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Danny knew he was in big trouble. He had been limping all the way back to his house for about five minutes and getting steadily weaker. Even if he did make it all the way back to his waiting parents though, he still had to deal with their wrath. What was he going to say? He was thought to be a ghost and was shot at? The bullets SHIELD used had to be different from a normal bullet or he wouldn't have been shot in the first place. Danny crawled up the steps to his porch still holding his shoulder. He looked behind him to see a very faint trail of blood. Oh great, I am leaving a trail. Danny thought as he entered his house.

He tried to make it to the steps to get his parents attention, there was no way he was going to be able to treat a bullet wound by himself, much less two, but the loss of blood started to affect him and he was getting light headed. He tripped over the first stair causing him to crash onto the rest creating a big banging noise.

Immediately the Fenton elders were to their feet to check out what the noise was. Jack was armed with the Fenton Creep Stick and Maddie had a Fenton Wrist ray. Both descended the steps and were horrified to find their son bleeding out on the steps. He was growing paler by the second.

"Jack, go down to the lab and set up a table! Make sure you have all the materials for a shoulder surgery!"

Jack looked at his son once more before closing his eyes and turning away. He couldn't bear to see his son like this. Jack then remembered he had a task to do and quickly ran down towards the lab.

Maddie watched as her son tried to pull himself up before falling back down on his injured arm. She couldn't move. What was she supposed to do? Was she supposed to pick him up and carry him down to the lab? Try to make him do it with help? Do it here so he doesn't get even more injured. She eventually took a deep breath. She wasn't helping her son by doing nothing. She reached over to him and lifted him up. She hoped he would still be able to walk, but judging by his dazed look, he was barely even conscious. She started carrying him down the stairs in her arms.

All the materials were already cleaned and laid out on a towel when Maddie came in with her son. Jack walked over to his wife and helped set him down. Both parents looked at the deteriorating condition of their boy "What are we supposed to do?" Jack asked. "We don't have any monitors much less experience operating on a human being. If we mess up we might kill our son."

Maddie watched as Danny's breathing got shallower. "Our boy is already dying. Even if we could take him to a hospital, which we can't since we are running out of time, they can't effectively treat him. Haven't you noticed anything odd about Danny's blood?"

Jack didn't understand. He though Danny was perfectly normal. One glace at the blood falling off of the table told a different story though. It was mostly red, but there was a faint green substance. Jack visibly paled. "There is ectoplasm in his blood!"

Maddie nodded. "You know that no one has conclusively determined what ectoplasm does to our blood if it enters it. Danny could be getting infected with some ghost disease or maybe the ectoplasm is fighting the blood and he is dying even faster.

Jack's eyes widened ad he picked up some tweezers and rushed over to his son. "We have to operate now!" he shouted as he started his search for the bullets inside his son. He was going to do whatever it takes to save his little boy.

Fury was mad, no he was furious! How could that mission go so badly so fast? Not only could they not capture Phantom as planned, but they had dead civilians to deal with too.

Fury paced around his office in the helicarrier. He couldn't let the shootings of those civilians get to the media. If the media found out, then the civilians wouldn't be far behind. He couldn't deal with disgruntled civilians and ghosts. Fury pressed the button for the intercom. "Maria, arrange a team to go back to the site. Tell them to do whatever they need to cover up the civilian deaths. We can't have anything get in our way. We've come too far to lose!"

There was a pause on the other line. "Yes sir, I will have everything ready. Oh, and there is an investigator that would like to speak with you about your battle last night. He says he found something that will interest you."

Maybe those deaths weren't for nothing. If there was something he could use to capture Phantom, then he is going to use it. "Send him in."

Fury sat in a chair next to his chessboard as he waited for the investigator. He stared at all the chess pieces while he thought. I was so close to taking Phantom's king and winning the game. Now I need a quick and decisive move to save my plans.

A man with greasy grey hair and a business suit walked through the door. "Sir, I am here to talk about last night."

Fury just looked at the man without saying a thing. The man, a little unnerved, kept speaking. "It's just; we found a trail of ectoplasm leading out of the building where Phantom escaped. The interesting part though, isn't the ectoplasm, but what it was mixed with."

Fury sat back in his seat and raised a brow. "Mixed with? Ectoplasm shouldn't be mixed with anything."

The man smiled and walked a little closer. "That's the thing. The ectoplasm was found with-get this-blood."

Fury closed his eyes and furrowed his brows. Why would there be blood with the ectoplasm? "Does Phantom have a human hostage?"

"Sir, Phantom is too weak to take a hostage. He would be bleeding out ectoplasm and getting steadily weaker. That is, if ghosts operate similar to humans."

Fury glanced at the chess set before returning his attention to the investigator. "Are you trying to say that Phantom has ectoplasm AND blood? He would need a heart to be able to do that."

The man's grin got bigger as he started motioning with his head. "All the ghosts that we have exterminated never showed any signs of having any internal organs. Phantom is...special."

Fury stood up and stuck out his hand. "I want you to pursue your findings. Don't let up. It was nice talking to you Mr.?

"Deggle." the man said as he he shook Fury's hand.

Fury turned around to face the window overlooking Amity Park. "Now, I need time to think over some things."

Mr. Deggle nodded. "Understood, sir. Have a good day, sir." the man left the office leaving Fury alone. The entire time Fury has been playing chess with Danny as if he already knew everything about that ghost, but maybe he didn't. Maybe that ghost has hidden pieces on the board and Fury was about to fall into the ghost's trap. The director once again pressed the button on the intercom. "Maria, set a 5 mile perimeter for the building Phantom escaped from last night. I want you to double the men in that area and outfit them all with our specially designed bullets. If they spot a ghost, order them to chase it out of the area only. Our main target is Phantom."

"Y-Yes sir!"

Fury looked at the chessboard. He knew he needed to make his next move carefully. If he messed up, then Phantom was lost and maybe Amity Park too.

Things are starting to get interesting. Will Danny survive the procedure, or will he bleed out? That's such a tough question, isn't it? If you want to answer it or have something to say then please review!

I don't think all of you fully understand this. The actual Avengers will not appear in this story. This story will only be using SHIELD. Once again, do not expect an appearance from the Hulk, Ironman, or any other Avenger!

Reviews:

Inviso-Al: Of course the people will think that SHIELD is the best organization ever. I mean, just look at all the good they've done for Amity Park.

Matt: True, he was a coward, but he was hallucinating when he shot so he wasn't completely himself. Also, he and his partner were only searching one level of the building. There were soldiers searching the other levels too. I know, excuses excuses.