said bringing his bag over his shoulder and ran off.
Later, In The City.
Later that night, Shinobi was patrolling the city before seeing Dr. Connors, prosthetic arm wrapped up walking past an armored truck being loaded.
Suddenly, a man wearing goggles and blue coveralls rode up on a motorcycle with a double-barreled shotgun and shot at the guard that was standing by the driver's door.
Naruto saw Connors stand up to the man showing unusual bravado before dropping down just as webs hit the gun and pulled it out of the robber's hands
Naruto dropped down and saw the arachnid-themed hero swing down as the robber got in the truck and drove off.
"Come on, Spider-Man!" Naruto yelled as the two ran/swung after the truck.
Naruto landed on the back as Spider-Man landed on the hood and knocked on the windshield. "Hey, are you the local welcome wagon? I'm here to give you a brush-up course in manners."
BANG! BANG!
The robber pulled out a pistol and shot at Spider-Man who quickly dodged like he knew where the shots were going to go.
"Oh, I guess this is that wagon people fall off of," Naruto said as he jumped to the top of the passenger's door, jumped to the side, kicked through the window, and kicked the man out of the other side.
Spider-Man quickly webbed him to a light post and jumped in front of the truck and pushed against it, denting the grill and hood as he used his strength to stop the car.
Later, the police were putting the robber in a squad car as Curt was answering questions before Naruto and Peter walked up.
"I told you Spider-Man saved me," Curt said to the officer who was obviously not a fan of said hero.
"Right."
"And I heard him say that too, officer." A clone of Naruto in costume walked up from the other side of the car. "Or should I tell whoever's in charge of your precinct that you're falsifying a report? That would bring every report and crime you've solved into question."
The cop backed off before looking to the teens after Peter spoke up on them catching the end of the robbery when the truck was stolen having the cop telling them to come by for questions as Shinobi left.
Later, N.Y.P.D. Precinct 3.
Naruto sat in an interrogation room as he looked at the cop from earlier in the night.
"I don't get it. The doc sends you home but then you come tra-la-lalling back just after we nabbed the perp."
"Peter was working late helping Connors. I stayed back so he wouldn't walk home alone. We heard the gunshots and ran to look for a phone." Naruto replied back.
"Oh, that's where I know you from. 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not.' You're the only 21-year old without a cell phone glued to his head."
"Wouldn't that be a good thing?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow. "Plus I'm living on my own and paying for college. I don't have the luxury of taking it with me everywhere. I can't afford to replace it."
Before Naruto could continue, the lights went out having the officer pull up his flashlight.
"Stay here, the generator will kick on in a second." He walked out as Naruto heard scurrying in the ceiling before red lights came on. He looked to his right and saw the man who tried to rob the armored truck in the next room before the lights flicked on and off.
(HISS!)
"AAH!"
The man screamed before he was slammed into the glass, cracking it and leaving a bloody trail as he fell down.
Naruto quickly changed into his costume and ran to the hall and jumped up through a vent where he saw Spider-Man chasing something that has a large lizard's tail. They got to the roof and Naruto saw a 6' tall lizard/human hybrid jump off the edge as Spider-Man ran over and saw that the lizard was missing.
Naruto saw something out of the corner of his eye and looked to the vent to see a piece of a white coat with a button was stuck to the broken opening.
New York City, Dawn.
Shinobi was patrolling the City looking for the lizard hybrid that attacked the police the night before. He landed on a rooftop of a two-story building and looked around.
"AAH!"
Naruto looked down to see a subway repairman speeding through the city. Naruto jumped down just as the van drove off, almost hitting several cars, making Naruto run after it.
He jumped across the light posts before landing on the roof of the speeding van.
"Hit the brakes!" Naruto said leaning down to the driver. "TURN! TURN!" Naruto yelled then turned the steering wheel himself to miss a car that they almost hit. Bumping into several cars, they ran off the road and into the water after going through a grassy acre.
Naruto quickly cuts the seat belt and pulled the man out to grab onto the railing of the edge of the city.
"What the hell was that about?" Naruto asked the man.
"R-Red eyes. Red eyes everywhere."
"Uh-huh. Did they belong to pink elephants?" Naruto asked to make sure the man wasn't drunk.
"No, I swear they were real."
"OK, I'll look into it," Naruto said bringing them both up.
Daily Bugle, Seven A.M.
Naruto yawned as he walked inside from the elevator and saw several people working at their computers and walking around holding papers, pictures, or folders. After not finding anything about what attacked the repairman, he decided on checking if there were any leads in the Bugle and maybe get some money for any of the pictures he took since he was last in.
"Naruto."
Naruto looked to see an African-American man wearing a red button-up shirt, a black tie, and pants looking over pictures of the Avengers, Spider-Man, and Shinobi.
"I think I have a job for you. You've always gotten good pictures of the Avengers, right? Let's see what you can do with 'The Lizard'."
"The Lizard?" Naruto asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yes, the lizard."
Naruto looked over his shoulder to see J. Jonah walking out of his office.
"There have been reports about a giant lizard in alleys and the subway," Robbie said standing up.
Naruto stared remembering what the repairman said earlier in the morning.
"With everything that we have in this city, who would notice something like that? I'll let you know if I see whatever the hell it is." Naruto said waving his hand as he left.
E.S.U.
A few hours later, Naruto was walking to ESU to work in the lab for some extra credit.
CRACK!
Naruto sighed as it started to rain. "Just my luck." He said before jogging to the closest building.
"Naruto!?"
Naruto looked behind him and saw a woman in a raincoat with blonde hair and wearing glasses while holding books in a plastic shopping bag.
"Since when do you have classes today?" She asked Naruto who opened the door for her.
"Some extra credit on the classes I'm struggling in, Deb."
They walked inside where Deb took off her raincoat showing she had long hair pulled in a ponytail that reached down to her waist and a green dress.
"Why are you here? One of the smart girls like you shouldn't need extra credit."
"Helping one of the teachers for the next class." His fellow blonde replied as they walked down the halls.
Naruto heard something clatter before stopping Debra. "Wait, I just heard something. We should be the only ones in this building as there are no classes here today."
"You're just being paranoid, Uzumaki," Debra said just before the lights went out. "M-Maybe it was the storm?"
"Let's hope so," Naruto replied as they saw a door ajar.
They walked inside just as a coat rack fell over.
"Who's there?!" Debra yelled.
CRACK!
Lightning flashed showing the lizard Naruto fought the previous night
(HISS!)
"NARUTO!"
Naruto grabbed the coat rack and swung it at the lizard having it jump out of the window before running to it. Seeing the lizard was gone, Naruto closed it and grabbed Debra before running out of the room.
ESU, Night.
Later that night, Naruto was with Peter who was looking over DNA from Curt and what he found from the coat at the precinct and some scales he found on Curt's desk from talking to him earlier in the morning. And saw all three matched before going back to Curt's office and saw it was wrecked with the window broken.
They looked and saw an article on Connors suing Oscorp for the accident that caused him to lose his arm as well as several court documents before looking up and saw the Oscorp building several blocks away.
"Norman just left again for business overseas there's no one there except…." Naruto trailed off remembering Harry was there to look over several projects for his father. "Oh my God."
Peter tried to call Harry only to go straight to voicemail before Naruto spoke up.
"Suit up."
He changed as did Peter revealing his Spider-Man costume underneath before they swung/ran over to the building.
When they got to it, they landed in Norman's office where it was trashed with claw marks around the room. Naruto picked his staff up and extended it before they walked out, following the destruction and found the transformed Connors trapping Harry.
"Hey, scales," Spider-Man said getting Connors attention. "Know where I can get some tail?"
Connors hissed at them as Naruto dropped down and blocked Connors biting him by placing his staff in his mouth "GO! Get out of here!" Naruto yelled to Harry before Connors tackled him out of the window.
"Shit!" Naruto cursed before flipping around and throwing his grapple hook and slamming into the building.
Connors slipped out but started to crawl back up as Spider-Man landed. "It's not too late to turn back, Dr. Connors!" They ran to the top as Spider-Man tried to bring Connors back before shooting webs at him and then attached them to a fan that pulled Connors to the gate, pinning him.
"We're not in the jungle!" He said as a helicopter flew over them, shining a light down.
The grate fell down having Naruto jump over and threw six kunai with ninja wire pinning the mutated teacher to the roof as Spider-Man left due to still not being on the cop's good side.