AN: Tumblr prompt: Thank you for writing my requests! May I request avengers vs mind controlled Danny?

Drabble 99-Same Old

Loki sneered as he pressed his staff to Danny's core, turning the young adult into a killing machine. His toxic green eyes turned into an icy blue, and his face became slack and void of all emotion. The Avengers were too preoccupied to notice. Well, all of them but one.

"Phantom!" Hawkeye called out, racing over as quickly as he could. But with the tiny ice monsters and his supply of arrows growing shorter by the minute, it was getting to be a bit difficult. Thankfully, when he had called out, he had gained attention from the other heroes. He didn't have to be the only one going to save Danny.

It was easy to forget how powerful the kid was. How much raw power he actually had. The amount of abilities he possessed. He was a happy-go-lucky kid with a tendency to smart off to the bad guys. He wasn't evil, and they had never had a problem with him going to the dark side. But they had completely forgotten about mind control. Everyone but Clint, anyway.

Phantom went straight for Clint, blasting him with ice and ectoplasm. Clint narrowly dodged the blasts and sent two arrows Danny's way, which he just let phase through him. This was beyond bad.

"Phantom, snap out of it!" Hawkeye called to him. Phantom just stared at him before lifting his hand up again to attack. Clint fired off two arrows back to back. One of them canceled out Danny's attack, and the other covered his hand in burning ectoplasm, causing the young halfa to pull his hand back and scream in pain. It was a sound he never wanted to hear again, but Danny was a fast healer. He would be okay. Besides, he helped design the arrows, he doubt he would make them so powerful they could kill him.

At least, that's what Clint was hoping.

He fired off another three, clipping the boy in his legs and shoulder. He dropped to the ground. The points of impact were burning the skin, and his ice core was doing jack shit to help. Danny would probably need to stay in the healing chamber when this was all over with.

And the best way to end it quickly was at the source.

"Cap, Thor, go for Loki!" He called to his team. "I'll take care of Phantom!"

He hopped on top of a few cars before leaping to the light pole. He swung off of it and latched himself to Danny's ankle, bringing him down to the ground so he could fight the kid properly.

Hawkeye wasted no time in beating the kid half to...Well, another quarter to death. He wasn't going to kill him, just give him a concussion. But he needed Danny to be a bit weaker first. Weak enough to be knocked out the first time, because if it didn't work the first time then Clint was going to be fucking screwed.

"Clint, don't do anything stupid," Natasha's voice crackled in his ear.

"No promises," he said as he continued beating the shit out of Phantom. He grabbed a handful of the white, green-stained hair and tilted the boy's head back. He hated seeing Danny like this and he hated that he was the one to cause that. But to get rid of brainwashing you needed to go to some drastic measures.

"Sorry about this, dude," he said, not giving those dull, blue eyes another glance. He brought Danny's head straight down on his knee, knocking him out effectively and letting him fall to the ground, defeated. Clint knew Danny was still in there somewhere. Still fighting. Otherwise the fight wouldn't have been that easy, and more likely, Clint would be a splatter on the wall rather than standing over the body of a dead teenager he just beat up.

"Phantom is down for the count," he said over the coms.

"And so is my brother," Thor answered. Clint nodded to nobody in particular as he picked Danny up bridal style and started carrying him to the jet.

He would be there for him when he woke up.