Just a heads-up.
Danny will be in three places at once and since one of them is already called a Duplicate, Phantom will be used as the other duplicate while the original one will be called Danny.
You got that? Because I'm not repeating it... Then again I really don't have to... Um... Enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 26: Power Play Aftermath
Danny sighed as he and his team along with Blade, Loki and the Power Pack exited the building to be bathed in the sunrise. "Well that was a long night." He said referring to everything that just happened.
"4-Sho, man." Forge said with a shake of his head.
Talon however was sniffing around. "Just where did those shots come from though?"
"You think it was this SHIELD you guys told me about?" Taz asked curiously as they were all just resting on the rooftop after everything they've been through.
"If it was, Fury would be here." Danny said before thinking. 'Then again I only met the guy once, so he could be the one to do that.'
"We need to go." Zero-G said as he and his team began to use their powers to move.
"Yeah, Mom and Dad are going to kill us." Mass Master added.
But as they flew off, Danny made an invisible duplicate to fly after them as Blade gave a sigh.
"At least that fucker is dead." Blade said turning to leave before pausing as he looked back at Danny. "... You're alright."
Danny stared as Blade jumped off the rooftop before Taz slapped his back, making him wince a bit from pain. "Wow, not even a week and you gained some respect from Blade." He said with a chuckle. "It took me a year... Maybe two."
Shaking his head, Danny gave a nod before he turned to look at Loki. "I have to know, how did you find out where to find us?"
Loki calmly approached Danny and made him hold his arm out where the glyph appeared.
"Who do you think taught her this magic?" Loki asked as Danny chuckled before seeing Loki's eyes and he knew that Loki wanted to talk.
But he put that in the back of his mind, they can talk later.
Right now, they need to check on Ray and Nyx.
"How about we head back home?" Danny suggested to his team.
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Paulina was grumbling as she punched a tree, not even caring as her knuckle was bruised. "Why?" She muttered under her breath. "Why did he say no to me? What does that skank have that I don't?!"
Shaking her head, Paulina was about to head back to the Brotherhood Boarding House when something slammed into her and she cried out in pain before she dug a tranquilizer dart out of her neck.
"W-Wha?" Paulina asked before falling over, unconscious.
Coming out of the shadows was a red head woman in a skin-tight black suit with yellow wristbands as she placed a gun in the holster. "Director Fury, we have her." She said through her ear com.
"Good." Fury's voice answered. "I'm having Coulson preparing the Big House and I'll let Doctor Pym know that he'll have a new patient. Any trouble, Widow?"
Black Widow shook her head with a smirk. "It was too easy."
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Ray hummed as he stayed in the medical room where Nyx was sleeping silently.
He managed to keep her awake for some of the wounds to heal by themselves and it was safe for her to sleep.
But right now he had a hand in his hair.
'What good is my speed, if I can't help my friends?' Ray thought to himself sadly.
He swore once to never let anyone close, but now?
Now the Renegades are practically his second family besides his parents and his soon-to-be sibling.
Ray made a mental note to run back to Oregon and visit his parents again after the others get back.
But Ray looked back at Nyx before remembering meeting Loki.
~Three Hours Ago~
Ray was running out of topics to keep Nyx awake as she looked to be nodding off.
"Hey how about this?" Ray ran to her room and came back out with her sketchbook. "You love drawing?"
Nyx smiled as she saw that, some of the drowsiness fading from her eyes. "Yeah." She said wanting to grab it but she winced as the cut on her wrists stung.
"Well after you heal, we can look through it together." Ray said with a smile.
"That would be nice-." Nyx began before her eyes widened as she sensed a familiar energy entering the base.
"Nyx?" Ray was now worried about her eyes widening. "Do you need anything? Water? Food? I'll get it in a second."
"Frankly, she needs rest." A voice said from behind him.
Ray spun around so quickly that anyone else would suffer from whiplash as he saw Loki. "Who are you?!" Ray asked with some hostility as he didn't meet Loki the last time the man visited due to him being in Oregon.
"Dad!" Nyx called out with a wave, wincing.
Ray looked surprised before Loki approached Nyx's makeshift bed and had her place her hand back down.
"Try not to move." Loki whispered to her as his hands glowed green surrounding her, before her eyes fluttered closed and a second later she was snoring. "There, I placed a stasis spell on her, she'll recover more asleep."
Ray gave a sigh of relief before Loki looked at him in anger.
"What happened?" Loki asked in a low voice that promised pain.
"She got kidnapped by a vampire to be used as a sacrifice to summon a Blood God." Ray said not wanting to be on the receiving end of this God's wrath. "The others are fighting this God right now."
Loki frowned as he heard the word 'sacrifice' before he gave a nod and focused. "I trust that you'll keep watching over my daughter?" He questioned as he prepared to teleport.
"I will." Ray promised as he pulled a chair out.
"Very well then. I shall have words with this Lesser God." Loki said before muttering. "Great, now I'm sounding like that buffoon Thor."
It was low, but Ray heard him.
~Present Time~
Ray's head perked as he heard voices and he saw Danny, Laura, John and Taz entering the infirmary with Loki right behind them.
"How is she?" Danny asked looking worried.
"Her wounds are wrapped up and I put some rubbing alcohol on them to clean out any infection." Ray answered him. "She's sleeping right now."
"That's a relief." John sighed as Nyx snored.
"I think we should leave the room so we don't wake her up?" Laura suggested.
"I'll stay in here for a bit longer." Loki said and nobody argued with him.
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"We are furious!" A man with auburn hair and a full face beard, wearing glasses, and a red pajama robe, said as the Power Pack kids were in their civilian clothes being scolded by their parents. "Do you have any idea how worried we were?!"
"No note, beds empty." Their Mother, a woman with long blonde hair in a brown robe had her arms crossed. "We were on the phone with the police when you came downstairs."
"And how did you get up there anyways?!" James Power asked in confused anger. "We're on the third story of the apartments."
The Power Kids looked down feeling guilt with keeping their powers a secret from their parents.
"And Franklin, your parents will hear about this when they get back." Margaret Power said causing Franklin to wince as he knew he was in a world of trouble.
"I have half a mind to-." James stopped talking as his eyes gave a greenish glow. "Send you kids to your room for the day."
"What?" The kids asked as Margaret looked at James in shock.
"James, what are you-?" Then she stopped as James shook his head. "Marvelous idea, a little time out could be what they need."
Then it happened to James again. "So go up there for an hour."
"Yes an hour is good." Margaret said.
As the kids walked up, Jack spoke. "Alright, am I the only one thinking that was strange?"
"It was like they were someone else." Julie noted.
Katie looked at Franklin. "Did you use your telepathy?" She asked curiously.
Franklin shook his head. "No, I didn't."
"Then what just happened?" Alex asked as they opened the door to see Phantom floating in there with his arms crossed.
"Hey." Phantom said at their stupified grins.
"Y-You followed us?!" Alex asked in a mixture of surprise and anger.
Phantom rolled his eyes. "You kids don't wear masks, so I didn't really have to and before you say I don't wear a mask either, my hair and eyes change color to compensate for that."
That was when Julie thought of something. "Were you the one who caused our parents to act like that?"
Phantom gave a nod resulting in a glare from the kids. "Would you rather I told them you helped my team fight a Vampire God?" He asked sarcastically causing the glares to die down. "I didn't want you kids to get grounded because you helped Nyx and this was the only time I'm bailing you five out."
Alex was quiet for a bit before he gave a nod.
"... So are you kids alright?" Phantom asked off-handedly.
"What do you mean?" Franklin asked curious about the subject change.
"With how you guys didn't hold back yesterday." Phantom said bluntly causing them to freeze up a bit. "That's what I thought, look if you guys need someone to talk to, I can listen."
"Why would you do that?" Katie asked not in hostility, but in surprise.
"Because taking a life is never easy, even if it's a supernatural one." Phantom said with a nod.
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"So he's dead?" Whistler asked as Blade walked into their hideout.
"He is." Blade confirmed with a nod. "It took awhile but I finally got the fucker."
"About time." Whistler said with a chuckle as he turned back to his table where he was working on more UV bullets. "He was always a slippery piece of shit."
"How soon before we're ready to move?" Blade asked as Whistler continued moving.
"You sick of New York already?" Whistler joked as Blade glared at him. "It'll take a day or two before we're fully packed, you go get some rest. You'll need it."
Blade gave a nod and went to leave but then Whistler stopped him.
"You're limping."
"It's nothing." Blade said.
"Bullshit." Whistler called him out on that. "Let me see."
Blade frowned but he relented as he sat down and lifted his leg up to show a gash.
"Frost did this?" Whistler asked with a raised brow as Blade's healing already stopped the bleeding, but the wound would be there for awhile.
"He got lucky." Blade answered before looking to the side. "You have the serum ready?"
Whistler gave a nod. "What little of it we have." He said. "If we rationize it, it'll last two weeks."
Blade was silent and Whistler took that as a sign that he didn't want to talk as he got to work.
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Danny was in his room meditating as he tried to focus on his ecto energy.
He needed to learn all he could before anything else happened to his team.
And he needed to find Paulina and take care of her for good.
But as he was meditating, he sensed a familiar energy go into his room and he opened his eyes to find Loki a few feet away.
The only reason he sensed Loki was because the God allowed it.
"What can I do for you?" Danny asked although he had an idea on where this was going.
"Nyx nearly died." Loki said in anger glaring at Danny.
"You think I don't know that?!" Danny said standing up. "I take the safety of everyone here seriously."
"And yet she was nearly used as a sacrifice." Loki spat out.
Danny looked down, unable to say anything to counter that.
It was true, he made a promise to have this as a safe haven and it hasn't even been two months and someone was kidnapped to be used in a damn ritual.
"I-I'm trying to keep everyone safe." Danny said looking back up. "All of them are my responsibility and I will die for all of them."
Loki looked at Danny before turning to walk away but he stopped at the door. "Know this Mortal." He said in a low voice as he turned his gaze on Danny. "If anything happens to my daughter, I will kill you myself. Do we understand each other?"
Danny gave a nod.
As Loki left, Danny stood in his room before he decided to check on Laura.
After what happened with La Magra, he nearly forgot about what happened with her due to the incident with Paulina.
So he came to her door and knocked.
There was no answer.
"Hey Laura?" Danny called out as he placed his back to the door.
He wasn't going to enter because he did not want to cause another awkward incident like when he accidently fell on her with the towel.
No answer came and Danny frowned before pressing his ear to the door to hear movement inside, so he knew that she was in there.
But then he heard the footsteps coming and he quickly pulled away from the door as it opened to show Laura who had her usual frown on her face. "What?" Laura asked with her arms crossed.
"... I just wanted to make sure you were alright." Danny said rubbing the back of his head as Laura blinked.
"I thought I would be asking you that." Laura said and Danny saw a flash of guilt on her face as she said it.
"I'm fine." Danny said with a laugh. "It wasn't anything serious-."
"It wasn't serious?!" Laura asked with a glare. "I could've killed you!"
"But you didn't." Danny said not flinching from her anger, already used to it. "Laura, it takes a lot more than that to kill me."
"How?" Laura shook her head. "How could you just be so casual about it?!"
"Laura, you're my friend." Danny said placing a hand on her shoulder. "And you weren't the one responsible for that, Paulina was."
"It was still my claws." Laura muttered in shame. "That's why I'm leaving."
"What?!" Danny had wide eyes and that was when he noticed the backpack near the door. "Laura it's not your fault."
"Yes it was." Laura said shaking her head. "I can't be close to anyone because I end up killing them."
"That's bull right there." Danny said looking at her.
"My Mom died because of me." Laura finally began to shout. "And you nearly died because of me! How long before the whole team does? I can't take that risk."
Danny was silent because he recognized the anger that was coming out of Laura.
After two months of suppressing how her Mom's death was affecting her, it was finally breaking out.
Turning away, Danny sighed as he placed his hands in his pocket. "Do you know what I felt when I saw my family die?" He asked as Laura gave him a weird look.
But she decided to go along with this change of conversation. "What?"
"Anger." Danny said looking at his hand. "Fear. Sadness... I even thought of ending it right there and then."
Laura's eyes widened at hearing that Danny considered Suicide at one point.
"But I knew that my family wouldn't want that." Danny said looking back at Laura. "I moved past that and I've come to accept that any friends I made would be targeted by my enemies as well, like how Skulktech nearly killed Ray." Then he sighed. "Laura, do you honestly think we would just stand by if you were ever in any trouble, even if you did leave? We would all take the risk to help you."
"I wouldn't want that." Laura said shaking her head.
"It's our choice as well as yours." Danny said walking away, deciding to get out of the base right now. "I won't stop you leaving because I don't want to force you to stay... But I hope you do."
As Danny walked out of sight, Laura stood back and looked at her bag.
She was about to sneak out through the window when Danny knocked.
Now? She didn't know if she should leave or not.
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Ray and Taz were playing a video game called Left 4 Dead, in the main room. "Tank!" Ray shouted as he had his character back up.
"Damn it." Taz cursed.
This was the scene that John walked in on. "The hell are you two doing?" John asked in surprise.
"Playing a video game." Ray answered as they were shooting at the giant zombie. "You want to play? We have a third controller."
"I was about to work on the Haven-." John began before Taz tossed it to him.
"Come on, it'll be fun." Taz said with a grin. "You need to take a break from the jet."
"Taz is right." Ray said pausing the game. "You work on that thing every chance you get."
"I just love making improvements on it." John answered him. "Especially with how it came in handy with the AIM attack when we first met Ray."
"AIM attack?" Taz blinked. "You guys were involved in that one?"
"I was in the middle of it due to my parents being kidnapped." Ray said.
"Huh." Taz said before John gave a shrug.
"Ah well." He said turning his controller on. "Chillin in the pad sounds good."
"That's the spirit." Ray said as they began playing again.
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Nyx was not happy.
She was confined to the bed as soon as she woke up.
Even if she said she was fine.
Danny left one of his duplicates there to watch her and anytime she tried to sneak out of the room, he would gently grab her and place her back on the bed.
"Next time I might tie you to it." The duplicate said feeling annoyed from the tenth time he placed her back on the bed.
"But I'm booooooorrrrrrrred." Nyx complained, stretching the last word out.
The duplicate gave a chuckle at how Nyx seemed to be acting normal, even if she was hiding the fact the fear that the near sacrifice gave her.
"The sooner you rest, the sooner you get to leave." The duplicate reminded her.
"But I'm not tired." Nyx said looking away before seeing the Notepad that she drew in and she used her magic to reach for it.
Looking back at her, the duplicate shook his head, grateful that she got something to keep her occupied.
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Danny sighed as he was in a restaurant looking at a menu, wondering what he should get before he heard someone sit across from him and he lowered the menu to see Fury.
"What do you want?" Danny asked with a frown, not wanting to deal with him right now.
"Just a moment of your time." Fury said as a waiter came to take their orders. "Coffee, two sugars."
"Just a water." Danny said and as the waiter left, Fury spoke.
"Hows your team holding up after what happened?"
"So it was you shooting at La Magra?" Danny asked with a raised eyebrow only to blink as Fury shook his head.
"No that was Jorge, the only surviving member of the Nocturnae Council." Fury said surprising Danny.
"Why would he shoot a Vampire God?" Danny asked in confusion. "It doesn't make any sense."
"I figured you of all people would understand that being a vampire wouldn't necessarily make one evil." Fury said as Danny gave him that one before the man continued. "You do realize that if you joined SHIELD, you would've had more help."
Now Danny was glaring. "I'm not signing my team up for you to use as soldiers." He said his eyes turning red.
"Not your team." Fury said as the waiter came back with their drinks and he waited until the waiter left before continuing. "Just you."
"What?" Danny asked not expecting that one.
Fury took a sip of his drink. "I'm putting together a team called the Ultimates Initiative." He explained to Danny. "It's been on the bench for a few years and you were listed as one of the possible candidates after your first appearance."
"You had me as a candidate after I was named Public Ghost Enemy?" Danny asked sarcastically.
"No, SHIELD knew you weren't the threat, that's why we didn't go after you." Fury said to Danny. "We even helped your popularity go up before the incident with your family."
Danny frowned as he remembered when the popularity of his Ghost Form did go up a week before his fight with Dan, but he didn't think anything of it then.
"What is this Ultimate's Initiative?" Danny asked curiously before frowning. "And why are we speaking about this in a public place?"
Fury smirked. "The people behind you are SHIELD agents as well as the man at the bar." He said causing Danny to tense. "Did you expect me to come without anyone watching my back?"
"Good point." Danny admitted begrudgingly.
"Now as for the Ultimates Initiative." Fury clasped his fingers. "It's to put together a team of remarkable people in hopes that they could fight the battles we can't. Crime is turning into super crime and terrorism is turning into super-terrorism. We just can't handle things like how we used to."
"So basically Black-Op Metahumans and Mutants." Danny deduced.
Fury gave a nod. "You stopped a Ghost Invasion and saved the world as a result." He said before pulling out a file from his coat leaving Danny to wonder how he had it in there. "If you're interested look through this file and go to the coordinates that'll show in there."
"Fury, why are you putting this team together exactly?" Danny asked as he eyed the file in front of him. "You said it was on the bench for years? Why now?"
Standing up to leave, Fury didn't even look at him. "We have a problem that we can't handle at this moment." He said before paying for both of their drinks.
With that, he left and Danny was left to look at the file before he grabbed it and walked back to the base.
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The first thing Danny did on entering the base was check up on Nyx to see his duplicate falling asleep.
So with a sigh, he dispelled the duplicate and walked in to see Nyx passed out with her notepad on the floor.
Blinking at that, Danny bent over to pick the notepad up and stopped at seeing the picture.
Nyx drew all of the Renegades together and it was pretty good with them all smiling and it made him laugh a bit at seeing it.
Nyx snorted in her sleep causing Danny to cover his mouth before he placed the book down and gently ruffled her hair.
"Get well, Nyx." Danny said as he left to go to the Training Room where he saw Laura going through some mechs. "So you're staying?"
Laura didn't even stop tearing through a mech as she answered. "I thought about it some more and you were right." She said and Danny gave a nod before going Ghost.
"You want to spar?" He asked earning a surprised look from Laura before she grinned.
"Bring it, Bleach Head."
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On the outskirts of New York, thunder gathered before a beam of light shot down to the ground kicking dust up.
As the dust died down, Thor Odinson stood up Mjlonir in his hand.
"Heimdall said that he sensed Loki's magic in Midgard." Thor mused as he looked around before seeing the city of New York in the distance. "Odin's Beard, Midgard has changed much since last I've been here."
Twirling his hammer, Thor shot off into the air.
While flying, Thor reached into his pouch and pulled the bird plushie that belonged to his brother's daughter.
'I hope to find her.' Thor thought to himself, wanting to return it to her.
To Be Continued...
Alright so the next chapter will be the Halloween Special and I may do the Ultimate's as a side-story to this one.
Oh and I've changed the Ultimate's Team Roster a bit for if I do the side-story and I need to think of what the first mission will be. The Avengers will be a separate team from them and will show up after the revelation of Mutants and I won't have the Ultimates be douchebags like how some of the Ultimate Marvel ones were so don't worry.
And now some people were shown and mentioned. Ant-Man, Coulson, Widow and Thor.
Alrighty then, now to answer the reviews!
Jacob Taz: Thanks, I'm happy you like Taz and while I didn't show much on him in this chapter, I will show more in future ones. Uh what do you mean will Taz have a Bae and I figured Taz's nemesis was already decided from when you sent his character in.
Richard1081: Yes, I figured it would be funny if I had that, she'll grow out of it eventually though.
TheWhiteTitan: La Magra is the Blood God whose power that Frost took in the Blade Movie. But I'm happy you enjoyed the fight.
KuriMaster13: Well he will think about it eventually, but at the time I figured he wouldn't joke like that with Nyx being in danger.
JP-Rider: She won't show up again for awhile but she will be a greater threat when she does. And I will check your Garfield Logan: Spectacular Spider-Man story after the Halloween chapter.
DannyPhantom619: Thanks, and I'm happy you enjoyed Loki's appearance. Now that's a cool idea for Amity's Dark Phantom but considering how Danny doesn't have powers in that fic, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be able to swing like that without pulling his arm out of his socket. But the chains could be made out of ectoranium so he could have a God of War like vibe while fighting Ghosts.
NightMaster000: Thanks, I'm happy you enjoyed the fight scenes and Energizers powers affecting Vampires, I figured since it was energy like how sun was, why not add some UV energy to it? And that chapter was also good in showing the grey morality in Phantom, that was one of the reasons I did this arc. Blade will see Danny as still a kid but an ally like how Taz is. I will show some mental scars from it but she will hide it by acting like how she usually does. The talk with Elder Jorge will be later, he still needs to rebuild the Nocturnae Council from scratch. No he will keep it a secret from them for now. Because he can't find Blade and because while he can see the Power Pack as big help, they're still kids to him.
I might have Magneto involve the Power Pack in the Cauldron episode and I do have a plan for Nyx's power increase and yes to Nyx being captured with Wolverine. Yes Mystique will do that and I will change it a bit. I don't know about the grey moments in Season 1 yet but I will show even more as time goes on. As for the newest Marvel member, he's shown up in two of my stories already, that's the only hint I'm giving. Interesting proposition with Doom, I might have that show up in this story or the planned sequel.
Coldblue: Yeah, I was running out of muse for that fight scene, sorry about that and I figured that with him moving at fast speeds, Ray could theoretically make a compressed air ball with how fast he was moving to use as a weapon. And I have a plan for Deadpool that involves one of the members, but that's all I'm giving at this time. Now for your questions. 1) Maybe during the Endless Rage Arc he will. 2) Oh he will be pissed, even if he understands that sometime stuff happens, this was his daughter 'adopted, but he doesn't care' that was nearly killed so it would be understandable that he was pissed. 3) I figured giving him the file for the Ultimates would be good and I hope to expand on that in the side-story showing their first mission as the Ultimates. 4) Not sure. 5) I would think that Heimdall would and alert Odin who in turn would send Thor to look into it. 6) They might. 7) They're interesting, the only one I don't know much about would be Alkhema and considering how Ultron doesn't exist yet, she won't appear for awhile. 8) Nyx can already teleport but those other powers sound interesting. 9) He wouldn't be Deadpool if he didn't. 10) Huh, that would be interesting. 11) Yes. 12) I hope I did it justice considering they didn't know about their kids, 'secret' and I figured Danny would do that to get them out of trouble. 13) Maybe. 14) I thought I already did that. 15) Yes they will. 16) Hell yes they will.
Inviso-Al: Next will be the Halloween chapter if I can get it typed in time.
Matt: Possibly.
Phantom Fan: Haha, thanks and I hope you continue to enjoy this story as I have it stray even more from Marvel Canon and I might have the Avengers be remade in my own way instead of doing EMH at this point considering what I did with Hawkeye and Iron Man so far.
TheTragicHero: That scene will be saved until much later.
Shugokage: Thanks, I'm happy you enjoyed it.
Ciestess84: Thanks and I will be having that be their battle-cry.
Partay Time: Haha, I'm happy you enjoyed it and I'm happy that I showed Danny being a major badass in this story so far.
Newboy: Oh there will be plenty of opportunities to show that.
Fan of Evil: Well I figured it would be how Danny would react if he was put in that situation and Paulina will make a comeback in the future.
Alright Spidey is signing out so look forward to the Halloween Chapter!