Back in Peter's room all of the teens were still baffled about what they had discovered. Luke was one of the first to speak up. "Ghost, like the ones that haunt houses and float around?" He held his hands out like a zombie, sounding unsure.
"So...So the guy we were talking to yesterday, was dead?" Sam asked worriedly.
Ava raised an eyebrow and crossed arms. "But, he didn't look very ghostly." She said, "You'd think that he would be more...creepy, dead even?"
Peter leaned back. "I mean he was completely tangible. Ghosts aren't supposed to be tangible, right? That's their whole thing. Walking through walls, bullets don't work on them. Scared of salt!"
Rand stood up with his hand on his chin. "I did feel a strange aura around him when he first arrived. Very spiritual." He said thoughtfully
"Well, what else does it say about ghosts?" Ava asked, leaning closer to the screen.
Peter put his hand on his forehead. "I didn't download that part. I thought if I copied too many files they would catch on." He sighed.
"Great so we still know next to nothing about him. Ugh." Sam wined.
"Then how 'bout we ask Fury ourselves," Peter said. "It's time we get to the bottom of this."
X
It was about two in the afternoon and Danny had just flown all the way back to the helicarrier. Sometimes he wished he could make portals like Wulf. He knew it was a power he could get because Da-… -because someone else used it before. He just had to learn how to use it. Maybe he should do some training with Wulf someday, that would be fun.
Once he had gotten close enough to the flying ship he had turned intangible and flew through it. He knew the sort of area where he was supposed to go. He had also turned invisible just so he didn't give anyone any heart attacks while flying through.
Once he made it to the training room he quickly noticed Fury standing in the corner of the room with Coulson and another agent. Danny flew over there and turned visible landing on the ground with a very light thud about five feet in front of them.
Coulson jumped with the surprise appearance, and the other agent drew his gun and pointed it at Danny, in sudden surprise. Fury on the other hand kept a cool face. Danny jumped back a bit in surprise at the drawn gun, his ears pinned back. He held his hands up slightly to show that he meant no harm.
Fury quickly held up his hand as a signal to stand down. When the agent lowered his gun Danny walked forward slightly. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare." He said with his hands still slightly raised. Fury motioned for the two SHIELD agents to leave and walked closer towards the young halfa.
"Phantom, next time I suggest just waiting on the roof." He paused for a second. "You're a bit early, the team has not arrived yet."
Danny nodded with a smile. "You know the traffic was kinda light today." Phantom joked leaning back on the wall. "Then again there was this one really mad goose that was angry I was taking up some of his airspace." Fury had no reaction to the small joke.
Suddenly the door to the training room opened and the young team rushed in. They walked directly up to Phantom and Fury. "Okay, what's going on!?" Spiderman demanded. "You're a ghost!"
Danny raised an eyebrow and glanced at Fury before looking back to the five teens. "What am I supposed to say? 'Boo'?"
"So it's true?" Nova asked, surprised.
Danny shrugged. He started listing off on his fingers. "Ghost, Spirit, ecto entity, core being, dead. I don't know what else you could call it."
The team looked at Phantom with wide eyes, they weren't expecting him to be so open about it. "I mean my name is Phantom I don't know how much more obvious you could get at this point."
Fury spoke up. "How might I ask how you have discovered this information?"
The teens quickly quieted, seeming embarrassed. "We, uh… we…" Spider-man muttered. "We got it off of the shield files." He finally said.
Fury already knew that they had downloaded the file the moment they had done it. "Don't do it again." Fury warned.
Danny smiled and leaned back again. "You know you could have just googled it." He added. "It would probably take you to some conspiracy website, but still."
The teens seemed embarrassed that they didn't try that in the first place.
Suddenly agent Coulson rushed into the room and over to Fury, side-eyeing Danny on the way. "Sir. Klaw, Thundra, and Wizard have escaped during their transport. It seems one of the lead cars was blown up. They're now attacking again."
"We just caught them a week ago," Nova commented.
Fury turned to the team. "I want you out there now." He turned to Danny. "You too. Keep out of sight unless absolutely necessary." He commanded.
Colson went wide-eyed, turning to Fury. "Sir, are you sure that's a good idea!?" He then narrowed his eyes at the ghost. Once again making the team wonder why the agent hates him so much.
Danny crossed his arms. "What, you think I am going to eat someone or something? What kind of ghost do you think I am?" Danny then turned to fury. "And don't worry, I'll keep out of sight." He reassured before turning invisible and sinking through the floor. He smiled at the teens' surprised faces, not that they could see it.
"Now please." Fury grabbed the attention of the teens again who immediately started for the exit.
X
The team was now standing on the edge of the roof looking down at the villains. They were flipping over cars and just causing a disturbance. Klaw smashed his claw into the ground before letting out a sonic boom that caused all of the windows on the block to shatter at once causing lots of people to run screaming.
"Where are those brats!?" Thundra yelled angrily.
Wizard lifted up a couple cars before smashing them against a wall. "Patience Thundra. They'll be here."
"Well, you got your wish!" Nova yelled as the team ran into the scene. All standing defensively reading for a fight. Well, Nova was floating in the air.
The Tundra smiled. "Finally. Time for some payback."
"Do you guys really need a round three?" Spider-man quipped. "Given how miserably you guys failed the last two times, you'd think you wouldn't want to be more embarrassed." He webbed onto the building on both sides and used that to launch himself feet first into Tundra's chest. Launching her backward into a shop across the street.
Wizard glared at the team and started shooting his purple gauntlets at the team. Everyone spread out and started jumping around. Wizard decided to follow White Tiger as she flipped over and dodged his blasts. "Stay still you insufferable Cat!" He growled.
Suddenly he was knocked to the side by a blue blast, causing him to direct his attention to Nova who was flying through the air. "How did these guys get their gear back so soon?" Tiger asked.
Wizard growled again, now aiming one blaster at Tiger and the other at Nova. Shooting blasts simultaneously. "We have a new benefactor." Wizard gloated. "And they were gracious enough to lend us some… New equipment." He smirked.
"Really?" Spider-man swung in and kicked Wizard in the back causing him to stumble forward. "Who would hire guys? Oh, I know, Batroc the Leaper. Am I right?"
Wizard narrowed his eyes before shooting two gravity disruptors at nearby cars. He quickly threw one at the quipping bug behind him and lifted the other one in the air. Spider-man only nearly dodged the car. And it also almost hit a civilian that was still out in the fight.
Why don't people just leave during these fights!? They were just standing there watching. Anyone could get hurt. Nova quickly fired a couple more blasts at Wizard. He in turn spun his head around before throwing the car up in the air at him. "Stop that, you insolent mosquito!"
The car in turn missed its target greatly. Causing Nova to turn back around with a smirk. "What kind of aim was that?" He asked cockily. Suddenly he was smashed in the side by a semi-truck container that Wizard had also grabbed. Nova fell to the ground unconscious. Wizard raised the truck into the air, brought it down to smash Nova who was lying helplessly on the asphalt.
It crashed right on top of Nova causing a crater on the road. "Nova!" All of the teens yelled. All still in the middle of their respective individual fights. Wizards laughed as he raised the container again. Expecting to see a squashed teen left behind. But Nova was nowhere to be seen. "What?'' Wizard mumbled.
Suddenly a voice ran through the team's comms. It was Fury. "Nova's fine. He's safe far away from there." He said. The teens all sighed in relief before turning back to their fights.
Luke was now fighting with Thundra in some kind of 'who can smash the other into a building with a car first' game. Both the cars they were holding were now almost unrecognizable. Thundra dropped her car and ran to the building to try and rip out one of the supports. The moment she had done that the small building began to collapse in on itself.
Spider-man heard people screaming from inside the building and swung over. He quickly webbed up the area and started holding up one of the collapsed parts of the building with his strength. He was now completely defenseless in that fight, anyone could hit him. And if he moved the whole building would come crashing down, killing everyone inside.
Suddenly Klaw shot up a high blast of sonic energy. It crashed into the billboard on the top of the roof across the road, causing it to fall down. It was about to land on Tiger, Spider-man, and about 8 civilians. The hero's eyes widened as they couldn't do anything to stop it.
Just as it was about to land on them a huge green shield appeared above them like a dome. The billboard smashed into hundreds of pieces when it crashed. Sliding down the side and onto the ground around them. Not a single person was injured.
Everyone looked up to see Phantom floating there holding up the shield. His eyes glowing a bright toxic green. The shield then flickered out of existence and Phantom turned around looking at the dumbfounded faces of both heroes and Villains. "Hi, I'm Phantom."
Author's notes.
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