Well, I had time on my hands. That and I was stuck on a video game… so I decided to go ahead and write the next chapter! Hurray! After that last sentence in yesterday's chapter, I have a hunch you guys are curious. I don't own Danny Phantom or Ultimate Spider Man blah blah blah. Reviewers:

Faliara: Well, Peter does tend to be careless from time to time…

Oblitus Angeli: *rubs hands together evilly*

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Chapter 10

There Must Be a Connection

(Danny POV)

Well, I suppose Spider Man's identity flew out the window. So it was Peter…that made things easier yet more complicated for me at the same time. Probably I would burst and tell him mine eventually, or he would find out on his own. In the meantime, I couldn't drop any hint whatsoever that I knew of his secret identity. That was the difficult part. After school that day would be the hardest time to keep myself from saying something. Perhaps I could talk to him as Phantom.

Snapping out of my train of thought, I flew away but kept an eye on Peter. If I knew his identity, I wanted to have a little Clockwork-like fun with it. I waited until he had the sense to put on his mask, and then I turned invisible and flew up behind him.

"Hey," I said, switching to visibility.

"Gah! Do you always sneak up on people like that?" he asked, jerking up and nearly falling off the wall.

"No, but I want to have a meeting with you on top of the Daily Bugle. Be there at 11:00," I said, and then I turned invisible again and flew off back to school.

After school, I went home like usual to find Dani in the kitchen. Peter was right behind me, and I probably startled him when I yelled: "Peter! Save your food while you have the chance!"

"What?" he asked behind me.

"Oh, very funny, Danny," said Dani.

"She's twelve, she's not going to eat out the whole fridge," said Peter.

"Imagine a teenage boy eating," I told Peter, "and apply that to Dani."

"I'm right here," complained Dani.

"I remember how you ate when I first met you," I retorted.

"This argument is over," she said, and grabbed a chicken wing from the fridge.

"Fine," I said.

"Now that you're home, will you explain the thing from earlier?" she asked.

"Yeah," I replied, making a 'follow me' gesture.

Once we were in my room, I closed the door. Dani started to say something but I hushed her. From that annoying interrogation, I figured S.H.I.E.L.D. had probably given Peter an order to check out my journal. That meant that there were probably cameras hidden in the room. Dani waited silently while I tried to figure out how to hunt down the cameras.

For once, having Technus here could actually be of some benefit, I thought.

Thinking of no way to get the cameras, Dani and I went outside and found somewhere to change. We took to the skies and I explained Dan to her.

"How does he still exist if you prevented that future from happening?" asked Dani at the end of the explanation.

"He exists outside of time. He was being kept in Clockwork's lair, but Vlad stole the thermos when he went there to find a natural portal," I said.

We flew together a little while longer before we went home.

At 10:50, I snuck out of the house to go to the Daily Bugle. I settled on top and Peter, a.k.a. Spider Man, arrived.

"So, what did you want to talk about?" asked Spider Man.

I chuckled a little bit and said, "Our lives, or afterlives, are more similar than you know."

"What makes you say that?"

"Well, what's not similar?"

"For starters, you can do whatever you want, whenever you want."

I burst out laughing.

"What?"

"Sorry, it's just that's not true by a long shot."

"What obligations does a ghost have?"

"Eh, another time. No, just stop now. You and I are very similar."

"How?"

"I said another time."

"Is this whole thing the only thing you wanted to talk about?"

Now, finally, I could have my Clockwork fun. Don't get me wrong, I still respected secret identities, but I already knew his, so I wanted to have Clockwork fun.

"No, Peter Parker," I said.

"I'm Spider Man. Who's Peter Parker? A civilian?" he replied.

Now, I'll say, this guy did an excellent job of covering his identity up. He didn't even tense up when I called him by name.

"Don't play dumb. I know who you are," I said.

It looked like he knew perfectly well I knew for certain, so he dropped the act.

"How did you know?" he asked sighing.

"I know everything," I said, imitating Clockwork.

Then, his wrist beeped and that nosy, little jerk appeared on screen.

"Spider Man, we have a theory as to why Phantom looks like Daniel Fenton. Come to the helicarrier. The rest of the team is already here," said Nick Fury.

"Uh, I gotta run," Spider Man said awkwardly, slowly backing away from me as if he expected me to ask what the heck he said to S.H.I.E.L.D..

Instead, I paled underneath my cloak and turned invisible. I followed him to the helicarrier. I really hoped they didn't consider ghost-human hybrids a possibility. I listened invisibly in the corner of a room while Fury started to talk.

"From Fenton's journal, we already knew that Phantom and Fenton had some sort of connection. It's obvious they come from the same place," started Fury. I flinched at the similarity between Phantom and Fenton. "From what Spider Man said, Phantom looks almost exactly like Fenton. Because Phantom is a ghost, we can gather that easily enough, it probably means he wants revenge on a living person. I heard from a paranormal expert that most ghosts don't move on because they want revenge on a living person. I believe that Phantom wants revenge on Fenton."

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Sorry I didn't have any of Peter's POV. I'll have that next chapter, I promise.