Hey guys, me again
Ok, let's get on with the next chapter, shall we?
I may or may not have some difficulty with the timelines in this story as it is a sequel, but anyway, that's neither here nor there.
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TIME SKIP
THREE MONTHS LATER
Shutting the locker and stepping away, Kim sighed and looked to her best friend, Ron, as he threw bits of litter and unfinished homework out of the locker by the side of her. It was the first month back at Middleton high and already Ron had managed to mess up the assigned storage space.
"Ron, you do realize that we are going to be late for Barkin right?" she said, crossing her arms, wincing at the slight sting in her left arm, and leaning against her locker, watching as more papers came flying out and he mumbled in reply, "I can't find it. I had it in here, and it's disappeared, KP. I need it for Home Ec. next period."
"And you wonder why I stopped taking that class. What exactly is it to be curious?" Kim said, looking behind her and seeing Monique coming down the hall and waving at the African American over.
"Hey, girl. Barkin again?" Monique greeted, knowing all too well that the drill sergeant they had as a teacher would not take any prisoners if they were the slightest bit late. Kim nodded, looking at Ron's cry of triumph as he emerged holding a screwed up bit of paper with typed writing on it.
"A bit of paper? That's what all the mess is for?" Kim asked, indicating the mess around the teenagers as Ron nodded and smiled widely, saying, "Family recipe from my aunt. Take out the Ectoplasm parts and you should have a Fenton Family recipe on your hands."
"Your aunt gave you that recipe?" Monique asked as they threw the papers and books back into the locker and shut it quickly.
"Yep, gave me it as soon as she was able to remember the ingredients and Jazz had typed it up according to my mom. Although, when she had made it, she made it come to life somehow. We spent a while trying to beat it down." Ron answered, eyes sparkling at the memory as he shook his head in fondness.
"That reminds me, Ron. How is your cousin Danny?" Kim asked, remembering what he had said the night he was due home from Amity Park. His cousin, Danny, had suddenly turned mute and wouldn't talk to anyone about what he had been doing with Danny Phantom, the town's resident ghost. The smile quickly faded as Ron said, "He's getting about ok. But, he won't talk about New York, or the Avengers' fight with those aliens. The same with Danny Phantom, except that Danny won't talk to anyone. He just beats up the ghosts and leaves before anyone knows what has happened. Sam and Tucker are trying everything they can to get both Danny's to how they were before. So, Aunt Maddie and Uncle Jack have decided to take Danny out of school until he feels like he can cope with it."
"OK. I feel like I should know who you're talking about. But enlighten me please." Monique said, looking between her two friends and crossed her arms as Kim sighed and said, "Two months ago, you know the Avengers fought some kind of alien, right?"
"Yeah, go on." Monique said, nodding unsure of where this was going as Kim continued, "There was a ghost in the team. That ghost was Danny Phantom and Ron's cousin, also known as Danny, went with him."
"Danny came back with his arm in a sling and bandaged up. From the looks of it, he had been involved in the fight that took us all by surprise. When he started to talk about what had happened, he suddenly looked pale and ran to the toilet, throwing up and retching while Jazz, my other cousin, shouted for my aunt and he came out and turned mute. He hasn't spoken a word about New York or the Avengers since." Ron finished, looking downcast and worried as Monique bit her lip and said, "I'm sorry, Ron. Is there nothing they can do to help him?"
"Jazz is trying to help him, but she's got to focus on her studies and she's in Princeton, studying Psychology as her major and all three Science subjects as minor degrees. Aunt Maddie and Uncle Jack are trying to help Phantom as we speak, but I doubt that they will be the same as they were before. So far, they've had no luck, but they should be announcing the truce anytime soon on Amity's news channel." Ron replied as they stepped into History and looked around at everyone looking at Barkin as he shouted, "POSSIBLE, STOPPABLE AND SHIPTON, QUIETLY GO TO YOUR SEATS!", prompting them to move quickly to their seat and sit down, getting their books out in the process and looking up to the board.
Five minutes into the lesson, Kim was seriously beginning to regret coming to school. Last night's mission hadn't been great and Monkeyfist had stolen a priceless artefact from a museum in Washington DC, giving Kim cause to suspect that he was going to try something monkey-like again. When she had asked the curator what it was, he had hesitated and said that it was ancient medallion and had been found going on three years ago in Peru. The Medallion had been put on display that very week and as such it was still pretty much a new exhibit.
Feeling a note hit her arm, she looked at Ron and picked up the note, reading the writing on it, 'kp, you still thinking about last night?'
'yeah, I am actually. I can't believe he got away with that medallion.' Kim answered, looking up as Barkin turned away to write on the board and threw it back to the sender, hitting him on the head and catching his attention. A quick scrawl on the paper later, she got the note back and read, 'the same thing for me.'
Breathing heavily, Kim looked at Ron as he looked up from his notes and she nodded discreetly, before turning back to the book in front of her and reading from it as Barkin said, "[Th]e Imperial Roman army when the Republican system of citizen-conscription was replaced by a standing professional army of mainly volunteers serving standard 20-year terms, although many in the service of the empire would serve as many as 30 to 40 years on active duty, as established by the first Roman emperor, Augustus…"
Kim drowned Barkin's drawl as she laid her head on her hands and pretended to pay attention to what the lesson was about. The Roman Imperial Army again. They had been learning about the Roman Empire for the past month and it was quickly becoming boring.
What felt like an age later the bell rang and signalled the end of the lesson, the entire class scrambling to pack their things away and get out of the room and into their next class, whilst feeling sorry for those who had Mr Barkin next period.
Stepping out of the room, Kim turned to Ron as he checked on the recipe in his bag as he said, "I can't figure out what that medallion had to do with anything though. And why Monkeyfist would want to steal it."
"Why don't we go back to Washington and see the curator again? He might be able to tell us a bit more about it. He seemed pretty unsure with it and he seemed to think that it was from Aztec times. Wade better hurry up and beep us." Kim answered, sighing and regretting her words as her Kimmunicator beeped, "Talk about Murphy's law."
Getting the communicator out of her pocket, she said to Wade, "What's the sitch Wade? We were talking about last night."
"Actually, that's why I'm calling you, Kim. The Curator has found the files and what the medallion looks like." Wade said, drinking from his ever present Sippy cup and pressing a button on the keyboard in front of him.
"Is there anything else you want us to know, Wade? We're about to be late for class." Ron said, peering over her shoulder and looking at the twelve year old as he nodded and said, "Any chance you guys fancy to Washington DC at the weekend. The Curator wants to see you again, he thinks that there's something else of value and that it might be something that Monkeyfist might want."
"He's obviously got our best interests at heart then." Kim said, swatting Ron as he tried to take the kimmunicator from her hand. Looking up as her arch rival came laughing loudly by, Kim nodded and said, "Talk to us later, Wade. We have class and Ron's got Barkin again. Is there anything else you wanted us to know?"
"Not unless you count Duff Mckilligen taking out a mansion in Wisconsin, with Drakken, anything?" Wade said, causing Kim to look at the name of the mansion and swore under her breathe as Ron looked at her and cocked his head, saying, "What is it KP?"
"Ron, you wouldn't happen to know where this place is, would you?" she asked, looking at her friend in question as he came back and peeked over the top and promptly swore loudly.
"No, but Danny maybe does. He and Jazz met him at a college reunion and Danny took immediate offence to him. I don't know why, he wouldn't say. But Vlad is a Seriously Crazed-up Fruitloop, according to Danny." Rufus emerging for the first time all day and squeaking, "Uh huh, uh huh. Fruitloop."
"See, even Rufus agrees with it." Ron said, smiling as the mole rat ran up to his shoulder and sat there, Kim laughing at the two's antics. Rolling her eyes, she looked at the PDA-esque device in her hand and sighed, seeing that Wade had signed off and left her the clients address flashing on the screen.
As they walked to the door, they never noticed someone watching them
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SHIELD
Walking to the doors, he took a deep breath and grabbed hold of the handle, hoping beyond hope that the Director wasn't about to sack him. The boss had seemed desperate to call him in.
Going up to the big guy's office, he noticed that Agent Hill was looking at him in silence. This meant big trouble for whoever was going to be on the receiving end of Fury's anger.
Nodding in greeting, he pushed open the door and went through, just hearing her say, "Good Luck, Avenger. You'll bloody need it."
"I hope that this has nothing to do with New York, Director. We tried to keep them contained." He said, standing to attention, an old habit of his that he had never got rid of, as Fury turned and sighed, walking away from the window and answering, "It has nothing to do with the city. But you're on the right track. It's Danny. His family has called in and told us that he won't talk to anyone about New York."
"Dammit. What do you want me to do then?" Steve swore, looking down and closing his eyes.
"I don't want you to do anything. I need you to go to Amity Park and check that the kids alright." Fury said, leaning against the desk and crossing his arms and staring at the first Avenger as he nodded and asked, "What do I need to know and when do I have to leave?"
"Amity Park is the 'Most Haunted City of America' and only because of Danny's ghost half fights the ghost's that attack the city every day. You leave as soon as possible, just watch out for Jack Fenton. The man has a tendency to shoot anything that knocks on their door. Natasha and Clint found that out when they went there whilst we were recruiting Phantom into the Avengers. Natasha will be accompanying you to the city." Fury said, giving Steve a glare as he shifted about and looked to the floor. Two months had passed since the Battle of New York and they hadn't heard anything about what the youngest Avenger was doing, and how he was coping. The news that he was mute was like a blow to the war hero as he nodded and walked out of the office and met up with the only female member of the hero team, Natasha Romanov, A.K.A. Black Widow.
"You heard too, huh?" He asked, seeing the look of sorrow on her face as she nodded and said, "From what Jack Fenton said, Danny isn't coping well with anything. Luckily, I'd given a card with Fury's number on it, just in case of emergencies such as this."
"Should we let the others know or not?"
"No." Natasha said, as they waited for the elevator to get to their floor, "Tony'd only follow us to Amity and who knows what the Big Guy would do. Probably Hulk out and do the same as we're doing."
"I just hope that Danny is willing to talk to us." Steve said, stepping into the newly-arrived elevator with Widow and pushing the ground floor button.
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I hope that this is enough for you guys. I thought I should reintroduce the Avengers again and soon, but don't worry, Kim and Ron will be back again in the next chapter. I really felt I should get the story moving and get the plot moving.
Anyway, It's back to KP and RS in the next chapter.
Hermione Jean Burton xxx