Author's Note: Here is the newest chapter of Ultimate Phantom. Typed this while watching Marvel's Inhumans wondering what your opinion on the show is. Read, Review, Give opinions.
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Chapter Ten: New Enemies
(Duplicate Danny)
"Hey Betty." he said looking at the lady sitting at the table drinking coffee and wallowing in her angst.
"What do you want?" she questioned him. She looked miserable and in deep need of sleep.
"Just wanted to talk." he said taking a seat and looking across from her.
"I'm not in the mood." she said trying to blow him off and get him to leave her alone. Danny was too stubborn to let this go that easily and he was a duplicate anyway so he was going to have fun before he was forced to disappear.
"Hey Betsy have you seen Banner lately." he asked and watched as her face began to scowl.
He admitted this part may have been more Plasmius than Phantom but he was willing to admit to himself that he did blame her for the hundred plus people that died. He also wanted to stop Banner from becoming more and more like a deranged version of Plasmius.
"No I haven't and I don't thinks it's any of your business." she said glaring at him with hard eyes.
"Don't you think that's kind of mean. After all you did start all the events that led to his current imprisonment." he said moving his hands in a so-so gesture.
"He made his decisions himself." Betty tried defending herself.
"You got to admit you played a part in it as well." he said and when a waitress brought him his cheese fries he began to dig in.
"How? How is it out of everyone you blame me?" she asked beginning to show her exhaustion and rage.
"Oh I already questioned the others. You are last on the list." he said. Everyone else had visited Banner for one reason or another but for her it was different. She had been avoiding the man since they first captured him after Steve had started beating him down.
"You have to admit tearing the man down and telling him you were on a date with another guy." Danny had to admit that move was all kinds of mean, cruel, and wrong.
"So what? Am I supposed to spend the rest of my life taking care of him?" she questioned him. While Danny would like to say yes to that question he knew he would not win that argument so he chose another reason.
"No but angering the man who turns huge, mean, green, and eats people when he stubs a toe maybe you should have been a bit more delicate." he said. He was really enjoying the taste of cheese fries.
He was glad that he was here and the original decided to go to school today.
He would have to go back on patrol soon. The life of a superhero was not easy.
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(Real Danny)
"In one week you will come to class and be a superhero." the teacher said pointing at Peter while talk to the whole class. Danny found it funny but only because he knew Peter's secret.
This was an oral report and they could either be a made up superhero or one of the ones on the news. He really wanted to go as himself as he considered himself the best hero but that would blow the whole secret identity thing.
"But you have to tell me why you are the way you are and what your powers mean to you." she said. He watched as Peter and Mary Jane turned to each other with smiles on their faces.
Danny still couldn't believe that Peter had told Mary Jane that he was Phantom. He was fine with him giving away his own secret identity but doing that to a friend was a dick move.
"You can even be a mutant if you want." she finished and that caused a stir in the class. From the regular people who shifted to the others and gave nervous looks to Liz Allen who started to scowl and freak out.
He found her all right for the most part it was just her hatred of mutants that he found annoying. It reminded him of the guys he met on his first night in this world that tried to rob him.
After class ended he and the others were just walking around with no goal in mind well at least he was he didn't know what the others were doing.
"Yo man I think I hate this superhero assignment what does it have to do with anything?" Kong said to Flash.
"I don't know Kong maybe because superheroes are a part of everyday life." he answered him. With the the attacks by Magneto and his brotherhood and the recent alien invasion superheroes were a pretty well known thing.
Kong then went on to question if the appearance of all the people with superpowers was a sign of something bad coming. He even used ghostbusters as a reference and then he and Peter got into an argument with him wanting to lock up mutants and him saying that plan was similar to what the Nazis had intended.
"Man it feels like we're in trouble or something." Kong said.
"What?" Peter asked him clearly wondering where he was going with his conspiracy theory.
"No, I mean it. Doesn't it feel weird that there are people with superpowers all up in our stuff?" Kong asked.
"Not really people have always thought people would get superpowers. It's just we have arrived at that time." he said to him.
"It's the meteor." a voice said to the from out of nowhere.
Turning around they saw the speaker was a girl with long blonde hair, short shirt that didn't reach her belly button and tight dark red leather pants. While the others were focused on how she looked he could tell she was about to make a speech but without a soapbox to stand on and do her grandstanding.
"How do you think the dinosaurs felt just moments before the meteor hit? I mean they were just standing around and it's 'like oh fuck were extinct'." she said and went on a rant about how because people could fly or walk through walls or on walls and how the normal people have to deal with it and how they had to find ways to adapt.
She kept going on about the dinosaurs and how they didn't even know they were being replaced as the dominant species and the difference was that they knew what was happening.
He wondered why she used dinosaurs and not cavemen and also more importantly who she was and why she was here because he did not know her from any of his memories of the time he spent in this school.
Turning the speech into how skills were superpowers and that people would have to change and focus on what they could do that others couldn't and that was how they would survive and not by being lazy.
"Who are you?" he had stayed for her speech so he felt like he deserved to know the name of the lady who just took up ten minutes of his time.
"Gwen Stacy. It's my first day." she said with her arms crossed leaning against the wall. Her arms bands jingling as they hit each other.
"Okay Gwen is this your thing? Coming to people you don't know and giving speeches? It's weird lady. Really really weird." he said and then when the scene became awkward he left. Let the others deal with the scene now. He got what he wanted out of the conversation.
Looking at the others who were just staring at her he went off to find a place to reabsorb his duplicate. Apparently Fury had given him a mission. A doctor who was fused with metal limbs had escaped a medical facility and killed the people trying to help him.
Rolling his head around his neck to stretch out the muscles in his neck he turned ghost and began to float through the ceiling while his recently created duplicate took his bag and went to class.
Unfortunately while he was able to save two window washers that fell of their machines he could not find any sign of a mad scientist with metal arms.
"AHHHH." he could hear the screaming of people and went to see what it was about. He was hoping it involved the person he was looking for. He had been searching for close to an hour.
Unfortunately it wasn't a man with metal arms but it was something just as strange.
Looking down he saw a tornado moving through the streets knocking around cars and people in it's way. Chasing it was Janet in her smaller size and she was blasting the tornado with energy bolts.
This looked like something he should get involved in so while they were fighting he flew to the ground and faced the tornado.
"Hey Wasp what is going on." he said to her as she landed and turned to regular size.
"Oh nothing much just trying to stop a rampaging mutant." Janet said as they looked over at the tornado.
"The mutant is in there?" he asked and she nodded.
"Who is he?" he asked wondering who this was and how dangerous.
"David Cannon also known as Whirlwind. He was destroying a college campus when I was called to deal with him." she said.
"How are we going to deal with him?" he asked her letting her take the lead since this was her bad guy to catch as she was fighting him first.
"His powers make him untouchable when he is like that. We have to get him to stop spinning."she said
"That is impossible. I am unstoppable." a voice came out of the tornado and he watched as a man emerged from the top. He was wearing a green bodysuit and helmet with black tights on his arms. The lower half of his body was still spinning.
Pointing a finger out and taking aim he shot a ghost ray from his finger that hit Whirlwind's helmet and dazed him and stopped him from spinning.
"That was easy." he said as he walked closer to the downed mutant.
"Dave loves to talk." she said opening his eyes he extended his hands and sent whirlwinds that sent cars flying in the air and they could see that when they fell they would crush the people frozen in terror.
"Well heroes decide. Capture me or save them?" he questioned them with a smug tone of voice as he believed that they couldn't do both.
"Deal with David. I will handle the cars." he said as he created three duplicates. One to create a barrier around the people and another one to help him stop the cars.
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With the people save all that was left was to make fun of the bad guy and watch him be driven away to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility.
"Hey maybe instead of destroying buildings to become known you should have started a band. Find someone who could control fire and become known as Whirlwind and Fire." he said. He was sure the older people would have liked it.
"You also could had a video channel where you do stunts with your powers. It could have been called Jackass: mutant addition." he said as he kneeled next to a handcuffed and bound Whirlwind.
"Leave him alone." Janet said as she turned to me but I could see a grin on her face.
"Post-fight banter is just as important as mid-fight banter." he said looking at her.
"Don't you have your own mission to do?" she questioned him reminding him of the task he was in before he interrupted the fight with Whirlwind.
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(Peter Parker)
The day was an odd one in his opinion. It began with Kong trying to kick him and to protect his secret identity he let him do it even though he sensed it coming and should have been able to stop him very easily.
Kong didn't get off so easy as the new girl Gwen Stacy pulled out a knife and tried to stab him with it. She got in trouble for it and was being dragged away.
"Why did you let him do that?" Danny asked him leaning against the lockers watching the entire scene without a care.
"I have to keep the Spider-man thing a secret." I whispered to him with a serious face. He should know given that he was a hero too. Danny should know what it was like to have normal friends that would be in danger if it was found out who he secretly was.
"Don't go shouting it from the heavens. Just defend yourself when the need arises." Danny said.
"You don't get it. I can't have any links between Spider-man and Peter Parker." he couldn't have himself showing any of his powers in public. That was why he quit the basketball team. It was unfair to play with superpowers and people here have known him for a long time and if he just got better with no explanation they would be suspicious.
"You can just say you have been working out." Danny said holding a hand against his head like what he was saying what something simple to understand.
Knowing that they wouldn't see eye to eye on this he left Danny and headed to his next class. He knew he was right in his beliefs when he found out that the reason Kong had kicked him was because he believed that Peter Parker was Spider-man.
He then wanted something to beat up and was really glad that on his way to work that someone had snatched a lady's purse.
Feeling in such a good mood after beating that guy up and getting to mess with J. J. Jameson he changed into his regular clothes and went inside.
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He was web swinging to Hammer industries. His mind was going over all the events that had happened since he entered the daily bugle earlier. He was feeling all happy as he walked through the building until he saw that this hunter guy named Kraven was coming to America to hunt him down.
Then learning about what happened to doctor Octavius or Doctor Octopus as some were now calling him and how he had escaped from a mental hospital and killed several people.
He was wall crawling and trying to hear what the people inside were saying. Hammer was talking to some government agents about the break in. he tried getting closer to hear more. Unfortunately, he was spotted and they began to shoot at him. As the agents began to shoot at him he decided that enough was enough for one night and he headed home.
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"I'm here to hunt the one you call Spider-man and kill him with me bare hands." Sergei Kravinoff more commonly known as Kraven said on the news. His Australian accent clear for anyone listening on the television to hear.
With that statement his morning was officially ruined. The worse thing is that since his Aunt May didn't know about his secret life she did not care about Kraven's promise to kill him.
"Guy says he is going to kill you on a morning talk show? What a crappy way to start the day." he said wondering how this day could possibly get any worse.
In class the lesson was about how important appearance was and how the Kennedy/Nixon election went. It was ordinary stuff until Gwen Stacy walked in with the principle right behind her.
"Hey crazy." Danny said waving his hand at her and that broke the uncomfortable silence in the room.
"Mister Masters." the teacher said glaring at him and silently telling him to shut up.
Danny shrugged his shoulders as an apology but complied with her request.
Gwen and Kong were forced to apologize to each other even though they clearly didn't mean it with them ending the apology with Gwen calling Kong a birth defect and Kong responded by calling her a skank.
"Any questions about the assignment." the teacher said aggressively breaking them up before they had another fight.
Danny groaned as Liz raised her hand to the teacher's question.
"She had to ask didn't she?" Danny asked himself as he slapped his hand against his forehead. He ran his fingers through his long dark hair.
Liz was known for her distrust and fear of mutants. Apparently her uncle was killed by a mutant.
"I mean our school was almost trashed by this mutant monster thing and now you want us to all play mutant dressup or whatever. Like why don't we do social studies or something, why are you making us do this?" she asked clearly growing bolder since the teacher didn't interrupt her.
She was talking about the time Norman Osborn attacked the school looking for Harry after he turned himself into that monster he was calling the Green Goblin. He wasn't a mutant but that was something she didn't know and he couldn't tell her as he wasn't supposed to know either.
He was just ordinary science nerd Peter Parker.
"That could be considered current events." Danny said as he broke into the conversation and Liz did not like that answer turning to him in a fury.
"What don't you understand about mutant being dangerous?" she questioned him with a glare in her eyes. He did not back down though.
"I understand that racism is just as dangerous. Wasn't that the reason Magneto attacked he was racist against humans and feared they were just as racist." Danny said in return. The rest of the room was quiet just watching to see how this played out.
"My Uncle was killed by a mutant." she told him clearly expecting it to get him to shut up or at least feel sad.
"That's one bad mutant then. Don't hold a grudge against a species for a single person. That's like hating cars because your friend's uncle's barber's brother was run over by a drunk driver." Danny said and Liz went rushing out of the room.
"I"ll go apologize." Danny said as the rest of them started looking at him wondering what he would do.
The teacher who clearly lost control of the room brought the topic of the project back up trying to get them to focus on something else.
Looking over at MJ he saw that she had wrote wow on her notebook and underlined it three times. He nodded at her.
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"Hey guys, hello new girl." Danny said as he walked up to them with his hands in his pockets.
"Did you find Liz?" MJ asked him as she closed her locker. The three of them had planned on eating lunch together but now that Danny was back he was worried that he and Gwen would start arguing.
"Yeah I found her. I apologized and she agreed to try to be better with her fear of mutants." he said leaning against the lockers.
"You really think she will?" Gwen asked. He really hoped these two got along.
"All I can do is hope and nudge her when she goes too far." Danny said.
"Well nice meeting you. See you guys later at lunch." Gwen said and walking off to her locker.
"So what do you think of her?" MJ asked him.
"She is very weird and possibly crazy." Danny said without a care.
"Why don't you like her?" he asked him.
"Who said i didn't like her. I just said she was crazy." Danny said.
"Why do you think that?" he asked. He just really could not understand Danny. The way his mind worked wasn't the the way normal people thought.
"Her passion for dinosaurs and speeches is reason one and two out of my top three." Danny said with a grin on his face.
"What's the third reason?"MJ asked. She really should have taken the hint and let it drop like he was but MJ was never the type to leave things alone.
"Everyone is crazy. You just have to know them long enough to find out how." Danny said and he truly felt like slamming his head against the lockers.
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(Real Danny)
"Status report Phantom." Fury said. His voice ringing in his earpiece.
Sitting on a ledge invisible Danny watched as Justin Hammer got into a limo driving him to his photograph and interview session with the media due to the new energy project he had been working on with the mayor and the city at the nuclear power plant.
They claimed that it was going to change how people used energy and move them away from fossil fuels.
"I was right this guy is bad news Fury." he said as he listened to the people inside the limo talking due to the bugs that he had placed on all of Hammer's cars.
Danny had been there with the agents that were questioning Hammer on why Octavius would break in. Hammer did not know that he was there and he had decided that after seeing Hammer it was best to know what he was up to and what he wasn't telling the agents.
He decided the best way to do it was to bug Hammer's cars with listening devices. All of them given that he did not know which ones Hammer would be using.
"What do you have?" Fury asked clearly curious. The man was known as one of the best spies in the world and he clearly wasn't above hearing information whether the means to get them was legal or illegal.
Another reason he was glad that he got his ghost portal shut-down. Who knew what methods Fury was using to keep an eye on him.
"Apparently Octavius used to work for him before the accident as a spy and now he is mad and wants revenge. He blames Hammer for the accident." he told him.
"Why did he not say so?" Fury asked.
"Apparently he is doing illegal genetic experiments himself." Danny said wondering when they would arrest Hammer.
"We'll deal with that later. First we have to deal with Dr. Octopus." Fury said and Danny had to stop a few seconds to make sure he heard right.
Once he confirmed it and was clearly alone he broke down in laughs. He couldn't believe a name like that existed. It was like when Jazz named the box ghost crate creep.
He was going to have so much fun making fun of the good doctor before he sent him to prison.
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(Peter)
Crashing to the steel floor from several hundred feet up on a helicopter was not something that Peter would recommend to anyone. He really wished Danny would have listened to him and followed when he left the school theater.
Despite his promise that he would be there he was all alone facing a killer with metal arms.
This clearly wasn't an ideal situation but there was no way he would let this guy continue his rampage. He had to be stopped before he could hurt more people.
Looking at all the fire and injured people he knew that he had to save them before he they got hurt.
After breaking free and kicking Doctor Octavius which felt better than it should have he bound a few of the doctor's metal tentacles together he began to make fun of his sense of style.
"First of all green jumpsuit?" he asked before talking about how it was a fashion emergency and unfortunately while he was bragging and boasting Octavius was breaking free.
That was a surprise given that he didn't know that it could break and then the pain came when the metal tentacle came and hit him in the chest sending him flying back.
"Whoops so what is your secret origin anyway? Some sort of freak accident with a radioactive toilet snake? If so please spare me the details." he said crashing into a wall. The humor helped him feel better and in this situation that was something he sorely needed.
"What a curious sight you are. I would love to dissect you." he said in that creepy mad scientist way. He really wondered where Danny was and why he wasn't helping.
"What are you? Law Enforcement? S.H.I.E.L.D.? I know you are one of Hammer's homemade soldiers. which one is it?" he asked.
"No. I am the haircut police. There is a fifty dollar fine for bowl cuts in the city." he said while kneeling on the ground panting in pain and exhaustion.
The doctor did not take that answer well. Apparently he liked his hair and his insult was past what the doctor was able to tolerate.
He was grabbed by the tentacles and held above ground while another tentacle began to spark with electricity.
He was right it did hurt.
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(Danny)
"Let go of the Spider-man in the red and blue tights." he said as he landed in the nuclear power plant and faced Doctor Octopus. He had been guarding Hammer as Doctor Octopus had gotten a bunch of minions to attack the docks. He had left three duplicates to watch over the scene. Two to form a ghost shield to protect Hammer and another to deal with the criminals.
"Another interloper. Whom do you serve?" the doctor questioned.
"Myself but right now I am working with S.H.I.E.L.D." he answered facing the man. He really would have liked to use ghost rays and blast the man but that would be a bad idea to do it in this area.
"No one shall interfere with my vengeance." he claimed as he sent Peter's body right at him. The tentacles followed shortly after. The doctor was expecting him to be skewered by them while he was catching Peter.
Apparently he did not keep up with the news and know that he could turn himself intangible.
"Calm down. I will deal with you in minute." he said as he found a place to lay Peter down. He had not woken up yet and Danny did not need him in the way for this.
"I know finding a date is hard but turning yourself into a octopus man won't make you seem more interesting."he said as he rushed into close quarters with the man with metal tentacles.
"You think I did this on purpose!" Doctor Octopus said as he sent the tentacles at him.
Dodging and jumping over some and just phasing through others it didn't matter he just kept getting closer to Doctor Octopus who kept backing up until he ran into a wall.
"I know it was an accident but didn't you create these arms?" he asked as he started punching the doctor in the stomach six times before the doctor used the arms to push him off the ground into the air and a few feet away from Danny.
"Why would I expect a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to understand me! You and your organization did this to me." Doctor Octopus shouted at him and that made him stop and pause to listen to the madman's ravings.
"What are you talking about?" he questioned him wondering what he hadn't been told.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists found me after the accident but instead of removing my arms they left them in to see what would happen." the doctor said as he sent the arms swinging but they just passed right through him.
"I can't believe this." he said to himself. Did they not watch television or read comics. This was how supervillains were created. He was going to have words with Fury when this was over.
"I understand why you are angry." he said and it was true but he could not let this man continue to kill people. Not only was it morally wrong he was also paid by the government to stop situations like this.
"So will you allow me to pass and get my revenge?" he asked in a mood that showed he was calming down but only if he got an answer that he liked.
"Can't let that happen dude." he said
"Then you can die alongside everyone else!" the doctor shouted at him raising the arms and preparing to bring them down trying to kill him but he just flew straight at Doctor Octopus and punched him in the stomach. The Doctor gasped for air but also grabbed his arm trying to stop him from moving.
"Die fool." the doctor said gripping his arm and looking back he could see the tentacles rushing right at him.
He could have manipulated his body so that it would pass through his stomach but he just chose the easiest answer and turned his whole body intangible.
"Ouch." he said looking at the twitching and smoking body of Doctor Octopus.
"Come on crazy. Time for you spend some time in a nice padded cell." Danny said using telekinesis to lift both Spider-man and the doctor off of the ground. He did have the doctors tentacles wrapped around him and covered in ectoplasm to keep him bound.
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"What's going on?" Peter asked him as he woke up but still in costume.
"I saved the day is all." he said waving at the cameras and watching as the doctor was being put in a truck and driven away.
"What took you so long?" Peter asked him and so he told him the reason why he was late and he agreede that the pain was worth it if he had saved lives.
"Thank you." Justin Hammer said to him as he walked up and shook his hand.
"You might want to wait on that thanks." he said and watched as agents came led by agent Sharon Carter.
"Thank you for your help as well." he said sticking his old hand out when they were locked in a pair of handcuffs.
"Justin Hammer you are under arrest." she said with a smile on her face.
"You can't do this! Do you know who I am?" Hammer asked. His old face turning red very fast. He was worried that if the old man did not calm down he might have a heart attack.
"Yes and we know what you have done." she said as she led him away. Hammer cursed everyone. S.H.I.E.L.D., the Ultimates, Nick Fury, even him and Spider-man.
"I feel happy now." he said as he waved Hammer away.
"You are seriously weird." Peter said next to him.
"I consider it's everyone else that is the weird ones." he said. Peter went webswinging off and probably going home.
He on the other hand went to the Triskelion. It was time he and Fury had a little talk.
Author's Note: I am here to announce that I am writing another crossover story but this time instead of Ultimate Marvel I will be using the CW's Arrowverse. This one is in the timeline that Central City was wiped out by Weather Wizard. Yes that means Cisco is dead and Caitlin knowing about the Reverse Flash being Wellsobard Thawne.
Stay tuned for Central City's Phantom.