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RonaldM40196867: Yes he does. Well he got his own TV show and sadly the actor is not going to playa s him anymore.
AnimeFan13579: I like your idea, but that's not what I planne don doing tbh.
Warning: I do not own Marvel and Danny Phantom, especially their characters/events. Fictional events that I make are mine to own as well as my OC's.
The Quinjet was approaching a massive battleship, imposing and carrying an assortment of fighter planes along with two runways. Dozens of deckhands moved across it, working on the planes or moving cargo.
The Quinjet soon landed, the hatch opened with Danny, Coulson, and Steve walked out the back.
As Steve stepped off the Quinjet, he was greeted by a scene that was more familiar than anything he had experienced in the eight months since he had been frozen. The deck of the ship he was on was a buzz with activity; men moving in formation, mechanics working on planes, and deck officers yelling orders over the general whirlwind of noise. Despite most of the equipment the area had a distinctive military feel about it, so for him it felt good to be in a familiar setting again.
For Danny though it was all kinds of emotions going through him. For one thing, it sorta reminded of his time when he fought the Guy in White. It makes him anxious and a bit queasy to see military people again. Luckily they aren't wearing white as that would of been a different problem. But overall he was calm as he watches the workers move around, still though he had this gut feeling that something is not right with a few of these soldiers.
Natasha walked up to the jet, dressed in black leather pants and jacket, and a dark red shirt as Coulson immediately saw her coming.
"Agent Romanoff, Captain Rogers." Coulson introduced the two to each other. "And you remember Danny Fenton here." Coulson said as he gestures to Danny.
Steve suppressed the urge for his eyes to go wide and shift uncomfortably as she approached, trying to remain professional. A task which was not easy because the woman before him was perhaps one of if not the most attractive women Steve had ever met. Agent Romanoff had perfect curves and deep alluring blue eyes. However, Steve's attraction was helpfully mitigated by the fact that his senses were quietly telling him the woman in front of him was incredibly dangerous.
"Ma'am." Steve greeted the female agent, releasing a cough and a nod of his head, trying to be as polite as possible.
Natasha just gave Steve a quick once up and down look then gave a friendly smile, clearly used to the effect she had on men but also finding it a little humorous too. However, despite her casual appearance Natasha was assessing the man in front of her and was unsure what to make of him yet.
"Hi." She greeted him casually.
Danny meanwhile was used to seeing her as he wasn't having a hard time looking at her. Not that he would anyways as he is still in a relationship with Sam. But Danny did get a look at her as she still looks the same as the day they met. Truth be told, the Ghost Boy did admire her for her skill in not just combat but in understanding what it's like to be made to do something bad.
"Been a while, Natasha." Danny greets his instructor.
"It has." Natasha said in agreement, before turning her attention back to Coulson, giving a more serious look. "They need you on the bridge. They're starting the face-trace."
"See you there." Coulson gave Natasha a nod before heading off towards the bridge, leaving Danny, Steve, and Natasha alone to talk.
"It was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice." Natasha spoke in a friendly tone as they started walking off. "I thought Coulson was going to swoon. Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?" She asked the Super Solider.
"Trading cards?" Steve asked slightly in disbelief as well as a bit of embarrassment smile on his face, not sure if Natasha was serious, as although a little spellbound the man Steve had met didn't seem the type to collect playing cards.
"Oh yes. They're considered a vintage set." Danny spoke up with a light-hearted seriousness that told Steve he was being funny but also earnest. "He's very proud." He said before speaking again. "Can't say I blame the guy, since I had collects some as well."
As they moved forward Danny suddenly saw where they were headed: Standing next to one of the jet fighters was a man that Danny could only describe as an intellectual. He recognised Doctor Banner from the briefing file he had been given, and the man could not have looked more out of place if he had tried. Dr Banner was moving constantly and fidgeting with his hands as he nervously looked around at all the armed vehicles and men with guns.
"Dr. Banner!" Danny called out, putting on a kind face to give the good Doctor something to focus on that wasn't likely to make him more nervous.
"Oh, um, yeah. Hi." Dr Banner stated as he turned to face Danny, Steve and Natasha, his eyes going a little wide in surprise as he looked at Steve especially.
Danny spoke up first as he held his hand out for the doctor to shake. "I'm a big fan of your work. I actually had to write a paper on one of your theories."
Banner shakes the young man's hands as he notices the excitement on Danny's face and the fact his hands were surprisingly cold, even though it's a bit hot outside. "Thank you, I appreciate it." This causes Danny to smile even more. "I also like to thank you for coming up with a way to get rid of that Disastroid problem. I think if you haven't we all wouldn't be here." This causes Danny and Bruce to laugh a little, making Steve confused on what they were talking about.
Steve then spoke up as he was very confused. "What Disateroid problem?" He asked the three of them.
Bruce looks confused. "They didn't tell you?"
Steve shook his head no as Danny spoke up. "S.H.I.E.L.D. will explain it to you later." Natasha confirmed it with a nod as Steve looked at her.
"They told me you would be coming. Although I honestly thought that it was just a bad joke, no offense, but you were dead for like almost seventy years." Bruce jokes to him as he wanted to light things up.
"No offense taken Doctor." Steve gave the scientist a smile used to the statement that had by now been made by more than a dozen people he had met. "Word is, you can find the Cube."
"Is that the only word on me?" Banner asked nervously as he wrung his hands together and looked around like a man being watched.
"The only word we care about." Steve stated honestly as he looked Banner straight in the eyes. Steve knew what the Doctor was but he had encountered many dangerous people in his life and never held that against any of them.
"It must be strange for you all this." Banner gave a slight cough as he gestured around at the platform that was filled with soldiers and mechanics, wanting to move the conversation away from him.
"Well, this is actually kind of familiar," Steve said earnestly as he gestured around looking at a couple of soldiers jogging around in a group.
"Gentlemen, you might want to step inside in a minute. It's gonna get a little hard to breathe." Natasha advised them.
As the words left her mouth, the ship began to make grinding noises and alarm sounds, on the sides of the vessel ports began to open and extend something out over the water. "Flight crew, secure the deck." An agent over the PA spoke up.
Danny, Steve, and Banner looked around, perplexed and unable to understand what was happening, until Danny spoke first. "What was that?" He questions.
Steve made a wild guess. "Is this a submarine?" He wondered.
"Really?" Bruce questioned back, the sounds of loud, large engines activating. "They want me in a submerged, pressurized, metal container?"
Danny was about to throw in his own snarky comment when they reached the edge, and Danny's initial puzzlement became pure astonishment. All around the ship, water was crashing down like a waterfall, as if a giant hole had been carved into the ocean floor. Out of this hole came a giant metal cone with a circular ring around it. As this emerged, the water began to swirl around like a whirlpool. Danny had no idea what was going on until he saw the giant steel blades connecting the cone to the ring. It looked like some kind of turbine, similar the ones on the wings of the Quinjets. That's when the carrier began to rise out of the water and into the air.
Steve and Danny stood back in awe while Bruce just shook his head and smiled. "Oh, no. This is much worse." He said.
"Now that's awesome!" Danny spoked up with excitement as the two men gave him a small smile.
Natasha led the trio quickly up to the main bridge of the vessel where they were greeted by a sea of activity with Fury standing in the center of it on a raised platform. The whole room was also loud as Danny and Steve heard every operator present start shouting off checklists that were related to the ship's takeoff.
To Danny it looked more like NASA mission control than it did an aircraft cockpit. Several rows of computer monitors lined both the sides of the room and two small pits on either side of a slightly elevated walkway, with various blue-suited S.H.I.E.L.D. agents going over a variety of tasks. What resembled a conference table was set up behind some railing in the back of the room, which also featured the S.H.I.E.L.D. crest in the center. Several meters above them was another floor where Danny could see more people walking about, ranging from armed security officers to who appeared to be maintenance crew. More computers lined another elevated platform on either side of the room.
Steve looked around in amazement and wondered at the impressive sight, while Bruce stood to the back, by the S.H.I.E.L.D. symbol and two guards standing next to it, turning away from them nervously. The trio also spotted Maria Hill just off to Fury's right, hands on her hips as she directed people around the room.
"All engines operating. SHIELD emergency protocol: 193.6 in effect. We're at level, sir." Hill's voice sounded out as she turned to Fury giving him a nod.
"Good." Fury said as he stood in the middle of the room, looking out at the sky in front of him. "Let's vanish."
"Engage retro-reflection panels." Agent Hill started giving more orders.
As the Helicarrier continued to rise into the heavens, a series of projectors on the bottom of the vessel lit up. The plates along the base of the vessel began to flicker and change and soon the entire Helicarrier was projecting an image of the sky, camouflaging itself.
"Gentlemen." Fury greeted as he turned around to face his three guests and as Steve walked forward, he pulled out a clip of money and handed Fury a ten dollar bill. Steve then continues to walk around and explore the area as this was still new to Steve as Hill watches him walk.
Fury just gave a small smile of victory smile before pocketing the money and turning towards Danny first. "Mr. Fenton, good seeing you again." He greeted with a hand shake.
Danny shakes the hand with a smile. "Always a pleasure, director."
Fury then turns his attentions towards Bruce. "Doctor, thank you for coming." Fury stated with a smile and offered his hand to shake.
"Thanks for asking nicely." Bruce stated in an almost resigned tone, releasing a heavy sigh as he shook Fury's hand warily. "So, how long am I staying?"
"Once we get our hands on the Tesseract, you're in the wind." Fury spoke honestly as he brought his hand back to his side.
"Where are you with that?" Bruce asks, happy that he now at least a promise to be let go.
Fury directed him over to a set of nearby consoles that had Coulson standing in front of them. "We're sweeping every wireless accessible camera on the planet." Coulson spoke up from the left, lower layer of computers, drawing the attention of Steve and Danny while Natasha crouched and looked at an image and searched for Clint. "Cell phones, laptops, if it's connected to a satellite, its eyes and ears for us." Coulson stated confidently with his arms crossed over his chest as he supervised his agents working.
"That still won't find them in time." Natasha interrupted moving to join in the discussion.
"You need to narrow your field." Bruce stated confidence in his voice as he was now in his element.
"Are there any optical spectrometers we could use to look for its energy signatures?" Danny asks. "With the amount of gamma radiation this thing gives off, we could be able to look for a match on its frequency."
"Not on this boat, but I'm sure I could get some of those on the shopping list." Fury replied.
"How many can you get?" Danny ask the director.
"How many are there?" Fury asked as he gestured to the surrounding monitors and consoles manned with agents ready to assist.
"Call every lab you know." Bruce said as he removed his jacket. "Tell them to put the spectrometers on the roof, and calibrate them for gamma rays. Danny and I will rough out a tracking algorithm, basic cluster recognition. At least we could rule out a few places."
"If only high school had been this easy." Danny thought. Never did he think he would be able to work alongside one of the greatest minds in the world, but also work with technology that made the fancy high tech computers at the mall look like windup toys.
"I'll call Axiom Lab, that can be a good start with the spectrometer." Danny spoke up as he talked about his town's lab knowing that Fury, Natasha, and Bruce would know about it due to its popularity after the disasteroid incident.
"Good idea, Danny. That'll definitely help." Bruce said before turning towards Fury. "Do you have somewhere for us to work?"
"Agent Romanoff" Fury nodded his head and called out. "Could you show Dr. Banner and Mr. Fenton to their laboratory, please?"
Natasha nodded and walked up to Bruce and Danny as she led them away. "You're gonna love it, boys." Natasha said. "We've got all the toys."
Steve meanwhile was still standing where he had initially moved to in the room, his face one of slight confusion as he was still processing just how weird the world was now.
Within minutes, the two men were sitting in a small laboratory situated right above the bridge. They spent the next couple of hours receiving the signals of the various spectrometers around the world, using their energy readings to draw a virtual map around the world, searching relentlessly for the seemingly insignificant glowing cube that a fanatical Nazi subdivision used to nearly conquer the world.
When they weren't plowing through the seemingly endless stream of data coming in across the world, Danny and Bruce went about comparing their respective careers as super-powered beings in the world. Bruce's were considerably less detailed, but it was understandable given his alter-ego. By contrast, Bruce was fascinated with Danny's adventures as well as the origins of his powers. Danny kept going on and on about everything that Bruce had contributed to the field of radiation study, while Bruce seemed very eager to hear about was Danny's personal life, asking him about Tucker, his sisters Dani and Jazz, Sam, and his parents everything. Any other person would have found Banner's fascination a little uncomfortable, but Danny didn't mind at all. After all, Bruce had spent the past few years running away from the military, unable to have a life of his own. Danny had always had an incredible amount of respect for Bruce and his work, but now he also felt genuinely sorry for him.
"At the end of the day, I envy you, Danny." said Bruce as he looked over more data. "Your power allows you to change the world for the better and have the life you want."
"I wish I could agree with that, Doctor." Danny said softly as he thought about the things he had done selfishly with his powers "But this life of mine isn't as perfect as you might think. I've done some bad things myself. Some you wouldn't even believe." Danny said to the doctor as the ghost boy thought about fighting Dan and how he became him.
"At least your power doesn't turn into a living apocalypse." bruce said to him
Danny leaned over the table they were working at to look Bruce in the eye. "But it did. Few years ago, I made a mistake that cost the lives of everyone I love. And in doing so, it created my future to be horrible that caused the world to crumble. So don't tell me that I couldn't cause the apocalypse because it did. Even with all this powers, I'm still dangerous."
Bruce looked at his instruments, a defeated look on his face. "You're a good person Danny, and I don't know what happened, but from what I've seen you manage to overcome it. You managed to touch the lives of so many people, not just as a man but as a... as a symbol. You're a symbol of peace, you're a symbol of justice. I don't have great power like you do. I have a curse."
The room was silent for a moment.
In the underground lab, Loki and Vlad was casually observing their new follower's work as they prepared themselves for the next stage of their grand plan. They watched as their new mortal soldiers armed themselves with primitive weaponry and watched their more clever mortals assist Doctor Selvig and Tucker in their preparations for opening the cosmic tear that they required.
Selvig was working with several scientists to complete the containment device. Despite his actions, he seemed to be in high spirits, smiling as he worked on the device.
"Put it over there!" Tucker instructed one of his helpers.
"Where did you find all these people?" Selvig asked.
"SHIELD has not shortage of enemies, Doctor." Barton explained as he held up the tablet he was working with and showed off a metal called Iridium, Chemical Element Number 77 and a Doctor named Heinrich Schafer, Nuclear Scientist of the Department of Nuclear Science and Technology.
The question had been directed to the mortal that Loki and Vlad was finding the most useful out of his acquired servants. The Midgardian archer Barton had proven almost invaluable in gathering people to their cause or more accurately getting people to meet Loki and Vlad so that they could use their sceptre to show them the truth.
"SHIELD has no shortage of enemies, Doctor." Barton stated calmly as he looked through a pad for the information he required. "Is this the stuff that you two need?"
Barton turned around the digital pad that he was holding showing an image of a crystalline cylinder labeled Iridium and a German scientist named Heinrich Schäfer.
"Yeah, iridium. It's found in meteorites, it forms anti-protons, which apparently are needed to stabilise an Einstein–Rosen bridge, who knew right? Heh heh." Tucker joked, however he had a look of a man that had not slept in days, his hair was unkempt, and his clothes were dirty.
"Especially if SHIELD knows that you need it." Barton commented, lowering the digital pad back down as he started to figure out what his plan would be.
"I didn't know we needed it!" Selvig declared and frantically waved his hands as if he and Tucker were a schoolboy that had just been told an answer to a question that was so obvious now that they knew it.
Vlad and Loki smirked a little at the interaction, the Tesseract combined with the power within their sceptre had a similar yet varying effect on people. For some like Barton, it created a uniformity of purpose, a singular focus and vision that became that individual's whole reason for existence, meaning that if Vlad or Loki ordered it Barton would likely skin his own children alive if ordered. However, for a few like Selvig and Tucker, the effect was more profound as their minds were wrenched open and secrets poured in, secrets of the universe and its inner mechanics. For primitive and underdeveloped minds like human, this caused, well, Loki and Vlad liked the term 'issues' as it was most apt and better than the alternative of 'insanity.'
"Hey!" Selvig greeted Loki and Vlad warmly like a puppy greeting its owner upon his return, as the God of Mischief approached the Midgardians, wanting to see where they were with enacting his plan. "The Tesseract has shown us so much."
"Exactly! It's more than knowledge, it's truth." Tucker said with mesmerized eyes.
"We know." Vlad said with a small smirk as he cast his gaze quickly at the doctor and techno geek, whose mortal minds was clearly beginning to fracture under the pressure of the cosmic knowledge within. If Loki and Vlad were a betting god, they would wager that unless they were freed from their link to the sceptre and Tesseract soon, the humans would become little more than a mindless drone. The two villains then turned their attention to their other most useful pawn gazing at the archer who was faring far better than the mortal scientist. "What did it show you, Agent Barton?" Vlad ask.
"My next target, sir." Barton turned to face Loki and Vlad and stood at attention like a soldier under inspection from his general and spoke with almost reverence in his voice as he looked at the Asgardian Prince.
"Tell me what you need?" Loki asked whilst a confident smirk appeared on his face, as a righteous feeling of completion entered his and Vlad's heart, this is what they were meant to do with their life: rule and lead side by side.
"I need a distraction, sir…" The archer spoke with focus and confidence as he moved over to a case on a nearby table and opened it, lifting out a bow that he then tested by pulling back the bowstring. "... and an eyeball."
"Then we shall provide you with one." Vlad stated with confidence.
Steve was standing next to Agent Coulson, mostly due to the fact that the man was the only person that he knew in the room personally, but also because for the moment he felt he was in the way if he stood anywhere else. Although he knew almost seventy years had passed for everyone else, to him it was just a few months ago when tracking people down meant talking to informants, reading through files, and physically looking. As he scanned the room that was filled with more technology and futuristic equipment than even his friend Howard Stark could have imagined, he realised just how outdated he was.
He even felt outdated in terms of abilities and heroics, he had only just gotten use to the sense that he was the only 'super' person in the world, well, the only one not a crazed Nazi bent on world domination. However, now there were ghost hybrids with fantastical powers from another dimension, doctors who turned into monsters, men in metal suits that flew, and in the middle was Steve, a guy with a shield that could punch harder than most men did.
"I mean if it's not too much trouble." Coulson's voice brought Steve out of his slight depressive thoughts.
Coulson's statement caused Steve to smile a little bit, a small sense of normalcy returning to the world. The man had nervously just asked one of his greatest heroes to sign his trading card collection. Which Steve was happy to do as it reminded him of his brief stint as a USO show promoter and star act for the war bond drive, signing cards and comics for his fans. Although, in truth, he was used to his fans either being a lot younger than Coulson or a lot more female, but still it made his life feel a little familiar again.
"No, no. It's fine." Steve assured Coulson, trying to calm down the Senior SHIELD agent that looked as nervous as a schoolboy next to him. However, although Steve appreciated that the request made his world feel more mundane, he was also focusing on the mission at hand so had yet to really look at Coulson.
"It's a vintage set, you know." Coulson let out a small breath as he spoke, that he had clearly been holding in fear that his idol, The Captain America was going to refuse him. "It took me a couple of years to collect them all. Near mint. Slight foxing around the edges, but-" Coulson continued on, slightly less sure than before, causing Steve to blink and look at the man in confusion as he had missed the last thing Coulson had said.
"We got a hit." Coulson was interrupted by Jasper Sitwell, a bald man with glasses, who was seated at the console that Steve had just been looking at, turning around to look at his boss. "A 67% match. Wait, Cross that. 79%."
"Location?" Coulson became all business again, shedding his starstruck attitude in a split-second as he moved over to Sitwell, looking at the man's console.
"Vlad and Loki's image was shown along with the image of a large museum. A banquet seemed to be being held on site."Stuttgart, Germany." The agent reported. "28 Konigstrasse. They're not exactly hiding."
Coulson and Steve had a concerned and confused look formed on their face, observing the image of Vlad and Loki who looked dressed to attend a high-end business function. "Any sign of Barton, Selvig or Tucker?" Coulson asked.
"Uh, no sir. No sign at all." Sitwell replied after quickly typing on the console and skimming through the security report that had been generated.
"Captain." Fury spoke up, Steve turning to face the man. "You're up."
Steve let out a shallow breath as he then gave Fury a singular nod and headed off with Coulson that gestured for him to follow as he led his idol to the suit that he had prepared. Whilst Steve moved off Fury quickly typed out a message and sent it to Romanoff's personal communicator with an order to get Fenton, herself, and a Quinjet prepped.
HHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! I'm back! Sorry for the hiatus, college and my new part time job kept me busy. Especially finals which are brutal. But I'm back! Figure since this was done months ago I might as well post it. But I won't be going back to my other stories just yet. For the next 5 days, I planned on finishing Earth's Mighties Heroes as I've wanted it done before the New Year arrives!
So what did you guys think of the interations with Danny meeting Natasha again, Bruce, and Fury once again? I put a lot of thought through this as I hope this makes sense that Danny is smarter then he was a few years ago. And yes I did think Steve wouldn't have known about the Disasteroid since he didn't known about ghosts either. Trust me, he will be surrpsied at what happend. And I hope the dialogue with Vlad and Loki were good too.