Chapter 2: Iron Huntress
Shadow: Okay welcome back mortals.
Dani: Now we continue with the story. But first a brief recap. Okay Danny got blasted by the Fenton's Portal and then he gained ghost powers but because of the super solider serum flowing through his veins he grew larger and grew muscles. Danny then received a shield and helped Laura Howlett AKA X-23 save Wolverine and a whole bunch of captives in the Hydra Base. After That Danny began stopping Ghost attacks as Captain Phantom. But then Vlad Masters came to celebrate with Danny's family for their success. Danny and Laura then later discovered that Vlad Masters was Vlad Plasmius when they snuck into another Hydra base. Vlad escaped and Danny and Laura became official partners. Danny then Met Nick Fury.
Shadow: Wow, a lot of stuff happened in that chapter. Now for the story of the invincible armoured Iron Huntress.
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Valerie Gray was grumbling to herself about how her school could do nothing right. She had been waiting for this moment since she signed up for the project.
Casper high was going to send students to meet some adults who were successful in their lives. Valarie was one of the lucky students who were able to go on the internship. But someone had mixed up her entry form with someone else's. Now instead of going to see the Pioneer in Gamma Radiation Bruce Banner she and Star were in a plane with the Genius Billionaire Playboy Tony Stark while Tucker and his cousin Tameka (Tiny) were with Bruce Banner.
They were on their way to Afghanistan for a weapons expo that Stark was going to have. But what she didn't know was that this trip would change her life forever.
It all happened so fast. Tony gave his speech. They fired the missile. They got ready to go back to the plane. They were attacked and knocked out.
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When Valarie started to awake she saw three figures in the room. She could make out one as Star, another as Tony Stark and the last one she couldn't tell who he was.
From what she could see he had green skin, a white mullet, dark sunglasses, a white cape and black clothes. But she figured it was just a hallucination, at least that's what she thought until a red wisp of hot air escaped her mouth making her fully aware of her surroundings.
She was shocked that a red wisp of hot air came out of her mouth but she was more shocked that there was an actual ghost floating in front of her.
"Valarie calm down." Star said quickly. Then she and Tony explained what had happened after the expedition of the missiles.
They explained that they had been kidnapped and that their kidnapers had forced Tony to create those missiles again with the help of the ghost Nicolai Technus, for something called 5 rings of Technology, 10 rings of peace. They also explained that Valarie had almost died and that they had to inject her with ecto nanotechnology that would repair her body and turn her into a halfa to allow her to survive.
"So you mean, I'm like Danny?" Valarie asked.
"Yes though you will only have the main abilities of ghosts that are intangibility, invisibility and flight." Technus said. "Though I could change the nanotech inside you to make you more powerful… actually I'm going to have to because the ones inside you will have to be replaced."
"Wait why do we have to give them the missiles when we can just break out of here?" Valarie asked as an idea popped into her mind. "You said there were ecto nanomachines inside by blood stream. Then why don't we turn them into armour that runs on ghost powers, specifically mine."
"That could work." Tony said. "They gave me everything I needed to make a missile, maybe we can turn that into battle armour."
"I also have Ectoranium from the Ghost Zone." Technus said.
"Well I could design something to make it all look good." Star said before everyone looked at her. "What? I'm a fashion goddess, not a tech wiz."
They then stared on the process to design the weapon that would free them and take them back home.
Valarie started working on her powers so that she could control them. Eventually she discovered she had a hot core and could control lightning and some ecto energy but the more she used her lightning and ecto powers the more the nanotech drained her.
Eventually after two long months they finished the armour. It was strong enough to bust them out. (AU: The armour looks like Valarie's first one but also like Iron Man's First Armour)
"Okay I will power and control the harder functions of the suit while you control the main functions." Technus said but then they heard knocking on the metal door. But the knocking became shouting and banging.
"Okay Valarie, Technus are you ready." Star asked.
"I'm ready." Valarie said.
"Good then you two lead the way and we will follow behind you." Tony said just before Technus flew into the armour.
The terrorists then opened the door and slowly walked in with their guns looking for their prisoners.
They didn't see anything that is until they saw a suit of armour that was made to suit a female. The black eyes then glowed bright green and Valarie who was in the suit then did a jump spin kick that knocked all the guys out.
Valarie then advanced forward and noticed everyone who was outside start shooting at her. Technus who had possessed the suit then used his abilities to create a shield in front of them.
Valarie then continued making sure to check that Tony and Star were following behind.
They then walked into the open where they saw all the Stark weapons and even more thugs with guns. They all started shooting at them and Technus created another shield to cover them.
"Valarie you have to destroy all of those." Tony said from behind her.
"Technus are you ready to do this?" Valarie asked.
"Of course." Technus said in a proud voice.
Valarie and Technus together then created Arks of Electricity and Lightning and hit all the other weapons. Valarie felt drained after that so she activated her limited ability of flight and grabbed Tony and Star. Technus helped with the flying by turning the turbines and activating the mini rockets they had and they all shot into the air.
But in the air the armour then started to break apart.
"Guys were starting to break up but we need to get as much distance from them as possible." Valarie said.
"Putting all reserve power into the thrusters." Technus said before they gained that extra boost that they needed.
But the suit continued to break up until they crashed into the desert sand.
Star, Tony and Technus then helped get the armour of off before they continued moving.
After a while of walking they then saw an American Military helicopter flying above.
"Hey." They all yelled to the helicopter.
The helicopter then landed in front of them and Tony fell onto his knees ad did the peace sign.
Colonel James Rhodes the best friend of Tony Stark and uncle of Valarie then walked out to the two humans, 1 halfa and one ghost.
"You know I'm going to kill you right." Rhodes said in a jokey tone. "My niece and her friend were expected to be home two months ago."
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The daughter of the leader of the Ten Rings (the group that kidnapped Tony Stark, Valarie and Star) was walking in the desert with the rest of her father's men.
Her father was Gene Khan the former Mandarin until he became disabled. Her name was Mai Khan. She was a Chinese girl with black hair and purple eyes. She was in a black tank top and denim jeans. When she was in the city she would wear high heels but since she was in desert she wore desert shoes. She wore her Fathers 10 rings as a symbol of power while also using them to enhance her power, although 5 of them were fake.
She had used her father's five real rings to steel power from a ghost to make herself a halfa.
She then picked up the mask that Valarie wore when she escaped.
"Have you found anything yet?" she called.
"Yes we have found most of the suit but we are still searching." One of her father's men said.
"Good then keep on searching. I have to get back to school." She said.
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Two days later Valarie and Star were back in Amity Park getting used to people again. Valarie found it unnerving how whenever a ghost showed up or she was around Danny, Tucker Foley or Mai Khan for some reason a red wisp of hot air escaped her mouth. Though luckily know one ever noticed.
As the Days turned into weeks Valarie kept on getting the urge to help Danny with these ghost attacks. She figured that eventually there would be a moment when Captain Phantom wouldn't be able to focus on the ghosts or was in a state where he would need help.
As she and Star were about to leave school a limo parked in front of them.
The window then opened and she saw Tony Stark sitting inside with his sunglasses on.
"Mr Stark." Both girls said in shock.
"Girls please call me Tony." Tony said in his regular playboy voice. "I'm here because of something that happened while we were all captives. Step into my office."
The girls then walked into the limo.
Outside on the close to the school two girls were watching what had just happened. They were Paulina Sanchez and Mai Khan.
Paulina then picked up her phone. "Director Fury, Valarie Gray and Star Winters have just left with Tony Stark. Yes I'll keep an eye on them." Paulina said before she said good bye to all her friends and said she was going shopping.
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They all arrived at Tony's big luxury house. Since Tony was a billionaire he had a lot of houses in a lot of cities and countries. Usually these girls would know not to go to the house of a playboy but this time it wasn't because of "those reasons", this time it had something to do with ghosts.
"You see the Nanomachines that Technus injected into you are slowly killing you and are not working to your advantage." Tony said. "So we found something that would replace them."
Tony then began the story about his father and how he left something for him to discover. Tony told them that he and Technus had finally finished what his dad had started.
They got to the lab and Technus was setting up a large cannon looking devise.
"What is up with the big gun?" Star asked.
"This gun will super charge and send all the nanotechnology into Valarie while getting rid of the old technology and cure her while increasing the power of her ecto energy." Technus said.
"Will it hurt?" Valarie asked.
"If you are lactose and tolerant then it will." Technus said then Star stepped away from Valarie.
"Okay, my father helped create Captain America, so know we create a halfa." Tony said. "Next I buy a Ghost Portal from the Fentons."
Technus then fired the laser and it hit into Valarie. She didn't know what Danny felt when he got zapped by the Fenton Ghost Portal but she was pretty sure it felt like this. She felt as if she was dying while being reborn. She felt the Nanomachines entering her body and blood stream while fixing any impurities she had.
The laser then stopped and Valarie fell onto the floor.
"I thought you said it wouldn't hurt." She said.
"Oh I lied so that you would feel better." Technus said.
"Now girls since we are done here want to go…" Tony began.
"Keep walking Stark, we are 14 years old." Both girls said in perfect sync while Technus couldn't help but let out a small laugh.
"Okay but how about we show you the other thing we have been working on." Tony said before he walked to his computer.
"You see I guessed that you wanted to help Captain Phantom with the ghost problems. So inside the nanotechnology we added something a little extra." Tony said. "We added a feature similar to the armour you had when we freed ourselves a few weeks ago. So Star will you please come and please help us with the design."
Star then quickly ran over to the computer where she saw all the design equipment to design an outfit for Valarie.
"So you are saying that you are giving me the chance to help save people's lives." Valarie said. "Wow Tucker would be calling me a superhero." She accidently said out loud.
"You still like that geek." Star said as she looked up.
"Tucker isn't a geek he is just a… techno geek." Valarie said almost too quickly.
Star just smirked at her best friend as she continued to work on the design that she had come up with a few days ago.
"Finished." she said then she pressed a button and the nanotech inside Valarie reacted and her entire outfit changed. (She is now in her Final Red Huntress outfit just the whole thing silver)
"There you go. I just don't have the colours yet but while you test it out I'll be working on the colour." Star said.
A board then grew under Valarie's feat. "Okay I'll be back soon." She said before she flew out of the garage and into the open afternoon air.
Valarie had to admit that flying on her hover board felt great, actually she felt great. She felt as if she were free while also powerful.
Valarie shot into the air and ran her fingers through the clouds. Then she continued to fly higher and feel the cold air on her flexible battle armour.
She then shot out a red lightning bolt into the sky and she enjoyed herself and then she flew back to Tony's House.
She then nosedived into the roof of his house and turned intangible and flew through and stopped in Tony's lab.
As she stopped and went into a hover, the colour of her suit then changed to black and red.
"Nice look Star." Valarie said as her board disappeared before she took a look at a mirror.
"I try my best." Star said.
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Mai was working with her father's men on trying to make the suit that Valarie left when she escaped with Stark, work. They had already found a way to reduce its size and turn it into a small slimming battle suit of armour that Mai would wear. (Now it looked completely like the first Red Huntress suit)
Mai had had seen the reports of Iron Huntress saving people from ghost attacks. And she had even attacked the Ten Rings and destroyed the Stark Tech that they had.
"Agg how long until we get this working?" she asked in an irritated tone.
"Not long, Miss Khan." One of the technicians said.
"Well hurry up then, the longer we wait the more powerful Iron Huntress becomes." She said.
"Hey why should we listen to you? You may be the Mandarin's daughter but you aren't the boss of us. We are older than you and loyal to your father so treat us with respect." Another of the technicians said angrily.
Mai then kicked the guy in the groin before she flipped around him, created an ecto knife and put it against his throat.
"My father is disabled. He is no longer the Mandarin and he gave his power and full command to me. I am now the Mandarin and once that armour is done I will be the Iron Mandarin. And because of this you pay allegiance to me. Disobeying me or talking back is met with Death or other harsh punishments." Mai said darkly before she made the ecto knife disappear and threw him over her shoulder and kicked him with her high heels in the groin thus giving him something to think about.
"Take him out of my sight." She said angrily before she left the room to go back to her private quarters.
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Pepper Pots walked with her young intern who was learning from her and Tony about business.
This teenager was more her protégé than she was Tony's, because Tony already had two protégés.
They then walked into Tony's Lab and saw Tony, Valarie, Star and Technus looking at some designs.
Valarie and Star looked up but then were shocked with who they saw.
"Paulina?" Valarie and Star asked.
"What are you doing here? I thought you weren't a technology fan." Valarie said.
"Of course not, Technology is for nerds, dorks and geeks. I'm here for the finance lessons." Paulina said.
"Why didn't you go to your Dad, or Sam's Parents? They are still the richest our city has to offer." Star asked suspiciously.
Valarie came up with an idea then she whispered it into Star's ear.
Star chuckled at Valarie's assumption before she continued to work on the designs.
"So why are you two here?" Paulina asked. "From what I heard you wanted to go to some Gamma Ray Geek for an internship. What are you two still doing here?"
"We got hooked on the work that Tony Stark does." Star said.
"So you two are now like that Techno Geek… what a shame." Paulina said before she continued walking with Pepper.
As soon she left Valarie continued to test the armour, while Star worked on some designs for some new technology.
Stark and Technus continued working on more of their machines.
Eventually Valarie and Star both went home.
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When Star arrived at her home she noticed her father (Colonel Simon Hammer [Brother of Justin Hammer]) was very excited.
"Uh Hi Dad what has got you so excited?" Star asked.
"Someone has brought us this amazing weapon tech suit." Simon said. "It is a suit of Armour that is equipped with a lot of weaponry. Your Uncle Justin also gave us some of his tech so that we would be able to upgrade the suit of armour."
Simon then pulled out the picture he had of the confidential weapon and showed his daughter who gasped.
"The only down side to the weapon is that it's made to fit a teenage girl." Simon said.
Star studied the picture. It looked exactly like the Iron Huntress suit that she designed just it was silver and white and it had a large gun on the shoulder.
"So… uh Daddy what's it called?" Star asked.
"We are calling it the War Maiden." Simon said.
"Who gave it to you?" Star asked.
"A group known as the Ten Rings. They are a Technology Group in China and they seemed really excited when I told them my brother would take a look at the equipment." Simon said. "They also told us that if we can improve it that they would show us their entire work at this big display known as 5 rings of technology, 10 rings of Peace.
"Oh… that's cool Daddy." Star said before she walked to her room.
She then tried calling Valarie but there was no answer so she tried Tony but there was still no answer.
"Okay both aren't picking up… I'm going to have to break into my Dad's facility and take the halfa armour." Star thought to herself.
She then picked up her phone again and dialled a number.
"Hi Foley, I need you help with something and if you help me I'll get you a date with Valarie." Star said and after exchanging a few words with Tucker she hang up and called another number.
"Paulina, you've got a very specific skill set so I need your help with something and if you help me I will get you something in return." Star said.
~00000~
Star, Paulina and Tucker were standing outside the military grounds that were right outside of Amity Park.
"So why is this Geek here?" Paulina asked.
"Because I am the only one who can Star the information about this place that she needs." Tucker said. "And that's Techno-Geek to you. And besides, why are you here? It's not like there is anything that you can do."
"I'm the only one who can get her in there undetected." Paulina said.
Star then turned and faced the two.
"Would you two stop arguing for a minute. You two are both here and you two are both going to help me." Star said. "Okay Foley search the entire place."
Tucker then pulled out his PDA and started hacking and within moments he had all the schematics for all the buildings and their power sources. Tucker then showed the girls.
"Who looks like and integrated security system with lasers, smoke and electric energy." Paulina said and then she noticed Star and Tucker staring at her. "What?" she asked as if nothing happened.
Paulina and Star then got into stealth clothing so that they could sneak around the place unnoticed and they also put on the Fenton Phones that Tucker had brought with him.
Paulina got Star inside without anyone noticing and then she caused a distraction so that Star could do what she had to.
Star walked through the facility until she found the room with the suit inside.
"Techno-Geek, I'm at the room with the stolen tech." Star said into the Fenton Phones. "Hack the doors and let me in."
"Roger that Star-fire." Tucker said through the phones.
"Glamour-Goddess, am I clear to enter?" Star asked.
"Yes Star-Fire. You have a 10 minute window of opportunity." Paulina said through her Fenton Phones.
The doors then opened and Star walked in.
Star then activated the Stark Tech override, a machine that Tony had built if his weapons, tech and anything based off of his designs for the purpose of changing them or disabling them.
Star then pressed a few buttons on the Stark Tech Override and the suit began to open.
"Star-Fire we have a problem." Tucker said via the Fenton Phones.
"What's the problem?" Star asked.
"There was a silent alarm and there are guards on the way. Their ETA is 2 minutes." Tucker said.
"What the heck is ETA?" Star asked.
"Estimated Time of Arrival… Jeez how did you and Valarie get to go with Stark?" Tucker said.
Star then decided to make a new decision. She grabbed the nanomachines she had got from Stark's lab and plugged them into the power core. She then activated the controls and jumped inside.
She then activated the suit and flew out the window. She continued until she found Paulina and Tucker and then flew straight out of the military grounds.
They then landed a while away from the military grounds.
"So the tech you had to liberate was an Iron Huntress outfit?" Tucker asked.
"It looks more like a feminine War Machine to me." Paulina said.
"It is actually a War Maiden but I couldn't let my dad or anyone else, get their hands on this." Star said. "And besides this looks more like an Iron Star-Fire War Machine."
"You aren't really planning on wearing that are you?" Paulina asked.
"Yes." Star said. "But you must never tell this information to anyone. Not about Valarie or me."
"My lips are sealed." Tucker said.
"You do realise that I am the gossip leader of the year?" Paulina said. "But because of our friendship I will keep your secret a secret."
"Thanks you two." Star said.
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Valarie, Tony and Technus were waiting for Star back at Tony's Lab.
Star had called an important meeting and now she was late.
"Guy's can you open the Garage?" They heard Star call.
All of them were confused but Tony opened the Garage anyway and then Star flew in.
She landed and the armour turned into a backpack.
"Guys we've got a situation." Star said.
"Where did you get the armour?" Technus asked.
"Will you allow me to explain?" Star asked.
She then explained everything about what her dad told her and the suit of Armour.
Everyone was quiet for a moment.
"So you're saying that the 10 Rings might be planning an attack with ghosts and our Tech?" Tony asked.
"Yeah. During the 5 rings of Technology, 10 rings of Peace expo next week." Star said.
"Well that's happening at the same time as the Stark Expo. Actually they have been combined to make one large Weapons and Technology Expo." Technus said.
"Well we're probably going to have to have a large fight." Valarie said.
"We could ask Captain Phantom for help." Technus suggested.
"That won't work. Danny's family are spending the weekend in Wisconsin." Valarie said.
"Well I have an Idea." Tony said before he started telling the others his idea.
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It was now five days later at the large weapons expo being held in Los Angeles, California.
Tony Stark then walked onto the stage and everybody cheered.
"Thank you. This is great isn't it? Welcome to My Father's dream and my reality the Stark Expo." Tony said before people started cheering. "Now allow me to tell you something. I had originally planned on stopping making weapons but I decided to have two more made to end my inventing the right way."
Technus then appeared next to Tony.
"This is my partner Nicolai Technus… and yes he is a ghost. Together we worked on an extraordinary piece of technology and now we share it with the world." Tony said again.
"But before we show you our amazing tech we want to introduce the two girls that made this all possible, Valarie Gray and Star Hammer." Technus said before Valarie and Star walked onto the stage. "Also known as Iron Huntress and Iron Star-Fire."
Their armours then grew on them and covered them. Everyone then gasped before they started applauding.
"These girls are wearing suits made from a new type of technology known as Halfa Tech. it combines the best of human and Ghost technology to make it a lot better that anything mankind has ever encountered." Tony said.
Paulina, who was sitting with her business mentor Pepper Potts, was shocked that they had reviled the secret she figured it would be a while until they decided to so there had to be a good reason. And because everyone was cheering she was able to slip away pretty easily.
The people continued to cheer when Mai Khan walked onto the stage as a representative for her father.
"Thank you Mr Stark. We thought that we would be the only ones to show off brand new technology. But that isn't going to stop us now. You see the 10 rings have been investing in some special technology of our own. You see Stark may have his two girls who suit up and play superhero but I on the other hand…" Mai started as her Iron Mandarin armour grew around her. "…Consider my technology to be a teacher, and the first lesson is Heroes… no such thing."
Iron Mandarin then fired at Valarie and Star and they were pushed back.
"Some of the world's best inventors and weapons manufactures assembled just to show off your work and a lot of good agents from different American security organisations looking for weapons to improve themselves." Iron Mandarin said before she shook her head. "Hm you should have all stayed home."
Iron Huntress and Iron Star-Fire stood up behind Iron Mandarin.
"But you forgot something. You're armour is made from Stark Technology and anyone who has the Stark Tech Override is protected from Stark Technology." Iron Huntress said. "And it looks like you don't have any."
"But we on the other hand do." Iron Star-Fire said.
The two females then started firing their attacks at their enemy while the doors opened for the people to escape.
The Iron Huntress was fighting Iron Mandarin while Iron Star-Fire was taking down the members of the 10 Rings who were armed and ready to attack.
Valarie and Mai kept on clashing with their weapons.
"I must admit Gray you are good but not good enough to stop me." Iron Mandarin said.
"Are you sure about that? Because it looks like I'm going to kick your fake tin ass." Iron Huntress said.
"Valarie." Paulina said as she appeared on Iron Huntress's screen.
"Can't chat, Paulina I'm kinda in the middle of something." Valarie said.
"Listen to me. Tony Stark's friend Technus can control technology right?" Paulina asked.
"You're right." Valarie said as she got an idea before she called Technus and Tony.
"Technus I'm going to need you to get into Mai's Armour. If you do that you can probably shut her and everyone else down." Valarie radioed to Technus.
"Excellent idea Valarie Gray." Technus said through the com before he materialised and flew right into the evil armour.
"Oh No." Mai said as she noticed she had lost control and noticed all her men's weapons failing.
"Well I guess you think you've won hu?" Mai said. "Well sadly I can't allow you to take me and arrest me. So Ta, Ta for now."
Mai then disappeared from inside the suit and it exploded.
"So I guess we won?" Star asked.
"Yeah, I guess we just stopped her plans." Valarie said.
They then heard an explosion and a large roar.
"What was that?" Star asked.
"I think it might have been the Hulk… we need to get out of here." Valarie said.
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Paulina was standing in front of a video screen chatting to her boss.
"Director Fury, I have gone over the information that I discovered about Iron Huntress and I think that she would be perfect for the Avengers initiative." Paulina said.
"Good job Black Widow." Director Fury said. "Return home and try to figure out more about Captain Phantom, Iron Huntress and the Hulk."
"Yes Director Fury." Paulina said before she sighed. "Great I have to continuously deal with Geeks. Maybe Phantom might be more fun."
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Shadow: And there is the second chapter of the Halfa Avengers. Next chapter we learn about the Hulk and I dare you to take a guess on who the Hulk is. Oh Yeah Guys CA15 asks that you follow him on Twitter so that he can tweet updates about his fanfics.
Dani: So when do I appear?
Shadow: Just wait till you are adopted… and created.
Dani: Okay. So what will happen next? Read and review to find out.