"So, you're the famous Danny Phantom?" Ron asked, leaning on the table and looking at the white haired hero behind him as he nodded and waved slightly.
"Yeah, you could say that. No need to ask your name. Danny Fenton's told me a lot about you." Phantom said, "I'm sorry for you getting in the way of that fight with Skulker, man."
"No big," Kim said, leaning on the table as well and smiling at him as he raised an eyebrow and leaned into his seat, "Ron here had been looking for Danny when you saved him. Why were you fighting him in the first place anyway?"
"He's been after my pelt going on three years now. It was the usual rubbish." Phantom replied, ignoring the disgusted looks on their faces as Ron muttered "Eww.", and winced as Danny shrugged and said, "He'll never get it. I'd rather di-er-fade than get skinned by a little green blob in a mechanical suit."
"There still has to be a reason for this Skulker to keep on hunting you."
"Well, to be honest with you, I don't know."
"There has to be a reason though."
"That would be telling." Danny answered, tapping his nose and smiling as Clint coughed under his breath and looked up from the version of the folder that had been handed to him when they had entered the room they were currently in and waiting for the briefing.
"Can we not get into that, Danny? They don't need to know just yet." he said, closing the folder and crossing her arms as Nick entered the room and sat at the head of the table. The meeting between SHELD and Global Justice had begun.
"For the record, I think you're a great guy." Ron whispered to Danny who smiled and whispered his thanks back to the blonde as he looked to the table and opened his folder, reading the briefing inside.
"Too bad this isn't something I can listen to music in though." came the mutter from Ron as he followed suit with Kim rolling her eyes and whispering, "Boys."
"Can we please get this meeting into session?" Nick called out to the talking teens and sitting down at the table as it lit up with the light from a holographic projection, the Global Justice agents and director staring bug-eyed at the amount of information given on the screen. Smirking, Danny looked at Clint and shook his head, looking away and up to the hologram as he saw a security shot of a ghost coming through the wall of a museum. In the still shot, the ghost was holding the hand of a bloke who looked to be ready to throw up. The ghost looked to be wearing a cloak with horns on the top of his head. Although the shot was in black and white, Danny knew that the skin colour would most likely be blue with irisless red eyes. The mortal hanging onto the ghost's hand looked nothing like those he knew. His hands and feet were hairy, and the feet looked nothing like human feet. In fact they looked like,
"Monkey Fist!" Kim said, finishing his thought as the room looked at her and Ron. Both teens were glaring at the picture in frustration and annoyed anger.
"You can say that again, Miss Possible. This capture was taken from the Security Archives pf the Smithsonian Museum of ancient artifacts, two weeks ago. Naturally the item stolen was reported to yourselves and no sign of a break in was reported." Nick reported, Danny shaking his head and saying, "Naturally there wouldn't. There was a ghost involved. This Monkey Fist guy is holding the ghost's hand as they come through the wall. But what was stolen, Fury?"
"A medallion." Nick answered, "Theres a photo of it in your folders."
Looking at the folder, Danny skimmed to an A4 picture of the medallion and gasped, causing the others to look at him in wonderment, Clint even asking, "I take it that you recognize it then, Danny."
"Who wouldn't?" Danny answered, "This is one of the medallions of Clockwork, the ghostly Master Of Time. If this Monkey Fist person has possession of it, then there's no telling what would happen when the Old Stopwatch freezes time again."
"You seem to know alot about this trinket, Mr Phantom. Care to enlighten us mere mortals?" Dr. Director commented, leaning forwards as Danny stood from the table and leaned on it, saying, "I only know about it because I once fought my future jerky self. The rest of the Avengers know this and my friends back in Amity know about it as well. The medallion enables the wearer to travel through frozen time. Or stay in the time period where they are. It works on both humans and ghosts, but isn't meant to be worn for too long as it can sometimes be a hindrance. Thats all I can remember basically."
"And who exactly is this Clockwork?" Dr Director asked, leaning slightly forwards also. Kim and Ron were staring at the teen hero beside them as he sighed and said, "I just told you. He's the Master of Time itself. He's also known as Clockwork Chronos, or just plain Father of Time. He's also my Guardian."
"Your Guardian?" Nick asked, dead pan tone evident as Danny looked at him in the same way and nodded as Kim, Ron and Clint stared at the ghost as he cleared his throat and pulled at his collar.
"Right, anyway, we need to get this medallion of Clockworks, and one other thing. I'm sure the two Avengers won't like this, but recently, a Neural Link from the invasion two months ago, was taken." Nick said, clearing his throat and fixing his focus on the two heroes, looking sheepish.
"The Chitauri left something behind?" Clint asked, shock evident on his face as Danny stared straight at him and looked to glow brighter with fury as he floated higher than the table permitted, eventually snapping out of it and looking down and taking deep breathes.
'It wont do to lose your temper in the SHIELD Headquarters, Fenton.' He thought to himself as he floated down again and landed as Clint asked, "And who stole it?"
"A few of our enemies. Monkey Fist was part of them." Kim answered, banging a fist on the table as Ron squinted through the light being given off by the angry ghost as he looked at the redhead and quirked an eyebrow as she added, "It was in a mansion in Wisconsin. I don't remember the guys name, but he had two kids storming up to him as he was showing us out."
"He didn't happen to act in a fruitloopish manner, did he?" Danny asked, aura finally fading a little but still giving off a strong light as Kim nodded and said, "You know him then?"
"Amity Park's ghost here. Of course I know him, he's the most fruitloopiest Mayor that my towns ever had." Danny snarked, crossing his arms and adding, "He's also old college buddies with the parents of a friend of mine. Danny Fenton."
"You're actually friends with my cousin?" Ron started and looked up at him as he nodded. Nick sighed and stood up from the table, saying, "We are getting off track here, people. We need to discuss how we are going to get these artifacts back. Daniel, what can you tell us about the ghost in the still shot?"
Looking up at the shot, Danny squinted and shook his head, saying, "It's Danny, Nicholas. And I can't find anything that gives off a spark in my mind. The pictures too low quality and there's only two ghost's I know of that have cloaks attached to their clothing. Vladimir Plasmius, AKA the Wisconcin Ghost and my older evil self. I should be able to recognize them both, especially Dan."
"Now I get why you never told us about this Dan person leading up to New York. You'd just fought him, hadn't you?" Clint commented, looking at the hologram as Danny bit his lip and said, "Later."
Waving a hand to show he understood, Clint turned back to the hologram as Nick nodded and said, "Unfortunately that is all we have of the break-in at the Smithsonian. We'll need to bring in Mayor Masters to know what happened at his home. And ASAP."
"I am not going anywhere near that seriously crazed-up fruitloop." Danny blurted, "He'd know it was me from the word go. And with my reputation..."
"Bad experience with him? He needn't know that you were here." Kim said, trying to reassure him as he shook his head and answered, "He'd know I was here no matter what. He's creepy like that."
"Well, you'll have to stay out of the way while we talk with him then." Kim said, crossing her arms and leaning back in her seat as Nick rolled his eye and said, "Danny, Kim, take a trip to the Smithsonian. Find out what you can from the curator, get the tapes if you have to, Ron, you will go with Dr, Director and the one who brought you here to the mansion in Wisconsin, find out what tripped the security system there. If need be, bring Masters to Washington if he is there. Let's move people!"
"Who did bring you here, kid?" Clint asked, looking at the blonde as they all walked out of the room, Danny lagging behind and glaring at the two Directors as the woman crossed her arms and stared right back.
"There better be a good reason why you're still here, Phantom?" Nick asked, turning away, his hands clasped behind his back and looking up at the ceiling, noticing slightly that the room got a little brighter again.
"When were you going to tell us that he's still alive? They sorta need to know, Fury." Danny asked, "Clint is going to blow a gasket when he sees him."
"You lot needed the motivation, Phantom. Right now though, what are you going to tell that cousin of yours when he sees you in your human form? As for why I didn't tell you, well, need I even to elaborate on it?" Nick answered, looking round and over his shoulder as Danny stiffened and brought his hands down slightly as he stuttered and shook his head, managing to say, "I'll tell him when I'm ready, Director. No later or sooner. He could get in danger for just knowing who and what I am, as well as Danielle. And how did you know he was my cousin?"
"And I think that you should get going, kid. Kim Possible isn't the patient kind and you don't know this city as well as the rest of us." Dr. Director intervened, looking at the Halfa as he made to turn around and go out of the door. Nodding, he floated up into the air and flew out, leaving a trail of cold air behind and making them both shiver slightly.
"What did you mean by human form, Nicholas?" Debbie asked, looking at the man as they moved out of the briefing room and into the corridor as Clint and Ron stood talking to each other. Kim and Danny were walking down the opposite way and they too seemed to be discussing something as the ghost walked alongside the human.
"All seems well." Debbie commented, smiling slightly, "I can see why you got these two as Avengers. They seem mild mannered."
"Except in battle. You should have seen it in New York. Danny has a weapon that he doesn't like to use, yet he used it in the city and against the Chituari." Nick replied, watching as the two teams walked with each other and into a lift, bound for the ground floor.
-CLINT AND DANNY-
"Hey, Danny," Clint called, looking at the white haired ghost teen as he stopped midair and turned back as he beckoned, "You got a minute? We need to discuss something."
Nodding,Danny flew over to Clint and landed in front of him as he took a breath and asked, "How do you plan to tell the others what you are? They nee-"
"They need to know. I know that already, Clint. Fury asked me about that as well." Danny said, pinching the bridge of his nose and closing his eyes as a minor headache came about, "You needn't worry about any of that. I have a plan and if the worst comes to the worst, then I'll tell them. 'Sides, mom and dad bought some clothes for 'Phantom' just for such an occasion. Don't ask how they knew to buy some clothes, they just did."
"Natasha possibly. She did know your size after all."
"Nah, it wouldn't have been her. No offence to her meant." Danny answered, looking thoughtful, before he shook his head and the moment passed, causing Clint to chuckle and say, "How you managed to survive that hell hole of a hometown is beyond me, kiddo. Really it does."
"Hey!" Danny protested, putting on a fake pout, feigning offence, before he too cracked up and shook his head, saying, "When you've got scientist's as parents, you kind of pick something up along the way."
"One of the perks of being normal then. You develop your own traits." Clint said, starting to walk again, Danny starting to float backwards alongside him and nodding, replying, "And that's supposed to mean what exactly? I'm normal as I can get."
"Rubbing the back of your neck when you're in either forms isn't normal?" Clint pointed out as they caught up to the two teens waiting for them, Ron looking back as they walked outside and shielded their eyes against the glare of the sun.
"Touché." Danny laughed, digging around in his duffel bag and getting out a hoodie and a baseball cap.
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Confused much? Cos I certainly am. Ahh well, that's the best I can do. I'm going to go walk the dog now. I think I have a new walking spot for him. I just hope that it's safe to do so.
Next chapter is hopfully going to be Drakken and Shego. I wouldn't get your hopes up though. I'm still thinking of the chapter
Until next time,
Hermione Jean Burton xxx
