Sorry for the very long delay. I've been working on some of my other stories, which you can check them out on my fanfic page. Now, I finally got the DVD. Once again, here's the deal, this story will remain in the Danny Phantom section until completion. After that, Danny Phantom solos that will be part of this crossover series will be in this section while the crossovers of the Avengers movies will be in the crossover sections. There is a possibly that some of the Marvel character will appear in the DP solos. Also, I changed the story title to GHOSTLY AVENGER. So this story is a preview on what you will be expecting in the stories of this crossover series and upcoming DP solos (In other words, an upcoming DP solo story). Anyway, here's chapter 5.
Chapter 5: Loki's Arrival.
At S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility in the Mojave Desert, everything was in chaos due to a bizarre phenomenal occurrence there. Some of the personnel were ordered to evacuate the facility. A helicopter carrying Nick Fury lands at the base. Fury's Second-in-Command Agent Maria Hill jumps of the helicopter, followed by Fury himself. Awaiting their arrival was Agent Coulson. Fury and Hill walked up to him.
"How bad is it?" Fury asked.
Coulson took off his shades before replying...
"That's the problem, sir. We don't know."
Coulson then leads Fury and Hill into the facility as he explains the situation.
"Doctor Selvig read an energy surge from the Tesseract four hours ago." Coulson said.
"NASA didn't authorize Selvig to go to test phase." Fury said.
"He wasn't testing it. He wasn't even in the room. Spontaneous event." Coulson said.
"It just turned itself on?" Hill asked.
"Where are the energy levels now?" Fury asked.
"Climbing. When Selvig couldn't shut it down, we ordered evac." Coulson replied.
"How long to get everyone out?" Fury asked.
"Campus should be cleared in the next half-hour." Coulson replied.
"Do better." Fury said before Coulson leaves to do the evac.
"Sir, evacuation may be futile." Hill said.
"We should tell them to go back to sleep?" Fury asked rhetorically.
"If we can't control the Tesseract's energy, there may not be a minimum safe distance." Hill said.
"I need you to make sure the Phase 2 prototypes are shipped out." Fury said.
"Sir, is that really a priority right now?" Hill asked with concern.
"Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on." Fury replied. "Clear out the tech below. Every piece of Phase 2 on a truck and gone."
"Yes, sir." Hill said before turning her attention to two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. "With me."
Fury enters the lab where a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists and Doctor Erik Selvig are monitoring the Tesseract, which is placed on a circular device.
"Talk to me. Doctor." Fury said, getting Selvig's attention.
"Director." Selvig greeted.
"Is there anything we know for certain?" Fury asked.
"The Tesseract is misbehaving." Selvig said as another scientist approach the Tesseract with a probe. The scientist poked the probe at the Tesseract, causing its energy to go off, causing him to move backwards.
"Is that supposed to be funny?" Fury asked.
"No, it's not funny at all. The Tesseract is not only active, she's behaving." Selvig replied.
"I assume you pulled the plug." Fury said.
"She's an energy source. We turn off the power, she turns it back on. If she reaches peak level-" Selvig said before Fury interrupts him.
"We prepared for this, Doctor. Harnessing energy from space." Fury said.
"But we don't have the harness. My calculations are far from complete. And she's throwing off interference, radiation. Nothing harmful, low levels of gamma radiation." Selvig said.
"That can be harmful." Fury said, thinking about Bruce Banner, who became the green raged monster known as the Hulk, which S.H.I.E.L.D. is tracking him, but keeping their distance. "Where's Agent Barton?"
Selvig scoffs before saying...
"The Hawk? Up in his nest, as usual."
Agent Clint Barton was observing the scene at a high area in the lab until he heard "Agent Barton, report.", immediately followed by him sliding down a rope from his spot.
"I gave you this detail so you could keep a close eye on things." Fury said as Clint came to him.
"Well, I see better from a distance." Clint said.
"Have you seen anything that might set this thing off?" Fury asked.
"Doctor, it's spiking again." a scientist said to Selvig said, which he rushes to.
"No one's come or gone. And Selvig's clean. No contacts, no IMs, no ectoplasmic signatures. If there was any tampering, sir, it wasn't at this end." Clint said.
"'At this end'?" Fury asked with concern on Clint's words.
"Yeah, the Cube is a doorway to the other end of space, right? Like how the ghost portals are a doorway to the paranormal? Doors open from both sides." Clint said.
At that moment, the Tesseract's energy starts going off and glows brighter. Loud bangs can be heard from the Tesseract. The Tesseract gets brighter and brighter until a jet of bright blue light energy was shot straight towards the other end of the lab, creating what appears to be a portal. Not like a ghost portal, but a portal to space. The S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists and agents look at the portal until it implodes, and its energy was shot out, collecting itself at the ceiling, and a person was revealed. The person is a man who was wearing some strange tunic armor from another world, and was carrying a glowing staff that looks like some type of spear. The man was also grinning and had a crazed look in his eyes, like he was a mad man, when he looked up.
"Sir, please put down the spear." Fury shouted to the man once he was standing up.
The man takes one last look at his spear before he fires it at the S.H.I.E.L.D. team. One agent fires at him but the man kills him with his spear. Two more agents fires, but the man kills them with knifes. The man then fires his spear at the S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist who had been working on the Tesseract, killing her. Two more agents and Clint fires, but the man fires another beam of light at them. Clint and one agent evades, but the third wasn't so lucky. Afterwards, the man stops to survey the damage he caused. Then, just as Agent Barton was getting up, the man step up on him, avoiding him from fighting back.
"You have heart." the man said before he brought the tip of his spear to Clint's chest. With a low hum, the spear shot a glow of energy, making Clint's eyes turn blue. Clint puts his pistol in his holster before the man does the same to other remaining S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
Fury didn't expect that to happen. He immediately grabbed the Tesseract as quickly and quietly as he could and put it in a special briefcase. He gets up and tries to walk away, but unfortunately, not fast enough.
"Please don't. I still need that." the man said with a voice that sounded dark.
"This doesn't have to get any messier." Fury said without looking back at the man.
"Of course it does. I've come too far for anything else." the man said as Fury turns to face and glare at him. "I am Loki, of Asgard and I am burdened with glorious purpose."
Loki addressing his name got the attention of Selvig, who was checking on the dead scientist's body.
"Loki, brother of Thor." Selvig said.
"We have no quarrel with your people." Fury said trying to reassure Loki.
"An ant has no quarrel with a boot." Loki said.
"Are you planning to step on us?"
"I come with glad tidings of a world made free." Loki said.
"Free from what?" Fury asked.
"Freedom. Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart-" Loki said as he puts the tip of his spear on Selvig's chest. "-you will know peace."
Clint, with his blue eyes, looks at the unstable portal.
"Yeah, you say 'peace'. I kind of think you mean the other thing." Fury said as Clint walks up to Loki.
"Sir, Director Fury is stalling. This place is about to blow and drop a hundred feet of rock on us. He means to bury us." Clint said.
"Like the pharaohs of old." Fury commented.
"He's right. The portal is collapsing in on itself. We've got maybe two minutes before this goes critical." Selvig said as he confirms it on his monitor.
"Well, then." Loki said to Clint.
Clint then took out his gun and shot Fury at his shoulder. They then take the briefcase containing the Tesseract and leaves the lab. Clint then leads Loki, Selvig and the other compromised S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to a parking garage.
"I need these vehicles." Clint said to Hill.
Hill then noticed Loki carrying a spear like staff.
"Who's that?" Hill asked.
"They didn't tell me." Clint replied.
"Hill!" Fury said through Hill's radio. "Do you copy? Barton has turned."
Unfortunately, Clint and Loki heard the radio. Clint started shooting at Hill. Hill evades his shots. Hill fires back just as the vehicles started taking off. Meanwhile, Fury runs out of the lab as the portal starts collapsing.
"They have the Tesseract! Shut them down!" Fury ordered.
Hill gets inside a vehicle and starts driving, in pursue of the compromised Clint. Some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were also in pursue of the stolen vehicles. Loki fires his spear at one car and sends it flipping down. Hill, however, is still in pursue. Meanwhile, Fury has managed to reach his helicopter just as the portal explodes, destroying the entire base, and burying some agents, including Hill. As soon as Fury sees the stolen vehicles, he opens the helicopter's door and fires his gun at it. However, Loki fires an energy beam at the helicopter, and it goes down. Fury managed to jump out of the chopper before it smashes into the ground. Fury then immediately shoots at the retreating vehicles, but they escaped.
"Director? Director Fury, do you copy?" Coulson asked from his radio.
"The Tesseract is with a hostile force. I have men down. Hill?" Fury said from his radio.
"A lot of men still under. I don't know how many survivors." Hill responded.
"Sound a general call. I want every living soul not working rescue looking for that briefcase." Fury ordered.
"Roger that." Hill replied.
"Coulson, get back to base. This is a Level Seven. As of right now, we are at war." Fury ordered.
"What do we do?" Coulson asked.
Fury didn't respond. He knows one thing he can do.
That's the end of chapter 5.