((Lobby, Kaufman Hall, Hartman University))
Valerie pulled Gwen away from the windows as more zombies pressed against the panes of glass. "What are we going to do," Gwen asked in a panic.
"Danny has some ghost hunting equipment in a trunk in his room," Tucker exclaimed as he and Sam finished shoving a desk in front of the lobby's doors.
"He has what," Gwen asked incredulously.
Sam sighed, "Danny's parents are ghost hunters and inventors. Danny's been brought up around stuff like this so he usually brings a few of his parents inventions in case of emergencies."
"Well I think this constitutes as an emergency," a random girl said who was stuck in the lobby with them. When the zombies had attacked Gwen and Valerie had been in the lobby playing a game of cards. Some of the other students had been up in their rooms and Sam, of course, had come to get Danny.
'Strange…I haven't seen Peter down here…I hope he didn't go out in this mess,' Sam thought. Just then she saw Valerie trying to sneak off and she grabbed the teenage ghost hunter, "We can't leave Valerie…we're safe while we're inside."
"Then who's going to take care of the zombie's Manson? Just give everyone a weapon and I'll handle the zombies," Valerie said pulling out of Sam's grip.
Tucker put a hand on Valerie's shoulder, "Val it's not safe for you. Dan…Don't worry, this mess will sort itself out."
Valerie gave Tucker a look but shook him off too, "I'm sorry Tucker but I have to do this." She ran off, down the girl's side of the dorms, to a fire exit. As soon as she was outside she clicked her heels together and her traditional red and black costume formed around her. She narrowed her eyes and pulled out a rather large gun from behind her back, "Whether it's ghosts or zombies I will not let them hurt my friends," she muttered as her hover board formed beneath her and she took off into the air.
((Hartman University Campus))
The large Russian lunged at Danny and Danny jumped to the side and hovered in the air. Kraven didn't stop and barreled towards Spiderman. Spiderman made to flip over the large man but the man reached up and caught Spiderman's leg and flung him at Danny. Danny hadn't expected this move and Spiderman and Danny were sent crashing across the pavement.
Kraven was over them in a heartbeat and hefted Danny up by the collar of his hazmat suit. He balled up his fists and punched Danny in the face; which sent him flying through the circle of zombies. Danny landed in the grass and sat up immediately, 'How the hell did he just hit me,' Danny thought. He could have sworn he willed himself to be intangible. The phantom brought his hand up to his face and felt a stinging sensation as he touched his cheek, 'Ow.'
Meanwhile Kraven had now taken Spiderman and hefted the hero up over his head and slammed him into the concrete, leaving small cracks in the cement. Spiderman cried out in pain as Kraven hefted him up again. Spiderman didn't hesitate and maneuvered himself out of Kraven's grip and landed in a squatting position a few feet away from the monster of a man. Kraven smirked and cracked his neck. Spiderman narrowed his eyes behind his face mask and shot some webbing at Kraven's feet; tangling them so that Kraven couldn't move.
At least attempting to; Kraven took one step forward and the webbing snapped. Just then Danny rose from the concrete behind Kraven and blasted him in the back with an ectoplasmic blast. Kraven stumbled forward and Spiderman met him with an uppercut to the jaw. The Russian was barely stunned and Danny flew over to join Spiderman, Spiderman couldn't help but ask, "Is this guy even human?"
"Oh he's human alright," a mysterious, seductive female voice said. Danny and Spiderman turned to see the zombie's parting and letting in a dark woman with numerous clinking bracelets. She grinned at the boys, "He's an expert hunter and has been asked to take you two out."
"And who are you his personal secretary," Spiderman asked.
The woman scoffed and tossed her hair, "I am Calypso! I'm the one who summoned these little babies," she said motioning to the zombies, "And gave a few gifts to Kraven so that he could deal with you!"
Kraven fingered a black and white necklace from around his neck. It looked sort of like prayer beads only it was made out of black stones and white, ivory, animal teeth, "You, ghost child, can't escape me as long as I wear this," the man boasted.
"Guess we'll just have to take your pretty little trinket then," Danny said flying at the hunter. His fists glowed with green energy and he started punching rapidly at Kraven. Kraven blocked the punches successfully and then retaliated with a single punch of his own which sent Danny staggering back again.
Spiderman, while this was happening, snuck over so that he was behind Kraven, and as soon as Danny was out of the way lunged at Kraven's back and ripped the beads off. Kraven grabbed the spider themed hero and flung him over his shoulder, bringing him down right on top of Danny who had been flying at Kraven for another attack.
The two bruised heroes stood up again and Calypso laughed, "You two are pathetic…I can't believe our employer is interested in the likes of you."
Spiderman flicked his wrists and shot some webbing at Calypso's mouth; shutting her up. Her eyes narrowed in obvious fury but he turned back to Danny, "The necklace thing is off him."
Danny's eyes glowed green, "Then leave this to me." Danny went intangible and flew at Kraven. He entered into his body and for a minute it seemed like he took control…until he suddenly flew out of him, "What the?"
"My will is too strong for you weakling. I have trained my mind to not be overcome by the likes of you," the hunter said turning to the ghost.
"Well there goes that idea," Danny muttered.
((Danny and Peter's Room, Kaufman Hall))
Sam tossed a few weapons to Tucker who strapped them to his person. She then handed Gwen one of the Fenton Ecto-Guns. "Do you know how to use this," she asked.
Gwen flipped the gun over and pushed a button, this caused green slime to drench Sam. Sam scowled and Gwen giggled, "Opps."
Sam yanked the gun from her and handed her a wooden bat, "This is just a baseball bat," Gwen whined.
"No, it's the Fenton Anti-Creep Stick," Sam said with a smirk.
"Or a bat with the word 'Fenton' on it, which ever you prefer," Tucker said with a grin.
There was a scream from in the lobby and the three frowned. Sam cocked her gun, "Time to get busy."
((Hartman University Campus))
Spiderman was battered and bruised and Danny was doing much better. Parts of both their outfits were torn and Kraven was still pretty much unscathed. His fists were slightly blood but that was the blood from Spiderman and Danny…not his own. They may have taken his charm necklace away but the man still had the brute force of a rhino, elephant, and lion combined. 'And here I was thinking this was going to be another Skulker rip off,' Danny thought.
Kraven towered over them and Danny managed to stand up. He knew what this battle had come down to. "Spiderman…cover your ears," he said. Danny took a deep breath and wailed. The ghostly wail took the hunter by surprise and it sent him flying back into the zombies from the sheer force of it. Calypso put her hands to her ears but she was out of range of the actual 'blasting' portion of the attack. Spiderman noticed her trying to slip away and dropped his hand long enough to shoot out a web and wrap up Calypso. He started to pull her in but the webbing was snapped in half by a blast of red energy.
Danny ceased his wailing and looked up and cursed, Valerie had arrived. She had her gun trained on Spiderman but then she moved it to Danny who was a bit weary from his wailing but thankfully hadn't changed back, "Alright you two…get rid of your zombies and leave these innocent people alone."
Spiderman balked, the chick in the red and black suit was back and she already knew Calypso and Kraven were behind the zombies, "I thought you were mad at me," he said.
The female ghost hunter narrowed her eyes, "I am. You summoned these zombies just like you summoned those ghosts at Nasty Burger!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up! You think me and Phantom summoned the zombies," Spiderman protested.
Danny turned to where Calypso had been standing and then back to where Kraven had been…both were gone. Danny cursed and turned back to Spiderman, "They got away."
Spiderman looked around and noticed the numerous zombies were also gone…the only thing that remained was their horrible odor.
Valerie cocked her gun, "I'm not letting you two escape this time!" She fired her gun and Spiderman managed to dodge the blast. Danny grabbed him and phased them both below the concrete. Valerie landed with her hover board and cursed, they had escaped her again.
((OsCorp Secret Labs, Vlad's Office))
Vlad rolled the blue prints Dr. Octavius had given him aside and looked up at Calypso and Kraven, "So how did it go?"
"The ghost child pulled out his ghostly wail and we found it a good time for a tactical retreat," Kraven muttered.
"We DID however; obtain the samples you asked for…it might be a bit mixed though…we got it from the blood off of Kraven's hands," Calypso said, handing Vlad a small vial.
Vlad took it and frowned, "Dr. Tomoe should be able to sort the different samples out. What of Spiderman? How did he fare against you?"
"Compared to the ghost boy he had little experience in a fight. My guess is that he has been fighting for only a few months," Kraven said.
"Hmm…yes that would coincide with the accounts of his first appearances," Vlad muttered, turning his back to the two in his chair.
"Do you have any further need of our services," Calypso asked.
Vlad waved them off in dismal, "You're off the job for now…if I need you I'll call you."
After the two had left Vlad pressed a button on his desk, "Dr. Tomoe will you come to my office."
A few minutes later the white haired researcher entered Vlad's private office, "Yes Mr. Masters?"
Vlad handed him the vial along with a sheet of paper, "I have a mixed blood sample here. I want you to sort out the blood and then compare them to the blood of the people on this list."
Dr. Tomoe raised an eyebrow but knew this was the man that paid him and would enable his daughter to go to college so he didn't ask as he took the two objects, "Yes, sir." Dr. Tomoe turned to leave but Vlad stopped him.
"Also will you tell Otto that I am very pleased with his designs and that he can have the others start on it immediately," Vlad said.
Dr. Tomoe bowed and left.
Vlad smirked, his eyes glowing eerily in the dark, "Once I figure out who is behind that blasted Spiderman is I can hold it over Harry's head and increase my funding and push the date towards are merger even closer." The cunning billionaire glanced at a clock and smiled, "Speaking of the merger…I have a press conference to attend."
((Later that Evening, Danny and Peter's Room, Kaufman Hall))
"In all, ten students and three teachers were killed after the incident at Hartman University. In other news, Harry Os—." The news anchorwoman began to tell another story but was cut off as Sam clicked the remote and the T.V. blanked out.
Sam walked over to Danny's bed and sat down. Danny was lying on his stomach with his shirt off and his bruised and bleeding back was exposed for Sam to treat. She pressed some antiseptic on one of the many scrapes on Danny's back. He winced in pain but didn't say anything as Sam continued to dress his wounds. Danny held an icepack pressed to his face to keep the swelling down and pulled it away long enough to look at Peter who was laying on his own bed, sporting similar wounds, "I still don't get why you went out there Peter…you should have left it to Danny," Sam said as she put a band-aid on Danny's back.
"I was fine," Peter said as he popped some Tylenol into his mouth. He had a nasty headache.
Sam looked skeptical of this and shut her First Aid kit, "Have you told Tucker that Peter knows yet," she asked Danny.
Danny sat up, "No. I didn't want him to worry him…speaking of which where is Tuck?"
"On his date with Valerie of course," Sam scoffed standing up and putting the kit away.
Before Danny could say anything the phone rang. Peter picked up the phone then handed it to Danny, "It's some man asking for you Danny."
"Hello?"
"DANNY! DID THE ZOMBIES GET YOU SON? DID YOU HAVE ANY FENTON ZOMBIE ASSAULT WEAPONS WITH YOU? DID THEY EAT YOUR BRAINS," Jack Fenton shouted from the other end of the phone.
Danny winced and held the phone away from his ear. Once the shouting had ceased he brought it back, "I'm fine dad. I just have a few scrapes but I had a few of the ecto-guns with me so we're okay."
"Well Jazz was going to run up to visit you before heading back to Harvard but we decided, after the zombie thing, that we would swing by and bring you some things to handle the ghosts…and to give you a little surprise," Jack said.
Danny blinked, "Y—you're coming here? What kind of surprise?"
"Can't tell your kiddo; Maddie promised to bake me cookies if I didn't blab it…don't worry you'll like him," Jack said with a laugh and then hung up the phone.
He blinked at the dial tone and then hung up the phone as well, "Looks like my parents are coming to visit."
Sam groaned, "Great."
"You're parents are scientists right," Peter asked.
"That's one word to call them," Danny muttered.
Peter's eyes lit up, while their inventions did seem eccentric, he was a tad bit excited to meet fellow scientists.
Danny noticed the look in Peter's eyes and smiled to himself, 'He has no idea.'
To Be Continued…
AN: I know it's only been one day but I couldn't hold this in and I didn't want to be TOO evil and leave you waiting nearly a week for another chapter. So I give you this.
What did you think? I had some people telling me it was getting confusing but just know that Vlad IS the main villain for this. Everyone else is merely pawns in his game. Next chapter should have Jack and Maddie...as well as Jazz and...a surprise guest! XD If you've read The Once and Future Phantom you might be able to guess who.
Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and will send me many lovely reviews...I still haven't decided on a mascot so you can still give me suggestions for that!