Spiderman jumped up to the top of the tree and scanned the horizon. The only visible landmark was the mountain which they had decided to make their way to. They'd taken turns to climb trees to make sure they were heading the right way and this time it was Spiderman's. He instantly found the looming rocky mountain and nodded to himself. They were definitely getting closer and making good progress. Suddenly he heard a small explosion from above and he looked up. He gasped. High up in the sky, Nova was being attacked by a massive green wasp and a biker was driving through the air after him, firing blasts of energy from his bike headlight.
Spiderman gracefully dropped to the forest floor and turned to his teammates.
"Nova's in trouble. He's being attacked by two ghosts above us. It's pretty high up. Powerman, how far can you pitch?" Spiderman explained. Powerman squared his shoulders.
"Fast ball special coming up. Who's going up?" Powerman agreed seriously. Spiderman considered what he'd seen and decided that he'd send up Iron Fist, it would give them a read on how the ghosts battled and Iron Fist was the most experienced in getting thrown into fights.
"Iron Fist, you up for it?" Spiderman decided. Iron Fist smirked and bowed.
"It would be my honour and pleasure," Iron Fist accepted.
But before Powerman and Iron Fist could get into position to pull off the combo move, Danny Phantom zoomed overhead and came to an abrupt stop.
"There you guys are! I've been looking for you. Nova's getting chased by Johnny and Bertrand," Danny began, panting slightly from the tiring flight.
"We know, we're in the middle of sending help," Spiderman retorted, slightly annoyed about the interruption.
"That's not all. Your villains, they're working with my enemies to hack into the S.H.I.E.L.D. system to find out your secret identities and then they're all going to go after you guys," Danny resumed. The superhero teens glanced at each other.
"Where are they? Why didn't you stop them?" Spiderman inquired.
"And why aren't you helping Nova!?" White Tiger hissed.
"They're on the mountain. We got spotted before we could do anything. And I'm being chased by Skulker, Ember and Spectra. This is a duplicate. And one I'm not going to be able to keep going. Spectra's starting to wear me down," Danny explained quickly. Spiderman frowned.
"What do you mean?" Spiderman prompted. Danny shook his head.
"Skulker's a hunter. He might have sensed us both but I think it's more likely that he sensed me. You have to either stop Technus or that electric guy. They're powering the computer for that tentacle guy to hack into the files. Ember, get her guitar away from her. She gets too angry to fight properly and becomes a liability. Spectra will probably focus on me. Bertrand is a shapeshifter. If you can get him into his ninja form, he becomes a show off. Johnny, his shadow is weak against light and Johnny isn't that hard to fight. Think thug. Be careful of intangibility and try to keep them all in sight. They're fond of sneak attacks. I'm sorry I can't help more," Danny informed them and the duplicate failed, fading away.
Spiderman blinked in shock. White Tiger frowned. She leapt up into the tree canopy and scanned the sky for any sign of Nova and Danny and their ghostly assailants. She saw Nova still dodging Bertrand the wasp and Johnny 13 on his bike. Then she scowled as three more ghosts appeared holding a net containing Danny Phantom. A female shadow flew beside the net, grinning gleefully as they flew, the hunter carried the net. But a female musician branched away from Skulker and Spectra, who were heading back to the mountain, to attack Nova. Not expecting the sudden blast of musical energy, Nova was hit and stunned for long enough for the ghosts to catch him. Ember clicked her guitar to another setting and blasted Nova again. Then they led him back to the mountain too.
White Tiger looked around, sensing Spiderman, Iron Fist and Powerman beside her.
"What do we do?" She asked.
"We have to help them," Spiderman decided.
"But how? To fail to plan is to plan to fail," Iron Fist interjected. Spiderman stared at Iron Fist.
"I swear you collect fortune cookies," Spiderman muttered. Iron Fist frowned, now wasn't the time for that joke.
"Alright, well. At least Danny was able to give us a few pointers on how to fight his enemies. We have to keep them in mind. And we have to go to the mountain and stop Doc Ock from finding out who we are. If we can get Danny free from whatever cage the ghosts put him in, we might be able to get his help. And we have to save Nova, even if the bucket head is annoying, ghosts can fly, he'll be a lot of help in the air. We will have to deal with those villains too," Spiderman replied thoughtfully.
"Okay, well that's a checklist Spidey. What are we going to do?" Powerman pointed out. Spiderman shook his head.
"We need to get there and figure out what's going on and go from there. So we should hurry," Spiderman answered. The team nodded and together they started to run and jump through the canopy, thankful for all those boring training sessions with Coulson to build up their stamina. It didn't take long for them to reach the mountain base.
"I thought Nick would be helping us," Spiderman recalled grumpily as they set about starting to hike up the mountain side.
"Perhaps Director Fury is busy helping us in other ways such as blocking Doc Ock from our files or trying to stop Technus and Electro from giving Doc Ock access," Iron Fist suggested.
"Yeah Spidey, we don't know exactly how much Director Fury can help us with Technus in the system. For all we know, Technus might have already broken through if it wasn't for Director Fury," White Tiger added.
Spiderman frowned and started to grumble to himself about missing his Spidey Cycle. An hour later or so, they reached the top and crept towards the voices. They carefully peered over the rocky ridge around the group of enemies. Nova was locked in a cage.
"Let me out! Let me out or you'll be sorry!" Nova shouted fearfully and Spiderman saw why. There was a small green rabbit next to the cage making faces and clearly enjoying itself.
"Such pathetic prey. Not worth the use of my equipment," Skulker complained.
"I know you'd rather stronger prey, but this is necessary. If we don't hold him here, he'll turn against us and warn his little friends. Besides, we did get dipstick," Ember comforted him with a kind smile. Skulker smirked at her.
"True, but I would have preferred to catch him at full strength rather than drained by Spectra," Skulker replied.
Spiderman frowned at the ghosts gathered nearby and scanned the rest of the area. The supervillains were waiting impatiently together while Doctor Octopus typed into a flickering computer floating in mid-air. Electro and Technus were pointing their hands at it and looked to be getting tired and were fully focused on concentrating on maintaining the computer. They were the furthest away from the heroes' hiding place. Then Spiderman saw Danny tied up by glowing green bindings looking thoroughly depressed and a woman in a red suit sat beside him with a seemingly comforting arm around his shoulders.
"Come on Danny, speak to me and we'll work through your issues. So what have we seen so far? You're a freak that no one can hope to love. Especially you're parents. How do they put it? They want to rip you apart molecule by molecule. You have a sister that can't mind her own business. One you can never measure up to. After all, we all know how disastrous your grades are. How is Jazz by the way? Still the annoying chipper girl?" Spectra whispered in an understanding tone that didn't exactly match her words.
"You stay away from her," Danny muttered weakly and glared angrily at the ghost.
"Or what? No one's here to save you this time. No geeky boy with an unhealthy relationship with his belongings. No Goth girl striving to be different for no other reason than to stand out. No know-it-all sister that can't stay out of your business. No trigger-happy parents that are the laughing stock of the entire town. Face it. Those heroes don't trust you otherwise they would have let you come in here alone. You have no one to depend on here," Spectra pointed out.
Danny suddenly looked even more upset and Spectra's smile grew and her eyes twinkled in pleasure. Spiderman didn't understand what Spectra was saying or what she was doing, but it was clearly affecting Danny. Spiderman turned to his teammates. They needed to make their move.
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