Danny walked to the middle of the training room. "Okay let's try this, how about we, um... spar." He looked over to the team who kinda nodded. They seemed about as unsure about this training thing as he did. "Okay hm… Luke you first then." He pointed at the tall muscular man.
Luke walked forward and stood in front of Danny who already had his feet planted firmly on the ground. Luke towered over him, but he wasn't as tall as Danny's dad. Luke's height didn't intimidate Danny at all, he had fought much bigger ghosts before, and won. He was used to being the small one in a fight. Luke crossed his arms. "I don't really want to hurt you, I am pretty strong."
Danny smirked a bit. "I am sure I can handle it." Luke looked back at his friends and then back down at the halfa.
"Okay. If you're sure." They both got into a fighting position as the others backed up. They were interested to see what Phantom could do. But they were sure that Luke would beat him easily.
Danny waited, he was going to stay more on the defensive side in this fight. Use Luke's power against him. Even if Danny was probably as strong -if not stronger than Luke if he really put all of his effort into it. He was going to limit himself to certain powers for now, he didn't want to reveal all of his powers to these people yet, he was sure not even Fury knew the extent of his power. -But then again its Nick Fury.-
Luke waited for a second to see if Danny was going to move before he did. He stepped forward trying to grab Danny's shoulder. Danny quickly ducked underneath his fist and slid around and with a fraction of his power, he kicked Luke's side pushing him over a bit, causing him to stumble forward. The ghost straightened up and stepped back for Luke to catch himself, also leaving enough room between them so he can dodge a fast attack if need be.
Luke now realized this may be a bit harder than he realized. He turned around quickly and threw another punch at Danny who slid to the side and grabbed the man's forearm. Luke looked up to see the ghost smirk before he was flipped over Phantom's head and flat onto his back on the ground behind Danny.
Danny smiled and turned around holding his hand out for Luke to take to help him back up. The room was silent, everyone was surprised at what Danny did. "You did very well, it is good that you were waiting at first to see if I would make the first move, that was smart. Be careful not to underestimate someone even if they are half your size, so be prepared to catch yourself if someone flips you over as I did." Danny explained and mentally patted himself on the back, he was proud of that explanation. He wished he had someone with experience to teach him things like this. He just hoped that these kids would listen to his advice.
Luke nodded back at Danny. He was a bit surprised but listened to the advice carefully trying not to miss any parts of it. If Phantom could beat him that easily with barely trying he should listen. He did feel a bit embarrassed about the team being there but he could tell that after that Phantom would be able to beat them too and he will probably be less embarrassed.
Danny looked at the rest of the team members as Luke walked back a bit. "I think this is going well for my first time training people. Okay, um, who wants to go next?"
Spider-man stepped forward. "Let me try."
Danny nodded and turned his body a bit into another defensive stance. He knew Spider-man and Nova were definitely the ones to throw the first punch. Danny used to always be like that too, but sometimes that can lead to bigger problems in a fight. Hopefully, he could work on that with them if he could.
Peter figured he could get the upper hand on Phantom by webbing him first. He quickly shot a web at Phantom's foot sticking it to the floor but Danny didn't even flinch. Spider-man jumped into the air to kick him but somehow Danny dogged it. His foot was no longer stuck in the webbing. How did he even get out?
Spider-man punched very quickly at Danny who dodged most of them jumping around, Peter was sure at least one of those punches went through the teen's arm. Danny threw one punch at Peter's side but surprised Danny when he jumped out of the way. Danny was sure there was no way he could have seen that coming. Danny narrowed his eyes at the red and blue clad superhero and jumped forward.
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The next day
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"I don't know something is just fishy about this," Spider-man grumbled, walking down the halls of the hellcarior with the rest of the team. "I mean I have never heard of him, and it seems that Coulson doesn't trust him, and he beat us all without nearly breaking a sweat. Who even is this guy?"
Tiger rolled her eyes. "You are just sore that he beat us all. And that doesn't mean we have broken into SHIELD's files! Honestly."
Luke spoke up. "Come on Tiger, you have to say there is something weird about this whole thing. And even then why would Fury bring in someone to train us who is our age, maybe even younger."
"I can't believe I am saying this, but I agree with spidey," Nova said. "If we just looked at his file, maybe it would clear things up."
"Fine." She grumbled. "But if we get caught I am saying it is your fault." She jabbed her finger into Spider-man's chest.
Spidey threw his hands up in defense. "Okay, okay. But I know I am right with this, trust me."
Tiger crossed her arms as they walked over to a SHIELD database panel. Spider-man was first to the panel, and typed into the search bar. 'Phantom'. It took only a couple of seconds for it to pull up a photo of Danny's face. But the moment Peter clicked on it, the huge red words of 'Access denied.' Flashed on the screen.
Tiger looked up and hummed slightly. "Okay, maybe you are on to something." Peter looked up at the screen and tried pressing more buttons in vain as the same label kept popping up.
Spider-man put his hand to his chin and looked back to the others. "It is encrypted." He paused. "I should be able to unencrypt it at my house. But it will take a while. And I will need to download the file. Which will also take a little bit."
Nova grumbled. "Well get started already. We will look out for any agents who might see us."
Peter nodded and reached into a pocket on the hip of his spider suit pulling out a spider-themed USB stick and plugs it into the console. "It will take 5 minutes to download." He looked back up to the others who were looking down either sides of the hallway. "If you guys can meet me at my house, in about an hour it should be done encrypting."
Nova turned around. "I wonder what would be so important that it would need an encryption?"
"I am not sure. Though I feel like most of the files on the database are encrypted." Tiger added. "Tough I am very interested to find out more."
A small beep sounded from the console and a blue bar showed on-screen reading 'Download Complete.' Spider-man quickly snatched the USB and webbed the roof and started to swing down the hall. "See you in an hour then." He called behind him. The rest of the team sort of rolled their eyes and started down the hall in the same direction that Spider-man left.
X
The rest of the team arrived at Peter's house in their civilian clothes. They were greeted at the door by Aunt May. "Ahh, welcome. Peter said you guys were coming. He is up in his room working on some school experiment thing." She turned away from them and called up the stairs. "Peter, your friends are here!"
"Thanks, Aunt May. Can you send them up?" He called back.
Aunt may turned back to her nephew's friends and nodded, knowing that they heard him yell. They all nodded in thanks and started up the stairs. Sam was first to talk "What did you find?"
"I was just waiting for the last encryption key." He turned around looking over at something on his desk. "That should be done, right about, now." Peter turned in his chair and did finger guns at his computer, he sighed. "Right now…" nothing. "N- '' There was a light ping from Peter's computer, and he pressed the file that popped up in the bottom right corner of the screen. "See told you."
The team all gathered around the screen to see. There on the front once again was a photo of the same Phantom that they fought the day before. Only this time when Peter clicked on it, an error didn't come up. Instead popped up a file. It looked a lot similar to theirs.
"Got it," Peter exclaimed, leaning back in his chair. And then started to read. "Phantom, age: unknown (appearance of 15-year-old)?" He looked back to his friends behind him. "What does that mean?"
Rand shrugged. "He did make a joke about his age yesterday. Could that have something to do with it?"
"So this guy could be like 100 or something?" Sam asked, tilting his head to the side.
Tiger rolled her eyes. "I think we should just keep reading for now, and ask questions later. So we could at least get through this before we have to go back."
Peter nodded and continued. "Most frequently seen, 'Amity Park.' Hmm never heard of it… Guys, this guy is an Avengers level threat!"
Everyone paused in surprise, Avengers level threat. Why would he be known as a threat? And how is he powerful enough to be known as an avengers level threat. What could he do? This guy was getting stranger and stranger every minute.
"What is with this guy?" Sam asked.
"Look at this." Peter clicked on the species icon underneath Danny's photo. A page popped up. "Species: Ecto entity or… ghost!?"
Authors notes
Hello and thanks for waiting for this chapter, it didn't come out as soon as I had hoped. I had originally intended this whole chapter to be about the showing off of powers and the sparing of everyone. and though that would have been cool, it seemed very repetitive and boring. Not moving the story along at all. So after a couple of weeks of mulling it over, I only decided to keep a little of the fight at the beginning and move on with the story. If you guys really want it, later on I can post a chapter that is everything I had originally planned this chapter to be. Thanks for reading.
Just to point out, I know nothing about encryptions or how they work. so please don't come at me if I did them wrong.
I have so many plans for this story and hope you will continue reading it as I post more. And thanks to everyone who has been commenting so far. They mean so much to me when I read them and they brighten up my day. They encourage me to write more for you amazing people to enjoy. THANK YOU. :D
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