Before I get started. Gotta say, I saw the Season 4 premiere of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and man, the Ghost Rider was awesome. Danny would be like 'How come I haven't heard about this guy before?'. Looking forward to seeing Ghost Rider in action this season. Anyway...

The Logical Fallacy- He can, but Danny was down thanks to Wanda during the battle.

Kimera20- Thanks, and seriously, what the heck was the Hulk's vision anyway?

PhoenixPhantom4106- That joke could come to fruition in the series.

Here's chapter 8 everybody.

Chapter 8: The Safe House.

The Quinjet soared through the night sky. Steve, Thor, Natasha and Danny were still scarred from their visions. Bruce, meanwhile, was horrified at the destruction he had caused as Hulk. Maria Hill was talking to the Avengers through the Quinjet's radio.

"The news is loving you guys. Nobody else is. There's been no official call for Banner's arrest but it's in the air." Hill said.

"The Stark Relief Foundation?" Tony asked.

"Already on the scene." Hill replied. "How's the team?"

"Everyone's... We took a hit. We'll shake it off." Tony replied.

"Well, for now, I'd stay in stealth mode and stay away from here." Hill suggested.

"So, run and hide?" Tony asked, not fond of the idea.

"Until we can find Ultron, I don't have a lot else to offer." Hill said.

"Neither do we." Tony sighed before disconnecting Hill. He then approach the cockpit where Clint was piloting the Quinjet. "Hey, you wanna switch out?"

"No, I'm good. If you wanna get some kip, now's a good time because we're still a few hours out." Clint replied.

"Few hours from where?" Tony asked, wondering where Clint was taking the team.

"A safe house." Clint answered.


Hours later, with the sun now up, Clint lands the Quinjet at an open area in the middle of the country near some farm. The Avengers soon approach the house there.

"What is this place?" Thor asked.

"Safe house." Tony replied.

"Let's hope." Clint said before opening the front door. "Honey? I'm home." Clint called.

Moments later, a pretty woman with long brown hair appear from the kitchen, surprise to see Clint and the other Avengers.

"Hi. Company. Sorry, didn't call ahead." Clint said.

"Hey." the woman said before kissing Clint.

"This is an agent of some kind." Tony said.

"Gentlemen, this is Laura." Clint said to Steve, Thor, Tony, Bruce and Danny.

"I know all your names." Laura chuckled.

"Hello." Danny greeted.

Everyone then heard footsteps approaching.

"Ooh. Incoming." Clint said excitedly.

Suddenly, two little kids, one boy and one girl, ran to Clint.

"Dad!" the little girl greeted.

"Hi, sweetheart!" Clint said cheerfully as he lifts her up before turning his attention to the boy. "Hey, buddy. How are you guys doing?"

The Avengers, except Natasha, had no words. They didn't think Clint was married and had a family.

"These are smaller agents." Tony muttered.

"Look at your face!" Clint said excitedly. "Oh, my goodness."

"Did you bring Auntie Nat?" the girl name Lila asked. Clint gasped.

"Why don't you hug her and find out." Natasha said with a smile on her face as Lila ran to hug her and Clint laughed and Natasha lift her up.

"Sorry for barging in on you." Steve apologized.

"Yeah, we would have called ahead, but we were busy having no idea that you existed." Tony said.

"I didn't know you had a family, Clint." Danny said.

"Yeah, well, Fury helped me set this up when I joined. He kept it off S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files. I'd like to keep it that way." Clint said. "I figure it's a good place to lay low."

Thor then accidentally crunched a Lego set. He moves them aside, trying to hide them.

"Honey. I missed you. How's little Natasha, huh?" Natasha said, rubbing Laura's pregnant belly.

"She's... Nathaniel." Laura replied.

Natasha puts a fake frown before lowering to say to the unborn baby...

"Traitor."

Lila looked at Thor while he continued to see his vision before coming back to reality thanks to a nearby toaster. Thor then head outside with Steve following him in concern.

"Thor?" Steve said.

"I saw something in that dream. I need answers. I won't find them here." Thor said.

Steve couldn't reply. Thor then swung his hammer and took off to find answers to his vision. Steve look around the surroundings as he hears Peggy's voice saying...

"We can go home."

Steve then went outside to go for a walk.

Meanwhile, Danny was also thinking about his vision, hearing Dan's voice saying that infamous catchphase again.

"I'm still here. I still exist. That means you still turn into me."

Danny came back to reality when the boy name Cooper got his attention.

"You're Danny Phantom." Cooper said excitedly.

"Yes, sir." Danny said.

"Mind if I show you my collection?" Cooper asked.

"Sure." Danny replied.

Minutes later, Laura was checking up on Clint.

"See? You worried for nothing. Can't even feel the difference, can you?" Clint said.

"If they're sleeping here, some of them are gonna have to double up." Laura said, concerning for the Avengers since some of them are gonna have to sleep in the same room together.

"Yeah, that's not gonna sell." Clint chuckled.

"What about Nat and Doctor Banner? How long has that been going on?" Laura asked, wondering how long Natasha and Bruce had been supposedly seeing one another.

"Has what?" Clint asked, denying about the rumored relationship between Natasha and Bruce.

"You are so cute." Laura laughed.

"Nat and Banner?" Clint asked.

"I'll explain when you're older, Hawkeye." Laura joked.

"Well, okay." Clint said as he puts on a casual shirt.

"It's bad, right? Nat seems really shaken." Laura asked. Clint sighed.

"Ultron has these allies. These, uh, kids. They're punks, really. But they carry a big, damn stick. And Nat took a serious hit." Clint replied. "Someone's gonna have to teach them some manners."

"That someone being you. You know I totally support your avenging. I couldn't be prouder." Laura said as Clint sits at a nearby desk and Laura looks out the window to see Steve and Tony outside. "But I see those guys... Those gods..."

"You don't think they need me." Clint said.

"I think they do, which is a lot scarier. They're a mess." Laura said as Clint looks out the window and sighed.

"Yeah. I guess they're my mess." Clint said.

"You need to be sure that this team is really a team, and that they have your back. Things are changing for us. In a few months time, you and me are gonna be outnumbered. I need... Just be sure." Laura said with concern.

"Yes, ma'am." Clint said before kissing Laura.

"I can feel the difference." Laura commented.

Meanwhile, Cooper was showing Danny his Danny Phantom collection in his room.

"My Danny Phantom action figure is one of my most prize possessions." Cooper said, handing Danny the action figure.

Danny stared at the action figure. It was an impressive figure of him when he was 16, still wearing his old black hamzat jumpsuit. Danny pressed the button on the figure's back.

"I'm going ghost!" said the figure in Danny's 16 year old voice.

That put a smile on Danny's face.

"I sure do miss that voice. Hmm, at least I have cool merchandise." Danny commented.

"So what's it like to fight all those ghosts?" Cooper asked.

"Very hard and dangerous. Well, almost some of them." Danny replied.

"Don't you get scared?" Cooper asked.

"In some situations, yes, but not for myself, but for those I care about. I'm the hero. I have to protect people and make sure they don't get hurt or worse because it's my job. I have to make sure those ghosts focus on me." Danny replied.


Meanwhile, at the U-Gin Research Lab at Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Cho was talking to her staff before entering a dark room and gasped when she saw an unexpected guest in there.

"Scream, and your entire staff dies." Ultron threatened. "I could've killed you, Helen, the night we met. I didn't."

"Do you expect a thank-you note?" Cho commented.

"I expect you to know why." Ultron said.

Cho thought for a second before realizing why Ultron didn't kill her and why he's here.

"The Cradle." Cho said, staring at the Cradle.

The Regeneration Cradle is a medical device that can heal wounds by grafting a simulacrum of organic tissue to the patient and having it bond to the patient's cells. Thus, it can also be used to create synthetic tissue.

"This is the next thing, Tony." a recording from Ultron playing Cho's voice.

"This is the next me." Ultron said.

"The Regeneration Cradle prints tissue. It can't build a living body." Cho try to explain.

"It can. You can. You lack the materials." Ultron said as one of his sentries approach him holding a tube of vibranium. "You're a brilliant woman, Helen. But we all have room to improve."

Another Ultron sentry approached Helen and brought the tip of Loki's scepter to her chest and made her eyes turn blue, now under mind control.


Back at Clint's homestead, Natasha was wearing her bathrobe, thinking about her vision of her early days at the Red Room Academy. Bruce was in the bathroom, shaving and thinking about his actions as the Hulk. Minutes, later, Bruce left the bathroom, only to see that Natasha was outside the door.

"I didn't realized you were waiting." Bruce said.

"I would've joined you, but, uh, it didn't seem like the right time." Natasha said. Bruce realized Natasha is starting the flirting again.

"They used up all the hot water." Bruce said.

"I should've joined you." Natasha flirted.

"Missed our window." Bruce chuckled.

"Did we?" Natasha asked, staring directly at Bruce's eyes.

"The world just saw the Hulk. The real Hulk, for the first time. You know I have to leave." Bruce said, questioning himself on being part of the Avengers.

"You assume that I have to stay?" Natasha asked. "I had this, um, dream. The kind that seems normal at the time, but when you wake..."

"What did you dream?" Bruce said, cutting Natasha mid-sentence.

"That I was an Avenger. That I was anything more than the assassin they made me." Natasha said, thinking about what the Red Room had made her become.

"I think you're being hard on yourself." Bruce said.

"Here I was hoping that was your job." Natasha said getting close to Bruce.

"What are you doing?" Bruce asked, getting awkward.

"I'm running with it. With you. If running is the plan, as far as you want." Natasha replied, grabbing Bruce's hand.

Bruce let go of her hand before saying...

"Are you out of your mind?"

"I want you to understand that, um..."

"Natasha," Bruce said, cutting Natasha off. "where can I go? Where in the world am I not a threat?"

"You're not a threat to me." Natasha tried to reassured.

"Are you sure? Even if I didn't just... There's no future with me. I can't ever... I can't have this. Kids. Do the math. I physically can't." Bruce said.

"Neither can I. In the Red Room where I was trained... Where I was raised, um, they have a graduation ceremony. They sterilize you. It's efficient. One less thing to worry about. The one thing that might matter more than a mission. Makes everything easier. Even killing." Natasha said, regretting about her actions in the past. "You still think you're the only monster on the team?"

"So, we disappear?" Bruce asked.

Meanwhile, outside the house, Steve and Tony were chopping some wood with axes, while talking about where Thor went too.

"Thor didn't say where he was going for answers?" Tony asked.

"Sometimes my teammates don't tell me things. I was kind of hoping Thor would be the exception." Steve said.

"Yeah, give him time. We don't know what the Maximoff kid showed him." Tony said as Steve chop another piece of wood.

"'Earth's mightiest heroes'. Pulled us apart like cotton candy." Steve said.

"Seems like you walked away all right." Tony commented.

"Is that a problem?" Steve asked.

"I don't trust a guy without a dark side." Tony said as he chop another piece of wood. "Call me old-fashioned."

"Well, let's just say you haven't seen it yet." Steve said.

"You know Ultron is trying to tear us apart, right?" Tony asked.

"Well, I guess you'd know. Whether you'd tell us is a bit of a question." Steve said as he once again chop more wood.

"Banner and I were doing research." Tony countered.

"That would affect the team." Steve said.

"That would end the team! Isn't that the mission? Isn't that the 'Why We Fight'? So we can end the fight. So we get to go home!" Tony said as Steve splits a piece of tree trunk with his super solider strength.

"Every time someone tries to win a war before it starts, innocent people die. Every time." Steve said.

"I know what it's like to have a dark side. And I strive myself to make sure it never happens again." Danny said, approaching the two.

"What are you talking about, Danny?" Steve asked.

"Let's just say, I altered the time stream six years ago. So, the Avengers, myself meeting you guys, becoming an Avenger myself, wasn't suppose to happen." Danny said.

"What happened?" Tony asked, now interested on hearing Danny's dark side story.

"I never told you guys this, but you all deserved to know. I had lots of adventures involving ghosts, but one time, I managed to travel into the future and witness something horrible." Danny said. "In the original timeline, I used my powers to cheat on the C.A.T.s, or Career Aptitude Test, but this had fatal consequences."

"What consequences?" Steve asked.

"My teacher, Mr. Lancer, got suspicious of me cheating on the test. So, he called my family for a meeting at the Nasty Burger, a popular burger joint at town. Along with myself were my two best friends Tucker and Sam. Unfortunately, the Nasty Burger's vat of condiments exploded at that time and caused the deaths of my family, friends, teacher. I was the sole survivor." Danny said.

"That's horrible." Steve said.

"It gets worse." Danny said. "As a result of the deaths, I lost everything. With nowhere else to go, I was forced to move in with my arch enemy, Vlad Masters, aka Vlad Plasmius. You might know him, Tony."

"I met him a couple of times, before founding out that he was an evil half ghost." Tony said.

"Anyway, back to the story, completely fill with grief, I ask Vlad to get rid of my human emotions, in other words, get rid of my human half. Vlad successfully managed to separated my human half from my ghost half, but this had... very fatal consequences." Danny said.

Steve and Tony were now nervous and afraid on what Danny is about to say next.

"Now that my ghost half was free from my human half, my ghost half saw a chance to get rid of his arch enemy. Phantom separated Vlad's ghost half from his human half and tried to overshadow it. Unfortunately, when Plasmius' evil ghost half mixed with mine, it overwhelmed him and the power overloaded my ghost self, resulting in the birth of my most hated and dangerous enemy: Dan Phantom, or Dark Danny. His first act of malice was the murder of his human half and destroying Vlad's entire mansion, before unleashing ten years of pain and destruction on both the Earth and the Ghost Zone. However, thanks to an allied ghost name Clockwork, I was able to overcome it. I defeated him and alter the timeline." Danny said.

Steve and Tony couldn't believe what they heard. Danny becoming evil? Tony shuttered.

"This is so creepy and scary." Tony said.

"Why are you telling us this now?" Steve asked.

"When that Maximoff girl manipulated me, I saw a vision. I saw Amity Park in ruins, just like that future, and in the Ghost Zone, just like the Pariah Dark incident. I also saw Him, but that's impossible cause I sucked him in the thermos. Come to think about it, I wonder what happened to it. Anyway, he was also wearing something that looks awfully like an artifact I've seen before. And he wasn't the only thing I saw. I saw another figure, and Dani is somehow connected. I have a feeling something big is gonna happen soon, and I'm gonna have to stop it." Danny said.

Laura then approach the trio.

"I'm sorry. Mr. Stark... Clint said you wouldn't mind, but our tractor doesn't seem to want to start at all. I thought maybe you might..."

"Yeah, I'll give her a kick." Tony said, cutting Laura mid-sentence before heading to the barn, leaving Steve and Danny. "Don't take from my pile."

Tony then opens the door to the barn and walks in. He looks around before turning his attention to the old tractor.

"Hello, Deere. Tell me everything. What ails you." Tony said, checking the tractor's components, not realizing that he's not alone.

"Do me a favor. Try not to bring it to life." said former S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury, who some thought was dead, not surprising Tony at all.

"Why, Ms. Barton, you little minx." Tony muttered before facing Fury. "I get it. Maria Hill called you, right? Was she ever not working for you?"

"Artificial intelligence. You never even hesitated." Fury said.

"Look, it's been a really long day, like Eugene O'Neill long, so how's about we skip to the part where you're useful." Tony said, not wasting any time.

"Look me in the eye and tell me you're going to shut him down." Fury said.

"You're not the director of me." Tony reminded.

"I'm not the director of anybody. I'm just an old man who cares very much about you." Fury said.

"And I'm the man who killed the Avengers. I saw it. I didn't tell the team. How could I? I saw them all dead, Nick. I felt it. The whole world, too. Because of me. I wasn't ready. I didn't do all I could." Tony said, telling Fury about his vision.

"Maximoff girl, she's working you, Stark. Playing on your fear." Fury said.

"I wasn't tricked, I was shown. Wasn't a nightmare, it was my legacy. The end of the path I started us on." Tony said.

"You come up with some pretty impressive inventions, Tony. War isn't one of them." Fury commented.

"I watched my friends die. You'd think that'd be as bad as it gets, right? Nope. It wasn't the worst part." Tony scoffed.

"The worst part is that you didn't." Fury said.


Meanwhile, Thor was waiting outside the Royal Holloway at the University of London, while wearing a hooded jacket so that he doesn't draw attention. He spots Erik Selvig leaving the college. Selvig recognized Thor and approach him.

"I like the look. If you're going for inconspicuous, though, near miss." Selvig said.

"I need your help." Thor requested.

"It's nice to be needed." Selvig commented.

"It's dangerous." Thor warned.

"I'd be disappointed if it wasn't." Selvig said before Thor and himself entered the car.


Back at Clint's homestead later that night, everyone was gathered at a table while Fury was telling the team what he knows about Ultron and his operations so far while Lila hands Natasha her drawing of a butterfly.

"Ultron took you folks out of play to buy himself time. My contacts all say he's building something. The amount of vibranium he made off with, I don't think it's just one thing." Fury said.

"What about Ultron himself?" Steve asked.

"Oh, he's easy to track. He's everywhere. The guy is multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit." Fury said.

"Watch it, Fury." Danny said, glaring Fury for using the term 'Catholic rabbit'.

"It still doesn't help us get an angle on any of his plans, though." Fury said.

"Is he still going after launch codes?" Tony asked.

"Yes, he is. But he's not making any headway." Fury replied.

"I cracked the Pentagon's firewall in high school on a dare." Tony said.

"Well, I contacted our friends at the Nexus about that." Fury said.

"Nexus?" Steve asked.

"What's that?" Danny asked.

"It's the world Internet hub in Oslo. Every byte of data flows through there. Fastest access on Earth." Bruce answered.

"Similar to the Mega Cybertron hub computer at Axion Labs." Danny said.

"So, what did they say?" Clint asked.

"He's fixated on the missiles. But the codes are constantly being changed." Fury replied.

"By whom?" Tony said as a dart from Clint hits the target in front of his face.

"Parties unknown." Fury answered.

"Do we have an ally? Natasha asked.

"Ultron's got an enemy. That's not the same thing. Still, I'd pay folding money to know who it is." Fury said.

"I might need to visit Oslo. Find our unknown." Tony said.

"Well, this is good times, boss, but I was kind of hoping when I saw you, you'd have more than that." Natasha said.

"I do. I have you." Fury said. "Back in the day, I had eyes everywhere. Ears, everywhere else. You kids had all the tech you could dream up. Here we all are, back on Earth, with nothing but our wit and our will to save the world. Ultron says the Avengers are the only thing between him and his mission. And whether or not he admits it, his mission is global destruction. All this, laid in a grave. So stand. Outwit the platinum bastard."

"Steve and Danny doesn't like that kind of talk." Natasha taught.

"You know what, Romanoff?" Steve said.

"Can we drop the language thing already?" Danny sighed. Natasha smirked.

"So, what does he want?" Fury asked.

"To become better. Better than us." Steve said.

"Not to mention become superior and ultimate." Danny said.

"He keeps building bodies." Steve said.

"Person bodies. The human form is inefficient. Biologically speaking, we're outmoded. But he keeps coming back to it." Tony said as Bruce thinks while looking at the butterfly drawing.

"When you two programmed him to protect the human race, you amazingly failed." Natasha said.

"They don't need to be protected. They need to evolve." Bruce said getting everyone's attention. "Ultron's going to evolve."

"How?" Fury asked.

"Has anyone been in contact with Helen Cho?" Bruce asked.

Everyone then realized what Ultron is planning on doing.


Meanwhile, back at the research lab, the Cradle opens, revealing a artificial android body that Ultron is creating for himself.

"It's beautiful. The vibranium atoms aren't just compatible with the tissue cells, they're binding them. And S.H.I.E.L.D. never even thought to..." the mind controlled Dr. Cho said.

"The most versatile substance on the planet, and they used it to make a Frisbee." Ultron said, finishing Cho's sentence and referring Steve's shield. "Typical of humans. They scratch the surface and never think..." Ultron said as a laser then breaks through the glowing sphere from Loki's scepter, revealing a floating yellow glowing Infinity Stone. "... to look within."

Ultron grabs the stone and places it on the head of the building body.


Back at Clint's, the Avengers are preparing to battle Ultron and rescue Dr. Cho and get the Cradle.

"I'll take Natasha, Danny, and Clint." Steve said.

"All right. Strictly recon. I'll hit the Nexus. I'll join you as soon as I can." Tony said.

"If Ultron's really building a body..." Steve said, not wanting to finish the rest of his sentence.

"He'll be more powerful than any of us. Maybe all of us. An android designed by a robot." Tony said.

"Powerful than any of my powerful enemies in the Ghost Zone." Danny said.

"You know, I really miss the days when the weirdest thing science ever created was me." Steve said.

"I'll drop Banner off at the tower. You mind if I borrow Ms. Hill?" Fury asked Tony.

"She's all yours. Apparently." Tony replied.

"What are you gonna do?" Steve asked Fury.

"I don't know. Something dramatic, I hope." Fury replied. "Danny, you mind if I contact Team Phantom?"

"Why you need to contact them for?" Danny asked out of curiosity.

"I need to talk to them about a few things." Fury replied.

"Well, go ahead. I guess." Danny said.

Meanwhile, Laura checks up on Clint.

"I'm gonna finished reflooring that sunroom as soon as I get back." Clint said.

"Yeah, then you'll find another part of the house to tear apart." Laura said.

"No. It's the last project. I promise." Clint said before kissing his wife.

A few minutes later, Laura watch outside as the Quinjet, carrying the Avengers, soars off on the early morning sky, on its way to Seoul.

That's the end of this chapter. BTW, if any of you are wondering what that term 'Catholic rabbit' means. It suppose to refer to people, who are Catholic, having so many kids. The Pope said this, but it's wrong to say that and it's not true at all. I'm Catholic myself, so yeah. Anyway, please review. :)