Spiderman knew that this ghost invasion had just become something much much worse. Technus was fiddling with the control panel to a cell containing Kraven the Hunter. Doctor Octopus, Scorpion, Electro, Sandman and Beetle were already free. Danny growled angrily under his breath.
"I'm guessing this would be where you keep your supervillains," he whispered. Spiderman nodded mutely. He turned to his team.
"We need to contain this. White Tiger, you've got Beetle. Nova, Sandman. Iron Fist, Scorpion. Powerman, Electro and I'll go after Doc Ock. Danny, er… Danny?" Spidermna began to plan, but the ghost teen had disappeared. Spiderman scanned the hallway but frowned to himself when he couldn't see the ghost. Spiderman shrugged to himself.
"Okay, if any of you get the chance, stop Technus. Alright, let's go team," Spiderman announced and together they ran out to face their enemies.
The villains grinned evilly and turned to the heroes and alerted the ghosts around them. The villains and ghosts paired up and faced the teen heroes. Skulker and Doc Ock, Electro and Bertrand, Spectra and Beetle, Sandman and Johnny 13 and Scorpion and Ember. It was chaos. Spiderman tried to web Skulker away so he could focus on Doc Ock but the webbing simply went through the ghost and Spiderman was forced to run away from two heat-seeking missiles.
Iron Fist was constantly being thrown into walls from the sound waves from Ember's guitar. White Tiger was growling threateningly at Spectra who was constantly commenting on how much of a freak she was, doomed to fail. White Tiger was so off her game that Beetle almost hit her with a short range missile and Spiderman was forced to swoop in and save her, while dodging the missiles which seemed to be locked on him. Nova was grappling with Johnny 13's shadow while dodging punches from the Sandman. Electro and Bertrand, who had changed into a ninja, were constantly hitting Powerman with so much severity that Powerman hadn't enough time to attack back. They were losing ground quickly. Spiderman was seriously considering retreating and calling Nick Fury to jettison the section far away to protect New York.
Suddenly flashing red lights erupted through the corridor and Technus was flung away from the control panel. The fighting froze, in many cases mid punch. The only one still moving was Spiderman and that was only because he had to keep dodging the missiles still locked on him.
"Lockdown initiated. Doors locked. Cell operations frozen," a female computerised voice announced calmly.
"You dolt! You activated the security system!" Doctor Octopus hissed angrily at Technus.
"That wasn't me. I was forced out of the system," Technus retorted, still looking very confused.
"Then who was it?" Doc Ock replied heatedly.
"That would be me," Danny called as he floated out of the now fried control panel controlling Kraven's cell. Spiderman faltered for a second, relieved that Danny hadn't abandoned them after all. Then his spider sense blared and Spiderman jumped away just in time to dodge the missiles.
"Whelp! How did you find us?" Skulker growled. Danny smirked playfully at the ghost.
"How do you think? I followed Technus's cursing and stinky over there," Danny lied and jerked a thumb over to Johnny 13's shadow, which Nova had to admit did smell. Johnny 13 rose indignantly in his bike's seat.
"My shadow doesn't smell. You shoved it into the sewers," Johnny spluttered. Danny raised an eyebrow.
"So, it does smell then," he taunted and unexpectedly turned intangible as Doctor Octopus tried to hit him with one of his tentacles. Danny waggled a finger at Doc Ock and tutted condescendingly.
"That was very rude. I'm having a conversation here," Danny reprimanded the villain and blasted him with his ghost ray. Doc Ock crashed into a wall and scowled angrily at Danny.
Spiderman jumped next to Danny.
"Please help me," he pleaded softly before jumping away again. Danny watched the missiles following Spiderman and turned to Skulker.
"Let me guess, heat seeking?" Danny asked conversationally. Skulker grinned broadly.
"Yep, they're new. You like? I thought that they might come in handy against you perhaps," Skulker replied. Danny raised an eyebrow.
"Skulker, how would they work on me? I have an ice core," Danny reasoned, watching the missiles from the corner of his eye. Skulker chuckled darkly.
"Not all the time," he reminded the teen. Danny glanced at Skulker and scowled.
"I see, stooping that low. Too bad you're a lousy ghost hunter," Danny taunted.
Skulker scowled and pointed a gun at Danny and fired. Danny jumped up in the air and floated above. Spiderman jumped nearby and Danny lunged at the missile closest to him.
"Let's see, if this is heat seeking, what happens when I do this?" Danny wondered aloud and punched an intangible fist inside and froze the missile solid. The missile then fell to the ground, no longer functioning. Skulker growled angrily and fired another missile which targeted Danny this time. Danny flew away, chasing the second missile chasing Spiderman. The fighting resumed. Danny caught up with the heat seeking missile and froze it solid. Danny then quickly swerved away and was forced to do some very fancy flying to keep ahead of his missile. Spiderman webbed Doc Ock to the wall and turned to Danny.
"Can I help?" he shouted to Danny. Danny twirled and shook his head.
"This is an ecto-missile. Locked onto my ecto-signature. Help your team Spiderman," Danny replied and entered a steep dive.
Spiderman reluctantly turned to his struggling team. At least Doctor Octopus was still trapped by his webbing. Skulker was too busy watching Danny to bother freeing the mechanical freak. Powerman still hadn't managed to shift from defence. Nova was losing his fight too, the shadow gradually over powering him. They needed to change the fight to their favour. Suddenly Skulker cried out in anger and Spiderman turned back to Danny only to find that there were now two ghost teens instead of one. One Danny was still dodging the missile but the second Danny had turned to Skulker, charging his fists with his ghost energy. Danny shot the ghostly hunter in the chest and floated over to Spiderman.
"I told you to help your team, not watch me," Danny reminded the masked hero. Spiderman shook his head.
"Never heard of planning? I was checking on how my team were doing. By the way, how did you lock down this sector?" Spiderman replied, slightly annoyed that this newcomer was ordering him, the team leader, about.
"I didn't. I used the computers to get to Nick and told him what was happening. He locked down this sector and then I came back through the computers and blasted Technus away from the control panel," Danny admitted not even flinching when the ecto-missile exploded and vaporised his duplicate.
"That's a great idea! Why didn't I think of that?" Technus exclaimed, eavesdropping on the conversation from below. Danny grimaced and glanced down at the technological ghost.
"What's a good idea?" Danny asked tentatively. Technus grinned at him.
"Using my powers to transport my allies away from this fight. In fact, with my powers I could move all my allies inside the system. Just like that Doomed world I nearly took over before you trapped me in that level zero," Technus revealed gleefully. Danny's eyes widened in shock and fear, realising exactly what Technus meant. Technus lunged forward towards the fried control panel and Danny charged after him.
"I need to listen to my own advice more," he grumbled to himself as he chased Technus. Technus reached the control panel before Danny could catch him though. The flashing red lights stopped and Technus's laughter filled the hallway.
"This time you can't defeat me ghost child!" Technus taunted, his voice echoing through the walls, as wires erupted from the walls and wrapped around the villains and ghosts and pulled them into the walls. The enemies disappeared and the superheroes slumped in exhaustion.
"That was weird, they just gave up," Nova remarked hopefully.
Danny landed beside Nova and shook his head.
"No, they didn't. I'm afraid I just gave Technus a very dangerous idea. You need to warn Nick, I'll go after Technus and try to kick them all out for you," Danny informed them. Danny turned to the control panel.
"Wait, what just happened?" Spiderman interjected. Danny turned back to the masked heroes and sighed.
"You know how I was telling you that I used the computer system to get to Nick and warn him about what was happening?" Danny began. Spiderman nodded, having been the only one who heard the conversation.
"Well, I think I reminded Technus of a time when he went inside a video game called Doomed. Technus learned how the game worked and found out that if he won, he got access to the internet. I went in after him and trapped him in a glitch called level zero," Danny explained.
"Wait, you went into a video game?" Nova repeated. Danny nodded.
"Like I said, sometimes having ghost powers are cool. They're the ultimate cheat code in games. But like I was saying I think I reminded Technus of that. Technus has gone back inside the SHIELD system with the other ghosts and your supervillains and will try and take over it. Right now, they have access to everything SHIELD does," Danny continued. The masked heroes turned to each other, thinking one thought. Their enemies had access to their secret identities!
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