Gradually Danny stopped glaring at Nova and Nova grew more comfortable around the ghost. Spiderman and Danny even started cracking jokes again as they walked aimlessly around the tricarrier together. So far, Danny had caught twenty animal ghosts. According to Danny there were only a few left, unfortunately most were harder ghosts to fight. Danny remembered catching Klemper, Box Ghost, Ember, Skulker, Johnny 13, Spectra, Bertrand and of course Technus. He was almost certain that all the animal ghosts had been caught by now.
"You're pretty good at this you know. I'm impressed," Spiderman commented as Danny clipped the thermos back to his belt. Danny shrugged.
"I get a lot of practice. Besides if I want to ever get some time to myself, I need to be good," Danny replied and re-joined the group. It didn't take long before Danny's ghost sense went off yet again.
"Will you be my friend?!" a voice cried, almost in hysterics, down the hall.
"Well, we've found Klemper. You guys might want to keep your distance this time. Unless you want to become an ice cube," Danny warned and rushed off towards the voice. Spiderman glanced around his team before they disregarded Danny's warning and ran after the ghost.
"Klemper! Leave them alone," Danny commanded to a ghost wearing what looked like pyjamas and had blonde hair. The ghost in question was looming over a couple of SHIELD agents, who were cowering slightly into their corner, completely trapped. Klemper however beamed and turned to Danny.
"Will you be my friend?" Klemper asked hopefully. Danny rolled his eyes.
"I've told you before, I'm only your friend if you stay in the Ghost Zone," Danny reminded the ghost. Klemper began to sniffle.
"But, you never visit!" he complained. Danny groaned to himself.
"Alright Klemper, get into the thermos and I promise I'll visit you in the Ghost Zone," Danny decided gently, really hoping that Klemper didn't have a temper tantrum. Klemper shook his head and began to cry.
"You said that last time!" Klemper recalled. Danny scowled.
"Klemper, I didn't put you back in the Ghost Zone. How can I keep that promise if you never went back to the Ghost Zone?" Danny attempted to reason with the ghost. But it was no use, Klemper had already let his emotions get the best of him.
Klemper heaved a sigh and started to cry loudly. The room was instantly frozen over and Klemper began to form balls of ice and hurled them at Danny. Danny frowned in annoyance and dodged the ice and quickly reached the two shivering, frightened SHIELD agents. Danny grabbed their shoulders and phased them through the wall to safety. He then returned to the room to see Spiderman and his team trying and failing to neutralise Klemper. Danny shook his head. He spotted Klemper taking a deep breath while facing Spiderman and Iron Fist. Danny charged over to them and formed a ghost shield around the three of them. Klemper unleashed his icy breath and the shield froze over.
"Wow, er… thanks," Spiderman muttered in surprise. Danny nodded to him and allowed the shield to dissipate and the ice to crack apart.
"Klemper has control over ice. He's not much of a threat unless he gets upset. Leave this to me, you guys can get killed by being frozen over, I can't," Danny informed Spiderman. The masked hero nodded dumbly and called for his team to fall back.
"Klemper, calm down!" Danny called to the upset ghost. Klemper wailed sadly and threw a slightly larger chunk of ice at Danny. Danny dodged it before he finally had enough and charged at Klemper and grappled with Klemper. Danny tapped into his ice powers to prevent Klemper freezing him over and a battle of wills emerged. Eventually Danny gained the upper hand and pinned Klemper against a wall, careful to keep enough intensity in his one hand to prevent Klemper getting away, Danny pulled out the thermos. One-handed, he flipped the lid off and pointed it at Klemper. Klemper wailed forlornly as he was sucked inside with a flash of blue light. Panting slightly, Danny backed away from the wall and scooped up the lid and closed the thermos.
"You alright?" Spiderman called apprehensively. Danny took one last deep breath before relaxing into a smile and nodded.
"Yeah, Klemper isn't that hard to fight to be honest. But he's really clingy," Danny assured him.
"If that was an easy ghost to fight, I don't want to face a hard ghost," White Tiger mumbled. Danny laughed softly.
"Come on, we'd best keep going. Hopefully the other ghosts are still on board," Danny prompted. Spiderman nodded and led the way down the corridor. They'd been everywhere except the cafeteria, cell block and the training room. They headed to the training room first.
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