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~CWA

Chapter 24:

Third Person:

Danny handed Gear off to Jean. Gear stumbled a bit and Jean caught her easily,

"Easy, Gywn."

"For the last time, Red, it's Gear," Gear said.

Jean just gave her an apologetic look before turning her attention to the fight. Danny motioned for the others to stand down, ignoring Dani's protests. Jean briefly wondered why the Guys in White called Danny by his codename- Phantom. Though she didn't have time to wonder on it very long before Danny pulled out what looked like a syringe. Concerned, she took a small step forward, only for Danny to shout at her to stay back.

"Shit, Double D," Gear coughed, "Don't you do it."

"Do what," Jean asked, realizing Gear knew what was going on.

"I… twiddle with things. One of the things I was working on was that- supposed to make him stronger. Idiot- it's in the test phase. Don't know what could happen."

Gear coughed harshly again, causing her to whimper as another burn reached her lungs. Danny looked back at her with a saddened look before sticking the needle in his arm and pushing all the pure ectoplasm into his veins before the Guys in White had a chance to react. He felt the power surge through his veins like an almost high. He yanked it out and then powers ectoblasts in his hands. His eyes glowed brighter than usual and he seemed to have a bright white aura around him. His ectoblasts even glowed brighter.

"You want me, come get me."

They shot at him. He threw up a shield to protect the others,

"Danielle- keep them safe!"

He shot at the agents rapidly, shot after shot, each shot that hit the ground caused a small indent in the ground. Not really using his brain, he shot rapidly without aiming- not noticing that he shot at the helicarrier as well, causing its wing to blow out. He let out a large scream of frustration as the agents shot at him,

"You have no chance Phantom!"

"Didn't know you had a sense of humor! In case you didn't notice, you're losing!"

He continued to shoot rapidly as he flew into the air, zipping around so quick that the agents didn't have a solid thing to aim at. He shot a few ice shots as well, freezing their weapons and their feet. One by one, there were no more agents left to fight- all of them being weaponless or knocked out. It lasted a total of five minutes before there was only one agent standing.

Danny landed on the ground, his eyes still glowing so bright that there seemed to be no pupil. As he walked towards the last agent, large footprint-shaped burns were imprinted into the ground. His hands were practically smoking as he reached the agent.

"Game over."

He punched the agent swiftly, knocking him out- then he punched him again,

"And that one was for what you did to Gear."

He turned towards the others- Gear didn't look that happy as she was cursing under her breath, Dani seemed concerned, Logan looked proud, and Storm was back to being worried about Gear's condition.

"Back to the helicarrier," Danny ordered.

"If you mean that black one, you took out its wing, dumbass," Gear glared.

"You know, I thought you'd be happy to be saved."

"Saved, hell yes, I'm really thankful for it. But that's not going to stop me from being pissed you just used something experimental to make yourself powerful. Now let's go."

"I can destroy the base," Danny chimed, "But-"

"-No. I can take them down legally so they're locked up. We just gotta get out of here… My ribs hurt like hell- pretty sure they're bruised up pretty badly."

She coughed violently again, Jean and Storm both held her steady.

"We can't wait Danny, we have to get her to the infirmary," Jean pointed out.

Danny growled slightly,

"Fine. They have their jet over there- let's go."

With help from Jean, Storm, and Dani, Gear was inside the jet and buckled up tightly. It was a small space for all of them, so those not in the few seats were squished shoulder to shoulder, but it was still a ride out of there. Danny took the controls and off they went, heading back to the mansion.

"I contacted the Professor," Jean informed them as they neared the mansion, "He said that Beast is ready to take Gear to the infirmary to treat her."

"Good," Danny nodded firmly, "But I think you should tell him to be ready to check all of us."

"Why?"

"The controls just locked up. I can't really do anything… This is gonna be an interesting landing…"

"Define interesting," Gear asked cautiously as she coughed.

Danny scratched at his head,

"'Oh god, oh god, we're gonna die.'"

Jean was able to use her powers to land the jet safely, causing Danny to be embarrassed, but thankful. As soon as the jet landed, the others mutants at the mansion flooded around it, watching as they exited- they took in Danny's different appearance. His eyes were still glowing with no pupil or white and his footsteps still caused burn marks, not to mention the white aura. A few, however, looked horrified at Gear's appearance. Jean and Dani were helping her stand and get out since Danny's hands were still power-charged with no off switch. Beast was quick to make his way through the crowd.

"Dear Lord," he whispered as he saw Gear, "Jean can you levitate her to the medical room? If we carry her, it might do too much damage and her ankle looks broken or at least sprained, I won't know until I take a closer look."

"Sure thing," Jean said and Gear waved her arms weakly as she floated a few inches off the ground.

"Hey ehh doc," Danny said as he started to sway, "Power high is coming to a power low…"

He collapsed onto the ground, Logan just barely managing to catch him in time. The white aura around him died out and Logan threw him over his shoulder,

"I got him."

Beast shook his head. Scott and Storm worked on getting the other mutants to carry on and not stare as Dani, Kurt, and Kitty followed Jean and Logan- therefore following where Gear and Danny were going.