Will contain spoilers for the comic book series of "Marvel: Civil War," as well as the crossovers this story involves. You have been warned.
All universes involved have been altered, ever so slightly, to fit the Marvel mold. If there is a show, or book series, you think should be here, drop a comment, and watch the drama evolve! Anyways, enjoy:
Danny Phantom
He stepped off the bus at the old Fenton Works, back home after so many long years. He was done with his training, and he was on vacation for a little while until they set up a team for him.
He could hardly wait, his own team of Avengers! But first, he had to catch up with his folks. Tucker and Jazz became SHIELD operatives in training, but he hadn't heard or seen anything from Sam.
Sam was against the S.H.R.A. from the beginning, but being a superhero meant protecting others while upholding the law. What do people not understand about that? Besides, the funding from Stark and SHIELD really helped his parents' paranormal research. They're making a name for themselves, and not as a joke!
He entered the house and heard a noise upstairs. He dropped his bags and transformed, that ring around him changing him from human to phantom. He talked to his parents earlier, they weren't going to be home for another hour, so who's here with him?
He phased through the floors of the house, searching for the intruder. When he finally spotted her, he froze.
"D-Dani?" He called to her.
She was walking down the hallway when she tensed up and turned around. The girl had gotten taller, and her new clothes were just a bigger size from her old clothes, but she looked healthy. Danny was wondering if his "cousin" had been eating well. The last time he saw his clone was a bad day with Vlad Masters.
They stared at each other in silence for a good minute. It had been forever since he saw her. She must have been fifteen now. She reminded Danny of those first days, when he was still discovering his powers.
Then, in that moment, Danielle changed. Her ghost outfit still ruled, having not changed all this time, but Danny liked his suit better. There wasn't a real need to focus on offense with his suit, since his powers provided more than enough, but he still had his vulnerabilities. This suit was made of a high tech mesh polymer, which meant that he now had an upgraded defense on anything designed to be used against ghosts.
He just never imagined he'd need it for a fight against a friend.
Danielle had held her hands out and fired a blast of energy at Danny, sending him sprawling through the air and he ended up phasing through a wall. He steadied himself in the air outside, and spotted Danielle flying away as fast as she could. Danny chased after her.
Danny had always had an assortment of varied abilities, along with his invisibility, intangibility, and ecto-rays, he also had his freezing powers, his ghostly wail, and…well, he was still working on his duplication, but he was getting better. Dani wasn't like that: she can't develop the same powers Danny could, but that certainly didn't mean she couldn't use what she had effectively.
For example; she was already smaller, and faster, than Danny was, but she could also form the ecto-energy into a ball, and ricochet it off the walls of an alley and have it slam into the face of whatever poor sap was chasing her.
A development that Danny didn't recognize until a second too late.
He would have lost her, but he heard her slam into some trashcans around the corner. He could hear her curse herself trying to get away. Danny cornered her, and she seemed like she was having a shortness in breath.
"If you think I'm going to give up without a fight…" she put up her fists pathetically.
"Whoa, Dani, hold on!" the ghost boy held his hands up in surrender. "I'm sorry! I didn't realize it was you, I thought some punk kid had broken into my house."
"Well," she shrugged, "I did, technically."
She fell to one knee and had her hands on the ground, trying to keep herself steady. She must be weak from fighting. She's stable, but she still gets these little fits from time to time, at least, last he checked.
"Here," Danny offered, "Let me help with that."
"Don't touch me!" Dani smacked his hand away.
Danny was shocked. Why was she acting like this? Dani looked at him like he had broken into her house.
"What is going on?" he asked her, "I'm not going to hurt you, girly. I'm your cousin."
"You signed up with them," she told him, "Why? I have your brain, so I know you know that this is wrong. So why'd you sign up?"
Danny sighed and shook his head.
"I thought that…" he paused, "After what happened in Stamford, with Nitro and the New Warriors, I could set the example. I'm trained by SHIELD, a peace keeping organization-"
"A militarized peace keeping organization."
"-and I thought it would help people relax around me," he finished, "I'm already exposed as a superhero, and I need to help protect the people as best I can. Ghosts or super villains."
"By taking down other heroes?"
"By taking down the bad guys," Danny argued, "As quickly and efficiently as possible."
"What about me?" Dani slowly stood back up, leaning on the wall. "What happens to the heroes and metahumans who don't want to be exposed on some politician's Facebook?"
Danny opened his mouth to answer, pausing, and then answering. "That's on them. It's not my job to take down other heroes-"
"Then why'd you chase me?"
"Because you're family!" Danny said in outrage, "Is that so hard to believe? Come on. Come back to the house, and we'll get you something to eat."
He held out his hand for her, and waited patiently for her answer. There was a good few minutes before she answered.
"No, Danny," she stood solemnly, "I can't support that law."
"Dani, please…"
"No," she shook her head, "I don't believe in security and paranoia. I believe in freedom, and all the risks that that implies, and I'm ready to fight for it."
With that, she phased through the ground, disappearing from sight. Danny stared at the spot where she stood, digesting the information he'd been given. He was always sure that he'd been doing the right thing, but now…
He couldn't say that with the same kind of confidence.
