Author's Note: Runeion Danny will get his ghostly wail along with a few other powers but for some he has to relearn how to use them and others will come in time. Canon Danny only got ghostly wail due to the stress he endured from seeing his future after all.
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or Ultimate Marvel
Chapter 03: Finding Weapon X(Edited)
Danny had only gotten two hours of sleep since he ran in to Nick Fury and was recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D. and now he was being sent on a mission.
The person watching over him that he was reporting to was a man named Clint Barton. His code name was Hawkeye and while he wanted to complain about why he had no back up for this mission but he understood the reasoning behind it.
They wanted to see what he could do. They gave him a list of places this weapon x facility was supposed to be and from that information he was supposed to find out where they were located.
He had read the file and was sickened at what these people were doing. Soldiers and scientists gathering up mutants and using them as weapons. Torturing and intimidating them to submit and follow orders and torturing and killing the ones who didn't.
Danny was glad that he was given the order to kill the soldiers if he had run into them because he didn't think that he would be able to do otherwise even if he was ordered to.
Before all that however there was a certain ghost that he had to question. He wanted to know why he had to work for a military organization like S.H.I.E.L.D.
The white rings went around and transformed him into his form. Grabbing a backpack with both the infi-map and food inside he phased through the floor ending up in front of the ghost portal.
First he had to release the box ghost back inside of the ghost zone and then he opened the portal door and flew through.
He flew as fast as possible to reach the clock tower or clock citadel whichever it was.
He needed answers and he needed them now.
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Clockwork had known that he would be coming and he had known the reason why so when young Daniel had appeared Clockwork paused his viewing screen and turned towards the young halfa.
"Yes?" he said as Daniel landed and began walking towards him with a scowl on his face.
"I need answers. You can't just say millions will die and expect me to leave it like that." He said but he would be disappointed because there was only so much he is willing to say about the future.
"I have seen all futures and a disaster is coming which will end millions of lives." Clockwork said as he turned into his child form. The transformation was simple all it took from him was the decision to be an age and with his powers it came to be.
Past, Present, or Future were accessible to him and he could see beyond reality and the universe so when he said something people listened. That also is what brought Danny here. He had given him a warning but without saying anything else it had left the boy confused.
He would like to help explain better but he still had limits to his power and restriction placed on him from intervening beyond a certain amount. Certain nudges here or there to get a desired outcome.
"Okay tell me what this problem is and I will go deal with that." Danny said trying to avoid the whole working for the government.
"There is no work around. You have to do it this way if those lives are to survive." He said and watched Daniel try to argue but he soon gave up but still showed annoyance at the situation.
"That's all I'm getting out of you isn't it?" Danny questioned and he turned to his old man form and gave a nod. Frustrated Daniel just gave a sigh and flew off.
Clockwork could see all possible futures so he knew this was the best outcome and so he turned back to his viewing screen and began to watch as event began to happen.
The story was staring he would just have to wait and see how things played out. There was one last piece of advice to give to Daniel however so he called out
"Daniel one last piece of advice. Don't fear the Rouge." Clockwork said. He knew he would hear him and with that returned to his viewing screen.
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The viewing screens that showed him all the events that he saw happening across time brought him a new image. It showed him the weapon X headquarters in Finland.
The mutant that was going to be known as Nightcrawler had just escaped the facility. The soldiers however would not let that happen. They had geared up and moved out as soon as they found out Nightcrawler escaped.
"Holy mother of-" One soldier cried out as Nightcrawler teleported behind him and yanked him off his snowmobile.
"Linklater's down." One of the soldiers said as they began to assess the situation and hunt the mutant down.
"Ten out of ten for observation, Idiot! Just hurry up and cap the little runt before he…" another said only to be interrupted as Nightcrawler teleported and picked up a gun and began firing at them.
After taking them down now the soldiers were angry and had to be reminded not to kill him because he was their only teleporter and that a resource like that shouldn't be killed just because they wanted revenge. He told them about how much money and resources they had spent on him only for it to amount to nothing if they killed him.
"Shoot to wound. I repeat shoot to wound." Was broadcasted over their radio.
"Hit the brakes." They said as he went and teleported both himself and the snowmobile off the cliff.
"What happened? We have lost the visual." Was said over the radio.
"He disappeared, sir. Our crazy, little runaway just committed suicide." He said only to be contradicted by a pair in a helicopter that reminded them that he was a teleporter meaning he was probably fine.
Nightcrawler tried to escape unfortunately the one hunting him was John Wraith and so with a single shot he took Nightcrawler down.
Standing over his fallen body he began to gloat to the downed mutant.
"Congratulation soldier, You realize you're the first mutie since Wolverine to make it this far outside the complex?" With that the other soldiers began to pick him up and take him back to the base but Wraith wasn't done yet.
Looking up at the plane that just passed by he had understood Nightcrawler's hope in that he had been planning for one last jump to make it up there and escape. It may have been two miles up but he apparently had made a jump that far before.
For the fact that he tried to escape though he ordered the soldiers to burn the soles of his feet when they got back and to torture the girl who would sing songs for him at night.
Walking away back to the base the S.H.I.E.L.D. patch on his jacket was clearly visible as he lit up a cigar.
Clockwork scowled but dealt with the fact that soon the weapon x program would be dealt with. So he turned back to screens to view a different area.
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The man that was known to be James Howlett and was now known as Logan or Wolverine was standing in an old weapon x base in Arizona clearly frustrated.
"I guess your information was little out of date professor. Smells to me like weapon x moved out of Arizona close to six weeks ago now." Logan said to the mutant know as Charles Xavier.
Charles was telling him that this was the sixth move since the two years he had escaped from the Canadian facility and he was wondering why a black ops unit would put themselves through such an inconvenience.
"Who knows maybe they were scared by raids by Magneto's brotherhood units. Or maybe they were scared I would come back." He said fully intent on claiming vengeance for both himself and the mutants that were experimented on and killed here.
Xavier wondered if the president had kept his word and shut down bases like that but Wolverine doubted it. There was too much money and interest involved to just pull the plug on one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most premier counter terrorism division.
Wolverine felt a deep anger as he saw the graphiti on the wall that someone had used to boast how they had killed four hundred mutants. He wanted to be stuck in a room alone with that guy and see how he would like to face a mutant that could fight back.
Charles went on to talk well rather think at him about the horrors that the young mutants faced and how the weapon x program went against everything that he, his school, and his student stood for. Wolverine back in the old days might have said that what Charles was doing was idiotic but he had liked the dream and Xavier was kind enough to forgive the whole him being sent there to kill him thing even if some of the others hadn't.
So he decided to let the man have his dream. It was better than Magneto's anyway. War wouldn't have helped anyone human or mutant. He still could remember magneto begging Charles to stop as he was destroyed in that giant field of magnets that Charles had forced him to summon.
Brutal thing but an ending that a self-destructive person like Magneto had coming.
When Charles asked him of the memories he had of places like this he only had one thing to say.
"Bad ones Charley-boy. The only kind I got left." He said and left the facility.
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Danny had just watched the one called Wolverine leave the building and as he looked around he couldn't help but feel angry that such a place existed and what had happened here.
He had visited a few other bases before but they were all empty and each base made him even angrier. Before he had just been doing this because Clockwork had said that something was going to happen in the big picture sense but now that he saw this he knew that he had to stop these weapon x people.
They were worse than Vlad and to him that was all the justification he needed to kill them. The world would be a better place if they were wiped away.
The Fenton part in him didn't want to kill anybody but the Vlad part in him called for vengeance for all the people killed and to destroy these monsters and he agreed with that part of him.
He would hunt them down and get rid of them all.
"Hawkeye this place is empty too." He said his communicator in his ear transmitting his message to Hawkeye who someone got to stay in New York while he had to deal with this mess.
"Move on to the next one then." He said while sounding like he was eating something. Danny was hoping that the next place was somewhere colder at least and with that he flew off.
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Clockwork was now focused on Tokyo, Japan where the X-men Cyclops, Colossus, and Storm were in an interview.
Colossus was talking about why they were in Japan. They were trying to highlight the plight of "Genetic prisoners" in China and south Korea and to show the world that there is more to mutants than just The brotherhood that used to follow Magneto.
Clockwork watched as he went to mention the Xavier school and the reason that it was set upon and its goals.
"You know, you're surprisingly articulate for a big Russian farm boy that's only been in American ten minutes. Did professor X write all that down for you?" Storm as question as they began to walk outside the building.
"As you're perfectly aware, I was Nine years old when they smuggled me into America, Storm. You're the one who learned English from John Wayne movies in morocco." Colossus said in response.
"Personally, I think you're just jealous that website named me world's sexiest mutant and you came two places behind beast." Colossus said and he was truly shocked when that happened.
"Do I look like I care about a poll by a million Japanese teenagers? They probably thought you were the new digimon or something anyway." Storm said as they walked by and Colossus was happy that no one was screaming at them or in fear of his metal skin.
"Man, back home, we save the president from magneto and we still have to hide behind our code names for our own protection. Out here all we have to do is show up in our costumes and every girl in Tokyo is slipping us their cellphone numbers." Cyclops said amazed at how the world had changed after they stopped magneto.
Clockwork was paying more attention now as this was the most important part.
"It's just that quaint obsession the Japanese have with whatever is coming next, Cyclops. Genetically I suppose we are the most fashionable creatures on the planet right now." Colossus said as they exited the building and headed for the plane.
"Easy with those optic blast, Scott. These are probably the only six hundred people in the world who actually like us, remember?" Storm said as they started signing autographs of the people surrounding them.
Colossus was so busy signing in the metal form of his he never noticed when someone in the crowd had touched him or if he did he didn't pay it any mind.
"Even so I still have a tendency to associate very large crowds with angry lynch mobs Ororo." Cyclops told Storm as he told the blackbird to begin its descent.
The blackbird was now visible and sucking them up into the air and that was when Storm noticed that Colossus wasn't feeling well and that he looked in her words "less shiny".
"Me. Oh I'm fine, Storm." He replied saying he was more jet lagged than he thought and his eyes met Rouge's even though he did not know what just happened.
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"Well did you find where those freaks have holed up or what?" Wraith asked X-7 or Rouge depending on how he felt like calling her.
X-7 told them she did with that southern accent of hers and asked if that meant he wasn't going to break her arms and legs when she got back to base and him feeling a smirk on his face said
"Now you know that depends on how bored we get, Rouge." He really loved this job and in particular this mission. When he got his hands on Wolverine again he was going to make him regret giving him these scars. His girlfriend couldn't stand the sight of them.
He would make him pay for that.
It was time to settle the score.
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Clockwork was now watching the Xavier institute up in upstate New York he had been following Wolverine and Cyclops as they got the Russian who was threatening Colossus's family to leave him alone, Beast and Storm having a picnic, Iceman returned from his time away and Marvel girl was talking with the Professor as Wolverine rode away on his motorcycle looking for weapon x and his past.
Now it was time Clockwork thought as he watched night begin to fall and he split his attention between all the screens that were watching both the inside and outside of the manor.
In the bushes Wraith ordered the men to aim for the kitchen and to kill the lights as he wanted the psychics who were talking with Cyclops out of the fight first.
"Hit the floor." Cyclops shouted as he saw the sniper trails on Jean/Marvel girls arm and the professor's shoulders. Their confusion didn't last long as bullets began firing.
"Stand back and hold your breath gentlemen, it's time to release the juggernaut." A soldier said as they opened a huge trailer that they had brought with them.
"Four down, four to go. They're all yours now, Sabretooth." Juggernaut said he was a huge guy with a helmet on his head that went down to his bare chest and crossed in an x with ripped green pants and black boots with yellow laces that crossed over.
With an explosion Sabretooth and a few soldiers entered the building.
"Oh yeah? Tell me what to do again and those ears of yours get a place on my victory necklace, Juggernaut." Sabretooth said his tone full of humor yet very serious.
He came face to face with Storm who was not happy that someone had just attacked her home and her friends.
"Well, well, well. Look who's trying to show the world what a dangerous little girl she is huh?" He said and questioned while raising a bat to bring down on her before Beast got involved.
"Get away from her!" Beast shouted while Sabretooth was about to swing down and was charged bat him.
"Oh! What's the matter monkey-man? this lucky lady your girlfriend or something?" He questioned while looking at him out of the corner of his eye and just as Beats got close he swung out his elbow hitting him in the face and said
"Well, she's our girlfriend now, fatty!" With that Beats was knocked unconscious.
Clockwork turned back outside to where the others were and saw that Cyclops was fighting the soldiers.
"The soldiers are having the time of their lives out here, sir, but this kid with the optic blast is a real pain in the backside" a soldier said to Wraith who was looking at the scene through binoculars.
"Intelligence figured Cyclops would be the last to go down, soldier. They say he's kind of protective of his classmates, but we'll soon beat that out of the little runt." Wraith said he was planning on beating that out of him to the point he would slit their throats for an m&m.
Clockwork watched as Nightcrawler teleported behind Cyclops and took his visor after that it only took a hit took the back of the head by a pot to bring him down.
Wraith then asked Sabretooth about the situation he was in and wondered if they had met yet but he was angry when he found out Wolverine wasn't even there.
Wraith turned away from Sabretooth when he felt that it began to get colder.
"Who in god's name…?" He asked before breaking off as he saw Iceman walking down the steps of the institute.
"Like you need to ask, soldier-boy." Iceman said as he began to freeze both the area and the people to the point that icicles starting appearing on them.
"Leave my friends alone and get out of here, or I swear to god I'll freeze your eyeballs like they're… man, you know what I mean." He ended losing or not possibly not even knowing how that threat would end. Wraith just called out to Rouge who was currently holding onto Marvel girl.
"One step ahead of you Colonel Wraith." Rouge said as she used her powers to absorb Marvel girl's.
"Ain't that right, Bobby Drake?" Rouge said as she went in Bobby's head and tapped him in the memory of when he had surgery for his appendix this time without the anesthesia.
That put him down and he was collected along with the others. Sabretooth was promising Wraith that he would bring him Wolverine and gave him his word and his response to that was this.
"Oh I know I do Sabretooth because if he isn't, you and that healing factor of yours are doing another six months as a crash test-dummy for N.A.S.A., Honey pie." Clockwork scowled at them both they truly were horrible people.
"Hey, hold up. What's that mark on Xavier's head?" he said before looking down at the circled number eight that they had drew on his head.
"Man, you guys are just getting worse, you know that?" Wraith questioned them feeling amusement at the situation and mocking the unconscious Charles Xavier with how even though they said they got the president on their side and their talk of humans and mutants working together that there was a war going on and how Xavier and his student preaching about peace and understanding had just joined the side of their competition.
Clockwork watched knowing that soon they would be taken down because in another screen showed Danny finally finding the Finland facility.
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"Finally." Danny said as he was looking at an active facility. It had been three weeks since he had been given this mission and not it was almost over. He hadn't expected it to take so long he had thought it would be a few days at the least a week at most.
He had left a duplicate with five percent of his power to stay in New York to keep up appearances but it was starting to fade away.
Luckily there had not been that many ghost attacks and the criminals that were in the city were being dealt by a Spider-man. It was strange but no more so than anything else in the city or world so he went with it.
There had been an attack by a goblin monster but the duplicate said everything worked itself out so he wasn't worried. Now he had to focus back on his assignment.
"Hawkeye, I found the facility and I am going in." Danny said and got a confirmation but it sounded like Hawkeye was distracted and focusing on something else.
Anyway Danny was in the air looking down on the building from the sky and was about to phase right through it when he noticed that there were two guards drunk and walking into the forest.
Knowing that besides the tortured mutants that were in cells there was no other innocent group Danny began to follow them.
They were talking about a new group of mutants that they had captured and what fun torturing them was going to be so Danny did something that he considered perfectly reasonable.
While sneaking up behind them completely invisible he phased his hands right through their chests and ripped their hearts out before dropping both hearts to the floor.
The soldiers followed not soon after.
Danny would have liked to do more but there was a chance they would have started screaming or alerted the other soldiers. Danny did not have time for that he wanted to get in and get out and forget this whole mission.
Phasing the bodies under the ground so no one discovered them Danny turned invisible and flew right through the building looking for the cell of new mutants.
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"So what went wrong?" Wraith asked sitting across from the director of S.H.I.E.L.D Thaddeus Ross while in the background Ross's security team and Sabretooth stood.
"Unfortunately, all our backup agents were shot and Nick Fury was neutralized ten seconds later, colonel." Ross answered it had supposed to be a simple mission go to Delhi and stop the illegal experimentation on mutated genes that was in violation of the united nation law against creating people with super powers.
"Form what we have in able to gather in the past twenty-four hours, this entire underground facility has been moved one step closer to the Kashmir border and every secret in Nick Fury's brain is currently up for auction for any terrorist with a master card." Ross said explaining the dangers of the current situation.
"Not exactly S.H.I.E.L.D.'s finest hour Ross." As always Wraith was always ready to state the painful and obvious truth.
"No, colonel Wraith not our finest hour at all. Which is why, of course, we are here talking to weapon x. We want Fury back, the mission completed and the man behind the Indian genome thing working for our tech-division by midnight tonight." Ross said sternly.
"Do you think you can help us?" He asked Wraith.
"Ordinarily, I would complain about our usual lack of manpower, sir but I think you'll be interested to hear about some talented, new recruits we picked up recently…" Wraith said but waited until Ross was closer and interested before he said
"… I believe the newspapers are calling them the X-men." He finished thinking back to the mutants and the harsh training he put them under. Both to teach them to follow orders and others for just he laughs.
"For god's, sake John! are you out of your mind? it's hard enough keeping this place under wraps as it is without your kidnapping mutants who're on first name terms with the president of the united states." Ross ranted unable to believe what he had just done.
Wraith response was this.
"Charles Xavier was the only one with a direct line to the big man and we already shot him, general. Those mind powers of his were just too much of a security risk."
"This just gets worse and worse." Ross said as he imagined the consequences of what Wraith had done.
"Well what were we supposed to do? Make do with the second stringers from Bosnia?' Wraith said but didn't stop.
"I can't create a S.H.I.E.L.D. response team from fourteen-year-old teleporter, a human juggernaut, a Marilyn Manson fan who can kill you if she touches you and a poor man's Wolverine." Wraith ranted. There were more useful mutants out there and he was stuck with what he considered the reject pile.
Sabretooth did not like the last part of his rant though.
"I'm sorry Sabretooth but it's true." Wraith said as he and Ross watched as Dr. Cornelius began to experiment on the Beast.
As they watch the process to enhance the Beast Ross began to ask if they had gotten Wolverine back because despite all the faults of this having him back in weapon X would at least be a positive.
When Ross found out they couldn't find him he didn't take that well and stormed out saying the following words.
"Just do your job and get Fury back, colonel I miss the intelligent conversation."
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"You know I think we should make some kind of formal complaint to colonel Wraith about this, Rouge." Juggernaut said while eating a sandwich to rouge who was reading a magazine.
"I appreciate them having to move us while they're repainting our cells but did they have to put us in front of these ugly turncoats all day."
Rouge didn't respond to him however Cyclops did.
"What? where do you even get off calling us turncoats, man? we wouldn't even be in here if it wasn't for you idiots." He said to the cell across from them.
"Yeah, well, Juggernaut and I could say the same dang thing, Cyclops." Rouge said in response to him.
"I'd be fascinated to hear how you came to that conclusion, Rouge we weren't the ones who led G.I. joe and his friend to Professor Xavier's mutant safe house." Cyclops said crossing his arms facing angry at what their lives had been lately and the reason behind it. Namely the people across from him.
"No but you sure as heck backed 'em up when magneto made his play for Pennsylvania avenue." Rouge said reminding him of when he was working with magneto.
"If Y'all hadn't sided with Neanderthal man back there I reckon we'd all be sipping milk and honey in Magneto's promised land right now." Rouge said
"Oh, don't give me that brainwashed cult garbage sweetheart. That lunatic guru of yours was willing to enslave an entire species, in case it slipped your mind." Storm said back to her.
Blob's response to that was "Only so he could replace it with something better, Storm you'd be singing a different tune if you had seen the blueprints he put together or the ten mutant commandments he had tattooed on his back." And turned to Cyclops talking about his time on the savage island where he stayed with the brotherhood and Magneto for a while.
Cyclops and Blob then began to argue over how long they would be staying with Cyclops saying the president would help them get out and reduce this place to rubble while Blob argued that weapon x was so higher than the president's clearance level.
It required Jean to break it up and get Scott to pay attention to her while she tired helping Nightcrawler.
She brought him into his mind and found one of his happier memories back when he was younger in the Bavarian Alps. He was shocked before he learned it was in his mind as he thought that the bombs in their heads would detonate if they tried to leave the facility. He did imagine her in her underwear though but she paid it no mid as that was what everyone did.
Scott brought them back when he heard footsteps approaching. In walked Hank McCoy held up by soldiers while Sabretooth walked in front with eyes filled with cruelty and amusement.
"Henry." Bobby called as they saw what had become of him.
"Oh dear god." Is what Colossus said. Originally the medicine that Hank had been taking had turned his hair blue but whatever Cornelius did to him it turned his whole body from head to toes blue.
With a dazed look on his face they tossed him into the cell with Storm. While Cyclops was angry over what happened to him Blob came in and said this.
"Yeah, you must be real proud for saving the human race, Boys and Girls I take back everything I said that was a really good call. Idiots." Blob said and after Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Beast, Colossus, Iceman, and Marvel girl were taken to India along with Sabretooth and other soldiers to get Nick Fury back.
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Danny was invisible and intangible moving through the building. Walking through wall and moving up floors trying to find the new mutants. He had overshadowed a few guards and searched their memories for the cells but the ones they knew of were empty.
He had reached a cell that he saw had mutants in it and was about to rescue them when he saw that the guards were taking them for a mission.
Figuring it would be best to wait until they were all back so he could make sure no mutants were being experimented on like the big blue guy they just tossed in a cell.
He did have to fall through the floor to make sure that the one they called Sabretooth didn't smell him since according to the file he had super senses and super strength because that would complicate things.
Danny didn't even know if he had a scent while invisible but he wasn't willing to take that risk when other lives were involved.
Rouge and Juggernaut were another problem entirely. They worked for weapon x because they were being forced to but that didn't man that they would help and or trust him f he said he was there to free them especially not if they found out he was working for the government.
Especially the same government that put them here and tortured them.
Remembering Clockwork's words about Rouge he took a deep breath and decided to just go for it. He would just have to improvise if things went wrong.
Despite all that he still had a grin on his face because now once and for all it was time to destroy the weapon X program.