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Danny, as Phantom, flew into his room and immediately fell onto his bed, barely conscious. He would love to say that the last couple of days have been a breeze with SHIELD taking care of most of the ghosts, but that was sadly anything but true. Even more ghosts were popping out of the portal. It was like two massive armies meeting on the battlefield; except the battlefield was Amity Park and it didn't seem to end. Danny hoped his parents would shut off the portal so the ghosts would no longer be able to enter Amity Park, but his parents were to engrossed in their research to realize they were the cause for most of the town's problems.
Danny had just come back from a particularly brutal engagement between two squads of SHIELD soldiers and the Fright Knight. The ghostly knight had been able to send four soldiers to their worst fears forever before Danny showed up. Both sides quickly turned on Danny and he had to dodge the Fright Knight's swings from his Soul Shredder and dodge incoming ectoplasmic rays coming from the soldiers. Danny was eventually able to catch the knight off guard and suck him up into his thermos, but he was too exhausted to escape the SHIELD soldiers. Good thing the heavens had decided to show mercy on Danny; the soldiers were all out of ammo and couldn't continue the fight. They ended up retreating back to their base, letting Danny escape.
Danny rolled over so he was facing his spaceship models hanging from the ceiling. He remembered when the idea of flight meant freedom and happiness. Being able to escape the world was his dream. Now, now it just meant restraint, pain, and pressure of having so many lives on his shoulders. One slip up from him and several civilians could be killed, or soldiers dead, even the ghosts could become a casualty of war. Danny had learned that the hard way when he stumbled upon the ectoplasmic corpse of the Box Ghost surrounded by 2 dead SHIELD agents. The skin of the agents had been purple so they most likely suffocated, while the Box Ghost had several holes in his torso. Definitely from the ectoplasmic bazookas both soldiers carried.
Yet, Danny still didn't know why the ghosts were fighting so fiercely. There had to be a reason. He read some of the book Sam gave him, but so far it hasn't had anything interesting. One thing was for sure, Danny had to change his tactics or he would eventually end up like the Box Ghost. For the most part he could dodge the anti-ghost weapons. The rays were pretty easy to evade if they were his only obstacle, but it just took one shot for his world to crumble. He needed to go to someone for help, but who should he go to? His father didn't have much to offer him. Sam did know the basics of fighting, but that requires going to her house everyday. Most likely someone would notice this and get suspicious. Tucker was the same problem and didn't even know how to fight. There was Jazz, but she was a psychiatrist not a fighter. Well, his mother was a black belt in karate. That was an excellent place to start.
Nick Fury was looking through the glass window of his protective observation room. On the other side of the glass stood a long room with a simple dummy. The poor dummy was about to be used to test SHIELD's new weapon to combat all the ghosts. Fury noticed early on that he was losing too many agents compared to their reported kills. The anti-ghost weapons could only get him so far, and a couple scientists told him they knew why. After showing him a short presentation that concluded with saying the rays fired from the anti-ghost weapons were too big and too slow once fired, they came up with a simple solution. Ectoplasm laced bullets. That way the soldiers could still use their normal weapons, but the bullet still harmed the ghost. Even more so now actually, Now they wouldn't see it coming and dodge it. One, maybe two hits with one of these, and the ghost is gone. At least, that's what the scientists promised. One lone scientist appeared in the long room on the opposite side of the glass. He carried a standard M-16 with him. He pointed the weapon at the target and pressed the trigger. One burst and Fury watched as the target was shredded. Another burst and it was mincemeat. The scientist looked through the glass at Director Fury, bowed, and walked out of the room. If that really can harm a ghost, then we have something to more than level the playing field.
Fury was about to exit the room, when a sudden idea popped in his head. Phantom, the enigmatic ghost that has been on the back of Fury's mind all week, was known to be elusive. He could easily dodge the normal anti-ghost weapons. These new bullets though, should easily be able to hit Phantom before he even had the chance to dodge them. If he could change the makeup of the bullet, maybe get rid of some of the ectoplasm to make it a little weaker and replace it with two opposite electromagnetic currents to stun Phantom, it would make capturing the ghost so much easier. That meant all he would have to worry about was the necessary containment of Phantom. Something the scientists he assigned to the project should already be working on. Looks like I just got check, Phantom. Your move.
I know this chapter is a little repetitive and short. Don't worry; next chapter is where all the action begins. It should also be a lot of fun for me to write. So please stick with me and review!
I am just going to say this once (not really, I will probably say it multiple times). The Avengers will not make an appearance in this story! First, I don't know what their relation is to SHIELD (are they a part of it or are they their own entity?). Second, they really have no part in this story. There is a reason this is called SHIELD Law, not Avenger Law
Reviews:
Inviso-Al: I will delve more on the Amity Park thing later. As for Nick Fury, you can tell that isn't going to end well for Phantom.
Newboy: SHIELD already has a bunch of problems and they are barely even on the road. This conversation is starting to get interesting now. Yes, you make a good point on bringing up the fact that Danny does know how the weapons work and that gives him an advantage, but many of the ghosts have dealt with the weapons before too. All they need to know his how to dodge them which they should know (Skulker actually makes more advanced versions of those weapons for his suit, and Desiree is too old to not run into a ghost hunter). Also, you can know everything about a AK-47; it wouldn't help you dodge one though.