Notes

I did have a lot of people mentioning that in the last chapter he could have just duplicated himself and one go off with Tony and the other go after Hulk. I did think of that but I didn't do that because duplicating is very hard for Danny, it took him ages to figure it out in the first place, and uses up nearly all of his energy so he wouldn't be much of a help on ether battlefield.

The other thing that people were saying is that he could have overshadowed Hulk and gotten him to calm down. I am going to tell you the truth, I didn't think of that. But I need at least some plot points, I am sure Danny could fix all of the problems in the movie if he really tried, but I needed him to leave with Tony for the story to go on. Sorry if you didn't like it.

Anyway, I hope you like this chapter. AND MORE PLOT CHANGES! eeeeee. XD

Danny flew after the agents with his invisibility. They landed on the ship and Barton stuck a small piece of blue tech on what looked to be a security panel next to a door. He turned to the rest of the agents. "Security is disabled, go now." He and 2 agents split off from the group running along the outside of the ship to another door while the other three walked through the door they landed next to.

Danny looked back and forth, one group was going to the ship's control room and the other was going in the direction of Loki's cell. Once again he had to make a split-second decision. …Ugh what was with all of those today? He darted in the direction of Loki's cell where Barton's team was going.

The moment he caught up to them they were opening a door to get inside. On the door's eye scanner, it had an arrow sticking out of it with a blue light blinking on the end. Danny shot two blasts next to the door startling the agents, they turned around quickly holding up their blasters but did not see who or what the blast originated from.

Danny flickered back into visibility as his clenched fists gleamed with ecto energy, his eyes glowing so bright you could see it through the afternoon sun that shined overhead the ship. The agents turned around aiming their blasters at Danny. And Danny once again went for the defensive, using a glowing green translucent shield to block the blue beams of energy.

Barton narrowed his eyes and shot an arrow very much left of where Danny was standing. The halfa just stared at him with a 'really?' look. Only for a couple seconds later the arrow came flying back around, directed with the wind. The arrow pierced his back-shoulder blade releasing an electricity pulse similar to the one that had hit Banner.

Danny instantly dropped the shield and fell to the ground reaching for the arrow in his back only for it to send another shock. Danny yelled as he tried to get back upright. The agents instead of continuing to shoot turned around and continued on their mission leavening Danny writhing on the gray floor.

With the electricity shocking his ectoplasm it was really hurting it. Causing Danny to be very weak. He pushed all of his energy he could muster into his intangibility, he could only get it to turn his arm and chest intangible, but that was good enough. The arrow fell through his chest and onto the ground with a small clink.

Danny gasped for air, even if he didn't really need it in his ghost form it was still a habit. Danny got up, dry coughing into his hand. "I really hate electricity." He muttered, narrowing his eyes at the open door before him where the corrupt agents had escaped.

Danny took off down the hallway, he could already feel his core working hard to replenish his energy. His shoulder still ached, and it would for some time, but it will heal. Danny turned the corner to see agent Barton and agent Romanov fighting in hand to hand combat. Danny quickly realized that the other two agents weren't there. They must have already gotten to Loki.

The redhead looked like she was handling Barton fine. He should go and stop the other agents from releasing Loki from his cell. He quickly continued down the hall leavening the two SHIELD agents to fight. Only to see Thor stuck in the same cell that used to house the god of mischief.

He smashed his hammer against the glass only for it to crack only slightly under its pressure. Loki paused for a second looking at the contraption up and down. A smirk spread across his face as he walked over to the control panel for the cell. "Humans think us immortal, should we test that theory?" He started pressing a bunch of buttons on the panel causing the floor to open up beneath the cell, as it did in Fury's demonstration to Loki earlier.

Thor looked down into the sky, and then glared at his brother. Danny shot over to Loki, ectoplasm surrounding his hands. He ran into where Loki was standing reaching for his shoulders to push him away from the panel, only for the god to faze through Danny's hands. Danny smashed his head into the glass cell that made it start to shake uneasily.

The ghost wiped his head around to see the Loki he had run into disappearing in gold light, whereas another Loki appeared leaning on the wall next to the door holding the scepter that was in the lab moments before. One of the agents must have grabbed it for him. Or maybe he could teleport.

Danny bent down into a fighting stance, ecto in his clenched fists ready to blast at him. Even if Danny was still weak from the arrow Barton shot, he wasn't going to let Loki kill Thor. "Stay there." Danny commanded to Loki who stood there holding the staff slightly in front of him.

"Do you realize that you are working for the people who would seek to destroy you and your kind, your home at a moment's notice? People who would stop at nothing to see others like you gone." It seemed as though Loki was thinking that he could mess with Danny's mind. Make him distrust the people he was helping. But what Danny said next Loki didn't expect.

"Of course I know that." Loki's smirk slightly fell. "I am only helping them to stop you. I kind of like earth the way it is. No need for any evil overlords, thank you very much."

"You do not care about your own self-being?" Loki questioned.

"Of course I care, I just care about other people more." Danny could feel Loki's mind reeling. His face changed to a sort of glare as he walked toward the ghost with his staff pointing out.

Danny quickly shot a blast at the staff pushing it away. But it didn't leave Loki's grip. He spun it around and instead held it behind him. Loki glanced up from Danny to the control panel. The halfa felt Loki's mind trying to fight itself from the inside. Danny could feel the strange haze much stronger now. Like it was growing.

Eventually, Loki's eyes stilled, and he threw a knife that materialized from his hand at the control panel. Danny wiped his head around to see that the knife was sticking out of a red button. Danny's eyes widened as the cell containing Thor was dropped out of the sky.

Danny without a second thought jumped out of the ship after the falling cell. He could see Thor trying to escape by trying to smash the walls more with his hammer only to be thrown around at the last second.

Danny tried to shoot an ectoblast at the glass, but instead of breaking it, It bounced like light off a mirror, almost hitting Danny's leg. Danny grabbed onto the cell and tried to turn it intangible for Thor to escape. Danny yelped as the cell actually zapped him. It wasn't nearly as bad as the arrow earlier, but it was bad. This thing had ecto proofing on it.

The ground was getting progressively nearer, the helicarrier farther and farther away. Danny thought quickly through all of his powers that might be able to help in this situation, he suddenly remembered something. Danny's eyes turned bright blue suddenly, surprising Thor who was still being thrown around. A blue color surrounded his fists.

Danny waited for just the right moment, he pulled the energy straight from his core, even if this would weaken him more it was probably the only chance. The cell spun around one more time and the spot Thor had been hitting showed. He shot two beams of cold out the first one coated the glass in ice, and the other beam followed directly after the first, it was a large spike of ice that looked a bit like a spear. The first blast cooled the glass down making it a bit more brittle, not as brittle as it would make metal but still brittle enough. The spike that followed stuck itself into the glass causing large cracks to spread all the way across it. Thor realized this might be his only chance and jumped off the back wall of the cell hammer first. The final blow with the hammer shattered the frozen glass and Thor flew out.

He headed up to where Danny was floating just as the cell crashed into the ground. The rest of the glass barley broke on the cell when it landed, but Thor would still have died if he had been in it at that moment. Thor turned to look at Danny. "Thank you mighty warrior. Although I did not know you could create ice?"

"Yeah I can, but I often forget about it." Danny rubbed the back of his neck. "I was just glad I could get you out of there." Danny paused for a moment, if that cell was also meant to keep him in that must mean that SHIELD didn't know about his ice powers. He looked back up to Thor. "I would rather you not go telling the others about my ice powers. I do want them to be kept secret." Thor turned to him and nodded.

"I agree with your terms."

"Terms?"

"But now we must get back and see what damage my brother has caused. He is surely escaped by now." He sighed and started to spin his hammer that launched him into the air.

X

Nick Fury stomped across the room. "Loki escaped." He stopped in front of the table that once again sat most of the heroes. "And Hulk is missing. Is there anything else you guys want to mess up?"

Danny was first to speak up. "Was anyone killed?"

"Thankfully no. But there were a lot of major injuries." He gestured to Nat. "Agent Romanov was able to subdue agent Barton. But he is still under Loki's control."

Danny paused for a second thinking. "I might have a way to bring him back to normal."

Tony turned his head to the ghost. "How?"

"I can… overshadow him an-"

He was cut off by Nat. "-Definitely not. You are not going to possess him. We have no idea what you will do!"

Everyone turned to look at Danny, Nat had her hand on the gun on her hip. She was having a staring contest with Danny. The ghost's eyes narrowed. "I am not going to do anything with his body. I was just saying that I might be able to coax his mind back from inside his head. Help him break through the control."

Nick raised an eyebrow. "How do you know he will be able to break free, even with your influence?"

"Anyone can break free of mind control if they have the right help." Danny's mind flashed back to his friends yelling at him, trying to get him to break free of Freakshow's control. If he didn't have them, he would probably still be a thieving puppet. "I don't see anyone else coming up with any ideas. I have the most experience with mind control and maybe the only one who can help right now." He crossed his arms. "Let me try."

Fury paused for a moment with his hand on his chin. Nat still glaring down at Danny. "Fine. Only because Barton is a valuable asset and may know of Loki's plan."

Danny nodded. "Where is he?"

Fury started to walk out of the room followed by Danny and then the other avengers. Nat was still mad about the whole thing, but she wasn't going to let the ghost possess her friend without her there.

They walked down the hall into a large room that almost looked like an infirmary. Barton was on one of the medical beds strapped down by his hands and feet. Barton had a strange haze about his head, but Danny could barely feel it on him. But Danny felt like he recognized it from somewhere.

Barton was under what seemed like a mild anesthetic, probably given to him by some of the agents so he didn't try and escape. Danny looked back to the others in the room who was standing a bit far away. "Don't try anything funny Phantom." Fury said.

Danny nodded and turned back to the mind-controlled agent. He floated above him and became intangible walking into his body. Everyone stared at Barton in amazement. The kid just walked into his body, like it was nothing. Everything fell silent in the room.

X

Danny opened his eyes to see himself in a very hazy yellow-colored world. Instead of just pushing Barton back into his subconscious as he would normally do when overshadowing someone, he went there.

Danny sat up and slowly got to his feet, the world around him seemed slow, and all of the sounds around him at the moment seemed muffled. But he could hear birds and… Laughter?

Danny walked toward the sound of children laughing. The sound was coming from the direction of a farmhouse that was at the top of a hill. It felt like Danny zipped there without even noticing, now he was standing a couple feet from the dirt driveway of the house.

Next to the house playing in an open field were two kids. A boy and a girl, the boy looked slightly older. Sitting on a bench next to the house was a woman reading a book that Danny couldn't see the name of. And standing next to the bench was Agent Barton looking out at his kids with his hand on his wife's shoulder. This is his family.

His mind was trapping itself in a happy state in the subconscious while his body was being controlled. Danny stepped forward and put his hand on Barton's arm. Barton turned his head to Danny and paused for a second. He then started blinking a bit, once again looking the white-haired boy up and down. "Who are you?"

"I am Danny." He looked around once again. "You have a lovely family."

Barton looked back over at his kids and smiled. "Yeah, they are." He paused once again and tried to shake his head, redirecting his attention back to Danny.
"Why are you here?"

"I have come to help you."

"Help me?"

"Yes, your mind is trapped here. While your body is doing something different in the real world."

"I don't understand."

Danny sighed. "What was the last thing you remember?" He gestured to the yellow tinted world around him. "This what we are in right now is a memory of yours. Think about the last thing you remember before you were here."

Barton closed his eyes and thought hard. "There was an attack. A problem with the tesseract." He shook his head again. "I don't want to be controlled. The stone."

"Stone?"

"It, it. I don't understand."

Danny looked around and put his hand on Barton's shoulder. "This, this isn't real. This isn't the real world, not your real family. You have to think, think about the real them, what do you think they are doing now? In the real world."

The bright yellow color of the world started to dim. Barton was closing his eyes.

"Think of what ties you to the real world. You need to get out of here."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. You can't stay here, this world might be amazing, but it is not real, not the same, not the truth."

Barton nodded and the world started to dim into darkness.

Barton shot up his eyes open wide as he took in a deep breath. Everyone in the room jumped back. Danny then fazed out of Barton's chest and fell onto the ground with a thud. "Ow." Danny stumbled to his feet and looked back at the confused people in the room. "It worked." He turned to look back at Barton, who was blinking a lot to get used to the bright light in the room.

Nick looked at the man with his hands put behind his back. "Agent Barton, good to see you back."

"Good to be back." He looked down at his wrists. "Can you get these off of me now?"

Notes

I did change the mind-control plot a lot, and I do have my reasons for changing it. I also feel like you shouldn't be able to break free from mind-control from just hitting your head on a pole. I like what I did with it and I hope you like it too.

I also really liked writing the Loki and Danny conversation in the middle. Also, there are a few very important points in that conversation that lead to more chapters, maybe you can figure it out... XD

Anyway, please tell me what you thought of this chapter. I worked really hard on it. Sorry if some parts seem a bit rushed. :)