Chapter two: Avenging Plant life (Avengers)
A glowing blue portal appeared and Danny looked around the Ghost Zone for the final time. He would get home one day. He stepped through the portal and into a new world not knowing exactly what to expect...
When Danny Phantom stepped through the portal the first thing he saw was the outline of a city. The city looked like it was getting rebuilt after a major attack as it had half built skyscrapers and completely collapsed buildings too. Had the ghost already attacked? Was he too late? Danny floated through the city completely invisible to everyone on the streets below. Many people were working to rebuild or to sweep up the streets. It was nice to see people and neighbours working together.
Danny was nearing the centre of the city which was marked by a massive skyscraper with the single letter 'A' on it. There must've been more letters to the word that was once spelt there but in the attack on the city they must've fallen off. This building looked to be the newest in the city and still it was pretty badly damaged. Barely anything was left undamaged but people still had smiles on their faces.
He had landed in a park which looked less damaged than everywhere else. He scanned around looking for some sign of the ghost, but he could find nothing. He saw a group of people hanging around and standing to still to be there for pleasure. It looked like they were guarding something. Danny turned invisible and saw a man being dragged by his arm by a big, tall, long haired blonde dude. The man being dragged had black hair which was greased back and very pale skin. His blue eyes looked like ice and glinted with mischief and boredom. He had a black mouthpiece over his mouth which stopped him talking.
Danny looked at the man closely and saw that the man's eyes seemed to follow him as he moved around. Weird, could this man sense him even if he was invisible. Danny's thoughts were interrupted by a black man with a black eye patch steeping forward with a certain authority about him. It was like he demanded the attention of all around him.
More people stepped out of cars. A blonde guy in old fashioned style clothes stepped off his motorbike and walked over to another man with a beard and a glowing chest. The blonde man called him Stark and the man called Stark addressed the man back as Captain. They had a small conversation about a man named Loki they had captured and Thor taking him home.
There was good news and bad as well. Danny learned that the prisoner Loki had caused all this damage and not a ghost. Unfortunately that meant that a ghost was still on the loose and not been seen yet.
Danny was soon shaken out of his thoughts by a bright light taking Thor and Loki and making them disappear. Danny noticed no-one looking at him but he got the feeling that something was watching him, maybe the ghost but there was a sinister aura in the air. Here he was in the open surrounded by only these 'Agents' and trees. Which ghost would use these to attack?
Once again caught up his thoughts, Danny failed to notice a vine glowing ghostly green wrapping around the ankle of Black Widow otherwise known as Natasha Romanof, behind him. The vine then grabbed her and drew her backwards. She let out a small yelp which alerted Danny to the danger.
"Undergrowth!" Danny yelled making the agents all around glance around trying to find the origin of the voice. Danny turned visible and got out one of his two thermoses. The agents' eyes all widened and suddenly they were back on alert. "Let her go. Your fight is with me not those humans." The humans were watching him with their hands on their guns and ready to draw them and fire should they need to. They wore slightly confused faces as to what the young floating boy had said.
Undergrowth appeared right behind Natasha and grabbed her. She fought to get out of the plant ghosts grip but she couldn't. Danny made his ghost-ice and would've shot at the ghost, but Natasha was in the way.
"I will not yield this time ghost child. I will have my caretaker and this world will know the revenge of plants." Undergrowth said before disappearing with Natasha. There was nothing he could do to stop him taking her and that annoyed Danny.
"Well now I have to find him all over again..." Danny said whilst still floating overhead the agents still. He saw them all watching him and he looked back at them. It was a standstill, until Danny thought to speak again. "...Oh this is awkward..." Danny then floated down and stood on the ground.
Tony Stark laughed and tried to pat Danny on the back, however his hand just went through him causing Tony and everyone else to stare at the teenager in front of them.
"Don't you know that you can't touch a ghost, stupid." Danny said as if talking to a child. He grinned and looked at the agents who were now all looking at him with expressions of a mixture of amusement, sadness or confusion.
"Excuse me..." The black man with the all black clothing and black eye patch said hesitantly.
"Phantom, my name is Danny Phantom."
"I'm Nick Fury and Danny, care to explain why there are two ghosts here and why one of them stole an agent of mine?" Nick Fury said raising an eyebrow at the glowing teen in front of his agents.
"I'm from a different dimension and someone has sent all the ghosts from our Ghost Zone to different dimensions including my cousin and friends. The Ghost of Time, Clockwork sent me to collect them all up and bring them... er... home so to speak. Unfortunately the ghosts will cause trouble in the human world unless I find them and quick." Danny quickly explained. "Who are all of you guys?"
"We work for S.H.E.I.L.D and we protect the Earth from danger. We have a group of superheroes called the Avengers and some of them are over there." Fury summarised. "Are all of the people in your dimension ghosts?"
"Not really. It's complicated..." Danny said and Fury nodded as if for him to continue. "There are two worlds, one is a human world which is completely normal and the other is the Ghost Zone which is the flip side of Earth. They are linked and balance out the world. If one goes they both do. Everything in the Ghost Zone is opposite to what it is on Earth. However in the ghost Zone there are natural portals that can take ghost anywhere in time and space. There are also two permanent portals to Earth."
"Makes sense to be honest." Said Clint.
"That sounds really cool. Ghosts floating around everywhere..." Tony Stark commented.
"Where do you come into this though Danny?" Steve questioned.
"The ghosts escape the Zone because of their obsessions and to cause havoc for the humans. I go to Earth to stop them hurting anyone and put them back in the Zone. Simple as that. Now I really need to find Undergrowth before he hurts someone."
Danny flew off and started his search. The park he was in was empty apart from the agents. The city was big but he flew everywhere searching for Undergrowth, but not once did his Ghost Sense go off. No one was screaming and running away. There was no sign of him.
It had been hours since Danny had talked with Fury and the others. At the moment he was resting on the tallest tower which had the single letter 'A' on it. Where was Undergrowth hiding? He had scoured every nook and cranny of the city but he had yet to find any sign of the malevolent plant ghost.
Suddenly a voice called from behind. "Didn't find him then, did you Phantom?" Danny turned to find none other than Tony Stark behind him.
"No I didn't. What are you doing up here and how did you get up here?" Danny questioned the smirking man. Danny liked Tony and his care free attitude. It reminded Danny of himself, in a way.
"I own this tower kid. And I used the lift." Tony said pointing behind him. Danny looked and laughed to himself at the lift hiding behind him.
"I can't find him. He seems to have just disappeared and fled somewhere..." Danny was interrupted by his Ghost Sense flaring out of his mouth. Danny looked at Tony and then flew up. As soon as he was in the air he saw the plant ghost terrorising the city at the park again. Instantly Danny flew to the scene of the ghost attack.
Undergrowth was standing there in all his might with captured and mind washed humans all around his roots. Natasha was bound up and looked unconscious. Danny flew forwards and shot an ice bolt at Undergrowth to catch the ghost's attention.
As soon as Undergrowth was hit he looked around for the attacker as so he could capture them for his armada of humans. What Undergrowth didn't see was Danny turning intangible and diving underground to kill off Undergrowth's roots. He shot ice blasts and ice beams at Undergrowth until he was sure he was near defeat.
Danny flew out of the earth and saw all the captured humans unconscious on the ground. Fury, Tony and the Avengers were helping Natasha back onto her feet. She looked dazed but she was uninjured and Danny was glad she was okay. Tony tried to talk to Danny, but Danny just ignored them all and approached Undergrowth.
"Undergrowth what is Plasmius' plan? What does he think he will achieve with all this?" Danny asked the ghost but not really expecting an answer. He was surprised when Undergrowth opened his mouth to talk.
"You will ...not ...find out ...from me ...Ghost Child." Undergrowth rasped out. Danny just pulled out a Fenton Thermos and captured Undergrowth in it. The scroll Clockwork had given Danny floated out in front of the teen hero and Undergrowth's name was crossed out showing that he had been captured.
However, Danny was no closer to finding out what Plasmius was after and what he wanted to achieve with his outrageous plan. Undergrowth was not helpful in the least and Danny had expected that. He would just have to wait until he captured a ghost like Technus who liked to blurt out his plans beforehand.
The Avengers looked at the teen before them and saw the monumental task he had in front of him. The scroll that had floated before him was filled with names and only five had been crossed off; Undergrowth, Dan, Vlad Plasmius, a Clockwork and Danny himself. There were so many it seemed like an impossible task and even then someone would need a lot of help to round up all these ghosts.
Danny floated over to the Avengers and saw them looking at him with worry and concern. He was confused by this, why would they be worried about me?
"Danny, can I ask you something?" Natasha spoke looking directly at him and Danny nodded his head. "How many ghosts do you have to find and is anyone out there able to help you?" Danny sighed.
"My friends and allies are all separated in different dimensions including my cousin. Clockwork gave me the list and will help me if I desperately need help. He is watching after me from the Ghost Zone and my parents understand that I need to go."
"Wait... parents?" Tony said in surprise as his eyes involuntary widened. They hadn't expected that to be said by the ghost teen.
Danny shrugged and put the scroll away safely and pulled out the Dimension gun instead. He set the gun to Dimension 3 and looked back at the Avengers.
"I'll let you in on a secret..." Danny said and he transformed before their eyes. Danny Phantom turned into Danny Fenton. "I'm only half dead, a halfa as the ghosts call me and I protect both worlds."
Danny smiled at their flabbergasted faces and fired the Dimension portal gun at an empty space. He transformed back into Phantom and waved back at the Avengers who waved back still in shock. He stepped through the portal and into the portals vortex.
Danny was onto Dimension 3 with Undergrowth captured and safe inside the thermos, it was onto a new dimension with a new ghost to defeat and a new dimension to save. Can he save the next one like he had here? Only time would tell...
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